...but I think I ready about gait recognition being pretty good now for IDing people in airports, so I think you'll have to go full on Predator-style active camo.
Hmm, perhaps I need to develop a Silly Walk to fool the cameras.
Either that, or act like I"m trying to avoid rhythmic walking patterns that can attract sand worms.....
Like it or not, climate change will force you to make those changes sooner or later. The American Dream says we should do them now so that our children and grandchildren will have better lives.
Well, I'm all for helping out, if it doesn't inconvenience me or alter my lifestyle in any major way.
But I am a bit older these days, and I'm also weighing how much longer I'll live before the earth gets bad.....I doubt it will get that bad before I'm done with it.
Do you have children, or plan to?
I don't have any kids that I know of.....and God no I'd not like to have them going forward. I enjoy my disposable income, and freedom to come and go and do as I please for the most part.
I'm kinda going with Jim Morrison on this run through life:
"But I tell you this, man, I tell you this...
I don't know what's gonna happen, man, but I wanna have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames...
I actually went and read the article....missed that one the first time around.
I guess they can do what they want, but I found that if I wait til the end to try to go back and look for the reference earlier in the video they mentioned, I'd forget to do so and miss out.
If we were to suddenly, pull and about face, and do everything the scientists say we have to do to slow the global warming gases, etc......HOW will this directly affect my quality of life and lifestyle?
Will this inconvenience me in any way?
Will it force me to buy car(s) that I don't enjoy driving?
Will it force me to sort my trash and recycle?
Will my cost of living go up?
Will I be able to do less, afford less, do without?
Will this affect what I enjoy eating?
Will this potentially restrict any currently legal activities I enjoy?
...if there aren't any actual problems that end up needing to be addressed, the entire process presents only at most a very modest inconvenience, and if it concludes normally, you are unlikely to be assessed again.
The trouble is, once you get on a government LIST, you are pretty much FOREVER after on that list.
American's also tend to use cash and checks more than everyone else. My kids don't even carry wallets anymore, I doubt you could do that in the USA.
That's odd.
Why don't you like cash?
I generally hit the ATM weekly or so, get a few hundred dollars out and my casual, weekly expenses are paid for out of that...it gives a a very solid, real feeling on what all I'm spending my money on that week.
I have credit cards for things, large purchases, some online purchases sure....but I actually prefer to use cash when I can because it isn't tracked (I prefer not to have my transactions tracked by XYZ corporation or government entity), and like I said, it makes money REAL to me, it isn't abstracted like when you go to a casino and use chips instead of cash. With that abstraction, it is easy to spend a LOT of money you might shouldn't do because it is so abstracted from really money that runs out when you run out of physical cash on hand.
With a CC, it gets so easy to just swipe and sign and never really even look at the amounts you are charging.
In civilized countries they have showers where you can clean up and make yourself presentable.
Really?
I've never seen a shower in a place of normal business. Most everywhere I know of, expects you to show up showered, cleaned and dressed for work when you cross the threshold.
Do your places you describe have lockerrooms/dressing rooms too? I've never heard of such a thing at any regular place of business across the US.
I"m sure there are exceptions, but I'd have to imagine those are far and few between.
Not only does Beijing have a much cleaner, more efficient, and more prolific subway system than NYC, but it also only costs $0.25 per ride.
Hmm, I don't think I'd be willing to live in that depressive communist dictatorship in order to just get cheap trains on time.
One of my friends finds that a 60 minute bicycle ride from Brooklyn to Manhattan is much less stressful and often faster than taking the train because there are so many service disruptions on MTA. His bicycle trip is entirely predictable and easily scheduled.
And, how much of the year, exactly is this a viable option? He rides his bike an hour each way in snow/ice? Rain? I think I heard it gets hot up there too part of the year, so he works while resembling a human sweat stain?
I'm just damned happy I don't live in a place where I'm pretty much forced to depend on government run transportation.
I like having my own car, the ability to come/go as I please and readily travel door-to-door. I'd hate to have to depend on a bus, subway or whatever they have to depend on in such overcrowded cities as NYC.
Aside from the transportation thing, I just don't see myself living where you're are packed so close to everyone else, I can't stand sharing a wall and hearing people next door, or having to worry if my stereo is too loud for my neighbors.
I like having a yard where I can grow a veggie garden, and have a grill and a smoker and have friends over for crawfish boils, etc.
I guess whatever floats your boat and makes your life happy, but at the very least, I prefer as little dependence on the government for how I have to run my daily life as possible....and transposition issues like discussed here is a BIG one for me.
Hell, they have some of the highest taxes in the US...and they still can't provide for their citizens?
No wonder people are moving out....which sucks as they also bring their narrow political views and restrictions of freedom with them it seems.
I really hope they solve their problems, and stay up there.
Hey, at least he's using his money for something good that most people can agree with in the US, rather than trying to force his anti 2A views and try to strip gun rights away from people in states that want to keep them.
Every time this subject comes up you start wittering on about drug dealers. Do you think it makes you sound edgy or something.
No, just strikes me as kinda funny...and also my usual observation that the US doesn't use the metric system for anything in most citizens' real daily lives.
Most I know generally try to make the world a better place...... so long as the steps needed to do that don't interfere with their personal life styles or personal business interests.
I'm far from being rich, but I do feel largely this way.
I don't go out of my way to waste or hurt the world, but on the other hand, I don't put myself out to do otherwise either.
I like my lifestyle....and I don't see myself as frantically running through the house to turn off this or that to save electricity. I've got a job and can easily afford my power bills. So, I don't sweat it.
I can afford gas for my car, I've never been one to even look at the rated MPG on a vehicle as a purchase parameters, I just want to know if it is fun and will go fast. I've had a car that got 10mpg if I was lucky.....and it was worth every penny before Katrina took it.
But I'm happy to help out my friends when they are in need. I have given money, time and more when they have hit hard times, or have health scares. They've done the same for me.....
The way I figure it, my time on earth is short, and I'm going to enjoy it to the max I can. In only a couple decades after I pass on, no one will even remember my name to "curse" it as some think future generations will.
I'll be taking a dirt nap anyway, and won't hear it, so, what do I care what happens beyond me?
I'm only concerned about my life and my lifestyle and pleasure while I'm here.
I"m happy and supportive for others that go out of their way to 'save the planet' or leave this or that for posterity. Good for them.
....all of those poor drug dealers are now going to have to re-balance their scales?
Come to think of it, for the most part in the US, doing anything like this to a metric measurement will have little effect as that hardly anything in "real daily life" here uses metric except the illegal drug trade.
You would first have to prove that the basic tax itself was illegal, as applied to what it originally taxed - tickets to concerts, sports events, etc.
Ah, yes, but those EVENTs were held physically in the area/state. These virtual ones are not...and usually house outside the state.
I know that laws are saying you can collect tax on sales of physical items you buy and are shipped to you, but a game is NOT a physical item, it is a moment in time online and not something you physically have to go to attend. Events like concerts and sports events often cost the city $$ for police and all, but a video game does not...so, where's the justification for this tax?
I would posit that this tax is way off spectrum from anything that is set law......definitely worth fighting.
Unless this is your first or second post on Slashdot, you (and probably everybody else) knows what a US-ian is. "Americans" is the non-computer standard, but this has faded a bit because there's a whole lot of Americans (land masses) vs. Americans (single political unit in said land masses).
I've yet to meet a fellow American in America, that uses the term "Usian".
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Hmm, perhaps I need to develop a Silly Walk to fool the cameras.
Either that, or act like I"m trying to avoid rhythmic walking patterns that can attract sand worms.....
Any other way you can think of to block this?
Well, I'm all for helping out, if it doesn't inconvenience me or alter my lifestyle in any major way.
But I am a bit older these days, and I'm also weighing how much longer I'll live before the earth gets bad.....I doubt it will get that bad before I'm done with it.
I don't have any kids that I know of.....and God no I'd not like to have them going forward. I enjoy my disposable income, and freedom to come and go and do as I please for the most part.
I'm kinda going with Jim Morrison on this run through life:
I actually went and read the article....missed that one the first time around.
I guess they can do what they want, but I found that if I wait til the end to try to go back and look for the reference earlier in the video they mentioned, I'd forget to do so and miss out.
WTF are they doing that? It is a great way to give viewers extra info, like a Part 1 if they hit Part 2 first...etc.
If we were to suddenly, pull and about face, and do everything the scientists say we have to do to slow the global warming gases, etc......HOW will this directly affect my quality of life and lifestyle?
Will this inconvenience me in any way?
Will it force me to buy car(s) that I don't enjoy driving?
Will it force me to sort my trash and recycle?
Will my cost of living go up?
Will I be able to do less, afford less, do without?
Will this affect what I enjoy eating?
Will this potentially restrict any currently legal activities I enjoy?
The trouble is, once you get on a government LIST, you are pretty much FOREVER after on that list.
Can you give us a decent list of all these so called advantages (for myself as a consumer)?
Aside from convenience, I really can't think of many benefits to myself.
On the other hand, I can think of a LOT of advantages to corporations, and the government, which generally do NOT benefit me.
Because I've never heard of an Uniqlo before...
Not that I shop at the Gap, but never heard of your store before, will have to look it up.
That's odd.
Why don't you like cash?
I generally hit the ATM weekly or so, get a few hundred dollars out and my casual, weekly expenses are paid for out of that...it gives a a very solid, real feeling on what all I'm spending my money on that week.
I have credit cards for things, large purchases, some online purchases sure....but I actually prefer to use cash when I can because it isn't tracked (I prefer not to have my transactions tracked by XYZ corporation or government entity), and like I said, it makes money REAL to me, it isn't abstracted like when you go to a casino and use chips instead of cash. With that abstraction, it is easy to spend a LOT of money you might shouldn't do because it is so abstracted from really money that runs out when you run out of physical cash on hand.
With a CC, it gets so easy to just swipe and sign and never really even look at the amounts you are charging.
Really?
I've never seen a shower in a place of normal business. Most everywhere I know of, expects you to show up showered, cleaned and dressed for work when you cross the threshold.
Do your places you describe have lockerrooms/dressing rooms too? I've never heard of such a thing at any regular place of business across the US.
I"m sure there are exceptions, but I'd have to imagine those are far and few between.
Wait...are you telling me the NYC, or even NY the state has its own standing military that it has to budget in to support?????
Or, are you confusing state/city with federal money and responsibilities?
Two different beasts and two different pots entirely.
Hmm, I don't think I'd be willing to live in that depressive communist dictatorship in order to just get cheap trains on time.
And, how much of the year, exactly is this a viable option? He rides his bike an hour each way in snow/ice? Rain? I think I heard it gets hot up there too part of the year, so he works while resembling a human sweat stain?
I like having my own car, the ability to come/go as I please and readily travel door-to-door. I'd hate to have to depend on a bus, subway or whatever they have to depend on in such overcrowded cities as NYC.
Aside from the transportation thing, I just don't see myself living where you're are packed so close to everyone else, I can't stand sharing a wall and hearing people next door, or having to worry if my stereo is too loud for my neighbors.
I like having a yard where I can grow a veggie garden, and have a grill and a smoker and have friends over for crawfish boils, etc.
I guess whatever floats your boat and makes your life happy, but at the very least, I prefer as little dependence on the government for how I have to run my daily life as possible....and transposition issues like discussed here is a BIG one for me. Hell, they have some of the highest taxes in the US...and they still can't provide for their citizens?
No wonder people are moving out....which sucks as they also bring their narrow political views and restrictions of freedom with them it seems.
I really hope they solve their problems, and stay up there.
Shouldn't said house be paid off by now.....?
Call me when they get VR fucking working.
I found your post interesting, till I reached this point.
I mean, I'm no Zuck fan, but why would you have a problem with him, or anyone getting wealthy at a young age or any age for that matter?
That's the American dream. Hell, I still hope some day I can get somewhat wealthy!!
I'm not jealous of nor begrudge those that do attain wealth....sounds like you have a problem with people getting rich?
Why?
Hey, at least he's using his money for something good that most people can agree with in the US, rather than trying to force his anti 2A views and try to strip gun rights away from people in states that want to keep them.
No, just strikes me as kinda funny...and also my usual observation that the US doesn't use the metric system for anything in most citizens' real daily lives.
That no one really uses it here.
I'm far from being rich, but I do feel largely this way.
I don't go out of my way to waste or hurt the world, but on the other hand, I don't put myself out to do otherwise either.
I like my lifestyle....and I don't see myself as frantically running through the house to turn off this or that to save electricity. I've got a job and can easily afford my power bills. So, I don't sweat it.
I can afford gas for my car, I've never been one to even look at the rated MPG on a vehicle as a purchase parameters, I just want to know if it is fun and will go fast. I've had a car that got 10mpg if I was lucky.....and it was worth every penny before Katrina took it.
But I'm happy to help out my friends when they are in need. I have given money, time and more when they have hit hard times, or have health scares. They've done the same for me.....
The way I figure it, my time on earth is short, and I'm going to enjoy it to the max I can. In only a couple decades after I pass on, no one will even remember my name to "curse" it as some think future generations will.
I'll be taking a dirt nap anyway, and won't hear it, so, what do I care what happens beyond me?
I'm only concerned about my life and my lifestyle and pleasure while I'm here.
I"m happy and supportive for others that go out of their way to 'save the planet' or leave this or that for posterity. Good for them.
It doesn't affect me either way.
Come to think of it, for the most part in the US, doing anything like this to a metric measurement will have little effect as that hardly anything in "real daily life" here uses metric except the illegal drug trade.
Ah, yes, but those EVENTs were held physically in the area/state. These virtual ones are not...and usually house outside the state.
I know that laws are saying you can collect tax on sales of physical items you buy and are shipped to you, but a game is NOT a physical item, it is a moment in time online and not something you physically have to go to attend. Events like concerts and sports events often cost the city $$ for police and all, but a video game does not...so, where's the justification for this tax?
I would posit that this tax is way off spectrum from anything that is set law......definitely worth fighting.
I've yet to meet a fellow American in America, that uses the term "Usian".
It is not what we call ourselves, period.
It's a stupid term......
Just to help you out since you're foreign to our lands....we refer to ourselves as "Americans".
We don't know WTF a "usian" is or means.
Hope that helps.
In a FREE country, it is your right to be stupid, act stupid and do harm to yourself if you so please.
Just be responsible for yourself and your actions....THAT is what true freedom is and we seem to be losing it more and more.