Oh, I'm sure that's going to be harped on whether it's true or not. Far too much money in the parts market to allow Joe Blow to download his own replacement parts, even if they're are purely cosmetic, like screw covers...
Until they have fully immersive holography, count me out.
Ditto. I'm typically the sour grapes guy of the group that always resists seeing the newest 3-D blockbusters at the theater because I can't stand it, it looks like overly dim, out of focus crap and 9 times out of 10 I leave with a headache to boot.
That being said, there is only one film that I want to see in 3-D, and that is the Hobbit films. I've resigned myself to the headache, but in seeing the behind the scenes footage of how they're shooting the film, I'm very interested to see how it compares to the typical 3-D crap that Hollywood puts out...
Plus I just fucking love The Hobbit, so there's that...
But they've got this 'don't want to pay overages' mentality
Do you blame them? They've been deliberately pushed in that direction by those ridiculous overage fees in the first place for over a decade now...
When you go buy a phone, the salesmen all but rattle chains and cue up sounds of children crying when describing the different plans and why it's important to pick the right plan lest you go over and get hit with ridiculous overage charges. Obviously they're trying to sell you a higher-tiered plan, but the truth is, going over is ridiculously expensive. Even going over your usage plan a little bit can result in a much larger bill than usual.
I think people tend to go for the higher cap plans less because they think they need that much data regularly, but because they're terrified that if they get the lower tiered plan they will go over accidentally and get slammed. The salespeople themselves totally foster this mindset because a lot of them get bonuses based on upselling the customers to higher-tiered service.
Plus, I would really, really, like to see what it costs them to provide the service in the first place. Based on what many of them charge for a single text message, I bet they're making a hefty profit on this bandwidth, it just seems like artificial scarcity fostered by the carriers themselves to drive up prices. As the phones themselves become more data heavy, and the caps get lower, you're going to see even more people go over their monthly allowances, or instead, opt into the higher-tier just to avoid going over. What a cash cow!
Ditto. The only SNES roms I play are the ones that I have physical carts for, to this day. I will admit, though, that I play them emulated 100% of the time, rather than digging out my console because I just can't give up the added functionality....save states, built in Game Genie/Pro-Action Replay functionality, graphical enhancements, etc.
I just finished Final Fantasy III (American version) again the other day. Such a great game...working on Chrono Trigger now (my physical copy has a dead battery backup, so sad, my 15 year old saves are all gone)...
Camp out in the hall outside calc 2 during the last week of classes
Or just list them on Criagslist/whatever social media site you prefer...then you can just meet the person whenever/wherever is convenient and not be forced to sit in a hallway.
At least you can turn that stupid search plus your world shit off. I mean, they could have just done it and not given the option, which, if you've seen how retarded the results can be if you have a lot of people in your circles on G+, would have been goddamned awful and totally depreciated any value Google had for search, imho...
I wish Google would have let us keep the old style search page and shit, rather than the new one with all the drop-downs...
Believe me, I used to proctor the TSA exams, and you're far more right than you know. The vast majority of applicants looked (and acted) like they were driven to the test facility by their parole officer or drug dealer.
The bulk of these people receive less training than the average assistant manager at Taco Bell...
But by all means, keep convincing yourself that the TSA isn't spreading throughout society. If we allow it to get to the point where we're getting patted down to get on the fucking bus to work in the morning, or pulled over in our own car just because we're on a fucking public highway, we've already lost everything worth fighting for and it's time to start flying our flags upside-down.
Yeah, he would have. My grandfather had the strongest work ethic out of anyone I've ever known (granted, I bet a lot of people feel the same way) and never hesitated to help anyone in need, whether it was his boss, through the church, in his neighborhood. He had his share of late nights, and when times were tough sacrificed along with everyone else until times got better again.
I honestly attribute it somewhat to the fact that so many of the men were veterans, and outside of that, so many people here at home were united in the war effort. It brought people together, and fostered a mutual respect for each other, in ways that nothing these days seems to be able to. His employer wouldn't have fucked him over because that would be like fucking over himself.
Somewhere along the line employees went from being considered assets to being considered liabilities...fostering the adversarial nature of the employer/employee relationship that is so common these days. How many people out there truly think their boss gives a fuck about them personally, beyond how much they can profit from their labors? Is it any wonder that the rank and file feels the same way? Treat the like a faceless number, you'll get all the loyalty of a faceless number next time the 'bigger better deal' comes around...
All a tariff will do is artificially triple the price of everything in Wal-Mart
You mean those things that Walmart artificially prices at a third of the actual cost because they're able to offset the true cost of producing those goods to a less developed economy due to greed and/or indifference to the social, economic, and environmental problems it causes?
The Mom and Pops, selling locally made goods, will see their own business explode because Walmart is no longer able to undercut the shit out of them, draw their business away, and wipe them out, which is pretty much their M.O. every time they enter a market. Any areas that don't have Mom and Pops to fulfill that demand will see them show up very quickly, once they're able to actually compete again. Fail to see the problem...
So many people talk about how these regulations and taxes "hurt small business" as if they're advocating for them, but that's bullshit (or, at least, they've bought the bullshit of the bullshit artists). They're not fighting regulation and taxes to help the 'Ma and Pa General Store on Main Street', they're fighting taxes to help the megacorps like Walmart, who in turn uses that extra money to drive Ma and Pa General Store of business, because Ma and Pa General Store doesn't donate tens of thousands of dollars to their campaign every fucking year.
It's possible to run a business where your primary goal is to make a good product, serve the community, and you know, basically not be such sociopathic bastards.
It amazes me that such a concept is lost on so many people these days. So many people (like those asshole executives quoted in TFS) think that these businesses have no obligation whatsoever to the country that paved the way for them to be as successful as they are. If it wasn't for American citizens buying those fucking Apple computers back when Jobs and Wozniak were making them in their garage, that company would have folded months after it started. The United States, for many years, was pretty much the consumer culture. We spent our disposable income on all the goods and services these companies made, and in return, all we asked is that they pay us a living wage. A lot of those wages went right back to these companies...every GM employee had a GM car sitting in their driveway.
There was no middle-class in Russia, or China, buying this shit back when many of these companies got their start. It was all us. And now that they've finally amassed the capital they needed to lobby for more favorable laws, hell, to put that corporate shill Ronald Reagan in the White House, they've pretty much given us the finger. Now that the middle-class in other countries is growing, and ours is shrinking (thanks mainly to them), they're putting the groundwork in place to cut and fucking run. Once our economy is fully in the shitter, and "austerity measures" are fully wiped off the books, such as cutting minimum wage and benefits requirements, clean air and water requirements, and all the other things that we prided ourselves on and made life good for everyone in years past (you know, to be more "competitive"), then they'll bring the sweatshops here, hire our grandchildren for 25 cents an hour, and send all their crap over there to sell. When that peters out, they'll just pick up and move again. Just like locusts.
The film The Corporation deals with this. It starts with the premise, "If a corporation is a person, what kind of person is it?" Based on the actions of many North American corporations, they're psychopaths:
It attempts to compare the way corporations are systematically compelled to behave with the DSM-IV's symptoms of psychopathy, i.e. callous disregard for the feelings of other people, the incapacity to maintain human relationships, reckless disregard for the safety of others, deceitfulness (continual lying to deceive for profit), the incapacity to experience guilt, and the failure to conform to social norms and respect the law.
It's clearly working well for Germany, Canada, and the other countries with all those "socialist" protectionist policies on the books as concerns importing foreign made goods, not to mention rational tax rates. Seems while we were busy fucking over our working class to the benefit of a very, very select few (or allowing them to be fucked by our representatives), they were actually growing their economy in such a way as to benefit all their citizens...
I suppose now I should prepare myself to hear how that's all bullshit, those countries are really failing, or that the only reason they're not is because they don't have "job killing regulations", like clean air and water standards. You know, kinda like how everyone talks about what a failure socialized medicine is despite how pretty much everyone that actually has it says they wouldn't give it up for anything?
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Even so, this could blow the kit-car market wide open...
could cause damage.
Oh, I'm sure that's going to be harped on whether it's true or not. Far too much money in the parts market to allow Joe Blow to download his own replacement parts, even if they're are purely cosmetic, like screw covers...
Fuck that. We can design our own Open Source car!
I'm so gonna cruise around in The Homer...
+1 to you, fine sir!
Or 3D portraits of Chris Dodd with the AACS encryption key below...
Download what is supposed to be a car, end up with a literal bag of dicks...this is gonna bring trolling to a whole new level!
Cue the people breaking walking down the streets with a notepad copying down VINs for sale on the black market...
Don't Copy That Jalopy!!
Those "You wouldn't download a car, would you?" warnings on the beginning of DVD's are going to be funny when people actually are downloading cars...
For the record, I totally would.
Until they have fully immersive holography, count me out.
Ditto. I'm typically the sour grapes guy of the group that always resists seeing the newest 3-D blockbusters at the theater because I can't stand it, it looks like overly dim, out of focus crap and 9 times out of 10 I leave with a headache to boot.
That being said, there is only one film that I want to see in 3-D, and that is the Hobbit films. I've resigned myself to the headache, but in seeing the behind the scenes footage of how they're shooting the film, I'm very interested to see how it compares to the typical 3-D crap that Hollywood puts out...
Plus I just fucking love The Hobbit, so there's that...
But they've got this 'don't want to pay overages' mentality
Do you blame them? They've been deliberately pushed in that direction by those ridiculous overage fees in the first place for over a decade now...
When you go buy a phone, the salesmen all but rattle chains and cue up sounds of children crying when describing the different plans and why it's important to pick the right plan lest you go over and get hit with ridiculous overage charges. Obviously they're trying to sell you a higher-tiered plan, but the truth is, going over is ridiculously expensive. Even going over your usage plan a little bit can result in a much larger bill than usual.
I think people tend to go for the higher cap plans less because they think they need that much data regularly, but because they're terrified that if they get the lower tiered plan they will go over accidentally and get slammed. The salespeople themselves totally foster this mindset because a lot of them get bonuses based on upselling the customers to higher-tiered service.
Plus, I would really, really, like to see what it costs them to provide the service in the first place. Based on what many of them charge for a single text message, I bet they're making a hefty profit on this bandwidth, it just seems like artificial scarcity fostered by the carriers themselves to drive up prices. As the phones themselves become more data heavy, and the caps get lower, you're going to see even more people go over their monthly allowances, or instead, opt into the higher-tier just to avoid going over. What a cash cow!
Ditto. The only SNES roms I play are the ones that I have physical carts for, to this day. I will admit, though, that I play them emulated 100% of the time, rather than digging out my console because I just can't give up the added functionality....save states, built in Game Genie/Pro-Action Replay functionality, graphical enhancements, etc.
I just finished Final Fantasy III (American version) again the other day. Such a great game...working on Chrono Trigger now (my physical copy has a dead battery backup, so sad, my 15 year old saves are all gone)...
Camp out in the hall outside calc 2 during the last week of classes
Or just list them on Criagslist/whatever social media site you prefer...then you can just meet the person whenever/wherever is convenient and not be forced to sit in a hallway.
At least you can turn that stupid search plus your world shit off. I mean, they could have just done it and not given the option, which, if you've seen how retarded the results can be if you have a lot of people in your circles on G+, would have been goddamned awful and totally depreciated any value Google had for search, imho...
I wish Google would have let us keep the old style search page and shit, rather than the new one with all the drop-downs...
All while snorting mountains of cocaine off of dead hookers, because why not? Can't make it any worse...
Just yell "It's coming right for us!!" and everything's cool...
Believe me, I used to proctor the TSA exams, and you're far more right than you know. The vast majority of applicants looked (and acted) like they were driven to the test facility by their parole officer or drug dealer.
The bulk of these people receive less training than the average assistant manager at Taco Bell...
Even a broken clock is right twice a day...
TSA: Rail Security
TSA: Highways
TSA: Maritime
TSA-style security coming to major sporting events...
But by all means, keep convincing yourself that the TSA isn't spreading throughout society. If we allow it to get to the point where we're getting patted down to get on the fucking bus to work in the morning, or pulled over in our own car just because we're on a fucking public highway, we've already lost everything worth fighting for and it's time to start flying our flags upside-down.
Iffen da Queeny treaten alla dem Gungans witda respects yusa showen Ja Ja, meetinks, yep, dat meyby okeyday ta tink.
- Junior Senator Jar Jar Binks
Yeah, he would have. My grandfather had the strongest work ethic out of anyone I've ever known (granted, I bet a lot of people feel the same way) and never hesitated to help anyone in need, whether it was his boss, through the church, in his neighborhood. He had his share of late nights, and when times were tough sacrificed along with everyone else until times got better again.
I honestly attribute it somewhat to the fact that so many of the men were veterans, and outside of that, so many people here at home were united in the war effort. It brought people together, and fostered a mutual respect for each other, in ways that nothing these days seems to be able to. His employer wouldn't have fucked him over because that would be like fucking over himself.
Somewhere along the line employees went from being considered assets to being considered liabilities...fostering the adversarial nature of the employer/employee relationship that is so common these days. How many people out there truly think their boss gives a fuck about them personally, beyond how much they can profit from their labors? Is it any wonder that the rank and file feels the same way? Treat the like a faceless number, you'll get all the loyalty of a faceless number next time the 'bigger better deal' comes around...
All a tariff will do is artificially triple the price of everything in Wal-Mart
You mean those things that Walmart artificially prices at a third of the actual cost because they're able to offset the true cost of producing those goods to a less developed economy due to greed and/or indifference to the social, economic, and environmental problems it causes?
The Mom and Pops, selling locally made goods, will see their own business explode because Walmart is no longer able to undercut the shit out of them, draw their business away, and wipe them out, which is pretty much their M.O. every time they enter a market. Any areas that don't have Mom and Pops to fulfill that demand will see them show up very quickly, once they're able to actually compete again. Fail to see the problem...
So many people talk about how these regulations and taxes "hurt small business" as if they're advocating for them, but that's bullshit (or, at least, they've bought the bullshit of the bullshit artists). They're not fighting regulation and taxes to help the 'Ma and Pa General Store on Main Street', they're fighting taxes to help the megacorps like Walmart, who in turn uses that extra money to drive Ma and Pa General Store of business, because Ma and Pa General Store doesn't donate tens of thousands of dollars to their campaign every fucking year.
It's possible to run a business where your primary goal is to make a good product, serve the community, and you know, basically not be such sociopathic bastards.
It amazes me that such a concept is lost on so many people these days. So many people (like those asshole executives quoted in TFS) think that these businesses have no obligation whatsoever to the country that paved the way for them to be as successful as they are. If it wasn't for American citizens buying those fucking Apple computers back when Jobs and Wozniak were making them in their garage, that company would have folded months after it started. The United States, for many years, was pretty much the consumer culture. We spent our disposable income on all the goods and services these companies made, and in return, all we asked is that they pay us a living wage. A lot of those wages went right back to these companies...every GM employee had a GM car sitting in their driveway.
There was no middle-class in Russia, or China, buying this shit back when many of these companies got their start. It was all us. And now that they've finally amassed the capital they needed to lobby for more favorable laws, hell, to put that corporate shill Ronald Reagan in the White House, they've pretty much given us the finger. Now that the middle-class in other countries is growing, and ours is shrinking (thanks mainly to them), they're putting the groundwork in place to cut and fucking run. Once our economy is fully in the shitter, and "austerity measures" are fully wiped off the books, such as cutting minimum wage and benefits requirements, clean air and water requirements, and all the other things that we prided ourselves on and made life good for everyone in years past (you know, to be more "competitive"), then they'll bring the sweatshops here, hire our grandchildren for 25 cents an hour, and send all their crap over there to sell. When that peters out, they'll just pick up and move again. Just like locusts.
The film The Corporation deals with this. It starts with the premise, "If a corporation is a person, what kind of person is it?" Based on the actions of many North American corporations, they're psychopaths:
It attempts to compare the way corporations are systematically compelled to behave with the DSM-IV's symptoms of psychopathy, i.e. callous disregard for the feelings of other people, the incapacity to maintain human relationships, reckless disregard for the safety of others, deceitfulness (continual lying to deceive for profit), the incapacity to experience guilt, and the failure to conform to social norms and respect the law.
It's clearly working well for Germany, Canada, and the other countries with all those "socialist" protectionist policies on the books as concerns importing foreign made goods, not to mention rational tax rates. Seems while we were busy fucking over our working class to the benefit of a very, very select few (or allowing them to be fucked by our representatives), they were actually growing their economy in such a way as to benefit all their citizens...
I suppose now I should prepare myself to hear how that's all bullshit, those countries are really failing, or that the only reason they're not is because they don't have "job killing regulations", like clean air and water standards. You know, kinda like how everyone talks about what a failure socialized medicine is despite how pretty much everyone that actually has it says they wouldn't give it up for anything?
The difference is that the 'megacorps' aren't asking for anything
They just dump all those millions on our government via lobbying for nothing, I suppose. Must just be civic virtue!