Eternal September.
You do realize that, at this point, MOST people using the internet have essentially no idea how ANY of this actually works, and couldn't figure out how to do script blocking even if you made them watch 4 hours of youtube videos explaining and demonstrating how to accomplish it?
The man has a point, which is, for the average user, none of the shit that has been shoehorned into, glued onto, and kludged under damn near every website on the net is actually useful, and generally actually detracts from the usability of the site.
The 3 R’s. There is a reason recycle is third in reuse, repurpose, recycle. Just disposing of so much is stupid, when much if it can be used still, abet for other things than originally intended.
The worst part is probably that they even used Getty images at all, its not like there are NO USPS employees in NYC that could have been sent to take a picture of the statue. Hell, even if they had given someone a paid day off to go charter a ride out and get a good picture, it probably would have been cheeper than the initial licensing of the Getty pic, and orders of magnitude cheeper than this settlement.
I hate plastic. The feel of it, the look of it, how quickly it breaks down with use. I've been slowly and surely eliminating plastic wares from my life for years. Moving to metal mixing bowls, glass bowls for storing things instead of tupperware, saving and re-using glass jars for storage instead of ziplock bags. I have a stainless steel milkshake cup I use for most of my beverages, instead of the typical american giant plastic cup with a sports team name on it. You know, simple changes.
The main thing that spurred all this was probably a mixing bowl.
I had a set of white plastic mixing bowls, and at some point I had to store some tomato based pasta sauce in one, after which, no matter how much I washed it, it was forever tinted orange. It just looked gross, and sparked the realization that; if the damn plastic bowl was so porous as to be permanently stained by tomato sauce, what the hell else might it have soaked up, and/or leached out of it?
After that, whenever I get a chance, I buy a stainless steel or glass version. Sure, costs more and will take longer to acquire some items, but I figure its worth it.
It all reminds me of the humorous observation:
At what point, did drilling an oil well in the middle east, pumping out that oil, putting the oil on a ship, sail that oil filled ship across the ocean, unloading the oil in America, piping it to a refinery, refining it into some form of plastic, trucking that plastic to a factory, forming that plastic into an object, boxing that object up, putting that box into another truck and trucking it to a warehouse, then from the warehouse to a store, from the store to your house, to be opened, used once, and then thrown away, ALL BECOME EASYER THAN WASHING THE FUCKING FORK.
I decided to get a pick kit and a clear training lock a while back, mostly for kicks. and had that damn thing open in about 5 minutes after it arrived. So i closed the lock, closed my eyes, and tried again. Open. Then I pickex opened all my other padlocks i own. Lesson? Cheep locks are junk.
Here in americastan you just dial a phone number thats on a sticker on the card, give the computer a few identifying pieces of information about yourself and your card, and it activates. PIN being optional because we're twits.
Was it not just last week we had reports of new chip cards being intercepted in the mail, having their chip pulled off and replaced with the chip from a dummy card, the real chip put onto the dummy card, and then the modified card placed back in the mail, so that the customer receives their card and activates it, thus enabling the thieves to use their dummy card with the real chip on it, leaving the customer up a creek with their useless card, and charges they did not make?
True, and with no way to check if facebook has a shadow profile for you, its impossible to tell what they do and don't have.
From what I can tell, beyond keeping a mild lookout for people taking pictures at parties and trying to stay out of frame, (to avoid being tagged in their pictures) there is not much you can do to minimize or prevent the existence of a shadow profile. I suppose if you're lucky, and never gotten a picture of you tagged, you can keep your actual image out of the data they have on you. So they mostly only have what they can infer from other peoples posts that mention you, and what they scrape from websites with their ubiquitous "Like" button; and who knows what all that thing scoops up.
Honestly, the idea of shadow profiles of me existing on sites i've never used bugs the hell out of me when I think about it much, but alas, probably only the most isolated members of humanity are safe from them; aka never interacting with anyone who might take a picture of you. Hell, there are probably shadow profiles of amish people at this point.
I have no idea. There have been a number of websites and services that I've actually just ignored or found alternatives to over the years because they all hump facebook's leg by using facebook login as their only form of user registration.
I remember when facebook was young, and all my friends and family where signing up, and I actually visited the "Make an account" page, and had this weird unsettling sinking feeling, said to myself "I do not want or need this bullshit." and closed the page, and never looked back.
Based on the recent news cycles, I think I made the right choice.
I think their point is that it was mainly human hosted parasites, not animal hosted ones. Fleas and lice moving from infected humans to healthy humans in crowded conditions, shared beds, etc. Rather than fleas moving from (infected) humans, down to rats, then rats transmitting to other rats, to fleas, then back somehow to healthy humans.
It is shortening the transmission cycle by 2-3 hosts, which is borne out by the speed at which the disease spread.
Besides, humans are not generally happy with co-habbiting with rats, and endeavor to prevent/reduce their presence, as such, the window for human/rat flea transfer is probably minimal at best. Human to Human flea/lice transfer on the other hand, is pretty freaking easy.
Here are a few of the things your grandfather didn't have/pay for:
Netflix, hulu, amazon prime, spotify, smartphone with monthly 100$+ bill, high speed internet, kickstarter, patreon, youtube red, pay-to-win videogames, microtransactions, and a plethora of other 'subscription model' services our generation cant seem to avoid/do without. The fact we have easy access to travel makes spending a couple hundred flying across counrty a few times abyear seem ok instead of limiting travel and saving that money. Our generation eats out more, makes "quick trips to walmart' and spawned the entire concept of 'haul videos' where people just show off the crap they buy at the mall. We simplified wasting money, and aren't noticing until its to late.
I've looked at my figures, and probably half of what i spend is on services that qualify as "entertainment" or "Dining", and I consider myself to be fairly reserved in these areas compared to many of my peers and friends.
Sure, there are outliers who use a flip phone, and avoid all this, but many of us are suckling at the subscription teat.
Worse, a video for every article, generally with auto-play. And usually all the video consists of is some talking head reciting the article more or less verbatim, with no added information, just a waste of bandwidth.
I expect is something along the lines of "Happy Tree Friends" and "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared", which on the surface and at the beginning of each video seem like some sort of Kid show, only to turn dark and weird in the third act, are slipping through the filter.
Of course, its probably a physical electrical problem, but my first thought was that someone who kinda hates him found a deep dark backend setting and just programmed his laptop to do two spaces just to fuck with him.
That joke was made in an InkTank comic, character called it 'board chow'. Inltank seems to be offline now, and the joke may have been done by others...
Same situation applies to internet connectivity. I live in a smallish (6000) town, and about once a year, some knucklehead will dig without calling and cut the main fiber line, knocking at least half the county offline. At which point, all businesses become cash only, resulting in an embarrassing number of angry people blaming retailers for 'not having a backup' (to a main trunk line?). Hilariously, a few atm's in town won't even work in this situation, because the apparently phone home to confirm transactions. About a business day later, its fixed, but it sure is an uncomfortable reminder how dependent we've become on electronic money.
Its a huge materials science issue. Hell, they had to design an entire special system to be careful to not shake the ISS apart when riding the stationary exercise bike on board. To build a craft that could stand up to the sheer forces of spinning it up to even partial ( >1G) will reqire incredibly strong materials, which probably means prohibative costs and weights. Until you can print space station size carbon nanotube structures in orbit, aka, buzzword salad, spin-gravity is probably a dream.
While impressive, these things more resemble aerodynamically shrouded electric tricycles than they do conventional automobiles. Not for the claustrophobic, the driver is practically wearing the vehicle more than riding in it. While, they do show the advancements in materials science and solar technology, The vast improvements in times probably has more to do with the vehicles getting much lighter, probably via carbon fiber and lithium batteries these days, vs much heavier materials 31 years ago, which probably has more effect on the range and speed than the power generation getting much better.
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Eternal September.
You do realize that, at this point, MOST people using the internet have essentially no idea how ANY of this actually works, and couldn't figure out how to do script blocking even if you made them watch 4 hours of youtube videos explaining and demonstrating how to accomplish it?
The man has a point, which is, for the average user, none of the shit that has been shoehorned into, glued onto, and kludged under damn near every website on the net is actually useful, and generally actually detracts from the usability of the site.
I was wondering the same thing. How the hell do you go negative in the first month?
The 3 R’s. There is a reason recycle is third in reuse, repurpose, recycle. Just disposing of so much is stupid, when much if it can be used still, abet for other things than originally intended.
The worst part is probably that they even used Getty images at all, its not like there are NO USPS employees in NYC that could have been sent to take a picture of the statue. Hell, even if they had given someone a paid day off to go charter a ride out and get a good picture, it probably would have been cheeper than the initial licensing of the Getty pic, and orders of magnitude cheeper than this settlement.
I would not say it is totally commonplace, but It does happen. Sadly, more in lower income households than elsewhere.
I hate plastic. The feel of it, the look of it, how quickly it breaks down with use. I've been slowly and surely eliminating plastic wares from my life for years. Moving to metal mixing bowls, glass bowls for storing things instead of tupperware, saving and re-using glass jars for storage instead of ziplock bags. I have a stainless steel milkshake cup I use for most of my beverages, instead of the typical american giant plastic cup with a sports team name on it. You know, simple changes.
The main thing that spurred all this was probably a mixing bowl.
I had a set of white plastic mixing bowls, and at some point I had to store some tomato based pasta sauce in one, after which, no matter how much I washed it, it was forever tinted orange. It just looked gross, and sparked the realization that; if the damn plastic bowl was so porous as to be permanently stained by tomato sauce, what the hell else might it have soaked up, and/or leached out of it?
After that, whenever I get a chance, I buy a stainless steel or glass version. Sure, costs more and will take longer to acquire some items, but I figure its worth it.
It all reminds me of the humorous observation:
At what point, did drilling an oil well in the middle east, pumping out that oil, putting the oil on a ship, sail that oil filled ship across the ocean, unloading the oil in America, piping it to a refinery, refining it into some form of plastic, trucking that plastic to a factory, forming that plastic into an object, boxing that object up, putting that box into another truck and trucking it to a warehouse, then from the warehouse to a store, from the store to your house, to be opened, used once, and then thrown away, ALL BECOME EASYER THAN WASHING THE FUCKING FORK.
I decided to get a pick kit and a clear training lock a while back, mostly for kicks. and had that damn thing open in about 5 minutes after it arrived. So i closed the lock, closed my eyes, and tried again. Open. Then I pickex opened all my other padlocks i own. Lesson? Cheep locks are junk.
Yeah, our phone activation system is extremely convenient for both the customers and the thieves.
Here in americastan you just dial a phone number thats on a sticker on the card, give the computer a few identifying pieces of information about yourself and your card, and it activates. PIN being optional because we're twits.
Was it not just last week we had reports of new chip cards being intercepted in the mail, having their chip pulled off and replaced with the chip from a dummy card, the real chip put onto the dummy card, and then the modified card placed back in the mail, so that the customer receives their card and activates it, thus enabling the thieves to use their dummy card with the real chip on it, leaving the customer up a creek with their useless card, and charges they did not make?
True, and with no way to check if facebook has a shadow profile for you, its impossible to tell what they do and don't have. From what I can tell, beyond keeping a mild lookout for people taking pictures at parties and trying to stay out of frame, (to avoid being tagged in their pictures) there is not much you can do to minimize or prevent the existence of a shadow profile. I suppose if you're lucky, and never gotten a picture of you tagged, you can keep your actual image out of the data they have on you. So they mostly only have what they can infer from other peoples posts that mention you, and what they scrape from websites with their ubiquitous "Like" button; and who knows what all that thing scoops up.
Honestly, the idea of shadow profiles of me existing on sites i've never used bugs the hell out of me when I think about it much, but alas, probably only the most isolated members of humanity are safe from them; aka never interacting with anyone who might take a picture of you. Hell, there are probably shadow profiles of amish people at this point.
I have no idea. There have been a number of websites and services that I've actually just ignored or found alternatives to over the years because they all hump facebook's leg by using facebook login as their only form of user registration.
I remember when facebook was young, and all my friends and family where signing up, and I actually visited the "Make an account" page, and had this weird unsettling sinking feeling, said to myself "I do not want or need this bullshit." and closed the page, and never looked back.
Based on the recent news cycles, I think I made the right choice.
Now that would be a hell of a vantage point for the whole ordeal.
I think their point is that it was mainly human hosted parasites, not animal hosted ones. Fleas and lice moving from infected humans to healthy humans in crowded conditions, shared beds, etc. Rather than fleas moving from (infected) humans, down to rats, then rats transmitting to other rats, to fleas, then back somehow to healthy humans.
It is shortening the transmission cycle by 2-3 hosts, which is borne out by the speed at which the disease spread. Besides, humans are not generally happy with co-habbiting with rats, and endeavor to prevent/reduce their presence, as such, the window for human/rat flea transfer is probably minimal at best. Human to Human flea/lice transfer on the other hand, is pretty freaking easy.
Here are a few of the things your grandfather didn't have/pay for:
Netflix, hulu, amazon prime, spotify, smartphone with monthly 100$+ bill, high speed internet, kickstarter, patreon, youtube red, pay-to-win videogames, microtransactions, and a plethora of other 'subscription model' services our generation cant seem to avoid/do without. The fact we have easy access to travel makes spending a couple hundred flying across counrty a few times abyear seem ok instead of limiting travel and saving that money. Our generation eats out more, makes "quick trips to walmart' and spawned the entire concept of 'haul videos' where people just show off the crap they buy at the mall. We simplified wasting money, and aren't noticing until its to late.
I've looked at my figures, and probably half of what i spend is on services that qualify as "entertainment" or "Dining", and I consider myself to be fairly reserved in these areas compared to many of my peers and friends.
Sure, there are outliers who use a flip phone, and avoid all this, but many of us are suckling at the subscription teat.
Show of hands, who here is not surprised?
Worse, a video for every article, generally with auto-play. And usually all the video consists of is some talking head reciting the article more or less verbatim, with no added information, just a waste of bandwidth.
I expect is something along the lines of "Happy Tree Friends" and "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared", which on the surface and at the beginning of each video seem like some sort of Kid show, only to turn dark and weird in the third act, are slipping through the filter.
Of course, its probably a physical electrical problem, but my first thought was that someone who kinda hates him found a deep dark backend setting and just programmed his laptop to do two spaces just to fuck with him.
That joke was made in an InkTank comic, character called it 'board chow'. Inltank seems to be offline now, and the joke may have been done by others...
a few atm's in town won't even work in this situation, because the apparently phone home to confirm transactions.
Wow--you know of some ATM's that don't have to communicate with the bank before they dispense money? Where can I find one of those?
Really small local banks with on site atms
Same situation applies to internet connectivity. I live in a smallish (6000) town, and about once a year, some knucklehead will dig without calling and cut the main fiber line, knocking at least half the county offline. At which point, all businesses become cash only, resulting in an embarrassing number of angry people blaming retailers for 'not having a backup' (to a main trunk line?). Hilariously, a few atm's in town won't even work in this situation, because the apparently phone home to confirm transactions. About a business day later, its fixed, but it sure is an uncomfortable reminder how dependent we've become on electronic money.
Its a huge materials science issue. Hell, they had to design an entire special system to be careful to not shake the ISS apart when riding the stationary exercise bike on board. To build a craft that could stand up to the sheer forces of spinning it up to even partial ( >1G) will reqire incredibly strong materials, which probably means prohibative costs and weights. Until you can print space station size carbon nanotube structures in orbit, aka, buzzword salad, spin-gravity is probably a dream.
While impressive, these things more resemble aerodynamically shrouded electric tricycles than they do conventional automobiles. Not for the claustrophobic, the driver is practically wearing the vehicle more than riding in it. While, they do show the advancements in materials science and solar technology, The vast improvements in times probably has more to do with the vehicles getting much lighter, probably via carbon fiber and lithium batteries these days, vs much heavier materials 31 years ago, which probably has more effect on the range and speed than the power generation getting much better.
Who the hell do they thonk is ever going to trust equifax again after this fiasco?