Re: How can they make a profit from it?
The fact you have to state you don't have a TV at all is something of an imposition, let alone fill out a load of shite so that you can repeat the process every two years.
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"That would be bloody stupid, wouldn't it?"
Well, yes, it would be stupid. You're still conflating spontaneity - that is to say, acting upon sudden impulses or taking unplanned action - with considered decision making as to whether it is sensible to do a thing, or if you are even capable of it so...
How very paranoid. That said, yeah, a well armed populace is going to last five minutes against the combined military might of the US Government. Muh freedoms and muh bear arms aren't much use against long range missiles, drone strikes, or aircraft carriers when it comes down to it.
Also, given the popularity of Donald Drumpf, I'd say a big chunk of the US public is pretty ok with would-be totalitarians 'cos dey're gunna make 'murrica great again. :\
From many moons ago.
Hello, I don't have an internet connection, it would appear my router/modem/thing is receiving a nack response when it tries to obtain an address.
"Can you reboot your router for me?"
Sure, but I've already done that.
"Can you do it again?"
*pretend to reboot router*
"Yes, I can see it rebooting now."
mmhmm
"Ok, I've done some tests and that should be working now."
*constant ping to bbc.co.uk continues to fail*
It isn't.
"Ok, I've just made some changes, can you reboot your router for me?"
We've just done that, it didn't work, it's being denied an IP at your end.
"Can you restart your computer for me?"
Done. (not done)
"That was fast."
It has an SSD in it. It's lighting.
"Is it working now?"
No.
*stars move across the heavens, continents rise from the sea and are submerged again, the sun grows cold and dies as I repeat this for just shy of eternity until I'm put through to a 2nd line engineer*
"Huh, looks like your router's being denied an address *clickity clack* should be fine now."
Indeed it is, thanks.
or as I tend to think of it, corporate begging, is not my cup of tea. It's even less so when it gets right in my face, occasionally crashes the browser - good work, The Independent - obscures, moves, bifurcates, or otherwise unacceptably fondles the content I've come to see.
I'm sure there are many fine an cogent arguments in favour of advertising and in principle, I'm not against small text ads here and there - I even pay for some content - but on the whole I don't like wading through a sea of piss just to view a web page and so I don't.
IP blocks take whole seconds to bypass, if that. What would be the point?
That aside, no one's forcing content providers to do anything and they could, you know, not. The problem is that I suspect most content providers are aware that not many would care if they did stop and would simply go elsewhere or not bother at all.
Typically, in my experience at least, people seem replace the pragmatism or will to investigate and resolve a problem themselves with a sense of entitlement and demands that someone else should do it immediately, it's an outrage etc, etc. That or, as you've observed, they replace it.
It makes me sad.
I use a different os than the os you use because I am a brain wizard and as any fule no, it isn't possible for different people to use different os' for different things in different environments or on different machines. There is only one way to computer and I have found it. A point I shall make repeatedly, for ever, until my genius is acknowledged. durf durf durf.
Believe it or not but our IT department consisted of two sys admins, six helpdesk chaps and four managers of various flavours as a result of business mergers. We could have done without the managers, mine in particular, though I do now have a lifetime's worth of work anecdotes.
Curiously enough the company did go bust shortly after most of us escaped, something we found hilarious. The VLAN argument was in regard to QOS on VOIP services because "we'll be fine without VLANs" didn't seem a sustainable policy to me.
There was the day he wanted to move servers at one site to another site (and subnet), just because, and asked if we'd need to change the IP addresses on them or if they'd just work.
Or the day we had a flood of spam that was traced back to one of the directors complaining that an email had been blocked and our glorious leader turning off most of the filters instead of just releasing it.
I could go on :(
The truly distressing thing was the fact that the directors seemed to think the sun shone from The Ass despite his obvious lack of, well, everything. Boggles the mind really.
I used to work for a manager who'd been a techie (supposedly) and had ended up being promoted by attrition. He'd simply outlasted everyone else and ended up with the job. We called him The Ass due to his general nature and level of competence.
That said, he outlasted me, too, because when you're a sysadmin and your boss is shouting at you that he doesn't see the point in VLANs in any circumstance, you realise you're being Assed and it's time to move on.