1) modern mass transit has amazing air conditioning in the summer and heating in the winter, I have never sweated or froze in modern mass transit. You don't have to sit in place warm up your transit for 10 minutes prior to departure in the morning, you don't have to sweat and gasp for air while waiting for your transit to cool down from 120 degrees Fahrenheit, upon entering your transit after a long days work. It's virtually never too hot or too cold in modern mass transit.
I was talking more about what you have to deal with while waiting for the mass transit...out in the elements. And having to deal with the elements walking to/from the access point to your destination which is often quite a distance, since you can't do door-to-door with public transport.
Also, how do you grocery stop for the weekend with this? I mean, I don't want to try schlepping a 14b brisket, wood and charcoal if I'm gonna fire up the smoker, not to mention all the other groceries I'd be buying for the week...that just doesn't work on a bus.
2) modern mass transit is clean, well maintained and quite pleasant, and you might just be sitting next to corporate executives and/or high ranked politicians, for in places with modern mass transit, even the well off prefer using mass transit. Only in *expletive* societies like the US is mass transit considered only good enough for the poorest of the poor.
Well, it must be different where you live, the times I've ridden on pubic transport, I did not observer any upper level executive types like you describe, almost exclusively poor and bums, aside from a few tourists.
3) modern mass transit allows you to make great use of the 3-4 hours a day that countless Americans waste driving their cars. Modern mass transit has internet, electricity, tables to work on and places where 4-6 people can, if they so choose, sit together. You can text safely while riding in modern mass transit, whereas in a car you threaten the life of yourself and everyone around you. You can read, write reports, hell you can even code, surf the web, watch videos or listen to music. And god forbid if you are so inclined you can even *speak* to another also present human being.
What 3-4 hours a day are you talking about? I mean unless you live out in LA, CA or NYC or Chicago or the like....you don't spend hours on the road. At most I've only driven 30 minutes each way for work, and that was due to doing a job in the town over from my home for awhile, usually I have never had more than 15-20 min drive each way for work, no matter which state I lived in. Hours of commute are NOT common in most places in the US. A car is exponentially faster than public transport.
6) modern mass transit systems are incredibly reliable in terms of timing, if for no other reason than that are entirely isolated from automobile traffic and do not compete with cars. Modern mass transit systems run almost 24 hours offering service from whee early in the morning (5:00AM), until quite late at night(12:00 - 2:00 AM), and they operate on the weekends. If you want to be guaranteed to be on time to work or classes, use modern mass transit.
please tell me all the magical places that have mass transit that is on time and regular, with little wait times?
7) modern mass transit systems ensure that where you want and need to shop is almost always within some smallish number of yards from mass transit stops. This means far less walking than what is entailed when shopping in places surrounded by epically large parking places. It also means you can easily do a little bit of shopping on your way back home from work or school 2-3 times a week rather than trying to buy everything needed for half a month and being exhausted from carrying 100 plus bags of goods for your family every time you go shopping
So you can play on your phone instead of constantly making sure you're staying alive.
Not sure why I'd have my head stuck in a phone for that long....?
Btu anyway, I like driving, I buy fun sports cars, and every time I turn the ignition, it is a small adventure to me, and I crank on the tunes, and jam out while driving.....I get to observer the outside world a bit and enjoy the scenery.
I'm also not having to deal with whatever PITA behavior a total stranger is exhibiting right next to me.....inside my car is my own space. I can also carry my CCW with me in MY car to my destination, I hear you cannot do that on some forms of public transport in some states.
You are correct. The State of Indiana in the United States required 50 hours last I checked. But at least a couple states in Australia require 120.
Interesting, I've never heard of this in the US.
I've never lived in a state that required ANY hours of supervised training.
At 16ys, you can take your driving test (written and practical which is usually drive out and back and park in an empty parking lot)....and if you pass, you have a license, there is no proof of anything you have to show.
We've already failed. It is hopeless that mass transit can get fixed in less than 30 years, so self-driving cars is the solution.
Every consider that the modern person just doesn't want to ride mass transit for their daily lives?
Even if it was clean, on time and lacked smelly bums.....why would I choose public transportation when I can more easily and directly have door-to-door services with my own car?
Not to mention, in my own car, I keep my own stuff it in and don't have to load/unload all the time, I have my radio programmed in, I keep some daily possessions in there, etc.
Unless you are down and out with regards to money, why would anyone choose it?
The times I come close to wanting to go somewhere and not drive or park....I uber. Again, it is door-to-door.
This is especially important when there is inclement weather, or when, like here, it is fscking 95F out with 98% humidity. If you're dressed at all to look nice for work, etc, you don't wanna be sweating your ass off by the time you get to work.
When you are the one to get the short end of the stick of gentrification...
Well, instead of wasting time bitching about it...perhaps one could spend extra time trying to educate themselves, get a better job, a different job, etc.....?
Its never too late, until it is too late.
But progress happens, and in the case of economic development, if you want to stay in the area, you need to make sure you can keep up, and try to be a part of the economic upswing.....or, well, there are other places to live.
I used a smart phone for a while, then it died. I was suckered in to buying an expensive piece of hardware that had an expected two year life span.
What phones did you buy that only last 2 years?
I had my iPhone 3GS till I got my iPhone 6s+....that was a long time and it worked great.
I don't plan to ditch my 6s+ for quite awhile, nothing so compelling that I feel the need to upgrade...and I'll get a free battery replacement here in a month or so....
The whole thing seems so petty to me. Jesus Christ, you can survive an hour without Facebook!
Ok, I'll go with you on this one...and I guess its because I'm a bit older, but I've never had a social media account. No FB, no twitter, etc. I never joined due to privacy issues, and frankly, if you work any jobs with security requirements, I think it helps NOT to have connections to people you may not really know.
But aside from the fact that I have a large swath of friends, long term ones....I'm constantly in touch with them via text, email, voice...and *GASP* getting together with them in real meat space!!!
I use my phone for listening to music in the car, actual texts/calls....and really that's about it.
Im kinda baffled at people purported to have their noses stuck in a phone 24/7....I guess that explains a sad date I observed not long back, a young couple, and rather than talk, interact and get to know each other, they had their noses stuck in their phones.
I thought that was a bit sad.
Are there that many people out there that are so hooked on their phones that it occupies that much of their daily lives?
I am thinking that the government doesn't have to necessarily *tell* the employer who is specifically claiming benefits... they would just know that some people are. I would think that a company as big as the ones being targeted would have several employees claiming assistance.
I wonder, is it public information published by the Feds on who is on support?
Actually, I jumped BACK on the Tivo wagon a few years ago, as part of my cut the cord project.
I have a Tivo Romio OTA unit hooked to my antenna for local OTA viewing and recording.....
I hooked up several of the Tivo Minis on each TV in my house for viewing that content.
I also have Amazon FireTV box units on each tv, which I have Playstation VUE (for my cable channels I think now $45/mo), Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube, etc.
Between these two, I have MORE than enough TV viewing and I saved myself over $100/mo from old cable.
Or, I guess it will possibly encourage companies to either not hire or fire employees that DO take or attempt to take Federal benefit programs like these....if you do SNAP, you aren't eligible to be an Amazon employee.
I could see how this could backfire.
I don't think being on the public dole is a "protected class".....and many states these days are "at-will" for work, so you can be fired with no reason given.
I doubt heâ(TM)ll learn anything, but we can at least hope this might keep him from killing some future girlfriend.
Looking at his name, I would guess likely not, many I've dealt with from that presumed culture, don't really count women as people much less as even close to equals in society.
But, that's not terribly politcialy correct, and I guess I should cease observation of other human groups in such fashion.
I just do not know what has happened to this country...why do we no longer seem to want to do what was formerly considered "common sense"?
Why do people not want to guard our borders, like any sovereign nation should (and most do)?
If someone is here by illegally, they have by definition broken the law, and should be sent back asap.
Again, this is common sense, what has happened so recently to many in the US to now start being against this basic fundamental operation of our government?
Hell, one of the few, enumerated responsibilities of the Federal Govt. is the protection of our borders.
WTF?
I mean, I don't mind you coming to my country...just sign the fucking guest book on the way in, eh?
I assume the lack of correlation between the controls is deliberate on the part of the GIMP team, to avoid getting into legal tiffs with Adobe over copying their software directly, but god damn it makes their software frustrating to use.
I've found the Affinity apps to be a pretty decent alternative. No joke.
I would whole heartedly agree...The Affinity products work both for mac and windows, and are one time purchase and not rental...they also are good about free updates and bug fixes.
You have to poke around the site to find the windows versions, tho...strangely.
Affinity Photo - This is the PS killer IMHO...it has every tool I've ever used on PS, and with the engine being written new from scratch I find it to often be FASTER that PS, and the content aware stuff is on par if not better at times that PS.
OH, and if you have an iPad Pro, I would highly recommend Affinity Photo for iPad, you have full blown desktop functionality on the iPad and it is amazing to work with.
They have a free trial on their products, give them a try.
Affinity Designer - This will give Adobe Illustrator a run for its money, I'm currently trying to learn vector stuff with AD.
Affinity Publisher - This is in public beta right now, looks VERY interesting.
On1 RAW - This is an up and coming alternative to Adobe Lightroom. I really like this, there is functionality that blows LR out of the water, I really like the luminance masks while working with your RAW images, there are tons of filters, and the latest versions of On1, now have pretty good cataloging and file management that was something I would have missed with LR. Its slightly more manual, but not a deal killer. I'm currently using it on an older MBP late 2011, 16GB ram, local SSD hard drive and external drives for cache and image storage, and performance is pretty good, although I find that at times it bogs while using my wacom tablet and pen, but if I switch to mouse, no problems. I'm hoping to soon update my medial computer and foresee these problems to disappear. This too has a free trial, I would recommend getting this, and looking through the tutorials and play with it...I believe this will be the LR killer...and I loved lightroom.
Now...for video and you want to get off of Adobe Premier....I like this:
Davinci Resolve - by Black Magic Design. This products started out as a high end color correction bit of software and it is still industry standard for that, but now, the NLE is very good, and is now paired with Fusion, an alternative to After Effects...and they're adding some high quality sound design/editing into it too.
You need to have a pretty beefy workstation to run this, but this is a quality one stop shop for most all things video.
There are several other options out there, I liked Adobe Products, but I just am not ready to "rent" my software and run into crap like this.
I've also been watching the Adobe products in the CC, and while there have been some improvements and updates that are kinda nice, I've not seen anything groundbreaking that would cause me to need to pay monthly/annually for my software, and I"d really get a bad taste in my mouth if I had to keep paying for software that isn't being updated or really supported.
I have my Adobe CS6 suite of tools for that category and I'm not paying regularly for that...one pay and done.
So...sure, there are a lot of people and shops out there with Adobe ingrained into their workflow and the muscle memory is strong there.
But there are now very viable alternatives...and in most cases, you can use almost all the same keyboard shortcuts (some come standard and some you can set up yourself custom)...and the layout of the desktop is very similar and familiar.
With others...well, if you know one, it isn't rocket surgery to pick up some new differences.
'm all for people being able to buy guns, but as here in Europe you shouldn't be able to buy it so easily. Here, you have to present documents like your criminal record and history of mental illnesses.
When buying new guns, you have to go through a mandatory instant background check.
You have to do this in many states too, even for private used gun transactions.
In my state, you can do private transactions without a govt intervention or background check, but that hasn't proven to be very troublesome.
But if you want to buy a new gun locally, or if you buy online either a new or used gun, you have to go through the background checks at a FFL dealer, and you also have to go through even more scrutiny if you want to get a suppressor, or short barreled shotgun or rifle, and for each of those latter 3 items, you have to pay a $200 tax stamp on each item.
Since when in the US, have our rights been allocated or limited by what one needs?
I mean, do I "need" to be able to speak freely without government punishment, even if what I voice isn't the current popular train of thought?
(I mean, even racist speech is protected speech in the US, do you wish to limit what speech can be uttered if you don't agree with it, and feel that no one NEEDS to utter it ever again?)
Do I need to be secure in my property and papers from all sorts of searches and seizures?
I'm not sure I hear the "need" test being applied to our other constitutional amendments...why the 2nd?
My rights are not based on what I "need", they never have been and never should be.
Freedom is about what you WANT to do with your life and your possessions, not what you "NEED" them for....who is to decide what I "need"? You?
I decide what I need.....
And funny....while no one is trying to actively chip away and erode the rights described in the other amendments, those amendments don't have the specific words the 2nd one does "shall not be infringed"......
Funny, I seem to get the impression that I'd have to keep it loaded and ready to go, rather than locked up when I'm not at the range, in order for it to be an effective self defense tool
I"m not sure if you're asking a question here or what...but yes, most people that I've ever known that keeps a weapon for self defense (whether hidden around the home, or carry concealed) does in fact carry them loaded with one in the chamber, I mean, that's just common sense.
An unloaded, locked away gun is pretty much as useless as not having a gun at all if an emergency hits and you find you need one.
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If you want some Tesla stock, now might be the time to buy it on the dip.
There's always a silver lining if you look for it....
I was talking more about what you have to deal with while waiting for the mass transit...out in the elements. And having to deal with the elements walking to/from the access point to your destination which is often quite a distance, since you can't do door-to-door with public transport.
Also, how do you grocery stop for the weekend with this? I mean, I don't want to try schlepping a 14b brisket, wood and charcoal if I'm gonna fire up the smoker, not to mention all the other groceries I'd be buying for the week...that just doesn't work on a bus.
Well, it must be different where you live, the times I've ridden on pubic transport, I did not observer any upper level executive types like you describe, almost exclusively poor and bums, aside from a few tourists.
What 3-4 hours a day are you talking about? I mean unless you live out in LA, CA or NYC or Chicago or the like....you don't spend hours on the road. At most I've only driven 30 minutes each way for work, and that was due to doing a job in the town over from my home for awhile, usually I have never had more than 15-20 min drive each way for work, no matter which state I lived in. Hours of commute are NOT common in most places in the US. A car is exponentially faster than public transport.
please tell me all the magical places that have mass transit that is on time and regular, with little wait times?
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Not sure why I'd have my head stuck in a phone for that long....?
Btu anyway, I like driving, I buy fun sports cars, and every time I turn the ignition, it is a small adventure to me, and I crank on the tunes, and jam out while driving.....I get to observer the outside world a bit and enjoy the scenery.
I'm also not having to deal with whatever PITA behavior a total stranger is exhibiting right next to me.....inside my car is my own space. I can also carry my CCW with me in MY car to my destination, I hear you cannot do that on some forms of public transport in some states.
From what I've read, it seems that cow farts (food animal emissions) do more damage to the atmosphere than cars do....
And really, I don't see the current ICE cars blowing up the earth before I'm done with it and dead and gone, so what do I care?
I'm guessing not long after I'm gone, you'll have electric vehicles....and again, why not have one per person?
Interesting, I've never heard of this in the US.
I've never lived in a state that required ANY hours of supervised training.
At 16ys, you can take your driving test (written and practical which is usually drive out and back and park in an empty parking lot)....and if you pass, you have a license, there is no proof of anything you have to show.
Every consider that the modern person just doesn't want to ride mass transit for their daily lives?
Even if it was clean, on time and lacked smelly bums.....why would I choose public transportation when I can more easily and directly have door-to-door services with my own car?
Not to mention, in my own car, I keep my own stuff it in and don't have to load/unload all the time, I have my radio programmed in, I keep some daily possessions in there, etc.
Unless you are down and out with regards to money, why would anyone choose it?
The times I come close to wanting to go somewhere and not drive or park....I uber. Again, it is door-to-door.
This is especially important when there is inclement weather, or when, like here, it is fscking 95F out with 98% humidity. If you're dressed at all to look nice for work, etc, you don't wanna be sweating your ass off by the time you get to work.
Is that some sort of soccer term?
i'm also a bit curious what the "SIM only" thing is...?
Well, instead of wasting time bitching about it...perhaps one could spend extra time trying to educate themselves, get a better job, a different job, etc.....?
Its never too late, until it is too late.
But progress happens, and in the case of economic development, if you want to stay in the area, you need to make sure you can keep up, and try to be a part of the economic upswing.....or, well, there are other places to live.
What phones did you buy that only last 2 years?
I had my iPhone 3GS till I got my iPhone 6s+....that was a long time and it worked great.
I don't plan to ditch my 6s+ for quite awhile, nothing so compelling that I feel the need to upgrade...and I'll get a free battery replacement here in a month or so....
Ok, I'll go with you on this one...and I guess its because I'm a bit older, but I've never had a social media account. No FB, no twitter, etc. I never joined due to privacy issues, and frankly, if you work any jobs with security requirements, I think it helps NOT to have connections to people you may not really know.
But aside from the fact that I have a large swath of friends, long term ones....I'm constantly in touch with them via text, email, voice...and *GASP* getting together with them in real meat space!!!
I use my phone for listening to music in the car, actual texts/calls....and really that's about it.
Im kinda baffled at people purported to have their noses stuck in a phone 24/7....I guess that explains a sad date I observed not long back, a young couple, and rather than talk, interact and get to know each other, they had their noses stuck in their phones.
I thought that was a bit sad.
Are there that many people out there that are so hooked on their phones that it occupies that much of their daily lives?
I wonder, is it public information published by the Feds on who is on support?
Is this available via FOIA?
Blue Screen of Death.....Cloud style!!
I have a Tivo Romio OTA unit hooked to my antenna for local OTA viewing and recording.....
I hooked up several of the Tivo Minis on each TV in my house for viewing that content.
I also have Amazon FireTV box units on each tv, which I have Playstation VUE (for my cable channels I think now $45/mo), Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube, etc.
Between these two, I have MORE than enough TV viewing and I saved myself over $100/mo from old cable.
Now...is this actually on the level of money you can make AND get Federal Assistance?
Hey, their stock is doing gangbusters....making me money!!
I could see how this could backfire.
I don't think being on the public dole is a "protected class".....and many states these days are "at-will" for work, so you can be fired with no reason given.
Or at least, isn't that where Amazon is deriving most of their profit?
Looking at his name, I would guess likely not, many I've dealt with from that presumed culture, don't really count women as people much less as even close to equals in society.
But, that's not terribly politcialy correct, and I guess I should cease observation of other human groups in such fashion.
I just do not know what has happened to this country...why do we no longer seem to want to do what was formerly considered "common sense"?
Why do people not want to guard our borders, like any sovereign nation should (and most do)?
If someone is here by illegally, they have by definition broken the law, and should be sent back asap.
Again, this is common sense, what has happened so recently to many in the US to now start being against this basic fundamental operation of our government?
Hell, one of the few, enumerated responsibilities of the Federal Govt. is the protection of our borders.
WTF?
I mean, I don't mind you coming to my country...just sign the fucking guest book on the way in, eh?
Give Affinity Photo a try.
The desktop layout is virtually identical to PS, and most of the keyboard shortcuts are the same, and those that aren't are pretty easily customized.
I find the engine to be faster on AP that for PS, and the content aware stuff is amazing well done and FAST.
There is a free trial and if you want to contemplate jumping the "rental" ship on Adobe PS, give it a try.
I've tried GIMP and it is ok to play with....
But for a viable PS alternative, I'd recommend Affinity Photo.
In many ways, I think it outperforms PS...the engine is newer and faster.
I would whole heartedly agree...The Affinity products work both for mac and windows, and are one time purchase and not rental...they also are good about free updates and bug fixes.
You have to poke around the site to find the windows versions, tho...strangely.
Affinity Photo - This is the PS killer IMHO...it has every tool I've ever used on PS, and with the engine being written new from scratch I find it to often be FASTER that PS, and the content aware stuff is on par if not better at times that PS.
OH, and if you have an iPad Pro, I would highly recommend Affinity Photo for iPad, you have full blown desktop functionality on the iPad and it is amazing to work with.
They have a free trial on their products, give them a try.
Affinity Designer - This will give Adobe Illustrator a run for its money, I'm currently trying to learn vector stuff with AD.
Affinity Publisher - This is in public beta right now, looks VERY interesting.
On1 RAW - This is an up and coming alternative to Adobe Lightroom. I really like this, there is functionality that blows LR out of the water, I really like the luminance masks while working with your RAW images, there are tons of filters, and the latest versions of On1, now have pretty good cataloging and file management that was something I would have missed with LR. Its slightly more manual, but not a deal killer. I'm currently using it on an older MBP late 2011, 16GB ram, local SSD hard drive and external drives for cache and image storage, and performance is pretty good, although I find that at times it bogs while using my wacom tablet and pen, but if I switch to mouse, no problems. I'm hoping to soon update my medial computer and foresee these problems to disappear. This too has a free trial, I would recommend getting this, and looking through the tutorials and play with it...I believe this will be the LR killer...and I loved lightroom.
Now...for video and you want to get off of Adobe Premier....I like this:
Davinci Resolve - by Black Magic Design. This products started out as a high end color correction bit of software and it is still industry standard for that, but now, the NLE is very good, and is now paired with Fusion, an alternative to After Effects...and they're adding some high quality sound design/editing into it too.
You need to have a pretty beefy workstation to run this, but this is a quality one stop shop for most all things video.
There are several other options out there, I liked Adobe Products, but I just am not ready to "rent" my software and run into crap like this.
I've also been watching the Adobe products in the CC, and while there have been some improvements and updates that are kinda nice, I've not seen anything groundbreaking that would cause me to need to pay monthly/annually for my software, and I"d really get a bad taste in my mouth if I had to keep paying for software that isn't being updated or really supported.
I have my Adobe CS6 suite of tools for that category and I'm not paying regularly for that...one pay and done.
So...sure, there are a lot of people and shops out there with Adobe ingrained into their workflow and the muscle memory is strong there.
But there are now very viable alternatives...and in most cases, you can use almost all the same keyboard shortcuts (some come standard and some you can set up yourself custom)...and the layout of the desktop is very similar and familiar.
With others...well, if you know one, it isn't rocket surgery to pick up some new differences.
When buying new guns, you have to go through a mandatory instant background check.
You have to do this in many states too, even for private used gun transactions.
In my state, you can do private transactions without a govt intervention or background check, but that hasn't proven to be very troublesome.
But if you want to buy a new gun locally, or if you buy online either a new or used gun, you have to go through the background checks at a FFL dealer, and you also have to go through even more scrutiny if you want to get a suppressor, or short barreled shotgun or rifle, and for each of those latter 3 items, you have to pay a $200 tax stamp on each item.
Yep...I wasn't sure where your reply was coming from....I think we're both basically on the same side of things...
Since when in the US, have our rights been allocated or limited by what one needs?
I mean, do I "need" to be able to speak freely without government punishment, even if what I voice isn't the current popular train of thought?
(I mean, even racist speech is protected speech in the US, do you wish to limit what speech can be uttered if you don't agree with it, and feel that no one NEEDS to utter it ever again?)
Do I need to be secure in my property and papers from all sorts of searches and seizures?
I'm not sure I hear the "need" test being applied to our other constitutional amendments...why the 2nd?
My rights are not based on what I "need", they never have been and never should be.
Freedom is about what you WANT to do with your life and your possessions, not what you "NEED" them for....who is to decide what I "need"? You?
I decide what I need.....
And funny....while no one is trying to actively chip away and erode the rights described in the other amendments, those amendments don't have the specific words the 2nd one does "shall not be infringed"......
I"m not sure if you're asking a question here or what...but yes, most people that I've ever known that keeps a weapon for self defense (whether hidden around the home, or carry concealed) does in fact carry them loaded with one in the chamber, I mean, that's just common sense.
An unloaded, locked away gun is pretty much as useless as not having a gun at all if an emergency hits and you find you need one.