That's a military dress uniform, not a combat uniform. It was never meant to be used in battle, and doesn't make sense to. It's no different than modern dress uniforms in the US military, except that the Germans back then did have a pretty good sense of style you have to admit (thought I'm not so sure about the pants). Dress uniforms have no bearing on combat clothing.
Police uniforms aren't quite as utterly utilitarian as BDUs, but they do have to be utilitarian to a good degree because cops really do wear them while chasing down suspects. And the uniforms they wear during, for instance, riot deployments, are I believe not the same as what they might wear while doing speeding patrols.
Jackboots probably don't make much sense to wear if you're not riding a horse or a motorcycle, and probably make it harder to walk. Infantry troops don't wear them after all.
To be fair, T-Mobile in the USA is not the same company as whatever has that name in Europe. The US company is only partially owned by Deutsche Telekom in fact.
Joke's on you... now that everyone you know listened to your advice and switched to TMO, they're going to be bought out by Sprint, and all your friends will curse you and refuse to listen to your advice any more.
Pretty much every car these days has an aluminum engine block (and cylinder heads). No one uses cast iron blocks any more, except possibly some truck diesel engines and even that's unlikely. In addition, aluminum suspension arms are pretty common too, as well as aluminum wheels. I'd say there probably aren't any new cars now that have less than 100kg (220 lb.) of aluminum in total.
We don't have the choice of any bowls of candy. We only have 4 bowls of steaming crap of various kinds. One's dog crap, one's cow crap, one's horse crap, and one's cat crap (the stinkiest of all; any cat lover will agree with me on this).
This merger will only give us 3 bowls of steaming crap, and instead of more herbivore crap, we're going to get more carnivore crap.
They ALL have bad service. But I thought it was generally accepted that T-mobile had the best service of the bunch (though still not great by any means), while Verizon was renowned for having the worst.
I live in northern NJ and use T-Mobile; the reception here is generally pretty good. I've heard coworkers complain about reception in my office building, but mine is great.
My mom, who lives in a small town in VA, uses Verizon because everything else has terrible coverage there.
It seems to me that Verizon is the best choice if you really need good coverage in more rural areas, but doesn't have that advantage in more urban areas.
I agree that RedPill sucks, but that doesn't change the fact that mentally-disturbed virgins like the shooter are NOT "alpha males" by any stretch of the imagination. And I don't think the shooter even thought of himself that way. He was upset partially because he wasn't an "alpha male", and had no success with women. (The other reason he was upset was because he was just plain crazy. If you recall, he was angry because he didn't win the freakin' lottery. You have to be seriously delusional to blame society or people or anyone for yourself not winning the lottery, and thinking you somehow deserve it. Anyone with even the most rudimentary understanding of statistics knows this. Even all the lower-class people who buy a lottery ticket every week understand this; that's why they just do it out of habit and keep buying new tickets.)
The problem is that, for some odd reason, in American culture, the term "professional" somehow gets equated with "good", "high quality", etc., which that is frequently just not the case, and "amateur" has been equated with "half-assed". In reality, amateurs frequently do much, much better work than professionals, because 1) they have an interest in doing it well, frequently to perfectionist standards, and 2) professionals only care about maximizing profit, so they'll only do a job "good enough" to get paid.
In my own work, I do much better work for my personal projects than for just about anything I've done professionally. The professional stuff is always tainted by deadlines, managerial requirements, etc. The "amateur" stuff doesn't have these limitations, and I can do them as well as I want. Professional car mechanics are infamous for screwing things up, sabotaging cars, doing half-assed jobs, and doing unnecessary repair work, but amateurs do utterly amazing restoration jobs.
Metro is professional: it was made by professional software developers and professional UI/UX "experts". That doesn't mean it's any good though.
You'd think, but Windows Metro shows that there's no shortage of teams of professionals who want to do major re-vamps of already-finished stuff just because they think it's "cool and innovative".
Why should the family members be punished for the criminals activities? If you father breaks the law, should you be punished?
Who said anything about that? You said that seized properties should go to the families of the criminal. Why? What purpose does that serve? It only enriches the criminal, and indeed gives families an incentive to report their family members for crimes (which may or may not be valid). It smacks of Orwell's 1984 and of some real-life authoritarian regimes, where people get a big bonus for reporting a family member for a "crime".
If you have a car but live with your parents, and unbeknownst to you your father commits a crime, law enforces can take you car. Or you computer? or, well anything.
Well obviously that shouldn't be allowed, unless the car or computer was used in commission of the crime, and then only as long as needed for evidence, after which it should be remanded to the original owner (as in this case, the owner was not the criminal at all, he was just using it, with or without permission).
What if your father commits a crime using his own car. Should his son get the car now? I don't think so, at least not automatically. Really, the police shouldn't be seizing anything, not permanently, unless it's stolen (in which case it should go back to the original owner ASAP). Just because something is used for a crime doesn't mean that's a reason to take it. It should remain the property of the criminal, who pays for his crime with prison time. If he wants to give it away to a family member, that's his prerogative. If he wants to pay to keep it in storage until he gets out, he can do that too.
Only partially. Yes, you'd see the parked cars on the streets with that, but the garages you won't see with a satellite view so much, you'd have to screw around with Street View a lot to see them. But when you're there and walking around, you see the parking garages all the time. They're frequently hidden under buildings, so you only see the entrances from the street.
You've obviously never been to Manhattan. There's cars everywhere here. Half of them are taxis though. There's lots of cars parked on curbs, plus there's garages all over the place.
Maybe you should try actually visiting the city before making completely uninformed comments about it.
Instead of endlessly fucking around with the basic interface (which has had several flavours that have been good enough to use since the 1980s) why don't they write some actual useful, productive, professional quality APPLICATIONS.
That's because the people who make the desktop environments just work on those, rather than building applications. It's the same problem in corporations: once you've hired some people into a team to do X, they need to keep doing X forever, until you finally lay them all off. You can't just call X "done" and move on to something else, because then some managers will throw a fit because they're no longer relevant. So those managers will come up with stuff for their teams to do so they continue to look relevant. It's basically the same with groups like GNOME. They're already got an organization set up, so they're going to continue doing what they know, which is UI stuff. They don't know anything about pro audio or pro image work, so they can't very easily switch over to that.
Actually, they're outsourcing law jobs to India these days. They can't outsource things like arguing in a courtroom, but a lot of the clerical stuff they can.
How is adding new available options a "sleazy practice"? I am a little surprised they didn't have power folding mirrors before, but still, offering them now as an option isn't a "sleazy practice", it's the normal practice of a manufacturer updating a product line.
Um, what better locale is there than Russia? When you're wanted by the US for high crimes ("espionage"), any country that has an extradition treaty with the US is unsafe. That makes pretty much all of Europe out of the question, unfortunately. It only leaves a small number of countries where you'll be safe, and none of them are great. Russia is definitely a much better place for someone like Snowden to live than someplace like North Korea or Iran.
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That's a military dress uniform, not a combat uniform. It was never meant to be used in battle, and doesn't make sense to. It's no different than modern dress uniforms in the US military, except that the Germans back then did have a pretty good sense of style you have to admit (thought I'm not so sure about the pants). Dress uniforms have no bearing on combat clothing.
Police uniforms aren't quite as utterly utilitarian as BDUs, but they do have to be utilitarian to a good degree because cops really do wear them while chasing down suspects. And the uniforms they wear during, for instance, riot deployments, are I believe not the same as what they might wear while doing speeding patrols.
Jackboots probably don't make much sense to wear if you're not riding a horse or a motorcycle, and probably make it harder to walk. Infantry troops don't wear them after all.
To be fair, T-Mobile in the USA is not the same company as whatever has that name in Europe. The US company is only partially owned by Deutsche Telekom in fact.
Joke's on you... now that everyone you know listened to your advice and switched to TMO, they're going to be bought out by Sprint, and all your friends will curse you and refuse to listen to your advice any more.
You're right, I've never been to one of those. But of the four animals I listed, I'm pretty sure cat crap is the worst-smelling.
Pretty much every car these days has an aluminum engine block (and cylinder heads). No one uses cast iron blocks any more, except possibly some truck diesel engines and even that's unlikely. In addition, aluminum suspension arms are pretty common too, as well as aluminum wheels. I'd say there probably aren't any new cars now that have less than 100kg (220 lb.) of aluminum in total.
We don't have the choice of any bowls of candy. We only have 4 bowls of steaming crap of various kinds. One's dog crap, one's cow crap, one's horse crap, and one's cat crap (the stinkiest of all; any cat lover will agree with me on this).
This merger will only give us 3 bowls of steaming crap, and instead of more herbivore crap, we're going to get more carnivore crap.
They ALL have bad service. But I thought it was generally accepted that T-mobile had the best service of the bunch (though still not great by any means), while Verizon was renowned for having the worst.
I live in northern NJ and use T-Mobile; the reception here is generally pretty good. I've heard coworkers complain about reception in my office building, but mine is great.
My mom, who lives in a small town in VA, uses Verizon because everything else has terrible coverage there.
It seems to me that Verizon is the best choice if you really need good coverage in more rural areas, but doesn't have that advantage in more urban areas.
I agree that RedPill sucks, but that doesn't change the fact that mentally-disturbed virgins like the shooter are NOT "alpha males" by any stretch of the imagination. And I don't think the shooter even thought of himself that way. He was upset partially because he wasn't an "alpha male", and had no success with women. (The other reason he was upset was because he was just plain crazy. If you recall, he was angry because he didn't win the freakin' lottery. You have to be seriously delusional to blame society or people or anyone for yourself not winning the lottery, and thinking you somehow deserve it. Anyone with even the most rudimentary understanding of statistics knows this. Even all the lower-class people who buy a lottery ticket every week understand this; that's why they just do it out of habit and keep buying new tickets.)
Yes, that seems like it should be obvious. Too bad it doesn't work that way, and instead they sit in evidence lockers for years.
Metro is professional.
The problem is that, for some odd reason, in American culture, the term "professional" somehow gets equated with "good", "high quality", etc., which that is frequently just not the case, and "amateur" has been equated with "half-assed". In reality, amateurs frequently do much, much better work than professionals, because 1) they have an interest in doing it well, frequently to perfectionist standards, and 2) professionals only care about maximizing profit, so they'll only do a job "good enough" to get paid.
In my own work, I do much better work for my personal projects than for just about anything I've done professionally. The professional stuff is always tainted by deadlines, managerial requirements, etc. The "amateur" stuff doesn't have these limitations, and I can do them as well as I want. Professional car mechanics are infamous for screwing things up, sabotaging cars, doing half-assed jobs, and doing unnecessary repair work, but amateurs do utterly amazing restoration jobs.
Metro is professional: it was made by professional software developers and professional UI/UX "experts". That doesn't mean it's any good though.
There aren't that many above-ground lots left, and most of them have machines in them which stack the cars. But yes, they would be visible from above.
You'd think, but Windows Metro shows that there's no shortage of teams of professionals who want to do major re-vamps of already-finished stuff just because they think it's "cool and innovative".
Why should the family members be punished for the criminals activities?
If you father breaks the law, should you be punished?
Who said anything about that? You said that seized properties should go to the families of the criminal. Why? What purpose does that serve? It only enriches the criminal, and indeed gives families an incentive to report their family members for crimes (which may or may not be valid). It smacks of Orwell's 1984 and of some real-life authoritarian regimes, where people get a big bonus for reporting a family member for a "crime".
If you have a car but live with your parents, and unbeknownst to you your father commits a crime, law enforces can take you car. Or you computer? or, well anything.
Well obviously that shouldn't be allowed, unless the car or computer was used in commission of the crime, and then only as long as needed for evidence, after which it should be remanded to the original owner (as in this case, the owner was not the criminal at all, he was just using it, with or without permission).
What if your father commits a crime using his own car. Should his son get the car now? I don't think so, at least not automatically. Really, the police shouldn't be seizing anything, not permanently, unless it's stolen (in which case it should go back to the original owner ASAP). Just because something is used for a crime doesn't mean that's a reason to take it. It should remain the property of the criminal, who pays for his crime with prison time. If he wants to give it away to a family member, that's his prerogative. If he wants to pay to keep it in storage until he gets out, he can do that too.
Only partially. Yes, you'd see the parked cars on the streets with that, but the garages you won't see with a satellite view so much, you'd have to screw around with Street View a lot to see them. But when you're there and walking around, you see the parking garages all the time. They're frequently hidden under buildings, so you only see the entrances from the street.
And property confiscated should, generally, go to the family of whom ever did the crime.
Why should the families of criminals profit by their criminal activity?
But then they wouldn't make as much money with tickets.
You've obviously never been to Manhattan. There's cars everywhere here. Half of them are taxis though. There's lots of cars parked on curbs, plus there's garages all over the place.
Maybe you should try actually visiting the city before making completely uninformed comments about it.
The rest of us think Metro is an unusable abomination.
Instead of endlessly fucking around with the basic interface (which has had several flavours that have been good enough to use since the 1980s) why don't they write some actual useful, productive, professional quality APPLICATIONS.
That's because the people who make the desktop environments just work on those, rather than building applications. It's the same problem in corporations: once you've hired some people into a team to do X, they need to keep doing X forever, until you finally lay them all off. You can't just call X "done" and move on to something else, because then some managers will throw a fit because they're no longer relevant. So those managers will come up with stuff for their teams to do so they continue to look relevant. It's basically the same with groups like GNOME. They're already got an organization set up, so they're going to continue doing what they know, which is UI stuff. They don't know anything about pro audio or pro image work, so they can't very easily switch over to that.
Actually, they're outsourcing law jobs to India these days. They can't outsource things like arguing in a courtroom, but a lot of the clerical stuff they can.
How is adding new available options a "sleazy practice"? I am a little surprised they didn't have power folding mirrors before, but still, offering them now as an option isn't a "sleazy practice", it's the normal practice of a manufacturer updating a product line.
Um, what better locale is there than Russia? When you're wanted by the US for high crimes ("espionage"), any country that has an extradition treaty with the US is unsafe. That makes pretty much all of Europe out of the question, unfortunately. It only leaves a small number of countries where you'll be safe, and none of them are great. Russia is definitely a much better place for someone like Snowden to live than someplace like North Korea or Iran.
Yeah, I'd love to see you take on an angry Grizzly bear with your bare hands, face to face.