The Millennials are going to pay the price in so many ways... Health Care Social Security Climate Change...
Thanks to the unrivaled greed and short sightedness of the Baby Boomers.
I think the Republican party is out to destroy health care, social security and the climate, some of them are baby boomers but most of them are just ignorant fools.
Ahh! The secret illuminati nature freak agenda! Wait... what is that agenda again? (All I can think of is a bunch of stoners sitting around a tree wearing tie dyed t-shirts but you might have something more sinister in mind.)
I used to think that climate change would only make mammals go extinct and that invertebrates and insects and bacteria, etc. would adapt and survive. However, it looks like the insects are going... earth will need to start over from a clean slate. It should only take a few hundred million years for a carboniferous period to create conditions for mammal like creatures again.
I agree. The world is indeed going off a cliff with climate change. Most people realize that we need to stop burning fossil fuels and that the economy will be stronger based on renewable solar and wind energy. It's a shame that the US is led by an ignorant, racist moron whose only interest is his personal wealth and ego. This means we are first off the cliff. Congratulations to India and China (and many other countries) who are trying to keep from jumping off the cliff.
Just a few facts here. Most plastics are made from natural gas, not oil. Pharmaceuticals? You mean those little pills? I'm sure they are going to support global oil production;)
Case in point is the 2008 crash. Caused by selling trash loans to stupid people. The "AI" in this case only had to check for the presence of a heartbeat to grant a loan (and in some cases, not even that).
The $5 million will be paid in copies of Windows XP which will be distributed to underdeveloped Microsoft markets and will serve as vectors for the next malware attack, forcing them to "upgrade" to the next version of Microsoft malware host software.
I think I'd rather have the Chinese eavesdropping on my browsing rather than Google. I have nothing to do with China but Google is ubiquitous in the US. BTW, the VPN is provided by a separate Canadian company, Surfeasy.
My MacBook was about $1000 and I'm still using it seven years later... so about $150/year. Before I installed Opera, I retired the MacBook and bought a Chromebook which has much better performance... but it did cost $250. I now use the Chromebook (Flip) as a tablet... works great. I'll keep using the MacBook until new improved software kills it again.
Not sure which sites you visit but I haven't had any block the browser because of the VPN. Some sites get confused when the VPN randomly sets itself to some random country but you can set the VPN country and this seems to make everyone happy.
I'm "the guy" who owns a 2010 MacBook Air. I realize that this was never a high performace machine and is now obsolete. I would buy a new Mac but the offerings from Apple are even more pathetic than in 2010. I had abandoned the machine but dug it out to do my taxes and when the whole "get a VPN" thing happened, I decided to try Opera. I was amazed that the machine was useful again! Instead of endless bouts of soul sucking beach ball spinning, I could just use the machine and it rarely pegged the CPU or filled up the measely 2 Gig memory. It felt like a new computer. So, if you are suffering from a slow,, memory hogging web browser, I highly recommend Opera. P.S. If you couldn't tell, I am a cheap old geezer.
"articulate probable cause"... loophole they can drive a truck through. A few months ago a US citizen who works for JPL was returning from a (non-business) trip to Brazil) and detained until he gave up the password to his JPL phone. They can abuse you anytime they want. (As others have pointed out, this is a good way to manufacture terrorists... just keep abusing people until they get so pissed that they do something rash. It's been working this way for years in the Middle East.)
Yes, sorry, I used the term "admins" but they are not really responsible... they just admin what they are given. They can make recommendations to the CTO managers who are the real culprits. The C level people are fat and lazy and not doing their job. It would take work and thinking and planning and money to fix their enterprise but they are lazy and cheap. They are just sliding by and hoping that nothing bad happens to the house of cards they have built on dodgy Windows software.
Unfortunately, Windows IS enterprise software in too many places. It shouldn't be but it is.
Unfortunately true. Lazy admins let this slide. Really? A label printer? WTF You can't find a label printer program? State of the art 20 years ago is a threat to the Enterprise today.
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? other than Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, HBSC, Bloomberg?
The Millennials are going to pay the price in so many ways...
Health Care
Social Security
Climate Change...
Thanks to the unrivaled greed and short sightedness of the Baby Boomers.
I think the Republican party is out to destroy health care, social security and the climate, some of them are baby boomers but most of them are just ignorant fools.
Ahh! The secret illuminati nature freak agenda!
Wait... what is that agenda again?
(All I can think of is a bunch of stoners sitting around a tree wearing tie dyed t-shirts but you might have something more sinister in mind.)
I used to think that climate change would only make mammals go extinct and that invertebrates and insects and bacteria, etc. would adapt and survive.
However, it looks like the insects are going... earth will need to start over from a clean slate. It should only take a few hundred million years for a carboniferous period to create conditions for mammal like creatures again.
That is Myth 1.
Citigroup: The age of renewable energy is beginning. Increasingly cost competitive with coal, gas and nuclear in the US. Source
HSBC: Wind energy is now cost competitive with new-build coal capacity in India. Solar to reach parity around 2016-18. Source
Deutsche Bank: solar now competitive without subsidies in at least 19 markets globally. In 2014 prices to decline further. Source
Unsubsidised renewable energy is now cheaper than electricity from new coal and gas fired power plants in Australia. Source
Here are the other myths that hopefully you will read before you post again.
http://www.greenpeace.org/inte...
Well, you could just Google it but I'll hold your hand:
http://www.ecowatch.com/100-re...
http://news.stanford.edu/news/...
http://energyblog.nationalgeog...
https://www.scientificamerican...
http://energyblog.nationalgeog...
http://www.greenpeace.org/inte...
Actually, I had replaced it with a Chromebook and was very happy with it.
Now I switch back and forth between the two
Batteries
Several solid studies have shown that the world's energy need can be met by renewables
I agree. The world is indeed going off a cliff with climate change. Most people realize that we need to stop burning fossil fuels and that the economy will be stronger based on renewable solar and wind energy. It's a shame that the US is led by an ignorant, racist moron whose only interest is his personal wealth and ego. This means we are first off the cliff. Congratulations to India and China (and many other countries) who are trying to keep from jumping off the cliff.
Just a few facts here. ;)
Most plastics are made from natural gas, not oil.
Pharmaceuticals? You mean those little pills? I'm sure they are going to support global oil production
Case in point is the 2008 crash. Caused by selling trash loans to stupid people. The "AI" in this case only had to check for the presence of a heartbeat to grant a loan (and in some cases, not even that).
The $5 million will be paid in copies of Windows XP which will be distributed to underdeveloped Microsoft markets and will serve as vectors for the next malware attack, forcing them to "upgrade" to the next version of Microsoft malware host software.
Thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try.
Just tried Craigslist and it worked fine. Thinks I'm in Dallas but no problem switching to SF Bay Area.
I think I'd rather have the Chinese eavesdropping on my browsing rather than Google. I have nothing to do with China but Google is ubiquitous in the US.
BTW, the VPN is provided by a separate Canadian company, Surfeasy.
My MacBook was about $1000 and I'm still using it seven years later... so about $150/year.
Before I installed Opera, I retired the MacBook and bought a Chromebook which has much better performance... but it did cost $250.
I now use the Chromebook (Flip) as a tablet... works great. I'll keep using the MacBook until new improved software kills it again.
Pick your poison... China or Google?
Opera is free and includes a free ad blocker and VPN.
Not sure which sites you visit but I haven't had any block the browser because of the VPN. Some sites get confused when the VPN randomly sets itself to some random country but you can set the VPN country and this seems to make everyone happy.
I'm "the guy" who owns a 2010 MacBook Air. I realize that this was never a high performace machine and is now obsolete. I would buy a new Mac but the offerings from Apple are even more pathetic than in 2010.
I had abandoned the machine but dug it out to do my taxes and when the whole "get a VPN" thing happened, I decided to try Opera. I was amazed that the machine was useful again! Instead of endless bouts of soul sucking beach ball spinning, I could just use the machine and it rarely pegged the CPU or filled up the measely 2 Gig memory. It felt like a new computer.
So, if you are suffering from a slow,, memory hogging web browser, I highly recommend Opera.
P.S. If you couldn't tell, I am a cheap old geezer.
"articulate probable cause"... loophole they can drive a truck through.
A few months ago a US citizen who works for JPL was returning from a (non-business) trip to Brazil) and detained until he gave up the password to his JPL phone.
They can abuse you anytime they want.
(As others have pointed out, this is a good way to manufacture terrorists... just keep abusing people until they get so pissed that they do something rash. It's been working this way for years in the Middle East.)
Yes, sorry, I used the term "admins" but they are not really responsible... they just admin what they are given. They can make recommendations to the CTO managers who are the real culprits. The C level people are fat and lazy and not doing their job. It would take work and thinking and planning and money to fix their enterprise but they are lazy and cheap. They are just sliding by and hoping that nothing bad happens to the house of cards they have built on dodgy Windows software.
Unfortunately, Windows IS enterprise software in too many places. It shouldn't be but it is.
Unfortunately true.
Lazy admins let this slide.
Really? A label printer? WTF You can't find a label printer program?
State of the art 20 years ago is a threat to the Enterprise today.