that's the real trouble liberals have. Yes, there are cases where logging companies have misused forestry policy to cut trees that didn't need cutting. But that doesn't make make the funding cuts for fire safety any less real.
It has nothing to do with liberals, it is merely market forces at work.
The larger, older trees, which in many cases are the ones that can survive fires better, are the ones that get logged, because they are worth more money.
I completely agree regarding the funding cuts. Without oversight, controlled burns, etc, the fuels just increase every year.
The undergrowth, and especially the beetle killed trees, aren't removed and are a fuel source just waiting for a fire.
When the logging companies "manage" the forest, they only take the oldest and largest lumber, that is worth the most $.
The smaller trees and undergrowth, the stuff that dries out and burns easier gets ignored.
So when I search for "Live Slayer Reign 1986" I get:
- An instructional video on making a dove tail joint
- A small theater production of The King and I
- 4 different videos of stick thin pubescents doing covers of Taylor Swift on out of tune acoustic guitars
- The last ten minutes of Heavy Metal Parking Lot.
- A video on how the Federal Reserve is bringing back vampires from DNA
Climate Change is affecting all of us, right now.
The increased intensity of the fires in the west in the last 10 years or so is just an example.
As is the increasingly extreme weather we are seeing worldwide.
But go ahead and keep thinking you are safe and sound, somehow protected from how the planets climate and weather are changing.
Your politics can't save you.
I'm originally from the BA, but haven't lived there in over a decade.
I have many relatives all over California, some who still live in the BA, and some who moved to other parts of Cali.
Regarding any kind of defense of working people staying in an unaffordable place is madness.
I would love to move back there, however, economically it doesn't make sense.
I have a good job with good benefits in a semi-affordable town in a flyover state.
Move back to the BA? Why?
So I can make the mortgage payment for someone else?
If you work and are struggling mightily to stay in an unaffordable place, then by all means get the FO and live somewhere you can afford.
Sure, you can whine about Tulsa, Boise, Carson City or Mesa not being as great as Cali, but too fucking bad.
This is the economic reality.
Every time I go back to the BA to visit and this topic comes up I'm always amazed that people struggle to get by, because of their own choice. The economy is hot right now and it isn't hard to get a job somewhere else.
I started with them around 2002, when it was optical media only.
It was great to not have to go to the movie rental places anymore and just choose films online.
And as the years went by their catalog got better, right up to and during their initial venture into streaming.
Holy fuck those were the days.
A halcyon era of choice, where they had an amazing catalog of classics, b films, foreign films, all the new stuff as well as all kinds of great stuff to stream.
Then it started to slowly morph in on itself.
The catalog shrank and the original programming took over.
We all know the reasons for this: GREED
So I'm still a NF subscriber, and maybe 2-3 times a week I will watch it for an hour or two.
I still get the Blu-Rays for things I can't stream(better quality anyway).
But here is the interesting thing that has happened. Since NF has devolved and all the other greedy fucks have gotten into the game creating an ultra-balkanized media landscape, I have grown tired of the whole thing. Tired of the all the different services, tired of the menus, tired of the weak original programming, tired of the hassle of trying to find something cool to watch.
So the end result is that I watch less "tv". I "do" more now.
Because of the rat race that this has turned into, I find myself just doing things besides watching.
While some seem to prefer the ribbon, to me it exchanged one arbitrary grouping of features for another arbitrary grouping. One gets around in Office by memorizing where shit is, NOT because of their lovely menus/ribbons. It was a stupid UI move in my opinion.
On the money!
MS can't help themselves.
It would be interesting to be a fly on the wall in some of the Office or Windows UI meetings, to hear the absolute bullshit that gets spread around thick by people that have no clue how real users use their software.
I'm surprised it took me this long to find the MS apologist, but ladies and gentlemen, here he is.
Actually, the reality is that MS has goobered up the UI to the point that people don't even want to use it.
For how bad you could say the start button was, the current W10 interface is a total POS in comparison.
And guess what, everyone knows it.
Only some will admit it.
Mate, are you saying that lobbyists paid for by a corporation are the shadow government, this "deep state" we hear so much about? Surely you aren't insinuating that a for profit personhood entitled entity could or would be "actually be running that government department from behind the scenes"?
Please enlighten us.
I would imagine you have a deep understanding and breadth of knowledge in this because you use words and phrases like:
click bait
sanctioned
deep state
political appointees
corruption
arbitrary
Did you forget the </sarcasm> tag at the end of your comment? If you're not being sarcastic, then be glad you're on the internet and not in front of me, because I'd punch you square the mouth as hard as I possibly could for saying shit like that.
Also the notion that there is no 'backup driver' is false. The driver is just not in the car. If the car gets stuck it will simply stop, turn on the hazard lights, and wait for a remote operator to do something to help.
Yea, but the guy wearing the Daydream is too busy in Fortnite to remotely get your Waymo out of that ditch.
Boston, Mass.- based identity and access company LogMeIn recently released a study to analyze the business impact and consumer attitudes of today's customers and their journey to a sale.
Journey to a sale?
Really?
Whats next, a caravan to a refund?
How about a junket to a recall?
it lays the groundwork to circumvent and resist their monopoly control without crossing the interstate commerce clause at the federal level.
You nailed it right there.
Scumbags like Pai the rest of his ilk will use everything at their disposal to stop this. They want media consolidation at any cost. They see a future where we the connectivity and the content are controlled by a few players, and everyone else is gone. It is almost there now.
You know, it's interesting that my opinions of films don't get tainted by social media... because I don't use social media.
I've noticed "from the outside" that people who are "clued into" what social media tells them they should think, by golly, they think it.
And I'm not talking about either side of the political divide, but both sides.
I've seen how paying attention to twitter, FB, etc does nothing but incite idiocy.
My opinion of social media users goes lower by the day.
I don't know if Kathleen Kennedy and Rian Johnson are sowing discord(FTFY). And I don't care.
I don't pay attention to sales figures, for the box office or Blu-Ray, etc;
Since I don't pay attention to social media, I had no fucking idea there was some kind of flame war about Last Jedi.
I have been a SW fan since the first film. I can remember with fondness the SW doldrums of the late 80s-90s when we would watch all three films back to back on VHS.
We had no idea that SW would continue and become the cultural La Brea tarpit that it has become.
And yes, you can get the fuck off my lawn.
I do know this:
I had a feeling from the beginning that Disney would cheez the fuck out of SW, which they have, and that Lucas, for all his faults should have kept the rights and done the films he wanted to do.
I knew that if Abrams had anything to do with it then it would really suck, and I won't get into the finer points here but I will say that Force Awakens is a much worse film than Last Jedi. Abrams is a curse to all sci-fi.
But after all is said and done I still went to see the films and will see the next one. I realized that after the muppet show on Endor in Episode VI, the cheez had set in nice and thick, and my hopes were dashed. So I've been jaded about SW since, oh... 1983.
So my(and probably many other SW fans who saw the original films in the theatre) opinion about SW now, after the prequels, the edits Lucas made, the social media wanking, etc, I just look at these movies as entertainment.
Your posts here are some of the most ridiculous nonsense I've seen regarding climate change and carbon emissions.
Please do some research before you post and make yourself look the fool.
Slashdot Mirror
that's the real trouble liberals have. Yes, there are cases where logging companies have misused forestry policy to cut trees that didn't need cutting. But that doesn't make make the funding cuts for fire safety any less real.
It has nothing to do with liberals, it is merely market forces at work.
The larger, older trees, which in many cases are the ones that can survive fires better, are the ones that get logged, because they are worth more money.
I completely agree regarding the funding cuts. Without oversight, controlled burns, etc, the fuels just increase every year.
The undergrowth, and especially the beetle killed trees, aren't removed and are a fuel source just waiting for a fire.
Because, as every Illiberal knows, forest-management is simply a pre-text for allowing logging companies to cut trees down. For profit (spit!).
When the logging companies "manage" the forest, they only take the oldest and largest lumber, that is worth the most $.
The smaller trees and undergrowth, the stuff that dries out and burns easier gets ignored.
So many phantastical claims, not a single citation... Tsk-tsk-tsk...
So you haven't learned to use the Internet yet...?
Give it a go mate, you might learn something.
So when I search for "Live Slayer Reign 1986" I get:
- An instructional video on making a dove tail joint
- A small theater production of The King and I
- 4 different videos of stick thin pubescents doing covers of Taylor Swift on out of tune acoustic guitars
- The last ten minutes of Heavy Metal Parking Lot.
- A video on how the Federal Reserve is bringing back vampires from DNA
Climate Change is affecting all of us, right now.
The increased intensity of the fires in the west in the last 10 years or so is just an example.
As is the increasingly extreme weather we are seeing worldwide.
But go ahead and keep thinking you are safe and sound, somehow protected from how the planets climate and weather are changing.
Your politics can't save you.
You sure about that? My general understanding is the natives used control burning to manage wildfires, something NIMBY white people can't figure out.
You're absolutely right. They did use "controlled" burns for a long time.
And yes, towns built in forested areas will burn, not if, but when.
However, assigning a racial component to your comment is ridiculous.
I'm originally from the BA, but haven't lived there in over a decade.
I have many relatives all over California, some who still live in the BA, and some who moved to other parts of Cali.
Regarding any kind of defense of working people staying in an unaffordable place is madness.
I would love to move back there, however, economically it doesn't make sense.
I have a good job with good benefits in a semi-affordable town in a flyover state.
Move back to the BA? Why?
So I can make the mortgage payment for someone else?
If you work and are struggling mightily to stay in an unaffordable place, then by all means get the FO and live somewhere you can afford.
Sure, you can whine about Tulsa, Boise, Carson City or Mesa not being as great as Cali, but too fucking bad.
This is the economic reality.
Every time I go back to the BA to visit and this topic comes up I'm always amazed that people struggle to get by, because of their own choice. The economy is hot right now and it isn't hard to get a job somewhere else.
Oracle: Don't you dare change to a competing product. Bad things will happen to you.
Right, and what "competing product" will they change to?
So should the Whitehouse use VI or Emacs?
Our current Whitehouse would think this means either:
Village Inn
or
A new breakfast sandwich at Carls Jr
Trump doesn't pay contractors, though...
In Soviet Trumpistan, contractors pay you!
Long time Netflix subscriber here.
I started with them around 2002, when it was optical media only.
It was great to not have to go to the movie rental places anymore and just choose films online.
And as the years went by their catalog got better, right up to and during their initial venture into streaming.
Holy fuck those were the days.
A halcyon era of choice, where they had an amazing catalog of classics, b films, foreign films, all the new stuff as well as all kinds of great stuff to stream.
Then it started to slowly morph in on itself.
The catalog shrank and the original programming took over.
We all know the reasons for this: GREED
So I'm still a NF subscriber, and maybe 2-3 times a week I will watch it for an hour or two.
I still get the Blu-Rays for things I can't stream(better quality anyway).
But here is the interesting thing that has happened. Since NF has devolved and all the other greedy fucks have gotten into the game creating an ultra-balkanized media landscape, I have grown tired of the whole thing. Tired of the all the different services, tired of the menus, tired of the weak original programming, tired of the hassle of trying to find something cool to watch.
So the end result is that I watch less "tv". I "do" more now.
Because of the rat race that this has turned into, I find myself just doing things besides watching.
Win2k had the first iteration of Active Directory, and to be honest, it sucked balls
Microsoft blatantly ripped off Novell Netware for AD.
While some seem to prefer the ribbon, to me it exchanged one arbitrary grouping of features for another arbitrary grouping. One gets around in Office by memorizing where shit is, NOT because of their lovely menus/ribbons. It was a stupid UI move in my opinion.
On the money! MS can't help themselves.
It would be interesting to be a fly on the wall in some of the Office or Windows UI meetings, to hear the absolute bullshit that gets spread around thick by people that have no clue how real users use their software.
I'm surprised it took me this long to find the MS apologist, but ladies and gentlemen, here he is.
Actually, the reality is that MS has goobered up the UI to the point that people don't even want to use it.
For how bad you could say the start button was, the current W10 interface is a total POS in comparison.
And guess what, everyone knows it.
Only some will admit it.
I logged in to say that your post is excellent and I couldn't agree more.
Well Done!
Mate, are you saying that lobbyists paid for by a corporation are the shadow government, this "deep state" we hear so much about? Surely you aren't insinuating that a for profit personhood entitled entity could or would be "actually be running that government department from behind the scenes"?
Please enlighten us.
I would imagine you have a deep understanding and breadth of knowledge in this because you use words and phrases like:
click bait
sanctioned
deep state
political appointees
corruption
arbitrary
By all means Mate, continue.
Did you forget the </sarcasm> tag at the end of your comment? If you're not being sarcastic, then be glad you're on the internet and not in front of me, because I'd punch you square the mouth as hard as I possibly could for saying shit like that.
Did you forget yours?
Waymo cars are far better drivers than the Humans the luddites quoted in that article are begging for.
Where is the Apps guy when we need him!
Also the notion that there is no 'backup driver' is false. The driver is just not in the car. If the car gets stuck it will simply stop, turn on the hazard lights, and wait for a remote operator to do something to help.
Yea, but the guy wearing the Daydream is too busy in Fortnite to remotely get your Waymo out of that ditch.
Boston, Mass.- based identity and access company LogMeIn recently released a study to analyze the business impact and consumer attitudes of today's customers and their journey to a sale.
Journey to a sale?
Really?
Whats next, a caravan to a refund?
How about a junket to a recall?
He supports the use of medical marijuana (a first for republican president).
I think Trump needs to get a script of that.
it lays the groundwork to circumvent and resist their monopoly control without crossing the interstate commerce clause at the federal level.
You nailed it right there.
Scumbags like Pai the rest of his ilk will use everything at their disposal to stop this. They want media consolidation at any cost. They see a future where we the connectivity and the content are controlled by a few players, and everyone else is gone. It is almost there now.
You know, it's interesting that my opinions of films don't get tainted by social media... because I don't use social media.
I've noticed "from the outside" that people who are "clued into" what social media tells them they should think, by golly, they think it.
And I'm not talking about either side of the political divide, but both sides.
I've seen how paying attention to twitter, FB, etc does nothing but incite idiocy.
My opinion of social media users goes lower by the day.
I don't know if Kathleen Kennedy and Rian Johnson are sowing discord(FTFY). And I don't care.
I don't pay attention to sales figures, for the box office or Blu-Ray, etc;
Since I don't pay attention to social media, I had no fucking idea there was some kind of flame war about Last Jedi.
I have been a SW fan since the first film. I can remember with fondness the SW doldrums of the late 80s-90s when we would watch all three films back to back on VHS.
We had no idea that SW would continue and become the cultural La Brea tarpit that it has become.
And yes, you can get the fuck off my lawn.
I do know this:
I had a feeling from the beginning that Disney would cheez the fuck out of SW, which they have, and that Lucas, for all his faults should have kept the rights and done the films he wanted to do.
I knew that if Abrams had anything to do with it then it would really suck, and I won't get into the finer points here but I will say that Force Awakens is a much worse film than Last Jedi. Abrams is a curse to all sci-fi.
But after all is said and done I still went to see the films and will see the next one. I realized that after the muppet show on Endor in Episode VI, the cheez had set in nice and thick, and my hopes were dashed. So I've been jaded about SW since, oh... 1983.
So my(and probably many other SW fans who saw the original films in the theatre) opinion about SW now, after the prequels, the edits Lucas made, the social media wanking, etc, I just look at these movies as entertainment.
Your posts here are some of the most ridiculous nonsense I've seen regarding climate change and carbon emissions.
Please do some research before you post and make yourself look the fool.
I keep seeing new things that Amazon is getting involved in, and its getting ridiculous.
Whats next?
It is long past time to break up Amazon.