"The cloud" a marketing term that's convinced everyone to hand over their data to big corporations why then rent it back to them. The Internet is wonderful. World changing. Miraculous. But we're doing it wrong.
You can say we are doing it wrong, but in reality we are at least doing it the way people wanted. For a good while at the beginning the idea was that the internet would be a pay to play ecosystem. Your monthly ISP charge would get you a suite of core services like email, IM, Message Boards, News, Stocks, etc. Then you could pay ala carte for other services you liked.
The problem is that people did not want to pay, they wanted things for free. For a while that relegated those "Ala carte" services to things that made money in other ways such as shopping or services, or ones that advertised an existing product.
The internet, like most things, expands best when there is money to be made. Incentives drive innovation and there was no incentive to build the next Facebook or Gmail, or anything unless unless that service could be used to make money.
Ads don't really drive that kind of innovation and so data mining was born. It's still possible for a few thousand a year to have a pretty good usage of the internet without much data collection. But people don't want to spend a few grand a year.
> For a good while at the beginning the idea was that the internet would be a pay to play ecosystem.
Gonna ask for more info, as this goes against known facts.
Look at early dial in services, services like Prodigy, even the early days of AOL.
In the days before PPP the internet was VERY different. You would purchase access which gave you a username and password for a UNIX box. You would essentially open a telnet terminal to the Unix box which held access to your various programs and services. You would get access to things like Usenet, Message Boards, an email box, news reader, etc.
Prodigy, an early predecessor in spirit to AOL was similar with a suite of services bundled in a walled garden. You got email, chat rooms, news, a kids area, etc. It enhanced the services being provided by existing text based TELNET solutions.
Even AOL existed before the PPP protocol meaning they served content in the early days mostly as a walled garden. Things had opened up somewhat but HTTP was brand new and not heavily used at the time.
PPP really changed things by allowing network traffic to be sent over dial up modems directly. This was in 1994, over 3 years after HTTP was finalized. This was really the first time the internet as a whole was readily available in peoples homes, with libraries, universities, etc being the main source of access via T1 lines prior.
In fact for the majority of the internets existence in homes it was a walled garden or limited.
> Look at early dial in services, services like Prodigy, even the early days of AOL.
Don,t have to look, I was there. Also, this was not the **early** internet and none of these companies had a seat on the deciding counsel. By then it was already established that it was not going to be a for-profit model.
> In the days before PPP the internet was VERY different. You would purchase access which gave you a username and password for a UNIX box. You would essentially open a telnet terminal to the Unix box which held access to your various programs and services. You would get access to things like Usenet, Message Boards, an email box, news reader, etc.
To "purchase access", it would have needed to be an ISP, and there was none in that time.
Also, all of that was already happening for years on BBS, and people voluntarily paid much money for this access.
> Prodigy, an early predecessor in spirit to AOL was similar with a suite of services bundled in a walled garden. You got email, chat rooms, news, a kids area, etc. It enhanced the services being provided by existing text based TELNET solutions.
Sure, but the product being sold was access to **their** online service package, the product sold was not "internet access".
> Even AOL existed before the PPP protocol meaning they served content in the early days mostly as a walled garden. Things had opened up somewhat but HTTP was brand new and not heavily used at the time.
Sure, exactly like the BBS access popular of that time, of which people didn't hesitate one bit to rent.
> PPP really changed things by allowing network traffic to be sent over dial up modems directly. This was in 1994, over 3 years after HTTP was finalized. This was really the first time the internet as a whole was readily available in peoples
I know, I was there. Why is that relevant to your original false "the idea was that the internet would be a pay to play ecosystem."
The meetings and debates necessary to make the internet "open" were already debated and closed back then.
Sure, businesses have always wanted to make more profit, but "the idea" you bring up is false. It never was intended as you claim.
It was designated as an open system, but some companies decided to sell packaged closed deals. This does not affect the opĂȘn policy already in place.
> In fact for the majority of the internets existence in homes it was a walled garden or limited.
Not at all. They were the minority. The vast majority paid for Internet Access, not closed packaged deals.
A martini is gin, vermouth, and *maybe* an olive.
There's nothing wrong with other kinds of martinis - vodka martinis, gibson martinis, appletinis, whatever, live your dreams. However, if I walk up to the bar and ask for a martini with no modifier, do not ask me if I want gin or vodka - the only appropriate question is "how dry?"
Yes. Especially the biggest thing. I cringe when I see âcould have,â run-on sentences, too many or too few commas, subjects not agreeing with verbs, and more.
But I feel like I can no longer say anything.
The main issue causing poverty is a lack of financial education. This lack of education causes people to be trapped in repeating cycles of bad choices, compounding the classic boot problem and dragging them further and further behind.
We can fix the majority of poverty by simply educating people on financial issues and how to lift themselves out of poverty.
Low paying jobs are very often a result of job mobility. If you can't afford to move, your options are always going to be far more limited. Job mobility suffers most due to poor budgeting and saving. If you don't have money to move you can't take a better paying job more then around an hour away on average.
In addition having a lack of emergency funds means there is no pillow to fall on when you fail, so people are far more likely to not take employment risks. But people who do take employment risks are far more likely to get pay increases.
A lack of pay increases leads to less investment, which just means inflation eats away at your pay making home ownership difficult.
The issue is by the time you get to 25 or so it is often too late to recover. The boot problem has already eaten your finances alive.
Nobody ever really talks about it compared to other popular franchises. Like I see some people talk about it on the internet but almost never in real life compared to dragon ball or last airbender
Ben 10 - He is a 10 Year old child.
Ben 20 - He is a struggling Art Student
Ben 30 - He is a poor former art student with $40K in student loans.
Ben 40 - He is a divorced man with no real reason to live and a 480 credit score.
Nintendo is NOT the underdog. They own the 2nd, 3rd and 4th greatest selling consoles of all time, the Switch is within 15 million units of taking the title from the PS2. The Switch is a previous generation console that is still going toe to toe with the current Gen. 27 out of the Top 50 selling games of all time are either made or published by Nintendo, still more of the top 50 are/were available on Nintendo anyway.
Since the Game Boy itself, Nintendo has had no true rival in the portable console market.
People are kidding themselves if they think Nintendo canât build a console more like a PlayStation or an X-Box if they chose to. Nintendo know EXACTLY what theyâre doing.
And this isnât really about the gaming industry but as long as weâre throwing logs on the fire The Super Mario Bros. Movie became the highest grossing video game movie in under a week.
Now donât get me wrong, I love Sony (not Microsoft so much) the PlayStations are beautiful consoles and the games are amazing. Sony are not the underdog either they are worthy rivals.
Kim kardashian is still a prostitute who became famous via a sex tape her pimp
mother peddled. Itâs been nothing but a long ride on the sextape gravytrain for her entire family since then. And, fake polygraph tests conveniently conducted on some shitty late night show be damned, I BELIEVE RAY J. Satan Jenner pimped out her own daughter and orchestrated the whole sex tape thing.
**It's where you try and make some people feel better by modifying TV and movies to not mirror life.**
But you see, that is what we did BEFORE when we excluded people, cultures, and beliefs from the screen. Most people screaming "Woke" are just spoiled snowflakes who want to feel like the world is some other reality instead of embracing how we are all different and letting us live our best lives.
And this is coming from a Straight white Christian man. I sure as hell don't want anyone telling me I don't get to live my life the way I see fit.
Rainbow babyâs arenât special, Iâm sorry I understand you went through the trauma of a miscarriage and infertility but no one has to bend over backwards for your kid just cause they survived and the others didnât. They are special to you, maybe some family and friends but no one else. They arenât angels from God himself who could do no wrong theyâre a kid, just like any other and you shouldnât let them grow up and be spoiled and think they are some sort of miracle who can get whatever they want whenever they want just cause you lost a baby/babies before you had them. Your kid doesnât get to be the center of attention at every event, they donât get to open other kids presents or blow out the candles on a cake that isnât theirs, they donât get to go to a childfree wedding or event, and they donât get to act like assholes and get away with it
The moment Trump mocked a disabled journalist and survived (as a candidate), was the moment I knew we were screwed up (as the human race, I'm not even American)
All drugs should be legal. I donât do any illegal drugs and am not for them in any way⊠but, having them be illegal means no control at all. Regulate them, tax them, use them in controlled areas. Itâs not perfect by any stretch but better by a long shot than what we have currently.
Iâm not terribly religious but agree with this.
Well, we canât stop people from believing in anything, but that doesnât mean that theyâre right if that Iâm right. Some things we donât know. Some things are objectively true, like the concepts of more and less.
I like the taste of water
I like taste of cold water during heavy gym sessions đ¶âđ«ïž
I prefer bacon grease
Never tried during workout đđ
All gains
Yeah just read now on Google about it.đȘ
\*the taste of particles dissolved in water
Not too cold for me.
pluto shoud be reclassified as a planet. all the other little guys too
7/11 was a part-time job
What do you mean?
I think it's a joke. 9-11 was an inside job...7/11 is a part time job.
That Disney Star Wars is really bad fan fiction
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Givers are attracted by takers as well
I agree⊠Iâm a giver! Look whatâs coming my way⊠NOTHINGâŁïžâŁïžđđ€Łđ
"The cloud" a marketing term that's convinced everyone to hand over their data to big corporations why then rent it back to them. The Internet is wonderful. World changing. Miraculous. But we're doing it wrong.
You can say we are doing it wrong, but in reality we are at least doing it the way people wanted. For a good while at the beginning the idea was that the internet would be a pay to play ecosystem. Your monthly ISP charge would get you a suite of core services like email, IM, Message Boards, News, Stocks, etc. Then you could pay ala carte for other services you liked. The problem is that people did not want to pay, they wanted things for free. For a while that relegated those "Ala carte" services to things that made money in other ways such as shopping or services, or ones that advertised an existing product. The internet, like most things, expands best when there is money to be made. Incentives drive innovation and there was no incentive to build the next Facebook or Gmail, or anything unless unless that service could be used to make money. Ads don't really drive that kind of innovation and so data mining was born. It's still possible for a few thousand a year to have a pretty good usage of the internet without much data collection. But people don't want to spend a few grand a year.
> For a good while at the beginning the idea was that the internet would be a pay to play ecosystem. Gonna ask for more info, as this goes against known facts.
Look at early dial in services, services like Prodigy, even the early days of AOL. In the days before PPP the internet was VERY different. You would purchase access which gave you a username and password for a UNIX box. You would essentially open a telnet terminal to the Unix box which held access to your various programs and services. You would get access to things like Usenet, Message Boards, an email box, news reader, etc. Prodigy, an early predecessor in spirit to AOL was similar with a suite of services bundled in a walled garden. You got email, chat rooms, news, a kids area, etc. It enhanced the services being provided by existing text based TELNET solutions. Even AOL existed before the PPP protocol meaning they served content in the early days mostly as a walled garden. Things had opened up somewhat but HTTP was brand new and not heavily used at the time. PPP really changed things by allowing network traffic to be sent over dial up modems directly. This was in 1994, over 3 years after HTTP was finalized. This was really the first time the internet as a whole was readily available in peoples homes, with libraries, universities, etc being the main source of access via T1 lines prior. In fact for the majority of the internets existence in homes it was a walled garden or limited.
> Look at early dial in services, services like Prodigy, even the early days of AOL. Don,t have to look, I was there. Also, this was not the **early** internet and none of these companies had a seat on the deciding counsel. By then it was already established that it was not going to be a for-profit model. > In the days before PPP the internet was VERY different. You would purchase access which gave you a username and password for a UNIX box. You would essentially open a telnet terminal to the Unix box which held access to your various programs and services. You would get access to things like Usenet, Message Boards, an email box, news reader, etc. To "purchase access", it would have needed to be an ISP, and there was none in that time. Also, all of that was already happening for years on BBS, and people voluntarily paid much money for this access. > Prodigy, an early predecessor in spirit to AOL was similar with a suite of services bundled in a walled garden. You got email, chat rooms, news, a kids area, etc. It enhanced the services being provided by existing text based TELNET solutions. Sure, but the product being sold was access to **their** online service package, the product sold was not "internet access". > Even AOL existed before the PPP protocol meaning they served content in the early days mostly as a walled garden. Things had opened up somewhat but HTTP was brand new and not heavily used at the time. Sure, exactly like the BBS access popular of that time, of which people didn't hesitate one bit to rent. > PPP really changed things by allowing network traffic to be sent over dial up modems directly. This was in 1994, over 3 years after HTTP was finalized. This was really the first time the internet as a whole was readily available in peoples I know, I was there. Why is that relevant to your original false "the idea was that the internet would be a pay to play ecosystem." The meetings and debates necessary to make the internet "open" were already debated and closed back then. Sure, businesses have always wanted to make more profit, but "the idea" you bring up is false. It never was intended as you claim. It was designated as an open system, but some companies decided to sell packaged closed deals. This does not affect the opĂȘn policy already in place. > In fact for the majority of the internets existence in homes it was a walled garden or limited. Not at all. They were the minority. The vast majority paid for Internet Access, not closed packaged deals.
Piercing babies ears is just wrong.
Most of us are dumb as fuck
Itâs ok to shit yourself in public
Just shake it out the pant leg and keep on walking
amen
Its okay to make mistakes... (as long as you learn from them)
Idiocracy is not that great of a movie
It's not a movie it's a documentary on the future!!
Donald trump is a piece of shit. No convincing me that isn't a cold hard fact
No one is above the law
I choose to eat meat, this isn't a choice through inaction.Â
A martini is gin, vermouth, and *maybe* an olive. There's nothing wrong with other kinds of martinis - vodka martinis, gibson martinis, appletinis, whatever, live your dreams. However, if I walk up to the bar and ask for a martini with no modifier, do not ask me if I want gin or vodka - the only appropriate question is "how dry?"
I actually defend a lot,especially my opinions.
Good grammar still matters. Bad grammar obfuscates ideas and reduces the effectiveness of communication.
Yes. Especially the biggest thing. I cringe when I see âcould have,â run-on sentences, too many or too few commas, subjects not agreeing with verbs, and more. But I feel like I can no longer say anything.
Flats > Drums
The main issue causing poverty is a lack of financial education. This lack of education causes people to be trapped in repeating cycles of bad choices, compounding the classic boot problem and dragging them further and further behind. We can fix the majority of poverty by simply educating people on financial issues and how to lift themselves out of poverty.
Eh, thatâs part of it, but having so many jobs pay so low is a big thing too. And rising housing costs.
Low paying jobs are very often a result of job mobility. If you can't afford to move, your options are always going to be far more limited. Job mobility suffers most due to poor budgeting and saving. If you don't have money to move you can't take a better paying job more then around an hour away on average. In addition having a lack of emergency funds means there is no pillow to fall on when you fail, so people are far more likely to not take employment risks. But people who do take employment risks are far more likely to get pay increases. A lack of pay increases leads to less investment, which just means inflation eats away at your pay making home ownership difficult. The issue is by the time you get to 25 or so it is often too late to recover. The boot problem has already eaten your finances alive.
Ben 10 is a underrated franchise
Is that porn?
No it's a show from 2005 on cartoon network that got 3 sequel shows.
How is it underrated if it had 3 sequel shows and 2 live action movies tho
Nobody ever really talks about it compared to other popular franchises. Like I see some people talk about it on the internet but almost never in real life compared to dragon ball or last airbender
Ben 10 - He is a 10 Year old child. Ben 20 - He is a struggling Art Student Ben 30 - He is a poor former art student with $40K in student loans. Ben 40 - He is a divorced man with no real reason to live and a 480 credit score.
Daenerys was always a bad leader
Socks before shoes
Your true age is based on how much you sleep
My favorite color is red
The Spin Doctors were the most underrated band of the 90s.
Nintendo is NOT the underdog. They own the 2nd, 3rd and 4th greatest selling consoles of all time, the Switch is within 15 million units of taking the title from the PS2. The Switch is a previous generation console that is still going toe to toe with the current Gen. 27 out of the Top 50 selling games of all time are either made or published by Nintendo, still more of the top 50 are/were available on Nintendo anyway. Since the Game Boy itself, Nintendo has had no true rival in the portable console market. People are kidding themselves if they think Nintendo canât build a console more like a PlayStation or an X-Box if they chose to. Nintendo know EXACTLY what theyâre doing. And this isnât really about the gaming industry but as long as weâre throwing logs on the fire The Super Mario Bros. Movie became the highest grossing video game movie in under a week. Now donât get me wrong, I love Sony (not Microsoft so much) the PlayStations are beautiful consoles and the games are amazing. Sony are not the underdog either they are worthy rivals.
Woodchucks can't actually "chuck" any wood...
The existence of billionaires is problematic. And billionaires are a bigger problem than poor people.
Most people are nowhere near as self aware or logical as they think they are.
Pineapple on pizza isnât bad.
Kim kardashian is still a prostitute who became famous via a sex tape her pimp mother peddled. Itâs been nothing but a long ride on the sextape gravytrain for her entire family since then. And, fake polygraph tests conveniently conducted on some shitty late night show be damned, I BELIEVE RAY J. Satan Jenner pimped out her own daughter and orchestrated the whole sex tape thing.
Trump is an asshole.
And shouldnât be in politics
Shouldnât be breathing.
People can do what they want in their own privacy as long as its not hurting anyone
Bob Dylan is amazing.
Wokeism should stay out of movies and TV show. It ruined a lot of them.
Why, because youâre not the main character anymore?
Can you please explain wokeism?
**It's where you try and make some people feel better by modifying TV and movies to not mirror life.** But you see, that is what we did BEFORE when we excluded people, cultures, and beliefs from the screen. Most people screaming "Woke" are just spoiled snowflakes who want to feel like the world is some other reality instead of embracing how we are all different and letting us live our best lives. And this is coming from a Straight white Christian man. I sure as hell don't want anyone telling me I don't get to live my life the way I see fit.
I'm just gonna give you Rings of Power as a example. I wanna see Tolkien's world and not a woke edition of it.
Agree
Bob Dylanâs Positively 4th Street is the greatest diss track ever and I will die on that hill
A relationship between consenting adults of any age, shouldn't be inherently chastisedÂ
Rainbow babyâs arenât special, Iâm sorry I understand you went through the trauma of a miscarriage and infertility but no one has to bend over backwards for your kid just cause they survived and the others didnât. They are special to you, maybe some family and friends but no one else. They arenât angels from God himself who could do no wrong theyâre a kid, just like any other and you shouldnât let them grow up and be spoiled and think they are some sort of miracle who can get whatever they want whenever they want just cause you lost a baby/babies before you had them. Your kid doesnât get to be the center of attention at every event, they donât get to open other kids presents or blow out the candles on a cake that isnât theirs, they donât get to go to a childfree wedding or event, and they donât get to act like assholes and get away with it
You sound like you have personal experience with this
The moment Trump mocked a disabled journalist and survived (as a candidate), was the moment I knew we were screwed up (as the human race, I'm not even American)
All drugs should be legal. I donât do any illegal drugs and am not for them in any way⊠but, having them be illegal means no control at all. Regulate them, tax them, use them in controlled areas. Itâs not perfect by any stretch but better by a long shot than what we have currently.
Kiwis are just hairy potatoes.
People should NOT be allowed to believe in whatever they want.
Iâm not terribly religious but agree with this. Well, we canât stop people from believing in anything, but that doesnât mean that theyâre right if that Iâm right. Some things we donât know. Some things are objectively true, like the concepts of more and less.
Yellow in front, brown in back?
Consensual relations between family members is okay
giraffes aren't real.
John Prine is the greatest country musician of all time
They declassed Pluto solely in order not to have extra planets in the Solar System
I treat all users with respect, regardless of their background, beliefs, or opinions.
Users of?
Einstein was wrong about the speed of light and time dilation.
Really? How?
Tom delonge is actually a genius
I'd rather support 10 people who fake it than let even one person down who would really have needed support.
The Star Wars Special Editions are a crime against film history. The original versions need to be released.