This only factors into it if you are listening in to propaganda from one source or another. Unplug from that and see the real reasons are 100 percent practical. If whites in Russia made networking equipment we would see the same maneuvers.
ITunes is its own particular brand of junk, among Apple products. I remember around 2006/7, when the classic iPods still at least had build quality going for them, I won one in a contest... Feature-wise, my Rio Karma ca. 2003 blew it out of the water, but the scroll wheel snapped off after too many drops onto the concrete. So I decided to keep the iPod. But in no way could I abide by iTunes. Its grabby insistence on moving and altering any file you loaded into it filled me with dread, even after (hopefully) disabling all such file management options... I gave up on iTunes real quick and found a third party program to manage it. It was missing some of the minor features like play counts, but at least I didn't have to worry about my *music player* installing multiple root-level services, autostarting systray icons, auto-moving my carefully organized files around... (The ones that it supported anyway, it wouldn't read any FLACs)
Then around 2010 I got an iTunes gift card. Thankfully they *had* removed the DRM at that point, so I could actually use the gift card to purchase and listen to music. The catch was I did have to reinstall iTunes and navigate the menus at least once.. Ouch! Still a pile of crap, even without the DRM. What I'm hearing now is the subsequent 8 years haven't made much improvement.
I imagine most of the Eastasians reading this already have an RFID tag on their vehicle and a GPS logger in their pocket, that they don't turn off when they get out of class.
Some of them may operate with the idea that these troves of data can exist indefinitely with none of the parties involved ever tempted to use or sell it... I'm not sure what gave them that impression.
The impression that I get is that Eastasia's constitution could use an Information Age Bill of Rights; an amendment enshrining the right to privacy would provide a bedrock legal justification for the necessary regulations. Because as of now, their laws don't even attempt to address the problem.
So, when I go to the Brainiac Grove or Consumer Nirvana or whatever they call it this year, I expect they will show me where the easy toolless release for the battery cover is, and let me buy a couple extra battery packs to have on hand, right?
Wait a minute, silly me, I overlooked the bravery, the principles at play here... It's adhesive strips, not glue! What a game changer - Android manufacturers better watch out, once consumers hear about Apple's new adhesive strips, their marketshare will be on the downturn...
In my day we gathered round the N64, put in Mario Kart and yelled at each other in person... And you could even yell back and actually communicate... It built what we call a personal relationship. Why do we have this teen suicide epidemic, Why do I feel so old when I haven't even hit 30...
Fortnite, PewDiePie, Hollywood celebs... I don't give a shit about any of it to tell you the truth. I don't even care enough to open up and down vote it... That'll put bullshit in my recommendations.
The real travesty here is not what they left out of the video... It's that the alt-celeb internet culture is as useless as the traditional one. It's that there is a market, and marketers, for this video to even be conceived.
Telegram only required a phone number with SMS, not Android or iOS. At least last time I had an account. I did not even own a smartphone at the time I made it.
They actually dropped the ability to make calls way back with the iPhone 4. A truly brave and forward-looking move from Apple. They had to add it back due to complaints from legacy users who didn't even know how to hold the thing. That cost real Apple fans THOUSANDS of dollars as they had to wait another couple years for that extra 0.7mm of thickness to be shaved off.
It's actually just passive, there is no aggression. Passive-agressive would be if you continued showing up, collecting a check, but burying the problems and not doing any actual work.
If you want to turn it into a generational thing - When I was younger and working service jobs with teenagers I'd see this every day. Now I primarily work with people 40-50+ and I see mostly the same - just with a bigger sense of entitlement and a little more pretension. (And my insurance premiums are way higher in this pool with all the geriatric care)
My desktop has a dust filter on the intake. Every single laptop and netbook I have owned, including the 10 inch models, had an air intake. Some of those had filters on them as well.
Then again, I don't buy overpriced garbage.
Protip: 9 times out of 10, when you read or hear someone discussing "State's rights", it's a copout.
"I don't know if gays should be able to marry... Let the states decide!" This approach conveniently lets the politician not take any kind of position on the actual issue. Obviously, there are some issues the Federal government doesn't need to be involved in. Those issues are never the ones discussed. It's always a thinly-veiled attempt to get the federal government out of areas they do need to oversee - environmental protection, healthcare, consumer financial protection, etc. Issues which did not exist in a recognizable way in 1776. The Founding Fathers did not write a Gospel with 100% infallible prophecies. What they did was establish a modifiable framework for government, knowing that it will need to be adjusted at some point.
My job involves maintaining commercial TV systems. Most of the sites have some combination of sat/cable channels, IPTV, streaming services, plus local channels over antenna. The clients typically want the major network affiliates - NBC, ABC, FOX, etc - so I don't see too much interesting in their local lineups.
However, I am confident saying this. Your antenna matters bigtime. Especially with the digital switchover and FCC moving spectrum allocations around. I don't want to recommend a particular model (haven't done enough comparison) but you might spend $100+ on a solid DTV antenna.
If you are near a majorish metro area you should pick up at LEAST 10 channels on antenna. Probably more like 30. There is a lookup tool you can use to check the reception: https://www.tvfool.com/?option...
You put in an address and the height of the antenna and it will give you a list of TV stations you can pick up, plus which direction to point the antenna... it takes into account topography and all kinds of neat stuff.
China moved from communism to pragmatic socialism and turned a shithole into a superpower within a few decades.
It seems that once you get rid of inflexible ideology, you can focus on what matters, instead of fixating on how thoroughly "communist" or "capitalist" you can be. China has began to dispense with the rigid ideology the past few decades. The US has doubled down on ideology. Guess which country is rising, and which is falling.
Once all the cashiers and janitors of the world are out of a job, not only will they be starving, they will be coming for your plate. Whether that means you wake up to a pistol in your face, or you redistribute in an orderly and equitable arrangement... that choice is up to you.
The "pro-consumer framework", at least in the US, has been completely run over and disregarded in the digital age. Funnily enough the driving forces behind that are big technology companies and the idea that "money makes it right." Wow, just like China!
But I digress. Let us fixate on how innately terrible the Chinese are. That way we don't have to deal with the difficult task of self-improvement.
Is your job of any importance, and have you ever heard of "industrial espionage"? If not, it's time to hit up Wikipedia.
Bleeding the bank accounts or trashing the credit of random unimportant citizens would be a nice way to throw a wrench in the US economy, as well. This could be arranged so that each instance looks like "normal" fraud. (Funnily enough the US does have double the bank/CC fraud of anyone else by most measures...)
And now, the modern miracle of social media has enabled targeted misinformation campaigns. Elections are the most obvious target, but we see these tactics can also be used to get a flash mob to stone someone to death, or shoot up a pizza parlor.
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The areas this is being deployed for are already unplugged. There's nowhere for the plug to go but in.
This only factors into it if you are listening in to propaganda from one source or another. Unplug from that and see the real reasons are 100 percent practical. If whites in Russia made networking equipment we would see the same maneuvers.
ITunes is its own particular brand of junk, among Apple products. I remember around 2006/7, when the classic iPods still at least had build quality going for them, I won one in a contest... Feature-wise, my Rio Karma ca. 2003 blew it out of the water, but the scroll wheel snapped off after too many drops onto the concrete. So I decided to keep the iPod. But in no way could I abide by iTunes. Its grabby insistence on moving and altering any file you loaded into it filled me with dread, even after (hopefully) disabling all such file management options... I gave up on iTunes real quick and found a third party program to manage it. It was missing some of the minor features like play counts, but at least I didn't have to worry about my *music player* installing multiple root-level services, autostarting systray icons, auto-moving my carefully organized files around... (The ones that it supported anyway, it wouldn't read any FLACs)
Then around 2010 I got an iTunes gift card. Thankfully they *had* removed the DRM at that point, so I could actually use the gift card to purchase and listen to music. The catch was I did have to reinstall iTunes and navigate the menus at least once.. Ouch! Still a pile of crap, even without the DRM. What I'm hearing now is the subsequent 8 years haven't made much improvement.
I imagine most of the Eastasians reading this already have an RFID tag on their vehicle and a GPS logger in their pocket, that they don't turn off when they get out of class.
Some of them may operate with the idea that these troves of data can exist indefinitely with none of the parties involved ever tempted to use or sell it... I'm not sure what gave them that impression.
The impression that I get is that Eastasia's constitution could use an Information Age Bill of Rights; an amendment enshrining the right to privacy would provide a bedrock legal justification for the necessary regulations. Because as of now, their laws don't even attempt to address the problem.
I prefer a tuxedo wrapped in an Aston Martin.
Why is a phone that works for multiple years with a functional battery so notable? Why so defensive?
So, when I go to the Brainiac Grove or Consumer Nirvana or whatever they call it this year, I expect they will show me where the easy toolless release for the battery cover is, and let me buy a couple extra battery packs to have on hand, right?
Wait a minute, silly me, I overlooked the bravery, the principles at play here... It's adhesive strips, not glue! What a game changer - Android manufacturers better watch out, once consumers hear about Apple's new adhesive strips, their marketshare will be on the downturn...
In my day we gathered round the N64, put in Mario Kart and yelled at each other in person... And you could even yell back and actually communicate... It built what we call a personal relationship. Why do we have this teen suicide epidemic, Why do I feel so old when I haven't even hit 30...
Fortnite, PewDiePie, Hollywood celebs... I don't give a shit about any of it to tell you the truth. I don't even care enough to open up and down vote it... That'll put bullshit in my recommendations.
The real travesty here is not what they left out of the video... It's that the alt-celeb internet culture is as useless as the traditional one. It's that there is a market, and marketers, for this video to even be conceived.
When I tell people that, they usually say something along the lines of "We can't hire you" or "You can't have an account here."
Telegram only required a phone number with SMS, not Android or iOS. At least last time I had an account. I did not even own a smartphone at the time I made it.
They actually dropped the ability to make calls way back with the iPhone 4. A truly brave and forward-looking move from Apple. They had to add it back due to complaints from legacy users who didn't even know how to hold the thing. That cost real Apple fans THOUSANDS of dollars as they had to wait another couple years for that extra 0.7mm of thickness to be shaved off.
It's actually just passive, there is no aggression. Passive-agressive would be if you continued showing up, collecting a check, but burying the problems and not doing any actual work.
If you want to turn it into a generational thing - When I was younger and working service jobs with teenagers I'd see this every day. Now I primarily work with people 40-50+ and I see mostly the same - just with a bigger sense of entitlement and a little more pretension. (And my insurance premiums are way higher in this pool with all the geriatric care)
My desktop has a dust filter on the intake. Every single laptop and netbook I have owned, including the 10 inch models, had an air intake. Some of those had filters on them as well.
Then again, I don't buy overpriced garbage.
You can keep hitting up the bars, that just means a better pool of women left for me. Oh, and better beer for me at the grocery store.
Protip: 9 times out of 10, when you read or hear someone discussing "State's rights", it's a copout.
"I don't know if gays should be able to marry... Let the states decide!" This approach conveniently lets the politician not take any kind of position on the actual issue.
Obviously, there are some issues the Federal government doesn't need to be involved in. Those issues are never the ones discussed. It's always a thinly-veiled attempt to get the federal government out of areas they do need to oversee - environmental protection, healthcare, consumer financial protection, etc. Issues which did not exist in a recognizable way in 1776. The Founding Fathers did not write a Gospel with 100% infallible prophecies. What they did was establish a modifiable framework for government, knowing that it will need to be adjusted at some point.
My job involves maintaining commercial TV systems. Most of the sites have some combination of sat/cable channels, IPTV, streaming services, plus local channels over antenna. The clients typically want the major network affiliates - NBC, ABC, FOX, etc - so I don't see too much interesting in their local lineups.
However, I am confident saying this. Your antenna matters bigtime. Especially with the digital switchover and FCC moving spectrum allocations around. I don't want to recommend a particular model (haven't done enough comparison) but you might spend $100+ on a solid DTV antenna.
If you are near a majorish metro area you should pick up at LEAST 10 channels on antenna. Probably more like 30. There is a lookup tool you can use to check the reception:
https://www.tvfool.com/?option...
You put in an address and the height of the antenna and it will give you a list of TV stations you can pick up, plus which direction to point the antenna... it takes into account topography and all kinds of neat stuff.
China moved from communism to pragmatic socialism and turned a shithole into a superpower within a few decades.
It seems that once you get rid of inflexible ideology, you can focus on what matters, instead of fixating on how thoroughly "communist" or "capitalist" you can be. China has began to dispense with the rigid ideology the past few decades. The US has doubled down on ideology. Guess which country is rising, and which is falling.
Once all the cashiers and janitors of the world are out of a job, not only will they be starving, they will be coming for your plate. Whether that means you wake up to a pistol in your face, or you redistribute in an orderly and equitable arrangement... that choice is up to you.
There are actually a lot of people, almost everywhere, trying to prevent you from doing anything of the sort.
Nix Bricks... I like it.
Not necessarily (unless you wanted to think about it a bit). But it does directly contribute to low life expectancy, which is what we are discussing.
The "pro-consumer framework", at least in the US, has been completely run over and disregarded in the digital age. Funnily enough the driving forces behind that are big technology companies and the idea that "money makes it right." Wow, just like China!
But I digress. Let us fixate on how innately terrible the Chinese are. That way we don't have to deal with the difficult task of self-improvement.
And most of them run Linux?
While everyone was waiting on the Year of Linux on the Desktop... The desktop died, yet Linux lives on.
Is your job of any importance, and have you ever heard of "industrial espionage"? If not, it's time to hit up Wikipedia.
Bleeding the bank accounts or trashing the credit of random unimportant citizens would be a nice way to throw a wrench in the US economy, as well. This could be arranged so that each instance looks like "normal" fraud. (Funnily enough the US does have double the bank/CC fraud of anyone else by most measures...)
And now, the modern miracle of social media has enabled targeted misinformation campaigns. Elections are the most obvious target, but we see these tactics can also be used to get a flash mob to stone someone to death, or shoot up a pizza parlor.