"(1) Custom domain support for five users. (2) Information sharing: Outlook Premium helps you easily share calendars, contacts, and documents (via OneDrive) between those five users. (3) Ad-free inbox: Like Ad-Free Outlook.com, Outlook Premium offers no "banner ads" for a "distraction-free view of your email, photos, and documents."
1) Lol, custom domain support, whoop-de-fuckin'-do. Just get your own domain and have as many users as you want.
2) "Information sharing", Oh yeah, I'll bet there'll be "information sharing", just not the kind you expected. We'll scan all your email for data to mine and sell, and why? Because FUCK YOU, that's why.
3) Ad-free inbox: You mean like when I use an ad-blocker? Because that works pretty well for me.
I've heard it referred to as "the tyranny of the politically correct."
I don't envy Twitter....they want to allow free speech, but they also want to suppress the pointless static and harassment that takes place. The problem is that one person's free expression of ideas is another person's harassment, and it's hard to be impartial.
Everything is fine until the trolls and griefers outnumber the normal users by 10 or 20 to 1... then it all becomes a shit show.
Would you want to fly on a plane knowing the dipstick next to you had one of these? Or how about in a hazardous or flammable environment?
Look for these to be banned from commercial airline flights and be prohibited in lots of other places.
And of course that's not even getting into the "what if someone hacks it and makes it self-destruct" question. Not that a bad guy would ever do that, nooooo.
All forms of payment cost money. Ever tried to deposit $50k at a national bank account? Fee.
Bank Of America is a scumbag organization run by scumbags, but no, they won't charge me a fee for depositing $50k.
Call them yourself and ask them, "Is there a fee for depositing $50,000", and they'll confirm that they do not bill you for depositing money.
Foreign currency or wire transfers, maybe, but a US check for $50k or $50k in US cash will be accepted without a fee. It'll get you put on a watchlist, of course, but there's no fee for that either.
"In representations to your customers or in public communications, you agree not to mischaracterize PayPal as a payment method. At all of your points of sale (in whatever form), you agree not to try to dissuade or inhibit your customers from using PayPal; and, if you enable your customers to pay you with PayPal, you agree to treat PayPal's payment mark at least at par with other payment methods offered."
For something that's not a "payment method", they sure seem to bill themselves as a "payment method". They say it themselves: "if you enable your customers to pay you with PayPal..."
I mean, if I can pay for things using PayPal, is it not by definition a "payment method"? In what twisted-logic universe are they not a "payment method"?
Here's how you can tell if something is a "payment method"- you try and buy something with it and if you can, it's a "payment method".
- Why the fuck didn't they hang a Geiger counter on the robot?
You can't make a Geiger counter that measures intense levels of radiation because the ionizing gas in the counter tube has to deionize after each detection event, and that just doesn't happen quickly enough to allow for accurate high-value measurements. The gas basically reaches a saturated (fully ionized) state and it just stops working.
Semiconductor chips are also used to measure x-rays and other radiation, but they become physically/intrinsically degraded after high levels of bombardment by ionizing radiation. They can take low levels for a long time but high levels wreck the detection chip (which is insanely fragile to begin with).
"On average, we check our phones 50 times each day -- with some studies suggesting it could three times that amount. We spend around 6 hours per day consuming digital media."
I would feel ashamed if I did either of those things at anywhere near that frequency.
I don't check my phone unless it rings. I check my email maybe 5 or 6 times a day, sometimes more often if something is in process and needs attention. I don't check social media because I don't have any.
And for the record, studies have shown that goldfish have memories well in excess of 9 seconds. Some of them can remember actions they've been trained to do for more than a year. That 9-second stuff is one of those things that sounded cool and so it got repeated endlessly until it became accepted as a "fact". (Similar to the "you only use 10% of your brain" and other nonsensical bullshit.)
This is more like the road leading to the store being dynamited.
Bingo.
To further the analogy, there may be perfectly legitimate reasons for going to the store in question, even if they dealt exclusively in pirated media or other illegal items. To block access to the store or a site absent any criminal behavior on the part of the visitor is overreaching.
I can think of exceptions (kiddy porn sites, for example) but it's still a slippery slope. It's a minor step from claiming "child porn" to "anarchist materials", whatever that might be.
First, who wants that? Wireless charging is actually incredibly inconvenient under most circumstances. First, you can't use the phone sensibly while it's charging.
Yeah, but you get to buy all new charging doohickeys and maybe a new dongle or two. It's a win-win, my friend! Courage!
"...the high-end iPhone 8 could cost upwards of $1,000"
A thousand bucks for a phone? Ha ha ha ha ha ha...no. I'm not gonna spend that much on a phone even if it comes with a blowjob attachment.
Also, won't this graphite sheet add ~0.00001mm of thickness to the phone? How will Apple users ever manage to put up with this outrageous increase in thickness? Won't someone please think of the Apple users?
After all, if Trump’s tweets are now presidential records (and, by law, they are), wouldn't these also be included under those rules?
"Federal records may not be destroyed-except in accordance with the procedures described in Chapter 33 of Title 44, United States Code. These procedures allow for records destruction only under the authority of a records disposition schedule approved by the Archivist of the United States. NARA issues a General Records Schedule (GRS) that gives record descriptions of records that are common to most Federal agencies and authorizes record disposals for temporary records."
Yes, yes, I know, "But Hillary Hillary Hillary....", right, I get it, but if her doing it was illegal (and I think it was), how can this be legal?
one new way of obtaining the coal that is left is you tear off the top of a mountain
There's nothing "new" about this. "Mountaintop removal mining" (MTR) has been going on for decades, and yes, it destroys the local ecology. It began in the mid-1970s in Appalachia if I'm not mistaken.
Oh please...coal mining has become too expensive and unproductive to sustain itself in any reasonable way. Even with massive subsidies it would never make a comeback.
Solar and natural gas have eclipsed the coal industry, and nothing in the world is going to reverse that. You'd be better off starting a buggy whip manufacturing company than to bet on coal making a comeback. It's just not going to happen, and that's a fact.
Coal is OVER, done, finito and it's never coming back, no matter what Donald Trump or anyone else says.
Sadly, the gullibility of coal miners appears to be as deep as the shafts they used to drill. I can't blame them for wanting their industry back, but I do blame them for being so irrational as to not recognize the fact that it's simply never going to happen.
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"(1) Custom domain support for five users.
(2) Information sharing: Outlook Premium helps you easily share calendars, contacts, and documents (via OneDrive) between those five users.
(3) Ad-free inbox: Like Ad-Free Outlook.com, Outlook Premium offers no "banner ads" for a "distraction-free view of your email, photos, and documents."
1) Lol, custom domain support, whoop-de-fuckin'-do. Just get your own domain and have as many users as you want.
2) "Information sharing", Oh yeah, I'll bet there'll be "information sharing", just not the kind you expected. We'll scan all your email for data to mine and sell, and why? Because FUCK YOU, that's why.
3) Ad-free inbox: You mean like when I use an ad-blocker? Because that works pretty well for me.
That can be said about any number of devices.
So why add one more to the mix, especially one that can be triggered remotely by a malicious actor?
You actually think something like this would get ATEX / IECEx / FM certification?
Of course not. I'm thinking some idiot would carry it in, ignoring any safety restrictions, and possibly cause an explosion.
Safety signs are all well and good, but only if people abide by them. And you know how people are...
I've heard it referred to as "the tyranny of the politically correct."
I don't envy Twitter....they want to allow free speech, but they also want to suppress the pointless static and harassment that takes place. The problem is that one person's free expression of ideas is another person's harassment, and it's hard to be impartial.
Everything is fine until the trolls and griefers outnumber the normal users by 10 or 20 to 1... then it all becomes a shit show.
Would you want to fly on a plane knowing the dipstick next to you had one of these? Or how about in a hazardous or flammable environment?
Look for these to be banned from commercial airline flights and be prohibited in lots of other places.
And of course that's not even getting into the "what if someone hacks it and makes it self-destruct" question. Not that a bad guy would ever do that, nooooo.
it's the Gong Show!
I loved that show....still do.
JP Morgan, hubba hubba. She used to flash the audience and contestants when she felt like it, which was pretty much all the time, lol.
All forms of payment cost money. Ever tried to deposit $50k at a national bank account? Fee.
Bank Of America is a scumbag organization run by scumbags, but no, they won't charge me a fee for depositing $50k.
Call them yourself and ask them, "Is there a fee for depositing $50,000", and they'll confirm that they do not bill you for depositing money.
Foreign currency or wire transfers, maybe, but a US check for $50k or $50k in US cash will be accepted without a fee. It'll get you put on a watchlist, of course, but there's no fee for that either.
"In representations to your customers or in public communications, you agree not to mischaracterize PayPal as a payment method. At all of your points of sale (in whatever form), you agree not to try to dissuade or inhibit your customers from using PayPal; and, if you enable your customers to pay you with PayPal, you agree to treat PayPal's payment mark at least at par with other payment methods offered."
For something that's not a "payment method", they sure seem to bill themselves as a "payment method". They say it themselves: "if you enable your customers to pay you with PayPal..."
I mean, if I can pay for things using PayPal, is it not by definition a "payment method"? In what twisted-logic universe are they not a "payment method"?
Here's how you can tell if something is a "payment method"- you try and buy something with it and if you can, it's a "payment method".
- Why the fuck didn't they hang a Geiger counter on the robot?
You can't make a Geiger counter that measures intense levels of radiation because the ionizing gas in the counter tube has to deionize after each detection event, and that just doesn't happen quickly enough to allow for accurate high-value measurements. The gas basically reaches a saturated (fully ionized) state and it just stops working.
Semiconductor chips are also used to measure x-rays and other radiation, but they become physically/intrinsically degraded after high levels of bombardment by ionizing radiation. They can take low levels for a long time but high levels wreck the detection chip (which is insanely fragile to begin with).
530 sieverts per hour is an insane level of radiation.
Since 1 Sv = 100 rem, we're talking about 53,000 REM per hour, a level that would indeed kill you dead in under a minute.
For scale and comparison, the average dental x-ray image exposes you to only about 2 or 3 millirem.
So....530 sieverts per hour is like getting ~26,500,000 dental x-rays in an hour.
"On average, we check our phones 50 times each day -- with some studies suggesting it could three times that amount. We spend around 6 hours per day consuming digital media."
I would feel ashamed if I did either of those things at anywhere near that frequency.
I don't check my phone unless it rings.
I check my email maybe 5 or 6 times a day, sometimes more often if something is in process and needs attention.
I don't check social media because I don't have any.
And for the record, studies have shown that goldfish have memories well in excess of 9 seconds. Some of them can remember actions they've been trained to do for more than a year. That 9-second stuff is one of those things that sounded cool and so it got repeated endlessly until it became accepted as a "fact". (Similar to the "you only use 10% of your brain" and other nonsensical bullshit.)
This is more like the road leading to the store being dynamited.
Bingo.
To further the analogy, there may be perfectly legitimate reasons for going to the store in question, even if they dealt exclusively in pirated media or other illegal items. To block access to the store or a site absent any criminal behavior on the part of the visitor is overreaching.
I can think of exceptions (kiddy porn sites, for example) but it's still a slippery slope. It's a minor step from claiming "child porn" to "anarchist materials", whatever that might be.
Probably worth examining, what counts as a public record? And what can be "off the record"?
https://www.archives.gov/recor...
They'll simply say everything is "confidential", but that doesn't exempt it from the Federal records laws.
If I had to guess, I'd say that any automatic or programmatic deletion of government communications (federal or state) breaks the law.
I hear they recalled Yugos because they found traces of metal in them.
Tesla Employee Calls For Unionization, Musk Says That's 'Morally Outrageous'
Anytime a billionaire objects to something on "moral" grounds, be suspicious.
If it involves unionizing one of the factories that made him a billionaire, be doubly suspicious.
How is it complicated? If you're away from a charging pad, you can use any microwave to charge your device. Just make sure to use the defrost setting.
Can't I just use a toaster set on "medium dark"? 4Chan swears by it.
First, who wants that? Wireless charging is actually incredibly inconvenient under most circumstances. First, you can't use the phone sensibly while it's charging.
Yeah, but you get to buy all new charging doohickeys and maybe a new dongle or two. It's a win-win, my friend! Courage!
"...the high-end iPhone 8 could cost upwards of $1,000"
A thousand bucks for a phone? Ha ha ha ha ha ha...no. I'm not gonna spend that much on a phone even if it comes with a blowjob attachment.
Also, won't this graphite sheet add ~0.00001mm of thickness to the phone? How will Apple users ever manage to put up with this outrageous increase in thickness? Won't someone please think of the Apple users?
Quick question: Doesn't this violate the government regulations regarding destruction of records?
https://www.justice.gov/usam/c...
and:
https://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen...
After all, if Trump’s tweets are now presidential records (and, by law, they are), wouldn't these also be included under those rules?
"Federal records may not be destroyed-except in accordance with the procedures described in Chapter 33 of Title 44, United States Code. These procedures allow for records destruction only under the authority of a records disposition schedule approved by the Archivist of the United States. NARA issues a General Records Schedule (GRS) that gives record descriptions of records that are common to most Federal agencies and authorizes record disposals for temporary records."
Yes, yes, I know, "But Hillary Hillary Hillary....", right, I get it, but if her doing it was illegal (and I think it was), how can this be legal?
A camera like this used to cost $10,000 or more and it wouldn't even have a phone attached.
"Story Of a Founder Who Burned Through $21M While His Social App Fling Crashed"
This guy is my spirit animal.
"The link could ask users to disable their adblockers"
The link could ask me to give it a blowjob but that ain't gonna happen either.
one new way of obtaining the coal that is left is you tear off the top of a mountain
There's nothing "new" about this. "Mountaintop removal mining" (MTR) has been going on for decades, and yes, it destroys the local ecology. It began in the mid-1970s in Appalachia if I'm not mistaken.
Oh please...coal mining has become too expensive and unproductive to sustain itself in any reasonable way. Even with massive subsidies it would never make a comeback.
Solar and natural gas have eclipsed the coal industry, and nothing in the world is going to reverse that. You'd be better off starting a buggy whip manufacturing company than to bet on coal making a comeback. It's just not going to happen, and that's a fact.
Coal is OVER, done, finito and it's never coming back, no matter what Donald Trump or anyone else says.
Sadly, the gullibility of coal miners appears to be as deep as the shafts they used to drill. I can't blame them for wanting their industry back, but I do blame them for being so irrational as to not recognize the fact that it's simply never going to happen.