The 80s had top quality pop acts like A-ha, Alphaville, Duran Duran, Information Society, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, The Human League, Depeche Mode, New Order, The Bolshoi, Tears For Fears, Eurythmics...
It amuses me when people talk of Prince as some huge deal. Back in the day I thought he was just some guy they tried to push as a rival to Michael Jackson but didn't even come close.
I remember using Ubuntu with Gnome 2. It was not bad. 3 was such a shitshow that I can understand the move to Unity, although that was also a shitshow.
True, but I recall other issues: its hardware compatibility was rather limited, and its marketing absolutely sucked.
I mean, holy shit. IBM was always so bad at reaching home users. For example, watch these ads touting the same feature, multitasking: OS/2 and Win95. What do you get from them? From the visuals, the music, the voiceover -- what do they make you feel? To me, the former makes it seem bureaucratic, unexciting, work stuff. But the latter makes it seem exciting, whimsical, empowering, fun! Whoever produced that ad nailed it.
When I look at what people gladly pay for certain consumer electronics devices today (especially smartphones), I think back to when I was growing up... Back then, the same prices would have *never* been considered a justifiable expense in the same way.
Maybe you got that backwards. True, back then the expense of getting your kid a computer was hard to justify... because computers were extremely expensive. The original IBM PC, at its most barebones and useless configuration, launched for well over $4000 (adjusted for inflation). You can get a perfectly satisfactory PC or smartphone right now, for one tenth of that.
Wrong. By default, every creative work belongs to all people, to be freely copied and redistributed. "Intellectual property" is a temporary privilege granted under the notion that it would lead to the production of more works that would eventually return to the public domain. But if the premise is incorrect, and intellectual property does not contribute to the public domain, it has failed its sole purpose and must be outright abolished.
Cell phones hadn't been invented yet when you were in your teens.:-)
You may be off by several decades. Wireless telephones were available to German train passengers in the mid-1920s. A similar service, for car-based telephones, was made available to Americans in 1949. The Soviets had a system of their own introduced in the 1960s. (More here.)
(Technically, "cell phone" refers to the "cellular" distribution of the towers in hexagonal areas, with alternation of frequencies between each area to prevent crosstalk. This design was proposed in 1947 but only built in 1979.)
I've zero doubt that tons of doctors are sadist fucks who get a hard-on out of this. Circumcision fetishism is most definitely a thing. Therefore it's sexual assault. These days people call lots of things rape, but this one is not? Fuck that. So it's rape and torture.
Causing a permanently disfiguring or crippling injury - that's mayhem.
Circumcision can kill, it DOES kill, it's strongly linked to cot death - so it's endangerment.
Foreskins are sold to laboratories, for skin grafts or stem cells - so it's organ theft.
It's done without a real medical reason in 99.999% of all cases, they push an useless procedure as beneficial - so it's medical fraud.
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Okay, try this: Similar Artists. Enter a band you like, it will list several similar ones.
We need to ABOLISH COPYRIGHT. Get rid of the concept altogether.
The 80s had top quality pop acts like A-ha, Alphaville, Duran Duran, Information Society, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, The Human League, Depeche Mode, New Order, The Bolshoi, Tears For Fears, Eurythmics...
It amuses me when people talk of Prince as some huge deal. Back in the day I thought he was just some guy they tried to push as a rival to Michael Jackson but didn't even come close.
Pokemon should be banned for animal cruelty! /s
The notion of "ownership" makes perfect sense for things like houses and cars.
But with the ride-sharing boom, cars are increasingly seen as a service rather than a thing to own.
I remember using Ubuntu with Gnome 2. It was not bad. 3 was such a shitshow that I can understand the move to Unity, although that was also a shitshow.
It didn't take an EMP to destroy the Library of Alexandria.
And you are The Fake Fake Steve Jobs.
Windows Phone is a stillborn piece of shit that will be forever hated for causing the untimely death of far superior MeeGo.
Bugs aside, Windows 10 has a very ugly, disorganized, and inconsistent interface. I'd gladly use Cinnamon instead of this mess.
True, but I recall other issues: its hardware compatibility was rather limited, and its marketing absolutely sucked.
I mean, holy shit. IBM was always so bad at reaching home users. For example, watch these ads touting the same feature, multitasking: OS/2 and Win95. What do you get from them? From the visuals, the music, the voiceover -- what do they make you feel? To me, the former makes it seem bureaucratic, unexciting, work stuff. But the latter makes it seem exciting, whimsical, empowering, fun! Whoever produced that ad nailed it.
When I look at what people gladly pay for certain consumer electronics devices today (especially smartphones), I think back to when I was growing up... Back then, the same prices would have *never* been considered a justifiable expense in the same way.
Maybe you got that backwards. True, back then the expense of getting your kid a computer was hard to justify... because computers were extremely expensive. The original IBM PC, at its most barebones and useless configuration, launched for well over $4000 (adjusted for inflation). You can get a perfectly satisfactory PC or smartphone right now, for one tenth of that.
Kill everything, kill everything, bomb the living bejesus out of those forests.
Wrong. By default, every creative work belongs to all people, to be freely copied and redistributed. "Intellectual property" is a temporary privilege granted under the notion that it would lead to the production of more works that would eventually return to the public domain. But if the premise is incorrect, and intellectual property does not contribute to the public domain, it has failed its sole purpose and must be outright abolished.
I don't know anyone who still uses Skype. Everyone has moved to WhatsApp or Facebook's Messenger.
You fail it.
Cell phones hadn't been invented yet when you were in your teens. :-)
You may be off by several decades. Wireless telephones were available to German train passengers in the mid-1920s. A similar service, for car-based telephones, was made available to Americans in 1949. The Soviets had a system of their own introduced in the 1960s. (More here.)
(Technically, "cell phone" refers to the "cellular" distribution of the towers in hexagonal areas, with alternation of frequencies between each area to prevent crosstalk. This design was proposed in 1947 but only built in 1979.)
But also an incredible amount of really, really shitty games that aged terribly.
I think Mega Drive and SNES had much better libraries (maybe smaller but more quality stuff). And you can't get any of that on a NES Classic.
I've zero doubt that tons of doctors are sadist fucks who get a hard-on out of this. Circumcision fetishism is most definitely a thing. Therefore it's sexual assault. These days people call lots of things rape, but this one is not? Fuck that. So it's rape and torture.
Causing a permanently disfiguring or crippling injury - that's mayhem.
Circumcision can kill, it DOES kill, it's strongly linked to cot death - so it's endangerment.
Foreskins are sold to laboratories, for skin grafts or stem cells - so it's organ theft.
It's done without a real medical reason in 99.999% of all cases, they push an useless procedure as beneficial - so it's medical fraud.
And there's metzitzah b'peh - vampirism.
But I DO think of it as rape -- plus torture, mayhem, endangerment, organ theft, medical fraud, and sometimes even vampirism. It's a nasty package.
If you really want to, no one is keeping you from buying the game AND getting the torrent.
Better now?
Disney just don't want people watching the original trilogy, because they will see the new ones are total bantha poo in comparison!
But tinkering is part of the fun!