The first reason is that many people regard "Reply All" as simply "Reply" more stridently. A Reply saying "unsubscribe" is not felt be as forceful as a reply all saying the same thing.
Another reason is that the people who do reply like this tend to feel that they are important. It is likely that not all of the 850K recipients of the original mail replied. It would be interesting if someone analysed the mails for job titles. I bet that few of them said "Doctor", "Nurse", "Cleaner" or "Secretary". This, we are unlikely to have confirmed though.
US climate experts may seem dependent on Government in the USA but they certainly are not universally so in the rest of the planet.
Global warming / Climate Change / whatever else you want to call it - is not an idea only being pushed around the 4.5% of humanity that you live in. It is Global. Like gravity, it does not matter if you believe it or not. You are still affected by it. You may not believe in the theory of relativity. That might be because you don't understand it. I don't understand it but defer to people who know about the matter better than me.
What would happen if people decided that they knew better than the police and traffic planners? There mould be problems because experts in a subject really do know more than those who are not. You may think that a road is OK for 100 MPH. It isn't. You may know someone who thinks that evolution is nonsense. I have the choice in believing scientists or the less educated in the subject. I will listen to the experts - speed limits, evolution or climate change. The people who have studied the matter scientifically are a better group to listen to!
Last Sunday, those of us in North America, Europe and some areas of the Middle East rolled back the clock
No they didn't. The USA now changes its clocks at a different time from most of us. The end of "Summer Time", to give it the English Language title, is in the morning of the last Sunday in October. This year, that is the 30th. The USA changed a week later because GW Bush thought it would be funny to make the USA non-standard in yet another way.
Unless they don't come the conclusion that we want them to...
No Conclusion has been reached by the people. We had an opinion poll but the will off the people is determined by parliamentary elections in the UK and not by an advisory and non-binding referendum.
If we do change to the Swiss system in the future, I want to be the first to get one calling for some sort of penalty against Gove, Johnson etc for telling more lies than everyone else put together in the hope that they would make progress up the greasy pole of political intrigue,
Hopefully, we won't go down that particular rabbit hole and might just improve on FPTP instead.
... Since these organizations are not allowed to act on domestically...
What makes you think that?The USA may have a lot of laws that the remaining 98% of humanity could have too but it also has a whole load that nobody else has or misses.
Your rules (supposedly) stopping the CIA spying domestically are unusual in your, US only, laws. They are actually benefit the people and not the government or big money. At least they would be if we could believe that they were followed and that we haven't had a lot of revelations to the contrary.
Anyway, other countries don't even have the theoretical benefit of executive order 12333.
In Europe, there is generally no problems giving out your bank account details, because all you can do with that information is to send payments to the account.
Have you heard of Jeremy Clarkson? A few years ago, he said this on TV. Then to prove his confidence, he gave his account number and sort code.
Someone then caused his bank to pay a sum to charity to prove the point. It is not as secure as you think.
They just want to kill a bunch of birds to reduce the chances of bird-strike drone-delivery failures.
There are a LOT of turbines where I come from - Orkney 59N. Not only is it windy here but we have a lot of birds too.
There are not mountains of dead birds under them. There are not people complaining about them either. The big ones belong to the electricity company and the smaller (4-8m blades) to individual farms. They can't be bad for farm animals either.
Orkney may be small (pop about 20,000) but it is self sufficient in electricity. If Tesla opened a shop there, we could cut down on another fossil fuel too.
Google Play is not the same thing as the Play store.
Google Play includes a sizeable part of the operating system. Yes, the Play store is amongst it but go and have a read of the documentation to see what else it contains - some of it anyway...
Why is this so? Well actually, it is the result of free enterprise - and not by Google!
Perhaps some people in the USA have learnt just how bad some of your telcos are in comparison with ones elsewhere? They like to delay updates - whether deliberately or just by giving them near zero importance. They have shown how they do not want "older" devices to get updates. They would rather you got a new one. This could end up with everyone not owning a super shiny flagship phone being years behind with the security..
A few years ago, Google put parts of the OS where they could get at with normal OTA updates. From time to time, you may receive updates even though you are still on Marshmallow or Lollipop . That is Google Play.
* Isaac Asimov -- especially Foundation series.
* Robert A. Heinlein
* Arthur C. Clarke
Is A+.
I read them as a child. I recently started rereading some of them and noticed/remembered a couple of things...
Heinleins politics were questionable in some places and awful in others. Despite, for example, Startship Troopers, Red Planet and Number of the Beast approvingly showing un-admirable traits, I enjoy them and recommend them to all.
Asimov wasn't so political but he did seem to unwittingly subscribed to US "Manifest Destiny" and rarely considers any other parts of humanity except, perhaps, a British style aristocracy.
Clarke was a bit more of a globalist. Hopefully, he will have annoyed a few people with his inherent approval of multinational activity and even things like the UN.
Why would you admit that? It's like someone on a cookery forum pointing out that they had no idea what "blanch" or "au gratin" means.
When someone here says things I am not totally familiar with, and I have no wish to find out, I never feel the need to boast about it. I just don't remark too closely on that item.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam
The Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma
The Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
The Hungarian People's Republic
Notice a certain pattern there?
They all start with "The", like The United States of America The United Kingdom...
So we ban "The" in country names and we will all be able to go back to the Golden Ages of the 19th century, where women and all those people with too much suntan, knew their place.
Armed civilians are the stupidest idea humanity has had since someone said "If we give those vikings some money, they will go away.".
The first thing I was expected to do when the instructor handed me a weapon was to make sure that there was not one in the chamber. I didn't have to just cause the eject mechanism to work. I had to actually look too. Yes, if I went somewhere nasty people were perhaps trying to hurt me, I would have one in ready.As soon as I came back, I had to "make safe" since that is distinctly unsafe.
Are you a postal worker in Baghdad or Kabul? Perhaps you should get an M60 or do you need something heavier? You will probably need some friends to help you with that M1. What type of munitions would you like to keep up the spout?
Life - Nope. Anyone with a sufficient sense of entitlement can shoot you in the back
Liberty - Nope. People are not free if they live at risk of extrajudicial killings.
Property - Nope. Anyone who has sufficient money and politicians in their pocket can frack under your property and poison your water. If they have enough lawyers too, they can steal your "intellectual property".
When you next need to replace your phone, ask yourself the following questions
1. What do I need to actually do with it.
2. Is it a device or a sign?
3. Do I have a few hundred spare $$$ lying around?
If your answers are something like
1. Look cool
2. A sign that I am an amazing person
3. Yes
Then you definitely want an iPhone. The lack of a socket will increase the effect for questions 1 and 2. If, however, your answers more resembles
1. Make phone calls, listen to music, use a tiny pocket computer to do stuff
3. OMG no
then an iPhone is not your best option. What you do get depends on just how enthusiastically you said no to question 4./p.
If you mean people trained how to use firearms when in uniform and consider the idea of armed civilians worrying, you have my attention.
would go establish their own country.
Australia is a lot bigger than the US. The UK has been around a lot longer.
It wouldn't last long of course. It'd be too easy to invade with an unarmed population too fearful to stand up for themselves anyway.
People have been trying it for a long time now. Our last successful invader was William of Orange in 1689. That is when we got rid of the "Divine Right of Kings" and had a constitutional monarchy. The French and the Germans have tried since and failed. The Soviets thought we would have a revolution and they were wrong too.
A civilian populace arming itself to promote freedom is like a bunch of teenagers stocking up on condoms to promote chastity.
Any violent revolution will have a nasty aftermath against the populace. This has held true since ancient history and still does.
It can be funny to watch people in the USA have "new" concepts forced upon them that the developed world has been using for over a decade.
Smart cards, that is what they are called, are unpowered. They do not do anything unless they are brought close to a reader. Perhaps you have heard of NFC? The N stands for near. When this unpowered card is sitting in your wallet, it is not irradiating your favourite body part. If you keep them in your wallet they will not work because a reader won't be able to make sense of multiple replies at once.
I think I have 5 smart cards on me. A debit card, a credit card and a debit card that is linked to my Vodafone account and 2 work ones hanging round my neck.This is neither new or particularly advanced. I know that I could get them onto my phone so that I didn't need to carry them but they are secure and convenient enough at present. My phone is powered and so might be readable at a greater distance. That is not something I currently need.
As for the people who got rid of all their plastic and unwanted signs of modernity, consider the fact that the CIA, NSA, FBI or whatever other criminal groups you are shying away from could satellite track you. GPS bugs are pretty small and easy to hide nowadays. Or perhaps you are of no interest to them and you have opted for an unnecessarily less easy lifestyle - or is your first name Theodore?
It's not so much where they were founded and where their largest user base is
Well yes, yes it is.
It is not apparent how you have arrived at this unlikely conclusion. Please enlighten me.
Anything that is manufactured in a factory under the supervision of the Chinese communist party and all its experts is, by definition, unfit for secure use - military or otherwise - in the USA or anywhere else. South Korea, although not much more secure than the US, Canada or the UK, for example, is still on "our side".
And I would imagine that it also helps that Apple is the only U.S.-based cellphone manufacturer.
Samsungs are made by an ally - South Korea. iPhones are made in China. That sounds like a pretty clear cut case for avoiding the latter.
It's not so much where they were founded and where their largest user base is. It is about the actual security of devices made by a company under the ever watchful eye of the communist party.
It couldn't possibly be that the latest iPhone+iOS is better than the latest android phone+GoogleOS.
In theory that could happen but in reality? No. That hasn't been the case for quite some time in just about every field except the "looking cool" and being very #shiny.
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Can someone explain...
The first reason is that many people regard "Reply All" as simply "Reply" more stridently. A Reply saying "unsubscribe" is not felt be as forceful as a reply all saying the same thing.
Another reason is that the people who do reply like this tend to feel that they are important. It is likely that not all of the 850K recipients of the original mail replied. It would be interesting if someone analysed the mails for job titles. I bet that few of them said "Doctor", "Nurse", "Cleaner" or "Secretary". This, we are unlikely to have confirmed though.
US climate experts may seem dependent on Government in the USA but they certainly are not universally so in the rest of the planet.
Global warming / Climate Change / whatever else you want to call it - is not an idea only being pushed around the 4.5% of humanity that you live in. It is Global. Like gravity, it does not matter if you believe it or not. You are still affected by it. You may not believe in the theory of relativity. That might be because you don't understand it. I don't understand it but defer to people who know about the matter better than me.
What would happen if people decided that they knew better than the police and traffic planners? There mould be problems because experts in a subject really do know more than those who are not. You may think that a road is OK for 100 MPH. It isn't. You may know someone who thinks that evolution is nonsense. I have the choice in believing scientists or the less educated in the subject. I will listen to the experts - speed limits, evolution or climate change. The people who have studied the matter scientifically are a better group to listen to!
the more problematic "Daylight Saving Time"????
Use the, English Language, "Summer Time" then.
Last Sunday, those of us in North America, Europe and some areas of the Middle East rolled back the clock
No they didn't. The USA now changes its clocks at a different time from most of us. The end of "Summer Time", to give it the English Language title, is in the morning of the last Sunday in October. This year, that is the 30th. The USA changed a week later because GW Bush thought it would be funny to make the USA non-standard in yet another way.
Unless they don't come the conclusion that we want them to...
No Conclusion has been reached by the people. We had an opinion poll but the will off the people is determined by parliamentary elections in the UK and not by an advisory and non-binding referendum.
If we do change to the Swiss system in the future, I want to be the first to get one calling for some sort of penalty against Gove, Johnson etc for telling more lies than everyone else put together in the hope that they would make progress up the greasy pole of political intrigue,
Hopefully, we won't go down that particular rabbit hole and might just improve on FPTP instead.
All they want is a shiny new phone.
With a far from new interface? I came across an old iPod Touch in a drawer the other day, The screen looks pretty much the same as on a new iPhone.
... Since these organizations are not allowed to act on domestically...
What makes you think that?The USA may have a lot of laws that the remaining 98% of humanity could have too but it also has a whole load that nobody else has or misses.
Your rules (supposedly) stopping the CIA spying domestically are unusual in your, US only, laws. They are actually benefit the people and not the government or big money. At least they would be if we could believe that they were followed and that we haven't had a lot of revelations to the contrary.
Anyway, other countries don't even have the theoretical benefit of executive order 12333.
In Europe, there is generally no problems giving out your bank account details, because all you can do with that information is to send payments to the account.
Have you heard of Jeremy Clarkson? A few years ago, he said this on TV. Then to prove his confidence, he gave his account number and sort code.
Someone then caused his bank to pay a sum to charity to prove the point. It is not as secure as you think.
This has more to do with scoring brownie points than it has to do with wanting to use renewable energy
No. Its about pumping less crud into the atmosphere and having fewer holes in the ground to pump different crud into.
They just want to kill a bunch of birds to reduce the chances of bird-strike drone-delivery failures.
There are a LOT of turbines where I come from - Orkney 59N. Not only is it windy here but we have a lot of birds too.
There are not mountains of dead birds under them. There are not people complaining about them either. The big ones belong to the electricity company and the smaller (4-8m blades) to individual farms. They can't be bad for farm animals either.
Orkney may be small (pop about 20,000) but it is self sufficient in electricity. If Tesla opened a shop there, we could cut down on another fossil fuel too.
Just shoplift the Blu-Ray, less punishment for that.
Isn't having a Blu-Ray enough punishment for anyone?
Google Play is not the same thing as the Play store.
Google Play includes a sizeable part of the operating system. Yes, the Play store is amongst it but go and have a read of the documentation to see what else it contains - some of it anyway...
Why is this so? Well actually, it is the result of free enterprise - and not by Google!
Perhaps some people in the USA have learnt just how bad some of your telcos are in comparison with ones elsewhere? They like to delay updates - whether deliberately or just by giving them near zero importance. They have shown how they do not want "older" devices to get updates. They would rather you got a new one. This could end up with everyone not owning a super shiny flagship phone being years behind with the security..
A few years ago, Google put parts of the OS where they could get at with normal OTA updates. From time to time, you may receive updates even though you are still on Marshmallow or Lollipop . That is Google Play.
* Isaac Asimov -- especially Foundation series. * Robert A. Heinlein * Arthur C. Clarke
Is A+.
I read them as a child. I recently started rereading some of them and noticed/remembered a couple of things...
Heinleins politics were questionable in some places and awful in others. Despite, for example, Startship Troopers, Red Planet and Number of the Beast approvingly showing un-admirable traits, I enjoy them and recommend them to all.
Asimov wasn't so political but he did seem to unwittingly subscribed to US "Manifest Destiny" and rarely considers any other parts of humanity except, perhaps, a British style aristocracy.
Clarke was a bit more of a globalist. Hopefully, he will have annoyed a few people with his inherent approval of multinational activity and even things like the UN.
I don't know what any of these words mean.
Why would you admit that? It's like someone on a cookery forum pointing out that they had no idea what "blanch" or "au gratin" means.
When someone here says things I am not totally familiar with, and I have no wish to find out, I never feel the need to boast about it. I just don't remark too closely on that item.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics The Democratic People's Republic of Korea The Socialist Republic of Vietnam The Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma The Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya The Hungarian People's Republic
Notice a certain pattern there?
They all start with "The", like
The United States of America
The United Kingdom...
So we ban "The" in country names and we will all be able to go back to the Golden Ages of the 19th century, where women and all those people with too much suntan, knew their place.
Armed civilians are the stupidest idea humanity has had since someone said "If we give those vikings some money, they will go away.".
The first thing I was expected to do when the instructor handed me a weapon was to make sure that there was not one in the chamber. I didn't have to just cause the eject mechanism to work. I had to actually look too. Yes, if I went somewhere nasty people were perhaps trying to hurt me, I would have one in ready.As soon as I came back, I had to "make safe" since that is distinctly unsafe.
Are you a postal worker in Baghdad or Kabul? Perhaps you should get an M60 or do you need something heavier? You will probably need some friends to help you with that M1. What type of munitions would you like to keep up the spout?
Doesn't sound like he has read one though.
Life, liberty, property.
Life - Nope. Anyone with a sufficient sense of entitlement can shoot you in the back
Liberty - Nope. People are not free if they live at risk of extrajudicial killings.
Property - Nope. Anyone who has sufficient money and politicians in their pocket can frack under your property and poison your water. If they have enough lawyers too, they can steal your "intellectual property".
The fix is very easy.
When you next need to replace your phone, ask yourself the following questions
1. What do I need to actually do with it.
2. Is it a device or a sign?
3. Do I have a few hundred spare $$$ lying around?
If your answers are something like
1. Look cool
2. A sign that I am an amazing person
3. Yes
Then you definitely want an iPhone. The lack of a socket will increase the effect for questions 1 and 2. If, however, your answers more resembles
1. Make phone calls, listen to music, use a tiny pocket computer to do stuff
3. OMG no
then an iPhone is not your best option. What you do get depends on just how enthusiastically you said no to question 4./p.
You're that one person who always complains that their gazpacho soup is cold, right?
I thought that was Arnold Rimmer.
I wish these gun fearing freaks...
If you mean people trained how to use firearms when in uniform and consider the idea of armed civilians worrying, you have my attention.
would go establish their own country.
Australia is a lot bigger than the US. The UK has been around a lot longer.
It wouldn't last long of course. It'd be too easy to invade with an unarmed population too fearful to stand up for themselves anyway.
People have been trying it for a long time now. Our last successful invader was William of Orange in 1689. That is when we got rid of the "Divine Right of Kings" and had a constitutional monarchy. The French and the Germans have tried since and failed. The Soviets thought we would have a revolution and they were wrong too.
A civilian populace arming itself to promote freedom is like a bunch of teenagers stocking up on condoms to promote chastity.
Any violent revolution will have a nasty aftermath against the populace. This has held true since ancient history and still does.
It can be funny to watch people in the USA have "new" concepts forced upon them that the developed world has been using for over a decade.
Smart cards, that is what they are called, are unpowered. They do not do anything unless they are brought close to a reader. Perhaps you have heard of NFC? The N stands for near. When this unpowered card is sitting in your wallet, it is not irradiating your favourite body part. If you keep them in your wallet they will not work because a reader won't be able to make sense of multiple replies at once.
I think I have 5 smart cards on me. A debit card, a credit card and a debit card that is linked to my Vodafone account and 2 work ones hanging round my neck.This is neither new or particularly advanced. I know that I could get them onto my phone so that I didn't need to carry them but they are secure and convenient enough at present. My phone is powered and so might be readable at a greater distance. That is not something I currently need.
As for the people who got rid of all their plastic and unwanted signs of modernity, consider the fact that the CIA, NSA, FBI or whatever other criminal groups you are shying away from could satellite track you. GPS bugs are pretty small and easy to hide nowadays. Or perhaps you are of no interest to them and you have opted for an unnecessarily less easy lifestyle - or is your first name Theodore?
It's not so much where they were founded and where their largest user base is
Well yes, yes it is.
It is not apparent how you have arrived at this unlikely conclusion. Please enlighten me.
Anything that is manufactured in a factory under the supervision of the Chinese communist party and all its experts is, by definition, unfit for secure use - military or otherwise - in the USA or anywhere else. South Korea, although not much more secure than the US, Canada or the UK, for example, is still on "our side".
And I would imagine that it also helps that Apple is the only U.S.-based cellphone manufacturer.
Samsungs are made by an ally - South Korea. iPhones are made in China. That sounds like a pretty clear cut case for avoiding the latter.
It's not so much where they were founded and where their largest user base is. It is about the actual security of devices made by a company under the ever watchful eye of the communist party.
It couldn't possibly be that the latest iPhone+iOS is better than the latest android phone+GoogleOS.
In theory that could happen but in reality? No. That hasn't been the case for quite some time in just about every field except the "looking cool" and being very #shiny.