In the past year or so, I've had at least 3 people swerve over into my lane while looking into their laps at what I assume is their cell phone. At the last second, they all lurched back. This is on 2-lane primary residential streets. I can't imagine what it would be like if I was driving an hour a day like a lot of commuters.
That doesn't count the people you see every day weaving all over their lane while using cell phones. I had always assumed that people would grow more responsible over time as cell phones were more integrated into our lives.
Healthcare technology is better now and more expensive. You can get hit with a bill for a couple million (friends of mine had complications during birth of twins and now owe $2million PLUS to the hospital. You think they're going to support an out-of-pocket payment model with those potential charges? I guess YOU'RE good for it!
Amen! All the people bitching about their constitutional right to refuse health care insurance know damned well that if they're dying on the side of the highway, they'll be screaming for someone to help them. And, if not them then a wife or child.
It's a comic action flick that will earn a crapload of money for the investors. Great special effects, great final boss battle, great job putting Asgard on film, though the other realms were disappointing. I enjoyed it, but don't expect anything original. These movies are basically cookie cutter by now. Hell, they even used the comedic "so glad to see you...SLAP!" gag 2X.
Women will appreciate the lead. He goes shirtless and the women in the audience practically soiled their seats.
My mailbox is filled with junk mail every day. In fact, I bet I get 3-4X as much junk mail as I do legitimate mail. I probably get 1-2 newspaper-like ads every week from grocers that I've probably never opened.I bet the USPS would start making money if they started charging these guys closer to regular rates. Well, assuming they can't get the pension pre-funding fixed in Congress.
CNN has started doing these long-form documentaries and the 2 I've seen have been mind altering. I went from being a total nuclear power skeptic to being 99% in favor. The documentary is done from the perspective of environmentalists who did their own research into nuclear power and were really surprised by their findings. The clincher for me was the milliSievert readings from all over the world; including Fukushima and Chernobyl.
It seems that the uber wealthy run out of ways to flaunt it, so they have to come up with more and more outlandish displays to let others know how much more they have than you. These aren't even improvements in quality or aesthetics. Tooling around in a Bugatti is passe, apparently.
That point was about 6 months ago. On Slashdot, where there's a pretty vocal community who thinks Bluray ISOs of the latest Hollywood releases "want to be free," any secret data reveal is presumed to be some kind of a public service. Snowden long ago exposed himself as just a guy interested in finding as much as he could find about government secrets, then indiscriminately dumping that information on the press. He's not whistleblower, he's not an activist, he's not an ideologue. He's just some kid who found daddy's car keys and took the Corvette for a spin. If it wasn't obvious before, it should be now that he had absolutely no game plan besides "look at what I got my hands on, cool!' That doesn't absolve intelligence agencies of responsibility, especially since he was relieved of duties under the CIA before getting his contracting job under the NSA.
He'll continue to be cheered on by a certain demographic of IT guys who idolize hacker culture because of *scope* of his infiltration, and not the benefit he's provided the country.
Horseshit. The "website" is not a website. It gets really annoying listening to the uninitiated thinking they could churn out that system during their summer break. It's not a just a website. You've got all kinds of underlying systems like account validation, the interfaces with health insurers, the call center (which is a solid 'A' since I've had to call them about 3-4 times), etc. And, there was probably only a year and a half to build it. That doesn't excuse the massive problems, but don't think you're going to hire some javascript guru to roll it out on his lunch break.
So far as the cultural enlightenment you get from the recruitment advertisements. I'm not going to buy the pretentious contrarian game since I thought the satire was too poorly executed to be genius. We're not talking Blade Runner here, for God's sake Casper Van Dien was the lead!
That being said, I still liked it enough I'll rewatch it if nothing better is on; if nothing more that to glimpse Dina Meyer in her topless prime.
Sssssh! Studying silly environmental issues like "breeding habits of jellyfish" make great rightwing blogosphere headlines about government waste. After all, if it's not a farm subsidy or a bigger gun, why should taxpayers be funding it?
Hell, there's already been a slew of bastardized versions of it, so I'm not sure why people are so huffy about another one that made for a pretty good movie (besides Lebeouf of course, but I think he gets killed so that's a fair trade-off).
Nothing close to the deals BB had. Remember when a new movie came out and they had literally a WALL filled with new copies of that movie to rent? Well, all those copies were sold off. So, a couple weeks/ months after a new movie hit DVD, you could buy it for $5-10 instead of renting an electronic copy for the same.
Now, if I'm looking for an older movie, I might find a good one in the bargain bin at Walmart.
I loved going in and buying the used flikcks; sometimes 4 DVDs for $20 or 2 Blurays for $20. I built up a nice physical collection which I much prefer to just files. If they shut down any local stores I'll make a point to be there early for the sell-off day.
I guess I'm in that minority that likes the in-store experience and browsing shelves rather than clunky cable box UIs.
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Odds are there are 1000s more around the same age or older, sucking dirty water somewhere else out there.
In the past year or so, I've had at least 3 people swerve over into my lane while looking into their laps at what I assume is their cell phone. At the last second, they all lurched back. This is on 2-lane primary residential streets. I can't imagine what it would be like if I was driving an hour a day like a lot of commuters.
That doesn't count the people you see every day weaving all over their lane while using cell phones. I had always assumed that people would grow more responsible over time as cell phones were more integrated into our lives.
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No need to fill in the hole; just comb over it.
Healthcare technology is better now and more expensive. You can get hit with a bill for a couple million (friends of mine had complications during birth of twins and now owe $2million PLUS to the hospital. You think they're going to support an out-of-pocket payment model with those potential charges? I guess YOU'RE good for it!
Amen! All the people bitching about their constitutional right to refuse health care insurance know damned well that if they're dying on the side of the highway, they'll be screaming for someone to help them. And, if not them then a wife or child.
That's what happens when you don't let the Prison Industrial Complex freedom-speak with their campaign donation dollars.
Virgins...
There was an article here months/years back about the USPS subsidizing junk mail.
It's a comic action flick that will earn a crapload of money for the investors. Great special effects, great final boss battle, great job putting Asgard on film, though the other realms were disappointing. I enjoyed it, but don't expect anything original. These movies are basically cookie cutter by now. Hell, they even used the comedic "so glad to see you...SLAP!" gag 2X.
Women will appreciate the lead. He goes shirtless and the women in the audience practically soiled their seats.
You never even catch a glimpse of Kat Dennings' assets. She's wearing heavy clothing the whole movie.
My mailbox is filled with junk mail every day. In fact, I bet I get 3-4X as much junk mail as I do legitimate mail. I probably get 1-2 newspaper-like ads every week from grocers that I've probably never opened.I bet the USPS would start making money if they started charging these guys closer to regular rates. Well, assuming they can't get the pension pre-funding fixed in Congress.
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CNN has started doing these long-form documentaries and the 2 I've seen have been mind altering. I went from being a total nuclear power skeptic to being 99% in favor. The documentary is done from the perspective of environmentalists who did their own research into nuclear power and were really surprised by their findings. The clincher for me was the milliSievert readings from all over the world; including Fukushima and Chernobyl.
It seems that the uber wealthy run out of ways to flaunt it, so they have to come up with more and more outlandish displays to let others know how much more they have than you. These aren't even improvements in quality or aesthetics. Tooling around in a Bugatti is passe, apparently.
That point was about 6 months ago. On Slashdot, where there's a pretty vocal community who thinks Bluray ISOs of the latest Hollywood releases "want to be free," any secret data reveal is presumed to be some kind of a public service. Snowden long ago exposed himself as just a guy interested in finding as much as he could find about government secrets, then indiscriminately dumping that information on the press. He's not whistleblower, he's not an activist, he's not an ideologue. He's just some kid who found daddy's car keys and took the Corvette for a spin. If it wasn't obvious before, it should be now that he had absolutely no game plan besides "look at what I got my hands on, cool!' That doesn't absolve intelligence agencies of responsibility, especially since he was relieved of duties under the CIA before getting his contracting job under the NSA.
He'll continue to be cheered on by a certain demographic of IT guys who idolize hacker culture because of *scope* of his infiltration, and not the benefit he's provided the country.
Horseshit. The "website" is not a website. It gets really annoying listening to the uninitiated thinking they could churn out that system during their summer break. It's not a just a website. You've got all kinds of underlying systems like account validation, the interfaces with health insurers, the call center (which is a solid 'A' since I've had to call them about 3-4 times), etc. And, there was probably only a year and a half to build it. That doesn't excuse the massive problems, but don't think you're going to hire some javascript guru to roll it out on his lunch break.
So far as the cultural enlightenment you get from the recruitment advertisements. I'm not going to buy the pretentious contrarian game since I thought the satire was too poorly executed to be genius. We're not talking Blade Runner here, for God's sake Casper Van Dien was the lead!
That being said, I still liked it enough I'll rewatch it if nothing better is on; if nothing more that to glimpse Dina Meyer in her topless prime.
Sssssh! Studying silly environmental issues like "breeding habits of jellyfish" make great rightwing blogosphere headlines about government waste. After all, if it's not a farm subsidy or a bigger gun, why should taxpayers be funding it?
If I ever need to know the Greek pluralization of penis, something has gone terribly wrong on my date.
Hell, there's already been a slew of bastardized versions of it, so I'm not sure why people are so huffy about another one that made for a pretty good movie (besides Lebeouf of course, but I think he gets killed so that's a fair trade-off).
That's what's even worse about the whole situation. BB ran a lot of family video shops out of town. Now, they've gone under as well.
Nothing close to the deals BB had. Remember when a new movie came out and they had literally a WALL filled with new copies of that movie to rent? Well, all those copies were sold off. So, a couple weeks/ months after a new movie hit DVD, you could buy it for $5-10 instead of renting an electronic copy for the same.
Now, if I'm looking for an older movie, I might find a good one in the bargain bin at Walmart.
I loved going in and buying the used flikcks; sometimes 4 DVDs for $20 or 2 Blurays for $20. I built up a nice physical collection which I much prefer to just files. If they shut down any local stores I'll make a point to be there early for the sell-off day.
I guess I'm in that minority that likes the in-store experience and browsing shelves rather than clunky cable box UIs.
I won't matter what I reply with because you've already invoked the "real Scotsman" fallacy in your question. Anything posted won't count to you.