Don't ever leave a call back number. My fax machine will dial you back for hours. Amazing how many of the young call center workers don't know what the fax "boop" means. Any time spent occupying the person or taking a position up in the queue is time that some old person won't get scammed by "Microsoft Support", "The IRS", "Apple Care" or "Car Warranty". That last one took 30 full minutes of scam baiting to get the actual price of $600 per MONTH. I did point out I could get a whole new car for that....in my persona as a senile old guy with a hearing problem.
While I agree that ethanol and driving are not compatible, getting your private lobbying organization written into law, and providing a funding stream for your continued efforts, is wrong. Alcohol education ? Sure. Mandatory Drink-Drive course-yes. In car intoxilyzers ? Yes, for repeat offenders. Pay a private lobbying group ? Nope.
There are a lot of places in the world where a shut down could result in death. Once drove in a blizzard from Bozeman to Billing. My Passenger took it as a four beer ride....he cracks #3, the sensor smells the Busch, car shuts down ? Oh, it's a blizzard, you are 60 miles from any civilization, and about 10 degrees outside. It isn't all gridlock in LA.....
However it doesn't seem like devices themselves should enforce laws because extremists in a moral panic may seek to impose certain behaviors that may interrupt lawful use based on the purported importance of their cause.
you are my new best friend. Stealing this, it applies in SO many places
If you don't drink, you don't want to pay for a device that stops you from drinking and driving. If you do drink, even socially (no not face-down or all day every day) you aren't going to want a car to decide you can't go home.
Breath machines in a police setting are calibrated, and not portable. They are expensive and must be used in a certain way by a trained operator to be valid (the roadside handhelds are NOT enough, which is why you are dragged back to the station to blow). Lastly, a cop breath machine lives indoors, not outside in a car that will see -15F to +120F parked outside-think Montana to Florida.
I know this is MADD's wet dream, and they tend to get whatever they want, including mandatory attendance at a MADD presentation (for which the offender pays MADD) as part of your Court Sentence, but this is a bit too far.
The Sony HDD 250 was the best DVR ever built, and way ahead of its time. The lack of a clock set by sony in software and subsequent abandonment by Rovi/Microsoft taught the danger of spending your real money on their fantasy idea
If you don't drink you won't want to pay for a needless in car breathalyzer....why would you ? If you do drink the last thing you want is your car to decide you have had 'too much', whatever that is. Can't see who, if anyone, is the audience here. While I loathe the right wing description of "virtue signaling" is that where Volvo is going ? Back when there were two swedish car companies, they used to say "one for the right lane (volvo) and one for the left lane (saab). Looks like the right lane is now a maiden aunt who reads Streetsblog and is writing letters against legal cannabis and about speeders on her block to the local legislators....
Have you ever seen trucks on the highway, with speed limiters pass each other. Truck with 67 mph limiter takes an hour to pass truck with 65 mph limiter. Free flow backs up into a conga line. Wrong !
I'm someone locked into Apple. Why ? My children pounded on them for years--no issues with data loss or OS. My wife is an appliance user...no issues with her stuff either. Every time someone gives me a Windows machine I spend hours on updates (that often don't load) and getting nonsense out of the start up folder. Based simply on time "running the box", and not even doing work, the money spent on Apple has paid back in time returned to my life. YMMV and I don't code, but the only Windows machine we have is my son's gaming rig...and even he wishes he wasn't forcibly "upgraded" to 10. So, just no.
I want the magsafe back. That alone saved me a few thousand new laptops. A USB port might be nice, and not only a C port...dongles ? Really ? I bought an Air again just because of that.
I applaud whatever work was done to make this happen, but why would you run Win 10 if you have any choice ? I've a work machine with 7 and it's fine. I have one 10 machine, which confirms my mac bias for normal use.....
The last time I updated my Word suite (still the shittiest WP program out there) it updated me to 365 and nagged me for a CC #. Fuck you MS.
I rolled back to a prior version and turned off updates.
The only thing worse than being forced to use Word is to pay for it every month.....
And so we destroy road (road diets), put up hard bike lanes (hurts parking and business) just so a few entitled twits can bike to work. This is what,.001% of the commuters.
NYC is the worst example.
The largest effect a W10 install has had on me is to make me more of a Mac person...I had to do some updates, etc on a W10 machine, what a POS. Under three layers of crap lie the win 7 panels, but you have to find them.
I hope Apple doesn't blow it, or I'll have nowhere to go
You can get a deal on the website or from resellers...not at the shiny apple store at the mall.
I've just spent a day or so getting Windows 10 updated for a relative. W10 sucks balls so bad that it is the best ad for Apple OS...updates don't take, the browser is slow, etc. Now, my use case is for writing, so it is open...save...print. I don't game on the Apple or write software. For a normal user, the time spent NOT effing with windows 10 is worth the Apple Tax. System 7 is still there, under two shells and layers of crap....and it's a game to find the panel you are looking for....moving the family to Apple gave me back months of my life not trying to remove junk installed by "friends" and malware from some jerkoff in Romania....
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Don't ever leave a call back number. My fax machine will dial you back for hours. Amazing how many of the young call center workers don't know what the fax "boop" means. Any time spent occupying the person or taking a position up in the queue is time that some old person won't get scammed by "Microsoft Support", "The IRS", "Apple Care" or "Car Warranty". That last one took 30 full minutes of scam baiting to get the actual price of $600 per MONTH. I did point out I could get a whole new car for that....in my persona as a senile old guy with a hearing problem.
While I agree that ethanol and driving are not compatible, getting your private lobbying organization written into law, and providing a funding stream for your continued efforts, is wrong. Alcohol education ? Sure. Mandatory Drink-Drive course-yes. In car intoxilyzers ? Yes, for repeat offenders. Pay a private lobbying group ? Nope.
There are a lot of places in the world where a shut down could result in death. Once drove in a blizzard from Bozeman to Billing. My Passenger took it as a four beer ride....he cracks #3, the sensor smells the Busch, car shuts down ? Oh, it's a blizzard, you are 60 miles from any civilization, and about 10 degrees outside. It isn't all gridlock in LA.....
However it doesn't seem like devices themselves should enforce laws because extremists in a moral panic may seek to impose certain behaviors that may interrupt lawful use based on the purported importance of their cause. you are my new best friend. Stealing this, it applies in SO many places
If you don't drink, you don't want to pay for a device that stops you from drinking and driving. If you do drink, even socially (no not face-down or all day every day) you aren't going to want a car to decide you can't go home. Breath machines in a police setting are calibrated, and not portable. They are expensive and must be used in a certain way by a trained operator to be valid (the roadside handhelds are NOT enough, which is why you are dragged back to the station to blow). Lastly, a cop breath machine lives indoors, not outside in a car that will see -15F to +120F parked outside-think Montana to Florida. I know this is MADD's wet dream, and they tend to get whatever they want, including mandatory attendance at a MADD presentation (for which the offender pays MADD) as part of your Court Sentence, but this is a bit too far.
The Sony HDD 250 was the best DVR ever built, and way ahead of its time. The lack of a clock set by sony in software and subsequent abandonment by Rovi/Microsoft taught the danger of spending your real money on their fantasy idea
You have to disable all the spyware ? In a TV. Fuck no I paid for it. Go away.
The reason German cars are German Cars is due to the Autobahn. If a car is tight at 180 kph, it will be very good at 90 kph.
If you don't drink you won't want to pay for a needless in car breathalyzer....why would you ? If you do drink the last thing you want is your car to decide you have had 'too much', whatever that is. Can't see who, if anyone, is the audience here. While I loathe the right wing description of "virtue signaling" is that where Volvo is going ? Back when there were two swedish car companies, they used to say "one for the right lane (volvo) and one for the left lane (saab). Looks like the right lane is now a maiden aunt who reads Streetsblog and is writing letters against legal cannabis and about speeders on her block to the local legislators....
The few times I used it, wore a disposable suit, latex gloves and made sure wind was at my back.
Have you ever seen trucks on the highway, with speed limiters pass each other. Truck with 67 mph limiter takes an hour to pass truck with 65 mph limiter. Free flow backs up into a conga line. Wrong !
and if my option was Win7, OK. Win 10 POS
I'm someone locked into Apple. Why ? My children pounded on them for years--no issues with data loss or OS. My wife is an appliance user...no issues with her stuff either. Every time someone gives me a Windows machine I spend hours on updates (that often don't load) and getting nonsense out of the start up folder. Based simply on time "running the box", and not even doing work, the money spent on Apple has paid back in time returned to my life. YMMV and I don't code, but the only Windows machine we have is my son's gaming rig...and even he wishes he wasn't forcibly "upgraded" to 10. So, just no.
I want the magsafe back. That alone saved me a few thousand new laptops. A USB port might be nice, and not only a C port...dongles ? Really ? I bought an Air again just because of that.
Clearly you haven't seen cop pay in my area, plus benefits, plus retirement. Working Class my ass.
In Sweden, they make two cars. One for the left lane (the SAAB) and one for the right lane (Volvo). Some things don't change !
INTENSE !
I applaud whatever work was done to make this happen, but why would you run Win 10 if you have any choice ? I've a work machine with 7 and it's fine. I have one 10 machine, which confirms my mac bias for normal use.....
Don't get it. I can read all day. I subscribe to two major papers. Why pay Apple ?
The last time I updated my Word suite (still the shittiest WP program out there) it updated me to 365 and nagged me for a CC #. Fuck you MS. I rolled back to a prior version and turned off updates. The only thing worse than being forced to use Word is to pay for it every month.....
And so we destroy road (road diets), put up hard bike lanes (hurts parking and business) just so a few entitled twits can bike to work. This is what, .001% of the commuters.
NYC is the worst example.
The largest effect a W10 install has had on me is to make me more of a Mac person...I had to do some updates, etc on a W10 machine, what a POS. Under three layers of crap lie the win 7 panels, but you have to find them. I hope Apple doesn't blow it, or I'll have nowhere to go
Scanning the options sheet for Mercedes...a charging mat is an option.....
You can get a deal on the website or from resellers...not at the shiny apple store at the mall. I've just spent a day or so getting Windows 10 updated for a relative. W10 sucks balls so bad that it is the best ad for Apple OS...updates don't take, the browser is slow, etc. Now, my use case is for writing, so it is open...save...print. I don't game on the Apple or write software. For a normal user, the time spent NOT effing with windows 10 is worth the Apple Tax. System 7 is still there, under two shells and layers of crap....and it's a game to find the panel you are looking for....moving the family to Apple gave me back months of my life not trying to remove junk installed by "friends" and malware from some jerkoff in Romania....
It's a hobby till those lovely cell towers are out.