I have seen people do presentations on PDF. I have seen people use Notepad++. I have seen I have seen people using the whiteboard only.
If you depend on the software to do the presentation, just hand out the printouts and stop wasting my time. I hate it when they hand then out afterwards. That means either you di not present it very well as I need to re-read it and you wasted my time or you wasted the pape as I will never re-read it, Send/give it upfront. That way you can do a fast presentation and there will be more time to FAQ or coffee.
So yes, Linux does have technical solutions, but giving a good presentation is a social problem.
Remember when there used to be payphones all over the place, so if you had an emergency or ran out of gas or something, you could call for help?
I nremeber that and also the fact that you needed change and the number and that they almost never worked and that you could aks people for help.
And when cab companies are put out of business by Uber, good luck getting transportation anywhere without a cellphone.
Why would they go out of business? I am sure that at busy places there will still be some sort of taxi-service. e.g. on airports. Supply and demand. Also: Uber and Lyft ARE taxi-services.
It won't be long before you won't be able to pay bills by mailing a check
And nothing of value was lost. I live in a country where they do not exist anymore. So how does this work? 1) You can do it via PC, tablet or app on your smartphone 2) You do it via phone line Cumbersome, but not impossible. 3) You give a standard paper to the bank who will then do the transfer. This is almost like a checque, but you give it to the bank directly and not to the other person. As all banking is standard, I can do payments all over Europe, both to individuals and to companies. Most companies will attach such a paper when they send you a bill, although they prefer automatic payment and often will give you a reduction if you do it that way. Many people use this method 3) You go to the bank and use the PC there. They are open 24/7 4) You go to the teller and handle stuff there.
Nowadays, they expect you to be reachable all the time, so they can make their decision at the very last minute
I email my friends. I have a wonderful social life and most of it has nothing to do with a smartphone. We SMS, if at all. Or we call, like, on a phone. But I understand that peer-pressure is a real thing and not everybody is able to resist it. One friend of mine was told that he either turned off his phone when we where out, or not come along. To me not having a smart phone would be pretty easy. So why do I have one? When my parents where still alive, they lived in another country and it was cheaper to call them using a VoiP app. They are both dead now, but I still have it. Otherwise? No real reason. Yes I do have my bank app, but could eqasily do that from home. I have WatsApp with 5 people on it. I have contact with 1 and that could be done over Email and SMS. My phone is off when I work and when I go out.
Advertising was never about informing. It was always about sales. Information was a part of it and only as a means to sell. The reason I used the fishmonger is because markets predates any advertising we know now.
People would yell, Best fish here, not Best fish at my neighbor.
If the benchmarks are fake, then there is nothing to be in awe of. You can be in awe of my invisibility cloak, but unless I give proof, it is just people ignore me when I pull it over my head.
And if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Perhaps they should worry how their culture mixes with ours and not our culture with theirs. It dilutes their own culture. They should protest Hollywood for exporting drivel. They should demand KFC to export their drivel. They should stop Microsoft to export their drivel (wait, I am starting to see a pattern)
1) Ads where never about just informing people. They where about selling things. Be it a sign that there is a bakery or a fishmonger on a market, it is not about informing, it is about selling. If information would do that, then that is what they would do. But the goal was always selling. 2) If you have one fishmonger yelling, the other needs to be louder than the first one. As the target is sales and not information, the result will be that it becomes visible all over the place. 3) That is how it will be and if not stopped, it will get worse.
I do not want ads. I never asked for ads. If I want information, I will look for it. There is no reason I start screaming in somebodies face that I am bald. It is information nobody wants or asked for.
And if they would get on board, they would be sued because they would most likely block others and not themselves. They would LOVE to get on board. They just are not allowed to do so, unless they block their own ads.
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply youâ(TM)re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. Itâ(TM)s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially donâ(TM)t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, donâ(TM)t even start asking for theirs.
I have no issue with them implementing it. It is like gay marriage: I never asked for it. I have no use for it, but if others want to, let them. I do not even have use for fingerprinting to open the device.
It is not as if they removed something. They added something that you can ignore, just like I ignore many programs (apps for you youngsters) on my phone.
Because that is how fines work. You start low and they get higher, if they won't follow the law, The next one will be a lot stricter with perhaps stipulations that they should stop doing business till all criteria are met.
That getting hired is not the issue. The issue is that they drop you as well, because it rains or not or for whatever reason. You explain it what the rights of the company is. The laws are there not to protect the companies, they are there to protect the people.
And you can still hire and fire people where I am from. The reason people now use temps for the first few weeks is that before you could fire them right away in the first 6 weeks. Now that has become more expensive (not harder). This goes both ways. People also can leave easier.
As it is an extra cost, not many companies are stupid enough to do this long term and those that do it now already did it before as well.
Why would the government need to worry about Kaspersky plugging "NSA backdoors" on systems they personally own and have full physical access to?
The NSA put the backdoors in Windows and Norton and McAffee. The NSA does not have access to all the machines, e.g. not the Windows machines that you type on now.
So the reason they do not want you to use Kapersky is not so much that it would make it possible for the Russians to have access, but because it would make it harder or even impossible for the NSA to access all your data.
As far as I can tell, the Russians will use the NSA leaks as well. So it is better to use Kaperski. reason: If you use e.g. Norton, the NSA and Russia will read your data. If you use Kaperski, only the Russians will read your data.
No, they didn't. That is what the lawsuit is about.
They could have been 2000USD and working as advertised and 2USD to make and all would have been fine. However if they pay 2000USD to make it and charge 2USD and they say it is waterproof and it isn't, it is false advertisement and a problem.
I can sell snake oil as long as it does what I say it does. The moment it doesn't, it is fraud. So stop blaming the victims.
They did research. They read the ads and the ads lied. The people who should bail them out are the people who protect people against false advertisement.
No, it isn't. Especiallly not on such a large scale thing like this. You need to know the ability of the people. You need to know where they are going. You need to be able to see if they come back. You need to process the information that they bring back, so further help can be done.
You need to see that you do not need to help the helpers, because that means you lose 3x the manpower, at least.
This is not about 5 cars that collided and you need to pull out people. This is the coordination of several thousand people that need to work together as good as possible. Not just the people who get them, but medics, people who will provide food and what not.
There are people who trained to do this. Offer your help and let them tell you what is needed.
In Belgium all debts are available at the National Bank. Only Credit Companies, banks and the people themselves will have access to that data and only see the amounts and if they are on the black list. You want to know the credit score if you want to rent out an apartment? Well, I want a pony, so no. You want to give me a loan, you will see if I am on the blacklist and how much credit I already have. Now you can decide if you want to give me a credit. If I should not have gotten a credit, the risk is 100% with you. That means I do not even need to pay it if I should not have gotten a credit, so thanks for the monies.
Belgium is such a country. You have a National Number YYYYMMDD-XXX-ZZ Date backward, counter, The last two are gender and a control number. So the first baby born on 20170911 will get 20170911-001-12 (Or something similar) Well, not born, but officially mentioned, so that could be somebody who comes to Belgium at the age of 60. He will not be number 001 for that day, bit 857 or whatever.
If that number is abused, they could give you a new number. However that national number by itself means nothing. You also must have an ID card. That card is your way to ID yourself. On that ID there is a chip. That info is readable via open source software : https://eid.belgium.be/en It can be used (but is not done in too many places) to do electronic signature. I use it to do my taxes online. Easy and fast.
It is used as age verification for e.g. buying cigarettes and beer at vending machines to verify age.
Those IDs can be stolen, so if you need to verify them, you go to https://www.checkdoc.be/CheckD... and you can see if it is valid or not. That is all you will see OK or NOK.
If they are stolen, you call a number and they block the card. You then need to go to the police to get a temporary paper and go to the city hall to ask for a new one. That one will then have a new number. Cards are valid for 5 years.
So what are the downsides? 1) If you use it, they will be able to see all the information. e.g. if you use it to verify your age, it will be able to read your name and address. There are laws what they could do with that info, but it is possible for them to start sending spam. More a minor inconvenience than a serious risk in reality. 2) The Police could play Gestapo and ask everybody for their papers. However if they do that, it is very likely they will get in trouble and fired. Accountability and such. I have had it once that they asked me on the street for my ID. Did a verification and I was on my way in 5 minutes. Two days later I saw them do the same with somebody else who looked very similar and was dressed very similar to me. So clearly they where looking for somebody. The fact they did it that way tells me that this was not just about some unpaid parking tickets or speeding or even DUI.
Other time I had to show my ID where when I was with a DUI many years ago. (Took my drivers license for several weeks and rightfully so.)
Automatically after one year after the account has been paid back in full. No record (except at the company itself with their own records) will be found. So you can't see only the current situation, not what was going on over a period of 25 years.
If you are on the blacklist, can you rent an apartment?
Yes. They are not creditors or banks, so they do not have access to that data. They can not even ask for it due to the law on privacy. The deposit is standard 3 months here as well. The amount your would be expected to pay is already calculated in the amount you can get as a credit.
This all is not 100% idiot proof. It is just to prevent willfully putting people in too much debt. Some people will buy the latest phone instead of food. People are stupid the world all over. It is just they can not blame the banks or credit companies for their own stupidity.
No, it doesn't. Things change. People get divorced. The financial income changes, because they get triplets. People spend more on life than average.
What it does is see to it that the banks are not giving more money than what you could REASONABLY pay back. If you go and buy new shoes every day, that is still on you.
So if your income is 1000, they will not give you several credit cards where you need to pay back 1100 if you take up all your credit.
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I have seen people do presentations on PDF. I have seen people use Notepad++. I have seen I have seen people using the whiteboard only.
If you depend on the software to do the presentation, just hand out the printouts and stop wasting my time.
I hate it when they hand then out afterwards. That means either you di not present it very well as I need to re-read it and you wasted my time or you wasted the pape as I will never re-read it, Send/give it upfront. That way you can do a fast presentation and there will be more time to FAQ or coffee.
So yes, Linux does have technical solutions, but giving a good presentation is a social problem.
I nremeber that and also the fact that you needed change and the number and that they almost never worked and that you could aks people for help.
Why would they go out of business? I am sure that at busy places there will still be some sort of taxi-service. e.g. on airports. Supply and demand. Also: Uber and Lyft ARE taxi-services.
And nothing of value was lost. I live in a country where they do not exist anymore. So how does this work?
1) You can do it via PC, tablet or app on your smartphone
2) You do it via phone line Cumbersome, but not impossible.
3) You give a standard paper to the bank who will then do the transfer. This is almost like a checque, but you give it to the bank directly and not to the other person. As all banking is standard, I can do payments all over Europe, both to individuals and to companies.
Most companies will attach such a paper when they send you a bill, although they prefer automatic payment and often will give you a reduction if you do it that way.
Many people use this method
3) You go to the bank and use the PC there. They are open 24/7
4) You go to the teller and handle stuff there.
I email my friends. I have a wonderful social life and most of it has nothing to do with a smartphone. We SMS, if at all. Or we call, like, on a phone. But I understand that peer-pressure is a real thing and not everybody is able to resist it.
One friend of mine was told that he either turned off his phone when we where out, or not come along.
To me not having a smart phone would be pretty easy. So why do I have one? When my parents where still alive, they lived in another country and it was cheaper to call them using a VoiP app. They are both dead now, but I still have it. Otherwise? No real reason. Yes I do have my bank app, but could eqasily do that from home. I have WatsApp with 5 people on it. I have contact with 1 and that could be done over Email and SMS. My phone is off when I work and when I go out.
Advertising was never about informing. It was always about sales. Information was a part of it and only as a means to sell.
The reason I used the fishmonger is because markets predates any advertising we know now.
People would yell, Best fish here, not Best fish at my neighbor.
North Korea is a democracy. It is even part of their official name. East-Germany used to be a democracy as well.
If the benchmarks are fake, then there is nothing to be in awe of.
You can be in awe of my invisibility cloak, but unless I give proof, it is just people ignore me when I pull it over my head.
And if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Perhaps they should worry how their culture mixes with ours and not our culture with theirs.
It dilutes their own culture.
They should protest Hollywood for exporting drivel. They should demand KFC to export their drivel. They should stop Microsoft to export their drivel (wait, I am starting to see a pattern)
Oh, and no more coffee for you.
We get to not lose this one minor battle. I would not call it a win. If anything it is a draw.
1) Ads where never about just informing people. They where about selling things. Be it a sign that there is a bakery or a fishmonger on a market, it is not about informing, it is about selling. If information would do that, then that is what they would do. But the goal was always selling.
2) If you have one fishmonger yelling, the other needs to be louder than the first one. As the target is sales and not information, the result will be that it becomes visible all over the place.
3) That is how it will be and if not stopped, it will get worse.
I do not want ads. I never asked for ads. If I want information, I will look for it. There is no reason I start screaming in somebodies face that I am bald. It is information nobody wants or asked for.
https://trickygirl.wordpress.c...
They used to do no evil. Then they bought DejaNews.
And if they would get on board, they would be sued because they would most likely block others and not themselves. They would LOVE to get on board. They just are not allowed to do so, unless they block their own ads.
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply youâ(TM)re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. Itâ(TM)s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially donâ(TM)t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, donâ(TM)t even start asking for theirs.
â" Banksy
I have no issue with them implementing it. It is like gay marriage: I never asked for it. I have no use for it, but if others want to, let them.
I do not even have use for fingerprinting to open the device.
It is not as if they removed something. They added something that you can ignore, just like I ignore many programs (apps for you youngsters) on my phone.
Well, now they know.
Because that is how fines work. You start low and they get higher, if they won't follow the law, The next one will be a lot stricter with perhaps stipulations that they should stop doing business till all criteria are met.
That getting hired is not the issue. The issue is that they drop you as well, because it rains or not or for whatever reason.
You explain it what the rights of the company is. The laws are there not to protect the companies, they are there to protect the people.
And you can still hire and fire people where I am from. The reason people now use temps for the first few weeks is that before you could fire them right away in the first 6 weeks. Now that has become more expensive (not harder). This goes both ways. People also can leave easier.
As it is an extra cost, not many companies are stupid enough to do this long term and those that do it now already did it before as well.
The NSA put the backdoors in Windows and Norton and McAffee. The NSA does not have access to all the machines, e.g. not the Windows machines that you type on now.
So the reason they do not want you to use Kapersky is not so much that it would make it possible for the Russians to have access, but because it would make it harder or even impossible for the NSA to access all your data.
As far as I can tell, the Russians will use the NSA leaks as well. So it is better to use Kaperski.
reason:
If you use e.g. Norton, the NSA and Russia will read your data.
If you use Kaperski, only the Russians will read your data.
No, they didn't. That is what the lawsuit is about.
They could have been 2000USD and working as advertised and 2USD to make and all would have been fine.
However if they pay 2000USD to make it and charge 2USD and they say it is waterproof and it isn't, it is false advertisement and a problem.
I can sell snake oil as long as it does what I say it does. The moment it doesn't, it is fraud.
So stop blaming the victims.
They did research. They read the ads and the ads lied.
The people who should bail them out are the people who protect people against false advertisement.
They do in Belgium.
Now look at marketing expenses and see if there that ads up.
No, it isn't. Especiallly not on such a large scale thing like this. You need to know the ability of the people. You need to know where they are going. You need to be able to see if they come back. You need to process the information that they bring back, so further help can be done.
You need to see that you do not need to help the helpers, because that means you lose 3x the manpower, at least.
This is not about 5 cars that collided and you need to pull out people. This is the coordination of several thousand people that need to work together as good as possible. Not just the people who get them, but medics, people who will provide food and what not.
There are people who trained to do this. Offer your help and let them tell you what is needed.
They should not be in business.
In Belgium all debts are available at the National Bank.
Only Credit Companies, banks and the people themselves will have access to that data and only see the amounts and if they are on the black list.
You want to know the credit score if you want to rent out an apartment? Well, I want a pony, so no.
You want to give me a loan, you will see if I am on the blacklist and how much credit I already have. Now you can decide if you want to give me a credit. If I should not have gotten a credit, the risk is 100% with you. That means I do not even need to pay it if I should not have gotten a credit, so thanks for the monies.
Belgium is such a country. You have a National Number YYYYMMDD-XXX-ZZ
Date backward, counter, The last two are gender and a control number. So the first baby born on 20170911 will get 20170911-001-12 (Or something similar) Well, not born, but officially mentioned, so that could be somebody who comes to Belgium at the age of 60. He will not be number 001 for that day, bit 857 or whatever.
If that number is abused, they could give you a new number. However that national number by itself means nothing. You also must have an ID card. That card is your way to ID yourself.
On that ID there is a chip. That info is readable via open source software : https://eid.belgium.be/en
It can be used (but is not done in too many places) to do electronic signature. I use it to do my taxes online. Easy and fast.
It is used as age verification for e.g. buying cigarettes and beer at vending machines to verify age.
Those IDs can be stolen, so if you need to verify them, you go to https://www.checkdoc.be/CheckD... and you can see if it is valid or not. That is all you will see OK or NOK.
If they are stolen, you call a number and they block the card. You then need to go to the police to get a temporary paper and go to the city hall to ask for a new one. That one will then have a new number.
Cards are valid for 5 years.
So what are the downsides?
1) If you use it, they will be able to see all the information. e.g. if you use it to verify your age, it will be able to read your name and address. There are laws what they could do with that info, but it is possible for them to start sending spam. More a minor inconvenience than a serious risk in reality.
2) The Police could play Gestapo and ask everybody for their papers. However if they do that, it is very likely they will get in trouble and fired. Accountability and such.
I have had it once that they asked me on the street for my ID. Did a verification and I was on my way in 5 minutes. Two days later I saw them do the same with somebody else who looked very similar and was dressed very similar to me. So clearly they where looking for somebody. The fact they did it that way tells me that this was not just about some unpaid parking tickets or speeding or even DUI.
Other time I had to show my ID where when I was with a DUI many years ago. (Took my drivers license for several weeks and rightfully so.)
Automatically after one year after the account has been paid back in full. No record (except at the company itself with their own records) will be found. So you can't see only the current situation, not what was going on over a period of 25 years.
Yes. They are not creditors or banks, so they do not have access to that data. They can not even ask for it due to the law on privacy.
The deposit is standard 3 months here as well.
The amount your would be expected to pay is already calculated in the amount you can get as a credit.
This all is not 100% idiot proof. It is just to prevent willfully putting people in too much debt. Some people will buy the latest phone instead of food. People are stupid the world all over. It is just they can not blame the banks or credit companies for their own stupidity.
No, it doesn't. Things change. People get divorced. The financial income changes, because they get triplets. People spend more on life than average.
What it does is see to it that the banks are not giving more money than what you could REASONABLY pay back. If you go and buy new shoes every day, that is still on you.
So if your income is 1000, they will not give you several credit cards where you need to pay back 1100 if you take up all your credit.