When there are food and clean water shortages, the munchies will have long been gone. The couch will have been used as fuel for heat, and there won't be electricity to watch the Twilight Zone and Star Trek reruns let along will they even be being broadcast. So weed consumption will be waaay waaay down.
Can't they just call the police on their hand-crank telephone? Won't the police be able to hook a horse up onto the police wagon and head on out to defend and protect him?
Before the electronic behemoths of the last half century, skilled mathematicians who manually do calculations quickly were known as computers. That was the title of their occupation.
Who cares about the fools who live in the city? They made their life what it is. Here where I live I would need a small amount of electricity once in awhile to run the well pump, though it could probably replaced with something more practical (its not a 'modern' submersible pump, btw) and about anything else I can get myself. Lots of jackrabbits in the fields out behind the house. Coyotes and deer if we need to scale up to something bigger.
After reading enough about how 'Bump Stocks' work, it becomes obvious that a skilled gunman can probably make a 'bump stock' out of the right kind of chunk of foam rubber. The idea is to use the resonance of the bounceback of recoil from the previous shot to cause your stationary finger to trigger the next shot.
The only way to shut that down is to ban semi-automatics.
It's interesting to explore why Buick is a popular brand in China. There is a historical reason for the cultural popularity.
The last emperor of China before the Communists took power had a Buick. When the Communists took over, a prominent Communist leader, Chou Enlai, took over the Emperor's Buick and continued to use it. The Buick brand caught on because of this.
Another factor is that the Chinese do not like the Japanese for historical reasons (the Japanese in WWII experimented with biological and chemical warfare on civilians in China, among other things), so if they want a foreign car, it will be an American, not a Japanese car.
I remember reading a few years ago in the automotive industry trade press about the reasoning behind the brands that General Motors retired. Anybody in the US would have thought that they should retire Buick and retain the Pontiac brand. But Buick is so strong in the Chinese market that they kept Buick and retired Pontiac.
I'm rattling this off all from memory, but it's pretty easy for anybody who wants to research it.
Where has anybody asserted that they had a bozo use junkyard scraps and duct tape to repair their Applephone? Now you're just disparaging those you argue against.
Apple obviously has undocumented features in the screen that made it difficult to produce a third party replacement part. They themselves probably aren't even aware of said undocumented features, and a software update made use of these features and broke support for the third party replacement part.
Apple is a company barely capable of supporting their own hardware. It does make sense that there would be problems with third party hardware. Everybody knows this who has ever used a Mac with PCI slots.
Its more a case that your competitors aren't relying on a cluster of proprietary ASIC parts to do half the work, Mass-market processors scale up in speed and everybody in the market benefits. ASIC parts are just as expensive or more expensive to scale up, but only the single ASIC customer benefits so they shoulder the entire cost.
A single-sourced system built with proprietary components couldn't compete against a sea of clones. Ultimately, even IBM themselves couldn't compete against a sea of clones. Microsoft rode the wave of clone hardware to a success that few others could manage.
And with Windows, they even had one of the 'specialty hardware' companies working on their behalf. Apple sued all of Microsoft's competitors (GEOS, the GEM desktop, etc.) out of the pc-clone GUI business, leaving a flat landscape for Microsoft to build their Windows empire upon. Yes, we wouldn't have the Ubiquitous Windows environment we now endure if Apple hadn't plowed the field for Microsoft and subsequently lost to Microsoft in the look-n-feel lawsuit. Thanks Apple.
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There's a limit to how many you can kill before you become eliminated.
True, but you can carry more than one clip of ammo.
"You could have targeted Trump and not Hillary, but chose to disclose malfeasance wherever it was seen!"
Translation: He picked on the Democrats!!! He's BAAAD now!!
"What's that? Did we read you say you wanted to buy more loot chests??"
The terms that the two sides in a contract have agreed to do not have to be the same for both sides. In fact, they seldom are.
Get this: You can listen to music without electricity. You can even MAKE MUSIC YOURSELF!
Wow, cool, huh?
Entertainment will be throwing hatchets at blocks of wood. Fun, and a practical skill for the time, too.
You think people will want to sit around watching DVDs of 'The Matrix'??
Duh. The cell tower runs off the larger solar panels attached to it.
Gold/Silver/Copper?
Are you at endgame yet? Wanna do a dungeon tonight?
Whoops. He had an enemy. Now he's just less one bullet.
When there are food and clean water shortages, the munchies will have long been gone. The couch will have been used as fuel for heat, and there won't be electricity to watch the Twilight Zone and Star Trek reruns let along will they even be being broadcast. So weed consumption will be waaay waaay down.
Crematorium? Look into the situation right now with the ISIS fighters in the Middle East. It's the backhoe operator who will be king.
Can't they just call the police on their hand-crank telephone? Won't the police be able to hook a horse up onto the police wagon and head on out to defend and protect him?
Before the electronic behemoths of the last half century, skilled mathematicians who manually do calculations quickly were known as computers. That was the title of their occupation.
Do you even KNOW anybody who owns a gun?
Who cares about the fools who live in the city? They made their life what it is. Here where I live I would need a small amount of electricity once in awhile to run the well pump, though it could probably replaced with something more practical (its not a 'modern' submersible pump, btw) and about anything else I can get myself. Lots of jackrabbits in the fields out behind the house. Coyotes and deer if we need to scale up to something bigger.
No TLDR for us after that wall-o-text?
You've been quite a holster this afternoon.
Do you have vested stock options?
It's all just money from Musk's "get lucky" fortune he earned with PayPal.
He's the Paul Allen of the Internet Generation.
You could also liken him to Howard Hughes in some regards.
Tesla's most successful business venture is STILL PayPal.
Suck on that, if you're really the Elon fan you come off as here.
After reading enough about how 'Bump Stocks' work, it becomes obvious that a skilled gunman can probably make a 'bump stock' out of the right kind of chunk of foam rubber. The idea is to use the resonance of the bounceback of recoil from the previous shot to cause your stationary finger to trigger the next shot.
The only way to shut that down is to ban semi-automatics.
Also, Big Wheel!
It's interesting to explore why Buick is a popular brand in China. There is a historical reason for the cultural popularity.
The last emperor of China before the Communists took power had a Buick. When the Communists took over, a prominent Communist leader, Chou Enlai, took over the Emperor's Buick and continued to use it. The Buick brand caught on because of this.
Another factor is that the Chinese do not like the Japanese for historical reasons (the Japanese in WWII experimented with biological and chemical warfare on civilians in China, among other things), so if they want a foreign car, it will be an American, not a Japanese car.
I remember reading a few years ago in the automotive industry trade press about the reasoning behind the brands that General Motors retired. Anybody in the US would have thought that they should retire Buick and retain the Pontiac brand. But Buick is so strong in the Chinese market that they kept Buick and retired Pontiac.
I'm rattling this off all from memory, but it's pretty easy for anybody who wants to research it.
Where has anybody asserted that they had a bozo use junkyard scraps and duct tape to repair their Applephone? Now you're just disparaging those you argue against.
Apple obviously has undocumented features in the screen that made it difficult to produce a third party replacement part. They themselves probably aren't even aware of said undocumented features, and a software update made use of these features and broke support for the third party replacement part.
Apple is a company barely capable of supporting their own hardware. It does make sense that there would be problems with third party hardware. Everybody knows this who has ever used a Mac with PCI slots.
Its more a case that your competitors aren't relying on a cluster of proprietary ASIC parts to do half the work, Mass-market processors scale up in speed and everybody in the market benefits. ASIC parts are just as expensive or more expensive to scale up, but only the single ASIC customer benefits so they shoulder the entire cost.
A single-sourced system built with proprietary components couldn't compete against a sea of clones. Ultimately, even IBM themselves couldn't compete against a sea of clones. Microsoft rode the wave of clone hardware to a success that few others could manage.
And with Windows, they even had one of the 'specialty hardware' companies working on their behalf. Apple sued all of Microsoft's competitors (GEOS, the GEM desktop, etc.) out of the pc-clone GUI business, leaving a flat landscape for Microsoft to build their Windows empire upon. Yes, we wouldn't have the Ubiquitous Windows environment we now endure if Apple hadn't plowed the field for Microsoft and subsequently lost to Microsoft in the look-n-feel lawsuit. Thanks Apple.
Clearly the 'quality culture' was well established by the time the Amiga came along.