Posts by 404

Re: Growing your own food can

'For real? And to think we used to joke about taxing the air we breathe!'

You do pay tax for the air you breathe - part of the Government package enforcing clean air laws.

Just not directly.

Re: Adam Curtis HyperNormalisation

Americans as children? I can agree with you somewhat. However, I also believe they(we/me) are conditioned to remain in that state by design to create consumers. The lack of personal responsibility for their actions or inaction, everyone being a victim of something or other, always pointing fingers, the lack of any sense of US history, much less world history, all combines to create surface dwellers. Even American journalism schools teach that you should write your stories to a 3rd grade reading level.

I mean everybody isn't that way, there are always differences, but the overfuckinglywhelming majority of Americans are idIoTs.

Yet the Mexican Immigration site has very sparse traffic... weird, huh? Wonder why?

Mkay. Is China an open or closed market? Where is all the moaning over Chinese protectionism?

I'm not being a smartass here - there is a level playing field or there is not.

Is that selective hearing syndrome? - Only hear every third word and only then if it's threatening somehow?

I'll need two counselors, one young, one old, to consider this in my safe space*.

*Pillow Fort

Re: Don't want to be tracked?

Well hopefully you left your phone, wallet, and tax information folder home before you went out doing nefarious things... but some don't so there you go,

'We're going to need some sort of map or chart'

A 'safe space' more likely, might be offended and need counseling.

Re: @hyper

Check the fine print - it'll be there. Bet.

A kind of you own the car but lease the software kind of thing - Windows 10 without the mediacenter you once purchased. You know ;)

Re: ID-Iot

You follow me on twitter? Been saying that for awhile... If I was Apple I'd sue your ass, but then if I was Apple, I would have applied for a copyright first, so you win this one...

I'm waiting for the Ultimate Mousetrap with auto reset and streaming webserver for Android and iPhone...

I thought the Note 3 was the end all, be all of my phone needs and wants, figured the stylus would be a better way to get signatures for CC payments on my phone instead of just a finger doodle on a screen. Quite possible I would have waited for the Note 7 - if Samsung hadn't obsoleted my Note 3 less than 2 years into contract - no Marshmallow for you, 404! Thus far I'm pretty happy with my LG G5, gets regular updates, removable battery, SD card slot, and better cameras than that Pixel I'm hearing so much about.

Funny thing about my Note 3 - I never, ever, took a CC payment on it, either cash, check, or invoiced. Weird.

Re: np here

Stupid post, needs more detail.

When the LG G5's first came out at Verizon, the sales reps didn't know how to work it without an app drawer. In our case, wife went Nova launcher and I held out for BB hub+, we both use BB Hub+ now. LG reconsidered the issue and now the G5 comes with a stock app drawer.

Quite possibly a subtle kick in the reseller nads by Google to position Pixel as the Must Have Flagship Android... well, of course it is.

Re: this is why

Also why admins *should* be allowed to beat the shit out of developers.

Re: Must.Have.More.Coffee

Maybe city folk, but with the wife and I, that's 4 cups. (those things are inaccurate)

Re: A coincidence that this happened the same week that Westworld came out on HBO??

You'll never beat Yul Brynner in the original Westworld movie.

Still, you'd think it would kill Hollywood to do something original...

Re: Label you, label me, label us all together

'quite a few people , when learning to drive, have to have their hands labelled "L" and "R"'

In OSUT (One Station Unit Training) in the early 80's, there was one poor sonuvabitch who couldn't march for shit, always started off on the wrong foot, who was made to carry a rock in his left hand for 13 weeks. If I wasn't preoccupied with perfecting my Zen (becoming One with the Woodwork is very desirable in Basic - Senior Drill Instructor got 137 counts of trainee abuse two cycles after we graduated), I would have felt sorry for him.

Breaks my heart today when I remember him trying his damnedest to mentally/physically get into rhythm before even moving. I wonder what became of him?

Re: Hello, my name is [Anglicised], I'm calling from [major corporation/department]

Ours goes like this:

Can I speak to Peter 404?

Sure which one? I have four Peter 404s and one is dead. Which one do you want?

....ummmm

Ok, when you figure out which one you want to speak to, you call us right back ok?

....Yes... Thank you?.....

<click>

Edited to say: Works on bill collectors too ;)

That would be because Chennai is world famous for their tacos... would cause too much confusion.