>> the collateral damage...caused...these idiots would be unfortunate
Yes, there's nothing more annoying than a two-hour train delay because there are shredded millennials all over the tracks again.
Fortunately, we can look forward to next week's SlashDot story: "New APP warns dumbasses they are currently crossing rails with train approaching." (It could use the phone's microphone to listen for LOUD FUCKING HORNS and DING DING DING DING DING.)
The $100M is conditional and depends on stock market valuation. And the $85M guaranteed is "before attorneys fees". Frankly, I'm a little surprised that Uber drivers might get ANY cash: class actions often end up as "$$ million for the attorneys, $$ thousand for the lead plaintiffs and coupons for everyone else." But I suppose offering Uber coupons to Uber drivers would just add insult to injury here.
Google "trump testified before congress". I think we already know Hillary's story. And you can probably put Cruz in that pile too unless you believe in infallibility.
Including illegal aliens, or whatever they're called today, and anyone else with an email address, cell phone, etc. who may have engaged in the suspicious, terrorist-supporting act of "accessing the Internet."
That was kind of my thought too. On the other hand, that's probably $1M more than her camp thought they'd be spending in the primaries a year ago. (A year ago, I if someone told me that some white guy would run up a 42% vote against the coronation candidate in her "home" state during the Democratic primary I would have either called them nuts or predicted the guy was Cuomo.)
>> upgrading to the latest available version of the operating system could substantially slow it up. Not upgrading, however, exposes your device to a range of security attacks. It's a tough choice.
Hey, if you want to avoid the dilemma, just become an Android user, where the tradeoff has already been decided for you: you'll almost NEVER be able to upgrade!
>> I'm still waiting for Mitt Romney to explain how his IRA account can have $100M in it when legal contribution limits is ~$200,000 over 40 years.
Seriously? If it's really affecting your mental health, please read this article: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2012-07-15/the-secret-behind-romney-s-magical-ira (TLDR: you can inflate your IRA by moving low-valued assets into it to get under the limits; Romney was essentially accused of undervaluing the assets he moved into his IRA)
You should also Google "SEP IRA limits" - that's the plan that small business owners use to contribute (and deduct) up to about $50K year. If your spouse is an owner too (or at least part of the SEP plan), that goes to up to $100K per year, I think.
>> Google Says 30% of Android Devices Don't Get Regular Patches >> In the Android ecosystem, carriers are also responsible for pushing security patches to users, so while Google pushes security updates each month, not all carriers and device manufacturers release them to all users regularly.
It sounds like the ball's in Google's court. "Want to be an 'Android' vendor? You agree to keep your devices updated with our security patches."
>> Are you saying a good movie wouldn't talk about their 'breakthrough' special effects?
I'm saying its 2015 and we're so used to CGI powering fantasy movies that no one cares about "breakthrough" special effects - they're expected. And, if they're your main story about your movie, your movie probably sucks. (What was the last "good" movie you know that was primarily marketed on its special effects?)
I read this as, "Box office turd polished - film at 11."
Whenever you have to launch a PR campaign around the "special effects" you know even the distributor thinks the film is crap. See a good chunk of the 1980's sci-fi releases for reference. There's not a child alive today who gives two shits about "the Jungle Book" and the 1967 version was so patronizingly "hey, Disney does Jazz, too, man" that I'm surprised they had the nerve to push the project through. (Really, who's the audience - fifty-somethings who want to see half-naked kids and CGI animals?)
In the last couple of weeks Google has been spamming Songza users (or Google Play, is it now) with ads about this or that crappy podcast ("about tech and people [requisite "mistake" and giggle]). Hey Google, if I wanted to listen to podcasts at work...I'd be listening to podcasts, ya' know?
...seven years in a Russian penal colony, where he will be making pottery such as this: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/a2/f3/8b/a2f38b160579995e875f515486aad47e.jpg
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>> the collateral damage...caused...these idiots would be unfortunate
Yes, there's nothing more annoying than a two-hour train delay because there are shredded millennials all over the tracks again.
Fortunately, we can look forward to next week's SlashDot story: "New APP warns dumbasses they are currently crossing rails with train approaching." (It could use the phone's microphone to listen for LOUD FUCKING HORNS and DING DING DING DING DING.)
>> TPK or a new adventure in some otherworldly plane
Always a good time to introduce the Dark Sun campaign, IMHO. That's always played like an outer ring of hell.
The $100M is conditional and depends on stock market valuation. And the $85M guaranteed is "before attorneys fees". Frankly, I'm a little surprised that Uber drivers might get ANY cash: class actions often end up as "$$ million for the attorneys, $$ thousand for the lead plaintiffs and coupons for everyone else." But I suppose offering Uber coupons to Uber drivers would just add insult to injury here.
>> When has Trump lied to Congress?
Google "trump testified before congress". I think we already know Hillary's story. And you can probably put Cruz in that pile too unless you believe in infallibility.
>> a known liar who lied UNDER OATH to congress
You know we're likely to elect such a person as president this year, right?
>> All of them
Including illegal aliens, or whatever they're called today, and anyone else with an email address, cell phone, etc. who may have engaged in the suspicious, terrorist-supporting act of "accessing the Internet."
>> hot, new, red-headed stewardess you're trying to bang
You may want to switch positions before final then.
>> something relatively more worthwhile
Found the English major. Also found why they can't get that job making more than $10/hour.
>> Only $1 million?
That was kind of my thought too. On the other hand, that's probably $1M more than her camp thought they'd be spending in the primaries a year ago. (A year ago, I if someone told me that some white guy would run up a 42% vote against the coronation candidate in her "home" state during the Democratic primary I would have either called them nuts or predicted the guy was Cuomo.)
>> upgrading to the latest available version of the operating system could substantially slow it up. Not upgrading, however, exposes your device to a range of security attacks. It's a tough choice.
Hey, if you want to avoid the dilemma, just become an Android user, where the tradeoff has already been decided for you: you'll almost NEVER be able to upgrade!
>> it approaches and extends a glowing appendage to touch my fingertip
Please clarify - WHICH appendage it extended may signal its intent.
>> I'm still waiting for Mitt Romney to explain how his IRA account can have $100M in it when legal contribution limits is ~$200,000 over 40 years.
Seriously? If it's really affecting your mental health, please read this article:
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2012-07-15/the-secret-behind-romney-s-magical-ira
(TLDR: you can inflate your IRA by moving low-valued assets into it to get under the limits; Romney was essentially accused of undervaluing the assets he moved into his IRA)
You should also Google "SEP IRA limits" - that's the plan that small business owners use to contribute (and deduct) up to about $50K year. If your spouse is an owner too (or at least part of the SEP plan), that goes to up to $100K per year, I think.
>> Google Says 30% of Android Devices Don't Get Regular Patches
>> In the Android ecosystem, carriers are also responsible for pushing security patches to users, so while Google pushes security updates each month, not all carriers and device manufacturers release them to all users regularly.
It sounds like the ball's in Google's court. "Want to be an 'Android' vendor? You agree to keep your devices updated with our security patches."
Like fingerprints and other biometrics, will this fall off a bit at scale?
>> The system is designed to pay authors out of a single pool of money based on how many pages of their books are actually read
Seriously? I guess I'll have to start writing wordier and larger then.
So...it's aliens then?
>> Government funding for our world-class research institutions produces the new technologies that American entrepreneurs take to market
You pay the taxes
Public schools research the tech
Big business profits
>> The film only made $291 million at the boxoffice worldwide on opening weekend
It's out already? Guess I missed the advertisement.
>> Are you saying a good movie wouldn't talk about their 'breakthrough' special effects?
I'm saying its 2015 and we're so used to CGI powering fantasy movies that no one cares about "breakthrough" special effects - they're expected. And, if they're your main story about your movie, your movie probably sucks. (What was the last "good" movie you know that was primarily marketed on its special effects?)
I read this as, "Box office turd polished - film at 11."
Whenever you have to launch a PR campaign around the "special effects" you know even the distributor thinks the film is crap. See a good chunk of the 1980's sci-fi releases for reference. There's not a child alive today who gives two shits about "the Jungle Book" and the 1967 version was so patronizingly "hey, Disney does Jazz, too, man" that I'm surprised they had the nerve to push the project through. (Really, who's the audience - fifty-somethings who want to see half-naked kids and CGI animals?)
e.g., http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Family/Modern-Parenthood/2014/0428/The-Jungle-Book-Too-much-controversy-for-a-remake
You write for nothing
Google sells ads on your work
Sharing economy
Phone calls. I remember those! Good times.
Can we see the source?
In the last couple of weeks Google has been spamming Songza users (or Google Play, is it now) with ads about this or that crappy podcast ("about tech and people [requisite "mistake" and giggle]). Hey Google, if I wanted to listen to podcasts at work...I'd be listening to podcasts, ya' know?
...seven years in a Russian penal colony, where he will be making pottery such as this:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/a2/f3/8b/a2f38b160579995e875f515486aad47e.jpg