Watch out, soon we will have to pay to voice our protests against it.
Reminds me of the Downfall parody about Disney and Steamboat Willy Forever. One woman starts crying and the other one says to her: 'Don't cry; they own the rights to that emotion.'
The sickest part of all this illegal and indefensible crap Obama has done is the reason why. It's not that he believes in any of it ideologically, but does it merely to insulate him from GOP charges of *not* doing all this crap they would also do but with great passion. Citation: his vote as US Senator giving AT&T a free pass for illegally wiretapping US cititzens - just so he couldn't be called 'soft on terrerists'.
While I'm (less and less) glad he won, given the rerrifying alternative, he really doesn't stand for anything except winning.
(too late, I suspect), but the first thing that came to mind while reading TFS are all the tech companies yet again whining for even more work visas because they just can't find 'good enough' US citizens. 'Good enough' being a working definition for mole, nationalist, or just straight-up thief. But hey, they work hard and cheap (discounting the rather negative ROI of IP theft).
If the music features singing, I always catch myself singing along in my head, ironically having to expend effort to ignore the lyrics. In those cases when I need to isolate *and* concentrate, it has to be classical or Brian Eno.
Scalia, et al are the worst practioners of Salad Bar justice; ruling for something and acting like it was carved on Moses' third tablet and then totally ignoring precedent when it doesn't favor their glaringly obvious political (and social) ideology based on mysogyny and greed.
I'll say the truth again: worst Supreme Court since the Dred Scott decision.
Many people here have switched to online bill pay, and most banks offer automatic payment if the company (rarely) doesn't do bill to credit card.
Paperless paychecks and automated bill pays are about as reckless as electronic voting machines. 'They' say they're perfectly secure... and you have no choice but to trust them. Think about it: one major solar flare or the financial version of Stuxnet, and your bank has no record of the paycheck your company's records clearly show they deposited. Your ISP cut off your account because your virtual check virtually bounced and without Internet access, all the rest of your bills are now overdue...
BTW, within the breezy attittude of online and automatic (shudder) bill pays is the assumption that one *always* has a plethora of 'cash' in the bank to easily cover any out-sized or unexpected bill without going into the red; quite the 1% arrogance, that.
When you've set up a system where you may not have even one scrap of paper to show as proof of worth or payments, that has to be the loudest whistling past the graveyard since the Subprime pyramid scheme.
IIRC, The Netflix CEO is still on the board of Microsoft. Though I am surprised it works on Android - too big to ignore, perhaps? Or just until the Motorola patent attacks bore fruit...
Obviously still in the old man's employ, otherwise he would have setup a paradise to reward those who turned against the Big Beard, not inflict endless agony on (only!) those who didn't tow the party line.
There is plenty of silliness in the Abrahamic religions (just like all the rest), but this flaw shows up before you can even utter 'In the beginning...'
There is a reason Big Music has to bribe, threaten, buy out and coerce media and sellers: on the whole, 95% pop music has never been any good, requiring brutal tactics to shovel shit into the public consciousness. Therefore, hones marketing and buying of music has to be a smaller business. Also: where is it written in stone by God that musicians have to be wealthy?
as one attorney who's involved in the market says he represents a woman who came into possession of a block of IPv4 address in the early '90s and now, 'She's in her 70s, and she's going to have a windfall
How, in any tangible way is she anything more than a cybersquatter? Also: 'came into possession'? What, they 'fell off the back of a truck'? Sounds as sketchy as the legal profession.
Fiber to Gated Communities? I suspect only the already well-to-do enclaves near 'leet unis will be the only beneficiaries for some time, such as Palo Alto, Research Triangle, Ann Arbor... Grambling State? NDSU? Don't hold your breath.
And now Al Queda does the same thing to use. They employ a few guys with piloting skills and box cutters and we spend trillions trying to hunt down their boss and securing our airports against a non-threat.
Not with the entrenched Supremely Right-Wing Court. And with modern, top-flight medical care, these trolls will be overseeing the destruction of the Rule of Law for at least 30 more years.
Just like the other snake-oil saleman Mark Cuban, Zuck saw the suckers had reached their ultimate ripeness (btw: he got married a day before the IPO so has future ex-wife wouldn't get half). No doubt they got the latest demographics of new members in the last one or two years, saw nothing but wrinkles and gray hair, soiled themselves a bit, and called their favorite Wall Street co-conspirators.
You may think that's just a give-away by the city, but what the city would get in return is 1000-2000 employees all paying income taxes...
In all seriousness: what cities require their residents to pay income taxes? I can think of only one (New York City). Maybe other mega-cities in the US charge income taxes, but I doubt they would be on the short list for companies moving factories there.
It is a sickening practice, seeing the desperate and outright corrupt curry favor with corporations demanding to be given the 52nd card in the deck in exchange for crumbs - and those just until a better offer comes along.
PS - Irony: the former Confederate states more than willing to work for corporations (mostly foreign!!) for pennies on the dollar because of their hatred for all things union.
Personally, I think if a cop doesn't "step up" that makes him part of the problem. The only good cops, in my ideal view of the world, are the ones who do "step up".
In reality - and it never even has to be said out loud - if a cop narcs on other cops, s/he knows the rest may take their sweet time in providing back-up in a deadly emergency. Taking the moral high road could literally cost you your life, thus...
A goodly amount of modern cars feature aluminum heads and utterly buried spark plugs. Removing them without damage and (far more probable) cross-threading or stripping out the threads during installation isn't worth me trying (especially now that most spark plugs last at least 30k if not 50k).
I'm reminded of that crack about Linux being worth spending time on, if your time has no value. At least if you eff up your Linux install, you won't be forced to walk everywhere.
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Until NSA/MS Black Ops releases the exploits targeting non-secure boot machines...
And that purpose was Plausible Deniability.
Reminds me of the Downfall parody about Disney and Steamboat Willy Forever. One woman starts crying and the other one says to her: 'Don't cry; they own the rights to that emotion.'
Along with Do Not Install any OS but WinOS, aka UEFI, which is starting to sound more and more like UFIA.
The sickest part of all this illegal and indefensible crap Obama has done is the reason why. It's not that he believes in any of it ideologically, but does it merely to insulate him from GOP charges of *not* doing all this crap they would also do but with great passion. Citation: his vote as US Senator giving AT&T a free pass for illegally wiretapping US cititzens - just so he couldn't be called 'soft on terrerists'.
While I'm (less and less) glad he won, given the rerrifying alternative, he really doesn't stand for anything except winning.
(too late, I suspect), but the first thing that came to mind while reading TFS are all the tech companies yet again whining for even more work visas because they just can't find 'good enough' US citizens. 'Good enough' being a working definition for mole, nationalist, or just straight-up thief. But hey, they work hard and cheap (discounting the rather negative ROI of IP theft).
If the music features singing, I always catch myself singing along in my head, ironically having to expend effort to ignore the lyrics. In those cases when I need to isolate *and* concentrate, it has to be classical or Brian Eno.
Scalia, et al are the worst practioners of Salad Bar justice; ruling for something and acting like it was carved on Moses' third tablet and then totally ignoring precedent when it doesn't favor their glaringly obvious political (and social) ideology based on mysogyny and greed.
I'll say the truth again: worst Supreme Court since the Dred Scott decision.
If Scalia keels over of a heart attack, so would Thomas, just to loyally follow his leader.
Paperless paychecks and automated bill pays are about as reckless as electronic voting machines. 'They' say they're perfectly secure... and you have no choice but to trust them. Think about it: one major solar flare or the financial version of Stuxnet, and your bank has no record of the paycheck your company's records clearly show they deposited. Your ISP cut off your account because your virtual check virtually bounced and without Internet access, all the rest of your bills are now overdue...
BTW, within the breezy attittude of online and automatic (shudder) bill pays is the assumption that one *always* has a plethora of 'cash' in the bank to easily cover any out-sized or unexpected bill without going into the red; quite the 1% arrogance, that.
When you've set up a system where you may not have even one scrap of paper to show as proof of worth or payments, that has to be the loudest whistling past the graveyard since the Subprime pyramid scheme.
IIRC, The Netflix CEO is still on the board of Microsoft. Though I am surprised it works on Android - too big to ignore, perhaps? Or just until the Motorola patent attacks bore fruit...
Who is God's most valuable employee?
Satan.
Obviously still in the old man's employ, otherwise he would have setup a paradise to reward those who turned against the Big Beard, not inflict endless agony on (only!) those who didn't tow the party line.
There is plenty of silliness in the Abrahamic religions (just like all the rest), but this flaw shows up before you can even utter 'In the beginning...'
There is a reason Big Music has to bribe, threaten, buy out and coerce media and sellers: on the whole, 95% pop music has never been any good, requiring brutal tactics to shovel shit into the public consciousness. Therefore, hones marketing and buying of music has to be a smaller business. Also: where is it written in stone by God that musicians have to be wealthy?
Twin killing machines joined at the hip.
How, in any tangible way is she anything more than a cybersquatter? Also: 'came into possession'? What, they 'fell off the back of a truck'? Sounds as sketchy as the legal profession.
Fiber to Gated Communities? I suspect only the already well-to-do enclaves near 'leet unis will be the only beneficiaries for some time, such as Palo Alto, Research Triangle, Ann Arbor... Grambling State? NDSU? Don't hold your breath.
And once upon a time, Teflon was considered completely inert. And a few generations earlier: asbestos.
Taint: is there nothing it can't do?
You forgot one step:
3. Profit!!
It only works using IE6.
Not with the entrenched Supremely Right-Wing Court. And with modern, top-flight medical care, these trolls will be overseeing the destruction of the Rule of Law for at least 30 more years.
Just like the other snake-oil saleman Mark Cuban, Zuck saw the suckers had reached their ultimate ripeness (btw: he got married a day before the IPO so has future ex-wife wouldn't get half). No doubt they got the latest demographics of new members in the last one or two years, saw nothing but wrinkles and gray hair, soiled themselves a bit, and called their favorite Wall Street co-conspirators.
In all seriousness: what cities require their residents to pay income taxes? I can think of only one (New York City). Maybe other mega-cities in the US charge income taxes, but I doubt they would be on the short list for companies moving factories there.
It is a sickening practice, seeing the desperate and outright corrupt curry favor with corporations demanding to be given the 52nd card in the deck in exchange for crumbs - and those just until a better offer comes along.
PS - Irony: the former Confederate states more than willing to work for corporations (mostly foreign!!) for pennies on the dollar because of their hatred for all things union.
In reality - and it never even has to be said out loud - if a cop narcs on other cops, s/he knows the rest may take their sweet time in providing back-up in a deadly emergency. Taking the moral high road could literally cost you your life, thus...
A goodly amount of modern cars feature aluminum heads and utterly buried spark plugs. Removing them without damage and (far more probable) cross-threading or stripping out the threads during installation isn't worth me trying (especially now that most spark plugs last at least 30k if not 50k).
I'm reminded of that crack about Linux being worth spending time on, if your time has no value. At least if you eff up your Linux install, you won't be forced to walk everywhere.