$10 is about how much it costs extra to get 2-day delivery without prime. If you order from Amazon once a month, then $10/month is too much, simple maths.
I think you seriously underestimate how often a lot of people order from Amazon. For myself I don't even shop locally for almost anything anymore. I probably order from amazon at least twice per week - sometimes a lot more than that.
I remember trying out Mosiac back when I first was trying out the internet (I'd say around 1994-ish). It was interesting but at the time Netscape was just much, much better so I didn't use it much aside from just playing around.
That's apples to oranges. Software never "dies". It may fall out of favor and stop being updated, but it's still out there and quite possibly being used. IIRC as of a few years ago there was still some mechanic shop using a Commodore 64 to balance drive axles because the software was still serving their needs. I'd wager the last release of that C64 software was before Mosiac was even released at all.
While true, that's not really and specific reason to EXCLUDE females. It would totally explain a natural discrepancy but they're talking about an actual stated prohibition on female applicants.
In then end though China does indeed have a population problem and though I hate the method the excess males will likely help solve it. Their cultural preference there has led to an imbalance where a lot of their population will never have the opportunity to reproduce.
Very few college kids are actually "poor". Actual poor people can't afford to attend college. Really poor people don't end up finishing high school (if your father left when you were 5 and your mom can't make the rent payment, it's hard to turn down even a minimum wage job).
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Stamping your feet that the more efficient method is unfair will mean nothing if our economy ends up crashing and there's no money to pay for things, nor any more rich people to blame for it.
Never hard of Varta batteries, but Rayovac is very available here in the south-east US. I almost never see a battery rack with Energizer and Duracell that doesn't also have Rayovacs on it.
I have no issue with Off-Brand. I do mostly rechargeables, and use a ton of "AmazonBasics" batteries that work fine, though I also use some other brands mixed in there.
And if I absolutely HAVE to buy from a store? Rayovac works just as good as the other two and is usually a bit cheaper.
Time has shown that that for the most part "royalty free" doesn't mean a whole lot (ie, while Ogg and Matroska are perfectly functional, they never became the dominant forms used in their sectors).
x265 is catching on slowly because a lot of things don't have hardware decoding for it yet and it's pretty intensive to do using CPU alone. If AV1 isn't any better in that regard, then it won't gain any ground compared to x265 there.
Not sure how well it holds up, but I remember strongly preferring to keep using the old "File Manager" even when "Explorer" became the preferred solution when Windows 95 was released. Not sure where along the way I begrudgingly gave it up (probably as long filenames became more popular - IIRC it was always limited to the 8.3 format).
I honest wonder if it wouldn't be better for him to just go serve his time and get it over with. At this point he's basically living in a prison anyways.
That pedestrian was crossing the street illegally at night with dark clothing. I'm not saying she deserved to die - it would always be preferable to avoid injury to anyone. However, the reality is that even a human controlled car would have had a high likelihood of striking and killing her.
The accident rate will NEVER be zero. It's not possible. All we can hope for as an accident rate that is as good or better than that of a human driver.
I don't think the companies behind broadcast TV are in trouble, though I do see broadcast TV as a medium declining.
This I agree with. The appeal of broadcast TV is that it's "Free" (advertising supported).
I'd imagine that there's a time in the near future where just publishing an app with a free stream of the same content (also ad-supported) would be cheaper than them building massive transmitters in every metro area - if that time isn't already here.
You do realize that such a thing itself would be unconstitutional right?
The politicians can't decide what is constitutional, so by definition they CAN'T pass anything "knowingly" unconstitutional because knowing that would mean they're deciding it.
As the system - the system setup by the constitution - stands, they can pass whatever they want and it's up to the courts to uphold it or strike it down when challenged.
That's pretty much the definition of employment. I work what would be considered a pretty nice white collar job but I still don't ENJOY it. It fucking sucks having to go to work every day but that's just the reality of being an adult and having bills to pay.
Does their job come with some health risks? Yes, but there is protective equipment for that, and so do other jobs. My dad is a construction worker and in his late 50's - he's had to have multiple surgeries to repair damage from years of hard labor. My cousin was also a construction worker who fell from the roof of a building and died. I have a family friend who works in a factory who lost a finger in a machine at work.
All those jobs are considered "morally appropriate", but somehow a woman choosing to engage in prostitution is so morally upsetting to you that you just assume that it MUST be the case that someone else is FORCING her into it or you just arbitrary conflate adults with children to try and make the whole practice illegal.
Gotcha. So except for the shotgun . . . you're looking to take the rest away.
It's the equivalent of banning private communications on the internet and television but still claiming that you're fine in regards to the first amendment because you're leaving them newspapers.
Meh - this is fine. They still need due process (eg, a warrant) - this just gives them the technical ability to get into a phone that they have the legal right to do so.
I'm not at all for building INTENTIONAL backdoors into the software (and whatever hole in the security this company is using to gain access I'd hope Apple soon finds and closes), but if they have their warrant I have no issue with them hacking into the phone if they can figure it out. IMHO it's the same as cutting the lock off of a door to gain entry to a building they've secured a warrant to.
The Mission is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
It sounds like everything these days. Anything you buy new is going to be crappier than something used, with the exception of electronics, and even then, a PC AT case made in the 1980s will still outlast anything made today. If I want a RV, the older, the better made it will be. Same with houses, refrigerators, appliances, and so on.
Not necessarily. I think the problem is not that high quality stuff isn't available, it's that it's not the norm anymore. Few people want to spend $70 on a widget of premium quality that will last a lifetime when there's a $15 version available that does indeed MOSTLY work. It will eventually break - maybe in a year or two or maybe in 15 years. 1 out of 50 of them will not work at all and need to be exchanged, but for the most part it's functional and its a lot cheaper.
Very few people spend the money on the premium version, and for any one item, that's probably wise, but if you buy the better version of things consistently, IMHO you end up in better shape because without doing so cumulatively something you have is always breaking and needing to be replaced.
Well, that and to some being "fashionable" is not something they care about.
My wardobe contains 3 types of pants: jeans, black slacks, khaki slacks.
I have 3 types of shirts: t-shirts, polos, and long sleeve button-downs.
It's not trendy or stylish, but I can wear all of those clothes until they actually wear out rather than "go out of style" because they are kind of in the universal "never quite in but never quite out of style either" zone.
Yeah - my brother's nickname for his daughter is "Baby monkey" (which he often sings as "I love baby monkeys" to the tune of "I love beach music", but I digress).
Point is its very common for kids to be referred to as monkeys. Now, given the past situation I certainly think it would be wise to pull the ad once it was brought to their attention, but realistically there's almost zero chance that any racism or offense was intended. As a matter of fact to a large degree I think it's a sign of how far we've come that for the ad team that didn't even make the association of it being offensive when they put it together.
As a matter of fact at some point I think it becomes far more harmful to keep reminding people about all these historical things that were once considered derogatory rather than letting those notions die.
All you need is 2 levels to be a grading system. IE, I could sell a product only in "Premium Grade" and "Standard Grade" and that would be a grading system.
"Pass" and "No Record" indicate two levels of performance, and as such is certainly a grading system.
I really like the Roku platform - I use a Roku stick on my "dumb" TV downstairs and have a TCL Roku Smart TV in the bedroom (it gets pretty regular updates and it saves me an HDMI input).
Really though - for the most part anything works these days. Roku, Amazon TV, a PS3/4 or Xbox 360/One all will stream almost anything you want. I'm sure an AppleTV works fine too though I haven't really tinkered with one of those since the original Gen1 unit.
The only one I don't really like is Chromecast just because I don't care for using my smartphone as the remote. I like having that OPTION for use in a pinch when I use the real remote, but it's not my preferred way to use the device day to day.
A lot of people may know that but are still willing to take the risk.
As you say, the crash may not be for another year or two. I'm still not sure I want to put a dime into Bitcoin (certainly none that I can't afford to lose), but even knowing that it's almost certainly going to crash, if you time it right you can still do well. If you buy now and sell in 6 months at 50% profit it doesn't matter if it crashes in a year to almost nothing.
At this point I think it's probably a better strategy though to watch for brand new cryptocurrencies being introduced that trade at fractions of a penny each. Throw $5 into it and see where it goes. Something that low has the potential to hyper-inflate quickly with all the buzz and if it does you can cash out with some decent money. And if it doesn't - well, you lost $5. The odds are a hell of a lot better than the lottery.
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$10 is about how much it costs extra to get 2-day delivery without prime. If you order from Amazon once a month, then $10/month is too much, simple maths.
I think you seriously underestimate how often a lot of people order from Amazon. For myself I don't even shop locally for almost anything anymore. I probably order from amazon at least twice per week - sometimes a lot more than that.
I remember trying out Mosiac back when I first was trying out the internet (I'd say around 1994-ish). It was interesting but at the time Netscape was just much, much better so I didn't use it much aside from just playing around.
That's apples to oranges. Software never "dies". It may fall out of favor and stop being updated, but it's still out there and quite possibly being used. IIRC as of a few years ago there was still some mechanic shop using a Commodore 64 to balance drive axles because the software was still serving their needs. I'd wager the last release of that C64 software was before Mosiac was even released at all.
While true, that's not really and specific reason to EXCLUDE females. It would totally explain a natural discrepancy but they're talking about an actual stated prohibition on female applicants.
In then end though China does indeed have a population problem and though I hate the method the excess males will likely help solve it. Their cultural preference there has led to an imbalance where a lot of their population will never have the opportunity to reproduce.
Very few college kids are actually "poor". Actual poor people can't afford to attend college. Really poor people don't end up finishing high school (if your father left when you were 5 and your mom can't make the rent payment, it's hard to turn down even a minimum wage job).
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Stamping your feet that the more efficient method is unfair will mean nothing if our economy ends up crashing and there's no money to pay for things, nor any more rich people to blame for it.
Never hard of Varta batteries, but Rayovac is very available here in the south-east US. I almost never see a battery rack with Energizer and Duracell that doesn't also have Rayovacs on it.
I have no issue with Off-Brand. I do mostly rechargeables, and use a ton of "AmazonBasics" batteries that work fine, though I also use some other brands mixed in there.
And if I absolutely HAVE to buy from a store? Rayovac works just as good as the other two and is usually a bit cheaper.
Time has shown that that for the most part "royalty free" doesn't mean a whole lot (ie, while Ogg and Matroska are perfectly functional, they never became the dominant forms used in their sectors).
x265 is catching on slowly because a lot of things don't have hardware decoding for it yet and it's pretty intensive to do using CPU alone. If AV1 isn't any better in that regard, then it won't gain any ground compared to x265 there.
Not sure how well it holds up, but I remember strongly preferring to keep using the old "File Manager" even when "Explorer" became the preferred solution when Windows 95 was released. Not sure where along the way I begrudgingly gave it up (probably as long filenames became more popular - IIRC it was always limited to the 8.3 format).
I honest wonder if it wouldn't be better for him to just go serve his time and get it over with. At this point he's basically living in a prison anyways.
That pedestrian was crossing the street illegally at night with dark clothing. I'm not saying she deserved to die - it would always be preferable to avoid injury to anyone. However, the reality is that even a human controlled car would have had a high likelihood of striking and killing her.
The accident rate will NEVER be zero. It's not possible. All we can hope for as an accident rate that is as good or better than that of a human driver.
I don't think the companies behind broadcast TV are in trouble, though I do see broadcast TV as a medium declining.
This I agree with. The appeal of broadcast TV is that it's "Free" (advertising supported).
I'd imagine that there's a time in the near future where just publishing an app with a free stream of the same content (also ad-supported) would be cheaper than them building massive transmitters in every metro area - if that time isn't already here.
You do realize that such a thing itself would be unconstitutional right?
The politicians can't decide what is constitutional, so by definition they CAN'T pass anything "knowingly" unconstitutional because knowing that would mean they're deciding it.
As the system - the system setup by the constitution - stands, they can pass whatever they want and it's up to the courts to uphold it or strike it down when challenged.
And hope they get there in time. And hope they actually come inside instead of waiting outside for ~4 minutes until the commotion is over. :)
That's pretty much the definition of employment. I work what would be considered a pretty nice white collar job but I still don't ENJOY it. It fucking sucks having to go to work every day but that's just the reality of being an adult and having bills to pay.
Does their job come with some health risks? Yes, but there is protective equipment for that, and so do other jobs. My dad is a construction worker and in his late 50's - he's had to have multiple surgeries to repair damage from years of hard labor. My cousin was also a construction worker who fell from the roof of a building and died. I have a family friend who works in a factory who lost a finger in a machine at work.
All those jobs are considered "morally appropriate", but somehow a woman choosing to engage in prostitution is so morally upsetting to you that you just assume that it MUST be the case that someone else is FORCING her into it or you just arbitrary conflate adults with children to try and make the whole practice illegal.
Gotcha. So except for the shotgun . . . you're looking to take the rest away.
It's the equivalent of banning private communications on the internet and television but still claiming that you're fine in regards to the first amendment because you're leaving them newspapers.
Meh - this is fine. They still need due process (eg, a warrant) - this just gives them the technical ability to get into a phone that they have the legal right to do so.
I'm not at all for building INTENTIONAL backdoors into the software (and whatever hole in the security this company is using to gain access I'd hope Apple soon finds and closes), but if they have their warrant I have no issue with them hacking into the phone if they can figure it out. IMHO it's the same as cutting the lock off of a door to gain entry to a building they've secured a warrant to.
The Mission is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
It sounds like everything these days. Anything you buy new is going to be crappier than something used, with the exception of electronics, and even then, a PC AT case made in the 1980s will still outlast anything made today. If I want a RV, the older, the better made it will be. Same with houses, refrigerators, appliances, and so on.
Not necessarily. I think the problem is not that high quality stuff isn't available, it's that it's not the norm anymore. Few people want to spend $70 on a widget of premium quality that will last a lifetime when there's a $15 version available that does indeed MOSTLY work. It will eventually break - maybe in a year or two or maybe in 15 years. 1 out of 50 of them will not work at all and need to be exchanged, but for the most part it's functional and its a lot cheaper.
Very few people spend the money on the premium version, and for any one item, that's probably wise, but if you buy the better version of things consistently, IMHO you end up in better shape because without doing so cumulatively something you have is always breaking and needing to be replaced.
Well, that and to some being "fashionable" is not something they care about.
My wardobe contains 3 types of pants: jeans, black slacks, khaki slacks.
I have 3 types of shirts: t-shirts, polos, and long sleeve button-downs.
It's not trendy or stylish, but I can wear all of those clothes until they actually wear out rather than "go out of style" because they are kind of in the universal "never quite in but never quite out of style either" zone.
Yeah - my brother's nickname for his daughter is "Baby monkey" (which he often sings as "I love baby monkeys" to the tune of "I love beach music", but I digress).
Point is its very common for kids to be referred to as monkeys. Now, given the past situation I certainly think it would be wise to pull the ad once it was brought to their attention, but realistically there's almost zero chance that any racism or offense was intended. As a matter of fact to a large degree I think it's a sign of how far we've come that for the ad team that didn't even make the association of it being offensive when they put it together.
As a matter of fact at some point I think it becomes far more harmful to keep reminding people about all these historical things that were once considered derogatory rather than letting those notions die.
All you need is 2 levels to be a grading system. IE, I could sell a product only in "Premium Grade" and "Standard Grade" and that would be a grading system.
"Pass" and "No Record" indicate two levels of performance, and as such is certainly a grading system.
I really like the Roku platform - I use a Roku stick on my "dumb" TV downstairs and have a TCL Roku Smart TV in the bedroom (it gets pretty regular updates and it saves me an HDMI input).
Really though - for the most part anything works these days. Roku, Amazon TV, a PS3/4 or Xbox 360/One all will stream almost anything you want. I'm sure an AppleTV works fine too though I haven't really tinkered with one of those since the original Gen1 unit.
The only one I don't really like is Chromecast just because I don't care for using my smartphone as the remote. I like having that OPTION for use in a pinch when I use the real remote, but it's not my preferred way to use the device day to day.
A lot of people may know that but are still willing to take the risk.
As you say, the crash may not be for another year or two. I'm still not sure I want to put a dime into Bitcoin (certainly none that I can't afford to lose), but even knowing that it's almost certainly going to crash, if you time it right you can still do well. If you buy now and sell in 6 months at 50% profit it doesn't matter if it crashes in a year to almost nothing.
At this point I think it's probably a better strategy though to watch for brand new cryptocurrencies being introduced that trade at fractions of a penny each. Throw $5 into it and see where it goes. Something that low has the potential to hyper-inflate quickly with all the buzz and if it does you can cash out with some decent money. And if it doesn't - well, you lost $5. The odds are a hell of a lot better than the lottery.