Well i for one am happy they saved our family cabin one year with a large fire break.
More and more people move into the country and you cant just let them die in a fire, or lose their whole property. Sure you could say "don't move to a place with trees" but thats ridiculous obviously on the pacific coast.
Well it will be desert in a few years the rate we are going. Then the problem solves itself, like most climate problems eventually will. The new world will come whether you deniers like it or not.
I can see both the inexperience of youth and the calcification of the opinions of the elderly.
I know very well what the first is like, and sadly can see myself headed straight for the second. There is much wisdom there, but it really does depend on what kind of life you have had. Opinions that took a lifetime to form, very rarely change by themselves. Old people do what they do and so do the young. The troubling thing is that most are addicted to the social network, not that sometimes bad ideas proliferate on it.
Most people here are just fear mongering with half remembered urban legends. As someone who tries a lot of different vegetarian burgers, there are some good ones, and bad ones. But most, you cant tell its vegetarian, because of the toppings and bun. The fancy stuff always overshadows the meat, or soy or bean or what have you.
There is also a decent approximation of lean ground round available in the supermarket around here for your chillis and your tacos. The flavours and textures of the meal also depends on how you cook it. Cast iron pans can be used for browning to a similar texture of meat, and when cooking on a bbq, generally it requires less cooking time so you dont dry vege stuff out.
People make a big deal about what they eat, but as long as its healthy it doesn't really matter the cuisine type to me personally. Its all just food, not something to base your life around.
All that stuff, if it really mattered, could be looked up when you got home. Meanwhile, what non cellphone addicts see is the person across from them, who they only have a few hours with, having their head down, eyes and ears zombiefied, reflected in the ghostly glow of their tiny sun (that their lives seem to revolve around). Instead of talking and being present with them in the moment. Most people don't care what you talk about, especially family, but that you are there and present and talking with them.
You know, conversation isn't all about having the facts at your fingertips. I can see your UID is low, so you obviously remember the world before smartphones.
Those of us without phones survive fine, as we have for countless millennia. It only took 10 years for 3/4ths of canada to be brainwashed into the necessity of an always on spy device in their pocket. Its quite sad.
everyones luxuries are individual. I don't know anyone who has no vice or luxury spending.
Live in the moment. Sure consumerism is disgusting, but it will be far worse in future! And the world isn't on fire, its just america. We can turn our heads away from them and let them learn their lesson in time.
" There is plenty of space to build high density housing in the core area where the jobs are."
In my town, the high density housing that comes out of this mindset ends up being luxury 1 bedroom condominiums starting at 750k. Renovicting people who have been paying decent rents in a duplex or small low rise apartment, and pushing them to things like in TFA which is forming RV shantytowns.
If you want to fix the problem, either build 1k-2k/per month apartments that can fit a family, or houses that arent over 500k. The way you do this is income equality, and not treating properties as investments. Ban people from owning more than one property in the same regional district is my starting idea. Increase the cost of money and don't allow foreigners to purchase land.
It may work, but there wont be coverage. My 2004 era motorola i had to finally give up because of all the deadspots and declining coverage areas. They are not maintaining the old networks anymore it seems.
in 1996 most people didnt have cell phones, they had pagers.
As a devils advocate, language dictates reality. Propogandists, psychologists, marketers, have all known this for a hundred years. We have switched to saying "challenges" instead of "problems" at works and i feel that it does have a psychological impact that you can't just ignore.
I had an 80s chevrolet and what was the most used socket? 10mm. Like every other car.
You don't know what you are talking about. All cars have been metric for a while, and even a basic 30$ socket set has sae and metric for the odd sae time.
I have a kia and i love it. So much leg room which is kind of unexpected, but it had more leg room than any american car in the same segment i sat in. And reliability and performance are excellent.
"Musk is a CEO, not a high school student. He needs to grow up."
Oh really bill? Well how many CEOs have a whiskey or a beer on camera and no one fucking cares.
Tell me why its not the same fucking thing. Its ludicrous. Your corporate america is fucking stupid as always. Ain't no reason for weed stigma. Clinging to childish stereotypes is a fear reflex. What happened to the nasa that fearlessly lead the race to the moon? Bloated and tired like your orange flavoured leader.
Don't you slag on the best mmo of all time. Corp Por motherfucker!
Networked online games are really not the cause of the current cloud craze. Considering most single player cloud games you can still easily pirate (no control lost), and a MULTIPLAYER game by its nature needs to be online and networked and policed in some fashion from cheaters. I would say games have nothing to do with app stores, or software as a service, or phoning home operating systems. Just becuase all of these things are enabled by the internet does not make them directly related.
"You're free to set up any security policy you like in advance, even a dead man's switch if you want but taking active hostile action against a police investigation is not accepted in any legal system."
Are you? is setting your phone to self destruct ala dead mans switches any different if the ends are the exact same. What about if you set up a canary type http address, that when unreachable for longer than an hour, would self destruct the phone? Do you really think they need much proof? or do they just assume if the phone is wiped when they go to forensic it, that you somehow orchestrated that.
Is this not precedent for any of these cases? I dont see why you think not. The law with regards to technology is often vastly misunderstood, and broadly and heavy-handedly applied.
" I recommended a Mac for them instead of a Windows machine and the look on their face was practically terrified. As bad as the problems were they had experienced with Windows, they were yet more afraid of something different."
Or put another way, they are scared by something far far worse. People know about apple at this point in the game, trust me on that. Vendor lockin - they wrote the book. Good luck getting software without an apple ID. Pioneered always on, always tracking, always cloud, computing. The odd one out, the hipster misfit, too cool for me? too cool for you! whats that? you blinked and its now obsolete! expect to pay $$$$ and get that world class 1 year warranty.
The problem is for an apple user, all the above are virtues, so it really is horrific when you meet that kind of user. And so it does follow that the proper response is to look horrified and slowly back away.
In canada, government decisions have made it so all the major telcos have to offer competing services access to the last mile. They then are teh next step out to the internet, but the major monopolies (shaw, telus, bell, rogers) have to offer have to light up the connection and provide rack space in their CO's.
But your rant is major old man complete with forgetfulness.
yes windows 10 and the cloud is making things worse in many ways, but honestly if you can't keep up then you need to switch careers out of helpdesk and triage. Try and get them to give you the hard problems or projects that take days or weeks to solve which might prove less soul destroying to you.
Or just get out of IT all together. Nothing is slowing down or getting less complex with time... Now its all hyperconverged everything apparently, back to fucking bare metal. We just go around and around, but hey I am getting paid and don't have to work weekends.
And yeah, at the very least, dont tell users to open any sort of questionable email. If by some miracle a user has flagged it as questionable to them, and cared enough to call or email you about that, there is a 100% chance that it is a virus or extortion attempt. 10 times out of 10. At least remote in and take a look for yourself man if you had some doubt for some reason in your mind. Email headers are not rocket science and havent changed much in 20 years.
Ok, so it does "something" with lasers. Does it work like some vapourizers that use infrared as well as other non combusting techniques? or is it a $2400 lighter.
This is a poorly written writeup and i would definitely wait for a proper review before passing judgment. A pure "smoking" experience is the holy grail of the vapourizer market, so if you can do it more pure like with lasers, that that would be interesting to know!
I'm sure to fix it shitty would be cheaper, but its a brand new car. Personally, if i cant bang it out with a hammer, or suck it out with a suction cup, then it stays dented.
In this case, they were fixing it perfect, mint, on a brand new one day sold car. You gotta pay for quality in that situation. Sure my cousin can do it cheaper for cash under the table but i guarantee you get what you pay for with body work. Its pure time and care.
"His behavior is so chaotic / unpredictable no one really knows how to respond to him. Is he joking ? Is he serious ? He says one thing today, only to contradict it tomorrow. ( Maybe . . . lol )
Is it all a game to keep everyone off balance ?
He may go to bed every night laughing to himself about how confused he keeps everyone around him."
Yeah, we used to call those sorts of users "trolls". It is and always will be a form of getting attention. The best defence is to not pay attention. Don't feed the trolls.
For our office its about space savings. Luckily i share a real office.
We fit like 30 people in a room, but if it was dedicated offices, that would take up an entire floor. So i disagree about the lack of space savings, i think it does save space.
No one likes working in that part of the office though. Its a horrible design, and should only be for those buildings where you simply cannot expand at all. I have noticed that most young people wear earphones all the time now. So perhaps they would not mind as much. They are living in their own worlds anyway.
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Well i for one am happy they saved our family cabin one year with a large fire break.
More and more people move into the country and you cant just let them die in a fire, or lose their whole property. Sure you could say "don't move to a place with trees" but thats ridiculous obviously on the pacific coast.
Well it will be desert in a few years the rate we are going. Then the problem solves itself, like most climate problems eventually will. The new world will come whether you deniers like it or not.
I can see both the inexperience of youth and the calcification of the opinions of the elderly.
I know very well what the first is like, and sadly can see myself headed straight for the second. There is much wisdom there, but it really does depend on what kind of life you have had. Opinions that took a lifetime to form, very rarely change by themselves. Old people do what they do and so do the young. The troubling thing is that most are addicted to the social network, not that sometimes bad ideas proliferate on it.
Most people here are just fear mongering with half remembered urban legends. As someone who tries a lot of different vegetarian burgers, there are some good ones, and bad ones. But most, you cant tell its vegetarian, because of the toppings and bun. The fancy stuff always overshadows the meat, or soy or bean or what have you.
There is also a decent approximation of lean ground round available in the supermarket around here for your chillis and your tacos. The flavours and textures of the meal also depends on how you cook it. Cast iron pans can be used for browning to a similar texture of meat, and when cooking on a bbq, generally it requires less cooking time so you dont dry vege stuff out.
People make a big deal about what they eat, but as long as its healthy it doesn't really matter the cuisine type to me personally. Its all just food, not something to base your life around.
This is america we are talking about. Those rednecks are probably the cops themselves.
All that stuff, if it really mattered, could be looked up when you got home. Meanwhile, what non cellphone addicts see is the person across from them, who they only have a few hours with, having their head down, eyes and ears zombiefied, reflected in the ghostly glow of their tiny sun (that their lives seem to revolve around). Instead of talking and being present with them in the moment. Most people don't care what you talk about, especially family, but that you are there and present and talking with them.
You know, conversation isn't all about having the facts at your fingertips. I can see your UID is low, so you obviously remember the world before smartphones.
Those of us without phones survive fine, as we have for countless millennia. It only took 10 years for 3/4ths of canada to be brainwashed into the necessity of an always on spy device in their pocket. Its quite sad.
everyones luxuries are individual. I don't know anyone who has no vice or luxury spending.
Live in the moment. Sure consumerism is disgusting, but it will be far worse in future! And the world isn't on fire, its just america. We can turn our heads away from them and let them learn their lesson in time.
If only everything in life was so simple. The freedom you get when you neglect so much must be intoxicating for a while.
it is a christmas movie, the end. proof over.
I'm sure then that you've never had the feeling that someone was "like a son" to you. Biology isn't all there is to being a parent.
In my town, the high density housing that comes out of this mindset ends up being luxury 1 bedroom condominiums starting at 750k. Renovicting people who have been paying decent rents in a duplex or small low rise apartment, and pushing them to things like in TFA which is forming RV shantytowns.
If you want to fix the problem, either build 1k-2k /per month apartments that can fit a family, or houses that arent over 500k. The way you do this is income equality, and not treating properties as investments. Ban people from owning more than one property in the same regional district is my starting idea. Increase the cost of money and don't allow foreigners to purchase land.
It may work, but there wont be coverage. My 2004 era motorola i had to finally give up because of all the deadspots and declining coverage areas. They are not maintaining the old networks anymore it seems.
in 1996 most people didnt have cell phones, they had pagers.
As a devils advocate, language dictates reality. Propogandists, psychologists, marketers, have all known this for a hundred years. We have switched to saying "challenges" instead of "problems" at works and i feel that it does have a psychological impact that you can't just ignore.
Its really cost effective to die. Your costs go down to zero.
I had an 80s chevrolet and what was the most used socket? 10mm. Like every other car.
You don't know what you are talking about. All cars have been metric for a while, and even a basic 30$ socket set has sae and metric for the odd sae time.
I have a kia and i love it. So much leg room which is kind of unexpected, but it had more leg room than any american car in the same segment i sat in. And reliability and performance are excellent.
Oh really bill? Well how many CEOs have a whiskey or a beer on camera and no one fucking cares.
Tell me why its not the same fucking thing. Its ludicrous. Your corporate america is fucking stupid as always. Ain't no reason for weed stigma. Clinging to childish stereotypes is a fear reflex. What happened to the nasa that fearlessly lead the race to the moon? Bloated and tired like your orange flavoured leader.
Don't you slag on the best mmo of all time. Corp Por motherfucker!
Networked online games are really not the cause of the current cloud craze. Considering most single player cloud games you can still easily pirate (no control lost), and a MULTIPLAYER game by its nature needs to be online and networked and policed in some fashion from cheaters. I would say games have nothing to do with app stores, or software as a service, or phoning home operating systems. Just becuase all of these things are enabled by the internet does not make them directly related.
Are you? is setting your phone to self destruct ala dead mans switches any different if the ends are the exact same. What about if you set up a canary type http address, that when unreachable for longer than an hour, would self destruct the phone? Do you really think they need much proof? or do they just assume if the phone is wiped when they go to forensic it, that you somehow orchestrated that.
Is this not precedent for any of these cases? I dont see why you think not. The law with regards to technology is often vastly misunderstood, and broadly and heavy-handedly applied.
Or put another way, they are scared by something far far worse. People know about apple at this point in the game, trust me on that. Vendor lockin - they wrote the book. Good luck getting software without an apple ID. Pioneered always on, always tracking, always cloud, computing. The odd one out, the hipster misfit, too cool for me? too cool for you! whats that? you blinked and its now obsolete! expect to pay $$$$ and get that world class 1 year warranty.
The problem is for an apple user, all the above are virtues, so it really is horrific when you meet that kind of user. And so it does follow that the proper response is to look horrified and slowly back away.
In canada, government decisions have made it so all the major telcos have to offer competing services access to the last mile. They then are teh next step out to the internet, but the major monopolies (shaw, telus, bell, rogers) have to offer have to light up the connection and provide rack space in their CO's.
You might want to DDG that!
But your rant is major old man complete with forgetfulness.
yes windows 10 and the cloud is making things worse in many ways, but honestly if you can't keep up then you need to switch careers out of helpdesk and triage. Try and get them to give you the hard problems or projects that take days or weeks to solve which might prove less soul destroying to you.
Or just get out of IT all together. Nothing is slowing down or getting less complex with time... Now its all hyperconverged everything apparently, back to fucking bare metal. We just go around and around, but hey I am getting paid and don't have to work weekends.
And yeah, at the very least, dont tell users to open any sort of questionable email. If by some miracle a user has flagged it as questionable to them, and cared enough to call or email you about that, there is a 100% chance that it is a virus or extortion attempt. 10 times out of 10. At least remote in and take a look for yourself man if you had some doubt for some reason in your mind. Email headers are not rocket science and havent changed much in 20 years.
Ok, so it does "something" with lasers. Does it work like some vapourizers that use infrared as well as other non combusting techniques? or is it a $2400 lighter.
This is a poorly written writeup and i would definitely wait for a proper review before passing judgment. A pure "smoking" experience is the holy grail of the vapourizer market, so if you can do it more pure like with lasers, that that would be interesting to know!
With legality comes a brave new world of science!
I'm sure to fix it shitty would be cheaper, but its a brand new car. Personally, if i cant bang it out with a hammer, or suck it out with a suction cup, then it stays dented.
In this case, they were fixing it perfect, mint, on a brand new one day sold car. You gotta pay for quality in that situation. Sure my cousin can do it cheaper for cash under the table but i guarantee you get what you pay for with body work. Its pure time and care.
Yeah, we used to call those sorts of users "trolls". It is and always will be a form of getting attention. The best defence is to not pay attention. Don't feed the trolls.
your argument is, knowing that he knows that they know that he knows, he is wisely adjusting his defence accordingly?
truly you have a dizzying intellect. Complete buffoonery has really been a cunning plan all along. WHY WERE WE SO BLIND!
For our office its about space savings. Luckily i share a real office.
We fit like 30 people in a room, but if it was dedicated offices, that would take up an entire floor. So i disagree about the lack of space savings, i think it does save space.
No one likes working in that part of the office though. Its a horrible design, and should only be for those buildings where you simply cannot expand at all. I have noticed that most young people wear earphones all the time now. So perhaps they would not mind as much. They are living in their own worlds anyway.
I wonder if the germans have a word for scared shitless, yet simultaneously in awe and happiness at the karmatic overtones of this form of justice.