If someone wins the lottery you say 'wow good for them! All their needs are met!' But if someone were to work for 1 hour and meet all their needs for a whole week, suddenly this is 'wrong'?
Of course it's wrong. When you look at the lottery winner, you're forgetting about the 10 million or so other people who bought a ticket and lost. There's no free ride. The lottery company made a profit. The winner keeps a bit of money. And all the losers paid for it.
Hey don't get me wrong I would love to live in a world where I could meet all my needs by working 1 hour per week. However it doesn't work that way. Perhaps one day, when automation has reached a point where everything basically runs itself and all people need to do is a bit of tweaking here and there. But not yet.
When you go to a restaurant part of what you're paying for is the service
Yes, I get mad when I sit at McDonalds and no one comes to my table to take my order. There are restaurants, and there are restaurants. It's the fucking Olive Garden... what do you expect? Next you're going to bitch because someone at PF Changs served you from the wrong side.
The reason retail used shops stopped stocking PC games was because of Steam.
Nope. Simply not true. I lived through it buddy. Steam did not exist when this started happening - before the internet actually took off in the mid 90's. The reason they stopped was because they got a far better deal from console manufacturers. I remember I started buying my games mail order from places like EBworld because they never had anything in stock in the store - long before Steam (2003) or even Valve (1996) existed.
My Gamestop was honest with me. That was however the spin put on it by publishers moving to Steam at the time.
Seriously, you're talking recent history. I'm talking 1990's. This started happening long before you started gaming. People were downloading xwing vs tie fighter from usenet.
So your completely fine with less choice.
On the contrary. Shopping online gives you MORE choice. Buying at a local retailer limits you to what they can afford to keep in inventory. Buying online usually gets you a larger selection because online retailers often cheat and sell you stuff they don't actually have in stock at the moment. Or they're a huge operation with virtually everything in stock, but can keep prices down because they don't have to pay for a retail store front and retail staff.
In a ways I do - but that's nostalgia. I miss the excitement of being young and browsing for the latest titles for my monthly computer game purchase. However I do not miss the drive to the mall, the crowded parking, the obnoxious staff, and the disappointment when they don't have that killer new game that I just had to have. Nowadays click click click and 5 minutes later I have it without ever leaving my desk, let alone my house.
You'd think so, but Microsoft has REALLY shitty support for developers nowadays, too. It's almost as if they're doing you a favor. Not to mention they keep obfuscating their SDK's with every new release, as well as obfuscating Visual Studio (all in the name of trying to make things simpler - they fix one thing and break 3 others). I haven't seen a great rush to supporting DirectX 11 or higher exclusively yet. Coders will code for the largest possible market and right now Windows 10 ain't it (even when Microsoft tried to give it away for a year).
Soon, you can kiss Steam goodbye (I predict that Windows 11 Home Edition users will not be allowed to install non store or non UWP apps... you just wait and see).
The numbers don't support your argument. I'm sure all 20 owners of Windows 11 will be disappointed. Hell even Windows 10 isn't selling that well. I use Windows 7 and have NO plans to change. So uhh, I think it might be a case of the tail wagging the dog. Microsoft will code themselves right out of their own market if they do this.
Fuck retail stores. About 10 years or so ago, BEFORE services like Steam, major retailers like GameStop decided to cut down on their stock of PC games and stock many more console games. Because somehow they felt that "piracy" was going to kill PC gaming, but console games were going to be a sure thing because they're just that much harder to pirate.
Well you reap what you sow. PC games are still selling strong. Steam made 3.5 billion US dollars last year, and Steam is not the only seller of PC games. And console makers are starting to clue in that they don't NEED a middle-man either. Maybe this way more money can go to the people who actually develop titles instead of useless middle men who think they get to have a say in what gets to go on the shelf. Oh yes, pay to play is alive and well in retail. If you're a little guy good fucking luck ever getting your product into a place like GameStop. And the mall owner shouldn't worry too much, I'm sure they will always find another cell phone store to plug that hole.
This has nothing to do with politics, and everything to do with your attempt to defend the indefensible. I really don't give a shit who Wu is - not my country you see. Let alone my party. What I do find hilarious is that this is the intelligence level of those that Americans choose to have rule over them. While I don't expect a politician to have a working knowledge of orbital mechanics and frames of reference, I do expect politicians to have enough common sense to realize that if the moon hangs in the sky, perhaps the same "magic" that keeps it up there would also keep the "rocks" up there too.
Look at the idiot trying to defend an idiot. How cute.
And Hank Johnson was just "joking" when he talked about Guam capsizing too, right? A "kinetic weapon" on the moon is tech far over Brianna Wu's head. Besides, why put it on the moon when you could just have it in orbit for several orders of magnitude less cost? No. She literally said "dropping rocks". ROCKS. All the bit about lunar gravity (which is slight but nonzero), orbital mechanics, trajectories, and having to survive re-entry through our atmosphere are merely incidental. She thinks if you throw a ROCK hard enough from the moon, you could hit the Earth. And of course because the moon is so "high" in the sky, I'm sure she thinks that the rock will be approaching light speed by the time it lands...
There are no "alleged findings". The findings are real, if the story is real. The burden of proof is on Subway to prove that the professional who signed the lab results are false. If not, they are real not alleged. You can't go to court talking about the "alleged death" or the "alleged coroner's result". Only the "alleged crime" which is yet to be proven.
"However, we are concerned by the alleged findings you had conducted."
Is that even a sentence? The findings are not alleged, they are real. You get to say a guy was allegedly killed with an alleged bullet. You can say the alleged killer is Whatsisname because that hasn't been proven. However if a lab signs off on a DNA analysis I can say it's real all I want - if it turns out that it's not then the LAB is in trouble, not me, because the lab certified the results.
And you don't "conduct findings". Wow, I'm worried that Subway let the junior PR person handle this.
Why bother. People are used to mediocrity. Doing what you suggest would cost money and eat into profits. Fuck 'em. The TOS are quite clear, this will happen once in a while and you'll just have to put up with it. By the way, don't forget your next payment is due.
I've had AMD in the past, when they were good (pre Phenom days). Then I switched to Intel. It seems like AMD are finally getting serious again, that's good. Because with the rumors flying that Intel is soon going to be supporting Windows only on their chips, there is no fucking way I will continue to buy from them if this turns out to be true.
Price is only a secondary concern. It was important when you were buying a new rig every year. But since the pace of progress has slowed, I don't mind shelling out more for a CPU because I know it's going to last me a good 5+ years and then some. Now what I find important is retaining control over my machine.
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Humans are far too smart, innovative, aspiring and complex
You need to meet more humans.
Good. Robots don't spit in your food. Or worse.
yet fast food prices keep going up and up and portions keep getting smaller and smaller
And yet people keep getting fatter and fatter. You'd think that lower wages, higher prices and smaller portions would lead to the opposite.
If someone wins the lottery you say 'wow good for them! All their needs are met!' But if someone were to work for 1 hour and meet all their needs for a whole week, suddenly this is 'wrong'?
Of course it's wrong. When you look at the lottery winner, you're forgetting about the 10 million or so other people who bought a ticket and lost. There's no free ride. The lottery company made a profit. The winner keeps a bit of money. And all the losers paid for it.
Hey don't get me wrong I would love to live in a world where I could meet all my needs by working 1 hour per week. However it doesn't work that way. Perhaps one day, when automation has reached a point where everything basically runs itself and all people need to do is a bit of tweaking here and there. But not yet.
When you go to a restaurant part of what you're paying for is the service
Yes, I get mad when I sit at McDonalds and no one comes to my table to take my order. There are restaurants, and there are restaurants. It's the fucking Olive Garden... what do you expect? Next you're going to bitch because someone at PF Changs served you from the wrong side.
But does it really count if it only existed for a femtosecond and no one manages to reproduce it?
A tax on volcanoes should help curb mantle warming.
Do you like living alone without the possibility of never meeting new, real, people you never met before?
Yes!
I don't live alone, I live with my wife and two dogs.
The reason retail used shops stopped stocking PC games was because of Steam.
Nope. Simply not true. I lived through it buddy. Steam did not exist when this started happening - before the internet actually took off in the mid 90's. The reason they stopped was because they got a far better deal from console manufacturers. I remember I started buying my games mail order from places like EBworld because they never had anything in stock in the store - long before Steam (2003) or even Valve (1996) existed.
My Gamestop was honest with me. That was however the spin put on it by publishers moving to Steam at the time.
Seriously, you're talking recent history. I'm talking 1990's. This started happening long before you started gaming. People were downloading xwing vs tie fighter from usenet.
So your completely fine with less choice.
On the contrary. Shopping online gives you MORE choice. Buying at a local retailer limits you to what they can afford to keep in inventory. Buying online usually gets you a larger selection because online retailers often cheat and sell you stuff they don't actually have in stock at the moment. Or they're a huge operation with virtually everything in stock, but can keep prices down because they don't have to pay for a retail store front and retail staff.
Privacy Badger ftw. What ad?
In a ways I do - but that's nostalgia. I miss the excitement of being young and browsing for the latest titles for my monthly computer game purchase. However I do not miss the drive to the mall, the crowded parking, the obnoxious staff, and the disappointment when they don't have that killer new game that I just had to have. Nowadays click click click and 5 minutes later I have it without ever leaving my desk, let alone my house.
some day most new games won't work on 7.
You'd think so, but Microsoft has REALLY shitty support for developers nowadays, too. It's almost as if they're doing you a favor. Not to mention they keep obfuscating their SDK's with every new release, as well as obfuscating Visual Studio (all in the name of trying to make things simpler - they fix one thing and break 3 others). I haven't seen a great rush to supporting DirectX 11 or higher exclusively yet. Coders will code for the largest possible market and right now Windows 10 ain't it (even when Microsoft tried to give it away for a year).
Soon, you can kiss Steam goodbye (I predict that Windows 11 Home Edition users will not be allowed to install non store or non UWP apps... you just wait and see).
The numbers don't support your argument. I'm sure all 20 owners of Windows 11 will be disappointed. Hell even Windows 10 isn't selling that well. I use Windows 7 and have NO plans to change. So uhh, I think it might be a case of the tail wagging the dog. Microsoft will code themselves right out of their own market if they do this.
Fuck retail stores. About 10 years or so ago, BEFORE services like Steam, major retailers like GameStop decided to cut down on their stock of PC games and stock many more console games. Because somehow they felt that "piracy" was going to kill PC gaming, but console games were going to be a sure thing because they're just that much harder to pirate. Well you reap what you sow. PC games are still selling strong. Steam made 3.5 billion US dollars last year, and Steam is not the only seller of PC games. And console makers are starting to clue in that they don't NEED a middle-man either. Maybe this way more money can go to the people who actually develop titles instead of useless middle men who think they get to have a say in what gets to go on the shelf. Oh yes, pay to play is alive and well in retail. If you're a little guy good fucking luck ever getting your product into a place like GameStop. And the mall owner shouldn't worry too much, I'm sure they will always find another cell phone store to plug that hole.
You don't do it, you're fired. Problem solved.
Theory, meet practice.
This has nothing to do with politics, and everything to do with your attempt to defend the indefensible. I really don't give a shit who Wu is - not my country you see. Let alone my party. What I do find hilarious is that this is the intelligence level of those that Americans choose to have rule over them. While I don't expect a politician to have a working knowledge of orbital mechanics and frames of reference, I do expect politicians to have enough common sense to realize that if the moon hangs in the sky, perhaps the same "magic" that keeps it up there would also keep the "rocks" up there too.
I guess she thinks that the moon hangs in the sky through magic.
Look at the idiot trying to defend an idiot. How cute.
And Hank Johnson was just "joking" when he talked about Guam capsizing too, right? A "kinetic weapon" on the moon is tech far over Brianna Wu's head. Besides, why put it on the moon when you could just have it in orbit for several orders of magnitude less cost? No. She literally said "dropping rocks". ROCKS. All the bit about lunar gravity (which is slight but nonzero), orbital mechanics, trajectories, and having to survive re-entry through our atmosphere are merely incidental. She thinks if you throw a ROCK hard enough from the moon, you could hit the Earth. And of course because the moon is so "high" in the sky, I'm sure she thinks that the rock will be approaching light speed by the time it lands...
An uber driver finds he's been removed as a driver and blacklisted.
There are no "alleged findings". The findings are real, if the story is real. The burden of proof is on Subway to prove that the professional who signed the lab results are false. If not, they are real not alleged. You can't go to court talking about the "alleged death" or the "alleged coroner's result". Only the "alleged crime" which is yet to be proven.
You're getting alleged chicken.
"However, we are concerned by the alleged findings you had conducted."
Is that even a sentence? The findings are not alleged, they are real. You get to say a guy was allegedly killed with an alleged bullet. You can say the alleged killer is Whatsisname because that hasn't been proven. However if a lab signs off on a DNA analysis I can say it's real all I want - if it turns out that it's not then the LAB is in trouble, not me, because the lab certified the results.
And you don't "conduct findings". Wow, I'm worried that Subway let the junior PR person handle this.
Why bother. People are used to mediocrity. Doing what you suggest would cost money and eat into profits. Fuck 'em. The TOS are quite clear, this will happen once in a while and you'll just have to put up with it. By the way, don't forget your next payment is due.
I've had AMD in the past, when they were good (pre Phenom days). Then I switched to Intel. It seems like AMD are finally getting serious again, that's good. Because with the rumors flying that Intel is soon going to be supporting Windows only on their chips, there is no fucking way I will continue to buy from them if this turns out to be true.
Price is only a secondary concern. It was important when you were buying a new rig every year. But since the pace of progress has slowed, I don't mind shelling out more for a CPU because I know it's going to last me a good 5+ years and then some. Now what I find important is retaining control over my machine.