Why are classic sports so bad? It's no worse sitting on your ass watching an esport as it is watching a classic sport. Both have you sitting on your ass eating and drinking while otherwise doing nothing.
Maybe if we get rid of both and only let people have math/science/literature/history books for fun and no more tv or computers. Internet should only be for looking up information and never to do other pointless things, like slashdotting.
Or maybe different people find value in different activities and that's ultimately better for all of us.
Local municipalities should being negotiating the prices for their property. Not the federal government.
What will 5g allow me to do that 4g won't? As it is, I don't have an unlimited data plan for my cell as it just isn't worth it. I suppose if 5g goes in and 4g unlimited becomes cheaper I will win, but I kind of don't see that happening.
I don't need a faster link, I need a cheaper link at current speeds. That's more then enough for my household needs.
The case would never be so simple of course. If you only made a personal backup and it never got shared, how would it even get discovered unless by pure happenstance. Such a thing could happen if you got raided by the police for anything and they grabbed your file storage.
Having a few dozen/hundreds/thousands of movie files will grab attention.
It's explainable but when they begin the character assassination for whatever else you were doing that got the police at your door in the first place, you are so dead it isn't even funny.
That all assumes you even get a jury. Copyright infringement might just be a civil thing, in which case you get no jury.
I hate drm as much as the next/.er but you need to pay the creator of the work. Pay whatever price you could get the movie at and make a copy on your computer/NAS/Wherever. Don't distribute this copy to anyone. It's for your personal library, such as if you had physical disc on a shelf that could only be in one place at one time.
That would be how things would work in an honest world. The content creator is paid and the consumer given a usable product.
If you just download the content and never pay anyone anything, you are stealing. Sharing is even worse, as you are now a distributor of content that you have no rights too. That's not about freedom. It's about theft and convenience.
I have a coworker that kind of bucks that trend. He's a fairly smart guy but still some how thinks a strong liberal government would take care of everything and if only we would just vote Democrat a utopia would be forth coming.
It's mind boggling.
P.S. I'm not endorsing Republicans in any way, shape or form, just expressing that there are old liberals that are quite smart.
Once again, they volunteered to go out and fight the fire. No one made them do it. If they didn't like the terms offered, they could of said no thank you and gone back to normal prison life.
There is no slavery here. Besides, being made to work when in prison is legal. Paying them at all is just so they can setup a commissary instead of giving them the stuff they need. Worse, most prisoners have family and family will send money but the prison first scraps off a portion for restitution owed by the inmate. So family essentially ends up paying the restitution just so the inmate has enough money to even buy the needed items to survive. Products such as feminine hygiene.
None of that is actually slavery. Even when we like to joke about wage slavery it really is just us complaining about being to lazy to better ourselves and go find better employment. It's a lot easier to whine then to actually do something.
I think the prisoners were volunteers though. They didn't force the prisoners to go fight fire. They gave them pocket change, but also gave them time off their sentence.
Doesn't sound to bad to me. Get out of jail to go do SOMETHING that doesn't involve being in jail itself. Get a bit of money to use a commissary and they get time taken off their record, while also maybe feeling good about helping protect their communities?
I don't see the problem. Try sticking to facts. We didn't enslave our prisoners to go fight fires. We asked them if they would and they agreed.
Are you just pretending Muslims don't keep slaves and multiple wives? I think we should be understanding of EVERYONE and this includes the Muslims which have a right to their beliefs. We wouldn't want to offend anyone.
You are probably white and therefore cant' be offended. In fact, you should probably just kill yourself and dedicate the action to all the grievances against the white people. Until all white people are dead, there is no justice.
If I wanted a smart speaker/voice assistant in my home, I would build one myself. Just a simple search of "raspberry pi voice assistant" get's you a few options to start from.
It's bad enough our phones are always nearby. I hope they aren't always listening and I've done my best to turn off many "helpful" features on my phone, but how do we really know? Clever programming could send everything it hears to a server using the cell-link and if all the "system apps" you can't get rid of cover this up by just not reporting the data usage, device being on, etc, 99.99% of us would be left completely unaware.
Unless you jail-break and install a plain copy of android, and that may not even be good enough, you can't really know and have to trust these corporations that constantly show themselves to be not trustworthy.
Heck, even if you could compile your own OS for a cellphone, would any carrier take you? Perhaps a sim-based carrier would allow your device on. Wifi isn't always available after all.
Yeah, instead the tech companies screw with our elections and let other people screw with our elections. Things are SOOO much better under our new leader, right? Just waiting for November. Republicans better get their shit together and help rid us of Trump otherwise there very well may be a blue wave, and it will be a whole lot worse then the Obama years.
If you thought those years were expensive, just wait until the "progressives" get behind the wheel. Those years will really get expensive. If you've done anything for yourself, you will see higher taxes, just as much government help you get presently (read none), and more expensive medical with less coverage.
The only good I can say has come out of the last two years really is a marginal tax cut. It was terrible for the national debt, but when has either party gave two shits about that? That's the only good thing about Republican leadership. I tend to get tax breaks which does help vs Democrats that increase my taxes and I see nothing for it because I work full time therefore get nothing in the way of services.
You describe retail and insurance sales type work, correct? I work retail pulling down 50k with pension, healthcare and 4 weeks vacation. It's union and yes it may get automated away before I can retire out in 15 more years.
You can still get my job and work your way up to about what I have. If two people married did that, you would own a decent condo 20 minutes from the beach in San Diego county in a decent area.
I just hope the automation takes closer to 40 years instead of say 10.
You must not work any of these jobs you want automated away. Some of us are at mid life and may not be trainable to do your kind of work. Ironically, a lot of these jobs you want to automate away actually pay decently. Well enough in fact, that if both members of the household worked there, they would be able to afford at least a condo in the average US city.
If you take away all those useless jobs, you are putting so many paper pushers, service professions and jobs I don't even think about out of work. Resign all those people to what will be essentially become poverty once things adjust.
It sure must be nice to have been blessed with both the interest and capabilities to be a doctor, lawyer (much of that can be automated if we let it), programmers and other jobs that require a high intellect and drive to stick through the education process. Many of us just don't have all the necessary traits to get there.
Unless you find purpose for all those people, there will be massive social unrest.
That's a lot easier to do when you make 300k or more. The cost of living is not proportionately higher for people that make more money. Sure, they could over buy a house and be house broke I suppose, but really, anyone making over 300k has more then enough cash to cover all their needs and have plenty of money to invest into making more money.
300k is the 98.9% bracket so clearly above most of us, yet if you get there, you'll likely need for nothing. Less then that and living well in the top 10 cities will still pinch you though.
The average US household brings in less then 100k a year. In 2014 the figure was around 74k. That does not account for where those average families live, but even in a modest place to live, they aren't left with 10k or more a year to invest.
So in the short-term, Netflix and Amazon will just disable whatever percentage of their library until they hit the magic number required. This will definitely reduce the amount of content available until original content from each country starts to show up.
In the long run this could in theory help get production companies going in each member state. Only time will tell how well that will work out. In the short term, the least watched content will get chopped down so that netflix can claim that now offer 30% EU content.
We had this in place in California and then some clever fuck successfully argued something along the lines that they were not able to confront their accuser and therefore could not have committed the crime or some such.
It boiled down to a cop didn't give the ticket and show up in court. The camera can't show up in court to present evidence that you did the crime so therefore no one is standing on the prosecution side.
Basically means we don't have red light cameras but we sure as fuck have 5 cars running the red light in a train as if it's perfectly okay. It's infuriating.
You don't really think the medallion holder is actually DRIVING the car do you? Get real. The owner is just that. The owner. They pay some slob to drive and then rake in most of the profits.
I think you vastly over-estimate our governments ability to subject us. The country will dissolve before we become some kind of Russia or North Korea or even China. The multi-nationals will just move as will anyone with enough money and skills to get to Asia or Europe.
The rest will turn North America into central and south, but much worse.
That's all assuming another country does not come in and take over while we fight our next civil war.
Just do the process. I live in California and it really isn't that bad. It's bs, for sure, but it is very doable. Here are the steps for California. There are also limits on how many firearms you are allowed to buy in a 30 day period as well. Also in California not all weapons you can buy in red states are available, so you end up buying gimped version that are CA approved. You can modify them if you want but if you are just target practicing it's not a big deal.
1) You'll have to take a written safety test that I think is good for two years. $10-$15.
2) You have to pay for a DROS form. It's a federal background check. $25
3) 10 day waiting period. This starts I believe when the store gets the actual firearm. If they have it in the store, its 10 days from payment. If you buy online, it gets delivered to the store and the waiting period starts then.
4) Before you can take possession you have to show the dealer you are capable of actually using the firearm. This involves pulling back the slide until it locks, leaving the action open and for you to visibly "see" the gun is not loaded. Anyone in normal health can do this, even with a new gun that's factor stiff. Ironically my arm was injured at the time and I could barely grip anything so pulling the slide back was extremely difficult for me. I forced myself to do it but yeah.
Also, if you don't pick up your gun before 30 days, the sale is cancelled.
I'm not saying all that is reasonable or fair or even effective but it is doable and the background check and safety test are only done once a year or every other year. You don't need one for each and every gun either.
You should do the process and get the gun. You may never use it but it's just nice to have and sometimes you can go to the range and that's fun too.
Please, I drive a stock civic and it can get to 100 in plenty of time to do what this idiot decided to do. The car used in this did not matter. I will agree that maybe if he had a boring car he would of choose some other way to kill himself.
Sad he was so selfish that he had to take other people out with him. Could just drop off the cliffs into the Pacific and killed himself without hurting anyone else.
As someone in San Diego, had I not read about such laws I would never even realize such things were possible. I've never seen border patrol pull anyone over. Ever. Of course, I'm not down by the border itself but in the actual city of San Diego and east of it.
The only time a normal citizen ever crosses the border is either at the airport, going to Mexico, or traveling north on Interstate 15 from San Diego where you hit a checkpoint that's usually not open. There's another checkpoint heading east on Interstate 8 at the state crossing into Arizona as well.
So generally speaking, outside of an airport, you don't run into this stuff.
It doesn't mean it isn't important, it just isn't in our face or every day lives.
Sorry but everyone time I hear that my energy bill will go down due to increases in efficiency just means they increase the rate. I'm all for newer, more efficient technologies but don't try and sell it like I'll spend less money on electricity.
I realize this is taking place in Europe, so perhaps their utilities are socialized and those utility services aren't by for-profits. I do know people work there and none of them will be likely to see a pay cut due to less energy being used, but the company will definitely have lower revenue.
Here in the states, every time we are told to save save save and we do it, the bill rates always get jacked up because the utilities start going broke when we become more mindful of our energy usage. Nothing worse as a consumer to use less of something, possibly at an inconvenience to oneself, and get charged as much or more when it's a metered service.
At the same time, the local energy company does need to make money otherwise the workers get laid off and the plant may close and electricity will definitely go up in price at that point due to there being less generated.
Still, no one is going to save money but it's great we are using less energy and leaving a smaller carbon footprint.
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Why are classic sports so bad? It's no worse sitting on your ass watching an esport as it is watching a classic sport. Both have you sitting on your ass eating and drinking while otherwise doing nothing.
Maybe if we get rid of both and only let people have math/science/literature/history books for fun and no more tv or computers. Internet should only be for looking up information and never to do other pointless things, like slashdotting.
Or maybe different people find value in different activities and that's ultimately better for all of us.
Local municipalities should being negotiating the prices for their property. Not the federal government.
What will 5g allow me to do that 4g won't? As it is, I don't have an unlimited data plan for my cell as it just isn't worth it. I suppose if 5g goes in and 4g unlimited becomes cheaper I will win, but I kind of don't see that happening.
I don't need a faster link, I need a cheaper link at current speeds. That's more then enough for my household needs.
The case would never be so simple of course. If you only made a personal backup and it never got shared, how would it even get discovered unless by pure happenstance. Such a thing could happen if you got raided by the police for anything and they grabbed your file storage.
Having a few dozen/hundreds/thousands of movie files will grab attention.
It's explainable but when they begin the character assassination for whatever else you were doing that got the police at your door in the first place, you are so dead it isn't even funny.
That all assumes you even get a jury. Copyright infringement might just be a civil thing, in which case you get no jury.
As long as you actually paid for it first, then sure. If you just got the torrent, you are a thief.
I hate drm as much as the next /.er but you need to pay the creator of the work. Pay whatever price you could get the movie at and make a copy on your computer/NAS/Wherever. Don't distribute this copy to anyone. It's for your personal library, such as if you had physical disc on a shelf that could only be in one place at one time.
That would be how things would work in an honest world. The content creator is paid and the consumer given a usable product.
If you just download the content and never pay anyone anything, you are stealing. Sharing is even worse, as you are now a distributor of content that you have no rights too. That's not about freedom. It's about theft and convenience.
Sounds overly complex and should be changed to something more reasonable. Which means it won't happen.
I have a coworker that kind of bucks that trend. He's a fairly smart guy but still some how thinks a strong liberal government would take care of everything and if only we would just vote Democrat a utopia would be forth coming.
It's mind boggling.
P.S. I'm not endorsing Republicans in any way, shape or form, just expressing that there are old liberals that are quite smart.
Once again, they volunteered to go out and fight the fire. No one made them do it. If they didn't like the terms offered, they could of said no thank you and gone back to normal prison life.
There is no slavery here. Besides, being made to work when in prison is legal. Paying them at all is just so they can setup a commissary instead of giving them the stuff they need. Worse, most prisoners have family and family will send money but the prison first scraps off a portion for restitution owed by the inmate. So family essentially ends up paying the restitution just so the inmate has enough money to even buy the needed items to survive. Products such as feminine hygiene.
None of that is actually slavery. Even when we like to joke about wage slavery it really is just us complaining about being to lazy to better ourselves and go find better employment. It's a lot easier to whine then to actually do something.
I think the prisoners were volunteers though. They didn't force the prisoners to go fight fire. They gave them pocket change, but also gave them time off their sentence.
Doesn't sound to bad to me. Get out of jail to go do SOMETHING that doesn't involve being in jail itself. Get a bit of money to use a commissary and they get time taken off their record, while also maybe feeling good about helping protect their communities?
I don't see the problem. Try sticking to facts. We didn't enslave our prisoners to go fight fires. We asked them if they would and they agreed.
Are you just pretending Muslims don't keep slaves and multiple wives? I think we should be understanding of EVERYONE and this includes the Muslims which have a right to their beliefs. We wouldn't want to offend anyone.
You are probably white and therefore cant' be offended. In fact, you should probably just kill yourself and dedicate the action to all the grievances against the white people. Until all white people are dead, there is no justice.
If I wanted a smart speaker/voice assistant in my home, I would build one myself. Just a simple search of "raspberry pi voice assistant" get's you a few options to start from.
It's bad enough our phones are always nearby. I hope they aren't always listening and I've done my best to turn off many "helpful" features on my phone, but how do we really know? Clever programming could send everything it hears to a server using the cell-link and if all the "system apps" you can't get rid of cover this up by just not reporting the data usage, device being on, etc, 99.99% of us would be left completely unaware.
Unless you jail-break and install a plain copy of android, and that may not even be good enough, you can't really know and have to trust these corporations that constantly show themselves to be not trustworthy.
Heck, even if you could compile your own OS for a cellphone, would any carrier take you? Perhaps a sim-based carrier would allow your device on. Wifi isn't always available after all.
Yeah, instead the tech companies screw with our elections and let other people screw with our elections. Things are SOOO much better under our new leader, right? Just waiting for November. Republicans better get their shit together and help rid us of Trump otherwise there very well may be a blue wave, and it will be a whole lot worse then the Obama years.
If you thought those years were expensive, just wait until the "progressives" get behind the wheel. Those years will really get expensive. If you've done anything for yourself, you will see higher taxes, just as much government help you get presently (read none), and more expensive medical with less coverage.
The only good I can say has come out of the last two years really is a marginal tax cut. It was terrible for the national debt, but when has either party gave two shits about that? That's the only good thing about Republican leadership. I tend to get tax breaks which does help vs Democrats that increase my taxes and I see nothing for it because I work full time therefore get nothing in the way of services.
You describe retail and insurance sales type work, correct? I work retail pulling down 50k with pension, healthcare and 4 weeks vacation. It's union and yes it may get automated away before I can retire out in 15 more years.
You can still get my job and work your way up to about what I have. If two people married did that, you would own a decent condo 20 minutes from the beach in San Diego county in a decent area.
I just hope the automation takes closer to 40 years instead of say 10.
You must not work any of these jobs you want automated away. Some of us are at mid life and may not be trainable to do your kind of work. Ironically, a lot of these jobs you want to automate away actually pay decently. Well enough in fact, that if both members of the household worked there, they would be able to afford at least a condo in the average US city.
If you take away all those useless jobs, you are putting so many paper pushers, service professions and jobs I don't even think about out of work. Resign all those people to what will be essentially become poverty once things adjust.
It sure must be nice to have been blessed with both the interest and capabilities to be a doctor, lawyer (much of that can be automated if we let it), programmers and other jobs that require a high intellect and drive to stick through the education process. Many of us just don't have all the necessary traits to get there.
Unless you find purpose for all those people, there will be massive social unrest.
Think it was Warren Buffet that said that about his secretary.
That's a lot easier to do when you make 300k or more. The cost of living is not proportionately higher for people that make more money. Sure, they could over buy a house and be house broke I suppose, but really, anyone making over 300k has more then enough cash to cover all their needs and have plenty of money to invest into making more money.
300k is the 98.9% bracket so clearly above most of us, yet if you get there, you'll likely need for nothing. Less then that and living well in the top 10 cities will still pinch you though.
The average US household brings in less then 100k a year. In 2014 the figure was around 74k. That does not account for where those average families live, but even in a modest place to live, they aren't left with 10k or more a year to invest.
So in the short-term, Netflix and Amazon will just disable whatever percentage of their library until they hit the magic number required. This will definitely reduce the amount of content available until original content from each country starts to show up.
In the long run this could in theory help get production companies going in each member state. Only time will tell how well that will work out. In the short term, the least watched content will get chopped down so that netflix can claim that now offer 30% EU content.
We had this in place in California and then some clever fuck successfully argued something along the lines that they were not able to confront their accuser and therefore could not have committed the crime or some such.
It boiled down to a cop didn't give the ticket and show up in court. The camera can't show up in court to present evidence that you did the crime so therefore no one is standing on the prosecution side.
Basically means we don't have red light cameras but we sure as fuck have 5 cars running the red light in a train as if it's perfectly okay. It's infuriating.
You don't really think the medallion holder is actually DRIVING the car do you? Get real. The owner is just that. The owner. They pay some slob to drive and then rake in most of the profits.
I think you vastly over-estimate our governments ability to subject us. The country will dissolve before we become some kind of Russia or North Korea or even China. The multi-nationals will just move as will anyone with enough money and skills to get to Asia or Europe.
The rest will turn North America into central and south, but much worse.
That's all assuming another country does not come in and take over while we fight our next civil war.
Just do the process. I live in California and it really isn't that bad. It's bs, for sure, but it is very doable. Here are the steps for California. There are also limits on how many firearms you are allowed to buy in a 30 day period as well. Also in California not all weapons you can buy in red states are available, so you end up buying gimped version that are CA approved. You can modify them if you want but if you are just target practicing it's not a big deal.
1) You'll have to take a written safety test that I think is good for two years. $10-$15.
2) You have to pay for a DROS form. It's a federal background check. $25
3) 10 day waiting period. This starts I believe when the store gets the actual firearm. If they have it in the store, its 10 days from payment. If you buy online, it gets delivered to the store and the waiting period starts then.
4) Before you can take possession you have to show the dealer you are capable of actually using the firearm. This involves pulling back the slide until it locks, leaving the action open and for you to visibly "see" the gun is not loaded. Anyone in normal health can do this, even with a new gun that's factor stiff. Ironically my arm was injured at the time and I could barely grip anything so pulling the slide back was extremely difficult for me. I forced myself to do it but yeah.
Also, if you don't pick up your gun before 30 days, the sale is cancelled.
I'm not saying all that is reasonable or fair or even effective but it is doable and the background check and safety test are only done once a year or every other year. You don't need one for each and every gun either.
You should do the process and get the gun. You may never use it but it's just nice to have and sometimes you can go to the range and that's fun too.
Please, I drive a stock civic and it can get to 100 in plenty of time to do what this idiot decided to do. The car used in this did not matter. I will agree that maybe if he had a boring car he would of choose some other way to kill himself.
Sad he was so selfish that he had to take other people out with him. Could just drop off the cliffs into the Pacific and killed himself without hurting anyone else.
As someone in San Diego, had I not read about such laws I would never even realize such things were possible. I've never seen border patrol pull anyone over. Ever. Of course, I'm not down by the border itself but in the actual city of San Diego and east of it.
The only time a normal citizen ever crosses the border is either at the airport, going to Mexico, or traveling north on Interstate 15 from San Diego where you hit a checkpoint that's usually not open. There's another checkpoint heading east on Interstate 8 at the state crossing into Arizona as well.
So generally speaking, outside of an airport, you don't run into this stuff.
It doesn't mean it isn't important, it just isn't in our face or every day lives.
Sorry but everyone time I hear that my energy bill will go down due to increases in efficiency just means they increase the rate. I'm all for newer, more efficient technologies but don't try and sell it like I'll spend less money on electricity.
I realize this is taking place in Europe, so perhaps their utilities are socialized and those utility services aren't by for-profits. I do know people work there and none of them will be likely to see a pay cut due to less energy being used, but the company will definitely have lower revenue.
Here in the states, every time we are told to save save save and we do it, the bill rates always get jacked up because the utilities start going broke when we become more mindful of our energy usage. Nothing worse as a consumer to use less of something, possibly at an inconvenience to oneself, and get charged as much or more when it's a metered service.
At the same time, the local energy company does need to make money otherwise the workers get laid off and the plant may close and electricity will definitely go up in price at that point due to there being less generated.
Still, no one is going to save money but it's great we are using less energy and leaving a smaller carbon footprint.