I'd jump at the chance. I'd get a decent paycheck for the period I stuck it out, and I'd get 15 minutes of fame when I bailed. I'd also get $$$ for writing a book, giving an exclusive interview, whatever.
Oh yeah, I do it in a heartbeat. Excellent salary, healthcare and pension. I’d be set for life, no matter how short my tenure. But, I’m a nobody who has none of the things a job like that offers, and have no reputation to worry about. But, as Trump explicitly stated, he ain’t gonna hire no poor people, and I’m nowhere near being a billionaire. You?
I can hardly wait to buy all of the new parts to restore my 1925 Atwater Kent Tube Radio.
Luckily, they’re all easily available. That’s the beauty of tube equipment. My 1962 McIntosh preamp is still going strong, but I can’t imagine any electronics made recently will still work in fifty years. Or ten. This whole notion that you don’t own the stuff you buy needs to die.
Actually, without the right to repair, you throw it away, we're drowning in garbage and China sells more of the junk to us to replace what we had to throw away.
If anything, that "right to repair" is about the most pro-US thing you can do right now.
Right. I brought an iPod in for repair once, and when I went to pick it up I looked at it, and the chrome back was all scratched up. I’m like, “This isn’t my iPod”. Turns out, they don’t fix your iPod, they just give you a refurbished one. They ended up giving me a new one because I made a stink about the fact that mine had no scratches. Whether my original got refurbished, or tossed in the trash, I couldn’t say.
Everybody should cheer. The purpose of economic activity is to create goods and services, not "keeping people busy". If the same number of burgers can be delivered with less labor, that is a GOOD THING.
And where do you think people get money to buy burgers? Kiosks and robots don’t buy shit, and neither do unemployed people. Overseas markets will only sustain you until they’re all replaced by automation. Even a lunatic like Henry Ford understood that jobs = customers. It’s how the economy works.
Here’s another thing you don’t seem to understand: jobs and businesses are created by demand, not the other way around. Just because you have the money to open a widget factory doesn’t mean there will be jobs. There has to be demand. And if demand exists, people will find the money anyway. Demand comes from the bottom up, not the “supply side”. That’s why three decades of giving more money to the rich have simply made the rich richer, and the poor poorer, instead of “creating jobs” and growing the economy.
And while everyone is running around with their hair on fire over "covfefe" and his other tweets, he's been quietly getting his agenda done. For an example, Jeff Sessions rolled back the Obama-era drug sentencing guidelines, resulting in the harshest possible sentences for drug offenders... which went almost unnoticed by the MSM.
Your side thinks he sabotages his schemes by these tweets.
The rest of us know (and Trump himself knows) that the tweets are meaningless and valueless in and of themselves, but they distract the MSM from what is really going on, and in a way that makes the left look like gibbering imbeciles.
He's been doing this since about *a year* prior to the election, and your side hasn't caught on even yet!
I don’t know what MSM you consume, if any, but the Sessions memorandum was covered extensively on NPR, and NPR spent days discussing the ramifications of the Paris pullout. I don’t know what Fox showed you, but the whole World was talking about it.
You think the tweets are “meaningless", and that his habit of blowing his own cover stories isn’t having an effect? This notion of Trump as master manipulator is just ridiculous. Trust me, I entertained the thought myself, way back during the campaign. It really is difficult to imagine that a presidential candidate could be so stupid. If anything about this administration has become obvious, it’s that Trump is a dolt, not all that much brighter than his voters, and less so than his apologists, who must spend their days putting out his fires, only to see Donald carelessly toss another match on them. What most of us can plainly see is that Trump is in way over his head. You won’t be able to kid yourself forever.
Actually, they're mostly pissed off, because no matter how outrageous a scenario they dream up, Trump keeps topping them.
I think you are referring to house of cards.
It’s true, you really can’t parody Trump, because there’s no way of exaggerating the stuff he says. Trump makes Frank Underwood look pretty good. People have referred to the Russian scandal as “Stupid Watergate”, but you might also call the Trump administration “Stupid House of Cards”.
Really? Trump is one of the most interesting things on Twitter, IMO. In fact, I could never really get interested in Twitter until the Donald decided to run for office for real this time. One-hundred-forty characters isn’t enough to complete any useful thought, but it’s perfect for snarky one-liners and pithy responses to his none-too-bright followers. As others have pointed out, it’s comedy gold, and since you can’t really parody Trump, it’s best to go right to the source.
Bullshit! Chemicals are known carcinogens. They cause cancer, brightboy.
Good lord, do they teach anything in school anymore? This one can spell, or has at least enabled his spell-checker, which is remarkable these days, yet has no basic understanding of chemistry. Got some bad news for ya, bud. You’ve been eating nothing but chemicals your whole life, and indeed, are made entirely of them. But, don’t despair. Many chemicals, such as dihydrogen monoxide, are quite harmless when used properly, and are not known to cause cancer, not even by the State of California.
I’m convinced that the failures of our education system have brought us to where we are today. In an age where you can find out almost anything instantly by consulting a pocket-sized device, ignorance is rampant.
where's the proof? The media keeps talking about this, but hasn't released a single piece of evidence yet. Also, the Obama admin gave Flynn the highest level of security clearance, then renewed it after these stories broke, and didn't revoke it before Obama left office. If there was evidence, wouldn't Obama have done something?
Yeah, just because the smoke is so thick we can barely see, doesn’t mean there’s any fire. Let’s just keep asking for proof that’ll stand up in a court of law, and discrediting the media, and maybe it’ll all go away.
Flynn got his security clearance by lying. Then he got fired when it caught up to him. Obama didn’t want to be seen as interfering with newly-elected Trump. He chose to sanction the Russians instead.
So the question for someone looking to buy a revised MacBook Pro this year would be, buy it now for a battle-tested Thunderbolt 3 connection, or wait for the chip integration for performance gains even though it will be a fist gen thing next year...
This is always the question, right? Whether to wait for new tech, or buy now, has been a consideration since at least 1986, when I first started buying them, (I decided to wait because, c’mon, expandable to 4 MB of RAM? Hell, yeah!). But, over time, I decided that, whenever I need a new machine to just go out and get it. Otherwise, you’ll be waiting forever, because there’s always something better coming.
I bet beer and pot together are safer than shrooms.
That’d be a bad bet. Alcohol can kill you, psilocybin can’t. Alcohol causes liver, (and other organic), damage, psilocybin doesn’t. I would say pot and ‘shrooms are equally safe. No one has ever been known to overdose on either. Alcohol, not so much. But any recreational drug, including alcohol, if used in moderation is not going to cause you any harm. Few recreational drugs are as dangerous as, say, Tylenol, (acetaminophen), which is a liver toxin.
Ah, self-reporting. So there could be a huge selection bias if (for example) half of the shroomers died or became so incapacitated that they couldn't self-report their medical situation.
Yeah, except that no one has ever died from psilocybin mushrooms. You cannot overdose on mushrooms. And the people in the study who did call for medical assistance had been using alcohol as well. RTFA. This is almost always the case, just as the vast majority of “heroin overdoses” involve the use of alcohol, or other CNS depressants such as benzodiazepines. It’s rarely heroin alone.
As of many years ago Earthlink was pretty good about privacy.
Yeah, back in the days before the internet spy game got started. Then someone decided that everyone ought to be making money off the internet, and the commercialization of the web began. Advertisers taught everyone just how valuable personal data could be.
And the subset of that group which is willing to accept that aliens may be the most likely answer, based on current knowledge and theories.
Since we have zero knowledge of, or evidence for, aliens, I don’t see how that can ever be the most likely answer. Considering that we have no idea how life arose, and that all evidence indicates that it only arose once in the one place we know it arose, even though there are certainly a lot of stars, we can’t really make useful predictions from a sample of one. When you consider the immense distances between stars, and the vast aeons of time our galaxy has existed, even if life had arisen elsewhere and, against all odds, evolved intelligence, the chances of them being our contemporaries is, well, astronomical. Also, Fermi’s Paradox. If, and when, we begin to find evidence of biological activity elsewhere, then we might be able to say something about it. For now, it’s all pure speculation. Plug any numbers you like into Drake’s Equation.
Intelligent aliens are only slightly more plausible than gods. Which is to say, not very.
Stop BSing yourself. We don't have a functioning democracy?
Like sanctuary cities that think they're above the law?
Like the federal government under Obama not enforcing immigration laws on the books.
These things are dangerous - and I'm a proponent of immigration - but make it legal and on the f**king books.
The Trump administration has done nothing counter to Constitution.
And in case it matters I didn't vote for the orange oompa lumpa.
Actually, there is a question of constitutionality in holding people for ICE. It’s more probable that so-called sanctuary cities are complying with the Constitution than that the Feds are by asking local governments to hold people in jail beyond when they should normally be released. Obama not enforcing immigration? Are we talking about the same Obama who deported more illegal immigrants than any other president? The Trump administration has done nothing counter to the Constitution? Are you aware that the Emoluments Clause is part of the Constitution? I won’t even mention the, as yet, unproven violations. I’m glad to hear that you had the sense not to vote for this obvious demagogue. I just hope you didn’t fritter it away on a third-party candidate. This was not the election for protest votes.
My belief is that he's suffering from dementia....
I’ve been aware of Trump since the eighties. He’s always been an idiot. People assume that, just because he has a lot of money that he can’t be an idiot, but his wealth is easily explained without having to resort to intelligence, or even business acumen. I’m sure you’ve experienced this yourself, that some of the smartest people you know are not wealthy. Wealth and intelligence aren’t that heavily correlated.
Just like anything, at the end of its life... such as a battery for a flashlight... it dims a bit then back to normal.... Supernova. And with that recent article about how supernovas life killing effects has now practically doubled its distance... this is my conclusion.
(I cant find the article but im sure you've read it).
If you're using your experience with everyday objects to act as a guide for how you should think about things like supernovae, all I can say is... Don't. There is literally no comparison.
Flashlights and stars both produce light.::rimshot::
For most people, no explanation = God(s). But for a small group of people, no explanation = aliens. You know who you are. Then there is that third group who is willing to admit that we simply don’t know the answer yet, without jumping to extraordinary conclusions.
I guess one could always sign out of their Amazon account on that device, or if you want to get a little more serious, firewall rule, ap isolation, etc..
If you think the device will work at all without an internet connection, you haven't been paying attention. Google "Juicero" for a prime example of the future of electronic devices.
...in the end it is about what you will be able to buy, which most likely will be only 'smart' TVs.
That's my fear. For me, a TV has always been just a monitor. I don't even need the tuner, let alone any IoT crap. More and more, they're making devices that simply won't work at all without an internet connection. Electronic devices are becoming trojans for data collection.
Young people are no longer fascinated by the iron cages stuck in traffic.
Please, young people can't afford them. Only those with some accumulated wealth, i.e., old people, can slap down five figures for a device that drags your ass from point to point. And, if you live in a city, you don't need one. It's a much different situation outside of major cities, where car-sharing isn't going to work so well.
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I'd jump at the chance. I'd get a decent paycheck for the period I stuck it out, and I'd get 15 minutes of fame when I bailed. I'd also get $$$ for writing a book, giving an exclusive interview, whatever.
Oh yeah, I do it in a heartbeat. Excellent salary, healthcare and pension. I’d be set for life, no matter how short my tenure. But, I’m a nobody who has none of the things a job like that offers, and have no reputation to worry about. But, as Trump explicitly stated, he ain’t gonna hire no poor people, and I’m nowhere near being a billionaire. You?
I can hardly wait to buy all of the new parts to restore my 1925 Atwater Kent Tube Radio.
Luckily, they’re all easily available. That’s the beauty of tube equipment. My 1962 McIntosh preamp is still going strong, but I can’t imagine any electronics made recently will still work in fifty years. Or ten.
This whole notion that you don’t own the stuff you buy needs to die.
Actually, without the right to repair, you throw it away, we're drowning in garbage and China sells more of the junk to us to replace what we had to throw away.
If anything, that "right to repair" is about the most pro-US thing you can do right now.
Right. I brought an iPod in for repair once, and when I went to pick it up I looked at it, and the chrome back was all scratched up. I’m like, “This isn’t my iPod”. Turns out, they don’t fix your iPod, they just give you a refurbished one. They ended up giving me a new one because I made a stink about the fact that mine had no scratches. Whether my original got refurbished, or tossed in the trash, I couldn’t say.
Everybody should cheer. The purpose of economic activity is to create goods and services, not "keeping people busy". If the same number of burgers can be delivered with less labor, that is a GOOD THING.
And where do you think people get money to buy burgers? Kiosks and robots don’t buy shit, and neither do unemployed people. Overseas markets will only sustain you until they’re all replaced by automation. Even a lunatic like Henry Ford understood that jobs = customers. It’s how the economy works.
Here’s another thing you don’t seem to understand: jobs and businesses are created by demand, not the other way around. Just because you have the money to open a widget factory doesn’t mean there will be jobs. There has to be demand. And if demand exists, people will find the money anyway. Demand comes from the bottom up, not the “supply side”. That’s why three decades of giving more money to the rich have simply made the rich richer, and the poor poorer, instead of “creating jobs” and growing the economy.
And while everyone is running around with their hair on fire over "covfefe" and his other tweets, he's been quietly getting his agenda done. For an example, Jeff Sessions rolled back the Obama-era drug sentencing guidelines, resulting in the harshest possible sentences for drug offenders... which went almost unnoticed by the MSM.
Trump withdrew from the Paris accord, and Covfefe was the more searched term than Paris Climate Agreement.
Your side thinks he sabotages his schemes by these tweets.
The rest of us know (and Trump himself knows) that the tweets are meaningless and valueless in and of themselves, but they distract the MSM from what is really going on, and in a way that makes the left look like gibbering imbeciles.
He's been doing this since about *a year* prior to the election, and your side hasn't caught on even yet!
I don’t know what MSM you consume, if any, but the Sessions memorandum was covered extensively on NPR, and NPR spent days discussing the ramifications of the Paris pullout. I don’t know what Fox showed you, but the whole World was talking about it.
You think the tweets are “meaningless", and that his habit of blowing his own cover stories isn’t having an effect? This notion of Trump as master manipulator is just ridiculous. Trust me, I entertained the thought myself, way back during the campaign. It really is difficult to imagine that a presidential candidate could be so stupid. If anything about this administration has become obvious, it’s that Trump is a dolt, not all that much brighter than his voters, and less so than his apologists, who must spend their days putting out his fires, only to see Donald carelessly toss another match on them. What most of us can plainly see is that Trump is in way over his head. You won’t be able to kid yourself forever.
He does great at sabotaging his own schemes. It's really great that he lacks a filter.
I would love to be a fly on the wall on his lawyers' office. It's got to have a thick covering of hair of all over the floor.
Yeah, except he’s having a hard time finding representation lately.
Actually, they're mostly pissed off, because no matter how outrageous a scenario they dream up, Trump keeps topping them.
I think you are referring to house of cards.
It’s true, you really can’t parody Trump, because there’s no way of exaggerating the stuff he says. Trump makes Frank Underwood look pretty good. People have referred to the Russian scandal as “Stupid Watergate”, but you might also call the Trump administration “Stupid House of Cards”.
I just mark all of Trump's tweets as spam.
Really? Trump is one of the most interesting things on Twitter, IMO. In fact, I could never really get interested in Twitter until the Donald decided to run for office for real this time. One-hundred-forty characters isn’t enough to complete any useful thought, but it’s perfect for snarky one-liners and pithy responses to his none-too-bright followers. As others have pointed out, it’s comedy gold, and since you can’t really parody Trump, it’s best to go right to the source.
Bullshit! Chemicals are known carcinogens. They cause cancer, brightboy.
Good lord, do they teach anything in school anymore? This one can spell, or has at least enabled his spell-checker, which is remarkable these days, yet has no basic understanding of chemistry. Got some bad news for ya, bud. You’ve been eating nothing but chemicals your whole life, and indeed, are made entirely of them. But, don’t despair. Many chemicals, such as dihydrogen monoxide, are quite harmless when used properly, and are not known to cause cancer, not even by the State of California.
I’m convinced that the failures of our education system have brought us to where we are today. In an age where you can find out almost anything instantly by consulting a pocket-sized device, ignorance is rampant.
where's the proof? The media keeps talking about this, but hasn't released a single piece of evidence yet. Also, the Obama admin gave Flynn the highest level of security clearance, then renewed it after these stories broke, and didn't revoke it before Obama left office. If there was evidence, wouldn't Obama have done something?
Yeah, just because the smoke is so thick we can barely see, doesn’t mean there’s any fire. Let’s just keep asking for proof that’ll stand up in a court of law, and discrediting the media, and maybe it’ll all go away.
Flynn got his security clearance by lying. Then he got fired when it caught up to him. Obama didn’t want to be seen as interfering with newly-elected Trump. He chose to sanction the Russians instead.
So the question for someone looking to buy a revised MacBook Pro this year would be, buy it now for a battle-tested Thunderbolt 3 connection, or wait for the chip integration for performance gains even though it will be a fist gen thing next year...
This is always the question, right? Whether to wait for new tech, or buy now, has been a consideration since at least 1986, when I first started buying them, (I decided to wait because, c’mon, expandable to 4 MB of RAM? Hell, yeah!). But, over time, I decided that, whenever I need a new machine to just go out and get it. Otherwise, you’ll be waiting forever, because there’s always something better coming.
Apple Inc, with that lovely $800 billion market capitalization and $300 billion-ish pile of cache.
Good Lord, Apple! Clean your cache!
I bet beer and pot together are safer than shrooms.
That’d be a bad bet. Alcohol can kill you, psilocybin can’t. Alcohol causes liver, (and other organic), damage, psilocybin doesn’t. I would say pot and ‘shrooms are equally safe. No one has ever been known to overdose on either. Alcohol, not so much. But any recreational drug, including alcohol, if used in moderation is not going to cause you any harm. Few recreational drugs are as dangerous as, say, Tylenol, (acetaminophen), which is a liver toxin.
Ah, self-reporting. So there could be a huge selection bias if (for example) half of the shroomers died or became so incapacitated that they couldn't self-report their medical situation.
Yeah, except that no one has ever died from psilocybin mushrooms. You cannot overdose on mushrooms. And the people in the study who did call for medical assistance had been using alcohol as well. RTFA. This is almost always the case, just as the vast majority of “heroin overdoses” involve the use of alcohol, or other CNS depressants such as benzodiazepines. It’s rarely heroin alone.
As of many years ago Earthlink was pretty good about privacy.
Yeah, back in the days before the internet spy game got started. Then someone decided that everyone ought to be making money off the internet, and the commercialization of the web began. Advertisers taught everyone just how valuable personal data could be.
And the subset of that group which is willing to accept that aliens may be the most likely answer, based on current knowledge and theories.
Since we have zero knowledge of, or evidence for, aliens, I don’t see how that can ever be the most likely answer. Considering that we have no idea how life arose, and that all evidence indicates that it only arose once in the one place we know it arose, even though there are certainly a lot of stars, we can’t really make useful predictions from a sample of one. When you consider the immense distances between stars, and the vast aeons of time our galaxy has existed, even if life had arisen elsewhere and, against all odds, evolved intelligence, the chances of them being our contemporaries is, well, astronomical. Also, Fermi’s Paradox. If, and when, we begin to find evidence of biological activity elsewhere, then we might be able to say something about it. For now, it’s all pure speculation. Plug any numbers you like into Drake’s Equation.
Intelligent aliens are only slightly more plausible than gods. Which is to say, not very.
Stop BSing yourself. We don't have a functioning democracy?
Like sanctuary cities that think they're above the law?
Like the federal government under Obama not enforcing immigration laws on the books.
These things are dangerous - and I'm a proponent of immigration - but make it legal and on the f**king books.
The Trump administration has done nothing counter to Constitution.
And in case it matters I didn't vote for the orange oompa lumpa.
Actually, there is a question of constitutionality in holding people for ICE. It’s more probable that so-called sanctuary cities are complying with the Constitution than that the Feds are by asking local governments to hold people in jail beyond when they should normally be released.
Obama not enforcing immigration? Are we talking about the same Obama who deported more illegal immigrants than any other president?
The Trump administration has done nothing counter to the Constitution? Are you aware that the Emoluments Clause is part of the Constitution? I won’t even mention the, as yet, unproven violations.
I’m glad to hear that you had the sense not to vote for this obvious demagogue. I just hope you didn’t fritter it away on a third-party candidate. This was not the election for protest votes.
My belief is that he's suffering from dementia....
I’ve been aware of Trump since the eighties. He’s always been an idiot. People assume that, just because he has a lot of money that he can’t be an idiot, but his wealth is easily explained without having to resort to intelligence, or even business acumen. I’m sure you’ve experienced this yourself, that some of the smartest people you know are not wealthy. Wealth and intelligence aren’t that heavily correlated.
Just like anything, at the end of its life... such as a battery for a flashlight... it dims a bit then back to normal.... Supernova. And with that recent article about how supernovas life killing effects has now practically doubled its distance... this is my conclusion.
(I cant find the article but im sure you've read it).
If you're using your experience with everyday objects to act as a guide for how you should think about things like supernovae, all I can say is... Don't. There is literally no comparison.
Flashlights and stars both produce light. ::rimshot::
For most people, no explanation = God(s). But for a small group of people, no explanation = aliens. You know who you are. Then there is that third group who is willing to admit that we simply don’t know the answer yet, without jumping to extraordinary conclusions.
My local Office Depot has some "Commercial Grade" Baking Soda available
Personally, I only smoke crack that’s been rocked-up with pharmaceutical grade baking soda, but I get that not everyone is a connoisseur.
I don't know why everyone hates comic sans...
It’s fine, as long as you use it in thought and speech bubbles.
I guess one could always sign out of their Amazon account on that device, or if you want to get a little more serious, firewall rule, ap isolation, etc. .
If you think the device will work at all without an internet connection, you haven't been paying attention. Google "Juicero" for a prime example of the future of electronic devices.
...in the end it is about what you will be able to buy, which most likely will be only 'smart' TVs.
That's my fear. For me, a TV has always been just a monitor. I don't even need the tuner, let alone any IoT crap. More and more, they're making devices that simply won't work at all without an internet connection. Electronic devices are becoming trojans for data collection.
Young people are no longer fascinated by the iron cages stuck in traffic.
Please, young people can't afford them. Only those with some accumulated wealth, i.e., old people, can slap down five figures for a device that drags your ass from point to point. And, if you live in a city, you don't need one. It's a much different situation outside of major cities, where car-sharing isn't going to work so well.