Tell people they "deserve" healthcare services without having to worry about cost and they'll demand all sorts of needless things.
Yeah, most medical procedures are so pleasant to go through. In fact, I’d have a stent put in just for the heck of it, if only I could figure out how to get my insurance to cover it! And I’d get a c-section done, if only I were a woman!
My favorites were actually the ones which purported to be from the widow of either a banker or a military officer. Invariably they would initially talk about being a dear Christian woman, then invariably progress to asking for help with some illegal transaction - tax fraud, theft from the estate of a dead person, etc.
I thought most of these 419 scammers had faded away... but apparently not.
Gates should have flown to England (iirc) and hand-delivered the ten dollar check personally - the dude saved Microsoft a fair bit of user embarrassment.
Has Apple really gotten that sloppy with their software development process?
Have you not been paying attention to the parade of Apple software bugaboos, large and small, that’ve occurred in the fairly recent past? Do you - or anyone in your circle of friends - honestly think iOS 11 is functionally better than iOS 10? Do you honestly believe that High Sierra is an improvement over Sierra, or that Sierra was an improvement over El Capitan?
Looking back a bit further... did you watch as Apple basically threw away a professional niche they pretty much owned with the ill-planned “update” known as Final Cut Pro X?
The days when Apple was known for software quality far above the competition is long gone. It’s true a number of us have still stuck around... I can’t really say if that’s just inertia, due to a potentially ill-founded hope they’ll return to the quality company they once were, or caused by something else though.
So early on after iOS 10 was released, we started to see a significant number of people reporting an issue where their phone batteries would be at 30% (or thereabouts) and suddenly the phone would just quit. This apparently is the problem the 10.2.1+ slowdown was intended to fix, and the one Apple is saying is due to older batteries not being able to provide as much power under load, as it were.
So if this was simply an "old degraded battery" issue - why didn't we have people reporting these problems in iOS 9, iOS 8, or earlier? It seems to me that the battery problem can only be part of this story.
Ferdinand Marcos learned the hard way - once you start giving your vassals (even controlled) access to some of the accoutrements of the modern world in an attempt to keep them mollified, what generally happens is they eventually figure out just how awful their life is compared to people who live elsewhere. And it doesn't end well for you.
I’ve known a couple people with severe ADHD that were actually pretty happy while they were off their meds - it was those of us around them who would be going nuts (maybe not the best choice of words in this context). They felt “fine”, which made it very hard to convince them they weren’t actually doing okay.
I imagine the Russians themselves are quite happy with the situation. The more Russian scare stories there are circulating, the more likely it is people will get fatigued with hearing them and start tuning out even the important stories - like Russian election interference.
Oh, I was unaware the Orange One brought any tech jobs back.
He apparently also caused the current economic boom in the US... pre-emptively, in fact. Even before he announced his candidacy for president, the aura of his magnificence was already causing the economy to grow.
Mark my words - this "broadcast power" work is going to end badly. The scientists working on this will start being mysteriously killed, one after another - and this time we won't have John Steed to investigate. Yes, Mrs. Peel is still around... but I don't know if she's up to trading karate chops and judo throws with the bad guys anymore.
If you're a venture capitalist... whatever you do, don't turn your back on Hayworth or Cresswell.
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He’d drive every other electric utility out of business. Then, he’d...
RAISE THE RATES!
Tell people they "deserve" healthcare services without having to worry about cost and they'll demand all sorts of needless things.
Yeah, most medical procedures are so pleasant to go through. In fact, I’d have a stent put in just for the heck of it, if only I could figure out how to get my insurance to cover it! And I’d get a c-section done, if only I were a woman!
Oh wait, this won't shock CNN viewers because CNN still isn't covering it at all.
Oh, really? Did you actually look, or are you just parroting what you heard Fox News - the way Dear Leader apparently does?
I would guess that the ten most-commented stories on Slashdot this year all involve Trump and/or members of his administration.
Military physicists have yet to prove that dark shrapnel exists - it's currently just theoretical.
My favorites were actually the ones which purported to be from the widow of either a banker or a military officer. Invariably they would initially talk about being a dear Christian woman, then invariably progress to asking for help with some illegal transaction - tax fraud, theft from the estate of a dead person, etc.
I thought most of these 419 scammers had faded away... but apparently not.
By enlisting Meghan Markle to play Dulcinea.
What about a nuclear reactor on an artificial island, far from any inhabited area?
Now we're venturing into James Bond Villain territory...
Gates should have flown to England (iirc) and hand-delivered the ten dollar check personally - the dude saved Microsoft a fair bit of user embarrassment.
Given those small, rural communities largely supported Trump... you’d think he’d be more aware of stuff like this.
Or you would, if you had t spent the past two or three years witnessing just how little thinking he does.
When did Bezos buy the Times? I know he owns the Washington Post...
Has Apple really gotten that sloppy with their software development process?
Have you not been paying attention to the parade of Apple software bugaboos, large and small, that’ve occurred in the fairly recent past? Do you - or anyone in your circle of friends - honestly think iOS 11 is functionally better than iOS 10? Do you honestly believe that High Sierra is an improvement over Sierra, or that Sierra was an improvement over El Capitan?
Looking back a bit further... did you watch as Apple basically threw away a professional niche they pretty much owned with the ill-planned “update” known as Final Cut Pro X?
The days when Apple was known for software quality far above the competition is long gone. It’s true a number of us have still stuck around... I can’t really say if that’s just inertia, due to a potentially ill-founded hope they’ll return to the quality company they once were, or caused by something else though.
So early on after iOS 10 was released, we started to see a significant number of people reporting an issue where their phone batteries would be at 30% (or thereabouts) and suddenly the phone would just quit. This apparently is the problem the 10.2.1+ slowdown was intended to fix, and the one Apple is saying is due to older batteries not being able to provide as much power under load, as it were.
So if this was simply an "old degraded battery" issue - why didn't we have people reporting these problems in iOS 9, iOS 8, or earlier? It seems to me that the battery problem can only be part of this story.
... with noisy, distracted fuckwits who didn't really value the experience. It'd also become 2 hour daycare.
So... nothing will change, in other words.
Ferdinand Marcos learned the hard way - once you start giving your vassals (even controlled) access to some of the accoutrements of the modern world in an attempt to keep them mollified, what generally happens is they eventually figure out just how awful their life is compared to people who live elsewhere. And it doesn't end well for you.
... when you can use other people’s money with no strings attached?
I’ve known a couple people with severe ADHD that were actually pretty happy while they were off their meds - it was those of us around them who would be going nuts (maybe not the best choice of words in this context). They felt “fine”, which made it very hard to convince them they weren’t actually doing okay.
The truly sad thing is - Tommy could see, hear, and speak before he got addicted to pinball.
AKA “The Kids Aren’t Alright”.
Seems to prevent it from working. But another browser (Safari on OS X) which doesn’t block scripts by default gave up the credentials.
So I guess the solution is NoScript or the equivalent.
I imagine the Russians themselves are quite happy with the situation. The more Russian scare stories there are circulating, the more likely it is people will get fatigued with hearing them and start tuning out even the important stories - like Russian election interference.
Ah, memories! My friends and I wasted a lot of paper in the computer lab, playing variants of that game on a DEC PDP 11/40 (IIRC).
Oh, I was unaware the Orange One brought any tech jobs back.
He apparently also caused the current economic boom in the US... pre-emptively, in fact. Even before he announced his candidacy for president, the aura of his magnificence was already causing the economy to grow.
Mark my words - this "broadcast power" work is going to end badly. The scientists working on this will start being mysteriously killed, one after another - and this time we won't have John Steed to investigate. Yes, Mrs. Peel is still around... but I don't know if she's up to trading karate chops and judo throws with the bad guys anymore.
If you're a venture capitalist... whatever you do, don't turn your back on Hayworth or Cresswell.
You sleepy? That's the first goofy thing I've ever seen you post... ;)
If that's the first... you have really not been paying attention.