Where are people getting the idea they got paid? They are game PLAYERS
The summary is misleadingly-phrased. "The Vigils agreed to have their faces scanned to create digital avatars for NBA 2K15.." I think most people upon reading that, not knowing about the game feature, thought they went to the studio, sat down for a facial scanner, signed the contract, and now their likeness is in the video game, as opposed to a casual feature to create custom avatars at home.
Yeah, kinda like how Obama wanted to give us universal health insurance, but the Republicans in Congress wouldn't let him because it was "too Socalist", and the compromise was forcing everyone to become customers of for-profit insurance companies
That was Democrats that forced that compromise, not Republicans. Not a single Republican voted for the ACA, no concessions were made to them.
What about the $300B and counting that was charged as excise taxes under the Telecommunications Act of 1996, handed directly to the telcos in exchange for exactly what is being proposed now, which we already paid for and should have had 10 years ago?
The $300B number is now urban legend, and the figure comes from Bruce Kushnick's books for New Networks. It was $200B when it was first published in 2006, that rose to $300B in 2009, and as of 2015 is $400B since the existing problems were never solved. So where did he get that initial $200B figure from? It's a combination of three sources.
1) He starts with the premise that the Telecom companies should be regulated as utilities, and make regulated returns on investment. Well the telcos weren't regulated as utilities -- the entire purpose of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was to deregulate the industry. So he computed $103B as "excess profits," which is only valid for utilities, not for private, for-profit corporations. Demand for the Internet exploded in the late 1990s, and that's where the "excess profits" came from. But the book also makes the claim that deregulation of the Internet and mobile spaces and their new popularity were unrelated, so
2) $78B for "excessive depreciation," under the assumption that depreciation rates should have remained constant after divestiture. But that depreciation rates would remain the same for network equipment links before and after the Internet boom is nonsense. The book's premise was that if, say, an ISP because of rising demand depreciated a 64-port router and replaced it with a 128-port one, that's excess depreciation, unrelated to the increased demand.
3) $25-50B of "cross-subsidization overcharing for long distance, DSL, and wireless." This is the point I'm not sure I understood, I'd have to read it again, so I'll let it stand for now.
(credit goes to rayiner@ycombinator for many of these figures)
Why the difference? Because people who go to Sweden are poorer, and crime rates are mostly a product not of ethnicity but of class. In a 2013 analysis of 63,000 Swedish residents, Prof. Sarnecki and his colleagues found that 75 per cent of the difference in foreign-born crime is accounted for by income and neighbourhood, both indicators of poverty. Among the Swedish-born children of immigrants, the crime rate falls in half (and is almost entirely concentrated in lesser property crimes) and is 100-per-cent attributable to class – they are no more likely to commit crimes, including rape, than ethnic Swedes of the same family income.
In other words, do NOT import poor refugees. Sounds like an important lesson to take away.
Slashdot says they Hollywood releases too many sequels and adaptations, and that somehow this rationalizes piracy, but everybody on Slashdot is like this guy
No, everyone on Slashdot is not like this guy. Or like me, or like you either. Don't fall the "slashdot hive-mind" thing that people like to say, there are a lot of people who post to Slashdot with totally different opinions.
Another +1 for makemkv. It was well worth the price. I use it under Fedora Linux, along with an a href="https://www.cnet.com/products/lg-gbw-h20l-super-multi-bd-re-drive-serial-ata/specs/">LG GWB-H20L blu-ray writer which is starting to show its age (as are my dvds, so I get many a rip failure now).
Wait,, you actually believe the ENTERTAINER will tell Hollywood to pound sand? BWHAAHAHAHAHAAH! What are you SMOKING?
I'm pretty sure that Trump is more than happy to tell ANYONE to go pound sound. If you think he's your ally and has your back (for ANY 'you'), then you're wrong.
Even if that wasn't the case, do you really think Hollywood is enamored with Trump or vice versa?
This is more of a math issue than it is a language issue. Horrifying any one who took middle school algebra.
It's an admission that many Americans have no math skills, don't know what basic fractions are, and saying something like "one-sixth the distance" confuses them terribly.
I've been hearing nonsense like "six times closer" on national and local newscasts in the last year.
Yeah, a compromise with the GOP is pretty out of whack, the ACA was a compromise within the Democratic Party itself. The ACA would have been far more effective as a single-payer system, but conservative Democrats refused to go along with the Sanders/Warren wing.
It matters because he and his people are floating the proverbial Presidential 2020 campaign balloon. Do we need another egomaniacal despot?
Yeah, kindof hard to imagine that. He's too weasley to get far -- he doesn't have the bombastic "I can lie in your face and get away with it" presence that Trump has. He still has the "nerd that jocks love to beat up" aura around him, that's blood in the water when it comes to politics.
"The Social Network" was a somewhat-untrue hit piece, classic Aaron Sorkin, but enough people will buy into it that's it's killed any of his likeability. The poor white man who Trump suckered so effectively will have zero reason to vote for him, and it's hard to identify any group that actually would.
Zuckerberg won't get anywhere in the 2020 race. He'll be one of the dozen or so candidates to start the race if he really wants to, and will be one of the first to drop out.
He watched The Brown Bunny and The Human Centipede so you didn't have to.
Not only that, he watched The Brown Bunny twice. The first time, he walked out of a screening at Cannes, saying it was one of the worst movies Cannes had seen. The second time, he watched a recut version and gave it 3/4 stars.
Vincent Gallo is still an asshole though, even after he made up with Ebert.
Sadly, I don't think any amount of cutting would have saved The Human Centipede, even if it were only 5 minutes long.
Given how much of a problem organ rejection is in human-to-human transplants, I'm wondering how on earth the rat's (or eventual pig's) body is not rejecting the human I get that it's a chimera organ, containing both, but just as the mouse immune system purges the rat cells from the organ, how does the rat's system not purge the mouse cells while the organ is growing?
I've seen some fantastic ads, Cartier's being pretty notable: L'Odyssee de Cartier. I noticed it while fast-forwarding through commercials during a pre-recorded baseball game, it prompted me to rewind to see what was going on.
Red Bull Media House makes fairly decent films too, usually about outdoor lifestyle activities. The Art of Flight has some of the most amazing snowboarding footage you'll see.
Clinton's no longer in the picture. We're talking about Trump now. As his supporters remind everyone frequently, Trump won the election, so we get to focus on him now.
I don't think that describes Trump, though. What he mainly does is exaggerate, or a variation of Cunningham's Law
I think Trump falls into the same trap that GWB did in the runup to the 2003 Iraq Invasion -- willful ignorance. Believing strongly in your own version of the truth. There's little self-doubt there.
"One of the things I'm going to do if I win, and I hope we do and we're certainly leading. I'm going to open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money. We're going to open up those libel laws. So when The New York Times writes a hit piece which is a total disgrace or when The Washington Post, which is there for other reasons, writes a hit piece, we can sue them and win money instead of having no chance of winning because they're totally protected."
Trump has in addition labeled absolutely factual stories as lies and negative and horrible and false. This nonsense about inauguration numbers (why the hell would you even make a big deal about them?) is only the latest example.
Then again, I'm not sure Donald Trump actually wants to go down that road. It's a toothless threat, since it opens up his friends at Breitbart and Fox News to far more lawsuits than the New York Times or Washington Post. Hell, five years ago, it would have gotten him into a lot of hot water with his Birther nonsense.
I would think that the FBI would be licking Assange's boots right now. But who knows - I suppose the FBI has factions like any other big organization. Maybe it's only the NY office of the FBI that's so grateful to Assange.
I don't think the FBI likes Assange that much. Sometimes an enemy helps you out, but that doesn't mean he's no longer your enemy.
The performance of an application ported through WineLib is going to be identical to the performance of the Windows binary running through Wine.
Only if the libraries are as fast or as feature-rich as they are under Windows. For instance, if there are certain graphics routines that take advantage of particular hardware features or GL routines, but they are not available or poorly implemented in the wine libraries, then a problem will likely run slower than it would under Windows. It could cause graphical corruption, or the program might just instead fall back to doing graphics routines in software instead of hardware. Or it might just crash. Or all three.:-)
I played World of Warcraft for six years using just wine (and/or cedega, back when that was a thing). Eventually I just ran it on Windows instead.
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Where are people getting the idea they got paid? They are game PLAYERS
The summary is misleadingly-phrased. "The Vigils agreed to have their faces scanned to create digital avatars for NBA 2K15.." I think most people upon reading that, not knowing about the game feature, thought they went to the studio, sat down for a facial scanner, signed the contract, and now their likeness is in the video game, as opposed to a casual feature to create custom avatars at home.
Yeah, kinda like how Obama wanted to give us universal health insurance, but the Republicans in Congress wouldn't let him because it was "too Socalist", and the compromise was forcing everyone to become customers of for-profit insurance companies
That was Democrats that forced that compromise, not Republicans. Not a single Republican voted for the ACA, no concessions were made to them.
What about the $300B and counting that was charged as excise taxes under the Telecommunications Act of 1996, handed directly to the telcos in exchange for exactly what is being proposed now, which we already paid for and should have had 10 years ago?
The $300B number is now urban legend, and the figure comes from Bruce Kushnick's books for New Networks. It was $200B when it was first published in 2006, that rose to $300B in 2009, and as of 2015 is $400B since the existing problems were never solved. So where did he get that initial $200B figure from? It's a combination of three sources.
1) He starts with the premise that the Telecom companies should be regulated as utilities, and make regulated returns on investment. Well the telcos weren't regulated as utilities -- the entire purpose of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was to deregulate the industry. So he computed $103B as "excess profits," which is only valid for utilities, not for private, for-profit corporations. Demand for the Internet exploded in the late 1990s, and that's where the "excess profits" came from. But the book also makes the claim that deregulation of the Internet and mobile spaces and their new popularity were unrelated, so
2) $78B for "excessive depreciation," under the assumption that depreciation rates should have remained constant after divestiture. But that depreciation rates would remain the same for network equipment links before and after the Internet boom is nonsense. The book's premise was that if, say, an ISP because of rising demand depreciated a 64-port router and replaced it with a 128-port one, that's excess depreciation, unrelated to the increased demand.
3) $25-50B of "cross-subsidization overcharing for long distance, DSL, and wireless." This is the point I'm not sure I understood, I'd have to read it again, so I'll let it stand for now.
(credit goes to rayiner@ycombinator for many of these figures)
Why the difference? Because people who go to Sweden are poorer, and crime rates are mostly a product not of ethnicity but of class. In a 2013 analysis of 63,000 Swedish residents, Prof. Sarnecki and his colleagues found that 75 per cent of the difference in foreign-born crime is accounted for by income and neighbourhood, both indicators of poverty. Among the Swedish-born children of immigrants, the crime rate falls in half (and is almost entirely concentrated in lesser property crimes) and is 100-per-cent attributable to class – they are no more likely to commit crimes, including rape, than ethnic Swedes of the same family income.
In other words, do NOT import poor refugees. Sounds like an important lesson to take away.
Slashdot says they Hollywood releases too many sequels and adaptations, and that somehow this rationalizes piracy, but everybody on Slashdot is like this guy
No, everyone on Slashdot is not like this guy. Or like me, or like you either. Don't fall the "slashdot hive-mind" thing that people like to say, there are a lot of people who post to Slashdot with totally different opinions.
Ugh, bad tags. That link should be: LG GWB-H20L blu-ray writer
Another +1 for makemkv. It was well worth the price. I use it under Fedora Linux, along with an a href="https://www.cnet.com/products/lg-gbw-h20l-super-multi-bd-re-drive-serial-ata/specs/">LG GWB-H20L blu-ray writer which is starting to show its age (as are my dvds, so I get many a rip failure now).
Wait,, you actually believe the ENTERTAINER will tell Hollywood to pound sand?
BWHAAHAHAHAHAAH!
What are you SMOKING?
I'm pretty sure that Trump is more than happy to tell ANYONE to go pound sound.
If you think he's your ally and has your back (for ANY 'you'), then you're wrong.
Even if that wasn't the case, do you really think Hollywood is enamored with Trump or vice versa?
This is more of a math issue than it is a language issue.
Horrifying any one who took middle school algebra.
It's an admission that many Americans have no math skills, don't know what basic fractions are, and saying something like "one-sixth the distance" confuses them terribly.
I've been hearing nonsense like "six times closer" on national and local newscasts in the last year.
Yeah, a compromise with the GOP is pretty out of whack, the ACA was a compromise within the Democratic Party itself. The ACA would have been far more effective as a single-payer system, but conservative Democrats refused to go along with the Sanders/Warren wing.
It matters because he and his people are floating the proverbial Presidential 2020 campaign balloon. Do we need another egomaniacal despot?
Yeah, kindof hard to imagine that. He's too weasley to get far -- he doesn't have the bombastic "I can lie in your face and get away with it" presence that Trump has. He still has the "nerd that jocks love to beat up" aura around him, that's blood in the water when it comes to politics.
"The Social Network" was a somewhat-untrue hit piece, classic Aaron Sorkin, but enough people will buy into it that's it's killed any of his likeability. The poor white man who Trump suckered so effectively will have zero reason to vote for him, and it's hard to identify any group that actually would.
Zuckerberg won't get anywhere in the 2020 race. He'll be one of the dozen or so candidates to start the race if he really wants to, and will be one of the first to drop out.
Since that's your only comeback, you already know it is true.
Are you shallow enough to believe this is actually true, or is it mere hyperbole?
He watched The Brown Bunny and The Human Centipede so you didn't have to.
Not only that, he watched The Brown Bunny twice. The first time, he walked out of a screening at Cannes, saying it was one of the worst movies Cannes had seen. The second time, he watched a recut version and gave it 3/4 stars.
Vincent Gallo is still an asshole though, even after he made up with Ebert.
Sadly, I don't think any amount of cutting would have saved The Human Centipede, even if it were only 5 minutes long.
Given how much of a problem organ rejection is in human-to-human transplants, I'm wondering how on earth the rat's (or eventual pig's) body is not rejecting the human I get that it's a chimera organ, containing both, but just as the mouse immune system purges the rat cells from the organ, how does the rat's system not purge the mouse cells while the organ is growing?
I've seen some fantastic ads, Cartier's being pretty notable: L'Odyssee de Cartier. I noticed it while fast-forwarding through commercials during a pre-recorded baseball game, it prompted me to rewind to see what was going on.
Red Bull Media House makes fairly decent films too, usually about outdoor lifestyle activities. The Art of Flight has some of the most amazing snowboarding footage you'll see.
Youre right! Clinton have never lied!
Clinton's no longer in the picture. We're talking about Trump now. As his supporters remind everyone frequently, Trump won the election, so we get to focus on him now.
I don't think that describes Trump, though. What he mainly does is exaggerate, or a variation of Cunningham's Law
I think Trump falls into the same trap that GWB did in the runup to the 2003 Iraq Invasion -- willful ignorance. Believing strongly in your own version of the truth. There's little self-doubt there.
Trump threatened several times during his campaign to treat it as illegal for the press to criticize him
Oh for god's sake, no he didn't. He said he was interested in expanding the legal definition of libel.
You say potato, the GP said potahto.
Trump threatened...
Cite please. No elided quotes, full cite.
"One of the things I'm going to do if I win, and I hope we do and we're certainly leading. I'm going to open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money. We're going to open up those libel laws. So when The New York Times writes a hit piece which is a total disgrace or when The Washington Post, which is there for other reasons, writes a hit piece, we can sue them and win money instead of having no chance of winning because they're totally protected."
Trump has in addition labeled absolutely factual stories as lies and negative and horrible and false. This nonsense about inauguration numbers (why the hell would you even make a big deal about them?) is only the latest example.
Then again, I'm not sure Donald Trump actually wants to go down that road. It's a toothless threat, since it opens up his friends at Breitbart and Fox News to far more lawsuits than the New York Times or Washington Post. Hell, five years ago, it would have gotten him into a lot of hot water with his Birther nonsense.
I would think that the FBI would be licking Assange's boots right now. But who knows - I suppose the FBI has factions like any other big organization. Maybe it's only the NY office of the FBI that's so grateful to Assange.
I don't think the FBI likes Assange that much. Sometimes an enemy helps you out, but that doesn't mean he's no longer your enemy.
But is that particular wolf trustworthy, or are you being speciesist and saying all wolves are liars in this area?
AC trollers are funny though. Just ride the trollercoaster (or the trolley, whichever you prefer.)
I like really well-crafted trollings, but the above felt lazy.
"Consume" implies destruction. I "consume" an orange and it is no longer an orange. I do not "consume" a movie, I watch it.
The performance of an application ported through WineLib is going to be identical to the performance of the Windows binary running through Wine.
Only if the libraries are as fast or as feature-rich as they are under Windows. For instance, if there are certain graphics routines that take advantage of particular hardware features or GL routines, but they are not available or poorly implemented in the wine libraries, then a problem will likely run slower than it would under Windows. It could cause graphical corruption, or the program might just instead fall back to doing graphics routines in software instead of hardware. Or it might just crash. Or all three. :-)
I played World of Warcraft for six years using just wine (and/or cedega, back when that was a thing). Eventually I just ran it on Windows instead.
"Emulation" has a strong connotation with a software implementation of CPU hardware
It shouldn't, and these days I don't think most people make that association anymore. Environments can be emulated as well.