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I'm silly.

I'm creepy, icky, wrong and silly.

Gahh! I didn't mean it like that! I said silly lovingly, and
I wasn't talking about you!!

What if everyone is being nice to me because I'm a special case?

^ f**k off.

There, now not everyone's being nice.

^ well f**k you too, with bells on.

Where did you put the bells?
Send me a pic for the record.

As if it would make it past the censors.

You'll have to come and find them.

^ ok.

Can you jingle really loudly?

You keep interrupting the progress of how I had things going.

I'm not going to mention specifics because then people would know you are.

But to keep ignoring me after I've asked you repeatedly to stop what you're doing, and even when the person in charge of the thing asks you to stop,
is really kind of rude.

You're violating what I wanna do, and that kind of thing is a basic part of RESPECT.

Anytime I try to ask you politely to stop, you:
A) Get all pissy about it.
or
B) Ignore me.

And if you act like a DICK again in this thing that we're doing, I'm just gonna quit it.

People think you're polite, but you have this not-so-hidden nasty side, and I find it really hard to like you.

Sorry, bro, I just don't.

And for someone who espouses being polite and kind and all that crap, you don't uphold it very well.

You're a BAG OF DICKS masquerading as a KNIGHT, and maybe that's not how you are, but that's the general impression I get of you.

Nothing like waking up to a set of mixed social signals to start the day. Can't force a positive attitude, but ready to facilitate on this end.

I've bought a new laptop and I hate it It seems to be slower then the old one
So I just deleted everything I thought I could. I don't know, suddenly the windows store popped up with a suggestion for something to install. It was something I deleted yesterday so I thought... ok, if you really want me to have this thing, then fine I'll install it again.
It's also really warm, my old one don't get that warm. Why can't I delete windows stuff! There is so much windows stuff I don't need.
Maybe I shall experiment with my old computer now. Like try and uninstall windows and install arch linux instead Don't you have to get into Dos to do that? I don't know how to get into Dos.

I wish I was a computer genious. Then I would delete EVERYTHING I don't need, and I could probably make a computer last much longer then the 4 years they usually do.

shítsticks on a flappy loose cüntbag with rice and a fück.

Online banking. It's horrible. I only check my balance these days as I found a slightly easier way to getting to check that which doesn't go through 101 security checks and 19 Mensa quizzes with a spur of unreliable technology thrown in.

I'm with HSBC, I'm 16, so not some old fogey who hasn't grown up with tech, but one little bit truly stresses me (to the point that handling getting a new one of these via a call to some nondescript Mumbai call centre gave me a tremor for about five minutes). Secure keys. They're horrible.

In principle, sure, it's a brilliant idea. It's just some nice ol' two factor authentication without the risk of hacking. It's a simple little card-sized device with a keypad, two extra buttons and a display like an old calculator, and I mean, who doesn't love a calculator! The only problem, these little devices are the spawn of the devil, about as unreliable as you can get. There is a whole array (genuinely, multiple pages) on the HSBC website dedicated to explaining the numerous problems it'll display. They have 3 low battery warnings, and those come up a lot.

Really, how it works, you put in a numerical code, click a button, and it throws a new numerical code based off a little algorithm that's unique to that specific one, and then I believe that it also factors in time to generic a unique one every time.


Fine, nice simple device, it's even simpler then a calculator, no handling square roots, fractions, factorials, truth tables and graph plotting tables. I mean, a calculator, even without a little solar panel it can last a good 30, sometimes even 40 years. These little secure keys, a year, then too they have a huge array of problems I do not understand which can also come up. Considering essentially everything (even opening a god damn new bit to store money within your account uses it), it's pretty annoying when it goes wrong, and then your thrown to an Indian call centre asking the day you opened your account, the maiden name of your great great aunt's brother's wife's grandmother. Then to the result that they usually can't fix it (yet they always start a call with "I can help!").

It's not like rocket science to design them to be reliable. They're currently the tiny ridiculous size of 44x70x3mm - Smaller than a damn credit card, which probably gives the problem in itself that I suspect they may often get lost. If I were making them, they'd be 60x95x7mm to then feature a slightly larger display (as I need to have my dad help me with online banking and he needs me to read the stuff off the screen currently used), perhaps slightly larger keys for people with fat fingers, and then finally a decent battery, perhaps with a small solar panel like some calculators, just to make sure it doesn't run out of power. It's not like you ever actually put one of these in a wallet (I do believe your advised against doing so) and it'd be harder to lose then.

However, most banks and companies, like countries, are run by buffoons.

^ Yeah. Online banking and similar online things are so annoying. Technology is supposed to make our lives easier but it ends up making our lives harder.

I think online stuff isn't really supposed to make our lives easier, it's supposed to make us do the jobs that used to be done by staff ourselves. A computer isn't a labour saving device. It's a device that takes the labour that used to be done by a bank teller and makes you do it yourself.

Automation and outsourcing have made us go from a manufactoring economy to a service economy. But with online banking and self-serve checkouts, we're moving away from a service economy to god knows what.

If we've lost the manufactoring jobs and we're losing the service jobs, what will replace them? The middle class boffin jobs will still exist but this could be the end of the working class. Those automated service machines will need an army of boffins to program them. Eventually we'll reach a watershed were paying the boffins to program the machines is more expensive than just hiring a minimum wage shmuck to perform the task manually.