You missed the point. Or the joke. It's not "the best democracy." It's "the best democracy that money can buy."
We could have a better democracy than this one, but that'd mean you'd have to take money out of the equation.
I mean, why should my tax dollars be used to do something (anything?) that actually benefits me? Jeebus, if it did, the fucking Right would probably start screaming <<<Socialism>>>
Instead we just legalized Intuit and H&RBlock being able to pick our pockets every year for the rest of our lives.
Or if you don't like it, you can (try to) figure out how to file your taxes yourself. Good luck with that though if you have anything more than the simplest of tax returns.
People who go to the cinema more are more likely to stream more content than their non-cinema going peers?
Maybe they just like movies more than other forms of entertainment and are doing more of it, whether it's streaming or cinema
Could we just have namespaces in C? Maybe reference types?
Or pushing the envelope, how about a simple single-inheritance class model? It seems like every project I've ever worked on has jumped through hoops creating a simplistic "object" model.
I've already been down this road once (or twice). We used C++ with no boost and limited to a very small set of features (well documented). But then along came someone who just wanted to use one little thing in boost. Or some other thing no on the list.
And then the long slide down the slippery slope began.
Not if you go by me and what I plan to do.
Once I get 5G in my area and a 5G phone I'm going to drop my cable broadband service like a hot potato and tether my home wifi to my phone and use my phone's data. No reason to have always on broadband when there's nobody home using it 10+ hours a day.
People asked for All La Carte TV... now they can get it. Let's see if they enjoy it as much as they thought they would.
Except this isn't A la carte
What I wanted back then was a la carte pricing and selection from my cable tv provider. I didn't want to pay $150/month for a package with, e.g. BBCAmerica with a mandatory ESPN that I knew was adding $30/month to the package.
But ESPN had cut a side deal with Comcast and there was no package with BBCAmerican without ESPN.
You can try to redefine what a la carte meant. But AFAIC this isn't a la carte.
Fresh water production? Sewage treatment? I'm sure they've thought of these things right?
Four acres just doesn't seem big enough for 300 people, growing food, producing electricity, treating sewage, and producing fresh water.
And 21st Century? Four acres is 1.6 hectares. As an American myself, isn't time we started getting lined up with the rest of the world and use metric first? Really, it is time.
So anyone could have put a sticker on their number plate all along? And why would I pay AU$500 for something that's just a glorified sticker, when you can just put a sticker on it?
Here you can get a heart, star, hand, or + on the special kids plate in California, or you can get almost any punctuation in New Hampshire, or you can get little state outlines in places of blank spaces in New York and Texas.
Google lets spam emails through. And even if they identify it as spam and filter it into my spam folder, if it has a calendar invite, google goes ahead and adds it to my calendar.
Jeezus H Christ, google, connect the fucking dots.
Oh, I know. It's free. And I'm the product.
Truly the land of freedom.
And if I put tape over the lenses. I assume the car will refuse to start, because : safety. That'll be a popular sport in parking lots.
I'll wager you probably took the seat belts out of your car too.
And when you were in an accident and hit your head on the dashboard or windshield, and went to the ER but didn't have health coverage the hospital treated you anyway
And charged my insurance company more to cover their increased costs. And then my insurance company charged me more to cover their increased costs.
The next time I see you I'm going to punch you in the nose. I figure I already paid for it.
And that'll be Freedom too, because we don't need no stinking personal liability here in the Land of the Free. Just tough dudes who step up and take responsibility for their actions.
My wife and I made our kids:
Play a sport
Learn a musical instrument
Do their homework
Join scouts
Learn another language
Cook meals
Do their own laundry
Etc., etc., etc.
Are there any car manufacturers that makes a non-connected just plain, regular car currently?
Federal law requires back-up cameras in new cars. Once you have a backup camera and a radio, you might as well have an Entertainment System. Once you have an Entertainment System you might as well have phone, and music from the phone. Designing five different "radios" isn't free, so they design one and use it in everything.
I was driving a 2000 model year car until I traded it in last year for a new car. I didn't think I cared about all the features on the new car, but now that I have them, I kinda don't want to forego them. It's a slippery slope.
And TBH, forty years ago I used to fantasize having many of those things on the cars I was driving then and thought they'd be cool to have.
Are there any car manufacturers that makes a non-connected just plain, regular car currently?
Check the JDM market if you can get registration and insurance for one of those where you live.
If you're talking about America, you can only import 25 year old or older cars.
If you want to drive a 1994 model year (or older) car you're all set. I suspect PP wants something a bit newer.
I sent genuine Western Union telegrams back then.
I see tha itelegram.com has taken over Western Union's network and still hand delivers "telegrams".
Fucking amazing
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I don't answer calls from numbers I don't recognize. I must have hundreds or even thousands of numbers blocked. I hardly even use my phone as a phone any more.
You want to reach me, send me an email or text me. I suppose if I was really hip I'd be using Telegram (or some other thing.)
Which is funny because 30 some odd years ago I sent real telegrams to my friends when their kids were born. For the novelty factor. It blew their minds back then, when the telegram system was still up and running.
Meanwhile, it owes more than $423,000 to numerous creditors, including banks, law firms, and something called the "West African Investment Trust," based in Geneva, Switzerland.
They could do some limited production runs of the parts most commonly needed.
They've certainly got the bargaining clout to make the prices affordable too. Or so I imagine.
Sure, it's a long time ago, but fer cryin' out loud, in 1978 or so I could still buy (some) parts at the dealer for my 1962 model year car.
It was almost as if they built the cars and practically gave them away, just so they could sell parts. Like shavers and blades, and printers and ink. I'm honestly surprised Apple and the others can't make a business case for doing the same with phones: circuit boards, batteries, cases, and screens. Four parts.
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You missed the point. Or the joke. It's not "the best democracy." It's "the best democracy that money can buy."
We could have a better democracy than this one, but that'd mean you'd have to take money out of the equation.
I mean, why should my tax dollars be used to do something (anything?) that actually benefits me? Jeebus, if it did, the fucking Right would probably start screaming <<<Socialism>>>
Instead we just legalized Intuit and H&RBlock being able to pick our pockets every year for the rest of our lives.
Or if you don't like it, you can (try to) figure out how to file your taxes yourself. Good luck with that though if you have anything more than the simplest of tax returns.
People who go to the cinema more are more likely to stream more content than their non-cinema going peers?
Maybe they just like movies more than other forms of entertainment and are doing more of it, whether it's streaming or cinema
Could we just have namespaces in C? Maybe reference types?
Or pushing the envelope, how about a simple single-inheritance class model? It seems like every project I've ever worked on has jumped through hoops creating a simplistic "object" model.
I've already been down this road once (or twice). We used C++ with no boost and limited to a very small set of features (well documented). But then along came someone who just wanted to use one little thing in boost. Or some other thing no on the list.
And then the long slide down the slippery slope began.
Not if you go by me and what I plan to do.
Once I get 5G in my area and a 5G phone I'm going to drop my cable broadband service like a hot potato and tether my home wifi to my phone and use my phone's data. No reason to have always on broadband when there's nobody home using it 10+ hours a day.
People asked for All La Carte TV... now they can get it. Let's see if they enjoy it as much as they thought they would.
Except this isn't A la carte
What I wanted back then was a la carte pricing and selection from my cable tv provider. I didn't want to pay $150/month for a package with, e.g. BBCAmerica with a mandatory ESPN that I knew was adding $30/month to the package.
But ESPN had cut a side deal with Comcast and there was no package with BBCAmerican without ESPN.
You can try to redefine what a la carte meant. But AFAIC this isn't a la carte.
...samples from underground that have not been exposed to the sun or space rays.
WTF are "space rays."
Fresh water production? Sewage treatment? I'm sure they've thought of these things right?
Four acres just doesn't seem big enough for 300 people, growing food, producing electricity, treating sewage, and producing fresh water.
And 21st Century? Four acres is 1.6 hectares. As an American myself, isn't time we started getting lined up with the rest of the world and use metric first? Really, it is time.
Is it time for Usenet to make a comeback?
the International Space Station, which flies ... at tremendous speeds: about 10 times faster than a bullet.
I'm taking that to the fucking bank. That's priceless.
Who writes this shit?
So anyone could have put a sticker on their number plate all along? And why would I pay AU$500 for something that's just a glorified sticker, when you can just put a sticker on it?
Here you can get a heart, star, hand, or + on the special kids plate in California, or you can get almost any punctuation in New Hampshire, or you can get little state outlines in places of blank spaces in New York and Texas.
That's not go much spam in it.
Another TLD I'll probably have to blacklist in my sendmail.conf.
Google lets spam emails through. And even if they identify it as spam and filter it into my spam folder, if it has a calendar invite, google goes ahead and adds it to my calendar.
Jeezus H Christ, google, connect the fucking dots.
Oh, I know. It's free. And I'm the product.
Truly the land of freedom. And if I put tape over the lenses. I assume the car will refuse to start, because : safety. That'll be a popular sport in parking lots.
I'll wager you probably took the seat belts out of your car too.
And when you were in an accident and hit your head on the dashboard or windshield, and went to the ER but didn't have health coverage the hospital treated you anyway
And charged my insurance company more to cover their increased costs. And then my insurance company charged me more to cover their increased costs.
The next time I see you I'm going to punch you in the nose. I figure I already paid for it.
And that'll be Freedom too, because we don't need no stinking personal liability here in the Land of the Free. Just tough dudes who step up and take responsibility for their actions.
My wife and I made our kids:
Play a sport
Learn a musical instrument
Do their homework
Join scouts
Learn another language
Cook meals
Do their own laundry
Etc., etc., etc.
Are there any car manufacturers that makes a non-connected just plain, regular car currently?
Federal law requires back-up cameras in new cars. Once you have a backup camera and a radio, you might as well have an Entertainment System. Once you have an Entertainment System you might as well have phone, and music from the phone. Designing five different "radios" isn't free, so they design one and use it in everything.
I was driving a 2000 model year car until I traded it in last year for a new car. I didn't think I cared about all the features on the new car, but now that I have them, I kinda don't want to forego them. It's a slippery slope.
And TBH, forty years ago I used to fantasize having many of those things on the cars I was driving then and thought they'd be cool to have.
Are there any car manufacturers that makes a non-connected just plain, regular car currently?
Check the JDM market if you can get registration and insurance for one of those where you live.
If you're talking about America, you can only import 25 year old or older cars.
If you want to drive a 1994 model year (or older) car you're all set. I suspect PP wants something a bit newer.
40% of 7.6B is 3B according to my trusty calculator. Is it going to reach 3B or 1.5B ?
Asking for a friend.
I missed it. And life goes on. Next!
I sent genuine Western Union telegrams back then.
I see tha itelegram.com has taken over Western Union's network and still hand delivers "telegrams".
Fucking amazing
</replying to self>
I don't answer calls from numbers I don't recognize. I must have hundreds or even thousands of numbers blocked. I hardly even use my phone as a phone any more.
You want to reach me, send me an email or text me. I suppose if I was really hip I'd be using Telegram (or some other thing.)
Which is funny because 30 some odd years ago I sent real telegrams to my friends when their kids were born. For the novelty factor. It blew their minds back then, when the telegram system was still up and running.
Er, you lost me there.
Great. I'm a buyer at that price, and I'll happily put them into one of the patent trusts.
Where do I have to talk to?
Meanwhile, it owes more than $423,000 to numerous creditors, including banks, law firms, and something called the "West African Investment Trust," based in Geneva, Switzerland.
I don't feel the least bit sorry for any of them.
They could do some limited production runs of the parts most commonly needed.
They've certainly got the bargaining clout to make the prices affordable too. Or so I imagine.
Sure, it's a long time ago, but fer cryin' out loud, in 1978 or so I could still buy (some) parts at the dealer for my 1962 model year car.
It was almost as if they built the cars and practically gave them away, just so they could sell parts. Like shavers and blades, and printers and ink. I'm honestly surprised Apple and the others can't make a business case for doing the same with phones: circuit boards, batteries, cases, and screens. Four parts.
It's always in the last place you look.