I was a tech-manager at Staples when those launched and it was an absolute shit-storm right from the start with returns and complaints.

The only thing crazier from that time was an HP WebOS tablet (I can’t remember the name) that launched with pretty big fanfare with HP trying to take a marketing page out of Apples playbook, only to have it fail so completely that they announced a week later that support was being dropped and any remaining stock was offered to anyone who wanted at 99 bucks.

Wild days indeed.

Jide Remix Ultratablet.

Kinda glitchy from the start. Got one minor software update before the company decided to focus first only on their mini-desktops and soon after, B2B; dropping the consumer support entirely.

Which wouldn’t have been so bad is the released the proprietary blobs for others to use to keep up support. The hardware was nice, and the concept was one of the first to try an “Android version of a Surface”. But to my knowledge, no ROMs have ever been made for it.

Entitled to what exactly? Her chin shape?

Whether he admitted it or not, unless she’s gone through the process of actually trademarking her chin shape (which I doubt) it’s not going to be nearly a unique enough feature to waste the courts time with.

The only question the courts have to ask is if there is a reasonable chance that a “viewer” could recognize that as her chin when watching the movie and did it do anything to her reputation as a result. The answer of course is no. No one would have EVER known it as her if Cameron hadn’t mentioned it in passing.

I’m guessing she’s either:

a) hoping Cameron and his lawyers go for a quick settlement because they figure it would be cheaper than going to court. Or…

b) Stirring up shit to get her name in the media to bolster a career that has so far been largely B-level supporting roles and guest-spots.

To be fair to Kegbreath, the “I can’t see it so it must not exist” comes from overhearing his wife talking about his penis to her girlfriends.

Thanks. Now I have epilepsy…

It’s amazing to me how many Trump supporters aren’t just pieces of shit in a couple of ways, but that are pieces of shit in ALL the ways possible.

I mean, it’s possible to be a piece of shit by being a Trump supporter. And you can be THAT type of piece of shit WITHOUT also being a kiddie-diddler, or a human trafficer, or a fraudster, or a racist, or any handful of OTHER types of pieces of shit.

But nope…these folks just want to collect pieces of shit labels like they’re fucking pokemon.

Dawkins has never been them most intelligent among us, and it pains me that he is always held up as the “Prototypical Atheist”.

Like seriously, I’m an atheist, but don’t lump me in with that martian.

His ego didn’t fit through the door.

Every time you think this timeline can’t get any more nonsensical and inane, it throws a “Steven Seagal is a gun runner for Russia” curve ball at you.

True about the pay.

In general I just feel like our representatives are too far removed from the people they’re supposed to serve.

Here in Canada, we’ve had a couple of floor-crossers from the Conservatives to the Liberals, and social media is up in arms about how that shouldn’t be allowed. “We voted Conservative, not Liberal”. Whenever someone points out (and rightly so) that in the parliamentary system you’re voting for an individual, not a party, they freak out and say that’s not how it works.

They fundamentally have no idea how a representative democracy is supposed to work.

A part of that comes from an American culture bleeding up into Canada a bit, with people thinking they vote directly for the Prime Minister the same was Americans directly vote for their president. But a bigger part of it is that those representatives spend more time in Ottawa than in their own ridings. And if a representative loses their seat in an election, they can just pick a different riding where they don’t even live and run again. It’s ridiculous.

Basically democratic socialism but with a few rules:

1. No billionaires. After 500 million, it’s taxed at 100%
2. No Corporations. Private business ownership only. No Shareholders or Hedge Funds. Basically no wall street.
3. Lobbying on behalf of an industry is banned.
4. No party “whips” that exist to make a representative vote the party line even if they’re personally disagree with the party on that particular issue. Representatives need to truly represent their constituents, not their party. In fact, fuck the entire concept of “party politics”. Ditch it.
5. By law, a representative has to have actually lived in their riding for 5 years or more.
6. Representatives are required to spend at least 80% of their time in their constituency, in their office. It’s a 9-5 job. No more of this showing up to vote bullshit and then fucking off to Mexico. You serve your constituents, and your job is to be in your office to listen to them tell you what they want 5 days a week, 8 hours a day. Otherwise, what do they pay you for?
7. With the exception of meeting twice a year in person, most bills in congress/parliament are able to be done completely virtually. The representative studies the issue, consults with his constituents and votes accordingly. They do so without any input from their so-called peers. The only input they are allowed is from their constituents and legitimate experts in whatever field they are looking into.
8. Representatives have a strict two term limit and an age limit.
9. At any point, your constituents (and ONLY your constituents) can trigger a recall election due to no-confidence.
10. You’re a “servant of the people”; not the other way around. You get a working man’s salary; enough to live and a small dispensation for travel expenses, office staff, etc… But using your position to enrich your own personal wealth is grounds for an immediate arrest.

Someone: “Hey, how old are you?”

Me: “I’m ‘Tia Carrere was a thing’ years old”

Someone: “Shiiiiiiit”

My desktop that was powerful enough to do most things died a few months ago at the worst possible time; it came on the heels of emptying a lot of my savings on vets to find out that my girl had advanced bone cancer, and then even more on sending her over the rainbow bridge and getting her cremated.

So both as a way to save some money and a way to keep my mind off of her, I’ve been putting together a new computer using a few spare parts that I have had laying around. Truth is, my old computer, though old, had been upgraded up the wazoo through the years to the point where most of that stuff could just transfer over (750 watt powersupply, Nvidia 3060 12gb card, max amount of RAM that it could take, etc…)

All I really needed was a new mainboard and processor. As long as I bought a used one that used DDR4 instead of 5, I already had everything I needed.

The “Project” is adapting my second-to-last PC case to accept newer components. (upgrading the front USB ports, things like that) Because it’s an OEM Acer case, I can’t simply order in an upgraded swappable unit, so I’m having to get creative with soldering.

It’ll probably fail and I’ll have to buy a new case too, but oh well. It’s fun to try. I have so many old computer parts laying around, let’s see how Dr. Frankenstein I can go.

Nope. Not broken. Just feeling very safe and contented.

Having a dog sleep like this in your house is an honour. You’ve done a great job and your pupper is telling you they appreciate it.

Lost my soul-dog to bone cancer at the end of February.

R.I.P. Ripley. Love you, baby-girl.

Let’s start with everything and go from there, shall we?

Exactly.

What an idiotic take.

“Celebrity” worship has existed since the dawn of cinema. Star Power is what brings people into the theatres.

People have always wanted to know all the salacious gossip about their favourite celebs, and that’s what makes Hollywood go around; they want to fell like they “know” their favourite actor/director etc…

For example:

• The only reason anyone remembers "Mr. And Mrs. Smith is because its the movie that gave us Brangelina and broke up Pitt and Aniston.
• “The Whale” was a mediocre movie at best that won awards in part because of Brendan Frasier’s comeback after being shunned in Hollywood.
• Martin Sheen being legitimately drunk and cutting open his hand created an iconic scene in Apocalypse Now.

I could go on and on. Point is, actors being themselves into the roles that they play.

You can’t replace that with soulless homunculi that have no life off screen.

Corporations are not your friend. Ethics plays no part in it. It’s economics. If they price themselves out of the competition, that’s their problem, not yours.