Mom and Dad had a grudge against them from the '70's. Apparently they'd purchased a TV there that never worked, and Sears jerked them around about the problem until it went out of Warranty. So they went elsewhere and bought a Sony color TV that lasted 30 years and the family never bought anything else at Sears. I like to think that this in some small way contributed to their demise.
Yeah, this shit is why bananas are in danger of going extinct. Bringing asexual reproduction to a core component of most of the world's food supply is the height of irresponsibility.
Was that 2018? That's when I discovered it. They have the spaciest space I've ever seen in a sci-fi show. You get a sense of the harshness of the environment and the difficulties living in it. Definitely worth checking out if you like good sci-fi.
It feels like you can hit about 30 mph walking on the moving sidewalk in DIA. My knees got marginally fucked over in a car accident a couple years back (Doesn't really seem like a fair trade for financially ruining some texting-and-driving cockmonkey, but it's the trade I got,) so I'll usually hop on the escalator at the bus station on my commute to work, hobble up a few steps until I'm behind someone, and then stop. I get there as fast as the guys going up the stairs doing that anyway.
Now that you mention it, we DID used to put an awful lot of lead in every fucking thing. We kind of stopped doing it so much in the '70's, but the whole damn place is still pretty thoroughly contaminated with the stuff. They're probably still doing it in India and China, too, so if that's the problem things probably aren't going to get better anytime soon.
120...ish. I fall closer to 130. I might be able to slow down to 120, but it takes some work on my part. The fastest speed on my digital altimeter is 205 mph, attained in a very steep dive at 9000 feet. I leveled into a track shortly after that, since opening a parachute at 205 mph would kill me just about as fast as not opening a parachute at 205 mph.
Some of the kids I've seen flying in the wind tunnel fall at 70-80 mph. If you weigh less than 90 pounds and know how to fall slowly, I reckon you might be able to survive a terminal velocity fall if you land on the right surface. If you can find a surface that doesn't shatter some bones in the process, that'd actually be a fun party trick.
Suing him would require admitting guilt in the package theft, which is probably just a misdemeanor, but could still result in some jail time. It would also put a jury against the thief. Given that he went for fairly non-lethal non-toxic components and went out of his way to show the non-toxic labels in his video, pursuing a case against him would be an uphill battle. Personally my first go-to for the chemical component would have been bear spray, which would be a lot sketchier, ethically speaking.
An actual social safety net? Lawmakers: Nope!
Medical care that doesn't require the uninsured to go further into debt or bankruptcy if they get sick? Lawmakers: Ha ha ha ha ha no.
Help with that depressing student debt? Lawmakers: Nope!
Better living standards for the next generation? Lawmakers: Nope!
Renewable green energy that's already less expensive than fossil fuels and which might save the planet for future generations? Lawmakers: We really like our coal...
Some help for the homeless? Lawmakers: Uh-uh.
Prozac in the water supply? Lawmakers: Uh... we'll get back to you on that... But in the mean time, how about a nice 3 digit suicide prevention number?
I think you're underestimating Americans' ability to stick their head in the sand. I legitimately had a co-worker argue the other day that since you can go to the emergency room and get treated even if you can't afford to pay, health care in this country is fine. No. Really. He said that. Any time anything comes from China about any scientific advances they've made, those sorts of people are going to claim it's because "they fake science."
The sad fact of the matter is that the USA's educational system has been broken for decades and given the population disparity already working in favor of countries like China and India, they have a lot less work they need to do to surpass us than we do to maintain any sort of innovative lead. Guess what I'm trying to say is, it's a really good time to learn Mandarin.
The channel is the ads. That is always the case anyway, mind you -- top earners aren't making most of their money off ads, they're making their money off endorsement agreements et al. Kid probably has direct agreements with the toy companies he's promoting, give us large briefcases full of cash and we'll feature your product and will act as if it's amazing.
Same thing with most of those cooking channels, they're usually pitching their own cookbooks and cooking equipment. And those skydiving/wingsuit/base jumping channels are nothing more than adverts for GoPro and whatever skydiving equipment they have agreements to pitch. You often see Wingsuit, Parachute Rig and full-face helmet company logos at the start of those.
Selling to children has been massively profitable as long as there's been a media to peddle to them. Back in my day we'd park in front of the TV on a Saturday morning and that was prime time for selling us sugar and cheap plastic crap. These days you just plunk your toddler down with the iPad and this is the sort of place they end up. And of course they're going to want whatever sugar and cheap plastic crap they see on there, and parents will largely indulge them for a moment's peace. Anything can be profitable with a few million people tuning in. Much more so when those people haven't developed impulse control or a sense of quality yet.
Turns out that dude really couldn't hold his neurotoxin. The rest of the complex has barely slowed down yet. Things should pick up sometime around Bring Your Daughter to Work day.
All the Lotus Notes applications had that shitty unpolished feel to them that IBM always brings to the table. You buy a platform from them and they hand you a turd. If you want a shiny turd, you had to polish it yourself. But there was also never a really good way to polish those turds, probably because there never is a really good way to polish a turd. No matter what you do you're going to end up with turd all over you and lucky if you don't smell like that for the rest of your career.
You really don't need lead poisoning to explain what goes on in Congress. It could easily be a combination of them looking after their own self interest to the detriment of everyone else, incompetence, unwillingness to do their jobs and tackle the hard problems and mild to moderate dementia that is common in old age. As Hitchhiker's Guide says, anyone who actually wants a position there should under now account be allowed to serve. We'd probably be better off having a draft for those positions. Like Jury duty with a six digit salary.
It does impact your productivity as you learn your way around a new code base, but it doesn't make you a worse programmer. Your employer expects there to be a ramp-up period, so that's not a problem. If you switch positions because you think there's some cool stuff to learn in the new position, it'll generally make you a better programmer over time. Plus, it's really the only way to get a decent raise in the industry.
Fixing copyright would require a huge legislative effort to reform our IP laws. Given that there's a vast army of lobbyists making sure that'll never happen and a population that doesn't want to hear about IP laws, I'm not optimistic about it happening any time soon. Maybe millenials are more hip to that shit and will change things as they start taking power, but as Congress is mostly old white men, that'll be a long time coming.
Sounds like they're growing past the small business that can get away without having a dedicated IT employee. Since price also seems to be a concern, they're probably not going to get anyone with experience, so maybe hire a high school senior or college CS student on a part time basis with the understanding that they'll be learning on the job.
Yeah, every time I browse the internet on someone else's computer I realize how much the internet would suck without uBlock origin. Then again, I'd probably spend almost no time on the computer outside work if I weren't using an ad blocker, so I suppose that sword cuts both ways.
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Mom and Dad had a grudge against them from the '70's. Apparently they'd purchased a TV there that never worked, and Sears jerked them around about the problem until it went out of Warranty. So they went elsewhere and bought a Sony color TV that lasted 30 years and the family never bought anything else at Sears. I like to think that this in some small way contributed to their demise.
Here, put this in your crack pipe and smoke it.
Yeah, this shit is why bananas are in danger of going extinct. Bringing asexual reproduction to a core component of most of the world's food supply is the height of irresponsibility.
Was that 2018? That's when I discovered it. They have the spaciest space I've ever seen in a sci-fi show. You get a sense of the harshness of the environment and the difficulties living in it. Definitely worth checking out if you like good sci-fi.
It feels like you can hit about 30 mph walking on the moving sidewalk in DIA. My knees got marginally fucked over in a car accident a couple years back (Doesn't really seem like a fair trade for financially ruining some texting-and-driving cockmonkey, but it's the trade I got,) so I'll usually hop on the escalator at the bus station on my commute to work, hobble up a few steps until I'm behind someone, and then stop. I get there as fast as the guys going up the stairs doing that anyway.
Now that you mention it, we DID used to put an awful lot of lead in every fucking thing. We kind of stopped doing it so much in the '70's, but the whole damn place is still pretty thoroughly contaminated with the stuff. They're probably still doing it in India and China, too, so if that's the problem things probably aren't going to get better anytime soon.
120...ish. I fall closer to 130. I might be able to slow down to 120, but it takes some work on my part. The fastest speed on my digital altimeter is 205 mph, attained in a very steep dive at 9000 feet. I leveled into a track shortly after that, since opening a parachute at 205 mph would kill me just about as fast as not opening a parachute at 205 mph. Some of the kids I've seen flying in the wind tunnel fall at 70-80 mph. If you weigh less than 90 pounds and know how to fall slowly, I reckon you might be able to survive a terminal velocity fall if you land on the right surface. If you can find a surface that doesn't shatter some bones in the process, that'd actually be a fun party trick.
Suing him would require admitting guilt in the package theft, which is probably just a misdemeanor, but could still result in some jail time. It would also put a jury against the thief. Given that he went for fairly non-lethal non-toxic components and went out of his way to show the non-toxic labels in his video, pursuing a case against him would be an uphill battle. Personally my first go-to for the chemical component would have been bear spray, which would be a lot sketchier, ethically speaking.
Maybe they should post nothing but male nipples there until further notice.
An actual social safety net?
Lawmakers: Nope!
Medical care that doesn't require the uninsured to go further into debt or bankruptcy if they get sick?
Lawmakers: Ha ha ha ha ha no.
Help with that depressing student debt?
Lawmakers: Nope!
Better living standards for the next generation?
Lawmakers: Nope!
Renewable green energy that's already less expensive than fossil fuels and which might save the planet for future generations?
Lawmakers: We really like our coal...
Some help for the homeless?
Lawmakers: Uh-uh.
Prozac in the water supply?
Lawmakers: Uh... we'll get back to you on that... But in the mean time, how about a nice 3 digit suicide prevention number?
They mean "did."
The sad fact of the matter is that the USA's educational system has been broken for decades and given the population disparity already working in favor of countries like China and India, they have a lot less work they need to do to surpass us than we do to maintain any sort of innovative lead. Guess what I'm trying to say is, it's a really good time to learn Mandarin.
Same thing with most of those cooking channels, they're usually pitching their own cookbooks and cooking equipment. And those skydiving/wingsuit/base jumping channels are nothing more than adverts for GoPro and whatever skydiving equipment they have agreements to pitch. You often see Wingsuit, Parachute Rig and full-face helmet company logos at the start of those.
Selling to children has been massively profitable as long as there's been a media to peddle to them. Back in my day we'd park in front of the TV on a Saturday morning and that was prime time for selling us sugar and cheap plastic crap. These days you just plunk your toddler down with the iPad and this is the sort of place they end up. And of course they're going to want whatever sugar and cheap plastic crap they see on there, and parents will largely indulge them for a moment's peace. Anything can be profitable with a few million people tuning in. Much more so when those people haven't developed impulse control or a sense of quality yet.
Turns out that dude really couldn't hold his neurotoxin. The rest of the complex has barely slowed down yet. Things should pick up sometime around Bring Your Daughter to Work day.
Me? But I'm just this guy, you know?
So what is everyone using to buy their weed and fentanyl now?
All the Lotus Notes applications had that shitty unpolished feel to them that IBM always brings to the table. You buy a platform from them and they hand you a turd. If you want a shiny turd, you had to polish it yourself. But there was also never a really good way to polish those turds, probably because there never is a really good way to polish a turd. No matter what you do you're going to end up with turd all over you and lucky if you don't smell like that for the rest of your career.
So free speech, Bitches. You think the current Supreme court won't agree?
You really don't need lead poisoning to explain what goes on in Congress. It could easily be a combination of them looking after their own self interest to the detriment of everyone else, incompetence, unwillingness to do their jobs and tackle the hard problems and mild to moderate dementia that is common in old age. As Hitchhiker's Guide says, anyone who actually wants a position there should under now account be allowed to serve. We'd probably be better off having a draft for those positions. Like Jury duty with a six digit salary.
It does impact your productivity as you learn your way around a new code base, but it doesn't make you a worse programmer. Your employer expects there to be a ramp-up period, so that's not a problem. If you switch positions because you think there's some cool stuff to learn in the new position, it'll generally make you a better programmer over time. Plus, it's really the only way to get a decent raise in the industry.
Fixing copyright would require a huge legislative effort to reform our IP laws. Given that there's a vast army of lobbyists making sure that'll never happen and a population that doesn't want to hear about IP laws, I'm not optimistic about it happening any time soon. Maybe millenials are more hip to that shit and will change things as they start taking power, but as Congress is mostly old white men, that'll be a long time coming.
Sounds like they're growing past the small business that can get away without having a dedicated IT employee. Since price also seems to be a concern, they're probably not going to get anyone with experience, so maybe hire a high school senior or college CS student on a part time basis with the understanding that they'll be learning on the job.
Yeah, every time I browse the internet on someone else's computer I realize how much the internet would suck without uBlock origin. Then again, I'd probably spend almost no time on the computer outside work if I weren't using an ad blocker, so I suppose that sword cuts both ways.
Now when you say "We solved it," are you talking about some country in Europe? Finland or Iceland or somewhere?