That's over 86 per hour. Over one per minute if one was texting 24 hours a day.
There's no two ways around it -- this lady's cray cray. That's not normal. I wouldn't expect a woman texting Brad Pitt in his prime to be sending 2000 text messages a day. I wouldn't expect a woman texting Robert Pattinson immediately after Twilight came out to be sending 2000 messages per day. That's acting on a compulsion that shows a total breakdown of self-control at a basic level. Not only could she not inhibit this obviously bad behavior, but she kept on returning to it again and again and again over such a long period of time.
She can cry all she wants in court, but anyone who's been on the receiving end of that level of nuts knows it changes a man (or in this case, a boy) forever. You never forget that feeling of being hunted by a rabid animal who just wants to express pure unfiltered id. "I am going to take what I want whenever I want even if it means you can't even touch your phone anymore because it's beeping all day every day with my insane messages. I don't care about you or the consequences." -- you probably don't see messages from your friends and family anymore, because your notifications are filled up and your phone is constantly buzzing, and so when you're facing constant notifications the system is basically useless. That has social and practical consequences.
@sj_zero @leespringfield1903 Yeah.
A fair amount of this coincides with the Gates -> Ballmer transition. The stuff and pace you're impressed with was Gates or started under him, as well as the OS/2 work. Which had Microsoft despairing because IBM demanded it work on a 286 because they'd promised their corporate IT disciples after all the first generation PC chaos the PC-IT would be the last PC they'd have to buy for a long time.
So Microsoft continued its Windows work, which became practical with the 386, and when DEC's Ken Olsen canceled both the hardware and OS work for a RISC replacement of the VAX Microsoft took the opportunity to hire a proven OS team headed by one of the very few men who'd ever done more than one OS. Who later did foundational low level OS type work for Azure, can't keep a man like Cutler down it would seem.
Once your org chart really and truly looks like this thanks to stack ranking, it's a miracle if anything gets done, see them blowing a billion dollars on the Kin. Although the pajeet replacement might be making people nostalgic for even a botch like Windows 8??? I mean, one of the first things he did was fire most of the people who tested Windows, especially the complete experience team....
Probably not an actual quote. Probably.
I mean, Microsoft made NT, made the 9x line, ended the 9x line, and even participated in the os/2 project, and all in less time than they've had to make 8 work. If you look at it that way it looks even worse.
They just can't do it.
Just think about how based and Chadlt the old Microsoft developers were: they went from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 in 5 years. They went from Windows 95 Windows 2000 in another 4 years.
I do not believe for a second that given nine years the Microsoft of today could go from Windows 3.1 to Windows 2000. We're still basically running Windows 8 lite.
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We need to get rid of that red Tory in charge and get a mike Harris back.
Imagine how insane it is to pay yourself to convince yourself to do something that you want to do. I can't imagine anything much more wasteful.