A regular old analog key works JUST fine for me...
Heck at this point, I'm trying to make sure I can DISable many of the new car "innovations" before I get a new one, especially if something like OnStar or UConnect which are no longer options, but are imposed upon you.
I just want a car that works, looks nice and goes fast...I don't need the tracking, surveillance or other multiple points of failure, like a missing, out of power, or stoled cell phone required to make my automobile function.
I rarely ever let others drive my car to begin with....
Now if you take a MAX at 2am, you'll see the occasional meth head or homeless dude looking to warm up, but otherwise it's perfectly safe nearly any time you take it.
No thanks...I'll just jump in my car, and ride door-to-door in a safe and timely manner, or maybe just catch an uber if I've had too much to drink to drive that night....
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And while you're stuck in a massive traffic jam because everybody else took your advice, you can smile smugly that you avoided the taint of communism.
And where exactly are all of these "mythical" traffic jams I hear about?
I mean, unless you live in L.A. or maybe Houston or Dallas or maybe NY....the rest of the US is not plagued by hours long traffic jams. Only a very few cities maybe in the NE or extreme west cities have this problem.
For the rest of us, it is only a few minutes drive, door-to-door for any destination we want...and it is faster and more convenient to use your own car rather than depend on un-dependable, PITA public transport where you not only get to have lots of travel between your start or final destination and the bus/train deployment points, but you get to sit and meet interesting bums and otherwise smelly personage.
And good luck getting those 10+ bags of groceries home on public transport....
/me thumbs through the Constitution looking for where the US Govt needs to track and know my phone conversations or what devices I buy and own and use for such.....?
Perhaps I don't want GOOGLE to know my phone number when it asks me for it when setting up accounts or accusing them form 'unknown' computers...?
Pixelmator is allright, but Aperture / Photos do something it doesn't (simple white balance anyone?) Between the two, you have 99% of anything most will do with PS. (Note, I'm not talking about pros using PS for things that us normal folks just won't ever be able to do:)
I still haven't decided what to use for my photos once Aperture ceases to be an option. I haven't warmed up to Photos yet primarily because I've not used it enough. It's another wait and see, hopefully it'll turn out like FCX.
Check out Affinity Photo!!
It is truly the best competitor I've ever seen to Photoshop...it has about 99% of the functionality, and is MUCH faster too.
Also, price is reasonable...and it NOT the rental paradigm that Adobe has adopted with CC.
Yes these are plugins for popular photo editors such as Photoshop, Lightroom and Aperture. The plugins were originally targeted at the professional photographer market. Pretty much all of us use at least one of those applications.
It would be nice if Google, or if they open sourced the NIK tools, someone else could...port this over for Affinity Photo.
So far, I've found Affinity Photo to be pretty much 99% of what Adobe Photoshop is...but MUCH faster. I think Affinity is well on its way to being a competitor to Photoshop, and it doesn't require monthly RENT, and the price is reasonable.
Right now Affinity Photo is for OS X only, but a Windows beta is soon to be released.
I've stopped with Adobe tools at CS6....I refuse to *rent* my software and I won't support companies that try to do that model. I'm quite happy with Affinity so far...the price is more than reasonable (about $70 I think)...and they are giving plenty of free upgrades as they put in new functionality.
If you know Photoshop, you pretty much know Affinity too. I also bought Affinity Designer, which is to compete with Adobe Illustrator. I've not played with it as much and I don't know AI all that well, so, I cannot comment on its functionality vs the Adobe product, but if it is as good as Photo, I'd dare say it will be a valid competitor.
I would like to see many of my plug-ins for PS be able to work with Affinity. I hope enough folks start supporting this alternate tool....and maybe try to get Adobe to back off the fucking rental model.
Is there seriously something people need to learn and worry about?
How about how to actually USE a fucking computer? How about greater emphasis on Civics classes, so we won't be overrun by boneheads that have NO idea about how the US Federal government works...or at least how it is supposed to work?
Diversity with fucking emojis? Seriously, this is a solution looking desperately for a fucking problem....
What does "socially responsible" purchasing mean and look like???
If you have to ask...
Yep, I have to ask.
I've personally never HEARD of the terms put together before.
Hell, for that matter, I've never heard of much of any type behavior being described as particularly "socially responsible", or basing ones' behavior on this new sort of paradigm or quality.
"there is no sane rationale for companies to continue to explore for new sources of hydrocarbons,"
Well, I guess they want us to stop drilling and just let it all run out, which would take the world about what...a year or so tops?
Just great, lets all go back to pavemen in a year or so..since we just do not at this time, have enough valid, viable energy alternatives to run the world and modern life.
I can understand wanting to promote finding new energy alternatives to hydrocarbons, but hey....stopping before we have another options sounds pretty foolish to me.
it's just unnecessary spending on a luxury. It pollutes the environment, it's a slap in the face to *any* poorer relations or friends you might have, if you don't have trusts set up for your kids already it's kind of a slap in the face to them, and it's far from a socially responsible way to spend your money because almost the entire nonprofit world out there is trying to serve millions of people on budgets that would make you live on rice and ramen.
I have nothing against the poor or struggling out there, and I like to think that often I'm a charitable person, and give, etc.
But man, do you seriously base your purchases on how it might be perceived by others in your family or friends...or even strangers???
I mean, do you and those people actually look at what kind of computer as a sort of status symbol?
And buying things..."socially responsible"?? Wow..that's a foreign concept to me....if I see something I want or need, I buy it. I've never heard of anyone giving more thought to a purchase than that. What does "socially responsible" purchasing mean and look like???
I mean the world is the world. There always have been and always will be...haves and have nots. That's just they way life is.
You're years on earth are limited and you don't need to waste time on crap that doesn't matter. Get and do what makes you happy, and while at it..try to make others happy.
But at the same time, realize you can't save the world, and life it too short to waste trying to....
I tossed in an SSD, removed the optical for hdd caddy and upgraded to max ram.
I have a macbook pro, late 2011 model. I maxed it out with 16GB ram..and it ran great for years, but in past year, has been looking VERY long in the tooth, especially with regard to my video work.
I'm trying to work with Davinci Resolve to try get a feel for the editor, and it was barely usable with stuttering playback. I replaced the spinning drive that was only like 75GB..with a 1TB SSD that just gave this thing new life.
This should hold me I think, till maybe the next iMac 5K comes out (hoping for a bit more GPU)....or maybe save up for a Mac Pro.
But I think for most people, they don't do heavy CPU or GPU tasks, and the need for upgrading all the time, is past us...as that most folks' needs (email, chat, web, etc) are more than met by what they can buy today off the shelf.
If you advocate for more surveillance and the erosion of civil liberties in response to these attacks, you are cooperating with the terrorists in their attempt to undermine the fundamental values of our society.
You insensitive clod, we need phone decryption to spy on law-abiding citizen, not terrorists!
And lets just stop being PC about all this...and get serious.
The time for profiling has come. Let's face it, this attack has all the markings of another horrible, malicious attack by those damned radical Baptist terrorists.
It has all the signs....open your eyes people, we KNOW where and who the real threat is.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say you've never seen a ghetto before in the US. Take a look at Detroit or Mississippi sometime. If you're okay with that, then I guess we just can't see eye to eye on this.;-)
I live in New Orleans...I've seen the numerous projects here...thankfully we're getting rid (finally) of most of the post Katrina, but there are some still here and yes, I know what they are like.
Agreeing to disagree is cool...that's part of rational discourse, something that is unfortunately fading in the US these days. But I'm good with it.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say you've never seen a slum before. Take a look at India or Central America sometime. If you're okay with that, then I guess we just can't see eye to eye on this.
That's not the type of thing we'd ever have risk seeing in the US.
We don't have the caste system here, so that type of desolation ain't gonna happen here.
Today we have a good number of discouraged workers* and a vast number of people who have no intentions of ever being employed again.
You know....if we QUIT giving handouts after a short period of welfare/unemployment, I"ll bet those folks would get hungry enough, and tired of sleeping in the rain enough to get off their asses, change their attitude, and go try to get employed again would they not?
Sure, some people are happy to live on the street, and beg...but I'd venture to guess that is FAR in the minority.
Wow, all I can say is that the first half of your response is a very big pile of stinky judgmental vitriol. It's really easy to sit on a high horse and judge others, especially those who are poor, as it deflects any judgment of your own poor decisions over your life. And I'd put a lot of money on there being at least a decent number of mistakes in your own past. I guess you've never been poor because if you were, you'd understand just HOW rigged the system is against you. Let me ask you this: In this day an age, WHY must people work? How is it somehow morally required to work and toil when technology has obsoleted us in so many ways already, and will only continue to do so?
It is easy to be observant of what is going on out there today in the workplace and society.
First, YES, I've been poor.....its a pretty natural thing (or it used to be) when I got out of school and on my own, I supported myself working retail...restaurants (waiting and bartending)....I didn't make much money at all.
But I worked, and kept trying. Got in with the right people...and took a path on life that I'd not previously really thought about (IT work)....so far, that is been good to me.
Poor judgement? YEP...I've been the king of it, and I've also still made bad judgements. However, I've lived with what I've done, and tried to learn lessons and move on. I don't use it as a crutch.
For most the "system" is not rigged against them...IF, they are willing to value and seek an education, to put in EFFORT and work from the bottom up.
It isn't rigged if you work, and don't depend on someone else to do this, or do that...or take care of you. That's not society's job...it is YOUR job. It is up to you to be a responsible adult...grow up and act like one.
What gets me...you seriously (I think) are asking in this day in age "why must people work"...if you are not kidding, then I posit to you...
WHO is going to provide the services?
Who is going to make the products?
Who or how is money and resources going to be earned and used to pay for everyone to not fucking work?!?!
Why should anyone have to work so that someone else (able bodied of course) doesn't have to?
Who decides who has to work and turn over their hard worked earnings to someone so they don't have to?
Technology rarely takes away work...it just moves it to different forms. A machine replaces a formerly human job? Well, someone has to take care of that machine, improve it....replace it when it gets old and need of repair.
As someone who has lived a decent bit of life so far, who has made mistakes, who has depend upon himself for sustainment, growth and success....I certainly feel well placed to have an opinion, and I've no problem voicing it.
IN the end...no one gets a free ride. For all the technology in the world and "progress" we've made as a society, there's no getting away from what we are...
We are animals, in competition for life's resources. We eat, we reproduce and we compete for things in life.
The only difference between us and the rest of the animal inhabitants of this planet is that we are currently at the top of the food chain.
You don't know what to do, really? Are you willing to pay more, to be inconvinced less?
Well, in general...ALL the inconveniences of public transportation is the reason I seldom ever take it and enjoy the freedom of my own car.
I only take the street car (New Orleans) because it is kind of quaint and different and fun...and it is nice to avoid parking in the Quarter.
However, for every day, real life...no way I could do public transport. Not door to door (important during the rain, heat and humidity season down here which is about 9+ months of the year)....not timely and I won't even go into how I can't imagine how I'd do my weekly grocery shopping on a freakin' bus.
I feel for the handicapped....but I was responding to someone commenting on the slowness, and I was adding one more contributing factor.
The main thing that actually works is vocational training / education. I started to just write "education", but getting a bunch of people degrees in Russian Literature isn't all that effective; we can get better results from our limited resources with training in welding, IT fields, etc. If someone is 36 years old and they're worth the same wage as a 16 year old, if they haven't managed to improve their skills and knowledge in 20 years, that's something we need to look at.
We also have to recognize a very uncomfortable fact. Gas stations and fast food places around Texas are offering $10-12/hour to start, which, with the low cost of living in Texas, is a decent wage. That's just the starting wage, for teenagers with no experience, show up on time for a year and you start getting raises. Yet there are a bunch of people not working! There are even people getting fired from Taco Bell because they won't show up on time and when they do show up they're stoned. It's a lot harder to help those people. I'm not sure how to help people who won't show up, except I've done one thing that has helped in some cases. I've given them two choices - show up, sober, and get paid well, or don't get paid at all. They'd like to show up drunk or stoned, figuring they are then worth about $6/hour, but I don't give them that option. About half of them then decide they'd rather have a job where they show up on time, sober, for $10, then have no job and no money for beer. The other half - I don't know how to help them.
I wish I had mod points, you put this so well.
I've often joked that if you're 30yrs old and you still wear a name tag that says "Hi my name is...", you've made some serious vocational errors in your life.
And the thing is, we can't legislate away lazy, stupid and bad decision making.
I do believe in a safety net for the elderly and the truly infimed. But anyone who is able bodied, should pursue work. And right now, with current social welfare system....you have a lot of folks that are happy living at that level and will not do anything to try to better their life or contribute more to society.
One thing that does work is...having benefits run OUT. If people get desperate, they will act.
Maybe that will light a fire under their asses, to get out, and get jobs or pursue more education to get a better job. We also need to promote more...especially in the poorer areas of towns, that EDUCATION is important.....moreso than emulating the latest professional athlete, or rap "hero".
Unfortunately, I think we're now being stuck with the "everyone gets a trophy for just showing up" millennial kids, and they DO act like you described. That they can just show up whenever, or come to work high. I dunno personally, how we can combat this attitude that has been fostered in them since youth by their overbearing helicopter parents.
But perhaps....greater doses of reality are needed.
You're fired.
You're out of the house.
You'd better do something, or you'll starve and sleep out in the rain.
They then have two choices. Get busy trying to make something of their lives and have work ethics and responsibility for themselves, or crime.
If they choose crime, then fsck'em, jail them.
We could legalize things like pot, and free up prison space (stupid to use up resources like this for non-violent crime). We could open up that industry and create jobs.
I have no problem with folks partying on their own time.....just be in good shape for work hours.
I think the time for coddling is over....and at some point, we have to get back to what made for great working and living in the US...personal responsibility.
And we reintroduce the REAL risk that if you don't do some work and struggle to make yourself competitive i the real world....there are REAL consequences....you go hungry.
The hop-on, hop-off style is an interesting method, and works for normal healthy people but not for people with disability, children or elderly people.
Actually, on thing that causes extreme slowness on busses (or at least the street cars down here), is when they have to stop and do the major ordeal of picking someone up in a wheel chair. The elevator process is painfully slow, and then they have to secure them in with straps...etc. Then they have to repeat the process when the get off.
I dunno what they can possibly do about this, since folks with disabilities need to get around too, but I cringe when on the few times I ride the street cars to to to the Quarter (and avoid parking0, that we stop with a wheelchair pickup. When that happens, you can kiss your schedule goodbye, which sucks if you're going to a meal reservation too.
States like Georgia have something similar to this already but don't use remote kill switches. If the authorities pull you over and can visually confirm your vehicle is non-compliant, they can have the vehicle impounded and force you to pay money into an escrow account that a car dealer can access to bring the vehicle back up to specs (at least they do that for diesel trucks that might have the EGR, DPF, etc removed).
Ahh...its nice to live in a state where they don't do *sniff* tests or really care what exhaust you have on your car...
I am understanding that you can actually (they're pretty sure) just get rid of the OEM radio (whole infotainment?) and that kills it by itself. I don't know if the Challenger comes with steering wheel controls but you'd have to go after-market with those too, which is possible. Supposedly... That's the only way to kill it AND supposedly it works. I know some of the Dodge Ram guys were working on it, specifically going for antenna modifications, but I think that even when they applied filters that they still found data leaking.
As I'm sure you know, replacing the infotainment by itself is a bit of work and expense. I understand that it works - or that the folks who have done so claim that it works. That's more specific to the Ram but I'd expect them to be fundamentally similar.
Also, doesn't the Hellcat still have four seats? You're not going soft, are you?;-) That much bhp will be brutal but so much fun. I've yet to stumble into one. I'll see if I can find a good exhaust note recording on YouTube. Someone's bound to have recorded it near the point were it's bouncing off the rev limiter.
At any rate, I can't guarantee that it's successful. I just know that the Ram guys were looking into it and claimed some success a while back by simply swapping out either the radio or whole infotainment center. They're probably very similar so I'd check with them.
LOL..you must have read some of my posts before. Yeah....if I bought the Hellcat, it would indeed be the first car I've ever owned with more than 2 functional seats (technically my 1986 911 Turbo had 4 seats, but you couldn't fit a human back there, so I don't count that).. I'm not sure what I'd do with that much room, or potentially having more than one passenger in the car with me at a time. In the past, that always served me well, as that if going out with friends, I never have to drive with a 2-seater.
But more to the point, I did see some posts that did posit that you could solve the UConnect "problem" by removing the entertainment center. I usually wait till my cars are closer to being out of warranty before I replace stock head units and all...but I might consider it for the Hellcat if I got it.
I'd get a pro with car audio systems to do the removal and replace....I'd not touch that.
But yes....I've been watching YouTube videos and reviews on the Hellcat Challenger and over 700 HP looks like a fucking hoot! They actually have a great engine note....nice to see that Dodge didn't pussy out and make it purr too quietly. That thing gets loud when you open it up!!
I wish I could get a Viper, but just a bit too $$$, and I think this is the last year of production for them. The Hellcat seems to give the muscle bang for the buck.
I just don't like what they'e done to the Vette on this last model...the boxy, angular rear end on that thing just looks ass-ugly to me...
I've found about 3 hellcats at car lots online in the surrounding areas of town locally. I'm toying with the idea of going to one for a test drive....but I"m trying to hold off, in that if I get in that thing and it acts like it appears it does....I'll be forking over money.
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A regular old analog key works JUST fine for me...
Heck at this point, I'm trying to make sure I can DISable many of the new car "innovations" before I get a new one, especially if something like OnStar or UConnect which are no longer options, but are imposed upon you.
I just want a car that works, looks nice and goes fast...I don't need the tracking, surveillance or other multiple points of failure, like a missing, out of power, or stoled cell phone required to make my automobile function.
I rarely ever let others drive my car to begin with....
And neither of those are typical cases for most of the US.
No thanks...I'll just jump in my car, and ride door-to-door in a safe and timely manner, or maybe just catch an uber if I've had too much to drink to drive that night....
And where exactly are all of these "mythical" traffic jams I hear about?
I mean, unless you live in L.A. or maybe Houston or Dallas or maybe NY....the rest of the US is not plagued by hours long traffic jams. Only a very few cities maybe in the NE or extreme west cities have this problem.
For the rest of us, it is only a few minutes drive, door-to-door for any destination we want...and it is faster and more convenient to use your own car rather than depend on un-dependable, PITA public transport where you not only get to have lots of travel between your start or final destination and the bus/train deployment points, but you get to sit and meet interesting bums and otherwise smelly personage.
And good luck getting those 10+ bags of groceries home on public transport....
Just got get a car like a *normal* person and be done with it....
It may cost you a few more dollars, but you eliminate the PITA of public transportation like this...
Perhaps I don't want GOOGLE to know my phone number when it asks me for it when setting up accounts or accusing them form 'unknown' computers...?
Check out Affinity Photo!!
It is truly the best competitor I've ever seen to Photoshop...it has about 99% of the functionality, and is MUCH faster too.
Also, price is reasonable...and it NOT the rental paradigm that Adobe has adopted with CC.
It would be nice if Google, or if they open sourced the NIK tools, someone else could...port this over for Affinity Photo.
So far, I've found Affinity Photo to be pretty much 99% of what Adobe Photoshop is...but MUCH faster. I think Affinity is well on its way to being a competitor to Photoshop, and it doesn't require monthly RENT, and the price is reasonable.
Right now Affinity Photo is for OS X only, but a Windows beta is soon to be released.
I've stopped with Adobe tools at CS6....I refuse to *rent* my software and I won't support companies that try to do that model. I'm quite happy with Affinity so far...the price is more than reasonable (about $70 I think)...and they are giving plenty of free upgrades as they put in new functionality.
If you know Photoshop, you pretty much know Affinity too. I also bought Affinity Designer, which is to compete with Adobe Illustrator. I've not played with it as much and I don't know AI all that well, so, I cannot comment on its functionality vs the Adobe product, but if it is as good as Photo, I'd dare say it will be a valid competitor.
I would like to see many of my plug-ins for PS be able to work with Affinity. I hope enough folks start supporting this alternate tool....and maybe try to get Adobe to back off the fucking rental model.
Is there seriously something people need to learn and worry about?
How about how to actually USE a fucking computer? How about greater emphasis on Civics classes, so we won't be overrun by boneheads that have NO idea about how the US Federal government works...or at least how it is supposed to work?
Diversity with fucking emojis? Seriously, this is a solution looking desperately for a fucking problem....
Ok...enough coffee for me this morning....
Yep, I have to ask.
I've personally never HEARD of the terms put together before.
Hell, for that matter, I've never heard of much of any type behavior being described as particularly "socially responsible", or basing ones' behavior on this new sort of paradigm or quality.
Well, I guess they want us to stop drilling and just let it all run out, which would take the world about what...a year or so tops?
Just great, lets all go back to pavemen in a year or so..since we just do not at this time, have enough valid, viable energy alternatives to run the world and modern life.
I can understand wanting to promote finding new energy alternatives to hydrocarbons, but hey....stopping before we have another options sounds pretty foolish to me.
I have nothing against the poor or struggling out there, and I like to think that often I'm a charitable person, and give, etc.
But man, do you seriously base your purchases on how it might be perceived by others in your family or friends...or even strangers???
I mean, do you and those people actually look at what kind of computer as a sort of status symbol?
And buying things..."socially responsible"?? Wow..that's a foreign concept to me....if I see something I want or need, I buy it. I've never heard of anyone giving more thought to a purchase than that. What does "socially responsible" purchasing mean and look like???
I mean the world is the world. There always have been and always will be...haves and have nots. That's just they way life is.
You're years on earth are limited and you don't need to waste time on crap that doesn't matter. Get and do what makes you happy, and while at it..try to make others happy.
But at the same time, realize you can't save the world, and life it too short to waste trying to....
I have a macbook pro, late 2011 model. I maxed it out with 16GB ram..and it ran great for years, but in past year, has been looking VERY long in the tooth, especially with regard to my video work.
I'm trying to work with Davinci Resolve to try get a feel for the editor, and it was barely usable with stuttering playback. I replaced the spinning drive that was only like 75GB..with a 1TB SSD that just gave this thing new life.
This should hold me I think, till maybe the next iMac 5K comes out (hoping for a bit more GPU)....or maybe save up for a Mac Pro.
But I think for most people, they don't do heavy CPU or GPU tasks, and the need for upgrading all the time, is past us...as that most folks' needs (email, chat, web, etc) are more than met by what they can buy today off the shelf.
And lets just stop being PC about all this...and get serious.
The time for profiling has come. Let's face it, this attack has all the markings of another horrible, malicious attack by those damned radical Baptist terrorists.
It has all the signs....open your eyes people, we KNOW where and who the real threat is.
I live in New Orleans...I've seen the numerous projects here...thankfully we're getting rid (finally) of most of the post Katrina, but there are some still here and yes, I know what they are like.
Agreeing to disagree is cool...that's part of rational discourse, something that is unfortunately fading in the US these days. But I'm good with it.
That's not the type of thing we'd ever have risk seeing in the US.
We don't have the caste system here, so that type of desolation ain't gonna happen here.
I dunno...Humans have been survivors since their beginnings on this earth.....
I somehow doubt that the masses will either give up and die on the streets or become criminals.
My thoughts are that if you force most people to get off the dole...they will do something to get work and survive.
I can't believe the majority will resort to crime or just give up...that's now how humans work.
You know....if we QUIT giving handouts after a short period of welfare/unemployment, I"ll bet those folks would get hungry enough, and tired of sleeping in the rain enough to get off their asses, change their attitude, and go try to get employed again would they not?
Sure, some people are happy to live on the street, and beg...but I'd venture to guess that is FAR in the minority.
It is easy to be observant of what is going on out there today in the workplace and society.
First, YES, I've been poor.....its a pretty natural thing (or it used to be) when I got out of school and on my own, I supported myself working retail...restaurants (waiting and bartending)....I didn't make much money at all.
But I worked, and kept trying. Got in with the right people...and took a path on life that I'd not previously really thought about (IT work)....so far, that is been good to me.
Poor judgement? YEP...I've been the king of it, and I've also still made bad judgements. However, I've lived with what I've done, and tried to learn lessons and move on. I don't use it as a crutch.
For most the "system" is not rigged against them...IF, they are willing to value and seek an education, to put in EFFORT and work from the bottom up.
It isn't rigged if you work, and don't depend on someone else to do this, or do that...or take care of you. That's not society's job...it is YOUR job. It is up to you to be a responsible adult...grow up and act like one.
What gets me...you seriously (I think) are asking in this day in age "why must people work"...if you are not kidding, then I posit to you...
WHO is going to provide the services?
Who is going to make the products?
Who or how is money and resources going to be earned and used to pay for everyone to not fucking work?!?!
Why should anyone have to work so that someone else (able bodied of course) doesn't have to?
Who decides who has to work and turn over their hard worked earnings to someone so they don't have to?
Technology rarely takes away work...it just moves it to different forms. A machine replaces a formerly human job? Well, someone has to take care of that machine, improve it....replace it when it gets old and need of repair.
As someone who has lived a decent bit of life so far, who has made mistakes, who has depend upon himself for sustainment, growth and success....I certainly feel well placed to have an opinion, and I've no problem voicing it.
IN the end...no one gets a free ride. For all the technology in the world and "progress" we've made as a society, there's no getting away from what we are...
We are animals, in competition for life's resources. We eat, we reproduce and we compete for things in life.
The only difference between us and the rest of the animal inhabitants of this planet is that we are currently at the top of the food chain.
Well, in general...ALL the inconveniences of public transportation is the reason I seldom ever take it and enjoy the freedom of my own car.
I only take the street car (New Orleans) because it is kind of quaint and different and fun...and it is nice to avoid parking in the Quarter.
However, for every day, real life...no way I could do public transport. Not door to door (important during the rain, heat and humidity season down here which is about 9+ months of the year)....not timely and I won't even go into how I can't imagine how I'd do my weekly grocery shopping on a freakin' bus.
I feel for the handicapped....but I was responding to someone commenting on the slowness, and I was adding one more contributing factor.
I wish I had mod points, you put this so well.
I've often joked that if you're 30yrs old and you still wear a name tag that says "Hi my name is...", you've made some serious vocational errors in your life.
And the thing is, we can't legislate away lazy, stupid and bad decision making.
I do believe in a safety net for the elderly and the truly infimed. But anyone who is able bodied, should pursue work. And right now, with current social welfare system....you have a lot of folks that are happy living at that level and will not do anything to try to better their life or contribute more to society.
One thing that does work is...having benefits run OUT. If people get desperate, they will act.
Maybe that will light a fire under their asses, to get out, and get jobs or pursue more education to get a better job. We also need to promote more...especially in the poorer areas of towns, that EDUCATION is important.....moreso than emulating the latest professional athlete, or rap "hero".
Unfortunately, I think we're now being stuck with the "everyone gets a trophy for just showing up" millennial kids, and they DO act like you described. That they can just show up whenever, or come to work high. I dunno personally, how we can combat this attitude that has been fostered in them since youth by their overbearing helicopter parents.
But perhaps....greater doses of reality are needed.
They then have two choices. Get busy trying to make something of their lives and have work ethics and responsibility for themselves, or crime.
If they choose crime, then fsck'em, jail them.
We could legalize things like pot, and free up prison space (stupid to use up resources like this for non-violent crime). We could open up that industry and create jobs.
I have no problem with folks partying on their own time.....just be in good shape for work hours.
I think the time for coddling is over....and at some point, we have to get back to what made for great working and living in the US...personal responsibility.
And we reintroduce the REAL risk that if you don't do some work and struggle to make yourself competitive i the real world....there are REAL consequences....you go hungry.
Actually, on thing that causes extreme slowness on busses (or at least the street cars down here), is when they have to stop and do the major ordeal of picking someone up in a wheel chair. The elevator process is painfully slow, and then they have to secure them in with straps...etc. Then they have to repeat the process when the get off.
I dunno what they can possibly do about this, since folks with disabilities need to get around too, but I cringe when on the few times I ride the street cars to to to the Quarter (and avoid parking0, that we stop with a wheelchair pickup. When that happens, you can kiss your schedule goodbye, which sucks if you're going to a meal reservation too.
I mean, it's bad enough they've been mistreated, but now...they aren't even gonna let them get laid anymore?!!?
Ahh...its nice to live in a state where they don't do *sniff* tests or really care what exhaust you have on your car...
LOL..you must have read some of my posts before. Yeah....if I bought the Hellcat, it would indeed be the first car I've ever owned with more than 2 functional seats (technically my 1986 911 Turbo had 4 seats, but you couldn't fit a human back there, so I don't count that).. I'm not sure what I'd do with that much room, or potentially having more than one passenger in the car with me at a time. In the past, that always served me well, as that if going out with friends, I never have to drive with a 2-seater.
But more to the point, I did see some posts that did posit that you could solve the UConnect "problem" by removing the entertainment center. I usually wait till my cars are closer to being out of warranty before I replace stock head units and all...but I might consider it for the Hellcat if I got it.
I'd get a pro with car audio systems to do the removal and replace....I'd not touch that.
But yes....I've been watching YouTube videos and reviews on the Hellcat Challenger and over 700 HP looks like a fucking hoot! They actually have a great engine note....nice to see that Dodge didn't pussy out and make it purr too quietly. That thing gets loud when you open it up!!
I wish I could get a Viper, but just a bit too $$$, and I think this is the last year of production for them. The Hellcat seems to give the muscle bang for the buck.
I just don't like what they'e done to the Vette on this last model...the boxy, angular rear end on that thing just looks ass-ugly to me...
I've found about 3 hellcats at car lots online in the surrounding areas of town locally. I'm toying with the idea of going to one for a test drive....but I"m trying to hold off, in that if I get in that thing and it acts like it appears it does....I'll be forking over money.