Yeah, you have that thing configured wrong or it just plain sucks. Mine will take different routes at different times of the day based on past traffic patterns, and the worst I can say for it is that it loves major roads, and I don't.
Which is probably a good thing, if not always optimal. At least they're likely to be able to support the traffic.
Holy shit that's crazy. I totally thought you were an idiot, and then I tried it, and yep, a high-pitched tone.
Of course, it also works when I press the back of the mouse against my ear, with the light shining in the other direction, so I'm going to go out on a limb and say they have nothing to do with each other and partially return to my initial assumption. It will definitely be useful as another way to find people who are bad a critical thinking though.
If having your stubble trimmed to a tolerance of +/-0.05mm is masculinity (anywhere outside of Germany), I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that metrosexual has some life left in it.
Ahahaha that's rich. You're the worst (and most common) type of naive. You think your own motives are pure. You think you won't abuse power. You think you'll always think the same way you do now, and you think you'll always be the one that holds the power you're holding now. You think you'll never be backed into a corner, or that when you are, you won't use every weapon at your disposal. Guess what? None of that is true! Your motives aren't anything other than your motives, you will abuse every drop of power you get, you won't think the same way tomorrow, somebody is going to take your power away, and when you get backed into a corner you'll fight like a rabid rat just like everyone else.
Your company doesn't have those clauses in there because it needs to, it has them in there because it can. I'm no lawyer, but I'll bet dollars to donuts that there is no law that says, "cgeys' company must take full ownership of all content that passes through its grubby little fingers." I know what you mean when you say "required by law", but that requirement strikes me as eerily similar to the way every dice roller and picture renamer app from 10 years ago "requires" admin privileges on Windows. You have no interest in changing the law or finding better options because what you have right now is easy.
The only way to actually be "good", is to give yourself no other alternative. If you do otherwise, you might as well plan to do all the terrible things you're going to do, so that at least you can do them with a little class and maybe even not get caught.
Yep, and the PATRIOT Act was supposed to catch terrorists, all those videogames refused to offer dedicated servers because they'd provide their own, better servers for as long as people were playing anyway, and my ex-girlfriend was supposed to just be borrowing my CDs.
Assuming you don't live in Ethiopia or Cambodia or some other -ia where that's obviously a legitimate concern, what do you mean by "good water"? I have clean drinking water on tap for pennies a gallon, I consider that some pretty good fuckin water. Am I missing out?
As someone who's rapidly joining the category of "old people", yeah, this is just whining because they didn't keep up. It wasn't any better back in the old days, they were better. At those specific tasks, anyway--who knows, maybe they know lots of more important stuff now, but one of them apparently isn't realizing that "the good old days" is an illusion.
Huh? I've been touch-typing for 20 years (jesus christ I've been touch-typing for 20 years) and I don't have a problem with "regular" keyboards. Or buckling-spring. Or laptops, or whatever you want to call a Mac keyboard.
If you have a preference for buckling-spring that's fine, but don't tell people they're necessary to touch-type. If they're necessary for you, it's because you trained yourself that way.
Most of the things you mentioned were poor corporate decisions. Nothing I'd consider malicious. Sony employees have demonstrated ineptitude time and time again. I get it. But this attack on Sony is only helping the even more evil corporation over in Redmond.
I consider looking at me and seeing only a wallet and a bunch of strings to pull malicious. There is no other possible outcome of that viewpoint.
Sony's not trying to lock governments into their technologies. Almost everything they sell is a consumer device. If you don't like what they do as a company, don't buy their products. I don't have that luxury with Microsoft: I need Windows and Office for work and my tax dollars inevitably go toward putting Windows on government computers.
That's only a question of the products they make. If Sony made OSs, you'd better believe they'd be trying to lock their profits in. Sony would kill, and I mean that quite literally if they thought they could get away with it, they would flat-out murder to be in Microsoft's position. This isn't a question of degree, where one company is more evil than the other--companies like these are absolutely bereft of any morals whatsoever and the harm they cause is only a question of capability.
I don't think you understand the difference between morals and 'don't something you don't like.' Sony makes a lot of dumb decisions, I'll give you that, but they are way down on my list of EVIL CORPORATIONS. Why don't these black hats go after BP for trashing the Gulf of Mexico, or Oracle for ruining Java and buying out all their competitors, or Rupert Murdoch for intentionally spreading misinformation? What happened to the Bradley Manning cause? What about telecommunications companies around the world that willingly hand over information to governments? These kids have a very narrow world view. Real moral issues don't matter to them because Sony won't let them run Linux on their Playstation.
Give me a fucking break. Linux wasn't even useful on the PS3. It was a novelty that didn't do much to increase sales because the people who cared about it were still butt-hurt about the rootkit fiasco.
These morons who are attacking Sony's networks are probably going to be the same ones bitching and moaning when Microsoft has a console monopoly in five years. As of now, they might as well be working for MS. People aren't going to abandon their PS3 for a Wii. Sony's still the lesser of two evils next to Microsoft as far as I'm concerned.
I don't think you understand just how evil a group of people can be when they're accountable for nothing but profit. Sony is no different than Microsoft, or BP, or Enron, or Global Crossing. If they thought they could be competitive in the mascara business by stealing babies and swabbing eyes with acid, you'd have to put man traps outside your windows to keep them away. They just happen to make playstations. Lucky us.
That's the entire problem though, and the implicit point of my post, they do have a company to hide behind. What are you going to do? Go curse them out and tell them what a dickhead they are? You can't sue them (and win). They aren't accountable under the law unless they do some Enron-level book doctoring, and even then the only reason they really got into trouble is that they fucked with the money. Regular dishonest stuff is just par for the course, and things that put people's lives at risk are a monetary decision based on how likely the company is to be fined or lose a lawsuit, it never comes back on the actual people making the decisions.
But, it's all just a symptom of the human condition. Warlords and chiefs were replaced by dukes, were replaced by bishops, were replaced by senators, are in the process of being replaced by CEOs. Ain't nothin new under the sun.
Feel bad for them? The fuck? "They" are a corporation, whose only reason for existence is to make money. Sure, there might be individuals working there with morals, but the company itself has none at all--regardless of what US law says, it's not a person.
This corporation has spied on, sued, made vulnerable to other attacks, and bullied its customers, potential customers, competitors, and little bald children with cancer who were lying in a bed that Sony had to put its muddy boot up on to tie its laces. And, probably because it thought it could get away with overworking or undertraining its net admins, it cut corners when it came to security. The security of its customers' credit card info. Who, after all the bullshit Sony pulled, still paid for their shit, and put their credit at risk, unlike those who "stole" from Sony, who won't have what they bought taken away at the first whim, who aren't badgered every time they want to watch a movie on a different device, who don't have to sit through unskippable guilt-trips and FBI warnings, and don't have to pay again when the disc gets scratched.
Almost feel bad for them? Ha! I'm not even close to feeling bad for them. There is no possible amount of "suffering" that could make me feel bad for them. Call me when Sony wakes up one morning with a pain in its left arm and is forced to face its own mortality.
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Cocaine is one hell of a drug, huh?
Yeah, you have that thing configured wrong or it just plain sucks. Mine will take different routes at different times of the day based on past traffic patterns, and the worst I can say for it is that it loves major roads, and I don't.
Which is probably a good thing, if not always optimal. At least they're likely to be able to support the traffic.
Holy shit that's crazy. I totally thought you were an idiot, and then I tried it, and yep, a high-pitched tone.
Of course, it also works when I press the back of the mouse against my ear, with the light shining in the other direction, so I'm going to go out on a limb and say they have nothing to do with each other and partially return to my initial assumption. It will definitely be useful as another way to find people who are bad a critical thinking though.
I have a patent on ideas coming from you. Give me all of your money, and don't even think of trying to get out of it.
Do you not have the internet where you are? Here, if you don't count the out-of-stock ones, you have 11 monitors to choose from: Newegg is this cool new website where you can buy computer stuff
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Provided, that is, you're one of the thousands, maybe even millions, of people afflicted with aging.
If having your stubble trimmed to a tolerance of +/-0.05mm is masculinity (anywhere outside of Germany), I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that metrosexual has some life left in it.
Ahahaha that's rich. You're the worst (and most common) type of naive. You think your own motives are pure. You think you won't abuse power. You think you'll always think the same way you do now, and you think you'll always be the one that holds the power you're holding now. You think you'll never be backed into a corner, or that when you are, you won't use every weapon at your disposal. Guess what? None of that is true! Your motives aren't anything other than your motives, you will abuse every drop of power you get, you won't think the same way tomorrow, somebody is going to take your power away, and when you get backed into a corner you'll fight like a rabid rat just like everyone else.
Your company doesn't have those clauses in there because it needs to, it has them in there because it can. I'm no lawyer, but I'll bet dollars to donuts that there is no law that says, "cgeys' company must take full ownership of all content that passes through its grubby little fingers." I know what you mean when you say "required by law", but that requirement strikes me as eerily similar to the way every dice roller and picture renamer app from 10 years ago "requires" admin privileges on Windows. You have no interest in changing the law or finding better options because what you have right now is easy.
The only way to actually be "good", is to give yourself no other alternative. If you do otherwise, you might as well plan to do all the terrible things you're going to do, so that at least you can do them with a little class and maybe even not get caught.
Yep, and the PATRIOT Act was supposed to catch terrorists, all those videogames refused to offer dedicated servers because they'd provide their own, better servers for as long as people were playing anyway, and my ex-girlfriend was supposed to just be borrowing my CDs.
Seriously, how naive are you?
People actually use "services" like Groupon and whatever this Google thing is? That's the real scoop to me, anyway.
No, that's at the hospital.
... if you know anything about manufacturing, the money from the plant comes from volume, not sales ...
All the time, our customers ask us, "How do you make money doing this?" The answer is simple: Volume. That's what we do.
Assuming you don't live in Ethiopia or Cambodia or some other -ia where that's obviously a legitimate concern, what do you mean by "good water"? I have clean drinking water on tap for pennies a gallon, I consider that some pretty good fuckin water. Am I missing out?
Or make it a constant bitrate.
As someone who's rapidly joining the category of "old people", yeah, this is just whining because they didn't keep up. It wasn't any better back in the old days, they were better. At those specific tasks, anyway--who knows, maybe they know lots of more important stuff now, but one of them apparently isn't realizing that "the good old days" is an illusion.
Huh? I've been touch-typing for 20 years (jesus christ I've been touch-typing for 20 years) and I don't have a problem with "regular" keyboards. Or buckling-spring. Or laptops, or whatever you want to call a Mac keyboard.
If you have a preference for buckling-spring that's fine, but don't tell people they're necessary to touch-type. If they're necessary for you, it's because you trained yourself that way.
what
And this is different from any other corporation how?
They aren't.
You missed the stomping on kittens.
It's unprofitable.
Yeah, because when I break something, the people who made it have a moral duty to give me another one free.
They're the ones who decided they have the right to tell you what to do with something after you've paid for it.
Did they kick your puppy, too?
Most of the things you mentioned were poor corporate decisions. Nothing I'd consider malicious. Sony employees have demonstrated ineptitude time and time again. I get it. But this attack on Sony is only helping the even more evil corporation over in Redmond.
I consider looking at me and seeing only a wallet and a bunch of strings to pull malicious. There is no other possible outcome of that viewpoint.
Sony's not trying to lock governments into their technologies. Almost everything they sell is a consumer device. If you don't like what they do as a company, don't buy their products. I don't have that luxury with Microsoft: I need Windows and Office for work and my tax dollars inevitably go toward putting Windows on government computers.
That's only a question of the products they make. If Sony made OSs, you'd better believe they'd be trying to lock their profits in. Sony would kill, and I mean that quite literally if they thought they could get away with it, they would flat-out murder to be in Microsoft's position. This isn't a question of degree, where one company is more evil than the other--companies like these are absolutely bereft of any morals whatsoever and the harm they cause is only a question of capability.
I don't think you understand the difference between morals and 'don't something you don't like.' Sony makes a lot of dumb decisions, I'll give you that, but they are way down on my list of EVIL CORPORATIONS. Why don't these black hats go after BP for trashing the Gulf of Mexico, or Oracle for ruining Java and buying out all their competitors, or Rupert Murdoch for intentionally spreading misinformation? What happened to the Bradley Manning cause? What about telecommunications companies around the world that willingly hand over information to governments? These kids have a very narrow world view. Real moral issues don't matter to them because Sony won't let them run Linux on their Playstation.
Give me a fucking break. Linux wasn't even useful on the PS3. It was a novelty that didn't do much to increase sales because the people who cared about it were still butt-hurt about the rootkit fiasco.
These morons who are attacking Sony's networks are probably going to be the same ones bitching and moaning when Microsoft has a console monopoly in five years. As of now, they might as well be working for MS. People aren't going to abandon their PS3 for a Wii. Sony's still the lesser of two evils next to Microsoft as far as I'm concerned.
I don't think you understand just how evil a group of people can be when they're accountable for nothing but profit. Sony is no different than Microsoft, or BP, or Enron, or Global Crossing. If they thought they could be competitive in the mascara business by stealing babies and swabbing eyes with acid, you'd have to put man traps outside your windows to keep them away. They just happen to make playstations. Lucky us.
That's the entire problem though, and the implicit point of my post, they do have a company to hide behind. What are you going to do? Go curse them out and tell them what a dickhead they are? You can't sue them (and win). They aren't accountable under the law unless they do some Enron-level book doctoring, and even then the only reason they really got into trouble is that they fucked with the money. Regular dishonest stuff is just par for the course, and things that put people's lives at risk are a monetary decision based on how likely the company is to be fined or lose a lawsuit, it never comes back on the actual people making the decisions.
But, it's all just a symptom of the human condition. Warlords and chiefs were replaced by dukes, were replaced by bishops, were replaced by senators, are in the process of being replaced by CEOs. Ain't nothin new under the sun.
Feel bad for them? The fuck? "They" are a corporation, whose only reason for existence is to make money. Sure, there might be individuals working there with morals, but the company itself has none at all--regardless of what US law says, it's not a person.
This corporation has spied on, sued, made vulnerable to other attacks, and bullied its customers, potential customers, competitors, and little bald children with cancer who were lying in a bed that Sony had to put its muddy boot up on to tie its laces. And, probably because it thought it could get away with overworking or undertraining its net admins, it cut corners when it came to security. The security of its customers' credit card info. Who, after all the bullshit Sony pulled, still paid for their shit, and put their credit at risk, unlike those who "stole" from Sony, who won't have what they bought taken away at the first whim, who aren't badgered every time they want to watch a movie on a different device, who don't have to sit through unskippable guilt-trips and FBI warnings, and don't have to pay again when the disc gets scratched.
Almost feel bad for them? Ha! I'm not even close to feeling bad for them. There is no possible amount of "suffering" that could make me feel bad for them. Call me when Sony wakes up one morning with a pain in its left arm and is forced to face its own mortality.
Yeah! This is awesome!
Take more acid (at once). Trust me, it eventually affects your vision.