You're overpaying programmers for the shitty code they produce. With each iteration, operating systems become less usable and user friendly. The "cloud" is only as good as your connection or the bad software behind it (see above). Overpriced hardware cannot compensate for poor software (see above). Voice recognition is not the be all and end all. Broadband speeds and pricing in the U.S. will always be behind the rest of the industrialized nations until there is competition. Your definition of 24/7 uptime is vastly exaggerated.
Many people on here mention the much larger selection available in the physical disc collection than streaming, but there is another good reason to get a physical copy. One does not have to worry whether their browser or operating system is compatible or missing an update.
You get a disc, put it in the player, and you're done. No fooling around with anything else.
This is exactly what the banks and Wall Street firms did from 2005 - 2007. Every time a bill came up which would require them to be more transparent, to have greater oversight applied, to hold more cash on hand, they fought it tooth and nail. Their claim was all those "rules" would defeat their competitive nature in the financial markets. Don't worry. They knew what they're doing. It was different this time.
We saw how that worked out.
Now here we are, with Facebook having done the same thing and having to face up to the reality of why those rules were necessary. It will be interesting to hear the excuses Zuck throws out. He's already given his faux apology and faux promise to make things better. All that's left is for him to flip us the middle finger like Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfein have done and the circle will be complete.
"It was his fault. That's why I sold my company stock when I found out about the breach rather than inform anyone except the other folks in the executive suite."
The con artist has repeatedly praised his buddy Putin at every opportunity, even going so far as to apologize for Putin's military deliberately bombing hospitals and civilians in Syria, and Russia's support for the dictator Assad.
It is well known Putin doesn't like or tolerate dissent. In Crimea, which Russia stole from the Ukraine, Russia troops went door to door in the Tartar community and rounded up anyone who spoke out against the takeover. They shut down Tartar schools and the only Tartar radio station, and forbid the teaching of the Tartar language. Just recently, Russia jailed a Tartar leader because he led protests against the Russian invasion of Crimea.
Witness now in the U.S. what the con artist is trying to do. His fragile ego can't stand anyone saying a single bad word about him and so he does this. He's only following the lead of his buddy Putin.
That using the power of the government to go after people who exercise their First Amendment rights should even be an issue speaks volumes about this administration.
He steps down after selling his stock before it was announced tens of millions of people's personal information was compromised.
Where are the lawsuits against him? When will the SEC file insider trading charges against him and the rest of the executives who sold their stock? Where are the calls for him to be drawn and quartered?
I have said this on my other places regarding this story: no one at the top will pay a price for this breach. No one will go to jail. No one will have to give back the money they made selling their stock. Whatever fine Equifax will have to pay will be insignificant. All we will hear is how Equifax takes the security of people's information seriously.
The point is, they're meaningless statistics. Obviously the closing prices are based on the previous day closing price, but without a reference, simply saying X percent increase is worthless. As I showed above, you can have a huge increase but the raw number of change is small.
Further, as you demonstrated, you need to know what you're basing the increase (or decrease) on.If you don't know that number, everything else is irrelevant.
It's definitely a sign of brain death not to recognize the value of statistics to our world.
There was a county in my state which had a 400% increase in the number of reported cases of a certain STD (can't remember which one) in one year. That's a massive statistic.
They went from 1 reported case to 4 reported cases.
It's like when the news reports the Dow or S&P 500 were up 0.3 percent for the day. 0.3 percent of what figure? From 100? 1000? 10,000? Giving that statistic is meaningless without a reference.
Uber isn't doing anything. Their cab drivers are the ones absorbing the costs to take people to shelters.
If the cab driver's vehicle gets damaged, will Uber pay for the repairs? If Uber was doing something they'd reimburse the cost of fuel and time to their drivers, and then some.
have rejected the death penalty for all crimes except the very most serious.
And yet murderers, mass murderers, rapists, child rapists, and many others are not executed but instead coddled for decades at the taxpayer expense.
Obviously society doesn't consider any of the above as serious crimes or these criminals would be executed. And before you bring up the tired, "Capital punishment doesn't deter crime", it's not about deterring crime. It's about getting rid of people who have chosen not to live within the bounds of a civilized society and not murder or rape others.
Using a taser on someone who is unarmed? Is that really necessary?
If someone is charging you, yes. If they're attacking another person or officer, yes. There are situations where an unarmed person can cause serious injury, if not death, to someone.
Or would you prefer the police stand by and talk in a quiet, soothing voice while the criminal pummels them or someone else?
1) This is why the names of lottery winners are made public. There may be an exception or two, but the vast majority of states require the person's name to be made known.
2) In Pennsylvania, it is illegal for employees of the Lottery Commission, and their immediate families, to play any lottery games, even the small(er) daily drawings and scratch off tickets.
Sure, he could have given the big prize to someone else to collect, but then he'd either have to split it or risk the person keeping it all because he couldn't say anything.
It's still far better than the Russian "justice" system which allows the government to violate its contracts with Siemens with impunity so it can send turbines to the occupied Crimea in violation of international sanctions.
Then again, with all the blackouts Crimea keeps experiencing due to the ineptitude and incompetence of its Russian occupiers, it's no wonder the court didn't intervene. Wouldn't want to incur the wrath of Putin and have its judges end up like Boris Nemtsov, killed in front of the Kremlin by the orders of Putin.
how many people would be saying that it's not really theft if Lowes didn't prevent it from happening.
And you were correct in your assumption. Looking below, one can find many people blaming Lowe's. Not the criminals who deliberately exploited this flaw, not the criminals who were trying to resell their ill-gotten goods, not the criminals with piles of merchandise they obviously knew were stolen. Nope, it's all on Lowe's.
One can imagine a scenario where people who go to Lowe's, pick up an item and walk out of the store without paying for it would be considered completely absolved of their crime because Lowe's didn't prevent it from happening.
It's amazing the excuses used to justify criminal behavior.
If these people truly believe their software and systems will never make a mistake, will never have a problem, will never be hacked, will be the perfect antidote for what ails us, they should be fired right now.
The steering wheel and pedals are as simple as driving can be. Especially for how lazy the vast majority have become by driving automatic rather than manual gearboxes. What they are planning to do is increase the complexity which increases the chances for something to go wrong which increases the likelihood of problems.
Simplicity is the key to everything. This is not simple.
I'm reading The Left Hand of Darkness. If this is what passes for being head and shoulders above most, I'm glad I only paid a few cents for it at a yard sale.
It's a decent book, and the storyline keeps moving, but I'm trying to find what would make it both a Hugo and Nebula award winner.
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You're overpaying programmers for the shitty code they produce.
With each iteration, operating systems become less usable and user friendly.
The "cloud" is only as good as your connection or the bad software behind it (see above).
Overpriced hardware cannot compensate for poor software (see above).
Voice recognition is not the be all and end all.
Broadband speeds and pricing in the U.S. will always be behind the rest of the industrialized nations until there is competition.
Your definition of 24/7 uptime is vastly exaggerated.
Many people on here mention the much larger selection available in the physical disc collection than streaming, but there is another good reason to get a physical copy. One does not have to worry whether their browser or operating system is compatible or missing an update.
You get a disc, put it in the player, and you're done. No fooling around with anything else.
Pure simplicity.
At the rate Mozilla is screwing up Firefox, by that time people won't be supporting them anyway.
This is exactly what the banks and Wall Street firms did from 2005 - 2007. Every time a bill came up which would require them to be more transparent, to have greater oversight applied, to hold more cash on hand, they fought it tooth and nail. Their claim was all those "rules" would defeat their competitive nature in the financial markets. Don't worry. They knew what they're doing. It was different this time.
We saw how that worked out.
Now here we are, with Facebook having done the same thing and having to face up to the reality of why those rules were necessary. It will be interesting to hear the excuses Zuck throws out. He's already given his faux apology and faux promise to make things better. All that's left is for him to flip us the middle finger like Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfein have done and the circle will be complete.
At least the Senate investigation into Russian collusion is still going strong and expanding.
"It was his fault. That's why I sold my company stock when I found out about the breach rather than inform anyone except the other folks in the executive suite."
Actually there is DNA evidence that the original founders of Egypt were Indo-European.
So you're saying whites were twice responsible for the suffering of the Jews? Good to know.
The con artist has repeatedly praised his buddy Putin at every opportunity, even going so far as to apologize for Putin's military deliberately bombing hospitals and civilians in Syria, and Russia's support for the dictator Assad.
It is well known Putin doesn't like or tolerate dissent. In Crimea, which Russia stole from the Ukraine, Russia troops went door to door in the Tartar community and rounded up anyone who spoke out against the takeover. They shut down Tartar schools and the only Tartar radio station, and forbid the teaching of the Tartar language. Just recently, Russia jailed a Tartar leader because he led protests against the Russian invasion of Crimea.
Witness now in the U.S. what the con artist is trying to do. His fragile ego can't stand anyone saying a single bad word about him and so he does this. He's only following the lead of his buddy Putin.
That using the power of the government to go after people who exercise their First Amendment rights should even be an issue speaks volumes about this administration.
You don't have to. IE could have been used as I did for my dad when he got his W10 system and I installed FF.
Not everything is about Edge. Where there's a will, there's a way.
He steps down after selling his stock before it was announced tens of millions of people's personal information was compromised.
Where are the lawsuits against him? When will the SEC file insider trading charges against him and the rest of the executives who sold their stock? Where are the calls for him to be drawn and quartered?
I have said this on my other places regarding this story: no one at the top will pay a price for this breach. No one will go to jail. No one will have to give back the money they made selling their stock. Whatever fine Equifax will have to pay will be insignificant. All we will hear is how Equifax takes the security of people's information seriously.
The point is, they're meaningless statistics. Obviously the closing prices are based on the previous day closing price, but without a reference, simply saying X percent increase is worthless. As I showed above, you can have a huge increase but the raw number of change is small.
Further, as you demonstrated, you need to know what you're basing the increase (or decrease) on.If you don't know that number, everything else is irrelevant.
Percentage calculator.
What is four hundred percent of one? Four.
Four is what percent of one? Four hundred.
It's definitely a sign of brain death not to recognize the value of statistics to our world.
There was a county in my state which had a 400% increase in the number of reported cases of a certain STD (can't remember which one) in one year. That's a massive statistic.
They went from 1 reported case to 4 reported cases.
It's like when the news reports the Dow or S&P 500 were up 0.3 percent for the day. 0.3 percent of what figure? From 100? 1000? 10,000? Giving that statistic is meaningless without a reference.
Ha ha!
Uber isn't doing anything. Their cab drivers are the ones absorbing the costs to take people to shelters.
If the cab driver's vehicle gets damaged, will Uber pay for the repairs? If Uber was doing something they'd reimburse the cost of fuel and time to their drivers, and then some.
But you'll never see that happen.
have rejected the death penalty for all crimes except the very most serious.
And yet murderers, mass murderers, rapists, child rapists, and many others are not executed but instead coddled for decades at the taxpayer expense.
Obviously society doesn't consider any of the above as serious crimes or these criminals would be executed. And before you bring up the tired, "Capital punishment doesn't deter crime", it's not about deterring crime. It's about getting rid of people who have chosen not to live within the bounds of a civilized society and not murder or rape others.
If you want something done right, do it yourself.
You are so right. When revealing personal information, do it yourself.
This is Texas. If they're smart, they'll temporarily deputize the locals and let them take target practice.
Using a taser on someone who is unarmed? Is that really necessary?
If someone is charging you, yes. If they're attacking another person or officer, yes. There are situations where an unarmed person can cause serious injury, if not death, to someone.
Or would you prefer the police stand by and talk in a quiet, soothing voice while the criminal pummels them or someone else?
1) This is why the names of lottery winners are made public. There may be an exception or two, but the vast majority of states require the person's name to be made known.
2) In Pennsylvania, it is illegal for employees of the Lottery Commission, and their immediate families, to play any lottery games, even the small(er) daily drawings and scratch off tickets.
Sure, he could have given the big prize to someone else to collect, but then he'd either have to split it or risk the person keeping it all because he couldn't say anything.
It's still far better than the Russian "justice" system which allows the government to violate its contracts with Siemens with impunity so it can send turbines to the occupied Crimea in violation of international sanctions.
Then again, with all the blackouts Crimea keeps experiencing due to the ineptitude and incompetence of its Russian occupiers, it's no wonder the court didn't intervene. Wouldn't want to incur the wrath of Putin and have its judges end up like Boris Nemtsov, killed in front of the Kremlin by the orders of Putin.
how many people would be saying that it's not really theft if Lowes didn't prevent it from happening.
And you were correct in your assumption. Looking below, one can find many people blaming Lowe's. Not the criminals who deliberately exploited this flaw, not the criminals who were trying to resell their ill-gotten goods, not the criminals with piles of merchandise they obviously knew were stolen. Nope, it's all on Lowe's.
One can imagine a scenario where people who go to Lowe's, pick up an item and walk out of the store without paying for it would be considered completely absolved of their crime because Lowe's didn't prevent it from happening.
It's amazing the excuses used to justify criminal behavior.
If these people truly believe their software and systems will never make a mistake, will never have a problem, will never be hacked, will be the perfect antidote for what ails us, they should be fired right now.
The steering wheel and pedals are as simple as driving can be. Especially for how lazy the vast majority have become by driving automatic rather than manual gearboxes. What they are planning to do is increase the complexity which increases the chances for something to go wrong which increases the likelihood of problems.
Simplicity is the key to everything. This is not simple.
A real T'ai Chi master with the closed-door knowledge from one of the five family lineages in China.
You mean like this acknowledged Tai Chi master who had his head handed to him by an MMA fighter?
I'm reading The Left Hand of Darkness. If this is what passes for being head and shoulders above most, I'm glad I only paid a few cents for it at a yard sale.
It's a decent book, and the storyline keeps moving, but I'm trying to find what would make it both a Hugo and Nebula award winner.
What will China come up with next? A Mobile Oppression Palace?
Perhaps Matt Groening shouldn't give them any more ideas.