People who download entertainment they have not paid for are examples of massive entitlement. You have no claim on content you haven't paid for. To think otherwise is the opposite of virtue.
You forgot to mention the ads. I haven't seen that much content for years. Its only ads, ads ads...
Ah yes, ads. I remember them fondly. Well, actually it's *not* seeing them anymore is what I remember fondly.
I was at a friend's place the other day...he had the TV machine on, and I was astounded by how frequently the program was interrupted by commercials to sell me cat food, tampons, insurance, soft drinks, a weight loss program, automobiles, home loans, mayonnaise, other TV shows, cereal, sneakers, pizza, various kinds of medication, and a slew of other shit I can't recall. It was mind boggling.
It was difficult to follow the program due to all the interruptions (not that I was really trying, TBH).
Do people really watch this commercial-laden shit?
I canceled cable because most (not all) of what was offered is pure shit.
Sports, home decorating, sports, celebrity crap, hunting bigfoot, cooking, cooking, sports, cooking, game shows, shopping channel, honey boo boo, ice truckers, reality TV shows, more shopping, more celebrity crap, fishing, golfing, more bigfoot, more game shows....and on and on. It's drivel, replicated over and over and over.
And that would be a good move, if they did in fact do that. I know people deride MySQL, but it's light-years ahead of MS Access.
You might not want to run your bank on MySQL, but it's a perfectly suitable database for 98% of the kind of stuff that most companies do on a day-to-day basis. Unless you're sending people to the Moon or doing financial services, MySQL is fine. Tesla, Netflix, Youtube, Spotify, Facebook, Twitter, and the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab all use MySQL on a daily basis and they seem to be doing just fine.
If you don't like MySQL, use Postgresql or SQL Server or IBM DB2. Whatever floats your boat and gets the job done.
If you want to keep your recipe collection in MS Access, great, but for anything more than that, ewwwwwww.
You can wipe every single VM I have and I can restore everything within an hour because they are all configured using salt. The databases are snapshotted every hour and backed up using tarsnap as well as an rsync down to a NAS at my house.
You're the kind of guy I'd want running my IT department.
How the fuck does a new hire have that kind of access?
My thought exactly, which is why I'm a little skeptical of this story. Who hands out this level of access on Day 1?
If this super-newbie was given this level of access on his first day, the CTO and HR and whoever was responsible for making backups should all be fired like a cannon.
That way you'll be awesome and able to make a huge income as a government contractor like me.
I already made my huge income, dick weasel, which is why I'm ~95% retired and don't have to do a godamn thing, while stumble bums like you have to get up and go to work every day.
While you're driving to work, I'm sleeping in. When you're dicking around at your desk at 10am, I'm probably making just breakfast. As you drone away at the daily meeting for simpletons at 1pm, I'm either taking a nap or reading or screwing around with whatever currently interests me. And when you're fighting traffic or suffering the bus ride home, I'm listening to the traffic reports and laughing at schlubs like you trying to get back to your warren.
In other words, "Suck it, sonny boy!" Spare me your wisdom- you don't have that much to go around.:) lolololol
You can still do this. Just keep repeating your message until the outbound message timer runs out, usually two minutes with most voicemail systems.
I fill mine with the theme music from the original Batman. "Na na na na na na nana, BATMAN!"
Works like a charm. I've tried other stuff in the past (air raid sirens, or the opening of The Prisoner, or Curly repeatedly going, "Nyuk Nyuk Nyuck, Soitenly!", etc)
Yes, Mr. "I'm so much smarter than everyone else",
Thank you for recognizing my inherent superiority. I award you two (2) Internet Points for your groveling acceptance of my wisdom.
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I should use some platform no one else uses to post the occasional picture or interesting tidbit of information.
Or, like me, you could just decide you don't give a shit about showing off your trinkets and quit your pathetic me-too attempts at trying to make people think you have an interesting life.
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That's dumb.
...says the guy defending his use of Facebook. Moooo! Post those pics! Show off your bling from K-Mart! Treat everyone to another picture of your *amazing* breakfast burrito! Beg for those "Likes", user!
"British Prime Minister Theresa May has used last Saturday's terrorist attack to again push for a ban on encryption,"
Yes, that will undoubtedly stop all the terrorists cold. Fer sure. I mean, it's a proven fact that one could commit an act of terrorism without encryption. It's impossible.
Maybe she could ask that they make adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing illegal while they're at it, because that makes just as much sense. And of course she'll make it illegal for government officials and security forces to use encryption too, right? Right?
Clearly, Theresa May is an imbecile of epic proportions.
a) home blood pressure readings aren't used to make clinical decisions. b) doctor blood pressure readings aren't used in isolation to make clinical decisions. c) one off blood pressure readings aren't used to make clinical decisions. d) doctors manually taking readings are likely to be off by more than 10mmHg. e) depending on the time of the day your blood pressure readings are likely to be off by more than 10mmHg. f) depending on which arm you take the reading from will affect your by 3-10mmHg. g) depending on how long you've been sitting in the chair at the doctors office will affect your reading by 3-10mmHg
Good list. Sadly, most people are completely unaware of the things you outlined. They measure their BP once and think that's all there is to it. No doctor will use a single measurement to make any treatment decision.
I take my BP meter into the doctor's office, I let them measure my BP with their gear and then I use mine to take a reading for comparison. The readings are (usually) very close.
Note that your BP can vary considerably over the course of just a few minutes depending on your environment and how you're reacting to it. Stress, eating, movement, etc can make the results vary significantly.
Never use any single BP reading as an "accurate" measurement. You normally need multiple readings over an extended period of time to get any real sense of what your BP actually is.
If you take several readings a day under similar conditions at roughly the same times of the day, then you can start to see what your actual BP is. Infrequent, isolated readings are nearly worthless (unless they show an exceptionally high BP, then there's probably cause for alarm).
Take a sitting reading, then a standing reading. Do this a few times a day and record the results (most meters will do this for you). After a week you'll have a much more realistic and dependable sense of what your actual BP is.
"Microsoft To Shut Down Its Docs.com File-Sharing Site December 15"
"Docs.com"? Another Microsoft service I never heard of or used. Of course, I've only been on the internet since the late 80's so I can see how it might have slipped by me.
"What are we fighting for ? Don't ask me, I don't give a damn, Next stop is Vietnam; And it's five, six, seven, Open up the pearly gates, Well there ain't no time to wonder why, Whoopee! we're all gonna die!"
If Freedom of Religion means Freedom "From" Religion, then by that same logic...
Freedom of Speech means Freedom "From" Speech, so shut up and don't speak.
Yes, and this is why the 5th Amendment exists. You have the right to shut the fuck up, and I wish dunderheads like you would exercise that right more often.
Freedom of religion DOES mean freedom from religion, but with a name like yours it's painfully obvious why this idea gets your panties in a twist.
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People who download entertainment they have not paid for are examples of massive entitlement.
You have no claim on content you haven't paid for. To think otherwise is the opposite of virtue.
Ignorant cock-sucker says what?
You forgot to mention the ads. I haven't seen that much content for years. Its only ads, ads ads...
Ah yes, ads. I remember them fondly. Well, actually it's *not* seeing them anymore is what I remember fondly.
I was at a friend's place the other day...he had the TV machine on, and I was astounded by how frequently the program was interrupted by commercials to sell me cat food, tampons, insurance, soft drinks, a weight loss program, automobiles, home loans, mayonnaise, other TV shows, cereal, sneakers, pizza, various kinds of medication, and a slew of other shit I can't recall. It was mind boggling.
It was difficult to follow the program due to all the interruptions (not that I was really trying, TBH).
Do people really watch this commercial-laden shit?
I canceled cable because most (not all) of what was offered is pure shit.
Sports, home decorating, sports, celebrity crap, hunting bigfoot, cooking, cooking, sports, cooking, game shows, shopping channel, honey boo boo, ice truckers, reality TV shows, more shopping, more celebrity crap, fishing, golfing, more bigfoot, more game shows....and on and on. It's drivel, replicated over and over and over.
So, where did all that money go? Hmmmm.
Ah yes, the Museum of Failure...
I understand that they have an entire wing devoted to my ex-wife.
"How Can Programmers Move Into AI Jobs?"
Easy:
1) Become a programmer.
2) Apply for jobs in AI.
They've moved onto MySQL...
And that would be a good move, if they did in fact do that. I know people deride MySQL, but it's light-years ahead of MS Access.
You might not want to run your bank on MySQL, but it's a perfectly suitable database for 98% of the kind of stuff that most companies do on a day-to-day basis. Unless you're sending people to the Moon or doing financial services, MySQL is fine. Tesla, Netflix, Youtube, Spotify, Facebook, Twitter, and the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab all use MySQL on a daily basis and they seem to be doing just fine.
If you don't like MySQL, use Postgresql or SQL Server or IBM DB2. Whatever floats your boat and gets the job done.
If you want to keep your recipe collection in MS Access, great, but for anything more than that, ewwwwwww.
You can wipe every single VM I have and I can restore everything within an hour because they are all configured using salt. The databases are snapshotted every hour and backed up using tarsnap as well as an rsync down to a NAS at my house.
You're the kind of guy I'd want running my IT department.
I did a contract job years ago where they had me work on a mission-critical production database. In MS Access.
Well there's your problem. FFS, who does that??
How the fuck does a new hire have that kind of access?
My thought exactly, which is why I'm a little skeptical of this story. Who hands out this level of access on Day 1?
If this super-newbie was given this level of access on his first day, the CTO and HR and whoever was responsible for making backups should all be fired like a cannon.
Nobody with a brain stores important data on someone elses server.
...without a backup.
That way you'll be awesome and able to make a huge income as a government contractor like me.
I already made my huge income, dick weasel, which is why I'm ~95% retired and don't have to do a godamn thing, while stumble bums like you have to get up and go to work every day.
While you're driving to work, I'm sleeping in. When you're dicking around at your desk at 10am, I'm probably making just breakfast. As you drone away at the daily meeting for simpletons at 1pm, I'm either taking a nap or reading or screwing around with whatever currently interests me. And when you're fighting traffic or suffering the bus ride home, I'm listening to the traffic reports and laughing at schlubs like you trying to get back to your warren.
In other words, "Suck it, sonny boy!" Spare me your wisdom- you don't have that much to go around. :) lolololol
You can still do this. Just keep repeating your message until the outbound message timer runs out, usually two minutes with most voicemail systems.
I fill mine with the theme music from the original Batman. "Na na na na na na nana, BATMAN!"
Works like a charm. I've tried other stuff in the past (air raid sirens, or the opening of The Prisoner, or Curly repeatedly going, "Nyuk Nyuk Nyuck, Soitenly!", etc)
I am a boomer. If I think back to all the shows I watched as a kid, I have no memory of which network they were on, nor do I think I knew at the time.
Exactly. Didn't know or care then, don't know or care now. And yes, Maria was smoking hot.
"Younger Millennials Don't Know What Networks Are Responsible For TV Shows"
So what? Regardless of what generation you're from, who cares about what networks host which shows? Who is this supposed to matter to?
It's a shame that this is what passes for "news" on Slashdot these days...
"America's Five Biggest Tech Stocks Lost $97 Billion Friday"
Ha ha...err, I mean, "OMG, that's terrible!"
You mean Mark Zuckerberg is worth a billion less than he was yesterday? Can we take up a collection for the poor guy?
Yes, Mr. "I'm so much smarter than everyone else",
Thank you for recognizing my inherent superiority. I award you two (2) Internet Points for your groveling acceptance of my wisdom.
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I should use some platform no one else uses to post the occasional picture or interesting tidbit of information.
Or, like me, you could just decide you don't give a shit about showing off your trinkets and quit your pathetic me-too attempts at trying to make people think you have an interesting life.
-
That's dumb.
...says the guy defending his use of Facebook. Moooo! Post those pics! Show off your bling from K-Mart! Treat everyone to another picture of your *amazing* breakfast burrito! Beg for those "Likes", user!
"British Prime Minister Theresa May has used last Saturday's terrorist attack to again push for a ban on encryption,"
Yes, that will undoubtedly stop all the terrorists cold. Fer sure. I mean, it's a proven fact that one could commit an act of terrorism without encryption. It's impossible.
Maybe she could ask that they make adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing illegal while they're at it, because that makes just as much sense. And of course she'll make it illegal for government officials and security forces to use encryption too, right? Right?
Clearly, Theresa May is an imbecile of epic proportions.
a) home blood pressure readings aren't used to make clinical decisions.
b) doctor blood pressure readings aren't used in isolation to make clinical decisions.
c) one off blood pressure readings aren't used to make clinical decisions.
d) doctors manually taking readings are likely to be off by more than 10mmHg.
e) depending on the time of the day your blood pressure readings are likely to be off by more than 10mmHg.
f) depending on which arm you take the reading from will affect your by 3-10mmHg.
g) depending on how long you've been sitting in the chair at the doctors office will affect your reading by 3-10mmHg
Good list. Sadly, most people are completely unaware of the things you outlined. They measure their BP once and think that's all there is to it. No doctor will use a single measurement to make any treatment decision.
I take my BP meter into the doctor's office, I let them measure my BP with their gear and then I use mine to take a reading for comparison. The readings are (usually) very close.
Note that your BP can vary considerably over the course of just a few minutes depending on your environment and how you're reacting to it. Stress, eating, movement, etc can make the results vary significantly.
Never use any single BP reading as an "accurate" measurement. You normally need multiple readings over an extended period of time to get any real sense of what your BP actually is.
If you take several readings a day under similar conditions at roughly the same times of the day, then you can start to see what your actual BP is. Infrequent, isolated readings are nearly worthless (unless they show an exceptionally high BP, then there's probably cause for alarm).
Take a sitting reading, then a standing reading. Do this a few times a day and record the results (most meters will do this for you). After a week you'll have a much more realistic and dependable sense of what your actual BP is.
"Microsoft To Shut Down Its Docs.com File-Sharing Site December 15"
"Docs.com"? Another Microsoft service I never heard of or used. Of course, I've only been on the internet since the late 80's so I can see how it might have slipped by me.
I wonder how long it will take before FB suddenly tanks.
Because of the sheep-like and narcissistic nature of people, probably never.
It's like asking when people will stop using mirrors.
Such courage.
Thank you for recognizing my stalwart attitude and incredible force of will.
What are we fighting for?
"What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die!"
Country Joe And The Fish - Vietnam Song
If Freedom of Religion means Freedom "From" Religion, then by that same logic ...
Freedom of Speech means Freedom "From" Speech, so shut up and don't speak.
Yes, and this is why the 5th Amendment exists. You have the right to shut the fuck up, and I wish dunderheads like you would exercise that right more often.
Freedom of religion DOES mean freedom from religion, but with a name like yours it's painfully obvious why this idea gets your panties in a twist.