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play the flexi while it was on top of a normal
vinyl single, or place a coin or two somewhere
near the centre of the disc—some later Soundsheet
pressings actually contained a circle marked out
for where the coin, or coins, should best be placed
There's no end-game in a spontaneous lashing out at anybody in the region. It's not a winnable situation for North Korea to attack anybody. They don't get anything from actual violent belligerence.
They're basically a bee hive. They've got their territory, and there's not much else happening, except maybe them screwing around on the internet for kicks, and their science projects like their ICBM program.
At some point, his wife will bear a son. He'll have an heir, and life goes on.
But what if war cracked the country open, and he got taken out. What would a re-integration of North Korean society look like?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Symphony_(song) (1987)
Big Daddy Kane’s famous line, “Put
a quarter in your ass 'cause you played
yourself,” pops up as a looped sample...
...products that have a limited lifespan and are
guaranteed leave the network.
Maybe we could give them names like Roy, Zhora, Leon and Pris...
We never see non-consumer IoT tech stories. It's always more bullshit, in aggregate, because the consumer market is huge. So, web-enabled security camera gadgets, refrigerators, light bulbs.
Never industrial control and automation. No SCADA. But honestly, critical systems are the things we DON'T want to see on the IoT, because that's where the IoT fuck-ups wind up causing the most pain.
We DON'T want to see hotel heating and ventilation systems reversing flow, and start sucking car exhaust from the parking garage at 3AM, when most are asleep in their rooms, because there's a default port open, because of a bug, and some asshole thought it would be cool to do that.
We DON'T want to see a dishwashing system's filter check go ignored, because the filter purchasing sub-system fails an SSL handshake, because an old CA is no longer available and a new CA is untrusted, and 200 people get sick because their plates were washed with grey water.
We DON'T want to see a sensor fail on a specific model of water pressure gauge, but, due to the nature of the failure, a recall is eluded, and aquifers are drained because of constant leakage gone unnoticed, because no one was paying attention anyway, because everything's automatic now, and there's no staff to support such a massive wave of recall repairs, because automated plumbing has produced a shortage of plumbers, and there are too few specialists to change the valves and sensors out, and the drought hits, and irrigation fails, and then crops fail, and there's no harvest and then people starve, and then children die, and then, and then, and then...
No seriously. IoT is retarded.
Given that my personal possessions are few to begin with, I have a short list to review.
I honestly can't think of a single one, save my refrigerator, which I do not want buying food for me. To be honest, I don't even like owning a refrigerator. I didn't need one in college, and still don't need one. I don't use DVR, because I don't subscribe to cable TV.
My arms aren't broken. I can get up and turn a light on. Self-driving cars are technically beyond the scope of IoT, even though the "T" in IoT is deliberately vague.
But these are the things in my life, as it is, and not how it could be. The way my life works right now, I spend (at best) 10 hours away from my home, and maybe 8 hours asleep. So possibly 6 hours to reap the benefits of more clutter, automating... whatever.
Even though arranging and aligning the automated systems that hypothetically support the maximization of my free time, consumes time in order to perfect. But wait! Planned obsolescence promises me that if I step onto the product treadmill, it will be harder to exit, ensuring that there will be cycles of realigning and integrating new IoT systems, into my own private ecosystem of personal automation!
We know this, because look at how often we discard our mobile devices, and even our laptops and desktops.
But nevermind that. Maybe I'd value my free time more, if I had more of it. Maybe if I wasn't lashed to a desk all day, working for someone else, living paycheck to paycheck, I'd have more freedom to expound upon all the nothing I can't imagine not doing at the moment, because I'm consistently busy on someone else's terms.
I don't want robots buying shit for me. I don't need robots telling the world which room I just walked into. I'm sick of going to work all day, and sitting in someone else's chair. Fix that, before wasting my paycheck on lightbulbs that change themselves, but never go out anyway, because I'm not even at home 40 or 60 hours a week, and I'm asleep in the dark for another 50 besides.
Something beyond stupid, and completely preventable, and all the more horrendous, because at this point, it can only be funny.
I want to see something like a TV commercial accidentally trigger a home automation system, which corrupts the operation of a class of light switches, which cascades onto smart microwave ovens, which transmit kill signals to self-driving cars which synchronize with flying cars at which point they all swarm the nearest hospitals and explode, demolishing trillions of dollars of health care, and imploding society because of failed credit default swaps on all of the health care insurance (even obamacare), which then causes automated trading platforms to sell, killing off everyone's 401K's, destroying the retirement plans of all survivors, such that the living envy the dead.
Can we make that happen?
IoT is retarded.
They noticed that he saved his own neck, rather than sacrifice everything, and did not risk his own life for his 3 children (infants/toddler). Thus, they fed him to the lions. It wasn't enough for him to have suffered burns. Their opinion clearly was that if those children were dead, then he can get it too.
After that, the rest was the machine operating as usual.
They didn't convict him of a crime as per what happened. They convicted him of the crime on the books that had the punishment that fit the situation and their collective opinion of it.
They wanted him dead, not because of heavy metal, or any other reason on display at the dog and pony show, theater trial. They wanted him dead because they felt that it was unreasonable that 3 children (who probably weren't old enough to walk and talk too well) could not be rescued in time, by the only person taking care of them at the moment. Part of the expectation there, is that he should have been steps away, and within arms reach of them.
They threw due process in the trash because they just didn't like what happened.
Two things become obvious at that point, and the main one is that other search engines don't just customize search results to individuals, they actually spend costly human resources currating and QA'ing results. DuckDuckGo's search results kind of suck, and the reason they're not as good is because the results are not groomed to the same degree, by as many eyes, nor to the same level of quality.
The other obvious thing quickly noticed is that DuckDuckGo's !bang operators are so, so, so much more handy than some of the other horrendously mangled, inscrutable query strings you wind up landing on, that would require 5 or 10 clicks, navigating the intended user interfaces of the parent sites that actually host the results.
Compare using !googleimages on DuckDuckGo, to what actually happens when you click and type for results at https://images.google.com?
It's kind of silly that you can't just pass a query string to Google, and that DuckDuckGo does their query strings better than Google does for it's own product.