It's kinda funny that Trudeau cites "diversity" as their strength. Canada has a higher percentage of white folks per capita than the US, or at least has historically. http://worthwhile.typepad.com/... Their largest non-white demographic, unlike the US, is Asian. To some groups like BLM, that doesn't really even count.
Wrong. It's no speed **increase* for free, w/o the bundle. That doesn't equate to "no high speed Internet". Just the upgrade isn't free without a TV bundle. Not the greatest PR move, but this is Comcast we're talking about after all. Yes, they're A-holes, but OTOH, this hardly a monstrous thing to do; the outrage is out of proportion.
I smell such entitlement here in this thread, and the cries of "Corporate Shill! How much are they paying you" I'm seeing in other posts is hilarious. It's like Tumblr has invaded slashdot.
Well, I'm all for electing Hillary to be put on a rocket and blasted off to the Moon. She won't be the first women President, but she'll be the first woman Resident.. of Luna.
Depends on how much or often you shop online. It is worth bearing in mind that the shipping isn't truly totally free, or at least not completely mitigated by the membership fee, most times. I have increasingly noticed products on Amazon that are notably more expensive when bought via Prime than if, for the exact same product, the shipping cost is separate and extra; so in truth Amazon is wrapping a certain amount of the shipping charges into the upfront price of the product and just presenting it as a single price. This doesn't apply to all Prime available products because not all are available w/o Prime or from 3rd party sellers, but for those items that are, you can see there's clearly a price difference. And you're paying a membership fee on top of that. It seems more like you're actually paying normal shipping charges, but the upgrade to 2 day is what's free, not shipping in total.
However, if you also make use of the Prime Video and Music regularly, and like Sunday deliveries, then this is probably still a good deal. It's just not as fantastic a deal as first impressions tend to lead one to believe.
I'm getting sick of the non stop FUD and DNG (Doom 'n' Gloom). It's yellow journalism at it's finest. Exaggeration and hyperbole does no one any favors, it doesn't motivate the stubborn, cynical, or skeptical to start recycling more, eat tofu, or buy an electric car; it makes them roll their eyes and dismiss the entire notion out of hand.
Yeah, the trump bash was so ironic, but predictable. The article had to stretch outside of it's context to land that one, and on top of that, Trump did not "get ahead by saying inane things"; he got ahead despite saying some inane things, via his actions, over the several past decades.
Neither has Trump, but how many like you are watching CNN and reading HuffPost and saying Lock up Trump! Treason! Russia! Impeachment! Hillary supporters are every bit as bad as trump supporters with their ill wishes and jumping to conclusions.
Well, it can be, if one hypocritically ignores and denies the shitty acts of one group while grossly exaggerating the shitty acts of an opposing group, because one is biased to the former group, or just caves easily to peer pressure; particularly when doing so informs and supports political policy.
We have all that now, but a million years or more of evolution have trained our bodies to be more sunlight synchronized. Think of the research stations at the poles where there's a very real concern of depression and it's accompanying conditions without sunlight.
That said, no judging from here; I've always been a bit of a night owl myself, but not to a great extent. On weeknights I'm usually in bed by 11:30pm and on weekends, I stay up another hour, maybe two, depending. 2am is the latest and that's rare. Or maybe it's just more accurate to say I'm definitely not a morning person. I tend to sleep quite soundly at 7am or later, if allowed. Sometimes I even feel drowsier just as the sun starts to come up.
Exactly. It's just an endless chasing of tails. In the late 19th century, "moron" and "idiot" were professionally used to describe people of very low IQs. That came to be used pejoratively so it was deemed to be kinder to say these people were "mentally retarded", retard simply meaning slowed. Of course, "retard" became an insult, so a new term was coined again, "mentally handicapped". The 90's comedy show In Living Color made fun of that with the recurring character, "HandiMan", featuring a retarded superhero, showing it made no difference. Next came the term, "mentally challenged". That's next to fall if it hasn't already. It'll never end. Words only mean whatever meaning we assign to them.
Are you complaining about the concept and use of shared libraries in general, or just the way Windows implemented it? Every OS uses shared libraries, it's far more efficient and consistent to code that way.. I know that and I'm not a developer by any stretch. Older versions of Windows suffered from DLL hell, but that was due primarily to ignorant or arrogant developers who clobbered the default system DLLs thinking their app was the only one in the world that mattered, breaking other apps that relied on the library. Now that Windows can sort of sandbox that crap, DLL hell hasn't been an issue for a while.
This, times 1,000! Do file extensions actually confuse users? No, that's ridiculous. Even computer illiterate users? Still no, they either ignore, or treat them as part of the file name like everyone else. It just seems condescending, really. Do they help identify the file type, useful if you're searching for a particular file? Duh. (Unless there's some malware or something going on) Does lack of showing file extensions cause confusion to average Windows users? I think so; at least, all the data entry personnel where I work, for the most part they think of computers as word processors, calculators, and Facebook machines. They want a file restored but can't tell me the extension because it's hidden, and there are four or more files with the "name" they gave me. Access databases were great for that. It is probably the most stupid thing MS insists on doing, it unnecessarily dumbs down their users, and the first thing I disable on any workstation I use. Or come across. I've never had anyone complain.
America has an anger issue, or maybe a psycho issue. Guns are the tool used, because they're effective and yes, they facilitate a murderer's agenda, but they're not the actual source of the problem. Removing or "controlling" guns (whatever that means exactly) isn't like having your cat declawed, because whack people are whack but often smart, and they will find other ways to commit mass murder because they want to kill, be it via improvised explosives, vehicular assault, mass poison or gas, firebombs/arson (I think I'd rather get shot than burn to death, personally), or just going stab and slash happy with a bladed weapon, which can be frighteningly effective against unarmed people in an enclosed area if the perp has skills. Human bodies are fragile organisms, we're not that terribly hard to kill.
Just curious, but I would imagine there are more species affected by the indiscriminate solar plant than the hunters. Environmentalists don't just look at all birds as a lump group. Hunters are going after fowl like ducks, pheasant, and geese, but which kind of avian are getting fried by the solar plant other than those? If there's anything on the endangered list, they'll have a fit.
Not only is that a hilariously idiotic thing of which to accuse PopeRatzo of all people. It's also the first instance of the 2017/2018 version of Godwin's law in this thread, where everything or anything negative evokes a reference to Trump or trump supporters, no matter how off-topic, eventually (the comparison of Trump to Hitler, also popular, however, I suppose evokes the actual Godwin's Law). Trump must really be in your head bad.
I implied nothing: nonetheless, it's common parlance to refer to them as Hilti guns even if Hilti doesn't. Though actually, having checked mine, they use.27 calibre for the medium power cartridges, not.22. Maybe that's their low power. They are blanks until you put a nail in them. So were muskets, cannons, and flintlocks. If I loaded one and held it up to your head, I think you might agree it's quite deadly, as much so as a regular gun, except without the range due to the benefit of a barrel. My point is, it essentially does what a gun does; uses a black powder explosion to forcefully eject a projectile, at its most basic description. So by that description, it is essentially a gun, and there are multiple uses for ejecting a projectile via a black powder propellent. Injuring or killing is one of them yes, but not the only.
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It's kinda funny that Trudeau cites "diversity" as their strength. Canada has a higher percentage of white folks per capita than the US, or at least has historically.
http://worthwhile.typepad.com/...
Their largest non-white demographic, unlike the US, is Asian. To some groups like BLM, that doesn't really even count.
Wrong. It's no speed **increase* for free, w/o the bundle. That doesn't equate to "no high speed Internet". Just the upgrade isn't free without a TV bundle.
Not the greatest PR move, but this is Comcast we're talking about after all. Yes, they're A-holes, but OTOH, this hardly a monstrous thing to do; the outrage is out of proportion.
I smell such entitlement here in this thread, and the cries of "Corporate Shill! How much are they paying you" I'm seeing in other posts is hilarious. It's like Tumblr has invaded slashdot.
I started off chuckling as I thought this was a parody account, but sadly, I think it's real, and probably belongs to a UAC professor.
Well, I'm all for electing Hillary to be put on a rocket and blasted off to the Moon. She won't be the first women President, but she'll be the first woman Resident.. of Luna.
Depends on how much or often you shop online.
It is worth bearing in mind that the shipping isn't truly totally free, or at least not completely mitigated by the membership fee, most times. I have increasingly noticed products on Amazon that are notably more expensive when bought via Prime than if, for the exact same product, the shipping cost is separate and extra; so in truth Amazon is wrapping a certain amount of the shipping charges into the upfront price of the product and just presenting it as a single price. This doesn't apply to all Prime available products because not all are available w/o Prime or from 3rd party sellers, but for those items that are, you can see there's clearly a price difference. And you're paying a membership fee on top of that.
It seems more like you're actually paying normal shipping charges, but the upgrade to 2 day is what's free, not shipping in total.
However, if you also make use of the Prime Video and Music regularly, and like Sunday deliveries, then this is probably still a good deal. It's just not as fantastic a deal as first impressions tend to lead one to believe.
I suggest the absolutely, 100%, brand new, just thought of, totally original word: cracking.
It's taken. Cracker groups have been successfully cracking software for decades.
That's the biggest whoosh I've seen in a decade.
Did you also make a prediction regarding needing more than 640k of RAM..?
I'm getting sick of the non stop FUD and DNG (Doom 'n' Gloom). It's yellow journalism at it's finest.
Exaggeration and hyperbole does no one any favors, it doesn't motivate the stubborn, cynical, or skeptical to start recycling more, eat tofu, or buy an electric car; it makes them roll their eyes and dismiss the entire notion out of hand.
You Earthlings are so petty.
- A Martian
Yeah, the trump bash was so ironic, but predictable. The article had to stretch outside of it's context to land that one, and on top of that, Trump did not "get ahead by saying inane things"; he got ahead despite saying some inane things, via his actions, over the several past decades.
You didn't need Ms. Cleo to see this coming.
The things they say, the things they claim, the generalizations they make, whether on the street or in print. Just behavior in general.
Neither has Trump, but how many like you are watching CNN and reading HuffPost and saying Lock up Trump! Treason! Russia! Impeachment!
Hillary supporters are every bit as bad as trump supporters with their ill wishes and jumping to conclusions.
Well, it can be, if one hypocritically ignores and denies the shitty acts of one group while grossly exaggerating the shitty acts of an opposing group, because one is biased to the former group, or just caves easily to peer pressure; particularly when doing so informs and supports political policy.
We have all that now, but a million years or more of evolution have trained our bodies to be more sunlight synchronized. Think of the research stations at the poles where there's a very real concern of depression and it's accompanying conditions without sunlight.
That said, no judging from here; I've always been a bit of a night owl myself, but not to a great extent. On weeknights I'm usually in bed by 11:30pm and on weekends, I stay up another hour, maybe two, depending. 2am is the latest and that's rare.
Or maybe it's just more accurate to say I'm definitely not a morning person. I tend to sleep quite soundly at 7am or later, if allowed. Sometimes I even feel drowsier just as the sun starts to come up.
Exactly. It's just an endless chasing of tails. In the late 19th century, "moron" and "idiot" were professionally used to describe people of very low IQs. That came to be used pejoratively so it was deemed to be kinder to say these people were "mentally retarded", retard simply meaning slowed. Of course, "retard" became an insult, so a new term was coined again, "mentally handicapped". The 90's comedy show In Living Color made fun of that with the recurring character, "HandiMan", featuring a retarded superhero, showing it made no difference. Next came the term, "mentally challenged". That's next to fall if it hasn't already. It'll never end. Words only mean whatever meaning we assign to them.
Not to mention Zuckerberg was not under oath at that hearing. If he lied, the legal ramifications will have been neutered.
Are you complaining about the concept and use of shared libraries in general, or just the way Windows implemented it?
Every OS uses shared libraries, it's far more efficient and consistent to code that way.. I know that and I'm not a developer by any stretch.
Older versions of Windows suffered from DLL hell, but that was due primarily to ignorant or arrogant developers who clobbered the default system DLLs thinking their app was the only one in the world that mattered, breaking other apps that relied on the library.
Now that Windows can sort of sandbox that crap, DLL hell hasn't been an issue for a while.
This, times 1,000!
Do file extensions actually confuse users? No, that's ridiculous. Even computer illiterate users? Still no, they either ignore, or treat them as part of the file name like everyone else. It just seems condescending, really.
Do they help identify the file type, useful if you're searching for a particular file? Duh. (Unless there's some malware or something going on) Does lack of showing file extensions cause confusion to average Windows users? I think so; at least, all the data entry personnel where I work, for the most part they think of computers as word processors, calculators, and Facebook machines. They want a file restored but can't tell me the extension because it's hidden, and there are four or more files with the "name" they gave me. Access databases were great for that.
It is probably the most stupid thing MS insists on doing, it unnecessarily dumbs down their users, and the first thing I disable on any workstation I use. Or come across. I've never had anyone complain.
America has an anger issue, or maybe a psycho issue.
Guns are the tool used, because they're effective and yes, they facilitate a murderer's agenda, but they're not the actual source of the problem. Removing or "controlling" guns (whatever that means exactly) isn't like having your cat declawed, because whack people are whack but often smart, and they will find other ways to commit mass murder because they want to kill, be it via improvised explosives, vehicular assault, mass poison or gas, firebombs/arson (I think I'd rather get shot than burn to death, personally), or just going stab and slash happy with a bladed weapon, which can be frighteningly effective against unarmed people in an enclosed area if the perp has skills.
Human bodies are fragile organisms, we're not that terribly hard to kill.
Damn, 11 minutes in and already the thread is Trumpwin'd.
Just curious, but I would imagine there are more species affected by the indiscriminate solar plant than the hunters. Environmentalists don't just look at all birds as a lump group. Hunters are going after fowl like ducks, pheasant, and geese, but which kind of avian are getting fried by the solar plant other than those? If there's anything on the endangered list, they'll have a fit.
Welcome to the new Godwin's Law, only it's Trump instead of Hitler and trump supporters instead of nazis. There's one in every thread eventually.
You sound like a trump supporter.
Not only is that a hilariously idiotic thing of which to accuse PopeRatzo of all people.
It's also the first instance of the 2017/2018 version of Godwin's law in this thread, where everything or anything negative evokes a reference to Trump or trump supporters, no matter how off-topic, eventually (the comparison of Trump to Hitler, also popular, however, I suppose evokes the actual Godwin's Law). Trump must really be in your head bad.
I implied nothing: nonetheless, it's common parlance to refer to them as Hilti guns even if Hilti doesn't. Though actually, having checked mine, they use .27 calibre for the medium power cartridges, not .22. Maybe that's their low power.
They are blanks until you put a nail in them. So were muskets, cannons, and flintlocks. If I loaded one and held it up to your head, I think you might agree it's quite deadly, as much so as a regular gun, except without the range due to the benefit of a barrel.
My point is, it essentially does what a gun does; uses a black powder explosion to forcefully eject a projectile, at its most basic description. So by that description, it is essentially a gun, and there are multiple uses for ejecting a projectile via a black powder propellent. Injuring or killing is one of them yes, but not the only.