YouTube? This is about tv programs. There's absolutely nothing (legally) on YouTube that's as well executed as the poorest TV shows. Or am I somehow missing a YouTube version of Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Quarry, Luke Cage.... ?
Not that I know of. But I've seen YouTube stuff that's probably as good as 90% of the stuff on TV. That says a lot more about the stuff on TV than it does about YouTube.
I don't know how they're doing, but I can't think of a single show I watch on NBC or ABC. I do watch 60 Minutes on CBS, if they don't postpone it for sports. Everything else is cable, Netflix, and maybe Youtube.
Even autocrats have to be careful. Piss off too many of your people, and you're in deep shit. And crashing your own economy will piss off a lot of people, and some of them will have a lot more power than the average peasant.
Time it. Time how long it takes to pull off, put your card into the machine, watch it fumble around and ask you for a zipcode or a pin or whatever (or however long you have to stand in line), and all the other shit before you're back on the road.
I have. It takes about 3-5 minutes to fill my car, empty my bladder, and buy eats & drinks. Even when I hit a long line, it's well under 15.
Sounds like you need to take better care of yourself. I'm 38 and I have all my hair (and still it's original color). I don't have daily pain, I'm not overweight, nothing creaks. My teeth are in great shape.
Some is genetics, but a lot of it is daily exercise and being very careful with what I eat.
I'm in my mid 50s. My few remaining hairs are grey, and I'm not likely to win any foot-races, but no pain, I'm slimmer than I was at 40, and have most of my teeth (soda addiction hurts me there). Certainly genetics (mom's alive & kicking at 82, aunt's not kicking but at least alive at 97!), but also exercise, and few harmful vices (other than the damn soda).
I get that they don't want to turn off the phone because some people may not have access to another phone to call for emergency services, but how are those people going to call for emergency services when their Galaxy Note 7 starts a house fire?
I don't think I'd continue a regular 40 hour a week job. OTOH, I wouldn't want to sit on my butt all day either. Maybe I'd do some kind of freelance stuff, whenever I got bored, and take a break when I wanted to.
When I get home from work, I plop in my chair and veg out. I've done that for as long as I've had a job to get home from. But I'm not doing the same crap. I went from watching Primetime crap to watching non-primetime crap on the DVR, to watching Netflix. Just because I'm doing some form of mindless entertainment doesn't mean it will be Netflix. If their content drops enough, there's Hulu, or if not that, something else.
Right now, my TV is split. I have quite a few show on regular TV that I watch. I also have Netflix & Hulu. I don't plan to drop any now, but right now Netflix is the least watched of the 3.
^This, this, this!!! I never quite cut the cord over it, but I found non-primetime stuff to record, shouted at Bill O-Reiley, and pfutzed around on the internet. Currently, there are more non-reality shows on, but the damage is done, they have to lure from the other stuff, when they once had me by default.
My mom gets by just fine without the internet. Which means, she's always asking me to order stuff for her, or set up an email so she can get some discount.:p
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YouTube? This is about tv programs. There's absolutely nothing (legally) on YouTube that's as well executed as the poorest TV shows. Or am I somehow missing a YouTube version of Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Quarry, Luke Cage.... ?
Not that I know of. But I've seen YouTube stuff that's probably as good as 90% of the stuff on TV. That says a lot more about the stuff on TV than it does about YouTube.
I don't know how they're doing, but I can't think of a single show I watch on NBC or ABC. I do watch 60 Minutes on CBS, if they don't postpone it for sports. Everything else is cable, Netflix, and maybe Youtube.
I'm looking forward to automation replacing the CEOs. That should happen shortly before the lawyers.
Education for its own sake is fine - if you're rich. For the rest of us, if we pay 100K for it, we expect a payout.
Even autocrats have to be careful. Piss off too many of your people, and you're in deep shit. And crashing your own economy will piss off a lot of people, and some of them will have a lot more power than the average peasant.
Assuming you don't get mugged for the laptop. I wouldn't be comfortable with anything beyond a cheap Chromebook on the buses I used to take.
But, if people keep getting fatter, and phones keep getting thinner, what happens to the people who put their phone in the rear pocket?
So, all those people from 50-61 are screwed?
Many of which would also fuck themselves.
The crooks in my area would probably steal the doorbell.
So who can afford a Tesla but not a phone?
This is 100% fair.
After buying a Tesla, I wouldn't have enough left to afford a phone.
Time it. Time how long it takes to pull off, put your card into the machine, watch it fumble around and ask you for a zipcode or a pin or whatever (or however long you have to stand in line), and all the other shit before you're back on the road.
I have. It takes about 3-5 minutes to fill my car, empty my bladder, and buy eats & drinks. Even when I hit a long line, it's well under 15.
I've been there. I really was invaluable to a project. However that project wasn't as invaluable as I'd been told.
Sounds like you need to take better care of yourself. I'm 38 and I have all my hair (and still it's original color). I don't have daily pain, I'm not overweight, nothing creaks. My teeth are in great shape.
Some is genetics, but a lot of it is daily exercise and being very careful with what I eat.
I'm in my mid 50s. My few remaining hairs are grey, and I'm not likely to win any foot-races, but no pain, I'm slimmer than I was at 40, and have most of my teeth (soda addiction hurts me there). Certainly genetics (mom's alive & kicking at 82, aunt's not kicking but at least alive at 97!), but also exercise, and few harmful vices (other than the damn soda).
I get that they don't want to turn off the phone because some people may not have access to another phone to call for emergency services, but how are those people going to call for emergency services when their Galaxy Note 7 starts a house fire?
Fireproof gloves?
Not necessarily. I've never had a pet, but the one I "borrow" died long before social media. No way they'll find its name there.
I don't think I'd continue a regular 40 hour a week job. OTOH, I wouldn't want to sit on my butt all day either. Maybe I'd do some kind of freelance stuff, whenever I got bored, and take a break when I wanted to.
Right now, I'm healthy. Will I still be healthy in 10 years? 20? 30??
Both my friends are deadbeats. :(
Yup! I was going to post something truly insightful, but couldn't get on. Now I forget what I was going to say.
When I get home from work, I plop in my chair and veg out. I've done that for as long as I've had a job to get home from. But I'm not doing the same crap. I went from watching Primetime crap to watching non-primetime crap on the DVR, to watching Netflix. Just because I'm doing some form of mindless entertainment doesn't mean it will be Netflix. If their content drops enough, there's Hulu, or if not that, something else.
Right now, my TV is split. I have quite a few show on regular TV that I watch. I also have Netflix & Hulu. I don't plan to drop any now, but right now Netflix is the least watched of the 3.
^This, this, this!!! I never quite cut the cord over it, but I found non-primetime stuff to record, shouted at Bill O-Reiley, and pfutzed around on the internet. Currently, there are more non-reality shows on, but the damage is done, they have to lure from the other stuff, when they once had me by default.
My mom gets by just fine without the internet. Which means, she's always asking me to order stuff for her, or set up an email so she can get some discount. :p
Yeah, at this point it should be clear that this is false. Obviously, Hilary's child pr0n operation is somewhere else.