I just stopped. It was easy once I got my lady to quit. Sort of an interesting conditional since I started because I had a girlfriend who smoked. I only stopped smoking tobacco though, which is how I got through withdrawal.
I've been tobacco-free for some years now myself. I'm back to thinking it's disgusting.
"Nope, just yet to be fully established due to the linear nature of time and the recent nature of vaping. You're an assumptive derivative moron."
So just to be clear, there's no reason to believe that Vapes are more hazardous than smoking tobacco, but you somehow "know" that it will be? You must understand time cube real good there, tiger.
"We need both parties brought to heel, and perhaps a few more contenders in the mix"
Nope. Third party candidates have zero chance to get elected, and they just confuse the issue. Political parties were never mentioned in the Constitution because they were seen as a plague, but just giving up on regulating them was a total failure which should immediately and conclusively put paid to the rumors of the founders' genius. At this point the only way we'll get a credible third party is if there's sufficient schism within one of the major parties that it splits in two, but thanks to partisan dumbshits in voting booths, that would all but guarantee a win for the other side. Sadly, the only party that might actually split would be the Democrats. The Republicans have demonstrated time and again that they are united in screwing over the nation, and the Democrats have ultimately proven that they are disconnected and thus ineffectual. The Republicans hang together, and the rest of us twist in the wind.
"It's better to pay more to stay in China. It's just more cost effective and the workers are smarter, more creative, more motivated and more skilled."
More motivated? Sure. Got to protect that social credit score so they don't decide to harvest your internal organs and sell them to the highest bidder. Smarter? Maybe. More creative? Horse shit. The "nail that pops up gets hammered down" mentality discourages creativity. We have it here too, but they have more of it. Besides slavery, and raping South America, and deliberately delaying entry into WWII so everyone else could get the shit bombed out of them, and oh yeah nuking Japan, what made America great was cottage industry. This persisted even up into the early days of the computer age, what with garage-spawned businesses like HP, or that fruit company. China's primary claims to fame in tech are building things other people designed on contact, and making shitty knockoffs of things other people designed without consulting them so as to understand the design decisions.
"If it is a refundable tax credit then whoever negotiated that deal from the government side is almost criminally negligent"
Or they were anticipating kickbacks from foxconn, in which case they're even more of a criminal. There's enough money involved that this becomes highly plausible.
"first fucking clue should have been the Kentucky Coal Museum installing solar panels on its roof."
I'm gonna remember this argument next time someone brings up geothermal. Calpine geothermal visitor center in Middletown, CA has solar panels on its roof, too.
This is a variation of the question about god and big rocks.
You can't future proof as long as there are new discoveries to be made. You can't predict scientific discovery, by definition. QED, you can't future proof.
You could extend product lifespans by forcing manufacturers to offer a transferable warranty which lasted a reasonable period. Way more than 90 days, that's for damned sure.
I'm probably in the minority here, but is anyone else kind of impressed with how quickly the issue was identified, communicated effectively by MS, and corrected? Sure, some people may have been inconvenienced for at most 3 hours,
No. 3 hours is not impressive. Loads of users will have had this problem, and will remember how lame it is to depend on online connectivity.
Waste reprocessing is hazardous and expensive. It only rams home the fact that nuclear is not cost-effective. If it hadn't been sold to the people with the lie that it would be "too cheap to meter" they would never have accepted it. The small number of accidents so far is due to epic amounts of human effort that you simply don't have to expend in other cases.
"Even when there are legal rulings and transcripts that support the news reporting?"
A transcript can contain lies, that's literally what corporate lawyers and PR flacks are for. A court can be misled. Until the OS is OSS, you can't even begin to trust it. And all the important bits are closed. You can trust on faith if you want to, but I expect verification. That's why I'm not religious about god OR security.
This is Apple. Remember their refusal to help unlock the phone of the guy who shot up the staff Christmas party in California awhile back? Yea, they don't seem to be the type to do what ever law enforcement asks.
That's what the press releases say, so it must be true!
They're not there to make a laptop that makes their customers happiest. They're there to make a laptop as cheaply as possible, and then charge as much as possible, while still satisfying the majority of laptop purchasers who are not you (geek).
How many non-geeks are purchasing Linux laptops from System76, or speccing them for their employer? Answer, statistically nobody. Linux users care more about security than average.
"Except there are plenty of games that are no longer manufactured."
Yes, but Gamestop stopped carrying old games. They only go back to PS2/Xbox/GC now. They dropped all the carts, all the 32 bit except Xbox, etc. That stuff used to get gamers in the door.
Writing to the filesystem is always risky. A simple SQL database is safer.
Life is risky, but I'm living it. Writing to the filesystem is risky, but I was using that functionality. Ignoring the needs of users is how we got to this point where lots of people are complaining — it's not just me.
Firefox doesn't allow add-ons to write into their profile directories any more.
They never should have been able to in the first place, they should have only been able to write to a specific directory designed for the purpose. But why not that instead of this?
I can't help you there, I don't think anyone is going to bring filesystem access back for add-ons.
It's misguided to not permit specific directory filesystem access for add-ons. It's dumb that add-ons can write directly into the profile directory in my browser, though. They should only be able to write to their own special subdir. But why oh why could we not have had the comfortable middle ground? Because it was hard? Many things worth doing are.
They are far from a monopoly any more. They also play much nicer with the rest of the industry and open source community than they did in the Gates/Balmer days.
They are surrounded by bigger fish, so they can't take such big bites any more. But their strategy hasn't changed, it's still EEE all the way. I'll believe differently when their OS is OSS, with a license that lets us remove all their malware.
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I just stopped. It was easy once I got my lady to quit. Sort of an interesting conditional since I started because I had a girlfriend who smoked. I only stopped smoking tobacco though, which is how I got through withdrawal.
I've been tobacco-free for some years now myself. I'm back to thinking it's disgusting.
"Nope, just yet to be fully established due to the linear nature of time and the recent nature of vaping. You're an assumptive derivative moron."
So just to be clear, there's no reason to believe that Vapes are more hazardous than smoking tobacco, but you somehow "know" that it will be? You must understand time cube real good there, tiger.
"We need both parties brought to heel, and perhaps a few more contenders in the mix"
Nope. Third party candidates have zero chance to get elected, and they just confuse the issue. Political parties were never mentioned in the Constitution because they were seen as a plague, but just giving up on regulating them was a total failure which should immediately and conclusively put paid to the rumors of the founders' genius. At this point the only way we'll get a credible third party is if there's sufficient schism within one of the major parties that it splits in two, but thanks to partisan dumbshits in voting booths, that would all but guarantee a win for the other side. Sadly, the only party that might actually split would be the Democrats. The Republicans have demonstrated time and again that they are united in screwing over the nation, and the Democrats have ultimately proven that they are disconnected and thus ineffectual. The Republicans hang together, and the rest of us twist in the wind.
"It's better to pay more to stay in China. It's just more cost effective and the workers are smarter, more creative, more motivated and more skilled."
More motivated? Sure. Got to protect that social credit score so they don't decide to harvest your internal organs and sell them to the highest bidder. Smarter? Maybe. More creative? Horse shit. The "nail that pops up gets hammered down" mentality discourages creativity. We have it here too, but they have more of it. Besides slavery, and raping South America, and deliberately delaying entry into WWII so everyone else could get the shit bombed out of them, and oh yeah nuking Japan, what made America great was cottage industry. This persisted even up into the early days of the computer age, what with garage-spawned businesses like HP, or that fruit company. China's primary claims to fame in tech are building things other people designed on contact, and making shitty knockoffs of things other people designed without consulting them so as to understand the design decisions.
"If it is a refundable tax credit then whoever negotiated that deal from the government side is almost criminally negligent"
Or they were anticipating kickbacks from foxconn, in which case they're even more of a criminal. There's enough money involved that this becomes highly plausible.
"first fucking clue should have been the Kentucky Coal Museum installing solar panels on its roof."
I'm gonna remember this argument next time someone brings up geothermal. Calpine geothermal visitor center in Middletown, CA has solar panels on its roof, too.
"Besides, NTP? Update repos for Linux distros? Plenty of things use online connectivity and not all connectivity is bad."
What a disingenuous response. That stuff doesn't prevent starting up. (And you can use a GPS as your time source.)
This is a variation of the question about god and big rocks.
You can't future proof as long as there are new discoveries to be made. You can't predict scientific discovery, by definition. QED, you can't future proof.
You could extend product lifespans by forcing manufacturers to offer a transferable warranty which lasted a reasonable period. Way more than 90 days, that's for damned sure.
I'd be happy if Bethesda could just get them not to put their head into my line of fire and stop there.
Wow, Marvel should base their next big comic book on you.
Yeah, they could call me "looking for a fridge guy"
I'm probably in the minority here, but is anyone else kind of impressed with how quickly the issue was identified, communicated effectively by MS, and corrected? Sure, some people may have been inconvenienced for at most 3 hours,
No. 3 hours is not impressive. Loads of users will have had this problem, and will remember how lame it is to depend on online connectivity.
I mark the "watch anything for free" boxes on my local CL as prohibited :p
This was the weapons program, not the power program, so "cost-effectiveness" does not apply.
Oh yeah, we can just spend $INFINITY on war and there will never be any bad side-effects, EVER!
Waste reprocessing is hazardous and expensive. It only rams home the fact that nuclear is not cost-effective. If it hadn't been sold to the people with the lie that it would be "too cheap to meter" they would never have accepted it. The small number of accidents so far is due to epic amounts of human effort that you simply don't have to expend in other cases.
"So some people are looking at other agencies and private sector jobs where their work isn't interrupted as a bargaining chip."
Yeah, instead they can get laid off to improve the bottom line at any time, what a massive improvement
"Even when there are legal rulings and transcripts that support the news reporting?"
A transcript can contain lies, that's literally what corporate lawyers and PR flacks are for. A court can be misled. Until the OS is OSS, you can't even begin to trust it. And all the important bits are closed. You can trust on faith if you want to, but I expect verification. That's why I'm not religious about god OR security.
This is Apple. Remember their refusal to help unlock the phone of the guy who shot up the staff Christmas party in California awhile back? Yea, they don't seem to be the type to do what ever law enforcement asks.
That's what the press releases say, so it must be true!
They're not there to make a laptop that makes their customers happiest. They're there to make a laptop as cheaply as possible, and then charge as much as possible, while still satisfying the majority of laptop purchasers who are not you (geek).
How many non-geeks are purchasing Linux laptops from System76, or speccing them for their employer? Answer, statistically nobody. Linux users care more about security than average.
Does Tim Cook actually monitor Twitter and look for posts with a #TIMCOOK tag and then read them?
No, but if his staff doesn't, Apple is failing at social media. What year is it?
"Except there are plenty of games that are no longer manufactured."
Yes, but Gamestop stopped carrying old games. They only go back to PS2/Xbox/GC now. They dropped all the carts, all the 32 bit except Xbox, etc. That stuff used to get gamers in the door.
This is the affirmative response to "Your face is too dim in the front facing camera when the screen is dark."
In gmail? Why, so they can monitor your expression while they read your email?
Writing to the filesystem is always risky. A simple SQL database is safer.
Life is risky, but I'm living it. Writing to the filesystem is risky, but I was using that functionality. Ignoring the needs of users is how we got to this point where lots of people are complaining — it's not just me.
Firefox doesn't allow add-ons to write into their profile directories any more.
They never should have been able to in the first place, they should have only been able to write to a specific directory designed for the purpose. But why not that instead of this?
I can't help you there, I don't think anyone is going to bring filesystem access back for add-ons.
It's misguided to not permit specific directory filesystem access for add-ons. It's dumb that add-ons can write directly into the profile directory in my browser, though. They should only be able to write to their own special subdir. But why oh why could we not have had the comfortable middle ground? Because it was hard? Many things worth doing are.
They are far from a monopoly any more. They also play much nicer with the rest of the industry and open source community than they did in the Gates/Balmer days.
They are surrounded by bigger fish, so they can't take such big bites any more. But their strategy hasn't changed, it's still EEE all the way. I'll believe differently when their OS is OSS, with a license that lets us remove all their malware.