Yeah, I occasionally have the misfortune to catch an hour or so of "Tee Vee" in some public location, and am always blown away by how much advertising there is. As well as by how idiotic most of that advertising is. After some 15 years of exclusively watching online, ad-free content, it's like being teleported into some horrible alternate dimension.
Hell, it's even worse than using a browser on someone else's computer and finding out they didn't install AdBlock.
That's about the most intelligent summary of the situation that I've seen thusfar. Of course, the fact that Comcast abused their position in no way suggests that we need to hand the government a ready-made tool for draconian censorship. It's a bit like jumping out of the frying pan and into a roaring volcano.
That's... not overdraft protection. I don't know WTF that is. Might be a feature called "please merge all of my accounts and don't tell me about it". I dunno what it is because nobody ever told me about it, but I do know what overdraft protection is, and that's not it.
Overdraft protection just allows your account to go into the negative. So if I have $100 in the account, and $1,000 worth of overdraft protection, then the thief could withdraw $1,100 and I would owe the bank $1,000. It's basically like having a really crappy credit card as backup for your chequing account. It does not pull anything from any other accounts, it just puts your balance in the negative.
Oh you CAN crate laws for all kinds of reasons, but you SHOULD only create laws for really good ones. As in not just because someone somewhere came up a with a hypothetical thing that might some day be a problem.
Why would you stand in line? I get my coffee at a drive-through window, along with my breakfast. Saves me 20 minutes easy. Sure I could save $4 by making my own breakfast and coffee before I leave the house, but those extra 20 minutes of sleep are worth a lot more to me.
Do those price estimates factor in the cost of having metric buttloads of fossil fuel powered generators sitting around waiting for when the wind stops blowing?
There's no Nobel Prize for economics. Go look it up.
I did, and you're wrong. While Alfred Nobel himself did not fund a prize in economics, the Nobel Foundation recognises it as a legitimate Nobel Prize, and candidates go through the same selection criteria and are assessed by a legitimate scientific institution.
I would love to see you trying to educate an Afghan elder in some isolated mountain village about how to use his brand new MasterCard. Should be good for weeks of entertainment!
Alright, I was over generalising; I HAVE done web development, and yes, there are times when (properly done) JS is useful and actually adds value either in terms of user experience or efficiency.
However, I also run NoScript in Firefox because the overwhelming majority of JS code out there adds nothing but bloat and constant tracking. Unfortunately, unlike the sites which I developed, many modern sites end up being unusuable or severely crippled without JavaScript enabled, which is a constant source of annoyance for me.
I guess the tl;dr version of that is that JavaScript in the browser is a sometimes useful tool which has caused far more harm than good. At this point I would gladly give up the little utility it provides in order to get rid of all the crap that comes with it.
Having an application platform that isn't controlled by a single vendor, has no gatekeeper, and can run on any device --- and actually has a huge number of apps --- is incredibly important. The Web is that.
Um, yeah, the WEB is that. The web is not your browser.
Applications run server side and the output displays in your browser. There's absolutely no good reason to be writing the goddamn application to actually execute in your browser.
I find VoIP.ms to be better than google voice in most cases anyway. GV seems to be using a pretty inefficient codec, so while the call quality may be just fine over WiFi or a good LTE connection, it starts to die pretty quickly as your signal degrades. Over 3G it's pretty choppy even with a good signal.
Meanwhile VoIP.ms let's you pick from several different codecs. I find g729 work quite well even on a shitty 3G connection.
They also let you do wonderful things like set up IVRs to block out spam calls. I haven't had to listen to a single telemarketer in well over a year now.
I started off with Google Voice, but these days it's just a backup in case something goes wrong with my VoIP.ms account.
In part, I think because it shows without any doubt that one is capable of sticking through something that may be difficult, or sometimes even unpleasant, to achieve a goal.
If that's the primary criteria then they should forget about hiring college grads and start hiring prostitutes.
Why is that a bad thing? Throughout history starving artists have produced far better art than well-fed artists.
Is that actually true? Or is it just that, given the highly subjective nature of art, people tend to assign more emotional value to "art" that has a sob-story behind it?
No it won't. At 17 years old, a HS senior is way to naive and oblivious to make the connection. They need better guidance, from either their parents or their high schools,... or maybe their loan officers.
Funny... at 17, I thought my friends were a bunch of morons for planning to go to college without any clue of what they wanted to do. I never did figure out what I actually needed a degree in, so I never went. I didn't even need to see starving artists in the streets; it just seemed like common sense that, if you don't have a realistic career in mind, it's best not to waste 4 years of your life and pay tens of thousands of dollars for it.
And, because they agreed everything is kosher, right?
Yes.
Who cares about the rule of law?
Judging by what I see on the highway every day, nobody.
This logic also justifies things like indentured servitude and selling oneself into chattel slavery. Or, prostitution.
Sure, what's wrong with that? To quote the late great Geroge Carlin... Selling is legal. Fucking is legal. Why isn't selling fucking legal?
There are a whole class of contracts we prevent between two consenting adults in order to protect a larger interest.
The "larger interest" usually being the feelings of hand-wringing holier-than-thou dipshits. You can thank them for wonderful ideas like the prohibition, banning pornography, the war on drugs, etc, et al. Hell, even banning gay marriage - and, much earlier, interracial marriage - was an attempt by morons to "protect a larger interest".
Windows 10 does fine. Everything works. I have no reason to use Linux. I went from Linux all the time, to dual-booting Linux just in case I needed it, to Windows all the time in 10 years.
Funny thing... if you swap the words "windows" and "Linux", the above statement would perfectly reflect my experience over the last 10 years.
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Interesting. Thanks, I was quite confused about what point he was trying to make.
Yeah, I occasionally have the misfortune to catch an hour or so of "Tee Vee" in some public location, and am always blown away by how much advertising there is. As well as by how idiotic most of that advertising is. After some 15 years of exclusively watching online, ad-free content, it's like being teleported into some horrible alternate dimension.
Hell, it's even worse than using a browser on someone else's computer and finding out they didn't install AdBlock.
I don't know how people can stand it ...
$10 an hour? Heh. Yeah, if that were my salary I would probably be making coffee by pouring cold water over the grinds which my neighbour threw out.
That's about the most intelligent summary of the situation that I've seen thusfar. Of course, the fact that Comcast abused their position in no way suggests that we need to hand the government a ready-made tool for draconian censorship. It's a bit like jumping out of the frying pan and into a roaring volcano.
That's ... not overdraft protection. I don't know WTF that is. Might be a feature called "please merge all of my accounts and don't tell me about it". I dunno what it is because nobody ever told me about it, but I do know what overdraft protection is, and that's not it.
Overdraft protection just allows your account to go into the negative. So if I have $100 in the account, and $1,000 worth of overdraft protection, then the thief could withdraw $1,100 and I would owe the bank $1,000. It's basically like having a really crappy credit card as backup for your chequing account. It does not pull anything from any other accounts, it just puts your balance in the negative.
Isn't that what they're doing now, by taking it away from the FCC?
Oh you CAN crate laws for all kinds of reasons, but you SHOULD only create laws for really good ones. As in not just because someone somewhere came up a with a hypothetical thing that might some day be a problem.
Why would you stand in line? I get my coffee at a drive-through window, along with my breakfast. Saves me 20 minutes easy. Sure I could save $4 by making my own breakfast and coffee before I leave the house, but those extra 20 minutes of sleep are worth a lot more to me.
Do those price estimates factor in the cost of having metric buttloads of fossil fuel powered generators sitting around waiting for when the wind stops blowing?
There's no Nobel Prize for economics. Go look it up.
I did, and you're wrong. While Alfred Nobel himself did not fund a prize in economics, the Nobel Foundation recognises it as a legitimate Nobel Prize, and candidates go through the same selection criteria and are assessed by a legitimate scientific institution.
I would love to see you trying to educate an Afghan elder in some isolated mountain village about how to use his brand new MasterCard. Should be good for weeks of entertainment!
Alright, I was over generalising; I HAVE done web development, and yes, there are times when (properly done) JS is useful and actually adds value either in terms of user experience or efficiency.
However, I also run NoScript in Firefox because the overwhelming majority of JS code out there adds nothing but bloat and constant tracking. Unfortunately, unlike the sites which I developed, many modern sites end up being unusuable or severely crippled without JavaScript enabled, which is a constant source of annoyance for me.
I guess the tl;dr version of that is that JavaScript in the browser is a sometimes useful tool which has caused far more harm than good. At this point I would gladly give up the little utility it provides in order to get rid of all the crap that comes with it.
JavaScript.
Efficient.
Pick one.
Having an application platform that isn't controlled by a single vendor, has no gatekeeper, and can run on any device --- and actually has a huge number of apps --- is incredibly important. The Web is that.
Um, yeah, the WEB is that. The web is not your browser.
Applications run server side and the output displays in your browser. There's absolutely no good reason to be writing the goddamn application to actually execute in your browser.
I find VoIP.ms to be better than google voice in most cases anyway. GV seems to be using a pretty inefficient codec, so while the call quality may be just fine over WiFi or a good LTE connection, it starts to die pretty quickly as your signal degrades. Over 3G it's pretty choppy even with a good signal.
Meanwhile VoIP.ms let's you pick from several different codecs. I find g729 work quite well even on a shitty 3G connection.
They also let you do wonderful things like set up IVRs to block out spam calls. I haven't had to listen to a single telemarketer in well over a year now.
I started off with Google Voice, but these days it's just a backup in case something goes wrong with my VoIP.ms account.
That's cute, but the sunspot cycle is the first thing everyone looked at. Sorry, no match.
Since when did you have to be "an experienced electrician" to know that Mylar blocks a device's GPS radio?
It doesn't. Mylar is just plastic. Won't do a damn thing to your GPS radio. It's the metallic film which blocks the GPS signal, not the mylar.
In part, I think because it shows without any doubt that one is capable of sticking through something that may be difficult, or sometimes even unpleasant, to achieve a goal.
If that's the primary criteria then they should forget about hiring college grads and start hiring prostitutes.
Why is that a bad thing? Throughout history starving artists have produced far better art than well-fed artists.
Is that actually true? Or is it just that, given the highly subjective nature of art, people tend to assign more emotional value to "art" that has a sob-story behind it?
No it won't. At 17 years old, a HS senior is way to naive and oblivious to make the connection. They need better guidance, from either their parents or their high schools, ... or maybe their loan officers.
Funny ... at 17, I thought my friends were a bunch of morons for planning to go to college without any clue of what they wanted to do. I never did figure out what I actually needed a degree in, so I never went. I didn't even need to see starving artists in the streets; it just seemed like common sense that, if you don't have a realistic career in mind, it's best not to waste 4 years of your life and pay tens of thousands of dollars for it.
And, because they agreed everything is kosher, right?
Yes.
Who cares about the rule of law?
Judging by what I see on the highway every day, nobody.
This logic also justifies things like indentured servitude and selling oneself into chattel slavery. Or, prostitution.
Sure, what's wrong with that? To quote the late great Geroge Carlin ... Selling is legal. Fucking is legal. Why isn't selling fucking legal?
There are a whole class of contracts we prevent between two consenting adults in order to protect a larger interest.
The "larger interest" usually being the feelings of hand-wringing holier-than-thou dipshits. You can thank them for wonderful ideas like the prohibition, banning pornography, the war on drugs, etc, et al. Hell, even banning gay marriage - and, much earlier, interracial marriage - was an attempt by morons to "protect a larger interest".
No thanks. I say live and let live.
Also, nice dog whistle.
Thanks! Nice tits.
I think your idea of "porn" is stuck in the 80s. You think can girls and couples putting on live shows for fans care about copyright?
Getting rid of copyright laws wouldn't do a damn thing towards eliminating porn; it would just change the landscape slightly.
Windows 10 does fine. Everything works. I have no reason to use Linux. I went from Linux all the time, to dual-booting Linux just in case I needed it, to Windows all the time in 10 years.
Funny thing ... if you swap the words "windows" and "Linux", the above statement would perfectly reflect my experience over the last 10 years.
Oh, so smoking isn't stupid? Cool. Pass me the Marlies, man.
He means well, but this is a US problem and he's the Canadian Prime Minister ... no jurisdiction.
"Means well but mostly ineffective" could be the title of his autobiography.