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That, and also the fact that services like Spotify/Netflix/Amazon/etc. allow you to access everything for a flat monthly fee.

Back in the day you had to buy each album individually for $10-$15 (or more) each, same with movies. Nowadays I can go on Netflix and watch what would've been hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of DVDs for 13 bucks a month.

Wouldn't be the first time a timing error has caused a huge failure. A similar error during Desert Storm cause 28 soldiers to be killed.

http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~arnold//disasters/patriot.htm...

That's not the technology failing, that's the users failing. Technological failure would imply that manually turning your lights on and off somehow breaks them or renders them otherwise nonfunctional, or the lever/switch itself breaks.

If someone got in a car and tried to put it in drive without starting it, would that be a technological failure of ignition switches?

Or, say you come up on the scene of an accident where a car has gone off the road at night. You pull your car off the road to illuminate the scene of the accident with your headlights but they stubbornly refuse, turning all the way to max deflection one way or another in an attempt to point at the road.

About a month ago I came upon this exact scenario and had to use my headlights to light up the wreck. Wouldn't have been great if they weren't cooperating.

Though I'm sure (I hope) there'd be a way to disable the GPS tracking.

That would certainly be something, especially if we can see car pricing become something like this:

Boring sedan, MSRP $25,000, Boring sedan (with AI headlight option), MSRP $1,750,000

Yeah, they definitely have with the newer LED light bars compared to the old ones with bulbs. Police in my area usually turn half of them off (to where only the very edges of the light bar are flashing, the middle lights are off) once they pull someone over or stop at an accident scene. I feel like otherwise they'd just cause more wrecks due to blindness.

Yep, executing your own uncle with an anti-aircraft cannon is an evil dictator move that I won't soon forget.

Do it wrong and the life support systems for you and your friends up there go out and you all die. Also, this entire $150,000,000,000 international investment may lose guidance and altitude control and burn up in the atmosphere, or maybe even rain down debris on some unlucky city.

No pressure!

It does. My understanding is that THC inhibits REM sleep, and as a result the chemicals that are usually released during the REM phase that cause you to dream do not get released. Once you quit and start having REM sleep again, there's a "backlog" so to speak of the chemicals and more than usual are released, thus causing the extremely vivid dreams.

Each time I've quit for an extended period of time it's taken me about three weeks to feel normal. During those weeks I definitely feel more grumpy and irritable. I'm also curious as to whether THC or other chemicals in the smoke have any effect on the body's thermoregulation, because each time I've quit I've also woken up drenched in sweat every night for about the first week or so. Crazy dreams as well.

These have all been me going cold turkey after heavy daily use for extended periods of time.

Always two there are.

NO MORE.

NO LESS.

Master Yoda put it pretty succinctly. "Do, or do not. There is no try."

Not disagreeing with you, but I would be surprised if they're buying it directly from the mine and not from some sort of market/middleman/third party company. I wouldn't hold my breath for extensive receipts and documentation either. The miners pictured in the article don't even have shoes and the "hammers" they're given appear to be two pieces of rebar welded together. I'd be surprised to find much documentation at all.

Curious as well. The thesaurus lists them as synonyms, though it appears there are some minor differences in meaning when used as scientific terms.

And the fact is no matter how hard a farmer or rancher works to ensure their product is "organic" it is still being exposed to human meddling. It will never be as "organic" as an animal that grew up in the middle of the woods with little to no human exposure.

Just passing along a quote that I heard, nothing more.

As for your first point, he's put up with Lars Ulrich for almost 40 years now. If that's not tolerance I don't know what is.

For point 2, decrying a large portion of the country as "Redneck America(tm)" sounds like the exact type of thing Hetfield is talking about, the same as your dismissive "thanks" at the end of point 1. They sold out with the black album in 91 anyway, there was nothing "redneck" about that album.

lol @ this screen name and question combo.

By open we mean everyone gets full permissions, tovarisch!

James Hetfield talked about that as a reason he left.

"I kind of got sick of the Bay Area, the attitudes of the people there, a little bit. They talk about how diverse they are, and things like that, and it's fine if you're diverse like them. But showing up with a deer on the bumper doesn't fly in Marin County. My form of eating organic doesn't vibe with theirs."

https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/metallica-james-hetfield-m...

It's just frustrating because not everyone wants to spend 24/7 working at a computer, some of us have other hobbies and prefer to keep a good work/life balance. I already get paid to code 8 hours a day, the last thing I want to do is go home and do it for free.

Would an architect get denied employment because they didn't have a "pet project" skyscraper in their backyard to show off?

Bite a rat to death in front of the cat and consume it raw while maintaining unbroken eye contact.

I remember reading a story a while back about a kid that threw rocks at a tree full of crows one day when he was walking to the school bus. After that day, the crows decided that this child was the enemy. Many kids walked past the tree on the way to the school bus every day and the crows completely ignored them, but when little rock thrower walked by he'd literally get shit bombed by 20-30 crows all the way to the bus. Every single day.

I guess they give presents to people the don't like also :)

Maybe at Foxconn or something

You jest, but you'll see the light once you try out their new cutting edge carbon fiber aerodynamically optimized dog leashes. Shave tenths of a second off your dog walk time. There's racing drivers that would literally KILL for that kind of time saving.

Party focused social media site, college kids, and a homeless felon that went full Raising Arizona with pantyhose on his head before being disarmed and shot with his own gun

Probably a combination of drugs and stupidity, though I'm not sure which element was more influential.

Ha! It is crazy how different perspectives can be depending on where you're from. When I moved up to Montana in 2011 they had just broken 1,000,000 population for the first time in the state's history and all the locals were talking about how crazy it was. Meanwhile I also thought it was crazy, because I had just moved from a place where there were a million people within five miles of me. A quick google shows that Montana still has just one area code - 406 - for the entire state.

Not in Eastern Montana, I don't think. It's a pretty depressing place to live. All the mountains and beautiful wilderness that come to mind when you think of Montana are about 300 miles west. All that's really out in the east is flat grassland, meth, and Indian reservations.

The state has the highest suicide rate in the nation.

Yep, once you get East of the Rockies there's really not much to see or do until you get to like...Minnesota.

It doesn't surprise me to learn that Montana has the highest suicide rate in the country.

I mean, he's got a point. Forsyth has less than 2000 people in it. As someone who used to live in Montana, the nearest town worth mentioning is Billings which is 111 miles away, and the nearest town worth really going to is Missoula which is 371 miles.

Governor is the highest position in US state governments. They're basically the president/prime minister of the state.

Yep, that's over a million people less than the Houston metro area and nearly two million less than the Dallas metro area.