Wait, I thought hipsters were the guys who liked the new things?
I've never been convinced it's well defined.
It sometimes seems to carry some form of ironic post-modern cynicism, and some fashion sense which is either very modern or 70s/80s style in an ironic manner.
In other cases it seems to be "people who like new things".
Either way, I'm closer to the sore hip age than the hipster age, and they (fortunately) don't make skinny jeans for me.
Meh. I see that argument used frequently on
... and you've done nothing to prove the aforementioned argument wrong. Good job.
Exactly - Disagree, and we kill you for being an infidel; agree, and we'll kill you as a "martyr."
Being a royal douchenozzle does not require adherence to a specific ideology.
The Ukrainians weren't cutting heads off or systematically slaughtering entire towns for being the wrong religion, so no, it's not "exactly as justified." Not even close.
OP was speaking from a legal standpoint, not a moral one.
Honestly, I fail to see how anyone ever confuses the two.
Can someone convince me that in the absence of a specific invitation by the legitimate Syrian government, which is the case this time, this [US] action cannot be defined as aggression?
IS/ISIS/ISIL is the aggressor, slaughtering thousands of people for being insufficiently Islamic, etc.
Hitting their command/control and training operations, from which tens of thousands of them are directed and supplied, is DEFENSIVE, not aggressive.
By that logic (or lack thereof, IMO), Europe has every right to bomb neo-Nazi targets on US soil as a "defensive" measure against far-right ideology, and the US has every right to bomb Scandinavia as a "defensive" measure against socialist ideology.
In short, by that logic (or lack thereof), all humans should kill all other humans as a "defensive" measure.
I've seen numerous people holding the big giant phone up to their head.
And, yes, it looks absolutely dorky.
You know, that was essentially Wernher Von Braun's attitude about the rockets he was building; he's quoted as saying something to the effect of, "My job is to make the rockets go up, where they fall is London's problem."
Some of those phones are enormous.
I've seen people using a phone which looks around the size of my Nexus 7.
And using it as a phone almost looks like a sight-gag.
Kind of like when I got my first-gen iPad and a friend held it up to his head and started saying "can you hear me now?".
Some of these phones don't look like they'd be either easy to carry around, or actually use as a phone. Because it's like holding a paperback novel up to your head.
"I have one thing to say. Fuck you. "
An excellent point. I must be wrong.
Yes, you are
And don't fool yourself, you r wrongness has nothing to do with what I wrote, it's what prompted the response.
I don't think I "demanded" anything. I did strongly suggest that it's wise to learn to live with our limitations rather than say "I don't want to live not being able to do what I want when I want".
Quite the subtle distinction there, one might think
I stand corrected. It is not an act, you are truly arrogant and superior, and to the core. It is wonderful that these people are so happy. If you could see past your nose, you might reflect that just because they are happy, it does not follow that all of the ancient are in that frame of mind, and "strong suggestions" that these people be happy is just like telling a depressed person to snap out of it because other people aren't depressed. Some demented people are quite happy, and some cry the entire time they are awake. Some need to be drugged because they turn violent. And your happy relatives will not change that situation one bit.
Does my experience, being different than yours mean that your experience is invalid? My point, if you would care to draw aside your occluding veil, is that you should consider yourself blessed that all your relatives are happy in their declining years. You are lucky. Ever had a wanderer? a violent dementia? A crier? a biter? a run around naked person or shit flinger?
You might in your knowing better, "strongly suggest" to those folks to straighten up their act and be happy like your relatives are.
"There are living fates much worse than death. "
And of course I said exactly the opposite of that, didn't I? Or are you reading your own fears and insecurities in to what I ACTUALLY said?
You said nothing regarding that at all. But remember, I can add my own comments to the discussion, although in your arrogance you seem to want to control and limit the discussion to only what you decree as legitimate
As to my fears, I am strongly opposed to the concept of my languishing in a nursing home, bereft of my mind, drugged and draining my accumulated wealth. a pointless existence - possibly painful, likely very unhappy existence - that in my mind is much worse than death.
But hey - your relatives are all happy, so yours is the only situation that counts.
That'll be the next killer "feature" (which is ironic, as phones from 10-15 years ago always had a battery life of 3+ days).
They had great battery life because you couldn't actually do much with them.
That said I REALLY wish the phone manufacturers would get off this thinner=better treadmill and make a phone with a thicker battery that will actually last at least a day. The fact that companies like Mophie have a successful business selling cases with built in batteries is all you need to know to understand that lots of customers actually value battery life over thin and light.
Do you think I could start a business with protest signs?
I mean, since the Left was so prolific in producing "war monger" and "the president is a war criminal" signs from 2001-2007, and they don't really seem to use them anymore, I bet I could buy them cheap and sell them to the Right, who apparently need them now?
Like desktops, the vast majority of people will never truly tax their CPU, and haven't for a long time.
Memory almost always becomes a bottleneck, and I'm of the opinion there's seldom such thing as too much of that, and almost never enough.
So, my older Android phone, or my Nexus 7 tablet
But, in terms of device longevity, in a few years when the OS has been updated numerous times, and your old device is old and busted, you will see it fall behind.
Which is kind of annoying, because my Motorola Krazr was an awesome phone which I had for almost 10 years. And I can't say I'm overly keen to get on the upgrade treadmill because new OS versions are out or the vendor has added some bauble to the phone.
Do smartphone specs even matter for the average smartphone user anymore?
Generally speaking no they do not. I would argue that they never really did aside from plainly obvious things like screen size or ability to access data. Certain features are basically table stakes (good screen, camera, adequate storage, etc) but it's pointless to pay for features I'm not going to need or use. Sure I'm happy if the phone is faster but I don't really give a crap how many Mhz the processor has or how much RAM it has unless it somehow gets in my way. I want enough performance that I can do the activities I want without the perception that the phone is holding me back. Whether the Samsung or the Apple device has marginally higher screen resolution is not something I care about at all unless the difference is very noticeable.
Personally though I wish the phone makers (Apple I'm looking at you) would get over this obsession with making the phone as thin as possible and put a bigger battery in the damn things. There is a reason companies like Mophie are making a lot of money selling battery cases. Lots of us value longer battery life over thinness and weight.
So, your assertion is that either:
1) A retro-reflector naturally formed, is perfectly aligned, and we stumbled on it without having been there and have been able to use it for decades in experiments
2) Aliens placed it on the moon, and we've somehow discovered it's there (again, without having been there), and that it's properly aligned, and have been using it for lunar ranging experiments for the last 45 years or so
You're either good at humor, or terrible at science.
Because the ONLY way there is a retro-reflector on the moon, that we know about, and that is aligned properly, and which has been used in lunar laser ranging experiments for decades
Unfortunately, joke or not, to the people who believe it was a hoax
Oh, sure, you can get a whole skeleton for under a grand, but you get a generic skeleton.
What if you wanted a custom skeleton? A skeleton with a particular deformity? Or maybe a non-earth skeleton? Compared to the cost of having a skeleton custom carved/molded, this would be cheap.
I'm always looking for a new idea that will be more productive than its cost. -- David Rockefeller
