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You can be net zero carbon emissions.
You could Googleit but here, I've done the hard work for you:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://fortune.com/2018/10/08/...
https://croakingcassandra.com/...
http://science.sciencemag.org/...
http://www.onlyzerocarbon.org/...

You'll have to actually read these and you may have to change some habits but I know you can do it if you're at all interested.

McDonnell Douglas ruined Boeing.

You're not kidding. This article was from 18 years ago, and is still true today:

http://archive.fortune.com/mag...

"McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing's money."

As someone who's run small businesses for 15 years, I can assure that there's a huge difference between a productive employee, and an employee who does just enough to keep their job. We rapidly promote the former with commensurate pay raises because they help us make more money and we don't want to lose them to another company (or our competitors). Meanwhile, some of the latter have been languishing at near-minimum wage for nearly two decades, kept around mainly because their experience means it's slightly easier to suffer their mediocre work than to hire and train a new employee.

The thing most people don't understand is that for the vast majority of employees, there is no distinction between company/management and employees. The employees are the company. And the company lives or dies based on the quality of its employees. The Fortune 500 companies only employ about 17.5% of the workforce. You're making gross policy errors if you're using the behavior of large corporations to justify regulations which will affect the 82.5% of employees working at small and medium businesses. e.g. All those people calling for higher corporate tax rates due to companies hiding profit in overseas tax shelters? Small and medium businesses don't have overseas branches and so can't shelter their profit overseas. You increase the corporate tax rate, you just make it easier for the mega-corporations to kill off small local businesses.

That's called Google bombing, but feel free to let Reddit drive you deeper into the looney bin:

http://fortune.com/2018/07/19/...

So now Apple are going to be able to directly affect peoples lives entirely based on some undisclosed criteria made up in secrret by a bunch of hardcore liberals. What could possibly go wrong?
http://fortune.com/2017/10/17/...

How long did it take for Weinstein to face the music? That started the #MeToo movement, and after that a comedian like Louis C.K. stood no chance.

So you're arguing that because this super-rich and powerful man's well-oiled rape factory was able to operate for a long time undiscovered, that's evidence of tribalism, rather than evidence of the effectiveness of a powerful, efficient, and well-funded rape factory?

Al Franken is an illustrative example, because there was initially a lot of pushback to prop him up. But this was during the time of the Roy Moore election, so eventually he fell because it was more politically expedient to drop him.

In other words, he was pushed out in line with their morals and prinicples, but this behavior ultimately benefitted democrats so it doesn't count? No it still does. Maybe you should get your guys to try this morals and principles thing sometime if you'd like them to benefit. Or don't..who needs votes from decent people, right?

But what about Keith Ellison? Oh ho, different story here. He's deemed too important right now.

How is that an example of hypocrisy or tribalism? Trump has surrounded himself with domestic abusers, only one of which has been pushed out by incontrovertible evidence. If they were all being pushed out on allegations alone, then I could see that as a case of hypocritical behavior.

What about Roman Polanski? Remember how Hollywood stood by him?

So? He's a fugitive hiding from US law enforcement. Hollywood nutballs aren't politicians.

What about Joe Biden? As Vice President, this creepy perv got all touchy-feely with the wives, daughters, and granddaughters of Senators at a public swearing in ceremony, in front of cameras.

I haven't heard of this. Is this what you're talking about?

Is Bill Clinton still in good standing within Democrat circles?

How is this relevant? Should adulterers be treated the same as rapists and misogynists?

Why did the New York Times hire a racist to their editorial board, and then double down after being called out?

your_credibility--

I have a sneaking suspicion that a lot of the smart engineers (both hardware and software) are slowly leaving apple to move on to more interesting things.

And to work in a less toxic environment.

This is false. Solar is the cheapest generation source in the world.

Of course the CEO was not involved. He was too busy trying to blame people for the rocket that exploded on the launchpad---even though it exploded because of a design flaw. http://fortune.com/2016/10/01/... https://www.popularmechanics.c...

And that is just what a cryptocurrency lacks: Stability. That is also what makes it unusable as a currency.

Exactly.

In fact, many cryptocurrencies are designed to be anything but stable. Bitcoin is a prime example of this: since the total amount of coins that will be created is capped, and since the creation/mining of new coins gets more complex with time as the math required to do the mining gets more difficult, it means the cost of creating a bitcoin (as well as transaction cost) goes up with time, on its own. Bitcoin is deflationary by design, which is a property you absolutely do not want your currency to have.

This also creates a deathstar level weakness in Bitcoin. People like to talk about it being decentralized, but in reality it's not. The current cost of creating one bitcoin is varies highly based on local prices of electricity and equipment from around 530 dollars in Venezuela (the only country that you can mine it at under a thousand bucks, and that's only because energy is one of the few remaining things one can get cheaply in Venezuela as it's heavily subsidized by the government) to over 10 000 in advanced economies, with South Korea taking the first place at over 26 000 dollars a coin..This means that the actual mining and thus the whole core infrastructure that Bitcoin's continued operation relies on is actually heavily centralized to the hands of (mostly) commercial operators in countries with cheaper operational costs, mainly in Asia/China (china used to control about 70 % of all the mining, I don't have recent data on how much that's changed after the government banned Bitcoin exchanges). In other words: Bitcoin is running because people are making money running it, for now.

The thermal exhaust port of this death star is here: The moment the cost of mining rises above the the price of the coin, mining will be stop. It's safe to say for example that no-one in their right mind is doing Bitcoin mining in South Korea, because at the current prices you're losing about 20 grand per coin mined. If the price of a coin drops below the cheapest possible mining cost (currently the 530 bucks in Venezuela) it will become unprofitable for anyone to be running bitcoin mining, at which point the entire 'decentralized' network will collapse, and the value will plummet to zero, as no means of transacting the coins will exist, and the currency will become useless.

Combining the fact that the design of BC makes the continued rise of the mining costs an unavoidable fact (meaning that the point of failure will keep creeping up in dollar terms) with the market price of a Bitcoin being highly volatile and affected by a whole host of things including regulation of exchanges and other cryptocurrencies and their popularity, the whole BC infrastructure is definitely a game of chairs where you can make money as a miner or an investor up to a point but when the music stops you better hope you're not left with several coins that are now suddenly worth nothing.

So a potentially good investment? Sure. A safe and secure store of value or a functional currency? Absolutely not.

I always love these "Most people don't understand that Trump just sounds like a moron who went bankrupt several times and couldn't even make money with a casino, but really he is a negotiation wizard and very stable genius who went bankrupt several times and couldn't even make money with a casino" comments. Pure gold.

He didn't go bankrupt. A couple of his companies did. If you're involved in many businesses of that kind - hotels, restaurants etc - some will go bust.

If you want to criticise his business sense, better to focus on the con Trump University. Or that if he had put the money he got from his father in stock market - index funds and thus just get average returns - he'd have more than three times as much money. In other words, he's been doing way below average with the money he got - not exactly a huge success or a good businessman.

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Slavery is not free-market, it violates the property right of self-ownership.

Doesn't change the fact that human beings were bought and sold as capital.

It took government with laws like the Fugutive Slaves Act to push against basic human nature and economic forces to maintain slavery.

That's the Randian dipshittery of taking problems 100% caused by capitalism and blaming government for it.

Might I ask you to stop pretending that 'regulation' can, even in principle, improve on the free market?

You can't have a free market without regulation. For buyers and sellers to freely enter the market and exchange money, goods and services, you have to have regulation to prevent the formation of monopolies.

If you want to address something which YOU perceive as ugly, then kindly recognize that YOU are just another flawed, misguided human and blah blah blah blah blah

A human being without the direct financial incentive to screw everyone and everything over in the name of quarterly profits, as opposed to a DuPont executive who signs off on dousing everyone with cancer-causing chemicals to save a few bucks.

Maybe Tanenbaum was right. 26 years isn't that long for this debate to come back around again.

First law of futurology: never predict what and when at the same time.

First law of making a billion dollars (or shipping a billion systems): always predict what and when at the same time.

Why Futurist Ray Kurzweil Isn't Worried About Technology Stealing Your Job — 24 September 2017

Early on, I realized that timing is important to everything, from stock investing to romance—you've got to be in the right place at the right time.

Merely being right is no BFD. The other day, I made an inviolable personal commitment to shed 235 lbs of tired metabolic tissue by the year 2100.

Andrew and Raymond, not so much.

Jeebus, I can understand not knowing how the process works, but really you can't make it past the damn headline without incorporating the relevant information ?

FDA Approves First Generic Version of EpiPen

That is why there was no generic on the market, none were improved. Now if you want to go poking fingers about how horrible the system is, the CEO of Meylan (Heather Bresch) is Joe Manchin's daughter and oddly enough the FDA has been curiously well disposed towards his little girl's company

http://fortune.com/2016/09/07/...

Oh and he's a Democrat by the way, something to remember the next time they promise free healthcare.

...you should also remember they were sued, successfully, by the patent troll that claimed to own the protocol...

Which would make them not patent trolls. They defended their patents against the most well-funded legal team in existence, and showed that the protocol used their invention. They most certainly did not claim to own the protocol.

They were/are Patent Trolls. First it was FaceTime, then it was iMessage. I didn't call them Patent Trolls, the entire Tech-Press did:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/...

https://www.engadget.com/2017/...

https://gizmodo.com/apple-orde...

https://techcrunch.com/2016/02...

http://fortune.com/2016/02/03/...

https://www.cultofmac.com/4302...

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

Oh, and this Discussion Thread EXACTLY addresses the original question:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple...

etc. etc...

VirnetX patented something fairly obvious that they had no intention of ever bringing to market, which, after all, is the entire reason behind the Patent system, and simply lay-in-wait for someone with deep pockets to accidentally trip-into their patent-trap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Significantly helped along by:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I mean, the obvious corruption got so bad that the Supremes had to put a stop to it!

https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

So, don't paint Apple as the bad guy here.

It is at least 800 this year

A few things.

1) US Steel planning to add. Planning. Believe it when you see it. This isn't your grandad's blast furnace, today the steel industry is highly automated. And how many times must you endure this Trump promise charade before you recognize the pattern?

2) What is the chance that somebody from Trump's administration did not "make a deal" to elicit that US Steel press release? (I'll help you here: exactly zero.)

3) The Tax Foundation estimates that the Trump tariffs will immediately result in the loss of 48,585 jobs and that job losses could number as high as 250,000 Subtract from your 800 (I'll be charitable) then multiply by your precious 3.6 additional jobs. Reality.

4) Everybody knows these things except Trump's "Q pack".

5) Here's another one for you. It's a wave all right, these are not promises, these are things that actually happened.

6) The value of iron and steel produced in 2014 was $113 billion.

7) Software Industry Growth Far Outpaces US Economy, Hits $1.14 Trillion.

8) Go to lake Erie, get some lungfuls of that rust belt air. Yum yum, really miss that rust belt.

It is at least 800 this year

A few things.

1) US Steel planning to add. Planning. Believe it when you see it. This isn't your grandad's blast furnace, today the steel industry is highly automated. And how many times must you endure this Trump promise charade before you recognize the pattern?

2) What is the chance that somebody from Trump's administration did not "make a deal" to elicit that US Steel press release? (I'll help you here: exactly zero.)

3) The Tax Foundation estimates that the Trump tariffs will immediately result in the loss of 48,585 jobs and that job losses could number as high as 250,000 Subtract from your 800 (I'll be charitable) then multiply by your precious 3.6 additional jobs. Reality.

4) Everybody knows these things except Trump's "Q pack".

5) Here's another one for you. It's a wave all right, these are not promises, these are things that actually happened.

6) The value of iron and steel produced in 2014 was $113 billion.

7) Software Industry Growth Far Outpaces US Economy, Hits $1.14 Trillion.

8) Go to lake Erie, get some lungfuls of that rust belt air. Yum yum, really miss that rust belt.

During 1999-2015, the mesothelioma age-adjusted death rate decreased 21.7% from 13.96 per million population (1999) to 10.93 (2015) (p-value for time trend

So basically the mesothelioma death rate (from all causes, not just asbestos related) went from 1.396 per 100,000 to 1.093 per 100,000 per year.. Or a reduction of 0.3 per 100,000 per year. That puts the benefit of banning asbestos at the very bottom of the list of causes of death, even if you assume 100% of mesothelioma was caused by asbestos.

The money we spent banning and ripping out asbestos probably would've been much better spent on things like PSAs to buckle your seat belt, or suicide prevention hotlines. Those have a death rate nearly a hundred times higher than the reduction in mesothelioma death rate. Heck, fires kill 5.0 people per 100,000 each year, so it's even possible that banning asbestos resulted in more people dying to fires than were saved from death by mesothelioma.

Based on this one paper, it would seem that banning asbestos was a vast overreaction. Given the tiny scale of the problem, it probably would've been better addressed by stricter regulations mandating masks and filters during the mining and processing of asbestos, and manufacture of products containing asbestos, rather than a widescale ban. Kinda like how disproportionate news coverage of airliner crashes has caused us to spend more on preventing airliner crashes, resulting in air travel being 86x safer than cars.

though actually you are also wrong there

Maybe not. A Seattle Times Op-ed counterpoint brings up issues with the study that seem worth considering:

Specifically, let’s look at all the workers who are simply left out of the analysis. By the UW team’s own admission, nearly 40 percent of the city’s low-wage workforce is excluded from the data: workers at multisite employers like Nordstrom, Starbucks, or even restaurants with a few locations like Dick’s. Even worse, any time a worker left a job with a single-site employer for one with a chain, that was treated as a “lost job” that was blamed on the minimum wage — and that likely happened a lot since the minimum wage was higher for those large employers.

Similarly, every time an employer raised its pay above $19 per hour — like Jimmy John’s did — it was counted not as a better job, but as a low-wage job lost as a result of the minimum wage.

That's an op-ed, of course, and not a study correcting perceived defects and presented in opposition. But that might not be necessary, per a Fortune Op-ed counterpoint:

It also stands in contrast to a massive trove of actually credible studies showing that raising the minimum wage is a boon for working class families and the communities they live in.

For instance, a team led by Michael Reich, an economics professor at University of California-Berkeley, looked at the impact of the Seattle wage increase on the food industry over the same period and found that wages did in fact go up for restaurant workers, and that employment wasn’t affected. These findings were, they claim, “in line with the lion’s share of results in previous credible minimum wage studies.”
[...]
Employers see big benefits, too. Workers stay on the job longer, reducing turnover and training costs. They’re also significantly more productive, according to researchers studying wage increases in the United Kingdom.

The op-ed continues with studies/references for other aspects of the increased min wage.

I can't say I have looked into the specifics, but 3.5% profit over a period of ~7 years (as per the numbers in the CNN-article) isn't great. If you take inflation into account, it's even a net loss.

Getting a much, much better (direct) ROI on that money (just repaying debt would do the trick) would be easy. Don't get me wrong, though: I'm not saying the bailouts weren't necessary, but they definitely weren't great investments regardless of the financial crisis. They were great investments only because of it.

See also here: https://www.nationalreview.com...
(not my favorite source of news, but it's about the points made)

Thanks for the article. Unfortunately it's a gross oversimplification.

The comment I was replying to was about bank bailouts. The Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) is poorly understood, or just intentionally misrepresented. TARP was a plan for the government to buy from the banks the "troubled assets" (mortgage backed securities) that were killing their balance sheets due to mark-to-market reporting rules. But it never happened, for a couple of reasons. (1) it was impossible to price the assets and come up with a fair price to pay for them, and (2) Warren Buffet invested $5 billion into Goldman Sachs in exchange for perpetual preferred fixed dividend stocks and stock warrants. Britain had a similar approach.

The Treasury followed Buffet's lead and morphed TARP into the "Capital Injection Program" (CIP). All the bank deals were structured to make a profit, very similarly to Buffet's, except the dividend paid would grow over time as an incentive to pay back early. A total of $245 billion was invested in banks, of which most was paid back with interest in under two years. The Treasury made $1.4 billion in a year on Goldman Sachs alone. Besides the sliding dividend scale the banks were in a rush to pay it back because Congress started adding new conditions after the fact. Never do business with the mob or the government.

Other TARP funds were hijacked for other purposes, such as propping up GM, Those deals were not structured to make a profit, and they have lost money.

See this for a breakdown of disbursements and repayments:
https://www.treasury.gov/initi...

See this for a good explanation of the program, how banks were forced to be part of it, and how the terms changed after the fact
http://archive.fortune.com/200...

He's talking about 401(k) returns, and he wants to gamble on high risk stocks, since he can't use it to play the lottery. Must be old with not much of a 401(k), or he'd just invest it in an index fund for the long term (SPY, VOO, etc.).

in the end [freshwater] can easily be piped inland from the oceans

If it were so easy, everyone would be doing it!

it recognizes a simple truth that technology advances improve life

False.

If you believe that he's a billionaire then please explain why he won't release his tax returns and demonstrate on paper what he constantly brags about to anyone within earshot.

This might help explain why: http://fortune.com/2016/03/23/donald-trump-debt/

Well if the situation is so bad you have major conventions canceling and citing its attendees safety as the reason I'd say it was that bad. As for why...I'd start with ~$4K mo. rent for a ~900sq ft apt. My 1,770sq ft. 3 BR 2.5 Bath home mortgage with insurance is less than half that.

I'm sure a lot of people would be just fine if merely 80% of their driving needs were automatable, or their truck drove itself 80% of the way while they napped.

Very few humans can do 100% of all driving tasks too (our accident rate is proof of that). Self-driving cars may never be perfect, but they're already good enough today for Waymo's taxis to be carrying unaccompanied passengers in Phoenix as we speak.

1 Because it’s after business hours.

2 Someone has already told the SEC and the investigation has already begun.

I am less concerned about a mobile phone monopoly than I am about collusion amongst cable delivery companies. The fact that the large cable companies won't even try and compete with each other and openly acknowledge such a strategy is a far greater threat to my mind than a possible mobile carrier monopoly. I feel like 3 companies with a healthy churning market is better than a locked in cable market that exists today in a large portion of the North American market.

http://fortune.com/2015/05/19/...

https://muninetworks.org/conte...

For the record, I am more concerned with unregulated illegal immigration than I am with this proposed merger.

Should I then ignore this because there are more important issues?

I am less concerned about a mobile phone monopoly than I am about collusion amongst cable delivery companies. The fact that the large cable companies won't even try and compete with each other and openly acknowledge such a strategy is a far greater threat to my mind than a possible mobile carrier monopoly. I feel like 3 companies with a healthy churning market is better than a locked in cable market that exists today in a large portion of the North American market.

http://fortune.com/2015/05/19/...

https://muninetworks.org/conte...

Airline pilot used to be a prestige job which for a system airline could be a lifetime career. Starting pilots now make $24 an hour, which is slightly higher than a Walmart greeter: http://fortune.com/2014/03/03/...

Think about that the next time you roar down the runway on your way somewhere.

Your article is about 4 years and $26 per hour out of date.

Old news.

Why airlines are running out of pilots

According to data for 14 regional airlines, the average new pilot’s hourly wage is about $24 per hour, the report says. But the Air Line Pilots Association estimates that the average starting salary is even lower than that — $22,500 per year, which for a 40-hour work week equals an hourly rate of $10.75. Unsurprisingly, 11 of the 12 regional airlines the GAO interviewed reported difficulties filling entry-level first-officer vacancies.

Not only that - the lifestyle of a regional airline pilot absolutely sucks.

Airline pilot used to be a prestige job which for a system airline could be a lifetime career. Starting pilots now make $24 an hour, which is slightly higher than a Walmart greeter:
http://fortune.com/2014/03/03/...

Think about that the next time you roar down the runway on your way somewhere.

I know we're in the age of "World Love" and everyone is equal, but what the hell are we doing selling Chinese drugs in the US or GB or anywhere but China? This is from yeterday's news: "Blood Pressure Medication That May Contain Cancer-Causing Impurity Is Recalled" http://fortune.com/2018/07/16/... We have no oversight and have to operate on trust. Right. You jump and I'll catch you.

With personal assets estimated to be around 200 billion US Dollars.

http://fortune.com/2017/07/29/...

https://www.independent.co.uk/...

She was more than a "bit" rude, she was openly sexist. Using the term "mansplaining" is quite enough for that. She did this while acting in a professional capability, which happens automatically when she discusses her work and she was rightfully fired for it. Then some male sexists (just as much scum) jumped on this.

Remember though, that if a person is sexist on one way or another, they will not see that their terms were sexist. Many feminists are both terribly sexist as well as racist in nature. But when one of them mentions something about problems being caused by "White males", the others will nod their heads wisely as they do not see that blaming to a person by their sex as sexist, or blaming them based on their race is racist.

The worst part is they do not see that they are just as bigoted as white supremacists. They are only rooting for the other side. But they are still what they are. Here is a great example of sanctioned racism:

http://fortune.com/2017/10/20/... n

White is a race, Men is a gender (or sex if you prefer) The headline reads: The Bank of England Has Way Too Many White Men, U.K. Lawmakers Say

Hmmmm White - hey, that is race, Men Hey, that is sex, Too many people of a race and gender.

So let's diddle that headline a little: The Bank of England Has Way Too Many Black women, U.K. Lawmakers Say

Is that racist? Is that sexist?

Why yes, it is. Bigoted as all hell. And quite socially acceptable. We don't even blink when a woman or her sycophants scream about how awful men are, or how all problems are the fault of those white men. Held up as an aspiration - Held up as the solution is getting rid of white men. Funny how the people claiming they are working for social justice are such racist bigots. They are become their own enemy.

Of course, Musk claimed one of the Thai rescuers is a pedophile (with ZERO proof), after that rescuer said that Musk's grandstanding sub wouldn't work in the caves... Real classy, Musk! Someone calls Musk out - rightfully - for a publicity stunt and he goes hard-core defamation. Musk is cracking - just like his company, Tesla. Fucking prick...

Not only did he move the Overton window so far that a Trump was inevitable... but also created incentives to buy electric cars, which have clearly been so popular with Teslas, have allowed it's CEO to make massive donations to the GOP: http://fortune.com/2018/07/15/...

I got a handy payout after the hi-tech equivalent of this was shut down.

http://fortune.com/2015/09/03/...

You're missing the point entirely. The partisan circus is part of Putin's plan. They actually helped organize protests and counter-protests at the same time and place. For example.....

You are missing another point - Putin _really_ hates Hilary Clinton. She supports sanctions that are a pain in the arse for him, and has been talking tough on Russia the whole time. Trump is just a weak buffoon that he can control as he likes.

Shock collars are going overboard.

Although collars of some sort could be used for analytics to try and organize the right groups of employees together, or "persuade" and "nudge" invidividuals toward goals predetermined to best suit the enterprise.

• - China is monitoring employees' brain waves and emotions — and the technology boosted one company's profits by $315 million
• - Workplace Employee Brainwave Monitoring Is Already a Real Thing

Do you know how much cheaper china is than the US at this point?

Its marginal.

First because labor costs are decreasing in relevance as we automate.

Second because chinese labor costs have gone up.

Third because various things in china other than labor are more expensive than in the US.

Fourth because there are often unaccounted costs to doing business in china such as forced tech transfers, IP theft, etc that ultimately can erase all gains.

There is more... but that makes the point that it is more complicated and the cost of doing business in china is not that much cheaper than in the US.

And because I won't be believed and no one uses a search engine to inform themselves absent it getting jammed in their faces:
http://fortune.com/2015/06/26/...

China is replaceable in the US supply chain. We only used them because we are making a lot of things in other countries in east asia and china was a reasonable place to assemble things. Totally replaceable.

I know I know... lots of either clueless or politically motivated asshats running around running their mouths saying X or Y must be and the status quo is forever.

Think for yourselves.

Note the UK is also cheaper than Germany. Add that to your thinking on the Brexit discussions. ;)

Since a car battery has to lug its own weight around, they're optimized aggressively for energy-to-weight ratio, at some expense in lifetime.

A stationary battery can be built a bit more robustly, e.g. thicker eletrolytes, and Tesla does that.

http://fortune.com/2015/05/18/... describes some other differences, in the chemistry of the cathode.

The 5,000th car was finished at roughly 5 a.m. Sunday morning, hours after the Saturday midnight cutoff for complete fulfillment of the rate Elon Musk has been promising for well over a year.

I guess coming up short by 5 hours is a win? Yet another miss..

>unsupported by anything that resembles evidence

Evidence like it being widely reported in the press?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
http://fortune.com/2017/12/26/...
https://arstechnica.com/inform...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Netflix is paywalled. In 2015 it boasted 37 percent of Internet traffic in North America according to Sandvine. The same article states that iTunes, Hulu, and Amazon Video were tied at 3 percent each, for a total of 45 percent. This didn't change much in Sandvine's 2017 survey, though Hulu and Amazon Video declined to 2 percent each.

brand names for their products that mislead you

Ah. You think the very definition of "network neutrality" is bullshit. There was certainly a lot of people referring to it strictly as new regulation while ignoring that the Internet has been neutral as possible from the start. And if you twist words enough you can make a push poll mean pretty much whatever you want it to mean.

But no, Network Neutrality is keeping the Internet neutral with respect to protocol, location, service, and origin. That once you have an internet connection, you get access to ALL of the Internet. That everyone on the Internet is on a level playing field and that the infrastructure itself doesn't favor Gigantic Google's packets over my tiny home server's packets. This is how the Internet started out and it's a fundamental principle for how it functions and everyone expects it to function. The firewall of china and china's policies of blocking specific sites and services are clearly not neutral and they're doing their best to control the Internet and flow of information. Fuck those guys.

So let's say that Network Neutrality actually mean a neutral level playing field on the Internet. One where the ISPs didn't choose what you did with your connection, or where you went with it. Would you STILL be arguing against it?

The major use of net neutrality rules

Hold up. Legislature and regulation enforcing network neutrality is one thing that's very easy to fuck up and I've pointed out repeatedly that there is viable debate there, and network neutrality itself is another. Any US or Euro legislation will only have partial effect around the world. No one but NO ONE, including at this point YOU, has come out against network neutrality.

It's kind of like the difference between free speech and the first amendment.

The major use of net neutrality rules so far has been to prevent ISPs from offering free access to paying partners.

Wrong. It's to outlaw and prevent:

Comcast from blocking bittorrent.

AT&T fucking with VoIP to help their own business.

Comcast favoring Microsoft's 360 traffic by not counting it towards data caps. This is the sort of thing you're talking about.

Telecoms blocking Google Wallet.

These aren't some theoretical boogeyman that congresscritters are scared of and are trying to clamp down on preemptively. There has been a constant effort to push the boundary of what's acceptable behavior by ISPs and the more that markets consolidate and the less they compete with each other, the less effective public outrage will be at maintaining network neutrality.

It has NOT been used to shut down Network Neutrality violations like ESPN3 (or ESPN360.com). Although it should. This is also the sort of thing you're talking about with "offering (free) access to paying partners". (any access for ESPN3). And it HAS NOT been used to shut that down. Which is bullshit. It's a clear violation of network neutrality and would lead to the horror scenario of bundling the Internet like cable channels.

This isn't "free stuff because ISPs are competing with each other". They are CHOOSING what you pay for. The money is coming from you one way or another. But you don't get to choose NOT to pay for that bundled service. It's just absorbed into the ISP bill which goes up a little. Or worse, it's ISPs competing, not with each other, but with the websites they're supposed to be servicing. Gatekeeprs. Toll-road enforcers. The worry back in the day was that they were going to shake down Netflixs for a buck (who would then charge customers more). But now netflix is POWERFUL enough to tell ISPs to go get b

In more ways than one, Google's rhetoric on Diversity rings hollow.

unless they do that then this is just political posturing so that reps in vulnerable districts don't take flak for saving Chinese jobs while American ones go overseas.

I hate, well loath really Trump more than most. I can't think of anyone electable that could be worse for the country, but meh, I think I'll go with the Senate just doing the right thing on occasion. It does happen, and I doubt Trump really cares about ZTE enough to try to get replacements for all the republicans over it.

Now, if they would scrape together the will to stop Trump's Trade War, well that would be another thing, but I doubt there is enough republicans willing to stand up to Trump on something he actually really wants...

Logically if a trade war really gets going, then goods are going to cost more. I wasn't alive in 1929. Not many of us were, but there is some thought this kind of thing led to the crash. link

I'm guessing the firing of James Damore last year accelerated that trend, by discouraging whites and males (esp. white males) from applying there.

I'm guessing their discriminatory hiring programs accelerated that trend even more.

Two -- the Supplemental Headcount Program for industry hires and another program which affected new grads.

Because of many issues like that, my impression is that Microsoft is sloppily managed.

LOL. If some random due tweeting garbage is your definition of a company being sloppily managed, then I invite you to look at a list of 500 other companies that are just as poor: http://fortune.com/fortune500/

Seriously though, try managing 65000 people's tweet happy thumbs.

And yet as of today, we have the fewest people out of work aince 1973.

If you look at the real unemployment number, not the "We're only counting people who actively reported looking for work while being out of work in the last four weeks" the unemployment in the US is 40%.

http://fortune.com/2015/09/14/...