If you think post-Boomers do not possess the faculties for greed in their own right, I'll leave you with that delusion. As long as we stay conflicted and at odds with one another(x blames y, y blame z, z blames x... to infinity) we allow the status quo to metastasize. The real power mongers, bound only by blind avarice, will continue to flourish from behind their corporate curtain.
You forgot the IP! You can be omni-efficient and omni-organized and still fail if you haven't paid the omnipresent patent trolls. Looks as if the process of ascertaining a level of hunger and giving an allotment of bread and wine to cure the affliction may soon be patentable, as well. WWJD?
And until [insert browser of choice here] further obfuscates the navigation bar into oblivion you can sneak a peek at where the link goes before you click it. I, for one, do not blindly dive into water, drive my car or click links without knowing what comes next.
PS: fuck tinyURL and it's ilk. Just bury the long URL under [HERE}.
That's nothing, wait until you cash in those miles for a 2-layover flight that takes you twice the distance/time of a straight flight.
The reason for these games is: 1)Feed that something-for-nothing lust consumers have been trained to expect; and 2)It's so much easier to ding and cram when the process is muddied with inane details.
You would think that a company that is 'selling' the internet and setting up webpages would set a good example.
While I share your sentiment, IMO, it's a perfect example of the WWWs playing field. Hiding the truth in long-winded/ever changing EULAs, up-selling unnecessary features and misleading misinformations(or hiding/omitting pertinent details) are the norm on the 'tubez. Their vision of the future in this one-sided proposal is only more of the same, legitimized out of the grey area of the law(s). No surprise they wrote their 'exemption' into the legislation, cheaters, cons and snake-oil salesmen love a stacked deck.
If one more person rudely interrupts my answer to their question by proclaiming their ignorance for the Nth time, I may just snap.
Many times I've imagined interrupting someone's unwelcome narrative by making this proclamation. Considering it's usually a one-sided broadcast, tuning them out is an easier choice. Choose your battles and all...
I don't think enough variants of the same system have been regurgitated since they broke from the G1. Who wanted a cross-carrier device when we can enjoy buying another over-priced, locked device? Consider and enjoy the long, fruitful relationship we get when we're locked in to a 2 year bonded friendship with yours and my newest BFF.....
Best idea yet! Blackberry's on the right track, keep the work tools at work and locked down, just like...tools! Buy yourself an 'internet appliance' of your choice to play with on your own time. Keep in mind, when Verizon or nApple encourage a new purchase when they cannot(sic) fix your toy, please do NOT call me. Sme goes for when your ID is stolen or your Fecebook account is hijacked.
I cannot fix blind consumption with no consideration of consequence. Have your cake and eat it, too.
Turning information into entertainment is a genius move for crowd monitoring/control. Further exacerbation of the situation occurs when profit motives encourage and contribute to the misinformations.
Bad information is worse than no information at all, IMO.
That seems to be the new export of the US. The question is, after clearing the obfuscations and outright lies what do we have left to offer? Whatever it is, wear high boots and don't count on it boosting the GDP long after the hot air escapes. Tech IPOs, Real Estate Bubbles, rigged markets and shiny baubles built on 40 year old sweat equity. The future's so bright, I gotta wear blinders.
Protect? Surveillance and enforcement are much more profitable than privacy. Be glad the lawmakers are still calling the internet a 'right', any day it could become a mandate. This is the greatest spycraft tool and marketing assault ever conceived, all wrapped into the guise of bringing info to the masses!
Throttled, vetted and sanitized info is the endgame if the entitled set get their way.
Sounds like the OP may be suffering from some sort of yuletide rage. It's pretty common around the retail season, spreads faster than green boogers in a kindergarten class.
Fry's Electronics in Phoenix this morning had a camera mounted on a helicopter buzzing through the store. The big flat-screen next to the 'ad' board was quite discombobulating to watch...
Can't agree enough with the latter two, but honest? He's a politician! Keep that sentiment in mind when he pardons Blagovovich.
If you think there is a difference between a Dem and a Rep, besides the speeches they read(Not write, mind you), then you're still listening to the reward centers of your brain. The nature of the species is to game a system(any system) for maximum benefit of the group(exclusive). Call it a party, a tribe, the 1% or the home team. It's all about more, more, more for 'us'. Consider now the theater of politics where the (s)elected principals all have their roles to play to obfuscate the crimes against humanity in the name of revenues, margin growth and resource plundering. They say they are stewards, but all actions and results point toward pandering to their money suppliers.
Don't feel left out Euros, your time is nigh. Italy is now governed by unelected financiers. That's a big step for global financial extortion. Viva Goldman!
Exactly. I expected to earn a million last year, but I didn't have much work and only managed a mere 3% of my goal. Does that count as operating losses? Perhaps I should also include the $200 million I lost because my lotto ticket didn't hit...
Do that and you just gutted much of the business of the law enforcement, put many of the jailers and lowlife lawyers out of business, and would prevent it from being used to lobby for more Fed funds
.
Sorry, couldn't resist. What you said is true, but that's not the real problem. Legalizing it would reduce crime/criminals, produce tax revenue and take power from the gangs. The problem is the enforcement industry and their lobbyist 'gangs' would become smaller and less subsidized. No industry wants to be relegated obsolete, no matter how irrelevant or impotent they may become. Create problems where there are none or belabor the real ones and you will always have job security. Don't forget to grease the proper palms, too.
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If you think post-Boomers do not possess the faculties for greed in their own right, I'll leave you with that delusion. As long as we stay conflicted and at odds with one another(x blames y, y blame z, z blames x... to infinity) we allow the status quo to metastasize. The real power mongers, bound only by blind avarice, will continue to flourish from behind their corporate curtain.
How about a routine that vibrates the steering wheel until you get out of the passing lane?
You forgot the IP! You can be omni-efficient and omni-organized and still fail if you haven't paid the omnipresent patent trolls. Looks as if the process of ascertaining a level of hunger and giving an allotment of bread and wine to cure the affliction may soon be patentable, as well.
WWJD?
And until [insert browser of choice here] further obfuscates the navigation bar into oblivion you can sneak a peek at where the link goes before you click it. I, for one, do not blindly dive into water, drive my car or click links without knowing what comes next.
PS: fuck tinyURL and it's ilk. Just bury the long URL under [HERE}.
Probably less likely if it's "Grandma's Boy Quote Along" night.
YMMV.
That's nothing, wait until you cash in those miles for a 2-layover flight that takes you twice the distance/time of a straight flight.
The reason for these games is:
1)Feed that something-for-nothing lust consumers have been trained to expect; and
2)It's so much easier to ding and cram when the process is muddied with inane details.
You would think that a company that is 'selling' the internet and setting up webpages would set a good example.
While I share your sentiment, IMO, it's a perfect example of the WWWs playing field. Hiding the truth in long-winded/ever changing EULAs, up-selling unnecessary features and misleading misinformations(or hiding/omitting pertinent details) are the norm on the 'tubez. Their vision of the future in this one-sided proposal is only more of the same, legitimized out of the grey area of the law(s). No surprise they wrote their 'exemption' into the legislation, cheaters, cons and snake-oil salesmen love a stacked deck.
If one more person rudely interrupts my answer to their question by proclaiming their ignorance for the Nth time, I may just snap.
Many times I've imagined interrupting someone's unwelcome narrative by making this proclamation. Considering it's usually a one-sided broadcast, tuning them out is an easier choice. Choose your battles and all...
I don't think enough variants of the same system have been regurgitated since they broke from the G1. Who wanted a cross-carrier device when we can enjoy buying another over-priced, locked device? Consider and enjoy the long, fruitful relationship we get when we're locked in to a 2 year bonded friendship with yours and my newest BFF.....
These go to 01011.
Best idea yet! Blackberry's on the right track, keep the work tools at work and locked down, just like...tools! Buy yourself an 'internet appliance' of your choice to play with on your own time. Keep in mind, when Verizon or nApple encourage a new purchase when they cannot(sic) fix your toy, please do NOT call me. Sme goes for when your ID is stolen or your Fecebook account is hijacked.
I cannot fix blind consumption with no consideration of consequence. Have your cake and eat it, too.
Turning information into entertainment is a genius move for crowd monitoring/control. Further exacerbation of the situation occurs when profit motives encourage and contribute to the misinformations.
Bad information is worse than no information at all, IMO.
That seems to be the new export of the US. The question is, after clearing the obfuscations and outright lies what do we have left to offer? Whatever it is, wear high boots and don't count on it boosting the GDP long after the hot air escapes. Tech IPOs, Real Estate Bubbles, rigged markets and shiny baubles built on 40 year old sweat equity. The future's so bright, I gotta wear blinders.
You probably heard them when you were visiting your girlfriend in Canada.
Protect? Surveillance and enforcement are much more profitable than privacy. Be glad the lawmakers are still calling the internet a 'right', any day it could become a mandate.
This is the greatest spycraft tool and marketing assault ever conceived, all wrapped into the guise of bringing info to the masses!
Throttled, vetted and sanitized info is the endgame if the entitled set get their way.
Sounds like the OP may be suffering from some sort of yuletide rage. It's pretty common around the retail season, spreads faster than green boogers in a kindergarten class.
You insensitive clod.
My Spanglish skills are quite rusty, I had to look it up. For the life of me I could not understand why they called the fork 'Book Office'.
As in 'free speech' or freedom. While the software is also free 'as in beer', they apparently chose not to call it Gratis Office.
Fry's Electronics in Phoenix this morning had a camera mounted on a helicopter buzzing through the store. The big flat-screen next to the 'ad' board was quite discombobulating to watch...
People onboard lost conciseness due to lack of oxygen. But you did get it right that they died when they hit the water.
Perhaps they briefly regained conciseness to summarily endure an epigrammatic plunge to the terse seas below...
Can't agree enough with the latter two, but honest? He's a politician! Keep that sentiment in mind when he pardons Blagovovich.
If you think there is a difference between a Dem and a Rep, besides the speeches they read(Not write, mind you), then you're still listening to the reward centers of your brain. The nature of the species is to game a system(any system) for maximum benefit of the group(exclusive). Call it a party, a tribe, the 1% or the home team. It's all about more, more, more for 'us'. Consider now the theater of politics where the (s)elected principals all have their roles to play to obfuscate the crimes against humanity in the name of revenues, margin growth and resource plundering. They say they are stewards, but all actions and results point toward pandering to their money suppliers.
Don't feel left out Euros, your time is nigh. Italy is now governed by unelected financiers. That's a big step for global financial extortion. Viva Goldman!
Spoons Pose Threat To Children!
iPods Pose Threat To Children!
Diapers Pose Threat To Children!
Meteors Pose Threat To Children!
Internetz Pose Threat To Children!
So many possibilities for a sensational headline. Poor Timmy, how does he choose... so poorly, so often?.
You didn't lose $1, you just guessed wrong.
Exactly. I expected to earn a million last year, but I didn't have much work and only managed a mere 3% of my goal. Does that count as operating losses? Perhaps I should also include the $200 million I lost because my lotto ticket didn't hit...
Do that and you just gutted much of the business of the law enforcement, put many of the jailers and lowlife lawyers out of business, and would prevent it from being used to lobby for more Fed funds
.
Sorry, couldn't resist. What you said is true, but that's not the real problem. Legalizing it would reduce crime/criminals, produce tax revenue and take power from the gangs. The problem is the enforcement industry and their lobbyist 'gangs' would become smaller and less subsidized. No industry wants to be relegated obsolete, no matter how irrelevant or impotent they may become. Create problems where there are none or belabor the real ones and you will always have job security. Don't forget to grease the proper palms, too.