I don't get it. People have chosen 'take-out' from Chinese and Mexican restaurants (with NO drinks) for decades, and they found out how to make it work. I'm talking about good places with food worth eating, not just 'fast food' either.
Or do you think the stooge from Comcast would be a bit nicer?
The stooge who originally worked for Comcast, Tom Wheeler, actually was a bit nicer. Not that that was the intention, everyone thought he would just be the Comcast exec in charge of making things great for Comcast. No one thought he'd actually try to be serious at the job -- it's unlikely he'd have gotten the job if the they did.
You're the one calling them "draft jokes." But it's "truth in humor." As in, Ajit Pai is an industry puppet, a perfect example of the industry capture of a regulatory body that Republicans love to complain about until they're the ones who benefit from it. Then Pai jokes about making the FCC an industry tool is salt on the wound. Sure, maybe people should have thicker skin, that's ALWAYS true, but when you dick people over and then LAUGH about it, it's a demonstration of pride and hubris and people in the US have always yearned for people like that to be taken down a peg or two.
You call it 'draft jokes,' I call it telling a private audience what he really thinks, and it's pretty ugly.
One pointless correction to the above #14: The Apollo program is about putting a man on the moon, while the OP talked about putting a man in space. He's likely talking about there being no replacement for the shuttle program, but given that he's frothing-at-the-mouth right-winger, you'd think he would be happy that we're moving a Big Government program to the private sector. If Trump did it, it'd be Trump's economic genius, but since Obama did it, it's another sign of how evil Obama was.
The collapse, if it occurs, is arbitrary, a product of labile traders making bets on rumors and having a hugely oversized effect, dwarfing the traditional explanatory variables, supply and demand. Psychology affects prices more than supply and demand.
I wouldn't have used 'currency collapse,' more 'economic collapse often brought on by austerity' when you run out of money, your country's credit rating goes into the dumpster, causing investors in government bonds to not invest which reduces government income even more. The resulting sharp reduction in central spending does not result in a private sector boom and a roaring economy, just an overall economic malaise.
The thing to notice is that it's the Republicans, who talk about small government, who are worst at managing the budget. Occasionally a Democrat will even manage to reduce the deficit. There are two reasons for this (that I know of and believe): 1) The Republicans are less willing to tax the rich, so the income to the government decreases. 2) The Republicans are more tied to those who benefit from the government owing them money. Holders of Treasury bonds, etc.
3) I think Republicans really do want smaller government, but large, large portions of their base directly benefit from larger government and want government spending that benefits them. The seniors who need Social Security and Medicare. The defense contractors and technology companies who rely on military expenditures. Folks scared of the big bad world outside their borders and want to "kill them over there before they kill us over here." All of these things are incredibly expensive.
Never underestimate the over-55 crowd and how much influence they wield because they actually vote, while immature 20-somethings prattle about how only suckers vote and the system being rigged, etcetc.
I say spend it all now and let the next generation figure out their own way rather than rely on our hard work
That's not how debt works. We're not talking about refusing to leave an inheritance for the next generation to benefit from, we're talking about spending THEIR money before they get it because we like to spend far more than we make.
When the country is controlled by no-holds-barred capitalists and nobody is willing to vote them out, you either play their game or perish, and I intend to outplay them at their own game because most of them appear to be idiots and if your only weapon is lack of morals, I can certainly go ahead and lose mine too.
In other words, "I am happy to be the problem rather than the solution. I am the one who causes the problems."
The Uber office is one great example of this. It was disproportionately male and was infamous for generating scandal after scandal as a result of their corporate culture. I suspect they would have avoided some needless scandals if they were a bit more diverse.
Uber had a lot of problems, and the most glaring ones did not come from a lack of diversity.
I assumed it was someone false flag (correct term escapes me atm) trolling.
I pretty much don't trust any AC on Slashdot anymore, or anyone with an eight-digit account number. I don't often agree with many of the established far-conservative or far-liberal commentators here, but at least I'm pretty sure that they believe what they say and are arguing from the heart.
Yeah, all those dirt-poor kids growing up in Appalachia don't realize how privileged they have it compared to an oppressed person like Jaden Smith.
Wow. You found a black guy is growing up rich and spoiled. Clearly, that's the black experience in the USA and you can draw parallels between that and the daily lives of African Americans.
It's become more like everything else Hollywood produces, just with a bigger budget than other tv shows. It shows they aren't exceptional producers or writers.
DB and Weiss are absolutely fantastic adapters. Not so much with writing original content. Those are two different skills. Once they started to run out of book material and had to switch to writing their own content, the show faltered and then crashed in Season 7.
Ideas need to be combated aggressively. How it works in the tech world is that if you just sit back passively and say "eh, not for me," then the powers that be will make it default, and more and more companies will use it exclusively. There will be a short period where you really can opt out, but as it gains more traction, you will be more cut off and marginalized like folks who, say, refuse to use sites that require Javascript. The vast majority will always choose something more functional, regardless of security concerns. As long as they don't care, don't expect that just sitting back and doing nothing will keep you safe from this -- especially since the advertisers, the trackers, and general do-badders REALLY want it, and they have a lot of resources to push for it.
Sounds to me like you dislike mathematicians in general and are willing to make sweeping negative generalizations about them. The ones I've known have been academic, and good at their jobs.
Sounds like he gets his notions about scientists and math folks from watching the Big Bang Theory.
And, even though I'm pretty sure I've *never* accessed YouTube with a device that wasn't made by Apple, I still get Samsung ads with notable regularity.
That makes you a PRIME candidate for Samsung marketing, not less likely. They want to pull you away from the Apple ecosystem. Advertising 101: get your adds shown to the people you want to capture the most. Doesn't matter if YOU don't want them, advertising is the great Circle of Life: Customers -> Product Makers -> Products -> Customers. Each of those three is integral to the product/advertising cycle, and Youtube specializes in the Product Makers -> Customers part. That's what brings in the cash for them.
Authoritarian progressives... Ok, I give up, now I've heard it all.
Really? You sound surprised at the notion. You realize that the 20th Century is littered with examples of "authoritarian progressives," right? Mao's Great Leap Forward is one of the most visible disasters, but there are plenty of others. Or are you using the definition that "progressive == good, not progressive == left wing?"
Patreon has already begun banning a number of conservatives (like Lauren Southern, for example)
Lauren Southern's account was suspended because she was "raising funds to take part in activities likely to cause loss of life" when she supported Defend Europe's attempts to block vessels trying to rescue migrants stuck on rafts in the Mediterranean Sea. She countered her money didn't actually go to Defend Europe, but as the Patreon action was aimed at Defend Europe not Southern specifically, she was caught up since she was their most public Canadian supporter.
They rely upon tricking people into clicking on shit.
Come on, this is basic web marketing.
Come on, man, their ENTIRE platform relies on providing better* selections for you to click on, not "tricking" you. They don't care what videos you click on as long as you're clicking on them. Tricking you means you're a lot less likely to click.
you have a serious problem on your hands. You acted unequally
It's only a legal problem if one can make the case that the business was acting unequally to a protected class (race, gender, disability, etc) or if the business violated a contract or agreement.
Of course, even if it's not a protected class, you can get into non-legal hot water by being discriminatory. Protests can happen regardless of the legality of an action.
So yes, you might have a problem on your hand if you kick one person out for not having a shirt on, but let another stay. But it's unlikely you'll have a _legal_ problem unless someone can make the case that, say, you kicked out shirtless black guys, but not shirtless white guys. Then you'll be looking at lawsuits with teeth, instead of nuisance lawsuits.
Is it a declared war? Where the US Congress has formally declared war? That's easy. No wars under Obama.
That's an extremely outdated definition of war anyway. None of our wars have been against a specific foreign government with a leadership structure capable of declaring war or ending a war in surrender.
These are not different conflicts, all of these have been against the same opponent -- a people who do not recognize country borders, so they operate across many countries where the actual government is too weak to fight them.
People could wear those face masks when they're sick, Asian-style. Then they can still go to work/school while ill without infecting others. That would require a cultural shift that Western society is just not ready for, though (You mean, I gotta keep my germs to myself? WTF is this bullshit?).
I've heard that unless you have some pretty high-end face masks, they don't last that long. Certainly not a whole day. Something about the moisture from the breath reducing the effectiveness of the filter over the hours. You'll see people in Asian countries use them, but like with most home or traditional remedies they could be totally ineffective.
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The same way the restaurants do, cook it ahead of item and freeze it
UGH. Definitely not a "restaurant" I would consider going to.
So if everyone orders online
But that's not going to happen. People like going out.
I don't get it. People have chosen 'take-out' from Chinese and Mexican restaurants (with NO drinks) for decades, and they found out how to make it work. I'm talking about good places with food worth eating, not just 'fast food' either.
don't worry - SFW
Oh God, that means it's almost certainly a goatse link!
Or do you think the stooge from Comcast would be a bit nicer?
The stooge who originally worked for Comcast, Tom Wheeler, actually was a bit nicer.
Not that that was the intention, everyone thought he would just be the Comcast exec in charge of making things great for Comcast. No one thought he'd actually try to be serious at the job -- it's unlikely he'd have gotten the job if the they did.
You're the one calling them "draft jokes."
But it's "truth in humor." As in, Ajit Pai is an industry puppet, a perfect example of the industry capture of a regulatory body that Republicans love to complain about until they're the ones who benefit from it. Then Pai jokes about making the FCC an industry tool is salt on the wound. Sure, maybe people should have thicker skin, that's ALWAYS true, but when you dick people over and then LAUGH about it, it's a demonstration of pride and hubris and people in the US have always yearned for people like that to be taken down a peg or two.
You call it 'draft jokes,' I call it telling a private audience what he really thinks, and it's pretty ugly.
Get a life
Oooooo, good comeback, dude!
One pointless correction to the above #14: The Apollo program is about putting a man on the moon, while the OP talked about putting a man in space. He's likely talking about there being no replacement for the shuttle program, but given that he's frothing-at-the-mouth right-winger, you'd think he would be happy that we're moving a Big Government program to the private sector. If Trump did it, it'd be Trump's economic genius, but since Obama did it, it's another sign of how evil Obama was.
The collapse, if it occurs, is arbitrary, a product of labile traders making bets on rumors and having a hugely oversized effect, dwarfing the traditional explanatory variables, supply and demand. Psychology affects prices more than supply and demand.
I wouldn't have used 'currency collapse,' more 'economic collapse often brought on by austerity' when you run out of money, your country's credit rating goes into the dumpster, causing investors in government bonds to not invest which reduces government income even more. The resulting sharp reduction in central spending does not result in a private sector boom and a roaring economy, just an overall economic malaise.
The thing to notice is that it's the Republicans, who talk about small government, who are worst at managing the budget. Occasionally a Democrat will even manage to reduce the deficit. There are two reasons for this (that I know of and believe):
1) The Republicans are less willing to tax the rich, so the income to the government decreases.
2) The Republicans are more tied to those who benefit from the government owing them money. Holders of Treasury bonds, etc.
3) I think Republicans really do want smaller government, but large, large portions of their base directly benefit from larger government and want government spending that benefits them. The seniors who need Social Security and Medicare. The defense contractors and technology companies who rely on military expenditures. Folks scared of the big bad world outside their borders and want to "kill them over there before they kill us over here." All of these things are incredibly expensive.
Never underestimate the over-55 crowd and how much influence they wield because they actually vote, while immature 20-somethings prattle about how only suckers vote and the system being rigged, etcetc.
I say spend it all now and let the next generation figure out their own way rather than rely on our hard work
That's not how debt works. We're not talking about refusing to leave an inheritance for the next generation to benefit from, we're talking about spending THEIR money before they get it because we like to spend far more than we make.
When the country is controlled by no-holds-barred capitalists and nobody is willing to vote them out, you either play their game or perish, and I intend to outplay them at their own game because most of them appear to be idiots and if your only weapon is lack of morals, I can certainly go ahead and lose mine too.
In other words, "I am happy to be the problem rather than the solution. I am the one who causes the problems."
The Uber office is one great example of this. It was disproportionately male and was infamous for generating scandal after scandal as a result of their corporate culture. I suspect they would have avoided some needless scandals if they were a bit more diverse.
Uber had a lot of problems, and the most glaring ones did not come from a lack of diversity.
I assumed it was someone false flag (correct term escapes me atm) trolling.
I pretty much don't trust any AC on Slashdot anymore, or anyone with an eight-digit account number.
I don't often agree with many of the established far-conservative or far-liberal commentators here, but at least I'm pretty sure that they believe what they say and are arguing from the heart.
Yeah, all those dirt-poor kids growing up in Appalachia don't realize how privileged they have it compared to an oppressed person like Jaden Smith.
Wow. You found a black guy is growing up rich and spoiled. Clearly, that's the black experience in the USA and you can draw parallels between that and the daily lives of African Americans.
It's become more like everything else Hollywood produces, just with a bigger budget than other tv shows. It shows they aren't exceptional producers or writers.
DB and Weiss are absolutely fantastic adapters. Not so much with writing original content. Those are two different skills.
Once they started to run out of book material and had to switch to writing their own content, the show faltered and then crashed in Season 7.
This feels like two Russian bots arguing with each other.
Just sloppy nonsense from each extreme.
Ideas need to be combated aggressively. How it works in the tech world is that if you just sit back passively and say "eh, not for me," then the powers that be will make it default, and more and more companies will use it exclusively. There will be a short period where you really can opt out, but as it gains more traction, you will be more cut off and marginalized like folks who, say, refuse to use sites that require Javascript. The vast majority will always choose something more functional, regardless of security concerns. As long as they don't care, don't expect that just sitting back and doing nothing will keep you safe from this -- especially since the advertisers, the trackers, and general do-badders REALLY want it, and they have a lot of resources to push for it.
Sounds to me like you dislike mathematicians in general and are willing to make sweeping negative generalizations about them. The ones I've known have been academic, and good at their jobs.
Sounds like he gets his notions about scientists and math folks from watching the Big Bang Theory.
And, even though I'm pretty sure I've *never* accessed YouTube with a device that wasn't made by Apple, I still get Samsung ads with notable regularity.
That makes you a PRIME candidate for Samsung marketing, not less likely. They want to pull you away from the Apple ecosystem.
Advertising 101: get your adds shown to the people you want to capture the most. Doesn't matter if YOU don't want them, advertising is the great Circle of Life: Customers -> Product Makers -> Products -> Customers. Each of those three is integral to the product/advertising cycle, and Youtube specializes in the Product Makers -> Customers part. That's what brings in the cash for them.
Authoritarian progressives... Ok, I give up, now I've heard it all.
Really? You sound surprised at the notion. You realize that the 20th Century is littered with examples of "authoritarian progressives," right? Mao's Great Leap Forward is one of the most visible disasters, but there are plenty of others. Or are you using the definition that "progressive == good, not progressive == left wing?"
Patreon has already begun banning a number of conservatives (like Lauren Southern, for example)
Lauren Southern's account was suspended because she was "raising funds to take part in activities likely to cause loss of life" when she supported Defend Europe's attempts to block vessels trying to rescue migrants stuck on rafts in the Mediterranean Sea. She countered her money didn't actually go to Defend Europe, but as the Patreon action was aimed at Defend Europe not Southern specifically, she was caught up since she was their most public Canadian supporter.
They rely upon tricking people into clicking on shit.
Come on, this is basic web marketing.
Come on, man, their ENTIRE platform relies on providing better* selections for you to click on, not "tricking" you. They don't care what videos you click on as long as you're clicking on them. Tricking you means you're a lot less likely to click.
*better being "their best automated guess."
you have a serious problem on your hands. You acted unequally
It's only a legal problem if one can make the case that the business was acting unequally to a protected class (race, gender, disability, etc) or if the business violated a contract or agreement.
Of course, even if it's not a protected class, you can get into non-legal hot water by being discriminatory. Protests can happen regardless of the legality of an action.
So yes, you might have a problem on your hand if you kick one person out for not having a shirt on, but let another stay. But it's unlikely you'll have a _legal_ problem unless someone can make the case that, say, you kicked out shirtless black guys, but not shirtless white guys. Then you'll be looking at lawsuits with teeth, instead of nuisance lawsuits.
Is it a declared war? Where the US Congress has formally declared war? That's easy. No wars under Obama.
That's an extremely outdated definition of war anyway. None of our wars have been against a specific foreign government with a leadership structure capable of declaring war or ending a war in surrender.
Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan.
These are not different conflicts, all of these have been against the same opponent -- a people who do not recognize country borders, so they operate across many countries where the actual government is too weak to fight them.
People could wear those face masks when they're sick, Asian-style. Then they can still go to work/school while ill without infecting others. That would require a cultural shift that Western society is just not ready for, though (You mean, I gotta keep my germs to myself? WTF is this bullshit?).
I've heard that unless you have some pretty high-end face masks, they don't last that long. Certainly not a whole day. Something about the moisture from the breath reducing the effectiveness of the filter over the hours. You'll see people in Asian countries use them, but like with most home or traditional remedies they could be totally ineffective.