Posts by art guerrilla 37 posts • joined 13 Dec 2015
oh my, obvious a number have never worked a typical gummint contract... ESPECIALLY if 'cost-plus', that is the holy grail of billable time ! ! ! the powers that be WANT you to 'waste' as much time as possible parked on these cash cows, logging all of your time as billable to the gummint teat...
gee, wonder why gummint projects always cost so much... herp derp
damn right, these koppers are so-o-o-o handcuffed in what they can do, and always face enormous repercussions when they do the silliest, minor transgressions of -you know- rights, and laws and archaic stuff like that...
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in fact, why there isn't an immediate 10 mile radius cordon put around all crime scenes where everyone is preemptively tasered and interrogated is beyond me... just being -you know- safe...
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how naive can you be ? AS IF the donut eaters and spooks ACTUALLY FOLLOW the laws and restrictions they are supposed to follow already ? ? ? geez, i hate outing authoritarians, but someone has to do it...
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you can always tell bubble people who color within the lines and wonder what is wrong with wanting the trains running on time...
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(*sigh*, here's the answer, bubblehead: there is nothing wrong with wanting the trains to run on time, it is the despot who enacts all the horror to make it so that is the problem...)
certainly this was the one and onliest major bug that s/w systems have; absolutely i trust nerdbotz motivated by dollar signs in their eyes to look after my best interests; surely no one lets major vulnerabilities languish for decades due to disinterest, forgetfulness, and laziness; without a doubt i have no qualms of my whole pitiful life being laid bare to these greedtards who don't give a shit...
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exactly why i am hereby predicting the imminent rise of neo-luddites... and i will be in line... getting to the poi9nt that virtually NONE of this computer crap is ACTUALLY serving US and adapting to US; but WE must adapt to what 'the computer' wants... tail wagging dog much ? ? ?
...become too true ? ? ?
went fishing in task mgr the other day under both win 7 and win 10 to check on what crappy 'processes' and other crud was clogging up MY machine, unbidden, unbeknownst (in a larger sense), and unwanted...
but it is nearly impossible (without resorting to semi-advanced nerd jiggery-pokery) to eliminate MS crapware i do not want/need... does that not meet the very definition of 'malware' ? ? ? software i don't want/need FORCED on me ? ? ?
like, say, cortana...
grrrr
and ALL kinds of 'update' crap from every piece of crappy s/w which every touched your machine start/restart and install/reinstall no matter how many times you 'disable' it (ha ! a new definition of 'disable'), ESPECIALLY including all the crapware the manufacturer loads...
so, i don't have a botnet infection taking up resources, i don't have russkie hackers using me as a tor gateway to disseminate pro-tee-rump propaganda, i don't have eee-vil AI awakenings trying to kill me; BUT, what i DO have, is an endless stream of OFFICIAL and semi-mandatory 'reminders', 'updates', 'background', zombie tasks and processes going on which i have ZERO use for, but can not be killed dead...
AND, when/if i do have use for them, i can start them up myself, fuck you very much...
gee, hard to wonder why discriminating nerds/users despise Big Computer dictating 'their' hardware/software 'choices'...
well, thanks for that useful response...
oh, wait, there wasn't ANYTHING substantial in your post at all, just a handful of snark addressed to me personally....
(other than the very weird putdown of jury nullification by insisting it is only a tool of jim crow racists... *sigh* another non-thinking SJW who sees a nazi behind every post...)
here you go: art guerrilla at windstream dot net
you want to snark, let's take it private; you want to argue with facts and rational discourse ? well, i have seen no evidence of that so far...
have a nice day, SIR...
(see, my capslock was connoting sarcasm there, did you pick up on that ? ? ?)
1. while i have the advantage of speaking from ignorance from the two examples cited, the one seems fairly obvious, BUT actually presents an argument for MORE '(anti)social media', OTHERWISE, his private, unlawful thoughts wouldn't have been found out, AND he may have gone on to convict an otherwise innocent person because of his fervor to hang a pedo, ANY pedo. or suspected pedo, or once knew a pedo, etc...
2. have NO DOUBT this has NOTHING to do with idiots on social media (is that redundant?) behaving badly, but is ALL ABOUT persecutors, er, prosecutors maintaining absolute authority in the court and control of all input/infomation...
3. the other case cited seems -to me- to be ANOTHER argument FOR using the internet, in that i am betting the juror found out more real info on fraud in their private googling (REGARDLESS of how much was misnformation), than WHATEVER was going to be presented by the persecutors... THAT is what they don't want: a well informed juror who stands up for their right to DECIDE cases NOT just 'on the law' (as one-sidedly presented by the court), ie so-called 'jury nullification', which is actually juries performing their lawful duty in trying to enforce JUSTICE, not just 'the law' (which has little to nothing to do with 'justice' or equity these days)...
all the rest of the sheeple bleating 'baaahhh, but its the lawwwwwww...' are cowards and tools...
salaries are based on bullshit, here is how i know:
i believe it was a study in jolly old where they researched who performed the most useful, critical jobs in society (and how much they were paid), and who performed the least useful, wouldn't-be-missed-if-they-fell-off-the-planet jobs...
turns out, banksters and CEOs are the LEAST useful people on the planet, BUT the highest paid; hospital janitors are the MOST useful people on the planet, but paid the least...
THAT is how i know that salaries are based on social expectations and Empire stroking their technokrats, NOT some sort of meritocracy...
as an aside, regarding men vs woman pay; excepting a -literal- percent or two of knuckledraggers, WHO disagrees that woman and men shouldn't get equal pay for equal work ? ? ?
WHO ? ? ?
effectively no one, please stop beating EVERYONE over the head with that crap...
(if you must, beat the useless CEOs over the head, but stop blaming the 99% for what the 1% do...)
nope, stop thinking like a machine and start demanding to be treated as a human bean... why WE human beans have to learn/bend to a machine-friendly version of the date is what is wrong with society in a nutshell...
the only unambiguous, HUMAN-FRIENDLY date format is wed13sep2017, all the rest is giving up your humanity for the convenience of machines...
@ old previously-owned proggy-
AND, for bonus points, i defy you to *try* to access any of 'your' data Big Telco has on YOUR account...
had a situation where i had to 'prove' i called a certain state office about an employment matter, and they -effectively- claimed i did not do so... went to 'my' (sic) Big Telco who I PAY MONEY TO FOR SERVICE, if they would kindly provide my phone call records for about a 3 month period...
first, took going up the hierarchy and yelling and stamping my foot to get ANY response, and that response was 'no'... um, say wha ? those are 'my' records, of 'my' calls, WHY can't i have a copy of said records ? ??
well, not sure, but they were damn well NOT going to give me the records until i both wrote them a snail mail letter threatening legal action, as well as contacted a state rep... not sure what changed their mind, but they did relent and provide said records...
(which 'proved' my case, and made the state acknowledge the validity of my claim...)
what i *thought* should have been a simple request and easily fulfilled response, became a protracted and maddening process of punching at smoke...
grrrr, me hates me some Big Telcos...
@ mark 85 " I'm thinking civil discourse is lost on certain groups."
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i'm thinking the principle of actual free speech is lost on most sheeple...
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the bedrock right of free speech is fundamental to maintaining all other rights...
that takes precedence over ANYONE's and EVERYONE's pwecious, pwecious feelz...
suck it up, buttercup...
"The evidence for biological differences (as opposed to differences caused by social conditioning) is sketchy, controversial and dubious."
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@ paulnumber-
and with that right there, you have shown you are an idjit... no differences ? ? ? c'mon, i don't care how much you WANT to believe there are 'no differences', the differences are INESCAPABLE...
wtf is it with people that they abandon ALL common sense and observable reality for how THEY WISH things were (even if unattainable)...
this wishy-washy, hopey-feeley, 'why can't we all be the exact same organism' thinking is so stupid it makes my brain bleed...
1. worked at a couple companies who fell for this crapware,
2. 'caught' stupid crap a lot of the time, but not all of the time,
3. 'caught' VALID emails (from people corresponded with previously) a number of times, once actually causing a problem because an email was not seen,
4. had issues trying to unblock valid emails,
5. in short, i got more SPAM FROM THEM telling me what a great job they were doing catching harmless emails, then they ACTUALLY 'caught'.
but korporate droids have to look like they are doing *something*, even if it is useless; who knew there could be so much money in selling virtual tiger rocks...
not sure why the harsh downvoting, what poster spoke was truth, whether welcome or not...
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many/most casual users i know don't know the diff betw *their* (sic) email acct, the web site they use to access it, nor what an alternative email client is... for another good portion, outlook *is* email...
for me, MUCH sadness if this is impending doom for thunderbird... can not stand web-based email, for the most part; and simply can not abide the oh-so-moderne practice of putting all email (or is it?) in one *blob* that i can't tell who said what/when, not to mention constantly 'losing' one word/one line replies that are lost in the forest of text...
fook that poop: i send an email, you send a reply, and never the twain shall meet, keep them neat and discrete... sorted by most current, thank you very much, MY computer/program...
and i have had email get missed because the current 'blob' of email to/from someone was uppermost in the queue (and all that i thought was going on), but meanwhile, they had sent some other 'new' emails from another account that i didn't see because there was no 'current' blob near the top of the queue...
fookin blobs...
a non cow, i believe you are more right than wrong, *especially* in the over-valuation of celebutards: they are made into brands/products that we are led to believe are otherwise superior to you... they are not, they ARE you...
in fact, i can prove it by the following: are there or are there not a fookton of 'reality' shows which showcase the talents of zillions of 'nobodies' who can dance their ass off, sing their heart out, and otherwise perform JUST AS WELL -if not better- than all but the once-in-a-generation geniuses ? ? ?
the answer is, yes, there are a fookton of talented folks out there (we ALL have talent(s), whether it is in entertainment is another matter) who could step into the shoes of any/all the celebutards out there who are MARKETED as the coolest thing since sliced bread...
every single actor on the planet could be raptured out of here, and there would be more than enough talented people (arguably, we are ALL actors) to step up and fill in admirably...
no, this celebutard-worship is both a purposeful propaganda ploy by the puppetmasters, as well as a natural reaction in trying to have 'leaders' in a leader-less society...
that is, in fact, what grade school teachers have to undergo EVERY year; *most* know *most* of the time they will be 're-hired', but the fact you have to be 're-hired' every year is a psychological burden...
yet another reason teaching is the respected and valued profession it is in amerika... /s
1. there is a qualitative and quantitative difference betw a PRIVATE chat betw two consenting parties WHO HAVE EVERY EXPECTATION THAT CONVERSATION WILL REMAIN PRIVATE FOREVER; and broadcasting a not-really-very-private-email-now-is-it to a bunch of people, apparently with malice aforethought...
2. there are ANY number of PRIVATE matters they may discuss in those emails/chats which have nothing to do with the doctor, OR MAY be related ('oh, that scar where they took out my belly fat is more prominent than i thought...' blah blah blah), personal stuff which may not seem like a big deal, but is fucking personal...
for example, i realize probably everyone knows i pick boogers (in the privacy of my bathroom), but i really don't want pictures or email descriptions cropping up for no good reason than someone else's nosiness... i would be mortified and violated, EVEN THOUGH it is only about stupid boogers...
3. i don't care what kind of super-duper-excellent reputation der gut herr doktor has, is it possible he is meta-physically the world's greatest plastic surgeon in his specialty, AND he mucked up a few operations ? ? ? duh...
4. lastly, the retarded notion that LAYPEOPLE MUST discuss any/all medical issues (heh, why stop there: NO discussion of legal issues unless 100% accurate; NO discussion of science unless you have the calcs nailed down 100% accurately, ad absurdum...) with 100% accuracy and total knowledge is preposterous on the face of it...
FORGET about any actual malice or intent to defame a doctor, JUST NORMAL ignorance of most medical 'stuff' is enough to explain inaccurate and 'wrong' medical information laypeople relate to each other...
this is crazy talk...
yes, no, maybe so...
easy enough to think of any of a number common -not to mention uncommon, but real- instances where some combination of events conspire to give that appearance...
you click a link without realizing what it was, you have a mouse spasm and click a link next to a link, etc, etc... *then* you get called away by a pet at the door, a tea kettle singing, or remembering to change the washer, and next thing you know, *you* have been *visiting* that pron site for *ages*...
throw in a cat who plays with your mouse, and, well, c'mon, cats are hopeless pron addicts...
Empire will always have its authoritarian sycophants, it depends on them...
*of course* it will *never* occur to him that he is on the wrong side of the police state, and that manning, snowden, kiriakou, etc are the heroes... too much cognitive dissonance to go there... (not to mention a cushy job at stake)
urine idjit...
you ASSUME that everyone has the same saving/saveas conventions and usages you do, we don't...
i open a 'master' file a couple dozen times a day and SAVEAS, any other process would just add bullshit that is of no use...
when you dumb down the process, you make it difficult for knowledgeable users, NOT FOOLPROOF...
*sniff* from my olfactory sampling, you, sir, have the whiff of an authoritarian...
if the mainstream media won't remind you (and they won't) the feebs (and prosecutors in general) have a piss-poor record of being 'trustworthy' at EVERY STEP of the evidentiary process, from 'losing' evidence, to fraudulent lab results, to voodoo forensic 'science', to withholding exculpatory evidence, to fabricating evidence, to prosecutor-friendly 'experts', etc, etc, etc...
'question authority' should be the default mode of EVERY concerned citizen...
...and don't forget that 10 point safety check before every trip !
seriously, GREAT, succinct advice for the shade-tree mechanics in the studio audience; but how many have the tools, know-how, or -most importantly, especially if saddled with rugrats- the time to do such necessary maintenance of their car ?
...AND the spousal unit's car, AND the kid's bikes, AND the lawnmower, AND the refrig, AND the washer/dryer, AND the AC, AND the broken light fixture by the porch, AND the water heater, AND the culvert that is silted up, AND the dog's crate which is broken, AND -*sigh*- the stupid 'puter on the blink, AND any of another hundred never ending things which we *should* do, but don't have the time, energy, or know-how to do so ?
sure, i used to change my oil/filter, but for not much more than the cost of the syn-oil, the local oil-change place can do it while i work, a short walk away from there...(not to mention i don't have to lug the spent oil to the local recycle place, AND they plug the slow leaking tire i've been meaning to fix for the last couple weeks, but can't find my stupid $5 tire plug kit, AND they replace the burnt-out turn signal light it would have taken me another month or so to get to, etc)
time, it all comes down to precious, precious time...
i bet dollars to donut holes, 90% of our studio audience would LOVE to trade off some pay for time off, IF they had the choice...
grrrr...
get off my email ! ! !
yes, i am one of the troglodytes who prefer to have email SEPARATE and in chronological order... who said what, when, is often critical, and when it is all blobbed together in one mashup, it is becomes unwieldy...
i OFTEN want to refer to one particular email for some link, some info, some address, NOT a lump of undifferentiated text i have to wade through to pick out a nugget of what i want...
HATE one-blob email, HATE it...
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hardly the same thing at all, but, you know, computers ! ! !
further, OF COURSE nekkid apes judge people by the company they keep: it is NOT the same thing to say i hang out with the league of woman voters registering citizens to vote, and: i hang out with an outlawed biker gang at a burned-out shack where moonshine and meth are sold and they bugger chickens...
i mean, they are both 'social contact' organizations, aren't they ? ? ?
same thing, right ? ? ?
equally laudable, correct ? ? ?
yeps, exactly...
wife running win 8 on a new laptop, got fooled into upgrading, fortunately, her needs are so minimal -web browsing, email, word, etc- that it has had little effect, other than the strange interface where she can't find anything anymore, minor stuff like that...
my laptop, a year or so old, got the stupid nags so often, i gave up and went to install win 10 against my better judgment... takes a half day to download the crap, then tells me my system isn't compatible ? ? ?
WTF ? terabyte drive, mainstream AMD processor, 8 gigs ram, runs win 8.1, and it isn't 'compatible' ?
well, ultimately, i was never so happy to be incompatible, but at the time, it was WTF micro$oft ? ? ?
"We are lost and without legal recourse."
the immoral has been legalized; the moral made illegal...
for the authoritarians in the studio audience: OUR public institutions were SUPPOSED to be set up so that they were not "TRUSTED", but had transparent oversight and public accountability; NOT secret crap on top of secret crap that we can't even tell you we do secret crap because, um, tourism ! ! ! ...or kiddie pron ! !! ...oh, i know, state sekrets ! ! !
*that* is not small-dee democracy, *that* is totalitarianism of whatever flavor you want to sprinkle on top...
what to do ? ? ?
our 'wiser' brothers and sisters would have you 'vote harder' ! ! !
*sheesh*
'wait' for someone to post something sufficiently salacious out of the tor node ? ? ?
like the cartoon of two vultures sitting in a tree watching a dying man, 'wait, hell...'
no, these human vultures will doubtless seed some smut themselves just to make sure they have something to bust...
if the feebs and other anti-American slimeballs didn't invent crimes, would there be any ? ? ?
factoid: property losses from actual theft were about 3.9 billion, kops seized over 4 billion in so-called 'civil forteiture', WHO are the 'bad guys' again ? ? ?
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