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A jotting about Robots:
Guys are like: If we had female robots to cook, clean and “other stuff”. Who needs woman?
Women are like: Now if only they could make a robot to eat anything laying around and leave lots of things laying around and never changing its socks and underwear, there would be no need for men. The “other stuff” is not a problem…
Note to myself: Keep my sweet pea, she is perfect!
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Dropped Sweet Pea off at the train station and this is what I saw as I climbed the stairs back to the path home…
She had waved at me and hopped the train to Moscow. Tomorrow everyone is back to work, but since Svetochka is in charge of all the severs at her bank, well that means she has to work a bunch more than most Russians… 🙁
I like this new phone and camera… (phone)
Gotta go and maybe I will write something profound and exciting? Nah!
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If there was ever any doubt that the resistance within the Trump administration wasn’t real, what happened in light of Trump’s decision to leave disproved the skeptics. Bolton and several other members of the Trump administration are committing a serious crime by preventing the current president of the United States from reversing his predecessor’s misguided decisions in the Syrian theater. What is happening today isn’t a policy debate, but a direct challenge to American democracy by unelected paper-pushers. Indeed, “many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate” President Trump’s agenda.
A soft coup against Trump is underway in the United States. In recent days, anonymous U.S. officials, like the author of the infamous op-ed in The New York Times, have repeatedly lied to the American people in an attempt to force Trump to walk back from his comments about Syria. Turkey, they said, would “slaughter the Kurds” if U.S. military advisers leave the battlefield unconditionally. Although Turkey did not respond to that ludicrous accusation due to its absurdity, the speed at which such lies have been spreading demonstrates that malice, not ignorance, drives them.
Several years ago I wrote about the demise of smartphones as we know them. They peaked as far as serious changes. Screens do not count. Faster internet does not count. What counts is, do you have something no one else has. And the answer is, “No”!
They are trying to make you believe that thinner is better, don’t fix – just buy a new one and cost means quality and other trash talking propaganda…
Fluff does not make a better smartphone…
We have very good phones. iPhone and Samsung are good, they have led the way for many years, but they have peaked. Samsung’s gravy is not phones, it is OLED displays, NAND flash, and DRAM chips and not the phone themselves. They supply the world with the parts to make the phones. That is why you see Samsung ho hum about other companies and the gathering phones sales percents. iPhone uses Samsung parts to make their phones, if that tells you anything…
I suspect that Samsung may not care, as long as they make the parts for all those phones being made…
I suspect iPhone does care….it is very nichey…
Two things are driving this smartphone issue that iPhone, HTC, Blackberry, Sony, Nokia (and on and on with many brands) is having people who are willing to innovate and garner the newest firmware and make them work on older phones. This is what I do and I have several old phones running Android Pie and they came with Jellybean and or Marshmallow… Yes they are old…
This leads us to the biggest issue: #2 reason…
What is now a base line phone is better than a phone two years ago. That with the fact that they cost under a hundred ($100) dollars and can run almost anything around software wise….makes all these phones Flagship killers anymore…
I have received recently, by a very nice person, a new UMIDIGI A3 Pro…
It is the best phone I have ever had. I have said that before, yet the cheap phones just keep getting better and better and better…
It has become my daily driver. Does not need to be rooted to make it better. It needs nothing….why it is simple when it is this easy to be a better phone….the s7 edge struggles to get connection at our flat….UMIDIGI A3 Pro has no issues and battery life because of that is measured in a week not a day…
It has replaced my S7 Edge by Samsung and now my S7 is my ROM experimentation phone. Simply amazing is all that I can say…
China is stomping the hell out of what use to be main phone companies and taking no prisoners. Samsung is in on this, as they make all the parts, for even your beloved iPhone…and a country like India and or Vietnam and or China puts them together…
It is now (Snuck up on everyone huh, iPhone?) Samsung, with Huawei nipping at their heels, iPhone falling behind, Xiaomi looking at the ass end of iPhone and OPPO right there trying to pull ahead of Xiaomi. I give it two years and iPhone and Samsung will be looking at other phones asses. iPhone is…
Now you understand why the USA Gov. is attacking Huawei, ZTE and such. Competition is not welcomed by American capitalist….also remember Samsung is letting the others slide by. That means more profits for Samsung, because cellphones is not the game for Samsung anymore…
Intel has been the dominant company in chip manufacturing for literally decades, but in 2017 it ceded its crown to Samsung, as evidenced by the two companies’ annual financial reports. First noted by Bloomberg, the change of leadership was signaled by Intel’s $62.8 billion in annual revenue being surpassed by the $69.1 billion generated by Samsung’s semiconductor division. It’s not a straightforward comparison to make, since Intel’s focus is on x86 processors, where it remains the leader by a great distance…
Source: Samsung is now the world’s biggest chipmaker – The Verge
and…
Source: Samsung’s component division will make more money off the iPhone X than the Galaxy S8 – The Verge
Oh My! Samsung, Huawei and other elephants are squishing American companies…
Answers a bunch of questions and creates a whole bunch more questions that have to do with fair business and moralities of said business…
Right USA?
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Having more than one viewpoint is a, “Threat to democracy!”
Because having more than one viewpoint is a, “Threat to democracy!” is very true…
Democracy is mob rule and if your viewpoint differs, you are a threat and must be cauterized/destroyed…
May the biggest mob win! ~
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I guess I will give another warning and or maybe two or three more: I owe it to the Russians that I love so dearly…
Now the Russian Government has wised up…
The Russian Foreign Ministry has issued a warning about what it describes as a “hunt on our citizens,” urging travelers to be cautious. The message follows the detention of a Russian citizen by the FBI in Saipan. Russians should take every precaution when traveling abroad and ensure there’s nothing in their records that might interest the US, the Foreign Ministry warned after the 39-year-old citizen was arrested.
Source: Russians traveling in Europe, America and lap doggy Asian countries (Japan) wake up or you will find yourself on the receiving end of a raw deal. The experiment is starting now, actually several years ago and as they realize that western people are not going to care if Russians are rounded up, then they will round them up…
Wake up people and in this case: Wake up Russians!
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I hope this leads to an avalanche of lawsuits against this scum of a company. It should, just as Microsoft should never have updated systems without permission. One system of ours was and it destroyed a lot of data…
HELSINKI – The Finnish Consumer Disputes Board (CDB) has ordered Microsoft to compensate a Finnish man for unauthorized installation of Windows 10, local media reported on Saturday. In a decision reported by national broadcaster Yle on Saturday, the installation of Windows 10 had started when a computer owner was working with his computer in March 2016. Microsoft had not asked for permission and the person had not given an authorization. Following the installation, the computer started giving “at fault” messages. The board concluded that Microsoft had no right to install Windows 10 without permission. There was a mistake in the installation and that created a duty for Microsoft to compensate, it said. In its response Microsoft held the view that the man had obtained required help from its free customer support. Microsoft stated that it was not responsible for programs the computer owner had installed on his own for remote surveillance of an object. Noting that Microsoft did not deny that the new operating system could be installed without permission, the CDB stated that Microsoft did not deny the connection between the fault and the damage it cause. The board then decided that Microsoft must reimburse 1,100 euros ($1,253) worth of spare parts and maintenance and travel costs. The board dismissed the owner’s claims for lost work time, as it had not been specified in the complaint. The CDB members are appointed by the Ministry of Justice. Although the board decisions cannot be enforced through coercive measures, 80 percent of companies fined comply with its decisions.
HELSINKI – The Finnish Consumer Disputes Board (CDB) has ordered Microsoft to compensate a Finnish man for unauthorized installation of Windows 10, local media reported on Saturday. In a decision reported by national broadcaster Yle on Saturday, the installation of Windows 10 had started when a computer owner was working with his computer in March 2016. Microsoft had not asked for permission and the person had not given an authorization. Following the installation, the computer started giving “at fault” messages. The board concluded that Microsoft had no right to install Windows 10 without permission. There was a mistake in the installation and that created a duty for Microsoft to compensate, it said. In its response Microsoft held the view that the man had obtained required help from its free customer support. Microsoft stated that it was not responsible for programs the computer owner had installed on his own for remote surveillance of an object. Noting that Microsoft did not deny that the new operating system could be installed without permission, the CDB stated that Microsoft did not deny the connection between the fault and the damage it cause. The board then decided that Microsoft must reimburse 1,100 euros ($1,253) worth of spare parts and maintenance and travel costs. The board dismissed the owner’s claims for lost work time, as it had not been specified in the complaint. The CDB members are appointed by the Ministry of Justice. Although the board decisions cannot be enforced through coercive measures, 80 percent of companies fined comply with its decisions.Source: Microsoft to compensate Finnish man for unwanted installation of Windows 10 – Chinadaily.com.cn
We ended up having to install blocking software to keep the systems from updating against our wishes…
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Uploaded on Jan 2, 2019
Saves a deer, it is translated good enough…
The man we are is related to how we treat the ones around us…
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Svetochka’s mother knows how to find me the best socks. The socks she bought me for New Year are my favorite, rabbit fur and they are so warm. The price as you see is 80 rubles and that is a very good price for such quality of socks..
You have to understand and remember that I am diabetic and socks are my friend. I wear socks 24 hours a day to help protect my feet. Very important to have best quality, warm and good material for your skin. Rabbit fur is better than cotton for socks, not due to any reason but warmth. Cotton is best, but not very warm here in Russia and her chills…
Wool is good also, but kinda scratchy at times…
I think my rabbit fur socks are the cats meow… 😉
Little Rabbit (маленький кролик – malen’kiy krolik)
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