Back around 2000, I moved across the country for about $3k, with a whole (small) house's worth of stuff, plus the cost of gas for driving my car. I have no idea how the hell you got the idea that it ever cost $5k to move a few boxes. You can send boxes by Fedex, you know.
Check out ABF Freight (upack.com) if you want a relatively inexpensive way to move without having to mess around with a U-Haul.
That's only if you have a lot of crap to move. Get rid of it; that's what Craigslist is for. If you're desperate, you'll sell all your stuff, pack the few essentials and keepsakes into your car, and drive yourself cross-country to the new job.
Why do you think monopolies can't exist on luxuries? "Monopoly" is an economic term, not a moral one.
Maybe, but I find it silly to whine and complain about a "monopoly" when you're willingly buying into the monopoly to feed your desire for some particular luxury good. It's like complaining about the local monopoly of Rolls-Royce dealers because you just *had* to buy a Rolls. Cry me a river.
Besides, if you really like some stupid game that much, you can always just dual-boot and use Windows just for that one game.
Would you claim you can't have a monopoly on food because customers can always starve to death?
You need food to survive. You don't need a company. Companies are not people.
And again, you can always dual-boot or use a VM; just because one stupid vendor only supports Windows doesn't mean you have to run your entire company infrastructure on Windows.
Phone them? That would require talking to a person, and wasting a lot of my time doing so, and having extremely poor communications reliability in the process. Why would I want to do that when I can go to the other store's website and search for what I want, and see actual photos and descriptions? Can the small hardware store employee show me a photo on the phone?
As a person in technology I don't care about 100,000 jobs if they are all Walmart jobs likely to be taken away by automation anyway. Do you even know how many of those jobs are quality jobs with a +$50K salary, benefits, and a certain amount of job security?
Wow, what a whiner you are. A job is a job is a job. You shouldn't be worried about how much it pays or any benefits it has, you should just be happy to have a job and be willing to bust your ass for your employer. Just ask a politician; there's a reason they always talk about "jobs" as a straight number with no qualifiers./s
They'll find someone else to sort out the mess; you might as well profit from it. Just make sure to set your prices very high, like 3x your old salary plus a guaranteed generous severance if they lay you off again. If they're that desperate, they may very well agree.
Yeah, but where do you expel someone to when they were born in your country? The Norway thing is a little different: those people were immigrants, who were born elsewhere, and then became naturalized citizens. Presumably (I haven't read the specifics of that case, I'm just going on your writing here) they lied about something on their naturalization application, so the country was able to legally revoke their citizenship (because it was acquired under false pretenses), which means they just reverted back to being citizens of wherever they came from. Basically, Norway just hit the "undo" button.
With the naturalized guy born in Pakistan, sure, you can just revoke his citizenship and fly him back to Pakistan. But what about the ones that are born in Britain? They don't have a former home country other than Britain.
Maybe they could just send them to the Pitcairn Islands, which only have 49 inhabitants and have been seeking new residents.
That's just plain wrong. There are several practical alternatives: Macs and a bunch of Linux distros. If you're just surfing the web and doing light document work and watching videos, either one will work for you just fine. Doing things on computers without Windows is easier than ever now, thanks to the rise of web apps.
If you can't play some AAA game on anything but Windows, that's not a monopoly problem; that's a luxury and you've bought into a vendor that only supports a single platform. Don't play that game; games are luxuries.
If your business uses some software package that's only supported on Windows, find a new vendor or complain to that one. Worst case, build your own software, or find some other way, or just go out of business. As I mentioned before, with the rise of web apps, it's easier than ever now to do stuff without Windows.
If your business uses Outlook/Exchange, that's your own stupid fault. Find an alternative; there's lots of them.
Again, if you don't like it, don't use it. Windows is made by a private company and they can do whatever they want with their product.
It's not a monopoly. If you don't like Windows and don't agree to what they include, don't buy it. Are you going to bitch and complain that your car has a built-in alarm system or door locks too? Are you going to claim that it's "anti-competitive" that cars come from the factory with A/C instead of making people get aftermarket air conditioners installed like they did in the 50s?
As the other responder pointed out, Windows Defender is part of Windows and is not a separate product, and does not cost extra. It's a free part of the OS, just like the calculator or Solitaire or the disk defragmenter.
Secondly, your analogy is stupid. A better car analogy is car alarms. 20+ years ago, if you wanted to try protecting your car from theft, you could buy various 3rd-party accessories such as "The Club", or an alarm system. These days, cars actually come from the factory with a built-in alarm system. It may or may not be as feature-ful as an aftermarket alarm, but most people use the factory alarm (which really requires no effort as it's baked-in and activates when you lock the doors) and are happy with it, and car thefts are at an all-time low these days. It this bad for the aftermarket alarm makers? Probably, but who cares? You can still get one of those if you want. Same thing with cupholders: cars all come with nice ones built in. Is that bad for aftermarket cupholder makers? Of course, but too bad; the factory ones are better and look nicer anyway.
Linux. Well? Somewhat. Not as much as I'd like. But we generally don't see large scale problems in the wild. Of course, one day we will.
The only problems we've seen with Linux have been with server installations, usually targeting software that's only installed on internet-facing servers. We haven't seen anything at all that targets desktop Linux. And it's false to claim that "one day we will"; maybe we will, maybe we won't. With desktop Linux marketshare so low, and little sign of that improving any time soon (despite the absolute horrors of Windows 10), there's not much incentive for malware writers to target it. Of course, there's other factors: Linux has a better security model from the outset, plus it has generally more savvy users who are too smart to install some stupid toolbar, and on top of that it doesn't have Outlook which seems to have been one of the major attack vectors in Windows for a while now. So with all that in mind, it's quite likely we'll never see large-scale problems in the wild with desktop Linux.
Android is not a desktop OS (despite what some idiots would have you believe), just like Windows is not a mobile OS (I mean Windows 10, the desktop OS; it sure would help if MS didn't adopt such confusing naming conventions by calling everything "Windows" even though that name is used for several different OSes that are entirely different from each other).
Windows is the only desktop OS that has a real problem with malware.
So God couldn't just eliminate those people themselves?? It's funny how you nuts come up with this insane shit to try to make sense of stone-age stories. There's no "hard facts" when it comes to religion BTW.
Personally, when I work from home, I also have a tendency to fall asleep, to watch television or to open the fridge that I do not have when I work from office. And I suspect many of my colleagues working from home do, too, but they won't admit it.
Sure, but how productive are people in the office? I've seen studies showing people typically spend less than 40% of their time doing anything productive in offices. They surf the web, zone out, they're exhausted from the commuting, they hang out and chit-chat with other employees, etc., plus all the interruptions from the open-plan work spaces.
I'm in favor of WFH, but I have to play devil's advocate here: some jobs are really hard to predict the necessary time to complete, so how do you deal with that? For instance, suppose you have an engineer working on debugging a problem in software. It might take an hour to solve, or 3 days. The only way I can see to deal with that is for the supervisor to talk to the engineer every day about what they did that day, what approaches they tried, etc.
The Holocaust was only about 80 years ago. And Christians today still happily promote wars to improve corporate profits.
As I said before, some religions just cover it up slightly better than others. At their root, they all have the potential to turn into the barbarism you're complaining about.
From everything I read, this is completely normal for middle-aged married men. This mythical happy marriage you allude to simply doesn't exist, especially once you throw in kids.
Well I do see part of the problem. From Harvard's own FAQ about myths about their admission process:
"Harvard Athletics is the most comprehensive in the nation. There are 21 men’s and 20 women’s varsity and numerous junior varsity and club teams competing at the intercollegiate level, more than any other institution in the United States."
Harvard is really big on sports, and since sports are full of assholes, it's no surprise they had a problem with a bunch of incoming freshmen being racist assholes.
Don't forget Christianity and Judaism. There's one part in the Bible where the Jews attack and murder all the members of some other tribe because supposedly God told them to. And I'm pretty sure there's verses in there supporting sexual assault (including other attacks on other tribes where they subjugate the women after killing the men).
Also, the Holocaust was committed by Christians. Debate the secret beliefs of the top nazi leaders all you want, but all the people actually manning the camps and abducting people were Christian and had these activities justified to them based on religious arguments.
All three of those religions are barbaric and support brutality. Some just cover it up slightly more than others.
So you're advocating a new federal government law that actually forbids freedom of association?
So if I have a private party in my back yard and someone brings a friend who then starts telling everyone how great Hitler was, I'm not allowed to demand that he leave my property, but instead of I have to have a debate with him about this?
Are you fucking insane?
What the hell has this country come to when the leftists are the ones supporting freedom of association, and the right-wingers are openly opposed to it?
No, I'm not going to have a debate with every loony that comes along expressing idiotic and insane ideas, whether they're about Naziism, conspiracy theories, alien mind control anal probes, or whatever. I don't have time for that shit.
Little wonder the Catholic church's membership is drying up between attitudes like this from their faithful, plus all the pedophilia and the support of pedophilia from the organization.
It's funny how you call him "sinful" yet you openly back pedophilia and sexual assault.
I wonder how Zipcar deals with damage to the car; with regular rentals, you have to walk around the car with the employee and indicate all the damage on the car, then sign a form indicating the damage and the fuel tank fullness. Then when you return it, any new damage you're liable for, and if the tank isn't as full as when you got it, you have to pay a hefty fee for gas.
The other problem with Zipcar is that there likely isn't one right there where and when you need it, so again you may be doing some walking.
Fair enough; 39 years for Donald Sutherland's Invasion of the Body Snatchers is probably a real stretch, I admit. I also forgot to mention 1982's "The Thing", a horror classic and masterpiece that's a remake of some 50s move.
But still, limiting "modern" to the 21st Century still leaves us with 7 movies and one trilogy out of my list. Some other people might have more; I went through Wikipedia's list of movie remakes and picked only ones I liked or at least heard really good things about since ~1978.
I will admit, however, that we're now over 7 years into the 2010s, and I didn't find any movies that I thought qualified as "good remakes" there. But I also haven't watched as many movies during this decade so maybe I'm missing some. Honestly, it does seem to me that many things in society have generally gone way downhill since 2008, when we had the economic crash. But that could be a continuation of a trend started in 2000; from my perspective, things were generally much better in the 1990s and that decade was the peak for American society.
Actually, they do: bit-flips caused by cosmic rays are a real thing. They're somewhat rare, and usually inconsequential, but they do happen, and could cause a major crash. Hardware can be improved to mitigate this (like using ECC memory), but most consumer-grade hardware is not.
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Back around 2000, I moved across the country for about $3k, with a whole (small) house's worth of stuff, plus the cost of gas for driving my car. I have no idea how the hell you got the idea that it ever cost $5k to move a few boxes. You can send boxes by Fedex, you know.
Check out ABF Freight (upack.com) if you want a relatively inexpensive way to move without having to mess around with a U-Haul.
That's only if you have a lot of crap to move. Get rid of it; that's what Craigslist is for. If you're desperate, you'll sell all your stuff, pack the few essentials and keepsakes into your car, and drive yourself cross-country to the new job.
Why do you think monopolies can't exist on luxuries? "Monopoly" is an economic term, not a moral one.
Maybe, but I find it silly to whine and complain about a "monopoly" when you're willingly buying into the monopoly to feed your desire for some particular luxury good. It's like complaining about the local monopoly of Rolls-Royce dealers because you just *had* to buy a Rolls. Cry me a river.
Besides, if you really like some stupid game that much, you can always just dual-boot and use Windows just for that one game.
Would you claim you can't have a monopoly on food because customers can always starve to death?
You need food to survive. You don't need a company. Companies are not people.
And again, you can always dual-boot or use a VM; just because one stupid vendor only supports Windows doesn't mean you have to run your entire company infrastructure on Windows.
Phone them? That would require talking to a person, and wasting a lot of my time doing so, and having extremely poor communications reliability in the process. Why would I want to do that when I can go to the other store's website and search for what I want, and see actual photos and descriptions? Can the small hardware store employee show me a photo on the phone?
As a person in technology I don't care about 100,000 jobs if they are all Walmart jobs likely to be taken away by automation anyway. Do you even know how many of those jobs are quality jobs with a +$50K salary, benefits, and a certain amount of job security?
Wow, what a whiner you are. A job is a job is a job. You shouldn't be worried about how much it pays or any benefits it has, you should just be happy to have a job and be willing to bust your ass for your employer. Just ask a politician; there's a reason they always talk about "jobs" as a straight number with no qualifiers. /s
They'll find someone else to sort out the mess; you might as well profit from it. Just make sure to set your prices very high, like 3x your old salary plus a guaranteed generous severance if they lay you off again. If they're that desperate, they may very well agree.
Yeah, but where do you expel someone to when they were born in your country? The Norway thing is a little different: those people were immigrants, who were born elsewhere, and then became naturalized citizens. Presumably (I haven't read the specifics of that case, I'm just going on your writing here) they lied about something on their naturalization application, so the country was able to legally revoke their citizenship (because it was acquired under false pretenses), which means they just reverted back to being citizens of wherever they came from. Basically, Norway just hit the "undo" button.
With the naturalized guy born in Pakistan, sure, you can just revoke his citizenship and fly him back to Pakistan. But what about the ones that are born in Britain? They don't have a former home country other than Britain.
Maybe they could just send them to the Pitcairn Islands, which only have 49 inhabitants and have been seeking new residents.
That's just plain wrong. There are several practical alternatives: Macs and a bunch of Linux distros. If you're just surfing the web and doing light document work and watching videos, either one will work for you just fine. Doing things on computers without Windows is easier than ever now, thanks to the rise of web apps.
If you can't play some AAA game on anything but Windows, that's not a monopoly problem; that's a luxury and you've bought into a vendor that only supports a single platform. Don't play that game; games are luxuries.
If your business uses some software package that's only supported on Windows, find a new vendor or complain to that one. Worst case, build your own software, or find some other way, or just go out of business. As I mentioned before, with the rise of web apps, it's easier than ever now to do stuff without Windows.
If your business uses Outlook/Exchange, that's your own stupid fault. Find an alternative; there's lots of them.
Again, if you don't like it, don't use it. Windows is made by a private company and they can do whatever they want with their product.
It's not a monopoly. If you don't like Windows and don't agree to what they include, don't buy it. Are you going to bitch and complain that your car has a built-in alarm system or door locks too? Are you going to claim that it's "anti-competitive" that cars come from the factory with A/C instead of making people get aftermarket air conditioners installed like they did in the 50s?
You're wrong in two ways.
As the other responder pointed out, Windows Defender is part of Windows and is not a separate product, and does not cost extra. It's a free part of the OS, just like the calculator or Solitaire or the disk defragmenter.
Secondly, your analogy is stupid. A better car analogy is car alarms. 20+ years ago, if you wanted to try protecting your car from theft, you could buy various 3rd-party accessories such as "The Club", or an alarm system. These days, cars actually come from the factory with a built-in alarm system. It may or may not be as feature-ful as an aftermarket alarm, but most people use the factory alarm (which really requires no effort as it's baked-in and activates when you lock the doors) and are happy with it, and car thefts are at an all-time low these days. It this bad for the aftermarket alarm makers? Probably, but who cares? You can still get one of those if you want. Same thing with cupholders: cars all come with nice ones built in. Is that bad for aftermarket cupholder makers? Of course, but too bad; the factory ones are better and look nicer anyway.
Linux. Well? Somewhat. Not as much as I'd like. But we generally don't see large scale problems in the wild. Of course, one day we will.
The only problems we've seen with Linux have been with server installations, usually targeting software that's only installed on internet-facing servers. We haven't seen anything at all that targets desktop Linux. And it's false to claim that "one day we will"; maybe we will, maybe we won't. With desktop Linux marketshare so low, and little sign of that improving any time soon (despite the absolute horrors of Windows 10), there's not much incentive for malware writers to target it. Of course, there's other factors: Linux has a better security model from the outset, plus it has generally more savvy users who are too smart to install some stupid toolbar, and on top of that it doesn't have Outlook which seems to have been one of the major attack vectors in Windows for a while now. So with all that in mind, it's quite likely we'll never see large-scale problems in the wild with desktop Linux.
Android is not a desktop OS (despite what some idiots would have you believe), just like Windows is not a mobile OS (I mean Windows 10, the desktop OS; it sure would help if MS didn't adopt such confusing naming conventions by calling everything "Windows" even though that name is used for several different OSes that are entirely different from each other).
Windows is the only desktop OS that has a real problem with malware.
So God couldn't just eliminate those people themselves?? It's funny how you nuts come up with this insane shit to try to make sense of stone-age stories. There's no "hard facts" when it comes to religion BTW.
Personally, when I work from home, I also have a tendency to fall asleep, to watch television or to open the fridge that I do not have when I work from office. And I suspect many of my colleagues working from home do, too, but they won't admit it.
Sure, but how productive are people in the office? I've seen studies showing people typically spend less than 40% of their time doing anything productive in offices. They surf the web, zone out, they're exhausted from the commuting, they hang out and chit-chat with other employees, etc., plus all the interruptions from the open-plan work spaces.
I'm in favor of WFH, but I have to play devil's advocate here: some jobs are really hard to predict the necessary time to complete, so how do you deal with that? For instance, suppose you have an engineer working on debugging a problem in software. It might take an hour to solve, or 3 days. The only way I can see to deal with that is for the supervisor to talk to the engineer every day about what they did that day, what approaches they tried, etc.
The Holocaust was only about 80 years ago. And Christians today still happily promote wars to improve corporate profits.
As I said before, some religions just cover it up slightly better than others. At their root, they all have the potential to turn into the barbarism you're complaining about.
From everything I read, this is completely normal for middle-aged married men. This mythical happy marriage you allude to simply doesn't exist, especially once you throw in kids.
The current owners don't see a future for Twitter and want to dump it. If they dump it, the company will probably go down and no more Twitter.
Sounds good to me. There should be celebrations if that happens.
It's a way of getting money from users without saying the dirty subscription word.
Yep, and I seriously doubt they're going to get all those twits to chip in enough to keep the lights on.
Well I do see part of the problem. From Harvard's own FAQ about myths about their admission process:
"Harvard Athletics is the most comprehensive in the nation. There are 21 men’s and 20 women’s varsity and numerous junior varsity and club teams competing at the intercollegiate level, more than any other institution in the United States."
Harvard is really big on sports, and since sports are full of assholes, it's no surprise they had a problem with a bunch of incoming freshmen being racist assholes.
Don't forget Christianity and Judaism. There's one part in the Bible where the Jews attack and murder all the members of some other tribe because supposedly God told them to. And I'm pretty sure there's verses in there supporting sexual assault (including other attacks on other tribes where they subjugate the women after killing the men).
Also, the Holocaust was committed by Christians. Debate the secret beliefs of the top nazi leaders all you want, but all the people actually manning the camps and abducting people were Christian and had these activities justified to them based on religious arguments.
All three of those religions are barbaric and support brutality. Some just cover it up slightly more than others.
So you're advocating a new federal government law that actually forbids freedom of association?
So if I have a private party in my back yard and someone brings a friend who then starts telling everyone how great Hitler was, I'm not allowed to demand that he leave my property, but instead of I have to have a debate with him about this?
Are you fucking insane?
What the hell has this country come to when the leftists are the ones supporting freedom of association, and the right-wingers are openly opposed to it?
No, I'm not going to have a debate with every loony that comes along expressing idiotic and insane ideas, whether they're about Naziism, conspiracy theories, alien mind control anal probes, or whatever. I don't have time for that shit.
Little wonder the Catholic church's membership is drying up between attitudes like this from their faithful, plus all the pedophilia and the support of pedophilia from the organization.
It's funny how you call him "sinful" yet you openly back pedophilia and sexual assault.
I wonder how Zipcar deals with damage to the car; with regular rentals, you have to walk around the car with the employee and indicate all the damage on the car, then sign a form indicating the damage and the fuel tank fullness. Then when you return it, any new damage you're liable for, and if the tank isn't as full as when you got it, you have to pay a hefty fee for gas.
The other problem with Zipcar is that there likely isn't one right there where and when you need it, so again you may be doing some walking.
Fair enough; 39 years for Donald Sutherland's Invasion of the Body Snatchers is probably a real stretch, I admit. I also forgot to mention 1982's "The Thing", a horror classic and masterpiece that's a remake of some 50s move.
But still, limiting "modern" to the 21st Century still leaves us with 7 movies and one trilogy out of my list. Some other people might have more; I went through Wikipedia's list of movie remakes and picked only ones I liked or at least heard really good things about since ~1978.
I will admit, however, that we're now over 7 years into the 2010s, and I didn't find any movies that I thought qualified as "good remakes" there. But I also haven't watched as many movies during this decade so maybe I'm missing some. Honestly, it does seem to me that many things in society have generally gone way downhill since 2008, when we had the economic crash. But that could be a continuation of a trend started in 2000; from my perspective, things were generally much better in the 1990s and that decade was the peak for American society.
Actually, they do: bit-flips caused by cosmic rays are a real thing. They're somewhat rare, and usually inconsequential, but they do happen, and could cause a major crash. Hardware can be improved to mitigate this (like using ECC memory), but most consumer-grade hardware is not.