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Comment Re:Two more years (Score 1) 64

You're a spineless shitheel so this question is rhetorical but when (and I mean WHEN) Omar's case is dismissed like Comey, Letitia James or hell even the sandwich thrower guy will you walk back your claims, change your position in the face of evidence?

To the reader of course the answer is no because these people are bullshit bad faith conspiracy theorists. Turns out a belief system that can ignore reality can be quite powerful.

Comment Re: How about height above the ground (Score 1) 111

What are you talking about? I said nothing about "buying muldiple vehicles". I have had five vehicles in the last 25 years, and only that many because at first I could only afford very used or free; I didn't buy new until the 4th car. $150 a day for the length of a 6 year car loan is $273,750 FOR A COMPACT CAR.

Comment I don't think so (Score 1, Troll) 64

Maybe if a kid is well off and has parents that can take them to the library constantly and isn't in a deep breath state or half the books have been banned because the letters g, a and y all appeared on the same page at the same time you might have a point but well that's not the world we live in.

As a dumb kid learning to program in basic I hit a wall for some reason on the concept of data statements. The idea that you would have data at the back of your program listing that you would read from the front of your program listing didn't make sense to my dumb kid brain. So I just kind of stopped because if your programming in basic you kind of need data statements to do anything at all cool.

At the time what I needed was something else to explain it to me in a different way but I just didn't have that. Single mom and all that working a lot and very rarely got to go to a library that wasn't the school library and I had already gone through the books they are. And I mean books plural they were like two very bad programming books.

Now if I had known and had the guidance to do so I could have asked the public librarian to get literally any book I want. There is a little library in a rural UK community that had the best collection of 8-bit programming books in the world because one of the old badass bedroom coders just kept asking the librarian for books and they kept getting them. But again it just didn't occur to me.

The internet lets you interact with thousands and thousands of information sources to explain things in different ways and give you different ideas and that's before you start digging into forums. Although thanks to political bots and the Russians you really have to dig the find good forums they are still out there.

Learning basic stuff is still better done on paper but there is no better way to get over a wall then with the help of the internet. And every person is going to hit a wall at some point

Comment Re:What do you actually get from the newest consol (Score 1) 70

That sounds a bit circular there. The argument is to get the newest hardware to run the newest software, but the newest software is specifically written only to run on the newest hardware - actual benefits of the hardware be damned. Certainly Sony and Microsoft wouldn't be selling these newest consoles if there wasn't money to be made doing so (regardless of where the profit actually lies for them).

It's just a hugely diminishing return at this point from my perspective. 2nd generation consoles -> 3rd generation consoles was a tremendous leap. 3rd generation -> 4th generation was a tremendous leap as well. 4th generation -> 5th generation was a bit less of a leap than before. 5th generation -> 6th generation was still significant but still smaller than before. We're now in the 8th and 9th generation of consoles, and not only do many people find the 8th and 9th generation titles indistinguishable from each other, many people have a hard time seeing benefits of even the 9th generation over the 7th generation.

Obviously the whole bit still makes a ton of money. Obviously folks don't care what I think of it. I'm going to say it anyways. Maybe I'll go yell at a cloud after lunch.

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