Posts by Repne Scasb 14 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Sep 2019
You mean a future where someone else is pulling our strings and not only do we not have any autonomous ability but we don't actually know it and our whole existence is merely to provide entertainment for our invisible overlord's children? Yes, I think I know what you mean. The past is the future and the future is now.
I have done a scientific study and despite using several different types of cakes in several different office locations, at no point did the cake move towards me. Several colleagues verified this. With 100% reproducibility we had to move to the cake and actively eat it. At no point did cake enter our bodies without active deliberation on our part, so I am at a loss (well, not in the calorie sense) to see the equivalence with passive smoking. I'll keep trying though.
See also "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" Walter Benjamin, 1935. Creatives might find they need to get a bit more creative and a little less whiny. Unless that's the creative bit. Sometimes it's hard to tell these days.
One place I worked at the fire alarms went off, which we presumed to be a fire drill, but this time there was a chap at the bottom of the stairs blocking the main entrance telling people that they weren't heading for the proper fire exit and couldn't use it, to head for the fire escape door instead. There were a fair number of people milling around unsure of what to do, to the point the stairs were backing up. I headed for the fire exit door, broke the glass tube and opened it, we then filed out.
There was a brief discussion that I might have done something wrong as it was "only a drill", which indeed it was, but they seemed to miss whole point of a fire drill being to ensure that people do the right thing in a real one, which just might possibly include breaking some glass to save your life.
"Game's over and I'm taking my ball home!"
"It's not your ball, it's mine, you just borrowed it and then sold it to me. Now I want the ball you borrowed back. Tell you what, I've got one here you can buy. Gonna cost you though.."
Good thing you can only borrow the ball once. Oh wait....
I had the "joy" of the telephone activation service after removing the a network card from an XP machine. It had been setup elsewhere and the network card was no longer needed as it was to be used in a studio, that didn't have internet and wasn't needed in any case. It still wanted to activate via a network, oblivious to the fact that it didn't have one. It was a very slow and painful process entering the 25 digits back and forth, took a couple of goes if I remember.
The thing I find somewhat odd is that if someone has my details on their phone, I am not consulted nor consent about my details being passed on to Whatsapp (or any of those other 'allow access to contacts' apps), which would seem incompatible with GDPR. I don't have a business relationship with them, which would seem to fail the test for them being allowed to have my data. Friends / colleagues and associates don't seem to grasp that it's not their personal data they are disclosing by blindly accepting these changes, or tell me they are very careful about not disclosing their number / email and wonder how it got out.
Same here, vaguely remembered an email from them, saw the article here, checked my account and yes, auto renew for a .uk domain that I didn't want set to auto renew for next month.
Will be looking to move from them when my only remaining domain with them expires.
What a bunch of tossers.
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