but I also fail to understand why. email works. its interoperable. its one port to leave open and secure, not a bazillion. the protocol is understood, it can be secured at least as well as any other (more than most), it does not require ANY special hardware or phone; ie, it can work on slow text terminals as well as fancy fast gfx based ones.
all my messages are in the same folder. I can search. I dont' have to worry about which app this person sent me a notice on.
and of course, the trendy apps come and go; but email is STILL with us.
yeah, GOML. but still, other than 'instant' messages (email is pretty close to instant these days, though) - I'm not seeing any real reason to switch from email to (name of fad that is currently popular) comms.
after a while (probably soon) any win10 based pc will NOT have drivers for anything lower in the MS domain.
there may even be issues with linux. I preduct that MS is waging an all out war on linux+osx and will use all their pressure to increase the UEFI secure boot stuff and make it so that we can't disable it. only the higher end boards will allow overriding secure boot. even then, I suspect MS will try their best to force those vendors to turn off that switch, too.
MS sees the writing on the wall. so does intel, which is why intel is laying off 10k people!
I used to upgrade my own set of pc's every year or so. I have a stack of mobos here dating from the mid 90's (really hard to throw out working hardware, even if its ancient) and yet I have not bought a new system or board in years. all my systems do what I need and given the tight economy, I can't justify keeping the pc vendors in profits when money is so tight these days.
tablets have run their course. they simply are not replacements and are definitely LUXURY items. I have no tablets and no plans for any.
corp america does a pc or laptop 'refresh' every few years for their employees. and people who break their systems need replacements. but people doing non-urgent upgrades are few and far between, these days.
you are delusional if you think he could give one shit about you or me or even america. he's all ego and all in it for self glorification. he says what his crowd wants to hear.
don't buy one word of it.
I wish someone would speak up for us. but believe me, he's not it.
when you are training your replacment, this is not usually the first time for you. which means, you have been on and off jobs (I have and I'm not in the area that this story is about) and you probably NEED the severance that they bribe you with, so that you do their bidding for the final few weeks.
no one willingly does this. we do it because we have a need to eat and they have us.
I don't love this idea. I'm not happy about admitting it, but I have lived it and its a real thing. when employment is reserved for younger folks, foreign folks; and you are neither - you soon get used to going from job to job and restarting it all over again when they are done with you (as soon as the project ends and no later).
it sucks! and I understand. I wish I didn't, but I do.
that's it. 100% sums up the core values of the R party and has been in the last 30 or so years.
if the R's could stop trying to make jesus their spokesman (lol) and got back to what this country needs - there may actually be a way to fix our society and put us back on track for prosperity.
the ones running the country have intentionally divided us so that we continually fight about bullshit (bathrooms? really???) while they rack in the money and no one really watches what they are doing.
one distraction after another. keep 'em coming, boys! the population has still not figured out that the game has been rigged from the start.
had to sacrifice him, though; the SCSI bus demanded it, for some reason. don't ask, I simply followed directions from a USENET post and that was all it took.
with the wage depression in active full-out attack on engineers (if you are h1b, you are fine; if you were born here, you can go die in a cardboard box down by the river for all the ceo's could care) - its FULLY understandable that even skilled and experienced software guys will be at poverty level in this area.
I can directly speak to that. been out of work for a while now, my savings are dangerously low and I'm not sure what is going to happen if I can't find work before the money runs out.
h1b is destroying the workers who depend on WORK to pay the bills. the rich who depend on their royalty payments or other forms of recurring 'do no work, get it automatically' income are fully ok, of course.
if you are an h1b, you will likely share a room with a roomate and if you are in a house, the house will be packed with people from your country. no one can afford to live well here unless you are connected or priviledged. and being white is actually against you, as the bulk of the hiring is only for asian and indian. if you were born here, you are skipped over by all the foreign born managers.
and so, I can fully understand someone being skilled, born here and trying to work their ass off to make ends meet and still being in poverty level, relatively. I'm nearly there myself; and not proud to admit it, either.
the war on middle class americans is VERY real. please have some compassion.
quickest way to convert an honest, decent person into a criminal (or worse, that T word) is to inflict insane injustice on him under color of law.
I could imagine that if I was unfairly messed with and left with no assets - basically robbed blind by the thugs in blue - I'd probably look for mafia style justice, if that even exists anymore. its like when people get locked up for bullshit crimes; the process only ends up MAKING them criminals. they'll never get a decent job again after jail time (usually) and so they have no choice - you, the state, have just CREATED a criminal. or worse.
I think that was the true gist of the posting. that if you arrest a guilty man, he will probably not fight back nearly as much as if you arrest or mess with an innocent, typical every day person.
being robbed by a thief hurts. it hurts no less if the thief wears a government issued uniform.
see 'civil asset forfeiture'. cops can steal your cash if you carry 'too much' on you. or even if you put cash under your seat (its now 'hidden compartment' and under drug laws, that's enough for them to take it and never give it back).
there's a certain smell coming from the laws we have passed over the past 30 or so years. you guys smell it? its pretty bad. hope someone opens a window, at least.
Seems like a orchestrated attempt to get me to install it. Stick it in a large list, and I'm more likely to just say "install all" than actually read the KBs for each or compare them to a list of known problem ones.
er, uhm, I mean, this is why its beyond stupid to accept MS 'updates' these days. MS has jumped the shark (the old shark has a headache by now, I would guess) and is now sending malware to its users on a semi regular basis.
I have disabled all updates to win7 since ftdi-gate, last year. that was the final straw for me.
I have backups and I can restore. I don't do stupid shit online when on windows.
microsoft can go fuck themselves. for a while, they were an OK company and google/apple were the bad guys. now, sigh, all 3 are bad guys again. damn.
at least on jury trials, judges are NOT supposed to have final say.
that's the jury's job and if they are INFORMED they'll be aware of jury nullification, where they can rule on the law, itself, on a case by case basis.
of course, if you read up on JN (fija.org) you'll see that, while its on the books as an allowed rite of the people, the courts go to extreme lengths to deny its very existence and you can be thrown in JAIL if you dare mention to fellow jurors that JN even exists. yeah, our legal system hates the fact that *people* (who are not on anyone's bribe or payroll) can override bad laws.
MS realized that corp america will be stuck with them for still quite a while. home users user whatever comes installed; they mostly are just sheep and do what they are told. we are a tiny tiny exception. and beyond that, mac people are their own strange kind that will never consider using windows (most hate linux, too).
MS can do whatever it wants and it will still have business' loyalty.
the key was entrenching Word format and getting it so complicated that it simply cannot be made interoperable with free alternatives.
when all your docs are locked to MS formats, you know the result. you have no choice anymore.
MS stopped trying to get us to CHOOSE windows. they now have decided to say 'fuck it' and just force whatever they want on people and with win10, they remove all your choices. little by little, the frog is slowly cooked and users are having all their choices taken away, for rejecting updates and for setting policies on their own.
you and I will reject windows, but again, we are not big enough ($$) to even register on the pocket-change o-meter that MS has. MS is kept alive by business licenses and the home stuff is just to keep you 'trained' on using windows so that business will continue to think that their userbase needs to continue with that same old os.
pretty much the same here. fvwm 1.4 (iirc) user since I 'upgraded' from twm.
that's not a desktop; it just lets me bring up a menu (that goes away after I unclick) and run an xterm or whatever. usually I will run a term and then use that to do things, including running gui apps. stdout is often useful! why hide it?
do a 'ps aux' and you see very little cruft on my installs. do that ps on an ubuntu 'desktop' and there's 10x as many procs running. no one needs that kind of waste, I don't care if you are on a cray desktop system (btw, those are pretty sweet).
running an app is the same way I've been doing it since I first ran DECwindows. in fact, the color scheme I used at DEC when twm first came out is what I'm still using now. it works. why break shit that doesn't need breaking?
vnc session and managed by fvwm. connect to the persistent desktop from anywhere in the house and turn off the vnc client when done. the server keeps your state. and fvwm takes no resources to speak of. uptimes that only get reset when a reboot is forced by a kernel update.
unity? what's that? oh right, its the shit I first de-install after someone forced me to use a desktop version of ubuntu.
interestingly, some businesses have no choice but to be cash based.
example: pot shops. feds prohibit them from using most banking services (they allow the shops to exist but they make life very hard for them, nearly impossible). and so, you have armed guards at pot shops and cameras everywhere as a defense.
you are right, though; we are becoming more and more cashless and I'm not really sure that's such a great thing. convenient, but you lose all anonymity. that's not a fair trade.
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No, it's the lizaroids. True fact.
I lost count; does that come before, or after jellybean?
But doing so would make AARP and voters mad
for those cases, there's static routing.
(wait, wut?)
that happened to my friend becky.
and you know what happened to her. everyone knows.
lots of ways to 'message' someone.
but I also fail to understand why. email works. its interoperable. its one port to leave open and secure, not a bazillion. the protocol is understood, it can be secured at least as well as any other (more than most), it does not require ANY special hardware or phone; ie, it can work on slow text terminals as well as fancy fast gfx based ones.
all my messages are in the same folder. I can search. I dont' have to worry about which app this person sent me a notice on.
and of course, the trendy apps come and go; but email is STILL with us.
yeah, GOML. but still, other than 'instant' messages (email is pretty close to instant these days, though) - I'm not seeing any real reason to switch from email to (name of fad that is currently popular) comms.
same here; deinstalled this ES junk and found another. for now, at least.
phones - whack-a-mole - what do they both have in common?
(sigh)
I hate phones. I really do.
after a while (probably soon) any win10 based pc will NOT have drivers for anything lower in the MS domain.
there may even be issues with linux. I preduct that MS is waging an all out war on linux+osx and will use all their pressure to increase the UEFI secure boot stuff and make it so that we can't disable it. only the higher end boards will allow overriding secure boot. even then, I suspect MS will try their best to force those vendors to turn off that switch, too.
MS sees the writing on the wall. so does intel, which is why intel is laying off 10k people!
I used to upgrade my own set of pc's every year or so. I have a stack of mobos here dating from the mid 90's (really hard to throw out working hardware, even if its ancient) and yet I have not bought a new system or board in years. all my systems do what I need and given the tight economy, I can't justify keeping the pc vendors in profits when money is so tight these days.
tablets have run their course. they simply are not replacements and are definitely LUXURY items. I have no tablets and no plans for any.
corp america does a pc or laptop 'refresh' every few years for their employees. and people who break their systems need replacements. but people doing non-urgent upgrades are few and far between, these days.
did he say that ALL the profit should go to the oil companies?
of course, they own the congress and no one says anything bad about our FRIENDS, the texans (even if not from texas).
but I could imagine pricing fuel so that it motivates everyone to find better choices; and the excess should go into REBUILDING our infrastructure.
how's that for a plan?
nah, would never work. sounds too much like that word that the R's hate that starts with an S.
trump? that mega MEGA rich asswipe?
you are delusional if you think he could give one shit about you or me or even america. he's all ego and all in it for self glorification. he says what his crowd wants to hear.
don't buy one word of it.
I wish someone would speak up for us. but believe me, he's not it.
you don't get it. let me explain.
when you are training your replacment, this is not usually the first time for you. which means, you have been on and off jobs (I have and I'm not in the area that this story is about) and you probably NEED the severance that they bribe you with, so that you do their bidding for the final few weeks.
no one willingly does this. we do it because we have a need to eat and they have us.
I don't love this idea. I'm not happy about admitting it, but I have lived it and its a real thing. when employment is reserved for younger folks, foreign folks; and you are neither - you soon get used to going from job to job and restarting it all over again when they are done with you (as soon as the project ends and no later).
it sucks! and I understand. I wish I didn't, but I do.
stupid idea. why?
how color accurate are pc, mac and tablet display colors?
answer: TOTALLY NOT THE SAME. even on the same model.
so many different variables. even if you look at an angle, unless its an SIPS style display, the color will change.
way to make something out of pure noise, google.
(laughs)
google - nerds who think they are smart, but really just *think* they are. to the rest of us, you're just youngsters who were overly ego stroked.
the party of jesus.
"we think we are more holy than thou"
that's it. 100% sums up the core values of the R party and has been in the last 30 or so years.
if the R's could stop trying to make jesus their spokesman (lol) and got back to what this country needs - there may actually be a way to fix our society and put us back on track for prosperity.
the ones running the country have intentionally divided us so that we continually fight about bullshit (bathrooms? really???) while they rack in the money and no one really watches what they are doing.
one distraction after another. keep 'em coming, boys! the population has still not figured out that the game has been rigged from the start.
ah, memories of my old pet goat.
had to sacrifice him, though; the SCSI bus demanded it, for some reason. don't ask, I simply followed directions from a USENET post and that was all it took.
with the wage depression in active full-out attack on engineers (if you are h1b, you are fine; if you were born here, you can go die in a cardboard box down by the river for all the ceo's could care) - its FULLY understandable that even skilled and experienced software guys will be at poverty level in this area.
I can directly speak to that. been out of work for a while now, my savings are dangerously low and I'm not sure what is going to happen if I can't find work before the money runs out.
h1b is destroying the workers who depend on WORK to pay the bills. the rich who depend on their royalty payments or other forms of recurring 'do no work, get it automatically' income are fully ok, of course.
if you are an h1b, you will likely share a room with a roomate and if you are in a house, the house will be packed with people from your country. no one can afford to live well here unless you are connected or priviledged. and being white is actually against you, as the bulk of the hiring is only for asian and indian. if you were born here, you are skipped over by all the foreign born managers.
and so, I can fully understand someone being skilled, born here and trying to work their ass off to make ends meet and still being in poverty level, relatively. I'm nearly there myself; and not proud to admit it, either.
the war on middle class americans is VERY real. please have some compassion.
I just tried (btw, I always DO turn off js when hitting any strange sites).
my FF works just fine with the site in question.
then again, I avoided upgrading FF for over 2yrs or so. any updates don't affect me anymore.
btw, thanks for the heads up about GOT. just GOT what everyone wanted; streisand can be very helpful ;) ;)
quickest way to convert an honest, decent person into a criminal (or worse, that T word) is to inflict insane injustice on him under color of law.
I could imagine that if I was unfairly messed with and left with no assets - basically robbed blind by the thugs in blue - I'd probably look for mafia style justice, if that even exists anymore. its like when people get locked up for bullshit crimes; the process only ends up MAKING them criminals. they'll never get a decent job again after jail time (usually) and so they have no choice - you, the state, have just CREATED a criminal. or worse.
I think that was the true gist of the posting. that if you arrest a guilty man, he will probably not fight back nearly as much as if you arrest or mess with an innocent, typical every day person.
being robbed by a thief hurts. it hurts no less if the thief wears a government issued uniform.
see 'civil asset forfeiture'. cops can steal your cash if you carry 'too much' on you. or even if you put cash under your seat (its now 'hidden compartment' and under drug laws, that's enough for them to take it and never give it back).
there's a certain smell coming from the laws we have passed over the past 30 or so years. you guys smell it? its pretty bad. hope someone opens a window, at least.
Seems like a orchestrated attempt to get me to install it. Stick it in a large list, and I'm more likely to just say "install all" than actually read the KBs for each or compare them to a list of known problem ones.
in business, its known as a 'shit sandwich'
(no, really. it is.)
er, uhm, I mean, this is why its beyond stupid to accept MS 'updates' these days. MS has jumped the shark (the old shark has a headache by now, I would guess) and is now sending malware to its users on a semi regular basis.
I have disabled all updates to win7 since ftdi-gate, last year. that was the final straw for me.
I have backups and I can restore. I don't do stupid shit online when on windows.
microsoft can go fuck themselves. for a while, they were an OK company and google/apple were the bad guys. now, sigh, all 3 are bad guys again. damn.
lets see, certainly judges that take bribes are mostly smart enough to NOT get caught.
but by your thinking, we can simply count the # that were too stupid to avoid getting caught and that's a number you trot out as 'proof'.
I wonder if you see the flaw in your thinking, here?
at least on jury trials, judges are NOT supposed to have final say.
that's the jury's job and if they are INFORMED they'll be aware of jury nullification, where they can rule on the law, itself, on a case by case basis.
of course, if you read up on JN (fija.org) you'll see that, while its on the books as an allowed rite of the people, the courts go to extreme lengths to deny its very existence and you can be thrown in JAIL if you dare mention to fellow jurors that JN even exists. yeah, our legal system hates the fact that *people* (who are not on anyone's bribe or payroll) can override bad laws.
think long and hard about that last sentence.
you mean, there isn't an angry-flying-toaster app, even for a screen saver?
MS realized that corp america will be stuck with them for still quite a while. home users user whatever comes installed; they mostly are just sheep and do what they are told. we are a tiny tiny exception. and beyond that, mac people are their own strange kind that will never consider using windows (most hate linux, too).
MS can do whatever it wants and it will still have business' loyalty.
the key was entrenching Word format and getting it so complicated that it simply cannot be made interoperable with free alternatives.
when all your docs are locked to MS formats, you know the result. you have no choice anymore.
MS stopped trying to get us to CHOOSE windows. they now have decided to say 'fuck it' and just force whatever they want on people and with win10, they remove all your choices. little by little, the frog is slowly cooked and users are having all their choices taken away, for rejecting updates and for setting policies on their own.
you and I will reject windows, but again, we are not big enough ($$) to even register on the pocket-change o-meter that MS has. MS is kept alive by business licenses and the home stuff is just to keep you 'trained' on using windows so that business will continue to think that their userbase needs to continue with that same old os.
one word, though:
MSoffice
that, alone, keeps corp america locked to windows.
pretty much that.
pretty much the same here. fvwm 1.4 (iirc) user since I 'upgraded' from twm.
that's not a desktop; it just lets me bring up a menu (that goes away after I unclick) and run an xterm or whatever. usually I will run a term and then use that to do things, including running gui apps. stdout is often useful! why hide it?
do a 'ps aux' and you see very little cruft on my installs. do that ps on an ubuntu 'desktop' and there's 10x as many procs running. no one needs that kind of waste, I don't care if you are on a cray desktop system (btw, those are pretty sweet).
running an app is the same way I've been doing it since I first ran DECwindows. in fact, the color scheme I used at DEC when twm first came out is what I'm still using now. it works. why break shit that doesn't need breaking?
vnc session and managed by fvwm. connect to the persistent desktop from anywhere in the house and turn off the vnc client when done. the server keeps your state. and fvwm takes no resources to speak of. uptimes that only get reset when a reboot is forced by a kernel update.
unity? what's that? oh right, its the shit I first de-install after someone forced me to use a desktop version of ubuntu.
interestingly, some businesses have no choice but to be cash based.
example: pot shops. feds prohibit them from using most banking services (they allow the shops to exist but they make life very hard for them, nearly impossible). and so, you have armed guards at pot shops and cameras everywhere as a defense.
you are right, though; we are becoming more and more cashless and I'm not really sure that's such a great thing. convenient, but you lose all anonymity. that's not a fair trade.