As part of my retirement plan, I will seriously brush up on COBOL in the year 9995. In about the year 9997 everyone will start getting worried about the Y10K problem. People will think Y10K will be the end of civilization as we switch over to five digit years. There will be lots of COBOL work available.
It's a great idea! The government would just love if there were tunnels that linked up every home and building. Especially of that network of tunnels were not used by the general public the way roads are. Sneaking into homes and buildings would be no more difficult than a government agent posing as a delivery driver.
An alternative theory is that such an underground network might be the start of humanity's migration to underground after Trump gets the idea in his tiny head that nuclear winter is a good solution for global warming.
If one must to go pick up stuff at a store it means:
1. venturing out of the comfort of the basement.
2. having to be outdoors even if briefly.
3. the potential hazard of being exposed to sunlight, unless picking up at night.
4. the necessity of wearing clothing.
5. needing to have some minimum level of personal hygene.
Opting for delivery allows one to experience the excitement of tracking the shipment, and updating the tracking page every 60 seconds.
Polar extreme positions are bad. Having the government take over everything is just as bad as having no regulations on anything. Why don't we just let corporations poison our air, water and food? It's all for profit right!
I used the words: reasonable restraints
There is probably some reasonable middle ground that reasonable adults can find consensus on between no regulation and total regulation.
Corruption of government is the problem. Not Capitalism. What we have now is capitalism run amok because the regulating force of government has been removed allowing capitalism to run amok without reasonable restraints.
1. I don't trust corporations.
2. The government should (reasonably) regulate corporations, in the public interest.
3. The corporations now run the government. So according to (1) above, I can not trust the government.
This common measuring stick you speak of would enable consumers to make an objective comparison of products' energy use. Fair comparisons tend to put one product, the inferior product, at a disadvantage. This affects profits and jobs. And people will say OMG! the government is involved in the market so it must be bad.
Both Hershey Chocolate and Prestone Antifreeze are very sweet to the taste. But the safety of each should be subjectively measured in a way that doesn't put either product at a disadvantage when marketed as a snack treat.
Maybe the Windows executable loader doesn't care. But what about the bloat loader that runs when you first power up the machine?
Even if it takes no cpu cycles, it is a waste of disk space that could have been used to hold pr0n. Think of the space that could be saved merely by shortening Microsoft to MS everywhere it appears.
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As part of my retirement plan, I will seriously brush up on COBOL in the year 9995. In about the year 9997 everyone will start getting worried about the Y10K problem. People will think Y10K will be the end of civilization as we switch over to five digit years. There will be lots of COBOL work available.
What? What? Oh, wait. You said ducks. Nevermind.
It's a great idea! The government would just love if there were tunnels that linked up every home and building. Especially of that network of tunnels were not used by the general public the way roads are. Sneaking into homes and buildings would be no more difficult than a government agent posing as a delivery driver.
An alternative theory is that such an underground network might be the start of humanity's migration to underground after Trump gets the idea in his tiny head that nuclear winter is a good solution for global warming.
If one must to go pick up stuff at a store it means:
1. venturing out of the comfort of the basement.
2. having to be outdoors even if briefly.
3. the potential hazard of being exposed to sunlight, unless picking up at night.
4. the necessity of wearing clothing.
5. needing to have some minimum level of personal hygene.
Opting for delivery allows one to experience the excitement of tracking the shipment, and updating the tracking page every 60 seconds.
> We need oompa loompas. The trucks are smaller to park and carry multiple workers.
That may be true, but the president has other duties more important than delivery truck driver.
Yes, I agree. I was being sarcastic.
Polar extreme positions are bad. Having the government take over everything is just as bad as having no regulations on anything. Why don't we just let corporations poison our air, water and food? It's all for profit right!
I used the words: reasonable restraints
There is probably some reasonable middle ground that reasonable adults can find consensus on between no regulation and total regulation.
Did you sell it to a president as a hand enlargement?
You say that like it would be a bad thing.
The mass production of bones would mean more and lower cost Jell-O dessert. (Clue: it's made from bones.)
I think growing larger hands would be important for public appearances.
There would also be some utility in growing a brain. A conscience. A soul.
It is not dishonest if it is disclosed in the fine print on page 223 of the service agreement you signed.
Corruption of government is the problem. Not Capitalism. What we have now is capitalism run amok because the regulating force of government has been removed allowing capitalism to run amok without reasonable restraints.
Not if they use ROT13. It would take them more than 10 seconds just to find the website that decodes it.
The managers that run important infrastructure already have air gaps. (between their ears)
Right now, I'm binging on Deep Space 9 on Netflix. I am not worried about writers striking anything or each other.
I wish I had mod points. Best definition of "absolutely necessary" ever. But The Tea Party story is even better.
Uh, no. Trump should look into a Coal powered alarm clock.
> You really trust the government to not do that?
1. I don't trust corporations.
2. The government should (reasonably) regulate corporations, in the public interest.
3. The corporations now run the government. So according to (1) above, I can not trust the government.
If air gaps are not possible, then at least change which port Telnet is running on.
This common measuring stick you speak of would enable consumers to make an objective comparison of products' energy use. Fair comparisons tend to put one product, the inferior product, at a disadvantage. This affects profits and jobs. And people will say OMG! the government is involved in the market so it must be bad.
Both Hershey Chocolate and Prestone Antifreeze are very sweet to the taste. But the safety of each should be subjectively measured in a way that doesn't put either product at a disadvantage when marketed as a snack treat.
Please define absolutely necessary.
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On an unrelated note, I see that we are again suffering from the
You are going the wrong direction. The idea of changing "Microsoft" to "M$" is to save gigabytes of disk space on every single computer.
Your suggestion of "Microshaft" takes one additional character which would add gigabytes of waste to every computer.
The AARP is sponsoring a study about the environmental impact of the feet of young people upon lawns.
You mean Silence Teaches Farfetched Utterances?
Maybe the Windows executable loader doesn't care. But what about the bloat loader that runs when you first power up the machine?
Even if it takes no cpu cycles, it is a waste of disk space that could have been used to hold pr0n. Think of the space that could be saved merely by shortening Microsoft to MS everywhere it appears.