It's sad in a way that things have pretty much reached the point where it's all but impossible to make money with music other than by touring or otherwise playing live...perhaps in a way that's a good thing.
Hell yeah, it's a good thing. Everybody has to work every day and pinch and scrimp to save for their retirement; why should musicians be any different?
Most people are actually really stupid, and continue to buy the $1 bulbs because they're "cheaper", not realizing the real difference is $121 per year vs. $23 per year. I'm suspecting that you'd be smart enough to eventually decide "the light from this $1 bulb isn't worth the extra $98 per year."
You would be wrong. You are arguing with a person who says that he leaves on extra lights in his house unnecessarily to rail against the 'authoritarians.'
Interesting that there doesn't seem to be a password in that report. Since a lot of people use the same password for everything, you would think that would be demanded.
Or maybe they actually hash the passwords like they should.
For a cost of somewhere in the neighborhood of $12,000-14,000, it's possible to convert a gasoline engine into one that runs on compressed natural gas instead.
It's can be even cheaper than that. A Civic GX CNG sedan is about $5,500 more than a similarly-equipped gasoline-powered Civic (before incentives.)
He slammed into the side of the bus, hitting it at the rear door. The only damage on the bus was that the door jammed. The passengers all walked off without injuries. The driver of the car was loaded up on a back board to be delivered to the hospital. Judging by the fact the front of his car was 3 feet shorter than it would have started at, I'd say he needed the hospital.
Unfortunately, that's the rallying cry of people who "need" to drive 6,000 pound Hummers. "But what if I get T-boned by a car? I need a big truck!" Okay, well what if you get T-boned by a Hummer? Guess you need a bread truck. But what if your bread truck gets T-boned by an 18-wheeler? Better get a railroad switcher and put rubber tires on it!
Interestingly, he hit you on the back corner. Had you been driving a car, he would have missed you completely, and nobody would have ended up in the hospital at all. Not an argument; just an observation.
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Now, will people die in accidents that they would have survived had they been in a larger car? Yes. However, will people/avoid/ potentially fatal accidents that they would have been in had there been a larger car on either side? Yes.
I think most of those probably would have been saved in a NEWER car, perhaps. Today's small cars are significantly safer than even those built in the early 90's.
This reminds me of that famous "Not so Smart now!" picture of a Smart car smashed between two big rigs. Not only was the picture NOT of a Smart, but there is probably NO car short of a bread truck that would have survived such a collision..
Get the government out of private business. I've seen how well the government runs things like the postal service and how well they are maintaining our bridges. Let them focus on the jobs they were mandated to perform and keep out of dictating to private businesses how they should run their factories.
I agree. We haven't had a good river fire in decades and it's all the government's fucking fault.
Cool. Now that you don't have to monkey with it every two months, can we get PowerPC support added back to LTS? Some of us are stuck in the past with no way to a secure browser.
Which if you think about it is pretty pathetic. Diesel cars have been able to get that for years. There are definitely places like Minnesota where diesel is a lot less realistic, but hybrids aren't going to make much sense there either as batteries don't like the cold any more than diesel does.
That's only true for lead-acid batteries; most other chemistries are fine with the cold. And that diesel would get the same advantages from hybridization as gasoline engines.
When any car company relies on "EPA Testing" to make it's mileage claims, they are based on the same unrealistic driving conditions and restrictions as the hybrid manufacturers.
Car manufacturers are REQUIRED to use the EPA numbers. It's ILLEGAL to use anything else. So why are the car manufacturers being sued again?
The problem I see with a lot of these types of articles, they are written by (and comments like this made by) people that have not experienced the west. The snow, the mountains, etc. Most people I know, have 4wd vehicles. That is because 2wd, even front wheel drive, are not good at handling really bad roads.
Apparently you've never actually driven on those mountain roads. When I lived there, I drove, at different times, a '90 Accord, a '94 Metro and a '91 Imperial. I managed to go 10 winters in those vehicles, and only didn't make it to work twice (once when the snowfall was so heavy that three of the four roads off the mountain were closed, and once when a chain broke when I tried to extend its life to a third season.) Yet, nearly every vehicle I saw in the ditch was a 4WD truck or SUV.
And as somebody else pointed out, people have lived and driven in those conditions for decades before the truck and SUV craze, and people managed to get to work just fine in even RWD cars and station wagons.
I've NEVER seen an SUV that had trouble getting over speed-bumps. If you are talking about vehicles cut down, you are not looking at a SUV. You are looking at a toy.
I see nothing but SUVs crawling at tiny speeds over speed bumps. I think it's mainly because unladen SUVs and trucks have such a harsh ride that the owners don't want to spill their lattes or jar their veneers loose by going over the bumps at a reasonable speed.
And yet my 21-year-old Accord manages to go over speed bumps and curbs and through snow just fine with 347,000 miles on the clock. (Shocks last replaced 175,000 miles ago and still working fine.) The only "toy cars" that have problems with speed bumps are those that have been lowered.
I can't afford 2 cars. Jumping gas prices would just hurt me. I don't think that FORCING higher gas prices via taxation is a good idea. As it has been shown. With our economy, jumping the gas prices also sends us into a recession.
I heard that from a coworker. He was complaining that gas in his jacked up $40,000 truck cost $800 a month. He wasn't too happy when I told him that if he had bought a $30,000 truck instead, he could have bought a brand new Rio or Versa and kept the same overall payment... and pocketed the gas savings. Hell, now he could probably buy a two-year-old car and make the payment just on his gas savings, but it's a threat to his manhood to drive anything but the biggest vehicle on the road.
Many of us have to drive to various locations during the day to perform our work. I'm a field engineer fixing retail networks. I have to carry tools, wire, connectors, sometimes even a ladder. There is no mass transit that is going to work for me. And no, I don't have a company truck, it's just me and my '93 Saturn that I put about 3k miles on each month. I just put over 2k into the car, new shocks, belts, etc., so I can keep driving something that gets 35ish MPG.
What? You can't do that in a small car! You need a truck--at least a half ton with 4WD!
At least, that's what the "real man" crowd here is saying.
Ya know the reason why many people drive SUVs has nothing to do with the fact that they're "self-indulgent rich dicks". It has to do with the fact that they need to move more than just their fat ass around town. For example they might need to move their fat ass children or they might be moving their fat ass along with all their construction equipment to a work site. I'm not contesting the fact that they're all fat.
I think "many" is overstating it. Nearly all of the pickup trucks I see don't have so much as a scratch in the bed, and probably 75% of the SUVs have never been shifted into 4WD.
My favorite excuse is "I need it to haul my boat!" Unless you're taking your boat to work every day, park the damn truck and buy a used car to get to work.
Where I live, I see a lot more lower income people driving around Expeditions, Escalades and Navigators. The wealthier people tend to buy high dollar sedans or hybrids.
Really poor people have '90s era Sedans or SUVs that get just as bad gas mileage as a modern land barge.
So people at every income level make stupid choices. I'm sure that lower income person isn't driving a Navigator because it was the only $1,000 car in the classifieds...
And the 90's weren't necessarily inherently bad. My '90 Accord gets 32 mpg in regular driving, and my grandmother's '91 Buick Century got 30 mpg on the highway.
So if my Treo dies in such a way that it doesn't make economic sense to repair it (I've made minor repairs on its keyboard so far), it could potentially make economic sense to switch to a feature phone with a decent browser so I could stay on the plan, rather than paying the smart phone surcharge.
Or pick up three or four spare Treos now while you still can and stick them in the closet.
Plenty of jobs have similar levels of responsibility. Do you want everyone at your credit card company heading out Friday at 5pm, disconnected til 8am Monday? I like the idea that their fraud department does work, and if my card is compromised, I may get a call regarding it. IT at the same company is important. There may be a few upset customers and vendors, if Visa goes down Friday afternoon, and can't process any transactions until Monday morning.
The difference is that the credit card company works their people on 8 hour shifts, and hires as many staggered shifts as needed to cover all of the required hours. If a company truly needs that kind of coverage, they need to hire enough staff or contract out with a support company to provide enough workers to cover those hours. Simply forcing your one IT guy to answer his phone 24/7 gets you nothing but a frustrated and burned out IT guy.
The secular government people want to have people of faith to bury that faith and only practice or show it behind closed doors.
No; they just want them to stop forcing their faith onto others. Christians are actively pushing their agenda onto the government and into businesses. Sorry if the backlash against that is a little too harsh for their sensitivities.
My parents both had a belief and faith in God, but never disowned me for differing from there views. Maybe because they were taught some core Christian values of tolerance, love and forgiveness that seems to defy a lot of debate on the issue at hand.
If they tithed to a Christian church or voted for Christian candidates and initiatives, they pushed that agenda, even if they didn't do it out loud.
This. As a moderate atheist, I find the more fanatical atheists just as distasteful as fanatical Christians, Muslims, Jews or whoever. We'd all be better off if we could all remember to show to others of different faiths (or no faith) the same basic considerations we'd like shown to ourselves.
Sorry, but only one side of this argument is installing their icons on public land and in government processes, preventing people from marrying (or fucking) the people they love, pushing for delusional fantasies to be taught as fact in public schools and trying to rewrite history to make this country their exclusive domain.
I considered the whole thing subject to the same confidentiality restrictions as a doctor
And this is probably the sort of attitude we should be adopting. IT sort of has the back door keys to everything, since we are the people who write the code and maintain the servers.
I always make quite clear to management what I have access to, when I will need to exercise that access, and that I understand the implications of that access. I also make clear to all employees who store personal data on their machines that not only does IT have access, but that the information is stored in perpetuity on tapes and drives even long after they are (or I am) gone, so they should assume the risk when doing personal stuff on company machines.
I find that the CEOs are much more comfortable with my position knowing not only that I have such access, but that I made sure they know that I have the access.
That's amazingly cheap. I don't know how you'd do it any cheaper outsourced. Microsoft is $8.80/user in qty. 20,000, and while Google starts at $4.17/user, I couldn't imagine that even 70,000 accounts could bring down the price that much.
I don't care about the answer to that question as long as I'm allowed to purchase my garbage service from another provider.
Some municipalities legally forbid private companies from competing with the municipal service.
Maybe they didn't want 14 different trucks driving past the same set of houses every week.
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But they still want to ban gay marriage and abortion, right? Just want to make sure we're talking about the same freedom-loving Libertarians, here.
It's sad in a way that things have pretty much reached the point where it's all but impossible to make money with music other than by touring or otherwise playing live...perhaps in a way that's a good thing.
Hell yeah, it's a good thing. Everybody has to work every day and pinch and scrimp to save for their retirement; why should musicians be any different?
Most people are actually really stupid, and continue to buy the $1 bulbs because they're "cheaper", not realizing the real difference is $121 per year vs. $23 per year. I'm suspecting that you'd be smart enough to eventually decide "the light from this $1 bulb isn't worth the extra $98 per year."
You would be wrong. You are arguing with a person who says that he leaves on extra lights in his house unnecessarily to rail against the 'authoritarians.'
Interesting that there doesn't seem to be a password in that report. Since a lot of people use the same password for everything, you would think that would be demanded.
Or maybe they actually hash the passwords like they should.
For a cost of somewhere in the neighborhood of $12,000-14,000, it's possible to convert a gasoline engine into one that runs on compressed natural gas instead.
It's can be even cheaper than that. A Civic GX CNG sedan is about $5,500 more than a similarly-equipped gasoline-powered Civic (before incentives.)
Jobs is dead, and as some would have it, God created him.
In the US, God isn't taxed either.
He slammed into the side of the bus, hitting it at the rear door. The only damage on the bus was that the door jammed. The passengers all walked off without injuries. The driver of the car was loaded up on a back board to be delivered to the hospital. Judging by the fact the front of his car was 3 feet shorter than it would have started at, I'd say he needed the hospital.
Unfortunately, that's the rallying cry of people who "need" to drive 6,000 pound Hummers. "But what if I get T-boned by a car? I need a big truck!" Okay, well what if you get T-boned by a Hummer? Guess you need a bread truck. But what if your bread truck gets T-boned by an 18-wheeler? Better get a railroad switcher and put rubber tires on it!
Interestingly, he hit you on the back corner. Had you been driving a car, he would have missed you completely, and nobody would have ended up in the hospital at all. Not an argument; just an observation.
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Now, will people die in accidents that they would have survived had they been in a larger car? Yes. However, will people /avoid/ potentially fatal accidents that they would have been in had there been a larger car on either side? Yes.
I think most of those probably would have been saved in a NEWER car, perhaps. Today's small cars are significantly safer than even those built in the early 90's.
This reminds me of that famous "Not so Smart now!" picture of a Smart car smashed between two big rigs. Not only was the picture NOT of a Smart, but there is probably NO car short of a bread truck that would have survived such a collision..
cause the occupants of an SUV wont be killed if they hit a brick in the road
Except that they'll all die in the rollover crash from when that bricks blows a tire, upsets their balance or, god forbid, they swerve to avoid it.
Get the government out of private business. I've seen how well the government runs things like the postal service and how well they are maintaining our bridges. Let them focus on the jobs they were mandated to perform and keep out of dictating to private businesses how they should run their factories.
I agree. We haven't had a good river fire in decades and it's all the government's fucking fault.
Cool. Now that you don't have to monkey with it every two months, can we get PowerPC support added back to LTS? Some of us are stuck in the past with no way to a secure browser.
Which if you think about it is pretty pathetic. Diesel cars have been able to get that for years. There are definitely places like Minnesota where diesel is a lot less realistic, but hybrids aren't going to make much sense there either as batteries don't like the cold any more than diesel does.
That's only true for lead-acid batteries; most other chemistries are fine with the cold. And that diesel would get the same advantages from hybridization as gasoline engines.
When any car company relies on "EPA Testing" to make it's mileage claims, they are based on the same unrealistic driving conditions and restrictions as the hybrid manufacturers.
Car manufacturers are REQUIRED to use the EPA numbers. It's ILLEGAL to use anything else. So why are the car manufacturers being sued again?
The problem I see with a lot of these types of articles, they are written by (and comments like this made by) people that have not experienced the west. The snow, the mountains, etc. Most people I know, have 4wd vehicles. That is because 2wd, even front wheel drive, are not good at handling really bad roads.
Apparently you've never actually driven on those mountain roads. When I lived there, I drove, at different times, a '90 Accord, a '94 Metro and a '91 Imperial. I managed to go 10 winters in those vehicles, and only didn't make it to work twice (once when the snowfall was so heavy that three of the four roads off the mountain were closed, and once when a chain broke when I tried to extend its life to a third season.) Yet, nearly every vehicle I saw in the ditch was a 4WD truck or SUV. And as somebody else pointed out, people have lived and driven in those conditions for decades before the truck and SUV craze, and people managed to get to work just fine in even RWD cars and station wagons.
I've NEVER seen an SUV that had trouble getting over speed-bumps. If you are talking about vehicles cut down, you are not looking at a SUV. You are looking at a toy.
I see nothing but SUVs crawling at tiny speeds over speed bumps. I think it's mainly because unladen SUVs and trucks have such a harsh ride that the owners don't want to spill their lattes or jar their veneers loose by going over the bumps at a reasonable speed.
And yet my 21-year-old Accord manages to go over speed bumps and curbs and through snow just fine with 347,000 miles on the clock. (Shocks last replaced 175,000 miles ago and still working fine.) The only "toy cars" that have problems with speed bumps are those that have been lowered.
I can't afford 2 cars. Jumping gas prices would just hurt me. I don't think that FORCING higher gas prices via taxation is a good idea. As it has been shown. With our economy, jumping the gas prices also sends us into a recession.
I heard that from a coworker. He was complaining that gas in his jacked up $40,000 truck cost $800 a month. He wasn't too happy when I told him that if he had bought a $30,000 truck instead, he could have bought a brand new Rio or Versa and kept the same overall payment... and pocketed the gas savings. Hell, now he could probably buy a two-year-old car and make the payment just on his gas savings, but it's a threat to his manhood to drive anything but the biggest vehicle on the road.
Many of us have to drive to various locations during the day to perform our work. I'm a field engineer fixing retail networks. I have to carry tools, wire, connectors, sometimes even a ladder. There is no mass transit that is going to work for me. And no, I don't have a company truck, it's just me and my '93 Saturn that I put about 3k miles on each month. I just put over 2k into the car, new shocks, belts, etc., so I can keep driving something that gets 35ish MPG.
What? You can't do that in a small car! You need a truck--at least a half ton with 4WD!
At least, that's what the "real man" crowd here is saying.
Ya know the reason why many people drive SUVs has nothing to do with the fact that they're "self-indulgent rich dicks". It has to do with the fact that they need to move more than just their fat ass around town. For example they might need to move their fat ass children or they might be moving their fat ass along with all their construction equipment to a work site. I'm not contesting the fact that they're all fat.
I think "many" is overstating it. Nearly all of the pickup trucks I see don't have so much as a scratch in the bed, and probably 75% of the SUVs have never been shifted into 4WD.
My favorite excuse is "I need it to haul my boat!" Unless you're taking your boat to work every day, park the damn truck and buy a used car to get to work.
Where I live, I see a lot more lower income people driving around Expeditions, Escalades and Navigators. The wealthier people tend to buy high dollar sedans or hybrids. Really poor people have '90s era Sedans or SUVs that get just as bad gas mileage as a modern land barge.
So people at every income level make stupid choices. I'm sure that lower income person isn't driving a Navigator because it was the only $1,000 car in the classifieds...
And the 90's weren't necessarily inherently bad. My '90 Accord gets 32 mpg in regular driving, and my grandmother's '91 Buick Century got 30 mpg on the highway.
So if my Treo dies in such a way that it doesn't make economic sense to repair it (I've made minor repairs on its keyboard so far), it could potentially make economic sense to switch to a feature phone with a decent browser so I could stay on the plan, rather than paying the smart phone surcharge.
Or pick up three or four spare Treos now while you still can and stick them in the closet.
Plenty of jobs have similar levels of responsibility. Do you want everyone at your credit card company heading out Friday at 5pm, disconnected til 8am Monday? I like the idea that their fraud department does work, and if my card is compromised, I may get a call regarding it. IT at the same company is important. There may be a few upset customers and vendors, if Visa goes down Friday afternoon, and can't process any transactions until Monday morning.
The difference is that the credit card company works their people on 8 hour shifts, and hires as many staggered shifts as needed to cover all of the required hours. If a company truly needs that kind of coverage, they need to hire enough staff or contract out with a support company to provide enough workers to cover those hours. Simply forcing your one IT guy to answer his phone 24/7 gets you nothing but a frustrated and burned out IT guy.
The secular government people want to have people of faith to bury that faith and only practice or show it behind closed doors.
No; they just want them to stop forcing their faith onto others. Christians are actively pushing their agenda onto the government and into businesses. Sorry if the backlash against that is a little too harsh for their sensitivities.
My parents both had a belief and faith in God, but never disowned me for differing from there views. Maybe because they were taught some core Christian values of tolerance, love and forgiveness that seems to defy a lot of debate on the issue at hand.
If they tithed to a Christian church or voted for Christian candidates and initiatives, they pushed that agenda, even if they didn't do it out loud.
This. As a moderate atheist, I find the more fanatical atheists just as distasteful as fanatical Christians, Muslims, Jews or whoever. We'd all be better off if we could all remember to show to others of different faiths (or no faith) the same basic considerations we'd like shown to ourselves.
Sorry, but only one side of this argument is installing their icons on public land and in government processes, preventing people from marrying (or fucking) the people they love, pushing for delusional fantasies to be taught as fact in public schools and trying to rewrite history to make this country their exclusive domain.
I considered the whole thing subject to the same confidentiality restrictions as a doctor
And this is probably the sort of attitude we should be adopting. IT sort of has the back door keys to everything, since we are the people who write the code and maintain the servers.
I always make quite clear to management what I have access to, when I will need to exercise that access, and that I understand the implications of that access. I also make clear to all employees who store personal data on their machines that not only does IT have access, but that the information is stored in perpetuity on tapes and drives even long after they are (or I am) gone, so they should assume the risk when doing personal stuff on company machines.
I find that the CEOs are much more comfortable with my position knowing not only that I have such access, but that I made sure they know that I have the access.
That's amazingly cheap. I don't know how you'd do it any cheaper outsourced. Microsoft is $8.80/user in qty. 20,000, and while Google starts at $4.17/user, I couldn't imagine that even 70,000 accounts could bring down the price that much.
I don't care about the answer to that question as long as I'm allowed to purchase my garbage service from another provider. Some municipalities legally forbid private companies from competing with the municipal service.
Maybe they didn't want 14 different trucks driving past the same set of houses every week.