America - The Official Thread

[Adamgp]

They proposed something similar here. There was a huge backlash from gun owners, and even more outrage from non gun owners because burglars could single them out.

 

[Keef]

Disgusting on anyone willing to own a gun in those counties. The Supreme Court ruled that you can't yell fire in a full building, so a few of you living there need to step up and put a stop to putting your names on Google again.

All gun owners can do in a situation like that is to not feel stigmatized, but instead stand tall and confident above those who don't own guns. Tell argumentative gun-haters that they can try and take your guns but you can't promise you won't stop them. Tell them that if they support making this imformation public then you won't be assisting them if their house is burgled or they find themselves a victim. I think it's about time a clear line is drawn between those who support gun ownership and those who want to criminalize self defense. I know what side I'd like to be on.

 

[Sanji Himura]

Florida bans all computers! Hide the laptops people!

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/07...l-computers-and-smartphones/?intcmp=obnetwork

 

[Crash]

Oh Florida, what will we do without you?

Omnis recently hit 31k posts. Perhaps this will slow him down a little bit?

 

[Pupik]

Oh Florida, what will we do without you?

This is why I have to leave the state to post on GTPlanet.

 

[Joel]

So if you buy your kid an iPod for Christmas is that the same as taking them to the casino underage?

 

[livemusic]

No, taking them to the casino is a much better Christmas gift.

 

[Omnis]

Florida Legislature = Florida's clown summit.

 

[braunracing88]

On a lighter note, here's a video I found not too long ago featuring 50 facts about the 50 states - one fact per state.
50 Great Facts About The 50 States
Some may be familiar to you, like the one about my home state being the first to abolish the death penalty. Others may surprise you, like the true origin of one state's famous crop. Watch and find out.

 

[Keef]

If I were president I would ban fax machines.

 

[Joel]

If I were Prime Minister I would cooperate with the US in the war on fax machines.

 

[Danoff]

If I were a Q I would wipe fax machines out of existence.

 

[FoolKiller]

But what about the people who can't grasp the concept of a PDF?

Won't someone think of the elderly?


In all reality, if you legally banned fax machines government would cease to function. I sit near our office fax machine and it is used multiple times a day.

EDIT: And yes, it is on my list of reasons for why government is inefficient.

 

[Danoff]

I sit near our office fax machine and it is used multiple times a day.

Every single time, email would have been better.

 

[FoolKiller]

Every single time, email would have been better.

I only use it when I have to send something where the process requires it to be faxed.

In a comical twist, that instance is ordering something from our print shop, which is pre-printed return address envelopes 90% of the time. Once I've had to order business cards and twice I've ordered informative rack cards to place in doctors' offices.

At my old job the only old tech issue we ran into were clients who used phones that couldn't open email attachments and needed everything in the body of the email. Those were very rare.

 

[Joel]

I work at a company with a predominantly 50+ workforce, this means I'm the computer guy after working here for 2 months. "Where's my stuff?" is my call to spring in to action.

Also, they regularly used a typewriter as recently as last year, and the only reason it doesn't get used any more is because you can't order the ribbon for it any more.

 

[Pupik]

If I were a Q I would wipe fax machines out of existence.

...but then, the ending of The Usual Suspects would have only been 33% less dramatic.

(Yes, you could have used an email in 1995, but with commonly-present bandwidth being what it is, it wouldn't have had the same effect.)

 

[FoolKiller]

I work at a company with a predominantly 50+ workforce, this means I'm the computer guy after working here for 2 months. "Where's my stuff?" is my call to spring in to action.

Also, they regularly used a typewriter as recently as last year, and the only reason it doesn't get used any more is because you can't order the ribbon for it any more.

At 34 I am the youngest guy in my office. If you tell someone to backup a file they print it and stuff it in an overflowing filing cabinet. Recently they did software upgrades on our PCs and IT sent a notice out and told us to run the automatic backup script by clicking on the file that has been on every desktop for years. Three people asked me what file they were talking about and two others asked me how to do it.

And this is my desktop wallpaper.

No one who has read it gets the joke.

 

[Joel]

There's three newer (less than 18 months) hires who are all in their early/mid 20's, and me at 18 for the summer, after that it's pretty much all 50+ and computer illiteracy/Jean Luc Picard syndrome (filing cabinets). It's just the way it goes, most of the employees have been here longer than I've been alive.

 

[Pupik]

I work at a company with a predominantly 50+ workforce, this means I'm the computer guy after working here for 2 months.

At 34 I am the youngest guy in my office. If you tell someone to backup a file they print it and stuff it in an overflowing filing cabinet.

No one who has read it gets the joke.

I take this act on the road with me; convincing some people to use a computer who never needed one before, changing their software from one vendor to another, or using the software instead of some muddied or convoluted manual process (although some people have come up with quite creative solutions). Hey, it pays the bills...

Since I do this job all across America, I can firmly say that everyone wants "better" (without offering any sort of realistic ideas), nobody wants to "change" (unless some magical office unicorn is going to automatically do it). Usually, the youngest and least-experienced are the easiest to train, and the most cooperative.

 

[GTsail]

If I were a Q I would wipe fax machines out of existence.

Don't get rid of the fax machine, its an encryption device.

Once you scan and send a document, generally, neither the recipient nor the NSA will be able to read it.

GTsail

 

[Danoff]

Don't get rid of the fax machine, its an encryption device.

Once you scan and send a document, generally, neither the recipient nor the NSA will be able to read it.

GTsail

Heh, nice.

(But seriously, encryption is a win in the email column)

 

[BobK]

In all reality, if you legally banned fax machines government would cease to function.

That's the best argument I've seen yet for banning them.

 

[Keef]

In all reality, if you legally banned fax machines government would cease to function.

 

[FoolKiller]

How did you get that image of me at work? Are you in the NSA?

 

[tanveerahmed2k8]

I honestly think American politics is corrupt, look at Zimmerman and the amount of people who have been put in Guantanamo bay without a fair trial.

 

[playnthru]

I honestly think American politics is corrupt, look at Zimmerman and the amount of people who have been put in Guantanamo bay without a fair trial.

I agree.👍

What social and mainstream media have done, was totally corrupt.

 

[livemusic]

Detroit files bankruptcy:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/detroit-emergency-manager-files-bankruptcy-19705083

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

I honestly think American politics is corrupt, look at Zimmerman and the amount of people who have been put in Guantanamo bay without a fair trial.

...Care to explain, instead of doing this bleeding heart routine?

 

[Johnnypenso]

Detroit files bankruptcy:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/detroit-emergency-manager-files-bankruptcy-19705083

Sad day for the Motor City. Hopefully it'll be a wakeup call that'll shake the city up and get it back on it's feet. Listening to local talk radio (I live on the other side of the Detroit River), it sounds like politics as usual, everyone pointing fingers and no one really understanding or accepting the underlying issues.