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really? i’ve been using SXM for over a decade. i’ve never seen a company that is so desperate to keep their customers. they’ll do pretty much anything you ask of them.

tired of paying the bill? then don’t. they’ll cut it off after a few months. then they’ll call and be willing to forgive the past bill, cut you back on, and you probably won’t even have to pay it for another month or two.

whenever whatever deal i’m on expires, i simply call them up and tell them i’m thinking about cancelling. they’ll usually offer something like service for $5 a month, if i’ll pay for 6 months at a time or something.

i’ve never had even a hint of trouble with them in the last decade.

most of the things they’re known for, they didn’t invent. but they’ve always been better at packaging these ideas and tech up, and marketing them well.

too bad OCP isn’t working on the project

it’s kind of like how Data and Lore’s retarded brother was called B-4.

It doesn’t sound like a you problem. Sounds like a problem with him. As such the agency to fix the problem lies with him.

Move on and forget about him.

That same line of thinking got him in the first time.

the whole point of having captains out in the black, is for them to make a judgement call on when the rules should be ignored.

Picard had a conversation with Data about this very thing, when Data went with his ‘gut’ to disobey a order.

aka The Motherfucking Kirk Maneuver.

Q is basically inflicted on humanity, the same way humanity is inflicted on the rest of the world.

same. there seems to be a lot of people that don’t realize some things don’t get done, not because they’re impossible, but because as soon as they do it a company will put a stop to it.

it’s like cracking a Xbox or something. the very next patch will render the method obsolete and nonviable. when i heard this workaround was coming for Android, my immediate reaction was how long it would last before Apple just changed something so that it doesn’t work.

i mean, Which Side Are You On?

that’s kind of my take on it too. Linux has come so far from what it used to be like. it’s not quite ready to see mass-adoption, but it’s making some amazing strides. so many different parties have been contributing to a massive effort to iron out some of the issues with Linux. once performance improves significantly over Windows, and compatibility gets a little more wide-spread, you’ll start to see people willing to put up with the teething problems, in the name of superior performance.

THAT is when Linux will see more mainstream success.

some year, i don’t know when, really will be the year of Linux… maybe.

pretty much

Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

the real shame being that he died peacefully in his bed.

one of my favorite jokes about this is on TNG. i think it’s the episode where the bridge gets cut off from the rest of the ship, and Troi is in charge of running the ship. O’Brian makes a comment to Ro about how you can’t ‘just reroute power from things’.

it’s a funny little nod from the writers.

You know what the business community thinks of you? They think that a hundred years ago you were living in tents out here in the desert chopping each other’s heads off and that’s where you’ll be in another hundred years, so, yes, on behalf of my firm I accept your money.

this is basically why i ditched android and switched to iphones.

at the end of the day i need my phone to be a phone more than i need complete control over everything.

same with the PC OS. i like Linux, i like Windows, under some circumstances i even like MacOS. at the end of the day it really doesn’t matter what OS i’m using, so long as the software i need to run, runs.

Bing gets you answers fast.

they didn’t say they’d be the right answer tho.

because the TV is that wide.

not sure what you expect them to do about it.