Yep! Also, airlines. The whole reason flying in airplane these days is a sardine-like experience is because regulations were lifted. An "L" for Jimmy Carter, unfortunately.
Amusingly enough, libertarians will praise Jimmy Carter for his liberalization of airlines and telecom. He's arguably the reason we have fax machines and modems. Tell me more, tell more!
Both: It is actually ONE (the only one) thing I can say that the new administration is (possibly) getting right - banning some of the shitty additives you have in your food. It's a *small* step but at least its in the right direction.
Capitalists have ZERO interest in the general population as long as they work for peanuts & consume like there's no tomorrow (and breed like it too of course to produce new workers/consumers). Workers just need to be healthy *enough* and live long *enough* to be of value. Minimal cost & maximum profit. That's *it*. Everything else is smoke & mirrors on a good day - as long as they can get away with it.
I send 20-30 faxes a day from the library. They're far from obsolete. Although the quality of email/scanning is much better, health regulations regard them as more secure than email -- I guess because it's a direct transmission rather than scattering packets to the wind.
VERY odd..... We had a fax in our office but it was hardly ever used (one of our contractors *insisted* on faxed signatures so we had to use it whenever we used them). Funnily the *much* younger team members were actively AFRAID of it.... [lol]
Personally I would imagine that breaking an e-mail into packets and only reassembling it when it gets to its final destination is FAR more secure than an unencrypted point-to-point transmission...
Well, the route packets take to their destination is often unknowable, and I suppose they want to rule out the possibility of interception or other tampering in some cases. At any rate, it's one of the few services we provide that actually earns revenue!
Nope! We have two Canon Faxphone L190s that are primarily faxes but can be used for photocopying in a pinch, and three HP Laserjet 283s that COULD fax if they were connected to a line. They're multifunction printers that we use for printing, color copying, and scanning.
I think people often forget that most regulations have a reason, unless you live in a dictatorship, and that they mostly are there to make our lives safer or easier.
In spite of it all, I will miss orange cheeto dust. XD
Personally, I hope he does something about portion and calorie regulation. As a small person, big portions are genuinely a concern and a burden, if I'm eating alone. Also, there's no way a single portion of ANYTHING should be over 1000 calories. There's such a temptation to overeat. I do try to take leftovers home and put them in the fridge.
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Yep! Also, airlines. The whole reason flying in airplane these days is a sardine-like experience is because regulations were lifted. An "L" for Jimmy Carter, unfortunately.
Amusingly enough, libertarians will praise Jimmy Carter for his liberalization of airlines and telecom. He's arguably the reason we have fax machines and modems. Tell me more, tell more!
Both: It is actually ONE (the only one) thing I can say that the new administration is (possibly) getting right - banning some of the shitty additives you have in your food. It's a *small* step but at least its in the right direction.
Capitalists have ZERO interest in the general population as long as they work for peanuts & consume like there's no tomorrow (and breed like it too of course to produce new workers/consumers). Workers just need to be healthy *enough* and live long *enough* to be of value. Minimal cost & maximum profit. That's *it*. Everything else is smoke & mirrors on a good day - as long as they can get away with it.
@ Stephen: You mean *had* fax machines, right? Do you still use them? I thought they went to way of the Dodo some time ago.... [grin]
I send 20-30 faxes a day from the library. They're far from obsolete. Although the quality of email/scanning is much better, health regulations regard them as more secure than email -- I guess because it's a direct transmission rather than scattering packets to the wind.
VERY odd..... We had a fax in our office but it was hardly ever used (one of our contractors *insisted* on faxed signatures so we had to use it whenever we used them). Funnily the *much* younger team members were actively AFRAID of it.... [lol]
Personally I would imagine that breaking an e-mail into packets and only reassembling it when it gets to its final destination is FAR more secure than an unencrypted point-to-point transmission...
Well, the route packets take to their destination is often unknowable, and I suppose they want to rule out the possibility of interception or other tampering in some cases. At any rate, it's one of the few services we provide that actually earns revenue!
Weird. I didn't know they even made fax machines these days - or is yours a certified antique?
Nope! We have two Canon Faxphone L190s that are primarily faxes but can be used for photocopying in a pinch, and three HP Laserjet 283s that COULD fax if they were connected to a line. They're multifunction printers that we use for printing, color copying, and scanning.
I think people often forget that most regulations have a reason, unless you live in a dictatorship, and that they mostly are there to make our lives safer or easier.
Agreed!
In spite of it all, I will miss orange cheeto dust. XD
Personally, I hope he does something about portion and calorie regulation. As a small person, big portions are genuinely a concern and a burden, if I'm eating alone. Also, there's no way a single portion of ANYTHING should be over 1000 calories. There's such a temptation to overeat. I do try to take leftovers home and put them in the fridge.
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