Really, it's replaced the Slave Music of the 19th century.
If you've worked enough shit jobs, i.e. in the back of a kitchen somewhere, you know that that same, old, Classic Rock will be playing in the background. You can get laid off today and have to go work that sort of job, and know that the same 'classic rock' you were listening to at a shit job in the back of the kitchen at a resturant will be there for you to wash dishes to today, if you opt for that sort of work.
I'm pretty convinced that 'Classic Rock' saps the soul out of people and makes them complacent enough to put up with about anything.
When you get into your 30's you start to get a clue.
When you are a teenager you don't have said clue, and everything sounds just great.
One of the things you slowly realize as you grow older is that you're not really making any kind of a 'stand' by advocating some sort of music over some other sort.
When you're a teenager, the idea of self-governance never enters your consciousness. It's just those grown ups who don't know YOU are a grownup, imposing their rules on you.
I have one of those LG flip phones showed on that link, not sure which of them, it's one I got for $4.95 at Walgreens. It's not my only 'phone' it's just the only one that I pay for phone time on. My small pocket sized wifi cellular router only costs $45 for 3 GB no matter how long it takes to use that 3 GB (no time span requirement, just however long it takes to use the traffic amount), so I use it alongside a non-activated Android phone for my pocket Internet needs.
Yes, I carry three mobile devices in my pocket. I'm a nerd, not a wanna.
The agencies like the UL (non-governmental) could require the source code in escrow for any devices seeking their 'approval.' Said 'approval' is a checkbox item, like UL approval is, for Insurance companies.
A completely private-enterprise solution that just needs some lawyers involved to implement. Imagine that!
My 2006 Ford Ranger has modern infrastructure where I want it, but none of the new electronic bells-and-whistles. Okay, it does have a horn, but the only non-stripped option is the CD player in the radio. The windows have cranks, the doors open with a key. The key is duplicated for a few dollars. And it's so plain and dull that it's not likely to get stolen because of not having a 'security' electronic keyfob.
It's also black, like all Fords are supposed to be.
I could use a newer refrigerator, our current one was second hand when we bought it thirteen years ago. So if clueless people start selling off their nice refrigerators because they're 'dumb' there will probably be deals to be had.
In my corner of the world, hard-baked optimists don't write unthinking rants anchored on assertions prefaced with "statement of fact". Wits on dial tone predicts no good thing.
Can you post that again, more clearly, and this time using more metaphors?
So web administrators can web administrate their websites better using these web apps?
Can we plug the input into the output and keep them busy forever with this stuff? Even if we have to provide additional computing power to support the positive feedback loop, it sounds like it would burn them up and eliminate them from the gene pool.
I have been using Gmail as my primary email service for about a decade now.
The email app that I really like is called Sylpheed. It's open source and I first started using it when I was running NetBSD on the desktop at home. The thing that's best about it is that it 'nests' discrete emails on some of the listservs that I subscribe to.
Anyway, I had to go into the settings of Sylpheed and enter pop.gmail.com and some other settings to get it to connect to the gmail server, but I've never, ever, used Gmail's web interface except a few times to bitchslap google into not trapping important messages in some sort of 'spam' filter.
Get that: the biggest ad outfit on the web things they are protecting me from Spam. Wow.
We used to despise advertisers on the Web and the early Internet. There sure are a lot of fuckers who climbed on that bus, unfortunately.
The company I work at recently rolled out a commercial GMail service to replace the old Exchange Servers we used to use. They're very 'progressive' and all that shit.
But they still maintain good old Microsoft Office as their mainstay for document editing and creation. One of the things I recently discovered, however, is that Google Docs is lurking in the shadows, on the system and it works fine. And it doesn't 'respect' the password protection on Excel spreadsheets. It's fairly obvious when you print out a 'Google Docified' form, i.e. a Payroll reporting form we all have to use, that it was edited with Google Docs, so there has been no deception on my part. But it's freed us up from the lockdown that the Excel sheets has been forcing on us, i.e boneheaded requirements from the main office that are plain impossible using the 'locked down' forms can be implemented.
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So you're saying you hope you die before you get old?
You don't want to one day look like this?
'Classic Rock' is slave music.
Really, it's replaced the Slave Music of the 19th century.
If you've worked enough shit jobs, i.e. in the back of a kitchen somewhere, you know that that same, old, Classic Rock will be playing in the background. You can get laid off today and have to go work that sort of job, and know that the same 'classic rock' you were listening to at a shit job in the back of the kitchen at a resturant will be there for you to wash dishes to today, if you opt for that sort of work.
I'm pretty convinced that 'Classic Rock' saps the soul out of people and makes them complacent enough to put up with about anything.
No, dull is someone who doesn't care about quite a few particular kinds of music, and idly threatens to pay a slight amount of attention to it.
Punk died in 1979. But not before killing Heavy Metal.
rap is some of the debris that remains.
Life In Hell was funny.
When you get into your 30's you start to get a clue.
When you are a teenager you don't have said clue, and everything sounds just great.
One of the things you slowly realize as you grow older is that you're not really making any kind of a 'stand' by advocating some sort of music over some other sort.
Also, Sturgeons Law applies very much to music.
"Obama: when I finish sucking Reggie White's dick I will ask Michelle what she called for."
There, another made up quote.
There's no reason to be religious in this modern world.
You're right. We've nearly figured it all out. And when we do, then we can impose our understanding on the rest of humanity.
When you're a teenager, the idea of self-governance never enters your consciousness. It's just those grown ups who don't know YOU are a grownup, imposing their rules on you.
It's fueled by lawyers and the hope of small children. It'll never burn out.
You're attributing too much humanity to the fratboys and sorority girls in college.
Even worse: web developers.
"Now, here is where we just load up the Javascript we've written to get that thing to start a fire...."
Only in the same sense that a Tesla automobile is powered by the magnet field.
Both have chemical batteries driving an electromagnet.
I have one of those LG flip phones showed on that link, not sure which of them, it's one I got for $4.95 at Walgreens. It's not my only 'phone' it's just the only one that I pay for phone time on. My small pocket sized wifi cellular router only costs $45 for 3 GB no matter how long it takes to use that 3 GB (no time span requirement, just however long it takes to use the traffic amount), so I use it alongside a non-activated Android phone for my pocket Internet needs.
Yes, I carry three mobile devices in my pocket. I'm a nerd, not a wanna.
When an 8086 was real money, an 8048 was only a few bucks, so things haven't changed as dramatically as you make it seem.
The agencies like the UL (non-governmental) could require the source code in escrow for any devices seeking their 'approval.' Said 'approval' is a checkbox item, like UL approval is, for Insurance companies.
A completely private-enterprise solution that just needs some lawyers involved to implement. Imagine that!
My 2006 Ford Ranger has modern infrastructure where I want it, but none of the new electronic bells-and-whistles. Okay, it does have a horn, but the only non-stripped option is the CD player in the radio. The windows have cranks, the doors open with a key. The key is duplicated for a few dollars. And it's so plain and dull that it's not likely to get stolen because of not having a 'security' electronic keyfob.
It's also black, like all Fords are supposed to be.
I am more worried about bacterial infestations in my kitchen appliances.
I could use a newer refrigerator, our current one was second hand when we bought it thirteen years ago. So if clueless people start selling off their nice refrigerators because they're 'dumb' there will probably be deals to be had.
That more complicated recipe you sounds like it might be something pretty good to eat.
The second, simpler, recipe sounds like ramen noodles or a Hostess Twinkie.
In my corner of the world, hard-baked optimists don't write unthinking rants anchored on assertions prefaced with "statement of fact". Wits on dial tone predicts no good thing.
Can you post that again, more clearly, and this time using more metaphors?
Some of us enjoy not living in a 'municipality'.
So web administrators can web administrate their websites better using these web apps?
Can we plug the input into the output and keep them busy forever with this stuff? Even if we have to provide additional computing power to support the positive feedback loop, it sounds like it would burn them up and eliminate them from the gene pool.
I have been using Gmail as my primary email service for about a decade now.
The email app that I really like is called Sylpheed. It's open source and I first started using it when I was running NetBSD on the desktop at home. The thing that's best about it is that it 'nests' discrete emails on some of the listservs that I subscribe to.
Anyway, I had to go into the settings of Sylpheed and enter pop.gmail.com and some other settings to get it to connect to the gmail server, but I've never, ever, used Gmail's web interface except a few times to bitchslap google into not trapping important messages in some sort of 'spam' filter.
Get that: the biggest ad outfit on the web things they are protecting me from Spam. Wow.
We used to despise advertisers on the Web and the early Internet. There sure are a lot of fuckers who climbed on that bus, unfortunately.
The company I work at recently rolled out a commercial GMail service to replace the old Exchange Servers we used to use. They're very 'progressive' and all that shit.
But they still maintain good old Microsoft Office as their mainstay for document editing and creation. One of the things I recently discovered, however, is that Google Docs is lurking in the shadows, on the system and it works fine. And it doesn't 'respect' the password protection on Excel spreadsheets. It's fairly obvious when you print out a 'Google Docified' form, i.e. a Payroll reporting form we all have to use, that it was edited with Google Docs, so there has been no deception on my part. But it's freed us up from the lockdown that the Excel sheets has been forcing on us, i.e boneheaded requirements from the main office that are plain impossible using the 'locked down' forms can be implemented.