We have to charge an arm a leg and a testicle for a degree! Why? Because the market will bear it!
The market's not bearing it. Revenues are falling off! Okay, scrap the degree program and come up with easier degrees. But those degrees don't actually deliver any value. Shut up! GIMME TOUCHY-FEELY!
People are pissed. Why? The touchy-feely degrees aren't in demand because they have no actual utility in the real world. Tough shit! We got our money!
Nope. Actually, this is simply going to exacerbate the existing lack of confidence most people have for broadcast news, causing these propaganda outlets to fail even faster.
I for one, think it's long LONG overdue.
And hey, do you know how many people out there go their entire lives without the plethora of sexual over-service that we're getting?;)
Honestly, no. He is right. The Far Left, dragging the centrists along with them, have exposed this country to 2-3 decades of "political correctness". Basically, certain necessary things became "unsayable". And those who said them anyhow were made into pariahs and silenced. In essence, secular blasphemy.
FUCK THAT NOISE
As to cultural appropriation. Culture has worked by blending, exchanging, taking, conquering, etc since time immemorial. So trying to tell people that things are "off limits" because they belong to another culture? Complete and utter bullshit. Hell, it's to the point where Native Americans are taking other Native Americans to task for dressing in Native American garb for Halloween (another "loaner" from another culture).
I honestly don't give a shit if it hurts someone's feelings. "It hurts my feelings" isn't an argument. It's a whine. Nothing more.
And yes, you're right in acknowledging that the brain-deadness of political correctness has infested the Right too.
What do you expect? For years, the Left has played the "We care more!" card. And the Right simply didn't have an answer. So they'd wilt up like a flower in a snowstorm. Until they discovered that this whole victim mentality could be useful to them too.
Actually I'd say that the Far Left and Far Right are driving EACH OTHER further apart. Meanwhile, the rest of us who have to actually WORK for a living wish they would just all meet up in an alley somewhere and end our problems for us...
I know that's not QUITE true. Some maladjusted basement dweller is probably spooging his drawers right now over it. But real people outside of the Jobsian Cult are physically and philosophically barred from giving even less of a fuck than they already have.
Apparently Trump's victory, after being told that Killary was a "sure thing", broke you people so severely that you and all your buddies lost even a feigned semblance of a mind.
So, out of compassion, every Dumbocrat has been pushed to the head of the list.
1: Remote access software. My primary recommendation is TeamViewer. It's basically idiot proof remote access.
2: 3rd Party AV. Defender is good, but it's fully integrated into the OS. That can be both helpful AND a nasty liability. I'd trust a 3rd Party AV more. Suggestions. BitDefender, WebRoot, Avast
3: Once everything is loaded up, generate a system image on an external HD or backup drive. If you want to use the in-built backup, fine. If you want to use something like Acronis True Image or Macrium reflect. If you're more technically minded, you could do Clonezilla.
4: 2 External Hard Drives. One for regular backups, one for the initial "Oh Shit" backup.
5: Make sure when you set up the initial user on the machine, it's as a LOCAL user, not one of the Microsoft-tied accounts.
6: Your son's account should be a REGULAR USER and he shouldn't know the admin account logon.
7: Firefox browser, + Ghostery + Adblock and/or a decent hosts file (Google "Windows Host file for ad blocking")
8: A password manager (to which you have the root/master/admin password to the database). This way, if you DO have to reload everything, you aren't having to recover accounts or start new ones because you can't remember the passwords. Keep a copy of the database on your "Oh Shit" backup. Grab a copy every couple months.
And once people realize this (ACTUALLY realize it, not the soft acknowledgement "but I can still make money right now"), it's going to course-correct SO hard.
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We have to charge an arm a leg and a testicle for a degree!
Why?
Because the market will bear it!
The market's not bearing it. Revenues are falling off!
Okay, scrap the degree program and come up with easier degrees.
But those degrees don't actually deliver any value.
Shut up! GIMME TOUCHY-FEELY!
People are pissed.
Why?
The touchy-feely degrees aren't in demand because they have no actual utility in the real world.
Tough shit! We got our money!
It also never stopped the various states from enacting laws that ameliorate the effects of (or completely counter) federal law either.
Tell the FCC to fuck off and die.
Nope. Actually, this is simply going to exacerbate the existing lack of confidence most people have for broadcast news, causing these propaganda outlets to fail even faster.
I for one, think it's long LONG overdue.
And hey, do you know how many people out there go their entire lives without the plethora of sexual over-service that we're getting? ;)
Honestly, no. He is right.
The Far Left, dragging the centrists along with them, have exposed this country to 2-3 decades of "political correctness". Basically, certain necessary things became "unsayable". And those who said them anyhow were made into pariahs and silenced. In essence, secular blasphemy.
FUCK
THAT
NOISE
As to cultural appropriation. Culture has worked by blending, exchanging, taking, conquering, etc since time immemorial.
So trying to tell people that things are "off limits" because they belong to another culture? Complete and utter bullshit.
Hell, it's to the point where Native Americans are taking other Native Americans to task for dressing in Native American garb for Halloween (another "loaner" from another culture).
I honestly don't give a shit if it hurts someone's feelings. "It hurts my feelings" isn't an argument. It's a whine. Nothing more.
And yes, you're right in acknowledging that the brain-deadness of political correctness has infested the Right too.
What do you expect? For years, the Left has played the "We care more!" card. And the Right simply didn't have an answer. So they'd wilt up like a flower in a snowstorm. Until they discovered that this whole victim mentality could be useful to them too.
Actually I'd say that the Far Left and Far Right are driving EACH OTHER further apart.
Meanwhile, the rest of us who have to actually WORK for a living wish they would just all meet up in an alley somewhere and end our problems for us...
For being an indicator of anything other than the person posts within the bounds of what Twitter considered "right-think".
Yes. Because never mind leftists attacking government officials, rioting, causing massive property damage, beating people down, etc.
Because one dumbass killed someone, everything else is forgiven. Right?
The verified tag is nothing more than badge of social status. At which point, it's useless.
The mere fact of being DE-verified pretty much proves this.
I know that's not QUITE true.
Some maladjusted basement dweller is probably spooging his drawers right now over it.
But real people outside of the Jobsian Cult are physically and philosophically barred from giving even less of a fuck than they already have.
Because, hey, we need to include witch doctors, magic and shit as real science.
Yeah. Tell that to the remote.
I DID do all of the above. And the fucking thing DID NOT WORK.
And the TV at the time was a simple Visio Plasma Screen.
Which accomplishes NOTHING, since we're talking international borders.
And, meanwhile, they put into place apparatus to assist abusers in their endeavors.
As long as it's on their own proprietary streaming service, I refuse to even think about the series.
As such, it ranks, in terms of importance in my life, someplace behind even my next bowel movement.
Apparently Trump's victory, after being told that Killary was a "sure thing", broke you people so severely that you and all your buddies lost even a feigned semblance of a mind.
So, out of compassion, every Dumbocrat has been pushed to the head of the list.
They can't even keep their OWN secrets.
What makes them think that a secret backdoor only THEY have been entrusted with will be safe?
Sorry, but if a weakness exists, it'll be found.
What's more, if it's a DELIBERATE weakness, it will likely be found FASTER, as what CAN be done to compromise such a thing is predictable.
1: Remote access software. My primary recommendation is TeamViewer. It's basically idiot proof remote access.
2: 3rd Party AV. Defender is good, but it's fully integrated into the OS. That can be both helpful AND a nasty liability. I'd trust a 3rd Party AV more. Suggestions. BitDefender, WebRoot, Avast
3: Once everything is loaded up, generate a system image on an external HD or backup drive. If you want to use the in-built backup, fine. If you want to use something like Acronis True Image or Macrium reflect. If you're more technically minded, you could do Clonezilla.
4: 2 External Hard Drives. One for regular backups, one for the initial "Oh Shit" backup.
5: Make sure when you set up the initial user on the machine, it's as a LOCAL user, not one of the Microsoft-tied accounts.
6: Your son's account should be a REGULAR USER and he shouldn't know the admin account logon.
7: Firefox browser, + Ghostery + Adblock and/or a decent hosts file (Google "Windows Host file for ad blocking")
8: A password manager (to which you have the root/master/admin password to the database). This way, if you DO have to reload everything, you aren't having to recover accounts or start new ones because you can't remember the passwords. Keep a copy of the database on your "Oh Shit" backup. Grab a copy every couple months.
9: LONGEST POSSIBLE WARRANTY YOU CAN BUY.
And once people realize this (ACTUALLY realize it, not the soft acknowledgement "but I can still make money right now"), it's going to course-correct SO hard.
And why was my original post a troll? It was my actual experience with one of these units.
They required a lot of work for initial configuration and didn't work very well even then.
KILL CNN!
KILL CNN!
What do we want? Less propaganda!
When do we want it? About 10 years ago!
You basically had to hand-program every last fucking button OTHER than power. And even then it didn't work a lot of the time.
And do to any modifications you had to plug it back into your computer...
Complete waste of money.
Whoops! Used the P-word! Sorry! Sorry!
Still. Is this process any more manageable, efficient or economical than nuclear fusion?
Wow. Did I forget my *humor* tags again?
Exactly as far as I could shot-put a lead-lined, concrete-filled 1970's Buick pimpmobile with a broken pinkie finger in a 100G environment.
And that's if I'm feeling naive and charitable...
Anything that could interfere with telemetry...