Just one, you reckon? You haven't been paying attention for very long. We've been doing it for many more than one. How do you suppose we acquired a sitting sociopathic President?
I was mostly bald by age 30, and then I began to realize why: the hair had been silently migrating from my scalp to my nose and other places. I frankly look better with no hair up top, but can I get a treatment that puts a brake on that hair growth?
Knowing what you are doing has NOTHING to do with it. A person can "know what he is doing" and still be frustrated a keyboard full of hotkeys, for no other reason than he has poor recall. Rote memorization, which is all that remembering a bunch of fucking hotkeys is, is NOT the same as expertise.
I've always found it ironic that an operating system that began its long dubiously glorious reign on the back of the self-documenting capability of GUIs has evolved to have more inscrutable fucking hotkeys than I can possibly remember. Give me a GUI button for it or give me death.
... are people who are both able and willing to pay excessive prices. Those prices wouldn't exist if the sellers didn't already know they'll have buyers. Then for the next guy the price goes up a little again if the economy is doing well-slash-the Dow Jones is up-slash-insert bogus economic trend indicator here. The sellers are almost certainly greedy and nothing but self-interested, but collectively saying NO to greed is the only way to end it. Recessions are in fact the beginnings of a greed rollback, but they fail every time because the One Percent retaliates against those who are dependent upon them and makes them feel their pain, citizens and governments cave, and the One Percent returns to its usual rate of exploitation.
Does this progression surprise anyone? Mercenary psychologists that would sell out their own mothers don't come cheap; AI is a system you develop ONCE and don't have to pay a princely salary. The cost is all up-front. Would game developers who exploit loot boxes and casino game operators be interested in eliminating an HR expense? Duh!
Hey, Stupid, had you actually been paying enough attention to know anything about the specific subject of PayPal and arbitration clauses, you'd know that PayPal was one of very very few companies that actually allowed people to OPT OUT of the arbitration clause when they introduced it.
How do I know this? I was actually paying attention and opted out. Sorry you weren't paying attention, there's likely no do-overs for that.
Why is this even vaguely legal? If corporations are legally allowed to be persons, then why is it legal for one corporate person to buy and enslave another corporate person, and then turn around and sell that other person for profit?
We must hold corporate persons to the same standards of behavior and ethics as other persons. President Trump excepted, of course.
This is DECADES too late. I've been livid about it for decades, as have other people not mired in selfishness. Those people mired in selfishness include most of our elected leaders and virtually all corporate executives. This bill probably won't pass - for the usual reasons - and even if it did it only affects ONE state of ONE nation. It needed to be a global prohibition in place decades ago.
What the FCC proposes to end in December isn't network neutrality; it never was. It's an impostor masquerading as network neutrality because some influential wonk put that label on it and legions of ignorant fools propagated it.
Meet the real network neutrality: citizens owning the very same physical network that they use. It's time for eminent domain to be applied against that network and get rid of this chatty impostor once and for all.
Since Mozilla didn't throw Thunderbird entirely to the wolves, does this meant that Thunderbird's offensively cozy relationship with Bing will also end? (The default contextual action for highlighted text in Thunderbird has been a Bing search for the text, for perhaps two years now. Searching with Google is an option buried in a context menu pick list.)
The author is just now noticing that the industrialized world has a problem with corporate exploitation of mass production for their own selfish benefit? It not only funnels undeserved profit into their pockets, it also costs society hundreds of billions of dollars in wasted productivity that should have been used for something constructive. We don't need our vehicles to be redesigned every year, yet they are. We don't need new varieties of underarm deodorant every six months, yet we have them. We don't need "new" but-no-better-than-last-year toothbrushes, yet indeed we still have them. Want to buy another of the same toothbrush that worked perfectly well? Sorry, buddy, we "retired" that one for a new design that cuts a few corners and gives us better profit margin. The list goes on, and permeates EVERY corner of our lives. What could have been accomplished for society if all that human effort had been focused on something truly beneficial for society? The promise of mass production was the ability to cheaply replicate items, but when those items are replaced so quickly with new ones the savings to society are lost, and worse yet the profits from this wasteful process keep flowing into the pockets of those abusing it.
This author saw one tree and failed to notice the forest. This problem is much MUCH more pervasive than he comprehends. The problem isn't just with abuse of technology: the problem is abuse of mass production of every sort.
... since the initial price cuts in August, the cost of some items have been slowly ticking back up.
It didn't take a genius to see this coming, only someone who had previous dealings with Amazon's so-called Subscribe And Save program. It promised exactly the same lie. They are merely repeating the same tactic in brick and mortar.
There is no science to economics. It's all propaganda devised by the economic victors to ensure their continued success. People who enroll in a college to "learn" economics are being indoctrinated to think a certain rigid inflexible way that benefits a minority.
A new way to learn economics would be to eject the money-lenders from the classroom, but good luck trying to do that. Even Jesus never fully succeeded.
I use a GTX 960, topping out at less than one third the consumption of a GTX 1080, and a fraction of the price. It would have been worse had I chosen the equivalent AMD Product at the time, which is why I chose Nvidia that occasion; AMD had gotten my vote the time before. Having shredded your desperate little hypocrisy theory, I wonder just what it is that motivated you to post it? What sacred little cow are you hiding in your barn?
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"People whose ideology disagrees with your own" is not the definition of sociopath.
Just one, you reckon? You haven't been paying attention for very long. We've been doing it for many more than one. How do you suppose we acquired a sitting sociopathic President?
I was mostly bald by age 30, and then I began to realize why: the hair had been silently migrating from my scalp to my nose and other places. I frankly look better with no hair up top, but can I get a treatment that puts a brake on that hair growth?
Knowing what you are doing has NOTHING to do with it. A person can "know what he is doing" and still be frustrated a keyboard full of hotkeys, for no other reason than he has poor recall. Rote memorization, which is all that remembering a bunch of fucking hotkeys is, is NOT the same as expertise.
I still remember these with utter lack of fondness.
I've always found it ironic that an operating system that began its long dubiously glorious reign on the back of the self-documenting capability of GUIs has evolved to have more inscrutable fucking hotkeys than I can possibly remember. Give me a GUI button for it or give me death.
... are people who are both able and willing to pay excessive prices. Those prices wouldn't exist if the sellers didn't already know they'll have buyers. Then for the next guy the price goes up a little again if the economy is doing well-slash-the Dow Jones is up-slash-insert bogus economic trend indicator here. The sellers are almost certainly greedy and nothing but self-interested, but collectively saying NO to greed is the only way to end it. Recessions are in fact the beginnings of a greed rollback, but they fail every time because the One Percent retaliates against those who are dependent upon them and makes them feel their pain, citizens and governments cave, and the One Percent returns to its usual rate of exploitation.
Does this progression surprise anyone? Mercenary psychologists that would sell out their own mothers don't come cheap; AI is a system you develop ONCE and don't have to pay a princely salary. The cost is all up-front. Would game developers who exploit loot boxes and casino game operators be interested in eliminating an HR expense? Duh!
Hey, Stupid, had you actually been paying enough attention to know anything about the specific subject of PayPal and arbitration clauses, you'd know that PayPal was one of very very few companies that actually allowed people to OPT OUT of the arbitration clause when they introduced it.
How do I know this? I was actually paying attention and opted out. Sorry you weren't paying attention, there's likely no do-overs for that.
To hell with that. I use Thunderbird, and for good reason. It's one extra measure of control for me, one less for Google.
Do the re-writers of history do so first and then later become victorious because of that?
Why is this even vaguely legal? If corporations are legally allowed to be persons, then why is it legal for one corporate person to buy and enslave another corporate person, and then turn around and sell that other person for profit?
We must hold corporate persons to the same standards of behavior and ethics as other persons. President Trump excepted, of course.
I have never before heard of analysts being tasked with analyzing other analysts. Thank you for making me aware of this new occupational opportunity.
Norelco Philips, Black and Decker, I was especially referring to YOU, you filthy greedy bastards.
This is DECADES too late. I've been livid about it for decades, as have other people not mired in selfishness. Those people mired in selfishness include most of our elected leaders and virtually all corporate executives. This bill probably won't pass - for the usual reasons - and even if it did it only affects ONE state of ONE nation. It needed to be a global prohibition in place decades ago.
What the FCC proposes to end in December isn't network neutrality; it never was. It's an impostor masquerading as network neutrality because some influential wonk put that label on it and legions of ignorant fools propagated it.
Meet the real network neutrality: citizens owning the very same physical network that they use. It's time for eminent domain to be applied against that network and get rid of this chatty impostor once and for all.
Since Mozilla didn't throw Thunderbird entirely to the wolves, does this meant that Thunderbird's offensively cozy relationship with Bing will also end? (The default contextual action for highlighted text in Thunderbird has been a Bing search for the text, for perhaps two years now. Searching with Google is an option buried in a context menu pick list.)
So where is the petition to address this issue and influence an end to this photophilia? Can I surf to change.org and sign it?
The author is just now noticing that the industrialized world has a problem with corporate exploitation of mass production for their own selfish benefit? It not only funnels undeserved profit into their pockets, it also costs society hundreds of billions of dollars in wasted productivity that should have been used for something constructive. We don't need our vehicles to be redesigned every year, yet they are. We don't need new varieties of underarm deodorant every six months, yet we have them. We don't need "new" but-no-better-than-last-year toothbrushes, yet indeed we still have them. Want to buy another of the same toothbrush that worked perfectly well? Sorry, buddy, we "retired" that one for a new design that cuts a few corners and gives us better profit margin. The list goes on, and permeates EVERY corner of our lives. What could have been accomplished for society if all that human effort had been focused on something truly beneficial for society? The promise of mass production was the ability to cheaply replicate items, but when those items are replaced so quickly with new ones the savings to society are lost, and worse yet the profits from this wasteful process keep flowing into the pockets of those abusing it.
This author saw one tree and failed to notice the forest. This problem is much MUCH more pervasive than he comprehends. The problem isn't just with abuse of technology: the problem is abuse of mass production of every sort.
It didn't take a genius to see this coming, only someone who had previous dealings with Amazon's so-called Subscribe And Save program. It promised exactly the same lie. They are merely repeating the same tactic in brick and mortar.
There is no science to economics. It's all propaganda devised by the economic victors to ensure their continued success. People who enroll in a college to "learn" economics are being indoctrinated to think a certain rigid inflexible way that benefits a minority.
A new way to learn economics would be to eject the money-lenders from the classroom, but good luck trying to do that. Even Jesus never fully succeeded.
That is all.
"... substantially different value proposition... "
Lord, do these people talk like that at home? If so I'm guessing they're still lacking wives.
FYI, I've set a personal GPU power consumption limit of 150 Watts. Saving energy is just one of several reasons for setting that limit.
I use a GTX 960, topping out at less than one third the consumption of a GTX 1080, and a fraction of the price. It would have been worse had I chosen the equivalent AMD Product at the time, which is why I chose Nvidia that occasion; AMD had gotten my vote the time before. Having shredded your desperate little hypocrisy theory, I wonder just what it is that motivated you to post it? What sacred little cow are you hiding in your barn?