Also, can you easily sync the calendar and contacts to your phone the way you can with Outlook?
*Note: I said EASILY! So your 75-step "here's how you do'er" can be consigned to the circular file.*
Personally, I don't use Outlook myself. I don't care for the client. However, I only use webmail when I don't have access to my phone or one of my computers (see "seldom, if ever").
Also, please tell me how I peruse my old e-mail when my internet connection goes down or the provider has a service outage for a webmail app.
As functional as webmail and web-office apps are, they're still little more than toys.
Since the closure of City of Heroes, there's nothing that I really want to play. I have no desire to play high fantasy games, I won't ever touch anything remotely connected to NCSoft again, I'm a casual player who can't devote massive tracts of time, and I'm utterly disgusted by P2W.
I'm hoping that the upcoming, community-driven, City of Titans fits into the hole that CoH left. But for right now, about the most I do is play Freecell.
The problem was never the fact that the people putting the site together were incompetent.
Yes, they WERE, and that IS a problem.
But the real problem is that the entire project has been a study in incompetence from the top down.
Yep, that means good old Obama is at fault as well.
*Gasp!* I just blamed the president for something! Quick! Someone chuck an entire deck of race cards at me! Follow it up by a bunch of bully pulpitry on my terrible politics!
Basically you have a top-down mandate for a site with no competent technical oversite at every level. You have no clear chain of command for making decisions. You have unclear, shifting, and sometimes even contradictory goals (along with feature creep). You have no project documentation or data management assessments. You had nobody responsible for monitoring standards, best practices or security.
The true miracle here is that the site worked at all!
Basically the entire Obamacare thing has been a gigantic boondoggle.
1) Bitcoin is not an investment. You're not paying for a stake in an operation, you're buying a commodity.
I'd suggest you reword this statement for internal consistency. As commodities can also be investments.
See: Try again.
2) Consistent with the first point, Bitcoin doesn't promise or pay returns. You don't get anything "from Bitcoin".
Again, nowhere does it state that the promise of a return comes from Bitcoin itself. This is not required to classify as a Ponzi scheme.
There is no one to run your hypothetical Ponzi scheme.
Nope. There's groups of people, each hoping that the next person in is an even bigger sucker than they are.
The primary identifying factor of a Ponzi scheme is promises of high returns for little risk, with actual returns being paid out of investor's own funds.
Which is more or less what's happening here. You're seeing this exploding price bubble. That's great until you hit a certain point and lots of people try to cash out for real currency.
The fact that you think Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme shows just how little you know about the currency.
A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to its investors from their own money or the money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from profit earned by the individual or organization running the operation.
That's the definition of a ponzi scheme and the current way cash equivalency for BTC is attained.
Tell me I'm wrong.
About the only thing un-ponzi-like about it is that the initial promoter HAS disappeared, but the scam hasn't collapsed yet. Because it's been propagated by subsequent levels of scammers trying to prop it up and maximize their returns.
There are rules in this country that forbid ejecting natural born citizens. Moreover, simply dumping him in another country solves nothing (well, unless it's Siberia in the middle of winter and you drop him off 100 miles from anything, buck naked), as he can commit his electronic felonies from pretty much anyplace with an internet connection. Worse, by dumping him outside your jurisdiction, you remove much of your ability to monitor and rehabilitate this person, while giving other unsavory people unfettered access to him.
You see, this is just the problem that Jeremy Hammond faces.
Other people aren't "people". They're "targets" and "sheep" and "them".
That's how he's trying to justify what he did.
As for Jeremy learning?
Getting himself kicked out of college for vandalizing campus servers didn't teach him. Losing his cushy job for teaching people how to break into systems USING HIS COMPANY'S SERVERS didn't teach him. Going to jail for 2 years for hacking and theft of credit card info with intent to use didn't teach him. Now he's back in jail for hacking and theft of credit card info AGAIN.
How many chances should this cocksucker get? Hmm? When is it okay to say "Enough is enough!" and put his ass away?
He's been given numerous chances. He's exhausted the legal system's patience. He's now going away for a long, long time. So he can cool off and to let the group of idiots promoting him as a hacker saint grow up, cool off, and eventually disperse. As 10 years is a very long time to try to keep up one's broken-headed political zeal.
They do it the first time, they get a slap on the wrists. (Note: He compromised the computer systems at the university he was going to and was expelled.)
They do it again, the consequences get more serious. (Note: He went to jail for 2 years for the ProtestWarrior hack.)
They CONTINUE to do it, even after suffering negative consequnces, you toss the book at them. (Note: Now he's going away for an extended period.)
Also, please keep in mind this is less about the cracking into the Stratfor systems and more about the theft of financial data with intent to use (as well as the actual use of said financial data).
He's proven himself to be an intractable criminal. Not just with his hacking and electronic theft. But for violent offenses and physical theft as well. He was sent to prison for 2 years and when he got out he picked up right where he left off.
That's basically begging, on bended knee, for a concrete cell.
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Also, can you easily sync the calendar and contacts to your phone the way you can with Outlook?
*Note: I said EASILY! So your 75-step "here's how you do'er" can be consigned to the circular file.*
Personally, I don't use Outlook myself. I don't care for the client.
However, I only use webmail when I don't have access to my phone or one of my computers (see "seldom, if ever").
Also, please tell me how I peruse my old e-mail when my internet connection goes down or the provider has a service outage for a webmail app.
As functional as webmail and web-office apps are, they're still little more than toys.
Because trolls and mental defectives don't deserve civility. As the nuance of it escapes them.
Naw man! Look at my info. I'm Chas! ;-)
Yes. I know the people working on STO as well
.
I also have a lifetime account on Champions Online.
My problems with the Cryptic/PWE setup the unending push to lockbox anything non-trivial in the game.
I'm willing, more than willing, to spend real money on costumes, temp powers, and even unlocking powersets.
I'm not willing to spend money on "keys" to open gambling boxes though.
I beta'ed STO way back when. The starship simulation is nice. The rest of the game is a fricking bore.
Honestly?
No.
Since the closure of City of Heroes, there's nothing that I really want to play. I have no desire to play high fantasy games, I won't ever touch anything remotely connected to NCSoft again, I'm a casual player who can't devote massive tracts of time, and I'm utterly disgusted by P2W.
I'm hoping that the upcoming, community-driven, City of Titans fits into the hole that CoH left. But for right now, about the most I do is play Freecell.
Yeah.
I know.
Ironic ain't it?
The problem was never the fact that the people putting the site together were incompetent.
Yes, they WERE, and that IS a problem.
But the real problem is that the entire project has been a study in incompetence from the top down.
Yep, that means good old Obama is at fault as well.
*Gasp!* I just blamed the president for something! Quick! Someone chuck an entire deck of race cards at me! Follow it up by a bunch of bully pulpitry on my terrible politics!
Basically you have a top-down mandate for a site with no competent technical oversite at every level.
You have no clear chain of command for making decisions.
You have unclear, shifting, and sometimes even contradictory goals (along with feature creep).
You have no project documentation or data management assessments.
You had nobody responsible for monitoring standards, best practices or security.
The true miracle here is that the site worked at all!
Basically the entire Obamacare thing has been a gigantic boondoggle.
Hyperbole AND bad grasp of grammar!
Really wants to make me keep reading...
*Austin Powers* Really?
*Doctor Evil* No. Not really.
So basically, ancient humans and hominids would shag anything that moved eh?
Why does that sound familiar?
Tipping?
Dude! It's doing a wall-walk a-la Trinity from the Matrix!
1) Bitcoin is not an investment. You're not paying for a stake in an operation, you're buying a commodity.
I'd suggest you reword this statement for internal consistency. As commodities can also be investments.
See: Try again.
2) Consistent with the first point, Bitcoin doesn't promise or pay returns. You don't get anything "from Bitcoin".
Again, nowhere does it state that the promise of a return comes from Bitcoin itself. This is not required to classify as a Ponzi scheme.
There is no one to run your hypothetical Ponzi scheme.
Nope. There's groups of people, each hoping that the next person in is an even bigger sucker than they are.
The primary identifying factor of a Ponzi scheme is promises of high returns for little risk, with actual returns being paid out of investor's own funds.
Which is more or less what's happening here. You're seeing this exploding price bubble. That's great until you hit a certain point and lots of people try to cash out for real currency.
The fact that you think Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme shows just how little you know about the currency.
A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to its investors from their own money or the money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from profit earned by the individual or organization running the operation.
That's the definition of a ponzi scheme and the current way cash equivalency for BTC is attained.
Tell me I'm wrong.
About the only thing un-ponzi-like about it is that the initial promoter HAS disappeared, but the scam hasn't collapsed yet. Because it's been propagated by subsequent levels of scammers trying to prop it up and maximize their returns.
The government embracing yet another shady economic plan!
See! If the US embraces a Ponzi scheme, it MUST be okay!
What complete and utter bullshit!
BINGO!
Jail = Banishment
There are rules in this country that forbid ejecting natural born citizens.
Moreover, simply dumping him in another country solves nothing (well, unless it's Siberia in the middle of winter and you drop him off 100 miles from anything, buck naked), as he can commit his electronic felonies from pretty much anyplace with an internet connection.
Worse, by dumping him outside your jurisdiction, you remove much of your ability to monitor and rehabilitate this person, while giving other unsavory people unfettered access to him.
You kinda forgot the "While stealing people's credit card information and using it."
Yeah, and all of your virgins look like this.
Treating human beings like human beings?
You see, this is just the problem that Jeremy Hammond faces.
Other people aren't "people". They're "targets" and "sheep" and "them".
That's how he's trying to justify what he did.
As for Jeremy learning?
Getting himself kicked out of college for vandalizing campus servers didn't teach him.
Losing his cushy job for teaching people how to break into systems USING HIS COMPANY'S SERVERS didn't teach him.
Going to jail for 2 years for hacking and theft of credit card info with intent to use didn't teach him.
Now he's back in jail for hacking and theft of credit card info AGAIN.
How many chances should this cocksucker get? Hmm?
When is it okay to say "Enough is enough!" and put his ass away?
He's been given numerous chances. He's exhausted the legal system's patience.
He's now going away for a long, long time. So he can cool off and to let the group of idiots promoting him as a hacker saint grow up, cool off, and eventually disperse. As 10 years is a very long time to try to keep up one's broken-headed political zeal.
They do it the first time, they get a slap on the wrists.
(Note: He compromised the computer systems at the university he was going to and was expelled.)
They do it again, the consequences get more serious.
(Note: He went to jail for 2 years for the ProtestWarrior hack.)
They CONTINUE to do it, even after suffering negative consequnces, you toss the book at them.
(Note: Now he's going away for an extended period.)
Also, please keep in mind this is less about the cracking into the Stratfor systems and more about the theft of financial data with intent to use (as well as the actual use of said financial data).
Dude, if I could get my wife to give me a blow job, which is illegal in this state, I'd be fucking happy to go to jail!
I see what you did there...
Tell me that after some asshole jacks your credit card information and leaves you in debt.
For Hammond?
IMNSHO? Yes!
He's proven himself to be an intractable criminal. Not just with his hacking and electronic theft. But for violent offenses and physical theft as well.
He was sent to prison for 2 years and when he got out he picked up right where he left off.
That's basically begging, on bended knee, for a concrete cell.
"100% of its power from renewable energy"
NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN.
What they'll be doing is using traditional brown power and offsetting that with renewable energy "credits".
This is so blatantly NOT 100% renewable that it isn't even funny.
I advocated no such thing.
I advocated a way to repay society. Rather than sitting in a cell, watching TV and generally being idle at the taxpayer's expense.
And in such a situation as wrongful conviction, the individual would have some form of redress to credit them for their labor.
Just keep reminding yourself of this crucial fact though.
This is less about "on a computer" and more about "He stole shit...again"