You're right about the TV. We have one. We've never connected an antenna to it, and we don't have cable. But it's never been 'cool' to talk much about 'not watching television,' in fact they've managed to turn it into a meme and a point of ridicule to poke fun at people who say they don't watch television.
NPR is chock full of blurbs. There are tons of 'sponsor' mentions, usually with a marketing-phrase following them.
It isn't like it used to be. I can remember when Garrison Keillor on the 'Prairie Home Companion' show used to make some humor out of not mentioning what Cargill produced. He'd mention that they were the sponsor, but then run on about various odd products they might make, none of which were real.
These days they run right into a rattle-phrase chosen by the 'sponsor' that amounts to a 5-10 second advertisement, and they do it with no hesitation.
The possibilities are immense. The 'first female candidate' who then chooses to use her first name as her primary identifier. Who is also a very well known female-cuckold. So many contradictions.
Bill for President, indeed. I suspect he'd run as a Democrat in the primaries.
Then it would need to be written as it exists today, which would mean some sort of calligraphic text system. That wouldn't have been possible with the design of text-based system 30 years ago, where character bitmaps were stored in a lookup ROM for a rasterizer to use, but it shouldn't be difficult today.
An application operating a CNC mill that runs on an embedded machine running Windows isn't a general purpose app. It runs on a computer that likely should be air-gapped, and/or be on a subnet such that the other machines in the office/lab are only connected to it through a second Ethernet interface. There should be no route from the embedded machine to the internet.
Where I work, lab equipment like that has no physical network connection and the IT monkeys have no business even knowing it exists. It's lab equipment, go away, you have no role in managing it.
That seems like a huge social expense, given how good humanity is at self replicating, with such a huge surplus population as we have. That swarm of robots could be doing so much other for so many, who hadn't managed to get themselves blown up. Maybe detecting and stopping the bombers, for instance.
The non-biological components are definitely more robust. You can just plug in new ones. Even do upgrades. The first thing I'd do after the amputation is dedicate a bunch of time to learning as much about prosthetics and 3D printing as I could. "Doctor heal thyself" would be a pretty good thing to dedicate the rest of my life to.
They obviously wouldn't be as dexterous as a full recovery. So staying biological for a spell first to make that attempt would be good first.
Only sleazy record execs need Lynard Skynard around anymore. Well, cardboard standup figure Lynard Skynards, anyway. To sell those 'new' L S records that come out from time to time. Because the L S band all died in a plane crash years ago.
Neil Young definitely outlasted those 'southern men' dudes.
Actually, that's not possible to confirm, since the Bollocks album only ever was in mono so there's no stereo to compare to. Though some twink producer probably changed that in later re-releases.
But it's still best on a thrift store mono cassette recorder at maximum volume that you carry down the street.
Classic Rock is basically modern day slave music. Like the slave tunes that folks sung on the plantations of the old south while they worked, there's a radio playing classic rock back in the kitchen of the diner, on the construction site for the framers/roofers/carpet layers, etc. It's the tunes that keeps the proles working, keeps them calm and down.
The same shitty rawk is playing now if you tune it in on the radio that was playing when I was a $3/hour dishwasher in 1979. It's sad nostalgia to tune it in, for me.
Who decided that we need photorealism in games, anyway?
The developers did, to make up for not really adding any new gameplay or content. They want to sell 'the next big thing' without really needing to do anything but reiterate the old stuff at higher rez.
The quintessential example is action on climate change being forestalled merely because Bil Oil and Big Coal control the purse strings Senators need to get elected.
You think that 'big oil and 'big coal' are the only entities that want cheap coal and oil to continue to be produced? Seriously? You don't think we all benefit, particularly in the short-term, from coal and oil remaining cheap and plentiful?
You're living in a boogie-man world, guy. Lots of regular everybodies wants coal and oil to stay cheap and plentiful.
Some of us aren't that concerned that things keep 'moving along.' A 'non-productive' session in Washington is one in which the Federal government has meddled less than usual. That's a good thing.
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You're right about the TV. We have one. We've never connected an antenna to it, and we don't have cable. But it's never been 'cool' to talk much about 'not watching television,' in fact they've managed to turn it into a meme and a point of ridicule to poke fun at people who say they don't watch television.
Tune your radio to NPR,
NPR is chock full of blurbs. There are tons of 'sponsor' mentions, usually with a marketing-phrase following them.
It isn't like it used to be. I can remember when Garrison Keillor on the 'Prairie Home Companion' show used to make some humor out of not mentioning what Cargill produced. He'd mention that they were the sponsor, but then run on about various odd products they might make, none of which were real.
These days they run right into a rattle-phrase chosen by the 'sponsor' that amounts to a 5-10 second advertisement, and they do it with no hesitation.
I tend to go out of my way to make brand choices while shopping that I don't think I have seen advertising for.
He can have a lot of fun with Hillary, too.
The possibilities are immense. The 'first female candidate' who then chooses to use her first name as her primary identifier. Who is also a very well known female-cuckold. So many contradictions.
Bill for President, indeed. I suspect he'd run as a Democrat in the primaries.
You troll easily. Do you get a rush, when you're flipping around in the bottom of the boat?
Looking at that map, it's almost like they decided ahead of time where you're allowed to take trips.
Brings to mind the Habitrail hamster cage to me.
I want to market a bumper sticker that reads "Nobody Cares What Your Car Looks Like." I could sell it to 80% of the population and make a mint.
Then it would need to be written as it exists today, which would mean some sort of calligraphic text system. That wouldn't have been possible with the design of text-based system 30 years ago, where character bitmaps were stored in a lookup ROM for a rasterizer to use, but it shouldn't be difficult today.
Slashdot is more in the spirit of Usenet than anything else. I wish they'd just strip the 8th bit on everything.
An application operating a CNC mill that runs on an embedded machine running Windows isn't a general purpose app. It runs on a computer that likely should be air-gapped, and/or be on a subnet such that the other machines in the office/lab are only connected to it through a second Ethernet interface. There should be no route from the embedded machine to the internet.
Where I work, lab equipment like that has no physical network connection and the IT monkeys have no business even knowing it exists. It's lab equipment, go away, you have no role in managing it.
That seems like a huge social expense, given how good humanity is at self replicating, with such a huge surplus population as we have. That swarm of robots could be doing so much other for so many, who hadn't managed to get themselves blown up. Maybe detecting and stopping the bombers, for instance.
The non-biological components are definitely more robust. You can just plug in new ones. Even do upgrades. The first thing I'd do after the amputation is dedicate a bunch of time to learning as much about prosthetics and 3D printing as I could. "Doctor heal thyself" would be a pretty good thing to dedicate the rest of my life to.
They obviously wouldn't be as dexterous as a full recovery. So staying biological for a spell first to make that attempt would be good first.
Well, you can't really do any of that stuff, but you can change your mind and go for the amputation later, as GP said...
Why are we paying any attention to these people at all? To do so only encourages.
On that note I am done reading this discussion, a few comments in. I advise the same to everybody else.
Slashdot: there are more interesting stories to post than junk like this.
Only sleazy record execs need Lynard Skynard around anymore. Well, cardboard standup figure Lynard Skynards, anyway. To sell those 'new' L S records that come out from time to time. Because the L S band all died in a plane crash years ago.
Neil Young definitely outlasted those 'southern men' dudes.
No, the rich fucks driving Oldsmobile Delta 88's had 8 Track. The hippies had guitars. And tambourines.
Maybe he lives in some place like Singapore or North Korea, where they probably have banned Neil Young's music.
The Sex Pistols are best in mono.
Actually, that's not possible to confirm, since the Bollocks album only ever was in mono so there's no stereo to compare to. Though some twink producer probably changed that in later re-releases.
But it's still best on a thrift store mono cassette recorder at maximum volume that you carry down the street.
Classic Rock is basically modern day slave music. Like the slave tunes that folks sung on the plantations of the old south while they worked, there's a radio playing classic rock back in the kitchen of the diner, on the construction site for the framers/roofers/carpet layers, etc. It's the tunes that keeps the proles working, keeps them calm and down.
The same shitty rawk is playing now if you tune it in on the radio that was playing when I was a $3/hour dishwasher in 1979. It's sad nostalgia to tune it in, for me.
Don't you mean Crosley Bendix?
Who decided that we need photorealism in games, anyway?
The developers did, to make up for not really adding any new gameplay or content. They want to sell 'the next big thing' without really needing to do anything but reiterate the old stuff at higher rez.
You think that 'big oil and 'big coal' are the only entities that want cheap coal and oil to continue to be produced? Seriously? You don't think we all benefit, particularly in the short-term, from coal and oil remaining cheap and plentiful?
You're living in a boogie-man world, guy. Lots of regular everybodies wants coal and oil to stay cheap and plentiful.
Some of us aren't that concerned that things keep 'moving along.' A 'non-productive' session in Washington is one in which the Federal government has meddled less than usual. That's a good thing.
Cultists often compile lists of entities, organizations, and media outlets that are 'out to get them.'
"You faggot". Homophobic hate speech,
Except in Italy, where you've just called somebody a bassoon.