Thank you for actually answering the question after 5 other people just engaged in personal attacks. Glad to see civility is not completely dead on the internet.
When I tried it out this way, the device offered none of the helpful info that you just offered. I don't remember seeing printers attached to the scales at my local Giant - but maybe I just assumed the scales were as they always were and didn't look hard enough.
Still though - while quantitatively superior, I may qualitatively prefer to flirt with my wife for the 1 minute the cashier takes to do something I could do in 20 seconds. I dunno. I like being served. I worked in a grocery store in high school so I kinda hate doing that stuff myself nowadays:)
Let's see - grocery shopping as a 2 person job still takes me and my wife 2-3 hours. Delivery is $10 and for every $100 spent you get $0.10/G off your next gas purchase, so if we get $500 groceries in one order, we can fill both our cars up for $3.50/G instead of $4G. Is your money really that important to you?
Nevermind that this is essentially a personal attack from you because someone doesn't do things your way. Classy.
The quality of my produce is quite good, and I've comp'ed the prices before. Lemme know when you are capable of answering my original question - how do these things work with produce? There's not even a bar code. It often takes the cashier a full minute to figure out how to ring up things like bok choi.
I just doubt the extra profits would be passed on to me.
Also, I'm not willing to do self-checkout anywhere where it is offered. In fact - it's such bullshit in person that i always order mine online. I can't be trifled with running through all their annoying hoops. I thought self-checkout was bad enough, but this is even worse.
and how do you do produce where you weigh it? Yeah, i put mine down on a shelf within 5 minutes of picking it up and never used it again. This is why i usually get groceries delivered..
Wikileaks also revealed that they knew Bin Laden was alive all along - so when we had members of the administration stating that he died in Tora Bora, they were indeed hiding secrets that could endanger me.
Ahhh, using government secrecy and a gut feeling ("somebody died! they just won't tell us!") to prove government secrecy is valid. Nice circular logic. Buy tinfoil.
And if you're using the McCarthy era to justify hiding from the government now - then you're a victim of something that happened 50 years ago. Hysteria from the past. The KGB (and NSA) listened to phone calls - therefore nobody should use the phone. You certainly shouldn't talk politics on a phone ever! Shut your mouth like an obedient servant.
I could try some absurd comparisons here. Black people got beaten for holding hands with white people in the 1960s. Therefore, nobody should do that now. Something bad might happen. But such comparisons probably lead the conversation astray. I'm glad the american populace isn't so easily coddled into cowardly irrelevancy as you are.
As if an employer could find my FB photos. First off, I don't use my real name. Second off, if anybody tags me, the photo is automatically only available to my friends. Third off, making all of this irrelevant: I already post public photos that tell a LOT about me. But again, it's hard (but not impossible) to figure that out. And googling my name does not get to them. And it's not a common name, either.
What do you mean we will never know? Why would the military hide information that would turn public opinion against wikileaks? You don't seem to understand the politics of the situation very well if you think the military -- enemy of wikileaks -- would protect wikileaks by hiding information about deaths caused by wikileaks.
You've also failed to point out the fact that the main *innocent* people who die are not our Afghani sympathizers, but american soldiers and Afghan civilians. Want to save american lives? Get the fuck out of afghanistan. It's over.
You seem to be under the illusion that phone information is not collected in an automated fashion. You were around for the wiretapping stories, right?
And actually -- it's the ones *not* using facebook are the ones scared into submission by the government. The ones using facebook are living our lives with the tools at our disposal and not being chased away from them by big brother's scary shadow.
And believe me - I'm a distrustful motherfucker when it comes to the government and the technology war (my set of collected links on the topic). I just think that in this case, it's neo-Ludditeism. Which I admit I cannot spell.
Your address my point exactly: This information can be mined without anyone ever using Facebook. It's not Facebook-specific. Facebook (voluntary) is no more evil than the telephone (technically voluntary) or browser cookies (also voluntary).
Hyperbole. You've given no specifics. This could all be done with your phone and listening to your phone calls too. THe main determinant is whether an individual has the tact to not say incriminating things in places where they can be caught. This could be anything from your own diary to your phone to talking in front of a cop.
I've seen people get into big personal tiffs that destroy friendships, then seen people claim, "This wasn't possible before facebook." It's an extension of the same fallacy that this post is mostly about. Because of course nobody ever got in a big flamewar before FB came along! (rolls eyes)
Good points. *I* remember if someone is from my high school or not. When facebook got popular, I simply moved my yearbook next to my computer. And it's not like there aren't lists online. People just don't do their due diligence (with anything, not just facebook). Makes me sad.
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When I tried it out this way, the device offered none of the helpful info that you just offered. I don't remember seeing printers attached to the scales at my local Giant - but maybe I just assumed the scales were as they always were and didn't look hard enough.
Still though - while quantitatively superior, I may qualitatively prefer to flirt with my wife for the 1 minute the cashier takes to do something I could do in 20 seconds. I dunno. I like being served. I worked in a grocery store in high school so I kinda hate doing that stuff myself nowadays :)
Nevermind that this is essentially a personal attack from you because someone doesn't do things your way. Classy.
The quality of my produce is quite good, and I've comp'ed the prices before. Lemme know when you are capable of answering my original question - how do these things work with produce? There's not even a bar code. It often takes the cashier a full minute to figure out how to ring up things like bok choi.
Ah yes, another geek who insults someone who has a different opinion as them. That's why your crowd is renowned for its popularity.
Also, I'm not willing to do self-checkout anywhere where it is offered. In fact - it's such bullshit in person that i always order mine online. I can't be trifled with running through all their annoying hoops. I thought self-checkout was bad enough, but this is even worse.
First section in the store is produce. "How do you weigh this?" "I don't know." Left the device on a shelf... Back to Peapod delivery for me.
and how do you do produce where you weigh it? Yeah, i put mine down on a shelf within 5 minutes of picking it up and never used it again. This is why i usually get groceries delivered..
AWWWWWKWARD.
bwahahahhaha
INCEPTION!
How religious :)
Raiding every house? Huh? Did some news come out in the last 12 hours that I didn't read about? Link please.
So how is Wikileaks endangering me again, then?
Wikileaks also revealed that they knew Bin Laden was alive all along - so when we had members of the administration stating that he died in Tora Bora, they were indeed hiding secrets that could endanger me.
It's still quite an appeal to believing things without any evidence supporting it. Faith belongs in a church. (Which I set fire to.)
Ahhh, using government secrecy and a gut feeling ("somebody died! they just won't tell us!") to prove government secrecy is valid. Nice circular logic. Buy tinfoil.
I could try some absurd comparisons here. Black people got beaten for holding hands with white people in the 1960s. Therefore, nobody should do that now. Something bad might happen. But such comparisons probably lead the conversation astray. I'm glad the american populace isn't so easily coddled into cowardly irrelevancy as you are.
As if an employer could find my FB photos. First off, I don't use my real name. Second off, if anybody tags me, the photo is automatically only available to my friends. Third off, making all of this irrelevant: I already post public photos that tell a LOT about me. But again, it's hard (but not impossible) to figure that out. And googling my name does not get to them. And it's not a common name, either.
2) Gee, I couldn't possibly use another browser or computer, could I?
3) Beacon was shut down in 2009. But even then, it could be disabled.
Basically, my view is that you are utterly full of shit and have yet to submit any evidence to the contrary.
Gee, Robert Gates doesn't agree with you. ([more analysis]).
You've also failed to point out the fact that the main *innocent* people who die are not our Afghani sympathizers, but american soldiers and Afghan civilians. Want to save american lives? Get the fuck out of afghanistan. It's over.
Sounds to me like Wikileaks kept us from sitting on our ass and doing nothing despite our intelligence, like what happened in Tora Bora.
And actually -- it's the ones *not* using facebook are the ones scared into submission by the government. The ones using facebook are living our lives with the tools at our disposal and not being chased away from them by big brother's scary shadow.
And believe me - I'm a distrustful motherfucker when it comes to the government and the technology war (my set of collected links on the topic). I just think that in this case, it's neo-Ludditeism. Which I admit I cannot spell.
Your address my point exactly: This information can be mined without anyone ever using Facebook. It's not Facebook-specific. Facebook (voluntary) is no more evil than the telephone (technically voluntary) or browser cookies (also voluntary).
I've seen people get into big personal tiffs that destroy friendships, then seen people claim, "This wasn't possible before facebook." It's an extension of the same fallacy that this post is mostly about. Because of course nobody ever got in a big flamewar before FB came along! (rolls eyes)
And my facebook friend aren't public knowledge either. The public does not have access to that info.
Good points. *I* remember if someone is from my high school or not. When facebook got popular, I simply moved my yearbook next to my computer. And it's not like there aren't lists online. People just don't do their due diligence (with anything, not just facebook). Makes me sad.