Presumably, you called in the plate number of the car and had the driver arrested for brandishing, right? If not, I'm calling bullshit on this.

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Do you honestly think people buy Swiss watches that aren't good at telling time? Certainly, battery powered watches are more accurate - but my day doesn't require 1/10sec accuracy.

As for not being able to 'do anything' - my watch can tell the time in three time zones, concurrently. Which is why I bought that model. I don't use that function as much as I once did, but I'm a sucker for a watch with a GMT complication.

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The chances of me giving up my Pepsi Rolex GMT Master II for an iWatch are... zero, zip, nada.

Sure, you can call the Rolex jewelry if it makes you feel better, superior, or smarter. I don't give a shit. I've had mechanical automatic watches since 1986 - Rolex, Breitling, Glycine. I'm not going to change that now.

I think the Venn diagram of Swiss watch owners and iWatch owners has a small overlap, but most everyone looking into buying a Swiss watch isn't looking at smart watches and changing their minds.

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Since when did a commercial passenger airliner getting shot down by bad guys get spun into a Mystery Plane 'Crash'.

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Didn't /. just post a story blaming climate change?

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Many (most?) farmers make contracts with fertilizer and seed suppliers. The contracts usually state how much is planted, where, and what fertilizers/insecticides to use and on what schedule.

For the see/fert/insecticide suppliers, this means taking on the risk that the crop will be viable. It also means that the farmer gets contracted costs and a known price per quantity of harvested product. So, a corn farmer might contract with the supplier to plant his acres with a guaranteed buyout of $7.25/bushel of corn.

This is a form of futures trading.

What this has to do with GPS is that the farmer can maximize the efficiency of seed planting and fertilizer/insecticide spread based on his acreage and layout. For the larger industrial farms, the cost savings can be substantial.

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It's all fun and games until they want to Eminent your Domain.

What's that? You don't own a house or business, so you don't care?

Get back to me when you have skin in the game...

Note to the Che t-shirt wearing socialists: Fuck off. The rest of us have mortgages to pay. You want to steal my house for a light rail? I'm going to fight you tooth and nail.

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Also, if you put an idiot scratch on it, you'll have to pay penance, and have Saint Turnbull refinish the frame.

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Yeah, you should try watching that scene again. See the crane to the right of the helicopter? The cables hanging down from the boom? The blades hitting the cable?

The miniseries had flaws, but that helicopter scene isn't one of them.

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I did a double take on that... you didn't use the term 'oligarch'.

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No, the fans didn't turn 'toxic'. It's just more bullshit narrative from the woke crowd. A label they applied so they could virtue signal and deflect blame. There are no more or less 'asshole' fans than existed before this current climate.

TLJ is not a good film. But, if you call out the flaws or point out the entire casino planet scene was plot filler and BS, or lament the complete waste of killing Admiral Ackbar offscreen, you immediately get attacked for being a misogynist.

The difference now is that social media makes it easier for the assholes to reach a wider audience, and it gives SJWs a place to rally and throw shade on anyone who disagrees with them.

I had hopes, back in 2014, that Disney would improve on the prequels with well written stories...

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...coverage every time!

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...Win stupid prizes.

Apparently, he's also an idiot.

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If your shop needed to reboot a Sun server twice a week, then your shop was incompetent...

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Tex Grebner his name, by any chance?

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