Once we uncover where Trump has been getting the funding for his various projects over the past 10 years or so it will be apparent why Trump is in love with Russia and Putin. Putin and his gaggle of Russian billionaire cronies is most likely the source of The Donald's investment capital, probably routed through foreign banks like Deutsch Bank. We know U.S. banks quit loaning The Donald money after the first few bankruptcies.
Observing the Higgs Boson which had been predicted for decades was a big deal because without it and the Higgs field, matter has no mass, at least no explanation for why it does.
This observation is just one more example of slamming things together to see what kind of oddball combinations we can get. Basic tinker-toy stuff. Interesting but not earth shattering. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of quark combinations to go!
There are old Point-Of-Sale systems I still see. I customer has a storage yard gate controller that needs it. I imagine a fairly lengthy list could be compiled.
The copyrighters got the government to extend copyrights to the life of the author plus 75 years. Everytime Mickey Mouse is about to lose copyright protection they extend it further.
"about a quarter of all Americans take acetaminophen every week."
Well, I finally understand why there are so many out and out a**holes on Internet message forums these days. Here I just thought it was basic human nature expressing itself from the anonymity of a made up user handle.
If you discredit our democracy and generally cause an uproar then you undermine our country as a whole. Keep at it for a while and our country collapses or devolves into some sort of regional / political civil war.
Reminds me of the Chinese proverb: A capitalist will sell you the rope you use to hang him.
That is so 19th century. These days, the capitalist will, at the behest of the Government, charge you a fee for use of the rope with which you, yourself, is hanged.
If a business has ancient needs like that. Most likely they would be ok with running 32-bit Window 7. No need to upgrade to Win 10 if you rely on stuff that outdated. Businesses that don't have a plan for replacing their 20-year old 16 bit software are nothing short of irresponsible. Do they expect to run it forever?
I personally know of, or support, a couple of dozen outfits that have legacy, line of business software that works supports very expensive machinery. They do expect the computer system that runs the machinery to run just as long as they can keep the machinery going. I can't blame them. Obsolescing hipsters and suburbanites laptops is one thing, asking someone to fork over thousands or tens of thousands on perfectly good equipment because they can't get a compatible Windows PC to operate it just doesn't fly.
Heck, I have refurbished two systems in as many months to run DOS controller software!
This "you are the product" meme is stupid. When you watch TV, you are not the product even though they sell advertising on it. The relationship is clearly more complex than that.
In Google's case, there is relatively little lock-in to their products. Farm animals can't leave, they belong to the farmer. It's trivial to switch to another search engine, to another mapping site, to another email provider. Google doesn't even mind if you install uBlock and Privacy Badger from their official Chrome extension repo. If Google annoys users too much, or doesn't offer them something compelling to stay, their advertising business becomes worthless.
Google is very hard to avoid. You can eschew Chrome, GMail, Maps, Earth, etc. You can switch to DuckDuckGo for search. But Google still has their ads and trackers all over the web. They have deals with online vendors to collect your purchase data. They claim anonymization, innocent intent, etc. If you do use your services then they scan your email,
web history, internet bookmarks, etc. as well.
Whether they sell your information directly or merely rent access to its benefit they are still in the business of selling access to an increasingly detailed profile that is you. They also do it in such a manner that there is a disconnect from the services they provide and the advertising they place. They don't really run any risk of annoying their users. Google ads don't run on Google services, they run all over the rest of the web.
Since I decided TV was pretty much junk I have cancelled my cable service and I have not connected my smart TV to the Internet, either. Explain how they track my broadcast TV viewing again? I know they have TV ratings services that provide some very broad demographics to advertisers but, really, TV advertises to fairly unknown users.
There is a difference. Google really is selling me. TV is selling ads.
How is it that corporations can rip off or defraud tens of thousands of customers/victims and no one is going to jail?
At the very least there should be a $1000 fine per bogus account for the employees opening them, $1000 per account for their supervisors, $1000 per account for the executives responsible and another $10000 per account for the company as a whole. Anyone who can't pay goes to jail.
So, though it is antithetical ti Google's business model, they could actually hire human reviewers. I am not suggesting they censor content, just accurately categorize it so advertisers and viewers could avoid the crap they don't want to support or view.
Before you say it, it could be done. It might take 20,000 employees or so but it could be done.
My first smart phone was a Samsung running Android. It was clunky and Samsung abandoned it less than 1 year after it was released. I switched to iPhone after that and loved it. I've looked at the Galaxy S, the Nexus and the HTCs every year or so when it came time to upgrade. I am still on the iPhone and loving it.
...should be made mandatory, regardless of the manner of death. The quaint practice of burying entire bodies is expensive and a waste of resources. Harvest the usable organs and incinerate the rest. Give the ashes back to the family if the need something to bury. Allow people to sell spare organs such as kidneys, skin etc while alive and sell their bodies upon death if they like. End of problem.
By all means, require a verified real name for domain name registration and opening an email while we're at it. Also for a Twitter, Snapchat or Facebook account.
Oh, please. Trump has been playing to the media since day one. Every time the media has finished one cycle Trump comes out with some new outrage and the spotlight is upon him once more. That worked fine for the primaries where Trump's intentional outrageousness played to the Alt-Right and then the Republican base.
Trump got more media coverage the all of the other Republican candidates combined. He wanted it that way. Now that it is general election time that outrageousness doesn't play as well to the Dems or Indies.
As far as the lewd remarks on that one video tape, he could have honestly apologized and let it go. We'd have mostly forgotten it already. He had to try and tell us he never did that kind of thing, though to too many people know better, he made sexual misconduct the story by trying to tell us Billy was worse.
No, actually, when you run large scale web services with ridiculously few employees, everything tends to be automated. Read automated here as automatic. No due diligence just click the take-down button and move to the next item.
Yeah but you can make your own romantic comedy, locked room murder, etc. all day long as long you are not copying someone else's work verbatim, or closely paraphrasing. You can even make your own mouse based cartoons so long as you don't copy Mickey too closely.
With software patents gone crazy like they have where every little method or data structure being patented we've come to the point where you almost can't code anything without being sued these days.
I only hope that the software patent is finally done away with sooner rather than later.
4chan isn't all horrible, they've got some pretty good stolen porn. However, 4chan is apparently the home turf of the "alt-right". There are certain forums where the skinheads, KKK, neo-nazis and what-have-you meet to plot their shenanigans. I hear their most recent effort was stuff the ballot boxes of all the online polls about the presidential debate. Goold old Trump new all about it and was able to claim he won all the polls so he must have won the debate.
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Once we uncover where Trump has been getting the funding for his various projects over the past 10 years or so it will be apparent why Trump is in love with Russia and Putin. Putin and his gaggle of Russian billionaire cronies is most likely the source of The Donald's investment capital, probably routed through foreign banks like Deutsch Bank. We know U.S. banks quit loaning The Donald money after the first few bankruptcies.
Observing the Higgs Boson which had been predicted for decades was a big deal because without it and the Higgs field, matter has no mass, at least no explanation for why it does.
This observation is just one more example of slamming things together to see what kind of oddball combinations we can get. Basic tinker-toy stuff. Interesting but not earth shattering. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of quark combinations to go!
There are old Point-Of-Sale systems I still see. I customer has a storage yard gate controller that needs it. I imagine a fairly lengthy list could be compiled.
The copyrighters got the government to extend copyrights to the life of the author plus 75 years. Everytime Mickey Mouse is about to lose copyright protection they extend it further.
"about a quarter of all Americans take acetaminophen every week."
Well, I finally understand why there are so many out and out a**holes on Internet message forums these days. Here I just thought it was basic human nature expressing itself from the anonymity of a made up user handle.
Alexa: You can't go that direction.
Yup, going to be LOTS of fun
If you discredit our democracy and generally cause an uproar then you undermine our country as a whole. Keep at it for a while and our country collapses or devolves into some sort of regional / political civil war.
Reminds me of the Chinese proverb: A capitalist will sell you the rope you use to hang him.
That is so 19th century. These days, the capitalist will, at the behest of the Government, charge you a fee for use of the rope with which you, yourself, is hanged.
If a business has ancient needs like that. Most likely they would be ok with running 32-bit Window 7. No need to upgrade to Win 10 if you rely on stuff that outdated. Businesses that don't have a plan for replacing their 20-year old 16 bit software are nothing short of irresponsible. Do they expect to run it forever?
I personally know of, or support, a couple of dozen outfits that have legacy, line of business software that works supports very expensive machinery. They do expect the computer system that runs the machinery to run just as long as they can keep the machinery going. I can't blame them. Obsolescing hipsters and suburbanites laptops is one thing, asking someone to fork over thousands or tens of thousands on perfectly good equipment because they can't get a compatible Windows PC to operate it just doesn't fly.
Heck, I have refurbished two systems in as many months to run DOS controller software!
I want to see no bloatware, no "handy hints" aka adverts, minimal telemetry and NO FORCE FED DRIVER UPDATES or forced updates of any kind
This "you are the product" meme is stupid. When you watch TV, you are not the product even though they sell advertising on it. The relationship is clearly more complex than that.
In Google's case, there is relatively little lock-in to their products. Farm animals can't leave, they belong to the farmer. It's trivial to switch to another search engine, to another mapping site, to another email provider. Google doesn't even mind if you install uBlock and Privacy Badger from their official Chrome extension repo. If Google annoys users too much, or doesn't offer them something compelling to stay, their advertising business becomes worthless.
Google is very hard to avoid. You can eschew Chrome, GMail, Maps, Earth, etc. You can switch to DuckDuckGo for search. But Google still has their ads and trackers all over the web. They have deals with online vendors to collect your purchase data. They claim anonymization, innocent intent, etc. If you do use your services then they scan your email, web history, internet bookmarks, etc. as well.
Whether they sell your information directly or merely rent access to its benefit they are still in the business of selling access to an increasingly detailed profile that is you. They also do it in such a manner that there is a disconnect from the services they provide and the advertising they place. They don't really run any risk of annoying their users. Google ads don't run on Google services, they run all over the rest of the web.
Since I decided TV was pretty much junk I have cancelled my cable service and I have not connected my smart TV to the Internet, either. Explain how they track my broadcast TV viewing again? I know they have TV ratings services that provide some very broad demographics to advertisers but, really, TV advertises to fairly unknown users.
There is a difference. Google really is selling me. TV is selling ads.
How is it that corporations can rip off or defraud tens of thousands of customers/victims and no one is going to jail?
At the very least there should be a $1000 fine per bogus account for the employees opening them, $1000 per account for their supervisors, $1000 per account for the executives responsible and another $10000 per account for the company as a whole. Anyone who can't pay goes to jail.
$35 billion might get Wells Fargo's attention.
iOS does really well in Japan too.
So, though it is antithetical ti Google's business model, they could actually hire human reviewers. I am not suggesting they censor content, just accurately categorize it so advertisers and viewers could avoid the crap they don't want to support or view. Before you say it, it could be done. It might take 20,000 employees or so but it could be done.
Ketchup that slides right out of the bottle, to the last drop?
Shut down the Patent Office. There is now nothing worthwhile left to invent.
My first smart phone was a Samsung running Android. It was clunky and Samsung abandoned it less than 1 year after it was released. I switched to iPhone after that and loved it. I've looked at the Galaxy S, the Nexus and the HTCs every year or so when it came time to upgrade. I am still on the iPhone and loving it.
My thanks to Steve and Apple!
So go ahead and pile on.
...should be made mandatory, regardless of the manner of death. The quaint practice of burying entire bodies is expensive and a waste of resources. Harvest the usable organs and incinerate the rest. Give the ashes back to the family if the need something to bury. Allow people to sell spare organs such as kidneys, skin etc while alive and sell their bodies upon death if they like. End of problem.
By all means, require a verified real name for domain name registration and opening an email while we're at it. Also for a Twitter, Snapchat or Facebook account.
Oh, please. Trump has been playing to the media since day one. Every time the media has finished one cycle Trump comes out with some new outrage and the spotlight is upon him once more. That worked fine for the primaries where Trump's intentional outrageousness played to the Alt-Right and then the Republican base.
Trump got more media coverage the all of the other Republican candidates combined. He wanted it that way. Now that it is general election time that outrageousness doesn't play as well to the Dems or Indies.
As far as the lewd remarks on that one video tape, he could have honestly apologized and let it go. We'd have mostly forgotten it already. He had to try and tell us he never did that kind of thing, though to too many people know better, he made sexual misconduct the story by trying to tell us Billy was worse.
We call this being hoisted by one's own petard.
Pretty sure Time Warner spit out TWC (Time Warner Cable) as a separate company a year or so ago so this merger doesn't include TWC.
I couldn't watch Netflix yesterday AM through the end of lunch (Pacific). So, yeah, I noticed.
Umm, self-represented cases, so no lawyer, so no Bar Association penalties?
No, actually, when you run large scale web services with ridiculously few employees, everything tends to be automated. Read automated here as automatic. No due diligence just click the take-down button and move to the next item.
Yeah but you can make your own romantic comedy, locked room murder, etc. all day long as long you are not copying someone else's work verbatim, or closely paraphrasing. You can even make your own mouse based cartoons so long as you don't copy Mickey too closely.
With software patents gone crazy like they have where every little method or data structure being patented we've come to the point where you almost can't code anything without being sued these days.
I only hope that the software patent is finally done away with sooner rather than later.
4chan isn't all horrible, they've got some pretty good stolen porn. However, 4chan is apparently the home turf of the "alt-right". There are certain forums where the skinheads, KKK, neo-nazis and what-have-you meet to plot their shenanigans. I hear their most recent effort was stuff the ballot boxes of all the online polls about the presidential debate. Goold old Trump new all about it and was able to claim he won all the polls so he must have won the debate.