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You do realise there is a massive difference between spending money wisely on yourself and for private companies foolishly on other people. Governments are meant to spend all taxpayer money on the taxpayer and as little as possible on themselves. It would be an interesting corporation that worked on that basis, for as little time as it survived spending money on that basis. Google has cheated on taxes some where in the vicinity of $100 BILLION. No matter how badly the government spends that money, more social services will be provided, than the PR speak of spending a billion dollars by a corporation ie I will spend 100 billion dollars on this investment but shhh I will be charging 200 billion dollars for the service it provides and all that money will go to a tax haven where I will pay zero taxes (I just wont talk about the last bit tee hee). A string of Google announcements as B$ PR to cover over them being evil as fuck trying to manipulate elections in their favour, globally https://duckduckgo.com/?q=list... all marketing, heh heh, oh how the tables have turned (typing into one search engine to reach the other one).

Guys like you think that every person who says anything contrary to your personal position is conspirator of The Evil Other Side.

A simple search query will show you that Sarcasmooo! has been posting throughout the existence of his account.

But hey, don't let facts get in the way of a good narrative!

8/10 troll, made me post.

Computers cannot tell the difference between simulating something and doing it for real. They can't tell the difference between running application software or sitting idle. Computers can't even tell the difference between being switched on or switched off. They are equipment.

A computer will never comprehend the true value of a human life or even understand what's at stake if a human being entrusts his or her life to it.

Therefore, there is NO WAY IN HE WORLD that autonomous vehicles will ever be safe. The accidents have already started. As the fatalities pile up, all the computers will do is display error codes, display blue screens of death, or say "Uh oh" like in Disney's "Big Hero 6".

I'm a 52 year old programmer who knows better. We cannot trust anything important, like lives, to computers. Computers are really nice for a variety of reasons and they offer lots of conveniences but they cannot be trusted, especially with the deplorable state of software in the world. Special thanks to Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, and others. While we're at it, STOP FLYING ON AIRBUS AIRCRAFT for the same reasons.

Finally, please Please PLEASE stop presenting autonomous cars to governments as a new front for their war against individual freedom by discouraging driving. Now you kids get off my lawn and take your AI bullshit with you.

We already have solutions to turn off Google filter bubble censorship.

https://startpage.com/

https://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion/
https://duckduckgo.com/

Mozilla was probably not the best placed to produce an entire OS with a whole range of applications, which is the mobile platform, it represents a massive jump in the required capability. The only logical competitor to Google of course wont happen because the idiots lack foresight. That competitor would be M$ creating a mobile Linux distribution and doing exactly what Google did and now Google is perceived as being quite naughty itself and has left markets open to be stolen just like https://duckduckgo.com/ which is totally good enough now to escape to from Google thought control and growing traffic indicates people are moving (they still use Google Maps for map searches but use duck duck go for all other searches, the bulk of searches). M$ simply wont go that way and even if they did, you know they would hugely screw up privacy and control, killing it, greed driven stupidity is greed driven stupidity (greed convinces them the stupidest decisions will work because greed demands they work and ignore all the reasons why it wont work because they don't easily fit in spreadsheets).

" VLC does a whole lot better job."

I love VLC and it is my player of choice...

Except for 4K content, or lower-bitrate content over unreliable connections.

" VLC does a whole lot better job."

I love VLC and it is my player of choice...

Except for 4K content, or lower-bitrate content over unreliable connections.

The more general English usage, and really the only common usage in America of "government" is the whole apparatus of state: executive, legislative, and judicial. Use of "government" to mean only the executive function is regional, and not the only usage anywhere.

But it's a distinction without a difference here, as it's selective and creative enforcement by the executive that is the danger (and the basis of early totalitarian states).

It is like in any law extremely well defined.

Is that a German thing? You'll find most laws the world round have plenty of room for interpretation.

Sweden: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=swed...

Hard to search for UK examples, as they had a minister of immigration arrested for employing illegal immigrants (kind of the whole story right there), which drowns search results.

Saw a study a while back (a year?) that showed that Canada had something like a couple of times the social mobility of America.
They defined social mobility as moving from the bottom quintuple to the top quintuple of income.
This makes sense as it is a lot easier to change jobs or start a business when you're not in fear of losing your healthcare and have other social support.
Duckduckgo returns too many hits for me to look at them on my dial-up connection, but if you're interested in actual research instead of talking points, start here, https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q...

Recent (and currently on-going) civil unrest over the legal system's failure to punish a cop for treating his badge like a hunting license may cost the St. Louis metro area the Amazon "second headquarters.

Good.

Times two.

When governments tax existing small and medium-sized businesses more to grant tax breaks to big firms to locate in (or not move out of) a state or city, it's not good for the local economy. http://duckduckgo.com/?q=the.s... The jobs "created" or "saved" are conspicuous. The jobs at smaller employers that are lost or never created in the first place are not.

That's one. And the second reason?

If those who are upset about how people react to cops misbehaving as usual get upset enough, maybe they'll do something constructive about it -- like having someone other than cops and prosecutors investigate and prosecute incidents where cops kill people.

"We investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong." is a bad idea even when it turns out to be true. It diminishes the credibility of the decision even when it's correct.

Why, I suppose the same problem as before, Google is pretty bloody privacy invasive, so it is not really a good idea. Plus in the shift away from Google's politically driven corporate censorship of citizens, you should be abandoning their services as much as possible ie take you pick of stories https://duckduckgo.com/?q=goog... where Google was caught out blatantly invading people's privacy (and yeah, duckduckgo away Google is more than good enough now). If they don't feel economic pain, they will never reform.

'ER', excuse me but no record cold snaps, there were record snow falls. How here is how that works, once it is cold enough to freeze water it is cold enough, the critical point how much water in the atmosphere to freeze. So whether it is -10 C or -8 C because it is 2 degrees warmer will not affect snow falls, how much water there is in the atmosphere after evaporating over warmer oceans, will. So during the last round of bullshit, this was covered, yes, expect much worse snow storms, they'll be a little warmer but they will have much more water 'er' snow to dump on your cities. This is all your are doing https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and it is actually happening, actually really happening, you have become https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lotu....

Sorry, here is a link to the many, many people who claimed Global Warming would cause more hurricanes.

It's also funny how the GFDL used to claim global warming would neither make hurricanes more frequent nor more powerful...

Here is one direct citation.

You can just peruse the whole duckduckgo search if you wish.

Google is turning into a liberal version of Skynet anyway. I'm changing my default search engine to https://duckduckgo.com/

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=xfce...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=china+proxy

Guys will do anything for pussy:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=palemoon&q=hot+vegan+chick&iax=1&ia=images

A lot of people would say that about the baby boomer generation, wouldn't they? After all, she is one.

Understatement:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=usa+cyclist+killed&t=palemoon&ia=web

They are awkward but there are phone cases with slide-out Bluetooth keyboards for some phones. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=phon...

Maybe you should try a better search engine then?

If only we had some data on identical twins adopted into different families that would shed light on this mystery.

Oh, wait...

If you type !google into your DDG search box, it will send you to Google ...

As noted

... !g is shorter

... !gm for search Google maps

... !gs for search Google shopping

... !gi for search Google images

... !w for wikipedia

... !a for Amazon

And they have over 9000 more BANG searches:

https://duckduckgo.com/bang

Maybe even one for gang bang porn.

And nobody has been able to make a better search engine than Google.

Have you not heard about DuckDuckGo?

Way better than using Google if you care about your privacy.

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VPN's may only protect you from your own ISP, but what about the biggest spyware organisations, such as Google/Facebook?
They all rely on browser fingerprinting more than anything else these days, and subtly transmitting information back in an encoded form, including mouse movement patterns to learn about the individual.

Cookies/HTML5 storage are so last decade, as I've seen a growing number of companies (Cyberfend / iovation / iesnare / "cformanalytics", browser.id (navigator.io), etc) provide services specialising in tracking and individually identifying users - even surprisingly across devices, somehow.

As far as I can tell, only Mozilla is attempting to reduce/fight this with their browser, especially as they recently removed the Battery status API, added disconnect.me to blacklist known trackers in v43, Font fingerprinting, etc.

Sure, you can use addons like adblockplus, noscript, decentraleyes, etc to some degree, but many times they break websites as more and more sites are utilising javascript exclusively for a website to function, including third-party scripts, such as GoogleTagManager, etc.
Just recently discovered that the popular London travel website TfL also contains a third-party tracker, without which their journey planner doesn't work, thus the website doesn't work with Firefox's disconnect.me privacy list.

Does anyone know if the DuckDuckGo search engine has something similar?

"It is against the law for anyone to distribute images of child exploitation."

Come and get me!

Here they are! being exploited!

I'm SUCH a badddass!

etc

There are plenty of MMOs for mobile devices (just not iOS)

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mmo+...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=aver...

Pick your source.

As for cultural bias, researchers have addressed this. They've had tests made by African educators, using African cultural references, given to students who have never seen a non-African by African teachers and they get the same results. Others have tried non written/verbal test structures, like reflexes to measure "quickness of mind" and gotten slightly lower results for people who had improved with exposure to tests (i.e., test-taking ability bias).

Really, the burden of proof should be on the radical egalitarians to prove every subset of humans on the planet has the same intelligence distribution. No one ever believed this idea throughout human history, in any culture, up until the mid-20th century and it is currently only believed by western leftists. It makes no sense from our understanding of evolutionary biology. Humans left Africa about 50,000 years ago, and since then inhabited vastly different environments, with vastly different selection pressure, selecting against different traits and resulting in distinct human haplogroups with different characteristics. Variations in skin color, height, weight, facial features, susceptibility to different diseases. By what theory is intelligence excluded from the dependent variables shaped by 50,000 years of disparate selection pressure?

A casual examination of technological, cultural, and philosophical progress indicates different groups of humans have different raw intellectual abilities. Scientific study proves it, and while perhaps tests could be biased, they're not so biased to account for 30 point differences in IQ.

By what mechanism did so much about humans change when they left Africa, but not intelligence? Is it a type of Creationist magic, where at that moment mankind was frozen in mental equivalence for all time, and then made immune to evolution thereafter while every other creature continued to be shaped by selection pressure?

Prove to me that the average petrol-sniffing Australian aborigine is equally as intelligent as the average Japanese person. This seems like a preposterous claim on the face of it, and it is only the radical egalitarian left in the west that makes it (no Japanese, Indian, or Chinese scientist would attest to this, neither would an average African who does not share western leftist political ideology).

It should be on the left to prove biological intellectual equivalence between the different ethnicities of man, and I don't see any evidence for it. Only emotional appeals and moral outrage. That is not a good argument.

Uh, "all"? Hyperbole much?

Also, while it's certainly possible backdoors were added at the request/order of the Chinese government -- especially if the Chinese government owns some or all of the company -- it's also very possible they were placed there for the same reason U.S. firms do it in their hardware/software/firmware products: convenience during testing and service. Maybe it was meant to be removed/disabled before shipping, maybe not.

Well, that's one reason U.S. firms do it. The Clipper Chip didn't happen, but I'm sure there have been other, less public efforts. http://duckduckgo.com/?q=clipp...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=aver...

Pick your source.

Post alternatives in replies to this please.

Do you mean post alternatives to the Google search engine? Use DuckDuckGo. According to their website, they don't store your personal info, follow you around with ads, or track you.

Interesting to note how much Google is spending on bribing (aka "lobbying") the EU.
Not to mention the US.

But of course, both Microsoft and Google should be publicly shamed for using their users and leaching them of their private lives.

This was embarrassing.

Yes, an embarrassing set of hysteria from the right wing, who forgot the truth on their way to their latest outrage.

Tell us about the curtains, the birth certificate and the training exercise.

The Mexican president canceling a meeting in a huff? Not so much.

Oh oh, oh, ooloorie, you forgot, Trump said it was "mutual" so you are passing the wrong story.

Of course, now he has to meet with another populist radical, who wants to advance her own agenda over the wishes of the actual elected government which only now is she spinning as what she intended to do all along.

I guess we can start calling it AirStrip One.

This was embarrassing.

Yes, an embarrassing set of hysteria from the right wing, who forgot the truth on their way to their latest outrage.

Tell us about the curtains, the birth certificate and the training exercise.

The Mexican president canceling a meeting in a huff? Not so much.

Oh oh, oh, ooloorie, you forgot, Trump said it was "mutual" so you are passing the wrong story.

Of course, now he has to meet with another populist radical, who wants to advance her own agenda over the wishes of the actual elected government which only now is she spinning as what she intended to do all along.

I guess we can start calling it AirStrip One.

This was embarrassing.

Yes, an embarrassing set of hysteria from the right wing, who forgot the truth on their way to their latest outrage.

Tell us about the curtains, the birth certificate and the training exercise.

The Mexican president canceling a meeting in a huff? Not so much.

Oh oh, oh, ooloorie, you forgot, Trump said it was "mutual" so you are passing the wrong story.

Of course, now he has to meet with another populist radical, who wants to advance her own agenda over the wishes of the actual elected government which only now is she spinning as what she intended to do all along.

I guess we can start calling it AirStrip One.

This was embarrassing.

Yes, an embarrassing set of hysteria from the right wing, who forgot the truth on their way to their latest outrage.

Tell us about the curtains, the birth certificate and the training exercise.

The Mexican president canceling a meeting in a huff? Not so much.

Oh oh, oh, ooloorie, you forgot, Trump said it was "mutual" so you are passing the wrong story.

Of course, now he has to meet with another populist radical, who wants to advance her own agenda over the wishes of the actual elected government which only now is she spinning as what she intended to do all along.

I guess we can start calling it AirStrip One.

Don't worry, evolution is fixing this issue right now.

Come to think of it, that's the answer to a lot of supposed problems that people worry about for no good reason.

So is Herbert Stein's Law. http://duckduckgo.com/?q=herbe...

That's a loophole worth considering, to be sure, but I don't think it's actually a concern in practice, given that their Information Shared section lists the data they share (i.e. nothing) and the conditions under which they share it (i.e. only when there's a court order). Suffice to say, if they were sharing info in the manner you described, they'd be obligated to disclose it there.

uMatrix shows that 100% of the resources being loaded in a DuckDuckGo search are first-party. There are no external scripts, tracking cookies, or other cross-site references of any sort. The first-party cookies they set are opt-in, entirely optional, and contain no identifiable information. The affiliate stuff is just the Amazon and eBay affiliate programs that anyone can sign up for (i.e. they add parameters to Amazon and eBay URLs to identify DDG as the referrer, that way they get a kickback, but it can't be tied back to you or your search).

Their privacy policy is written in plain English and--particularly in the three sections about information (not) collected and shared--makes it abundantly clear that they go out of their way to avoid collecting anything remotely related to you in the first place, that way they never have to face people being concerned about the retention loopholes you're talking about. They even offer tips for how you can help prevent information leakage and point out some ways that you may leak information if you choose to disable the protections they've put in place by default.

I get the cynical attitude, but at least look into things a bit before you wantonly smear one of the few companies that's actually trying to do right by their users when it comes to privacy.

No, they're selling your attention without selling your information. As they make abundantly clear in their privacy policy (that's written in refreshingly plain English by the site's founder himself, no less), they modify links to some product pages to make them into affiliate links (i.e. they get a kickback for referring you to product pages at Amazon and eBay).

Their Information Shared section is a quick read. After they explain that they don't share any info, but that you might inadvertently leak search terms to the sites you click on if you purposefully disable protections DDG enables by default, they then have this great snippet that demonstrates the sort of mindset they follow:

Also, like anyone else, we will comply with court ordered legal requests. However, in our case, we don't expect any because there is nothing useful to give them since we don't collect any personal information.

Moreover, you can disable advertising for DuckDuckGo if you want (it's a setting you can toggle). Oh, and all of those settings I'm talking about? They only ever exist client-side and aren't linked to an account or identity in any way. You either pass them in as a set or URL parameters or as a cookie that contains no identifiable information. In fact, in a quick check of the site via uMatrix (with ads disabled), it shows that 100% of the resources served are first-party, so there isn't a single external Javascript or tracking cookie being set by sleazy advertisers or people outside their control.

If you're still concerned, here are the details about how they make money, which make it abundantly clear (again, in plain English) how they make money without selling their users' information.

Honestly, if you want to complain about DDG, the biggest issue remains the quality of their results. They finally got "good enough" for me, so I switched to them about a year ago and haven't regretted it, and they've only been getting better since then (e.g. they'll oftentimes have the top-rated StackOverflow answer displayed as a pull-out at the top of the search results), but there's still room for improvement (e.g. longer search terms produce noisy results for me). That said, the fact that they offer bangs makes it drop-dead simple to deal with those situations (i.e. add "!g" to your search to Google it instead). Plus, the fact that I can set them as my default search engine in Chrome/iOS/etc. means that no matter where I am, I can just use the bangs for Amazon (!a), Wikipedia (!w), Google Maps (!gm), Rotten Tomatoes (!rt), or whatever else to immediately jump to the results at those sites, rather than having to first navigate to them.

It's a great site that's continually getting better, and I would strongly encourage others to give it a shot or try it again if it's been awhile since the last time they tried it.

No, they're selling your attention without selling your information. As they make abundantly clear in their privacy policy (that's written in refreshingly plain English by the site's founder himself, no less), they modify links to some product pages to make them into affiliate links (i.e. they get a kickback for referring you to product pages at Amazon and eBay).

Their Information Shared section is a quick read. After they explain that they don't share any info, but that you might inadvertently leak search terms to the sites you click on if you purposefully disable protections DDG enables by default, they then have this great snippet that demonstrates the sort of mindset they follow:

Also, like anyone else, we will comply with court ordered legal requests. However, in our case, we don't expect any because there is nothing useful to give them since we don't collect any personal information.

Moreover, you can disable advertising for DuckDuckGo if you want (it's a setting you can toggle). Oh, and all of those settings I'm talking about? They only ever exist client-side and aren't linked to an account or identity in any way. You either pass them in as a set or URL parameters or as a cookie that contains no identifiable information. In fact, in a quick check of the site via uMatrix (with ads disabled), it shows that 100% of the resources served are first-party, so there isn't a single external Javascript or tracking cookie being set by sleazy advertisers or people outside their control.

If you're still concerned, here are the details about how they make money, which make it abundantly clear (again, in plain English) how they make money without selling their users' information.

Honestly, if you want to complain about DDG, the biggest issue remains the quality of their results. They finally got "good enough" for me, so I switched to them about a year ago and haven't regretted it, and they've only been getting better since then (e.g. they'll oftentimes have the top-rated StackOverflow answer displayed as a pull-out at the top of the search results), but there's still room for improvement (e.g. longer search terms produce noisy results for me). That said, the fact that they offer bangs makes it drop-dead simple to deal with those situations (i.e. add "!g" to your search to Google it instead). Plus, the fact that I can set them as my default search engine in Chrome/iOS/etc. means that no matter where I am, I can just use the bangs for Amazon (!a), Wikipedia (!w), Google Maps (!gm), Rotten Tomatoes (!rt), or whatever else to immediately jump to the results at those sites, rather than having to first navigate to them.

It's a great site that's continually getting better, and I would strongly encourage others to give it a shot or try it again if it's been awhile since the last time they tried it.

No, they're selling your attention without selling your information. As they make abundantly clear in their privacy policy (that's written in refreshingly plain English by the site's founder himself, no less), they modify links to some product pages to make them into affiliate links (i.e. they get a kickback for referring you to product pages at Amazon and eBay).

Their Information Shared section is a quick read. After they explain that they don't share any info, but that you might inadvertently leak search terms to the sites you click on if you purposefully disable protections DDG enables by default, they then have this great snippet that demonstrates the sort of mindset they follow:

Also, like anyone else, we will comply with court ordered legal requests. However, in our case, we don't expect any because there is nothing useful to give them since we don't collect any personal information.

Moreover, you can disable advertising for DuckDuckGo if you want (it's a setting you can toggle). Oh, and all of those settings I'm talking about? They only ever exist client-side and aren't linked to an account or identity in any way. You either pass them in as a set or URL parameters or as a cookie that contains no identifiable information. In fact, in a quick check of the site via uMatrix (with ads disabled), it shows that 100% of the resources served are first-party, so there isn't a single external Javascript or tracking cookie being set by sleazy advertisers or people outside their control.

If you're still concerned, here are the details about how they make money, which make it abundantly clear (again, in plain English) how they make money without selling their users' information.

Honestly, if you want to complain about DDG, the biggest issue remains the quality of their results. They finally got "good enough" for me, so I switched to them about a year ago and haven't regretted it, and they've only been getting better since then (e.g. they'll oftentimes have the top-rated StackOverflow answer displayed as a pull-out at the top of the search results), but there's still room for improvement (e.g. longer search terms produce noisy results for me). That said, the fact that they offer bangs makes it drop-dead simple to deal with those situations (i.e. add "!g" to your search to Google it instead). Plus, the fact that I can set them as my default search engine in Chrome/iOS/etc. means that no matter where I am, I can just use the bangs for Amazon (!a), Wikipedia (!w), Google Maps (!gm), Rotten Tomatoes (!rt), or whatever else to immediately jump to the results at those sites, rather than having to first navigate to them.

It's a great site that's continually getting better, and I would strongly encourage others to give it a shot or try it again if it's been awhile since the last time they tried it.

That gas bag already injects himself into every current event, you don't need to help him any.

No, he really did. There really is no need to make stuff up about Trump, he will make the shit up himself.

http://www.opera.com/download/...

Surf the Web with lightning speed.
Presto/2.12.388 Version/12.16

https://duckduckgo.com/

Search Engines in all countries in the world
http://searchenginesindex.com/

FINALLY - someone is willing to actually LOOK at the evidence, and THEN formulate a theory to explain the energy production.

Same thing goes for the Reactionless Drive - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=reac...
NASA is currently scratching their heads (and asses) as to how this thing works, but they are convinced that SOMETHING is going on.

Hell, TRY IT OUT, and IF it produces results, then get your head out of your educated, doctorial (god-like) ass and look at the reality of the real world processes.

Science is NOT founded on theory, it is founded on provable and repeatable processes that get theories developed to explain the realities.

from Ali G. See: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=yout...

You ever hear Bret Baier retract his pre-election story about how "indictments are on the way for Hillary"?

Actually, he did correct and apologize for that line on air.

There may have been a long history of self-policing, but that's fundamentally gone now. The New York Times is not what it used to be, and is no more respectable at this point than Fox News. If one of those is "fake" so is the other.