If you can't remember PINs do like me. I always pick 8888 because it's easy to remember but also I suspect 8 is the least popular number in PIN so there's less boogers and ass-scratching artifacts on that key.
My bank recently replaced its ATM cards with chip/pin. Where I used to step up to an ATM, swipe the card, and put it and my wallet away while the machine woke up. The rest of the transaction, I have my hands free, and I'm gone in 30 seconds.
if you put your wallet away after swiping your card, what did you do with the cash (which certainly doesn't come out before "the machine wakes up")? Put it in a gold clip so you can stylishly flip out one bill at a time at the strip club?
Steve Ballmer would never have agreed to the Windows 10 upgrade racket. He was colorful and not a techie, and buying Nokia was misguided, but since he left, common sense has no place at the executive meetings.
You mean "to most fanbois". Because I'm pretty sure you have no clue if/when Nokia or Motorola reached the billion devices sold. Or how many copies of Windows have been sold. Or how many Dell laptops. So don't insult people's intelligence when you speak about that Apple marketing crap as if you were an avid follower of the market in general.
That would be a first for you, no? It stands to reason that Apple zealots are far more used to bend over than to be serviced. I mean, some of then even take the submissive role so far that they voluntarily put an ad for Apple products in their username! How crazy is that?
"Look, I'm losing the argument, quickly throw in the insults!" What a loser you are.
and you end with this:
Fuck off you puritan retard. Learn about the rest of the world, and die in horror when you realize you're nothing but the rejects of the rest of the world. I'm done with you.
And you wonder why nobody takes you seriously?
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and The Bridge showed a dark side of Sweden, but your posts are doing their part too.
If you think Apple let the customers benefit when they negotiate a lower cost deal you've clearly misunderstood the situation. You can bet that watching a cable show over Apple TV would have been more expensve than watching it straight from the cable co. Because of the "high quality ecosystem", of course.
I wouldn't even want to be near anyone who feels a compulsive need to use the blackest tar possible and bring trumped up charges as soon as you find someone you don't like.
Sorry but I stopped reading after that sentence. The fact that you accuse me of "bringing trumped up charges" clearly shows what a one-trick pony you are. It's always smear campaigns with you, isn't it? Me, or the CIA, or big corporations... all the same.
For the record I don't make shit up about people I don't like. If anything I often defend people I severely dislike when I think they're victims of a demented pitch fork mob (like that woman from Theranos or Donald Trump).
As for Assange he's just a total asshole and I don't have to make this up; running away from Sweden gave him the comfortable narrative of being "persecuted" and threatened with extradition. Only a guilty coward woud run away in this context. And this completely jives wih his double standard when it comes to privacy; everyone's secrets can be exposed, except for his or Wikileaks. In my opinion the fact that Wikileaks has achieved what they did so far is *in spite* of Assange, not because of him.
How do you explain that my non-Apple stuff doesn't turn to shit within 2-3 years? Would you say it's because very few other companies have made planned obsolescence their core business strategy?
You mean "to most fanbois". Because I'm pretty sure you have no clue if/when Nokia or Motorola reached the billion devices sold. Or how many copies of Windows have been sold. Or how many Dell laptops. So don't insult people's intelligence when you speak about that Apple marketing crap as if you were an avid follower of the market in general.
Did you heard the real news or did that billion devices thing dazzled you too much? Apple's revenue went down 15%, second quarter in a row their iPhone sales are in free fall. Even with their profit margin and a handful of iDiots who will keep replacing their phone with the latest model, it's a nosedive.
Meanwhile, Samsung saw a 12% jump in revenue - they now beat Apple's revenue (45 vs 42 billions).
"Sex without a condom" and "sex without a condom while you are asleep after having sex with a condom the previous night" are two different things. I don't know how you figure that she gave her consent while she was passed out but if that's not rape in your book you can be sure I'll never let you date my daughter.
This should give you a better idea of the "real" Assange. Interesting quote:
I asked him if he had a working title yet and he said, to laughter, ‘Yes. “Ban This Book: From Swedish Whores to Pentagon Bores”.’
Assange spent 2 weeks in Sweden. One of his accusers is a woman engaged in local politics who had her career ruined in the aftermath. And yet people still call that a smear campaign organized by the US intelligence service?
Why don't you use that skepticism to question things that don't make sense for once.
Thank you for supporting my point. You start by claiming that those women didn't "suffer" or got extradited (which would have never been an issue for Assange if he had faced the charges in Sweden instead of running away) then you ramble on about honeytraps and Afghanistan. It always come back to the smear campaign scenario.
Here's a citation.
The woman, whose name has not been disclosed, said that when the allegations became public she received threats and found it impossible to work.
She said that she was judged in a "gigantic court of public opinion with anonymous judges and witnesses who guessed wildly".
The first Android phone came out a year after the first iPhone, and besides having all the challenges of collaboration between open source developers, app developers and device manufacturers, and with drastically smaller profit margins they're now running circles around Apple.
You need a special kind of fuckups to lose an essentially captive market so fast. Compare this to Microsoft who has been owning the desktop market for over 30 years without even dealing with hardware.
Dude get real. The iPhone 4 is like 5 years old, this is not a "long time". Right now under my tv there's a computer that has been used as a media player for 11 years. Started with Windows XP, then got Windows 7, now running Suse. I suspect the thing will keep playing videos and music for another 5 years. And it wasn't Apple-branded good hardware, it's a budget piece of shit I built from spare parts. Meanwhile I've owned 3 Mac (1 iMac, 2 Macbooks), 1 pad and 2 iPod, and they all turned to shit within 2-3 years.
Apple devices have the same life expectancy as McDonalds fries. If you like them, go ahead and stuff your face, but don't come here talking like it's a timeless marvel of engineering, it's disposable shit.
Yes, and the fact that they're now peddling that billion device figure shows that they're running out of ways to spin their nosedive in a positive way.
This is a two-way street. Sure, "targets" like Linus have to be careful, but it's becoming even more difficult for actual victims of male semi-celebrities because they are called liars and sluts on top of having gone thru an unpleasant experience.
Have you seen how people treated the women who made those complaints against Assange?
For some reason when it's tech-related celebrities there's a cloud of immunity and endless waves of defenders that have no more information, just strong opinions. We laugh at people who still defend Bill Cosby, but when it comes to Assange, Applebaum or even Gore it's a different story. It's smear campaigns, NSA operations, corporate greed, etc. It's never a fucking immature asshole who crosses the line.
It's as if in tech there's saints and serial killers, nothing in between. Girl goes to a bar with a guy and guy puts his hands down her pants? He's just "hitting on her", she shouldn't have gone there if she didn't want it. Girl parties with guy, goes home with him, has safe sex with him, then wakes up from a booze blackout to find him fucking her without a condom? She asked for it, she shouldn't have been in his bed if she didn't want to give him a blank check to fuck her bareback while she's passed out. And/or she's a NSA shill.
I've always being very skeptical of the whole "rape culture" thing, the switch rape and all that. Always figured it was people aspiring to some kind of heroic role in a society that has no real issues left. But the more I see the posts here about Applebaum and Assange, the more I'm questioning my own assumptions about how civilized we are.
What do you imagine would have happened had she won?
More stuff would have been stolen from the White House. More people would have bought a presidential pardon. More women would have been raped then would have had their dogs killed to scare them into withdrawing their complaints.
I don't think you understand what it means to be "rewarded". They didn't find him a cushy job, he had to go in business for himself after being kicked out from the White House for doing their dirty work.
You can bet that if she hired him again five years later it wasn't a reward. Just like it wasn't a reward when Obama got back in touch with Oprah to have her support for his reelection after having ignored her for his entire first term (and surprisingly she took a pass).
1) he admires Vladimir Putin 2) he wants a closer working relationship between the US and Russia 3) he thinks NATO is a "bad deal" for the USA, and 4) he might disregard the key part of the NATO covenant pledging assistance to a member that has been attacked by an external foe, i.e. the Baltic States by Russia
So what you are saying, basically, is that Trump's foreign policy make more sense than Clinton's?
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If you can't remember PINs do like me. I always pick 8888 because it's easy to remember but also I suspect 8 is the least popular number in PIN so there's less boogers and ass-scratching artifacts on that key.
My bank recently replaced its ATM cards with chip/pin. Where I used to step up to an ATM, swipe the card, and put it and my wallet away while the machine woke up. The rest of the transaction, I have my hands free, and I'm gone in 30 seconds.
if you put your wallet away after swiping your card, what did you do with the cash (which certainly doesn't come out before "the machine wakes up")? Put it in a gold clip so you can stylishly flip out one bill at a time at the strip club?
Steve Ballmer would never have agreed to the Windows 10 upgrade racket. He was colorful and not a techie, and buying Nokia was misguided, but since he left, common sense has no place at the executive meetings.
You mean "to most fanbois". Because I'm pretty sure you have no clue if/when Nokia or Motorola reached the billion devices sold. Or how many copies of Windows have been sold. Or how many Dell laptops. So don't insult people's intelligence when you speak about that Apple marketing crap as if you were an avid follower of the market in general.
Blow me.
Q.E.D.
Blow me.
That would be a first for you, no? It stands to reason that Apple zealots are far more used to bend over than to be serviced. I mean, some of then even take the submissive role so far that they voluntarily put an ad for Apple products in their username! How crazy is that?
You start with this:
"Look, I'm losing the argument, quickly throw in the insults!" What a loser you are.
and you end with this:
Fuck off you puritan retard. Learn about the rest of the world, and die in horror when you realize you're nothing but the rejects of the rest of the world. I'm done with you.
And you wonder why nobody takes you seriously?
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and The Bridge showed a dark side of Sweden, but your posts are doing their part too.
If you think Apple let the customers benefit when they negotiate a lower cost deal you've clearly misunderstood the situation. You can bet that watching a cable show over Apple TV would have been more expensve than watching it straight from the cable co. Because of the "high quality ecosystem", of course.
I wouldn't even want to be near anyone who feels a compulsive need to use the blackest tar possible and bring trumped up charges as soon as you find someone you don't like.
Sorry but I stopped reading after that sentence. The fact that you accuse me of "bringing trumped up charges" clearly shows what a one-trick pony you are. It's always smear campaigns with you, isn't it? Me, or the CIA, or big corporations... all the same.
For the record I don't make shit up about people I don't like. If anything I often defend people I severely dislike when I think they're victims of a demented pitch fork mob (like that woman from Theranos or Donald Trump).
As for Assange he's just a total asshole and I don't have to make this up; running away from Sweden gave him the comfortable narrative of being "persecuted" and threatened with extradition. Only a guilty coward woud run away in this context. And this completely jives wih his double standard when it comes to privacy; everyone's secrets can be exposed, except for his or Wikileaks. In my opinion the fact that Wikileaks has achieved what they did so far is *in spite* of Assange, not because of him.
How do you explain that my non-Apple stuff doesn't turn to shit within 2-3 years? Would you say it's because very few other companies have made planned obsolescence their core business strategy?
You mean "to most fanbois". Because I'm pretty sure you have no clue if/when Nokia or Motorola reached the billion devices sold. Or how many copies of Windows have been sold. Or how many Dell laptops. So don't insult people's intelligence when you speak about that Apple marketing crap as if you were an avid follower of the market in general.
Who's upset? If anything it's amusing to see fanbois becoming Baghdad Bob wannabes now that Apple is morphing into anoher Blackberry.
Did you heard the real news or did that billion devices thing dazzled you too much? Apple's revenue went down 15%, second quarter in a row their iPhone sales are in free fall. Even with their profit margin and a handful of iDiots who will keep replacing their phone with the latest model, it's a nosedive.
Meanwhile, Samsung saw a 12% jump in revenue - they now beat Apple's revenue (45 vs 42 billions).
"Sex without a condom" and "sex without a condom while you are asleep after having sex with a condom the previous night" are two different things. I don't know how you figure that she gave her consent while she was passed out but if that's not rape in your book you can be sure I'll never let you date my daughter.
Read this excellent account from Andrew O'Hagan about the time he spent with Assange while he was asked to write a book about him.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n05/a...
This should give you a better idea of the "real" Assange. Interesting quote:
I asked him if he had a working title yet and he said, to laughter, ‘Yes. “Ban This Book: From Swedish Whores to Pentagon Bores”.’
Assange spent 2 weeks in Sweden. One of his accusers is a woman engaged in local politics who had her career ruined in the aftermath. And yet people still call that a smear campaign organized by the US intelligence service?
Why don't you use that skepticism to question things that don't make sense for once.
Thank you for supporting my point. You start by claiming that those women didn't "suffer" or got extradited (which would have never been an issue for Assange if he had faced the charges in Sweden instead of running away) then you ramble on about honeytraps and Afghanistan. It always come back to the smear campaign scenario.
Here's a citation.
The woman, whose name has not been disclosed, said that when the allegations became public she received threats and found it impossible to work.
She said that she was judged in a "gigantic court of public opinion with anonymous judges and witnesses who guessed wildly".
http://news.sky.com/story/juli...
There's also a good article on Slate about this. And many others. All shills and honeypots of course.
You're one of those anonymous judges and witnesses, thank you for your contribution to making the world a better place.
The first Android phone came out a year after the first iPhone, and besides having all the challenges of collaboration between open source developers, app developers and device manufacturers, and with drastically smaller profit margins they're now running circles around Apple.
You need a special kind of fuckups to lose an essentially captive market so fast. Compare this to Microsoft who has been owning the desktop market for over 30 years without even dealing with hardware.
this will go on until the minority is white heterosexual males. Then nobody will care about minorities.
Thanks to you I now have a new wallpaper!
Dude get real. The iPhone 4 is like 5 years old, this is not a "long time". Right now under my tv there's a computer that has been used as a media player for 11 years. Started with Windows XP, then got Windows 7, now running Suse. I suspect the thing will keep playing videos and music for another 5 years. And it wasn't Apple-branded good hardware, it's a budget piece of shit I built from spare parts. Meanwhile I've owned 3 Mac (1 iMac, 2 Macbooks), 1 pad and 2 iPod, and they all turned to shit within 2-3 years.
Apple devices have the same life expectancy as McDonalds fries. If you like them, go ahead and stuff your face, but don't come here talking like it's a timeless marvel of engineering, it's disposable shit.
Yes, and the fact that they're now peddling that billion device figure shows that they're running out of ways to spin their nosedive in a positive way.
This is a two-way street. Sure, "targets" like Linus have to be careful, but it's becoming even more difficult for actual victims of male semi-celebrities because they are called liars and sluts on top of having gone thru an unpleasant experience.
Have you seen how people treated the women who made those complaints against Assange?
For some reason when it's tech-related celebrities there's a cloud of immunity and endless waves of defenders that have no more information, just strong opinions. We laugh at people who still defend Bill Cosby, but when it comes to Assange, Applebaum or even Gore it's a different story. It's smear campaigns, NSA operations, corporate greed, etc. It's never a fucking immature asshole who crosses the line.
It's as if in tech there's saints and serial killers, nothing in between. Girl goes to a bar with a guy and guy puts his hands down her pants? He's just "hitting on her", she shouldn't have gone there if she didn't want it. Girl parties with guy, goes home with him, has safe sex with him, then wakes up from a booze blackout to find him fucking her without a condom? She asked for it, she shouldn't have been in his bed if she didn't want to give him a blank check to fuck her bareback while she's passed out. And/or she's a NSA shill.
I've always being very skeptical of the whole "rape culture" thing, the switch rape and all that. Always figured it was people aspiring to some kind of heroic role in a society that has no real issues left. But the more I see the posts here about Applebaum and Assange, the more I'm questioning my own assumptions about how civilized we are.
What do you imagine would have happened had she won?
More stuff would have been stolen from the White House. More people would have bought a presidential pardon. More women would have been raped then would have had their dogs killed to scare them into withdrawing their complaints.
I don't think you understand what it means to be "rewarded". They didn't find him a cushy job, he had to go in business for himself after being kicked out from the White House for doing their dirty work.
You can bet that if she hired him again five years later it wasn't a reward. Just like it wasn't a reward when Obama got back in touch with Oprah to have her support for his reelection after having ignored her for his entire first term (and surprisingly she took a pass).
Can you name one disgraced supporter of the Clintons that has been rewarded (other than by being found dead in his office?).
That's not how the Democrats do politics. Look at how Obama treated Oprah *after* his election.
Meanwhile Wolfowitz got caught with his hand in the cookie jar and what happened? His old friends found him another gravy train to ride.
Trump has made it clear on several occasions that
1) he admires Vladimir Putin
2) he wants a closer working relationship between the US and Russia
3) he thinks NATO is a "bad deal" for the USA, and
4) he might disregard the key part of the NATO covenant pledging assistance to a member that has been attacked by an external foe, i.e. the Baltic States by Russia
So what you are saying, basically, is that Trump's foreign policy make more sense than Clinton's?