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It's blackmail, not trust. They make a fake threat saying they'll expose your porn habits and nudes they hacked from your webcam unless you pay them by Bitcoin; in reality nothing happens in the end beyond that threatening email with your password in the subject or message. https://www.businessinsider.co... there's a screenshot on this article if you want to see for yourself.

Even if it did matter it still would not matter because no professional data firm would put PII at risk anyway and would always keep data in the proper hands. Of course, feel free to keep preaching otherwise to yourself if you like wasting your own time in bouts of what ifs.

Oh, you mean like this data firm?

"Facebook and Twitter hold a huge amount of users' personal data while LinkedIn includes users' professional data. Data from real-estate site Zillow was also roped in to create these consolidated user profiles. Researchers believe these profiles containing sensitive and personally identifiable information is highly coveted and targeted by hackers."

Or, perhaps this one? I mean, it's Google, right? They've never had this problem before, right?

Oh, wait! Maybe you mean this one!

I believe we, as a society, and as a global people, need to put Google, and others who hoover up and trade in peoples' data in their place. We need to get up off our collective butts, find or create an alternative to the service(s) offered by them. Start with Google. Bankrupt them and bury them. Fast and hard. Perhaps that will teach the others like them to think twice before engaging in this chicanery.

I doubt many people will be cross-shopping a premium-brand SUV with a cheaply built saloon that isn't actually on sale in Europe yet

1. Your "cheaply built saloon" has the highest resale value retention of any car in the US in the US, from a company with the highest owner satisfaction. But don't let facts interfere with a good attack line.

2. Model 3 is on sale in Europe. First customer cars arrive in Europe on a week from now.

Additionally, the e-tron is ready for high-current chargers that will soon be everywhere

1. There are two primary factors that determine how long you're waiting at charging stations on a road trip: A) the charging power, and B) your vehicle's consumption. As described above, E-Tron is such a guzzler that even if it can charge on 175kW stations it still would only charge at 3/5ths the number of miles/kilometers per minute. Of course, most CCS stations are far from 175kW.

2. "Soon be everywhere" is a funny statement. You know that Ionity network that's supposed to be making them in Europe? You may be surprised to know that the vast majority of what they're actually building is only CCS v1 (capped out at 200A, not 500A as in CCS v2). It's not even clear that they support 800-1000V yet either, rather than just 400-500V. The "350kW" moniker is designed to be a "later upgrade"; they're 350kW "design intent".

3. Even if this weren't the case, they're years behind the Supercharger network.

while Tesla has not yet announced what the maximum charging power will be for the Model 3.

They've pointed out that all of their current production can take powers well faster than current superchargers can deliver, which is ~117kW. The onboard computer, when put into factory mode, shows a current limit of 525A, which would be ~180kW, give or take.

It's interesting that really stupid people continue to talk about California as if it was run by republicans. California kicked most of it's state republicans to the curb some odd years ago, and got the state back on track. I realize you might have missed that if the only echo chamber you hear is fauxnews, but it's reality.

Here's an old posting, with pictures to help you out because you don't seem to be able to read... or at least, haven't bothered to read in the past 6-8 years. https://www.businessinsider.co...

On the other hand, if you want to see truly fucked up... check out Kansas. https://www.latimes.com/opinio... Republicans there have fucked that state up so badly they can't even afford to keep schools open, and that's even with Kansas leeching money off blue states, you know, like California. California has to have a higher tax because of all the leeching red states that suck money from everyone just so they can have some borrowed (or stolen) boot straps to pull on.

As for that mass exodus from California.... a few interesting numbers: 2017 - 130,000 more left the state for other states, 220,000 more births than deaths, and 185,000 people moved to the state from outside the country.... for a total of an additional 275,000 more people for the year. People without college degrees were more likely to move out of state, while the state added 9,000 more people with graduate degrees than left. So, they gained over twice the number that moved out of state, and increased the education average in doing so. Sounds like a win-win, because stupid doesn't solve problems.

Right now you really should be concerned a lot more with Kansas being totally fucked over than California, then maybe move on to most of the other red states who routinely come in on the really piss poor side of pretty much every bad demographic there is.

This is part of Tesla's pivot to China. China is the world's largest market for electric vehicles, and they have been courting Tesla aggressively, offering incentives and relocation assistance.

Tesla is tapering off its US based workforce to focus on building a robust presence in Asia, China most especially, which is poised to displace the US as the world's major power. Tesla realizes it cannot survive in the long term with such a heavy focus on the US market, and it must pivot to China as a top priority to remain in the game.

You can already request everything Apple has about you, there isn't much in it. How often you've had a repair done, your login/logour of Apple services, what apps you've downloaded and when, etc.

https://www.businessinsider.co...

It's generally called the curse of the new headquarters, where a corporation builds out a new headquarters and falls into decline thereafter. Apple might be a future example of that after spending $2B on their mothership campus.

do you need to be led to water?
https://www.businessinsider.co...

http://www.winknews.com/2018/1...

CNN also reports on a GoFundMe campaign started by an Air Force veteran [Brian Kolfage] to simply crowdfund the construction of the wall. Though 340,747 people pledged over $20 million, it failed to reach its $1 billion goal, and is now pointing supporters to a newly-formed non-profit corporation -- named "We Build the Wall."

Guess who sits on the Board of Directors of this new non-profit and will probably get paid to do so? Yup, Brian Kolfage, along with his team including:

Erik Prince, an American businessman known for founding the security firm Blackwater (he is also Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' brother), David Clarke, the former Wisconsin sheriff known for expressing controversial views on immigration, and Kris Kobach, the former Kansas secretary of state.

Business Insider (and others) also note:

Kolfage's previous endeavors, which included stints running conspiracy-theory websites and a related Facebook page that was kicked off the platform in October.

People getting refunds from the GoFundMe campaign will be contacted via email and offered the opportunity to donate to this new "501(c)(4) non-profit Florida Corporation named 'We Build the Wall, Inc.'" -- which will probably *not* be refundable (which will be nice for Brian and his team).

In addition, this Business Insiderarticle Man behind 'Build the Wall' GoFundMe has reportedly made a potentially lucrative contact list thanks to a shadowy email-harvesting operation notes (from interviews with former employees and public records):

NBC News reported that Kolfage, who was associated with websites that published false stories and had pages shut down by Facebook, claims to have gathered 3.5 million email addresses through his border wall campaign.

Those addresses, NBC News reported, have allegedly been used to encourage people to support Kolfage's websites, to buy a coffee brand he owns, or to be stored for future use by conservative campaigns.

Lindsey Lowery, a former staff writer at the now-defunct conservative website FreedomDaily, shared a text message with NBC News in which Kolfage discussed his email harvesting plans.

In the texts, Kolfage told Lowery in September 2017 that "we can make our own [petition] through the website to steal/collect emails."

So... this guy sounds great. /sarcasm

CNN also reports on a GoFundMe campaign started by an Air Force veteran [Brian Kolfage] to simply crowdfund the construction of the wall. Though 340,747 people pledged over $20 million, it failed to reach its $1 billion goal, and is now pointing supporters to a newly-formed non-profit corporation -- named "We Build the Wall."

Guess who sits on the Board of Directors of this new non-profit and will probably get paid to do so? Yup, Brian Kolfage, along with his team including:

Erik Prince, an American businessman known for founding the security firm Blackwater (he is also Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' brother), David Clarke, the former Wisconsin sheriff known for expressing controversial views on immigration, and Kris Kobach, the former Kansas secretary of state.

Business Insider (and others) also note:

Kolfage's previous endeavors, which included stints running conspiracy-theory websites and a related Facebook page that was kicked off the platform in October.

People getting refunds from the GoFundMe campaign will be contacted via email and offered the opportunity to donate to this new "501(c)(4) non-profit Florida Corporation named 'We Build the Wall, Inc.'" -- which will probably *not* be refundable (which will be nice for Brian and his team).

In addition, this Business Insiderarticle Man behind 'Build the Wall' GoFundMe has reportedly made a potentially lucrative contact list thanks to a shadowy email-harvesting operation notes (from interviews with former employees and public records):

NBC News reported that Kolfage, who was associated with websites that published false stories and had pages shut down by Facebook, claims to have gathered 3.5 million email addresses through his border wall campaign.

Those addresses, NBC News reported, have allegedly been used to encourage people to support Kolfage's websites, to buy a coffee brand he owns, or to be stored for future use by conservative campaigns.

Lindsey Lowery, a former staff writer at the now-defunct conservative website FreedomDaily, shared a text message with NBC News in which Kolfage discussed his email harvesting plans.

In the texts, Kolfage told Lowery in September 2017 that "we can make our own [petition] through the website to steal/collect emails."

So... this guy sounds great. /sarcasm

CNN also reports on a GoFundMe campaign started by an Air Force veteran [Brian Kolfage] to simply crowdfund the construction of the wall. Though 340,747 people pledged over $20 million, it failed to reach its $1 billion goal, and is now pointing supporters to a newly-formed non-profit corporation -- named "We Build the Wall."

Guess who sits on the Board of Directors of this new non-profit and will probably get paid to do so? Yup, Brian Kolfage, along with his team including:

Erik Prince, an American businessman known for founding the security firm Blackwater (he is also Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' brother), David Clarke, the former Wisconsin sheriff known for expressing controversial views on immigration, and Kris Kobach, the former Kansas secretary of state.

Business Insider (and others) also note:

Kolfage's previous endeavors, which included stints running conspiracy-theory websites and a related Facebook page that was kicked off the platform in October.

People getting refunds from the GoFundMe campaign will be contacted via email and offered the opportunity to donate to this new "501(c)(4) non-profit Florida Corporation named 'We Build the Wall, Inc.'" -- which will probably *not* be refundable (which will be nice for Brian and his team).

In addition, this Business Insiderarticle Man behind 'Build the Wall' GoFundMe has reportedly made a potentially lucrative contact list thanks to a shadowy email-harvesting operation notes (from interviews with former employees and public records):

NBC News reported that Kolfage, who was associated with websites that published false stories and had pages shut down by Facebook, claims to have gathered 3.5 million email addresses through his border wall campaign.

Those addresses, NBC News reported, have allegedly been used to encourage people to support Kolfage's websites, to buy a coffee brand he owns, or to be stored for future use by conservative campaigns.

Lindsey Lowery, a former staff writer at the now-defunct conservative website FreedomDaily, shared a text message with NBC News in which Kolfage discussed his email harvesting plans.

In the texts, Kolfage told Lowery in September 2017 that "we can make our own [petition] through the website to steal/collect emails."

So... this guy sounds great. /sarcasm

... he is.

NBC News reported that Kolfage, who was associated with websites that published false stories and had pages shut down by Facebook, claims to have gathered 3.5 million email addresses through his border wall campaign.

Hint: every business does this to the greatest extent possible.

And that's exactly why regulation exists: because business finds itself congenitally incapable of standing down before it crosses over some critical line that actually holds the system together.

Just imagine if the banks had said to themselves, "you know, 0% down and picture of the person's dog isn't actually a viable credit check" before melting down the global economy in 2008. We wouldn't have had the meltdown, no-one would be talking about "too big to fail", and none of the terrible new regulations would have been required in the first place. But they can't and they didn't.

Before that we got the Sarbanes–Oxley Act entirely from Enron, thank you very much. Greatest extent possible, thy name was Enron.

And then we got Bernie Madoff because people somehow convinced the government that the regulations we actually had were too onerous to fully enforce, so when they got the letter "hey, the consistency of this guy's portfolio is mathematically improbable to an extreme level" (complete with twenty pages of detailed calculations) they did nothing much to investigate.

The sad, appalling truth is that the root cause of regulation is failure to regulate, because there's always some goddamn megalith that takes the "greatest extent possible" to its logical, local conclusion — which turns out to be its concomitant global demise.

Amazon is a corporation in the sumo sasquatch weight division. Once Amazon fully activates "maximum extent possible" in its business methods, it's going to leave a giant crater that was formerly a competitive, consumer economy. Jeff Bezos is widely regarded as an alpha-male apex predator, as thoroughly documented in The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (2013) to name just one.

Behold the Apex Predator: "The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon" Review — 12 November 2013

In the book — and I don't mean this as a criticism — Bezos comes off as the lead character in an Ayn Rand novel: a real world John Galt or Hank Rearden, with an e-commerce twist.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the book is out that Rand rarely portrayed innate forbearance.

There are plenty of cities in the USA that have lower crime than NYC. https://www.businessinsider.co...
NYC didn't even make that list.
My city has average violent crime rate of 1.86 per 1,000 residents.
NYC has a violent crime rate of 5.734 per 1,000 residents. Safe, my ass.

BTW, my city has a law that requires all heads of households to have a firearm and ammo. It isn't enforced and there are trivial exceptions, but it is the law. Having strict firearm controls doesn't correlate to less gun violence in the USA. Counter intuitive, but true.

Musk gave away all of Tesla's patents years ago. Do you really think he cares that China might want to steal the IP?

I think the biggest tech failure of 2018 was Theranos.

Here is a list of 25 other tech flameouts. I never heard of most of them.

Outside of tech, I think the biggest failure was Sears.

https://www.businessinsider.co...

So I thought I'd look it up.

https://www.businessinsider.co...

I could have predicted it would be a lot more complicated than your post made it out to be. Step #1 in the misinformation playbook - strip all context from the discussion, and paint things in broad, simplistic - and inaccurate - terms.

Further, their share of smartphones is growing with respect to Android. So their 30% commission isn't in danger.

But this stupid article quotes stock market analysts and a random tourist. No evidence that Apple is messing up. Just opinions unconnected to data, and instead the analysts are just comparing to some ideal that they imagine.

Where did you get this data? A quick search on Google shows a different story. In the US, Apple has a larger market share than each of the individual competitors, but not when you combine the Android manufacturers. In fact, Apple's market share slipped this last quarter by 1%. In the Global market, Apple is in third place. In regards to Phone activations in the US Apple has remained steady or declined a bit.

The only place where Apple made gains is in China where they increased their market share by 5%, from 19.7% to 24.7%. Android dropped by 5%.

US Phone Activations
https://www.statista.com/stati...

Global Market
https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp...
https://www.businessinsider.co...

US Market
https://www.counterpointresear...

That's the cruel joke that all the Fandroids like to play. Apple is a BRAND (and a Platform). Android is NOT a BRAND.

You simply cannot compare the two.

But toiletry and garbage-related maintenance is on hold.

Which volunteers are taking up the slack on.

It's stupid that our system allows this so easily. It should have a cruise control mode that funds at existing levels until budget agreements are made.

That is exactly what it does have for anything of consequence.

Stop throwing monkey wrenches into our civilization

Stop trying to drag down civilization with endless unbreakable chains. I LIKE civilization. It seems many don't, and desire even more chains... #MakeGovernmentSmallAgain

1. Huawei refused to put in a NSA back door.

Remember what happened when another company didn't cooperate: https://www.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-joseph-nacchio-and-the-nsa-2013-6

Further, their share of smartphones is growing with respect to Android. So their 30% commission isn't in danger.

But this stupid article quotes stock market analysts and a random tourist. No evidence that Apple is messing up. Just opinions unconnected to data, and instead the analysts are just comparing to some ideal that they imagine.

Where did you get this data? A quick search on Google shows a different story. In the US, Apple has a larger market share than each of the individual competitors, but not when you combine the Android manufacturers. In fact, Apple's market share slipped this last quarter by 1%. In the Global market, Apple is in third place. In regards to Phone activations in the US Apple has remained steady or declined a bit.

The only place where Apple made gains is in China where they increased their market share by 5%, from 19.7% to 24.7%. Android dropped by 5%.

US Phone Activations
https://www.statista.com/stati...

Global Market
https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp...
https://www.businessinsider.co...

US Market
https://www.counterpointresear...

The light in the Earth's shadow can't change because the moon is passing through it. So how does the lunar eclipse start out black, and end red?

Lunar eclipse time lapse
Next eclipse: January 20 2019
Business Insider Video: Why is eclipse red?

For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.

At some point you have to accept that lots of naturally-occurring substances can kill you. And stop going on witch hunts against things just because they have a scary name that you don't recognize even though you've been eating, breathing, or rolling around in it all your life.

We should go back to putting radium in chocolate. https://www.businessinsider.co... to give you an inner glow. After all it's naturally-occurring right?

The point is not a witch hunt. It's a continuously evolving understanding. It's an industry adapting. it's the present adapting to new information. Nitrites are NOT needed to process meat, celery extract or otherwise. Just because some people eat celery doesn't mean you shouldn't also ban this entirely preventable and nonsensical ingredient being put into meat.

Someone should put Sears on layaway. Then they can pay for it over time.

Essentially, Sears put itself on layaway and paid for their own demise.

See, Eddie Lampert bought Sears, but then he loaned them money to bail themselves out of problem ... he did this several times amounting to $2 billion or so.

This now makes him a secured creditor, and has effectively transferred the value out of Sears and into his hedge fund. Of course, he did this after he'd already turned the company into a shit show and led to them being insolvent in the first place.

What has happened here is a billionaire hedge fund manager bought it, ran it into the ground, transferred the value to himself by 'loaning' the money to Sears which was the instrument of their own destruction.

The value of Sears was stolen from the shareholders by the person who was the cause of many of their problems in the first place.

The CEO of Sears was also the owner of ESL Investments, that ESL Investments then 'loaned' money to Sears that no other creditor would give them, they could skim the equity out of the company ... you know, here's a loan to keep you afloat, now sell your real estate and pay us back for the loan .. now you no longer have the assets of the real estate, and the value of that has been paid back to ESL to cover the loan. Repeat until bankrupt.

This guy was basically acting as CEO for Sears to make decisions which hurt Sears and helped ESL Investments.

This shit is like something out of the Sopranos. But make no mistake about it, this was someone deliberately and systematically squeezing the value out of Sears.

This is old news here in Canada where Sears keeled over a year or so ago.

From the sounds of it, the idiots in management basically skimmed all of the value out of Sears to pay their investment company, and left a pretty much burned out husk.

Yes, in part they failed to keep pace with the times, but make no mistake about it, this was all terrible management by a greedy asshole.

I say good riddance to Sears and the rich asshole who gutted it for his own profits.

No. Stop living in the desert. The "drought areas" are deserts and have been deserts for thousands of years. Diverting water from one place to another makes it worse.

Umm, you don't really mean that....

On your first point, I'll offer something personal:
My family homesteaded several generations ago and started farming and ranching in a remote area near the Oklahoma & Kansas border. Family diaries describe the land as fertile and green, with native grasses growing knee-high or higher.

When I was a young child my grandfather and I took walks together in a pasture of native buffalo grass. He pointed out mostly dry mud holes around two to three feet deep that were the size of a back yard swimming pool that he said used to be buffalo wallows - places where the water table was at or near the surface, where native wildlife would congregate and paw away at the top layers of mud until enough water would pool to drink or lay down in. Sometime around 1900 his parents, my great grandparents, dug a 12 foot deep hole and lined it with bricks - this was the original well for the homestead. Years later my grandfather upgraded to a windmill, originally 60 feet deep. Then 90, and the windmill was replaced with an electric pump. Then, when I was a child, it was increased to 120 feet.

By the time my grandfather passed away, that once green pasture of native buffalo grass was rarely green, and no hint of the wallows or muddy spots had been seen for nearly 50 years. A relative had the well re-dug to 460 feet deep in order to find enough water flow to run both a simple water hose (to fill a stock tank for cattle to drink), and run water in a bathtub or shower at the same time. My grandmother used to time loads of laundry around when the cattle would drink out of the stock tanks, so that the washing machine would fill in a reasonable amount of time. We should have kept the windmill's cistern, but it was an expensive maintenance hog and a perpetual risk for contamination...

Not only has the Ogallala aquifer gone dry, but the rainfall seems to have changed a bit during the last century. So what was once a green and fertile area has since become a desert. Tough luck, eh?

As for your second point, history is full of examples of moving water around to build cities and support farm lands.

If we didn't move water around from one place to another, you city dwelling people would have a rather hard time watering your lawns, now wouldn't you?

Here's an alternate idea: stop watering grass for ornamental lawns. Everywhere. And, stop eating non-sustainable foods like irrigated corn and beef. I hear cricket protein bars are both tasty and nutritious.

This does not match in any form my experience of living in the UK and the USA. Under the UK NHS I have had GP visits arranged on the same day, often within a couple of hours, saw the doctor, got a prescription, left all very smoothly and got charged a prescription fee of around 8 pounds (11 ish dollars).

In fact, just about anyone I've talked to who's used both has stated that they prefer the NHS, though it does suffer from underfunding due to years of conservative government. See https://www.businessinsider.co... for example.

It is cheaper, faster and better than the USA healthcare. It treats more people for less money. The human costs of the US system are people dying of preventable diseases, minor issues ending up at the emergency room and bankrupcy from simple medical problems. A single payer system leads to longer life expectancy and a better standard of living. Funded at even 50% of the amount americans currently spend on healthcare, a US NHS would be heaven on earth compared to what exists now.

whatever you say my dude enjoy eating your pets commie

I have seen many, many examples of insufficient management at Amazon.

It is VERY important to recognize ALL of the abusiveness of Amazon. Only a small part of that is mentioned here, in this re-post of a former comment, with added information:

My opinion: Jeff Bezos is not a sufficiently capable manager. Evidence: Look at any Amazon web page. As you are researching some product that is interesting, you are often distracted by other products. One fix: Put any distractions at the bottom of the page. There are many other shortcomings of the Amazon web site besides those mentioned in this Slashdot story.

A few of the stories about Amazon being abusive:

Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace. (New York Times, Aug. 15, 2015)

Quote: "The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers..."

Amazon warehouse jobs push workers to physical limit (Seattle Times, April 3, 2012)

Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (Salon.com, Feb. 23, 2014)

Amazon paid no US income taxes for 2017 (SeattlePI, Feb. 27, 2018)

Undercover author finds Amazon warehouse workers in UK 'peed in bottles' over fears of being punished for taking a break (Business Insider, April 16, 2018)

The undercover author who discovered Amazon warehouse workers were peeing in bottles tells us the culture was like a 'prison' (Business Insider, April 18, 2018)

Amazon Gets Tax Breaks While Its Employees Rely on Food Stamps, New Data Shows (The Intercept, April 19, 2018)

Quote: "Though the company now employs 200,000 people in the United States, many of its workers are not making enough money to put food on the table."

Amazon Under Fire Over Alleged Worker Abuse in Germany (bloomberg.com, Feb 19, 2013)

Quote from the Wikipedia page for Jeff Bezos. (Nov. 29, 2018):

"Journalist Nellie Bowles of The New York Times has described the public persona and personality of Bezos as that of 'a brilliant but mysterious and coldblooded corporate titan'. During the 1990s, Bezos earned a reputation for relentlessly pushing Amazon forward, often at the expense of public charity and social welfare."

In my opinion, Bezos is not "brilliant". No one who is habitually abusive can be called brilliant; his abusiveness damages the quality of his own life.

Would you fly into space if the company has a manager who shows serious limits? Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos owns Blue Origin.. Blue Origin does NOT now have the capability of orbiting the earth. Would you fly into space with a company owned by someone who makes huge mistakes and doesn't detect them?

I have seen many, many examples of insufficient management at Amazon.

It is VERY important to recognize ALL of the abusiveness of Amazon. Only a small part of that is mentioned here, in this re-post of a former comment, with added information:

My opinion: Jeff Bezos is not a sufficiently capable manager. Evidence: Look at any Amazon web page. As you are researching some product that is interesting, you are often distracted by other products. One fix: Put any distractions at the bottom of the page. There are many other shortcomings of the Amazon web site besides those mentioned in this Slashdot story.

A few of the stories about Amazon being abusive:

Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace. (New York Times, Aug. 15, 2015)

Quote: "The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers..."

Amazon warehouse jobs push workers to physical limit (Seattle Times, April 3, 2012)

Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (Salon.com, Feb. 23, 2014)

Amazon paid no US income taxes for 2017 (SeattlePI, Feb. 27, 2018)

Undercover author finds Amazon warehouse workers in UK 'peed in bottles' over fears of being punished for taking a break (Business Insider, April 16, 2018)

The undercover author who discovered Amazon warehouse workers were peeing in bottles tells us the culture was like a 'prison' (Business Insider, April 18, 2018)

Amazon Gets Tax Breaks While Its Employees Rely on Food Stamps, New Data Shows (The Intercept, April 19, 2018)

Quote: "Though the company now employs 200,000 people in the United States, many of its workers are not making enough money to put food on the table."

Amazon Under Fire Over Alleged Worker Abuse in Germany (bloomberg.com, Feb 19, 2013)

Quote from the Wikipedia page for Jeff Bezos. (Nov. 29, 2018):

"Journalist Nellie Bowles of The New York Times has described the public persona and personality of Bezos as that of 'a brilliant but mysterious and coldblooded corporate titan'. During the 1990s, Bezos earned a reputation for relentlessly pushing Amazon forward, often at the expense of public charity and social welfare."

In my opinion, Bezos is not "brilliant". No one who is habitually abusive can be called brilliant; his abusiveness damages the quality of his own life.

Would you fly into space if the company has a manager who shows serious limits? Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos owns Blue Origin.. Blue Origin does NOT now have the capability of orbiting the earth. Would you fly into space with a company owned by someone who makes huge mistakes and doesn't detect them?

The last recorded words of the human civilization will be: "Wonder what happens if we push this button?"
We already avoided this fate once. ....

Once?

9 times the world was at the brink of nuclear war — and pulled back
https://www.businessinsider.co...

I can't even get that far. I run the latest installer, everything seems normal, no folders created. Others have reported the same issue.

And then there's this...

Nov. 12, 2014
How Google Inadvertently Crushed A Privacy Startup
https://www.businessinsider.co...

If you're looking to cut CO2 emissions, please look elsewhere. Concrete is pretty much essential to life as we currently know it in the civilized world. Let's go back to building with wood and replicate the 1906 fire in San Francisco...

Oregon is already going in that direction.

C'mon, Steve. If you want positive search results, do positive things...

What things 20 years ago were never dreamed of or thought possible?

Who thought we would be landing rockets vertically with reusable boosters?

Rovers going for years on end on Mars?

But really you could just google countless examples if you actually cared, like this one

And that's from 2011.... here's a (newer?) one...

I can't think of a single one.

If you really can't think of any examples, I feel very very sorry for you. :-(. The world is amazing! Wake up!

It is a well-known fact, that ethnic Chinese abroad spy for China en-masse. Some willingly, some — under coercion.

One immediate step a country could take is to treat them with increased suspicion, which in the US is both against the laws and the morals — targeting expats from a particular country is denounced (and even prosecuted) as "racial profiling" — a trait Chinese society itself does not poses.

Until we overcome this weakness against Chinese — the way we are overcoming it with the Russians, for example, our highest-tech research will remain at risk.

Not sure that he did, but: "In 2017, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) found that cities around the country experienced a record number of flooding events related to high tides, according to the National Climate Report. More than a quarter of coastal locations tied or set new records for the number of flooding days. And in 2018, flooding on the US coastline is expected to be 60% higher than it was just 20 years ago." - https://www.businessinsider.co...

The difference is that pizzerias aren't a natural monopoly

There is no such thing. "Natural Monopoly" is a myth. In my town, the same pole carrying a FiOS cable to my house carries a Comcast cable to my neighbor's. It could carry 20 more...

Google, for example, would've loved to lay its own fiber nation-wide, but got thwarted by "numerous regulatory challenges.".

you are better off with the government monopoly since there is less of a motive for them to squeeze their customers for more money

?? Why? The incentive is the same, while the means of doing it are more powerful. Haw many have successfully fought an increase of their property taxes?

plus you can vote out the people in charge if they get abusive

The cost of your child's schooling quadrupled since 1960ies (inflation-adjusted) — you didn't even realize this until now, much less voted anyone out over it.

When dealing with a corporate monopoly, you have no choice but to keep paying whatever they ask.

Governments — local governments, like this town's — are the reason many places have such limited choice of ISPs. Allowing the same people to offer their own monopoly just helps them solidify the unfortunate situation.

It's not confidence, it's risk aversion. Confidence means you expect the outcome will be success. Risk acknowledges the fact the outcome may end poorly, and proceeding anyway.

Our society and education system teaches adolescents to avoid risks, mainly in an effort to keep them from using drugs. This teaches kids to avoid taking courses they may perform poorly in, or else they won't get straight A's. It also keeps them from asking out Peggy Blair.

Avoiding risks can payoff in a comfortable lifestyle. However, every wildly successful startup you hear of began with a massive risk.

Unfortunately, I don't know how to fix it. There have been a lot of discussions about "rejection therapy" in media. Maybe it's a good idea. However, it seems that taking good risks is a trait that comes with age and experience. By the time most of us figure it out, we have too many commitments to take those risks.

Maybe you should look it up first before making false accusations.
https://www.businessinsider.co...
https://www.theatlantic.com/in...

Google is your friend...please use it.
https://www.businessinsider.co...

I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK. by 110010001000 (697113) on Friday October 27, 2017 @09:35PM (#55448365)

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Plus Addons = ClarityRay defeatable & crippled http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

APK

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The people at Harvard have reason to be afraid.

There's also this mess.

Zuckerburg is not a man to be trusted. He's made offers before and his actions show no signs that he won't again. Paranoia? Not by a long shot. But congrats for being overly pedantic on word usage Grammar Nazi.

If we're talking new sales of phones, yes we've reached a plateau. If we're talking about % of world population that use a cell phone... no, we haven't reached a plateau and won't for a long time.

That will probably look more like an S-curve but we're already far past the inflection point. Time per billion unique mobile users according to this:

1st billion: 13+ years (they lack early history)
2nd billion: 4 years
3rd billion: 3 years
4th billion: 3.5 years
5th billion: 4 years

That's 5 billion of a world population of 7.6 including little kids - even in sub-Saharan Africa 70% of the population age 16+ have a cell phone. There's really just three poorly connected countries left in the world: Cuba, North Korea and Ethiopia. We're filling out gaps with the young, old and the gender equality, but the vast majority has a cell phone in the family.

If Camry outsold the Equinox (290,000) by 100,000, then 390,000 Camrys were sold, more than the CR-V (378,000), ranked #6. But Camry is not one of the top six listed. If the basic facts are wrong, why should I believe the conclusions in this article?

I think the author mixed sales numbers for the full year 2017 with a list of top sellers for the first half of 2018.

I found a page that has 2017's top sellers as
1. Ford F-Series 896,764
2. Chevy Silverado 585,864
3. Ram Truck 500,723
4. Toyota RAV4 407,594
5. Nissan Rogue 403,465
6. Toyota Camry 387,081
7. Honda CR-V 377,895
8. Honda Civic 377,286
9. Toyota Corolla 329,196
10. Honda Accord 322,655
11. Ford Escape 308,296
12. Chevy Equinox 290,458

Those numbers match the ones on http://carsalesbase.com/us-car..., cited as the source of numbers in the article.

According to that list, the "leading American SUV" is the Ford Escape (not the Chevy Equinox). In 2017 Ford (not Chevy) sold 79,000 (not 100,000) fewer than Toyota sold Camrys. To me, that doesn't change the gist of the article. Ford and GM are dropping cars from their lineups to focus on more profitable trucks and SUVs, while Toyota and Honda are still selling plenty of cars, while the Nissan Rogue, Toyota RAV4, and Honda CR-V are handily outselling Ford Escape and Chevy Equinox.

Next time the price of gas goes up it'll be bailout time once more for Detroit.

It's sad that people take pride in lacking basic math skills, and yet so common. Very basic math, even. A competent high school freshman can do the calculations I did. And anyone with basic mathematical literacy doesn't even need to run the numbers to see that your sample size is completely inadequate to make any judgments about nationwide frequency.

Innumeracy aside, why would you expect to find this on the news? It's not a crime, just really obnoxious. And videos of people watching porn mostly wouldn't be allowed on YouTube, because of the porn.

But, that said, a simple google search turned up these three links on the first page of results. I'm sure there'd have been more but the page was mostly filled with stories about Starbucks decision to block porn. If you dig deeper, I'm sure you can find lots, lots more:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101001/15475611255/starbucks-staffer-claims-he-was-fired-for-turning-off-wifi-to-block-porn-watchers.shtml
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.businessinsider.co...

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Botnet C&Cs
DNS down/poisoned
Trackers (dns logs/ads/transparent ISP proxy)
Dns blocks
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Ads in videostreams
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Addons = ClarityRay defeatable & crippled http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

NoScript tag parses. Hosts block script prior to it!

No 1 addon does as much.

Stacked addons slowup.

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APK

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"if they were smarter they'd make them add-on bundle products, ..."

Exactly! I'm seeing many, many examples of Amazon managers not being smart.

It is VERY important to recognize ALL of the abusiveness of Amazon. Only a small part of that is mentioned here, in this re-post of a former comment, with added information:

My opinion: Jeff Bezos is not a sufficiently capable manager. Evidence: Look at any Amazon web page. As you are researching some product that is interesting, you are often distracted by other products. One fix: Put any distractions at the bottom of the page. There are many other shortcomings of the Amazon web site.

A few of the stories about Amazon being abusive:

Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace. (New York Times, Aug. 15, 2015)

Quote: "The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers..."

Amazon warehouse jobs push workers to physical limit (Seattle Times, April 3, 2012)

Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (Salon.com, Feb. 23, 2014)

Amazon paid no US income taxes for 2017 (SeattlePI, Feb. 27, 2018)

Undercover author finds Amazon warehouse workers in UK 'peed in bottles' over fears of being punished for taking a break (Business Insider, April 16, 2018)

The undercover author who discovered Amazon warehouse workers were peeing in bottles tells us the culture was like a 'prison' (Business Insider, April 18, 2018)

Amazon Gets Tax Breaks While Its Employees Rely on Food Stamps, New Data Shows (The Intercept, April 19, 2018)

Quote: "Though the company now employs 200,000 people in the United States, many of its workers are not making enough money to put food on the table."

Amazon Under Fire Over Alleged Worker Abuse in Germany (bloomberg.com, Feb 19, 2013)

Quote from the Wikipedia page for Jeff Bezos. (Nov. 29, 2018):

"Journalist Nellie Bowles of The New York Times has described the public persona and personality of Bezos as that of 'a brilliant but mysterious and coldblooded corporate titan'. During the 1990s, Bezos earned a reputation for relentlessly pushing Amazon forward, often at the expense of public charity and social welfare."

In my opinion, Bezos is not "briliant". No one who is habitually abusive can be called brilliant; his abusiveness damages the quality of his own life.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos owns Blue Origin.. Blue Origin does NOT now have the capability of orbiting the earth. Would you fly into space with a company owned by someone who makes huge mistakes and doesn't detect them?

"if they were smarter they'd make them add-on bundle products, ..."

Exactly! I'm seeing many, many examples of Amazon managers not being smart.

It is VERY important to recognize ALL of the abusiveness of Amazon. Only a small part of that is mentioned here, in this re-post of a former comment, with added information:

My opinion: Jeff Bezos is not a sufficiently capable manager. Evidence: Look at any Amazon web page. As you are researching some product that is interesting, you are often distracted by other products. One fix: Put any distractions at the bottom of the page. There are many other shortcomings of the Amazon web site.

A few of the stories about Amazon being abusive:

Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace. (New York Times, Aug. 15, 2015)

Quote: "The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers..."

Amazon warehouse jobs push workers to physical limit (Seattle Times, April 3, 2012)

Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (Salon.com, Feb. 23, 2014)

Amazon paid no US income taxes for 2017 (SeattlePI, Feb. 27, 2018)

Undercover author finds Amazon warehouse workers in UK 'peed in bottles' over fears of being punished for taking a break (Business Insider, April 16, 2018)

The undercover author who discovered Amazon warehouse workers were peeing in bottles tells us the culture was like a 'prison' (Business Insider, April 18, 2018)

Amazon Gets Tax Breaks While Its Employees Rely on Food Stamps, New Data Shows (The Intercept, April 19, 2018)

Quote: "Though the company now employs 200,000 people in the United States, many of its workers are not making enough money to put food on the table."

Amazon Under Fire Over Alleged Worker Abuse in Germany (bloomberg.com, Feb 19, 2013)

Quote from the Wikipedia page for Jeff Bezos. (Nov. 29, 2018):

"Journalist Nellie Bowles of The New York Times has described the public persona and personality of Bezos as that of 'a brilliant but mysterious and coldblooded corporate titan'. During the 1990s, Bezos earned a reputation for relentlessly pushing Amazon forward, often at the expense of public charity and social welfare."

In my opinion, Bezos is not "briliant". No one who is habitually abusive can be called brilliant; his abusiveness damages the quality of his own life.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos owns Blue Origin.. Blue Origin does NOT now have the capability of orbiting the earth. Would you fly into space with a company owned by someone who makes huge mistakes and doesn't detect them?