once Microsoft Amazon Google Apple (MAGA) convince you to discard your books, your music discs, your house keys, your car keys, and the ability to pay for anything other than through them -- the enslavement will be complete. Now be a good citizen and comply... your papers, please?
Computers are scary, but call them "telephones" and folks trust them. Meanwhile, anything euphemistically called "smart" really means "a computer you do not, and cannot, control." Those of us without such nefarious gadgets are increasingly treated as second-class citizens. You want a taxi? Sorry, we got rid of those, and without a "smart" so-called "telephone" you can't get a ride anymore. Everyone on the street goes around in a daze under the spell of these gadgets. Remember, we have always been at war with Oceania...
Speak for yourself. I prefer to arise at 6am, start a load of laundry, chop vegetables for dinner and stow them in the fridge, make my lunch and put it in the cooler, take my time getting dressed, eat breakfast, read the paper, and then go to work. I was 30 before I ever stayed up much past 10pm. I love walking in the quiet morning, pre-dawn even, when there's no traffic just the stoplights and their silent color rotation. Can't understand why folks want to stay up into the night, when mornings are the time for getting things done around the house.
My dad didn't buy a car during the whole tailfin craze. My circa-2007 flip-phone still works perfectly and I intend on keeping it until the whole so-called "smart" so-called "telephone" craze passes.
When erosion was a problem in the American South, we brought in kudzu as a solution, and look how marvelously that turned out. We quenched forest fires in Yellowstone for a century and look how well that went. Gosh. It's almost as if Mother Nature is unpredictable, as if the climate has been changing since the beginning, as if we are barely impacting and certainly not in control of things, as if any time we try and "fix" things we only break them more.
Do you want Amtrak running your cell network? No service to Phoenix or Annapolis, and Minneapolis gets signal once a day for an hour at midnight.
Before you laugh: Amtrak, the nationalization of our passenger trains, was signed into law by Nixon, a Republican.
Because the climate has been utterly static and changeless for millions of years until the evil oil companies snapped their fingers. Or maybe everything changes over time, and species adapt? It's almost as if the global warming climate alarmists disbelieve in natural selection, isn't it?
Feature phones like most flip-phones are not equipped with this protocol, so folks like me with a Samsung T-219 for example are blissfully unaware of all this silliness. At some point I gather the cell towers will require me to get a new device, but so far I can't find a new mobile telephone with real buttons, no web, and no camera; most confusing.
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so if Ceres has plenty of ice-cold water and carbonate, where's my gin asteroid?
Did no-one read "1984" ? Why would anyone willingly carry around, and *pay for*, a constant self-surveillance, self-tracking device?
once Microsoft Amazon Google Apple (MAGA) convince you to discard your books, your music discs, your house keys, your car keys, and the ability to pay for anything other than through them -- the enslavement will be complete. Now be a good citizen and comply... your papers, please?
Computers are scary, but call them "telephones" and folks trust them. Meanwhile, anything euphemistically called "smart" really means "a computer you do not, and cannot, control." Those of us without such nefarious gadgets are increasingly treated as second-class citizens. You want a taxi? Sorry, we got rid of those, and without a "smart" so-called "telephone" you can't get a ride anymore. Everyone on the street goes around in a daze under the spell of these gadgets. Remember, we have always been at war with Oceania...
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Quick, what's the logo for C, Pascal, FORTRAN, or BASIC? Countries have flags and seals; languages don't.
works to save from either Firefox or Chromium. What does "tap and hold" even mean?
Quite. As if apartment landlords are going to add dozens or hundreds of $2,000.00 charge points to their parking lots?
Why would anyone even want a device that has invasive sensors in it?
Or aren't you old enough to set your own bedtime yet?
Speak for yourself. I prefer to arise at 6am, start a load of laundry, chop vegetables for dinner and stow them in the fridge, make my lunch and put it in the cooler, take my time getting dressed, eat breakfast, read the paper, and then go to work. I was 30 before I ever stayed up much past 10pm. I love walking in the quiet morning, pre-dawn even, when there's no traffic just the stoplights and their silent color rotation. Can't understand why folks want to stay up into the night, when mornings are the time for getting things done around the house.
It's a computer that you cannot copy a file to? Seriously? I cannot conceive of how that could work.
Can't you just copy *.mp3 and *.ogg onto it? The filesystem mounts as a USB device, doesn't it?
I have an information for you: Your softwares require upgradings.
Let me tell you how I feel about that: (indecipherable symbol) (indecipherable symbol) (indecipherable symbol).
Clearly they are attempting to influence the Apple-Microsoft election.
My dad didn't buy a car during the whole tailfin craze. My circa-2007 flip-phone still works perfectly and I intend on keeping it until the whole so-called "smart" so-called "telephone" craze passes.
You probably meant interstitial, as inter-terrestrial could be somewhat delayed.
When erosion was a problem in the American South, we brought in kudzu as a solution, and look how marvelously that turned out. We quenched forest fires in Yellowstone for a century and look how well that went. Gosh. It's almost as if Mother Nature is unpredictable, as if the climate has been changing since the beginning, as if we are barely impacting and certainly not in control of things, as if any time we try and "fix" things we only break them more.
and always-on Microphones are now "Speakers" -- huzzah.
Do you want Amtrak running your cell network? No service to Phoenix or Annapolis, and Minneapolis gets signal once a day for an hour at midnight. Before you laugh: Amtrak, the nationalization of our passenger trains, was signed into law by Nixon, a Republican.
Actually, older models will continue to work, in a dilated time setting where everything runs slower and slower and slower and....
Why bother running free software on untrustworthy hardware with untrustworthy firmware running an untrustworthy operating system?
Because the climate has been utterly static and changeless for millions of years until the evil oil companies snapped their fingers. Or maybe everything changes over time, and species adapt? It's almost as if the global warming climate alarmists disbelieve in natural selection, isn't it?
Feature phones like most flip-phones are not equipped with this protocol, so folks like me with a Samsung T-219 for example are blissfully unaware of all this silliness. At some point I gather the cell towers will require me to get a new device, but so far I can't find a new mobile telephone with real buttons, no web, and no camera; most confusing.