As they are the only* option where I live how does that make me stupid. My apartments lease says no satellites (historic building) and they are the only game in the building. More like shafted than stupid.
Not counting cellular (more expensive and low data caps) and dial-up are not really options.
I know 1984 was about the extreme left, but these days the Newspeak seems to be coming from the other side (saving the internet, fake news, alternative facts, clean coal,... the list grows every day).
Curious, I always thought it was a parable of the resurrection of ultra right-wing Nazism..
It wasn't about the left or the right it was about extreme authoritarianism.
Might as well accept this simple reality of our Universe. Whatever this "child proof" algorithm is, children will circumvent it in ten minutes and then go on about their business of emptying your credit card and ruining your life.
How about simply ask for a pin or password when trying to buy or order? And parents not tell it to the childeren. Lock the ordering feature for ten or twenty minutes after five failed attempts. no fancy age detection algorithm needed. Strong passwords keep out adults so they should keep out the childeren.
The stats make sense though, in auto insurance statistically those under 25 are riskier drivers. In heath insurance and life insurance those that are older are statistically more expensive/less profitable.
and over 60 to but my active 90 year grandmother pays less than me even though she is a greater risk.
there are KKK and Neo-Nazi leaders on Facebook that haven't been banned yet.
Yes but banning the is the president wouldn't work. If he weren't allowed to spew shit online he would just call press conferences when he gets board and shat it out on TV. So they don't bother to kick him off.
Not a single person in this country wants to take a freaking train anywhere. I don't care how fast it goes.
Grow up.
I wanted to take it a few mothes ago because I am a bad driver and I know it would be safer/less streessful. But as It cost me twice as much one way a for two people as it did to drive both ways for two. So I drove anyway.
Any of course your situation applies universally to everyone. This is all a big scam by Democrats to raise your taxes.
They cold buy a crockpot and make beans, rice, lintels, or splitpeas. a 20 pound bag of dry pinto beans costs about 15 dollars and will feed adult for quiet a while.
The Hobbit should have never been 3 2 hour movies. Especially as LoTR was 3 2 hour moves.
That said, if Netflix can bring interesting stories to the canon, who the hell cares? Good stories are good, bad stories are bad.
Netflixs series were great when the first started making original series. Now it is mostly what ever crap they can get thee hands on to prop up there library (because the studios are trying to rape them on the licencing of there back catalogs). There are still a few gems comming out everynow and then but you cant count on everything they do to be amazing anymore.
However this is Amazon making these not Netflix and none of thier original series have been that great in my opinion.
So Cheers in space with a bit of Breaking Bad mixed in would watch. Or an black comedy about Garick he is a likeable DS9 charecter too, call it "Keeping Up with the Cardassians".
”According to CBS, the show will apparently find the crew of the USS Discovery in "unfamiliar territory," and they'll have to get creative about ways to return home.”
This is the episode where Kes and Neelix join the crew, right?
Oh yes Voyager seasons 1-4 the time we sat there uncomfortably watching Nelix the bumbling broom headed pedo alternate between ptsd flashbacks and obsessing over the attentions of the three year old Okompa (alien from planet jailbait) Kes... Then we get to season 5 where Kes explodes and we get to watch Janeway continue to endanger her crew during her ongoing child custody battle with the borg queen over their lesbian lovechild^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Seven of Nine. Oh and Nelix finds a new child to obsess over in the form of Naomi Wildman half alien born earlier in the series.
I was looking forward to seeing what a continuous plotline would look like in the Star Trek universe, or what happens when the reality of war sets in and the Federation can't hold on to its rules and ideals.
If you want to see what happens when the federation goes to war then you need to go watch Star Trek: Deep Space 9. Its main plot arc is the Dominion War the preludes starts in season 2 war stars in earnest in season 5 ends at the end of season 7.
If you want to see Star trek with a continuous plot-line go watch Star Trek: Enterprise Seasons 3 The Xindi Afterword you will know why there wern't any movies for seven years, or a Star Trek series on air for 12 years, despite having had multiple series (some concurrently) running for 18 years, and this season killed the franchise. It is bad, really bad.
I've never felt the need to join FB or other social media to date.
And yet, nevertheless, you just posted that thought on social media.
Check back later to see if you got modded up! Maybe getting some karma points (or replies that agree with you -- they're just as good as upmods!) will get you to come back for more.
I guess I've just never felt compelled to being a voluntary part of their product they sell.
Slashdot's advertisers should be unhappy to read this, but considering where they're reading it, I suspect their frowns might be upside-down.
Facebook Friends will never mod your post as "TROLL" or "FLAME-BAIT", let alone "OFF-TOPIC" or "REDUNDANT" or "OVERRATED". No negative feedback just thumbs up and smilliefaces and if someone posts that you full of shit you can just block them.
Could it be that "young" men just saw the prior generation(s) go through massive lay off's, lost their houses, their life savings and decided, "screw this, if the reward can be taken away like that, why the F should I work so hard?"
Really IMHO American corporations have themselves to blame for this. They have done a very good job of removing any kind of job security, chased profits for the sake of chasing profits, off-shored, out-sourced, missed en masse why claiming it was "necessary". Yeah I get it.
I know thats where I am. My Father worked 50-80 hour weeks when I was young I watched him get screwed over by his boss and work himself into a nervous breakdown on one job and is on his way to another at his current job at which he works 50 to 60 hour weeks. It took him decades to pay off student loans and has little retirement to speak of. My Grandfather was a company man worked for them same company after getting out of college paid for by the GI bill, he was laid off just a few years before he could retire.
Fuck that. They both had the shitty work life balance I want to enjoy life, see my as yet hypothetical children I don't care if we have one used car instead of two newer ones. I can walk bike or take a bus to work/store, I don't need a big house when an apartment/small home will do. Employers don't give a shit about us and look at us like swap-able replaceable cogs. You give me scraps form the rich-mans table well I just do the bare minimum then. It is still better than the shit work my borderline retarded coworker do so I still look good to my boss why waste the extra effort.
Once the boomers start to die off en masse there will be a lot of homes available. Look for housing prices to fall.
The average life expectancy in the US is 78.94 lets call it 80 as it is a nice round number. the baby boom started in 1946 ending in 1964 so average boomer was born in 1955. the the should start dying in numbers around 2035. So the menials (1980-1995) wont be able to buy their homes until they are in their mid 40s to 50s.
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I think using a bunch of photos would easily solve the problem of conveying what humanity looks like as a whole.
According to Young Earth Creationists, you only need an image of the cross.
Unless they are Jewish or Muslim, or...
As they are the only* option where I live how does that make me stupid. My apartments lease says no satellites (historic building) and they are the only game in the building. More like shafted than stupid.
Not counting cellular (more expensive and low data caps) and dial-up are not really options.
I know 1984 was about the extreme left, but these days the Newspeak seems to be coming from the other side (saving the internet, fake news, alternative facts, clean coal, ... the list grows every day).
Curious, I always thought it was a parable of the resurrection of ultra right-wing Nazism..
It wasn't about the left or the right it was about extreme authoritarianism.
Might as well accept this simple reality of our Universe. Whatever this "child proof" algorithm is, children will circumvent it in ten minutes and then go on about their business of emptying your credit card and ruining your life.
How about simply ask for a pin or password when trying to buy or order? And parents not tell it to the childeren. Lock the ordering feature for ten or twenty minutes after five failed attempts. no fancy age detection algorithm needed. Strong passwords keep out adults so they should keep out the childeren.
See: Reddit. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than a social networking site with this kind of unlimited feedback system.
Oh you naive summer child. I take it you have never been to /b/ before.
The stats make sense though, in auto insurance statistically those under 25 are riskier drivers. In heath insurance and life insurance those that are older are statistically more expensive/less profitable.
and over 60 to but my active 90 year grandmother pays less than me even though she is a greater risk.
there are KKK and Neo-Nazi leaders on Facebook that haven't been banned yet.
Yes but banning the is the president wouldn't work. If he weren't allowed to spew shit online he would just call press conferences when he gets board and shat it out on TV. So they don't bother to kick him off.
I'm not sure if you've ever flown a full sized drone indoors.
driver-less electric pallet-jack
What is it with your pathological rail fixation?
Not a single person in this country wants to take a freaking train anywhere. I don't care how fast it goes.
Grow up.
I wanted to take it a few mothes ago because I am a bad driver and I know it would be safer/less streessful. But as It cost me twice as much one way a for two people as it did to drive both ways for two. So I drove anyway.
eww, interracial computer porn. :(
is nothing sacred?
gives a whole new meaning to big-endian.
Two things you need to understand about the Free Software Foundation is the definition of free software and the fact that they encourage everybody to profit by selling free software.
BSD takes issue with how restrictive a the FSF GNU license is.
Any of course your situation applies universally to everyone. This is all a big scam by Democrats to raise your taxes.
They cold buy a crockpot and make beans, rice, lintels, or splitpeas. a 20 pound bag of dry pinto beans costs about 15 dollars and will feed adult for quiet a while.
Why did Brooks even need Lucas' blessing to make his parody?
Because Lucas did the special effects.
The Hobbit should have never been 3 2 hour movies. Especially as LoTR was 3 2 hour moves.
That said, if Netflix can bring interesting stories to the canon, who the hell cares? Good stories are good, bad stories are bad.
Netflixs series were great when the first started making original series. Now it is mostly what ever crap they can get thee hands on to prop up there library (because the studios are trying to rape them on the licencing of there back catalogs). There are still a few gems comming out everynow and then but you cant count on everything they do to be amazing anymore.
However this is Amazon making these not Netflix and none of thier original series have been that great in my opinion.
Season 3 of enterprise is relatively good, although there are a few bad filler episodes, including the abysmal "North star".
It was cancelled in season 4.
did anyone watch it though?
I want a show about Quark's bar.
So Cheers in space with a bit of Breaking Bad mixed in would watch.
Or an black comedy about Garick he is a likeable DS9 charecter too, call it "Keeping Up with the Cardassians".
”According to CBS, the show will apparently find the crew of the USS Discovery in "unfamiliar territory," and they'll have to get creative about ways to return home.”
This is the episode where Kes and Neelix join the crew, right?
Oh yes Voyager seasons 1-4 the time we sat there uncomfortably watching Nelix the bumbling broom headed pedo alternate between ptsd flashbacks and obsessing over the attentions of the three year old Okompa (alien from planet jailbait) Kes...
Then we get to season 5 where Kes explodes and we get to watch Janeway continue to endanger her crew during her ongoing child custody battle with the borg queen over their lesbian lovechild^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Seven of Nine. Oh and Nelix finds a new child to obsess over in the form of Naomi Wildman half alien born earlier in the series.
I was looking forward to seeing what a continuous plotline would look like in the Star Trek universe, or what happens when the reality of war sets in and the Federation can't hold on to its rules and ideals.
If you want to see what happens when the federation goes to war then you need to go watch Star Trek: Deep Space 9. Its main plot arc is the Dominion War the preludes starts in season 2 war stars in earnest in season 5 ends at the end of season 7.
If you want to see Star trek with a continuous plot-line go watch Star Trek: Enterprise Seasons 3 The Xindi Afterword you will know why there wern't any movies for seven years, or a Star Trek series on air for 12 years, despite having had multiple series (some concurrently) running for 18 years, and this season killed the franchise. It is bad, really bad.
making it a very appealing target for malware to exploit ironicly.
And yet, nevertheless, you just posted that thought on social media.
Check back later to see if you got modded up! Maybe getting some karma points (or replies that agree with you -- they're just as good as upmods!) will get you to come back for more.
Slashdot's advertisers should be unhappy to read this, but considering where they're reading it, I suspect their frowns might be upside-down.
Facebook Friends will never mod your post as "TROLL" or "FLAME-BAIT", let alone "OFF-TOPIC" or "REDUNDANT" or "OVERRATED". No negative feedback just thumbs up and smilliefaces and if someone posts that you full of shit you can just block them.
I would give you one of my mod points if I hadn't already commented
Could it be that "young" men just saw the prior generation(s) go through massive lay off's, lost their houses, their life savings and decided, "screw this, if the reward can be taken away like that, why the F should I work so hard?"
Really IMHO American corporations have themselves to blame for this. They have done a very good job of removing any kind of job security, chased profits for the sake of chasing profits, off-shored, out-sourced, missed en masse why claiming it was "necessary". Yeah I get it.
I know thats where I am.
My Father worked 50-80 hour weeks when I was young I watched him get screwed over by his boss and work himself into a nervous breakdown on one job and is on his way to another at his current job at which he works 50 to 60 hour weeks. It took him decades to pay off student loans and has little retirement to speak of.
My Grandfather was a company man worked for them same company after getting out of college paid for by the GI bill, he was laid off just a few years before he could retire.
Fuck that. They both had the shitty work life balance I want to enjoy life, see my as yet hypothetical children I don't care if we have one used car instead of two newer ones. I can walk bike or take a bus to work/store, I don't need a big house when an apartment/small home will do.
Employers don't give a shit about us and look at us like swap-able replaceable cogs. You give me scraps form the rich-mans table well I just do the bare minimum then. It is still better than the shit work my borderline retarded coworker do so I still look good to my boss why waste the extra effort.
The important question appears to be "why aren't men motivated to work harder"?
Why work past the point of diminishing returns?
Once the boomers start to die off en masse there will be a lot of homes available. Look for housing prices to fall.
The average life expectancy in the US is 78.94 lets call it 80 as it is a nice round number. the baby boom started in 1946 ending in 1964 so average boomer was born in 1955. the the should start dying in numbers around 2035. So the menials (1980-1995) wont be able to buy their homes until they are in their mid 40s to 50s.
I wonder what the world would look like if there was just engineers and scientists. Maybe we should revolt?
everyone would starve because there would be no farmers to grow food.