I'm part of the 7% I have an account under a fake name
I used to have two accounts until someone decided ikatefacebork was not my real name and Facebook demanded to see my photo id.
Haven't had to use the other account in years the only reason I had one in the first place was to deal with companies that CBA to have their own login system.
You should have just photoshopped your ID to have ikatefacebork as your name.
Newsflash, TSA! There are multiple people with the same name on FB (and other social media). How does one indicate which of hundreds of John Smith's one is?
I may just be an old fart, but I wouldn't watch someone else playing a video game at any speed. That is not entertainment; that is just mind-numbing empty-headedness.
Or the Documentaries and reality TV shows that rehash everything covered to that point after every commercial break.
And show you "what's coming up next" before every commercial break. Actual information content: about 5 minutes per half hour. I hate those shows and can't watch them.
I was switching banks and during that time I used the wrong checkbook to pay out monthly bills - this was the same bank my parents used so they simply took the money out of their account.
When confronted, the bank person explained that it was the same last name so they just took the money. They got real annoyed when we wanted to change the name on the accounts to Smith (cause then we could just write checks and not worry about covering them).
More likely, you were linked in some way other than just last name (perhaps your parents were at some time on your account). Same happened to me when my wife (now ex-) tried to be "helpful" to her son's girlfriend by being on her account. Girlfriend skipped out on fees, and BofAsssholes took them from our account. I screamed murder, then changed banks.
My work does not know my mobile number. It is my private line. When I go places, I like to know I have a phone on me in case I have car trouble. It sits in my pocket. It is not "smart," so I don't have fb or any other app on it. That's the way I like it.
I'm not sure where you got your "facts," but Trump said that the judge's Mexican heritage made it a conflict of interest for the judge to sit on the TrumpU case. The "La Raza" that the judge belongs to is not an "openly racist group," it is a Hispanic National Bar Association created to use the US legal system to assist Hispanic Americans in achieving their rights.
I'm hesitant to directly "blame" executives for tuning their practices to fit what the economy gives them. They are just doing what shareholders expect them to do.
If executives use too much altruism at the expense of profits, the shareholders will reduce their compensation or terminate them.
If executives were truly trying to maximize profits, they wouldn't have insane compensation packages for themselves. They all sit on each others' boards and "compensation committees" and just keep piling on more money for themselves and less for the peons. That is not maximizing company profits; that is maximizing one's one wealth.
When you stop getting 5-10% raises each year, it's time to re-certify and begin job hunting anew. I got a 5% raise followed by a 1.5% raise and within three months of that last raise had jumped ship.
I suppose this is not true in two cases
1. You're independently wealthy
2. You've paid off your house and are already maxing out your 401k and have been for at least a decade (see 1. )
3) You're over 50, where 5-10% raises are a total pipe-dream. You are already "at the top pay level." Unless, of course, you are an executive.
I for one could be happier with an additional week of vacation over a 2-3% increase, every per year.
Then you haven't done the math. A week vacation is 1/52 of your salary, which is less than 2%. Get that 2-3% raise (which compounds every year) and take off that week without pay - you will end up ahead.
Islam is not a race. Being broadly anti-Muslim is bad, but not racism. Being critical of some parts of Islam (either how it's currently practiced in some areas, or some of its teachings) does not make you a racist either.
True, but there'd be a lot less anti-Muslim rhetoric if only all those people weren't brown.
When renewing my registration, the DMV "recommended" replacing my license plate due to age, for readability reasons. Of course that wouldn't be free! Asshats!
When's the last time you saw a headline like "so and so suppressed Liberal/Progressive viewpoints"? Or "IRS directed to target outspoken Liberal/Progressive organizations"? Yeah, neither have I. It's always the Conservative viewpoints targeted by censorship or intimidation of some kind. Those are techniques people use when they are not secure in their own views and feel threatened by opposing views.
Why it's as if one side plays dirtier than the other. Must be the same reason that vote fraud (especially when illegal immigrants vote) overwhelmingly favors Democrats. Understand, I think both parties are toxic and this government is a cancer on the nation, and like all cancers it just doesn't want to stop growing, but still I cannot help but notice these things.
Actually, it's because only Conservatives drum up bullshit stories like this. Go look up the facts - the IRS targeted both Conservative and Liberal organizations. But of course you didn't hear that in the Faux Noise echo chamber of hate.
Sheets gas stations have always had kiosks for ordering food for as long as I can remember. However I find the interface really frustrating to navigate. I only keep coming back because this one Sheetz place is in a convenient location.
I also saw a kiosk in a McDonalds last year. Not sure if it was just a trial or a part of a store revamp.
The software sucks for a reason. They try to upsell you everything they have. Don't you want frys with that? Extra cheese for only a 1$? Sucks shit but at least your order is more likely made right.
Never mind their "Trending Topics" garbage, which I completely ignore anyway; what the heck his driving their "People you might know" friend suggestions?
I don't know any of those people and I don't want to know them, so fuck off facebook.
I've never hit the trending topics crap either. But some of the "people you may know" have been downright scary in their accuracy, not that I particularly want to friend any of them. And some had NO friends in common with me, yet I knew them IRL (like my dental hygienist of all people!)
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I'm part of the 7% I have an account under a fake name I used to have two accounts until someone decided ikatefacebork was not my real name and Facebook demanded to see my photo id.
Haven't had to use the other account in years the only reason I had one in the first place was to deal with companies that CBA to have their own login system.
You should have just photoshopped your ID to have ikatefacebork as your name.
Newsflash, TSA! There are multiple people with the same name on FB (and other social media). How does one indicate which of hundreds of John Smith's one is?
...like video game videos
I may just be an old fart, but I wouldn't watch someone else playing a video game at any speed. That is not entertainment; that is just mind-numbing empty-headedness.
Or the Documentaries and reality TV shows that rehash everything covered to that point after every commercial break.
And show you "what's coming up next" before every commercial break. Actual information content: about 5 minutes per half hour. I hate those shows and can't watch them.
Nope. The banks are just as bad.
I was switching banks and during that time I used the wrong checkbook to pay out monthly bills - this was the same bank my parents used so they simply took the money out of their account.
When confronted, the bank person explained that it was the same last name so they just took the money. They got real annoyed when we wanted to change the name on the accounts to Smith (cause then we could just write checks and not worry about covering them).
More likely, you were linked in some way other than just last name (perhaps your parents were at some time on your account). Same happened to me when my wife (now ex-) tried to be "helpful" to her son's girlfriend by being on her account. Girlfriend skipped out on fees, and BofAsssholes took them from our account. I screamed murder, then changed banks.
The Democrats want to take our guns (totalitarianism);
No, they don't. Quit making shit up.
My work does not know my mobile number. It is my private line. When I go places, I like to know I have a phone on me in case I have car trouble. It sits in my pocket. It is not "smart," so I don't have fb or any other app on it. That's the way I like it.
The concept of disabling location tracking or possibly just leaving your phone at home probably doesn't enter into the conversation, does it?
Leaving phone at home? Doesn't that make a MOBILE phone just a regular phone?
LOL, you used (((Bloomberg))) as a source?!!!
That would be better than the source of {empty set} used by you and the GP anon.
Banning religion isn't the answer. We need to be intelligent enough to distinguish between good religion and bad religion.
And which ones are good?
Quite obviously, his is good; all others are bad. That's how religion works.
People don't choose to be black.
I did, but it didn't work.
I'm not sure where you got your "facts," but Trump said that the judge's Mexican heritage made it a conflict of interest for the judge to sit on the TrumpU case. The "La Raza" that the judge belongs to is not an "openly racist group," it is a Hispanic National Bar Association created to use the US legal system to assist Hispanic Americans in achieving their rights.
I'm hesitant to directly "blame" executives for tuning their practices to fit what the economy gives them. They are just doing what shareholders expect them to do.
If executives use too much altruism at the expense of profits, the shareholders will reduce their compensation or terminate them.
If executives were truly trying to maximize profits, they wouldn't have insane compensation packages for themselves. They all sit on each others' boards and "compensation committees" and just keep piling on more money for themselves and less for the peons. That is not maximizing company profits; that is maximizing one's one wealth.
When you stop getting 5-10% raises each year, it's time to re-certify and begin job hunting anew. I got a 5% raise followed by a 1.5% raise and within three months of that last raise had jumped ship. I suppose this is not true in two cases 1. You're independently wealthy 2. You've paid off your house and are already maxing out your 401k and have been for at least a decade (see 1. )
3) You're over 50, where 5-10% raises are a total pipe-dream. You are already "at the top pay level." Unless, of course, you are an executive.
I for one could be happier with an additional week of vacation over a 2-3% increase, every per year.
Then you haven't done the math. A week vacation is 1/52 of your salary, which is less than 2%. Get that 2-3% raise (which compounds every year) and take off that week without pay - you will end up ahead.
That's the difference in theory, but not in practice.
Islam is not a race. Being broadly anti-Muslim is bad, but not racism. Being critical of some parts of Islam (either how it's currently practiced in some areas, or some of its teachings) does not make you a racist either.
True, but there'd be a lot less anti-Muslim rhetoric if only all those people weren't brown.
When renewing my registration, the DMV "recommended" replacing my license plate due to age, for readability reasons. Of course that wouldn't be free! Asshats!
You know what's funny?
When's the last time you saw a headline like "so and so suppressed Liberal/Progressive viewpoints"? Or "IRS directed to target outspoken Liberal/Progressive organizations"? Yeah, neither have I. It's always the Conservative viewpoints targeted by censorship or intimidation of some kind. Those are techniques people use when they are not secure in their own views and feel threatened by opposing views.
Why it's as if one side plays dirtier than the other. Must be the same reason that vote fraud (especially when illegal immigrants vote) overwhelmingly favors Democrats. Understand, I think both parties are toxic and this government is a cancer on the nation, and like all cancers it just doesn't want to stop growing, but still I cannot help but notice these things.
Actually, it's because only Conservatives drum up bullshit stories like this. Go look up the facts - the IRS targeted both Conservative and Liberal organizations. But of course you didn't hear that in the Faux Noise echo chamber of hate.
Sheets gas stations have always had kiosks for ordering food for as long as I can remember. However I find the interface really frustrating to navigate. I only keep coming back because this one Sheetz place is in a convenient location.
I also saw a kiosk in a McDonalds last year. Not sure if it was just a trial or a part of a store revamp.
The software sucks for a reason. They try to upsell you everything they have. Don't you want frys with that? Extra cheese for only a 1$? Sucks shit but at least your order is more likely made right.
Never mind their "Trending Topics" garbage, which I completely ignore anyway; what the heck his driving their "People you might know" friend suggestions?
I don't know any of those people and I don't want to know them, so fuck off facebook.
I've never hit the trending topics crap either. But some of the "people you may know" have been downright scary in their accuracy, not that I particularly want to friend any of them. And some had NO friends in common with me, yet I knew them IRL (like my dental hygienist of all people!)
If you think FB is unfairly biased, just buy myspace and turn it into Fox News.
You win the Internet today.
Your analysis matches mine. You sound like a perfectly reasonable person. I'm glad to know that not all right-wingers are insane.
In denial much? Right bloody here:
This undeniably implies objectivity. Depending on how (un)charitable you wish to be, it also explicitly promises it...
No it most certainly does not. You purposely ignored this particular line:
The topics you see are based on a number of factors including engagement, timeliness, Pages you've liked and your location.
It DOES not say anything like "objectivity." The "number of factors" gives them all the leeway to put whatever the fuck they want in there.
Nope, no victims. Just more whining.
"Trending" is not defined by FB. You are reading your own interpretation into the word.