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Rarely has the dandelion patch been needed as much as these past couple of days.. and this year... and so far, this whole $!@#ing century. I'm so glad Bloom County is back. It was a long dry spell without it. It's only gotten better with age.
Entire generations are forgetting that. It's not just the Millenials -- I'm an "X" and I find most of my friends have shunned physical media wholeheartedly. I look at them like they're crazy.
Streaming and cloud offer no permanence unless one can store local copies of equal quality.
I was shocked about 3 years ago when I wanted to add four more "Benno" DVD shelf towers from Ikea to my existing 10. Benno is the foundation of my home cinema storage. I couldn't find them in the store, it said "order only." So I ordered, and paid a fortune in freight because there's no store pickup for special orders.
SO I got them, put them up, and now, should I want more, i'm screwed unless I buy used. But fortunately, i follow my own storage advice -- whatever you think is adequate, double it.
The point of the anecdote? Physical is dead, no matter how much we try to cling to it. And entire generations are being suckered into believing this and trusting it! Ugh!
But of course, this is what the industry wants! Want that movie? Pay for it for every view! Want that song / record? Pay for it for every listen! Or at least a subscription!
I'm starting to feel physical media was our way of holding "their" content ransom.
My bother's two daughters, both college educated, are like that. They never back up the photos from their phones. They just depend on Facebook. The photos look okay on a phone, not so much on a 24" monitor. And forget about printing them.
I don't know what they're using, but when my iToys back up to iTunes (which everyone seems to hate but works OK for me) the pics are backed up as well, in full rez). This is default behavior. And this is backup to local disc, not iCloud (or any other cloud)
Are they not backing up their phones at all? If so... then this may be a learning experience.
Any genre-saavy company has this. It's nothing new. There was a name for it in the Stone Age -- you know, the BBS and newsgroup days -- the name was "Astroturfing"
1. Have my password vault spew out (hopefully) random noise made up of uppercase, lowercase, numbers and special characters and use that.
2. Just randomly swipe a finger across, up and down and diagonally across my keyboard, hitting this and that and that other thing, while being in my password vault's password field for whatever it is I'm creating.
3. A phrase from a book or film, further obfuscated in some way.
The idea is, however, that no two logins share a password. I don't even know my passwords, I'm at the mercy of my password vault. And no, it's not Keepass.
...or at least as much as an iron grip as Apple allows me.
But I tell ya what -- Facetwat is not on my phone. (yes, Facetwat is my derisive mashup of Facebook and Twitter.) And no, Twitter isn't on my phone. Neither is Tinder, or Snapchat or whatnot. You wanna reach me? Email me. Text me. iMessage me. Or fucking call me.
I honestly think Facetwat is a front for the NSA / FBI. Call be paranoid, call me whack-job, but Facetwat just seems too goddamned convenient.
And for the curious, this post was indeed lubricated liberally by hard carnauba wax and something Scottish and unpronounceable. *
*spent the afternoon waxing the english shitbox, and the early evening with a fine puertorican cigar and something scottish and unpronouncable. And end to a good day, devoid of Facetwat. How peaceful it is!
..Is that the company's sales are up 15% from 2015, and "represents the 10th consecutive year of record results".
Greedy bastards, plain and simple.
There's greed, and then there's greed. Like this.
I personally think once a company goes public, it's over. The owners cash out with a fat wad, then the company gets gutted by buzzword-spewing MBAs desperate to squeeze every penny from every possible place.
But how to fix it? Make it illegal to outsource offshore? Or even outsource in-shore?
It has to be stopped, I just can't think of a non-anti-competitive, blatantly xenophobic and illegal way of stopping it.
He also never ever "used" things - he "leveraged" them.
Man. that's one of my biggest peeves, whether it be in the news, or an interviewee, or a co-worker or boss.. when people start using big words to say simple things.
Utilize vs. Use
Leverage vs. Use
Strategize vs. Plan
And, I heard "embiggen" used in a presentation by the Billing dept, which tripped all my breakers at once and I died laughing such a laugh that I got talked to by my boss later. Fuck 'em, I'm gone from there long ago anyway. It was almost nosebleed-funny!
Will you also streamline production and maximize shareholder value?!
That's MBA-ese, Politically-Correct speech for saying "We're moving production to Indonesia where it will be done by robots, and we're offshoring IT to India and HR to a contractor"
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Rarely has the dandelion patch been needed as much as these past couple of days.. and this year... and so far, this whole $!@#ing century. I'm so glad Bloom County is back. It was a long dry spell without it. It's only gotten better with age.
I wish I could say the same about the world.
Ikea replaced the BENNO with the GNEDBY DVD shelf tower.
Sweet! This must've happened recently. I'm thinking eventually, within a year or two, I'll need 4 more.
Thx for the info!
How quaint! So 20th Century. Imagine, they used to always do photos on paper, or all things....
They'll never see an image slowly appear before your eyes submerged in a tray of developer in a room lit only by an orange lamp..
I miss it, and I don't miss it. My romantic side, the side that likes Rachmaninoff and Beethoven misses it.
My nose doesn't miss it.
Entire generations are forgetting that. It's not just the Millenials -- I'm an "X" and I find most of my friends have shunned physical media wholeheartedly. I look at them like they're crazy.
Streaming and cloud offer no permanence unless one can store local copies of equal quality.
I was shocked about 3 years ago when I wanted to add four more "Benno" DVD shelf towers from Ikea to my existing 10. Benno is the foundation of my home cinema storage. I couldn't find them in the store, it said "order only." So I ordered, and paid a fortune in freight because there's no store pickup for special orders.
SO I got them, put them up, and now, should I want more, i'm screwed unless I buy used. But fortunately, i follow my own storage advice -- whatever you think is adequate, double it.
The point of the anecdote? Physical is dead, no matter how much we try to cling to it. And entire generations are being suckered into believing this and trusting it! Ugh!
But of course, this is what the industry wants! Want that movie? Pay for it for every view! Want that song / record? Pay for it for every listen! Or at least a subscription!
I'm starting to feel physical media was our way of holding "their" content ransom.
My bother's two daughters, both college educated, are like that. They never back up the photos from their phones. They just depend on Facebook. The photos look okay on a phone, not so much on a 24" monitor. And forget about printing them.
I don't know what they're using, but when my iToys back up to iTunes (which everyone seems to hate but works OK for me) the pics are backed up as well, in full rez). This is default behavior. And this is backup to local disc, not iCloud (or any other cloud)
Are they not backing up their phones at all? If so... then this may be a learning experience.
The only winning move is not to play.
...or better yet just dont use recreational drugs....
Are you talking about Caffeine, Nicotine and Alcohol?
Any genre-saavy company has this. It's nothing new. There was a name for it in the Stone Age -- you know, the BBS and newsgroup days -- the name was "Astroturfing"
OK, so that's 3 methods. Math hates me.
1. Have my password vault spew out (hopefully) random noise made up of uppercase, lowercase, numbers and special characters and use that.
2. Just randomly swipe a finger across, up and down and diagonally across my keyboard, hitting this and that and that other thing, while being in my password vault's password field for whatever it is I'm creating.
3. A phrase from a book or film, further obfuscated in some way.
The idea is, however, that no two logins share a password. I don't even know my passwords, I'm at the mercy of my password vault. And no, it's not Keepass.
...or at least as much as an iron grip as Apple allows me.
But I tell ya what -- Facetwat is not on my phone. (yes, Facetwat is my derisive mashup of Facebook and Twitter.) And no, Twitter isn't on my phone. Neither is Tinder, or Snapchat or whatnot. You wanna reach me? Email me. Text me. iMessage me. Or fucking call me.
I honestly think Facetwat is a front for the NSA / FBI. Call be paranoid, call me whack-job, but Facetwat just seems too goddamned convenient.
And for the curious, this post was indeed lubricated liberally by hard carnauba wax and something Scottish and unpronounceable. *
*spent the afternoon waxing the english shitbox, and the early evening with a fine puertorican cigar and something scottish and unpronouncable. And end to a good day, devoid of Facetwat. How peaceful it is!
Is this it? Have we hit Peak Capitalism?
No user serviceable parts inside.
Thanks for the laugh, that's great! So many possibilities for gallows humor with this scar.
What about the Recycle symbol?
My license already says to use my body for science, but hey, that is a cool idea!
"Welcome Aboard"
He did it to get over the "Murmansk Brushing Incident"
If the FBI can see *that* particular tat... we're in deeper shit than we thought.
Heh, you have no idea how close to the mark you are. I had a CABG done TWICE in one night. Left quite a mark.
I intend to get a zipper inked around the scar, and the zipper pull could read "DNR" or "Do Not Resuscitate"
Probably a very 1930's cartoony zipper with a teardrop-shaped pull with DNR would work.
But that won't mean squat until I put it on paper. Which I will. Someday.
No. Anybody who doesn't know the name of the show isn't worth knowing.
Truer words have seldom been spoken.
Flamiel!
Should I also have the show's namey inked in?
"NOT SURE" in barcode around my wrist.
The preview button, it did not save me!
"NOT SURE" (without the quotes) around my wrist. Yup.
(no. not really. If / when I do get inked, it'll be the Warner Bros. and their sister Dot. And it won't be where an FBI camera can see it.)
Well, the May numbers just came out and were abysmal. And to rub in hot sauce into that wound, the prior two months were revised down - sharply.
Lies, Lies and Lies. x.x
..Is that the company's sales are up 15% from 2015, and "represents the 10th consecutive year of record results".
Greedy bastards, plain and simple.
There's greed, and then there's greed. Like this.
I personally think once a company goes public, it's over. The owners cash out with a fat wad, then the company gets gutted by buzzword-spewing MBAs desperate to squeeze every penny from every possible place.
But how to fix it? Make it illegal to outsource offshore? Or even outsource in-shore?
It has to be stopped, I just can't think of a non-anti-competitive, blatantly xenophobic and illegal way of stopping it.
Yeah, so I used a buzzword in the title...
I think it's time I look at an exit strategy from IT. I'm starting to lose the appetite I had for it.
I'm thinking truck driving school, then start driving trucks. Pays less, but I imagine it has less bullshit.
I'm also considering it because it would seem the IT Worker is now an Endangered Species.
He also never ever "used" things - he "leveraged" them.
Man. that's one of my biggest peeves, whether it be in the news, or an interviewee, or a co-worker or boss.. when people start using big words to say simple things.
Utilize vs. Use
Leverage vs. Use
Strategize vs. Plan
And, I heard "embiggen" used in a presentation by the Billing dept, which tripped all my breakers at once and I died laughing such a laugh that I got talked to by my boss later. Fuck 'em, I'm gone from there long ago anyway. It was almost nosebleed-funny!
Will you also streamline production and maximize shareholder value?!
That's MBA-ese, Politically-Correct speech for saying "We're moving production to Indonesia where it will be done by robots, and we're offshoring IT to India and HR to a contractor"
In short: You're fired.