start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

My current building just got "smart" meters, but they're "smartness" is that they can report exact usage by the minute. Self-reporting is old stuff.

in victoria i think we jumped straight from old-timey meters to minute-reporting meters. there were protests for some reason.

My current building just got "smart" meters, but they're "smartness" is that they can report exact usage by the minute. Self-reporting is old stuff.

we've got to get smart!

in victoria i think we jumped straight from old-timey meters to minute-reporting meters. there were protests for some reason.

Yeh Google just showed me "Stop smart meters!" results. I haven't really read them, but it sounds like people object on privacy grounds.

^ grow houses

I haven't really read them, but it sounds like people object on privacy grounds.

― Je55e, Thursday, 9 March 2017 11:09 (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ah yeah, iirc privacy and the ability to charge extra at peak times.

we also had a lobby group that tried to stop digital tv broadcasting on the grounds that analogue signals were 'beautiful'

which is probably the most ia thing ever

lock thread

I don't doubt someone would have stopped CDs for the same reason if they could have.

And that man's name is Neil Young

And it would have worked, too, if not for you meddling consumers!

TV shows look much warmer when played on vinyl

Why is McDonalds' new promotional burger, that's bigger than a Big Mac, called a Grand Mac instead of a Bigger Mac?

grandiose burger

TV shows look much warmer when played on vinyl

― may all your memes be dank (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 9 March 2017 12:58 (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you laugh but

http://www.mathpirate.net/log/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/VideodiscCase.jpg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yPSj0uwyli0/maxresdefault.jpg

There were actually two vinyl-video systems, one was pretty much exclusive to Japan.

I KNOW THINGS

yeah wasn't one a music video thingy, way back

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-doomed-effort-to-make-videos-go-vinyl

omg waht

By 1971, they had recorded a color image onto their increasingly densely grooved discs. Finally, in 1972, Clemens and his team managed to record 10 full minutes of color video onto one of their discs.

CED in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LrPe0rwXOU&t=1475s

VHD in action (cheers hawkwindz, i had no idea this existed):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCWLaAwr3sM

btw sorry to derail, it's not often you get to talk about movies recorded on grooved vinyl discs

CED link again (last one's broken):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LrPe0rwXOU

I love that the system used in the VHD system is called DiscLord

Steampunks in 2105 are going to love that shit.

I've got to hand it to RCA for having the sort of corporate structure where they threw profitability and logic to the side. VHS was out and was equal or better in quality, Laserdisc existed and was true to the huge platter vision but didn't have self-destructing discs, but they still threw money at this project that was impractical and doomed

And that man's name is Neil Young

― Moodles, Wednesday, March 8, 2017 8:43 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Neil embraced digital early on, and converted his studio in the '80s. He recorded six albums digitally before he realized he didn't like how it sounded.

does he realize recording music digitally and distributing music digitally are not the same

*request advance event information*
"Sure, I should have dates & details for you next week*
*next week passes, send follow-up*
"We're still a long way out so we don't have any dates or details yet but here's some vague info from our website"

WATCH ME FLIP THIS TABLE

[Yeh Google just showed me "Stop smart meters!" results. I haven't really read them, but it sounds like people object on privacy grounds.

Nah they objected to them on something way stupider - and something I get very IA about to keep it on topic - the meters ran over wifi and O NOES TEH WIFIES WILL ROT MY BRAIN MEATS AND ALSO SEND SIGNALS TO THE G-MEN

Like, do not even start me on people anti-wifi/anti-wind turbines etc etc

haha really? that reads like parody

"You’ve read 5 articles, but it looks like you’re blocking ads.
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only ads i will be interested in. ok, lets see...

adblock off.

cpu usage hits 100%, fan starts whirring. page shows the usual taboola crap:

"A hair surgeon explains what's going on with Trump's hair ..."
"A curvy Aerie model responded to body shamers in the best way possible ..."
"This model was dropped from her agency for her size—now she's the ..."
"What Jane From 'Melrose Place' Looks Like Now Will Make You Shiver"
"How To Dress Well Without Trying..Quiz"
"How this app teaches you a language in 21 days!"
"How Many Famous TV Theme Songs Do You Know? Take the Quiz!"
"5 Ways Tailor-Made Dog Food Can Help Your Dog Love Dinner"
"People Without Card Machines Must Read This..."
"These Unnerving Photos of Life in North Korea Will Make Your Jaw D"
"What Happened To Elisabeth Shue? We Can't Look Away."

adblock on...

Business Insider UK believes that EVERYONE might be interested in those ads, because hey what is clickbait if not ads that appeal to the largest possible number of people, eh?

i do kind of wonder what happened to elizabeth shue but only because we share a birthday.

taboola really is the worst shit though. do they not realise that people can't help but judge the content by the sidebar crap? do they not even check?

my work VPN seems to be fine but the files I need to unzip and upload, no, my upload and download speeds are ridiculously slow, on a FRIDAY!

Tijuana Flats has electronic gift cards. you'd think being e-gift cards you could use them when you order online, but no. you have to show them on your mobile device in person. ooooooook.

outdated websites where you have to click through a bunch of links to find the most basic information
contact us link
leads to three more links
hours, email, location

AND even worse, outdated local city websites where you stop caring about halfway through trying to find whatever the fuck departement you are looking for that's buried under 9 million page links. oh and way to have an event calendar that was last updated in 2009, clap clap clap guys great job

Telephones.

Clicking a Facebook icon on a business site and getting a "Like this Website!" pop-up instead.

Clicking a Facebook icon from a bank's website and getting a pop-up saying YOU ARE NOW LEAVING FIRST COMMUNITY NATIONAL BANK OF BIRDVILLE'S WEBSITE. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY CONTENT BEYOND THIS POINT.

any time I try and set up a dinner/etc with my folks, and for some reason, I have to ask the bump the time back an hour, my mom pulls this passive aggressive "well if today isn't a good day we can do it another time". guilt trips galore

pplains - block pop-ups in your browser or use an ad-blocker?

Happens even with — it's some legal thing they have to do. Sometimes, you get taken to a completely different page first instead of the popup.

Sounds annoying yeah

I'm sure they're annoyed at it too. My IA should be directed toward the internet user who was checking his bank statement and then read something about investing it all in Bitcoin, getting all confused in the process.

This on a taxi booking site filled me with confidence

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6b_M4uU4AAzsqu.jpg

Wait...what happened to Elizabeth Shue?

immediately ahead of me in the long queue for the till at M&S (or wherever), after plenty of minutes waiting gazing (as blankly as me) in all directions, how are you now startled and fumbling when it comes to laying hands on a means to pay for your purchases -- THIS CANNOT HAVE COME AS A SURPRISE