"SWINO"... I like it! That's really what it is. Star Wars in name only. I really enjoyed Iron Man and that's about the last thing Favreau has been involved in beyond playing "Happy Hogan" that I've cared about. This is just more "The Force is Female" bullshit. Can't wait to see their next Mary Sue. Pity they didn't leave him one of the big three original trilogy characters to shit all over but I guess he'll have to settle for Chewie, C-3PO, and R2-D2.
Who cares about the analog hole? I can rip the DRM right out of their content on an old PC with an out of date copy of iTunes and do it regularly. I'm not fucking around with some stupid analog out on an 11 year old device I replaced 2 generations ago.
I totally understand what you're saying but don't you think you're being a little overly dramatic here. Sure there may be an AM/FM Radio still going after 50+ years but I ain't listening to that shit and neither are the people who went out and bought a first generation AppleTV (I did). Hell I bet most of us thought the thing would probably fail and be discontinued anyway. People aren't being victimized here by some nefarious plan to force them to upgrade every 10-11 years. I'm on my third upgraded device in that time and the original Gen1 is sitting in its box with its upgraded SSD hard drive waiting for me to figure out what I'm going to do with it next. I've run a bunch of different stuff on it and returned it to its original config (software at least) probably a half dozen times. It's not like the thing has much power to begin with but it's fun to tinker with.
My Gen3 was handed down to my son so he could install Plex on it and use it for his kids when I replaced it with a new Gen5 4K. I like the device. I understand its limitations and what it's dependent on for the best user experience. I know it will eventually be deprecated and replaced with something newer, better, and faster. I'll probably be there to buy that one too. They kept it alive for 11 years. That's not unreasonable in the least.
Ultimately I think "Did they cast votes? Did the Russian Twitter-bots or whatever actually cast votes in the election?" and that's all I personally think matters because if the American people are so stupid that they can't tell the difference between the shit people mail around to one another that's obviously just pure rubbish and the truth or bother to double check any of it then they get what they deserve.
But you and I (and the person you're talking to) all know that isn't going to happen because these sites have patience that regular people can only imagine the scope of. It doesn't get better. It just gets more annoying and then it stays that way.
"Protected"? Really, has the definition of protected fallen so far? This kind of crap is ridiculous. Courts having to step in because people are too stupid to work out how to safely use social media on their own should be enough to embarrass the average German.
Have you seen some of that Star Trek fan fiction that's posted on YouTube? It's unwatchable! I mean, obviously the effort is there and bless them they put their hearts into it but the poor guys just can't act to save their lives.
When I bought my 2006 GTO I did something I'd never tried before. I simply went online and looked for all the Pontiac dealers in Texas and Louisiana. This was early 2007 and the model had been discontinued but a bunch of Pontiac dealers still had a some on the lot. It was a great car but it just didn't sell well. I got my list together with all their email addresses for their internet sales departments and sent them all an email saying I was looking for a 2006 GTO. I didn't care what color it was and I already had my financing in line but I wanted it for 20% off sticker (Basically a $32K car at the time for about $25.5). If anyone wanted to move a car please respond. First come gets my money. I got a bunch of responses from people who said nobody would make that deal. Kind of silly, it's not that amazing a deal really. I wasn't trying to steal one. I expected them to make money on it. I just didn't want to get ripped off. Many of them fell into the "These are the last GTO's EVER and we're getting 15% above sticker!" category (Bullshit of course, if so why did they still have them three months into the next year) but sure enough I found two dealers who were like "Sure, we'll make that deal". Drove halfway across Texas, signed the paperwork which was remarkable free of extraneous thievery and went home with my car. It just worked out really well. Since then I always do that when I need a car.
I really wish I could remember where I read this and I realize not being able to cite where I got it makes it less compelling but just a year or so ago I read an interesting article about terraforming Mars and the conclusion that it couldn't hold an atmosphere was cited. The answer to the problem wasn't to not do it. The answer was that if man ever does begin terraforming Mars the process will never end. Yes Mars has lost much of its atmosphere but that took an incredibly long time in human terms. The rate at which any newly created atmosphere would be swept away would be slow enough for us to be able to do something about it. I really don't know if that's true or not. I'm just tossing out an article I read that seemed to be about this and that I thought was interesting.
I think for a period of time in their late teens and early twenties it's probably safe to say that many men (at least in the US) do pretty much want sex and not children. Unwanted side-effect is what you would call a lot of us if you were being entirely honest. Look at how much money is spent on birth control in this country (and much of the developed world) to try and get the sex without the offspring.
Eventually most of us either come to want children ourselves or are talking into it by our wives/partners. I personally never wanted any kids so I married a woman who already had two (who were conveniently almost grown) and opted for the step-dad route. Being honest here when I say that I've had more than a few second thoughts about that decision. If I had it to do over again I think I'd still be single or made more of an effort to find a woman who wanted nothing to do with kids. Hard to do but not impossible.
That's why I don't. I make a point of trying to hold mine for two versions before I get a new one. Obviously an unforeseen "disaster" can interfere with that so I ended up going from an iPhone 6 to an iPhone 7 Plus when my phone found its way into the washing machine (My wife is convinced I did that on purpose. I did not) but I wasn't even thinking about upgrading until the iPhone 8 came out. Didn't see the "X" coming and kind of don't care about it. Hell I was happy with my 6 when it got killed. Just because they come out with new phones that doesn't mean we have to buy them.
Well yeah, that's about right. 10-11 thousand people are killed by others, around 18 thousand or so kill themselves. In a country with 323 million people in it and almost 43 thousand suicides a year that sounds about right.
Exactly right. Someone closer maybe has an opportunity to intervene. People down in the "kill box" might as well have been getting hit by lightning bolts thrown by Zeus. They never had a chance so pointing to them and saying "Where's your good guy with a gun now?" would be stupid and pointless. I am a former police officer and I carry concealed legally every day. If everyone in that audience had been carrying it wouldn't have mattered. If a few people near the room were armed that might have helped.
Not at all. I'm saying that you can carry a gun, practice with it, be proficient with it even and you can still not get a chance to use it at all or be in a situation like these people where the shooter is effectively invisible, far out of range, and already killing people before you ever know your in danger. That doesn't mean that the "good guy with a gun" angle isn't real and that they do on a regular basis intervene and stop dangerous people. It just means that it's not guaranteed that will happen. People who think that the idea is "asinine" always point to the things that could go wrong or that a good guy with a gun could not prevent. People who are advocates of it always point to the successful instances of a good guy stopping some violent person, defending themselves, or preventing further loss of life. All those things can happen. It's a mixed bag.
You're wrong about the "good guy with a gun" theory being asinine but it is very much misunderstood and people seem to often think it means more than it does. a good guy with a gun stops shit all the time in this country. It happens regularly but it doesn't in some way confer super powers on these people and you can be a good guy with a gun and never have a chance just as easily (if not more often) as you can be one of the first to go down. What didn't happen here is a bunch of concealed carry people didn't go bat shit crazy and start shooting one another trying to find the killer. Good guys with guns wouldn't have made a lick of difference here but they also didn't make the situation worse either. That's better than it could have been.
I wish I had mod points because that's a damn fine comment right there. There is a subset of people in this world who for whatever reason are capable of this kind of thing. They might be looking for an excuse to do it but where they get their excuse isn't the point of the problem. They can find it on the left or on the right just as easily. They can find it in the morning traffic. When they find it that's when people start dying. The same thing that sets them off might just spoil my morning or put you in a bad mood all day. At worst it might make you or I more active on some issue or topic but the people who can do this are a whole other cut of cloth entirely.
Poppycock! Everyone knows that Robert E. Lee invented email during "The War of Northern Aggression". It was based on a radical new cotton gin design and powered by 14 Confederate I.T. officers. Each Confederate ranking officer had one set up behind him at every major battle. It's all covered in great detail on the statues everyone is tearing down these days...
Now I can see exactly how much money I'll be saving by ignoring their service completely. $60 a year added to what I don't spend on CBS's service is starting to look like real money!
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"SWINO"... I like it! That's really what it is. Star Wars in name only. I really enjoyed Iron Man and that's about the last thing Favreau has been involved in beyond playing "Happy Hogan" that I've cared about. This is just more "The Force is Female" bullshit. Can't wait to see their next Mary Sue. Pity they didn't leave him one of the big three original trilogy characters to shit all over but I guess he'll have to settle for Chewie, C-3PO, and R2-D2.
Who cares about the analog hole? I can rip the DRM right out of their content on an old PC with an out of date copy of iTunes and do it regularly. I'm not fucking around with some stupid analog out on an 11 year old device I replaced 2 generations ago.
I totally understand what you're saying but don't you think you're being a little overly dramatic here. Sure there may be an AM/FM Radio still going after 50+ years but I ain't listening to that shit and neither are the people who went out and bought a first generation AppleTV (I did). Hell I bet most of us thought the thing would probably fail and be discontinued anyway. People aren't being victimized here by some nefarious plan to force them to upgrade every 10-11 years. I'm on my third upgraded device in that time and the original Gen1 is sitting in its box with its upgraded SSD hard drive waiting for me to figure out what I'm going to do with it next. I've run a bunch of different stuff on it and returned it to its original config (software at least) probably a half dozen times. It's not like the thing has much power to begin with but it's fun to tinker with. My Gen3 was handed down to my son so he could install Plex on it and use it for his kids when I replaced it with a new Gen5 4K. I like the device. I understand its limitations and what it's dependent on for the best user experience. I know it will eventually be deprecated and replaced with something newer, better, and faster. I'll probably be there to buy that one too. They kept it alive for 11 years. That's not unreasonable in the least.
Ultimately I think "Did they cast votes? Did the Russian Twitter-bots or whatever actually cast votes in the election?" and that's all I personally think matters because if the American people are so stupid that they can't tell the difference between the shit people mail around to one another that's obviously just pure rubbish and the truth or bother to double check any of it then they get what they deserve.
But you and I (and the person you're talking to) all know that isn't going to happen because these sites have patience that regular people can only imagine the scope of. It doesn't get better. It just gets more annoying and then it stays that way.
"Protected"? Really, has the definition of protected fallen so far? This kind of crap is ridiculous. Courts having to step in because people are too stupid to work out how to safely use social media on their own should be enough to embarrass the average German.
Have you seen some of that Star Trek fan fiction that's posted on YouTube? It's unwatchable! I mean, obviously the effort is there and bless them they put their hearts into it but the poor guys just can't act to save their lives.
When I bought my 2006 GTO I did something I'd never tried before. I simply went online and looked for all the Pontiac dealers in Texas and Louisiana. This was early 2007 and the model had been discontinued but a bunch of Pontiac dealers still had a some on the lot. It was a great car but it just didn't sell well. I got my list together with all their email addresses for their internet sales departments and sent them all an email saying I was looking for a 2006 GTO. I didn't care what color it was and I already had my financing in line but I wanted it for 20% off sticker (Basically a $32K car at the time for about $25.5). If anyone wanted to move a car please respond. First come gets my money. I got a bunch of responses from people who said nobody would make that deal. Kind of silly, it's not that amazing a deal really. I wasn't trying to steal one. I expected them to make money on it. I just didn't want to get ripped off. Many of them fell into the "These are the last GTO's EVER and we're getting 15% above sticker!" category (Bullshit of course, if so why did they still have them three months into the next year) but sure enough I found two dealers who were like "Sure, we'll make that deal". Drove halfway across Texas, signed the paperwork which was remarkable free of extraneous thievery and went home with my car. It just worked out really well. Since then I always do that when I need a car.
Science damn you and your heretical Giga batteries to hell!
I really wish I could remember where I read this and I realize not being able to cite where I got it makes it less compelling but just a year or so ago I read an interesting article about terraforming Mars and the conclusion that it couldn't hold an atmosphere was cited. The answer to the problem wasn't to not do it. The answer was that if man ever does begin terraforming Mars the process will never end. Yes Mars has lost much of its atmosphere but that took an incredibly long time in human terms. The rate at which any newly created atmosphere would be swept away would be slow enough for us to be able to do something about it. I really don't know if that's true or not. I'm just tossing out an article I read that seemed to be about this and that I thought was interesting.
"Alexa, download porn and order more hand lotion"
The real question we all want an answer to is how many Bothans died to bring us this $8 worth of information
Sounds like a win-win to me.
I think for a period of time in their late teens and early twenties it's probably safe to say that many men (at least in the US) do pretty much want sex and not children. Unwanted side-effect is what you would call a lot of us if you were being entirely honest. Look at how much money is spent on birth control in this country (and much of the developed world) to try and get the sex without the offspring. Eventually most of us either come to want children ourselves or are talking into it by our wives/partners. I personally never wanted any kids so I married a woman who already had two (who were conveniently almost grown) and opted for the step-dad route. Being honest here when I say that I've had more than a few second thoughts about that decision. If I had it to do over again I think I'd still be single or made more of an effort to find a woman who wanted nothing to do with kids. Hard to do but not impossible.
"Shut up baby I know it!"
That's why I don't. I make a point of trying to hold mine for two versions before I get a new one. Obviously an unforeseen "disaster" can interfere with that so I ended up going from an iPhone 6 to an iPhone 7 Plus when my phone found its way into the washing machine (My wife is convinced I did that on purpose. I did not) but I wasn't even thinking about upgrading until the iPhone 8 came out. Didn't see the "X" coming and kind of don't care about it. Hell I was happy with my 6 when it got killed. Just because they come out with new phones that doesn't mean we have to buy them.
Every Goddamn chance I get!
Well, I'd have thought that was obvious.
Well yeah, that's about right. 10-11 thousand people are killed by others, around 18 thousand or so kill themselves. In a country with 323 million people in it and almost 43 thousand suicides a year that sounds about right.
Exactly right. Someone closer maybe has an opportunity to intervene. People down in the "kill box" might as well have been getting hit by lightning bolts thrown by Zeus. They never had a chance so pointing to them and saying "Where's your good guy with a gun now?" would be stupid and pointless. I am a former police officer and I carry concealed legally every day. If everyone in that audience had been carrying it wouldn't have mattered. If a few people near the room were armed that might have helped.
Not at all. I'm saying that you can carry a gun, practice with it, be proficient with it even and you can still not get a chance to use it at all or be in a situation like these people where the shooter is effectively invisible, far out of range, and already killing people before you ever know your in danger. That doesn't mean that the "good guy with a gun" angle isn't real and that they do on a regular basis intervene and stop dangerous people. It just means that it's not guaranteed that will happen. People who think that the idea is "asinine" always point to the things that could go wrong or that a good guy with a gun could not prevent. People who are advocates of it always point to the successful instances of a good guy stopping some violent person, defending themselves, or preventing further loss of life. All those things can happen. It's a mixed bag.
You're wrong about the "good guy with a gun" theory being asinine but it is very much misunderstood and people seem to often think it means more than it does. a good guy with a gun stops shit all the time in this country. It happens regularly but it doesn't in some way confer super powers on these people and you can be a good guy with a gun and never have a chance just as easily (if not more often) as you can be one of the first to go down. What didn't happen here is a bunch of concealed carry people didn't go bat shit crazy and start shooting one another trying to find the killer. Good guys with guns wouldn't have made a lick of difference here but they also didn't make the situation worse either. That's better than it could have been.
I wish I had mod points because that's a damn fine comment right there. There is a subset of people in this world who for whatever reason are capable of this kind of thing. They might be looking for an excuse to do it but where they get their excuse isn't the point of the problem. They can find it on the left or on the right just as easily. They can find it in the morning traffic. When they find it that's when people start dying. The same thing that sets them off might just spoil my morning or put you in a bad mood all day. At worst it might make you or I more active on some issue or topic but the people who can do this are a whole other cut of cloth entirely.
Poppycock! Everyone knows that Robert E. Lee invented email during "The War of Northern Aggression". It was based on a radical new cotton gin design and powered by 14 Confederate I.T. officers. Each Confederate ranking officer had one set up behind him at every major battle. It's all covered in great detail on the statues everyone is tearing down these days...
Now I can see exactly how much money I'll be saving by ignoring their service completely. $60 a year added to what I don't spend on CBS's service is starting to look like real money!