I make more than your run of the mill CWA thug that cuts fiber cables every time his mafioso isn't happy. After all, what makes the world a safer, better, more productive place than severing communication lines that provide access to unproductive things that we don't need, like health care services?
Oh wait did I say mafioso? Sorry, "union management" is the correct term.
Sure you can... you can move to one of the republican paradises like Kansas, Wyoming, or Oklahoma where low regulation and and taxes have produced places where everyone wants to live.
The trendy thing for Californians to do these days is move to Phoenix and drive up our housing prices. It's so rare these days to find another person besides myself who is actually from this area.
Or - as you might expect - they will offer a lower cost but same size device, with an edge to edge screen + a larger edge to edge screen device and that will increase their sales volume while slightly reducing average device profit.
That won't work for Apple at all, in fact it will just make them perform worse. This is owing to an anomaly of supply and demand. Apple is a producer of what are called Veblen goods. Veblen goods will sell LESS volume if you lower their price. In other words, the high price itself is what gives it its value. If you're looking for function alone, Android has been two years ahead of Apple since 2013. People who buy Apple aren't interested in that, they're interested in status. Think designer clothing; little teenies gotta have the most expensive purse money can buy or they're just a nobody.
Bush didn't have ICANN do anything. The US has the authority to seize domain names that are within its TLDs, like all countries do. Among those TLDs that are within the US's jurisdiction are.org,.com and.net.
You're either really stupid and you have no idea what kinds of jobs are available, and just how inexpensive you can get an education for, or are trying to justify the fact that you borrowed too much money to pay for your education, which would also make you stupid.
Pro tip: You don't need to go to an expensive university. I went to community college, got a CCNP R&S, and transferred 90 of those credits to the least expensive state university just so I could get a token bachelor's degree. After FAFSA, a few automatic college grants that were based on FAFSA, my tuition was covered about 105% (yes, I profited.) I also got grants that required having only a 3.5 GPA (out of 4) and doing some extra project, and the rest from winning 3 different contests involving networking technical skills that doled out $1k each. My total costs for all of this were a net negative of somewhere around $6,000.
After 3 years of graduating, I was already making $76k annually, and I never borrowed a cent. I've always thought borrowing money is stupid, in fact I don't plan on ever getting a mortgage, rather I'm saving and investing 50% of my income.
Actually that is more the fault of car manufactures making it super difficult to repair their stuff. This eliminates most smaller auto shops, unless they pay a ridiculous amount to become an authorized repair center, which only then they get all of the proper service manuals and diagnostic codes. This mostly limits repairs to dealerships, unless it's more simple tasks like flushing air conditioners, fixing power steering, air filter change and oil change.
An annoying thing with Amazon's free shipping, is that they'll just sit on it for up to 3 weeks before shipping it. They're starting to do this with prime as well, though not quite as long. I honestly can't recall the last time that my prime order was shipped the same day or at least the day after. Occasionally, in the past, I would get my two day order the very next day, especially if I ordered on a Sunday, but they only delayed it if the item was back-ordered, which is fine. The most recent items they shipped me (two certificate frames, which by the way came in two separate packages, one taking an extra day) I had to wait 5 days before getting it. Amazon says their service only guarantees two day shipping, but that doesn't mean they have to ship it within two days. Meanwhile, newegg, jet, walmart, target, and a few others I've ordered from, all ship within 24 hours still, even with their free shipping options.
About that -- Amazon doesn't do quick handling anymore. These days, it's pretty rate that Amazon ships my stuff on the same day, sometimes waiting as long as 3 days to ship it, thus making my 2 day shipping more like 5 day shipping. The last eight or so orders I've made have taken no less than 4 days. Their excuse is that they give you two day free shipping, but that doesn't mean they have to actually ship it the same day. Holidays are understandable, but we're well outside of the busy shipping season.
Meanwhile, they keep adding these gimmicks, like a streaming video service that is basically a pay per view service with an attached monthly fee while much of their content is offered at a flat rate on netflix, hbo, hulu, and others.
It's actually more about the seriousness of the crime, not necessarily that it was a crime. I'm general, so long as the jail sentence is 6 months or less, and/or a fine is $1,000 or less. This applies universally, but some states grant jury trials for less than that.
The only reason they even made it as far as they did was because Nokia.
Nokia already had a strong following, so Microsoft bribed them to adopt their piece of shit for $1 billion. Microsoft rode on the popularity of that brand, which consequently gave it better sales in Europe. Then their shit platform dragged Nokia's name in the mud, so people stopped buying them. Even when they did buy them, the return rate was so high that even Amazon suspended its sales a few times.
Even Bill Gates was quick to switch to Android at the end.
You want a legit way to poke fun of Microsoft? Their fluent UI is basically a rip-off of material design. Basically a defeat on Microsoft's part after they kept pushing that shitty metro design. Flat UI is crap, it always has been. It's also a bad idea to completely toss out skeumorph, like metro did.
I'm not sure why Walmart receives so much hate. The mom and pops that it replaced still paid minimum wage, and Walmart is far more likely to provide more benefits. Furthermore, there are ample opportunities for promotion in Walmart, from lower management to general manager, the later of which makes a 6 figure income, even in the boonies. In mom and pops, the promotions almost always go to family members.
I think it's much more simple than that: They had no care or concern in the world about the issues. The party elite decided by they wanted one thing, and one thing only: A female president. Pay attention to the language they used when they were all euphoric about the nomination, and then pay attention to that same language they used when they were dysphoric about the loss (even by the queen bitch herself, talking about the glass ceiling.) It was nearly all about that one issue.
Why do they do that superdelegate system anyways? It seems to me that all it does is make it easier for the political elite to get their way, similar to how communist parties are structured (though communist parties are worse because nobody votes except for the elite, and to them that is democracy.)
I don't know anything about the Bernie campaign (I honestly think the guy is an idiot, just look at his Medicare plan, and he actually favors Trump's most boneheaded move: tariffs) but I do see the Democratic party playing into the hands of Putin with this move.
I can't speak for Trump/Russia collusion, but I think it's less than probable given Trump didn't even seem to intend to win, and I doubt the Russians expected him to win, they just wanted to cause chaos in order to reduce the global influence of the US, which they were succeeding at until Putin decided to assassinate somebody.
However, I think the WikiLeaks thing is so unlikely that I'm calling it absurd. Remember, these are the guys who tried to make a name for themselves with a video (leaked by a total nutter) that was portrayed to look like the military murdered people in cold blood (if you look closely, they had an RPG and a kalashnikov, and given the outline of the RPG, there are NO cameras that this could be confused with, and the kalashnikov was just dead obvious.) Not only that, but WikiLeaks does its hardest to make the US look bad throughout it's entire existence (the US is the country they by far target the most, even ignoring countries like Russia and China.)
I could, however, see a WikiLeaks/Russia conspiracy. It's already known that Russia was their primary source for Hillary leaks, and it would make sense to leak them to WikiLeaks given how much Democrats tend to take everything they say at face value, and they are most likely to think Assange is in that embassy to escape the USA rather than Sweden, nevermind that the UK would extradite him to the US way before Sweden, and they are also the least likely to call Manning a traitor (he very much was both that AND a nutter, which is why one of the guys he leaked information to turned him in. Information, by the way, that he knew could get his fellow soldiers killed, which he more than likely wanted to happen, given statements he made to others before he was busted.)
Hollywood cares about them. A dirty little open secret about them is that they're fixed. If you are an actor or filmmaker, just to merely get nominated, either you or somebody else (i.e. a studio promoting your film) MUST pay a very steep bribe. Still, they eat it up anyways. I wonder if that piece of paper with their name printed in a gold color is laced with cocaine or something.
They all know it's fixed, but what's worse is those stupid fucking assholes (actors, directors, studios, and all) have the gall to ask governments to start paying for some of it, and that is what some do. After all, they MUST hire the top celebrity chefs and fashionistas to make $500,000 worth of overly elaborate banquets. Must have those H'orderves that say BAM! And accept both bribes AND government money at the same time. Unfortunately, an entire political party has been purchased and paid for in full by Hollywood.
Anecdotally, my wife recently had an onset of acute bronchitis, which is, in most cases, a viral infection.
This isn't the whole story. Yes, it is quite rare for a bacterial infection to cause bronchitis, but being the "-itis" it is, inflammation often leads to fissures in the bronchi, which bacteria can colonize, regardless of cause (including i.e. dust, cigarette smoke, prolonged coughing from other infection.) If the doc saw a hint of blood, yellow color, or green color in the phlegm (or if your wife told him of it, or sometimes they can tell by looking at your throat,) that means she already had bacterial infection. Even if it passes that test and the phlegm is white, there's still a risk of secondary infection, especially if it has been a while since the first symptoms appeared. If the doc doesn't have the instrumentation to test for harmful bacteria with a throat swab, then antibiotics "just in case" is a reasonable thing to do, especially if there are any comorbidities.
If caught early enough, and harmful bacterial spores are ruled out, then a combination of NSAID or prednisone combined with mucinex will work fine for preventing a bacterial infection, so no antibiotic would be needed. (pred+mucinex cures all of my symptoms, including severe pain, within a day, only leaving behind an occasional cough for lungs to clean up.)
I'm doubtful that antibiotics shouldn't ever be prescribed for viral cold or sore throat. The reason why is because in many cases viral infections (especially the more painful variety) cause enough inflammation and coughing that the tissue becomes more susceptible to infection from existing bacteria in the air, so a bacterial illness then follows afterwards. I've had doctors prescribe them to me anyways, even after I brought up the issue of them not working with viral colds, and this was the explanation.
If bad viral infections like that are caught early enough, then prednisone along with maximum strength psuedophedrine can be prescribed to avoid creating the bacterial vector thus negating the need for antibiotics (a situation I've also had happen.) While the first is cheap, unfortunately psuedophedrine is no longer cheap ever since it was pulled from shelves, so people are less likely to use it. And truth be told, the ban on that only worked for a few years until meth-heads found another source.
I recall towards the end of the days when directv CAMs were easy to hack to get free TV, some guy in a major forum of the time (don't recall which one) was expressing anger at directv so much that he said he would never pay for directv, and then later stressed that he wouldn't even take it if it was free. The irony wasn't lost that the mere fact that he was there to begin with was to get directv's service for free.
Meh. We've already seen this movie before. The plot always goes like this in every one of its sequels:
A French president finishes reading an old newspaper from his minitel emulator, and begins resenting out loud about how most of the world doesn't pay enough attention to France anymore. He observes his people always paying attention to and patronizing the latest technology trend coming out of America, who he wants to be better than.
"I've got it!" he mutters in French to himself, "I'll make a better one, and France will be the envy of the world!"
Several hundred million dollars later, nobody remembers that the project ever existed, a new president gets elected, and the previous president shouts from his bedroom window "You may have won this time, America, but I'll get you back by making all French people snooty to you from now on!"
The first movie in this series, called Quaero, was panned by film critics:
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I make more than your run of the mill CWA thug that cuts fiber cables every time his mafioso isn't happy. After all, what makes the world a safer, better, more productive place than severing communication lines that provide access to unproductive things that we don't need, like health care services?
Oh wait did I say mafioso? Sorry, "union management" is the correct term.
Sure you can... you can move to one of the republican paradises like Kansas, Wyoming, or Oklahoma where low regulation and and taxes have produced places where everyone wants to live.
The trendy thing for Californians to do these days is move to Phoenix and drive up our housing prices. It's so rare these days to find another person besides myself who is actually from this area.
I'm an atheist. I have no religion. I get it, in your religion, solar panels are free. Hate to break it to you, but your religion is fake.
Only difference now is they made it law.
Or - as you might expect - they will offer a lower cost but same size device, with an edge to edge screen + a larger edge to edge screen device and that will increase their sales volume while slightly reducing average device profit.
That won't work for Apple at all, in fact it will just make them perform worse. This is owing to an anomaly of supply and demand. Apple is a producer of what are called Veblen goods. Veblen goods will sell LESS volume if you lower their price. In other words, the high price itself is what gives it its value. If you're looking for function alone, Android has been two years ahead of Apple since 2013. People who buy Apple aren't interested in that, they're interested in status. Think designer clothing; little teenies gotta have the most expensive purse money can buy or they're just a nobody.
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Bush didn't have ICANN do anything. The US has the authority to seize domain names that are within its TLDs, like all countries do. Among those TLDs that are within the US's jurisdiction are .org, .com and .net.
You're referring to the golden rule, and it has been a thing since long before the concepts of "private" and "government" ever existed.
Interesting. I've spent a total of 13,772.01, and received a total of 3,122.69 in refunds.
You're either really stupid and you have no idea what kinds of jobs are available, and just how inexpensive you can get an education for, or are trying to justify the fact that you borrowed too much money to pay for your education, which would also make you stupid.
Pro tip: You don't need to go to an expensive university. I went to community college, got a CCNP R&S, and transferred 90 of those credits to the least expensive state university just so I could get a token bachelor's degree. After FAFSA, a few automatic college grants that were based on FAFSA, my tuition was covered about 105% (yes, I profited.) I also got grants that required having only a 3.5 GPA (out of 4) and doing some extra project, and the rest from winning 3 different contests involving networking technical skills that doled out $1k each. My total costs for all of this were a net negative of somewhere around $6,000.
After 3 years of graduating, I was already making $76k annually, and I never borrowed a cent. I've always thought borrowing money is stupid, in fact I don't plan on ever getting a mortgage, rather I'm saving and investing 50% of my income.
Actually that is more the fault of car manufactures making it super difficult to repair their stuff. This eliminates most smaller auto shops, unless they pay a ridiculous amount to become an authorized repair center, which only then they get all of the proper service manuals and diagnostic codes. This mostly limits repairs to dealerships, unless it's more simple tasks like flushing air conditioners, fixing power steering, air filter change and oil change.
An annoying thing with Amazon's free shipping, is that they'll just sit on it for up to 3 weeks before shipping it. They're starting to do this with prime as well, though not quite as long. I honestly can't recall the last time that my prime order was shipped the same day or at least the day after. Occasionally, in the past, I would get my two day order the very next day, especially if I ordered on a Sunday, but they only delayed it if the item was back-ordered, which is fine. The most recent items they shipped me (two certificate frames, which by the way came in two separate packages, one taking an extra day) I had to wait 5 days before getting it. Amazon says their service only guarantees two day shipping, but that doesn't mean they have to ship it within two days. Meanwhile, newegg, jet, walmart, target, and a few others I've ordered from, all ship within 24 hours still, even with their free shipping options.
About that -- Amazon doesn't do quick handling anymore. These days, it's pretty rate that Amazon ships my stuff on the same day, sometimes waiting as long as 3 days to ship it, thus making my 2 day shipping more like 5 day shipping. The last eight or so orders I've made have taken no less than 4 days. Their excuse is that they give you two day free shipping, but that doesn't mean they have to actually ship it the same day. Holidays are understandable, but we're well outside of the busy shipping season.
Meanwhile, they keep adding these gimmicks, like a streaming video service that is basically a pay per view service with an attached monthly fee while much of their content is offered at a flat rate on netflix, hbo, hulu, and others.
It's actually more about the seriousness of the crime, not necessarily that it was a crime. I'm general, so long as the jail sentence is 6 months or less, and/or a fine is $1,000 or less. This applies universally, but some states grant jury trials for less than that.
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The only reason they even made it as far as they did was because Nokia.
Nokia already had a strong following, so Microsoft bribed them to adopt their piece of shit for $1 billion. Microsoft rode on the popularity of that brand, which consequently gave it better sales in Europe. Then their shit platform dragged Nokia's name in the mud, so people stopped buying them. Even when they did buy them, the return rate was so high that even Amazon suspended its sales a few times.
Even Bill Gates was quick to switch to Android at the end.
You want a legit way to poke fun of Microsoft? Their fluent UI is basically a rip-off of material design. Basically a defeat on Microsoft's part after they kept pushing that shitty metro design. Flat UI is crap, it always has been. It's also a bad idea to completely toss out skeumorph, like metro did.
I'm not sure why Walmart receives so much hate. The mom and pops that it replaced still paid minimum wage, and Walmart is far more likely to provide more benefits. Furthermore, there are ample opportunities for promotion in Walmart, from lower management to general manager, the later of which makes a 6 figure income, even in the boonies. In mom and pops, the promotions almost always go to family members.
I think it's much more simple than that: They had no care or concern in the world about the issues. The party elite decided by they wanted one thing, and one thing only: A female president. Pay attention to the language they used when they were all euphoric about the nomination, and then pay attention to that same language they used when they were dysphoric about the loss (even by the queen bitch herself, talking about the glass ceiling.) It was nearly all about that one issue.
Why do they do that superdelegate system anyways? It seems to me that all it does is make it easier for the political elite to get their way, similar to how communist parties are structured (though communist parties are worse because nobody votes except for the elite, and to them that is democracy.)
I don't know anything about the Bernie campaign (I honestly think the guy is an idiot, just look at his Medicare plan, and he actually favors Trump's most boneheaded move: tariffs) but I do see the Democratic party playing into the hands of Putin with this move.
I can't speak for Trump/Russia collusion, but I think it's less than probable given Trump didn't even seem to intend to win, and I doubt the Russians expected him to win, they just wanted to cause chaos in order to reduce the global influence of the US, which they were succeeding at until Putin decided to assassinate somebody.
However, I think the WikiLeaks thing is so unlikely that I'm calling it absurd. Remember, these are the guys who tried to make a name for themselves with a video (leaked by a total nutter) that was portrayed to look like the military murdered people in cold blood (if you look closely, they had an RPG and a kalashnikov, and given the outline of the RPG, there are NO cameras that this could be confused with, and the kalashnikov was just dead obvious.) Not only that, but WikiLeaks does its hardest to make the US look bad throughout it's entire existence (the US is the country they by far target the most, even ignoring countries like Russia and China.)
I could, however, see a WikiLeaks/Russia conspiracy. It's already known that Russia was their primary source for Hillary leaks, and it would make sense to leak them to WikiLeaks given how much Democrats tend to take everything they say at face value, and they are most likely to think Assange is in that embassy to escape the USA rather than Sweden, nevermind that the UK would extradite him to the US way before Sweden, and they are also the least likely to call Manning a traitor (he very much was both that AND a nutter, which is why one of the guys he leaked information to turned him in. Information, by the way, that he knew could get his fellow soldiers killed, which he more than likely wanted to happen, given statements he made to others before he was busted.)
Hollywood cares about them. A dirty little open secret about them is that they're fixed. If you are an actor or filmmaker, just to merely get nominated, either you or somebody else (i.e. a studio promoting your film) MUST pay a very steep bribe. Still, they eat it up anyways. I wonder if that piece of paper with their name printed in a gold color is laced with cocaine or something.
They all know it's fixed, but what's worse is those stupid fucking assholes (actors, directors, studios, and all) have the gall to ask governments to start paying for some of it, and that is what some do. After all, they MUST hire the top celebrity chefs and fashionistas to make $500,000 worth of overly elaborate banquets. Must have those H'orderves that say BAM! And accept both bribes AND government money at the same time. Unfortunately, an entire political party has been purchased and paid for in full by Hollywood.
I think G doesn't really mind censorship these days. After all, they seem to be fans of it themselves.
Anecdotally, my wife recently had an onset of acute bronchitis, which is, in most cases, a viral infection.
This isn't the whole story. Yes, it is quite rare for a bacterial infection to cause bronchitis, but being the "-itis" it is, inflammation often leads to fissures in the bronchi, which bacteria can colonize, regardless of cause (including i.e. dust, cigarette smoke, prolonged coughing from other infection.) If the doc saw a hint of blood, yellow color, or green color in the phlegm (or if your wife told him of it, or sometimes they can tell by looking at your throat,) that means she already had bacterial infection. Even if it passes that test and the phlegm is white, there's still a risk of secondary infection, especially if it has been a while since the first symptoms appeared. If the doc doesn't have the instrumentation to test for harmful bacteria with a throat swab, then antibiotics "just in case" is a reasonable thing to do, especially if there are any comorbidities.
If caught early enough, and harmful bacterial spores are ruled out, then a combination of NSAID or prednisone combined with mucinex will work fine for preventing a bacterial infection, so no antibiotic would be needed. (pred+mucinex cures all of my symptoms, including severe pain, within a day, only leaving behind an occasional cough for lungs to clean up.)
I'm doubtful that antibiotics shouldn't ever be prescribed for viral cold or sore throat. The reason why is because in many cases viral infections (especially the more painful variety) cause enough inflammation and coughing that the tissue becomes more susceptible to infection from existing bacteria in the air, so a bacterial illness then follows afterwards. I've had doctors prescribe them to me anyways, even after I brought up the issue of them not working with viral colds, and this was the explanation.
If bad viral infections like that are caught early enough, then prednisone along with maximum strength psuedophedrine can be prescribed to avoid creating the bacterial vector thus negating the need for antibiotics (a situation I've also had happen.) While the first is cheap, unfortunately psuedophedrine is no longer cheap ever since it was pulled from shelves, so people are less likely to use it. And truth be told, the ban on that only worked for a few years until meth-heads found another source.
I recall towards the end of the days when directv CAMs were easy to hack to get free TV, some guy in a major forum of the time (don't recall which one) was expressing anger at directv so much that he said he would never pay for directv, and then later stressed that he wouldn't even take it if it was free. The irony wasn't lost that the mere fact that he was there to begin with was to get directv's service for free.
Meh. We've already seen this movie before. The plot always goes like this in every one of its sequels:
A French president finishes reading an old newspaper from his minitel emulator, and begins resenting out loud about how most of the world doesn't pay enough attention to France anymore. He observes his people always paying attention to and patronizing the latest technology trend coming out of America, who he wants to be better than.
"I've got it!" he mutters in French to himself, "I'll make a better one, and France will be the envy of the world!"
Several hundred million dollars later, nobody remembers that the project ever existed, a new president gets elected, and the previous president shouts from his bedroom window "You may have won this time, America, but I'll get you back by making all French people snooty to you from now on!"
The first movie in this series, called Quaero, was panned by film critics:
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I tried that, but it broke most of the features in ettercap, which is fundamental to my work flow.