Computers and Tech do what THEY want, not what YOU want!

John Kuthe...

On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 7:47:48 AM UTC-5, John Kuthe wrote:
> Computers and Tech do what THEY want, not what YOU want!
>
> John Kuthe...

Computers do what the software and hardware designers think will sell,
to maximize their corporations' profits. So the designers can earn
money to support their families (or at least their gaming habits).

Cindy Hamilton

On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 8:12:14 AM UTC-6, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 7:47:48 AM UTC-5, John Kuthe wrote:
> > Computers and Tech do what THEY want, not what YOU want!
> >
> > John Kuthe...
>
> Computers do what the software and hardware designers think will sell,
> to maximize their corporations' profits. So the designers can earn
> money to support their families (or at least their gaming habits).
>
> Cindy Hamilton

Exactly! Computers and the such to what THEY want, not what WE want!

And that is why I'm backing OUT of the Tech World!

Tech sucks! :-(

John Kuthe...

On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 9:26:40 AM UTC-6, John Kuthe wrote:
>
> Exactly! Computers and the such to what THEY want, not what WE want!
>
> And that is why I'm backing OUT of the Tech World!
>
> Tech sucks! :-(
>
> John Kuthe...
>
Let us know when you're ready to back out, careful, don't hit the house and
bust a tire, and we'll throw a farewell party.

On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 04:47:45 -0800 (PST), John Kuthe
> wrote:

>Computers and Tech do what THEY want, not what YOU want!

That's how it works if you have no clue what you're doing, yes. Mr '
computer tech'.

On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 07:26:36 -0800 (PST), John Kuthe
> wrote:

>On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 8:12:14 AM UTC-6, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 7:47:48 AM UTC-5, John Kuthe wrote:
>> > Computers and Tech do what THEY want, not what YOU want!
>> >
>> > John Kuthe...
>>
>> Computers do what the software and hardware designers think will sell,
>> to maximize their corporations' profits. So the designers can earn
>> money to support their families (or at least their gaming habits).
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton
>
>Exactly! Computers and the such to what THEY want, not what WE want!
>
>And that is why I'm backing OUT of the Tech World!
>
>Tech sucks! :-(

You have a strange way of 'backing out of the tech world', John. You
buy an electric (coal burning) car, instead of a bicycle. You buy hifi
gear, and use the Internet virtually the entire time you're awake.
That's not 'backing out of the tech world', John.

Cindy Hamilton wrote:
....
> Computers do what the software and hardware designers think will sell,
> to maximize their corporations' profits. So the designers can earn
> money to support their families (or at least their gaming habits).

i haven't sold anything in eons. i'm not a corporation.
i might make profits, but not from software and i'm not much
into gaming and i don't have a family to support.

i can make computers do most of what i want if i have the
time to figure it out.


songbird

Je�us wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 07:26:36 -0800 (PST), John Kuthe
> > wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 8:12:14 AM UTC-6, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>> On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 7:47:48 AM UTC-5, John Kuthe wrote:
>>>> Computers and Tech do what THEY want, not what YOU want!
>>>>
>>>> John Kuthe...
>>>
>>> Computers do what the software and hardware designers think will sell,
>>> to maximize their corporations' profits. So the designers can earn
>>> money to support their families (or at least their gaming habits).
>>>
>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>
>> Exactly! Computers and the such to what THEY want, not what WE want!
>>
>> And that is why I'm backing OUT of the Tech World!
>>
>> Tech sucks! :-(
>
> You have a strange way of 'backing out of the tech world', John. You
> buy an electric (coal burning) car, instead of a bicycle. You buy hifi
> gear, and use the Internet virtually the entire time you're awake.
> That's not 'backing out of the tech world', John.
>

He can't back up very far. Druce is close behind him with a greased
tool, just waiting for him to back up.

On 12/12/2019 4:32 PM, songbird wrote:
> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> ...
>> Computers do what the software and hardware designers think will sell,
>> to maximize their corporations' profits. So the designers can earn
>> money to support their families (or at least their gaming habits).
> i haven't sold anything in eons. i'm not a corporation.
> i might make profits, but not from software and i'm not much
> into gaming and i don't have a family to support.
>
> i can make computers do most of what i want if i have the
> time to figure it out.
>
>
> songbird

Â* I think Kootchie's computer problems can be summed up in 4 letters .
GIGO . I seldom have a problem getting my computers to do exactly what I
want ... right now my desktop (this comp) is doing usenet while the
Teeveebox is playing random tunes from stored files thru the TV and it's
6.1 sound system .

--
Snag
Yes , I'm old
and crochety - and armed .
Get outta my woods !

On 12/12/2019 9:25 PM, Terry Coombs wrote:
> On 12/12/2019 4:32 PM, songbird wrote:
>> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> ...
>>> Computers do what the software and hardware designers think will sell,
>>> to maximize their corporations' profits.Â* So the designers can earn
>>> money to support their families (or at least their gaming habits).
>> Â*Â* i haven't sold anything in eons.Â* i'm not a corporation.
>> i might make profits, but not from software and i'm not much
>> into gaming and i don't have a family to support.
>>
>> Â*Â* i can make computers do most of what i want if i have the
>> time to figure it out.
>>
>>
>> Â*Â* songbird
>
> Â* I think Kootchie's computer problems can be summed up in 4 letters .
> GIGO . I seldom have a problem getting my computers to do exactly what
> I want ... right now my desktop (this comp) is doing usenet while the
> Teeveebox is playing random tunes from stored files thru the TV and
> it's 6.1 sound system .
>

Â* Oh , and the other 4 comps are all asleep .

--
Snag
Yes , I'm old
and crochety - and armed .
Get outta my woods !

On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 4:23:54 PM UTC-6, Jeßus wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 07:26:36 -0800 (PST), John Kuthe
> > wrote:
>
> >On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 8:12:14 AM UTC-6, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >> On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 7:47:48 AM UTC-5, John Kuthe wrote:
> >> > Computers and Tech do what THEY want, not what YOU want!
> >> >
> >> > John Kuthe...
> >>
> >> Computers do what the software and hardware designers think will sell,
> >> to maximize their corporations' profits. So the designers can earn
> >> money to support their families (or at least their gaming habits).
> >>
> >> Cindy Hamilton
> >
> >Exactly! Computers and the such to what THEY want, not what WE want!
> >
> >And that is why I'm backing OUT of the Tech World!
> >
> >Tech sucks! :-(
>
> You have a strange way of 'backing out of the tech world', John. You
> buy an electric (coal burning) car, instead of a bicycle. You buy hifi
> gear, and use the Internet virtually the entire time you're awake.
> That's not 'backing out of the tech world', John.

I am using all this wonderful technology the best I can! YES I buy Hifi gear! 1977 La Scalas and 1963 Bozaks! And the Front End to my audiophile system:

https://i.postimg.cc/tTwpj6v5/Front-...dio-system.jpg

And Greta Thunberg is as well, to further the YOUNG PEOPLE'S cause! SAVE OUR PLANET from what the OLD ****S did to it! :-(

John Kuthe...

On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 21:27:06 -0600, Terry Coombs >
wrote:

>On 12/12/2019 9:25 PM, Terry Coombs wrote:
>> On 12/12/2019 4:32 PM, songbird wrote:

>>> Â*Â* i haven't sold anything in eons.Â* i'm not a corporation.
>>> i might make profits, but not from software and i'm not much
>>> into gaming and i don't have a family to support.
>>>
>>> Â*Â* i can make computers do most of what i want if i have the
>>> time to figure it out.
>>>
>>>
>>> Â*Â* songbird
>>
>> Â* I think Kootchie's computer problems can be summed up in 4 letters .
>> GIGO . I seldom have a problem getting my computers to do exactly what
>> I want ... right now my desktop (this comp) is doing usenet while the
>> Teeveebox is playing random tunes from stored files thru the TV and
>> it's 6.1 sound system .
>>
>
> Â* Oh , and the other 4 comps are all asleep .

Are you saying you have successfully turned all 4 of them off? You
must be a modern day magician!

On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 8:12:14 AM UTC-6, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 7:47:48 AM UTC-5, John Kuthe wrote:
> > Computers and Tech do what THEY want, not what YOU want!
> >
> > John Kuthe...
>
> Computers do what the software and hardware designers think will sell,
> to maximize their corporations' profits. So the designers can earn
> money to support their families (or at least their gaming habits).
>
> Cindy Hamilton

**** POOR electronic design goals! Hardware computers' biggest advance was the stored program machine, and then all the SHITTY SOFTWARE started being written! To serve primarily the Billion$ to their OWNERS! That's why Bill Gates and MicroSUCKS LICENCED DOS to IBM, and any other Tom, Dick and Smarmy who could throw together a cheap hardware box and claim it was "100% IBM Compatible' when it WASN'T!! Ergo DRIVERS were written OR NOT! When I got a free Ubuntu install CD it's tag line was "It Just Works!" but it DIDN'T! Not with the cheap Wifi card I;d just installed!

I know how this Tech shit works! Or DOESN'T! ;-)

John Kuthe...

On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 19:34:39 -0800 (PST), John Kuthe
> wrote:

>On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 4:23:54 PM UTC-6, Jeßus wrote:
>> On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 07:26:36 -0800 (PST), John Kuthe
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 8:12:14 AM UTC-6, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> >> On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 7:47:48 AM UTC-5, John Kuthe wrote:
>> >> > Computers and Tech do what THEY want, not what YOU want!
>> >> >
>> >> > John Kuthe...
>> >>
>> >> Computers do what the software and hardware designers think will sell,
>> >> to maximize their corporations' profits. So the designers can earn
>> >> money to support their families (or at least their gaming habits).
>> >>
>> >> Cindy Hamilton
>> >
>> >Exactly! Computers and the such to what THEY want, not what WE want!
>> >
>> >And that is why I'm backing OUT of the Tech World!
>> >
>> >Tech sucks! :-(
>>
>> You have a strange way of 'backing out of the tech world', John. You
>> buy an electric (coal burning) car, instead of a bicycle. You buy hifi
>> gear, and use the Internet virtually the entire time you're awake.
>> That's not 'backing out of the tech world', John.
>
>I am using all this wonderful technology the best I can! YES I buy Hifi gear! 1977 La Scalas and 1963 Bozaks! And the Front End to my audiophile system:
>
>https://i.postimg.cc/tTwpj6v5/Front-...dio-system.jpg

What is your main source? I see you have a CD player, cassette and
turntable.

>And Greta Thunberg is as well, to further the YOUNG PEOPLE'S cause! SAVE OUR PLANET from what the OLD ****S did to it! :-(

Greta Thunberg is just a pawn, and a hypocritical one at that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Sy...ature=youtu.be

On 2019 Dec 12, , Bruce wrote
(in >):

> Are you saying you have successfully turned all 4 of them off? You
> must be a modern day magician!

I dont know about Snag, but I am. Remember that tail that youve been
burdened with all your life? Check your butt. Its gone. Magic! Theres
no need to thank me. I live to serve. I only learned of your condition from a
whistleblower who must never be mentioned.

On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 21:20:28 -0800, Leo >
wrote:

>On 2019 Dec 12, , Bruce wrote
>(in >):
>
>> Are you saying you have successfully turned all 4 of them off? You
>> must be a modern day magician!
>
>I dont know about Snag, but I am. Remember that tail that youve been
>burdened with all your life? Check your butt. Its gone. Magic! Theres
>no need to thank me. I live to serve. I only learned of your condition from a
>whistleblower who must never be mentioned.

Watchou smoking?

On 2019 Dec 12, , Bruce wrote
(in >):

> Watchou smoking?

Why? What did the whistleblower tell you? You never read this. I dont want
to be impeached! Watch out! He/she/it could come after you next. Or, you
dont pay attention to American politics, and I dont believe that.

leo

On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 22:12:48 -0800, Leo >
wrote:

>On 2019 Dec 12, , Bruce wrote
>(in >):
>
>> Watchou smoking?
>
>Why? What did the whistleblower tell you? You never read this. I dont want
>to be impeached! Watch out! He/she/it could come after you next. Or, you
>dont pay attention to American politics, and I dont believe that.

I don't follow it that well. I don't think Trump will be impeached.
Besides, he should be in jail, which will also not happen. Enjoy! And
don't forget to re-elect him for even more fun!

Next: The Texit.

On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 5:33:11 PM UTC-5, songbird wrote:
> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> ...
> > Computers do what the software and hardware designers think will sell,
> > to maximize their corporations' profits. So the designers can earn
> > money to support their families (or at least their gaming habits).
>
> i haven't sold anything in eons. i'm not a corporation.
> i might make profits, but not from software and i'm not much
> into gaming and i don't have a family to support.
>
> i can make computers do most of what i want if i have the
> time to figure it out.
>
>
> songbird

You can still make them do only do what they're designed to do, plus maybe a
little bit the designers didn't think about.

Cindy Hamilton

On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 11:03:31 PM UTC-5, John Kuthe wrote:
> On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 8:12:14 AM UTC-6, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 7:47:48 AM UTC-5, John Kuthe wrote:
> > > Computers and Tech do what THEY want, not what YOU want!
> > >
> > > John Kuthe...
> >
> > Computers do what the software and hardware designers think will sell,
> > to maximize their corporations' profits. So the designers can earn
> > money to support their families (or at least their gaming habits).
> >
> > Cindy Hamilton
>
> **** POOR electronic design goals! Hardware computers' biggest advance was the stored program machine, and then all the SHITTY SOFTWARE started being written! To serve primarily the Billion$ to their OWNERS! That's why Bill Gates and MicroSUCKS LICENCED DOS to IBM, and any other Tom, Dick and Smarmy who could throw together a cheap hardware box and claim it was "100% IBM Compatible' when it WASN'T!! Ergo DRIVERS were written OR NOT! When I got a free Ubuntu install CD it's tag line was "It Just Works!" but it DIDN'T! Not with the cheap Wifi card I;d just installed!
>
> I know how this Tech shit works! Or DOESN'T! ;-)
>
> John Kuthe...

There's nothing you can teach me about computers. Give it up.

Cindy Hamilton

On 12/12/2019 9:45 PM, Bruce wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 21:27:06 -0600, Terry Coombs >
> wrote:
>
>> On 12/12/2019 9:25 PM, Terry Coombs wrote:
>>> On 12/12/2019 4:32 PM, songbird wrote:
>>>> Â*Â* i haven't sold anything in eons.Â* i'm not a corporation.
>>>> i might make profits, but not from software and i'm not much
>>>> into gaming and i don't have a family to support.
>>>>
>>>> Â*Â* i can make computers do most of what i want if i have the
>>>> time to figure it out.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Â*Â* songbird
>>> Â* I think Kootchie's computer problems can be summed up in 4 letters .
>>> GIGO . I seldom have a problem getting my computers to do exactly what
>>> I want ... right now my desktop (this comp) is doing usenet while the
>>> Teeveebox is playing random tunes from stored files thru the TV and
>>> it's 6.1 sound system .
>>>
>> Â* Oh , and the other 4 comps are all asleep .
> Are you saying you have successfully turned all 4 of them off? You
> must be a modern day magician!

Â* It's not magic Bwoosie-poo , it's called "technology" , something
most Aussies are not all that familiar with .

--
Snag
Yes , I'm old
and crochety - and armed .
Get outta my woods !

Cindy Hamilton wrote:
....
> You can still make them do only do what they're designed to do, plus maybe a
> little bit the designers didn't think about.

perhaps you don't get it yet that i can write my
own software easily enough if i want to (i.e. in
some sense i would fit the definition of designer
but obviously not your narrow viewpoint of one that
is only controlled by a corporation or a need to
make profits).


songbird

On Fri, 13 Dec 2019 05:57:28 -0600, Terry Coombs >
wrote:

>On 12/12/2019 9:45 PM, Bruce wrote:
>> On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 21:27:06 -0600, Terry Coombs >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/12/2019 9:25 PM, Terry Coombs wrote:

>>>> Â* I think Kootchie's computer problems can be summed up in 4 letters .
>>>> GIGO . I seldom have a problem getting my computers to do exactly what
>>>> I want ... right now my desktop (this comp) is doing usenet while the
>>>> Teeveebox is playing random tunes from stored files thru the TV and
>>>> it's 6.1 sound system .
>>>>
>>> Â* Oh , and the other 4 comps are all asleep .
>> Are you saying you have successfully turned all 4 of them off? You
>> must be a modern day magician!
>
> Â* It's not magic Bwoosie-poo , it's called "technology" , something
>most Aussies are not all that familiar with .

Is that with electricity?

On Friday, December 13, 2019 at 4:32:42 PM UTC-5, songbird wrote:
> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> ...
> > You can still make them do only do what they're designed to do, plus maybe a
> > little bit the designers didn't think about.
>
> perhaps you don't get it yet that i can write my
> own software easily enough if i want to (i.e. in
> some sense i would fit the definition of designer
> but obviously not your narrow viewpoint of one that
> is only controlled by a corporation or a need to
> make profits).

I get it. I'm a programmer, too. But there simply are things
that hardware is not capable of doing.

It's unlikely that you would _want_ to do anything of which
the hardware is incapable, but I'm all too familiar with the
limitations of computer hardware. We bump up against them
all the time at work. The CPU clock speed is a hard limit.
The number of floating-point operations per unit time is
a hard limit.

Cindy Hamilton

Je�us wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 19:34:39 -0800 (PST), John Kuthe
> > wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 4:23:54 PM UTC-6, Jeßus wrote:
>>> On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 07:26:36 -0800 (PST), John Kuthe
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 8:12:14 AM UTC-6, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>> On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 7:47:48 AM UTC-5, John Kuthe wrote:
>>>>>> Computers and Tech do what THEY want, not what YOU want!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> John Kuthe...
>>>>> Computers do what the software and hardware designers think will sell,
>>>>> to maximize their corporations' profits. So the designers can earn
>>>>> money to support their families (or at least their gaming habits).
>>>>>
>>>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>> Exactly! Computers and the such to what THEY want, not what WE want!
>>>>
>>>> And that is why I'm backing OUT of the Tech World!
>>>>
>>>> Tech sucks! :-(
>>> You have a strange way of 'backing out of the tech world', John. You
>>> buy an electric (coal burning) car, instead of a bicycle. You buy hifi
>>> gear, and use the Internet virtually the entire time you're awake.
>>> That's not 'backing out of the tech world', John.
>> I am using all this wonderful technology the best I can! YES I buy Hifi gear! 1977 La Scalas and 1963 Bozaks! And the Front End to my audiophile system:
>>
>> https://i.postimg.cc/tTwpj6v5/Front-...dio-system.jpg
> What is your main source? I see you have a CD player, cassette and
> turntable.
>
>> And Greta Thunberg is as well, to further the YOUNG PEOPLE'S cause! SAVE OUR PLANET from what the OLD ****S did to it! :-(
> Greta Thunberg is just a pawn, and a hypocritical one at that:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Sy...ature=youtu.be

How dare her!