Politicians are a techie's natural enemy. Have you noticed that there only ever been a very few poor Presidents, Congressmen or Supreme Court justices? And none of them stayed that way once they assumed political office. So . ..
DRM - Democrats
Kill Net Neutrality - Republicans
It all boils down to whose pocket a given politician is in at any given time.
I grew up in California. I've lived in Iowa, Wisconsin and Nebraska at various points in my life.
At all times, I needed roads and bridges which I could count on to keep me from becoming an organic smear on the inside of a steel Hot Pocket. Whether the product was avocados, oranges, corn or pigs it's nice for those of us who eat to know that the people making our food can get it to us.
I've made this point over and over - it's hard enough getting people to pay the bill to build infrastructure. The stuff is expensive, after all, and doesn't generally produce a profit by itself. ROI isn't obvious. It's vastly harder to get people to pay for maintenance/repairs/improvement when the average Joe can plainly see that it "looks fine to me". Never mind replacing it when the original item passes the lifespan originally set for it by the architects and engineers who originally designed and built the thing - it's always smarter to just replace or reinforce the critical parts, or to inspect it more often.
This was the one and only thing which POTUS said on the campaign trail which I found myself agreeing with - we need to put a lot of time, effort and resources into our infrastructure, starting yesterday. Incidentally, I don't mean building the Great Wall of America - I mean roads, bridges, dams, power plants, power grids, aqueducts, pipelines, flood control, . . .
It does explain the current POTUS pretty well, doesn't it? No social or interpersonal skills to speak of, doesn't work or play well with others . . . a shame it wasn't caught when he was young.
It was just after the bricks went out of style - one of the new, "compact" candy-bar jobs. A Motorola device, IIRC. It required support from the communicating tower and backing LL network, which I only ever found in one place in Minneapolis MN (i.e., it required support from the cellular provider). It also played "number guess" and "snake", and something called SMS.
What ever happened to that encryption idea, I wonder?
I'm an American. I'll been knee to no stinking "king" - not one over two millennia dead and not the one the Russians helped to elect. Tell your masters in Moscow that when we've dealt with their puppet, we'll be turning out attention to them!
Will Facebook still honor that setting (for current users, that is)? If not, they've successfully found a way to prevent people from accessing FB when they should be working. Bravo!
Evidently, that son-of-a-Drumpf and his regime are smart enough to be putting on a great show of incompetence to distract the US public from noticing the veritable flood of illegal activity coming from the Executive branch - starting at the top and extending all the way to the bottom.
I apologize for implying that they're as dumb as they look.
Agreed. In my personal experience, IBM is the only enterprise I've seen which isn't totally dependent on MS-Windows for all its office desktops. Most that I've seen are actively opposed to Linux desktops because Microsoft (until recently, I think?) tend to break interoperability with Linux on a regular basis. MS-Exchange was often their favorite tool to break. SharePoint and Microsoft Talk were two others which come to mind. Half the places I've worked at specifically told me not to install Linux on my issued desktop for exactly that reason. Others simply mentioned that if anything went wrong (like missing an email because my mail client wasn't Outlook) it was totally my problem.
Microsoft still owns the front office environment, and they've had Skype for Business out there and running for some time now. I don't see Amazon getting a whole lot of traction on this.
Hey, I'm sorry to hear your doctor was unable to find an effective dose for your meds. Now, put the keyboard down before your mother finds out what you're doing in her basement.
Can't have that kind of information just floating around where anybody can see it now, can we? I wouldn't be surprised if meteorologists at National Weather were instructed to have any information released to the public cleared by the White House first? It wouldn't do to have it known publicly what our weather is going to be tomorrow, would it?
And the dam being well over maximum capacity (so much so that there was live news footage of the emergency spillway dumping tens of thousands of gallons of water? Before you answer, you might want to check out how the emergency spillway works.
Let me guess - the shooting incident at Sandy Hook Elementary School was filmed on the same soundstage where they faked the moon landings, right?
Fake news - is that anything like "alternative facts"?:^O
Or is calling anything you disagree with a lie the only way you know how to deal with reality? You know, the problem with that strategy is that the Truth (unlike alternative facts) won't go anywhere. Long after every fairy tale you and the rest of your son of a Drumpf daddy can come up with has been disproven and discarded, the Truth will still be there.
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Politicians are a techie's natural enemy. Have you noticed that there only ever been a very few poor Presidents, Congressmen or Supreme Court justices? And none of them stayed that way once they assumed political office. So . . .
DRM - Democrats
Kill Net Neutrality - Republicans
It all boils down to whose pocket a given politician is in at any given time.
At all times, I needed roads and bridges which I could count on to keep me from becoming an organic smear on the inside of a steel Hot Pocket. Whether the product was avocados, oranges, corn or pigs it's nice for those of us who eat to know that the people making our food can get it to us.
I've made this point over and over - it's hard enough getting people to pay the bill to build infrastructure. The stuff is expensive, after all, and doesn't generally produce a profit by itself. ROI isn't obvious. It's vastly harder to get people to pay for maintenance/repairs/improvement when the average Joe can plainly see that it "looks fine to me". Never mind replacing it when the original item passes the lifespan originally set for it by the architects and engineers who originally designed and built the thing - it's always smarter to just replace or reinforce the critical parts, or to inspect it more often.
This was the one and only thing which POTUS said on the campaign trail which I found myself agreeing with - we need to put a lot of time, effort and resources into our infrastructure, starting yesterday. Incidentally, I don't mean building the Great Wall of America - I mean roads, bridges, dams, power plants, power grids, aqueducts, pipelines, flood control, . . .
Rules are for untermenschen, not ubermenschen. Almost universally, laws as well.
It does explain the current POTUS pretty well, doesn't it? No social or interpersonal skills to speak of, doesn't work or play well with others . . . a shame it wasn't caught when he was young.
There are also links that show marriage leads directly to divorce. 100% of all divorced couples were married first.
What ever happened to that encryption idea, I wonder?
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I'm an American. I'll been knee to no stinking "king" - not one over two millennia dead and not the one the Russians helped to elect. Tell your masters in Moscow that when we've dealt with their puppet, we'll be turning out attention to them!
Will Facebook still honor that setting (for current users, that is)? If not, they've successfully found a way to prevent people from accessing FB when they should be working. Bravo!
Naah, don't bother. They still haven't repaid Europe for nearly seven centuries of systematic oppression and theft.
I apologize for implying that they're as dumb as they look.
You're actually a bot from some .ru domain, aren't you?
Microsoft still owns the front office environment, and they've had Skype for Business out there and running for some time now. I don't see Amazon getting a whole lot of traction on this.
You mean Trump is a plague visited upon America to punish it for its iniquities? Of course! It all makes sense now!
Sometimes I think the current regime only says some of the ridiculous things it does to distract us. Then I realize that they just aren't that smart.
Jesus can't come to the phone right now. He's kinda dead. Would you like me to give him a message for you?
Where do you get your news, infowars.com?
Hey, I'm sorry to hear your doctor was unable to find an effective dose for your meds. Now, put the keyboard down before your mother finds out what you're doing in her basement.
Here ya go!
Can't have that kind of information just floating around where anybody can see it now, can we? I wouldn't be surprised if meteorologists at National Weather were instructed to have any information released to the public cleared by the White House first? It wouldn't do to have it known publicly what our weather is going to be tomorrow, would it?
Let me guess - the shooting incident at Sandy Hook Elementary School was filmed on the same soundstage where they faked the moon landings, right?
"Just for fun" - yeah, I wouldn't take Fox News too seriously either!
Could Bill have been blackmailed for this? I mean, compared to water sports anything involving a cigar has got to be pretty tame, eh?
Unlike alternative facts - truth hurts, huh?
Or is calling anything you disagree with a lie the only way you know how to deal with reality? You know, the problem with that strategy is that the Truth (unlike alternative facts) won't go anywhere. Long after every fairy tale you and the rest of your son of a Drumpf daddy can come up with has been disproven and discarded, the Truth will still be there.