Anecdote disagreeing with the Acura remark: I was shopping (ultimately bought a Corvette) back in late 1998. Most of the dealers saw my ATM receipt with an $80,000 balance and jumped to their feet, showed me the car, etc. The Acura dealer? He said (remaining seated, trash) "if you want to test drive one you need to order it first; when it arrives you can test drive it." Dude didn't even get out of his seat to shake my hand.
Sure, there are negative employees everywhere, and I understand that one anecdote does not a statistic make. Still, I was miffed -- and ended up driving the Corvette home from the factory in Bowling Green, KY.
We're in agreement there. The issue I was referring to is the market saturation by dumping. Which we accuse China of, and levy huge tariffs. Why we don't on e.g. Microsoft/Adobe when they dump their products on our children, I'm not so sure.
With smart meters, they can tell people when you're home, likely which holidays you observe, if you watch TV, if you work at night or day, so on and so. They sell your demographic information.
Yeah. Great. The police know when I'm not home. So they can tell their buddies in the capital extraction program. ("There's nothing else you can say to make me change my mind: goodbye." No, psychos, I'm not self-detonating; I'm listening to The Wall, and that just played, and is, again, topical: I plan to move outside of the jurisdiction of the drones.)
Words of someone who has never awakened in a house set ablaze by a dryer fire.
Agreed. In my case it was a grease fire (ex left cooking oil on low since fucking noon and woke me up screaming fire in Portuguese at 3 am), but yes, I never. Ever. Want to again wake up to my house burning down. That includes due to large dangerous devices powering themselves up while I'm sleeping.
Without meter-by-meter inspection, you can't tell if loss of household income (layoff) caused increased frugality or if they tampered
with the meter, as long as they keep from pushing usage down by less than 25% or so.
So obviously, the power companies need access to IRS records. And credit reports. </sarcasm>
It saddens me to live in such a society. Yes, that's right, I just said that some socialistic value was greater than the apparently capitalist value that allowed these public servants to let someone's house burn to the ground. Wow, I'm so un-American. Welfare.
Just about everyone has cell phones and the number of consumers with tablets are growing constantly. Why not take that money and build out WiFi hotspots? Why would I use one of these "phone booths" when I have my own equipment?
Nonono wait, the government is providing free buggy whips! "Well, at least we can satisfy our S&M fantasies..." (Currently I'm listening to The Wall, and the lyric just before I hit submit: "we don't need no education.")
I was pursuing my Master's degree at the time at USC, and they had amazing discounts for students an Apple stuff. Actually, on all stuff. I got Photoshop at 80% off.
If it's above their head, go over their head and try to talk to a manager or engineer or someone with a stuffed penguin.
Thank you so much for that! The password in this xkcd is "shibboleet". I just learned the other day that the Bible contains a passage regarding asking people to say "Shibbolet" and if they came from a different region where the "sh" sound wasn't prevalent, they pronounced it "sibbolet" and were immediately murdered; 42,000 were killed this way. This type of holocaust runs rampant throughout history; there was the killing of the circumcised because that == Jew (fuck that, I want my foreskin back and have never been Jewish ahem), and also while searching for what the reference actually was (I remembered "Shibbolet" and massacre but not where the reference was from), I came across another reference to a massacre between Haiti and the Dominican Republic (they share an island), in which a similar "say this word" test was given.
Ever fallen down? Expect someone with a camera to record this moment and make sure it can never be forgotten. How about a TV show titled "Funny Falls" where they just edit together some posted videos.
These guys insist on insulting our intelligence by stating that they're creating 'long term shareholder value' by selling assets. That's BS. The company is worth less today than it was yesterday, and Microsoft is worth more. How is a statement like that not tortious?
They are creating 'long term shareholder value.' For Microsoft.
I recall the LA-related joke from my younger years: "UCLA when the smog lifts." You're right, it was a real thing. (Although sibling is also correct; if this was more universal, then there'd likely have been additional jokes about other locations whose names lend themselves to wordplay.)
I disagree. Grammar prescriptivism should go in an English textbook, not in Slashdot's moderation system. Some people who post to Slashdot speak something other than English as a first language.
And perhaps they'd like to be informed that they made a mistake; I know my ex-wife would (heh). Perhaps a checkbox "I'd like to be informed of grammar mistakes I make" could be in the user settings, and be visible like the "*" to indicate subscribers, or the pills to indicate friend/foe (or, perhaps, if that checkbox wasn't checked then those moderation options would not be present when someone is modding a post by that user).
Perhaps there are ways to improve the system instead of just disagreeing.
An artistic choice was made by the author -- a running bear shows the first law of thermodynamics (I certainly don't see it, but whatever) and they think this is copyrightable.
Well they should do the honorable thing, then, and change the picture to one of a naked man running. (The joke is "running bare"... The use of "man" was so the book wouldn't suddenly be appealing...)
Some people had Duke Nukem Forever on pre-order for a decade!
Fortunately, bought that trash in the bargain bin for $5, and wasn't even worth that. "Here's an etch-a-sketch interface, sign your name!" What total crap.
Truer than you think: how many of the 16% of the US population that is employed by the government actually understand what's going on? I would say, that number is greater than 0. So: there are enemies of those who are clinging to power, who are employed by them.
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The man who only reads newspaper is less well educated that the man who never reads at all (from memory).
Right, because looking it up would be like reading, right? :)
The insanity of building TWO facilities [...]
The beginning of your sentence reminded me of Sagan's "Contact".
Anecdote disagreeing with the Acura remark: I was shopping (ultimately bought a Corvette) back in late 1998. Most of the dealers saw my ATM receipt with an $80,000 balance and jumped to their feet, showed me the car, etc. The Acura dealer? He said (remaining seated, trash) "if you want to test drive one you need to order it first; when it arrives you can test drive it." Dude didn't even get out of his seat to shake my hand.
Sure, there are negative employees everywhere, and I understand that one anecdote does not a statistic make. Still, I was miffed -- and ended up driving the Corvette home from the factory in Bowling Green, KY.
As a rule, my experience has been that unless products are on sale, Best Buy provides some of the worst buys in town.
I wonder if Lionel Hutz would take that case?
We're in agreement there. The issue I was referring to is the market saturation by dumping. Which we accuse China of, and levy huge tariffs. Why we don't on e.g. Microsoft/Adobe when they dump their products on our children, I'm not so sure.
With smart meters, they can tell people when you're home, likely which holidays you observe, if you watch TV, if you work at night or day, so on and so. They sell your demographic information.
Yeah. Great. The police know when I'm not home. So they can tell their buddies in the capital extraction program. ("There's nothing else you can say to make me change my mind: goodbye." No, psychos, I'm not self-detonating; I'm listening to The Wall, and that just played, and is, again, topical: I plan to move outside of the jurisdiction of the drones.)
Words of someone who has never awakened in a house set ablaze by a dryer fire.
Agreed. In my case it was a grease fire (ex left cooking oil on low since fucking noon and woke me up screaming fire in Portuguese at 3 am), but yes, I never. Ever. Want to again wake up to my house burning down. That includes due to large dangerous devices powering themselves up while I'm sleeping.
Without meter-by-meter inspection, you can't tell if loss of household income (layoff) caused increased frugality or if they tampered with the meter, as long as they keep from pushing usage down by less than 25% or so.
So obviously, the power companies need access to IRS records. And credit reports. </sarcasm>
It saddens me to live in such a society. Yes, that's right, I just said that some socialistic value was greater than the apparently capitalist value that allowed these public servants to let someone's house burn to the ground. Wow, I'm so un-American. Welfare.
Just about everyone has cell phones and the number of consumers with tablets are growing constantly. Why not take that money and build out WiFi hotspots? Why would I use one of these "phone booths" when I have my own equipment?
Nonono wait, the government is providing free buggy whips! "Well, at least we can satisfy our S&M fantasies..." (Currently I'm listening to The Wall, and the lyric just before I hit submit: "we don't need no education.")
i agree; it should be a neutral mod.
I was pursuing my Master's degree at the time at USC, and they had amazing discounts for students an Apple stuff. Actually, on all stuff. I got Photoshop at 80% off.
I believe that's called "the drug dealer model."
1 kiloton [...] It's a well known definition and somehow get it wrong.
I blame the hard drive manufacturers.
At the rate of one world war per generation [...]
I would add "since we instituted the most recent central bank in the US."
Next political advancement: detecting simulations!
If it's above their head, go over their head and try to talk to a manager or engineer or someone with a stuffed penguin.
Thank you so much for that! The password in this xkcd is "shibboleet". I just learned the other day that the Bible contains a passage regarding asking people to say "Shibbolet" and if they came from a different region where the "sh" sound wasn't prevalent, they pronounced it "sibbolet" and were immediately murdered; 42,000 were killed this way. This type of holocaust runs rampant throughout history; there was the killing of the circumcised because that == Jew (fuck that, I want my foreskin back and have never been Jewish ahem), and also while searching for what the reference actually was (I remembered "Shibbolet" and massacre but not where the reference was from), I came across another reference to a massacre between Haiti and the Dominican Republic (they share an island), in which a similar "say this word" test was given.
Ever fallen down? Expect someone with a camera to record this moment and make sure it can never be forgotten. How about a TV show titled "Funny Falls" where they just edit together some posted videos.
Reminds of Idiocracy, and "Ow My Balls!"
These guys insist on insulting our intelligence by stating that they're creating 'long term shareholder value' by selling assets. That's BS. The company is worth less today than it was yesterday, and Microsoft is worth more. How is a statement like that not tortious?
They are creating 'long term shareholder value.' For Microsoft.
I recall the LA-related joke from my younger years: "UCLA when the smog lifts." You're right, it was a real thing. (Although sibling is also correct; if this was more universal, then there'd likely have been additional jokes about other locations whose names lend themselves to wordplay.)
I disagree. Grammar prescriptivism should go in an English textbook, not in Slashdot's moderation system. Some people who post to Slashdot speak something other than English as a first language.
And perhaps they'd like to be informed that they made a mistake; I know my ex-wife would (heh). Perhaps a checkbox "I'd like to be informed of grammar mistakes I make" could be in the user settings, and be visible like the "*" to indicate subscribers, or the pills to indicate friend/foe (or, perhaps, if that checkbox wasn't checked then those moderation options would not be present when someone is modding a post by that user).
Perhaps there are ways to improve the system instead of just disagreeing.
An artistic choice was made by the author -- a running bear shows the first law of thermodynamics (I certainly don't see it, but whatever) and they think this is copyrightable.
Well they should do the honorable thing, then, and change the picture to one of a naked man running. (The joke is "running bare"... The use of "man" was so the book wouldn't suddenly be appealing...)
Heh, yep, we're all old in different ways. :)
Some people had Duke Nukem Forever on pre-order for a decade!
Fortunately, bought that trash in the bargain bin for $5, and wasn't even worth that. "Here's an etch-a-sketch interface, sign your name!" What total crap.
We have seen the enemy...and it is us.
Truer than you think: how many of the 16% of the US population that is employed by the government actually understand what's going on? I would say, that number is greater than 0. So: there are enemies of those who are clinging to power, who are employed by them.
Actually it appears it was elsewhere. I knew it! Always those people coming from somewhere else... (I.e., starting wars is easy.)