Mildly reclusive American living in Europe.
Tends to get truculent about movies, music, the Oxford comma, and politics
I did not mash anything together. I was around then. Nokia did not innovate cameras or GPS, so it’s a useless example. In fact, I never even owned one: Motorola, Kyocera, Panosonic… Yes, it’s almost impossible to get lost nowdays and it’s different than it was then. I do not disagree with your main sentiment, just the categorical portrayals
You keep dating yourself. You must not have been around then.
Phones did have cameras in 2002. They were shit, but they were there. I think GPS started creeping into phones in the 1990s already
Friendster. MySpace came a year later. But even if we were talking about the '70s, we could still say cell phones existed
It happens.
I used to always, regularly mix up George C. Scott with Cristopher Lloyd. Not that I confused them, but the names would get jumbled. I think it was because I sort of learned them at a similar time and he says, “great Scott!” so it got all muddled. Who knows what happens in our meat computers
Also, I know you were a little embarrassed, but you shouldn’t delete the post. People coming later have a hard time piecing things back together
Are you thinking of Nancy Pelosi?
That may all be true. I think companies are now relying on airbags to do a lot of the legwork in crashes nowadays. but the talk was of reliability not safety
That’s not a great method either. Safety is not reliability
The thing about the early VWs, like the Beetle, was they couldn’t pass the updated safety standards the US passed in the early '70s: safety glass, reinforced cabin, etc.
I hear what you’re saying, and I don’t know what else they might do for the formula. I just knew from somewhere back in my head that that’s the basic way they do it
Methodology is mileage divided by money spent on repairs
I don’t think you appreciate how remote many people are in the US. There’s now way they would ever run cable or ISDN out to them. A run of an ISDN line can only be really short.
I think i figured it out : not the longest, but if they mean that the span is 3.3 km between towers, that would be the longest span, but not total
No, still evolving. I’m sure if it ever got to some sci-fi, brain-jacked virtual reality, people would still be chasing elusive more realistic experiences
I don’t think I ever had a point where I felt things reached a pinnacle. Photo-realistic was a goal, but nothing reached that. Some games looked good and I could be impressed with 3d, but that excitement was about how good they were getting, so anticipating what they would look like in the future
Softly, she cried.
Tragically, he died.
Characteristically, Trump lied.
Length doesn’t create commas. That’s an adverbial phrase. There are plenty of single word adverbial phrases. I could come up with three word sentences with commas.
Who didn’t have a refrigerator in the '50s?
I wouldn’t have a problem with that. I gave Maher a shot a few years ago, but just couldn’t take it. I don’t understand what role Maher fills. He’s not progressive, but doesn’t have conservative cred either. I’m sure he thinks he’s being authentically moderate, but he seems like a sleeper right-wing shill
First of all, not “an” but several, and secondly, I did not assert anything like that. I told you I agreed. I was just pushing against the firm “no” and "none"s you were throwing out.