Yes, the fever dream of capital: eliminate labor costs.
In the race to the bottom, some citizens will, of course, be made redundant. Don't stand in the way of progress, comrade, even if it destroys homes, families, and livelihoods!
Hell, if you leave the US with more than $5.00 worth of pennies you can receive up to 5 years in prison. Just for taking the pennies out of the country, no evil intent required, no crime(s) planned...just taking them out of the US is a felony.
So fork it. It's open source. Or is it? The title suggests it is but TFS mentions "sample code" on GH. Which is it?
Also I thought open source was Unamerican according to MS?
No, it's a "cancer", as per Steve Ballmer (although technically he was referring to the Linux software kernel).
Steve Ballmer said that "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches," during a media interview with the Chicago Sun-Times.
The RF noise during the power up of most devices and during operation of many causes a "whine" that I can both hear and feel that is distinct from any actual sound.
No, what you're hearing is sound, just at or near the limits of your hearing. I hear the same thing from lots of appliances, it's just magnetostriction or similar effects caused by resonance in some of the parts or components.
For example, I can hear the whine of a flyback transformer in older TV sets, but I'm not hearing the actual electromagnetic field, I'm hearing sound produced by the transformer windings and core resonating at 15.5khz, along with some of the harmonics at varying frequencies.
Trust me, you cannot "hear" electromagnetic fields unless they'll producing sound as a byproduct of their operation.
Are you implying that 100% of women on the world are so gorgeous and desirable that most men would simply fall at their feet at the prospect of getting laid?
No, I never implied any such thing, and only a moron would draw that conclusion from what I wrote. You're connecting dots where there aren't even any dots.
You have either a very over inflated view of women or a truly sad view of your fellow men.
What I have is 45+ years of dating women on top of thousands of real world experiences that tell me what I wrote is generally correct.
If I recall correctly, classmates.com was part of a class action suit about that same sort of behavior.
You recall correctly; this is exactly what they were doing.
I made up a fake profile on Classmates under the name of "Fuckyou Fakename" and within 24 hours I had notifications that "several" of my old classmates (including some females) had "read my profile" and "wanted to connect". And some of them had snippets of text that was grayed out with only the first few words showing, like "Hi there, remember me? I always..." (grayed out text....)
The idea, obviously, was to get me to send them money to find out who was interested in me. Total fail, 100%.
Since Jesus never actually existed, this is a moot point.
As odd as it may seem, there is no mention of Jesus at all by any of his pagan contemporaries. There are no birth records, no trial transcripts, no death certificates; there are no expressions of interest, no heated slanders, no passing references – nothing.
There's not a single verse, poem, story, carving, sculpture, painting or drawing of him from the time period in which he supposedly lived. Absolutely nothing. Pretty strange considering all of the amazing miracles he was supposed to have performed. You'd think someone would have made even just a passing mention of all this stuff, but nope, not a word.
In fact, if we broaden our field of concern to the years after his death – even if we include the entire first century of the Common Era – there is not so much as a solitary reference to Jesus in any non-Christian, non-Jewish source of any kind.
We do have a large number of documents from the time – the writings of poets, philosophers, historians, scientists, and government officials, for example, not to mention the large collection of surviving inscriptions on stone and private letters and legal documents on papyrus. In none of this vast array of surviving writings is Jesus’ name ever so much as mentioned, not once.
Pedophilia, incest, multiple non-abrahamic religions, polytheism, zombies, ghouls, various fantasy figures, idol worship, paganism... I mean really I think GRRM went through the list of things that might get a nuns panties in a bunch, and found a way to write them down.
Have you noticed that all those examples of "helping" their customers are examples of purchasing goods and services?
Exactly. Some people are terrorized by the urge to buy and consume, others must be "guided" by a friendly software assistant that just wants to help you spend your money.
Stop trying to make "modular smartphones" happen. It's not going to happen. Ever.
The market is too cramped. Lots of new "standards" will segment the market to death. The margins are too low. The pace of development for new phones is too fast. The market is too small.
By the time someone "successfully" develops a modular phone, it'll be too old, too under-powered, and still too expensive. All of the cool whiz-bang modules will have to wait until the phone is accepted before they're developed and the phone won't be accepted until all those cool modular doohickeys are available.
It's just NOT going to happen. Oh, they can build a few and even offer them for sale, but practically no one will buy them. Perfectly good, useable phones already exist at price points far lower than a modular phone would be priced at.
Just stop trying to make modular phones happen. They're not going to happen.
Well statistically it has to happen once in a while. Just like getting a royal flush in poker or winning 10 spins of roulette in a row, it'll happen eventually just by sheer chance.
Once again proving that anything that can be abused, will be abused. The spammers, scammers, and scum of the Earth will use anything they can to steal whatever they can.
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I predict it will suck, like 95% of all remakes do.
Yes, the fever dream of capital: eliminate labor costs.
In the race to the bottom, some citizens will, of course, be made redundant. Don't stand in the way of progress, comrade, even if it destroys homes, families, and livelihoods!
Does anyone feel safer now that this kid has been prosecuted and faces years in prison, basically for using a computer to contact this girl?
Has this prosecution done any real "good" for anyone, anywhere?
Has anyone been saved, rescued, or protected? Have any crimes been prevented?
"No" to all of the above.
Hell, if you leave the US with more than $5.00 worth of pennies you can receive up to 5 years in prison. Just for taking the pennies out of the country, no evil intent required, no crime(s) planned...just taking them out of the US is a felony.
Bush senior was OK.
George "Poppy" Bush: "Read my lips...no new taxes."
*pauses a moment, then raises taxes*
"We have not, and never will, trade arms for hostages."
*quietly trades arms for hostages*
I think I know how you did it.
I hate to reveal my secret, but I will tell you that it involved typing mysterious, cryptic things that are better left to the imagination.
Well I just wrote this shell using nothing but Bash, so nyah nyah nyah!
That's nothing...one time I moved a file from one place to another using only the command line.
So fork it. It's open source. Or is it? The title suggests it is but TFS mentions "sample code" on GH. Which is it?
Also I thought open source was Unamerican according to MS?
No, it's a "cancer", as per Steve Ballmer (although technically he was referring to the Linux software kernel).
Steve Ballmer said that "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches," during a media interview with the Chicago Sun-Times.
The RF noise during the power up of most devices and during operation of many causes a "whine" that I can both hear and feel that is distinct from any actual sound.
No, what you're hearing is sound, just at or near the limits of your hearing. I hear the same thing from lots of appliances, it's just magnetostriction or similar effects caused by resonance in some of the parts or components.
For example, I can hear the whine of a flyback transformer in older TV sets, but I'm not hearing the actual electromagnetic field, I'm hearing sound produced by the transformer windings and core resonating at 15.5khz, along with some of the harmonics at varying frequencies.
Trust me, you cannot "hear" electromagnetic fields unless they'll producing sound as a byproduct of their operation.
Are you implying that 100% of women on the world are so gorgeous and desirable that most men would simply fall at their feet at the prospect of getting laid?
No, I never implied any such thing, and only a moron would draw that conclusion from what I wrote. You're connecting dots where there aren't even any dots.
You have either a very over inflated view of women or a truly sad view of your fellow men.
What I have is 45+ years of dating women on top of thousands of real world experiences that tell me what I wrote is generally correct.
If I recall correctly, classmates.com was part of a class action suit about that same sort of behavior.
You recall correctly; this is exactly what they were doing.
I made up a fake profile on Classmates under the name of "Fuckyou Fakename" and within 24 hours I had notifications that "several" of my old classmates (including some females) had "read my profile" and "wanted to connect". And some of them had snippets of text that was grayed out with only the first few words showing, like "Hi there, remember me? I always..." (grayed out text....)
The idea, obviously, was to get me to send them money to find out who was interested in me. Total fail, 100%.
"'Tis far, far easier for a woman to get a date than a man."
True.
Any woman can get up in the morning and say, "I'm gonna get laid tonight" with 100% accuracy.
The only men that can say this are rapists.
' Their website admits that 'some of the users may be there for "entertainment purposes."'
TRANSLATION: "Approximately 99.995%, of our female users may not actually exist except at profiles on our site."
Now, now. That is no way to talk about your government.
Sure it is. ;)
And since ANY check ultimately requires code to execute the check, and a 0/1 response, and since I can trivially NOP out your code
Exactly...and this is why DRM will always ultimately fail.
It may take time to crack, but there's always a way around it, even if you have to tap into the analog output of whatever it is.
Since Jesus never actually existed, this is a moot point.
As odd as it may seem, there is no mention of Jesus at all by any of his pagan contemporaries. There are no birth records, no trial transcripts, no death certificates; there are no expressions of interest, no heated slanders, no passing references – nothing.
There's not a single verse, poem, story, carving, sculpture, painting or drawing of him from the time period in which he supposedly lived. Absolutely nothing. Pretty strange considering all of the amazing miracles he was supposed to have performed. You'd think someone would have made even just a passing mention of all this stuff, but nope, not a word.
In fact, if we broaden our field of concern to the years after his death – even if we include the entire first century of the Common Era – there is not so much as a solitary reference to Jesus in any non-Christian, non-Jewish source of any kind.
We do have a large number of documents from the time – the writings of poets, philosophers, historians, scientists, and government officials, for example, not to mention the large collection of surviving inscriptions on stone and private letters and legal documents on papyrus. In none of this vast array of surviving writings is Jesus’ name ever so much as mentioned, not once.
Sorry, but if you're dead for 3 days and then come back to life, you're a zombie. That's what a fucking zombie is. Just like Jesus.
Does Jesus count as a zombie?
If you're dead for 3 days and then come back to life, you're a zombie. Jesus is the very definition of a zombie.
Pedophilia, incest, multiple non-abrahamic religions, polytheism, zombies, ghouls, various fantasy figures, idol worship, paganism... I mean really I think GRRM went through the list of things that might get a nuns panties in a bunch, and found a way to write them down.
He just cribbed from the bible.
Have you noticed that all those examples of "helping" their customers are examples of purchasing goods and services?
Exactly. Some people are terrorized by the urge to buy and consume, others must be "guided" by a friendly software assistant that just wants to help you spend your money.
A new version of Clippy?
Kill. Me. Now.
Stop trying to make "modular smartphones" happen. It's not going to happen. Ever.
The market is too cramped.
Lots of new "standards" will segment the market to death.
The margins are too low.
The pace of development for new phones is too fast.
The market is too small.
By the time someone "successfully" develops a modular phone, it'll be too old, too under-powered, and still too expensive. All of the cool whiz-bang modules will have to wait until the phone is accepted before they're developed and the phone won't be accepted until all those cool modular doohickeys are available.
It's just NOT going to happen. Oh, they can build a few and even offer them for sale, but practically no one will buy them. Perfectly good, useable phones already exist at price points far lower than a modular phone would be priced at.
Just stop trying to make modular phones happen. They're not going to happen.
Well statistically it has to happen once in a while. Just like getting a royal flush in poker or winning 10 spins of roulette in a row, it'll happen eventually just by sheer chance.
Once again proving that anything that can be abused, will be abused. The spammers, scammers, and scum of the Earth will use anything they can to steal whatever they can.
Once again, I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell you!!