Gee, I wonder why people are more concerned about people who blow off limbs and pieces other people with things we invented and don't need outside of war, and people who make the personal choice to eat too much of something we literally cannot live with out and have shorter life spans because of it? Yeah man, people are so illogical.
Banks refuse to take money from pot dispensaries - none of the money from those dispensaries are using payment services from those banks. Pot dispensaries and banks already use Microsoft operating systems and loads of other Microsoft software. There are plenty of pre-existing 2 degrees of separation of cash flow here for this development to present scenario where banks have any fear of being shut down for being tied to the sale of narcotics. No bank is going to go, "Uhoh, we'd better change swaths of our IT infrastructure now because maybe the money pot dispensaries make is spent on Microsoft services, with whom we then do business with." Nor is the federal government going to try and shut down a bank for dealing with Microsoft. If they have any issue with Microsoft's participation in this market, they'd go after Microsoft first.
> We can only guess that the Facebook app on his phone (which I steadfastly refuse to install on mine) scraped my phone number from his contacts list and then Facebook somehow matched it up with my name.
It's a permission the phone asks for, which can be turned off.
Large pieces of Windows have been rewritten to improve performance and responsiveness between Windows 7 and Windows 10. If you compare fresh installs, you'll find that MS, regardless of how you feel about them as a company, has done a pretty good job at reigning in how resource heavy Windows has been in the past.
This doesn't work on Home or Pro editions. It's equivalent to setting feedback/diagnostics to "Basic" which still enables a minimal amount of telemetry. (http://www.askvg.com/truth-behind-disallowing-telemetry-and-data-collection-trick-in-windows-10/)
Not that I don't think people who have a problem with small amounts of software telemetry aren't ridiculous as it's almost garaunteed that many other devices and software they use also have telemetry features (eg: video game consoles, phones, cars, etc)
As your bandwidth approaches infinity, presumably you have no use case where you're using 100% of your bandwidth in sustained use. Do residential users really have a normal usage case that involves downloading 1 gig of data every second? Sure, you can get a 50 gig game in 50 seconds, but do you now need to be able to get 200 games that size in one month?
> when the revolution comes (and yes, its coming, no doubt about it; just don't know WHEN) these assholes will be up against the wall. I would buy a ticket to such an event, btw.
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> I hope we can change before the mob justice stuff happens. I don't really want to be around when the shit hits the fan. it won't be fun for anyone.
If you've ever wondered why people don't take you seriously...
It's not your memory that's fuzzy. It's your capacity for thinking. Free market capitalism is an imaginary superhero that doesn't and shouldn't exist without reasonable oversight and regulation. It is the theoretical "solution" that people who don't want to think too hard invoke, in a desperate attempt to feel like they're contributing to a conversation.
"It's time for people to start taking responsibility for their own actions."
Congratulations. You've won a prize for this being the 800,000,000,000,000th time a person has said this under the mistaken assumption they were adding something useful to the conversation.
Yeah sure, there isn't much difference if you want to make selective comparisons: we all have two legs and two arms, for instance.
This is a dumb "factoid" that belies the reality that at some point, you're probably more comfortable letting a human drive you to work than one of those other primates that are "not very different".
It is unfathomable to me that an electorate can't recognize the conflict of interest that exists if prisons have a profit motive. Americans are very good at marketing. Americans have for profit prisons. American has by far the highest per capita incarceration rate. Do the math.
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Gee, I wonder why people are more concerned about people who blow off limbs and pieces other people with things we invented and don't need outside of war, and people who make the personal choice to eat too much of something we literally cannot live with out and have shorter life spans because of it? Yeah man, people are so illogical.
Banks refuse to take money from pot dispensaries - none of the money from those dispensaries are using payment services from those banks. Pot dispensaries and banks already use Microsoft operating systems and loads of other Microsoft software. There are plenty of pre-existing 2 degrees of separation of cash flow here for this development to present scenario where banks have any fear of being shut down for being tied to the sale of narcotics. No bank is going to go, "Uhoh, we'd better change swaths of our IT infrastructure now because maybe the money pot dispensaries make is spent on Microsoft services, with whom we then do business with." Nor is the federal government going to try and shut down a bank for dealing with Microsoft. If they have any issue with Microsoft's participation in this market, they'd go after Microsoft first.
> We can only guess that the Facebook app on his phone (which I steadfastly refuse to install on mine) scraped my phone number from his contacts list and then Facebook somehow matched it up with my name.
It's a permission the phone asks for, which can be turned off.
Or just turn off the location permissions, mr computer whiz.
That ignores the reality of the unique history of the United States
The US is a special snowflake.
Sometimes it's impressive how many incorrect statements somebody can cram into 3 sentences.
I don't think you understand how statistics work.
Large pieces of Windows have been rewritten to improve performance and responsiveness between Windows 7 and Windows 10. If you compare fresh installs, you'll find that MS, regardless of how you feel about them as a company, has done a pretty good job at reigning in how resource heavy Windows has been in the past.
This doesn't work on Home or Pro editions. It's equivalent to setting feedback/diagnostics to "Basic" which still enables a minimal amount of telemetry. (http://www.askvg.com/truth-behind-disallowing-telemetry-and-data-collection-trick-in-windows-10/)
Not that I don't think people who have a problem with small amounts of software telemetry aren't ridiculous as it's almost garaunteed that many other devices and software they use also have telemetry features (eg: video game consoles, phones, cars, etc)
You need to know the definitions of censorship before you cry about it.
If you're going to try and make a point, at least be genuine.
As your bandwidth approaches infinity, presumably you have no use case where you're using 100% of your bandwidth in sustained use. Do residential users really have a normal usage case that involves downloading 1 gig of data every second? Sure, you can get a 50 gig game in 50 seconds, but do you now need to be able to get 200 games that size in one month?
> when the revolution comes (and yes, its coming, no doubt about it; just don't know WHEN) these assholes will be up against the wall.
I would buy a ticket to such an event, btw.
> I hope we can change before the mob justice stuff happens. I don't really want to be around when the shit hits the fan. it won't be fun for anyone.
If you've ever wondered why people don't take you seriously ...
Oh, there's only one important criteria, and it's cost, not efficiency? Thanks for setting the world of R&D straight, ShanghaiBill.
How about we just take away *your* recreational drugs.
Yes, the word "always" is an approximation. Wow, that's like .. so interesting dude.
Reagan was awful. What's wrong with you?
It's not your memory that's fuzzy. It's your capacity for thinking. Free market capitalism is an imaginary superhero that doesn't and shouldn't exist without reasonable oversight and regulation. It is the theoretical "solution" that people who don't want to think too hard invoke, in a desperate attempt to feel like they're contributing to a conversation.
"But .. but .. the free market!"
"It's time for people to start taking responsibility for their own actions."
Congratulations. You've won a prize for this being the 800,000,000,000,000th time a person has said this under the mistaken assumption they were adding something useful to the conversation.
Yeah sure, there isn't much difference if you want to make selective comparisons: we all have two legs and two arms, for instance.
This is a dumb "factoid" that belies the reality that at some point, you're probably more comfortable letting a human drive you to work than one of those other primates that are "not very different".
It is unfathomable to me that an electorate can't recognize the conflict of interest that exists if prisons have a profit motive. Americans are very good at marketing. Americans have for profit prisons. American has by far the highest per capita incarceration rate. Do the math.
Are you sure you've ever read your own signature?
And boy did that lady and that child get punished good!
Just like so sick fuckers who spun the tragedies of car crashes into improving vehicle safety.
The use of the Swastika would not be something that a real supporter would want associated with Trump.
Ah, the old "No True Stormfront User" argument. Pretty darn naive.