You're giving Trump way too much credit for intelligence, he's not anywhere near smart enough to even conceive of such a thing -- or are you being sarcastic? If you're being sarcastic then it's okay.
Guess what, idiot? The Rich don't give a crap about you. You're irrelevant, and you're easily replaced, so why should they care if you drown? They'll have all they need, and plenty of Serfs and indentured servants to take care of their fortified high-ground compounds, and also plenty of armed guards to keep low-life scum like you out. Go drown so you don't bother them, they'll say. All because some people kept voting for people like Trump and other climate-change deniers, and also voted for Dominionists, who want a world modeled after The Handmaid's Tale. Guess you get what you deserve, right?
The way China is going these days, what with their new self-proclaimed Emperor and all, they'll just move in, make artificial islands off the coast, and declare it 'part of Chinese territory' and shoot at anyone who disagrees with them.
Well then why not a cluster of these 'nuclear batteries' constituting a larger overall power plant? Is that such a crazy idea? Why does it have to be one gigantic reactor/power plant?
We're on to you fucking Russian sonsofbitches, fuck off back to your shitty dictatorship and tell Putin you failed.
Of course if it weren't for so-called 'social media' then none of this would happen. Dump Facebook, dump Twitter, dump all of it. Go back to actually being social with actual people so you know who the hell you're talking to.
Granted, I set the bar lower for television shows than I do movies or books (I watch Salvation, for cryin' out loud, but in my defense it's mainly to seethe and laugh over how much they ignore and/or screw up the science, and to drool over Jennifer Finnigan, not because it's such ground-breaking entertainment) so Big Bang Theory was never something I took too seriously, but it's had it's good moments, and in my opinion if you're going to go on and on and on ad infinitum about how bad it was and why would anyone watch it, then I've got to question why you're so angry about a half-hour TV show that, ostenisibly, you're not even watching because it's so bad as far as you're concerned. I say, if you want ground-breaking, highly intelligent, thought-provocking entertainment for the Mensa crowd, then just leave your TV set to PBS and never change it, or maybe just toss the TV in the e-waste bin and read books instead.
Perhaps they don't care because they're being paid not to care?
I think perhaps these companies need to be thoroughly investigated. In the meantime DUMP THEM and go back to tried-and-true methods.
I already covered that: make more than one copy, keep them somewhere else. Also how often does your house burn to the ground, get destroyed by a flood, or blown away by a hurricane or tornado? If the answer is 'often' then I think you've got worse problems to worry about than whether you should use 'The Cloud' for storing pictures of your cat(s) or not.:-)
Oh I see. So I'm not ALLOWED to publicly say "I believe in XYZ" without being lumped in with a bunch of hypocrites or false-flag types? Meanwhile people who oppose what I believe in use it to attempt to shame me into shutting up and allowing their little Echo Chambers to continue unopposed? Fuck all that shit. The best way to get people to think about something important rather than just let it wash over them is to talk about it in public forums, both IRL and Internet, and I'll be DAMNED if I'm going to stop doing it.
Why do you need 24/7/365 instant access to pictures or files from any device anywhere on the Internet anywhere in the world? Are you a professional photographer or some other profession that requires it? If not then why can't you just store your photos and whatnot on a flash drive or SDHC or some other device you own and have control of and just keep it on you? If it's so vitally important that you're going to kill yourself if it gets destroyed then keep a copy of it somewhere else. I believe 99% of everyone have no need for 'The Cloud' for anything, they've just been sold on the idea 'for convenience', but it's not very convenient to keep paying forever to store some pics and music files, and it's very inconvenient when they decide to go belly-up and you have to move it all somewhere else so they can pull the same crap on you. Storage is cheap and easy to obtain these days. Why not just keep your own stuff for ZERO money per month and never have to worry about losing it, getting it hacked, or otherwise having to hassle over it? Why rent everything in your life? What's wrong with owning things anymore?
Being a cyclist myself, I've actually had at least one doctor tell me "Rick, you don't need to do all that extreme exercise just to be healthy, you should just go walk a little every day, it's good enough." You can imagine what I had to say to the jackasses who unironically said that to me. Too many doctors will tell you what is safest instead of what is of the most overall benefit, and I believe it's because it limits their liability in case you do get injured; if your doctor says to you "Yes, you should do heavy sets of freebar squats and deadlifts in the gym and run 50 miles a week, it's GREAT for your health!" then you get injured doing all that? You could sue them for malpractice. If they tell you to do things you couldn't possibly get injured doing but might be a little less fit, then their liability is essentially zero.
Okay, that's your Personal Choice, and you're welcome to it with a proviso: You don't get to enforce your 'personal lifestyle choices' on any other adult human being. We can't stop you from enforcing your no-alcohol beliefs on your children, but as soon as they're of legal drinking age, it's up to them. Stet? Stet. Now then, this so-called 'study' is just as likely to be enforcing a lifestyle choice as it is anything else, and it's 'data' flies in the face of other 'studies'. Therefore it is suspect, and in any case is subject to the rigors of the Scientific Method as any other 'study' is. Stet?
Don't you think that this term 'virtue signalling' is just code for 'you are saying things I don't agree with and I want you to stop saying them'? A way of attempting to shame someone into silence so someone else's Echo Chamber can continue without opposition?
But as I said above, 'being healthy' doesn't mean living a life of utter austerity. Taken to extremes, would you only ever have sex for purposes of procreation? After all, every time you have sex with even only your wife, there is a risk of communicable disease, even though both of you are faithful, why risk it? Not accusing you of anything just making a point. There are people out there who would have you living like a monk and dying with nothing but regret for all the things you never did.
You can not be fat, weak, slow, and eventually diseased because of those, and at the same time not be forced to live a life of austerity and total abstention, either. I'm an amateur athlete, not posessing high bodyfat percentage, not weak, and not having problems like diabetes, heart disease, etc, and I still enjoy foods we'll call 'unnecessary for nutritional purposes', and the occasional drink or two, and like you I believe quality of life is more important overall than quantity of life, because too many people are willing to hang on to every last breath regardless of even having to live out their final days in a hospital bed hooked up to tubes and wires and having extreme procedures done to them to keep them alive for five more minutes. It's not worth it to go to extremes just to live to 90 instead of 85. We're only here once and when we're gone, we're gone, make the best of it while you're here, but you can be healthy and even athletic and still enjoy life.
When there's more choices in my area other than Comcast (which kinda sucks) or AT&T U-verse (which really sucks) or 3rd-party companies that just piggyback on Comcast or AT&T (which means they'll suck, too) then I'll be thrilled to switch. Until then it's 'The Devil I Know'.
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You're giving Trump way too much credit for intelligence, he's not anywhere near smart enough to even conceive of such a thing -- or are you being sarcastic? If you're being sarcastic then it's okay.
Guess what, idiot? The Rich don't give a crap about you. You're irrelevant, and you're easily replaced, so why should they care if you drown? They'll have all they need, and plenty of Serfs and indentured servants to take care of their fortified high-ground compounds, and also plenty of armed guards to keep low-life scum like you out. Go drown so you don't bother them, they'll say. All because some people kept voting for people like Trump and other climate-change deniers, and also voted for Dominionists, who want a world modeled after The Handmaid's Tale. Guess you get what you deserve, right?
The way China is going these days, what with their new self-proclaimed Emperor and all, they'll just move in, make artificial islands off the coast, and declare it 'part of Chinese territory' and shoot at anyone who disagrees with them.
Why not? Politics, that's why.
Well then why not a cluster of these 'nuclear batteries' constituting a larger overall power plant? Is that such a crazy idea? Why does it have to be one gigantic reactor/power plant?
We're on to you fucking Russian sonsofbitches, fuck off back to your shitty dictatorship and tell Putin you failed.
Of course if it weren't for so-called 'social media' then none of this would happen. Dump Facebook, dump Twitter, dump all of it. Go back to actually being social with actual people so you know who the hell you're talking to.
In the architecture of the human brain, emotions have absolute priority over reason
Maybe for YOU.
STFU and go get some chelation therapy for all that mercury you've obviously been snorting.
Granted, I set the bar lower for television shows than I do movies or books (I watch Salvation, for cryin' out loud, but in my defense it's mainly to seethe and laugh over how much they ignore and/or screw up the science, and to drool over Jennifer Finnigan, not because it's such ground-breaking entertainment) so Big Bang Theory was never something I took too seriously, but it's had it's good moments, and in my opinion if you're going to go on and on and on ad infinitum about how bad it was and why would anyone watch it, then I've got to question why you're so angry about a half-hour TV show that, ostenisibly, you're not even watching because it's so bad as far as you're concerned. I say, if you want ground-breaking, highly intelligent, thought-provocking entertainment for the Mensa crowd, then just leave your TV set to PBS and never change it, or maybe just toss the TV in the e-waste bin and read books instead.
Perhaps they don't care because they're being paid not to care?
I think perhaps these companies need to be thoroughly investigated. In the meantime DUMP THEM and go back to tried-and-true methods.
I already covered that: make more than one copy, keep them somewhere else. Also how often does your house burn to the ground, get destroyed by a flood, or blown away by a hurricane or tornado? If the answer is 'often' then I think you've got worse problems to worry about than whether you should use 'The Cloud' for storing pictures of your cat(s) or not. :-)
Oh I see. So I'm not ALLOWED to publicly say "I believe in XYZ" without being lumped in with a bunch of hypocrites or false-flag types? Meanwhile people who oppose what I believe in use it to attempt to shame me into shutting up and allowing their little Echo Chambers to continue unopposed? Fuck all that shit. The best way to get people to think about something important rather than just let it wash over them is to talk about it in public forums, both IRL and Internet, and I'll be DAMNED if I'm going to stop doing it.
Why do you need 24/7/365 instant access to pictures or files from any device anywhere on the Internet anywhere in the world? Are you a professional photographer or some other profession that requires it? If not then why can't you just store your photos and whatnot on a flash drive or SDHC or some other device you own and have control of and just keep it on you? If it's so vitally important that you're going to kill yourself if it gets destroyed then keep a copy of it somewhere else. I believe 99% of everyone have no need for 'The Cloud' for anything, they've just been sold on the idea 'for convenience', but it's not very convenient to keep paying forever to store some pics and music files, and it's very inconvenient when they decide to go belly-up and you have to move it all somewhere else so they can pull the same crap on you. Storage is cheap and easy to obtain these days. Why not just keep your own stuff for ZERO money per month and never have to worry about losing it, getting it hacked, or otherwise having to hassle over it? Why rent everything in your life? What's wrong with owning things anymore?
Store your data at home on your own hardware. USB flash drives come in gigantic capacities these days. So do SSDs. You don't need 'The Cloud' at all.
Being a cyclist myself, I've actually had at least one doctor tell me "Rick, you don't need to do all that extreme exercise just to be healthy, you should just go walk a little every day, it's good enough." You can imagine what I had to say to the jackasses who unironically said that to me. Too many doctors will tell you what is safest instead of what is of the most overall benefit, and I believe it's because it limits their liability in case you do get injured; if your doctor says to you "Yes, you should do heavy sets of freebar squats and deadlifts in the gym and run 50 miles a week, it's GREAT for your health!" then you get injured doing all that? You could sue them for malpractice. If they tell you to do things you couldn't possibly get injured doing but might be a little less fit, then their liability is essentially zero.
Okay, that's your Personal Choice, and you're welcome to it with a proviso: You don't get to enforce your 'personal lifestyle choices' on any other adult human being. We can't stop you from enforcing your no-alcohol beliefs on your children, but as soon as they're of legal drinking age, it's up to them. Stet? Stet. Now then, this so-called 'study' is just as likely to be enforcing a lifestyle choice as it is anything else, and it's 'data' flies in the face of other 'studies'. Therefore it is suspect, and in any case is subject to the rigors of the Scientific Method as any other 'study' is. Stet?
Don't you think that this term 'virtue signalling' is just code for 'you are saying things I don't agree with and I want you to stop saying them'? A way of attempting to shame someone into silence so someone else's Echo Chamber can continue without opposition?
My mother died when I was 17 or 18 of a recurrence of thyroid cancer (I think). I saw what her last days were like. No thanks. I get it.
But as I said above, 'being healthy' doesn't mean living a life of utter austerity. Taken to extremes, would you only ever have sex for purposes of procreation? After all, every time you have sex with even only your wife, there is a risk of communicable disease, even though both of you are faithful, why risk it? Not accusing you of anything just making a point. There are people out there who would have you living like a monk and dying with nothing but regret for all the things you never did.
You can not be fat, weak, slow, and eventually diseased because of those, and at the same time not be forced to live a life of austerity and total abstention, either. I'm an amateur athlete, not posessing high bodyfat percentage, not weak, and not having problems like diabetes, heart disease, etc, and I still enjoy foods we'll call 'unnecessary for nutritional purposes', and the occasional drink or two, and like you I believe quality of life is more important overall than quantity of life, because too many people are willing to hang on to every last breath regardless of even having to live out their final days in a hospital bed hooked up to tubes and wires and having extreme procedures done to them to keep them alive for five more minutes. It's not worth it to go to extremes just to live to 90 instead of 85. We're only here once and when we're gone, we're gone, make the best of it while you're here, but you can be healthy and even athletic and still enjoy life.
Just like grilling meat is not 'good' for you
Yeah, sure, and 'they' keep going back and forth on that, just like they do ethanol, just like they do every other gods-be-damned thing.
Google is starting to sound like Microsoft. "We own your computer, not you, you should do as we say when we say to do it because we say so".
If you have so much as ONE BEER your ENTIRE LIFE you will DIE, HORRIBLY, BEFORE YOUR TIME!!!1!!
You want to believe that bullshit, or do you actually have critical thinking skills?
When there's more choices in my area other than Comcast (which kinda sucks) or AT&T U-verse (which really sucks) or 3rd-party companies that just piggyback on Comcast or AT&T (which means they'll suck, too) then I'll be thrilled to switch. Until then it's 'The Devil I Know'.