"Luxury" vehicles aren't really status symbols any more. They have become available to the masses which means they are no longer viewed as status symbols by the wealthy. You can buy a brand new Porsche for less than $50,000.
It's not a paperclip, it's a money clip! Two totally different things!
$185 is actually pretty reasonable as far as money clips go. Check out the various models from M-Clip. They're all the same design, but you can pay anywhere from $60 on up to $4,500 for one with diamonds.
I bought two of the mid-range models and it was the first time in my life I truly understood what status symbols were about. Not just what the dictionary definition is, but what it really means when people buy these things. At a certain level of income any additional money you make becomes truly expendable. All of your needs have been paid for along with your future needs, so saving or investing the money for the future makes less and less sense compared to spending it on something fun for yourself. After all, you can't take it with you.
Finding ways to spend your money becomes an actual problem as you become more and more wealthy. That's why some people have big car and art collections, it's a place to keep their money. At some point you even start buying companies, islands, start charities and funds, etc.
They were a victim of his trolling, which basically was libel and slander.
You have no idea what the words libel or slander mean, do you?
Libel is when you print something you know to be false in order to harm someone or their reputation. Slander is when it's spoken. Neither applies in this case.
And, "victim of trolling"? Get real. It's called parody and is completely legal, unlike CNN's response.
We all have this power. If someone says something racist to you at a bar, you can record him and publish it with his real name on the youtubes. But should you?
Where I live, videos of toxic people make the news regularly.
If I were to use Ring, then the people who wanted to talk to me via video conferencing would install it, too.
You've never worked for a large corporation, have you? Any work-provided computing device is going to be locked down and you definitely aren't going to be allowed to install some software you downloaded off of the Internet.
Drudge Report has probably the most efficient layout of any of the news aggregators. They tend toward sensationalist stories, but the British tabloids are always fun.
I thought the same thing, the old version was much more information dense. This new version is just lifeless and I can only view like two stories at a time. They need to take a lesson from Drudge Report about efficient page layouts.
I had the same problem with Google's Inbox app, why must they spread everything out so much?
There's way more evidence that Team Obama obstructed justice and manipulated the election than anything that's been sustained against President Trump or Russia.
Obama did nothing in response to intelligence that Russians were trying to manipulate our elections because Hillary was leading the polls.
Loretta Lynch asked the Director of the FBI to call the investigation into Hillary's mishandling of classified intelligence a "matter" and not an investigation. Lynch was caught on video having a secret meeting with Bill Clinton on the tarmac inside a private jet prior to dropping the case against Hillary. There's even rumored to be an email message from Lynch to head of the DNC detailing all the ways she can help Hillary win the election.
Then you've got the all of the emails that were released. Donna Brazile flat-out lied to the public about the emails being "altered" when she knew damn well they weren't. She also got caught feeding a debate question to Hillary.
The Democrats may regret starting this witch hunt.
You might as well ask why anyone cares about anything on Twitter. Some people just want to be outraged about something, anything, and Twitter gives them that opportunity.
People with Computer Science degrees can't find jobs.
I really don't understand why I keep hearing people say this. I'm guessing you don't live near a major metropolis?
Move to one of the tech hubs and you'll have no problem finding work. I'm in Chicago and there's more openings than people to fill them. We just interviewed a Java programmer for a Python job because there's a shortage of developers.
However, a computer science degree isn't enough, you actually have to be able to program, be proficient with version control systems, be able to write tests, etc. Quite a few people with C.S. degrees can't actually do any of this.
That whole get married in your 20's thing never made much sense to me. At that age you're just out of school and probably have a little bit of money to spend on yourself. Why the heck would you want to tie yourself down with a wife and, horrors, children? Don't you want some time to create a life for yourself before you lose the option?
My close friends all got married and had kids in their mid-30's. One was in my Judo club and his wife actually told me she understands that guy's need their time together and she won't keep him from getting together with his friends, etc. He hasn't been back to Judo in almost two years and guess how many times we've hung out since the wedding that weren't family events?
I suppose being an extreme introvert has something to do with it, but I'm able to fill my "free" time with many activities and pursuits: Judo, guitar, quadcopters, cars, computers, etc. The older I get the less I care about what other people are doing.
If you mined those coins, then there's no way to tie them to you. Why worry about taxes?
In any case, taxes should be easy to calculate. Use either the short-term or long-term capital gains rate against the current value of the coins (since you acquired them for $0).
Despite all the doom and gloom talk, where's the actual evidence of harm due to Net Neutrality being reversed?
From what I can tell there isn't much evidence out there. Apparently there's so little that people are having to create problems to bring attention to these supposed problems that don't actually exist.
Software that would have been shareware/freeware back in the 80's and 90's now comes with a corporate sponsor and ridiculous valuations. An IPO for a game like Candy Crush? WTF?!
What's so great about Slack that makes it worth 9 billion? Why aren't companies that use IRC worth as much?
I find learning new APIs to be much easier when a language is statically typed like Java versus something with dynamic typing like Python.
With Java you can look at hardcopy of code or Javadoc, see the interfaces, the classes, the method calls, the type for each parameter and slowly work your way through how it all fits together. You can find a method that does what you want and then see that you need pass in an instance of class A and then go read about how to get an instance of that class and so on.
With Python code you have no clue what types are allowed in your function calls just by doing static analysis. If you're lucky the author added comments to document this missing information, but you typically have to fire up an interpreter, execute some code and then look at what you get back. This makes learning new API's from only the code much more difficult.
I wish Python would give you the option of specifying types and let me omit that information only when I want to instead of forcing me do the C equivalent of casting everything to void *, or making everything an Object in Java.
Apple makes their own motherboards? I don't think so.
Yes, production capacity is a concern. Just because you have a sweet design doesn't mean it can be produced in the quantities you need at your desired price-point and on schedule.
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"Luxury" vehicles aren't really status symbols any more. They have become available to the masses which means they are no longer viewed as status symbols by the wealthy. You can buy a brand new Porsche for less than $50,000.
It's not a paperclip, it's a money clip! Two totally different things!
$185 is actually pretty reasonable as far as money clips go. Check out the various models from M-Clip. They're all the same design, but you can pay anywhere from $60 on up to $4,500 for one with diamonds.
I bought two of the mid-range models and it was the first time in my life I truly understood what status symbols were about. Not just what the dictionary definition is, but what it really means when people buy these things. At a certain level of income any additional money you make becomes truly expendable. All of your needs have been paid for along with your future needs, so saving or investing the money for the future makes less and less sense compared to spending it on something fun for yourself. After all, you can't take it with you.
Finding ways to spend your money becomes an actual problem as you become more and more wealthy. That's why some people have big car and art collections, it's a place to keep their money. At some point you even start buying companies, islands, start charities and funds, etc.
You have no idea what the words libel or slander mean, do you?
Libel is when you print something you know to be false in order to harm someone or their reputation. Slander is when it's spoken. Neither applies in this case.
And, "victim of trolling"? Get real. It's called parody and is completely legal, unlike CNN's response.
Where I live, videos of toxic people make the news regularly.
Man Charged After Racist Rant At Starbucks When Coffee Spilled On Him
After 'Racist' Rant At Michaels, Over $25,000 Raised For Berated Manager
You've never worked for a large corporation, have you? Any work-provided computing device is going to be locked down and you definitely aren't going to be allowed to install some software you downloaded off of the Internet.
Drudge Report has probably the most efficient layout of any of the news aggregators. They tend toward sensationalist stories, but the British tabloids are always fun.
I thought the same thing, the old version was much more information dense. This new version is just lifeless and I can only view like two stories at a time. They need to take a lesson from Drudge Report about efficient page layouts.
I had the same problem with Google's Inbox app, why must they spread everything out so much?
There's way more evidence that Team Obama obstructed justice and manipulated the election than anything that's been sustained against President Trump or Russia.
Obama did nothing in response to intelligence that Russians were trying to manipulate our elections because Hillary was leading the polls.
Loretta Lynch asked the Director of the FBI to call the investigation into Hillary's mishandling of classified intelligence a "matter" and not an investigation. Lynch was caught on video having a secret meeting with Bill Clinton on the tarmac inside a private jet prior to dropping the case against Hillary. There's even rumored to be an email message from Lynch to head of the DNC detailing all the ways she can help Hillary win the election.
Then you've got the all of the emails that were released. Donna Brazile flat-out lied to the public about the emails being "altered" when she knew damn well they weren't. She also got caught feeding a debate question to Hillary.
The Democrats may regret starting this witch hunt.
You might as well ask why anyone cares about anything on Twitter. Some people just want to be outraged about something, anything, and Twitter gives them that opportunity.
I think President Trump is just trolling people.
Losers tend to have loser friends?
If you're sending your resume to the H.R. department, you're doing it wrong.
People with Computer Science degrees can't find jobs.
I really don't understand why I keep hearing people say this. I'm guessing you don't live near a major metropolis?
Move to one of the tech hubs and you'll have no problem finding work. I'm in Chicago and there's more openings than people to fill them. We just interviewed a Java programmer for a Python job because there's a shortage of developers.
However, a computer science degree isn't enough, you actually have to be able to program, be proficient with version control systems, be able to write tests, etc. Quite a few people with C.S. degrees can't actually do any of this.
17 years to earn six figures? From what I hear that's what good programmers make right out of school these days.
It's not new and it's not unique to tech.
Any business is going to want to hire you if you can demonstrate to them that you have the skills and experience to help them make money.
They can't force you to answer questions, period. Warrants are used for searching or seizing private property.
That whole get married in your 20's thing never made much sense to me. At that age you're just out of school and probably have a little bit of money to spend on yourself. Why the heck would you want to tie yourself down with a wife and, horrors, children? Don't you want some time to create a life for yourself before you lose the option?
Just wait until you're 40!
My close friends all got married and had kids in their mid-30's. One was in my Judo club and his wife actually told me she understands that guy's need their time together and she won't keep him from getting together with his friends, etc. He hasn't been back to Judo in almost two years and guess how many times we've hung out since the wedding that weren't family events?
I suppose being an extreme introvert has something to do with it, but I'm able to fill my "free" time with many activities and pursuits: Judo, guitar, quadcopters, cars, computers, etc. The older I get the less I care about what other people are doing.
LOL. I don't want to spend time with anyone after having been around people for 8 hours at work.
This dumb assed belief needs to die. I don't know where people learned it; certainly not from a public school.
The U.S. Constitution applies to _anyone_ so long as they are on U.S. soil.
If you mined those coins, then there's no way to tie them to you. Why worry about taxes?
In any case, taxes should be easy to calculate. Use either the short-term or long-term capital gains rate against the current value of the coins (since you acquired them for $0).
Despite all the doom and gloom talk, where's the actual evidence of harm due to Net Neutrality being reversed?
From what I can tell there isn't much evidence out there. Apparently there's so little that people are having to create problems to bring attention to these supposed problems that don't actually exist.
I hear you, it's completely crazy these days.
Software that would have been shareware/freeware back in the 80's and 90's now comes with a corporate sponsor and ridiculous valuations. An IPO for a game like Candy Crush? WTF?!
What's so great about Slack that makes it worth 9 billion? Why aren't companies that use IRC worth as much?
I have an x86 PC, but it is fairly specialized to doing tasks built around x86 legacy stuff.
Aren't modern day Intel x86's really RISC processors emulating the x86 instruction set?
I find learning new APIs to be much easier when a language is statically typed like Java versus something with dynamic typing like Python.
With Java you can look at hardcopy of code or Javadoc, see the interfaces, the classes, the method calls, the type for each parameter and slowly work your way through how it all fits together. You can find a method that does what you want and then see that you need pass in an instance of class A and then go read about how to get an instance of that class and so on.
With Python code you have no clue what types are allowed in your function calls just by doing static analysis. If you're lucky the author added comments to document this missing information, but you typically have to fire up an interpreter, execute some code and then look at what you get back. This makes learning new API's from only the code much more difficult.
I wish Python would give you the option of specifying types and let me omit that information only when I want to instead of forcing me do the C equivalent of casting everything to void *, or making everything an Object in Java.
Apple makes their own motherboards? I don't think so.
Yes, production capacity is a concern. Just because you have a sweet design doesn't mean it can be produced in the quantities you need at your desired price-point and on schedule.