He thinks I've 'cut myself off from the civilized world'
You're hilarious; what are you smoking to actually think that? I've been on cash for TWO YEARS and it hasn't 'cut me off' from ANYTHING. Get real and stop trading your actual security for mere 'convenience' and maybe your identity won't get stolen and bank accounts drained.
Because then Microsoft doesn't own your computer and have complete control over it.
Oh and don't worry, before too much longer Microsoft will start trying to make moves to prevent any computer from booting any OS other than Windows, and when Linux users complain they can't built new machines that exclusively run Linux, Microsoft will say "You can run your little Linux OS in a VM, why do you need to boot it directly?" and ignore the complaints.
"Paying electronically is safer, Rick, you shouldn't use cash for anything, you'll just get mugged!", they said. "It's all secured with encrytion, nothing to worry about!", they said
What's next, you going to tell me the Equifax breach was 'fake news' and never happened?
"Oh, well, I don't buy things from Newegg so I feel perfectly safe!", they say to you
Seriously, folks, when is enough going to be enough for you all? It's objectively clear that electronic payment systems, regardless of whose they are, are not anything even close to secure. Leave the plastic at home (or at least leave it in your wallet), pay cash for things in person, and look for some way to at least limit your exposure to the overwhelming risk of paying electronically for anything, anywhere, ever. Do it starting TODAY. Plan on doing it for a long time to come, because these mentally challenged primates who run these systems apparently can't keep all the holes plugged.
If they can change settings on your phone without your permission then you're not in control of it, plain and simple. You own it, you should have complete control over it. Clearly you don't.
Do you all see where they want things to go? They want people to own nothing and rent everything instead.
Put up barriers to owning a home: rent instead (and put up with someone else's rules, and never build equity)
Make it prohibitively expensive to own a car: lease instead (and still pay for maintenance)
Fool people into believing 'streaming' all forms of entertainment is somehow cheaper than buying your own copies of music and movies
'OS and applications as a service' instead of actually owning copies of them (and pay, pay, pay forever) ..and the list goes on and on
It's the new feudalism; before too long you'll be told you're lucky to be allowed to own the clothes on your back.
If Saudi Arabia of all places is investing that much in an electric car company, then is that signalling that even they, whose wealth has depended on oil production, are acknowledging that the oil won't flow forever, and in fact will become scarce within our lifetime? Makes you think.
I've never had and never will have game consoles. Can you even play single-player games on this thing at all? Or are you forced to pay for their 'service' to use it at all? Or is it somewhere between the two: you can play single-player games, but they're so lame in single-player mode that it's too boring for people to stand?
That's all just driven by people with a severe case of myopia and short-sightedness coupled with extreme laziness. They don't want to work at all, they want to sit on their fat asses, eat, drink, party, and otherwise be wastes of oxygen, all on free government money. They're no better really than so-called 'welfare queens'.
Trump being out of office and pieces of shit like Ajit Pai being FIRED and replaced with a relatively non-corrupt appointee all just can't come fast enough.
They're sneaking into your house at night when you're asleep and going through your underwear drawer, touching each and every one, and making little notes about them.
That's about how creeped out you should be if you own an Android phone -- or ANY smartphone.
You were warned, more than once, and you ignored it. Now you see the consequences of your lack of action: you bought and paid for a phone, but it's not YOURS, never was, never will be. Google will go through your underwear drawer whenver they feel like it, and there is nothing you can do to stop them -- other than get rid of your smartphone.
You think Samsung smart TVs spied on you? Just wait until TVs brought to you courtesy of the Communist Chinese government get here! Even more spying. DO NOT WANT!
Is it being done purely to provide educational opportunities for whatever direction in life the student is interested in, or is it only to make good little workers for whoever (Bezos, in this case) is footing the bill? Beware the Privatization of Education, lest we end up with a generation that's trained like slaves would be trained, to do specific jobs not of their choosing, and to hell with whatever the students are interested in.
All so-called 'news' like this does is spread FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt), and as such is just clickbait. While there's this so-called 'news story', there's also this so-called 'news story' that is diametrically opposed to it.
Just IGNORE all of it, none of it means ANYTHING.
Business will continue as per usual. Billions of people will not suddenly be replaced by robots, AI isn't going to cause The Apocalypse, and so on, and so on.
All of this shit is just distractions from the things that will actually fuck up your life: shitty politicians doing shitty things to your government, human-caused climate change making the world less habitable, and shitty corporations progressively more and more screwing you over and using you like a toilet.
You know, myopic pieces of shit like you, who are both incapable and unwilling to even try looking towards the future, would keep our entire species in an endless loop of status quo that would, ironically, prove fatal to all of us. You think like a dumb animal instead of the sentient being you're capable of being; knock that shit off already. You can't just keep putting a band-aid on big problems and expect everything to work out, and 'fixing' things 'good enough' to last out your insignificant little lifetime just isn't going to cut it. Do we need to address the homelessness problem in this country? Hell yes we do, but guess what? Just throwing public money at it alone has never 'solved' it in the past and it won't 'solve' it in the future, either, the real problem is the atittude that says "it's not MY problem, why should I care?" that causes the problem to exist in the first place! It's the same attitude that causes Myanmar to treat the Rohinga like they're some invasive species of insects, and that causes human traffickers to kidnap women and young girls and sell them into sexual slavery, and that causes groups like neo-nazis and white supremacists to exist, and that causes sexual harassment and sexual abuse: a general disregard for fellow human beings, treating them more like objects than fellow sentient beings. We have to do better as a species.
LEO is so much closer than the Moon, and the ISS has so many times more room inside it than any vehicle SpaceX could send to orbit the Moon and back. if something happned to some civilian on the ISS, they could deal with it much easier, and send them back to Earth so much faster.
Yeah, money can't buy you everything. If someone is rich, but they're in poor physical condition, have outstanding medical condition(s) (like heart disease, diabetes, etc), or are just psychologically unsuited to being cooped up in a capsule for a week (which is how long it takes to make the round trip) then they're just not going to be allowed to go, they'd literally be a danger to themselves and others. Launch alone is enough to kill some people, or at least disable them, or at least freak them the hell out. Imagine being somewhere between LEO and Lunar orbit, and your 'passenger' dies on you? Now what do you do? Or imagine they completely lose their shit somewhere in transit and go batshit insane on you? Maybe damage the craft, injure or kill one of the crew, or they do something completely nuts, like try to exit the vehicle? No fucking way. There'd have to be a very thorough screening process, psychological and physical, extensive training, and a mountain of agreements and releases read and signed, to keep everyone safe and prevent SpaceX from having the living daylights sued out of them if something goes wrong. Frankly I'd assume this is just a publicity stunt and when it comes right down to it, it won't happen at all for reasons.
I don't have (or want) a smartphone, so none of those steps apply to me.
Also I don't believe you. I get non-recognized calls all the time and they NEVER leave voicemail. I think you're making that up.
I don't answer calls from numbers I don't recognize. If it's important they'll leave a voicemail. Back in the days of still having POTS landline, I had an answering machine like everyone else, and I'd screen calls. In this day and age why do otherwise?
I've been re-reading all the Well World novels again recently. Down to the last two of them. If the theory that our Universe is a simulation is interesting to you, then you'll find the premise behind the Well World to be interesting, too.
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He thinks I've 'cut myself off from the civilized world'
You're hilarious; what are you smoking to actually think that? I've been on cash for TWO YEARS and it hasn't 'cut me off' from ANYTHING. Get real and stop trading your actual security for mere 'convenience' and maybe your identity won't get stolen and bank accounts drained.
Because then Microsoft doesn't own your computer and have complete control over it.
Oh and don't worry, before too much longer Microsoft will start trying to make moves to prevent any computer from booting any OS other than Windows, and when Linux users complain they can't built new machines that exclusively run Linux, Microsoft will say "You can run your little Linux OS in a VM, why do you need to boot it directly?" and ignore the complaints.
"Paying electronically is safer, Rick, you shouldn't use cash for anything, you'll just get mugged!", they said. "It's all secured with encrytion, nothing to worry about!", they said
What's next, you going to tell me the Equifax breach was 'fake news' and never happened?
"Oh, well, I don't buy things from Newegg so I feel perfectly safe!", they say to you
Seriously, folks, when is enough going to be enough for you all? It's objectively clear that electronic payment systems, regardless of whose they are, are not anything even close to secure. Leave the plastic at home (or at least leave it in your wallet), pay cash for things in person, and look for some way to at least limit your exposure to the overwhelming risk of paying electronically for anything, anywhere, ever. Do it starting TODAY. Plan on doing it for a long time to come, because these mentally challenged primates who run these systems apparently can't keep all the holes plugged.
He actually believes he has control over his smartphone
Hilarious.
If they can change settings on your phone without your permission then you're not in control of it, plain and simple. You own it, you should have complete control over it. Clearly you don't.
Put up barriers to owning a home: rent instead (and put up with someone else's rules, and never build equity)
..and the list goes on and on
Make it prohibitively expensive to own a car: lease instead (and still pay for maintenance)
Fool people into believing 'streaming' all forms of entertainment is somehow cheaper than buying your own copies of music and movies
'OS and applications as a service' instead of actually owning copies of them (and pay, pay, pay forever)
It's the new feudalism; before too long you'll be told you're lucky to be allowed to own the clothes on your back.
Much as I suspected. Glad I got all the video gaming out of my system in the 90's through early 2000's, it sound like an expensive shitshow now.
If Saudi Arabia of all places is investing that much in an electric car company, then is that signalling that even they, whose wealth has depended on oil production, are acknowledging that the oil won't flow forever, and in fact will become scarce within our lifetime? Makes you think.
I've never had and never will have game consoles. Can you even play single-player games on this thing at all? Or are you forced to pay for their 'service' to use it at all? Or is it somewhere between the two: you can play single-player games, but they're so lame in single-player mode that it's too boring for people to stand?
'Nuff said.
That's all just driven by people with a severe case of myopia and short-sightedness coupled with extreme laziness. They don't want to work at all, they want to sit on their fat asses, eat, drink, party, and otherwise be wastes of oxygen, all on free government money. They're no better really than so-called 'welfare queens'.
When you don't have any choices, how is that any different than being forced? You either accept what's being offered or you go without entirely.
Trump being out of office and pieces of shit like Ajit Pai being FIRED and replaced with a relatively non-corrupt appointee all just can't come fast enough.
They're sneaking into your house at night when you're asleep and going through your underwear drawer, touching each and every one, and making little notes about them.
That's about how creeped out you should be if you own an Android phone -- or ANY smartphone.
You were warned, more than once, and you ignored it. Now you see the consequences of your lack of action: you bought and paid for a phone, but it's not YOURS, never was, never will be. Google will go through your underwear drawer whenver they feel like it, and there is nothing you can do to stop them -- other than get rid of your smartphone.
You think Samsung smart TVs spied on you? Just wait until TVs brought to you courtesy of the Communist Chinese government get here! Even more spying.
DO NOT WANT!
Is it being done purely to provide educational opportunities for whatever direction in life the student is interested in, or is it only to make good little workers for whoever (Bezos, in this case) is footing the bill? Beware the Privatization of Education, lest we end up with a generation that's trained like slaves would be trained, to do specific jobs not of their choosing, and to hell with whatever the students are interested in.
All so-called 'news' like this does is spread FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt), and as such is just clickbait. While there's this so-called 'news story', there's also this so-called 'news story' that is diametrically opposed to it.
Just IGNORE all of it, none of it means ANYTHING.
Business will continue as per usual. Billions of people will not suddenly be replaced by robots, AI isn't going to cause The Apocalypse, and so on, and so on.
All of this shit is just distractions from the things that will actually fuck up your life: shitty politicians doing shitty things to your government, human-caused climate change making the world less habitable, and shitty corporations progressively more and more screwing you over and using you like a toilet.
You know, myopic pieces of shit like you, who are both incapable and unwilling to even try looking towards the future, would keep our entire species in an endless loop of status quo that would, ironically, prove fatal to all of us. You think like a dumb animal instead of the sentient being you're capable of being; knock that shit off already. You can't just keep putting a band-aid on big problems and expect everything to work out, and 'fixing' things 'good enough' to last out your insignificant little lifetime just isn't going to cut it. Do we need to address the homelessness problem in this country? Hell yes we do, but guess what? Just throwing public money at it alone has never 'solved' it in the past and it won't 'solve' it in the future, either, the real problem is the atittude that says "it's not MY problem, why should I care?" that causes the problem to exist in the first place! It's the same attitude that causes Myanmar to treat the Rohinga like they're some invasive species of insects, and that causes human traffickers to kidnap women and young girls and sell them into sexual slavery, and that causes groups like neo-nazis and white supremacists to exist, and that causes sexual harassment and sexual abuse: a general disregard for fellow human beings, treating them more like objects than fellow sentient beings. We have to do better as a species.
LEO is so much closer than the Moon, and the ISS has so many times more room inside it than any vehicle SpaceX could send to orbit the Moon and back. if something happned to some civilian on the ISS, they could deal with it much easier, and send them back to Earth so much faster.
Seems like mavericks and bleeding-edge people like Musk are always on the 'bleeding edge' mentally/psychologically/emotionally themselves.
Yeah, money can't buy you everything. If someone is rich, but they're in poor physical condition, have outstanding medical condition(s) (like heart disease, diabetes, etc), or are just psychologically unsuited to being cooped up in a capsule for a week (which is how long it takes to make the round trip) then they're just not going to be allowed to go, they'd literally be a danger to themselves and others. Launch alone is enough to kill some people, or at least disable them, or at least freak them the hell out. Imagine being somewhere between LEO and Lunar orbit, and your 'passenger' dies on you? Now what do you do? Or imagine they completely lose their shit somewhere in transit and go batshit insane on you? Maybe damage the craft, injure or kill one of the crew, or they do something completely nuts, like try to exit the vehicle? No fucking way. There'd have to be a very thorough screening process, psychological and physical, extensive training, and a mountain of agreements and releases read and signed, to keep everyone safe and prevent SpaceX from having the living daylights sued out of them if something goes wrong. Frankly I'd assume this is just a publicity stunt and when it comes right down to it, it won't happen at all for reasons.
But I'm not a doctor so your point is invalid. Also it's stupid.
..voicemail app..
I don't have (or want) a smartphone, so none of those steps apply to me.
Also I don't believe you. I get non-recognized calls all the time and they NEVER leave voicemail. I think you're making that up.
I don't answer calls from numbers I don't recognize. If it's important they'll leave a voicemail. Back in the days of still having POTS landline, I had an answering machine like everyone else, and I'd screen calls. In this day and age why do otherwise?
I've been re-reading all the Well World novels again recently. Down to the last two of them. If the theory that our Universe is a simulation is interesting to you, then you'll find the premise behind the Well World to be interesting, too.