If all those people who promised to leave the US if Trump won would actually leave, we'd be in a much better place as a nation. Let's cross our fingers, but I'm sure their private position on the matter is different than their public position.
They'll be living in the streets in Toronto and Vancouver because there aren't enough houses or aparments in those cities anyway. Eh
I was one of the Democrats who voted for Trump during the primary to sabotage the GOP. Screw game theory. Elections are too important to not vote your conscience.
I so wish I could attach a clip of that kid from the Simpsons who points and goes 'haaa haaa'
Its become a big issue here in Sydney. The government brings in migrants to keep the economy growing, even when there isn't the money to build more roads, hire more buss drivers, etc. The only people who score are the house owners who sell for 10x to an apartment developer, who sells the apartments to investors who rent them out to hard working, broke people like myowntrueself;) Its all a big machine.
I particularly like the way the UK government wants to stop migrants coming in so they can keep the economy shrinking...
That's a silly argument. Cost of living is high *because* tech workers are paid so well. Which doesn't explain why Silicon Valley tech workers are paid so well in the first place, when tech workers could be found elsewhere.
You start by saying that my argument is silly because tech workers are paid so well and then you cancel that out by saying it doesn't explain why tech workers are paid so well in the first place... So whats the point?
I think cost of living is high because these tech companies like to set up in places which are appealing to live, which because of this already have higher house prices and higher rental prices. And this has a knock on effect on food prices etc.
OK so I don't live close to the bone, but contracting means moving around a bit even within the same sate as contracts change. Renting, cost of living, etc takes my "higher" salary. I could cut out my humble bundles and loot crates, but frankly it's a drop in the bucket compared to general living costs.
Cost of living in places where tech workers in North America are forced to live largely cancels out the higher salary. When it comes down to it, apples for apples, they end up being paid less.
I've worked in tech companies in 3rd world countries. The salary I was earning was like a kings ransom in local terms. I work in North America now and I get a normal salary in local terms but, boy, it doesn't add up to a kings ransom and my quality of life is, if anything, lower. There are plus sides to working in 1st world countries but at the end of the day it feels like you make less.
What it comes down to is that a dollar in one place isn't worth the same as a dollar in another place which anyone with any international experience should already know.
And have what are essentially slaves to dig up new ones.
Perhaps synthetic diamonds should be marketed as "cruelty-free diamonds". As far as synthetic vs. natural -- if it's made up of carbon atoms arranged in a face-centered cubic crystal structure called a diamond lattice (to paraphrase Wikipedia), it's a fucking diamond. All the work of digging up "natural" stones, etc... doesn't make them better, just more expensive. Of course, I'm sure The Diamond Industry will disagree (and have me killed).:-)
Except, you can't. The only thing you can do it hide it. But don't take my word for it. Bring up Task Manager. There it is. Kill it. And it immediately comes back.
You *can* disable Cortana, I figured out how to delete it. But it made my computer unstable.
So... Cortana contributes to the user experience by keeping the computer stable?
Windows 10 uses less resources and starts up faster than my previous Windows 7
I've heard the same claim about every Windows version since Windows 95. Every version is faster than the previous version. Let me just dig out a 386 machine, and you can prove how lightning fast Windows 10 is...
Meanwhile, the company I work at is buying everyone new PCs, because the old ones have become too slow since upgrading to Windows 10. Except mine, my PC is still running Windows 7, and is plenty fast for a Windows PC.
Try running Linux on a 386. To make it a more or less fair comparison make that Ubuntu and not some trimmed down minimal command line only version.
(Of course you won't even be able to install the latest Ubuntu on a 386, probably not any version of Ubuntu but you could probably achieve the same effect with hmmm Gentoo plus a reasonable Gnome desktop environment. The build time might take a few years unless you compile on other boxes but you may well be able to do a comparison of sorts).
I'm so sorry, I hadn't realised I was interacting with a bigoted blinkered racist.
I'll stop bothering you, there's clearly no point trying to use reason, logic or common sense here.
LOL yes, racist against English. I grew up among them, I think I'm qualified to be. They are xenophobic isolationists, the only time they can see outside their island is when they are in charge, like during the days of Empire. They never wanted to be part of something bigger than themselves. Once they leave the EU next will be the ICC and the UN.
When recording voiceovers, dialog, and narration, people would often like to change or insert a word or a few words due to either a mistake they made or simply because they would like to change part of the narrative...
When recording suspects, police would often like change or insert a word or a few words in order to manufacture evidence by changing part of the narrative.
FTFY
OTOH, if it's really good enough to be undetectable, it might cause a lot of legitimate and unaltered recordings to be thrown out of court on the grounds of reasonable doubt.
It'll add a whole new level to "Its a shop. I have a lot of experience with shops and also you can tell by the audiopixels".
you forgot Wales, it's been longer but it's still a Principality in it's own right
I don't think the English even see Wales as part of the United Kingdom any more, its seen as just an appendage to England nowadays, like Cornwall. Not saying that it actually *is* just thats how the English see them, almost as pets. True it does have its own little parliament but thats almost a gesture like a pat on the head and a doggy treat. With that inflammatory remark out of the way... and I would hope to inflame sentiments of independence among the Welsh (btw 'Welsh' comes from a Saxon word for foreigner; the correct term is 'Cymric'. So any person from Wales who refers to themselves as Welsh is just accepting their status as appendages to the English.
If you look at the map of leave vs remain votes and overlay that onto a map of Welsh language use you will find that the remain votes in Wales line up perfectly with high levels of Welsh language use.
The rest of Wales, the leavers, are mostly either descendants of English colonists or Anglicised Welsh who have lost their cultural identity and would probably call themselves 'Welsh'.
Maybe they just used "English passport" as a shorthand, to show that they came from one of the superior English speaking countries.
Yeah well my hope is that soon it really will be an 'English Passport' when the rest of the UK decide to just leave the English to it and force them into independence!
masses of elderly or uneducated or poor English people
While they also have a valid say in how the country is run, I think you're also ignoring the sizeable educated, young and/or well off people that voted to leave as well.
Most of my friends voted 'leave' and aren't poor, uneducated or elderly. And then there's the Welsh.
Keep throwing slurs and labels around though, you clearly feel better for it.
Look, almost all my relatives and old school friends are English. They ALL read the Daily Mail and believe what they read in it. That all by itself is enough for me to dismiss the English as a bunch of idiots. Even if you are educated and rich (which some of them are), if you read the Daily Mail and believe it then you are an idiot.
I was adopted, my biological family are Scots.
Also, the Welsh didn't vote leave; the ethically Welsh parts of Wales voted remain. The leavers in Wales were mostly English colonists or Welsh people who have lost their cultural identity and been Anglicised. The map overlay of Welsh language use and remain votes line up perfectly.
Isn't Britain England + Wales, and Great Britain the island - i.e. Britain + Scotland? In other words, Britain =/= UK
The island used to just be 'Britain' but when Saxon invaders made many Celtic Britons move to (what would become) France, that part of the continent became 'Lesser Britain' (now known as Brittany) and the island became 'Great Britain'.
However there was an older usage where Ireland was lesser Britain.
Either way, UK does not equal Britain in any sense at all. Its amazing the lack of knowledge there is among the people of that islands as to the name of their country. I've known English people who think the name of the country is England and referring to an 'English passport'.
I always thought that a horizontal white cross on a blue background should be retroactively defined as the Cross of St David, to make the Union Jack a complete union of the 4 crosses - St George, St Andrews, St Patricks and St Davids
Thats good, so after Brexit and England is forced to become an independent country, it doesn't just have to have the red cross on the Union Jack all by itself, which would look odd.
Not just that, the 2 Red Crosses are different. The IRC cross is a 'square' cross, contained in a completely white background, while the cross of St George goes end to end both horizontally and vertically. Enough of a difference
Thats a valid point, so at least the IP claims aren't a worry when England gets forced into independence from Scotland and Northern Ireland!
Yeeessss, because the red cross came before Britain didn't it.
Some people really are dense.
You might think that the name of the country is 'Great Britain' but that is the name of the island where England, Scotland and Wales are. So yes 'Britain' came first.
The name of the country isn't 'England' either. The name of the country is 'The United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' (used to leave out the 'Northern' part until independence and the formation of the Republic of Ireland).
How about Wales? When will they break free? Maybe they too would like to be a part of the mosaic that is Europe
Wales is a subdued nation. They aren't even on the union jack. Sure they have a vestigial parliament now but they are overwhelmed by ethnically English population.
Even the word 'Welsh' is an insult; it comes from a Saxon word for foreigner. So they are foreigners in their own land. The proper term is 'Cymric' people.
The ethnically Cymric parts of 'Wales' voted remain.
The problem for the UK is and always has been the English. IMO Northern Ireland should unify with the Irish Republic and together they should join with Scotland in a Gaelic union; Scotland was originally settle by Gaels from Ireland. The only thing that divides Scotland and the Irish Republic today is religion (Catholic vs Protestant). Many Scots even speak Gaelic which is mutually intelligible with the Gaelic spoken in the Irish Republic.
Let the English have their sovereignty from the EU as well as their independence from the United Kingdom, let England stand alone. They can strip the other components from the Union Jack and be left with the red cross on white background.
If Alabama decided to leave and got devastated financially, I would encourage the rest of the US to say "sorry, you had your chance, live with the consequences."
Also, presumably, it'd mean customs and immigration controls around Alabama which the rest of the States would rejoice in as they could keep those darn hillbillies contained!
This good because the Brexit people clearly are dirty unwashed common ignorant people who couldn't possibly understand what Brexit means.
They were mostly English so, yeah.
You might note that even though Wales voted leave the areas of Wales that voted remain are predominantly ethnic Welsh and Welsh language speaking areas. The areas of Wales that voted leave are effectively English.
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Slut-shaming is a liberal-feminist tactic for oppressing others.
So... OP is a SJW?
1) Markets are tanking.
2) News about how to immigrate to Canada floated from #5 to #3 on the Google "Top News" list.
At this rate, I'm glad I woke up. I'll go get my passport, pack my bags, get in line early to withdraw all my savings from the bank, and drive north.
I hope you have a tent. Your two choices are Vancouver and Toronto and theres barely enough housing as it is.
Protip; pick up a good shopping trolley.
the dollar will plummet, that means cheaper stuff from the US. Oh, wait, the good stuff is all made in China. Damn.
The Chinese will be pissed that their massive stockpile of dollars will be worth somewhat less...
If all those people who promised to leave the US if Trump won would actually leave, we'd be in a much better place as a nation. Let's cross our fingers, but I'm sure their private position on the matter is different than their public position.
They'll be living in the streets in Toronto and Vancouver because there aren't enough houses or aparments in those cities anyway. Eh
The smart money will be on shopping trolleys
I was one of the Democrats who voted for Trump during the primary to sabotage the GOP. Screw game theory. Elections are too important to not vote your conscience.
I so wish I could attach a clip of that kid from the Simpsons who points and goes 'haaa haaa'
Its become a big issue here in Sydney. The government brings in migrants to keep the economy growing, even when there isn't the money to build more roads, hire more buss drivers, etc. The only people who score are the house owners who sell for 10x to an apartment developer, who sells the apartments to investors who rent them out to hard working, broke people like myowntrueself ;) Its all a big machine.
I particularly like the way the UK government wants to stop migrants coming in so they can keep the economy shrinking...
That's a silly argument. Cost of living is high *because* tech workers are paid so well. Which doesn't explain why Silicon Valley tech workers are paid so well in the first place, when tech workers could be found elsewhere.
You start by saying that my argument is silly because tech workers are paid so well and then you cancel that out by saying it doesn't explain why tech workers are paid so well in the first place... So whats the point?
I think cost of living is high because these tech companies like to set up in places which are appealing to live, which because of this already have higher house prices and higher rental prices. And this has a knock on effect on food prices etc.
OK so I don't live close to the bone, but contracting means moving around a bit even within the same sate as contracts change. Renting, cost of living, etc takes my "higher" salary. I could cut out my humble bundles and loot crates, but frankly it's a drop in the bucket compared to general living costs.
Cost of living in places where tech workers in North America are forced to live largely cancels out the higher salary. When it comes down to it, apples for apples, they end up being paid less.
I've worked in tech companies in 3rd world countries. The salary I was earning was like a kings ransom in local terms. I work in North America now and I get a normal salary in local terms but, boy, it doesn't add up to a kings ransom and my quality of life is, if anything, lower. There are plus sides to working in 1st world countries but at the end of the day it feels like you make less.
What it comes down to is that a dollar in one place isn't worth the same as a dollar in another place which anyone with any international experience should already know.
And have what are essentially slaves to dig up new ones.
Perhaps synthetic diamonds should be marketed as "cruelty-free diamonds". As far as synthetic vs. natural -- if it's made up of carbon atoms arranged in a face-centered cubic crystal structure called a diamond lattice (to paraphrase Wikipedia), it's a fucking diamond. All the work of digging up "natural" stones, etc ... doesn't make them better, just more expensive. Of course, I'm sure The Diamond Industry will disagree (and have me killed). :-)
oooh vegan-safe diamonds!
most smartphone manufacturers barely break even or operate at a loss. add the losses to apple's share of the profits and you get over 100%
until a little while ago only apple and samsung took home something like 95% or 99% of all profits. samsung's loss pushes apple over 100% in profits
all those cheap android phones sold all over the world that make up for 85% of all phones sold don't really make any money
I think Android counts for more than 85% of smartphone sales now, more like 99%. Which just goes to show what a price-gouger Apple is.
You know you can turn cortana off, right?
Except, you can't. The only thing you can do it hide it. But don't take my word for it. Bring up Task Manager. There it is. Kill it. And it immediately comes back.
You *can* disable Cortana, I figured out how to delete it. But it made my computer unstable.
So... Cortana contributes to the user experience by keeping the computer stable?
I've heard the same claim about every Windows version since Windows 95. Every version is faster than the previous version. Let me just dig out a 386 machine, and you can prove how lightning fast Windows 10 is...
Meanwhile, the company I work at is buying everyone new PCs, because the old ones have become too slow since upgrading to Windows 10. Except mine, my PC is still running Windows 7, and is plenty fast for a Windows PC.
Try running Linux on a 386. To make it a more or less fair comparison make that Ubuntu and not some trimmed down minimal command line only version.
(Of course you won't even be able to install the latest Ubuntu on a 386, probably not any version of Ubuntu but you could probably achieve the same effect with hmmm Gentoo plus a reasonable Gnome desktop environment. The build time might take a few years unless you compile on other boxes but you may well be able to do a comparison of sorts).
Let me know how you get along!
I'm so sorry, I hadn't realised I was interacting with a bigoted blinkered racist.
I'll stop bothering you, there's clearly no point trying to use reason, logic or common sense here.
LOL yes, racist against English. I grew up among them, I think I'm qualified to be. They are xenophobic isolationists, the only time they can see outside their island is when they are in charge, like during the days of Empire. They never wanted to be part of something bigger than themselves. Once they leave the EU next will be the ICC and the UN.
When recording voiceovers, dialog, and narration, people would often like to change or insert a word or a few words due to either a mistake they made or simply because they would like to change part of the narrative...
When recording suspects, police would often like change or insert a word or a few words in order to manufacture evidence by changing part of the narrative.
FTFY
OTOH, if it's really good enough to be undetectable, it might cause a lot of legitimate and unaltered recordings to be thrown out of court on the grounds of reasonable doubt.
It'll add a whole new level to "Its a shop. I have a lot of experience with shops and also you can tell by the audiopixels".
Yep..this will be the politicians BEST friend....at least when they want to claim they didn't say it....
Sadly, this means likely even more revisionist history coming our way.
This is a tool they NEVER thought of in 1984....no need for double speak and re-writing the books, just change what people say....
Have a real-time portable version that people wear around their necks and automatically edits what they say.
No one will ever be offended again!
you forgot Wales, it's been longer but it's still a Principality in it's own right
I don't think the English even see Wales as part of the United Kingdom any more, its seen as just an appendage to England nowadays, like Cornwall. Not saying that it actually *is* just thats how the English see them, almost as pets. True it does have its own little parliament but thats almost a gesture like a pat on the head and a doggy treat. With that inflammatory remark out of the way... and I would hope to inflame sentiments of independence among the Welsh (btw 'Welsh' comes from a Saxon word for foreigner; the correct term is 'Cymric'. So any person from Wales who refers to themselves as Welsh is just accepting their status as appendages to the English.
If you look at the map of leave vs remain votes and overlay that onto a map of Welsh language use you will find that the remain votes in Wales line up perfectly with high levels of Welsh language use.
The rest of Wales, the leavers, are mostly either descendants of English colonists or Anglicised Welsh who have lost their cultural identity and would probably call themselves 'Welsh'.
Maybe they just used "English passport" as a shorthand, to show that they came from one of the superior English speaking countries.
Yeah well my hope is that soon it really will be an 'English Passport' when the rest of the UK decide to just leave the English to it and force them into independence!
masses of elderly or uneducated or poor English people
While they also have a valid say in how the country is run, I think you're also ignoring the sizeable educated, young and/or well off people that voted to leave as well.
Most of my friends voted 'leave' and aren't poor, uneducated or elderly. And then there's the Welsh.
Keep throwing slurs and labels around though, you clearly feel better for it.
Look, almost all my relatives and old school friends are English. They ALL read the Daily Mail and believe what they read in it. That all by itself is enough for me to dismiss the English as a bunch of idiots. Even if you are educated and rich (which some of them are), if you read the Daily Mail and believe it then you are an idiot.
I was adopted, my biological family are Scots.
Also, the Welsh didn't vote leave; the ethically Welsh parts of Wales voted remain. The leavers in Wales were mostly English colonists or Welsh people who have lost their cultural identity and been Anglicised. The map overlay of Welsh language use and remain votes line up perfectly.
Isn't Britain England + Wales, and Great Britain the island - i.e. Britain + Scotland? In other words, Britain =/= UK
The island used to just be 'Britain' but when Saxon invaders made many Celtic Britons move to (what would become) France, that part of the continent became 'Lesser Britain' (now known as Brittany) and the island became 'Great Britain'.
However there was an older usage where Ireland was lesser Britain.
Either way, UK does not equal Britain in any sense at all. Its amazing the lack of knowledge there is among the people of that islands as to the name of their country. I've known English people who think the name of the country is England and referring to an 'English passport'.
I always thought that a horizontal white cross on a blue background should be retroactively defined as the Cross of St David, to make the Union Jack a complete union of the 4 crosses - St George, St Andrews, St Patricks and St Davids
Thats good, so after Brexit and England is forced to become an independent country, it doesn't just have to have the red cross on the Union Jack all by itself, which would look odd.
Not just that, the 2 Red Crosses are different. The IRC cross is a 'square' cross, contained in a completely white background, while the cross of St George goes end to end both horizontally and vertically. Enough of a difference
Thats a valid point, so at least the IP claims aren't a worry when England gets forced into independence from Scotland and Northern Ireland!
Yeeessss, because the red cross came before Britain didn't it.
Some people really are dense.
You might think that the name of the country is 'Great Britain' but that is the name of the island where England, Scotland and Wales are. So yes 'Britain' came first.
The name of the country isn't 'England' either. The name of the country is 'The United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' (used to leave out the 'Northern' part until independence and the formation of the Republic of Ireland).
But you knew all this already, didn't you.
How about Wales? When will they break free? Maybe they too would like to be a part of the mosaic that is Europe
Wales is a subdued nation. They aren't even on the union jack. Sure they have a vestigial parliament now but they are overwhelmed by ethnically English population.
Even the word 'Welsh' is an insult; it comes from a Saxon word for foreigner. So they are foreigners in their own land. The proper term is 'Cymric' people.
The ethnically Cymric parts of 'Wales' voted remain.
The problem for the UK is and always has been the English. IMO Northern Ireland should unify with the Irish Republic and together they should join with Scotland in a Gaelic union; Scotland was originally settle by Gaels from Ireland. The only thing that divides Scotland and the Irish Republic today is religion (Catholic vs Protestant). Many Scots even speak Gaelic which is mutually intelligible with the Gaelic spoken in the Irish Republic.
Let the English have their sovereignty from the EU as well as their independence from the United Kingdom, let England stand alone. They can strip the other components from the Union Jack and be left with the red cross on white background.
If Alabama decided to leave and got devastated financially, I would encourage the rest of the US to say "sorry, you had your chance, live with the consequences."
Also, presumably, it'd mean customs and immigration controls around Alabama which the rest of the States would rejoice in as they could keep those darn hillbillies contained!
This good because the Brexit people clearly are dirty unwashed common ignorant people who couldn't possibly understand what Brexit means.
They were mostly English so, yeah.
You might note that even though Wales voted leave the areas of Wales that voted remain are predominantly ethnic Welsh and Welsh language speaking areas. The areas of Wales that voted leave are effectively English.