Well don't feel too bad for the passenger. It was his car and he was drunk too.
....AND he was her boss, out getting drunk alone with a much younger female subordinate. There are so many levels of inappropriate here that its tough to list them all.
Whatever the reason, it's a natural behavior. Contemporary documentation of strandings dates back to at least the 16th century.
In fact, I find it quite heartening that we, as humans, now react by gathering a crowd and equipment to try to save them. The historical reaction seems to have been to gather all your neighbors and equipment and cut up all the free meat and oil-blubber.
If anyone is acting "unnaturally" here, its the humans.
And they decided that a group of people has the same rights as a single person, essentially, and that you could not restrict the free speech of a group of people even if that happens to be a corporation. People don't hate that decision because it violates the constitution or various laws, but because it violates how we want the law to be. The only way to fix that is with a constitutional amendment.
Well...given that our SCOTUS judges are mostly older folks, and everyone who voted for it was appointed by a Republican POTUS (it was essentially a party-line vote), you could also fix it in the long run by not voting for a POTUS from that party and making sure to vote for a POTUS from the party that nominated all the dissenters.
No to the headset. I can't wear a headset all the time like I can a watch.
I bought a headset torque a couple of years ago when I had to work by phone with a vendor much of the day, and my ear and arm were starting to ache. Much to my surprise, I fell in love with the thing. Haven't been without one since.
The first obvious advantage is for taking calls. Ironically, modern cellphones are just not well-designed to actually use for phone calls. You're basically holding a big rectangular bottom-heavy slab of glass up to your ear. With the headset:
You can talk much more comfortably. Like human bodies were designed to talk.
You can operate the phone pad and still listen. This is required for a lot of menu-based automated phone systems.
You can look up information on your mobile device that might be relevant to the conversation while still listening. (Typical use case: "The place we planned to meet at is closed. Sorry. Let me see what else is around here...")
You can listen and still do things that require full coordination, like operating a computer, walking down stairs, etc.
It acts as a distance sentinel for your phone. If I forget to pick it up my phone and walk off, after about 30 yards or so (or when I get a wall between me and it), the torque vibrates and audibly complains. For me this alone makes it worthwhile.
It acts as a phone finder for its paired phone as well. I lost my phone at home last week, and was able to locate its room using BT connections/disconnections on the torque. I'd (without even realizing it) shut it in my bill drawer. It could have been as much as a week before I found it in there!
As someone who listens to podcasts and music, I always have headphones with me.
When connected, my phone never audibly rings (except through the earbuds). This is a huge piece-of-mind enhancer when you go to public places, like meetings, movies, and church sanctuaries. Its gotten to where I really resent people with audible ringtones, since I now know its trivial to prevent.
The torque itself is essentially a piece of jewelry. Lots of folks wear necklaces; I wear this.
I just want to make and take calls over the watch without having to pull my phone out.
Add a Bluetooth headset to you gear collection, and that's quite doable today. Not something I ever cared for, but I guess we all have our use-cases.
For me, the "killer app" is being able to see if a call while I'm driving or in a meeting is something I have to pull over/leave the room and take, or something I can ignore. In a car pulling out a phone to check who's calling is potentially dangerous, and in a meeting its incredibly impolite.
The short version here is that we're being fed something. I hesitate to call it bullshit, because nobody said anything weird - but it certainly looks like people are trying to play some kind of game here.
We do have a word for that: marketing. This here is a big steaming pile of it.
"For the first time last year, there were more people in the world who are over 65 than under five. First time ever in history. By the middle of the century, the number of people over 80 will double. By the end of the century, it'll be up sevenfold, globally."
This is because the rate of population increase is declining pretty much everywhere. The only countries that are currently having births above replacement rate (3 or more per woman) are in Africa, and it looks to be dropping there too. We had our largest worldwide increase in population in history back in 1989, and it's been falling since. Its still increasing, mind you, but its decreasing in an expanding amount of places, so a worldwide decrease is not out of the question for the future.
Presumably some day we will hit something approaching a steady-state in population growth rate. But in the meantime we have that huge bubble that peaked 30 years ago that has to work through the system. That means that, for a while, yes we will have way more old people than young people. But that's likely not permanent, or at least not to the extreme it will be for the few of decades.
It springs from the fact that you are not allowed to question any part of the doctrines of politically correct ideology (e.g., third-wave feminism, the trans-acceptance movement) without being called a bigot by "hashtag activists" online
You are 100% allowed to say anything you like. Also, if I think that opinion is assholic, I'm 100% allowed to tell you so. That's what free speech is; we both get it; not just you.
All this "PC" nonsense is just right-wingers complaining that they don't want to have to deal with the repercussions of expressing their honest opinion, like the rest of us have always had to do. Its attacking free speech, under the cynical guise of defending it.
They also provide the analogy of a tug-o-war rope being "repulsed" by the end with fewer people tugging on it. That is the stupidest analogy I have heard all day. The rope, of course, is not being "pushed" and neither is the galaxy.
This explains why Physicists never win in the interdepartmental tog-o-war contests.
I think space itself is some kind of medium and not necessarily matter based. Currently, its composition is unknown. You can call this medium aether if you like, just do not confuse it with the luminiferous aether. There are several aether theories out there, one of the popular ones is the Superfluid Vacuum Theory.
I guess its really true that everything old is new again
I just priced out a 13" MBP for myself. The MINIMUM viable product for my use is almost $3000. And this is minimum viable for my CURRENT needs, never mind what I might need a couple years from now. And of course, Apple forces me to plan ahead cause they solder everything onto the main board with no option for future upgrades
This is hardly new behavior out of Apple. Every product of theirs since Woz quit designing them has been unupgradable, and overly expensive for what you get. With a 35 year track-record like that, why would anyone ever expect anything else from them?
Yeah, but the PC market is shrinking, and Apple doesn't even get most of their own revenue from it anymore.
I'm picturing a jock finally getting his last opponent out after the most epic dodgeball game ever, not noticing the guy wasn't even really trying. He proceeds to go through the elaborate victory celebration, complete with rehearsed descriptions of how awesome he is, and what losers everyone else is, only to turn around and realize everyone else has already gone on to Algebra next class. He sucks at Algebra, and he's now late.
A couple of years ago. I've done it a fair bit though. The N and T sometimes move around a bit (I'm weak into those), but the I and P appear to be permanent features.
INTP here, and I (think anyway) I do quite well socially. The difference is that I find the experience draining, and NEED lots of time to myself.
I have an adult son who a firm "E", but actually doesn't feel he's that great at it, and has bad issues with social anxiety. He spends way more time alone
than I do.
The "E" vs "I" thing is mostly to do with what kind of environment you naturally prefer to be in. It says nothing about which ones you are good at.
Dunno. Every phone I've ever owned had an SD slot (and a removable battery). I don't buy new phones like they are seasonal fashion items though, so I don't know what's available today.
I do know that my current tablet is constantly running out of on-board NVRAM, and has tons of free space on its SD card that apps refuse to make use of. Its nice to see one of them trying to find a good use for it (even if I have qualms about their approach).
So if you are not trying to game the system, you can download at home, play on the bus (while connected via 3G) and 100% of playback will be from local
Uhhh-huh. And how about if I want to play it on the airplane (while connected to nothing)?
If I can't watch it whenever I want, without having to hit a network at all, then there's really no point to this. I suppose if my network connection is crappy, having it local might prevent some buffering, but is that really worth the trouble?
I do keep Chrome around on my phone, but it's basically just for testing. "Oh right, and here's what our web site looks like, with all the ads."
If you have a recent version of Android, I don't believe you can get rid of Chrome. Even worse, the Google search Android app uses it, and can't be configured to use anything else. Its like we're at the point in real-life Animal Farm where Google has become Microsoft.
In other words, itâ(TM)s a major platform that web developers target -- even in a world increasingly dominated by mobile apps.
I'm not sure I understand this comment. I use Firefox as my main browser on both of my mobile platforms (phone and tablet). It probably just beats Twitter as my #1 app used on those devices. Why would someone imply they are some incompatible with each other?
I have family members with iThings that use fingerprint, so I know it works OK there (for some people anyway). So it could be that it just sucks on Android, or (more likely) just sucks on the old Note 5 I have, or sucks just for me.
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Well don't feel too bad for the passenger. It was his car and he was drunk too.
....AND he was her boss, out getting drunk alone with a much younger female subordinate. There are so many levels of inappropriate here that its tough to list them all.
If it gets good results, I guess that explains why I occasionally get emails that end that way.
In general, they annoy me. The implication is that I have no choice, I'm going to help them no matter what. Ugh.
Perhaps the aging parent needs to come to you then.
Whatever the reason, it's a natural behavior. Contemporary documentation of strandings dates back to at least the 16th century.
In fact, I find it quite heartening that we, as humans, now react by gathering a crowd and equipment to try to save them. The historical reaction seems to have been to gather all your neighbors and equipment and cut up all the free meat and oil-blubber.
If anyone is acting "unnaturally" here, its the humans.
And they decided that a group of people has the same rights as a single person, essentially, and that you could not restrict the free speech of a group of people even if that happens to be a corporation. People don't hate that decision because it violates the constitution or various laws, but because it violates how we want the law to be. The only way to fix that is with a constitutional amendment.
Well...given that our SCOTUS judges are mostly older folks, and everyone who voted for it was appointed by a Republican POTUS (it was essentially a party-line vote), you could also fix it in the long run by not voting for a POTUS from that party and making sure to vote for a POTUS from the party that nominated all the dissenters.
That shocks me because we've all been told countless times what brilliant people the likes of Bannon and Conway are, and yet,
Few things are more of a dead giveaway to a problem than someone repeating an argument they weren't even really being challenged on.
No to the headset. I can't wear a headset all the time like I can a watch.
I bought a headset torque a couple of years ago when I had to work by phone with a vendor much of the day, and my ear and arm were starting to ache. Much to my surprise, I fell in love with the thing. Haven't been without one since.
The first obvious advantage is for taking calls. Ironically, modern cellphones are just not well-designed to actually use for phone calls. You're basically holding a big rectangular bottom-heavy slab of glass up to your ear. With the headset:
I just want to make and take calls over the watch without having to pull my phone out.
Add a Bluetooth headset to you gear collection, and that's quite doable today. Not something I ever cared for, but I guess we all have our use-cases.
For me, the "killer app" is being able to see if a call while I'm driving or in a meeting is something I have to pull over/leave the room and take, or something I can ignore. In a car pulling out a phone to check who's calling is potentially dangerous, and in a meeting its incredibly impolite.
The short version here is that we're being fed something. I hesitate to call it bullshit, because nobody said anything weird - but it certainly looks like people are trying to play some kind of game here.
We do have a word for that: marketing. This here is a big steaming pile of it.
"For the first time last year, there were more people in the world who are over 65 than under five. First time ever in history. By the middle of the century, the number of people over 80 will double. By the end of the century, it'll be up sevenfold, globally."
This is because the rate of population increase is declining pretty much everywhere. The only countries that are currently having births above replacement rate (3 or more per woman) are in Africa, and it looks to be dropping there too. We had our largest worldwide increase in population in history back in 1989, and it's been falling since. Its still increasing, mind you, but its decreasing in an expanding amount of places, so a worldwide decrease is not out of the question for the future.
Presumably some day we will hit something approaching a steady-state in population growth rate. But in the meantime we have that huge bubble that peaked 30 years ago that has to work through the system. That means that, for a while, yes we will have way more old people than young people. But that's likely not permanent, or at least not to the extreme it will be for the few of decades.
It springs from the fact that you are not allowed to question any part of the doctrines of politically correct ideology (e.g., third-wave feminism, the trans-acceptance movement) without being called a bigot by "hashtag activists" online
You are 100% allowed to say anything you like. Also, if I think that opinion is assholic, I'm 100% allowed to tell you so. That's what free speech is; we both get it; not just you.
All this "PC" nonsense is just right-wingers complaining that they don't want to have to deal with the repercussions of expressing their honest opinion, like the rest of us have always had to do. Its attacking free speech, under the cynical guise of defending it.
They also provide the analogy of a tug-o-war rope being "repulsed" by the end with fewer people tugging on it. That is the stupidest analogy I have heard all day. The rope, of course, is not being "pushed" and neither is the galaxy.
This explains why Physicists never win in the interdepartmental tog-o-war contests.
I think space itself is some kind of medium and not necessarily matter based. Currently, its composition is unknown. You can call this medium aether if you like, just do not confuse it with the luminiferous aether. There are several aether theories out there, one of the popular ones is the Superfluid Vacuum Theory.
I guess its really true that everything old is new again
What if my main concern isn't really "security" on my back end, but not contributing to the botnet problem on the front end?
Google writes "i am not a robot", but actually means "i am not a simple piece of automated code, but a full featured webbrowser ...".
That would explain why I don't always see those captchas on my old IE browser I use at work.
I just priced out a 13" MBP for myself. The MINIMUM viable product for my use is almost $3000. And this is minimum viable for my CURRENT needs, never mind what I might need a couple years from now. And of course, Apple forces me to plan ahead cause they solder everything onto the main board with no option for future upgrades
This is hardly new behavior out of Apple. Every product of theirs since Woz quit designing them has been unupgradable, and overly expensive for what you get. With a 35 year track-record like that, why would anyone ever expect anything else from them?
Yeah, but the PC market is shrinking, and Apple doesn't even get most of their own revenue from it anymore.
I'm picturing a jock finally getting his last opponent out after the most epic dodgeball game ever, not noticing the guy wasn't even really trying. He proceeds to go through the elaborate victory celebration, complete with rehearsed descriptions of how awesome he is, and what losers everyone else is, only to turn around and realize everyone else has already gone on to Algebra next class. He sucks at Algebra, and he's now late.
A couple of years ago. I've done it a fair bit though. The N and T sometimes move around a bit (I'm weak into those), but the I and P appear to be permanent features.
INTP here, and I (think anyway) I do quite well socially. The difference is that I find the experience draining, and NEED lots of time to myself.
I have an adult son who a firm "E", but actually doesn't feel he's that great at it, and has bad issues with social anxiety. He spends way more time alone than I do.
The "E" vs "I" thing is mostly to do with what kind of environment you naturally prefer to be in. It says nothing about which ones you are good at.
It's a nice add on for flying, but it doesn't really convert it to purchased local (as it would seem some want).
...except its not, because it still won't play if it can't call back into that server.
Dunno. Every phone I've ever owned had an SD slot (and a removable battery). I don't buy new phones like they are seasonal fashion items though, so I don't know what's available today.
I do know that my current tablet is constantly running out of on-board NVRAM, and has tons of free space on its SD card that apps refuse to make use of. Its nice to see one of them trying to find a good use for it (even if I have qualms about their approach).
So if you are not trying to game the system, you can download at home, play on the bus (while connected via 3G) and 100% of playback will be from local
Uhhh-huh. And how about if I want to play it on the airplane (while connected to nothing)?
If I can't watch it whenever I want, without having to hit a network at all, then there's really no point to this. I suppose if my network connection is crappy, having it local might prevent some buffering, but is that really worth the trouble?
I do keep Chrome around on my phone, but it's basically just for testing. "Oh right, and here's what our web site looks like, with all the ads."
If you have a recent version of Android, I don't believe you can get rid of Chrome. Even worse, the Google search Android app uses it, and can't be configured to use anything else. Its like we're at the point in real-life Animal Farm where Google has become Microsoft.
In other words, itâ(TM)s a major platform that web developers target -- even in a world increasingly dominated by mobile apps.
I'm not sure I understand this comment. I use Firefox as my main browser on both of my mobile platforms (phone and tablet). It probably just beats Twitter as my #1 app used on those devices. Why would someone imply they are some incompatible with each other?
I have family members with iThings that use fingerprint, so I know it works OK there (for some people anyway). So it could be that it just sucks on Android, or (more likely) just sucks on the old Note 5 I have, or sucks just for me.