Cars with BT audio usually also have USB ports. Does yours not?
My 2015 Mazda has BT audio as well, and a USB port. I've never used BT audio (though I do use BT for making phone calls through the hands-free system, and also for reading texts sometimes; the system will read them to me aloud). Instead, I just bought an inexpensive 32GB USB thumb drive, copied my whole music library onto it, and that was that.
No, I don't want to listen to streaming audio from the internet; I don't have unlimited data so that would be quite expensive.
So instead you want to break your power charging plug hole, the one you now generally use once per day and that with a fixed battery. So instead a potential proprietary socket, that will wear out, destroying the phone because no it connects to nothing and you can not pull out a flat battery and replace it with a charged battery. Yep, gullibly being sold another B$ marketing line. So with an existing ear socket phone you can listen through the usb socket with the right hardware and software but not fucking while you are charging the phone but that's OK you can swap out the battery and charge it separately, oh wait no you fucking can't.
Yep, this is what Apple buyers are happily signing up for.
Context is important here, and left vs. right is relative. Here in America, Democrats are "left" because there's only two parties with any real strength, so one's right and one's left, and it's undeniable that the Dems are to the left of the Reps (the degree is what's debatable). But yes, compared to politics in Europe, or even compared to the Green Party which is active here in the US, the Dems are definitely right-wing.
So no, not everyone who votes Democrat is a right-winger; anyone who's seriously left but wants to vote for a candidate who actually has a shot at winning has to vote Dem. Of course, this is what leads us to the current predicament too.... There really isn't any way around it though, thanks to Duverger's Law; it's very rare (though it does happen once in a while) that a 3rd party can rise up and gain power in a system that uses first-past-the-post (plurality) voting. The last time it happened here was when the Whig party died out and the Democratic-Republicans split into two.
It's worse than that: the law references birth certificates, so a "package inspection" isn't going to catch people who have had transition surgery. So this means they need to require everyone to carry around a birth certificate and present it when using the restroom, and they need police at every public restroom on government property to check this.
How so, if they're adults? Now if it's a father and a daughter that just turned 18, yeah, I can see that being problematic as he may have been molesting her before that age and no one knew (or did anything).
But if it's a brother and sister and they're both 35, I'm sorry, that's none of the government's business or anyone else's. Really, once you get over 30, I don't see how it's complicated at all, because by that age, someone who didn't consent has had plenty of time to leave the situation.
Klingons have a rich warrior culture that values honor above all else. They made that abundantly clear in countless episodes.
Humans (in this universe we inhabit) do not have a warrior culture, and definitely do not value honor. If we did, we would not be about to elect Trump or Hillary (or almost anyone else that was running).
The Klingons most resemble various old traditional cultures, such as the Japanese Samurai culture, which of course is long dead.
The ST race that was meant to most resemble modern humans is the Ferengi: profit above all. However, even the Ferengi had some real values; they thought it was important to properly assist underdeveloped cultures to develop economically and technologically, so that they could become good trading partners. Bombing them into submission was not part of their ethic.
No, I think the Terran Empire depicted in several ST episodes (not just "Mirror, Mirror", but also an excellent ENT 2-parter called "In a Mirror, Darkly") is a very accurate depiction of modern human culture transposed into a future with warp drive.
But I do agree with your final assessment about good humans being the tiny tiny minority.
Hey, don't lump everyone together. There's plenty of leftists who are all in favor of FOIA, Wikileaks, etc., and still think Hillary is a corrupt sell-out. It's really the establishment-lovers who defend her.
Just like "the right" has several different camps, with some overlap (the Evangelicals, the Big Business lovers, the Tea Partiers, the economic libertarians, etc.), and sometimes these groups are opposed, leading to Trump's nomination for example, "the left" also has several different camps, with some overlap: the environmentalists, the SJWs, the radical feminists, the Big Business lovers (but they love different big businesses than those on the right), the union supporters, the equal rights supporters, etc. Hillary vs. Bernie (just like everyone vs. Trump on the right) has exposed a huge schism on the left. True Bernie supporters and other actual leftists (not Hillary-loving centrists) and anti-establishment folks are all in favor of this stuff; it's only the establishment people who are going to call this "violating privacy". These DNC high-ups are greatly affecting our politics, and quite likely choosing our next leader, so we have every right to read their emails. Even more so when you consider that these very same people are big proponents of the NSA spying on us; turnabout is fair play.
Yep, in Star Trek, that's the universe where most Star Trek episodes occur: the universe where humans are generally benevolent, intelligent, and ethical beings, and also highly competent at their work.
Star Trek did show our universe a few times; it's called the "mirror universe", and in it, humans are generally evil, imperialistic assholes who'll stop at nothing to gain more power.
My new ultimate goal in life is to invent a device which allows me to "slide" into that other universe.
Wow, you guys are really, really stupid. The NC case was about government-owned bathrooms. The government has every right to dictate who uses which bathroom in a government-owned facility. Go read the NC law itself, it's about government facilities, and is absolutely about the government telling people which bathroom they have to use. This is exactly the opposite of what you claim.
Yeah, I did see that about Frank v. Muth. That's ridiculous IMO. Grown adults should be able to screw whomever they want as long as it's consensual and of-age.
I know I wasn't explicit, but I wasn't comparing a 90s Caprice to a modern car, I was actually comparing it to other 90s cars; even when it was new, it was a piece of shit. So was the Crown Vic, which I've had to drive. It drove terribly, handled terribly, the steering wheel was crooked, it had a cheap and crappy interior, it just wasn't a good car. The Caprice was huge, but didn't even have enough legroom for me at just over 6 feet. These cars were archetypes of everything that was wrong with American cars for a long time: huge size outside, horribly-designed interiors made for short people, cheap, shoddy design and interior quality, and gas-guzzling engines, with boat-like handling.
It doesn't matter how mature it is; internet service is a necessary utility in this day and age, no different than telephone service, except while we can get telephone service now with cellular, the speeds aren't high enough (and the costs too high) for cellular to substitute for wire-based internet service.
Yes, but the thing is, none of those laws are at all enforceable within the USA, because we had a Supreme Court decision that invalidated all of them in one fell swoop (because some gay guys charged with sodomy in Texas appealed their conviction).
You don't need to repeal old laws when they're invalidated by the courts.
Yeah exactly. The idea is to change what the ECU perceives to be the driver's throttle inputs. So with my microcontroller, I can apply a non-linear profile, so it still seems like the vehicle has good pickup from a standstill, like when driving in a parking lot, but if she floors it it'll only seem like 75% throttle to the ECU, and at other mid-range throttle positions, there'll be less response.
That's very interesting about the bumper sticker, and could be very useful if I ever move to California. Maybe I'll buy a bunch and stick them on cars I don't like, or on my neighbors' or coworkers' cars if I don't like them.
Operating a commercially owned aircraft in the US airspace requires adherence to FAA regulations.
Actually, no, it does not. Military aircraft are not subject to FAA regulations in any way.
This test was done at the Yuma Proving Ground, which is a US Army facility. The FAA does not control airspace in military operating areas (MOAs), which Yuma is one of. Basically, the US Army can fly whatever the hell it wants in places like that, and the FAA has no authority to tell them otherwise.
I lived in NJ for a couple of years, and those were my choices too. I took Comcast. It actually worked out OK. I guess I was lucky, but it was fast and mostly reliable. I was careful, however, when I canceled service (moved away) to cancel the card I used to pay my Comcast bill so they couldn't continue to charge me, as I had read that was a common tactic of theirs. Also, getting them to cancel service was a giant PITA.
Verizon wouldn't have been any better, and most likely much worse. My neighbor had Verizon (FiOS) and it was ridiculously unreliable.
If getting running water service is a problem, don't you think it would make sense to put a contingency in a property sale contract that running water service remain available for the sale to go through? Who would want to live in a house that has no running water?
It's no different with internet service. Not having it makes the house unliveable.
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Cars with BT audio usually also have USB ports. Does yours not?
My 2015 Mazda has BT audio as well, and a USB port. I've never used BT audio (though I do use BT for making phone calls through the hands-free system, and also for reading texts sometimes; the system will read them to me aloud). Instead, I just bought an inexpensive 32GB USB thumb drive, copied my whole music library onto it, and that was that.
No, I don't want to listen to streaming audio from the internet; I don't have unlimited data so that would be quite expensive.
So instead you want to break your power charging plug hole, the one you now generally use once per day and that with a fixed battery. So instead a potential proprietary socket, that will wear out, destroying the phone because no it connects to nothing and you can not pull out a flat battery and replace it with a charged battery. Yep, gullibly being sold another B$ marketing line. So with an existing ear socket phone you can listen through the usb socket with the right hardware and software but not fucking while you are charging the phone but that's OK you can swap out the battery and charge it separately, oh wait no you fucking can't.
Yep, this is what Apple buyers are happily signing up for.
You don't have to avoid new phones. There's good new phones out there, which have standard headphone jacks. Just not from stupid Apple.
The Galaxy S7 just came out, and it still has a headphone jack.
Context is important here, and left vs. right is relative. Here in America, Democrats are "left" because there's only two parties with any real strength, so one's right and one's left, and it's undeniable that the Dems are to the left of the Reps (the degree is what's debatable). But yes, compared to politics in Europe, or even compared to the Green Party which is active here in the US, the Dems are definitely right-wing.
So no, not everyone who votes Democrat is a right-winger; anyone who's seriously left but wants to vote for a candidate who actually has a shot at winning has to vote Dem. Of course, this is what leads us to the current predicament too.... There really isn't any way around it though, thanks to Duverger's Law; it's very rare (though it does happen once in a while) that a 3rd party can rise up and gain power in a system that uses first-past-the-post (plurality) voting. The last time it happened here was when the Whig party died out and the Democratic-Republicans split into two.
It's worse than that: the law references birth certificates, so a "package inspection" isn't going to catch people who have had transition surgery. So this means they need to require everyone to carry around a birth certificate and present it when using the restroom, and they need police at every public restroom on government property to check this.
A Republican nut-job shows himself!
It wasn't about anything besides making life miserable for trans people, you religious moron.
How so, if they're adults? Now if it's a father and a daughter that just turned 18, yeah, I can see that being problematic as he may have been molesting her before that age and no one knew (or did anything).
But if it's a brother and sister and they're both 35, I'm sorry, that's none of the government's business or anyone else's. Really, once you get over 30, I don't see how it's complicated at all, because by that age, someone who didn't consent has had plenty of time to leave the situation.
WTF??? This is patently absurd.
Klingons have a rich warrior culture that values honor above all else. They made that abundantly clear in countless episodes.
Humans (in this universe we inhabit) do not have a warrior culture, and definitely do not value honor. If we did, we would not be about to elect Trump or Hillary (or almost anyone else that was running).
The Klingons most resemble various old traditional cultures, such as the Japanese Samurai culture, which of course is long dead.
The ST race that was meant to most resemble modern humans is the Ferengi: profit above all. However, even the Ferengi had some real values; they thought it was important to properly assist underdeveloped cultures to develop economically and technologically, so that they could become good trading partners. Bombing them into submission was not part of their ethic.
No, I think the Terran Empire depicted in several ST episodes (not just "Mirror, Mirror", but also an excellent ENT 2-parter called "In a Mirror, Darkly") is a very accurate depiction of modern human culture transposed into a future with warp drive.
But I do agree with your final assessment about good humans being the tiny tiny minority.
Hey, don't lump everyone together. There's plenty of leftists who are all in favor of FOIA, Wikileaks, etc., and still think Hillary is a corrupt sell-out. It's really the establishment-lovers who defend her.
Just like "the right" has several different camps, with some overlap (the Evangelicals, the Big Business lovers, the Tea Partiers, the economic libertarians, etc.), and sometimes these groups are opposed, leading to Trump's nomination for example, "the left" also has several different camps, with some overlap: the environmentalists, the SJWs, the radical feminists, the Big Business lovers (but they love different big businesses than those on the right), the union supporters, the equal rights supporters, etc. Hillary vs. Bernie (just like everyone vs. Trump on the right) has exposed a huge schism on the left. True Bernie supporters and other actual leftists (not Hillary-loving centrists) and anti-establishment folks are all in favor of this stuff; it's only the establishment people who are going to call this "violating privacy". These DNC high-ups are greatly affecting our politics, and quite likely choosing our next leader, so we have every right to read their emails. Even more so when you consider that these very same people are big proponents of the NSA spying on us; turnabout is fair play.
Yep, in Star Trek, that's the universe where most Star Trek episodes occur: the universe where humans are generally benevolent, intelligent, and ethical beings, and also highly competent at their work.
Star Trek did show our universe a few times; it's called the "mirror universe", and in it, humans are generally evil, imperialistic assholes who'll stop at nothing to gain more power.
My new ultimate goal in life is to invent a device which allows me to "slide" into that other universe.
Wow, you guys are really, really stupid. The NC case was about government-owned bathrooms. The government has every right to dictate who uses which bathroom in a government-owned facility. Go read the NC law itself, it's about government facilities, and is absolutely about the government telling people which bathroom they have to use. This is exactly the opposite of what you claim.
Moron.
Yep, they've gotten better at rigging votes in the last 75 years.
It sure looks that way sometimes.
Yeah, I did see that about Frank v. Muth. That's ridiculous IMO. Grown adults should be able to screw whomever they want as long as it's consensual and of-age.
I know I wasn't explicit, but I wasn't comparing a 90s Caprice to a modern car, I was actually comparing it to other 90s cars; even when it was new, it was a piece of shit. So was the Crown Vic, which I've had to drive. It drove terribly, handled terribly, the steering wheel was crooked, it had a cheap and crappy interior, it just wasn't a good car. The Caprice was huge, but didn't even have enough legroom for me at just over 6 feet. These cars were archetypes of everything that was wrong with American cars for a long time: huge size outside, horribly-designed interiors made for short people, cheap, shoddy design and interior quality, and gas-guzzling engines, with boat-like handling.
No, you're wrong. If you have a citation, then bring it.
I guess according to you, the people in the US Army at Yuma don't know how to run their own facility.
WTF? The Charger is a huge car, and has a back seat just like any other police car. Have you never seen one?
And if that's not good enough, call for a van like the other poster said.
I guess according to you, none of these police cars exist.
It doesn't matter how mature it is; internet service is a necessary utility in this day and age, no different than telephone service, except while we can get telephone service now with cellular, the speeds aren't high enough (and the costs too high) for cellular to substitute for wire-based internet service.
Yes, but the thing is, none of those laws are at all enforceable within the USA, because we had a Supreme Court decision that invalidated all of them in one fell swoop (because some gay guys charged with sodomy in Texas appealed their conviction).
You don't need to repeal old laws when they're invalidated by the courts.
Yeah exactly. The idea is to change what the ECU perceives to be the driver's throttle inputs. So with my microcontroller, I can apply a non-linear profile, so it still seems like the vehicle has good pickup from a standstill, like when driving in a parking lot, but if she floors it it'll only seem like 75% throttle to the ECU, and at other mid-range throttle positions, there'll be less response.
That's very interesting about the bumper sticker, and could be very useful if I ever move to California. Maybe I'll buy a bunch and stick them on cars I don't like, or on my neighbors' or coworkers' cars if I don't like them.
Operating a commercially owned aircraft in the US airspace requires adherence to FAA regulations.
Actually, no, it does not. Military aircraft are not subject to FAA regulations in any way.
This test was done at the Yuma Proving Ground, which is a US Army facility. The FAA does not control airspace in military operating areas (MOAs), which Yuma is one of. Basically, the US Army can fly whatever the hell it wants in places like that, and the FAA has no authority to tell them otherwise.
Another is restaurants which advertise bargain meal prices outside, but once in you find the drinks cost a fortune.
That's standard in America too: the drinks are a big profit center in any restaurant.
The answer is simple: drink water. It's better for you. Soda makes you fat.
I lived in NJ for a couple of years, and those were my choices too. I took Comcast. It actually worked out OK. I guess I was lucky, but it was fast and mostly reliable. I was careful, however, when I canceled service (moved away) to cancel the card I used to pay my Comcast bill so they couldn't continue to charge me, as I had read that was a common tactic of theirs. Also, getting them to cancel service was a giant PITA.
Verizon wouldn't have been any better, and most likely much worse. My neighbor had Verizon (FiOS) and it was ridiculously unreliable.
If getting running water service is a problem, don't you think it would make sense to put a contingency in a property sale contract that running water service remain available for the sale to go through? Who would want to live in a house that has no running water?
It's no different with internet service. Not having it makes the house unliveable.