I'm hoping the people that use the keyboard had food on their fingers.
If you can handle the summer heat, it's not a bad place to live.
I like it a lot more than where I grew up, the San Joaquin Valley.
Is this a Bob Dylan song? 
Palm Desert has its perks, I enjoyed the proximity to Joshua Tree.
Btw, I’d recommend the Rancho mirage library. The only library I remember in palm desert was near washington and hovely, and it was tiny.
I'm at the Palm Desert Public Library, on Fred Waring near Monterrey.
I prefer the Rancho Mirage library, but this one is closer to home.
Somebody flunked Internet 101.
Under TWC, I never got any of those “you’ve been a bad boy” letters until years later, and for things I never had any interest in: a chick-flick, a standup comedy show, coupla other weird-ass things that had me scratching my head, “wtf??”.
When they bought / were bought by / merged with Rectum, umm, Spectrum, those letters started flying fast’n’furious.
Hell, I can’t help it if someone was piggybacking onto my wifi. There are two flavors of wifi: one that’s easy to crack, and another that’s even easier to crack. Reaper can do it, what?, overnight?
So… I go sign up for a vpn, turn off ssid, change the wifi name (in case turning off ssid wasn’t enough and someone’d still remember it), and don’t recall getting a bad-boy letter since.
Only problem is, some vpn sites get flagged, and even innocuous things like ups.com don’t work anymore. They’ll load the page “frame”, but the juicy bits just keep pinwheeling and no info pops up. Other times, you’ll get captchaed more often (vs never before), and all sorts of random irritations pop up.
Problem with those letters is how they just suck. “Admit you did wrong and promise to never do it again, and we’ll leave you alone. Challenge it in any way whatsoever, dare to say ‘That ain\t me!’ and we’ll turn over allllll your personal info to the complainer and put a bullseye on your back.” Wow, some choice…
They all can go die in a fire. MPAA, RIAA, complicit ISPs, the whole lot of ’em. They make me root for the pir8s.
You mean theft of proterty?
No one better take TK’s side anymore when she complains about Chinese mfg’s using her or Tom_E’s code without following the rules.
Or using TA / DEL’s driver designs…
This site is one of the most hypocritical I’ve ever seen!
Tell em some one was on your wifi without your knowledge and you’ll set a password up now.
That’s a non sequitur from hell right there.
Downloading all them Mila movies & games is wots dun it
And change the WiFi name to “FBI WiFi Monitor” or “ICE Net Search”
WiFi name = “PDPD surveillance van”
Hmm. I’m perplexed. Maybe someone can answer some questions for me.
If I buy a shirt, or wrench, or even a book, from Target, I can later, with receipt in hand, return it with or without any reason or explanation at all (they’re rather nice about that), and get back every penny I paid for it. But if I buy a dvd or cd which just plain sucks, and later try to return it, I’m told that I’m stuck with it. And even if it’s physically defective, can only exchange it for the exact same title. Why?
If a dvd/cd has all sorts of fake “review” blurbs spattered all over the cover, like “engrossing right ’til the end-credits!”, “best film of the year!”, etc., and it’s just a flat-out lie, why still can’t I return it? Isn’t that fraud? Especially if “reviewers” like “Jim Jones, San Francisco Monitor” don’t even exist?
If I bought regular-definition dvds and want to upgrade to bluray or the like, why must I buy-again at full price the upgraded version? (Even predatory software has special upgrade-only rates vs full-price.) And why do the movie- and music cartels keep trying to pass legislation to make it illegal (yes, as in a criminal offense) to sell off my already-bought older versions?
So many things are try-before-you-buy, yet it’s verboten to “preview” a teevee show or movie before plunking down cash for a physical disc, with subtitles, director’s cut, alternate endings, outtakes, image-gallery, all those nice extras?
Hmmm. I’m still perplexed.
We could tell you why, but we’d be banned in a New York minute.
We all know who is behind the “Creative accounting” and big time lobbying for these arcane laws,
Just like the Record labels crying about being in bad financial state after screwing the artists for over 50 years, Yeah Eff Em’
Rant off.
+1 and :person_facepalming:
When I complain at companies, I write a personal letter where I explain how “share and share alike” licenses work, and ask them nicely to publish the open-source code they used. I don’t send threats or lawyers, I don’t broadcast letters to thousands of people per day, I don’t send letters without researching each individual case first, and I don’t try to stop anyone from sharing.
A MPAA nastygram is kinda the opposite.
Wellp, that’s why I’m trying to keep it civil… just asking questions and all.
I think most of us have a sort of visceral hatred for those parasites anyway, so not much needs to be said. Superfluous.
Media is intellectual property so what you’re really paying for is that, not the actual disc. Once it’s opened they have no way of telling whether or not you watched it.