Not too amazing, really... Those boys get a lot wrong, but no harm in credit where it's due.
Yeah, it's not like Macs, Linux, Android, iPhones, and pretty much everyone else wasn't already doing this years ago. And WOW!!! 30 minutes for an update? I'm shocked it takes so long.
Paint deteriorates with time, flaking off and forming dust. I'm pretty sure that the leaded portion of paint is included in that dust. It's probably at greatest risk in poor housing where the lead paint is most likely to still be exposed to air.
The leaded church roof won't form any meaningful dust but will leach minute levels of lead into rain that falls upon it, thus transferring lead to everywhere the roof's rainwater goes.
You're still nursing this after 13 years? My statement to you is "get some help". And yes, I know whereof you speak, having been the recipient of similar tactics that screwed me out of a large amount of cash in one instance and another where I walked out of a downward spiraling situation leaving potentially significant stock on the table. The consolation for me was that in both cases, I wound up in better places, one almost immediately, the other was a couple of bumpy rides, mainly because of a detour with a company that promised one thing but was run by nepotism favored policies that didn't come to the fore until after dealing with trying to right a project and then dealing with a project that tried to commit to a deadline of launching a moon shot from 0 in a month.
Trump was by far a worse candidate, and still is by any objective measure.
Unless you count the actual objective measure of winning? If he's good at anything, it's getting media attention, and they fell whole hog for him.
I think we all lost. To correct your last statement, the people as a whole did fall whole hog for him. He "won" with the largest negative popular vote difference in history which in and of itself should spell the end of the EC.
Interesting to note you blamed the Russians, Comey, Fox News, Alt-rightneo-no's, etc, then only at the end of you comment you toss in the 'ohh yeah, she was a sucktacular candidate that would have lost to any of the 16 candidate Trump beat in the 2016 election.'
Bottom line, bad retail politician, no clear message, a new and unique way to manage her campaign- that's why she lost to a candidate nearly as bad as her.
whoosh.
Trump was by far a worse candidate, and still is by any objective measure. He was and is divisive, myopical, small-minded, unread, and arguably of relatively low intelligence compared to the common man. Before you say "but but but... success" realize that Al Capone made tons of money and had fame, but made it by cunning and zero morals combined with having a large enough band of followers to beat everyone else into submission.
The superdelegates put her on the ballot, her shoddy campaign cost her the election, but yeah 'Comey, Fox News, Russians, etc.'
Yes, the super delegates made Bernie's campaign likely for naught, but it was her "buying" of the DNC that really clinched her "nomination".
It appears that Russian meddling gave Trump the Republican nomination by helping to stir up the base with complementary divisive campaigns and continued through to the national election.
For the national election, first you had the aura of Trump and company's (including Fox News) calls to lock her up among other things that actually border on libel and slander, and certainly mark a new low in American politics. Follow that with the Comey announcement to reopen the email investigation which actually was, to quote the alt-right, a "nothing-burger" but had a measurable negative effect on Clinton's standing in the polls coupled with Trump's extremely slim margins in enough states to swing the EC, and yes, Comey comes out as the straw that broke the camel's back.
I'm merely being fair and objective in my observations, I disliked both candidates but I especially dislike the Republicans for putting me in a straight jacket with such an abhorrent unqualified candidate, who proves daily how unsuited he is to even deciding what color socks to wear and telling you about them.
I agree with your comment about "Top Editor". Regarding Hillary's loss, that can be attributed to a lot of things, including Russian meddling, Comey's public statements, and the misinformation campaign by the alt-right such as Fox News and Alex Jones which dove-tailed so nicely with the Russian meddling we know about. That still doesn't take away from the fact that she lost to just about the worst candidate the Republicans could have put against her. Then again, she was a terrible candidate herself who likely would have been easily beaten by Bush, Kasich, Rubio or any number of the other 16 Republican field.
While I've heard people wanting to leave CA because of the high cost of living, or, possibly, just move because overcrowding in the LA/SF areas, I've heard as many people want to leave because of the far left attitude as I have that wanted to leave because of the crappy weather or terribly monotonous landscape. (for the slow, that would be near 0)
Household averages can be misleading. I double checked wages from the SSA:
1970: 6,186.24
2016: 48,642.15
which are based on wages for a worker, and are actually more favorable to your case, but still demonstrate that even a basic good such as bread has increased in cost by more than 10% compared to a worker's take home. You should also note that income tax hits more people today since taxes weren't indexed to inflation nor wage growth, so in real terms, the bread costs even more, comparatively.
Because a PT can actually damage or kill you and what other training do they get? It's not like they're an MD with 4-8 years of post-graduate schooling and a 1-2 year internship or anything.
Marion Zimmer Bradley pioneered the field back in the 20th century with her "Oppressed Lesbian Telepaths of Darkover" books. But unlike her counterparts today, she was happy to coexist with others of a different world view.
I preferred sci-fi over her fantasy stuff, and found her long-winded and boring. There just wasn't a story there that I cared enough about to continue reading yet another descriptive paragraph about something that had little to do with anything. Some people seemed to like her at the time, much like in the recent past Tom Clancy was a popular writer, and suffers from similar short-comings based on long ago impressions.
Food is much cheaper, as a percentage of income than it was in the 70s.
1970: wages: $9400, loaf of bread: $0.25.
Today: wages ~$45K, loaf of bread: $2 (on sale)
Looks like wages (500%) increased less than bread (800%) meaning that food is more expensive as a percentage of income today.
People like to buy fast food now, of course, but basic foodstuffs are cheap (not specialty hipster food of course). Basic housing is hard to compare, because location is the most important factor, but do note that in the 70s you averaged about 2 people per bedroom, and now the expectation is a bedroom for every kid.
Could be that the segment that buys housing is more likely to have smaller family sizes, thus the average per bedroom goes down. I'm excluding rentals, because you'll have to account for the smaller home owning percentages today over 1970.
Social justice is pretty much baked into the entire sci-fi genre
That doesn't really compute. There's no reason for that.
I guess if you're wanting to see everything through an SJW lens, I guess everything will have an SJW slant. Personally, I see most sci-fi as falling into the "moving towards or utopia under fire" or the "falling into or fighting against" dystopian genres. On the utopian side, you'll have equality and justice, by definition. Not social justice, because there's no need for it. On the dystopian side obviously there can be SJW superiority, because dystopian outcomes are where SJWs are headed.
Check prices for core products, not luxury technology items. Bread, fruit, vegetables for starters. Basic housing. A bicycle. Now check those prices against wages. Once you're at least 50% above the poverty level, yes, quality of life for a given income level is great. The problem is a smaller percentage of the population lives at that level.
The retrained old person could be a plumber, electrician now working to sell products and services to a 20-something grad new to projects around the home.
That "retrained" unit will be a robot, or a service kiosk. No people required.
That balance needs a lot of working 20-something new grads able to shop and the nice parts, crime free of a city able to support a quality shopping experience.
Why? Drones will drop off their purchases where ever they desire. No people needed.
So the retrained old workers can drive out to their new jobs and sell to 20-something new grads who work on AI, robotics and have a wage to spend.....[Utopia! description]
So Soros is donating to Republicans and Koch Bros are donating to Democrats?
Don't forget: Obama appointed Pai to the FCC
Under the advisement of Mitch McConnell, who happened to have control of the Senate and would have obstructed any pick he didn't present (yes, the party of NO). But Pai's ass-hattery didn't come to the fore until Trump put him in charge as the chairman.
... and their base of poor flyover states eat it up, in some kind of absurd opposite-think; afterall, anyone poor in a flyover is just 'temporarily poor' and they fully think they have every chance to be rich like their idols, though it will never happen)
I think a large part of their base in poor flyover states are of the mind-set "If I can't have any, neither can anyone else" but are too stupid to realize they're creating a new aristocracy, and that has obviously always ended well (ie, never).
The special effects are questionable in some parts
To be fair that was the case when it was first released too.
Very true, and to compare it to the other effects generally in that genre of movies - check things like the Sinbad movies, or Clash of the Titans, or, really, anything that wasn't cutting edge or huge budget prior to the age of CGI. Star Wars did awesome space scenes, the Terminator and Alien truly stepped up models and puppets, and I can't really recall any others that were pushing the boundaries as much prior to CGI and digital effects making their entrance.
I'd have to agree that The Princess Bride is still an awesome movie - has held up exceedingly well over time. The special effects are questionable in some parts, but for something filmed over 30 years ago I can forgive it. It's still a far better movie than anything produced within the MCU.
The Back to the Future series was tongue in cheek when it came out still plays out pretty well. The time travel treatment alone is well done even with the continuity errors. Sadly, the comically bad Conan the Barbarian with Arnold is still better than all the current Conan/Hercules/etc movies that have come out over the past decade. Robocop and Escape from New York are painful today.
Was iTunes ever not a butt-ugly dog? It always seemed like a MS product, honestly, kludgy, unintuitive, klunky and uncharacteristically ugly. It's performance was also subpar, and still is, honestly.
Anyone buying Sony in the last 20 years shouldn't expect anything other than being bent over and saying "Thank you, may I have another!" at the top of their lungs. Sony is by far the most anti-consumer large company out there. And it shows, in their declining fortunes. May they die an unnoticed death.
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Not too amazing, really ... Those boys get a lot wrong, but no harm in credit where it's due.
Yeah, it's not like Macs, Linux, Android, iPhones, and pretty much everyone else wasn't already doing this years ago. And WOW!!! 30 minutes for an update? I'm shocked it takes so long.
computers are smart devices
Paint deteriorates with time, flaking off and forming dust. I'm pretty sure that the leaded portion of paint is included in that dust. It's probably at greatest risk in poor housing where the lead paint is most likely to still be exposed to air.
The leaded church roof won't form any meaningful dust but will leach minute levels of lead into rain that falls upon it, thus transferring lead to everywhere the roof's rainwater goes.
.often the perfect solution to a problem... of not having enough torque
is an electric motor.
Pretty much every person ... was tired of being told that program crashes happen because you're too stupid to use his perfect software the right way.
Egads, when everyone using your software has issues, maybe it's not them....
Letting people go for not working with the team is perfectly fine in my state.
You're still nursing this after 13 years? My statement to you is "get some help". And yes, I know whereof you speak, having been the recipient of similar tactics that screwed me out of a large amount of cash in one instance and another where I walked out of a downward spiraling situation leaving potentially significant stock on the table. The consolation for me was that in both cases, I wound up in better places, one almost immediately, the other was a couple of bumpy rides, mainly because of a detour with a company that promised one thing but was run by nepotism favored policies that didn't come to the fore until after dealing with trying to right a project and then dealing with a project that tried to commit to a deadline of launching a moon shot from 0 in a month.
Trump was by far a worse candidate, and still is by any objective measure.
Unless you count the actual objective measure of winning? If he's good at anything, it's getting media attention, and they fell whole hog for him.
I think we all lost. To correct your last statement, the people as a whole did fall whole hog for him. He "won" with the largest negative popular vote difference in history which in and of itself should spell the end of the EC.
Interesting to note you blamed the Russians, Comey, Fox News, Alt-rightneo-no's, etc, then only at the end of you comment you toss in the 'ohh yeah, she was a sucktacular candidate that would have lost to any of the 16 candidate Trump beat in the 2016 election.'
Bottom line, bad retail politician, no clear message, a new and unique way to manage her campaign- that's why she lost to a candidate nearly as bad as her.
whoosh. Trump was by far a worse candidate, and still is by any objective measure. He was and is divisive, myopical, small-minded, unread, and arguably of relatively low intelligence compared to the common man. Before you say "but but but ... success" realize that Al Capone made tons of money and had fame, but made it by cunning and zero morals combined with having a large enough band of followers to beat everyone else into submission.
The superdelegates put her on the ballot, her shoddy campaign cost her the election, but yeah 'Comey, Fox News, Russians, etc.'
Yes, the super delegates made Bernie's campaign likely for naught, but it was her "buying" of the DNC that really clinched her "nomination".
It appears that Russian meddling gave Trump the Republican nomination by helping to stir up the base with complementary divisive campaigns and continued through to the national election.
For the national election, first you had the aura of Trump and company's (including Fox News) calls to lock her up among other things that actually border on libel and slander, and certainly mark a new low in American politics. Follow that with the Comey announcement to reopen the email investigation which actually was, to quote the alt-right, a "nothing-burger" but had a measurable negative effect on Clinton's standing in the polls coupled with Trump's extremely slim margins in enough states to swing the EC, and yes, Comey comes out as the straw that broke the camel's back.
I'm merely being fair and objective in my observations, I disliked both candidates but I especially dislike the Republicans for putting me in a straight jacket with such an abhorrent unqualified candidate, who proves daily how unsuited he is to even deciding what color socks to wear and telling you about them.
I agree with your comment about "Top Editor". Regarding Hillary's loss, that can be attributed to a lot of things, including Russian meddling, Comey's public statements, and the misinformation campaign by the alt-right such as Fox News and Alex Jones which dove-tailed so nicely with the Russian meddling we know about. That still doesn't take away from the fact that she lost to just about the worst candidate the Republicans could have put against her. Then again, she was a terrible candidate herself who likely would have been easily beaten by Bush, Kasich, Rubio or any number of the other 16 Republican field.
While I've heard people wanting to leave CA because of the high cost of living, or, possibly, just move because overcrowding in the LA/SF areas, I've heard as many people want to leave because of the far left attitude as I have that wanted to leave because of the crappy weather or terribly monotonous landscape. (for the slow, that would be near 0)
which are based on wages for a worker, and are actually more favorable to your case, but still demonstrate that even a basic good such as bread has increased in cost by more than 10% compared to a worker's take home. You should also note that income tax hits more people today since taxes weren't indexed to inflation nor wage growth, so in real terms, the bread costs even more, comparatively.
Because a PT can actually damage or kill you and what other training do they get? It's not like they're an MD with 4-8 years of post-graduate schooling and a 1-2 year internship or anything.
Marion Zimmer Bradley pioneered the field back in the 20th century with her "Oppressed Lesbian Telepaths of Darkover" books. But unlike her counterparts today, she was happy to coexist with others of a different world view.
I preferred sci-fi over her fantasy stuff, and found her long-winded and boring. There just wasn't a story there that I cared enough about to continue reading yet another descriptive paragraph about something that had little to do with anything. Some people seemed to like her at the time, much like in the recent past Tom Clancy was a popular writer, and suffers from similar short-comings based on long ago impressions.
Food is much cheaper, as a percentage of income than it was in the 70s.
1970: wages: $9400, loaf of bread: $0.25.
Today: wages ~$45K, loaf of bread: $2 (on sale)
Looks like wages (500%) increased less than bread (800%) meaning that food is more expensive as a percentage of income today.
People like to buy fast food now, of course, but basic foodstuffs are cheap (not specialty hipster food of course). Basic housing is hard to compare, because location is the most important factor, but do note that in the 70s you averaged about 2 people per bedroom, and now the expectation is a bedroom for every kid.
Could be that the segment that buys housing is more likely to have smaller family sizes, thus the average per bedroom goes down. I'm excluding rentals, because you'll have to account for the smaller home owning percentages today over 1970.
Social justice is pretty much baked into the entire sci-fi genre
That doesn't really compute. There's no reason for that.
I guess if you're wanting to see everything through an SJW lens, I guess everything will have an SJW slant. Personally, I see most sci-fi as falling into the "moving towards or utopia under fire" or the "falling into or fighting against" dystopian genres. On the utopian side, you'll have equality and justice, by definition. Not social justice, because there's no need for it. On the dystopian side obviously there can be SJW superiority, because dystopian outcomes are where SJWs are headed.
Check prices for core products, not luxury technology items. Bread, fruit, vegetables for starters. Basic housing. A bicycle. Now check those prices against wages. Once you're at least 50% above the poverty level, yes, quality of life for a given income level is great. The problem is a smaller percentage of the population lives at that level.
The retrained old person could be a plumber, electrician now working to sell products and services to a 20-something grad new to projects around the home.
That "retrained" unit will be a robot, or a service kiosk. No people required.
That balance needs a lot of working 20-something new grads able to shop and the nice parts, crime free of a city able to support a quality shopping experience.
Why? Drones will drop off their purchases where ever they desire. No people needed.
So the retrained old workers can drive out to their new jobs and sell to 20-something new grads who work on AI, robotics and have a wage to spend.....[Utopia! description]
Hilarious! You should quite your day job!
Sorry, it's theater. They have the same donors...
So Soros is donating to Republicans and Koch Bros are donating to Democrats?
Don't forget: Obama appointed Pai to the FCC
Under the advisement of Mitch McConnell, who happened to have control of the Senate and would have obstructed any pick he didn't present (yes, the party of NO). But Pai's ass-hattery didn't come to the fore until Trump put him in charge as the chairman.
... and their base of poor flyover states eat it up, in some kind of absurd opposite-think; afterall, anyone poor in a flyover is just 'temporarily poor' and they fully think they have every chance to be rich like their idols, though it will never happen)
I think a large part of their base in poor flyover states are of the mind-set "If I can't have any, neither can anyone else" but are too stupid to realize they're creating a new aristocracy, and that has obviously always ended well (ie, never).
The special effects are questionable in some parts
To be fair that was the case when it was first released too.
Very true, and to compare it to the other effects generally in that genre of movies - check things like the Sinbad movies, or Clash of the Titans, or, really, anything that wasn't cutting edge or huge budget prior to the age of CGI. Star Wars did awesome space scenes, the Terminator and Alien truly stepped up models and puppets, and I can't really recall any others that were pushing the boundaries as much prior to CGI and digital effects making their entrance.
I'd have to agree that The Princess Bride is still an awesome movie - has held up exceedingly well over time. The special effects are questionable in some parts, but for something filmed over 30 years ago I can forgive it. It's still a far better movie than anything produced within the MCU.
The Back to the Future series was tongue in cheek when it came out still plays out pretty well. The time travel treatment alone is well done even with the continuity errors. Sadly, the comically bad Conan the Barbarian with Arnold is still better than all the current Conan/Hercules/etc movies that have come out over the past decade. Robocop and Escape from New York are painful today.
Was iTunes ever not a butt-ugly dog? It always seemed like a MS product, honestly, kludgy, unintuitive, klunky and uncharacteristically ugly. It's performance was also subpar, and still is, honestly.
This is why I organize my media personally, and let apps use that media without altering it.
Anyone buying Sony in the last 20 years shouldn't expect anything other than being bent over and saying "Thank you, may I have another!" at the top of their lungs. Sony is by far the most anti-consumer large company out there. And it shows, in their declining fortunes. May they die an unnoticed death.