I do, but the timing of Black Friday / Cyber Monday tends to suck every year -> I get (like many people on salary) paid monthly, and at the end of the month (last day). Some places it's the first of the month, other places it's the second week of the month, etc. Anyway, these *deals* will expire two days before I'd have the cash to really take advantage of them, leaving me to either wait until after Christmas / New Years, or try to get something during a panic sale right before Christmas Eve.
We spend our lives being told so many lies, and then repeating (perhaps creating a few of ) them; it's little wonder that we do not recognize the truth.
Right, I think I've decided I'm going to start wearing a portable Faraday cage to work, if only because the wireless charging stations and wireless internet devices seem to be having an observable effect on people (contrary to engineering claims, and the science I haven't actually double-checked in person). It's cooking their brains...
Every election, this question. And it's a moot question...why? Because the winner (who has just won via the electoral college system) isn't about to sabotage the very system that got them elected.
It's simple. The people who work @ Apple are sadists, who get paid to design computers that are progressively more deficient as time goes on, while increasing prices and convincing customers that they are making the right choice.
The customers of Apple products are masochists, who purchase increasingly more expensive and deficient devices as time goes on, while being convinced by people from Apple that they are making the right choice.
The Apple Store is their version of a dungeon, and while latex / leather / gimp masks are unnecessary, color options are not.
Because this one might be in a sub, a little ways under water, trying to quietly patch into an undersea cable (and failing at it), in which case, sovereign immunity, or, our navy needs to invest in better sonar.
Etch-A-Sketch. The ones who figure out that it's not a computer get upgraded to a PIII with 4GB of RAM, and a 27GB HD; when they can make a coherent argument for needing a more modern machine, even if it's unflattering, they will be further upgraded.
If they break, attempt to eat, or otherwise molest the Etch-A-Sketch, they will be immediately upgraded to an Apple iPod of their choosing, restricted to the guest WiFi network, and barred from entering any IT-related area or speaking to any IT person without a correctional officer present.
Meh, those ICBMs are all underground, in bunkers designed to withstand a nuke. They have time.
Plus if the enemy is attacking the farmland that houses these bunkers, it's not attacking any major population centers. Major population centers, of which many have an AEGIS cruiser (I think it's AEGIS, need to double-check, but it's late here), capable of providing limited anti-ICBM capability.
Russia is the only player who could attempt such a feat, and while national pride is currently swelling, it doesn't pay the bills; if and when they relax and money rolls in again, they'll focus on the more important stuff, like making better vodka and more of it. They're not here to play king of the parking lot.
China, India, etc. don't have enough nukes to feasibly damage enough of the US and not expect to be a parking lot, complete with B&N, Walmart, & Peace-A-Pizza within 24 hours (Air Force delivery) of said launch.
And our allies, like the UK, France, etc., aren't going to nuke us, because they've already had their fill of crazy nutters for the past two centuries, and seriously don't want any part of their land to need 'freedomizing' from their best neighbor.
The only security our nuclear weapons need is for a designer to go in, remove one piece, and keep it locked in a safe fifteen feet away from said weapon. Given the complexity of our nuclear weapons (I don't think we are using any Gun-type Uranium models anymore, could be wrong), and the required timing of the explosive charges (I'm thinking of another type here; may not apply to all), that piece of hardware has to be reinstalled in the nuclear weapon in the right place (according to the right measurements, etc.), or you have anything from a dud to dirty bomb to a less-capable nuclear bomb.
I mean, it's not something you can jerry-rig. And you need to disassemble the weapon to put the part back in, then reassemble it. People are going to notice. You can try moving the weapon to somewhere else, so you can disassemble / reassemble it in peace, but again, a spot-check will show the nuclear weapon is gone (you could try replacing it with a fake, but....etc.; if it's to be dropped from a plane, that's one thing, if it's on a ballistic launcher, that's another).
When you've been shipping value PCs for the last 40 quarters with 5400 RPM hard drives, etc., etc., and that costs 2-4 times as much as a tablet which has solid statish memory, you've kind of made the argument against your 'premium' product. We call that penny-wise, pound-foolish.
The reality is CPU stagnation because AMD pulled a Pentium-4, and Intel decided to get in touch with its Green side, instead of pushing further in the Hz-race. So, what did we get Bob? Intel selling us the same processor over and over again, each time with more energy-efficient features. And the rest of the industry taking an LSD-inspired trip to nowhere with recycled ideas like 'replacing the x86' but with arm chips this time (the AMD CEO should have stepped down after making that public announcement), and so on.
We have, what, Germanium and Graphite, along with like half a dozen technologies that are 1.) proven to work (got the lab work to prove, IBM's lab work in a few cases), and 2.) need all but a phone call to begin implementing.
We need to replace the Yahoo icon with an image of a hostage-taker, as that's sadly where this is headed. "You want your data? First you got to show us the money!"
Why hasn't the NSA taken advantage of this, and airlifted a few hundred thousand to Puty's new-old KGB? "With love, from the US of A, Good Luck on Cold War 2; PS We preinstalled Plants Vs. Zombies 3!"
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The time for rational discussion is over; now is the time for petty bickering!
And yet in Genesis, raping a female seems to carry a death sentence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinah).
I do, but the timing of Black Friday / Cyber Monday tends to suck every year -> I get (like many people on salary) paid monthly, and at the end of the month (last day). Some places it's the first of the month, other places it's the second week of the month, etc. Anyway, these *deals* will expire two days before I'd have the cash to really take advantage of them, leaving me to either wait until after Christmas / New Years, or try to get something during a panic sale right before Christmas Eve.
We spend our lives being told so many lies, and then repeating (perhaps creating a few of ) them; it's little wonder that we do not recognize the truth.
Right, I think I've decided I'm going to start wearing a portable Faraday cage to work, if only because the wireless charging stations and wireless internet devices seem to be having an observable effect on people (contrary to engineering claims, and the science I haven't actually double-checked in person). It's cooking their brains...
Every election, this question. And it's a moot question...why? Because the winner (who has just won via the electoral college system) isn't about to sabotage the very system that got them elected.
Next up: Trouble in the Middle East.
The United States of America*
Dear Canada,
2016 isn't over yet. Are you sure you don't want to join us?
Love,
Britain & The United State of America
Is trick question: "a job that could easily be outsourced to India."
If they don't want another Hitler, they shouldn't focus their efforts on propaganda, but on heavily regulating methamphetamines.
There's nothing wrong with them.
It's simple. The people who work @ Apple are sadists, who get paid to design computers that are progressively more deficient as time goes on, while increasing prices and convincing customers that they are making the right choice.
The customers of Apple products are masochists, who purchase increasingly more expensive and deficient devices as time goes on, while being convinced by people from Apple that they are making the right choice.
The Apple Store is their version of a dungeon, and while latex / leather / gimp masks are unnecessary, color options are not.
Because this one might be in a sub, a little ways under water, trying to quietly patch into an undersea cable (and failing at it), in which case, sovereign immunity, or, our navy needs to invest in better sonar.
Do It Anyways
Live people also have a more profound self-preservation instinct than many of the machines we send out into the galaxy.
Why are we going backwards?
Same reason some people roll out of bed every morning to work on yet another RDBMS-backed web app.
For the same reason they are still selling PCs with 5400 RPM HDs as system mounts...
my fellow Americans.
Excellent movie, IMHO.
Etch-A-Sketch. The ones who figure out that it's not a computer get upgraded to a PIII with 4GB of RAM, and a 27GB HD; when they can make a coherent argument for needing a more modern machine, even if it's unflattering, they will be further upgraded.
If they break, attempt to eat, or otherwise molest the Etch-A-Sketch, they will be immediately upgraded to an Apple iPod of their choosing, restricted to the guest WiFi network, and barred from entering any IT-related area or speaking to any IT person without a correctional officer present.
Better hope there's a R2 in there, or you'll be living an interesting life for a while yet.
Meh, those ICBMs are all underground, in bunkers designed to withstand a nuke. They have time.
Plus if the enemy is attacking the farmland that houses these bunkers, it's not attacking any major population centers. Major population centers, of which many have an AEGIS cruiser (I think it's AEGIS, need to double-check, but it's late here), capable of providing limited anti-ICBM capability.
Russia is the only player who could attempt such a feat, and while national pride is currently swelling, it doesn't pay the bills; if and when they relax and money rolls in again, they'll focus on the more important stuff, like making better vodka and more of it. They're not here to play king of the parking lot.
China, India, etc. don't have enough nukes to feasibly damage enough of the US and not expect to be a parking lot, complete with B&N, Walmart, & Peace-A-Pizza within 24 hours (Air Force delivery) of said launch.
And our allies, like the UK, France, etc., aren't going to nuke us, because they've already had their fill of crazy nutters for the past two centuries, and seriously don't want any part of their land to need 'freedomizing' from their best neighbor.
The only security our nuclear weapons need is for a designer to go in, remove one piece, and keep it locked in a safe fifteen feet away from said weapon. Given the complexity of our nuclear weapons (I don't think we are using any Gun-type Uranium models anymore, could be wrong), and the required timing of the explosive charges (I'm thinking of another type here; may not apply to all), that piece of hardware has to be reinstalled in the nuclear weapon in the right place (according to the right measurements, etc.), or you have anything from a dud to dirty bomb to a less-capable nuclear bomb.
I mean, it's not something you can jerry-rig. And you need to disassemble the weapon to put the part back in, then reassemble it. People are going to notice. You can try moving the weapon to somewhere else, so you can disassemble / reassemble it in peace, but again, a spot-check will show the nuclear weapon is gone (you could try replacing it with a fake, but....etc.; if it's to be dropped from a plane, that's one thing, if it's on a ballistic launcher, that's another).
When you've been shipping value PCs for the last 40 quarters with 5400 RPM hard drives, etc., etc., and that costs 2-4 times as much as a tablet which has solid statish memory, you've kind of made the argument against your 'premium' product. We call that penny-wise, pound-foolish.
The reality is CPU stagnation because AMD pulled a Pentium-4, and Intel decided to get in touch with its Green side, instead of pushing further in the Hz-race. So, what did we get Bob? Intel selling us the same processor over and over again, each time with more energy-efficient features. And the rest of the industry taking an LSD-inspired trip to nowhere with recycled ideas like 'replacing the x86' but with arm chips this time (the AMD CEO should have stepped down after making that public announcement), and so on.
We have, what, Germanium and Graphite, along with like half a dozen technologies that are 1.) proven to work (got the lab work to prove, IBM's lab work in a few cases), and 2.) need all but a phone call to begin implementing.
We need to replace the Yahoo icon with an image of a hostage-taker, as that's sadly where this is headed. "You want your data? First you got to show us the money!"
Why hasn't the NSA taken advantage of this, and airlifted a few hundred thousand to Puty's new-old KGB? "With love, from the US of A, Good Luck on Cold War 2; PS We preinstalled Plants Vs. Zombies 3!"