Excellent question. Apparently the OP thinks sitting alone your underwear in a dark room holding a beer in one hand and the remote control in the other is somehow social while going out for a night at the pub with a group of friends makes you an anti-social loner.
I guess it's true that you can find an idiot with every possible opinion on the internet.
2. This is why I will use a proxy or even skip paying at all and use an "illegal" stream without a pang of guilt. And I say that as someone who generally pays for content. I also subscribe to multiple streaming services, but if there's any "exclusive" content I can't get, I'll torrent that too.
3. Why do you find it so important to watch every game? There is so much content, only a hardcore fan can even endure a fraction of it. Or do agree with with OP so strongly that if you don't want 162 baseball games, and dozens of basketball, football, and hockey games a year, you're an antisocial nerd with no friends?
4. At least around here there's at least 2 dozen sports pub/restaurants within 10 miles of me that have dozens of big screens showing sports, a bar section, and a kids menu in the dining room. And it's a much more fun kind of environment to catch a game than an old-fashioned bar.
Tech has gotten better, printing quality has gotten better and much, much cheaper. To say that justifies higher cost for the same content is idiotic. A new-release blu ray this year, is a heck of a lot cheaper in real dollars than a new-release VHS was 30 years ago. But look at the video quality of the bluray. Look at the special effects budget of the movie on that bluray. And yet it's cheaper in real dollars.
While most things have gotten much cheaper in real dollars since the 1960's, comics are almost completely unique in having increased insanely in real dolllar price.
And look at the specs of my laptop that cost $1000 today, and compare it to the iconic Toshiba T1000 that cost $2700 corrected to inflation back in 1986.
I logged in to say just this. In 1961 in the middle of the golden age of comics, a comic cost 10 cents and federal minimum wage was $1.15. (11.5 comics per hour).
In 2018, the cover price of a DC comic (regular, plain old, non-special edition) is $3.99 and minimum wage is $7.25 per hour (less than 2 comics per hour). They are absurdly expensive today.
Not to mention that I can buy an AAA video game a couple of year old on steam for the price of a few comics and get a heck of a lot more entertainment value for it. Comics today are about the worst rip-off possible in the entertainment industry.
Which is exactly what I said. So not everybody pays taxes; their "tax money" is given to them by other tax payers so they can pretend to pay taxes and pretend to feel all good about themselves.
It's basically someone gives you $20 to buy a meal and you go out and buy it, and then you lie to yourself and say you paid for the meal yourself because you physically went out and bought it.
You're pretending that if someone gives you $1000 and then you pay back $100 you're a wonderful person who gave them $100 when the reality you're pretending doesn't exist is they gave you $900.
It is total bullshit. Takers are takers, pretending they make any form of useful contribution is pathetic
And you think the person who has access to their unreleased movies and is responsible for posting official trailers to youtube is a summer intern? Alrighty then. Wow.
This perfectly sums up the modern american nanny state. Take away something we've enjoyed for generations, replace it with an amazingly crappy knockoff that's "safer" while destroying the entire spirit to the point where it's completely pointless.
And emphasize how great it is for a private company.
I don't know who will be watching these glorified LED throwies, but I'll be out watching fireworks tonight. At least as long as I still can in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
I love how you think the connection you can get at home for personal use at $50/month is just as fast as the connection Sony uses to upload their content to the internet. I doubt Sony's marketing employees are anywhere near as slow as 1 gigabit.
This. It is nothing more than deceptive advertising of the prices. All that matters to the customer is the total price. This advertising practice makes it hard to compare plans and carriers and it fools people into spending more than they intended because you never know that total until you get your first bill.
In Canada, the CRTC has cracked down big time on that kind of deceptive marketing. We also don't have carrier locks anymore.
If only you Americans could come up with some sort of government regulatory body to protect consumer rights from greedy telecoms. I'd suggest calling it "federal communications commission", but apparently that name is already taken by a very powerful lobby group only interested in maximizing profits for telcoms.
In the same sense anything from Apple is called "high-end". Apple's definition of high-end is completely compromised performance, horrible functionality. But it's **Apple** cool and sleek..
Will the inevitable W3 chip they brag about have more computing power than their current mac mini? I can't wait to hear Timmy and the stooges brag about desktop performance in their headphones.
3. The can collect as much data from you as possible and sell it to third parties.
4. They can charge a monthly fee for "premium" features that realistically have nothing to do with the cloud or infrastructure.
For the big companies, it's another expense, a stupid waste of money, but they can afford it. It will be business as usual with the extra overhead (beyond the actual taxes) being passed on to the consumer. No big deal for big players.
For a little startup doing $1-2 million in online sales, how can they possibly administer the tax rules of so many jurisdictions and then remitting all the money. Every sale will be in a different jurisdiction with its own $100+ of overhead.
Let's say you want to create an open source hardware project and start selling kits. For every single customer, you have to find the tax rules where they're from, collect and hold the taxes, and at the end of the year remit it to their jurisdiction. It makes it impossible for you to even start.
I envision a future where the world is so connected that every rice grain will have it's own internet connection. I'm already looking forward to 1024 bit IP addresses.
The only thing we know for sure is that the idiotic editors of FastCompany are stupid and getting stupider.
Aside from the fact that "dumb" refers to speech ability and has nothing to do with IQ...
this test refers to conscripts in one country's military, it says nothing about the general population. And there is no reason to assume that group reflects society as a whole.
it is an aggregate test that takes about the average intelligence of its very specific group, nothing about "we're all getting" anything. The group can be getting stupider on average while the smartest are getting smarter
IQ doesn't even work the way these idiots seem to think it does. It's supposed to be a comparative ranking with current society. There is no way to compare tests taken 30 years ago with tests taken today. If someone in 1970 scored 100 and someone in 2018 scores 110 today, there is no comparison you can legitimately draw between the two.
And since IQ is a normal distribution against current society, by definition of IQ, IQ of the population is constant.
Those CDs pay less than inflation and unless it's in a registered account you get to pay tax on the "income" just to add insult to injury. Income tax on an asset that's losing buying power. Money is a scam and wealthy people have very little actual money; their assets are in things that have actual value.
Gold and Silver have maintained their real world buying power. It's money that has fluctuated since Nixon shock. And before that money allowed the US to criminalize ownership of gold so they could force you take banknotes and the cut their value in half the next year. If paper money had any real value, why would they have to criminalize gold ownership to convince people to take their magic beans?
That FDIC insurance was $100,000 until fairly recently. They have to keep increasing it as the value of $100,000 plummets.
So what do you keep your assets in that you won't lose them in? Banknotes are guaranteed to go to zero over time. Bank accounts and stocks have been wiped out many times over the US history. Even real estate has been demonstrated as a risk investment recently.
Gold and silver on the other hand have as much buying power today as they did 100, 1000, and 5000 years ago. The thing you don't seem to get is that precious metals are not an "investment" to make a profit. They are a store of value designed to protect wealth, not generate it. So the people who compare bitcoin to precious metal and then call either an investment really have no idea what they are talking about.
"Apple Is Testing a Feature That Could Kill Police iPhone Unlockers. "
Um, the feature you describe will prevent current unlockers from working on an iPhone with the feature enabled. But it's not going to kill the unlocker. That conjures up imagery of something that will detect the unlocker and fire high voltage into it or some such.
I guess my 4-digit pin kills anyone who tries to casually snoop at my phone.
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Excellent question. Apparently the OP thinks sitting alone your underwear in a dark room holding a beer in one hand and the remote control in the other is somehow social while going out for a night at the pub with a group of friends makes you an anti-social loner.
I guess it's true that you can find an idiot with every possible opinion on the internet.
2. This is why I will use a proxy or even skip paying at all and use an "illegal" stream without a pang of guilt. And I say that as someone who generally pays for content. I also subscribe to multiple streaming services, but if there's any "exclusive" content I can't get, I'll torrent that too.
3. Why do you find it so important to watch every game? There is so much content, only a hardcore fan can even endure a fraction of it. Or do agree with with OP so strongly that if you don't want 162 baseball games, and dozens of basketball, football, and hockey games a year, you're an antisocial nerd with no friends?
4. At least around here there's at least 2 dozen sports pub/restaurants within 10 miles of me that have dozens of big screens showing sports, a bar section, and a kids menu in the dining room. And it's a much more fun kind of environment to catch a game than an old-fashioned bar.
Tech has gotten better, printing quality has gotten better and much, much cheaper. To say that justifies higher cost for the same content is idiotic. A new-release blu ray this year, is a heck of a lot cheaper in real dollars than a new-release VHS was 30 years ago. But look at the video quality of the bluray. Look at the special effects budget of the movie on that bluray. And yet it's cheaper in real dollars.
While most things have gotten much cheaper in real dollars since the 1960's, comics are almost completely unique in having increased insanely in real dolllar price.
And look at the specs of my laptop that cost $1000 today, and compare it to the iconic Toshiba T1000 that cost $2700 corrected to inflation back in 1986.
I logged in to say just this. In 1961 in the middle of the golden age of comics, a comic cost 10 cents and federal minimum wage was $1.15. (11.5 comics per hour).
In 2018, the cover price of a DC comic (regular, plain old, non-special edition) is $3.99 and minimum wage is $7.25 per hour (less than 2 comics per hour). They are absurdly expensive today.
Not to mention that I can buy an AAA video game a couple of year old on steam for the price of a few comics and get a heck of a lot more entertainment value for it. Comics today are about the worst rip-off possible in the entertainment industry.
I guess android just doesn't collect enough user data and is not quite invasive enough to the user's privacy.
They have to start again from the ground up to truly siphon every possible scrap of personal inormation.
Which is exactly what I said. So not everybody pays taxes; their "tax money" is given to them by other tax payers so they can pretend to pay taxes and pretend to feel all good about themselves.
It's basically someone gives you $20 to buy a meal and you go out and buy it, and then you lie to yourself and say you paid for the meal yourself because you physically went out and bought it.
You're pretending that if someone gives you $1000 and then you pay back $100 you're a wonderful person who gave them $100 when the reality you're pretending doesn't exist is they gave you $900.
It is total bullshit. Takers are takers, pretending they make any form of useful contribution is pathetic
Since when do they ever obey the laws they enact?
Yeah the people who collect welfare pay part of that back to the government as taxes. That really counts. You're the idiot if you believe that.
And you think the person who has access to their unreleased movies and is responsible for posting official trailers to youtube is a summer intern? Alrighty then. Wow.
This perfectly sums up the modern american nanny state. Take away something we've enjoyed for generations, replace it with an amazingly crappy knockoff that's "safer" while destroying the entire spirit to the point where it's completely pointless.
And emphasize how great it is for a private company.
I don't know who will be watching these glorified LED throwies, but I'll be out watching fireworks tonight. At least as long as I still can in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
I love how you think the connection you can get at home for personal use at $50/month is just as fast as the connection Sony uses to upload their content to the internet. I doubt Sony's marketing employees are anywhere near as slow as 1 gigabit.
Yeah, ones that have been running 24/7 for 18 months with crappy cooling. Whatever you do, don't ever buy a used 9 or 10 series card.
The people who rush volunteer to have the government pay for things are rarely the ones actually pay taxes.
This. It is nothing more than deceptive advertising of the prices. All that matters to the customer is the total price. This advertising practice makes it hard to compare plans and carriers and it fools people into spending more than they intended because you never know that total until you get your first bill.
In Canada, the CRTC has cracked down big time on that kind of deceptive marketing. We also don't have carrier locks anymore.
If only you Americans could come up with some sort of government regulatory body to protect consumer rights from greedy telecoms. I'd suggest calling it "federal communications commission", but apparently that name is already taken by a very powerful lobby group only interested in maximizing profits for telcoms.
It's not slander if it;'s true.
In the same sense anything from Apple is called "high-end". Apple's definition of high-end is completely compromised performance, horrible functionality. But it's **Apple** cool and sleek..
Will the inevitable W3 chip they brag about have more computing power than their current mac mini? I can't wait to hear Timmy and the stooges brag about desktop performance in their headphones.
3. The can collect as much data from you as possible and sell it to third parties.
4. They can charge a monthly fee for "premium" features that realistically have nothing to do with the cloud or infrastructure.
For the big companies, it's another expense, a stupid waste of money, but they can afford it. It will be business as usual with the extra overhead (beyond the actual taxes) being passed on to the consumer. No big deal for big players.
For a little startup doing $1-2 million in online sales, how can they possibly administer the tax rules of so many jurisdictions and then remitting all the money. Every sale will be in a different jurisdiction with its own $100+ of overhead.
Let's say you want to create an open source hardware project and start selling kits. For every single customer, you have to find the tax rules where they're from, collect and hold the taxes, and at the end of the year remit it to their jurisdiction. It makes it impossible for you to even start.
You just have no vision for the future of IoT.
I envision a future where the world is so connected that every rice grain will have it's own internet connection. I'm already looking forward to 1024 bit IP addresses.
The only thing we know for sure is that the idiotic editors of FastCompany are stupid and getting stupider.
Aside from the fact that "dumb" refers to speech ability and has nothing to do with IQ...
this test refers to conscripts in one country's military, it says nothing about the general population. And there is no reason to assume that group reflects society as a whole.
it is an aggregate test that takes about the average intelligence of its very specific group, nothing about "we're all getting" anything. The group can be getting stupider on average while the smartest are getting smarter
IQ doesn't even work the way these idiots seem to think it does. It's supposed to be a comparative ranking with current society. There is no way to compare tests taken 30 years ago with tests taken today. If someone in 1970 scored 100 and someone in 2018 scores 110 today, there is no comparison you can legitimately draw between the two.
And since IQ is a normal distribution against current society, by definition of IQ, IQ of the population is constant.
Apple laptops come standard with 128 gig. Of storage space. It takes real courage to buy from Apple.
Those CDs pay less than inflation and unless it's in a registered account you get to pay tax on the "income" just to add insult to injury. Income tax on an asset that's losing buying power. Money is a scam and wealthy people have very little actual money; their assets are in things that have actual value.
Gold and Silver have maintained their real world buying power. It's money that has fluctuated since Nixon shock. And before that money allowed the US to criminalize ownership of gold so they could force you take banknotes and the cut their value in half the next year. If paper money had any real value, why would they have to criminalize gold ownership to convince people to take their magic beans?
That FDIC insurance was $100,000 until fairly recently. They have to keep increasing it as the value of $100,000 plummets.
So what do you keep your assets in that you won't lose them in? Banknotes are guaranteed to go to zero over time. Bank accounts and stocks have been wiped out many times over the US history. Even real estate has been demonstrated as a risk investment recently.
Gold and silver on the other hand have as much buying power today as they did 100, 1000, and 5000 years ago. The thing you don't seem to get is that precious metals are not an "investment" to make a profit. They are a store of value designed to protect wealth, not generate it. So the people who compare bitcoin to precious metal and then call either an investment really have no idea what they are talking about.
"Apple Is Testing a Feature That Could Kill Police iPhone Unlockers. " Um, the feature you describe will prevent current unlockers from working on an iPhone with the feature enabled. But it's not going to kill the unlocker. That conjures up imagery of something that will detect the unlocker and fire high voltage into it or some such.
I guess my 4-digit pin kills anyone who tries to casually snoop at my phone.