I'm a big guy and I agree with you. I think it's only fair to let the market decide. I don't fly unless I have to, if it's less than 2 days travel by car I go by car. The last flight I made was to Hawaii a 10 hour flight from Atlanta. I took some pills before the flight and slept in misery most of the flight. I spent 4 months in Hawaii, took my pills and endured the cattle car flight back. If I had to do it every day it would be a problem but I can endure a little misery occasionally. People need to toughen up a little.
I think my last flight was back around 2008 or 2009. Can't recall exactly. However, it was also to Hawaii, on board a KC-135 out of what was once McChord AFB, WA. That was probably the least comfortable flight I was ever on, or perhaps the second least comfortable. Least would have been the C-130 flight from Bagram, Afghanistan to Al Udeid, Qatar. Not only are those "cargo strap" bench seats uncomfortable, but that was one freakin' long flight for a 130 (still one of my top favorite aircraft though). At least the first leg of that trip was a little more comfortable, C-17 from Kandahar to Bagram.
Perhaps R&D into interstellar exploration will get a tremendous boost thanks to the same thing that made home video and the Internet big commercial successes...the porn industry. (Giggity)
"We're committed to providing a better ads experience for users online. As part of that, we've decided to stop supporting 30-second unskippable ads as of 2018 and focus instead on formats that work well for both users and advertisers,"
I'd like to know why they do not implement this right away. It cannot be because they do not know what works well well for both users and advertisers now.
Likely contract reasons for this. If that is the case, then they have to wait until those contracts with the affected advertisers and advertising agents are up for renegotiation and renewal. That seems like the simplest explanation.
We're gonna wait 11 months just to make sure everybody is really sure this is what they want....
I suspect that nearly 1 year wait before implementing this is likely due to contract reasons with with the ad agencies. They are probably required to continue having unskippable ads on some videos until the contracts with the entities that show those types are up for renegotiation/renewal.
Under the legal theory that a term rollback is a taking, each year of the term of a subsisting exclusive right that the Congress has granted is a thing of value. Then by cutting back the "limited Times" for which the Congress has granted an exclusive right in a particular work or invention, the Congress takes "private property for public use". This would obligate the Congress to provide "just compensation", which courts have interpreted as the fair market value of the property, for each year of the remaining term.
Just give back what the MAFIAA gave to the public in exchange for the privilege of having their copyrights extended to infinity minus a day.
If they gave the public nothing of value for that privilege, then if copyrights get miraculously rolled back to something sane, they can have a huge heaping helping of nothing back in return, the exact thing they gave the public.
>> Ten of the staff who work on early education programs -- one-third of the total -- commute two or more hours each way a day because they cannot find housing they can afford.
Bullshit. Here's your solution: move to San Jose, then commute 45 minutes to work. Here's some listings for rooms and apartments starting at just $500 if you're too fucking lazy to use one of the hundreds of "find an apartment" web sites.
Even better would be for them to find a way to make the move to San Jose, and then get a job they are qualified for locally. If enough did that, the affluent citizens of Palo Alto will find themselves freaking out that there are no longer any people to prepare or serve their meals when they eat out, sell them their overpriced coffees, clean their buildings, take care of their lawns, etc.
Oops! You fuckers just drove away the majority of your labor pool.
Considering the bile he spread toward anyone that did not follow his specific ultra fundie mythology, and that many of my generation, who were forced to go to church in our formative years were exposed to his works early on and were led to believe his garbage because you do not question any "church authority" ever... Yeah, the universe is a little brighter with him rotting in his grave.
Don't get me wrong. I never went around actively wishing him to die, but I did feel a sense of peace upon news of his passing, a sense of peace because he can no longer create any new filth to influence impressionable young minds.
And truth be known, now that I am fully capable of rational independent thought, I do actually find his twisted little universe amusing and mildly entertaining for the train wreck that it is. Chick Tracts are best experienced while drunk or high, and with the commentary of the YouTube personalities known as Hugo and Jake (aka The Bible Reloaded).
Heck, I was watching their review of the Dark Dungeons movie last night and found myself hoping that they could redo the Dark Dungeons Chick Tract reading, with Jeff Dee as a guest voice, like they did Big Daddy with AronRa, and a few other tracts with guests in the antitheist community.
Thinking back, on the upside, 2016 also took Fidel Castro and Jack T. Chick from us at long last. I thought there were a few other "evil" celebrities as well that bit the dust, but I can't name any at the moment. Thought Fred Phelps was one of them, but looks like he went to nonexistence way back in 2014. Perhaps we can get lucky and his shitty diet will cause Kim Jong Un to complete the 2016 evil triad within the next 3 1/2 days.
You cannot have one without the other. Ideally corporations and human beings are a symbiotic relationship and not a parasitic one.
Humans in one form or another predate corporations by a couple hundred thousand years. So you may not be able to have one without the other, but you can certainly have the other without the one.
My wife hates gore - I think we'll be trying VidAngel soon.
We all hate him. Suggestion: Don't watch “An Inconvenient Truth” (spoiler: the cause and effect graphs clearly show the effect coming before the cause) or its new sequel and you should be fine.
Awww. But he is super serial. Who else is going to carry on the fight against Manbearpig?
Sounds like your business neighbor does not deserve the privileges of having either customers or employees. Only thing deserved for him should be bankruptcy.
Even better? How about Pwn Tang provided in their own tea bags? The ultimate gamer geek victory drink.:D
(And yes, I am aware I am totally murdering the rules of sentence structure and punctuation this morning. But as we say in the Duchy of Don't Give a Shit though; at least when we are posting first thing in our waking day while still working on that first cup of coffee, "Frankly my dears, I don't give a shit.");)
Plus, gas pumps always seem to frequently shut off way too soon (often within seconds of starting), so if you are trying to do your windows while letting the fuel flow unattended, the whole process will likely take even longer due to having to stop washing the windows several times to get the pump working again.
The poster is an idiot. Most places either have a diesel only pump, or all the pumps have a diesel option.
If you're in Oregon, it doesn't matter anyhow since it's illegal to pump your own gas. So you spend at least a half an hour waiting for the kid to finish smoking his joint before spilling gas all over the side of your car.
That has changed somewhat. Now, at gas stations that allow it, you can pump your own between 6:00 in the evening and 6:00 in the morning.
Also, stations on reservations (like the Arrowhead Plaza outside of Pendleton) are self serve all the time, not subject to Oregon's restrictions (and previous ban) on self serve.
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I'm a big guy and I agree with you. I think it's only fair to let the market decide. I don't fly unless I have to, if it's less than 2 days travel by car I go by car. The last flight I made was to Hawaii a 10 hour flight from Atlanta. I took some pills before the flight and slept in misery most of the flight. I spent 4 months in Hawaii, took my pills and endured the cattle car flight back. If I had to do it every day it would be a problem but I can endure a little misery occasionally. People need to toughen up a little.
I think my last flight was back around 2008 or 2009. Can't recall exactly. However, it was also to Hawaii, on board a KC-135 out of what was once McChord AFB, WA. That was probably the least comfortable flight I was ever on, or perhaps the second least comfortable. Least would have been the C-130 flight from Bagram, Afghanistan to Al Udeid, Qatar. Not only are those "cargo strap" bench seats uncomfortable, but that was one freakin' long flight for a 130 (still one of my top favorite aircraft though). At least the first leg of that trip was a little more comfortable, C-17 from Kandahar to Bagram.
Lol, a train through Alaska and Russia to get to western Europe...
Sure, if you want a scenic journey that takes a week.
That would be pretty freakin' awesome, actually. Of course, I would have to resist the urge to sing a certain Rush song the entire trip...
Our first stop is in Bogotà
To check Columbian fields
The natives smile and pass along
A sample of their yield
Sweet Jamaican pipe dreams
Golden Acapulco nights
Then Morocco, and the East
Fly by morning light
We're on the train to Bangkok
Aboard the Thailand Express
We'll hit the stops along the way
We only stop for the best
Wreathed in smoke in Lebanon
We burn the midnight oil
The fragrance of Afghanistan
Rewards a long day's toil
Pulling into Kathmandu
Smoke rings fill the air
Perfumed by a Nepal night
The Express gets you there
We're on the train to Bangkok
Aboard the Thailand Express
We'll hit the stops along the way
We only stop for the best
If they really wanted to troll us, they would craft the Orion Nebula into the Goatse Nebula.
Perhaps R&D into interstellar exploration will get a tremendous boost thanks to the same thing that made home video and the Internet big commercial successes...the porn industry. (Giggity)
They should put that research into something much more profound... Like making an elephant or mammoth with 5 asses.
"We're committed to providing a better ads experience for users online. As part of that, we've decided to stop supporting 30-second unskippable ads as of 2018 and focus instead on formats that work well for both users and advertisers,"
I'd like to know why they do not implement this right away. It cannot be because they do not know what works well well for both users and advertisers now.
Likely contract reasons for this. If that is the case, then they have to wait until those contracts with the affected advertisers and advertising agents are up for renegotiation and renewal. That seems like the simplest explanation.
We're gonna wait 11 months just to make sure everybody is really sure this is what they want....
I suspect that nearly 1 year wait before implementing this is likely due to contract reasons with with the ad agencies. They are probably required to continue having unskippable ads on some videos until the contracts with the entities that show those types are up for renegotiation/renewal.
And don't even get me started on those Goobacks from the future, coming back in time here to Take our jobs!
Then rollback that little right. Sounds like a fair trade. :D
Under the legal theory that a term rollback is a taking, each year of the term of a subsisting exclusive right that the Congress has granted is a thing of value. Then by cutting back the "limited Times" for which the Congress has granted an exclusive right in a particular work or invention, the Congress takes "private property for public use". This would obligate the Congress to provide "just compensation", which courts have interpreted as the fair market value of the property, for each year of the remaining term.
Just give back what the MAFIAA gave to the public in exchange for the privilege of having their copyrights extended to infinity minus a day.
If they gave the public nothing of value for that privilege, then if copyrights get miraculously rolled back to something sane, they can have a huge heaping helping of nothing back in return, the exact thing they gave the public.
I don't think we have ever considered Taiwan an enemy. It is the other China, the big mainland one that we are wary of.
And now we have lost Debbie Reynolds as well.
If any artist would care to sculpt a monument to 2016, it should be in the form of a raised fist with the middle finger extended.
>> Ten of the staff who work on early education programs -- one-third of the total -- commute two or more hours each way a day because they cannot find housing they can afford.
Bullshit. Here's your solution: move to San Jose, then commute 45 minutes to work. Here's some listings for rooms and apartments starting at just $500 if you're too fucking lazy to use one of the hundreds of "find an apartment" web sites.
https://www.trulia.com/for_ren...
Even better would be for them to find a way to make the move to San Jose, and then get a job they are qualified for locally. If enough did that, the affluent citizens of Palo Alto will find themselves freaking out that there are no longer any people to prepare or serve their meals when they eat out, sell them their overpriced coffees, clean their buildings, take care of their lawns, etc.
Oops! You fuckers just drove away the majority of your labor pool.
Considering the bile he spread toward anyone that did not follow his specific ultra fundie mythology, and that many of my generation, who were forced to go to church in our formative years were exposed to his works early on and were led to believe his garbage because you do not question any "church authority" ever... Yeah, the universe is a little brighter with him rotting in his grave.
Don't get me wrong. I never went around actively wishing him to die, but I did feel a sense of peace upon news of his passing, a sense of peace because he can no longer create any new filth to influence impressionable young minds.
And truth be known, now that I am fully capable of rational independent thought, I do actually find his twisted little universe amusing and mildly entertaining for the train wreck that it is. Chick Tracts are best experienced while drunk or high, and with the commentary of the YouTube personalities known as Hugo and Jake (aka The Bible Reloaded).
Heck, I was watching their review of the Dark Dungeons movie last night and found myself hoping that they could redo the Dark Dungeons Chick Tract reading, with Jeff Dee as a guest voice, like they did Big Daddy with AronRa, and a few other tracts with guests in the antitheist community.
It's just symbolic, like Col. Potter's toast in the MASH episode, A War for All Seasons.
"Here's to the New Year; may she be a damned sight better than the old one."
Thinking back, on the upside, 2016 also took Fidel Castro and Jack T. Chick from us at long last. I thought there were a few other "evil" celebrities as well that bit the dust, but I can't name any at the moment. Thought Fred Phelps was one of them, but looks like he went to nonexistence way back in 2014. Perhaps we can get lucky and his shitty diet will cause Kim Jong Un to complete the 2016 evil triad within the next 3 1/2 days.
I just want to raise a one finger salute and shout out a heart felt "FUCK YOU" to the year 2016.
You cannot have one without the other. Ideally corporations and human beings are a symbiotic relationship and not a parasitic one.
Humans in one form or another predate corporations by a couple hundred thousand years. So you may not be able to have one without the other, but you can certainly have the other without the one.
My wife hates gore - I think we'll be trying VidAngel soon.
We all hate him. Suggestion: Don't watch “An Inconvenient Truth” (spoiler: the cause and effect graphs clearly show the effect coming before the cause) or its new sequel and you should be fine.
Awww. But he is super serial. Who else is going to carry on the fight against Manbearpig?
I thought car analogies on Slashdot were supposed to only be really bad analogies.
And speaking of which, whatever happened to BadAnalogyGuy? Haven't seen him post in ages.
(Then again, it's not like I read this place daily, and when I do, it is not like I check out every single article and every discussion.)
I'd prefer a bowl or a joint instead.
Sounds like your business neighbor does not deserve the privileges of having either customers or employees. Only thing deserved for him should be bankruptcy.
Even better? How about Pwn Tang provided in their own tea bags? The ultimate gamer geek victory drink. :D
(And yes, I am aware I am totally murdering the rules of sentence structure and punctuation this morning. But as we say in the Duchy of Don't Give a Shit though; at least when we are posting first thing in our waking day while still working on that first cup of coffee, "Frankly my dears, I don't give a shit.") ;)
Plus, gas pumps always seem to frequently shut off way too soon (often within seconds of starting), so if you are trying to do your windows while letting the fuel flow unattended, the whole process will likely take even longer due to having to stop washing the windows several times to get the pump working again.
The poster is an idiot. Most places either have a diesel only pump, or all the pumps have a diesel option.
If you're in Oregon, it doesn't matter anyhow since it's illegal to pump your own gas. So you spend at least a half an hour waiting for the kid to finish smoking his joint before spilling gas all over the side of your car.
That has changed somewhat. Now, at gas stations that allow it, you can pump your own between 6:00 in the evening and 6:00 in the morning.
Also, stations on reservations (like the Arrowhead Plaza outside of Pendleton) are self serve all the time, not subject to Oregon's restrictions (and previous ban) on self serve.