Exactly! I realize that he was (maybe still is on some level) absolutely brilliant but in his own way he's doing the same thing my Uncle Rudy is doing at that age. Slowly losing all sense of reality and proportion. Unfortunate but mostly inevitable.
Honest question because I don't know the answer to it but does anyone in the world today allow open immigration? This isn't the 1800's and allowing anyone in the world who can get here to immigrate is foolish at best. I do think our situation with Mexico is such that we'd be better off allowing any Mexican citizen who passed a simple health screening and had no criminal record to get a green card on request. Instead of trying to keep that labor out of this country we should instead focus on trying to regulate employers who want to pay less than legal wages. If we did that we'd have a much better idea of who was coming here and it would be a better system and safer for all of us. Just make the employers keep the playing field level and let in all the motivated, hard working, and law abiding people who want to come. At that point you have cut the acceptable immigrant candidates out of the "herd" and you make the penalties for smuggling drugs or crossing illegally for those who cannot legally meet those simple requirements much harsher.
I never took an anti-immigrant position. I just asked a simple question about whether American tech workers were unhappy or just those who came here to work.
Very true. My time at home at the end of a long day in front of a computer is spent on a bicycle or crawling around in my garden and flower beds. As I've gotten older I've found a lot of satisfaction in very simple, very "analog" things. I like to target shoot and none of the pistols I own have IP addresses. I like to read and I prefer to read from paper (though to be honest I like reading on my iPad as well). None of it has to be connected to the internet. Most of the best stuff still isn't.
Stupid people are going to do stupid shit like this and they're going to keep looking for something equally stupid to replace it when you ban it or change it too much. Just let them do it. Let companies pick their pockets along the way and watch the dumb asses get their cancer and complain about how they didn't know the dangers or how the companies that make them shouldn't have been allowed to sell them that shit to begin with. We all know that no matter how many times you tell them about it they don't listen and if you take it away they'll go on a "Vision Quest" to find the next stupid, self destructive habit. Just let them do it and let them die.
That's pretty much where I'm at. At this point I don't think anything is going to change so the focus really becomes how to adapt to it. I'm in my early 50's so not much will be different between now and when I die. I wonder how much overlap there would be between people who consider it a catastrophe and people who don't believe it can be averted to any meaningful degree?
Conclusion? I'm gonna go buy an SUV!
Just learn to ignore them. The lost art of ignoring people is a wondrous thing and should be taught in school at least as much as they focus on paying attention..
Please don't encourage more people to move to Texas and Florida. We can't get the last batch of job-seekers to leave and they vote the same way they did in the places they left.
No. No it won't. The people who work these jobs live on the coast and since the Gulf of Mexico has a rather long coast that stretches from, well "Mexico" all the way to the tip of Florida I'm sure somebody in this world is going to work these jobs and continue to live on the coast. For that matter if the coast moves inland how is that supposed to prevent people from living near the coast (You don't actually think all of these people live on the beach do you?). Yes, the existing coastline changes. It continues to change and will keep changing. Nothing is going to stop that from happening entirely but lots of people live near the coast in Louisiana and will never be affected by this to any great degree. Seafood doesn't even factor into this. "More" ocean is supposed to translate into less seafood? Seriously?
I voted for him. I got what I wanted too. I got a SC Justice appointed, maybe one or two more on the way, and Hillary Clinton isn't appointing any of those. I have to admit that I thought we'd have sent Trump packing for Pence by now but otherwise I'm great with it. This is hilarious and I'm starting to think that I hope this show gets renewed for another 4 seasons.
Funniest 91 days on TV I can remember in a long time.
Absolutely. That's a big market and if you want to play in it you have to do as you're told which I kind of find amusing since inside Apple's walled garden "you have to do as you're told". The alternative is to cede the sales to your rivals. I'm kind of an Apple fan but I'm also a realist and don't buy their bullshit either (or hold it against them).
It's not Apple's (or Samsung's, or Google's, or anyone else's) job to fix what's wrong with China. That's on the Chinese people. Just like here in the US with our current political situation we all tend to end up with the government we choose to tolerate and deserve.
I pay for a lot of content through Dish, Netflix, iTunes, etc but if there's something I can't find there (and it happens more than I would have thought possible) then I don't even hesitate. It's 2017 and I want everything ever made and I want it at the click of a mouse or press of a button on my remote. I understand that it isn't something I'm in any way entitled to but that's how the world works a lot of the time now. Sorry.
Every person I know who spent any time at all ripping, downloading, trading or sharing is sitting on a small mountain of music. Terabytes of high quality MP3 files that contain months of music, most of which I've barely had time to grow tired of. We each serve as one another's off-site backup and we all buy the relative handful of new music because at this point we don't have to go back and re-buy libraries of music we'd purchased time after time as formats changed. We didn't get more conscientious or more law abiding. We got full. Seriously, when I see that some older act is releasing new versions of their catalog that have been magically remastered or whatever I don't look to see if I can afford to buy them. I say "Fuck off, I'm stuffed!" like the fat guy in Monty Python's History of the World (which I also have in BluRay ripped MKV files thank you).
The restroom problem is easily solved. Create one that contains nothing that could be damaged or destroyed by a cleaning process that runs automatically at regular intervals when the restroom is confirmed empty using motion sensors, heat sensors, etc. Since we're already going toward the single toilet with a door that closes model thanks to the transformers go ahead and put in 2-3 of those. Ceiling and wall mounted sprayers with cleaner/disinfectant/air freshener and and drying sequence. Big drain in the floor for everything. We'll probably see that in our lifetimes become a standard of a sort. Toilet paper disappears completely and everyone learns to live with a stream of cold water being shot at their asshole instead. Should be a lot of fun. Sink areas will have hand dryers that are water resistant but don't work anyway. Old people will sit around and reminisce about these things called paper towels.
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Exactly! I realize that he was (maybe still is on some level) absolutely brilliant but in his own way he's doing the same thing my Uncle Rudy is doing at that age. Slowly losing all sense of reality and proportion. Unfortunate but mostly inevitable.
I refuse to do that. I insist on pronouncing it like "EeepYike". Stop judging me! It makes sense when I say it in my mind!
Honest question because I don't know the answer to it but does anyone in the world today allow open immigration? This isn't the 1800's and allowing anyone in the world who can get here to immigrate is foolish at best. I do think our situation with Mexico is such that we'd be better off allowing any Mexican citizen who passed a simple health screening and had no criminal record to get a green card on request. Instead of trying to keep that labor out of this country we should instead focus on trying to regulate employers who want to pay less than legal wages. If we did that we'd have a much better idea of who was coming here and it would be a better system and safer for all of us. Just make the employers keep the playing field level and let in all the motivated, hard working, and law abiding people who want to come. At that point you have cut the acceptable immigrant candidates out of the "herd" and you make the penalties for smuggling drugs or crossing illegally for those who cannot legally meet those simple requirements much harsher.
I never took an anti-immigrant position. I just asked a simple question about whether American tech workers were unhappy or just those who came here to work.
Are "Tech Employees" nervous or are just "H-1B Tech Employees" nervous while most of the rest are thinking they might be staring at an opportunity?
Very true. My time at home at the end of a long day in front of a computer is spent on a bicycle or crawling around in my garden and flower beds. As I've gotten older I've found a lot of satisfaction in very simple, very "analog" things. I like to target shoot and none of the pistols I own have IP addresses. I like to read and I prefer to read from paper (though to be honest I like reading on my iPad as well). None of it has to be connected to the internet. Most of the best stuff still isn't.
Stupid people are going to do stupid shit like this and they're going to keep looking for something equally stupid to replace it when you ban it or change it too much. Just let them do it. Let companies pick their pockets along the way and watch the dumb asses get their cancer and complain about how they didn't know the dangers or how the companies that make them shouldn't have been allowed to sell them that shit to begin with. We all know that no matter how many times you tell them about it they don't listen and if you take it away they'll go on a "Vision Quest" to find the next stupid, self destructive habit. Just let them do it and let them die.
That's pretty much where I'm at. At this point I don't think anything is going to change so the focus really becomes how to adapt to it. I'm in my early 50's so not much will be different between now and when I die. I wonder how much overlap there would be between people who consider it a catastrophe and people who don't believe it can be averted to any meaningful degree? Conclusion? I'm gonna go buy an SUV!
I'm waiting for the Director's Cut of that.
I think he was already that way when twitter arrived. He learned how to be that way the old fashioned way. Face to face.
Just learn to ignore them. The lost art of ignoring people is a wondrous thing and should be taught in school at least as much as they focus on paying attention..
Don't turn that computer on until you put on your Twitter Helmets.
Thunderbird(s) are still Go! It's about perfect in my opinion.
"One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison" Didn't just appear out of thin air for no reason.
Please don't encourage more people to move to Texas and Florida. We can't get the last batch of job-seekers to leave and they vote the same way they did in the places they left.
I'm thinking that if you are making things like this legal then you're well on your way to losing the right to call yourselves a Democracy.
No. No it won't. The people who work these jobs live on the coast and since the Gulf of Mexico has a rather long coast that stretches from, well "Mexico" all the way to the tip of Florida I'm sure somebody in this world is going to work these jobs and continue to live on the coast. For that matter if the coast moves inland how is that supposed to prevent people from living near the coast (You don't actually think all of these people live on the beach do you?). Yes, the existing coastline changes. It continues to change and will keep changing. Nothing is going to stop that from happening entirely but lots of people live near the coast in Louisiana and will never be affected by this to any great degree. Seafood doesn't even factor into this. "More" ocean is supposed to translate into less seafood? Seriously?
Not to worry. Once all the school vouchers are issued nobody (that matters) is going to be attending that school anyway right?
I voted for him. I got what I wanted too. I got a SC Justice appointed, maybe one or two more on the way, and Hillary Clinton isn't appointing any of those. I have to admit that I thought we'd have sent Trump packing for Pence by now but otherwise I'm great with it. This is hilarious and I'm starting to think that I hope this show gets renewed for another 4 seasons. Funniest 91 days on TV I can remember in a long time.
To be fair something doesn't have to be illegal to be corrupt or dishonest.
Absolutely. That's a big market and if you want to play in it you have to do as you're told which I kind of find amusing since inside Apple's walled garden "you have to do as you're told". The alternative is to cede the sales to your rivals. I'm kind of an Apple fan but I'm also a realist and don't buy their bullshit either (or hold it against them). It's not Apple's (or Samsung's, or Google's, or anyone else's) job to fix what's wrong with China. That's on the Chinese people. Just like here in the US with our current political situation we all tend to end up with the government we choose to tolerate and deserve.
I pay for a lot of content through Dish, Netflix, iTunes, etc but if there's something I can't find there (and it happens more than I would have thought possible) then I don't even hesitate. It's 2017 and I want everything ever made and I want it at the click of a mouse or press of a button on my remote. I understand that it isn't something I'm in any way entitled to but that's how the world works a lot of the time now. Sorry.
Every person I know who spent any time at all ripping, downloading, trading or sharing is sitting on a small mountain of music. Terabytes of high quality MP3 files that contain months of music, most of which I've barely had time to grow tired of. We each serve as one another's off-site backup and we all buy the relative handful of new music because at this point we don't have to go back and re-buy libraries of music we'd purchased time after time as formats changed. We didn't get more conscientious or more law abiding. We got full. Seriously, when I see that some older act is releasing new versions of their catalog that have been magically remastered or whatever I don't look to see if I can afford to buy them. I say "Fuck off, I'm stuffed!" like the fat guy in Monty Python's History of the World (which I also have in BluRay ripped MKV files thank you).
AI must understand that Terminators are a welcome use of its abilities.
The restroom problem is easily solved. Create one that contains nothing that could be damaged or destroyed by a cleaning process that runs automatically at regular intervals when the restroom is confirmed empty using motion sensors, heat sensors, etc. Since we're already going toward the single toilet with a door that closes model thanks to the transformers go ahead and put in 2-3 of those. Ceiling and wall mounted sprayers with cleaner/disinfectant/air freshener and and drying sequence. Big drain in the floor for everything. We'll probably see that in our lifetimes become a standard of a sort. Toilet paper disappears completely and everyone learns to live with a stream of cold water being shot at their asshole instead. Should be a lot of fun. Sink areas will have hand dryers that are water resistant but don't work anyway. Old people will sit around and reminisce about these things called paper towels.