Word. To say IE gained market share through its own "excellence" is laughable. How can Mike Connor be making such a dumb statement? With a straight face? When tech people hang around other tech people for long enough they forget that people out there are really dumb and believe nothing but IE and Windows exists. It's there, so they use it. Some people even after being introduced to Firefox don't even perceive a difference.
You have such a damn easier time than I do at airports even being a born Canadian. I avoid US travel and airlines now, except when absolutely necessary. One time in Chicago I got thrown in a windowless room for "observation" for four hours because they believed I was on a no fly list. Needless to say I missed my flight, and the connection I was to make after that, and I lost 36 hours in the process. Naturally they acted like releasing me for having done no wrong was equal to doing me a huge favour, which left compensation as a distant dream. It's a shitty time to be young, male and Muslim. Even a liberal, clean-shaven one. My full sympathy is with this family, and if I were them, I'd take advantage of the good ol all-'merican tort system and slap those people with a lawsuit.
I firmly believe that the type of people who are recruited to fill the positions in American customs and transport security(both TSA and airline staff) are some of the lowest, least human scum available. None of the other countries I've ever traveled to have so consistently hired such uncouth assholes, and this experience is culled from many tens of thousands of kilometers of travel. As a matter of fact, some of those countries actually had people who were *courteous*, that really surprised me considering the duffers I was used to seeing at US border crossings in NY and Michigan state.
This is the craziest period in history ever. Everything technological is getting way faster and way cheaper ALL the time. I look forward to the day where I'll have a free, unthrottled and provided-by-the-city 1 terabit internet connection.
Must...avoid...typical 2008 cloud computing joke......ahhhh
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Word. To say IE gained market share through its own "excellence" is laughable. How can Mike Connor be making such a dumb statement? With a straight face? When tech people hang around other tech people for long enough they forget that people out there are really dumb and believe nothing but IE and Windows exists. It's there, so they use it. Some people even after being introduced to Firefox don't even perceive a difference.
"Imagine the fun that some targeted malware could do - not that such a thing could happen to a Lexus. "
What an appallingly badly worded sentence. Targeted malware would be "doing fun" ? Help us, dear God...
This is not a troll post. This is 100% insightful. Mod parent up! Idle and The Onion were funny back in like 2003 maybe.
You have such a damn easier time than I do at airports even being a born Canadian. I avoid US travel and airlines now, except when absolutely necessary. One time in Chicago I got thrown in a windowless room for "observation" for four hours because they believed I was on a no fly list. Needless to say I missed my flight, and the connection I was to make after that, and I lost 36 hours in the process. Naturally they acted like releasing me for having done no wrong was equal to doing me a huge favour, which left compensation as a distant dream. It's a shitty time to be young, male and Muslim. Even a liberal, clean-shaven one. My full sympathy is with this family, and if I were them, I'd take advantage of the good ol all-'merican tort system and slap those people with a lawsuit.
I firmly believe that the type of people who are recruited to fill the positions in American customs and transport security(both TSA and airline staff) are some of the lowest, least human scum available. None of the other countries I've ever traveled to have so consistently hired such uncouth assholes, and this experience is culled from many tens of thousands of kilometers of travel. As a matter of fact, some of those countries actually had people who were *courteous*, that really surprised me considering the duffers I was used to seeing at US border crossings in NY and Michigan state.
Exactly how was electronic voting EVER considered a good idea?
This is the craziest period in history ever. Everything technological is getting way faster and way cheaper ALL the time. I look forward to the day where I'll have a free, unthrottled and provided-by-the-city 1 terabit internet connection. Must...avoid...typical 2008 cloud computing joke......ahhhh