Maybe because you seem to mistake the Rotten Tomatoes rating (whether a movie is generally liked) with something far more subjective (whether a movie is the "best").
It's all subjective! Is there a better way to determine what's the "best" movie of all time than popular enjoyability?
If you're using proper Bluetooth Headphones and sources there is no recompression, it's just AAC all the way down.
A "proper" source is the one I find. Most of my media doesn't have AAC audio, that won't help you play a MP3 for example. I'm not going to re-buy all my music in another format, and I don't have CDs for all of it so I can't re-encode even if I want to. A lot of my CDs were scratched and I had to use nose grease to even get them to rip cleanly, because I've been collecting CDs since before mp3 existed.
I haven't looked at Scrapbook, how does it work if it only produces one HTML file?
It doesn't. It dumps the files in a directory structure. But then it also provides a sidebar that lets you bring them back up in the browser, as if they were history or bookmarks.
They should've joined Mozilla and not Google. They'll notice in two years and then it will be too late.
Firefox follows standards better than Chrome, and Microsoft is anti-standards. This is not your father's microsoft: they do all the same bad shit they always did, plus their OS is now malware. (It always looked a lot like malware, but most of that was incompetence. Telemetry etc. is deliberate.) Microsoft knows what they're doing by supporting Google here: attempting to crush Firefox. They can go back to trying to fight Google later.
You already answered that. For as much virtue signaling as they like to do, they like money more, and Trump makes them a lot of money.
Virtue signalling doesn't speak to someone's political orientation, only to how they want to appear for public purposes. It doesn't mean what you think it means. There's nothing liberal about Twitter.
Also, because of a very poor court decision, it might actually be illegal for Twitter to terminate his account as it would be violating the peoples right to petition the government.
It wouldn't. The relationship doesn't go in that direction, only the opposite: Trump can't block people on Twitter because he's using it as an official communications medium. If he isn't, then it becomes irrelevant to that argument. Twitter can block Trump, but they can't let Trump block people.
Oh great, Javascript that can write to the filesystem. How could that possibly go wrong?
Lots of ways. But it's also useful, and if you simply chroot then it's not a big deal.
By the way, those web archives are actually just ZIP files and can be extracted with tools like 7zip. The HTML is inside.
What I want is for them to pop up in my browser to be annotated like what happens when I click on them in the Scrapbook sidebar. I don't want to be dicking with them. I have what I want now, and I don't want my browser to have LESS functionality.
Also in Chrome when you save the page you can select between "complete" (the archive) and "HTML only".
Irrelevant, that's not what I'm talking about. Does that preserve the page as currently displayed?
No, they aren't. They will for a while, but later they will be repaired by robots. The only reason it hasn't happened yet is that the technology is moving quickly enough to where robots require few repairs before they are obsolete. As robotics technology matures, the churn reduces, and the total number of robots increases, more effort will be spent in making robots which can easily be repaired by other robots. Robots can already perform all the necessary tasks; for example there is automated robotic probing of PCBs to find faults. A robot could pull a module out of another robot, and drop it on a shipping cart which is itself a robot. That robot takes the module to the shipping department, where another robot packs it up and ships it off to a repair facility where robots sit waiting to receive parts for analysis. They will load the schematic and PCB design, then follow a test plan or even simulate the circuit to determine what they should find at test points. The problem found, the parts roll down a conveyor (or get moved by another robot) to the one which will desolder and replace the defective components...
As long as you don't expect one robot to do the whole job, we can do this with modern technology. Every single piece in the above scenario has been implemented independently, and now it's a matter of integration and improvement. It's not a question of if*, but rather when it becomes more cost-effective than shipping the modules to the third world to be repaired by effectively-enslaved humans.
* Okay, there is the question of whether humanity will be around that long. At this rate, possibly not. Otherwise, it will happen.
When AI reaches the point where it can do clerical jobs as well as a human there will be fewer options for people to find new work.
Automation is already reducing the need for clerical work, and replacing it with a smaller amount of more technical work. For example, digital documents. Nobody seems to be paperless, but a lot of industries have reduced the amount of paper they produce, which means less need for file clerks. AI doesn't have to do clerical jobs as well as humans for technology to produce a noticeable effect in job reduction.
The argument is a lie. The dominant male jobs are the trades, plumber, electrician, carpenter, brick layer et al automation in that regard requires full robotics and AI. Labourers will lose jobs but it depends on the labour, some rural industries more than others and that affects women equally,
That begs the question "does automation in that regard require full robotics and AI?"
Automation can't eliminate those jobs outright, but it can reduce their number by making those jobs easier, in the form of partial automation. For example, if homes are pre-fabbed, they'll come with the wiring built into them, meaning less work for electricians. (The work is easier if done while the walls are being assembled on a table.) And if they're being pre-fabbed anyway, they can easily be assembled in another country! And if you make enough identical structures, you can begin to think about automating that work.
So really, if you needed full robotics and AI, that would affect women equally, but you don't (at least to make an impact) so the situation will not affect women equally. It will affect men first.
Your argument also depends on the idea that the dominant jobs, those with the most workers involved, will be affected first. But that's not the claim. The claim is that male-dominated jobs will be affected more than female-dominated jobs. You could be only affecting the fourth or fifth or even tenth-largest job sectors and still affect men more than women.
While North Carolina probably does not serve as the best proxy for the nation, it ought to be adequate. I found a very nice page on their web describing the situation for NC in 2013, which is probably recent enough to be relevant in this case, so I'll go ahead and use it. Their #1 male-dominated job by number of employees was truck driver, with 75,000 employees, and only 6% female. You didn't even mention this job, which is one of the jobs expected to be automated first. That alone is enough to torpedo your argument. #2 is miscellaneous managers at 57k and 35% female, excess managers are going to stick around for a while unfortunately. That's two male-dominated professions and we still haven't gotten to any of your examples. The next most common job for men by sex is First-line supervisors, that's actually 48% female so it's not male-dominated. Men's fourth most common job is freight/stock mover, 34k and only 15% female, and that's a job that's already being automated right now.
So what are the most common jobs for women in NC? Elementary and Middle school teachers (71k and 82% female), RNs (69k and 92%), Secretaries and Admin. Assistants (67k and 96%)... As you can see, these are jobs which are much harder to automate.
So in summary, you don't actually know what male-dominated jobs employ the most people, and that means you don't know what you're talking about.
Now that's out of the way, let's go back and look at your claim that we'll need "full robotics" (WTF does that even mean?) "and AI" to automate jobs. I say nonsense. You could probably replace 100% of people on a road crew with robots with modern technology — they usually fuck it up anyway, so how badly would a robot do it? Also, just like work is done by specialists in the real world, robots can be specialists too. For example, on a road crew you've got the sign guy*, asphalt guys, gravel guys, dump truck drivers, grader drivers, etc. and none of these guys are interchangeable. You would need strong general AI to have one robot do all of those jobs, but that's not how it would be done. So yeah, some jobs would require that, but many don't.
* The sign guy may be a sign gal. Everyone else on a road crew is all but guaranteed to be a guy.
That implies that they were broken up by the DoJ once before. They were found guilty of antitrust violations, yes, but before any action could be taken against them Bush took office and his DoJ declined to follow up on the matter.
I'm glad you got modded up to 5, I only wish that the more than 5 comments I've posted over the years 'twixt then and now saying the exact same thing hadn't typically been downmodded by butthurt microsofties. Microsoft was found to have acted in basically every anticompetitive way possible, and Bill Gates was implicated personally. That's why I make sure to describe him as a career criminal in every discussion about how fucking wonderful his charity work supposedly is (even though it never actually is — he's just doing Big Pharma's work for them, spreading IP law while actually failing to eradicate anything.)
They already introduced something similar to the new ad blocking API that was proposed for Chrome and which is apparently evil according to Slashdot collective wisdom.
If it's similar to the new ad blocking API that was proposed for Chrome then it is evil, because it's designed to be ineffectual.
That's because you're ignoring the lessons of history, because you're apparently determined to repeat them.
Imagine that tomorrow Microsoft said we're ditching the Windows kernel, we'll run on top of Linux from now on.
Imagine a parade of unicorns playing leapfrog with horned dragons. Now imagine a parade of Windows users. The only difference is that the unicorns and dragons are mythical, they all have bleeding assholes.
Look at the projects keeping the old system alive, like Waterfox and Pale Moon.
I'm looking at Pale Moon right now. It has functionality which doesn't exist in Firefox, like the ability for an extension to write to the filesystem. I'm using that for Scrapbook+, which is the only extension which captures pages as displayed. I don't want a PDF, either, I want the HTML. ScrapbookQ doesn't work (install fails on both Windows and Linux, yes I followed the instructions, I tried multiple times in fact) and all the other versions produce worthless web archives that I literally have to drag and drop into a browser window to display.
When firefox has that functionality, then I'll go back to firefox. Otherwise, I'll lean on noscript to keep me safe. At least it actually works correctly on pale moon.
My point was that the sound of most of these lower end headphones and earbuds is dreadful anyway so complaining about Bluetooth compression ruining your 'listening experience' is kind of stupid.
And your point was wrong. First, you're not forced to continue to use the convenience earbuds included with the device. The whole point of using a stereo miniplug is compatibility. You don't even understand the argument. Second, you're wrong anyway. The recompression is bad enough that you can hear the difference even on crappy headphones. Third, you can use either a wire or bluetooth to connect to a stereo system as well, where headphones don't come into play. The headphones are actually irrelevant to the argument! You are literally wrong in every way in which it is possible to be wrong.
Liberals tend to be more intolerant than conservatives.
Your link neither shows that, nor claims to. It speaks only to political intolerance, i.e. intolerance of political views. But liberals are more tolerant of literally everything else than conservatives. Pay attention!
I weep for the future. "learn to code" is just good career advice.
There are already programmers sitting around unemployed right now because it's cheaper to hire someone else. I don't think that it is good career advice. Going into psych is probably the best plan, there's a ton of people who want to be reassured that things aren't as bad as they really are.
Of course. Twitter is an arm of the prog leftard commie asshole movement.
If you want to sell that line, you'll have to explain why they haven't terminated Donald Trump's account for violations of the ToS. The truth is that twitter is amoral at best, they just want money, so they want views. Any tweet that makes them more money than it costs them is a good match for their corporate values.
Of course, once you know about the Intel Management Engine, hacked firmware, and even dopant-level hardware backdoors... or just somebody breaking into your building and/or using a $3 wrench, you realize that *if* you need *that* level of protection, even *perfect* encryption won't help you.
It will help you, but only as part of defense in depth. You're also going to need to be surrounded by guards, and you'll need physical security for your equipment (more guards.) And then you need to pay the guards well, and have guards for the guards, so they can't simply be bribed away. And then when you die, you can realize that was all a lot of wasted effort which had to be spent only because the system of the world is designed to be unfair.
First, let me just open with the disclaimer that I have hundreds of titles in my steam library. Most of those are crappy little games I got in a humble bundle, though. When it comes down to it I have only a small handful of AAA games, and some of those were purchased at a deep discount. For example, I got fo4+pass for 20 on cdkeys.
Now with that said, I've been railing about the evils of steam since it was new, and particularly about any game which actually uses valve's DRM. My biggest problem with steam games is the fact that you need steam. Restoring a steam "backup" on a virgin machine involves the following steps:
1. Install steam 2. Authenticate steam 3. Update steam 4. Restore backup 5. Game gets "blessed" by steam, it can now run
Reinstalling your warez copy of a game involves one step: INSTALL. And it will still work even when steam no longer exists.
Unless you want to play online, or don't care if you can play in the future, you are much better off pirating than buying from steam.
The average house is made of Douglas fir, and set on footings or maybe a curtain wall, so there's no slab, just a few blobs of concrete which can be pathetically small and still meet code. It's still worth addressing but I'll bet the timber production gives the co2 a run for its money.
Oh good, a person said it. I guess that's one job that hasn't been taken by a robot. Maybe I want to know who said it. Maybe being taken seriously as an "editor" requires actually editing? How in fuck does anyone ever get another job after being an "editor" on slashdot and proving conclusively that they have no work ethic whatever?
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Netflix has the much better user interface though. Amazon's looks like it was written by college interns taking programming 101.
It acts like it, too. It has a much harder time starting up a stream than netflix or youtube, and often chokes on its own commercials.
Maybe because you seem to mistake the Rotten Tomatoes rating (whether a movie is generally liked) with something far more subjective (whether a movie is the "best").
It's all subjective! Is there a better way to determine what's the "best" movie of all time than popular enjoyability?
(A few good presets for add-on collections, chosen at installation, would have fixed that, but add-on collections did not even exist back then.)
Or they could have just packaged the addons with the browser install... bundling instead of bungling.
If you're using proper Bluetooth Headphones and sources there is no recompression, it's just AAC all the way down.
A "proper" source is the one I find. Most of my media doesn't have AAC audio, that won't help you play a MP3 for example. I'm not going to re-buy all my music in another format, and I don't have CDs for all of it so I can't re-encode even if I want to. A lot of my CDs were scratched and I had to use nose grease to even get them to rip cleanly, because I've been collecting CDs since before mp3 existed.
I haven't looked at Scrapbook, how does it work if it only produces one HTML file?
It doesn't. It dumps the files in a directory structure. But then it also provides a sidebar that lets you bring them back up in the browser, as if they were history or bookmarks.
In one instance, I fear I will be physically attacked and harassed. In the other, I might get some jeers and scowling looks.
Guess you were never a Top Gear fan. The South has a long history of violence which you're willfully ignoring, and their intolerance and violence persist to this day. Are you a total idiot, or a useful idiot? There's no third option.
They should've joined Mozilla and not Google. They'll notice in two years and then it will be too late.
Firefox follows standards better than Chrome, and Microsoft is anti-standards. This is not your father's microsoft: they do all the same bad shit they always did, plus their OS is now malware. (It always looked a lot like malware, but most of that was incompetence. Telemetry etc. is deliberate.) Microsoft knows what they're doing by supporting Google here: attempting to crush Firefox. They can go back to trying to fight Google later.
You already answered that. For as much virtue signaling as they like to do, they like money more, and Trump makes them a lot of money.
Virtue signalling doesn't speak to someone's political orientation, only to how they want to appear for public purposes. It doesn't mean what you think it means. There's nothing liberal about Twitter.
Also, because of a very poor court decision, it might actually be illegal for Twitter to terminate his account as it would be violating the peoples right to petition the government.
It wouldn't. The relationship doesn't go in that direction, only the opposite: Trump can't block people on Twitter because he's using it as an official communications medium. If he isn't, then it becomes irrelevant to that argument. Twitter can block Trump, but they can't let Trump block people.
Oh great, Javascript that can write to the filesystem. How could that possibly go wrong?
Lots of ways. But it's also useful, and if you simply chroot then it's not a big deal.
By the way, those web archives are actually just ZIP files and can be extracted with tools like 7zip. The HTML is inside.
What I want is for them to pop up in my browser to be annotated like what happens when I click on them in the Scrapbook sidebar. I don't want to be dicking with them. I have what I want now, and I don't want my browser to have LESS functionality.
Also in Chrome when you save the page you can select between "complete" (the archive) and "HTML only".
Irrelevant, that's not what I'm talking about. Does that preserve the page as currently displayed?
The robots are going to be repaired by men.
No, they aren't. They will for a while, but later they will be repaired by robots. The only reason it hasn't happened yet is that the technology is moving quickly enough to where robots require few repairs before they are obsolete. As robotics technology matures, the churn reduces, and the total number of robots increases, more effort will be spent in making robots which can easily be repaired by other robots. Robots can already perform all the necessary tasks; for example there is automated robotic probing of PCBs to find faults. A robot could pull a module out of another robot, and drop it on a shipping cart which is itself a robot. That robot takes the module to the shipping department, where another robot packs it up and ships it off to a repair facility where robots sit waiting to receive parts for analysis. They will load the schematic and PCB design, then follow a test plan or even simulate the circuit to determine what they should find at test points. The problem found, the parts roll down a conveyor (or get moved by another robot) to the one which will desolder and replace the defective components...
As long as you don't expect one robot to do the whole job, we can do this with modern technology. Every single piece in the above scenario has been implemented independently, and now it's a matter of integration and improvement. It's not a question of if*, but rather when it becomes more cost-effective than shipping the modules to the third world to be repaired by effectively-enslaved humans.
* Okay, there is the question of whether humanity will be around that long. At this rate, possibly not. Otherwise, it will happen.
When AI reaches the point where it can do clerical jobs as well as a human there will be fewer options for people to find new work.
Automation is already reducing the need for clerical work, and replacing it with a smaller amount of more technical work. For example, digital documents. Nobody seems to be paperless, but a lot of industries have reduced the amount of paper they produce, which means less need for file clerks. AI doesn't have to do clerical jobs as well as humans for technology to produce a noticeable effect in job reduction.
The argument is a lie. The dominant male jobs are the trades, plumber, electrician, carpenter, brick layer et al automation in that regard requires full robotics and AI. Labourers will lose jobs but it depends on the labour, some rural industries more than others and that affects women equally,
That begs the question "does automation in that regard require full robotics and AI?"
Automation can't eliminate those jobs outright, but it can reduce their number by making those jobs easier, in the form of partial automation. For example, if homes are pre-fabbed, they'll come with the wiring built into them, meaning less work for electricians. (The work is easier if done while the walls are being assembled on a table.) And if they're being pre-fabbed anyway, they can easily be assembled in another country! And if you make enough identical structures, you can begin to think about automating that work.
So really, if you needed full robotics and AI, that would affect women equally, but you don't (at least to make an impact) so the situation will not affect women equally. It will affect men first.
Your argument also depends on the idea that the dominant jobs, those with the most workers involved, will be affected first. But that's not the claim. The claim is that male-dominated jobs will be affected more than female-dominated jobs. You could be only affecting the fourth or fifth or even tenth-largest job sectors and still affect men more than women.
While North Carolina probably does not serve as the best proxy for the nation, it ought to be adequate. I found a very nice page on their web describing the situation for NC in 2013, which is probably recent enough to be relevant in this case, so I'll go ahead and use it. Their #1 male-dominated job by number of employees was truck driver, with 75,000 employees, and only 6% female. You didn't even mention this job, which is one of the jobs expected to be automated first. That alone is enough to torpedo your argument. #2 is miscellaneous managers at 57k and 35% female, excess managers are going to stick around for a while unfortunately. That's two male-dominated professions and we still haven't gotten to any of your examples. The next most common job for men by sex is First-line supervisors, that's actually 48% female so it's not male-dominated. Men's fourth most common job is freight/stock mover, 34k and only 15% female, and that's a job that's already being automated right now.
So what are the most common jobs for women in NC? Elementary and Middle school teachers (71k and 82% female), RNs (69k and 92%), Secretaries and Admin. Assistants (67k and 96%)... As you can see, these are jobs which are much harder to automate.
So in summary, you don't actually know what male-dominated jobs employ the most people, and that means you don't know what you're talking about.
Now that's out of the way, let's go back and look at your claim that we'll need "full robotics" (WTF does that even mean?) "and AI" to automate jobs. I say nonsense. You could probably replace 100% of people on a road crew with robots with modern technology — they usually fuck it up anyway, so how badly would a robot do it? Also, just like work is done by specialists in the real world, robots can be specialists too. For example, on a road crew you've got the sign guy*, asphalt guys, gravel guys, dump truck drivers, grader drivers, etc. and none of these guys are interchangeable. You would need strong general AI to have one robot do all of those jobs, but that's not how it would be done. So yeah, some jobs would require that, but many don't.
* The sign guy may be a sign gal. Everyone else on a road crew is all but guaranteed to be a guy.
That implies that they were broken up by the DoJ once before. They were found guilty of antitrust violations, yes, but before any action could be taken against them Bush took office and his DoJ declined to follow up on the matter.
I'm glad you got modded up to 5, I only wish that the more than 5 comments I've posted over the years 'twixt then and now saying the exact same thing hadn't typically been downmodded by butthurt microsofties. Microsoft was found to have acted in basically every anticompetitive way possible, and Bill Gates was implicated personally. That's why I make sure to describe him as a career criminal in every discussion about how fucking wonderful his charity work supposedly is (even though it never actually is — he's just doing Big Pharma's work for them, spreading IP law while actually failing to eradicate anything.)
They already introduced something similar to the new ad blocking API that was proposed for Chrome and which is apparently evil according to Slashdot collective wisdom.
If it's similar to the new ad blocking API that was proposed for Chrome then it is evil, because it's designed to be ineffectual.
I choose to interpret him positively
That's because you're ignoring the lessons of history, because you're apparently determined to repeat them.
Imagine that tomorrow Microsoft said we're ditching the Windows kernel, we'll run on top of Linux from now on.
Imagine a parade of unicorns playing leapfrog with horned dragons. Now imagine a parade of Windows users. The only difference is that the unicorns and dragons are mythical, they all have bleeding assholes.
Look at the projects keeping the old system alive, like Waterfox and Pale Moon.
I'm looking at Pale Moon right now. It has functionality which doesn't exist in Firefox, like the ability for an extension to write to the filesystem. I'm using that for Scrapbook+, which is the only extension which captures pages as displayed. I don't want a PDF, either, I want the HTML. ScrapbookQ doesn't work (install fails on both Windows and Linux, yes I followed the instructions, I tried multiple times in fact) and all the other versions produce worthless web archives that I literally have to drag and drop into a browser window to display.
When firefox has that functionality, then I'll go back to firefox. Otherwise, I'll lean on noscript to keep me safe. At least it actually works correctly on pale moon.
Time to let the Jack die.It's outdated technology and there are better, wireless ways to do things.
We could describe you the same way, but it would be unfair to assume that nobody is using you. For example, Apple is using you as a useful idiot.
My point was that the sound of most of these lower end headphones and earbuds is dreadful anyway so complaining about Bluetooth compression ruining your 'listening experience' is kind of stupid.
And your point was wrong. First, you're not forced to continue to use the convenience earbuds included with the device. The whole point of using a stereo miniplug is compatibility. You don't even understand the argument. Second, you're wrong anyway. The recompression is bad enough that you can hear the difference even on crappy headphones. Third, you can use either a wire or bluetooth to connect to a stereo system as well, where headphones don't come into play. The headphones are actually irrelevant to the argument! You are literally wrong in every way in which it is possible to be wrong.
Liberals tend to be more intolerant than conservatives.
Your link neither shows that, nor claims to. It speaks only to political intolerance, i.e. intolerance of political views. But liberals are more tolerant of literally everything else than conservatives. Pay attention!
I weep for the future. "learn to code" is just good career advice.
There are already programmers sitting around unemployed right now because it's cheaper to hire someone else. I don't think that it is good career advice. Going into psych is probably the best plan, there's a ton of people who want to be reassured that things aren't as bad as they really are.
Of course. Twitter is an arm of the prog leftard commie asshole movement.
If you want to sell that line, you'll have to explain why they haven't terminated Donald Trump's account for violations of the ToS. The truth is that twitter is amoral at best, they just want money, so they want views. Any tweet that makes them more money than it costs them is a good match for their corporate values.
Of course, once you know about the Intel Management Engine, hacked firmware, and even dopant-level hardware backdoors ... or just somebody breaking into your building and/or using a $3 wrench, you realize that *if* you need *that* level of protection, even *perfect* encryption won't help you.
It will help you, but only as part of defense in depth. You're also going to need to be surrounded by guards, and you'll need physical security for your equipment (more guards.) And then you need to pay the guards well, and have guards for the guards, so they can't simply be bribed away. And then when you die, you can realize that was all a lot of wasted effort which had to be spent only because the system of the world is designed to be unfair.
"Steam has turned to shit and should be avoided."
First, let me just open with the disclaimer that I have hundreds of titles in my steam library. Most of those are crappy little games I got in a humble bundle, though. When it comes down to it I have only a small handful of AAA games, and some of those were purchased at a deep discount. For example, I got fo4+pass for 20 on cdkeys.
Now with that said, I've been railing about the evils of steam since it was new, and particularly about any game which actually uses valve's DRM. My biggest problem with steam games is the fact that you need steam. Restoring a steam "backup" on a virgin machine involves the following steps:
1. Install steam
2. Authenticate steam
3. Update steam
4. Restore backup
5. Game gets "blessed" by steam, it can now run
Reinstalling your warez copy of a game involves one step: INSTALL. And it will still work even when steam no longer exists.
Unless you want to play online, or don't care if you can play in the future, you are much better off pirating than buying from steam.
The average house is made of Douglas fir, and set on footings or maybe a curtain wall, so there's no slab, just a few blobs of concrete which can be pathetically small and still meet code. It's still worth addressing but I'll bet the timber production gives the co2 a run for its money.
"aid the person."
Oh good, a person said it. I guess that's one job that hasn't been taken by a robot. Maybe I want to know who said it. Maybe being taken seriously as an "editor" requires actually editing? How in fuck does anyone ever get another job after being an "editor" on slashdot and proving conclusively that they have no work ethic whatever?