This is an extremely confused response. This essentially says that the more scientists are concerned about a problem the less you are concerned.
It's the contrarian mentality. Thing is if a bunch of smart, well educated experts say something then you're not smart for going along with what they say. It's basically a default, sensible, neutral position. the only way to show you're smart is to disagree because presumably you know something all those "experts" don't... or something.
And it's linear. If you disagree with twice as many experts then you're *twice* as smart.
Ok fair point. I didn't live in the suburbs, I lived in a small town bracketed by government land and reservations so it couldn't grow. I lived in the town and it was maybe 15 minutes to work by car of traffic was really really heavy. I usually biked or since my SO had further to go.
The driving was fine. A jaunt to the supermarket was easy. Even the 40 minutes drive to Santa Fe was fine. The suburbs sound awful. No low riders for a start.
I know how to drive, I just don't care to do it on an everyday basis.
Have you driven on a daily basis somewhere that isn't a big city?
I live in a big city and don't own a car. I have no desire to own a car and am glad I can not drive round here on a daily basis. I did also live somewhere where car ownership is very common, but the roads were wide and empty and the other drivers were pretty chilled (NM). It was a quite different experience and not nearly as bad as I thought.
I know the earth is critically short of humans, but marketing dead wombs to people with broken wombs seems a bit macabre... how does the doc begin that conversation?
Most organs are transplanted from dead people because most organs are critical to the life of the person owing them.
I just don't get the love for quoting the stupid-money price ceiling.
Huh? If a shitbox low end all in one gets a bit crapper, who cares? If a 7 grand machine suffers the same fate, people are going to care. iMacs are high end items not low end, so the fact that other much cheaper machines are crap isn't any justification.
Apple are not the only ones to suffer from this problem, lots of other all-in-one systems do too.
Oh three other hands most all in ones are nasty cheap things. The fastest machine you can get from Apple is some sort of iMac which costs over 7 grand.
I avoid it because it's just a way to try to make me use Bing/Cortana.
it's still a good thing to have around, and this could very well be the deaht knell of firefox. With edge gone, the web is going to become more chrome centric .
Besides the clean air, another advantage of Madrid over Paris is the lack or Parisians.
And they don't schedule riots on days ending in "y". The trouble is those overturned, burning cars release a lot of smoke and make it essentially impossible to hit the clean air targets.
I managed to feed the paper in but the machine broke when I tried to feed the shipping box through. It made that same funny cluking sound as it did when I tried to fax that floppy last week.
Pffft... If this is the apocalypse then I'm not impressed.
No you don't understand. Day 1, we're enforcing some semblance of civilised behaviour. Day 2 we start murdering tens of millions of people. True story. That's why it's necessary to run around with our hair on fire.
That and try to suppress any speech that disagrees.
Here's what I don't get. You seem to be a rabid Republican, and yet you spend an astonishing amount of time basically making stuff up about them to make them look acceptable to you. If you don't like what they actually do then why the hell do you support them so strongly? That makes absolutely no sense at all.
I'm sure your immediate reaction not is "but democrats", which is completely irrelevant. You aren't compelled to support any party. So why do you support a party you clearly dislike so much?
Separate only if you treat it as completely separate, and not the logical outcome of having one hand tied behind their back when trying to milk the consumer, so opting to use the other hand.
That smells fishy to me.
The ISPs will always try to milk the consumer as much as they can. They will do it with their right hand regardless of whether their left hand is tied. The price is what the market will support. Forcing them to actually give consumers the product they're claiming to sell won't make the market support a higher price.
Did they really hard code it to the above? Or did they simply build tools that allow censorship,
That's a bullshit dichotomy. They're not "simply" building a tool that "could" be used to censor, they are building a tool specifically to help the Chinese government censor.
oogle can just copy and paste whatever they use for blocking/downranking conservative content
With friends like you, the right wing doesn't need enemies. You're bsaically equating right wing political views with lies blatant or otherwise. Now if you were someone opposed to right wing views, I could at least understand your motivtion. But it's your own side you're trash talking. I don't get it.
Unfortunately American restaurants (even the high-end ones) are all sports bar. TVs on every possible flat surface on the walls. It seems Americans cannot enjoy a lunch without watching sport on TV.
Which part of America? I lived in NM for a few years and it wasn't like that. I spent a bit of time in LA recently too and it also wasn't like that.
4) Short lifespan PC / smartphone / electronics / appliance proliferation (and the need to own more different / specialty electronics)
short lifespan PC? I think you're a decade out. I remember buying my first proper PC in about 1997. A P133 and I invested in a whopping 72M of RAM which was worth it because it greatly extended the life of it relative to its contemporaries. I kept it for what was bloody ages by the standards of the day. People definitely thought I was very odd for using such a horrendously obsolete machine. I think I stopped using it really in around 2002.
I remember that PC's never lasted 10 years (what a ridiculous notion!) until suddenly they did and it came a bit of a shock. I'm writing this from an 8.5 year old laptop. It's not like my old P133 was at a mere 5 years. It's perfectly servicable and will likely remain so for a while yet.
I still haven't really got used to the idea of PCs wearing out and breaking rather than being chucked in the bin due to rapid obsolescence. I don't know anyone on the PC upgrade treadmill any more.
Smartphones, sure, yes. They're like what PCs were in the 90s. It'll even out for them like it did for PCs as the market matures.
Sure a quality VHS VCR costs $1k in current dollars, but it was meant to last 6+ years, not 6-18 months like the average DVD or Blu-ray player.
$1k for 6 years versus $30 every year or two? The modern way sounds like a massive bargain.
Because keeping up with the Joneses is now about how many different things you have doing pointless tasks in your home rather than general purpose computer + AV receiver + TV that did everything
Outside of a nerd home that sort of thing never existed because it took too much time and knowledge to set up and maintain. It's still how I do things, but that's because I already use my computer a lot, already have the knowledge and have very particular tastes. Though I will note that almost everyone has finally cause up with mplayer after a scant 15 years or so and has a 10 second skip back/forward button on their video players.
Except I do have an e-reader since my general purpose computer doesn't have an e-ink screen and neithre does its battery last for several weeks.
Roomba/
If your general purpose computer can double as a roomba, well, you're doing some serious shit.
And, they want with NO EXPERIENCE, paid time off, sick days bla bla bla.
My god the horror! They want an employer who's not a total asshat. In Europe those rights are enshrined in law. Everyone gets them inexperienced or not.
that failed to show up on their start date, then when WE finally get in contact with them after they accepted a job, they say "oh, I changed my mind, or oh, I got a different job". Didn't even have the COURTESY of calling back.
Well, you sound like a total asshat. That certainly came across in the interview and the job offer with no vacation days. Try not being an asshat to your employees, potential or actual.
Add to that, with NO experience, they want a high salary because they have "massive debt" they are trying to pay off. NOT everyone needs to go to an expensive 4 year university. Trade schools offer a good way to make a living and are IN DEMAND
So why are you interviewing people with expensive 4 year degrees then rather than trade school qualifications?
but a lot of the millennials don't want to work hard,
I cannot imagine why people won't work hard for a low wage for an asshole employer who clearly hates them. It's a total mystery.
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This is an extremely confused response. This essentially says that the more scientists are concerned about a problem the less you are concerned.
It's the contrarian mentality. Thing is if a bunch of smart, well educated experts say something then you're not smart for going along with what they say. It's basically a default, sensible, neutral position. the only way to show you're smart is to disagree because presumably you know something all those "experts" don't... or something.
And it's linear. If you disagree with twice as many experts then you're *twice* as smart.
Ok fair point. I didn't live in the suburbs, I lived in a small town bracketed by government land and reservations so it couldn't grow. I lived in the town and it was maybe 15 minutes to work by car of traffic was really really heavy. I usually biked or since my SO had further to go.
The driving was fine. A jaunt to the supermarket was easy. Even the 40 minutes drive to Santa Fe was fine. The suburbs sound awful. No low riders for a start.
Where are the porn, adult vs art line drawn at?
If you lose interest in the art shortly after beating off, then it was porn.
(Can't remember the origin of that quote)
I know how to drive, I just don't care to do it on an everyday basis.
Have you driven on a daily basis somewhere that isn't a big city?
I live in a big city and don't own a car. I have no desire to own a car and am glad I can not drive round here on a daily basis. I did also live somewhere where car ownership is very common, but the roads were wide and empty and the other drivers were pretty chilled (NM). It was a quite different experience and not nearly as bad as I thought.
I know the earth is critically short of humans, but marketing dead wombs to people with broken wombs seems a bit macabre... how does the doc begin that conversation?
Most organs are transplanted from dead people because most organs are critical to the life of the person owing them.
I just don't get the love for quoting the stupid-money price ceiling.
Huh? If a shitbox low end all in one gets a bit crapper, who cares? If a 7 grand machine suffers the same fate, people are going to care. iMacs are high end items not low end, so the fact that other much cheaper machines are crap isn't any justification.
Apple are not the only ones to suffer from this problem, lots of other all-in-one systems do too.
Oh three other hands most all in ones are nasty cheap things. The fastest machine you can get from Apple is some sort of iMac which costs over 7 grand.
I avoid it because it's just a way to try to make me use Bing/Cortana.
it's still a good thing to have around, and this could very well be the deaht knell of firefox. With edge gone, the web is going to become more chrome centric .
Besides the clean air, another advantage of Madrid over Paris is the lack or Parisians.
And they don't schedule riots on days ending in "y". The trouble is those overturned, burning cars release a lot of smoke and make it essentially impossible to hit the clean air targets.
I'm out of paper, could you fax me some more?
I managed to feed the paper in but the machine broke when I tried to feed the shipping box through. It made that same funny cluking sound as it did when I tried to fax that floppy last week.
SJW be SJW, regardless of their personal orientation.
So those people who try to shut down discussion by screeching about SJWs are SJWs too.
If you're single-threading in this day and age your days are numbered.
Not every problem is parallelisable. I think there's even a complexity class of some sort about that.
Pffft... If this is the apocalypse then I'm not impressed.
No you don't understand. Day 1, we're enforcing some semblance of civilised behaviour. Day 2 we start murdering tens of millions of people. True story. That's why it's necessary to run around with our hair on fire.
That and try to suppress any speech that disagrees.
These sad, sad people clearly need a hug.
Well played, sir!
A handful lol.
Here's what I don't get. You seem to be a rabid Republican, and yet you spend an astonishing amount of time basically making stuff up about them to make them look acceptable to you. If you don't like what they actually do then why the hell do you support them so strongly? That makes absolutely no sense at all.
I'm sure your immediate reaction not is "but democrats", which is completely irrelevant. You aren't compelled to support any party. So why do you support a party you clearly dislike so much?
My condolences.
Separate only if you treat it as completely separate, and not the logical outcome of having one hand tied behind their back when trying to milk the consumer, so opting to use the other hand.
That smells fishy to me.
The ISPs will always try to milk the consumer as much as they can. They will do it with their right hand regardless of whether their left hand is tied. The price is what the market will support. Forcing them to actually give consumers the product they're claiming to sell won't make the market support a higher price.
Did they really hard code it to the above? Or did they simply build tools that allow censorship,
That's a bullshit dichotomy. They're not "simply" building a tool that "could" be used to censor, they are building a tool specifically to help the Chinese government censor.
oogle can just copy and paste whatever they use for blocking/downranking conservative content
With friends like you, the right wing doesn't need enemies. You're bsaically equating right wing political views with lies blatant or otherwise. Now if you were someone opposed to right wing views, I could at least understand your motivtion. But it's your own side you're trash talking. I don't get it.
The proper attitude to take, is sure I'll do it, how much will it cost, more than you are willing to pay.
No. The proper attitude is that your ethics are not for sale. No price, no matter how high.
Don't forget the Russians have an aircraft carrier too, the sister ship of the hull sold to China.
One that's always accompanied with an ocean going tug because it um needs an honour guard at all times.
Unfortunately American restaurants (even the high-end ones) are all sports bar. TVs on every possible flat surface on the walls. It seems Americans cannot enjoy a lunch without watching sport on TV.
Which part of America? I lived in NM for a few years and it wasn't like that. I spent a bit of time in LA recently too and it also wasn't like that.
Maybe it's a regional thing?
4) Short lifespan PC / smartphone / electronics / appliance proliferation (and the need to own more different / specialty electronics)
short lifespan PC? I think you're a decade out. I remember buying my first proper PC in about 1997. A P133 and I invested in a whopping 72M of RAM which was worth it because it greatly extended the life of it relative to its contemporaries. I kept it for what was bloody ages by the standards of the day. People definitely thought I was very odd for using such a horrendously obsolete machine. I think I stopped using it really in around 2002.
I remember that PC's never lasted 10 years (what a ridiculous notion!) until suddenly they did and it came a bit of a shock. I'm writing this from an 8.5 year old laptop. It's not like my old P133 was at a mere 5 years. It's perfectly servicable and will likely remain so for a while yet.
I still haven't really got used to the idea of PCs wearing out and breaking rather than being chucked in the bin due to rapid obsolescence. I don't know anyone on the PC upgrade treadmill any more.
Smartphones, sure, yes. They're like what PCs were in the 90s. It'll even out for them like it did for PCs as the market matures.
Sure a quality VHS VCR costs $1k in current dollars, but it was meant to last 6+ years, not 6-18 months like the average DVD or Blu-ray player.
$1k for 6 years versus $30 every year or two? The modern way sounds like a massive bargain.
Because keeping up with the Joneses is now about how many different things you have doing pointless tasks in your home rather than general purpose computer + AV receiver + TV that did everything
Outside of a nerd home that sort of thing never existed because it took too much time and knowledge to set up and maintain. It's still how I do things, but that's because I already use my computer a lot, already have the knowledge and have very particular tastes. Though I will note that almost everyone has finally cause up with mplayer after a scant 15 years or so and has a 10 second skip back/forward button on their video players.
Except I do have an e-reader since my general purpose computer doesn't have an e-ink screen and neithre does its battery last for several weeks.
Roomba/
If your general purpose computer can double as a roomba, well, you're doing some serious shit.
And, they want with NO EXPERIENCE, paid time off, sick days bla bla bla.
My god the horror! They want an employer who's not a total asshat. In Europe those rights are enshrined in law. Everyone gets them inexperienced or not.
that failed to show up on their start date, then when WE finally get in contact with them after they accepted a job, they say "oh, I changed my mind, or oh, I got a different job". Didn't even have the COURTESY of calling back.
Well, you sound like a total asshat. That certainly came across in the interview and the job offer with no vacation days. Try not being an asshat to your employees, potential or actual.
Add to that, with NO experience, they want a high salary because they have "massive debt" they are trying to pay off. NOT everyone needs to go to an expensive 4 year university. Trade schools offer a good way to make a living and are IN DEMAND
So why are you interviewing people with expensive 4 year degrees then rather than trade school qualifications?
but a lot of the millennials don't want to work hard,
I cannot imagine why people won't work hard for a low wage for an asshole employer who clearly hates them. It's a total mystery.
Just look at what's going on in France.
Huh? What on earth is going on in France? If you're talking about some Frenchmen rioting and setting fire to cars, you do realise it's Thursday right?
And yes, taxation is theft!
This is arguably the stupidest meme to surface here on a regular basis.
If you hate tax so much go live in the Libertarian Paradise of the Congo and see how a country with no taxes operates.