I may give Jaybird a look-over, but I doubt they'll do it for me based on first glance. I have some binaural stuff, but they just don't have the "pull it out of your jeans 5th pocket and use it" simplicity.
I built this thing shortly before Ryzen came out. It is a AMD 4 GHz FX-8370 per my order history, and per Wikipedia was release 2014-09-02. (I built it in December thank you very much).
That same Mac is still on sale in the same config today and it's still about $10,000 and still pretty close to the best Mac Pro you can buy.
I'm running a consumer AMD CPU which only sort of has 8 cores since it has 4 floating points against a Xeon monster system.
That Mac has dual Radeon GPUs. I only had one graphics card in the one that costs $8,500 less.
It's the culture of the cultist that's the issue. For our "want a Mac because it's stylish" people I want them to try an ASUS Zenbook, for the "I want a Mac because I need creative power" I want to either build one or have them try an Alienware laptop. Any which way the company saves thousands in hardware cost, the equipment performs better, and they get something sleek.
I've had to get some Magma or Lava or whatever it was PCIe boxes for our Mac people so they could still connect to the SAN and use a Black Magic card or two. They work rather well, but I would rather the new Mac Pro's still be "cheese graters" with a Thunderbolt upgrade than a little tube with no slots.
I am not an Adobe fan. In fact I really despise Adobe's attention whoring - Acrobat reader has NEVER needed as much attention as it demands during the more than 20 years I've been doing this for a living. Their cloud apps are pretty much the industry standard, but I personally am not married to them. That being said even though I prefer the Gimp to Photoshop I don't do this for a living.
Creative Cloud is one of the best things to happen to my company (even though I hate it).
Before Creative Cloud the I.T. Department had a stack of disks for each department. The people in this department have this version of these programs, the people in that department have another version, and the interns are on the oldest stuff we have laying around. Management would NEVER approve an across the board upgrade. When one department got approved for a newer version it would allow certain others to bump up to their leftovers, assuming the ones that upgraded weren't already the ones on the oldest crap.
Version differences created a bit of a nightmare when it came to moving projects between departments. Keeping track of licensing was a nightmare, keeping track of all the keys and media was a bit of a nightmare.
If I was doing this sort of work I would use the Gimp, Kdenlive, Audacity, Blender, etc.... I don't do this for a living. Yes I think we could probably train people to use all this free stuff and not have to worry about licensing, but really we would have to train computer people to do creative or teach creative people to be computer people. Using Adobe as much as I hate dealing with Adobe allows creative people to do creative.
I think of Creative Cloud as "Steam for Hipsters". I also like the fact that I don't have to purchase each piece separately for each user, i can simply chose "Full Cloud" or "Acrobat" for the office monkeys. (a lot of the office monkeys are still on really old copies of Acrobat Pro we have on disk)
Industry used to be incredibly hostile towards Linux. I've seen a change in that. I've seen companies that had their MCSE's of 20 years ago who declared we will never allow a Linux anything in this building" get pushed aside and allowed Linux - even if it's only as the hyper-visor for a server running Windows VM's. I spent nearly eight years at NASA, I helped to decommission a lot of the SUN, HPUX, and SGI stuff and replace it with Red Hat (not my call). I was told by more than one person who had been there longer than me there had been a past declaration that Linux would never be allowed in there. Even Microsoft is allowing you to basically install Linux inside of Windows these days. I have to disagree with you on that point.
If you actually do get a graphic amplifier let me know how it goes. I'm pushing the concept to get approval to get one for a trial run I haven't played with it personally. Sometime I have to set the bait out so I can get an okay to get hardware. Sadly this place is full of such cultist I don't care how many circles it can run around a Mac that costs more I'm not going to have any volunteers until I can get at least one or two people running them and can get some jealousy flowing through the ranks. I have a plan to get one - but I'm not sure I can make it happen.
That's the difference between working with cultist and tech people.
The I.T. department is full of tech people who use Macs the way you're talking about. The creatives are a bunch of cultist who cling to lock-in and love it.
(BTW, I love iTerm2. I started with something else that did a Quake style drop-down but that wasn't supported anymore an OS release or two ago, so it's a reasonable sub)
We have a $10,000 Mac up in our studio. It's about three years old, but it's fair to compare it to a system I just built because Apple hasn't really updates their line.
A guy in our digital department (not part of the studio) needed to do his own video editing and wanted a $6,000 Mac to do it on. He wanted a quad core system with plenty of RAM. The company isn't spending much money these days.
I explained to him how Adobe and Apple have sort of been at war for about ten years and don't like each other all that much these days. I explained that Windows 10 finally got "the bones right" and that unlike previous versions of Windows is pretty danged stable and reliable, and it performs well. I said this and I've been a MIcrosoft hater for two decades, but I can't deny it - even if I don't like the extra layers of spyware, advertising, and some user interface decisions. I explained he wasn't going to be able to spend $6,000 but I could build him more or less a gaming system.
We got approved to spend $1,500.
I built him a system based on an ASUS 970 Gaming Aura, a GeForce 1070 (the 1080 was just out of budget), 32 GB of RAM, a 500 GB SSD to boot to, a 1TB hybrid drive for \Users, and an 8 core Athlon CPU.
It outperforms that $10,000 Mac in the studio.
Fine - it doesn't have Thunderbolt - but it doesn't need it. What it does have that the Mac doesn't is PCIe slots which I think are better if you're only going to have one anyways.
If I were to have had a $2,500 budget it probably would have had Thunderbolt, along with SLI 1080's. Honestly for the type of video editing he did the graphics card didn't really need to be all that kick-ass, the CPU does a lot of the processing, but I like to overkill that stuff.
The user was very happy with it, and even asked me to remove the iMac he already had at his desk because he no longer used it.
I tell our Mac people all the time that they could do their job cheaper with better hardware if they switch to PC, but Mac is so ingrained in their culture they won't even talk about it most of the time. I knew the user I built the system for - he wasn't a cultist, he was a pragmatist with a job to do, when he wanted a new system it really made my day because I knew he would be open to me making a gaming system for him.
I'm trying to tempt some of them over - especially the laptop people - by showing off the Alienware Graphic Amplifier which is about the most bad-assed thing I've seen for a laptop.
I don't use iPhones, I have access to an iPad if I want one at work, but I found it to be incompatible with me. I don't hate them, I even carried an iPhone 3G way back in the past, which I gave up for the original HTC/Spring Evo and never looked back, but that's what feels right to me.
On the other hand I work at a company full of Apple Cultist. The iPhone is incredibly popular, most the users who don't have a Mac want a Mac and those who have a Mac want an upgrade. I use a Mac at work and sort of like it - but I think of it like using my KDE system, I've always got terminals up and I think cross platform UNLIKE most of the Mac users around here.
I just want to watch the entirety of the creative team freak out and have mini panic attacks over the ban. Most of them are unrealistic and blow things out of proportion when something like this happens. I just want to sit them down and explain the virtues of getting a Google Pixel, which is the Google equivalent to an iPhone and explain to them no their apps won't be able to transfer.
I think I read too many BOFH stories back in the day, and I like screwing with hipsters.....
There used to be some good premium Bluetooth headsets. Jawbone led the pack, BlueAnt had a good strong showing, and there were a couple of other also-rans that weren't so bad.
Jawbone is gone, BlueAnt's inventory is drying up and getting dated.
There's all sorts of stuff from China that's super cheap, and some of it isn't too bad, but there's nothing that reaches their reliability and has JawBone/BlueAnt noise cancellation. Motorola stuff has horrible background noise and it's actually painful for me to listen to when someone is using one on the other end. Jabra has gone desktop and never did have the noise cancellation down (but did have the most comfortable headset I ever wore). Plantronics, despite being known for indoor/desktop stuff is sort of stepping up to the plate. Still there's really nothing left that really fills the void being left by Jawbone.
I personally consider talking on the phone an annoyance I can't avoid. I work, drive, and do chores with my hands. I started using headsets back when the only really good option was a Jabra with a wire, I even figured out how to integrate that wire and headset into my clothing so I never had to stop doing what I needed to get done for a phone call. Before that even as a teen I got a headset for my normal wired phone so I could keep doing what I needed to do.
I'm really going to miss Jawbone for headsets. I don't think the fitness band was a bad idea, but the company shifting focus to it probably wasn't the greatest move they made. They should have focused on making cheaper but still high quality headsets, maybe even going binaural so the music people could get their fix. Had Jawbone kept their focus right they could have been the people who beat Apple to the market with their own Airpod.
There was a local airport, for crop dusters, etc.... Occasionally something bigger landed there, but it made the news paper when it did.
For some reason I can't explain the weather equipment wasn't official. I don't know if there were certification requirements it didn't meet or what, but if it costs money you can bet it wasn't met.
There really weren't any trees.
The soil was mostly clay based, I actually rode a normal skateboard off road (80's style wide wheels) occasionally as a kid.
I haven't checked, but I'm sure by now there's something official. The town has had a growth boom in recent years since so much of th oil field has returned. It will be interesting to see if new records get set in the near future.
I don't want to get too into it because I don't have time to argue, defend and research.
I've noticed when the earth hits one extreme in the year it often hits the other as well. It makes some sense to me where wobble is concerned. Yeah, I totally believe your version of things.
To top it off we ran around bare-foot all summer as kids. We were standing in the very street the egg was frying on bare-footed, at least for short periods of time. It's amazing what the human body can adapt to with conditioning. I won't even walk out the door bare footed anymore.
I didn't even visit for a ten year stretch, not that I didn't want to go see my sister, life just stacked up and kept me from heading West.
Then for reasons unrelated to hitting on her I talked to a friends little sister. Well, now I'm married to a home-town girl and I visit several times a year - and I just have to live with the party foul of hooking up with a friends sister...
For people unfamiliar with the area - unless it's rodeo week or something there isn't much of a reason to visit Pecos unless there's something very particular to your interest. On the other hand if you cruise through West Texas the most awesome swimming pool I've ever seen is nearby and totally worth checking out.
Gas station - that's a funny one. I usually tell people "A town in West Texas is likely to be a gas station and a couple of trailer houses". Pecos is bigger than that, but I get it.
I have seen very close to that - my home town made it to 128 one summer.
The thing is it was such a shit-hole of a town there are no official weather stations there. All the official measurements were taken miles away in Odessa or other shit-hole towns they happened to put weather stations in or around. Pecos just was ignored, and was in a unique place geological being in a wide plane surrounded by mountain ranges and higher elevations, it created a type of hot-box effect. I was driving a 1983 GMC Sierra Classic at the time. The little orange needle that showed if you were in PRND1-2 melted in half and the spring pulled it to the left. My sisters walkman melted in it.
So, due to all of the locals reading their own thermometers and the local channel 6 (which was just a CGA graphics info readout) saying it got up to 128 I know it was there. Since Kermit Texas some miles to the North never made it that high we never officially made it there.
That was in 1994 I believe. As far as I know it hasn't passed 118 or so since. My dad tells me in 75 or so when he was working the feedlots it got up to about 132. I wasn't born yet so I certainly can't confirm that one.
At least in my little world both the hot and the cold extremes have tapered based on my own limited observations. The rains have become more erratic, but having moved away from that area my own observations are no longer current.
If you want to lower CO2 levels plant more plants to breathe it in and quit polluting the oceans - something which all costal nations are guilty of, many worse than the U.S. The right kinds of plankton can suck that right out of the atmosphere.
That money was meant to weaken the U.S. to knock us down a few notches so that we're easier to manipulate and control.
Climate change is real and always has been. Pollution is real and should be avoided. The U.S. was historically probably the worst on earth, but no longer and we're improving all the time. Everyone on earth can learn from our mistakes, our contribution is in R&D that we are sharing, the fact the nations that didn't have to contribute despite being physically huge and huge polluters aren't taking full advantage of the R&D we've put into doing these things cleaner should be a larger concern. China already effectively runs on slave labor and has streams of our money coming in - they can clean up over there, they can afford the labor to implement clean factories anyways.
No state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops, or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
So - these cities aren't actually signing onto the accords, they're just taking it upon themselves to strive towards environmental peace and that's treason? Even if they agree with one another to do so?
I live in Houston - we've made agreements with surrounding cities to cooperate on bus lines (however poorly it's done), utilities, and how roads are going to route.
After Hurricane Katrina we made agreements with New Orleans - IN ANOTHER STATE - to help their people out.
No - I don't think you're looking at the spirit of the law here, I think you're just butt-hurt because you would rather the U.S. be enslaved to a foreign treaty and everyone to as centralized of a power as possible instead of proving we're capable of doing for ourselves on more local levels.
It scales fine, but in inverse of what you believe, - there's more support power at the base of the pyramid than at the top. Instead of a small group siphoning U.S. dollars to in turn crack a whip on us we're now doing it ourselves. There's more whips on this level and the money can stay where it's at - it's actually more effective at this level.
I think the belief we need leaders when instead we can have loads of individual actors on the same page is a false belief. We've proven we don't actually need Santa Clause to surprise kids with presents in the morning.
Lining our own pockets - with our own money - instead of sending it to Paris. I'm happy with this situation. Especially since the biggest polluters weren't on the hook for anything.
I'm going to say Prime probably isn't worth it, but you may find a different answer.
Netflix has more to offer navigation wise. If you use a game console to use both Netflix has designed their interface to where it will work on any resolution - Amazon pretty much hard-coded their interface to 1080 and screw you if you have a problem with it. Even on the old Wii which was not HD their interface is cumbersome but Netflix is always smooth.
Prime is going to have The Tick - that might be worth it in and of itself. I started watching Robotech on Netflix and then I found that Prime had a remastered/restored version that looked nicer so I switched to watching it there, though the non-restored Netflix version filled my SD screen better.
Overall the selection on Netflix and the usability, especially if you're like me on an SD screen just topples Prime if that's all you're using it for is movies. It may vary in your country. The shipping savings however more than justify Prime for me, I see the video service as a bonus, not a reason.
What if your opinion is considered "Hate Speech" by those that have power? It doesn't matter what they declare hate speech or what your opinion is, if you go to jail for it it's shut down.
Well the fact the people are getting upset about some of their governments actions and if they same something about it they get thrown in jail.
If you're beating on my car with a bat and I ask you to stop and hit me with the bat I would argue you weren't representing my wishes even if I had already paid you to wash my car.
I would argue any time you can get arrested for expressing an opinion or belief you absolutely do not have democracy.
Democracy is built on the concept of debate, discussion, and trying to persuade others to your ideas. If you get arrested for attempting to debate, discuss, or persuade you are nowhere near a democracy.
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I may give Jaybird a look-over, but I doubt they'll do it for me based on first glance. I have some binaural stuff, but they just don't have the "pull it out of your jeans 5th pocket and use it" simplicity.
The previous two replies are right on target.
I built this thing shortly before Ryzen came out. It is a AMD 4 GHz FX-8370 per my order history, and per Wikipedia was release 2014-09-02. (I built it in December thank you very much).
That same Mac is still on sale in the same config today and it's still about $10,000 and still pretty close to the best Mac Pro you can buy.
I'm running a consumer AMD CPU which only sort of has 8 cores since it has 4 floating points against a Xeon monster system.
That Mac has dual Radeon GPUs. I only had one graphics card in the one that costs $8,500 less.
It's the culture of the cultist that's the issue. For our "want a Mac because it's stylish" people I want them to try an ASUS Zenbook, for the "I want a Mac because I need creative power" I want to either build one or have them try an Alienware laptop. Any which way the company saves thousands in hardware cost, the equipment performs better, and they get something sleek.
I've had to get some Magma or Lava or whatever it was PCIe boxes for our Mac people so they could still connect to the SAN and use a Black Magic card or two. They work rather well, but I would rather the new Mac Pro's still be "cheese graters" with a Thunderbolt upgrade than a little tube with no slots.
I am not an Adobe fan. In fact I really despise Adobe's attention whoring - Acrobat reader has NEVER needed as much attention as it demands during the more than 20 years I've been doing this for a living. Their cloud apps are pretty much the industry standard, but I personally am not married to them. That being said even though I prefer the Gimp to Photoshop I don't do this for a living.
Creative Cloud is one of the best things to happen to my company (even though I hate it).
Before Creative Cloud the I.T. Department had a stack of disks for each department. The people in this department have this version of these programs, the people in that department have another version, and the interns are on the oldest stuff we have laying around. Management would NEVER approve an across the board upgrade. When one department got approved for a newer version it would allow certain others to bump up to their leftovers, assuming the ones that upgraded weren't already the ones on the oldest crap.
Version differences created a bit of a nightmare when it came to moving projects between departments. Keeping track of licensing was a nightmare, keeping track of all the keys and media was a bit of a nightmare.
If I was doing this sort of work I would use the Gimp, Kdenlive, Audacity, Blender, etc.... I don't do this for a living. Yes I think we could probably train people to use all this free stuff and not have to worry about licensing, but really we would have to train computer people to do creative or teach creative people to be computer people. Using Adobe as much as I hate dealing with Adobe allows creative people to do creative.
I think of Creative Cloud as "Steam for Hipsters". I also like the fact that I don't have to purchase each piece separately for each user, i can simply chose "Full Cloud" or "Acrobat" for the office monkeys. (a lot of the office monkeys are still on really old copies of Acrobat Pro we have on disk)
Industry used to be incredibly hostile towards Linux. I've seen a change in that. I've seen companies that had their MCSE's of 20 years ago who declared we will never allow a Linux anything in this building" get pushed aside and allowed Linux - even if it's only as the hyper-visor for a server running Windows VM's. I spent nearly eight years at NASA, I helped to decommission a lot of the SUN, HPUX, and SGI stuff and replace it with Red Hat (not my call). I was told by more than one person who had been there longer than me there had been a past declaration that Linux would never be allowed in there. Even Microsoft is allowing you to basically install Linux inside of Windows these days. I have to disagree with you on that point.
If you actually do get a graphic amplifier let me know how it goes. I'm pushing the concept to get approval to get one for a trial run I haven't played with it personally. Sometime I have to set the bait out so I can get an okay to get hardware. Sadly this place is full of such cultist I don't care how many circles it can run around a Mac that costs more I'm not going to have any volunteers until I can get at least one or two people running them and can get some jealousy flowing through the ranks. I have a plan to get one - but I'm not sure I can make it happen.
That's the difference between working with cultist and tech people.
The I.T. department is full of tech people who use Macs the way you're talking about. The creatives are a bunch of cultist who cling to lock-in and love it.
(BTW, I love iTerm2. I started with something else that did a Quake style drop-down but that wasn't supported anymore an OS release or two ago, so it's a reasonable sub)
I've got a story about that.
We have a $10,000 Mac up in our studio. It's about three years old, but it's fair to compare it to a system I just built because Apple hasn't really updates their line.
A guy in our digital department (not part of the studio) needed to do his own video editing and wanted a $6,000 Mac to do it on. He wanted a quad core system with plenty of RAM. The company isn't spending much money these days.
I explained to him how Adobe and Apple have sort of been at war for about ten years and don't like each other all that much these days. I explained that Windows 10 finally got "the bones right" and that unlike previous versions of Windows is pretty danged stable and reliable, and it performs well. I said this and I've been a MIcrosoft hater for two decades, but I can't deny it - even if I don't like the extra layers of spyware, advertising, and some user interface decisions. I explained he wasn't going to be able to spend $6,000 but I could build him more or less a gaming system.
We got approved to spend $1,500.
I built him a system based on an ASUS 970 Gaming Aura, a GeForce 1070 (the 1080 was just out of budget), 32 GB of RAM, a 500 GB SSD to boot to, a 1TB hybrid drive for \Users, and an 8 core Athlon CPU.
It outperforms that $10,000 Mac in the studio.
Fine - it doesn't have Thunderbolt - but it doesn't need it. What it does have that the Mac doesn't is PCIe slots which I think are better if you're only going to have one anyways.
If I were to have had a $2,500 budget it probably would have had Thunderbolt, along with SLI 1080's. Honestly for the type of video editing he did the graphics card didn't really need to be all that kick-ass, the CPU does a lot of the processing, but I like to overkill that stuff.
The user was very happy with it, and even asked me to remove the iMac he already had at his desk because he no longer used it.
I tell our Mac people all the time that they could do their job cheaper with better hardware if they switch to PC, but Mac is so ingrained in their culture they won't even talk about it most of the time. I knew the user I built the system for - he wasn't a cultist, he was a pragmatist with a job to do, when he wanted a new system it really made my day because I knew he would be open to me making a gaming system for him.
I'm trying to tempt some of them over - especially the laptop people - by showing off the Alienware Graphic Amplifier which is about the most bad-assed thing I've seen for a laptop.
I don't use iPhones, I have access to an iPad if I want one at work, but I found it to be incompatible with me. I don't hate them, I even carried an iPhone 3G way back in the past, which I gave up for the original HTC/Spring Evo and never looked back, but that's what feels right to me.
On the other hand I work at a company full of Apple Cultist. The iPhone is incredibly popular, most the users who don't have a Mac want a Mac and those who have a Mac want an upgrade. I use a Mac at work and sort of like it - but I think of it like using my KDE system, I've always got terminals up and I think cross platform UNLIKE most of the Mac users around here.
I just want to watch the entirety of the creative team freak out and have mini panic attacks over the ban. Most of them are unrealistic and blow things out of proportion when something like this happens. I just want to sit them down and explain the virtues of getting a Google Pixel, which is the Google equivalent to an iPhone and explain to them no their apps won't be able to transfer.
I think I read too many BOFH stories back in the day, and I like screwing with hipsters.....
There used to be some good premium Bluetooth headsets. Jawbone led the pack, BlueAnt had a good strong showing, and there were a couple of other also-rans that weren't so bad.
Jawbone is gone, BlueAnt's inventory is drying up and getting dated.
There's all sorts of stuff from China that's super cheap, and some of it isn't too bad, but there's nothing that reaches their reliability and has JawBone/BlueAnt noise cancellation. Motorola stuff has horrible background noise and it's actually painful for me to listen to when someone is using one on the other end. Jabra has gone desktop and never did have the noise cancellation down (but did have the most comfortable headset I ever wore). Plantronics, despite being known for indoor/desktop stuff is sort of stepping up to the plate. Still there's really nothing left that really fills the void being left by Jawbone.
I personally consider talking on the phone an annoyance I can't avoid. I work, drive, and do chores with my hands. I started using headsets back when the only really good option was a Jabra with a wire, I even figured out how to integrate that wire and headset into my clothing so I never had to stop doing what I needed to get done for a phone call. Before that even as a teen I got a headset for my normal wired phone so I could keep doing what I needed to do.
I'm really going to miss Jawbone for headsets. I don't think the fitness band was a bad idea, but the company shifting focus to it probably wasn't the greatest move they made. They should have focused on making cheaper but still high quality headsets, maybe even going binaural so the music people could get their fix. Had Jawbone kept their focus right they could have been the people who beat Apple to the market with their own Airpod.
Right, which is why that shit-hole didn't have one.
or something bigger than a comic book....
There was a local airport, for crop dusters, etc.... Occasionally something bigger landed there, but it made the news paper when it did.
For some reason I can't explain the weather equipment wasn't official. I don't know if there were certification requirements it didn't meet or what, but if it costs money you can bet it wasn't met.
There really weren't any trees.
The soil was mostly clay based, I actually rode a normal skateboard off road (80's style wide wheels) occasionally as a kid.
I haven't checked, but I'm sure by now there's something official. The town has had a growth boom in recent years since so much of th oil field has returned. It will be interesting to see if new records get set in the near future.
I don't want to get too into it because I don't have time to argue, defend and research.
I've noticed when the earth hits one extreme in the year it often hits the other as well. It makes some sense to me where wobble is concerned. Yeah, I totally believe your version of things.
What I do know - I moved to Phoenix directly after high school and the locals didn't believe me when I said it wasn't as hot as where I was from.
Yes.
It fried.
To top it off we ran around bare-foot all summer as kids. We were standing in the very street the egg was frying on bare-footed, at least for short periods of time. It's amazing what the human body can adapt to with conditioning. I won't even walk out the door bare footed anymore.
I didn't even visit for a ten year stretch, not that I didn't want to go see my sister, life just stacked up and kept me from heading West.
Then for reasons unrelated to hitting on her I talked to a friends little sister. Well, now I'm married to a home-town girl and I visit several times a year - and I just have to live with the party foul of hooking up with a friends sister...
For people unfamiliar with the area - unless it's rodeo week or something there isn't much of a reason to visit Pecos unless there's something very particular to your interest. On the other hand if you cruise through West Texas the most awesome swimming pool I've ever seen is nearby and totally worth checking out.
Gas station - that's a funny one. I usually tell people "A town in West Texas is likely to be a gas station and a couple of trailer houses". Pecos is bigger than that, but I get it.
I have seen very close to that - my home town made it to 128 one summer.
The thing is it was such a shit-hole of a town there are no official weather stations there. All the official measurements were taken miles away in Odessa or other shit-hole towns they happened to put weather stations in or around. Pecos just was ignored, and was in a unique place geological being in a wide plane surrounded by mountain ranges and higher elevations, it created a type of hot-box effect. I was driving a 1983 GMC Sierra Classic at the time. The little orange needle that showed if you were in PRND1-2 melted in half and the spring pulled it to the left. My sisters walkman melted in it.
So, due to all of the locals reading their own thermometers and the local channel 6 (which was just a CGA graphics info readout) saying it got up to 128 I know it was there. Since Kermit Texas some miles to the North never made it that high we never officially made it there.
That was in 1994 I believe. As far as I know it hasn't passed 118 or so since. My dad tells me in 75 or so when he was working the feedlots it got up to about 132. I wasn't born yet so I certainly can't confirm that one.
At least in my little world both the hot and the cold extremes have tapered based on my own limited observations. The rains have become more erratic, but having moved away from that area my own observations are no longer current.
Whatever it takes to have more authority over us right?
CO2 isn't pollution and is a red hearing argument to justify any action the manipulators want.
Plants breathe it.
There are historical times when it has been much higher than it is now.
Volcano's release it at staggering rates that may or may not outpace what humanity does. Regardless, even ones that appear to be dormant and inactive can still release it.
If you want to lower CO2 levels plant more plants to breathe it in and quit polluting the oceans - something which all costal nations are guilty of, many worse than the U.S. The right kinds of plankton can suck that right out of the atmosphere.
That money was meant to weaken the U.S. to knock us down a few notches so that we're easier to manipulate and control.
Climate change is real and always has been. Pollution is real and should be avoided. The U.S. was historically probably the worst on earth, but no longer and we're improving all the time. Everyone on earth can learn from our mistakes, our contribution is in R&D that we are sharing, the fact the nations that didn't have to contribute despite being physically huge and huge polluters aren't taking full advantage of the R&D we've put into doing these things cleaner should be a larger concern. China already effectively runs on slave labor and has streams of our money coming in - they can clean up over there, they can afford the labor to implement clean factories anyways.
No state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops, or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
Oh my! The Sister Cities program is treason!
So - these cities aren't actually signing onto the accords, they're just taking it upon themselves to strive towards environmental peace and that's treason? Even if they agree with one another to do so?
I live in Houston - we've made agreements with surrounding cities to cooperate on bus lines (however poorly it's done), utilities, and how roads are going to route.
After Hurricane Katrina we made agreements with New Orleans - IN ANOTHER STATE - to help their people out.
No - I don't think you're looking at the spirit of the law here, I think you're just butt-hurt because you would rather the U.S. be enslaved to a foreign treaty and everyone to as centralized of a power as possible instead of proving we're capable of doing for ourselves on more local levels.
It scales fine, but in inverse of what you believe, - there's more support power at the base of the pyramid than at the top. Instead of a small group siphoning U.S. dollars to in turn crack a whip on us we're now doing it ourselves. There's more whips on this level and the money can stay where it's at - it's actually more effective at this level.
I think the belief we need leaders when instead we can have loads of individual actors on the same page is a false belief. We've proven we don't actually need Santa Clause to surprise kids with presents in the morning.
Lining our own pockets - with our own money - instead of sending it to Paris. I'm happy with this situation. Especially since the biggest polluters weren't on the hook for anything.
Exactly.
This is awesome.
They're proving we didn't need them with some accord to do what's right, they're proving we can do it on our own.
I'm going to say Prime probably isn't worth it, but you may find a different answer.
Netflix has more to offer navigation wise. If you use a game console to use both Netflix has designed their interface to where it will work on any resolution - Amazon pretty much hard-coded their interface to 1080 and screw you if you have a problem with it. Even on the old Wii which was not HD their interface is cumbersome but Netflix is always smooth.
Prime is going to have The Tick - that might be worth it in and of itself. I started watching Robotech on Netflix and then I found that Prime had a remastered/restored version that looked nicer so I switched to watching it there, though the non-restored Netflix version filled my SD screen better.
Overall the selection on Netflix and the usability, especially if you're like me on an SD screen just topples Prime if that's all you're using it for is movies. It may vary in your country. The shipping savings however more than justify Prime for me, I see the video service as a bonus, not a reason.
What if your opinion is considered "Hate Speech" by those that have power? It doesn't matter what they declare hate speech or what your opinion is, if you go to jail for it it's shut down.
Looks like getting arrested for expressing your beliefs in Germany is quite common, especially if it's about migrants or the holocaust.
Well the fact the people are getting upset about some of their governments actions and if they same something about it they get thrown in jail.
If you're beating on my car with a bat and I ask you to stop and hit me with the bat I would argue you weren't representing my wishes even if I had already paid you to wash my car.
I would argue any time you can get arrested for expressing an opinion or belief you absolutely do not have democracy.
Democracy is built on the concept of debate, discussion, and trying to persuade others to your ideas. If you get arrested for attempting to debate, discuss, or persuade you are nowhere near a democracy.