You start sinking China naval vessel in the South China sea I could pretty well guarantee they will strike that US carrier fleet with nukes until it is gone. Will the US fire nukes at cities in China, sure if they want cities in the US to glow in the dark. This has been covered before, if US attacks China it will also attack Russia because the US could not stand for an unharmed Russia with a crippled US, exactly the same goes with attacking Russia, a crippled US could not stand a unharmed China, hell, a crippled US would not tolerate an unharmed South America and will nuke them too. This is not a cold war or a hot war, it is a straight up bullshit war to sell arms and munitions and NATO is nothing but a compulsory tribute club, where you are forced to buy American military rubbish, this season, specifically the F35 Flying Pig (a plane whose main purpose is to generate profits for the US military industrial complex, hence why it performs so poorly, actually designed to be replaced in order to maximise profits because they know, they factually know they will not start a war and they know Russia nor China will start a war, hence the F35 Flying Pig can be absolute rubbish as it does not have to fight a war).
The only acceptable tariffs are fair competition tariffs. Where the local regulatory costs and calculated and then evaulated at those costs in source countries for imports and the percentage difference added as a tarrif, so import products face exactly the same regulatory costs as local produced products. This includes all regulated wages and conditions of employment, pollution controls, as well as all safety costs. Double plus bonus in this, those countries who cheap out can either pay the cost in better conditions at home or pay it as import duties, their choice. The tariffs would be applied in a trade court upon evaluation of various countries regulatory costs.
Of course if you really are talking actual efficiency than co-generation engines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... are the way to go. The most logical version in the low density domestic situation, a sewerage digester https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., basically a large tank where you kitchen and toilet waste initially go, to start breaking down prior to going to sewer, specifically to produce methane, which you then burn in a gas turbine engine generator http://newenergyandfuel.com/ht.... Not quite the best design because you want to use the exhaust gases to heat water or your house and the radiate heat from the unit in say a clothes drying room and of course the electricity to go to your house battery (better balancing of energy needs between needing heat and electricity, of course if you have a heated pool, you can see real advantage in a domestic methane co-generation plant). You could use the energy to power bullshit crypto generation but in reality it would probably be smarter to sell the electricity you generate from mud monkey poo (earth primate faeces) back to the grid. How much electricity, how big is your family (a subtle dig at Americans there) and how big is your methane generation tank, and if you cogeneration plant is sized accordingly, will drive how much money you save or make, depending upon electricity and hot water usage.
In fact those kind of installations should already be mass produced for default installation but mud monkeys are such a backward short sighted species often not able to see much beyond their own genitals (methane is ten times worse than carbon dioxide but who cares, I don't own any underwaterfront property, I wonder if they will develop house snorkels first, surf zone, probably not).
Which is more important to you though. You count and people like you count, desktop users, not the average mug punter for whom smart TV, a smart phone and maybe a tablet are enough, no desktop for them any more and if they have children a cheap notebook for school. The desktop is shrinking back to it's original market and M$ in the ultimate dick move is apparently doing everything they can to piss of the remaining likely long term users of desktops.
For you, which is more important, control of your digital life or playing pvp (purse vs purse) world of tanks.
When I started with PCs there were fuck all games and I mean green screen. Everything changes, so I will bin all my steam content that does not port to Apple or Linux. I don't need M$, they need us but they are cunts so fuck em.
Let's be honest, regardless of the infinite greed of publishers and extreme desire on their part for extreme poseur status, there is no fucking money left in the economy to pay for their fucking delusions, it's called austerity morons, get fucking used to it. Right now their content and the psuedo celebrities are reaching all time lows in popularity mainly because of the collapse of the saturation advertising model, simply too many venues for advertising for too many products and dilution to insignificance for ads across all platforms. Austerity, people will not starve themselves to buy shitty content, the pseudo celebrities just look like any other egoistic blogger, in fact the pseudo celebrities are forced to act like typical youtubers ie https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (don't bother watching it through just get an idea of the content) because they and their message have become insignificant except for the most gullible believers.
So they crap on about copying content, as people go hungry, as the middle class is crapped on (the people with the real power), as the poorest a living on the streets, the insanity of insatiable greed, never ever having enough, not matter how many that greed kills.
Don't expect to sell high priced content to hungry people and expect those hungry people to hate egoistic poseur pseudo celebrities rubbing the poverty of the poor into the face of the poor, starve fuckers, I need my private jet.
We trust government to do things in the public interest in a public manner so we don't have to fucking trust them. We want to be able to fucking check everything going on and everything they will affect not only who we vote for but who we actively vociferously campaign against. Trust, limited trust for a limited time, if the government has nothing to hide than why does it keep secrets from us the people, us the bosses, those who representatives are meant to represent not fucking rule or lead. We are the fucking leaders, we demand the right to know, we demand the right to not fucking relying on blind ignorant faith.
There is trust and their is stupidly wilfully gullible ignorant trust. I trust the government will corruptly cheat and even kill me if I do not strive to monitor and control it, that's what I trust. As much as it grinds my gears, yes I do trust government more than I trust private industry and in my experience the bigger the corporation worse they are and the less they are to be trusted and in reality should be broken up to be far less dangerous to society.
Anyone who has a clue about what is going one will tell you a new energy backed crypto is waiting to join the market and it will not tolerate anything what so ever that will affect it's value as a global exchange mechanism, unbacked crypto just for marketing reasons alone is, well, dying and hanging on until the end, will lose you a lot and leave you associating with hardened criminals who think your crypto wallet is worth much more than your life or the 'er' unpleasantness of getting your passwords. Flip side, probably, as the numbers thin down and the trade concentrates, the investigatory agencies will, well, be shooting fish in a barrel, so most will survive with custodial sentences. Big money is playing a big game, they will not tolerate opposition. The rules have changed very quickly in the last month, if you have been paying attention and in normal fiscal terms it is a extremely fast change in the economic market, showing underlying plans in motion.
Yeah will it seems, a playstation or steambox for gaming and a Linux box for coms and cursing M$ to hell for anything else, not that I believe but the 9th level with the betrayers would be suitable for them.
Well, that actually goes with the territory. I have dealt with the same thing all over as tech expanded. Lazy useless people demanding tech do their work for them and I would advise them quite simply, if tech could do their work for them, why would the company employ them.
So poorly performing lazy FBI agents demand tech do their job for them, sit in their office whilst pretending to do great investigative work but in reality just spying on everyone, more often than not their next hopeful sexual conquest or past failure, rather than anything investigatory. Basically everyone should be telling those lazy fuckers to get out of their office and onto the streets and do real detecting, real investigation because as soon as the bads guys stop carrying phones when they do their planning, the FBI will be so out of practice, they wont be able to do anything but cry about how they need to spy on everyone.
Keeping in mind how destructive that is to preventative policing, flooding yourself with so much data you routinely ignore those who you should be investigating simply because you can not get to them in time, pursing hundreds of other people who a no threat at all instead. No criminal will ever trust tech they do not control, so what the fuck do you do then.
The subtle news in this article is social media is struggling because it's marketing model, just delivers diluted marketing that sells nothing. When their claims of results are checked for actual sales, that means Google and Facebook, their real customers the advertisers are finding they are shit. Soon the demand will go to Google for full time banners, else they can go fuck themselves with the diluted advertising model that sells nothing except fucking paying for ads, adwords. Proof in the last US election, Google in the most democratically corrupt fashion imaginable was in the tank for Clinton and lost big time, seeing as all the other major companies, main stream media companies, the deep state and shadow government as well as in an extremely corrupt fashion the White House and it's crew of blackgaurds http://www.dictionary.com/brow... (heh, heh), that loss was proof positive of their lack of ability to actually sell anything, except of course themselves and the scam of targeted adwords.
How about source code, the right to repaid the broken arse POS Windows anal probe 10 and get rid of the privacy invasive shit and permanently block the cunts at M$ from installing software on your property, your digital life, those fucking sickening scum, the filth right out of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four, their ideas are as sick as fuck.
Personally I would prefer a series of video streams, recorded or live of pleasant surroundings with pleasant music (here's a favourite https://www.youtube.com/watch?...), probably adjusted to time for my local with a living view adjusted for better night or day light visuals. As for power, well I will replace my windows with their problematic insulation, questionable view (not true I have a fantastic view especially sunsets, I enjoy seeing storms roll in) with solar panels and size does count.
So Samsung want to sell what people want, include a free scenery channel in your big screen television purchase. Not just country side, but interesting city centres, markets, botanic gardens, zoos and wildlife parks etc.
Bloody ijiot. You know exactly how to preserve you job, no matter what the fuck it is, 'DEMAND' to be served by a human being at every instance. Ring you insurance company and get an idiot machine demanding you punch numbers of what ever the fuck, leave a message telling them to go fuck themselves, want your business, you'll pay extra for human service, a receptionist who will listen to you and direct you call to exactly the person you need to speak to, your call as a human being being answered by a human being. Go to the checkout, shun the autocrap, go to the checkout person, wish them a 'gday' and get served by a human being and don't be a dick or a vag (an old hags vag...) and thank them for their service and the shared human social interaction. You as a human being, demand to work with human beings, demand that a human works in a job and are treated with respect for the work they do and earn a living wage for doing it even if it is only for 6x4, 2 3 hour shifts four days a week (share social responsibilities and it is about our society not just enriching and empowering suck psychopaths who should be in pleasant controlled environments where they can harm no one and most definitely not be left in charge of anything what so ever. Want more jobs, than education for life and I mean attend school for you whole life, either full time as a mature instructure or part time as a mature student, learning all that you need to learn to make judgements about your society, your government, your justice system and whether being murderous gits across the planet to enrich and empower psychopaths is the right thing to do.
Plan on not just one career but more than one developing your expertise, making a more valuable contribution to the future of humanity. Poseur status is a sick and delusional lie. I do not want to be served by a machine, I want to work with people achieving mutual goals. Currently my preferred goal, reaching the stars (for that we need peace), I know I will never get that human crafted ticket to ride that but I can work to kick that, heh heh, off the ground and right out of this gravity pit.
I'm waiting for reliable accurately voice recognition, kind of stops there, don't you know. Likely it will require user and computer training for better speed and accuracy and a new vocal interface.
The only real goal behind the finances of UBER, get to IPO with maximal expectations of infinite profit and profit on commissions and sales of insider shares at IPO time and then bet the crash of the stock for the cherry on top profits. The problem is, a scummy company often has scummy executives and this bunch proved to scummy to keep the illusion going and building it up even more, right up to IPO time. UBER is pretty much proving to be a bankster pump and dump, which is struggling due to repeated failures of management to achieve that goal by doing some really greed driven stupidity things, after all they are expecting to become billionaires at the expense of corrupted pension funds.
Straight up fault in analysis, 'what were your hours', so hours driving or hours waiting, all waiting and how about hours lost whilst car serviced. "what was you income' is also tricky, total income or income per hour, income when driving and income when waiting and income when driving to pick up and income when driving post pick up. 'What were your costs' is also not that straight forward, investment in the motor vehicle, yes or no or part time. Reality is, as an uber driver, your are probably working yourself into poverty, unless it is just a part time fill in and you ignore the bulk of the costs, as it is just temporary.
Nope this is a mass marketing exercise. As the delusion of an unbacked by anything but marketing currency collapses so new marketing engine is created ie a unbacked marketing and public relations currency exchange for worthless unbacked currencies. Straight up fact, a currency is only worth what backs it be that an entire country or as is developing source able energy. A currency backed by nothing is worth nothing, it's value is a measure of marketing, gullibility and greed, so more a psychological measure than any fiscal measure (and once which will be investigated in various custodial establishments because it will become very criminal in the end).
This case relates purely to proper process of law. A computer touched by a Geek Squad member can only produce on thing, tainted evidence and nothing more. Straight up tainted by leaving the persons individual control and now be controlled by someone who for reward and not as a court appointed officer, breaks the law by looking at material they by law are not allowed to and then well, who knows what else they do, they are getting a financial reward, so placing evidence is a reasonable expectation. You do not look for anything related to computer maintenance by looking at the contents of data files, you run a scan using software.
So interesting, the Fucking Bloody Idiots actually where accessories after the fact and the evidence they received was evidence of computer crime by Geek Squad which they failed to prosecute or inform the victims and for which they are most emphatically criminally are liable, interesting. This should actually require in US terms, a congressional investigation because it is a major crime, the mass tainted and corruption of evidence and the hiding of crimes, to enhance the careers of select corrupt FBI agents.
Never ever be confused by the difference between lower costs and lower charges, one hardly ever leads to the other and that is the purposeful function of public relations and marketing, the ability to confuse the gullible. Corporations charge the maximum they can only limited by diminishing returns with higher profit margins, the cost versus the charges. Ideally as seen in modern governance, they want tax payers to foot the bill for the costs and then charge infinite profit margins, infinite because say like the F35 Flying Pig, the final purchase leads to the goal of the aircraft being declared unsatisfactory, blame government controlled by those corporations and buying a new replacement (they seem to be pushing the M$ model where every second version is utter trash requiring replacement at your cost).
The modern trend if for more skilled drivers, that place their equipment appropriate after getting it to site safely and then unloading it themselves to the right location. Auto trucks at this stage, lets be economically honest, are an IPO tool, to make the company look like it is worth more than it is.
Always keep in mind the cargo will often be worth more than the truck and not just the cargo itself but delays in delivery. All sorts of things can stop an auto truck cold, one detector slightly faulty and someone's cargo is dead on the side of a road, depending how far away, that can mean dead for days and delays can cost way, way more than a truck driver. How well does autodrive work in muddy conditions, where there is a high likelihood of obscuring detectors and if not mud how about snow.
Any perceived saving, after already adding in higher capital cost, can be goobled right up in penalties for lost cargo and if the turkey vultures at Uber think they can scam commercial operators like they do the gullible public, well, they will be bankrupted into oblivion via civil suits. In commercial cargo operations it is all about the cargo, undamaged and on time, no whoops star rating, straight to court rating and clauses like, we take no responsibility for safe delivery of cargo, blacked out by highlighter and initialled or the contract binned.
Uber makes new announcement to pretty up company prior to IPO, believe nothing.
Well, this dude is so fussy, it is simply better to say, roll your own. Basically write a tiny little database, with a simple interface, do it with libre office for example, if you can run it on your phone and simply host the database with your ISP, encrypted. So where ever you are load it on up. To be honest I have found people who do not manage todo with scraps a paper, a simple diary and memory will not manage them no matter the technology. Reality is though todo list are simple databases, you want pushed reminders, that means running a remote application, you could create a really cheap won and hook it to your home internet connection and then run an desktop shortcut to load the app and get the filed from your home server. You want all they help, pay for a consultant, you want roll your own, pay for it;).
NO, we are better meant to plan things. Wont healthy happier societies, then you have to create the social infrastructure to support it. Much like drug addiction, it has been proven, provide healthy more stable social environments where the addict is more content and that social environment eliminates the need for self medication ie escape with drugs.
Same for the gaming addiction, reduce the social pressures and create more psychologically healthy social environments and you will eliminate the need for escape. So gaming addiction is not the disease, it is purely the symptom, just like drug addiction, the disease is the malfunctions in society caused by the mass negative impact of the parasitical nature of psychopaths, genetically damaged individuals parasitically feeding on the rest of society to it's destruction, to feed the destructive ego and lusts of those psychopaths. Their actions and influence are the disease, their cerebral genetic condition the cause.
Now I understand why Amazon has been so, so, slow setting up in Australia, extremely bad consumer practices according to Australia consumer law. Basically the person or company who sells the product is liable for the quality of the product and it's fitness for purpose claimed. Get caught enough time selling fraudulent products and not that many, say 100 complaints and further investigation and serious prosecutions would occur. Hence Amazon is being real careful setting up in Australia as it will be fully liable for this nonsense, it would be up to them to pursue the counterfeit companies in civil court, after Amazon had paid all penalties.
I would bet Amazon will be practising entirely differently in Australia unless it will be able to buy off corrupt politicians to change laws but with compulsory voting and the majority voting, it is a hard sell to the public. Interestingly enough Wallmart will not set up in Australia because they can not force union free shops and you can pretty much guarantee the unions would be all over them from the get go, being such a psychopathically anti-union company. In Australia, Amazon will also have to be a union company so, air conditioned distribution centres, no ambulance bullshit, again the reason for delays.
In seems this case ISPs are simply retailing a shit service provided by the NBN the wholesaler. A purposefully designed shit service crippled not only in design but also in contractual implementation.
The system was purposefully designed to be a strangle band service. The wholesaler sells total bandwith allowed to a reseller and even when the wholesale can provide much more, they actually strangle off the service and cripple customer experience. So either the retailer buys more than they need or the assit the wholesaler in strangleband (instead of the retailer paying for bandwidth and when that is exceeded they are charged extra at a higher cost). Why purposeful strangle band, because it seems one corrupt family, seriously just one family, wants the service crippled to ensure their media empire profits, the Murdouch family and News Corporation.
They pretty much seemed to even set up the scam (via promotion in their media empire), where a gullible public were fooled into accepting speeding billions of dollars on a run down HFC network and comparing the cost of a decades old network against the cost of a brand new network, as if they were fucking equal (think comparing a brand new car with the latest technology, with a decades old car with crap old technology as if they were the fucking same, see old car cheaper way to go).
The NBN is a major con, a fraud, a chance for corrupt corporation to cook an election to make billions on old shit that was going to be scrapped and that has crippled Australia's entire broadband infrastructure for decades to come but that's OK because if profits one POS company, you know them, NEWS CORPORATION no matter where in the world they are pretty much a pack of cunts (what they did in Australia pretty close to treason).
I agree with the diet plan. My experience dropped over 1 whole number on the sugar measure since my first diagnosis, from a test, rather then from symptoms and no time spent with doctors relating to it, since the first diagnosis, to another test years later. Just adjusted diet and exercise. I still put one teaspoon of raw sugar in my tea and coffee and that is pretty much it for sugary stuff and I did swap to wholemeal bread and diluted diet drinks (the flavour became way too strong over time, hence half to a third with water) and limited by carb intake. Dropped all the sweets, done and finished and started walking. It worked.
I lake the laziness diet, the balance between sloth and gluttony. Walk to the shop to get your food and cook most of your food yourself, put some labour in your diet balance your desire to sit in peace with your desire to fill your face.
Screw doctors they charge too much, have a problem, learn to deal with it like an adult.
It is easy. One side takes the view, you are only an uber drive, when you have uber passengers in the car, whether or not they include travel from the time you picked up the request to reach the passenger. The other view is, you are an Uber driver the second you step into your vehicle looking for pickups to the time you step out of your vehicle, no longer trying to pick up passengers and of course the time you spend servicing your vehicle and the cost of that service, as well as cleaning your vehicle, your car is your profession everything associated with it, it a cost to your profession.
So which is more realistic, well, if you are running a business in reality, obviously the low on that includes all costs. If you are scamming people into doing it upon a poverty wage base and keeping the lion share of the profits (whilst still losing money to bloated executive salaries), the gullible model, yep, you are only an uber driver when you have an uber passenger in the vehicle and apparently you are running the most economical, fuel efficient vehicle on the market, that never needs to be serviced, ever.
You need a major corporate player, with a record for privacy invasiveness and stealing ideas as well as a willingness to corrupt the democratic process to feed their ego and an extremely autocratic bent to forcing their asexual peccadillos on the rest of us, to have an inside line on your companies activities. The ability to data mine all your staffs digital discussions. Seriously the company that does evil by it's own definitions, why, just why?
Seriously modern corporation, I would not trust Google with anything, except what it can uniquely provide, Google Maps, for everything else, someone else, they have straight up proven they can not be trusted. For search https://duckduckgo.com/?q=duck..., for office apps https://www.libreoffice.org/, browser https://www.waterfoxproject.or... (I know firefox is all chromey but yeah, NAAHHH). Email, seriously serve your own, or if you want more reliable rent a private maintained email server in a local server farm. Messaging https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/..., keeping in mind messaging beyond marketing hype and bullshit, is more counter productive than productive, honestly.
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You start sinking China naval vessel in the South China sea I could pretty well guarantee they will strike that US carrier fleet with nukes until it is gone. Will the US fire nukes at cities in China, sure if they want cities in the US to glow in the dark. This has been covered before, if US attacks China it will also attack Russia because the US could not stand for an unharmed Russia with a crippled US, exactly the same goes with attacking Russia, a crippled US could not stand a unharmed China, hell, a crippled US would not tolerate an unharmed South America and will nuke them too. This is not a cold war or a hot war, it is a straight up bullshit war to sell arms and munitions and NATO is nothing but a compulsory tribute club, where you are forced to buy American military rubbish, this season, specifically the F35 Flying Pig (a plane whose main purpose is to generate profits for the US military industrial complex, hence why it performs so poorly, actually designed to be replaced in order to maximise profits because they know, they factually know they will not start a war and they know Russia nor China will start a war, hence the F35 Flying Pig can be absolute rubbish as it does not have to fight a war).
The only acceptable tariffs are fair competition tariffs. Where the local regulatory costs and calculated and then evaulated at those costs in source countries for imports and the percentage difference added as a tarrif, so import products face exactly the same regulatory costs as local produced products. This includes all regulated wages and conditions of employment, pollution controls, as well as all safety costs. Double plus bonus in this, those countries who cheap out can either pay the cost in better conditions at home or pay it as import duties, their choice. The tariffs would be applied in a trade court upon evaluation of various countries regulatory costs.
Of course if you really are talking actual efficiency than co-generation engines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... are the way to go. The most logical version in the low density domestic situation, a sewerage digester https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., basically a large tank where you kitchen and toilet waste initially go, to start breaking down prior to going to sewer, specifically to produce methane, which you then burn in a gas turbine engine generator http://newenergyandfuel.com/ht.... Not quite the best design because you want to use the exhaust gases to heat water or your house and the radiate heat from the unit in say a clothes drying room and of course the electricity to go to your house battery (better balancing of energy needs between needing heat and electricity, of course if you have a heated pool, you can see real advantage in a domestic methane co-generation plant). You could use the energy to power bullshit crypto generation but in reality it would probably be smarter to sell the electricity you generate from mud monkey poo (earth primate faeces) back to the grid. How much electricity, how big is your family (a subtle dig at Americans there) and how big is your methane generation tank, and if you cogeneration plant is sized accordingly, will drive how much money you save or make, depending upon electricity and hot water usage.
In fact those kind of installations should already be mass produced for default installation but mud monkeys are such a backward short sighted species often not able to see much beyond their own genitals (methane is ten times worse than carbon dioxide but who cares, I don't own any underwaterfront property, I wonder if they will develop house snorkels first, surf zone, probably not).
Which is more important to you though. You count and people like you count, desktop users, not the average mug punter for whom smart TV, a smart phone and maybe a tablet are enough, no desktop for them any more and if they have children a cheap notebook for school. The desktop is shrinking back to it's original market and M$ in the ultimate dick move is apparently doing everything they can to piss of the remaining likely long term users of desktops.
For you, which is more important, control of your digital life or playing pvp (purse vs purse) world of tanks.
When I started with PCs there were fuck all games and I mean green screen. Everything changes, so I will bin all my steam content that does not port to Apple or Linux. I don't need M$, they need us but they are cunts so fuck em.
Let's be honest, regardless of the infinite greed of publishers and extreme desire on their part for extreme poseur status, there is no fucking money left in the economy to pay for their fucking delusions, it's called austerity morons, get fucking used to it. Right now their content and the psuedo celebrities are reaching all time lows in popularity mainly because of the collapse of the saturation advertising model, simply too many venues for advertising for too many products and dilution to insignificance for ads across all platforms. Austerity, people will not starve themselves to buy shitty content, the pseudo celebrities just look like any other egoistic blogger, in fact the pseudo celebrities are forced to act like typical youtubers ie https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (don't bother watching it through just get an idea of the content) because they and their message have become insignificant except for the most gullible believers.
So they crap on about copying content, as people go hungry, as the middle class is crapped on (the people with the real power), as the poorest a living on the streets, the insanity of insatiable greed, never ever having enough, not matter how many that greed kills.
Don't expect to sell high priced content to hungry people and expect those hungry people to hate egoistic poseur pseudo celebrities rubbing the poverty of the poor into the face of the poor, starve fuckers, I need my private jet.
We trust government to do things in the public interest in a public manner so we don't have to fucking trust them. We want to be able to fucking check everything going on and everything they will affect not only who we vote for but who we actively vociferously campaign against. Trust, limited trust for a limited time, if the government has nothing to hide than why does it keep secrets from us the people, us the bosses, those who representatives are meant to represent not fucking rule or lead. We are the fucking leaders, we demand the right to know, we demand the right to not fucking relying on blind ignorant faith.
There is trust and their is stupidly wilfully gullible ignorant trust. I trust the government will corruptly cheat and even kill me if I do not strive to monitor and control it, that's what I trust. As much as it grinds my gears, yes I do trust government more than I trust private industry and in my experience the bigger the corporation worse they are and the less they are to be trusted and in reality should be broken up to be far less dangerous to society.
Anyone who has a clue about what is going one will tell you a new energy backed crypto is waiting to join the market and it will not tolerate anything what so ever that will affect it's value as a global exchange mechanism, unbacked crypto just for marketing reasons alone is, well, dying and hanging on until the end, will lose you a lot and leave you associating with hardened criminals who think your crypto wallet is worth much more than your life or the 'er' unpleasantness of getting your passwords. Flip side, probably, as the numbers thin down and the trade concentrates, the investigatory agencies will, well, be shooting fish in a barrel, so most will survive with custodial sentences. Big money is playing a big game, they will not tolerate opposition. The rules have changed very quickly in the last month, if you have been paying attention and in normal fiscal terms it is a extremely fast change in the economic market, showing underlying plans in motion.
Yeah will it seems, a playstation or steambox for gaming and a Linux box for coms and cursing M$ to hell for anything else, not that I believe but the 9th level with the betrayers would be suitable for them.
Well, that actually goes with the territory. I have dealt with the same thing all over as tech expanded. Lazy useless people demanding tech do their work for them and I would advise them quite simply, if tech could do their work for them, why would the company employ them.
So poorly performing lazy FBI agents demand tech do their job for them, sit in their office whilst pretending to do great investigative work but in reality just spying on everyone, more often than not their next hopeful sexual conquest or past failure, rather than anything investigatory. Basically everyone should be telling those lazy fuckers to get out of their office and onto the streets and do real detecting, real investigation because as soon as the bads guys stop carrying phones when they do their planning, the FBI will be so out of practice, they wont be able to do anything but cry about how they need to spy on everyone.
Keeping in mind how destructive that is to preventative policing, flooding yourself with so much data you routinely ignore those who you should be investigating simply because you can not get to them in time, pursing hundreds of other people who a no threat at all instead. No criminal will ever trust tech they do not control, so what the fuck do you do then.
The subtle news in this article is social media is struggling because it's marketing model, just delivers diluted marketing that sells nothing. When their claims of results are checked for actual sales, that means Google and Facebook, their real customers the advertisers are finding they are shit. Soon the demand will go to Google for full time banners, else they can go fuck themselves with the diluted advertising model that sells nothing except fucking paying for ads, adwords. Proof in the last US election, Google in the most democratically corrupt fashion imaginable was in the tank for Clinton and lost big time, seeing as all the other major companies, main stream media companies, the deep state and shadow government as well as in an extremely corrupt fashion the White House and it's crew of blackgaurds http://www.dictionary.com/brow... (heh, heh), that loss was proof positive of their lack of ability to actually sell anything, except of course themselves and the scam of targeted adwords.
How about source code, the right to repaid the broken arse POS Windows anal probe 10 and get rid of the privacy invasive shit and permanently block the cunts at M$ from installing software on your property, your digital life, those fucking sickening scum, the filth right out of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four, their ideas are as sick as fuck.
Personally I would prefer a series of video streams, recorded or live of pleasant surroundings with pleasant music (here's a favourite https://www.youtube.com/watch?...), probably adjusted to time for my local with a living view adjusted for better night or day light visuals. As for power, well I will replace my windows with their problematic insulation, questionable view (not true I have a fantastic view especially sunsets, I enjoy seeing storms roll in) with solar panels and size does count.
So Samsung want to sell what people want, include a free scenery channel in your big screen television purchase. Not just country side, but interesting city centres, markets, botanic gardens, zoos and wildlife parks etc.
Bloody ijiot. You know exactly how to preserve you job, no matter what the fuck it is, 'DEMAND' to be served by a human being at every instance. Ring you insurance company and get an idiot machine demanding you punch numbers of what ever the fuck, leave a message telling them to go fuck themselves, want your business, you'll pay extra for human service, a receptionist who will listen to you and direct you call to exactly the person you need to speak to, your call as a human being being answered by a human being. Go to the checkout, shun the autocrap, go to the checkout person, wish them a 'gday' and get served by a human being and don't be a dick or a vag (an old hags vag...) and thank them for their service and the shared human social interaction. You as a human being, demand to work with human beings, demand that a human works in a job and are treated with respect for the work they do and earn a living wage for doing it even if it is only for 6x4, 2 3 hour shifts four days a week (share social responsibilities and it is about our society not just enriching and empowering suck psychopaths who should be in pleasant controlled environments where they can harm no one and most definitely not be left in charge of anything what so ever. Want more jobs, than education for life and I mean attend school for you whole life, either full time as a mature instructure or part time as a mature student, learning all that you need to learn to make judgements about your society, your government, your justice system and whether being murderous gits across the planet to enrich and empower psychopaths is the right thing to do.
Plan on not just one career but more than one developing your expertise, making a more valuable contribution to the future of humanity. Poseur status is a sick and delusional lie. I do not want to be served by a machine, I want to work with people achieving mutual goals. Currently my preferred goal, reaching the stars (for that we need peace), I know I will never get that human crafted ticket to ride that but I can work to kick that, heh heh, off the ground and right out of this gravity pit.
I'm waiting for reliable accurately voice recognition, kind of stops there, don't you know. Likely it will require user and computer training for better speed and accuracy and a new vocal interface.
The only real goal behind the finances of UBER, get to IPO with maximal expectations of infinite profit and profit on commissions and sales of insider shares at IPO time and then bet the crash of the stock for the cherry on top profits. The problem is, a scummy company often has scummy executives and this bunch proved to scummy to keep the illusion going and building it up even more, right up to IPO time. UBER is pretty much proving to be a bankster pump and dump, which is struggling due to repeated failures of management to achieve that goal by doing some really greed driven stupidity things, after all they are expecting to become billionaires at the expense of corrupted pension funds.
Straight up fault in analysis, 'what were your hours', so hours driving or hours waiting, all waiting and how about hours lost whilst car serviced. "what was you income' is also tricky, total income or income per hour, income when driving and income when waiting and income when driving to pick up and income when driving post pick up. 'What were your costs' is also not that straight forward, investment in the motor vehicle, yes or no or part time. Reality is, as an uber driver, your are probably working yourself into poverty, unless it is just a part time fill in and you ignore the bulk of the costs, as it is just temporary.
Nope this is a mass marketing exercise. As the delusion of an unbacked by anything but marketing currency collapses so new marketing engine is created ie a unbacked marketing and public relations currency exchange for worthless unbacked currencies. Straight up fact, a currency is only worth what backs it be that an entire country or as is developing source able energy. A currency backed by nothing is worth nothing, it's value is a measure of marketing, gullibility and greed, so more a psychological measure than any fiscal measure (and once which will be investigated in various custodial establishments because it will become very criminal in the end).
This case relates purely to proper process of law. A computer touched by a Geek Squad member can only produce on thing, tainted evidence and nothing more. Straight up tainted by leaving the persons individual control and now be controlled by someone who for reward and not as a court appointed officer, breaks the law by looking at material they by law are not allowed to and then well, who knows what else they do, they are getting a financial reward, so placing evidence is a reasonable expectation. You do not look for anything related to computer maintenance by looking at the contents of data files, you run a scan using software.
So interesting, the Fucking Bloody Idiots actually where accessories after the fact and the evidence they received was evidence of computer crime by Geek Squad which they failed to prosecute or inform the victims and for which they are most emphatically criminally are liable, interesting. This should actually require in US terms, a congressional investigation because it is a major crime, the mass tainted and corruption of evidence and the hiding of crimes, to enhance the careers of select corrupt FBI agents.
Never ever be confused by the difference between lower costs and lower charges, one hardly ever leads to the other and that is the purposeful function of public relations and marketing, the ability to confuse the gullible. Corporations charge the maximum they can only limited by diminishing returns with higher profit margins, the cost versus the charges. Ideally as seen in modern governance, they want tax payers to foot the bill for the costs and then charge infinite profit margins, infinite because say like the F35 Flying Pig, the final purchase leads to the goal of the aircraft being declared unsatisfactory, blame government controlled by those corporations and buying a new replacement (they seem to be pushing the M$ model where every second version is utter trash requiring replacement at your cost).
The modern trend if for more skilled drivers, that place their equipment appropriate after getting it to site safely and then unloading it themselves to the right location. Auto trucks at this stage, lets be economically honest, are an IPO tool, to make the company look like it is worth more than it is.
Always keep in mind the cargo will often be worth more than the truck and not just the cargo itself but delays in delivery. All sorts of things can stop an auto truck cold, one detector slightly faulty and someone's cargo is dead on the side of a road, depending how far away, that can mean dead for days and delays can cost way, way more than a truck driver. How well does autodrive work in muddy conditions, where there is a high likelihood of obscuring detectors and if not mud how about snow.
Any perceived saving, after already adding in higher capital cost, can be goobled right up in penalties for lost cargo and if the turkey vultures at Uber think they can scam commercial operators like they do the gullible public, well, they will be bankrupted into oblivion via civil suits. In commercial cargo operations it is all about the cargo, undamaged and on time, no whoops star rating, straight to court rating and clauses like, we take no responsibility for safe delivery of cargo, blacked out by highlighter and initialled or the contract binned.
Uber makes new announcement to pretty up company prior to IPO, believe nothing.
Well, this dude is so fussy, it is simply better to say, roll your own. Basically write a tiny little database, with a simple interface, do it with libre office for example, if you can run it on your phone and simply host the database with your ISP, encrypted. So where ever you are load it on up. To be honest I have found people who do not manage todo with scraps a paper, a simple diary and memory will not manage them no matter the technology. Reality is though todo list are simple databases, you want pushed reminders, that means running a remote application, you could create a really cheap won and hook it to your home internet connection and then run an desktop shortcut to load the app and get the filed from your home server. You want all they help, pay for a consultant, you want roll your own, pay for it ;).
NO, we are better meant to plan things. Wont healthy happier societies, then you have to create the social infrastructure to support it. Much like drug addiction, it has been proven, provide healthy more stable social environments where the addict is more content and that social environment eliminates the need for self medication ie escape with drugs.
Same for the gaming addiction, reduce the social pressures and create more psychologically healthy social environments and you will eliminate the need for escape. So gaming addiction is not the disease, it is purely the symptom, just like drug addiction, the disease is the malfunctions in society caused by the mass negative impact of the parasitical nature of psychopaths, genetically damaged individuals parasitically feeding on the rest of society to it's destruction, to feed the destructive ego and lusts of those psychopaths. Their actions and influence are the disease, their cerebral genetic condition the cause.
Now I understand why Amazon has been so, so, slow setting up in Australia, extremely bad consumer practices according to Australia consumer law. Basically the person or company who sells the product is liable for the quality of the product and it's fitness for purpose claimed. Get caught enough time selling fraudulent products and not that many, say 100 complaints and further investigation and serious prosecutions would occur. Hence Amazon is being real careful setting up in Australia as it will be fully liable for this nonsense, it would be up to them to pursue the counterfeit companies in civil court, after Amazon had paid all penalties.
I would bet Amazon will be practising entirely differently in Australia unless it will be able to buy off corrupt politicians to change laws but with compulsory voting and the majority voting, it is a hard sell to the public. Interestingly enough Wallmart will not set up in Australia because they can not force union free shops and you can pretty much guarantee the unions would be all over them from the get go, being such a psychopathically anti-union company. In Australia, Amazon will also have to be a union company so, air conditioned distribution centres, no ambulance bullshit, again the reason for delays.
In seems this case ISPs are simply retailing a shit service provided by the NBN the wholesaler. A purposefully designed shit service crippled not only in design but also in contractual implementation.
The system was purposefully designed to be a strangle band service. The wholesaler sells total bandwith allowed to a reseller and even when the wholesale can provide much more, they actually strangle off the service and cripple customer experience. So either the retailer buys more than they need or the assit the wholesaler in strangleband (instead of the retailer paying for bandwidth and when that is exceeded they are charged extra at a higher cost). Why purposeful strangle band, because it seems one corrupt family, seriously just one family, wants the service crippled to ensure their media empire profits, the Murdouch family and News Corporation.
They pretty much seemed to even set up the scam (via promotion in their media empire), where a gullible public were fooled into accepting speeding billions of dollars on a run down HFC network and comparing the cost of a decades old network against the cost of a brand new network, as if they were fucking equal (think comparing a brand new car with the latest technology, with a decades old car with crap old technology as if they were the fucking same, see old car cheaper way to go).
The NBN is a major con, a fraud, a chance for corrupt corporation to cook an election to make billions on old shit that was going to be scrapped and that has crippled Australia's entire broadband infrastructure for decades to come but that's OK because if profits one POS company, you know them, NEWS CORPORATION no matter where in the world they are pretty much a pack of cunts (what they did in Australia pretty close to treason).
I agree with the diet plan. My experience dropped over 1 whole number on the sugar measure since my first diagnosis, from a test, rather then from symptoms and no time spent with doctors relating to it, since the first diagnosis, to another test years later. Just adjusted diet and exercise. I still put one teaspoon of raw sugar in my tea and coffee and that is pretty much it for sugary stuff and I did swap to wholemeal bread and diluted diet drinks (the flavour became way too strong over time, hence half to a third with water) and limited by carb intake. Dropped all the sweets, done and finished and started walking. It worked.
I lake the laziness diet, the balance between sloth and gluttony. Walk to the shop to get your food and cook most of your food yourself, put some labour in your diet balance your desire to sit in peace with your desire to fill your face.
Screw doctors they charge too much, have a problem, learn to deal with it like an adult.
It is easy. One side takes the view, you are only an uber drive, when you have uber passengers in the car, whether or not they include travel from the time you picked up the request to reach the passenger. The other view is, you are an Uber driver the second you step into your vehicle looking for pickups to the time you step out of your vehicle, no longer trying to pick up passengers and of course the time you spend servicing your vehicle and the cost of that service, as well as cleaning your vehicle, your car is your profession everything associated with it, it a cost to your profession.
So which is more realistic, well, if you are running a business in reality, obviously the low on that includes all costs. If you are scamming people into doing it upon a poverty wage base and keeping the lion share of the profits (whilst still losing money to bloated executive salaries), the gullible model, yep, you are only an uber driver when you have an uber passenger in the vehicle and apparently you are running the most economical, fuel efficient vehicle on the market, that never needs to be serviced, ever.
You need a major corporate player, with a record for privacy invasiveness and stealing ideas as well as a willingness to corrupt the democratic process to feed their ego and an extremely autocratic bent to forcing their asexual peccadillos on the rest of us, to have an inside line on your companies activities. The ability to data mine all your staffs digital discussions. Seriously the company that does evil by it's own definitions, why, just why?
Seriously modern corporation, I would not trust Google with anything, except what it can uniquely provide, Google Maps, for everything else, someone else, they have straight up proven they can not be trusted. For search https://duckduckgo.com/?q=duck..., for office apps https://www.libreoffice.org/, browser https://www.waterfoxproject.or... (I know firefox is all chromey but yeah, NAAHHH). Email, seriously serve your own, or if you want more reliable rent a private maintained email server in a local server farm. Messaging https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/..., keeping in mind messaging beyond marketing hype and bullshit, is more counter productive than productive, honestly.