Where is the class action lawsuit against Microsoft for the man-decades of hours lost due to BSOD and other, major issues with the O/S that have cost billions of dollars in lost productivity and data?
If automakers built cars that crashed as often as all the versions of Windows, the earth's population would be about 1,000 people today.
I have seen the oil wells in Cuba. The oil offshore is some of the dirtiest and lowest quality available. The only reason for the Chinese and Canadians to be assisting with oil exploration was so that Cuba could have some self-sufficiency.
This is both a blessing and a curse. The blessing is that the wonderful Cuban people desperately need medicine, goods and services that are in deplorably short supply.
The curse is that a small few are about to make huge profits on land and state enterprises. I don't care how the laws will be worded, any time you have a major economic shift like this, opportunists will take incredible advantage of the situation.
The other curse is that Western 'culture' - McDonald's, Burger King, Coke and Pepsi will invade. They will do tremendous harm to the health of the average Cuban.
Lastly, the wonderful beaches and hotels will be overrun. Cuba is so close to the U.S. that development will explode and tourism will skyrocket. The 'pristine' aspect of Cuba will quickly disappear in a morass of tawdry tourist traps.
Peace, quiet, natural... why not turn Prypiat into a retirement town with a minimum age of admission of 75?
Whether 60 Minutes is wrong or Ron Adams is wrong, it won't matter - the retirees will all be dead before any potential effects of mild radiation manifest themselves.
Here is a possible reason for the disparity in income:
A relative of mine is a Veterinarian.
When he graduated in the '80s 80% of Vets were male. They worked from 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM or longer - often six days a week.
Today, 80% of Vets are female. Rather than working long hours, they often choose to have a family and work part-time. The net result is that 4-5 female vets do the job of one male vet.
This is not a bad thing. They get to have both a career and be at home for their families.
The net result though, it that their incomes are substantially lower than a male vet's would be.
Is this wrong? No. Is this a new way of having a work-life balance? Yes.
When someone has plans to point a nuclear missile at you in your back yard, you do what you can to protect yourself.
The net result of the Cuban 'experiment' is a large number of well-educated people who have little or no resources to use that educational wealth.
I chatted with a 50 yr old 'pool boy' in Veradero. I asked him his occupation. He said: "Economist". He was earning 300 times as much cleaning hotel pools in the special tourist area than he would have in his profession.
In Trinidad, Cuba, there are extremely well-trained doctors and nurses at clinics... except that there is a real dearth of medicine available.
Cubans are crushed by their so-called government. It is heinous and loathsome.
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." Churchill
The update crashed 100% on re-boot stopping at 10% install. Fortunately, I was able to disable UEFI, boot to my Ubuntu Linux partition, go online and figure out what to do... then go back and bang away 'till it booted. I ended up going back to a good install point and adding updates incrementally.
Note to self: Always, always put a Linux partition on EVERY Windoze machine!
Yeah, yeah, I could carry a bootable USB around, but this way, it's always IN the machine.
My problem is this: WHO is going to PAY me for my time? Isn't it time that a consumer watchdog agency said: "Enough is enough, Microsoft. You have cost users countless BILLIONS of hours and money. If this were a car, Ford or GM or Toyota would be BANKRUPTED by the recalls."
This is so stupid. What is the staffing profile of, say, Glamour Magazine? Would you, as a stockholder, want white, straight males as staffers at Glamour? Not in a million years!
Each staff member is a profit centre. If you hire someone who's return on investment is 20% less but their ethnicity fits your company's profile, your competitors will eat you for breakfast - while hiring the best staff away from you.
If you really want to effect change, create a double-blind hiring system so that race and gender become non-issues - and you end up with the best staff. Period.
It is long overdue that government surveillance becomes a major political issue. Yet, we are no longer represented by our elected officials who have been bought off by the oligarchy. Moreover, if you talk to 99% of citizens, they will simply shrug off news items like this and go back to the latest Kardashian wardrobe malfunction intrigue.
This isn't about paranoia, it's about the fact that our personal rights are being completely abrogated by governments that are out of our control.
Our true freedom is doomed until we demand action so that due process takes place - legally and by the rules.
It's time to use the system to give itself back to us: with court challenges and by voting out non-supportive elected officials.
Exposure of incompetence and malfeasance with articles such as this are where to begin.
I was speaking with a nuclear engineer just this past weekend. The reason that Chernobyl happened was that an unauthorized test took place over the direct objections of senior management. It was like taking the oil out of a car engine and seeing how long it would run. What did they expect would happen? In any event, after the disaster, the existing cover is/was inadequate at best.
Whether the new design is adequate or not is moot: when Putin takes over the country, he will completely shut down any real news and everything will be fine.
My veterinarian did an excellent, cheap and painless euthanasia of my dog. I don't know why we can't have Vets manage the process. They are cheap, professionally trained and experienced.
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That being said, never praise a kid for being smart. Always praise hard work.
If automakers built cars that crashed as often as all the versions of Windows, the earth's population would be about 1,000 people today.
What a stupid headline. To my knowledge, there are no 3D printers physically on the moon or other planets for NASA to test with.
I have seen the oil wells in Cuba. The oil offshore is some of the dirtiest and lowest quality available. The only reason for the Chinese and Canadians to be assisting with oil exploration was so that Cuba could have some self-sufficiency.
The curse is that a small few are about to make huge profits on land and state enterprises. I don't care how the laws will be worded, any time you have a major economic shift like this, opportunists will take incredible advantage of the situation.
The other curse is that Western 'culture' - McDonald's, Burger King, Coke and Pepsi will invade. They will do tremendous harm to the health of the average Cuban.
Lastly, the wonderful beaches and hotels will be overrun. Cuba is so close to the U.S. that development will explode and tourism will skyrocket. The 'pristine' aspect of Cuba will quickly disappear in a morass of tawdry tourist traps.
Adios Cuba viejo y bienvenido al futuro.
Whether 60 Minutes is wrong or Ron Adams is wrong, it won't matter - the retirees will all be dead before any potential effects of mild radiation manifest themselves.
A relative of mine is a Veterinarian.
When he graduated in the '80s 80% of Vets were male. They worked from 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM or longer - often six days a week.
Today, 80% of Vets are female. Rather than working long hours, they often choose to have a family and work part-time. The net result is that 4-5 female vets do the job of one male vet.
This is not a bad thing. They get to have both a career and be at home for their families.
The net result though, it that their incomes are substantially lower than a male vet's would be.
Is this wrong? No. Is this a new way of having a work-life balance? Yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Day
Insensitive clods.
If they are told that they are smart, they will get a mind-set that says: "I'm smart, I don't need to work at this."
A wealthy friend of the family once told me: "There are two ways to become wealthy: out smart the other guy. The rest of us out work him."
When a product sucks, people stop buying it.
It is disgraceful that a consortium of PRIVATE companies has to tackle this issue when there is clear violation of any number of laws at stake.
Get to work, you government agencies, and, instead of spying on your fellow countrymen, do your job.
1 Million monkeys at typewriters don't finish writing Shakespeare either!
I chatted with a 50 yr old 'pool boy' in Veradero. I asked him his occupation. He said: "Economist". He was earning 300 times as much cleaning hotel pools in the special tourist area than he would have in his profession.
In Trinidad, Cuba, there are extremely well-trained doctors and nurses at clinics... except that there is a real dearth of medicine available.
Cubans are crushed by their so-called government. It is heinous and loathsome.
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." Churchill
Note to self: Always, always put a Linux partition on EVERY Windoze machine!
Yeah, yeah, I could carry a bootable USB around, but this way, it's always IN the machine.
My problem is this: WHO is going to PAY me for my time? Isn't it time that a consumer watchdog agency said: "Enough is enough, Microsoft. You have cost users countless BILLIONS of hours and money. If this were a car, Ford or GM or Toyota would be BANKRUPTED by the recalls."
Each staff member is a profit centre. If you hire someone who's return on investment is 20% less but their ethnicity fits your company's profile, your competitors will eat you for breakfast - while hiring the best staff away from you.
If you really want to effect change, create a double-blind hiring system so that race and gender become non-issues - and you end up with the best staff. Period.
Here's the upside: Linux users are the 1% ers!!
Dial: 1-800-Go2-Hell and you'll a direct line to Comcast's tech support - 'cause that's what they are living in - the poor bastards.
This isn't about paranoia, it's about the fact that our personal rights are being completely abrogated by governments that are out of our control.
Our true freedom is doomed until we demand action so that due process takes place - legally and by the rules.
It's time to use the system to give itself back to us: with court challenges and by voting out non-supportive elected officials.
Exposure of incompetence and malfeasance with articles such as this are where to begin.
Interviewer [Hacking into yet another security-flawed MS Smartband product.]: "Thank you for coming. Could you tell me why you left your last employ?"
Job Candidate: "I was ... asked to perform duties that were beyond the scope of my employment contract."
Interviewer [Noting elevated heart rate of interviewee]: "What did these duties consists of?"
Job Candidate: "I am not at liberty to discuss them."
Interviewer [Seeing Smartband perspiration levels soar.]: "Was there a problem with your performance?"
Job Candidate: "None whatsoever."
Interviewer [Running lie detector against heartbeat data.]: "I am afraid that this interview is over."
Job Candidate: "But I was being sexually molested and am involved in a court case that I cannot discuss!!"
Interviewer [Noting extreme blood pressure levels.] "SECURITY!!"
Whether the new design is adequate or not is moot: when Putin takes over the country, he will completely shut down any real news and everything will be fine.
Yahoo! Groups is bloated with spam that can't be blocked by its admins.
Yahoo! Messenger is so fraught with bugs and bloatware that users are fleeing in droves.
The main Yahoo! website is dated and mindless.
Yahoo! Mail is an abomination of unusable kludges and missteps.
Lastly, who uses Yahoo! to search for anything anymore, anyway?
Put a wooden stake in it, this thing is dead.
My veterinarian did an excellent, cheap and painless euthanasia of my dog. I don't know why we can't have Vets manage the process. They are cheap, professionally trained and experienced.
Let me put this out there: if they don't want net neutrality, mark my words, all the petitions in the world won't make a whit of difference.
Let's review this topic in two years and see whether I'm right.
The tides stop.
Republicans and Democrats dance together in the streets.
Ahhhh, the circle of life!