So, I have to leave my computer switched on for the entire night for Microsoft's convenience? Also, I might not want to install that particular update, what now?
My computer exists only to serve me and obey only me. End of story.
1. With public transport you have to plan your schedule around timetables. The car is always there when you need it, it never leaves without you and you never have to wait for it.
2. With public transport you are limited to you bag/backpack/purse/pockets. With car you can easily haul around a lot of stuff. That includes both your immediate needs (like bringing your groceries from shop to home, taking your training equipment from home to place of training, taking whole collection of board games for board game night to your friend's house, etc.) and just-in-case stuff you may want to carry around (I have in my trunk first aid kit, much bigger and more robust than the one required by law, change of clothes, set of basic tools, toothbrush and a couple of other things).
3. With public transport you can have no expectation of privacy or personal space, it's hard to hold a conversation and very often you have someone's smelly elbow in your face. In a car you have a guaranteed seat and you only ride with friends.
4. For many people main advantage of public transport is entertainment - you can read a book, play with you smartphone, listen to music. As someone who get motion sickness easily I'm limited only to music and that actually is much superior with decent car stereo compared to crappy earbuds in a crowded bus or train.
5. In public transport it's often too hot or too cold for my tastes. Obviously, other people are fine or have opposite opinion. That's because it's hard to set temperature to something that would please several dozen people. No such issue with a car - it's much easier to find compromise between 5 people, and in case that's too hard, the driver decides.
Now, I am not making a case here for abolishing public transport in favour of cars. Not everyone can or want to have one. In my opinion having various options to choose from is the best scenario. But you asked for "single reason why mass transit isn't equally good to get you to the general place" and I gave you five to choose from.
I don't know about USSR itself, but I know several people who served in satellite state militaries and they all had the same story to tell: aside from "Potemkin Villages" units almost nothing worked, and if something did it was immediately stolen or cannibalized for parts.
Double so for stuff manufactured beyond the Iron Curtain. Depending on alcohol consumption by workers in any factory in USSR you could get a product that falls apart during unpacking or something people passed to their grandkids in perfect working condition.
But most single-use diapers I've seen were coated with some water-proof polymers, I assume they don't go away as quickly. But I digress. I only came to say HEAVY METAL WILL LAST FOREVER! \m/ \m/
Hold your head up high
Raise your fist up in the air
Play metal louder than hell
Louder than hell
They can't stop us
Let 'em try
For heavy metal
We would die!
The very EXISTENCE of your US Army created long term, stable peace here in Europe for three generations, which is pretty much a record.
While I do know that your soldiers were engaged in a lot of crappy activities, in general I have great respect for members of American armed forces. They are risking life and limb not just for their country, but for my ass as well and after all is said and done, they make the world a better place. And I thank them for that.
Nope, it's not a magic bullet. Where I live higher education is free. Here are the results:
1. For empty degrees you have 20-30 candidates per seat
2. For STEM (except Computer Science) you get 0.3 candidate per seat
3. For SC you get 2 candidates per seat.
4. Very few people go to trades
5. Burger flipping and entry level jobs require masters degree (in no particular field, it just serves as a proof that you can concentrate long enough to be useful)
6. Universities keep coming to the government for more money and usually get them, since "investing in education" brings voters
7. Students and teachers never see the money from #6, they all get siphoned by bureaucracy
8. Long gone are the days when people were actually educated in universities. Come in, punch clock, get degree, nobody has time for intellectual discussion.
The reality is, that it doesn't matter HOW you pay for education. Both models work as long as people make informed decisions, and both fall apart when they get fooled by smoke and mirrors.
You may want to rethink your point about needing to resort to wizardry. These days I see a lot of posts and comments detailing long and complex instructions for Windows on how to control updates, disable telemetry, or hack around one non-tested patch or another. And you need to keep up, since every other month MS changes things and old instructions are obsolete.
As for Linux... sure, for some obscure stuff, but not for basic OS functionality like updates.
I don't know. How many people were killed because of "Bible", "Quaran", "Communist Manifesto", "Mein Kampf", "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers"? I don't know, but I guess the number is rather substantial.
You can't kill someone with zeros and ones? How about hacking someone's pacemaker? Or swatting? Or running a smear campaign to drive someone to suicide? We're counting the days to the moment when it will be easier to kill someone with zeros and ones than with a firearm.
Are you sure? They say the quill is mightier than the sword. While guns are mightier than swords, electronic communication is mightier than a quill, so I suppose balance of power remains the same.
And the funniest thing is that a lot of MS fans will point to your answer and say "see? there is no problem with Windows", yet when you give them similar, CLI based, solution for Linux they point to it and say "see? this is the problem with Linux!"
Right now its Democrats, muslims, and women who need to worry, but in ten years it might be the opposite
This thread is all about guilt by association, so if women should be worried, so should anyone related to women. So if, for instance, your mother was a woman, beware!
By default you inherit all debt, or only up the value of assets?
Where I live when someone leaves you with a debt you have three options. Let's assume the spouse left with a house worth 1 000 000 and 2 000 000 in debt:
1. Take everything
2. Take all assets and debt up to the value of assets (the house and 1 000 000 of debt) - default option
3. Take nothing, everything goes to YOUR next of kin (as if you were dead as well), who has to make the same decision
That's true, though a lot of Chinese casualties were result of infighting between different fractions. Nevertheless you're right, I failed to appreciate their effort. Once again, war against Japan was a joint effort and neither Chinese alone nor Americans alone would have succeeded.
While I have no intention of taking sides in your inter-American quarrel, I feel the need to correct you, that if it wasn't for American help through lend-lease, Italian's screw-up in Africa, severe winter, Hitler's foolish decisions (mostly regarding logistics), and, most importantly, operation Overlord USSR would lose. Hell, they almost did regardless of the aforementioned factors. WW2 was a joint effort, nobody really "saved" anyone.
Also, you Americans did most of the work against Japan - if it wasn't for you, it is conceivable that sooner or later USSR would be fighting on two fronts and I doubt it would end up well. For that I tip my hat to you.
To use heavy term "destroyed" I would go back to The Deluge of Poland, 1655-1660, when they sacked nearly entire country and left former local superpower crushed and broken. After that they indeed tried hard for the next 50 years or so, but with less impressive effects. They ceased to be a military power somewhere in 1710s, when they lost badly to Russians.
The biggest problem with migrants to EU is that nobody has a clue what to do with them.
They just show up in a leaky boat with just clothes on their back (possibly smartphone in hand, but that's usually it), long after they get rid of anything that could identify them. No papers, no clue who they are. You say "send them where they came from", but where is it, exactly? You can't prove that they came from country X, so you can't send them there. They don't want to go back, nobody in Africa wants them back either, so EU is stuck with them.
As for Merkel she kinda backed herself into this corner: when migration crisis started she hoped to use to fix problem with Germany's ageing population. Birth rates among native Germans are way, way below replacement level, and their social security is a Ponzi scheme and requires constant grow of population. So she tried to get young, healthy migrants to fix the problem. And now, after telling everyone that accepting migrants is a good thing she can't just turn around and say the opposite.
It would be disingenuous to say that the plan failed completely - quite a lot of those migrants actually DO work, pay taxes and pay their share of the Ponzi scheme. I have no numbers to back this up, but I will hazard a guess, that on average migrants pay for themselves. Right wingers vastly overestimate the problems they cause. But left wingers refuse to even acknowledge that the problems exist in the first place, so nobody does anything to fix them.
In any case, Germany has more than enough migrants for now, Ponzi scheme is gonna work for the next couple of years... but more and more migrants are showing up and voters begin to worry.
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So, I have to leave my computer switched on for the entire night for Microsoft's convenience? Also, I might not want to install that particular update, what now?
My computer exists only to serve me and obey only me. End of story.
So, I've heard there is a guy building a home made rocket to go to space. Since flatearthers pay the bills he promises to prove Earth is flat.
So, how about we chip in, so he would knock this shit down while he's at it?
Yes, I never understood what people have against education.
More to the point, everything is better with heavy metal! \m/ \m/
Let's see:
1. With public transport you have to plan your schedule around timetables. The car is always there when you need it, it never leaves without you and you never have to wait for it.
2. With public transport you are limited to you bag/backpack/purse/pockets. With car you can easily haul around a lot of stuff. That includes both your immediate needs (like bringing your groceries from shop to home, taking your training equipment from home to place of training, taking whole collection of board games for board game night to your friend's house, etc.) and just-in-case stuff you may want to carry around (I have in my trunk first aid kit, much bigger and more robust than the one required by law, change of clothes, set of basic tools, toothbrush and a couple of other things).
3. With public transport you can have no expectation of privacy or personal space, it's hard to hold a conversation and very often you have someone's smelly elbow in your face. In a car you have a guaranteed seat and you only ride with friends.
4. For many people main advantage of public transport is entertainment - you can read a book, play with you smartphone, listen to music. As someone who get motion sickness easily I'm limited only to music and that actually is much superior with decent car stereo compared to crappy earbuds in a crowded bus or train.
5. In public transport it's often too hot or too cold for my tastes. Obviously, other people are fine or have opposite opinion. That's because it's hard to set temperature to something that would please several dozen people. No such issue with a car - it's much easier to find compromise between 5 people, and in case that's too hard, the driver decides.
Now, I am not making a case here for abolishing public transport in favour of cars. Not everyone can or want to have one. In my opinion having various options to choose from is the best scenario. But you asked for "single reason why mass transit isn't equally good to get you to the general place" and I gave you five to choose from.
I don't know about USSR itself, but I know several people who served in satellite state militaries and they all had the same story to tell: aside from "Potemkin Villages" units almost nothing worked, and if something did it was immediately stolen or cannibalized for parts.
Double so for stuff manufactured beyond the Iron Curtain. Depending on alcohol consumption by workers in any factory in USSR you could get a product that falls apart during unpacking or something people passed to their grandkids in perfect working condition.
But most single-use diapers I've seen were coated with some water-proof polymers, I assume they don't go away as quickly. But I digress. I only came to say HEAVY METAL WILL LAST FOREVER! \m/ \m/
Hold your head up high
Raise your fist up in the air
Play metal louder than hell
Louder than hell
They can't stop us
Let 'em try
For heavy metal
We would die!
The very EXISTENCE of your US Army created long term, stable peace here in Europe for three generations, which is pretty much a record.
While I do know that your soldiers were engaged in a lot of crappy activities, in general I have great respect for members of American armed forces. They are risking life and limb not just for their country, but for my ass as well and after all is said and done, they make the world a better place. And I thank them for that.
Nope, it's not a magic bullet. Where I live higher education is free. Here are the results:
1. For empty degrees you have 20-30 candidates per seat
2. For STEM (except Computer Science) you get 0.3 candidate per seat
3. For SC you get 2 candidates per seat.
4. Very few people go to trades
5. Burger flipping and entry level jobs require masters degree (in no particular field, it just serves as a proof that you can concentrate long enough to be useful)
6. Universities keep coming to the government for more money and usually get them, since "investing in education" brings voters
7. Students and teachers never see the money from #6, they all get siphoned by bureaucracy
8. Long gone are the days when people were actually educated in universities. Come in, punch clock, get degree, nobody has time for intellectual discussion.
The reality is, that it doesn't matter HOW you pay for education. Both models work as long as people make informed decisions, and both fall apart when they get fooled by smoke and mirrors.
You may want to rethink your point about needing to resort to wizardry. These days I see a lot of posts and comments detailing long and complex instructions for Windows on how to control updates, disable telemetry, or hack around one non-tested patch or another. And you need to keep up, since every other month MS changes things and old instructions are obsolete.
As for Linux... sure, for some obscure stuff, but not for basic OS functionality like updates.
I don't know. How many people were killed because of "Bible", "Quaran", "Communist Manifesto", "Mein Kampf", "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers"? I don't know, but I guess the number is rather substantial.
You can't kill someone with zeros and ones? How about hacking someone's pacemaker? Or swatting? Or running a smear campaign to drive someone to suicide? We're counting the days to the moment when it will be easier to kill someone with zeros and ones than with a firearm.
Are you sure? They say the quill is mightier than the sword. While guns are mightier than swords, electronic communication is mightier than a quill, so I suppose balance of power remains the same.
And the funniest thing is that a lot of MS fans will point to your answer and say "see? there is no problem with Windows", yet when you give them similar, CLI based, solution for Linux they point to it and say "see? this is the problem with Linux!"
Right now its Democrats, muslims, and women who need to worry, but in ten years it might be the opposite
This thread is all about guilt by association, so if women should be worried, so should anyone related to women. So if, for instance, your mother was a woman, beware!
By default you inherit all debt, or only up the value of assets?
Where I live when someone leaves you with a debt you have three options. Let's assume the spouse left with a house worth 1 000 000 and 2 000 000 in debt:
1. Take everything
2. Take all assets and debt up to the value of assets (the house and 1 000 000 of debt) - default option
3. Take nothing, everything goes to YOUR next of kin (as if you were dead as well), who has to make the same decision
Which one is default in Germany?
True, as long as you know in advance all potential template arguments and put all permutations in source file.
Actually my fist usage of templates in production code was like that.
That's true, though a lot of Chinese casualties were result of infighting between different fractions. Nevertheless you're right, I failed to appreciate their effort. Once again, war against Japan was a joint effort and neither Chinese alone nor Americans alone would have succeeded.
Better yet:
1. Make obviously fake video
2. Upload it under name of a person you want to swat
3. Have that person't life destroyed
I wasn't there so I'm no one to judge, but there was also third option: honk to let the lorry driver know you're there.
While I have no intention of taking sides in your inter-American quarrel, I feel the need to correct you, that if it wasn't for American help through lend-lease, Italian's screw-up in Africa, severe winter, Hitler's foolish decisions (mostly regarding logistics), and, most importantly, operation Overlord USSR would lose. Hell, they almost did regardless of the aforementioned factors. WW2 was a joint effort, nobody really "saved" anyone.
Also, you Americans did most of the work against Japan - if it wasn't for you, it is conceivable that sooner or later USSR would be fighting on two fronts and I doubt it would end up well. For that I tip my hat to you.
To use heavy term "destroyed" I would go back to The Deluge of Poland, 1655-1660, when they sacked nearly entire country and left former local superpower crushed and broken. After that they indeed tried hard for the next 50 years or so, but with less impressive effects. They ceased to be a military power somewhere in 1710s, when they lost badly to Russians.
Freedom of movement of people, goods and services is literally the greatest thing about EU. Why do you want deny it to some people?
And to what ends will you go to keep them in their assigned country? Would violence be acceptable? Lethal force?
What about the children born in EU? Do they get to travel around, or are they forever condemned to whatever camp you assigned them to?
The biggest problem with migrants to EU is that nobody has a clue what to do with them.
They just show up in a leaky boat with just clothes on their back (possibly smartphone in hand, but that's usually it), long after they get rid of anything that could identify them. No papers, no clue who they are. You say "send them where they came from", but where is it, exactly? You can't prove that they came from country X, so you can't send them there. They don't want to go back, nobody in Africa wants them back either, so EU is stuck with them.
As for Merkel she kinda backed herself into this corner: when migration crisis started she hoped to use to fix problem with Germany's ageing population. Birth rates among native Germans are way, way below replacement level, and their social security is a Ponzi scheme and requires constant grow of population. So she tried to get young, healthy migrants to fix the problem. And now, after telling everyone that accepting migrants is a good thing she can't just turn around and say the opposite.
It would be disingenuous to say that the plan failed completely - quite a lot of those migrants actually DO work, pay taxes and pay their share of the Ponzi scheme. I have no numbers to back this up, but I will hazard a guess, that on average migrants pay for themselves. Right wingers vastly overestimate the problems they cause. But left wingers refuse to even acknowledge that the problems exist in the first place, so nobody does anything to fix them.
In any case, Germany has more than enough migrants for now, Ponzi scheme is gonna work for the next couple of years... but more and more migrants are showing up and voters begin to worry.