Posts by Mark 85 12884 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Nov 2012
Have a libation before lying down. You realize of course that this is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, right? Only the negotiators and their handlers know what else is in there. Good grief, I'm American and this is pissing me off royally.
All the warm, fuzzies by politicians and corporate types is actually (and always has been) just so much bovine excrement behind the barn. We've come of the age, finally, of "trust no one".
"Say it" is one thing. "Posting it" seems to be what this is about. And we think we have intrusiveness... the only difference is, the Chinese are probably used to this by now as they've had local snitches (for lack of a better word) for decades. This just escalates it.
The rest of us are just learning about our government's intentions. Perhaps we need to take a closer look at China and even Russia to get some idea where things are headed.
You assume an educated and thinking banditry... There's a reason that gangs in general don't have education and thinking members. The leadership, yes. The members are exploted for the "good" of the leadership.
As for the "higher" price... corporates will object as that cuts into their bottom line. The gangs would, at some point, realize that they're being paid blackmail money and want more.
If they really wanted to make a difference, why not establish an industry standard for printer ink, let anyone make that, and then the printer companies can compete on price and quality of their printers?
Why not? Profit and market share. One can't level out the playing field anymore as there's just too many greedy folks involved.
Many prisons in the States do have a gun (cannon maybe?) that fires a net. In the not too distant past there were attempts to break prisoners out using a helicopter. I'm not sure if they still have this available, however. I'm sure this same or similar device could be used on a package carrying drone.
We had VP that used to complain about the server room being too cold.. yes, a she and she was taking visitors in there. After about a month, we suddenly started getting temperature alarms on a regular basis from the server room. One of the IT types noted that it happened on days we had "visitors". The lady was coming in early and re-setting the thermostat in the server room. Once we figured it out, a memo came down from the CEO about locking down the server rooms from all visitors and those "not required to enter the room" and also locking down the thermostats. Our server room is now a good place and a great place to hide out when a certain VP goes on a rampage.....
Even so called town hall meetings have a political agenda. For any elected official to call is 99% of the time not "informational". They call because they are selling themselves. If we apply that logic to commercial callers than they should be claiming that their calls are informational to let you know about their product/service/scam.
I don't disagree with you on Ross Perot's numbers, etc. However, the man didn't take himself too seriously during the campaign. His sole purpose for running was to thwart Bush as he had a major personal feud with the man. And lets face it... nothing was as entertaining as one of his infomercials that ran for a half-hour or an hour (depending on where you were). Remember: "a large sucking sound"?
This isn't without precedent.. Ross Perot did reasonably well in the polls also. But, I think both he and Trump do/did well only because of their entertainment value. When the election actually hits, the two parties will have their way with us. So... enjoy the show, toss all the popcorn you like and clean it up in the morning. Politics as usual will return.
They're merging so it seems. As corporates take over control, the likes of NSA and GHCQ will become merely redundant or possibly finding a new role using data fed to them from the corporates. Yes, I believe "freedom" as we know it is more restrictive than "freedom" as some of our ancestors knew it and will be something else down the road a bit.
Nobody likes us. Hell, we don't even like ourselves. If we did, we wouldn't elect self-serving idiots or allow ourselves to be manipulated into societal warfare by the media*.
*For a good example, look closely at who did the screaming about Ferguson and stirred that pot into what it became. Or for that matter, go back to the 60's and the anti-Vietnam war movement. We have a history of this type of thing.
I'm surprised they're not insisting that candidates are lawyers like they do for field agents although I recall reading where they going to drop that requirement. But I don't know if they did.
The people you want for this are a bit "outside" the norm. So they should relax or change the requirements.
I've had more than few "friends" (note to self... unfriend soon) who wanted me to come over and "fix Win10". After suggesting that they call support I've not heard from them. I suspect there's an awful lot of people who have downloaded and installed (really MS? 67 million?) are now sorting things out. Most are probably not back on the web yet.
...would be to combine several of these recipes. Only because after a tankload, one tends to mix and muck things up badly. At least that's the way it is around our place. So much so, we've taken to preparing the nosh and putting in the fridge before we leave, sometimes a day early.
Which reminds me, I think there's something in the fridge from a week ago or so.... need to check and if it's blue and fuzzy*, toss it.
*My mom taught me that there's no such thing as blue, fuzzy food.
Yes, MS could suddenly start invoicing for "upgrades", patches, etc.
Or as has been pointed out, they want your data for advertisers.
By pushing this to the PC and then the tablet market there's a foot in the door for the advertising model. All that's left is the phones... get them and they have you as a captive audience for whoever flings cash for ads at them.
It's also possible that MS is looking at a combination package.. "don't want ads while working in Word or anytime we feel like pushing some at you... here's an invoice each month but we'll still suck your data for when you're browse the web."
Yes, they need income, and while their execution on things like phones and tablets has been less than steller, I suspect they've learned a few things. Plus, with Ballmer gone, there's a bit room for a grand plan instead of a reactionary one.
Like a lot of others here, I'm holding fast on Win7. Once I see where this is headed, I'll either go with Win10 (as one should with any "new" OS from MS) or go with Linux or (god forbid) a Mac.
Or at least smells like it. I'm not sure why the device needs to be on the network as they didn't use to be. The nurse changed the meds, reset the pump or programmed it if the first time, and let it run. X-hours later, they came back.. rinse and repeat as it was done on scheduled rounds.
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