Laws that transfer power from citizens to the government are never about "good intentions," they're about control.
One of the first things they'll start censoring is content critical of sacred Eurocratic initiatives. Video opposing unassimilated Muslim immigration into Europe? Sorry, that's banned because we call it "hate speech." Video suggesting Italy should leave the Euro? Sorry, we have to ban that because it endangers "economic stability."
Good intentions have nothing to do with it. It's all about censorship and control.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Slashdot community when posters confirmed that the site had not been updated since March 1 and that much of the functionality (including login) was broken. Coming on the heels of a yet another slew of Social Justice Warrioring posts about women in tech, this news serves to reinforce what we’ve known all along. Slashdot is collapsing in complete disarray.
You don’t need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict Slashdot’s future. The handwriting is on the wall: Slashdot faces a bleak future. In fact there won’t be any future at all for Slashdot, because Slashdot is dying. Things are looking very bad for Slashdot. As many of us are already aware, Slashdot continues to lose readership. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
(Well, somebody had to do it. What, no front page story about the outage?)
...I trust the Chinese government even less, and will avoid entrusting my data to a Chinese-made phone.
(Yes, I know a lot of lower-level chips used in phones are fabbed in China. I trust Apple more to detect embedded spyware than I do Chinese manufacturers not to put it there...)
"Ajit Pai, the most hated person in tech since Darl McBride"
Evidence for this assertion? None.
Evidently someone repealing the Obama Administration's fiat decision, returning the Internet back to the dystopian nightmare that it was in 2015, has offended a great many "net neutrality" boosters on Slashdot. Yet you offer no evidence that Ajit Pai is more hated than (to grab a few examples) Elizabeth Holmes, Anita Sarkeesian, Steve Balmer, Jack Dorsey or Mark Zuckerberg.
The fight against the Islamic State is largely won, thanks to the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, the Iraqi government (plus various militias), and Assad's Syrian government. Raqqa, Deir Ez-Zor and Mosul have all been liberated from the Islamic State, and what little territory remains is split into shrinking, isolated enclaves.
The more cars it sells, the more cash it burns. That's not a problem you can make up with volume. Then there's the racial discrimination lawsuits, the drive to unionize, and a host of other economic problems.
Maybe Musk should have concentrated on making one business profitable, not start a half a dozen more.
If we don't, Democrats might have to face the possibility that Hillary Clinton lost because she was a horrible, corrupt human being and that the Democratic Party's ideas are deeply unpopular with the American public.
No, by all means let's talk about RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA! more, no matter how many anonymous leads turn out to be bunk, how many dead ends and retractions, no matter how many "smoking guns" that turn out to be neither smoking nor guns.
Anything to avoid rethinking Democratic dogma and admit that Donald Trump will be President of the United States of America for the next 3+ years and there's absolutely nothing they can do about it.
I'm so old I remember when tech companies used to hire individuals based on their ability to do the work. How old fashioned!
Victimhood Identity Politics is in direct opposition to the American principle of individualism. Evidently treating people as individuals doesn't offer SJW types enough opportunities for graft or lording over others to make them conform to their far-left culture war politics.
So we get "Protected Classes," because some animals are more equal than others...
High costs, high taxes, and high regulation that are driving people and businesses out of the state. The minimum wage hike is only going to accelerate the trend by driving more business to other states and causing those that can't move to either invest in automation to replace their existing workers, or just hire more illegal aliens.
And the huge public sector union pension debt is going to cause more municipalities, and eventually the state itself, to go bankrupt.
...then every pervert posting illicit upskirt pictures of women without permission is a champion of the first amendment.
Many of the interviewees huff about the First Amendment, and yet not one of them explains how “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press” applies to publishing a sex tape made without permission. A Florida jury was asked to consider the following questions: Was posting the video offensive to a reasonable person? Was it devoid of news value? Did Gawker founder Nick Denton participate in posting the video? The answers to the first and third questions are hardly debatable. As for news value: If Hogan’s sex tape is fair game, whose isn’t? Given that women are the usual targets of this sort of thing, it’s surreal to hear so many members of the supposed Party of Women (TM) say that there is a legitimate public interest in viewing any famous person’s bedroom activities. Try to imagine liberals making the case that Breitbart has the First Amendment right to publish a covertly recorded sex tape involving, say, Tina Fey or Rachel Maddow simply because some sleaze merchant shopped it to them.
Asked in a deposition about what celebrity sex tapes he wouldn’t publish, one Albert J. Daulerio, another former Gawker editor and the author of a snarky blog post accompanying the Hulkster’s sex tape on the site, is seen saying, “If they were a child.” Under what age? “Four,” he says, and the jury that heard this could no longer entertain any doubts about the sort of people with whom it was dealing.
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Laws that transfer power from citizens to the government are never about "good intentions," they're about control.
One of the first things they'll start censoring is content critical of sacred Eurocratic initiatives. Video opposing unassimilated Muslim immigration into Europe? Sorry, that's banned because we call it "hate speech." Video suggesting Italy should leave the Euro? Sorry, we have to ban that because it endangers "economic stability."
Good intentions have nothing to do with it. It's all about censorship and control.
...supposed to get a jump on bugging the Trump/Pence 2020 campaign?
"To remind users to follow up on a message they've received."
How about "No"? How about "Hell no!"
I receive some 50 emails a day, the vast majority require no "follow up" on my part.
The very first thing I want to learn about this "service" is how to turn it off.
Want to get rid of the toxicity? Start by firing Anita Sarkeesian from Google's so-called “Trust and Safety Council.” Twitter's politically unbalanced, SJW-inspired suspensions and shadowbans are destroying Twitter shareholder value.
Clean your own house first. Then you can start worrying about the "toxicity" of others.
(What, no story about the outage?)
It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: Slashdot is dying.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Slashdot community when posters confirmed that the site had not been updated since March 1 and that much of the functionality (including login) was broken. Coming on the heels of a yet another slew of Social Justice Warrioring posts about women in tech, this news serves to reinforce what we’ve known all along. Slashdot is collapsing in complete disarray.
You don’t need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict Slashdot’s future. The handwriting is on the wall: Slashdot faces a bleak future. In fact there won’t be any future at all for Slashdot, because Slashdot is dying. Things are looking very bad for Slashdot. As many of us are already aware, Slashdot continues to lose readership. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
(Well, somebody had to do it. What, no front page story about the outage?)
Stop the freaking presses!
Yes, electric BMWs are a wasteful boondoggle, but using one to get lunch doesn't even cause the police abuse meter to twitch.
If it was NYPD in the 1970s, they'd be using the cars to pimp out their own hookers to drug dealers...
...I trust the Chinese government even less, and will avoid entrusting my data to a Chinese-made phone.
(Yes, I know a lot of lower-level chips used in phones are fabbed in China. I trust Apple more to detect embedded spyware than I do Chinese manufacturers not to put it there...)
"Man last relevant in 2001 edits magazine last relevant in 1996! Details at 10!"
"Ajit Pai, the most hated person in tech since Darl McBride"
Evidence for this assertion? None.
Evidently someone repealing the Obama Administration's fiat decision, returning the Internet back to the dystopian nightmare that it was in 2015, has offended a great many "net neutrality" boosters on Slashdot. Yet you offer no evidence that Ajit Pai is more hated than (to grab a few examples) Elizabeth Holmes, Anita Sarkeesian, Steve Balmer, Jack Dorsey or Mark Zuckerberg.
How's that 2 Minute Hate working out for you?
Most of them science fiction first editions.
The fight against the Islamic State is largely won, thanks to the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, the Iraqi government (plus various militias), and Assad's Syrian government. Raqqa, Deir Ez-Zor and Mosul have all been liberated from the Islamic State, and what little territory remains is split into shrinking, isolated enclaves.
The Islamic State may live on for a while yet as an international terrorist organization like Al-Qaeda, especially since so many worldwide jihadi terrorist groups have pledged allegiance to it, but without territory it lacks one of the prerequisites to be regarded as a "legitimate" caliphate by Muslims worldwide, which makes it considerably less dangerous and less likely to inspire acts of jihad in the future.
Why not come out and mention the real cause of Venezuela's nightmare: Socialism.
97 cents??? You're doing an entire Slashdot post about 97 cents worth of ads????
More than $140 million was donated to the Clinton Foundation by Uranium One board members and associates, but no, let's focus on 97 cents worth of ads.
The left's newfound Russia Derangement Syndrome is beyond parody.
In fact, it's 10,507 by Minoru Yoshida of Japan in October 1980. After which they stopped keeping track of that record.
So maybe you should start out with an analogy that isn't demonstrably false...
The more cars it sells, the more cash it burns. That's not a problem you can make up with volume. Then there's the racial discrimination lawsuits, the drive to unionize, and a host of other economic problems.
Maybe Musk should have concentrated on making one business profitable, not start a half a dozen more.
Tesla Motors, despite all the hype and love showered here, shows no signs of ever showing a profit.
If we don't, Democrats might have to face the possibility that Hillary Clinton lost because she was a horrible, corrupt human being and that the Democratic Party's ideas are deeply unpopular with the American public.
And we can't have that.
Why cover the corruption trial of a sitting Democratic U.S. Senator when Trump's doorman's cousin might have talked to a Russian once?
No, by all means let's talk about RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA! more, no matter how many anonymous leads turn out to be bunk, how many dead ends and retractions, no matter how many "smoking guns" that turn out to be neither smoking nor guns.
Anything to avoid rethinking Democratic dogma and admit that Donald Trump will be President of the United States of America for the next 3+ years and there's absolutely nothing they can do about it.
Kids, ask your parents who "Dick Tracy" was.
No, not the guy banging Madonna.
Er, kids, ask your grandparents who Dick Tracy was.
Also: Get the hell off my lawn!
Mann's work has been thoroughly debunked.
Both for his SF and his Byte columns.
My obituary.
...with their "gender is a social construct" line, and all their other ideological sacred dogmas, either fired or cowed into submission.
Or, conversely. high tech finally realizes just how toxic SJW ideology is and stops tolerating SJW mobbing and bullying in their ranks.
...he is actually protected because he filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board before publishing his memo, and the NLRB protects people against firing once they’ve lodged a complaint under whistle-blower statutes.
I'm so old I remember when tech companies used to hire individuals based on their ability to do the work. How old fashioned!
Victimhood Identity Politics is in direct opposition to the American principle of individualism. Evidently treating people as individuals doesn't offer SJW types enough opportunities for graft or lording over others to make them conform to their far-left culture war politics.
So we get "Protected Classes," because some animals are more equal than others...
High costs, high taxes, and high regulation that are driving people and businesses out of the state. The minimum wage hike is only going to accelerate the trend by driving more business to other states and causing those that can't move to either invest in automation to replace their existing workers, or just hire more illegal aliens.
And the huge public sector union pension debt is going to cause more municipalities, and eventually the state itself, to go bankrupt.
...then every pervert posting illicit upskirt pictures of women without permission is a champion of the first amendment.