Someone claims to have a cure to cancer or AIDS. Usually an overzealous reporter. Actual facts, it's some quirky edge case or someone looking for money.
I don't believe anyone has a cure to anything until they're selling the pill.
I work with iOS and the only reason I have a Macbook is because of that. I tried going Mac-only at home and I lasted about 6 months before I went back to PCs where I could get software I wanted besides graphic design apps.
Every time I see a pitch for Apple's next "oooh" product, it's like getting an email from the car dealership who ripped you off on that jalopy you just sold at a loss.
It reminds me of that story about 2 economists who wanted to predict the price of silver in the future. Right now, if the industrial countries need cheap low-skilled labor, they open their borders either formally or with a backdoor illegal immigration program; e.g. the United States.
If we ever get to the point we don't have enough people, governments will pay people to have children.
You'd be more credible if you didn't pose it as an either-or proposition. People have a right to be afraid of nuclear power. No matter how much you justify how safe we can do it now and the advantages, there's still the stain of disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima. Then there's the global security issues of weapon's grade waste.
Personally, I'm FOR the expansion of nuclear power. But regulations exist because these same companies have fucked up so disastrously.
You're saving a ton of bandwidth vs. making a phone call. How we got into this bizarro land of pretending like texts are some premium feature is beyond me.
This is exactly it. I support rural broadband, but make the "i hate big gubmint" crowd pay for it themselves. If this gets passed, they'll be on broadband from Bumfuck, North Dakota yelling online about how the government wastes *their* money.
Nothing compares to that experience. Plus, I loved buying old DVDs after some new movie hit the shelves and they had to shed the 100 copies of it they had in stock. I got "scammed" by a redbox that wouldn't accept my movie back (then I got hit with late fees) so I won't touch those damned things.
There's nothing remarkable about Amazon to me. The reviews aren't reliable, you do searches you still see the wrong items come back. I've been duped into buying the wrong thing a few times because Amazon searches returned items they thought were close enough.
My problem with brick-and-mortar search engines is they don't make it easy enough to simply find the closest store with the item I want. If I'm going to Walmart or Target websites, that usually means I want it *now*.
Amazon was propped up by Wall Street for years operating at a loss until they established market dominance. If you can throw enough money at any business model, you can't lose.
I remember laughing at Amazon 10-15 years ago because they were so overvalued. They were the poster child for P/E ratio scam stocks.
This is what you pay your security analysts MILLIONS for. Hell, any hacker who finds an exploit can sell it for probably 100 times what Google is offering.
After the eclipse while on vacation, I got spammed on my cell phone from a business I drove past. I wondered who outed me, guess it was my cell phone service.
The pipe dream that we're going to float all over the solar system, hop out on zero-G weakened legs, and explore the surface of another world for 6 months.
We're probably going to have to wait until we've developed rotation spacecraft. And, this WON'T be trivial because the Coriolis (?) effect means you have the make the spacecraft sufficiently large for humans to adjust to the rotation. Spinning an upper stage of a Saturn V won't do it.
Agree wholeheartedly. People are so infatuated with a Mars flag raising exercise. We need to PROVE that humans can live in the unprecedented level of isolation that a Mars trip will demand first. The worst thing that could happen is some catastrophic accident or unforeseen circumstance that kills a crew and sets manned space travel back 20-30 years.
Was listening to an NPR interview a while back, one of the guests was former intel and seemed certain it was Russia. I agree that this is a great way for them to try to stifle the warming of relations between the US and Cuba. Notice how certain elements are blaming Cuba for not securing Embassy staff. Great excuse for an anti-Cuba administration to kill normalization efforts.
Well stated, that demographic has been voting against their own interests for at least 40 years because all you have to do is tell them "gays, brown people, and atheists did it!"
I've heard the same, even longer periods for some cars. Lots of the old rules for cars are obsolete. I use the hard break-in technique for my vehicles. Used on 3 new vehicles no problems.
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Someone claims to have a cure to cancer or AIDS. Usually an overzealous reporter. Actual facts, it's some quirky edge case or someone looking for money.
I don't believe anyone has a cure to anything until they're selling the pill.
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I work with iOS and the only reason I have a Macbook is because of that. I tried going Mac-only at home and I lasted about 6 months before I went back to PCs where I could get software I wanted besides graphic design apps.
Every time I see a pitch for Apple's next "oooh" product, it's like getting an email from the car dealership who ripped you off on that jalopy you just sold at a loss.
It reminds me of that story about 2 economists who wanted to predict the price of silver in the future. Right now, if the industrial countries need cheap low-skilled labor, they open their borders either formally or with a backdoor illegal immigration program; e.g. the United States.
If we ever get to the point we don't have enough people, governments will pay people to have children.
And subject yourself to a perjury or obstruction charge?
You'd be more credible if you didn't pose it as an either-or proposition. People have a right to be afraid of nuclear power. No matter how much you justify how safe we can do it now and the advantages, there's still the stain of disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima. Then there's the global security issues of weapon's grade waste.
Personally, I'm FOR the expansion of nuclear power. But regulations exist because these same companies have fucked up so disastrously.
He's playing right into China's talking points about it being a political arrest.
You're saving a ton of bandwidth vs. making a phone call. How we got into this bizarro land of pretending like texts are some premium feature is beyond me.
This is exactly it. I support rural broadband, but make the "i hate big gubmint" crowd pay for it themselves. If this gets passed, they'll be on broadband from Bumfuck, North Dakota yelling online about how the government wastes *their* money.
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Nothing compares to that experience. Plus, I loved buying old DVDs after some new movie hit the shelves and they had to shed the 100 copies of it they had in stock. I got "scammed" by a redbox that wouldn't accept my movie back (then I got hit with late fees) so I won't touch those damned things.
There's nothing remarkable about Amazon to me. The reviews aren't reliable, you do searches you still see the wrong items come back. I've been duped into buying the wrong thing a few times because Amazon searches returned items they thought were close enough.
My problem with brick-and-mortar search engines is they don't make it easy enough to simply find the closest store with the item I want. If I'm going to Walmart or Target websites, that usually means I want it *now*.
Amazon was propped up by Wall Street for years operating at a loss until they established market dominance. If you can throw enough money at any business model, you can't lose.
I remember laughing at Amazon 10-15 years ago because they were so overvalued. They were the poster child for P/E ratio scam stocks.
We don't worship competence in the US. We worship wealth and the gift of self-promotion.
Musk has made a career pretending to be Tony Stark while never delivering.
This is what you pay your security analysts MILLIONS for. Hell, any hacker who finds an exploit can sell it for probably 100 times what Google is offering.
After the eclipse while on vacation, I got spammed on my cell phone from a business I drove past. I wondered who outed me, guess it was my cell phone service.
The pipe dream that we're going to float all over the solar system, hop out on zero-G weakened legs, and explore the surface of another world for 6 months.
We're probably going to have to wait until we've developed rotation spacecraft. And, this WON'T be trivial because the Coriolis (?) effect means you have the make the spacecraft sufficiently large for humans to adjust to the rotation. Spinning an upper stage of a Saturn V won't do it.
Agree wholeheartedly. People are so infatuated with a Mars flag raising exercise. We need to PROVE that humans can live in the unprecedented level of isolation that a Mars trip will demand first. The worst thing that could happen is some catastrophic accident or unforeseen circumstance that kills a crew and sets manned space travel back 20-30 years.
Was listening to an NPR interview a while back, one of the guests was former intel and seemed certain it was Russia. I agree that this is a great way for them to try to stifle the warming of relations between the US and Cuba. Notice how certain elements are blaming Cuba for not securing Embassy staff. Great excuse for an anti-Cuba administration to kill normalization efforts.
Wow, how stupid have people gotten? You cant even trust companies iwth your SSN, you're going to leave these devices in your homes?
Well stated, that demographic has been voting against their own interests for at least 40 years because all you have to do is tell them "gays, brown people, and atheists did it!"
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...they do not alter it further
Any city or government that's serious about it can make it happen. It's about money and will power, not having some "boy wonder" design it for you.
I've heard the same, even longer periods for some cars. Lots of the old rules for cars are obsolete. I use the hard break-in technique for my vehicles. Used on 3 new vehicles no problems.