georgie01

iGlowEarth said:

FAA is a fucking idiot. I’ve been wait for Verizon to add 5G for like 2-3 years. I’m tired of FAA bullshit. Look at other countries, they have no problem with 5G around the airports! I refused join T-Mobile AND AT&T. I prefer Verizon because their network and signal is more stronger and cover more area that AT&T and T-Mobile cannot. There’s 5G at like 10-15 miles from where I live! 6 months?! FML!! 

Well, I’ve been on T-Mobile since 2013 and was satisfied with their coverage even back then—there were of course spots with no coverage, particularly in rural parts of Virginia, or central Pennsylvania, but I can recall other spots where T-Mobile had coverage but Verizon didn’t.

But T-Mobile’s coverage has improved a lot since then and currently there isn’t anywhere I go where Verizon has coverage and T-Mobile doesn’t. And with T-Mobile’s 5G ‘UC’ I’ve gotten Speedtest results as high as 648Mbps on my iPhone 12 Pro in the suburbs. Not that I ever need that kind of speed, but T-Mobile is doing very well.

Surprisingly good show which I’ve been enjoying a lot. The last episode was weird but still good.

My only complaint is the transparently woke preaching in the first episode with Dr Sharon (and a bit here and there since). It’s as if a black person has never had an intelligent role on TV and we need to be educated. Nevermind that I’ve been watching (and enjoying) black people in all types of roles since the 80’s and didn’t think anything of it.

lkrupp said:

9secondkox2 said:

Good 

the whole thing is wrong. 

“Oh. There’s a new disease. So we must track you. And we need to know your movements as well as those of your contacts.” RIIIIGHT… that’s going to end well… 

Forget HIPAA. Forget privacy. Not to mention potential abuse of something like this. 

This kind of thing did not happen with HIV/AIDS, note the flu, nor pneumonia, nor anything. All of a sudden, a née deadly disease is out and we are supposed to happily forget our humanity so that people who tell us a different story every day can monitor us like lab rats. 

No thanks. 

Yeah, right, whatever. Except that that attitude most likely killed tens of thousands of people who might have survived otherwise. Unless, of course, the pandemic is a hoax? Is it a hoax? Did Trump win the election?

What has killed people is an initial lack of understanding, significant discord between various leaders and various experts which causes general distrust, blatant lies, deliberately misleading the population through information repression (or are you going to say natural immunity is not worth the CDC’s time?), etc. Further, our increasingly authoritarian leaders’ approach to forcing the vaccine has done little but increase mistrust in the vaccines.

But the biggest factor regarding coronavirus deaths at this point in time is a lack of personal responsibility. Someone like yourself may say the ‘anti-maskers’ kill people. Well, I say the person who needs to be careful killed themselves by not being careful. I say the leaders and the media who have made many of the population hysterical and unable to think for themselves anymore are partially responsible. If you would have told school leaders 18 months ago that they’d be forcing their students to wear ankle monitors to track their movements and keep distance from other students they would have laughed at the ridiculousness of it. And yet, here we are, because they’ve lost their sensibility due to fear, thanks to our leaders and our news outlets. 

The biggest shame here is that so many in the population do not see how leaders lying ‘for the greater good’ has become increasingly acceptable. The blatant lying and hypocrisy of politicians such as AOC (and many others, she just seems to be the queen) is simultaneously laughable and depressing, and these people truly believe that it is righteous and justified. There have always been people like that of course, but it’s increased exponentially in recent years.

There are not many of our leaders (politicians, tech companies, etc.) who value truth. Most believe truth gets in the way of the their agenda, and the population is basically idiots who need the truth sanitised for their own good.

And it’s a shame that enough of the population has submitted to that mentality where it’s nearly an inescapable reality.

flydog said:

For many apps, the business model of selling an app for a one time fee, then supporting that customer forever is unsustainable.

The assumption you have here is that the developer deserves to stay in business ‘forever’. Of course it would be nice if everyone had the work they need, but that’s a pipe dream which will eventually ruin any group which tries to make it happen.

We need to focus first on what’s fair within the scope of the service being offered. We can purchase cars and rent cars. But what if car manufacturers decided to stop selling cars and only offered cars as rentals in order to make more money?

It seems to me the issue of fairness comes from the reason for offering it as a rental. If the developer is exploiting the rental service—using it as a means to force a user to have to keep paying—that doesn’t seem fair. But if the developer genuinely wants to make their otherwise expensive software accessible to more users through a lower rental fee with temporary access (like a car rental), then that seems ok.