Perhaps another way of looking at that is: mission accomplished, they don't have to deal with your shit and your father clearly didn't want to know about your problems anyway, that's why he beat them out of you.
P.S. I grew up literally the same way with the same results.
So marijuana must be legal in Utah then? My point being it's likely some other cause such as California having anti-smoking laws for far longer than many other places and also a huge tobacco tax. If tobacco were on the same playing field as what is in Kentucky, I can't imagine California would be 2nd lowest.
I get about 5 - 10 robocalls a day, and that hasn't happened to me yet... yet. Watch me just jinx myself and today receive back to back calls from the same number.
Except in California evidently. I mean I haven't looked it up, but I presume then that in Colorado, Washington, et al there's basically no interest in tobacco products at all anymore? Or is it that it must become legal nationally in order for that magical moment to happen? I guess tobacco consumers in those states where marijuana is legal are just protesting for federal legalisation.
I always thought 911 was a joke, now it's caller ID too? Public Enemy will have to update their song.
In reality, I don't answer the phone at all anymore unless it's someone on my contact list or they call repeatedly from the same number, then I know it's probably a person worth talking to.... probably.
The question is, how long until robocallers start getting that people will do that?
Still better than pinterest stinking up everything, especially image results. If I see a Wikipedia link then I know I'm getting something useful when I click it, if I see something for pinterest I can basically guarentee that it won't take me to where to the information I'm interested in. Google Image Search results, click a pinterest image and 9 times out of 10 it won't be on that page and in fact will be almost impossible to find. Pinterest just needs to be straight up banned from Google until they link to the actual content they claim.
The site had more than 4,000 members, 97 of whom paid a $44.95 monthly fee to access extra features, such as the ability to replay certain live streams? Why didn't you mention it at least twice to make that understood?
Indeed, while it's been apparent for quite some time, it really slapped me in the face when I saw the first episodes of The Walking Dead and also Revolution, the people were so unrealistically good looking and well put together for living in a post-apocalyptic nightmare world with presumably limitations on health (especially in Revolution where they don't even have antibiotics or asthma medicine) that people being beyond perfect was so obnoxious that I couldn't even finish Revolution beyond the first episode, that and because the show sucked. I also stopped watching The Walking Dead in the middle of Season 2 because it got boring for me, but it wasn't nearly as bad as Revolution when it came to "sure the world as we know it is over and the conveniences of modern life are gone, but I look better than even people possibly could when society was intact, not to mention I'm immaculately groomed, and my clothes are stylish and clearly tailored."
The remake of V was the same way, just: what the hell is going on? I realise there's a certain expectation on TV, especially American TV, but if I want to see anyone remotely "normal" looking I have to watch stuff the BBC and Channel 4 churns out.
No, it just crashed at other points. The service where buddies were stored (feedbag) had a disastrous set of databases and there were times they all just went down *or* the whiscer (and others, essentially presence) services went down, and no buddies would show, and so people would sign off and on repeatedly trying to fix it slowing down the entire thing. It was all held together with gun tape and faith, at least in the late 90s and very early 2000s.
There was never a test like that for AIM because people weren't on their PCs at home during new year typically and mobile IM was not that huge. I can assure you it was a flaming heap of shit of a ridiculous amount of services that somehow managed to work most of the time. AIM probably could have never gotten much bigger than it did at its height and surely never could have handled Facebook level traffic. Facebook is just slightly less poorly engineered.
mainly to benefit those who sit around smoking dope
Well, those are the only people that matter anymore anyway it seems. There's no more real freedom from, only freedom to, so why not take this to its ultimate conclusion where we also give people as much dope as they want as well? I'm sure I'll get modded down for saying this but that's the way the smoke goes these days, if you don't tow the line and praise it as genius and better for the country and world, you're out like last month's bong water.
I get the logic of "of course this could happen", but why would someone with a mansion go stay at their mother's apartment to rent it out? If they need the extra money, why don't they sell the damn house and buy something smaller? I figured most people who rented out mansions on there had multiple homes or an apartment in another part of the city for whatever reason, but it seems rather inconvenient to oneself to do this, and clearly quite costly if it goes wrong.
I was talking about space travel, as in the people who complain everytime space is brought up that "other problems exist here to solve first" as some complained even before we went to the Moon, and still refuse to believe that space exploration has had any benefit to society and at the same time seemingly sometimes complain about space exploration as if any of the last countless Mars missions really had a lot of effort put into them. I was using them as an example, and I am more in favour of sending robots rather than people, for now, but we may eventually figure out a way to do that in a less expensive way.
I'm pessimistic about it anyway, when NASA released those old-style posters about their new "we're going to Mars" mission(s) a couple of years ago, I posted them to Facebook as "they should call these 'future cancelled missions to Mars'."
> No - we made progress.
I know that, and I made a grammatical mistake it seems and was unclear, but when I said "... even back to the Moon has had almost no impact on increasing innovation in these areas?" I meant that innovation had been done but at the same time, as i mention before that, having *not* gone back to the Moon or to Mars in the last 50 years hasn't seemed to solve these problems at a faster rate than was already happening. That's because investment in better agriculture, cancer treatment, etc does happen independent of space exploration, and that's my entire point that I obviously did a poor job at getting across.
Those have always been problems with humanity, and with 7+ billion people why is it we are only allowed to solve one problem at a time? Why can't we work on poverty, cancer, ageing, pollution, and go to space? Why does it have to be "space? fuck that, let's sit here and bitch about how we haven't done much to fix these other problems despite still not going to space."
We haven't gone out of Earth orbit since the early 1970s, why haven't we made massive progress toward solving these other problems if talking about space is the biggest block? Is all of humanity so focused on space exploration that the reason we still have these problems is because no one is researching in those fields... or are they? Is it possible these are all complex issues without easy answers that take time, money, and people, and not going to Mars or even back to the Moon has had almost no impact on increasing innovation in these areas?
I suspect if it was "solve these problems first" we will likely never go back to the Moon, because then, what's the limit? If one single person is in poverty or one person dies a year of cancer in the year 3055, do we still say "Nope! Still not solved!" So any knowledge we could have gained by trying to figure out how to live in space, even if it is pie in the sky, we'll intentionally ignore because it's too important not to have utopia first.
I wish I had mod points right now. It's something I have noticed slowly rising over the years, Americans went from super optimistic and "we can do anything" to totally defeated and all ideas are bad ideas, unless they're for dumb ass apps or social media then they're all genius ideas.
The comet in the film Maximum Overdrive also was green... I don't want to jump to any conclusions but I am absolutely certain all of our devices will kill us for Christmas.
From TFA: In Kansas and Tennessee, for example, the most popular “Should I” query was “Should I diet?” This of course isn’t terribly shocking given that both states know a thing or two about barbecue.
Since when is Kansas known for their barbecue? I both love barbecue and have lived in Kansas, and while there were a few barbecue restaurants in Wichita, I don't recall anyone ever talking about barbecue like Tennessee or Texas. People in Kansas sure love to eat, a lot, but barbecue restaurants are far less common than burgers, fried chicken, and Mexican, in fact aside from chain fast food, Mexican is definitely extremely common. Plus the barbecue there really, really, really sucks and isn't worthy of note.
The Juno mission has already reported solar storms on Jupiter in the past, in April, and images/video of them, including some earlier stuff from November of 2017.
Not to sound like I'm undermining the idea of learning more about Jupiter, but are they just going to report this every single time Juno goes by the poles?
It seems like that place has much bigger problems than busted solar panels. All things considered, it looks like overall the solar panels did better than the buildings themselves. I think a better example is from Hurricane Maria.
The extension is "Auto Font Manager", a ridiculously stupid extension that I imagine if you are reading/., you don't have, because it was essentially always installed as a part of a scam. So don't freak out or anything, it's not any of the actually important extensions.
Perhaps I can sell you some organically grown, all natural, free range C code? It's easier to keep down than the hormone-free Java. It will compile on any homeopathic (13x and higher dilution only) OS so long as you have a holistic architecture. It's all very natural and ethical, it'll just cost you ten times more for all that extra naturalness and ethincs, which is sort of funny because if so much less goes into it, you'd think it would be cheaper. Well, fuck you, give me your money so you can improve the world!
Perhaps you know this, but Birth of the *Son* and Return of the *Sun* are linguistic coincidences, and it seems to me KJV-only evangelicals and pseudo-intellectual teenagers tend to believe that Son and Sun are not only homophones in all languages, but also related in some way, especially ancient ones. You're right in the last part, poetic license was taken because the New Testament implies that Jesus was born in spring, but there was already a really hoppin' series of pagan festivals in Europe around the winter solstice so the early Church put them together to only not take over a fun party but also to make people forget why they were celebrating them. Later on certain Protestants saw fit to ban Christmas all together because of this, and if they had their way, they would have kept banned Christmas/XMAS banned several hundred years ago... They started the war on Christmas but want to blame everyone else, that's an even crazier thing to me.
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Perhaps another way of looking at that is: mission accomplished, they don't have to deal with your shit and your father clearly didn't want to know about your problems anyway, that's why he beat them out of you.
P.S. I grew up literally the same way with the same results.
So he was that guy who loves to close his eyes and say "well, actually...."
If they're anything like me, they'll have to get up a couple of times.
So marijuana must be legal in Utah then? My point being it's likely some other cause such as California having anti-smoking laws for far longer than many other places and also a huge tobacco tax. If tobacco were on the same playing field as what is in Kentucky, I can't imagine California would be 2nd lowest.
I get about 5 - 10 robocalls a day, and that hasn't happened to me yet... yet. Watch me just jinx myself and today receive back to back calls from the same number.
Except in California evidently. I mean I haven't looked it up, but I presume then that in Colorado, Washington, et al there's basically no interest in tobacco products at all anymore? Or is it that it must become legal nationally in order for that magical moment to happen? I guess tobacco consumers in those states where marijuana is legal are just protesting for federal legalisation.
I always thought 911 was a joke, now it's caller ID too? Public Enemy will have to update their song.
In reality, I don't answer the phone at all anymore unless it's someone on my contact list or they call repeatedly from the same number, then I know it's probably a person worth talking to.... probably.
The question is, how long until robocallers start getting that people will do that?
Still better than pinterest stinking up everything, especially image results. If I see a Wikipedia link then I know I'm getting something useful when I click it, if I see something for pinterest I can basically guarentee that it won't take me to where to the information I'm interested in. Google Image Search results, click a pinterest image and 9 times out of 10 it won't be on that page and in fact will be almost impossible to find. Pinterest just needs to be straight up banned from Google until they link to the actual content they claim.
The site had more than 4,000 members, 97 of whom paid a $44.95 monthly fee to access extra features, such as the ability to replay certain live streams? Why didn't you mention it at least twice to make that understood?
Indeed, while it's been apparent for quite some time, it really slapped me in the face when I saw the first episodes of The Walking Dead and also Revolution, the people were so unrealistically good looking and well put together for living in a post-apocalyptic nightmare world with presumably limitations on health (especially in Revolution where they don't even have antibiotics or asthma medicine) that people being beyond perfect was so obnoxious that I couldn't even finish Revolution beyond the first episode, that and because the show sucked. I also stopped watching The Walking Dead in the middle of Season 2 because it got boring for me, but it wasn't nearly as bad as Revolution when it came to "sure the world as we know it is over and the conveniences of modern life are gone, but I look better than even people possibly could when society was intact, not to mention I'm immaculately groomed, and my clothes are stylish and clearly tailored."
The remake of V was the same way, just: what the hell is going on? I realise there's a certain expectation on TV, especially American TV, but if I want to see anyone remotely "normal" looking I have to watch stuff the BBC and Channel 4 churns out.
No, it just crashed at other points. The service where buddies were stored (feedbag) had a disastrous set of databases and there were times they all just went down *or* the whiscer (and others, essentially presence) services went down, and no buddies would show, and so people would sign off and on repeatedly trying to fix it slowing down the entire thing. It was all held together with gun tape and faith, at least in the late 90s and very early 2000s.
There was never a test like that for AIM because people weren't on their PCs at home during new year typically and mobile IM was not that huge. I can assure you it was a flaming heap of shit of a ridiculous amount of services that somehow managed to work most of the time. AIM probably could have never gotten much bigger than it did at its height and surely never could have handled Facebook level traffic. Facebook is just slightly less poorly engineered.
You mean Birmingham isn't a no-go city? Pshaw! Humbug! I find that hard to believe! Fox News said it, so it must be true.
mainly to benefit those who sit around smoking dope
Well, those are the only people that matter anymore anyway it seems. There's no more real freedom from, only freedom to, so why not take this to its ultimate conclusion where we also give people as much dope as they want as well? I'm sure I'll get modded down for saying this but that's the way the smoke goes these days, if you don't tow the line and praise it as genius and better for the country and world, you're out like last month's bong water.
I get the logic of "of course this could happen", but why would someone with a mansion go stay at their mother's apartment to rent it out? If they need the extra money, why don't they sell the damn house and buy something smaller? I figured most people who rented out mansions on there had multiple homes or an apartment in another part of the city for whatever reason, but it seems rather inconvenient to oneself to do this, and clearly quite costly if it goes wrong.
North Korea is a lot closer, but China certainly sometimes seems to want to play catch up.
I was talking about space travel, as in the people who complain everytime space is brought up that "other problems exist here to solve first" as some complained even before we went to the Moon, and still refuse to believe that space exploration has had any benefit to society and at the same time seemingly sometimes complain about space exploration as if any of the last countless Mars missions really had a lot of effort put into them. I was using them as an example, and I am more in favour of sending robots rather than people, for now, but we may eventually figure out a way to do that in a less expensive way.
I'm pessimistic about it anyway, when NASA released those old-style posters about their new "we're going to Mars" mission(s) a couple of years ago, I posted them to Facebook as "they should call these 'future cancelled missions to Mars'."
> No - we made progress.
I know that, and I made a grammatical mistake it seems and was unclear, but when I said "... even back to the Moon has had almost no impact on increasing innovation in these areas?" I meant that innovation had been done but at the same time, as i mention before that, having *not* gone back to the Moon or to Mars in the last 50 years hasn't seemed to solve these problems at a faster rate than was already happening. That's because investment in better agriculture, cancer treatment, etc does happen independent of space exploration, and that's my entire point that I obviously did a poor job at getting across.
Those have always been problems with humanity, and with 7+ billion people why is it we are only allowed to solve one problem at a time? Why can't we work on poverty, cancer, ageing, pollution, and go to space? Why does it have to be "space? fuck that, let's sit here and bitch about how we haven't done much to fix these other problems despite still not going to space."
We haven't gone out of Earth orbit since the early 1970s, why haven't we made massive progress toward solving these other problems if talking about space is the biggest block? Is all of humanity so focused on space exploration that the reason we still have these problems is because no one is researching in those fields... or are they? Is it possible these are all complex issues without easy answers that take time, money, and people, and not going to Mars or even back to the Moon has had almost no impact on increasing innovation in these areas?
I suspect if it was "solve these problems first" we will likely never go back to the Moon, because then, what's the limit? If one single person is in poverty or one person dies a year of cancer in the year 3055, do we still say "Nope! Still not solved!" So any knowledge we could have gained by trying to figure out how to live in space, even if it is pie in the sky, we'll intentionally ignore because it's too important not to have utopia first.
I wish I had mod points right now. It's something I have noticed slowly rising over the years, Americans went from super optimistic and "we can do anything" to totally defeated and all ideas are bad ideas, unless they're for dumb ass apps or social media then they're all genius ideas.
The comet in the film Maximum Overdrive also was green... I don't want to jump to any conclusions but I am absolutely certain all of our devices will kill us for Christmas.
From TFA: In Kansas and Tennessee, for example, the most popular “Should I” query was “Should I diet?” This of course isn’t terribly shocking given that both states know a thing or two about barbecue.
Since when is Kansas known for their barbecue? I both love barbecue and have lived in Kansas, and while there were a few barbecue restaurants in Wichita, I don't recall anyone ever talking about barbecue like Tennessee or Texas. People in Kansas sure love to eat, a lot, but barbecue restaurants are far less common than burgers, fried chicken, and Mexican, in fact aside from chain fast food, Mexican is definitely extremely common. Plus the barbecue there really, really, really sucks and isn't worthy of note.
The Juno mission has already reported solar storms on Jupiter in the past, in April, and images/video of them, including some earlier stuff from November of 2017.
Not to sound like I'm undermining the idea of learning more about Jupiter, but are they just going to report this every single time Juno goes by the poles?
It seems like that place has much bigger problems than busted solar panels. All things considered, it looks like overall the solar panels did better than the buildings themselves. I think a better example is from Hurricane Maria.
The extension is "Auto Font Manager", a ridiculously stupid extension that I imagine if you are reading /., you don't have, because it was essentially always installed as a part of a scam. So don't freak out or anything, it's not any of the actually important extensions.
Perhaps I can sell you some organically grown, all natural, free range C code? It's easier to keep down than the hormone-free Java. It will compile on any homeopathic (13x and higher dilution only) OS so long as you have a holistic architecture. It's all very natural and ethical, it'll just cost you ten times more for all that extra naturalness and ethincs, which is sort of funny because if so much less goes into it, you'd think it would be cheaper. Well, fuck you, give me your money so you can improve the world!
Perhaps you know this, but Birth of the *Son* and Return of the *Sun* are linguistic coincidences, and it seems to me KJV-only evangelicals and pseudo-intellectual teenagers tend to believe that Son and Sun are not only homophones in all languages, but also related in some way, especially ancient ones. You're right in the last part, poetic license was taken because the New Testament implies that Jesus was born in spring, but there was already a really hoppin' series of pagan festivals in Europe around the winter solstice so the early Church put them together to only not take over a fun party but also to make people forget why they were celebrating them. Later on certain Protestants saw fit to ban Christmas all together because of this, and if they had their way, they would have kept banned Christmas/XMAS banned several hundred years ago... They started the war on Christmas but want to blame everyone else, that's an even crazier thing to me.