Weather *is* cyclical you know, and with climate change some places are going to be hit with even more aggressive patterns.
Or there could be other problems brewing. I'm not sure what the water table usage in Australia is, have you looked into it? It's one of those things that can be really bad when the water runs out but nobody thinks about because it's out of sight, out of mind. Just look at California - they've been drawing way more out of the aquifers than can possibly be replenished for decades and it's causing the actual ground to sink. One day not too far off those aquifers will be dry and then their entire agricultural sector will be screwed.
Implied ATTACHED MALES. So she's basically engaging in potential homewrecking. MAYBE if there was a dialog option for seeking Single males you might have a point.
This is splitting hairs though. There are LOTS of online dating sites out there, and only one specifically marketing itself to cheaters. Claiming she went there to find single men is like claiming you read Playboy for the articles. It MAY be true, but incredibly unlikely.
The front page tagline of the site is "Life is short - Have an affair". It is NOT a place for single people, no matter how many people try to spin it otherwise.
"If you truly feel a bit sorry for the women then you have to acknowledge that this is actually the correct site for her to be on"
Wrong.
"as users of a regular dating website would not be expecting and probably be very weirded out by finding out she was married."
Oh please. I know several people in open relationships who use PoF and OK Cupid with no problem at all.
Oh the irony! You are also only offering black and white categorization of the issue.
Also, I wasn't aware that looking scornfully at someone engaging in marital infidelity was "puritanism". I thought that was common sense. But hey,enjoy your open relationship, even if you didn't agree to it. Wouldn't want to be a Puritan now would you?
" one user who commented on the article said she's been "a long term member" of the site because her spouse's medical condition has affected their intimate life. Her spouse knows she's engaged with other Ashley Madison members, she says, but now fears she will likely lose friends and have to find a new job now that her association with the site is out there."
At the end of the day these people signed up for a site whose primary market is marital infidelity. I feel a bit sorry for the woman referenced above, but I also have to wonder if the partners of the people she's "engaged with" on AM were as accepting as her husband was. I kind of doubt it.
There are a lot of other sites out there that don't specifically target cheating that she could have used instead. By choosing to have her hookups through that site she was pretty much guaranteeing that she was actively screwing around with someone else's relationship.
> This statement is like saying "Yeah, I know revenge porn is bad, but the real blame lies y'know, with the girl who sent nude pictures in the first place. It was only a matter of time before someone re-published it"
Ex-fucking-cuse me? How about this perspective:
Sending porn to your boyfriend is not a crime. Revenge porn posting is a crime
Adultery is actually still on the books as a crime in 21 US states. Does that not mean that AM was a potential facilitator of criminal acts in those 21 states? I think it does.
Quite different circumstances between items 1 and 2.
Oh I think it's a little less than that at idle, but then again I would still turn one off between jobs at home. And the light dimming and your UPS screeching is just one more reassuring way to know that the mighty HP4si is about to bring its full arsenal to bear on printing your document the way you want it. POWERRRRRRRRR!
I think the real blame lies y'know, with the people who actually used this as a vehicle to cheat on their spouses. Blaming this leak for the fallout is like blaming your spouse's friend who rats you out for cheating on them.
Samsung laser printers work fine for me, and I've used knockoff toners in them for years without issue. Or if you just print black n white, go for old school reliability and find someone selling an HP4/HP4si. Things are built like a tank and will probably last longer than you will.
It isn't something a lot of Reddit users and probably admins disagree with so that is probably part of it. More importantly it's illegal in Russia and most of the world, but it is LEGAL in 4 (and counting) US states. So does Reddit start banning things that are illegal only in some places? What happens when Saudi Arabia's government objects to threads being posted with pictures showing women not appropriately dressed for Saudi Arabian standards? Or the subreddits for beer and craft brewing, etc I am sure are all highly illegal in several Muslim countries, gotta ban those too right?
Indeed that it is what I am referring to, and also that coal plants have killed more people through their pollution than nuclear plants have, by orders of magnitude. Yet everyone loses their minds at the thought of using nuclear power while the coal rolls.
You mean "healthcare", "lodging" and "food". Haven't been paying attention to the medical neglect in the prison system I presume? Or the roach infested prisons, and the prisons handing out green bologna sandwiches and moldy bread?
It's like the good old days from a Dickens novel in some cases.
>We feel it's the least we can do to let everyone, especially the Robot community, know that Philly isn't so bad.
Philly has a well known reputation and the fact that you're even talking about replacing HitchBot to demonstrate that it's rep is wrong is willfully ignoring it. If the reputation wasn't correct, you wouldn't need to replace the bot.
The wizard in question is a world champion, but he does demonstrate that it's entirely possible to shoot a clay pigeon, which is MUCH smaller than the drone in question, at twice the distance. And the clay pigeon is moving a lot faster than the drone would have been.
Out of curiosity, have you never SEEN a shotgun loaded with birdshot used to hunt birds? Kills at 200+ feet all the time.
Hm.. Today I learned that the entire Steam catalog is a weak selection. From what I understand most people are not going with a Steam machine directly, but with the $50 Steam link and the Steam controller. That doesn't sound very expensive to me at all. Certainly cheaper than an Xbox One.
EVs cost more *up front*. Where I live in Canada it's not unusual for people to spend upwards of $300-$400 a month on just gas commuting. Saving $3-4K a year on gas alone dramatically shifts the scales when it comes to 5 year costs on such a vehicle. Add to that the cost of maintenance, and then subtract the EV incentive rebates (up to $8K) the government up here hands out and a $33K EV ends up costing $5-10K over 5 years compared to a $25K gasoline vehicle that there are no fuel and maintenance savings or rebates on.
As for the apartment dwellers, your reasoning is also postulated on the idea that the car landscape is going to remain the same over the next few years. It's not. Self driving cars are starting to be a thing, and in 5 years they're going to be more of a thing. Your apartment friends will probably find it cheaper to belong to car co-op like Modo, Car2Go or similar. The co-op will buy the cars and maintain them, and when someone needs a car they pull out their smartphone and ask for one and the nearest available self-driving car comes and stops right in front of them where they asked for it. They drive wherever they want to go, get out and the car goes back into the pool and someone else uses it. They repeat the process to go home. People are already doing this with coops in large cities and find it's cheaper than owning a car. The self driving aspect will make using such a service an order of magnitude easier as you don't need to go find a pool car, it comes to you and goes away by itself when you don't need it any more. Range will be solved for the coop owners by the coop maintaining a small stable of gas vehicles for long trips.
The idea of a coop sounds expensive but really it's not. Think what you spend on your car each month. Personally I spend about $800/month between payments, insurance, gas and maintenance. Most city dwellers who use these coops currently have access to a car whenever they feel they need it and only spend a couple hundred per month on the service.
If your source of generation is DC like solar panels, then you're inducing conversion loss. AC is far more efficient at transmitting power long distances than DC is, but in this case you're only moving it a few meters so the benefits in efficiency are worth doing. Pretty sure Nikola would have been fine with this.
Maybe they shouldn't fly planes in the sky then. Nature's got tons of these autonomous drones they call "birds". Which seem to hit planes with considerable frequency and seldom cause any significant damage, I might add. The average seagull has more mass than the average drone.
In this story's context? I imagine one of those helicopters swinging their big heavy water filled bucket into one would sort its hash quite impressively. Similarly, I'm sure a Martin Mars water bomber wouldn't even scratch its paint hitting one head on.
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Weather *is* cyclical you know, and with climate change some places are going to be hit with even more aggressive patterns.
Or there could be other problems brewing. I'm not sure what the water table usage in Australia is, have you looked into it? It's one of those things that can be really bad when the water runs out but nobody thinks about because it's out of sight, out of mind. Just look at California - they've been drawing way more out of the aquifers than can possibly be replenished for decades and it's causing the actual ground to sink. One day not too far off those aquifers will be dry and then their entire agricultural sector will be screwed.
Chronic stupidity? Overactive placebo gland?
So to use your own words:
> "Single Female seeking Males" (implied "attached Males")
> "Attached Female seeking Males"
Implied ATTACHED MALES. So she's basically engaging in potential homewrecking. MAYBE if there was a dialog option for seeking Single males you might have a point.
This is splitting hairs though. There are LOTS of online dating sites out there, and only one specifically marketing itself to cheaters. Claiming she went there to find single men is like claiming you read Playboy for the articles. It MAY be true, but incredibly unlikely.
The front page tagline of the site is "Life is short - Have an affair". It is NOT a place for single people, no matter how many people try to spin it otherwise.
"If you truly feel a bit sorry for the women then you have to acknowledge that this is actually the correct site for her to be on"
Wrong.
"as users of a regular dating website would not be expecting and probably be very weirded out by finding out she was married."
Oh please. I know several people in open relationships who use PoF and OK Cupid with no problem at all.
Oh the irony! You are also only offering black and white categorization of the issue.
Also, I wasn't aware that looking scornfully at someone engaging in marital infidelity was "puritanism". I thought that was common sense. But hey,enjoy your open relationship, even if you didn't agree to it. Wouldn't want to be a Puritan now would you?
" one user who commented on the article said she's been "a long term member" of the site because her spouse's medical condition has affected their intimate life. Her spouse knows she's engaged with other Ashley Madison members, she says, but now fears she will likely lose friends and have to find a new job now that her association with the site is out there."
At the end of the day these people signed up for a site whose primary market is marital infidelity. I feel a bit sorry for the woman referenced above, but I also have to wonder if the partners of the people she's "engaged with" on AM were as accepting as her husband was. I kind of doubt it.
There are a lot of other sites out there that don't specifically target cheating that she could have used instead. By choosing to have her hookups through that site she was pretty much guaranteeing that she was actively screwing around with someone else's relationship.
Fine, fine. Dell awaits your money:
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https://www.asus.com/AllinOne-PCs/ASUS_Transformer_AiO_P1801/
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If the keyboard and mouse are optional it's still a tablet. People like tablets.
> This statement is like saying "Yeah, I know revenge porn is bad, but the real blame lies y'know, with the girl who sent nude pictures in the first place. It was only a matter of time before someone re-published it"
Ex-fucking-cuse me? How about this perspective:
Sending porn to your boyfriend is not a crime. Revenge porn posting is a crime
Adultery is actually still on the books as a crime in 21 US states. Does that not mean that AM was a potential facilitator of criminal acts in those 21 states? I think it does.
Quite different circumstances between items 1 and 2.
Oh I think it's a little less than that at idle, but then again I would still turn one off between jobs at home. And the light dimming and your UPS screeching is just one more reassuring way to know that the mighty HP4si is about to bring its full arsenal to bear on printing your document the way you want it. POWERRRRRRRRR!
I think the real blame lies y'know, with the people who actually used this as a vehicle to cheat on their spouses. Blaming this leak for the fallout is like blaming your spouse's friend who rats you out for cheating on them.
Samsung laser printers work fine for me, and I've used knockoff toners in them for years without issue. Or if you just print black n white, go for old school reliability and find someone selling an HP4/HP4si. Things are built like a tank and will probably last longer than you will.
It isn't something a lot of Reddit users and probably admins disagree with so that is probably part of it. More importantly it's illegal in Russia and most of the world, but it is LEGAL in 4 (and counting) US states. So does Reddit start banning things that are illegal only in some places? What happens when Saudi Arabia's government objects to threads being posted with pictures showing women not appropriately dressed for Saudi Arabian standards? Or the subreddits for beer and craft brewing, etc I am sure are all highly illegal in several Muslim countries, gotta ban those too right?
Indeed that it is what I am referring to, and also that coal plants have killed more people through their pollution than nuclear plants have, by orders of magnitude. Yet everyone loses their minds at the thought of using nuclear power while the coal rolls.
Yeah, you're right. Let's just keep burning coal instead. Surely that can't release any radiation.
So, you commonly walk at 10 kph? Your legs must be ripped as hell....
You mean "healthcare", "lodging" and "food". Haven't been paying attention to the medical neglect in the prison system I presume? Or the roach infested prisons, and the prisons handing out green bologna sandwiches and moldy bread?
It's like the good old days from a Dickens novel in some cases.
>We feel it's the least we can do to let everyone, especially the Robot community, know that Philly isn't so bad.
Philly has a well known reputation and the fact that you're even talking about replacing HitchBot to demonstrate that it's rep is wrong is willfully ignoring it. If the reputation wasn't correct, you wouldn't need to replace the bot.
Then this guy has to be a wizard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Teixm6JMw_k
The wizard in question is a world champion, but he does demonstrate that it's entirely possible to shoot a clay pigeon, which is MUCH smaller than the drone in question, at twice the distance. And the clay pigeon is moving a lot faster than the drone would have been.
Out of curiosity, have you never SEEN a shotgun loaded with birdshot used to hunt birds? Kills at 200+ feet all the time.
> game selections is comparitively weak
Hm.. Today I learned that the entire Steam catalog is a weak selection. From what I understand most people are not going with a Steam machine directly, but with the $50 Steam link and the Steam controller. That doesn't sound very expensive to me at all. Certainly cheaper than an Xbox One.
EVs cost more *up front*. Where I live in Canada it's not unusual for people to spend upwards of $300-$400 a month on just gas commuting. Saving $3-4K a year on gas alone dramatically shifts the scales when it comes to 5 year costs on such a vehicle. Add to that the cost of maintenance, and then subtract the EV incentive rebates (up to $8K) the government up here hands out and a $33K EV ends up costing $5-10K over 5 years compared to a $25K gasoline vehicle that there are no fuel and maintenance savings or rebates on.
As for the apartment dwellers, your reasoning is also postulated on the idea that the car landscape is going to remain the same over the next few years. It's not. Self driving cars are starting to be a thing, and in 5 years they're going to be more of a thing. Your apartment friends will probably find it cheaper to belong to car co-op like Modo, Car2Go or similar. The co-op will buy the cars and maintain them, and when someone needs a car they pull out their smartphone and ask for one and the nearest available self-driving car comes and stops right in front of them where they asked for it. They drive wherever they want to go, get out and the car goes back into the pool and someone else uses it. They repeat the process to go home. People are already doing this with coops in large cities and find it's cheaper than owning a car. The self driving aspect will make using such a service an order of magnitude easier as you don't need to go find a pool car, it comes to you and goes away by itself when you don't need it any more. Range will be solved for the coop owners by the coop maintaining a small stable of gas vehicles for long trips.
The idea of a coop sounds expensive but really it's not. Think what you spend on your car each month. Personally I spend about $800/month between payments, insurance, gas and maintenance. Most city dwellers who use these coops currently have access to a car whenever they feel they need it and only spend a couple hundred per month on the service.
If your source of generation is DC like solar panels, then you're inducing conversion loss. AC is far more efficient at transmitting power long distances than DC is, but in this case you're only moving it a few meters so the benefits in efficiency are worth doing. Pretty sure Nikola would have been fine with this.
Maybe they shouldn't fly planes in the sky then. Nature's got tons of these autonomous drones they call "birds". Which seem to hit planes with considerable frequency and seldom cause any significant damage, I might add. The average seagull has more mass than the average drone.
In this story's context? I imagine one of those helicopters swinging their big heavy water filled bucket into one would sort its hash quite impressively. Similarly, I'm sure a Martin Mars water bomber wouldn't even scratch its paint hitting one head on.