You can add all the hops you want the source ip does not change. It remains clear it was domestic traffic. If you an 3letter or 2 letter + digit as the case may be in the UK and you want deniability you want people using vpns because that does obscure the source address. Then they can say "what little old us spying citizens, why we never do that we just accidentally stumbled on this traffic that so and so had made to appear to be originating in Ukraine..."
Of course that is all BS; the reality is they were very much spying on the citizen and they traced the VPN connection to its report endpiong and scooped up the traffic from there or maybe they backdoored the vpn software, the cipher scheme or the key exchange who knows and just lie about it. In any case if you are worried about domestic spying I would use a VPN with a domestic endpoint. (which won't get you around the geo-block porn filter of course) because that at least gives you some hope you'll find some relief in the courts if you are abused (I as some hope because its far from certain). However if they can wrap whatever operation they ran on you with some sort of international counter intel mantel you are good an thoroughly boned as far being able to enjoy any Constitutional rights you might have in the US or any rights UK law might nominally afford you.
As if the spy agencies don't want people using VPNs. Guess what this is EXACTLY what they DO WANT. Get everyone routing their traffic thru some VPN or tor node in a foreign country so they can hack it or otherwise intercept the traffic somehow, all while having plausible deniability they were attempting domestic spying enjoy a nice shield against any due process or similar legal complaints or restraints that might be made on them.
You all know the flat earthers are making fun of YOU right. The joke is to troll people who think they are informed and an educated. I won't pretend there might not be some crank out there that still actually thinks the earth is flat but the flat earthers certainly don't think so. Most of them are really really smart guys and gals who are amused by coming up with the math porn to explain all the observed evidence and still conclude a flat earth.
1) There is a movement against Zuckerberg within facebook, probably led by some of its board and influenced by outside activist shareholders. Mark is unusual in the sense that facebook is still a very much found led company he has a lot of control. The investor class hates that. They don't want ones mans vision, politicking, vanity, etc screwing up their cash cow. They want nice safe committee driven decisions.. So they are probably digging up any dirt they can find and blowing up every little off the cuff bit spitballing Mark ever did they think won't play well with the media and running with it.
2) Zuckerberg does operate with the same moral compass you and i likely do. He clearly isn't burdened with sense of fair play and he does not care about the integrity of his own word. Mark will quite ruthlessly do what seems good for Mark at the time. The thing that people like Mark don't get is that behavior in itself is exploitable. It leaves you without a lot of friends ultimately and no matter how quick and clever you are when enough people have it out for you can't defend yourself without help; because nobody is at the top of their game 24x7x365
No his name is Chelsea, he legally changed it. We let people do that. We always have. Lots people have lots of reasons for wanting a different name than they were given.
I agree you can't make a woman out of man by cutting things off and pumping him full of hormones. You just get a mutilated man. I would also agree that in the vast vast vast majority of cases when no physical abnormality is present, its probably more a political decision to treat gender dysphoria thru conformation than anything based on science. Most of the statics show these people are not 'happier' after and just as likely to harm themselves. So conformation surgeries are expensive, dangerous, unproductive treatments. That said he is an adult he should be allowed to make decisions about his own medical care. Its the people doing this crap to kids that I think ought you should focus your outrage at.
At the end of the day though we should 'try' to be respectful of others and recognize the boundaries. Its not fair for manning to insist you see him as female. He has no right to tell you not believe your own eyes or otherwise demand you acquiesce to any specific perception of him. But his name is his name. If he wants to be called Chelsea the respectful thing is to run with.
If someone demands you use pronouns that you do not believe are appropriate for them, I suggest you respond with: I will address you by your legal name then.
and do so. This is a reasonable compromise that respects everyone's rights.
Personally I wish we could just go back to that. XFCE still allows it. Everything thing else is now slapped with some chrome. You could DO dark mode in Windows 3.11 if you set your own custom colors.
I don't understand why almost every desktop decided it was a great idea to take this stuff away; only to bring it back as 'feature' that still isn't as flexible a decade later.
I still argue to this day in terms of UI elements, basic behavior, etc. Windows 3.11 + Norton Desktop 3.0 was probably the best user experience for desktop computing.
See i would make the argument Apple is not an innovator or at least has not been since the Apple II. What they have been exceptionally good at is 1) Polishing and integration 2) Timing the market, they are never the first market with any tech; but they have been historically great at get a product out the door just as an idea is taking off. 2a) They do this just in time to learn from others mistakes 2b) They do this early enough that their product is still often many peoples first encounter with a given tech. 2c) They have accelerated to identifying the critical features and branding them. 3) They have been good identifying their missteps and correcting course; ie native apps on iPhone.
However (3) is only in the second Jobsian era - certainly they stuck with Power way to long, They failed at paying the technical debt in MacOS way to long. While Microsoft brought out modern platfoms with real memory protection etc and Linux brought the best of Unix to the desktop; Apple was busy making jigsaw puzzle icons or somethings. Those things nearly destroyed what is now one of the world largest companies at least in terms of capitalization. That is pretty amazing when you think about it. They literally in went from bankruptcy death watch at the end of the 90s to commanding wealth that is the envy of many nations. Quite remarkable. We shall if Tim Cook can screw it up they way Scully did.
I see logging issues in lots of software I test. Developers do things like the pseudo code below:
Try... Catch 3rdPartyLibrary::SomeExceptionType => e $LOGGER.log(LOGGER::ERROR, 'Something went wrong in module XYZ:' + e.message) re-raise(e) End Try
They will make statement to you if you ask them like "We never put sensitive information in log files." but they haven't the foggiest idea of messages the various messages that 3rdPartyLibrary might actually put into its exception messages.
The thing I see most is various data layer things be they libraries that call web apis, or database objects, etc; where stuff happens like; 'Something went wrong in user create: INSERT failed for..., key violation PKEY:FullName,SSN for "Frank Grimes", 666-66-6666'
And just like that your logs now have to be treated as PII
He's the only candidate promoting the only realistic patch on capitalism.
Umm no UBI is about as far away from free market exchange as you can get. Also we more or less already have a means tested version of it in the form of the EIT (earned income tax credit). Given the failure of that to solve all of our problems, I think the claim that UBI somehow would requires some extraordinary evidence. You can make some no-true-scottsman arguments about EIT but the reality UBI has been tried and more or less exists now and doubling down on it isn't going to make it work any better.
If you want capitalism to continue supporting our population, we're gonna need UBI.
Hmm capitalism has proven it can support a larger population than economic system in place before it ever has. Every single claim population bomb, chicken little sky is falling prediction has been wrong; why should this time be different?
Otherwise, we need something other than capitalism, or we're gonna have to kill off a whole lot of people.
Nope Nope and Nope. The birthrate in the most capitalistic parts of the world is already below the replacement rate. Malthus is thoroughly debunked now.
And the targets are gonna be you and me, since we're not part of the 1%.
I don't know what to say to this, other than stop watching quite so much MSNBC.
I don't think it will ever happen. Here is why there is not need for the people to drive between depots. That is all uncomplicated highway miles and can easily be automated. The technology needed to do that is already basically in existence today. Unlike in passenger space the cost of lidar unit etc is incidental looking at the overall cap ex of a big rig.
Nobody is going to implement all those other infrastructure changes for long haul and not also move to a self driving model at the same time. It will be more like railroading. A handful of engineers will (remotely) monitor a hundred or so tractor trailers, and computer will decide and alert them when and if one needs human attention. Just like you might think of one or two engineers on train being responsible for a 100 cars today.
The space for an ower operator to exist if there is one is ferrying containers or trailers form the depot nearest to a destination to the clients loading doc in town. We are a long way of self driving being able to handle a big rig in a city, where we all know that frequently you have to operate in shall we say excess of the usual rules of the road with those things. That is still going to require human decision making for some time. So I can see some independant owners still operating but they will not be long haul.
And what is the oldest XP actually supported; Service Pack 3 - release 2008 - so 9 years. Not all the different really. Next question is SP3 really even supported or would support just tell you to apply various KBs to a theoretically supported system until it was at the patch level they actually support?
^^^THIS^^^ The broadband situation in America is a story about government intervention completely breaking the marketplace not a failure of the market place. We really need to be passing state laws that prohibit the creation and renewal of such agreements by local municipalities. That is how you fix this situation.
We have health care system that is the envy of most of the world. There is a reason why the kings of the middle east come here and say not the UK or Canada when they need life saving care.
Taking care of your poor?
Abject poverty is at its lowest level in history. Nobody is starving to death in America ANYWHERE.
That is a pretty aggressive read of the first amendment. So far I don't think the courts or even the congressional majority buy into that interpretation. Arguably the 1st Amendment gives you the right to post whatever you want; but it in no way obligates these companies to display it to anyone else.
The problem is that actually isn't how it works. These guys say they are platforms as defined by the Communications Decency Act. That is also the low that shields them from liability. The problem is ITS TERRIBLY LAW.
If you actually read it there is no requirement platforms be neutral and nothing in the definition of platform to suggests all platforms the law is talking about would be assumed to be neutral. Sadly legally speaking Twitter and Facebook probably can play politics, advance content espousing opinions they support and more or less delisting content they don't like.
I don't think that's good. I think platforms should either be required to be neutral, or be considered publishers and be liable but that isn't what the law sates today.
So let me tell how your cool story actually reads:
Similar late fee problem here -- except it was for a movie that had been rented (and forgotten). Returned it weeks before and finally wanted a new rental
I was irresponsible and failed to honor my obligations as set forth in the rental agreement. I put my late return in the box and hoped I'd get away with it. Even though I really should have known better; because its not like they don't track these things..
The late fees came to something like $96. I laughed at them and offered to buy the movie instead ($40 range). They declined. They wanted their ridiculous late fees.
I don't understand anything about how the licensing works for commercial video rental media or the profit model the video rental industry operated on at the time. My ignorance is so cool right guys?
The conversation got a bit heated (me:) and they reminded me they had my credit card on file and would just charge it anyway.
I threw a tantrum but the clerk in the store remained clam and did his job like a professional.
I declined. Excused myself to "think about it" and go find another movie to rent (not). Went to the back of the store, called the bank, and cancelled the card in question.
Rather than accept and pay the debt I legitimately incurred; I moved to skip out on the bill. Also I stupid because the fact is they still have my name and address and they could easily slam my credit and send the debt to collections. Which would and very well may have cost me a lot more than $96 in long run..
Handed them my non-rentals on the way out the door (why should I put them back?). Let them know as I was passing to go ahead and close the account and "good luck" getting any charges through. They were bankrupt within a year.
I continued to behave like a dick, and probably only avoided debt collections and negative credit report issues because the company was already struggling and probably short staffed. Thanks at least in a very small part to my shitty behavior a business owner lost their franchise. Yeah! me!
I doubt very much any physical video rental store ever had a selection available as large as Netflix streaming. The truth is your memory is faulty. Even if you exclude the giant portion of Netfilx's streaming library that is stuff that I doubt anyone anywhere ever watches is a given year they still have more selection than your old video store.
What you are actually experiencing is the paradox of choice. See with NFLX you have yet to make much investment in watching anything until you do it. The main thing its going to cost you is your time. So first you experience disappointment when the hot new release inst available yet and then you agonize over the other options because none seem good enough and their are so many to consider...
Now consider the video store; you had already invested in a trip over there. Realistically you had to pick something or you were already out a bunch of time, gas, etc. Maybe you were lucky and got that new release you were excited about along the outside walls or maybe they were all checked out - remember that was thing - and you picked something from the stacks. Choosing from the stacks still only took 20min or so tops because there really was not that much to look thru at all once you eliminated a few sections like childrens.
Did you maybe mean grandeur? I am not aware of any genocidal ambition on the part of Putin. Its not hard to believe he might hold some idea of racial superiority but I don't see him engaging in ethnic cleansing etc.
Russia is not a failed state. Russia is a failing state; there is a difference. Broadly speaking Russia still has a working bureaucracy and government can and does enforce its laws. That said they have an economy that is increasingly becoming an petroleum/chemical mono culture in a world where we may expect decreasing demand. They have some pretty stiff competition too in that space. Additionally getting the other sectors of their economy into any kind of efficient operation is going to be difficult because they have rapidly ageing population, low birthrate, and generally poor health. They will be a failed state soon unless trends change no doubt but they really don't compare to the lawlessness you see in places like Yemen, Northern Africa, and much of South America.
Yes but we need to remember the reality of this 'defense' its no missile shield. China and even Russia ( they are still capable at this point but who knows for how much longer ) isn't going to send a single missile if they decide to deploy ICBMS against us.
They will fire a volley each with some number of war heads. Now yes there are treaties that we assume they have actually followed that limit the number of warheads but they could still fire or deploy from a single missile some number of dummy warheads (which from a defenders standpoint is a bad because you don't know which ones to even try shooting).
We a long long way from intercept technology that would be useful against our military peers. Any attack by them would simply overwhelm a defense system. Now its possibly we could use this to protect ourselves from an Iran or DPRK with a limited ability to field ICBMS and warheads; but realistically the risk our defense fails remains to high to let things escalate to the point of them firing on us. So I am really skeptical this is anything other than pork spending.
Did I say it was? Oracle is not entitled to the mobile market. Like you I disagree with the premise that interfaces can be subject to copyright. If the court however finds otherwise; than damages will have to be figured. If we are forced to presume by the courts finding that interfaces can be copyright; than all I am saying is Oracles argument that Google cost them the mobile space probably does follow, and Google will in that instance be required to pay dearly.
Apple did not make native apps a choice for iphone until after the product was released. The chose obj-c because that is was OSX was being built with and that is what all the smart people they had pulled in from Next knew. So the choice of obj-c was very much one about developers..developers..developers it just so happened to be internal developers when that call got made.
Well while I don't agree with Orcacle's theory that interfaces can be subject to copyright. I would agree with the assessment Google by creating their own JVM essentially drove Oracle out of the mobile market place. J2ME Was pretty widely used in what we think of as the pre-smartphone era.
I don't see any reason why it would not have become the defacto application platform going forward, except for entrants like Google with resources enough to implement their own JVA not wanting to pay Oracle for theirs.
Remember when blamer said "developers..developers..developers.." same thing applies here its not like Google chose Java as their implementation language for Android because the syntax is so sexy and everyone love it. They picked it because a lot of people know it. J2ME would have probably continued as a force without Davlik and just got some sexy new interface libraries to bring all the existing mobile phone developers and desktop java developers over.
I find it astonishing that anyone is interested in this business model. Even if you have a vacation home or something that is usually vacant there are property management companies that do things like properly vet renters; help make sure you have the right types of insurance (or sell it to you), have cheaper bulk contracts with maid services etc to handle clean up before and after renters visit. Yes they take a bigger bit of the action than Airbnb does of course but on the other hand they take on a lot more of the risk.
I can only imagine how it go for a lessor if say a guest is hurt or killed because say a deck collapses (even after said guest put way to many people on it) and some lawyer finds there was even the slightest of building code or maintenance violations...
Why the hell would you want to risk your life being destroyed to make a few hundred bucks?
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You can add all the hops you want the source ip does not change. It remains clear it was domestic traffic. If you an 3letter or 2 letter + digit as the case may be in the UK and you want deniability you want people using vpns because that does obscure the source address. Then they can say "what little old us spying citizens, why we never do that we just accidentally stumbled on this traffic that so and so had made to appear to be originating in Ukraine..."
Of course that is all BS; the reality is they were very much spying on the citizen and they traced the VPN connection to its report endpiong and scooped up the traffic from there or maybe they backdoored the vpn software, the cipher scheme or the key exchange who knows and just lie about it. In any case if you are worried about domestic spying I would use a VPN with a domestic endpoint. (which won't get you around the geo-block porn filter of course) because that at least gives you some hope you'll find some relief in the courts if you are abused (I as some hope because its far from certain). However if they can wrap whatever operation they ran on you with some sort of international counter intel mantel you are good an thoroughly boned as far being able to enjoy any Constitutional rights you might have in the US or any rights UK law might nominally afford you.
As if the spy agencies don't want people using VPNs. Guess what this is EXACTLY what they DO WANT. Get everyone routing their traffic thru some VPN or tor node in a foreign country so they can hack it or otherwise intercept the traffic somehow, all while having plausible deniability they were attempting domestic spying enjoy a nice shield against any due process or similar legal complaints or restraints that might be made on them.
You all know the flat earthers are making fun of YOU right. The joke is to troll people who think they are informed and an educated. I won't pretend there might not be some crank out there that still actually thinks the earth is flat but the flat earthers certainly don't think so. Most of them are really really smart guys and gals who are amused by coming up with the math porn to explain all the observed evidence and still conclude a flat earth.
1) There is a movement against Zuckerberg within facebook, probably led by some of its board and influenced by outside activist shareholders. Mark is unusual in the sense that facebook is still a very much found led company he has a lot of control. The investor class hates that. They don't want ones mans vision, politicking, vanity, etc screwing up their cash cow. They want nice safe committee driven decisions.. So they are probably digging up any dirt they can find and blowing up every little off the cuff bit spitballing Mark ever did they think won't play well with the media and running with it.
2) Zuckerberg does operate with the same moral compass you and i likely do. He clearly isn't burdened with sense of fair play and he does not care about the integrity of his own word. Mark will quite ruthlessly do what seems good for Mark at the time. The thing that people like Mark don't get is that behavior in itself is exploitable. It leaves you without a lot of friends ultimately and no matter how quick and clever you are when enough people have it out for you can't defend yourself without help; because nobody is at the top of their game 24x7x365
No his name is Chelsea, he legally changed it. We let people do that. We always have. Lots people have lots of reasons for wanting a different name than they were given.
I agree you can't make a woman out of man by cutting things off and pumping him full of hormones. You just get a mutilated man. I would also agree that in the vast vast vast majority of cases when no physical abnormality is present, its probably more a political decision to treat gender dysphoria thru conformation than anything based on science. Most of the statics show these people are not 'happier' after and just as likely to harm themselves. So conformation surgeries are expensive, dangerous, unproductive treatments. That said he is an adult he should be allowed to make decisions about his own medical care. Its the people doing this crap to kids that I think ought you should focus your outrage at.
At the end of the day though we should 'try' to be respectful of others and recognize the boundaries. Its not fair for manning to insist you see him as female. He has no right to tell you not believe your own eyes or otherwise demand you acquiesce to any specific perception of him. But his name is his name. If he wants to be called Chelsea the respectful thing is to run with.
If someone demands you use pronouns that you do not believe are appropriate for them, I suggest you respond with: I will address you by your legal name then.
and do so. This is a reasonable compromise that respects everyone's rights.
Personally I wish we could just go back to that. XFCE still allows it. Everything thing else is now slapped with some chrome. You could DO dark mode in Windows 3.11 if you set your own custom colors.
I don't understand why almost every desktop decided it was a great idea to take this stuff away; only to bring it back as 'feature' that still isn't as flexible a decade later.
I still argue to this day in terms of UI elements, basic behavior, etc. Windows 3.11 + Norton Desktop 3.0 was probably the best user experience for desktop computing.
See i would make the argument Apple is not an innovator or at least has not been since the Apple II. What they have been exceptionally good at is
1) Polishing and integration
2) Timing the market, they are never the first market with any tech; but they have been historically great at get a product out the door just as an idea is taking off.
2a) They do this just in time to learn from others mistakes
2b) They do this early enough that their product is still often many peoples first encounter with a given tech.
2c) They have accelerated to identifying the critical features and branding them.
3) They have been good identifying their missteps and correcting course; ie native apps on iPhone.
However (3) is only in the second Jobsian era - certainly they stuck with Power way to long, They failed at paying the technical debt in MacOS way to long. While Microsoft brought out modern platfoms with real memory protection etc and Linux brought the best of Unix to the desktop; Apple was busy making jigsaw puzzle icons or somethings. Those things nearly destroyed what is now one of the world largest companies at least in terms of capitalization. That is pretty amazing when you think about it. They literally in went from bankruptcy death watch at the end of the 90s to commanding wealth that is the envy of many nations. Quite remarkable. We shall if Tim Cook can screw it up they way Scully did.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/us...
This is already illegal, in the US. I wonder where this company is based and we can just charge, and try in absence their executives.
I see logging issues in lots of software I test. Developers do things like the pseudo code below:
Try ...
Catch 3rdPartyLibrary::SomeExceptionType => e
$LOGGER.log(LOGGER::ERROR, 'Something went wrong in module XYZ:' + e.message)
re-raise(e)
End Try
They will make statement to you if you ask them like "We never put sensitive information in log files." but they haven't the foggiest idea of messages the various messages that 3rdPartyLibrary might actually put into its exception messages.
The thing I see most is various data layer things be they libraries that call web apis, or database objects, etc; where stuff happens like; 'Something went wrong in user create: INSERT failed for ..., key violation PKEY:FullName,SSN for "Frank Grimes", 666-66-6666'
And just like that your logs now have to be treated as PII
He's the only candidate promoting the only realistic patch on capitalism.
Umm no UBI is about as far away from free market exchange as you can get. Also we more or less already have a means tested version of it in the form of the EIT (earned income tax credit). Given the failure of that to solve all of our problems, I think the claim that UBI somehow would requires some extraordinary evidence. You can make some no-true-scottsman arguments about EIT but the reality UBI has been tried and more or less exists now and doubling down on it isn't going to make it work any better.
If you want capitalism to continue supporting our population, we're gonna need UBI.
Hmm capitalism has proven it can support a larger population than economic system in place before it ever has. Every single claim population bomb, chicken little sky is falling prediction has been wrong; why should this time be different?
Otherwise, we need something other than capitalism, or we're gonna have to kill off a whole lot of people.
Nope Nope and Nope. The birthrate in the most capitalistic parts of the world is already below the replacement rate. Malthus is thoroughly debunked now.
And the targets are gonna be you and me, since we're not part of the 1%.
I don't know what to say to this, other than stop watching quite so much MSNBC.
I don't think it will ever happen. Here is why there is not need for the people to drive between depots. That is all uncomplicated highway miles and can easily be automated. The technology needed to do that is already basically in existence today. Unlike in passenger space the cost of lidar unit etc is incidental looking at the overall cap ex of a big rig.
Nobody is going to implement all those other infrastructure changes for long haul and not also move to a self driving model at the same time. It will be more like railroading. A handful of engineers will (remotely) monitor a hundred or so tractor trailers, and computer will decide and alert them when and if one needs human attention. Just like you might think of one or two engineers on train being responsible for a 100 cars today.
The space for an ower operator to exist if there is one is ferrying containers or trailers form the depot nearest to a destination to the clients loading doc in town. We are a long way of self driving being able to handle a big rig in a city, where we all know that frequently you have to operate in shall we say excess of the usual rules of the road with those things. That is still going to require human decision making for some time. So I can see some independant owners still operating but they will not be long haul.
And what is the oldest XP actually supported; Service Pack 3 - release 2008 - so 9 years. Not all the different really. Next question is SP3 really even supported or would support just tell you to apply various KBs to a theoretically supported system until it was at the patch level they actually support?
^^^THIS^^^ The broadband situation in America is a story about government intervention completely breaking the marketplace not a failure of the market place. We really need to be passing state laws that prohibit the creation and renewal of such agreements by local municipalities. That is how you fix this situation.
what about health care?
We have health care system that is the envy of most of the world. There is a reason why the kings of the middle east come here and say not the UK or Canada when they need life saving care.
Taking care of your poor?
Abject poverty is at its lowest level in history. Nobody is starving to death in America ANYWHERE.
Having a proper democracy?
Yes voter id laws would help a lot.
That is a pretty aggressive read of the first amendment. So far I don't think the courts or even the congressional majority buy into that interpretation. Arguably the 1st Amendment gives you the right to post whatever you want; but it in no way obligates these companies to display it to anyone else.
The problem is that actually isn't how it works. These guys say they are platforms as defined by the Communications Decency Act. That is also the low that shields them from liability. The problem is ITS TERRIBLY LAW.
If you actually read it there is no requirement platforms be neutral and nothing in the definition of platform to suggests all platforms the law is talking about would be assumed to be neutral. Sadly legally speaking Twitter and Facebook probably can play politics, advance content espousing opinions they support and more or less delisting content they don't like.
I don't think that's good. I think platforms should either be required to be neutral, or be considered publishers and be liable but that isn't what the law sates today.
i'll bet a lot of it is ipv6
So let me tell how your cool story actually reads:
Similar late fee problem here -- except it was for a movie that had been rented (and forgotten). Returned it weeks before and finally wanted a new rental
I was irresponsible and failed to honor my obligations as set forth in the rental agreement. I put my late return in the box and hoped I'd get away with it. Even though I really should have known better; because its not like they don't track these things..
The late fees came to something like $96. I laughed at them and offered to buy the movie instead ($40 range). They declined. They wanted their ridiculous late fees.
I don't understand anything about how the licensing works for commercial video rental media or the profit model the video rental industry operated on at the time. My ignorance is so cool right guys?
The conversation got a bit heated (me :) and they reminded me they had my credit card on file and would just charge it anyway.
I threw a tantrum but the clerk in the store remained clam and did his job like a professional.
I declined. Excused myself to "think about it" and go find another movie to rent (not). Went to the back of the store, called the bank, and cancelled the card in question.
Rather than accept and pay the debt I legitimately incurred; I moved to skip out on the bill. Also I stupid because the fact is they still have my name and address and they could easily slam my credit and send the debt to collections. Which would and very well may have cost me a lot more than $96 in long run..
Handed them my non-rentals on the way out the door (why should I put them back?). Let them know as I was passing to go ahead and close the account and "good luck" getting any charges through. They were bankrupt within a year.
I continued to behave like a dick, and probably only avoided debt collections and negative credit report issues because the company was already struggling and probably short staffed. Thanks at least in a very small part to my shitty behavior a business owner lost their franchise. Yeah! me!
I doubt very much any physical video rental store ever had a selection available as large as Netflix streaming. The truth is your memory is faulty. Even if you exclude the giant portion of Netfilx's streaming library that is stuff that I doubt anyone anywhere ever watches is a given year they still have more selection than your old video store.
What you are actually experiencing is the paradox of choice. See with NFLX you have yet to make much investment in watching anything until you do it. The main thing its going to cost you is your time. So first you experience disappointment when the hot new release inst available yet and then you agonize over the other options because none seem good enough and their are so many to consider...
Now consider the video store; you had already invested in a trip over there. Realistically you had to pick something or you were already out a bunch of time, gas, etc. Maybe you were lucky and got that new release you were excited about along the outside walls or maybe they were all checked out - remember that was thing - and you picked something from the stacks. Choosing from the stacks still only took 20min or so tops because there really was not that much to look thru at all once you eliminated a few sections like childrens.
delusions of genocide
Did you maybe mean grandeur? I am not aware of any genocidal ambition on the part of Putin. Its not hard to believe he might hold some idea of racial superiority but I don't see him engaging in ethnic cleansing etc.
Russia is not a failed state. Russia is a failing state; there is a difference. Broadly speaking Russia still has a working bureaucracy and government can and does enforce its laws. That said they have an economy that is increasingly becoming an petroleum/chemical mono culture in a world where we may expect decreasing demand. They have some pretty stiff competition too in that space. Additionally getting the other sectors of their economy into any kind of efficient operation is going to be difficult because they have rapidly ageing population, low birthrate, and generally poor health. They will be a failed state soon unless trends change no doubt but they really don't compare to the lawlessness you see in places like Yemen, Northern Africa, and much of South America.
Yes but we need to remember the reality of this 'defense' its no missile shield. China and even Russia ( they are still capable at this point but who knows for how much longer ) isn't going to send a single missile if they decide to deploy ICBMS against us.
They will fire a volley each with some number of war heads. Now yes there are treaties that we assume they have actually followed that limit the number of warheads but they could still fire or deploy from a single missile some number of dummy warheads (which from a defenders standpoint is a bad because you don't know which ones to even try shooting).
We a long long way from intercept technology that would be useful against our military peers. Any attack by them would simply overwhelm a defense system. Now its possibly we could use this to protect ourselves from an Iran or DPRK with a limited ability to field ICBMS and warheads; but realistically the risk our defense fails remains to high to let things escalate to the point of them firing on us. So I am really skeptical this is anything other than pork spending.
Did I say it was? Oracle is not entitled to the mobile market. Like you I disagree with the premise that interfaces can be subject to copyright. If the court however finds otherwise; than damages will have to be figured. If we are forced to presume by the courts finding that interfaces can be copyright; than all I am saying is Oracles argument that Google cost them the mobile space probably does follow, and Google will in that instance be required to pay dearly.
Apple did not make native apps a choice for iphone until after the product was released. The chose obj-c because that is was OSX was being built with and that is what all the smart people they had pulled in from Next knew. So the choice of obj-c was very much one about developers..developers..developers it just so happened to be internal developers when that call got made.
Well while I don't agree with Orcacle's theory that interfaces can be subject to copyright. I would agree with the assessment Google by creating their own JVM essentially drove Oracle out of the mobile market place. J2ME Was pretty widely used in what we think of as the pre-smartphone era.
I don't see any reason why it would not have become the defacto application platform going forward, except for entrants like Google with resources enough to implement their own JVA not wanting to pay Oracle for theirs.
Remember when blamer said "developers..developers..developers.." same thing applies here its not like Google chose Java as their implementation language for Android because the syntax is so sexy and everyone love it. They picked it because a lot of people know it. J2ME would have probably continued as a force without Davlik and just got some sexy new interface libraries to bring all the existing mobile phone developers and desktop java developers over.
I find it astonishing that anyone is interested in this business model. Even if you have a vacation home or something that is usually vacant there are property management companies that do things like properly vet renters; help make sure you have the right types of insurance (or sell it to you), have cheaper bulk contracts with maid services etc to handle clean up before and after renters visit. Yes they take a bigger bit of the action than Airbnb does of course but on the other hand they take on a lot more of the risk.
I can only imagine how it go for a lessor if say a guest is hurt or killed because say a deck collapses (even after said guest put way to many people on it) and some lawyer finds there was even the slightest of building code or maintenance violations...
Why the hell would you want to risk your life being destroyed to make a few hundred bucks?