>Never needed a single repair, apart from brake pads/cables and occasional inner tube.
Well, mine is on its third set of rims because of road damage (I ride a lot in the city). It's pretty cheap when you know how to lace up a set of wheels. You don't even need a fancy wheel stand, just use the bike frame and a steel scale and some rubber bands (or hot glue, that works too) to hold the scale to the frame.
>Also had to buy new tires once, because the old ones wore right through.
Conti Gator Skins. Swear by them, not at them. Resistant to more glass than you think possible. 700x28 or 32C for the city.
Like that's going to be really good for our economy or like, anyone.
I cannot fathom that there are people actually walking around with squirrel-cage driven brains that came up with this depressingly evil idea. They envision another Cold War and MAD as if it's a good thing. People like this are traitors to the US and to the entire human race.
Take your Pax Americana, chickenhawk neocons, and shove it up your collective ass.
The judge tells you exactly what you have to do and wavering from that (even if you're within the rules of the law) runs the risk of a contempt charge or ejection from the jury. They tie the jury down hard and threaten them, preventing them from doing the work they are suppose to do.
This is the biggest load of bullshit in the entire thread.
I'll bet you're one of those morons that think it's OK to go and get outside influence to determine your decision. Then you're just a tool and a moron who endorses a capricious jury system where what matters at trial is not what goes on in front of the jury, but how your friends react to the trial on Facebook.
Any such legal institutionalization of racism would last about 3 seconds today
I didn't say it would be overnight. But yes, it would come back. There are plenty of people chomping at the bit for "separate but equal" to come back. Don't forget that we already had the 14'th amendment get totally ignored during the entire time of Jim Crow.
You only need to be out in society to hear people talk like this.
businesses refusing to hire black workers,
They already do, but people like you want to remove what little protection there is already.
Because it's really no different than using Usenet.
If you treat it as yet another "usenet" knowing full well what you post is public and archived by Google and other archivers, then it makes things a lot easier. Inb4 "X-no-archive=yes" - nobody uses that because Google/Dejanews is the only one that pays attention, and with AstraWeb and such other usenet providers advertising one or two years of retention, well, it's kinda useless.
You don't store movies and such on it. You have a 2TB external drive for that if you've got an ultraportable or net-top. And heck, at that point, you just buy 5200RPM "green" drives because they're cheaper.
And that way, if you don't feel like lugging around the external drive, you can leave it at home plugged into the server and stream from it over the net.
>Does anyone remember "bubble memory"? Is was going to replace magnetic media
No, it wasn't. It was going to replace transistor RAM. In some specialized cases it did but it was expensive. It had a density much greater than TTL RAM but slow, but it had the advantage of being non-volatile.
>Optical drives were going to replace magnetic media.
But they did, for much of removable magnetic media. When was the last time you installed software with floppies? When is the last time you saw someone back things up to floppies? While tape is the gold standard, it's far too expensive for joe-consumer to even consider.
>SSD were going to replace magnetic media.
They have replaced magnetic media all over. What the hell are you talking about? They are spectacular for system drives on desktop computers and netbooks.
>get off your lawn
I remember when talking to a computer meant sitting at a paper TTY and banging out on the keyboard, and stacks of cards.
I really think touchscreens are not ready for car use just yet, at least until they develop some overlay that can change its tactile feedback. Anything that requires you to look at it to operate should have no place in the dashboard IMO (if it was mounted only on the passenger side out of reach of the driver, that would be good as well, but then I suspect some people would just lean over while hurtling down the motorway).
You've hit upon something that comes under the study of ergonomics. Tactile feedback matters. It's the reason why the start button on a CNC machine, a round, recessed, and sometimes molly-guarded green button looks and functions differently than the emergency stop button, which is a big, fat, red mushroom that you can hit with the back of your hand which then requires a twist to physically reset it once pressed. You *can* tell the difference between the two by touch alone. Because having to actually look may mean the difference between someone living or dying.
Sure. Touchscreens look cool and all that, but for a lot of things they are less than useless.
If you cannot operate something on the dashboard of a car with gloves and not looking, it's not designed right.
(The thing about emergency stop buttons brings me to my pet peeve that a missile launch button in bad science fiction movies is always a big, red, real-life estop button instead of a molly-guarded toggle switch or something actually more realistic. Also, with all the shiny touchscreens using the LCARS interface on Star Trek series and movies, how come we never see any janitorial staff keeping these things clean and gleaming?)
No, it's not a strawman when it's just an accusation.
It's more of an ad-hominem.
Learn your fallacies.
The complete GUIs on Linux mean cross platform applications aren't different from other platforms. Libre/Open Office on Linux is identical to Libre/Open Office on Windows or OSX. GIMP on Windows is pretty much the same as GIMP on Linux (I haven't used it on Windows). WoW on Linux operates identically to WoW on Windows except that framerates are higher on Linux.
In this day and age, if you cannot operate a Linux device, the problem isn't with Linux, but rather PEBKAC. Indeed many arguments about the subtle differences in GUI between current Windows and Linux desktops fall flat in light of the introduction of "screw you, you're going to take our UI and like it" Metro.
Your argument fails at so many levels that you are simply full of bollocks, thus the previous flame.
Interesting that the GP said "easy to use" and you changed that to "easy to install"
But it is easy to use. You can use it all day and never touch a command line ever, just like Windows and OSX.
It's just advantageous to use a command line for things that would drive you batty in any GUI. This is why OSX has bash and Windows has PowerShell.
Oh, right, Microsoft thought so little of the command line they went and wrote a whole new one that even aliases the unix commands like cp, mv, and rm.
But the vast majority of people who decry the Civil Rights Act as unconstitutional never say that.
Libertarianism on its face is not racist, but it sure attracts a lot of racists.
And Jim Crow laws were not "just as wrong" - they were more wrong by orders of magnitude assuming that the Civil Rights Act was wrong in the first place. False equivalency is false.
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>Implying I make character assessments whether someone owns an iPhone or not and they are always negative.
I thought I was supposed to be a Microsoft hater.
At least that's what RecoiledSnake calls me.
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Per ride costs on the rarely-ridden 100 dollar bike are outrageous compared to even a year old 400 dollar bike ridden daily.
And that's what this thread is about, actual use costs.
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>Never needed a single repair, apart from brake pads/cables and occasional inner tube.
Well, mine is on its third set of rims because of road damage (I ride a lot in the city). It's pretty cheap when you know how to lace up a set of wheels. You don't even need a fancy wheel stand, just use the bike frame and a steel scale and some rubber bands (or hot glue, that works too) to hold the scale to the frame.
>Also had to buy new tires once, because the old ones wore right through.
Conti Gator Skins. Swear by them, not at them. Resistant to more glass than you think possible. 700x28 or 32C for the city.
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I own a 400 dollar bike. It's from 1996.
I use it every day.
Compare and contrast to a bike a friend of mine bought from Wally World for 100 bucks that he never rides.
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See, this is the thing...
A partial standard, using your definition of one, isn't an actual standard at all.
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Apple deserve credit because their system works /seamlessly/ instantly with any other iphone
The problem is that you totally ignored what he said: it doesn't work with any other phones out there at all.
SMS works on my dumbphone and I'm not about to buy an iPhone when I don't need it.
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>then shut the fuck up,
You first.
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You seem to be of the opinion that the average person is what defines what conservatism is.
The average person has no power to define anything.
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The fact that you think that people who are politically conservative would be overjoyed by an attack on US soil,
They were overjoyed by the attack on 9/11. it gave them the excuse to go into Iraq.
They needed their "pearl harbor moment"
Go read the PNAC statements in their own words.
http://www.newamericancentury.org/lettersstatements.htm
You and I, as citizens, are expendable in their eyes. Grow the fuck up.
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Fuck you and fuck everyone who lets this shit slide.
You are part of the fucking problem, you ass.
Die painfully in a fire.
Sincerely (and I mean that),
BMO
>The F-35's on their way to suck at the budget teat in Canada and the US both
And Australia.
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Like that's going to be really good for our economy or like, anyone.
I cannot fathom that there are people actually walking around with squirrel-cage driven brains that came up with this depressingly evil idea. They envision another Cold War and MAD as if it's a good thing. People like this are traitors to the US and to the entire human race.
Take your Pax Americana, chickenhawk neocons, and shove it up your collective ass.
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The judge tells you exactly what you have to do and wavering from that (even if you're within the rules of the law) runs the risk of a contempt charge or ejection from the jury. They tie the jury down hard and threaten them, preventing them from doing the work they are suppose to do.
This is the biggest load of bullshit in the entire thread.
I'll bet you're one of those morons that think it's OK to go and get outside influence to determine your decision. Then you're just a tool and a moron who endorses a capricious jury system where what matters at trial is not what goes on in front of the jury, but how your friends react to the trial on Facebook.
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Any such legal institutionalization of racism would last about 3 seconds today
I didn't say it would be overnight. But yes, it would come back. There are plenty of people chomping at the bit for "separate but equal" to come back. Don't forget that we already had the 14'th amendment get totally ignored during the entire time of Jim Crow.
You only need to be out in society to hear people talk like this.
businesses refusing to hire black workers,
They already do, but people like you want to remove what little protection there is already.
>sarcastic tone in your closing phrases
Get. Fucked.
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Because it's really no different than using Usenet.
If you treat it as yet another "usenet" knowing full well what you post is public and archived by Google and other archivers, then it makes things a lot easier. Inb4 "X-no-archive=yes" - nobody uses that because Google/Dejanews is the only one that pays attention, and with AstraWeb and such other usenet providers advertising one or two years of retention, well, it's kinda useless.
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That's why you use it for a system drive.
You don't store movies and such on it. You have a 2TB external drive for that if you've got an ultraportable or net-top. And heck, at that point, you just buy 5200RPM "green" drives because they're cheaper.
And that way, if you don't feel like lugging around the external drive, you can leave it at home plugged into the server and stream from it over the net.
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>Does anyone remember "bubble memory"? Is was going to replace magnetic media
No, it wasn't. It was going to replace transistor RAM. In some specialized cases it did but it was expensive. It had a density much greater than TTL RAM but slow, but it had the advantage of being non-volatile.
>Optical drives were going to replace magnetic media.
But they did, for much of removable magnetic media. When was the last time you installed software with floppies? When is the last time you saw someone back things up to floppies? While tape is the gold standard, it's far too expensive for joe-consumer to even consider.
>SSD were going to replace magnetic media.
They have replaced magnetic media all over. What the hell are you talking about? They are spectacular for system drives on desktop computers and netbooks.
>get off your lawn
I remember when talking to a computer meant sitting at a paper TTY and banging out on the keyboard, and stacks of cards.
Get off mine.
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I really think touchscreens are not ready for car use just yet, at least until they develop some overlay that can change its tactile feedback. Anything that requires you to look at it to operate should have no place in the dashboard IMO (if it was mounted only on the passenger side out of reach of the driver, that would be good as well, but then I suspect some people would just lean over while hurtling down the motorway).
You've hit upon something that comes under the study of ergonomics. Tactile feedback matters. It's the reason why the start button on a CNC machine, a round, recessed, and sometimes molly-guarded green button looks and functions differently than the emergency stop button, which is a big, fat, red mushroom that you can hit with the back of your hand which then requires a twist to physically reset it once pressed. You *can* tell the difference between the two by touch alone. Because having to actually look may mean the difference between someone living or dying.
Sure. Touchscreens look cool and all that, but for a lot of things they are less than useless.
If you cannot operate something on the dashboard of a car with gloves and not looking, it's not designed right.
(The thing about emergency stop buttons brings me to my pet peeve that a missile launch button in bad science fiction movies is always a big, red, real-life estop button instead of a molly-guarded toggle switch or something actually more realistic. Also, with all the shiny touchscreens using the LCARS interface on Star Trek series and movies, how come we never see any janitorial staff keeping these things clean and gleaming?)
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No, it's not a strawman when it's just an accusation.
It's more of an ad-hominem.
Learn your fallacies.
The complete GUIs on Linux mean cross platform applications aren't different from other platforms. Libre/Open Office on Linux is identical to Libre/Open Office on Windows or OSX. GIMP on Windows is pretty much the same as GIMP on Linux (I haven't used it on Windows). WoW on Linux operates identically to WoW on Windows except that framerates are higher on Linux.
In this day and age, if you cannot operate a Linux device, the problem isn't with Linux, but rather PEBKAC. Indeed many arguments about the subtle differences in GUI between current Windows and Linux desktops fall flat in light of the introduction of "screw you, you're going to take our UI and like it" Metro.
Your argument fails at so many levels that you are simply full of bollocks, thus the previous flame.
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You sound like one of those idiots who continuously start flame threads about GIMP because it's not a drop-in-replacement for a $600+ program.
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Interesting that the GP said "easy to use" and you changed that to "easy to install"
But it is easy to use. You can use it all day and never touch a command line ever, just like Windows and OSX.
It's just advantageous to use a command line for things that would drive you batty in any GUI. This is why OSX has bash and Windows has PowerShell.
Oh, right, Microsoft thought so little of the command line they went and wrote a whole new one that even aliases the unix commands like cp, mv, and rm.
Twit.
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You are a fucking racist and a waste of oxygen.
Fuck. Off.
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Jim Crow laws are just as wrong
But the vast majority of people who decry the Civil Rights Act as unconstitutional never say that.
Libertarianism on its face is not racist, but it sure attracts a lot of racists.
And Jim Crow laws were not "just as wrong" - they were more wrong by orders of magnitude assuming that the Civil Rights Act was wrong in the first place. False equivalency is false.
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If I talk down to a black man he will threaten me and if I defend myself he will call it racism
But... you are a racist.
How about you stop talking down to black people, you idiot?
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not government or business but the KKK and those who's sentiments were basically agreeing with the KKK.
Who, exactly, did you think made up the KKK?
If you knocked off the racist stuff, it was just another business and government good ol' boys' club.
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