I always love how its the "internet's" fault when there is criticism. The complaints aren't valid or worth consideration because the internet is just a wild uncontrolled forum where anything can be said. Unless it comes from the god of a journalist it doesn't count. Right.
There's other alternatives to going out of business. But even if if that's the only outcome, there's better ways to deal with the problem than starting a trade war over it. Trade wars have never had positive outcomes for average Joes (aka me). Trade wars benefit a few people with lots of money and political position. This might be a better link...see the section Consequences of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff
It might keep some producers in business for a while. But it will ultimately destroy US based business in this field. There is timeless and countless example of how protectionist trade policy does nothing more than hurt the ones its intended to help. Some protectionist policies have been utterly disastrous . The worst part is the CEOs and investors will hurt the least. The workers, the 9-5 employee, when they lose their job, they will suffer the most.
I read a few articles during and after the mayhem in London the police where having trouble coordinating their efforts because the rioters were using social media to communicate their plans. If I remember correctly, someone in British government structure has proposed a law to allow them to shut down social media sites in "emergencies". So I would assume the FBI motivation is more on these lines as the likelihood of social media sites can get legally shutdown. (btw I am in no way advocating shutting down social media or validating gov attempts to monitor it--just offering my thought as to motivations behind the FBI project)
>> I'm beginning to believe this "2 party system" is the problem.
Actually it's a problem of the people. Most people are content with the two party system. They may complain about it, but they will still vote for one of the two. It's a real shame.
Very true. They just show up and vote to say they did their duty. I'm sure many just vote along party lines because that's what they've always done/mom/dad/bro/sis/bf/gf/spouse/someone/its cool to/etc
I'm beginning to believe this "2 party system" is the problem. It seems like the R's and D's just recycle the same ole, same ole; as some other comments have stated. Independents and other parties have little hope, and very rare success, of seeing candidates in Congress. I can't even imagine its even possible that we will ever see the white house held by a party other than R's and D's. Part of it the problem, maybe all of it, is $ from corporate and union donors. There is just too much $ handed over via campaign contributions to too few candidates.
I think people have yet to realize that the US is at a new cold war; this time with the Chinese. Secret partners (sometimes playing both sides) include Pakistan, India and Russia, to name a few. Iraq and Iran are nothing more than proxy wars between the two. Somalia and Mogadishu will probably be next. Latin America could be battle grounds for it too.
And by that I do not mean cameras and facial recognition. I'm thinking about in games and books where the characters had strange hair and make up styles. Now, it's becoming plausible.
and I lost interest in my project once I realized Cisco or AMD (sorry I cannot remember atm) had a patent covering my idea completely. I'm not interested in spending untold hours working on an idea only to have struggle with some strong arm legal crap. Its not about money. Its about people being able to enjoy my work. If I am not allowed to let people use what I have created, whats the point.
IMO, deducting mileage is irrelevant. If mileage deduction is sufficient to allow warrantless use of tracking, then millions of Americans can be tracked, without a warrant. To me, that's tantamount to putting a camera in every home because they deduct interest of the home from taxes.
I am starting to have second thoughts about the Android platform as well. Each time I get an OS update on my phone, something changes. While some are good, its also frustrating to find functionality moved or gone. All in all, the updates are not making my experience better. In some cases, worst. For example, in the latest update, my camera settings are lost after each time I reboot the phone. The latest voice mail update now pushes deleted voice mails to a trash bin which I have to manually purge. I'm about to not update anything on my phone again for fear what will happen next I don't like....
Speaking for myself mostly, I spend most my free time playing games rather than developing a product or service. Yes I do invest in learning new skills and technologies. But once I get a grasp of it, I go back to my game.
The fact that you use PGP could be enough to put you on the threat radar. Heck, I'll go as far as to say, the fact that I engaged in this conversation could be enough to me on it. I feel like I should be some old croney conspiracy theory freak when I speak like that, and yet......
Isn't that the truth. In fact, I often feel like Im being judged as someone that has something to hide because I speak up about it. I guess what I meant by "no one will care" is the very large majority do not. I have no statistics but I like its 99.99% do not care, cannot see the dangers, do not think it can or will happen.
I realize the motivations might be well intended, such as stomping out malaria. However, there is so much more harm that could come from this. Entire eco-systems mucked with in a bad way. There's animals that depend on mosquitoes as their food source. And then there's the animals that depend on those animals and the chain goes on.
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I was thinking the same thing. In fact, I thought I just read the same story in letters to ....
Tax records should be verifiable through the IRS....right?
I love your signature line. And so true too :)
See here.... Even without the photo, interesting article. Yes I did read the article ;)
I always love how its the "internet's" fault when there is criticism. The complaints aren't valid or worth consideration because the internet is just a wild uncontrolled forum where anything can be said. Unless it comes from the god of a journalist it doesn't count. Right.
There's other alternatives to going out of business. But even if if that's the only outcome, there's better ways to deal with the problem than starting a trade war over it. Trade wars have never had positive outcomes for average Joes (aka me). Trade wars benefit a few people with lots of money and political position. This might be a better link...see the section Consequences of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff
It might keep some producers in business for a while. But it will ultimately destroy US based business in this field. There is timeless and countless example of how protectionist trade policy does nothing more than hurt the ones its intended to help. Some protectionist policies have been utterly disastrous . The worst part is the CEOs and investors will hurt the least. The workers, the 9-5 employee, when they lose their job, they will suffer the most.
About time--and even if its only applicable for NY, at least someone has it right and maybe other judges will read his writing.
This is a win for the big labels. They want young artists not affiliated with a label to have a hard time getting their music out there.
should read: .... likelihood of social media sites can NOT get legally shutdown ....sorry about that
I read a few articles during and after the mayhem in London the police where having trouble coordinating their efforts because the rioters were using social media to communicate their plans. If I remember correctly, someone in British government structure has proposed a law to allow them to shut down social media sites in "emergencies". So I would assume the FBI motivation is more on these lines as the likelihood of social media sites can get legally shutdown. (btw I am in no way advocating shutting down social media or validating gov attempts to monitor it--just offering my thought as to motivations behind the FBI project)
>> I'm beginning to believe this "2 party system" is the problem.
Actually it's a problem of the people. Most people are content with the two party system. They may complain about it, but they will still vote for one of the two. It's a real shame.
Very true. They just show up and vote to say they did their duty. I'm sure many just vote along party lines because that's what they've always done/mom/dad/bro/sis/bf/gf/spouse/someone/its cool to/etc
I'm beginning to believe this "2 party system" is the problem. It seems like the R's and D's just recycle the same ole, same ole; as some other comments have stated. Independents and other parties have little hope, and very rare success, of seeing candidates in Congress. I can't even imagine its even possible that we will ever see the white house held by a party other than R's and D's. Part of it the problem, maybe all of it, is $ from corporate and union donors. There is just too much $ handed over via campaign contributions to too few candidates.
I think people have yet to realize that the US is at a new cold war; this time with the Chinese. Secret partners (sometimes playing both sides) include Pakistan, India and Russia, to name a few. Iraq and Iran are nothing more than proxy wars between the two. Somalia and Mogadishu will probably be next. Latin America could be battle grounds for it too.
And by that I do not mean cameras and facial recognition. I'm thinking about in games and books where the characters had strange hair and make up styles. Now, it's becoming plausible.
and I lost interest in my project once I realized Cisco or AMD (sorry I cannot remember atm) had a patent covering my idea completely. I'm not interested in spending untold hours working on an idea only to have struggle with some strong arm legal crap. Its not about money. Its about people being able to enjoy my work. If I am not allowed to let people use what I have created, whats the point.
IMO, deducting mileage is irrelevant. If mileage deduction is sufficient to allow warrantless use of tracking, then millions of Americans can be tracked, without a warrant. To me, that's tantamount to putting a camera in every home because they deduct interest of the home from taxes.
I am starting to have second thoughts about the Android platform as well. Each time I get an OS update on my phone, something changes. While some are good, its also frustrating to find functionality moved or gone. All in all, the updates are not making my experience better. In some cases, worst. For example, in the latest update, my camera settings are lost after each time I reboot the phone. The latest voice mail update now pushes deleted voice mails to a trash bin which I have to manually purge. I'm about to not update anything on my phone again for fear what will happen next I don't like....
Speaking for myself mostly, I spend most my free time playing games rather than developing a product or service. Yes I do invest in learning new skills and technologies. But once I get a grasp of it, I go back to my game.
The fact that you use PGP could be enough to put you on the threat radar. Heck, I'll go as far as to say, the fact that I engaged in this conversation could be enough to me on it. I feel like I should be some old croney conspiracy theory freak when I speak like that, and yet......
Wasn't Echelon making news/noise even before 9/11. If my failing memory serves me correct this once, I think I was hearing about Echelon before y2k.
Isn't that the truth. In fact, I often feel like Im being judged as someone that has something to hide because I speak up about it. I guess what I meant by "no one will care" is the very large majority do not. I have no statistics but I like its 99.99% do not care, cannot see the dangers, do not think it can or will happen.
Scary isn't it. No one will care until it becomes a problem for themselves; then they wonder what happened....
I realize the motivations might be well intended, such as stomping out malaria. However, there is so much more harm that could come from this. Entire eco-systems mucked with in a bad way. There's animals that depend on mosquitoes as their food source. And then there's the animals that depend on those animals and the chain goes on.
Memorize this folks. Best wisdom I've heard in years.