If you think that a CEO that is fucking a teenager and calling people "pedo"'s can make good business decisions, then go right ahead. Personally, I think the guy has gone off his rocker (recently or long ago, I don't know), and I wouldn't trust him to work in an ice cream truck.
but you get a lot for $0 per month. ... and giving all of your data to Google. Depending on who you are and what you do with your computer, that can be worth a lot.
You then have a choice, either you continue to treat people like children hoping in government and authority to protect them from big bad guns forever or accept the risks and inevitable pains and losses and teach people to learn to live with and use these tools like adults.
I choose the former. Most people are much, much too stupid to be trusted with guns.
At least on social media, people have lost their collective minds. We've stopped posting anything that allows for any sort of discussion on social media, because people seem to be really insane on social media. They say and act very stupidly. If this is where most people are getting their news these days (and I don't doubt that it is), God help us all. The human race is going to eat itself because it's too fucking stupid to live.
Apple is making their devices more and more like toys for the techo-addicted to play with. An old headphone jack is too simple. Apple's customers want more gee-gaws to dick around with. That's their customer base.
I understand that. None of what you describe comes anywhere near the 2.5%-3% fees of a credit card. It costs our brick-and-mortar retail business about 0.05% to handle cash.
Cash is much cheaper than credit cards. Anybody who tells you that it costs 2.5-3% to handle cash is trying to sell you merchant services.
Although, the fact that cash is cheaper doesn't really make a difference. Average people are willingly paying a 3% Mastercard/Visa tax on everything they buy (with a card). People are so stupid and greedy, it's kinda' sickening.
Jesus, dude, that's sad. Do you spend all day looking for conspiracy web sites? How do you know about so many? Is there a conspiracy search engine somewhere, or something?
Vote for Hillary next time and it will all be better.
Hillary isn't running again, shit heel. But yes, vote Democratic, and the people in office will work to improve things. Nobody ever claimed "suddenly global climate change will go away", you fuckwad.
If a small business owner does something horrible that hurts, kills, or otherwise damages people, customers or not, that business owner will end up in jail.
Once that business gets a bit bigger, and becomes a corporation, the owners are now called "shareholders". In the US, "shareholders" of a corporation are not legally liable for anything the corporation does. That's the crux of the problem
Ideally, all of the owners of a company should be just as liable as the single owner of a company. In the US, money is King, so that's never going to happen. Corporations can do whatever they want, with no legal repercussions, but individuals can't.
It's really fucked up, and it's the cause of so many problems in our society. That's why our government is for sale. That's why bribery is 100% legal at the highest levels of government. Make the individual owners of every company liable, and watch how fast companies of all kinds clean up their acts. I doubt that Equifax would have done what they did, if every one of their millions of owners was looking down the barrel of some serious jail time. Or, Equifax wouldn't have millions of owners in the first place.
That's hilarious. Shame is, sadly, no longer a thing in the US. The Orange Asshole and his followers have seen to that. We live in a coarse, crude, and stupid time and place.
Why? MS already bailed on phones, unfortunately. They never made money on them, apparently. People still need real computers and likely will for a long, long time. Android doesn't compete with Windows in any way.
Keyboards don't work so well in web browsers. And web browsers' are significantly slower than a native, form-based application. And then there's the whole security part of it, the add-ons, the version updates, etc. A web interface is fine for lightweight, slow-moving stuff, but in a fast-paced retail environment, a web interface is not the correct tool.
There's still a lot that can't be or shouldn't be web-alized. We're in retail (high volume retail), and the web is a useless interface for us. We need Windows desktops for our main software, and that won't be changing any time soon.
Barely. More AC/Russian trolls than actual commenters these days. Even some of the registered commenters seem to be professional trolls. Sad to see what happened.
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Lots of money, time and effort wasted over this non-problem.
Guns in the US are not a "non-problem". They're a very real problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you think that a CEO that is fucking a teenager and calling people "pedo"'s can make good business decisions, then go right ahead. Personally, I think the guy has gone off his rocker (recently or long ago, I don't know), and I wouldn't trust him to work in an ice cream truck.
Facts! Gross! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
but you get a lot for $0 per month.
... and giving all of your data to Google. Depending on who you are and what you do with your computer, that can be worth a lot.
I agree that most people shouldn't be driving cars, yes.
Cars and guns both kill over 30,000 people a year, and maim who knows how many.
Power tools, gasoline, knives, and the Internet, not so much.
A "monopoly" on guns? I've never heard those words used in that contact before, but whatever floats your boat. Yes, that's fine with me.
You then have a choice, either you continue to treat people like children hoping in government and authority to protect them from big bad guns forever or accept the risks and inevitable pains and losses and teach people to learn to live with and use these tools like adults.
I choose the former. Most people are much, much too stupid to be trusted with guns.
At least on social media, people have lost their collective minds. We've stopped posting anything that allows for any sort of discussion on social media, because people seem to be really insane on social media. They say and act very stupidly. If this is where most people are getting their news these days (and I don't doubt that it is), God help us all. The human race is going to eat itself because it's too fucking stupid to live.
Apple is making their devices more and more like toys for the techo-addicted to play with. An old headphone jack is too simple. Apple's customers want more gee-gaws to dick around with. That's their customer base.
I understand that. None of what you describe comes anywhere near the 2.5%-3% fees of a credit card. It costs our brick-and-mortar retail business about 0.05% to handle cash.
Cash is much cheaper than credit cards. Anybody who tells you that it costs 2.5-3% to handle cash is trying to sell you merchant services.
Although, the fact that cash is cheaper doesn't really make a difference. Average people are willingly paying a 3% Mastercard/Visa tax on everything they buy (with a card). People are so stupid and greedy, it's kinda' sickening.
Jesus, dude, that's sad. Do you spend all day looking for conspiracy web sites? How do you know about so many? Is there a conspiracy search engine somewhere, or something?
Vote for Hillary next time and it will all be better.
Hillary isn't running again, shit heel. But yes, vote Democratic, and the people in office will work to improve things. Nobody ever claimed "suddenly global climate change will go away", you fuckwad.
If cold in winter is "just weather", why is heat in summer "climate"?
May I ask, what the fuck are you talking about?
That's a huge problem in the US: The corporation.
If a small business owner does something horrible that hurts, kills, or otherwise damages people, customers or not, that business owner will end up in jail.
Once that business gets a bit bigger, and becomes a corporation, the owners are now called "shareholders". In the US, "shareholders" of a corporation are not legally liable for anything the corporation does. That's the crux of the problem
Ideally, all of the owners of a company should be just as liable as the single owner of a company. In the US, money is King, so that's never going to happen. Corporations can do whatever they want, with no legal repercussions, but individuals can't.
It's really fucked up, and it's the cause of so many problems in our society. That's why our government is for sale. That's why bribery is 100% legal at the highest levels of government. Make the individual owners of every company liable, and watch how fast companies of all kinds clean up their acts. I doubt that Equifax would have done what they did, if every one of their millions of owners was looking down the barrel of some serious jail time. Or, Equifax wouldn't have millions of owners in the first place.
That's hilarious. Shame is, sadly, no longer a thing in the US. The Orange Asshole and his followers have seen to that. We live in a coarse, crude, and stupid time and place.
Because Java didn't work out for lots of different reasons.
Why? MS already bailed on phones, unfortunately. They never made money on them, apparently. People still need real computers and likely will for a long, long time. Android doesn't compete with Windows in any way.
"Fail"? "Everyone has been crying out for"? I think you've been spending too much time on Facebook.
Linux can't run our .Net based applications natively.
Keyboards don't work so well in web browsers. And web browsers' are significantly slower than a native, form-based application. And then there's the whole security part of it, the add-ons, the version updates, etc. A web interface is fine for lightweight, slow-moving stuff, but in a fast-paced retail environment, a web interface is not the correct tool.
No. Every see a grocery store cashier check people out with a mouse a web page?
A web browser interface is very slow and inefficient.
There's still a lot that can't be or shouldn't be web-alized. We're in retail (high volume retail), and the web is a useless interface for us. We need Windows desktops for our main software, and that won't be changing any time soon.
Does the /. zeitgeist even have a pulse anymore?
Barely. More AC/Russian trolls than actual commenters these days. Even some of the registered commenters seem to be professional trolls. Sad to see what happened.