I tried it, a couple times. It's no better than radio and less convenient. I can't see why anyone would pay, pay, pay ad infinitum for it. I'll stick to having local copies of what I like to hear, and I'll keep pointing and laughing at people who think they're 'cutting the cord' or using 'streaming services' when all they're doing is trading one monthly bill for another one, and giving away more Personally Identifiable Information about their lives./subject
Trump made a big point of 'giving power back to the States', so I guess we'll wait and see if he's going to keep his word (for once!) or try to stomp all over California legislation, again.
But Sexconker, under Pruitt the cows aren't environmentally protected; that's been the problem all along!
Only Luddites fail to environmentally protect cows.
Scott Pruitt probably wanted to feed the cows toxic waste
I firmly believe that many of Trump's base are his base not because they like Trump so much, but because they hated Obama and all Democrats and used their ballots for revenge, and to hell what it did to the Country, let it all burn to the ground so far as they're concerned; it's the ugly underside of having a democratic republic, nothing prevents people from abusing their right to vote in such a way that they use it to cause damage just out of spite. I also firmly believe that many of Trump's supporters are in so deep now that they don't think they can do and about-face without losing everything, so they continue to hold their noses, and that members of the GOP who are suddenly retiring from office are doing so because they can't hold their noses anymore, but aren't going to 'sell out' their own party (although ironically, they did exactly that by supporting Trump as a candidate).
So far as 2020 goes: If you want to help, you've got to convince people you know who are Independents to register as Democrat, even if it's just an expedient, and if you know any Republicans who also just can't hold their noses any longer against how much Trump and the GOP stink, get them to do the same. It's what I saw I had to do, and it's probably the only way to get him out of office in 2020 (unless Mueller turns up something even the GOP can't ignore). People will say you're asking them to be traitors to their principles, but desperate times call for desperate measures; tell them that at least this way they can help get a viable Democratic candidate on the ballot who isn't Hillary Clinton (because she's a guaranteed loss).
I'd be more than okay with that, too, because Sessions strikes me as a closeted neo-nazi, the way he doesn't give a fuck about basic human rights.
Law not tempered by mercy is not justice, and untempered law strictly enforced to the letter is barbarism.
Scott Pruitt resigning is a good thing, but is his replacement going to be as bad, or worse? We need an EPA that puts protecting the environment ahead of corporate interests and ignores 'personal loyalty' to Trump, and you can call me 'anti-Trump' (true, but irrelevant for this subject) or 'pro-Hillary' (untrue, and just as irrelevant), but if your kids are getting cancer (or YOU get cancer) or are born with birth defects because there's toxic substances in your drinking water and/or air, I guarantee that you will care, and if your nice coastal home has to be abandoned because sea levels rise permanently and flood you out, you will care. Try thinking in the long term, Conservative types, and not just about punishing so-called 'liberals', or only as far ahead as next quarters' profits.
Do I or do I not remember some stories posted here in the past discussing how there was spyware/malware baked right into the firmware and/or OS of some phones, right from the factory? Essentially undetectable without, I dunno, JTAG access to the phones' Flash memory? If I'm right, what makes anyone think that it's just mere 'Apps' that are surveilling people who have phones from any number of sources?
You were a fool to buy these so-called 'smart' devices in the first place, and you're even more fools now for keeping them -- or at least for continuing to allow them access to the Internet. You claim you don't care about your own privacy, but in reality you at some point will, and in the meantime you're being inconsiderate of everyone else by encouraging these shitty companies to use every dirty trick they can to pry into everyone else's lives, too. Repent!
All they have to do is make one quick call to the sales department over at Zuckerbook and they can buy access to the very-much-private-and-personal information of at least half of all U.S. citizens.
Yes, I am. You can copy CDs, it's 'fair use', you only have to buy ONE copy, and you can listen to it as many times as you want for FREE, with no internet connection, no dataplan usage, and no tracking and logging of what you're listening to from nosy corporations and ISPs. All of your 'calculations' are either worst-case scenarios cherrypicked to make your 'point' or are flat out imaginary. Your'e lighting money on fire every month; stop that.
..and since I've run into you before on here, it's highly likely that you don't use streaming-anything, and maybe don't have a family or even listen to any music, ever; TROLLOLOLOLOL. Bugger off.
Then you're stupid and lighting your money on fire and they're laughing all the way to the bank at your stupidity. Let's see how happy you are once you're completely dependent on them for your entertainment and they start jacking up the price to the point where you're spending thousands of dollars every year -- and don't say it won't happen because it will, it always does. Then they'll be laughing all the way to the bank, and the rest of us will be laughing at you for being short-sighted and wasteful of your money.
Not only would I not pay for it, I would fight tooth and nail against it if they required it, even to the point of being jailed over it. Severe privacy violation, literally having a realtime GPS tracking device bolted to your vehicle. Fuck that sideways with a rusty chainsaw, not enough HELL, NO! in the Multiverse for this.
Yeah no kidding. I knew it was going to happen eventually just hoped it wasn't in my lifetime. Gee no chance any governments would use this and further techniques to 'reprogram' ordinary citizens, right?
Me: "WTF? What's your problem, Firefox?" Opens Task Manager, Ends Task on Firefox, re-launch Firefox; same thing happens on the same page. "Hmm, must be a fucked-up webpage, guess I won't go there." End Taks on Firefox again, re-launch again. Close the tab before it loads, go on to something else.
..where's the problem? People actually fall for this nonsense? Pathetic.
That's what we're witnessing, people, make no mistake about it. The downfall of Zuckerbook is a foregone conclusion, it's on trajectory already, and nothing is going to stop it now; Zuckerbook has committed it's sins, and now they'll have to pay the price: being dismantled, piece by piece, and nothing of value was lost. Do yourselves a favor and flee the sinking Zuckership now.
Nope, you're violently stupid so far as I'm concerned, and you get what you deserve for it: money sucked out of your wallet, and nothing to show for it.
Save yourself some cash and get an FM radio instead.
I said it was an indellible spark, not a huge bonfire. My entire species overall disgusts me with how unevolved they are, they're an embarassment. If there are indeed starfaring alien civilizations out there, it's no wonder to me that they never openly contact us, we've got to be cringeworhty as a species to anyone who can accomplish that.
But, see, offering people something else to burn instead of a non-burn alternative is like offering an alcoholic, ostensibly in recovery, a beer, "because it's got less alcohol in it than the hard liquor you used to drink, so it's okay, right?", or offering a heroin addict a joint "because it's not heroin, it's just weed, that's better isn't it?". Here's how the average, dumb persons' brain works: You have to indoctrinate them that fuels that burn, like gasoline and diesel, are BAD, and plugging your car in to recharge it is GOOD, and that your GRANDPARENTS used gasoline, LOL, it's so laughably uncool and obsolete, and people will LAUGH at you if you own a car with an ENGINE that burns LIQUID FUEL".
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I tried it, a couple times. It's no better than radio and less convenient. I can't see why anyone would pay, pay, pay ad infinitum for it. I'll stick to having local copies of what I like to hear, and I'll keep pointing and laughing at people who think they're 'cutting the cord' or using 'streaming services' when all they're doing is trading one monthly bill for another one, and giving away more Personally Identifiable Information about their lives. /subject
Trump made a big point of 'giving power back to the States', so I guess we'll wait and see if he's going to keep his word (for once!) or try to stomp all over California legislation, again.
Only Luddites fail to environmentally protect cows.
Scott Pruitt probably wanted to feed the cows toxic waste
I firmly believe that many of Trump's base are his base not because they like Trump so much, but because they hated Obama and all Democrats and used their ballots for revenge, and to hell what it did to the Country, let it all burn to the ground so far as they're concerned; it's the ugly underside of having a democratic republic, nothing prevents people from abusing their right to vote in such a way that they use it to cause damage just out of spite. I also firmly believe that many of Trump's supporters are in so deep now that they don't think they can do and about-face without losing everything, so they continue to hold their noses, and that members of the GOP who are suddenly retiring from office are doing so because they can't hold their noses anymore, but aren't going to 'sell out' their own party (although ironically, they did exactly that by supporting Trump as a candidate).
So far as 2020 goes: If you want to help, you've got to convince people you know who are Independents to register as Democrat, even if it's just an expedient, and if you know any Republicans who also just can't hold their noses any longer against how much Trump and the GOP stink, get them to do the same. It's what I saw I had to do, and it's probably the only way to get him out of office in 2020 (unless Mueller turns up something even the GOP can't ignore). People will say you're asking them to be traitors to their principles, but desperate times call for desperate measures; tell them that at least this way they can help get a viable Democratic candidate on the ballot who isn't Hillary Clinton (because she's a guaranteed loss).
I'd be more than okay with that, too, because Sessions strikes me as a closeted neo-nazi, the way he doesn't give a fuck about basic human rights.
Law not tempered by mercy is not justice, and untempered law strictly enforced to the letter is barbarism.
Scott Pruitt resigning is a good thing, but is his replacement going to be as bad, or worse? We need an EPA that puts protecting the environment ahead of corporate interests and ignores 'personal loyalty' to Trump, and you can call me 'anti-Trump' (true, but irrelevant for this subject) or 'pro-Hillary' (untrue, and just as irrelevant), but if your kids are getting cancer (or YOU get cancer) or are born with birth defects because there's toxic substances in your drinking water and/or air, I guarantee that you will care, and if your nice coastal home has to be abandoned because sea levels rise permanently and flood you out, you will care. Try thinking in the long term, Conservative types, and not just about punishing so-called 'liberals', or only as far ahead as next quarters' profits.
Do I or do I not remember some stories posted here in the past discussing how there was spyware/malware baked right into the firmware and/or OS of some phones, right from the factory? Essentially undetectable without, I dunno, JTAG access to the phones' Flash memory? If I'm right, what makes anyone think that it's just mere 'Apps' that are surveilling people who have phones from any number of sources?
You were a fool to buy these so-called 'smart' devices in the first place, and you're even more fools now for keeping them -- or at least for continuing to allow them access to the Internet. You claim you don't care about your own privacy, but in reality you at some point will, and in the meantime you're being inconsiderate of everyone else by encouraging these shitty companies to use every dirty trick they can to pry into everyone else's lives, too. Repent!
All they have to do is make one quick call to the sales department over at Zuckerbook and they can buy access to the very-much-private-and-personal information of at least half of all U.S. citizens.
Self-driving cars promise safer roads, less traffic and increased mobility.
{Citation Needed} -- and not from marketing departments or from SDC fanbois.
Yes, I am. You can copy CDs, it's 'fair use', you only have to buy ONE copy, and you can listen to it as many times as you want for FREE, with no internet connection, no dataplan usage, and no tracking and logging of what you're listening to from nosy corporations and ISPs. All of your 'calculations' are either worst-case scenarios cherrypicked to make your 'point' or are flat out imaginary. Your'e lighting money on fire every month; stop that.
..and since I've run into you before on here, it's highly likely that you don't use streaming-anything, and maybe don't have a family or even listen to any music, ever; TROLLOLOLOLOL. Bugger off.
So the fuck what?
Whose Line Is It Anyway is funny; this article is not funny.
Does it matter who it is? They're sucking more money out of your wallet, that's all you need to focus on.
It's not a rational decision, it's a short-sighted one that will bite you all in the ass.
Then you're stupid and lighting your money on fire and they're laughing all the way to the bank at your stupidity. Let's see how happy you are once you're completely dependent on them for your entertainment and they start jacking up the price to the point where you're spending thousands of dollars every year -- and don't say it won't happen because it will, it always does. Then they'll be laughing all the way to the bank, and the rest of us will be laughing at you for being short-sighted and wasteful of your money.
Automation is not going to take everybody's jobs, CALM THE FUCK DOWN ALREADY!
Not only would I not pay for it, I would fight tooth and nail against it if they required it, even to the point of being jailed over it. Severe privacy violation, literally having a realtime GPS tracking device bolted to your vehicle. Fuck that sideways with a rusty chainsaw, not enough HELL, NO! in the Multiverse for this.
That early 20th century nonsense was to this as a pipebomb is to a shaped charge, or as a fire-axe is to a scalpel.
Yeah no kidding. I knew it was going to happen eventually just hoped it wasn't in my lifetime. Gee no chance any governments would use this and further techniques to 'reprogram' ordinary citizens, right?
Website uses Download Bomb; it's super-effective!
Me: "WTF? What's your problem, Firefox?" Opens Task Manager, Ends Task on Firefox, re-launch Firefox; same thing happens on the same page. "Hmm, must be a fucked-up webpage, guess I won't go there." End Taks on Firefox again, re-launch again. Close the tab before it loads, go on to something else.
..where's the problem? People actually fall for this nonsense? Pathetic.
That's what we're witnessing, people, make no mistake about it. The downfall of Zuckerbook is a foregone conclusion, it's on trajectory already, and nothing is going to stop it now; Zuckerbook has committed it's sins, and now they'll have to pay the price: being dismantled, piece by piece, and nothing of value was lost. Do yourselves a favor and flee the sinking Zuckership now.
Nope, you're violently stupid so far as I'm concerned, and you get what you deserve for it: money sucked out of your wallet, and nothing to show for it.
Save yourself some cash and get an FM radio instead.
I said it was an indellible spark, not a huge bonfire. My entire species overall disgusts me with how unevolved they are, they're an embarassment. If there are indeed starfaring alien civilizations out there, it's no wonder to me that they never openly contact us, we've got to be cringeworhty as a species to anyone who can accomplish that.
But, see, offering people something else to burn instead of a non-burn alternative is like offering an alcoholic, ostensibly in recovery, a beer, "because it's got less alcohol in it than the hard liquor you used to drink, so it's okay, right?", or offering a heroin addict a joint "because it's not heroin, it's just weed, that's better isn't it?". Here's how the average, dumb persons' brain works: You have to indoctrinate them that fuels that burn, like gasoline and diesel, are BAD, and plugging your car in to recharge it is GOOD, and that your GRANDPARENTS used gasoline, LOL, it's so laughably uncool and obsolete, and people will LAUGH at you if you own a car with an ENGINE that burns LIQUID FUEL".