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• On the post: Parole Violator Who Raided Senate Building Sold Out By The GPS Unit Attached To Him For Previous Parole Violations

  

  iSights ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2021 @ 07:14am

  Re: Re: Just glorious

  Did he just want more donations? According to reports Donald was watching and delaying the decision to send in the National Guard. So... what bothers me is what would have happened had they broken in, been just a minute or two faster, and actually managed to capture Pence and Pelosi? Or AOC? Would they still be alive? Would Donald, watching from afar, have instigated martial law to "contain" the issue? And then used the disruption to call for more elections after he'd had a chance to get more of his minions in place to "ensure" the process was "fair"? We joke about this and about guys like this now... but it was that close from not being very funny at all.

• On the post: Wednesday, January 6th: The Day The Game Of Politics Turned Into Insurrection

  

  iSights ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2021 @ 11:13am

  We have tons of photos and video of the protestors, some even taken by themselves as they posed for selfies inside the Capital. They should be tracked down, arrested, and charged. Further, the charges should reflect the fact that people died because of and during their actions.

  The same for those that instigated the attempted coup. And that includes, especially, the Instigator in Chief.

  I'm tired of hearing about "healing". If there are no penalties for this then we're just going to see more of the same.

• On the post: Google Kills Nest Secure, Can't Be Bothered To Explain Support Roadmap

  

  iSights ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2020 @ 04:38pm

  I wrote a Medium article describing several of the reasons why I thought people shouldn't use Flutter, one of Google's cross-platform development tools.

  And high on the list was the fact that Google rather notoriously runs hot and cold on projects. What's up-and-coming one month can be flushed down the drain the next. Often with little to no warning.

  As we see again here. Software, Servers. APIs, Hardware. Doesn't matter. It doesn't meet some internal threshold for success and boom. You're outta here!

• On the post: Verizon's New 'Nationwide' 5G Isn't Nationwide, Barely Faster Than 4G

  

  iSights ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2020 @ 08:54am

  I don't think that word means what you think it means

  Just like information coming out of the White House. "I know I said 'nation-wide', but... I mean, it's in some places in NY and in some places in LA, so... like... that's nation-wide, right?"

  "It's even... I read somewhere... it's even in half a baseball field in Chicago, so it's even in the middle of the country, right?"

  "All these people trying to say it's not nation-wide... sad really. Just more FAKE NEWS!"

• On the post: The Fortnite App Store Battle: A Real Antitrust Conundrum, Or Just A Carefully Planned Out Contract Negotiation?

  

  iSights ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2020 @ 08:41am

  Re: Re: Corporation vs Corporation

  "... and the alternative stores will have a vested interest in keeping their offerings clean." Or not. If there's one thing most of the alternative Android stores have shown it's that people seem to prefer "free" to "safe".

• On the post: The Fortnite App Store Battle: A Real Antitrust Conundrum, Or Just A Carefully Planned Out Contract Negotiation?

  

  iSights ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2020 @ 11:02am

  Re: Corporation vs Corporation

  Dear Government. Please make the big bad Apple take less of our money and we, like AT&T, Sprint,Verizon, and many other proud US corporations will definitely consider passing on at least some of those savings on to our customers. Seriously. We promise to think really hard about it! Epic

• On the post: From The Stupid To The Bizarre: Trump Demands That His Government Should Take A 'Substantial' Cut Of TikTok's Purchase Fee

  

  iSights ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2020 @ 11:33am

  Of course, the idiot doesn't realize that all China needs to do is take his precedent and use it to force Google, Facebook, et al, to sell their Chinese business operations to Chinese companies.

• On the post: Florida Government Decides To Fire Its Data Chief Rather Than Be Honest About Its COVID Numbers

  

  iSights ( profile ), 27 May, 2020 @ 12:57pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  So... 1) Problems if we don't do something about it...
  2) Did something about it...
  3) Almost no problems... Because we did something about it. Not sure I'm following the illogic here....

• On the post: Right On Cue, Post-Merger T-Mobile Layoffs Begin

  

  iSights ( profile ), 04 Mar, 2020 @ 03:33pm

  Re: Re:

  Because, you know, Capitalism!!!

• On the post: Right On Cue, Post-Merger T-Mobile Layoffs Begin

  

  iSights ( profile ), 04 Mar, 2020 @ 06:47am

  It's not really like we can do much about it. The people at the top proposing the mergers are doing it to make even more money. The people in government approving the mergers came from the industries they're "regulating" and will return there to reap their rewards once they've served their function.

• On the post: AT&T Execs Think It's Really Funny They Misled Consumers About 5G Availability

  

  iSights ( profile ), 15 Jan, 2019 @ 10:43am

  Re: The emperor's new gaslit clothes

  Donald???

• On the post: Dystopia Now: Insurance Company Secretly Spying On Sleep Apnea Patients

  

  iSights ( profile ), 26 Nov, 2018 @ 11:35am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  They mitigate the risk of health coverage by distributing it over all clients... and all too often they maximize the profits by refusing said health coverage to as many of those clients in as many cases as possible.
  
  In an "ideal" world, they'd collect premiums and pay... nothing.

• On the post: Feds Finally Get Around To Using Someone's Face To Unlock Their Cellphone

  

  iSights ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2018 @ 02:01pm

  Protection

  For those unaware, on the new iPhone OS's, squeezing the sleep/wake button and the lower volume button for a couple of seconds will lock the phone such that a passcode is required to open it.
  
  If at all possible, I'd do this before (or while) having to hand the phone over, and I'd definitely do it before hitting a TSA or Homeland security checkpoint.
  
  It's gotten to the point where some people recommend traveling with a burner phone that has a minimum amount of personal information contained within it.

• On the post: Fighting The Future: Teamsters Demand UPS Ban Drones And Autonomous Vehicles

  

  iSights ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2018 @ 11:08am

  Re:

  They still use lots of long and short haul trucks that route between cities and terminals.
  
  There's also a push to have deliveries made you your local supermarket, department store, etc., for later pickup. No more having packages lifted off your front doorstep.
  
  Either way, fewer truckers and drivers.

• On the post: Colorado Cities Keep Voting To Build Their Own Broadband Networks

  

  iSights ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2018 @ 08:53am

  Re: Battle Plan

  Who owns the block infrastructure? Laid the fiber? Maintains the service? Who updates existing neighborhoods?
  
  Seems to me you're simply setting up another "last mile" problem.

• On the post: Colorado Cities Keep Voting To Build Their Own Broadband Networks

  

  iSights ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2018 @ 08:49am

  Re: Re: Crooked Politicians

  "at great expense to taxpayers"
  
  Which part about funded by a bond issue was unclear?

• On the post: Colorado Legalizes Another Vice: Texting While Driving

  

  iSights ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2017 @ 10:34am

  Re:

  What's clearly needed here are self-driving cars so the idiots can text to their hearts content without threatening to kill themselves, their passengers, and anyone unfortunate enough to cross their path.

• On the post: 80% Of Cord Cutters Leave Because Of High Cable TV Prices, But The Industry Still Refuses To Compete On Price

  

  iSights ( profile ), 19 Jun, 2017 @ 07:10am

  Re:

  I cut over two years ago, and while I still watch some TV, almost all of it comes from Netflix, Hulu, and HBO Now (total cost: $37/mo).
  
  Occasionally when I'm on a trip I'll turn on the TV in the hotel room and try to watch "normal" television, with all of the ads and crawlers and interstitials and interrupters... and I wonder just who would be dumb enough to pay over $100/mo for that kind of abuse.

• On the post: Donald Trump Happily Repeating Lie About Google Autocomplete Suppressing Negative Hillary News

  

  iSights ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2016 @ 01:15pm

  Re: Biased for Trump?

  Looks to me like it's biased in favor of Trump.
  
  I typed in "Donald Trump ch" and failed to get "Donald Trump cheating". In fact, I have to go all the way to "Donald Trump chea" to even get "donald trump cheated architect"...

• On the post: MPAA Boss: Actually Being Good To Consumers Would Be Horrible For Hollywood

  

  iSights ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2016 @ 10:11am

  Pricing

  I think this is more about controlling pricing A movie might be marketed in one country at one rate but priced lower elsewhere.

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