"Otherwise public transportation doesn't fit into my lifestyle". See, the problem is that you are doing it backwards. If you want to be "eco-friendly" and "green" and all that other crap, you have to fit your lifestyle into "the good things."
While I have nothing against being green I'm not really willing to go out of my way to be green. If it is convenient, sure. But I've lived my life to this point enjoying certain things and a certain lifestyle and with life being so short, I'm not willing to put myself out for some benefit I'll never see.
We have a real problem in the USA that due to low ridership, many bus systems INCREASE the pollution on the roads, rather than decreasing it. Unless you have somewhere around 12-20 riders on a bus, it's not actually more efficient/less polluting than private autos.
When you can get a bus system that will take me door-to-door for all destinations I need to go in a day, on MY time schedule (or at least within 15 or so minutes of it), then I'll be interested.
Otherwise public transportation doesn't fit into my lifestyle. The only time I really needs cabs or maybe uber when I can try it out...is if I don't feel like risking driving after drinking.
Seriously. If I wanted to know about other people's political beliefs, I would be on Facebook.
Well, how this affects human biology *IS* tech related IMHO.
And more and more...politics is affecting anything tech related in most any scientific field. Just try to come up with some new tech, put it on the market and see how far you before you're awash in a sea of regulations, paperwork and potential legal liability.
...do NOT give your social security number to any company for anything other than SS taxation.
I don't give it to insurance companies, nor to the utilities (yes I pay a deposit but I don't give them my SS number), etc.
You may have to argue a bit and get a manager, but if nothing else, if you can keep your SS number out of systems that will potentially be broken into, at least they won't get that info.
New York mayor Bill de Blasio has lifted a 10-year ban on phones on school premises, with the city's chancellor of schools stating that it would reduce inequality.
I"m still trying to figure this one out.
How the hell does not talking/texting on a cell phone during school hours exacerbate inequality??
If anything, I would think everyone NOT having a phone on them during school hours would put things MORE on an equal playing ground, no?
I'm not buying one anymore. I was super excited too.
You know...if they would just release API info and good information AS they develop internally for Win7....to the public, then the Open Source folks will work on the Linux versions for them.
Let me guess: Whiny millennial that is shocked to find that in the real world, no one gives a shit about you and you are expected to fight, dig and compete with everyone else to succeed in this world?
So I'm all for social justice articles all over the place. The harder the social justice crowd pushes their shit on everyday people, the quicker those people will come to resent social justice and those pushing it.
Absolutely.
For goodness sake people. Grow a bit thicker skin and get on with life. Why would you let what someone says or how they act around you affect what YOU like to do or want to do? This world isn't about acceptance by everyone.
Sure, if someone is going out of their way to discriminate and keep you from employment or getting a job that's against the law.
But not playing nice with you is not the end of the world.
IN the real world, Mommy doesn't catch you when you fall and makes the boo-boo go away. Not everyone gets a trophy for just showing up. And no, not everyone is going to be nice to you and "friend" you on FB or whatever. There are idiots and jerks aplenty in this world, and you really don't have time in this short lifespan to waste effort on them...so, grow some thicker skin and learn to ignore someone that isn't nice or even taunting you. Move on and get things done.
This is nothing new....pretty much human behavior since the dawn of time.
I don't see why "out of town" should be an excuse. Voting is done country-wide on the same day, is it not?
No, it is not.
All kinds of local election/voting days plus various state days...in different states, etc.
The only national election is the federal Presidental election, which happens only every 4 years. The local elections are the ones that are arguably the more important ones that affect your life directly.
We need to be fair and make election day a National Holiday! So that everyone has the day off.
Well, that's not really possible, as that MOST elections and voting opportunities are not national, but local.
We seem to have many different times to go vote here in my area, if they made a national holiday for each time I had a chance to vote....combined with every other municipality/states' voting schedules....I'd have half a year off easily.
Federal presidential elections are quite few and far between...and frankly it is the voting locally that is more important and will affect you most directly.
And no, I don't think that voting should be compulsory....if you can't take the time and effort to go register and vote, chances are that you are not going to take any time and effort to learn what the current amendments or ordinances or taxes being proposed are, nor are you going to pay attention to which politicians are standing and promising what.
I'm trying to figure out exactly what LAW was broken here?
Is it actually in law that you can't tell folks how to beat a polygraph....or were they saying they were advertising this advice for sale but it was a fraud?
if there is a pedestrian on the bridge, is he responsible for his own death? after all it is well known that people get hit by cars when they decide to walk near the road
if the car has a speedometer that goes to 140 mph, can the driver assume that the car can be driven at that speed?
if the owner of a car knows full well that their ignition switch is acting strange and they keep driving the car anyway, are they responsible for the resulting deaths?
I think I can answer these all with one of two responses. You pick the correct one:
1. Shit Happens
2. Use common sense (what happened to this option over the years?).
Good luck with that. They keep building better idiots.
Yep, to this day, I"m still amazed that we have to have warning tags on hair blow dryers, that not only have it in print, but also with cartoon like diagrams warning you to NOT use the blow dryer while in the bathtub filled with water.
Seriously, I wonder if the depth of our litigious society has started to seriously interfere with natural selection, by keeping idiot genes in the pool when they should have weeded themselves out years ago.
At least that's what the Sportscar marketing dept would like you to believe. If you live in any decent sized city, then driving and adventures are mutually exclusive. I have friends with $200k sportscars. Getting in and out of them is a drudge. Stop, start, stop, start in traffic is a drudge. Finding a park that you feel safe leaving your car is a drudge. I can get anywhere quicker on my $5000 sportsbike, and it's a lot more fun too.
Well, I live in New Orleans...and even though MUCH of the city is one huge speed bump, when I do hit the drivable areas, I have no problem having a heavy foot. And on the why, no one goes less than 80mph most of the time.
I don't live in L.A. or NYC where they have gridlock traffic, no. But I've driven in Houston, and Dallas and other southern cities, and I have no problems going fast most anywhere I want. I tend not to drive during rush hour....so, that's not a problem.
And as far as parking...sure, I'm slightly cautious, but my thoughts are "Hey, that's what insurance is for".
So, in reality I "DO" enjoy my sports cars whenever I get into them. I drive them fast most anywhere I go and I have a blast. A sports bike is nice for recreational exercise, but not for daily needs of going here and there, shopping weekly for groceries (Hell, even I have to sometimes make 2 trips since my car is small).....and general life needs.
Most people in the US need a car for daily use, I figure why not make it a FUN one!!!!
Yeah, because the Porsche 911 and Supra TT are too pedestrian. Or do the back seats not count if you can't fit a real human in them? Though not sure where that'd leave the RX-8, as regular humans fit in the back of those.
Actually in Katrina, I lost a 1986 911 Turbo Porsche.
Yes, "technically" it had two seats in the back, but like you said, you could't really fit a single human back there (especially when it had the roll bars back there)...so, I just count it as a 2 seater, rather than saying "no more than 2 practical seats"
Wow, that just reminded me of a needed use for windows...when driving drunks home, you often need a way for them to barf OUT of the car while on the road.
Man, this type of thing reminds me of how things really have changed.
Does anyone here on the list still remember when as a kid, you didn't also have to be *bolted* into a seat? I remember crawling up in the space under the rear windshield on top of the seats and watching the world go by or even going to sleep.
I also was free to lay around and read or play toys in the whole back seat area.
I kinda feel sad for all the freedom to enjoy life a bit more has been lost in the era of fear and forced safety.
As for my dogs, they've already been trained to sit in their seats, front or back and act reasonably well. I rarely would drive with the window down with them in the car, as they seems to prefer the AC since it is hot so much of the year down here, but on nice days, I'd crack the passenger window so they could smell the world outside, but usually not enough for them to crawl out of...
Are they also going to throw out convertible and targa roofs on autos?
Geez, more and more I hope this driverless car thing doesn't take over and become *mandatory* my driving lifetime.
I've never owned anything but 2-seater sports cars, I don't think of driving as just a drudge, I actually have an adventure every time I fire up the engine and go for a drive!!!
There comes a point where this get old. I went through my phase in my late teens with this, and realized I hated being in any kind of relationship like that. I don't find enjoyment in getting laid if there's no emotion in it.
Well, you pretty much have to play the game to attract them in the first place...we're speaking in generalities here of course, but you have to come off a certain way for the majority of women to notice and be interested in you.
Once you get past this barrier....and decide you want an emotional relationship with this woman, you can let down the guards a little and be more of yourself.
But still...in the end, women, even in long term emotional relationships, in general, want a strong, assertive male presence. It seems to be in the DNA really.
If you become all wishy washy and can be walked over, often times a good long term relationship can start to fail from her end, if she see's you as less of a decisive male.
I'm just saying the two things are not mutually competitive. It takes a bit of playing the game to land one....and if it is a keeper, sure, have a deeper emotional relationship, be more of yourself and all....but don't quit being the man in the basic ways that attracted her to you in the first place.
And sure...be equal in the relationship, but as a male...you need to pretty much always be just at least a tad more of the equal than her.
I think, personally (and again generalities here) that it is mighty hard to undo centuries of evolution and things burned into male/female DNA even though society has tried to make these recent (historically speaking) changes.
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While I have nothing against being green I'm not really willing to go out of my way to be green. If it is convenient, sure. But I've lived my life to this point enjoying certain things and a certain lifestyle and with life being so short, I'm not willing to put myself out for some benefit I'll never see.
Ok. I have the words for the acronym. Now...what does council housed mean? What is a council house?
Never heard the term before...
Thanks in advance.
When you can get a bus system that will take me door-to-door for all destinations I need to go in a day, on MY time schedule (or at least within 15 or so minutes of it), then I'll be interested.
Otherwise public transportation doesn't fit into my lifestyle. The only time I really needs cabs or maybe uber when I can try it out...is if I don't feel like risking driving after drinking.
What is the world is a "chav"?
Well, how this affects human biology *IS* tech related IMHO.
And more and more...politics is affecting anything tech related in most any scientific field. Just try to come up with some new tech, put it on the market and see how far you before you're awash in a sea of regulations, paperwork and potential legal liability.
I don't give it to insurance companies, nor to the utilities (yes I pay a deposit but I don't give them my SS number), etc.
You may have to argue a bit and get a manager, but if nothing else, if you can keep your SS number out of systems that will potentially be broken into, at least they won't get that info.
I"m still trying to figure this one out.
How the hell does not talking/texting on a cell phone during school hours exacerbate inequality??
If anything, I would think everyone NOT having a phone on them during school hours would put things MORE on an equal playing ground, no?
Bottle Opener....you always need that in case you need to open a (good) beer while on the road....
You know...if they would just release API info and good information AS they develop internally for Win7....to the public, then the Open Source folks will work on the Linux versions for them.
Let me guess: Whiny millennial that is shocked to find that in the real world, no one gives a shit about you and you are expected to fight, dig and compete with everyone else to succeed in this world?
Absolutely.
For goodness sake people. Grow a bit thicker skin and get on with life. Why would you let what someone says or how they act around you affect what YOU like to do or want to do? This world isn't about acceptance by everyone.
Sure, if someone is going out of their way to discriminate and keep you from employment or getting a job that's against the law.
But not playing nice with you is not the end of the world.
IN the real world, Mommy doesn't catch you when you fall and makes the boo-boo go away. Not everyone gets a trophy for just showing up. And no, not everyone is going to be nice to you and "friend" you on FB or whatever. There are idiots and jerks aplenty in this world, and you really don't have time in this short lifespan to waste effort on them...so, grow some thicker skin and learn to ignore someone that isn't nice or even taunting you. Move on and get things done.
This is nothing new....pretty much human behavior since the dawn of time.
No, it is not.
All kinds of local election/voting days plus various state days...in different states, etc.
The only national election is the federal Presidental election, which happens only every 4 years. The local elections are the ones that are arguably the more important ones that affect your life directly.
Well, that's not really possible, as that MOST elections and voting opportunities are not national, but local.
We seem to have many different times to go vote here in my area, if they made a national holiday for each time I had a chance to vote....combined with every other municipality/states' voting schedules....I'd have half a year off easily.
Federal presidential elections are quite few and far between...and frankly it is the voting locally that is more important and will affect you most directly.
And no, I don't think that voting should be compulsory....if you can't take the time and effort to go register and vote, chances are that you are not going to take any time and effort to learn what the current amendments or ordinances or taxes being proposed are, nor are you going to pay attention to which politicians are standing and promising what.
Don't confused psychopath with sociopath.
Is it actually in law that you can't tell folks how to beat a polygraph....or were they saying they were advertising this advice for sale but it was a fraud?
I think I can answer these all with one of two responses. You pick the correct one:
1. Shit Happens
2. Use common sense (what happened to this option over the years?).
Yep, to this day, I"m still amazed that we have to have warning tags on hair blow dryers, that not only have it in print, but also with cartoon like diagrams warning you to NOT use the blow dryer while in the bathtub filled with water.
Seriously, I wonder if the depth of our litigious society has started to seriously interfere with natural selection, by keeping idiot genes in the pool when they should have weeded themselves out years ago.
I wear mine religiously, but I believe it should be an individual adult CHOICE....like a motorcycle helmet.
Actually the name is a chile pepper first.
Well, I live in New Orleans...and even though MUCH of the city is one huge speed bump, when I do hit the drivable areas, I have no problem having a heavy foot. And on the why, no one goes less than 80mph most of the time.
I don't live in L.A. or NYC where they have gridlock traffic, no. But I've driven in Houston, and Dallas and other southern cities, and I have no problems going fast most anywhere I want. I tend not to drive during rush hour....so, that's not a problem.
And as far as parking...sure, I'm slightly cautious, but my thoughts are "Hey, that's what insurance is for".
So, in reality I "DO" enjoy my sports cars whenever I get into them. I drive them fast most anywhere I go and I have a blast. A sports bike is nice for recreational exercise, but not for daily needs of going here and there, shopping weekly for groceries (Hell, even I have to sometimes make 2 trips since my car is small).....and general life needs.
Most people in the US need a car for daily use, I figure why not make it a FUN one!!!!
Actually in Katrina, I lost a 1986 911 Turbo Porsche.
Yes, "technically" it had two seats in the back, but like you said, you could't really fit a single human back there (especially when it had the roll bars back there)...so, I just count it as a 2 seater, rather than saying "no more than 2 practical seats"
Wow, that just reminded me of a needed use for windows...when driving drunks home, you often need a way for them to barf OUT of the car while on the road.
My concern with a car with no windows is how do you get out and if your car goes into the water somehow?
I dont trust computer driven cars to be infallible....and want all the escape routes I currently have at a minimum.
Does anyone here on the list still remember when as a kid, you didn't also have to be *bolted* into a seat? I remember crawling up in the space under the rear windshield on top of the seats and watching the world go by or even going to sleep.
I also was free to lay around and read or play toys in the whole back seat area.
I kinda feel sad for all the freedom to enjoy life a bit more has been lost in the era of fear and forced safety.
As for my dogs, they've already been trained to sit in their seats, front or back and act reasonably well. I rarely would drive with the window down with them in the car, as they seems to prefer the AC since it is hot so much of the year down here, but on nice days, I'd crack the passenger window so they could smell the world outside, but usually not enough for them to crawl out of...
Are they also going to throw out convertible and targa roofs on autos?
Geez, more and more I hope this driverless car thing doesn't take over and become *mandatory* my driving lifetime.
I've never owned anything but 2-seater sports cars, I don't think of driving as just a drudge, I actually have an adventure every time I fire up the engine and go for a drive!!!
Well, you pretty much have to play the game to attract them in the first place...we're speaking in generalities here of course, but you have to come off a certain way for the majority of women to notice and be interested in you.
Once you get past this barrier....and decide you want an emotional relationship with this woman, you can let down the guards a little and be more of yourself.
But still...in the end, women, even in long term emotional relationships, in general, want a strong, assertive male presence. It seems to be in the DNA really.
If you become all wishy washy and can be walked over, often times a good long term relationship can start to fail from her end, if she see's you as less of a decisive male.
I'm just saying the two things are not mutually competitive. It takes a bit of playing the game to land one....and if it is a keeper, sure, have a deeper emotional relationship, be more of yourself and all....but don't quit being the man in the basic ways that attracted her to you in the first place.
And sure...be equal in the relationship, but as a male...you need to pretty much always be just at least a tad more of the equal than her.
I think, personally (and again generalities here) that it is mighty hard to undo centuries of evolution and things burned into male/female DNA even though society has tried to make these recent (historically speaking) changes.