That has got to be the worst freaking rationale for doing anything I have heard in a long time. That's like saying I only murder people because there are laws saying I shouldn't, and I will only stop once it becomes OK to murder freely. Why is this modded insightful?
My dentist thinks nothing of asking for it and scribbling it on a post-it note along with my name while they enter a claim form into their computer and then they throw the post-it note away.
Yeah, cause you're that importent that somebody is gonna go through the trash to get your precious ssn. Jackass.
Yahuh, but does it make sense to make your point to people who either think you're a nutjob, know you're a nutjob, or have no idea in hell what you are up to, but still think you're a nutjob? You don't make deep philosophical points to people who are actually trying to work for a living, especially when your point inconveniences them. Leave getting kicked out of retail establishments to us teenagers.
Never can anyone say anything regarding sleazyness until one watches local television for more than five minutes. From my tv eminates these adverts "pentium computers $200". First of all this is a blatent rip-off, the product being advertised being only worth about $5 tops (before the flames begin, assuming anybody actually reads this, I can go to the yearly governmental computer auction and purchase these computers as complete systems for aprox $5, and that is with the auctioneer's plants amoungst the audience). Besides the extravagent pricing, the misrepresentation is deceptive to say the least, pentium being used as an industry buzzword for ages, a consumer one moreso over the past few years. With the advent of these buzzwords, we think pentium we think computer, no differnce existing from one to the next besides maybe case shape. So technically these are pentiums that are being sold, but the misinformed public is looking for a p-2 at least (windows must be run, people think computer they think windows) they are really recieveing lemons who's bios batteries will most likely die within the year, soldered straight onto the motherboard even. Ok I do admit the post got slightly long, but who cares, it's not like anybody cares what I have to say anways, the average user's threshold will filter me out before long...
Although I believe the previous comment to be entirely elistist in nature, I do see the point from which the poster is basing his reaction to the issue at hand. What I do believe we are all forgetting is that intelligence greatly limit's one's posabilities in life. I myself am a moron, I will probably go to a second rate community college, winding up as a sysadmin at another second rate community college, nothing more, nothing less. I will never gain an innate knowlage of the inner-workings of a computer (hardware/software) but that just so happens to be hereditary. Other people are stuck with this, and it is going to be quite beyond their ability to ever grasp these technical intracies you pride yourself in knowing (unless you are speaking as a tech who instructs people in how to plug in their computers...) and as such will no longer pose a threat to you as a tech, quit your bitching/gloating, not everyone is capable, we pose no threat to you.
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That has got to be the worst freaking rationale for doing anything I have heard in a long time. That's like saying I only murder people because there are laws saying I shouldn't, and I will only stop once it becomes OK to murder freely. Why is this modded insightful?
My dentist thinks nothing of asking for it and scribbling it on a post-it note along with my name while they enter a claim form into their computer and then they throw the post-it note away.
Yeah, cause you're that importent that somebody is gonna go through the trash to get your precious ssn. Jackass.
Yahuh, but does it make sense to make your point to people who either think you're a nutjob, know you're a nutjob, or have no idea in hell what you are up to, but still think you're a nutjob? You don't make deep philosophical points to people who are actually trying to work for a living, especially when your point inconveniences them. Leave getting kicked out of retail establishments to us teenagers.
Never can anyone say anything regarding sleazyness until one watches local television for more than five minutes. From my tv eminates these adverts "pentium computers $200". First of all this is a blatent rip-off, the product being advertised being only worth about $5 tops (before the flames begin, assuming anybody actually reads this, I can go to the yearly governmental computer auction and purchase these computers as complete systems for aprox $5, and that is with the auctioneer's plants amoungst the audience). Besides the extravagent pricing, the misrepresentation is deceptive to say the least, pentium being used as an industry buzzword for ages, a consumer one moreso over the past few years. With the advent of these buzzwords, we think pentium we think computer, no differnce existing from one to the next besides maybe case shape. So technically these are pentiums that are being sold, but the misinformed public is looking for a p-2 at least (windows must be run, people think computer they think windows) they are really recieveing lemons who's bios batteries will most likely die within the year, soldered straight onto the motherboard even. Ok I do admit the post got slightly long, but who cares, it's not like anybody cares what I have to say anways, the average user's threshold will filter me out before long...
Although I believe the previous comment to be entirely elistist in nature, I do see the point from which the poster is basing his reaction to the issue at hand. What I do believe we are all forgetting is that intelligence greatly limit's one's posabilities in life. I myself am a moron, I will probably go to a second rate community college, winding up as a sysadmin at another second rate community college, nothing more, nothing less. I will never gain an innate knowlage of the inner-workings of a computer (hardware/software) but that just so happens to be hereditary. Other people are stuck with this, and it is going to be quite beyond their ability to ever grasp these technical intracies you pride yourself in knowing (unless you are speaking as a tech who instructs people in how to plug in their computers...) and as such will no longer pose a threat to you as a tech, quit your bitching/gloating, not everyone is capable, we pose no threat to you.