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> sixty-seven Dell Latitude E6440 laptops

We have nearly six hundred of them:

http://imgur.com/a/72ISn

I think only eleven of them booted out of the box. It took us nearly three years to get Dell to fix all of them. Our VP of operations still wants to buy Dell because even that painful process was still less painful than dealing with Apple stores. We bought twenty MacBooks as an experiment, and none worked out of the box after buying them from the Apple store in Bellevue Sq Mall. We had to be just assholes to even get them to consider replacing them with refurbished laptops. Some of the replacements has spinning rust drives and less memory as compared to the ones we bought with SSDs. That bad experience has meant that my company will never attempt to buy Apple laptops again which sucks since we do Java development, and the MacBooks were just so much better than the Dell Latitudes running Windows.

Are you kidding me? All you've done is spent a lot of your time to make your picture multiply. Fat Barbara.

https://ibb.co/jAWZCa
https://i.imgur.com/6mNccny.jp...
https://s29.postimg.org/dkjsmg...
http://imgur.com/a/iqcu7
https://tof.cx/image/FvRgN
https://unsee.cc/mezirado/

and this is just after my quick search.

Are you kidding me? All you've done is spent a lot of your time to make your picture multiply. Fat Barbara.

https://ibb.co/jAWZCa
https://i.imgur.com/6mNccny.jp...
https://s29.postimg.org/dkjsmg...
http://imgur.com/a/iqcu7
https://tof.cx/image/FvRgN
https://unsee.cc/mezirado/

and this is just after my quick search.

Randall's comic needed repairs.

Lol.

Anyway, killing google's ads is easy. Killing the gratuitous anti-Trump propaganda mixed in with basically every google search (including a search for "Target"), not so much. I'd even settle for being able to turn off the "Top Stories" section that appears over most searches, which they seem to have coded in a filter-proof way (or I'm just a noob with custom filters). Someday I'll whip up a greasemonkey script to get rid of it, if nothing else.

Just switch to Bing, DuckDuckGo, or one of the others.

Google will straighten up or get replaced.

Sitting around wishing they will get better on their own is a fool's errand.

Lol.

Anyway, killing google's ads is easy. Killing the gratuitous anti-Trump propaganda mixed in with basically every google search (including a search for "Target"), not so much. I'd even settle for being able to turn off the "Top Stories" section that appears over most searches, which they seem to have coded in a filter-proof way (or I'm just a noob with custom filters). Someday I'll whip up a greasemonkey script to get rid of it, if nothing else.

Oh noes! The world is going to end if the US doesn't transfer a bunch of money to other countries.

LOL! So true!

https://youtu.be/TJNJ_k8SUkA

Oh noes! The world is going to end if the US doesn't transfer a bunch of money to other countries.

http://imgur.com/UHGIx

Just go on the Internet and tell lies?

I don't think it's possible.

OK, I have yet to try it myself, fair enough!

For my phone/pad it's a glossy screen and I don't notice as much (though sometimes get rainbow patterns that are annoying) but my laptop is matte (no glare for me) and it shows up a lot more on that.

http://pm1.narvii.com/5779/c3a...
http://i.imgur.com/c7lLo4w.gif

I use chromium for most general purpose browsing, and I use Pale Moon for some selected websites, (Pale Moon is a fork of a much older Firefox version before it got bloated and slow. this image sums up what Firefox looks like, a once sleek Firefox just put on way to much weight and useless annoying features, sometimes a browser should just be kept as a simple but effective browser http://i.imgur.com/joooILc.jpg

Unless they're throttling traffic to/from the web site or hijacking DNS to redirect it to their own server,

Those would, indeed, be the "better examples" that the OP asks about. That's not what is happening, and the headline is wrong for tying to imply it. This is an example of a company using available legal avenues to deal with what they see as trademark infringement. It has nothing to do with Comcast being an ISP.

Of course, instead of linking to the actual cease and desist order when the link says "cease and desist order", we get a page from the defendant with their interpretation of what is happening instead. If you can't link to the actual order it makes one wonder if there isn't a bit of "beneficial interpretation" at play. For example, the interpretation that all of the pro-neutrality posters are real people and all of the anti-neutrality posters are bots. Or the interpretation that the activities of FFTF are just "tech-enhanced campaigns" but anything Comcast supports is "astroturf."

Here's the deal: if you cry wolf for everything that Comcast does that you do not like, then you dilute the real issues that you might have some real traction on. If you make it clear that your motives are hate for Comcast then any serious issues you bring up will look like just another hate campaign.

Well, I hate to respond with a meme, but http://imgur.com/lLxCoWM

Oh cool, Londo Mollari is finally here. So now we can build a jump gate to go see what's actually causing it.

Joke available in both B5 and Voyager flavours!

Joke available in both B5 and Voyager flavours!

Well, I hate to respond with a meme, but http://imgur.com/lLxCoWM

No, there's a lot more to it than that

Nope, just more hysterical partisan bullshit.

and I suggest you do more reading

I suggest you try and find an old copy of the Clinton Chronicles on VHS, where Republicans accused the Clintons of everything from having Arkansas state police run drugs to having people murdered. Actually, you can skip the VHS since it popped up on Youtube in the same Google search - and you can see those deranged Birchers using the exact same "where there's smoke, there's fire" argument Democrats are aiming at Trump right now.

If you look at what Russia did in the Ukraine before they invaded it,

You mean gave Ukraine a cheap gas deal and a low interest loan free of any of the IMF's austerity-crushing provisions? And Russia hasn't invaded shit. Years of accusations pulled from Right Sector Ukrainian accounts, but not a single satellite photo showing Russian troops. This subject is a lose-lose for western exceptionalists, because even if Russia did invade Ukraine, it would be a million times more justified as the U.S. overthrew the Ukrainian government. It's not like the U.S. would sit by with its thumb up its ass, if the USSR overthrew the government of Canada after Russia extended the Warsaw Pact around U.S. borders.

but for the people charged with keeping the country secure, they need to step up and ask the tough questions

Wow. Was that said in your best Charlie Sheen "winning!" voice? No, what's happening now is that there is no evidence to support Russian hacking and there never was. Which would mean that the media and almost all of the Democratic party were going to have to admit they were hysterical McCarthyist shitbags.

Well, we couldn't have that, now could we? So now they're trying to find nefarious connections and whining when people start taking the 5th in response to a witch hunt. It's a direct mirror of what Republicans did in the 90's - spend a hundred million dollars investigating the Clintons on everything from Whitewater to drug running to murdering Vince Foster. It all turned to bullshit in their hands, so rather than admit to being asshole witch hunters, they settled on a manufactured sexual perjury charge. Which Clinton wasn't even guilty of using the court's definition of "sexual relations."

That's what Democrats are doing. Finally getting some revenge on a Republican president for all the nonsense they went through 20 years ago. Except they became what they hated in the process.

Stop trying to pass as an objective, rational person. You're only kidding yourself. You're just an irrational, biased, tribal animal just like the rest of us

Well, obviously! But we're all capable of some rationality, so I ask you this;

Is creating a new, government controlled internet something that a political party would be bragging about in a document that is trying to get them elected?

Say the line, shill! Say it! https://imgur.com/hNJA5iG

Stop

We aren't using humans to hunt for truffles.

How about an experiment.

On a serious note, maybe nobody has really tried it. Dogs instinctively rely on their noses. People may have to train and practice. Being upright, we kind of have to go out of our way to sniff the ground a lot. It would take athletic training and conditioning to bend often, or use a shoveling device. Is that cheating?

A handful of deaf people have learned to use echo location to navigate by making clicking sounds. I tried it myself and indeed I got better over time, but not near as accurate as them. I found short "s" sounds more useful than clicks, more of a "ts, ts, ts...". I joke I accidentally discovered it while cussing: "shit! shit! shit!.....McAfee!"

Also be sure to look up keyboard shortcuts such as Command+Spacebar for the WhiskerMenu, Command+1,2,3,4 to switch between workspaces, and Ctrl+Spacebar for file searching. After running the Upgrade script, I added the ability to highlight text from anywhere and then press Alt+t to open a dialog box with an English translation (uses Google Translate). The Upgrade script also adds what I have called "climenu," which is this: https://imgur.com/a/BS2jW, for the command line extremists; everything in climenu works both in GUI and TTY environments.

Guess some people never bothered to learn from it.

Well now I do. Thank you for drawing attention to such wonderful character. I'll be sure to use it often just to piss people off. http://i.imgur.com/2Umt69E.jpg

So far as I can see, it's no big secret that Putin would like to destabilize the EU

Destabilize Russia's biggest customer, because reasons.

especially NATO countries, because a weak EU/NATO means it's easier for him to implement his long-term agenda

....of not continuing to be encircled by an alliance of hypocritical warmongers who continue to blame, threaten and sanction Russia because....the United States overthrew the government of Ukraine.

so original and appealing that OEMs won't be able to resist tagging along

We have no fucking idea what we're going to do next, but we're totally playing it off like shits about to get real. Please, buy our phones! We will literally give you an HP laptop and a Windows Phone if you just promise to let everyone you know, know that you are using a Windows phone and you, like this guy, are really enjoying the phone and think it is hip. Why are you all not buying our phones!!?

http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/... https://jordannix.files.wordpr... https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_... http://ibankcoin.com/activists... http://i.imgur.com/TZUj9c6.jpg http://static3.businessinsider... http://dbagus.com/wp-content/u...

Actually, three presidents who lost reelection since WWII: Ford, Carter and Bush Sr.

If you're going to to insist on being a pedantic nerd, then you'll have to read more carefully. I wrote "only two Presidents ran for a second term and lost". I didn't count Ford, because Ford never lost re-election since he was never even elected for a first term. If he had been elected in 1976, he would have been eligible for a second term in 1980.

Didn't you get the memo? Hillary's not running in 2020.

No such memo was sent. If you're going to take a "We shall see" attitude towards Biden, then Hillary isn't out of the running either. Hillary might be even more likely to run than Biden strictly on the basis that she's already tried twice before and shown no signs of being deterred. Of course, whether Hillary runs or not isn't the point of those polls and you know it. You're just pretending to be stupid, so you don't have to face reality as it is. Which is a popular Democratic strategy these days.

Because the idea that there are alternate facts and all viewpoints are equally valid needs to die.

Like this one? How about this one? Same facts, yet both MSM and yourself feel that only one of the two facts in the screenshots are "real" and the other is simply "fake". There's more, like for example this one. Or this one

If the ideology you spout:

the idea that there are alternate facts and all viewpoints are equally valid needs to die.

gains any weight, the first viewpoint to get abolished by the average person will be yours.

(Those images, btw, are representative of the group who are pushing very strongly to filter 'fake news'. Beware of what you wish for)

They are still doing it and it even over-rides your personal 'Adjust Sources'. http://imgur.com/HM89EbE

Except their algorithm is being adjusted to down mod conservative sources http://imgur.com/HM89EbE. Even using 'Adjust Sources' in Google News , left sites still pop up to the top and are cited many more times. Same thing is happening today, CNN still gets cited more than any other source with the example 'Adjust Sources' . It is impossible to get to that output without a manual parameter that ends up over-riding the user preferences.

Good thing you're showing your ignorance. I wouldn't want to let things like "the ability to move" or "having to work elsewhere." Why don't you come try a northern alberta winter on for size? You can even have a place right in the foothills of the mountains, enjoy the sudden 4ft snowfalls in a 18hrs period to boot. Just a useful tip: You have between 4 days and 2 weeks before the first blast of winter hits in middle to late September or sometimes early October when the first white show up on the peaks. Also, I hope you enjoy isolation because it's 6hrs in any direction to a major city. Hospital services? Well, just hope they can fly a copter in to get you. And try to avoid the spring melts, because well they like to wash out the highways and strand you for a couple of weeks. You should take some food with you too, normally 60 days is enough. Oh, and when the winds knock out the power? You'd best make sure you stocked up on firewood. Otherwise you're going to be either living at the mall or the city/firehall for the next couple of weeks. Because otherwise you're going to freeze to death.

I suppose this fact checking article is technically accurate for a very specific and narrow set of criteria... which aren't even well defined in TFA. (Technically right? That's the best kind of right!)

It reminds me of these recent fact checks: http://imgur.com/a/tSs3o

"Pants on fire" - (Number is correct, but fails to mention the cause)
"False" - (Transgender girls aren't boys)
"Mostly False" - (The numbers are valid, the comparison is questionable)

Great idea -- EXCEPT that it would totally screw you. I don't think Google makes a distinction between what goes in the "answer" box and what goes in the regular results summary -- so yeah, it'd be funny to see Kanye's net worth listed as "$0.35 and a half a bag of Doritos" in the big "answer" box at the top of the screen, but when a user figured out that the data is bad and scrolled down the page, they'll see your page in the regular listing with the same bad data showing. What shows up at the top would also show up at the bottom and therefore you wouldn't be doing yourself any good.
http://i.imgur.com/DslvwL6.png
(And in that particular case, the numbers don't match anyway -- the one at the top came from Wikipedia. So it might be the case that ONLY your actual listing would show the worthless data.)

Subnotebooks that "just work" with GNU/Linux used to be easy to find until the end of 2012

I have a subnotebook (Acer Aspire One) that "just works" with Linux and has for a long time

From Wikipedia's article:

In January 2013, Acer officially ended production of their Aspire One series due to declining sales as a result of consumers favoring tablets and Ultrabooks over netbooks.

I guess my user story differs from that of most such "consumers".

I now use an Asus Zenbook which runs Linux perfectly.

I have no experience with that make and model, but its official web site looks clunky and pretentious. It opens with an automatically playing video larger than the window, it isn't obvious how to proceed, and the layout doesn't fit in a web browser window that's been snapped to fit half the width of a 1920x1080 pixel monitor. Finally at the top left, "ASUS recommends Windows".

For the type of work I need to get done, I don't really want a subnotebook

Then your user story differs from mine. I want a subnotebook because I use commute time on public transit to and from my first job to make additional time to work on my second job, which is from home. And if I'm carrying a laptop everywhere I go, I find it more convenient to carry a smaller one. I currently use a Dell Inspiron mini 1012 and worry about what will be available for me to use once it finally bites the dust.

Who modded 'em down to -1?

Oblig hot girl to get you pumped up in exchange for moderation.

I came across this scan of a magazine spread for it a few years back:

http://imgur.com/a/4s6RF

Mine came with the CGA graphics card and color monitor -- FOUR AMAZING COLORS (including black)!

I worked with a few mainframe computers before it, but an Apple ][ was the first computer I owned. I eventually wrote Apple Writer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer) on that machine, made millions, and I still have it --

* Picture when it was new: http://i.imgur.com/CjoRH.jpg

* What it looks like now: http://i.imgur.com/tb4Ea1s.jpg

I worked with a few mainframe computers before it, but an Apple ][ was the first computer I owned. I eventually wrote Apple Writer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer) on that machine, made millions, and I still have it --

* Picture when it was new: http://i.imgur.com/CjoRH.jpg

* What it looks like now: http://i.imgur.com/tb4Ea1s.jpg

there is no such thing as a SJW, it's just a way for you to show a tribal affiliation

Uh huh. So SJW is not a tribal affiliation, but the people who call out their bullshit is. Gotcha.

We've seen the social "justice" warriors for awhile now, and pretending that they don't exist is a brazen lie.

Exhibit 1: The in-group hair tints.

Exhibit 2: A group of people that don't exist visiting Google.

Exhibit 3: Another group of people that don't exist harassing a university professor out of a job because they were upset over Halloween costumes.

I could go on and on. The social "justice" idiots have been very active and well-documented.

I set US language (I had UK) and my location already is US (and I am currently in the US, but haven't always lived here.)

This is still all I get:

http://imgur.com/a/SrowN

idk, man.

Screenshot I just made in Firefox: http://i.imgur.com/orIZxEf.png

screenshot

http://i.imgur.com/60yed59.jpg

Somebody is being fed a steady stream of clickbait :D

screenshot
http://i.imgur.com/60yed59.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/TQMbb51.gif Seems to work in the lab.

And it's just a more modern version of this:

http://imgur.com/GxzeV

Applicable "Pearls before Swine" strip: http://imgur.com/a/uXPx4