It seriously needs a new abbreviation. Every time I see IoT, I read it as LoT because the capital 'i' looks like a lowercase L. They should change the 'I' to lowercase 'i'.
ioT --- still not perfect, but more understandable.
Won't be any of that crap in my house anyway. If it comes with it already installed, I'll do everything I can to disable it or remove it. If it won't work without being connected, I don't want it.
The ones that irritate me the most are the sites that say, "login with your Facebook account or your gmail account blah blah blah".
I don't have a stupid Facebook account and you're not getting my gmail account. Sometimes I just use an email address like "guest@whateversiteiamat.com or "password" as the password.
News sites are notorious for this if you want to leave a comment.
All of the companies that send me bills by mail are constantly hounding me to let them switch to bills by email. I may pay my bills online through my bank, but I insist on getting a paper copy of my bills. Why on Earth would I want the power company to know my email address?!?
Please don't shatter records. They sound much better than digital recordings. If you re-record from a record to a digital recording, you're losing so much precious sound.
But if you insist on shattering records, start with that hip-hop crap.
Izzi: Yeah. The last night I was with him, he told me about his father, who had died. Well Moses wouldn't believe it.
Tom Creo: Izzi...
Izzi: [embraces Tom] No, no. Listen, listen. He said that if they dug his father's body up, it would be gone. They planted a seed over his grave. The seed became a tree. Moses said his father became a part of that tree. He grew into the wood, into the bloom. And when a sparrow ate the tree's fruit, his father flew with the birds. He said... death was his father's road to awe. That's what he called it. The road to awe. Now, I've been trying to write the last chapter and I haven't been able to get that out of my head!
I agree. To give you some idea of his talent, two of my favorite Alan Rickman movies were Love Actually and Dogma. That an actor could play such different roles in such different movies is testament to his talent. Only a few actors come close to playing such a wide range of characters.
Even if I wanted to spend that kind of money to buy a television, I damned sure wouldn't buy it from Amazon. They'd probably want to ship it by USPS (like 95% of their orders nowadays), and I can't trust the USPS on an item that valuable. No, this would be a go to the store and bring it back home purchase.
The glory days for Amazon are gone since their partnership with the devil.
In a couple of years you can have my job. If you like long hours, low pay, and no respect, we're the ones you're looking for!!
Seriously, I'm really looking forward to retirement. Oh, I'll still work part time, but under my own conditions for hours and pay. My boss is cool with that. He knows there are a few times a year he needs help and I'm a better, more experienced part-time worker than he'll find anywhere.
We were warned over 200 years ago against having a central bank. No country should have one. They are more dangerous than a standing army.
In the U.S. the Federal Reserve (not a part of the Federal government) pretty much runs the country. Nobody has the power to oversee or control it. The income taxes you pay don't go to the government, they go to the Federal Reserve. The Secretary of the Treasury is not an employee of yours; he's an employee (as in paid by) of the Federal Reserve.
Negative interest? Ha, that's just the start of the funny stuff. Wait for what's to come.
In fact, both of my Senators, Sessions and Shelby, AND my Representative voted against. I don't think the CISA part of it was the reason they did, though. They're as much in favor of big government surveillance as most Congresscritters.
We live in strange times when Republican Senators from Alabama and Bernie Sanders vote the same on anything, albeit for different reasons.
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Is that a password in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
Lawyers can get a cut of lawsuits. These $$ are fines. Fines go directly to the government.
But you're right that the people who were most affected won't see a penny.
"Well off" should have been spelled "well-off".
It seriously needs a new abbreviation. Every time I see IoT, I read it as LoT because the capital 'i' looks like a lowercase L. They should change the 'I' to lowercase 'i'.
ioT --- still not perfect, but more understandable.
Won't be any of that crap in my house anyway. If it comes with it already installed, I'll do everything I can to disable it or remove it. If it won't work without being connected, I don't want it.
I'm hoping that one day there won't even be a California.
Still praying for that massive earthquake!!
The ones that irritate me the most are the sites that say, "login with your Facebook account or your gmail account blah blah blah".
I don't have a stupid Facebook account and you're not getting my gmail account. Sometimes I just use an email address like "guest@whateversiteiamat.com or "password" as the password.
News sites are notorious for this if you want to leave a comment.
All of the companies that send me bills by mail are constantly hounding me to let them switch to bills by email. I may pay my bills online through my bank, but I insist on getting a paper copy of my bills. Why on Earth would I want the power company to know my email address?!?
Please don't shatter records. They sound much better than digital recordings. If you re-record from a record to a digital recording, you're losing so much precious sound.
But if you insist on shattering records, start with that hip-hop crap.
Maybe for you, but for me it's more like 6 pixels!!!!
And that's before it gets excited.
And non-GMO!!
Bah! The honeybees didn't invent the hexagon. They copied snowflakes.
Why hire humans when a computer can do the job? Sure, there would be some false positives, but that's where humans can discern the difference.
Izzi: Remember Moses Morales?
Tom Creo: Who?
Izzi: The Mayan guide I told you about.
Tom Creo: From your trip.
Izzi: Yeah. The last night I was with him, he told me about his father, who had died. Well Moses wouldn't believe it.
Tom Creo: Izzi...
Izzi: [embraces Tom] No, no. Listen, listen. He said that if they dug his father's body up, it would be gone. They planted a seed over his grave. The seed became a tree. Moses said his father became a part of that tree. He grew into the wood, into the bloom. And when a sparrow ate the tree's fruit, his father flew with the birds. He said... death was his father's road to awe. That's what he called it. The road to awe. Now, I've been trying to write the last chapter and I haven't been able to get that out of my head!
Tom Creo: Why are you telling me this?
Izzi: I'm not afraid anymore, Tommy.
Quoted from the movie, The Fountain.
I agree. To give you some idea of his talent, two of my favorite Alan Rickman movies were Love Actually and Dogma. That an actor could play such different roles in such different movies is testament to his talent. Only a few actors come close to playing such a wide range of characters.
You can't fire me. You have to sell slaves!!!
While you can't enforce decency, you can look the other way while somebody beats the shit out of the idiot taking pictures of mangled bodies.
You better bet I'd go after whoever did something like that to my family. There wouldn't be a hole deep enough to hide in.
I suspect it was not a mistake. You have to remember that our "Dear Leader" is not playing for the home team.
Two hundred posts and not one joke yet about soft pussy, warm pussy.
I guess I'm the only pervert on slashdot.
Even if I wanted to spend that kind of money to buy a television, I damned sure wouldn't buy it from Amazon. They'd probably want to ship it by USPS (like 95% of their orders nowadays), and I can't trust the USPS on an item that valuable. No, this would be a go to the store and bring it back home purchase.
The glory days for Amazon are gone since their partnership with the devil.
In a couple of years you can have my job. If you like long hours, low pay, and no respect, we're the ones you're looking for!!
Seriously, I'm really looking forward to retirement. Oh, I'll still work part time, but under my own conditions for hours and pay. My boss is cool with that. He knows there are a few times a year he needs help and I'm a better, more experienced part-time worker than he'll find anywhere.
We were warned over 200 years ago against having a central bank. No country should have one. They are more dangerous than a standing army.
In the U.S. the Federal Reserve (not a part of the Federal government) pretty much runs the country. Nobody has the power to oversee or control it. The income taxes you pay don't go to the government, they go to the Federal Reserve. The Secretary of the Treasury is not an employee of yours; he's an employee (as in paid by) of the Federal Reserve.
Negative interest? Ha, that's just the start of the funny stuff. Wait for what's to come.
Nah, climatology is more closely related to astrology, phrenology, and palm-reading.
Bullshit.
The Paris Climate Accords = politics, pure and simple
Nothing more, nothing less.
The science got left at the door.
In fact, both of my Senators, Sessions and Shelby, AND my Representative voted against. I don't think the CISA part of it was the reason they did, though. They're as much in favor of big government surveillance as most Congresscritters.
We live in strange times when Republican Senators from Alabama and Bernie Sanders vote the same on anything, albeit for different reasons.
No, soldiers do not walk around army bases with loaded guns. Sadly, military bases have become gun-free zones.