Heh, that might be fun: Put together soundtracks from gay porn and snuff films on a PMP on infinte repeat, and stick it and an Alexa or Google device in an otherwise soundproof box.
Because the more people will use them, the more they are bound to become, first, a commodity, then eventually become mandatory (of course for national security reasons). This logical path is so obvious that I have a really hard time believing that it won't actually happen. Hope to be proven wrong.
You, and the guy below you, really sound like trollololololols. I'll just say this: if I'm still alive and the world has become that far gone, then I won't want to keep living in it -- and I'd take as many jackbooted thugs with me as I could before they nailed me.
Let's just say that underneath all the cynicism I display there seems to be an indellible spark of hope that people will evolve and stop being so gods-be-damned dumb about everything. I hope that they wake up one day and realize they're being ass-raped by streaming services, and they turn around and start wanting to own copies of music, movies, and printed books again.
I'm not even anything but a wireless customer of theirs and this pisses me off.
I don't like them as a company to start with and had been half-heartedly looking to dump them for something cheaper. Anyone have any suggestions? All I need is wireless, nothing else, don't have or want a smartphone, just need basic cellular service and texting. Anyone have any opinions about Consumer Cellular? I know they market to senior citizens, but if they can cut my $55 a month bill in half when I barely use even 100 minutes of calling a month, then I don't care, I'd just as soon do whatever I can to dump AT&T.
And now its name is mud, the CD an object of widespread scorn. How did it come to this? Why did this brilliant thing fall so far out of fashion?
I think I can answer that for you.
Greed. Plain and simple. You buy a copy of something, you can listen to it thousands of times for free after that, you can copy it, you can rip it and put it on your PMP -- and they can't insert ads, they don't make another penny off it -- and you can sell the used CD later if you're tired of it, and get some money back. They don't like that. They want you to pay, pay, pay forever. So they start something called 'streaming services', which is just a fancy way of saying 'rent you some music for a monthly fee', and voila, you pay, pay, pay forever. An essential part of this marketing strategy is to indoctrinate the masses that CDs are 'old fashioned', something your grandparents use, uncool, un-hip, something that you should be ridiculed for if you actually buy them. Sadly, people are dumb, dumb, dumb, and they fall for this bait, hook line and sinker. So you have what we've got here today: 'owning' things is considered obsolete and uncool, and having to pay, pay, pay forever is the new hotness. As I said before: people are dumb, dumb, dumb.
'Streaming services' are just renting in disguise, if you pay for it. They'd put an expiration date on you memory and make you forget you heard any of it if they thought it was possible and they could get away with it. Eventually people will come back to wanting to own copies of things they like.
I still want first-hand accounts of these pirate stations, but from TFA it sounds like these are part of 'The Resistance' against the current administration.
That's the real question: I want to know what it is they're broadcasting that's got that bastard Pai's panties in such a twist. My gut tells me it's not likely music or anything as innocent as that. Don't post links to 'official' sources, I don't think they'll be trustworthy, I'd like to see first-hand accounts from people who have received these so-called 'pirate stations'.
NSA says:
"Oh noes, the cattle (er, we mean citizens) have had their privacy rights (LOL!) brought to their attention (thanks, Zuckerberg!) and since we've had the market cornered on violating people's privacy for decades, we're in their crosshairs now, what ever shall we do!?"
"..never fear! We'll throw them a bone and (claim we) delete a bunch of (old, useless) texts and emails. Just to make it sound more legit, we'll claim we never had the right to have some of them in the first place. The cattle (*cough* sorry, 'Citizens') are gullible and will believe we're on the up-and-up and are taking responsibility for our misdeeds (LOL)."
Good game, NSA, good game.. but the guillotine is waiting for you; you're on The List. It's just a matter of time.
You won't see this because you're an AC and likely aren't even paying attention.. but go and do a deep-dive research into Pence and lots of other Trump appointees, cabinet members, his staff, etc. You'll start to see a pattern. I don't think Trump himself is a Dominionist, but he sure as hell wants to drag us backwards socially to the 1940's, and that's not going to be good for anyone.
See, we need to work towards not burning anything anymore. How about 'carbon NEGATIVE' instead?
I've worked on ICEs since I was in my mid teens, and that was a long time ago now. ICEs are massive, messy, finicky, and over-complicated for what they have to do, and they produce toxic gasses that are no good to anyone. We need to get rid of them. Might take 20,30,40,50 years, but it needs to happen. Coming up with 'alternative fuels' just draws the process out and makes it more painful for everyone. Wouldn't you rather have a car that's all electric, nice and clean, safe, no emissions, low maintenance? Given time we can replace aircraft engines, too.
I just looked: 70% of all North American Internet traffic is entertainment like Netflix or YouTube. How much energy all over the world is spent just distracting us?
Listen, buddy: Nobody is going to 'force' you to do anything, because the schedule I envision means you will be dead of old age by the time the last ICE is built. We phase them out over 20, 30, 40, 50 years, while simultaneously phasing in safely designed nuclear power and replacements for all types of vehicles. So calm down already. Also stop voting for assholes.
That's all I hear from some people. Are you not paying attention?
OF COURSE WE CAN. What you really are saying is:
I don't WANT to!
I'm not talking about obsoleting ICEs next year, or even next decade. I'm talking about 20, 30, 40, 50 year plans to stop using them. Can you possibly think that far ahead? Try, please.
Trump and his Dominionist buddies/appointees don't give a flying fuck about the environment; wrecking the Earth faster means Zombie Jesus returns that much sooner so far as these nutjob religious extremists are concerned. In the meantime they want to hoard as much profit as they possibly can and wasting money on trying to combat human-caused global warming is just a non-starter to them. Besides which these rich bastards can afford to live in nice climate-controlled homes with purified air and water while they wait for the Rapture to come take them back to Heaven, why should they give a fuck about what the plebian sinner average citizens have to live like? The rest of us are all going to Hell so far as they're concerned anyway.
Don't you Trump supporters see it? Trump does not give a fuck about YOU any more than he gives a fuck about anyone else. He cares about his own ass first, then maybe his family, then maybe the sycophants he surrounds himself with (if they kissed his ass enough). The rest of us? We're just meat for the grinder to him and his cronies.
The solution to the problem is simple enough in concept, but it's also the pink-and-purple-polka-dot elephant in the room; everyone knows that ICEs are grossly inefficient, even if they are powerful, but let's face it: they're over 100 year old technology at this point. We, as a civilization, need to establish a timeline by which we systematically obsolete and replace ICE technology with something else.
I don't think anyone could possibly take the task of proficiently operating a motor vehicle under all atmospheric and traffic conditions more for granted than you just did, bub. Sure hope you don't live anywhere near me, I want to live.
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Heh, that might be fun: Put together soundtracks from gay porn and snuff films on a PMP on infinte repeat, and stick it and an Alexa or Google device in an otherwise soundproof box.
Because the more people will use them, the more they are bound to become, first, a commodity, then eventually become mandatory (of course for national security reasons). This logical path is so obvious that I have a really hard time believing that it won't actually happen. Hope to be proven wrong.
You, and the guy below you, really sound like trollololololols. I'll just say this: if I'm still alive and the world has become that far gone, then I won't want to keep living in it -- and I'd take as many jackbooted thugs with me as I could before they nailed me.
Let's just say that underneath all the cynicism I display there seems to be an indellible spark of hope that people will evolve and stop being so gods-be-damned dumb about everything. I hope that they wake up one day and realize they're being ass-raped by streaming services, and they turn around and start wanting to own copies of music, movies, and printed books again.
I'm not even anything but a wireless customer of theirs and this pisses me off.
I don't like them as a company to start with and had been half-heartedly looking to dump them for something cheaper. Anyone have any suggestions? All I need is wireless, nothing else, don't have or want a smartphone, just need basic cellular service and texting. Anyone have any opinions about Consumer Cellular? I know they market to senior citizens, but if they can cut my $55 a month bill in half when I barely use even 100 minutes of calling a month, then I don't care, I'd just as soon do whatever I can to dump AT&T.
And now its name is mud, the CD an object of widespread scorn. How did it come to this? Why did this brilliant thing fall so far out of fashion?
I think I can answer that for you.
Greed. Plain and simple. You buy a copy of something, you can listen to it thousands of times for free after that, you can copy it, you can rip it and put it on your PMP -- and they can't insert ads, they don't make another penny off it -- and you can sell the used CD later if you're tired of it, and get some money back. They don't like that. They want you to pay, pay, pay forever. So they start something called 'streaming services', which is just a fancy way of saying 'rent you some music for a monthly fee', and voila, you pay, pay, pay forever. An essential part of this marketing strategy is to indoctrinate the masses that CDs are 'old fashioned', something your grandparents use, uncool, un-hip, something that you should be ridiculed for if you actually buy them. Sadly, people are dumb, dumb, dumb, and they fall for this bait, hook line and sinker. So you have what we've got here today: 'owning' things is considered obsolete and uncool, and having to pay, pay, pay forever is the new hotness. As I said before: people are dumb, dumb, dumb.
'Streaming services' are just renting in disguise, if you pay for it. They'd put an expiration date on you memory and make you forget you heard any of it if they thought it was possible and they could get away with it. Eventually people will come back to wanting to own copies of things they like.
Get rid of surveillance devices in your house TODAY.
I still want first-hand accounts of these pirate stations, but from TFA it sounds like these are part of 'The Resistance' against the current administration.
Try reading my comment, EVERY SINGLE WORD, you mongoloid.
How much more of this do you have to see? It's time to leave social media behind. Stop fooling yourself that you 'need' it.
That's the real question: I want to know what it is they're broadcasting that's got that bastard Pai's panties in such a twist. My gut tells me it's not likely music or anything as innocent as that. Don't post links to 'official' sources, I don't think they'll be trustworthy, I'd like to see first-hand accounts from people who have received these so-called 'pirate stations'.
NSA says:
"Oh noes, the cattle (er, we mean citizens) have had their privacy rights (LOL!) brought to their attention (thanks, Zuckerberg!) and since we've had the market cornered on violating people's privacy for decades, we're in their crosshairs now, what ever shall we do!?"
"..never fear! We'll throw them a bone and (claim we) delete a bunch of (old, useless) texts and emails. Just to make it sound more legit, we'll claim we never had the right to have some of them in the first place. The cattle (*cough* sorry, 'Citizens') are gullible and will believe we're on the up-and-up and are taking responsibility for our misdeeds (LOL)."
Good game, NSA, good game.. but the guillotine is waiting for you; you're on The List. It's just a matter of time.
You won't see this because you're an AC and likely aren't even paying attention.. but go and do a deep-dive research into Pence and lots of other Trump appointees, cabinet members, his staff, etc. You'll start to see a pattern. I don't think Trump himself is a Dominionist, but he sure as hell wants to drag us backwards socially to the 1940's, and that's not going to be good for anyone.
See, we need to work towards not burning anything anymore. How about 'carbon NEGATIVE' instead?
I've worked on ICEs since I was in my mid teens, and that was a long time ago now. ICEs are massive, messy, finicky, and over-complicated for what they have to do, and they produce toxic gasses that are no good to anyone. We need to get rid of them. Might take 20,30,40,50 years, but it needs to happen. Coming up with 'alternative fuels' just draws the process out and makes it more painful for everyone. Wouldn't you rather have a car that's all electric, nice and clean, safe, no emissions, low maintenance? Given time we can replace aircraft engines, too.
I just looked: 70% of all North American Internet traffic is entertainment like Netflix or YouTube. How much energy all over the world is spent just distracting us?
Nope. We need to stop burning things to run heat engines. How about 'carbon NEGATIVE' instead? Don't knee-jerk and say it's impossible, either.
Listen, buddy: Nobody is going to 'force' you to do anything, because the schedule I envision means you will be dead of old age by the time the last ICE is built. We phase them out over 20, 30, 40, 50 years, while simultaneously phasing in safely designed nuclear power and replacements for all types of vehicles. So calm down already. Also stop voting for assholes.
carbon-neutral bio/synth fuels
You're joking, right?
Can't can't can't can't can't can't can't can't can't can't can't can't can't
That's all I hear from some people. Are you not paying attention?
OF COURSE WE CAN. What you really are saying is:
I don't WANT to!
I'm not talking about obsoleting ICEs next year, or even next decade. I'm talking about 20, 30, 40, 50 year plans to stop using them. Can you possibly think that far ahead? Try, please.
Trump and his Dominionist buddies/appointees don't give a flying fuck about the environment; wrecking the Earth faster means Zombie Jesus returns that much sooner so far as these nutjob religious extremists are concerned. In the meantime they want to hoard as much profit as they possibly can and wasting money on trying to combat human-caused global warming is just a non-starter to them. Besides which these rich bastards can afford to live in nice climate-controlled homes with purified air and water while they wait for the Rapture to come take them back to Heaven, why should they give a fuck about what the plebian sinner average citizens have to live like? The rest of us are all going to Hell so far as they're concerned anyway.
Don't you Trump supporters see it? Trump does not give a fuck about YOU any more than he gives a fuck about anyone else. He cares about his own ass first, then maybe his family, then maybe the sycophants he surrounds himself with (if they kissed his ass enough). The rest of us? We're just meat for the grinder to him and his cronies.
The solution to the problem is simple enough in concept, but it's also the pink-and-purple-polka-dot elephant in the room; everyone knows that ICEs are grossly inefficient, even if they are powerful, but let's face it: they're over 100 year old technology at this point. We, as a civilization, need to establish a timeline by which we systematically obsolete and replace ICE technology with something else.
I don't think anyone could possibly take the task of proficiently operating a motor vehicle under all atmospheric and traffic conditions more for granted than you just did, bub. Sure hope you don't live anywhere near me, I want to live.
Not quite the same thing, buddy.
Troll-lolololololol Again: Fuck you.
Fuck you.