"Starting next month, Best Buy will launch a free service where salespeople will come to your house to make recommendations about gadgets and services to try and sell you stuff."
As long as I get to rummage through their stuff when they try to leave my house like they do when I try to leave their stores.
Door Guy at Best Buy: "I need to look in your bag, sir. We just want to make sure you haven't forgotten anything..."
Me: "Fuck off and die. What's in this bag is MINE and NO, you can't look in it and NO you can't look at my receipt either. Have a nice day."
Door Guy at Best Buy: "But it's my job to check the bags as they go out..."
"There's no reason that Winamp couldn't be in the position that iTunes is in today if not for a few layers of mismanagement by AOL that started immediately upon acquisition," their first general manager told Ars Technica in 2012.
You mean it could be a fat, bloated piece of shit with a miserable, fucked-up design and a craptastic UI?
I live to the north in Washington and the traffic in Oregon is already reported as being epic- backups for 5 to 10 miles in places already and it's only Friday.
You couldn't get me to drive down to Oregon right now for *anything*.
I think it's hilarious that all the self-styled "libertarians" here are freaking out about private businesses choosing not to host material they see as potentially harmful to their bottom line.
Yep. Libertarians have always taken the Gold Medal in Hypocrisy.
Lol, "debating the facts" with neo-nazis and right-wing nutjobs...yeah, good luck with that. Half of them think the Earth is flat and the other half consistently have trouble putting their shoes on correctly. So yeah, not being able to "debate the facts" with them is a real loss.
Okay, sure: polio was dwindling when they released the polio vaccine which had the simian virus attached.
No, polio was dwindling because of the chemtrails that NASA started spreading after they got the secret formula from Bigfoot and Marilyn Monroe (who were hiding out in Elvis' secret Martian Moonbase on Jupiter).
"The science has been settled" says the scientism expert. Did you do the experiments yourself?
Found the imbecilic doubter.
But since you asked, yes, I have done some of those experiments myself way back when I was in school, and they all proved out to be true.
Even better is the proof of their efficacy, as seen by the drop in the kinds of diseases that vaccines treat.
But that's just some whacky coincidence in your world, right? Maybe it's the chemtrails were actually responsible for the drop in diphtheria, polio, etc etc.
Paranoid personality disorder is almost impossible to treat, because (1) paranoid people take anything, even coincidences, as evidence that someone is out to get them in one way or another,
THIS ^^^^ times a billion. Any attempt to help them do or learn anything is immediately viewed as "trying to get over on them" or fool them so you can then take advantage of them.
It can be something as innocuous as showing them how to use the TV's remote control- that will be seen by them as a you trying to gain their confidence so you can (later) screw them over somehow.
My first wife was a genuine paranoid, and I can tell you from experience that interacting with a paranoid is a game you CANNOT win no matter what you do...because anything you do will be cast in the light of you trying to take advantage of them in one way or another.
You know, I never really like contractions. It seems that all most of them (at least the ones that are most misused) do is eliminate a single space and a letter.
Contractions are not about saving a couple of characters. They're about presenting a more natural form of communication. They're an attempt to portray everyday speech, rather than some stilted kind of English that almost no one actually uses.
I have seen countless individuals on Reddit claiming that they are using it almost exclusively for their kid's college funds, retirement funds and so forth.
Yikes. Some of those people (possibly a lot of them) are going to wake up one day and find out that their whatever-coin wallet has been hacked, and sometime during the night all of their money just went *bloop* and disappeared.
Ethereum Co-Founder Says Cryptocurrencies Are 'a Ticking Time Bomb'
No shit, Sherlock, what was your first fucking clue?
Was it when an unknown hacker used a vulnerability in an Ethereum wallet client to steal over 153,000 Ether, worth over $30 million dollars? Was that the event that clued you in? Or was it the non-stop shitfest of Bitcoin thefts and scams and robberies?
I've been saying for years that crypto currencies are a wonderful way to lose all your money in the blink of an eye. The security technology of crypto currencies is and always will be waaaaaaaaaaaay behind that of the skill needed to hack them.
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They invented the totally new idea of sending a salesman door to door. Never before seen that.
Let's just hope they don't try to patent this innovative new sales technique.
"Starting next month, Best Buy will launch a free service where salespeople will come to your house to make recommendations about gadgets and services to try and sell you stuff."
As long as I get to rummage through their stuff when they try to leave my house like they do when I try to leave their stores.
Door Guy at Best Buy: "I need to look in your bag, sir. We just want to make sure you haven't forgotten anything..."
Me: "Fuck off and die. What's in this bag is MINE and NO, you can't look in it and NO you can't look at my receipt either. Have a nice day."
Door Guy at Best Buy: "But it's my job to check the bags as they go out..."
Me: "What part of 'NO' seemed unclear?"
"...the very instant I allow myself to picture what life looks like after that figurative snip, my reverie comes crashing down."
Damn, sounds like someone is a little too attached to their TV-machine. Give up the Bullshit Box and reclaim your life.
"There's no reason that Winamp couldn't be in the position that iTunes is in today if not for a few layers of mismanagement by AOL that started immediately upon acquisition," their first general manager told Ars Technica in 2012.
You mean it could be a fat, bloated piece of shit with a miserable, fucked-up design and a craptastic UI?
I'll be here all week, folks! Mondays are dark days, of course.
In all fairness the review did say, "Great food, but no atmosphere."
I live to the north in Washington and the traffic in Oregon is already reported as being epic- backups for 5 to 10 miles in places already and it's only Friday.
You couldn't get me to drive down to Oregon right now for *anything*.
I imagine he'll take umbrage at that.
*rimshot*
"A developer accidentally three-month of his work."
Is there a missing from that sentence?
I think it's hilarious that all the self-styled "libertarians" here are freaking out about private businesses choosing not to host material they see as potentially harmful to their bottom line.
Yep. Libertarians have always taken the Gold Medal in Hypocrisy.
I think the question you'll want to ask is "why can't we handle these things any better than we used to?"
^^^^ This times a million.
The way we (still) handle things like this reminds me of a woodworker who complains, "I've cut it 3 times and it's still too short!"
...debate the facts,
Lol, "debating the facts" with neo-nazis and right-wing nutjobs...yeah, good luck with that. Half of them think the Earth is flat and the other half consistently have trouble putting their shoes on correctly. So yeah, not being able to "debate the facts" with them is a real loss.
Though it is unfortunate that he caused so much research effort to be invested in disproving his theory, rather than more productive purposes
NO. His bullshit "studies" literally started the anti-vaccine movement. They didn't exist before he started his program of lies and disinformation.
He did it with malice aforethought to make money, and due to the prevalence of stupid fucking people it succeeded far beyond his wildest dreams.
What about those Monsanto-purchased reports that say the mice don't have tumors, the day before they start developing them?
Logically speaking, that's true: they had no tumors the day before they started developing them.
Okay, sure: polio was dwindling when they released the polio vaccine which had the simian virus attached.
No, polio was dwindling because of the chemtrails that NASA started spreading after they got the secret formula from Bigfoot and Marilyn Monroe (who were hiding out in Elvis' secret Martian Moonbase on Jupiter).
Get a brain, moran!!!
"The science has been settled" says the scientism expert. Did you do the experiments yourself?
Found the imbecilic doubter.
But since you asked, yes, I have done some of those experiments myself way back when I was in school, and they all proved out to be true.
Even better is the proof of their efficacy, as seen by the drop in the kinds of diseases that vaccines treat.
But that's just some whacky coincidence in your world, right? Maybe it's the chemtrails were actually responsible for the drop in diphtheria, polio, etc etc.
Paranoid personality disorder is almost impossible to treat, because (1) paranoid people take anything, even coincidences, as evidence that someone is out to get them in one way or another,
THIS ^^^^ times a billion. Any attempt to help them do or learn anything is immediately viewed as "trying to get over on them" or fool them so you can then take advantage of them.
It can be something as innocuous as showing them how to use the TV's remote control- that will be seen by them as a you trying to gain their confidence so you can (later) screw them over somehow.
My first wife was a genuine paranoid, and I can tell you from experience that interacting with a paranoid is a game you CANNOT win no matter what you do...because anything you do will be cast in the light of you trying to take advantage of them in one way or another.
Not to worry- as soon as their children get sick and die from some easily-preventable disease then maybe they'll get a clue.
You know, I never really like contractions. It seems that all most of them (at least the ones that are most misused) do is eliminate a single space and a letter.
Contractions are not about saving a couple of characters. They're about presenting a more natural form of communication. They're an attempt to portray everyday speech, rather than some stilted kind of English that almost no one actually uses.
then you're the idiot because tulips are easily hacked with genetic shit and roses pay more...
Oh noes, you found the fatal flaw in my master financial plan.
I have seen countless individuals on Reddit claiming that they are using it almost exclusively for their kid's college funds, retirement funds and so forth.
Yikes. Some of those people (possibly a lot of them) are going to wake up one day and find out that their whatever-coin wallet has been hacked, and sometime during the night all of their money just went *bloop* and disappeared.
I get the shows mixed up sometimes, but Daenerys Targaryen was a Jedi, right?
That's the great thing about the American dollar ... the way it is immune to theft and scams.
The difference between my American dollars and crypto currency is that if my bank is robbed, I still have my money.
Ethereum Co-Founder Says Cryptocurrencies Are 'a Ticking Time Bomb'
No shit, Sherlock, what was your first fucking clue?
Was it when an unknown hacker used a vulnerability in an Ethereum wallet client to steal over 153,000 Ether, worth over $30 million dollars? Was that the event that clued you in? Or was it the non-stop shitfest of Bitcoin thefts and scams and robberies?
I've been saying for years that crypto currencies are a wonderful way to lose all your money in the blink of an eye. The security technology of crypto currencies is and always will be waaaaaaaaaaaay behind that of the skill needed to hack them.
Thank goodness I put all my money into tulips.
Ignoring the privacy and big data issues: Facebook actually was useful at some point.
So were buggy whips and mustache wax.