Gonna sound like one of those AI generated stories on Youtube. 8^) Let's call her Amy. Anyhow, Amy was the wife of my best friend, and after he died at a young age, I helped her with computer stuff. I figured I could still be of help to my dead friend. Amy was impetuous and flighty. Amy had a tendency to ingratiate herself with people, then sabotage the relationship or work environmen after a while. But she didn't sabotage with me - that should have been a clue. So we got along well for some years

Amy started talking with my wife, and they had a lot of phone conversations back and forth. Met for coffee too.

I told my wife that she really needed to be careful, and the best option would be to not get involved with Amy at all, because there would be drama. But my wife can be a bit stubborn, and continued to be friends with Amy.

Then one afternoon as I returned from an errand, I found my wife on the couch, looking like she just saw a ghost.

She had just got off the phone with Amy. Said the conversation started off simply, with Amy saying how lucky my wife was to have me. Wife agreed. But then it started getting strange, eventually about how much Amy loved me, needed me, was going to have me, and eventually Amy threatening my wife with bodily harm. One of those "If I can't have him, you won't either." things.

Amy confirmed all that via email the next day. But she still wanted me to help her with the computer stuff. I just replied with telling her no, and that she needed to stay far away from my wife and I, to pretend there was a restraining order against her, because if she didn't, there would be.

So more emails and texts from her to me were ignored (but saved) She'd drive by our place slowly. So I put up the security system cameras. It's been about 5 years now, She appears to have given up, but I keep the cameras on just in case.

And if you put everything on teh ribbon that was in the menus, what would you have then? I had to deal with real time troubleshooting of computers that had all different manner of ribbon layouts.

And I don't have a problem if you like the ribbon, some people do. I don't want to sound insensitive - if you have a physical condition that makes the simple click on the ribbon boxes better for you, that's a good solution for you. But not me. Theres's a reason why they didn't go Ribbon on Mac versions.

I remember as a kid, My parents would allow me to keep the money for returning bottles. The deposit thing is something that woks pretty well.

You live somewhere where they don't do a core charge? We still have that here. Last battery I bought had a 10 dollar core charge that got refunded when I dropped off the old battery.

We also had "NukeGate", that was a real mess, and never finished after delays and what seems almost like contempt for safety. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... " Only 9 billion for nothing. And their "Base Load Review Act" law, passed by the Georgia legislature made it pretty simple to pass along all of the overrun cost. Yeah, after NukeGate they repealed the law.

And my above example was from an established player in their own field. You're relying on a player from a different field. That's not a good indication of success.

As usual between the OP being a negative nancy and you being a rabid optimistic fanboi, reality will fall somewhere in the middle. One opinion assume certain failure, the other assumes no risk. Both of you are wrong.

The claim that refurbing a reactor is the shining example of the Great Leap Forward in nuclear reactor profitability is specious anyway. Even if we considered it the equivalent of the process of designing, building and implementing a brand new reactor, well, that's one example among many that have had quite different outcomes in terms of budget and on-time delivery. But it really isn't the same thing.

I'm not against nuclear power per se. We have the ability to build nice safe reactors. But humans have tremendous problems implementing such energy dense devices. Did the bean counters deny something that might make the thing unsafe? Did the managers and suits force some corner cutting to attempt to meet deadlines?

For me, the spy nature of the glasses is quite different than the regular security cams. If my neighbor has driveway cams, it is likely more a protective thing. I myself have some security cams I installed a few years back - believe it or not, it was a "fatal attraction" type thing. A friend of my wife became obsessed with me, and after that, my wife was concerned for her safety.

And in a restaurant or bar, security cams also provide a protective service, in case a big kerfuffal breaks out. But they don't use it for spying purposes. They wouldn''t be in business long if they were using it for spying purposes.

In general, restaurants and bars will let you record a celebration if you ask. as well.

But now the inherent spying nature of these glasses. In a world where social media has people videoing things like breakup, embarrassment, or jealousy tests, then posting them for the lulz, that's bad. In addition, sometimes things go on in those places that people would like some "social privacy". Sometimes people have affairs, sometimes just dating, sometimes just a business dinner, sometimes people discuss business, sometimes the owner says no - it is their property. Record as you like outside, but if you want to record in the dressing room at the gym, some people might not like that. Some might find it in their hearts to do you physical harm.

And finally, never forget that there are eateries where you might end up badly messed up or dead if you go in with those glasses.

We've all had the discussions before, during the Google Glasshole days. It is invasion of social privacy (that is when you are in an establishment that is not a public space, like a bar, restaurant , or locker room. Public might have access, but what happens there is the right of the owner to enforce. Same as in my house.

I agree with the difference between visual and textual outlooks per person.

It is unfortunate that there isn't much choice. As well, when the ribbon first came out, you were branded as a troglodyte if. you dared to say that you didn't think it was the best thing evah, while people like me who troubleshoot had to spend a lot of time trying to figure out who put what where.

And how odd, where you could randomly place ribbon elements where you liked, yet a bridge too far to allow you to not use the ribbon, if you preferred the menu based setup that was in use for years.

It might be superior for some people, but what is your analysis of the majority of us who find the menu based superior?

I especially hate the customization of the ribbon. Anyone who had to troubleshoot another person's work in real time will probably agree.

Much fun was had when troublshooting in real time during a meeting. All the ribbon users customized their ribbons, an I was left trying to figure out where what was. I had to make a proclamation that unless they left it stock, they would have to stand with me as I figured out what was screwed up.

Have they gotten the world standard Microslop's product to be identical between Mac and Windows, put out the product for Linux, Open and save in the formats they used to ignore, to not remember the printer the original document was typed on?

A lot of people who work in Microslop's Office keep a copy of Libre around to do things the world standard cant do. Open the document, save it in a format the world standard can load.

Yeah, Pointing out Libre bugs as some mark of inferiority to Microslop Office isn't really a flex.

But to answer your question, bugs get fixed. I haven't had any of those things you complain about in a long time.

I have noticed that many of my peers are starting to mentally slow down at this point, I definitely am not. They are not what one would call demented, just slower, and can be a bit forgetful. Probably normal in fact.

Meanwhile I chug along, with both short, medium, and long term memory intact.

I shared with my wife about the "twice as many immature neurons" finding, and she said "No shit, now we know why you never grew up."

Go back and re-read what I wrote:

I'm not disagreeing with you on what you wrote. What I am saying is that when I receive a statistic that is monovariant, I ask for more variants.

When the single variant shown is 70 out of 100 of the resulting births resulted in a healthy baby, I will ask what thirty percent of the results were, and why.

You might not like it when I ask - but rest assured, if I am in the decision loop, I will demand knowing what 100 percent of the outcomes were, not 70 percent.

This is really silliness to debate. Some get defensive, some try to say I'm wrong to even ask about the mysterious 30 percent. Some try to say I'm wrong if I ask them to provide more in-depth enunciation of the situation.

To re-iterate what I wrote: "perhaps 30 percent never became pregnant, perhaps there was a spontaneous abortion. Perhaps the womb was rejected during the pregnancy. You are correct - we do not know - they do not tell us what the non-successful outcome was. However there is another possibility. We aren't getting everything. Like what that 30 percent failure rate issues were?"

Seems to me, and correct me if I am wrong, I'm saying quite specifically that if we aren't told, we don't know. You just used more examples. Good examples.

Sometimes I wonder if the real problem that people have with what I am saying is that they do not want the question asked about that other 30 percent, that we must just celebrate the use of dead women's wombs, and not question. I question everything, if people don't like it, they can sue me.

There is - at least in my mind - something eerily similar to the mega birth thing from a few decades ago. A huge deal was being made about couples who took various drugs and methods to obtain the birthing of children, and then had 5-6 or more babies. Oh, media was having a frenzy. Each record breaking birth was attended with instant fame. College scholarships were given to all the babies, free houses, free vans and diapers and food. Free childcare. It was happy happy feel good stories.

And then, the inconvenient truth came out. Many of these babies were not healthy. Many of them were handicapped, many were physically and intellectually stunted. Human women are not really developed to have that many children at one time.

Is something similar going on here? I do not know. I do know a lot of people don't appear to want the question asked.

You are kind of just embarrassing yourself at this point. Your "just so" excuses are entertaining though, so keep it up!

So sounds like you want people to only drive on roads they can't find chargers. I can map out trips that require me to have a Jerry can of gas on my Jeep unless I want to die in the desert.

I think you are projecting in the EV direction. You seem to be counseling against EV use based on your situation. As Also, you can't do that coast to coast trip as quickly with an EV even if you are doing your best. You will always have up to stop at least one place once per day that the ICE doesn't.

If speed is important - take a plane, rent the vehicle of your choice. Takes a lot less time than driving any vehicle. Seriously fluffernutter, your arguments are pretty silly at this point.

Do you get tired moving the goalposts?

If you don't like EV's, then don't buy one, pretty simple. And those Highways through the middle of nowhere that somehow cause EV's to be useless - don't have gas stations either. Several in my area where the gas stations are better than 60 miles from each other. You do not drive over them unless you plan, and have an enough fuel in the tank.

In the meantime, we have as many EV outlets in my area as gas stations. We can charge at home too. When we travel, there are plenty of charging stations, and we have them at hotels where we can charge overnight. For all the moaning, here near the edge of the northern PA wild areas, people are buying, using, and very much enjoying their EV's. Traveling through the wilderness areas, up and down the east coast, and east to west coast.

If I'm driving coast to coast USA I can do it in an EV now. All that said, If I have an EV and didn't want to drive it coast to coast, I can rent an ICE car.

If I purposely planned the trip to avoid EV chargers, I suppose I could make it very difficult to use an EV. But that would be tough on ICE vehicles too, I'd want to strap a Jerry Can or two on the back of my car. I fail to see any loss of freedom here.