I've never owned a cellular phone. In this day and age, there are some advantages:
1) I save ~ $1000 (pretax) per year on the cellular service bills. (That's $10,000, or a brand new, cheap car, every decade.)
2) I don't have to worry about losing it.
3) I don't have to worry about it being stolen.
4) I don't have to worry about being robbed for it.
5) I don't have to worry about whether its battery is charged.
6) I don't have to worry about its software updates and whether they broke anything.
7) I don't have to worry about, and spend time researching and buying, the next one.
8) I don't have to worry about spying apps/ID theft via it.
9) I save money on what would be each new phone purchase.
10) I don't have to worry about breaking it.
11) I don't have to worry about it being hacked/malware.
12) I am never bothered by people or robots via it.
13) And when the space ants come to enslave me in their sugar mines, they won't be able to find me via wireless tracking.
I am well aware of what cellular phones are capable of; they are amazing machines. But they are tools, tools I don't need right now. I don't knock anyone for having one - I would like the same courtesy.
If we make the plastic "valuable" via deposits, then it won't end up in nature as much and may be reused. Or go back to glass; that worked fine, it seemed.
Mod up. The feedback loop is small, and therefore, more effective. In our area, this worked well in the 1980s (and beyond) when the glass soda bottles were washed at the factory and (*gasp*, zOMG!) reused.
A story comes to mind. As a kid, we'd hang out and buy candy at the nearby 7-11 convenience store. My friend pointed out that there were two bottles in the dumpster. Naturally, I dove into the garbage to return the bottles for the deposit money. After the lady behind the counter informed me that they didn't accept that particular brand, I walked back outside to find my friend laughing at me because he had just tried 5 minutes earlier.
All I know is that my decades-old library (after getting a bunch of unnecessary tax money, in my/others' opinion) replaced their simple pay-copier with a computer flatbed scanner version, with a separate laser printer. Making a copy used to take seconds, now it's a 5-minute process, involving standing in two separate places. Digital progress? Dewey's ass.
There are plenty of non-nerd reasons (besides traffic jams being caused by these befuddled cars) to dislike them. To wit, has anyone considered the fallout to occur from thousands of radar units blasting people with small amounts of radiation, every day? I already wonder about the contemporary automatic braking systems' emissions. And before you dismiss all this as "non-ionizing" to DNA, recall the superposition principle, where getting blasted every which way is additive if multiples happen to strike the same spot.
My friend and I loved that game (and eventually Doom II); we'd mail each other maps on floppy disks as he lived on the other side of the country. We even deathmatched each other over the phone lines to the tune of $10/hour, up until we were flat broke.
When he came in to visit family, I rented a computer for him ($50/day!), hacked up an AT modem initialization string that required no dial tone, and ran a null phone line from one machine to the other so we could play. That was so much fun.
I read a book on DOS batch scripting then and wrote a program that would lock his computer up on his birthday and display a greeting; I hid it in one of the new map installers I had sent to him.;)
So you think the pain of not being able to conceive doesn't count as human suffering? A woman who desperately wants to have a child, but is medically unable? Not very compassionate of you, there.
I said "widespread". No, I don't equate few women's "lack of choice" to millions of people suffering/dying globally every year.
As far as curing cancer goes - are you working towards that? What contributions have you made to eliminating cancer? The truth of the matter is that different doctors have different specialties, and they work within those disciplines.
I can/have only donate money at this point. I see your point, but, again, I think those overlapping medical specialties could have been better applied. "Womb transplant expertise" requires some of our smartest people, for many years, but helps so few.
I applaud the scientists/medical people involved, but can't help to think, in this over-populated world, with lots of unwanted babies and orphans, that all the medical efforts could have been better spent on relieving widespread human suffering. They say half of us will get cancer, for example.
And I thought I read somewhere that such a procedure costs ~ $250,000.
Anyone see "South Park" last night? It was about Amazon's warehouse robots hurting an employee. I know those guys write about timely topics, but this is ridiculous!
I respectfully disagree. Look at any large, established city's street parking to see the scope of the problem.
I live in the suburbs and don't want multiple, new (arguably dangerous) electrical outlets sticking out of the lawn 50'+ away from the house where the cars are parked.
People who have never driven BEV are misled by the lack of visible charging infrastructure compared to gas stations. Tesla super chargers few and far between. What they don't realize is every home, every electrical outlet is a gas station. Charging time does not matter. Cars sit idle all night long, enough time to charge. In fact BEV people feel ICEV fueling takes too much time, having to stop by at the gas station every week or so.
For complete discussion, millions of cars are not ever parked in electrified garages.
I have no Gmail account. I have no Facebook account.
1) Once, I Google-searched some work-related part using my work desktop PC, and that night, back before I blocked ads on all my machines, an ad for that part showed up on my home machine even though I didn't do the same search at home.
2) I once looked unsuccessfully for third-party ink cartridge refills for my 20+ year old Epson inkjet printer, since Epson stopped making them. A couple of days later, I got an expensive, glossy, multi-page ad in snail mail from Epson touting their printer(s). I'd consider it a wild coincidence were it not for the fact that I typically get almost zero junk mail.
It's like Wargames, the only winning move it not to play. End the program. If we need them here they can immigrate, just like everybody else. No more temp workers.
If we had tight borders (including kicking out those who didn't belong), we probably wouldn't have spent this money on these dead end "wars", as 9/11 could have been prevented.
Does anyone know whether SUVs are exempted from the gas mileage requirements? If so, then that means they can "unfairly" be "better" than cars, in the eyes of the consumers.
Since they put the user in a statue-like position, I referred to them as "posers". At least two of the three posers in my office have resumed only sitting at their desks, after a year or two. I haven't checked in on the third guy lately...
FYI, "60 Minutes" just did a
report
on that system. The century-old technology shown is awesome; I'd love to be involved in that engineering/repair in another life. And frankly, I don't know what the harm is in using it. As an old firmware guy, I know that computerizing everything will leave it just as prone to faults.
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Those who roll their eyes at this "backward" person.
Obviously you know I exist, or you're just posting to yourself. Now who's the crazy one?
I've never owned a cellular phone. In this day and age, there are some advantages:
1) I save ~ $1000 (pretax) per year on the cellular service bills. (That's $10,000, or a brand new, cheap car, every decade.)
2) I don't have to worry about losing it.
3) I don't have to worry about it being stolen.
4) I don't have to worry about being robbed for it.
5) I don't have to worry about whether its battery is charged.
6) I don't have to worry about its software updates and whether they broke anything.
7) I don't have to worry about, and spend time researching and buying, the next one.
8) I don't have to worry about spying apps/ID theft via it.
9) I save money on what would be each new phone purchase.
10) I don't have to worry about breaking it.
11) I don't have to worry about it being hacked/malware.
12) I am never bothered by people or robots via it.
13) And when the space ants come to enslave me in their sugar mines, they won't be able to find me via wireless tracking.
I am well aware of what cellular phones are capable of; they are amazing machines. But they are tools, tools I don't need right now. I don't knock anyone for having one - I would like the same courtesy.
I agree...
If we make the plastic "valuable" via deposits, then it won't end up in nature as much and may be reused. Or go back to glass; that worked fine, it seemed.
Mod up. The feedback loop is small, and therefore, more effective. In our area, this worked well in the 1980s (and beyond) when the glass soda bottles were washed at the factory and (*gasp*, zOMG!) reused.
A story comes to mind. As a kid, we'd hang out and buy candy at the nearby 7-11 convenience store. My friend pointed out that there were two bottles in the dumpster. Naturally, I dove into the garbage to return the bottles for the deposit money. After the lady behind the counter informed me that they didn't accept that particular brand, I walked back outside to find my friend laughing at me because he had just tried 5 minutes earlier.
Interesting; but I am (*blush*) phone-less. (Plus it still sounds like it would be slower since I have an inkjet at home.)
All I know is that my decades-old library (after getting a bunch of unnecessary tax money, in my/others' opinion) replaced their simple pay-copier with a computer flatbed scanner version, with a separate laser printer. Making a copy used to take seconds, now it's a 5-minute process, involving standing in two separate places. Digital progress? Dewey's ass.
There are plenty of non-nerd reasons (besides traffic jams being caused by these befuddled cars) to dislike them. To wit, has anyone considered the fallout to occur from thousands of radar units blasting people with small amounts of radiation, every day? I already wonder about the contemporary automatic braking systems' emissions. And before you dismiss all this as "non-ionizing" to DNA, recall the superposition principle, where getting blasted every which way is additive if multiples happen to strike the same spot.
Too many grandchildren is THE basis of future pollution and resource scarcity. Everything else is just a tailpipe in the wind.
My friend and I loved that game (and eventually Doom II); we'd mail each other maps on floppy disks as he lived on the other side of the country. We even deathmatched each other over the phone lines to the tune of $10/hour, up until we were flat broke.
;)
When he came in to visit family, I rented a computer for him ($50/day!), hacked up an AT modem initialization string that required no dial tone, and ran a null phone line from one machine to the other so we could play. That was so much fun.
I read a book on DOS batch scripting then and wrote a program that would lock his computer up on his birthday and display a greeting; I hid it in one of the new map installers I had sent to him.
So you think the pain of not being able to conceive doesn't count as human suffering? A woman who desperately wants to have a child, but is medically unable? Not very compassionate of you, there.
I said "widespread". No, I don't equate few women's "lack of choice" to millions of people suffering/dying globally every year.
As far as curing cancer goes - are you working towards that? What contributions have you made to eliminating cancer? The truth of the matter is that different doctors have different specialties, and they work within those disciplines.
I can/have only donate money at this point. I see your point, but, again, I think those overlapping medical specialties could have been better applied. "Womb transplant expertise" requires some of our smartest people, for many years, but helps so few.
Dangerous, maybe? A dead fob battery could kill the engine while at 55 mph, for example.
I applaud the scientists/medical people involved, but can't help to think, in this over-populated world, with lots of unwanted babies and orphans, that all the medical efforts could have been better spent on relieving widespread human suffering. They say half of us will get cancer, for example.
And I thought I read somewhere that such a procedure costs ~ $250,000.
Anyone see "South Park" last night? It was about Amazon's warehouse robots hurting an employee. I know those guys write about timely topics, but this is ridiculous!
I respectfully disagree. Look at any large, established city's street parking to see the scope of the problem.
I live in the suburbs and don't want multiple, new (arguably dangerous) electrical outlets sticking out of the lawn 50'+ away from the house where the cars are parked.
People who have never driven BEV are misled by the lack of visible charging infrastructure compared to gas stations. Tesla super chargers few and far between. What they don't realize is every home, every electrical outlet is a gas station. Charging time does not matter. Cars sit idle all night long, enough time to charge. In fact BEV people feel ICEV fueling takes too much time, having to stop by at the gas station every week or so.
For complete discussion, millions of cars are not ever parked in electrified garages.
I have no Gmail account. I have no Facebook account.
1) Once, I Google-searched some work-related part using my work desktop PC, and that night, back before I blocked ads on all my machines, an ad for that part showed up on my home machine even though I didn't do the same search at home.
2) I once looked unsuccessfully for third-party ink cartridge refills for my 20+ year old Epson inkjet printer, since Epson stopped making them. A couple of days later, I got an expensive, glossy, multi-page ad in snail mail from Epson touting their printer(s). I'd consider it a wild coincidence were it not for the fact that I typically get almost zero junk mail.
It's like Wargames, the only winning move it not to play. End the program. If we need them here they can immigrate, just like everybody else. No more temp workers.
I guess in the end I agree.
Can be as simple as "Every H-1B must get paid at least double the average American salary." Such a rule could work in perpetuity, too.
You can't. Why? Because the MPG laws today won't allow such sizes; that's why we're stuck with mostly "bubble cars" today.
If we had tight borders (including kicking out those who didn't belong), we probably wouldn't have spent this money on these dead end "wars", as 9/11 could have been prevented.
Or as I like to call them, "tall station wagons".
Does anyone know whether SUVs are exempted from the gas mileage requirements? If so, then that means they can "unfairly" be "better" than cars, in the eyes of the consumers.
Since they put the user in a statue-like position, I referred to them as "posers". At least two of the three posers in my office have resumed only sitting at their desks, after a year or two. I haven't checked in on the third guy lately...
FYI, "60 Minutes" just did a report on that system. The century-old technology shown is awesome; I'd love to be involved in that engineering/repair in another life. And frankly, I don't know what the harm is in using it. As an old firmware guy, I know that computerizing everything will leave it just as prone to faults.
Eh, you kinda missed my point. It seems one ONLY needs ad blockers these days. I stopped updating (paying for) my AV a few years ago.