And yes, you buying them back would be pretty useful, for, well, we have no real use for the computers other than finding someone to sell them to, so... we could also just agree that you pay every time we come and we forgo the process of carrying your shit out and back in again. Saves us the hassle and you the time, it's just so win-win...
Though for some odd reason, whenever some politician can't weasel out of some sleazy sex allegation and has to make some sort of public statement, begging for forgiveness, it's some conservative.
Granted, mostly because no liberal gives a fuck what their politicians do in the bed as long as they do their work...
In my country it's for those privileged with a brain. Anyone can get in. For free. Which means that about 90% fail. We can afford it. There's plenty of student material to work with, shooting down 9 out of 10 is no problem.
Studying here basically means that you're told what you're required to know. Now go and find out where to get that knowledge. Ok, it's not quite as cruel, but the lectures are usually a joke, the materials are ancient and you should be willing to camp in front of the various departments to get a lab slot like it was some Star Trek premiere. And yes, I do mean come a day or two early and bring your sleeping bag.
Money means jack shit in that system. What matters is whether you're willing to get off your ass, whether you're able to organize your work and whether you are actually smart enough to survive the tests because they have zero remorse to fail you, their pay check is by no means tied to you, actually, they would have more time for research and writing papers if they didn't have to teach, test and grade you, so guess how much the average prof loves you, essentially wasting his time.
That's something you can do if you have more students than you need. If you're dependent on students, on the other hand, you have to coddle them and hold their hands. Now take a wild guess how serious we take degrees from US colleges...
Offering a good or service is the necessary evil on the way to your money. If I could make you (legally) give me your money without providing anything in return, I would do so.
A corporation also isn't supposed to work for me. Unless I'm a shareholder. There is no pretending that a corporation has ANY kind of obligation to do ANYTHING for my benefit. Even the product they sell me is at best a necessary evil so they can turn a profit.
An elected government is BY ITS VERY DEFINITION as a government elected by the people for the people supposed to work for me. If it isn't, it loses the very foundation of its claim to power.
I can't help it, but I somehow think something's VERY wrong when siding with a corporation makes more sense than siding with the government that allegedly works for you...
Rooting Android devices to audit them is fairly trivial compared to Apple's stuff. And since 99% of the idiots are unable to secure their own devices, it's also fairly trivial to break in and get the information you want.
It's insanely difficult to root and audit the damn things. About time the FBI is working for us and demanding that we get control over the hardware we buy.
1) Let's for a moment imagine that this has a chance to survive the first amendment, will Israel and Saudi Arabia get the same preferential treatment? I mean, let's face it, they already do, but making it official...? 2) You remember when it became a law that you'd have to declare if you hand a load of money to politicians? What happened? A couple letterbox companies sprung into existence where you could conveniently send your money to who were then the ones who handed the money to the politician. I bet you've seen the "sponsored by friends of Hugh Asshole" inserts in campaigning spots. Why do you think this would be any different? Follow the money? Good luck with that. It's easily said but near impossible to do. 3) They are cut and dry? What is espionage? Worse, what is sedition? Is it sedition if I say that Trump should be impeached? Or if I say that Obama should finally shut up, he's done enough damage in 8 years? Is it sedition if I demand that my preferred brand of delusion was to be taught in schools as if it was real? Is it sedition if I protest against a group of people based on skin color, sex, religion, sexual orientation or political opinion and say I wish them dead or worse? Tell me when I reach the point that you'd call sedition. And explain to me where freedom of speech ends and where sedition starts. When I get people to actually do what I "demand"? What if it was a cynical comment and some radical idiot takes it serious? Do we start policing speech? 4) The WBC is a bunch of trolls, but they do "inspire" people to blow up abortion clinics because they say that god hates that kind of stuff. Sedition or free speech? And how is this different from the Islamist preacher telling people that god wants the infidels dead who then finds some idiots who actually does it? 5) Great, so let's alienate every country on the planet even more than we already do. You can't wage war against a whole planet. It has been tried. It never succeeded.
Odd. To me it feels more that this "want" for thinness is artificially created. If you tell people long enough that they want something, they'll eventually really want it.
It seems that me and a few others that I know are immune to this effect. I can't think of any reason why I want my phone to be even thinner. We have reached the point of "sufficiently thin" long ago. Don't get me wrong, I don't want the Mars-bar style phones back, but anything thinner than a centimeter is ridiculous.
Well, solves... that program has its own flaws. You can't employ young people in Germany like you would grown ups. You can't have them work overtime, you can't have them work past 10pm (which really is a problem in tourism related fields) and you only have them about half the time because the other half they're in school, and you have little say on when they're working and when they're in school.
And still you have to pay them. Not a full wage, mind you, but it's far from what you could press out of someone who gets forced to work by their unemployment program.
Plus, the quality of our youth simply and plainly sucks. Anyone with half a brain tries to avoid the apprenticeship programs and instead tries to get into higher education schools that allow you to study at a university. What's left for apprenticeship is atrocious. You get kids aged 15 who can barely read or write.
It's my job to profile people and come up with plans to neutralize problems. It has little to do with luck. It's mostly finding a person's weak spot. Everyone has one. Loved ones, kids, friends, pets, character flaws, things they treasure, reputation...
You needn't kill a person. It's preferable when they do it themselves.
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It took me a while to remember that Windows 10 actually came with some kind of app store...
Seriously, is there someone left who did NOT disable that crap yet?
Even the cheapest clients add up over time.
And yes, you buying them back would be pretty useful, for, well, we have no real use for the computers other than finding someone to sell them to, so... we could also just agree that you pay every time we come and we forgo the process of carrying your shit out and back in again. Saves us the hassle and you the time, it's just so win-win...
If your government is your adversary, I guess it's time to overthrow it and install one that is elected by the people for the people.
Oh wait...
You are aware that tax money is spent on government projects and not eaten by the president, yes?
Now guess what's wrong...
We'll take all the computers in your office. No evidence? Guess we'll return next week when you bought new equipment.
By the way: Due to legal regulations, everything confiscated is forfeited. You pay your tax. One way or another.
Welcome to Europe.
Though for some odd reason, whenever some politician can't weasel out of some sleazy sex allegation and has to make some sort of public statement, begging for forgiveness, it's some conservative.
Granted, mostly because no liberal gives a fuck what their politicians do in the bed as long as they do their work...
My guess would be that this has more to do with the clusterfuck the Hungarian language is than anything else...
In my country it's for those privileged with a brain. Anyone can get in. For free. Which means that about 90% fail. We can afford it. There's plenty of student material to work with, shooting down 9 out of 10 is no problem.
Studying here basically means that you're told what you're required to know. Now go and find out where to get that knowledge. Ok, it's not quite as cruel, but the lectures are usually a joke, the materials are ancient and you should be willing to camp in front of the various departments to get a lab slot like it was some Star Trek premiere. And yes, I do mean come a day or two early and bring your sleeping bag.
Money means jack shit in that system. What matters is whether you're willing to get off your ass, whether you're able to organize your work and whether you are actually smart enough to survive the tests because they have zero remorse to fail you, their pay check is by no means tied to you, actually, they would have more time for research and writing papers if they didn't have to teach, test and grade you, so guess how much the average prof loves you, essentially wasting his time.
That's something you can do if you have more students than you need. If you're dependent on students, on the other hand, you have to coddle them and hold their hands. Now take a wild guess how serious we take degrees from US colleges...
As long as quacks can sell you MMS and "Vitamin B17", you're already there. It's not like much would change.
Offering a good or service is the necessary evil on the way to your money. If I could make you (legally) give me your money without providing anything in return, I would do so.
For reference, see religion.
A corporation also isn't supposed to work for me. Unless I'm a shareholder. There is no pretending that a corporation has ANY kind of obligation to do ANYTHING for my benefit. Even the product they sell me is at best a necessary evil so they can turn a profit.
An elected government is BY ITS VERY DEFINITION as a government elected by the people for the people supposed to work for me. If it isn't, it loses the very foundation of its claim to power.
Only on the internet.
And I swear she said she was 18!
I can't help it, but I somehow think something's VERY wrong when siding with a corporation makes more sense than siding with the government that allegedly works for you...
Rooting Android devices to audit them is fairly trivial compared to Apple's stuff. And since 99% of the idiots are unable to secure their own devices, it's also fairly trivial to break in and get the information you want.
It's insanely difficult to root and audit the damn things. About time the FBI is working for us and demanding that we get control over the hardware we buy.
(Sarcasm is in the eye of the beholder...)
It's a suppository!
1) Let's for a moment imagine that this has a chance to survive the first amendment, will Israel and Saudi Arabia get the same preferential treatment? I mean, let's face it, they already do, but making it official...?
2) You remember when it became a law that you'd have to declare if you hand a load of money to politicians? What happened? A couple letterbox companies sprung into existence where you could conveniently send your money to who were then the ones who handed the money to the politician. I bet you've seen the "sponsored by friends of Hugh Asshole" inserts in campaigning spots. Why do you think this would be any different? Follow the money? Good luck with that. It's easily said but near impossible to do.
3) They are cut and dry? What is espionage? Worse, what is sedition? Is it sedition if I say that Trump should be impeached? Or if I say that Obama should finally shut up, he's done enough damage in 8 years? Is it sedition if I demand that my preferred brand of delusion was to be taught in schools as if it was real? Is it sedition if I protest against a group of people based on skin color, sex, religion, sexual orientation or political opinion and say I wish them dead or worse? Tell me when I reach the point that you'd call sedition. And explain to me where freedom of speech ends and where sedition starts. When I get people to actually do what I "demand"? What if it was a cynical comment and some radical idiot takes it serious? Do we start policing speech?
4) The WBC is a bunch of trolls, but they do "inspire" people to blow up abortion clinics because they say that god hates that kind of stuff. Sedition or free speech? And how is this different from the Islamist preacher telling people that god wants the infidels dead who then finds some idiots who actually does it?
5) Great, so let's alienate every country on the planet even more than we already do. You can't wage war against a whole planet. It has been tried. It never succeeded.
Shhhh, it's more fun when they realize it themselves.
Odd. To me it feels more that this "want" for thinness is artificially created. If you tell people long enough that they want something, they'll eventually really want it.
It seems that me and a few others that I know are immune to this effect. I can't think of any reason why I want my phone to be even thinner. We have reached the point of "sufficiently thin" long ago. Don't get me wrong, I don't want the Mars-bar style phones back, but anything thinner than a centimeter is ridiculous.
So everyone to his place, don't question your caste, if you're born into poverty, don't even try to better yourself.
You are aware that this flies right in the face of the whole declaration of human rights, right?
What someone or something is intended to be means nothing. What you make of it means everything.
Hey, think of the dumb children and their feelings. They're "special" now.
Yeah, sure, and politicians only pretend to take bribes so they can unmask the people behind it.
I kid you not, not too long ago that was the excuse by a politician in Europe who got trapped by some journalists.
Well, solves... that program has its own flaws. You can't employ young people in Germany like you would grown ups. You can't have them work overtime, you can't have them work past 10pm (which really is a problem in tourism related fields) and you only have them about half the time because the other half they're in school, and you have little say on when they're working and when they're in school.
And still you have to pay them. Not a full wage, mind you, but it's far from what you could press out of someone who gets forced to work by their unemployment program.
Plus, the quality of our youth simply and plainly sucks. Anyone with half a brain tries to avoid the apprenticeship programs and instead tries to get into higher education schools that allow you to study at a university. What's left for apprenticeship is atrocious. You get kids aged 15 who can barely read or write.
It's my job to profile people and come up with plans to neutralize problems. It has little to do with luck. It's mostly finding a person's weak spot. Everyone has one. Loved ones, kids, friends, pets, character flaws, things they treasure, reputation...
You needn't kill a person. It's preferable when they do it themselves.