I think the biggest problem is that, as Stewie said on Family Guy, anybody that can aim a camera thinks he's a photographer. A Shutterfly account does not confer "professional" status on anyone. The second issue is that the "value" of photography has dropped so much because almost everyone now carries around a quality camera 24/7. Most everyone is delighted to share their photos online whether they be good, bad, unusual, incriminating or obscene, all the time. Look at all the portrait studios that have closed down over the past 30 years. This is no longer 1970 and photography is no longer the very expensive hobby/business that copyright was supposed to protect.
"How many of those high level investigators on the Mueller team have been fired? Strok, Page, McCabe, etc.." ARE YOU RETARDED LOL? They were fired for a prima facie POTENTIAL IMPRESSION of conflict of interest.
If you're going to accuse someone of being retarded, you ought to at least get your facts straight. McCabe was fired after an internal Inspector General investigation determined that he lied to investigators. That's PERJURY to the rest of us. You and I would be indicted just like Michael Flynn if it had happened to us. As for Peter Strzok (correct spelling by the way) and Lisa Page... We'll let the Barr investigation run its course before making any definitive judgments.
Once the package is on the doorstep, it's delivered and no longer a Federal crime to steal it.
I'm not so sure that is the case. You can be charged with a Federal crime stealing mail out of a mailbox. I certainly wouldn't want to be the one to test this theory anyway.
Ironically the cord cutting generation will still spend countless hours mindlessly consuming streamed content. They're just doing it on a different device, or paying a different provider.
Just because we call the Boob Tube a "smartphone" these days doesn't make the consumers any smarter or less addicted.
That is not at issue. The real irony is that the entrenched industry has managed to alienate their entire customer base and generally price themselves out of the market in the search for greater growth in profits. They have no idea what the true value proposition is for their own product. Growth in a mature market where most of the public is a customer can only be obtained by raising revenue through pricing per customer. They have made too many trips to the well and now the well is running dry.
Sure. Netflix and YouTube are substitutes, but cable TV is declining because their business model is failing. Cable use to be a "must have" utility that you called upon move-in just like electric or trash service. Now it's a "nobody wants." As mind share dwindles, the hive effect diminishes too.
Canada is, on average, experiencing warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world, with Northern Canada heating up at almost three times the global average, according to a new government report.
$20 for an LED bulb? Unless it's a really special bulb, you're over paying. At my local grocery they cost just a few dollows and I've had no problems with them. My house is full of them, and I think I've only had maybe one fail ever.
They are cheap now. I once paid over $20 for a Philips that produces the light of an equivalent 150W incandescent. I have a hard time finding 40W equivalent candelabra base torpedo tip bulbs under $5. I have a bunch of those on a light fixture.
I remember when I was much younger, before DUI was a "thing", the local police would set up "inspection" check points to check paperwork and that your lights and horn worked.
I had forgotten all about those. I remember as a teen hearing my friends talk about being stopped at those "safety inspection" checkpoints where cops were checking their lights, measuring tread wear and testing horns. I never was stopped at one, but then again I've only personally only ever seen two DUI checkpoints since I have been driving.
If you are going 70 in a 45 zone in an area where hills block visibility ahead, I hope you have crashes that cause expensive damage to your car. No, we don't hope you are injured, but that big hunk of speeding metal needs to be taken away from you.; For all of our safety.
And fuck you too.
OP did not say the zone was 45. You are wishing misfortune on him based upon your own bias. I have been behind many drivers that instinctively slam on the brakes when they see cops and they weren't speeding to begin with. They are a major safety hazard. They don't even check to see how fast they are going or what the speed limit is, they just react to seeing a speed trap. The issue is the FEAR of being raped out of large sums of money in fines, not if they are driving safely or not.
This is what happens when you ship all your manufacturing overseas for 40 years and suddenly expect manufacturing to ramp up overnight after 40 years of neglect.
Yep, felony theft limit varies by state, but is just $500 to $1000 - even if those are cheaper Android phones that package probably goes over the limit.
So you can claim damages, but also get a felony theft rap... hmm.
If someone already had a felony theft charge previously though, I wonder if it would be as much a deterrent.
I can tell you it's only $100 in my state. I know because I was on the grand jury and we were brought felony theft cases. A lot of my Amazon packages would be felony theft.
That is exactly what pisses me off about people so nonchalantly brushing this off as karma. I am (still holding on as) an Apple fan, and there is a lot of pleasure I find in seeing Microsoft being beaten at their own game.
On this, we can agree. The Schadenfreude is delicious. It's kinda like when an obnoxious bully who picks on everyone gets his ass beaten by the new guy in school and he goes crying to the teacher.
But I am also the first to acknowledge how much they have changed.
Hold on there Hoss. If you want to know how much they've changed, just start your nearest Windows 10 or Windows 8 computer. Do you see that abominable interface? Do you see that horrible Metro/Modern app style? You see, that was Microsoft trying to leverage their rapidly fading desktop monopoly to shoehorn users into their mobile devices. Those are not the actions of a born again company. Even if you ignore the horribly broken installations every six months, the customer hating changes and the constant activation woes, you have to recognize that Microsoft has decided that their userbase is only only good for their own personal unpaid alpha and beta testers. No, Microsoft has not changed. While they may not be partnering with companies only to turn around and fuck them DriveSpace/DoubleSpace style, they are the same ruthless bunch they ever were.
Yes, their products still suck in my eyes
Once again, we agree here wholeheartedly.
but all of their past sins do not make it OK for Google to go down the same path. Google are now just as evil and fucked up as MS was under Gates.
Google would have to put out a lot of effort to be as evil as Microsoft once was and probably still is. People forget just how ruthless and corrupt Microsoft was; how much they bullied users, partners, competitors and allies alike. Don't think that IE/Netscape or even Media Player/Real Player was the worst of their actions. Those are just the ones that had mainstream publicity. Don't forget about the Microsoft requirement to OEMs for a license fee on all machines sold, not just the ones running Windows. Don't forget the $50 million "Baystar investment" to SCO/Caldera to scuttle Linux as it began hitting its stride or the Halloween documents. The list goes on and on and on.
I know that Google hating is popular now, but TFA sounds like one of Microsoft's hot shot programmers whining about Microsoft's own shortcomings in their web rendering engine while wanting to place the blame on someone else. Given the current state of Windows and the fantastic, most recent 10.09 update, I'd tend to chalk it up to incompetence on Microsoft's part rather than malice on Google's part.
Nope. It's the design. We want you to sit down, eat your damned food and get out. So we can turn that table over a few more times per night. The hell with you people who just sit there and engage in long conversations.
I do my part to help out. I even avoid the pesky sitting down and eating the food part. I just go to a different restaurant and let them turn my table over to someone else right away.
My mentioning Olive Garden is an example of a loud restaurant, not necessarily a good one. I do like their eggplant parmesan though. Just not enough to go back any more, because of the noise.
Olive Garden around here is not very loud. I would put it on the acceptable list. Contrast that to fast food horror, Jimmy Johns. The place is designed to look like a New York subway station: exposed concrete block walls, cavernous interior with some kind of metal sheeting on the ceiling, exposed metal HVAC ductwork, hard plastic seating and hard floors. The radio is blasting away at top volume. I have been there when there was literally no other occupied table in the building besides mine and could not hear the person across from me and yet I have excellent hearing. Besides the high level of racket, the echoes and reflections were terrible. I stopped going when I realized how nice it felt once I left the building.
Unfortunately, there are a bunch of places that have adopted that "styling" these days. When I enter a place and see cavernous rooms with exposed concrete ceilings and exposed HVAC ducting, I usually turn around and find somewhere else. My ears thank me.
Any energy you use will be in part transformed into heat to be released into the environment.
It's not my belief, it's thermodynamics.
More energy == More heat.
Do you still think this is good?
Hell yes! It's fucking cold outside where I live right now and I'm paying out the nose to keep my home heated. I'd love me some free or cheap heat.
Lights staying on after you switch the car off is not a bug, it's a feature. Park your car on a dark driveway, and the car lights the way to the front door for you.
Sounds like they need to add an automatic shutoff on a delay though.
My previous car had automatic lights too, so I know it's a feature. The problem is that the timeout for the Camry is SOOO long and coupled with the fact that you're never quite sure if you successfully turned off the car that it's a problem. It's the totality of a shitty design. I never wondered if my old car was still running. With the Camry, I can either stand there watching for who knows how long until it decides that it's had enough and turns off the lights or I can press the lock on the fob and try to turn them off manually.
Useful anecdote #1: We had a family event last month and afterwards I was packing my car to leave. It was after dark, so I backed the car up to the door of the building. I opened the trunk and we slowly cleaned up the clubhouse and periodically put leftovers into the car. My oldest son noted that the headlights NEVER turned off during the 20 minutes or so we worked and warned me I must have left the car running. I let him know that it was in fact not running but that the car was too stupid to shut off the lights whenever the trunk was left open. He's 26 but even he noted, "That's an idiotic design."
I have a Toyota Prius, their flagship Hybrid and I call your BS. My son had a 2005 with no issue either. The GPS is indeed junk. You can turn off the car without putting it in Park and it does that automatically. I have never seen that green power LED issue. on any of the 3 Prii I have experienced. The Speedometer goes dark immediately when turned off, in my experience.
Mine is a 2008 Camry Hybrid and it is no BS. I have demonstrated to many people how awful the design is just because I could not believe how stupid it was. My speedo stays lit for some time after turning it off. The headlights stay lit too. I have gone inside the house all the way wondering if I forgot to turn the damn thing off because I see the lights are still on through the windows. I hit the lock on the keyfob and off go the lights. If it turn it off in park, the steering wheel locks. If it is out of park when it is turned off, the steering wheel is loose and the dash will never go dark... ever. Until you restart it, seat the gearshift lever and turn it back off again. The previous owner told me she left it on all night in the garage one time because she thought it was turned off when it wasn't.
One friend has an Equinox and when it is off but the brake is applied the start button LED glows red. Once started, it goes green and stays on until it is turned back off again. NOW THAT MAKES SENSE.
I have my own experience about it. Unfortunately i can't tell you the details, but i can just say, the japs in this case are completely incapable to understand and follow a very simple protocol despite many different engineers and executives explaining it over >5 meetings. God damn, it pisses me off.
I have a Japanese hybrid car, a Toyota. The engine, drivetrain and structural engineering are awesome. The user interface for all the electronics is the most gawdawful inane junk I have ever seen on a motor vehicle. Nothing makes any sense or is the least bit intuitive. It's clear their brains do not work the same way as ours.
The GPS can't find half of the addresses that have existed for 50 years unless it matches one 2000 miles away. I updated the maps to fix that problem without any success. My $1,000 navigation system is not even in the same league as the $100 TomTom I bought ten years ago. Turning off the engine when you forget to put the transmission in park (I used to drive a stick) causes the car to lose it's damn mind. You have to restart it, place the lever in park and THEN turn it off again. If you are in a hurry and accidentally open the driver's door while pushing the off button, the steering wheel refuses to lock and the car incessantly beeps angrily at you even after you get out and close the door. You have to either climb back in, close the door and restart the car and turn it back off again or else press the door lock button on the fob to make it shut up. To start it you have to press the brake, then a green (Why green?) LED lights up on the start button. Then when you press that start button, the green LED turns off giving you no indication that the car is on. (It's a hybrid so the engine does not immediately fire up) There is absolutely nothing to indicate if the car is actually on or instead accidentally turned off since the lights and dash do not go dark for some time after the car is turned off. Who in their right mind would design a car so that the green LED on the on/off button would turn off when the car turns on?
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When you're sittin' at the table (Blue Apron stock; $9.34 IPO, $1 right now)
Is that why they've been spamming the Hell out of me? You try something once and then they spam until they bankrupt begging you to come back.
I think the biggest problem is that, as Stewie said on Family Guy, anybody that can aim a camera thinks he's a photographer. A Shutterfly account does not confer "professional" status on anyone. The second issue is that the "value" of photography has dropped so much because almost everyone now carries around a quality camera 24/7. Most everyone is delighted to share their photos online whether they be good, bad, unusual, incriminating or obscene, all the time. Look at all the portrait studios that have closed down over the past 30 years. This is no longer 1970 and photography is no longer the very expensive hobby/business that copyright was supposed to protect.
"How many of those high level investigators on the Mueller team have been fired? Strok, Page, McCabe, etc. ." ARE YOU RETARDED LOL? They were fired for a prima facie POTENTIAL IMPRESSION of conflict of interest.
If you're going to accuse someone of being retarded, you ought to at least get your facts straight. McCabe was fired after an internal Inspector General investigation determined that he lied to investigators. That's PERJURY to the rest of us. You and I would be indicted just like Michael Flynn if it had happened to us. As for Peter Strzok (correct spelling by the way) and Lisa Page... We'll let the Barr investigation run its course before making any definitive judgments.
Once the package is on the doorstep, it's delivered and no longer a Federal crime to steal it.
I'm not so sure that is the case. You can be charged with a Federal crime stealing mail out of a mailbox. I certainly wouldn't want to be the one to test this theory anyway.
"Repeat it until you believe it: Trump won because he was a better candidate."
Not to be confused with an assertion that he was a good candidate I'm sure.
Which only goes to show how horrifically bad a candidate she was.
Ironically the cord cutting generation will still spend countless hours mindlessly consuming streamed content. They're just doing it on a different device, or paying a different provider.
Just because we call the Boob Tube a "smartphone" these days doesn't make the consumers any smarter or less addicted.
That is not at issue. The real irony is that the entrenched industry has managed to alienate their entire customer base and generally price themselves out of the market in the search for greater growth in profits. They have no idea what the true value proposition is for their own product. Growth in a mature market where most of the public is a customer can only be obtained by raising revenue through pricing per customer. They have made too many trips to the well and now the well is running dry.
Sure. Netflix and YouTube are substitutes, but cable TV is declining because their business model is failing. Cable use to be a "must have" utility that you called upon move-in just like electric or trash service. Now it's a "nobody wants." As mind share dwindles, the hive effect diminishes too.
Canada is, on average, experiencing warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world, with Northern Canada heating up at almost three times the global average, according to a new government report.
You're welcome.
$20 for an LED bulb? Unless it's a really special bulb, you're over paying. At my local grocery they cost just a few dollows and I've had no problems with them. My house is full of them, and I think I've only had maybe one fail ever.
They are cheap now. I once paid over $20 for a Philips that produces the light of an equivalent 150W incandescent. I have a hard time finding 40W equivalent candelabra base torpedo tip bulbs under $5. I have a bunch of those on a light fixture.
How much is that in parsecs? I got a Kessel run I got to make before my navi-computers lose their mind.
The health affects of caffeine aren't fully known, but Nicotine does reduce your body's defenses against cancer.
You're right that vaping is definitely less unhealthy than cigarettes though.
Until it blows up in your face and kills you.
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I remember when I was much younger, before DUI was a "thing", the local police would set up "inspection" check points to check paperwork and that your lights and horn worked.
I had forgotten all about those. I remember as a teen hearing my friends talk about being stopped at those "safety inspection" checkpoints where cops were checking their lights, measuring tread wear and testing horns. I never was stopped at one, but then again I've only personally only ever seen two DUI checkpoints since I have been driving.
If you are going 70 in a 45 zone in an area where hills block visibility ahead, I hope you have crashes that cause expensive damage to your car. No, we don't hope you are injured, but that big hunk of speeding metal needs to be taken away from you.; For all of our safety.
And fuck you too.
OP did not say the zone was 45. You are wishing misfortune on him based upon your own bias. I have been behind many drivers that instinctively slam on the brakes when they see cops and they weren't speeding to begin with. They are a major safety hazard. They don't even check to see how fast they are going or what the speed limit is, they just react to seeing a speed trap. The issue is the FEAR of being raped out of large sums of money in fines, not if they are driving safely or not.
This is what happens when you ship all your manufacturing overseas for 40 years and suddenly expect manufacturing to ramp up overnight after 40 years of neglect.
From what I know the Earth magnetic field reverses it's poles regularly (in geological scale) and all signs indicate it is happening now.
The world operates on AC not DC.
They are legally obligated to their shareholders to deny abusing their virtual monopoly.
Virtual monopoly. Parker Brothers on an Oculus Rift.
Yep, felony theft limit varies by state, but is just $500 to $1000 - even if those are cheaper Android phones that package probably goes over the limit.
So you can claim damages, but also get a felony theft rap... hmm.
If someone already had a felony theft charge previously though, I wonder if it would be as much a deterrent.
I can tell you it's only $100 in my state. I know because I was on the grand jury and we were brought felony theft cases. A lot of my Amazon packages would be felony theft.
That is exactly what pisses me off about people so nonchalantly brushing this off as karma. I am (still holding on as) an Apple fan, and there is a lot of pleasure I find in seeing Microsoft being beaten at their own game.
On this, we can agree. The Schadenfreude is delicious. It's kinda like when an obnoxious bully who picks on everyone gets his ass beaten by the new guy in school and he goes crying to the teacher.
But I am also the first to acknowledge how much they have changed.
Hold on there Hoss. If you want to know how much they've changed, just start your nearest Windows 10 or Windows 8 computer. Do you see that abominable interface? Do you see that horrible Metro/Modern app style? You see, that was Microsoft trying to leverage their rapidly fading desktop monopoly to shoehorn users into their mobile devices. Those are not the actions of a born again company. Even if you ignore the horribly broken installations every six months, the customer hating changes and the constant activation woes, you have to recognize that Microsoft has decided that their userbase is only only good for their own personal unpaid alpha and beta testers. No, Microsoft has not changed. While they may not be partnering with companies only to turn around and fuck them DriveSpace/DoubleSpace style, they are the same ruthless bunch they ever were.
Yes, their products still suck in my eyes
Once again, we agree here wholeheartedly.
but all of their past sins do not make it OK for Google to go down the same path. Google are now just as evil and fucked up as MS was under Gates.
Google would have to put out a lot of effort to be as evil as Microsoft once was and probably still is. People forget just how ruthless and corrupt Microsoft was; how much they bullied users, partners, competitors and allies alike. Don't think that IE/Netscape or even Media Player/Real Player was the worst of their actions. Those are just the ones that had mainstream publicity. Don't forget about the Microsoft requirement to OEMs for a license fee on all machines sold, not just the ones running Windows. Don't forget the $50 million "Baystar investment" to SCO/Caldera to scuttle Linux as it began hitting its stride or the Halloween documents. The list goes on and on and on.
I know that Google hating is popular now, but TFA sounds like one of Microsoft's hot shot programmers whining about Microsoft's own shortcomings in their web rendering engine while wanting to place the blame on someone else. Given the current state of Windows and the fantastic, most recent 10.09 update, I'd tend to chalk it up to incompetence on Microsoft's part rather than malice on Google's part.
The tech is far from perfected and it's only Just becoming usable in 2018
In other news: Microsoft announces that Windows 10 will be the last version of Windows ever. We all know that has gone just swimmingly.
Nope. It's the design. We want you to sit down, eat your damned food and get out. So we can turn that table over a few more times per night. The hell with you people who just sit there and engage in long conversations.
I do my part to help out. I even avoid the pesky sitting down and eating the food part. I just go to a different restaurant and let them turn my table over to someone else right away.
My mentioning Olive Garden is an example of a loud restaurant, not necessarily a good one. I do like their eggplant parmesan though. Just not enough to go back any more, because of the noise.
Olive Garden around here is not very loud. I would put it on the acceptable list. Contrast that to fast food horror, Jimmy Johns. The place is designed to look like a New York subway station: exposed concrete block walls, cavernous interior with some kind of metal sheeting on the ceiling, exposed metal HVAC ductwork, hard plastic seating and hard floors. The radio is blasting away at top volume. I have been there when there was literally no other occupied table in the building besides mine and could not hear the person across from me and yet I have excellent hearing. Besides the high level of racket, the echoes and reflections were terrible. I stopped going when I realized how nice it felt once I left the building.
Unfortunately, there are a bunch of places that have adopted that "styling" these days. When I enter a place and see cavernous rooms with exposed concrete ceilings and exposed HVAC ducting, I usually turn around and find somewhere else. My ears thank me.
It's fucking cold outside where I live right now and I'm paying out the nose to keep my home heated. I'd love me some free or cheap heat.
Found the Northern Hemisphere resident. How do you plan on removing the "free or cheap heat" during meteorological summer (June through August)?
We pipe it to the southern hemisphere of course.
Any energy you use will be in part transformed into heat to be released into the environment. It's not my belief, it's thermodynamics. More energy == More heat. Do you still think this is good?
Hell yes! It's fucking cold outside where I live right now and I'm paying out the nose to keep my home heated. I'd love me some free or cheap heat.
Lights staying on after you switch the car off is not a bug, it's a feature. Park your car on a dark driveway, and the car lights the way to the front door for you. Sounds like they need to add an automatic shutoff on a delay though.
My previous car had automatic lights too, so I know it's a feature. The problem is that the timeout for the Camry is SOOO long and coupled with the fact that you're never quite sure if you successfully turned off the car that it's a problem. It's the totality of a shitty design. I never wondered if my old car was still running. With the Camry, I can either stand there watching for who knows how long until it decides that it's had enough and turns off the lights or I can press the lock on the fob and try to turn them off manually.
Useful anecdote #1: We had a family event last month and afterwards I was packing my car to leave. It was after dark, so I backed the car up to the door of the building. I opened the trunk and we slowly cleaned up the clubhouse and periodically put leftovers into the car. My oldest son noted that the headlights NEVER turned off during the 20 minutes or so we worked and warned me I must have left the car running. I let him know that it was in fact not running but that the car was too stupid to shut off the lights whenever the trunk was left open. He's 26 but even he noted, "That's an idiotic design."
I have a Toyota Prius, their flagship Hybrid and I call your BS. My son had a 2005 with no issue either. The GPS is indeed junk. You can turn off the car without putting it in Park and it does that automatically. I have never seen that green power LED issue. on any of the 3 Prii I have experienced. The Speedometer goes dark immediately when turned off, in my experience.
Mine is a 2008 Camry Hybrid and it is no BS. I have demonstrated to many people how awful the design is just because I could not believe how stupid it was. My speedo stays lit for some time after turning it off. The headlights stay lit too. I have gone inside the house all the way wondering if I forgot to turn the damn thing off because I see the lights are still on through the windows. I hit the lock on the keyfob and off go the lights. If it turn it off in park, the steering wheel locks. If it is out of park when it is turned off, the steering wheel is loose and the dash will never go dark... ever. Until you restart it, seat the gearshift lever and turn it back off again. The previous owner told me she left it on all night in the garage one time because she thought it was turned off when it wasn't.
One friend has an Equinox and when it is off but the brake is applied the start button LED glows red. Once started, it goes green and stays on until it is turned back off again. NOW THAT MAKES SENSE.
I have my own experience about it. Unfortunately i can't tell you the details, but i can just say, the japs in this case are completely incapable to understand and follow a very simple protocol despite many different engineers and executives explaining it over >5 meetings. God damn, it pisses me off.
I have a Japanese hybrid car, a Toyota. The engine, drivetrain and structural engineering are awesome. The user interface for all the electronics is the most gawdawful inane junk I have ever seen on a motor vehicle. Nothing makes any sense or is the least bit intuitive. It's clear their brains do not work the same way as ours.
The GPS can't find half of the addresses that have existed for 50 years unless it matches one 2000 miles away. I updated the maps to fix that problem without any success. My $1,000 navigation system is not even in the same league as the $100 TomTom I bought ten years ago. Turning off the engine when you forget to put the transmission in park (I used to drive a stick) causes the car to lose it's damn mind. You have to restart it, place the lever in park and THEN turn it off again. If you are in a hurry and accidentally open the driver's door while pushing the off button, the steering wheel refuses to lock and the car incessantly beeps angrily at you even after you get out and close the door. You have to either climb back in, close the door and restart the car and turn it back off again or else press the door lock button on the fob to make it shut up. To start it you have to press the brake, then a green (Why green?) LED lights up on the start button. Then when you press that start button, the green LED turns off giving you no indication that the car is on. (It's a hybrid so the engine does not immediately fire up) There is absolutely nothing to indicate if the car is actually on or instead accidentally turned off since the lights and dash do not go dark for some time after the car is turned off. Who in their right mind would design a car so that the green LED on the on/off button would turn off when the car turns on?
It's so bad, Microsoft could have designed it.