I believe the "random checks" the GP is talking about are those where your ID is checked and records of where you are are kept. Also, they check your BAC. It's not mandated in most states that your tires meet and minimum requirements or (in any I am aware of) that you have basic medical equipment. You have to get your car inspected once every year or so to prove it is non-polluting, so you cna update your license plate.
And, you tend not to need hundreds of different documents. Usually you need some picture ID (e.g. a license) and maybe some proof of citizenship (e.g. a birth certificate.) I think that's all you need for most things, certainly most things any individual will do.
Well, you can buy an iPhone without buying apps/movies/TV/books/backup, and turn off their email/messenger/phoning home with statistics (it's a clear checkbox). But all those collections exist as a simple opt in/opt out switch.
As for maps, any maps provider is going to spy on you, and I imagine Apple spies less than Google (because the only company that spies more may be Facebook).
Their browser has some nice pro-privacy features built in, although I wish they had a plugin model.
Just because it has multiple competing actors doesn't make it a game. There is no universal set of rules (with the exception of the war crimes mentioned earlier) that govern how nation-states act, and certainly no referee to appeal to. It's a competition, but not agame because a game is better organized, has clear win conditions, etc.
If Fortress is about to be acquired, there may be eliminating of redundant positions. Someone may be trying to reduce the value of the their investment portfolio where they escape under the notice of the seats everyone is fighting for.
In other words, sometimes what's best for an executive is not best for the company. This is esp. true when mergers are happening.
I'm not really worried about the Government. They can already make me disappear whenever they want (they have guys with guns and my home address.) Google/Facebook wants to use ads to manipulate me into doing X. The difference in power from whether G/FB track me or the government is monumental.
To say nothing of the fact that the government can just get all that data from FB/G (for money or under a warrant, or just with threats.) So, protecting from FB/G is protecting from the government.
But, let me end on this. I know what the limits are that the government can apply to my data (within the law). There are rules, and regulations, and when they are violated it is a scandal and people are fired. But when Uber execs stalked people in real time, they kept their jobs. When Facebook experiments (successfully) at emotionally manipulates their userbase, nobody bats an eye. Unregulated companies are far scarier than the government - and far better at surveillance and manipulation.
I'm currently in the sub-$100 market when it comes to smart phones, but I would gladly pay many times that amount to have a phone free from Android/Google.
Good news! It's Android/Google free, many times your sub-$100, works out of the box, and is compatible with Telegram.
In seriousness, Apple (and until Win 10, Microsoft) used to at least have an upfront business plan. Here's something, pay me. No need for them to spy, they glot cash up front. Sadly, MS added ads and turned their Os into spyware. Apple seems to be holding firm on the whole "we'll just sell you privacy."
But I totally empathize with everything you said. I don't want to fuck around with rooting and installing CyanogenMod just to have to install gapps because they're needed to run things.
In 1967, the Republican Health Care plan was essentially the affordable care act, as passed by the democrats less than 10 years ago. Seems like we've been moving away from that.
It doesn't need a law - actually a function of the Congressional Review Act. Basically, the Congress can pass a joint resolution that the regulation isn't the correct interpretation on the law and it's legally overturned.
If FaceBook hailed from Iceland, it would matter a lot. EU privacy laws for all! And just like the EU enforces its rules on US companies operating in the EU (at least, as they relate to EU citizens), the US can certainly do the same, regardless of where FB moves their corporate headquarters.
Literally none of those operate on a 9-5 schedule!
Literally all those things are based on a standard job being 9-5 (with the exception of the hospital.) The bakery opens an hour before iconic work time so people can get breakfast on the way to work, and for a few hours afterwards because that's when people prep for dinner (also, that probably fits two 8 hour shifts, because they clean up in the evening and have to bake in the morning). Light Rail is based on the idea that people are most likely to be sleeping (and least likely to be going to work) between 1am and 5am. The baker, for instance, is on a 5am train to have time to bake to have time to open.
Here are a few more: Bars tend to have "happy hour" from 5-6 or 6-7, cause that's when people coming home from work will visit them. Most non 24-hour stores are open until 8-10 so people can stop by after work.
Well, as a corollary to your Berlin experience: thanks to unlimited texting, WhatsApp has almost 0 penetration in the US.
As to why people in the US use FB... I actually have no idea. I suppose partly its that it started here? And also that news media pushes FB/Twitter involvement (now Instagram as well) as a way to seem cool and hip. Which in turn makes it cool and hip. (I mean, the "Twitter Revolution" is what they called the democracy rallies in Iran, and I think post analysis showed only like 10-20 people in Iran were on Twitter, the rest were Americans pretending to be Iranian.)
But it could also be an accident. Orkut was popular in... Brazil I think. Because it was popular in Brazil, it became more popular in Brazil. It's a feedback loop. Maybe it just was popular because it is popular?
But it falls into the strange world of things I never understood why people would get involved in. It seems strange to give a for-profit corporation complete control of your life, the right to read all your messages, and track your phone.
Nope, that's not how things work. Samsung paid for the line and R&D for other uses. That they can run a third shift and sell the screens to Apple didn't involve any capital expenditures.
I don't like shifting the clocks. I'm responding (in a hypersarcastic tone) to your dumb idea that 5pm DST = 4pm non-DST is relevant, when I'm talking about people working until 5, and the sun going down at 5:15, as though people will all univerally adjust their hours to make sense.
By all means, let's choose one time that works. I don't see why we wouldn't. But it has to take into account that most people will work 9-5, whenever we decide that the clocks should read 9-5. So it fucking matters.
Ah, so the old "it doesn't matter if the official time moves around, everyone will just have different office hours during daylight savings time, all move in unison (as companies have to work together) change signs/automated messages/websites and have Google recrawl the web" answer that ignores that the way we coordinate changes like that is... by having customary start/end times for businesses and shifting the clocks until we like where we end up.
OLEDs are already coming off the line, so no new tech. And $110 was the estimated profit per unit, not the total cost to Apple. I imagine Apple is starting up it's own OLED factory for that much cash.
Or, in other words, Samsung is making about what Apple's Irish fine is, and Apple still has more money than anyone.
If you work until 5pm, and it gets dark at 5:10pm, you've swepnt all your daylight inside. If it gets dark at 6:10pm, at least you have a bit of daylight.
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I believe the "random checks" the GP is talking about are those where your ID is checked and records of where you are are kept. Also, they check your BAC. It's not mandated in most states that your tires meet and minimum requirements or (in any I am aware of) that you have basic medical equipment. You have to get your car inspected once every year or so to prove it is non-polluting, so you cna update your license plate.
And, you tend not to need hundreds of different documents. Usually you need some picture ID (e.g. a license) and maybe some proof of citizenship (e.g. a birth certificate.) I think that's all you need for most things, certainly most things any individual will do.
That's nice, but I need to fly.
Well, you can buy an iPhone without buying apps/movies/TV/books/backup, and turn off their email/messenger/phoning home with statistics (it's a clear checkbox). But all those collections exist as a simple opt in/opt out switch.
As for maps, any maps provider is going to spy on you, and I imagine Apple spies less than Google (because the only company that spies more may be Facebook).
Their browser has some nice pro-privacy features built in, although I wish they had a plugin model.
Just because it has multiple competing actors doesn't make it a game. There is no universal set of rules (with the exception of the war crimes mentioned earlier) that govern how nation-states act, and certainly no referee to appeal to. It's a competition, but not agame because a game is better organized, has clear win conditions, etc.
Umm... short of new tech hat needs to be addressed, yes? I'm not sure what not-covered thing you think is unjust...
Not by PT Barnum. It's probably no more his than "A sucker is born every minute."
If Fortress is about to be acquired, there may be eliminating of redundant positions. Someone may be trying to reduce the value of the their investment portfolio where they escape under the notice of the seats everyone is fighting for.
In other words, sometimes what's best for an executive is not best for the company. This is esp. true when mergers are happening.
Nope, this is geopolitics, not a game.
Yup, and just like any war, I want my side to win. (Also, not commit war crimes. But short of that, all is supposed to be fair.)
I'm not really worried about the Government. They can already make me disappear whenever they want (they have guys with guns and my home address.) Google/Facebook wants to use ads to manipulate me into doing X. The difference in power from whether G/FB track me or the government is monumental.
To say nothing of the fact that the government can just get all that data from FB/G (for money or under a warrant, or just with threats.) So, protecting from FB/G is protecting from the government.
But, let me end on this. I know what the limits are that the government can apply to my data (within the law). There are rules, and regulations, and when they are violated it is a scandal and people are fired. But when Uber execs stalked people in real time, they kept their jobs. When Facebook experiments (successfully) at emotionally manipulates their userbase, nobody bats an eye. Unregulated companies are far scarier than the government - and far better at surveillance and manipulation.
There are numerous hardware fixes for that.
Good news! It's Android/Google free, many times your sub-$100, works out of the box, and is compatible with Telegram.
In seriousness, Apple (and until Win 10, Microsoft) used to at least have an upfront business plan. Here's something, pay me. No need for them to spy, they glot cash up front. Sadly, MS added ads and turned their Os into spyware. Apple seems to be holding firm on the whole "we'll just sell you privacy."
But I totally empathize with everything you said. I don't want to fuck around with rooting and installing CyanogenMod just to have to install gapps because they're needed to run things.
Until around 2000, the price of a home (on average) basically kept up with inflation.
In 1967, the Republican Health Care plan was essentially the affordable care act, as passed by the democrats less than 10 years ago. Seems like we've been moving away from that.
It doesn't need a law - actually a function of the Congressional Review Act. Basically, the Congress can pass a joint resolution that the regulation isn't the correct interpretation on the law and it's legally overturned.
If FaceBook hailed from Iceland, it would matter a lot. EU privacy laws for all! And just like the EU enforces its rules on US companies operating in the EU (at least, as they relate to EU citizens), the US can certainly do the same, regardless of where FB moves their corporate headquarters.
Literally all those things are based on a standard job being 9-5 (with the exception of the hospital.) The bakery opens an hour before iconic work time so people can get breakfast on the way to work, and for a few hours afterwards because that's when people prep for dinner (also, that probably fits two 8 hour shifts, because they clean up in the evening and have to bake in the morning). Light Rail is based on the idea that people are most likely to be sleeping (and least likely to be going to work) between 1am and 5am. The baker, for instance, is on a 5am train to have time to bake to have time to open.
Here are a few more: Bars tend to have "happy hour" from 5-6 or 6-7, cause that's when people coming home from work will visit them. Most non 24-hour stores are open until 8-10 so people can stop by after work.
Samsung is estimated to earn $110 (roughly £83/AU$140), due to the Samsung-manufactured OLED displays and memory chips that go into each device.
Well, as a corollary to your Berlin experience: thanks to unlimited texting, WhatsApp has almost 0 penetration in the US.
As to why people in the US use FB... I actually have no idea. I suppose partly its that it started here? And also that news media pushes FB/Twitter involvement (now Instagram as well) as a way to seem cool and hip. Which in turn makes it cool and hip. (I mean, the "Twitter Revolution" is what they called the democracy rallies in Iran, and I think post analysis showed only like 10-20 people in Iran were on Twitter, the rest were Americans pretending to be Iranian.)
But it could also be an accident. Orkut was popular in... Brazil I think. Because it was popular in Brazil, it became more popular in Brazil. It's a feedback loop. Maybe it just was popular because it is popular?
But it falls into the strange world of things I never understood why people would get involved in. It seems strange to give a for-profit corporation complete control of your life, the right to read all your messages, and track your phone.
Nope, that's not how things work. Samsung paid for the line and R&D for other uses. That they can run a third shift and sell the screens to Apple didn't involve any capital expenditures.
I don't like shifting the clocks. I'm responding (in a hypersarcastic tone) to your dumb idea that 5pm DST = 4pm non-DST is relevant, when I'm talking about people working until 5, and the sun going down at 5:15, as though people will all univerally adjust their hours to make sense.
By all means, let's choose one time that works. I don't see why we wouldn't. But it has to take into account that most people will work 9-5, whenever we decide that the clocks should read 9-5. So it fucking matters.
Ah, so the old "it doesn't matter if the official time moves around, everyone will just have different office hours during daylight savings time, all move in unison (as companies have to work together) change signs/automated messages/websites and have Google recrawl the web" answer that ignores that the way we coordinate changes like that is... by having customary start/end times for businesses and shifting the clocks until we like where we end up.
OLEDs are already coming off the line, so no new tech. And $110 was the estimated profit per unit, not the total cost to Apple. I imagine Apple is starting up it's own OLED factory for that much cash.
Or, in other words, Samsung is making about what Apple's Irish fine is, and Apple still has more money than anyone.
If you work until 5pm, and it gets dark at 5:10pm, you've swepnt all your daylight inside. If it gets dark at 6:10pm, at least you have a bit of daylight.
Haven't you been paying attention. All the stories were about people in Korea and elsewhere in Asia putting their lifesavings in bitcoin.
People can eat pork bellies. The only intrinsic use for bitcoin is...