Every gas station I know puts the nozzle in a paper (or sometimes plastic) bag to indicate that the pump is out of service. Did this one not have bags? Just because the pump is technically working doesn't mean it can't be marked otherwise to discourage use.
AT&T now owns Turner Broadcasting, but I still can't authenticate to TBS, TNT or Adult Swim with my DTVN credentials. But I'm going to be charged an extra $5/month anyhow?
What? No. I'm not talking about regulating prices, I'm talking about pricing. Or perhaps more accurately how prices are advertised. Not including taxes and government imposed fees is one thing, breaking off part of the price you charge so that you can mislead consumers is something else entirely.
No, it's this: People are lazy, work with it. If you take a task that takes under a second and add several minutes worth of steps to it, don't expect a lot of compliance. You will be disappointed because you're fighting human nature.
I've been using insider builds in which it was supposed to be enabled, but it never was. All the settings for it were missing. I used a tool to force it on in one build, but it didn't carry over when I updated so I gave up.
"Hey, we couldn't drop retardant on that growing wildfire because your drone was in the way, so twenty houses and three people we could have saved got incinerated. Don't do it again you naughty boy."
Instead of taking a bottle made of recyclable plastic and wrapping it in a non-recyclable label, just print it on the label because I, like most consumers apparently, won't be doing extra work just to throw something out.
And what about sorting at the recycling center? Can nobody come up with a process to sort out problematic material at the recycling center?
Recycling is good. But let's face it, if you add to many steps to what would otherwise be just dropping something into a can, people won't do it. If you expect people to wash their trash, remove any labels, check for markings and carefully separate it instead of just throwing it away, you will be disappointed. That's like expecting people to do the entire Thriller dance before taking a leak - making something incredibly fast and easy more complex and time-consuming than people are generally willing to put up with.
Every other business builds their costs into the price of the product. Somehow phone and cable companies get away with adding hidden fees instead of just having to raise the price a little. Why do we let them get away with that?
As much as I favor light-touch regulation, this is a case for legislative intervention.
It just sounds like the sort of thing that would have military applications, and perhaps be the key to many more. So why didn't DARPA snap it up before it was published somewhere China would see it?
Did you have to call? I don't know how the HMRC does things, but in the US you usually only call the IRS if you have questions about your return (whether you get the right answer is hit and miss though).
But insofar as opt-in/opt-outs and the GDPR are concerned, the tax collectors all ready have your personal information and they aren't going to delete it no matter what you want. It is necessary for them to collect and retain it, so another drop in that bucket is hardly a big deal. Maybe they should have clarified in the recording that you don't need to do it, but that's a pretty minor bureaucratic cockup.
That's true for everyone. Mr. Thorne is a shining light of proper office etiquette and camaraderie. Just look at all the work he went through to help a secretary find her lost cat!
Funny or probability? Nearly half of the world's population follows an Abrahamic religion. If a religious person commits an atrocity, the odds of them being Christian or Muslim vs. say.. Hindu are 3:1.
If we're talking about Western history from the 5th century to the 19th, every atrocity except for the Hunnic and Mongol invasions were perpetrated by followers of an Abrahamic religion because everybody from Iberia to India, and from Sweden to the Sahara, was either Christian, Muslim or Jewish. Thus they define the bulk of our history.
Oh, I left out the Vikings. They did some pretty atrocious things before they converted.
I wonder how many of the subjects were teens getting in trouble for playing games when they were supposed to be studying. Should we call everything fun that people might do instead of things that aren't fun addictions?
The phrase itself lets people know exactly what's going on. In no way is it a "backdoor biometric ID card". That's just so mind-bogglingly stupid I don't know what to do with it.
It's a convenience for taxpayers and probably a lot easier to use than having to remember a PIN that gets used once a year (listen up IRS).
Because if I can't centrally manage it in my domain, it's not going to be used. There are admin templates for Chrome, but last I checked for Firefox there were only woefully lacking 3rd party templates that require a plugin to work. That won't fly, not worth the time and trouble.
And people who want to use slanderous accusations of racism to silence their opponents never fail to find something to call a pretext for racism, or "dog whistle".
That's AT&T for you. They already have a streaming TV service! What sane company releases redundant services? Do they intend to compete against themselves?
I figure it's because AT&T is too big. Nobody knows what's going on anywhere else in the company. I know for a fact that they can't maintain their internal phone directories (that'd better be why I get transferred to out-of-service numbers when I call business support), so it would hardly be a surprise to find out that the cellular division just didn't know the TV division already had a streaming service.
Every time I have to deal with AT&T I come away shocked that they're still around. Like how the person who runs lines into a new service location can't be the person who installs and connects the equipment. Nor can they be there on the same day. And if you need anything serviced, forget it. I had a tech miss two appointments in a row because they couldn't find the office, and when he finally did show, he said somebody else would have to come out because he couldn't service fiber. The fiber tech "only" missed one appointment. One might think that the company running lines into a building would know where that building was or what kind of lines were run to it, but they'd be disappointed.
That's AT&T. So big that nobody knows what's going on.
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They aren't talking about ads on HBO, they're talking about using HBO to gather monetizable data on viewers. Which may be far shittier behavior.
Every gas station I know puts the nozzle in a paper (or sometimes plastic) bag to indicate that the pump is out of service. Did this one not have bags? Just because the pump is technically working doesn't mean it can't be marked otherwise to discourage use.
Our lives can once again be filled with joy instead of bright grays!
Finally we can achieve the dreams of our grandfathers and never again be condemned to suffer dark fonts on light backgrounds.
We are talking about a Samba privacy issue, right?
AT&T now owns Turner Broadcasting, but I still can't authenticate to TBS, TNT or Adult Swim with my DTVN credentials. But I'm going to be charged an extra $5/month anyhow?
What? No. I'm not talking about regulating prices, I'm talking about pricing. Or perhaps more accurately how prices are advertised. Not including taxes and government imposed fees is one thing, breaking off part of the price you charge so that you can mislead consumers is something else entirely.
No, it's this: People are lazy, work with it. If you take a task that takes under a second and add several minutes worth of steps to it, don't expect a lot of compliance. You will be disappointed because you're fighting human nature.
Sets included things like tabbed explorer, which would be pretty convenient for me and, I assume, others.
I've been using insider builds in which it was supposed to be enabled, but it never was. All the settings for it were missing. I used a tool to force it on in one build, but it didn't carry over when I updated so I gave up.
"Hey, we couldn't drop retardant on that growing wildfire because your drone was in the way, so twenty houses and three people we could have saved got incinerated. Don't do it again you naughty boy."
Yeah, that'll do it.
And what about sorting at the recycling center? Can nobody come up with a process to sort out problematic material at the recycling center?
Recycling is good. But let's face it, if you add to many steps to what would otherwise be just dropping something into a can, people won't do it. If you expect people to wash their trash, remove any labels, check for markings and carefully separate it instead of just throwing it away, you will be disappointed. That's like expecting people to do the entire Thriller dance before taking a leak - making something incredibly fast and easy more complex and time-consuming than people are generally willing to put up with.
As much as I favor light-touch regulation, this is a case for legislative intervention.
It just sounds like the sort of thing that would have military applications, and perhaps be the key to many more. So why didn't DARPA snap it up before it was published somewhere China would see it?
But insofar as opt-in/opt-outs and the GDPR are concerned, the tax collectors all ready have your personal information and they aren't going to delete it no matter what you want. It is necessary for them to collect and retain it, so another drop in that bucket is hardly a big deal. Maybe they should have clarified in the recording that you don't need to do it, but that's a pretty minor bureaucratic cockup.
That's true for everyone. Mr. Thorne is a shining light of proper office etiquette and camaraderie. Just look at all the work he went through to help a secretary find her lost cat!
If we're talking about Western history from the 5th century to the 19th, every atrocity except for the Hunnic and Mongol invasions were perpetrated by followers of an Abrahamic religion because everybody from Iberia to India, and from Sweden to the Sahara, was either Christian, Muslim or Jewish. Thus they define the bulk of our history.
Oh, I left out the Vikings. They did some pretty atrocious things before they converted.
I wonder how many of the subjects were teens getting in trouble for playing games when they were supposed to be studying. Should we call everything fun that people might do instead of things that aren't fun addictions?
It's a convenience for taxpayers and probably a lot easier to use than having to remember a PIN that gets used once a year (listen up IRS).
Firefox needs better enterprise support.
And people who want to use slanderous accusations of racism to silence their opponents never fail to find something to call a pretext for racism, or "dog whistle".
No, that's not right. Why not learn about corporatism instead of working off what you think it means?
If we're going to hit back out of the fear that the people attacking us will be mad about it (as if we aren't), why bother defending ourselves at all?
The NSA is a foreign intelligence gathering agency. They're not allowed to have domestic operations. The DHS and FBI handle that.
I figure it's because AT&T is too big. Nobody knows what's going on anywhere else in the company. I know for a fact that they can't maintain their internal phone directories (that'd better be why I get transferred to out-of-service numbers when I call business support), so it would hardly be a surprise to find out that the cellular division just didn't know the TV division already had a streaming service.
Every time I have to deal with AT&T I come away shocked that they're still around. Like how the person who runs lines into a new service location can't be the person who installs and connects the equipment. Nor can they be there on the same day. And if you need anything serviced, forget it. I had a tech miss two appointments in a row because they couldn't find the office, and when he finally did show, he said somebody else would have to come out because he couldn't service fiber. The fiber tech "only" missed one appointment. One might think that the company running lines into a building would know where that building was or what kind of lines were run to it, but they'd be disappointed.
That's AT&T. So big that nobody knows what's going on.
They missed a great opportunity. Successful businesses can't do that too frequently.