Its not really free, you're still paying for it - The cost is just built into the product prices.
I want to PAY the market cost, for MY CHOICE of shipping method and carrier.
And I want to be able to specify that choice, and verify the pricing, BEFORE I enter a credit card number or any other financial info, and even without having to "log in" first. And I definitely don't want my card number stored from one purchase to the next, partly because I use disposable numbers, but also because for EACH PURCHASE I want positive control over the transaction. Its the same reason I keep my wallet in my pocket until the cashier has rung up my total at a brick&mortar.
When Amazon offers that, then it will be news worth reading.
to get a PO box, and have all packages shipped to you there. Its 100% secure, nobody but you can get your package. And USPS shipping is usually less expensive than other options.
The only problems are:
- many companies have exclusive contracts with shipping carriers that cannot deliver to PO boxes, and - many companies refuse to ship to PO boxes even if they do offer USPS shipping, possibly out of obsolete paranoia.
People actually being allowed to CHOOSE which companies are allowed to use their personal info.
Why is that a bad idea, again?
(Corporate entities that people widely choose to NOT trust with their data, especially ones that most people have no choice but to be customers of, if they want decent broadband Internet, need not answer)
BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc.
It is expected to be self-financing and self-operated, but unfortunately any major decisions require the approval of congress, which means it is prevented from solving its problems by the same congress that created those problems.,
The USPS is not losing money as a result of its own operational costs vs income.
All the money the USPS is "losing" is being paid into a fund to pay retiree benefits for employees 75 years into the future - YES, that would include costs for employees that have not even been BORN YET.
is the option where *I* as the paying customer get to control how packages are delivered to me, and by which service.
And I am happy to pay the associated shipping costs for my choice - I never asked for "free shipping"
I cannot order from Amazon at all, ever, because shipping is "pot luck" and I *MUST* know how something will be shipped BEFORE placing any order.
UPS CAN NOT deliver to me, PERIOD. I can accept FedEx, but need to list a different delivery address. Or I can go with USPS to my home address (preferred)
Amazon REFUSES to let the customer specify a carrier, or even INFORM which carrier will be used, until after you submit your order including payment information. Until they change that I must refuse to order anything from Amazon.
should form a small LLC to act as a "dealership" - have it get dealership licenses in as many jurisdictions/states as it can, and then simply buy them or merge with them.
"have a relationship with a car manufacturer" is a bullshit requirement if "BEING a car manufacturer" doesn't fulfill it.
Seems a sort of redundant thing to do to a rotting corpse.
Windows got on PC's because it got popular before anything else existed, and then once it was the most popular it used proprietary protocols, formats as well as illegal activity to choke out any competition and set its monopoly as far into stone as possible. People live with it because they either know nothing else or have just accepted failure as "normal" on their PC's
Its only just starting to lose the stranglehold.
With phones, MS was late to the market, after there were not one but TWO well established alternatives. NO one except the most die-hard MS supporter or the most completely clueless person is going to touch windows phones with a ten foot pole.
There are just a few things that I have to use Chrome for.
One of them is a function of my bank's online banking service which they have STILL not migrated from flash. Unfortunately, the only other comparable bank to offer the relevant service, ALSO uses flash for that same function, so there's no where else to go. I've explained to them why they need to get off flash and I am waiting.
Flash needs to die and everything that uses it needs to migrate or DIE as well.
Told by who? Via what channel? Have you verified this? How? How can someone else verify it?
I seriously hope that they have removed that requirement, but I'd like to verify it for myself.
"I was told by a little bird that was told by his friend that heard it from his garbage man that he heard it in a restaurant by a waitress who......." is useless.
COMPLETELY impossible to unscrew the smart thermostat from the wall, unwire it, and (temporarily) install a traditional non-networked thermostat so you could operate your heat (or AC) while you contact the vendor or manufacturer of the smart thermostat for help.
you will NEVER be able to walk into a local Home Depot and buy one. Not tomorrow, not 5 years from now.
I hear about solar panels as clear as glass a few years ago, that you could put on all the windows in your house to generate cheap electricity.. Still don't see them on the market, don't expect I ever will.
For whatever reason, maybe its oil company conspiracy, maybe the ideas were fake to begin with, who knows, we see news about all kinds of new technology concepts, that NEVER COME TO FRUITION.
that someone that supports a particular candidate would be upset that someone might FIND OUT that they support that candidate. I mean most people are pretty open/obvious about who/what they support.
ALWAYS demand that they send a bill, which you have the chance to review and approve.
Your your BANK's bill pay service, and then you have positive control over the amount and timing of payment, including whether any payment is made at all.
They might mind, but there isn't a thing they could do to prevent it.
However, I suspect these cameras might harder to spot and identify than you might think.
And regarding your latter part - again, they might mind, but as long as you were legally parked, in a public parking lot and weren't interfering with or disturbing anyone else's legal activity, then they can't stop you doing that either. Mind you, "legally parked" would of course include having YOUR car properly registered and plated.
MS is just making the choice more binary - either you choose to let them do anything they want with your computer, or you choose to let them do NOTHING.
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Its not really free, you're still paying for it - The cost is just built into the product prices.
I want to PAY the market cost, for MY CHOICE of shipping method and carrier.
And I want to be able to specify that choice, and verify the pricing, BEFORE I enter a credit card number or any other financial info, and even without having to "log in" first. And I definitely don't want my card number stored from one purchase to the next, partly because I use disposable numbers, but also because for EACH PURCHASE I want positive control over the transaction. Its the same reason I keep my wallet in my pocket until the cashier has rung up my total at a brick&mortar.
When Amazon offers that, then it will be news worth reading.
to get a PO box, and have all packages shipped to you there. Its 100% secure, nobody but you can get your package. And USPS shipping is usually less expensive than other options.
The only problems are:
- many companies have exclusive contracts with shipping carriers that cannot deliver to PO boxes, and
- many companies refuse to ship to PO boxes even if they do offer USPS shipping, possibly out of obsolete paranoia.
People actually being allowed to CHOOSE which companies are allowed to use their personal info.
Why is that a bad idea, again?
(Corporate entities that people widely choose to NOT trust with their data, especially ones that most people have no choice but to be customers of, if they want decent broadband Internet, need not answer)
No need to worry about it accidentally getting installed on any of my computers, which are all linux
is not "a pared-down version of the Linux operating system"
It is often USED as PART of a pared-down Linux install, but is not itself a version of Linux.
https://www.busybox.net/about....
BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc.
I can't imagine wanting to remove only "Some" of Windows. I'll stick with removing ALL of it. Or of never letting it get on there in the first place.
Not just "a bit of government protection".
It is expected to be self-financing and self-operated, but unfortunately any major decisions require the approval of congress, which means it is prevented from solving its problems by the same congress that created those problems.,
The USPS is not losing money as a result of its own operational costs vs income.
All the money the USPS is "losing" is being paid into a fund to pay retiree benefits for employees 75 years into the future - YES, that would include costs for employees that have not even been BORN YET.
http://www.deliveringforameric...
And note that by law, the USPS can NEVER make a profit. "Breaking even" is the absolute BEST it is ever allowed to do.
is the option where *I* as the paying customer get to control how packages are delivered to me, and by which service.
And I am happy to pay the associated shipping costs for my choice - I never asked for "free shipping"
I cannot order from Amazon at all, ever, because shipping is "pot luck" and I *MUST* know how something will be shipped BEFORE placing any order.
UPS CAN NOT deliver to me, PERIOD. I can accept FedEx, but need to list a different delivery address. Or I can go with USPS to my home address (preferred)
Amazon REFUSES to let the customer specify a carrier, or even INFORM which carrier will be used, until after you submit your order including payment information. Until they change that I must refuse to order anything from Amazon.
should form a small LLC to act as a "dealership" - have it get dealership licenses in as many jurisdictions/states as it can, and then simply buy them or merge with them.
"have a relationship with a car manufacturer" is a bullshit requirement if "BEING a car manufacturer" doesn't fulfill it.
Rate parent UP. This cuts through all the political bullshit to the heart of the issue - which has nothing to do with "control over the Internet"
Seems a sort of redundant thing to do to a rotting corpse.
Windows got on PC's because it got popular before anything else existed, and then once it was the most popular it used proprietary protocols, formats as well as illegal activity to choke out any competition and set its monopoly as far into stone as possible. People live with it because they either know nothing else or have just accepted failure as "normal" on their PC's
Its only just starting to lose the stranglehold.
With phones, MS was late to the market, after there were not one but TWO well established alternatives. NO one except the most die-hard MS supporter or the most completely clueless person is going to touch windows phones with a ten foot pole.
I am mostly migrated to Chromium.
There are just a few things that I have to use Chrome for.
One of them is a function of my bank's online banking service which they have STILL not migrated from flash. Unfortunately, the only other comparable bank to offer the relevant service, ALSO uses flash for that same function, so there's no where else to go. I've explained to them why they need to get off flash and I am waiting.
Flash needs to die and everything that uses it needs to migrate or DIE as well.
All modern browsers should actively block it.
ISP gateways/proxies should block it.
Flash is an evil horrid nightmare that needs to just DIE already.
is not "I don't have a facebook|twitter" account.
It is "Huh? Whats a facebook?"
Told by who? Via what channel? Have you verified this? How? How can someone else verify it?
I seriously hope that they have removed that requirement, but I'd like to verify it for myself.
"I was told by a little bird that was told by his friend that heard it from his garbage man that he heard it in a restaurant by a waitress who ......." is useless.
COMPLETELY impossible to unscrew the smart thermostat from the wall, unwire it, and (temporarily) install a traditional non-networked thermostat so you could operate your heat (or AC) while you contact the vendor or manufacturer of the smart thermostat for help.
you will NEVER be able to walk into a local Home Depot and buy one. Not tomorrow, not 5 years from now.
I hear about solar panels as clear as glass a few years ago, that you could put on all the windows in your house to generate cheap electricity.. Still don't see them on the market, don't expect I ever will.
For whatever reason, maybe its oil company conspiracy, maybe the ideas were fake to begin with, who knows, we see news about all kinds of new technology concepts, that NEVER COME TO FRUITION.
that someone that supports a particular candidate would be upset that someone might FIND OUT that they support that candidate. I mean most people are pretty open/obvious about who/what they support.
It gives them *certain* rights. But there are limits and exceptions to those rights.
Just one example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
directly debit your bank account for anything.
ALWAYS demand that they send a bill, which you have the chance to review and approve.
Your your BANK's bill pay service, and then you have positive control over the amount and timing of payment, including whether any payment is made at all.
Need to call 911, or be reached in an emergency by their family, during a concert.
They might mind, but there isn't a thing they could do to prevent it.
However, I suspect these cameras might harder to spot and identify than you might think.
And regarding your latter part - again, they might mind, but as long as you were legally parked, in a public parking lot and weren't interfering with or disturbing anyone else's legal activity, then they can't stop you doing that either. Mind you, "legally parked" would of course include having YOUR car properly registered and plated.
recording only events that are visible IN PUBLIC? Because you don't need a warrant for that.
ANYone can legally observe and/or record anything that is visible IN PUBLIC.
Its part of "freedom of the press". No, they can't require you to "register" to be recognize as the press, its called citizen journalism.
Again, IN PUBLIC.
https://www.debian.org/
https://devuan.org/
http://redhat.com/
http://www.ubuntu.com/
https://www.suse.com/
https://getfedora.org/
To list just a few...
MS is just making the choice more binary - either you choose to let them do anything they want with your computer, or you choose to let them do NOTHING.