That's really not an appropriate response towards someone who is only telling you a difficult-to-hear but obvious truth, but I'm not going to make that big a deal out of it because I understand how someone like you would be very embarassed when they realize what a fool they've been. What's really a shame, though, is that you'll never be able to completely recover your privacy, since the Internet doesn't forgive or forget, and companies like Facebook essentially own any information about yourself that you input to their systems, and they'll never, ever delete any of it for any reason short of a court order. A pity, that.
One of these days people like you are going to realize the enormous value of the thing you're blithely giving away (your privacy), and when that day comes I'm going to laugh long and loud right in your faces, point at you, and mock you so severely that you'll never want to show your short-sighted faces in public ever again.
Get a say in it? The way things are going right now, by 2020 we'll be lucky to still be putting satellites in orbit, let alone be worrying about the ISS. All around us I see humanity devolving back into mysticism and ignorance, and the greedy bastards of the world have fucked up the world economy so bad that it will take well beyond 2020 for it to recover, and in the meantime the general populace, who in the best of times has been difficult to convince that anything space related has any sort of intrinsic value, would likely form lynch mobs if you tried to convince them of it now.
Open-source the converter electronics, never come straight out with the term "HDMI" in the documentation but hint strongly at it (but feel free to mention "DisplayPort"). Put generic through-hole pads for the HDMI-side interface connections on the PCB artwork, expecting the person constructing the converter to get an HDMI extension cable and chop off one end, solder the wires directly to the PCB. Be sure to release the whole thing to USENET, so that it never, ever completely dies. HDMI Corp gets screwed, end of problem.
I'm not disputing that at all. But likewise you cannot dispute that people need to be weaned off vehicles that run off of fossil fuels, and it is my belief that that isn't going to happen until there are NO fossil fuels left to speak of. I had the greatest of hopes for the hydrogen fuel cell, but it's either not a practical technology to mass produce, or the oil companies have succeeded in burying it, which is sad.
Until we're completely out of fossil fuels and their alternatives either run out or become too prohibitively expensive for the general population to afford, I'm afraid this is going to be a recurring theme for electric vehicles: not enough interest, when a fossil-fuel-powered vehicle is relatively cheap to purchase and simple to operate.
Don't use the service in the first place. It's going to be yet another waste of people's time and money that will go obsolete in a year or two, or get compromised by some hacker group that will rip everything including your credit card and other personal information, or just break the thing and it won't work for weeks or months while they fix it. Just keep your music on your PMP like you always have, like everyone else does, and be happy.
Nonsense.
I do not own an e-book reader, and have NO plans to get one anytime soon, and then it'd be used for things like magazines or textbooks, or for other things of a periodical nature. I know that I am not alone; there will ALWAYS be people like me, who prefer a physical, printed paper book to anything electronic. Just because something is newer doesn't make it better; oftimes the opposite is true. I don't even care if I have to pay twice as much or more, I'll stick to paper books for literature I'm planning on keeping, and not just for the simplicity of use: because I do not trust publishers, or the government, for that matter, and I think I have damned good reasons NOT to -- and again, I do not believe I am alone in this. This comment will likely not be seen by many, but it needed to be said.
Personally I'm not very worried about this. I can't see it being mandatory, and even if it is, I'll either just buy old appliances, or use my vast knowledge of electronics to disable/filter/block the flow of data. It's nobody's business what temperature I like my living space at, just like it's nobody's business how often I do my laundry, open my refrigerator, use my computer, TV, etc etc etc and if they think it is their business, then they can kiss my ass.
You don't even have to go to the trouble to obfuscate things. Just make it a website; don't they do it already? Or is Apple going to start censoring the web, too?
Have someone patent the process by which you protest at the funeral of U.S. soldiers, and trademark phrases like "God hates fags". Then when it's all granted, sue the living fuck out of WBT. I'm only half kidding, and I'm sure as hell not trolling. It would be completely outrageous, but it would also be so chock full 'o WIN that I think I would just burst.
So in Europe you can't host a movie night with a group of your friends? What a bunch of bullshit. I know the country I live in is fucked up (United States) but at least we're not THAT fucked up.
Not sure who you're speaking to here, but I'm the OP, and I wasn't talking about cutting up my one credit card, I was talking about not using my debit card and carrying cash instead. In this day and age, if you have no credit, you're considered a second-class citizen.
"Can't afford it then don't buy it" only works up to a point. If I stuck 100% to that, then I would be walking or taking busses everywhere, I'd still be living in a tiny ~300 square foot apartment, and generally not having a life. This isn't the 1940's anymore. If you don't have credit, you're considered a second-class citizen. Of course what I was referring to was not using my debit card, instead carrying cash; I never said I was going to cut up the one credit card I have.
Why would anyone, businessman or private citizen, put up with this? At the very least I can't see why anybody would pay to use such a useless thing. It'd be worse than the old days of AOL!
It's actually an old idea that's been brought back from the so-called "golden age" of television, where specific sponsors funded a show. Viewship, and by extension ad revenues, have taken such a nosedive because television is so poor, and more lately because of the economy, that they've had to resort to this old tactic to try to make ends meet. I can't speak for anybody else, but so far as I'm concerned if it's done too obviously too often, it turns me off to the show I'm watching and I'll just stop watching it completely.
I don't know about anybody else, but I've been considering going back to paying cash for most everything for a while now. I read much more like this and I'll be doing it.
THIS. This, times 1,000,000. You want me to sign away my right to freedom of speech? Fuck you, I'll see to it that everybody knows you have something to hide.
It's because the United States of America is rapidly becoming a third-world country, and what's worse our politicians and corporations are doing everything they can to destroy the middle class once and for all and bring us back to some form of fuedalism, that's why. Information is power. You want to control the peasant class? Don't educate them, convince them that education is bad, knowledge, understanding, and critical thinking are bad, obeying your leaders and letting your "betters" do the thinking for you is good -- and mercilessly crush anyone who starts getting all uppity, pretending above their "station".
Secondly, itâ(TM)s hard to read, since people donâ(TM)t really understand URLs.
Really? On what planet? I submit to you this: If someone doesn't understand a URL after all this time, then they don't have even a rudimentary understanding of the basic workings of the Internet. My concern is this: that this path leads to a "Playskool" internet browser, that may be fine and dandy for 6-year-olds and great-grandma, but that will frustrate the rest of us. If you must insist on taking this path, then at least give us the option to turn the URL bar back on if we want it.
You've been modded as "funny" but I'm not sure you're intending to be funny, trolling, or if you really believe what you're saying. In any event, please shut the fuck up, you're going to give the mouth-breathing politicians you people all elected more bad ideas.
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That's really not an appropriate response towards someone who is only telling you a difficult-to-hear but obvious truth, but I'm not going to make that big a deal out of it because I understand how someone like you would be very embarassed when they realize what a fool they've been. What's really a shame, though, is that you'll never be able to completely recover your privacy, since the Internet doesn't forgive or forget, and companies like Facebook essentially own any information about yourself that you input to their systems, and they'll never, ever delete any of it for any reason short of a court order. A pity, that.
One of these days people like you are going to realize the enormous value of the thing you're blithely giving away (your privacy), and when that day comes I'm going to laugh long and loud right in your faces, point at you, and mock you so severely that you'll never want to show your short-sighted faces in public ever again.
Get a say in it?
The way things are going right now, by 2020 we'll be lucky to still be putting satellites in orbit, let alone be worrying about the ISS. All around us I see humanity devolving back into mysticism and ignorance, and the greedy bastards of the world have fucked up the world economy so bad that it will take well beyond 2020 for it to recover, and in the meantime the general populace, who in the best of times has been difficult to convince that anything space related has any sort of intrinsic value, would likely form lynch mobs if you tried to convince them of it now.
I, for one, welcome our detachable-bit, multi-pronged, nuclear-reactor-dismantling robotic overlords!
I dunno about DRM, but I'll bet my money on some asshole infecting it with malware before passing it on.
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..oh, I'm sorry, is my cynicism showing?
Open-source the converter electronics, never come straight out with the term "HDMI" in the documentation but hint strongly at it (but feel free to mention "DisplayPort"). Put generic through-hole pads for the HDMI-side interface connections on the PCB artwork, expecting the person constructing the converter to get an HDMI extension cable and chop off one end, solder the wires directly to the PCB. Be sure to release the whole thing to USENET, so that it never, ever completely dies. HDMI Corp gets screwed, end of problem.
I'm not disputing that at all. But likewise you cannot dispute that people need to be weaned off vehicles that run off of fossil fuels, and it is my belief that that isn't going to happen until there are NO fossil fuels left to speak of. I had the greatest of hopes for the hydrogen fuel cell, but it's either not a practical technology to mass produce, or the oil companies have succeeded in burying it, which is sad.
Until we're completely out of fossil fuels and their alternatives either run out or become too prohibitively expensive for the general population to afford, I'm afraid this is going to be a recurring theme for electric vehicles: not enough interest, when a fossil-fuel-powered vehicle is relatively cheap to purchase and simple to operate.
Don't use the service in the first place. It's going to be yet another waste of people's time and money that will go obsolete in a year or two, or get compromised by some hacker group that will rip everything including your credit card and other personal information, or just break the thing and it won't work for weeks or months while they fix it. Just keep your music on your PMP like you always have, like everyone else does, and be happy.
Nonsense.
I do not own an e-book reader, and have NO plans to get one anytime soon, and then it'd be used for things like magazines or textbooks, or for other things of a periodical nature. I know that I am not alone; there will ALWAYS be people like me, who prefer a physical, printed paper book to anything electronic. Just because something is newer doesn't make it better; oftimes the opposite is true. I don't even care if I have to pay twice as much or more, I'll stick to paper books for literature I'm planning on keeping, and not just for the simplicity of use: because I do not trust publishers, or the government, for that matter, and I think I have damned good reasons NOT to -- and again, I do not believe I am alone in this.
This comment will likely not be seen by many, but it needed to be said.
Personally I'm not very worried about this. I can't see it being mandatory, and even if it is, I'll either just buy old appliances, or use my vast knowledge of electronics to disable/filter/block the flow of data. It's nobody's business what temperature I like my living space at, just like it's nobody's business how often I do my laundry, open my refrigerator, use my computer, TV, etc etc etc and if they think it is their business, then they can kiss my ass.
You don't even have to go to the trouble to obfuscate things. Just make it a website; don't they do it already? Or is Apple going to start censoring the web, too?
Simple solution to the problem for the future: pave over the thing as soon as you get it home.
Have someone patent the process by which you protest at the funeral of U.S. soldiers, and trademark phrases like "God hates fags". Then when it's all granted, sue the living fuck out of WBT.
I'm only half kidding, and I'm sure as hell not trolling. It would be completely outrageous, but it would also be so chock full 'o WIN that I think I would just burst.
So in Europe you can't host a movie night with a group of your friends? What a bunch of bullshit. I know the country I live in is fucked up (United States) but at least we're not THAT fucked up.
Not sure who you're speaking to here, but I'm the OP, and I wasn't talking about cutting up my one credit card, I was talking about not using my debit card and carrying cash instead. In this day and age, if you have no credit, you're considered a second-class citizen.
"Can't afford it then don't buy it" only works up to a point. If I stuck 100% to that, then I would be walking or taking busses everywhere, I'd still be living in a tiny ~300 square foot apartment, and generally not having a life. This isn't the 1940's anymore. If you don't have credit, you're considered a second-class citizen. Of course what I was referring to was not using my debit card, instead carrying cash; I never said I was going to cut up the one credit card I have.
Why would anyone, businessman or private citizen, put up with this? At the very least I can't see why anybody would pay to use such a useless thing. It'd be worse than the old days of AOL!
It's actually an old idea that's been brought back from the so-called "golden age" of television, where specific sponsors funded a show. Viewship, and by extension ad revenues, have taken such a nosedive because television is so poor, and more lately because of the economy, that they've had to resort to this old tactic to try to make ends meet. I can't speak for anybody else, but so far as I'm concerned if it's done too obviously too often, it turns me off to the show I'm watching and I'll just stop watching it completely.
I don't know about anybody else, but I've been considering going back to paying cash for most everything for a while now. I read much more like this and I'll be doing it.
THIS. This, times 1,000,000.
You want me to sign away my right to freedom of speech? Fuck you, I'll see to it that everybody knows you have something to hide.
It's because the United States of America is rapidly becoming a third-world country, and what's worse our politicians and corporations are doing everything they can to destroy the middle class once and for all and bring us back to some form of fuedalism, that's why. Information is power. You want to control the peasant class? Don't educate them, convince them that education is bad, knowledge, understanding, and critical thinking are bad, obeying your leaders and letting your "betters" do the thinking for you is good -- and mercilessly crush anyone who starts getting all uppity, pretending above their "station".
Secondly, itâ(TM)s hard to read, since people donâ(TM)t really understand URLs.
Really? On what planet?
I submit to you this: If someone doesn't understand a URL after all this time, then they don't have even a rudimentary understanding of the basic workings of the Internet.
My concern is this: that this path leads to a "Playskool" internet browser, that may be fine and dandy for 6-year-olds and great-grandma, but that will frustrate the rest of us. If you must insist on taking this path, then at least give us the option to turn the URL bar back on if we want it.
You've been modded as "funny" but I'm not sure you're intending to be funny, trolling, or if you really believe what you're saying. In any event, please shut the fuck up, you're going to give the mouth-breathing politicians you people all elected more bad ideas.
They can go to hell. I don't want them having my phone number. Fail, fail, fail.