*Why* do you expect more from America? Because of its propaganda? ("Land of the free!!") North Korea has all kinds of optimistic, great-sounding propaganda too, but no one takes that seriously, so why do you take America's seriously?
Yes, you should be comparing America to China and Russia, as it resembles those countries more than any others. Large land mass, large population, not so great on individual liberties, big military, vying for world power and hegemony, poor social services, big divide between rich and poor. To be fair, it's generally a little better than those two in many of these metrics (the poor in America are generally much better off than the poor in China, you can get a gay marriage in America and live openly as a homosexual but not in China or Russia, the middle class has more buying power in America, etc.), but it's simply not comparable to western European countries in any way. It makes as much sense to compare America to Switzerland as it does to compare to Lesotho.
Everywhere but Alaska, North Dakota, Silicon Valley and Seattle.
Interesting. I guess I'm just surprised; somehow I missed this about Seattle. I already knew that Alaska, ND, and Silicon Valley were devoid of women, but this is news to me about Seattle.
Does it apply to the whole metro area? What about other places around the Puget Sound? Anyone know?
Replacing NASA? WTF are you talking about? No one's replacing NASA, especially since NASA doesn't even actually make rockets, and never has. They contract it out to companies like Rocketdyne. SpaceX is trying to replace them, or Orbital.
Why do you people keep trying to compare America only to developed nations? Have you looked at how America compares in education to other developed nations? It's at the bottom there too. Or what about childhood poverty and nutrition? Bottom. Overall standard of living? Bottom.
Yes, we are indeed shitty compared to the Germans. Who isn't?
Compared to everyone else (including the Italians; they're infamous for bad driving, and that's still mostly "1st world"), we're not that bad.
The mistake you're making is in comparing America to Germany in just about anything. America really isn't a 1st-world country culturally; it really resembles a 3rd-world country that won the lottery. Just look at the infrastructure in one of our major cities like NYC; it's abysmal. The traffic is atrocious, the drivers rude, the streets smell like sewers, bridges in the area are all rusting apart, I could go on and on. America is economically powerful still, but it sure doesn't show in the infrastructure or the overall cleanliness of its cities. Don't forget all the gang violence here, something that's not so much of a problem in most 1st-world countries.
>What kind of crappy car has ABS that still allows you to lock up the wheels when stomping on the brakes?
The kind that's driving on icy roads. ABS can only detect lockup if there's a difference in wheelspin rates. When you're sliding across ice and slam on the brakes, they're all going to stop at once, even though the car will keep moving. So, as the parent said, if your brakes lock up like that, you braked too hard. These systems are a great help, but they aren't 100% foolproof.
Cars today do not require special tools any more than old ones did, with the exception (for many newer cars) of a laptop with special software to access certain systems in the car. For most things though, this isn't necessary; you don't need that for changing the oil, fixing the breaks, changing the spark plugs, etc. It's only really needed for diagnosing engine problems, and even then a lot of things will show up with a standard OBD2 scan tool from Autozone.
As for finding parts, as with any product, it helps to pick something popular instead of something terribly unpopular. Popular cars will have parts available for decades, maybe longer (is it hard to get parts for a late-60s Mustang? I don't think so). What kind of unpopular car did you get anyway? But even so, junkyard/reman parts should still be available.
Huh? How so? I'm advocating for quality products, not fashion accessories. Did you miss the part about quality laptops being able to handle rough treatment?
That works great if you marry a woman who's also frugal. However, with America's princess culture, good luck finding one. Generally, when a woman marries a man who has some money, she wants to spend it.
I'm not saying it is. A gym can be a great value for keeping in shape: you get access to equipment that would cost you an absolute fortune to own yourself, a pool, etc. And, as you said, the somewhat-social aspect might help motivate you.
I'm just saying that I've never actually met anyone at a gym and developed any kind of relationship, and in fact I've never really seen people do much talking there at all, unless it's to some friend they came in with. They just don't seem to be very social places; people come in, do their exercise routines, keep to themselves mostly, and leave. That's been my observation at least, at many different gyms in different parts of the country.
I'm a fan of Bernie too, but I don't call myself a "leftist" because these days, that seems to mean you're a SJW who hates white men and thinks we need to be forced to use words like "xe" to avoid offending people with gendered pronouns.
These days it seems like the people on the left, who used to be champions of women's rights and equality, are now big fans is Islam and women dressing in burqas. They've gotten so extreme they've wrapped-around to the other side.
What? There's no single females in the Seattle area? I knew this was a problem in Silicon Valley, but not in Seattle. Maybe I better re-think my plans to move to the northwest.
Speak for yourself. I hate open-plan workspaces with a passion, but that's because I don't want to spend my whole day surrounded by a bunch of dude-bros yapping about stupid shit, or worse, a bunch of asshole (male) managers spouting manager-speak. I'd rather just hide in my cube. This idea from China sounds great to me; I don't get nearly enough contact with women in my life anyway, especially not pretty ones, so this would make me actually want to go to work and socialize some for a change.
Anyway, unfortunately the answer is no. When you have a big system with multiple components are designed to run on one OS, it just isn't going to be trivial to switch to another OS; all the components have to have versions for the new OS. You only asked about USPS and UPS shipping, so I just pointed out that it is possible to print those labels that way, but integration with other software is a whole other can of worms.
Honestly, the USPS really sucks about doing any kind of integration. They seem to be actively against it; they have some "webtools" APIs, but that's just to get some address-correction information and the like, not for purchasing and printing postage. For that, they only want to work with third-party vendors like encidia.com and stamps.com (which I hear is a big scam), as well as PayPal (which works through Pitney Bowes, not directly through the USPS). UPS is better I believe; from what I hear, they have an XML API you can use with their site, if you want to roll your own.
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Your information is woefully out of date. Cars haven't had cable-connected throttles for years; they're all throttle-by-wire.
*Why* do you expect more from America? Because of its propaganda? ("Land of the free!!") North Korea has all kinds of optimistic, great-sounding propaganda too, but no one takes that seriously, so why do you take America's seriously?
Yes, you should be comparing America to China and Russia, as it resembles those countries more than any others. Large land mass, large population, not so great on individual liberties, big military, vying for world power and hegemony, poor social services, big divide between rich and poor. To be fair, it's generally a little better than those two in many of these metrics (the poor in America are generally much better off than the poor in China, you can get a gay marriage in America and live openly as a homosexual but not in China or Russia, the middle class has more buying power in America, etc.), but it's simply not comparable to western European countries in any way. It makes as much sense to compare America to Switzerland as it does to compare to Lesotho.
You've obviously never heard of MISRA.
Everywhere but Alaska, North Dakota, Silicon Valley and Seattle.
Interesting. I guess I'm just surprised; somehow I missed this about Seattle. I already knew that Alaska, ND, and Silicon Valley were devoid of women, but this is news to me about Seattle.
Does it apply to the whole metro area? What about other places around the Puget Sound? Anyone know?
If your argument for that is "well, we're marginally better than the 3rd world" then perhaps you're aiming too low.
I'm not aiming for anything except accuracy.
Replacing NASA? WTF are you talking about? No one's replacing NASA, especially since NASA doesn't even actually make rockets, and never has. They contract it out to companies like Rocketdyne. SpaceX is trying to replace them, or Orbital.
I guess you don't want to fly in any airplanes either; they're all run by software too. But I guess you've never worked on avionics software either.
Good luck getting the police to actually patrol and look for that.
Why do you people keep trying to compare America only to developed nations? Have you looked at how America compares in education to other developed nations? It's at the bottom there too. Or what about childhood poverty and nutrition? Bottom. Overall standard of living? Bottom.
Yes, we are indeed shitty compared to the Germans. Who isn't?
Compared to everyone else (including the Italians; they're infamous for bad driving, and that's still mostly "1st world"), we're not that bad.
The mistake you're making is in comparing America to Germany in just about anything. America really isn't a 1st-world country culturally; it really resembles a 3rd-world country that won the lottery. Just look at the infrastructure in one of our major cities like NYC; it's abysmal. The traffic is atrocious, the drivers rude, the streets smell like sewers, bridges in the area are all rusting apart, I could go on and on. America is economically powerful still, but it sure doesn't show in the infrastructure or the overall cleanliness of its cities. Don't forget all the gang violence here, something that's not so much of a problem in most 1st-world countries.
Yes, but they don't have bony long legs like deer, and windshields are made of laminated safety glass so you should be safe.
I've never heard of automatic emergency braking while in reverse, just when moving forward.
>What kind of crappy car has ABS that still allows you to lock up the wheels when stomping on the brakes?
The kind that's driving on icy roads. ABS can only detect lockup if there's a difference in wheelspin rates. When you're sliding across ice and slam on the brakes, they're all going to stop at once, even though the car will keep moving. So, as the parent said, if your brakes lock up like that, you braked too hard. These systems are a great help, but they aren't 100% foolproof.
Cars today do not require special tools any more than old ones did, with the exception (for many newer cars) of a laptop with special software to access certain systems in the car. For most things though, this isn't necessary; you don't need that for changing the oil, fixing the breaks, changing the spark plugs, etc. It's only really needed for diagnosing engine problems, and even then a lot of things will show up with a standard OBD2 scan tool from Autozone.
As for finding parts, as with any product, it helps to pick something popular instead of something terribly unpopular. Popular cars will have parts available for decades, maybe longer (is it hard to get parts for a late-60s Mustang? I don't think so). What kind of unpopular car did you get anyway? But even so, junkyard/reman parts should still be available.
Huh? How so? I'm advocating for quality products, not fashion accessories. Did you miss the part about quality laptops being able to handle rough treatment?
That works great if you marry a woman who's also frugal. However, with America's princess culture, good luck finding one. Generally, when a woman marries a man who has some money, she wants to spend it.
I'm not saying it is. A gym can be a great value for keeping in shape: you get access to equipment that would cost you an absolute fortune to own yourself, a pool, etc. And, as you said, the somewhat-social aspect might help motivate you.
I'm just saying that I've never actually met anyone at a gym and developed any kind of relationship, and in fact I've never really seen people do much talking there at all, unless it's to some friend they came in with. They just don't seem to be very social places; people come in, do their exercise routines, keep to themselves mostly, and leave. That's been my observation at least, at many different gyms in different parts of the country.
I'll bet there's a bunch of them in fundie/evangelical churches....
I'm a fan of Bernie too, but I don't call myself a "leftist" because these days, that seems to mean you're a SJW who hates white men and thinks we need to be forced to use words like "xe" to avoid offending people with gendered pronouns.
Wow. Where are all the single women then? Obviously, these hetero males are moving there from someplace else, leaving a surplus of women there.
Of course, it seems to me that there's a lot more datable men out there than women, in American society, at least over the age of 30.
Citation needed. I've still never heard of an engine ECU crashing.
These days it seems like the people on the left, who used to be champions of women's rights and equality, are now big fans is Islam and women dressing in burqas. They've gotten so extreme they've wrapped-around to the other side.
What? There's no single females in the Seattle area? I knew this was a problem in Silicon Valley, but not in Seattle. Maybe I better re-think my plans to move to the northwest.
Is this typical of the whole northwest?
Speak for yourself. I hate open-plan workspaces with a passion, but that's because I don't want to spend my whole day surrounded by a bunch of dude-bros yapping about stupid shit, or worse, a bunch of asshole (male) managers spouting manager-speak. I'd rather just hide in my cube. This idea from China sounds great to me; I don't get nearly enough contact with women in my life anyway, especially not pretty ones, so this would make me actually want to go to work and socialize some for a change.
What order fulfillment system are you using?
Anyway, unfortunately the answer is no. When you have a big system with multiple components are designed to run on one OS, it just isn't going to be trivial to switch to another OS; all the components have to have versions for the new OS. You only asked about USPS and UPS shipping, so I just pointed out that it is possible to print those labels that way, but integration with other software is a whole other can of worms.
Honestly, the USPS really sucks about doing any kind of integration. They seem to be actively against it; they have some "webtools" APIs, but that's just to get some address-correction information and the like, not for purchasing and printing postage. For that, they only want to work with third-party vendors like encidia.com and stamps.com (which I hear is a big scam), as well as PayPal (which works through Pitney Bowes, not directly through the USPS). UPS is better I believe; from what I hear, they have an XML API you can use with their site, if you want to roll your own.