You live in a nice quiet condo tower, and then suddenly it's 24x7 party next door because the unit is being rented on Airbnb.
All your airbnb's turn into a 24/7 party? What they hell are you guys doing? Most of the time I see AirBnb's empty during the day and having several passed out tourists snoring in beds at night. I challenge your assertion that the place suddenly turns into a party room.
So you're seeing tourists passed out in their beds? You're either a creep or a liar, not sure which one is worst.
Airbnb and hosts make money at the expense of the neighbors. That's abuse by itself.
You live in a nice quiet condo tower, and then suddenly it's 24x7 party next door because the unit is being rented on Airbnb. What can you do? It's a new temporary tenant every fee days so even if you complain this start overs the following week.
Hotels are equipped for this and designed for this. Residential buildings are not. It's unfair to put this burden on neighbors just so the host and a startup can make a few bucks.
under Obama, federal spending went up 45%. He spent about 1/3 more than Bush on the military. And his healthcare program (which mostly benefited insurance companies) is going to weigh on the governement for decades.
I don't know where you buy your weed, but dude if you think Obama "balanced the budget" you've found an amazing pot dealer.
Russia is a third-world country in many aspects, but when it comes to rocket science they've always been way ahead of the rest of the world.
For instance, do you know how stealth aircraft technology came to be? Yes, it was first built by Americans at the Lockheed skunkworks, but the theory and math comes from Russian scientists. TV shows like "The Americans" make it look like Russia stole all their tech from the USA, but that truly was a two-way street.
For some reason Russians are good at building rockets, and now that there's no longer a Reagan or Bush to drive their economy to the ground with a clever arms race, they're becoming a real threat again.
Apple has cash offshore that they can't bring back without losing a huge chunk of it, so that's more or less virtual money. In America they have less than 20 billions (which is not even 1/3 of their debt).
Walmart has more cash than Apple in the USA and a lot less debt (about 2/3 of Apple debt).
Microsoft has 4x more cash than Apple in the country and only 1/3 of their debt.
It's probably time to sell your Apple stock. Holding to that position for 30 years won't mean a thing once it gets back on a nosedive.
Can you name one Republican politician that has enjoyed positive press in the mainstream media since Eisenhower? Or one Democrat president that had an hostile press corps?
Here's an example. Which President spent more on the military in the last 20 years? Bush? Wrong. At the end of this term, Obama will have spent $800 billions more than Bush on the military. So why are the New York Times and others not getting their panties in a bunch over military spending lately, while they did during Bush administration?
Obama: - spent more on the military - increased the domestic intelligence programs (while the newspaper still blame Bush for the Patriot Act) - has released 3x less prisonners from guantanamo than Bush - helped large corporations triple their annual profit compared to the Bush era - manages to spend more *every year* than the total amount spent by Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Johnson, Ford and Carter combined (in their entire terms), and that's accounting for inflation.
The obscenity that is the Obama administration can probably only be topped by Clinton. But mysteriously we never hear about those things, all we hear about is women that suddenly remember being groped by Trump 15 years ago.
You know what's really funny? That people remember that survey showing that 2/3 of people who watch Fox News think that WMDs were found in Iraq; but what nobody seems to realize is that 99% of the people who read the New York Times don't understand that Obama is bankrupting the country and that Clinton is a sociopath.
See your post sums up this whole election: let's elect Clinton because she's not Trump.
She has no plans or vision or political platform other than not being Trump. Doesn't that worry you?
We've seen how well it went with the I'm Not Bush president. Those people get in the Oval Office and suddenly there's a huge void because they can no longer define themselves by contrast to someone else. So they improvise and horse around, throw money here and there, try to find a way to please their sponsors while creating a "legacy". They stand for nothing, they follow the polls, they just suck.
So let's give up the idea of having a good President, let's focus on which one will give us more entertainment. Let's ask ourselves: which of those two could resurrect press conferences and the state of the union? Would you ever tivo a Clinton speech so you can watch again the good parts? Unlikely. Even is she was competent, she's exciting as a doorknob.
Trump, however, would give us a good show. Insult foreign dignitaries that don't deserve the VIP treatment. Blame people, companies or religions openly. Make comments about the physical appearance of celebrities. Ignore lobbies. Ignore precedents and tradition. The guy is pure gold!
An incompetent VC idiot who lost a quarter of fund's portfolio value in five years tells everybody how to make money... hahaha
VC was all about hardware lately. Fitbits, VR, IoT/DDOS thermostats. Money was not made and startups went down in flames, so now we have experts saying it's all about software.
It's just like in finance. Stocks, bonds, PE. Stocks, bonds, PE. According to the wheel of fortune we're heading in stocks territory.
Will I need to bring over my forklift to get you out of the basement first?
My first impression was that the implied accusation here is that the other person is extremeley fat, but while I would understand how something like a winch could help, how exactly would you operate a forklift in this situation?
Or maybe I read it wrong, and what you mean is that the other person is part of a subculture of basement dwellers (possibly with redneckish undertones) that can be lured out by the promise of showing them a forklift. I could see myself being enticed to get out of my house if someone was coming over to show me their new Dodge Viper, so I guess other people could be into forklifts, especially if they belong to a blue collar class.
Either way, could you clarify? Based on the thread layout, that forklift comment seems like a tipping point and I feel left out of the conversation because I don't fully understand the implications.
Well at least we're on the same page on this. The OSX look hasn't evolved in over ten years, just like the hardware, Apple makes minuscule changes and people keep paying for the same old dated technology.
It's a free country so it's ok to throw your money out the window, knock yourself out; keep buying their overpriced PC clones that run a watered down Unix clone, but at least don't try to spin this business model of recycling customers and products as if it was a magnificent achievement of engineering. Apple is not a technology company, it's a marketing company.
As for Linux there is a user base that likes to have their system setup their way and never change it, and there's also people who love living on the edge. That's why there's LTS releases and why some people will keep using the same Blackbox interface for 15 years or more (which by he way can be themes and customized to no end and can look pretty sci-fi compared to OOTB). And that's why there's also rolling releases and constant forks and spinoffs (like Cinnamon) and heavily redesigned GUI and GUIs meant to have the same look & feel as Windows or Mac. It's the beauty of the eclectic Linux ecosystem.
What exactly do you gain by buying Apple instead of a generic PC running Linux? Nothing; you have less software options, less customization options, you have planned obsolescence enforced by the vendor as well as by the customers (who wants to prance around at Starbucks with an iPhone 4 or with an old iPad?). And you can't even count on the cool factor anymore because the brand is a has-been heading the way of Blackberry or Palm.
Funny enough, this panther screenshot is for the most part identical to the latest OSX. We all know nothing has changed on the Macbook hardwarw in years, but clearly nothing has changed in the GUI either.
What money can you make on a Mac that cannot be made on a non-Mac? Are you talking about the constantly shrinking ios app market, fhe gold rush that ended up not being profitable for the vast majority of developers?
Sure in KDE there's the "Start" menu, and you're also allowed to have non-blurry fonts, but besides that it's very similar.
Of course according to you one has to be a GUI designer to appreciate the magnificent visual engineering of Apple so we'll never see eye to eye, but here's the thing: even the default GUI in Ubuntu (Unity) looks better than OSX.
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You live in a nice quiet condo tower, and then suddenly it's 24x7 party next door because the unit is being rented on Airbnb.
All your airbnb's turn into a 24/7 party? What they hell are you guys doing? Most of the time I see AirBnb's empty during the day and having several passed out tourists snoring in beds at night. I challenge your assertion that the place suddenly turns into a party room.
So you're seeing tourists passed out in their beds? You're either a creep or a liar, not sure which one is worst.
Read some of those stories.
http://www.airbnbhell.com/
that may work if you're the owner. As a legitimate, long-term tenant, you have no power.
Airbnb and hosts make money at the expense of the neighbors. That's abuse by itself.
You live in a nice quiet condo tower, and then suddenly it's 24x7 party next door because the unit is being rented on Airbnb. What can you do? It's a new temporary tenant every fee days so even if you complain this start overs the following week.
Hotels are equipped for this and designed for this. Residential buildings are not. It's unfair to put this burden on neighbors just so the host and a startup can make a few bucks.
That is by far the most stupid thing I have ever read.
You must not read a lot, and/or you've never done ticket duty in a tech support department.
under Obama, federal spending went up 45%. He spent about 1/3 more than Bush on the military. And his healthcare program (which mostly benefited insurance companies) is going to weigh on the governement for decades.
I don't know where you buy your weed, but dude if you think Obama "balanced the budget" you've found an amazing pot dealer.
Russia is a third-world country in many aspects, but when it comes to rocket science they've always been way ahead of the rest of the world.
For instance, do you know how stealth aircraft technology came to be? Yes, it was first built by Americans at the Lockheed skunkworks, but the theory and math comes from Russian scientists. TV shows like "The Americans" make it look like Russia stole all their tech from the USA, but that truly was a two-way street.
For some reason Russians are good at building rockets, and now that there's no longer a Reagan or Bush to drive their economy to the ground with a clever arms race, they're becoming a real threat again.
Apple has cash offshore that they can't bring back without losing a huge chunk of it, so that's more or less virtual money. In America they have less than 20 billions (which is not even 1/3 of their debt).
Walmart has more cash than Apple in the USA and a lot less debt (about 2/3 of Apple debt).
Microsoft has 4x more cash than Apple in the country and only 1/3 of their debt.
It's probably time to sell your Apple stock. Holding to that position for 30 years won't mean a thing once it gets back on a nosedive.
Steve Ballmer actually delivered constant, massive profits at Microsoft. To this date he has been the most successful CEO in that organization.
I think it has more to do with the iPhone 6 generation being a very popular upgrade, mostly due to the larger screen sizes.
Am I the only one who remembers the pre-iPhone6 fanbois sneering at the Samsung phone large screen and insisting that the iPhone was "right-sized"?
That goes to show the level of iPhonyness of the Apple zealots.
Cute, you do online banking and watch cat videos on your Linux box. Some people do real work.
Like what?
So what you are saying is:
"Performant" != "Fast".
and also:
A performant mobile device is one that is fast
My conclusion is that your comment does not perform well.
Can you name one Republican politician that has enjoyed positive press in the mainstream media since Eisenhower? Or one Democrat president that had an hostile press corps?
Here's an example. Which President spent more on the military in the last 20 years? Bush? Wrong. At the end of this term, Obama will have spent $800 billions more than Bush on the military. So why are the New York Times and others not getting their panties in a bunch over military spending lately, while they did during Bush administration?
Obama:
- spent more on the military
- increased the domestic intelligence programs (while the newspaper still blame Bush for the Patriot Act)
- has released 3x less prisonners from guantanamo than Bush
- helped large corporations triple their annual profit compared to the Bush era
- manages to spend more *every year* than the total amount spent by Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Johnson, Ford and Carter combined (in their entire terms), and that's accounting for inflation.
The obscenity that is the Obama administration can probably only be topped by Clinton. But mysteriously we never hear about those things, all we hear about is women that suddenly remember being groped by Trump 15 years ago.
You know what's really funny? That people remember that survey showing that 2/3 of people who watch Fox News think that WMDs were found in Iraq; but what nobody seems to realize is that 99% of the people who read the New York Times don't understand that Obama is bankrupting the country and that Clinton is a sociopath.
In other words, he would destroy America in such a way that it would take decades to put right. But the ride to Hell would be FUN.
Well, that's what I've done with my liver in my 20s and it was totally worth it.
See your post sums up this whole election: let's elect Clinton because she's not Trump.
She has no plans or vision or political platform other than not being Trump. Doesn't that worry you?
We've seen how well it went with the I'm Not Bush president. Those people get in the Oval Office and suddenly there's a huge void because they can no longer define themselves by contrast to someone else. So they improvise and horse around, throw money here and there, try to find a way to please their sponsors while creating a "legacy". They stand for nothing, they follow the polls, they just suck.
We can all agree on that.
So let's give up the idea of having a good President, let's focus on which one will give us more entertainment. Let's ask ourselves: which of those two could resurrect press conferences and the state of the union? Would you ever tivo a Clinton speech so you can watch again the good parts? Unlikely. Even is she was competent, she's exciting as a doorknob.
Trump, however, would give us a good show. Insult foreign dignitaries that don't deserve the VIP treatment. Blame people, companies or religions openly. Make comments about the physical appearance of celebrities. Ignore lobbies. Ignore precedents and tradition. The guy is pure gold!
Software is the story.
Shingy, is that you?
An incompetent VC idiot who lost a quarter of fund's portfolio value in five years tells everybody how to make money... hahaha
VC was all about hardware lately. Fitbits, VR, IoT/DDOS thermostats. Money was not made and startups went down in flames, so now we have experts saying it's all about software.
It's just like in finance. Stocks, bonds, PE. Stocks, bonds, PE. According to the wheel of fortune we're heading in stocks territory.
Will I need to bring over my forklift to get you out of the basement first?
My first impression was that the implied accusation here is that the other person is extremeley fat, but while I would understand how something like a winch could help, how exactly would you operate a forklift in this situation?
Or maybe I read it wrong, and what you mean is that the other person is part of a subculture of basement dwellers (possibly with redneckish undertones) that can be lured out by the promise of showing them a forklift. I could see myself being enticed to get out of my house if someone was coming over to show me their new Dodge Viper, so I guess other people could be into forklifts, especially if they belong to a blue collar class.
Either way, could you clarify? Based on the thread layout, that forklift comment seems like a tipping point and I feel left out of the conversation because I don't fully understand the implications.
yes but it costs him 3 times less to be a troll and an idiot, according to the other idiot that works at IBM
Well at least we're on the same page on this. The OSX look hasn't evolved in over ten years, just like the hardware, Apple makes minuscule changes and people keep paying for the same old dated technology.
It's a free country so it's ok to throw your money out the window, knock yourself out; keep buying their overpriced PC clones that run a watered down Unix clone, but at least don't try to spin this business model of recycling customers and products as if it was a magnificent achievement of engineering. Apple is not a technology company, it's a marketing company.
As for Linux there is a user base that likes to have their system setup their way and never change it, and there's also people who love living on the edge. That's why there's LTS releases and why some people will keep using the same Blackbox interface for 15 years or more (which by he way can be themes and customized to no end and can look pretty sci-fi compared to OOTB). And that's why there's also rolling releases and constant forks and spinoffs (like Cinnamon) and heavily redesigned GUI and GUIs meant to have the same look & feel as Windows or Mac. It's the beauty of the eclectic Linux ecosystem.
What exactly do you gain by buying Apple instead of a generic PC running Linux? Nothing; you have less software options, less customization options, you have planned obsolescence enforced by the vendor as well as by the customers (who wants to prance around at Starbucks with an iPhone 4 or with an old iPad?). And you can't even count on the cool factor anymore because the brand is a has-been heading the way of Blackberry or Palm.
Funny enough, this panther screenshot is for the most part identical to the latest OSX. We all know nothing has changed on the Macbook hardwarw in years, but clearly nothing has changed in the GUI either.
What money can you make on a Mac that cannot be made on a non-Mac? Are you talking about the constantly shrinking ios app market, fhe gold rush that ended up not being profitable for the vast majority of developers?
I'm not sure what is Sierra, but this is the 2015 version of OSX and yes it's pretty much as sophisticated as KDE in 2003.
http://a5.mzstatic.com/us/r30/...
Sure in KDE there's the "Start" menu, and you're also allowed to have non-blurry fonts, but besides that it's very similar.
Of course according to you one has to be a GUI designer to appreciate the magnificent visual engineering of Apple so we'll never see eye to eye, but here's the thing: even the default GUI in Ubuntu (Unity) looks better than OSX.
Post a screenshot url and let's see.