If you pay retail for the repairs. The economics of repairing things yourself have worked out nicely for me and many others.
I don't buy new furniture, and have some very nice furniture. I don't buy new vehicles, and have low operation and maintenance costs because I do all my own maintenance except alignment and machine shop work. I don't pay people to work on my home or renovate it. I don't pay anyone to work on my computers or appliances. I have fun, enjoy more granular control of my "stuff", and save stoopid money even though I buy commercial-grade tools and equipment.
I routinely give and swap both of those off to people who need them.
I wipe and reload the power fluctations well and they aren't nearly as delicate as LCDs. CRTs were a mature technology.
"They have to recycled to reclaim the metals."
That's easy now, too. My scrapper buddies recover the copper from bad CRTs and the rest goes into vehicles headed for the shredder.(Automobile recycling is already set up to handle scrap streams full of glass, lead, and plastic and has been for decades.)
Steel from PC cases goes in the steel pile.
Boards and CPUs can be sold for scrap on Ebay. Check it out sometime. People pay a fair amount for CPUs, RAM, and boards we used to throw away, so if you want to recycle that's one way to get a few bucks back. If I were in IT and could arrange to collect a corporate electronic "waste stream" I would be on it like sweat on a fat girl.
Competition means pressure to achieve, and that means some people won't do as well as others.
We need school choice vouchers so some people can rescue their kids from a _permanently_ and irretrievably broken system.
(It's heresy to admit it's broken and that given the REALITY of the public DEMANDS which broke it, that it WILL NEVER be fixed.)
Vouchers would allow secularists who value education to rescue their offspring from the mediocrity of public schools and from frequently toxic public school students. (I was so rescued and fortunate enough to finish my education in good boarding schools.)
Vouchers would also allow Superstitionists to send THEIR kids to religious schools, but that's actually a good thing since it rescues publics schools from them.
Geography is a bit different. The US is huge, and while plenty of us party and hang out, when you have to drive long distances to do that it requires both effort and expensive petrol.
Before the internet, hanging out with like-minded folk was do-able if you lived near each other. HOWEVER, if you DIDN'T live near them, you were isolated and, how shall I put it, generally fucked.
Things are MUCH better now. Piss on the "good old days", all of them. I lived through them and the only good thing was that cannabis was MUCH more tolerated in the 1970s (proof it doesn't cause many social problems given the enormous consumption at the time and since!). If you were polite, the cops would scatter your weed when they confiscated your beer, and send you on your way. ------- Online gaming FACILITATES interaction with MORE people by simplifying logistics. Given the choice between "internet interaction" and "being stuck in Bumphuque with no interaction", I'd take the first thank you very much.
The internet also allows many young people to escape the Katzian "Hellmouth" of their current situation. It would have been wonderful to have that when I was growing up! There is now an "alternate social topology" where you can escape and avoid your enemies. Be happy you have that option.
"But that require access. Just try to get into any big bilding without a security guard on your ass."
I'm a mechanic, and I dress in commercial uniform items. People act differently when you enter commercial suppliers because you "look like you belong".
"But there are very real reasons why the majority of people no longer shoe their own horses,"
You can save, or make, a bunch of money shoeing horses. Many serious horse owners do their own shoeing to save money. Tooth-filing too, which is why horse mouth speculums are readily available on Ebay.
If you don't take proper care of your oat-burner, it won't function properly.:-)
Self-defence can involve damaging the attacker to take him out of the fight.
Why shouldn't an attacker be destroyed? If an innocent person is attacked, why are they of no value and their attacker to be delicately handled instead of stopped hard?
In riot situations, should someone who is attacked be coerced to do nothing except get beaten? Why are rioters more valuable than those they attack?
Cut all aid and permanently embargo the North with the understanding that if they attack the South they get nuked. They won't attack.
Tac nukes are what kept them in their box after the Korean war, which is still not over. The North plays the same game over decades, and each generation of Westerners thinks its fucking new.
"They are no more "human" and entitled to human rights, then this building I'm sitting in. The people inside the building have a right to free speech, but not the building itself."
You're just jealous because the buildings are talking to me.
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"How to return to classic Gnome in Ubuntu":
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"Orgies, wine, and bulimia."
Charlie Sheen
It is possible to evolve beyond citizenship.
Citizenship is supposed to offer exclusive benefits in return for allegiance. When the costs exceed the benefits, it may be wise to change flags.
Most immigrants TO the US come here for economic opportunity, and I don't scorn them for that.
The goverment steals money from the public, so I cannot take issue with someone LEGALLY avoiding their LEGAL theft.
It's not his turn if the law doesn't say it's "his turn".
Meanwhile, Chinese try to escape to the US:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304203604577393841014313050.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
How horrible is the Singapore military?
If you pay retail for the repairs. The economics of repairing things yourself have worked out nicely for me and many others.
I don't buy new furniture, and have some very nice furniture. I don't buy new vehicles, and have low operation and maintenance costs because I do all my own maintenance except alignment and machine shop work. I don't pay people to work on my home or renovate it. I don't pay anyone to work on my computers or appliances. I have fun, enjoy more granular control of my "stuff", and save stoopid money even though I buy commercial-grade tools and equipment.
"The only thing it has brought us is segregating the kids who do well into separate schools from everyone else."
That's great for those who do well, as it should be. They are superior to lesser students and shouldn't have lesser students inflicted on them.
"I wipe and reload the power fluctations well and they aren't nearly as delicate as LCDs. CRTs were a mature technology."
OOPs, damn touchpad!
I wipe and reload the PCs in the evenings.
CRTs tolerate power fluctations well and they aren't nearly as delicate as LCDs. CRTs were a mature technology."
"No one wants old CRTs or desktop computers."
I routinely give and swap both of those off to people who need them.
I wipe and reload the power fluctations well and they aren't nearly as delicate as LCDs. CRTs were a mature technology.
"They have to recycled to reclaim the metals."
That's easy now, too. My scrapper buddies recover the copper from bad CRTs and the rest goes into vehicles headed for the shredder.(Automobile recycling is already set up to handle scrap streams full of glass, lead, and plastic and has been for decades.)
Steel from PC cases goes in the steel pile.
Boards and CPUs can be sold for scrap on Ebay. Check it out sometime. People pay a fair amount for CPUs, RAM, and boards we used to throw away, so if you want to recycle that's one way to get a few bucks back. If I were in IT and could arrange to collect a corporate electronic "waste stream" I would be on it like sweat on a fat girl.
Competition means pressure to achieve, and that means some people won't do as well as others.
We need school choice vouchers so some people can rescue their kids from a _permanently_ and irretrievably broken system.
(It's heresy to admit it's broken and that given the REALITY of the public DEMANDS which broke it, that it WILL NEVER be fixed.)
Vouchers would allow secularists who value education to rescue their offspring from the mediocrity of public schools and from frequently toxic public school students. (I was so rescued and fortunate enough to finish my education in good boarding schools.)
Vouchers would also allow Superstitionists to send THEIR kids to religious schools, but that's actually a good thing since it rescues publics schools from them.
Maps. Look at them.
Geography is a bit different. The US is huge, and while plenty of us party and hang out, when you have to drive long distances to do that it requires both effort and expensive petrol.
Before the internet, hanging out with like-minded folk was do-able if you lived near each other. HOWEVER, if you DIDN'T live near them, you were isolated and, how shall I put it, generally fucked.
Things are MUCH better now. Piss on the "good old days", all of them. I lived through them and the only good thing was that cannabis was MUCH more tolerated in the 1970s (proof it doesn't cause many social problems given the enormous consumption at the time and since!). If you were polite, the cops would scatter your weed when they confiscated your beer, and send you on your way.
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Online gaming FACILITATES interaction with MORE people by simplifying logistics. Given the choice between "internet interaction" and "being stuck in Bumphuque with no interaction", I'd take the first thank you very much.
The internet also allows many young people to escape the Katzian "Hellmouth" of their current situation. It would have been wonderful to have that when I was growing up! There is now an "alternate social topology" where you can escape and avoid your enemies. Be happy you have that option.
The masters don't give a fuck, at all, about us. Therefore we have zero moral obligation to care about them.
If someone is your enemy, it's OK to do anything you can get away with to them. Anything.
I don't bother ripping their brainwashing garbage though. They don't deserve access to my mind.
"But that require access. Just try to get into any big bilding without a security guard on your ass."
I'm a mechanic, and I dress in commercial uniform items. People act differently when you enter commercial suppliers because you "look like you belong".
"More importantly, if you bought CS5 for $2000 just three months ago, you have to pay to upgrade."
Good reason not to pay for it in the first place.
Those illegal downloads benefit Adobe. Now they'll download a current version!
Can you say "market chumming"? "Office 97"?
I'll venture more than a few Slashdot readers can recite at least one older Windows key from memory.
Brilliance doesn't exclude being a bit nuts.
"If the "evil-doers" are welding those shut you have other problems"
No shit. As long as "evil-doers" prefer a keyboard to a pipe wrench it's easier to defend against them.
A baddie with mechanical experience and perfectly legal hand tools could go walkabout and cause massive (literally) destruction.
I'll not put thoughts into idle heads, but "wrecking" (the very old Soviet term for it) could make quite a mess.
"But there are very real reasons why the majority of people no longer shoe their own horses,"
You can save, or make, a bunch of money shoeing horses. Many serious horse owners do their own shoeing to save money. Tooth-filing too, which is why horse mouth speculums are readily available on Ebay.
If you don't take proper care of your oat-burner, it won't function properly. :-)
"the HeathKit name will give them a leg up"
Not anymore. "Heathkit" was old when I was growing up, and I'm well over 50.
Eating each others lice on break is relaxing though...
Self-defence can involve damaging the attacker to take him out of the fight.
Why shouldn't an attacker be destroyed? If an innocent person is attacked, why are they of no value and their attacker to be delicately handled instead of stopped hard?
In riot situations, should someone who is attacked be coerced to do nothing except get beaten? Why are rioters more valuable than those they attack?
Cut all aid and permanently embargo the North with the understanding that if they attack the South they get nuked. They won't attack.
Tac nukes are what kept them in their box after the Korean war, which is still not over. The North plays the same game over decades, and each generation of Westerners thinks its fucking new.
Ever run a dozer, let alone an armored one?
Visibility isn''t great and many areas you can't see at all.
"They are no more "human" and entitled to human rights, then this building I'm sitting in. The people inside the building have a right to free speech, but not the building itself."
You're just jealous because the buildings are talking to me.