Does someone have to put little ice cubes on their eyeballs? Or do they just learn to ignore the light they can no longer escape? (I have a sneaking suspicion that ambient warmth from blood in eyelids would mean seeing blurry lines even in total darkness, with eyes closed. This is probably not a really, especially good idea. It'd be like having surgery normally performed to remove cataracts, just to be able to see UV light. It's great until the UV light that used to be stopped before it reached them destroys your retinas, and then you can't see anything. Poor mice...
It's either planet 8 or planet 10, not 9. (If Pluto isn't a planet, then neither is Earth, since it has been discovered that Earth has NOT in fact "cleared out its orbit entirely of other objects not orbiting it, which was I believe the excuse for some people pretending Pluto isn't a planet.) If Pluto's not a planet, and Earth isn't either, then there're 7 known planets, and this new thing maybe possibly MIGHT be number EIGHT. If (as I'd contend,) Pluto most certainly IS a planet, then there are NINE known and this would be the TENTH. In keeping with modern society, they should name it Planet X, but insist the "X" is pronounced "ten".
Then if it has a SATELLITE, that can be called Planet XS, and be a less-expensive option for people who want an iPlanet. Wait... what were we talking about again?
I needed zero more reasons NOT to go to Kansas, and here, they've come up with another one! Thanks, Kansas House of Morons!
In the spirit of Bill Maher, here's a new rule:
Until they've solved the problem of the corrupting influence of money in politics, ensured voting rights for ALL, and solved institutional/systemic racism, no legislature is allowed to do anything else, other than solving THAT. Unless it's raining FROGS. Then they can get the frog patrol to clean that up, and then IMMEDIATELY resume working on fixing corruption and the related issues I mentioned. No new bullshit bans on things, no new bullshit taxes legislating your personal hangups onto other people... just FIX YOUR GODDAMNED, BROKEN-ASS POLITICS, KANSAS, then worry about all the supposed "human trafficking".
I promise you that governmental corruption, political "leaders" blowing corporations for money, corporations writing laws that gutless, dickless, heartless, brainless, spineless politicians just impose without so much as reading them, is a much bigger and more serious problem for all, than who's stroking what, or what they're looking at while stroking what. Pretty sure shit like that is going on in Kansas, since it's happening in most states, and also this is the only way a "bill" like this gets any kind of chance.
Also, these bullshit filters can be gotten around, unless you just remove the computer part of the phone, and make it just a phone. In effect, the only way to make this happen, and have it work reliably, would be to outlaw smartphones, and computers. That's a great idea for Kansas. While they're at it, they should also abolish color, and just go back to black and white, like at the beginning of the Wizard of OZ. Then when people flee the state so they don't have to live in some benighted shithole that won't let them buy a computing device with nannystate mandated bullshitware on it, it'll be like when Dorothy steps out of her house and into the magical land of Oz, where they can actually have freedom of thought, freedom of expression, and stroke it to porn without the state reaching into their pockets to pay for the Morality Police.
“Textbooks are becoming obsolete,” says a dropout whose only claim to fame is being in the right place at the right time and having no scruples and not minding fucking everyone over to pocket more and more ill-gotten gains he never should have had his grimy paws on, from the pushing of a demonstrably inferior product using FUD and strong-arm tactics that should have triggered the use of the RICO ACT.
Fucker should be in jail, and Misrofuck should have been broken up, and required to open source all their code, so people could find all the probably deliberately planted bugs they've been using for decades, compromising their own customers’ safety and security, just for the sake of their own goddamned motherfucking bottom line. Never forget.
This is the kind of bug Apple should have caught circa ALPHA. They should not have let bullshit code like that make it to beta, let alone releasing it as if it were ready for that. I have been saying for a while that Apple has been using its poor customers as guinea pigs for a while, rather than spending the money on proper code analysis and auditing. This is like when they put out a version of macOS where you could trivially obtain root privileges by logging in as root with no password, is not merely a capital F Fuckup, but a captial FUCK FUCKUP and here is another instance of the same asshattery at Apple. Someone should have gone through the code and made sure that at no point does is allow connection without affirmative user action to accept the call. This is beyond intolerable, this should be regarded as criminal negligence on the part of the corporation and all responsible officers, up to and including Cook.
Shit like this is why I swore off Apple shit products a while ago. I was never personally a fan of Steve Jobs personally or professionally, but at least under him, Apple did not generally fuck up like this, and I think it is well past high time to do something about it. In my case, I am boycotting Apple over their general decline into shittiness until such time as all of those fuckers in senior management (Cook et al) are gone, and Apple gets some real leadership again.
I’m concerned about what proportion of the planet consents to me touching them, though. Many parts of the planet, especially some attached loosely to the surface, (mainly by a hundred and twenty or so pounds of gravitational force each,) at the interface between the top of the solid crust and the bottom of the principally gaseous layer, seem to be less than excited to have me touching them... which is sad, as many look eminently touchable.
I can only touch, at most, laying flat on my back, spread-eagled, MAYBE 10 square feet, 12 tops... but it cannot be higher than that, and I doubt it’s even that much. Most of the time, I only touch about one or two square feet, because I’m standing up or walking around.
Or, we focus remodeling and expansion, not upon beautification, but on making crumbling existing buildings safe and usable?
I’ve been to a FEW campuses and many could USE some remodeling. What pisses me off is when that remodeling involves marble and shit. I really resent any student building that gets made all pretty and fancy while elsewhere on the same campus, there are tiny little middle-school-in-the-seventies-looking desklettes. Not DESKS, desklettes.
Here, STUDENT, here’s your 0.78 square FOOT of desk space. Use THIS for note-taking. Good fucking luck.
What a bunch of fucking bullshit. All this would do is allow people to go t o school and maybe not have to pay back the costs. This is NOT a solution to student debt and our bullshit education system. Here’s a better idea.
Remake the compulsory education system. We keep hearing of how you “can’t get a job pumping gas anymore with only a high school diploma.”. Not really true and never was, but why not address the failings of the system, rather than trying to fix other things.
Why not do one or all of the following:
- Make schools year-round. More frequent and less lengthy vacations would mean less time squandered teaching the same things over and over again to kids who forget what they maybe did or didn’t learn the previous 9 months and also previous years.
- Extend high school two years for all students; let them be tested and given options and recommendations based on those choices. skilled-labor track or college track, and if they go college track, those last two years of high school can be used as the first two years of college. This would make the typical bachelor’s degree only two years long, cost half as much up front, make sure students are better prepared and more mature when they arrive, and level the playing field all in one fell swoop.
- You could simultaneously increase the driving age to 18 (for states where it’s 16 or below,) and give kids more time to grow up. At the same time, I would lower the drinking age to 16, or even adopt Germany’s approach which is to consider beer and wine as “Saft”... juice, basically allowing parents to regulate and monitor children’s experience with alcohol, rather than making alcohol something they must learn to cope with on their own with only their drunken peers for guidance. Letting kids get used to that while still having four years at home MIGHT reduce the problem of alcoholism, and co-morbidities.
If it sounds like this is just describing the existing paradigm with community colleges, in a way, you’d be right, except that it would be compulsory, meaning all kids graduating high school would be 20, would be better off and more mature before arriving in college, wouldn’t be seeing alcohol for the first time, alone and with no parental oversight or guidance, and also, they’d all have completed the equivalent of Associate’s degrees before showing up. The rates at which those who ENTER INTO bachelors degree programs stay and complete would undoubtedly skyrocket, stress AND debt would be reduced, and ALL of this could be done with EXISTING infrastructure.
Existing community colleges could be absorbed into existing school districts for the last two years of their new students’ compulsory education; and for parents (for at least the first two years after implementing this idea,) who don’t want their kids living at home, the kids would have the option of joining the military for a couple years, or a non-military civilian equivalent job service. This service could be in the National Parks System, or something like the Peace Corps, or any of one or more jobs programs such as we saw in decades past when the US government was actually functional and not a goddamned fucking corrupt and worse-than-useless fucking joke.
Now this WOULD probably mean a sharp uptick in students attending community colleges, but they could probably increase the size of their staffs to handle the increase in a few ways. Universities would likely have surplus professors who could be persuaded to go help, since that’s where all their students are going to be, and in the meantime, we could start PAYING teachers what they’re worth.
Just my three cents. (I threw in an extra. Inflation.)
While you’re at it, ban all human activities that you think are pointless and/or wasteful, and never mind the whole “freedom” fad... no one ever really cared about self-determinacy anyway.
The very existence of cryptocurrencies is a response to problems people perceive in how our economic systems work that don’t involve barricades in streets and overturned burning automobiles, factories being broken into and set alight, and rich people being dragged out of their houses and beaten to death with clubs, or burned at impromptu stakes, or beheaded, etc.
Not sure which I prefer, and... shit... Would you look at that, I’m all out of marshmallows!
Bittorrent isn’t the provider, they're the end-point. It would be different if they were the ISP. (They haven’t become an ISP, have they?) In the highway scenario, where Comcast and AT&T and all are providers of the highway, Bittorrent is the drive-in movie theater... actually that’s not even right. More like they’re a search engine for where little bits of data are located around the interwebs. It’s a bit closer to them being providers but... they’re only providing “where it is” data, not the means to CONVEY that data...
Now that I’ve written this, I’m suddenly not feeling as certain Bittorrent is in the right on this. Hmmm...
Is ANYONE still listening to these lying fucks anymore? Seriously?
Shall we go down the list of the ever-changing bullshit opinions of these guys? Or shall we just replay the “greatest hits”?
Only the latest to join this list: screentime not bad for children, it’s totally fine... NO, WAIT! IT IS BAD for children! No, wait... it’s NOT bad for children... fuck you, you fucking liars.
Here’s an idea. Make all “scientific” “research” classified until not only has it been peer reviewed, but until the peer-reviewing has itself been peer reviewed.
Maybe even peer review the peer review of the peer review of the bullshit research BEFORE releasing it to the public as if the research is reliable or the researchers know what in the goddamned fucking fuck they're talking about?
How about that, I ask while drinking coffee that has at various points been declared good for me, bad for me, full of carcinogens, and I think the latest word on coffee is, “FUCK YOU, LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE TO ENJOY MY FUCKING COFFEE!”
LOL Doctors... FAIL!
Fuck off, “Doctors”. No one believes your bullshit anymore.
Apple's products are tanking not because of "weak demand". That is a LIE. It's because they keep ratcheting up the price for increasingly SHITTY devices. They are surpassing the limit they've been coming up closer and closer to, of how much they can FORCE people to pay for shit they don't actually WANT. The result is people (like ME,) categorically REFUSING to buy their defective-by-design SHIT.
PERIOD.
It's not "weak demand". That's BULLSHIT. It's that they ripped out the headphone jack, made them thinner and larger, meaning harder to operate with one hand, and less convenient to slip into a fucking pocket, removed the bezels by which I HOLD MY iPHONE, (gone,) removed the necessary HOME BUTTON, added funky, not-ready-for-prime-time "facial recognition," to replace the not-ready-for-prime-time, unreliable bullshit fingerprint sensor, and then to add insult to injury, added a STUPID, UGLY, IDIOTIC FUCKING NOTCH, (not necessarily in that order,) and then had the temerity to demand upwards of a THOUSAND DOLLARS for this ugly, stupid, useless piece of shit phone!
I'm SO fucking glad I bought several iPhone SE's before the stupid goddamned motherfuckers discontinued them. Because they're the last iPhones, and the last Apple products, I think, that I'm ever buying.
Microsoft Says Edge is Still More Power Efficient than Chrome and Firefox
Microsoft has said a LOT of things; doesn't mean it's a good idea to believe them.
Also... SO? I don't generally choose which app I use based on energy efficiency. If I did, I'd run GNU/Linux in text-only/CLI mode, and browse the web with Lynx. Or maybe I'd use TWM and some incredibly simple, stripped down browser in an X session... like Lynx.
Hey, Microsoft... is "Edge" more power efficient than Lynx? (Actually, I suppose it could be. I don't know if Lynx is optimized for power efficiency.)
Leave the twenty that is the smallest bill I happen to have when the amount required is say... $6.19? Fuck thirteen dollars and eighty-one cents of that shit. If you're a BUSINESS and you want MINE, you are REQUIRED to have sufficient cash on hand and in appropriate denominations to perform this transaction. I might fuck up and ASSUME you take cash ONCE, but after I try to pay with cash, and you don't "ACCEPT" cash, you will not see me or my business again. If the transaction can be cancelled, (i.e., I have not taken or consumed the thing for which I'm trying to pay,) then I will simply cancel it, and take my business elsewhere.
If we ALL do this, this bullshit trend will go away. Business assholes can whine that accepting cash costs money, but that's called a cost of doing business. If you don't like that, I cordially invite you to go fuck yourself and go out of business. There are generally plenty of competitors who will happily accept the cash you're turning your smug little nose up at.
Just my TWO physical, real, actual, CASH cents.
Plastic is useful, but I sometimes prefer paper, thankyouverymuch.
Nobody will ever believe you ever again, and if they do, fuck the morons harder. They deserve it.
They deserve it? You'd be right talking about adults who have lived through this era AND are paying attention. Those who are too young, and provided Facebook continues to exist, (which one could argue it should not,) might not know, or might give credence to whatever promises they make and whatever changes they implement... do you think memory lasts decades? Do you think someone who's say... 5 now, has no idea what Facebook is, in 15 years will remember this? Actually, will people remember in even a FEW years?
Obviously no one should trust them... we should always remember the wisdom of the phrase, "if you're not paying for a service, you're not the customer, you're the product," but will they TEACH that in pre-K and Kindergarten in American elementary schools, along with "Logo," or whatever they're teaching kids today? Will that phrase be put up in every school classroom in a conspicuous place? Perhaps it should be worked into, or said after the Pledge of Allegiance. Because it's not JUST Facebook. It's ALL these "FREE" services. They are RAKING, (some of them,) in the DOUGH. Where does it come from? People need to know.
Just because you donâ(TM)t doesnâ(TM)t mean others donâ(TM)t. I only donâ(TM)t because I have never bought a smartphone without a headphone jack. Far as Iâ(TM)m concerned it is required equipment. I would never (and will never) buy one without it. When my existing collection of iPhone SEs dies, then I will either buy a different brand of smartphone, a dumbphone, or a no-phone-at-all.
I will NOT REWARD Apple for trying to rip me off and force me to buy their crappy headphones.
My phone uses wired headphones and they JUST WORK. The headphones never have problems connecting, and have yet to run out of power before the phone does.
Too late. Assple has discontinued the SE. I knew those fuckers would do that, which is why I bought THREE. You might be able to snag a used one... best of luck to you.
This wouldn't happen in the US because we have guns! Right? Oh wait, the government and courts regularly use data on/transmitted from citizens computers in court cases. Carry on.
That's because they're not using their guns right. Point it at the computer when the cops show up and shout, "I'll do it! I'll fucking do it!" That'd work, right? Hehhehe
It's normal for the newer ones because they're too THIN, obviously. The Apple reality distortion field is now being relied upon to try to violate certain physical laws. How much force can be resisted before permanent deformation or breakage occurs given a certain size and shape of material is not altered by slapping a bitten apple logo on the back side of it. There is a LIMIT to how thin something can be made that will be able to resist the bending forces it will encounter during routine use.
I guess Apple COULD argue that users are being too rough with the things. Or Apple could argue that you're EXPECTED to purchase and use a case, and that CASE must provide a portion of the stiffness, strength, and rigidity to confer resistance to bending and breakage, but that's kind of like the problem with polititians using gerrymandering to PICK their voters, rather than allowing voters the freedom to pick who represents THEM.
Apple is basically refusing to bother to make their products FIT FOR USE, and instead trying to ALTER the use-cases to which their products are PUT, trying to FORCE users to use the devices they make only in certain ways, because... APPLE.
Actually, what's happening is Apple is trying to pretend to innovate when they have only one idea at this point... THINNNNNNNERRRRRR.
The iPad at this point would be justified in hissing through clenched teeth that it's, "being ERASED"!
Apple is deliberately making defective products, by making them too weak to withstand NORMAL use, trying to ALTER the way their users USE their products, charging EVEN MORE MONEY for them, and if you help them by buying their defective-by-design SHIT, you're party to their fraud, as an accessory after the fact. Same if you buy one of their shitty uPhones that's missing required things, like A HEADPHONE JACK, for example. Reward Apple's continuing insistence that you COUGH UP money to buy their new shit every 6 to 12 months, and they'll continue to treat you like shit, because CLEARLY that's what they think you are. Shit.
I won't do it, personally. I own several iPhone SEs because I like them and was BETTING that the greedy, stupid fucking assholes would DISCONTINUE it and I was RIGHT. Now as I use them up, when they die, I will just go from one to the next. When the last one dies, I will go back to a fucking pair of tin cans and STRING before I buy another uPhone, now that they're all missing their headphone jacks. No headphone jack, NO SALE, Apple.
If everyone did this, we could bring the jack back. Bring back the jack! Also, the home button, reasonable bezels, do away with that STUPID GODDAMNED FUCKING NOTCH!
Apple's best designs are in its past. Don't reward shitty design, folks!
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All modern planets are built with moon-coprocessors built into them as far as I know.
How do the mice SLEEP?
Does someone have to put little ice cubes on their eyeballs? Or do they just learn to ignore the light they can no longer escape? (I have a sneaking suspicion that ambient warmth from blood in eyelids would mean seeing blurry lines even in total darkness, with eyes closed. This is probably not a really, especially good idea. It'd be like having surgery normally performed to remove cataracts, just to be able to see UV light. It's great until the UV light that used to be stopped before it reached them destroys your retinas, and then you can't see anything. Poor mice...
It's either planet 8 or planet 10, not 9. (If Pluto isn't a planet, then neither is Earth, since it has been discovered that Earth has NOT in fact "cleared out its orbit entirely of other objects not orbiting it, which was I believe the excuse for some people pretending Pluto isn't a planet.) If Pluto's not a planet, and Earth isn't either, then there're 7 known planets, and this new thing maybe possibly MIGHT be number EIGHT. If (as I'd contend,) Pluto most certainly IS a planet, then there are NINE known and this would be the TENTH. In keeping with modern society, they should name it Planet X, but insist the "X" is pronounced "ten".
Then if it has a SATELLITE, that can be called Planet XS, and be a less-expensive option for people who want an iPlanet. Wait... what were we talking about again?
If you are close enough to hear the Thunderbolt Port, then you are close enough to get struck by a lightning cable.
I needed zero more reasons NOT to go to Kansas, and here, they've come up with another one! Thanks, Kansas House of Morons!
In the spirit of Bill Maher, here's a new rule:
Until they've solved the problem of the corrupting influence of money in politics, ensured voting rights for ALL, and solved institutional/systemic racism, no legislature is allowed to do anything else, other than solving THAT. Unless it's raining FROGS. Then they can get the frog patrol to clean that up, and then IMMEDIATELY resume working on fixing corruption and the related issues I mentioned. No new bullshit bans on things, no new bullshit taxes legislating your personal hangups onto other people... just FIX YOUR GODDAMNED, BROKEN-ASS POLITICS, KANSAS, then worry about all the supposed "human trafficking".
I promise you that governmental corruption, political "leaders" blowing corporations for money, corporations writing laws that gutless, dickless, heartless, brainless, spineless politicians just impose without so much as reading them, is a much bigger and more serious problem for all, than who's stroking what, or what they're looking at while stroking what. Pretty sure shit like that is going on in Kansas, since it's happening in most states, and also this is the only way a "bill" like this gets any kind of chance.
Also, these bullshit filters can be gotten around, unless you just remove the computer part of the phone, and make it just a phone. In effect, the only way to make this happen, and have it work reliably, would be to outlaw smartphones, and computers. That's a great idea for Kansas. While they're at it, they should also abolish color, and just go back to black and white, like at the beginning of the Wizard of OZ. Then when people flee the state so they don't have to live in some benighted shithole that won't let them buy a computing device with nannystate mandated bullshitware on it, it'll be like when Dorothy steps out of her house and into the magical land of Oz, where they can actually have freedom of thought, freedom of expression, and stroke it to porn without the state reaching into their pockets to pay for the Morality Police.
“Textbooks are becoming obsolete,” says a dropout whose only claim to fame is being in the right place at the right time and having no scruples and not minding fucking everyone over to pocket more and more ill-gotten gains he never should have had his grimy paws on, from the pushing of a demonstrably inferior product using FUD and strong-arm tactics that should have triggered the use of the RICO ACT.
Fucker should be in jail, and Misrofuck should have been broken up, and required to open source all their code, so people could find all the probably deliberately planted bugs they've been using for decades, compromising their own customers’ safety and security, just for the sake of their own goddamned motherfucking bottom line. Never forget.
In sum, fuck Bill Gates, and fuck Microsoft.
It will tell you how to install Linux?
Damn! Beat me to it.
This is the kind of bug Apple should have caught circa ALPHA. They should not have let bullshit code like that make it to beta, let alone releasing it as if it were ready for that. I have been saying for a while that Apple has been using its poor customers as guinea pigs for a while, rather than spending the money on proper code analysis and auditing. This is like when they put out a version of macOS where you could trivially obtain root privileges by logging in as root with no password, is not merely a capital F Fuckup, but a captial FUCK FUCKUP and here is another instance of the same asshattery at Apple. Someone should have gone through the code and made sure that at no point does is allow connection without affirmative user action to accept the call. This is beyond intolerable, this should be regarded as criminal negligence on the part of the corporation and all responsible officers, up to and including Cook.
Shit like this is why I swore off Apple shit products a while ago. I was never personally a fan of Steve Jobs personally or professionally, but at least under him, Apple did not generally fuck up like this, and I think it is well past high time to do something about it. In my case, I am boycotting Apple over their general decline into shittiness until such time as all of those fuckers in senior management (Cook et al) are gone, and Apple gets some real leadership again.
I’m concerned about what proportion of the planet consents to me touching them, though. Many parts of the planet, especially some attached loosely to the surface, (mainly by a hundred and twenty or so pounds of gravitational force each,) at the interface between the top of the solid crust and the bottom of the principally gaseous layer, seem to be less than excited to have me touching them... which is sad, as many look eminently touchable.
I can only touch, at most, laying flat on my back, spread-eagled, MAYBE 10 square feet, 12 tops... but it cannot be higher than that, and I doubt it’s even that much. Most of the time, I only touch about one or two square feet, because I’m standing up or walking around.
Or, we focus remodeling and expansion, not upon beautification, but on making crumbling existing buildings safe and usable?
I’ve been to a FEW campuses and many could USE some remodeling. What pisses me off is when that remodeling involves marble and shit. I really resent any student building that gets made all pretty and fancy while elsewhere on the same campus, there are tiny little middle-school-in-the-seventies-looking desklettes. Not DESKS, desklettes.
Here, STUDENT, here’s your 0.78 square FOOT of desk space. Use THIS for note-taking.
Good fucking luck.
It’s “Separate But Equal!”
What a bunch of fucking bullshit. All this would do is allow people to go t o school and maybe not have to pay back the costs. This is NOT a solution to student debt and our bullshit education system. Here’s a better idea.
Remake the compulsory education system. We keep hearing of how you “can’t get a job pumping gas anymore with only a high school diploma.”. Not really true and never was, but why not address the failings of the system, rather than trying to fix other things.
Why not do one or all of the following:
- Make schools year-round. More frequent and less lengthy vacations would mean less time squandered teaching the same things over and over again to kids who forget what they maybe did or didn’t learn the previous 9 months and also previous years.
- Extend high school two years for all students; let them be tested and given options and recommendations based on those choices. skilled-labor track or college track, and if they go college track, those last two years of high school can be used as the first two years of college. This would make the typical bachelor’s degree only two years long, cost half as much up front, make sure students are better prepared and more mature when they arrive, and level the playing field all in one fell swoop.
- You could simultaneously increase the driving age to 18 (for states where it’s 16 or below,) and give kids more time to grow up. At the same time, I would lower the drinking age to 16, or even adopt Germany’s approach which is to consider beer and wine as “Saft”... juice, basically allowing parents to regulate and monitor children’s experience with alcohol, rather than making alcohol something they must learn to cope with on their own with only their drunken peers for guidance. Letting kids get used to that while still having four years at home MIGHT reduce the problem of alcoholism, and co-morbidities.
If it sounds like this is just describing the existing paradigm with community colleges, in a way, you’d be right, except that it would be compulsory, meaning all kids graduating high school would be 20, would be better off and more mature before arriving in college, wouldn’t be seeing alcohol for the first time, alone and with no parental oversight or guidance, and also, they’d all have completed the equivalent of Associate’s degrees before showing up. The rates at which those who ENTER INTO bachelors degree programs stay and complete would undoubtedly skyrocket, stress AND debt would be reduced, and ALL of this could be done with EXISTING infrastructure.
Existing community colleges could be absorbed into existing school districts for the last two years of their new students’ compulsory education; and for parents (for at least the first two years after implementing this idea,) who don’t want their kids living at home, the kids would have the option of joining the military for a couple years, or a non-military civilian equivalent job service. This service could be in the National Parks System, or something like the Peace Corps, or any of one or more jobs programs such as we saw in decades past when the US government was actually functional and not a goddamned fucking corrupt and worse-than-useless fucking joke.
Now this WOULD probably mean a sharp uptick in students attending community colleges, but they could probably increase the size of their staffs to handle the increase in a few ways. Universities would likely have surplus professors who could be persuaded to go help, since that’s where all their students are going to be, and in the meantime, we could start PAYING teachers what they’re worth.
Just my three cents. (I threw in an extra. Inflation.)
While you’re at it, ban all human activities that you think are pointless and/or wasteful, and never mind the whole “freedom” fad... no one ever really cared about self-determinacy anyway.
The very existence of cryptocurrencies is a response to problems people perceive in how our economic systems work that don’t involve barricades in streets and overturned burning automobiles, factories being broken into and set alight, and rich people being dragged out of their houses and beaten to death with clubs, or burned at impromptu stakes, or beheaded, etc.
Not sure which I prefer, and... shit... Would you look at that, I’m all out of marshmallows!
Bittorrent isn’t the provider, they're the end-point. It would be different if they were the ISP. (They haven’t become an ISP, have they?) In the highway scenario, where Comcast and AT&T and all are providers of the highway, Bittorrent is the drive-in movie theater... actually that’s not even right. More like they’re a search engine for where little bits of data are located around the interwebs. It’s a bit closer to them being providers but... they’re only providing “where it is” data, not the means to CONVEY that data...
Now that I’ve written this, I’m suddenly not feeling as certain Bittorrent is in the right on this. Hmmm...
The plastic thing sent out to collect plastic trash from the ocean turns out to have been made of plastic trash.
Don’t send plastic to do metal’s job. (Because metal never fails at sea... oh, wait... shit. Send paper... SEND PAPER!)
Seriously though. The thing that was sent out to collect plastic trash turned out to be trash and made of plastic. The irony is just too delicious!
Is ANYONE still listening to these lying fucks anymore? Seriously?
Shall we go down the list of the ever-changing bullshit opinions of these guys? Or shall we just replay the “greatest hits”?
Only the latest to join this list: screentime not bad for children, it’s totally fine... NO, WAIT! IT IS BAD for children! No, wait... it’s NOT bad for children... fuck you, you fucking liars.
Here’s an idea. Make all “scientific” “research” classified until not only has it been peer reviewed, but until the peer-reviewing has itself been peer reviewed.
Maybe even peer review the peer review of the peer review of the bullshit research BEFORE releasing it to the public as if the research is reliable or the researchers know what in the goddamned fucking fuck they're talking about?
How about that, I ask while drinking coffee that has at various points been declared good for me, bad for me, full of carcinogens, and I think the latest word on coffee is, “FUCK YOU, LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE TO ENJOY MY FUCKING COFFEE!”
LOL Doctors... FAIL!
Fuck off, “Doctors”. No one believes your bullshit anymore.
Apple's products are tanking not because of "weak demand". That is a LIE. It's because they keep ratcheting up the price for increasingly SHITTY devices. They are surpassing the limit they've been coming up closer and closer to, of how much they can FORCE people to pay for shit they don't actually WANT. The result is people (like ME,) categorically REFUSING to buy their defective-by-design SHIT.
PERIOD.
It's not "weak demand". That's BULLSHIT. It's that they ripped out the headphone jack, made them thinner and larger, meaning harder to operate with one hand, and less convenient to slip into a fucking pocket, removed the bezels by which I HOLD MY iPHONE, (gone,) removed the necessary HOME BUTTON, added funky, not-ready-for-prime-time "facial recognition," to replace the not-ready-for-prime-time, unreliable bullshit fingerprint sensor, and then to add insult to injury, added a STUPID, UGLY, IDIOTIC FUCKING NOTCH, (not necessarily in that order,) and then had the temerity to demand upwards of a THOUSAND DOLLARS for this ugly, stupid, useless piece of shit phone!
I'm SO fucking glad I bought several iPhone SE's before the stupid goddamned motherfuckers discontinued them. Because they're the last iPhones, and the last Apple products, I think, that I'm ever buying.
Fuck Apple.
Microsoft Says Edge is Still More Power Efficient than Chrome and Firefox
Microsoft has said a LOT of things; doesn't mean it's a good idea to believe them.
Also... SO? I don't generally choose which app I use based on energy efficiency. If I did, I'd run GNU/Linux in text-only/CLI mode, and browse the web with Lynx. Or maybe I'd use TWM and some incredibly simple, stripped down browser in an X session... like Lynx.
Hey, Microsoft... is "Edge" more power efficient than Lynx? (Actually, I suppose it could be. I don't know if Lynx is optimized for power efficiency.)
Leave the twenty that is the smallest bill I happen to have when the amount required is say... $6.19? Fuck thirteen dollars and eighty-one cents of that shit. If you're a BUSINESS and you want MINE, you are REQUIRED to have sufficient cash on hand and in appropriate denominations to perform this transaction. I might fuck up and ASSUME you take cash ONCE, but after I try to pay with cash, and you don't "ACCEPT" cash, you will not see me or my business again. If the transaction can be cancelled, (i.e., I have not taken or consumed the thing for which I'm trying to pay,) then I will simply cancel it, and take my business elsewhere.
If we ALL do this, this bullshit trend will go away. Business assholes can whine that accepting cash costs money, but that's called a cost of doing business. If you don't like that, I cordially invite you to go fuck yourself and go out of business. There are generally plenty of competitors who will happily accept the cash you're turning your smug little nose up at.
Just my TWO physical, real, actual, CASH cents.
Plastic is useful, but I sometimes prefer paper, thankyouverymuch.
Nobody will ever believe you ever again, and if they do, fuck the morons harder. They deserve it.
They deserve it? You'd be right talking about adults who have lived through this era AND are paying attention. Those who are too young, and provided Facebook continues to exist, (which one could argue it should not,) might not know, or might give credence to whatever promises they make and whatever changes they implement... do you think memory lasts decades? Do you think someone who's say... 5 now, has no idea what Facebook is, in 15 years will remember this? Actually, will people remember in even a FEW years?
Obviously no one should trust them... we should always remember the wisdom of the phrase, "if you're not paying for a service, you're not the customer, you're the product," but will they TEACH that in pre-K and Kindergarten in American elementary schools, along with "Logo," or whatever they're teaching kids today? Will that phrase be put up in every school classroom in a conspicuous place? Perhaps it should be worked into, or said after the Pledge of Allegiance. Because it's not JUST Facebook. It's ALL these "FREE" services. They are RAKING, (some of them,) in the DOUGH. Where does it come from? People need to know.
Anyway... just saying.
Just because you donâ(TM)t doesnâ(TM)t mean others donâ(TM)t. I only donâ(TM)t because I have never bought a smartphone without a headphone jack. Far as Iâ(TM)m concerned it is required equipment. I would never (and will never) buy one without it. When my existing collection of iPhone SEs dies, then I will either buy a different brand of smartphone, a dumbphone, or a no-phone-at-all.
I will NOT REWARD Apple for trying to rip me off and force me to buy their crappy headphones.
My phone uses wired headphones and they JUST WORK. The headphones never have problems connecting, and have yet to run out of power before the phone does.
Me either. Done getting screwed by those bastards. Hope it was worth it to permanently loose this customer.
Too late. Assple has discontinued the SE. I knew those fuckers would do that, which is why I bought THREE. You might be able to snag a used one... best of luck to you.
This wouldn't happen in the US because we have guns! Right? Oh wait, the government and courts regularly use data on/transmitted from citizens computers in court cases. Carry on.
That's because they're not using their guns right. Point it at the computer when the cops show up and shout, "I'll do it! I'll fucking do it!" That'd work, right? Hehhehe
It's normal for the newer ones because they're too THIN, obviously. The Apple reality distortion field is now being relied upon to try to violate certain physical laws. How much force can be resisted before permanent deformation or breakage occurs given a certain size and shape of material is not altered by slapping a bitten apple logo on the back side of it. There is a LIMIT to how thin something can be made that will be able to resist the bending forces it will encounter during routine use.
I guess Apple COULD argue that users are being too rough with the things. Or Apple could argue that you're EXPECTED to purchase and use a case, and that CASE must provide a portion of the stiffness, strength, and rigidity to confer resistance to bending and breakage, but that's kind of like the problem with polititians using gerrymandering to PICK their voters, rather than allowing voters the freedom to pick who represents THEM.
Apple is basically refusing to bother to make their products FIT FOR USE, and instead trying to ALTER the use-cases to which their products are PUT, trying to FORCE users to use the devices they make only in certain ways, because... APPLE.
Actually, what's happening is Apple is trying to pretend to innovate when they have only one idea at this point... THINNNNNNNERRRRRR.
The iPad at this point would be justified in hissing through clenched teeth that it's, "being ERASED"!
Apple is deliberately making defective products, by making them too weak to withstand NORMAL use, trying to ALTER the way their users USE their products, charging EVEN MORE MONEY for them, and if you help them by buying their defective-by-design SHIT, you're party to their fraud, as an accessory after the fact. Same if you buy one of their shitty uPhones that's missing required things, like A HEADPHONE JACK, for example. Reward Apple's continuing insistence that you COUGH UP money to buy their new shit every 6 to 12 months, and they'll continue to treat you like shit, because CLEARLY that's what they think you are. Shit.
I won't do it, personally. I own several iPhone SEs because I like them and was BETTING that the greedy, stupid fucking assholes would DISCONTINUE it and I was RIGHT. Now as I use them up, when they die, I will just go from one to the next. When the last one dies, I will go back to a fucking pair of tin cans and STRING before I buy another uPhone, now that they're all missing their headphone jacks. No headphone jack, NO SALE, Apple.
If everyone did this, we could bring the jack back. Bring back the jack! Also, the home button, reasonable bezels, do away with that STUPID GODDAMNED FUCKING NOTCH!
Apple's best designs are in its past. Don't reward shitty design, folks!
Apple. The new Microshit.