I know i'm overloaded. I think the media is partly to blame for one thing they are getting better at hiding the shovel full of shit they are trying to feed you.
Surveys are bullshit anyway.
Lets go through the top 10 stories on a few sites for giggles without reading anything further than the title.
News.bing.com
Thousands Pay Tribute at Pearl Harbor, 75 Years After Attack: Kay sounds legit.
Mitt Romney is now top contender for secretary of state: Bullshit speculation irrelevant.
Some ND Residents Stuck Indoors After Blizzard Sweeps Through State: Bullshit they could go outside if they wanted its just cold and snowy.
Time mag brands Trump a 'huckster,' calls Clinton 'an American Moses': Opinion irrelevant.
Lee Baca was 'heartbeat' of county jail conspiracy, federal prosecutor says as trial opens: No idea what this is so its irrelevant.
'Women scorned' lead police to suspected thief who found victims through dating website: Sounds legit but still irrelevant due to scale involved.
Free spirit, sheriff deputy's son among Oakland fire victims: Sounds legit depressing but irrelevant focus needs to be on preventing future fiery death traps.
Pakistani pop star Jamshed among 48 killed in plane crash: Sounds legit depressing but irrelevant focus needs to be on preventing future fiery death traps. Wait there was a plane crash?
Fourth grade textbook pulled after complaint it teaches slaves were treated like âfamilyâ(TM): Sounds legit there doesn't appear to be any checking of the books before they are taught to children as facts. Or as it said in my high school history book "those who don't know history are doomed to reheat it." Never did figure out what that meant. (didn't really but there were still plenty of mistakes)
Police confirm shooting at Nevada high school: Misleading headline likely to be irrelevant most end up just being local crazies that just happened to be shooting near a school.
News.google.com
Retired Marine Gen. John F. Kelly picked to head Department of Homeland Security: Sounds legit.
Trump picks Kelly for homeland security, Pruitt for EPA: Sounds legit.
Two juveniles charged with arson in East Tennessee wildfires that left 14 people dead: Misleading headline as juveniles they will do exactly jack shit to punish them.
Trump picks Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad â" a 'friend' of China's leader â" as Beijing ambassador: Sounds legit.
A moment of silence marks 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor: Sounds legit.
No survivors in Pakistan passenger jet crash carrying 48 people: Sounds legit.
Nearly 100 killed, hundreds injured in 6.5-magnitude Indonesia earthquake: Sounds legit.
UN Ambassador Power: Diplomacy Has Failed Aleppo: Bullshit speculation.
Dylann Roof 'chose to execute nine good, innocent men and women,' prosecutor tells jurors: Bullshit speculation. Innocent until proven guilty we shouldn't still be doing trial by media.
Driver in fatal Baltimore bus crash had history of crashes, seizures, NTSB report says: Sounds legit but irrelevant unless they are doing something about it.
news.yahoo.com
Boeing responds after Trump knocks contract for Air Force One jets: Irrelevant too verbose and still developing.
Do This Everyday Before You Turn Off Your Computer: Bullshit that's an AD.
Oakland warehouse operator distraught in interview about deadly fire: Sounds legit but redundant of course he is.
The 2017 Dodge Challenger GT Is the First AWD Muscle Car: Bullshit and an AD.
LaFerrari Auctioned Off for $7 Million and Romanian Gymkhana Is Pretty Great: The Evening Rush: Irrelevant probably just an AD.
Pay 0% Interest Until 2018 With These Credit Cards: Bullshit and an AD.
Fidel Castroâ(TM)s quiet end: Sounds legit. Might even be relevant If you lived through that era or they bothered to teach it in school.
What? A lot of cheap headphones don't have good enough drivers to be loud enough to damage your hearing. I would want to buy headphones that I can hear DVDs with. Remember how DVDs would play at darned near a whisper even with the volume cranked up to full? Yeah you can't watch those with crappy headphones that don't have volume.
Yep you have three options to deal with room noise or just one if you have shitty headphones (or earbuds).
1. TURN UP THE VOLUME SO YOU CAN HEAR YOUR MUSIC OVER THE BUS NOISE. CHEAP.
2. Have good noise cancelling headphones then you can listen at a lower volume and still hear your music. Expensive & batteries or an extra device to charge.
3. Have good Isolating headphones then you can listen at a lower volume and still hear your music. Expensive.
Kids headphones are probably on the cheap end of the spectrum.
It's kind of like those childproof safety scissors that won't cut paper and now today everyone buys actual scissors that won't cut paper because they don't realize you can get scissors that can actually cut paper.
Case in point check how many of your co-workers are using a phone with a cracked screen.
That is the market they are selling to everyone else sticks their phone in a case that makes the phone about 4x larger and darned near impervious to 10ft drops.
Some people seem to prefer a cracked screen to even a minimal amount of protection.
I always assume its literal. Why? Because google is trying to tag the images with keywords for easier searching thus a car is not a truck and bricks are not a storefront.
If you searched google for "storefront" you wouldn't be looking for a picture of "bricks" just as if you search for "cars" you probably aren't looking for pictures of mac trucks.
Years ago I had the same problem with tests and I had to guess did they FK up the question on accident or was it FKed on purpose to see if you would notice?
Here's a good example I remember from a few years back: Does an inkjet printer work by spaying ink on printer?
No it sprays ink on paper it doesn't spray ink on itself unless something breaks but it would be an easy typo for the person writing the test to make.
To which the reply would be COOL you had pterodactyls?! Or yeah yeah (crazy old man).
I ended up with a POTS simulator so I could run fax machines or connect computers together via modem for old times sake since I haven't had a home phone line in years.
I was asked last week about internet in my area they were complaining that they were paying $100/mo for 40Mbps fiber and it was too slow for them and I was like O_o that's the highest residential plan available from any carrier here.
Although now that I think about it again it sounds like they just had a really crappy WiFi AP.
What are you talking about ATT charges $35/mo for unlimited local and long distance POTS service so our bill is just $55.50 The extra $20.50? 36.9% Taxes and service fees. Funny that the sales tax is only 9.975% here.
Compare that to our internet bill where we are charged $45/mo and our bill is $45.00/mo
What and use MuchbetterCO? Their service is laggy and the picture quality is awful when it does load I think they need better servers on their end because I pay $5,000/mo for a 50,000Mbps connection (no not really this is an example chill) so it's not on my end and my ISP BestISP says everything is fine (MuchbetterCO hasn't paid BestISP extortion for fair access to their customers and customers unable to see BestISP's interferance blame MuchbetterCO)
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I know i'm overloaded. I think the media is partly to blame for one thing they are getting better at hiding the shovel full of shit they are trying to feed you.
Surveys are bullshit anyway.
Lets go through the top 10 stories on a few sites for giggles without reading anything further than the title.
News.bing.com
Thousands Pay Tribute at Pearl Harbor, 75 Years After Attack:
Kay sounds legit.
Mitt Romney is now top contender for secretary of state:
Bullshit speculation irrelevant.
Some ND Residents Stuck Indoors After Blizzard Sweeps Through State:
Bullshit they could go outside if they wanted its just cold and snowy.
Time mag brands Trump a 'huckster,' calls Clinton 'an American Moses':
Opinion irrelevant.
Lee Baca was 'heartbeat' of county jail conspiracy, federal prosecutor says as trial opens:
No idea what this is so its irrelevant.
'Women scorned' lead police to suspected thief who found victims through dating website:
Sounds legit but still irrelevant due to scale involved.
Free spirit, sheriff deputy's son among Oakland fire victims:
Sounds legit depressing but irrelevant focus needs to be on preventing future fiery death traps.
Pakistani pop star Jamshed among 48 killed in plane crash:
Sounds legit depressing but irrelevant focus needs to be on preventing future fiery death traps. Wait there was a plane crash?
Fourth grade textbook pulled after complaint it teaches slaves were treated like âfamilyâ(TM):
Sounds legit there doesn't appear to be any checking of the books before they are taught to children as facts. Or as it said in my high school history book "those who don't know history are doomed to reheat it." Never did figure out what that meant. (didn't really but there were still plenty of mistakes)
Police confirm shooting at Nevada high school:
Misleading headline likely to be irrelevant most end up just being local crazies that just happened to be shooting near a school.
News.google.com
Retired Marine Gen. John F. Kelly picked to head Department of Homeland Security:
Sounds legit.
Trump picks Kelly for homeland security, Pruitt for EPA:
Sounds legit.
Two juveniles charged with arson in East Tennessee wildfires that left 14 people dead:
Misleading headline as juveniles they will do exactly jack shit to punish them.
Trump picks Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad â" a 'friend' of China's leader â" as Beijing ambassador:
Sounds legit.
A moment of silence marks 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor:
Sounds legit.
No survivors in Pakistan passenger jet crash carrying 48 people:
Sounds legit.
Nearly 100 killed, hundreds injured in 6.5-magnitude Indonesia earthquake:
Sounds legit.
UN Ambassador Power: Diplomacy Has Failed Aleppo:
Bullshit speculation.
Dylann Roof 'chose to execute nine good, innocent men and women,' prosecutor tells jurors:
Bullshit speculation. Innocent until proven guilty we shouldn't still be doing trial by media.
Driver in fatal Baltimore bus crash had history of crashes, seizures, NTSB report says:
Sounds legit but irrelevant unless they are doing something about it.
news.yahoo.com
Boeing responds after Trump knocks contract for Air Force One jets:
Irrelevant too verbose and still developing.
Do This Everyday Before You Turn Off Your Computer:
Bullshit that's an AD.
Oakland warehouse operator distraught in interview about deadly fire:
Sounds legit but redundant of course he is.
The 2017 Dodge Challenger GT Is the First AWD Muscle Car:
Bullshit and an AD.
LaFerrari Auctioned Off for $7 Million and Romanian Gymkhana Is Pretty Great: The Evening Rush:
Irrelevant probably just an AD.
Pay 0% Interest Until 2018 With These Credit Cards:
Bullshit and an AD.
Fidel Castroâ(TM)s quiet end:
Sounds legit. Might even be relevant If you lived through that era or they bothered to teach it in school.
Longtime Sheriff's Depu
No idea but i'd like some of those too.
When it's cheaper to cut corners elsewhere and not one second sooner.
What? A lot of cheap headphones don't have good enough drivers to be loud enough to damage your hearing. I would want to buy headphones that I can hear DVDs with. Remember how DVDs would play at darned near a whisper even with the volume cranked up to full? Yeah you can't watch those with crappy headphones that don't have volume.
Yep you have three options to deal with room noise or just one if you have shitty headphones (or earbuds).
1. TURN UP THE VOLUME SO YOU CAN HEAR YOUR MUSIC OVER THE BUS NOISE. CHEAP.
2. Have good noise cancelling headphones then you can listen at a lower volume and still hear your music. Expensive & batteries or an extra device to charge.
3. Have good Isolating headphones then you can listen at a lower volume and still hear your music. Expensive.
Kids headphones are probably on the cheap end of the spectrum.
It's kind of like those childproof safety scissors that won't cut paper and now today everyone buys actual scissors that won't cut paper because they don't realize you can get scissors that can actually cut paper.
Nope but some seem to think they do.
Case in point check how many of your co-workers are using a phone with a cracked screen.
That is the market they are selling to everyone else sticks their phone in a case that makes the phone about 4x larger and darned near impervious to 10ft drops.
Some people seem to prefer a cracked screen to even a minimal amount of protection.
You get that figured out you let me know I figure its worth at least $4/mo to bypass capatchas everywhere.
I always assume its literal. Why? Because google is trying to tag the images with keywords for easier searching thus a car is not a truck and bricks are not a storefront.
If you searched google for "storefront" you wouldn't be looking for a picture of "bricks" just as if you search for "cars" you probably aren't looking for pictures of mac trucks.
Years ago I had the same problem with tests and I had to guess did they FK up the question on accident or was it FKed on purpose to see if you would notice?
Here's a good example I remember from a few years back:
Does an inkjet printer work by spaying ink on printer?
No it sprays ink on paper it doesn't spray ink on itself unless something breaks but it would be an easy typo for the person writing the test to make.
Nah only bots think rivers are storefronts.
To which the reply would be COOL you had pterodactyls?! Or yeah yeah (crazy old man).
I ended up with a POTS simulator so I could run fax machines or connect computers together via modem for old times sake since I haven't had a home phone line in years.
It's not arbitrary Netflix recommends at least 25Mb/s for Ultra HD.
I think they already used that trick once.
I was asked last week about internet in my area they were complaining that they were paying $100/mo for 40Mbps fiber and it was too slow for them and I was like O_o that's the highest residential plan available from any carrier here.
Although now that I think about it again it sounds like they just had a really crappy WiFi AP.
Instead of being activated at users request it activates at random.
What are you talking about ATT charges $35/mo for unlimited local and long distance POTS service so our bill is just $55.50
The extra $20.50? 36.9% Taxes and service fees.
Funny that the sales tax is only 9.975% here.
Compare that to our internet bill where we are charged $45/mo and our bill is $45.00/mo
I bet it goes rogue and ends up offended by Facebook.
They have those?
Can they be gotten without a monthly sub?
IIRC tivo used to require a guide subscribtion to function but the channel guide is broadcast OTA now for free so what would I need that for.
Yeah WTF man I thought us netflix users were too stupid to download a video what happened to that??
I could live with that...If they would just fix the thing when it breaks for free.
What?! where?! I want an @amazon.com
IKR having scripting turned on by default is one of the dumbest things they have ever done.
I remember back when it was disabled by default and they said not to turn it on because it was a security risk.
Wouldn't it be great if ISP's were actually held liable? They would be begging to be put under common carrier regulation within days!
Uhmmm IIRC the US gained a six strike system back in 2012
https://torrentfreak.com/isp-s...
What and use MuchbetterCO? Their service is laggy and the picture quality is awful when it does load I think they need better servers on their end because I pay $5,000/mo for a 50,000Mbps connection (no not really this is an example chill) so it's not on my end and my ISP BestISP says everything is fine (MuchbetterCO hasn't paid BestISP extortion for fair access to their customers and customers unable to see BestISP's interferance blame MuchbetterCO)
That's sounds familiar..... oh yeah that's exactly what Comcast did to Netflix.
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
Since the implementation of the new system has there been a single presidential alert?
It's the only type of alert I'm not allowed to disable but I've never gotten one.
You mean like the samsung tvs? https://yro.slashdot.org/story...