Now, give us the option to *completely* remove any interjections from Metro (start screen, WinKey+tab, charms, network selection, search, probably a number of other elements I've forgotten), ie.: real-actual-computer-to-get-shit-done mode. Also get rid of that horrible, difficult-to-read low contrast color scheme and bring back the only good thing Vista brought us: Aero Glass.
Do these things and we might forgive you. Otherwise, fuck this shit, I'm going to Debian.
As in dollars, quarterly earnings and PowerPoint charts.
Product X will cost Y to purchase and take Z amount of time for configuration, training, etc. Here are some charts showing the projections of each of option in pretty colors.
Communicate everything in dollar amounts, time and direct visual aids.
Capitalism, communism, feudalism, fundamentalism, militarism... no matter what -ism you use, they all have the same fatal flaw: self-important, power-wielding, psychotic fucks who backstab their way to the top and keep the majority of the resources for themselves.
It depends on a number of factors.
First of all, before you go ahead and buy that expensive accidental damage protection from the manufacturer, check with your home or renter's insurance provider to see if they offer floater items. Mine covers theft and accidental damage in *and* outside of the home for much less than it would cost from the manufacturer.
As for extended warranties, well that's really a calculation of many variables, but mainly: what's it worth to you? What is the original warranty period? Do you expect to be using it for that long? It is an acceptable amount of money for you to eat if you never end up requiring warranty work during the extended period?
Most of these questions you can only answer for yourself.
Are you fucking kidding me? Who wouldn't run when faced against the thuggery of modern law enforcement?
Running has *nothing* to do with guilt or innocence, and everything to do with an extreme and quite rational aversion to being ensnared and railroaded into a ruinous legal situation.
...and I'm a guy, but even I'll say it: don't you think that the mothers have just a little more to deal with? I mean, they just pushed a 3-5kg or so sack of flesh out of an an orifice in their body, they're spending any number of hours day and night feeding the thing, they're bodies are readjusting from various hormonal changes...
Maybe, just maybe, giving moms more makes a bit of sense.
This isn't just a problem with educators. It's a problem with western society in general: "rules are rules, I have to enforce them" (along the same lines of, "hey, I was just doing my job when I slaughtered those Jews..."). No, you cantakerous nitpicking fucks, it is with extreme rarity that rules should be enforced to the letter, hard and fast.
We have a systems of extremely strict rulesets -- too strict. In order for society to function, to breathe, there must be a social contract where the enforcers use equally extreme discretion and consideration, where actions are weighed against all of the circumstances and it's not just assumed that every act is one of malice. Either that, or we operate on the honour system. Society will collapse if neither one of those principles are upheld.
Rules are often designed with the edge-cases in mind; the few bad apple that spoil the bunch. But you don't carpet bomb the whole damn orchard because of a one bad apple.
Privately run prisons, rubber stamping patent office, one-sided antagonistic copyright, violent take downs of non-violent civil offenders who pissed off corporations, multi-million dollar salaried revolving door jobs for politicians who fucked the public in the ass to do their corporate buddies a favor, hiring former corporate cronies as regulators so they can continue doing corporate favors...
Why don't we just save ourselves the trouble by dropping the pretenses and officially handing all government duties to private corporations?
You need only browse Photography is Not a Crime for 2 minutes before you realize that this war is already happening. There's a metric shit-ton of this stuff going on, with video evidence to back it up.
As for your rhetorical questions...
Will officers be able to choose when the video is running?
Yes. Obviously.
How will the video be protected from tampering?
It won't.
How long will it be archived?
Not long enough.
Can it be demanded by courts?
Well sure, but you'll find that every time it does, the video stream is "conveniently" missing or corrupted.
Stop asking questions citizen, you're not supposed to be creative, just shut up and watch the Dumb Bimbos of Retard Valley.
Perhaps the distinction I was trying to make is... at least all of these other businesses you mentioned put on a facade of respect and politeness towards their customers. Whereas Hollywood comes right out in the open and gives everyone a big fuck-you.
In what other business could you act so profoundly antagonistic towards your own customers and expect your business to actually be around to see the next day?
Fun object lesson: what happens when a violent animal is backed into a corner?
Like nobody's going to try their hand at hacking the thing? 15 days, no instructions, see you can make it connect somewhere else... sounds like a fun challenge to some.
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If I run sshd on my sshd? What if I have a virtual machine that runs sshd on a virtual sshd on a computer with an sshd that also runs sshd?
Do it in OS-agnostic firmware, you lazy shits.
Hello Debian
I can haz paragraphs? Those newlines are there for a reason.
Sigh...
"We fucked up."
Now, give us the option to *completely* remove any interjections from Metro (start screen, WinKey+tab, charms, network selection, search, probably a number of other elements I've forgotten), ie.: real-actual-computer-to-get-shit-done mode. Also get rid of that horrible, difficult-to-read low contrast color scheme and bring back the only good thing Vista brought us: Aero Glass.
Do these things and we might forgive you. Otherwise, fuck this shit, I'm going to Debian.
No one has.
Because using VirtualBox for that one piece of software is so hard?
...to lure a bunch of hopeful suckers into doing free work and externalizing HR.
It's cheaper ... for now
How many rap lyrics *don't* contain statements that could be construed as a specific threat?
As in dollars, quarterly earnings and PowerPoint charts. Product X will cost Y to purchase and take Z amount of time for configuration, training, etc. Here are some charts showing the projections of each of option in pretty colors. Communicate everything in dollar amounts, time and direct visual aids.
Capitalism, communism, feudalism, fundamentalism, militarism ... no matter what -ism you use, they all have the same fatal flaw: self-important, power-wielding, psychotic fucks who backstab their way to the top and keep the majority of the resources for themselves.
It depends on a number of factors. First of all, before you go ahead and buy that expensive accidental damage protection from the manufacturer, check with your home or renter's insurance provider to see if they offer floater items. Mine covers theft and accidental damage in *and* outside of the home for much less than it would cost from the manufacturer. As for extended warranties, well that's really a calculation of many variables, but mainly: what's it worth to you? What is the original warranty period? Do you expect to be using it for that long? It is an acceptable amount of money for you to eat if you never end up requiring warranty work during the extended period? Most of these questions you can only answer for yourself.
Uh, yeah, a place known as "prison". What the summary didn't include is that he was charged and could face up to 10 years and a $250k fine.
Are you fucking kidding me? Who wouldn't run when faced against the thuggery of modern law enforcement? Running has *nothing* to do with guilt or innocence, and everything to do with an extreme and quite rational aversion to being ensnared and railroaded into a ruinous legal situation.
...and I'm a guy, but even I'll say it: don't you think that the mothers have just a little more to deal with? I mean, they just pushed a 3-5kg or so sack of flesh out of an an orifice in their body, they're spending any number of hours day and night feeding the thing, they're bodies are readjusting from various hormonal changes...
Maybe, just maybe, giving moms more makes a bit of sense.
Which is exactly why RMS is correct and it is vitally important for the W3C to reject the notion of DRM as part of the HTML standard.
This isn't just a problem with educators. It's a problem with western society in general: "rules are rules, I have to enforce them" (along the same lines of, "hey, I was just doing my job when I slaughtered those Jews..."). No, you cantakerous nitpicking fucks, it is with extreme rarity that rules should be enforced to the letter, hard and fast.
We have a systems of extremely strict rulesets -- too strict. In order for society to function, to breathe, there must be a social contract where the enforcers use equally extreme discretion and consideration, where actions are weighed against all of the circumstances and it's not just assumed that every act is one of malice. Either that, or we operate on the honour system. Society will collapse if neither one of those principles are upheld.
Rules are often designed with the edge-cases in mind; the few bad apple that spoil the bunch. But you don't carpet bomb the whole damn orchard because of a one bad apple.
Privately run prisons, rubber stamping patent office, one-sided antagonistic copyright, violent take downs of non-violent civil offenders who pissed off corporations, multi-million dollar salaried revolving door jobs for politicians who fucked the public in the ass to do their corporate buddies a favor, hiring former corporate cronies as regulators so they can continue doing corporate favors... Why don't we just save ourselves the trouble by dropping the pretenses and officially handing all government duties to private corporations?
Some nitwit in Vermont wants to make it illegal to photograph anyone without explicit consent (except for government surveillence, obviously)
It's illegal and severely punishable to photograph a police officer in the UK if that officer thinks it could be used for terrorism (guess who gets to make the decision on that one...)
Just a few weeks ago, a California man was brutalliy beaten by thugs-in-uniform claming that his phone was a "weapon" (because it said so on teh intarnetz!!)
In Montreal, a woman was recently arrested for taking a photo of graffiti, the claim being that it's publication on Instagram was tantamount to harrassment (note that she was not the vandal, she only took a photo
After being told to stop over a loudspeaker (in super-creepy Orwellian fasion), a photographer was forcefully arrested for taking pictures on a Metro rail in Miami
You need only browse Photography is Not a Crime for 2 minutes before you realize that this war is already happening. There's a metric shit-ton of this stuff going on, with video evidence to back it up.
As for your rhetorical questions...
Yes. Obviously.
How will the video be protected from tampering?
It won't.
How long will it be archived?
Not long enough.
Can it be demanded by courts?
Well sure, but you'll find that every time it does, the video stream is "conveniently" missing or corrupted.
Stop asking questions citizen, you're not supposed to be creative, just shut up and watch the Dumb Bimbos of Retard Valley.
Perhaps the distinction I was trying to make is ... at least all of these other businesses you mentioned put on a facade of respect and politeness towards their customers. Whereas Hollywood comes right out in the open and gives everyone a big fuck-you.
In what other business could you act so profoundly antagonistic towards your own customers and expect your business to actually be around to see the next day?
Fun object lesson: what happens when a violent animal is backed into a corner?
Yes, but the latency is a bitch!
Like nobody's going to try their hand at hacking the thing? 15 days, no instructions, see you can make it connect somewhere else ... sounds like a fun challenge to some.
I thought they were called "flight attendants"
*shrug*