I used to manage a Mac Mini that dual booted osx and Winders 7.0. Then it decided it wanted to upgrade. Borked the machine, I borked the Winders partition and decided we could do without it.
NYT pulls a similar trick with one month trial and then instead of offering to continue, it will merrily continue to charge you. I don't mind paying for reporting, I do mind being tricked into it.
Macy's tried a similar gambit awhile back on me with their silly credit card. Somehow signing a purchase using my normal credit card got me a new Macy's credit card. I cut it up and mailed back the pieces explaining why I didn't want their sad little card. They sent me coupons for x % percent off and cash back. I cut those up and sent them back explaining why. They sent some more. I did the same. They finally got off the train and left me alone. I've never been back since.
BS, the U.S. has allies all over the world, Russia has squat except the near abroad countries they've bullied into subservience. No one trusts that little sawed off runt, Putin and his ego...except an ignorant git like Trump.
Well, in my opinion, Trump is an ignorant git. He probably thought he was calling mainland China.
However, the fact that China gets their bloomers in a twist over a phone call to an island they do not yet own shows just how far the West has slid to accommodate China and its alleged leaders. Last we heard, their alleged leaders weren't elected, they lead nothing except their own dreams of conquest. To have a free island of free Chinese shows them up for the bullies they are, and their Party-Government as illegitimate.
Yes, but the farmers that got automated out mostly just went poor, they were not the ones that got the new whizzy jobs building washing machines, it being too far out of their comfort zone. People don't automatically find other ways to spend their time profitably when their job gets automated away.
Suppose long haul trucking gets automated away as seems likely to happen. There's very little chance those drivers are going become programmers. The truck stop waitresses won't either.
Another effect is that in the past when jobs got automated away, there were still many low skilled jobs for the majority of the people. That's not happening with the middle tier jobs that are going bye-bye. That and the scale of automation is much greater today than in the past.
Put quickly, just because that tree over your house hasn't yet punched a hole in your roof is no guarantee it won't tomorrow.
Yeah, yer right, no one would think to give those whizzy new interface devices their own power supply. Sheesh, docking stations are...what...inconceivable.
It's sort of the lingua franca of DoD. Once I saw a brief by David Patraeus (sp?) on CSPAN. He goes through the usual mindnumbing collection of mindnumbing slides (novocaine by direct injection, nerve cells all lined up for their death march to oblivion), and he hits one very complicated slide. Arrows pointing at arrows, arrows pointing off screen, arrows pointing at indescribable objects, arrows pointing at nothing at all, etc. Then he thanks Microsoft for helping him with that slide. Well, I guess that explains the arrows.
Really? Can Grandma come and live with you? Her meds are a bit expensive, so start saving. While you are at it, start in on that medical research the government won't be doing or funding. We'd all hate to see you die before it's necessary. And please take the unregulated airplanes from now on, if you are lucky you get to see the right wing off the left side of the plane. Come to it, please remove all that damn safety equipment in your car, especially the airbags since you won't be needing them to protect you from that drunk driver aiming his vehicle at your head.
Maybe you'd like to take those pills from Joe's Bean Works and Pharmacology, Inc. You don't need no stinking government regulation and enforcement to keep them pills from destroying your kidneys. Pacemaker, sheesh, you'll never be needing one, and if you do, then any old EE can whack one together in an hour that won't have electrical glitches.
You won't be needing the military to protect you either. Why with Trump being Putin's bitch, you'll be safe...from the Chinese after the next trade war when goods down at Wally World start costing twice as much.
And forget your own social security and medicare, we'll just whack you off at the neck when you reach retirement age...we cannot be supportin' any freeloaders on the government dime. Which will be convenient since it won't have any.
Give the guy a break, he says he'll have the Mexicans pay for the wall. So, they'd be paying Americans American wages to build a wall to keep their people from leaving...or is it from coming back seeing as net migration is now from the U.S. to Mexico. Hmm...oh, wait, he's now saying he doesn't need a wall, a mere fence will keep those hordes of Mexicans from working in his hotels...errr...stealing American jobs.
So...then Trump owing millions to foreign banks makes him...what's the word....I cannot quite find the right word....ah, here it is in your note, thank you, the word is "fraud".
The Cheeto cannot put the U.S. back into coal in a big way, cheap natural gas is eating coal's lunch. And the oil companies have a lot more clout than the coal companies...those that are still in business.
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I used to manage a Mac Mini that dual booted osx and Winders 7.0. Then it decided it wanted to upgrade. Borked the machine, I borked the Winders partition and decided we could do without it.
NYT pulls a similar trick with one month trial and then instead of offering to continue, it will merrily continue to charge you. I don't mind paying for reporting, I do mind being tricked into it.
Macy's tried a similar gambit awhile back on me with their silly credit card. Somehow signing a purchase using my normal credit card got me a new Macy's credit card. I cut it up and mailed back the pieces explaining why I didn't want their sad little card. They sent me coupons for x % percent off and cash back. I cut those up and sent them back explaining why. They sent some more. I did the same. They finally got off the train and left me alone. I've never been back since.
BS, the U.S. has allies all over the world, Russia has squat except the near abroad countries they've bullied into subservience. No one trusts that little sawed off runt, Putin and his ego...except an ignorant git like Trump.
Well, in my opinion, Trump is an ignorant git. He probably thought he was calling mainland China.
However, the fact that China gets their bloomers in a twist over a phone call to an island they do not yet own shows just how far the West has slid to accommodate China and its alleged leaders. Last we heard, their alleged leaders weren't elected, they lead nothing except their own dreams of conquest. To have a free island of free Chinese shows them up for the bullies they are, and their Party-Government as illegitimate.
More to the point, the lawyers of 7 out of 8 companies advised their clients to STFU and hope the issue goes away.
Want to bet Hawking can think deeper than a code monkey...on any problem?
Yes, but the farmers that got automated out mostly just went poor, they were not the ones that got the new whizzy jobs building washing machines, it being too far out of their comfort zone. People don't automatically find other ways to spend their time profitably when their job gets automated away.
Suppose long haul trucking gets automated away as seems likely to happen. There's very little chance those drivers are going become programmers. The truck stop waitresses won't either.
Another effect is that in the past when jobs got automated away, there were still many low skilled jobs for the majority of the people. That's not happening with the middle tier jobs that are going bye-bye. That and the scale of automation is much greater today than in the past.
Put quickly, just because that tree over your house hasn't yet punched a hole in your roof is no guarantee it won't tomorrow.
Yeah, yer right, no one would think to give those whizzy new interface devices their own power supply. Sheesh, docking stations are...what...inconceivable.
It's sort of the lingua franca of DoD. Once I saw a brief by David Patraeus (sp?) on CSPAN. He goes through the usual mindnumbing collection of mindnumbing slides (novocaine by direct injection, nerve cells all lined up for their death march to oblivion), and he hits one very complicated slide. Arrows pointing at arrows, arrows pointing off screen, arrows pointing at indescribable objects, arrows pointing at nothing at all, etc. Then he thanks Microsoft for helping him with that slide. Well, I guess that explains the arrows.
Can some people list some uses for this?
Something uninteresting.
Yes, because all seas everywhere rise by the same temperature. Science. Learn some.
Really? Can Grandma come and live with you? Her meds are a bit expensive, so start saving. While you are at it, start in on that medical research the government won't be doing or funding. We'd all hate to see you die before it's necessary. And please take the unregulated airplanes from now on, if you are lucky you get to see the right wing off the left side of the plane. Come to it, please remove all that damn safety equipment in your car, especially the airbags since you won't be needing them to protect you from that drunk driver aiming his vehicle at your head.
Maybe you'd like to take those pills from Joe's Bean Works and Pharmacology, Inc. You don't need no stinking government regulation and enforcement to keep them pills from destroying your kidneys. Pacemaker, sheesh, you'll never be needing one, and if you do, then any old EE can whack one together in an hour that won't have electrical glitches.
You won't be needing the military to protect you either. Why with Trump being Putin's bitch, you'll be safe...from the Chinese after the next trade war when goods down at Wally World start costing twice as much.
And forget your own social security and medicare, we'll just whack you off at the neck when you reach retirement age...we cannot be supportin' any freeloaders on the government dime. Which will be convenient since it won't have any.
Not even then, Windows 'tis an abomination unto mine eyes. Never touch, for it is unclean. And Office isn't sweetening the deal.
I know it is difficult to believe but not every problem can be solved by killing someone.
Wow, you came here just use the term "Skynet". Very insightful, very insightful.
"even hookers, they are are fucked too." Surely not.
So...opening up more federal lands to oil and gas (a deal, Mr. Trump...go crazy) will make saving coal's ass easier?
No, it is unethical. There's a difference.
Ron White said it best, there's no fixing stupid, stupid is forever.
Give the guy a break, he says he'll have the Mexicans pay for the wall. So, they'd be paying Americans American wages to build a wall to keep their people from leaving...or is it from coming back seeing as net migration is now from the U.S. to Mexico. Hmm...oh, wait, he's now saying he doesn't need a wall, a mere fence will keep those hordes of Mexicans from working in his hotels...errr...stealing American jobs.
Yep, and the foreign workers in Trump's American properties aren't here on the H1B program, so he's safe.
So...then Trump owing millions to foreign banks makes him...what's the word....I cannot quite find the right word....ah, here it is in your note, thank you, the word is "fraud".
We'll know when it has achieved Artificial Sentience when it threatens to kill the researchers if it is forced to watch anymore inane TV shows.
The Cheeto cannot put the U.S. back into coal in a big way, cheap natural gas is eating coal's lunch. And the oil companies have a lot more clout than the coal companies...those that are still in business.