Why do you hate freedom? You can't socialize music into your little National Public Domain you goddamned red bastard!

Wouldn't that make it imaginary? Subtle difference, when talking about rationality in the psychological sense.

Not even a little bit. Considering that the multi window thing is only available on TouchWiz, developers have little incentive to bother with supporting a feature which only a fraction of the Android users have, of which only a tiny fraction even use.

The UI for the multi window setup is typical Samsung, I.e., complete, and utter garbage. The whole thing is just another pound of bloat shoveled into the TouchWiz stock ROM; another nice sounding, but ultimately pointless feature, created mainly to have one more check box in the Samsung/Apple dick waving contest.

It isn't, OP was making sarcastic jabs at the knee jerk SJW stance of "Only white people can be racist," and "white people have caused literally every problem faced by People of Color (PoC)."

In other words, the simple minded individuals who take such obviously illogical stances would crow about it being racist to imply that yes, their precious PoC's were just as guilty in perpetuating the slave trade as all the evil CIS White males they blather on and on about.

Hardly. I was playing off the "tramp stamp" phrase, and the gross generalization that all strippers have one. Then again, puns are literally Hitler, so...

Could even tattoo it on their lower back, worked into the "stamp" they've inevitably got already. At the very least it would make the phrase "tramp stamp" have an official purpose!

I rooted my Galaxy S4 and never looked back. These days with stuff like towelroot and the like around root is stupid simple to get. Bootloaders are a little more.murky, honestly the carriers shouldn't be allowed to lock devices down unless there is a clearly defined way to unlock them. I get the security worries, but that doesn't mean all devices have to be locked down all the time for everybody

Then get a phone on which you can unlock the bootloader, put on whatever ROM you want (Cyanogenmod is pretty damn good) and forget about this stupid artificial lockdown horseshit the carriers cook up to move new handsets. Their warranty's aren't worth shit in the first place, why the fuck do we accept being locked down to a specific carriers stupid ass upgrade schedules and other self-serving bullshit? You wouldn't by a computer that was permanently locked down to a particular version of Windows, why the fuck do you put up with a phone permanently locked to the carriers capricious whims?

I don't know how good it is, but there's always that old standby of "That's just not how we do things here" that'll see the same shit happening again and again for years to come. The thought of giving independents a fair shakes disagrees with practically everyone's good thing. The Democrats don't want some far left moon bats cribbing votes from their flank, the Republicans don't care much for thought of the far right slipping out of their grasp, and thought of some middle of the road party eating both their lunches makes certain that we'll not see any meaningful movements toward dislodging the entrenched interests we've already got.

Or you know, the next guys can just build a better machine. I can't see how a society as obsessed with efficiency as ours could do anything else. They can paper it over with talk of innovation, and leveraging synergies.

It's a good thing they don't have something like %APPDATA%, otherwise there would be the worst of both worlds! A registry crammed full of cruft and detritus AND a hundred thousand vendor whatever files laying about.

"Should we put this config option in the registry or the config file?"
"Flip a coin!"

No kidding, what a luddite! He should be embracing the Bank's innovations in extracting maximum profit from customers. Their bloated fee structures, heavy handed customer service and predatory lending practices should be the envy of any smaller bank or credit union. Those little guys must be a bunch of losers if they're not doing everything they possibly can to maximize profit at the expense of customers!

Remember kids, if you're not "Too Big to Fail" you're not big enough!

What, you thought because the US is touted as a leader in technology that our financial system wouldn't be lodged firmly in the 1980's? What the banks want, the banks get. And what the banks want, is to keep reaming us with absurd fees for services the rest of the world takes for granted. They're going to drag their feet for as long as possible about doing anything that even hints at being good for consumers, and once they do, they're going to make sure we pay dearly for it.

$4.99/transaction fee for NFC transactions? Sure, why the hell not?

Exactly! We need a new set of companies to dominate the market, to create new and exciting security problems, innovative modes of discrimination and exploitation, and new types of excessive charges. So what if it has a clunky interface, requires always on mobile service (and data charges) and probably creates new efficiencies for remote theft?

Theoretically NFC payment systems should allow greater degrees of consumer control, security measures and ease of use, but lets be realistic here: which software company do you believe can actually pull off more than two of the three? Google will be changing shit around every version for no reason other than because they can, the Apple version will be easy to use for one or two use-cases and a complete clusterfuck for the rest and this CurrentC thing will be the complete abomination that it sounds like. Amazon will jump in with some poorly thought out copy-cat version of the Google NFC that only works on Amazon.com, and Microsoft will blunder in late in the game with a solution that's reasonably well engineered and has a slick interface, but no one uses it because no one uses it.

At this point, I imagine that if NFC were the new way of payments, that Google and Apple will end up being the de facto means of utilizing the technology, and we'll all be stuck a little bit deeper in either of their respective tar pits, dependent on them first for communication, then for financial transactions. "My Android was free with a two year contract, sign me right the fuck up for some more sweet, sweet vendor lock in baby!"

Yeah, good luck with that. So many of the world's problems could be solved if only people would stop being self centered jerks! And then we could all link arms and sing Kumbaya!

These cases of doctors/nurses traveling even after exposure are particularly egregious, but human history is literally a case study in self centered and thoughtless behavior, "screw you i got mine" mentality and other related, unpleasant human traits. Why can't we all just get along??