You'd have to pay me to get me to ride a subway instead of just driving
And in cities like New York, London, Seoul, Paris, Mexico City, Barcelona, Berlin and others I've visited you'd have to pay me to drive.
I have better things to do in my life than sit in a car in gridlock traffic for two hours when I can get there in 20 minutes on the subway. Life's too short.
It's not. Movies start at 7:30 or 8, not 6pm. Lots of good TV dramas don't start until 10pm - Heck, Seth Meyers doesn't even come on until 12:35am (to be sure, less of a concern in this era of PVRs). Most restaurants don't even open until 8am on weekends. What breakfast at 6:30am? Unless you want an Egg McMuffin or your have a 24-hour Denny's nearby, ferget it. If your friends invite you out, you're considered a lame weirdo if you need to be home by 11.
The movie was not structured around plot, but around music.
Not true, Anonymous Coward. The classical music was just meant to be 'placeholder' music, for use in the 'silent' scenes while Alex North worked on the score he had been commissioned to write. In the end, Kubrick decided he liked the classical pieces more, and that's what he went with.
The Atlantic? Really? You might as well have cited Kos or the daily beast. Why not use CNN net time? Same biased shit.
I'm so tired of this, Anonymous Coward.
If something is factually wrong in the article, point it out. State what is incorrect.
Don't just say "The Atlantic is biased." Base that opinion on facts from the cited article. We'd have a lot more respect for this statement that way.
When someone posts a Breitbart story it's usually pretty easy to find what's factually wrong in it. If The Atlantic is biased it should be the same here.
Facebook's bottom line isn't about connecting people - and what they believe in "so strongly" isn't "connecting people". Facebook's entire business model is collecting persal information from their users and allowing advertisers to have access to that information so those advertisers can hopefully stuff to those users.
You know why I'm not afraid of the 'all seeing all knowing Facebook?' Because they don't know squat. I've been on Facebook for eight years. I post something most days - Some days three or four times. I comment, I "like." I follow various pages. Facebook knows my sex, my age, my location, my friends, my political leanings, and my likes. Yet... They have NEVER ONCE been able to serve me up an ad for something I'm interested in. Never. Once. I post on forums harshly criticizing Air Canada and for the next week I see ads for Air Canada. I see ads for bands I've never heard of and concerts I'm never going to attend. Ads for jobs I'm never going to apply for. On and on.
Does something like this exist at all (if so, I've never seen it...)?
No.
And if not, isn't this a major oversight?
Not really. The market for people looking for a device like this is tiny. You simply wouldn't have enough customers to make building a device profitable. Everyone I know in your scenario either boots a second OS from USB or carries a tablet with a Bluetooth keyboard.
So what? For most of the FBI's existence they didn't have access to any iPhones at all and yet somehow they still managed to be an effective police force.
False equivalency.
50 years ago if I wanted to talk to you about doing a crime I could phone you, write you a letter, or send you a telegram. The FBI could and did intercept all those communications to catch bad guys.
They were able to be an 'effective police force' due in large part to the lack of technological impediments.
Today, I could communicate with you in a whole manner of ways that law enforcement can no longer intercept.
The issue isn't "keeping retards" from getting guns. The problem is that WHATEVER gun rights restrictions get enacted is NEVER ENOUGH.
Not true - If you were to get gun deaths down to similar rates-per-ten-thousand that you see in Canada, the UK, Australia, et al most gun control advocates would quiet right down. Sure, you'd still have the fringe ones who'd want to see things like they have in Japan, but they'd just be fringes.
Because as a car owner I don't object to federally mandated laws governing seatbelts, airbags, bumpers, headlights, horns, crumple zones and hundreds of other rules that apply to cars. As a car owner I don't object to vehicle registration and driver testing and licensing.
Alas, given that some people consider the Second Amendment to be "crazy and offensive", it's pretty much impossible to avoid the label.
The "Crazy and Offensive" comes when supporters of the second amendment consider the deaths of children to be a reasonable price to pay for the right of crazies to buy assault weapons. In most people's world, there's no way that's not 'crazy and offensive.'
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> only Airbus is. Ughn.
??!?!!?
Boeing doesn't make engines either.
All I want is a screen, with HDMI ports.
And all my wife wants is to press the "Netflix" button on the remote and start watching Grace and Frankie.
My seven-year-old son wants to toggle to the YouTube menu and start watching Minecraft videos.
You'd have to pay me to get me to ride a subway instead of just driving
And in cities like New York, London, Seoul, Paris, Mexico City, Barcelona, Berlin and others I've visited you'd have to pay me to drive.
I have better things to do in my life than sit in a car in gridlock traffic for two hours when I can get there in 20 minutes on the subway. Life's too short.
It has always seemed weird to me that California has the same number of senators in Washington as North Dakota and Vermont.
The restaurant I had dinner at last night closes at 1 AM.
2 AM on weekends.
Why is the world designed for "morning larks?"
It's not. Movies start at 7:30 or 8, not 6pm. Lots of good TV dramas don't start until 10pm - Heck, Seth Meyers doesn't even come on until 12:35am (to be sure, less of a concern in this era of PVRs). Most restaurants don't even open until 8am on weekends. What breakfast at 6:30am? Unless you want an Egg McMuffin or your have a 24-hour Denny's nearby, ferget it. If your friends invite you out, you're considered a lame weirdo if you need to be home by 11.
I saw the movie in it's theatrical release, and it was unwatchable even back then.
It's quite watchable, as long as you turn the movie off and go to bed after Dave Bowman unplugs HAL.
The movie was not structured around plot, but around music.
Not true, Anonymous Coward. The classical music was just meant to be 'placeholder' music, for use in the 'silent' scenes while Alex North worked on the score he had been commissioned to write. In the end, Kubrick decided he liked the classical pieces more, and that's what he went with.
Yet you have never publicly done so
I do this all the time - Someone posts a Breitbart story and I read it and say "good point" or "these are the facts that are wrong in the article."
That's how discourse works.
The Atlantic? Really? You might as well have cited Kos or the daily beast. Why not use CNN net time? Same biased shit.
I'm so tired of this, Anonymous Coward.
If something is factually wrong in the article, point it out. State what is incorrect.
Don't just say "The Atlantic is biased." Base that opinion on facts from the cited article. We'd have a lot more respect for this statement that way.
When someone posts a Breitbart story it's usually pretty easy to find what's factually wrong in it. If The Atlantic is biased it should be the same here.
Facebook's bottom line isn't about connecting people - and what they believe in "so strongly" isn't "connecting people". Facebook's entire business model is collecting persal information from their users and allowing advertisers to have access to that information so those advertisers can hopefully stuff to those users.
You know why I'm not afraid of the 'all seeing all knowing Facebook?' Because they don't know squat. I've been on Facebook for eight years. I post something most days - Some days three or four times. I comment, I "like." I follow various pages. Facebook knows my sex, my age, my location, my friends, my political leanings, and my likes. Yet... They have NEVER ONCE been able to serve me up an ad for something I'm interested in. Never. Once. I post on forums harshly criticizing Air Canada and for the next week I see ads for Air Canada. I see ads for bands I've never heard of and concerts I'm never going to attend. Ads for jobs I'm never going to apply for. On and on.
Who decides what are officially "facts" and what are not?
Consensus. Experts. Multiple reliable sources for information.
e.g.
http://www.politifact.com/trut...
So, that means Conservative news will be eliminated
Nope - Conservative news with a strong basis in fact will remain prominent, Anonymous Coward.
Let me know when you find some, by the way.
but seriously, why is it so hard to understand
Because Trump supporters aren't interested in facts that contradict their Dear Leader's narrative of lies or his propaganda arms.
They should be paying for the burden.
They DO pay, Anonymous Coward. The USPS isn't a free service.
Does something like this exist at all (if so, I've never seen it...)?
No.
And if not, isn't this a major oversight?
Not really. The market for people looking for a device like this is tiny. You simply wouldn't have enough customers to make building a device profitable. Everyone I know in your scenario either boots a second OS from USB or carries a tablet with a Bluetooth keyboard.
If gun control in the UK, Aus, and Canada is "enough", then why do their governments keep pushing for more?
Because as those nations further urbanize, the voters demand it. Most city-dwelling Canadians and Brits see no need for people to own guns.
So what? For most of the FBI's existence they didn't have access to any iPhones at all and yet somehow they still managed to be an effective police force.
False equivalency.
50 years ago if I wanted to talk to you about doing a crime I could phone you, write you a letter, or send you a telegram. The FBI could and did intercept all those communications to catch bad guys.
They were able to be an 'effective police force' due in large part to the lack of technological impediments.
Today, I could communicate with you in a whole manner of ways that law enforcement can no longer intercept.
The issue isn't "keeping retards" from getting guns. The problem is that WHATEVER gun rights restrictions get enacted is NEVER ENOUGH.
Not true - If you were to get gun deaths down to similar rates-per-ten-thousand that you see in Canada, the UK, Australia, et al most gun control advocates would quiet right down. Sure, you'd still have the fringe ones who'd want to see things like they have in Japan, but they'd just be fringes.
Depends entirely on the sport.
Track and field? Best athletes in the world
Swimming? Ditto.
Skiing? Yep.
The list goes on and on. It's really on a small subset of professional sports where the Olympics don't represent the best athletes in the world.
I don't understand
He never intended to go high enough to prove or disprove the earth is a ball.
This was a stunt for publicity to draw attention to the Flat Earth Society (or whatever it's called).
It's no different than Red Bull painting their name on these gliders' tails to promote their brand:
http://wanderingcerebrations.c...
they have argumentation about why no edge has been found.
These "flat-earthers" are just trolling us for fun to get a rise out of us, right?
They don't truly believe the earth is flat like a pie plate, right?
Please tell me that's the case.
Because as a car owner I don't object to federally mandated laws governing seatbelts, airbags, bumpers, headlights, horns, crumple zones and hundreds of other rules that apply to cars. As a car owner I don't object to vehicle registration and driver testing and licensing.
yeah, let me tell you how elections work....
I live in Canada, Anonymous Coward. I know how elections work.
Alas, given that some people consider the Second Amendment to be "crazy and offensive", it's pretty much impossible to avoid the label.
The "Crazy and Offensive" comes when supporters of the second amendment consider the deaths of children to be a reasonable price to pay for the right of crazies to buy assault weapons. In most people's world, there's no way that's not 'crazy and offensive.'