It isn't really unsolicited advice if it is an answer to whatever you are bitching about voluntarily in a public forum. Kids lose things, that's been a fact since long before my crusty old ass was a kid, and it will never change. Maybe letting them walk around all day, every day with expensive items that other people are unlikely to return if found isn't a great idea.
A coworker of mine just let her young teenager get his first phone, but he had to buy it with his own money - so he got a $100 Android phone that does 90% of what any high end phone will do. He has freedom and ownership, and no one will be out $900 when he drops it, loses it, or the bad kid at school steals it, because it isn't a new iPhone. Kids want Corvettes and Escalades too, but most of us don't buy those for our kids even if we can have them for ourselves, and for good reason.
So this is about the cheapest usable iPhone, not the best cheap and smaller screen phone. iMessage is not essential for many of us, since we've never used it. Never needed it, don't need it now.
To answer this question to the satisfaction of all (or at least most), we need to pin down what exactly minimalism entails. The author focuses on one-hand use (smaller dimensions than most current phones) and perceived sturdiness (which is highly debatable), as well as cost. While the iPhone SE fits this narrow definition, I don't think a phone needs to be so outdated to be considered "minimalist," relatively speaking. The article calls the SE "nearly" three years old, but it must be noted that the design is based on the 5s, which came out five and a half years ago, and is similar internally and in terms of performance to the 6s, no? So the internals are closer three and a half years old, while the "comfortable" screen is weak and unnecessarily small.
I don't have an ultimate answer, but I feel something with a screen closer to 5" is more acceptable - the 4.7" of the 6s is still small enough for one-handed use, not to mention much easier on the eyes. And just because the SE feels like a slab of rock doesn't actually mean it is durable or doesn't need a case to prevent a cracked screen. There are quite a few recent Android phones that fit the bill. The ZTE Axon 7 Mini works for me - cheap now but the 5.2" screen is right at the limit of one-handed use for my hands. Samsung has sold a ton of phones that are cheaper and smaller than their top-end Galaxy S phones. My elderly mom's lower-end 5" LG works great. There are some other good options in the thread already, but what else is out there? The iPhone SE is minimal, I suppose, but can't we do better than that pathetic 4" screen? How small and cheap can you go, and what functionality is essential?
No it doesn't, as eating plant based food rarely means destroying/killing the plant. Or do you cut down an apple tree if you want to harvest the apples?
Give me your arm, I want to eat it! You'll be fine, you have another one and people live perfectly well with one or zero arms. Don't be greedy.
And I don't know about saying rarely. Harvesting an awful lot of veggies entails destruction of the whole plant. Perhaps we should be more concerned about treating plants more humanely and letting them roam instead of constraining them with fences and such.
We shouldn't do Daylight Saving Time because.....some hospitals use shitty software written by developers who still can't figure out clock-related bugs after years of trying?
I honestly don't give a damn whether we change the clocks or not but I do like having usable light at 9 PM, however briefly. I'd rather shift time in the Winter so the sun doesn't go down at 5 PM though. I just need to move much farther South so my winters aren't so cold and dark, and everybody can do whatever the F they want with the clocks. Unless you're the aliens from Slaughterhouse V - please don't "play with the clocks" and alter how I experience the passing of time.
While a very cool hack and worthy of banksy, I have to question as to whether or not Sotheby's was surprised.
So if you received a picture in a an original artist's frame you'd think to check the frame for a concealed shredder? There was no question of authenticity, and no stunt like this has ever been concocted before, so there was nothing to be gained from disassembling and possibly damaging the piece. Even if the frame seemed odd, I doubt anyone would have questioned it if the mechanism was fully concealed, because Banksy is odd to begin with. They new Banksy was a little weird, but I see know reason to believe they should have or would have known what was going to happen. Even if they did, they should still have allowed it and kept mum, because the performance was a part of the art and the piece was not truly completed until it did what it did.
Which tells you everything you need to know about how specious and capricious the valuation model is for the art market.
It is worth more now because it was sold previously in an unfinished state. The picture, at sale, was unremarkable compared to now. I don't know why it sold for so much to begin with, but it became much, much more interesting and novel when it self-destructed. I'm not in a financial position to pay that kind of price for art, but that is the first Banksy piece that is truly a conversation piece that speaks to everyone. After all, you don't buy a Banksy because it it visually pleasing like a Monet, you buy it for the enigma. This was an artistic innovation that no one else conceived of, and that may not be seen again.
BREAKING NEWS: Mitsubishi is not dead yet and sold a surprising 68,000 vehicles in 2017 and 2018.
This "recall" is likely a hoax designed to make people think that other people actually still buy Mitsubishis. Too obvious though, since you surely don't know anyone who will actually admit to buying a Mitsubishi in the last five years, if not ten. How long now until they leave the US market completely?
Their other competition is DUI lawyers and airport parking lots. I know a lot of people who use Uber for nights out because they want to drink a little but refuse to drive drunk. And even my 70 year-old mom has used Uber for a lift home from the airport when I was unable to pick her up. She's definitely no luddite or technophobe though she is a bit of a Nervous Nellie, and even she said it was fine and complimented "Big Al" for helping her with her suitcase.
I don't use Uber or Lyft a lot because I can easily drive most places I go, but I find them to be very convenient when travelling, in urban areas particularly. Being able to call for a cheap ride in a few minutes on a whim whether you're in Denver, Nashville, or Boston, and only needing to know one app rather than multiple companies and phone numbers, is incredibly convenient. The simplicity adds to the obvious convenience.
The headline is VERY misleading. They are talking about MONTHLY income and NOT hourly income. So what is happening is that new Uber drivers are far more likely to be part timers, putting in a few hours of driving at the end of the day to earn some extra income.
About 80% of Uber drivers drive for less than 35 hours per week. Over 60% have another job that is their main income.
Score:2??? Mod parent up, please. The summary leaves out this very important context.
Also relevant but omitted: Five years ago, Uber and Lyft simply didn't exist in a usable state in many places. As ubiquitous as they have become, It was impossible to get a ride much of the time in my area just 3-4 years ago. Trust me, they let me down a few times when I tipped a few glasses and didn't plan on inconveniencing friends for rides. At first, we had a few otherwise unemployed early adopters here driving full time and a few of us who were curious but not serious, so availability was very spotty. This isn't NYC or LA, but no, not some podunk BFE ultra-rural backwater region either.
I'd say it's more likely that they need to meter doses better. Alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and LSD can all make humans feel on top of the world (or another world) sometimes and like death (or completely out of it) at others.
We need to be careful here not to infer that the rolling subject octopuses are spending more time with the contained male because they want to interact socially. We don't know how sober octopuses think, so it is terribly wrong to assume that high ones are not just out of their minds with no idea what they are really doing. We do know what different dosages of MDMA tend to do to humans, though there is still variability there, while we know nothing about the octopus MDMA response curve. It appears that MDMA does make them behave abnormally but it is impossible thus far to draw any conclusions about octopus motivations, and probably wrong to apply human concepts of mood and socialization. The octopuses exposing their undersides and doing flips and whatnot might indicate that they've lost their shit, more so than that they feel all warm and fuzzy and want to cuddle.
And you did nothing to refute it, dumberass. You can go around questioning everything in the world, but when people get annoyed at you because you have no evidence that doesn't make you right.
I haven't seen anything reported yet, so I'll ask: do the new Iphones come pre-cracked, or do you still have to wait two weeks until you have a broken screen? Faster is nice, we haven't seen any real progress from apple in a while.
I hate to be the one to break it to Wharton Boy, but not that many people work 9-5 now that the 1950's are over. Many, many full-timers work longer hours than, and many work less traditional hours - evenings, early mornings, and rotating or irregular shifts. The people working banker's hours are not the ones we should be most concerned about. We should be worrying about the people who work irregular schedules 50-60 hours or more every week with, no real benefits and no vacation time, and still can't make ends meet in supporting a family. I find it sad that some people still only see "workers" as people who work 9-5 in air conditioned offices, 48 weeks a year. Why doesn't anyone worry about the well being and "productivity" of burnt out factory workers or service industry workers who bust their asses every day for low pay? The American Dream is but a dream for most.
What it seeks to do is make music more expensive for consumers and make it more difficult for indie musicians to make money. Business as usual, and something that has not worked to protect musicians' income in the past. Fitting that it's named after Orrin Hatch, a man who has always worked against consumers (although he has tried to make invisible glasses affordable for all so we can be like him).
The other Orin Hatch Act honors the invisible glasses enthusiast by requiring that insurance companies provide coverage for such glasses and associated costs. Ironic, for a man so against healthcare (as well as affordable housing and education, and who has sought to limit DEA authority over drug companies, and who equated homosexuals to nazis).
Hey, he's a musician, so let's ignore all the shitty things he's done while cozying up to the pharmaceutical lobby and consistently trying to limit the rights of people who aren't just like him.
Anyone who has both intelligence and a sense of ethics won't buy from SONY no matter what SONY does to curry favor in the public eye.
SONY is a dishonest amoral company which will fuck you.
So don't give SONY any money.
Yes, that was bad, but that was over a decade ago, and what large company hasn't done a few shitty things? Better reasons not to buy Sony products today usually include the Sony products themselves.
What if we actually could somehow catalyze coal emissions so as to eliminate all harm, and increase efficiency to the maximum theoretical conversion rate? At some point the cost of getting it out of the ground alone would make it cost prohibitive, but I wonder how far we are from that point. I know, coal is already expensive to use, but better ways to deal with the byproducts could keep the industry afloat a bit longer.
I agree, not impressed. You can basically claim anything you want with a 20+ year plan, including future technologies that have not yet been developed. Before Sony transitions completely to renewable energy, we could see a colony on Mars, significant global warming impacting cities (that's the correct term for "climate change"), some countries only allowing electric/renewable cars, a working space elevator, a cure for cancer, a vaccine for HIV/AIDS, contact with intelligent aliens, icebergs towed to the equator for drinking water, commercial-scale hyperloops, quantum computers everywhere, a female US president, and a whole bunch of crazier stuff that is harder to predict. Way to really move with urgency, Sony.
The Dodgers have failed again, this time by playing someone out of position. If the fucking robot's name is Flippy, and he's literally a burger flipping machine, why the hell do they have him making goddamn chicken tenders and fucking tater tots!?!? It's no wonder they're not in position to make the playoffs, with management like that.
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It isn't really unsolicited advice if it is an answer to whatever you are bitching about voluntarily in a public forum. Kids lose things, that's been a fact since long before my crusty old ass was a kid, and it will never change. Maybe letting them walk around all day, every day with expensive items that other people are unlikely to return if found isn't a great idea.
A coworker of mine just let her young teenager get his first phone, but he had to buy it with his own money - so he got a $100 Android phone that does 90% of what any high end phone will do. He has freedom and ownership, and no one will be out $900 when he drops it, loses it, or the bad kid at school steals it, because it isn't a new iPhone. Kids want Corvettes and Escalades too, but most of us don't buy those for our kids even if we can have them for ourselves, and for good reason.
So this is about the cheapest usable iPhone, not the best cheap and smaller screen phone. iMessage is not essential for many of us, since we've never used it. Never needed it, don't need it now.
To answer this question to the satisfaction of all (or at least most), we need to pin down what exactly minimalism entails. The author focuses on one-hand use (smaller dimensions than most current phones) and perceived sturdiness (which is highly debatable), as well as cost. While the iPhone SE fits this narrow definition, I don't think a phone needs to be so outdated to be considered "minimalist," relatively speaking. The article calls the SE "nearly" three years old, but it must be noted that the design is based on the 5s, which came out five and a half years ago, and is similar internally and in terms of performance to the 6s, no? So the internals are closer three and a half years old, while the "comfortable" screen is weak and unnecessarily small.
I don't have an ultimate answer, but I feel something with a screen closer to 5" is more acceptable - the 4.7" of the 6s is still small enough for one-handed use, not to mention much easier on the eyes. And just because the SE feels like a slab of rock doesn't actually mean it is durable or doesn't need a case to prevent a cracked screen. There are quite a few recent Android phones that fit the bill. The ZTE Axon 7 Mini works for me - cheap now but the 5.2" screen is right at the limit of one-handed use for my hands. Samsung has sold a ton of phones that are cheaper and smaller than their top-end Galaxy S phones. My elderly mom's lower-end 5" LG works great. There are some other good options in the thread already, but what else is out there? The iPhone SE is minimal, I suppose, but can't we do better than that pathetic 4" screen? How small and cheap can you go, and what functionality is essential?
Can recognize each other, why not vegetables? After all they are more intelligent.
Hmm, so maybe Trump voters actually are vegetables? Interesting theory. I saw we start eating them and find out.
No it doesn't, as eating plant based food rarely means destroying/killing the plant. Or do you cut down an apple tree if you want to harvest the apples?
Give me your arm, I want to eat it! You'll be fine, you have another one and people live perfectly well with one or zero arms. Don't be greedy.
And I don't know about saying rarely. Harvesting an awful lot of veggies entails destruction of the whole plant. Perhaps we should be more concerned about treating plants more humanely and letting them roam instead of constraining them with fences and such.
We shouldn't do Daylight Saving Time because.....some hospitals use shitty software written by developers who still can't figure out clock-related bugs after years of trying?
I honestly don't give a damn whether we change the clocks or not but I do like having usable light at 9 PM, however briefly. I'd rather shift time in the Winter so the sun doesn't go down at 5 PM though. I just need to move much farther South so my winters aren't so cold and dark, and everybody can do whatever the F they want with the clocks. Unless you're the aliens from Slaughterhouse V - please don't "play with the clocks" and alter how I experience the passing of time.
While a very cool hack and worthy of banksy, I have to question as to whether or not Sotheby's was surprised.
So if you received a picture in a an original artist's frame you'd think to check the frame for a concealed shredder? There was no question of authenticity, and no stunt like this has ever been concocted before, so there was nothing to be gained from disassembling and possibly damaging the piece. Even if the frame seemed odd, I doubt anyone would have questioned it if the mechanism was fully concealed, because Banksy is odd to begin with. They new Banksy was a little weird, but I see know reason to believe they should have or would have known what was going to happen. Even if they did, they should still have allowed it and kept mum, because the performance was a part of the art and the piece was not truly completed until it did what it did.
Why do you keep going back to multiple news sites if they all cover the same stories and piss you off? That's on you, anonymous whiner.
Which tells you everything you need to know about how specious and capricious the valuation model is for the art market.
It is worth more now because it was sold previously in an unfinished state. The picture, at sale, was unremarkable compared to now. I don't know why it sold for so much to begin with, but it became much, much more interesting and novel when it self-destructed. I'm not in a financial position to pay that kind of price for art, but that is the first Banksy piece that is truly a conversation piece that speaks to everyone. After all, you don't buy a Banksy because it it visually pleasing like a Monet, you buy it for the enigma. This was an artistic innovation that no one else conceived of, and that may not be seen again.
BREAKING NEWS: Mitsubishi is not dead yet and sold a surprising 68,000 vehicles in 2017 and 2018.
This "recall" is likely a hoax designed to make people think that other people actually still buy Mitsubishis. Too obvious though, since you surely don't know anyone who will actually admit to buying a Mitsubishi in the last five years, if not ten. How long now until they leave the US market completely?
Their other competition is DUI lawyers and airport parking lots. I know a lot of people who use Uber for nights out because they want to drink a little but refuse to drive drunk. And even my 70 year-old mom has used Uber for a lift home from the airport when I was unable to pick her up. She's definitely no luddite or technophobe though she is a bit of a Nervous Nellie, and even she said it was fine and complimented "Big Al" for helping her with her suitcase.
I don't use Uber or Lyft a lot because I can easily drive most places I go, but I find them to be very convenient when travelling, in urban areas particularly. Being able to call for a cheap ride in a few minutes on a whim whether you're in Denver, Nashville, or Boston, and only needing to know one app rather than multiple companies and phone numbers, is incredibly convenient. The simplicity adds to the obvious convenience.
The headline is VERY misleading. They are talking about MONTHLY income and NOT hourly income. So what is happening is that new Uber drivers are far more likely to be part timers, putting in a few hours of driving at the end of the day to earn some extra income.
About 80% of Uber drivers drive for less than 35 hours per week. Over 60% have another job that is their main income.
Score:2??? Mod parent up, please. The summary leaves out this very important context.
Also relevant but omitted: Five years ago, Uber and Lyft simply didn't exist in a usable state in many places. As ubiquitous as they have become, It was impossible to get a ride much of the time in my area just 3-4 years ago. Trust me, they let me down a few times when I tipped a few glasses and didn't plan on inconveniencing friends for rides. At first, we had a few otherwise unemployed early adopters here driving full time and a few of us who were curious but not serious, so availability was very spotty. This isn't NYC or LA, but no, not some podunk BFE ultra-rural backwater region either.
They clearly need to try LSD next.
I'd say it's more likely that they need to meter doses better. Alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and LSD can all make humans feel on top of the world (or another world) sometimes and like death (or completely out of it) at others.
We need to be careful here not to infer that the rolling subject octopuses are spending more time with the contained male because they want to interact socially. We don't know how sober octopuses think, so it is terribly wrong to assume that high ones are not just out of their minds with no idea what they are really doing. We do know what different dosages of MDMA tend to do to humans, though there is still variability there, while we know nothing about the octopus MDMA response curve. It appears that MDMA does make them behave abnormally but it is impossible thus far to draw any conclusions about octopus motivations, and probably wrong to apply human concepts of mood and socialization. The octopuses exposing their undersides and doing flips and whatnot might indicate that they've lost their shit, more so than that they feel all warm and fuzzy and want to cuddle.
STFU, or disprove it
I didn't make the original "allegation", dumbass.
And you did nothing to refute it, dumberass. You can go around questioning everything in the world, but when people get annoyed at you because you have no evidence that doesn't make you right.
I haven't seen anything reported yet, so I'll ask: do the new Iphones come pre-cracked, or do you still have to wait two weeks until you have a broken screen? Faster is nice, we haven't seen any real progress from apple in a while.
I hate to be the one to break it to Wharton Boy, but not that many people work 9-5 now that the 1950's are over. Many, many full-timers work longer hours than, and many work less traditional hours - evenings, early mornings, and rotating or irregular shifts. The people working banker's hours are not the ones we should be most concerned about. We should be worrying about the people who work irregular schedules 50-60 hours or more every week with, no real benefits and no vacation time, and still can't make ends meet in supporting a family. I find it sad that some people still only see "workers" as people who work 9-5 in air conditioned offices, 48 weeks a year. Why doesn't anyone worry about the well being and "productivity" of burnt out factory workers or service industry workers who bust their asses every day for low pay? The American Dream is but a dream for most.
What it seeks to do is make music more expensive for consumers and make it more difficult for indie musicians to make money. Business as usual, and something that has not worked to protect musicians' income in the past. Fitting that it's named after Orrin Hatch, a man who has always worked against consumers (although he has tried to make invisible glasses affordable for all so we can be like him).
The other Orin Hatch Act honors the invisible glasses enthusiast by requiring that insurance companies provide coverage for such glasses and associated costs. Ironic, for a man so against healthcare (as well as affordable housing and education, and who has sought to limit DEA authority over drug companies, and who equated homosexuals to nazis).
Hey, he's a musician, so let's ignore all the shitty things he's done while cozying up to the pharmaceutical lobby and consistently trying to limit the rights of people who aren't just like him.
Anyone who has both intelligence and a sense of ethics won't buy from SONY no matter what SONY does to curry favor in the public eye.
SONY is a dishonest amoral company which will fuck you.
So don't give SONY any money.
Yes, that was bad, but that was over a decade ago, and what large company hasn't done a few shitty things? Better reasons not to buy Sony products today usually include the Sony products themselves.
What if we actually could somehow catalyze coal emissions so as to eliminate all harm, and increase efficiency to the maximum theoretical conversion rate? At some point the cost of getting it out of the ground alone would make it cost prohibitive, but I wonder how far we are from that point. I know, coal is already expensive to use, but better ways to deal with the byproducts could keep the industry afloat a bit longer.
They will lose money on every sale but make up for it in volume
I hope that's just an unfunny joke, because if you lose money on every sale, high volume just means high losses.
I agree, not impressed. You can basically claim anything you want with a 20+ year plan, including future technologies that have not yet been developed. Before Sony transitions completely to renewable energy, we could see a colony on Mars, significant global warming impacting cities (that's the correct term for "climate change"), some countries only allowing electric/renewable cars, a working space elevator, a cure for cancer, a vaccine for HIV/AIDS, contact with intelligent aliens, icebergs towed to the equator for drinking water, commercial-scale hyperloops, quantum computers everywhere, a female US president, and a whole bunch of crazier stuff that is harder to predict. Way to really move with urgency, Sony.
It's a bobble scheme, not a bubble. Try to keep up.
The Dodgers have failed again, this time by playing someone out of position. If the fucking robot's name is Flippy, and he's literally a burger flipping machine, why the hell do they have him making goddamn chicken tenders and fucking tater tots!?!? It's no wonder they're not in position to make the playoffs, with management like that.