No you obviously aren't getting what I am saying. Back to my original comment on the AC troll: There is no sense whatsoever in calling any Republican a communist. Assholes, idiots, and apparently child molesters, sure... But definitely not "dirty fucking commies" as called by the AC.
Other than all of the evidence that points in that direction, I guess.
Yeah, about that evidence... So far we have the FBI concluding that someone associated with the Trump campaign was involved with the Russians (far before being involved with Trump mind you) and Trump Jr. is an idiot and wanted to collude with the Russians, but was instead conned. Oh and there was the whole unsubstantiated golden shower claim and the entire dossier which was looked over by Mueller and apparently they didn't find anything that serious since it hasn't been mentioned at all against any member of the campaign or administration.
Does Putin want a "slow-witted and amoral person" leading the US? Of course, but luckily for him that's the only options in every election. But why would he want a loose cannon that is quick to attack and favors US interests over that of the rest of the world? Maybe he thinks we will actually pull out of NATO and sit idle while Russia starts annexing Europe? I don't see a solid end game for Putin gaining any power over the US with Trump in the Oval Office. Did Putin try to get one candidate elected over another? Extremely likely. Does the US president do this for pretty much every other world election? Yes, of course they do. Doesn't make it illegal or "collusion" (which isn't a crime).
The only reason that the "Russia" stuff is still going around is because it's the Democrats' version of "Benghazi." Just some stupid rallying cry to try to get a candidate they don't want out of office.
I'm not disagreeing with any of that. Republicans are a horrible party and it's a competition between them and the Democrats as to who will destroy the country first... But communists? The whole Russia link is a joke. Why the hell would Putin want anything to do with Trump? Why would Putin want US citizens to be heavily armed? Why would Putin want lower corporate US taxes?
It drives me nuts that bloggers and small time accounts are required by the FCC to tag and make obvious their posts that include sponsored content, but the major media outlets have blatant advertising all over the place that isn't disclosed. If it's an ad, they need to start putting disclaimers on it. Any compensation be it free product or paid placement/reviews needs to be stated before and after the ad.
What has our country come to when the party of an armed citizenry and low taxes is now communist and the party of banning guns and high taxes on the rich to provide services for the poor is what then?
How exactly would you recommend making a meaningful contribution to government? Voting? What a joke. My vote is worthless just like yours is. We are at the whim of our D and R overlords who pick who their voters are and not the other way around. We have no meaningful control over spending.
Avoiding taxes helps me today at the expense of the next generation. But screwing over the next generation has been the thing to do since the New Deal. Promise people today tomorrow's dollars.
Yeah, except we aren't talking about taxes to pay for roads, drinking water, and law enforcement (mostly funded at the local level). We are talking about taxes to pay for social programs, military beyond any amount of reason, paying off a ridiculous debt, and a whole bunch of wasteful pork. The federal tax and spend system is a jobs and wealth redistribution program.
I'm all for paying for the important stuff in our society but we are well beyond that.
Forget the politics associated with it. Explain to me why someone in the United States who has no identification should be allowed to have any choice of leadership? Who are all of these people without ID? How do they contribute or interact with anything in society? ID is a pretty basic requirement for doing anything in the modern world, I don't think it's asking too much for people requesting the power to pick the President of the United States prove who they are.
Meanwhile, for all the other things in life that require ID: driving, getting a bank account, buying alcohol and cigarettes, buying glue, buying cold medicine (but oddly, not prescription medication), flying, etc... Are we racist for requiring ID?
Now that's out of the way, so yes Southern Ohio/Northern Kentucky/West Virginia is weirdly racist. I grew up in the Dayton area and did a decent amount of work in the southeastern part of the state... So many confederate flags displayed by people who weren't part of the confederacy. I live in Georgia now, and I see far less racism (but more confederate flags) here.
No, I want to live on a planet with the technology to clean the air. Also, CO2 is not toxic at any of the concentrations projected in any model.
Yes, I expect the technology 50 years from now to be what we would today consider fantasy. That's how technological advancement works. Ask Arthur C. Clarke.
Poor people do suffer from nasty things that poor air quality brings, but it beats suffering from hunger, exposure, and all of the other things they deal with in 3rd world countries. It's easy for you to forego coal power when you can buy solar panels shipped to your house on Amazon. It's harder to ask dirt poor people to pay more for what little electricity they can afford. You are talking about people so poor when a gasoline tanker overturns, they all come out with pots and pans to steal less than a gallon of fuel at the risk of their lives.
Global warming deniers have technology. Which is sort of a game changer when it comes to survivability... It's safe to ignore the Juggernaut ahead of you on the road if you've had the hover conversion done on your car and can glide right over it.
Technology can allow us to build more hardened structures, control water resources better, and even manipulate the atmosphere. But instead of focusing resources on those efforts which would benefit humanity regardless of climate, the cult of AGW has insisted we tax and reduce the expansion of technology to poor people which will never really have a measurable effect. CO2 reduction efforts are like government cash bailouts. If things improve, it was obviously successful. If things don't improve, we obviously didn't do enough. There is no way it is a wasted effort...
You must not listen much. Global warming deniers for the most part don't doubt CO2 is a greenhouse gas, they doubt the man made catastrophe predictions of AGW zealots. You just can't come up with real evidence for a looming disaster so you set up the straw man CO2 argument to shut down debate.
I'm all for fighting climate change if it is a reasonable cost. There is no way of knowing the cost of future climate change and if the premium we are being asked to pay to slow it down is worth the decreased risk.
It doesn't actually force install Bonjour, but it does slow down logging into their servers immensely while it complains about not being able to find it... And this is for internet play where Bonjour isn't needed!
Commas are the spice of writing. Some people just like spicier text! I tend to be heavy handed with applications of commas as well, it's nothing to be ashamed of...
The question is not if they will get your information, it's what they will do with it. Amazon, Google, Apple, etc aren't going to put me in jail for my beliefs. The government might if they get hands on the data, but that's an issue with all of your data, not just the stuff collected by voice. I'm not worried about the digital assistant because Google already knows more about me from my emails, chat, and calendar than I ever speak aloud at home. And you know what they've used all that data for? To make my life easier and charge me basically nothing. Google services are one of the most valuable things in my life and I don't pay a dime for it. The joke's on them. For all their ad revenue, Amazon manages to sell me more crap with a lot less information collected about me...
Would I prefer paying Google for the services they provide and them not giving my information to third parties? Probably, but it's not an option. And even if I don't choose to associate with them, my information is still out there on someone else's computers anyhow, ripe for the selling and taking by the government whether I consent or not. Welcome to the future, we are living in a digital age and you can try to fight your life being 1s and 0s all you want, but most of it is already there.
First of all, AI is not wise YET, but that is because it is young...
Second of all and more important, what manager do you know actually values wisdom? I'm constantly thwarted by stupid management policies that specifically don't allow me to use intuition or wisdom in any business decision. Management in general wants objective data to make decisions and hates any prospect of using subjective criteria to make decisions because they can't justify it later if it turns out to be wrong.
It's America. A country founded on the principles of not giving a crap what people want to be called and profiting off the exploitation of native populations for corporate profit.
I'm still rocking a OP1 and still running Cyanogen. It sucks that development is sort of dead for it, but I still have control over pretty much everything. I like being able to block individual apps from sharing data and boy once you disable it, you'd be surprised how many apps complain or refuse to work over data they don't need.
Uber especially is one I have to block location access and then re-enable it when I want to use the app. It will try to track you all the time whether you are actively using the app or not.
They didn't exactly consult with experts. CFR references the API standard (650) which means that the API standard is not "self regulated" it is incorporated into the federal law by reference. Also in the article they interview another "expert" who says there are no design requirements for hurricane areas. Again, this is not understanding how standards work. No, API-650 doesn't specifically mention hurricanes, but there are design requirements for wind and rain loading according to ASCE 7 which DOES have design criteria for hurricane zones.
It's not a fabrication, it's reporting on things they don't understand and are factually incorrect about. They had their slant decided and they got the answers they wanted and stopped before investigating to determine if the statements were actually correct. That's internet research for you. Search until you find someone who says what your opinion is and call it a reference so it's not "your" opinion anymore. Even better if some sort of organization employs this person so you can call them an "expert."
What is needed is a corporate income tax. This would completely destroy corporations which exist only as tax dodges, by making them unprofitable.
How would you interpret these sentences in the positions they are in? You state that corporations simply exist as tax dodges and you want to destroy them by making them unprofitable. Maybe it's your ability to articulate that is the problem?
Well you lost everyone with the idea of completely destroying corporations... And yes, if you define any tax as regressive as one where poor people spend a greater percentage of income on taxes than rich people then EVERY tax is going to be regressive unless it only taxes the rich. You are obviously in agreement with me because you say no one should be paying taxes on necessities. With a prebate OR a UBI, the government is paying for all of the taxes on necessities, which is essentially the same thing as paying no taxes on them. The key difference is, a prebate and a UBI being universal means there is no complicated method for determining what a "necessity" is, just an agreement on what a baseline amount to cover all necessities is.
Corporate income taxes need to go away entirely. Corporations have too much power and influence over the tax system and will always have an incentive to game the system in their favor. All taxes should come from the individual as the cost of taxes from organizations is just hidden and redistributed back to the individual.
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No you obviously aren't getting what I am saying. Back to my original comment on the AC troll: There is no sense whatsoever in calling any Republican a communist. Assholes, idiots, and apparently child molesters, sure... But definitely not "dirty fucking commies" as called by the AC.
Other than all of the evidence that points in that direction, I guess.
Yeah, about that evidence... So far we have the FBI concluding that someone associated with the Trump campaign was involved with the Russians (far before being involved with Trump mind you) and Trump Jr. is an idiot and wanted to collude with the Russians, but was instead conned. Oh and there was the whole unsubstantiated golden shower claim and the entire dossier which was looked over by Mueller and apparently they didn't find anything that serious since it hasn't been mentioned at all against any member of the campaign or administration.
Does Putin want a "slow-witted and amoral person" leading the US? Of course, but luckily for him that's the only options in every election. But why would he want a loose cannon that is quick to attack and favors US interests over that of the rest of the world? Maybe he thinks we will actually pull out of NATO and sit idle while Russia starts annexing Europe? I don't see a solid end game for Putin gaining any power over the US with Trump in the Oval Office. Did Putin try to get one candidate elected over another? Extremely likely. Does the US president do this for pretty much every other world election? Yes, of course they do. Doesn't make it illegal or "collusion" (which isn't a crime).
The only reason that the "Russia" stuff is still going around is because it's the Democrats' version of "Benghazi." Just some stupid rallying cry to try to get a candidate they don't want out of office.
I'm not disagreeing with any of that. Republicans are a horrible party and it's a competition between them and the Democrats as to who will destroy the country first... But communists? The whole Russia link is a joke. Why the hell would Putin want anything to do with Trump? Why would Putin want US citizens to be heavily armed? Why would Putin want lower corporate US taxes?
It drives me nuts that bloggers and small time accounts are required by the FCC to tag and make obvious their posts that include sponsored content, but the major media outlets have blatant advertising all over the place that isn't disclosed. If it's an ad, they need to start putting disclaimers on it. Any compensation be it free product or paid placement/reviews needs to be stated before and after the ad.
What has our country come to when the party of an armed citizenry and low taxes is now communist and the party of banning guns and high taxes on the rich to provide services for the poor is what then?
How exactly would you recommend making a meaningful contribution to government? Voting? What a joke. My vote is worthless just like yours is. We are at the whim of our D and R overlords who pick who their voters are and not the other way around. We have no meaningful control over spending.
Avoiding taxes helps me today at the expense of the next generation. But screwing over the next generation has been the thing to do since the New Deal. Promise people today tomorrow's dollars.
Yeah, except we aren't talking about taxes to pay for roads, drinking water, and law enforcement (mostly funded at the local level). We are talking about taxes to pay for social programs, military beyond any amount of reason, paying off a ridiculous debt, and a whole bunch of wasteful pork. The federal tax and spend system is a jobs and wealth redistribution program.
I'm all for paying for the important stuff in our society but we are well beyond that.
So your idea is that because you act civilized (not robbing and killing people I guess), you deserve someone else's money?
Forget the politics associated with it. Explain to me why someone in the United States who has no identification should be allowed to have any choice of leadership? Who are all of these people without ID? How do they contribute or interact with anything in society? ID is a pretty basic requirement for doing anything in the modern world, I don't think it's asking too much for people requesting the power to pick the President of the United States prove who they are.
Meanwhile, for all the other things in life that require ID: driving, getting a bank account, buying alcohol and cigarettes, buying glue, buying cold medicine (but oddly, not prescription medication), flying, etc... Are we racist for requiring ID?
GOOOO DAYTON FLYERS!
Now that's out of the way, so yes Southern Ohio/Northern Kentucky/West Virginia is weirdly racist. I grew up in the Dayton area and did a decent amount of work in the southeastern part of the state... So many confederate flags displayed by people who weren't part of the confederacy. I live in Georgia now, and I see far less racism (but more confederate flags) here.
No, I want to live on a planet with the technology to clean the air. Also, CO2 is not toxic at any of the concentrations projected in any model.
Yes, I expect the technology 50 years from now to be what we would today consider fantasy. That's how technological advancement works. Ask Arthur C. Clarke.
Poor people do suffer from nasty things that poor air quality brings, but it beats suffering from hunger, exposure, and all of the other things they deal with in 3rd world countries. It's easy for you to forego coal power when you can buy solar panels shipped to your house on Amazon. It's harder to ask dirt poor people to pay more for what little electricity they can afford. You are talking about people so poor when a gasoline tanker overturns, they all come out with pots and pans to steal less than a gallon of fuel at the risk of their lives.
Global warming deniers have technology. Which is sort of a game changer when it comes to survivability... It's safe to ignore the Juggernaut ahead of you on the road if you've had the hover conversion done on your car and can glide right over it.
Technology can allow us to build more hardened structures, control water resources better, and even manipulate the atmosphere. But instead of focusing resources on those efforts which would benefit humanity regardless of climate, the cult of AGW has insisted we tax and reduce the expansion of technology to poor people which will never really have a measurable effect. CO2 reduction efforts are like government cash bailouts. If things improve, it was obviously successful. If things don't improve, we obviously didn't do enough. There is no way it is a wasted effort...
You must not listen much. Global warming deniers for the most part don't doubt CO2 is a greenhouse gas, they doubt the man made catastrophe predictions of AGW zealots. You just can't come up with real evidence for a looming disaster so you set up the straw man CO2 argument to shut down debate.
I'm all for fighting climate change if it is a reasonable cost. There is no way of knowing the cost of future climate change and if the premium we are being asked to pay to slow it down is worth the decreased risk.
It doesn't actually force install Bonjour, but it does slow down logging into their servers immensely while it complains about not being able to find it... And this is for internet play where Bonjour isn't needed!
Commas are the spice of writing. Some people just like spicier text! I tend to be heavy handed with applications of commas as well, it's nothing to be ashamed of...
The question is not if they will get your information, it's what they will do with it. Amazon, Google, Apple, etc aren't going to put me in jail for my beliefs. The government might if they get hands on the data, but that's an issue with all of your data, not just the stuff collected by voice. I'm not worried about the digital assistant because Google already knows more about me from my emails, chat, and calendar than I ever speak aloud at home. And you know what they've used all that data for? To make my life easier and charge me basically nothing. Google services are one of the most valuable things in my life and I don't pay a dime for it. The joke's on them. For all their ad revenue, Amazon manages to sell me more crap with a lot less information collected about me...
Would I prefer paying Google for the services they provide and them not giving my information to third parties? Probably, but it's not an option. And even if I don't choose to associate with them, my information is still out there on someone else's computers anyhow, ripe for the selling and taking by the government whether I consent or not. Welcome to the future, we are living in a digital age and you can try to fight your life being 1s and 0s all you want, but most of it is already there.
First of all, AI is not wise YET, but that is because it is young...
Second of all and more important, what manager do you know actually values wisdom? I'm constantly thwarted by stupid management policies that specifically don't allow me to use intuition or wisdom in any business decision. Management in general wants objective data to make decisions and hates any prospect of using subjective criteria to make decisions because they can't justify it later if it turns out to be wrong.
It's America. A country founded on the principles of not giving a crap what people want to be called and profiting off the exploitation of native populations for corporate profit.
I'm still rocking a OP1 and still running Cyanogen. It sucks that development is sort of dead for it, but I still have control over pretty much everything. I like being able to block individual apps from sharing data and boy once you disable it, you'd be surprised how many apps complain or refuse to work over data they don't need.
Uber especially is one I have to block location access and then re-enable it when I want to use the app. It will try to track you all the time whether you are actively using the app or not.
They didn't exactly consult with experts. CFR references the API standard (650) which means that the API standard is not "self regulated" it is incorporated into the federal law by reference. Also in the article they interview another "expert" who says there are no design requirements for hurricane areas. Again, this is not understanding how standards work. No, API-650 doesn't specifically mention hurricanes, but there are design requirements for wind and rain loading according to ASCE 7 which DOES have design criteria for hurricane zones.
It's not a fabrication, it's reporting on things they don't understand and are factually incorrect about. They had their slant decided and they got the answers they wanted and stopped before investigating to determine if the statements were actually correct. That's internet research for you. Search until you find someone who says what your opinion is and call it a reference so it's not "your" opinion anymore. Even better if some sort of organization employs this person so you can call them an "expert."
Indeed, can we mark TFA as redundant?
What is needed is a corporate income tax. This would completely destroy corporations which exist only as tax dodges, by making them unprofitable.
How would you interpret these sentences in the positions they are in? You state that corporations simply exist as tax dodges and you want to destroy them by making them unprofitable. Maybe it's your ability to articulate that is the problem?
Well you lost everyone with the idea of completely destroying corporations... And yes, if you define any tax as regressive as one where poor people spend a greater percentage of income on taxes than rich people then EVERY tax is going to be regressive unless it only taxes the rich. You are obviously in agreement with me because you say no one should be paying taxes on necessities. With a prebate OR a UBI, the government is paying for all of the taxes on necessities, which is essentially the same thing as paying no taxes on them. The key difference is, a prebate and a UBI being universal means there is no complicated method for determining what a "necessity" is, just an agreement on what a baseline amount to cover all necessities is.
Corporate income taxes need to go away entirely. Corporations have too much power and influence over the tax system and will always have an incentive to game the system in their favor. All taxes should come from the individual as the cost of taxes from organizations is just hidden and redistributed back to the individual.
Are there 2 cameras on the front? I don't think there are... So yeah, it does face recognition in 2D.
Yep, I wonder how easy this will be to hack by opening the phone owner's Facebook profile picture and showing it to the camera...