This is true for a lot of people on wikipedia though. Hell go look through/r/wikiinaction the absolute depths that some of the editors go to to camp pages, and try to force their own point of view is literally insane. The only upside for this person appears to be they're trying to get out before they follow some of the more insane editors and have a total mental break that goes so deep that they get kicked off then run off to something like rationalwiki(where ideas go to die) where they also get kicked off because they've become so batshit insane.
Forking is the answer. When closed source developers decide to turn around and make their product into a steaming pile of shit, and your options are steaming pile of shit and nothing. This is where OSS shines, especially when OSS devs decide to make their product into a steaming pile of shit, there is someone out there turning around and fixing it. That's what Palemoon has done for Firefox.
How do you know that today's prices aren'y medium, and that truly high prices are yet to come? That's the great thing about the future, it has a habit of making fools of anyone.
Really want to know? This will help you out. You can also look up bulk goods and durable goods orders. Top that with it income not keeping pace to the housing prices, much like in years past you're in for a serious correction. That means that houses even down payments are pricing out people. Remember, when the housing bubble went in the US and Europe went, wages weren't keeping pace. After the crash happened, wages actually declined. Some economies(especially nordic) are in a deflationary spiral still from 2008.
I was going to hunt around and dig up the charts, but I can't be bothered right now because I'm too tired. But feel free to dig around ZH, and you'll find the peak vs mean numbers on housing prices are mirroring 2008. We're at the peak.
Yes because everyone knows that picking something because of their sexual identity is the true meaning of quality and should be lauded for it. And you should never, ever, select something based on the merit of something.
Canada used to be a productive manufacturing country, and people were wealthy because of it. In the 90's the federal government of the day decided to shit all over the manufacturing sector and a lot of places simply closed up or went out of country where they weren't being crushed under environmental regs/taxes/etc. These days the provincial government in Ontario(once the main manufacturing hub) is doing the same thing with punishing environmental taxes, high electricity prices and so on. When a company can move from Ontario to Michigan and pay 1/8th the price for electricity there's a problem, especially with the massive glut of power that Ontario generates.
This has led Canada to become a "resource export" country, meaning we're pulling shit out of the ground/cutting down trees/etc to fuel the economy. Now our forestry stuff is top notch, we've got an entire generational cut/plant/harvest cycle here. But other resources? Pretty finite in the long term, and industry jobs where people made the money have pretty much dried up. It also doesn't help that the current government believes that importing TFWs(aka H1B's) to do jobs is a great idea. Look at a place like Windsor or Sarnia with 9% unemployment, but the companies are allowed to hire outside of the country for workers...when people are willing to work.
It'll hit a breaking point sooner or later, and when it does it's going to be nasty and messy as all hell.
That makes no sense. If you are expecting an economic crash, you don't invest in property, you buy gold.
Of course it doesn't make any sense, but that's what's happening anyway. Lot of the "new money" are going to lose their shirt over it when it happens too, the parallels are striking on that between the 70 and dotcom crashes and people buying into a high priced real estate market thinking that it was a safe bet.
As a Canadian still unable to afford a house without signing my life away to debt for the next 30 years, I welcome the burst. Housing prices are INSANE and a lot of that is owned by foreigners.
Gets worse then that actually. A lot of those houses especially in metro Vancouver/Victoria and Toronto are empty. These people are using real estate to sink cash into expecting either a huge economic crash or believing that there is no limit to making money in the real estate market.
My parents bought in during the very early 1980's, and I know a couple of police constables who bought in then. Then the inflation hit, mortgages became impossible because of 19% interest rates. But people who had COLA tied to their contracts were suddenly in the money and were able to buy two, three, four houses and flip them. Taking a 20-30k house and selling it for 90-150k. Really though, I've been expecting the bubble here in Canada to pop for the last 4 years the situation is very similar to what happened in the US prior to the 2006-2008 bubble pop, but it hasn't hit yet. I expect it more has to do with the current levels of debt, they're not quite at where they were in the US, but if the number of insta-loan(aka legal loan sharks) places popping up over the last 3-4 years is any indication, it won't be too many more years.
Depends, do you live in Canada? If so, then protecting you from real estate investors is actually a strong possibility.Very likely at that. I can't really say for the US, but right now here in Canada with housing prices that have broken US bubble levels in quite a few big cities, when the crash comes it's going to be spectacular.
You must not live in the US then, people driving like that was common for a long time. I know people from here in Ontario that would drive to central Florida and back on a weekend with 6 people in the vehicle. They'd go down and have breakfast and drive back. It was the price of cheap airfares that more or less dried it up. You know, like the cost to fly from Detroit to Tampa could be bought for under $125USD around 6 years ago.
There's no way you could drive that distance for that price, including food, fuel and motels. I will say that depending on your car though, and time, you can make it cheap. I drove from SW-Ontario to northern Alberta via the US a few years ago for around $400. It took a week, cost me $225 in gas one way, the rest went for food/motels, even at that it was cheaper then flying(around $550 one way) or driving through Canada ~$900. 12 hour driving days though burn a lot out of you when you're not used to it.
Startups here would do this if they could get away with it, perhaps some already do...
Startups? Hell I know fortune 100 companies where people already do this(and have done this for years). When I was working in heavy manufacturing in the 90's, I spent around 70% of the work week living at work(sleeping/relaxing/etc) because during crunch there was always some problem that required someone to be on site, especially with some very specific problem that had to be looked after. These days? You'll still find this happening, especially if you're in the software industry or you make video games for a living. You've also never worked in Japan, this was very common in the 80's, 90's and through to the mid-00's there.
Ya-huh. The anti-vaxxers are usually granola munching morons, who are usually shit-scared of guns.
Sounds about right. I live in Ontario, Southwestern Ontario to be more exact. The county I currently live in? It's a heavily conservative area that's mostly farming. 89 students out of the entire ~13,000 students weren't vaccinated, this area has a single large school board that operates across 4 counties though(roughly 170k students total) and the numbers were also low. A place like Toronto? The numbers of anti-vaxxers are stupidly high, one high school had a 90% non-vaccinated rate. Wanna guess what type of neighborhood it was? If you said upper class then you'd win a cookie!
I'm very torn on the entire idea of the government forcing this though. On one hand, it's good to get rid of the stupid anti-vaxxer myths. On the other it's a very slippery slope to force through other "behavioral changes" that the government deems improper. Ontario is also the same province where you have educators that claim they're "co-parents." The liberal party has a very strong "do as we say, not as we do" mentality. Especially since they're involved in around 15 different scandals, ranging from fraud to destruction of documents to misuse of funds.
I read it. It looked like the issue was people defacing BLM posts with ALM posts. It wasn't the message that was put up, but the destruction of what other's posted that was the specific objection. Perhaps you need to read your own links.
Read it again, you obviously missed the "We're supporting BLM cause reasons" bit. Or do you need me to draw the exact quote out for you? Reminder that those free speech walls mean that people can do whatever they want, and in turn are supposed to be free from repercussions?
At the peak of crack, it was more used by whites than blacks. The publicity around Blacks was vilifying Black people, not crack, and using that as excuse to target Blacks for a colorblind problem. That you reject reality doesn't change it.
We're not talking about peak. We're talking about what said culture created, that you don't even know what the reality of that period was or how loud those mouth pieces were is far more telling. I'll help you out though, go and start reading news paper articles on al sharpton and jessie jackson from 1993-1998 and their cries for more police. Don't worry when that reality bites you in the ass.
Sure seems like it, especially since this just came to light and it does indeed look like people are the ones inserting their bias and controlling exactly what's being promoted.
Read the article then. That was their "free speech wall" and he threw a hissyfit because people had a differing point of view.
Nope, none of the "all lives matter" complaints are logical, except racism. Black lives matter, but white lives matter more.
That sure explains why blacks kill more of their own then police do right? If those lives actually mattered then they be looking at home and trying to fix those severe culture and social issues, but nope they'd rather whine and cry. Especially after it was them, and their community leaders who pushed so very hard for this line of policing in the first place in the 1990's.
Secret spoiler: They pushed so hard because that was the time when crack started to become the scourge in black communities, and wanted the police to do something about it.
Uh. You might want to go back and re-read some stuff...like facts. It's the democrats who liked the fairness doctrine, and it was them most recently who tried to get it back in several times in fact. I picked two left-leaning sources. So have some right leaning sources as well. The GOP has been fundamentally against that.
Clickbait is having a hard time surviving right now. Sites that thrive on it are seeing massive drops in uniques and page views. Whether it's a gawker property or something from vice, it's the same. People have had enough, so that's going to lead to one of two things, either they're going to double down and create a new form of clickbait. Or the media is going to start moving back to actual news. You can't forget the assholes out there either that believe that news isn't to tell the truth, but to reduce harm to those "vulnerable groups." AKA fuck facts, we're going for feels.
That's because they don't want to play by the same rules as cab companies are required. That is: Require proper insurance, proper licensing, and mandatory vehicle inspections. Uber likes to think it isn't a taxi company, but it is.
You need pretty extreme conditions to smell the brakes or tires.
Are you smelling brakes and tires a lot now?
Nope you don't. You only need to get the brakes hot, lots of stop and go traffic like you see in cities will do that. And for tires all you need is a hot day(25-30C) on asphalt and you'll start to smell the tires. Anyone who lives near a busy highway(within 5km) will know that smell right off the bat. Kinda different on a lot of the newer cars though, since anything made in the last 4 years will likely use ceramic brake pads, and that has a very distinct odor. Since the shoes no longer get hot enough to smell, you'll actually start to smell the brake fluid in extreme cases which has a very sweet-sharp smell to it.
Funny thing about internal combustion engines though, anyone who ever apprenticed as a mechanic will know this one. You can tell how well a car is running just by the smell. It should have an almost sweet almond like odor to it. Anything else like oily, sharp stink, or sulpher like and there's problems.
Since background checks are paid for at a flat-fee rate in most places, the entire thing is moot. Strange that neither company has problems with it up here in Canada, at least not yet. But the laws are changing, because they both want to be a taxi company and here taxi companies are required to have background checks including criminal background checks before you can get your full chauffeurs license.
Sometimes yes. But not anymore then that. The reality is you're more likely going to pick up malware, virii or a trojan from going to CNN or NBC News then you will going to a torrent site. Especially since the people who pump out that malware know that even if the ad is pulled quickly, they've likely infected tens of thousands of machines in minutes.
Your post reminds me of the "pirated games are always virii" BS. And FYI, torrent sites aren't illegal...unless you live in some totalitarian shit hole.
So it looks like "homeland security" should be renamed STASI/NKVD/etc. They appear to be going after people for wrong-think, just like other state security apparatus of yesteryear in various communist countries.
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Just look at Obama. $10T to $19T sure doing a good job there.
This is true for a lot of people on wikipedia though. Hell go look through /r/wikiinaction the absolute depths that some of the editors go to to camp pages, and try to force their own point of view is literally insane. The only upside for this person appears to be they're trying to get out before they follow some of the more insane editors and have a total mental break that goes so deep that they get kicked off then run off to something like rationalwiki(where ideas go to die) where they also get kicked off because they've become so batshit insane.
Forking is the answer. When closed source developers decide to turn around and make their product into a steaming pile of shit, and your options are steaming pile of shit and nothing. This is where OSS shines, especially when OSS devs decide to make their product into a steaming pile of shit, there is someone out there turning around and fixing it. That's what Palemoon has done for Firefox.
How do you know that today's prices aren'y medium, and that truly high prices are yet to come?
That's the great thing about the future, it has a habit of making fools of anyone.
Really want to know? This will help you out. You can also look up bulk goods and durable goods orders. Top that with it income not keeping pace to the housing prices, much like in years past you're in for a serious correction. That means that houses even down payments are pricing out people. Remember, when the housing bubble went in the US and Europe went, wages weren't keeping pace. After the crash happened, wages actually declined. Some economies(especially nordic) are in a deflationary spiral still from 2008.
I was going to hunt around and dig up the charts, but I can't be bothered right now because I'm too tired. But feel free to dig around ZH, and you'll find the peak vs mean numbers on housing prices are mirroring 2008. We're at the peak.
Yes because everyone knows that picking something because of their sexual identity is the true meaning of quality and should be lauded for it. And you should never, ever, select something based on the merit of something.
Canada used to be a productive manufacturing country, and people were wealthy because of it. In the 90's the federal government of the day decided to shit all over the manufacturing sector and a lot of places simply closed up or went out of country where they weren't being crushed under environmental regs/taxes/etc. These days the provincial government in Ontario(once the main manufacturing hub) is doing the same thing with punishing environmental taxes, high electricity prices and so on. When a company can move from Ontario to Michigan and pay 1/8th the price for electricity there's a problem, especially with the massive glut of power that Ontario generates.
This has led Canada to become a "resource export" country, meaning we're pulling shit out of the ground/cutting down trees/etc to fuel the economy. Now our forestry stuff is top notch, we've got an entire generational cut/plant/harvest cycle here. But other resources? Pretty finite in the long term, and industry jobs where people made the money have pretty much dried up. It also doesn't help that the current government believes that importing TFWs(aka H1B's) to do jobs is a great idea. Look at a place like Windsor or Sarnia with 9% unemployment, but the companies are allowed to hire outside of the country for workers...when people are willing to work.
It'll hit a breaking point sooner or later, and when it does it's going to be nasty and messy as all hell.
That makes no sense. If you are expecting an economic crash, you don't invest in property, you buy gold.
Of course it doesn't make any sense, but that's what's happening anyway. Lot of the "new money" are going to lose their shirt over it when it happens too, the parallels are striking on that between the 70 and dotcom crashes and people buying into a high priced real estate market thinking that it was a safe bet.
As a Canadian still unable to afford a house without signing my life away to debt for the next 30 years, I welcome the burst. Housing prices are INSANE and a lot of that is owned by foreigners.
Gets worse then that actually. A lot of those houses especially in metro Vancouver/Victoria and Toronto are empty. These people are using real estate to sink cash into expecting either a huge economic crash or believing that there is no limit to making money in the real estate market.
My parents bought in during the very early 1980's, and I know a couple of police constables who bought in then. Then the inflation hit, mortgages became impossible because of 19% interest rates. But people who had COLA tied to their contracts were suddenly in the money and were able to buy two, three, four houses and flip them. Taking a 20-30k house and selling it for 90-150k. Really though, I've been expecting the bubble here in Canada to pop for the last 4 years the situation is very similar to what happened in the US prior to the 2006-2008 bubble pop, but it hasn't hit yet. I expect it more has to do with the current levels of debt, they're not quite at where they were in the US, but if the number of insta-loan(aka legal loan sharks) places popping up over the last 3-4 years is any indication, it won't be too many more years.
Depends, do you live in Canada? If so, then protecting you from real estate investors is actually a strong possibility. Very likely at that. I can't really say for the US, but right now here in Canada with housing prices that have broken US bubble levels in quite a few big cities, when the crash comes it's going to be spectacular.
You must not live in the US then, people driving like that was common for a long time. I know people from here in Ontario that would drive to central Florida and back on a weekend with 6 people in the vehicle. They'd go down and have breakfast and drive back. It was the price of cheap airfares that more or less dried it up. You know, like the cost to fly from Detroit to Tampa could be bought for under $125USD around 6 years ago.
There's no way you could drive that distance for that price, including food, fuel and motels. I will say that depending on your car though, and time, you can make it cheap. I drove from SW-Ontario to northern Alberta via the US a few years ago for around $400. It took a week, cost me $225 in gas one way, the rest went for food/motels, even at that it was cheaper then flying(around $550 one way) or driving through Canada ~$900. 12 hour driving days though burn a lot out of you when you're not used to it.
Startups here would do this if they could get away with it, perhaps some already do...
Startups? Hell I know fortune 100 companies where people already do this(and have done this for years). When I was working in heavy manufacturing in the 90's, I spent around 70% of the work week living at work(sleeping/relaxing/etc) because during crunch there was always some problem that required someone to be on site, especially with some very specific problem that had to be looked after. These days? You'll still find this happening, especially if you're in the software industry or you make video games for a living. You've also never worked in Japan, this was very common in the 80's, 90's and through to the mid-00's there.
Ya-huh. The anti-vaxxers are usually granola munching morons, who are usually shit-scared of guns.
Sounds about right. I live in Ontario, Southwestern Ontario to be more exact. The county I currently live in? It's a heavily conservative area that's mostly farming. 89 students out of the entire ~13,000 students weren't vaccinated, this area has a single large school board that operates across 4 counties though(roughly 170k students total) and the numbers were also low. A place like Toronto? The numbers of anti-vaxxers are stupidly high, one high school had a 90% non-vaccinated rate. Wanna guess what type of neighborhood it was? If you said upper class then you'd win a cookie!
I'm very torn on the entire idea of the government forcing this though. On one hand, it's good to get rid of the stupid anti-vaxxer myths. On the other it's a very slippery slope to force through other "behavioral changes" that the government deems improper. Ontario is also the same province where you have educators that claim they're "co-parents." The liberal party has a very strong "do as we say, not as we do" mentality. Especially since they're involved in around 15 different scandals, ranging from fraud to destruction of documents to misuse of funds.
I read it. It looked like the issue was people defacing BLM posts with ALM posts. It wasn't the message that was put up, but the destruction of what other's posted that was the specific objection. Perhaps you need to read your own links.
Read it again, you obviously missed the "We're supporting BLM cause reasons" bit. Or do you need me to draw the exact quote out for you? Reminder that those free speech walls mean that people can do whatever they want, and in turn are supposed to be free from repercussions?
At the peak of crack, it was more used by whites than blacks. The publicity around Blacks was vilifying Black people, not crack, and using that as excuse to target Blacks for a colorblind problem. That you reject reality doesn't change it.
We're not talking about peak. We're talking about what said culture created, that you don't even know what the reality of that period was or how loud those mouth pieces were is far more telling. I'll help you out though, go and start reading news paper articles on al sharpton and jessie jackson from 1993-1998 and their cries for more police. Don't worry when that reality bites you in the ass.
Sure seems like it, especially since this just came to light and it does indeed look like people are the ones inserting their bias and controlling exactly what's being promoted.
Read the article then. That was their "free speech wall" and he threw a hissyfit because people had a differing point of view.
Nope, none of the "all lives matter" complaints are logical, except racism. Black lives matter, but white lives matter more.
That sure explains why blacks kill more of their own then police do right? If those lives actually mattered then they be looking at home and trying to fix those severe culture and social issues, but nope they'd rather whine and cry. Especially after it was them, and their community leaders who pushed so very hard for this line of policing in the first place in the 1990's.
Secret spoiler: They pushed so hard because that was the time when crack started to become the scourge in black communities, and wanted the police to do something about it.
Uh. You might want to go back and re-read some stuff...like facts. It's the democrats who liked the fairness doctrine, and it was them most recently who tried to get it back in several times in fact. I picked two left-leaning sources. So have some right leaning sources as well. The GOP has been fundamentally against that.
One also can't forget that it was Zuckerburg that threw the hissyfit over "all lives matter" because people think that "black lives matter" is BS.
Ahhh...the AC so butthurt by something and this is the best they can do. So which little authoritarian mod that got called out for their shit are you?
Wouldn't surprise me. /r/subredditcancer has been doing a pretty good job of tracking that over the last year and change.
Clickbait is having a hard time surviving right now. Sites that thrive on it are seeing massive drops in uniques and page views. Whether it's a gawker property or something from vice, it's the same. People have had enough, so that's going to lead to one of two things, either they're going to double down and create a new form of clickbait. Or the media is going to start moving back to actual news. You can't forget the assholes out there either that believe that news isn't to tell the truth, but to reduce harm to those "vulnerable groups." AKA fuck facts, we're going for feels.
That's because they don't want to play by the same rules as cab companies are required. That is: Require proper insurance, proper licensing, and mandatory vehicle inspections. Uber likes to think it isn't a taxi company, but it is.
You need pretty extreme conditions to smell the brakes or tires.
Are you smelling brakes and tires a lot now?
Nope you don't. You only need to get the brakes hot, lots of stop and go traffic like you see in cities will do that. And for tires all you need is a hot day(25-30C) on asphalt and you'll start to smell the tires. Anyone who lives near a busy highway(within 5km) will know that smell right off the bat. Kinda different on a lot of the newer cars though, since anything made in the last 4 years will likely use ceramic brake pads, and that has a very distinct odor. Since the shoes no longer get hot enough to smell, you'll actually start to smell the brake fluid in extreme cases which has a very sweet-sharp smell to it.
Funny thing about internal combustion engines though, anyone who ever apprenticed as a mechanic will know this one. You can tell how well a car is running just by the smell. It should have an almost sweet almond like odor to it. Anything else like oily, sharp stink, or sulpher like and there's problems.
Since background checks are paid for at a flat-fee rate in most places, the entire thing is moot. Strange that neither company has problems with it up here in Canada, at least not yet. But the laws are changing, because they both want to be a taxi company and here taxi companies are required to have background checks including criminal background checks before you can get your full chauffeurs license.
Sometimes yes. But not anymore then that. The reality is you're more likely going to pick up malware, virii or a trojan from going to CNN or NBC News then you will going to a torrent site. Especially since the people who pump out that malware know that even if the ad is pulled quickly, they've likely infected tens of thousands of machines in minutes.
Your post reminds me of the "pirated games are always virii" BS. And FYI, torrent sites aren't illegal...unless you live in some totalitarian shit hole.
So it looks like "homeland security" should be renamed STASI/NKVD/etc. They appear to be going after people for wrong-think, just like other state security apparatus of yesteryear in various communist countries.