It's all about the revenue...how many eyeballs can the show attract. A lot of folks watch just for the commercials, which have gotten worse in the last few years. I think a lot of women watch the SB who normally don't watch football under other circumstances...it's a party.
Got your panties in a bunch, huh? Well, living in the DC Metro area, let me tell you that during the shutdown, there was virtually no change in anything to the average citizen, including rush hour traffic. It had barely started to impact the airport with a small increase in TSA workers calling in sick (no great loss IMO).
"Hiding the keys only worked until he found a set."
Been there with my mom, who, until just last year lived alone and is now in a nursing home. She would go so far as to agree that she shouldn't be driving anymore, and I taught her how to use Uber. When I heard from a neighbor that she'd had a fall in the driveway next to the car that was kept in her garage, I knew she wasn't being truthful with us. At that point, I pulled a couple fuses, essentially disabling her vehicle.
I just wanted to say that Maroon 5 sucked live, even though I like all the songs they played. Other than the eye candy for the ladies, it was one of the most forgettable halftimes in memory.
Interesting that the first major (I'm using 10 or more as "major") school shootings started occurring ~1998. When did cell phones start showing up in schools? I know correlation != causation, but hopes and prayers apparently worked pretty well before than.
Yup, let's use the.00000001% possibility of this actually happening to someone and continue to live with the actual problem that is seen in EVERY FUCKING CLASSROOM.
You clearly can't imagine what it was like before cell phones. There's no reason someone would have to sit and wait for the teacher to return. In an emergency, someone would contact the office...do you really think the kids would just sit there? And your active shooter straw man is just ridiculous. Yes, school shootings are a problem, but they are a problem that 99.999% of the population will never have to deal with, while 100% of the school population deals with idiots in the classroom addicted to, cheating from, and interrupting normal classes with phones because the snowflakes and helicopter parents go into convulsions w/o them.
Class members are usually opted in into a class action without their knowledge or consent.
Not sure where you got that from, I've been a member of more class action suits than I can remember, and normally receive something in the mail stating that I've been identified as part of the class action, and notifying me of my rights to litigate it...often separately.
And people here blame Fox for all the fake news. The article doesn't even give you a chance to give them feedback or the name of the idiot who wrote the article.
My point wasn't so much that things couldn't be better with more RAM or pre-emptive multitasking, but in Sept '84, that wasn't something you'd find in a PC. Saying 512k "would have been a more reasonable place to start" would have been way above anything else available, and caused the price to be even more outrageous than it already was...~$2500 or around $6000 in today's dollars. And functionally, the products available for the 128k mostly worked fine.
Article tells him he's full of shit. He responds with more illogical blather and not a shred of evidence. The article is further proven correct by the morons who modded it up and Insightful.
Did you have one? I did, and later a 512ke (which I still have). 128k worked perfectly fine for those windows, though I admit that I later put in a memory upgrade board. Your Amiga came out in July of '85, nearly a year and a half later, and by then, the 512k had been available for quite a while...released in Sep '84.
So, I understand the position that when someone screws up, and has paid their penalty, they should be allowed a chance to move on with their life. I get that. And I know some people will and yet, the odds are mostly against them doing so. Let me give you an example...
The oncologist my dad saw was tried and convicted a few years ago for fraudulently diagnosing people with various cancers. He's not likely to serve again, but say that he were able. Should I, as a consumer have to be a test case for someone just out of prison, and not have the right to know the history of that scumbag? Yeah, I have some strong personal feelings because he's part of the reason I lost my dad.
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It's all about the revenue...how many eyeballs can the show attract. A lot of folks watch just for the commercials, which have gotten worse in the last few years. I think a lot of women watch the SB who normally don't watch football under other circumstances...it's a party.
Got your panties in a bunch, huh? Well, living in the DC Metro area, let me tell you that during the shutdown, there was virtually no change in anything to the average citizen, including rush hour traffic. It had barely started to impact the airport with a small increase in TSA workers calling in sick (no great loss IMO).
"Hiding the keys only worked until he found a set."
Been there with my mom, who, until just last year lived alone and is now in a nursing home. She would go so far as to agree that she shouldn't be driving anymore, and I taught her how to use Uber. When I heard from a neighbor that she'd had a fall in the driveway next to the car that was kept in her garage, I knew she wasn't being truthful with us. At that point, I pulled a couple fuses, essentially disabling her vehicle.
Agreed, it's not often you get to see a good defensive battle anymore.
I just wanted to say that Maroon 5 sucked live, even though I like all the songs they played. Other than the eye candy for the ladies, it was one of the most forgettable halftimes in memory.
If someone feels this in absence of money they are called indigent.
If someone feels this in absence of sex they are called horny
Is it the SAMETHING?
Interesting that the first major (I'm using 10 or more as "major") school shootings started occurring ~1998. When did cell phones start showing up in schools? I know correlation != causation, but hopes and prayers apparently worked pretty well before than.
Yup, let's use the .00000001% possibility of this actually happening to someone and continue to live with the actual problem that is seen in EVERY FUCKING CLASSROOM.
It's okay, sometimes the poles just get reversed.
You clearly can't imagine what it was like before cell phones. There's no reason someone would have to sit and wait for the teacher to return. In an emergency, someone would contact the office...do you really think the kids would just sit there? And your active shooter straw man is just ridiculous. Yes, school shootings are a problem, but they are a problem that 99.999% of the population will never have to deal with, while 100% of the school population deals with idiots in the classroom addicted to, cheating from, and interrupting normal classes with phones because the snowflakes and helicopter parents go into convulsions w/o them.
Where did you go to a school that had that bass-akwards setup?
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Class members are usually opted in into a class action without their knowledge or consent.
Not sure where you got that from, I've been a member of more class action suits than I can remember, and normally receive something in the mail stating that I've been identified as part of the class action, and notifying me of my rights to litigate it...often separately.
And people here blame Fox for all the fake news. The article doesn't even give you a chance to give them feedback or the name of the idiot who wrote the article.
I'm asking for a friend.
Liar! You're on /. and by definition have no friends.
"26.3 million visitors -- came from the U.S, including 500,000 from Virginia."
Not sure why the summary is even bringing up VA, but...
Virginia has a population of 8.47M, or 2.6% of the population of the U.S. 2.6% of 26.3M is 683800, so clearly Virginia isn't doing it's fair share.
My point wasn't so much that things couldn't be better with more RAM or pre-emptive multitasking, but in Sept '84, that wasn't something you'd find in a PC. Saying 512k "would have been a more reasonable place to start" would have been way above anything else available, and caused the price to be even more outrageous than it already was...~$2500 or around $6000 in today's dollars. And functionally, the products available for the 128k mostly worked fine.
Parent summarized:
Article tells him he's full of shit. He responds with more illogical blather and not a shred of evidence. The article is further proven correct by the morons who modded it up and Insightful.
When are you moving?
Did you have one? I did, and later a 512ke (which I still have). 128k worked perfectly fine for those windows, though I admit that I later put in a memory upgrade board. Your Amiga came out in July of '85, nearly a year and a half later, and by then, the 512k had been available for quite a while...released in Sep '84.
Article is incorrect about "That 128KB was resolutely not upgradable". I personally upgraded my own.
AC wasn't me, but he's right, and you're wrong...still.
Were you there? Did you talk with them? I assure you that there are plenty of people who are pro-statue that are not in any way racist.
14.4F is 10C
You appear to have missed a minus symbol
(14.4F 32) × 5/9 = -9.778C
So, I understand the position that when someone screws up, and has paid their penalty, they should be allowed a chance to move on with their life. I get that. And I know some people will and yet, the odds are mostly against them doing so. Let me give you an example...
The oncologist my dad saw was tried and convicted a few years ago for fraudulently diagnosing people with various cancers. He's not likely to serve again, but say that he were able. Should I, as a consumer have to be a test case for someone just out of prison, and not have the right to know the history of that scumbag? Yeah, I have some strong personal feelings because he's part of the reason I lost my dad.
Most snakes will remain snakes.