I play a lot of games, I'm on the internet a lot. I also read books, go to the gym and other "productive" things. But the one crippling addiction that I have is television. I've spent entire days in front of the TV. With Netflix and the ability to binge entire seasons, this has only gotten worse. The second that they have treatment for TV addiction, I'm signing up.
One show that I absolutely loved but hasn't gotten much recognition on these lists/polls is Cobra Kai. I hope they do more of these "non-reboots" where actors reprise their old roles (arguably, the new Halloween was this as well).
Yes. Clinton was a terrible candidate and ran a terrible campaign. I think Trump is also a terrible candidate and terrible president (not to mention a terrible human being)
Here is the issue that concerns me the most... People on left are banking on collusion with Russia on helping Trump win. Maybe they did. But they're not paying attention to HOW they affected the election. They didn't directly influence the election by meddling with election protocols, systems, etc. They did it by affecting the electorate. There are people out there who believe stupid shit like Pizzagate. If Trump is found guilty and impeached (both of which are long shots), those people will feel disenfranchised because they were still taken in by Russian disinformation. Showing them that what they believed was Russian propoganda will just make dig their heels in harder (see backfire effect).
So what the Russians did was far more effective than simply hacking a voting system and changing votes. They changed voters' minds. And the democrats are busy chasing their hail mary and not addressing the fact that even if the pass is completed, they've still lost the game.
That's what the ISPs are counting on. YouTube will lose customers thereby forcing them to pay for prioritization by the ISP. Then you won't get the $99/year message and continue to watch YouTube. They can also still charge you money for priority access to youtube. It's really all up to them now.
Now think about some small video hosting site that doesn't have the money to pay for prioritization, you'll get low quality video from them and never visit again.
If only the electrical grid had some capacitance. I feel like Tesla's power wall is a really good way to start that. Not storage on the grid, but a good start.
It is most certainly adequate. There are ways of testing to see if a patient has immunity. For instance, if a patient had measles and has immunity, they should not be required to again get the vaccine. I recently had a immunity test to see if I needed boosters. I did not have immunity to chicken pox (since I've never had then nor was I vaccinated against them). I got a ditheria and pertussis booster because my immunity had waned a bit.
The importance is not the vaccines, but the immunity, which can be received from many sources (I knew I hadn't had it, but the doctor wanted to test me anyway in case I got it from somewhere). As I stated earlier, it's very easy to test for immunity, it's just easier to get the shot.
There is a middle ground between creating a product that people want/need and "exploiting society"... I believe that in SOME situations (and this may be one of them) this kind of behaviour is indeed exploitation.
An extreme example would be if a water company started poisoning the water supply so that they could sell their bottled water. And while I understand that companies are not intentionally killing bees, it doesn't seem like they have any interest in stopping it.
Going back to the water example, if Nestle were poisoning the water so that they could sell bottled water, that would be evil/exploitation, but if Dow Chemical were the ones doing the poisoning and it just happened to help Nestle's bottom line, that would benefit the free market, yes?
"White nationalist Richard Spencer coined the term in 2010 to define a movement centered on white nationalism, and has been accused of doing so to whitewash overt racism, white supremacism, and neo-Nazism" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right (second sentence)
I feel like people on the right adopted it as a reaction to Clinton's speech without fully understanding the history of the term. They probably felt that anything that Clinton was against, they wanted to be a part of.
I could be wrong though. Can you cite your claim that "It was originally used as shortcut the the full term "alternative right" and described various groups that were did not want to be associated with the main right group."?
I wasn't necessarily saying that there will be a civil war. I was indicating that mass migration (for whatever reasons) could have unforeseen circumstances and then using the example of the (probable) climate related droughts causing migration of rural syrians into the cities.
Also, if I'm following the thread correctly, the argument is being made that coastal, urban areas that may be threaten by sea-level would be moving to more rural, in land areas. I don't have no idea what that would cause.
Interesting you should talk about people moving. Migration from farming areas to cities seems to be the largest factor in the Syrian Civil War. The farm communities moved to the cities because of drought. There are many that link the severity of the droughts to climate change. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ominous-story-of-syria-climate-refugees/
I assume that when you say "we don't exactly have a shortage of land..." you assume that people who have to move will move to empty areas.
Geez. Why the hell don't they have a "only see tweets from verified accounts" checkbox?
Then bans would actually stick and no one would have to worry about anonymous accounts. The targets don't have to receive death/rape/etc threats from anyone who isn't verified and if someone does some real bad shit, they have verified identification to punish the real people who do this shit.
And don't forget that battery power (and solar cells) are getting better/cheaper all the time.
I don't know that diesel engines are getting more efficient. If they are, they're coming to the end of their efficiency curve while solar and batteries are just getting started.
I even believe that people should be able to espouse those views. However, people should also have the right to not listen/read them.
Ultimately, I feel that's the issue. There are a number of cowards out there who refuse to stand by their hate speech and hide behind anonymity. If twitter would only include a "only receive tweets from verified accounts" that would help a lot because then any verified account that you blocked would remain blocked and trolls wouldn't be able to create anonymous accounts with which to harass since anonymous tweets would not be seen.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned that their naming convention is alphabetical. Jellybean, KitKat, Lollipop, Marshmallow and now Nougat. Next will probably be Oreo.
I understand that this is a CEO's argument against a $15 minimum wage... but isn't it more of an argument that the price of the robot is too high?
When the price of the robot drops (as technology inevitably will), it won't matter how much you pay your employees... in terms of pure cash, the employees will be replaced regardless.
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I play a lot of games, I'm on the internet a lot. I also read books, go to the gym and other "productive" things. But the one crippling addiction that I have is television. I've spent entire days in front of the TV. With Netflix and the ability to binge entire seasons, this has only gotten worse. The second that they have treatment for TV addiction, I'm signing up.
One show that I absolutely loved but hasn't gotten much recognition on these lists/polls is Cobra Kai. I hope they do more of these "non-reboots" where actors reprise their old roles (arguably, the new Halloween was this as well).
Maybe I'm not getting something... We get HBO in Canada... WITH John Oliver's show. http://www.hbocanada.com/last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver
I don't know what you're complaining about... my Confederated Slave Holdings are holding steady ;)
Yes. Clinton was a terrible candidate and ran a terrible campaign. I think Trump is also a terrible candidate and terrible president (not to mention a terrible human being)
Here is the issue that concerns me the most... People on left are banking on collusion with Russia on helping Trump win. Maybe they did. But they're not paying attention to HOW they affected the election. They didn't directly influence the election by meddling with election protocols, systems, etc. They did it by affecting the electorate. There are people out there who believe stupid shit like Pizzagate. If Trump is found guilty and impeached (both of which are long shots), those people will feel disenfranchised because they were still taken in by Russian disinformation. Showing them that what they believed was Russian propoganda will just make dig their heels in harder (see backfire effect).
So what the Russians did was far more effective than simply hacking a voting system and changing votes. They changed voters' minds. And the democrats are busy chasing their hail mary and not addressing the fact that even if the pass is completed, they've still lost the game.
That's what the ISPs are counting on. YouTube will lose customers thereby forcing them to pay for prioritization by the ISP. Then you won't get the $99/year message and continue to watch YouTube. They can also still charge you money for priority access to youtube. It's really all up to them now.
Now think about some small video hosting site that doesn't have the money to pay for prioritization, you'll get low quality video from them and never visit again.
What do we do now? Apparently, we give them no-bid contracts! http://time.com/4968558/equifax-breach-irs-contract/
If only the electrical grid had some capacitance. I feel like Tesla's power wall is a really good way to start that. Not storage on the grid, but a good start.
I've started ranking my news sources by number of corrections/retractions. Untrustworthy sources tend to never to admit mistakes.
It is most certainly adequate. There are ways of testing to see if a patient has immunity. For instance, if a patient had measles and has immunity, they should not be required to again get the vaccine. I recently had a immunity test to see if I needed boosters. I did not have immunity to chicken pox (since I've never had then nor was I vaccinated against them). I got a ditheria and pertussis booster because my immunity had waned a bit.
The importance is not the vaccines, but the immunity, which can be received from many sources (I knew I hadn't had it, but the doctor wanted to test me anyway in case I got it from somewhere). As I stated earlier, it's very easy to test for immunity, it's just easier to get the shot.
There is a middle ground between creating a product that people want/need and "exploiting society"... I believe that in SOME situations (and this may be one of them) this kind of behaviour is indeed exploitation.
An extreme example would be if a water company started poisoning the water supply so that they could sell their bottled water. And while I understand that companies are not intentionally killing bees, it doesn't seem like they have any interest in stopping it.
Going back to the water example, if Nestle were poisoning the water so that they could sell bottled water, that would be evil/exploitation, but if Dow Chemical were the ones doing the poisoning and it just happened to help Nestle's bottom line, that would benefit the free market, yes?
They also recently cancelled the construction of over a hundred coal plants.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/world/asia/china-coal-power-plants-pollution.html
According to wikipedia (with five citations):
"White nationalist Richard Spencer coined the term in 2010 to define a movement centered on white nationalism, and has been accused of doing so to whitewash overt racism, white supremacism, and neo-Nazism"
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right (second sentence)
I feel like people on the right adopted it as a reaction to Clinton's speech without fully understanding the history of the term. They probably felt that anything that Clinton was against, they wanted to be a part of.
I could be wrong though. Can you cite your claim that "It was originally used as shortcut the the full term "alternative right" and described various groups that were did not want to be associated with the main right group."?
I wasn't necessarily saying that there will be a civil war. I was indicating that mass migration (for whatever reasons) could have unforeseen circumstances and then using the example of the (probable) climate related droughts causing migration of rural syrians into the cities.
Also, if I'm following the thread correctly, the argument is being made that coastal, urban areas that may be threaten by sea-level would be moving to more rural, in land areas. I don't have no idea what that would cause.
Interesting you should talk about people moving. Migration from farming areas to cities seems to be the largest factor in the Syrian Civil War. The farm communities moved to the cities because of drought. There are many that link the severity of the droughts to climate change. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ominous-story-of-syria-climate-refugees/
I assume that when you say "we don't exactly have a shortage of land..." you assume that people who have to move will move to empty areas.
Geez. Why the hell don't they have a "only see tweets from verified accounts" checkbox?
Then bans would actually stick and no one would have to worry about anonymous accounts. The targets don't have to receive death/rape/etc threats from anyone who isn't verified and if someone does some real bad shit, they have verified identification to punish the real people who do this shit.
People complain about manufacturing jobs moving to China. What about the ones that moved to the music industry?
And don't forget that battery power (and solar cells) are getting better/cheaper all the time.
I don't know that diesel engines are getting more efficient. If they are, they're coming to the end of their efficiency curve while solar and batteries are just getting started.
Rape and death threats are not ideas.
I even believe that people should be able to espouse those views. However, people should also have the right to not listen/read them.
Ultimately, I feel that's the issue. There are a number of cowards out there who refuse to stand by their hate speech and hide behind anonymity. If twitter would only include a "only receive tweets from verified accounts" that would help a lot because then any verified account that you blocked would remain blocked and trolls wouldn't be able to create anonymous accounts with which to harass since anonymous tweets would not be seen.
Trump did tell his voters to vote on November 28...
http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-tells-rally-crowd-to-vote-on-november-28-2016-10
It's only okay if executives do it. When they do it, they're finding new revenue sources and increasing stockholder value.
When employees do it, it's fraud and they get fired.
Wonder if we could crowdfund as a lobbyist group or something.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned that their naming convention is alphabetical. Jellybean, KitKat, Lollipop, Marshmallow and now Nougat. Next will probably be Oreo.
I understand that this is a CEO's argument against a $15 minimum wage... but isn't it more of an argument that the price of the robot is too high?
When the price of the robot drops (as technology inevitably will), it won't matter how much you pay your employees... in terms of pure cash, the employees will be replaced regardless.
Couldn't the title of this story be "Ted Cruz wants to raise minimum wage for immigrant workers"?