I'm in SoFla. It'd have to be a middle finger because "vete pa'l carajo!" is too long for any plate and wouldn't get past the censors. They're kinda uppity about what can be had on plates.
But "420 TRY" did get past them.. how odd. Saw that a few years back on a beautiful pale blue bmw 335 ti.
But since I like to roll without advertising a single goddamned thing about myself, I just have a stock standard plate, whatever the State deemed proper for my car.
Now, I really love aviation, I'm a frustrated pilot that never got his wings, I love flying a little nothing that's made of sticks and rags, but... we absolutely need hi-speed rail in the US. Maybe not so much in tightly-packed metro areas, but it sure as hell can work long-distance.
But as long as the Airplane (and to some extent Car) manufacturers have any influence, rail is a non-starter.
You avoid maids in China? Are you referring to house-maids, or are you using "maid" to refer to young women in general? Why are you so scared of women?
Maid in Chian is a bit of an old joke in vacuum-tube hi-fi (and maybe the guitar/bass people too). In the early 2000's there was a run of tubes made in China that read "Erection Tube / Maid in Chian" instead of "Electron Tube / Made in China." If they can't even spell the fucking thing right, how do we know the complicated innards are well-made? (They weren't.)
I'm open to maids from any country, but I want my vacuum tubes made in USA, Germany or the UK, por favor. I'll take JJ from what was Yugoslavia, and Svetlana in Russia also makes passable stuff.
What did we call Chinese tubes? Firecrackers, especially 5AR4 rectifiers.
Need labelmaker? Got a 1977 Dymo 1570 embosser for almost spare change. I'm not giving China (or Dymo) a red fucking cent. Refills? I buy vintage from ebay. Seriously, a few 9' rolls should last a lifetime.
Somehow I lost my 30-year old Stanley measuring tape. Instead of getting one from Home Depot (made in China) I got an old Powerlock II from Ebay. Works fine.
Need an umbrella after the handle on my Totes went to shit (and the "warranty replacements died like that too")? Bought a Fox, made in England. I'm not giving China (or totes) a red fucking cent. So what if it cost 4x what a Totes costs. It'll last 4x longer.
Where they got me is the phones. Or "new" things. But if there's even a remote chance I can get Thing X that's old and made anywhere but china, I'll buy it.
It's not really just Fuck China, it's more "Fuck the Companies that Manufacture in China, are based Here and don't even pay taxes."
That's what voting with your wallet means. It would've been easier to get these things New, but no. Fuck 'em.
I would like to think more people are thinking like this. SOme of the folks I work with do. Some of my friends do too.
If you can afford it, don't buy China. Seriously. Don't. Fuck the companies who manufacture in China where it hurts them.
This is not for everyone. Most people want it NAO NAO NAO DAMMIT! WAAAH! Fuck that. Patience is rewarded with sweet things.
Very simple: I would like to be able to pay some additional fee to designate traffic from any source of my choosing to be of higher priority than other traffic.
To put that in simpler terms, I want Netflix to stream as fast as possible to the possible detriment of random browsing or other update traffic from my house.
Umm.. no. That's not what Paid Prioritazion, in the contest of this pissing contest called Net Neturality is about.
What it is about is this: "Gee, Netflix, if you don't want your packets mysteriously chopped up and sent out at random you must pay me One Billion Dollars! Muahahah!"
It's not about YOU paying for YOUR traffic faster. It's about Amazon getting preferential treatment over Joes Internet Bait shop. Or Netflix getting "QoS'd" to hell because Comcast would rather push their streaming instead of Netflix. Unless, of course, Joe's Internet Bait Shop paying up some ridiculous fees on top of what they already pay their hoster. Ditto netflix.
None of this is for our (the comsumer's) benefit.
People are so misinformed on this subject it makes the head spin.
I saw an advert promoting recycling; not sure which of those three categories that would fall into...
Easy-out. Planet going to hell in a handbasket? Recycle! At least here in florida it all goes to the landfill anyway. Moot point. I still throw my plastic glass and paper into the green bin, but most ends up in Mount Trashmore anyway.
NOt entirely sure a recycle ad is really an ad, to me it's more of a PSA. Of course, you must ask -- who's benefiting? In my case, it isn't the planet, it's Waste Management (WM). They get paid by the city, and my shit still ends up in Mount Trashmore. Yeah baby. Fake recycling.
If they can do that with something as simple as breakfast. What else have we been manipulated into?
The two combine.
1. The picture of the dollop of shaving creme on the 90's - 2000's cans of Gilette Foamy show a fist-sized mound of creme. Amount you really need to get proper coverage: 1/4 that. Half a ping-pong ball, not a fist-sized mound.
2. THe long-ass string of toothpaste shown on Aqua Fresh (and i'm sure others too) toothpaste adverts is about 1.5 inches long and curled at both ends. Amount you truly need: 1/2 inch or so. They're encouraging one, subliminally, almost, to use so much more product than is needed that a 10-oz can of shaving foam that should go for half a year is spent in 3 months.
Got Milk? is an example of what you speak of. So's "Beef, it's what's for dinner." That they used Rodeo by Copland as the music was just inspired. Steak and Copland, all you need is a slab of apple pie to finish off the Classic Late 20th Century American Dinner.
The only defense against this shit is to teach children from early on to think critically and not to trust everything they see / hear / read at face value. To always ask themselves "Who benefits from my actions? Am I putting too much money into the seller's pocket?"
The best things in life speak for themselves and need no pushing. You find them or they find you by word of mouth, or you see it on your own, or.... you just know about it through some inexplicable mechanism.
Yesterday I didn't get my usual email at 3 am saying my DD was in. The app (when it worked, which was rare) was missing things like DDs and transactions from the day prior.
A phone call to the system showed all was OK. Balance was as expected, deposit went in for the correct amount.
But here's something to consider: Before you pick a new bank -- and I'm sure more than a few will because it's bloody obvious WF has no working BCP or DR strategy and inside info indicates the company is so fragmented there are several different rogue IT factions going on -- before you pick a new bank, FOLLOW THE FUCKING MONEY.
For example: Barclay's and a few other Brit / Scots banks are owned by Saudis or other Arabs. Immidate disqualification.
Chase is just as crooked as WF. So's Citi. Chase and Citi are so old and corrupt they date back all the way to JP Morgan and others of his little circle of friends.
I'm either going to go credit union (I wish I could do Magnolia Federal again in Biloxi, I had them for a while when I lived there and they were 100% sweetness, never a mis-step, never a frown, never any shenanigans)
I think my next bank will be Banco Popular de Puerto RIco - BPPR - they still have the old BPPR-in-a-circle logo, they still have their old Brutalist HQ building in Hato Ray, PR.. as far as I know, ownership is 100% Borinqeño, and they have enough ATMs and branches in SoFla to suit my needs.
I'm done with the Big Boys. They're all fuckign crooks.
Most people only act decent out of fear of punishment or reprisal, and are complete monsters otherwise.
This. A million times this. Most "christians" are good because they believe in some supernatural sky god that will punish them for eternity, and not because they are innately "good".
We're animals. We love to hunt and kill. Millions of years have not bred that out of us. Professors, preachers and pundits will not drive it from us. We're animals.
Do you honestly think anyone in the world gives enough of a crap about us to pay someone to post something on Slashdot?
Yes, yes I do think that. But only as a grain of sand in a larger beach.
In other words: No one's targeting/. specifically, alone, in a vacuum. But you can't deny there is a campaign to further split this country, and it seems/. is caught in it indirectly, as part of a larger effort.
It can't be coincidence that ALL comments section, from youtube to/. to newspapers all across the country have the same language, the same namecalling, the same unwillingness to listen, and it all started at the same time. Either someone is looking to make bank on our divisiveness, or.... we are truly this divided for reals. If the latter, then we're a cunt hair away from civil war.
Maybe the preppers aren't crazy. Maybe I should invest in an underground food, medicine and arms cache in some undisclosed location.
...that same AI read Slashdot for a month and promptly shot itself when it saw what goes on in AC-land.
You know what I"m talking about. There's a whole underbelly of political.. ahem... "discourse".. taking place at 0 and below.
I wish the lot of them would just... go away. It's not entertaining anymore. It's just children yelling at each other, just like the "grownups" they see on TV, yelling at each other.
sure seems that right wing opinions have crept up in the past several years.
I don't have a problem with civilized opinions from any side. What gets tiresome is what this very thread is full of, should you read it at -1 (which I do, because I'm a sucker for punishment I guess)
It's the incessant, schoolyard name-calling and stick-hurling that makes me want to line them up against the wall and give them a taste of true jack-booted, foot-stomping authoritarian firing-squad.
Seriously. If all that AC drivel name calling truly reflects America today.. we're so fucked it ain't even funny. It's not even smh funny... it's just... ugh. No intelligence. Just parroting and namecalling.
But y'know? I used to think the same of forums. This place here, this is the last that I visit. I gave up on all others. Pointless exercise.
Will Slashdot ever again bother to pretend to be impartial journalists?
Dude, I've been here 20 years, this place has never been impartial. Always a strong left-lean with healthy doses of unixlove, windowshate and appledisdain.
It's only recently -- the past 5 or so years -- that a certain cadre of very loud right-wingnut boors have shown up.. and I fully suspect they are paid trolls. Whoever is doing the paying... get a refund, we see right through you.
Except those settings haven't worked since 63v because they decided to complicate autoplay configuration even further: https://support.mozilla.org/en... [mozilla.org],
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I'm in SoFla. It'd have to be a middle finger because "vete pa'l carajo!" is too long for any plate and wouldn't get past the censors. They're kinda uppity about what can be had on plates.
But "420 TRY" did get past them.. how odd. Saw that a few years back on a beautiful pale blue bmw 335 ti.
But since I like to roll without advertising a single goddamned thing about myself, I just have a stock standard plate, whatever the State deemed proper for my car.
"...your call is very important to us. Please remain on the line and..."
If it's so important, why did you just make me navigate a 3 minute tree and then wait 5 more, only to hear this malarkey?
It's all lies, from all the corporations (and many small businesses, too, dishonests are everywhere)
..."And what have you done with Chairman Pai?"
Now, I really love aviation, I'm a frustrated pilot that never got his wings, I love flying a little nothing that's made of sticks and rags, but... we absolutely need hi-speed rail in the US. Maybe not so much in tightly-packed metro areas, but it sure as hell can work long-distance.
But as long as the Airplane (and to some extent Car) manufacturers have any influence, rail is a non-starter.
You avoid maids in China? Are you referring to house-maids, or are you using "maid" to refer to young women in general? Why are you so scared of women?
Maid in Chian is a bit of an old joke in vacuum-tube hi-fi (and maybe the guitar/bass people too). In the early 2000's there was a run of tubes made in China that read "Erection Tube / Maid in Chian" instead of "Electron Tube / Made in China." If they can't even spell the fucking thing right, how do we know the complicated innards are well-made? (They weren't.)
I'm open to maids from any country, but I want my vacuum tubes made in USA, Germany or the UK, por favor. I'll take JJ from what was Yugoslavia, and Svetlana in Russia also makes passable stuff.
What did we call Chinese tubes? Firecrackers, especially 5AR4 rectifiers.
I'm really trying my best to avoid Made in China.
Need labelmaker? Got a 1977 Dymo 1570 embosser for almost spare change. I'm not giving China (or Dymo) a red fucking cent. Refills? I buy vintage from ebay. Seriously, a few 9' rolls should last a lifetime.
Somehow I lost my 30-year old Stanley measuring tape. Instead of getting one from Home Depot (made in China) I got an old Powerlock II from Ebay. Works fine.
Need an umbrella after the handle on my Totes went to shit (and the "warranty replacements died like that too")? Bought a Fox, made in England. I'm not giving China (or totes) a red fucking cent. So what if it cost 4x what a Totes costs. It'll last 4x longer.
Where they got me is the phones. Or "new" things. But if there's even a remote chance I can get Thing X that's old and made anywhere but china, I'll buy it.
It's not really just Fuck China, it's more "Fuck the Companies that Manufacture in China, are based Here and don't even pay taxes."
That's what voting with your wallet means. It would've been easier to get these things New, but no. Fuck 'em.
I would like to think more people are thinking like this. SOme of the folks I work with do. Some of my friends do too.
If you can afford it, don't buy China. Seriously. Don't. Fuck the companies who manufacture in China where it hurts them.
This is not for everyone. Most people want it NAO NAO NAO DAMMIT! WAAAH! Fuck that. Patience is rewarded with sweet things.
No offsite backups? No tapes????
Who designed the disaster plan for these guys?
Same geniuses as Wells Fargo?
B is for Buy n' Large, your very best friend.
We're headed that way, y'know.
Very simple: I would like to be able to pay some additional fee to designate traffic from any source of my choosing to be of higher priority than other traffic.
To put that in simpler terms, I want Netflix to stream as fast as possible to the possible detriment of random browsing or other update traffic from my house.
Umm.. no. That's not what Paid Prioritazion, in the contest of this pissing contest called Net Neturality is about.
What it is about is this: "Gee, Netflix, if you don't want your packets mysteriously chopped up and sent out at random you must pay me One Billion Dollars! Muahahah!"
It's not about YOU paying for YOUR traffic faster. It's about Amazon getting preferential treatment over Joes Internet Bait shop. Or Netflix getting "QoS'd" to hell because Comcast would rather push their streaming instead of Netflix. Unless, of course, Joe's Internet Bait Shop paying up some ridiculous fees on top of what they already pay their hoster. Ditto netflix.
None of this is for our (the comsumer's) benefit.
People are so misinformed on this subject it makes the head spin.
I saw an advert promoting recycling; not sure which of those three categories that would fall into...
Easy-out. Planet going to hell in a handbasket? Recycle! At least here in florida it all goes to the landfill anyway. Moot point. I still throw my plastic glass and paper into the green bin, but most ends up in Mount Trashmore anyway.
NOt entirely sure a recycle ad is really an ad, to me it's more of a PSA. Of course, you must ask -- who's benefiting? In my case, it isn't the planet, it's Waste Management (WM). They get paid by the city, and my shit still ends up in Mount Trashmore. Yeah baby. Fake recycling.
This type of advertising is much more insidious. http://www.americantable.org/2...
If they can do that with something as simple as breakfast. What else have we been manipulated into?
The two combine.
1. The picture of the dollop of shaving creme on the 90's - 2000's cans of Gilette Foamy show a fist-sized mound of creme. Amount you really need to get proper coverage: 1/4 that. Half a ping-pong ball, not a fist-sized mound.
2. THe long-ass string of toothpaste shown on Aqua Fresh (and i'm sure others too) toothpaste adverts is about 1.5 inches long and curled at both ends. Amount you truly need: 1/2 inch or so. They're encouraging one, subliminally, almost, to use so much more product than is needed that a 10-oz can of shaving foam that should go for half a year is spent in 3 months.
Got Milk? is an example of what you speak of. So's "Beef, it's what's for dinner." That they used Rodeo by Copland as the music was just inspired. Steak and Copland, all you need is a slab of apple pie to finish off the Classic Late 20th Century American Dinner.
The only defense against this shit is to teach children from early on to think critically and not to trust everything they see / hear / read at face value. To always ask themselves "Who benefits from my actions? Am I putting too much money into the seller's pocket?"
All adverts are morally wrong.
They either:
1. Prey on your fears
2. Exploit your darkest, deepest desires
3. Promise you an easy-out to your problems
The best things in life speak for themselves and need no pushing. You find them or they find you by word of mouth, or you see it on your own, or.... you just know about it through some inexplicable mechanism.
Yesterday I didn't get my usual email at 3 am saying my DD was in. The app (when it worked, which was rare) was missing things like DDs and transactions from the day prior.
A phone call to the system showed all was OK. Balance was as expected, deposit went in for the correct amount.
But here's something to consider: Before you pick a new bank -- and I'm sure more than a few will because it's bloody obvious WF has no working BCP or DR strategy and inside info indicates the company is so fragmented there are several different rogue IT factions going on -- before you pick a new bank, FOLLOW THE FUCKING MONEY.
For example: Barclay's and a few other Brit / Scots banks are owned by Saudis or other Arabs. Immidate disqualification.
Chase is just as crooked as WF. So's Citi. Chase and Citi are so old and corrupt they date back all the way to JP Morgan and others of his little circle of friends.
I'm either going to go credit union (I wish I could do Magnolia Federal again in Biloxi, I had them for a while when I lived there and they were 100% sweetness, never a mis-step, never a frown, never any shenanigans)
I think my next bank will be Banco Popular de Puerto RIco - BPPR - they still have the old BPPR-in-a-circle logo, they still have their old Brutalist HQ building in Hato Ray, PR.. as far as I know, ownership is 100% Borinqeño, and they have enough ATMs and branches in SoFla to suit my needs.
I'm done with the Big Boys. They're all fuckign crooks.
Wells Fargo customer service reps lately just assume everyone is pissed at them these past few weeks, espcially yesterday and today.
[stewie] Where's my money?! *WHAM!* Where's my money?!" [/stewie]
Most people only act decent out of fear of punishment or reprisal, and are complete monsters otherwise.
This. A million times this. Most "christians" are good because they believe in some supernatural sky god that will punish them for eternity, and not because they are innately "good".
We're animals. We love to hunt and kill. Millions of years have not bred that out of us. Professors, preachers and pundits will not drive it from us. We're animals.
Do you honestly think anyone in the world gives enough of a crap about us to pay someone to post something on Slashdot?
Yes, yes I do think that. But only as a grain of sand in a larger beach.
In other words: No one's targeting /. specifically, alone, in a vacuum. But you can't deny there is a campaign to further split this country, and it seems /. is caught in it indirectly, as part of a larger effort.
It can't be coincidence that ALL comments section, from youtube to /. to newspapers all across the country have the same language, the same namecalling, the same unwillingness to listen, and it all started at the same time. Either someone is looking to make bank on our divisiveness, or.... we are truly this divided for reals. If the latter, then we're a cunt hair away from civil war.
Maybe the preppers aren't crazy. Maybe I should invest in an underground food, medicine and arms cache in some undisclosed location.
...that same AI read Slashdot for a month and promptly shot itself when it saw what goes on in AC-land.
You know what I"m talking about. There's a whole underbelly of political .. ahem... "discourse".. taking place at 0 and below.
I wish the lot of them would just... go away. It's not entertaining anymore. It's just children yelling at each other, just like the "grownups" they see on TV, yelling at each other.
sure seems that right wing opinions have crept up in the past several years.
I don't have a problem with civilized opinions from any side. What gets tiresome is what this very thread is full of, should you read it at -1 (which I do, because I'm a sucker for punishment I guess)
It's the incessant, schoolyard name-calling and stick-hurling that makes me want to line them up against the wall and give them a taste of true jack-booted, foot-stomping authoritarian firing-squad.
Seriously. If all that AC drivel name calling truly reflects America today.. we're so fucked it ain't even funny. It's not even smh funny... it's just... ugh. No intelligence. Just parroting and namecalling.
But y'know? I used to think the same of forums. This place here, this is the last that I visit. I gave up on all others. Pointless exercise.
Will Slashdot ever again bother to pretend to be impartial journalists?
Dude, I've been here 20 years, this place has never been impartial. Always a strong left-lean with healthy doses of unixlove, windowshate and appledisdain.
It's only recently -- the past 5 or so years -- that a certain cadre of very loud right-wingnut boors have shown up.. and I fully suspect they are paid trolls. Whoever is doing the paying... get a refund, we see right through you.
You must come from some imaginary site.
Until it sinks in?
I see what you did there. Umbridge sends her regards.
Obviously better than their American masters since they decided to go from America to China.
You're thinking of the UK. The USA doens't quite play in the African region.
China's building roads, schools, etc. in africa. And while on the surface that looks "good," it'll blow up in Africa's face.
How many times is Slashdot going to run this story?
As many as is necessary. Maybe some decision maker somewhere will think twice before getting in bed with china.
Right africa? How's your chinese masters treating you?
Except those settings haven't worked since 63v because they decided to complicate autoplay configuration even further: https://support.mozilla.org/en... [mozilla.org],
What can I say.. no autoplay on any site I visit.
I have autoplay for video and audio turned off in Firefox, and ever since they went to "quantum", this stuff actually works.
1. In your address bar, put about:config.
2. In about:config search, autoplay
3. media.autoplay.default;1
4. media.autoplay.enabled;false
Enjoy your lack of autoplay, even in obnoxious sites like cnn and youtube. No extensions needed.
You're cherry-picking. 38.something K was ALL INJURIES to firearms, including suicides.
Homicides (that's ded dead, not injured) 14.4. Suicides the balance.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/...
Stop cherrypicking to try to improve your position. But I understand, it's human nature to do so.