Nope, sadly - wikipedia says just California, Arizona and Nevada (of which most of them are in California). If you're ever around one, though, do try their wine. Also definitely try their sangria: the wine is excellent for 2 dollar wine, but you could still probably tell it wasn't expensive wine if you were a wine person. Their sangria, though, beats the pants off all the restaurant sangria we've had at tapas places (especially if you just cut up an apple and an orange and drop them in before serving), and it's 4 dollars for a 1.75L container.
There's really not much difference between a 30 dollar bottle of vodka and a 300 dollar bottle (I've had both), but there's definitely a big difference between the 10 and the 30. On the other hand, there is *totally* a difference between 40 dollar single malts and 100 dollar single malts (though Costco has a Costco-rebranded 20 year single malt for 50 dollars that would generally be 100... it's pretty fantastic.)
We (me and my fiancee) actually really, really like the Fresh & Easy brand 2 dollar wines, especially the white (which is actually two dollars. When Trader Joe's upped the prices on their 2 dollar wine last year, our local F&E actually put up a slightly snarky sign that explicitly was not naming any names, but you knew who they were referring to, saying hey, our wine is still 2 dollars.)
'I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong,' he said
Because *clearly* the only people who ever get "disappeared" are people who have done something wrong? What kind of bizarro world is he living in? You'd think a professional whistle-blower would be exactly the sort of person who *would* know how the world actually works, wouldn't you?
But not enough to not be an anonymous coward about it?:p
I am also a huge fan of KoL, and admit it fully (to the tune of having a couple characters worth over a billion meat each, and no, I wasn't playing back in the bugmeat days.)
Right. I'm aware of its original purpose. Hence, my point that companies sometimes change purpose, redefinition of their previous name often occurs, and it's rather unfair to say "this company once did x, x is frivolous, therefore the company will be forever tainted with frivolity".
I don't see anything about M:tG on their site, certainly not anything saying it's called that. Do you get annoyed any time anyone talks about AT&T and doesn't make sure their audience knows that the company deals in telegraphs (even though they haven't in many, many decades), too?
Good for you. I seriously don't understand why people want to stay in relationships that both of them hate, and I also don't understand why people want to be in relationships with someone they have nothing in common with and enjoy none of the same things.
(I say this as someone whose parents divorced when I was a kid, and I had really no issue with it. I really agree with you completely: what messes up a kid isn't divorce, it's messiness. Parents screaming at each other and fighting over them, that would mess up a kid. Not being able to see one of their parents ever because the other wanted total custody and had a better lawyer, and screw what the kid wants: that would mess up a kid. But parents just living in different houses? So what? Actually, I rather liked it once I got over the initial sadness at not seeing both of them every day: my mom hated game consoles, so once they got divorced, I could play my NES more.)
Um. I have no idea of the actual math behind running bitcoin miners on different computers, but if you could mine a couple dollars on your computer if you ran it for a year, then if you ran 100,000 computers you'd get a couple hundred thousand dollars a year. If a couple hundred thousand dollars a year is a "tiny, tiny amount of money" to you... could you send me a tiny, tiny amount of money?
Orson Scott Card actually wrote a series like that, where everyone believed in magic, but it was actually a mind-reading computer in a satellite, that the civilization had long since forgotten about. Was a neat idea, even if the later books got increasingly, annoyingly mystical and lost sight of the "this is supposed to actually be sci-fi" (a problem later books in Card series often fight with...)
> "How much of these "discounts" would people be availing themselves of if their spending habits weren't being engineered by Big Data et. al. in the first place?"
None, because they wouldn't exist. Hard to avail myself of a discount that isn't available.
But if you mean how many of those things would I purchase if I wasn't supposedly being brainwashed by whatever companies you imagine are brainwashing us to want things? All of them that I buy now, I'm pretty sure. I need to eat, so that's groceries and meals. I like traveling, so that's gas, hotels, airline flights. And tv and email, I like getting those too. None of those things sound like "pointless crap". (In fact, none of those things even sound like things that fill one's house, crap or otherwise...)
I disagree with the first half of your first sentence: I thought WoW Draenei were pretty cool, and that the overall plot structures in BC were pretty darn awesome (specifically: think the backstory of the formation of Shattrath was one of the coolest things they ever did with the WoW universe.)
But you're right about the story post-BC, and certainly right about the idiots-we-hate leading both factions. I can't imagine this movie being good.
I don't really think it's his fault, mostly, though. I do agree that he isn't quite as good a Doctor as Eccleston or Tennant was, but I find most of the fault in why I stopped caring about the show was the shoddy, "people will watch it anyway so we don't have to care about our jobs" quality of the scriptwriting the past few seasons.
Because fixing problems generally takes not only smarts (which could occur anywhere), but also usually piles of *money*, which by definition are not usually found in the underclass.
Yep. Hadn't occurred to me either, until I decided I couldn't stand fighting with Win7's native explorer file manager over which one of us would get to control how it looked and behaved, and looked for an alternative. They all had tab support. I couldn't believe I'd never thought of that. Now I can't live without it. It really is quite handy in all kinds of circumstances.
Wow. That is pretty dumb. I knew about the Mac thing (which is dumb by itself; Cracked made fun of them a few weeks ago for that), and the "you can't sell singles if you don't have albums" (a musician I love recently arbitrarily broke his large catalog into chronological "albums" solely for the purpose of putting them on itunes, and then complained about it), but not all of that. I prefer buying on bandcamp or cdbaby just because it's easier for me, too, as someone who doesn't use itunes for anything other than buying songs off itunes and then immediately moving them, but I hadn't realized they were that annoying for sellers.
I still bet you they'd beat the pants off anything a major record label would create themselves, though.
That would make some sense, except for one (possibly little-known, I dunno?) fact: the vast majority of the smaller carriers with better rates and better service piggyback their coverage off of Sprint's network (actually, I believe Ting uses Sprint's network as a primary, but also uses Verizon's as a backup if Sprint coverage isn't available and Verizon is.)
> It would be very easy for the MAFIAA to create a download site with music and movies and get the ads revenue and subscribing revenue and keep 99.99% for themselves.
Fixed that for you... I'd rather they didn't. That way maybe eventually they'll actually die eventually.
I pay 15 bucks a month for my smartphone, assuming I don't use it that much, which I don't. If you're also in the category of people who don't use their phones a number amount per month (huge being, for the purposes of paying 15 bucks a month, being defined as 100 minutes, 100 texts and 100 megabytes of data), perhaps you should look into Ting. I didn't have a smartphone until a few months ago when I discovered I could have one for that cheap, either. It is kinda nice, though. (If you use more than that, it's still fairly cheap unless you use a *lot* more. Wouldn't be that hard to get above the 50$ price point of most of their competitors; would be significantly harder to get above the ~100$ price point of Verizon and its ilk. Why does *anyone* still give money to Verizon for wireless?!)
Thanks a bloody lot for getting that song stuck in my head. (Well, getting an awesome old mashup of it stuck in my head, anyway. So actually, thanks! It's an excellent mashup.)
Funnily enough, sites like bandcamp and cdbaby profit from the creative process but have no hands involved in the creation of the product, too. Yet, I have absolutely no issue buying from those sites, nor even occasionally from itunes (which is far less indie). The difference being that they aren't skeezy or anti-consumer, and don't take the vast majority of the cut that should go to the artist.
A certain small amount of middle-manning is often necessary (an artist isn't necessarily good at non-artist-related activities, and in any case should only spend so much of their time doing those things if you want them to continue giving you the art you like.) I am always the happiest when I can contribute 100% of the profit directly to the person or people who created the work, but even if *most* of the profit goes to those people, I'm happy enough. (Which is good, since I usually pay by credit card, and I gather they generally take a couple percent off the top, too...)
Advertising, too, is not always bad. It's just bad when artists are *forced* to pay for advertising, have no say in what kind of advertising is being done where, or the worst, when they're promised advertising (with the money they're being forced to pay to the label they signed to), but never even receive any of note.
Honestly, I *like* my text editors braindead. If I want a full-blown IDE, I'll use an actual IDE. Notepad is just a little *too* braindead: chokes and hangs on files larger than a couple megs, gets confused by *nix newlines, etc. But in general, I *like* things to be simple when the task I'm going for (like "edit a text file") is a simple one.
In some (particularly conservative) places/cultures, I imagine suicide *would* be a proper response to being caught doing something like that. If you getting caught doing something would mean your entire life was actually ruined forever with no way to fix it (either because you could never get a job, because you were going to be constantly followed around by people screaming at you and harrassing you, or because you were actually going to be literally found and tortured to death), suicide wouldn't seem so bad.
I'm guessing she doesn't live anywhere like that, though. Most likely you're right, she just had some mental issues, coupled with the fact that being a teenager always sucks.
B5 started out awful, got fantastic after about half season, and stayed that way for the rest of its run. Farscape started out fun, was fun for a couple seasons, then seriously lost its way, and was pretty mediocre for the rest of its run (YMMV on that one, some people thought it was all good. I didn't.) Your mileage will *definitely* vary on new DW; some people think the more recent seasons were good. I have no idea why; they're mind-numbingly terrible. Seasons 1-4 of new DW were fantastic, though.Anything else you want opinions on?:p
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Nope, sadly - wikipedia says just California, Arizona and Nevada (of which most of them are in California). If you're ever around one, though, do try their wine. Also definitely try their sangria: the wine is excellent for 2 dollar wine, but you could still probably tell it wasn't expensive wine if you were a wine person. Their sangria, though, beats the pants off all the restaurant sangria we've had at tapas places (especially if you just cut up an apple and an orange and drop them in before serving), and it's 4 dollars for a 1.75L container.
There's really not much difference between a 30 dollar bottle of vodka and a 300 dollar bottle (I've had both), but there's definitely a big difference between the 10 and the 30. On the other hand, there is *totally* a difference between 40 dollar single malts and 100 dollar single malts (though Costco has a Costco-rebranded 20 year single malt for 50 dollars that would generally be 100... it's pretty fantastic.)
We (me and my fiancee) actually really, really like the Fresh & Easy brand 2 dollar wines, especially the white (which is actually two dollars. When Trader Joe's upped the prices on their 2 dollar wine last year, our local F&E actually put up a slightly snarky sign that explicitly was not naming any names, but you knew who they were referring to, saying hey, our wine is still 2 dollars.)
'I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong,' he said
Because *clearly* the only people who ever get "disappeared" are people who have done something wrong? What kind of bizarro world is he living in? You'd think a professional whistle-blower would be exactly the sort of person who *would* know how the world actually works, wouldn't you?
But not enough to not be an anonymous coward about it? :p
I am also a huge fan of KoL, and admit it fully (to the tune of having a couple characters worth over a billion meat each, and no, I wasn't playing back in the bugmeat days.)
Right. I'm aware of its original purpose. Hence, my point that companies sometimes change purpose, redefinition of their previous name often occurs, and it's rather unfair to say "this company once did x, x is frivolous, therefore the company will be forever tainted with frivolity".
I don't see anything about M:tG on their site, certainly not anything saying it's called that. Do you get annoyed any time anyone talks about AT&T and doesn't make sure their audience knows that the company deals in telegraphs (even though they haven't in many, many decades), too?
Good for you. I seriously don't understand why people want to stay in relationships that both of them hate, and I also don't understand why people want to be in relationships with someone they have nothing in common with and enjoy none of the same things.
(I say this as someone whose parents divorced when I was a kid, and I had really no issue with it. I really agree with you completely: what messes up a kid isn't divorce, it's messiness. Parents screaming at each other and fighting over them, that would mess up a kid. Not being able to see one of their parents ever because the other wanted total custody and had a better lawyer, and screw what the kid wants: that would mess up a kid. But parents just living in different houses? So what? Actually, I rather liked it once I got over the initial sadness at not seeing both of them every day: my mom hated game consoles, so once they got divorced, I could play my NES more.)
Um. I have no idea of the actual math behind running bitcoin miners on different computers, but if you could mine a couple dollars on your computer if you ran it for a year, then if you ran 100,000 computers you'd get a couple hundred thousand dollars a year. If a couple hundred thousand dollars a year is a "tiny, tiny amount of money" to you... could you send me a tiny, tiny amount of money?
Orson Scott Card actually wrote a series like that, where everyone believed in magic, but it was actually a mind-reading computer in a satellite, that the civilization had long since forgotten about. Was a neat idea, even if the later books got increasingly, annoyingly mystical and lost sight of the "this is supposed to actually be sci-fi" (a problem later books in Card series often fight with...)
> "How much of these "discounts" would people be availing themselves of if their spending habits weren't being engineered by Big Data et. al. in the first place?"
None, because they wouldn't exist. Hard to avail myself of a discount that isn't available.
But if you mean how many of those things would I purchase if I wasn't supposedly being brainwashed by whatever companies you imagine are brainwashing us to want things? All of them that I buy now, I'm pretty sure. I need to eat, so that's groceries and meals. I like traveling, so that's gas, hotels, airline flights. And tv and email, I like getting those too. None of those things sound like "pointless crap". (In fact, none of those things even sound like things that fill one's house, crap or otherwise...)
I disagree with the first half of your first sentence: I thought WoW Draenei were pretty cool, and that the overall plot structures in BC were pretty darn awesome (specifically: think the backstory of the formation of Shattrath was one of the coolest things they ever did with the WoW universe.)
But you're right about the story post-BC, and certainly right about the idiots-we-hate leading both factions. I can't imagine this movie being good.
I don't really think it's his fault, mostly, though. I do agree that he isn't quite as good a Doctor as Eccleston or Tennant was, but I find most of the fault in why I stopped caring about the show was the shoddy, "people will watch it anyway so we don't have to care about our jobs" quality of the scriptwriting the past few seasons.
Because fixing problems generally takes not only smarts (which could occur anywhere), but also usually piles of *money*, which by definition are not usually found in the underclass.
Yep. Hadn't occurred to me either, until I decided I couldn't stand fighting with Win7's native explorer file manager over which one of us would get to control how it looked and behaved, and looked for an alternative. They all had tab support. I couldn't believe I'd never thought of that. Now I can't live without it. It really is quite handy in all kinds of circumstances.
Wow. That is pretty dumb. I knew about the Mac thing (which is dumb by itself; Cracked made fun of them a few weeks ago for that), and the "you can't sell singles if you don't have albums" (a musician I love recently arbitrarily broke his large catalog into chronological "albums" solely for the purpose of putting them on itunes, and then complained about it), but not all of that. I prefer buying on bandcamp or cdbaby just because it's easier for me, too, as someone who doesn't use itunes for anything other than buying songs off itunes and then immediately moving them, but I hadn't realized they were that annoying for sellers.
I still bet you they'd beat the pants off anything a major record label would create themselves, though.
That would make some sense, except for one (possibly little-known, I dunno?) fact: the vast majority of the smaller carriers with better rates and better service piggyback their coverage off of Sprint's network (actually, I believe Ting uses Sprint's network as a primary, but also uses Verizon's as a backup if Sprint coverage isn't available and Verizon is.)
> It would be very easy for the MAFIAA to create a download site with music and movies and get the ads revenue and subscribing revenue and keep 99.99% for themselves.
Fixed that for you... I'd rather they didn't. That way maybe eventually they'll actually die eventually.
I pay 15 bucks a month for my smartphone, assuming I don't use it that much, which I don't. If you're also in the category of people who don't use their phones a number amount per month (huge being, for the purposes of paying 15 bucks a month, being defined as 100 minutes, 100 texts and 100 megabytes of data), perhaps you should look into Ting. I didn't have a smartphone until a few months ago when I discovered I could have one for that cheap, either. It is kinda nice, though. (If you use more than that, it's still fairly cheap unless you use a *lot* more. Wouldn't be that hard to get above the 50$ price point of most of their competitors; would be significantly harder to get above the ~100$ price point of Verizon and its ilk. Why does *anyone* still give money to Verizon for wireless?!)
Thanks a bloody lot for getting that song stuck in my head. (Well, getting an awesome old mashup of it stuck in my head, anyway. So actually, thanks! It's an excellent mashup.)
Funnily enough, sites like bandcamp and cdbaby profit from the creative process but have no hands involved in the creation of the product, too. Yet, I have absolutely no issue buying from those sites, nor even occasionally from itunes (which is far less indie). The difference being that they aren't skeezy or anti-consumer, and don't take the vast majority of the cut that should go to the artist.
A certain small amount of middle-manning is often necessary (an artist isn't necessarily good at non-artist-related activities, and in any case should only spend so much of their time doing those things if you want them to continue giving you the art you like.) I am always the happiest when I can contribute 100% of the profit directly to the person or people who created the work, but even if *most* of the profit goes to those people, I'm happy enough. (Which is good, since I usually pay by credit card, and I gather they generally take a couple percent off the top, too...)
Advertising, too, is not always bad. It's just bad when artists are *forced* to pay for advertising, have no say in what kind of advertising is being done where, or the worst, when they're promised advertising (with the money they're being forced to pay to the label they signed to), but never even receive any of note.
I almost said notepad. :p
Honestly, I *like* my text editors braindead. If I want a full-blown IDE, I'll use an actual IDE. Notepad is just a little *too* braindead: chokes and hangs on files larger than a couple megs, gets confused by *nix newlines, etc. But in general, I *like* things to be simple when the task I'm going for (like "edit a text file") is a simple one.
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In some (particularly conservative) places/cultures, I imagine suicide *would* be a proper response to being caught doing something like that. If you getting caught doing something would mean your entire life was actually ruined forever with no way to fix it (either because you could never get a job, because you were going to be constantly followed around by people screaming at you and harrassing you, or because you were actually going to be literally found and tortured to death), suicide wouldn't seem so bad.
I'm guessing she doesn't live anywhere like that, though. Most likely you're right, she just had some mental issues, coupled with the fact that being a teenager always sucks.
B5 started out awful, got fantastic after about half season, and stayed that way for the rest of its run. Farscape started out fun, was fun for a couple seasons, then seriously lost its way, and was pretty mediocre for the rest of its run (YMMV on that one, some people thought it was all good. I didn't.) Your mileage will *definitely* vary on new DW; some people think the more recent seasons were good. I have no idea why; they're mind-numbingly terrible. Seasons 1-4 of new DW were fantastic, though.Anything else you want opinions on? :p