Being in a Dell shop, the "loss" of the trustability of Lenovo means nothing to me. If I were falling off a cliff, and a Lenovo exec offered their hand to help, I would be genuinely suspicious of their motives, and I might just take the fall.

@MattSpeller said in Online tracking and ads too - do you use any blockers?:

@RojoLoco I share your sentiments on adds but as someone starting up a website I don't know how to monetize it. Maybe paytreon? Something where people could voluntarily give me $0.10 / mth times 100 people = hosting costs covered.

For you personally, I might directly support if I saw your site as useful. You're not the big guys, you're the small guy stuck on the BS of the web's modern revenue model.

@JaredBusch said:

@RojoLoco said:

uBlock origin is great. It blocks pandora ads once you add the right filter lists, and it is easier to add custom blocking. AdBlock Plus has gotten iffy when you right click -> block element... sometimes it works, sometimes not. uBlock lets you block it all.

My problem with uBlock has been trying to whitelist a site that is in the blacklist of one of the default lists.

To me, it sounds like the problem is that you are trying to whitelist ads. (seriously, wtf???) Those sites have been blacklisted for good reasons.

I have a serious problem with the entire advertising and marketing industry. I will not watch their propaganda. Even though I am immune to it, others are not, so I install the strongest, most block-ifying ad blockers on anything I put my hands on, and encourage all others to do the same. No, I do not feel bad for not helping sites "monetize". If I ever willingly wanted to see adverts of any kind, I'd seriously need to re-evaluate my direction in life.

To those who make adverts: If there is an afterlife, I weep for the torture you all will suffer after death. You are the minions of the devil. You are a large part of what is wrong with the world (politicians are the remainder). I hope that, on your deathbed, you still feel good about your life's work.

uBlock origin is great. It blocks pandora ads once you add the right filter lists, and it is easier to add custom blocking. AdBlock Plus has gotten iffy when you right click -> block element... sometimes it works, sometimes not. uBlock lets you block it all.

Checking over some log files and listening to Erik Satie Erik Satie.

@scottalanmiller said:

No incentive to do good work except for outright hatred of other Americans and a desire to screw them.

Just the types that get hired to do gub'ment work... hooray.

@mlnews said:

Macy's: Department Chain Closing Up to 40 Stores Following Sales Drop, Company Says

The stores set to close generated $300 million last year, about 1 percent of company sales, Macy’s said. Macy's reportedly experienced a 2.1 percent sales drop in its second fiscal quarter of 2015.

Ouch... I wonder if they will lay off any workers from their technical ops location near here.

@Joy said:

@RojoLoco said:

@Joy said:

@RojoLoco said:

Anxiously awaiting 6pm so I can go meet up with a lovely lady for dinner ...

Wow! are you excited?

Absolutely.... you have no idea. So in love with this one...

How's the Dinner? haha

It was wonderful And tonight we will be dining at the legendary Trader Vic's, where they invented the Mai Tai. Polynesian cuisine, rum drinks, and a hotel room

Good, management here is married to Dell for everything... maybe we'll get some Surface Pros finally.

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller <insert Twilight Theme Here>

I really hope you meant Twilight Zone, and that you don't actually know what the theme from Twilight sounds like...

@DustinB3403 said:

Now if only my local retailers (grocers) would carry these would I not feel bad about having to decline giving a homeless person money.

Once before though (and not directly to me) a homeless man asked a women for cash, she handed him food and he went on a rampage saying"B**** I asked for money not food! etc"

So there's that....

That type of behavior deserves a swift punch to the throat. No reason to restrain yourself from a violence when accosted by a useless crackhead.

@scottalanmiller said:

Or hand them drugs directly and really confuse them!

Hand them enough drugs, and you have handed them a job!

@Joy said:

@RojoLoco said:

Anxiously awaiting 6pm so I can go meet up with a lovely lady for dinner ...

Wow! are you excited?

Absolutely.... you have no idea. So in love with this one...

Anxiously awaiting 6pm so I can go meet up with a lovely lady for dinner ...

@Joy said:

anyone? haha where are you guys?

It is a 3 day holiday weekend in the US.... everyone is out by the pool, grilling, etc. In fact, I'm headed to the pool right now...

Looking at a terrible personal website

http://www.mccuesoft.com/

WOW.

You should avoid that reseller at all costs... they are clearly inept and driven by sales commission.

@hubtechagain said:

@RojoLoco ALMOST! 23ish days here til bow season opens....

I meant crackhead hunting.... open season all year, especially when they break into @MattSpeller 's car and steal fishing gear...

@MattSpeller said:

@RojoLoco I wish

It was some crack head, he sat and drank a 40 of beer while rifling through all my shit and smoking my smokes. Left all the evidence behind too.

Then it's hunting season.... I'll bring the booze and guns!

@MattSpeller said:

Just booked Friday off for mental health - I am going fishing w/ my dad and some kind old farts from the gun club.

Saturday night I packed my car full of my fishing gear, ready for Sunday. Woke up on Sunday to find my car broken into and all my gear gone. Very sad as most of this stuff was inherited from my Dad & we both were very upset. He mentioned all this to the guys at the fish & game club and all those jerks got together and gave me all their old gear.

I can't even process this right now.

So your neighbors watched you pack your car and then stole your sh*t? Time to call the boys and go round to see who knows anything....

@JaredBusch said:

@RojoLoco said:

one of which is to fool the service into thinking you are located in a different country...

I setup an OpenVPN connection on the iPhones and iPad to connect back to our house for when the family is out of the country.

Good plan, for sure, but I think the point of fooling netflix is to get the selections from other countries not available in your home country.