gary brolsma tank n spank

[Slurpee]

I'm with you on google being evil but we almost got google fiber in my area and I would have killed for there to have been a real competitor to comcast's regional monopoly

too bad "AT&T" owns all of the telephone poles, somehow

actually, this has nothing to do with anything, but it's kind of wild that the AT&T that's in this clip

[u2]2kM16BINzuY[/u2]

is not the AT&T that we have now
that AT&T was the remnants of the old "Ma Bell" national monopoly after it was broken up from an anti-trust lawsuit in the 80's, and by the 90's its power had diminished so far that it was basically just a long distance carrier competing with Sprint and MCI (lol remember long distance carriers?)
this show, FTL Newsfeed, produced in the 90's, actually was sponsored by AT&T, but it was the piddly long distance carrier AT&T, and the idea that it'd still be around in 2145 was kind of a joke, like KFC in Demolition Man

but then one of the old subsidiaries, SBC (no relation), purchased the company and all of its assets in 2005 (thanks dubya) and rebranded itself with the purchased assets because the AT&T brand had more history and public recognition

same trick "Atari" pulled. the Atari we have now used to be Infogrames, a French holding company that produced the shitty Matrix sequels tie-in game and that's about it, but they changed their name because they want you to think they made Pitfall, and for some reason everybody forgets this happened

except unlike Infogrames, which basically ransacked its own brand identity for quick cheap cash-ins and has been floundering for years, SBC basically rebuilt the monster it took its name from

[Slurpee]

carrot top dial 1-800-call-att

[Slurpee]

mr. t dial 1-800-collect aurgh aurgh aurgh

[Slurpee]

carl winslow and uncle jessie dial 10-10-321 aroo! aroo! aroo!

[Clocktopus]

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[VCRClock]

SBC also stands for Southwest Bell Corp, so maybe rebuilding the monster and still calling themselves the Bell System was a bit on the nose

[VCRClock]

as for Infogrames, I never liked them because they weren't in the business of either info or grames and I felt it was a misnomer

[RobClock]

Infogrames was a decent publisher via their GT Interactive branch

also Pitfall! was developed by someone at Activision you fool

[PhantomCatClock]

You already had to manually open 300 threads. Ask me to do it, next time.

[PhantomCatClock]

In fact I will compare the current database to the backup and manually add all the deleted posts that weren't from that user go on go on pm me the username if you aren't a frengus

[PhantomCatClock]

DO NOT READ THIS POST IF YOU ARE VCR. EVERYBODY WHO IS NOT VCR MAY READ THIS POST.


hey guys i know it looks intense here, like i'm arguing with my true pal, but please understand (1) i did not call him a frengus, the ball is in his court, (2) as a hobbyist conflict prevention specialist, i know when to deescalate and when to bluff. this is a bluff and i hold veece in the highest respect. he is a big strong man and he can take it. there is no discord here.



FROM THIS POINT ON, EVERYBODY MAY READ THIS POST

weenie

[Slurpee]

also Pitfall! was developed by someone at Activision you fool

this is a devastating blow to my ego
I must go pray

[VCRClock]

man i read this and

https://protonmail.com/blog/apple-app-store-antitrust/

i was gonna make a topic about it, but it was just me feeling real shitty about how if you don't like what [apple/google] are doing wrong you don't have a choice, and how apple et al are gonna be chinese censors' yes men forever because they can't exist otherwise, and then i started thinking about electronics manufacturing and I couldn't shut up

i like computers why does the tech industry have to fucking suck

[PhantomCatClock]

imagine if the FSF guy wrote that instead of the cringe he does write

[PhantomCatClock]

wasn't ios's big thing originally that it was os x with different graphics libraries



is ios really so insecure that we can't allow people to install whatever they want on the phone instead of having to go through the app store? i thought everything was sandboxed

[VCRClock]

pretending totalitarian governments don't exist for a minute, I don't see the value in apple's "walled garden"

nintendo is a classic walled gardener, but somehow I understand the history of "we want to approve every game that happens on our consoles so that we don't (usually) have shitty 3rd party games making our whole console look like a bad investment, because after all, prepackaged games are the only thing it does" or "we'll mostly leave guns and blood to the other guys so conservative parents will buy our shit"

i deleted a lot of sentences trying to say this, but... apple's original security advantage was that nobody gave enough of a shit to write a good virus for macOS, and then OS X came along. today's iPhone market share is clearly enough for the unscrupulous to be targeting iPhone users, but these days it's usually social engineering doing the heavy lifting anyway. I imagine the iOS walled garden is much more about keeping janky-looking apps from broke amateurs from making the iPhone look like less of a luxury product (a la nintendo), and has the added bonus of making it so broke amateurs can't race their widget-counting app against Apple's. and if you can make money renting the mall and promising not to let Spencers Gifts in it, hey, why not?

nintendo gets a :| from me, but apple gets the :( because their product isn't a toy, it's a computer/communications device it's important etc. etc. etc. goin to bed

[PhantomCatClock]

Maybe that was true at one point, but I feel like they really do have the security game on lockdown. When there is a security concern, bug, or error, they don't fix the virus—they fix the system against the abstract of the attack in question. (for a good time, read Apple's minor release notes circa 2006 and compare it to Microsoft's from maybe five years prior)

but what's the point of all this security if you can't use your phone. that's like having big heavy sweaty low hanging balls but nobody's allowed to kick you in the balls. why do i even have this gigantic tight ballsack if nobody's going to kick it



wait no hang on it's





it's





it's like having a laptop where you can only use programs that came with it OH WAIT THAT'S WHAT MICROSOFT WANTS ANd no just kidding but there is a 2n1 that ships in safe mode which blows chunks (you can overwrite it with win10 and use the same key tho)

[PhantomCatClock]

I did it. I finally hit a YouTube end screen where every thumbnail was not only a recommended video I've already seen, but a recommended video I've seen recently.

[Marlin Clock]

Go outside. The nation is finally no longer balls hot.

[FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK]

Go outside. The nation is finally no longer balls hot.

the late floundermanclock seventeen seconds after following your advice