I read/. at -1 routinely, and not just when I moderate. Comments are indeed being deleted. Seen plenty of -1 comments go away, usually racist rants. But they leave the swastika banners.
And since when? Since the Arabs bought this place.. I don't remember this happening during the Taco era or during the previous owners to the Arabs.
Please discuss in this First-Amendment, Free-Speech Zone for all....
You'd be a moron on either case.
His theoretical has merit:
If as a Christian you insult a Muslim on youtube, you're a horrible privileged white male patriarch gun-loving homophobe hell bent on oppressing others, and you'll likely be banned / buried / demonetized.
If as a Muslim you insult a Christian on youtube you're a woke trans gay hoplohobe minority victim who is using your freedom of expression to try to help right a wrong, and you'll be promoted and become the next Youtube Sensation and run for Congress
Did I stereotype enough there to satisfy and piss off both camps at once? Yay?
Fucking thing is bollocks anyway. A social cancer that needs to be cut off. All of it. Facetwit, Youtube, Instadumb... burn them all and replace them with going outside and playing for a while. Ride a bike. Read a book under a tree. Or maybe even talk to people for realz.
Very simple to work around this problem: Don't even look at items with obviously Chinese or made-up non-sensical names like QUONGWHY or FEEMII or WTFOMGBBQ. Another dead giveaway that it's a direct-from-China vendor is the laughably bad grammar on the descriptions and other writeups. Very simple. Avoid them, don't give them a red penny.
While you're at it, if you're looking for common stuff like belts or towels or wallets, you know, that kinda thing - tack "made in usa" to the end of your search string. You might be surprised. And use fucking common sense, dont' support fakebeard hipsters selling wallets for 300 bucks.
Fuck China's government and industry. Help rebuild ours.
Long before this was a free country, our Revolution (the War of Insurrection, whatever the fuck you want to call what we started in 1776) was fueled by printing presses, literally underground. In basements. In the back of shops. That kind of thing.
If the Internet is censored, well, there's still ink and paper. Shoving leaflets at passerby did contribute greatly to ending the Vietnam war.
What, you think it couldn't work?
Sometimes the oldest ways are still the best ways.
Fuck censorship. Fuck it with a splintered phone pole.
Other than convenient content delivery and a means to expedite, mail order, what has the Internet done for us lately anyway? Maybe it's time to just cut the cancerous part away.
Aren't your Arabian overlords paying you enough to get decent sleep and / or caffeine?
I know dupes are a time-honored/. tradition, but for fuck's sake, people... y'know, nevermind. Par for the course for 21-st century. No one gives a fuck about quality anymore.
Reality shows are killing cable for a lot of us. That, plus channel drift.
I think the drift was caused by the reality show, and as another poster pointed out, the cost for reality TV is less than for "scripted" TV. So of course all the studios went for the cheapest which also panders to the lowest.
Philo T. already had a dim view of his invention by 1969, but if he saw what's become of it, he'd die all over again.
Internet's headed the same way, I"m afraid. The old forum "one guy says, the rest parrots" is well and alive and now a thousand-headed Medusa with Facetwit and Instadumb.
You got a point... right now, you'll need Sling TV, Netflix, Amazon, CBS All Access, HBO Go, AND Hulu to cover all of the shows most people want to watch.
Need? No. Want? Not even. I'm not Most People, I fucking HATE reality shows, I hate daytime TV, I hate cooking shows and other than F1, the Reno Air Races and a few other oddballs, I fucking HATE sports. Why should I pay to get all of that just so I can enjoy what *I* want?
I have Netflix because legacy DVD subscriber here. I have Amazon because I have Prime from when it started years ago. HBO? No. Hulu? Ok I have Hulu. And Crunchyroll because I love anime. I don't have any other services. Just Netflix, Prime, Crunchyroll.
Soon, you'll get to add Disney TV and Apple TV + to that list. Add up all those subscription fees, and now you're paying a hell of a lot more than you paid for cable.
Will I? Says who? Says you? You don't know me. You don't know how I consume media. Instead of forking $x.xx to Disney every month, I'll do it as I always have: When they make a film I like, I buy it on blu-ray. The streaming is secondary, if ever, to me.
People asked for All La Carte TV... now they can get it. Let's see if they enjoy it as much as they thought they would.
I'm enjoy it much, thanks, now that I'm free from the yoke that was the Comcast bill. For "preferred" cable or whatever they called their middle-tier service + HBO + Showtime and "HD Tech" and "DVR" and a 2nd outlet I never did use, I was getting nailed to the wall to the tune of $230. I estimate 50 to 75 of that was internet. Let's assume 70: I just freed myself $160 bucks.
Of that $160, I'm already paying 12 for Hulu, 7 for Crunchyroll, Prime is included in my Prime sub, and Netflix DVD is 30. So a grand total of 49 bucks in "a la carte" internet "TV"
That's 111 bucks I get to keep a month compared to last month.
Do I "Need" any other services? Nah. I don't particularly care for any TV studio's current works.
Australia is run by a Murdoch-backed right wing government. But don't let that stop you pretending it's the "left" because they want to take... uh your right to die outside a hospital you can't afford to use away.
Australias Right Wing just did this.
But this is what our Left Wing wants. Get it? UNderstand my post now?
You don't seem to realize that the right wing is in control of the Australian Parliament, but then again you don't seem to notice that the push to regulate social media is bipartisan.
You don't realize that this is what OUR LEFT (not yours, ours) wants. Censor and squelch everything that doesn't fit the narrative.
Honestly our right would love censorship too, but traditionally have been averse at doing so. Except for titties. Can't show titties.
The Paris Air Show lawnmower, AF 296 (And in that one, investigators allegedly altered blackbox data to frame the pilot because heavens no, we can't have FBW impuned in the international spotlight after crashing 1 of 3 at the world's biggest airshow. Vive la France!)
The sad truth is that now Boeing is just as shitty as Airbus, because Boeing now behaves like McDonnel Douglas did. Why? It's Douglas "leadership" that took over Boeing post-merger, and now Boeing is accountant-driven, not engineer-driven. Anytime you subjugate engineering to the beancounters this happens.
I am so dissapointed with Boeing ever since the slippage started on the 787. The rollout for that one was of an empty shell, unlike all other rollouts before it. Shameful. Live it up, shareholders, live it up, your short-term greed fucked up what was America's best, most visible product.
Maybe it's time to buy Sukhoi. Or maybe Lockheed can be persuaded, they've not built any jetliners since the L1011.
You see this? This is where this country is headed if the "left" is allowed to run the United States.
Do you want that?
I'm sure the simpering cowards that make up the Democrat's base is all for this level of censorship.
Mod me down, but what I say is true, and cannot be silenced or suppressed.
Heavens no, let's *not* address the actual problem, let's instead ban everything and anything that can cause offense to anyone at all, or theoretically "radicalize" people.
What's next, ban how-to videos on car repairs? We MUST protect the innocent dealerships! We simply CANNOT allow the populace to be armed with spanners and screwdrivers!
America is *this* close of falling for this shit. Don't let it. Start now.
Most orgs are bleeped up. Dilbert is a documentary
To the point where except for one shining solitary exception, every single commercial venture I've worked for leaves me shaking my head wondering, sometimes aloud, "How the FUCK does this place even stay in business?!"
even Apple reads emails now to determine a Trust Score[0]) would normally be more guarded.
Even in the/. article about that it was said that what apple does is see how many emails and calls are made from the device to detect sudden changes in usage that could signal a compromised device -- not that they're reading your mail.
I'm not saying they're not, but what I'm saying is don't say things in a way that gives the wrong impression. This is how rumors and half-truths get started.
or do you really have the feeling that you are still one united nation under the same flag?
Nope, we're divided, and hard. I think it was Vietnam that did the initial seismic split and it's only gotten worse. My sig is an oblique reference to that era. I came up with it after noticing that all our present ills can be traced mostly to that year, or more generally the decade of 1965 - 1975.
People on all sides - left, right, up, down - and all permutations that encourage widening this divide are the real traitors... although I will concede the lies of the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon admins over Vietnam are what did it. They threw the first punch.
The traitors are those who drive the wedges that have split us, and the criminals are those who profit from it. On all sides. Am I being clear? I detest the right and the left, although I consider the left more dangerous to our country because they seek to dismantle what little remains of it. As the saying goes, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." In their misguided effort to protect the environment and "raise all boats" they'll drown us all.
Fight the split, people. Get rid of the traitors and criminals who split us and profit from it. No matter what party they're in. Do it now, or watch our country finally succumb to its wounds and end up like All The Rest.
There's this thing that says "Cockup before Consipiracy" but with the sheer number of cockups coming out of Facebook, one does wonder if they've crossed into Conspiracy some years ago.
I say yes, yes they did. This is kinda the final last straw -- why take peoples' email passwords?
I didn't say Indians are shit for brains. I called their attitude shit for brains. Can't see the difference? One is tarring and feathering an entire race, the other is pointing out that there's a trait that is not compatible with precision work, and they have that trait in spades.
If I tell someone "machine me a piece of bar stock to.00001 inch precision" and they deliver something hacked with a file to.1 inch precision and they tell me it's good enough, that's shit for brains.
If the project required the software to do X, and what they deliver (over budget and over time) falls well short of that and they tell me it's good enough, that's shit for brains.
And guess what? That's what I see from india all the time, in hardware and software. To the point that I refuse to buy support anything made like that, no matter where it came from.
Still think it's racist? Then you can't hear the truth for it hurts you.
I get it, going against the librul groupthink is wrong. Fuck it. Time to call bullshit where there is bullshit, and fuck the overly sensitive who can't handle it.
Listen, my anti-American friend, we learned those lessons long ago, which is why we are the way we are now. We went to school with the natives, the English, the Germans (twice in 25 years), the Soviets, and more. What we learned is that no one is to be trusted, to do the other guy in before he does you. You know, like when you discover as you leave childhood or maybe even earlier that the world is a nasty angry place full of people who wish you harm or take what you have.
So know India has a satellite killer. Message received, you are now worthy of increased scrutiny and intel gathering. As if having nukes didn't already put them on out to-watch list.
But what their littering of space really shows is that still have that retarded lack of attention to detail that also plagues their software. That shit-for-brains "oh it's good enough don't worry about it" attitude that kills in aerospace.
That's why their shit will always be shit. Not because they're Indians, but because they don't strive for perfection. In some fields perfection and precision are must-haves.
Ok, trollski comrade red. I'll bite. The app does not send data anywhere. It stores it locally.
Other than being more convenient to me how is it any more of a risk than a spreadsheet in my pc or a paper and pencil notebook on me desk holding the same info?
Apps were good and interesting for a while, but they've pretty much degraded to ads and analytics, with shit privacy. Fuck that.
That's true, that's true.. but there are still bizarre little apps that are useful and don't send data back to the mothership.. Gun Log SPC is godsend for avid shooters - it's the best gun / ammo / maintenance log i've seen, there's one called Mainspring that lets you tape your earpiece mic to the crystal of a watch so you can time it (a poor man's watch timer), ClockMaster (same but for clocks, better async detection). There's the various SPL meters.
But I agree. Apps have for the most part turned into ad delivery platforms, and most paid apps have disappeared altogether, replaced by subscriptions.
I went on a rampage on my phone, tossed all the freebies with ads, tossed most of the subs, and now refuse to buy sub apps unless it's abso-fucking-lutely necessary. I ended up with a stable core of apps that I use all the time, and that's pretty much it. I do'nt go app hunting in the app store like when I first got a smartphone 10 years ago. Now I go look when I have a specific need to fill that nothing else can do. Like Watch Tracker.
My next app? a VPN of some sort. Time to deny AT&T all the info I can. Proton seems to rub the ussr the wrong way, so I'll take it.
Hell, I had a 115 MPH limiter on my 240SX and it was not a significant issue in normal life, even though that was a sports car. It was gear-limited to about 124 anyway.
Most of my cars have been utterly incapable to hit 140. my Rx-7 tapped out at about 130, top gear at redline ('84 GSL-SE). My miata barely kissed 125, that was drag-limited. My Rx-8 is the only missle I had, it felt nailed down at nearly 130 when I let up on the gas when I came to my senses. Some guy in Germany posted a pic in winter in the autobahn, 152 at near-redline in top gear.
How to put this.. I'm not interested in top speed, I"m interested in "does this car make me giggle like a madman when I fling it around a corner or take off from a light". What I abhor is either the guvmint or the carmaker deciding, for me, to limit it. I don't care if I'm drag-limited. That's not the government or the maker saying "this fast, and no faster." I kinda let the Krauts slide with their 155mph, because honestly by 130 things get weird. I will admit that I've not driven a proper fast car like a Bugatti. I bet that feels calm and collected at 200.
It's the principle of the thing for me. Like most Canon cameras being almost as capable as its brothers, but artificially prevented by software.
Many here are saying this is the way of the future, that all cars will be like this. Good thing by then I"ll be pushing up the daisies. (then again, with my luck, I'll live to 105 and have to suffer through this.. bullshit.. of protecting people from themselves)
Instead of airbags, we shoulda had put a 6" steel spike on the steering hub. "You wanna drive without a seatbelt? ORLY?!" And let natural selection do its thing.
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Since when are comments deleted?
I read /. at -1 routinely, and not just when I moderate. Comments are indeed being deleted. Seen plenty of -1 comments go away, usually racist rants. But they leave the swastika banners.
And since when? Since the Arabs bought this place.. I don't remember this happening during the Taco era or during the previous owners to the Arabs.
As a Christian, I insulted a Muslim on Youtube.
What if,
As a Muslim, I insulted a Christian on Youtube.
Please discuss in this First-Amendment, Free-Speech Zone for all....
You'd be a moron on either case.
His theoretical has merit:
If as a Christian you insult a Muslim on youtube, you're a horrible privileged white male patriarch gun-loving homophobe hell bent on oppressing others, and you'll likely be banned / buried / demonetized.
If as a Muslim you insult a Christian on youtube you're a woke trans gay hoplohobe minority victim who is using your freedom of expression to try to help right a wrong, and you'll be promoted and become the next Youtube Sensation and run for Congress
Did I stereotype enough there to satisfy and piss off both camps at once? Yay?
Fucking thing is bollocks anyway. A social cancer that needs to be cut off. All of it. Facetwit, Youtube, Instadumb... burn them all and replace them with going outside and playing for a while. Ride a bike. Read a book under a tree. Or maybe even talk to people for realz.
Very simple to work around this problem: Don't even look at items with obviously Chinese or made-up non-sensical names like QUONGWHY or FEEMII or WTFOMGBBQ. Another dead giveaway that it's a direct-from-China vendor is the laughably bad grammar on the descriptions and other writeups. Very simple. Avoid them, don't give them a red penny.
While you're at it, if you're looking for common stuff like belts or towels or wallets, you know, that kinda thing - tack "made in usa" to the end of your search string. You might be surprised. And use fucking common sense, dont' support fakebeard hipsters selling wallets for 300 bucks.
Fuck China's government and industry. Help rebuild ours.
The Underground Press.
Long before this was a free country, our Revolution (the War of Insurrection, whatever the fuck you want to call what we started in 1776) was fueled by printing presses, literally underground. In basements. In the back of shops. That kind of thing.
If the Internet is censored, well, there's still ink and paper. Shoving leaflets at passerby did contribute greatly to ending the Vietnam war.
What, you think it couldn't work?
Sometimes the oldest ways are still the best ways.
Fuck censorship. Fuck it with a splintered phone pole.
Other than convenient content delivery and a means to expedite, mail order, what has the Internet done for us lately anyway? Maybe it's time to just cut the cancerous part away.
Listen, my point is, if you really need a cop on every corner or a gun to feel safe do your family a favour and move to a safe country.
Like England, who disarmed their populace and allow no firearms AND has ridiculous knife laws now has knife-murder problem?
Beware any government who wishes to disarm its people. If you can't understand that, you don't understand freedom.
Two front-page dupes in the same day.
Aren't your Arabian overlords paying you enough to get decent sleep and / or caffeine?
I know dupes are a time-honored /. tradition, but for fuck's sake, people... y'know, nevermind. Par for the course for 21-st century. No one gives a fuck about quality anymore.
Reality shows are killing cable for a lot of us. That, plus channel drift.
I think the drift was caused by the reality show, and as another poster pointed out, the cost for reality TV is less than for "scripted" TV. So of course all the studios went for the cheapest which also panders to the lowest.
Philo T. already had a dim view of his invention by 1969, but if he saw what's become of it, he'd die all over again.
Internet's headed the same way, I"m afraid. The old forum "one guy says, the rest parrots" is well and alive and now a thousand-headed Medusa with Facetwit and Instadumb.
You got a point... right now, you'll need Sling TV, Netflix, Amazon, CBS All Access, HBO Go, AND Hulu to cover all of the shows most people want to watch.
Need? No. Want? Not even. I'm not Most People, I fucking HATE reality shows, I hate daytime TV, I hate cooking shows and other than F1, the Reno Air Races and a few other oddballs, I fucking HATE sports. Why should I pay to get all of that just so I can enjoy what *I* want?
I have Netflix because legacy DVD subscriber here. I have Amazon because I have Prime from when it started years ago. HBO? No. Hulu? Ok I have Hulu. And Crunchyroll because I love anime. I don't have any other services. Just Netflix, Prime, Crunchyroll.
Soon, you'll get to add Disney TV and Apple TV + to that list. Add up all those subscription fees, and now you're paying a hell of a lot more than you paid for cable.
Will I? Says who? Says you? You don't know me. You don't know how I consume media. Instead of forking $x.xx to Disney every month, I'll do it as I always have: When they make a film I like, I buy it on blu-ray. The streaming is secondary, if ever, to me.
People asked for All La Carte TV... now they can get it. Let's see if they enjoy it as much as they thought they would.
I'm enjoy it much, thanks, now that I'm free from the yoke that was the Comcast bill. For "preferred" cable or whatever they called their middle-tier service + HBO + Showtime and "HD Tech" and "DVR" and a 2nd outlet I never did use, I was getting nailed to the wall to the tune of $230. I estimate 50 to 75 of that was internet. Let's assume 70: I just freed myself $160 bucks.
Of that $160, I'm already paying 12 for Hulu, 7 for Crunchyroll, Prime is included in my Prime sub, and Netflix DVD is 30. So a grand total of 49 bucks in "a la carte" internet "TV"
That's 111 bucks I get to keep a month compared to last month.
Do I "Need" any other services? Nah. I don't particularly care for any TV studio's current works.
The only reason I have Hulu is cartoons.
Meh, I'm "older" and I finally cut the cord Saturday. Gave Comcast all their gear back.
Other than the amazing world of gumball, the odd adult swim thing and f1 racing I wasn't watching tv at all
What killed tv for me was the reality shows. Killed it dead.
Australia is run by a Murdoch-backed right wing government. But don't let that stop you pretending it's the "left" because they want to take... uh your right to die outside a hospital you can't afford to use away.
Australias Right Wing just did this.
But this is what our Left Wing wants. Get it? UNderstand my post now?
You don't seem to realize that the right wing is in control of the Australian Parliament, but then again you don't seem to notice that the push to regulate social media is bipartisan.
You don't realize that this is what OUR LEFT (not yours, ours) wants. Censor and squelch everything that doesn't fit the narrative.
Honestly our right would love censorship too, but traditionally have been averse at doing so. Except for titties. Can't show titties.
should have bought AirBus
AF 443.
The Paris Air Show lawnmower, AF 296 (And in that one, investigators allegedly altered blackbox data to frame the pilot because heavens no, we can't have FBW impuned in the international spotlight after crashing 1 of 3 at the world's biggest airshow. Vive la France!)
The sad truth is that now Boeing is just as shitty as Airbus, because Boeing now behaves like McDonnel Douglas did. Why? It's Douglas "leadership" that took over Boeing post-merger, and now Boeing is accountant-driven, not engineer-driven. Anytime you subjugate engineering to the beancounters this happens.
I am so dissapointed with Boeing ever since the slippage started on the 787. The rollout for that one was of an empty shell, unlike all other rollouts before it. Shameful. Live it up, shareholders, live it up, your short-term greed fucked up what was America's best, most visible product.
Maybe it's time to buy Sukhoi. Or maybe Lockheed can be persuaded, they've not built any jetliners since the L1011.
You see this? This is where this country is headed if the "left" is allowed to run the United States.
Do you want that?
I'm sure the simpering cowards that make up the Democrat's base is all for this level of censorship.
Mod me down, but what I say is true, and cannot be silenced or suppressed.
Heavens no, let's *not* address the actual problem, let's instead ban everything and anything that can cause offense to anyone at all, or theoretically "radicalize" people.
What's next, ban how-to videos on car repairs? We MUST protect the innocent dealerships! We simply CANNOT allow the populace to be armed with spanners and screwdrivers!
America is *this* close of falling for this shit. Don't let it. Start now.
Most orgs are bleeped up. Dilbert is a documentary
To the point where except for one shining solitary exception, every single commercial venture I've worked for leaves me shaking my head wondering, sometimes aloud, "How the FUCK does this place even stay in business?!"
even Apple reads emails now to determine a Trust Score[0]) would normally be more guarded.
Even in the /. article about that it was said that what apple does is see how many emails and calls are made from the device to detect sudden changes in usage that could signal a compromised device -- not that they're reading your mail.
I'm not saying they're not, but what I'm saying is don't say things in a way that gives the wrong impression. This is how rumors and half-truths get started.
or do you really have the feeling that you are still one united nation under the same flag?
Nope, we're divided, and hard. I think it was Vietnam that did the initial seismic split and it's only gotten worse. My sig is an oblique reference to that era. I came up with it after noticing that all our present ills can be traced mostly to that year, or more generally the decade of 1965 - 1975.
People on all sides - left, right, up, down - and all permutations that encourage widening this divide are the real traitors... although I will concede the lies of the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon admins over Vietnam are what did it. They threw the first punch.
The traitors are those who drive the wedges that have split us, and the criminals are those who profit from it. On all sides. Am I being clear? I detest the right and the left, although I consider the left more dangerous to our country because they seek to dismantle what little remains of it. As the saying goes, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." In their misguided effort to protect the environment and "raise all boats" they'll drown us all.
Fight the split, people. Get rid of the traitors and criminals who split us and profit from it. No matter what party they're in. Do it now, or watch our country finally succumb to its wounds and end up like All The Rest.
There's this thing that says "Cockup before Consipiracy" but with the sheer number of cockups coming out of Facebook, one does wonder if they've crossed into Conspiracy some years ago.
I say yes, yes they did. This is kinda the final last straw -- why take peoples' email passwords?
Selective reading comprehension fail much?
I didn't say Indians are shit for brains. I called their attitude shit for brains. Can't see the difference? One is tarring and feathering an entire race, the other is pointing out that there's a trait that is not compatible with precision work, and they have that trait in spades.
If I tell someone "machine me a piece of bar stock to .00001 inch precision" and they deliver something hacked with a file to .1 inch precision and they tell me it's good enough, that's shit for brains.
If the project required the software to do X, and what they deliver (over budget and over time) falls well short of that and they tell me it's good enough, that's shit for brains.
And guess what? That's what I see from india all the time, in hardware and software. To the point that I refuse to buy support anything made like that, no matter where it came from.
Still think it's racist? Then you can't hear the truth for it hurts you.
I get it, going against the librul groupthink is wrong. Fuck it. Time to call bullshit where there is bullshit, and fuck the overly sensitive who can't handle it.
Much hatred, such wow.
Listen, my anti-American friend, we learned those lessons long ago, which is why we are the way we are now. We went to school with the natives, the English, the Germans (twice in 25 years), the Soviets, and more. What we learned is that no one is to be trusted, to do the other guy in before he does you. You know, like when you discover as you leave childhood or maybe even earlier that the world is a nasty angry place full of people who wish you harm or take what you have.
So know India has a satellite killer. Message received, you are now worthy of increased scrutiny and intel gathering. As if having nukes didn't already put them on out to-watch list.
But what their littering of space really shows is that still have that retarded lack of attention to detail that also plagues their software. That shit-for-brains "oh it's good enough don't worry about it" attitude that kills in aerospace.
That's why their shit will always be shit. Not because they're Indians, but because they don't strive for perfection. In some fields perfection and precision are must-haves.
Ok, trollski comrade red. I'll bite. The app does not send data anywhere. It stores it locally.
Other than being more convenient to me how is it any more of a risk than a spreadsheet in my pc or a paper and pencil notebook on me desk holding the same info?
There's properly paranoid and then there's you.
Apps were good and interesting for a while, but they've pretty much degraded to ads and analytics, with shit privacy. Fuck that.
That's true, that's true.. but there are still bizarre little apps that are useful and don't send data back to the mothership.. Gun Log SPC is godsend for avid shooters - it's the best gun / ammo / maintenance log i've seen, there's one called Mainspring that lets you tape your earpiece mic to the crystal of a watch so you can time it (a poor man's watch timer), ClockMaster (same but for clocks, better async detection). There's the various SPL meters.
But I agree. Apps have for the most part turned into ad delivery platforms, and most paid apps have disappeared altogether, replaced by subscriptions.
I went on a rampage on my phone, tossed all the freebies with ads, tossed most of the subs, and now refuse to buy sub apps unless it's abso-fucking-lutely necessary. I ended up with a stable core of apps that I use all the time, and that's pretty much it. I do'nt go app hunting in the app store like when I first got a smartphone 10 years ago. Now I go look when I have a specific need to fill that nothing else can do. Like Watch Tracker.
My next app? a VPN of some sort. Time to deny AT&T all the info I can. Proton seems to rub the ussr the wrong way, so I'll take it.
Toe the line's always been about conformity / uniformity. I learned it in the military, and before that in school. "Line up, toes on the line"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Dunno what word to use to express your sentiment. Pushing the limit?
It's the least they could do after the NSA was caught red handed systematically backdooring Cisco hardware.
You know, espionage requires that sometimes you tap peoples' lines, steam their mail open, and r00t their routers.
If NSA did that to everybody indiscrimnately, boo, bad agency.
If they did to enemies of the USA, or friends of enemies of the USA, then more power to them.
It's dirty business but it has to be done.
Are you going to argue that a country should take zero steps to protect itself?
towing the US line
TOEING the line. As in y'all stand nice and neat toes on the white line so you're all the same.
"Towing the line makes no sense", and neither does making any business investments in Britain for the next half-decade.
Brexiters ruined that country, businesses hate FUD more than anything else. All Brexit has done is poison England for business.
Hell, I had a 115 MPH limiter on my 240SX and it was not a significant issue in normal life, even though that was a sports car. It was gear-limited to about 124 anyway.
Most of my cars have been utterly incapable to hit 140. my Rx-7 tapped out at about 130, top gear at redline ('84 GSL-SE). My miata barely kissed 125, that was drag-limited. My Rx-8 is the only missle I had, it felt nailed down at nearly 130 when I let up on the gas when I came to my senses. Some guy in Germany posted a pic in winter in the autobahn, 152 at near-redline in top gear.
How to put this.. I'm not interested in top speed, I"m interested in "does this car make me giggle like a madman when I fling it around a corner or take off from a light". What I abhor is either the guvmint or the carmaker deciding, for me, to limit it. I don't care if I'm drag-limited. That's not the government or the maker saying "this fast, and no faster." I kinda let the Krauts slide with their 155mph, because honestly by 130 things get weird. I will admit that I've not driven a proper fast car like a Bugatti. I bet that feels calm and collected at 200.
It's the principle of the thing for me. Like most Canon cameras being almost as capable as its brothers, but artificially prevented by software.
Many here are saying this is the way of the future, that all cars will be like this. Good thing by then I"ll be pushing up the daisies. (then again, with my luck, I'll live to 105 and have to suffer through this.. bullshit.. of protecting people from themselves)
Instead of airbags, we shoulda had put a 6" steel spike on the steering hub. "You wanna drive without a seatbelt? ORLY?!" And let natural selection do its thing.