On a globally depressed economy, the price dropped like a rock to the point it's cheaper to leave U.S.
domestic oil where it is. Let the sand people pump out their oil. When the price goes back up again,
then it will be profitable to pump out our oil to bring the price back down.
It's already gone up here in Missouri. Less than 2 months ago, we were paying $1.18 per gallon and
now it is running $1.79 per gallon. Of course the oil refineries say it's because of the shutdown to
change out the winter blend to the summer blend fuel LMAO.
The shale oil industry took a hit when the price fell, but, the price will be back up to around 3 bucks
a gallon by the end of this year, so they can gear up to pump the oil out of the Dakota's again if needed.
I'm a law & order conservative, have been my entire life. But, I believe in the RULE OF LAW, and the PROTECTIONS guaranteed
in the bill of rights. This illegal (as most of them are) alphabet agency has NO RIGHT to the proprietary software of a private corporation.
The source code belongs to the corporation, that created it. The FBI isn't so much wanting to crack this phone, as it is having the keys
to the kingdom. They do not like the idea (nor does the NSA, CIA, or other of the illegal alphabet agencies), that they can't snoop on
American's without having the keys to do so.
This country isn't a sovereign free country, as it was before all of these illegal alphabet agencies were created out of thin air.
We are, to an extent a government controlled police state, pure & simple. Until such time as the American people rise up and toss our
current government alphabet agencies to the ground, they will continue to take more and more of our liberties. Why do you think there
is such a push, to rid this once great nation, of the 2nd amendment? Once that happens, if it does, you might as well kiss the other 9
bill of rights out the window.
Go to static ads, and make the ads load AFTER the page loads.
If you don't use ad blockers, and watch the bottom of the page, in the info line,
you'll see part of the page load, then ad.this or ad.that and on and on, until the
ads all load a lot of the time, before the web page you want to view comes up.
If they went to STATIC ads, I bet most people would stop using blockers. The loading
of ads, especially the annoying video ads that start playing automatically, forces most
to use some sort of blocking, as a way to stop it.
global warming, now called climate change because for the last few years, there hasn't been any, is nothing but the "religion" of the left.
The earth warms, the earth cools...you know why? Because of the SUN. The sun is in a period of "sleeping" and cooling down, therefore
for the past few years, there hasn't been a real increase in temperatures. Once the suns kicks in and starts warming up again, the temperature
will increase again.
The global warming "prophets", are pushing this for a couple reasons. 1. $$$$$$$$ They get money for "research" from the government. As long
as they continue to find some way of publishing articles that back the administration, they will continue to get money for more research.
2. Anti anything mankind. Some of these clowns think the best thing for our planet, would be to remove ALL TRACES of humanity. Here's an idea
for those that push #2...LEAD BY EXAMPLE.
is in a period of "sleeping" don't look for patterns to change. I'm a ham radio operator, and a bunch of us get together once a week
for lunch and we can't remember the bands being this dead in a long time. No sunspots to think of that have been releasing CME's
means our Earth hasn't been hit with a lot of heavy X or M class flares to "juice" up the upper atmosphere that we use to bounce
signals off of. The visible solar disk right now is only tracking 4 spots, none of which are that big (well, the spots are bigger than
Jupiter, but in relation to the sun, they are tiny), and they have mostly been pretty stable. There have been times this winter that
the visible solar disk has been absent of any sun spots.
When the sun "cools down", less solar radiation directed to the earth, causes the winds, ocean etc to change. Once it heats back
up, it will change again. I remember several times in the 60's and early 70's, one or two winters, you couldn't keep the snow off the
streets, then you'd have a couple where my dad could play golf in the winter, each weekend.
I also remember when the "man made global warming" scare started in the 90's, when the glaciers in the Nordic area started melting,
someone discovered a abandoned silver mine. Left behind were traces of "civilization". They dated it back to around the 14th-15th century
I think. Regardless, it shows that many hundreds of years ago, long before the industrial revolution, that some say was the start of man
destroying the planet, it was WARMER then, than now in that region. That alone would totally dispel the myth that man is causing man made
global warming (not renamed climate change).
The Earth warms, the Earth cools, it's called a cycle. "Man made" climate change is some what of a "religion" to those that want to control
mankind, thinking that if enough uneducated people will believe the myth of man made global warming from their "religious" leaders, they will
be able to have their utopian control over the planet.
When time comes to control the masses, you think the volunteer military, most police will FIRE upon you average everyday
citizen? Some will, most won't, but a "cyborg" won't care.
Otherwise, how can we complete Obama's "fundamentally transform" America crap?
Shut all the nuke plants down, along with curtailing mining of coal, shutting down coal plants,
and we can experience what the middle east, most of Africa, and other Asian & South American
countries do all the time. BROWN OUTS.
This will help "punish" America for being a world power all these years.
Real simple. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
That's how. With the tons of K street lobbyist giving out money like candy,
congress will do what their task masters want them to do.
Did anyone ever stop to wonder, how someone in congress, making less than $200,000.00
per year, comes out of congress, say 10 years or so later, a multimillionaire?
Figure it out people, it isn't that difficult to be RICH, when you are the ones responsible for
making the rules.
What I DO have a problem with are:
Pop up ads, especially on smartphones, you can never find the X
Ads that load stupid videos AUTOMATICALLY, especially after you
scroll 1/2 way down a page, then you have to spend time FINDING it
and shutting it off.
If all ads were STATIC, I doubt most people would give a flying finger
and not use an ad blocker, but with all of this in your face crap, people
will do whatever it takes to shut them down.
Look at it this way. Say you turn on your tv, all of a sudden, an ad
jumps up on the screen while you are watching your show and you have
to close it, or a tiny video pops up. Or you are reading a magazine, and
the page automatically turns to an ad and you have to go back to where
you came from. Would people put up with it? NOPE.
Then why should we put up with this garbage?
People go for higher and higher specs, and the batteries don't keep up.
My phone is a tool, not a fashion accessory. I don't go after flash. Never had a screen protector or case. But I never drop it either.
When not being used, it's in my belt case, not gripped in my hand so everyone can see that stupid bite-out-of-an-apple logo;)
I've had 3 smartphones since 2010. Dell Streak 5, Galaxy Note1, and Huawei Ascend Mate2 that I've had almost 2 years now.
Not the high end spec device, but the screen is clear, it's got NO lag, fast, great camera and a battery that lasts TWO DAYS
with about 20-30% battery left. 4,050mAH battery, THAT was what sold me on this. Faster processors and higher density brighter
screens eat up the batteries. You don't need a super duper processor and a bunch of flash to have a good user experience.
Smartphones are the "toaster oven" now days. Flash is about all they have left to sell. They all look the same and do the same
thing. When the Nexus6 came out, a coworker got one. We put the SAME apps on both devices. Rebooted, and waited 2 minutes
for them to settle down. Ran the same apps on each device at the same time. Wink of an eye difference, but not at DOUBLE the
price. He sent it back and got something else. He said for what I use it for, I'll never use it to the potential, especially not at double
what I paid for the Mate2.
People today want instant gratification. Gotta "have" the newest processor, the newest OS. Then 3-4 months later something new comes
out and they just gotta have the newest again. Hey, as long as the manufacturers can get away with the fact that consumers are economic
idiots, why not.
You can only pack so much energy in a small space. People want FAST charging. They don't want slow (SAFER)
charging because we are now "instant gratification" humans. We don't want to wait for anything.
Plus, you can bet the bulk of these things, if not all of them, are manufactured in China, Mexico, Vietnam or other places
where QC isn't the #1 priority.
Anytime you pack the energy required to make something that demands a high current needed for these scooter boards,
you are going to run into problems.
Another probably mid 20's to mid 30's snowflake that made bad choices.
YOU went to work for them, then didn't force you.
YOU live in one of the most expensive cities. That's not Yelp or any other employers fault.
Life is about choices...not what's "fair". The sooner people learn life IS NOT FAIR, people
will be better off. Partially, I blame people my age...baby boomers.
We somewhat allowed our children to become lazy, not working for anything. Now we have
a generation of MOOCHES, thinking everything should be GIVEN to them.
Couple that with the snowflake approach to education in our public schools, giving kids ribbons
for showing up, not keeping score and on and on, kids today have high expectations, and are
disappointed when they get into the REAL world.
People limit themselves. They get upset if something doesn't work out, instead of trying harder,
or moving on, they complain. Nothing is keeping you at a job, perhaps family roots, or a spouses
job is better, but, for the most part you can MOVE somewhere else.
Also, kids need to get it out of their heads that a college degree is a guarantee of a 100,000.00 a year
job RIGHT out of college, with little to no experience.
These days, your typical college degree, with 70-100 thousand dollars in DEBT, come out making
25-50k per year, NEVER can pay it back, THEN complain it's "not fair" that they have all of this debt.
When I got out of a 2 year technical college in electronics, I had ZERO debt, have NEVER been laid
off in my field, and the only changes, were when another company pulled me away with a better offer.
It's all about choices, make bad choices, and you suffer.
Considering the state of education in the world, how there are millions of people that don't believe the attempted extermination of the Jewish people happened, it wouldn't surprise me that people would try to hold the Polish people responsible, for the death and destruction at the hands of the Nazi party.
During the end of the war in 1945, General Dwight D. Eisenhower forced the German people to clean up and bury those in the death camps, and had the worlds journalist document all the death inside those camps. When asked why, he responded "because there will come a day, that the people of the world will not believe the events that happened".
By photographing, and documenting this, no matter what people say, there is hard evidence, that the holocaust did in fact happen, at the hands of the Nazi's.
That is the case (USA) of the government today. You either COMPLY with what WE tell you to do,
or we will sick the:
IRS, FBI,CIA, NSA, etc on you.
Look how they got MS to play the game in the 90's?
They went after MS for their integration of IE, "locking out" other browsers like netscape.
I seriously don't think that was the reason. Back then, MS had ZERO lobbyist in DC. Congress
LIVES off lobbyist. With MS not lobbying, the "fat cats" on K street, & politicians weren't getting
their palms greased. Now, MS has a HUGE presence in DC, tossing money around to get their
way.
Sorry, if I purchase a product (off contract), then I OWN IT.
I have repaired numerous phones in the past couple years.
Mostly broken screens or charge ports. It's harder now than it
was in the early days of mobile phones for a couple reasons.
One, parts WERE LARGER, and my eyes WERE BETTER,
but even with the tiny crap on phones these days, along with
having to use bifocals all the time, I use one of those gizmos that
have the huge magnifying glass/solder iron holder/do-dad roach
clips to fix stuff. If you have RIGHT tools, the patience, and
skill it's not that hard. I always say when I see "no user serviceable parts
inside" as a challenge....it was put together wasn't it?
I've been involved with electronics as a hobby since I was 12 (vacuum tube days)
to a career in electronics since I was 20, so for a little over 40 years, so there
isn't much I can't repair.
More government intervention, because consumers ARE STUPID.
Plug all your stupid wall warts into a power strip, when you get done charging, turn off the power strip.
Idiots...now another stupid regulation.
Not that there were a lot of women working there.
The BIGGEST change is most I.T. stuff has been driven off shore to
China, India, Mexico because of the punishing tax laws in this country.
More and more corporations have moved a lot of their production off shore,
and, their "headquarters" to other countries, to escape the excessive taxation
in the USA.
I'm sure that the mob, pimps and what not, don't like the idea of sex robots.
Will really cut into their profit. But, if they can purchase the robots, they
won't have to worry about the girls ripping them off, can work 24/7 so on
the other hand, they might be for it.
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On a globally depressed economy, the price dropped like a rock to the point it's cheaper to leave U.S. domestic oil where it is. Let the sand people pump out their oil. When the price goes back up again, then it will be profitable to pump out our oil to bring the price back down. It's already gone up here in Missouri. Less than 2 months ago, we were paying $1.18 per gallon and now it is running $1.79 per gallon. Of course the oil refineries say it's because of the shutdown to change out the winter blend to the summer blend fuel LMAO. The shale oil industry took a hit when the price fell, but, the price will be back up to around 3 bucks a gallon by the end of this year, so they can gear up to pump the oil out of the Dakota's again if needed.
I'm a law & order conservative, have been my entire life. But, I believe in the RULE OF LAW, and the PROTECTIONS guaranteed in the bill of rights. This illegal (as most of them are) alphabet agency has NO RIGHT to the proprietary software of a private corporation. The source code belongs to the corporation, that created it. The FBI isn't so much wanting to crack this phone, as it is having the keys to the kingdom. They do not like the idea (nor does the NSA, CIA, or other of the illegal alphabet agencies), that they can't snoop on American's without having the keys to do so. This country isn't a sovereign free country, as it was before all of these illegal alphabet agencies were created out of thin air. We are, to an extent a government controlled police state, pure & simple. Until such time as the American people rise up and toss our current government alphabet agencies to the ground, they will continue to take more and more of our liberties. Why do you think there is such a push, to rid this once great nation, of the 2nd amendment? Once that happens, if it does, you might as well kiss the other 9 bill of rights out the window.
Go to static ads, and make the ads load AFTER the page loads. If you don't use ad blockers, and watch the bottom of the page, in the info line, you'll see part of the page load, then ad.this or ad.that and on and on, until the ads all load a lot of the time, before the web page you want to view comes up. If they went to STATIC ads, I bet most people would stop using blockers. The loading of ads, especially the annoying video ads that start playing automatically, forces most to use some sort of blocking, as a way to stop it.
global warming, now called climate change because for the last few years, there hasn't been any, is nothing but the "religion" of the left. The earth warms, the earth cools...you know why? Because of the SUN. The sun is in a period of "sleeping" and cooling down, therefore for the past few years, there hasn't been a real increase in temperatures. Once the suns kicks in and starts warming up again, the temperature will increase again. The global warming "prophets", are pushing this for a couple reasons. 1. $$$$$$$$ They get money for "research" from the government. As long as they continue to find some way of publishing articles that back the administration, they will continue to get money for more research. 2. Anti anything mankind. Some of these clowns think the best thing for our planet, would be to remove ALL TRACES of humanity. Here's an idea for those that push #2...LEAD BY EXAMPLE.
is in a period of "sleeping" don't look for patterns to change. I'm a ham radio operator, and a bunch of us get together once a week for lunch and we can't remember the bands being this dead in a long time. No sunspots to think of that have been releasing CME's means our Earth hasn't been hit with a lot of heavy X or M class flares to "juice" up the upper atmosphere that we use to bounce signals off of. The visible solar disk right now is only tracking 4 spots, none of which are that big (well, the spots are bigger than Jupiter, but in relation to the sun, they are tiny), and they have mostly been pretty stable. There have been times this winter that the visible solar disk has been absent of any sun spots. When the sun "cools down", less solar radiation directed to the earth, causes the winds, ocean etc to change. Once it heats back up, it will change again. I remember several times in the 60's and early 70's, one or two winters, you couldn't keep the snow off the streets, then you'd have a couple where my dad could play golf in the winter, each weekend. I also remember when the "man made global warming" scare started in the 90's, when the glaciers in the Nordic area started melting, someone discovered a abandoned silver mine. Left behind were traces of "civilization". They dated it back to around the 14th-15th century I think. Regardless, it shows that many hundreds of years ago, long before the industrial revolution, that some say was the start of man destroying the planet, it was WARMER then, than now in that region. That alone would totally dispel the myth that man is causing man made global warming (not renamed climate change). The Earth warms, the Earth cools, it's called a cycle. "Man made" climate change is some what of a "religion" to those that want to control mankind, thinking that if enough uneducated people will believe the myth of man made global warming from their "religious" leaders, they will be able to have their utopian control over the planet.
When time comes to control the masses, you think the volunteer military, most police will FIRE upon you average everyday citizen? Some will, most won't, but a "cyborg" won't care.
Headline should be Oregon set to be the first HIGHEST UTILITY RATES IN THE NATION state.
Up in that microwave range, anything over a couple watts, you wouldn't want to be in front of the transmitter ;)
Otherwise, how can we complete Obama's "fundamentally transform" America crap? Shut all the nuke plants down, along with curtailing mining of coal, shutting down coal plants, and we can experience what the middle east, most of Africa, and other Asian & South American countries do all the time. BROWN OUTS. This will help "punish" America for being a world power all these years.
Wouldn't give you 10 cents to go there, huge tourist trap. But, "it's for the kids" I guess...nothing is too good for snowflakes.
Real simple. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ That's how. With the tons of K street lobbyist giving out money like candy, congress will do what their task masters want them to do. Did anyone ever stop to wonder, how someone in congress, making less than $200,000.00 per year, comes out of congress, say 10 years or so later, a multimillionaire? Figure it out people, it isn't that difficult to be RICH, when you are the ones responsible for making the rules.
What I DO have a problem with are: Pop up ads, especially on smartphones, you can never find the X Ads that load stupid videos AUTOMATICALLY, especially after you scroll 1/2 way down a page, then you have to spend time FINDING it and shutting it off. If all ads were STATIC, I doubt most people would give a flying finger and not use an ad blocker, but with all of this in your face crap, people will do whatever it takes to shut them down. Look at it this way. Say you turn on your tv, all of a sudden, an ad jumps up on the screen while you are watching your show and you have to close it, or a tiny video pops up. Or you are reading a magazine, and the page automatically turns to an ad and you have to go back to where you came from. Would people put up with it? NOPE. Then why should we put up with this garbage?
In a month, you watch...another study will say that drinking coffee will DOUBLE the likelyhood of destroying your liver.
People go for higher and higher specs, and the batteries don't keep up. My phone is a tool, not a fashion accessory. I don't go after flash. Never had a screen protector or case. But I never drop it either. When not being used, it's in my belt case, not gripped in my hand so everyone can see that stupid bite-out-of-an-apple logo ;)
I've had 3 smartphones since 2010. Dell Streak 5, Galaxy Note1, and Huawei Ascend Mate2 that I've had almost 2 years now.
Not the high end spec device, but the screen is clear, it's got NO lag, fast, great camera and a battery that lasts TWO DAYS
with about 20-30% battery left. 4,050mAH battery, THAT was what sold me on this. Faster processors and higher density brighter
screens eat up the batteries. You don't need a super duper processor and a bunch of flash to have a good user experience.
Smartphones are the "toaster oven" now days. Flash is about all they have left to sell. They all look the same and do the same
thing. When the Nexus6 came out, a coworker got one. We put the SAME apps on both devices. Rebooted, and waited 2 minutes
for them to settle down. Ran the same apps on each device at the same time. Wink of an eye difference, but not at DOUBLE the
price. He sent it back and got something else. He said for what I use it for, I'll never use it to the potential, especially not at double
what I paid for the Mate2.
People today want instant gratification. Gotta "have" the newest processor, the newest OS. Then 3-4 months later something new comes
out and they just gotta have the newest again. Hey, as long as the manufacturers can get away with the fact that consumers are economic
idiots, why not.
You can only pack so much energy in a small space. People want FAST charging. They don't want slow (SAFER) charging because we are now "instant gratification" humans. We don't want to wait for anything. Plus, you can bet the bulk of these things, if not all of them, are manufactured in China, Mexico, Vietnam or other places where QC isn't the #1 priority. Anytime you pack the energy required to make something that demands a high current needed for these scooter boards, you are going to run into problems.
Another probably mid 20's to mid 30's snowflake that made bad choices. YOU went to work for them, then didn't force you. YOU live in one of the most expensive cities. That's not Yelp or any other employers fault. Life is about choices...not what's "fair". The sooner people learn life IS NOT FAIR, people will be better off. Partially, I blame people my age...baby boomers. We somewhat allowed our children to become lazy, not working for anything. Now we have a generation of MOOCHES, thinking everything should be GIVEN to them. Couple that with the snowflake approach to education in our public schools, giving kids ribbons for showing up, not keeping score and on and on, kids today have high expectations, and are disappointed when they get into the REAL world. People limit themselves. They get upset if something doesn't work out, instead of trying harder, or moving on, they complain. Nothing is keeping you at a job, perhaps family roots, or a spouses job is better, but, for the most part you can MOVE somewhere else. Also, kids need to get it out of their heads that a college degree is a guarantee of a 100,000.00 a year job RIGHT out of college, with little to no experience. These days, your typical college degree, with 70-100 thousand dollars in DEBT, come out making 25-50k per year, NEVER can pay it back, THEN complain it's "not fair" that they have all of this debt. When I got out of a 2 year technical college in electronics, I had ZERO debt, have NEVER been laid off in my field, and the only changes, were when another company pulled me away with a better offer. It's all about choices, make bad choices, and you suffer.
Surprised they haven't resorted to the way ever other person does...GoFundMe. ;)
Considering the state of education in the world, how there are millions of people that don't believe the attempted extermination of the Jewish people happened, it wouldn't surprise me that people would try to hold the Polish people responsible, for the death and destruction at the hands of the Nazi party. During the end of the war in 1945, General Dwight D. Eisenhower forced the German people to clean up and bury those in the death camps, and had the worlds journalist document all the death inside those camps. When asked why, he responded "because there will come a day, that the people of the world will not believe the events that happened". By photographing, and documenting this, no matter what people say, there is hard evidence, that the holocaust did in fact happen, at the hands of the Nazi's.
That is the case (USA) of the government today. You either COMPLY with what WE tell you to do, or we will sick the: IRS, FBI,CIA, NSA, etc on you. Look how they got MS to play the game in the 90's? They went after MS for their integration of IE, "locking out" other browsers like netscape. I seriously don't think that was the reason. Back then, MS had ZERO lobbyist in DC. Congress LIVES off lobbyist. With MS not lobbying, the "fat cats" on K street, & politicians weren't getting their palms greased. Now, MS has a HUGE presence in DC, tossing money around to get their way.
I block crap I don't know who its from, simple as that.
Sorry, if I purchase a product (off contract), then I OWN IT. I have repaired numerous phones in the past couple years. Mostly broken screens or charge ports. It's harder now than it was in the early days of mobile phones for a couple reasons. One, parts WERE LARGER, and my eyes WERE BETTER, but even with the tiny crap on phones these days, along with having to use bifocals all the time, I use one of those gizmos that have the huge magnifying glass/solder iron holder/do-dad roach clips to fix stuff. If you have RIGHT tools, the patience, and skill it's not that hard. I always say when I see "no user serviceable parts inside" as a challenge....it was put together wasn't it? I've been involved with electronics as a hobby since I was 12 (vacuum tube days) to a career in electronics since I was 20, so for a little over 40 years, so there isn't much I can't repair.
More government intervention, because consumers ARE STUPID. Plug all your stupid wall warts into a power strip, when you get done charging, turn off the power strip. Idiots...now another stupid regulation.
Not that there were a lot of women working there. The BIGGEST change is most I.T. stuff has been driven off shore to China, India, Mexico because of the punishing tax laws in this country. More and more corporations have moved a lot of their production off shore, and, their "headquarters" to other countries, to escape the excessive taxation in the USA.
My belief is humans, were conceived in "God's image". That is my belief, you can believe it, not believe something else.
I'm sure that the mob, pimps and what not, don't like the idea of sex robots. Will really cut into their profit. But, if they can purchase the robots, they won't have to worry about the girls ripping them off, can work 24/7 so on the other hand, they might be for it.