For there to be some reasonable standards regarding a driver being able to understand both the customer and the road signage would seem to make perfect sense.
And...quite often the app doesn't always give the BEST or most optimum route to the destination.
Quite often I've had to tell the driver to go a different way to avoid X traffic problem I know of, or that the app is just telling them plain wrong the shortest route.
And hell, the other night on the way home myself and guests riding to my house, remembered we needed to stop by the grocery store and get some liquor and wine...and so, we got the driver to make a short detour near my house and what for us to run int the store to get our party items....
I tipped her a $20 and all was cool.
You gotta speak the language to do things like this which are not out of the norm....
You apparently haven't been hanging out with a lot of teenagers lately. Human contact largely disappeared with the emergence of the smartphone and social networking.
So...do teens even get laid anymore?
Or is that not only hard from a lack of human interaction paradigm, but I'm guessing it is also dangerous for a male today, if he's even the least bit aggressive trying to court women.
These days, I hear that what was recently normal male behavior in seeking out females, etc....and now likened to sexual assault. It seems the only safe way a teen or young man can get laid...even if there is some human contact...is to let the girl be the aggressor.
And women just usually are not naturally aggressive in that manner....so, yes, I guess I just answer my own questions.
Teens don't get laid as much and when they do, the male is always in potential legal jeopardy....
You'd be burned alive in your bunker holding onto you damned shotgun.
You know...ammo is VERY heavy.
And carrying many weapons isn't very easy.
So, I'm talking more of having a base of operations to work from.....if grid and all is down for a LONG period of time, well, you're gonna need a place to grow your own food, preserve it, etc...
If power and all goes down for long, there will be no effective government for awhile....till then, you'd be best served being part of tribes, much like the indians (feather not dot) were in the US old west.
What laptop manufacturers really need to do is invest in precision keyboards that work as well as they used to 10 years ago, or better.
That's why when computing at home, my laptop is on a stand on my desk, hooked into a real monitor...and I use the good old IBM Style Buckling Spring keyboard.....
When I used to work in cube-ville with others, and had this keyboard, used to drive them crazy it is so loud, but oh my, it is a pleasure to type upon.
You people are laughable. The winners in that environment would be modeled on a mixture if Genghis Kahn, ISIS and Mexican drug gangs.
"Camps" like yours would be nothing but prey for mobile terrorists. If you didn't agree to hand over your loot, you'd quickly meet the same fate as the Waco cult.
No advanced preparation will be required to dominate a post-apocalyptic landscape, only a willingness to be inhumanly ruthless. Everything else, including weapons and fuel to smoke out opponents, can be looted in real time.
Well, they'll get a fight....and many of them picked off at 200-500+ yards before they can get close.
And its amazing what one can do with a 1000's of rounds in the zombie apocalypse type situation.
You know what they say, about bringing a knife to a gun fight....
And I have no problems being ruthless when it comes to your life or mine....I intend for you to lose.
If something catastrophic happens to the power grid, etc....I'm gathering all my ammo and weapons and getting with my friends who are also well armed...and we'll try to ride things out, and make it out of town to a camp, and go from there.
But, if things go to shit catastrophically, if you aren't armed, you'll likely be a victim and dead soon....and if you don't have a good network of friends, you likely will trouble too as that numbers will matter.
And I mean REAL friends...not FB "friends" or the like that you just click buttons for.....
2. Figuring out what the hell to replace the now pretty much useless "work ethic" that gives us our sense of worth with.
I heard this from time to time and I just do NOT get it.
I have a huge (probably exaggerated) sense of self worth. I would have it just the same if I did not work another day the rest of my life.
Are there THAT many people who's self image/worth is actually tied to their career????
I mean, I work for one and ONLY ONE reason...to earn enough money to support my lifestyle, on a level and in a fashion that allows me to do things I truly enjoy doing.
I mean, if I won the powerball tomorrow, I'd leave skid mark out the door of employment.
No, I'd never work another day in my life...I have MANY things I'd rather spend my days doing and could easily fill them.
I just do not get it that people actually consider their jobs as a measure of themselves or self worth.
A job is merely a means to a greater end...or at least, it should be.
If amazon puts in local brick and mortar stores in my state, that means they have to start charging sales tax online.....which virtually relieves me of any reason to buy from them any longer.
Any chance we can get Mr. "O" to volunteer himself and his *ahem* lovely wife as some of the first travelers to Mars?
It would be a good start!! Next, we follow with more and more congress critters and pretty soon, we can maybe start over with new representation that isn't bought and paid for.....be ruled by the people again.
I have NEVER forgotten my card, ever. I put it in, type my PIN and take it out while I have my wallet in my other hand. Almost everybody does it like that. Why would you NOT take it out again.
That's not how it works here in the US.
You plug the card in...no PIN required, BUT a message pops up on the screen and says "Please card in slot"...etc. The transaction take much longer than a swipe does apparently. Well, during that time I'll often take my attention away from it to usually chat with the clerk, or line mates, etc.
Anyway, after they finish ringing my stuff up, I often forget the fucking card is in the slot and walk out.
In the past, I would pull card out while things were going on, swipe it and immediately put it back in my wallet and be done with it....
You're talking about the country that still fears the metric system
No fear of it really...just no USE for it really.
I mean, of most of the US citizenry, there is absolutely NO compelling reason to change. It would not benefit their lives, but it would prove to be a BIG PITA to have to learn everything...I know how to dress when it is 72F outside intuitively.
Without googling it every time, I have no fucking idea how to dress for some random metric temp like 45C.
I cook with cups, TBSP, etc...I can measure those without even needing a measuring vessel many times....
So, for the general public, there is no compelling reason to change, but many reasons not to cause ourselves a couple of generations of hassle.
These days, there are these little latex balloon-like thingies that work pretty well to reduce unintended consequences of intended pleasure. Just sayin...
Yeah, but wearing a rubber to fuck, is analogous to eating a steak with one on your tongue.
Sure, you know there is "some" sort of sensation there, but really....Meh...why bother if you can't taste/feel anything really?
Get her on the pill or the sponge or something....and be able to actually enjoy the sensations of sex!!!
Only if you're working at the right place. At my employer (IT field) only 5% of the workforce is female, and most of them are older married HR/secretarial people. There are literally zero single women here.
They weren't referring to dating women at work by the "get a job and women will come out of the wood work" quote above.
It was more with reference of getting a job to have money to be able to afford to have a women and find out out in the real world.
In general, it is a very bad idea to date women you work with. It can lead to some very problematic work situations, and I don't just mean the emotional ones.
As litigious as society has become, and if you as a male are even hinted at as an "aggressor" which is a card a vindictive female at work can play on you, you are OUT the door and possibly in the sites of a lawsuit.
There is an old saying that is valid for a number of reasons:
"You don't dip your pen into the company ink".
By all means, get a job, earn some means to get out attract and keep a woman...but don't jeopardize your job FOR a woman at work. You're asking for nothing but trouble.
Yeah, I am pretty sure I will be one of the first wave of people killed in the apocalypse.... It actually doesn't bother me much, though. I will make way for others to survive.
Ouch....that's kinda pessimistic, isn't it?
I don't have a ton of supplies, or bunker, but I am stocking up on arms and ammo. And I have friends that will all try to hook up if shit does bad. I don't expect it, but you never know.
And if nothing else, if hillary gets in....guns and ammo prices will skyrocket and stock will plummet.
I figure just in case tho...I'm trying to learn some survival skills. I have been teaching myself to garden naturally, how to preserve food, etc....to make myself valuable to others if things go tits up.
Again, I don't expect it, but its never a bad thing to at least have some sort of game plan.
I saw what happened in a mini version of it with Katrina, and you don't wanna be stuck in the middle of shit like that when the lights go out. So, it helps to at least have some rudimentary thoughts on what you'd do IF.....
Let's say PBS and NPR claim they're going to sell themselves to the Chinese, would that cause the Republicans to start increasing its funding? We could give control of the Department of Education to Canada and see what happens.
Well, the movement to go back to small govt isn't really about what you're trying to paint it as....
But there is some good thought to maybe just abolishing the Dept. of Education, and leaving the management of the educational system to the states. Having it on a federal level certainly hasn't proven beneficial all these years.
And for radio and tv networks, why should the govt be in that business at all? Sure, make the private entities, just like any others out there and make them compete to survive.
Take a look at Playstation VUE's packages (no, you don't have to have a playstation to use it, I'm on the latest version of Amazon FireTV):
I get the Core Slim package for about $35/mo..has all the ESPN channels, and the SEC Channel.
This is part of my cord cutting package.
Just FYI...the VUE application is too much for the PS3 unit if you do have one...the guide just doesn't work well. And on the Roku 3..the Guide is not a true guide like on the Amazon FireTV. I'm guessing the Roku 4 is good too since it has more hardware, but I've not tried it yet.
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And...quite often the app doesn't always give the BEST or most optimum route to the destination.
Quite often I've had to tell the driver to go a different way to avoid X traffic problem I know of, or that the app is just telling them plain wrong the shortest route.
And hell, the other night on the way home myself and guests riding to my house, remembered we needed to stop by the grocery store and get some liquor and wine...and so, we got the driver to make a short detour near my house and what for us to run int the store to get our party items....
I tipped her a $20 and all was cool.
You gotta speak the language to do things like this which are not out of the norm....
So...do teens even get laid anymore?
Or is that not only hard from a lack of human interaction paradigm, but I'm guessing it is also dangerous for a male today, if he's even the least bit aggressive trying to court women.
These days, I hear that what was recently normal male behavior in seeking out females, etc....and now likened to sexual assault. It seems the only safe way a teen or young man can get laid...even if there is some human contact...is to let the girl be the aggressor.
And women just usually are not naturally aggressive in that manner....so, yes, I guess I just answer my own questions.
Teens don't get laid as much and when they do, the male is always in potential legal jeopardy....
You know...ammo is VERY heavy.
And carrying many weapons isn't very easy.
So, I'm talking more of having a base of operations to work from.....if grid and all is down for a LONG period of time, well, you're gonna need a place to grow your own food, preserve it, etc...
If power and all goes down for long, there will be no effective government for awhile....till then, you'd be best served being part of tribes, much like the indians (feather not dot) were in the US old west.
That's why when computing at home, my laptop is on a stand on my desk, hooked into a real monitor...and I use the good old IBM Style Buckling Spring keyboard.....
When I used to work in cube-ville with others, and had this keyboard, used to drive them crazy it is so loud, but oh my, it is a pleasure to type upon.
And where exactly are civilian's going to be getting .50 cal machine guns?
Also, if grid is down, its gonna be mighty hard, mighty quick to get gasoline in any significant fashion.
And if others can get ahold of these weapons that easily, we plan to do the same.
Well, they'll get a fight....and many of them picked off at 200-500+ yards before they can get close.
And its amazing what one can do with a 1000's of rounds in the zombie apocalypse type situation.
You know what they say, about bringing a knife to a gun fight....
And I have no problems being ruthless when it comes to your life or mine....I intend for you to lose.
But, if things go to shit catastrophically, if you aren't armed, you'll likely be a victim and dead soon....and if you don't have a good network of friends, you likely will trouble too as that numbers will matter.
And I mean REAL friends...not FB "friends" or the like that you just click buttons for.....
Nyet!!!
Hmm...perhaps this is a case of Mad Human Disease....
Ok..what is a split half?
For most newer movies or deeper movies...I still have my Netflix DVD/BluRay subscription...and you have a wider choice of titles there....
I heard this from time to time and I just do NOT get it.
I have a huge (probably exaggerated) sense of self worth. I would have it just the same if I did not work another day the rest of my life.
Are there THAT many people who's self image/worth is actually tied to their career????
I mean, I work for one and ONLY ONE reason...to earn enough money to support my lifestyle, on a level and in a fashion that allows me to do things I truly enjoy doing.
I mean, if I won the powerball tomorrow, I'd leave skid mark out the door of employment.
No, I'd never work another day in my life...I have MANY things I'd rather spend my days doing and could easily fill them.
I just do not get it that people actually consider their jobs as a measure of themselves or self worth.
A job is merely a means to a greater end...or at least, it should be.
Err...that's what Bosses and Managers do my friend....welcome to the pecking order.
New guys start at the bottom.
It really depends on what you're buying, I *do* find them often to be the cheapest....ESPECIALLY if said item is a big ticket item.
Saving almost 10% in sales tax by purchasing online with Amazon makes it a bargain I find....and I'm Prime, so free 2x day shipping, etc.
I think they gave her a medical pass due to her advancing Parkinson's Disease.....
If amazon puts in local brick and mortar stores in my state, that means they have to start charging sales tax online.....which virtually relieves me of any reason to buy from them any longer.
It would be a good start!! Next, we follow with more and more congress critters and pretty soon, we can maybe start over with new representation that isn't bought and paid for.....be ruled by the people again.
That's not how it works here in the US.
You plug the card in...no PIN required, BUT a message pops up on the screen and says "Please card in slot"...etc. The transaction take much longer than a swipe does apparently. Well, during that time I'll often take my attention away from it to usually chat with the clerk, or line mates, etc.
Anyway, after they finish ringing my stuff up, I often forget the fucking card is in the slot and walk out.
In the past, I would pull card out while things were going on, swipe it and immediately put it back in my wallet and be done with it....
No fear of it really...just no USE for it really.
I mean, of most of the US citizenry, there is absolutely NO compelling reason to change. It would not benefit their lives, but it would prove to be a BIG PITA to have to learn everything...I know how to dress when it is 72F outside intuitively.
Without googling it every time, I have no fucking idea how to dress for some random metric temp like 45C.
I cook with cups, TBSP, etc...I can measure those without even needing a measuring vessel many times....
So, for the general public, there is no compelling reason to change, but many reasons not to cause ourselves a couple of generations of hassle.
I keep almost leaving my fucking card in the slot and walking away.
With no PIN, I can't see how it is really any safer to me.
And these days, half the time I get it wrong, if I plug it in, they say "no..still need to swipe", or vice versa.
Yeah, but wearing a rubber to fuck, is analogous to eating a steak with one on your tongue.
Sure, you know there is "some" sort of sensation there, but really....Meh...why bother if you can't taste/feel anything really?
Get her on the pill or the sponge or something....and be able to actually enjoy the sensations of sex!!!
They weren't referring to dating women at work by the "get a job and women will come out of the wood work" quote above.
It was more with reference of getting a job to have money to be able to afford to have a women and find out out in the real world.
In general, it is a very bad idea to date women you work with. It can lead to some very problematic work situations, and I don't just mean the emotional ones.
As litigious as society has become, and if you as a male are even hinted at as an "aggressor" which is a card a vindictive female at work can play on you, you are OUT the door and possibly in the sites of a lawsuit.
There is an old saying that is valid for a number of reasons:
"You don't dip your pen into the company ink".
By all means, get a job, earn some means to get out attract and keep a woman...but don't jeopardize your job FOR a woman at work. You're asking for nothing but trouble.
Ouch....that's kinda pessimistic, isn't it?
I don't have a ton of supplies, or bunker, but I am stocking up on arms and ammo. And I have friends that will all try to hook up if shit does bad. I don't expect it, but you never know.
And if nothing else, if hillary gets in....guns and ammo prices will skyrocket and stock will plummet.
I figure just in case tho...I'm trying to learn some survival skills. I have been teaching myself to garden naturally, how to preserve food, etc....to make myself valuable to others if things go tits up.
Again, I don't expect it, but its never a bad thing to at least have some sort of game plan.
I saw what happened in a mini version of it with Katrina, and you don't wanna be stuck in the middle of shit like that when the lights go out. So, it helps to at least have some rudimentary thoughts on what you'd do IF.....
Well, the movement to go back to small govt isn't really about what you're trying to paint it as....
But there is some good thought to maybe just abolishing the Dept. of Education, and leaving the management of the educational system to the states. Having it on a federal level certainly hasn't proven beneficial all these years.
And for radio and tv networks, why should the govt be in that business at all? Sure, make the private entities, just like any others out there and make them compete to survive.
Take a look at Playstation VUE's packages (no, you don't have to have a playstation to use it, I'm on the latest version of Amazon FireTV):
I get the Core Slim package for about $35/mo..has all the ESPN channels, and the SEC Channel.
This is part of my cord cutting package.
Just FYI...the VUE application is too much for the PS3 unit if you do have one...the guide just doesn't work well. And on the Roku 3..the Guide is not a true guide like on the Amazon FireTV. I'm guessing the Roku 4 is good too since it has more hardware, but I've not tried it yet.