Posts by Someone Else 3617 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Dec 2009
Presented for your approval (or not; I really don't care): The (original) acoustic 360/370 bass amp [Emphasis definitely added!]. Not a tube or valve to be found anywhere near it, but it is the only amp, living or dead, that has approached my ultimate of standing roughly 10 feet in front of it, hitting the low 'E' string, and having it knock one's feet out from underneath one.
C++ has a fuckton of developers, you just don't hear much from us since we're busy working and getting the job done rather than making a big noise about how we're so cool for using [insert trendy language of the month here].
I wanted to put up the beer icon for this comment, but for some reason, the icons are missing. No matter; this one's for you (it's just very pale today...)!
"It's his photo and his right to say "that's my nephew""True, but you should let your uncle know how deeply objectionablel doing that without your permission really is.
A sibling of mine actually did that, and I responded as JohnFen suggested...at a close-to-thermonuclear level. Caused an extreme riff in the family for a few weeks until said sibling deleted the photo and the reference (and apologized). Yes, I know it's too late and the shadow file is there somewhere. But it got my sib's attention, and it's not likely that that particular behavior is going to be repeated.
Fundamentally, it's a near-monopoly on users that makes it impossible not to have a Facebook account and still be able to - for example - be efficiently invited to a friend's party, or see your family's holiday photos, or keep up loose contact with distant friends.
That is the largest pile of horse exhaust I've heard all month (and I live in America, and am constantly bombarded by pronouncements by Der Lügenführer himself)!
You know, we still have phones (you probably have one in your pocket; perhaps you should learn how to use it to make a phone call someday). And there are actually two kinds of mail systems still in wide use across the planet.
Anyone who is going to try to persuade me or anyone else with an IQ above room temperature that Faceplant is any kind of monopoly on media for social contact is so full of shit that his/her eyes are guaranteed to be brown.
Among the main responsibilities listed in the ad [...] are to "provide advice and guidance on data protection legislation" and "support the response to any data protection related queries from within the business".
The "responsibility" they don't list is: Define mechanisms to circumvent data protection measures taken by our targets."
Well, actually, I was part of the "duck'n'roll" generation...you know, the one that was told from basically Day 1 that Khrushchev was going to bury us with his shoe, and that wet newspaper and school desks would protect us from fallout of most every kind. All that Commie Pinko stuff happened very much before I was born, yet it rather did have an effect on how I grew up, and how I and millions like me responded to that little dust-up in SE Asia.
Of course you, Mr. Jeffery W. Millennial, have absolutely no idea of what I am talking about, and I know you bloody well don't care either.
So get your pampered, expectant, doomed-to-repeat-history ass off my lawn, dammit!
I have to wonder if you are actually employed. No, it is not part of my job to use a browser forced on me by Microsoft.
I'm happy for you, I really am. But that doesn't make you any less of a pompous git for not realizing that the rest of the world may not have the same luxury as you. Fat-asses tend to be like that.
Well, without resorting to a blue streak extending from here to North Dakota: I think it is yet another reason not to use windows 10.
You'd think Micors~1 would have learned by now. But since these decisions are being made by ADHD-addled Millennials who have nothing but contempt for anything historical that happened before they were born, this is predictable. Sad.
Maybe it is Android Plus...but it's not Mint.
And anybody who has the gall to attempt to escape SatNad/Ballmer/Gates's slimy clutches is not about to countenance Android, Android Plus, Android++, Android--, or any other flavor thereof.
Both letters state that the parties take confidentiality seriously and acknowledge the importance of public trust in the health service - while repeatedly leaning on the argument that the information released is non-clinical.
"We take confidentially seriously" always translates to, "We don't give a flying fuck about confidentially, unless it's our confidentiality, or unless someone finds out about the fact that we don't give a flying fuck about confidentiality, and that causes us some level of embarrassment."
But the bookkeeper was a stickler for the rules and said they couldn't really add income to a statement before it was received.
Ahhh, so now we get to the crux of the whole problem! Manafort and Gates made the colossal mistake of hiring someone with a moral compass and ethics to be a bookkeeper for a company that has neither.
You fuels! That'll learn ya!
But spare a thought for lobbyist and Trump campaign adviser Paul Manafort, of Virginia, for whom translating from one format to another has led directly to the imposition of no less than 32 US federal indictments for fraud and conspiracy.
No! I have more important things to do with my thoughts than waste them on that fetid pile.
"I would argue that the people, the demographic who are really nervous about privacy are going to stop driving pretty soon, and the people getting behind the wheel are more digital natives," [Lisa Joy Rosner] says.
When I first read that paragraph, I read, "digital naives". Upon re-reading it, I'm convinced I was right the first time.
We need a Millennials icon....
Personalised, location-targeted advertising could be more contentious, but also valuable.
Valuable to whom? To me, the "driver"/occupant/transportee? Not likely. To the Corporatists? Well probably...at least, they will tell themselves so.
Yet another step in the productization of the populace.
"Real engineers?" They cost money! It's a lot easier to get the local handyman to do it. He'll get it done cheap and won't be asking any troublesome questions, nor bring up those pesky rules and permits that other people seem to care about.
Or, you could get Scott Pruitt to do it...
Oh Boltar, life is full of depressing things all around us so sometimes it's nice to do something silly that even if only a few see the funny side then it's worth it. If people didn't do that we would live in a world devoid of humour. and humour is one of the best escapes from the drudgery that can be life.
And, it is currently the only antidote to Herr Lügenführer Trump.
May [Pai and all his Republican asslickers] all be forced to use 300Baud dial up over a flakey line with a wonky modem for all their internet needs.
You sound as if that would be some sort of purgatory for them. I doubt they can use the internet at any speed. Using the internet requires the intelligence of an average 7 year-old, and the ability to read. You seen any evidence of either skill in these asslickers? Didn't think so....
Amen to that!. And given how well lint works in general, and the Uber corporate "culture" (I use the word loosely), I set the over-under on how long the dev's take to figure out how to bypass it and render it utterly useless (like the rest of its ilk) at two weeks.
And I'll take the under...
Especially because looking in terms of penetration (sorry Wikipedia but too lazy to search further) the USA is only 4th in terms of penetrationRank Country/Territory Penetration
1 South Korea 96%
2 Japan 93%
3 Norway 87%
4 United States 87%
Oh, so that's why Donald Drumpf is so gung-ho on bringing in Norwegian immigrants....
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