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Yeah this is awful. It will probably stop working when Microsoft releases whatever they call the next version of Windows like 8 months from now.

Sometimes I think I should get it permanently attached…

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People definitely got mocked in more tech focused communities for using AOL.

Probably because you’re not a kid.

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They rely on their customers to pressure others into switching. Also their customers don’t understand how anything works, so they think that Android phones are broken and don’t support cool features. They’re unaware that their beloved Apple is enforcing a closed system, and holding them hostage as customers, refusing to adopt other protocols.

Google set out specifically to not be evil. They even set their company motto as “don’t be evil”. But then racist fucking psychopath Sundar Pichai was hired as CEO and the motto was scraped for “do the right thing”, with the “right thing” always being evil. The new motto is only half spoken. The full motto is truly “do the right thing to obtain money and power at all costs”.

Then they were never truly deleted.

Wow. In 84 it cost about a dollar per minute to talk on a cell phone. That’s when minimum wage was $3.35 an hour. So you’d have to work for 20 minutes to afford one minute of talk time if you were a minimum wage worker.

This desperately needs to become an illegal industry. Perfectly legitimate businesses are letting their real business fall to the wayside as they convert their profits to a fucking consumer spying business. I’m sick of it. I’m sick of all the tracking, and I’m sick of ads popping up in new places all the freaking time. You go to pump gas and a commercial starts blaring in your face. You can’t escape it. You can’t get a moment of peace to sit with your thoughts. It’s negatively affecting our entire society, yet every business is pursuing it with zeal and the politicians aren’t doing jack shit to protect the people. Matter of fact the government is buying the data too. I never imagined this is what the future would look like when I was growing up.

Did they make less than $200M for their illegal activities? If not, then this is just the government getting their cut, and not a punishment at all.

Seems like it’s still very overpriced.

Yes, but when you do, they arrest you for illegal activity. So not reporting is the only real viable option. You can launder it, but they’ll still get you for tax evasion if they can

Crazy is pretty great in the sack.

Back in my early twenties I invented the martingale strategy, thinking that I had finally figured out a way to beat the house. I was pretty stoked. Then I talked to my manager about it and he let me know that it was a strategy which has already been proven to fail and has been heavily researched mathematically. Like you said, it’s pretty much impossible to come up with an original thought these days

Being a drunk is great fun. For a time. Then it stops working, and you’re left with the original problems, plus a bunch of additional misery.

They’re saying that you can and should make everything you do a fun experience. Don’t like your boring machinist job? Make a game out of measuring everything. Beat your high score for the tightest tolerance.

Don’t like pulling weeds for extra money while you’re in college? Pretend you’re a homesteader cultivating the land.

Your attitude and your perception of how things are can greatly influence how you experience things.

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Eh, Steve Jobs didn’t steal his product. Steve Wozniak created it, and Jobs marketed it. Jobs bought the mouse technology from Xerox, who didn’t understand the value of what they had. Jobs pushed for quality on-screen typography, and pioneered the windows based interface. I think you might be thinking of Bill Gates, who stole the Windows interface from Jobs. Apple was a truly pioneering company, which is why so many investors were interested in this company run by a few college kids out of their garage.

Al Capone had no choice but to commit tax evasion, all of his income was illegal.