I buy power tools almost exclusively from Amazon. I don't expect amazing discounts, but I like the German ones, and Amazon is my only reliable source for them.
This would make a lot of sense to me, if the add-on item shipped free when I purchased any regular prime item that came from the same warehouse, but instead they tie it to a dollar amount purchased, which feels exactly like they're forcing me to play by rules I already bought a membership to avoid. What it makes me want to do is think of any add-on items I might want whenever I buy something like a TV that I know will ship in a separate box, or something like a micro-sd card that I know would ship in a little mailer if it wasn't for the 5 jars of spices that were all add-on items.
where all the signatory companies agree to spend a minimum percentage of gross profits on making their products secure. And, they could agree to cooperate with other digital defense treaty companies on security matters.
Cool to hear that T-Mobile's network is improving somewhere. I'm a T-Mobile customer visiting my parents in West Virginia. My phone stopped connecting to a tower after the first of the year.
Are you sure? If I want to post a thought that I think is particularly reasonable, I post it as AC, because I wouldn't want the association with my name to diminish it.
What UBI means is that I can tell an employer to take a flying fuck and I still have enough money to survive. But UBI money only permits survival. UBI money plus a pre-UBI basic minimum job still doesn't get me up to the 50th percentile. So while I might be able to get a little bit ahead on UBI + 200, even at UBI + 1000 I'm not going to be buying all the cool stuff I want to own. If I'm a good worker, employers are going to be in a bidding war for my services, because they're going to be getting exactly zero out of the lazy bunch. Those guys won't even come in. And, they aren't going to be hiring that dreamer, either, because UBI is going to let him survive until his home business gets enough of a reputation for him to start making money while being self employed. Employers could hire at below minimum wage because if there's UBI, there's no reason for the government to force them to pay a minimum wage. Market forces are a different story. UBI will reduce the number of employees interested in being in the job market, so the ones who remain will be worth more.
Are you familiar at all with how things go with EBT cards now? Have you read any of the many articles about people figuring out how to use this benefit to buy drugs? I think you're quite mistaken if you think anyone gives enough of a shit about the poor to track each person that thoroughly.
So, first you say "companies will get away with offering WAY less money as compensation for work," then you say that working "will for some probably be something they do when they want to afford something special, and only for the time necessary to get that."
So, how is it that companies will be offering "WAY less money" to incentivize work if people become less interested in doing work?
Kinda depends on who's "us." The corporate investors, the corporate board of directors who serve them, the workers put out of a job when the corporation switches to outsourcing, the customers who get shit when the corporation decides to make a cheap, shitty product - all four groups are US citizens.
I missed it...when exactly did it become wrong to want your country to come out on top when dealing with the rest of the world?
I also missed it...when exactly did it become wrong to want your country to hold to a better standard than that of looters during a natural disaster? Whatever happened to "I could not love you half so much loved I not honor more" ? When did we decide that our collective behavior as a nation should dive to the same level of shortsighted behavior as that of the assholes among our citizenry who switched to outsourcing, and for the same reasons?
If you want to talk about what the Chinese government builds, perhaps you'd care to look at how they tax?
And, after this, we'll see and article titled "Developer argues for unilateral editor switch" that ends in "it begs the inevitable question. Are you ditching emacs in favor of vi -- and should you be?"
If you prefer a multi-region player, that works. The law making it illegal for the publisher to disable playing DVDs on such players won't apply to DVDs you import from another region unless the publisher is domestic. My instinct towards ripping them is because when I see movies on local media, most frequently I see them played from the collection someone has on a mulit-terabyte external hard drive.
My suggestion was that non region encoded DVDs would sell at the price of the region with the highest price, not necessarily that they would sell at the US price. If you want them cheaper, why not import them from the region with the cheapest price and rip them?
I'd be more concerned about region encoding on DVD players. DVDs without region encoding can always be the ones sold in the market with the highest price. So, outlawing region encoded DVDs will always make DVDs more expensive, which people won't want to do. DVD ripping software that removes the region encoding bypasses the problem of region encoded players.
I expect that it looks at everything coming in from outside the computer well enough to prevent anything malicious from getting in. Recognizing that incoming content originates from a popular porn provider seems pretty trivial by comparison. I only see the "Anyone can see where your're browsing" notices about once a week or so. It's not enough of an annoyance for me to feel strongly about it.
90% of everything isn't secrets. If I encrypt everything, then I just have to make the 10% look like the other 90% before it's encrypted. By the time stored messages are decrypted, odds are good that either they'll lack the context to tell the difference, or that they'll know so much about that particular topic that the additional knowledge about the 10% won't be helpful. Plus, they'll have to put equal effort into getting nowhere with the 90% that's garbage.
Build a collection of easy device hacks, the way security companies collect virus signatures now, and have a firewall on the wide area connection that attempts to use the methods in the collection to gain access to the devices that want through. Devices that can be defeated by the firewall aren't allowed past it.
I wanted to write you a note and found here a box I could type it in. I was gonna find a service to send it by, but I found I could click "submit" instead of finding a place where I'd send it to. I wanted to include a quote, but I wasn't sure where I'd get it from. I told my friend I was typing this, and, answering the question about what I'd do that for, I said maybe it's less about who you type it to but more about who you type it with. I couldn't put it in the mail, 'cause what kind of paper would I write it on? So finally, I asked, "Where's the library at?" But, we all know what that joke's about.
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I buy power tools almost exclusively from Amazon. I don't expect amazing discounts, but I like the German ones, and Amazon is my only reliable source for them.
This would make a lot of sense to me, if the add-on item shipped free when I purchased any regular prime item that came from the same warehouse, but instead they tie it to a dollar amount purchased, which feels exactly like they're forcing me to play by rules I already bought a membership to avoid. What it makes me want to do is think of any add-on items I might want whenever I buy something like a TV that I know will ship in a separate box, or something like a micro-sd card that I know would ship in a little mailer if it wasn't for the 5 jars of spices that were all add-on items.
Why? T-Mobile doesn't care who sold you your phone.
where all the signatory companies agree to spend a minimum percentage of gross profits on making their products secure. And, they could agree to cooperate with other digital defense treaty companies on security matters.
Cool to hear that T-Mobile's network is improving somewhere. I'm a T-Mobile customer visiting my parents in West Virginia. My phone stopped connecting to a tower after the first of the year.
Are you sure? If I want to post a thought that I think is particularly reasonable, I post it as AC, because I wouldn't want the association with my name to diminish it.
It's already 200 bucks "more than you need".
In communism, maybe.
What UBI means is that I can tell an employer to take a flying fuck and I still have enough money to survive. But UBI money only permits survival. UBI money plus a pre-UBI basic minimum job still doesn't get me up to the 50th percentile. So while I might be able to get a little bit ahead on UBI + 200, even at UBI + 1000 I'm not going to be buying all the cool stuff I want to own. If I'm a good worker, employers are going to be in a bidding war for my services, because they're going to be getting exactly zero out of the lazy bunch. Those guys won't even come in. And, they aren't going to be hiring that dreamer, either, because UBI is going to let him survive until his home business gets enough of a reputation for him to start making money while being self employed. Employers could hire at below minimum wage because if there's UBI, there's no reason for the government to force them to pay a minimum wage. Market forces are a different story. UBI will reduce the number of employees interested in being in the job market, so the ones who remain will be worth more.
Are you familiar at all with how things go with EBT cards now? Have you read any of the many articles about people figuring out how to use this benefit to buy drugs? I think you're quite mistaken if you think anyone gives enough of a shit about the poor to track each person that thoroughly.
So, first you say "companies will get away with offering WAY less money as compensation for work," then you say that working "will for some probably be something they do when they want to afford something special, and only for the time necessary to get that."
So, how is it that companies will be offering "WAY less money" to incentivize work if people become less interested in doing work?
and put us on the short end of a deal.
Kinda depends on who's "us." The corporate investors, the corporate board of directors who serve them, the workers put out of a job when the corporation switches to outsourcing, the customers who get shit when the corporation decides to make a cheap, shitty product - all four groups are US citizens.
I missed it...when exactly did it become wrong to want your country to come out on top when dealing with the rest of the world?
I also missed it...when exactly did it become wrong to want your country to hold to a better standard than that of looters during a natural disaster? Whatever happened to "I could not love you half so much loved I not honor more" ? When did we decide that our collective behavior as a nation should dive to the same level of shortsighted behavior as that of the assholes among our citizenry who switched to outsourcing, and for the same reasons?
If you want to talk about what the Chinese government builds, perhaps you'd care to look at how they tax?
And, after this, we'll see and article titled "Developer argues for unilateral editor switch" that ends in "it begs the inevitable question. Are you ditching emacs in favor of vi -- and should you be?"
I wonder how that logic works with IP other than email.
If a billionaire philanthropist wanted people in Silicon Valley to have a place where they could get together and enjoy fucking.
If you prefer a multi-region player, that works. The law making it illegal for the publisher to disable playing DVDs on such players won't apply to DVDs you import from another region unless the publisher is domestic. My instinct towards ripping them is because when I see movies on local media, most frequently I see them played from the collection someone has on a mulit-terabyte external hard drive.
My suggestion was that non region encoded DVDs would sell at the price of the region with the highest price, not necessarily that they would sell at the US price. If you want them cheaper, why not import them from the region with the cheapest price and rip them?
I'd be more concerned about region encoding on DVD players. DVDs without region encoding can always be the ones sold in the market with the highest price. So, outlawing region encoded DVDs will always make DVDs more expensive, which people won't want to do. DVD ripping software that removes the region encoding bypasses the problem of region encoded players.
I expect that it looks at everything coming in from outside the computer well enough to prevent anything malicious from getting in. Recognizing that incoming content originates from a popular porn provider seems pretty trivial by comparison. I only see the "Anyone can see where your're browsing" notices about once a week or so. It's not enough of an annoyance for me to feel strongly about it.
I have a strong instinct to take it with a bucket of salt when a stranger on the internet tells me "oh yeah, you should ditch your AV."
Avast (Premier) doesn't bug me, except to try and sell their VPN when I bring up porn sites.
Vivaldi browser provides just that described functionality when you click on the lock icon.
90% of everything isn't secrets. If I encrypt everything, then I just have to make the 10% look like the other 90% before it's encrypted. By the time stored messages are decrypted, odds are good that either they'll lack the context to tell the difference, or that they'll know so much about that particular topic that the additional knowledge about the 10% won't be helpful. Plus, they'll have to put equal effort into getting nowhere with the 90% that's garbage.
If you have hot summers, there's metallic window films that might reflect in both parts of the spectrum.
They still supply lots of fine porn.
Build a collection of easy device hacks, the way security companies collect virus signatures now, and have a firewall on the wide area connection that attempts to use the methods in the collection to gain access to the devices that want through. Devices that can be defeated by the firewall aren't allowed past it.
I wanted to write you a note and found here a box I could type it in. I was gonna find a service to send it by, but I found I could click "submit" instead of finding a place where I'd send it to. I wanted to include a quote, but I wasn't sure where I'd get it from. I told my friend I was typing this, and, answering the question about what I'd do that for, I said maybe it's less about who you type it to but more about who you type it with. I couldn't put it in the mail, 'cause what kind of paper would I write it on? So finally, I asked, "Where's the library at?" But, we all know what that joke's about.