It's a well known fact that this entire "protest" is a diversion by the MSM to help Hitlery Clinton and Bernie Schindler... something something...communism? And something about children with sex rings eating pizza? I mean, we all know pizza and finger jewellery are liberal conspiracies designed to turn kids gay. Then they'll be brainwashed into aborting their grandparents so the left wing Nazis win World War 2.
Ahh, so you are crazy, misinformed and believing political lies on the internetz.
They aren't very effective though. Bonded composites like those used in the USA make better brake pads. It might explain the prevalence of small scooters in European cities. They don't require much braking force to stop.
>That's an invalid comparison. How many expensive headphones have you observed other family members going though? 0 - My wife also has the same set of headphone and they still work fine.
>How many cheap earbuds have you lost? 0 - I don't use them.
But my daughter ends up buying 2-3 sets of cheap ear buds a year.
>There's zero chance I'd trust my teens to care for a $350 pair of headphones. I buy them $3 shitty earbuds from Walmart. Yeah, they'll break usually in a few months from abuse. Say I get 2 months out of them, that's $3 * 6 per year * 10 years = $180. I'm still saving 1/2 what your $350 cost. No, they don't sound as good as your $350 headphones. My 13 year old don't know that, and they're happy they have headphones.
The last set my daughter got was $10. She has been through some Apple earbuds which cost a lot more. My Bose keep plugging along, but I need to spend about $50 on a new battery every 5 years. If she were to get a job with a lot of travel (like I do with my job) I would get her a set. My Bose have been around the world many times.
Between the iphone and macs or between macs and macs in my household we use airdrop, which is pretty easy. Between my mac and other systems I use scp on the command line.
I agree about the volume buttons. It took a while to master them.
The bigger issue is that anyone who leaves their laptop unattended for a short period of time can have their laptop stolen, and the thief can actually gain access to it.
Substitute 'thief' with 'police' and you can see why it might be a problem for some people.
It think my Bose noise cancelling headphones cost $350. I've used them pretty much every day for over a decade. I've replaced the batteries and the pads when they wore out. They still work great and were certainly cheaper in the long run than the continuous re-buying of cheap earbuds that I observe other family members doing as they break or get lost.
Every time I ask Apple users about the non-replaceable batteries, their reply is **always** -- (ie. without fail) "you just don't get it", without **ever** being able to articulate exactly what I don't "get". I don't see how not being able to replace a battery is an advantage. Yes, I "get" that you can make the device smaller (and thus lighter), but only marginally so, and at the expense of functionality and serviceability. The non-removable battery is not any type of advantage to me.
I have a mac and the latest iphone. I have no brand loyalty, I had androids for year and could go back. There are nice things about the Apple stuff. The mac books are good laptops. There is relative ease in moving and syncing data between computer and phone. But I never ever have valued tradeoff of thinness at the cost of an unchangable battery. The iPhone would be a massively better product if it was 2mm thicker and came with an interchangable battery. It would be better with an audio jack and a type-C interface. On balance I would have skipped the upgrade program and got the pixel if I were to do it over.
I never thought of it like that, it's some backward-ass logic.
"You know what? We have people that want to watch the game but we are only getting $1 from their cable company for that privilege. Solution! Force them to buy a ticket to the game for the low-low price of $65 a seat! Why? Because fuck them and their football parties, we need that extra $60 a person because reasons!"
I thought of it in terms of the long term cost to society of universities around the USA investing more in sports and education. The mission of universities to research and educate has been allowed to be corrupted by basketball and American football.
Anything that works to diminish the status of sports in our society will ultimately be of benefit.
The last guy I had the misfortune of sharing a cab with decided to whinge to me for the whole trip...
Where did anyone get the idea that there is a "g" in "whine"? This is not the first time I have seen this misspelling and I really don't understand it.
Your engine might whine, but it would never whinge.
Supply and demand. As less and less investors demand that stock, the price will go down accordingly. For the fossil fuel companies that are also utilities, they will also face headwinds to their stock prices as the Fed raises interest rates over time as has been rumored.
If the stock price goes down, but they continue to make the same profits, the returns on buying the stock goes up. If you want to hurt oil companies, stop buying the oil.
Newsflash: Uber's success - and the reason they're popular - has less to do with their cost and more to do with the fact that cabs in the U.S. tend to fucking suck.
Yes. This.
Why are all traditional US taxis grimy? Why is the driver always sullen?
So the seals are in favor of nails, provided they are the seals that have been marked with a QR code? This is why we should never trust marine creatures.
It doesn't really matter how Facebook measures engagement and so on, much bigger problem is complete lack of results of all social media advertising. This is not 1-2% response ineffective, this is 10^-20 ineffective. It is quite likely that the entire Facebook advertising haven't sold a single thing today.
Bullshit. My wife's store get the best result by far through Facebook advertising. Better than Google. Better than the local papers. It's measurable.
Measurable by Facebook?
Certainly not. Facebook don't have our sales data. It's measurable with a Chi-Square test of sales against the periods of active advertising.
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>Better put the guy on a watchlist for being Egyptian, poor, and possibly clumsy though!
Or for being a thief maybe.
Yeah, sorry, I mistyped "beark"...
huh... "breka"....
no... "braek"...
Calm down, take a beak and then you will be able to spell berke properly
It's a well known fact that this entire "protest" is a diversion by the MSM to help Hitlery Clinton and Bernie Schindler... something something ...communism? And something about children with sex rings eating pizza? I mean, we all know pizza and finger jewellery are liberal conspiracies designed to turn kids gay. Then they'll be brainwashed into aborting their grandparents so the left wing Nazis win World War 2.
Ahh, so you are crazy, misinformed and believing political lies on the internetz.
A large number of the "protestors" at standing rock are earning a wage for it. They're not protestors, they're employees.
Do you know this or are you repeating something you read on the internet?
Is the lunch break required to be a paid break?
(Most Europe also has meal brake.
They aren't very effective though. Bonded composites like those used in the USA make better brake pads.
It might explain the prevalence of small scooters in European cities. They don't require much braking force to stop.
>That's an invalid comparison. How many expensive headphones have you observed other family members going though?
0 - My wife also has the same set of headphone and they still work fine.
>How many cheap earbuds have you lost?
0 - I don't use them.
But my daughter ends up buying 2-3 sets of cheap ear buds a year.
>There's zero chance I'd trust my teens to care for a $350 pair of headphones. I buy them $3 shitty earbuds from Walmart. Yeah, they'll break usually in a few months from abuse. Say I get 2 months out of them, that's $3 * 6 per year * 10 years = $180. I'm still saving 1/2 what your $350 cost. No, they don't sound as good as your $350 headphones. My 13 year old don't know that, and they're happy they have headphones.
The last set my daughter got was $10. She has been through some Apple earbuds which cost a lot more. My Bose keep plugging along, but I need to spend about $50 on a new battery every 5 years. If she were to get a job with a lot of travel (like I do with my job) I would get her a set. My Bose have been around the world many times.
Between the iphone and macs or between macs and macs in my household we use airdrop, which is pretty easy.
Between my mac and other systems I use scp on the command line.
I agree about the volume buttons. It took a while to master them.
The bigger issue is that anyone who leaves their laptop unattended for a short period of time can have their laptop stolen, and the thief can actually gain access to it.
Substitute 'thief' with 'police' and you can see why it might be a problem for some people.
Priced Bose lately?
It think my Bose noise cancelling headphones cost $350. I've used them pretty much every day for over a decade. I've replaced the batteries and the pads when they wore out. They still work great and were certainly cheaper in the long run than the continuous re-buying of cheap earbuds that I observe other family members doing as they break or get lost.
It's too obvious. You need to add a twist, like using the wires to send the audio as a backup for when the batteries run out.
Every time I ask Apple users about the non-replaceable batteries, their reply is **always** -- (ie. without fail) "you just don't get it", without **ever** being able to articulate exactly what I don't "get". I don't see how not being able to replace a battery is an advantage. Yes, I "get" that you can make the device smaller (and thus lighter), but only marginally so, and at the expense of functionality and serviceability. The non-removable battery is not any type of advantage to me.
I have a mac and the latest iphone. I have no brand loyalty, I had androids for year and could go back. There are nice things about the Apple stuff. The mac books are good laptops. There is relative ease in moving and syncing data between computer and phone. But I never ever have valued tradeoff of thinness at the cost of an unchangable battery. The iPhone would be a massively better product if it was 2mm thicker and came with an interchangable battery. It would be better with an audio jack and a type-C interface. On balance I would have skipped the upgrade program and got the pixel if I were to do it over.
I never thought of it like that, it's some backward-ass logic.
"You know what? We have people that want to watch the game but we are only getting $1 from their cable company for that privilege. Solution! Force them to buy a ticket to the game for the low-low price of $65 a seat! Why? Because fuck them and their football parties, we need that extra $60 a person because reasons!"
I thought of it in terms of the long term cost to society of universities around the USA investing more in sports and education. The mission of universities to research and educate has been allowed to be corrupted by basketball and American football.
Anything that works to diminish the status of sports in our society will ultimately be of benefit.
> Sports Blackouts
So nothing of value was lost.
It was Spring. The weather was ok.
I went to Beijing and it was pollution hell. Couldn't see further than 50 feet in front of you somedays.
I went to Guangzhou and it was quite nice.
YMMV.
The last guy I had the misfortune of sharing a cab with decided to whinge to me for the whole trip...
Where did anyone get the idea that there is a "g" in "whine"? This is not the first time I have seen this misspelling and I really don't understand it.
Your engine might whine, but it would never whinge.
Supply and demand. As less and less investors demand that stock, the price will go down accordingly. For the fossil fuel companies that are also utilities, they will also face headwinds to their stock prices as the Fed raises interest rates over time as has been rumored.
If the stock price goes down, but they continue to make the same profits, the returns on buying the stock goes up.
If you want to hurt oil companies, stop buying the oil.
Are they not tasty enough to eat?
Newsflash: Uber's success - and the reason they're popular - has less to do with their cost and more to do with the fact that cabs in the U.S. tend to fucking suck.
Yes. This.
Why are all traditional US taxis grimy? Why is the driver always sullen?
>The adhesive QR-coded seals for nails
Wut?
THE ADHESIVE QR-CODED SEALS FOR NAILS
So the seals are in favor of nails, provided they are the seals that have been marked with a QR code? This is why we should never trust marine creatures.
>The adhesive QR-coded seals for nails
Wut?
He has a valid strategery:
1. Have life plan.
2. Make comment on internet discussion board.
3. ???
4. Profit !!!
I'm pretty sure there isn't a causal connection between those 4 things. The ??? is probably to do with drinking gin.
5) Writing my book
Oh boy! We've got a live one here, fellas!
You should try it. All it needs is a computer to type in the contents and the mental capacity to produce the content.
It doesn't really matter how Facebook measures engagement and so on, much bigger problem is complete lack of results of all social media advertising. This is not 1-2% response ineffective, this is 10^-20 ineffective. It is quite likely that the entire Facebook advertising haven't sold a single thing today.
Bullshit.
My wife's store get the best result by far through Facebook advertising. Better than Google. Better than the local papers. It's measurable.
Measurable by Facebook?
Certainly not. Facebook don't have our sales data. It's measurable with a Chi-Square test of sales against the periods of active advertising.