just to avoid FB? Cuz I don't have any social media presence, except for a misguided Linkedin account I made a few years back hoping it would help me get a job but just got me spam.
/ Social media free since '58// except for that stupid linkedin thing in '04, where I thought it might actually help me get a job/// no FB, no snapchat, no instagram, no myspace, no friendz or whatever it was called 15 years ago
Took AT&T years to get the government's attention, but once it got broken up things took off. I remember in, shit, 80/81 I bought a GE flipphone I could plug into my phone outlet. I paid something like $80 for it, and didn't have to pay AT&T $10/month for a regular phone. Kept that damned phone for a good 10-20 years, until I could replace it with a wireless phone.
Alphabet/Facebook are months beyond needing to be taken down a peg, too bad government works in years/decades while FB/A work in months.
This actually makes a ton of sense. GTFO of South Korea, sell them, Japan, and Taiwan nuke missiles with plenty of range to nail China. Also sell them the whatever it takes to get full radar coverage over China, so we know not only where every one of their F-16 copies and battleships go, but also their Cessnas.
Then watch China shit their pants A) getting rid of the Nork problem; and B) negotiating to get all those missiles/radar systems dafuq away.
Lets be honest, the only reason lil' Kim can continue his nuke program is because of China. Diplomacy hasn't worked in getting China to stop lil' Kim, maybe flat out terror will.
Comcast doesn't operate in my neck of the woods, but for a good 20 years I've heard nothing but bad things about them. From poor service, to poor customer service, to sleazy business practices, I haven't once heard a good thing about them (except for stock sites, but those don't count).
I don't have a FB account and suspect this will make me suicidal. Should I be worried? Should I not lay in the kitchen with my shotgun pointed at the door for the FB police to do a no knock warrant cuz I'm "not normal". Curious minds want to know, how long do I have to lay on my kitchen floor? When can I feed the cat? When can I safely watch TV? I do aerobics 3x a week, should I ignore the concealed carry laws in California (hint, you ain't gonna get one here) and carry to my aerobics class?
I turn 60 in 6 months, can I count on making it to my next birthday due to not ever making a FB account?
DVDs and Blu-Ray. Free and you can hang on to them for a week. Not to mention a built in list of stuff I want to watch. The only downside is you don't know when you'll get the movie,
It was '01 or so, last time I worked strictly on a *nix box (an x86 running Linux). I was writing device drivers at the time (PCI, 802.11, and a completely new one for the chip we were making). Could have used 3-4 Windows tools, none of them worked under Wine. FWIW I was also the sysadmin for our network of Linux boxes.
That job ended in '03 (startup ran out of money), and little did I know it would be the last time I'd work in a *nix environment. Why? Cygwin. I could run Windows, get all the Windows programs, and still use the *nix command line tools for software development. Turns out, unless you're writing device drivers (or something I've never written), you can get by just fine with cygwin.
I'm about to change my Win10 box to Linux. Why? Not telemetry. Not because games have become "good enough" under Linux. No. I'm sick and tired of closing my laptop for dinner, opening it up an hour later, only to find the goddamned thing has rebooted. Fuck that shit. I hate the telemetry, not a fan of the Win10 UI, like my games. But FFS, it sucks when I can't count on opening a laptop and going back to what I was doing when I closed it.
Some 20 years ago I bought a house that had pretty dark skies. So I spent some coin on a 3" refractor, it worked really well so I got a 10" cassegrain. Got about 2 years of great viewing. The kids enjoyed it, I enjoyed it, the neighbors enjoyed it. Then a high school a mile away built lights for the football field, and I lost half my dark sky. That sucked ass, especially as I was paying taxes to pay the electric bill to light up my back yard when that was the last thing I wanted.
About a year later someone built what I called The Taj Mahal down the hill, maybe 1/4 away from me. The front face fronted both the street it was built on, and my house. They lit that fucker up like Oscar night in Hollywood. Every fucking night. I could damn near read in my back yard by the light from that goddamned building.
So, scopes went into storage, about once a year we'd head out to the Anza Borrego desert (La Casa del Zorro used to rock, but haven't been there since they closed and opened under new management).
Someone explain to me why a high school stadium needs to light up my back yard 1 mile away, and why a company needs to light up a closed building after hours like it was the fucking temple of all gods.
Security issues? Um, have you met the requirements? Yeah? Does it work? Yeah? The security issues aren't in the spec, release it.
The good news is much like Charlie Rose gets embarrassed off the national stage, hopefully companies that don't take security seriously will be forced into bankruptcy.
Either way, doesn't matter to me. I rent, and am some 700 feet above sea level. Best case? I win the lottery, buy this apartment complex, and soon own beachfront property. Worst case? Buncha folks I never met drown while I have a barbie on the grill.
I tend to vote R, not because I agree with them but I trust the Ds less. My echo chamber is saying "whoo hoo, yay, pass this thing!". My brain says it's a crock of shit that should die.
From TFA:
The new standard would also let broadcasters activate a TV set that is turned off to send emergency alerts.
I first learned of these alerts 5-6 years ago, when I was woken up at 3 AM to some godawful noise my phone was making. It was an Amber alert, for some kid that went missing in the bay area. 500 miles from where I live. Dafuq, you think I'm gonna get up in the middle of the night and drive around looking for a sketchy picture with a kid in a car you think is a 90's K-car?
I've disabled these emergency alerts on every phone I've owned since then. If you can't use common sense when sending an alert, I can't be bothered to notice your alert.
This "tax cut" 10 years out fucks the 99% to help out the 1%. Everything I hear about it is wrong. It's truly amazing how the R's can't avoid putting the booger hook on the bang switch, taking off some tootsies in the process.
Indians hopping onto the roof, hanging onto the back, jumping onto the cow catcher. An 80 person car with 300 people on it. This should be fun to watch.
Used to work for a company where it took 40 minutes just to link everything together. They did a study, maxed out everyone's RAM, and got it down to 20 minutes. Netflix wasn't streaming back then so we played flash games.
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just to avoid FB? Cuz I don't have any social media presence, except for a misguided Linkedin account I made a few years back hoping it would help me get a job but just got me spam.
// except for that stupid linkedin thing in '04, where I thought it might actually help me get a job /// no FB, no snapchat, no instagram, no myspace, no friendz or whatever it was called 15 years ago
/ Social media free since '58
Took AT&T years to get the government's attention, but once it got broken up things took off. I remember in, shit, 80/81 I bought a GE flipphone I could plug into my phone outlet. I paid something like $80 for it, and didn't have to pay AT&T $10/month for a regular phone. Kept that damned phone for a good 10-20 years, until I could replace it with a wireless phone.
Alphabet/Facebook are months beyond needing to be taken down a peg, too bad government works in years/decades while FB/A work in months.
This actually makes a ton of sense. GTFO of South Korea, sell them, Japan, and Taiwan nuke missiles with plenty of range to nail China. Also sell them the whatever it takes to get full radar coverage over China, so we know not only where every one of their F-16 copies and battleships go, but also their Cessnas. Then watch China shit their pants A) getting rid of the Nork problem; and B) negotiating to get all those missiles/radar systems dafuq away.
Lets be honest, the only reason lil' Kim can continue his nuke program is because of China. Diplomacy hasn't worked in getting China to stop lil' Kim, maybe flat out terror will.
Comcast doesn't operate in my neck of the woods, but for a good 20 years I've heard nothing but bad things about them. From poor service, to poor customer service, to sleazy business practices, I haven't once heard a good thing about them (except for stock sites, but those don't count).
Whichever of us kids was closest to the TV.
I don't have a FB account and suspect this will make me suicidal. Should I be worried? Should I not lay in the kitchen with my shotgun pointed at the door for the FB police to do a no knock warrant cuz I'm "not normal". Curious minds want to know, how long do I have to lay on my kitchen floor? When can I feed the cat? When can I safely watch TV? I do aerobics 3x a week, should I ignore the concealed carry laws in California (hint, you ain't gonna get one here) and carry to my aerobics class?
I turn 60 in 6 months, can I count on making it to my next birthday due to not ever making a FB account?
A smartphone maker confuses it for I.T. and it's front page news? Sounds more like the reddit/funny page.
Sounds like a cheap Chinese knockoff.
DVDs and Blu-Ray. Free and you can hang on to them for a week. Not to mention a built in list of stuff I want to watch. The only downside is you don't know when you'll get the movie,
It was '01 or so, last time I worked strictly on a *nix box (an x86 running Linux). I was writing device drivers at the time (PCI, 802.11, and a completely new one for the chip we were making). Could have used 3-4 Windows tools, none of them worked under Wine. FWIW I was also the sysadmin for our network of Linux boxes.
That job ended in '03 (startup ran out of money), and little did I know it would be the last time I'd work in a *nix environment. Why? Cygwin. I could run Windows, get all the Windows programs, and still use the *nix command line tools for software development. Turns out, unless you're writing device drivers (or something I've never written), you can get by just fine with cygwin.
I'm about to change my Win10 box to Linux. Why? Not telemetry. Not because games have become "good enough" under Linux. No. I'm sick and tired of closing my laptop for dinner, opening it up an hour later, only to find the goddamned thing has rebooted. Fuck that shit. I hate the telemetry, not a fan of the Win10 UI, like my games. But FFS, it sucks when I can't count on opening a laptop and going back to what I was doing when I closed it.
Random rebooting. 3 words. Fuck That Shit.
Some 20 years ago I bought a house that had pretty dark skies. So I spent some coin on a 3" refractor, it worked really well so I got a 10" cassegrain. Got about 2 years of great viewing. The kids enjoyed it, I enjoyed it, the neighbors enjoyed it. Then a high school a mile away built lights for the football field, and I lost half my dark sky. That sucked ass, especially as I was paying taxes to pay the electric bill to light up my back yard when that was the last thing I wanted.
About a year later someone built what I called The Taj Mahal down the hill, maybe 1/4 away from me. The front face fronted both the street it was built on, and my house. They lit that fucker up like Oscar night in Hollywood. Every fucking night. I could damn near read in my back yard by the light from that goddamned building.
So, scopes went into storage, about once a year we'd head out to the Anza Borrego desert (La Casa del Zorro used to rock, but haven't been there since they closed and opened under new management).
Someone explain to me why a high school stadium needs to light up my back yard 1 mile away, and why a company needs to light up a closed building after hours like it was the fucking temple of all gods.
Security issues? Um, have you met the requirements? Yeah? Does it work? Yeah? The security issues aren't in the spec, release it.
The good news is much like Charlie Rose gets embarrassed off the national stage, hopefully companies that don't take security seriously will be forced into bankruptcy.
Change the 10% that gets you into your target, reuse the 90% that's been proven to work. This is a story because.......?
I'll die earlier. kthxby
Either way, doesn't matter to me. I rent, and am some 700 feet above sea level. Best case? I win the lottery, buy this apartment complex, and soon own beachfront property. Worst case? Buncha folks I never met drown while I have a barbie on the grill.
"Keep the booger hook off the bang stick" isn't mine, I read it years ago and it stuck. I did add the bit about the tootsies though.
Wouldn't mind knowing who wrote the booger hook quote though.
I tend to vote R, not because I agree with them but I trust the Ds less. My echo chamber is saying "whoo hoo, yay, pass this thing!". My brain says it's a crock of shit that should die.
From TFA: The new standard would also let broadcasters activate a TV set that is turned off to send emergency alerts.
I first learned of these alerts 5-6 years ago, when I was woken up at 3 AM to some godawful noise my phone was making. It was an Amber alert, for some kid that went missing in the bay area. 500 miles from where I live. Dafuq, you think I'm gonna get up in the middle of the night and drive around looking for a sketchy picture with a kid in a car you think is a 90's K-car?
I've disabled these emergency alerts on every phone I've owned since then. If you can't use common sense when sending an alert, I can't be bothered to notice your alert.
This "tax cut" 10 years out fucks the 99% to help out the 1%. Everything I hear about it is wrong. It's truly amazing how the R's can't avoid putting the booger hook on the bang switch, taking off some tootsies in the process.
Indians hopping onto the roof, hanging onto the back, jumping onto the cow catcher. An 80 person car with 300 people on it. This should be fun to watch.
Tax plan? We're fucked long term even if we luck out short term. Net neutrality? We're fucked. Bringing back coal? We're fucked. This? We're fucked.
and feed me Taco Bell. Every 2-3 minutes they'll get a blast of hot air that should meet their requirements.
Used to work for a company where it took 40 minutes just to link everything together. They did a study, maxed out everyone's RAM, and got it down to 20 minutes. Netflix wasn't streaming back then so we played flash games.
I buy $500 TVs, $300 DVD players, $199 PS4 consoles, etc. For $0.49 I'm perfectly happy in Vons.
The Hobbit should have never been 3 2 hour movies. Especially as LoTR was 3 2 hour moves.
That said, if Netflix can bring interesting stories to the canon, who the hell cares? Good stories are good, bad stories are bad.