Some 30 years ago I went to see a movie, don't remember what. I was 30 something, had 2 teenage chix behind me who kept talking (this was the 80s). I shushed them a couple times, they didn't shut up, I got up and "accidently" spilled my drink right over the head of the one closest to the aisle. Kept walking out, listening to her cuss me out.
Pretty much this. Last movie I saw in a theater? Return of the King. Second to last? The Two Towers.
There is an exception, took dad to a Star wars movie 18 months ago on Christmas day. And remembered why I don't see movies with dad (last was Star Trek 4), he bitches and moans though the whole thing. "Transparent aluminum? No such thing!". "Leaving your ship in a public park? Someone will find it!". etc etc etc.
br.
Now that he has Alzheimer it's much worse. Better to rent the DVD and watch it on his impressive TV setup that he doesn't appreciate anymore.
and wonder why butts don't hit seats. Combine that with assholes who talk during the movie, assholes who text during the movie, and overpriced popcorn/cokes. Let me spend $500 on a nice TV that not only satisfies my needs night after night, but if I wait a couple months I can get a couple friends over to my house for a $2 rental, plus $1 popcorn, plus $2 coke, plus, um, who did I invite? Call it $20 for booze, less if I charge me friends for staying in the guest room.
The movie business is changing, news at 11.
/ my defining moment? // Driving Miss Daisy /// There were like, 5 of us in the theater, but a kid kept running up and down the aisle screaming the whole movie.
some 15-20 years ago when they overpaid for all their stations, had to run too many commercials to pay for them, then heavily restricted their play lists to avoid the chance someone might not like the song currently playing. Forget about discovering new music on the radio, unless you switch from your country station to a hip-hop station or somesuch. Which ain't gonna happen.
I've got a 30G USB stick in my car with a dozen or so playlists. Only time I turn the radio on is when I'm stuck in traffic for a report to figure out if I should stick it out or go another route.
Ajit has pretended to listen to the people, but he's already been paid. His biggest problem now is how to phrase "90% of the American public think you suck, but you're gonna suck anyway".
We need independent courts to look this kind of corruption and send the fuckers responsible to prison. Ajit, you deserve 5-10 years, you asshole.
No facebook, no snapchat, no tinder, no grinder. Fact is, I'm as close to 100% out of social media as can be. I don't understand people who are into social media, I don't hang out with them. They're like smokers were 10-20 years ago. You want to take a pic of me and post it to FB? Um, no, I'll just step out. I find out you put a pic of me on FB without my knowledge and best case, you ain't my friend. Worst case I sue you.
Second, the device need's it's password changed before it works.
The other option is for the default password to be the serial number of the device, which will probably cause vendors $0.01 more but save on customer support calls.
You want my data, pay me. Never heard of Plex, never used it, prolly never will. But you want my data, send me money. If it ain't enough then fuck you.
The problem is the tax laws, not the companies taking advantage of them. Do you claim every and all deduction you can? Guess what, companies do the same. Do you pay an accountant $300 to convert your $2400 tax bill to $1200? Guess what, this is what companies do on a much larger scale.
The solution is streamlining the tax laws to make it clear who pays and who doesn't.
My solution? Members of congress, the president, and congressional staffers are not allowed to use any outside tax service to figure out their taxes. No Turbotax, no tax accountants. These assholes get to do their taxes, by hand, on paper. That will simplify the tax code overnight in under a year.
Don't even get me started on Wisconsin and Foxconn. That right there is some truly retarded bullshit.
Stuff I care about, like medicine and travel docs go on carry on. I assume anything checked will be lost when it hurts most for it to be lost.
CSB
Years ago my aunt died after a long illness, but sooner than expected. I quickly gave notice at work, booked airline tickets, rented a car. On the bed were piles of neatly folded clothes. Loaded up my suitcase, off to the airport.
Flew to St Louis, got my car, drove 2 hours to my Uncle's place. And found a problem. I had no shirts.
Turned out my wife wasn't into the program, and had set things out on a "put these away" basis. She was in a "put these in drawers" mode, I was in a "catch a flight in an hour, sweet, stuff folded on the bed" mode.
My uncle lives in a remote part of Illinois, I was sitting in the parking lot of a JC Penny store a good 30 minutes drive out, with my parents, so I could run in to buy a shirt appropriate for a funeral as soon as they opened.
And this is what I wore flying on it. Is that so bad? Seriously, has anyone on here who has flown more than 10 flights ever not had their luggage lost?
This may work in New Yawk, San Fran, or LA, where people care about getting into the "hottest" restruants and posting social media shit for assholes who care. I live in a normal town, I'll make a reservation for a special occasion. Can't get in, no problemo? I'll just try someone else.
I make a reservation then can't get in (has never happened). You'll get a 0 star rating on yelp.
I've tried to use Tor a few times in the last 10-15 years. It takes fricken forever for any website to resolve. Last time was maybe a year ago.
Ok, if I was trying to buy a silencer, or cocaine, or access kiddy porn, waiting 30-60 seconds between page updates might be acceptable. But as a normal working bee that doesn't want the interested TLA watching my browsing, yeah, how about no.
Got there when the show was about to start. Spent a good 10 minutes watching nothing but ads. Then the previews. I hate previews, they tend to give away the major plot points, or show funny stuff that doesn't show up in the movie. Some 30 minutes after the movie was supposed to start it started.
I snuck in a bottle of water and some trail mix
Great move, bad experience.
/ snuck in - they were in my pockets, pretty obvious to anyone who cared // $4 for $0.33 worth of popcorn? Ok, I don't have a microwave in your theater. But still.. /// $5 for sweetened ice tea, when I prefer mine unsweetened? Remind me again why I never see movies in theaters.
Several times in fact, various flavors. They actually aren't bad. Until you're on day 4 with the same damned fettuccine alfredo, then you start thinking of that hot girlfriend who couldn't boil water without messing up.
I cook. I enjoy cooking. I use spices to cut the salt and fat, and most people complement me on my cooking. I can't imagine any prepackaged meal being either A) better than I could make myself; or B) Healthier than I can make myself.
I can see C) faster than I can make myself; and D) humping it in a desert and wanna eat
/ protip: To cook pasta faster boil water // then put the water into ice cube trays /// voila! Next time you need boiled water just take it out of the freezer
I'm guessing the explody ones are from China. Land of the "safety? We don't need no stinkin safety! We'll poison your pets, counterfeit your F16 bolts, and put explody batteries in everything from spinners to hoverboards."
I could be wrong here, but I'd put money on the fact the hot ones are from China.
Slashdot Mirror
If you spend time on twitter you are a twit.
twit (n) - One who bites their own fart bubbles in the bathtub.
for the plastic surgery needed to make me look like Bill Gates?
I do have a problem with them keeping that data for years. IMHO, a day or two at most should be sufficient .
Some 30 years ago I went to see a movie, don't remember what. I was 30 something, had 2 teenage chix behind me who kept talking (this was the 80s). I shushed them a couple times, they didn't shut up, I got up and "accidently" spilled my drink right over the head of the one closest to the aisle. Kept walking out, listening to her cuss me out.
Pretty much this. Last movie I saw in a theater? Return of the King. Second to last? The Two Towers.
There is an exception, took dad to a Star wars movie 18 months ago on Christmas day. And remembered why I don't see movies with dad (last was Star Trek 4), he bitches and moans though the whole thing. "Transparent aluminum? No such thing!". "Leaving your ship in a public park? Someone will find it!". etc etc etc.
br. Now that he has Alzheimer it's much worse. Better to rent the DVD and watch it on his impressive TV setup that he doesn't appreciate anymore.
lays off a bunch of folks. I care about this because?
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and wonder why butts don't hit seats. Combine that with assholes who talk during the movie, assholes who text during the movie, and overpriced popcorn/cokes. Let me spend $500 on a nice TV that not only satisfies my needs night after night, but if I wait a couple months I can get a couple friends over to my house for a $2 rental, plus $1 popcorn, plus $2 coke, plus, um, who did I invite? Call it $20 for booze, less if I charge me friends for staying in the guest room.
// Driving Miss Daisy
/// There were like, 5 of us in the theater, but a kid kept running up and down the aisle screaming the whole movie.
The movie business is changing, news at 11.
/ my defining moment?
some 15-20 years ago when they overpaid for all their stations, had to run too many commercials to pay for them, then heavily restricted their play lists to avoid the chance someone might not like the song currently playing. Forget about discovering new music on the radio, unless you switch from your country station to a hip-hop station or somesuch. Which ain't gonna happen.
I've got a 30G USB stick in my car with a dozen or so playlists. Only time I turn the radio on is when I'm stuck in traffic for a report to figure out if I should stick it out or go another route.
At those speeds it won't take much to derail those trains and kill lots of people.
// our reality sucks
/// why would anyone want to derail a train, or shoot a schoolyard, or whatever.
/ sad but true
Ajit has pretended to listen to the people, but he's already been paid. His biggest problem now is how to phrase "90% of the American public think you suck, but you're gonna suck anyway". We need independent courts to look this kind of corruption and send the fuckers responsible to prison. Ajit, you deserve 5-10 years, you asshole.
No facebook, no snapchat, no tinder, no grinder. Fact is, I'm as close to 100% out of social media as can be. I don't understand people who are into social media, I don't hang out with them. They're like smokers were 10-20 years ago. You want to take a pic of me and post it to FB? Um, no, I'll just step out. I find out you put a pic of me on FB without my knowledge and best case, you ain't my friend. Worst case I sue you.
First, the vendor provides a default password.
Second, the device need's it's password changed before it works.
The other option is for the default password to be the serial number of the device, which will probably cause vendors $0.01 more but save on customer support calls.
Look at the story of the VW engineer getting 2 years in prison, yet no word on the penalty his upper management will pay.
I really get the VW dude.
boss: "do this".
worker bee: "um, isn't that illegal?".
Boss: "let legal handle that".
worker bee: "um, I dunno".
Boss: wanna get fired?
worker bee: "yessir, be done by friday
Thanks to Mark's link I'm a 4, which means I'm normal on the edge of depressive. Considering my life I'll take that as a win.
or do non of the linked articles actually lead to the test.
/ possibly depressed minds want to know
To ensure your firmware can't be updated without your explicit permission. See also, Win 10.
You want my data, pay me. Never heard of Plex, never used it, prolly never will. But you want my data, send me money. If it ain't enough then fuck you.
The problem is the tax laws, not the companies taking advantage of them. Do you claim every and all deduction you can? Guess what, companies do the same. Do you pay an accountant $300 to convert your $2400 tax bill to $1200? Guess what, this is what companies do on a much larger scale.
The solution is streamlining the tax laws to make it clear who pays and who doesn't.
My solution? Members of congress, the president, and congressional staffers are not allowed to use any outside tax service to figure out their taxes. No Turbotax, no tax accountants. These assholes get to do their taxes, by hand, on paper. That will simplify the tax code overnight in under a year.
Don't even get me started on Wisconsin and Foxconn. That right there is some truly retarded bullshit.
Stuff I care about, like medicine and travel docs go on carry on. I assume anything checked will be lost when it hurts most for it to be lost.
CSB Years ago my aunt died after a long illness, but sooner than expected. I quickly gave notice at work, booked airline tickets, rented a car. On the bed were piles of neatly folded clothes. Loaded up my suitcase, off to the airport.
Flew to St Louis, got my car, drove 2 hours to my Uncle's place. And found a problem. I had no shirts.
Turned out my wife wasn't into the program, and had set things out on a "put these away" basis. She was in a "put these in drawers" mode, I was in a "catch a flight in an hour, sweet, stuff folded on the bed" mode.
My uncle lives in a remote part of Illinois, I was sitting in the parking lot of a JC Penny store a good 30 minutes drive out, with my parents, so I could run in to buy a shirt appropriate for a funeral as soon as they opened.
And this is what I wore flying on it. Is that so bad? Seriously, has anyone on here who has flown more than 10 flights ever not had their luggage lost?
This may work in New Yawk, San Fran, or LA, where people care about getting into the "hottest" restruants and posting social media shit for assholes who care. I live in a normal town, I'll make a reservation for a special occasion. Can't get in, no problemo? I'll just try someone else.
I make a reservation then can't get in (has never happened). You'll get a 0 star rating on yelp.
I've tried to use Tor a few times in the last 10-15 years. It takes fricken forever for any website to resolve. Last time was maybe a year ago.
Ok, if I was trying to buy a silencer, or cocaine, or access kiddy porn, waiting 30-60 seconds between page updates might be acceptable. But as a normal working bee that doesn't want the interested TLA watching my browsing, yeah, how about no.
Got there when the show was about to start. Spent a good 10 minutes watching nothing but ads. Then the previews. I hate previews, they tend to give away the major plot points, or show funny stuff that doesn't show up in the movie. Some 30 minutes after the movie was supposed to start it started.
// $4 for $0.33 worth of popcorn? Ok, I don't have a microwave in your theater. But still..
/// $5 for sweetened ice tea, when I prefer mine unsweetened? Remind me again why I never see movies in theaters.
I snuck in a bottle of water and some trail mix
Great move, bad experience.
/ snuck in - they were in my pockets, pretty obvious to anyone who cared
Several times in fact, various flavors. They actually aren't bad. Until you're on day 4 with the same damned fettuccine alfredo, then you start thinking of that hot girlfriend who couldn't boil water without messing up.
// then put the water into ice cube trays
/// voila! Next time you need boiled water just take it out of the freezer
I cook. I enjoy cooking. I use spices to cut the salt and fat, and most people complement me on my cooking. I can't imagine any prepackaged meal being either A) better than I could make myself; or B) Healthier than I can make myself.
I can see C) faster than I can make myself; and D) humping it in a desert and wanna eat
/ protip: To cook pasta faster boil water
I'm guessing the explody ones are from China. Land of the "safety? We don't need no stinkin safety! We'll poison your pets, counterfeit your F16 bolts, and put explody batteries in everything from spinners to hoverboards."
I could be wrong here, but I'd put money on the fact the hot ones are from China.