Do they take Planes across the Plane to attend the conference held on the Plains?
I've always been impressed that they believe the flat-earth exists in 3-D. Airplanes travel on this 2-D surface and that water-droplets form balls - but that earth itself is not a ball. When they look at other Planets -- are they all Flat too?
Sorry I'm a bit ignorant on their belief system. Are the Sun, Moon, Jupiter (and moons) all Discs as well? If not -- how come earth is the odd-ball? (get it... odd ball...)
To the person who sends me 5 emails before I arrive in the office each morning, along with immediately followup "did you get this?" --- yes I'm ignoring you. I have other things to do. You send too much email and you're pushy.
Many times I don't respond to an email because I'm stuck. I don't have an answer to the question asked and my only response would be "I don't know what next steps are." And many times the problem takes care of itself before I respond or the issue is no longer an issue (only the important stuff gets done).
I used to work at a very large organization and the volume of email is incredible. People cc you just because. I would receive tons of email that was directed at no-one - directed at "the void." I didn't reply because there were 66 people on the To line - who owns it ? Not me. Thanks for the Notice.
But email to me I generally reply right away. Unless I knew to strategically delay my response because I was given other priorities. And I had a lot going on - so I only read email once every hour or so. It was like a FB/Twitter feed. There's always an update - so I batch processed email. Sorry that I couldn't Like your individual post. I have to prioritize thinking about your problem against my other tasks. Has anything changed in 50 years?!
And sometimes your problem just isn't important enough. suck it.
Obviously he's just going to tax them, I doubt he's suggesting the state should buy a big chunk of stock. But one could just buy stocks and directly enjoy the dividend -- and YOU pay taxes on it.
Absolutely - it's all on who you know. If you happen to have a phone tree to buddies at the FBI, they'll take care of the problem quickly.
I'll bet a lot has to do with whether the person being called can hook the crook. I just heard a podcast where the police took over a woman's phone number because she was a known mark. She had been taken before and was on the "easy list." The police had the number forwarded to an agent who pretended to be the gullible woman, but was in fact an expert in reeling crooks in.
I suspect the problem is too large. But more banks need to be like Western Union. If you go down to Western Union and try to wire money overseas their fraud dept intercepts it and tries to convince you that it might be fraud. Can families setup triggers on elderly parents that puts stops on large withdrawals etc ?
You can't catch the criminals. You need to dry up the market.
I used to pay 10 cents a page to make photocopies at Kinko's back in my college days.
It is still 10 cents per page (I just looked) So maybe the govt is thinking "hey it costs money to make a photocopy, looks like 10 cents is still the going rate" And each download is what... a copy right ?!
The "Why am I seeing this?" What will I see "A friend uploaded your contact info to us" ? How da'fck do I stop other people from leaking my info?!?!?
I clicked the button "Dear FB - don't share my info" (actually - "You can't have my info") --- but apparently if a friend is willing to share my data, well that's okay. FB didn't get it from me.
The horse has left the barn. The Ad companies already have the data. Closing the door now doesn't solve the problem.
I actually have a different email address for FB which exists solely for signing into things like this. My friends don't have it. FB knows were friends but can't link my email address in their contact list to know that its me. Same with my phone number - I have a virtual number that my friends don't have, but FB thinks they do.
And I'm sure they already have figured that out and don't care - my data is stitched together anyhow.
I'm glad they are re-imaging themselves. Other than the PDF plugin I'm not sure what they do these days. All that AI for fake Photoshop and that audio faker they have?
Has anyone else noticed how painful it is use to CNN? I don't know what they do but the JS is constantly dynamically reflowing the page. I had to pull an old iPad (iOS 9) out of a drawer recently - and quickly noticed how slow the page is. While "struggles" is the wrong word, my new PC shows slowness while rendering and on the iPad it was unusable.
At first I thought - old iPad, bad iPad. Then I tried other news websites and it was fine. Its just friggen HTML. I can read the articles faster than the JS can render itself.
and for you comment moderators - while based upon real incidents, this post contains sarcasm.
I didn't realize that "regular people" couldn't file bug/security reports with Apple. I know its hard to do so... as I've found bugs in iOS myself and found the process of reporting them to be onerous. It's easier to put them on the Community forum and moan about them than actually file with Apple.
Several instances I've just given up because of either "login" issues or can't attach screen shots / tell the story. By the time I've opened the form I feel like doing something else.
Google and Microsoft have feedback/reporting buttons right in their apps.
The call-bot from my insurance company was supposed to leave a message and didn't. For whatever reason I decided to lookup the 800# in the caller-id (most spam calls these days are local numbers) and determined that it was a legit call.
But I'm like you. I don't even get up to answer my landline when I see the lights flash indicating an incoming call. My kids get excited "dad the phone is ringing aren't you going to get it!!?" -- so let the 4 year old answer it. She can practice her speech on unsuspecting callers. It goes like this "hello?!... [long silence while child listens with interest & waits for a response] daddy you take the phone [click]" I can't wait for the Microsoft Tech support people to call.
Of course Grandma would like if we answered the phone more often:-) Although my older child can read and I've told him what Grandpas name is on the callerid can that he can answer it - it's probably grandma calling.
They don't understand why I'd ignore the call. What am I teaching them?!
I rarely answer the phone these days. At home I've turned off the ringer on the land line. On my cell I look to see if it is a known number or not.
Last week I had a repairman coming to the house, and I missed several calls that I should have taken. My insurance company called me with an important announcement - I let it go to voice-mail.
Why? Because 99.999% of all calls are spam/scam calls. That is my new conditioned mindset. If I'm not answering the phone, legit companies need to find a way to get a hold of me. The phone isn't the reliable method.
no no - those newbie's finally understood that Java is NOT Javascript. And all those who thought they were doing Java moved their checkbox to the correct column.
This has always confused me and shown how little integration / solution Google has in these areas. I've had Voice since it was GrandCentral. Works great as a PBX. Sure I could answer calls from inside GMail on my PC (strange integration), I had to use Hangouts to "chat" and Talk to my friends on a computer for those without a phone number, but never worked on mobile. This has always required a decoder ring to keep track of which app to use for each feature. Voice has been lacking and frankly I was getting ready for it to disappear, like I said I used it as a PBX to route my calls and not have to give out my real phone# (plural).
I'm hopeful it'll grow. Although I'm not sure what else "the phone" can do. GOOG-411 is done (replaced by Okay Google).
Computers didn't have a mouse when I started life - yes they existed but weren't standard issue. So I learned to navigate Windows without a mouse. A buddy of mine worked at MS "a long long time ago" and explained the shape of the icons (the Menu, Maximize and Minimize icons), the shape was explicit to have people remember "space bar was _" (the Menu _ is gone now - but pressing Alt _ still opens the menu). Neat historic folkloric right?
Then the Mouse came along. And I haven't looked back. It's like when they added brakes to cars and we no longer needed to drag our feet on the ground. You should try that too and stop writing silly articles.
A local beer company says they may not be able to make "new" summer beers. The labels must be inspected and approved by the government (yes -- the labels, on the can). Their plan is to bring back last years summer beer because those labels are approved. There is a deadline for them to meet the summer demand - but with an expected backlog they still aren't sure they can make it.
Imagine - government killing innovation.
I hope they haven't started making that beer yet. It would be a money loser if it was already in the pipeline. sure they could come out with it later - but who wants to buy a Summer Ale during October Fest?
The shutdown is having a wide impact across several industries.
Based upon our deep and full understanding of space and physics - because this object doesn't fit into our solid understanding of space - it must therefore be an Alien.
An alien that traveled for a million years to observe us. A very patient civilization. "oh look - that planet looks livable, let's go see it" And by the time they arrive we have progressed to having a whole cable channel devoted to science fiction.
It should'a could'a been a robot finger that Presses the Mic-Mute button on the top of Echo.
Seriously - does the White Noise block Alexa? I ask because it seems to "hear" whoever is speaking loudest - my children fight over what music should play and the loudest child wins. Although I win by pressing the mute button.
Do I have to put up with the roar of Niagara Falls in my kitchen ? If so - seems the cure is worse than the disease.
I thought that the US Supreme Court - back in ~1998 ruled these are not valid. They CAN keep you from sharing trade secrets, but they CANNOT prevent you from seeking work in the same job sector.
I vaguely remember this because I was exiting a company at that time. The company lawyer was also the HR manager (or at least the guy who made you sign all of the "we talked about this" papers). The court ruling had been made about that time. Vaguely -- I think it was a guy at Intel who had sued, he went to work for AMD. His education, skills & training were EE and building Processors. Any job in this sector would be obvious, as long as he didn't share any secrets "this is how we designed cache/cpus at Intel."
I remember him saying in part "that section of your contract is void...but you can't share trade secrets & plans" I wasn't exiting so much as the company was being bought - so I was given an extra caveat - "we aren't likely to even take an interest unless you start producing the same product"
Meaning -- they have to notice...and care..and want to spend the money.
I recycle a lot - it's a mandatory law in these parts. I'm sure that I personally send in more than 10% of my plastics for food containers etc.
BUT --- does this 90% include Childrens Toys? Cell phones, the dashboard & engine cover of my car? Meaning... Long term items that I'm still using?
Since this has been the year of anti-plastics I've been mentally monitoring my plastic usage. Food comes wrapped in it, toys, parts of my toilet, carpet fibres, ethernet cables, my laptop, keyboard, monitor etc.
It's hard to wrap my head around such a low recycle rate. Unless it includes items that are still alive and being used.
Users accidentally tap/click an ad? Sorry to report but some ads hijack the website and auto-redirect to these scam ads. Then I'm stuck with a popup "you've won a free XYZ" and the back-button doesn't work. And the only way out is to close the tab.
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Do they take Planes across the Plane to attend the conference held on the Plains?
I've always been impressed that they believe the flat-earth exists in 3-D. Airplanes travel on this 2-D surface and that water-droplets form balls - but that earth itself is not a ball. When they look at other Planets -- are they all Flat too?
Sorry I'm a bit ignorant on their belief system. Are the Sun, Moon, Jupiter (and moons) all Discs as well? If not -- how come earth is the odd-ball? (get it... odd ball...)
To the person who sends me 5 emails before I arrive in the office each morning, along with immediately followup "did you get this?" --- yes I'm ignoring you. I have other things to do. You send too much email and you're pushy.
Many times I don't respond to an email because I'm stuck. I don't have an answer to the question asked and my only response would be "I don't know what next steps are." And many times the problem takes care of itself before I respond or the issue is no longer an issue (only the important stuff gets done).
I used to work at a very large organization and the volume of email is incredible. People cc you just because. I would receive tons of email that was directed at no-one - directed at "the void." I didn't reply because there were 66 people on the To line - who owns it ? Not me. Thanks for the Notice.
But email to me I generally reply right away. Unless I knew to strategically delay my response because I was given other priorities. And I had a lot going on - so I only read email once every hour or so. It was like a FB/Twitter feed. There's always an update - so I batch processed email. Sorry that I couldn't Like your individual post. I have to prioritize thinking about your problem against my other tasks. Has anything changed in 50 years?!
And sometimes your problem just isn't important enough. suck it.
Obviously he's just going to tax them, I doubt he's suggesting the state should buy a big chunk of stock. But one could just buy stocks and directly enjoy the dividend -- and YOU pay taxes on it.
Either way the government is getting your money.
Absolutely - it's all on who you know. If you happen to have a phone tree to buddies at the FBI, they'll take care of the problem quickly.
I'll bet a lot has to do with whether the person being called can hook the crook. I just heard a podcast where the police took over a woman's phone number because she was a known mark. She had been taken before and was on the "easy list." The police had the number forwarded to an agent who pretended to be the gullible woman, but was in fact an expert in reeling crooks in.
I suspect the problem is too large. But more banks need to be like Western Union. If you go down to Western Union and try to wire money overseas their fraud dept intercepts it and tries to convince you that it might be fraud. Can families setup triggers on elderly parents that puts stops on large withdrawals etc ?
You can't catch the criminals. You need to dry up the market.
I used to pay 10 cents a page to make photocopies at Kinko's back in my college days.
It is still 10 cents per page (I just looked) So maybe the govt is thinking "hey it costs money to make a photocopy, looks like 10 cents is still the going rate" And each download is what... a copy right ?!
The "Why am I seeing this?" What will I see "A friend uploaded your contact info to us" ? How da'fck do I stop other people from leaking my info?!?!?
I clicked the button "Dear FB - don't share my info" (actually - "You can't have my info") --- but apparently if a friend is willing to share my data, well that's okay. FB didn't get it from me.
The horse has left the barn. The Ad companies already have the data. Closing the door now doesn't solve the problem.
I actually have a different email address for FB which exists solely for signing into things like this. My friends don't have it. FB knows were friends but can't link my email address in their contact list to know that its me. Same with my phone number - I have a virtual number that my friends don't have, but FB thinks they do.
And I'm sure they already have figured that out and don't care - my data is stitched together anyhow.
that's all I got.
I'm glad they are re-imaging themselves. Other than the PDF plugin I'm not sure what they do these days. All that AI for fake Photoshop and that audio faker they have?
Has anyone else noticed how painful it is use to CNN? I don't know what they do but the JS is constantly dynamically reflowing the page. I had to pull an old iPad (iOS 9) out of a drawer recently - and quickly noticed how slow the page is. While "struggles" is the wrong word, my new PC shows slowness while rendering and on the iPad it was unusable.
At first I thought - old iPad, bad iPad. Then I tried other news websites and it was fine. Its just friggen HTML. I can read the articles faster than the JS can render itself.
and for you comment moderators - while based upon real incidents, this post contains sarcasm.
I didn't realize that "regular people" couldn't file bug/security reports with Apple. I know its hard to do so... as I've found bugs in iOS myself and found the process of reporting them to be onerous. It's easier to put them on the Community forum and moan about them than actually file with Apple.
Several instances I've just given up because of either "login" issues or can't attach screen shots / tell the story. By the time I've opened the form I feel like doing something else.
Google and Microsoft have feedback/reporting buttons right in their apps.
The call-bot from my insurance company was supposed to leave a message and didn't. For whatever reason I decided to lookup the 800# in the caller-id (most spam calls these days are local numbers) and determined that it was a legit call.
But I'm like you. I don't even get up to answer my landline when I see the lights flash indicating an incoming call. My kids get excited "dad the phone is ringing aren't you going to get it!!?" -- so let the 4 year old answer it. She can practice her speech on unsuspecting callers. It goes like this "hello?!... [long silence while child listens with interest & waits for a response] daddy you take the phone [click]" I can't wait for the Microsoft Tech support people to call.
Of course Grandma would like if we answered the phone more often :-) Although my older child can read and I've told him what Grandpas name is on the callerid can that he can answer it - it's probably grandma calling.
They don't understand why I'd ignore the call. What am I teaching them?!
I rarely answer the phone these days. At home I've turned off the ringer on the land line. On my cell I look to see if it is a known number or not.
Last week I had a repairman coming to the house, and I missed several calls that I should have taken. My insurance company called me with an important announcement - I let it go to voice-mail.
Why? Because 99.999% of all calls are spam/scam calls. That is my new conditioned mindset. If I'm not answering the phone, legit companies need to find a way to get a hold of me. The phone isn't the reliable method.
Therefore, the phone will become obsolete.
no no - those newbie's finally understood that Java is NOT Javascript. And all those who thought they were doing Java moved their checkbox to the correct column.
This has always confused me and shown how little integration / solution Google has in these areas. I've had Voice since it was GrandCentral. Works great as a PBX. Sure I could answer calls from inside GMail on my PC (strange integration), I had to use Hangouts to "chat" and Talk to my friends on a computer for those without a phone number, but never worked on mobile. This has always required a decoder ring to keep track of which app to use for each feature. Voice has been lacking and frankly I was getting ready for it to disappear, like I said I used it as a PBX to route my calls and not have to give out my real phone# (plural).
I'm hopeful it'll grow. Although I'm not sure what else "the phone" can do. GOOG-411 is done (replaced by Okay Google).
We'll see.
Computers didn't have a mouse when I started life - yes they existed but weren't standard issue. So I learned to navigate Windows without a mouse. A buddy of mine worked at MS "a long long time ago" and explained the shape of the icons (the Menu, Maximize and Minimize icons), the shape was explicit to have people remember "space bar was _" (the Menu _ is gone now - but pressing Alt _ still opens the menu). Neat historic folkloric right?
Then the Mouse came along. And I haven't looked back. It's like when they added brakes to cars and we no longer needed to drag our feet on the ground. You should try that too and stop writing silly articles.
I appreciate the sentiment. And I agree. If it was really important the govt would be open.
However, some gov't higher-up did point out that there is a statue of limitation and the govt won't be closed for that long.
Although that last point remains to be seen. :-P
A local beer company says they may not be able to make "new" summer beers. The labels must be inspected and approved by the government (yes -- the labels, on the can). Their plan is to bring back last years summer beer because those labels are approved. There is a deadline for them to meet the summer demand - but with an expected backlog they still aren't sure they can make it.
Imagine - government killing innovation.
I hope they haven't started making that beer yet. It would be a money loser if it was already in the pipeline. sure they could come out with it later - but who wants to buy a Summer Ale during October Fest?
The shutdown is having a wide impact across several industries.
You correctly detected my sarcasm.
Based upon our deep and full understanding of space and physics - because this object doesn't fit into our solid understanding of space - it must therefore be an Alien.
An alien that traveled for a million years to observe us. A very patient civilization. "oh look - that planet looks livable, let's go see it" And by the time they arrive we have progressed to having a whole cable channel devoted to science fiction.
I suppose somebody needs to believe.
It should'a could'a been a robot finger that Presses the Mic-Mute button on the top of Echo.
Seriously - does the White Noise block Alexa? I ask because it seems to "hear" whoever is speaking loudest - my children fight over what music should play and the loudest child wins. Although I win by pressing the mute button.
Do I have to put up with the roar of Niagara Falls in my kitchen ? If so - seems the cure is worse than the disease.
Or a solution looking for a problem.
I thought that the US Supreme Court - back in ~1998 ruled these are not valid. They CAN keep you from sharing trade secrets, but they CANNOT prevent you from seeking work in the same job sector.
I vaguely remember this because I was exiting a company at that time. The company lawyer was also the HR manager (or at least the guy who made you sign all of the "we talked about this" papers). The court ruling had been made about that time. Vaguely -- I think it was a guy at Intel who had sued, he went to work for AMD. His education, skills & training were EE and building Processors. Any job in this sector would be obvious, as long as he didn't share any secrets "this is how we designed cache/cpus at Intel."
I remember him saying in part "that section of your contract is void...but you can't share trade secrets & plans" I wasn't exiting so much as the company was being bought - so I was given an extra caveat - "we aren't likely to even take an interest unless you start producing the same product"
Meaning -- they have to notice...and care..and want to spend the money.
And another crystal-ball reading says "the CPUs will be faster, the batteries last a bit longer, and camera is better"
yawn.
Don't they always release 3 phones. an "SE", Regular, and Super-Size?
iPhone XI, XS, and XS-Max
oh oh -- I'll bet they do it in October too.
I recycle a lot - it's a mandatory law in these parts. I'm sure that I personally send in more than 10% of my plastics for food containers etc.
BUT --- does this 90% include Childrens Toys? Cell phones, the dashboard & engine cover of my car? Meaning... Long term items that I'm still using?
Since this has been the year of anti-plastics I've been mentally monitoring my plastic usage. Food comes wrapped in it, toys, parts of my toilet, carpet fibres, ethernet cables, my laptop, keyboard, monitor etc.
It's hard to wrap my head around such a low recycle rate. Unless it includes items that are still alive and being used.
Users accidentally tap/click an ad? Sorry to report but some ads hijack the website and auto-redirect to these scam ads. Then I'm stuck with a popup "you've won a free XYZ" and the back-button doesn't work. And the only way out is to close the tab.
Wow. Even the Washington Post news building is available only in 2-D. :-P