They told them to get fucked in the last election.
Its actually been a lot longer that the democratic party has been shitting where they eat. Its a proud tradition that goes back at least 30-40 years. The republicans shit on the same people, but at least have the good graces not to pretend (well prior to Trump anyway) that they are the saviors of the middle class.
The future is women and minorities, aka the Obama coalition.
These are in fact growing demographics, and ones that are becoming more politically savvy and cohesive as a group. Both parties would be stupid to ignore this trend.
If anyone cared about the American working class, Democrats wouldn't be importing millions of illegal aliens.
Illegal aliens are good for all classes of Americans. They are not getting the manufacturing jobs, and the walmart jobs. In fact, they are getting the way-less-than-minimum wage jobs picking food, and doing dangerous/disgusting jobs that allow most Americans to pay a small percentage of their paycheck on food instead of the $1000 per month it would cost if the agricultural labor were paid minimum wage, and the subsidies went away. Another perfect example is in the housing industry. Without illegal labor, the cost of building an average house is on the order of 200k-300k, more in the expensive locales. illegal labor helps to bring the total cost to build down into the 150k range which makes it affordable for vastly more people (remember, the price of housing drives the cost of rent as well).
Massive unskilled labor greatly harm's the working class and keeps labor costs down for the ruling class
In the long term, the cost of labor is passed directly to consumers. The people who benefit most from cheap labor are everyone except the cheap laborers, and those that want to compete directly for specific jobs, but the jobs that illegals typically take are the ones that are completely unskilled, or dangerous as hell. for example, roofer have a short life expectancy, and most of the hard/unskilled work (lifting bundles, tearing off old roofs, etc...) is done by illegals who are paid next to nothing. These people fall off roofs and are disabled or killed with shocking regularity. The cost of a replacement roof for a typical house can be anywhere from 10k to 30k. If you had to use strictly legit labor, that cost would be closer to 50k. All of the legit roofers in our area went out of business 30 years ago, and all that is left are the illegals, so there are no more jobs to lose. Bringing in a million more illegals wont make them able to do any more jobs than they already do.
The Democrats and the working class are now entirely estranged and I don't see this changing.
Very true. Both parties have long since written off the minimum wage working class because they don't vote. Prior to Trump and Sanders, these people had no one to vote for. Given the choice, they would vote for Sanders, but they were not given that option. They voted for Trump instead. They did not vote for him because they believe he will do anything for them. They voted for Trump because they believe he will fuck up the "elites" which includes both political parties. He has delivered exactly what they expected him to, and that is why his approval will never go below 30%. That is the 30% who are so fed up they just want to see it all burn.
At the end of the day, the working class is just plain screwed. Automation, not illegals, is making them unemployable, and there is simply no way to reverse that trend. No politician is ever going to try, so we will have massive unemployment while at the same time having millions of unfilled jobs; a truck driver is simply never going to write safety critical Flight control software (except maybe at Boeing). The only reason we don't see that discrepancy right now is because the unemployment in this country has been absorbed by millions of Americans being forced into early retirement without sufficient retirement funds. If those people showed as unemployed as they actually are, our unemployment rate would be sky high.
THEN and ONLY then will you ever have actual security.
Yes, but who is going to defend me from you?
I have my own gun, and I use it to defend myself from you. I shoot you, you shoot me. In the end, I'm still dead. Now, if neither of us had a gun in the first place, we would both still be alive.
The second amendment does not permit you to carry gun to defend yourself from violent crime. If that were the case, the best defense would be banning weapons altogether. The second amendment is there so that you can defend yourself against tyranny. The part you missed is that the defense of liberty must be paid with blood, and that invariably includes the blood of the defenders.
Put another way, you have the right to bear arms, only in so far as that right is exercised in defense of liberty, but there is no guarantee that the process wont kill you. A weapon can't protect life, only take it
I'm not surprised that this happened. I am surprised that they actually figured out who it was *before* he got on a plane. That level of competence is a little out of character for the TSA.
Training. Hundreds of 737M flights each day in the states, not one crash or report of an issue. Both crashes happened in third world countries. That's not a coincidence.
Design. Hundreds of thousands of commercial flights every year in third world countries. The two most recent crashes were in the 737MAX. That's not a coincidence
Um.. Not really.. Boeing is guilty of being a bit short sighted about the failure modes of the MCAS and not effectively communicating critical information to anybody, the pilots, their trainers, and likely the certification inspectors.
Boeing is absolutely guilty for using a single point of failure.
The number one rule for safety critical systems is: Never, ever, EVER have a single point of failure in a safety critical system. That is why commercial planes have THREE hydraulic systems, two people in the cockpit, at least two engines, multiple fuel tanks and fuel pumps, etc. Anything that can affect the control surfaces or engines on an aircraft in motion is, by any reasonable definition, Safety Critical. The engineer who designed this thing, the manager who approved it, and the FAA regulator who signed off on it should all be put in prison for criminally negligent homicide.
Even our system of oversight is supposed to have redundancy built in, so when the FAA starts abdicating its oversight responsibilities, disaster is one step closer. Anyone who thinks that regulation is bad needs only look to this accident to see what inadequate regulation does.
If it was paradise, your numbers would not be falling. I am also looking at you NY
I can't speak about California, but NY used to be a blue collar state. Those days are long gone. Upstate is losing population in droves because there are no opportunities there at all, and NYC is all but unlivable for anyone with an IQ less than 100. Everything I understand about California suggests it is the same there. The "blue" states have policies that are actively driving away stupid people. Other states have policies that appear more welcoming (by way of blue collar jobs), but generally guarantee that the next generation will be no better than the last. That only goes so far, and eventually all of those jobs go to automation anyway.
Just like opportunity, social mobility looks an awful lot like hard work and, in this country, politicians don't have the foresight to know what they are looking at.
Notice that all of these changes to windows are 1 way: They all provide windows access into the linux sub-systems, not the other way around... This is not an accident, and it is not in your best interests
Do not use MS products unless you want to continue your guaranteed lock in as their cash cow. You are the product, you are for sale, but you will not see a dime of the profit.
You need to look a lot more carefully at what is in those lists: For example, velnerabilities in the Tux webserver are attributed to linux in spite of the fact that almost no one running linux runs tux. The majority of the vulnerabilities (more than 50% by my informal count) attributed to Linux, in that list, are in fact in rarely installed packages and utilities, meaning that by default nobody is exposed to them. Windows vulnerabilities by contrast are all in tools and services that are installed and active by default meaning that any windows install of that type is susceptible to them. I have also noticed that the same vulnerability (Ping DOS susceptibility) was attributed to every single Linux distribution, and in fact every flavor of every distro, whereas some individual windows vulnerabilites were attributed only to a single version of windows, even if the description actually claimed it affected multiple versions
Either wittingly, or unwittingly, you are spreading outright statistical lies by passing this kind of thing off as a real statistical analysis.
Someone using Windows 10 on a Pi for this purpose might have a limitation that requires Windows.
And What I'm saying is that: No, they won't.
The only real (read as rational) reasons for Windows all relate around x86. Once you part with x86, all of the reasonable windows requirements go out the window (pun intended). Not only that, there are multiple economic, technological and moral reasons to stay the hell away from windows. The people here who are telling you to use linux are not doing so out of any particular agenda, they are trying to be helpful and share a lifetime of experience that says those who know what they are going use linux, and for good reasons.
I can see a use case for signage or a kiosk terminal where you only need a browser or very specific software like a terminal.
A simple linux distro (virtually any one will do) with chrome, accomplishes this same task, and can be stripped down to run on a 256MB sdcard if absulutely necessary.
Your way requires a several GB sdcard, and introduces god-only-knows how many security holes, all so that you can run a web browser.
Also, if you are selling signs, you probably don't want to have to charge an extra $50 for the sign to account for the cost of the OS license.
TL;DR, MS Windows is the wrong answer if you are not running x86 hardware, and even then, it might still be the wrong answer.
use a few credit unions myself but they are hardly immune from bullshit fees
Not all credit unions are the same. Many border on being as bad as the banks, but quite a few are significantly better. As a general rule, stay away from any that are administered, or affiliated with a labor union, as those folks are only half a step above criminal anyways. Better to stick with one of the older more mature ones, and make damn sure to do your homework first.
If you don't say any "magic words," they might actually decide that you're a jerk and spend a bunch of time making you sit around next to their flashing lights looking like you're a Bad Guy.(TM)
Just because you are legally in the clear doesn't mean you aren't a dooshbag.
If you're a BUSINESS and you want MINE, you are REQUIRED to have sufficient cash on hand and in appropriate denominations to perform this transaction. I might fuck up and ASSUME you take cash ONCE, but after I try to pay with cash, and you don't "ACCEPT" cash, you will not see me or my business again.
See you later, You fall into that 20% of customers who use up 80% of my time. I am better off without you. People like you are the reason that gas stations all require payment up front, and don't let strangers use the bathrooms if they can avoid it.
Plastic is useful, but I sometimes prefer paper, thankyouverymuch.
Plastic is cheaper for us to process, even with the transaction fees because we don't have to handle cash, and all of the security / paperwork that goes along with it. we save a pile of money just in reduced accounting costs: No one has to go and manually tally up the til, We don't have to track which purchases were received on which days, and for what. We also gained valuable real-time insight into purchasing habits and trends. We could have gotten all fo that with a more expensive POS system, but even the cheap credit POS we have came with all the bells and whistles and was several tens of thousands of dollars cheaper than the equivalent cash+credit system would have been.
Pro tip for the IRS. If you see a gas station that charges less for cash transactions, you can bet that you will find some fishy things on those books.
Just as you'd never use the N-word (hopefully!), or call a transgender person a tyranny, please don't use the r-word. It debases your otherwise intelligent and thoughtful post. Not ok.
I'd guess that you've never spent much time around, or had family members with downs or other disabilities, as you'd never use that r-word in their presence. I've noticed the regular use of the r-word around aspie techies, typically as 'that design is retarded.' we've stamped that out at our startup. The catalyst was when an exec who had a downs kid, joined the company, even though a founder regularly used the term. The founder's use of the word was out of ignorance, not spite or hate.
I know you are just trying to do the right thing (tm), but you are in fact doing far more harm than good. It is not the use of any particular word that conveys the insult, but the combined context of the entire exchange. The comparison to someone who is mentally retarded was intentional and derogatory. Had it not been, other words would have been chosen. Do not make the mistake of believing that the word itself is the offense, a word alone cannot and does not carry offense, only when used in a particular context. That is why a group of black adults can call each other racial slurs without giving offense, but if a white person uses those same words, the context is added.
In the case of calling someone a retard, the offense itself cannot be conveyed without the context, as the context itself is the implied comparison to a retarded person. Again, it is not the word itself that conveys the meaning, but the implied context, and in this particular case, *any* word that is understood to refer to someone with a learning disability would carry the same level of offense.
At the end of the day, be careful where you take offense. Those that take offense when none was intended, will spend their entire lives being needlessly offended. Those that mistakenly believe that the offense is carried by a word alone, and discount the context, have missed the point altogether. It is this fundamental truth, and the arrogance with which many "enlightened" individuals look down on people who use those words that angers a great many people to the point where they are willing to entirely discount the opinions and positions of people who would argue against the use of a simple word, while attempting to claim the moral high ground.
There is a reason that "political correctness" is considered to be a character flaw by many people.
I dunno about you, but I remember when 'trolling' actually meant something. These days, the vast majority of them just sling baseless insults and utter nonsense around, am I right? Seriously, they're not even trying anymore, and they're unfunny to boot. Sad. There used to be an art to it. Now it's about as interesting as a dumpster fire.
I used to think it was just trolling until I actually met one of these guys. They are genuinely stupid; and arrogant to boot. In any given forum, there are plenty of people who don't know the difference, and if you let the stupidity go unchallenged, then it spreads. What starts off as an apparent attempt to troll grows legs and starts walking on its own, and next thing you know you have Alex Jones levels of stupid spreading itself around. The only way to stop it is to kill it in its infancy.
Yeah, I have to say that I made a poor decision: I am really getting fed up with not having to do any maintenance on my ten year old electric car. Not having to get oil changes several times a year is killing me, and I absolutely regret not changing the serpentine belt at 100k miles. I worry that the huge bills I can expect for replacing the fuel pump and muffler are going to break my budget next month, and now that the head gasket is leaking oil, I don't think the car will pass inspection either. Most of all, I miss standing next to my car for 10 minutes in -5 degree January weather putting gas in it.
On the plus side, my 20 mile commute every day costs me 50 cents in electricity...
that's why tesla is outselling all the other car manufacturers in class right now. you're gonna be one of the dudes later on that a) always knew Tesla would establish themselves or b) spread hateful vitriol about them where everybody wonders if musk stole your wife to deserve that, am i not right? or are you simply butthurt because your short position evaporated?
He's just pissed because he thought of the idea first, and when he asked Tesla for a cut of the action for using his great idea, they told him to stick his request up his tailpipe.
I don't think people quite grasp the absurd amount of electricity an electric car uses. Charging an EV requires something crazy like 400V at 35A. Charging a few of them won't be an issue - but if everyone were to switch over to electric vehicles, we'd need to start building more power plants, fast.
Ok, I have heard this stupid rhetoric more than enough. Its time that people stop spouting about shit they do not understand.
I have two electric cars. They are each driven daily as commuter vehicles. Each draws about 5kwh per day, and are charged at night. One uses a 30A 240V charger, the other uses a good old fashioned 15A 110V outlet. Neither requires any more charging than that for the vast majority of driving.
To put that in perspective, a single window air conditioner for a medium sized room uses about 7-10kwh per day during heavy use. My household uses an average of 32kwh per day of which less than 30% goes to the vehicles.
When you realize that the vast majority of EV charging will happen at home, at night, then there is no problem with electricity shortages or infrastructure limitations. Night time electricity usage is sufficiently lower than daytime usage that there is plenty of excess capacity available to handle EV charging, even if 100% of all vehicles sold from today forward were pure electric vehicles. In fact, the amount of electricity saved by switching from incandescent bulbs to LED bulbs, actually offsets around half of the entire increase that would result from a switch to 100% electric ground transportation. Because of that transittion, and the scaling up of solar power, there has actually been a glut of electricity which has been keeping electricity prices artificially low. This artificially low cost was part of the stimulus that drove the sharp increase in the cryptocurrency mining which has absorbed most of the excess electricity capacity.
Well, actually. Earth is the only habitable zone that exists within a lifetime's travel distance.
Says you.
It is almost certainly true that earth is the only habitable planet that is reachable within my lifetime, but it would not be an unreasonable bet that humans will someday live on a planet orbiting another star. It might even be possible that the trip can be achieved withing a single human lifespan. It is less likely, but still possible that the trip will become short enough to allow practical commerce.
Not like it has for the last 40 years. Don't make the mistake of believing that just because this particular technology has been advancing at this predictable rate for the majority (if not all) of your lifetime, that it will continue to do so forever. All things must eventually reach their limits. We even know where the limits of this technology are, and we are already there. Moore's law was predicted to come to an end right about now, and that is exactly what we are seeing.
The simple truth is that VR will never get much better than it is now. It is simply not possible to get any more compute power in one place with a lower latency than we have now. VR and AR both have the same fundamental flaw: The technology to actually make their "killer apps" work well enough to be generally accepted is not actually possible.
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Lets take that point by point, shall we...
They told them to get fucked in the last election.
Its actually been a lot longer that the democratic party has been shitting where they eat. Its a proud tradition that goes back at least 30-40 years. The republicans shit on the same people, but at least have the good graces not to pretend (well prior to Trump anyway) that they are the saviors of the middle class.
The future is women and minorities, aka the Obama coalition.
These are in fact growing demographics, and ones that are becoming more politically savvy and cohesive as a group. Both parties would be stupid to ignore this trend.
If anyone cared about the American working class, Democrats wouldn't be importing millions of illegal aliens.
Illegal aliens are good for all classes of Americans. They are not getting the manufacturing jobs, and the walmart jobs. In fact, they are getting the way-less-than-minimum wage jobs picking food, and doing dangerous/disgusting jobs that allow most Americans to pay a small percentage of their paycheck on food instead of the $1000 per month it would cost if the agricultural labor were paid minimum wage, and the subsidies went away. Another perfect example is in the housing industry. Without illegal labor, the cost of building an average house is on the order of 200k-300k, more in the expensive locales. illegal labor helps to bring the total cost to build down into the 150k range which makes it affordable for vastly more people (remember, the price of housing drives the cost of rent as well).
Massive unskilled labor greatly harm's the working class and keeps labor costs down for the ruling class
In the long term, the cost of labor is passed directly to consumers. The people who benefit most from cheap labor are everyone except the cheap laborers, and those that want to compete directly for specific jobs, but the jobs that illegals typically take are the ones that are completely unskilled, or dangerous as hell. for example, roofer have a short life expectancy, and most of the hard/unskilled work (lifting bundles, tearing off old roofs, etc...) is done by illegals who are paid next to nothing. These people fall off roofs and are disabled or killed with shocking regularity. The cost of a replacement roof for a typical house can be anywhere from 10k to 30k. If you had to use strictly legit labor, that cost would be closer to 50k. All of the legit roofers in our area went out of business 30 years ago, and all that is left are the illegals, so there are no more jobs to lose. Bringing in a million more illegals wont make them able to do any more jobs than they already do.
The Democrats and the working class are now entirely estranged and I don't see this changing.
Very true. Both parties have long since written off the minimum wage working class because they don't vote. Prior to Trump and Sanders, these people had no one to vote for. Given the choice, they would vote for Sanders, but they were not given that option. They voted for Trump instead. They did not vote for him because they believe he will do anything for them. They voted for Trump because they believe he will fuck up the "elites" which includes both political parties. He has delivered exactly what they expected him to, and that is why his approval will never go below 30%. That is the 30% who are so fed up they just want to see it all burn.
At the end of the day, the working class is just plain screwed. Automation, not illegals, is making them unemployable, and there is simply no way to reverse that trend. No politician is ever going to try, so we will have massive unemployment while at the same time having millions of unfilled jobs; a truck driver is simply never going to write safety critical Flight control software (except maybe at Boeing). The only reason we don't see that discrepancy right now is because the unemployment in this country has been absorbed by millions of Americans being forced into early retirement without sufficient retirement funds. If those people showed as unemployed as they actually are, our unemployment rate would be sky high.
Its pronounced: ob-soh-leet.
It is superseded in every way by .png. Can we please stop using it already.
THEN and ONLY then will you ever have actual security.
Yes, but who is going to defend me from you?
I have my own gun, and I use it to defend myself from you. I shoot you, you shoot me. In the end, I'm still dead. Now, if neither of us had a gun in the first place, we would both still be alive.
The second amendment does not permit you to carry gun to defend yourself from violent crime. If that were the case, the best defense would be banning weapons altogether. The second amendment is there so that you can defend yourself against tyranny. The part you missed is that the defense of liberty must be paid with blood, and that invariably includes the blood of the defenders.
Put another way, you have the right to bear arms, only in so far as that right is exercised in defense of liberty, but there is no guarantee that the process wont kill you. A weapon can't protect life, only take it
I'm not surprised that this happened. I am surprised that they actually figured out who it was *before* he got on a plane. That level of competence is a little out of character for the TSA.
Another way is to say that someone seized the opportunity to lose a lot of them.
Fortunately, our legal system considers both the same, and even has a handy expression for it:
Criminally Negligent Homicide.
189 Counts
We should probably throw in a conspiracy charge for good measure.
Training. Hundreds of 737M flights each day in the states, not one crash or report of an issue. Both crashes happened in third world countries. That's not a coincidence.
Design. Hundreds of thousands of commercial flights every year in third world countries. The two most recent crashes were in the 737MAX. That's not a coincidence
Um.. Not really.. Boeing is guilty of being a bit short sighted about the failure modes of the MCAS and not effectively communicating critical information to anybody, the pilots, their trainers, and likely the certification inspectors.
Boeing is absolutely guilty for using a single point of failure.
The number one rule for safety critical systems is: Never, ever, EVER have a single point of failure in a safety critical system. That is why commercial planes have THREE hydraulic systems, two people in the cockpit, at least two engines, multiple fuel tanks and fuel pumps, etc. Anything that can affect the control surfaces or engines on an aircraft in motion is, by any reasonable definition, Safety Critical. The engineer who designed this thing, the manager who approved it, and the FAA regulator who signed off on it should all be put in prison for criminally negligent homicide.
Even our system of oversight is supposed to have redundancy built in, so when the FAA starts abdicating its oversight responsibilities, disaster is one step closer. Anyone who thinks that regulation is bad needs only look to this accident to see what inadequate regulation does.
If it was paradise, your numbers would not be falling. I am also looking at you NY
I can't speak about California, but NY used to be a blue collar state. Those days are long gone. Upstate is losing population in droves because there are no opportunities there at all, and NYC is all but unlivable for anyone with an IQ less than 100. Everything I understand about California suggests it is the same there. The "blue" states have policies that are actively driving away stupid people. Other states have policies that appear more welcoming (by way of blue collar jobs), but generally guarantee that the next generation will be no better than the last. That only goes so far, and eventually all of those jobs go to automation anyway.
Just like opportunity, social mobility looks an awful lot like hard work and, in this country, politicians don't have the foresight to know what they are looking at.
Notice that all of these changes to windows are 1 way: They all provide windows access into the linux sub-systems, not the other way around... This is not an accident, and it is not in your best interests
Do not use MS products unless you want to continue your guaranteed lock in as their cash cow. You are the product, you are for sale, but you will not see a dime of the profit.
You need to look a lot more carefully at what is in those lists: For example, velnerabilities in the Tux webserver are attributed to linux in spite of the fact that almost no one running linux runs tux. The majority of the vulnerabilities (more than 50% by my informal count) attributed to Linux, in that list, are in fact in rarely installed packages and utilities, meaning that by default nobody is exposed to them. Windows vulnerabilities by contrast are all in tools and services that are installed and active by default meaning that any windows install of that type is susceptible to them. I have also noticed that the same vulnerability (Ping DOS susceptibility) was attributed to every single Linux distribution, and in fact every flavor of every distro, whereas some individual windows vulnerabilites were attributed only to a single version of windows, even if the description actually claimed it affected multiple versions
Either wittingly, or unwittingly, you are spreading outright statistical lies by passing this kind of thing off as a real statistical analysis.
Someone using Windows 10 on a Pi for this purpose might have a limitation that requires Windows.
And What I'm saying is that: No, they won't.
The only real (read as rational) reasons for Windows all relate around x86. Once you part with x86, all of the reasonable windows requirements go out the window (pun intended). Not only that, there are multiple economic, technological and moral reasons to stay the hell away from windows. The people here who are telling you to use linux are not doing so out of any particular agenda, they are trying to be helpful and share a lifetime of experience that says those who know what they are going use linux, and for good reasons.
I can see a use case for signage or a kiosk terminal where you only need a browser or very specific software like a terminal.
A simple linux distro (virtually any one will do) with chrome, accomplishes this same task, and can be stripped down to run on a 256MB sdcard if absulutely necessary.
Your way requires a several GB sdcard, and introduces god-only-knows how many security holes, all so that you can run a web browser.
Also, if you are selling signs, you probably don't want to have to charge an extra $50 for the sign to account for the cost of the OS license.
TL;DR, MS Windows is the wrong answer if you are not running x86 hardware, and even then, it might still be the wrong answer.
use a few credit unions myself but they are hardly immune from bullshit fees
Not all credit unions are the same. Many border on being as bad as the banks, but quite a few are significantly better. As a general rule, stay away from any that are administered, or affiliated with a labor union, as those folks are only half a step above criminal anyways. Better to stick with one of the older more mature ones, and make damn sure to do your homework first.
Then we can all stop pretending.
If you don't say any "magic words," they might actually decide that you're a jerk and spend a bunch of time making you sit around next to their flashing lights looking like you're a Bad Guy.(TM)
Just because you are legally in the clear doesn't mean you aren't a dooshbag.
If you're a BUSINESS and you want MINE, you are REQUIRED to have sufficient cash on hand and in appropriate denominations to perform this transaction. I might fuck up and ASSUME you take cash ONCE, but after I try to pay with cash, and you don't "ACCEPT" cash, you will not see me or my business again.
See you later, You fall into that 20% of customers who use up 80% of my time. I am better off without you. People like you are the reason that gas stations all require payment up front, and don't let strangers use the bathrooms if they can avoid it.
Plastic is useful, but I sometimes prefer paper, thankyouverymuch.
Plastic is cheaper for us to process, even with the transaction fees because we don't have to handle cash, and all of the security / paperwork that goes along with it. we save a pile of money just in reduced accounting costs: No one has to go and manually tally up the til, We don't have to track which purchases were received on which days, and for what. We also gained valuable real-time insight into purchasing habits and trends. We could have gotten all fo that with a more expensive POS system, but even the cheap credit POS we have came with all the bells and whistles and was several tens of thousands of dollars cheaper than the equivalent cash+credit system would have been.
Pro tip for the IRS. If you see a gas station that charges less for cash transactions, you can bet that you will find some fishy things on those books.
What are "all other browsers"? You mean all other Chromium clones?
How about, Opera, Firefox and not least: Safari
Many, or even all of those might be using the same rendering engine as chrome, in which case, I would have to ask: Why the hell wasn't MS using it?
Clergy perform very important community related functions. If you are not part of the community, then you wouldnt see the value.
Yeah, those boys aren't going to abuse themselves...
Just as you'd never use the N-word (hopefully!), or call a transgender person a tyranny, please don't use the r-word. It debases your otherwise intelligent and thoughtful post. Not ok.
I'd guess that you've never spent much time around, or had family members with downs or other disabilities, as you'd never use that r-word in their presence. I've noticed the regular use of the r-word around aspie techies, typically as 'that design is retarded.' we've stamped that out at our startup. The catalyst was when an exec who had a downs kid, joined the company, even though a founder regularly used the term. The founder's use of the word was out of ignorance, not spite or hate.
I know you are just trying to do the right thing (tm), but you are in fact doing far more harm than good. It is not the use of any particular word that conveys the insult, but the combined context of the entire exchange. The comparison to someone who is mentally retarded was intentional and derogatory. Had it not been, other words would have been chosen. Do not make the mistake of believing that the word itself is the offense, a word alone cannot and does not carry offense, only when used in a particular context. That is why a group of black adults can call each other racial slurs without giving offense, but if a white person uses those same words, the context is added.
In the case of calling someone a retard, the offense itself cannot be conveyed without the context, as the context itself is the implied comparison to a retarded person. Again, it is not the word itself that conveys the meaning, but the implied context, and in this particular case, *any* word that is understood to refer to someone with a learning disability would carry the same level of offense.
At the end of the day, be careful where you take offense. Those that take offense when none was intended, will spend their entire lives being needlessly offended. Those that mistakenly believe that the offense is carried by a word alone, and discount the context, have missed the point altogether. It is this fundamental truth, and the arrogance with which many "enlightened" individuals look down on people who use those words that angers a great many people to the point where they are willing to entirely discount the opinions and positions of people who would argue against the use of a simple word, while attempting to claim the moral high ground.
There is a reason that "political correctness" is considered to be a character flaw by many people.
I dunno about you, but I remember when 'trolling' actually meant something. These days, the vast majority of them just sling baseless insults and utter nonsense around, am I right? Seriously, they're not even trying anymore, and they're unfunny to boot. Sad. There used to be an art to it. Now it's about as interesting as a dumpster fire.
I used to think it was just trolling until I actually met one of these guys. They are genuinely stupid; and arrogant to boot. In any given forum, there are plenty of people who don't know the difference, and if you let the stupidity go unchallenged, then it spreads. What starts off as an apparent attempt to troll grows legs and starts walking on its own, and next thing you know you have Alex Jones levels of stupid spreading itself around. The only way to stop it is to kill it in its infancy.
Only a retard would buy an electric car.
Yeah, I have to say that I made a poor decision: I am really getting fed up with not having to do any maintenance on my ten year old electric car. Not having to get oil changes several times a year is killing me, and I absolutely regret not changing the serpentine belt at 100k miles. I worry that the huge bills I can expect for replacing the fuel pump and muffler are going to break my budget next month, and now that the head gasket is leaking oil, I don't think the car will pass inspection either. Most of all, I miss standing next to my car for 10 minutes in -5 degree January weather putting gas in it.
On the plus side, my 20 mile commute every day costs me 50 cents in electricity...
Who's the retard?
that's why tesla is outselling all the other car manufacturers in class right now. you're gonna be one of the dudes later on that a) always knew Tesla would establish themselves or b) spread hateful vitriol about them where everybody wonders if musk stole your wife to deserve that, am i not right? or are you simply butthurt because your short position evaporated?
He's just pissed because he thought of the idea first, and when he asked Tesla for a cut of the action for using his great idea, they told him to stick his request up his tailpipe.
I don't think people quite grasp the absurd amount of electricity an electric car uses. Charging an EV requires something crazy like 400V at 35A. Charging a few of them won't be an issue - but if everyone were to switch over to electric vehicles, we'd need to start building more power plants, fast.
Ok, I have heard this stupid rhetoric more than enough. Its time that people stop spouting about shit they do not understand.
I have two electric cars. They are each driven daily as commuter vehicles. Each draws about 5kwh per day, and are charged at night. One uses a 30A 240V charger, the other uses a good old fashioned 15A 110V outlet. Neither requires any more charging than that for the vast majority of driving.
To put that in perspective, a single window air conditioner for a medium sized room uses about 7-10kwh per day during heavy use. My household uses an average of 32kwh per day of which less than 30% goes to the vehicles.
When you realize that the vast majority of EV charging will happen at home, at night, then there is no problem with electricity shortages or infrastructure limitations. Night time electricity usage is sufficiently lower than daytime usage that there is plenty of excess capacity available to handle EV charging, even if 100% of all vehicles sold from today forward were pure electric vehicles. In fact, the amount of electricity saved by switching from incandescent bulbs to LED bulbs, actually offsets around half of the entire increase that would result from a switch to 100% electric ground transportation. Because of that transittion, and the scaling up of solar power, there has actually been a glut of electricity which has been keeping electricity prices artificially low. This artificially low cost was part of the stimulus that drove the sharp increase in the cryptocurrency mining which has absorbed most of the excess electricity capacity.
Well, actually. Earth is the only habitable zone that exists within a lifetime's travel distance.
Says you.
It is almost certainly true that earth is the only habitable planet that is reachable within my lifetime, but it would not be an unreasonable bet that humans will someday live on a planet orbiting another star. It might even be possible that the trip can be achieved withing a single human lifespan. It is less likely, but still possible that the trip will become short enough to allow practical commerce.
This, I doubt. Technology moves on.
Not like it has for the last 40 years. Don't make the mistake of believing that just because this particular technology has been advancing at this predictable rate for the majority (if not all) of your lifetime, that it will continue to do so forever. All things must eventually reach their limits. We even know where the limits of this technology are, and we are already there. Moore's law was predicted to come to an end right about now, and that is exactly what we are seeing.
The simple truth is that VR will never get much better than it is now. It is simply not possible to get any more compute power in one place with a lower latency than we have now. VR and AR both have the same fundamental flaw: The technology to actually make their "killer apps" work well enough to be generally accepted is not actually possible.