Thanks for telling me about the sale after its over.
If you're in the USA, you can probably get a better deal on this phone through your carrier anyway.
Metro by T-Mobile - Free, if you're porting over a number (get a disposable AT&T number from eBay or something, then switch the phone to your account) AT&T - $194.99 (Yes, it will work on postpaid AT&T, too) Verizon - $199.99 (Not 100% sure if Verizon will let you use this on postpaid, as they're a bit anal about that sort of thing) All of the CarlosSlimprepaidbrands (America Movil) have the iPhone SE for $139.00 Cricket and Boost Mobile no longer have the iPhone SE on their websites, but local dealers might still have stock.
Barring that - off to Android. Although I will miss iMessage and FaceTime, audio jack and form factor override those priorities. (I could always learn to like WhatsApp).
Well guess what? You'll probably get your headphone jack, but any Android phone that isn't an outdated wad of shit is going to have at least a 5" display. Even the Xperia XZ2 Compact sports a 5" screen. The closest thing to a "small" flagship is now the iPhone 8, which is already a generation behind.
The entire mobile phone industry has given the middle finger to anyone who doesn't want what was, in fairly recent history, referred to as a "phablet".
If you had the slightest bit of humanity in you, you might see the difference between someone fucking up while doing an insanely stresfull job, and someone intentionally creating a situation meant to cause harm.
No, what it looked like to me is some trigger-happy fucktard using the wrong tool for a stressful job, because for whatever reason, the powers that be felt a human life was worth less than the cost of a robot/drone.
"Everybody's gotta be covered... I am going to take care of everybody... everybody's going to be taken care of much better than they're taken care of now... [The uninsured person is] gonna be taken care of... The government's gonna pay for it". -- Donald Trump
He didn't really have a plan for healthcare at that point. His line of thinking was likely that he* was going to come up with something so good, everyone would be able to afford healthcare. It was the proverbial "chicken in every pot" (which never actually implied that the government would be providing the chickens - you'd presumably be doing so well, you'd be able to buy your own chicken!).
Trump's actual plan for healthcare reform has fallen into the internet bit bucket. Thankfully, the Internet Archive picked up the slack. In a nutshell, it's what I previously wrote - Trump figured letting the market duke things out would make things better for consumers. Just like it has worked so well for cable companies. That was sarcasm, if you couldn't tell.
Point being, there was plenty of time before the election to realize Trump opposed universal healthcare, and it was very likely that protections for preexisting conditions were in jeopardy. Since winning the election, Trump has given no indication he wants to do anything other than dismantle the ACA and let those that have theirs, have theirs, and those that don't, do without.
* (more likely, he planned on asking someone to come up a great healthcare solution for him and then he'd take the credit)
Wow. Trump supporters don't even believe video evidence. The cognitive discord is just too hard.
It's "cognitive dissonance" - which means simultaneously holding two conflicting beliefs, such as assuming someone who calls Trump a "narcissist" is a Trump supporter.
He never actually promised universal healthcare, those were the interviewer's words. At the time, Trump was laboring under the delusion that healthcare was far less complicated.
And had it been Obama, we'd be talking about how visionary and forward looking and all that he must be...
When the ACA fucked up my health coverage, I called it like I saw it. When "cash for clunkers" let people trade in old pollute-mobiles for new pollute-mobiles, yup - bitched about that, too. I also recall not being too happy about the EV tax credit, because rich people don't need the taxpayer's help buying a luxury car (regardless of how "green" it is).
I still think the Republicans are worse, because homophobia is part of the their platform (yes, that's actually the GOP's own website admitting they're against marriage equality), and they're still just as bad (if not worse) at taking taxpayer money and using it to give benefits to the super-rich. They're also fucking hypocritical for incessantly claiming how pro-life they are, yet they don't seem to mind when adults drop dead because they can't afford healthcare/medicine. Gotta take a mulligan on that one, right GOP?
Both sides of our two-party system are evil. The Republicans are just more so.
I can't begin to describe how immensely sad this makes me at so many levels.
I'm more disappointed that people die in this country because they can't afford their medication. This country has failed in so many other ways unrelated to our obsession with showing off the size of our space-dick.
Yes, we have the technological capability of sending a human to Mars. That's not a good enough justification for spending money which could be better put to fixing problems down here on Earth.
I imagine he was rather disappointed with where our space program is at the moment though. Can't say as I blame him.
The problem with space is that it would take far more resources and time to travel to another habitable planet (or render one of the closer planets habitable) than it would to simply un-fuckup our current planet, and we're not even doing a good job of that.
If humanity never makes it off this rock, it's probably just karma.
I'll believe Trump is concerned for our future when he makes good on his campaign promise of Universal Healthcare.
Holy Mandela effect Batman, he never made that promise. Trump promised he'd remove barriers preventing insurance companies from competing with each other, which he believed would result in lower prices for customers. It's kind of like thinking if you get all you friends to go see every movie released by Disney, then Disney might graciously grant you discounted admission to their theme parks. Yeah, fat chance of that.
Hillary was the one who picked up the mantle of universal healthcare, after she was worried the "Bernie or Bust" folks were gonna fuck her over in the election for being too moderate (and pro-big-business). Whether she would've actually made good on that promise is left to an alternate timeline.
For self driving cars to be reliable the roads will need to be specifically designed to support them.
And exactly what technological innovations are we lacking that prohibits this from being accomplished?
Your cell phone works because we've put up towers all over, you have electricity because we've run wires, GPS works because there are satellites in space, etc. We're not going to give up on self-driving technology just because some infrastructure needs to be put in place to make it work.
The IRS says that for federal tax purposes, Bitcoin is the same as currency. That would seem to imply that Bitcoin is, in fact, money...
The government made me pay $5 to register my god damn drone. So far, my drone flying hobby has done nothing but cost me money - it is completely unprofitable, yet "taxed" nevertheless. Uncle Sam just sees Bitcoin as an opportunity to collect more tax revenue from people who likely have more dollars than sense. I'm sure the government would put a tax on farting, if they could find a way to enforce it.
This would first require Trump to believe he needed any help winning in the first place. The man is too narcissistic to believe he ever did anything in his life besides pull himself up by his own bootstraps.
Everything Google touches either IS shit or turns to shit.
There should be some law named after someone about how once any business gets large enough, they're predestined to go full scumbag. As in crapping on customers, destroying the environment, causing financial chaos, etc. That moment when "How bad can I be?" becomes "How bad can I be?"
Old bands like Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, hell even David Lee Roth get on stage and put on a god damned show whereas Lady Gaga gets on stage and sings some songs while people that dont matter and wont be seen by you ever again dance beside her.
Translation: "Today's music sucks because I'm old".
There was a lot of shitty music in the past too, it's just that the crap tends to get forgotten. Also, while Lady Gaga might not be your cup of tea, she is actually a very talented, classically trained musician. The vapid pop star thing is just an act*, which she's clearly very good at, because you obviously fell for it.
* Also, Taylor Swift was never a poor ole country gal, with bills to pay and nothing figured out, in case you fell for that one too.
There have been enough weird recorded UFO sightings by military personnel/instruments to fit this criteria.
I didn't include UFOs specifically because that phenomenon qualifies as "an observation which isn't fully understood". It may not turn out to be little green men, but trying to figure out something you've observed and don't have an answer for is what expanding scientific knowledge is all about.
When you are working on the cutting-edge of scientific theory, it's all crazy stuff.
Not really. Many of the past innovations were based on observations which weren't properly understood. We knew something made people sick, we didn't know what it was. We saw birds flying, we didn't understand the mechanics of flight. Even the eventual invention of the transistor began with the observation of an effect which wasn't understood at the time (the Edison effect).
Things like wormholes, alternate dimensions, and FTL travel are based on wild speculation, not on something that is presently observable but not understood. They make interesting Sci-Fi, but that's about as far as it goes.
Cant eat as much, cant buy as much alcohol or drugs...
Actually, the healthy stuff is more expensive. I picked up 1lb of grass-fed 90% ground beef at Walmart earlier this evening, and it's $6/lb. The ground lips-and-assholes in the opaque tube (because they don't want you seeing what it looks like until you've bought it) costs about half as much, but who knows how that vile sludge ever got approved for human consumption. It pretty much also holds true for hot dogs, chicken nuggets, and anything else they can fill with animal parts that should've gone into pet food - you're going to get what you pay for.
Furthermore, fresh fruit and veggies cost a lot more than a box of ramen, pasta, or generic instant mashed potato mix - pretty much anything that's a carbohydrate bomb. All things considered, being poor is more likely to lead to an unhealthy diet.
These are toys that can pose a deadly risk to innocent people and property.
You do realize we're talking about drones that weigh less than 250 grams? For comparison, a regulation basketball weighs approx. 623 grams, and a soccer ball weighs approx. 420 grams.
Even the bigger, heavier, flying-meat-slicer drones haven't managed to kill anyone yet - your "deadly" claim is pure hyperbole. A sub-250g drone is something like the Ryze Tello. You have to see it in real life to truly appreciate how tiny it is. The worst "crashing" one of those into a person will do is maybe get it tangled in their hair (if they have long hair).
As to your claim that these things didn't exist during the prior administration, you've obviously never walked past the toy section of Walmart during the Holidays. Lightweight toy drones which did not require FAA registration have been available for several years.
The United States Supreme Court ruled that you do OWN the airspace above your property to 83 feet. The FAA said 500 feet... So the 83 to 500 ft chunk is still in debate, but it's at least 83 feet for sure.
You own as much as you can legally build on, seems to be the rule of thumb. In a residential area you're not putting up a skyscraper (due to zoning), so you probably don't have good legal standing to claim your airspace is being violated, when the Amazon delivery drones start buzzing overhead at 400'.
And just like that Slashdolters turned anti-drone.
They should just be glad we never got flying cars, because you just know there'd be people installing huge subwoofers, and modifying the engines to be extra loud. Then they'd circle your fucking house, all night long.
Came to see formerly libertarian Slashdot mainly grouse at some level of sensible freedom being restored - was disappointed but not surprised
If I took the hamburger you're eating, crapped on it, and then wiped off most of the crap before giving it back to you, would you believe I'm doing you a favor?
That's more or less what happened here. Under the previous (before 45's administration screwed with it) FAA rules, a hobbyist could legally fly at night. People argued (on drone forums) incessantly over whether or not it was actually legal, but the FAA never took any action to indicate they gave a rat's ass if someone flew their Phantom around in the moonlight.
Also under the previous FAA rules, anything 0.55lbs was considered a toy, not an aircraft. Barring any local regulations against it (like public parks that ban consumption of alcohol), it was perfectly legal to fly a toy above people. Also, barring any regulations against unlawful discharge of a firearm, you could legally shoot them down, too. Now, for some bizarre reason, the FAA wants to regulate God damn toys.
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Thanks for telling me about the sale after its over.
If you're in the USA, you can probably get a better deal on this phone through your carrier anyway.
Metro by T-Mobile - Free, if you're porting over a number (get a disposable AT&T number from eBay or something, then switch the phone to your account)
AT&T - $194.99 (Yes, it will work on postpaid AT&T, too)
Verizon - $199.99 (Not 100% sure if Verizon will let you use this on postpaid, as they're a bit anal about that sort of thing)
All of the Carlos Slim prepaid brands (America Movil) have the iPhone SE for $139.00
Cricket and Boost Mobile no longer have the iPhone SE on their websites, but local dealers might still have stock.
Barring that - off to Android. Although I will miss iMessage and FaceTime, audio jack and form factor override those priorities. (I could always learn to like WhatsApp).
Well guess what? You'll probably get your headphone jack, but any Android phone that isn't an outdated wad of shit is going to have at least a 5" display. Even the Xperia XZ2 Compact sports a 5" screen. The closest thing to a "small" flagship is now the iPhone 8, which is already a generation behind.
The entire mobile phone industry has given the middle finger to anyone who doesn't want what was, in fairly recent history, referred to as a "phablet".
If you had the slightest bit of humanity in you, you might see the difference between someone fucking up while doing an insanely stresfull job, and someone intentionally creating a situation meant to cause harm.
No, what it looked like to me is some trigger-happy fucktard using the wrong tool for a stressful job, because for whatever reason, the powers that be felt a human life was worth less than the cost of a robot/drone.
"Everybody's gotta be covered... I am going to take care of everybody... everybody's going to be taken care of much better than they're taken care of now... [The uninsured person is] gonna be taken care of... The government's gonna pay for it". -- Donald Trump
He didn't really have a plan for healthcare at that point. His line of thinking was likely that he* was going to come up with something so good, everyone would be able to afford healthcare. It was the proverbial "chicken in every pot" (which never actually implied that the government would be providing the chickens - you'd presumably be doing so well, you'd be able to buy your own chicken!).
Trump's actual plan for healthcare reform has fallen into the internet bit bucket. Thankfully, the Internet Archive picked up the slack. In a nutshell, it's what I previously wrote - Trump figured letting the market duke things out would make things better for consumers. Just like it has worked so well for cable companies. That was sarcasm, if you couldn't tell.
Point being, there was plenty of time before the election to realize Trump opposed universal healthcare, and it was very likely that protections for preexisting conditions were in jeopardy. Since winning the election, Trump has given no indication he wants to do anything other than dismantle the ACA and let those that have theirs, have theirs, and those that don't, do without.
* (more likely, he planned on asking someone to come up a great healthcare solution for him and then he'd take the credit)
Wow. Trump supporters don't even believe video evidence. The cognitive discord is just too hard.
It's "cognitive dissonance" - which means simultaneously holding two conflicting beliefs, such as assuming someone who calls Trump a "narcissist" is a Trump supporter.
Thanks for the laugh.
He never actually promised universal healthcare, those were the interviewer's words. At the time, Trump was laboring under the delusion that healthcare was far less complicated.
No, this time won't be different.
Any investor is familiar with the phrase "Past performance is not indicative of future results."
And had it been Obama, we'd be talking about how visionary and forward looking and all that he must be ...
When the ACA fucked up my health coverage, I called it like I saw it. When "cash for clunkers" let people trade in old pollute-mobiles for new pollute-mobiles, yup - bitched about that, too. I also recall not being too happy about the EV tax credit, because rich people don't need the taxpayer's help buying a luxury car (regardless of how "green" it is).
I still think the Republicans are worse, because homophobia is part of the their platform (yes, that's actually the GOP's own website admitting they're against marriage equality), and they're still just as bad (if not worse) at taking taxpayer money and using it to give benefits to the super-rich. They're also fucking hypocritical for incessantly claiming how pro-life they are, yet they don't seem to mind when adults drop dead because they can't afford healthcare/medicine. Gotta take a mulligan on that one, right GOP?
Both sides of our two-party system are evil. The Republicans are just more so.
Tacos
So much yes.
And not just because I'm still salty Hillary didn't win and we didn't get a taco truck on every street corner.
I can't begin to describe how immensely sad this makes me at so many levels.
I'm more disappointed that people die in this country because they can't afford their medication. This country has failed in so many other ways unrelated to our obsession with showing off the size of our space-dick.
Yes, we have the technological capability of sending a human to Mars. That's not a good enough justification for spending money which could be better put to fixing problems down here on Earth.
I imagine he was rather disappointed with where our space program is at the moment though. Can't say as I blame him.
The problem with space is that it would take far more resources and time to travel to another habitable planet (or render one of the closer planets habitable) than it would to simply un-fuckup our current planet, and we're not even doing a good job of that.
If humanity never makes it off this rock, it's probably just karma.
I'll believe Trump is concerned for our future when he makes good on his campaign promise of Universal Healthcare.
Holy Mandela effect Batman, he never made that promise. Trump promised he'd remove barriers preventing insurance companies from competing with each other, which he believed would result in lower prices for customers. It's kind of like thinking if you get all you friends to go see every movie released by Disney, then Disney might graciously grant you discounted admission to their theme parks. Yeah, fat chance of that.
Hillary was the one who picked up the mantle of universal healthcare, after she was worried the "Bernie or Bust" folks were gonna fuck her over in the election for being too moderate (and pro-big-business). Whether she would've actually made good on that promise is left to an alternate timeline.
For self driving cars to be reliable the roads will need to be specifically designed to support them.
And exactly what technological innovations are we lacking that prohibits this from being accomplished?
Your cell phone works because we've put up towers all over, you have electricity because we've run wires, GPS works because there are satellites in space, etc. We're not going to give up on self-driving technology just because some infrastructure needs to be put in place to make it work.
The IRS says that for federal tax purposes, Bitcoin is the same as currency. That would seem to imply that Bitcoin is, in fact, money...
The government made me pay $5 to register my god damn drone. So far, my drone flying hobby has done nothing but cost me money - it is completely unprofitable, yet "taxed" nevertheless. Uncle Sam just sees Bitcoin as an opportunity to collect more tax revenue from people who likely have more dollars than sense. I'm sure the government would put a tax on farting, if they could find a way to enforce it.
Julian didn't realize Trump doesn't repay favors (or debts.)
This would first require Trump to believe he needed any help winning in the first place. The man is too narcissistic to believe he ever did anything in his life besides pull himself up by his own bootstraps.
Everything Google touches either IS shit or turns to shit.
There should be some law named after someone about how once any business gets large enough, they're predestined to go full scumbag. As in crapping on customers, destroying the environment, causing financial chaos, etc. That moment when "How bad can I be?" becomes "How bad can I be?"
Clearly. What's more sad is there are still people to this day that quote that motto as if it was some sort of legally-binding contract.
I think the implied meaning is that when a company says "Don't Be Evil"*, your bullshit detector should be going off.
* Or was it "Do No Evil"? Damn Mandela Effect.
Old bands like Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, hell even David Lee Roth get on stage and put on a god damned show whereas Lady Gaga gets on stage and sings some songs while people that dont matter and wont be seen by you ever again dance beside her.
Translation: "Today's music sucks because I'm old".
There was a lot of shitty music in the past too, it's just that the crap tends to get forgotten. Also, while Lady Gaga might not be your cup of tea, she is actually a very talented, classically trained musician. The vapid pop star thing is just an act*, which she's clearly very good at, because you obviously fell for it.
* Also, Taylor Swift was never a poor ole country gal, with bills to pay and nothing figured out, in case you fell for that one too.
There have been enough weird recorded UFO sightings by military personnel/instruments to fit this criteria.
I didn't include UFOs specifically because that phenomenon qualifies as "an observation which isn't fully understood". It may not turn out to be little green men, but trying to figure out something you've observed and don't have an answer for is what expanding scientific knowledge is all about.
When you are working on the cutting-edge of scientific theory, it's all crazy stuff.
Not really. Many of the past innovations were based on observations which weren't properly understood. We knew something made people sick, we didn't know what it was. We saw birds flying, we didn't understand the mechanics of flight. Even the eventual invention of the transistor began with the observation of an effect which wasn't understood at the time (the Edison effect).
Things like wormholes, alternate dimensions, and FTL travel are based on wild speculation, not on something that is presently observable but not understood. They make interesting Sci-Fi, but that's about as far as it goes.
Cant eat as much, cant buy as much alcohol or drugs...
Actually, the healthy stuff is more expensive. I picked up 1lb of grass-fed 90% ground beef at Walmart earlier this evening, and it's $6/lb. The ground lips-and-assholes in the opaque tube (because they don't want you seeing what it looks like until you've bought it) costs about half as much, but who knows how that vile sludge ever got approved for human consumption. It pretty much also holds true for hot dogs, chicken nuggets, and anything else they can fill with animal parts that should've gone into pet food - you're going to get what you pay for.
Furthermore, fresh fruit and veggies cost a lot more than a box of ramen, pasta, or generic instant mashed potato mix - pretty much anything that's a carbohydrate bomb. All things considered, being poor is more likely to lead to an unhealthy diet.
These are toys that can pose a deadly risk to innocent people and property.
You do realize we're talking about drones that weigh less than 250 grams? For comparison, a regulation basketball weighs approx. 623 grams, and a soccer ball weighs approx. 420 grams.
Even the bigger, heavier, flying-meat-slicer drones haven't managed to kill anyone yet - your "deadly" claim is pure hyperbole. A sub-250g drone is something like the Ryze Tello. You have to see it in real life to truly appreciate how tiny it is. The worst "crashing" one of those into a person will do is maybe get it tangled in their hair (if they have long hair).
As to your claim that these things didn't exist during the prior administration, you've obviously never walked past the toy section of Walmart during the Holidays. Lightweight toy drones which did not require FAA registration have been available for several years.
The United States Supreme Court ruled that you do OWN the airspace above your property to 83 feet. The FAA said 500 feet... So the 83 to 500 ft chunk is still in debate, but it's at least 83 feet for sure.
You own as much as you can legally build on, seems to be the rule of thumb. In a residential area you're not putting up a skyscraper (due to zoning), so you probably don't have good legal standing to claim your airspace is being violated, when the Amazon delivery drones start buzzing overhead at 400'.
And just like that Slashdolters turned anti-drone.
They should just be glad we never got flying cars, because you just know there'd be people installing huge subwoofers, and modifying the engines to be extra loud. Then they'd circle your fucking house, all night long.
Came to see formerly libertarian Slashdot mainly grouse at some level of sensible freedom being restored - was disappointed but not surprised
If I took the hamburger you're eating, crapped on it, and then wiped off most of the crap before giving it back to you, would you believe I'm doing you a favor?
That's more or less what happened here. Under the previous (before 45's administration screwed with it) FAA rules, a hobbyist could legally fly at night. People argued (on drone forums) incessantly over whether or not it was actually legal, but the FAA never took any action to indicate they gave a rat's ass if someone flew their Phantom around in the moonlight.
Also under the previous FAA rules, anything 0.55lbs was considered a toy, not an aircraft. Barring any local regulations against it (like public parks that ban consumption of alcohol), it was perfectly legal to fly a toy above people. Also, barring any regulations against unlawful discharge of a firearm, you could legally shoot them down, too. Now, for some bizarre reason, the FAA wants to regulate God damn toys.