Unlike someone else who commented I don't think 'nostalgia' is such a bad thing. Why? Because it seems that 'games' aren't so much about 'games' anymore, they're about how much money they can leech out of your wallet. I'm sure many more people than anyone realizes just wants to play a simple, non-online, non-massive-multiplayer game for fun, not make a second career out of it because it's so involved and complex; newer isn't always better, and even if newer is better it doesn't mean older and simpler things all have to be thrown in the trash and forgotten, they still have value. So you get these 'classic' game packages, no cartridges required, and unlike the old hardware it just works. Plug it into your TV and play it, no huge investment of time or money required, don't need to tie up your phone or computer with it, etc.
LOL I don't use plastic cups, I have one of these: https://www.kleankanteen.com/c...
I also have two 32-oz vacuum-insulated bottles from the same company. I haven't used a disposable anything for a long time now. You can apologize to me now for shooting your mouth off TWICE, jackass, and stop thinking you have the right to dictate to others how they conduct themselves.
I believe you're 100% right about food not being like it was in the 70's/80's/90's. Monsanto changed basic foods like wheat because of Roundup (glyphosate). I developed an intolerance for modern wheat, I believe, because of it. I can eat spelt, which is a very old type of wheat, but more importantly because it's always raised 'organically', which means no Roundup ever touches it during growth or just before harvest, either. I still need to do an experiment where I eat modern wheat regularly that has been raised 'organic' to test my theory, by the way.
So nice of you to decide for everyone else how they should conduct their lives.
Please install public-internet-facing cameras and microphones throughout your home, so we can be helpful to you in return and make 'suggestions' as to how you can live your life more efficiently, properly, and acceptably to everyone else. Thank you, have a nice day!
The so-called 'free market' is only interested in this quarters' profits and the CEOs are only interested in what outrageously expensive thing they'll be able to afford from this years' bonus. What it doesn't give a fuck about is what kind of mess the next generation has to deal with because there's no profit to be made from worrying about that, it's someone else's problem.
You want to help stop more school shootings? The Press needs to stop publicizing them. All they're doing is turning these shooters into celebrities, which in turn is emboldening the would-be school shooters, and so on, and so on.
Come on, you don't need to 'REALLY THINK' in order to drive a car.
Well, that would certainly explain why there are so many shitty drivers on the roads, which ironically is why they're trying to push shitty half-assed so-called 'self driving cars' on everyone.
If you unironically believe that crap you just wrote, then you're either part of the problem, or you're TROLLOLOLOLing. Nobody who is capable of actually thinking would really believe that.
Dude, the whole thing is a JOKE. I've been saying for the past year that everyone is rushing this to market before it's anywhere near ready, that it's been hyped to the point where they think there's a mechanical person in the damned things, and everyone assumes it's going to be 100% perfect 100% of the time, when nothing could be farther from the truth. These so-called self driving cars are half-assed at best, use a half-assed excuse for an AI that isn't even really an AI, and it's not anywhere NEAR ready to be on public roads built for human drivers. It all needs to rolled back, taken off the streets, and not allowed back until they have REAL AI that can actually THINK and not this shitty 'deep learning' crap that doesn't know the intrinsic difference between a human being and a lamppost.
Just as likely they're selling your data to identity thieves. We're talking about a porn site here, not some reputable company, even if they are a gigantic porn site.
See, you're being sarcastic, but you're failing at it, you just sound sad.
How many people answer their phone for a number they don't recognize, or that doesn't show a number? These days, most likely it's a scammer. If it's important, people will leave a voicemail. Maybe if you got out more often you'd know this is the way most people conduct themselves.;-)
It must be fun to be so arrogant that you really think you Know It All.
People have plenty of bodyfat to survive on. We share the sandwich. Now we're only both a little hungry, and we're not enemies.
We both limit our physical activity, try to nap, until rescue arrives; somehow we co-operate to find a way for both to survive.
We can continue to think only so far ahead as next quarters' profits, and perhaps there won't be a future for anyone, or we can stop acting and thinking like animals, operating on instinct alone, and maybe, just maybe, our species survives long enough to actually evolve into something better. If not then maybe some alien race that managed to get past these infantile ways of conducting themselves dig up the archaeological remains of our 'civilization' and shake their heads sadly that we couldn't manage to make it.
It was fine, mostly... except for all that getting lost, and getting stuck in traffic jams that I could have avoided had I only known. And never having a camera handy when I needed one. And not being able to instantly compare prices while in a store. And... and... and...
So you convinced yourself that you 'need' those things -- and traded your privacy for convenience, like so many. Take it all back. Suffer through the withdrawal. Enjoy knowing you have more of a private life again. I know where I'm going before I leave to go there. Traffic jams happen and nothing can stop them, no sense raging about them. Basic clamshell phones all have cameras now. How often do you really need to compare prices? Do your comparison shopping before you go to the store. See? You don't 'need' any of that, you just 'want' it, they know it, they make you pay in privacy. Take your life back.;-)
Buddy, no one can surveil me in my own home unless they're outside with a laser microphone. You can make your home a sanctuary against privacy breaches, too, you just have to want to.
They've been indoctrinated by corporate society that 'Sharing is normal, privacy means you have something to hide, people with something to hide are BAD and WRONG and probably CRIMINALS or TERRORISTS or PEDOPHILES or other UNDESIRABLES, don't you want to be ACCEPTED and NORMAL?'. Of course all of that is bullshit, normal people after a certain age develop a desire for privacy. They've also been convinced that nothing about their lives is worth anything therefore it's not worth protecting the privacy of anyway, so you're trading something worthless (your privacy) for convenience (devices in your pocket and in your home that can easily be used for surveillance purposes if the manufacturer so chooses). Furthermore nobody actually reads EULAs so if it says anything about collecting data (personalized or not) they don't know -- and they don't care, either, because again they've been convinced that 'privacy' is bad and wrong and worthless anyway so why should they even care if someone is collecting (ostensibly) non-personally-identifiable data on them anyway? Never mind that Google or Amazon or Microsoft or whoever could be collecting very much personally identifiable data on every one of their users and lying through their teeth about it, hiding the fact, and either selling the data to 'third party partner companies' or using it in their own marketing departments to sell you more things that likely will also spy on you and collect more data on you.
Think about all the devices that aren't smartphones or 'voice assistants' that also collect data on you all the time: 'fitness bands' like FitBit, video game consoles like Xbox 360 that have to be connected to the Internet in order to function at all, even VoIP phones might be capable of listening in on their environment, and so on. Some people have raised concerns about wirelessly-connected 'smart meters' for electricity, natural gas, and even water usage, which give realtime use data to the utility companies; patterns of people's lives can be extrapolated from that realtime data, determining when people are home, when they're awake or asleep, and even close guesses as to what appliances they might be using and for how long. So-called 'Internet of Things' devices, like 'smart refrigerators' that even have cameras inside them, ostensibly so you can remotely determine what you need to get at the grocery store; how easy would it be for Samsung or whoever to monitor and track what people buy to eat, and how much they eat, by tapping into this? Use your imagination for any other 'IoT' appliances always connected to the Internet; 'Nest' devices are a prime example also of something that can track and monitor the patterns of someone's life. All in the name of 'convenience', and people pay cash money for the 'privilege' of potentially being under someone's microscope.
Then there's money itself. How many people do you know who pay cash for things anymore? I do, for security reasons mainly (breaches of payment systems and even banks themselves pretty much every week anymore), but also to stop anyone tracking my purchasing habits. Every time people pay with plastic, or with their smartphone, someone knows when, where, what, and how much they're buying. If someone uses a 'loyalty club card' somewhere like Safeway, they're agreeing to having very much personally-identifiable information on what they're buying above and beyond what can be extrapolated just from bare EFT/POS data; try asking Safeway or anywhere else that has these 'club cards' to see the EULA/Privacy notice, and they'll give you a blank stare, they know nothing about it, and you're wide open to their company when you use their 'club card' when purchasing. More privacy frittered away, all to save a few pennies.
There may never be an end to this, not at least until there is such a massive data breach or scandal involving people's private data, that the majority of people finally wake up and decide enough is enough. But there was the Equifax data breach, that effectively splayed open the lives of at le
Then get a phone that has a removable battery and take the battery out when you want privacy.:-)
Or better yet don't have a smartphone in the first place, use the cheapest clamshell phone you can get that's good at making and receiving calls, and leave it turned off when you don't need it, too, just in case.
I've never owned a smartphone and never will, primarily because I really don't have a use for the capabilities, but also because I think they're too expensive for what you get, too expensive to operate (I don't want to give $100 or more a month to anyone just to have a phone), as well as a total swisscheese/collander so far as being secure goes (can't secure the browser properly, well-known ways to remotely hack them, tracks you everywhere via GPS, and so on). My life is just fine without one, too. Doesn't anyone else remember life before there were smartphones? We all lived just fine.;-)
You're absolutely right. This so-called 'summit meeting', the so-called 'nuclear test site decomissioning', it's all theatre, it's always just theatre with PRNK, none of it was ever for real, and Trump got played -- again. Kim and his minions are probably laughing it up over how dumb Trump is, and I have little doubt that many other world leaders are rolling their eyes at how easy it was for Kim to work Trump like this.
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Unlike someone else who commented I don't think 'nostalgia' is such a bad thing. Why? Because it seems that 'games' aren't so much about 'games' anymore, they're about how much money they can leech out of your wallet. I'm sure many more people than anyone realizes just wants to play a simple, non-online, non-massive-multiplayer game for fun, not make a second career out of it because it's so involved and complex; newer isn't always better, and even if newer is better it doesn't mean older and simpler things all have to be thrown in the trash and forgotten, they still have value. So you get these 'classic' game packages, no cartridges required, and unlike the old hardware it just works. Plug it into your TV and play it, no huge investment of time or money required, don't need to tie up your phone or computer with it, etc.
LOL I don't use plastic cups, I have one of these: https://www.kleankanteen.com/c...
I also have two 32-oz vacuum-insulated bottles from the same company. I haven't used a disposable anything for a long time now. You can apologize to me now for shooting your mouth off TWICE, jackass, and stop thinking you have the right to dictate to others how they conduct themselves.
I believe you're 100% right about food not being like it was in the 70's/80's/90's. Monsanto changed basic foods like wheat because of Roundup (glyphosate). I developed an intolerance for modern wheat, I believe, because of it. I can eat spelt, which is a very old type of wheat, but more importantly because it's always raised 'organically', which means no Roundup ever touches it during growth or just before harvest, either. I still need to do an experiment where I eat modern wheat regularly that has been raised 'organic' to test my theory, by the way.
FWIW, the difference between a 'weed' and a 'vegetable' or a 'decorative plant' is, really, purely subjective to us humans.
So nice of you to decide for everyone else how they should conduct their lives.
Please install public-internet-facing cameras and microphones throughout your home, so we can be helpful to you in return and make 'suggestions' as to how you can live your life more efficiently, properly, and acceptably to everyone else. Thank you, have a nice day!
The so-called 'free market' is only interested in this quarters' profits and the CEOs are only interested in what outrageously expensive thing they'll be able to afford from this years' bonus. What it doesn't give a fuck about is what kind of mess the next generation has to deal with because there's no profit to be made from worrying about that, it's someone else's problem.
Just like automakers they're getting a foot in the door ahead of their competition without any real expectations of actually producing anything.
No, that's still a 'glorious death' with much publicity and the shooter becomes a martyr. That's how sick minds work. STOP PUBLICIZING SHOOTINGS.
You want to help stop more school shootings? The Press needs to stop publicizing them. All they're doing is turning these shooters into celebrities, which in turn is emboldening the would-be school shooters, and so on, and so on.
Come on, you don't need to 'REALLY THINK' in order to drive a car.
Well, that would certainly explain why there are so many shitty drivers on the roads, which ironically is why they're trying to push shitty half-assed so-called 'self driving cars' on everyone.
If you unironically believe that crap you just wrote, then you're either part of the problem, or you're TROLLOLOLOLing. Nobody who is capable of actually thinking would really believe that.
Let's see how much you mouth off about it when it's someone you know, or when it's a kid.
'Regulate' it to a scrapyard.
Dude, the whole thing is a JOKE. I've been saying for the past year that everyone is rushing this to market before it's anywhere near ready, that it's been hyped to the point where they think there's a mechanical person in the damned things, and everyone assumes it's going to be 100% perfect 100% of the time, when nothing could be farther from the truth. These so-called self driving cars are half-assed at best, use a half-assed excuse for an AI that isn't even really an AI, and it's not anywhere NEAR ready to be on public roads built for human drivers. It all needs to rolled back, taken off the streets, and not allowed back until they have REAL AI that can actually THINK and not this shitty 'deep learning' crap that doesn't know the intrinsic difference between a human being and a lamppost.
Just as likely they're selling your data to identity thieves. We're talking about a porn site here, not some reputable company, even if they are a gigantic porn site.
See, you're being sarcastic, but you're failing at it, you just sound sad. ;-)
How many people answer their phone for a number they don't recognize, or that doesn't show a number? These days, most likely it's a scammer. If it's important, people will leave a voicemail. Maybe if you got out more often you'd know this is the way most people conduct themselves.
Yeah, I get it. For most it turns out to be a negative-sum game otherwise.
Some people give me shit for not having a smartphone; do you feel smarter than me now?
Post all the insults and angry comments you want, they're like candy to me.
It must be fun to be so arrogant that you really think you Know It All.
People have plenty of bodyfat to survive on. We share the sandwich. Now we're only both a little hungry, and we're not enemies.
We both limit our physical activity, try to nap, until rescue arrives; somehow we co-operate to find a way for both to survive.
We can continue to think only so far ahead as next quarters' profits, and perhaps there won't be a future for anyone, or we can stop acting and thinking like animals, operating on instinct alone, and maybe, just maybe, our species survives long enough to actually evolve into something better. If not then maybe some alien race that managed to get past these infantile ways of conducting themselves dig up the archaeological remains of our 'civilization' and shake their heads sadly that we couldn't manage to make it.
Is that the best you've got? Go back to lurking.
It was fine, mostly ... except for all that getting lost, and getting stuck in traffic jams that I could have avoided had I only known. And never having a camera handy when I needed one. And not being able to instantly compare prices while in a store. And ... and ... and ...
So you convinced yourself that you 'need' those things -- and traded your privacy for convenience, like so many. Take it all back. Suffer through the withdrawal. Enjoy knowing you have more of a private life again. I know where I'm going before I leave to go there. Traffic jams happen and nothing can stop them, no sense raging about them. Basic clamshell phones all have cameras now. How often do you really need to compare prices? Do your comparison shopping before you go to the store. See? You don't 'need' any of that, you just 'want' it, they know it, they make you pay in privacy. Take your life back. ;-)
Buddy, no one can surveil me in my own home unless they're outside with a laser microphone. You can make your home a sanctuary against privacy breaches, too, you just have to want to.
They've been indoctrinated by corporate society that 'Sharing is normal, privacy means you have something to hide, people with something to hide are BAD and WRONG and probably CRIMINALS or TERRORISTS or PEDOPHILES or other UNDESIRABLES, don't you want to be ACCEPTED and NORMAL?'. Of course all of that is bullshit, normal people after a certain age develop a desire for privacy. They've also been convinced that nothing about their lives is worth anything therefore it's not worth protecting the privacy of anyway, so you're trading something worthless (your privacy) for convenience (devices in your pocket and in your home that can easily be used for surveillance purposes if the manufacturer so chooses). Furthermore nobody actually reads EULAs so if it says anything about collecting data (personalized or not) they don't know -- and they don't care, either, because again they've been convinced that 'privacy' is bad and wrong and worthless anyway so why should they even care if someone is collecting (ostensibly) non-personally-identifiable data on them anyway? Never mind that Google or Amazon or Microsoft or whoever could be collecting very much personally identifiable data on every one of their users and lying through their teeth about it, hiding the fact, and either selling the data to 'third party partner companies' or using it in their own marketing departments to sell you more things that likely will also spy on you and collect more data on you.
Think about all the devices that aren't smartphones or 'voice assistants' that also collect data on you all the time: 'fitness bands' like FitBit, video game consoles like Xbox 360 that have to be connected to the Internet in order to function at all, even VoIP phones might be capable of listening in on their environment, and so on. Some people have raised concerns about wirelessly-connected 'smart meters' for electricity, natural gas, and even water usage, which give realtime use data to the utility companies; patterns of people's lives can be extrapolated from that realtime data, determining when people are home, when they're awake or asleep, and even close guesses as to what appliances they might be using and for how long. So-called 'Internet of Things' devices, like 'smart refrigerators' that even have cameras inside them, ostensibly so you can remotely determine what you need to get at the grocery store; how easy would it be for Samsung or whoever to monitor and track what people buy to eat, and how much they eat, by tapping into this? Use your imagination for any other 'IoT' appliances always connected to the Internet; 'Nest' devices are a prime example also of something that can track and monitor the patterns of someone's life. All in the name of 'convenience', and people pay cash money for the 'privilege' of potentially being under someone's microscope.
Then there's money itself. How many people do you know who pay cash for things anymore? I do, for security reasons mainly (breaches of payment systems and even banks themselves pretty much every week anymore), but also to stop anyone tracking my purchasing habits. Every time people pay with plastic, or with their smartphone, someone knows when, where, what, and how much they're buying. If someone uses a 'loyalty club card' somewhere like Safeway, they're agreeing to having very much personally-identifiable information on what they're buying above and beyond what can be extrapolated just from bare EFT/POS data; try asking Safeway or anywhere else that has these 'club cards' to see the EULA/Privacy notice, and they'll give you a blank stare, they know nothing about it, and you're wide open to their company when you use their 'club card' when purchasing. More privacy frittered away, all to save a few pennies.
There may never be an end to this, not at least until there is such a massive data breach or scandal involving people's private data, that the majority of people finally wake up and decide enough is enough. But there was the Equifax data breach, that effectively splayed open the lives of at le
Then get a phone that has a removable battery and take the battery out when you want privacy. :-)
;-)
Or better yet don't have a smartphone in the first place, use the cheapest clamshell phone you can get that's good at making and receiving calls, and leave it turned off when you don't need it, too, just in case.
I've never owned a smartphone and never will, primarily because I really don't have a use for the capabilities, but also because I think they're too expensive for what you get, too expensive to operate (I don't want to give $100 or more a month to anyone just to have a phone), as well as a total swisscheese/collander so far as being secure goes (can't secure the browser properly, well-known ways to remotely hack them, tracks you everywhere via GPS, and so on). My life is just fine without one, too. Doesn't anyone else remember life before there were smartphones? We all lived just fine.
Oh, I'm batshit insane, yes; what's your point? xD
There's no need to be upset. xD
You're absolutely right. This so-called 'summit meeting', the so-called 'nuclear test site decomissioning', it's all theatre, it's always just theatre with PRNK, none of it was ever for real, and Trump got played -- again. Kim and his minions are probably laughing it up over how dumb Trump is, and I have little doubt that many other world leaders are rolling their eyes at how easy it was for Kim to work Trump like this.