The sooner Tesla breaks open this idiotic "members only" crap, the better.
I'm not saying dealers don't provide a valuable service. Or that they didn't provide protections to consumers at one time. The fact is, one angry consumer, TODAY, has orders of magnitude more power to make an automaker acknowledge a grievance than we EVER had in the past.
One nasty little YouTube video can, potentially, reach millions of consumers.
Wheras 80 years ago, if Joe Blow in Podunk, Idaho got shafted, what was he gonna do? Drive to Detroit and crash the gates?
Basically everyone who's not a government official in the country needs three things.
Food, water, air.
Everything else is a "luxury item" and the government's committed to taxing people until they can no longer afford anything but the basic three things.
In the context of the quote "birth" isn't talking about childbirth. It's talking about the idea of inception as a classification (in this case, a "sucker").
Apple can't read your e-mail. Apple can't access your files in the cloud. Apple can't unlock phones.
Yet they've done it in the past. Why on earth should we believe that they still don't have the capability to do so now? Just because they give us their word?
HA!
Forgive me if I believe this to be bullshit of the highest order.
Yeah. Unfortunately they're my only even remotely viable option.
I'll have to move if I want anything else.
A couple years back, my landlord booted Comcast and brought in some fly-by-night Satellite/DSL reseller (Suite Solutions).
Comcast kept them tied up in court for about a year but ultimately lost.
So I jumped to Clearwire. It was okay for web browsing and light gaming. But I also need my connection for an IP phone and the connection quality just wasn't there. (The nearest tower to me is north and east, I live on the SW facing of my building, so even when I FORCED my modem to connect to the nearer tower, I'd DC about 15-30 minutes later and come back up on the tower 4 miles south of me, getting 1 bar. Imagine a phone call where you only get every third or fourth syllable. That's what my call quality was.)
I'm in a valley, so LOS wireless isn't an option. I can't install any hardware on the building either.
So I'm stuck with crappy AT&T DSL or paying those jackasses at Suite Solutions to resell me one of AT&T's shittier, older lines for $5 more a month.
This assumes that the large telecoms (like AT&T) are going to bargain on an equal basis with their customers.
Anyone with even a shred of sanity will laugh themselves silly over the notion.
The Net Neutrality movement is a collective bargaining tool. Because individuals have exactly ZERO power to influence their telcom provider. And AT&T KNOWS this. Keeping people as individuals in this instance allows them to hide their malfeasance.
Moreover, even if they had any intention of playing the prioritization straight, they're going to try to put a per-MB/GB price structure into place.
This offer should be given the "fuck off" it deserves.
"If 'thousands' of USPTO employees were not doing their work, it would be impossible for this agency to be producing the best performance in recent memory and, perhaps, in its entire 224 year history."
No. No it wouldn't. Because you get behavior like this. Where they aren't actually looking at what they're SUPPOSED to be researching. They're, at best, skimming and passing it along, which takes minimal to no effort.
Basically every idiot in this country would now, gleefully, throw away his rights and sell his immortal soul for the (false) promises of "safety" and "security".
Spoken by someone that's never been to Reno, NV in the winter time. Average snowfall is two feet. You Googled some info for your rant but not enough. I am guessing you work for the coal industry?
Do yourself a favor and pull off the tinfoil hat kid.
And that's average snowfall over the entire year. Or an average of 2 inches a month.
There are some MONTHS (hell, in some storms, single DAYS) where a place like Chicago, Detroit, etc sees that much or more.
Your right. We should just quit trying and listen to your ideas...........I'm tired of hearing "we can only produce 40% of the power we need not 100% so this idea sucks.
Totally not what I said.
I said that there are places where this simply doesn't make sense. Either for logistical and/or economic reasons.
YOU added the "so we should never do it" sentiment.
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The sooner Tesla breaks open this idiotic "members only" crap, the better.
I'm not saying dealers don't provide a valuable service. Or that they didn't provide protections to consumers at one time.
The fact is, one angry consumer, TODAY, has orders of magnitude more power to make an automaker acknowledge a grievance than we EVER had in the past.
One nasty little YouTube video can, potentially, reach millions of consumers.
Wheras 80 years ago, if Joe Blow in Podunk, Idaho got shafted, what was he gonna do? Drive to Detroit and crash the gates?
It's already been a few years.
Yes. AND?
Do people exposed to HIV immediately begin developing non-hodgkins lymphomas and a completely compromised immune system?
No.
Has this person POSSIBLY extended their life? Maybe.
But going "It's been X years, he's clear!" with something like HIV is a dangerous precedent.
I know they are pronouncing him "cured".
That's the funny thing about diseases like HIV.
The simple fact is, it may STILL be in his system. Just, currently, in quantities far too low to be detected.
But, give it a couple years. And out of his blood/bone marrow/organs, it'll come. And it'll multiply into life threatening numbers again.
If it bent to the left, that'd be a bit...sinister.
Basically everyone who's not a government official in the country needs one thing.
air.
Everything else is a "luxury item" and the government's committed to taxing people until they can no longer afford anything but the basic one thing.
FTFY
I stand ashamed, but corrected.
Basically everyone who's not a government official in the country needs three things.
Food, water, air.
Everything else is a "luxury item" and the government's committed to taxing people until they can no longer afford anything but the basic three things.
Yeah. Not a good day to be in the Apple camp.
The problem with building endless hype?
It puts you in a giant, high-candle spotlight.
That makes this sort of crash and burn stand out even more starkly.
Fair? HAHAHA! You MUST be new!
*Tech reviewer goes back to slobbing the Apple knob*
Wow.
From a +5, Funny to -1, Troll. All for a joke.
I take it I chapped SOMEONE'S ass.
In the context of the quote "birth" isn't talking about childbirth. It's talking about the idea of inception as a classification (in this case, a "sucker").
Simple English 101 here.
There's a sucker born every minute.
-- Misattributed to P.T. Barnum
3 days
3x24=72 hours
72x60=4320 minutes
10,000,000/4320=2314.814814814815 suckers/minute
M2PTB was a pessimist.
By this mechanic, there are 38.58024691358025 suckers/second ( or about 3.858024691358025 suckers/decisecond).
Pretty much this.
The points he addresses have nothing to do with age and everything to do with "quality of life".
So, if we could, somehow, manage to prolong life *AND* maintain quality of life, great!
Otherwise, yes, growing decrepit, feeble-witted, etc and wishing for an end is something people have realized for a long, long time now.
Like the myth of Tithonus
Oh joy.
Instead of linking to multiple articles, we just see endless links to the HH blurb.
This is it; write once run anywhere has finally arrived.
Nononono. As always. "Write Once, Beta Everywhere".
We keep telling you. Over and over again.
STOP USING WINDOWS!
But do you listen?
OH NOOOOO!
I dunno.
As a teetotaler, I simply don't give a damn.
Apple can't read your e-mail.
Apple can't access your files in the cloud.
Apple can't unlock phones.
Yet they've done it in the past.
Why on earth should we believe that they still don't have the capability to do so now?
Just because they give us their word?
HA!
Forgive me if I believe this to be bullshit of the highest order.
Yeah. Unfortunately they're my only even remotely viable option.
I'll have to move if I want anything else.
A couple years back, my landlord booted Comcast and brought in some fly-by-night Satellite/DSL reseller (Suite Solutions).
Comcast kept them tied up in court for about a year but ultimately lost.
So I jumped to Clearwire. It was okay for web browsing and light gaming. But I also need my connection for an IP phone and the connection quality just wasn't there. (The nearest tower to me is north and east, I live on the SW facing of my building, so even when I FORCED my modem to connect to the nearer tower, I'd DC about 15-30 minutes later and come back up on the tower 4 miles south of me, getting 1 bar. Imagine a phone call where you only get every third or fourth syllable. That's what my call quality was.)
I'm in a valley, so LOS wireless isn't an option. I can't install any hardware on the building either.
So I'm stuck with crappy AT&T DSL or paying those jackasses at Suite Solutions to resell me one of AT&T's shittier, older lines for $5 more a month.
This assumes that the large telecoms (like AT&T) are going to bargain on an equal basis with their customers.
Anyone with even a shred of sanity will laugh themselves silly over the notion.
The Net Neutrality movement is a collective bargaining tool. Because individuals have exactly ZERO power to influence their telcom provider. And AT&T KNOWS this. Keeping people as individuals in this instance allows them to hide their malfeasance.
Moreover, even if they had any intention of playing the prioritization straight, they're going to try to put a per-MB/GB price structure into place.
This offer should be given the "fuck off" it deserves.
Now if only someone would exhaustively search out HER e-mails.
"If 'thousands' of USPTO employees were not doing their work, it would be impossible for this agency to be producing the best performance in recent memory and, perhaps, in its entire 224 year history."
No. No it wouldn't. Because you get behavior like this. Where they aren't actually looking at what they're SUPPOSED to be researching. They're, at best, skimming and passing it along, which takes minimal to no effort.
Basically every idiot in this country would now, gleefully, throw away his rights and sell his immortal soul for the (false) promises of "safety" and "security".
Ah. The "I made a claim, you can waste time and try to Google it for me."
And this is why you're posting AC.
Spoken by someone that's never been to Reno, NV in the winter time. Average snowfall is two feet. You Googled some info for your rant but not enough. I am guessing you work for the coal industry?
Do yourself a favor and pull off the tinfoil hat kid.
And that's average snowfall over the entire year. Or an average of 2 inches a month.
There are some MONTHS (hell, in some storms, single DAYS) where a place like Chicago, Detroit, etc sees that much or more.
Your right. We should just quit trying and listen to your ideas...........I'm tired of hearing "we can only produce 40% of the power we need not 100% so this idea sucks.
Totally not what I said.
I said that there are places where this simply doesn't make sense. Either for logistical and/or economic reasons.
YOU added the "so we should never do it" sentiment.