I used to have color inkjets, and on the rare occasion I need something printed in color, I'm happy to pay per page. The cost of keeping an inkjet's carts in working order for as little as I (and several others I know) has long since outstripped the per-page cost at print shops.
I print a few pages in B&W (I have a monochrome network laser) and I love being able to run off copies of my resume or whatnot when I need to... but Kinko's is open 24hrs, and the two times a year I need color printed, I can go the 1.5 miles.
Of course, YMMV. But personally, I don't really see the need anymore.
This may or may not work on most of the populous (and the science behind it seems more than a little fishy) but for me, I find the exact opposite to be the case. Cleaners, perfume, deodorants, scented soaps, and other like products not only disgust me, but also produce symptoms similar to allergies in me (and several other people I know). If I smell Axe on someone, I immediately suspect that they're trying to cover up not having taken a shower. And if a place smells of bleach or ammonia... I wonder what the horrible mess was that necessitated bringing out the hardcore cleaning chemicals.
Dude, I was trying to be civil in the last post, but this level of dickishness is above and beyond.
Where I live, unemployment is 12%. Educated or no, people will take whatever they can get here. Oh, and most of my co-workers have college educations and work for minimum wage (or less than a dollar an hour more). A friend of mine spent a year post-graduation looking for a job in the field she spent over $25,000 to learn. She now works at a pizza place.
I don't know what world you live in, but it's far divorced from reality.
Entitlement? To think that working hard (even if you might not be skilled) will pay off? That's what made America great in the first place. Money-grubbing pricks like you that say "you peons get what you deserve" are why "the American dream" is all but dead.
You know, I really don't have anything positive to say here. For the sake of not turning this thread into a flamewar, I'm not going to comment on what I think of your attitude to those of us less fortunate.
I bet you're someone that's never had to choose between gas and groceries in a given week, aren't you?
Would you really split a studio or a tiny one-bedroom with someone? I know married couples that would kill each other if they were that closely confined, let alone strangers.
I make $1050/mo, and it's hard to live on. Honestly, food is the single biggest expense. Second is entertainment. Sure, you can do without... but you can only sit at home and stare at the wall or read books borrowed from the library so much of the time. Eventually, you'll want to watch TV (which in areas of shitty digital reception like I live in, requires cable), go see a movie ($9 a ticket now), go to the beach (gas, or cab ride if you don't have a car, plus parking) go out to dinner or have a drink or two with friends (usually about $20/head). Sure, it can be done. But there are times when you feel like all you can do is afford to work and sleep. It's the difference between surviving and living, I suppose.
I work nights, and have a 15 mile (each way) commute. Buses are not available for me to come home at night, and it's not that safe a neighborhood anyway. Owning a car is a necessity. Back when I was able to walk to work, I did save a lot, but then again, I also made $2/hr more. If you think that public transit is a realistic option for many in the US, you're mistaken. I've done it, and you spend hours of every day just waiting.
It's doable, you're right... but it's harder than you think, and it's got it's own special brand of misery.
Say what? What kind of greedy corporate whore are you?!
Have you ever tried to live on the federal minimum wage? Imagine if we started letting employers pay LESS than that... burger flippers would be making $2/hr, and semi-skilled labor like myself barely any more. Minimum wage is the difference between "just scraping by" and "I have to work 100 hours per week just to pay the rent and buy food".
If it were really that important, things would be written in it. As it stands, all it's used for it interpersonal communication by people who want to appear intellectual.
It is a complete anachronism in this day and age, simple as that.
Speaking for myself, the level of hatred for it is due at least in part due to the amount of physical pain it caused me to utilize it, coupled with how impossible it typically is to read. I'm all for teaching kids only the military (all block letters, all caps) style. It's easy, painless, and crystal clear.
I think it's actually linguistic, or at least partly to do with the English alphabet.
When I was learning Russian, I found Russian cursive to be only marginally more difficult to distinguish than block letters (printing). English cursive has driven me insane all my life trying to read people's horrible chicken scratch. It may be in part because of the lack of accented characters in the alphabet, or something else... but I've never been able to reliably read handwritten English cursive. And I've long since utterly forgotten how to write it.
I still give people funny looks when there's two boxes on a form: "sign name here" and "print name here". As if paperwork isn't annoying enough, we have to sign twice because printing isn't good enough?
So, you're implying that anyone who takes the news as anything close to the truth is unreasonable?
Now, biases of the networks aside, there's obvious bullshit, and then there's things like this that may well have been intended as theatrics, but this jackass had to know that someone might take him literally. And he said it anyway.
Lawyers get away with too much bullshit. If I said (for example) "I'm going to kill him" about someone in front of police, I could end up in all kind of shit. Anything from a "menacing" charge up through murder (if someone else later kills him).
He made an idiotic statement in public, and deserves to be penalized for his stupidity.
After all the sleazy shit lawyers pull, I'm glad someone is twisting what one of them said to his advantage. Jolly good, says I!
If it's coming from someone with a background in law, I'd certainly expect them to understand it may be taken that way by people. It's one thing to use theatrics in a person-to-person discussion, but saying something like that on TV certainly gives the indication that he'd follow through to most reasonable people, myself included.
At the very least, this should be used as evidence against his client.
A 2000 era Nokia with an external BT receiver duct-taped to the back (Jabra makes one, I think. Costs about $40). Hell, I think I friend of mine still has his in a junk drawer. Yours for $100 if you want that damned thing.:P
Nokia lost all ability to make hardy products when they let their design team start smoking crack. Some of the things I've seen them come up with have been true abominations. Remember that god-awful pendant phone?
You want to talk immortal, let me show you my Sanyo 8100. I've dropped it in snow, water, drop-kicked it down a flight of stairs, dropped it off of a roof, disassembled it, hacked the keypad, reassembled it, and it still works.
CDMA phones and devices don't use SIM cards. And two of the largest carriers in the USA are CDMA. This new device will be particularly useful to tradesmen, who tend to be rough on company-provided cell phones (which are also often on the Verizon network, which is CDMA).
I could do that. If I lived in a tent with no electricity. Or in my car in the parking lot of my employer. When the federal minimum was still $5.15 an hour, I fail to see how you could have made ends meet at all, even at a full 40 hours every week.
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I used to have color inkjets, and on the rare occasion I need something printed in color, I'm happy to pay per page. The cost of keeping an inkjet's carts in working order for as little as I (and several others I know) has long since outstripped the per-page cost at print shops.
I print a few pages in B&W (I have a monochrome network laser) and I love being able to run off copies of my resume or whatnot when I need to... but Kinko's is open 24hrs, and the two times a year I need color printed, I can go the 1.5 miles.
Of course, YMMV. But personally, I don't really see the need anymore.
I have a word for you. That word is "Kinko's".
A divorce would be cheaper and easier.
Bluetooth headsets.
The Prius is a hybrid. The gas engine doesn't HAVE to be running for it to begin moving. Just the electric portion.
They do, they're called electric golf carts.
Okay, I'm going to call bullshit on this one.
This may or may not work on most of the populous (and the science behind it seems more than a little fishy) but for me, I find the exact opposite to be the case. Cleaners, perfume, deodorants, scented soaps, and other like products not only disgust me, but also produce symptoms similar to allergies in me (and several other people I know). If I smell Axe on someone, I immediately suspect that they're trying to cover up not having taken a shower. And if a place smells of bleach or ammonia... I wonder what the horrible mess was that necessitated bringing out the hardcore cleaning chemicals.
I don't mean to be insensitive... but fuck smokers. They can buy a new 99 cent lighter after the plane lands.
Dude, I was trying to be civil in the last post, but this level of dickishness is above and beyond.
Where I live, unemployment is 12%. Educated or no, people will take whatever they can get here. Oh, and most of my co-workers have college educations and work for minimum wage (or less than a dollar an hour more). A friend of mine spent a year post-graduation looking for a job in the field she spent over $25,000 to learn. She now works at a pizza place.
I don't know what world you live in, but it's far divorced from reality.
Entitlement? To think that working hard (even if you might not be skilled) will pay off? That's what made America great in the first place. Money-grubbing pricks like you that say "you peons get what you deserve" are why "the American dream" is all but dead.
You know, I really don't have anything positive to say here. For the sake of not turning this thread into a flamewar, I'm not going to comment on what I think of your attitude to those of us less fortunate.
I bet you're someone that's never had to choose between gas and groceries in a given week, aren't you?
This fallaciously assumes that you CAN get a better job, or afford to move. Those options aren't always on the table.
Would you really split a studio or a tiny one-bedroom with someone? I know married couples that would kill each other if they were that closely confined, let alone strangers.
I make $1050/mo, and it's hard to live on. Honestly, food is the single biggest expense. Second is entertainment. Sure, you can do without... but you can only sit at home and stare at the wall or read books borrowed from the library so much of the time. Eventually, you'll want to watch TV (which in areas of shitty digital reception like I live in, requires cable), go see a movie ($9 a ticket now), go to the beach (gas, or cab ride if you don't have a car, plus parking) go out to dinner or have a drink or two with friends (usually about $20/head). Sure, it can be done. But there are times when you feel like all you can do is afford to work and sleep. It's the difference between surviving and living, I suppose.
I work nights, and have a 15 mile (each way) commute. Buses are not available for me to come home at night, and it's not that safe a neighborhood anyway. Owning a car is a necessity. Back when I was able to walk to work, I did save a lot, but then again, I also made $2/hr more. If you think that public transit is a realistic option for many in the US, you're mistaken. I've done it, and you spend hours of every day just waiting.
It's doable, you're right... but it's harder than you think, and it's got it's own special brand of misery.
Say what? What kind of greedy corporate whore are you?!
Have you ever tried to live on the federal minimum wage? Imagine if we started letting employers pay LESS than that... burger flippers would be making $2/hr, and semi-skilled labor like myself barely any more. Minimum wage is the difference between "just scraping by" and "I have to work 100 hours per week just to pay the rent and buy food".
Why? Really, why?
If it were really that important, things would be written in it. As it stands, all it's used for it interpersonal communication by people who want to appear intellectual.
It is a complete anachronism in this day and age, simple as that.
Speaking for myself, the level of hatred for it is due at least in part due to the amount of physical pain it caused me to utilize it, coupled with how impossible it typically is to read. I'm all for teaching kids only the military (all block letters, all caps) style. It's easy, painless, and crystal clear.
I think it's actually linguistic, or at least partly to do with the English alphabet.
When I was learning Russian, I found Russian cursive to be only marginally more difficult to distinguish than block letters (printing). English cursive has driven me insane all my life trying to read people's horrible chicken scratch. It may be in part because of the lack of accented characters in the alphabet, or something else... but I've never been able to reliably read handwritten English cursive. And I've long since utterly forgotten how to write it.
I still give people funny looks when there's two boxes on a form: "sign name here" and "print name here". As if paperwork isn't annoying enough, we have to sign twice because printing isn't good enough?
So, you're implying that anyone who takes the news as anything close to the truth is unreasonable?
Now, biases of the networks aside, there's obvious bullshit, and then there's things like this that may well have been intended as theatrics, but this jackass had to know that someone might take him literally. And he said it anyway.
I've used the former far more than the latter metaphorically. I just don't see why one should be considered "obviously" fallacious and the other not.
Lawyers get away with too much bullshit. If I said (for example) "I'm going to kill him" about someone in front of police, I could end up in all kind of shit. Anything from a "menacing" charge up through murder (if someone else later kills him).
He made an idiotic statement in public, and deserves to be penalized for his stupidity.
After all the sleazy shit lawyers pull, I'm glad someone is twisting what one of them said to his advantage. Jolly good, says I!
If it's coming from someone with a background in law, I'd certainly expect them to understand it may be taken that way by people. It's one thing to use theatrics in a person-to-person discussion, but saying something like that on TV certainly gives the indication that he'd follow through to most reasonable people, myself included.
At the very least, this should be used as evidence against his client.
As a lawyer, shouldn't this douchebag know better than to grandstand and make promises like that?
A 2000 era Nokia with an external BT receiver duct-taped to the back (Jabra makes one, I think. Costs about $40). Hell, I think I friend of mine still has his in a junk drawer. Yours for $100 if you want that damned thing. :P
Nokia lost all ability to make hardy products when they let their design team start smoking crack. Some of the things I've seen them come up with have been true abominations. Remember that god-awful pendant phone?
You want to talk immortal, let me show you my Sanyo 8100. I've dropped it in snow, water, drop-kicked it down a flight of stairs, dropped it off of a roof, disassembled it, hacked the keypad, reassembled it, and it still works.
CDMA phones and devices don't use SIM cards. And two of the largest carriers in the USA are CDMA. This new device will be particularly useful to tradesmen, who tend to be rough on company-provided cell phones (which are also often on the Verizon network, which is CDMA).
I could do that. If I lived in a tent with no electricity. Or in my car in the parking lot of my employer. When the federal minimum was still $5.15 an hour, I fail to see how you could have made ends meet at all, even at a full 40 hours every week.
These are just my gripes: they're expensive (five dollars a dozen?!) and always expire before I get to use them.