Of course, it's rather hard to say for sure, and the counter-argument will be "but we could have created that anyway". But just off the top of my head..
- bootable distros. I remember the days when if you wanted to install a new version, you had to just do that. Everyone was thinking "just make the installer easier" but then the bootable distros came along and changed the game.
- Raspberry Pi. If there was only one distro, nobody might think it was worth it to create a small set of hardware if the thinking was only for desktop
- Android? Perhaps. With one distro, there would undoubtedly have been desire for control. That leads to stifling innovation, and just DOING new things.
- the various package managers, which absolutely improved the entirety of linux distros, ability to install, upgrade, and maintain systems.
- DEs. I love XFCE. There are others that are loved by many. Recently there is Cinnamon and MATE. If I had to use some "committee approved" DE I am sure there are things about it I wouldn't like.
- ANY package or app that you like. Maybe GIMP wouldn't be where it is now. Maybe not Libreoffice, or Firefox, or Chrome, or Chromebooks. Because if something didn't get approved by "THE" distro, it would be pointless to make it. Choice is the key, without that as a foundation, it's all about the committee approval.
- Google builds a lot of what it needs in-house, including their own distro. Would any of those variants be "allowed" in a controlled, 1-distro world?
That's the thing... by being an open landscape (you use the term fragmented) things are possible. Things are allowed to happen because no one entity controls it. It's evolutionary. If Debian didn't happen, then Ubuntu didn't happen, then Mint didn't happen. Probably the easiest way to conceptualize it is to look at what happens if it is NOT what Linux is.... Microsoft, Apple. Closed, walled gardens. Failed software and even companies along the way that got squashed because they weren't "preferred" by the powers that be.
What if this had ALWAYS been done? We most likely wouldn't have many of the great things we have now. Would we have a single perfect linux distro? I think that is wishful thinking.
Just have a look at this: Linux Distro Timeline and tell me that none of those things should have happened. Maybe SOME of them shouldn't, but that's a simple determination in hindsight.
Just look at what Knoppix spawned, and what it inspired. Sometimes you have to let the ones passionate about something run with it. Otherwise, it's death-by-committee.
The biggest strength can also be the biggest downfall... so while complaining about all the multitude of distros, which is comically overwhelming, some really great things have come out of that process which I firmly believe wouldn't have happened with a single driving direction.
Your calling them "suspects" means that they are suspected of something. My point is that this is done to whomever they like, they don't have to be even a suspect.
Call it like it is - they can gather information on whomever they want - a target. There's no need to imply good vs bad.
If you have access to the target computer, you can already probably find out pretty much everything you need anyway.
People have lives outside their computers. This is for tracking criminals' location without using GPS, which is information that isn't already stored on a target computer.
Look how much grain is in the dog food. Look how much grain is in your diet. (yes, corn is a grain)
This story does not surprise me in the least.
We've only been consuming grains for roughly 10,000 years, but we've been evolving for 2.5 million years. Grains have been substitutes for food in times of famine, but now they take up the majority of our diet. Obesity, diabetes, and heart disease will continue until this stops.
Agree. But you can certainly glean information from the internet - good and bad. Conventional wisdom and 'common sense' are dangerous things, and are often wrong. Just figure out if you believe in science or not, and go from there. Learn how our bodies actually work. The answer won't be in a headline or a twitter message.
Because they don't have to go public with everything they know, say, or do. I am all for transparency, but honestly the government has a job to do. Everyone needs to chill the fuck out.
I have a very firm belief that when someone becomes President, they learn a whole lot of things that they didn't know before. Things that they cannot divulge. That changes them. They may have promised XYZ during the campaign process, but as soon as they get into office I am sure they learn so much that they realize they had no idea what they were promising.
There are things going on RIGHT NOW, that they can't talk about. I am 100% certain of it. They don't tell the public because they shouldn't, and most likely can't. I am a manager in IT. I learn things that I can't tell my employees. That's just the way it is. My boss knows things he can't tell me.... and on up the chain. It's a simple concept, I am sure this has been going on for a very very long time.
How precise. And wrong. I assume you're talking about preventing getting overweight. People don't get fat by eating a lot, they eat a lot because they are fat. Fat regulation is a function of your hormones, in particular insulin. The TYPES of food you eat directly affect your insulin levels, not how much you eat. That directly affects how your body stores and uses fat.
2. Eat lots of different things
More imprecision. If you want to lose weight or be more healthy, there are definitely foods to avoid: sugar (in all its forms), grains (yes corn is a grain), grain products, and oils made from them, legumes/peanuts. Starchy vegetables and certain fruits (like grapes/bananas). And dairy, if you don't tolerate it well. This is because they either wreak havoc on your insulin levels, or are inflammatory in your system. There are foods that are good for you, like animals and animal products. Unprocessed oils like olive, coconut, and butter. And lots of eggs. That will get you most of the way there. Then you can go even further and go organic and grass-fed instead of mass-raised animals that are given those bad foods as feed.
3. Eat mostly plants
UGH. Terrible advice. We evolved by eating meat. Lots of plants are not that good for your body or your brain. (see above) Plants can be very good for you, but eating mostly plants is awful advice.
4. Get enough exercise, ask your doctor how much
LOL. Ask your doctor. Be active, but you don't have to kill yourself or spend hours upon hours at the gym. Calories in/calories burned is a myth. Next please.
5. Go to your doctor regularly and do what he/she says
LOL. Your doctor will prescribe you drugs for every little thing. And office visits are not cheap. They are going to tell you the safest (for them) advice, middle-of-the-road, textbook answer. Not to mention that they are generalists, they don't tailor their responses to you. They certainly don't keep up on advances in medicine, they are still stuck in the old "food pyramid" days that is based on un-researched opinions, not scientific facts. Next please.
6. Unless your doctor says you need them, don't take vitamins, or supplements, or any pill or liquid that says "this product has not been evaluated by the FDA to treat any..."
This implies that whatever the FDA approves is ok for you. It also means that you have zero say in what you take, which is stupid. Educate yourself.
There, that's all you need. Just saved you a bunch of money. You're welcome.
Hardly. Sheesh. This is a bunch of BS, disguised as simple wisdom. This is like saying "if you have a problem with your PC, contact Microsoft support"
Or you could just accept that your daughter will want to experience novelty in her life. And have faith that she'll outgrow obsessive behavior once it's run its course or that there are lots of options for professional help if she never outgrows it.
faith... outgrow obsessive behavior...quite an oxymoron.
Y2K was shorthand for Year 2000. Y2K38 doesn't save you any space at all, the K does nothing and makes it unnecessarily confusing. Y2038 or just 2038 bug would be sufficient I think.
Hmmm, I have to wonder about Windows telemetry in the Enterprise environment.
I use it at work, and I was thinking that surely there must be a way for them to disable it... my company doesn't want MS to be able to see into our company. Then I wondered if perhaps MS is selling the view into that telemetry back to the company, so THEY could see what their users are doing.
I haven't done any kind of digging to see if this has been brought up or discussed by anyone else, but it sure seems plausible to me.
A lot of hosting services provide plenty of space. They come with free email accounts too, so you can set up 'throwaway' emails like donotspamme@yourdomain.com that you can use for services that might spam you.
Shop around for the hosting providers that have what you want. I use fetchmail to pull mine down locally, and pine as my client (yes, for real), but there are plenty of email clients or webmail options on your provider.
Best of all, you can keep your domain and you control it.
I seriously didn't know what the ESR version of Firefox was until I just looked it up. I switched to Pale Moon in late 2016 and haven't looked back. I keep hearing about all these things FF is doing, and in the back of my head I am just screaming "JUST MAKE IT WORK". Maybe someday I'll go back to it, but until Pale Moon messes up, I have no reason to really.
Once you figure out how to connect... run it in a docker container. I set up an ubuntu container with openconnect and freerdp, and a couple of simple scripts. I can connect to my corporate VPN and RDP into my Win10 laptop from my Linux box in about 10 seconds. I could do it faster but I have it prompt me for the password. We use Azure for multi-factor authentication.
If you do it this way then your container connects to the vpn keeping all of your other traffic off the corporate network.
You actually disrupt things by doing something, not by promising to do something. You don't even have to be the first to do something to disrupt, so innovation isn't required. Look at the iPod, it was by no means the first digital music player, but it sure changed the game. Look at Tesla. SpaceX. Google Search. Google Maps. eBay. These are HARD things to do, and they put a lot of work into launching something that drew a lot of interest.
Promises are easy, delivering something is not so easy. I am not saying they can't do it, but they need to actually DO something first. So far, they've created a mobile phone. *yawn* The only reason that is so boring is because of the grand claims.
The Mind's I by Hofstadter and Dennett I read it when I was in my 20s, and I loved it....it made me search out other works by Hofstadter, all of them worth reading. I really should go back and read all of them.
Good Calories Bad Calories / The Primal Blueprint These books literally changed my life. I am going on 5 years on a low-carb diet. I didn't do it to lose weight, I did it get and stay healthy, and I've never felt better.
All you need is a decent tool and a reasonable methodology, and of course someone to track and enforce it.
I've used everything from a home-grown system to JIRA to Quality Center to TFS. I've seen basically no enforceable rules (which sucks) to ultra-precise rigid workflows (which really sucks).
We once had a severity 1 issue come up which we quickly fixed. Turned out it wasn't a sev1 by definition (no workaround) but since we fixed it quickly we didn't care all that much. Then a senior manager saw we had had a sev1 for the release. After explaining to him that it wasn't really a sev1, he demanded we change it because it was a blemish on the release and he wouldn't have it. Per the rules in the tool, you couldn't change anything in a bug once it was closed.
I had to call in a favor to someone I had a good relationship on the IT tools team. He wouldn't reopen it so I could change the severity, but he agreed to change it for me after I had a few other people join in on the email chain and back up my story. It took a few DAYS to make that happen.
I have done a lot of work on metrics around bugs, trends over time, etc. It can be a REAL pain if over a couple of years you've gone through process and people changes. If you care at all about trying to pull metrics,define the key fields for your data as best you can, and enforce consistent use of them.
So for a little context, I rarely go to the theater to see a movie. I have been two or three times in the last 3 years. I just really don't care for it, I don't need to go into why. If there is something that I really want to see, and the stars all align, I will go. I don't even remember what movies I saw in the theaters, except the most recent one (Logan).
So we use Netflix DVD, and that is where we watch "recent" movies. I could give two shits about "bragging rights" of seeing something when it first comes out. So we're 8-12 months behind on seeing movies, and we aren't missing anything. Except the utter disappointment of going to see a movie hoping it is great and it sucks.
I use RT to find movies to add to my DVD queue. There are some I will add regardless of reviews, but for the most part RT is pretty good. OK, so Batman vs Superman WAS as bad as the reviews, but we still got it.. and didn't even finish it. I've watched movies that I never thought I would because of the reviews on RT. Like Deadpool. I wasn't interested in it at all, but was surprised by the good reviews and we enjoyed it. There are LOTS of other movies that you've probably never heard of that get good reviews on RT. Many hidden gems in there. I like to go look at their top rated for the year, or of all time, go through the list, read the plots and reviews, and add them to my queue.
The movie studios are so outdated. After they run a movie in theaters and pump up their favorite blockbusters... it's off to DVD in case anyone ever wants to buy or rent it. Apart from a "now on DVD" blurb they don't promote GOOD movies that come out on DVD. I am willing to bet that they will actually come around and you'll see them embrace RT and sites like it, and use it to promote DVD sales. Of course, that will be in 10 years when the industry has moved on. As long as they hold the rights to their movies, they'll still make money. Just in ways that they can't foresee because their thinking is so ancient. Just like the music industry, who should have embraced MP3s in the late 90s/early 00s. But instead they fought and fought and fought against it. Just like the movie industry and VCRs. They fight against the love that people have for their products, and instead of seeing how to nurture that they seek control that they simply can't have.
Notice how only one of your items (#7) is about her stance on issues? Everything else is all about perception or image. Read through all of the comments in this story, they are all about that. Because that is what matters. Even all her blame is about things that should only be a minor part of presidential elections, but instead are the only things that seem to matter.
Why can't we get back to actual plans, policies, and competencies, instead of headlines, talking points, perception, and how someone campaigns?!
Lots of people have chimed in on this, but I will add something else.
If you can get what Radio Shack sells in their stores for cheaper online (duh) then why were their prices so outrageously expensive? I am willing to pay more for the convenience, or for things that I need physical access to review (e.g. shoes), but their prices were absolutely ridiculous.
As many people, I used to go there quite a bit in my youth. As I got older I moved a few times, and they weren't always where I lived. About 4 years ago I moved again, and there was one very close to my house. I was looking for a toggle switch, and after looking at a few other stores I tried them. They didn't have the specific one I wanted, but their prices were double what they should have been. I was kind of floored. No, I don't want a $13 toggle, thanks. I know there are high-quality switches out there that cost a bit, but these weren't them. It was sad. The store was sad. There were very few actual components, mostly just electronics, headphones, phones, tablets. It's like Best Buy's weird little cousin.
To me Radio Shack is kind of like ACE hardware. I remember them as being the place to go for certain things, and I could always find something else to buy as well. ACE always had any nuts/bolts/etc. They had everything you needed, and some you didn't. Sure, there are sites like McMaster Carr and Fastenal but being able to get what you need when you need it is a great thing. I also still like the idea of a local store. That's why one of my favorite places these days is Rural King. They still have free popcorn from a machine, free coffee, and quite a good selection of nuts/bolts/hardware.
Perhaps you don't understand the phrase "all kinds of drugs"... this article mentions cocaine, and the title is misleading. Lots of very unsafe drugs are taken recreationally. So NO, I wasn't referring to any of those specifically. Pretty much a lot of other drugs, including prescription.
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Of course, it's rather hard to say for sure, and the counter-argument will be "but we could have created that anyway". But just off the top of my head..
- bootable distros. I remember the days when if you wanted to install a new version, you had to just do that. Everyone was thinking "just make the installer easier" but then the bootable distros came along and changed the game.
- Raspberry Pi. If there was only one distro, nobody might think it was worth it to create a small set of hardware if the thinking was only for desktop
- Android? Perhaps. With one distro, there would undoubtedly have been desire for control. That leads to stifling innovation, and just DOING new things.
- the various package managers, which absolutely improved the entirety of linux distros, ability to install, upgrade, and maintain systems.
- DEs. I love XFCE. There are others that are loved by many. Recently there is Cinnamon and MATE. If I had to use some "committee approved" DE I am sure there are things about it I wouldn't like.
- ANY package or app that you like. Maybe GIMP wouldn't be where it is now. Maybe not Libreoffice, or Firefox, or Chrome, or Chromebooks. Because if something didn't get approved by "THE" distro, it would be pointless to make it. Choice is the key, without that as a foundation, it's all about the committee approval.
- Google builds a lot of what it needs in-house, including their own distro. Would any of those variants be "allowed" in a controlled, 1-distro world?
That's the thing... by being an open landscape (you use the term fragmented) things are possible. Things are allowed to happen because no one entity controls it. It's evolutionary. If Debian didn't happen, then Ubuntu didn't happen, then Mint didn't happen. Probably the easiest way to conceptualize it is to look at what happens if it is NOT what Linux is.... Microsoft, Apple. Closed, walled gardens. Failed software and even companies along the way that got squashed because they weren't "preferred" by the powers that be.
What if this had ALWAYS been done? We most likely wouldn't have many of the great things we have now. Would we have a single perfect linux distro? I think that is wishful thinking.
Just have a look at this: Linux Distro Timeline and tell me that none of those things should have happened. Maybe SOME of them shouldn't, but that's a simple determination in hindsight.
Just look at what Knoppix spawned, and what it inspired. Sometimes you have to let the ones passionate about something run with it. Otherwise, it's death-by-committee.
The biggest strength can also be the biggest downfall... so while complaining about all the multitude of distros, which is comically overwhelming, some really great things have come out of that process which I firmly believe wouldn't have happened with a single driving direction.
Your calling them "suspects" means that they are suspected of something.
My point is that this is done to whomever they like, they don't have to be even a suspect.
Call it like it is - they can gather information on whomever they want - a target. There's no need to imply good vs bad.
If you have access to the target computer, you can already probably find out pretty much everything you need anyway.
People have lives outside their computers. This is for tracking criminals' location without using GPS, which is information that isn't already stored on a target computer.
Who said anything about criminals?
Look how much grain is in the dog food.
Look how much grain is in your diet. (yes, corn is a grain)
This story does not surprise me in the least.
We've only been consuming grains for roughly 10,000 years, but we've been evolving for 2.5 million years.
Grains have been substitutes for food in times of famine, but now they take up the majority of our diet. Obesity, diabetes, and heart disease will continue until this stops.
Just Don't Look
This whole "it's a train wreck, I just can't look away" or "I want to see what he'll say next" argument is growing more and more pathetic.
Agree.
But you can certainly glean information from the internet - good and bad.
Conventional wisdom and 'common sense' are dangerous things, and are often wrong. Just figure out if you believe in science or not, and go from there. Learn how our bodies actually work. The answer won't be in a headline or a twitter message.
Because they don't have to go public with everything they know, say, or do.
I am all for transparency, but honestly the government has a job to do. Everyone needs to chill the fuck out.
I have a very firm belief that when someone becomes President, they learn a whole lot of things that they didn't know before. Things that they cannot divulge. That changes them. They may have promised XYZ during the campaign process, but as soon as they get into office I am sure they learn so much that they realize they had no idea what they were promising.
There are things going on RIGHT NOW, that they can't talk about. I am 100% certain of it. They don't tell the public because they shouldn't, and most likely can't. I am a manager in IT. I learn things that I can't tell my employees. That's just the way it is. My boss knows things he can't tell me.... and on up the chain. It's a simple concept, I am sure this has been going on for a very very long time.
1. Don't eat too much
How precise. And wrong. I assume you're talking about preventing getting overweight. People don't get fat by eating a lot, they eat a lot because they are fat. Fat regulation is a function of your hormones, in particular insulin. The TYPES of food you eat directly affect your insulin levels, not how much you eat. That directly affects how your body stores and uses fat.
2. Eat lots of different things
More imprecision. If you want to lose weight or be more healthy, there are definitely foods to avoid: sugar (in all its forms), grains (yes corn is a grain), grain products, and oils made from them, legumes/peanuts. Starchy vegetables and certain fruits (like grapes/bananas). And dairy, if you don't tolerate it well. This is because they either wreak havoc on your insulin levels, or are inflammatory in your system. There are foods that are good for you, like animals and animal products. Unprocessed oils like olive, coconut, and butter. And lots of eggs. That will get you most of the way there. Then you can go even further and go organic and grass-fed instead of mass-raised animals that are given those bad foods as feed.
3. Eat mostly plants
UGH. Terrible advice. We evolved by eating meat. Lots of plants are not that good for your body or your brain. (see above) Plants can be very good for you, but eating mostly plants is awful advice.
4. Get enough exercise, ask your doctor how much
LOL. Ask your doctor. Be active, but you don't have to kill yourself or spend hours upon hours at the gym. Calories in/calories burned is a myth. Next please.
5. Go to your doctor regularly and do what he/she says
LOL. Your doctor will prescribe you drugs for every little thing. And office visits are not cheap. They are going to tell you the safest (for them) advice, middle-of-the-road, textbook answer. Not to mention that they are generalists, they don't tailor their responses to you. They certainly don't keep up on advances in medicine, they are still stuck in the old "food pyramid" days that is based on un-researched opinions, not scientific facts. Next please.
6. Unless your doctor says you need them, don't take vitamins, or supplements, or any pill or liquid that says "this product has not been evaluated by the FDA to treat any..."
This implies that whatever the FDA approves is ok for you. It also means that you have zero say in what you take, which is stupid. Educate yourself.
There, that's all you need. Just saved you a bunch of money. You're welcome.
Hardly. Sheesh. This is a bunch of BS, disguised as simple wisdom. This is like saying "if you have a problem with your PC, contact Microsoft support"
Choosing the meaning of other people's words to suit your own position? A timeless classic.
Quite. Coincidentally, it's as old as organized religion.
I think a far more interesting article would be what are these systems being used for on a day-to-day basis?
Or you could just accept that your daughter will want to experience novelty in her life. And have faith that she'll outgrow obsessive behavior once it's run its course or that there are lots of options for professional help if she never outgrows it.
faith... outgrow obsessive behavior...quite an oxymoron.
Y2K was shorthand for Year 2000.
Y2K38 doesn't save you any space at all, the K does nothing and makes it unnecessarily confusing.
Y2038 or just 2038 bug would be sufficient I think.
Hmmm, I have to wonder about Windows telemetry in the Enterprise environment.
I use it at work, and I was thinking that surely there must be a way for them to disable it... my company doesn't want MS to be able to see into our company.
Then I wondered if perhaps MS is selling the view into that telemetry back to the company, so THEY could see what their users are doing.
I haven't done any kind of digging to see if this has been brought up or discussed by anyone else, but it sure seems plausible to me.
A lot of hosting services provide plenty of space. They come with free email accounts too, so you can set up 'throwaway' emails like donotspamme@yourdomain.com that you can use for services that might spam you.
Shop around for the hosting providers that have what you want. I use fetchmail to pull mine down locally, and pine as my client (yes, for real), but there are plenty of email clients or webmail options on your provider.
Best of all, you can keep your domain and you control it.
I seriously didn't know what the ESR version of Firefox was until I just looked it up.
I switched to Pale Moon in late 2016 and haven't looked back. I keep hearing about all these things FF is doing, and in the back of my head I am just screaming "JUST MAKE IT WORK". Maybe someday I'll go back to it, but until Pale Moon messes up, I have no reason to really.
Once you figure out how to connect... run it in a docker container.
I set up an ubuntu container with openconnect and freerdp, and a couple of simple scripts. I can connect to my corporate VPN and RDP into my Win10 laptop from my Linux box in about 10 seconds. I could do it faster but I have it prompt me for the password. We use Azure for multi-factor authentication.
If you do it this way then your container connects to the vpn keeping all of your other traffic off the corporate network.
You actually disrupt things by doing something, not by promising to do something.
You don't even have to be the first to do something to disrupt, so innovation isn't required. Look at the iPod, it was by no means the first digital music player, but it sure changed the game. Look at Tesla. SpaceX. Google Search. Google Maps. eBay. These are HARD things to do, and they put a lot of work into launching something that drew a lot of interest.
Promises are easy, delivering something is not so easy. I am not saying they can't do it, but they need to actually DO something first. So far, they've created a mobile phone. *yawn* The only reason that is so boring is because of the grand claims.
The Mind's I by Hofstadter and Dennett
I read it when I was in my 20s, and I loved it....it made me search out other works by Hofstadter, all of them worth reading.
I really should go back and read all of them.
Good Calories Bad Calories / The Primal Blueprint
These books literally changed my life. I am going on 5 years on a low-carb diet. I didn't do it to lose weight, I did it get and stay healthy, and I've never felt better.
All you need is a decent tool and a reasonable methodology, and of course someone to track and enforce it.
I've used everything from a home-grown system to JIRA to Quality Center to TFS. I've seen basically no enforceable rules (which sucks) to ultra-precise rigid workflows (which really sucks).
We once had a severity 1 issue come up which we quickly fixed. Turned out it wasn't a sev1 by definition (no workaround) but since we fixed it quickly we didn't care all that much. Then a senior manager saw we had had a sev1 for the release. After explaining to him that it wasn't really a sev1, he demanded we change it because it was a blemish on the release and he wouldn't have it. Per the rules in the tool, you couldn't change anything in a bug once it was closed.
I had to call in a favor to someone I had a good relationship on the IT tools team. He wouldn't reopen it so I could change the severity, but he agreed to change it for me after I had a few other people join in on the email chain and back up my story. It took a few DAYS to make that happen.
I have done a lot of work on metrics around bugs, trends over time, etc. It can be a REAL pain if over a couple of years you've gone through process and people changes. If you care at all about trying to pull metrics,define the key fields for your data as best you can, and enforce consistent use of them.
So for a little context, I rarely go to the theater to see a movie. I have been two or three times in the last 3 years. I just really don't care for it, I don't need to go into why. If there is something that I really want to see, and the stars all align, I will go. I don't even remember what movies I saw in the theaters, except the most recent one (Logan).
So we use Netflix DVD, and that is where we watch "recent" movies. I could give two shits about "bragging rights" of seeing something when it first comes out. So we're 8-12 months behind on seeing movies, and we aren't missing anything. Except the utter disappointment of going to see a movie hoping it is great and it sucks.
I use RT to find movies to add to my DVD queue. There are some I will add regardless of reviews, but for the most part RT is pretty good. OK, so Batman vs Superman WAS as bad as the reviews, but we still got it.. and didn't even finish it. I've watched movies that I never thought I would because of the reviews on RT. Like Deadpool. I wasn't interested in it at all, but was surprised by the good reviews and we enjoyed it. There are LOTS of other movies that you've probably never heard of that get good reviews on RT. Many hidden gems in there. I like to go look at their top rated for the year, or of all time, go through the list, read the plots and reviews, and add them to my queue.
The movie studios are so outdated. After they run a movie in theaters and pump up their favorite blockbusters... it's off to DVD in case anyone ever wants to buy or rent it. Apart from a "now on DVD" blurb they don't promote GOOD movies that come out on DVD. I am willing to bet that they will actually come around and you'll see them embrace RT and sites like it, and use it to promote DVD sales. Of course, that will be in 10 years when the industry has moved on. As long as they hold the rights to their movies, they'll still make money. Just in ways that they can't foresee because their thinking is so ancient. Just like the music industry, who should have embraced MP3s in the late 90s/early 00s. But instead they fought and fought and fought against it. Just like the movie industry and VCRs. They fight against the love that people have for their products, and instead of seeing how to nurture that they seek control that they simply can't have.
Notice how only one of your items (#7) is about her stance on issues?
Everything else is all about perception or image. Read through all of the comments in this story, they are all about that. Because that is what matters. Even all her blame is about things that should only be a minor part of presidential elections, but instead are the only things that seem to matter.
Why can't we get back to actual plans, policies, and competencies, instead of headlines, talking points, perception, and how someone campaigns?!
Trump acts a lot like him, except he's a bit more amplified and a lot less polished.
Lots of people have chimed in on this, but I will add something else.
If you can get what Radio Shack sells in their stores for cheaper online (duh) then why were their prices so outrageously expensive?
I am willing to pay more for the convenience, or for things that I need physical access to review (e.g. shoes), but their prices were absolutely ridiculous.
As many people, I used to go there quite a bit in my youth. As I got older I moved a few times, and they weren't always where I lived. About 4 years ago I moved again, and there was one very close to my house. I was looking for a toggle switch, and after looking at a few other stores I tried them. They didn't have the specific one I wanted, but their prices were double what they should have been. I was kind of floored. No, I don't want a $13 toggle, thanks. I know there are high-quality switches out there that cost a bit, but these weren't them. It was sad. The store was sad. There were very few actual components, mostly just electronics, headphones, phones, tablets. It's like Best Buy's weird little cousin.
To me Radio Shack is kind of like ACE hardware. I remember them as being the place to go for certain things, and I could always find something else to buy as well. ACE always had any nuts/bolts/etc. They had everything you needed, and some you didn't. Sure, there are sites like McMaster Carr and Fastenal but being able to get what you need when you need it is a great thing. I also still like the idea of a local store. That's why one of my favorite places these days is Rural King. They still have free popcorn from a machine, free coffee, and quite a good selection of nuts/bolts/hardware.
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