It's not false, it's just that the scale is different. Snacks at gas stations are overpriced, but snacks at cinemas are even more overpriced. Both of them are overpriced, but one is even worse than the other.
The best method is to not buy snacks at either one, and just stay at home to watch your movie (and you can have snacks there that you bought at the grocery store, which is much cheaper than either of those other places, plus you'll have a far greater selection).
Because people get hungry when they sit for a couple of hours, that's why.
But that doesn't mean it's a good idea to eat butter-soaked popcorn and shitty HFCS-packed soda. A better idea is to eat some healthy snacks and some quality water (I prefer RO water myself; it's dirt cheap but quite tasty), or perhaps even a real meal. Of course, most theaters aren't going to let you bring that stuff in, so you could try sneaking it in, but then you have to worry about getting caught, plus you have all the other problems inherent in the cinema experience: screaming kids, sticky floors, talking patrons, no ability to rewind or pause, etc.
So the solution is simple: don't go to a cinema at all, and just watch something from Netflix or Redbox instead in the comfort of your home where you can eat whatever you want, pause to go to the bathroom, and not have to be subject to the rude behaviors of other patrons.
In this particular aspect, the Europeans GET IT. And we Americans have completely lost that concept, to the detriment of our minds, our bodies, and the working society as a whole.
You're correct here.
American workers need to start demanding that their employers respect the concept of vacation. Taking vacation is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign of sanity and common sense.
But this is pure lunacy. Americans aren't going to *demand* anything of employers. Remember, Americans are perfectly happy to vote for politicians who enact policies that are ever-more-advantageous for abusive employers. It's not going to get any better here any time soon.
Overcurrent protection and fuses don't help much in overvoltage conditions. If the overvoltage damages the device enough to cause a short, the fuse can help protect that, but it may already be too late at that point: a small fire might have already started.
The corporations won't like it if they can't keep making money off of copyrighted works for decades and decades, especially Disney.
My solution, which I've written about here for years when this comes up, is variable copyright terms, which copyright owners can pay for. So, if you create something, you get 5 years for free, for instance. After that, it has to be registered, and you have to pay. The next 5 years will be somewhat cheap, maybe $10k, but after that it gets progressively more expensive, like orders of magnitude (for instance, $1M for 15 years, $10M for 20, $100M for 25, $1B for 30, etc.). Maybe that's a bit high, but the idea is that you'll only renew the copyright if you're making a lot of money on the thing. The second 5-year term shouldn't be too much because lots of smaller copyright holders might want that 10-year term, but if you really want 25+ years of total protection, that work should be making a LOT of money so the cost should be high. And the benefit to this is that the copyright office will rake in lots of money from the copyright holders. (So the fees should be designed for maximizing revenue from the megacorps like Disney, not for freeing Steamboat Willy into the public domain as soon as possible. My goal is to get more stuff in the public domain sooner, especially stuff that's more obscure or not very commercially successful, *before* it gets lost from bitrot, not to get every old work in the public domain. I really don't care if Steamboat Willy stays locked up forever if Disney wants to help fund our government in exchange for that, but I want, for instance, old 80s games that everyone's forgotten about to be freed.)
You can try to coordinate some actions across national boundaries, but legal jurisdictions necessarily stop at those boundaries, so you can't just ignore them and call them "imaginary lines". Armed government enforcers do enforce laws within those lines, so while those lines may be man-made, they do really exist.
Yeah, I only had Comcrap for 2 years, but I had the exact same experience: the internet service was rock solid, but billing and sales were utterly demonic.
Wow, you're stupid, aren't you? If you don't like the products a company is selling, then don't buy them, it's that simple. Apples are luxury products, and you don't need them in any way; there's plenty of competition. If you don't like soldered RAM, go buy something else that doesn't have that. There's no shortage of computers out there with non-soldered RAM.
I'm guessing because the GOP would have objected loudly, since they don't believe in sterilization. Contraceptives at least are pretty easily reversed: just stop taking or using them. Procedures like vasectomies and tubal ligations require surgery to reverse, and have a significant rate of failure (with the reversing part).
Wow, you're a real sorry sack of shit, aren't you? Women always go to hospitals or at least have some kind of medical help during a delivery because complications aren't that rare and are unpredictable. Make sure you tell women your views about this stuff on the first date so they know what you really think.
It does. The original statement was that "anything is better than ClearCase". Someone named two other really crappy VCSs, implying that these two were even worse than, or at least no better than ClearCase, hoping to disprove the OP's statement. I didn't address those specifically, but I went for the most extreme example I could think of which was no real version control at all except doing it manually with version numbers in the file names, and claiming that even that (which surely is clearly worse than VSS or PVCS, as bad as those may be) is better than ClearCase. And honestly, I do believe this to be the case, after having significant work experience with ClearCase. I'd rather use no revision control at all than ClearCase; it's really that bad.
That makes no sense at all. "Rights" only exist in a practical sense when there's a government that can actually enforce those rights, or at least not punish you for exercising them according to its laws. Government control does not extend over those imaginary lines. If you want to lobby for a single planetary government, you can do that (assuming the government in your jurisdiction grants you that right), but until then, rights are different from country to country whether you like it or not.
Finally, why are people arguing with me about immigration or health insurance here? Some people here are so dense; the first paragraph was sheer satire, leading to the main point, which was about CEOs making unnecessary public statements.
1. Because it's a whole lot cheaper than paying for a hospital delivery, and then for health care for a kid.
2. Because we as a society decided that that should be part of regular healthcare, just like other preventive measures like regular GP visits, and nonsensical religious reasons aren't sufficient to deny this to people who aren't of your religion. If you don't like it, then don't hire employees, or lobby instead for single-payer healthcare so the government is paying for it instead of the employer. Or just not have health insurance as an employee benefit, and limit yourself to only part-time employees.
Yeah, if anything, Turkey is a prime example of why holocaust-denial laws might be a good thing: in Turkey, they have no such law about the Armenian genocide, and practically the whole country believes there was no such genocide.
Likely, if they hadn't implemented that law in Germany, Germany today would be like Turkey is today about its genocide.
A few years ago, I lived in a house where there were two separate buildings on the same property: my house which was very old and another newer house on top of a garage they managed to cram onto the same lot. The two houses were rented separately.
The property had both Comcrap and Verizon FIOS available. I opted for Comcrap because it was a little cheaper. The guy in the house behind me got FIOS.
Comcrap was terrible when I tried to unsubscribe after living there a couple of years, and it was also annoying I had to pay for a service visit to get it installed when I moved in, but between those two days, everything worked just fine.
My neighbor, OTOH, had constant problems with FIOS. The box on the side of his house constantly needed to be reset, and he had to come bug me about it because part of that box was in my garage (I had one of the two garage bays in that building as part of my lease). It was really quite annoying. I think his internet service was even out for a week at one point.
I used to be in favor more more lax immigration laws, but now I've changed course and decided that all immigration needs to be cut off completely, thanks to Jonathan Ive. Since he's come out publicly in favor of immigration, and I utterly despise his work, I'll now be forced to vote against politicians who are pro-immigration. Good job, Johnny.
Seriously, though, these corporate fools really should just shut their mouths, because they likely don't help build public support for their positions when they blab their personal opinions so publicly, and can even hurt their companies. How many people stopped buying from various companies like Barilla when their egotistical CEOs publicly proclaimed their opposition to gay marriage, for instance? How many people stopped shopping at Hobby Lobby when they outed themselves as Christian crusaders against contraceptives for their employees?
Not using any revision control system, and instead just making copies of files before you change them and manually labeling them foo.v1.1.c and the like, is better than ClearCase.
You don't have to look at the defaults. My page is customized for only the subreddits I care about, so I never even heard of the ones you have listed here.
I disagree about Reddit, but I completely agree about Imzy: this is the first time I've heard of it. This reminds me of all the times I've read an announcement like this about some Google service that was being shut down, and that was the first time I'd heard of it. Obviously you're not going to have a lot of users of something if people have never even heard of it.
As for Reddit, it's fine. Reddit is a HUGE site full of many different forums (subreddits), so you can't paint them all with the same brush. Some of them are really horrible (/r/pyongyang,/r/The_Donald,/r/HillaryClinton) and full of vile people, others have IMO overzealous moderators (/r/politics), but there's literally hundreds of thousands of subreddits so there should be some on there to suit whatever odd interest you may have. There's one for my car, for instance, which sometimes has an interesting posting. There's/r/EarthPorn which has really nice nature photos posted every day and where I learn about great places to visit and hike. Every subreddit is totally different, with different moderators; some totally suck, others are pretty handy. It just doesn't compare with a site like Slashdot at all.
Typically international travel is planned months in advance. And if you look at the actual data there's a significant drop from September to October before the election - which would correspond to travel plans made either in early summer or even late spring. And then their data goes out to March 2017. But Trump didn't take office and get going with his actual travel bans until well into January 2017.
Do you think Trump suddenly appeared out of thin air in November and magically got elected then? He was on the campaign trail all through 2016, and he was formally chosen as the Republican candidate way back in July in the RNC convention. You're absolutely right about travel being planned months in advance, which is where it took a couple months to start seeing a significant dip after Trump's nomination. His nomination is the point at which everyone realized that it was possible he'd get elected, and where they realized just how horrible American voters were since they chose him.
Because I'm pretty sure Trump wasn't elected until November 8, 2016.
Wrong.
Trump was elected in Cleveland in mid-July, at the Republican national convention. That's when the world realized that there was a very good possibility he'd win, and also when the world realized that Trump was not a joke candidate, but rather that around half of Americans actually liked him and were going to vote for him. They smartly started deciding that a country full of citizens stupid and racist enough to vote for this guy isn't a country worth visiting and spending your tourism Euros and Yen on. It took a couple months for the effect to really be seen though because people make their vacation plans and reservations months in advance.
You can call it "collusion" all you want, but I object to the term "attack". Even if everything said about Russia is true (Guccifer working for them, hacked the DNC and released emails, etc.), in the end Russia did not vote for Trump. The American people did. And I find it hard to throw blame onto other parties as long as the information released was actually true, even if it only aired the dirty laundry of one side. If you don't want your dirty laundry aired, then keep your laundry clean.
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It's not false, it's just that the scale is different. Snacks at gas stations are overpriced, but snacks at cinemas are even more overpriced. Both of them are overpriced, but one is even worse than the other.
The best method is to not buy snacks at either one, and just stay at home to watch your movie (and you can have snacks there that you bought at the grocery store, which is much cheaper than either of those other places, plus you'll have a far greater selection).
Because people get hungry when they sit for a couple of hours, that's why.
But that doesn't mean it's a good idea to eat butter-soaked popcorn and shitty HFCS-packed soda. A better idea is to eat some healthy snacks and some quality water (I prefer RO water myself; it's dirt cheap but quite tasty), or perhaps even a real meal. Of course, most theaters aren't going to let you bring that stuff in, so you could try sneaking it in, but then you have to worry about getting caught, plus you have all the other problems inherent in the cinema experience: screaming kids, sticky floors, talking patrons, no ability to rewind or pause, etc.
So the solution is simple: don't go to a cinema at all, and just watch something from Netflix or Redbox instead in the comfort of your home where you can eat whatever you want, pause to go to the bathroom, and not have to be subject to the rude behaviors of other patrons.
In this particular aspect, the Europeans GET IT. And we Americans have completely lost that concept, to the detriment of our minds, our bodies, and the working society as a whole.
You're correct here.
American workers need to start demanding that their employers respect the concept of vacation. Taking vacation is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign of sanity and common sense.
But this is pure lunacy. Americans aren't going to *demand* anything of employers. Remember, Americans are perfectly happy to vote for politicians who enact policies that are ever-more-advantageous for abusive employers. It's not going to get any better here any time soon.
Overcurrent protection and fuses don't help much in overvoltage conditions. If the overvoltage damages the device enough to cause a short, the fuse can help protect that, but it may already be too late at that point: a small fire might have already started.
The corporations won't like it if they can't keep making money off of copyrighted works for decades and decades, especially Disney.
My solution, which I've written about here for years when this comes up, is variable copyright terms, which copyright owners can pay for. So, if you create something, you get 5 years for free, for instance. After that, it has to be registered, and you have to pay. The next 5 years will be somewhat cheap, maybe $10k, but after that it gets progressively more expensive, like orders of magnitude (for instance, $1M for 15 years, $10M for 20, $100M for 25, $1B for 30, etc.). Maybe that's a bit high, but the idea is that you'll only renew the copyright if you're making a lot of money on the thing. The second 5-year term shouldn't be too much because lots of smaller copyright holders might want that 10-year term, but if you really want 25+ years of total protection, that work should be making a LOT of money so the cost should be high. And the benefit to this is that the copyright office will rake in lots of money from the copyright holders. (So the fees should be designed for maximizing revenue from the megacorps like Disney, not for freeing Steamboat Willy into the public domain as soon as possible. My goal is to get more stuff in the public domain sooner, especially stuff that's more obscure or not very commercially successful, *before* it gets lost from bitrot, not to get every old work in the public domain. I really don't care if Steamboat Willy stays locked up forever if Disney wants to help fund our government in exchange for that, but I want, for instance, old 80s games that everyone's forgotten about to be freed.)
You can try to coordinate some actions across national boundaries, but legal jurisdictions necessarily stop at those boundaries, so you can't just ignore them and call them "imaginary lines". Armed government enforcers do enforce laws within those lines, so while those lines may be man-made, they do really exist.
Yeah, I only had Comcrap for 2 years, but I had the exact same experience: the internet service was rock solid, but billing and sales were utterly demonic.
Wow, you're stupid, aren't you? If you don't like the products a company is selling, then don't buy them, it's that simple. Apples are luxury products, and you don't need them in any way; there's plenty of competition. If you don't like soldered RAM, go buy something else that doesn't have that. There's no shortage of computers out there with non-soldered RAM.
Fucking stupid.
I'm guessing because the GOP would have objected loudly, since they don't believe in sterilization. Contraceptives at least are pretty easily reversed: just stop taking or using them. Procedures like vasectomies and tubal ligations require surgery to reverse, and have a significant rate of failure (with the reversing part).
Wow, you're a real sorry sack of shit, aren't you? Women always go to hospitals or at least have some kind of medical help during a delivery because complications aren't that rare and are unpredictable. Make sure you tell women your views about this stuff on the first date so they know what you really think.
It does. The original statement was that "anything is better than ClearCase". Someone named two other really crappy VCSs, implying that these two were even worse than, or at least no better than ClearCase, hoping to disprove the OP's statement. I didn't address those specifically, but I went for the most extreme example I could think of which was no real version control at all except doing it manually with version numbers in the file names, and claiming that even that (which surely is clearly worse than VSS or PVCS, as bad as those may be) is better than ClearCase. And honestly, I do believe this to be the case, after having significant work experience with ClearCase. I'd rather use no revision control at all than ClearCase; it's really that bad.
That makes no sense at all. "Rights" only exist in a practical sense when there's a government that can actually enforce those rights, or at least not punish you for exercising them according to its laws. Government control does not extend over those imaginary lines. If you want to lobby for a single planetary government, you can do that (assuming the government in your jurisdiction grants you that right), but until then, rights are different from country to country whether you like it or not.
Finally, why are people arguing with me about immigration or health insurance here? Some people here are so dense; the first paragraph was sheer satire, leading to the main point, which was about CEOs making unnecessary public statements.
1. Because it's a whole lot cheaper than paying for a hospital delivery, and then for health care for a kid.
2. Because we as a society decided that that should be part of regular healthcare, just like other preventive measures like regular GP visits, and nonsensical religious reasons aren't sufficient to deny this to people who aren't of your religion. If you don't like it, then don't hire employees, or lobby instead for single-payer healthcare so the government is paying for it instead of the employer. Or just not have health insurance as an employee benefit, and limit yourself to only part-time employees.
Yeah, if anything, Turkey is a prime example of why holocaust-denial laws might be a good thing: in Turkey, they have no such law about the Armenian genocide, and practically the whole country believes there was no such genocide.
Likely, if they hadn't implemented that law in Germany, Germany today would be like Turkey is today about its genocide.
A few years ago, I lived in a house where there were two separate buildings on the same property: my house which was very old and another newer house on top of a garage they managed to cram onto the same lot. The two houses were rented separately.
The property had both Comcrap and Verizon FIOS available. I opted for Comcrap because it was a little cheaper. The guy in the house behind me got FIOS.
Comcrap was terrible when I tried to unsubscribe after living there a couple of years, and it was also annoying I had to pay for a service visit to get it installed when I moved in, but between those two days, everything worked just fine.
My neighbor, OTOH, had constant problems with FIOS. The box on the side of his house constantly needed to be reset, and he had to come bug me about it because part of that box was in my garage (I had one of the two garage bays in that building as part of my lease). It was really quite annoying. I think his internet service was even out for a week at one point.
I used to be in favor more more lax immigration laws, but now I've changed course and decided that all immigration needs to be cut off completely, thanks to Jonathan Ive. Since he's come out publicly in favor of immigration, and I utterly despise his work, I'll now be forced to vote against politicians who are pro-immigration. Good job, Johnny.
Seriously, though, these corporate fools really should just shut their mouths, because they likely don't help build public support for their positions when they blab their personal opinions so publicly, and can even hurt their companies. How many people stopped buying from various companies like Barilla when their egotistical CEOs publicly proclaimed their opposition to gay marriage, for instance? How many people stopped shopping at Hobby Lobby when they outed themselves as Christian crusaders against contraceptives for their employees?
Don't like it? Don't buy it.
I don't want a computer with soldered RAM either. But I'm not bothered by it, because I don't buy Apples.
Not using any revision control system, and instead just making copies of files before you change them and manually labeling them foo.v1.1.c and the like, is better than ClearCase.
You don't have to look at the defaults. My page is customized for only the subreddits I care about, so I never even heard of the ones you have listed here.
I disagree about Reddit, but I completely agree about Imzy: this is the first time I've heard of it. This reminds me of all the times I've read an announcement like this about some Google service that was being shut down, and that was the first time I'd heard of it. Obviously you're not going to have a lot of users of something if people have never even heard of it.
As for Reddit, it's fine. Reddit is a HUGE site full of many different forums (subreddits), so you can't paint them all with the same brush. Some of them are really horrible (/r/pyongyang, /r/The_Donald, /r/HillaryClinton) and full of vile people, others have IMO overzealous moderators (/r/politics), but there's literally hundreds of thousands of subreddits so there should be some on there to suit whatever odd interest you may have. There's one for my car, for instance, which sometimes has an interesting posting. There's /r/EarthPorn which has really nice nature photos posted every day and where I learn about great places to visit and hike. Every subreddit is totally different, with different moderators; some totally suck, others are pretty handy. It just doesn't compare with a site like Slashdot at all.
Sure they will; they can go other places for beaches and sun: Cuba, Spain, Italy, other Caribbean islands, etc.
Typically international travel is planned months in advance. And if you look at the actual data there's a significant drop from September to October before the election - which would correspond to travel plans made either in early summer or even late spring. And then their data goes out to March 2017. But Trump didn't take office and get going with his actual travel bans until well into January 2017.
Do you think Trump suddenly appeared out of thin air in November and magically got elected then? He was on the campaign trail all through 2016, and he was formally chosen as the Republican candidate way back in July in the RNC convention. You're absolutely right about travel being planned months in advance, which is where it took a couple months to start seeing a significant dip after Trump's nomination. His nomination is the point at which everyone realized that it was possible he'd get elected, and where they realized just how horrible American voters were since they chose him.
Because I'm pretty sure Trump wasn't elected until November 8, 2016.
Wrong.
Trump was elected in Cleveland in mid-July, at the Republican national convention. That's when the world realized that there was a very good possibility he'd win, and also when the world realized that Trump was not a joke candidate, but rather that around half of Americans actually liked him and were going to vote for him. They smartly started deciding that a country full of citizens stupid and racist enough to vote for this guy isn't a country worth visiting and spending your tourism Euros and Yen on. It took a couple months for the effect to really be seen though because people make their vacation plans and reservations months in advance.
You can call it "collusion" all you want, but I object to the term "attack". Even if everything said about Russia is true (Guccifer working for them, hacked the DNC and released emails, etc.), in the end Russia did not vote for Trump. The American people did. And I find it hard to throw blame onto other parties as long as the information released was actually true, even if it only aired the dirty laundry of one side. If you don't want your dirty laundry aired, then keep your laundry clean.
Every nation gets the government it deserves.
We got Trump.