Lync was never replaced by Skype. It was rebranded Skype for Business. Lync/Skype for Business was always lagging functionality found elsewhere. Slack has just come on MS' radar as a target. The problem for MS, is that they know they need to compete, but don't really know why. Which is why they keep changing focus.
I don't buy bottled water, for the most part. I drink filtered water I have at home. So I don't know about bottled water other than even for the cheapest crap, it seems expensive. I do know that some places don't even filter the water before bottling, which is why I don't bother.
But again, I don't have an issue with any company that has secured rights to water and puts in in a bottle and sells it however they want. Seriously, don't give a shit, until it makes people sick and die.
And if bottled water was that unsafe, in general, nobody would buy any.
And designer water is more or less a way to extract money from idiots. But again, I have no problem with that.
what is "Misbehavior? What are you outraged by? What they pay for water? That is none of your business. How much money the make (profit), then don't do business with them. The ethics you have, are yours. Collective Ethics are codified in law.
You say, "I think that this sort of issue affects us all." but then don't elaborate, and I'm at a loss why this matters at all to anyone but the people where the water is, and the people who want Nestle bottled water. You say "ongoing problem for a long time." and yet haven't actually elaborated what the problem is, and why anyone should care.
Are you upset that you can't get the deal for the water? have you tried? Are you upset that they are making money? Have you tried competing?
You say "I'm not outraged" and " this has been an ongoing problem" which seems a bit related. Don't you think?
Seriously, I have no idea what the "ongoing problem" actually is. You say "But it deserves to be called out." but I have no idea what for. Again, you haven't articulated it.
I don't blame anyone. Why is there "blame" here... for what? What is actually wrong here? They pay for water, at a price that makes it profitable. You, me, my neighbor, just about everyone NOT involved has almost no say in the matter.
I mean, what is "wrong" here? Profit? They pay "next to nothing" for something they resale? None of that is anyone's business except Nestle and where they get their water from. Would we be okay with hundreds of jobs disappearing because we're butt hurt over something that is not any of our business?
Here's a thought, instead of finding some "outrage" over something that has nothing to do with anyone, we go back to minding our own business. If we don't want Nestle's water, then fine, don't buy any. I am sure Coca-Cola would sell us some of their water (same deal though, nearly free water...blah blah). Or Shasta Spring water, or Alhambra or we can get ourselves a Brita or Pur or ZeroRes filter.
Here is the deal, what "illegal" activity have they found?
Does that illegal activity include Democrat operatives conspiring with Ukraine to create a fake dossier on Trump (the "never mind moment") . Or the Russian Clinton pay to play quid pro quo deals while she was SoS?
Or James Clapper's lies (caught, multiple times now)?
I have YET to see any evidence, other than "secret sources" and innuendo.
1) It wasn't just Trump the Obama Administration was caught spying on. 2) Even if it was just Trump, that would be bad enough 3) Unmasking by Susan Rice and Samantha Power were unmasking US citizen's names on wiretaps, well outside their jobs. In Samantha Power's case, an average of one unmasking per working day. 4) IRS targeting opposition
Sharyl Attkisson and James Rosen are two more that we KNOW about. But yeah, you won't hear that on MSNBC or CNN.
Because you haven't heard of these things, doesn't mean I am a "dumbfuck", it means you need to get your news from places other than where you're comfort levels are. I read HufPo, Politico, NYT, watch CNN, MSNBC, in addition to other sources, not because I agree with their biases, but rather because I don't.
An Unchallenged view is unworthy of consideration.
I've lived long enough to see "Disruptive" tech a number of times over. And IMHO to be truly "disruptive", the tech involved must have some unexpected application. I don't see Amazon or Netflix as being disruptive per se (they are disrupting existing paradigms), because they are inertial companies.
The PC itself was disruptive. The internet (IP) is disruptive. They were disruptive, because it allowed people to do things that were not even considered before. Those two things are the basis for Netflix and Amazon today.
1) I didn't vote for Trump. Never would have, never will. 2) It is clear that the Trump administration is better than Obama, but then again, that isn't saying much. After Trump, there won't be any Obama Legacy. 3) There will be no currency in a decade, it will all be digital or Crypto. Cash will be outlawed by Bernie who will need to tax everything to pay for all the "Free" things he tends to promise. Yes, I think he'll likely win in 3 years. We'll be just like Venezuela in 10 years. Its either Bernie or Al Franken and Jill Stein, running as "Franken/Stein 2020"
Just one minor complaint on your rant (most of which I agree with).
The SCOTUS ruled based on the actual law, not what people think the law ought to be. The corporate charter laws are fairly clear on the language.
The easy fix is to pass the ability to revoke corporate charters for criminal activity. Simply revoking the charter would essentially liquidate and invalidate all assets leaving the shareholders empty handed. This would effectively create a culture of ethical profits, not amoral(immoral) profits.
You're right, that is the Israeli's job. The US' job is to figure out how much the Obama Administration was spying on its own citizens. More revelations this week that more US Citizens were being spied on, and yet, barely a peep out of the news organization.
If this was the FIRST time they were caught, I could understand the slow walking it, but it isn't the first, or second....
The only thing the Chinese Government has done, is chased away any possibility of control, by driving BC underground, where it will thrive.
Unless the Chinese Government starts huge mining operations in order to actually co-opt the entire blockchain processing, they haven't done anything other than annoy people.
This will get worse and worse until the people who are supposedly guarding the data get financially destroyed when any breach occurs, and we can start locking up hackers. And since hackers can more or less remain anonymous, locking them up is hardly a deterrent when any script kiddy can hack any system from Mom's basement.
There is no leadership in the "alt-right" anymore than there is leadership in the ANTIFA movement. On purpose. They are mirror images of each other, both being Fascist in nature.
And by Fascist in nature, I mean in the "We don't like you, we are going to beat you up and shut you down" nature.The only difference is, there are more people who support the ANTIFA crybabies (those who need their "service animal" to comfort themselves when they get arrested for rioting).
As for Pepe the Frog, and the Alt-Right, thanks to the ANTIFA movement, I know way more than I wish I did. Kind of a corollary to the Streisand Effect.
Net neutrality has nothing to do with broadband competition.
Sure it does. The whole reason people want Net Neutrality is so that Comcast can't throttle Netflix. Because there is no competition (see Franchise Agreements) for your internet, Comcast is willing and able to throttle bandwidth according to however it chooses. If you had a choice between Comcast throttling Netflix, and Pirate Internet with "Pure Stream Technology" (no throttling anything) which one are you gonna choose?
The problem with Net Neutrality, is it is a government based fix for a government based problem. Get government out of the way, and allow competition at the last mile, that problem goes away.
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Prezzi is a good (not perfect) replacement for most people wanting to do presentations.
Lync was never replaced by Skype. It was rebranded Skype for Business. Lync/Skype for Business was always lagging functionality found elsewhere. Slack has just come on MS' radar as a target. The problem for MS, is that they know they need to compete, but don't really know why. Which is why they keep changing focus.
I fully understand why Microsoft is trying to go down this route
Yes, so do I. It is the latest of MS saying "Us Too!!!!!"
We will stop seeing these kinds of articles, since it is a daily occurrence, and just assume someone somewhere was hacked in a major data breach.
hyperbole. How about we not use it to make points. Hmmm?
I don't buy bottled water, for the most part. I drink filtered water I have at home. So I don't know about bottled water other than even for the cheapest crap, it seems expensive. I do know that some places don't even filter the water before bottling, which is why I don't bother.
But again, I don't have an issue with any company that has secured rights to water and puts in in a bottle and sells it however they want. Seriously, don't give a shit, until it makes people sick and die.
And if bottled water was that unsafe, in general, nobody would buy any.
And designer water is more or less a way to extract money from idiots. But again, I have no problem with that.
what is "Misbehavior? What are you outraged by? What they pay for water? That is none of your business. How much money the make (profit), then don't do business with them. The ethics you have, are yours. Collective Ethics are codified in law.
You say, "I think that this sort of issue affects us all." but then don't elaborate, and I'm at a loss why this matters at all to anyone but the people where the water is, and the people who want Nestle bottled water. You say "ongoing problem for a long time." and yet haven't actually elaborated what the problem is, and why anyone should care.
Are you upset that you can't get the deal for the water? have you tried?
Are you upset that they are making money? Have you tried competing?
You say "I'm not outraged" and " this has been an ongoing problem" which seems a bit related. Don't you think?
Seriously, I have no idea what the "ongoing problem" actually is. You say "But it deserves to be called out." but I have no idea what for. Again, you haven't articulated it.
I don't blame anyone. Why is there "blame" here ... for what? What is actually wrong here? They pay for water, at a price that makes it profitable. You, me, my neighbor, just about everyone NOT involved has almost no say in the matter.
I mean, what is "wrong" here? Profit? They pay "next to nothing" for something they resale? None of that is anyone's business except Nestle and where they get their water from. Would we be okay with hundreds of jobs disappearing because we're butt hurt over something that is not any of our business?
Here's a thought, instead of finding some "outrage" over something that has nothing to do with anyone, we go back to minding our own business. If we don't want Nestle's water, then fine, don't buy any. I am sure Coca-Cola would sell us some of their water (same deal though, nearly free water ...blah blah). Or Shasta Spring water, or Alhambra or we can get ourselves a Brita or Pur or ZeroRes filter.
Have you heard about the dangers of Di-Hydrogen Monoxide? That shit is for REAL!
Yeah, that's actually funny. they "I can't argue on facts, so I'll call NAZI!!!!!" argument. Nicely done
Here is the deal, what "illegal" activity have they found?
Does that illegal activity include Democrat operatives conspiring with Ukraine to create a fake dossier on Trump (the "never mind moment") . Or the Russian Clinton pay to play quid pro quo deals while she was SoS?
Or James Clapper's lies (caught, multiple times now)?
I have YET to see any evidence, other than "secret sources" and innuendo.
1) It wasn't just Trump the Obama Administration was caught spying on.
2) Even if it was just Trump, that would be bad enough
3) Unmasking by Susan Rice and Samantha Power were unmasking US citizen's names on wiretaps, well outside their jobs. In Samantha Power's case, an average of one unmasking per working day.
4) IRS targeting opposition
Sharyl Attkisson and James Rosen are two more that we KNOW about. But yeah, you won't hear that on MSNBC or CNN.
Because you haven't heard of these things, doesn't mean I am a "dumbfuck", it means you need to get your news from places other than where you're comfort levels are. I read HufPo, Politico, NYT, watch CNN, MSNBC, in addition to other sources, not because I agree with their biases, but rather because I don't.
An Unchallenged view is unworthy of consideration.
I've lived long enough to see "Disruptive" tech a number of times over. And IMHO to be truly "disruptive", the tech involved must have some unexpected application. I don't see Amazon or Netflix as being disruptive per se (they are disrupting existing paradigms), because they are inertial companies.
The PC itself was disruptive. The internet (IP) is disruptive. They were disruptive, because it allowed people to do things that were not even considered before. Those two things are the basis for Netflix and Amazon today.
You are correct, it is all a bunch of government definitions for the purposes of regulations to control / manipulate commerce.
1) I didn't vote for Trump. Never would have, never will.
2) It is clear that the Trump administration is better than Obama, but then again, that isn't saying much. After Trump, there won't be any Obama Legacy.
3) There will be no currency in a decade, it will all be digital or Crypto. Cash will be outlawed by Bernie who will need to tax everything to pay for all the "Free" things he tends to promise. Yes, I think he'll likely win in 3 years. We'll be just like Venezuela in 10 years. Its either Bernie or Al Franken and Jill Stein, running as "Franken/Stein 2020"
She has blamed a lot of people, probably most of America at this point.
http://insider.foxnews.com/201...
Yeah, and the football team gained way more yards and still lost, we should change the way the game is scored.
Yeah, and the baseball team had way more runners on base and still lost, we should change the way the game is scored.
Just one minor complaint on your rant (most of which I agree with).
The SCOTUS ruled based on the actual law, not what people think the law ought to be. The corporate charter laws are fairly clear on the language.
The easy fix is to pass the ability to revoke corporate charters for criminal activity. Simply revoking the charter would essentially liquidate and invalidate all assets leaving the shareholders empty handed. This would effectively create a culture of ethical profits, not amoral(immoral) profits.
They'll run Bernie instead, with his Free everything for everyone policies.
You're right, that is the Israeli's job. The US' job is to figure out how much the Obama Administration was spying on its own citizens. More revelations this week that more US Citizens were being spied on, and yet, barely a peep out of the news organization.
If this was the FIRST time they were caught, I could understand the slow walking it, but it isn't the first, or second ....
The only thing the Chinese Government has done, is chased away any possibility of control, by driving BC underground, where it will thrive.
Unless the Chinese Government starts huge mining operations in order to actually co-opt the entire blockchain processing, they haven't done anything other than annoy people.
This will get worse and worse until the people who are supposedly guarding the data get financially destroyed when any breach occurs, and we can start locking up hackers. And since hackers can more or less remain anonymous, locking them up is hardly a deterrent when any script kiddy can hack any system from Mom's basement.
Lets just assume that everything has been hacked, and proceed from there.
Because if it hasn't been hacked, then it will be. And if you think you haven't been hacked, you probably already have been.
This is the safest assumption of all, and is more than likely to be accurate at some point.
There is no leadership in the "alt-right" anymore than there is leadership in the ANTIFA movement. On purpose. They are mirror images of each other, both being Fascist in nature.
And by Fascist in nature, I mean in the "We don't like you, we are going to beat you up and shut you down" nature.The only difference is, there are more people who support the ANTIFA crybabies (those who need their "service animal" to comfort themselves when they get arrested for rioting).
As for Pepe the Frog, and the Alt-Right, thanks to the ANTIFA movement, I know way more than I wish I did. Kind of a corollary to the Streisand Effect.
Net neutrality has nothing to do with broadband competition.
Sure it does. The whole reason people want Net Neutrality is so that Comcast can't throttle Netflix. Because there is no competition (see Franchise Agreements) for your internet, Comcast is willing and able to throttle bandwidth according to however it chooses. If you had a choice between Comcast throttling Netflix, and Pirate
Internet with "Pure Stream Technology" (no throttling anything) which one are you gonna choose?
The problem with Net Neutrality, is it is a government based fix for a government based problem. Get government out of the way, and allow competition at the last mile, that problem goes away.