It's true that Dollar Stores are offering prices that people can afford, but there is an underlying problem here that people don't see with the backhand deals going on. And mind you, I'm all for free market with finding automation and making products cheaper. But what these Dollar Stores and their equivalents are doing (Aldi), is actually dropping the quality of food and also ripping you off by selling less portions of it, without anyone noticing. It has been noticeable across the board for me, as even the high end stores food is dropping in quality, since they're partnered with the same people, just selling crap for higher margins, and getting away with it.
A lot of these places are already on the brink and it only serves to feed this crap industry that only hire illegals to work these places. Food processing equipment is expensive and they do whatever they can to bandaid these ancient machines to get them working, because buying new equipment is too expensive for them (Which actually will cut their labor costs if they even bothered to study). It doesn't bring in the top crop of people into the city or any skilled workers. Nobody inspects these facilities and it's always a mess. Aldi and Dollar Stores make them go through ridiculous Audits to maintain their dog and pony show for investors and shareholders. They have been the source of major accidents in my city, emergency rooms filled up because of them, so much so that a lot of private clinics have opened up all across town, since they feed off of these accidents. Hey, see, they're bringing in more industry! More nurses and doctors! Yay! Don't mind the maimed people with no hands or fingers that we as tax payers have to pay for later. Would be great if OSHA would do their jobs instead of picking on me for having zero accidents since I've opened.
Mind you, none of this is sustainable. All of Aldi's partners and Dollar Stores partners have equipment that is just a matter of time is going to blow up in their faces. Not only is food processing equipment expensive to buy, it's also very expensive to repair and fix. They're not discovering new technology or machines to make food cheaper, they're just abusing workers to work cheaper on crap old machines they bought for less than $10,000 at some auction or used machine supplier. Most of these places will shut down after the machines break (Good luck fixing that Vemag from the 1960's, when you see the price tag, you'll probably shoot yourself). You'll see prices start to rise again and the market correcting itself once they do. You already see this happening with chicken and you already see the rapidly increasing price tag of food in California due to the "labor shortage", as even illegals are asking for more than $15 an hour now.
This isn't just Apple doing this. Just look at Samsung's recent line up with their gimped US devices and massive ads that you can't remove. Buying an "unlocked" phone now is pretty much meaningless when the manufacture is acting like the carrier with all the BS loaded into the device that you can't remove.
Most jurisdictions have been cutting back funding to Police, like mine, which has a large population but only 1 cop. Crime, like robberies and break ins, have been rising and the city really doesn't care. All they care about is all the development of tilt ups based on speculation going up. Most of them are still vacant or really no sales tax producing storage warehouses.
I'm already seeing people deal justice by themselves because the lack of enforcement by many jurisdictions and it's only a matter of time before we go full on Argentina or Mexico where we just execute the person and bury them, if we haven't already.
We do, just the articles are lacking a lot of details. If they didn't mention RDP, I wouldn't have known if it was Windows or a Linux server. I had to basically google Shamoon just to see what systems are affected and learn that it's nothing we haven't seen in the past.
But it does just verify what I've always known, these companies have seriously lacking computer security, lack of backups and no surprise these contractors lost their data, because I know how these people work and they don't even think about this stuff at all, no one does at these companies. I know how many have them use remote software for critical systems. They only complain after the fact.
And they also expect me to pay for this streaming service that wants to play ads when I pause. Absolutely brilliant! I'm sure that's bringing in tons of customers with this feature!
I thought the whole point of paying for streaming service was to avoid ads?
Although I admire the FBI's attempt to try to catch these guys as I've been hit by these fraudsters trying to pose as me or my accountants, emailing customers with invoices that look legitimate as mine and my people internally. But the FBI's technique was rather weak and exposes a huge weakness in a lot of corporate environments. A lot of these places have no way to check the legitimacy and will pay right away. This is a bigger problem than people realize.
Still relevant. A lot of nix systems out there that's unpatched for years on. You can say they deserve it, but there are reasons for them being unpatched. A lot of them stupid reasons because the enterprise system they're using discourages updates because it breaks their stuff. I see this crap everywhere.
"and the considerably better average computer literacy among Linux users, this doesn't sound like too much of a threat."
I don't agree. There is a growing base of Linux users who do not know what's going on and living in some grand illusion that they're safe because it's Linux. I've ran into facilities who are running their own Linux servers with no IT specialists, giving root access to plant managers who don't know what they're doing because that's what their "Enterprise" software devs encourage because they suck. I'm sure a lot of exploited nix machines are coming from these places.
So back to regular Linux home users. You have a slowly growing base in Linux that have no clue what's going on. And then add to the growing complexity of linux with systemd, selinux, and other bs, even expert users are having trouble.
Yes, root your phone and it works. Oh wait, you can't root your phone anymore? Because why would you want to root your phone, right? There's no need to root your phone!
Meanwhile, I enjoy ad free watching youtube on my phone. I can also play youtube in the background too without it having it pause.
They don't like it because it gave rise to a lot of competitors in the news industry. Dailymail was just a crappy UK tabloid paper (It still is) and now it's grown to be a major distribution of news thanks to Google and English speakers, just basically dominating the English speaking news around the globe. The old papers want to be he de-facto news sources.
Limiting links would prevent these small vile news companies from becoming successful, we can't allow that!
I have a physical address. I have a very large warehouse. The phone maybe gets 10% use at most by my CSRs. Everything is online. The vast majority of my suppliers use Skype. All my customers are either email (Most of the time don't even hear their voice) or some other form of voice over the internet. Everything international is almost majority done on WeChat or Skype. And I agree with you, probably that landline I have isn't going away soon, but I'm at the point I can't justify paying $1000 a month for 10% business, when there are offers that give you an 800 number that dials straight to you in whatever format you want. And yes, I have a T-1 line as a backup phone and internet, why the high price (TPx aka Telepacific, I can't wait to get rid of them). So definitely in the future that POTS is going away soon, perhaps really soon for me.
Also realize that 150,000,000 million people with a landline is a rapidly diminishing number, most of them probably just bundled with an internet deal while the phone never gets used.
"By the way, you're a fucking idiot. You think businesses and banks and industry are texting each other?"
Yes. Yes they are. 90% of my business revolves around some form of text messaging or voice over internet service, be it emails, wechat, Facebook, Skype, facetime, etc. My Bank even Skypes me and text messages me. And I'm in the manufacturing business. Fun fact, rest of the world is using these services on a daily basis for business. Being in denial of this is quite the delusion.
There's a good reason why Microsoft is restructuring their whole business services with outlook and Skype. Maybe you might not use these services for your business and industry, but a whole lot of people do.
90% of my business now revolves around emails, some form of text messaging service like twitter, facebook, etc, and some form of voice over internet calls like Skype or Facetime, wechat, etc. This should have been done 20 years ago when phone numbers still had relevance, not when other means of communication begins to rapidly grow, with the ability to actually filter people.
Now with called ID being spoofed all the time, making phone numbers worthless (Thanks telcos for that!) and my own phone number calling me to try to sell me something or people claiming I've called them, I've pretty much resorted to blocking all incoming calls. Nobody I know even calls my phone number anymore, so why bother? I don't even hand it out anymore. The only phone number that still exists is just for my own company, but other people answer that for me. But even then, my CSR's are communicating online 90% of the time.
My biggest concern is just the growing trend of mobile phone operators and manufacturers preventing me from rooting my phone to unload worthless tracking apps and securing my phone with my own damn firewall and adblock.
"I'm not sure that's a net positive for the working poor."
It isn't, nor do I notice it making it a drive to push for more automation. Most businesses would rather shut down because the lack of skilled people to help you automate isn't there and hiring skilled people for higher wages or salaries, they don't want to do. A lot of my vendors have employment expectations of a PHD equivalent working minimum wage. We have more MBA's, lawyers and psychologists than engineers, further making it worse for the working poor.
I used to always think these big companies have a lot of smart people to figure this stuff out, but now that I run my own manufacturing businesses and see how simple a lot of things are to fix, I'm convinced that the majority of companies are ran by a bunch of morons.
I run linux on a tablet. Rarely have to use the console to fix anything. But yes, Gimp is not the right tool for a tablet if you intend to do artwork and is quite laughable.
Because it's the cool thing nowadays. Apples apps all have their own individual folders independent from one another so the other app can't see the other. It's so cool because then I can never find my files, or if the app developer decides to make it paywalled, I can't access my stuff! I love it!
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It's true that Dollar Stores are offering prices that people can afford, but there is an underlying problem here that people don't see with the backhand deals going on. And mind you, I'm all for free market with finding automation and making products cheaper. But what these Dollar Stores and their equivalents are doing (Aldi), is actually dropping the quality of food and also ripping you off by selling less portions of it, without anyone noticing. It has been noticeable across the board for me, as even the high end stores food is dropping in quality, since they're partnered with the same people, just selling crap for higher margins, and getting away with it.
A lot of these places are already on the brink and it only serves to feed this crap industry that only hire illegals to work these places. Food processing equipment is expensive and they do whatever they can to bandaid these ancient machines to get them working, because buying new equipment is too expensive for them (Which actually will cut their labor costs if they even bothered to study). It doesn't bring in the top crop of people into the city or any skilled workers. Nobody inspects these facilities and it's always a mess. Aldi and Dollar Stores make them go through ridiculous Audits to maintain their dog and pony show for investors and shareholders. They have been the source of major accidents in my city, emergency rooms filled up because of them, so much so that a lot of private clinics have opened up all across town, since they feed off of these accidents. Hey, see, they're bringing in more industry! More nurses and doctors! Yay! Don't mind the maimed people with no hands or fingers that we as tax payers have to pay for later. Would be great if OSHA would do their jobs instead of picking on me for having zero accidents since I've opened.
Mind you, none of this is sustainable. All of Aldi's partners and Dollar Stores partners have equipment that is just a matter of time is going to blow up in their faces. Not only is food processing equipment expensive to buy, it's also very expensive to repair and fix. They're not discovering new technology or machines to make food cheaper, they're just abusing workers to work cheaper on crap old machines they bought for less than $10,000 at some auction or used machine supplier. Most of these places will shut down after the machines break (Good luck fixing that Vemag from the 1960's, when you see the price tag, you'll probably shoot yourself). You'll see prices start to rise again and the market correcting itself once they do. You already see this happening with chicken and you already see the rapidly increasing price tag of food in California due to the "labor shortage", as even illegals are asking for more than $15 an hour now.
This isn't just Apple doing this. Just look at Samsung's recent line up with their gimped US devices and massive ads that you can't remove. Buying an "unlocked" phone now is pretty much meaningless when the manufacture is acting like the carrier with all the BS loaded into the device that you can't remove.
AT&T definitely in highly populated areas, not just rural.
Most jurisdictions have been cutting back funding to Police, like mine, which has a large population but only 1 cop. Crime, like robberies and break ins, have been rising and the city really doesn't care. All they care about is all the development of tilt ups based on speculation going up. Most of them are still vacant or really no sales tax producing storage warehouses.
I'm already seeing people deal justice by themselves because the lack of enforcement by many jurisdictions and it's only a matter of time before we go full on Argentina or Mexico where we just execute the person and bury them, if we haven't already.
At 15Gb max? No thanks.
Nope, it'll take about a year because they will give you consistently bad speeds like LTE in the US.
No root, no buy.
We do, just the articles are lacking a lot of details. If they didn't mention RDP, I wouldn't have known if it was Windows or a Linux server. I had to basically google Shamoon just to see what systems are affected and learn that it's nothing we haven't seen in the past.
But it does just verify what I've always known, these companies have seriously lacking computer security, lack of backups and no surprise these contractors lost their data, because I know how these people work and they don't even think about this stuff at all, no one does at these companies. I know how many have them use remote software for critical systems. They only complain after the fact.
That means spending money. How dare you suggest that?!?
And they also expect me to pay for this streaming service that wants to play ads when I pause. Absolutely brilliant! I'm sure that's bringing in tons of customers with this feature!
I thought the whole point of paying for streaming service was to avoid ads?
Although I admire the FBI's attempt to try to catch these guys as I've been hit by these fraudsters trying to pose as me or my accountants, emailing customers with invoices that look legitimate as mine and my people internally. But the FBI's technique was rather weak and exposes a huge weakness in a lot of corporate environments. A lot of these places have no way to check the legitimacy and will pay right away. This is a bigger problem than people realize.
The more I read about this stuff, the more I like Japans cash only for everything society. This tracking is turning into absurd levels.
Still relevant. A lot of nix systems out there that's unpatched for years on. You can say they deserve it, but there are reasons for them being unpatched. A lot of them stupid reasons because the enterprise system they're using discourages updates because it breaks their stuff. I see this crap everywhere.
"and the considerably better average computer literacy among Linux users, this doesn't sound like too much of a threat."
I don't agree. There is a growing base of Linux users who do not know what's going on and living in some grand illusion that they're safe because it's Linux. I've ran into facilities who are running their own Linux servers with no IT specialists, giving root access to plant managers who don't know what they're doing because that's what their "Enterprise" software devs encourage because they suck. I'm sure a lot of exploited nix machines are coming from these places.
So back to regular Linux home users. You have a slowly growing base in Linux that have no clue what's going on. And then add to the growing complexity of linux with systemd, selinux, and other bs, even expert users are having trouble.
Yes, root your phone and it works. Oh wait, you can't root your phone anymore? Because why would you want to root your phone, right? There's no need to root your phone!
Meanwhile, I enjoy ad free watching youtube on my phone. I can also play youtube in the background too without it having it pause.
They don't like it because it gave rise to a lot of competitors in the news industry. Dailymail was just a crappy UK tabloid paper (It still is) and now it's grown to be a major distribution of news thanks to Google and English speakers, just basically dominating the English speaking news around the globe. The old papers want to be he de-facto news sources.
Limiting links would prevent these small vile news companies from becoming successful, we can't allow that!
I have a physical address. I have a very large warehouse. The phone maybe gets 10% use at most by my CSRs. Everything is online. The vast majority of my suppliers use Skype. All my customers are either email (Most of the time don't even hear their voice) or some other form of voice over the internet. Everything international is almost majority done on WeChat or Skype. And I agree with you, probably that landline I have isn't going away soon, but I'm at the point I can't justify paying $1000 a month for 10% business, when there are offers that give you an 800 number that dials straight to you in whatever format you want. And yes, I have a T-1 line as a backup phone and internet, why the high price (TPx aka Telepacific, I can't wait to get rid of them). So definitely in the future that POTS is going away soon, perhaps really soon for me.
Also realize that 150,000,000 million people with a landline is a rapidly diminishing number, most of them probably just bundled with an internet deal while the phone never gets used.
"By the way, you're a fucking idiot. You think businesses and banks and industry are texting each other?"
Yes. Yes they are. 90% of my business revolves around some form of text messaging or voice over internet service, be it emails, wechat, Facebook, Skype, facetime, etc. My Bank even Skypes me and text messages me. And I'm in the manufacturing business. Fun fact, rest of the world is using these services on a daily basis for business. Being in denial of this is quite the delusion.
There's a good reason why Microsoft is restructuring their whole business services with outlook and Skype. Maybe you might not use these services for your business and industry, but a whole lot of people do.
I don't even care anymore
90% of my business now revolves around emails, some form of text messaging service like twitter, facebook, etc, and some form of voice over internet calls like Skype or Facetime, wechat, etc. This should have been done 20 years ago when phone numbers still had relevance, not when other means of communication begins to rapidly grow, with the ability to actually filter people.
Now with called ID being spoofed all the time, making phone numbers worthless (Thanks telcos for that!) and my own phone number calling me to try to sell me something or people claiming I've called them, I've pretty much resorted to blocking all incoming calls. Nobody I know even calls my phone number anymore, so why bother? I don't even hand it out anymore. The only phone number that still exists is just for my own company, but other people answer that for me. But even then, my CSR's are communicating online 90% of the time.
My biggest concern is just the growing trend of mobile phone operators and manufacturers preventing me from rooting my phone to unload worthless tracking apps and securing my phone with my own damn firewall and adblock.
Brings light to how stupid these copy protection schemes are. Everything discussed here for the past 10 years is becoming reality.
I get very annoyed with syncing. Terminus does this on the ipad unless you strictly turn it off in the first place.
"I'm not sure that's a net positive for the working poor."
It isn't, nor do I notice it making it a drive to push for more automation. Most businesses would rather shut down because the lack of skilled people to help you automate isn't there and hiring skilled people for higher wages or salaries, they don't want to do. A lot of my vendors have employment expectations of a PHD equivalent working minimum wage. We have more MBA's, lawyers and psychologists than engineers, further making it worse for the working poor.
I used to always think these big companies have a lot of smart people to figure this stuff out, but now that I run my own manufacturing businesses and see how simple a lot of things are to fix, I'm convinced that the majority of companies are ran by a bunch of morons.
I run linux on a tablet. Rarely have to use the console to fix anything. But yes, Gimp is not the right tool for a tablet if you intend to do artwork and is quite laughable.
This mentality still goes on.
Because it's the cool thing nowadays. Apples apps all have their own individual folders independent from one another so the other app can't see the other. It's so cool because then I can never find my files, or if the app developer decides to make it paywalled, I can't access my stuff! I love it!