You were so overjoyed and relieved to get a job that you just signed every goddam thing in the hire package and couldn't pass an exam regarding the contents at 2:30 pm local time, that same day.
Candidates need money to fly/bus to different locations and hold/attend rallies and stuff.
Where the Koch brothers fucked up was investing in those goddam useless commercials on radio and TV.
What's the first thing we all do when a commercial comes on?
We take a pee break or change the channel.
Especially annoying were the negative campaign ads. Those have proven, time and again, to be a turnoff. Political ads seldom extol virtues and more often attack other candidates.
Money doesn't work unless you spend it wisely by getting people to go door-to-door, hold town meetings, providing voter registration assistance, and providing transportation to the polls.
Spamming voters is just as effective in the political arena as it is in the sphere of emails.
We will continue to treat all individuals equally and we stand by our pledge to protect the planet, while sustaining our continued economic growth as we adjust our business model in the forward-going directionalized mission to be competitive in a volatile market where shareholder confidence is a parameter that we recognize and appreciate is a futuralized initiative-driven wide scope paradigmed pledge to demarginalize those on the periphery of the broad customer base that we feel is essential to the revenue stream, on a profitized, positional approach to optimizing the talent channels of our employees.
Management and I met with the cloud salesperson and technical rep.
The tech rep was full of shit. When asked, he said response time would be FASTER. I objected on the grounds of the restriction of the speed of light.
Our current servers were in the next room via Ethernet.
The cloud was "out there."
I asked, "What fail-overs do you have?" They said that the cloud was in Austin and if it failed, Oklahoma would pick up the slack so fast, we wouldn't feel it.
After the meeting, I called the business number in Austin and asked for support. I got a kid and I asked him if the data center was there in Austin.
He said, "No, but we're thinking of building one."
I said, "How about the one in Oklahoma?" He said, "Cool. We have one in Oklahoma?"
Management loved the word, "cloud." "Cloud." "CLOUD."
It sounded good at cocktail parties and conference rooms and in front of clients.
--
I recommended that we not go with those crooks and I laid it out very plainly, calmly and stuff.
Long story short... I told management that my recommendation was on the record and that the IT department would certainly support any decision they made.
They took the bait.
6 months later and $60,000 down the road, I got the word to buy servers and switches and stuff to and to quietly duplicate all the stuff in our old computer room.
The cloud had gone down several times and there was no fail-over. It was slower than molasses and exceedingly expensive.
The blow that cracked the nut, though, was the long list of cloud hacks and the business (law) could not risk a breach by placing client data God knows where.
... I've been swamped with questions from the Gentle User, and articles like this help to explain stuff without placing me in a position of having an axe to grind.
... it's the stupidity of using an email that's not a decoy.
Sure, a person can be tracked and traced via credit card number and address, but most people don't have the raw data or a database to put it and certainly no skill level regarding same.
But a lady puts her husband's email address into a web site and gets a hit?
She and her husband had been having marital issues lately, and she figured she'd plug his personal email address into a search tool.
It was a match, and she immediately called him. Here's how she remembers the conversation:
"What do you know about this website, Ashley Madison?" she asked.
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Bullshit.
You were so overjoyed and relieved to get a job that you just signed every goddam thing in the hire package and couldn't pass an exam regarding the contents at 2:30 pm local time, that same day.
This.
Buzz killers fuck off and let we who live in free worlds have our rants.
No.
Part of the install process for Chrome is you agree that Google gets everything and you get nothing.
Thanks for the lucid reasons for, and solutions for, increased injuries involving bikes.
Actually, Americans (assholes or not) do own the roads they drive on.
Actually, people don't vote on the "social" issues except during the Republican primary. That's why we get wingnuts like Sarah Palin and Paul Ryan.
This.
Candidates need money to fly/bus to different locations and hold/attend rallies and stuff.
Where the Koch brothers fucked up was investing in those goddam useless commercials on radio and TV.
What's the first thing we all do when a commercial comes on?
We take a pee break or change the channel.
Especially annoying were the negative campaign ads. Those have proven, time and again, to be a turnoff. Political ads seldom extol virtues and more often attack other candidates.
Money doesn't work unless you spend it wisely by getting people to go door-to-door, hold town meetings, providing voter registration assistance, and providing transportation to the polls.
Spamming voters is just as effective in the political arena as it is in the sphere of emails.
What we need are voters who don't live in fucking Lala land.
You got a problem with taxis, bring it up with people who give a shit.
I don't use taxis.
I did once.
ONCE!
And yet amazingly, piracy, by definition, is illegal.
Where piracy is not piracy, it is not called piracy and it is not treated as piracy.
You are not successful in making a simple thing difficult.
We will continue to treat all individuals equally and we stand by our pledge to protect the planet, while sustaining our continued economic growth as we adjust our business model in the forward-going directionalized mission to be competitive in a volatile market where shareholder confidence is a parameter that we recognize and appreciate is a futuralized initiative-driven wide scope paradigmed pledge to demarginalize those on the periphery of the broad customer base that we feel is essential to the revenue stream, on a profitized, positional approach to optimizing the talent channels of our employees.
In summary:
... because that's all we're going to say about that.
... to understand:
Pirating is illegal.
We're not taking questions from the audience, because that's all we're going to say about that.
There are professionals who do this for a living. Keep your day job.
... a Mac wannabe.
I remember OS2, for crying out loud, and immediately thought, "Mac copy."
Meanwhile, outside your small fucking problems ...
You're nuttier than a fruitcake.
No one wants to get rid of 6 or 7 billion people.
Those are the customer base.
I went through this.
Management and I met with the cloud salesperson and technical rep.
The tech rep was full of shit. When asked, he said response time would be FASTER. I objected on the grounds of the restriction of the speed of light.
Our current servers were in the next room via Ethernet.
The cloud was "out there."
I asked, "What fail-overs do you have?" They said that the cloud was in Austin and if it failed, Oklahoma would pick up the slack so fast, we wouldn't feel it.
After the meeting, I called the business number in Austin and asked for support. I got a kid and I asked him if the data center was there in Austin.
He said, "No, but we're thinking of building one."
I said, "How about the one in Oklahoma?" He said, "Cool. We have one in Oklahoma?"
Management loved the word, "cloud." "Cloud." "CLOUD."
It sounded good at cocktail parties and conference rooms and in front of clients.
--
I recommended that we not go with those crooks and I laid it out very plainly, calmly and stuff.
Long story short ... I told management that my recommendation was on the record and that the IT department would certainly support any decision they made.
They took the bait.
6 months later and $60,000 down the road, I got the word to buy servers and switches and stuff to and to quietly duplicate all the stuff in our old computer room.
The cloud had gone down several times and there was no fail-over. It was slower than molasses and exceedingly expensive.
The blow that cracked the nut, though, was the long list of cloud hacks and the business (law) could not risk a breach by placing client data God knows where.
We're supposed to know where God put it, right?
We do now.
... I've been swamped with questions from the Gentle User, and articles like this help to explain stuff without placing me in a position of having an axe to grind.
I have shared it out and people are eating it up.
Much appreciated.
This.
Who gives a shit?
Just because you're stupid and ignorant of reality doesn't mean that reality doesn't exist.
That's the last line I read and here's mine for you:
Fuck off.
You are dismissed.
Cool. How many grenades can you buy?
Yes.
... it's the stupidity of using an email that's not a decoy.
Sure, a person can be tracked and traced via credit card number and address, but most people don't have the raw data or a database to put it and certainly no skill level regarding same.
But a lady puts her husband's email address into a web site and gets a hit?
She and her husband had been having marital issues lately, and she figured she'd plug his personal email address into a search tool.
It was a match, and she immediately called him. Here's how she remembers the conversation:
"What do you know about this website, Ashley Madison?" she asked.