Yeah, its perplexing, especially since M$ should have caught on by now. You're observation about LinkedIn vs. f*ckbook is definitely their motivation, it seems to me. I use LinkedIn, slightly, but I disabled my Facebook account long ago, and I was an early adopter. Also, the validity of the identities and corresponding associations with another verifiable human beings seem more reliable on LinkedIn overall. And maybe having a big database of valid data means something to a company full of fake and duplicate Hotmail, msn, live, etc. accounts. I have so many alias identities with M$ because I never trusted them with any of it, especially when I wasn't paying for any of their software unless it was work related, and not on my dime. And maybe there's the rub...work related software; thats the stuff they want to be sure is being paid for, and LinkedIn is a reliable place to baseline some of that info. I dunno, I'm just guessing here, and its a multifaceted decision to be sure, but transactions this obscene obviously have considerations that are way out of my league to fully appreciate in this world of non-disclosure and government tax loopholes. It may take decades before we ever get the truth about mergers like these...
Exactly. That's approximately $80 for every American. Clearly, the value of money and the way it is dispersed in transactions like this is very questionable. WTF is really going on here? Are the tax laws so obtuse that transactions like this, which make no sense at all, become good business practice? I mean think about it, in the first place being able to amass that much cash, and then once it is all piled up, spending it in this way. It makes no damn sense, except in some convoluted macroeconomic way of avoiding taxation or being able to write off huge losses while at the same time eliminating any competition. In any case, its not particularly good for the market, and its an obscene amount of money to piss around on.... what exactly?..... a mediocre customer base?
Something very fishy is going on, no doubt about it. They didn't get this rich by being this stupid.
You may be onto something: This is how Microsoft intends to motivate its customers from desktop to their improved os+cloud. I wonder when the clouds part for that re-genesis...
What are you actually advocating here? Abolishing subsidies, i.e. welfare? Making cheap hamburgers illegal? Raising corporate taxes? Pitchfork-wielding mobs?
None of the above. I think the capitalism is what it is and cannot be expected to do anything more than it already is, which clearly is not enough for the majority of human beings on this planet. So we must face this truth, accept this reality, and begin to do something to improve the situation without going into conflict or class warfare. We must not waste any effort on a tug of war or robbing Peter to pay Paul. This is a dilemma that in many ways resembles "musical chairs" just like we played in nursery school. Only now, I propose that we stop removing chairs every time the music starts up again. Rules like that only lead to war. Lets agree on steps that we can take as a society, not just an economy, and try to all agree on ground rules that do not aggravate an already difficult situation. Lets all stop beating each other up and just work on doing things that help the situation, not hurt more people. Remember, in nature, life has existed for billions of years without minimum wage, welfare, or capital. Money problems are rarely solved with money...at least not for very long. My idea is that we start by giving people permission to be exactly where they are right now, whether they be rich or poor, productive or not, employed or unemployable and stop blaming people for their own suffering. Nobody prefers to be suffering, poor, down trodden, etc. so if you can't help out then zip it up. People need to be treated as equally entitled to pursue happiness and fulfillment even if they cannot manage to create opportunity. Lets stop the abusive defensiveness because it will only lead to a reign of terror. Its not necessary to chop off any heads if we agree to work on solutions that don't include throwing half the people off of this ship of fools.
Do the math people: 7 Billion people, 1 billion jobs, most of those are not for profit government jobs, and all of them are expected to be paying a pension without the possibility of interest being paid on low risk savings accounts. Do the freaking math. Capitalism in no way is designed to solve this situation for humanity. This does not mean that we must replace capitalism, we just must accept the truth about this reality and start to take care of human beings - without expecting them to cough up a lot of dollars that don't exist. Lets get real, and stop beating each other up because there ain't enough money to go around.....there never was and never will be. But that doesn't mean that we can't live happily together in this reality. We decide when its time we evolve beyond an addiction to funny money and loaded dice.
That's my two cents. Now I'm down to zero cents.
But I can do a great deal to help the situation, even if I'm broke. People are worth more than money, especially at times when nobody is hiring. If you wanna win, then measure success with something in abundance. If homelessness was treated like a valuable resource instead of a symbol of our fear, guilt, and failure, then perhaps it wouldn't hurt us all so much. Give people a break and stop blaming. It just doesn't help one bit, so its better to stay out of the way if you can't do something that helps. Nobody needs to blame you either for being self sufficient. It's not your fault either. It goes both ways. Lets be on the same team, from the very start and not waste any time or energy on disputes.
Easier said than done, but that's what I think. That's where we begin.
It looks just like your computers, apparatus, cellular, and peripheral electronic devices. Microsoft even brands apparatus that is completely indistinguishable from authentic input devices resembling the form and function of "actual" keyboards, mice, game consoles, and even smart phones and mp3 players. Holy crap, next thing we'll find out is they manufacture it all in China, like traditional American corporate profitability. Its way cheaper to have it built by a highly skilled low cost labor force subsidized by foreign interests financed by the very dollars sheltered from domestic labor costs (but never domestic spending) that remains offshore hidden in corporate shells and other tax havens that never disclose the extent of slush funds and laundered money operations that are the real backbone of economic prosperity, whatever secret hole it slithers away to hide inside, far, far, away from equality, accountability, fairness, honestly, transparency, or justice that we demand from everyone but ourselves.
When information is shared instead of hoarded by those shackled by intellectual property laws, non disclosure agreements, etc. then we may find cures. This might be because the cure is not in the best interest of some folks in this business. It won't surprise me one bit if major breakthroughs that have eluded big pharma for years are just around the corner - and might cost them their big earnings on chronic, incurable, lifelong illness.
I agree, but we might need to find a better verb than "trump".
As for economics, laying of 12,000 people really sucks when its so easy to low ball the next graduating class and quietly hire others, as needed. Its a human resource style that interchanges employees as if they were silicon chips and not carbon based life forms.
So they pick up the yellow pages and call "Hackers R Us" and hire a million dollar zero day exploit for an Apple 5c so they can find any information not already captured in the telco's network traffic. What a load of crap. Nothing about this story, the preposterous claim of the value of `anything on an iphone that is not already a matter of record in telecommunication logs sounds like complete baloney. I don't believe a word of what these liars are saying. Not a word of it. If they really believe there is anything of value on a cell phone that does not involve actual network transmission then I would like to know what that is. Lets be clear here - if its on an encrypted iPhone, and it never involved a network connection or transmission, then why does it even matter? If they really think there is anything more of real value then perhaps they should pursue all of the known connections. Or how about, don't shoot ten thousand bullets into the suspects after you have them completely surrounded by armies of law enforcement. Perhaps if these gun slinging assholes stopped to think about the value of a living terrorist over a dead one we wouldn't be wasting tax payer dollars on their bad learning curve on common sense.
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Yeah, its perplexing, especially since M$ should have caught on by now. You're observation about LinkedIn vs. f*ckbook is definitely their motivation, it seems to me. I use LinkedIn, slightly, but I disabled my Facebook account long ago, and I was an early adopter. Also, the validity of the identities and corresponding associations with another verifiable human beings seem more reliable on LinkedIn overall. And maybe having a big database of valid data means something to a company full of fake and duplicate Hotmail, msn, live, etc. accounts. I have so many alias identities with M$ because I never trusted them with any of it, especially when I wasn't paying for any of their software unless it was work related, and not on my dime. And maybe there's the rub...work related software; thats the stuff they want to be sure is being paid for, and LinkedIn is a reliable place to baseline some of that info. I dunno, I'm just guessing here, and its a multifaceted decision to be sure, but transactions this obscene obviously have considerations that are way out of my league to fully appreciate in this world of non-disclosure and government tax loopholes. It may take decades before we ever get the truth about mergers like these...
Yes, but, is LinkedIn worth 26 billion?
Exactly. That's approximately $80 for every American. Clearly, the value of money and the way it is dispersed in transactions like this is very questionable. WTF is really going on here? Are the tax laws so obtuse that transactions like this, which make no sense at all, become good business practice? I mean think about it, in the first place being able to amass that much cash, and then once it is all piled up, spending it in this way. It makes no damn sense, except in some convoluted macroeconomic way of avoiding taxation or being able to write off huge losses while at the same time eliminating any competition. In any case, its not particularly good for the market, and its an obscene amount of money to piss around on .... what exactly?..... a mediocre customer base?
Something very fishy is going on, no doubt about it. They didn't get this rich by being this stupid.
You may be onto something: This is how Microsoft intends to motivate its customers from desktop to their improved os+cloud. I wonder when the clouds part for that re-genesis...
I will not use Windows 10.
Right. Windows 10 is here to use all of us.
Why would we? Using Emacs is punishment enough.
...I thought that was iMacs
The Donald.
small penis.
The Internet (capital 'I') refers to all of the interconnected internets.
...You mean the one Al Gore invented... ...whoa...I think I just had a flashback...that's really trippy...
In this case, he is a robot.
Robogasms?
What are you actually advocating here? Abolishing subsidies, i.e. welfare? Making cheap hamburgers illegal? Raising corporate taxes? Pitchfork-wielding mobs?
None of the above. I think the capitalism is what it is and cannot be expected to do anything more than it already is, which clearly is not enough for the majority of human beings on this planet. So we must face this truth, accept this reality, and begin to do something to improve the situation without going into conflict or class warfare. We must not waste any effort on a tug of war or robbing Peter to pay Paul. This is a dilemma that in many ways resembles "musical chairs" just like we played in nursery school. Only now, I propose that we stop removing chairs every time the music starts up again. Rules like that only lead to war. Lets agree on steps that we can take as a society, not just an economy, and try to all agree on ground rules that do not aggravate an already difficult situation. Lets all stop beating each other up and just work on doing things that help the situation, not hurt more people. Remember, in nature, life has existed for billions of years without minimum wage, welfare, or capital. Money problems are rarely solved with money...at least not for very long. My idea is that we start by giving people permission to be exactly where they are right now, whether they be rich or poor, productive or not, employed or unemployable and stop blaming people for their own suffering. Nobody prefers to be suffering, poor, down trodden, etc. so if you can't help out then zip it up. People need to be treated as equally entitled to pursue happiness and fulfillment even if they cannot manage to create opportunity. Lets stop the abusive defensiveness because it will only lead to a reign of terror. Its not necessary to chop off any heads if we agree to work on solutions that don't include throwing half the people off of this ship of fools.
Do the math people: 7 Billion people, 1 billion jobs, most of those are not for profit government jobs, and all of them are expected to be paying a pension without the possibility of interest being paid on low risk savings accounts. Do the freaking math. Capitalism in no way is designed to solve this situation for humanity. This does not mean that we must replace capitalism, we just must accept the truth about this reality and start to take care of human beings - without expecting them to cough up a lot of dollars that don't exist. Lets get real, and stop beating each other up because there ain't enough money to go around.....there never was and never will be. But that doesn't mean that we can't live happily together in this reality. We decide when its time we evolve beyond an addiction to funny money and loaded dice.
That's my two cents. Now I'm down to zero cents.
But I can do a great deal to help the situation, even if I'm broke. People are worth more than money, especially at times when nobody is hiring. If you wanna win, then measure success with something in abundance. If homelessness was treated like a valuable resource instead of a symbol of our fear, guilt, and failure, then perhaps it wouldn't hurt us all so much. Give people a break and stop blaming. It just doesn't help one bit, so its better to stay out of the way if you can't do something that helps. Nobody needs to blame you either for being self sufficient. It's not your fault either. It goes both ways. Lets be on the same team, from the very start and not waste any time or energy on disputes.
Easier said than done, but that's what I think. That's where we begin.
So, in other words, the FBI finally figured out how to solve that Apple iPhone problem.
It looks just like your computers, apparatus, cellular, and peripheral electronic devices. Microsoft even brands apparatus that is completely indistinguishable from authentic input devices resembling the form and function of "actual" keyboards, mice, game consoles, and even smart phones and mp3 players. Holy crap, next thing we'll find out is they manufacture it all in China, like traditional American corporate profitability. Its way cheaper to have it built by a highly skilled low cost labor force subsidized by foreign interests financed by the very dollars sheltered from domestic labor costs (but never domestic spending) that remains offshore hidden in corporate shells and other tax havens that never disclose the extent of slush funds and laundered money operations that are the real backbone of economic prosperity, whatever secret hole it slithers away to hide inside, far, far, away from equality, accountability, fairness, honestly, transparency, or justice that we demand from everyone but ourselves.
... I was looking for.
Yes, but at Pornhub they are always interested in finding and exploiting a new "hole"
So, in other words, self driving cars will actually CREATE JOBS, at least in Arizona....
Bang!
13.7 billion years ago.
13.7 Billion years ago.
She is a republican.
When information is shared instead of hoarded by those shackled by intellectual property laws, non disclosure agreements, etc. then we may find cures. This might be because the cure is not in the best interest of some folks in this business. It won't surprise me one bit if major breakthroughs that have eluded big pharma for years are just around the corner - and might cost them their big earnings on chronic, incurable, lifelong illness.
Fear helps to keep military spending a high priority. Now that Windows 10 is free, perhaps fear will encourage spending on MS cyber security.
Or better yet, perhaps spending on their secure cloud service, which would not be free, but always up to date, and "idiot proof".
Hmm.... An interesting marketing approach sure to gain traction with a fearful, if not technically incompetent population.
Ironically, all legislature is encrypted in obfuscated legalize and other deceitful special interest pork pretending to be honest language.
I agree, but we might need to find a better verb than "trump".
As for economics, laying of 12,000 people really sucks when its so easy to low ball the next graduating class and quietly hire others, as needed. Its a human resource style that interchanges employees as if they were silicon chips and not carbon based life forms.
Whomever smelt it dealt it...
What isn't easy is making people take time to look at a manual before complaining about missing features.
And Amazon knows this. That's why we have judges.
Social engineering and "gotchas" are a sleazy way to make a profit.
Amazon has lost most of my business because a judge is required to make them stop it.
They don't care if they rip you off, that's what all of the fine print is trying to justify.
Aren't poking around in a system, and slurping passwords two different things?
Poking and slurping both sound a bit kinky. But snorting passwords is definitely illicit.
.... A cracker also known as a black hat is someone that does this.....
Aren't crackers white?
So they pick up the yellow pages and call "Hackers R Us" and hire a million dollar zero day exploit for an Apple 5c so they can find any information not already captured in the telco's network traffic. What a load of crap. Nothing about this story, the preposterous claim of the value of `anything on an iphone that is not already a matter of record in telecommunication logs sounds like complete baloney. I don't believe a word of what these liars are saying. Not a word of it. If they really believe there is anything of value on a cell phone that does not involve actual network transmission then I would like to know what that is. Lets be clear here - if its on an encrypted iPhone, and it never involved a network connection or transmission, then why does it even matter? If they really think there is anything more of real value then perhaps they should pursue all of the known connections. Or how about, don't shoot ten thousand bullets into the suspects after you have them completely surrounded by armies of law enforcement. Perhaps if these gun slinging assholes stopped to think about the value of a living terrorist over a dead one we wouldn't be wasting tax payer dollars on their bad learning curve on common sense.