After decades of using Microsoft OS's, I'm actually considering making the move to some flavor of Linux so I don't have to put up with all this fascist bullshit from Microsoft. We seem to be rapidly moving towards a world where you don't even own the hardware you're running an OS on, let alone the OS itself, you're just 'renting' it or something, and they actually own all the data you've got on it. Fuck that.
Listen jackass: This isn't about any of the shit you just diatribed about, it's about a fucking TV show that nobody is forced to watch, and you're using this as a springboard for your political commentary/agenda? Fuck off.
It's on a cable network you have to pay to get, it's not on OTA broadcast networks, so if you don't like it, then don't watch it, but for fuck's sake stop complaining, and stop trying to impose your spiritual/religious/whatever values on the rest of the world!
Uh, you do understand I used the word 'allergic' in only the loosest sense here, not literally, right? You seem to think I was implying that there are people with actual physiological allergies to modern life or something..
So do you have sex with your wife or girlfriend via email? Or dinner? All your conversations with her? What about your personal friends? Or do you avoid all direct personal contact with other human beings and are alone in the real world and only have 'online' friends?
I'm glad someone else said this instead of it being me this time. This 'what if' scenario also illustrates the need for so-called 'self-driving' vehicles to always have a full set of manual controls, and for all drivers to be properly trained, tested, licensed, and insured at all times. No 'self-driving' vehicle is going to be able to handle any and all circumstances that may arise, and all bets are off in emergency situations. If it's a matter of the safety of human beings, then human being must at least be the final 'backup system' to prevent disaster.
What are you even talking about? You can buy a buckling-spring mechanical keyswitch keyboard right now, they never went away. You just have to go look for them.
That's what most people seem to view the thing as -- which is wrong. It should not be a lifestyle, it is a phone. It should not take the place of actual, in-person, face-to-face social interactions, not any more than so-called 'social media' should. That's the problem: Smartphones, 'social media', the Internet in general, all claim to 'connect people' and 'bring people together', when in fact all they're doing is giving people and excuse to distance themselves from actual social interactions with other human beings. We see the effects of this more and more all the time. Words on a screen can't take the place of live interaction with another human being. We communicate on more levels than just the words we say, and text on a screen is about as sterile as you can get. There is inflection, tone of voice, body language.. you don't get any of this with just text on a screen. What's worse, most people don't even seem to read everything someone writes, so what little true meaning they could get from just text is also lost because of that. Even using your phone as a phone, you're still missing out on layers of non-verbal communication that you'd otherwise be getting the benefit of. This lack of real communication between people is leading to more and more misunderstandings.
It seems to me that more and more people are exhibiting symptoms of being allergic to modern life and all its complexities, technology very much included. But in this case I'm thinking more and more that it's just the kid not wanting to go to school, so he latched on to this mysterious ailment (that he probably read about on the internet) and is playing it for all it's worth. His parents, being totally incapable of conceiving on their precious little snowflake actually faking anything like this, is going Great Guns over it. Or, perhaps, they're scumbags and are trying to cash in through litigation on something they sold their kid on. Either way: Occams' Razor.
OK, true enough. So we provide him with a fake Faraday cage, that doesn't keep anything out. If he magically gets better then you reveal it's a fake and that he's suffering from imaginary symptoms. Or that he's just trying to get out of going to school.
Bring in a portable faraday cage and have him sit in it. If he still develops symptoms then it's something else. I'll bet it's something environmental, like what they use to clean with, or something in the ventilation system. Or maybe the kid just doesn't want to go to school and has his parents totally foxed. Wouldn't be the first or last time that happened.
I got news for you, friend: There are no candidates from ANY party that are suitable to be POTUS. Anyone who gets elected will be a deeply flawed pile of shit that will just make things worse.
Attach a keyboard to it, with a hinge, so you can close the whole thing up, protecting both the screen and the keyboard.You could even put little feet on the bottom of the keyboard part, so when it's open it won't slide around if it's on a hard surface. While you're at it, put most of the electronics under the keyboard, along with the battery, so the center of gravity is lower; it'll make the whole device more stable when it's open.
Now we just need to come up with a name for this..
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WTF is this? Have we already forgotten how optical media works or something?
Could you please be bothered to have the reading comprehension of a 6th grader? I said they all suck, every last candidate from ANY party sucks ass; I don't want to vote for ANY of them. That clear enough for you or do I have to get a bunch of people to do a skit explaining it to you?
I don't have to have a background check or any sort of permit to purchase and own a sword, a knife (including some rather large kitchen knives), a box cutter, or for that matter a baseball bat, a large, heavy stick, a rock, or to be trained in martial arts (i.e. making myself into a weapon). All of the above are far more damaging and deadly than a stun gun. I'd like to also point out that unless it's the type of stun gun that fires electrodes at the target, you have to get within arms' reach of the target to use it.
All your comment-on-my-comment shows is that you have no sense of humor whatsoever, and that furthermore you're probably just another jackass that likes to start arguments just for the sake of starting an argument. Please bugger off.
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After decades of using Microsoft OS's, I'm actually considering making the move to some flavor of Linux so I don't have to put up with all this fascist bullshit from Microsoft. We seem to be rapidly moving towards a world where you don't even own the hardware you're running an OS on, let alone the OS itself, you're just 'renting' it or something, and they actually own all the data you've got on it. Fuck that.
Listen jackass: This isn't about any of the shit you just diatribed about, it's about a fucking TV show that nobody is forced to watch, and you're using this as a springboard for your political commentary/agenda? Fuck off.
But a realist would say Ashley Madison is just a thief stealing money from lonely, unhappy men.
Seriously, cheating assholes, WHAT DID YOU EXPECT!?
Idiots.
How can I hate America when I can't even define what it is, because everything I ever thought it was was a complete and total LIE?
It's on a cable network you have to pay to get, it's not on OTA broadcast networks, so if you don't like it, then don't watch it, but for fuck's sake stop complaining, and stop trying to impose your spiritual/religious/whatever values on the rest of the world!
Just what older cars need: An add-on exploitable wireless security hole that you pay fifteen bucks a month for. Thanks, Verizon!
Interesting, but I am unsure whether you're stating this to support or refute what I'm saying.
Uh, you do understand I used the word 'allergic' in only the loosest sense here, not literally, right? You seem to think I was implying that there are people with actual physiological allergies to modern life or something..
So do you have sex with your wife or girlfriend via email? Or dinner? All your conversations with her? What about your personal friends? Or do you avoid all direct personal contact with other human beings and are alone in the real world and only have 'online' friends?
I'm glad someone else said this instead of it being me this time.
This 'what if' scenario also illustrates the need for so-called 'self-driving' vehicles to always have a full set of manual controls, and for all drivers to be properly trained, tested, licensed, and insured at all times. No 'self-driving' vehicle is going to be able to handle any and all circumstances that may arise, and all bets are off in emergency situations. If it's a matter of the safety of human beings, then human being must at least be the final 'backup system' to prevent disaster.
What are you even talking about? You can buy a buckling-spring mechanical keyswitch keyboard right now, they never went away. You just have to go look for them.
That's what most people seem to view the thing as -- which is wrong. It should not be a lifestyle, it is a phone. It should not take the place of actual, in-person, face-to-face social interactions, not any more than so-called 'social media' should. That's the problem: Smartphones, 'social media', the Internet in general, all claim to 'connect people' and 'bring people together', when in fact all they're doing is giving people and excuse to distance themselves from actual social interactions with other human beings. We see the effects of this more and more all the time. Words on a screen can't take the place of live interaction with another human being. We communicate on more levels than just the words we say, and text on a screen is about as sterile as you can get. There is inflection, tone of voice, body language.. you don't get any of this with just text on a screen. What's worse, most people don't even seem to read everything someone writes, so what little true meaning they could get from just text is also lost because of that. Even using your phone as a phone, you're still missing out on layers of non-verbal communication that you'd otherwise be getting the benefit of. This lack of real communication between people is leading to more and more misunderstandings.
It seems to me that more and more people are exhibiting symptoms of being allergic to modern life and all its complexities, technology very much included. But in this case I'm thinking more and more that it's just the kid not wanting to go to school, so he latched on to this mysterious ailment (that he probably read about on the internet) and is playing it for all it's worth. His parents, being totally incapable of conceiving on their precious little snowflake actually faking anything like this, is going Great Guns over it. Or, perhaps, they're scumbags and are trying to cash in through litigation on something they sold their kid on. Either way: Occams' Razor.
OK, true enough. So we provide him with a fake Faraday cage, that doesn't keep anything out. If he magically gets better then you reveal it's a fake and that he's suffering from imaginary symptoms. Or that he's just trying to get out of going to school.
Bring in a portable faraday cage and have him sit in it. If he still develops symptoms then it's something else. I'll bet it's something environmental, like what they use to clean with, or something in the ventilation system. Or maybe the kid just doesn't want to go to school and has his parents totally foxed. Wouldn't be the first or last time that happened.
'Reading the article' is so Last Thursday though. Where's your sense of adventure? XD
There had better be a way for them to opt out of this, or there'll be trouble.
I got news for you, friend: There are no candidates from ANY party that are suitable to be POTUS. Anyone who gets elected will be a deeply flawed pile of shit that will just make things worse.
Was the informant's name Grima Wormtongue?
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Attach a keyboard to it, with a hinge, so you can close the whole thing up, protecting both the screen and the keyboard.You could even put little feet on the bottom of the keyboard part, so when it's open it won't slide around if it's on a hard surface. While you're at it, put most of the electronics under the keyboard, along with the battery, so the center of gravity is lower; it'll make the whole device more stable when it's open.
Now we just need to come up with a name for this..
WTF is this? Have we already forgotten how optical media works or something?
Could you please be bothered to have the reading comprehension of a 6th grader? I said they all suck, every last candidate from ANY party sucks ass; I don't want to vote for ANY of them. That clear enough for you or do I have to get a bunch of people to do a skit explaining it to you?
I don't have to have a background check or any sort of permit to purchase and own a sword, a knife (including some rather large kitchen knives), a box cutter, or for that matter a baseball bat, a large, heavy stick, a rock, or to be trained in martial arts (i.e. making myself into a weapon). All of the above are far more damaging and deadly than a stun gun. I'd like to also point out that unless it's the type of stun gun that fires electrodes at the target, you have to get within arms' reach of the target to use it.
All your comment-on-my-comment shows is that you have no sense of humor whatsoever, and that furthermore you're probably just another jackass that likes to start arguments just for the sake of starting an argument. Please bugger off.