and worst case, connecting women with potential sugar daddies.
Well, there are already PLENTY of sites to hook up women with Sugar Daddys.
What got me from the article..was it said most people ONLY had 2-3 close personal friends?
Seriously?
I"m not on any social media and I have more that that that I trust with keys to my house.....
I have many long term friends, across the US from the my days "living abroad" in the US so to speak before settling down in New Orleans area years ago.
I wonder why people seem to have so few close friends? It is because of technology and social media? Is it due to people having their faces glued to a phone 24/7 rather than trying to meet and get to know real people in your vicinity in meatspace?
Hell, I see younger folks, gathered at a table, maybe even at a bar...and they've got their faces in their phones texting, instead of having a drink and interacting with the people with them there right in front of their noses....
I'm starting to think that all this social media is not only segregating people more, it is isolating them.
I want ZERO of my tax dollars to EVER go to the military
So, if I understand you here, you would wish your country (whichever one it is) to be 100% defenseless, and just depend on the altruistic tendencies of the other countries in the world to leave you and your interests alone and happy?
I have a device, installed by my power company, to automatically shut off my A/C compressor if demand is too high.
You must live in a somewhat temperate climate where you can do this....
I live in New Orleans, and you really can't make it very well without AC. There is peak usage in our type of climate for a reason...it is fucking hot and humid.
:)
My AC pretty much comes on in late April...and doesn't really shut off till late Oct or early Nov.
The SJW's have aggressively politicized everything: it's no longer about qualifications, it's about identity politics....and they wonder why nobody takes them seriously.
Well, don't let your guard down.
Only a couple of short decades ago, you'd have never even heard in public, much less on any relative scale...the protests and bitching by the SJW types....but it is growing.
I have been shocked in seeing some of the rhetoric coming from the extreme left, and how much of it is sticking and being promoted in main stream. I believe this has come about because years back, they infiltrated and took home in the educational system throughout all levels and have been over the years indoctrinating the youth that we now see the results of today.
You'd not have seen this as even a *blip* on the social radar not that long back, but it is making an impact, and I fear, not for the overall good. They have split this country into pieces, whereas in the past, there were disagreements, but in general, the US on the whole was closer on most issues than they were apart.
I really never saw this coming and it has been shocking to see what ideals are being propagated these days, and what used to be common sense is now demonized...
Of course, you should expect to see change over the years, but this in recent years has been such a radical departure that is threatening to turn the US upside down, rather than evolve at a manageable pace, and it it tearing the country apart in so many ways.
Sudden, radical change is usually not a really good thing.
You can have a FUN car, just not on public streets. Our roads are no place for having fun, its for the function of transporting humans and cargo as safely as possible. Your days are numbered. In our lifetime it will become prohibitively expensive to human-drive a car. Your insurance premiums will be insanely high when you become the biggest risk on the road by far. If you want to have adventures driving, go to the track.
Boy, I bet you are fun at parties...
[rolls eyes]
You can have PLENTY of fun on public roads. Often in areas, traffic is light and you can light up the road with no one in danger. You *do* have to be a good enough driver to sense the local conditions for how you wish to drive.
And I don't see this happening in my lifetime...you aren't going to see auto driving cars take over for at least 20 more years....and that's likely the earlier they will be actually somewhat viable, much less the primary form of transportation.
I feel sorry for youngsters in generations after that, not knowing that thrill of freedom, when getting old enough to drive and get their first car.
You will pass in the straightaway, but how often is that gonna happen on a racetrack?
But, where are you going to be driving most...regular streets or a racetrack?
You're likely going to be mostly on streets for most people...hell, you may actually never see a track.
My old '86 Porsche 911 Turbo was fun...but it took forever for it to spool up. It was great at high speeds around corners...but then again, I'm not usually doing that in the city much.
I'd much more often be burning up tires between stop lights....
The optimum is to have two cars...one muscle car for pure torque....and a sports car, for handling curvy traffic.
But if you can't one one of each...I guess you need to figure what you'll be using it mostly for....
From what I've read about it, it's basically a dragster made barely street legal. If the road has curves you'd probably prefer a "normal" sports car, as such the appeal is extremely limited.
Well, that's basically the definition of a "muscle car".
I already have a fun roadster I"m souping up that is fun for curves, etc.....but I'd like to get this as a 2nd car for well..that muscle car experience.
Hell, if I could get a Demon or Hellcat...it would be the first car I'd ever owned with more than 2 seats...it would actually turn into my "Practical" car for when I wanted to haul stuff or more than one other person.
If you do go for the 455 with a 4 speed let me dispel that notion. I had one at the age of 16, I could burn rubber in that thing from dawn to dusk. Just rev it up and dump the clutch and the tires would spin.
My friend had one when I was about that age...and I've wanted one ever since.
It is just that those last year models, only had a bit over about 220HP or so...due to the new laws then that forced them to be very air restricted. The shaker hood scoop by 76 was not functional as it had been.
But by doing a few mods, you can let the beast loose for awhile.
That and frankly, I'd be VERY happy with a car without all the computer gear on it, and GPS factory tracking software (ONStar or whatever) on it....
Just a big engine, and transmission....and about a happy 10 gallons to the mile.
Registering or not registering a drone will not change the behavior of idiots who use them dangerously.
This!!
I"m curious...why do commercial drones have to be registered, but hobbyist do not?
I mean, the rules about where you fly them are the same, etc....so, why is it that commercial still have to be registered, but un-payed fliers do not? You have just as good or stupid drone operators regardless if they are making a buck at it or not...
It isn't the remote workers that are killing IBM's business.
It is IBM's business and business MODEL that are killing IBM>
In recent years, I had to work with one of their products they bought a couple years back.
The original product, worked GREAT was small, efficient, and on Linux you had a GUI-less install that worked just fine. Easy to configure and just *worked*.
Now..wind forward a couple years to now.
NOW they have forced this great stand alone product, to work on WAS (Websphere Applicaton Server), and other layers of unnecessary applications and abstraction...and the fun thing is...NO ONE at IBM knows how the fuck all the parts and pieces actually work now.
You put in a service request on the product in question...you get help to a point, then they say.. "Oh, that's a WAS problem" and send you there...they send you back saying it is an installer problem...etc, etc etc.
I won't even get into the troubles that come with trying to traverse the cluster fuck that is their IBM Passport advantage, trying to find all the many part numbers that will actually make the *magic* combination of parts that will work together.
They try to sell you to the service guys for this, who often...have problems figuring this out themselves.
IBM is $$$$...bloated, too many groups within that cannot and do not talk to each other...THAT is why they suck.
I remember the old saying:
"No one ever got fired for hiring IBM".
If I were a project manager today, if someone so much as got two of the three letters of IBM out of their mouth...I'd CAN that motherfucker in a heartbeat.
so obviously you are more concerned with using a Government proxy to bully people into behavior that fits your personal agenda than you are for people paying for their choices.
And besides...
Taxations should ONLY be used to fund the government to provide critical and common services to the citizens (defense, police, fire, etc).
Taxation should NEVER be used for behavior modification.
Those Hellcats are major guzzlers. And those tires aren't cheap.
True though you must admit that anyone buying one doesn't give a rip about fuel economy. They buy them to go fast and impress other similarly minded people. Fuel economy doesn't even enter into the picture.
Well, a corvette isn't cheap either and the tires for those aren't cheap.
The thing is, not everyone is cheap. Some of us have disposable cash, and like to enjoy it. Why is that suddenly something wrong?
Our whole lives are NOT about the greater good, if it is..then something very troubling has happened to culture in the US.
I'm not saying "fuck your neighbor" but geez, folks, life is short....no reason to shame someone that is enjoying the freedoms this country offers (or used to offer at least).
I have friends that have EV's and love them and buy them for economy.
I have disposable income, and I have never looked at gas mileage as one of the parameters on whether I buy a car or not. I don't like SUV's personal....I've only owned 2 seat sports cars in my life.
Nothing wrong with that, just my choice. Heck, if I need to haul something, I happily switch cars with friends that do for a day...win-win.
People need to face it...not everyone lives with austerity as the major component of their mindset.
Would agree in general, but the struggle is that a modern car that can accelerate more quickly then older cars are prevalent across the spectrum -- i.e. technology has made smaller cars/smaller engines much more performant. In addition, it is much harder to make the argument that a car next to you capable of accelerating faster then a typical car from the 70's is causing you direct harm, unlike second hand smoke.
That and for a significant number of folks out there, a car is *more* than rote transportation from A to B....it is something FUN.
I've never owned anything with more that 2 functional seats (I had a 1986 911 Turbo that "technically" had 4 seats, but you couldn't really fit more than a bag of groceries back there).....and every time I turn the key to go somewhere it is an adventure, not just a mundane day in traffic.
Unfortunately, the Dodge Challenger Demon, is in VERY limited run for 2018, and I hear that may be the only year for it.
While it *is* a huge, heavy car....that kind of HP is just plain fun to play with...and the engine note just idling, is fun.
I had been looking maybe to get something old form '70's...maybe a '75-'76 Trans Am, last years of the 455 4-speed.
They were horribly air restricted, but I've found that you can get one mostly restored for about $25K...and with a more aggressive cam and some exhaust work, you can get near 500HP naturally aspirated. It would need some suspension work too to be a bit more modern, but also, fun for nostalgia....you just don't see many of them on the road and it would still be a fun torq monster.
Or...maybe the Hellcat...it isn't like that is a kitten, but man, if they'd have done a full run of that 808 HP Demon, I certainly might have had to get one to play with.
Wrong. Every time you buy or sell anything to the EU, or the UK, or China, or South Korea, or Australia, or Canada, you are paying a carbon tax.
While I am still a bit dubious on your claims (I've never heard of this before ever)....even if true, it doesn't make sense, why would you pay carbon tax on imports AND exports? Seems the tax would be on the end that is "offending" the most only?
Also, if we are paying for this tax on imports, it goes to show yet another reason the US really needs to bring more manufacturing back to our shores.
If you live in a state or province with a carbon tax, the tax remains here, but if you have no carbon tax in your state or province, you pay the carbon tax overseas.
I have never lived anywhere that collects or deals with any sort of 'carbon tax'.
Where is it that you live that does carbon tax? And..who exactly is the governmental force that collects and uses said carbon tax?
It's easy to say US "cleaned up its act FAR more" given US is a developed country vs China/India where their citizen leads a life that is not comparable with US.
So...by that logic, you're saying the the US should keep making tough choices and limiting our lifestyle, and it won't all "be good" till we have the same level lifestyle as those countries, and THEN...we have given enough to the cause of global warming (or whatever they're calling it this week)?
Sorry, I kinda like my lifestyle and level of comfort and convenience in my life.
I'm not THAT willing to give it up for perceived/hypothetical predictions of better life in a future long after I'm dead and gone and not there to enjoy it...?
It is sad to hear this sort of conversation. Climate change is not about "us vs. them" or whose turn it is, it's about climate change, a global issue
Well, it isn't JUST climate change, there are economic factors.
I'm not willing for my life and lifestyle to go to hell tomorrow in order to "maybe" make a change in decades to a century from now. There has to be reasonable compromise, we just can turn the lights off all and once. And the US can't do it while the rest of the world (and our competitors) do not.
I mean, to use an extreme example, the US could turn off all electricity generation, transportation, etc..that is fossil fuel based tomorrow.
We'd suffer a LOT...and yet, if the rest of the world, especially China and the like kept at normal levels, the change to the global climate would not be major, nothing that much would slow down or change...certainly not in our lifetime.
Till now those countries haven't done jack shit on this climate thing. The US, we have...we've burdened our businesses with regulations that hamper their ability to compete with China and other places for manufacturing.
Until those countries not only pledge, but VERIFIABLY do the same things, then yes, we as the US should hold up and wait for them to catch up.
You said it yourself, it takes everyone doing this...and till now, the US has taken its share but most of the world has not. Time to quit putting ourselves at a self induced disadvantage till the others come on board and PROVE they are doing it.
f you see gender as an immutable binary, I strongly recommend learning about the amazing diversity of intermediary intersex forms which occur surprisingly commonly in humans.
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What exactly is the mumbo-jumbo you're trying to express here?
If you are XY you're male...if XX you're female. If you can't get it in your brain which one you are, then get some psychiatric help, but it doesn't change who you are.
If you have an extra X or Y rolling around in there, ok, I'll give it to you...you are kinda fucked as to what you are, but that's definitely not the majority of cases here.
If chelsea or whatever its name is has an extra X or Y floating around in there, please let me know...I've not heard of evidence of that.
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Well, there are already PLENTY of sites to hook up women with Sugar Daddys.
What got me from the article..was it said most people ONLY had 2-3 close personal friends?
Seriously?
I"m not on any social media and I have more that that that I trust with keys to my house.....
I have many long term friends, across the US from the my days "living abroad" in the US so to speak before settling down in New Orleans area years ago.
I wonder why people seem to have so few close friends? It is because of technology and social media? Is it due to people having their faces glued to a phone 24/7 rather than trying to meet and get to know real people in your vicinity in meatspace?
Hell, I see younger folks, gathered at a table, maybe even at a bar...and they've got their faces in their phones texting, instead of having a drink and interacting with the people with them there right in front of their noses....
I'm starting to think that all this social media is not only segregating people more, it is isolating them.
So, if I understand you here, you would wish your country (whichever one it is) to be 100% defenseless, and just depend on the altruistic tendencies of the other countries in the world to leave you and your interests alone and happy?
You must live in a somewhat temperate climate where you can do this....
I live in New Orleans, and you really can't make it very well without AC. There is peak usage in our type of climate for a reason...it is fucking hot and humid.
My AC pretty much comes on in late April...and doesn't really shut off till late Oct or early Nov.
Well, don't let your guard down.
Only a couple of short decades ago, you'd have never even heard in public, much less on any relative scale...the protests and bitching by the SJW types....but it is growing.
I have been shocked in seeing some of the rhetoric coming from the extreme left, and how much of it is sticking and being promoted in main stream. I believe this has come about because years back, they infiltrated and took home in the educational system throughout all levels and have been over the years indoctrinating the youth that we now see the results of today.
You'd not have seen this as even a *blip* on the social radar not that long back, but it is making an impact, and I fear, not for the overall good. They have split this country into pieces, whereas in the past, there were disagreements, but in general, the US on the whole was closer on most issues than they were apart.
I really never saw this coming and it has been shocking to see what ideals are being propagated these days, and what used to be common sense is now demonized...
Of course, you should expect to see change over the years, but this in recent years has been such a radical departure that is threatening to turn the US upside down, rather than evolve at a manageable pace, and it it tearing the country apart in so many ways.
Sudden, radical change is usually not a really good thing.
I would have to disagree with you.....
The "professional services" have been severely lacking too in last years in dealing with them.
Boy, I bet you are fun at parties...
[rolls eyes]
You can have PLENTY of fun on public roads. Often in areas, traffic is light and you can light up the road with no one in danger. You *do* have to be a good enough driver to sense the local conditions for how you wish to drive.
And I don't see this happening in my lifetime...you aren't going to see auto driving cars take over for at least 20 more years....and that's likely the earlier they will be actually somewhat viable, much less the primary form of transportation.
I feel sorry for youngsters in generations after that, not knowing that thrill of freedom, when getting old enough to drive and get their first car.
But, where are you going to be driving most...regular streets or a racetrack?
You're likely going to be mostly on streets for most people...hell, you may actually never see a track.
My old '86 Porsche 911 Turbo was fun...but it took forever for it to spool up. It was great at high speeds around corners...but then again, I'm not usually doing that in the city much.
I'd much more often be burning up tires between stop lights....
The optimum is to have two cars...one muscle car for pure torque....and a sports car, for handling curvy traffic.
But if you can't one one of each...I guess you need to figure what you'll be using it mostly for....
Well, that's basically the definition of a "muscle car".
I already have a fun roadster I"m souping up that is fun for curves, etc.....but I'd like to get this as a 2nd car for well..that muscle car experience.
Hell, if I could get a Demon or Hellcat...it would be the first car I'd ever owned with more than 2 seats...it would actually turn into my "Practical" car for when I wanted to haul stuff or more than one other person.
My friend had one when I was about that age...and I've wanted one ever since.
It is just that those last year models, only had a bit over about 220HP or so...due to the new laws then that forced them to be very air restricted. The shaker hood scoop by 76 was not functional as it had been.
But by doing a few mods, you can let the beast loose for awhile.
That and frankly, I'd be VERY happy with a car without all the computer gear on it, and GPS factory tracking software (ONStar or whatever) on it....
Just a big engine, and transmission....and about a happy 10 gallons to the mile.
This!!
I"m curious...why do commercial drones have to be registered, but hobbyist do not?
I mean, the rules about where you fly them are the same, etc....so, why is it that commercial still have to be registered, but un-payed fliers do not? You have just as good or stupid drone operators regardless if they are making a buck at it or not...
Is this just for the govt to get its fees?
It is IBM's business and business MODEL that are killing IBM>
In recent years, I had to work with one of their products they bought a couple years back.
The original product, worked GREAT was small, efficient, and on Linux you had a GUI-less install that worked just fine. Easy to configure and just *worked*.
Now..wind forward a couple years to now.
NOW they have forced this great stand alone product, to work on WAS (Websphere Applicaton Server), and other layers of unnecessary applications and abstraction...and the fun thing is...NO ONE at IBM knows how the fuck all the parts and pieces actually work now.
You put in a service request on the product in question...you get help to a point, then they say.. "Oh, that's a WAS problem" and send you there...they send you back saying it is an installer problem...etc, etc etc.
I won't even get into the troubles that come with trying to traverse the cluster fuck that is their IBM Passport advantage, trying to find all the many part numbers that will actually make the *magic* combination of parts that will work together.
They try to sell you to the service guys for this, who often...have problems figuring this out themselves.
IBM is $$$$...bloated, too many groups within that cannot and do not talk to each other...THAT is why they suck.
I remember the old saying:
"No one ever got fired for hiring IBM".
If I were a project manager today, if someone so much as got two of the three letters of IBM out of their mouth...I'd CAN that motherfucker in a heartbeat.
And besides...
Taxations should ONLY be used to fund the government to provide critical and common services to the citizens (defense, police, fire, etc).
Taxation should NEVER be used for behavior modification.
And this is a problem because........?
Well, a corvette isn't cheap either and the tires for those aren't cheap.
The thing is, not everyone is cheap. Some of us have disposable cash, and like to enjoy it. Why is that suddenly something wrong?
Our whole lives are NOT about the greater good, if it is..then something very troubling has happened to culture in the US.
I'm not saying "fuck your neighbor" but geez, folks, life is short....no reason to shame someone that is enjoying the freedoms this country offers (or used to offer at least).
I have friends that have EV's and love them and buy them for economy.
I have disposable income, and I have never looked at gas mileage as one of the parameters on whether I buy a car or not. I don't like SUV's personal....I've only owned 2 seat sports cars in my life.
Nothing wrong with that, just my choice. Heck, if I need to haul something, I happily switch cars with friends that do for a day...win-win.
People need to face it...not everyone lives with austerity as the major component of their mindset.
And that is not a bad thing....
There is already a gas guzzler tax you pay when you buy a car with low MPG.
That and for a significant number of folks out there, a car is *more* than rote transportation from A to B....it is something FUN.
I've never owned anything with more that 2 functional seats (I had a 1986 911 Turbo that "technically" had 4 seats, but you couldn't really fit more than a bag of groceries back there).....and every time I turn the key to go somewhere it is an adventure, not just a mundane day in traffic.
While it *is* a huge, heavy car....that kind of HP is just plain fun to play with...and the engine note just idling, is fun.
I had been looking maybe to get something old form '70's...maybe a '75-'76 Trans Am, last years of the 455 4-speed.
They were horribly air restricted, but I've found that you can get one mostly restored for about $25K...and with a more aggressive cam and some exhaust work, you can get near 500HP naturally aspirated. It would need some suspension work too to be a bit more modern, but also, fun for nostalgia....you just don't see many of them on the road and it would still be a fun torq monster.
Or...maybe the Hellcat...it isn't like that is a kitten, but man, if they'd have done a full run of that 808 HP Demon, I certainly might have had to get one to play with.
It may be a "Dodge"..but shit....808 HP??
While I am still a bit dubious on your claims (I've never heard of this before ever)....even if true, it doesn't make sense, why would you pay carbon tax on imports AND exports? Seems the tax would be on the end that is "offending" the most only?
Also, if we are paying for this tax on imports, it goes to show yet another reason the US really needs to bring more manufacturing back to our shores.
I have never lived anywhere that collects or deals with any sort of 'carbon tax'.
Where is it that you live that does carbon tax? And..who exactly is the governmental force that collects and uses said carbon tax?
Hey, its a free country and if you wanna turn yourself into a freak show surgically...more power to ya.
I just don't think the taxpayers should have to PAY for it....
So...by that logic, you're saying the the US should keep making tough choices and limiting our lifestyle, and it won't all "be good" till we have the same level lifestyle as those countries, and THEN...we have given enough to the cause of global warming (or whatever they're calling it this week)?
Sorry, I kinda like my lifestyle and level of comfort and convenience in my life.
I'm not THAT willing to give it up for perceived/hypothetical predictions of better life in a future long after I'm dead and gone and not there to enjoy it...?
I apologize, I"m just not that altruistic.
Well, it isn't JUST climate change, there are economic factors.
I'm not willing for my life and lifestyle to go to hell tomorrow in order to "maybe" make a change in decades to a century from now. There has to be reasonable compromise, we just can turn the lights off all and once. And the US can't do it while the rest of the world (and our competitors) do not.
I mean, to use an extreme example, the US could turn off all electricity generation, transportation, etc..that is fossil fuel based tomorrow.
We'd suffer a LOT...and yet, if the rest of the world, especially China and the like kept at normal levels, the change to the global climate would not be major, nothing that much would slow down or change...certainly not in our lifetime.
Till now those countries haven't done jack shit on this climate thing. The US, we have...we've burdened our businesses with regulations that hamper their ability to compete with China and other places for manufacturing.
Until those countries not only pledge, but VERIFIABLY do the same things, then yes, we as the US should hold up and wait for them to catch up.
You said it yourself, it takes everyone doing this...and till now, the US has taken its share but most of the world has not. Time to quit putting ourselves at a self induced disadvantage till the others come on board and PROVE they are doing it.
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What exactly is the mumbo-jumbo you're trying to express here?
If you are XY you're male...if XX you're female. If you can't get it in your brain which one you are, then get some psychiatric help, but it doesn't change who you are.
If you have an extra X or Y rolling around in there, ok, I'll give it to you...you are kinda fucked as to what you are, but that's definitely not the majority of cases here.
If chelsea or whatever its name is has an extra X or Y floating around in there, please let me know...I've not heard of evidence of that.
You're right, no one would be talking about it now, he'd have been in jail.
How about we compromise and use the pronoun IT..?
You can call a turd a gold bar all you want, but at the end of the day, it is still a turd.