The AppleTV is actually really nice for this - because you can search for a show or movie, and see which services are offering it. That's pretty handy.
That capability is not that unique, however...on my Amazon FireTV, I search with it, and it shows me content between all the services.
Even my Tivo OTA, does the same thing, as that it can pull content in from streaming services you subscribe too.
But - were your taxes REALLY lowered? Or did you get more money in each paycheck?
Err..Yes.
It is the SAME thing. They withheld less taxes from your check, and therefore, you got MORE in each paycheck.
Lowering withholding needed to be publicized as that people did need to adjust it a bit.
But it is best at the EOY to NOT have a big refund. Why should you give the US feds an interest free loan all year when you could be using same money and saving it and earning interest on it, or investing it?
At EOY your' best bet is to either get a little refund or own a little bit.
The IRS even has an online calculator for you to calculate your withholdings.....
Let me explain who benefits from blaming Russia (hint its the DNC in the US).
Currently the DNC in the US is facing these issues in the upcoming election...
A KKK member as the VA Gov that they are not calling for him to resign.
A serial rapist as the VA Lt. Gov they are refusing to impeach or call to resign.
The House Majority Speaker (the real one AOC) is going to be charged with embezzling $1Million of her campaign funds for personal use illegally
The DNC is unable to mention anti-Semitism is bad
Many members of the DNC support killing of live born babies and calling it abortion
They want to protect illegals who attempt to illegally buy firearms or kill US citizens
If you eat a steak or fly a plane they want to make you a criminal
Now if someone points all that out, they have quite a hill to overcome to get people on their side. There really is no way to counter all this bad stuff they are supporting, and all of it is completely true. However, if you can convince people Russians are saying this they get a head start at getting over it.
In 2016 they literally rigged a national election, the DNC primary, and have not been held responsible. This is because their supporters, the ones whos votes were not counted, were told Russia hacked the election (they didn't). All "Russia did" was show how the election was rigged, and in reality no one has shown evidence that Russia was the one that showed it. Evidence has shown a DNC member released it because he was upset about Bernie.
So they have a lot of problems, and were successful in fooling their dumber supporters that Russia was responsible for their bad deeds in the past.
Interesting.....very interesting, I'd not thought of all that.
I suspect that it is far more likely to be a fault with the aircraft or its software.
Well, it was Ethiopia....
Someone on board might have made the mistake of opening a sandwich they snuck on board, and the entire cabin rushed them, causing the plane to become unbalanced/unstable, etc.....
If they want to replace the taxpaying workers with robots, then municipalities should tax each robot at a rate commensurate with the wages they would have lost from employees living in the area.
There's nothing wrong with replacing people with robots?
But there is most *definitely* something wrong with doing so when it screws everyone but the elite few at the top.
Pretty much since the dawn of time, machines that men build have been replacing people for labor....this especially increased since the industrial revolution.
This isn't some new big deal....we've been building machines to replace human labor for a long time, and it hasn't caused an uproar or catastrophe.....
Relax. People can always do something else, they always have.
If the Democrats can just pick their candidate without things getting bloody, I don't think Trump has a chance.
If the Dems, keep pushing LEFT like they are, if the AOC crazies push for such extreme socialism, and even THEY are blatantly using the term....they likely will be handing Trump a 2nd term.
That socialism thing may work on the far east and west coast, but it doesn't fly with the rest of America, which is still mostly main stream, middle of the road.
If you do that round here, the dustmen will not collect your bin and will put a tag-of-shame on it, the tag being a little info leaflet telling you which things can go in the recycling, which can go in the composting bin and which can go in regular trash.
You can request larger bins if you like, but the non recycleable non compostable rubbish is still only going to get collected once per fortnight.
Wow, where do you live where they force you to do that??
Around here, they pick up trash twice a week. I'm sure they also pick up recycling too, but I've never bothered with that, although I do see a few neighbors here and there with those blue bins out there.
In San Francisco, it turns out that not everyone is doing a good job sorting, and that ends up costing a lot of money in landfill fees. Hate to say it, but you need to do random audit of peoples recycling, trash, and compost bins with fines for egregious violations.
Man, I'm glad I've never lived where you have to do that bullshit.
Where i live...recycling is when you put anything out with the garbage, say like old CRT monitors, etc....someone will come by and grab them WAY before the garbage men do.
Whatever happened to the twenty-seven 8 x 10 colored glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explainin' what each one was...?
Government programs and fines were necessary to stop people doing something which to them made "good economoc sense".
Boy, I sure am glad I've never had to live anywhere with forced recycling.
I'm happy other people want to do it and participate, but I don't like the idea of being FORCED to do it.
Frankly, I don't have room in my kitchen for 3-4 different garbage cans, and having to bother while iN the middle of cooking having to stop and decide which fucking can I have to put this or that.
Just too much a PITA for me, especially on the weekends, when having some cocktails and doing stuff in the kitchen or around the house.
By the way, do you folks that recycle also have 2-3 different trashcans in each of your bathrooms too so you can sort stuff?
No shit sherlock. Although that doesn't help when the sun's behind them, the sky's already clipping and the vegetation is horribly bright, yet their face is still lacking definition.
Well, in some conditions, you need a bit more help equipment-wise.
Set your exposure for the background, and use speed lights or now portable strobes are available at reasonable costs, and you can then use that to light your subjects face, etc...
Unprofessional photographer here. Not just focus, but also correct automatic exposure too.
Another good reason to learn how to shoot manual mode.
It's NOT just for pro's.
After you've had a decent camera a month or so, take it off auto, spend a weekend shooting manual...or at least the shutter or aperture priority modes.
"Activist" Investors are not about Social Justice.
I do believe there have been several instances of Activist investors or groups, buying into a company and forcing them to divest of holdings they have that they might disagree with politically (anti-oil for example), or businesses they disagree with.
Not the only acts, but I have read about some that sound very SJW-ish in the changes they tried to force on publicly traded companies.
Oh look, an American realizing he's no longer the center of the world...
Well, for US citizens, watching streaming from a US company...we do kind of expect the absolute majority of the content to be US content, or at the very least, speaking English.
When it comes to watching entertainment, WTF should we have to watch foreign content with subtitles?
I went back and looked to see why they changed it, as usually, when things get changed, there is a reason and unless that has changed, those reasons will just pop back up again. Turns out a major reason for the change was partisan bickering at the state level, where one party would sabotage another party's choice for the senate to the point of forgoing that senate seat. This was causing a disfunctional senate. Since partisan bickering probably hasn't stopped, Id' say we'd just run into the same issues that caused us to change it the first time.
Well, I believe we'd have to have an amendment to turn it back, and during that we could think it out and have some rules mandated, etc...to try to avoid the problems of old.
I shouldn't think it would too tough....you have one party in majority in the state legislatures, they'd likely pick senators of their own party and thinking.....but, this way they'd be more beholden to the states, and therefore, more beholden to the people of the state.
It would also likely keep anyone from being there in the senate over 40 years.....
It's long time we rip up parts of the consitution, you know, the most important ones that have to do with how many senators a state gets.
It might help if we went back to having the state legislatures appoint the senators, rather than having them elected by the general vote.
This would make them more answerable to the state (the state legislatures voted in by the state people)....and it would take out all the $$$$$ involved in buying general senate elections, and end the influence of lobbying.
hat was quick, wasn't there just an article about how they are loosing money to pirates because kids continue to use their parents account even after they move out.,
I have to pay $2.00 in a soda machine for a bottle of Coke. 10 years ago I needed to pay $1.50 and 20 years ago it was $1.00.
While I get your point...I have to say WOW, where do you buy your cokes?
I've seen it that high at places like airports where you expect to be gouged, but in regular life, I don't regularly see coke machines THAT expensive. Hell, I don't pay that much in a convienience store...
Most places where I live, yes, I guess about $1 or $1.25 is the norm, although you can at times find them slightly less...but where do you live? Is everything around you really expensive?
Yet cars are highly regulated. All kinds of safety features required. Other requirements such as good tires required on the road. Licenses needed.
Cops everywhere enforcing the various rules of the road.
Meanwhile simple safety features like a safety or requiring x ounces of pressure on the trigger to fire the weapon seem to be a no go in the States as if requiring a safety infringes rights unreasonably.
1. Guns are HIGHLY regulated, don't kid yourself there. Guns pass rigorous testing to make sure they are safe, and if something is found (like fires when dropped [the first Sig P320's had a problem if you struck them on the back with a hammer or threw them down hard in just the right way]), these problems are immediately addressed and fixed. I'll grant you some companies (like car companies) are better and faster than others, but they do watch this in a BIG way.
And you ONLY need a car license if you are going to be driving on the public roads IN public. If you only drive your car on private land, or on a private track, then you do not need any sort of license for a car. Same with guns. You do not shoot them willy nilly in public, you either target shoot on private ground, or ranges. If you wish to even CARRY a gun in general public on your person, you do require a Carry Concealed License. Most states have this provision.
2. Same cops are everywhere for gun violations...you fire one off in city limits, they'll be on you quick...And penalties for misuse of a gun are MUCH higher and harsher than most any car law violation. If you do something wrong with a gun on the federal level, easily 10years and many, many, many thousands of dollars fine.
3. Again, all modern weapons have safety features on them. Most all rifles I"ve ever come across have safeties on them. Most handguns do too, the ones that do not have a physical safety button/lever...have other safe features. For instance, some DA/SA handguns (Double actions/Single Action) take a good deal of trigger pressure to fire them double action when you've decocked the hammer. They are not likely to go off by themselves. Many also have firing pin blocks which mean they cannot go off without explicit trigger activation.
Many striker fire pistols, like the Glocks, have an extra dingus (or lever type thing) as part of the trigger mechanism, and cannot be fired unless it is explicitly pulled along with the usual trigger pressure and travel required to fire the weapon. I think you can easily Google for seeing how safe glocks are....I've seen them dragged behind cars on a rope and they don't go off, even bouncing around on the road.
Trust me, if you heard of an inherently unsafe pistol or rifle out on the market, and it has a record of misfires and mishaps, it would be ALL over the news.
But just like with any other complex mechanical device, if a gun defect slips out, much like with cars....there are notifications and recalls sent out.
From the factory, guns have the same type safety records and guards that any other complex, commercial mechanical device does....very analogous to automobiles.
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That capability is not that unique, however...on my Amazon FireTV, I search with it, and it shows me content between all the services.
Even my Tivo OTA, does the same thing, as that it can pull content in from streaming services you subscribe too.
Ugh....just give us word on the new Mac Pro please!!!
Err..Yes.
It is the SAME thing. They withheld less taxes from your check, and therefore, you got MORE in each paycheck.
Lowering withholding needed to be publicized as that people did need to adjust it a bit.
But it is best at the EOY to NOT have a big refund. Why should you give the US feds an interest free loan all year when you could be using same money and saving it and earning interest on it, or investing it?
At EOY your' best bet is to either get a little refund or own a little bit.
The IRS even has an online calculator for you to calculate your withholdings.....
But yes, I got a tax cut.
Interesting.....very interesting, I'd not thought of all that.
While I agree we in the US need to do what we can to build back up OUR middle class....
We have no obligation or duty to do this for other countries.
Not sure where in the constitution the limited enumerated rights and obligations of our Federal Govt. is directed to help other countries...?
Well, it was Ethiopia....
Someone on board might have made the mistake of opening a sandwich they snuck on board, and the entire cabin rushed them, causing the plane to become unbalanced/unstable, etc.....
Pretty much since the dawn of time, machines that men build have been replacing people for labor....this especially increased since the industrial revolution.
This isn't some new big deal....we've been building machines to replace human labor for a long time, and it hasn't caused an uproar or catastrophe.....
Relax. People can always do something else, they always have.
If the Dems, keep pushing LEFT like they are, if the AOC crazies push for such extreme socialism, and even THEY are blatantly using the term....they likely will be handing Trump a 2nd term.
That socialism thing may work on the far east and west coast, but it doesn't fly with the rest of America, which is still mostly main stream, middle of the road.
Well, I've never had to do it before, in all my years of living....and I'd not like to be told I have to start.
Wow, where do you live where they force you to do that??
Around here, they pick up trash twice a week. I'm sure they also pick up recycling too, but I've never bothered with that, although I do see a few neighbors here and there with those blue bins out there.
Man, I'm glad I've never lived where you have to do that bullshit.
Where i live...recycling is when you put anything out with the garbage, say like old CRT monitors, etc....someone will come by and grab them WAY before the garbage men do.
Stuff like that always disappears.
Whatever happened to the twenty-seven 8 x 10 colored glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explainin' what each one was...?
I never have had to....don't plan on starting any time soon either, too much a PITA....I've better things to do with my time.
Boy, I sure am glad I've never had to live anywhere with forced recycling.
I'm happy other people want to do it and participate, but I don't like the idea of being FORCED to do it.
Frankly, I don't have room in my kitchen for 3-4 different garbage cans, and having to bother while iN the middle of cooking having to stop and decide which fucking can I have to put this or that.
Just too much a PITA for me, especially on the weekends, when having some cocktails and doing stuff in the kitchen or around the house.
By the way, do you folks that recycle also have 2-3 different trashcans in each of your bathrooms too so you can sort stuff?
Well, in some conditions, you need a bit more help equipment-wise.
Set your exposure for the background, and use speed lights or now portable strobes are available at reasonable costs, and you can then use that to light your subjects face, etc...
Another good reason to learn how to shoot manual mode.
It's NOT just for pro's.
After you've had a decent camera a month or so, take it off auto, spend a weekend shooting manual...or at least the shutter or aperture priority modes.
I do believe there have been several instances of Activist investors or groups, buying into a company and forcing them to divest of holdings they have that they might disagree with politically (anti-oil for example), or businesses they disagree with.
Not the only acts, but I have read about some that sound very SJW-ish in the changes they tried to force on publicly traded companies.
Well, then only charge the EU countries more...let them pay for it, if they are requiring it.
Well, for US citizens, watching streaming from a US company...we do kind of expect the absolute majority of the content to be US content, or at the very least, speaking English.
When it comes to watching entertainment, WTF should we have to watch foreign content with subtitles?
Well, I believe we'd have to have an amendment to turn it back, and during that we could think it out and have some rules mandated, etc...to try to avoid the problems of old.
I shouldn't think it would too tough....you have one party in majority in the state legislatures, they'd likely pick senators of their own party and thinking.....but, this way they'd be more beholden to the states, and therefore, more beholden to the people of the state.
It would also likely keep anyone from being there in the senate over 40 years.....
It might help if we went back to having the state legislatures appoint the senators, rather than having them elected by the general vote.
This would make them more answerable to the state (the state legislatures voted in by the state people)....and it would take out all the $$$$$ involved in buying general senate elections, and end the influence of lobbying.
I think they had it right the first time around.
Have you seen the average worker at the DMV? They're not exactly the sharpest knives in the drawer.
LOSING, not loosing....HTH.
While I get your point...I have to say WOW, where do you buy your cokes?
I've seen it that high at places like airports where you expect to be gouged, but in regular life, I don't regularly see coke machines THAT expensive. Hell, I don't pay that much in a convienience store...
Most places where I live, yes, I guess about $1 or $1.25 is the norm, although you can at times find them slightly less...but where do you live? Is everything around you really expensive?
1. Guns are HIGHLY regulated, don't kid yourself there. Guns pass rigorous testing to make sure they are safe, and if something is found (like fires when dropped [the first Sig P320's had a problem if you struck them on the back with a hammer or threw them down hard in just the right way]), these problems are immediately addressed and fixed. I'll grant you some companies (like car companies) are better and faster than others, but they do watch this in a BIG way.
And you ONLY need a car license if you are going to be driving on the public roads IN public. If you only drive your car on private land, or on a private track, then you do not need any sort of license for a car. Same with guns. You do not shoot them willy nilly in public, you either target shoot on private ground, or ranges. If you wish to even CARRY a gun in general public on your person, you do require a Carry Concealed License. Most states have this provision.
2. Same cops are everywhere for gun violations...you fire one off in city limits, they'll be on you quick...And penalties for misuse of a gun are MUCH higher and harsher than most any car law violation. If you do something wrong with a gun on the federal level, easily 10years and many, many, many thousands of dollars fine.
3. Again, all modern weapons have safety features on them. Most all rifles I"ve ever come across have safeties on them. Most handguns do too, the ones that do not have a physical safety button/lever...have other safe features. For instance, some DA/SA handguns (Double actions/Single Action) take a good deal of trigger pressure to fire them double action when you've decocked the hammer. They are not likely to go off by themselves. Many also have firing pin blocks which mean they cannot go off without explicit trigger activation.
Many striker fire pistols, like the Glocks, have an extra dingus (or lever type thing) as part of the trigger mechanism, and cannot be fired unless it is explicitly pulled along with the usual trigger pressure and travel required to fire the weapon. I think you can easily Google for seeing how safe glocks are....I've seen them dragged behind cars on a rope and they don't go off, even bouncing around on the road.
Trust me, if you heard of an inherently unsafe pistol or rifle out on the market, and it has a record of misfires and mishaps, it would be ALL over the news.
But just like with any other complex mechanical device, if a gun defect slips out, much like with cars....there are notifications and recalls sent out.
From the factory, guns have the same type safety records and guards that any other complex, commercial mechanical device does....very analogous to automobiles.