The "annoying pocket change" is the only real currency we still have. You'd be better off scarfing up nickels - as many as you can - while they are still composed of nickel. Think pre-1964 silver dimes/quarters for comparison.
I'd rather just buy sheets of nickel or other metals with my debit card if I feel the need for it, which I don't.
Obviously, exploited Foxconn workers who wonder why nobody gives a shit about them unless they're building an Apple device, obviously.
Right, because my post was clearly indicating I only care because they're making Apple products? If that was your point, I think you need to re-read my post.
Just how low are you guys willing to go to make a point?
Until it makes a difference.
You may say someone is vulgar or 'low' for showing you a picture you don't like.
Maybe you should look at the world we share, and how we share the world, instead?
People don't like looking at pictures of the victims they're responsible for. It's one of the main reasons why victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are so seldom displayed in high school textbooks and museums in the United States.
It's often called unpatriotic to look at victims. I say, we are cowardly to ignore the victims we create.
It's not enough that we ship our jobs overseas....but now we need to make sure that they're good jobs for those who get the jobs. I'm all for protecting workers...but the irony is thick.
It's only ironic if you care about things like nationalism.
I could care less about nationalism, but I do care about healthy working conditions and respect at the workplace.
While Apple bashing is always fun, let us remember that Apple is not the only FoxConn client. So while you may revel in this negative publicity of APPLE, would you be as thrilled to hear that your Xbox 360, your PS3, your Wii, and your Kindle are also built at those same FoxConn factories?
Who gives a fuck?
The point is that the working conditions are shit, and they deserve better as human beings.
I don't revel in positive or negative publicity for Apple
I'm pissed off at this blatant exploitation of the lower class in China so clueless soccer families can have more shiny toys.
As for Apple, I don't think about them much at all. They're part of the problem, other than that, I could care less.
And yet, if you refuse to buy because of that, you're supporting even worse life conditions than those abuses.
And more: Chinese factories are already automating because of rising labor costs, so even if you force wages to rise that might be counter-productive if you really want to help the workers, since they'll simply be replaced by machines.
That sounds like rationalizing if I ever heard it. Let's face it, you can either take a stand or not.
There's no amount of talking or pragmatic compromise that will solve a basic problem of disrespecting human dignity in the workplace.
If you're genuinely okay with this behavior, then that's one thing. If you're not okay with it, don't reason away your ethics because you want an iPhone.
Thank god we still have Radio Shack. I went in recently and found they were even selling arduinos. I've bought a bunch of components there for my electronics projects. It's not Fry's, but at least there's one 10 minutes away from my home in Nowhereville Vermont.
Fry's isn't Fry's anymore. Things haven't been the same since they started selling ovens and dishwashers. For years, I wondered why I even went there anymore. Recently, I've stopped wondering and stopped going.
Decibel figures are meaningless without knowing the distance of the observer to the bug's penis. For all we know, the scientist jammed the bug's willy into his/her ear, in which case the sound could obviously be perceived much louder than an orchestra from the front row!
Wikileaks doesn't have any idea whether the documents they release are relevant, irrelevant, dangerous or harmless.
Bullshit.
Wikileaks is screening the documents, redacting names of persons involved and generally exercising prudence in releasing the information. It seems you've bought into someone's FUD.
So I'd say if you are really gonna shoot for being a Gates or Jobs you have to not only have a sense of entrepreneurship, but also being willing to fuck over your own momma to get ahead. It is being a truly ruthless bastard that makes the extremely wealthy yet widely despised self-important douchebags, because as Jack Tramiel said "Business is war".
Last time I went to the Guggenheim, they were having a special exhibition, which, as far as I could tell, mostly consisted of rough portraiture of various well-known artist's private parts.
I remember thinking if this is high art, then I should already be renowned as a serious connoisseur.
We pick up and vacuum up the pieces of broken CFLs without hazmat suits all the time, and no ill effects to report... They get broken about 10% of the time when a bulb is being changed, a bit more often than incandescents, which adds to the cost and annoyance of using these bulbs -- the CFLs seem to be more fragile for some reason and break too easily, not sure why that might be.
In all seriousness, you should immediately go and get tested for mercury poisoning. Mercury poisoning is no joke. Breaking multiple CFL light-bulbs is a big fucking deal. Don't mess around.
If this becomes accurate to predict anything of actual use, the markets themselves will start using it... which renders the predictions themselves useless.
Markets rarely behave rationally. If they did, it wouldn't be so difficult to predict their behavior.
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If the rest of the states follow suit in the next few years, we may actually be able to purchase driverless vehicles in our lifetime.
For most trips, you can rent them. You don't even need to pay insurance.
It is called a bus.
I don't know where you live, but the buses I've seen have a driver.
If the rest of the states follow suit in the next few years, we may actually be able to purchase driverless vehicles in our lifetime.
I'm not holding my breath, though.
All it will take is one "think of the children" campaign courtesy of the chronically ignorant to derail this.
The "annoying pocket change" is the only real currency we still have. You'd be better off scarfing up nickels - as many as you can - while they are still composed of nickel. Think pre-1964 silver dimes/quarters for comparison.
I'd rather just buy sheets of nickel or other metals with my debit card if I feel the need for it, which I don't.
I'm not much of a coin/metal collector.
Replace coinage with paper currency if you have to, but eliminate all the annoying pocket change.
Sprinters sprint.
Runners run.
Juggers jog.
You'd think strollers stroll.
Strangely instead strollers convey small children nestled within their confines but only because someone is pushing them along.
Know what. I'll take a word that is allocated to naming the object any day over a misleading one. The Brits got it right, we got it wrong.
Speaking of wrong, the word you're looking for is "buggy". Like... rubber baby buggy bumpers.
If buggies bugger with rubber bumpers, you'd think that would generally prevent carrying babies.
Obviously, exploited Foxconn workers who wonder why nobody gives a shit about them unless they're building an Apple device, obviously.
Right, because my post was clearly indicating I only care because they're making Apple products? If that was your point, I think you need to re-read my post.
Just how low are you guys willing to go to make a point?
Until it makes a difference.
You may say someone is vulgar or 'low' for showing you a picture you don't like.
Maybe you should look at the world we share, and how we share the world, instead?
People don't like looking at pictures of the victims they're responsible for. It's one of the main reasons why victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are so seldom displayed in high school textbooks and museums in the United States.
It's often called unpatriotic to look at victims. I say, we are cowardly to ignore the victims we create.
It's not enough that we ship our jobs overseas....but now we need to make sure that they're good jobs for those who get the jobs. I'm all for protecting workers...but the irony is thick.
It's only ironic if you care about things like nationalism.
I could care less about nationalism, but I do care about healthy working conditions and respect at the workplace.
While Apple bashing is always fun, let us remember that Apple is not the only FoxConn client. So while you may revel in this negative publicity of APPLE, would you be as thrilled to hear that your Xbox 360, your PS3, your Wii, and your Kindle are also built at those same FoxConn factories?
Who gives a fuck?
The point is that the working conditions are shit, and they deserve better as human beings.
I don't revel in positive or negative publicity for Apple
I'm pissed off at this blatant exploitation of the lower class in China so clueless soccer families can have more shiny toys.
As for Apple, I don't think about them much at all. They're part of the problem, other than that, I could care less.
Capitalism lifts people out of poverty, but not before people are exploited first. That's the trade-off.
Are you going to be the one to go over and explain to the suicidal workers about how this is all necessary?
When does the exploitation stop? When people just happen to feel like it someday?
And yet, if you refuse to buy because of that, you're supporting even worse life conditions than those abuses.
And more: Chinese factories are already automating because of rising labor costs, so even if you force wages to rise that might be counter-productive if you really want to help the workers, since they'll simply be replaced by machines.
That sounds like rationalizing if I ever heard it. Let's face it, you can either take a stand or not.
There's no amount of talking or pragmatic compromise that will solve a basic problem of disrespecting human dignity in the workplace.
If you're genuinely okay with this behavior, then that's one thing. If you're not okay with it, don't reason away your ethics because you want an iPhone.
Thank god we still have Radio Shack. I went in recently and found they were even selling arduinos. I've bought a bunch of components there for my electronics projects. It's not Fry's, but at least there's one 10 minutes away from my home in Nowhereville Vermont.
Fry's isn't Fry's anymore. Things haven't been the same since they started selling ovens and dishwashers. For years, I wondered why I even went there anymore. Recently, I've stopped wondering and stopped going.
If we had days and events to recognize each and everyone who helped to make the world work, the world would not work.
On the contrary, the Romans basically did this, and the result was ridiculous fun!
Who cares if the world's going to shit when you have a festival (sometimes two) every single day!
All hail Bacchus (and Dennis Ritchie)! Huzzah!
Also can be tied to a stick and used to smack down post-apocalyptic miscreants after its original purpose is long forgotten.
Decibel figures are meaningless without knowing the distance of the observer to the bug's penis. For all we know, the scientist jammed the bug's willy into his/her ear , in which case the sound could obviously be perceived much louder than an orchestra from the front row!
Pics or it didn't happen.
Wikileaks doesn't have any idea whether the documents they release are relevant, irrelevant, dangerous or harmless.
Bullshit.
Wikileaks is screening the documents, redacting names of persons involved and generally exercising prudence in releasing the information. It seems you've bought into someone's FUD.
It's a big balloon.
Although it seems jaded, I have to say I agree.
The photographs clearly illustrate a large decorative balloon.
There's nothing wrong with that, but it's not exactly earth-shattering.
So I'd say if you are really gonna shoot for being a Gates or Jobs you have to not only have a sense of entrepreneurship, but also being willing to fuck over your own momma to get ahead. It is being a truly ruthless bastard that makes the extremely wealthy yet widely despised self-important douchebags, because as Jack Tramiel said "Business is war".
FTFY
Last time I went to the Guggenheim, they were having a special exhibition, which, as far as I could tell, mostly consisted of rough portraiture of various well-known artist's private parts.
I remember thinking if this is high art, then I should already be renowned as a serious connoisseur.
When you have a rat problem you dont send in a bunch of cats riding on the back of pigs do you... :p
I will now that you've given me the idea.
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We pick up and vacuum up the pieces of broken CFLs without hazmat suits all the time,
and no ill effects to report...
They get broken about 10% of the time when a bulb is being changed, a bit more often than incandescents, which adds to the cost and annoyance of using these bulbs -- the CFLs seem to be more fragile for some reason and break too easily, not sure why that might be.
In all seriousness, you should immediately go and get tested for mercury poisoning. Mercury poisoning is no joke. Breaking multiple CFL light-bulbs is a big fucking deal. Don't mess around.
If this becomes accurate to predict anything of actual use, the markets themselves will start using it... which renders the predictions themselves useless.
Markets rarely behave rationally. If they did, it wouldn't be so difficult to predict their behavior.
Are there any projections/estimates related to how stable this media would be when used for long-term archival storage?
I thought the joke was just quirky enough to work pretty well. I guess it just goes to show that humor is never universal.
I, for one, welcome our new small furry not-yet-house-trained overlords!
CPUGPU, just step around it...