Never driven in a rental or borrowed car that had bluetooth that worked worth a damn.
So I bought the cheapest car I could possibly fine, got the the most bottom base model that I could get. Then put in a Sony Stereo headset and separate amplifier that was small enough to fit into the glove compartment. Added a little 12 inch subwoofer to the rear hatch and upgraded the door speakers.
I don't need a loud stereo. I just need one that was decent and wasn't a piece of shit. Spent about 400 dollars and got something that is a lot easier to use and more reliable then what you'd get out of of a 100,000 dollar car.
DMCA as intended would be better here. The person who thinks they found something infringing should have to proactively send a takedown, which should trigger a process that can be appealed. What Google has created is a proactive automated takedown system with minimal recourse.
No. Bonds are based on their money amount. So as money loses value due to inflation then so does the bond.
If you want to hedge against inflation you would need to invest in something that either yields a positive return or something whose value isn't tied directly into a money amount, like land.
Seems to work fine. Functionally it seems the same, maybe a bit faster. Haven't used it a whole lot.
Really tempted to try out the Microsoft PLS just so that I can say that I am using Microsoft in Emacs. Which is pretty close to being technically correct.
Brave new world.
Nowadays if I was forced to give up my Linux desktop and choose between Windows and OS X for work... Windows 100% of the time. Because I can then use WSL and get Linux nicely integrated into the base OS. Especially since Macbook Pros are not that nice anymore.
This is pedantic, even for HN! Who said anything about being "initially" faster? To win a race, you need to maintain the fastest average speed out of all competitors, plain and simple.
Not really, my point was that the typical male, while able to run faster outright, typically will slow down. Professionals of course will know their limits and run at a pace they can keep. The typical woman tends to run slower, but more able to keep a consistent speed and thus could come out in front.
But this is for the average case and not the professional case, where men tend to dominate anyway.
It doesn't have anything to do with 'working class'. Such things are pretty meaningless outside of political bullshit-making.
There are two real economic classes of people in the USA.. productive class and the parasitical class.
The productive classes consists of people of all income levels. They could be poor, rich, or in between. These are people who generate more wealth and value for society then they consume. Could be janitors. Could be farmers. Could be CEOs of fortune 500 companies. Small business owners. The whole gamut.
Then you have the parasitical class made up of people who can control vast amounts of wealth on paper, or not, but really don't produce anything themselves. Again all income levels. Could be a guy running scams on section 8 subsidized housing so the state pays his mortgage. (having a low-income girlfriend rent his house under the program while he pretends not to live there is a common approach). Could be massive arms manufacturers like Lockheed Martin. And politicians and other state apparatus and cronies that make their money through mechanisms like regulatory capture and taxes.
So it's up to the productive classes of people to provide the material wealth and value that is then used by the entire population of the country. The provide all the food, all the clothing, all the transportation services, they build all the housing, pay all the taxes, etc etc.
The source of political power for the government then is based on it's ability to extract a percentage of that wealth and then redistribute it. It's not just through taxes that they achieve this, but also through regulations and other controls of the market. The mechanisms can be overt and they can be subtle, but the goal is always the same: Take a portion of somebody's work output and give it to somebody else to get them to go along with what you want. Calling it 'socialism' really misses the point.
It's what always have existed. It's what kings used to gain and keep power. And it's what modern governments use to gain and keep power. Same thing, different lies. Ordained by God to rule, or 'will of the people'.. it's still all made up nonsense.
For example the Pentagon, in the USA, has hundreds of billions of dollars it spent that are simply unaccounted for. They know they spent the money. But they really don't know who it went to. Or why it was spent. Or really what it was spent on.
Most American's call that waste. But when it comes to the parasitical classes.. it's not waste. It's profit. And they have zero desire to ever see these sorts of 'problem' fixed.
So they don't get fixed. The real point has nothing to do with what they are buying. The important thing is who gets the money.
And thus it's the most critical job of the government to keep it's population working as hard as possible and generating as much economic activity as possible. So they generate sets of incentives and punishments... like working with banks to protect their debts. Also corporate culture plays a huge portion, propaganda from a variety of sources is all completely critical to making sure all this stuff keeps working.
People with massive student loans, massive car payments, massive mortgage payments, are kept that way because at that point they are working their asses off for virtually nothing. All their money ends up going to the banks one way or another. They are living pay check to paycheck and are terrified at the prospect of losing any sort of wealth generating capability because even a small dip in productivity will spend them into a even deeper debt spiral.
Sane people would just walk away from something like that. Once they got tired of the car they would just walk away from it. Got tired of the house, just walk away. So it's up to the government in schools working with banks and other groups to propagandize the population and convince them that it's in their best interest to spend all their lives generating the income for other people to use.
When George Bush said that if you stop buying stuff the terrorists win... to him that is not hyperbole or odd thing to say. It's actually a accidental moment of complete honesty. The goal of the terrorists is to undermine the economy that the government stands on top of.
And it doesn't need to be 100% one way or the other.
In this particular case the insurance companies are subsidizing their profits through the use of law enforcement to carry out investigations.
Regulation changed the reality of passenger planes regularly falling out of the sky and being hijacked. Regulation made drastic reductions in road deaths via seat belts, crumple zones, air bags, and the like.
Nothing about the industrial farming system is healthy for the cows. The feedlots, antibiotics, living in filth, eventual transportation to a slaughterhouse etc.
He gets this from nowhere and just proceeds to nonchalantly throw in stupid remarks in a debate that he doesn't like. It's an attempt to derail the discussion about proper solutions.
Never driven in a rental or borrowed car that had bluetooth that worked worth a damn.
So I bought the cheapest car I could possibly fine, got the the most bottom base model that I could get. Then put in a Sony Stereo headset and separate amplifier that was small enough to fit into the glove compartment. Added a little 12 inch subwoofer to the rear hatch and upgraded the door speakers.
I don't need a loud stereo. I just need one that was decent and wasn't a piece of shit. Spent about 400 dollars and got something that is a lot easier to use and more reliable then what you'd get out of of a 100,000 dollar car.