Well, plus you have to consider that the house belongs to the peoples parents.....
I mean, I'm shocked that so many younger people have been and continue to live off their parents past age of 30. What's with that?
MOVE the fuck out, struggle, live poor until you can make it, that's what the rest of us have done for modern history till now.
And no, if you want to succeed and build salary and position, it is NOT going to be with the company you are at. Learn to job shop, keep your interview skills up....and be willing to MOVE to where the jobs are.
It should not be such a tragic and scary experience moving away from Mommy and Daddy, to a new city/state. Be grown ups, be independent.
Yeah because nothing is more fun than having straight pipe exhaust that rattles the windows of everyone you pass by.
Well, there's a difference between obnoxiously loud straight pipes (which are already illegal)...and a well tuned exhaust note. This is the same on cars as well as motorcycles.
It is ok for a bike to BE a little loud, as that it helps people in cars realize you are there when often they don't seem to see you.
Why wouldn't it be? The fun of a motorcycle is the open road, feeling the wind, the speed and the power. What tech the bike uses to go forward doesn't matter so long as it goes.
Actually, half the fun to me is...the vibrating motor, the rumbling engine, the sound and smell of it are a big part of the entire motorcycle experience.
I like cruiser bikes, not into crotch rockets....and that big engine is a big part of the fun while cruising around town.
Not to mention that I don't want Yet Another Messaging Program that can't talk to all the other messaging programs that I "have" to run to connect with people.
You know, I've come to find out that pretty much everyone has email.
I converse almost exclusively that way.
It has a better CYA paper trail, is more searchable going back years, etc....than for any IM I've had to try to use.
It is more asynchronous too to me, than IM, so, it doesn't interrupt me and I can look while on break.
And email works with email...so, not having to worry about which IM app works with which.
Program guide data is transmitted over the air for free. For $300 you could buy a four tuner home run and three separate 4k SBCs running Kodi.
I"m not that familiar with Kodi, the only brushes I've had with that, were folks using it to download illegally, or tuning in live channels from russia, etc....didn't know it could be used with an OTA signal, etc.
I played in the past with MythTV, and it was fun, but it was a PITA to keep up and running.
When I want to set DVR settings or channel surf, I don't want to have to grab out the keyboard, and have to do a lot of effort for things, I just want a 'normal' remote control, simple and easy guide to look at visually, click a button to record shows that may be coming in in the future (longer than 24 hours...like a month in advance), etc.
And it has to be simple enough for a non-tech visitor or house guest could use readily without having to be sat down and show how to do a lot of commands, especially a keyboard.
I have disposable income, so convenience for something as utilitarian is easy for me to weigh as a major factor.
I used to have the patience for doing stuff like that in the past, but these days, I've got plenty of other things for my time, and I just want quick, simple for TV.
Fuck Tivo. Channel Master is the only OTA DVR brand worth purchasing.
I looked into Channel Master, and actually looked at a set up a friend of mine opted for.
At that time, it didn't seem to offer the capabilities that Tivo offered me...I didn't like the guide, and ability to stream from internet also seemed lacking on the channel master AND...the main thing is, that you could not seem to DVR all the local channels on the CM, or at least I recall there were a lot of things you could not DVR off the channel master.
Of course, this was a few years ago, so if getting a new system, by all means....research and see what fits you best.
But I compared them head to head and at the time with the Tivo Roamio OTA system, like only about $299 and included lifetime menu/guide service, it was a much better deal for me to hook to my antenna for all my OTA/DVR needs.
What do you get from your antenna that is worth the while? I tried that a couple of years ago, and the only thing I could get were channels with preachers and soaps - plus a boatload of ads. I couldn't care less for preachers and soaps, and I just plain refuse to watch any ads. So, what material are you getting?
I set up an antenna indoors, soon hope to get a slightly larger one outdoors to improve on a couple channels' reception....
But I get all the 3 major networks, and Fox...and local PBS.
Each of those channels have extra content on their.1.2,.3..etc. channels....PBS is really good for lots of content.
There are a lot of other channels, some in SD, but most HD, that play old reruns of shows from days gone past.
But the HD of the main channels is really about the best you can get quality wise, as you don't deal with the compression from someone sending it over a wire.
I paired the antenna with the Tivo Roamio OTA they had out, that came with lifetime guide service baked in...I think you can still get a few left on their website if you search refurbs or specials, as that it appears they now have a new OTA option that costs extra to have the lifetime guide service included.
I have that and the TIvo minis's throughout the house so I can watch that content anywhere I have a TV. I also have Amazon Fire TV units (not the usb drives) on each TV, and I run Netflix, and PS VUE to get my "cable channels"...basically covers everything I used to watch while on cable. PS VUE also had DVR capability, so I can pretty much watch anything I want any time.
But the OTA stuff is worthwhile.....
An antenna doesn't cost that much, and most TVs have digital tuners in them...do a little research on what's available in your area, get the appropriate antenna and hook to your tv just to see what's out there.
What are people doing on phones that eat up so much data??
I mean, for the most part, don't you use a phone for voice, texting, and while I don't I know others use FB and other social media, but I can't really see the data needs being so high just for that?
Occasionally if I'm dining out alone or something, I might stream a movie or tv show (or use the phone as a hotspot for my tablet), but that's kinds rare.
So...what are other people doing that I"m not that requires and eats up so much data and throughput on their phones?
But I can resist the willy-nilly automation process, which cares far less about people, and far more about squeezing profits to Wall Street.
Just thinking, that MOST of the business in the US are small businesses, and not traded publicly on Wall Street.
Sure this helps those companies, but the far majority of them are small, privately owned businesses that do not interact with nor are traded on any stock exchange.
There is a local chain grocery store. A friend works there. It was the stated goal of putting in self-scan to reduce the "cashier nightmare" they had. The goal was to reduce 90 cashiers to 60. This includes weighting for those absent, out on workman's comp, on various leaves (military, child-related, jury duty, etc etc). The real yield is 74 max available for shift work reduced to 40 available for shifts.
Whose charity are you talking about? There is meaning in being able to put food on your family's table. It isn't charity. Swiping the margin and paying it to a stockholder rather than an employee is a fool's sense of productivity gain. I don't have a robot as a next door neighbor. My family doesn't consist of robots and kiosks. I don't sit next to robots on a train. This competitiveness you cite is undoubtedly a problem, and whole bookshelves are filled with books on how labor and economies are intertwined and meshed. This is about living lives, and not wealth creation for societies. Happiness does not come from assets beyond one's capacity to spend. It comes from dignity and respect and joy.
First, I can sympathize with folks losing jobs. And I really HATE some automation that has come about, like the phone answering things, where they want you to talk to a robot...I've learned that many of these systems actually 'listen' to you getting pissed off, and I start yelling "Give me a fucking person", and they eventually do so.
But that being said, this is nothing new and just how things move along with society and tech changes and innovations.
Pretty much the main thing people create new technologies for, is to automate something that used to require manual human labor, that's the entire point in most cases.
We're discussing your supermarket friends.
What did people do before there WERE supermarkets? You know those are actually relatively modern inventions. Think about the usual buggy whip industry. Cars came along and well, there wasn't much use for the buggy whip makers and their industry, people lost their jobs then.
But new jobs came about with growing tech and differing needs.
Perhaps some of those buggy whip folks later opened the first pre-supermarket grocery and general stores?
Is it the duty of any business to always hire and keep employed "X" number of spots for people for as long as the business is open for operation? Is it their responsibility even if it makes for poor fiscal decisions.....and if they stacked a number of poor decisions like this just to keep X people employed, they went out of business, and then, well...EVERYONE is out of a job then.
I'm guessing most of your friend that works at the grocery store is a normally capable individual, able to work and learn and adapt. I can't imaging that if he loses his job to a kiosk, that he cannot get a new job somewhere else, perhaps in a new industry?
Worst case, he has to move to where a better job is, but that is nothing new, people and families have been doing that for all of modern history.
Of course I agree with you, that this is about living lives, but I posit to you, that it is the responsibility of the individual worker to always keep an eye open for new opportunities, and keep themselves always learning and looking for improvement, and not to depend on a single job in the same place for life (that hasn't been a remote possibility for decades), and not get stagnant and assume their job will be around for their lifetime.
It isn't realistic now, and it really hasn't been (job for life) since maybe the 30's or 40's maybe.
Except that poverty affects people of color disproportionately compared to whites.
For this argument, that doesn't make sense to rate it per capita.
For gross numbers, total poor whites have always and still do out total number of poor blacks.
So, if there are more poor whites in total than poor blacks, and we go cashless, it actually will affect more white people than black people.
This conversation and subject doesn't affect why blacks per capita are more poor, this it arguing that public businesses going cashless will affect more blacks than whites and that is just not the case, in fact it would be the other way around by pure numbers of people in the US.
While I do kind of agree with the arguments against going cashless as a society, this statement by the NYC official:
Torres believes the cashless business model is inherently classist and racist, as it excludes anyone who might not be able to afford smartphones loaded with digital currency such as Apple Pay or qualify for credit cards, let alone the roughly 22 million Americans who do not have bank accounts.
Just strikes me as a horrible thought process, and show how everyone these days is trying to make every fucking thing about RACE.
Poverty knows no skin color.
This guy is the racist for even daring to make such a horrible statement.
The Boomers are the ones who picked your pockets. Their chortling their way into retirement as they collect their checks from your SS contributions. The Millenials would just as soon end the program that they can never hope to get anything from, the program that amounts to a Ponzi scheme and generational theft.
Actually, the boomers, especially many of the latter year boomers would have LOVED to have been able to get out of SS just for the reasons you listed, and instead put their money into the market and had it make MUCH more money for retirement.
The Boomers didn't invent the Social Security ponzi scheme...that was LONG ago before them. They had to pay into it just as the later generations have had to.
It seems today with the younger crowd, that dining out has virtually NOTHING to do with 'shared experience' at all.
I've observed more than a few times, a couple that was obviously out on a date.
Yet, rather than spending the time talking and getting to know one another...the were on their fscking phones texting and doing social media. I swear I never observed hardly a second when they both had their phones down and actually conversed and interacted with one another.
And these places were not so loud that you couldn't talk.
Sad, I think our last couple generations have let the devices ruin actual, real meatspace human interactions. How do you actually get to know a potential mate if you don't even talk to them? Geez, how do the young guys today get laid, if they don't have at least some gift of gab? And on the flip side, how do they use it on women if the girls also have their faces constantly buried in the phone?
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I mean, I'm shocked that so many younger people have been and continue to live off their parents past age of 30. What's with that?
MOVE the fuck out, struggle, live poor until you can make it, that's what the rest of us have done for modern history till now.
And no, if you want to succeed and build salary and position, it is NOT going to be with the company you are at. Learn to job shop, keep your interview skills up....and be willing to MOVE to where the jobs are.
It should not be such a tragic and scary experience moving away from Mommy and Daddy, to a new city/state. Be grown ups, be independent.
Well, there's a difference between obnoxiously loud straight pipes (which are already illegal)...and a well tuned exhaust note. This is the same on cars as well as motorcycles.
It is ok for a bike to BE a little loud, as that it helps people in cars realize you are there when often they don't seem to see you.
Actually, half the fun to me is...the vibrating motor, the rumbling engine, the sound and smell of it are a big part of the entire motorcycle experience.
I like cruiser bikes, not into crotch rockets....and that big engine is a big part of the fun while cruising around town.
Oh wow....
So, what happens to the motorcycle?
I hate to see the end of the motorcycle....and I just can't imagine an electric one would be all that much fun.
You know, I've come to find out that pretty much everyone has email.
I converse almost exclusively that way.
It has a better CYA paper trail, is more searchable going back years, etc....than for any IM I've had to try to use.
It is more asynchronous too to me, than IM, so, it doesn't interrupt me and I can look while on break.
And email works with email...so, not having to worry about which IM app works with which.
Ugh...."messaging"...I want LESS messaging so I can actually get work done, without an endless breaking of my concentration.
Collaborate belongs mostly in short meetings, only when it actually serves a purpose.
I shut off IM most of the time, so I can actually get work done without constant interruptions.
'matter of fact, it's ALL dark.....thump thump....thump thump....thump thump.....
I"m not that familiar with Kodi, the only brushes I've had with that, were folks using it to download illegally, or tuning in live channels from russia, etc....didn't know it could be used with an OTA signal, etc.
I played in the past with MythTV, and it was fun, but it was a PITA to keep up and running.
When I want to set DVR settings or channel surf, I don't want to have to grab out the keyboard, and have to do a lot of effort for things, I just want a 'normal' remote control, simple and easy guide to look at visually, click a button to record shows that may be coming in in the future (longer than 24 hours...like a month in advance), etc.
And it has to be simple enough for a non-tech visitor or house guest could use readily without having to be sat down and show how to do a lot of commands, especially a keyboard.
I have disposable income, so convenience for something as utilitarian is easy for me to weigh as a major factor.
I used to have the patience for doing stuff like that in the past, but these days, I've got plenty of other things for my time, and I just want quick, simple for TV.
Hmm...from other posts of the voting records, look like Democrats supported that law just as much as the Republicans did.
Seems both parties are as against pr0n as the other...sad.
Morality shouldn't be legislated.
I looked into Channel Master, and actually looked at a set up a friend of mine opted for.
At that time, it didn't seem to offer the capabilities that Tivo offered me...I didn't like the guide, and ability to stream from internet also seemed lacking on the channel master AND...the main thing is, that you could not seem to DVR all the local channels on the CM, or at least I recall there were a lot of things you could not DVR off the channel master.
Of course, this was a few years ago, so if getting a new system, by all means....research and see what fits you best.
But I compared them head to head and at the time with the Tivo Roamio OTA system, like only about $299 and included lifetime menu/guide service, it was a much better deal for me to hook to my antenna for all my OTA/DVR needs.
I set up an antenna indoors, soon hope to get a slightly larger one outdoors to improve on a couple channels' reception....
But I get all the 3 major networks, and Fox...and local PBS.
Each of those channels have extra content on their .1 .2, .3..etc. channels....PBS is really good for lots of content.
There are a lot of other channels, some in SD, but most HD, that play old reruns of shows from days gone past.
But the HD of the main channels is really about the best you can get quality wise, as you don't deal with the compression from someone sending it over a wire.
I paired the antenna with the Tivo Roamio OTA they had out, that came with lifetime guide service baked in...I think you can still get a few left on their website if you search refurbs or specials, as that it appears they now have a new OTA option that costs extra to have the lifetime guide service included.
I have that and the TIvo minis's throughout the house so I can watch that content anywhere I have a TV. I also have Amazon Fire TV units (not the usb drives) on each TV, and I run Netflix, and PS VUE to get my "cable channels"...basically covers everything I used to watch while on cable. PS VUE also had DVR capability, so I can pretty much watch anything I want any time.
But the OTA stuff is worthwhile.....
An antenna doesn't cost that much, and most TVs have digital tuners in them...do a little research on what's available in your area, get the appropriate antenna and hook to your tv just to see what's out there.
It's better than it used to be.
What are people doing on phones that eat up so much data??
I mean, for the most part, don't you use a phone for voice, texting, and while I don't I know others use FB and other social media, but I can't really see the data needs being so high just for that?
Occasionally if I'm dining out alone or something, I might stream a movie or tv show (or use the phone as a hotspot for my tablet), but that's kinds rare.
So...what are other people doing that I"m not that requires and eats up so much data and throughput on their phones?
Same reason as you don't want to eat a steak with one on your tongue....NO sensation.
Not as much fun fucking if you can't really feel anything....
I don't think anyone doesn't believe in this....
However, it is up to every individual to keep themselves valuable to employment in an ever changing world.
It is up to them to find jobs as needed to work, and pay bills.
No one "owes" you a living...it is up to the individual to find meaningful work.
And no job lasts forever.
Exactly who's responsibility is it for those 6 peoples' lives and welfare?
Are you saying it is the responsibility of the business owner? He's obligated to keep those folks employed for life if they wish?
Or, is it the responsibility of the individuals to keep themselves valuable in an ever changing world ?
Why? Don't you wash your dick every morning (bathe) before leaving the house and start each day with a clean dick?
If you dick is clean, and you don't piss on your hands.....why do you have to wash your hands every time?
Just thinking, that MOST of the business in the US are small businesses, and not traded publicly on Wall Street.
Sure this helps those companies, but the far majority of them are small, privately owned businesses that do not interact with nor are traded on any stock exchange.
First, I can sympathize with folks losing jobs. And I really HATE some automation that has come about, like the phone answering things, where they want you to talk to a robot...I've learned that many of these systems actually 'listen' to you getting pissed off, and I start yelling "Give me a fucking person", and they eventually do so.
But that being said, this is nothing new and just how things move along with society and tech changes and innovations.
Pretty much the main thing people create new technologies for, is to automate something that used to require manual human labor, that's the entire point in most cases.
We're discussing your supermarket friends.
What did people do before there WERE supermarkets? You know those are actually relatively modern inventions. Think about the usual buggy whip industry. Cars came along and well, there wasn't much use for the buggy whip makers and their industry, people lost their jobs then.
But new jobs came about with growing tech and differing needs.
Perhaps some of those buggy whip folks later opened the first pre-supermarket grocery and general stores?
Is it the duty of any business to always hire and keep employed "X" number of spots for people for as long as the business is open for operation? Is it their responsibility even if it makes for poor fiscal decisions.....and if they stacked a number of poor decisions like this just to keep X people employed, they went out of business, and then, well...EVERYONE is out of a job then.
I'm guessing most of your friend that works at the grocery store is a normally capable individual, able to work and learn and adapt. I can't imaging that if he loses his job to a kiosk, that he cannot get a new job somewhere else, perhaps in a new industry?
Worst case, he has to move to where a better job is, but that is nothing new, people and families have been doing that for all of modern history.
Of course I agree with you, that this is about living lives, but I posit to you, that it is the responsibility of the individual worker to always keep an eye open for new opportunities, and keep themselves always learning and looking for improvement, and not to depend on a single job in the same place for life (that hasn't been a remote possibility for decades), and not get stagnant and assume their job will be around for their lifetime.
It isn't realistic now, and it really hasn't been (job for life) since maybe the 30's or 40's maybe.
Wow....you actually remember shit like this on specific conversations almost a month ago??
Wow...I must have really struck some kind of chord with you....
Surprised anyone takes stuff said on /. seriously enough to remember anything on it longer than 10 minutes old, much less a month or more.
For this argument, that doesn't make sense to rate it per capita.
For gross numbers, total poor whites have always and still do out total number of poor blacks.
So, if there are more poor whites in total than poor blacks, and we go cashless, it actually will affect more white people than black people.
This conversation and subject doesn't affect why blacks per capita are more poor, this it arguing that public businesses going cashless will affect more blacks than whites and that is just not the case, in fact it would be the other way around by pure numbers of people in the US.
Just strikes me as a horrible thought process, and show how everyone these days is trying to make every fucking thing about RACE.
Poverty knows no skin color.
This guy is the racist for even daring to make such a horrible statement.
Actually, the boomers, especially many of the latter year boomers would have LOVED to have been able to get out of SS just for the reasons you listed, and instead put their money into the market and had it make MUCH more money for retirement.
The Boomers didn't invent the Social Security ponzi scheme...that was LONG ago before them. They had to pay into it just as the later generations have had to.
I was thinking along similar lines.
It seems today with the younger crowd, that dining out has virtually NOTHING to do with 'shared experience' at all.
I've observed more than a few times, a couple that was obviously out on a date.
Yet, rather than spending the time talking and getting to know one another...the were on their fscking phones texting and doing social media. I swear I never observed hardly a second when they both had their phones down and actually conversed and interacted with one another.
And these places were not so loud that you couldn't talk.
Sad, I think our last couple generations have let the devices ruin actual, real meatspace human interactions. How do you actually get to know a potential mate if you don't even talk to them? Geez, how do the young guys today get laid, if they don't have at least some gift of gab? And on the flip side, how do they use it on women if the girls also have their faces constantly buried in the phone?
sad.
I've been wanting for years to be able to get a ring of those around my license plate, to help defeat the damed plate readers.
Think this might be a company worth buying stock in?