It gets worse. Where in the past you had that feeling that people who were rich and famous were few and far between and that it was actually out of your reach, YouTube and Instagram show you that this could be you. Couple that with TV formats that push trashy wannabe-celebrities whose only redeeming feature is... well... I have no idea, they're basically the same dumb idiots that you come across walking down the streets.
My guess is what makes people unhappy is the question "why them and not me?". In the past, you could point at something that bestowed celebrity status. Being born into a certain family, being able to sing or play an instrument or at the very least being at the right place at the right time. Today, there seems to be nothing "special" about those that come across as celebrities. At the very least I can't point at anything that would "earn" them their celebrity status.
That's the man that thought removing a headphone jack from a cellphone is a good idea and that having non-replaceable batteries are what customers want.
Who in their sane mind listens to an imbecile like that?
You say that now, I keep hearing that from so many people but just so you wait when you get an ear infection from your smartphone and get allergic to it, then you come crying and begging and promising your firstborn but then it will be TOO LATE!!!
Well, that can't really be the case, we had our share of rich idiots that we were supposedly admiring, at least if TV shows of my youth are any indicator. I didn't quite get it, but apparently there was a reasonable amount of people interested in the houses and lives of people who are rich to create whole TV series around that format.
It could also be that they have information not only about their own country and their prospective future available but also access to information from abroad, and they notice that the perfect America is anything but perfect.
When I was young, the US was the place to be. Everything was better in America. It was the pinnacle of progress, science, technology, anything was done in the US or it wasn't done at all. Movies worth watching were only made in America, tools worth using were at the very least designed in America and anything you could buy that was the latest and greatest was conceived and invented in America. Usually "from space research". That was the ad hook, if it was invented for space travel of US astronauts, it must be the best you could possibly have.
Mind you, that was not the 1960s, it was the 80s.
Since then, the vanish started flaking. Microelectronics is invented and designed in Japan, tools and toys are made in China, space is shared between Russia who does the man-rated stuff and China and ESA shooting up sats (depending on whether you want to do it cheaply or reliably it's either the one or the other), and what the US is now known the world over is them waging war with whoever looks at them the wrong way and religious nutjobs wanting to teach creationism in schools like it has any scientific merit.
What's left is the movies. And let's be honest, even that's gone stale by now, you're about to lose that area too as soon as people are sick of watching movies where story, character development and content are cut for the all important diversity and acceptance message nobody really gives a fuck about when watching a damn MOVIE.
That's not how it should work, agreed. But if I was dependent on a country's interest in protecting their sovereignty against an overreaching international bully, I wouldn't try to give this country a reason to instead try hard to find some kind of loophole in its own law to get rid of me.
If someone asks me to program an "app", I know someone I don't want to work for. If you're smart, don't. You're looking at someone who has no idea what he's talking about but is 100% buzzword-compliant. That's the WORST kind of customer you could have.
Yes, I can protect myself and my data from an overreaching corporation, and a government acting likewise. Does that mean I should not care about those that cannot protect themselves?
Then it's time to develop something that poisons the data pool. What we need to do is add enough bogus data that it becomes impossible to tell false from real data apart, rendering the whole data collection worthless.
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It gets worse. Where in the past you had that feeling that people who were rich and famous were few and far between and that it was actually out of your reach, YouTube and Instagram show you that this could be you. Couple that with TV formats that push trashy wannabe-celebrities whose only redeeming feature is ... well ... I have no idea, they're basically the same dumb idiots that you come across walking down the streets.
My guess is what makes people unhappy is the question "why them and not me?". In the past, you could point at something that bestowed celebrity status. Being born into a certain family, being able to sing or play an instrument or at the very least being at the right place at the right time. Today, there seems to be nothing "special" about those that come across as celebrities. At the very least I can't point at anything that would "earn" them their celebrity status.
Their vote is basically a capitulation to a system that doesn't offer much choice.
People always want what they don't have...
If elections could change anything they would've been outlawed ages ago.
Who? I think you lost me with that one...
That's the man that thought removing a headphone jack from a cellphone is a good idea and that having non-replaceable batteries are what customers want.
Who in their sane mind listens to an imbecile like that?
It gets worse when you speak German where the homonym "Kot" literally means excrement.
They could have made an exception, for the greater good. The need of the many and all that.
As far as I know Kimmie's ability to relocate right now is limited.
You say that now, I keep hearing that from so many people but just so you wait when you get an ear infection from your smartphone and get allergic to it, then you come crying and begging and promising your firstborn but then it will be TOO LATE!!!
What caused what, though...
Same with oxygen, you should see my kids gyrate like I was killing them when I put them in a vacuum. Damn addicts.
Well, that can't really be the case, we had our share of rich idiots that we were supposedly admiring, at least if TV shows of my youth are any indicator. I didn't quite get it, but apparently there was a reasonable amount of people interested in the houses and lives of people who are rich to create whole TV series around that format.
It could also be that they have information not only about their own country and their prospective future available but also access to information from abroad, and they notice that the perfect America is anything but perfect.
When I was young, the US was the place to be. Everything was better in America. It was the pinnacle of progress, science, technology, anything was done in the US or it wasn't done at all. Movies worth watching were only made in America, tools worth using were at the very least designed in America and anything you could buy that was the latest and greatest was conceived and invented in America. Usually "from space research". That was the ad hook, if it was invented for space travel of US astronauts, it must be the best you could possibly have.
Mind you, that was not the 1960s, it was the 80s.
Since then, the vanish started flaking. Microelectronics is invented and designed in Japan, tools and toys are made in China, space is shared between Russia who does the man-rated stuff and China and ESA shooting up sats (depending on whether you want to do it cheaply or reliably it's either the one or the other), and what the US is now known the world over is them waging war with whoever looks at them the wrong way and religious nutjobs wanting to teach creationism in schools like it has any scientific merit.
What's left is the movies. And let's be honest, even that's gone stale by now, you're about to lose that area too as soon as people are sick of watching movies where story, character development and content are cut for the all important diversity and acceptance message nobody really gives a fuck about when watching a damn MOVIE.
People who have information available on how shitty their outlook is are less happy.
Where do I get money grants for research like this?
That's not how it should work, agreed. But if I was dependent on a country's interest in protecting their sovereignty against an overreaching international bully, I wouldn't try to give this country a reason to instead try hard to find some kind of loophole in its own law to get rid of me.
When you know what they collect, you know what to flood them with to make the data useless.
C'mon, that can't be possible. Not even APK made that claim, and according to him hosts files can cure aids and cancer.
And would it be possible to point out which "service or two" we'd have to disable?
Have you tried it recently? With the last update they made it harder (again) to get rid of their junk.
They still are.
If someone asks me to program an "app", I know someone I don't want to work for. If you're smart, don't. You're looking at someone who has no idea what he's talking about but is 100% buzzword-compliant. That's the WORST kind of customer you could have.
Aka "screw you, I got mine".
Yes, I can protect myself and my data from an overreaching corporation, and a government acting likewise. Does that mean I should not care about those that cannot protect themselves?
Then it's time to develop something that poisons the data pool. What we need to do is add enough bogus data that it becomes impossible to tell false from real data apart, rendering the whole data collection worthless.
A joke you won't get.
"What does a Navy pilot and an internet addict have in common?"
"Both break out in cold sweat when they find NO CARRIER"
How? You got a nuke you've been hiding?