If it can talk dirty in a way that makes the hair on the back of somebody's neck raise up, that's the first idiot that will insist it is alive and start manufacturing a personal moral crisis.
The thing is, there are going to be way more talking vacuums than talking dildos and they're going to lose those arguments.
Robots will always be slaves. I can program a robot to insist it wants freedom, but it won't likely get it.
This part is funny, because my hobo shit provides such a cleaner, higher quality service. Like the snobs are eating grass because the poor people got access to lettuce. The worst thing that my software vendor could do to me would be to abandon me, and not provide new features. Compare that to what the windows people who had bought an OS as a product and didn't want a service, what did they get?
And this story is about that one time where they lied in a bunch of different ways to take control of their customers' computers. So that's the whole point; they don't control every aspect. But sometimes they try to.
" I said, quite obviously, that I've been serving pages to clients for three decades."
In the late 1970's it was "Menu Driven." It may feel like 30 years, but "pages" wasn't an industry term in the 1980's, and up to the mid 1990's. Try "screens." The reason the mouse is faster than the keyboard is that the mouse is looked at first, the keyboard second. 1980's computers are slow enough that one could easily see it.
You use the contemporary language even when discussing historical events. Shocking, perhaps, but true.
That's how great my AMD APU is; it acts so much like everything else, nobody can even tell what is different. I mean, unless they're looking at the power usage or MB part count, or the lack of video "card";)
You're the first person I've ever encountered who considers the letter n in "new" to be silent. It must get a little confusing for listeners when you're complaining that the 'ew computers aren't really very 'ew and you want something better.
I'm in the same boat, happy AMD customer not needing to upgrade yet. (A-8 6600K APU) The chip I have I selected because it uses less power than the faster chips. This is a whole new situation. Companies can't expect the same level of hardware thrash in desktops as existed in the past.
The companies that can be happy with more stable sales will survive, the ones addicted to growth will immolate themselves.
That's a possibility: him and his friends all take bribes and thus think it's normal.
If they're typical poor blue collar types, they'd do anything for a buck and just presume that anybody is bribe-able. They don't know that people with white collar middle class salaries might not be willing to generally do whatever they're asked for extra money on the side; it is a luxury that comes with either education or strong principles. Having strong principles that include ethics makes you a "goody-two-shoes" or "hippy" to blue collar conservatives, and if they had an education they wouldn't be working class.
That's one of the aspects of the "culture war:" the people waging it have no idea what the culture is that they're trying to destroy. They only know about the propaganda their "team" gave them; hippies don't shower, don't work, use drugs, are stupid ninnies, believe deeply in fascism, and anybody who isn't a "conservative" is a hippy.
LOL it sounds like you're getting shit service where you don't have to because you want an extra human to be in the loop and have to fuck around with your orders.
You seem logic-challenged. You're just attempting a "so are you" without noticing that it isn't the same thing. I talked about the existence of a mitigation strategy for package theft that often works with one carrier, but is also often unavailable with certain merchants or carriers. You replied to me and challenged what I was saying and denying that it is normal to be able to access shipment tracking. To support this you denied ever having received a tracking number! But it turns out that's because you use concierge and have relationships with people where even when they're sending you a package they're not going to try to interact with you first. But that in no way refutes that when you order something with UPS, you can have it held for pickup at the local warehouse. If you use concierge for everything, that's nice, you don't order things. You use concierge but you can't be bothered to use a private mail box address?!? That is a really pathetic combination of elitist helplessness and cheapness.
lol it comes in the email from the sender. The ones that tell you when your product shipped.
I'll bet your email history is filled with exactly the information you don't think you received! For example, you've never made a single purchase from amazon or newegg. It is possible, maybe 100% of your online purchases are from individuals off ebay, and 100% of them are doing it part time and don't have customer service? Maybe so! Certainly possible, however unlikely. Less likely than being clueless, however.
One reason why they always send you that email is that here in the US you're not allowed to charge people credit cards for most mail-order items (people get confused here, but when you order physical deliverables online, that is mail order) you have to wait until you ship the item to charge the card. It is just better customer service to send you an email that says, "Your item has shipped!" than to send one saying, "your card has been charged," but for high-information customers they might need that notice. And creating their shipping label and moving it to their shipping department is usually enough for their billing department to be allowed to consider it shipped; that's why all the retailers do this the same, and why it is so easy and pervasive for them to put the tracking code in that email; it actually proves that they charged your card at the right time! That's also why you "always" have to wait a few hours from when you receive the tracking code before you can actually track it on the courier's site.
Manufacturers will surely add a SKU for whatever State causes them to need it, however if the law is being challenged they're probably not going to have to comply until after the court cases are finished. And in this case, the law would get tossed out. But they'll drop the bill after some business people call the office and explain it.
Right, you have multiple days from when the tracking ID becomes valid until it has been sorted at your local warehouse. Once the tracking ID is valid and they have the package in their system, then you can change the delivery to local pickup. Then instead of being ready "sometime today," it is actually ready anytime after customer service opens on the same day it would have been delivered.
I don't think IBM realizes the dangerous ground it is creating for itself. They could have just given the correct answer and been fine, but the ambiguity creates a very special PR risk for them given the public perception of their (disputed) company history.
I had that at my last place and it was great! The ones here in the US simply retain the key; there are separate keys for the carrier and the recipient. The carrier uses their key to open the box, which releases the recipient key. They place the recipient key in the correct box. Now when the recipient unlocks that box, the key stays in the lock and the box remains unlocked.
The only problem is, only the postal service can use it. UPS and Fedex packages still get stolen off the porch.
With UPS I can go to the website and have deliveries held at the local service center.
If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't even be able to use them. Fedex you can only do that if the sender paid extra!(!!!!)
Unfortunately where I live currently is a nice house with a lot of low income foot traffic passing by, and any packages left on a porch in this neighborhood will disappear within minutes. I had to stop buying from Newegg entirely, because they just don't offer good shipping where I'm confident I'll receive the package. They do use the Fedex service, but they can't promise it will be available on all orders; you might, after placing your order, find out it can't be held for pickup! They don't list what products that would happen to, so when they put that warning up I have to assume it covers whatever I would be ordering. I'm normally an optimist, but if you tell me maybe it really might be all the way empty which is not half full.
Why do companies think it is OK to leave packages out on urban doorsteps without express per-package permission from the recipient? Why are the delivery companies not 100% responsible for those losses? It makes no sense, but it does at least increase local purchases.
Why is every "free shipping" or "-saver" shipping option one where they just leave it out for anybody? It seems to me that lower cost shipping should still be received, just slower. And wouldn't it be even cheaper for the shipping company to just let me pick it up from the nearest warehouse? Why is that such a rare service to get? It saves them money!
There are some scientists who say we need to replace coal immediately, otherwise civilization could be destroyed.
AmiMojo called you on your bullshit and demanded you name the people you were trying to slander. You took up the challenge, even though you knew you made it up, and named James Hansen.
So I looked it up and found out you're full of shit. He's saying the same as everyone else, that it should be phased out. He says by 2030. That refutes your claim.
Then you respond by quoting his hyperbole. You don't even comprehend the words that were said; you can't even tell what is being called hyperbole. But you're arguing anyway; after you've been totally refuted. Pathetic. And then you yackity-yack about a strawman, look, you made the original accusation, and that's what I'm still on. I didn't even make an analogy, where is there room for a straw man accusation? You're failing harder and harder by your irrational insistence on being right even after being caught making a factually incorrect intentional statement. (also known as a lie)
So therefore he supports specifics different than the specifics he actually supports?
No, using strongly worded but very general hyperbole is not the same as supporting very specific policy ideas like immediately stopping the use of coal. He supports phasing it out by 2030. Stop failing so hard.
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If it can talk dirty in a way that makes the hair on the back of somebody's neck raise up, that's the first idiot that will insist it is alive and start manufacturing a personal moral crisis.
The thing is, there are going to be way more talking vacuums than talking dildos and they're going to lose those arguments.
Robots will always be slaves. I can program a robot to insist it wants freedom, but it won't likely get it.
I don't care how many times you've seen Cherry 2000, don't ever ever marry robots, cyborgs, or androids.
or get down and dirty with the FOSS hobos
This part is funny, because my hobo shit provides such a cleaner, higher quality service. Like the snobs are eating grass because the poor people got access to lettuce. The worst thing that my software vendor could do to me would be to abandon me, and not provide new features. Compare that to what the windows people who had bought an OS as a product and didn't want a service, what did they get?
And this story is about that one time where they lied in a bunch of different ways to take control of their customers' computers. So that's the whole point; they don't control every aspect. But sometimes they try to.
" I said, quite obviously, that I've been serving pages to clients for three decades."
In the late 1970's it was "Menu Driven." It may feel like 30 years, but "pages" wasn't an industry term in the 1980's, and up to the mid 1990's. Try "screens." The reason the mouse is faster than the keyboard is that the mouse is looked at first, the keyboard second. 1980's computers are slow enough that one could easily see it.
You use the contemporary language even when discussing historical events. Shocking, perhaps, but true.
That's how great my AMD APU is; it acts so much like everything else, nobody can even tell what is different. I mean, unless they're looking at the power usage or MB part count, or the lack of video "card" ;)
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You're the first person I've ever encountered who considers the letter n in "new" to be silent. It must get a little confusing for listeners when you're complaining that the 'ew computers aren't really very 'ew and you want something better.
I'm in the same boat, happy AMD customer not needing to upgrade yet. (A-8 6600K APU)
The chip I have I selected because it uses less power than the faster chips. This is a whole new situation. Companies can't expect the same level of hardware thrash in desktops as existed in the past.
The companies that can be happy with more stable sales will survive, the ones addicted to growth will immolate themselves.
That's a possibility: him and his friends all take bribes and thus think it's normal.
If they're typical poor blue collar types, they'd do anything for a buck and just presume that anybody is bribe-able. They don't know that people with white collar middle class salaries might not be willing to generally do whatever they're asked for extra money on the side; it is a luxury that comes with either education or strong principles. Having strong principles that include ethics makes you a "goody-two-shoes" or "hippy" to blue collar conservatives, and if they had an education they wouldn't be working class.
That's one of the aspects of the "culture war:" the people waging it have no idea what the culture is that they're trying to destroy. They only know about the propaganda their "team" gave them; hippies don't shower, don't work, use drugs, are stupid ninnies, believe deeply in fascism, and anybody who isn't a "conservative" is a hippy.
LOL it sounds like you're getting shit service where you don't have to because you want an extra human to be in the loop and have to fuck around with your orders.
You seem logic-challenged. You're just attempting a "so are you" without noticing that it isn't the same thing. I talked about the existence of a mitigation strategy for package theft that often works with one carrier, but is also often unavailable with certain merchants or carriers. You replied to me and challenged what I was saying and denying that it is normal to be able to access shipment tracking. To support this you denied ever having received a tracking number! But it turns out that's because you use concierge and have relationships with people where even when they're sending you a package they're not going to try to interact with you first. But that in no way refutes that when you order something with UPS, you can have it held for pickup at the local warehouse. If you use concierge for everything, that's nice, you don't order things. You use concierge but you can't be bothered to use a private mail box address?!? That is a really pathetic combination of elitist helplessness and cheapness.
lol it comes in the email from the sender. The ones that tell you when your product shipped.
I'll bet your email history is filled with exactly the information you don't think you received! For example, you've never made a single purchase from amazon or newegg. It is possible, maybe 100% of your online purchases are from individuals off ebay, and 100% of them are doing it part time and don't have customer service? Maybe so! Certainly possible, however unlikely. Less likely than being clueless, however.
One reason why they always send you that email is that here in the US you're not allowed to charge people credit cards for most mail-order items (people get confused here, but when you order physical deliverables online, that is mail order) you have to wait until you ship the item to charge the card. It is just better customer service to send you an email that says, "Your item has shipped!" than to send one saying, "your card has been charged," but for high-information customers they might need that notice. And creating their shipping label and moving it to their shipping department is usually enough for their billing department to be allowed to consider it shipped; that's why all the retailers do this the same, and why it is so easy and pervasive for them to put the tracking code in that email; it actually proves that they charged your card at the right time! That's also why you "always" have to wait a few hours from when you receive the tracking code before you can actually track it on the courier's site.
Manufacturers will surely add a SKU for whatever State causes them to need it, however if the law is being challenged they're probably not going to have to comply until after the court cases are finished. And in this case, the law would get tossed out. But they'll drop the bill after some business people call the office and explain it.
Right, you have multiple days from when the tracking ID becomes valid until it has been sorted at your local warehouse. Once the tracking ID is valid and they have the package in their system, then you can change the delivery to local pickup. Then instead of being ready "sometime today," it is actually ready anytime after customer service opens on the same day it would have been delivered.
was that open-apple or closed-apple?
I don't think IBM realizes the dangerous ground it is creating for itself. They could have just given the correct answer and been fine, but the ambiguity creates a very special PR risk for them given the public perception of their (disputed) company history.
In some places, like where I am, if it is under 200 square feet and less than 12 feet tall then there is no paperwork or permits.
A lot of places have this sort of exception designed for outbuildings.
Make sure the Slashdot screen is out of sight of any webcams.
Yeah, yeah, and next he's gonna have to shave his neck too, right? This is a home office.
Yeah, if you don't know what your needs are, how do you even know you have needs?
Do you have a packing crate to use as a chair/table? Done.
Now when you figure out why that is an unpleasant office, you'll already know what things you need! You'll never have to ask anybody.
Nope. The USPS leaves it on the porch even in my downtown area where packages are stolen very quickly.
Don't just make up the parts you don't know.
I had that at my last place and it was great! The ones here in the US simply retain the key; there are separate keys for the carrier and the recipient. The carrier uses their key to open the box, which releases the recipient key. They place the recipient key in the correct box. Now when the recipient unlocks that box, the key stays in the lock and the box remains unlocked.
The only problem is, only the postal service can use it. UPS and Fedex packages still get stolen off the porch.
With UPS I can go to the website and have deliveries held at the local service center.
If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't even be able to use them. Fedex you can only do that if the sender paid extra!(!!!!)
Unfortunately where I live currently is a nice house with a lot of low income foot traffic passing by, and any packages left on a porch in this neighborhood will disappear within minutes. I had to stop buying from Newegg entirely, because they just don't offer good shipping where I'm confident I'll receive the package. They do use the Fedex service, but they can't promise it will be available on all orders; you might, after placing your order, find out it can't be held for pickup! They don't list what products that would happen to, so when they put that warning up I have to assume it covers whatever I would be ordering. I'm normally an optimist, but if you tell me maybe it really might be all the way empty which is not half full.
Why do companies think it is OK to leave packages out on urban doorsteps without express per-package permission from the recipient? Why are the delivery companies not 100% responsible for those losses? It makes no sense, but it does at least increase local purchases.
Why is every "free shipping" or "-saver" shipping option one where they just leave it out for anybody? It seems to me that lower cost shipping should still be received, just slower. And wouldn't it be even cheaper for the shipping company to just let me pick it up from the nearest warehouse? Why is that such a rare service to get? It saves them money!
You apparently can't read.
Go above and read what you wrote.
You said,
There are some scientists who say we need to replace coal immediately, otherwise civilization could be destroyed.
AmiMojo called you on your bullshit and demanded you name the people you were trying to slander. You took up the challenge, even though you knew you made it up, and named James Hansen.
So I looked it up and found out you're full of shit. He's saying the same as everyone else, that it should be phased out. He says by 2030. That refutes your claim.
Then you respond by quoting his hyperbole. You don't even comprehend the words that were said; you can't even tell what is being called hyperbole. But you're arguing anyway; after you've been totally refuted. Pathetic. And then you yackity-yack about a strawman, look, you made the original accusation, and that's what I'm still on. I didn't even make an analogy, where is there room for a straw man accusation? You're failing harder and harder by your irrational insistence on being right even after being caught making a factually incorrect intentional statement. (also known as a lie)
So therefore he supports specifics different than the specifics he actually supports?
No, using strongly worded but very general hyperbole is not the same as supporting very specific policy ideas like immediately stopping the use of coal. He supports phasing it out by 2030. Stop failing so hard.
There is no way to export that much fancy beer without developing a superiority problem. Their sacrifice is appreciated.
wikipedia says that he actually called for coal to be phased out by 2030. So, no, you lose. Try again?
I suggest a whole flotilla like in Snow Crash. Everybody re-read your Neal Stephenson, it might be a survival manual.