What I can do is point out several years of annual electricity usage in my house and ask why there's a big fucking jump the day the smart meter was installed.
Yep, sure about that. Windows 10 Pro here and after I disabled the 'base installation' panels I've seen almost nothing that would count as an advert.
I did spend a couple of hours configuring the system to minimise telemetry, disable automatic updates and generally stop it being obnoxious though. Most users lack the patience, knowledge or bloody mindedness to do that.
Well, I've had it easier than my boomer parents - mainly because I was lucky enough to get a degree when they were worth something. My parents both left school at 16 and started working for a living.
I've also had it easier than millenials. Jobs were more available, housing was cheaper, the great IT outsourcing hadn't happened, manufacturing was still in-country.
With you on the rest though. Make yourself employable and give employers a reason to pick you ahead of others.
56% measured power usage much greater than what was actually being used in a ridiculous corner case scenario
As you say, 56% measured power usage much greater than actual usage.
I don't give a flying fuck how corner case the scenario was, I don't want to pay for electricity I'm not using. Give me an accurate meter or face annual small claims court cases for refunds on your fraudulent charging.
No. These sites acknowledge that content exists, that it's not available with adequate ease or at a reasonable price, that an unnatural monopoly has been imposed by anti-consumer laws bought by media cartels and have responded by making the content available through other means.
This content doesn't belong to the studios. It belongs to world culture.
The 1080 Ti is really designed for two things; 4K gaming and VR (and, to some degree, people wanting to do 1080p or 1440p gaming at 120Hz).
Yeah, the question for me isn't whether I upgrade from a 1070 to the 1080Ti, it's whether I upgrade from a 1440p screen and a 1070 to a 4k screen and the 1080Ti.
Unless I turn on a lot of anti-aliasing all the games I own run at 1440p and max settings with great framerates already, and a 27" monitor at 1440p doesn't really need AA.
Those news articles existed, exist and represent an online record of events. Preventing people from finding or accessing them distorts and changes perception of those events.
The original ruling was wrong, stupid and is something I'll be inviting my MP to overturn in the UK following the exit from the EU.
As far as those who consider work "slaving away" as compared to raising a child, that argument tends to be dispelled when we find they sure as shit won't trade places.
Hmm. Find me someone that'll pay for my current lifestyle and all I have to do is sit at home feeding the baby? Fuck yes, sign me right up.
that doesn't somehow mean women aren't paid less after all
Yes, yes it does. Women get paid the same as men. I've never seen a woman getting paid less than a man doing the same job, and I've worked at multiple companies (and did the accounts at one of them).
I did work with a woman that sat next to me that took home lower monthly payments than I did. We did the calculations one day, taking into account her additional 40 days holiday a year and it turned out her pro-rata salary was higher than mine. She did at least work the same hours on the days she was in the office.
I know many single mothers - one of my hobbies brings me into their world - and few of them work full time, none of them have been in poverty and more than one of them has bitched that the payments are going to stop because the child will be 18 soon.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/educ... disagrees with you, and that's the fucking androphobic BBC. Note the sentence midway down regarding the report, stating "It also highlights how girls outperform boys at every level of education." although obviously the BBC wouldn't write an article on that fucking subject.
But even if it was true, what conclusion would you draw and what corrective action would you take?
Well, I'd stop structuring education in a way that favours girls, I'd sack teachers that give girls better scores than boys for the same work, I'd give boys better role models in the classroom, I'd treat bad behaviour as a 'children growing up' thing and not a crime and I'd stop funding all these fucking gynocentric initiatives that have resulted in such a gender disparity in university admission rates.
What would you do, besides spout total bullshit about
a woman excusing herself for a few weeks to give birth
If it was a few weeks you'd have a point.
It's a whole fucking year, paid, and often another year or four unpaid after that. Following which I think it's exceedingly fucking reasonable that they come back to work and have to prove they can even do the same fucking job before you even start talking about any progression.
Meanwhile a male colleague will have 1-5 years extra experience, understanding and progression. Yes, he's going to earn more. No, that's not unfair, and no, that's not a fucking pay gap.
Ah, nothing like re-defining a work/life balance by prioritizing a career over life itself. Yes, let's shame all women for even having the thought of wanting to become a mother. Great fucking answer to the inequality issue.
Nobody's fucking shaming any mother. They're just pointing out that she made a simple choice, and that has some benefits and some downsides. Meanwhile her children's partner will on balance have chosen financial security through career progression and an excessive work burden.
So the woman gets to sit at home for a couple of years, the man gets to slave away paying for it. And somehow you and every other cunt of a feminist is making out he's the evil one? No.
I'd love to drop down to 8-5, especially if that includes a lunchbreak.
The boss wants employees under control and visibly working in the office
Only if the boss is an incompetent fuckwit. I choose my own hours, my own locations and largely my own tasks. My boss is over five thousand miles away and trusts me to do my job (and half of several other peoples too).
Given women in the US spend 70% of the national combined income I think it's pretty accurate to suggest that they're not just free choices, they have far greater choice than the men whose earnings they benefit from.
I do support flexible working. I mean, today I arbitrarily chose to work at home with a cat asleep on me rather than drive into the office.
Of course, I also did an eleven hour day with no breaks. But I'm an evil man and deserve to work unpaid overtime, and look at that poor lady over there that gets paid less than I do, for her 32 hour week doing a shit job because it's all she's qualified for after she took a few years off to enjoy raising a family while her husband shortened his life expectancy earning enough to maintain their standard of living.
No, not just a problem for women at all. Those poor underpaid overworked selfish cunts.
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Nah. If I'm out when they come around they get to come back another time.
I work from home sufficiently often that it's mostly a non issue.
What I can do is point out several years of annual electricity usage in my house and ask why there's a big fucking jump the day the smart meter was installed.
Yeah, I do have records.
Also, if you like playing Solitaire games, brace for ads. Unless you pay a yearly subscription fee.
Or download and install one of the several hundred freely available alternatives that don't include annual fees or adverts.
Or better yet, skip solitaire and buy Hexcells.
Yep, sure about that. Windows 10 Pro here and after I disabled the 'base installation' panels I've seen almost nothing that would count as an advert.
I did spend a couple of hours configuring the system to minimise telemetry, disable automatic updates and generally stop it being obnoxious though. Most users lack the patience, knowledge or bloody mindedness to do that.
Well, I've had it easier than my boomer parents - mainly because I was lucky enough to get a degree when they were worth something. My parents both left school at 16 and started working for a living.
I've also had it easier than millenials. Jobs were more available, housing was cheaper, the great IT outsourcing hadn't happened, manufacturing was still in-country.
With you on the rest though. Make yourself employable and give employers a reason to pick you ahead of others.
Not really. My meter is inside my house, so a meter reader needs to knock on my door and ask for permission to enter.
On the flipside, I let anybody wearing some random badge come in and check the meter, so just knock if you want to take a look.
Well fucking sign up for commercial power supplies if you don't want your abuse of a consumer supply to be noticed and addressed.
give employment to a lot of meter-readers. (That's a good thing, by the way)
I disagree, but more importantly, so does my power provider. They ask me to take my own meter readings, and submit them online.
56% measured power usage much greater than what was actually being used in a ridiculous corner case scenario
As you say, 56% measured power usage much greater than actual usage.
I don't give a flying fuck how corner case the scenario was, I don't want to pay for electricity I'm not using. Give me an accurate meter or face annual small claims court cases for refunds on your fraudulent charging.
These sites are stealing the content
No. These sites acknowledge that content exists, that it's not available with adequate ease or at a reasonable price, that an unnatural monopoly has been imposed by anti-consumer laws bought by media cartels and have responded by making the content available through other means.
This content doesn't belong to the studios. It belongs to world culture.
The 1080 Ti is really designed for two things; 4K gaming and VR (and, to some degree, people wanting to do 1080p or 1440p gaming at 120Hz).
Yeah, the question for me isn't whether I upgrade from a 1070 to the 1080Ti, it's whether I upgrade from a 1440p screen and a 1070 to a 4k screen and the 1080Ti.
Unless I turn on a lot of anti-aliasing all the games I own run at 1440p and max settings with great framerates already, and a 27" monitor at 1440p doesn't really need AA.
No, it's trying to rewrite history.
Those news articles existed, exist and represent an online record of events. Preventing people from finding or accessing them distorts and changes perception of those events.
The original ruling was wrong, stupid and is something I'll be inviting my MP to overturn in the UK following the exit from the EU.
As far as those who consider work "slaving away" as compared to raising a child, that argument tends to be dispelled when we find they sure as shit won't trade places.
Hmm. Find me someone that'll pay for my current lifestyle and all I have to do is sit at home feeding the baby? Fuck yes, sign me right up.
I leave a woman and with a child, I owe her nothing. I refuse to pay for a child that doesn't live with me.
I'll take responsibility for my own actions, not someone else's.
that doesn't somehow mean women aren't paid less after all
Yes, yes it does. Women get paid the same as men. I've never seen a woman getting paid less than a man doing the same job, and I've worked at multiple companies (and did the accounts at one of them).
I did work with a woman that sat next to me that took home lower monthly payments than I did. We did the calculations one day, taking into account her additional 40 days holiday a year and it turned out her pro-rata salary was higher than mine. She did at least work the same hours on the days she was in the office.
I know many single mothers - one of my hobbies brings me into their world - and few of them work full time, none of them have been in poverty and more than one of them has bitched that the payments are going to stop because the child will be 18 soon.
Forgive my lack of sympathy.
I already do 100% of the housework in my house, where's my fucking Government handout?
I rear all the children in my house too, come to that.
Oh, great. So it's the man's fault for working harder so that the mother can enjoy time with the kids?
Fuck you and your hatred of men.
Untrue
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/educ... disagrees with you, and that's the fucking androphobic BBC. Note the sentence midway down regarding the report, stating "It also highlights how girls outperform boys at every level of education." although obviously the BBC wouldn't write an article on that fucking subject.
But even if it was true, what conclusion would you draw and what corrective action would you take?
Well, I'd stop structuring education in a way that favours girls, I'd sack teachers that give girls better scores than boys for the same work, I'd give boys better role models in the classroom, I'd treat bad behaviour as a 'children growing up' thing and not a crime and I'd stop funding all these fucking gynocentric initiatives that have resulted in such a gender disparity in university admission rates.
What would you do, besides spout total bullshit about
Toxic ideas about masculinity
Given life expectancy keeps rising, your approach tends towards overpopulation and eventually a full planet.
This is not sustainable, so I vote we stop right fucking now while there are still some unpaved areas.
The birth rate is barely sustainable or simply too low in many developed countries.
That's odd, I could swear the UK's population has been rising steadily for the last 35 years.
Right now the population is too high, I'd happily see a fall by 20 million or so.
Sure, a lot of those people are old. That means shit, I'm never going to get to retire anyway, so age becomes irrelevant.
a woman excusing herself for a few weeks to give birth
If it was a few weeks you'd have a point.
It's a whole fucking year, paid, and often another year or four unpaid after that. Following which I think it's exceedingly fucking reasonable that they come back to work and have to prove they can even do the same fucking job before you even start talking about any progression.
Meanwhile a male colleague will have 1-5 years extra experience, understanding and progression. Yes, he's going to earn more. No, that's not unfair, and no, that's not a fucking pay gap.
Ah, nothing like re-defining a work/life balance by prioritizing a career over life itself. Yes, let's shame all women for even having the thought of wanting to become a mother. Great fucking answer to the inequality issue.
Nobody's fucking shaming any mother. They're just pointing out that she made a simple choice, and that has some benefits and some downsides. Meanwhile her children's partner will on balance have chosen financial security through career progression and an excessive work burden.
So the woman gets to sit at home for a couple of years, the man gets to slave away paying for it. And somehow you and every other cunt of a feminist is making out he's the evil one? No.
I'd love to drop down to 8-5, especially if that includes a lunchbreak.
The boss wants employees under control and visibly working in the office
Only if the boss is an incompetent fuckwit. I choose my own hours, my own locations and largely my own tasks. My boss is over five thousand miles away and trusts me to do my job (and half of several other peoples too).
Are they really free choices though?
Given women in the US spend 70% of the national combined income I think it's pretty accurate to suggest that they're not just free choices, they have far greater choice than the men whose earnings they benefit from.
I do support flexible working. I mean, today I arbitrarily chose to work at home with a cat asleep on me rather than drive into the office.
Of course, I also did an eleven hour day with no breaks. But I'm an evil man and deserve to work unpaid overtime, and look at that poor lady over there that gets paid less than I do, for her 32 hour week doing a shit job because it's all she's qualified for after she took a few years off to enjoy raising a family while her husband shortened his life expectancy earning enough to maintain their standard of living.
No, not just a problem for women at all. Those poor underpaid overworked selfish cunts.