Comment Re:Landfills are such a bad idea (Score 1) 131
This means you're likely throwing some things in the trash that shouldn't be there.
Well if they take it away, then it is OK to throw it away with them, eh?
Comment Re: Many POV video producers! (Score 1) 66
You might be surprised how many women actually enjoy porn.
Err...as the old saying goes..."real" men don't care what women want...
But seriously.....sure there are women that like it, but not nearly enough in numbers to drive content made and published at least not the general masses.
Comment Re:Good point! But other makers could fill the gap (Score 1) 66
I think most would agree, porn would be a lot better for society if more "real people" were in it. Instead of a LA fitness instructor with huge breast implants, like we saw in the 80s and 90s and 00s...what if it was actual women and men who are actually in love with their partners and have imperfect bodies? What if lonely people watched healthy, positive, loving sex instead of impersonal performances?
Err...because that gets old and boring REALLY REALLY fast.
No one is watching pr0n to learn relationship lessons....people just want to get off and get back to their day....
And, everyone has a different body type they prefer, etc......there's niches for everyone....
Comment Re:Landfills are such a bad idea (Score 1) 131
I like in a large suburban/urban area and I have to go to the dump for certain kinds of waste (batteries, UPSes, eWaste, etc).
Yeah...we just throw all that stuff in the "regular" trash and they haul it away.
Where you live, do the garbage men actually slow down and stop their jobs to "inspect" your trash, open up bags, etc...to see what you are throwing away in there?
Comment Re:Landfills are such a bad idea (Score 1) 131
I'd think even where you live there is some limit to what the garbage men will take?
Not that I've found yet....garbage, old CRT monitors, pretty much any household waste chemicals / agents, oil...etc. Ive thrown out whole beds (mattress, boxsprings, frames....old bookcases....
I've heard some areas make you sort your trash...I've never lived in such a place as having "trash police" sifting through what you throw out.
recycling was halted years ago, but I think recently they started again, but you have to pay for it, but if you do that program, they do pick it up for you weekly I believe.
Comment Re:When do we start outlawing AI Agents? (Score 1) 62
Comment Re:What a waste (Score 2) 120
mass incarcerations and deportations for mostly non-criminals (being in the U.S. w/o permission is a civil, not criminal, infraction), etc... Did I miss anything?
You're wrong about the illegal alien crime levels...
Generally, someone that OVERSTAYS a visa, is indeed not a federal criminal offense, but the person IS removable / deportable at that point.
But a persona that has improper or unauthorized access (crossing illegally) indeed violates Federal criminal statute (USC 1325).
Illegal REENtRY after removal: That's a bigger more serious federal crime under (8 USC 1326).
So please quit trying to make all these folks here as illegal aliens as no big deal....many/most of them are guilty of criminal offenses JUST by being here.
And ALL of them here illegally are subject to immediate deportation.
Comment Re:Landfills are such a bad idea (Score 0) 131
We are already stopping this. In my state when I run to the landfill I'm required to drop electronic items off at one station, chemicals at another, recylcing like wood or plastic at yet another. Only when I am down to the misc crap not worth recycling or salvaging or handling differently for safety purposes am I allowed to go dump it in the actual landfill.
Go to the dump?
Is this something you do often?
Where you live, don't the garbage trucks run through your neighborhood 1-2 times a week and just pick up what you throw out?
If not where do you life they don't do this in the US? Are you somewhere extremely rural?
I've never heard of anyone in modern times having to haul their own track to a dump.
Comment Re:Landfills are such a bad idea (Score 1) 131
What are these measure....should they be stopped/altered?
Ask Slashdot: What are the Costs of Switching Between Windows, MacOS, and Chrome? 65
And while it's one thing for a business to delay their delivery dates and increase costs of by introducing a switch in computing environments that's of unquantified and possibly dubious value, how about when a switch in computing environments is made that affects schoolchildren's ability to learn for a period of time?
While a MacBook Neo is indeed cute, what might be the possible consequences of a decision to move 25,000 students off Windows and onto MacBook Neos...? Or even the impact on a single kid who moves from a MacBook school to a Windows or Chrome school (or whose home computing environment isn't aligned with their school). Or students whose teachers decide learning in their classrooms should now additionally require an understanding of the Minecraft computing platform/UI (used in over 40,000 school systems.). Learning Management Systems and now various AI Edtech tools used by schoolkids are also subject to change.
"Even if students and schools eventually benefit from a new platform, one wonders how much learning is lost during the switch," theodp asks, "and what the financial and educational ROI and payback period look like." Are there bigger problems than we realize? Share your own thoughts and experiences in the comments.
What are the costs of switching between Windows, MacOS, and Chrome?
Comment Re: We are also paying the Germans 1.2 billion (Score -1, Troll) 136
Yeah. This is what Americans voted for. More expensive solar panels.
Well, better deals for domestically manufactured solar panels...
I mean, we needed to do something after China years ago dumped on the US market and ran domestics out of business....something to try to nurture back our own businesses.
We need to bring back as much manufacturing as possible to the US and be more self sufficient....
You don't consider being dependent as we are on China to be a good thing, do you?
Did you not get a taste of how bad it can be during covid?
Comment Re: oops (Score 1) 79
I just hope we make it until I'm dead, humans are just about done. I'm glad I got to live through the 80-90s.
I was thinking same thing (the 60's-70's were GREAT too)...I hope to retire in a few years, and spend the last of my days, riding my motorcycle around, brewing beer, bbq'ing on my log burning smoker adjust generally enjoying my latter days.
PLEASE let it last till I'm done with it...after that well, who cares?
AI and viruses....What could possibly go wrong?
Comment Re:test drive? (Score 1) 248
The only thing Obama did for me, is raise my prices.
Wait, I'll give him the no existing pre-conditions, that was a good one....but other than that, all I got was high prices.
Comment Re:Disconnecting the car? (Score 1) 248
This has been educational to say the least. I'd not heard of places actually checking to see what comes out of your tail pipe too?!?!
That doesn't seem to allow for users to customize their cars for performance, etc...?