1: Manually. 2: Manually 3: Who cares, it's a WATCH, not a BAROMETER. 4: Who cares. It's a WATCH, not a smartphone. 5: No it doesn't. Know what else it doesn't do? Become expensive, useless junk after 5 years when the company ceases support. 6: Know what else it CAN do? BE SERVICED pretty much FOREVER, by any competent watchmaker.
Sure. You trust that it isn't on some server being run out of a communal basement someplace. And you trust that the people on the other end know what they're doing.
Sorry, I don't trust.
Also, in cases of downtime, I prefer to have local access to the data. Not have to wait on a call back while they wank for a couple of hours trying to figure out what they broke.
When they saw that they were going to be forced into extortionware like this, they essentially told Adobe to fuck the hell off.
Sure, very well-to-do companies can afford perpetual payments.
But smaller creators who still need access scrimp and save and simply buy a copy of CS5 or CS6 when they can find it.
Sure, up front it's more. But ammortize it out over time.
CS6 was released in mid-2011. Coming up on 7 years here. It was discontinued in late 2013.
Even if it was $1000 (which it wasn't) at inception, that's basically be just under $12/month ownership cost at this point. Or you could have been spending $20/month for Photoshop CC since mid 2013 (about $1200). Hell, the bastards don't even cut you any kind of financial break for prepaying for a year! And god help you if you want to pay month-to-month instead of an annual contract that's paid monthly. Tack an extra $10/month on!
Wish someone at the federal level remembered "the other side won, they get to govern".
The problem is, a couple densely populated areas are steering the entire state. Worse, the extant government are pushing policies that actively violate their constituency's rights and apparently trying to start an all out war with the federal government because they didn't get their way in the last election.
I can understand why a LOT of people in the start are actively trying to divorce themselves from that.
And with wave power, we're not talking about "boat docks". We're talking about mechanical systems that have to survive in a living marine environment. Ask the US Navy about how hard it is keeping submersible equipment functioning in that sort of environment.
The reason I discount wave generation is the cost to build the generators to marine standards is exorbitant (pretty much on par with building things to aerospace standards).
The problem is, carrier-scale Hydro is a no-go in the US. They've already passed peak Hydro. And while micro-hydro will make up SOME difference, it won't make up THAT much.
Police and fire departments are NOT the same thing as having a portion of the money taken from me to house, clothe and feed a bunch of freeloaders in idle "luxury". And you KNOW this.
As has been pointed out, Nierd reworded it from "A portion of the population" to the blanket statement of "people".
As for people opting to do nothing, and pointing out "trust fund kids". The CRITICAL difference there is that you and I are not having money taken from OUR earnings to support them.
"We should be asking different questions".
Why? We already have the basic answer from extant welfare programs.
I don't care about "the real goal of society". I simply resent having a portion of what I earn taken by the government and redistributed to people who have no intention of working, and whose only "productivity" is measured int he amount of kids that they produce.
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Good sir! I admire the cut of your jib!
Seriously. All these people can do is scream "We're fucked and it's YOUR fault!" and come up with ever crazier "examples".
They keep telling us our ONLY two options are global warming or an ice age.
Which is patent bullshit.
We ALREADY have the tech to crack and/or sequester carbon. It isn't "simple", and takes an assload of power, but we can do it.
But nope! "WE"RE FUCK AND IT'S YOUR FAULT!"
I'm done with this shit. These people can go eat a dick.
Is why I don't bother with live venues anymore.
Between the assholes in the audience and the assholes on stage...
Not sure what happened to "just come in, be a decent person and enjoy the scene".
So fuck them all. NONE of them get a cent of my money.
1: Manually.
2: Manually
3: Who cares, it's a WATCH, not a BAROMETER.
4: Who cares. It's a WATCH, not a smartphone.
5: No it doesn't. Know what else it doesn't do? Become expensive, useless junk after 5 years when the company ceases support.
6: Know what else it CAN do? BE SERVICED pretty much FOREVER, by any competent watchmaker.
That's Fitbit rendering your $150-300 smart watch a useless piece of electronic junk.
Shoulda bought a Timex mechanical. Woulda lasted longer.
Direct sequestration of CO2?
All that's required is a nuclear plant and access to water.
Pumping CO2 into volcanic rock to create limestone?
Or any of how many other technologies?
Sure. You trust that it isn't on some server being run out of a communal basement someplace.
And you trust that the people on the other end know what they're doing.
Sorry, I don't trust.
Also, in cases of downtime, I prefer to have local access to the data.
Not have to wait on a call back while they wank for a couple of hours trying to figure out what they broke.
When they saw that they were going to be forced into extortionware like this, they essentially told Adobe to fuck the hell off.
Sure, very well-to-do companies can afford perpetual payments.
But smaller creators who still need access scrimp and save and simply buy a copy of CS5 or CS6 when they can find it.
Sure, up front it's more. But ammortize it out over time.
CS6 was released in mid-2011. Coming up on 7 years here.
It was discontinued in late 2013.
Even if it was $1000 (which it wasn't) at inception, that's basically be just under $12/month ownership cost at this point.
Or you could have been spending $20/month for Photoshop CC since mid 2013 (about $1200).
Hell, the bastards don't even cut you any kind of financial break for prepaying for a year!
And god help you if you want to pay month-to-month instead of an annual contract that's paid monthly. Tack an extra $10/month on!
Fuck extortionware.
Yes! I can see THIS ending well!
*Facepalm*
The fuck it isn't.
Money is being pulled out of these people's pockets to pay for things they do not support in any way, shape or form.
Taxation without representation?
Basic freedoms being abridged to appease political ideologues?
30 years of uncontrolled immigration can (and have) thoroughly changed the voter composition in the state...
Wish someone at the federal level remembered "the other side won, they get to govern".
The problem is, a couple densely populated areas are steering the entire state.
Worse, the extant government are pushing policies that actively violate their constituency's rights and apparently trying to start an all out war with the federal government because they didn't get their way in the last election.
I can understand why a LOT of people in the start are actively trying to divorce themselves from that.
Do not put it on the internet.
Once it's on the Internet, you have no control over what's done with it.
I said "discount", not "eliminate".
And with wave power, we're not talking about "boat docks". We're talking about mechanical systems that have to survive in a living marine environment.
Ask the US Navy about how hard it is keeping submersible equipment functioning in that sort of environment.
Because I'll be damned if I trust my safety to a driverless vehicle.
The reason I discount wave generation is the cost to build the generators to marine standards is exorbitant (pretty much on par with building things to aerospace standards).
Yet you're talking the time to comment on it now.
If you want to ignore it, ignore it. But be honest about what you're doing.
The problem is, carrier-scale Hydro is a no-go in the US. They've already passed peak Hydro. And while micro-hydro will make up SOME difference, it won't make up THAT much.
If you're unable to rebut it effectively, how much trust should we have in your opinion that it's "crap"?
Hint: NONE!
"Wow, please learn to read, and then do so."
Not an argument.
No it doesn't.
You know what throws doubt on his stats?
Actively PROVING the math wrong. Or that the data was misapplied.
Not that the researcher simply had a hypothesis you don't like.
"And no I'm not going to buy his book just to debunk him."
Then you're talking out your ass.
End of discussion.
Police and fire departments are NOT the same thing as having a portion of the money taken from me to house, clothe and feed a bunch of freeloaders in idle "luxury".
And you KNOW this.
You're simply being disingenuous.
Anecdotes don't make it a "100% lie".
As has been pointed out, Nierd reworded it from "A portion of the population" to the blanket statement of "people".
As for people opting to do nothing, and pointing out "trust fund kids".
The CRITICAL difference there is that you and I are not having money taken from OUR earnings to support them.
"We should be asking different questions".
Why? We already have the basic answer from extant welfare programs.
I don't care about "the real goal of society". I simply resent having a portion of what I earn taken by the government and redistributed to people who have no intention of working, and whose only "productivity" is measured int he amount of kids that they produce.
Yeah looking at it now. Maryland apparently passed something last year allowing felons to run for US senate...
B.O.H.I.C.A.
Giving someone money for nothing IS WELFARE.
END OF STORY.