At some point your nostalgia piece, pile of crap from the 1960's [...] be outright banned from the road
It is rare that they don't include a grandfather clause.
I grew up driving a 1949 Willys Jeep CJ-3A. It didn't have those modern safety features of today's Jeeps. Things like doors, a roof, rollbars, turn signals, seatbelts, airbags, windshield wipers (actually, it did have a vacuum system for running a windshield wiper for the driver, but it didn't work very well when going uphill). Add to that the fact that the gas tank sat right under the driver's seat. I could pull up to a gas pump, take the top off the gas tank, grab the hose and start to fill the Jeep and never even leave my seat.
And, if it were still alive, it would still be legal in Vermont, where I grew up. Alas, it finally rusted out after 51 years of Vermont winters.
The argument is that the simplest way to deal with said potential reality is to just not buy into it. Remember, no one is forcing me to buy a MINI. I can buy another kind of car. There are plenty of other kinds of cars out there. I doubt that all the auto makers would immediately jump into doing this--they're pretty risk averse (which explains some of the designs coming out of Detroit). Buy from the ones who don't. The ones who do will get the message.
I have an opposite version: I always dress nicely for interviews--I figure it's a sign of respect. I offended a few people that I interviewed with because I was dressed nicely--like I was trying to cover up for my lack of skill or something.
I still dress nicely, though I've toned it down over the years.
When I was 16, I could drive with the same rules as anyone else with a diver's license. I could drive at night. I could drive with other similar aged people in the car. A license was liberating. Nowadays, when you turn 16, you get a provisional license. You can't drive anybody under 20--namely most of your friends. You can't drive after 11:00PM at night. Not liberating.
Heck, if Mom and/or Dad will drive me around, why should I go through the hassle?
Another is that the US now has about 80% of our population living in an urban area of 2500 or more people [...]
Twenty-Five Hundred People is considered an Urban Area?! You sure you're not missing a zero there somewhere?! The town I grew up in had a population of 3500 and it was definitely NOT "urban."
The freakiest thing was when someone said the crew compartment survived the explosion. It's one thing to die from an explosion--quite another to watch it coming at you in a fall from 48,000 feet.
Clearly you don't understand the argument then. Anyone who does something wrong with their gun is, by definition, no longer one of the good guys.
I really hope you're being facetious.
Remember that the "bad guy" in question was a retired police officer. The sort of person who the NRA would say should be allowed to carry a weapon into a movie theater. He has received years of training on how and when to use a weapon at taxpayer expense.
The mental snapshot doesn't work because I can't be certain that the mental snapshot is not from the day before. "Am I sure I'm not remembering closing it yesterday?" Remember that this is LA--the weather is pretty consistent, so I don't have the "It rained yesterday, snowed the day before, but it was sunny today" to differentiate it. Of course, what's funny is that pressing the button to close the door is such an automatic movement that I do it without even thinking about it. I tried moving the button around so that I would have to reach for the garage door opener and that worked for awhile.
What I do is take the time to make up a word and when I'm down the road and the "Did I close the garage door?" hits, I remember the word that I made up. Today's word was "gazornaplats."
The problem is that if I don't do that due to some weird programming problem in my head, I have to turn around and go home and check. It would be nice to have an alternative than driving, say, 15 miles back home in order to check a garage door.
I can use my cell phone to open the garage door, turn on the garage light, the hallway light, the family room light, turn on the tea maker, and fire up SONOS to the Pandora station of my choice.
I assume your cell-phone talks to the Internet which talks to your house which causes all of these things to occur? Or is it that you're close enough to home that you can hop on your WiFi network (mine works okayish in the driveway) and nothing is Internet accessible?
I'm curious because I've debated getting this capability for our garage door because I am sometimes unsure whether or not I closed the garage door--it's an OCD thing. So having the ability to check my cellphone to see if I closed the door would be helpful in getting to work on time. My garage door opener has an "Internet Link" which goes to the manufacturer's website and I can check the status or open/close the garage door via that. Of course, I'm not sure I like that idea that somebody over in China can hack their way in and open my garage door. I've debated just using a wireless webcam in the garage so that I could look at that go, "Hey, it's dark. The door must not be open."
First issue is that those viewers are time-shifting. The broadcasters hate that because some of their advertisers want the ads to be seen at that time. The great example being Thursday night, when the movie studios want to advertise movies opening that weekend. It doesn't do them as much good if I'm watching commercials meant for Thursday night on the next Monday or I'm watching Monday programming on Thursdays. Why should I, as an advertiser, pay extra for a Thursday night ad when there's no guarantee that the perspective customer will see it on Thursday night?
Second issue is that those viewers are not being measured. Broadcast television is seeing it's viewership decline as people go do other things--including watching the programs that broadcasters are showing via other means. Remember that ad rates are set by how many people are measured watching the show. No measurement and you have no idea how many people are watching and, therefore, no clue as to how to set the ad rates.
It's a valid point--but mostly due to where you get your data from.
Part of the difference between this and what's going on the west is the trend. It's one thing to have a hotter than average summer. That's weather. When you have 3 or 4 or 6 or 10 summers that are hotter than average, then you have reason to say that the climate is changing.
You're right that the press and those who have a vested interest are all willing to jump on whatever weather anomaly is happening to say, "See? Climate Change! Global Warming!" These are the people you ignore--they're idiots.
For example, "Superstorm Sandy" was a very wet hurricane. It's winds weren't particularly strong but the amount of rain was tremendous--more so than most hurricanes. I'm sure the press fished around for a quote from someone saying that, yes, you would expect to see wetter hurricanes due to the increases in temperature. This suddenly turned into hurricane Sandy being proof of global warming!
Nope. Hurricane Sandy was a wetter than usual hurricane. If we have 3 or 4 of them, that might be evidence. But you know the press--they need a story now, not in 10 years.
Keep in mind that Apple has a very secretive culture. I could easily believe that there is a group that works with the NSA but that is not generally known.
Hell, most employees hadn't heard of the iPhone before it was announced. How difficult would it be to have a group inside Apple that did these things and not have anybody outside of those employees know about it?
When I was a kid, my sisters would talk on the phone with their friends. My parents would occasionally yell at them to get off the damn phone.
I see it as a variation of the same thing as when I was a kid. The only difference is that in my day, you had one communication line into the house and parents made sure that the line was kept relatively open because if someone was on the phone, a person trying to call in would get a busy signal. Nowadays, you don't have the bandwidth limitations into the house that you once had. Between high-speed dedicated wired Internet and cellular networks, you don't really have the "excuse" that the line needs to be kept open in case someone wants to call. Thus, there really isn't a reason to not let kids talk to their friends as much as they want, except for other tasks that are necessary (e.g., homework, chores, etc.)
Nope, can't do it. District policy. Child must either take the bus or be picked up by a parent.
Tell the school to kiss your ass. They don't have the power to say how your kid gets to school or how they get home. They will certainly try to pretend that they do and will make a bunch of noise. But that's about all they can do.
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We haven't yet looked for life in any liquid water outside of earth
I'm pretty sure we haven't found any liquid water outside Earth.
At some point your nostalgia piece, pile of crap from the 1960's [...] be outright banned from the road
It is rare that they don't include a grandfather clause.
I grew up driving a 1949 Willys Jeep CJ-3A. It didn't have those modern safety features of today's Jeeps. Things like doors, a roof, rollbars, turn signals, seatbelts, airbags, windshield wipers (actually, it did have a vacuum system for running a windshield wiper for the driver, but it didn't work very well when going uphill). Add to that the fact that the gas tank sat right under the driver's seat. I could pull up to a gas pump, take the top off the gas tank, grab the hose and start to fill the Jeep and never even leave my seat.
And, if it were still alive, it would still be legal in Vermont, where I grew up. Alas, it finally rusted out after 51 years of Vermont winters.
The argument is that the simplest way to deal with said potential reality is to just not buy into it. Remember, no one is forcing me to buy a MINI. I can buy another kind of car. There are plenty of other kinds of cars out there. I doubt that all the auto makers would immediately jump into doing this--they're pretty risk averse (which explains some of the designs coming out of Detroit). Buy from the ones who don't. The ones who do will get the message.
They'll keep the whole "You're not allowed to drive without insurance", and add in "Your insurance is cancelled if you modifiy your car".
Uh, I'm not sure where you're from, but the insurer of my car and the dealer I bought it from have nothing to do with each other.
Why would the insurer care? About the only reason would be that they might want more money because the car is more valuable.
Maybe if they set up a "Futureworld"? No, that might not work out so well either...
I have an opposite version: I always dress nicely for interviews--I figure it's a sign of respect. I offended a few people that I interviewed with because I was dressed nicely--like I was trying to cover up for my lack of skill or something.
I still dress nicely, though I've toned it down over the years.
That's probably the best point.
When I was 16, I could drive with the same rules as anyone else with a diver's license. I could drive at night. I could drive with other similar aged people in the car. A license was liberating. Nowadays, when you turn 16, you get a provisional license. You can't drive anybody under 20--namely most of your friends. You can't drive after 11:00PM at night. Not liberating.
Heck, if Mom and/or Dad will drive me around, why should I go through the hassle?
Another is that the US now has about 80% of our population living in an urban area of 2500 or more people [...]
Twenty-Five Hundred People is considered an Urban Area?! You sure you're not missing a zero there somewhere?! The town I grew up in had a population of 3500 and it was definitely NOT "urban."
Not originally, but now I'm like totally into it, y'know?
The freakiest thing was when someone said the crew compartment survived the explosion. It's one thing to die from an explosion--quite another to watch it coming at you in a fall from 48,000 feet.
Actually, my favorite was the Challenger License Plate with the message "KABOOM"
If they can't, like, stay connected then they would literally die!
FTFY.
I don't believe there is any excuse for shooting someone in a theater.
Tell that to John Wilkes Booth.
(Okay, I admit it's a reach...)
Clearly you don't understand the argument then. Anyone who does something wrong with their gun is, by definition, no longer one of the good guys.
I really hope you're being facetious.
Remember that the "bad guy" in question was a retired police officer. The sort of person who the NRA would say should be allowed to carry a weapon into a movie theater. He has received years of training on how and when to use a weapon at taxpayer expense.
The mental snapshot doesn't work because I can't be certain that the mental snapshot is not from the day before. "Am I sure I'm not remembering closing it yesterday?" Remember that this is LA--the weather is pretty consistent, so I don't have the "It rained yesterday, snowed the day before, but it was sunny today" to differentiate it. Of course, what's funny is that pressing the button to close the door is such an automatic movement that I do it without even thinking about it. I tried moving the button around so that I would have to reach for the garage door opener and that worked for awhile.
What I do is take the time to make up a word and when I'm down the road and the "Did I close the garage door?" hits, I remember the word that I made up. Today's word was "gazornaplats."
The problem is that if I don't do that due to some weird programming problem in my head, I have to turn around and go home and check. It would be nice to have an alternative than driving, say, 15 miles back home in order to check a garage door.
I can use my cell phone to open the garage door, turn on the garage light, the hallway light, the family room light, turn on the tea maker, and fire up SONOS to the Pandora station of my choice.
I assume your cell-phone talks to the Internet which talks to your house which causes all of these things to occur? Or is it that you're close enough to home that you can hop on your WiFi network (mine works okayish in the driveway) and nothing is Internet accessible?
I'm curious because I've debated getting this capability for our garage door because I am sometimes unsure whether or not I closed the garage door--it's an OCD thing. So having the ability to check my cellphone to see if I closed the door would be helpful in getting to work on time. My garage door opener has an "Internet Link" which goes to the manufacturer's website and I can check the status or open/close the garage door via that. Of course, I'm not sure I like that idea that somebody over in China can hack their way in and open my garage door. I've debated just using a wireless webcam in the garage so that I could look at that go, "Hey, it's dark. The door must not be open."
They shouldn't. Except...
First issue is that those viewers are time-shifting. The broadcasters hate that because some of their advertisers want the ads to be seen at that time. The great example being Thursday night, when the movie studios want to advertise movies opening that weekend. It doesn't do them as much good if I'm watching commercials meant for Thursday night on the next Monday or I'm watching Monday programming on Thursdays. Why should I, as an advertiser, pay extra for a Thursday night ad when there's no guarantee that the perspective customer will see it on Thursday night?
Second issue is that those viewers are not being measured. Broadcast television is seeing it's viewership decline as people go do other things--including watching the programs that broadcasters are showing via other means. Remember that ad rates are set by how many people are measured watching the show. No measurement and you have no idea how many people are watching and, therefore, no clue as to how to set the ad rates.
I'm going to make my own currency! With Blackjack! And Hookers!
They announce it now so you know where to go once those doors open.
It's a valid point--but mostly due to where you get your data from.
Part of the difference between this and what's going on the west is the trend. It's one thing to have a hotter than average summer. That's weather. When you have 3 or 4 or 6 or 10 summers that are hotter than average, then you have reason to say that the climate is changing.
You're right that the press and those who have a vested interest are all willing to jump on whatever weather anomaly is happening to say, "See? Climate Change! Global Warming!" These are the people you ignore--they're idiots.
For example, "Superstorm Sandy" was a very wet hurricane. It's winds weren't particularly strong but the amount of rain was tremendous--more so than most hurricanes. I'm sure the press fished around for a quote from someone saying that, yes, you would expect to see wetter hurricanes due to the increases in temperature. This suddenly turned into hurricane Sandy being proof of global warming!
Nope. Hurricane Sandy was a wetter than usual hurricane. If we have 3 or 4 of them, that might be evidence. But you know the press--they need a story now, not in 10 years.
I live about 90 Km SE of Fargo
Why?
The Dictionary. All other books are generated from this one.
Keep in mind that Apple has a very secretive culture. I could easily believe that there is a group that works with the NSA but that is not generally known.
Hell, most employees hadn't heard of the iPhone before it was announced. How difficult would it be to have a group inside Apple that did these things and not have anybody outside of those employees know about it?
When I was a kid, my sisters would talk on the phone with their friends. My parents would occasionally yell at them to get off the damn phone.
I see it as a variation of the same thing as when I was a kid. The only difference is that in my day, you had one communication line into the house and parents made sure that the line was kept relatively open because if someone was on the phone, a person trying to call in would get a busy signal. Nowadays, you don't have the bandwidth limitations into the house that you once had. Between high-speed dedicated wired Internet and cellular networks, you don't really have the "excuse" that the line needs to be kept open in case someone wants to call. Thus, there really isn't a reason to not let kids talk to their friends as much as they want, except for other tasks that are necessary (e.g., homework, chores, etc.)
Nope, can't do it. District policy. Child must either take the bus or be picked up by a parent.
Tell the school to kiss your ass. They don't have the power to say how your kid gets to school or how they get home. They will certainly try to pretend that they do and will make a bunch of noise. But that's about all they can do.
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