I'll make my choice by NOT using any of their products.
I will not be using an Android phone
I will not use google (haven't for a while anyway).
Google has a right to do what they want, and I have the right to do what I want.
Pretty cut & dry if you ask me.
I don't believe in homosexual marriage, as I believe that the intention of marriage, at its BASIC level
is for procreation. The term marriage, has been diluted over the decades to the point that a lot of people
don't even get married any more. But, my belief system says that marriage is between a man & a woman.
I don't push my views on anyone. If someone comes up and asks my opinion of something, I tell them, but
I don't protest, I don't carry signs, I don't try to tell someone else how to live.
If more people did that, the world would be better off.
We have a minority of people trying to tell the majority of people how to live.
The "enviro" nuts forced rules upon the world preventing nuclear power from increasing.
These same "green" idiots promoted the use of solar, wind which only works when the sun is
shining & the wind is blowing.
These same clowns also have convinced the current administration that coal is bad, so no more
coal plants.
We haven't built up the power generation capacity in this country, to handle the load caused by our
ever increasing demand for comfort. People say, oh just do without AC.
Sorry, that WON'T happen without a lot of deaths in the United States (and the world). For lack of a
better term, we are "spoiled" by comfort. When I was a child, back in the early 60's, we didn't think
much about temperatures in the 90's, we just turned on a fan. Well, back then, the only places that
had air conditioning were the grocery store, the movie theater and a very few business & the country
club. We were ACCLIMATED to the heat. With the advent of central AC, cars, businesses, we are
acclimated to the AC. And why would we force ourselves to be uncomfortable? "oh, but we must
save the whales, prevent (man made) global warming, the rain forest and all the other catch phrases
that the left uses to make us feel bad. Sorry...not buying it because I live in REALVILLE. Not this
hollywood/scientist/earth first fantasy world that the hand wringers live in. You want to eat nuts & berries?
Fine, not a problem. Go live in a cave and leave the rest of us alone. One good volcano spews more
garbage in the air that all the smog released by cars anyway. And that "smoke" coming from smokestacks
at power plants? That's just condensed water vapor anyway.
Sorry, call me a guy wearing a tin foil hat, but I DO NOT want an automated system like this,
or On Star in any vehicle I drive, but, I'm sure that the sheeple will go for it, because "it's for the
children" bla bla bla. Franklin said this in 1759 and it rings true today: "Those who would give up
essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
If you install something like a phone system, which is nothing more than a fancy radio TRANSMITTER
& RECEIVER, do you not think the government has the ability, legally or illegally to tap into it anytime
they want?
Once these become "commonplace", combine this with in car GPS, and the next step will be automated
traffic tickets, or, automated warnings and automatic speed control. People don't understand the mind
of a statist-socialist-marxist-control freak. They want the moon, but, know that if they ask for the moon,
people will push back HARD, but, if you institute change over time, a little here, a little there that by the
time they figure out what happened, it will be too late.
We had a HUGE ice storm a few years back. Some were without power in the dead of winter for 2 weeks.
Bunch of crybabies. That is the problem with most people, without "creature comforts" they will die...so perhaps
it wouldn't be a bad thing, kill off those in the lower end of the gene pool!
I don't care for the entire concept. For one, the utilities are for use. If a person uses more, they pay more. If you use
less, you pay less. The only thing smart meters are for, is CONTROL. Just like anything else, you get the public "use"
to giving up more & more of your personal liberties, then, at the appropriate time, when THEY think you are using too
much of anything, they can effectively CUT YOU OFF. Oh, but it is for the greater good bla bla bla.
Yep, the greater good of GOVERNMENT. You think any of the politburo of the U.S. government is going to give up one
little thing? Heck no. They can bypass TSA, bypass the laws they "set down" for everyone else, and on and on.
Time for another revolution and throw these clowns out, FROM BOTH PARTIES.
From: Google
To: AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, Orange, et al
re: Software updates
Notice! Starting 1 Jan, 2013, GOOGLE will institute a new procedure to update any device running
an android OS. After this date, when WE release a new OS, it will be automatically downloaded to
any device that is capable of supporting a new release. There will be a message on the client device
stating the OS has an update, and the necessary instructions to update said device.
We take this action, because our partner carriers are too damn lazy to push the updates themselves,
counting on the stupidity of the average consumer into buying a NEW device every year.
Sincerely,
Google
P.S. SUCK IT!
Myself, a 50 something person, and a LOT like me, are about fed up with the spoiled brat helicopter kids of
today. If they don't get everything THEIR way, they throw a fit. Their stupid parents (my age & younger),
spoiled these brats to the point that the whole lot of them should be forced into the (old style) military to
get their heads right! Jobs are not a right, free this and that are not rights.
Voting is a right granted under the U.S. Constitution. The problem is, we have politically corrected education
to the point that we don't teach history, and what that right to vote means. People are too lazy to get up off
their butts, make an EFFORT to go vote. They want the vote brought to them, want it "easy", convenient.
Sorry, what it took to make this country, was not "easy" and those that want to make voting "easy" need to
bear in mind what it took to allow you that precious right to vote.
Get up off your lazy bum a** on voting day and vote.
Oh, I don't have time, I work when the votes are cast, I have children that I need to pick up bla bla bla bla.
Then get your butt down to, or request an ABSENTEE ballot!
If you don't exercise your right to vote, one of these days, it may be TAKEN away from you.
On, and on the right to vote, you don't have, and NEVER have had the right to directly vote for president of the
United States, and you still don't.
Good thing these hand wringers were not around when America was expanding west, or the railroads and cities
west of the Mississippi would never have sprung up! Oh, I'm sure there are some that wish it never would have
started...bunch of hippie earth first nuts.
If someone is STUPID enough to: drink, snort, inject some chemical into their body, as long as they are in the confines of their
own home, I could care less. It is when they interact with the public (go outside, drive a car) that I have a problem with it.
In my youth, I NEVER experimented with any chemicals other than alcohol. I stopped drinking in my late 30's when it became
apparent that it hurt too much the next day to get up and go to work, because I couldn't stop at just one.
The problem with chemical abuse is when you have an addictive behavior pattern. OCD, ADHD or whatever you want to call it,
if you have a somewhat addictive personality, and cannot stop at "just one", these new "chemicals" that are produced to get
around bans on K2, bath salts, who knows what they will do to your brain cells, if you have any left.
I just wish they would somehow chemically map these chemicals to render the user sterile, so eventually these dopes that
snort the equivalence of drano, will take themselves out of the gene pool.
As for marijuana, about the only time you hear or see someone get out of hand is when the police refuses to take the arrested
individual by the taco bell before going to jail. LOL.
You clowns in NYC deserve what you get. You elected this ldiot!
More government involvement into the everyday lives of Americans,
because after all...politicians are smarter than everyone else.
So, does that mean, like it typically does, when a company cuts like that, they will also find ways to
"save" on produced products? Which means they will cut corners on products, to make them cheaper,
but still sell them at the higher price to "improve" the bottom line.
No, what would usually happen is when they would scan an item, it wouldn't ring up, so the clerk would get
on the intercom store wide and say "I need a price check on Kotex Stay Free Minipads" and everyone would
start looking at the husband in line and snicker.
Many Americans, take for GRANTED the freedom they (still) have in this country. Many on the outside looking in, especially those
from former soviet socialist countries have come here to "make it big". In other words, many Americans don't have the work ethic because
we are fat dumb & lazy, expect everything given to us, and complain about everything.
I was working on a digital copier about 8 years ago that would wig out at odd times. When I put
a voltage load monitor on the line, when I would give it a 15amp load, the neutral to ground voltage
would jump from.6 to 11volts!
Told the customer to get the ground checked. When back a week later & they said the ground rod
was only TWELVE INCHES long and was only 6" into the ground, which in this part of the country,
is mostly rock. They had a 6' rod placed by a qualified electrician. Never had the problem with the
machine again.
You are obviously too young to remember vacuum tubes.
I have been working in electronics since the early 70's as a kid, tv shops in the mid-late 70's.
I have watched circuits shrink over the years, from no circuit board (point wired tv chassis), to
huge printed circuit board, to the switch over from tubes to transistors (and the RCA nuvistor),
then onto LSI chips. A 25" color TV use to take two strong men to lift & move around. Now,
a housewife can hang one on a wall.
Given time, the 3d printing will shrink also.
From a country that thought ramming airplanes into ships might win a war.
ldiots! This summer when it is impossible to run your AC to keep cool because of rolling brown outs, and
next winter when it is too cold to run your furnace, remember back to this day.
Bunch of nearsighted clowns running that country, caving into the political correctness nutjobs.
He had another thing he did. Not only did he park in the handicap spot, ever notice that most of the cars he drove had temporary window decals? No permanent license plates?
He worked a deal with a car dealer to "sell" him a new car every 60 days. He would trade in the "old" one, and get
temp stickers for the vehicle. He never registered it, and so the tickets never went anywhere.
Not to mention never having to register the vehicle with California.
For all the "love" the fanboi's have of Apple Steve (blow) Jobs, he was what you might call the "typical" corporate
asshat. Would do anything to squeeze a penny out of something and treated most employees like dirt.
You think people are going to give up their rights overnight? HA!
It's a little thing called CONDITIONING. People give up freedom for what they think is a little
security. You are now conditioned to being searched when you go on a flight. Pretty soon,
when you board a train, you will be searched. Then you will be searched even more, when
attending a sporting event besides the world series & super bowl. Before you know it, you
will be searched for every public event. One day, you'll wake up and wonder what happened
to your freedom. Those who give up a little security in the name of freedom deserve NEITHER!
12 years worth of data, combined with the AGE OF THE EARTH is what....a few seconds worth of data?
If "man made" global warming was happening, explain the unearthed silver mines that had been covered
in glacier ice? Obviously, it was warm enough back then to support someone mining something.
Explain how rivers were routinely "walked on" all winter long, but now they never freeze over?
It's called A CYCLE. The earth warms, the earth cools. I'll betcha if you really did the research,
you would find an almost parallel to the earth cycles and the sun cycles. Amazing! When the sun heats
up, has a ton of sunspot cycles, CME's...it effects OUR EARTH.
But, this "researcher" saying he was wrong about man made global warming won't get much press, because
it doesn't fit the "global warming" agenda of our current administration, the anti capitalist and the "one world order"
idiots in the UN.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
Believe it if you want, don't believe it if you don't, but it is enough of an explanation for me. It's something called FAITH.
The problem I have with a lot of people is I don't try to shove my belief in god on them, but a lot of them want to shove their
non belief on me.
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I'll make my choice by NOT using any of their products. I will not be using an Android phone I will not use google (haven't for a while anyway). Google has a right to do what they want, and I have the right to do what I want. Pretty cut & dry if you ask me. I don't believe in homosexual marriage, as I believe that the intention of marriage, at its BASIC level is for procreation. The term marriage, has been diluted over the decades to the point that a lot of people don't even get married any more. But, my belief system says that marriage is between a man & a woman. I don't push my views on anyone. If someone comes up and asks my opinion of something, I tell them, but I don't protest, I don't carry signs, I don't try to tell someone else how to live. If more people did that, the world would be better off. We have a minority of people trying to tell the majority of people how to live.
The "enviro" nuts forced rules upon the world preventing nuclear power from increasing. These same "green" idiots promoted the use of solar, wind which only works when the sun is shining & the wind is blowing. These same clowns also have convinced the current administration that coal is bad, so no more coal plants. We haven't built up the power generation capacity in this country, to handle the load caused by our ever increasing demand for comfort. People say, oh just do without AC. Sorry, that WON'T happen without a lot of deaths in the United States (and the world). For lack of a better term, we are "spoiled" by comfort. When I was a child, back in the early 60's, we didn't think much about temperatures in the 90's, we just turned on a fan. Well, back then, the only places that had air conditioning were the grocery store, the movie theater and a very few business & the country club. We were ACCLIMATED to the heat. With the advent of central AC, cars, businesses, we are acclimated to the AC. And why would we force ourselves to be uncomfortable? "oh, but we must save the whales, prevent (man made) global warming, the rain forest and all the other catch phrases that the left uses to make us feel bad. Sorry...not buying it because I live in REALVILLE. Not this hollywood/scientist/earth first fantasy world that the hand wringers live in. You want to eat nuts & berries? Fine, not a problem. Go live in a cave and leave the rest of us alone. One good volcano spews more garbage in the air that all the smog released by cars anyway. And that "smoke" coming from smokestacks at power plants? That's just condensed water vapor anyway.
Sorry, call me a guy wearing a tin foil hat, but I DO NOT want an automated system like this, or On Star in any vehicle I drive, but, I'm sure that the sheeple will go for it, because "it's for the children" bla bla bla. Franklin said this in 1759 and it rings true today: "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." If you install something like a phone system, which is nothing more than a fancy radio TRANSMITTER & RECEIVER, do you not think the government has the ability, legally or illegally to tap into it anytime they want? Once these become "commonplace", combine this with in car GPS, and the next step will be automated traffic tickets, or, automated warnings and automatic speed control. People don't understand the mind of a statist-socialist-marxist-control freak. They want the moon, but, know that if they ask for the moon, people will push back HARD, but, if you institute change over time, a little here, a little there that by the time they figure out what happened, it will be too late.
We had a HUGE ice storm a few years back. Some were without power in the dead of winter for 2 weeks. Bunch of crybabies. That is the problem with most people, without "creature comforts" they will die...so perhaps it wouldn't be a bad thing, kill off those in the lower end of the gene pool!
I don't care for the entire concept. For one, the utilities are for use. If a person uses more, they pay more. If you use less, you pay less. The only thing smart meters are for, is CONTROL. Just like anything else, you get the public "use" to giving up more & more of your personal liberties, then, at the appropriate time, when THEY think you are using too much of anything, they can effectively CUT YOU OFF. Oh, but it is for the greater good bla bla bla. Yep, the greater good of GOVERNMENT. You think any of the politburo of the U.S. government is going to give up one little thing? Heck no. They can bypass TSA, bypass the laws they "set down" for everyone else, and on and on. Time for another revolution and throw these clowns out, FROM BOTH PARTIES.
From: Google To: AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, Orange, et al re: Software updates Notice! Starting 1 Jan, 2013, GOOGLE will institute a new procedure to update any device running an android OS. After this date, when WE release a new OS, it will be automatically downloaded to any device that is capable of supporting a new release. There will be a message on the client device stating the OS has an update, and the necessary instructions to update said device. We take this action, because our partner carriers are too damn lazy to push the updates themselves, counting on the stupidity of the average consumer into buying a NEW device every year. Sincerely, Google P.S. SUCK IT!
So, reddit is admitting they are as fake as digg.com? LOL, dropped both sites a few years back.
Myself, a 50 something person, and a LOT like me, are about fed up with the spoiled brat helicopter kids of today. If they don't get everything THEIR way, they throw a fit. Their stupid parents (my age & younger), spoiled these brats to the point that the whole lot of them should be forced into the (old style) military to get their heads right! Jobs are not a right, free this and that are not rights. Voting is a right granted under the U.S. Constitution. The problem is, we have politically corrected education to the point that we don't teach history, and what that right to vote means. People are too lazy to get up off their butts, make an EFFORT to go vote. They want the vote brought to them, want it "easy", convenient. Sorry, what it took to make this country, was not "easy" and those that want to make voting "easy" need to bear in mind what it took to allow you that precious right to vote. Get up off your lazy bum a** on voting day and vote. Oh, I don't have time, I work when the votes are cast, I have children that I need to pick up bla bla bla bla. Then get your butt down to, or request an ABSENTEE ballot! If you don't exercise your right to vote, one of these days, it may be TAKEN away from you. On, and on the right to vote, you don't have, and NEVER have had the right to directly vote for president of the United States, and you still don't.
Who cares, the world will end in December anyway LOL.
Good thing these hand wringers were not around when America was expanding west, or the railroads and cities west of the Mississippi would never have sprung up! Oh, I'm sure there are some that wish it never would have started...bunch of hippie earth first nuts.
If someone is STUPID enough to: drink, snort, inject some chemical into their body, as long as they are in the confines of their own home, I could care less. It is when they interact with the public (go outside, drive a car) that I have a problem with it. In my youth, I NEVER experimented with any chemicals other than alcohol. I stopped drinking in my late 30's when it became apparent that it hurt too much the next day to get up and go to work, because I couldn't stop at just one. The problem with chemical abuse is when you have an addictive behavior pattern. OCD, ADHD or whatever you want to call it, if you have a somewhat addictive personality, and cannot stop at "just one", these new "chemicals" that are produced to get around bans on K2, bath salts, who knows what they will do to your brain cells, if you have any left. I just wish they would somehow chemically map these chemicals to render the user sterile, so eventually these dopes that snort the equivalence of drano, will take themselves out of the gene pool. As for marijuana, about the only time you hear or see someone get out of hand is when the police refuses to take the arrested individual by the taco bell before going to jail. LOL.
You clowns in NYC deserve what you get. You elected this ldiot! More government involvement into the everyday lives of Americans, because after all...politicians are smarter than everyone else.
So, does that mean, like it typically does, when a company cuts like that, they will also find ways to "save" on produced products? Which means they will cut corners on products, to make them cheaper, but still sell them at the higher price to "improve" the bottom line.
No, what would usually happen is when they would scan an item, it wouldn't ring up, so the clerk would get on the intercom store wide and say "I need a price check on Kotex Stay Free Minipads" and everyone would start looking at the husband in line and snicker.
Many Americans, take for GRANTED the freedom they (still) have in this country. Many on the outside looking in, especially those from former soviet socialist countries have come here to "make it big". In other words, many Americans don't have the work ethic because we are fat dumb & lazy, expect everything given to us, and complain about everything.
I was working on a digital copier about 8 years ago that would wig out at odd times. When I put a voltage load monitor on the line, when I would give it a 15amp load, the neutral to ground voltage would jump from .6 to 11volts!
Told the customer to get the ground checked. When back a week later & they said the ground rod
was only TWELVE INCHES long and was only 6" into the ground, which in this part of the country,
is mostly rock. They had a 6' rod placed by a qualified electrician. Never had the problem with the
machine again.
Something based on an Isolation Transformer would be probably the best thing. You can isolate the surge & clamp it at the source.
You are obviously too young to remember vacuum tubes. I have been working in electronics since the early 70's as a kid, tv shops in the mid-late 70's. I have watched circuits shrink over the years, from no circuit board (point wired tv chassis), to huge printed circuit board, to the switch over from tubes to transistors (and the RCA nuvistor), then onto LSI chips. A 25" color TV use to take two strong men to lift & move around. Now, a housewife can hang one on a wall. Given time, the 3d printing will shrink also.
From a country that thought ramming airplanes into ships might win a war. ldiots! This summer when it is impossible to run your AC to keep cool because of rolling brown outs, and next winter when it is too cold to run your furnace, remember back to this day. Bunch of nearsighted clowns running that country, caving into the political correctness nutjobs.
He had another thing he did. Not only did he park in the handicap spot, ever notice that most of the cars he drove had temporary window decals? No permanent license plates? He worked a deal with a car dealer to "sell" him a new car every 60 days. He would trade in the "old" one, and get temp stickers for the vehicle. He never registered it, and so the tickets never went anywhere. Not to mention never having to register the vehicle with California. For all the "love" the fanboi's have of Apple Steve (blow) Jobs, he was what you might call the "typical" corporate asshat. Would do anything to squeeze a penny out of something and treated most employees like dirt.
You think people are going to give up their rights overnight? HA! It's a little thing called CONDITIONING. People give up freedom for what they think is a little security. You are now conditioned to being searched when you go on a flight. Pretty soon, when you board a train, you will be searched. Then you will be searched even more, when attending a sporting event besides the world series & super bowl. Before you know it, you will be searched for every public event. One day, you'll wake up and wonder what happened to your freedom. Those who give up a little security in the name of freedom deserve NEITHER!
12 years worth of data, combined with the AGE OF THE EARTH is what....a few seconds worth of data? If "man made" global warming was happening, explain the unearthed silver mines that had been covered in glacier ice? Obviously, it was warm enough back then to support someone mining something. Explain how rivers were routinely "walked on" all winter long, but now they never freeze over? It's called A CYCLE. The earth warms, the earth cools. I'll betcha if you really did the research, you would find an almost parallel to the earth cycles and the sun cycles. Amazing! When the sun heats up, has a ton of sunspot cycles, CME's...it effects OUR EARTH. But, this "researcher" saying he was wrong about man made global warming won't get much press, because it doesn't fit the "global warming" agenda of our current administration, the anti capitalist and the "one world order" idiots in the UN.
From the area of Springfield Missouri. Ham since 1990
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. 3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. Believe it if you want, don't believe it if you don't, but it is enough of an explanation for me. It's something called FAITH. The problem I have with a lot of people is I don't try to shove my belief in god on them, but a lot of them want to shove their non belief on me.
Wasn't it some stuffed shirt at IBM who told Bill Gates he could have the (dos) software...because the real money was in the hardware?