A quick question: Can set your alarm clock to wake you up at one time on weekdays, and a different time on weekends?
Yep, and it takes all of about ten seconds to do it, too. But I never bother to do that because I sleep in on the weekends and I get up when I feel like it, not when a clock tells me to.
We better hope we don't encounter aliens that feel the same way about us and see us as pests on "their" new planet.
If they're trying to exterminate us, whether their methods are "humane" or not isn't something I'll be too concerned with. Extermination is extermination and dead is dead. As someone else pointed out, my *only* concern will be whether or not we can stop them.
If not, does it really matter whether you die in some horribly awful way or painlessly?
It should be noted that President Obama is the guy in charge of the Executive Branch now, which includes the NSA and TSA.
Which were created under George W. Bush, a fact you conveniently overlook.
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Doesn't really matter who created those agencies, he gets to decide what they do while he is in office.
Lol, yeah, keep telling yourself that. If Obama had tried to dismantle them or reign them in, the Republicans would have a nuclear-grade shitfest over it. But keep on blaming Obama for inheriting the mess your hero George Bush created.
I agree with your comment, but was curious about your sig:
Obama's legacy: (N)othing (S)ecure (A)nywhere and (T)error (S)imulation (A)dministration
You do realize that the TSA was created / sponsored by Don Young (R) and Ernest Hollings (D), passed by the 107th U.S. Congress, and signed into law by President George W. Bush, right?
Obama literally had nothing to do with the creation of the TSA. And the NSA? It dates from the Truman administration in 1952.
Was Obama also responsible for the sinking of the Titanic and the War of 1812?
I use an old Android 2 device for an alarm clock. Old phones make the perfect alarm clock because even if the power goes out, it can last for a day on battery.
A whole day? Will wonders never cease...
Seriously, just go spend 5 or 6 bucks on a travel alarm clock. They'll run for months on a single AA battery.
For an alarm clock, I use my Microsoft Lumia - it does an amazing job.
Just how low do you have to set the bar for an alarm clock to call it "amazing"?
I have an old, battery-powered travel alarm clock from the 80's that still works, but I've never thought of it as "amazing". It runs for months on a single AA battery, is waterproof and loud enough to hear anywhere...but I've never told anyone it was "amazing". It's a fucking alarm clock. How "amazing" does it need to be? And what could an alarm clock do that would warrant it being labeled "amazing"? Wake you up each day?
Those are all examples of more productive use, what exactly is your complaint?
That's not what they mean by "productive". What they mean is "more time to do more work", turning your daily commute into unpaid work hours. Fuck that.
If you want to work extra unpaid hours, be my guest. But as for me, I have no intention buying into this bullshit idea. This was the also behind the whole push for laptops and more capable cell phones- so you could be more "productive" while away from the office. Maybe you don't remember that.
Those kinds of ad campaigns are still in use today, touting how you can "always be connected blah blah blah", extolling the virtues of having the office travel with you so you can do spreadsheets while at the beach on your time off. Yippee, now even when you're on vacation in Bermuda you can still experience the drudgery of the office! Answer those emails, attend those meetings, check those voice mails! Never have a moment off the grid! Woo hoo!
Again, if you want to do this and be expected to work 24/7, be my guest. But some of us have lives and don't want the joy of being a worker bee every waking minute of our lives.
At my last contract my "boss" suggested that I put Outlook on my phone "so I could always be in touch". My counter-suggestion was for her to shove that idea up her ass, wrapped in barbed-wire. I phrased it a little more politely than that, but there was no mistaking the thrust (ha ha!) of my reply. "Work time is for work, and me time is for me" was more or less how I put it. If something super-critical came up they were welcome to call me, but otherwise, no. When I'm off the clock, I'm off the clock. And that includes my commute, unless they're paying for it.
"Currently, in the US, the average occupant of a light-duty vehicle spends about an hour a day traveling -- time that could potentially be put to more productive use,"
Yeah, how about "fuck you"?
How about you stop trying to wring every last drop of "productivity" out of us and just let us relax and enjoy the ride? Maybe read a book, watch a movie, or just watch the scenery. Why does every single fucking second have to be spent doing something "productive"?
Between social media mining, NSA/CIA/FBI operations, license plate readers, Stingray gadgets, the GPS in your phone, cell tower triangulation, TPMS scanners, and the video cams on every power pole and stop light, the concept of 'privacy' or anonymous behavior is pretty much gone.
I'd wager it would be nearly impossible to travel between any to major cities or buy anything in a store without leaving a trackable signature.
You'd basically have to travel by bicycle with your head covered (leaving your cell phone at home, of course) and pay for stuff in cash while wearing gloves. I'm not sure even that would do it.
If you think a company is acting like an asshole because they change their products in ways you don't like, you're a narcissistic shit who deserves to be tortured to death.
Steve Jobs didn't die from pancreatic cancer, he died because you sucked his life force out through his cock.
Tell me, what is it in your makeup that makes you have the deep seated need to have such hatred?
Why? Because I hate companies that behave like assholes, and I have disdain for the fanbois who slavishly follow them like zombies after fresh meat. And I'd slam any company that behaves this way- Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, Oracle, etc etc. (I own Android and Apple devices, so I've got the right to critique them as I see fit.)
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I do take burning batteries pretty seriously though - I'll admit as much.
Exactly- how those numbnuts at Samsung could have let this little flaw slip by is beyond me. And by "little flaw", I mean something that may burn your house down or injure you, possibly fatally. So yeah, coming soon: the Samsung Galaxy Fireproof Carrying Case, just $99.95, made from the purest asbestos available!
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But considering some folks utter dismissal of burning phones as an issue at all, and dumping crazy hate on a phone they don't even need to own - its a weird hate.
Weird hates are the most fun when it come to taking potshots at stuff, especially when it's deserved.
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And I just picked your post as it just oozes the anger and hatred like an untreated chancroid lesion.
Well, it seems you know lots more about chancroid lesions than me, but you've probably just got more experience at hosting them than I do.
Did you know that you can buy a pack of valve stems and change this yourself in about ten minutes for about ten bucks:O
Bullshit. You need to unmount the tires and you need a special tool to "re-learn" the new TPMS units to the vehicle's monitoring computer.
Way more than ten bucks and way more than 10 minutes. More like ~$60 per TPMS unit and $120 for the TPMS programmer. And it takes an hour or so to demount all the tires and then remount them.
Yes, we should eliminate all those things which are working great, so there are no ports, because... reasons
Yeah, because don't all of us spend every minute underwater these days? Take away all the ports and tactile items and make me buy new shit!
Coming soon: the iButton, a $79 plastic cap that fits onto the phone where the Home button used to be, so people can feel where it is. (Just like on that horrid old last-year's model that no iTard would be caught dead carrying.)
Especially having a tactile home and power button is very useful
I think so too, but Apple doesn't give a shit what people like us want. They have to increase the "shiny" while cutting manufacturing costs, and those Home buttons are apparently hella expensive!
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I also have 128GB SD card in my phone for storage, and use the headphone jack daily. But that is another story..
OMG now you've gone too far and blasphemed against The Holy Jobs of Cupertino.
Don't forget to mention with a simple piece of wiring between phone and speakers there's no need to replace batteries or have to recharge the earbuds often.
Shhhhhhhhh, don't mess with their business model!
Also, what happens when the batteries degrade to where they're no longer any good? You get to buy a new pair (yippee!) or pay to have them repaired/replaced (yippee!).
The worst part? The sewers will be filled with these as they fall out and go bouncing off into the gutter, sewer, toilet, heating vent, tall grass, etc etc. Stick your head out the window? Whoops, there they go. Lose one on a beach or out in the woods? Good luck finding it.
I can't count the number of times that the wires have kept me from losing an earbud.
And no, you probably won't be able to buy just a left or a right...because that would just be wrong. You'll have to buy both, leaving you with a extra, completely useless one. If they get mixed up at a party or whatever and you end up with two right-side units somehow, well, too bad for you. But hey, they're only another $160 bucks per pair, so stop whining!
Next up for sale: the Apple "iTether", a pair of sturdy white wires that attach to the earbuds so they don't get lost when you drop them. BRILLIANT!
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A quick question: Can set your alarm clock to wake you up at one time on weekdays, and a different time on weekends?
Yep, and it takes all of about ten seconds to do it, too. But I never bother to do that because I sleep in on the weekends and I get up when I feel like it, not when a clock tells me to.
We better hope we don't encounter aliens that feel the same way about us and see us as pests on "their" new planet.
If they're trying to exterminate us, whether their methods are "humane" or not isn't something I'll be too concerned with. Extermination is extermination and dead is dead. As someone else pointed out, my *only* concern will be whether or not we can stop them.
If not, does it really matter whether you die in some horribly awful way or painlessly?
Decisions, decisions...a standard universal headphone jack that literally millions of devices will plug into, or a barometer.
Gee, which one would I use more? It's such a puzzle.
It should be noted that President Obama is the guy in charge of the Executive Branch now, which includes the NSA and TSA.
Which were created under George W. Bush, a fact you conveniently overlook.
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Doesn't really matter who created those agencies, he gets to decide what they do while he is in office.
Lol, yeah, keep telling yourself that. If Obama had tried to dismantle them or reign them in, the Republicans would have a nuclear-grade shitfest over it. But keep on blaming Obama for inheriting the mess your hero George Bush created.
I agree with your comment, but was curious about your sig:
Obama's legacy: (N)othing (S)ecure (A)nywhere and (T)error (S)imulation (A)dministration
You do realize that the TSA was created / sponsored by Don Young (R) and Ernest Hollings (D), passed by the 107th U.S. Congress, and signed into law by President George W. Bush, right?
Obama literally had nothing to do with the creation of the TSA. And the NSA? It dates from the Truman administration in 1952.
Was Obama also responsible for the sinking of the Titanic and the War of 1812?
I use an old Android 2 device for an alarm clock. Old phones make the perfect alarm clock because even if the power goes out, it can last for a day on battery.
A whole day? Will wonders never cease...
Seriously, just go spend 5 or 6 bucks on a travel alarm clock. They'll run for months on a single AA battery.
For an alarm clock, I use my Microsoft Lumia - it does an amazing job.
Just how low do you have to set the bar for an alarm clock to call it "amazing"?
I have an old, battery-powered travel alarm clock from the 80's that still works, but I've never thought of it as "amazing". It runs for months on a single AA battery, is waterproof and loud enough to hear anywhere...but I've never told anyone it was "amazing". It's a fucking alarm clock. How "amazing" does it need to be? And what could an alarm clock do that would warrant it being labeled "amazing"? Wake you up each day?
Those are all examples of more productive use, what exactly is your complaint?
That's not what they mean by "productive". What they mean is "more time to do more work", turning your daily commute into unpaid work hours. Fuck that.
If you want to work extra unpaid hours, be my guest. But as for me, I have no intention buying into this bullshit idea. This was the also behind the whole push for laptops and more capable cell phones- so you could be more "productive" while away from the office. Maybe you don't remember that.
Those kinds of ad campaigns are still in use today, touting how you can "always be connected blah blah blah", extolling the virtues of having the office travel with you so you can do spreadsheets while at the beach on your time off. Yippee, now even when you're on vacation in Bermuda you can still experience the drudgery of the office! Answer those emails, attend those meetings, check those voice mails! Never have a moment off the grid! Woo hoo!
Again, if you want to do this and be expected to work 24/7, be my guest. But some of us have lives and don't want the joy of being a worker bee every waking minute of our lives.
At my last contract my "boss" suggested that I put Outlook on my phone "so I could always be in touch". My counter-suggestion was for her to shove that idea up her ass, wrapped in barbed-wire. I phrased it a little more politely than that, but there was no mistaking the thrust (ha ha!) of my reply. "Work time is for work, and me time is for me" was more or less how I put it. If something super-critical came up they were welcome to call me, but otherwise, no. When I'm off the clock, I'm off the clock. And that includes my commute, unless they're paying for it.
Working while traveling isn't high on my list of priorities.
It's exactly nowhere on my list of priorities. It's not even in the "I'll think about it maybe someday" category.
More importantly, what's with the continued obsession with maximizing productivity?
Exactly. This is codespeak for "now you can do some more work on the way home". Screw that.
"Currently, in the US, the average occupant of a light-duty vehicle spends about an hour a day traveling -- time that could potentially be put to more productive use,"
Yeah, how about "fuck you"?
How about you stop trying to wring every last drop of "productivity" out of us and just let us relax and enjoy the ride? Maybe read a book, watch a movie, or just watch the scenery. Why does every single fucking second have to be spent doing something "productive"?
Good thing for those Russian officials that PornHub was the only naughty picture site on the entire internet....
It's gone.
Between social media mining, NSA/CIA/FBI operations, license plate readers, Stingray gadgets, the GPS in your phone, cell tower triangulation, TPMS scanners, and the video cams on every power pole and stop light, the concept of 'privacy' or anonymous behavior is pretty much gone.
I'd wager it would be nearly impossible to travel between any to major cities or buy anything in a store without leaving a trackable signature.
You'd basically have to travel by bicycle with your head covered (leaving your cell phone at home, of course) and pay for stuff in cash while wearing gloves. I'm not sure even that would do it.
If you think a company is acting like an asshole because they change their products in ways you don't like, you're a narcissistic shit who deserves to be tortured to death.
Steve Jobs didn't die from pancreatic cancer, he died because you sucked his life force out through his cock.
Wouldn't want to see another person fall prey to Grumpy Old Man syndrome.
Pffft, I was a Grumpy Old Man at 30.
“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?” -- George Carlin
No. Not just "no", but "FUCK NO".
Tell me, what is it in your makeup that makes you have the deep seated need to have such hatred?
Why? Because I hate companies that behave like assholes, and I have disdain for the fanbois who slavishly follow them like zombies after fresh meat. And I'd slam any company that behaves this way- Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, Oracle, etc etc. (I own Android and Apple devices, so I've got the right to critique them as I see fit.)
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I do take burning batteries pretty seriously though - I'll admit as much.
Exactly- how those numbnuts at Samsung could have let this little flaw slip by is beyond me. And by "little flaw", I mean something that may burn your house down or injure you, possibly fatally. So yeah, coming soon: the Samsung Galaxy Fireproof Carrying Case, just $99.95, made from the purest asbestos available!
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But considering some folks utter dismissal of burning phones as an issue at all, and dumping crazy hate on a phone they don't even need to own - its a weird hate.
Weird hates are the most fun when it come to taking potshots at stuff, especially when it's deserved.
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And I just picked your post as it just oozes the anger and hatred like an untreated chancroid lesion.
Well, it seems you know lots more about chancroid lesions than me, but you've probably just got more experience at hosting them than I do.
Did you know that you can buy a pack of valve stems and change this yourself in about ten minutes for about ten bucks :O
Bullshit. You need to unmount the tires and you need a special tool to "re-learn" the new TPMS units to the vehicle's monitoring computer.
Way more than ten bucks and way more than 10 minutes. More like ~$60 per TPMS unit and $120 for the TPMS programmer. And it takes an hour or so to demount all the tires and then remount them.
Yes, we should eliminate all those things which are working great, so there are no ports, because... reasons
Yeah, because don't all of us spend every minute underwater these days? Take away all the ports and tactile items and make me buy new shit!
Coming soon: the iButton, a $79 plastic cap that fits onto the phone where the Home button used to be, so people can feel where it is. (Just like on that horrid old last-year's model that no iTard would be caught dead carrying.)
Especially having a tactile home and power button is very useful
I think so too, but Apple doesn't give a shit what people like us want. They have to increase the "shiny" while cutting manufacturing costs, and those Home buttons are apparently hella expensive!
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I also have 128GB SD card in my phone for storage, and use the headphone jack daily. But that is another story..
OMG now you've gone too far and blasphemed against The Holy Jobs of Cupertino.
Tim Cook: "And after that we're going to remove the phone capability and put in 7 cameras."
No! Mod him down! He is a known crackpot!
Lol, you may be a crackpot, but your original post was spot-on.
The only "newsworthiness" of this article is that it involves 3D printing. Otherwise, it's a non-story. Actually, it's a non-story either way.
Don't forget to mention with a simple piece of wiring between phone and speakers there's no need to replace batteries or have to recharge the earbuds often.
Shhhhhhhhh, don't mess with their business model!
Also, what happens when the batteries degrade to where they're no longer any good? You get to buy a new pair (yippee!) or pay to have them repaired/replaced (yippee!).
The worst part? The sewers will be filled with these as they fall out and go bouncing off into the gutter, sewer, toilet, heating vent, tall grass, etc etc. Stick your head out the window? Whoops, there they go. Lose one on a beach or out in the woods? Good luck finding it.
I can't count the number of times that the wires have kept me from losing an earbud.
And no, you probably won't be able to buy just a left or a right...because that would just be wrong. You'll have to buy both, leaving you with a extra, completely useless one. If they get mixed up at a party or whatever and you end up with two right-side units somehow, well, too bad for you. But hey, they're only another $160 bucks per pair, so stop whining!
Next up for sale: the Apple "iTether", a pair of sturdy white wires that attach to the earbuds so they don't get lost when you drop them. BRILLIANT!
Trigger words: they don't exist, unless you count ever single word in the entire dictionary.
Safe zone (safe space): another thing that doesn't exist anywhere in the known universe
Microaggressions: see "trigger words", basically something that doesn't exist except in the minds of the terminally delicate.
Cultural appropriation: also known as "doing anything that has ever been done by anyone from another race or culture".
Hater: anyone who disagrees with you on anything, ever, no matter how politely.
Problematic: basically anything I don't like, or that I think should be different, period.