even though the catalogs may have "had everything", you didnt order "everything". only things you couldnt get locally, even if local meant a 10/20 mile horde/buggy ride to town. which they did regularly, whether regularly was once a month or once a week. hell, as it was delivery was to the town, not your door, so you still had to go get it.
we're getting mroe and more to the point where you physically cannot get things locally. the big box stores pushed out the local vendors with cheap plastic crap. and now even the big box stores are slowly being pushed out by the online stores.
how many people still think they need the biggest fastest computer, or the biggest fattest internet "tube", or the biggest highest number of horsepower under the hood of their car, or having to have unlimited data and inifinte phone minutes, and on and on, and that the prices they pay for these things is reasonable? to the average consumer everything is magic, they just dont acknowledge it as such because they know someone somewhere knows more about it than them, and will write helpful information (such as reviews). but for all intents and purposes, it already is "magic" to them, or might as well be; the only reason it islnt, is because they know it isnt.
i do some stuff myself too. mostly cause i like to tinker. But that's me. but i'm just pointing out that as long as guys like Bob/Mike exist and charge a reasonable rate, its just another logical division of labor that frees me to do something else if i wish to.
You may rethink that once you've loved one person so intensely that life without them is unbearable. Such passion does exist, and some of us are lucky enough to experience it in our lifetime. And life after that person is gone is very pale, and frankly uninteresting, regardless of our other interests. It's easier to want to live forever if you never have any real attachments and are relatively aloof caring more about your own interests and pleasures than those around you (in fact, that's a thread of much scifi on the subject).
two other checks and balances missing from Congress:
-the Senate became (or became viewed as) another group of representatives elected by the public, rather than a semi-leadership house intented to counter and restrain the self-indulgent wishes of the Houseof Representitive. Remember, they used to be appointed (rather, was left up to individual states, most of whom appointed them via the Legislature...this is also another weakening of the state legislatures as well); only the House was direct representitive of the voters. A Senate-not-a-representive then acts as a restraint on the public's whims of fancy, so when the public says "give us all tons of chocolate!" and the house is obligated (in theory as representtives) to say "give the people chocolate", the senate acts as a counter saying "but you'll be all night/we cant afford it/its not good for you". the idea being that things would only be passed when both houses agree on the need for something. now that is largely gone, and the senate is simply 100 more representatives catering to the public.
-the party "system". loyalty isnt to the public, outside of election time, but to the party ideals. rather than the representiitve align himself to the public and represent their interests/wishes, they instead align themselves to a party, and the partys make the mjor policy decisions, and the public is expected to choose a party to side with, along with everything else they stand for. its backwards. its hard to legally stop parties (free association and whatnot) but like many meta-organization they soon take on lives of their own, and no longer pay heed to the people that originally brought them into existence, with the result being representitives that don't represent their voters.
you seem to be under the impression "corps as people" is a recent thing done by a corrupt SCOTUS to appease their overlords.
"corporations as people" was a logical and elegant solution to multiple problems regarding contracts in the early to mid 1800's. unenforcable contracts, legislatures trying to negate contracts, and attempts by powers that be to limit the freedom of corporations to exist/do business, being the main culprits.
Its inevitable growth to a problem we see today was not forseen by all, or otherwise expected to be curbed by others.
in other words: try reading a little case law and get a clue before engaging the Hyperbole Generator 2000
there is no such thing as the two party system, even though they even teach such things in school nowadays. the parties are not part of the system. they are not codified nor endorsed by the rules of the system.
they are simply the logical and inevitable result any such system. we once had multiple parties, hell we still do, but just like a totally free market tends toward monopoly, any simple majority voting system tends toward two ideological parties.
Mod up. nearly this entire comment section is people not RTFA and bitching about nothing because they dont even understand what is going on. in other words.. just another day on/.
i wonder, do those numbers also include the processing and long term storage (as well as the construction of the proposed underground sotrage bunkers) of the waste?
your quaint concept of "cargo" amuses me. as does the concept of having to choose between a helper to load/unload said cargo, and the actual cargo itself.
note that i dont know the right size to power a home of 4. i just like the concept of having a single "fuel" bill, versus 3 (gasoline for the cars, natural gas for the furnace/water tank, electricity for everything else), and a source that uses it that pretty much goes everywhere I go, outside of hiking/running trips.
a car as a home "generator". now that is actually makes some sense and is an interesting idea. if you aren't home, you really dont need that much juice at home. enough to heat the water so its ready when you get home (solar heater works fine). maybe run the computer/netowrk while you're gone, dpeending how much downloading/processing yuo need while you're out.
why should they? what good does any of that knowledge do when there guys named Bob or Mike willing to do all that for you for only 15$, both faster and cheaper than you could yourself, while you go do something else with your time?
Because their troops are some of the most badass in the world. You know their troops are the ones we know as the Gurkha's right? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurkha ) UN asked for troops, Nepal volunteered some of theirs, UN said "ok". (theyve volunteered for almost every major UN operation) Gurkhas, being the tough SOB's they are, weren't gonna let a little stomach bug get in their way.
That was it's mission: to destabilize the political climate by giving her an aura of expertise that would appeal to her voter base. A false flag political self-martyrdom.
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even though the catalogs may have "had everything", you didnt order "everything". only things you couldnt get locally, even if local meant a 10/20 mile horde/buggy ride to town. which they did regularly, whether regularly was once a month or once a week. hell, as it was delivery was to the town, not your door, so you still had to go get it.
we're getting mroe and more to the point where you physically cannot get things locally. the big box stores pushed out the local vendors with cheap plastic crap. and now even the big box stores are slowly being pushed out by the online stores.
and it's not now?
how many people still think they need the biggest fastest computer, or the biggest fattest internet "tube", or the biggest highest number of horsepower under the hood of their car, or having to have unlimited data and inifinte phone minutes, and on and on, and that the prices they pay for these things is reasonable? to the average consumer everything is magic, they just dont acknowledge it as such because they know someone somewhere knows more about it than them, and will write helpful information (such as reviews). but for all intents and purposes, it already is "magic" to them, or might as well be; the only reason it islnt, is because they know it isnt.
mod up
i do some stuff myself too. mostly cause i like to tinker. But that's me.
but i'm just pointing out that as long as guys like Bob/Mike exist and charge a reasonable rate, its just another logical division of labor that frees me to do something else if i wish to.
You may rethink that once you've loved one person so intensely that life without them is unbearable. Such passion does exist, and some of us are lucky enough to experience it in our lifetime. And life after that person is gone is very pale, and frankly uninteresting, regardless of our other interests. It's easier to want to live forever if you never have any real attachments and are relatively aloof caring more about your own interests and pleasures than those around you (in fact, that's a thread of much scifi on the subject).
sounds kind of like the Dosadi Experiement, though not quite. IIRC.
two other checks and balances missing from Congress:
-the Senate became (or became viewed as) another group of representatives elected by the public, rather than a semi-leadership house intented to counter and restrain the self-indulgent wishes of the Houseof Representitive. Remember, they used to be appointed (rather, was left up to individual states, most of whom appointed them via the Legislature...this is also another weakening of the state legislatures as well); only the House was direct representitive of the voters. A Senate-not-a-representive then acts as a restraint on the public's whims of fancy, so when the public says "give us all tons of chocolate!" and the house is obligated (in theory as representtives) to say "give the people chocolate", the senate acts as a counter saying "but you'll be all night/we cant afford it/its not good for you". the idea being that things would only be passed when both houses agree on the need for something. now that is largely gone, and the senate is simply 100 more representatives catering to the public.
-the party "system". loyalty isnt to the public, outside of election time, but to the party ideals. rather than the representiitve align himself to the public and represent their interests/wishes, they instead align themselves to a party, and the partys make the mjor policy decisions, and the public is expected to choose a party to side with, along with everything else they stand for. its backwards. its hard to legally stop parties (free association and whatnot) but like many meta-organization they soon take on lives of their own, and no longer pay heed to the people that originally brought them into existence, with the result being representitives that don't represent their voters.
you seem to be under the impression "corps as people" is a recent thing done by a corrupt SCOTUS to appease their overlords.
"corporations as people" was a logical and elegant solution to multiple problems regarding contracts in the early to mid 1800's. unenforcable contracts, legislatures trying to negate contracts, and attempts by powers that be to limit the freedom of corporations to exist/do business, being the main culprits.
Its inevitable growth to a problem we see today was not forseen by all, or otherwise expected to be curbed by others.
in other words: try reading a little case law and get a clue before engaging the Hyperbole Generator 2000
there is no such thing as the two party system, even though they even teach such things in school nowadays. the parties are not part of the system. they are not codified nor endorsed by the rules of the system.
they are simply the logical and inevitable result any such system. we once had multiple parties, hell we still do, but just like a totally free market tends toward monopoly, any simple majority voting system tends toward two ideological parties.
Mod up. nearly this entire comment section is people not RTFA and bitching about nothing because they dont even understand what is going on. /.
in other words.. just another day on
at what point did this have anything to do with teh internet?
oh right, you didnt read the article before posting.
this is nothing to do with the internet or with streaming.
but hey, dont bother to RTFA or anything before speaking.
i wonder, do those numbers also include the processing and long term storage (as well as the construction of the proposed underground sotrage bunkers) of the waste?
that gives you room for a passenger or cargo
your quaint concept of "cargo" amuses me.
as does the concept of having to choose between a helper to load/unload said cargo, and the actual cargo itself.
note that i dont know the right size to power a home of 4. i just like the concept of having a single "fuel" bill, versus 3 (gasoline for the cars, natural gas for the furnace/water tank, electricity for everything else), and a source that uses it that pretty much goes everywhere I go, outside of hiking/running trips.
a car as a home "generator". now that is actually makes some sense and is an interesting idea. if you aren't home, you really dont need that much juice at home. enough to heat the water so its ready when you get home (solar heater works fine). maybe run the computer/netowrk while you're gone, dpeending how much downloading/processing yuo need while you're out.
why should they? what good does any of that knowledge do when there guys named Bob or Mike willing to do all that for you for only 15$, both faster and cheaper than you could yourself, while you go do something else with your time?
Because their troops are some of the most badass in the world.
You know their troops are the ones we know as the Gurkha's right? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurkha )
UN asked for troops, Nepal volunteered some of theirs, UN said "ok". (theyve volunteered for almost every major UN operation)
Gurkhas, being the tough SOB's they are, weren't gonna let a little stomach bug get in their way.
That was it's mission: to destabilize the political climate by giving her an aura of expertise that would appeal to her voter base. A false flag political self-martyrdom.
that's being rather generous
that what pickup trucks are for. toss an old mattress or couch in the back, and there you go.
repoduction decreases as life span increases. its self balancing
no one deserves to be ripped off.
a person may be stupid, but that does not negate the wrongness of the person doing the ripping off.
arrogant and ignorant.
you are truly dangerous.
the remedy is more regulation, in the form of declaring an absolute Right to Privacy. its amazing how many things such a simple right would fix.