> You buy a car from X company and can get replacement parts from anybody.
Thats absolutely not true. Most car manufacturers use slightly customized off-the-shelf parts exactly to stop you doing that.
No, you are wrong. There is a thriving market in replacement parts made by independents. Perhaps you are trying to say that a water pump meant for a Ford engine wont fit on a Chrysler engine; but the GP's point was that you can get pumps (and most other parts) from independent makers, like Crown.
They will not lower prices, despite reduced costs, because Joe Public is conditioned to the prices as they are at present. Lots of things have become automated without the price being reduced. The company keeps the savings themselves.
I think it's unlikely that no woman in the entire world would want you....The real problem is that finding someone who wants you is hard.
Exactly, it's a communication problem. Like the tragedy of the commons, it is the arse-hats who foul up the system, like scam dating websites, double-talking jocks, gold-digging women etc.
We would all love to date an insanely hot engineer who can hold a great conversation
Stop when you said "engineer", by which I assume you meant an intelligent high-ish earner. Drop that requirement and the field is much wider. I got on best with working-class girls who were somewhat dimmer than most - those self-aware of this compensate by trying harder to be attractive and sexy, and tend to be impressed by a guy much better off and from outside their own social plane. More intelligent girls tend to have tedious issues like advocating vegetarianism or Esparanto, while "duller" girls will be happy to go along with whatever their guy wants.
I never expected or wanted an intellectual sparring partner.
I RTFM about what really attracts most women, not just in the first 10 seconds but in conversation.
What conversation? The most "conversation" I get from most women* is them saying like "Fuck off". Takes less than 10 seconds. I've always been well off and not even ugly; I just don't look like Brad Pitt, and you cannot very well walk around with a flag on your hat saying how much you earn. I never had a conversation with a girl my own age until I was 25, not counting the "fuck offs".
* Only exceptions are ones I've met via dating clubs. When you meet them by arrangement in meatspace they are in a somewhat "captive" situation so they converse at least for a while.
As a kid you don't really care about anything sexual, until you're told that you're not allowed to have anything to do with it.
Nice theory, but I don't recall anyone telling me as a kid I was not allowed to have anything to do with it, but it didn't stop me being drawn to pictures of naked women if I came across them, certainly by the age of 8 in what you might call a proto-sexual way. I recognised my reaction as being like nothing else I experienced (still is), and I did not care to discuss or share my feelings with others around that time, or long after.
Educate your kids,... and they'll do a better job managing it./p>
I cannot help feeing that people who consider that sex is just another nice thing (maybe) to be "managed" like good food or a refreshing stroll and a functional way of making babies, playing it down in that way, are missing something major in their constitution.
Once when I was in a hospital, I was alone with a machine that was ticking... and which now and then changed the rate it was ticking. That thing drove me insane. (figuratively)
You should try a UK NHS hospital. You'd be lucky if you got a room alone - oh wait, you wouldn't, because you do get such a room when they think you are about to die. My experience is that they are like floodlit madhouses, 27/7.
I think your analogy highlights the two different perceptions of this issue. One group of people (including you) regard the operating system as an integral part of the product, like the car gearbox. Others (including me fwiw) regard the OS as a separate entity, like a car trailer.
And all of this is different from old iPhones, old Android phones, old Blackberry phones...how?
Scrolling down, you are the first post to mention iPhones, Android phones, or Blackberry phones. Pay attention, this is a factual news item about Skype for Windows.
All that should matter is to determine if the evidence is real or faked; it should not matter how it is obtained except in so far as it helps to determine whether it was faked. "Procedures" for getting evidence, like search warrants, should just be a factor in helping that decision, not a way to get evidence thrown out automatically if it was not by "procedure".
As for police randomly raiding homes without warrants, if they do find incriminating evidence then fair enough; if they don't, then prosecute the police for intrusion.
We now know that Chahal is an utter bastard who abuses women. That video evidence is good enough for me. .
My problem with the "civilisation will destroy itself" arguments.....
A problem is what is meant by "civilisation". Strictly it means living in towns where most people specialise (metalworker, baker etc) and trade with satellite villages for food; as opposed to villages alone with most people living by subsistence farming. The human race will not destroy itself in the forseeable future (that is just too hard to do), but I believe it could be reduced to a tiny fraction of its present size in subsistence villages. This would not necessarily be caused by disaster - there are many who want that to happen, the more extreme of the Green movement being the prime example, and extreme Survivalists another. Such opinions, opposing science and technology, have become very powerful. The most likely disaster facing civilisation is over-population, leadng to a boom and then bust instability as seen in some fish and insect populations (yet there are people who still today call for popuation increases).
Husky Dog wrote:
we know from practical experience that getting from the dark ages to now takes about 1500 years or so, probably rather less if you have the smoking remains of the previous civilisation to get clues from. So, we get another go at being an advanced civilisation and presumably can repeat this depressing episode over and over again
Exactly, except as I said not everyone wants to "get back from the dark ages". The most powerful people in dark ages are gang leaders (read Viking warlords, leaders of Mongol hordes etc) who are people who see no gain for themselves in learning and science. All through the dark ages there were centres of learning and knowledge in Westen Europe such as Lindisfarne and St Davids, which gained ground slowly but would then be wiped out over and over again by barbarians of one sort or another. .
why did he own two 108 inch TV and three 82 inch TV?
Perhaps he has a house with more than one room, and those being of different sizes. Screens are supposed to be of an optimum size according to viewing distance. Not everyone lives in a one-room basement.
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Funny that on the page you linked there is a pop-up asking for my email address, for no stated reason.
No, it needs a technical solution [as opposed a legal one]. Making ISP's liable .........
That is a legal solution.
The rest can then be tackled by holding the source to blame
So is that.
> You buy a car from X company and can get replacement parts from anybody.
Thats absolutely not true. Most car manufacturers use slightly customized off-the-shelf parts exactly to stop you doing that.
No, you are wrong. There is a thriving market in replacement parts made by independents. Perhaps you are trying to say that a water pump meant for a Ford engine wont fit on a Chrysler engine; but the GP's point was that you can get pumps (and most other parts) from independent makers, like Crown.
You are underestimating the obsession that MS has for screwing the last penny/cent out ofthe public. It is a matter of princple for them.
They will not lower prices, despite reduced costs, because Joe Public is conditioned to the prices as they are at present. Lots of things have become automated without the price being reduced. The company keeps the savings themselves.
I think it's unlikely that no woman in the entire world would want you....The real problem is that finding someone who wants you is hard.
Exactly, it's a communication problem. Like the tragedy of the commons, it is the arse-hats who foul up the system, like scam dating websites, double-talking jocks, gold-digging women etc.
We would all love to date an insanely hot engineer who can hold a great conversation
Stop when you said "engineer", by which I assume you meant an intelligent high-ish earner. Drop that requirement and the field is much wider. I got on best with working-class girls who were somewhat dimmer than most - those self-aware of this compensate by trying harder to be attractive and sexy, and tend to be impressed by a guy much better off and from outside their own social plane. More intelligent girls tend to have tedious issues like advocating vegetarianism or Esparanto, while "duller" girls will be happy to go along with whatever their guy wants.
I never expected or wanted an intellectual sparring partner.
Mod this up
I RTFM about what really attracts most women, not just in the first 10 seconds but in conversation.
What conversation? The most "conversation" I get from most women* is them saying like "Fuck off". Takes less than 10 seconds. I've always been well off and not even ugly; I just don't look like Brad Pitt, and you cannot very well walk around with a flag on your hat saying how much you earn. I never had a conversation with a girl my own age until I was 25, not counting the "fuck offs".
* Only exceptions are ones I've met via dating clubs. When you meet them by arrangement in meatspace they are in a somewhat "captive" situation so they converse at least for a while.
I do, however, agree with the "meet someone in real live" message.
Do explain how.
I feel sorry for her husband if she thinks oral is "hardcore."
Why? Just because it is hardcore does not mean she does not do it. I do hardcore things; I don't put pictures of them on the web though.
As a kid you don't really care about anything sexual, until you're told that you're not allowed to have anything to do with it.
Nice theory, but I don't recall anyone telling me as a kid I was not allowed to have anything to do with it, but it didn't stop me being drawn to pictures of naked women if I came across them, certainly by the age of 8 in what you might call a proto-sexual way. I recognised my reaction as being like nothing else I experienced (still is), and I did not care to discuss or share my feelings with others around that time, or long after.
Educate your kids,... and they'll do a better job managing it./p>
I cannot help feeing that people who consider that sex is just another nice thing (maybe) to be "managed" like good food or a refreshing stroll and a functional way of making babies, playing it down in that way, are missing something major in their constitution.
I fail to see any problem here.
There was a man in the picture as opposed to two women.
No, there was a woman in the picture as opposed to two men. This is Apple we are talking about.
Thanks for proving that you don't know what the word hate means
Thank you for proving that you don't know what the word apple means.
FTFA:
Over millions of years, they might evolve into multicellular organisms, and, perhaps eventually, plants and animals.
..... and eventually they will supply us with some fresh, warm, lemon-scented towels.
Once when I was in a hospital, I was alone with a machine that was ticking... and which now and then changed the rate it was ticking. That thing drove me insane. (figuratively)
You should try a UK NHS hospital. You'd be lucky if you got a room alone - oh wait, you wouldn't, because you do get such a room when they think you are about to die. My experience is that they are like floodlit madhouses, 27/7.
I think your analogy highlights the two different perceptions of this issue. One group of people (including you) regard the operating system as an integral part of the product, like the car gearbox. Others (including me fwiw) regard the OS as a separate entity, like a car trailer.
Why do they need 3D maps to determine "what lane they are in and distance to the next junction"?
FTFA:
a young woman working as CFO at Leoni's Bistrita factory in Romania
I didn't bother to read any further than the word "Romania".
And all of this is different from old iPhones, old Android phones, old Blackberry phones...how?
Scrolling down, you are the first post to mention iPhones, Android phones, or Blackberry phones. Pay attention, this is a factual news item about Skype for Windows.
All that should matter is to determine if the evidence is real or faked; it should not matter how it is obtained except in so far as it helps to determine whether it was faked. "Procedures" for getting evidence, like search warrants, should just be a factor in helping that decision, not a way to get evidence thrown out automatically if it was not by "procedure".
As for police randomly raiding homes without warrants, if they do find incriminating evidence then fair enough; if they don't, then prosecute the police for intrusion.
We now know that Chahal is an utter bastard who abuses women. That video evidence is good enough for me.
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AC wrote :
My problem with the "civilisation will destroy itself" arguments .....
A problem is what is meant by "civilisation". Strictly it means living in towns where most people specialise (metalworker, baker etc) and trade with satellite villages for food; as opposed to villages alone with most people living by subsistence farming. The human race will not destroy itself in the forseeable future (that is just too hard to do), but I believe it could be reduced to a tiny fraction of its present size in subsistence villages. This would not necessarily be caused by disaster - there are many who want that to happen, the more extreme of the Green movement being the prime example, and extreme Survivalists another. Such opinions, opposing science and technology, have become very powerful. The most likely disaster facing civilisation is over-population, leadng to a boom and then bust instability as seen in some fish and insect populations (yet there are people who still today call for popuation increases).
Husky Dog wrote :
we know from practical experience that getting from the dark ages to now takes about 1500 years or so, probably rather less if you have the smoking remains of the previous civilisation to get clues from. So, we get another go at being an advanced civilisation and presumably can repeat this depressing episode over and over again
Exactly, except as I said not everyone wants to "get back from the dark ages". The most powerful people in dark ages are gang leaders (read Viking warlords, leaders of Mongol hordes etc) who are people who see no gain for themselves in learning and science. All through the dark ages there were centres of learning and knowledge in Westen Europe such as Lindisfarne and St Davids, which gained ground slowly but would then be wiped out over and over again by barbarians of one sort or another. .
why did he own two 108 inch TV and three 82 inch TV?
Perhaps he has a house with more than one room, and those being of different sizes. Screens are supposed to be of an optimum size according to viewing distance. Not everyone lives in a one-room basement.
I'm just allergic to manual labor. ... So I do tend to spend a lot of time thinking.
And I'm not asleep, just resting my eyelids.
Has anyone figured what the point of a smartwatch is?
Yes. The purpose of a smartphone is to impress people that you don't like. It is a fashion accessory, not a tech device.
OK, that's smartphones sorted. But what about smartwatches?
WTF is next... Rolls Royce pickup trucks?
We have had Rolls Royce buses - well, buses with Rolls Royce engines.