anoncoward111

can't wait for satellite to some day be robust and cheap enough to utterly destroy the notion of municipal internet. probably not in my lifetime, but hey, my 4g is cheap enough for my current uses :)

I live in the USA and it happened in the USA. Studied abroad in UK and thought the term was fitting :)

What you are describing is precisely the same situation I had when I lived in an apartment building next to a long-term tenant.

She simply didn't give a shit about the noise and trash she generated and all of us had to deal with it. The landlord didn't care either.

The police told me to deal with the landlord, because the noise wasn't at 3AM and wasn't "an event" like a concert. But her music was loud enough to shake my walls such that pictures fell off of them.

The town never returned phone calls. I simply vacated the apartment and told the landlord he would be more than welcome to sue me in court for the remainder of the lease.

Strangely, he never did, but I have a feeling that I would have had a hard time defending myself in court.

Though it is an unpopular opinion, I now feel that single family homes might be peferable to apartment buildings, if the caveat is that "the town and police will not do anything about anti-social behavior" as it is so rightfully called in the UK.

"Hahahaha, that's why we pay lobbyists!"

--FB, probably

I agree, but what I think I mean is, whatever theyre making on my direct deposit (probably $10 a month in fees to my employer) is less than the 0.83% of xx,xxx in my checking :)

I would surely love 2% on my checking though! I thought 2% was on cash back, I will need to search for 2% checking with no restrictions somewhere

And it is entirely because the powers that be have rigged the market so that they can charge whatever they want.

How have they accomplished this? First, they set strict quotas on who can be a doctor. Then, they set strict quotas on who can offer what medical goods and products. Then, they strap everyone up with student and business debt.

I'm not saying it is the correct way or not, but there's a reason that in other countries you can buy over the counter things that you can't in the USA.

Highly agreed my friend. I have never ever been charged a single fee for anything by my credit union. I've been there for 10 years now. Aside from the money they make loaning out my deposits there, I don't think they've ever made a cent off me. They have a direct deposit from my employer, but they pay me 1% APY monthly and I am sure they're losing money on me in that regard,

hey nice!!! I really appreciate that info. Definitely a game changer then. I know a guy who was going to checks cashed, every week, paying those fees, cash under the mattress etc etc etc. If only he know Bluebird was around the corner! He eventually got approved at Ally

In the USA, not meeting minimum deposit requirements, having a bad credit history or trackrecord with banks, not paying monthly fees, and not knowing how to use a computer can all preclude someone from being able to qualify or use a bank account.

I've personally seen friends struggle with all of the above, but the reloadable AMEX cards at Walmart seem to be doing well to fill in the gaps (except for not being able to direct deposit into them)

Regardless of whether you believe Youtube FB and Twitter "should be allowed" to remove such videos from their platform, the reality is that some percentage of people will continue to use their computers to host and view these videos.

Whether that is on the clear web or dark web is debatable, but it would be impossible to fully censor any file 100% of the time.

And if it isn't on the internet, it'll be on the sneakernet.

EDIT: I wasn't arguing if it should be removed or not. I was stating my prediction about what I think will happen.

"Regardless of whether asteroids should be allowed to strike the Earth, they will continue to do so"

As someone who routinely had to hide from truant officers during high school, I turned out completely fine. My grades were bad at first, but shockingly, once I was allowed to sleep in until 10AM because my first 4 classes of the day were "study hall", I had straight As.

Ironically now I am self-employed because I refuse to compromise my schedule for anyone.

There are multiple contradictory studies from Harvard about eggs.

As a result, there are youtubers who believe that cholesterol is a benficial steroid-like substance for muscle growth (Snake Diet guy), and others who feel tha it causes heart disease and death (Vegans such as durianrider)

The interesting thing is that both men seem to be qualitatively and quantitatively healthy, both on blood tests and physical performances

I want to see everybody at DW go to prison for hosting comments on news articles which could be considered inflammatory.

Elites need equal prosecution under law!

time for me to make a tarsnap gui ?? XD

Does it have any choice? The official FAA incidents log has US pilots stating that the MAX is different to fly from normal 737s...

...and using their own words, is "unsafe!" to fly without additional training. It is unsafe to fly a plane with different layout and handling.

I believe Home Depot and Lowe's and small non profit "tool banks" already do this, an app displaying inventory and manuals would maybe be helpful

Crony capitalists (what I would call mercantilists) certainly do not care about the will of the people. They are tyrants who hide behind a word they are corrupting.

However I will defend to the death my right to exchange goods with you. I'm assuming you and I are just normal citizens who don't control multi-billion dollar businesses?

Preferred by the monopoly and nobody else, is what you mean, yes?

Which is to say it is against the will of the people,

I am not sure of the current regulations but engine swapping in Sweden and other modifications were completely illegal since the 90s and basically what Americans consider to be normal and acceptable is flat out not allowed on the roads in Sweden by police or inspection authorities.

This means that 100% stock vehicles are in demand, and Volvo and Saab and BMW benefit heavily compared to a modified Jeep, which would make more sense for Sweden's enthusiasts

This is why junk yards and small businesses are a true blessing. I can pay someone $500 to put a $1000 engine into my car and get another 100,000 miles out of it, rather than "sorry that's not allowed, please go to the dealership and buy a new car".

In some countries, said behavior is literally illegal or impractical. Killing small business would be the death of capitalism and freedom.

Spare me. The pilots themselves have stated that they were completely unprepared to fly the plane safely in any condition with 0 training or warning.

In fact, potentially for political reasons, an intercepted communication between Russian rebels in Ukraine and Russia based military was released within hours of the crash on youtube

It was released so quickly that some even thought it was Western propoganda, but all evidence points to the plane being shot down by a BUK

The French govt threw a pretty big fit about the Concorde, unwilling to admit it was "unsafe", but eventually gave up on the plane for "commercial" reasons. Aerospatiale was literally state-owned by the French.

Agree. Anecdotally, I had a sales manager who graduated from Harvard. He was literally no different from any corporate manager I've ever had and just parroted whatever unattainable goals trickled down from the top, providing no clear way to meet said goals

This is excellent data and calculation work. I really appreciate it!

I have a suspicion that if you were to remove all instances of terrorism and look at the crash rate of Boeing vs Tupolev, almost all Boeing planes would be way better except for the MAX 8.

That is probably a meaningful piece of data too.

I agree, in my eyes it is debate between "the plane is not safe to fly by anyone"

and

"the plane is safe to fly with additional training, when given"

If the 737 MAX planes remain in the air in the USA, Boeing and US Govt are de facto saying "third world pilots clearly just don't understand how to fly our planes".

If they ground the planes, they de facto admit there is an actual safety issue.

Two crashes in 6 months and there's only 350 planes in existence is a pretty bad safety record that is probably on par with Tupolev.

The US can tacitly blame "third world" pilots all they want, but with 300 people dead already, I think it's important for the FAA and Boeing to say exactly what is going on, especially since the planes are in use in the USA.

There is a debate over if the plane's hardware, software, or pilots are at fault-- either the planes should be grounded or the exact protocol should be published all over for the world to know, since it is the passengers' lives at stake.

Agree, but what I meant by more expensive was the new plane costs more than if they just kept making the old design through 2019.

Fuel savings and etc is always nice to strive for, but now human lives and insurance companies and airline companies are paying the price for the geometrical/software fault created by Boeing's corporate structure

If this continues, it's going to be the Concorde all over again really-- a better performing but a tad more unsafe plane

I retract my statement that Boeing is an arm of US government. President Cheetoh the aeronautics expert is going to break them up and we are all going to fly cessnas now

Source: https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1105468569...

If that's true, that sounds like a thorough nightmare. Nothing gets me more heated than when an 85% perfect design with decades of real world use is replaced with something that is demonstrably broken + more expensive, simply because of corporate groupthink gone wrong

Thank you for this insight, I will research more deeply