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I had, as it turns out, watch a NYC hearing by the T&LC (Taxi and Limousine Commission). Tons of drivers making complaints, among which are:
How small a cut they get of the fare.
How fleet owners need 50% handicapped-accessible vehicles, Uber? None!
How they're flooding the market with vehicles so that more and more "legit" drivers are going under, financially: (when they're gone, watch Uber's fares soar/sore (like Home Depot for hardware).
And, as mentioned earlier, pretending they're not responsible as an employer whilst the real cabbies/fleets/black-cars/etc. have to meet all the legal requirements.
Basic constant unfair competition.
And you thought the days of the robber-barons was past!
(FYI: I essentially never take cabs: trains, planes, and cars, yes)
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1. I upgraded Ubuntu to 16.whatever and on one of my profiles no taskbar shows up at all. Can't do anything.
2. I wanted to set a password on an account and got a message that it was not complex enough. I'm not sure where to turn that off in Ubuntu so I googled it. Of course the answer is you have to run a command line in Terminal.
Even simple things are not simple with Linux. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: Even simple things are not simple with Linux
I don't agree with that.
Many things are simple,
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when knowing the shell and the common utilities. 
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Jochen Arndt wrote: when knowing the shell and the common utilities.
Indeed. 25 years ago I actually enjoyed doing DOS and typing commands, etc, but for simple stuff I don't want to have to learn it anymore. Just make it intuitive where to go to click. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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25 years ago making a phone call from inside in a box was fun, (and just too bad if the person you were calling was out.)
On the other end of that call though, 25 years ago life was easier,
- if you were out you wouldn't be disturbed by phone calls, you couldn't because there was no mobile phone (or very very rare)
- if the customer (or boss for employees) wanted to call you back to the office they had to wait till you got home to get you
by then they often sorted it out by themselves saving the trip back, these days they just act clueless and demand you come straight back even if the instructions are right on the screen.
And of course DOS was fun, you typed a something and the computer did it, it was a command and had to be obeyed.
These days you can click, but to the computer it's only a suggestion, it can choose not to do it.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Quote: 25 years ago
Aaaah! Them wuz the days!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Back in the Win3.1 era I helped administer a Solaris/Win Workgroups/Win 3.1 network. It was fun to get it working, but the continual information diving to find the exact command line to use on the Solaris boxes was something I never want to do again! Elephant that!
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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David O'Neil wrote: Win Workgroups/Win 3.1 network
I'm a little bit younger than that. I used Win 3.1 but for personal use only. Luckily I got into networks by the time win95 and NT were a thing.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Lucky you. But I doubt your laterness would have helped much, because I think Solaris continued to be tied to the command line. (Not sure - haven't touched it since then.)
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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and how to patch the kernel.
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RyanDev wrote: Of course the answer is you have to run a command line in Terminal.
And it would be a blue moon if the person implementing that obnoxious UI would provide a "Change Password Complexity Settings" button that you could click on. Even M$ fails at that.
We really need to stop having software designed and written by programmers. 
Marc
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Quote: We really need to stop having software designed and written by programmers.
And with AI coming, you may soon get your wish.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Marc Clifton wrote: Even M$ fails at that.
There is a setting in Windows to require a secure password or not. Can't remember where but I've used it in the past.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Marc Clifton wrote: We really need to stop having software designed and written by programmers
Amen to that.
Only yesterday, I had to explain to a customer that they have to find the values they need by following the path: Location/polling frequency/variable name.
When he replied "What the Hell has polling frequency got to do with anything?", I could only tell him that it made sense to the developers.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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RyanDev wrote: Even simple things are not simple with Linux.
I was once told by an acquaintance of mine that Linux is user-friendly; it's just that it chooses its friends.
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dandy72 wrote: it's just that it chooses its friends.
Perhaps I'll bring some flowers next time. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Windows is for children.
Linux is for consenting adults.
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
Anonymous
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That's how they make it faster, rather than render a new form repeat the last one a few rimes
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Sin tack
the any key okay
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Dafuq? 
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I had some official PDF file with a stamp and autograph a while ago.
I tried to view it in IE, Edge, Firefox and Chrome and all browsers showed a different result.
Chrome did everything as it should I think, Edge displayed something completely different (like it wasn't the same file even though it was), IE didn't display the stamp and autograph and Firefox displayed the stamp and autograph but had some different contents.
We found out because these browser differences almost cost me my visa to go on a vacation 
Really crazy stuff... 
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It's all because adobe took the perfectly workable postscript, and turned it into a bloated, overcomplicated monster.
"Portable", my @rse.
PDF should never have been born; it's well past time it died.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Hello all,
Today a colleague has told me that a guy from the phone company billed him some money to change a 5E category cable for a 5e category one as the 5E is not as good as the 5e.
I've been really surprised to hear that as I did not know that 5e was different from 5E.
Do you know if there is any difference or it was simply a guy trying to get some extra money?
PS: I've searched the Internet and I have not found any mention that it would be different...
As always thank you very much!
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Not heard of 5e and 5E, but there is a difference between Cat 5 and cat 5e. Ones 100Mb and the other is 1Gb respectively
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