Just wait. They will pull a Frontier and put some vague terms and conditions into the streaming "contract" agreement to put an early termination clause in there. A person wants to cancel six months later? Fine, they'll get a $1000 early termination fee. Go ahead, take them to court, spend all your lawyer money and your time fighting Disney on that.
Frontier is banking on the fact it's going to cost you a LOT LOT LOT less in paying the termination fees as opposed to your time and money taking them to court.
I was looking for this reply. Yeah _when there isn't any fire_ the air quality is good. Problem is for the last few years there's ALWAYS fires in California so a significant percentage of each year the air quality is bad, EVERY YEAR. And the air quality (due to fires) has been getting worse for the last 10 years or so, just that many have not been paying attention to the air quality until they can see the air in front of them.
All my life. I take the Coast Starlight that rolls right along the stunningly beautiful California coast. You can see the ocean almost all the way. It has good wi-fi and comfortable seats that can recline almost completely. It''ll take you from L.A. to Seattle and everwhere in between.
a) You better NOT be anywhere near in a hurry to get to your destination. I've looked at this train to get from LA to Davis, CA (have to make a connecting stop) and it took WAY WAY longer than just driving there. Did I forget to mention WAY longer?
b) Took the Surfliner multiple times from Santa Barbara to San Diego area. Took much longer on the train than driving by night (don't even try driving in LA area during the day to get anywhere in a hurry). Wifi sucked.
c) Big problem with trains is that unless someone is there to pick you up, 90% of the stops do not have any decent transportation options such as rental cars. (As an aside, Zip Car, why the **** aren't you at all Surfliner stations??????) So unless you can walk from the train station to your ultimate destination, it's going to take even longer if you have to make a connecting bus.
All I can say is you're experience with Amtrak is different than mine.
The food is even good. Do they serve food and fresh coffee in your self-driving econobox? Oh wait, I'm sorry, your self-driving econobox doesn't exist yet. Does it, Goofus?
The train exists today. It has existed for the past half-century. It's going to be replaced by a fancier, faster model. But it can do today what your autonomous vehicle of the future with its "smart road" will not do in your lifetime.
d) Do they have food on the Surfliner? Don't think so.
e) I'm going to be long gone before I get on a CA HSR ride, if it's ever built. Meantime I can fly from Burbank to San Francisco in a couple of hours right now, or drive to Davis in 6 hours right now. Going on Amtrak to the same destinations (and here's the important point) and not using ANY cars (including taxi)? 2 to 4 times as long. Better not be in any hurry at all on Amtrak.
f) And I have not even gone into what happens when a train hits something and cancels ALL runs for the rest of the day. This has happened more than once to me. Do you like to be standing on a train platform with no alternatives on getting to your destination?
As an aside, the Coast Starlight may partially go along the ocean, but CA HSR is going through the scenic San Joaquin valley, so you're not going to see much here except cows and almond trees.
But that was what I was getting at. My point was that people voted for the polar opposite candidate
An alternative hypothesis could be that a lot of people looked at the two choices they were given and said "fuck it, we're doomed and I'm staying home. I'm not validating this shit we were given." So Trump won not because people turned to him, but because of the people who were left over to vote voted for him.
Lucky for us, the Bit Coin Bubble wasn't a big part of the economy, so the looser in the Bit Coin Gamble arn't bringing the rest of the economy down.
Maybe this is the best thing ever. It puts the bubble speculators and idiots who twitch whenever the "next big market" comes along and puts them in their own virtual world which isolates them from the real economy and keeps housing / market prices sane. Just like a virtual machine on a computer does...
(Paraphrased) There's a reason education sucks. It's the same reason it will never be fixed. Because the "owners" of this country don't want that. They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want people smart enough sitting around the kitchen table thinking about how badly they are getting screwed by a system which threw them overboard 30 years ago. They want obedient workers. They want people just smart enough to run the machines, but dumb enough to passively accept increasingly shittier jobs with lower pay and longer hours.
I grew up with them and I thought they sucked. Had to use compression otherwise the hiss would make dynamic range pretty small. Frequency response was weak at the upper end at best. Could not skip songs too well. Hope the tape didn't come out of the cassette or break... I was longing for a reel to reel when portable CDs first came out, and I never looked back.
So why cassettes? I don't get it.
Went to an Apple store recently while waiting for the wife. A year or so ago they had at least four tables or more of MacBook Pros, MacBooks, and iMacs. A few days ago? Only one table out of about twenty had a couple of iMacs and Macbook Pros. Literally the whole store had nothing but iPhones and various tablets. It was like I walked into an AT&T store. Apple is pushing mobile devices, they apparently don't give a rats butt about desktops or laptops.
The only way away from this is to increase the amount of factual information to counter lobbying
So how has increased amount of factual information thwarted subsidies of corn based ethanol? Despite the large volume of knowledge that corn based subsidized ethanol is the worst possible solution to fight climate change, it is going full speed ahead thanks to lobbying by the corn producing states and nobody is doing anything at the grass roots to stop it. This, despite the inevitable destruction of recent model cars when the EPA demands an increase in (corn based) ethanol percentage in gasoline.
In the manufacturing world, that's what. Since the "Great Recession" started, manufacturing jobs never got close to back to what it used to be. So that begs the question, in what sector are these jobs created, since it could not possibly be in manufacturing?
It is NOT that there are other modes of distraction, it is the frequency of phone related incidents and how pervasive distracted driving due to phones which is the problem.
I've been riding a bicycle consistently on the street since the 1970's in areas which were considered NOT bicycle friendly. Yet, never had a problem with distracted drivers almost (and in other people's cases, did) hitting me until recently. And when you observe how many people are looking down while they are driving nowadays, it's downright scary. Ask any road bicyclist what their opinion is on cell phone distracted drivers, it's a real and dangerous problem out there.
Not only that, their entry level model has TWO, count em, TWO total USB-C ports! One of these ports will be probably utilized by the charger, so that leaves ONE ONE ONE open port.
This replaces a Magsafe charger port, two thunderbolt ports, HDMI port, and a SD card slot!
Even their so called wide gamut display uses the P3 color space, and is usually used for projectors. If you want to create content, the display should be a Adobe RGB based gamut. This laptop must be designed for consume only purposes, not to create content.
Really Apple? You must either be attempting to drive your fan base away from laptops or turning your laptops into consume-only devices like your iPhones. Which begs the question why is this laptop labelled "Pro"? Pro what?
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Just wait. They will pull a Frontier and put some vague terms and conditions into the streaming "contract" agreement to put an early termination clause in there. A person wants to cancel six months later? Fine, they'll get a $1000 early termination fee. Go ahead, take them to court, spend all your lawyer money and your time fighting Disney on that.
Frontier is banking on the fact it's going to cost you a LOT LOT LOT less in paying the termination fees as opposed to your time and money taking them to court.
I was looking for this reply. Yeah _when there isn't any fire_ the air quality is good. Problem is for the last few years there's ALWAYS fires in California so a significant percentage of each year the air quality is bad, EVERY YEAR. And the air quality (due to fires) has been getting worse for the last 10 years or so, just that many have not been paying attention to the air quality until they can see the air in front of them.
That's what this article seems like.
What my grandparent's generation had to deal with is now new again Company Towns
If I'm not in a hurry, what's the point of a HIGH SPEED railway? Isn't Amtrak sufficient then?
There you go, just saved CA $77.3 billion, you're welcome!
All my life. I take the Coast Starlight that rolls right along the stunningly beautiful California coast. You can see the ocean almost all the way. It has good wi-fi and comfortable seats that can recline almost completely. It''ll take you from L.A. to Seattle and everwhere in between.
a) You better NOT be anywhere near in a hurry to get to your destination. I've looked at this train to get from LA to Davis, CA (have to make a connecting stop) and it took WAY WAY longer than just driving there. Did I forget to mention WAY longer?
b) Took the Surfliner multiple times from Santa Barbara to San Diego area. Took much longer on the train than driving by night (don't even try driving in LA area during the day to get anywhere in a hurry). Wifi sucked.
c) Big problem with trains is that unless someone is there to pick you up, 90% of the stops do not have any decent transportation options such as rental cars. (As an aside, Zip Car, why the **** aren't you at all Surfliner stations??????) So unless you can walk from the train station to your ultimate destination, it's going to take even longer if you have to make a connecting bus.
All I can say is you're experience with Amtrak is different than mine.
The food is even good. Do they serve food and fresh coffee in your self-driving econobox? Oh wait, I'm sorry, your self-driving econobox doesn't exist yet. Does it, Goofus?
The train exists today. It has existed for the past half-century. It's going to be replaced by a fancier, faster model. But it can do today what your autonomous vehicle of the future with its "smart road" will not do in your lifetime.
d) Do they have food on the Surfliner? Don't think so.
e) I'm going to be long gone before I get on a CA HSR ride, if it's ever built. Meantime I can fly from Burbank to San Francisco in a couple of hours right now, or drive to Davis in 6 hours right now. Going on Amtrak to the same destinations (and here's the important point) and not using ANY cars (including taxi)? 2 to 4 times as long. Better not be in any hurry at all on Amtrak.
f) And I have not even gone into what happens when a train hits something and cancels ALL runs for the rest of the day. This has happened more than once to me. Do you like to be standing on a train platform with no alternatives on getting to your destination?
As an aside, the Coast Starlight may partially go along the ocean, but CA HSR is going through the scenic San Joaquin valley, so you're not going to see much here except cows and almond trees.
But that was what I was getting at. My point was that people voted for the polar opposite candidate
An alternative hypothesis could be that a lot of people looked at the two choices they were given and said "fuck it, we're doomed and I'm staying home. I'm not validating this shit we were given." So Trump won not because people turned to him, but because of the people who were left over to vote voted for him.
Lucky for us, the Bit Coin Bubble wasn't a big part of the economy, so the looser in the Bit Coin Gamble arn't bringing the rest of the economy down.
Maybe this is the best thing ever. It puts the bubble speculators and idiots who twitch whenever the "next big market" comes along and puts them in their own virtual world which isolates them from the real economy and keeps housing / market prices sane. Just like a virtual machine on a computer does...
This video explains it all
There's a reason education sucks
(Paraphrased) There's a reason education sucks. It's the same reason it will never be fixed. Because the "owners" of this country don't want that. They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want people smart enough sitting around the kitchen table thinking about how badly they are getting screwed by a system which threw them overboard 30 years ago. They want obedient workers. They want people just smart enough to run the machines, but dumb enough to passively accept increasingly shittier jobs with lower pay and longer hours.
Think Twice About Buying Anything Off Ebay
That's a bit of an exaggeration
Who is asking for a phone with no headphone jack again? Nobody I know.
I grew up with them and I thought they sucked. Had to use compression otherwise the hiss would make dynamic range pretty small. Frequency response was weak at the upper end at best. Could not skip songs too well. Hope the tape didn't come out of the cassette or break... I was longing for a reel to reel when portable CDs first came out, and I never looked back. So why cassettes? I don't get it.
...why adblocking is so popular?
Went to an Apple store recently while waiting for the wife. A year or so ago they had at least four tables or more of MacBook Pros, MacBooks, and iMacs. A few days ago? Only one table out of about twenty had a couple of iMacs and Macbook Pros. Literally the whole store had nothing but iPhones and various tablets. It was like I walked into an AT&T store. Apple is pushing mobile devices, they apparently don't give a rats butt about desktops or laptops.
C++ or C#? Wouldn't this be valid in C#?
Remind me again, how exactly did you come to exist on this earth? Oh yeah, that's right, those darned breeders.
> but Fujichrome Velvia was the pick if you wanted to work the cooler colors
I don't know, Velvia seemed like it rendered things a bit warm to me.
This person feels the same way about Velvia's warmth. I used to love Velvia!
The only way away from this is to increase the amount of factual information to counter lobbying
So how has increased amount of factual information thwarted subsidies of corn based ethanol? Despite the large volume of knowledge that corn based subsidized ethanol is the worst possible solution to fight climate change, it is going full speed ahead thanks to lobbying by the corn producing states and nobody is doing anything at the grass roots to stop it. This, despite the inevitable destruction of recent model cars when the EPA demands an increase in (corn based) ethanol percentage in gasoline.
If you want a 5K monitor with 60 hz connected with one cable, the latest Apple laptop with Thunderbolt 3 is the only option.
Let's talk about it some more!
In the manufacturing world, that's what. Since the "Great Recession" started, manufacturing jobs never got close to back to what it used to be. So that begs the question, in what sector are these jobs created, since it could not possibly be in manufacturing?
It is NOT that there are other modes of distraction, it is the frequency of phone related incidents and how pervasive distracted driving due to phones which is the problem.
I've been riding a bicycle consistently on the street since the 1970's in areas which were considered NOT bicycle friendly. Yet, never had a problem with distracted drivers almost (and in other people's cases, did) hitting me until recently. And when you observe how many people are looking down while they are driving nowadays, it's downright scary. Ask any road bicyclist what their opinion is on cell phone distracted drivers, it's a real and dangerous problem out there.
Oh, and two USB 3 ports!!!
Not only that, their entry level model has TWO, count em, TWO total USB-C ports! One of these ports will be probably utilized by the charger, so that leaves ONE ONE ONE open port.
This replaces a Magsafe charger port, two thunderbolt ports, HDMI port, and a SD card slot!
Even their so called wide gamut display uses the P3 color space, and is usually used for projectors. If you want to create content, the display should be a Adobe RGB based gamut. This laptop must be designed for consume only purposes, not to create content.
Really Apple? You must either be attempting to drive your fan base away from laptops or turning your laptops into consume-only devices like your iPhones. Which begs the question why is this laptop labelled "Pro"? Pro what?