I'm honestly surprised he didn't come back with some crazy cognitive dissonance thing. Perhaps he quietly learned something... maybe there is hope yet.
Yeah, of course, we've all been in car accidents and that's the point - the roads are very dangerous with all those big hunks of metal on the road. Better to be IN one than ON one. The city with its bike lanes and shoulders is one thing, but when you are in the old inner ring suburbs with its 100-year-old converted farm roads with no shoulder, it is terrifying. People come right up behind you and "tailgate" you if you stay in the lane, and if you move to the side they nearly clip you with their mirrors as they almost universally fail to give you the legal 4 ft. I use my bike for recreation, and I stay on trails and quiet roads. I could probably map out a route that keeps me (mostly) off such roads, but it would be very long and would still need to funnel under the railroad tracks at several places on the main roads at some point.
To be fair, most of those came while racing - not on his trip to work. He now works from home:)
And he races less now, mostly doing things like hosting foreign racers at his house and riding in chase vehicles to feed his addiction... he's a good guy, just nuts.
How does it feel to go through life so completely ignorant? Probably pretty good. My favorite part is how condescending you are when so blatantly wrong:
“One of the main reasons we’ve survived is because we’ve been a used store,” says Goldmark. “CDs have been on the decline since the early 2000s. Luckily, vinyl really began to tip. Every high school and college kid has to have a turntable. At least, the alternative ones do, and they’re playing vinyl again.”
Sure call me a liar, but statistics are in my favor here. Biking is not a safe activity compared to driving.
I agree, by the way. The guy that continues to cycle despite his concussions is a bit deranged. His wife is begging him to stop. But he's very experienced and very dedicated. He keeps trying to convince me to let him show me a "safe" route to work. Yeah, no thanks buddy.
Yeah, I know two guys who bike to work everyday - or did, anyway. One has had something like 7 concussions. The other was just found on the side of the road and had no idea what happened to him. Mr. 7 concussion still bikes, but not Mr. side of road.
Thanks - what is your opinion of apps like Duo Lingo? I personally am trying to learn a little French in this way, and I found it very helpful on our recent trip to France. The vocabulary, as you say, was much more important than the grammar.
No, it's demonstrating that a niche market exists for vinyl. By no means could Best Buy start carrying 100,000 vinyl albums and expect to make any money except in niche markets like LA and San Francisco. You could probably also get away with it in other hipster hubs like Austin and Brooklyn.
You are taking an extremely niche hipster vinyl Mecca and extrapolating that to refute data about larger trends. You may as well use the success of Federal Doughnuts to gauge changes in America's junk food tastes.
Think about what you are trying to do - buy a Japanese MP3 from a US version of Amazon. If you instead search on the Amazon Japan page, you can indeed download the album. This is almost certainly due to copyright restrictions.
All true for new music, but there are artists that predate streaming, and whose stuff isn't all available on the streaming services, or even YouTube. And even if it were, YouTube isn't exactly high-quality audio. I recently encountered a situation where I found an artist that I liked who was active during the late 90s/early 2000s. I couldn't find any digital sources for them (not even on pirate sites) and ended up buying used CDs and ripping them. If not for physical media, their music would have been essentially lost to time... which I think is kind of a shame.
I would until I found a job that was more personally fulfilling. I once worked on a doomed project, and it was demotivating as hell. I was weeks away from quitting when the guy in charge got canned.
I still pirate out of pure laziness. I pay for Netflix and Amazon Prime but it's often easier to simply search for a pirated version of whatever than to log in and search all the separate services. Kodi is no joy, but once set up it's still a better experience than any of the legit offerings - simply because search is centralized. The rights holders obviously aren't starving or they'd be more consumer-friendly - I have very little empathy for them and try to minimize the amount of money I send their way.
I presume you are German from your email? I think your English is a lot better than my German! My daughter is taking German at school - it's the one bit of homework I cannot help her with...
I'm in the US, so the answer is not simple or uniform. Every school district sets its own curriculum and so it completely depends on where you went to school. States are starting to assert control over the curriculum with things like "common core" and proficiency tests, but even then you have state-to-state variation. I went to a good school and we had a science curriculum in 5th grade - but that was over 30 years ago and certainly does not speak for everyone. Even at my good school, you would be a stunted adult if you stopped learning vocabulary in 5th grade. You might even get tripped up when someone used a word like "roil".
Yeah, if you want to go back to origins, his "robots" were artificial biological life forms engineered to serve humanity - so we have no robots by that definition.
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Please elaborate. In what way to they "own" it?
Oh, no - where will I find 7GB on my 500GB drive?
I run Linux... in a container on Windows and FreeBSD.
Oh, and so my kid can play Minecraft on his Chromebook.
Technically, I suppose I run it on several devices in the house - Android, Chromebooks, Chromecasts, Ubiquiti, etc.
I'm honestly surprised he didn't come back with some crazy cognitive dissonance thing. Perhaps he quietly learned something... maybe there is hope yet.
Presumably he means a big ol' Bridgeport or the like. Not wife friendly.
Yeah, of course, we've all been in car accidents and that's the point - the roads are very dangerous with all those big hunks of metal on the road. Better to be IN one than ON one. The city with its bike lanes and shoulders is one thing, but when you are in the old inner ring suburbs with its 100-year-old converted farm roads with no shoulder, it is terrifying. People come right up behind you and "tailgate" you if you stay in the lane, and if you move to the side they nearly clip you with their mirrors as they almost universally fail to give you the legal 4 ft. I use my bike for recreation, and I stay on trails and quiet roads. I could probably map out a route that keeps me (mostly) off such roads, but it would be very long and would still need to funnel under the railroad tracks at several places on the main roads at some point.
To be fair, most of those came while racing - not on his trip to work. He now works from home :)
And he races less now, mostly doing things like hosting foreign racers at his house and riding in chase vehicles to feed his addiction... he's a good guy, just nuts.
How does it feel to go through life so completely ignorant? Probably pretty good. My favorite part is how condescending you are when so blatantly wrong:
You know where that quote came from? Joe Goldmark, one of the owners of the SF store.
Sure call me a liar, but statistics are in my favor here. Biking is not a safe activity compared to driving.
I agree, by the way. The guy that continues to cycle despite his concussions is a bit deranged. His wife is begging him to stop. But he's very experienced and very dedicated. He keeps trying to convince me to let him show me a "safe" route to work. Yeah, no thanks buddy.
Yeah, I know two guys who bike to work everyday - or did, anyway. One has had something like 7 concussions. The other was just found on the side of the road and had no idea what happened to him. Mr. 7 concussion still bikes, but not Mr. side of road.
One of the nice things about freeing up the salary spent on an engineer is you could choose to spend it on a cop, or likely 2.
Thanks - what is your opinion of apps like Duo Lingo? I personally am trying to learn a little French in this way, and I found it very helpful on our recent trip to France. The vocabulary, as you say, was much more important than the grammar.
No, it's demonstrating that a niche market exists for vinyl. By no means could Best Buy start carrying 100,000 vinyl albums and expect to make any money except in niche markets like LA and San Francisco. You could probably also get away with it in other hipster hubs like Austin and Brooklyn.
You are taking an extremely niche hipster vinyl Mecca and extrapolating that to refute data about larger trends. You may as well use the success of Federal Doughnuts to gauge changes in America's junk food tastes.
Think about what you are trying to do - buy a Japanese MP3 from a US version of Amazon. If you instead search on the Amazon Japan page, you can indeed download the album. This is almost certainly due to copyright restrictions.
Yeah, to hell with that nationwide chain and its enormous dataset - I'm going to go with your sample size of one.
All true for new music, but there are artists that predate streaming, and whose stuff isn't all available on the streaming services, or even YouTube. And even if it were, YouTube isn't exactly high-quality audio. I recently encountered a situation where I found an artist that I liked who was active during the late 90s/early 2000s. I couldn't find any digital sources for them (not even on pirate sites) and ended up buying used CDs and ripping them. If not for physical media, their music would have been essentially lost to time... which I think is kind of a shame.
Ooo! That's exactly what Mr. Robot said!
I would until I found a job that was more personally fulfilling. I once worked on a doomed project, and it was demotivating as hell. I was weeks away from quitting when the guy in charge got canned.
I still pirate out of pure laziness. I pay for Netflix and Amazon Prime but it's often easier to simply search for a pirated version of whatever than to log in and search all the separate services. Kodi is no joy, but once set up it's still a better experience than any of the legit offerings - simply because search is centralized. The rights holders obviously aren't starving or they'd be more consumer-friendly - I have very little empathy for them and try to minimize the amount of money I send their way.
I presume you are German from your email? I think your English is a lot better than my German! My daughter is taking German at school - it's the one bit of homework I cannot help her with...
I'm in the US, so the answer is not simple or uniform. Every school district sets its own curriculum and so it completely depends on where you went to school. States are starting to assert control over the curriculum with things like "common core" and proficiency tests, but even then you have state-to-state variation. I went to a good school and we had a science curriculum in 5th grade - but that was over 30 years ago and certainly does not speak for everyone. Even at my good school, you would be a stunted adult if you stopped learning vocabulary in 5th grade. You might even get tripped up when someone used a word like "roil".
This leader of the PRC is there for life.
China Removes Presidential Term Limits, Enabling Xi Jinping To Rule Indefinitely
People with a 5th grade education.
Yeah, if you want to go back to origins, his "robots" were artificial biological life forms engineered to serve humanity - so we have no robots by that definition.