Corporations aren't people. Corporations are MADE UP of people, and all it takes is ONE GUY wanting fame and fortune by scooping something and the secret is out.
It's the same way with the claims about the moon landing being a hoax. If you think of NASA as one entity it's easy to think they could hoax it, but consider the number of people that would have had to be involved in setting up stages, recording etc. - and now imagine not a single one of these people wants to get famous by proving it was a hoax.
The thing is that it's entirely possible to upgrade your still working but old TV to a much newer and better model on a good sale, and that old TV gets moved to the bedroom while the new one gets the 'prime' spot in the living room.
It would only have been okay if he'd suggested between the lines that women think better than men do. If he'd suggested, even unintentionally, that male ideas were better he would STILL have sparked a shitstorm.
Did you... read my post at all? You wanted to comment to the guy before me, not me. And then you looked up other things I'd said to continue calling me a troll.
Maybe you should go check your meds. You forgot to take them these last few days.
Neither of those things mentioned are requirements for functioning in modern society and being able to discuss with your social circles the most basic things they're talking about.
Internet access is. For all intents and purpose, stable internet with an acceptable minimum speed should be considered a utility on par with electricity and running water.
Disabling pictures is a bit of a double-edged sword because of how many websites use graphics for all kinds of interfacing - buttons, links, menus, disabling pictures just means loading the page and then loading it again to get the pictures to show.
I also like reading webcomics while eating lunch, and those kinda need pictures to be shown. <.<
I'm on a 448/96 kbps connection, and there are websites out there that take several minutes to load because of all the crap simple sites want to throw at eyeballs. That's WITH AdBlock, uBlock and Ghostery running.
Many residential users like to play games. On this connection, games like Overwatch, Team Fortress 2, even Heroes of the Storm are so laggy as to be literally unplayable - latency easily hits over 2000 ms. That's not to mention when I want to try a new game or a patch is released; on a good day I download 130-150 MB per hour. And of course, I can forget about doing anything else online while downloading.
I remember getting 256/128 back around the turn of the millennium. I think it was Christmas 2000. And yes, it was awesome fast at the time - but the internet was still geared towards people with 56k modems. Games weren't counted in the tens of GB either, I'm pretty sure the biggest games came on a single DVD back then. Now? You're lucky to find a new (AAA) game that would fit on five DVDs.
If you never do anything other than browse simple websites and check your email then great, but that is NOT how 'most residential users' use the internet.
And not just every game Nintendo ever made, every game ever made for each console for which the rights still belong to other companies; some of which have since folded and no one really knows WHO owns the rights anymore.
But random idiots CAN'T figure out how to use a website, that's why a lot of people think the only thing on the web is Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
What's with the extraneous symbols? Don't you know how to use a proper computer rather than an iPhone? I feel like I'm reading corrupted text files, with random symbols placed in unexpected locations.
Movies are one thing. They are an investment in the time you need to spend to actually enjoy them, and you watch them for the story - a story it is easy to remember.
Music, on the other hand, is something you listen to while doing other things and you can stop in the middle of a track without feeling like you've just wasted your time by not getting to the end. Also, people like to sing along to songs they know which gives music a lot more replay value than a movie.
One subpoena to various ISPs and your 'anonymity' is gone. The anonymity we need to fight for is the exact one the employees of the startup didn't have - upset people could show up IRL to punch them in the face.
The thing about exposing your identity when you prove your age is that there is, to the best of my knowledge, no age-ID card you can get. You're stuck using what you could call an all-purpose ID like a driver's license, passport or the like.
Never heard of stores scanning and saving a picture of your license, though. Sounds to me like that's just begging for a hacked database and massive identity theft.
I'm thinking if it WAS a scam she would probably have gotten better in time to pay rent and not lose her home, then gotten a new accident later when this attempt was forgotten.
You know how there are several different ways of learning, right? Some learn by reading a book, some learn by doing, some are inbetween where seeing a few examples will make it click how things work together.
Imagine you are learning a foreign language, and you get an instruction the equivalent of "I before E except after C", that's all good - but why not continue the line with "So it's thief and tries, but receive."?
I'd say that is only likely to happen if you start shooting at the police when they show up to take you to court or jail, at which point you are not being shot at for not paying your taxes but for being actively dangerous to other people.
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Corporations aren't people. Corporations are MADE UP of people, and all it takes is ONE GUY wanting fame and fortune by scooping something and the secret is out.
It's the same way with the claims about the moon landing being a hoax. If you think of NASA as one entity it's easy to think they could hoax it, but consider the number of people that would have had to be involved in setting up stages, recording etc. - and now imagine not a single one of these people wants to get famous by proving it was a hoax.
If you don't mind me asking as a non-native English speaker, what the hell is the difference between a living room and a family room?
The thing is that it's entirely possible to upgrade your still working but old TV to a much newer and better model on a good sale, and that old TV gets moved to the bedroom while the new one gets the 'prime' spot in the living room.
It would only have been okay if he'd suggested between the lines that women think better than men do. If he'd suggested, even unintentionally, that male ideas were better he would STILL have sparked a shitstorm.
What kind of idiot scalper gets in line, buys a ticket, goes back to the end of the line, buys another ticket, repeat ad infinitum?
Did Alphabet buy the Google we used to know?
Did Zenimax buy the Bethesda we used to know?
Did Activision buy the Blizzard we used to know?
Did you ... read my post at all? You wanted to comment to the guy before me, not me. And then you looked up other things I'd said to continue calling me a troll.
Maybe you should go check your meds. You forgot to take them these last few days.
Oh that's so sweet, you looked up several of my comments to post the same thing.
Neither of those things mentioned are requirements for functioning in modern society and being able to discuss with your social circles the most basic things they're talking about.
Internet access is. For all intents and purpose, stable internet with an acceptable minimum speed should be considered a utility on par with electricity and running water.
Newsflash: The average of a country doesn't mean everyone has that speed.
Who cares about neutrality if your speed is capped at 1 byte per second?
Disabling pictures is a bit of a double-edged sword because of how many websites use graphics for all kinds of interfacing - buttons, links, menus, disabling pictures just means loading the page and then loading it again to get the pictures to show.
I also like reading webcomics while eating lunch, and those kinda need pictures to be shown. <.<
Have you ACTUALLY been using the internet lately?
I'm on a 448/96 kbps connection, and there are websites out there that take several minutes to load because of all the crap simple sites want to throw at eyeballs. That's WITH AdBlock, uBlock and Ghostery running.
Many residential users like to play games. On this connection, games like Overwatch, Team Fortress 2, even Heroes of the Storm are so laggy as to be literally unplayable - latency easily hits over 2000 ms. That's not to mention when I want to try a new game or a patch is released; on a good day I download 130-150 MB per hour. And of course, I can forget about doing anything else online while downloading.
I remember getting 256/128 back around the turn of the millennium. I think it was Christmas 2000. And yes, it was awesome fast at the time - but the internet was still geared towards people with 56k modems. Games weren't counted in the tens of GB either, I'm pretty sure the biggest games came on a single DVD back then. Now? You're lucky to find a new (AAA) game that would fit on five DVDs.
If you never do anything other than browse simple websites and check your email then great, but that is NOT how 'most residential users' use the internet.
And not just every game Nintendo ever made, every game ever made for each console for which the rights still belong to other companies; some of which have since folded and no one really knows WHO owns the rights anymore.
But random idiots CAN'T figure out how to use a website, that's why a lot of people think the only thing on the web is Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
What's with the extraneous symbols? Don't you know how to use a proper computer rather than an iPhone? I feel like I'm reading corrupted text files, with random symbols placed in unexpected locations.
Now imagine it doing that on a slow and/or datacapped connection.
Movies are one thing. They are an investment in the time you need to spend to actually enjoy them, and you watch them for the story - a story it is easy to remember.
Music, on the other hand, is something you listen to while doing other things and you can stop in the middle of a track without feeling like you've just wasted your time by not getting to the end. Also, people like to sing along to songs they know which gives music a lot more replay value than a movie.
One subpoena to various ISPs and your 'anonymity' is gone. The anonymity we need to fight for is the exact one the employees of the startup didn't have - upset people could show up IRL to punch them in the face.
The thing about exposing your identity when you prove your age is that there is, to the best of my knowledge, no age-ID card you can get. You're stuck using what you could call an all-purpose ID like a driver's license, passport or the like.
Never heard of stores scanning and saving a picture of your license, though. Sounds to me like that's just begging for a hacked database and massive identity theft.
I'm thinking if it WAS a scam she would probably have gotten better in time to pay rent and not lose her home, then gotten a new accident later when this attempt was forgotten.
Yeah, right until systemd starts mining cryptocurrency in the background just to cover project expenses.
You know how there are several different ways of learning, right? Some learn by reading a book, some learn by doing, some are inbetween where seeing a few examples will make it click how things work together.
Imagine you are learning a foreign language, and you get an instruction the equivalent of "I before E except after C", that's all good - but why not continue the line with "So it's thief and tries, but receive."?
I'd say that is only likely to happen if you start shooting at the police when they show up to take you to court or jail, at which point you are not being shot at for not paying your taxes but for being actively dangerous to other people.
I'm sorry, when's the last time anyone in a civilized country was executed for not paying their taxes?