As divided as we all seem to be these days, Christmas still seems to be a time when we each can remove these mental boundaries and see humanity for what it is, regardless of our religious (or lack thereof) preferences.
...a creature able to turn everything and anything supposedly "holy" into a cash cow?
If nothing has changed, it's not his fault.
It's ours.
Apparently the brokers assume (correctly, if you ask me) that managers don't have the foggiest clue what this entails and hence it won't affect sales.
Just you wait 'til one of those oh so important manager pulp magazines writes about it!
That's pretty much the main danger behind it: The US are going to be seen as worse than China when it comes to security.
China has a pretty bad rep in that department. Allegedly they pushed malware on some of the electronic gadgets they produce. Or
Now, it's pretty hard to get around China when you're buying electronics. Pretty much everything is built over there. OTOH, it's much easier to avoid US goods. Pretty much everything produced in the US is also produced in the EU at similar quality and price.
Well, the TSA is a nuisance. The NSA is a criminal organization.
The problem is that so many lies have been flying around in that whole shit that there is imply NOTHING anymore that anyone would believe the NSA or its cronies.
It's a bit like with the Soviet propaganda of the old times. After a while you simply knew that they are lying. You have caught them so many times that you wouldn't even believe them if they told you the sky was blue, if you can't verify their claim, it was safe to assume that it's a lie.
The NSA is about as bad.
Protests and even riots do happen. But you don't think your news media would cover them, do you?
Our media learned that they don't even have to lie to skew our view on the world. They just have to select the things they report about carefully. Tell me: How much, and what, have you heard about the protests that border on riots in the Ukraine?
Why the "or"? Considering the way they act and their goals, an "and" seems more appropriate.
Not necessary. They're part of the extended ASCII code (the symbols past 0x80).
It's said that dumb people are happier. I hope that's not what you imply.
There is a difference between remembering bad things to learn from them and turning them into something pathological.
To give you an example, a normal person would maybe walk across the road when the traffic light shows red and gets almost run over by a car. He will learn that it's not a smart thing to cross the road when the traffic light shows red.
The pathological "lesson" from it would be that it is dangerous to cross the road. These people do not learn from the experience in the normal sense. They do of course get the message that they should heed the traffic light, but they go way overboard with it. Not only do they blame themselves for everything that they did wrong, but for everything that did GO wrong. That the traffic light was red, that the driver did not watch out, and that's just the start. Things get added to the memory to make the experience even worse over time.
That's not really a healthy learning experience. In the end, their lesson is that it's probably better if they don't cross roads. Or maybe even better that they don't leave the house. In the most extreme form not even for their safety but to keep others from harm. After all, the driver that kills them could get hurt or he could have to deal with the guilt of killing someone.
And now please don't think about an elephant in a tutu...
Get with the times and whack the people with a Kindle, will ya?
That's like trading a 1998 SUV for a 2007 SUV because you want to get better mileage out of your car.
Irony? I sure as hell would like a webfilter for kids filter out the webpage of perverts.
"The medium is the massage." -- Crazy Nigel
