A lot of people work for a living and, therefore, have very limited time available for such chores. They also usually don't live right next door to a grocery store.
Convenience stores are usually within walking distance of most households, but are you going to sustain your family on $5 bags of potato chips, $4 sodas, $2 candy bars, and $10 bags of beef jerky? Because that's all convenience stores have. Oh - and beer.
Using public transportation is not even mentioned in the article, presumably because they know this 'research' is bullshit.
Presumably, because people find it annoying when someone hops on a bus with arms full of groceries taking up already precious tight space on the bus (for many popular lines) and they look like either poor or crazy people. Or, on the other hand, nobody actually wants to take public transit to do their grocery shopping, because they're limited to a couple bags of groceries, public transit takes fucking forever (walk to the nearest stop, wait for the next bus, take the bus to the store -- or worse if you're unlucky, get off the bus and walk to another line and wait for it to show up for your transfer, then take that to your store -- then do it all on the return trip and hope that all the bus lines operate during the time that you actually have available to do your shopping and not later at night or earlier in the morning).
Or, more, that nobody wants to do their shopping via public transit, because cramming yourself into a tin-can alongside people with mental problems talking to themselves, trying to throw themselves out the bus-window, doing crack, shooting heroine, scratching tags into the bus window, carving shit into the backs of seats, blasting their music, having screaming-loud-multi-person-conversations a foot from your ear, lugging their packs of screaming children around, and always being one bad evening away from a bunch of dipshits losing their shit and brawling on the bus amid the other passengers is all an absolutely fucking hideous way to spend your time when you can either just drive or even just put in a regular order and have a nice clean friendly person show up at your door and cart your groceries to your kitchen for you.
I've almost never gone grocery shopping in my adult life thanks to delivery service. Granted, the quality on some items can be iffy and accuracy (especially in substitutions) can be spotty, but it's delightful to spend literally one minute doing your shopping every week or two. I have a list of groceries. I hit a bookmark on my ipad. I click "add this list" to add the existing shopping list that I regularly get. I press "deliver this tomorrow". That's it. When tomorrow comes, they'll arrive at my door within a two hour window, bring the groceries into the house, put them on the counter, and leave.
It's a far cry from the experiences of my childhood where it was an ordeal that required parents spending a half hour or more arranging a shopping list, one of them hopping in the car, driving a few miles, going through the store, waiting in lines, dealing with aisles and kids and slow people. Shitty shopping carts. Loading the car. Returning the cart. Driving home. Unloading the car, hauling it into the house, unloading it and putting it away.
Yeah, it sounds like a trivial thing, but we are busier than ever -- even more than they were at that not too distant decade -- and if you can save a few hours and some hassle, by all means, do so.
Imagine how much fresher they'd be if you walked to the store for every meal!
Seriously, this all sounds delightful, but let's discuss the real world, where people barely have time to throw food together in the kitchen, much less for leisurely daily strolls to the shop for an arm-full of food for the family, even assuming everyone has standard hours where the store is open during the time they might theoretically have free for a jaunt down the street.
In the states, you have convenience stores where you have no selection (unless you want chips, candy, pretzels, or beer) and everything costs double or triple the price or you have the supermarket, where everything from beer and wine and bread to meat and frozen goods and ice cream and baking supplies and pet food and household supplies (and sometimes, clothing, home appliances, etc) are bundled together under the same roof. Very long endless aisles, noisy children, people blocking the aisles as they stand around gabbing or answering their cell, long lines, cheap-ish prices, extremely poor quality everything (meat never compares to a real butcher, baked goods never compare to a real bakery, produce is generally of the tasteless variety that is easy to mass-grow and transport across great distances with little damage).
Short of a few places in the heart of NYC, I've never seen any other places that really have a "local market" and certainly not as a common feature. Most people live within driving distance; not walking distance of a grocery store and whatever sort of "down the block mom and pop" you might imagine are mostly out of business as they can't compete with the supermarket chains.
God damn. As someone who has not actually stepped foot inside of a grocery store (hurrah, delivery!) since 2000, I can not think of many modern urban/suburban environment activities that would be more aggravating than visiting the market once every day or two. The noise, the snot-nosed screaming toddlers, the shopping cards, the piles of people blocking the aisles, the long lines. . . Not to mention, the amount of time spent (at 40 minutes travel time according to the grandparent-post, plus maybe 10-15 minutes in the store) . . . that's like four hours a week shopping just for groceries. I'm sure the quality of produce I get from the delivery service is a little lacking, but I'll save myself the almost daily grief and the 200+ annual hours. (Also, let's be frank: if you're buying produce from your local Kroger/Albertsons/Fred Meyer/whatever, you're not exactly getting the best tastiest freshest produce even if you pick it out yourself).
I like to think that geeks are a little bit ahead of the curve and have moved on from stand-up comics and improv (and sketch, for that matter -- which sort of peaked in the 90s) -- both of which I find extremely obnoxious and unfunny (with very few modern exceptions). I think most people tend to be growing into this same attitude, so there is not a broad enough space for that many successful "comics".
I doubt the FTC would come down on them for buying LinkedIN. The two sites are completely different beasts. One is about your ego and broadcasting to an audience of other people who are all busy worrying about their ego and broadcasting to their audience -- all acting like a bunch of little twits. The other is about putting up your resume and keeping in touch with colleagues and maybe occasionally dropping in (every few weeks or months, I guess?) to update your contacts and resume.
Granted, it would be pretty gross if Facebook owned them, but I don't see how there is any conflict. Then again, LinkedIN is doing a pretty good job of making it gross all on their own. The constant spam (even when you have turned it off three or four times on their site), the stupid wall updates full of paid-for-articles and updates from other people in your network about random stuff. They really are pushing hard to try and turn "professional contacts and networking" into "social time".
Or, you know, give the money back to the tax-payers and stop fucking spending it - period. Still, I'd rather you pay for your children's education. That's not something that requires the collective effort of the entire nation to accomplish. Defense, however, is. So if it came between subsidizing the education/daycare of your snot-nosed rug-rats versus a navy ship, I'll take the ship.
However, I'd rather they just but that $37b, period.
If most religions believe only one religion is right and there is only one "real" god, then only only followers of one particular religion should see a benefit. If other religions see the same benefit, then doesn't that sort of disprove any relation to supposed divinity? And if you rationalize it by saying "well, it's not that god is making you better, it's just that simply believing helps", then doesn't that even further invalidate the entire concept?
Religions were invented, much like modern government, to cultivate and facilitate dependence. You have to offer something in return (forgiveness, an external source of blame, hope despite all reality or lack of effort, answers to impossible questions, etc) to make that dependance (and, therefore, control) palatable. It is a symbiotic relationship between control and the controlled. There is power in offering "answers" and being a gateway to "forgiveness/salvation". It's one primary reason the whole "forgiveness" concept exists. If everyone is a sinner and there is no forgiveness, those people will feel hopeless and just say "fuck it, I don't need religion then, because I'm utterly fucked". By giving them a way to hit the reset button every time they fuck up, you keep them with a sense of hope (as silly as it may be) and that keeps them continually dependent... and controlled.
Some people are self motivated in life and address problems head on and take accountability for things. Others seek for external sources to bolster them or drive them. This is why you find an awful lot of people who "find jesus/islam/whatever" at the bottom of a bottle, the bottom of a crack vial, or inside the walls of a prison cell. That isn't to say these people do nothing to better themselves, but that these are people who cling to an external source -- real or not -- to motivate themselves.
I believe this is what we are usually referring to when we say things like "if believing in XYZ helps your life, then good for you".
You have an interesting understanding of the word "ignorance". Fine. Let's remove that word from the saying and, instead, make it crystal clear by saying that "the dumber you are and the less capable you are of abstract thought you are, and the less aware you are of the world around you, the less concern you have and the more prone you are to being a follower of things as a means of personal balance -- whether it's finding jesus at the bottom of a crack vile or middle of a prison sentence or joining a random cult to overcome your laziness or identity crises".
It falls along the line of game developers whining that we need to pay more than $65 (tax inc) for video games, because some of them cost $200m or $300m to make. Don't blame me because of your shitty budgeting and hundred million dollar advertising budgets for $100m-$200m games.
The first thing I do with regard to investigating any OSS is to find their developer list and skim the last few months of it. It's a good way to see the level of activity, responsiveness, and how cohesive or combative the core is.
Agreed. Never heard of Quirky and I suspect they are somehow related to or a partner of Dice, by the nature of the article.
Also, they have a steep hill to climb, because any inventor worth their salt is wary of the bullshit "do you or someone you know have an invention? submit your invention to us!" scams over the decades.
If you have an invention worth something and, get a lawyer, contract a marketing/promotions professional, and contract a business manager.
It's amazing how ignorant people are of how much they actually pay in taxes.
State income tax. Federal income tax. Sales tax. Property tax (including automobiles, etc). Don't forget all the other assorted fees that you pay, not realizing "fee" is just a nice word for "tax".
Oh, and you might as well consider things like Social Security as a "tax", because it'll either be gone before you can claim it in forty years or if you have a decent career, it won't be afforded to you in forty years, I'm sure.
Why should he spend less? How about YOU (in the form of government) spend less and stop treating him and other people like a fucking open-wallet, you fucking self-absorbed piece of shit?
People don't have a problem with contributing to society for the greater good. It's when they are being constantly and increasingly milked and seeing what's taken from them treated trivially and with absolutely no sense of responsibility. The government is like a grown child that should have moved out of the house, but is instead still mooching off mom and dad or other family members, and is totally irresponsible and ungrateful for the shit they're getting from the people they're mooching off of.
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A lot of people work for a living and, therefore, have very limited time available for such chores. They also usually don't live right next door to a grocery store.
Convenience stores are usually within walking distance of most households, but are you going to sustain your family on $5 bags of potato chips, $4 sodas, $2 candy bars, and $10 bags of beef jerky? Because that's all convenience stores have. Oh - and beer.
Using public transportation is not even mentioned in the article, presumably because they know this 'research' is bullshit.
Presumably, because people find it annoying when someone hops on a bus with arms full of groceries taking up already precious tight space on the bus (for many popular lines) and they look like either poor or crazy people. Or, on the other hand, nobody actually wants to take public transit to do their grocery shopping, because they're limited to a couple bags of groceries, public transit takes fucking forever (walk to the nearest stop, wait for the next bus, take the bus to the store -- or worse if you're unlucky, get off the bus and walk to another line and wait for it to show up for your transfer, then take that to your store -- then do it all on the return trip and hope that all the bus lines operate during the time that you actually have available to do your shopping and not later at night or earlier in the morning).
Or, more, that nobody wants to do their shopping via public transit, because cramming yourself into a tin-can alongside people with mental problems talking to themselves, trying to throw themselves out the bus-window, doing crack, shooting heroine, scratching tags into the bus window, carving shit into the backs of seats, blasting their music, having screaming-loud-multi-person-conversations a foot from your ear, lugging their packs of screaming children around, and always being one bad evening away from a bunch of dipshits losing their shit and brawling on the bus amid the other passengers is all an absolutely fucking hideous way to spend your time when you can either just drive or even just put in a regular order and have a nice clean friendly person show up at your door and cart your groceries to your kitchen for you.
I've almost never gone grocery shopping in my adult life thanks to delivery service. Granted, the quality on some items can be iffy and accuracy (especially in substitutions) can be spotty, but it's delightful to spend literally one minute doing your shopping every week or two. I have a list of groceries. I hit a bookmark on my ipad. I click "add this list" to add the existing shopping list that I regularly get. I press "deliver this tomorrow". That's it. When tomorrow comes, they'll arrive at my door within a two hour window, bring the groceries into the house, put them on the counter, and leave.
It's a far cry from the experiences of my childhood where it was an ordeal that required parents spending a half hour or more arranging a shopping list, one of them hopping in the car, driving a few miles, going through the store, waiting in lines, dealing with aisles and kids and slow people. Shitty shopping carts. Loading the car. Returning the cart. Driving home. Unloading the car, hauling it into the house, unloading it and putting it away.
Yeah, it sounds like a trivial thing, but we are busier than ever -- even more than they were at that not too distant decade -- and if you can save a few hours and some hassle, by all means, do so.
Imagine how much fresher they'd be if you walked to the store for every meal!
Seriously, this all sounds delightful, but let's discuss the real world, where people barely have time to throw food together in the kitchen, much less for leisurely daily strolls to the shop for an arm-full of food for the family, even assuming everyone has standard hours where the store is open during the time they might theoretically have free for a jaunt down the street.
In the states, you have convenience stores where you have no selection (unless you want chips, candy, pretzels, or beer) and everything costs double or triple the price or you have the supermarket, where everything from beer and wine and bread to meat and frozen goods and ice cream and baking supplies and pet food and household supplies (and sometimes, clothing, home appliances, etc) are bundled together under the same roof. Very long endless aisles, noisy children, people blocking the aisles as they stand around gabbing or answering their cell, long lines, cheap-ish prices, extremely poor quality everything (meat never compares to a real butcher, baked goods never compare to a real bakery, produce is generally of the tasteless variety that is easy to mass-grow and transport across great distances with little damage).
Short of a few places in the heart of NYC, I've never seen any other places that really have a "local market" and certainly not as a common feature. Most people live within driving distance; not walking distance of a grocery store and whatever sort of "down the block mom and pop" you might imagine are mostly out of business as they can't compete with the supermarket chains.
God damn. As someone who has not actually stepped foot inside of a grocery store (hurrah, delivery!) since 2000, I can not think of many modern urban/suburban environment activities that would be more aggravating than visiting the market once every day or two. The noise, the snot-nosed screaming toddlers, the shopping cards, the piles of people blocking the aisles, the long lines. . . Not to mention, the amount of time spent (at 40 minutes travel time according to the grandparent-post, plus maybe 10-15 minutes in the store) . . . that's like four hours a week shopping just for groceries. I'm sure the quality of produce I get from the delivery service is a little lacking, but I'll save myself the almost daily grief and the 200+ annual hours. (Also, let's be frank: if you're buying produce from your local Kroger/Albertsons/Fred Meyer/whatever, you're not exactly getting the best tastiest freshest produce even if you pick it out yourself).
I like to think that geeks are a little bit ahead of the curve and have moved on from stand-up comics and improv (and sketch, for that matter -- which sort of peaked in the 90s) -- both of which I find extremely obnoxious and unfunny (with very few modern exceptions). I think most people tend to be growing into this same attitude, so there is not a broad enough space for that many successful "comics".
I doubt the FTC would come down on them for buying LinkedIN. The two sites are completely different beasts. One is about your ego and broadcasting to an audience of other people who are all busy worrying about their ego and broadcasting to their audience -- all acting like a bunch of little twits. The other is about putting up your resume and keeping in touch with colleagues and maybe occasionally dropping in (every few weeks or months, I guess?) to update your contacts and resume.
Granted, it would be pretty gross if Facebook owned them, but I don't see how there is any conflict. Then again, LinkedIN is doing a pretty good job of making it gross all on their own. The constant spam (even when you have turned it off three or four times on their site), the stupid wall updates full of paid-for-articles and updates from other people in your network about random stuff. They really are pushing hard to try and turn "professional contacts and networking" into "social time".
That was my thought, exactly. "Didn't we already learn not to network our ships in BSG?"
Or, you know, give the money back to the tax-payers and stop fucking spending it - period. Still, I'd rather you pay for your children's education. That's not something that requires the collective effort of the entire nation to accomplish. Defense, however, is. So if it came between subsidizing the education/daycare of your snot-nosed rug-rats versus a navy ship, I'll take the ship.
However, I'd rather they just but that $37b, period.
You can obliterate the used market. You can force obsolescence. You can force time limits. You can force re-purchases for multiple devices.
Oh, you mean good reasons for the customer?
Um. No. The "rights management" is about the "owner" of the content; not the customer.
That's actually an awesome question.
If most religions believe only one religion is right and there is only one "real" god, then only only followers of one particular religion should see a benefit. If other religions see the same benefit, then doesn't that sort of disprove any relation to supposed divinity? And if you rationalize it by saying "well, it's not that god is making you better, it's just that simply believing helps", then doesn't that even further invalidate the entire concept?
Same goes for Beliebers.
Religions were invented, much like modern government, to cultivate and facilitate dependence. You have to offer something in return (forgiveness, an external source of blame, hope despite all reality or lack of effort, answers to impossible questions, etc) to make that dependance (and, therefore, control) palatable. It is a symbiotic relationship between control and the controlled. There is power in offering "answers" and being a gateway to "forgiveness/salvation". It's one primary reason the whole "forgiveness" concept exists. If everyone is a sinner and there is no forgiveness, those people will feel hopeless and just say "fuck it, I don't need religion then, because I'm utterly fucked". By giving them a way to hit the reset button every time they fuck up, you keep them with a sense of hope (as silly as it may be) and that keeps them continually dependent... and controlled.
And yes, I'm largely speaking in generalities.
Some people are self motivated in life and address problems head on and take accountability for things. Others seek for external sources to bolster them or drive them. This is why you find an awful lot of people who "find jesus/islam/whatever" at the bottom of a bottle, the bottom of a crack vial, or inside the walls of a prison cell. That isn't to say these people do nothing to better themselves, but that these are people who cling to an external source -- real or not -- to motivate themselves.
I believe this is what we are usually referring to when we say things like "if believing in XYZ helps your life, then good for you".
You have an interesting understanding of the word "ignorance". Fine. Let's remove that word from the saying and, instead, make it crystal clear by saying that "the dumber you are and the less capable you are of abstract thought you are, and the less aware you are of the world around you, the less concern you have and the more prone you are to being a follower of things as a means of personal balance -- whether it's finding jesus at the bottom of a crack vile or middle of a prison sentence or joining a random cult to overcome your laziness or identity crises".
After you pay the $100-$200/mo for Comcast, of course.
It falls along the line of game developers whining that we need to pay more than $65 (tax inc) for video games, because some of them cost $200m or $300m to make. Don't blame me because of your shitty budgeting and hundred million dollar advertising budgets for $100m-$200m games.
You said "hosting company", where I think you meant to say "spamhaus".
In this case, everyone's a dick.
The first thing I do with regard to investigating any OSS is to find their developer list and skim the last few months of it. It's a good way to see the level of activity, responsiveness, and how cohesive or combative the core is.
Nor should he. ".amazon" ain't no country TLD that I know of.
Agreed. Never heard of Quirky and I suspect they are somehow related to or a partner of Dice, by the nature of the article.
Also, they have a steep hill to climb, because any inventor worth their salt is wary of the bullshit "do you or someone you know have an invention? submit your invention to us!" scams over the decades.
If you have an invention worth something and, get a lawyer, contract a marketing/promotions professional, and contract a business manager.
It's amazing how ignorant people are of how much they actually pay in taxes.
State income tax. Federal income tax. Sales tax. Property tax (including automobiles, etc). Don't forget all the other assorted fees that you pay, not realizing "fee" is just a nice word for "tax".
Oh, and you might as well consider things like Social Security as a "tax", because it'll either be gone before you can claim it in forty years or if you have a decent career, it won't be afforded to you in forty years, I'm sure.
Today, I learned that $200,000 per family is "rich".
That's depressing.
Why should he spend less? How about YOU (in the form of government) spend less and stop treating him and other people like a fucking open-wallet, you fucking self-absorbed piece of shit?
People don't have a problem with contributing to society for the greater good. It's when they are being constantly and increasingly milked and seeing what's taken from them treated trivially and with absolutely no sense of responsibility. The government is like a grown child that should have moved out of the house, but is instead still mooching off mom and dad or other family members, and is totally irresponsible and ungrateful for the shit they're getting from the people they're mooching off of.