It's not just about the video clips, but about the disturbance to the rest of the audience of having a phone screen suddenly light up in their line of vision.
The DNC isn't the only target... We've seen a number of reports of state voter registration databases under attack, and those are attacks on our government.
That seems like a pretty stupid use of the shitload of money that's going to be required to buy this thing. Maybe he could just get therapy for his emotional problems with it and the world would end up a better place, instead of just perpetuating the self-congratulatory bullshit of the "Extreme free speech" community on 4chan.
But that would require the ability for introspection, which this cat clearly lacks. So never mind--buyout 4chan it is!
Most sales at gun shows do require a background check... There is a loophole to avoid them, and that is if you buy from a "private seller," that is, someone who isn't a licensed dealer. In that scenario, if they sell you a gun they legally own they are under no obligation to do any kind of background check and incur no liability if you turn out to be a madman intent on harm.
Originally, private sales were exempted from background checks because they were impractical, but I agree with the notion that sales at shows--whether between two individuals or between dealers and individuals--should always require a check. Maybe a better way to phrase it is "Sales between people that don't know each other should be considered commercial sales by default and require a background check," but I have no earthly idea how you'd write a law that passes constitutional muster and is also practically enforceable, so I think the only real option is to require a background check for all sales, whether they're "private" or not.
the dry ass-fucking should be reserved for people that use "literally" as an intensifier
Actually, my use of "literally" was valid and correct there--people bitching about poor customer service regularly refer to it as a "Dry ass fucking." The device Mr. Garrison invented on South Park had an actual phallus that was shoved into the operators ass--an real (cartoon) ass-fucking.
But it's not valid in the following sentence:
I literally hate it when people waste their breath bitching about other people's word choice. Did you understand what I meant? Yeah? Well then it doesn't matter if it's "correct" or not. (Although this time, it was, I'm wrong all the time, I freely admit.)
Allegedly, most states have requirements for redundant power for switching stations, documented maintenance schedules, and the like. But the reality is that the combination of regulatory capture and the subsequent loss of will to enforce those regulations means that, in practice, it's much harder to catch the phone companies out at breaking the rules. As a result, they've cut budgets and are being fined rarely enough that, system-wide, it's cheaper than doing to maintenance to just pay the occasional fines, and as a bonus, it suits their business preference to get everybody shifted over to VoIP lines....Which will be a cow for them until somebody realizes that with everybody on VoIP endpoints, now suddenly the internet is critical infrastructure and as such, last mile service needs to be regulated as strictly as the old POTS services were because that's how we access medical help in an emergenct, Police and Fire services, and so the same justifications that brought about requiring maintenance of the old POTS physical plant will then be usable to justify requiring backup power, documented maintenance--all the things the phone companies have been trying to run away from the costs of--onto the last mile residential and commercial internet infrastructure, too.
I'm considering rigging up a string and tin-cans contraption, myself.
It sort of reminds me of the South Park where Mr. Garrison invents the world's ultimate transportation device--it goes 300 MPH safely on the ground, allowing us to simply skip out on the humiliation of being groped in airport security lines. It does require the operator to insert a "safety wand" into their ass, and the countrols are manipulated using a phallic object via the tongue, but as all the people trying it out say "Well, it's a little uncomfortable at first, but still beats dealing with the airlines..."
Mobile phone carriers and telephone companies in general are arriving at that level of hatred--people would rather be literally dry ass-fucked uncomfortably for hours than deal with them.
Although this seems to formalize a policy, the reality is that the various telephone companies have been cutting budgets for maintenance of copper phone lines, switching stations, and networks for many years. Ask anybody who has a business need for POTS lines about how hard it is to get any problems with them corrected--it's basically impossible. If you fight with them long enough and ward off enough attempts to be switched to a VoiP service to replace the broken lines, they'll trigger a "truck roll" and then tell you "it's all good" when it's clearly not "all good."
For example, every one of our remote sites we have a POTS line for the times when (not if, when) the main internet access is offline, taking the VPN to access that facility from HQ offline as well. I have a POTS line at each that I can dial-up to and remotely administer things. Guess how much fun it is to discover a noisy line with a modem? (Hint: Not fun.) Guess how even much more fun it is to discover you have a noisy line at a site in the middle of the only time of year you ever need to use that POTS line, during the Internet outage at that site? (Hint: Super-not-fun.)
You can't see me, but my index finger is touching the tip of my nose as we speak... (If you're not a native english speaker, I mean I found the comment to be "on the nose" correct.)
Make friends based on mutual interest in hobbies and whathaveyounot. Totally a great option for grown-ups whose friends are all married and preoccuppied with their armies of children.
I'll also note it's possible both narratives are correct--that ITT at one time provided a quality-enough education to get your coworkers into the good part of the job market, but went down the crapper after they all left. Because the descriptions I'm seeing of their practices mark them as just another predator in recent years, even if they previously did their level best to help students grow into young professionals.
Why was ITT singled out by the Federal Government when no different than many other places?
There are explicit rules for the for-profit institutions to gain access to student loan funding form the feds. The one that ITT specifically ran afoul of is their "job placement" claims were basically bullshit. They claimed a 90+% placement rate, but the truth is they couldn't substantiate that with actual paperwork and documentation, and many of the people they could substantiate placing weren't making jack-shit.
They were operating an ongoing fraud, and were validly and correctly "singled out" for doing so. They repeatedly, for many many years, lied to their accreditation body to continue their access to the federal student loan program fraudulently, despite knowing they legally didn't have any business getting funds through that program.
In short, there's a gulf thousands of miles wide between what ITT did and what "many other places" are doing. And I'll note: With the demise of the ACICS we're going to find a lot of these for-profit "schools" can't get a new accreditation and end up shutting down. This is, in broad strokes, a "good thing," and you should assume ITT is the first, not the last, school of this type that will end up shutting down.
Almost all student loans charge rip-off interest, and some private loans are little better than usurious revolving credit cards.
Student lending has become predatory--it's as bad or worse than the mortgage industry was a few years ago because these lenders know, with absolute certitude, that these debts cannot be discharged in bankruptcy, so they'll loan you as much as you want and charge you infinity interest if you'll sign to it because they know there is no escape from paying besides death, and even that sometimes can still not be an obstacle to collecting from an estate.
...You mean other than the fact that real universities deliver actually valuable education from skilled professionals who know what they're talking about and ITT handed out degrees that meant nothing beacause their cirricula are a joke and served as a money-laundering platform for slimy executives?
My god, you people have a massive sense of entitlement. When you buy something and break it, why should the manufacturer have to provide you with a new product? When you crash your car into a telephone pole, is the manufacturer or dealer required to give you a new car free of charge? That would be absurd, but that's how your acting about iPhones. There's no reason that Apple should have to give you a new iPhone when you broke your old one, but you and so many others here have a massive sense of entitlement.
Don't mean to interrupt your ranting and raving with anything approaching reasonable discourse but...
Would you mind citing where I said I "broke" my iPod touch and that this was the cause of its woes? The only thing "broken" about my Touch is that the touch screen isn't really as-much a "touch screen" anymore.
Third option: Train them wrong. "Sure, of course I'll train my replacement." Teach him the most fucked up version of everything you can, but do so with a straight face. Make sure your trainee is utterly clueless on the day you tell your boss "He's ready to go! Best in the business, this one."
It raises the price of the outsourcing for the employer, and in sufficient quantities by enough employees, could even be enough to make the outsourcing project totally fail.
Not to mention the nakedly partisan nature of the "organization" (read "PAC") conducting the poll. Is it any surprise a conservative PAC wants to throw shade at Hillary?
Isn't that the biggest scam of all? The advertisers are getting billed for these impressions even though the only thing I'm doing when they come on and trying to understand how to make the crapflood stop. If I do even notice the logo/brand involved, my impressions is extremely negative.
Exactly the opposite of the impression a good advertisement should create.
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It's not just about the video clips, but about the disturbance to the rest of the audience of having a phone screen suddenly light up in their line of vision.
The DNC isn't the only target... We've seen a number of reports of state voter registration databases under attack, and those are attacks on our government.
That seems like a pretty stupid use of the shitload of money that's going to be required to buy this thing. Maybe he could just get therapy for his emotional problems with it and the world would end up a better place, instead of just perpetuating the self-congratulatory bullshit of the "Extreme free speech" community on 4chan.
But that would require the ability for introspection, which this cat clearly lacks. So never mind--buyout 4chan it is!
Most sales at gun shows do require a background check... There is a loophole to avoid them, and that is if you buy from a "private seller," that is, someone who isn't a licensed dealer. In that scenario, if they sell you a gun they legally own they are under no obligation to do any kind of background check and incur no liability if you turn out to be a madman intent on harm.
Originally, private sales were exempted from background checks because they were impractical, but I agree with the notion that sales at shows--whether between two individuals or between dealers and individuals--should always require a check. Maybe a better way to phrase it is "Sales between people that don't know each other should be considered commercial sales by default and require a background check," but I have no earthly idea how you'd write a law that passes constitutional muster and is also practically enforceable, so I think the only real option is to require a background check for all sales, whether they're "private" or not.
Actually, my use of "literally" was valid and correct there--people bitching about poor customer service regularly refer to it as a "Dry ass fucking." The device Mr. Garrison invented on South Park had an actual phallus that was shoved into the operators ass--an real (cartoon) ass-fucking.
But it's not valid in the following sentence:
I literally hate it when people waste their breath bitching about other people's word choice. Did you understand what I meant? Yeah? Well then it doesn't matter if it's "correct" or not. (Although this time, it was, I'm wrong all the time, I freely admit.)
Allegedly, most states have requirements for redundant power for switching stations, documented maintenance schedules, and the like. But the reality is that the combination of regulatory capture and the subsequent loss of will to enforce those regulations means that, in practice, it's much harder to catch the phone companies out at breaking the rules. As a result, they've cut budgets and are being fined rarely enough that, system-wide, it's cheaper than doing to maintenance to just pay the occasional fines, and as a bonus, it suits their business preference to get everybody shifted over to VoIP lines. ...Which will be a cow for them until somebody realizes that with everybody on VoIP endpoints, now suddenly the internet is critical infrastructure and as such, last mile service needs to be regulated as strictly as the old POTS services were because that's how we access medical help in an emergenct, Police and Fire services, and so the same justifications that brought about requiring maintenance of the old POTS physical plant will then be usable to justify requiring backup power, documented maintenance--all the things the phone companies have been trying to run away from the costs of--onto the last mile residential and commercial internet infrastructure, too.
It's gonna' be hilarious.
I'm considering rigging up a string and tin-cans contraption, myself.
It sort of reminds me of the South Park where Mr. Garrison invents the world's ultimate transportation device--it goes 300 MPH safely on the ground, allowing us to simply skip out on the humiliation of being groped in airport security lines. It does require the operator to insert a "safety wand" into their ass, and the countrols are manipulated using a phallic object via the tongue, but as all the people trying it out say "Well, it's a little uncomfortable at first, but still beats dealing with the airlines..."
Mobile phone carriers and telephone companies in general are arriving at that level of hatred--people would rather be literally dry ass-fucked uncomfortably for hours than deal with them.
Although this seems to formalize a policy, the reality is that the various telephone companies have been cutting budgets for maintenance of copper phone lines, switching stations, and networks for many years. Ask anybody who has a business need for POTS lines about how hard it is to get any problems with them corrected--it's basically impossible. If you fight with them long enough and ward off enough attempts to be switched to a VoiP service to replace the broken lines, they'll trigger a "truck roll" and then tell you "it's all good" when it's clearly not "all good."
For example, every one of our remote sites we have a POTS line for the times when (not if, when) the main internet access is offline, taking the VPN to access that facility from HQ offline as well. I have a POTS line at each that I can dial-up to and remotely administer things. Guess how much fun it is to discover a noisy line with a modem? (Hint: Not fun.) Guess how even much more fun it is to discover you have a noisy line at a site in the middle of the only time of year you ever need to use that POTS line, during the Internet outage at that site? (Hint: Super-not-fun.)
You can't see me, but my index finger is touching the tip of my nose as we speak... (If you're not a native english speaker, I mean I found the comment to be "on the nose" correct.)
"Robot Richard Simmons on rampage downtown, highway closed, divert via bypass."
Dude, one word for you, MeetUp.
Make friends based on mutual interest in hobbies and whathaveyounot. Totally a great option for grown-ups whose friends are all married and preoccuppied with their armies of children.
I tried them, they're great: How do they fit into this analogy?
What about those Pepperidge Farm Milanos with double-chocolate?
I'll also note it's possible both narratives are correct--that ITT at one time provided a quality-enough education to get your coworkers into the good part of the job market, but went down the crapper after they all left. Because the descriptions I'm seeing of their practices mark them as just another predator in recent years, even if they previously did their level best to help students grow into young professionals.
There are explicit rules for the for-profit institutions to gain access to student loan funding form the feds. The one that ITT specifically ran afoul of is their "job placement" claims were basically bullshit. They claimed a 90+% placement rate, but the truth is they couldn't substantiate that with actual paperwork and documentation, and many of the people they could substantiate placing weren't making jack-shit.
They were operating an ongoing fraud, and were validly and correctly "singled out" for doing so. They repeatedly, for many many years, lied to their accreditation body to continue their access to the federal student loan program fraudulently, despite knowing they legally didn't have any business getting funds through that program.
In short, there's a gulf thousands of miles wide between what ITT did and what "many other places" are doing. And I'll note: With the demise of the ACICS we're going to find a lot of these for-profit "schools" can't get a new accreditation and end up shutting down. This is, in broad strokes, a "good thing," and you should assume ITT is the first, not the last, school of this type that will end up shutting down.
Almost all student loans charge rip-off interest, and some private loans are little better than usurious revolving credit cards.
Student lending has become predatory--it's as bad or worse than the mortgage industry was a few years ago because these lenders know, with absolute certitude, that these debts cannot be discharged in bankruptcy, so they'll loan you as much as you want and charge you infinity interest if you'll sign to it because they know there is no escape from paying besides death, and even that sometimes can still not be an obstacle to collecting from an estate.
...You mean other than the fact that real universities deliver actually valuable education from skilled professionals who know what they're talking about and ITT handed out degrees that meant nothing beacause their cirricula are a joke and served as a money-laundering platform for slimy executives?
Take it back to Best Buy and return it. This product doesn't work as advertised, I want a refund.
My god, you people have a massive sense of entitlement. When you buy something and break it, why should the manufacturer have to provide you with a new product? When you crash your car into a telephone pole, is the manufacturer or dealer required to give you a new car free of charge? That would be absurd, but that's how your acting about iPhones. There's no reason that Apple should have to give you a new iPhone when you broke your old one, but you and so many others here have a massive sense of entitlement.
Don't mean to interrupt your ranting and raving with anything approaching reasonable discourse but...
Would you mind citing where I said I "broke" my iPod touch and that this was the cause of its woes? The only thing "broken" about my Touch is that the touch screen isn't really as-much a "touch screen" anymore.
Just... barely works. Sometimes you have to breathe on the screen a little to get it to recognize your finger.
Disappointing, given how expensive it was.
Third option: Train them wrong. "Sure, of course I'll train my replacement." Teach him the most fucked up version of everything you can, but do so with a straight face. Make sure your trainee is utterly clueless on the day you tell your boss "He's ready to go! Best in the business, this one."
It raises the price of the outsourcing for the employer, and in sufficient quantities by enough employees, could even be enough to make the outsourcing project totally fail.
Not to mention the nakedly partisan nature of the "organization" (read "PAC") conducting the poll. Is it any surprise a conservative PAC wants to throw shade at Hillary?
No, it is not.
"But we reeeeeeeaaaaaaallllllly like money, and it's so much sweeter when we've hornswoggled it from people who can barely afford it."
Isn't that the biggest scam of all? The advertisers are getting billed for these impressions even though the only thing I'm doing when they come on and trying to understand how to make the crapflood stop. If I do even notice the logo/brand involved, my impressions is extremely negative.
Exactly the opposite of the impression a good advertisement should create.
We are completely being pranked. You win this round, Kim Jong Un...
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