I have to agree with you on this one. Also, it checks to see "if I'm still here" every hour. PITA when I'm eating dinner or entertaining.
I do like the ability to select "artist channels" and play their songs at random. Something I can't seem to do easily with Spotify.
I was actually going to pay for the service but they won't just allow me to pay for a year. I must give them my credit card number so they can continually bill me.
No thanks. You missed your chance.
I'm sticking with TuneInRadio and listening to my favorite internet radio station instead.
The nonprofit I volunteer for uses FB to communicate to volunteers. I have a fake account but everyone on the closed FB page knows it's me.
I use a disposable email and a fake name/photo. Due to the intrusiveness of Facebook, they won't get my real information. Also I will not download the app on my phone.
Don't forget the employee that mutes their phone and starts up the music on hold so the teleconference can't proceed.
Also, the dog barking in the background, the doorbell, the kid screeching.
Yeah, it's really productive. So productive I can't reach you on the phone or your email.
We had a guy "working from home" in Maui, a guy following his girlfriend all around the country that never touched the product he was responsible for supporting.
I've noticed a lot of slackers "working from home". Some of them call me and ask me to do their work in the plant because it's their "work from home day".
I've also noticed when I try to email them or call them that they aren't available. I've seen some of them in shopping centers and target practicing at the shooting range when they should be working.
If your job can be done at home, we can move it to India at 1/3 the labor cost if all you do it poke a keyboard.
Those who do hands on work HAVE to get their asses in to the plant, otherwise they're worse than not being around at all.
Airplane maintenance is much more critical than automobile maintenance because of the potential for death and destruction should an airplane undergo mechanical failure. That maintenance would be very costly. Also with increased quantities of flying objects above us, the probability of crashes would greatly increase. Add to that a myriad of other things that could go wrong and my response is "NO", we are not ready for flying vehicles.
If it's so "possible", then why aren't all airplanes currently flying themselves? Yes, I understand what auto pilot is but I also understand what it is not. That is why we have air traffic controllers. Imagine what would happen if we had millions more objects flying above us.
I think I'd opt to live in a cave if that were to occur.
Child custody cases are very expensive and the courts are biased toward maternal custody. My attorney indicated it could be as much as $45,000 or more. All of that time, the poor child has to live with the mother and sometimes get badgered while the case happens.
Unless mom is a criminal, there is little chance the judge will award custody to the father.
If in doubt, google the statistics. Maternal custody is typically in the high 80% range.
It doesn't require isolation to have poor internet choices. I live 20 miles from the state capitol of California and my only choice is satellite with a 10 GB/month cap or a funky 1 Mb/sec wireless connection that is unreliable. No DSL, no cable available in the area.
The problem is I live in an area that isn't high density housing. It requires more cable between the homes for a possible customer so the internet providers don't want to touch the area.
I'm running Windows 7. Windows 8 was an abomination and Windows 10 isn't any better.
Unless Microsoft starts giving a damn about their customers and reverts back to a usable OS, I'll stay on Win7 until it's unusable and migrate to Linux Mint.
I've already done it on one of my machines to get used to it and it works fine.
Why treat an adult like a child? Either people are or are not adults at 18.
If they are an adult, they should have the same rights of any other adult.
As mentioned, they can die in a war, kill people with the government's blessing and have other adult responsibilities.
If they're not mature enough to judge whether or not they should be smoking (or drinking for that matter) than perhaps we should reinstate the age of majority at 21 and similarly, not allow anyone to enter the armed forces until that age.
So Podesta's email was compromised because he gave up his password in a phishing attempt.
Then we got to see some of Hillary's email and the DNC's intent to eliminate Sanders as a candidate early in the game (giving top donors positions after her "win").
What is wrong with letting us see what our candidates are doing?
If they did nothing wrong, it would have been a non-issue. However, their sleazy efforts were revealed and it's "the Russian's fault".
We seem to forget that Hillary's motives were unpopular with her own party. The same was true with the DNC but we are on a witch hunt to "shoot the messenger" , finding a Russian hiding around every corner.
I'm no Trump supporter but I find it rather awful that we fail to remember the crooked doings by the Democrat candidate and the DNC.
If the Democrats had a decent candidate, we wouldn't have Trump as President.
Consider all of the bad press that Trump had during the entire campaign as well as all of the unflattering photo images of him in the same press. That bias didn't effect the outcome of the election, did it?
This was a reactionary vote (yea, we'll ignore the Electoral College results). That in itself is why Hillary lost. She was just a crappy candidate and as a result, we got another crappy candidate in retaliation.
Companies run by founders tend to take more risks and often come up with disruptive technology products.
Cases in point were Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Cray, Tesla, Microsoft, Tandem Computers, Amazon, Oracle, eBay, etc.
Once they go public and the founders retire, quit, die or get terminated, the companies tend to be run by MBAs that don't have the ability to invent. In theory, they should delegate the tasks to those who do know but it's been my observation that the MBAs just tend to acquire companies, run them in to the ground and do anything to make the next quarterly report look good.
This is very, very incorrect. Try driving in the Sacrament/Placer County areas.
Placer County wanted to add another tax to repair the roads that are full of potholes (I drive them every day). They keep allowing more and more development yet they don't charge the developers for improved roads and road maintenance caused by more use by the developments.
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I have to agree with you on this one. Also, it checks to see "if I'm still here" every hour. PITA when I'm eating dinner or entertaining.
I do like the ability to select "artist channels" and play their songs at random. Something I can't seem to do easily with Spotify.
I was actually going to pay for the service but they won't just allow me to pay for a year. I must give them my credit card number so they can continually bill me.
No thanks. You missed your chance.
I'm sticking with TuneInRadio and listening to my favorite internet radio station instead.
My fake FB account suggested my son as someone who "might be a friend".
Yes, it is creepy. I suppose they looked at my network path and found a match to my son who lives at the same address.
The nonprofit I volunteer for uses FB to communicate to volunteers. I have a fake account but everyone on the closed FB page knows it's me.
I use a disposable email and a fake name/photo. Due to the intrusiveness of Facebook, they won't get my real information. Also I will not download the app on my phone.
Don't forget the employee that mutes their phone and starts up the music on hold so the teleconference can't proceed.
Also, the dog barking in the background, the doorbell, the kid screeching.
Yeah, it's really productive. So productive I can't reach you on the phone or your email.
We had a guy "working from home" in Maui, a guy following his girlfriend all around the country that never touched the product he was responsible for supporting.
Working from home. Yeah, really productive.
A lot of people wrongly associate "tech jobs" with software jobs.
There's a whole lot more to "tech" than coding.
Who the hell do you think made the equipment you're coding on?
I've noticed a lot of slackers "working from home". Some of them call me and ask me to do their work in the plant because it's their "work from home day".
I've also noticed when I try to email them or call them that they aren't available. I've seen some of them in shopping centers and target practicing at the shooting range when they should be working.
If your job can be done at home, we can move it to India at 1/3 the labor cost if all you do it poke a keyboard.
Those who do hands on work HAVE to get their asses in to the plant, otherwise they're worse than not being around at all.
It's been my experience that PhD's are "professional students" that don't want to leave the security of academia.
In theory, they should be learning skills that allow them to apply their research to profitable or useful products and services.
Instead, they just want to breed more PhD's.
Airplane maintenance is much more critical than automobile maintenance because of the potential for death and destruction should an airplane undergo mechanical failure. That maintenance would be very costly. Also with increased quantities of flying objects above us, the probability of crashes would greatly increase. Add to that a myriad of other things that could go wrong and my response is "NO", we are not ready for flying vehicles.
If it's so "possible", then why aren't all airplanes currently flying themselves? Yes, I understand what auto pilot is but I also understand what it is not. That is why we have air traffic controllers. Imagine what would happen if we had millions more objects flying above us.
I think I'd opt to live in a cave if that were to occur.
HP sold WEBOS to LG Electronics in 2013.
HP typically destroys every company they acquire.
Everyone knows that people with boobs and darker skin colors make better products and white males don't.
Change it around and let's see how the headline sounds:
Blizzard tries to recruit more males and non-minorities.
Sounds rather discriminatory, doesn't it?
I couldn't believe they did another "Flatliners".
When we watched the previews a few weeks ago we saw this as well as 4 (yes, FOUR) remakes of previous movies.
Hollywood deserves to go broke if this is all they can come up with.
If I see another comic book movie, I'm gonna puke.
All it takes is for mom to move out of the area and there is no possibility of shared custody.
Google has created a hostile work environment for non-liberal white males.
There should be legal recourse to prevent further discriminatory behavior.
Child custody cases are very expensive and the courts are biased toward maternal custody. My attorney indicated it could be as much as $45,000 or more. All of that time, the poor child has to live with the mother and sometimes get badgered while the case happens.
Unless mom is a criminal, there is little chance the judge will award custody to the father.
If in doubt, google the statistics. Maternal custody is typically in the high 80% range.
It doesn't require isolation to have poor internet choices. I live 20 miles from the state capitol of California and my only choice is satellite with a 10 GB/month cap or a funky 1 Mb/sec wireless connection that is unreliable. No DSL, no cable available in the area.
The problem is I live in an area that isn't high density housing. It requires more cable between the homes for a possible customer so the internet providers don't want to touch the area.
Their opinions hold no more weight than the Hollywood airheads that jump on the liberal bandwagons.
I'm running Windows 7. Windows 8 was an abomination and Windows 10 isn't any better.
Unless Microsoft starts giving a damn about their customers and reverts back to a usable OS, I'll stay on Win7 until it's unusable and migrate to Linux Mint.
I've already done it on one of my machines to get used to it and it works fine.
So long, Microsoft.
Why treat an adult like a child? Either people are or are not adults at 18.
If they are an adult, they should have the same rights of any other adult.
As mentioned, they can die in a war, kill people with the government's blessing and have other adult responsibilities.
If they're not mature enough to judge whether or not they should be smoking (or drinking for that matter) than perhaps we should reinstate the age of majority at 21 and similarly, not allow anyone to enter the armed forces until that age.
It is hypocrisy to do otherwise.
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An "engineer" with no engineering degree. Tesla put her in the position above more qualified people and now she's complaining.
Or people that still can't get over the fact that Hillary lost.
Sad! :-^
Any nature documentary narrated by Sir David Attenborough.
So Podesta's email was compromised because he gave up his password in a phishing attempt.
Then we got to see some of Hillary's email and the DNC's intent to eliminate Sanders as a candidate early in the game (giving top donors positions after her "win").
What is wrong with letting us see what our candidates are doing?
If they did nothing wrong, it would have been a non-issue. However, their sleazy efforts were revealed and it's "the Russian's fault".
We seem to forget that Hillary's motives were unpopular with her own party. The same was true with the DNC but we are on a witch hunt to "shoot the messenger" , finding a Russian hiding around every corner.
I'm no Trump supporter but I find it rather awful that we fail to remember the crooked doings by the Democrat candidate and the DNC.
If the Democrats had a decent candidate, we wouldn't have Trump as President.
Consider all of the bad press that Trump had during the entire campaign as well as all of the unflattering photo images of him in the same press. That bias didn't effect the outcome of the election, did it?
This was a reactionary vote (yea, we'll ignore the Electoral College results). That in itself is why Hillary lost. She was just a crappy candidate and as a result, we got another crappy candidate in retaliation.
Companies run by founders tend to take more risks and often come up with disruptive technology products.
Cases in point were Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Cray, Tesla, Microsoft, Tandem Computers, Amazon, Oracle, eBay, etc.
Once they go public and the founders retire, quit, die or get terminated, the companies tend to be run by MBAs that don't have the ability to invent. In theory, they should delegate the tasks to those who do know but it's been my observation that the MBAs just tend to acquire companies, run them in to the ground and do anything to make the next quarterly report look good.
"Roads like glass".
This is very, very incorrect. Try driving in the Sacrament/Placer County areas.
Placer County wanted to add another tax to repair the roads that are full of potholes (I drive them every day). They keep allowing more and more development yet they don't charge the developers for improved roads and road maintenance caused by more use by the developments.
Your claim is not correct.
Would someone please step in and save us California residents from our inane "government"?
It's gone completely insane.
Next, the'll tax air.