We've already been living in that era for at least a decade - I've definitely had *multiple* instances where I couldn't tell if the crazy guy on the subway was mumbling to himself, or mumbling into a bluetooth headset. I suppose this does make it even less obvious though.
Congratulations on having a job you love, presumably. But you're the one with a warmed view of what work is. For most of us, even if we don't downright *hate* our jobs, we'd certainly rather be doing something else with our life. For many people, that something else would even be far more "worthwhile" - I would much rather everyone with artistic talent be allowed to let loose those talents on the world, rather than only a tiny fraction of them (the ones that either got super-lucky, or more likely, have rich parents supporting their dream), because the rest of them need to work soul-crushing no-individuality-allowed jobs so they can afford to eat.
More than that, I'd *certainly* rather that anyone with a brilliant startup idea have the freedom to make *that* a reality, over the aforementioned daily grind. Sure, there are plenty of people who would probably just sit around bored and not contribute anything if given the choice, but... so? I'm not seeing how that's necessarily worse than what we have now, where those people (and plenty of other people who wouldn't do that!) are forced into doing menial tasks to make someone else rich, or starve in the street.
The days of execs making money on *other* peoples' music are definitely disappearing fast, cause screw that. The days of actual artists making money on their *own* music are just getting started.
How exactly does a swastika support Trump? A swastika is an image, it doesn't have a brain or anything, so isn't capable of making decisions or supporting campaigns.
> "Tell you what, I'll give you that $500 up front if you let me hold on to that $10k for five years. Does that sound like a good deal now?"
No...? Because that isn't describing a savings account, that's describing a CD, which has justifiably higher rates than savings accounts...?
A savings account is a place to store your money on hand, yes. And I'd rather it generate more money than *not* as much money, cause, duh. (Also, Roth IRA and 401k contributions are both capped, so those are only remotely relevant if you aren't already hitting the cap.)
I think your math is a bit off... not about the probabilities assuming your assumptions, but about your assumptions themselves. There are 1440 minutes in a day. That means, if you were driving for 24 hours straight, you'd have to send, on average, about 7 texts a minute, every minute, to have sent 10,000 texts in a day. And most people don't drive for 24 hours straight. If you were only driving for a more reasonable 2 hours in that day, and sent 10,000 texts during that time, that means you'd have to send ~83 texts a minute, more than one a second. If you're doing *that* and driving, I imagine you'd be much more likely than 37% to cause an accident.:p
This. I'm stuck with my current smartphone, and when it eventually dies, I'm just stuck. I would love a modern midrange phone with a slide-out keyboard like my current Photon Q, but there just... isn't one.
At a certain point it does become more convenient to just buy a new phone. I've fixed phones before, but I've also opened up phones, discovered how much of a pain it would be to fix, and said screw it and bought a new phone.
That said, I have *never* spend more than about 90 bucks on a new phone, often less, for phones that are perfectly good for everything I need them for. If I were spending "several hundred dollars", I'd probably put more effort in, too.
Wow, that's actually from Finnegan's Wake? I kind of want to make one of those joke quiz sites now, where the quiz is: is this from Finnegan's Wake, or from spam I received in the past month? Cause I apparently can't tell the difference.
Can confirm: I haven't googled UC Davis most likely ever, if I have it's been like 10 years, so my autocomplete shouldn't be colored by anything I've done recently. After just "UC D", the first autocomplete entry is "UC Davis", the second is "UC Davis pepper spray". I'd never heard of the incident before.
Sounds like a fantastic use of school funds! I bet current students there are super happy to learn that that's what their tuition has been covering...
I disagree. Democrats promise the moon and then provide a slice of processed cheese. Republicans promise you the moon and then provide you a steaming turd.
Actually that's a lie, they're not even promising that anymore, these days it's pretty much just turds straight up, so at least they're more honest.
I'd complain about the battery life. My dumb watch battery lasts about 2 *years* on a charge. I already have too many things I have to think about charging; I don't want another one. When you can get me a smart watch that lasts 2 years on a charge, I'll think about getting one.
Yeah, I was going to post something like that too. Reminds me of the timeshare I visited a couple years ago, that convinced me to never trust any timeshare company, ever, no matter what. I went to a "presentation" from Wyndam, that promised us a "free" cruise (i.e. "you only have to pay for taxes and port fees, so probably about 80 bucks"). I figured, Wyndam is a huge company, right? So no matter how sleazy the presentation is, you just say you don't want it, they let you go after a couple hours, and now you have a weekend getaway at like 75% off. They can't actively be scamming people out of things they explicitly promised, can they?
Turns out, yes they can. The way they do it it: *Wyndam* promises you certain things, but the actual redemption of the useless coupon they give you, goes through a third party. That third party, which is technically entirely independent of Wyndam and thus doesn't legally have to care what Wyndam may or may not have promised, then requires you to pay like 200 dollars in "booking fees", which go directly to them (I'm sure Wyndam gets a cut of this), in addition to the *actual* legitimate fees that go to the various locations visited. So instead of getting it like 75% off, it's more like... 10% maybe. All technically legal.
Same token, I imagine "the CIA" can say that they've never waterboarded anyone... they just gave their detainee over to some private organization they're paying, and then conveniently looked the other way. They never actually explicitly *told* that organization to waterboard anyone... or at least you can't prove they did...
After a couple hundred tries (yes, I suck), I finally got a strike! Now that I did it, I can go on to win all the bowling trophies ever!... said no sane person ever.
Sure, that's pretty impressive already, I'm not knocking them. SpaceX is awesome - I really want to see leaving earth becoming reasonably affordable in my lifetime, and SpaceX is doing a huge amount to make that a reality... but just landing a rocket once (after failing a few times), while news enough already, isn't really going to *change* anything until they can prove they can do it *consistently*. Did they actually change the *process* they use, such that they'll be able to pull it off every time by following that new process? Or are they just getting better at the process they already had, due to practice?
I disagree. If there was an article about how a black woman *now* did something, it would be sort of how you described it, because duh, who cares, it's not news that someone of a gender and skin color did something noteworthy, there's nothing stopping them.
But that is because we've come a huge way since the 50s, when there were absolutely *loads* of things stopping them, which absolutely does make this story interesting, newsworthy, and impressive, because back in those days, women and black people were overtly, majorly disenfranchised in pretty much every possible way. Two totally different things.
Last time I got one, the fan failed under warranty, I called them, and they insisted that I never bought a laptop from them - that, in fact, the laptop with the serial number I gave them didn't even *exist*. That took several hours to resolve, before they finally admitted that yep, they were completely wrong about that. Yeah, never buying another HP laptop ever again.
My laptop is over 5 years old at this point. While it's still working fine for the most part, it *is* getting to the point now where I'd at least start to think about upgrading (usually that choice is made for me - this is actually the longest a laptop has lasted me). But I *hate* 16:9, so I'm holding on as long as I possibly can, because the market is no longer willing to sell me the laptop I want to buy (i.e. one with a 16:10 screen).
Well, that "Earth Goddess" program on Channel 3 went national Iran and Iraq became one country called Irrational Every commuter in greater Los Angeles learned how to ride the bus And the rich folks said, "Please tax the shit out of us."
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No, it's clearly written in perl [/obligatory xkcd]
We've already been living in that era for at least a decade - I've definitely had *multiple* instances where I couldn't tell if the crazy guy on the subway was mumbling to himself, or mumbling into a bluetooth headset. I suppose this does make it even less obvious though.
Congratulations on having a job you love, presumably. But you're the one with a warmed view of what work is. For most of us, even if we don't downright *hate* our jobs, we'd certainly rather be doing something else with our life. For many people, that something else would even be far more "worthwhile" - I would much rather everyone with artistic talent be allowed to let loose those talents on the world, rather than only a tiny fraction of them (the ones that either got super-lucky, or more likely, have rich parents supporting their dream), because the rest of them need to work soul-crushing no-individuality-allowed jobs so they can afford to eat.
More than that, I'd *certainly* rather that anyone with a brilliant startup idea have the freedom to make *that* a reality, over the aforementioned daily grind. Sure, there are plenty of people who would probably just sit around bored and not contribute anything if given the choice, but... so? I'm not seeing how that's necessarily worse than what we have now, where those people (and plenty of other people who wouldn't do that!) are forced into doing menial tasks to make someone else rich, or starve in the street.
How many Super Mario Brothers *are* there, let alone ones that want to buy those drives?
I disagree.
The days of execs making money on *other* peoples' music are definitely disappearing fast, cause screw that. The days of actual artists making money on their *own* music are just getting started.
How exactly does a swastika support Trump? A swastika is an image, it doesn't have a brain or anything, so isn't capable of making decisions or supporting campaigns.
> "Tell you what, I'll give you that $500 up front if you let me hold on to that $10k for five years. Does that sound like a good deal now?"
No...? Because that isn't describing a savings account, that's describing a CD, which has justifiably higher rates than savings accounts...?
A savings account is a place to store your money on hand, yes. And I'd rather it generate more money than *not* as much money, cause, duh. (Also, Roth IRA and 401k contributions are both capped, so those are only remotely relevant if you aren't already hitting the cap.)
I think your math is a bit off... not about the probabilities assuming your assumptions, but about your assumptions themselves. There are 1440 minutes in a day. That means, if you were driving for 24 hours straight, you'd have to send, on average, about 7 texts a minute, every minute, to have sent 10,000 texts in a day. And most people don't drive for 24 hours straight. If you were only driving for a more reasonable 2 hours in that day, and sent 10,000 texts during that time, that means you'd have to send ~83 texts a minute, more than one a second. If you're doing *that* and driving, I imagine you'd be much more likely than 37% to cause an accident. :p
This. I'm stuck with my current smartphone, and when it eventually dies, I'm just stuck. I would love a modern midrange phone with a slide-out keyboard like my current Photon Q, but there just... isn't one.
At a certain point it does become more convenient to just buy a new phone. I've fixed phones before, but I've also opened up phones, discovered how much of a pain it would be to fix, and said screw it and bought a new phone.
That said, I have *never* spend more than about 90 bucks on a new phone, often less, for phones that are perfectly good for everything I need them for. If I were spending "several hundred dollars", I'd probably put more effort in, too.
Wow, that's actually from Finnegan's Wake? I kind of want to make one of those joke quiz sites now, where the quiz is: is this from Finnegan's Wake, or from spam I received in the past month? Cause I apparently can't tell the difference.
Can confirm: I haven't googled UC Davis most likely ever, if I have it's been like 10 years, so my autocomplete shouldn't be colored by anything I've done recently. After just "UC D", the first autocomplete entry is "UC Davis", the second is "UC Davis pepper spray". I'd never heard of the incident before.
Sounds like a fantastic use of school funds! I bet current students there are super happy to learn that that's what their tuition has been covering...
I disagree. Democrats promise the moon and then provide a slice of processed cheese. Republicans promise you the moon and then provide you a steaming turd.
Actually that's a lie, they're not even promising that anymore, these days it's pretty much just turds straight up, so at least they're more honest.
I'd complain about the battery life. My dumb watch battery lasts about 2 *years* on a charge. I already have too many things I have to think about charging; I don't want another one. When you can get me a smart watch that lasts 2 years on a charge, I'll think about getting one.
Yeah, I was going to post something like that too. Reminds me of the timeshare I visited a couple years ago, that convinced me to never trust any timeshare company, ever, no matter what. I went to a "presentation" from Wyndam, that promised us a "free" cruise (i.e. "you only have to pay for taxes and port fees, so probably about 80 bucks"). I figured, Wyndam is a huge company, right? So no matter how sleazy the presentation is, you just say you don't want it, they let you go after a couple hours, and now you have a weekend getaway at like 75% off. They can't actively be scamming people out of things they explicitly promised, can they?
Turns out, yes they can. The way they do it it: *Wyndam* promises you certain things, but the actual redemption of the useless coupon they give you, goes through a third party. That third party, which is technically entirely independent of Wyndam and thus doesn't legally have to care what Wyndam may or may not have promised, then requires you to pay like 200 dollars in "booking fees", which go directly to them (I'm sure Wyndam gets a cut of this), in addition to the *actual* legitimate fees that go to the various locations visited. So instead of getting it like 75% off, it's more like... 10% maybe. All technically legal.
Same token, I imagine "the CIA" can say that they've never waterboarded anyone... they just gave their detainee over to some private organization they're paying, and then conveniently looked the other way. They never actually explicitly *told* that organization to waterboard anyone... or at least you can't prove they did...
After a couple hundred tries (yes, I suck), I finally got a strike! Now that I did it, I can go on to win all the bowling trophies ever!... said no sane person ever.
Sure, that's pretty impressive already, I'm not knocking them. SpaceX is awesome - I really want to see leaving earth becoming reasonably affordable in my lifetime, and SpaceX is doing a huge amount to make that a reality... but just landing a rocket once (after failing a few times), while news enough already, isn't really going to *change* anything until they can prove they can do it *consistently*. Did they actually change the *process* they use, such that they'll be able to pull it off every time by following that new process? Or are they just getting better at the process they already had, due to practice?
I disagree. If there was an article about how a black woman *now* did something, it would be sort of how you described it, because duh, who cares, it's not news that someone of a gender and skin color did something noteworthy, there's nothing stopping them.
But that is because we've come a huge way since the 50s, when there were absolutely *loads* of things stopping them, which absolutely does make this story interesting, newsworthy, and impressive, because back in those days, women and black people were overtly, majorly disenfranchised in pretty much every possible way. Two totally different things.
Last time I got one, the fan failed under warranty, I called them, and they insisted that I never bought a laptop from them - that, in fact, the laptop with the serial number I gave them didn't even *exist*. That took several hours to resolve, before they finally admitted that yep, they were completely wrong about that. Yeah, never buying another HP laptop ever again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I'd buy that.
I dunno about that, but I bet he would've faced a lot of Scunthorpe problems, anyway.
My laptop is over 5 years old at this point. While it's still working fine for the most part, it *is* getting to the point now where I'd at least start to think about upgrading (usually that choice is made for me - this is actually the longest a laptop has lasted me). But I *hate* 16:9, so I'm holding on as long as I possibly can, because the market is no longer willing to sell me the laptop I want to buy (i.e. one with a 16:10 screen).
According to Roy Zimmerman, at least:
http://www.royzimmerman.com/ly...
Well, that "Earth Goddess" program on Channel 3 went national
Iran and Iraq became one country called Irrational
Every commuter in greater Los Angeles learned how to ride the bus
And the rich folks said, "Please tax the shit out of us."
You forgot to mention how we were all educated stupid.
But the big question: does it support Ω®âzâing unicode in Â¥Èoeââ¼ing comments yet? ...apparently not. Maybe you could look into that next? >.>
It's not piracy... it's infringement of copyright! Piracy is... oh wait, never mind, yep, it's totally piracy. Sorry about that.