Except - this story in no way suggests anything that remotely resembles "sane conference policies".
This zany bitch threatened that she would be "triggered" by the gentleman if he spoke. "Triggered". That is an aggressive word, not a defensive word. She threatened to go postal, if she didn't get her way. She committed an assault on the freedom of speech.
Well, it most certainly is not a "best practice", and damn the demographic group concerned. If this bullshit is acceptable, then we'll have to accept that a member of Race A might be "triggered" if exposed to a member of Race B. Or, a member or Religion Z, if exposed to a member of Religion Y. Or, Gender F, if exposed toa member of Gender M. And, actually, that is all it boils down to. Some bitch feminist didn't like this guy's talk, so she shut him down, with a threat to act hysterical if he were allowed to speak.
"If people hate Windows 8 so much, why do they even bother commenting on it, "
Apparently you have failed to notice, that the things we hate the most about Win8 are also being adopted by OTHER operating systems.
We bitch, we moan, we threaten and cajole, we even develop new desktop environments in rebellion against the metro-cloud thing. Not only are we not going to use the damned thing, but WE WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW WHY!!
I thought Win3.11 was pretty cool. 95 mostly sucked at blue screens. 98 was better, but 98SE was almost good, as long as you were the only user. Multiple users kinda screwed things up. ME sucked donkey balls. 2K was good stuff - my first exposure to the NT system. XP was great, and each service pack was better. Vista sucked dog's balls. Win7 isn't bad. If I weren't firmly entrenched in the Linux world, I would say that I like it. Win8? It sucks something. I just haven't figured out what it sucks yet. Maybe it sucks hyena's ass? No - that would be Ubuntu's Unity, the Hairy Hyena. Dang, I'm stumped - what is it that Win8 sucks? Got it! It sucks the black off the 8-ball! Ohhh, I'm so witty!
You'd probably do better by digging him up, and sucking the marrow from his bones. Some folks might object to that idea. Defiling the dead and cannibalism are pretty much taboo in our world.
Geeez, that idea poses a science question, doesn't it? How long after you die is the marrow in your bones fit to eat? I mean - does it dry up? Does it crumble to powder? Is it destroyed during the embalming? That's probably it. They put that stuff into you to destroy the marrow, thereby preventing you from becoming a zombie.
Don't like my idea? Offer a better one. My curiosity isn't piqued enough to go look it up.
Exactly. I never saw any good reason to buy a game console. My kids did, and they bought some. I only ever touched them a few times. All you can do is - play games! If you want to do any "computing", you walk over to the desktop.
Gaming is alright, and in some respects, game consoles did it best. But, gaming simply isn't worth the effort or the expense of having one or more consoles sitting around.
And, it seems that the kids have come to agree with me. The Xbox sits collecting dust, the Nintendo boxes are lost under piles of clutter, the other boxes that I can't even identify are scattered between rooms where they collect dust. The games are tidily lined up on bookshelves, remaining undisturbed for months - maybe years now.
Mobile devices are heavily used, the desktops are heavily used, and the laptops see constant use. Game boxes? History.
Ho-hum. So, some people still haven't figured out how to read versions? You haven't adapted from the old days? Go on, just reinstall Firefox version 3.14159 and stick with it.
"Just give me one damn phone that lets me answer and make phone calls, send/receive text messages, and has a calculator."
Available at WalMart, for as little as about sixty dollars. Net10, StraightTalk, Verizon - all of them sell such phones. Most have a built-in crappy browser, but you don't have to actually use it. Calling plans for said phones start at about a dollar a day, or you can get $45 to $60 prepaid plans with unlimited everything. Again, the browser sucks so bad that you won't want to waste time browsing.
The average user knows jackshit about "best-of-breed". He's going to use any trashy bit of crap that amuses him, no matter the consequences.
"Do you want to run Dancing Pwnies? It is asking for root permissions, user permissions, web permissions, phonebook permissions, and more - granting all these permissions will seriously compromise your phone's security!"
User says, "Dammit, I just want to watch the dancing pwnies, yes, yes, yes, show me dancing pwnies!"
By the time you're 80 years old, you've learned that the one thing that never changes is, the world is always changing. Someone calls you on the phone, and gives you a load of shit about the laws have changed, they can help you get your credit rating back, blah blah blah. You're a sucker for it. Not to mention, most of us face diminished reasoning powers at some point close to 80.
Yeah, preying on the elderly is no better than preying on children. There's a reason that old age is often referred to as a "second childhood".
This is something that I have never understood. Okay, so 27 billion people have read a book. I glance at it. It's a dry looking piece of shit, no artwork, the author is someone I've not read, the synopsis is unappealing - so I throw it back at the bookshelf that it came from.
I don't CARE that 80 gazillion little girls found this book fascinating. I'm not a little girl.
I don't CARE that two million law enforcement officers approve of the book. I'm not a cop.
I don't CARE that two billion Catholics approve of this author. I'm not Catholic, and sometimes I wonder if I even want to be a Christian anymore.
I just don't give a rat's ass that every redneck in the country loves the book, because some dilrod from NASCAR wrote it. I'm not a redneck, and I'm not a NASCAR fan. (Someone is going to call me out here - rednecks probably can't read, and NASCAR drivers probably can't write.)
Do people actually run out to buy a book just because Oprah reviewed it? Really? Don't you know that Oprah didn't really READ the damned book? She paid someone to browse through it, and to tell her the highlights, so that she could talk about the book on her show. Even if Oprah really did read the book, and she liked it, why in hell does that mean that I am going to like it? Oprah and I have almost NOTHING in common. She's black, she's female, she's fat, she's homely - alright, homely - we do have one thing in common. Has she reviewed a book that can make middle aged men look like they looked at age 20?
Let's use a real world analogy. I have my house locked up tight. My neighbor says that I have cruddy, worthless locks on my door. He proceeds to show me how easy it is to break into my own house. He suggests that I invest in the same type of locks that he uses.
So, what should I do? Call the law, and have the neighbor locked up for showing me that my security is shit? Or, should I purchase and install the locks that he has shown me to be effective?
In actuality, the neighbor has helped me to be MORE secure, not less secure.
"plead guilty to all counts of bank fraud and identity theft offences"
It doesn't matter what you're guilty of, if you actually plead guilty. If they had me in court, threatening to imprison me for a hundred years of more, I wouldn't plead guilty. Argue the bastards down to something manageable (ie, less than a lifetime) or make them PROVE their charges. Don't agree to a plea bargain that effectively ends your life.
Actually - the wealthy never have been taxed proportionately for Social Security. Currently, FICA tax is only charged on the first $113,000 of earnings - matched by your employer, of course. The lower echelons of "wealthy" people pay almost as much as common workers, proportionately. Moderately wealthy people pay less, and really wealthy people pay even less, proportionally.
Of course, there are arguments to be made that SOME wealthy people pay a lot more than any of us lowly wage workers. The billionaire who employs a few hundred people directly, rather than through a corporation, will have to match all of the FICA taxes paid by his employees.
But, I don't think a lot of filthy rich people employ that many people directly. It's cheaper to set up a front company to hire the underlings.
"a vast majority of people get considerably more out of Social Security and Medicare then they put in."
Citations needed.
I remember a few things from the news, down through the years. I remember congress dipping into Social Security for money. And again. And again.
Social Security is something of a pyramid scheme, yes. It isn't truly sustainable. But, despite that, Social Security had surplus money, time and again. And, every time, Congress put their fingers into the surplus, and skimmed it off.
Is it REALLY true, that the vast majority of Americans take out more than they pay in? Or, is it more likely that the vast majority of Americans don't LIVE long enough to collect what they have paid in? Maybe, just maybe, Social Security is going broke only because Congress can't control themselves, and they have spent our Social Security already!
It has been my impression that the car in question is not a "production model", but a test vehicle, or demo vehicle, which is routinely loaned out for testing by reporters, among other people. I would expect that such a vehicle has the tools to log problems, performance, state of charge, etc. The purpose of this specific vehicle seems to be to generate publicity, and to gather useful data.
A separate question would be, should production vehicles, destined for consumer use, be capable of tracking the driver's usage of their vehicles?
Well - collection of such data can be valuable when it comes time to troubleshoot a troublesome car. I can justify collecting it. I certainly CANNOT justify transmitting that data to the manufacturer, or to the police, or to anyone else. If someone thinks that they can justify gathering that data against the driver's will, then they can apply to a judge for a warrant to do so.
Obviously, you lack imagination. The MODEM may be limited to 56k, FFS - but that doesn't stop your network from utilizing gigs of bandwidth for gaming, streaming, file transfers, etc within your own network.
Yes, I was still limited to 56k internet the first time I transferred an ISO file from one computer to another in less than a minute.
Having more speed and/or power available than you want or need is NEVER a "bad thing".
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Except - this story in no way suggests anything that remotely resembles "sane conference policies".
This zany bitch threatened that she would be "triggered" by the gentleman if he spoke. "Triggered". That is an aggressive word, not a defensive word. She threatened to go postal, if she didn't get her way. She committed an assault on the freedom of speech.
Well, it most certainly is not a "best practice", and damn the demographic group concerned. If this bullshit is acceptable, then we'll have to accept that a member of Race A might be "triggered" if exposed to a member of Race B. Or, a member or Religion Z, if exposed to a member of Religion Y. Or, Gender F, if exposed toa member of Gender M. And, actually, that is all it boils down to. Some bitch feminist didn't like this guy's talk, so she shut him down, with a threat to act hysterical if he were allowed to speak.
Strong grip, huh? Blood dripping from his hands after strangling someone? Maybe you meant that Cheney the Torturer ripped the kid's head off?
"If people hate Windows 8 so much, why do they even bother commenting on it, "
Apparently you have failed to notice, that the things we hate the most about Win8 are also being adopted by OTHER operating systems.
We bitch, we moan, we threaten and cajole, we even develop new desktop environments in rebellion against the metro-cloud thing. Not only are we not going to use the damned thing, but WE WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW WHY!!
Does that help you to understand?
Actually, no.
I thought Win3.11 was pretty cool. 95 mostly sucked at blue screens. 98 was better, but 98SE was almost good, as long as you were the only user. Multiple users kinda screwed things up. ME sucked donkey balls. 2K was good stuff - my first exposure to the NT system. XP was great, and each service pack was better. Vista sucked dog's balls. Win7 isn't bad. If I weren't firmly entrenched in the Linux world, I would say that I like it. Win8? It sucks something. I just haven't figured out what it sucks yet. Maybe it sucks hyena's ass? No - that would be Ubuntu's Unity, the Hairy Hyena. Dang, I'm stumped - what is it that Win8 sucks? Got it! It sucks the black off the 8-ball! Ohhh, I'm so witty!
You'd probably do better by digging him up, and sucking the marrow from his bones. Some folks might object to that idea. Defiling the dead and cannibalism are pretty much taboo in our world.
Geeez, that idea poses a science question, doesn't it? How long after you die is the marrow in your bones fit to eat? I mean - does it dry up? Does it crumble to powder? Is it destroyed during the embalming? That's probably it. They put that stuff into you to destroy the marrow, thereby preventing you from becoming a zombie.
Don't like my idea? Offer a better one. My curiosity isn't piqued enough to go look it up.
By that time, the military will be running Windows 12, and it will be completely hack proof!
That sumBITCH! I TOLD him to stay out of my popcorn!
Exactly. I never saw any good reason to buy a game console. My kids did, and they bought some. I only ever touched them a few times. All you can do is - play games! If you want to do any "computing", you walk over to the desktop.
Gaming is alright, and in some respects, game consoles did it best. But, gaming simply isn't worth the effort or the expense of having one or more consoles sitting around.
And, it seems that the kids have come to agree with me. The Xbox sits collecting dust, the Nintendo boxes are lost under piles of clutter, the other boxes that I can't even identify are scattered between rooms where they collect dust. The games are tidily lined up on bookshelves, remaining undisturbed for months - maybe years now.
Mobile devices are heavily used, the desktops are heavily used, and the laptops see constant use. Game boxes? History.
Ho-hum. So, some people still haven't figured out how to read versions? You haven't adapted from the old days? Go on, just reinstall Firefox version 3.14159 and stick with it.
"Just give me one damn phone that lets me answer and make phone calls, send/receive text messages, and has a calculator."
Available at WalMart, for as little as about sixty dollars. Net10, StraightTalk, Verizon - all of them sell such phones. Most have a built-in crappy browser, but you don't have to actually use it. Calling plans for said phones start at about a dollar a day, or you can get $45 to $60 prepaid plans with unlimited everything. Again, the browser sucks so bad that you won't want to waste time browsing.
The average user knows jackshit about "best-of-breed". He's going to use any trashy bit of crap that amuses him, no matter the consequences.
"Do you want to run Dancing Pwnies? It is asking for root permissions, user permissions, web permissions, phonebook permissions, and more - granting all these permissions will seriously compromise your phone's security!"
User says, "Dammit, I just want to watch the dancing pwnies, yes, yes, yes, show me dancing pwnies!"
By the time you're 80 years old, you've learned that the one thing that never changes is, the world is always changing. Someone calls you on the phone, and gives you a load of shit about the laws have changed, they can help you get your credit rating back, blah blah blah. You're a sucker for it. Not to mention, most of us face diminished reasoning powers at some point close to 80.
Yeah, preying on the elderly is no better than preying on children. There's a reason that old age is often referred to as a "second childhood".
Cheep bear? I never heard a bear cheeping. Got a Youtube link?
Sneakernet worked best for me . . .
You're describing one of my shipmates, not my neighbors.
This is something that I have never understood. Okay, so 27 billion people have read a book. I glance at it. It's a dry looking piece of shit, no artwork, the author is someone I've not read, the synopsis is unappealing - so I throw it back at the bookshelf that it came from.
I don't CARE that 80 gazillion little girls found this book fascinating. I'm not a little girl.
I don't CARE that two million law enforcement officers approve of the book. I'm not a cop.
I don't CARE that two billion Catholics approve of this author. I'm not Catholic, and sometimes I wonder if I even want to be a Christian anymore.
I just don't give a rat's ass that every redneck in the country loves the book, because some dilrod from NASCAR wrote it. I'm not a redneck, and I'm not a NASCAR fan. (Someone is going to call me out here - rednecks probably can't read, and NASCAR drivers probably can't write.)
Do people actually run out to buy a book just because Oprah reviewed it? Really? Don't you know that Oprah didn't really READ the damned book? She paid someone to browse through it, and to tell her the highlights, so that she could talk about the book on her show. Even if Oprah really did read the book, and she liked it, why in hell does that mean that I am going to like it? Oprah and I have almost NOTHING in common. She's black, she's female, she's fat, she's homely - alright, homely - we do have one thing in common. Has she reviewed a book that can make middle aged men look like they looked at age 20?
Windows. Why is it always WINDOWS? It wasn't Android, it wasn't Leopard, it wasn't Unix, or Linux, or BSD. He found the WINDOWS open, as usual.
FFS, get a real operating system!
I also revile business information. Revilers Unite!
Less secure than what, exactly?
Let's use a real world analogy. I have my house locked up tight. My neighbor says that I have cruddy, worthless locks on my door. He proceeds to show me how easy it is to break into my own house. He suggests that I invest in the same type of locks that he uses.
So, what should I do? Call the law, and have the neighbor locked up for showing me that my security is shit?
Or, should I purchase and install the locks that he has shown me to be effective?
In actuality, the neighbor has helped me to be MORE secure, not less secure.
Derp, derp, derp.
"plead guilty to all counts of bank fraud and identity theft offences"
It doesn't matter what you're guilty of, if you actually plead guilty. If they had me in court, threatening to imprison me for a hundred years of more, I wouldn't plead guilty. Argue the bastards down to something manageable (ie, less than a lifetime) or make them PROVE their charges. Don't agree to a plea bargain that effectively ends your life.
Actually - the wealthy never have been taxed proportionately for Social Security. Currently, FICA tax is only charged on the first $113,000 of earnings - matched by your employer, of course. The lower echelons of "wealthy" people pay almost as much as common workers, proportionately. Moderately wealthy people pay less, and really wealthy people pay even less, proportionally.
Of course, there are arguments to be made that SOME wealthy people pay a lot more than any of us lowly wage workers. The billionaire who employs a few hundred people directly, rather than through a corporation, will have to match all of the FICA taxes paid by his employees.
But, I don't think a lot of filthy rich people employ that many people directly. It's cheaper to set up a front company to hire the underlings.
"a vast majority of people get considerably more out of Social Security and Medicare then they put in."
Citations needed.
I remember a few things from the news, down through the years. I remember congress dipping into Social Security for money. And again. And again.
Social Security is something of a pyramid scheme, yes. It isn't truly sustainable. But, despite that, Social Security had surplus money, time and again. And, every time, Congress put their fingers into the surplus, and skimmed it off.
Is it REALLY true, that the vast majority of Americans take out more than they pay in? Or, is it more likely that the vast majority of Americans don't LIVE long enough to collect what they have paid in? Maybe, just maybe, Social Security is going broke only because Congress can't control themselves, and they have spent our Social Security already!
It has been my impression that the car in question is not a "production model", but a test vehicle, or demo vehicle, which is routinely loaned out for testing by reporters, among other people. I would expect that such a vehicle has the tools to log problems, performance, state of charge, etc. The purpose of this specific vehicle seems to be to generate publicity, and to gather useful data.
A separate question would be, should production vehicles, destined for consumer use, be capable of tracking the driver's usage of their vehicles?
Well - collection of such data can be valuable when it comes time to troubleshoot a troublesome car. I can justify collecting it. I certainly CANNOT justify transmitting that data to the manufacturer, or to the police, or to anyone else. If someone thinks that they can justify gathering that data against the driver's will, then they can apply to a judge for a warrant to do so.
Obviously, you lack imagination. The MODEM may be limited to 56k, FFS - but that doesn't stop your network from utilizing gigs of bandwidth for gaming, streaming, file transfers, etc within your own network.
Yes, I was still limited to 56k internet the first time I transferred an ISO file from one computer to another in less than a minute.
Having more speed and/or power available than you want or need is NEVER a "bad thing".