Don't get me wrong, Tesla make some nice if unreliable cars, but they are not at all affordable or even that big of a deal outside of the United States.
Someone nearish to where I live (on a road I often walk along) has a model 3. Since I live in London and it's basically an American car it's too big to fit in his driveway. So he does th only reasonably thing and parks it on the road.
Nah! Just kidding, he parks it in the drive and leaves it sticking out across the pavement. Very tempted to carefully key it along the line just where the pavement starts.
Please explain this well-informed and totally not religious aversion to using landfills
No. I shall simply treat you with the contempt you deserve. You're clearly more interested in smugly trying to collect some sort of internet points presumably because being a dick online makes you feel good.
If you haven't grasped any part of environmentalism by now, then a paragraph by me sure isn't going to make you change your mind.
or recycling old electronic junk.
Reuse is a form of recycling you moron, and one that's a lot more efficient than shipping the old crap to whatever nation currently accpets it, breaking it up using a nice, polluting process dangerous for the workers involved, then extracting the raw materials and making something new. And that's IF it ever makes it as far as that. A bunch just ends up in the landfill.
It's not about running Linux on a laptop, it's about pretending to have a grievance.:eyeroll:
That was one of the smugest posts I've read in a while.
Back to reality, Linux has long been a favourite way round these parts for escuing old hardware from the landfill. Apple just nixed that option. Yay more landfill.
So your "5 years" has suddenly turned into a decade.
That's still not enough. My current machine is a thinkpad W510 which is comfortably getting on towards 9 years old. It's got 16G of RAM which is still more than most midrange laptops ship with and what many laptops still max out at. If it starts feeling a bit spare, then I'll upgrade it to the maximum which is now 32G with modern DIMMS. It's got plenty of SSD too.
I doubt this laptop will be ready for retirement in a year and a half, even without any additional upgrades.
You might argue that Lenovo don't support it any more. Sure, but unlike Apple, they went to some effort to let others do so; ubuntu was an officially supported OS for this machine, and it's built with quality, standard parts. I strongly suspect it would run Windows 10 fine too. They've essentially ensured it will be supported for a very, very long time.
You have truly scaled the cliffs of inanity, who done.
You keep blithering about the rulers yet literally ignoring all the rich ruling toffs who want to leave.
As for your laughably idiotic assessment of May's negotiating... you clearly think there's some magical way of winning against very experienced negotiators when you have the weakest hand and everyone knows it.
And it's especially stupid when we have promised several mutually exclusive things on the Ireland border. I'll bet you have no solution for that either expect drooling about "rulers".
Brexit, their rulers were outraged and are attempting to nullify the result.
May is outraged? Johnson is outraged? Raab? Hunt? Reese-Mogg? Hell, even Corbyn?
You're yet again simply lying about stuff because you want to blame teh ibruhls for things and in your view anything you can think of no matter how wild is true.
Oh it's the "herp derp crime" meme that's been coming up like clockwork in every single one of these posts.
You seem to have forgotten that your country has two forms of courts, criminal and civil. This post pertains only to the civil form.
You also seem to have an immense and misplaced amount of faith in the police. You may recall in fact that multiple people had gone to the police over Bill Crosby for example before the whole thing broke, and none of them had any luck for decades.
They have the right to protest, speak, walk-out, or whatever.
Make up your mind. Previously you called them terrorists and blackmailers, both things which can land you gaol time. Now you say they have a right. Make up your mind.
But, the company should also have the right to fire them if it wants.
It does in many places. California is a right to work state so it can certainly fire them there. Google chose not to.
They are being blackmailed
Do make up your mind. Blackmail is illegal. Are they engaging in illegal speech or not?
And no, I don't hate women. I hate THOSE women. There is a difference.
No, they are not free to set their working conditions because SJW terrorists like you are blackmailing and extorting them.
Huh and you were all over the "muh freeze peach" earlier. Interesting that you seek to deny free speech and free association to people who you disagree with.
I've been watching the UK Brexit politics with bile fascination. The sheer incompetence of it is what we Germans call "Realsatire" - something so absurd and ridiculous it can only be satire, but nevertheless happens in real life.
I've been watching it up close and personal and let me tell you it's no any better. Like every day. Take this little nugget from just yesterday!
Take Dominic Raab and ardent Brexiter and now, minister for Brexit where he's been taking a hard line since June. Apparently yesterday he only just realised that you know a lot of stuff goes across the channel at Dover and it would be quite astoundingly bad if it stopped:
Because companies want productive employees. Such employees can easily find jobs. If the working environment is unpleasant then those workers will leave and it wil hurt the bottom line of the company.
If someone commits a crime against you, call the police and charge them with a crime
Firstly, there are many sorts of behaviour that are not literally illegal that said productive employees won't put up with. The bar for actually illegal is pretty high, as it should be. Free speech means you can say awful things and it's not illegal. Free assosciation means your free speech might lose you friends.
otherwise, shut the fuck up.
Only if you pay me enough. And let me tell you it would be a LOT for me to work in the sort of workplace you appear to be advocating.
Yes, that was my question. I want to know what is in my fuel. I guess I need to call Bob Dudley. I want to know why Windows shutdown took too long. Can only be answered by Nadella. The council sent me a wrong invoice I therefore demand to speak directly to the Mayor. Only these people can answer my silly questions.
That's inanely false equivalence. You're comparing you (who is small and irrelevant on the scale of these things) to an entire country, which is not.
Only these people can answer my silly questions.
You believe questions about a massive multinational affecting the outcomes of a large, sovereign countries elections is trivial and hence any questions are "silly". I think you're way sillier than those questions.
A police officer shot someone. Do you ask the police officer what happened, or do you cross examine the Police Commissioner instead?
If one police office shoots someone, you talk to the police office. If an entire department gets a reputation for shooting people then you sure as hell talk to the commissioner. Where else does the buck stop?
Sure let them pass laws trying to kill specific companies. I'm sure that will stand up to legal challenge.
When it comes to a fight between Facebook and GDPR for example, my money is not on Facebook.
Wow....just....Wow. Never thought I would see the words "EU" and "free market obsession" used in the same sentence.
You've not been following politics in the UK much:(
Reese-Mogg and Johnson think the EU is some sort of left wing plot designed to hold back the fearless capitalists. Corbyn is convinced the EU is some sort of free-market capitalist plot designed to keep the worker in place by limiting regulation.
Would this kind of situation be forbidden by the EU? My hunch says no because Healthcare!
I guess we could work through the healthcare systems of every (27/28) member states, but that sounds boring. Probably not? I don't know of any EU country off hand which forbids private healthcare.
Also, the EU does segment things differently for different industries, because it's made up of the member countries and they all want regulations segmented by industry.
So the EU is now dictating which services it's member governments are allowed to run? I wonder which telcos lobbied EU officials for that little gem. Brexit was the right move.
Pretty much every time there's any news about anything at all the EU has done, some idiots totally shit themselves and start with the "herp derp sovereignty Brexit" mantra.
Here's a free clue: no one will ever agree to deal with you on anything if you too don't agree to some rules.
How is the person in charge of the whole edifice relevant? What?
Every time you have a question about the country do you directly address only the queen or prime minister?
Corporations aren't sovereign nations. But sure, let's give these massive, influential, opaque and nearly untouchable corporations even more priviliges. That sounds like a brilliant idea.
Feel free to issue an official summons at some point too by the way, rather than a jointly written letter with no legal weight signed by no government authority in particular.
You're right, it has no legal weight. He doesn't have to come to parliament to defend Facebook. He also doesn't have to like any laws they pass which affect facebook which do have legal weight.
Why should Zuckerberg testify before a UK governmental body? Facebook is for the record, Facebook UK LTD, a corporate entity in the UK. He is not one of the officers of that entity. The nearest person of interest in that UK entity is Sheryl Sandberg (Director).
Because despite trying their hardest to appear so, Parliament is not in fact a total bunch of muppets and do in fact know who is in charge of facebook.
My elderly neighbor of 30 years just passed away, and I learned that her ~60 year old house is a Sears Roebuck house! To the younger folks, after being chosen from a Sears catalog, the house's engineering plans and all its materials were delivered to the site, where it was built, and still stands today.
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It has been at least one day for every vehicle I have owned, ever; which means it's a good thing I never bought an EV.
At least one day ever in the entire service life of the vehicle?
Don't get me wrong, Tesla make some nice if unreliable cars, but they are not at all affordable or even that big of a deal outside of the United States.
Someone nearish to where I live (on a road I often walk along) has a model 3. Since I live in London and it's basically an American car it's too big to fit in his driveway. So he does th only reasonably thing and parks it on the road.
Nah! Just kidding, he parks it in the drive and leaves it sticking out across the pavement. Very tempted to carefully key it along the line just where the pavement starts.
Please explain this well-informed and totally not religious aversion to using landfills
No. I shall simply treat you with the contempt you deserve. You're clearly more interested in smugly trying to collect some sort of internet points presumably because being a dick online makes you feel good.
If you haven't grasped any part of environmentalism by now, then a paragraph by me sure isn't going to make you change your mind.
or recycling old electronic junk.
Reuse is a form of recycling you moron, and one that's a lot more efficient than shipping the old crap to whatever nation currently accpets it, breaking it up using a nice, polluting process dangerous for the workers involved, then extracting the raw materials and making something new. And that's IF it ever makes it as far as that. A bunch just ends up in the landfill.
Well it's always a good sign you've thoroughly lost the argument when you dismiss an entirely reasonable point of view as "religion".
It's not about running Linux on a laptop, it's about pretending to have a grievance. :eyeroll:
That was one of the smugest posts I've read in a while.
Back to reality, Linux has long been a favourite way round these parts for escuing old hardware from the landfill. Apple just nixed that option. Yay more landfill.
So your "5 years" has suddenly turned into a decade.
That's still not enough. My current machine is a thinkpad W510 which is comfortably getting on towards 9 years old. It's got 16G of RAM which is still more than most midrange laptops ship with and what many laptops still max out at. If it starts feeling a bit spare, then I'll upgrade it to the maximum which is now 32G with modern DIMMS. It's got plenty of SSD too.
I doubt this laptop will be ready for retirement in a year and a half, even without any additional upgrades.
You might argue that Lenovo don't support it any more. Sure, but unlike Apple, they went to some effort to let others do so; ubuntu was an officially supported OS for this machine, and it's built with quality, standard parts. I strongly suspect it would run Windows 10 fine too. They've essentially ensured it will be supported for a very, very long time.
The "top-of-the-line" Mac Mini is so expensive because it can be upgraded to 64 GB Ram / 2TB SSD.
No it's expensive because they can overcharge for the 64GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD.
It took a couple of minutes on google to find a pair of 32GB sodimms of the right frequenct for about $650. A really good 2TB ssd is similar.
and there are four thunderbolt parts where you can attach the fastest and biggest SSD drives you can find.
It's not so much mini at that point as mini-but-with-a-bunch-of-shite-plugged-in.
You have truly scaled the cliffs of inanity, who done.
You keep blithering about the rulers yet literally ignoring all the rich ruling toffs who want to leave.
As for your laughably idiotic assessment of May's negotiating... you clearly think there's some magical way of winning against very experienced negotiators when you have the weakest hand and everyone knows it.
And it's especially stupid when we have promised several mutually exclusive things on the Ireland border. I'll bet you have no solution for that either expect drooling about "rulers".
Does it hurt to be that disingenuous or does it come naturally to you?
More lies from an idiot.
Brexit, their rulers were outraged and are attempting to nullify the result.
May is outraged? Johnson is outraged? Raab? Hunt? Reese-Mogg? Hell, even Corbyn?
You're yet again simply lying about stuff because you want to blame teh ibruhls for things and in your view anything you can think of no matter how wild is true.
Oh it's the "herp derp crime" meme that's been coming up like clockwork in every single one of these posts.
You seem to have forgotten that your country has two forms of courts, criminal and civil. This post pertains only to the civil form.
You also seem to have an immense and misplaced amount of faith in the police. You may recall in fact that multiple people had gone to the police over Bill Crosby for example before the whole thing broke, and none of them had any luck for decades.
And here I thought that nobody can top a CSU politician in being ridiculous.
Oh yes Cameron. What a fucker. Stil doesn't think he made a mistake over Brexit. And he stuck his willy in a pigs head.
They have the right to protest, speak, walk-out, or whatever.
Make up your mind. Previously you called them terrorists and blackmailers, both things which can land you gaol time. Now you say they have a right. Make up your mind.
But, the company should also have the right to fire them if it wants.
It does in many places. California is a right to work state so it can certainly fire them there. Google chose not to.
They are being blackmailed
Do make up your mind. Blackmail is illegal. Are they engaging in illegal speech or not?
And no, I don't hate women. I hate THOSE women. There is a difference.
Yeah just all those women that get uppity.
No, they are not free to set their working conditions because SJW terrorists like you are blackmailing and extorting them.
Huh and you were all over the "muh freeze peach" earlier. Interesting that you seek to deny free speech and free association to people who you disagree with.
I've been watching the UK Brexit politics with bile fascination. The sheer incompetence of it is what we Germans call "Realsatire" - something so absurd and ridiculous it can only be satire, but nevertheless happens in real life.
I've been watching it up close and personal and let me tell you it's no any better. Like every day. Take this little nugget from just yesterday!
Take Dominic Raab and ardent Brexiter and now, minister for Brexit where he's been taking a hard line since June. Apparently yesterday he only just realised that you know a lot of stuff goes across the channel at Dover and it would be quite astoundingly bad if it stopped:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...
How the fuck could he not of known that? He's the fucking minister what the ever living fuck?
And this was just yesterday!
Please provide an objective definition of "dress like a whore". Thank you!
I think the defenition is:
Wow you're really hot go out with me pleaaaaaaassssee pllllleeeeeeaaaassseeee WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU WON'T GO OUT WITH ME YOU DRESS LIKE A WHORE.
Out of interest, how many times have you put forth this theory to your employees and NOT had them turn around, walk out and seek employment elsewhere?
Why is this something for companies to solve?
Because companies want productive employees. Such employees can easily find jobs. If the working environment is unpleasant then those workers will leave and it wil hurt the bottom line of the company.
If someone commits a crime against you, call the police and charge them with a crime
Firstly, there are many sorts of behaviour that are not literally illegal that said productive employees won't put up with. The bar for actually illegal is pretty high, as it should be. Free speech means you can say awful things and it's not illegal. Free assosciation means your free speech might lose you friends.
otherwise, shut the fuck up.
Only if you pay me enough. And let me tell you it would be a LOT for me to work in the sort of workplace you appear to be advocating.
Yes, that was my question. I want to know what is in my fuel. I guess I need to call Bob Dudley. I want to know why Windows shutdown took too long. Can only be answered by Nadella. The council sent me a wrong invoice I therefore demand to speak directly to the Mayor. Only these people can answer my silly questions.
That's inanely false equivalence. You're comparing you (who is small and irrelevant on the scale of these things) to an entire country, which is not.
Only these people can answer my silly questions.
You believe questions about a massive multinational affecting the outcomes of a large, sovereign countries elections is trivial and hence any questions are "silly". I think you're way sillier than those questions.
A police officer shot someone. Do you ask the police officer what happened, or do you cross examine the Police Commissioner instead?
If one police office shoots someone, you talk to the police office. If an entire department gets a reputation for shooting people then you sure as hell talk to the commissioner. Where else does the buck stop?
Sure let them pass laws trying to kill specific companies. I'm sure that will stand up to legal challenge.
When it comes to a fight between Facebook and GDPR for example, my money is not on Facebook.
Wow....just....Wow. Never thought I would see the words "EU" and "free market obsession" used in the same sentence.
You've not been following politics in the UK much :(
Reese-Mogg and Johnson think the EU is some sort of left wing plot designed to hold back the fearless capitalists. Corbyn is convinced the EU is some sort of free-market capitalist plot designed to keep the worker in place by limiting regulation.
Would this kind of situation be forbidden by the EU? My hunch says no because Healthcare!
I guess we could work through the healthcare systems of every (27/28) member states, but that sounds boring. Probably not? I don't know of any EU country off hand which forbids private healthcare.
Also, the EU does segment things differently for different industries, because it's made up of the member countries and they all want regulations segmented by industry.
So the EU is now dictating which services it's member governments are allowed to run? I wonder which telcos lobbied EU officials for that little gem. Brexit was the right move.
Pretty much every time there's any news about anything at all the EU has done, some idiots totally shit themselves and start with the "herp derp sovereignty Brexit" mantra.
Here's a free clue: no one will ever agree to deal with you on anything if you too don't agree to some rules.
And how is this relevant?
How is the person in charge of the whole edifice relevant? What?
Every time you have a question about the country do you directly address only the queen or prime minister?
Corporations aren't sovereign nations. But sure, let's give these massive, influential, opaque and nearly untouchable corporations even more priviliges. That sounds like a brilliant idea.
Feel free to issue an official summons at some point too by the way, rather than a jointly written letter with no legal weight signed by no government authority in particular.
You're right, it has no legal weight. He doesn't have to come to parliament to defend Facebook. He also doesn't have to like any laws they pass which affect facebook which do have legal weight.
Why should Zuckerberg testify before a UK governmental body? Facebook is for the record, Facebook UK LTD, a corporate entity in the UK. He is not one of the officers of that entity. The nearest person of interest in that UK entity is Sheryl Sandberg (Director).
Because despite trying their hardest to appear so, Parliament is not in fact a total bunch of muppets and do in fact know who is in charge of facebook.
My elderly neighbor of 30 years just passed away, and I learned that her ~60 year old house is a Sears Roebuck house! To the younger folks, after being chosen from a Sears catalog, the house's engineering plans and all its materials were delivered to the site, where it was built, and still stands today.
You could buy a *house* through Sears? Holy crap!