I lived there from 2011 to 2016. You really, really don't want that experience. Even with a VPN it sucked, because half the time the VPN wouldn't work. It's not just that Google is blocked; it's that Google CDN that a lot of sites use is blocked.
But then that would make me differently abled, or possibly dead. And then I wouldn't be able to contribute positively to society, and then be a drain instead.
Look, we've got to recognize that you can't make everyone happy. The world isn't fair nor perfect. I don't have a 200 IQ, so I can't be a Wall Street quant and make millions. I'm differently abled, so what fucking special accommodation are you going to make for me?
This is a new day and age, though. We're all politically correct, and don't have to be sued because my 2005 Honda Civic can't accommodate your wheelchair. Maybe someone else can help you, or you can call the local government dial-a-ride, who definitely can. Want to bring your dog, but I'm Muslim and don't want filth if my car? Get another driver who doesn't care, but why sue me? There are other options.
I'm not posting sarcastically. The market will address this. Or government feel-good programs. We spend ridiculous amounts of money to accommodate handicaps because we believe the word "handicap" is evil, yet we make no special accommodations for, e.g., stupid people. I sympathize with the differently-abled -- I really and truly do! -- but the economic well-being of an Uber driver trumps your claim to universal access to someone else's private property. By being a dick and suing, you're ruining someone's life. And face it, someone making a living from Uber is just as disadvantaged as you, otherwise he'd be an engineer or marketing executive or doctor or something (allowing that some people really do just like to be Uber drivers, or are earning "extra" money). By complaining about equal access, you're fucking up someone's life.
Despite my advanced age and possible decrepitude, presumably I would have called someone who uses this service, right, and wondered what the hell was going on (as I did in China)?
Make the standard file "Star Wars," or something else that would enrage the mobs if the film quality were poor. Or a suite of several movies. After all, testing isn't a 15 minute affair. Let the films play back to back overnight while equipment is gathering results.
First of all, a "ringback tone" isn't what you hear on an answering machine or voicemail; it's what you hear in lieu of the local signal for "the line is ringing." Apparently, according to the F.A., this was "a thing" in the early 2000s.
Next of all, was it really "a thing"? I've been on cellular since 1996, and exclusively since 2002. I'd never heard of this thing until 2011, when I moved to China, where they're (apparently) all the rage. Call a number, and instead "ring, ring, ring", you hear someone's chosen song or other audio. Nifty. Irritating (am I on hold? Is there a switching problem?). Quite popular in China. Non-existent in the USA where Slashdot is based.
In the USA, from 1996 until 2011, and from 2016 until now? I've literally never experienced a ringback tone, unless a thousand people are trolling me with country-representative ringback tones that are identical to the normal switched network.
The F.A. seems to be US-based. WTF are they talking about?
Ah, thanks for this. Now I understand why I get phantom, dropped calls from fake phone numbers several times per day. Obviously I know they're spammers, but I had no idea what their objective was in dropping calls. They're hoping to get to my voicemail, which I've never activated and refuse to setup.
It also explains why occasionally those phantom calls are followed up immediately with a spam call. Mystery solved.
Every day. Multiple times per day. I run TT-RSS, and access it from any browser, or if I have to kill some time, from the mobile version on my phone.
I’m still not sure how people get “news” from Twitter or Facebook, unless they literally spend all day on Twitter or Facebook. And why wait for people to sometimes post a link to a good article (between sharing their meals, games, and personal activities) when I can get it right from the source?
I did this in Commodore 128 BASIC, too. It made it really simple to load a BASIC program that needed some assembly language support without having to pre-load the machine language file. I wish I still had the source code to my (crappy) BBS that used assembly to provide a text-based windowing system (for the sysop) and converted quickly between Commodore ASCII and standard ASCII.
BASIC on a TRS-80 MC10. When teaching myself how to program using the "BASIC Games for All Computers" type of books, Radio Shack actually had knowledgable employees who taught me what a function is, and how to translate DEF FN to something useful in its version of BASIC. As an elementary school kid, I had no idea that functions were a "math thing" until probably high school.
Later, BASIC on my C=128, some 8502 assembly just to speed things up, then Turbo Pascal once I got into the PC world. Later, C/C++/Objective-C, dabble in Ruby when necessary, dabble in Javascript when forced to, and was never interested in Java. Oh, and AppleScript. God, I hate you AppleScript, but sometimes you're a necessary evil. Played with PHP for a while.
"Evade" would mean that this is an intention maneuver to defraud the government, so I think you mean "avoid." But in any case, I think that the vast majority of people who participate in loyalty programs don't even consider the tax consequences. In effect, it might be a tax avoidance scheme, but in practice, it's de minimus, and no one gives great thought to is other than envious people who don't have the ability to participate.
I'll admit, I have a lot of hotel rewards from frequent business travel, yet I don't think of this in terms of taxes. It's just a perquisite from giving up so much of my own, private, personal time in exchange for business travel (despite popular perception, it's not glamorous and exciting, and it means time away from personal pursuits). Tax me on the value? Yeah, ok, I'll still take the perk.
I also get a lot of rewards from my credit card spend (the Sapphire Reserve in the first year is paying for my Easter vacation). I'm not sure how you could argue that this is tax avoidance; it's a reward for paying my annual fee and charging enough to make me profitable to my bank. Even my previous card spend made for the occasional hotel or plane ticket, on personal use.
Yeah, lots of people are subsidizing this, but that's simply the way the world works. Everyone who manages to pay their bills on time has an equal opportunity for the same benefits. I struggled through my 20's and 30's subsidizing better people than me, and I'm not ashamed to reap the rewards now. In a way, it's like Social Security.
If the train station were in Auburn Hills, then it would be pretty much identical to the situation with airports today, i.e., there'd be a taxi stand with lots of taxis.
Actually, Auburn Hills and DTW are pretty bad examples. There's not much of a taxi culture here.
We often (possibly usually) don't want to go to the center of the city. I want to go to suppliers in Auburn Hills (not Detroit proper) or to a plant in Claycomo (not Kansas City), or to Miami Beach (not the City of Miami). Granted, the airport isn't always closest to the majority of final destinations, but the city center isn't necessarily any better.
Oops, reading the parent more closely, yeah, my bad, you're right. But... that parent should be "That's to him or her," and that's what made me jump so bloody fast on the case! Oops.
You failed to mention HVAC, though, and in hot climates this is overwhelmingly electric, and in colder climates heat pumps (including geo/ground-source) are electric. Heat pumps in particular often have resistance backups.
Our version of the sophisticated training system was a C=64 with a fake M16 and Duck Hunt-like light pen raster sensing device for learning how to shoot better (probably not a bad thing given that we were air traffic controllers and support).
I thought I was unique in being the only soldier with an Amiga 500 in his barracks room, given that the demographics of the typical enlisted back then were quite a bit different than (how I imagine them) now.
VW's a global enterprise. Who's to say the engineers that wrote it weren’t American, Indian, or Chinese? They may not even be VW employees – maybe the specific work was outsourced, or part of a Tier 1 supplier contract. And in any of these cases, it could be an agency employee who was given a specific task. I’m not sure we can really know unless an insider tells us.
It's like the sysops are say, well, they're going to discover they're living in a simulation. Change the parameters so nuclei are pear shaped, and that ought to distract them for a little while.
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My Fusion (by Ford, a US manufacturer, made in Mexico, "designed in Dearborn":
Complete autonomy would be cool, but really, this is current state of the art, in the literal sense of state of the art.
I won't bother to look for NYC or Chicago, but Detroit has an income tax: http://www.michigan.gov/taxes/...
I think some of our great state's other shitty cities have them, too.
I lived there from 2011 to 2016. You really, really don't want that experience. Even with a VPN it sucked, because half the time the VPN wouldn't work. It's not just that Google is blocked; it's that Google CDN that a lot of sites use is blocked.
Drink chloroform. -_-
But then that would make me differently abled, or possibly dead. And then I wouldn't be able to contribute positively to society, and then be a drain instead.
Look, we've got to recognize that you can't make everyone happy. The world isn't fair nor perfect. I don't have a 200 IQ, so I can't be a Wall Street quant and make millions. I'm differently abled, so what fucking special accommodation are you going to make for me?
This is a new day and age, though. We're all politically correct, and don't have to be sued because my 2005 Honda Civic can't accommodate your wheelchair. Maybe someone else can help you, or you can call the local government dial-a-ride, who definitely can. Want to bring your dog, but I'm Muslim and don't want filth if my car? Get another driver who doesn't care, but why sue me? There are other options.
I'm not posting sarcastically. The market will address this. Or government feel-good programs. We spend ridiculous amounts of money to accommodate handicaps because we believe the word "handicap" is evil, yet we make no special accommodations for, e.g., stupid people. I sympathize with the differently-abled -- I really and truly do! -- but the economic well-being of an Uber driver trumps your claim to universal access to someone else's private property. By being a dick and suing, you're ruining someone's life. And face it, someone making a living from Uber is just as disadvantaged as you, otherwise he'd be an engineer or marketing executive or doctor or something (allowing that some people really do just like to be Uber drivers, or are earning "extra" money). By complaining about equal access, you're fucking up someone's life.
This goes for pretty much any hold music, too. It always sounds like shit.
Despite my advanced age and possible decrepitude, presumably I would have called someone who uses this service, right, and wondered what the hell was going on (as I did in China)?
Make the standard file "Star Wars," or something else that would enrage the mobs if the film quality were poor. Or a suite of several movies. After all, testing isn't a 15 minute affair. Let the films play back to back overnight while equipment is gathering results.
First of all, a "ringback tone" isn't what you hear on an answering machine or voicemail; it's what you hear in lieu of the local signal for "the line is ringing." Apparently, according to the F.A., this was "a thing" in the early 2000s.
Next of all, was it really "a thing"? I've been on cellular since 1996, and exclusively since 2002. I'd never heard of this thing until 2011, when I moved to China, where they're (apparently) all the rage. Call a number, and instead "ring, ring, ring", you hear someone's chosen song or other audio. Nifty. Irritating (am I on hold? Is there a switching problem?). Quite popular in China. Non-existent in the USA where Slashdot is based.
In the USA, from 1996 until 2011, and from 2016 until now? I've literally never experienced a ringback tone, unless a thousand people are trolling me with country-representative ringback tones that are identical to the normal switched network.
The F.A. seems to be US-based. WTF are they talking about?
Ah, thanks for this. Now I understand why I get phantom, dropped calls from fake phone numbers several times per day. Obviously I know they're spammers, but I had no idea what their objective was in dropping calls. They're hoping to get to my voicemail, which I've never activated and refuse to setup.
It also explains why occasionally those phantom calls are followed up immediately with a spam call. Mystery solved.
How do you leave a voicemail without ringing the phone?
Every day. Multiple times per day. I run TT-RSS, and access it from any browser, or if I have to kill some time, from the mobile version on my phone.
I’m still not sure how people get “news” from Twitter or Facebook, unless they literally spend all day on Twitter or Facebook. And why wait for people to sometimes post a link to a good article (between sharing their meals, games, and personal activities) when I can get it right from the source?
I did this in Commodore 128 BASIC, too. It made it really simple to load a BASIC program that needed some assembly language support without having to pre-load the machine language file. I wish I still had the source code to my (crappy) BBS that used assembly to provide a text-based windowing system (for the sysop) and converted quickly between Commodore ASCII and standard ASCII.
BASIC on a TRS-80 MC10. When teaching myself how to program using the "BASIC Games for All Computers" type of books, Radio Shack actually had knowledgable employees who taught me what a function is, and how to translate DEF FN to something useful in its version of BASIC. As an elementary school kid, I had no idea that functions were a "math thing" until probably high school.
Later, BASIC on my C=128, some 8502 assembly just to speed things up, then Turbo Pascal once I got into the PC world. Later, C/C++/Objective-C, dabble in Ruby when necessary, dabble in Javascript when forced to, and was never interested in Java. Oh, and AppleScript. God, I hate you AppleScript, but sometimes you're a necessary evil. Played with PHP for a while.
"Evade" would mean that this is an intention maneuver to defraud the government, so I think you mean "avoid." But in any case, I think that the vast majority of people who participate in loyalty programs don't even consider the tax consequences. In effect, it might be a tax avoidance scheme, but in practice, it's de minimus, and no one gives great thought to is other than envious people who don't have the ability to participate.
I'll admit, I have a lot of hotel rewards from frequent business travel, yet I don't think of this in terms of taxes. It's just a perquisite from giving up so much of my own, private, personal time in exchange for business travel (despite popular perception, it's not glamorous and exciting, and it means time away from personal pursuits). Tax me on the value? Yeah, ok, I'll still take the perk.
I also get a lot of rewards from my credit card spend (the Sapphire Reserve in the first year is paying for my Easter vacation). I'm not sure how you could argue that this is tax avoidance; it's a reward for paying my annual fee and charging enough to make me profitable to my bank. Even my previous card spend made for the occasional hotel or plane ticket, on personal use.
Yeah, lots of people are subsidizing this, but that's simply the way the world works. Everyone who manages to pay their bills on time has an equal opportunity for the same benefits. I struggled through my 20's and 30's subsidizing better people than me, and I'm not ashamed to reap the rewards now. In a way, it's like Social Security.
If the train station were in Auburn Hills, then it would be pretty much identical to the situation with airports today, i.e., there'd be a taxi stand with lots of taxis.
Actually, Auburn Hills and DTW are pretty bad examples. There's not much of a taxi culture here.
We often (possibly usually) don't want to go to the center of the city. I want to go to suppliers in Auburn Hills (not Detroit proper) or to a plant in Claycomo (not Kansas City), or to Miami Beach (not the City of Miami). Granted, the airport isn't always closest to the majority of final destinations, but the city center isn't necessarily any better.
Oops, reading the parent more closely, yeah, my bad, you're right. But... that parent should be "That's to him or her," and that's what made me jump so bloody fast on the case! Oops.
You've changed the direct object to an indirect object, so, you're changing the case.
That would be better than self-sealing stem bolts!
You failed to mention HVAC, though, and in hot climates this is overwhelmingly electric, and in colder climates heat pumps (including geo/ground-source) are electric. Heat pumps in particular often have resistance backups.
And I'm not sure what my 220 VAC oven draws...
Our version of the sophisticated training system was a C=64 with a fake M16 and Duck Hunt-like light pen raster sensing device for learning how to shoot better (probably not a bad thing given that we were air traffic controllers and support).
I thought I was unique in being the only soldier with an Amiga 500 in his barracks room, given that the demographics of the typical enlisted back then were quite a bit different than (how I imagine them) now.
VW's a global enterprise. Who's to say the engineers that wrote it weren’t American, Indian, or Chinese? They may not even be VW employees – maybe the specific work was outsourced, or part of a Tier 1 supplier contract. And in any of these cases, it could be an agency employee who was given a specific task. I’m not sure we can really know unless an insider tells us.
It's like the sysops are say, well, they're going to discover they're living in a simulation. Change the parameters so nuclei are pear shaped, and that ought to distract them for a little while.