The argument isn't that old people don't buy cars now, it's that they won't buy cars in the future, because they'll be dead.
The argument is, that instead of competing using better engineering (which is expensive) car manufacturers want to compete using cheap gimmicks like infotainment systems (which are cheap).
Google didn't force them, Apple simply just didn't want to pay.
See what I did there?
It wasn't money at stake. It was user privacy. I'm glad Apple didn't "pay".
Keep telling yourself that, but it doesn't change the fact that it's wrong.
The sticking point that Apple had was that Google wanted Google branding on Google maps. Apple refused and released their woefully inferior Apple Maps. Apple maps was (and still is) so bad they had to break their own rules and approve a stand alone Google maps application.
Nespresso is largely unknown outside Europe?
Australia is in Europe?
I've seen a few throughout SE Asia too (Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines).
That being said, I abhor pod coffee and given the choice, I'd rather instant (or a cup of tea, even Liptons).
This is what ShanghaiBill said:
"A pot on a stovetop needs to be watched and occasionally stirred. A rice cooker is fire-and-forget."?
Either you've never used a rice cooker or you don't understand that you just proved ShanghaiBill right.
Having watched people get burned rice out of a rice cooker, they are definitely not "fire and forget". Let them run for too long without water (or not enough water) and then you'll have problems.
Personally I prefer to use the adsorption method (stovetop) as a small pot is easier and faster to clean than an average sized rice cooker, gives me more control over the process and it's not much effort especially when I'm already cooking.
4 - Going cashless solves nothing..!!! Your cashless bank account still lists an amount of pesos and if you want to convert them to dollars the normal restrictions apply. People taking advantage of bitcoin and other schemes are simply operating in the black market... it could be bitcoin, it could be bonds or stock.
The problem here is that on
There will never be a cashless society because cash is so useful, if the government tender becomes useless, people will adopt another form. We see this when a nations currency devalues to a point where it's useless, they simply adopt the currency of another nation. Even if every nation went cashless, we'd end up with a black market currency as an alternative.
Am I anti-men thinking this sounds really stupid or have I just internalized my philogyny?
Nope, its stupid.
Real men dont complain about things like this.
I fear more about the death of manliness from people who see feminist conspiracies in a harmless movie than from actual feminist conspiracies (mainly because feminist conspiracies, like most conspiracies only exist in the mind of a few nutcases). I haven't seen the new Mad Max yet, but I'm willing to bet this conspiracy is nothing more than a way to get screen time on a hot chick (because sex sells).
My biggest concern is that the actor who plays Max, Tom Hardy is English... then again, Mel Gibson isn't really Australian either.
and that chicken isn't a real animal
Have you ever actually looked closely at a chicken? I did once and I am pretty sure that they are some sort of demon spawn and definitely not an animal, or at least not an animal of this earth. I have listened to enough Coast to Cost in my life but have never heard anything about the chickens and now I want a good laugh at the reasoning behind this.
The idea is that Chickens are not a wild animal, therefore not a real animal.
Yes, I facepalmed too when I first heard it.
I think older music (including classical) benefits from a survivor bias: the bad stuff has been forgotten, leaving only the good stuff.
The same thing will happen to the music we knew as kids, and the music we hear from pop artists today.
And this is a good thing(TM).
In 20-30 years things like Dubstep will be a complete joke whilst people still talk about Peal Jam in the same way we still talk about Sinatra...
I'm a rock and metal fan and I think Sinatra's work is good.
Mixing Country and Rap will get you Crap.
Mixing Rap and Electronica will get you Rape.
As far as Ariana is concerned, I just can't watch her for too long
Might I suggest listening to music instead of watching it? I think you're doing it wrong....
I would also suggest listening to music, but Arianne Grande isn't music.
Its computer generated, mass produced crap.
They mime their concerts because the song people hear on the radio (or spotify or any other service) is altered post production beyond the dynamic range of the human voice. There is literally no way they can replicate it live. Arianne Grande is no exception and lets face it, the only reason she's popular is because she is easy on the eyes.
I recently went to a Foo Fighters concert, Dave Grohl screwed up a line in Big Me. That's how you tell if they're faking it or not. Someone can perform a song thousands of times and still make a mistake, when their miming a recording, they never make mistakes. Not that anyone cared that Dave Grohl made a mistake, least of all Dave Grohl, it was still an awesome concert.
MP3 players are superior in several ways to smart-phones. I just bought a new one. Sansa Clip+, excellent device, almost unchanged in the last 10 years, just larger memory. Can be clipped to T-shirt or jogging-pants, is entirely unimpressed by being dropped even on a hard floor, very light, long battery life, excellent sound quality.
This.
The problem you've got is the fact that most people think the "best" MP3 player is the Ipod when it is in fact, one of the worst. Smart phones tend to use the cheapest audio components they can get away with because its not the primary use of the device, people are happy to compromise on quality or simply dont know any better. As long as it works well enough people wont care. With dedicated MP3 players the audio components are the entire reason for the device, I went from an Ipod to a Creative Zen many many years ago and it was like chalk and cheese. After the Zen carked it, I bought a Cowon which was another step up.
I haven't bought a new MP3 player in 5 years, but I also dont use my phone for music. If I did I would buy a new MP3 player.
Got that? "..a piece of American culture."
To be fair, Australia loves to emulate the US. A lot of our car culture comes from the US with our most popular cars having big American engines that produce stupidly low amounts of power for their displacement as well as handling that wouldn't be envied by a river barge.
The Ford Falcons used in the original Mad Max were basically American designs made in Australia.
I'm kind of curious how they consider it an assault on mens rights... but I'm worried that the kind of stupidity that comes up with things like this is infectious over the Internet.
Yes, it does. It doesn't matter what luck you get, being able to 'be' a character requires talent. If you don't believe me why don't you get on a microphone and do a passable impression of Mr. Burns reading a scene from Hamlet. There might be 14 million in it for you!
Being able to impersonate accents is a very difficult skill to master. Being able to do it on the fly like Harry Shearer can is a step above that (seen him a few times on live TV over the years).
Considering that most people cant re-intonate their voice at all it certainly is a difficult skill. Many people have the same accent until they die even when completely they live for decades in a new country.
Most people trying to read Hamlet in another voice, be it Mr. Burns, Jeremy Clarkson or a generic Mexican accent are nothing but cringe worthy because most people dont get that you dont sound the way you think you sound (I.E. record yourself and listen).
First, it IS an assault on religious freedom despite what proponents will tell you
No it isn't.
There is no religion I know of that says "Thou shalt recieveth government benefits".
This law only denies government funded benefits to those who refuse to vaccinate for whatever reason. Most private schools already refuse to accept children who aren't vaccinated, hell even Montessori and Steiner schools require a damn good reason to accept an unvaccinated child. Is this denying religious freedom? I dont see any difference between the government and private schools in this regard.
Being able to be stupid is not an inalienable right. Society has no reason nor responsibility to support anyone stupid enough to be an anti-vaxxer.
Claiming this law assaults religious freedom is like saying laws against assault religious freedom because they are trying to discourage god fearing people from burning witches and performing human sacrifices.
Australia has something similar. The government consulted with the major religions beforehand and none of them had problems with vaccinations.
To extend this, in Oz, anti-vaxxers aren't typically religious, definitely not one of the major religions (even going down to Judaism which is 0.5% of the Australian population). Anti vaxxers are typically anti-government types, the kind that believe in secret government run by lizard people and that chicken isn't a real animal (I'm not kidding about this).
I think we should go further and when unvaxed children come down with preventable diseases, their parents should be charged with child neglect.
They should be charged with endangering other people's Children as those few who cant be vaccinated depend on herd immunity.
I program, therefore I am.
