From an environmental standpoint, I try to be superior, unlike the average sheepsumer that doesn't give a flying flip.
Apple is in fact less popular in Europe and people tend to keep devices longer. Tariffs are a great thing for enforcing environmental responsibility. (no sarcasm, it's true)
Great! Now try to present somewhere like a university or hotel that has VGA or HDMI (if you're lucky!) ports on the podium and no other way of linking to the projector.
Used. Going on 7 years. If you can't ethically source, at least reuse and use till it drops, don't buy into the American model of planned obsolescence.
If it's Apple, that's before they went full-on idiot and glued/soldered everything together and sacrificed good engineering on the altar of the thin laptop.
Might as well. Gifts should be created, not be mass-produced junk designed to become e-waste after 3 years, built in Chinese factories by slave laborers.
New ideas: (1) Thinner keyboard that's virtually unusable (2) Glue/solder in everything so it becomes recyclable (or e-waste) after 3-4 years. (3) Remove any useful ports. Yes, the world still runs on USB-A.
And (ohmigahd) TWO USB-C ports! Not one like the regular MacBook for plebes. Two! Wooooowwwww!
At least you can plug in a dongle and charge at the same time:D
I frequently need Ethernet for the infrastructure part of my work. Fortunately, I have a real laptop (Thinkpad X-series), not a Crapple (cripple?) toy.
Ask a New Yorker for directions or suggestions, and you'll get ten responses. NY'ers are surprisingly helpful, friendly, and accepting. The rudeness is more stereotypical than real.
I prioritized jaywalkers over legal walkers. Why? Because the world needs more people who think outside the rules and aren't knee-jerk authoritarians;)
Glad to know that NYC (and Boston, probably) has a large cultural distance from the rest of the US. Any place that's not tolerant of jaywalking isn't worth living in, since it puts the needs of steel sensory deprivation bubbles ahead of human needs...
"For instance, people who were more tolerant of illegal jaywalking tended to be from countries with weaker governance, nations who had a large cultural distance from the U.S. and places that do not value individualism as highly."
What if there are no traffic signals or crosswalks for the next mile? Not all roads go through cities or towns... rural roads sometimes need to be crossed, too.
Yep, great if you want to put rounds through a wall and accidentally kill your kids or wing a neighbor. At least with a revolver, you have to engage your brain before you shoot.
AR-15s and AK-47s are nice toys for people who want to play soldier and for hunting where legal. Using the self-defense argument here is sort of stupid.
Bullshit -- that would only require a single tamper-resistant IC on the phone, maybe paired with a fingerprint reader. The rest of the device could be completely user-repairable without damaging security.
As far as Samsung, their bloatware sucks. Go Motorola -- they're making an effort to be repair-friendly and their Android flavor has a minimum of bloatware. Also: the non-Scamazon versions of their phones officially allow bootloader unlocking.
The kind of guns that are useful for self-defense aren't the kind of guns that CA has a problem with. Know many women (or men, for that matter) who pack an AR-15 or AK-47 for self-defense? In the US, not in Pakistan:D
Legally speaking, it's not that difficult to buy something like a.38 revolver in California. Perfect for self-defense -- reliable, won't jam even if poorly maintained, simple, and easy to conceal.
Recessions can be a good thing. Econ 101: they reduce income inequality.
As far as the administration, should I actually care about what Trump & Co can or can't explain away? Having Trump be a one-termer isn't all that sad of a prospect.
High property taxes are WORSE than high income tax, since they're not tied to income. Lose your job, and at least you won't be paying much income tax. But you will be paying property tax regardless. The only good thing about this mess is that TX has reasonably strong protections against foreclosure of a primary residence. (Or maybe had, IDK about recent law changes.)
Better a tax than an outright ban. Harmful behavior should be discouraged, and keeping properties vacant long-term in markets that have a scarcity of housing qualifies as harmful.
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From an environmental standpoint, I try to be superior, unlike the average sheepsumer that doesn't give a flying flip.
Apple is in fact less popular in Europe and people tend to keep devices longer. Tariffs are a great thing for enforcing environmental responsibility. (no sarcasm, it's true)
Great! Now try to present somewhere like a university or hotel that has VGA or HDMI (if you're lucky!) ports on the podium and no other way of linking to the projector.
Used. Going on 7 years. If you can't ethically source, at least reuse and use till it drops, don't buy into the American model of planned obsolescence.
If it's Apple, that's before they went full-on idiot and glued/soldered everything together and sacrificed good engineering on the altar of the thin laptop.
Might as well. Gifts should be created, not be mass-produced junk designed to become e-waste after 3 years, built in Chinese factories by slave laborers.
Because it's a toy for hipstrash to watch media/surf social media on, not a real machine for doing work.
New ideas:
(1) Thinner keyboard that's virtually unusable
(2) Glue/solder in everything so it becomes recyclable (or e-waste) after 3-4 years.
(3) Remove any useful ports. Yes, the world still runs on USB-A.
COURAGE!
And (ohmigahd) TWO USB-C ports! Not one like the regular MacBook for plebes. Two! Wooooowwwww! At least you can plug in a dongle and charge at the same time :D
I frequently need Ethernet for the infrastructure part of my work. Fortunately, I have a real laptop (Thinkpad X-series), not a Crapple (cripple?) toy.
Ask a New Yorker for directions or suggestions, and you'll get ten responses. NY'ers are surprisingly helpful, friendly, and accepting. The rudeness is more stereotypical than real.
Carry an inflatable balloon that looks like a solid piece of granite to the car's LIDAR. watch as it swerves into a tree to avoid you.
I prioritized jaywalkers over legal walkers. Why? Because the world needs more people who think outside the rules and aren't knee-jerk authoritarians ;)
Glad to know that NYC (and Boston, probably) has a large cultural distance from the rest of the US. Any place that's not tolerant of jaywalking isn't worth living in, since it puts the needs of steel sensory deprivation bubbles ahead of human needs...
"For instance, people who were more tolerant of illegal jaywalking tended to be from countries with weaker governance, nations who had a large cultural distance from the U.S. and places that do not value individualism as highly."
What if there are no traffic signals or crosswalks for the next mile? Not all roads go through cities or towns... rural roads sometimes need to be crossed, too.
It's illegal in many European countries, but they also have better pedestrian and cycling infrastructure to compensate for this.
If it's the American countryside, who walks? :D
Used for schoolwork a certain number of hours a day. Dumb/flip phone, no need for appitty apps when you're 10 years old.
Yep, great if you want to put rounds through a wall and accidentally kill your kids or wing a neighbor. At least with a revolver, you have to engage your brain before you shoot.
Pack? As in carry on a daily basis in public?
AR-15s and AK-47s are nice toys for people who want to play soldier and for hunting where legal. Using the self-defense argument here is sort of stupid.
Bullshit -- that would only require a single tamper-resistant IC on the phone, maybe paired with a fingerprint reader. The rest of the device could be completely user-repairable without damaging security. As far as Samsung, their bloatware sucks. Go Motorola -- they're making an effort to be repair-friendly and their Android flavor has a minimum of bloatware. Also: the non-Scamazon versions of their phones officially allow bootloader unlocking.
The kind of guns that are useful for self-defense aren't the kind of guns that CA has a problem with. Know many women (or men, for that matter) who pack an AR-15 or AK-47 for self-defense? In the US, not in Pakistan :D
Legally speaking, it's not that difficult to buy something like a .38 revolver in California. Perfect for self-defense -- reliable, won't jam even if poorly maintained, simple, and easy to conceal.
Recessions can be a good thing. Econ 101: they reduce income inequality.
As far as the administration, should I actually care about what Trump & Co can or can't explain away? Having Trump be a one-termer isn't all that sad of a prospect.
Can I get a hit of whatever acid you're dropping?
High property taxes are WORSE than high income tax, since they're not tied to income. Lose your job, and at least you won't be paying much income tax. But you will be paying property tax regardless. The only good thing about this mess is that TX has reasonably strong protections against foreclosure of a primary residence. (Or maybe had, IDK about recent law changes.)
Better a tax than an outright ban. Harmful behavior should be discouraged, and keeping properties vacant long-term in markets that have a scarcity of housing qualifies as harmful.