When you're paying a fraction of the historical fares for a flight, it's hardly a surprise that there's a surcharge for luggage.
If you're using the flight for commuting, you don't have the luggage. If you do have luggage, you still end up paying less for the flight than you do on the taxi to the airport.
For example, I can get a return flight from Nottingham in England to Dublin in Ireland with a three night stopover for £34 - including taxes and fees, where the taxes are approx. £20 of that price. Maybe you bridle at paying £5-10 extra for baggage on an international flight, but even then the cost is under £50.
A return taxi fair for me is around £55 to that airport. (To be fair, for three nights I'd drive and park there. For three weeks I'd taxi).
It would be more terrible if someone knew about your soon to be aborted pregnancy. Some things are better kept private.
Parents don't need to know about their children's sexual activities, once those children have reached the legal minimum age. Shops knowing such shit is sadly unsurprising, but revealing it should be (and in the UK, is) illegal.
Fries are thin and scraggly and unhealthy and taste like deep fried cardboard if bought from certain fast food chains.
Chips are fatter than fries and if done properly are a scrumptious blend of crispy outer with soft tasty centre. If bought from a chip shop they tend to be softer but then they come wrapped in paper and you get a glorious combination of taste, tactility and nostalgia all wrapped up with your sausage, fish, pie or donner meat.
I go for the donner meat, add hot chilli sauce and some plain mayo and the chips offset the texture of the meat and it's one of the finest meals known to mankind. All for £3.50 and cooked by someone else that knows and cares for you.
To get back on topic, my local chippy doesn't know where I live, my phone number, my bra size or anything other than my name and my prediliction for donner meat & chips. My pizza company also knows my phone number and my address, but to be fair they make excellent use of these by using one to deliver pizza to me and the other to ring me up to say, "Why aren't you answering your door?" (To which the answer is usually, "Wha? I di'n't hear you. Where'sh my pizzsha? Can you come back pleash?" They come back; I get good value for my generous tips)
My Samsung tv came with a 'free' galaxy tab that has TV remote control software on it.
I can use it in place of any/all of the remote control functions from either of the two physical remotes (except the voice activation), with the bonus of a touch-screen keyboard, or I can use it as an additional screen, displaying whatever the TV's showing at the time.
Useful if I'm watching something and want to go and make a cup of coffee without missing it - e.g. the cricket.
* no useful apps available outside of Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu Plus..
I use the DLNA capability on my Samsung Smart TV, which is useful. More often than that I watch films on LoveFilm, which has always worked perfectly. I could use Netflix but I've been using Lovefilm for longer than Netflix has been available in this country.
I use the iPlayer from time to time, which also works fine.
I'll admit that I tend not to use the rest of the apps much. But having built in wifi means I can stream directly to the TV from the iPlayer or Lovefilm servers, very simply and with HD quality. It also means I can access my media server, with its selection of films, and access my photo site if people want to see my pictures 'in the large'. (I tend to use a tablet for most photo browsing, to be fair).
The other factor is that the 'smart' bit of the smart tv is frankly a relatively trivial add-on. The beautiful screen is the bit that matters, and it's tough getting that good a screen these days without the 'smart' bit thrown in as a bonus. Why even try?
Now whether I think Steam uses too much memory for what it does? No I do not and here is why: In Steam you not only have a browser (the store) you also have an updating service, a chat client, and a file syncing service. When you realize it is doing all of that at the same time? I really don't think that the 261MB (actual usage 143MB) is too much to ask for.
You do realise I ran an updating service, web browser, multiple chat clients and file transfer (not auto-syncing, admittedly) at the same time on a machine with 16MB of RAM in the 90s?
I'm not saying it needed that much, but it does put your 143MB into perspective.
You may have a borked installation. Steam shuts down (approximately) instantly when I ask it to, and after running for several hours (including through the period of downtime) is using around 100MB of RAM.
You could (and should) argue that 100MB is too much RAM for a simple fat client that offloads most of its work via a browser wrapper, but it's a long way short of 1.5GB.
Google for 'repair steam install' or some such and give it a go.
Paedophiles like looking at pictures of children and even babies being raped - but don't tell me, it "doesn't mean they'd like to make it real"... LOL. Idiot.
Your laughable comparison to watching a film is beyond contempt, is that your best argument? Nobody watches a James Bond film because they want to BE James Bond, it's just interesting and enjoyable to watch it.
Well, look on the positive side. If you ever go to bed with a woman, she won't run screaming from the bed when the crud from a nasty, sweaty, germ infested dickhead drops onto the sheets.
That happens? That's happened to you?
Sounds like FUD to me. Sounds like post-justification for the mutilation of a child to me.
Doesn't sound like anything I've ever encountered, myself or from my friends - female or male.
Even the "Barely Legal" and "18 Only"-type genre usually means 25-30yo+ now.
At my age, a girl of 25 _is_ barely legal. Anything younger and I'm struggling to tell.
I danced with a girl for two years and the only clue she was under 20 was that she grew three inches in that time. Her mother told me a couple of weeks ago that she's now 18. That's how bad I am at guessing ages.
(She's now 6'2, and well proportioned. And intelligent. And pretty. She's going to have hell finding a nice bloke)
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oh the complexity and technical engineering behind a LEGO block
No, I said "tolerances".
Building a few hundred billion bricks that all fit together requires some solid engineering underpinnings.
greatly increased my intake of meat, eggs, cheese, nuts, etc. Any time I get hungry, I eat one of those and I feel full immediately.
I was about to post that I can just keep eating those, but on reflection you're right. Those food types do make me feel full up.
It doesn't stop me wanting to eat more though, and even they tend to make me feel full long after my body's had enough food. I just don't generate/receive/notice the right signals.
(I'm also comfort eating a lot of carbs, so stress is the single biggest cause of any excess weight I'm carrying at the moment, but that's a different story. Unfortunately comfort eating leads to feelings of guilty, which cause stress, which leads to..)
Those same fuck ass holes that wanted to start world war 3 during the Cuban missile crisis ?
..but didn't.
Those same fucktards warmongers that wanted to invade Cuba ?
..but didn't.
I trust the government much more than I trust even one military.
I expect the Government to determine policy - which includes whether to initiate or continue in military action. I trust the military to execute that policy.
So far the record in NATO member countries for the military obeying the dictates of the elected government has been exemplary. Why don't you trust them?
Duck into your APC and use the automatic cannon on them.
You're entirely right, based on pre-machine gun warfare, but he's also right in that there's little benefit in teaching outmoded means of warfare.
In a one-on-one tank battle the US is going to do very well, because they're very well trained and extremely well equipped. Shake up the battle conditions somewhat and the equipment may become less suited to the role and the training isn't as effective.
Of course, a policy of overwhelming firepower and treating anybody in sight as hostile when under fire means that US forces have a pretty good survival rate anyway. The downsides are less immediately visible.
No, seriously. WHO THE FUCK CARES whether the senator represents party 1, party 2 or party..oh, wait, American voters can't count to three.
Is the proposed legislation good, or bad.
If it's good, support it. If it's bad, seek to prevent it. Either way, look to improve it and find appropriate compromises between the inevitable multiple views.
Stop worrying about whether the senator wears the same colour socks as you.
Sure. Pay Facebook a dollar instead of using one of the 18 other communication channels available for contacting me right now at this very moment in time?
Let alone the ones that would take a couple of days.
Are you a parent? Have you taught your child not to talk to strangers? That the man in the van doesn't have puppies? Or that even though he does have puppies, you shouldn't get into the van anyway?
So why the fuck haven't you taught them not to meet random people off the internet without taking basic precautions?
meet someone through an online dating service
I can't rape someone through an online dating service. I can contact them, exchange emails, agree to meet up. I refuse to meet up somewhere that isn't public, and I take absolutely no offence when an hour into the meal she excuses herself and goes to the bathroom to text her best friend to say, "I'm still alive."
Basic fucking precautions. Is that too much to expect?
I get home from work, I play computer games. Maybe something engaging like MTG, maybe something mindless like Borderlands 2.
My stress levels drop. My desire to kill myself drop. My ability to function normally improves.
Why wouldn't the same apply to other people, and why do you assume that someone that once pissed up a lamp post will be wanking off due to some muppet in Guildwars 2 doing/dance nearby.
Stupid fuckwits thinking a stupid fucking law will protect their children will demand even more fucking stupid laws when their children get hurt anyway, and that hurts us all even more.
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This is why everybody I know wears a very big coat with surprisingly large pockets when flying with Ryanair.
I carry a tablet, two books, my headphones, a drink, three days clothing and a pair of dance shoes in my coat all the time, honest.
When you're paying a fraction of the historical fares for a flight, it's hardly a surprise that there's a surcharge for luggage.
If you're using the flight for commuting, you don't have the luggage. If you do have luggage, you still end up paying less for the flight than you do on the taxi to the airport.
For example, I can get a return flight from Nottingham in England to Dublin in Ireland with a three night stopover for £34 - including taxes and fees, where the taxes are approx. £20 of that price. Maybe you bridle at paying £5-10 extra for baggage on an international flight, but even then the cost is under £50.
A return taxi fair for me is around £55 to that airport. (To be fair, for three nights I'd drive and park there. For three weeks I'd taxi).
It would be more terrible if someone knew about your soon to be aborted pregnancy. Some things are better kept private.
Parents don't need to know about their children's sexual activities, once those children have reached the legal minimum age. Shops knowing such shit is sadly unsurprising, but revealing it should be (and in the UK, is) illegal.
Chips aren't fries.
Fries are thin and scraggly and unhealthy and taste like deep fried cardboard if bought from certain fast food chains.
Chips are fatter than fries and if done properly are a scrumptious blend of crispy outer with soft tasty centre. If bought from a chip shop they tend to be softer but then they come wrapped in paper and you get a glorious combination of taste, tactility and nostalgia all wrapped up with your sausage, fish, pie or donner meat.
I go for the donner meat, add hot chilli sauce and some plain mayo and the chips offset the texture of the meat and it's one of the finest meals known to mankind. All for £3.50 and cooked by someone else that knows and cares for you.
To get back on topic, my local chippy doesn't know where I live, my phone number, my bra size or anything other than my name and my prediliction for donner meat & chips. My pizza company also knows my phone number and my address, but to be fair they make excellent use of these by using one to deliver pizza to me and the other to ring me up to say, "Why aren't you answering your door?" (To which the answer is usually, "Wha? I di'n't hear you. Where'sh my pizzsha? Can you come back pleash?" They come back; I get good value for my generous tips)
My Samsung tv came with a 'free' galaxy tab that has TV remote control software on it.
I can use it in place of any/all of the remote control functions from either of the two physical remotes (except the voice activation), with the bonus of a touch-screen keyboard, or I can use it as an additional screen, displaying whatever the TV's showing at the time.
Useful if I'm watching something and want to go and make a cup of coffee without missing it - e.g. the cricket.
* no useful apps available outside of Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu Plus..
I use the DLNA capability on my Samsung Smart TV, which is useful. More often than that I watch films on LoveFilm, which has always worked perfectly. I could use Netflix but I've been using Lovefilm for longer than Netflix has been available in this country.
I use the iPlayer from time to time, which also works fine.
I'll admit that I tend not to use the rest of the apps much. But having built in wifi means I can stream directly to the TV from the iPlayer or Lovefilm servers, very simply and with HD quality. It also means I can access my media server, with its selection of films, and access my photo site if people want to see my pictures 'in the large'. (I tend to use a tablet for most photo browsing, to be fair).
The other factor is that the 'smart' bit of the smart tv is frankly a relatively trivial add-on. The beautiful screen is the bit that matters, and it's tough getting that good a screen these days without the 'smart' bit thrown in as a bonus. Why even try?
Now whether I think Steam uses too much memory for what it does? No I do not and here is why: In Steam you not only have a browser (the store) you also have an updating service, a chat client, and a file syncing service. When you realize it is doing all of that at the same time? I really don't think that the 261MB (actual usage 143MB) is too much to ask for.
You do realise I ran an updating service, web browser, multiple chat clients and file transfer (not auto-syncing, admittedly) at the same time on a machine with 16MB of RAM in the 90s?
I'm not saying it needed that much, but it does put your 143MB into perspective.
this god damned YUPPI AFLUENZIC fucking attitude.
I hate to interrupt a good rant, but what's a YUPPI AFLUENZIC?
I have to ask, as you're a googlewhack at the moment.
incidentally,
the goddamned U.S. Motherfucking Army
Yeah. That's what the rest of the world call it too :)
You may have a borked installation. Steam shuts down (approximately) instantly when I ask it to, and after running for several hours (including through the period of downtime) is using around 100MB of RAM.
You could (and should) argue that 100MB is too much RAM for a simple fat client that offloads most of its work via a browser wrapper, but it's a long way short of 1.5GB.
Google for 'repair steam install' or some such and give it a go.
Paedophiles like looking at pictures of children and even babies being raped - but don't tell me, it "doesn't mean they'd like to make it real"... LOL. Idiot.
Your laughable comparison to watching a film is beyond contempt, is that your best argument? Nobody watches a James Bond film because they want to BE James Bond, it's just interesting and enjoyable to watch it.
You just contradicted yourself.
Anyway, the evidence is that porn doesn't lead to non-consensual sex:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2032762
http://reason.com/archives/2007/11/05/is-pornography-a-catalyst-of-s
Sorry, but the person you replied to doesn't seem to be an idiot. Just more informed, less reactionary, more considered.
Well, look on the positive side. If you ever go to bed with a woman, she won't run screaming from the bed when the crud from a nasty, sweaty, germ infested dickhead drops onto the sheets.
That happens? That's happened to you?
Sounds like FUD to me. Sounds like post-justification for the mutilation of a child to me.
Doesn't sound like anything I've ever encountered, myself or from my friends - female or male.
I'm curious. Have you ever had an infected dick?
I ask only because nobody mutilated me, and I've never had one. Never. Not "not on a regular basis" but never.
As opposed to the mutilated children, assaulted with no possibility of consent, a high proportion of whom need medical assistance as a result.
e.g. http://jpubhealth.oxfordjournals.org/content/33/2/280.abstract
Even the "Barely Legal" and "18 Only"-type genre usually means 25-30yo+ now.
At my age, a girl of 25 _is_ barely legal. Anything younger and I'm struggling to tell.
I danced with a girl for two years and the only clue she was under 20 was that she grew three inches in that time. Her mother told me a couple of weeks ago that she's now 18. That's how bad I am at guessing ages.
(She's now 6'2, and well proportioned. And intelligent. And pretty. She's going to have hell finding a nice bloke)
oh the complexity and technical engineering behind a LEGO block
No, I said "tolerances".
Building a few hundred billion bricks that all fit together requires some solid engineering underpinnings.
Really? Interesting. It was apparent on the very first attempt, when his accent was at its broadest.
He needs to get himself out of Scotland though. An accent like that'll win him popularity across the world.
Your problem there is that your FOSS block has no value unless it's associated with a lot of other FOSS blocks.
To do that you need them to all be precision engineered within very strict tolerances.
Good luck with doing that for cheaper than Lego manage.
greatly increased my intake of meat, eggs, cheese, nuts, etc. Any time I get hungry, I eat one of those and I feel full immediately.
I was about to post that I can just keep eating those, but on reflection you're right. Those food types do make me feel full up.
It doesn't stop me wanting to eat more though, and even they tend to make me feel full long after my body's had enough food. I just don't generate/receive/notice the right signals.
(I'm also comfort eating a lot of carbs, so stress is the single biggest cause of any excess weight I'm carrying at the moment, but that's a different story. Unfortunately comfort eating leads to feelings of guilty, which cause stress, which leads to..)
Those same fuck ass holes that wanted to start world war 3 during the Cuban missile crisis ?
..but didn't.
Those same fucktards warmongers that wanted to invade Cuba ?
..but didn't.
I trust the government much more than I trust even one military.
I expect the Government to determine policy - which includes whether to initiate or continue in military action. I trust the military to execute that policy.
So far the record in NATO member countries for the military obeying the dictates of the elected government has been exemplary. Why don't you trust them?
Duck into your APC and use the automatic cannon on them.
You're entirely right, based on pre-machine gun warfare, but he's also right in that there's little benefit in teaching outmoded means of warfare.
In a one-on-one tank battle the US is going to do very well, because they're very well trained and extremely well equipped. Shake up the battle conditions somewhat and the equipment may become less suited to the role and the training isn't as effective.
Of course, a policy of overwhelming firepower and treating anybody in sight as hostile when under fire means that US forces have a pretty good survival rate anyway. The downsides are less immediately visible.
No, seriously. WHO THE FUCK CARES whether the senator represents party 1, party 2 or party ..oh, wait, American voters can't count to three.
Is the proposed legislation good, or bad.
If it's good, support it.
If it's bad, seek to prevent it.
Either way, look to improve it and find appropriate compromises between the inevitable multiple views.
Stop worrying about whether the senator wears the same colour socks as you.
This is opening a new path of communication
Sure. Pay Facebook a dollar instead of using one of the 18 other communication channels available for contacting me right now at this very moment in time?
Let alone the ones that would take a couple of days.
Are you a parent? Have you taught your child not to talk to strangers? That the man in the van doesn't have puppies? Or that even though he does have puppies, you shouldn't get into the van anyway?
So why the fuck haven't you taught them not to meet random people off the internet without taking basic precautions?
meet someone through an online dating service
I can't rape someone through an online dating service. I can contact them, exchange emails, agree to meet up. I refuse to meet up somewhere that isn't public, and I take absolutely no offence when an hour into the meal she excuses herself and goes to the bathroom to text her best friend to say, "I'm still alive."
Basic fucking precautions. Is that too much to expect?
I get home from work, I play computer games. Maybe something engaging like MTG, maybe something mindless like Borderlands 2.
My stress levels drop. My desire to kill myself drop. My ability to function normally improves.
Why wouldn't the same apply to other people, and why do you assume that someone that once pissed up a lamp post will be wanking off due to some muppet in Guildwars 2 doing /dance nearby.
it has no bearing on your life
Stupid laws hurt us all.
Stupid fuckwits thinking a stupid fucking law will protect their children will demand even more fucking stupid laws when their children get hurt anyway, and that hurts us all even more.
I'm including you in that group.
Website owner dares to track users' interactions with the site. Surely this can't be allowed? The end of the world is nigh!