However, sales boomed when they allowed customers to shop and browse, creating impulse buys as well as the scenarios like, "Oh right, I didn't think about that, I might need this new widget A to go with the gadget C I'm buying today". Larger carts increased sales numbers even more. Removing the ability to shop and browse would hurt retail sales, and thus, the overall economy: people buy less, so people stock less, so people manufacture less, so less people are needed, so less jobs. OTOH, people might consume a little less frivolously, but I think the net effect would be to depress the economy.
Yeah, the economy is tanking, unemployment is at a record high, war with NK seems imminent. Oh wait, it's the exact opposite. Maybe that demographic wouldn't be so depressed if the mainstream media didn't constantly scream like chicken little over every little thing, democrats didn't declare a "constitutional crisis" about once a month, and if they generally didn't have to put up with the nonsense today of worrying about being sued over calling someone "she" instead of their preferred "zhe" from the alt-left lunatics.
A divided, distracted enemy is weaker, so yeah, this is exactly what they, and other unfriendly nation states are doing. It's also easier to believe a Russian troll is a concerned US citizen when they point fingers back at Russia, so the ROI is worth it for them.
Not true. My old work car (a 2005 Impala) hit over 240k before they semi-retired it as a pool car, and it's still road-worthy. Oddly though I think the 2005 Impala models were better built than the 2009 models.
I don't think it's only the TVs or bad acoustics in many places though that certainly is a large factor. People in general used to conversely more politely and quietly at the table so as not to disturb other patrons, but it only takes a handful of loudmouths and the kind of people that insist the next country over can hear them when they laugh constantly, sitting at a few tables, to up the whole noise level to a din.
When did being a millennial get equated to materialism per se? I thought the trope had more do with growing up as latch-key kids, and being taught hard to feel special, entitled, and enabled by over-compensating or guilt-ridden parents, teachers, and the participation trophy mindset.
I'll just add: But Ivanka's emails weren't classified as far as anyone knows. Furthermore, she didn't bleach bit 30,000 emails that had been subpoenaed, and smash a bunch of devices with a hammer. While it's still stupid to use a personal email account for Gov't business, this is apples and oranges.
I don't know about the Jewish part, and I don't care; that's irrelevant to me, I'm not remotely anti-Semitic. Behavior and action is what matters, not race or creed. But that little line exposes Variety as yet another left leaning publication who wants to paint anyone anti-Soros as a deplorable. Not only the so-called "alt-right" criticizes Soros, many standard conservatives do as well, simply for the fact that he is the funding behind many globalist and leftist agendas. I'll bet Variety would not dream of labeling those claiming a reverse equivalent of the Koch Bros, even though they fund both left and right agendas: whatever makes them money.
Well, there's a story of great flood associated with Sumeria's Gilgamesh, of whom the Hebrew priests might have modeled their Noah's flood story after. What seems likely is that, as glaciers receded and ice melted at the end of the last ice age, severe and extreme flooding occurred across many parts of Eurasia, giving birth to various world flood myths.
I am glad that line jumped out at more than just me. Totally disregarding the actual content in the article, here I am reading "news" and all the sudden there is this drum beating editorial line that has no basis in the article. It was very discordant, and felt to me like something that may have been stuck in after the article was written by an editor with an axe to grind..
That's 2018 for you. Objective, strictly on-topic articles no longer exist.
He definitely wouldn't. I used to do exactly that, I specialized in VCR repair for Circuit City back in the good ol' 90s. Then came the $99 Samsung VCRs, and I also knew, in some form, that DVDs were eventually coming..I saw the writing on the wall, and promptly shifted professions (and employers) to go into computer repair, and from there, networking and sysadmin. Best job move I ever made.
Funnily enough, I also went to DeVry Tech from '80 to '82. It wasn't much better than a scam; half the teachers were okay, the other half were engineers out of work who needed a paycheck.
This! This is a phenomenon I've noticed happen quite often in social, and even professional media at times, lately. I've dubbed it PNP, for "Persistence of Negative Perception". I think it's a very real thing and deserves it's own term. Sometimes we'll see a news article (a badly biased, or hastily researched one), but more oftentimes, a Tweet, fueled by emotion and bias, which purports some event or claim which turns out ultimately to be false or badly flawed in accuracy. This initial, negative Tweet might get retweeted 3,000 to 5,000 times or more depending on the popularity of the celebrity; or, in the case of prof media, the news article linked to from news aggregators like Yahoo. It goes out and causes distress or outrage among the public. A day or two later, the retraction/corrected version is posted or tweeted, but it, unlike it's evil twin, it never makes the front page, so to speak. The correcting tweet isn't retweeted half as many times, the news retraction isn't linked to. It's not sensational enough. Therefore the perception of the public still is that of the original, flawed message, it's untruths persisting. Sadly, I suspect this is done intentionally in some cases as a tactic, where culpability can be negated (I corrected myself, therefore I didn't lie) yet damn full well knowing that the updated version isn't going to get the exposure the original one did. This provides a venue for people to propagate all kinds of crap and absolve themselves of literally fake news while maintaining a clear conscience and self-piety.
How is that close to fascism? This has to be one of the most overused and misunderstood words in past years. If anything, the number of raids means we have a serious crime problem.
I didn't see any mention of addressing Meltdown, Spectre, L1TF.. so I assume those general architecture issues are not yet addressed, this is still Skylake.
NJ sucks. We have one of the highest population densities, but I've been at my place of work too long and am doing too well to leave, yet moving isn't a viable option for other reasons either. I've a 40 minute to 1 hour drive one way each day, depending on traffic. Twice this week alone, Rt295N was backed up for miles in the morning due to accidents. Every year it gets worse; more accidents, more traffic, more lane closures, even more assholes cutting you off or not playing nice with others. (and turn signals? What are those? ) Anymore, I hate driving. I want those hours of my life back to do something besides concentrating and staring at a road.. or sitting, waiting at endless traffic lights.
I've long thought a useful future design would be a phone that looks like (or even functions as) a pen while in basic telephone mode. One end is the earpiece, the other the mic. When it's tablet time, you then pull and unscroll a flexible screen up out of it's side, as two opposing armatures spring out from each end to hold the top in place, you now have a very thin tablet with a round base. Obviously that kind of screen tech isn't here yet, but that would seem pretty nifty to me, and certainly easy to pocket when done. Other than fragility (unless the armatures were flexible too) and the fact screen tech isnt there yet, what would be some caveats to that kind of design? Having to unscroll every time to read a text just came to mind, and it probably couldn't have a screen wider than 4 inches, or 8 or 9cm.
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Alcoholics.. ? As compared to whom, Europeans?
However, sales boomed when they allowed customers to shop and browse, creating impulse buys as well as the scenarios like, "Oh right, I didn't think about that, I might need this new widget A to go with the gadget C I'm buying today".
Larger carts increased sales numbers even more.
Removing the ability to shop and browse would hurt retail sales, and thus, the overall economy: people buy less, so people stock less, so people manufacture less, so less people are needed, so less jobs.
OTOH, people might consume a little less frivolously, but I think the net effect would be to depress the economy.
No need to describe yourself. Enough of the chicken little talk, FUD, and fear mongering. The sky is not falling.
Yeah, the economy is tanking, unemployment is at a record high, war with NK seems imminent.
Oh wait, it's the exact opposite.
Maybe that demographic wouldn't be so depressed if the mainstream media didn't constantly scream like chicken little over every little thing, democrats didn't declare a "constitutional crisis" about once a month, and if they generally didn't have to put up with the nonsense today of worrying about being sued over calling someone "she" instead of their preferred "zhe" from the alt-left lunatics.
A divided, distracted enemy is weaker, so yeah, this is exactly what they, and other unfriendly nation states are doing.
It's also easier to believe a Russian troll is a concerned US citizen when they point fingers back at Russia, so the ROI is worth it for them.
Not true. My old work car (a 2005 Impala) hit over 240k before they semi-retired it as a pool car, and it's still road-worthy.
Oddly though I think the 2005 Impala models were better built than the 2009 models.
I can picture Elon sending out a SpaceX Falcon to go change the battery in that Tesla.
I don't think it's only the TVs or bad acoustics in many places though that certainly is a large factor. People in general used to conversely more politely and quietly at the table so as not to disturb other patrons, but it only takes a handful of loudmouths and the kind of people that insist the next country over can hear them when they laugh constantly, sitting at a few tables, to up the whole noise level to a din.
When did being a millennial get equated to materialism per se? I thought the trope had more do with growing up as latch-key kids, and being taught hard to feel special, entitled, and enabled by over-compensating or guilt-ridden parents, teachers, and the participation trophy mindset.
They just want to "probe" Ivanka. I mean, who doesn't?
I'll just add:
But Ivanka's emails weren't classified as far as anyone knows. Furthermore, she didn't bleach bit 30,000 emails that had been subpoenaed, and smash a bunch of devices with a hammer.
While it's still stupid to use a personal email account for Gov't business, this is apples and oranges.
I don't know about the Jewish part, and I don't care; that's irrelevant to me, I'm not remotely anti-Semitic. Behavior and action is what matters, not race or creed.
But that little line exposes Variety as yet another left leaning publication who wants to paint anyone anti-Soros as a deplorable. Not only the so-called "alt-right" criticizes Soros, many standard conservatives do as well, simply for the fact that he is the funding behind many globalist and leftist agendas. I'll bet Variety would not dream of labeling those claiming a reverse equivalent of the Koch Bros, even though they fund both left and right agendas: whatever makes them money.
It's both.
Well, there's a story of great flood associated with Sumeria's Gilgamesh, of whom the Hebrew priests might have modeled their Noah's flood story after. What seems likely is that, as glaciers receded and ice melted at the end of the last ice age, severe and extreme flooding occurred across many parts of Eurasia, giving birth to various world flood myths.
I am glad that line jumped out at more than just me. Totally disregarding the actual content in the article, here I am reading "news" and all the sudden there is this drum beating editorial line that has no basis in the article. It was very discordant, and felt to me like something that may have been stuck in after the article was written by an editor with an axe to grind. .
That's 2018 for you. Objective, strictly on-topic articles no longer exist.
Because pro-globalization, that's why.
Trump says some dumb shit, but he's far from the only one, as evidenced by this piece.
He definitely wouldn't. I used to do exactly that, I specialized in VCR repair for Circuit City back in the good ol' 90s. Then came the $99 Samsung VCRs, and I also knew, in some form, that DVDs were eventually coming..I saw the writing on the wall, and promptly shifted professions (and employers) to go into computer repair, and from there, networking and sysadmin. Best job move I ever made.
Funnily enough, I also went to DeVry Tech from '80 to '82. It wasn't much better than a scam; half the teachers were okay, the other half were engineers out of work who needed a paycheck.
This! This is a phenomenon I've noticed happen quite often in social, and even professional media at times, lately.
I've dubbed it PNP, for "Persistence of Negative Perception". I think it's a very real thing and deserves it's own term.
Sometimes we'll see a news article (a badly biased, or hastily researched one), but more oftentimes, a Tweet, fueled by emotion and bias, which purports some event or claim which turns out ultimately to be false or badly flawed in accuracy. This initial, negative Tweet might get retweeted 3,000 to 5,000 times or more depending on the popularity of the celebrity; or, in the case of prof media, the news article linked to from news aggregators like Yahoo. It goes out and causes distress or outrage among the public.
A day or two later, the retraction/corrected version is posted or tweeted, but it, unlike it's evil twin, it never makes the front page, so to speak. The correcting tweet isn't retweeted half as many times, the news retraction isn't linked to. It's not sensational enough. Therefore the perception of the public still is that of the original, flawed message, it's untruths persisting.
Sadly, I suspect this is done intentionally in some cases as a tactic, where culpability can be negated (I corrected myself, therefore I didn't lie) yet damn full well knowing that the updated version isn't going to get the exposure the original one did. This provides a venue for people to propagate all kinds of crap and absolve themselves of literally fake news while maintaining a clear conscience and self-piety.
I have to wonder if you have posters of him riding horseback, shirtless, or posing with a bear, all over your bedroom wall.
How is that close to fascism? This has to be one of the most overused and misunderstood words in past years.
If anything, the number of raids means we have a serious crime problem.
I didn't see any mention of addressing Meltdown, Spectre, L1TF.. so I assume those general architecture issues are not yet addressed, this is still Skylake.
I've always appreciated that if you increment each letter of HAL by one, you get IBM.
NJ sucks. We have one of the highest population densities, but I've been at my place of work too long and am doing too well to leave, yet moving isn't a viable option for other reasons either. I've a 40 minute to 1 hour drive one way each day, depending on traffic. Twice this week alone, Rt295N was backed up for miles in the morning due to accidents. Every year it gets worse; more accidents, more traffic, more lane closures, even more assholes cutting you off or not playing nice with others. (and turn signals? What are those? )
Anymore, I hate driving. I want those hours of my life back to do something besides concentrating and staring at a road.. or sitting, waiting at endless traffic lights.
I'd like to see them bleed out of their ass, but they'll probably recoup any CableTV losses with their own Internet access.
I've long thought a useful future design would be a phone that looks like (or even functions as) a pen while in basic telephone mode. One end is the earpiece, the other the mic. When it's tablet time, you then pull and unscroll a flexible screen up out of it's side, as two opposing armatures spring out from each end to hold the top in place, you now have a very thin tablet with a round base. Obviously that kind of screen tech isn't here yet, but that would seem pretty nifty to me, and certainly easy to pocket when done.
Other than fragility (unless the armatures were flexible too) and the fact screen tech isnt there yet, what would be some caveats to that kind of design?
Having to unscroll every time to read a text just came to mind, and it probably couldn't have a screen wider than 4 inches, or 8 or 9cm.