It's really a pity that A) more people don't know about how intrusive the Facebook apps are and B) that it took me so long to realize that very fact. No, Facebook, just because I have your Messenger app to keep in touch with people who I don't want to have my cellphone number doesn't mean that I want you to continually listen, even when I'm not using your app.
It's the intellectual equivalent of nullifying your argument by saying, "Nahh nahh poopiehead."
"It's clear, sir, that you make quite valid points. But I'm going to comment on something outrageous to call attention to the ridiculousness of it all, while trying to minimize your logic. Also, you're a doodie." You know, something like that.
In a way, I'm somewhat (day 10%) okay with this, but ONLY if it's additional information to corroborate what is already known. Like "We have security cameras that captured the suspect's image, we have fingerprints at the scene of the crime, and we have cellphone data to corroborate." But in that case, if it's corroborating, then they would have time to get warrants.
But at the same time, I say "Oh hells no," if that's where you're going first because without other data, it's all circumstantial.
Okay, so I talked myself into being pretty much (99%) against it in any circumstance. Welcome to my Monday morning haze.
We live about 18 miles from a major airport. Taxis cost about $52 one way. Uber/Lyft each come in at about $29-$32 one way. I'm actually okay with paying around $40, as I think the taxi is a bit on the higher side, but Uber/Lyft is on the lower side.
KFC Gravy is the second most disgusting food known to man
::sigh:: I keep telling my husband that. But then we go to KFC and he orders "a bowl of chicken soup". No potatoes or anything - just the gravy. So gross.
He is. And then Orrin Hatch. While I find Ryan reprehensible, it would take him out of House leadership and his flawed agenda (privatize Medicare, etc) would be on an even bigger stage for people to see. And he would end his term as 46th POTUS, handily drubbed out in 2020.
I work with someone who I describe as the "center of distraction", as opposed to center of attention. He has to be in the middle of every conversation. He has to give his opinion on everything. And if the office is too quiet, he will randomly just start calling your name for no reason. I can be working on converting a highly complex chemotherapy regime from paper to electronic form, and he'll randomly call my name. When I ask him what he wants, he'll say, "Oh, nothing."
This has gone on regularly (read: a dozen times a day) for over a year. I finally started shaming him in front of everyone because that seems to be the only thing that will stop him. When he calls my name, I will ask, "Do you want something, or are you purposefully bothering me and the rest of the office for some little game?"
With normal people, this would have stopped the habit cold. But with him, it's just slowed him down from a dozen interruptions per day to one or two.
The writers strike a few years back was how we delved further into the plethora of reality TV. And how did that turn out? People bitching because there's nothing on anymore, even with 200 channels full of "programming".
If you were personally touched by the virus in some way - yourself, someone you love, etc - you'd be looking at this post with cautious optimism, and not joviality.
I can offer something from the business perspective. My company, which is about 125 people total, started offering Apple Macbook Pro laptops as an alternative to Dell with Windows 7 Professional as a pilot project. And what we've found is that the 10% of the company that has an Apple product has fewer issues with hardware or software, and our support costs per end user comes out to about $500 less per year in the Apple ecosystem than Dell. The only issue that we've seen is one site that has a Citrix application that requires Windows to sign in. Other than that, our Macbook Pro folks are much, much happier and self sufficient.
From a personal perspective, and as an author (my part-time gig), I can tell you that Apple's software just works, even when compared to Amazon's Kindle. For example, if someone buys my book on their Kindle, but wants to read it on their laptop or phone, they have to download it to each device and remember where they were, etc. But if they buy my book on iBooks, it's downloaded to every device. So they could read on their laptop at work, continue on their iPad later that night at home (from the same place where they left off without having to think/worry about it) and then in the morning, go to the dentist and pull the book up on their phone - and again, pick right up from where they left off.
Surprised I haven't seen much (if any) love for MetroPCS here. I was on Credo (an MNVO) for a while, but moved to MetroPCS for truly unlimited. Now I'm paying half at $60/month for what my husband has on AT&T being grandfathered into unlimited data. He'll be moving when his AT&T contract is up later this year. And if we combine accounts, we'll pay $100/month for both lines with the discount.
Until I started writing professionally, I wrote everything I ever wanted to share/publish/etc with vi. And until elm finally went by the wayside, I used it for email.
Kinda miss those days.
Most people take the cyanide version of B12 (cyanocobalamin) and not the methyl version (methylcobalamin) - and most of the B12 supplements out there contain the cyanide version. I only found out I need the methylcobalamin version because of a blood test (5 MTHFR genetic abnormality, I think it's called).
Think about how many more rooms the CXO's can build onto their houses. How many more vacation homes they can buy. How much they can send offshore and not pay in taxes here in the US...
Of course it's a problem - but it doesn't really matter what the DOJ or anyone wants, big companies will continue to get bigger. Take Safeway/Albertsons for instance. In order to get their mega-merger to go through, Albertsons had to divest itself of some stores, and they were sold to a much smaller grocery chain called Haggen. Once divested, Safeway/Albertsons merged, and Haggen struggled. Then, Haggen decided to throw in the towel, filed for bankruptcy, and Albertsons said, "Hey! Let's buy up Haggen!"
And it happened.
Why? Because money talks more than anything in America.
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This. Very much this. Airbus aircraft generally scare the shit out of me.
It's really a pity that A) more people don't know about how intrusive the Facebook apps are and B) that it took me so long to realize that very fact. No, Facebook, just because I have your Messenger app to keep in touch with people who I don't want to have my cellphone number doesn't mean that I want you to continually listen, even when I'm not using your app.
Curiously, that would actually make me want to travel more. And I already fly twice a week for work.
It's the intellectual equivalent of nullifying your argument by saying, "Nahh nahh poopiehead." "It's clear, sir, that you make quite valid points. But I'm going to comment on something outrageous to call attention to the ridiculousness of it all, while trying to minimize your logic. Also, you're a doodie." You know, something like that.
In a way, I'm somewhat (day 10%) okay with this, but ONLY if it's additional information to corroborate what is already known. Like "We have security cameras that captured the suspect's image, we have fingerprints at the scene of the crime, and we have cellphone data to corroborate." But in that case, if it's corroborating, then they would have time to get warrants. But at the same time, I say "Oh hells no," if that's where you're going first because without other data, it's all circumstantial. Okay, so I talked myself into being pretty much (99%) against it in any circumstance. Welcome to my Monday morning haze.
We live about 18 miles from a major airport. Taxis cost about $52 one way. Uber/Lyft each come in at about $29-$32 one way. I'm actually okay with paying around $40, as I think the taxi is a bit on the higher side, but Uber/Lyft is on the lower side.
::sigh:: I keep telling my husband that. But then we go to KFC and he orders "a bowl of chicken soup". No potatoes or anything - just the gravy. So gross.
He is. And then Orrin Hatch. While I find Ryan reprehensible, it would take him out of House leadership and his flawed agenda (privatize Medicare, etc) would be on an even bigger stage for people to see. And he would end his term as 46th POTUS, handily drubbed out in 2020.
Remember that Nixon resigned after the lost support from 75% of Congressional Republicans. It won't be long before Pence gets sworn in as POTUS.
If Pence isn't implicated as well...
I work with someone who I describe as the "center of distraction", as opposed to center of attention. He has to be in the middle of every conversation. He has to give his opinion on everything. And if the office is too quiet, he will randomly just start calling your name for no reason. I can be working on converting a highly complex chemotherapy regime from paper to electronic form, and he'll randomly call my name. When I ask him what he wants, he'll say, "Oh, nothing." This has gone on regularly (read: a dozen times a day) for over a year. I finally started shaming him in front of everyone because that seems to be the only thing that will stop him. When he calls my name, I will ask, "Do you want something, or are you purposefully bothering me and the rest of the office for some little game?" With normal people, this would have stopped the habit cold. But with him, it's just slowed him down from a dozen interruptions per day to one or two.
The writers strike a few years back was how we delved further into the plethora of reality TV. And how did that turn out? People bitching because there's nothing on anymore, even with 200 channels full of "programming".
Yeah, because gays are the only people affected by HIV/AIDS. Right.
If you were personally touched by the virus in some way - yourself, someone you love, etc - you'd be looking at this post with cautious optimism, and not joviality.
I can offer something from the business perspective. My company, which is about 125 people total, started offering Apple Macbook Pro laptops as an alternative to Dell with Windows 7 Professional as a pilot project. And what we've found is that the 10% of the company that has an Apple product has fewer issues with hardware or software, and our support costs per end user comes out to about $500 less per year in the Apple ecosystem than Dell. The only issue that we've seen is one site that has a Citrix application that requires Windows to sign in. Other than that, our Macbook Pro folks are much, much happier and self sufficient. From a personal perspective, and as an author (my part-time gig), I can tell you that Apple's software just works, even when compared to Amazon's Kindle. For example, if someone buys my book on their Kindle, but wants to read it on their laptop or phone, they have to download it to each device and remember where they were, etc. But if they buy my book on iBooks, it's downloaded to every device. So they could read on their laptop at work, continue on their iPad later that night at home (from the same place where they left off without having to think/worry about it) and then in the morning, go to the dentist and pull the book up on their phone - and again, pick right up from where they left off.
Came here to cite Tumblr. I use it quite a lot for fandom-related stuff, but it's come in handy be it fandom or porn.
Surprised I haven't seen much (if any) love for MetroPCS here. I was on Credo (an MNVO) for a while, but moved to MetroPCS for truly unlimited. Now I'm paying half at $60/month for what my husband has on AT&T being grandfathered into unlimited data. He'll be moving when his AT&T contract is up later this year. And if we combine accounts, we'll pay $100/month for both lines with the discount.
Until I started writing professionally, I wrote everything I ever wanted to share/publish/etc with vi. And until elm finally went by the wayside, I used it for email. Kinda miss those days.
Most people take the cyanide version of B12 (cyanocobalamin) and not the methyl version (methylcobalamin) - and most of the B12 supplements out there contain the cyanide version. I only found out I need the methylcobalamin version because of a blood test (5 MTHFR genetic abnormality, I think it's called).
I have to admit that, growing up in Alaska, whenever I was out away from the city and saw the aurora borealis, I could have sworn I heard them hum.
Think about how many more rooms the CXO's can build onto their houses. How many more vacation homes they can buy. How much they can send offshore and not pay in taxes here in the US...
Of course it's a problem - but it doesn't really matter what the DOJ or anyone wants, big companies will continue to get bigger. Take Safeway/Albertsons for instance. In order to get their mega-merger to go through, Albertsons had to divest itself of some stores, and they were sold to a much smaller grocery chain called Haggen. Once divested, Safeway/Albertsons merged, and Haggen struggled. Then, Haggen decided to throw in the towel, filed for bankruptcy, and Albertsons said, "Hey! Let's buy up Haggen!" And it happened. Why? Because money talks more than anything in America.
Someone just told me this a couple of weeks ago, and it blew my mind. Not hard to do, but still.