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Jeff Bezos Talks About Music Streaming, and His Political Ambitions (billboard.com)
In a wide-ranging interview with Billboard, Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, Blue Origin, and owner of The Washington Post, talked about music streaming business. He also talked about whether he desires to become the president of the United States. Excerpts from the interview: On music streaming business, being one of the late ones to join the party:Well, here's what I would say: We've been in the music category since 1998. It was the second category we launched after books. Our customers listen to a lot of music and we have a couple of freight trains kind of pulling the business along. One is Prime, and the other is Echo and Alexa.
On the prospect of seeing President Bezos and other political interests: Oh, no. I don't think so. No. I love my life. I love being an inventor. I love Blue Origin, my space company. I love The Washington Post. They are very good, but the Internet transition was difficult for them -- so I've been able to help them on that. But basically... I have a very full life. And I really like it.
On the prospect of seeing President Bezos and other political interests: Oh, no. I don't think so. No. I love my life. I love being an inventor. I love Blue Origin, my space company. I love The Washington Post. They are very good, but the Internet transition was difficult for them -- so I've been able to help them on that. But basically... I have a very full life. And I really like it.
Bill Gates Talks About His Linux Distribution Ambitions
/., great stuff.
"Oh, no. I don't think so. No. I love my life."
Great stuff
WashPo peomulgated the whole #fakenews Russian Hacking scandal.
Watch the magician's hands, not his mouth.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Political parties love candidates who can "self fund" especially in hopeless races. The political questions are probably coming from D-leaning pols who'd like to see some rich CEO run for office. (See Rahm's speech on recruiting candidates this week for an example.)
Jeff Bezos: One way to his abilities is to look at any Amazon web page. Amazon tries to distract you while you are trying to decide if you want to buy a product. There are other products listed in the middle of the page.
Any competent person with things going on in their life has no particular interest in becoming president. You have to be an ego-maniac or incompetent to want the job.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
So on one hand, we have prominent computer security firms like Crowdstrike and FireEye presenting evidence that a Russia-based APT group, whose targeting pattern matches Russian government/military interests, hacked a number of US politicians and political organizations. Information from those hacks then gets released to the press via Wikileaks and others, and the US Intelligence community attests that they believe it was done to try and sway the election.
The Washington Post reports on this. But on the other hand, Trump waves his hand dismissively and says maybe it was a 400lb hacker, so it must be "fake news", because he says so.
Right.
Yes. Next?
There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
I put Hillary in the incompetent category. She had a thing for invading countries, but not doing it very well. She wasn't as bad as W, but not many are.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Easy, racism by white bashing and sexism by male bashing. Play that game for long enough and people see through your bullshit and get sick of it, and they're willing to elect a guy like Trump who just doesn't give a fuck about political correctness.
Nobody has to "justify" a Trump win, that's the problem with all the liberals going ape-shit over his victory. You can explain it by virtue of the fact that in key districts people disliked Trump less than they disliked Clinton. It didn't require sexism, and democrats gerrymander just as badly as republicans. Very few people are happy Trump is president. Very few people would have been happy if Clinton was president. The balance had to tip in somebody's favor.
Stupid sexy Flanders.
a real job creator and builder
Yes, Musk could blow tons of government money simultaneously on a hyperloop and a manned mission to mars.
"Key districts" is part of the problem. Why should votes in South Dakota be worth more than those in San Francisco? Why should votes of black people in North Carolina be worth less than those of white people in Kentucky? Why should the votes of the most productive parts of the country be worth less than those of the least productive parts?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...
You are welcome on my lawn.
We're on our second one this century, and this one has somehow managed to be even worse than the first in terms of outcomes for our country. There won't be enough crazy people left to vote in another CEO any time soon after we get rid of this one. He can have a reality show if he wants, and maybe even win a Golden Raspberry as well, but he won't be winning the presidency.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Why should votes in South Dakota be worth more than those in San Francisco?
They aren't. Electors are based on the number of Senators and Representatives. Representatives are allocated based on population.
Since we are a union of STATES, the system of electing the federal executive recognizes that there are both STATE and POPULATION based concerns, and the electoral college reflects that.
Why should votes of black people in North Carolina be worth less than those of white people in Kentucky?
Since you want to make this a racial issue, you may continue on your own.
So much for "consent of the governed".
You are welcome on my lawn.
who'd like to see some rich CEO run for office. (See Rahm's speech on recruiting candidates this week for an example
Yeah. Rahm said exactly that.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Since you want to make this a racial issue, you may continue on your own.
The blatantly racial gerrymandering in NC isn't racist because SHUT UP I'M NOT LISTENING!
SJW n. One who posts facts.
What happened to have some class and not turning everything into a mud pit? ....wtf is the next election going to be like? If I were a billionaire with even the slightest interest in running for POTUS, looking at this last election, it would certainly make me think twice if I valued my family and sanity...
Hmm. Maybe you've tripped over the real reason Joe Biden decided not to run.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Campaign FInance Reform limits how much a federal politician can spend on their own campaign... it's the reason why Trump had to fundraise to afford TV time despite his wealth.
More accurate to say, they learned, painfully, that political correctness is a privilege for everyone else but them.
"Identity politics" is a clever euphemism for bigotry, and eventually people figure it out.
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
And their 600 million contract. That's his political career. WaPo is the fake news part of it.
An interesting interview and it made me reflect back on Bezos's success.
I think that he has -much like Steve Jobs back then- a good feel of what will be important and successful in a few years, and acts upon it.
The runaway success of Alexa and Echo is discussed in the interview, and it seems they worked on it since a few years already; and also think of for example Amazon Cloud. I once read that the initial germ of this other success was his insistence to build all of Amazon's functionality using web services, long before that became common. Or the lead with the Kindle format.
Then there are interesting recent experiments with drone delivery and supermarket experience.
From a business POV, he does a lot of things right in a proactive way.
It dos affect the number of congrsscritters which is important. So yeah it;s not irrelevant. It's amazing the sheer desparation with which you will deny racism. I don't even understand why: I assume you're not important enough to affect such things so it's not like you're to blame.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
When are"you guys" going to stop lying about that and acknowledge that the Republicans care just as much about "States Rights" as Democrats do. I've yet to see Republicans move significant power to the States when in power.
Here's a pertinent example: recreational drugs has little reason to be Federally controlled outside of safety/quality issues (ie stuff that applies to the entire country), so why do Republicans keep insisting on banning marijuana at the Federal level? What possible justification is there for it, especially when the war on drugs is mostly a war on minority cultures, that criminalizes large swathes of the country?
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
It dos affect the number of congrsscritters which is important.
No, I'm sorry, you are wrong. Gerrymandering is how the borders of an existing district are set, not how many districts there are. It has relevance when you discuss who gets elected in that district, but it changes nothing regarding the number of electors a state has. One per Senator and Representative. And it changes nothing in the results for a Presidential election -- the votes from all districts are summed up for the state total. You could put 100% of a state's minority population into one district and their votes would still be one each in the state total.
It's amazing the sheer desparation with which you will deny racism.
Where have I denied the existence of racism? I have told you that with regard to the electoral college and allocation of electors, gerrymandering within a state has no relevance.
I don't even understand why:
I think the key words there are "[you] don't understand", because you are arguing with me over something I didn't say. And now I will say that you can continue on your own in this mission, which I assume you will misinterpret as me telling you to shut up and that I will not listen.