Comment Re: Indeed! (Score 1) 70
...when the wheels fall off, you can buy a loaf of beard and some bullets for some gold
Dang you'd have to be really hungry. But at least now we know Richard Stallman won't starve.
...when the wheels fall off, you can buy a loaf of beard and some bullets for some gold
Dang you'd have to be really hungry. But at least now we know Richard Stallman won't starve.
Phil Schiller claiming that the new devices have the "highest quality video capture ever in a smartphone."
Phil Schiller fills us with shilling.
I typically use Lyft when traveling to and from O'Hare. The ride is usually ready within 5-10 minutes, it's a clean ride and the driver is usually nice (though most often not a native English speaker). Taxi services can be atrocious in terms of wait times, dirty cabs and unpleasant drivers. My choice of Lyft over Uber started because a friend drives Lyft and then I kept using it as I witnessed the revelations of Uber's unethical behaviors. I have zero complaints.
My last Lyft driver kept bottles of water in her trunk and gave me one as she dropped me off at the airport. Service like that keeps me hiring them.
The point is, it's possible to have a cat and a clean house. I'm not sure it takes any more work than a dog. Certainly I don't think you should have one if you don't want one.
A well taken care of cat in a well taken care of environment isn't so scary. Clean the box once a day, it takes three minutes. Fully scrub and change out the littler once a month. Get a Shark vacuum cleaner for the hair, vacuum the floors, furniture and crevices once a week. Keep food related surfaces clean. Learn how to keep your cat off the counters, tables, etc.
Certainly you can't ever be perfectly assured of absolute cleanliness, but that's true of any pet. Dogs are by no means clean without effort.
Ha yeah! Or when pigs grow human organs! Hahaha--
Oh wait...
Of course it's safe, there's no doubt about that -- provided of course people believe in it.
You're absolutely right about iMacs.
But I've had a Mac Mini for over five years and it still performs nicely. Swapping out the RAM chips is pretty easy, and using a torx wrench is no big deal. Haven't had to change the HD so can't speak to that.
Relatively cheap too. Pickup a Mac Mini along with a monitor of your choice and a couple peripherals and you're set. Again, I'm five years in and still humming nicely. I mostly use it for writing code and running a development web server.
Now Apple's software...that's another issue...
The entropy that builds up from clueless users tying their business processes into these low-code systems is staggering. I have a client that got setup with QuickBase years ago and has been using it to store data culled from their web site and generate reports based on it, sometimes with an interactive UI to sort and filter. Because nobody who created these QB "apps" has any technical training, including the mastermind who set it all up to begin with, these reports are horrendous monstrosities that over the years have built up into a pile of increasingly useless garbage. Instead of intelligently building an app with a sanely normalized data structure that can simply modify itself every year to report on the requested data set, the client has to create new apps every year, replicating last year's, to view the relevant data. The data structures look like they were cobbled together by, well, someone with no technical training. It's a big morass that their employees spend ridiculous amounts of time dealing with. If they had just hired a developer to build a simple web UI to view, filter, sort, and generate the occasional PDF, all tied into their web database, they could have saved tons of man hours and money.
But no. They were sold on "Build your own apps! You don't need to pay an expert! You're already all the expert you need!". Such bullshit. But then, I suppose it makes more work for those of us who are called in to build what should have been built in the first place, once the company can no longer function under the weight of empty promises.
Is it ironic that the minds of people who believe in mind control are being controlled by the belief in mind control?
How sad that so many Americans could seriously believe in this bullshit, but that's what happens when you're fed a steady diet of FOX News and a constant drumbeat of right-wing conspiracy theories
FOX controls more minds than HAARP ever did. Easy to do when minds are weak.
Here in Chicago they are now charging $10/month rental fee for their modems. But if you buy your modem, and they have to send a tech out to you, they charge $50 per visit even if the problem has nothing to do with the modem. Insane price hikes all over the place with these crooks and the service isn't very good to begin with. But because I live in an apartment building, I don't have a choice of providers.
They're already harming consumers. They should be forced to sit down, STFU, and be given a government regulation colonic that purges the excrement from their consumer policies.
Moreover, adult chimpanzees (our nearest animal cousins) are known to literally tear to pieces young chimps from other chimp communities. Rip them limb from limb. Male adult walruses in heat will try to have sex with baby walruses when they can't find an available adult female, usually resulting in killing the baby.
Religion was put in place to control human behavior, usually for a rich/powerful governing structure or leader. But the honest search for God (an abused term, perhaps "Spirit" or "universal consciousness" or "higher intelligence we cannot adequately explain") has nothing to do with top-down controls and doctrine. But I am digressing. Animals fuck each other up pretty good.
If you think the system is working, ask someone who's waiting for a prompt.
