Not here. This isn't as bad as Amazon coming in, but please, not here. We don't want the capital of Texas to turn into the bay area. You can keep your leftist attitudes and taxes where they are.
While I support your sentiment for pretty much all the south, I was of the thought that Austin was actually already pretty much the one small island of liberalism and Commiefornia mind thought in TX already?
No, like most Americans, I have no need to travel outside the US, PLENTY to do here....hell, most of us don't even have a passport.
I have traveled to Europe before, MX and the caribbean....but last time out was years and years ago.
I really don't see much of anything compelling that would tempt me for foreign travel, hell, there's so much to do and so many places to see in the US that I'll never get close to them all in the rest of my lifetime.
Conversely, I don't care if they pay me a big wad of money if I'm doing something that doesn't allow me to grow and learn new things.
While of course you'd rather work a fun job....that usually isn't the case.
If they paid me a LARGE enough wad of money, I'd have no problem whatsoever doing that and not growing....as that I can have a LOT of fun in my time with the large wad of money doing things I like to do and want to do.
I hear about the millennials not having enough money to move out of parents' homes, and large student loan bills......and yet, perks and "work/life" balance is at the top of the list of where they want to work??!?!
Or, are they just assuming that they deserve a high starting salary, and therefore, the "perks" are what the deciding factors are?
Geez....you work for MONEY, and if you are bitching about not having any, then that should make your first priority coming out of school.
Get out, make as much $$ as you can, gain experience, make connections...and then, start making your moves up the line where you have time to consider perks, etc.
Jobs aren't meant to be fun....otherwise it wouldn't be called work...
TV is terrible for news because it's the easiest way to make something sensational that doesn't need to be.
Hmm, I would think that social media can do that even faster than TV?
One stupid social media thing goes viral...and whoosh, off it goes and can't be retracted if a mistake is found (not that TV does that much anymore, but it can do it).
At least solar panel give some return on their investment, and as long as they are installed properly
Well, there's the thing.
A home owner, that wanted to install solar panels, would likely do research, find the best ones they could afford, with best installer, they could afford.....and have a useful home addition.
But a new house...well, the builder is going to go with the cheapest version they can, and add profit on top of it, so it may not be the best system and not last as long as a quality system a home owner might install himself.
You don't need much rain to wash the dust off the panels. And the horrible consequences of not doing so is they make less power. Since it's your house and not a power plant where you are banking on a particular generating capacity, that's not exactly a horrible consequence.
I thought I'd read, at least in the past...that in CA they had laws/regulations against even watering your yard, due to rain shortages out there.
If this is still true, have they provided exceptions for using your water hose to go up and wash your solar panels?
If not, I can just see the "to collect and serve" police guys out there catching people washing their mandated solar panels.
So you're saying you don't like the ongoing (since the 90's?) Republican trend of putting industry foxes in positions to "guard" our public henhouses for the explicit purpose of NOT regulating them, eh?
Nope, this is truly a bi-partisian problem.
Aren't you one of the outspoken Trump supporting morons?
Not really. While I support somethings he has done and tried, I do not like everything, nor do I count myself as a fan. I do feel he was the lessor of two evils (Hillary/Bernie).
But I think he's an idiot many times that sometimes gets things right in spite of himself. I liked the SCOTUS appointments, that was one of my chief concerns in the previous election.
I'd much rather a more middle road candidate, slightly liberal socially, slightly conservative fiscally, and overall for less intrusive government, especially on the federal side.
While I'm thinking NOW would be the best time in recent history for a valid 3rd party candidate to run due to the main party pulling to such extremes....I'm not optimistic that I'll see any such candidate in my lifetime.
So, I choose who will at least address some of my main concerns as best as I can.
Some of the Dem stuff coming up on the horizon really scares me...this state one: NY SB 9191...which will require anyone wanting to get a gun, to hand over all social media credentials so the police can ascertain if you post things too radical to allow you to have a gun.
This linked article is by a democrat leaning person, as they say they don't care if the 2nd amendment is run roughshod over....but they are concerned about the implications of the 1st and 4th amendment violations being proposed here.
Look at federal House Bill 7115 3D Firearms Prohibitions Act.(Which has precious little to do with 3D printed gun or gun parts if you read it).
Even if you support the parts essentially banning the sales of gun parts and the long time right to home gunsmithing, and all...and the 80% lowers, there is a part on there that wants to prohibit you from even posting or talking about how to build your own gun, etc. Isn't that 1st amendment?
I mean, I'm no fan of the old Anarchist Cookbook, but I don't feel it should be banned either?
So, no....neither party right now is a fan of freedom.
You just have to pick and choose what parts mean the most to you and think you can win with whomever you "support".
Requiring panels on new homes adds VALUE to the home, not much COST at all.
Really?
How much does a full roof of solar panels cost? Maintenance? Repair after storms?
I'm not saying it isn't a good thing to have them....however, right now I hear nothing buy young people complaining about the cost of housing, and mandating solar panels on all new homes, will add a not insignificant amount of extra money on top of the already $$$ new home.
And it isn't just going to be the cost of the panels and labor to install, the builder will also write in some profit on top of that.
This is just another case of a much LARGER problem in Government (especially federal)....
Each regulatory agency is merely a revolving door between the industry to be regulated and the regulators.
Another horrible example of this is with the FDA....you see leaders and CEO's and the like of agro-businesses leaving their companies, to go into lead the FDA....and we never get good food policies for the nation, as that these guys do NOT recuse themselves from conflicts of interest, but they perpetuate it and freely rule in favor of the agro industry over that of the general public. Hence, our food system cannot change where needed.
This happens in all departments, and I wish there could be stipulations that if you worked in the industry you are regulating, then you can't regulate on the govt side.
I realize that having someone in charge of regulating some industries that has no experience it the actual industry/tech, etc would have problems knowing what it was all about, but what is a better way to get more unbiased regulation?
I don't like much regulation at all, but of course, there has to be some....and best that that regulation and investigation is honest and not biased by having them essentially self regulate with always having one of their own on the Federal govt side of things.
You might want to turn that "econo" mode back on. The reason it's there is some energy conservation rule, but it also keeps you from upping brightness too much, which in turn helps with preventing burn-in. OLEDs are notorious for aging very fast at extreme brightness settings. It's a very non-linear process. Twice the brightness doesn't just halve the life-time of the pixels. There is no backlight. All the brightness comes from the actual pixels themselves, and those organic molecules don't like the heat.
Interesting.
I have plenty of money, so I'm not worried at all about my power bill, but I will read up a bit more on the burn in.
I came from a rather nice plasma tv that died finally, and this OLED was the replacement.
I always was cautious with the Plasma to not let anything high contrasty stay on screen too long (news crawls, logos).....I never had a burn in problem with that.
I'd heard OLED had burn in potential, but I was assuming it had to do with still things on screen for too long, not just merely how bright I turn the picture??
I did turn the pic brightness down after finding and turning off the eco mode....I don't think it is too terribly bright, just a bit more than default with that eco-mode setting on.
Apparently the 24 FPS rate chosen for movies is an important psychological trick. It somehow tells the brain "this is fake", which makes the viewer fine with sets and costumes that would be cringeworthy when seen live. At 48 FPS, you lose that all-important filter, and everything is cringeworthy.
HERE is a really great explanation of frame rates starting with movies and spreading and co-existing with TV.
It actually had to do with when silent films went with sound....and budgets and $$.
Many changes over the years, but once a standard sticks, well, it is hard to change.
HERE is another video by the same guy, of "in defense of 24fps"....as to why it likely will be around to stay for a long time.
First thing after turning it on, was to go into the menu system and turn OFF all the stupid auto-correct stuff, including the motion smoothing stuff.
I then turned off factory "torch mode"...and began adjusting the colors to be a bit more realistic and cinematic.
ON thing I was a little concerned about, was it was a little dimmer than my plasma it replaced. I had read about this.
But then, I found an "ECONO" mode and turned that off and WHAM...the screen got way brighter than I needed and I had to turn it down.
So, if someone is telling you that OLED can't be as bright as the QLED (Closest competitor)....they may have not discovered turning off the econo-mode.
But yes, it is sad that you pay this much $$$$ for a good televisions and by default, it look like shit out of the box and you have to manually fix things.
Even sadder...most people do not do this and they look at a very expensive crappy picture.
One needn't like Democrat party politics to prefer riding the Subway over driving in rush hour traffic.
Well, if you like riding the subway so much, stay in the few cities that have them, or need them.
And most cities don't have rush hour traffic "that" bad....not like you have in LA and the like, the rest of the country is not that bad, nor do you commute that far in most of the US for most jobs.
If I left NYC, I'd likely leave the US. Most parts of the US are basically unlivable without having to own a car.
Well, welcome to America my friend.
That is the norm, and it seems to work well for the VAST majority of the country.
But please, do stay in NYC. Please don't come elsewhere in the states and start voting to make them the hell holes I'd perceive living in NYC would be like, with onerous taxation, lots of regulation and pretty much voting to elect politicians that wipe their ass with the 2nd amendment and others.
Please, if you like the live in NYC, stay there and keep voting that type of life up there.
Please don't come to where we enjoy more freedoms and more open spaces and try to change it for the worse.
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They asked for my ID, and I gave my license, and rather than just look at the date/age...they freakin' scanned it before I could say anything.
I'd never had that happened before and saw they were using some type bar code on back.
I"m gonna have to get some tape or something to cover that, as that I don't want them able to put that info in their database.
Anyone else run into this?
I"m certainly NOT going to get the electronic version on my phone, for many of the reasons just stated.
I was shocked to have my analog license scanned for the first time.....
Really?
Try buying and even carrying the same guns and knives in CA that you are free to do in TX for one example.
If so...sad, truly sad.
Watch out TX...say goodbye to your freedoms, and traditional way of living with independence and welcome the overbearing, overtaxing govt. overlords.
While I support your sentiment for pretty much all the south, I was of the thought that Austin was actually already pretty much the one small island of liberalism and Commiefornia mind thought in TX already?
No, like most Americans, I have no need to travel outside the US, PLENTY to do here....hell, most of us don't even have a passport.
I have traveled to Europe before, MX and the caribbean....but last time out was years and years ago.
I really don't see much of anything compelling that would tempt me for foreign travel, hell, there's so much to do and so many places to see in the US that I'll never get close to them all in the rest of my lifetime.
Yep.....my anecdotal experience is...I have YET to meet anyone that uses whatsapp, much less even has ever heard of it before.
Everyone communicate with uses text....Apple switches to use whatever the recipient uses..so, likely a mix of iMessage and regular text...
While of course you'd rather work a fun job....that usually isn't the case.
If they paid me a LARGE enough wad of money, I'd have no problem whatsoever doing that and not growing....as that I can have a LOT of fun in my time with the large wad of money doing things I like to do and want to do.
Or, are they just assuming that they deserve a high starting salary, and therefore, the "perks" are what the deciding factors are?
Geez....you work for MONEY, and if you are bitching about not having any, then that should make your first priority coming out of school.
Get out, make as much $$ as you can, gain experience, make connections...and then, start making your moves up the line where you have time to consider perks, etc.
Jobs aren't meant to be fun....otherwise it wouldn't be called work...
Hmm, I would think that social media can do that even faster than TV?
One stupid social media thing goes viral...and whoosh, off it goes and can't be retracted if a mistake is found (not that TV does that much anymore, but it can do it).
Most standing desks I've seen are adjustable...the good ones are motorized.
Yep, get rid of the office completely, let everyone work from home....no driving, wake up and walk across the hall to your computer and work.
Less distractions from overly chatty co-workers.
No more #MeToo suits as that no one will be together for passes to be made, and no troublesome office romances.
Cheaper for the company too, no needing to rent/build large office complexes with all the $$$ maintenance on those ongoing....
Yep, work from home the BEST office there is!!
Well, there's the thing.
A home owner, that wanted to install solar panels, would likely do research, find the best ones they could afford, with best installer, they could afford.....and have a useful home addition.
But a new house...well, the builder is going to go with the cheapest version they can, and add profit on top of it, so it may not be the best system and not last as long as a quality system a home owner might install himself.
I thought I'd read, at least in the past...that in CA they had laws/regulations against even watering your yard, due to rain shortages out there. If this is still true, have they provided exceptions for using your water hose to go up and wash your solar panels?
If not, I can just see the "to collect and serve" police guys out there catching people washing their mandated solar panels.
Not trying to be funny, I'm serious.
Nope, this is truly a bi-partisian problem.
Not really. While I support somethings he has done and tried, I do not like everything, nor do I count myself as a fan. I do feel he was the lessor of two evils (Hillary/Bernie).
But I think he's an idiot many times that sometimes gets things right in spite of himself. I liked the SCOTUS appointments, that was one of my chief concerns in the previous election.
I'd much rather a more middle road candidate, slightly liberal socially, slightly conservative fiscally, and overall for less intrusive government, especially on the federal side.
While I'm thinking NOW would be the best time in recent history for a valid 3rd party candidate to run due to the main party pulling to such extremes....I'm not optimistic that I'll see any such candidate in my lifetime.
So, I choose who will at least address some of my main concerns as best as I can.
Some of the Dem stuff coming up on the horizon really scares me...this state one: NY SB 9191 ...which will require anyone wanting to get a gun, to hand over all social media credentials so the police can ascertain if you post things too radical to allow you to have a gun.
This linked article is by a democrat leaning person, as they say they don't care if the 2nd amendment is run roughshod over....but they are concerned about the implications of the 1st and 4th amendment violations being proposed here.
Look at federal House Bill 7115 3D Firearms Prohibitions Act .(Which has precious little to do with 3D printed gun or gun parts if you read it).
Even if you support the parts essentially banning the sales of gun parts and the long time right to home gunsmithing, and all...and the 80% lowers, there is a part on there that wants to prohibit you from even posting or talking about how to build your own gun, etc. Isn't that 1st amendment?
I mean, I'm no fan of the old Anarchist Cookbook, but I don't feel it should be banned either?
So, no....neither party right now is a fan of freedom.
You just have to pick and choose what parts mean the most to you and think you can win with whomever you "support".
Really?
How much does a full roof of solar panels cost? Maintenance? Repair after storms?
I'm not saying it isn't a good thing to have them....however, right now I hear nothing buy young people complaining about the cost of housing, and mandating solar panels on all new homes, will add a not insignificant amount of extra money on top of the already $$$ new home.
And it isn't just going to be the cost of the panels and labor to install, the builder will also write in some profit on top of that.
Each regulatory agency is merely a revolving door between the industry to be regulated and the regulators.
Another horrible example of this is with the FDA....you see leaders and CEO's and the like of agro-businesses leaving their companies, to go into lead the FDA....and we never get good food policies for the nation, as that these guys do NOT recuse themselves from conflicts of interest, but they perpetuate it and freely rule in favor of the agro industry over that of the general public. Hence, our food system cannot change where needed.
This happens in all departments, and I wish there could be stipulations that if you worked in the industry you are regulating, then you can't regulate on the govt side.
I realize that having someone in charge of regulating some industries that has no experience it the actual industry/tech, etc would have problems knowing what it was all about, but what is a better way to get more unbiased regulation?
I don't like much regulation at all, but of course, there has to be some....and best that that regulation and investigation is honest and not biased by having them essentially self regulate with always having one of their own on the Federal govt side of things.
Interesting.
I have plenty of money, so I'm not worried at all about my power bill, but I will read up a bit more on the burn in.
I came from a rather nice plasma tv that died finally, and this OLED was the replacement.
I always was cautious with the Plasma to not let anything high contrasty stay on screen too long (news crawls, logos).....I never had a burn in problem with that.
I'd heard OLED had burn in potential, but I was assuming it had to do with still things on screen for too long, not just merely how bright I turn the picture??
I did turn the pic brightness down after finding and turning off the eco mode....I don't think it is too terribly bright, just a bit more than default with that eco-mode setting on.
Well, I think one reason (amongst many) is that it is what we've all grown up with being used to as to what looks 'cinematic'.
I mean, I couldn't imagine watching the Godfather in 60fps, not Sonny getting whacked in a view that was akin to The Hobbit.
I've shot things in different frame rates. And I know, I rather enjoy the 24fps stuff myself better.
But again, a large reason likely is that it is what we collectively are used to.
So, any idea where I can find a 65" OLED monitor for the living room like my LG?
HERE is a really great explanation of frame rates starting with movies and spreading and co-existing with TV.
It actually had to do with when silent films went with sound....and budgets and $$.
Many changes over the years, but once a standard sticks, well, it is hard to change.
HERE is another video by the same guy, of "in defense of 24fps"....as to why it likely will be around to stay for a long time.
I recently got a new LG 65" OLED.
First thing after turning it on, was to go into the menu system and turn OFF all the stupid auto-correct stuff, including the motion smoothing stuff.
I then turned off factory "torch mode"...and began adjusting the colors to be a bit more realistic and cinematic.
ON thing I was a little concerned about, was it was a little dimmer than my plasma it replaced. I had read about this.
But then, I found an "ECONO" mode and turned that off and WHAM...the screen got way brighter than I needed and I had to turn it down.
So, if someone is telling you that OLED can't be as bright as the QLED (Closest competitor)....they may have not discovered turning off the econo-mode.
But yes, it is sad that you pay this much $$$$ for a good televisions and by default, it look like shit out of the box and you have to manually fix things.
Even sadder...most people do not do this and they look at a very expensive crappy picture.
They way I heard it...
"When everyone is out to get you,
Paranoid is just........good thinking!!"
- Dr. Johnny Fever (WKRP)
Well, if you like riding the subway so much, stay in the few cities that have them, or need them.
And most cities don't have rush hour traffic "that" bad....not like you have in LA and the like, the rest of the country is not that bad, nor do you commute that far in most of the US for most jobs.
Well, welcome to America my friend.
That is the norm, and it seems to work well for the VAST majority of the country.
But please, do stay in NYC. Please don't come elsewhere in the states and start voting to make them the hell holes I'd perceive living in NYC would be like, with onerous taxation, lots of regulation and pretty much voting to elect politicians that wipe their ass with the 2nd amendment and others.
Please, if you like the live in NYC, stay there and keep voting that type of life up there.
Please don't come to where we enjoy more freedoms and more open spaces and try to change it for the worse.