Posts by bussdriver

Now ready for a reboot.. All Women?

Gender flip all roles and reboot; just wait for the stench of Ghost Busters to fade. We'll have to be told the genders of the robots; which will actually be robot voice actors so they can sell them to you later. Yoda will be a muppet again and voiced by Mark Hamel, for nostalgia. We'll still cynically think dark grit = realism so it will be the 1980s version of rated R (but labeled PG) and Luka Skywalker will hookup with her brother, Prince Leiam.

But seriously, Star Wars the musical and Star Wars on ICE will come first.

Dump the whole bowl on Putin

Maybe Putin will get a soul.

Censorship not the stand is the problem

They can sell a gold plated model (and for 999 they should) and it does not matter; some insecure man with $ will buy it.

They didn't test the presentation like they should have; then they'd realize they should have mentioned the VESA and made that sanely priced while saying YOU pros can choose the stand that suits your needs (show photo of selection at Apple Store.) THEN offer a high end expensive stand option.

I seriously wouldn't ever consider or want an OEM bundled stand on a pro monitor; just stop including the things already and make everything VESA. A VESA stand should be like "batteries not included." Including plastic trash stands for serious users is not responsible.

It's all a scam

It's all fitting right into the paranoid descriptions but delayed by 9 years. No charges in the USA was a lie; the political pressure to get him exposed to that is real; the unprecedented treatment of a warrant for questioning... when they Skipe murder suspects. Don't forget they openly let him leave without charges or questioning until a US "friendly" prosecutor was found to bring back the charges. Now we have the elevation of charges to Rape to make the 10 year limit when the previous charges ran out? Not to mention the early charges that were already thrown out by their supreme court which shouldn't have even been listed in the first place... Remember, the UK has prevented people from being sent to the USA because of it's inhumane justice system... something that should be even more apparent TODAY than 9 years ago... kidnapping, Trump encouraging abuse and stating torture is OK again...

The leaked documents about smearing and seeding trouble within wikileaks have proven true (and Assange has sure helped them to that end but that is the clever kind of stuff that the CIA can do; remember, the Russians are masters of such techniques, so it's not unreaslistic.)

The problem has never been facing court in Sweden or even jail time if he loses in the he said/she said zero-proof legal case. THE REAL PROBLEM was Sweden has zero confidence in standing up to the USA, the UK did have some hope. Ecuador did until a new president and billions from the world bank that they sorely needed; with such bad timing and their unprofessional character attacks along with them having to put out statements DENYING they were paid and not to look at the man behind the curtain in the back...

The USA will make an example of anybody messing with them. Expect Assange to continue to be made miserable and ineffective for decades. Many ignorant Americans (synonymous by now, no?) think Assange is some kind of traitor despite not being a citizen! He could be put on trial here for that and the majority wouldn't grasp what is wrong... it's not like the media here is remotely competent.

Most likely any move to touch Don Jr or get him speaking would create a crisis as Trump fires everybody related to it; not as much to protect his kid who he knows and even says (reportedly) is stupid but because worse than his father, he incriminates everybody without realizing it... He just hasn't learned to constantly speak in vague and contradictory terms like his father.

And you were shocked Trump won?

I live here and not in the south I was not shocked.

lack of context

Having the paper explain it and getting attention to it is great but for most it will just look juvenile without context. They should do some thinking about the statement it makes; that would be difficult without writing "my insecurity is bigger" below it. I think I'd be more inclined to take a spot light and aim it into the window of the extremist lighting up the world and put a wreath around it and say "it's only a decoration."

Even serious, it still is a joke

CoC being set to something that offends many is great irony. Doesn't have to be intentional to be a joke.

It's all BS just to excuse actions against somebody later on like policies and procedures. They are used those in power against whomever and the masses are more likely to blow it off if it is done referring to some static document nobody memorizes or reviews... unless it upsets too many and then a policy debate ensues but still results in less harm than just saying, "I am banning X because I hate them and I'm in charge, not you." It's a political trick we all fall for too often.

groundwork is there already

Apple already is moving to partially compiled binaries for their app store; which allows Apple to finish compiling your binaries to other hardware. When I read about it I thought of it as a better way than what Java did... or something between the two would be ideal.

Apple already has iOS on ARM and now they are getting it perfected for porting to Intel so existing MacOS can run iOS apps without a ton of trouble. I've been wondering why they are killing 32bit apps when the OS was so well designed... they must have a reason to cut off support which should be really easy to provide. Could it be because they plan on hardware accelerated translation for ARM? Or they don't want to emulate the mess that is x86 too?

it's the NSA stupid

Google's interactions with the NSA are ongoing. ATnT helped the NSA and they have been thanked. Why wouldn't google get some "benefits" for being "friends" with the NSA?

FBI is right in a way

I don't doubt their confidence; it probably was run from a computer in NK. With some leaked stuff which might not have been intentional-- but that system was probably a proxy or BOT in NK. When you start out with some hack like that doing everything remotely, that is probably a skill you are good at and you start the whole thing out of a remote terminal.

I'm not in opposition to Apple's fee.

I don't own their phone and I do not like paying electronically.

Everybody who accepts plastic payment MUST pay a high % of the sale to the processor and the credit company. It is a privatized tax which nobody seems to know about because ALL pricing automatically includes it (but sales tax is itemized) and one reason for this is the legal agreements the companies push worldwide is to BAN you from telling customers that they are paying almost 3%. If given the freedom to pay in cash without penalty, I would ditch plastic and go to cash to save a few %... but retailers are forbidden from allowing you to do this. Apple most likely got a cut on the card processing so the 0.15% is probably not in addition to the existing fees. Glancing at the overview with my processor, I don't have to pay anything extra for Apple Pay - which means the bank or processor is eating that 0.15%.

Obscurity is his biggest threat

The USA can blow up it's own citizens and their citizen children without hardly any trouble; because those people are obscure nobodies. Assange needs attention to stay alive; as well as keep the outrage going and he is still the figurehead for wikileaks... nobody in their right mind would want to take over that position (honestly, I don't Assange would allow that, but his personal issues are basically off topic. So it does help the USA that his org is distracted and diluted; which would have happened eventually since that is a classic propaganda tactic.)