Well, that's only if you've only ever lived in places with good electricity service that doesn't go out regularly, electrocute you nor set houses on fire on a regular basis. As someone that has lived in places like that as well as places with no electricity, and places where there were actually options for utility companies - I can appreciate good electricity service.
I do not see 30 minute delivery as a beneficial in any way.
I'm in the middle of a sewing or knitting project, and I run out of thread or yarn. If I can order it with 30 minute delivery, I do not have to wait hours for my husband to get home with the car so I can finish the project. If it is something I'm making for sale and there is a time limit (say, it's suppose to ship out tomorrow or the next day) this can be vital.
The power is out, and the batteries in my radio die..
I'm sitting on the toilet and run out of toilet paper..
If you don't, then you don't set it to be delivered at that time.
Personally, at my house, there are very few periods of time when no one is home or awake - I have a family, and we don't all leave/sleep at the same time.
I also live in a neighborhood where I'm comfortable leaving a package on my lawn for a few hours... and my dog is going to bark if anyone gets near it, anyway (which will wake me up).
I'm pretty sure the first time, the child got it from being in the mother's uterus; not from abuse.
I'm also pretty sure that it would have to be some awfully creative abuse for female to female-4-year-old abuse to spread HIV.
How do you know the accuracy if you aren't listening while you watch the closed captions? (Or ARE you listening while watching the closed captions, in the hope of teaching the two month old to read or some such?)
Personally I don't have any hobbies that don't come down to needing internet access anymore.
I play video games, but most of the stuff I want to play nowadays is through Steam (which requires internet access, if only to set it to offline mode), or online play is a major component, or the game I want to play at that moment is not necessarily on my device (so I'd have to download it before I could play).
I read, but mostly ebooks nowadays, so I'd have to download a book before I could read it. I listen to audiobooks, same problem - and audiobooks from the library download in parts, so even if I've already started listening, there's no guarantee I'll have the next part downloaded.
I watch anime, but I watch it streaming nowadays.
I knit and crochet, but 95% of my patterns are digital - so if I want to start a new project I have to download the pattern.
I listen to Japanese music, but most of my music is in Amazon Cloud Player. There are no Japanese radio stations here.
I could go to a coffee shop or the library to use their internet access... but are they open today, what time do they close today, do I have enough gas money to drive there, enough money to buy a cup of coffee? I don't know for sure without internet access.
I could pull out some older games or a dead-tree-book or knit something I know how to do by heart, without a pattern. But it wouldn't be what I hoped and planned to do that day, so it would feel like a waste of time and/or, depending on the activity, a waste of money. Or I'd start enjoying something and come to something that needs internet access (looking up a word that is too new to be in the dictionary I have, looking up how to get past something in a game, the next part of an audiobook, where to buy new hiking boots, whatever) and then I'd get frustrated and angry. Even having a conversation with my husband usually leads to one or the other of us wanting to look something up on the internet.
I know it's a first world problem.. Usually if the internet or power is going to be out for more than a few waking hours, I go to someone elses' house (power especially because then I can't recharge my devices that can connect to the internet on their own/without my in-home internet access working).
Most crashes are a result of human error, not instrument failure. If you remove human error and emotion from the equation, things would actually be safer.
People parking on laws or not, that's a consequence of living near a roller coaster park / exhibition site (and it won't be stopped by disallowing parking on lawns); and to a lesser extent, of living near other people. The only reasonable thing that can be done is limiting noise during certain hours.
property values
Oh no, they're making property taxes lower for people that live there and showing potential buyers the truth of living near a roller coaster park / exhibition site! Those monsters!
Why do the neighbors take exception to it, though? How does it affect the neighbors if someone else messes up their lawn and flower bed?
From May - August my neighbors have friends over pretty much daily, enough to have (along with their own cars - they have 3 generations of family living together) 8 - 9 cars parked on their property and in front of their house (parallel parked on the street). Should I take exception to that?
I find this disgusting.
My daughter and one of my stepsons want(/wanted) to code games. There's a million and one opportunities available to my daughter. But my son's dreams were crushed pretty quickly because he doesn't learn in the "normal" way - he learns it with real-world examples, hands-on experiences, and while being allowed to fidget and doodle. But explain the rules to him and then give him a sheet of busywork and he's lost. Over and over he was reprimanded for the teacher's lack of ability to teach him in a way he could learn. Told he had no future in coding because he "couldn't" do things. Bullied and made fun of for mistakes and inability to sit still much more than a normal boy-child. But give me 5 minutes of doing things with him in the ways he can learn and suddenly he could do all that work he "couldn't" do.
That son is now 13 and has given up on coding (despite my efforts the drive was just killed in him before I got to him). My daughter is now 7 and already beginning to make games. She really isn't any better or worse than stepson was in the beginning. But she can sit still and learn in the "normal" way (i.e. the common girl's way) and she's a GIRL who's interested so they throw all kinds of opportunities her way. If she goes to a coding class and a boy bullies her? Or so much as giggles when she makes a mistake? It's stopped immediately. And here's a gold star for trying while you have a vagina.
It's obvious to me, even around my tits; you don't get equality by raising women higher. You get it by treating all genders EQUALLY. And if that means less women than men like to code? So what. Shouldn't we be encouraging kids to do what they want to do rather than pushing them into one thing or another because of their gender? And if you don't want equality for boys, think about this: all of these girls are going to be screwed when (if) they eventually want to start a family; there will be no smart men with careers, no equals for them.
Although with doctors, girls are often pushed to be obstetricians, pediatricians etc. Something where they will be working with women and/or children. You won't see a little girl that wants to become a penis doctor encouraged. IMO this is because women want women doctors working with themselves and their children - because the men might get some kind of sexual pleasure from it (in their minds, not in reality). I think the lawyer thing is because women want women lawyers, someone that they feel can relate to their feelings about whatever they need a lawyer for. But, a woman software developer doesn't benefit other women in any way that they can see. A woman isn't uncomfortable if she uses software designed by a man. Women don't (yet) imagine that a man is getting sexual pleasure when she uses his software.
We have become a culture that centers around womens' feelings, to the point of throwing everyone elses' feelings and desires - even future women - out the window...
Really? So if you get sick at a restaurant, the restaurant shouldn't have any liability or insurance; you were suppose to have your own 'diners insurance'?
I do wonder why I am paying so much for health insurance if everyone elses' insurance is supposedly going to pay if I get sick or injured.
And then immediately get hit by a bunch of lasers that are shining at the plane because people think it's fine, since the blinds are most likely closed. No, it's much easier to stop people from shining the lasers at planes.
Slashdot Mirror
They are irrelevant.
Well, that's only if you've only ever lived in places with good electricity service that doesn't go out regularly, electrocute you nor set houses on fire on a regular basis. As someone that has lived in places like that as well as places with no electricity, and places where there were actually options for utility companies - I can appreciate good electricity service.
No, we just have to read it again after all Tesla owners have died.
I was going to starve my child to death, but then I drove past a graveyard and saw a statue of Superman.
But he will be correct eventually.
I do not see 30 minute delivery as a beneficial in any way.
I'm in the middle of a sewing or knitting project, and I run out of thread or yarn. If I can order it with 30 minute delivery, I do not have to wait hours for my husband to get home with the car so I can finish the project. If it is something I'm making for sale and there is a time limit (say, it's suppose to ship out tomorrow or the next day) this can be vital.
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The power is out, and the batteries in my radio die.
I'm sitting on the toilet and run out of toilet paper.
Heck I can think of a million reasons.
If you don't, then you don't set it to be delivered at that time.
Personally, at my house, there are very few periods of time when no one is home or awake - I have a family, and we don't all leave/sleep at the same time.
I also live in a neighborhood where I'm comfortable leaving a package on my lawn for a few hours... and my dog is going to bark if anyone gets near it, anyway (which will wake me up).
The mother could have abused the child again
I'm pretty sure the first time, the child got it from being in the mother's uterus; not from abuse.
I'm also pretty sure that it would have to be some awfully creative abuse for female to female-4-year-old abuse to spread HIV.
How do you know the accuracy if you aren't listening while you watch the closed captions? (Or ARE you listening while watching the closed captions, in the hope of teaching the two month old to read or some such?)
Personally I don't have any hobbies that don't come down to needing internet access anymore.
I play video games, but most of the stuff I want to play nowadays is through Steam (which requires internet access, if only to set it to offline mode), or online play is a major component, or the game I want to play at that moment is not necessarily on my device (so I'd have to download it before I could play).
I read, but mostly ebooks nowadays, so I'd have to download a book before I could read it. I listen to audiobooks, same problem - and audiobooks from the library download in parts, so even if I've already started listening, there's no guarantee I'll have the next part downloaded.
I watch anime, but I watch it streaming nowadays.
I knit and crochet, but 95% of my patterns are digital - so if I want to start a new project I have to download the pattern.
I listen to Japanese music, but most of my music is in Amazon Cloud Player. There are no Japanese radio stations here.
I could go to a coffee shop or the library to use their internet access... but are they open today, what time do they close today, do I have enough gas money to drive there, enough money to buy a cup of coffee? I don't know for sure without internet access.
I could pull out some older games or a dead-tree-book or knit something I know how to do by heart, without a pattern. But it wouldn't be what I hoped and planned to do that day, so it would feel like a waste of time and/or, depending on the activity, a waste of money. Or I'd start enjoying something and come to something that needs internet access (looking up a word that is too new to be in the dictionary I have, looking up how to get past something in a game, the next part of an audiobook, where to buy new hiking boots, whatever) and then I'd get frustrated and angry. Even having a conversation with my husband usually leads to one or the other of us wanting to look something up on the internet.
I know it's a first world problem.. Usually if the internet or power is going to be out for more than a few waking hours, I go to someone elses' house (power especially because then I can't recharge my devices that can connect to the internet on their own/without my in-home internet access working).
Most crashes are a result of human error, not instrument failure. If you remove human error and emotion from the equation, things would actually be safer.
Hey, what's the problem with letting the garbage pile up,
Health risks for the neighbors. Animals take it into other yards. decomposing or just dripping trash seeps into other yards, etc.
having 6 cars up on blocks,
I don't know; what's the problem with that?
at heavy traffic from my crack sales?
Well I think the issue with that is that selling crack is illegal. Whether it should be or not is another issue.
So I'm still not getting why people PARKING is an issue.
Noise, pollution
People parking on laws or not, that's a consequence of living near a roller coaster park / exhibition site (and it won't be stopped by disallowing parking on lawns); and to a lesser extent, of living near other people. The only reasonable thing that can be done is limiting noise during certain hours.
property values
Oh no, they're making property taxes lower for people that live there and showing potential buyers the truth of living near a roller coaster park / exhibition site! Those monsters!
Aside from that, most sausage skins in the western world are made from plastic, it's been that way for decades.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Plastic casings are not commonly used any more due to health hazards.
And when they WERE used, it would have only been in the kind of sausage that you peel - not in those where you eat it casing and all.
Why do the neighbors take exception to it, though? How does it affect the neighbors if someone else messes up their lawn and flower bed?
From May - August my neighbors have friends over pretty much daily, enough to have (along with their own cars - they have 3 generations of family living together) 8 - 9 cars parked on their property and in front of their house (parallel parked on the street). Should I take exception to that?
I find this disgusting.
My daughter and one of my stepsons want(/wanted) to code games. There's a million and one opportunities available to my daughter. But my son's dreams were crushed pretty quickly because he doesn't learn in the "normal" way - he learns it with real-world examples, hands-on experiences, and while being allowed to fidget and doodle. But explain the rules to him and then give him a sheet of busywork and he's lost. Over and over he was reprimanded for the teacher's lack of ability to teach him in a way he could learn. Told he had no future in coding because he "couldn't" do things. Bullied and made fun of for mistakes and inability to sit still much more than a normal boy-child. But give me 5 minutes of doing things with him in the ways he can learn and suddenly he could do all that work he "couldn't" do.
That son is now 13 and has given up on coding (despite my efforts the drive was just killed in him before I got to him). My daughter is now 7 and already beginning to make games. She really isn't any better or worse than stepson was in the beginning. But she can sit still and learn in the "normal" way (i.e. the common girl's way) and she's a GIRL who's interested so they throw all kinds of opportunities her way. If she goes to a coding class and a boy bullies her? Or so much as giggles when she makes a mistake? It's stopped immediately. And here's a gold star for trying while you have a vagina.
It's obvious to me, even around my tits; you don't get equality by raising women higher. You get it by treating all genders EQUALLY. And if that means less women than men like to code? So what. Shouldn't we be encouraging kids to do what they want to do rather than pushing them into one thing or another because of their gender?
And if you don't want equality for boys, think about this: all of these girls are going to be screwed when (if) they eventually want to start a family; there will be no smart men with careers, no equals for them.
I think you may be confusing your times; by the 80s kids had Atari 2600s and Apple IIs.
Obviously your money.
Speak for yourself. If a movie is actually good I want to own/keep it, so that I can watch it again at a later point without having to pay again.
which you don't see with doctors or lawyers.
Although with doctors, girls are often pushed to be obstetricians, pediatricians etc. Something where they will be working with women and/or children. You won't see a little girl that wants to become a penis doctor encouraged. IMO this is because women want women doctors working with themselves and their children - because the men might get some kind of sexual pleasure from it (in their minds, not in reality). I think the lawyer thing is because women want women lawyers, someone that they feel can relate to their feelings about whatever they need a lawyer for. But, a woman software developer doesn't benefit other women in any way that they can see. A woman isn't uncomfortable if she uses software designed by a man. Women don't (yet) imagine that a man is getting sexual pleasure when she uses his software.
We have become a culture that centers around womens' feelings, to the point of throwing everyone elses' feelings and desires - even future women - out the window...
Why are humans more precious than a dog?
Because humans spend more money.
Really? So if you get sick at a restaurant, the restaurant shouldn't have any liability or insurance; you were suppose to have your own 'diners insurance'?
I do wonder why I am paying so much for health insurance if everyone elses' insurance is supposedly going to pay if I get sick or injured.
And then immediately get hit by a bunch of lasers that are shining at the plane because people think it's fine, since the blinds are most likely closed. No, it's much easier to stop people from shining the lasers at planes.
So what about smaller planes that are flown by sight rather than instruments?
Maybe because people already understand the danger of kids playing with guns?
It doesn't really matter since pilots have to have regular eye exams and are not allowed to fly at a certain amount of vision impairment.