Awesome! This is exactly what I was fishing for. Now I'm going to track every post you make and make sure I put my two cents in, so when I collect enough trophies I can melt them down and get money for the scrap. Who the fuck was talking to you again? I was underscoring, along with others here, how esoteric this supercontinent is. Almost everyone is familiar with Pangaea. Nuna? Not so much.
It said parts of Canada, not the US. Good reading comprehension. Justin Trudeau apologized for the inconvenience to the Ozzies and offered to immigrate half of Australia's deadly snakes and spiders to British Colombia as an appeasement
If anything, it's sort of a release to play a violent video game, if you're in a pent-up state of frustration or anger, you can work it out of your system by slaughtering pixels. For the most part, however, these games are just a test of skill, aiming and dodging. In some games, there were parts I didn't even feel totally comfortable; Skyrim is a tad schizophrenic in that the main quest paints you as a hero (Dragonborn, savior of the world) but two of the main side quests (Thieve's Guild, Dark Brotherhood) twist you into a thief and/or murderer. You could choose not to play these bits, but then you're not experiencing a huge portion of the game you paid. I remember even trying to go easy on bandits in the beginning, because when near death they'll plead, "Please, no more, I cannot best you", but then they regen a little health and just try to kill you again. There's no mid-way with them. So that attempt at mercy didn't last long. But for all this, I've never had the compunction to go and stab/fry/zap/smash anyone in the real world.
Kids are doing this all over, apparently: they run up to a car while it's at a light or in heavy traffic, jump on the hood or elsewhere and act like they got hit by the car, hoping to get a settlement. I've seen dashcam video that was pretty funny because some of the attempts are just so obviously staged.
OTOH, clearly this facility is also run like a newbie help desk, keeping critical passwords on post-its stuck to a monitor and then allowing a photograph to be taken and released to the public on top of that. Sure the alert interface sucked, but that's obviously not the only problem here. You'd really think people in those positions there would have better training in security and a less casual attitude.
Don't be a child. Besides, if I or anyone else sees you in public, as many, many people will every day, our eyes are a camera lens, our ears a microphone, our brains are the recording media. Not that big a difference from a hardware camera really. We can all be called on a witness stand. The only difference is the quality of human memory and it's susceptibility to bias.
It also beats seeing a real missile incoming and mistakenly choosing a "test" warning instead. Not that there's anything Hawaiians could do about it anyway, they don't have basements or fallout shelters, apparently. Maybe they'd have enough just time to leave work/school and huddle with their loved ones.
True, those are generally useless. How many users just click through "bothersome" confirmation Windows when they think they know what they're doing. They rarely attempt to read an actual error message either, to get a clue what went wrong. Making them actually type something like "not a test" in the confirmation window might wake them up though, and have them go, "Huh?... shit, cancel !".
I don't buy for a second that Apple care more about privacy out of the purity of their hearts. But their business model allows them to deliver on that front should they wish to, and lately their market (the users) gives them reason to wish so.
Well, they do seem to have given it a lot of thought with the relatively recent emergency feature you can enable that will erase all data on the phone after 10 failed passcode attempts.
No, this is not a law about NN, it is a law ordering the FCC to continue an Obama policy, which was a proclamation from an unelected regulatory body. Kicking the can, so to speak, instead of doing what they should.
That could explain why it doesn't have the support we would think it would have; it's not really the right way to go about it. Politicians use this as a tactic against each other all the time in debates, bringing up opponent's voting records; "Senator foo voted against Bill xyz..Clearly, he hates you!"... in reality, Senator foo maybe liked a a number of the provisions included and the general theme, but thought the bill was written half-assed and didn't go far enough or cover enough contingencies; or that some of the provisions would actually be harmful. The worse congressman is the one who has a sparse voting record (absent, abstain, etc..), they're not even doing their job.
I have a beer every night with dinner, then maybe or maybe not little bit (like a shot's worth) o' sippin' whiskey as a nightcap. Certainly nothing that affects me in the morning, I don't even like feeling drunk, I just get sleepy and stupid. Slightly relaxed is what I aim for. Taste is another matter: I love a good beer, irish whisky, single malt scotch, and gin & tonic. Yum. I wish they could taste exactly the way they do and be half the alcohol. And a quarter of the calories. The calories are probably doing me more harm than anything else because I'm not burning them off.
Interesting. I've got an iPhone 6s that's a year and a half old, if not 2 years- I just tried the Battery Life app from "Utilities" (not sure if this is the same battery life app you've mentioned) and my original battery reads, "Perfect" at 99% capacity. I've read that it's bad for the battery to leave your phone on the charger overnight, which I did with older phones. Reportedly this can overheat the battery and shorten their lifespan. With this phone, I generally only charge it first thing in the mornings while I'm eating breakfast and taking a shower (not at the same time!), approximately 1 hour, to 75 minutes all in all. The battery's not always up to 100% charge before I have to leave but it's usually still in the high 90% range at that point. Maybe this strategy is paying off. It also helps that I'm on wifi almost all day, at work and home, whereas I'm sure if I had an outdoor job and needed to rely more on battery draining cellular, an hour would be not be enough time to restore the phone to a decent charge. App-wise, I do run "Life360" 24/7 so that would still be some constant drain. Lastly, for nearly all of my other apps I've disabled, "Background Refresh" in Settings, that helps a great deal with battery charge life, and thus probably ultimately, battery capacity life.
Well, 1, you didn't state antifa explicitly, you said "anti-facists".. but I think elrous0 did a pretty good job of enumerating them; cop killers and the like. Like I said though, I don't keep a tab. I'll start tracking them down though, to be fair. Meanwhile, any jokes for today? You were on a roll with the Roy Moore jokes!
How did this get modded informative? Anti-fascist kills 0? That's simply not true. Leftist media chooses to downplay or ignore those events. I'm not so anal as to keep a dossier of these events but I could start easily enough. Also, there is no connection between Timothy Caughman's murderer and nazis, unless you want to define every racist now as a "nazi", in which case, there would be nazis of all races. The killers of Ricky Best were anti-muslim but that doesn't equate to white supremacism (unless you're CNN); many muslims are white; it's a religion, not a race.
Exactly, and I would think that should be an issue for the Trademark. Amazon could at least be a little more original and not use the "tube" moniker. Vimeo has a original name. Maybe Vidazon, AmaScreen, or.. I don't know.. those really suck.
That would be lovely but it's never gonna happen. Trolls and shills, Russian and otherwise, are playing both sides of the political fence to increase the division and hostility among Americans. United we stand, divided we fall, and all. They have a vested interest in fanning the flames.
"Non-saveable" would certainly be more technically accurate, but it sounds rather awkward. Saving is usually understood as a part of downloading, so they just go with "non-downloadable". What irks me is when people say they've downloaded something to sound technically saavy when they've actually just copied a file from a disk or thumbdrive. Copy doesn't sound trendy enough or something.
Firstly, To be clear, I have no contention that a lack of net neutrality will result in the death of the Internet. I was responding simply to your line that life could continue fine without it. I harbor no illusions that the Internet dies or the world ends because NN is repealed. Besides, it'll be a proper law before long anyway.
I was singularly addressing your contention that the world can operate fine without an Internet, it is not necessary to sustain life. Technically, if you're being that pedantic, yes. Are you really being that pedantic? Technically, we don't need money to "survive". If that's where this is headed, then nevermind.
But in modern society, anyway, people need money to buy things like food and gas and have a roof over their head, and today, all *major* money transactions at the back end - Nat'l and Int'l commerce that is, are conducted via the internet, which in turn affects everything below.
So if it's within your ability, try to actually imagine what happens if Wells Fargo is unable to transfer funds between them and Beneficial or Citizens Bank. It's critical that banks be able to communicate and transfer funds quickly, because otherwise people's paychecks don't get processed and bills don't get credited. Maybe mortgages aren't processed. Okay, so you write out your check, on your account with Citizens, and send it to your mortgage company, who use Ameribank. But they can't process thousands of transactions a day anymore, they've had to resort to the postal service again, or telephone/fax for lesser transactions; it all gets backed up. Delays occur, accounts go into arrears. You don't get paid, or your car gets repossessed, or you lose your home. Wholesalers can't do business with retailers. Without these transactions occurring, grocery stores cannot pay distributors. Transportation comes to a crawl. Food becomes scarce. Commodities become scarce. Prices skyrocket.
Perhaps you'd prefer to go "off the grid" and build a log cabin somewhere, and live off the land. If you can successfully swing that, you rock; you're right, you don't need the Internet to survive. Most people can't, and without being able to make money and use it to pay for basic needs, they won't survive.
"....uses a combination of sensors and cameras to track what each store shopper takes off of shelves so it can automatically bill them for their purchase without their having to stop to pay on the way out."
So what if you take an item off the shelf to examine it, the sensor/camera records that action, then you put it back because it's not exactly what you were looking for (the ingredients listed something you're allergic to for example) and the camera or sensor fails, for any number of possible reasons, to detect that it's put back? You just walk out of the store and get your bill later? There was no mention here of any method whereby you verify your purchases before you leave.
I suppose one good outcome is, it would deter people from removing items from one shelf and then later dropping them off on the wrong shelf. That's inconsiderate to other shoppers and store employees alike, I hate when people do that, it's lazy and ignorant.
Then you weren't really responding to my original argument. I never claimed you "couldn't pay bills" w/o the Internet, as you say, I said the Internet was a critical element to living, financially. Because when I mentioned corporations in my argument, I meant all, including the banks which are corporations. As an individual, you can still pay your bills via check or cash in person, but the banks themselves use the Internet more than any other medium. I suppose they could go back to using Western Union, but that would be like trying to go back 20 years, with the volume of transactions that are common today. That would affect everyone adversely. It would screw up our entire financial system. The other ACs get that, but not you.
Actually there were four or more if you count the animated Animatrix..
Whoosh!
The whoosh is on you, I was just pointing out that there are actually *more* than 3 sequels, whether they're "recognized" or not. I'm well aware of the sequels joke.
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Awesome! This is exactly what I was fishing for. Now I'm going to track every post you make and make sure I put my two cents in, so when I collect enough trophies I can melt them down and get money for the scrap. Who the fuck was talking to you again?
I was underscoring, along with others here, how esoteric this supercontinent is. Almost everyone is familiar with Pangaea. Nuna? Not so much.
It said parts of Canada, not the US. Good reading comprehension.
Justin Trudeau apologized for the inconvenience to the Ozzies and offered to immigrate half of Australia's deadly snakes and spiders to British Colombia as an appeasement
I've never heard of this "Nuna" before.
If anything, it's sort of a release to play a violent video game, if you're in a pent-up state of frustration or anger, you can work it out of your system by slaughtering pixels. For the most part, however, these games are just a test of skill, aiming and dodging.
In some games, there were parts I didn't even feel totally comfortable; Skyrim is a tad schizophrenic in that the main quest paints you as a hero (Dragonborn, savior of the world) but two of the main side quests (Thieve's Guild, Dark Brotherhood) twist you into a thief and/or murderer. You could choose not to play these bits, but then you're not experiencing a huge portion of the game you paid.
I remember even trying to go easy on bandits in the beginning, because when near death they'll plead, "Please, no more, I cannot best you", but then they regen a little health and just try to kill you again. There's no mid-way with them. So that attempt at mercy didn't last long.
But for all this, I've never had the compunction to go and stab/fry/zap/smash anyone in the real world.
Thank you sir for that laugh, that made my day. "Alt Write".
Kids are doing this all over, apparently: they run up to a car while it's at a light or in heavy traffic, jump on the hood or elsewhere and act like they got hit by the car, hoping to get a settlement. I've seen dashcam video that was pretty funny because some of the attempts are just so obviously staged.
OTOH, clearly this facility is also run like a newbie help desk, keeping critical passwords on post-its stuck to a monitor and then allowing a photograph to be taken and released to the public on top of that. Sure the alert interface sucked, but that's obviously not the only problem here. You'd really think people in those positions there would have better training in security and a less casual attitude.
Don't be a child. Besides, if I or anyone else sees you in public, as many, many people will every day, our eyes are a camera lens, our ears a microphone, our brains are the recording media. Not that big a difference from a hardware camera really. We can all be called on a witness stand. The only difference is the quality of human memory and it's susceptibility to bias.
Make them type in, "This is not a test".
If they still go ahead after that point and send, then they are idiots.
It also beats seeing a real missile incoming and mistakenly choosing a "test" warning instead.
Not that there's anything Hawaiians could do about it anyway, they don't have basements or fallout shelters, apparently. Maybe they'd have enough just time to leave work/school and huddle with their loved ones.
True, those are generally useless. How many users just click through "bothersome" confirmation Windows when they think they know what they're doing. They rarely attempt to read an actual error message either, to get a clue what went wrong.
Making them actually type something like "not a test" in the confirmation window might wake them up though, and have them go, "Huh?... shit, cancel !".
This difference has real consequences.
I don't buy for a second that Apple care more about privacy out of the purity of their hearts. But their business model allows them to deliver on that front should they wish to, and lately their market (the users) gives them reason to wish so.
Well, they do seem to have given it a lot of thought with the relatively recent emergency feature you can enable that will erase all data on the phone after 10 failed passcode attempts.
So, they are actually making a law about it,
No, this is not a law about NN, it is a law ordering the FCC to continue an Obama policy, which was a proclamation from an unelected regulatory body. Kicking the can, so to speak, instead of doing what they should.
That could explain why it doesn't have the support we would think it would have; it's not really the right way to go about it. ..Clearly, he hates you!"... in reality, Senator foo maybe liked a a number of the provisions included and the general theme, but thought the bill was written half-assed and didn't go far enough or cover enough contingencies; or that some of the provisions would actually be harmful. The worse congressman is the one who has a sparse voting record (absent, abstain, etc..), they're not even doing their job.
Politicians use this as a tactic against each other all the time in debates, bringing up opponent's voting records; "Senator foo voted against Bill xyz
"Vitamin ethanol".. lol I have to steal that.
I have a beer every night with dinner, then maybe or maybe not little bit (like a shot's worth) o' sippin' whiskey as a nightcap. Certainly nothing that affects me in the morning, I don't even like feeling drunk, I just get sleepy and stupid. Slightly relaxed is what I aim for.
Taste is another matter: I love a good beer, irish whisky, single malt scotch, and gin & tonic. Yum. I wish they could taste exactly the way they do and be half the alcohol. And a quarter of the calories. The calories are probably doing me more harm than anything else because I'm not burning them off.
Interesting. I've got an iPhone 6s that's a year and a half old, if not 2 years- I just tried the Battery Life app from "Utilities" (not sure if this is the same battery life app you've mentioned) and my original battery reads, "Perfect" at 99% capacity.
I've read that it's bad for the battery to leave your phone on the charger overnight, which I did with older phones. Reportedly this can overheat the battery and shorten their lifespan. With this phone, I generally only charge it first thing in the mornings while I'm eating breakfast and taking a shower (not at the same time!), approximately 1 hour, to 75 minutes all in all. The battery's not always up to 100% charge before I have to leave but it's usually still in the high 90% range at that point. Maybe this strategy is paying off.
It also helps that I'm on wifi almost all day, at work and home, whereas I'm sure if I had an outdoor job and needed to rely more on battery draining cellular, an hour would be not be enough time to restore the phone to a decent charge.
App-wise, I do run "Life360" 24/7 so that would still be some constant drain. Lastly, for nearly all of my other apps I've disabled, "Background Refresh" in Settings, that helps a great deal with battery charge life, and thus probably ultimately, battery capacity life.
Well, 1, you didn't state antifa explicitly, you said "anti-facists".. but I think elrous0 did a pretty good job of enumerating them; cop killers and the like. Like I said though, I don't keep a tab. I'll start tracking them down though, to be fair.
Meanwhile, any jokes for today? You were on a roll with the Roy Moore jokes!
How did this get modded informative? Anti-fascist kills 0? That's simply not true. Leftist media chooses to downplay or ignore those events. I'm not so anal as to keep a dossier of these events but I could start easily enough.
Also, there is no connection between Timothy Caughman's murderer and nazis, unless you want to define every racist now as a "nazi", in which case, there would be nazis of all races.
The killers of Ricky Best were anti-muslim but that doesn't equate to white supremacism (unless you're CNN); many muslims are white; it's a religion, not a race.
The user may have entered either the password OR username incorrectly. So saying "password is incorrect" could be misleading.
And that there could be the end of the discussion. Not everyone saves their username creds in their browser.
Exactly, and I would think that should be an issue for the Trademark. Amazon could at least be a little more original and not use the "tube" moniker. Vimeo has a original name.
Maybe Vidazon, AmaScreen, or.. I don't know.. those really suck.
That would be lovely but it's never gonna happen. Trolls and shills, Russian and otherwise, are playing both sides of the political fence to increase the division and hostility among Americans. United we stand, divided we fall, and all. They have a vested interest in fanning the flames.
"Non-saveable" would certainly be more technically accurate, but it sounds rather awkward. Saving is usually understood as a part of downloading, so they just go with "non-downloadable".
What irks me is when people say they've downloaded something to sound technically saavy when they've actually just copied a file from a disk or thumbdrive. Copy doesn't sound trendy enough or something.
Firstly, To be clear, I have no contention that a lack of net neutrality will result in the death of the Internet. I was responding simply to your line that life could continue fine without it. I harbor no illusions that the Internet dies or the world ends because NN is repealed. Besides, it'll be a proper law before long anyway.
I was singularly addressing your contention that the world can operate fine without an Internet, it is not necessary to sustain life. Technically, if you're being that pedantic, yes. Are you really being that pedantic? Technically, we don't need money to "survive". If that's where this is headed, then nevermind.
But in modern society, anyway, people need money to buy things like food and gas and have a roof over their head, and today, all *major* money transactions at the back end - Nat'l and Int'l commerce that is, are conducted via the internet, which in turn affects everything below.
So if it's within your ability, try to actually imagine what happens if Wells Fargo is unable to transfer funds between them and Beneficial or Citizens Bank. It's critical that banks be able to communicate and transfer funds quickly, because otherwise people's paychecks don't get processed and bills don't get credited. Maybe mortgages aren't processed.
Okay, so you write out your check, on your account with Citizens, and send it to your mortgage company, who use Ameribank. But they can't process thousands of transactions a day anymore, they've had to resort to the postal service again, or telephone/fax for lesser transactions; it all gets backed up. Delays occur, accounts go into arrears. You don't get paid, or your car gets repossessed, or you lose your home.
Wholesalers can't do business with retailers. Without these transactions occurring, grocery stores cannot pay distributors. Transportation comes to a crawl. Food becomes scarce. Commodities become scarce. Prices skyrocket.
Perhaps you'd prefer to go "off the grid" and build a log cabin somewhere, and live off the land. If you can successfully swing that, you rock; you're right, you don't need the Internet to survive. Most people can't, and without being able to make money and use it to pay for basic needs, they won't survive.
" ....uses a combination of sensors and cameras to track what each store shopper takes off of shelves so it can automatically bill them for their purchase without their having to stop to pay on the way out."
So what if you take an item off the shelf to examine it, the sensor/camera records that action, then you put it back because it's not exactly what you were looking for (the ingredients listed something you're allergic to for example) and the camera or sensor fails, for any number of possible reasons, to detect that it's put back? You just walk out of the store and get your bill later? There was no mention here of any method whereby you verify your purchases before you leave.
I suppose one good outcome is, it would deter people from removing items from one shelf and then later dropping them off on the wrong shelf. That's inconsiderate to other shoppers and store employees alike, I hate when people do that, it's lazy and ignorant.
Then you weren't really responding to my original argument. I never claimed you "couldn't pay bills" w/o the Internet, as you say, I said the Internet was a critical element to living, financially. Because when I mentioned corporations in my argument, I meant all, including the banks which are corporations.
As an individual, you can still pay your bills via check or cash in person, but the banks themselves use the Internet more than any other medium. I suppose they could go back to using Western Union, but that would be like trying to go back 20 years, with the volume of transactions that are common today. That would affect everyone adversely. It would screw up our entire financial system. The other ACs get that, but not you.
Actually there were four or more if you count the animated Animatrix..
Whoosh!
The whoosh is on you, I was just pointing out that there are actually *more* than 3 sequels, whether they're "recognized" or not. I'm well aware of the sequels joke.