Just like cash, they can't tell if you give your friend a few coins in return for something. But any company in the business of providing goods and services had better have their books in order. (Even drug dealers pay their taxes if they're smart -- too much attention on them otherwise.) They are going to tax volume sellers and cover the majority of transactions that way. Your piddling little trade doesn't factor into the grand scheme of things.
Think for a minute about how much market share Internet Explorer has had in the past. I didn't say he was a clairvoyant and savant in every area of computing.
Everyone else long ago noticed how MS flatlined when Bill left, besides the fact that he was obviously a visionary and genius (and not half bad at business either). You may disagree with a ton of things he did, and rightly so on many of them, but you can't look at Microsoft's massive rise and Bill's obvious driving of said rise and go "Yeah, Bill leaving MS was the best thing that happened to them". It's patently ridiculous.
Are you really sure that people are more capable of limiting their misdeeds than of adjusting to changing social norms? Have you studied history at all?
That's not about privacy, that's about vulnerability (literally being caught with your pants down). It's an evolved instinct. If you could shit anywhere at any time without any physical risk then the only reason for privacy would be fear of being singled out ("Dude! That's rank!").
Facebook has a fucktonne of information about me... none of which matters. Oh god, someone might show me a relevant ad! Or find out that I said silly things to my friends on the internet! Nobody gives a shit.
Technologies and tools are easy to pick up. You do not need to be taught them in a formal setting. What you do need is knowledge of core software engineering and computer science basics and principles so that you can create quality shit what whatever tools or technologies you end up using. Algorithms and data structures, software architecture, optimization, concurrency, etc. are generally much easier to learn and learn well in a formal setting and will set you up to be a good developer, not another interchangeable hack that never makes anything worthwhile.
...tables? You think it's about being strapped to a table? I certainly do recall several instances where characters were strapped to things but I hardly think that means nothing else happens. Half the episodes are one-off investigations that have a story and resolve by the end. The others built the suspense quite well IMO, you slowly realize more of what's going on and (unlike Lost, from what I hear) there is a solid and definite conclusion to the major arcs.
Why? I initially didn't like the pseudoscience but it is sci-fi after all, not a documentary. You may lack the skill known as "suspension of disbelief".
John Noble was absolutely fantastic. I started to feel that way about the timelines at one point but once the confusion is cleared it's 1 alternate universe plus 1 altered timeline, and the only one who died and came back is Olivia and that was sort of expected (plus she's the main character), so it's not that bad. The reboot has certainly been abused worse than that, in any case.
This is dead on. You'd have to completely ignore the massive evolution the mobile computing sector has gone through in the past several years to think it's static and settled and Android/iOS will split the market 50-50 until the heat death of the universe.
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Just like cash, they can't tell if you give your friend a few coins in return for something. But any company in the business of providing goods and services had better have their books in order. (Even drug dealers pay their taxes if they're smart -- too much attention on them otherwise.) They are going to tax volume sellers and cover the majority of transactions that way. Your piddling little trade doesn't factor into the grand scheme of things.
As we all know, Mercury is not exactly hospitable to life. How many Earthlike planets are orbiting Sunlike stars in more Earth/Mars sized orbits?
Apparently you don't speak to many live human beings.
Think for a minute about how much market share Internet Explorer has had in the past. I didn't say he was a clairvoyant and savant in every area of computing.
Everyone else long ago noticed how MS flatlined when Bill left, besides the fact that he was obviously a visionary and genius (and not half bad at business either). You may disagree with a ton of things he did, and rightly so on many of them, but you can't look at Microsoft's massive rise and Bill's obvious driving of said rise and go "Yeah, Bill leaving MS was the best thing that happened to them". It's patently ridiculous.
You seem to be saying that living in the US is the problem.
Who are you, the Pope?
Things people say about you are not copyrighted works produced by yourself.
So you expect an extreme minority of do-gooders to somehow come into power and wealth and suppress the flawed majority?
Are you really sure that people are more capable of limiting their misdeeds than of adjusting to changing social norms? Have you studied history at all?
That's not about privacy, that's about vulnerability (literally being caught with your pants down). It's an evolved instinct. If you could shit anywhere at any time without any physical risk then the only reason for privacy would be fear of being singled out ("Dude! That's rank!").
Wow that shows as hunter2 to me
Facebook has a fucktonne of information about me ... none of which matters. Oh god, someone might show me a relevant ad! Or find out that I said silly things to my friends on the internet! Nobody gives a shit.
Is there another name for rocks that orbit rocks?
There is a minifridge standard? Does Microsoft ignore it?
Technologies and tools are easy to pick up. You do not need to be taught them in a formal setting. What you do need is knowledge of core software engineering and computer science basics and principles so that you can create quality shit what whatever tools or technologies you end up using. Algorithms and data structures, software architecture, optimization, concurrency, etc. are generally much easier to learn and learn well in a formal setting and will set you up to be a good developer, not another interchangeable hack that never makes anything worthwhile.
What, because cash and paper documents are oh-so-secure?
...tables? You think it's about being strapped to a table? I certainly do recall several instances where characters were strapped to things but I hardly think that means nothing else happens. Half the episodes are one-off investigations that have a story and resolve by the end. The others built the suspense quite well IMO, you slowly realize more of what's going on and (unlike Lost, from what I hear) there is a solid and definite conclusion to the major arcs.
Why? I initially didn't like the pseudoscience but it is sci-fi after all, not a documentary. You may lack the skill known as "suspension of disbelief".
Lost is on my list but I haven't watched any of it yet.
You're really going to state that I'm wrong in a matter of entirely subjective opinion without so much as a reason? Really?
Said the AC.
John Noble was absolutely fantastic. I started to feel that way about the timelines at one point but once the confusion is cleared it's 1 alternate universe plus 1 altered timeline, and the only one who died and came back is Olivia and that was sort of expected (plus she's the main character), so it's not that bad. The reboot has certainly been abused worse than that, in any case.
This is dead on. You'd have to completely ignore the massive evolution the mobile computing sector has gone through in the past several years to think it's static and settled and Android/iOS will split the market 50-50 until the heat death of the universe.
Amazon is making money from content and services, not devices.