Let's face it: Microsoft can no longer be trusted with your data. On a fresh Windows installation, just how long does it take to attempt to de-clap it?
Let's face it: Microsoft took twenty fucking years to integrate this tool.
They don't seem to be in a hurry to utilize the damn thing, regardless of how useful the rest of us find it.
If it proves to be as disruptive as blockchain then we wasted a lot of carbon
Disruptive? The average human, still uses their fiat currency. To 100% effectiveness. The average human, has no fucking idea what blockchain even is, much less what it could potentially deliver.
Yes. It's true. Ask 100 people about "blockchain" to confirm yourself. Tell me how many vendors that currently sustain your existence even accept shitcoin as payment. Tends to say a lot about "mass" adoption.
We wasted a lot of carbon doing the shit-effort required to justify "value" in the shitcoin world, which means mining your ass off at significant expense. To great detriment going forward.
So did they intercept the communications satellites, or did they intercept the communications OF THE satellites? If the latter, fix your title op.
I'd first like you to differentiate between your requests first.
The FUCK are you talking about here. And I mean specifically and exactly.
Recommending one product over another because they get a kickback.
Nothing quite like the new AI fuckery, where geeky meatsacks pit the Ford vs. Chevy of marketing-bots against each other on a Friday night and grab the popcorn..
It's shocking that someone would take something that they didn't pay for. I'm going to write down the names of those devices and the services they funnel their clients to... I just want to make sure I don't accidentally buy one of these devices...
Yes, we wouldn't want anyone to accidentally stumble across 8,000 channels of bootleg content from a box offered up at the local church festival.
Seriously? Charging money for streaming services is now a sign of the anti-Christ or what? With festivals like that, I'm guessing the pastors homemade moonshine puts a sparkle in the punch bowl.
I want a agreed-upon, stable, succinct, and intelligible definition of "ultra-processed" or I want to stop hearing the term.
Talk about a statement dripping with the blood chum of litigation.
Can you even give me an agreed-upon, stable, succinct, and intelligible definition of the entity that would be necessary to create an agreed-upon, stable, succinct, and intelligible definition of “ultra-processed”?
We’re more broken than you think.
1) Calling a company that sells coffee "drug dealers" is absurd hyperbole..
Care to lock your favorite bean sucking friends in a room for a week with nothing but morning water to prove me wrong?
I didn’t think so.
It’s not hard to make a drug user look calm and collected when compared to the coffee junkie that didn’t get their fix. Realize the latter crash out is socially acceptable, as is addicting children.
Sadly they are also operating in the occupied parts of Palestine.
I’m not shocked at the location as much as I’m shocked it’s still operating.
Talk about a way to horrifically cripple your enemy first thing in the morning..
But some of us do. Our wallet is out most powerful vote. I don't want to buy shoes from a shoemaker that sends his profits to causes that are againist my values.
Your wallet and values were your most powerful vote. Back when companies actually listened to customers.
Today many companies feed consumers, not customers. Consumers don’t pay a dime for the service, as they’re more The Product being sold now. If you want a provider to actually listen and give a shit about consumer opinion now, you better have 100 million wallets behind your voice. Otherwise, kindly fuck off. Your minuscule opinion is irrelevant and meaningless to them now.
A bit off base, if you just wanted that coffee fix as cheap as possible and you have no time to do it yourself or wait on a 'barista, then you'll just grab some McDonald's coffee, or whatever stuff is likely at your office or work site.
At work there is a coffee grinder and espresso machine where I get to do the whole barista thing myself . Takes longer than a barista, is cheaper than a barista, and often turns out worse because I'm not trained in the art of coffee. Buying the wrong beans (or mixing beans) is an offence that can lead to you beingn fired.
With arrogance like that at work, I would assume the coffee grinder and espresso machine were installed by HR as a headcount reduction tool.
I counter with, I would think the board of any public corporation would have a succession plan ready, say for instance there is a health emergency with the CEO. Or more likely the CEO does something bad and needs to be removed. The response to this should be "Enrique Lores has decided to leave HP, the acting CEO is Stacy Smith who is fully capable of fulfilling the role."
OK. Let’s just say that succession plan exists. Let’s also say the fucking executive coup that was executed to move a CEO unknowingly from one company to another, also resulted in a stock crash. Millions or even billions lost.
What exactly is your next legal move as the head of the Board of the victim company, perhaps after getting major shareholder lawsuits?
What happens when you find out the ousted CEO, wasn’t really given a choice in the matter?
HPs history or shit current status is irrelevant. Pick your favorite CEO against your most hated company next and realize it matters. Letting them get away with it once, is exactly how legal precedent is established and shit behavior repeats.
Is it evil, or merely Grade-A Capitalism?
You create a product in America that is two-tiered, with certain features exclusive to those who pay for Premium features. Then you find that consumers are able to steal from you by sidestepping said features. Which of course in turn deters current Premium members from continuing to pay, so they cancel their membership and choose a sidestepping alternative instead. Which directly impacts your revenue and ability to survive.
IF YouTube were a small to medium sized female/minority/veteran-owned business on the brink of bankruptcy and these kinds of thefts were the direct reason for facing that business-destroying challenge, would you suddenly find sympathy and support? Don't bullshit and be honest.
The standard retort of "Because they can afford it" is an excuse that only works for so long. With business expenses like that, it doesn't take long for an entity to have actual solvency problems, and not some shit staged for clicks and likes. No matter how bored humans are during an AI-triggered Depression, I seriously doubt YouTube doom scrolling from The Unemployables is going to sell enough ad revenue that ignorantly targets Unemployables who can't afford to buy a fucking thing pushed in those ads. Because Permanent Unemployment.
Food. Clothing. Shelter. YouTube is in the business of selling NONE of the shit that actually matters in a Depression. The wake-up call, is coming. Especially for every "influencer" who will soon find out the actual real-life value of a YouTube channel in a Depressed world that doesn't find narcissism holding any value at all.
No. I'm not defending YouTube. I'm too pissed off at the corruption that allowed Too Big To Fail entities like YouTube to claim that defense eventually. Yes. I promise they will pull that shit. No. You won't be given an option, taxpayer peasant. That's the real problem.
...Paypal's website and mobile app that's 90% ads at this point, or HP's pure-plastic laptops that continue to push boundaries on bloatware.
A pox on both houses.
A Board from one company decided to essentially steal another company's CEO. With basically zero notification. How about we NOT overlook the obvious problem with that shit move before it becomes infectious regardless of the crap products.
The hell would you do as the head of HPs Board? These are both publicly traded companies.
Sniping executives like that is the kind of shit that gets Luigi Mangione off the hook to pull another job.
The problem -- as usual -- is that Elon Musk has ordered his company to satisfy his pathetic manbaby concept of what's "cool" instead of what's sound engineering and safety practice. That not only includes doors that can be immediately and obviously opened by manual action from either side, but breakable windows. (Most rescuers carry tools expressly designed to punch out windows. You want those tools to work on your vehicle first time every time.)
Teslas do not have "bulletproof" glass. They have essentially windshield glass on the sides, which is laminated for additional safety. And 1/3 of ALL cars delivered in the US back in 2018 had side glass that was laminated in the same way Teslas are. I'd imagine that 1/3 rate is much higher now, so this is certainly no longer a problem limited to Tesla or EVs in general.
That "cool" requirement more came from the Feds trying to prevent people from being ejected during car crashes. Not Elon. He just infamously tried to capitalize on it with the cold steel ball of marketing. Most drivers today might find they'll die in the same way without proper tools, which probably should have come standard in ALL cars for the last decade or seven.
It should be possible to open the door from both inside and outside the car in case of complete power loss.
Anything else should be treated as kidnap AND attempted murder.
Taking shit to 11, ala Spinal Tap? OK.
Next up, shark-swallowing lawyers start accusing the owner of the all-you-can-gorge Too Fat To Fail buffet chain of mass murder, and then where the hell are people gonna saddle up to and eat? Last time Big Bertha strapped on a feed bag at the church buffet they accused her of being a witch. Wanted to burn her at the medium-rare stake until Fire Marshall Bill realized the grease fire would need Moses to clap the cheeks of Poseidon around it in emergency response.
Well I’ll be damned. Hades Express just auto-texted me about winning a free one-way trip. Boy, that didn’t take long. Fucking AI. Shit is everywhere.
Gravity is a myth, the Earth sucks.
