FUuuuuUUUUUuuuKKKK AT&T! Already had a dozen reasons to despise that shitcompany... now I've got another. They're full of shit! Fuck AT&T for ever and ever and ever. Fuck AT&T forever.
Yeah, how dare they be concerned for their workers safety when they have to go out and fix something and your house is still feeding power back into what they are working on. How DARE they sir. You should be able to run your meth lab via solar with no government input.
I sure wish people had the guts or time to log in and reply, so I could write a meaningful response and have an actual conversation with people.
Ordinarilly I don't waste time responding to ACs, but... your "worker safety" concerns are ludicrous. When "they" have to go out and "fix something" you're perhaps assuming they are so stupid they don't check to make sure the parts they're working on are isolated electrically. You have, I suspect, an overly simplistic view of how power systems work. You saw a diagram showing a power station, some wires, and some houses, perhaps with some smiling waving people standing in front of them, indicating they're happy because power is flowing. In reality, the system is a vast sprawling network of interconnected and interoperating power systems, with all manner of complicated switchgear, etc., so when "they" have to come out and "fix something," they don't just ASSume that because the link between ONE power plant and SOME homes or businesses nearby is down, due to, say, a blown transformer they're there to work on, that there's no voltage present ANYWHERE. They isolate the parts they're working on completely because doing otherwise would be stupid and suicidal, and it doesn't matter if there's some solar panels nearby trying to feed into the "system".
Also, as an unrelated matter, comes the day when I have a house with solar panels or other electric generation equipment belonging to and contorlled by me, it's NOT going to be feeding into anything besides stuff I own and control... I want NOTHING to do with the power company or their bullshit grid; if I were not living somewhere where I'm not in a position to do this, I wouldn't be using their power anyway. All part of the price that must be paid.
OMG AWESOME!!! I am just stoked to hear that! Where is their corporate grave? And where did I put mydancing shoes?
The company named AT&T today is actually Southwestern Bell,
... which is a descendant of... whom? Corporations, despite what Mitt Romney famously said, are not people in the literal sense of the word. If a company gets split into pieces, each retaining some of the people, corporate culture, intellectual property, contracts and legal rights and obligations, etc., of the parent company, it is as much the parent company as the parent was, even if it has changed. Some changes can occur and not change the essential nature or character of an organization. Case in point: when IBM sold off its personal computing unit to Lenovo did it cease being IBM?
which purchased the remnants of AT&T and then re-branded themselves in 2005.
Was IBM ever in fact IBM, considering it started life as a different company with a different name, and BOUGHT the IBM company and renamed itself after the acquisition with its acquisitionâ(TM)s name?
You would be right IF you were talking about a case where a rival or completely unrelated company buys the IP or rights to the trademark or name in a bankruptcy or fire-sale... like when Dorel (or Pacific Cycles or whoever) bought Schwinn. Now THAT is a case where despite all the new Schwinns rolling around, they are not real Schwinns and the company doing business, (fraudulently as far as I am concerned,) as Schwinn Inc. or Schwinn America or whatever is really in no way shape or form the same company. All different people as far as I know, different HQ, run for and by a basically different group of folks althogether.
The AT&T and IBM examples are much more nearly related, I think, than the Schwinn one. What you have asserted is more like Southwestern Bell is like Schwinn, and it simply is not.
Even if the Lenovo PC Unit somehow managed to buy-out IBM, that still would not quite be the same, because the break up of Ma Bell was not voluntary. IBM did not have a judgeâ(TM)s gun to their heads while trying to decide whether to sell to lenovo or not.
We might need someone to start making solar panels that donâ(TM)t t look solar panels so they won't come around and tax you for having power. Also would probably look nicer.
Um... who is Jim Acosta again, and when did I mention him? What network or paper does he or did he work for? I vaguely recall a story about him getting booted from the Whitehouse by fascits or something, but I don’t actually read/listen to him. What do his various faults or failings have to do with where news actually comes from? Or are you implying that most of the media are just like him, whatever problem you have with him... in which case, why not say so? If that’s what you mean, you might have a point... the buying up and corporatizing of news media is an alarming and disheartening trend... a great reason to find a publicly supported only news source and ditch the corrupt, useless, corporate-owned shitty ones.
I like Democracy Now (democracynow.org) but it’s easy to overdose on DN, and get really depressed. I think the Guardian is a good one too, but I have yet to really look into them.
In fairness to us, the news is so unremittingly aweful that we NEED to have it sugarcoated to render it possible to swallow, Before maligning people for getting news from commedians or commedians for making something actually redeming and useful to society of their longtime habit of being topical, bear in mind that, sad as it is to say, if there weren't commedians, a lot of people would be less informed than they are.
Try watching Democracy Now, (democracynow.org) a few days in a row instead of the flaming propaganda bullshit that has become of corporate-owned “news” “organizations” and you’ll likely have to have a drink, or several. If you knew what was actually going on, you’d need medication just to get through a day. Now imagine a commedian taking what Amy Goodman, Juan González, or Nermeen Shaikh (et al.) say daily, and making them funny and therefore less horrible. I’d watch that.
If you’re curious about them here’s their “about” text:
Democracy Now! produces a daily, global, independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Our reporting includes breaking daily news headlines and in-depth interviews with people on the front lines of the world’s most pressing issues. On Democracy Now!, you’ll hear a diversity of voices speaking for themselves, providing a unique and sometimes provocative perspective on global events.
Democracy Now! is broadcast daily across the United States and Canada as well as in countries around the world. Our program is on Pacifica, NPR, community, college and satellite radio stations; on PBS, public, community and satellite TV; and viewed by millions of people online each day. Our headlines are broadcast in Spanish on radio stations across the U.S., Central and South America, and in Europe.
Democracy Now! launched in 1996, airing on nine radio stations. More than two decades later, we have grown to be one of the leading U.S.-based independent daily news broadcasts in the world.
As an independent news program, Democracy Now! is audience-supported, which means that our editorial independence is never compromised by corporate or government interests. Since our founding in 1996, Democracy Now! has held steadfast to our policy of not accepting government funding, corporate sponsorship, underwriting or advertising revenue.
People don't like having to “eat their vegetables,” but we need to. Commedians take those veggeis and make them more palatable.
Some of it is mistakenly (or perhaps not mistakenly) referred to as “citizen journalism,” though perhaps, as citizens are not generally trained as journalists, and aren’t held to standards of any kind for rigor or integrity, and are only judged by whether something is riviting or capable of “going viral,” it should be called “shitizen journalism”. Some of it is journalism but imagining that sort of thing to be real journalism is like imagining the length of rope you replaced your fanbelt with to be a competent permanent replacement, instead of just something that might, maybe, manage to get you home.
Also, when your great aunt Edith posts a screengrab of a news story that WAS produced by someone trained and schooled in journalism and by someone who having to answer for professional ethics to an editorial staff whose purpose is to reduce the odds of their organization being responsible for disseminating bullshit, and also able to think critically, and know what lines of inquiry need to be pursued, when they’re encountering a smokescreen, etc., and you don't go to the original source, the person whose time and effort went into finding and bringing you that story didn't get paid a fucking penny for it.
He starves to death, or she has to drive a Luber when not reporting because of the epidemic of people confusing the firehose of bullshit that social media sites and the morons who use them mistake for news, with real, actual news.
Democratization is great under some, but not ALL circumstances. Imagine if someone applied the Uber/Lyft model to BRAIN SURGERY. A loophole in the law allows people to do brain surgery after doing an 8-hour online course provided they have a trained doctor supervising remotely, so a group of retired doctors take shifts for a fee, “supervising” a bank of of TVs showing feeds from UberBrainSurgery living-room operating theaters. What do you think the chances are of having a successful brain tumor removed or aneurism reduced without insurance coverage, by one of these guys for the low-low price of only three easy payments of $19.95?
That's what quality journalism you can expect if people don't pay for their news. Not all the “news” in a social media “news” feed comes from a legitimate and reliable, trustworthy news source, and if the people who hunted down and covered the stories, and ALL their support crew don’t get fucking paid, all you’ll be left with is the plucky schmuck with his iPhone who thinks that having a camera and microphone with him everywhere he goes makes him a fucking reporter, which is about as true as the idea that having a microphone and Autotune makes you a fucking singer.
Samsung appears to have been duped by a fake Supreme company or just doesn't care that anyone who pays attention to fashion will mock them for decades to come over this partnership. The Supreme that Samsung is partnering with is actually called Supreme Italia, which is a fake Supreme brand that is able to sell fake Supreme gear, thanks to some weird legal loophole or decision in Italy. They have no affiliation with the real Supreme. They are counterfeiters.
For them to partner with counterfeiters is only natural. They’ve been counterfeiting iPhones for years! LOL
Next time you just hop on google and start "googling" things, think of the poor, poor 22 year old engineers with those giant stacks of books and banks and banks of filing cabinets, and how rapidly they have to run down them, find a document, type it into their terminals at lightning speed, just so you can ask dumb questions, like, "is the moon bigger than the sun?"
Have a heart and THINK before you just ask google something. This guy was evidently worked to death.
That's not how indexing and search engine programming works.
If you have to explain a joke, you kill it.
This joke did nothing to you, and now it's dead. Happy?
Next time you just hop on google and start "googling" things, think of the poor, poor 22 year old engineers with those giant stacks of books and banks and banks of filing cabinets, and how rapidly they have to run
Wait... they’re using people? I thought it was some sort of really fast dog.
No, brah... that was Lycos. Lycos, sadly, died in 1998 after fetching Claudia Schiffer about seventy eight million times in 30 minutes after they ran that ad and lonely horny guys decided to try it out. Also, Claudia Schiffer was probably pretty exhausted after that, too.
Apple has been occupied entirely by fertilizer produced by bovines and it has adversely impacted their central nervous systems.
Hey, Apple... what does the word "incompatible" MEAN? Does. not. work. with.
As in, "Apple's attitude towards their former customers is incompatible with my buying anything else from them in the future." Gaslighting is more of this bovine-feces behavior that I will no longer tolerate.
Dum dum duh duh duh duh duh, dum dum duh duh duh duh duh Fraud BUSTERS!
When you've got a prez... and he's crook-ed, who you gonna call?
BOB MUELLER!
etc.
So funny that almost kinda sorta works.
Remember, everything Little Tiny Donny has ever said is, statistically speaking, probably a lie. Also, it's usually projection. Just the other day he was calling Rex Tillerson, who, if I recall correctly, called HIM a... and I quote, "FUCKING MORON" dumb as a rock and lazy as hell.
The guy who is a drooling submoron and who has never worked a day in his life, who is so full of shit he makes Bill Clinton look honest, so stupid he makes George W. Bush look like a genius, calls the former head of a REAL multinational company, (not a phony one like his own,) dumb and lazy.
THIS. IS. PROJECTION.
Lady Liberty is being raped and the Republicans don't give a fuck, because it's their guy doing it. Remember that next time they pretend they're patriots.
Moderation: mod me down now and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine. J/K... but you will burn up a mod-point for no reason, which is just stupid. No one is still reading this story. Trumpheads (or shitheads, as most people call them,) are not merely immune to facts, they're living in their own private, personal version of reality in which up is down, black is bad, orange is white, lies are truth, crimes are only committed by criminals, by which they mean people they don't like, and the law is whatever they want it to be. This, and not any one act by Donny Dipshit, is what is killing the republic. This whole thing only ever worked because we could all agree to abide by the results of free and fair elections, and we don't have those anymore. America has cancer and it's metastasized. It's turning into a banana republic, and it's the repulsive Republican party that's responsible. Corporate "Democrats" share some of the blame for being week, feckless, and unable to inspire people to come out and vote because voters know they're BOUGHT-OFF by their corporate owners, BUT it is the Republicans who are principally responsible for the death of the republic, because they don't care if the so-called 'president' is a crook, as long as he's THEIR crook. And he is.
Next time you just hop on google and start "googling" things, think of the poor, poor 22 year old engineers with those giant stacks of books and banks and banks of filing cabinets, and how rapidly they have to run down them, find a document, type it into their terminals at lightning speed, just so you can ask dumb questions, like, "is the moon bigger than the sun?"
Have a heart and THINK before you just ask google something. This guy was evidently worked to death.
I disagree. There ARE things to distinguish them. The iPhone SE: my last one was under $400, has 128GB of storage, and... a... HEADPHONE... JACK.
Your much newer phone: cost 2 or 3 times as much, didn’t have any more memory, (even if you have 256GB, or 512GB... WTF are you doing to justify paying for it? What are you doing, recording 4K video at 120fps of a bird taking a shit on your car? Oh, and as you pointed out... where’s the headphone jack? On their competitor’s phone, that’s where it is.
We have the power to bring back the jack. How? Don’t buy another product without one.
I recently got a new iPhone and unless Seratonin is the "angry neurotransmitter" I didn't get any blasts of it. There are many things that don't work as expected or are an annoyance, like constant "reminders" to set up Apple Wallet but the missing headphone jack is the source of most of the ire. It didn't even come with a headphone adapter so I had to buy one , which doesn't work. There's not a technical reason for it failing, it works fine for 1:45 then stops working with an "Unsupported accessory" message. It's just Apple trying to squeeze a few more dollars out of me, forcing me to buy THEIR overpriced accessories (which should be included with the phone in the first place). In my case it is counterproductive because instead of thousands of dollars in future phone purchases Apple will never get another dollar from me because of the horrible experience. Heck, look at the reviews for the basic headphone adapter from the Apple store, most of the reviews are one star:
This is my 7th one I’m one. As some one that loves wired headphones because I hate charging them this dongle is the worst !
I'm on my third lightning adapter since April. They don't last more than 2-3 months and are very cheaply made.
And these are the reviews from the Apple fanbois. It doesn't seem like they are feeling Seratonin blasts either.
To anyone wondering, I am NOT Enigma2175. (I mention this because your post is exactly the sort of thing I would write/have written.)
What you maybe should have done is what I did. I bought SEVERAL iPhone SE’s. When my current one dies... NEXT. I feel confident, (esp. as I carry my daily-driver phone in a waterproof protective case,) I have enough iPhones to last me until about the end of the phone era.
But yeah... I won’t buy a smartphone without a headphone jack. PERIOD.
So here’s a short, and NOT AT ALL exhaustive list of Apple products I will never buy: iPhone 7 iPhone 8 iPhone 9 (AKA iPhone X) iPhone XS iPhone X-Max or whatever goofy name Apple gave it... iPhone XR + 123ABC +++ or whatever... iPad New Pro XtraFlat XtraXpensive (or whatever)...
If Apple thinks I’m giving them another penny for defective-by-design BS, they’re out of their minds.
If all my iPhones die before I run out of heartbeats, I will buy a NON-Apple device to replace it, and that’s around the time I will buy my next PC, (and put GNU/Linux on it,) because as it stands, I have also already bought my last Mac.
If the thing you’re calling a computer (and is a notebook) doesn’t have USB-3.x, (2+), Thunderbolt/MiniDP, and an SD card adapter, it’s not fit for me to use. (Apple calls a new MacBook Standard, (as I call what they call the MacBook,) a MacBook Air, which it’s not. A MacBook Air has a pair of USB type A, 3.0 or 3.1 ports, it has a Thunderbolt/MiniDP port, it has a MagSafe2 Power adapter jack... it can take without adding more outside garbage, an SD/MMC card... and Apple’s discontinued that too, I believe. So, again, no more Apple BS for me.
I think in 10 years, Apple will sell their latest computer, a machine-carved, solid block of the element SILICON, it will cost $78,000, and it will do absolutely NOTHING. It’ll be a $78,000 paperweight... and Apple fanboize will LINE UP to buy them. SMH
Someone just went on Quora, and asked the community, “what would it be like if a file containing all of Quora’s user data were on my computer?” and one of the moderators answered.
Just like every paper currency has failed because of counterfeiting.
There are a couple hilariously glaring flaws in this argument: first, if you counterfeit Bitcoin, even if you do so while physically present in, say, the United States, a country that has reasonably strong law enforcement and investigative functions, they’re probably not going to take it as seriously as if you counterfeit US dollars; if you do so from outside the US, from any-old-where on Earth, how is anyone ever going to catch or punish you? Are they even likely to bother?
Second, even inasmuch as it is possible to counterfeit, for example, US dollars, when someone hands you a fistful of dollars in exchange for some work or a product, some produce, etc., you can be reasonably confident, especially if you examine them, look for the security features, make sure they’re genuine, and knowing the Secret Service, (yes, they’re not just the president’s Praetorian Guard,) will hunt down and prosecute people who make or pass counterfeit notes, that the notes you’ve been handed are real, genuine, and have a certain knowable value.
When someone gives you a string of numbers and says, “that’s a Bitcoin,” any reasonable person has to wonder, “is it?” A US Federal Reserve Note on the other hand, you can examine. You can look for watermarks, holographic threads woven into the fabric, resistance to certain acids, how it looks under UV light, details in the design difficult to mimic, etc. None of this can be done with Bitcoin.
The same things I’ve written about US dollars are true of most modern, government issued, hard-currencies around the world, because those countries that issue them have the same vested interest as the US does, in not allowing people to counterfeit them.
What government is going to waste its time giving a shit if someone counterfeits something the whole point of which is making it so people can avoid using the dollars, francs, marks, or pounds (or whatever... I guess some of those aren’t even used anymore, but if the Euro collapses, they might be brought back,) that they themselves issue, which though there are legitimate reasons to choose to use them, could be popular because they allow for evasion of taxes, or the purchase of contraband, etc.
If I were the US, (or any other) national government, not only would I not bother prosecuting “crimes” committed involving play-money, like Bitcoin, but I’d do whatever I legally could to hinder Bitcoin, including lending my resources, such as the NSA and CIA, etc., to the cause of letting people periodically hijack and steal Bitcoins or Bitwallets or whatever, just to undermine confidence in them, and tracking every purchase made with it.
Am I saying that they’re actively doing that? No. But I wouldn’t put it passed them, and if they’re not, maybe they should.
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Kewl. Will have to look into that ifanwen I have occasion to put up spanels.
FUuuuuUUUUUuuuKKKK AT&T! Already had a dozen reasons to despise that shitcompany... now I've got another. They're full of shit! Fuck AT&T for ever and ever and ever. Fuck AT&T forever.
Yeah, how dare they be concerned for their workers safety when they have to go out and fix something and your house is still feeding power back into what they are working on. How DARE they sir. You should be able to run your meth lab via solar with no government input.
I sure wish people had the guts or time to log in and reply, so I could write a meaningful response and have an actual conversation with people.
Ordinarilly I don't waste time responding to ACs, but... your "worker safety" concerns are ludicrous. When "they" have to go out and "fix something" you're perhaps assuming they are so stupid they don't check to make sure the parts they're working on are isolated electrically. You have, I suspect, an overly simplistic view of how power systems work. You saw a diagram showing a power station, some wires, and some houses, perhaps with some smiling waving people standing in front of them, indicating they're happy because power is flowing. In reality, the system is a vast sprawling network of interconnected and interoperating power systems, with all manner of complicated switchgear, etc., so when "they" have to come out and "fix something," they don't just ASSume that because the link between ONE power plant and SOME homes or businesses nearby is down, due to, say, a blown transformer they're there to work on, that there's no voltage present ANYWHERE. They isolate the parts they're working on completely because doing otherwise would be stupid and suicidal, and it doesn't matter if there's some solar panels nearby trying to feed into the "system".
Also, as an unrelated matter, comes the day when I have a house with solar panels or other electric generation equipment belonging to and contorlled by me, it's NOT going to be feeding into anything besides stuff I own and control... I want NOTHING to do with the power company or their bullshit grid; if I were not living somewhere where I'm not in a position to do this, I wouldn't be using their power anyway. All part of the price that must be paid.
AT&T is no more.
OMG AWESOME!!! I am just stoked to hear that! Where is their corporate grave? And where did I put mydancing shoes?
The company named AT&T today is actually Southwestern Bell,
... which is a descendant of... whom? Corporations, despite what Mitt Romney famously said, are not people in the literal sense of the word. If a company gets split into pieces, each retaining some of the people, corporate culture, intellectual property, contracts and legal rights and obligations, etc., of the parent company, it is as much the parent company as the parent was, even if it has changed. Some changes can occur and not change the essential nature or character of an organization. Case in point: when IBM sold off its personal computing unit to Lenovo did it cease being IBM?
which purchased the remnants of AT&T and then re-branded themselves in 2005.
Was IBM ever in fact IBM, considering it started life as a different company with a different name, and BOUGHT the IBM company and renamed itself after the acquisition with its acquisitionâ(TM)s name?
You would be right IF you were talking about a case where a rival or completely unrelated company buys the IP or rights to the trademark or name in a bankruptcy or fire-sale... like when Dorel (or Pacific Cycles or whoever) bought Schwinn. Now THAT is a case where despite all the new Schwinns rolling around, they are not real Schwinns and the company doing business, (fraudulently as far as I am concerned,) as Schwinn Inc. or Schwinn America or whatever is really in no way shape or form the same company. All different people as far as I know, different HQ, run for and by a basically different group of folks althogether.
The AT&T and IBM examples are much more nearly related, I think, than the Schwinn one. What you have asserted is more like Southwestern Bell is like Schwinn, and it simply is not.
Even if the Lenovo PC Unit somehow managed to buy-out IBM, that still would not quite be the same, because the break up of Ma Bell was not voluntary. IBM did not have a judgeâ(TM)s gun to their heads while trying to decide whether to sell to lenovo or not.
AT&T's Silence on 5G Speeds Screams 'Stay Away For Now'
AT&T's NAME on 5G Screams 'Stay Away, PERIOD.'
...it's a FEATURE!"
(Household finds selves caught in Amazon.com tractor beam.)
"They won't secretly eavesdrop on ME without a fight!"
"You can't win... but there are alternatives to fighting."
We might need someone to start making solar panels that donâ(TM)t t look solar panels so they won't come around and tax you for having power. Also would probably look nicer.
Um... who is Jim Acosta again, and when did I mention him? What network or paper does he or did he work for? I vaguely recall a story about him getting booted from the Whitehouse by fascits or something, but I don’t actually read/listen to him. What do his various faults or failings have to do with where news actually comes from? Or are you implying that most of the media are just like him, whatever problem you have with him... in which case, why not say so? If that’s what you mean, you might have a point... the buying up and corporatizing of news media is an alarming and disheartening trend... a great reason to find a publicly supported only news source and ditch the corrupt, useless, corporate-owned shitty ones.
I like Democracy Now (democracynow.org) but it’s easy to overdose on DN, and get really depressed. I think the Guardian is a good one too, but I have yet to really look into them.
In fairness to us, the news is so unremittingly aweful that we NEED to have it sugarcoated to render it possible to swallow, Before maligning people for getting news from commedians or commedians for making something actually redeming and useful to society of their longtime habit of being topical, bear in mind that, sad as it is to say, if there weren't commedians, a lot of people would be less informed than they are.
Try watching Democracy Now, (democracynow.org) a few days in a row instead of the flaming propaganda bullshit that has become of corporate-owned “news” “organizations” and you’ll likely have to have a drink, or several. If you knew what was actually going on, you’d need medication just to get through a day. Now imagine a commedian taking what Amy Goodman, Juan González, or Nermeen Shaikh (et al.) say daily, and making them funny and therefore less horrible.
I’d watch that.
If you’re curious about them here’s their “about” text:
Democracy Now! produces a daily, global, independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Our reporting includes breaking daily news headlines and in-depth interviews with people on the front lines of the world’s most pressing issues. On Democracy Now!, you’ll hear a diversity of voices speaking for themselves, providing a unique and sometimes provocative perspective on global events.
Democracy Now! is broadcast daily across the United States and Canada as well as in countries around the world. Our program is on Pacifica, NPR, community, college and satellite radio stations; on PBS, public, community and satellite TV; and viewed by millions of people online each day. Our headlines are broadcast in Spanish on radio stations across the U.S., Central and South America, and in Europe.
Democracy Now! launched in 1996, airing on nine radio stations. More than two decades later, we have grown to be one of the leading U.S.-based independent daily news broadcasts in the world.
As an independent news program, Democracy Now! is audience-supported, which means that our editorial independence is never compromised by corporate or government interests. Since our founding in 1996, Democracy Now! has held steadfast to our policy of not accepting government funding, corporate sponsorship, underwriting or advertising revenue.
People don't like having to “eat their vegetables,” but we need to. Commedians take those veggeis and make them more palatable.
...some people at Verizon were swearing mighty... oaths? LOL
Everyone gets their news from the news sources.
Um... no.
Some of it is mistakenly (or perhaps not mistakenly) referred to as “citizen journalism,” though perhaps, as citizens are not generally trained as journalists, and aren’t held to standards of any kind for rigor or integrity, and are only judged by whether something is riviting or capable of “going viral,” it should be called “shitizen journalism”. Some of it is journalism but imagining that sort of thing to be real journalism is like imagining the length of rope you replaced your fanbelt with to be a competent permanent replacement, instead of just something that might, maybe, manage to get you home.
Also, when your great aunt Edith posts a screengrab of a news story that WAS produced by someone trained and schooled in journalism and by someone who having to answer for professional ethics to an editorial staff whose purpose is to reduce the odds of their organization being responsible for disseminating bullshit, and also able to think critically, and know what lines of inquiry need to be pursued, when they’re encountering a smokescreen, etc., and you don't go to the original source, the person whose time and effort went into finding and bringing you that story didn't get paid a fucking penny for it.
He starves to death, or she has to drive a Luber when not reporting because of the epidemic of people confusing the firehose of bullshit that social media sites and the morons who use them mistake for news, with real, actual news.
Democratization is great under some, but not ALL circumstances. Imagine if someone applied the Uber/Lyft model to BRAIN SURGERY. A loophole in the law allows people to do brain surgery after doing an 8-hour online course provided they have a trained doctor supervising remotely, so a group of retired doctors take shifts for a fee, “supervising” a bank of of TVs showing feeds from UberBrainSurgery living-room operating theaters. What do you think the chances are of having a successful brain tumor removed or aneurism reduced without insurance coverage, by one of these guys for the low-low price of only three easy payments of $19.95?
That's what quality journalism you can expect if people don't pay for their news. Not all the “news” in a social media “news” feed comes from a legitimate and reliable, trustworthy news source, and if the people who hunted down and covered the stories, and ALL their support crew don’t get fucking paid, all you’ll be left with is the plucky schmuck with his iPhone who thinks that having a camera and microphone with him everywhere he goes makes him a fucking reporter, which is about as true as the idea that having a microphone and Autotune makes you a fucking singer.
Samsung appears to have been duped by a fake Supreme company or just doesn't care that anyone who pays attention to fashion will mock them for decades to come over this partnership. The Supreme that Samsung is partnering with is actually called Supreme Italia, which is a fake Supreme brand that is able to sell fake Supreme gear, thanks to some weird legal loophole or decision in Italy. They have no affiliation with the real Supreme. They are counterfeiters.
For them to partner with counterfeiters is only natural. They’ve been counterfeiting iPhones for years! LOL
Next time you just hop on google and start "googling" things, think of the poor, poor 22 year old engineers with those giant stacks of books and banks and banks of filing cabinets, and how rapidly they have to run down them, find a document, type it into their terminals at lightning speed, just so you can ask dumb questions, like, "is the moon bigger than the sun?"
Have a heart and THINK before you just ask google something. This guy was evidently worked to death.
That's not how indexing and search engine programming works.
If you have to explain a joke, you kill it.
This joke did nothing to you, and now it's dead. Happy?
Next time you just hop on google and start "googling" things, think of the poor, poor 22 year old engineers with those giant stacks of books and banks and banks of filing cabinets, and how rapidly they have to run
Wait... they’re using people? I thought it was some sort of really fast dog.
No, brah... that was Lycos. Lycos, sadly, died in 1998 after fetching Claudia Schiffer about seventy eight million times in 30 minutes after they ran that ad and lonely horny guys decided to try it out. Also, Claudia Schiffer was probably pretty exhausted after that, too.
He was such a good boy. :'(
Apple has been occupied entirely by fertilizer produced by bovines and it has adversely impacted their central nervous systems.
Hey, Apple... what does the word "incompatible" MEAN? Does. not. work. with.
As in, "Apple's attitude towards their former customers is incompatible with my buying anything else from them in the future." Gaslighting is more of this bovine-feces behavior that I will no longer tolerate.
Dum dum duh duh duh duh duh, dum dum duh duh duh duh duh Fraud BUSTERS!
When you've got a prez... and he's crook-ed, who you gonna call?
BOB MUELLER!
etc.
So funny that almost kinda sorta works.
Remember, everything Little Tiny Donny has ever said is, statistically speaking, probably a lie. Also, it's usually projection. Just the other day he was calling Rex Tillerson, who, if I recall correctly, called HIM a... and I quote, "FUCKING MORON" dumb as a rock and lazy as hell.
The guy who is a drooling submoron and who has never worked a day in his life, who is so full of shit he makes Bill Clinton look honest, so stupid he makes George W. Bush look like a genius, calls the former head of a REAL multinational company, (not a phony one like his own,) dumb and lazy.
THIS. IS. PROJECTION.
Lady Liberty is being raped and the Republicans don't give a fuck, because it's their guy doing it. Remember that next time they pretend they're patriots.
Moderation: mod me down now and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine. J/K... but you will burn up a mod-point for no reason, which is just stupid. No one is still reading this story. Trumpheads (or shitheads, as most people call them,) are not merely immune to facts, they're living in their own private, personal version of reality in which up is down, black is bad, orange is white, lies are truth, crimes are only committed by criminals, by which they mean people they don't like, and the law is whatever they want it to be. This, and not any one act by Donny Dipshit, is what is killing the republic. This whole thing only ever worked because we could all agree to abide by the results of free and fair elections, and we don't have those anymore. America has cancer and it's metastasized. It's turning into a banana republic, and it's the repulsive Republican party that's responsible. Corporate "Democrats" share some of the blame for being week, feckless, and unable to inspire people to come out and vote because voters know they're BOUGHT-OFF by their corporate owners, BUT it is the Republicans who are principally responsible for the death of the republic, because they don't care if the so-called 'president' is a crook, as long as he's THEIR crook. And he is.
"Buy high, sell low, that's how you do it... that's... oh shit! Wait... we did it BACKWARDS! NOOOOOoooo!"
As Rick "Gov. Goodhair" Perry famously put it, "oops."
Next time you just hop on google and start "googling" things, think of the poor, poor 22 year old engineers with those giant stacks of books and banks and banks of filing cabinets, and how rapidly they have to run down them, find a document, type it into their terminals at lightning speed, just so you can ask dumb questions, like, "is the moon bigger than the sun?"
Have a heart and THINK before you just ask google something. This guy was evidently worked to death.
What is that? FaceFuck employees are unhappy?
GOOD. FUCK ‘EM. Fuck them right in the fucking Face....Book.
Facebook, a long time ago, made my list of companies I cannot WAIT to watch go under.
I disagree. There ARE things to distinguish them.
The iPhone SE: my last one was under $400, has 128GB of storage, and... a... HEADPHONE... JACK.
Your much newer phone: cost 2 or 3 times as much, didn’t have any more memory, (even if you have 256GB, or 512GB... WTF are you doing to justify paying for it? What are you doing, recording 4K video at 120fps of a bird taking a shit on your car? Oh, and as you pointed out... where’s the headphone jack? On their competitor’s phone, that’s where it is.
We have the power to bring back the jack. How? Don’t buy another product without one.
#bringbackthejack
I recently got a new iPhone and unless Seratonin is the "angry neurotransmitter" I didn't get any blasts of it. There are many things that don't work as expected or are an annoyance, like constant "reminders" to set up Apple Wallet but the missing headphone jack is the source of most of the ire. It didn't even come with a headphone adapter so I had to buy one , which doesn't work. There's not a technical reason for it failing, it works fine for 1:45 then stops working with an "Unsupported accessory" message. It's just Apple trying to squeeze a few more dollars out of me, forcing me to buy THEIR overpriced accessories (which should be included with the phone in the first place). In my case it is counterproductive because instead of thousands of dollars in future phone purchases Apple will never get another dollar from me because of the horrible experience. Heck, look at the reviews for the basic headphone adapter from the Apple store, most of the reviews are one star:
And these are the reviews from the Apple fanbois. It doesn't seem like they are feeling Seratonin blasts either.
To anyone wondering, I am NOT Enigma2175. (I mention this because your post is exactly the sort of thing I would write/have written.)
What you maybe should have done is what I did. I bought SEVERAL iPhone SE’s. When my current one dies... NEXT. I feel confident, (esp. as I carry my daily-driver phone in a waterproof protective case,) I have enough iPhones to last me until about the end of the phone era.
But yeah... I won’t buy a smartphone without a headphone jack. PERIOD.
So here’s a short, and NOT AT ALL exhaustive list of Apple products I will never buy:
iPhone 7
iPhone 8
iPhone 9 (AKA iPhone X)
iPhone XS
iPhone X-Max or whatever goofy name Apple gave it...
iPhone XR + 123ABC +++ or whatever...
iPad New Pro XtraFlat XtraXpensive (or whatever)...
If Apple thinks I’m giving them another penny for defective-by-design BS, they’re out of their minds.
If all my iPhones die before I run out of heartbeats, I will buy a NON-Apple device to replace it, and that’s around the time I will buy my next PC, (and put GNU/Linux on it,) because as it stands, I have also already bought my last Mac.
If the thing you’re calling a computer (and is a notebook) doesn’t have USB-3.x, (2+), Thunderbolt/MiniDP, and an SD card adapter, it’s not fit for me to use. (Apple calls a new MacBook Standard, (as I call what they call the MacBook,) a MacBook Air, which it’s not. A MacBook Air has a pair of USB type A, 3.0 or 3.1 ports, it has a Thunderbolt/MiniDP port, it has a MagSafe2 Power adapter jack... it can take without adding more outside garbage, an SD/MMC card... and Apple’s discontinued that too, I believe. So, again, no more Apple BS for me.
I think in 10 years, Apple will sell their latest computer, a machine-carved, solid block of the element SILICON, it will cost $78,000, and it will do absolutely NOTHING. It’ll be a $78,000 paperweight... and Apple fanboize will LINE UP to buy them. SMH
Someone just went on Quora, and asked the community, “what would it be like if a file containing all of Quora’s user data were on my computer?” and one of the moderators answered.
However, given what they’re proposing, fuck 200, up to as much as 250% of that shit.
I... can’t... CARE!!!
(Walks away whistling tunelessly, giving less than 10 raised to the negative 99th power fucks.)
Just like every paper currency has failed because of counterfeiting.
There are a couple hilariously glaring flaws in this argument: first, if you counterfeit Bitcoin, even if you do so while physically present in, say, the United States, a country that has reasonably strong law enforcement and investigative functions, they’re probably not going to take it as seriously as if you counterfeit US dollars; if you do so from outside the US, from any-old-where on Earth, how is anyone ever going to catch or punish you? Are they even likely to bother?
Second, even inasmuch as it is possible to counterfeit, for example, US dollars, when someone hands you a fistful of dollars in exchange for some work or a product, some produce, etc., you can be reasonably confident, especially if you examine them, look for the security features, make sure they’re genuine, and knowing the Secret Service, (yes, they’re not just the president’s Praetorian Guard,) will hunt down and prosecute people who make or pass counterfeit notes, that the notes you’ve been handed are real, genuine, and have a certain knowable value.
When someone gives you a string of numbers and says, “that’s a Bitcoin,” any reasonable person has to wonder, “is it?” A US Federal Reserve Note on the other hand, you can examine. You can look for watermarks, holographic threads woven into the fabric, resistance to certain acids, how it looks under UV light, details in the design difficult to mimic, etc. None of this can be done with Bitcoin.
The same things I’ve written about US dollars are true of most modern, government issued, hard-currencies around the world, because those countries that issue them have the same vested interest as the US does, in not allowing people to counterfeit them.
What government is going to waste its time giving a shit if someone counterfeits something the whole point of which is making it so people can avoid using the dollars, francs, marks, or pounds (or whatever... I guess some of those aren’t even used anymore, but if the Euro collapses, they might be brought back,) that they themselves issue, which though there are legitimate reasons to choose to use them, could be popular because they allow for evasion of taxes, or the purchase of contraband, etc.
If I were the US, (or any other) national government, not only would I not bother prosecuting “crimes” committed involving play-money, like Bitcoin, but I’d do whatever I legally could to hinder Bitcoin, including lending my resources, such as the NSA and CIA, etc., to the cause of letting people periodically hijack and steal Bitcoins or Bitwallets or whatever, just to undermine confidence in them, and tracking every purchase made with it.
Am I saying that they’re actively doing that? No. But I wouldn’t put it passed them, and if they’re not, maybe they should.