It seems like what you are saying is "some jobs aren't meant to pay for someone's subsistence"
My question is "what jobs are those?"
Are they "unskilled" jobs? If so, are you suggesting that there needs to remain a majority of people without proper education in order to have an "unskilled" work force so that you can go to the grocery store on Sunday or out to eat in the evening?
What happens if everybody has an education and is competing on the same level for "skilled" jobs and nobody wants to do the "unskilled" jobs? What happens if we don't have anyone to man the register or pick your food from a field? Wouldn't you say those jobs are necessary?
Is this a reason why we shouldn't make education easily accessible to all?
It seems to me that "unskilled" workers are necessary in order to provide a quality of life for the workers in "skilled" jobs. So why don't those "unskilled" workers, people who wake up every day and GO TO WORK in a job that they probably HATE, not deserve to be able to live a reasonably comfortable life?
I certainly appreciate the ability to order food that arrives at my doorstep or a cab/uber that can take me to where I want to go.
I am guessing that you appreciate those things too.... but you somehow don't feel that the people doing those jobs deserve a wage that will allow them to live at or above the poverty line....
I would think that a guidance failure can result in as much damage as a brake failure but probably wouldn't.
Brake failure: Plow into a group of people crossing the street
Guidance failure: Head toward a group of people crossing the street or on the sidewalk or in the oncoming traffic lane (etc), but at least you have brakes to stop the vehicle and avoid a collision.
Only problem I have with Opera is the fact that it is supper aggressive about "guessing" what you mean.
When I type something in the address bar, I want it to be literal, if there is a mistake or the domain doesn't exist, then I want to know that. Don't just guess or assume that I meant something else.
I know that all browsers do this to some extent these days, but Opera seems to be especially bad. Especially about local domain names or IP address entries.
You know, I do get pestered with Google ads all the time in my new Android phone. Really creepy stuff like "Hey, we saw you visited this store, answer our questions..."
Can't say I ever saw those types of things on my MS phone that I used for years.
So, yeah, they all are using their bully pulpits to try to get us to do stuff.
I have all major browsers installed on my Windows 10 desktop at home. I use them for different purposes.
Whenever I launch Firefox or Chrome, I get a tooltip style pop-up above the Edge icon on the task bar which states that Edge is some % more secure than whatever browser I am launching.
It would do it every time too... not just on the first launch. Because of this, I unpinned Edge from the task bar... I think you could also turn off a setting but unpinning worked... so I didn't look further.
Pretty annoying. I also am pestered by ads in Bing search results to use Edge. It's like I am being punished for living in the MS ecosystem....
The thing is Google is no better. Every time I go to one of their properties in a non-Chrome browser, I get pestered to use Chrome....
I kind of feel like we are not far away from a point where the default is to buy stuff from Amazon and you have to click a button or do some action to avoid it.
There really isn't anything easier than clicking a button.... or wait a minute.... What if, by making eye contact with a particular device an Amazon order is triggered... sort of like the weird guy on the bus when you accidentally make eye contact and he takes that as an invitation to come talk to you... Or the childish game where if you are tricked into looking at something you get punched in the arm. It's on *you* because you made eye contact... silly person...
iPhone is for poor people who want to feel like they matter, it's a status symbol among the blue collar crowd... like prada, louis vuitton, dolce & gabbana, armani.... things that higher class people get paid to hawk in public but in private would never actually use
So what kind of phone do the higher class people use in private? It's Windows Mobile isn't it?
What you are missing here is that those words were chosen because they convey my sentiment that I agree with the person I was replying to. I didn't want to make it seem like I was dismissing their comment. Basically, I was trying for creative tact (instead of just saying something boring like "I agree with you, but...").
They're still stuck in the mode of thinking that of course everyone in the world has already seen the Walking Dead or Game of Thrones finales
Or that spoilers don't actually spoil anything.
I have seen 1 episode of both of those shows you mentioned. Even still, I know just about everything that has happened because I live around people who have watched them and loved them and talk about them. While I am not so interested in Walking Dead, I still consider Game of Thrones a large pools of untapped, binge worthy entertainment for a rainy day. I don't consider them spoiled in any way. Just because I know somebody dies at some point in season 2 doesn't make it any less entertaining.
It's like reading the book before watching the movie... aren't you supposedly "spoiling" the movie for yourself? I don't think so.
I call that being fiscally responsible. Governments have to at least make a show of this. Companies do not.
Collecting tax payer money in order to provide a service and then making a profit seems, to me at least, to be wrong. If they can make a profit, then they don't need tax money. That money should either be returned to the tax payer or diverted to a program that needs it.
That said, I know nothing about the BBC or TV tax. I just take exception to automatically throwing government under the bus just because it is government.
On both Windows 10 boxen I have, whenever I do either of those searches on Bing, I get a big box at the top of the results which is basically an ad for Edge which states that is more secure than other browsers.
I hear you. I would say that, having used iOS, Android and MS Mobile (in many forms starting with CE) they all have innovative ideas, strengths and weaknesses.
I think that MS with their mobile 8 and 10 offerings offer some really innovative things (live tiles, intuitive and searchable settings, well indexed app menu, unified contacts, ability to have wifi and BT automatically turn back on after a period of time after turning it off manually, wifi sense to automatically log on to public hot spots, seamless integration with social media without having to install any apps)... but... they were too late to the party. iOS and Android were already entrenched.
Both Android and iOS have copied some of those features and they continue to copy from each other as well. Good ideas are good ideas.
In my mind, more competition is good for consumers. More ideas are percolated up which eventually helps all platforms.
I am hoping that MS doesn't give up on mobile. I don't think they will.
BTW, I don't think you have been paying attention:
I can't think of a single feather that matters LESS than SMS contacts and Bluetooth capability.
Apple and others are banking on Bluetooth for the future of the audio interface. Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft and others are competing aggressively to become your default SMS provider. Obviously they think this is something that matters a great deal.
As with a lot of things in life, once you know how to do something you can probably do it in a much shorter time and with increasing proficiency.
To do as you suggest, I first need to get all the relevant hardware in place (USB cable and a desktop computer) then download the Android SDK or whatever software is necessary, research how to issue adb commands (probably requires enabling specific debug stuff on the phone), figure out the fully qualified names of the "modules" I want to uninstall or remove, back up my device and become versed in doing a restore to make sure a good recovery point can be made, figure out how the removal of the modules is going to affect everything else, etc, etc, etc.
Sure, just running the commands takes almost no time but there is a lot of stuff on both sides of that task which does. Add in research if you have never done it before and you are in it for hours or even days if you have to deal with and make tweaks based on the fallout.
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Hence the quotes...
It seems like what you are saying is "some jobs aren't meant to pay for someone's subsistence"
My question is "what jobs are those?"
Are they "unskilled" jobs? If so, are you suggesting that there needs to remain a majority of people without proper education in order to have an "unskilled" work force so that you can go to the grocery store on Sunday or out to eat in the evening?
What happens if everybody has an education and is competing on the same level for "skilled" jobs and nobody wants to do the "unskilled" jobs? What happens if we don't have anyone to man the register or pick your food from a field? Wouldn't you say those jobs are necessary?
Is this a reason why we shouldn't make education easily accessible to all?
It seems to me that "unskilled" workers are necessary in order to provide a quality of life for the workers in "skilled" jobs. So why don't those "unskilled" workers, people who wake up every day and GO TO WORK in a job that they probably HATE, not deserve to be able to live a reasonably comfortable life?
I certainly appreciate the ability to order food that arrives at my doorstep or a cab/uber that can take me to where I want to go.
I am guessing that you appreciate those things too.... but you somehow don't feel that the people doing those jobs deserve a wage that will allow them to live at or above the poverty line....
Self guidance software isn't the same as brakes.
I would think that a guidance failure can result in as much damage as a brake failure but probably wouldn't.
Brake failure: Plow into a group of people crossing the street
Guidance failure: Head toward a group of people crossing the street or on the sidewalk or in the oncoming traffic lane (etc), but at least you have brakes to stop the vehicle and avoid a collision.
Looks like Universal Studios is one of the only ones (if not *the* only one) left to still do this:
http://www.universalstudioshom...
I seem to recall there were others like Disney, who would replace damaged optical media as well.
Only problem I have with Opera is the fact that it is supper aggressive about "guessing" what you mean.
When I type something in the address bar, I want it to be literal, if there is a mistake or the domain doesn't exist, then I want to know that. Don't just guess or assume that I meant something else.
I know that all browsers do this to some extent these days, but Opera seems to be especially bad. Especially about local domain names or IP address entries.
You know, I do get pestered with Google ads all the time in my new Android phone. Really creepy stuff like "Hey, we saw you visited this store, answer our questions..."
Can't say I ever saw those types of things on my MS phone that I used for years.
So, yeah, they all are using their bully pulpits to try to get us to do stuff.
True enough. I am not going to lie, I am pretty complacent and somewhat lazy. I suppose I am an average American.
That said, my livelihood is basically based around MS products so there's that.
I have all major browsers installed on my Windows 10 desktop at home. I use them for different purposes.
Whenever I launch Firefox or Chrome, I get a tooltip style pop-up above the Edge icon on the task bar which states that Edge is some % more secure than whatever browser I am launching.
It would do it every time too... not just on the first launch. Because of this, I unpinned Edge from the task bar... I think you could also turn off a setting but unpinning worked... so I didn't look further.
Pretty annoying. I also am pestered by ads in Bing search results to use Edge. It's like I am being punished for living in the MS ecosystem....
The thing is Google is no better. Every time I go to one of their properties in a non-Chrome browser, I get pestered to use Chrome....
It's just a new level of crap I have to ignore.
I kind of feel like we are not far away from a point where the default is to buy stuff from Amazon and you have to click a button or do some action to avoid it.
There really isn't anything easier than clicking a button.... or wait a minute.... What if, by making eye contact with a particular device an Amazon order is triggered... sort of like the weird guy on the bus when you accidentally make eye contact and he takes that as an invitation to come talk to you... Or the childish game where if you are tricked into looking at something you get punched in the arm. It's on *you* because you made eye contact... silly person...
All hail the invisible hand! May it's fingers be forever long and noodley!
iPhone is for poor people who want to feel like they matter, it's a status symbol among the blue collar crowd... like prada, louis vuitton, dolce & gabbana, armani.... things that higher class people get paid to hawk in public but in private would never actually use
So what kind of phone do the higher class people use in private? It's Windows Mobile isn't it?
Then later dump that text file to pastebin... 1000+ post /. comment section ensues
Yeah, me too
I guess because it is .001% harder to use...
I was going to say "because it isn't integrated into your FB contacts" but that might not be true... depending on how you sync your contacts.
What you are missing here is that those words were chosen because they convey my sentiment that I agree with the person I was replying to. I didn't want to make it seem like I was dismissing their comment. Basically, I was trying for creative tact (instead of just saying something boring like "I agree with you, but...").
They're still stuck in the mode of thinking that of course everyone in the world has already seen the Walking Dead or Game of Thrones finales
Or that spoilers don't actually spoil anything.
I have seen 1 episode of both of those shows you mentioned. Even still, I know just about everything that has happened because I live around people who have watched them and loved them and talk about them. While I am not so interested in Walking Dead, I still consider Game of Thrones a large pools of untapped, binge worthy entertainment for a rainy day. I don't consider them spoiled in any way. Just because I know somebody dies at some point in season 2 doesn't make it any less entertaining.
It's like reading the book before watching the movie... aren't you supposedly "spoiling" the movie for yourself? I don't think so.
Why are people so hung up on spoilers?
Unless you are 8 years old, you have seen every permutation of a story there is to tell...
Knowing that someone dies at the end or whatever doesn't change the fun of the story, does it?
I call that being fiscally responsible. Governments have to at least make a show of this. Companies do not.
Collecting tax payer money in order to provide a service and then making a profit seems, to me at least, to be wrong. If they can make a profit, then they don't need tax money. That money should either be returned to the tax payer or diverted to a program that needs it.
That said, I know nothing about the BBC or TV tax. I just take exception to automatically throwing government under the bus just because it is government.
Pretty sure only Trump could get away with that...
On both Windows 10 boxen I have, whenever I do either of those searches on Bing, I get a big box at the top of the results which is basically an ad for Edge which states that is more secure than other browsers.
Try doing a search for Chrome or Firefox on http://bing.com/ while using Windows 10 (using either IE or Edge)...
This kind of crap really doesn't sit well with me.
BTW, I didn't even notice your sig until now.
Very nice. Glad to encounter a fellow MST3K fan.
I hear you. I would say that, having used iOS, Android and MS Mobile (in many forms starting with CE) they all have innovative ideas, strengths and weaknesses.
I think that MS with their mobile 8 and 10 offerings offer some really innovative things (live tiles, intuitive and searchable settings, well indexed app menu, unified contacts, ability to have wifi and BT automatically turn back on after a period of time after turning it off manually, wifi sense to automatically log on to public hot spots, seamless integration with social media without having to install any apps)... but... they were too late to the party. iOS and Android were already entrenched.
Both Android and iOS have copied some of those features and they continue to copy from each other as well. Good ideas are good ideas.
In my mind, more competition is good for consumers. More ideas are percolated up which eventually helps all platforms.
I am hoping that MS doesn't give up on mobile. I don't think they will.
BTW, I don't think you have been paying attention:
I can't think of a single feather that matters LESS than SMS contacts and Bluetooth capability.
Apple and others are banking on Bluetooth for the future of the audio interface.
Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft and others are competing aggressively to become your default SMS provider. Obviously they think this is something that matters a great deal.
As with a lot of things in life, once you know how to do something you can probably do it in a much shorter time and with increasing proficiency.
To do as you suggest, I first need to get all the relevant hardware in place (USB cable and a desktop computer) then download the Android SDK or whatever software is necessary, research how to issue adb commands (probably requires enabling specific debug stuff on the phone), figure out the fully qualified names of the "modules" I want to uninstall or remove, back up my device and become versed in doing a restore to make sure a good recovery point can be made, figure out how the removal of the modules is going to affect everything else, etc, etc, etc.
Sure, just running the commands takes almost no time but there is a lot of stuff on both sides of that task which does. Add in research if you have never done it before and you are in it for hours or even days if you have to deal with and make tweaks based on the fallout.
I don't want Clippy 2.0 on my PC and I certainly don't want it on my phone
Well.... it's a good thing nobody is holding a gun to your head