Re: Hellbanning
Not Wessex. Essex. The one in New Jersey.
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"the dems running are the 1% who pay even less tax than him in some cases."
I assume you, codejunky, have access to both his and the dems in question's tax returns to make such a sweeping statement, and thus you can prove what you say. So please, do so. Post proof or retract.
Or are you simply bullshitting hopefully?
Easier answer: I simply don't use a so-called smart phone or any other thingie that requires an Internet connection to be useful. The cops can't access what I don't carry, not even "accidentally". Neither can anybody else. Problem solved.
And no, you do NOT "need" your so-called smart phone and access to all that stuff 24/7. You are not important enough in the great scheme of things. Neither am I. Very, very few of us are ... if anybody truly is.
Turn off, tune out, drop the electronic leash. You'll be a lot happier over all.
... remind me again why, exactly, people still purchase anything from Redmond? Do they expect it to suddenly get better? Or are they gluttons for punishment? It's clearly not because MS offers a decent product that works as it says on the tin. Or maybe it's a faith thing; all hail the mighty Windows and death to the infidels!
At this point, what corporation in it's right mind would actually spec Windows for any desktop? It is obviously not fit for purpose. Unless all the companies saddled with it were formed partially to put money in Redmond's pocket, that is ... has anybody talked to their shareholders about that?
I'm sorry to hear that you and yours don't know how to properly train your dawgs. I assure you that mine only bark when they have something to report, and then quiet down when they have an adult's attention. Perhaps look into proper training for your critters? It's a lot easier than simply putting up with it for ten or more years!
And there is a reason for that. Accent and vernacular varies wildly just across the UK. The entire point of telephone support is to HELP the user, not force them to find a translator who speaks both Joisy and Yorkshire fluently.
This is why off-shoring tech support is so reviled ... contrary to popular belief it's not racism, rather it's a real, honest lack of being able to comprehend what the support staff are saying.
Like it or not, American English is the lingua franca of TehIntraWebTubes. This isn't a good thing, nor is it a bad thing. All it is is an accident of history.
This will change over time. If there is one thing that's a dead cert, it's that language mutates. Much to the deep dismay of all those Internet "Queen's English"[0] nazis out there.
[0] Whatever that means ...
"my UK English accent and word usage completely lsot them"
If you speak the way you type, this Californian would be fairly "lsot", too.
(The fast-food people, even the ESL ones, are quite used to the way we speak English here in California. Did it not occur to you that YOU were a foreigner, and the dude with the funny, hard to understand accent? Or do you assume that every English speaker, world-wide, should automatically be able to understand all the variations of English as they are spoken in the British Isles? And you call us "Ugly" when we are abroad? Furrfu!)
Enough is enough! ... we voted you in, we WILL vote you out! This is OUR Internet, not yours, nor does it belong to the multi-billion dollar advertising companies. We know what it is for AND YOU IDIOTS CAN'T HAVE IT!
Want you cushy job in Sacramento to continue? Vote with us, not with the likes of Google, Facebook, and Amazon. You work for US not THEM, and we will NOT forget this. Don't say I didn't warn you.
(Sorry for the yelling, but apparently the fuckheads are stone deaf ...)
[0] In Sacramento it's actually a flood plain, not a hill, but that's a story for another day.
Amdahl had a largish printing facility just off Central Expressway in Sunnyvale (Cupertino?) in the 1980s ... Virtually every mainframe print-job generated within the company, world-wide, was printed at said facility, and then next-dayed to whatever office had requested the print job. They had several gawdawfulfast channel attached printers, and a fleet of trucks delivering & sending out paper. Was awesome to watch in full-swing, if you had adequate ear protection.
However ... it sounded daft then, and still sounds daft now :-)
My IBM 1403 can do about 23 pages (~1400 lines) of 11X14 (132 columns) per minute. Can crank up to over 6 feet of paper per second if the printout contains a lot of blank lines. It will keep up this pace as long as you can keep it in fan-fold paper. Ink optional, unless you plan on reading it. It was made in 1963 (I have another one from 1960 for spare parts).
"it isn't that hard to change your name"
In concept, you are correct. But the devil is in the details. Try it, then report back.
(I legally changed my name from my given name to just "jake" many years ago. It was a pain in the ass, partially because of the singular name, but not entirely because of that. Changing it back to the name my parents gave me several years later was also a pain, even though I knew what to expect having been through it once before.)
I had a similar .com from a long forgotten project ... I didn't know it at the time, but the matching .net was owned by a small family business several states away. When I found out about the .net, I gave them the now unused .com for xmas. That was around 20 years ago. Their family and my family are now really good friends :-)
I've had offers for most of my various addresses, I've turned them all down. My one mistake was when I gave up my personal "Class C" in late 1996 ... Seemed kinda pointless at the time; I had just sold my "portal" to idiots with more money than brains, and decided that I didn't need the address space anymore. Oops.
No need for the arrow ... you can feel the lip of the curl. Open a ream of paper, split the ream in two and run your thumb over the edge of both halves, center of the sheet out. The "curl up" side will feel rough, the "curl down" side will feel smooth. This is kind of important to know when operating sheet-fed anything. Almost everything prefers to be fed curl down, but there are exceptions.
In a similar vein, I habitually check the grain of business cards ... If the card is printed grain wrong, the owner gets a tick on the "probably clueless" side of the balance sheet. Once a printer, always a printer.
"it would take you a decade to try them all"
Challenge accepted :-)
"You try the ones you've heard about from friends, have had really good reviews or (I confess I'm guilty) the ones with the really interesting names."
Actually, as a brewer, I try anything new that I run across. Gotta keep tabs on the competition, dontchaknow. For the record, I've found that interesting names and fancy labels are mostly used to market mediocre (at best!) beer. Better to put your money in producing awesome brews than into the pockets of the marketing department. Good beer pretty much sells itself.
If all you've found is too acidic, you haven't sampled enough yet. In my estimation, fewer than 15% of craft/micro/homebrews could be classified as sour or acidic (assuming proper care and feeding of the yeasties, and more than just a little nod to sanitation, of course).
"Ruby ale" is just another name for Bitter (kinda). I have a nice Yorkshire Bitter clone on tap as I type. Good stuff. Expand your horizons?
The biggest problem in taking a microbrewery from local to national is volume. It's kind of difficult to split a mere 15,000 barrels of hand crafted beer between the hundred million or so beer drinkers in the US. For one thing, each person would get about half an ounce per brewery (not per brew!), which would be sad.
That's not purely British. From experience, I'd say it's a normal part of the human condition to get blotto. I've seen it on 6 continents, in places untouched by so-called "British Rule", and have it on good authority that most of it (sans beating and getting robbed) happens in Antarctica, too.