While I despise the whole lot of these vloggers and youtubers, now you're just being an asshat. Please define "real job". Nothing wrong with what they do for a living, if they had anything creative or interesting to create and share. Sadly, this Youtube "economy" is built on neither.
The video logging concept being hosted on Youtube is simply not a very viable way to make a living. You can get your channel demonetized simply by a person making a complaint against it's content. As well, it seems that the standards for demonetization are a bit capricious. There have been gunning channels demonetized - and not the stupid ones where some asshat decides to get his girl to wear some skimpy outfit and fire a rifle she never did before and gets knocked over or worse, breaks an orbital bone from a scope hitting her in the eye - but legitimate channels. A lot of MRA or MGTOW channes have been demonetized even though their channels are quite popular. Youtube thought police scan for "feminist", and it better be a real positive video or else it gets dinged.
Anyhow - it is Google's site, and they have the right to include or exclude whatever they want. That is also a big problem. It's a bad business model for Youtubers to work within.
Sorry, but private property owners do very much trump your right to carry.
You make this claim, then go on to talk about brandishing, not carrying. Carry is usually concealed, and in that form guruevi is right and you're wrong -- private property does not trump the legal right to carry. In most states.
A point I was not making about concealed carry. If you are concelaed carry, you keep it damn private, and only bring it out if you intend to use it. Now tell me that is wrong. Google open carry, and then tell me the number of images you count - or is that some sort of fake news?
My point is that if I see another's brandishment, they will be encouraged strongly to stop by my brandishment and my announcement that any further trespass is not allowed - that person will be the one without the legal right. People are of course, allowed to test that. Considering that people have legally shot unarmed people in the back, I suspect someone coming at another person with an openly carried piece will have even less protection if the owner believes he or his family are in imminent danger.
Granted, most people didn't expect their data to be weaponized.
Facebook's first response was that Cambridge violated the terms of use of said data access.
Once your data is sold to someone, it is theirs. The idea that the seller can enforce how the buyer uses that data is cute.
Facebook did a piss poor job of enforcing data protection but that doesn't make this a "business as it was designed" situation.
It is business as it will be used. Zuckerberg cannot get out f his responsibility for this.
There is a saying, unfortunately attributed to Nikita Kruschev, that goes something like:
"The last capitalist would sell the hangman the rope used to string up his own mother."
Zuck does not actually care that he was caught, or the results of what he shares responsibility for. He cares that it might affect his bottom line, though.
Sorry, but private property owners do very much trump your right to carry.
That's nice. But how does that apply to Uber? Did they own the vehicle?
I was merely responding the the person who wrote that company policy doesn't trump your legal right. It does. It does all the time..Private property laws trump your legal right. Same difference. If a person is so paranoid or fear filled that they cannot abide having their piece on them, then they have the legal right to not work for Uber or come onto property that bans the devices.
Why would Sessions care? He hasn't done a damn thing since being put in office.
Jeff Sessions is a big invester in for-profit prisons. The more people we put in jail, the more money he makes. Lock thos people up! That's the big reason he is against legalization of weed - but that's a different subject. Just my Saturday night sarcasm...
Last time an idiot in front of me at a light caused the same problems for similar reasons, ( he was playing with his phone and didn't notice the light went green after several seconds had passed ) I hit the horn to get his attention.
His reaction ?
HOW DARE they honk at me ! Let's get angry about it !
He was ready to fight because he got honked at for being a total idiot in the first place.
IMO, they should start revoking licenses because if you're not going to pay attention, you have no business driving as you put every one on the road with you at risk.
And no one ever sat at a light ever before smartphones. Never I tell you! Sounds like we have a whole new category of criminals to make. Jeff Sessions will like that. Or are you trying to say that only smartphones and watches can constitute distracted driving - all other things that look exactly like distracted driving are grandfathered in, and good?
In New York, the problem would have been immediately resolved after 100 milliseconds by the other drivers yelling loudly obscenities at her and continuously honking on their horns..
In Texas, they would have taken a second amendment solution, and been invited to the White house.
As she was pulled over in Ontario, your reply is utterly pointless.
The reasoning behind zero tolerance for any interaction with an electronic device while behind the wheel of a motor vehicle that isn't parked is that people, being the dummies they usually are, would often NOT finish their texting when the light turns green and would begin driving again while still dinking around on their device for a few more seconds. Through an intersection.
Even when stopped at a red light, you are still operating your vehicle, and thus are to remain alert to what is going on around you in the real world.
Interesting. Is distraction limited to only electronic devices? It is not possible to get distracted by anything else? We need to get some new laws! Think of something something!
Sorry, but private property owners do very much trump your right to carry. Like no one but me is allowed to be carrying on my property. When the gun nuts were in a shit fit about that chocolate Kenyan citizen, and started carrying theier AR-15's into restaurants and some other places. It wasn't possible for the other citizens to distinguish between the fine citizens or someone who wanted to shoot the place up.
So just like people with bratty children cause other customers to avoid a place, some person you can't determine their intentions but you do know they are brandishing a tool designed to kill you - they would simply go someplace else. So boom, the gun stays in teh car, or you do if you are so insecure you have to have that in a Chile's restaurant.
Your right to brandish a lethal weapon vanishes the second you come onto my property. If I see it, I'm going to assume that you are planning on using it,
How about not cheating to make your processors seem more powerful first?
Otherwise, and most seriously, with me having a laptop that's only running a fraction of it's prior speed, and still not safe form Spectre or meltdown, please go do go fuck yourselves, you pieces of moldy shit.
Instead, the result is they just trust me even less because they can't fathom how I could have known.
Ah, the fate of the Cassandra. I too know that. You just have to sit back, smile, and eat the popcorn while they self destruct.
My learning moment was during the days of subprime loans, when real estate's value extended to infinity, and no loan was too sketchy. An 80 year old with a 50 year mortgage was fine business. While it was simple math, and I knew the end result the first time I saw the ads on Yahoo for people buying. million dollar houses with ridiculous low payments. I saw friends selling their houses t buy huge McMansions in exclusive neighborhoods, only to go bankrupt when the ARM made their monthly payment bigger than their take home pay. But the grifters originating their loans were paid by the number of mortgages they started, not the viability of them.
My house was paid off around the time they were losing theirs.
I think only one ever made note that I was correct, the rest just found it more convenient to be pissed off and jealous of me.
That's just one example. So many people just can't figure out to avoid self destructive behavior.
So now, I'll try once to show the details of self ruinous behavior, but if it doesn't take, I just sit back and enjoy the popcorn - I prefer cheese popcorn with tequila shots and bitter lemon soda chasers. The Cassandra isn't precluded from a bit of enjoyment.
And none of that sissy Patron stuff either. Tequila should fight you all the way down.
There should be some sort of middle ground between your narrative and complete state surveillance.
I merely write what I do to illustrate the futility of the concept. of staying off the radar screens as it were. If a person's life needs to be 24/7 "i've got a secret" for 70 some years, they were born in the wrong millennium. they also might be fascinated in how little freedom they would have had in that surveillance free day and age.
People need to get the difference between a digital license plate and big brothe's cameras in your house. I know that's a quixotic task at Slashdot, but it does need pointed out.
Also, there are strict limits with what law enforcement is allowed to do in California with information taken from license plate readers. The data must be destroyed in 60 days. In Texas, there are absolutely no restrictions on the use of license plate readers.
How dare you stomp on people's narrative?
As for this "tracking" so many Slashdotters are having a hissyfit about, it can be a rough analogy to a DNA test. Me leaving my tracks all over the place - credit card purchases, fuel purchases leaving CC numbers as well as their security cams will provide me with a fine electronic alibi in the event I am ever falsely accused of anything.
Meanwhile, I would suggest the Slashdot Sensativi all drive 49 chevy Pick-um-ups, wear Dune style stillsuits to ensure they keep their precious bodily fluids and DNA uncollected, and move to a compound in the woods in Idaho as Sovereign Citizens.
No, what you're observing is garbage being dumped into streams and rivers from poor and remote villages in countries that don't have waste management.
It has NOTHING to do with plastic forks and straws used in advanced countries. Banning this is pure virtue-signalling, and will do nothing to reduce plastic in oceans
Boom! Very astute. One of the strangest things about the gyres of plastics is that the assumption is that it all comes from the USA. When in fact, we have a lot of recycling going on.
Because it is getting very difficult to open new landfills, most of us recycle as much as possible.
Where the more developed countries need to focus on is eliminating microspheres of plastic in skin care products. Those don't do anything but make the product feel "silky smooth".
Enter the "Friendly Floaties". In 1992, a container of some 28,000 rubber ducks washed overboard on a ship coming from Hong Kong, while traversing the Pacific Ocean. We've been tracking them ever since. Not surprisingly, they've shown up in the pacific, but have been tracked above the arctic circle and to the East Coast of USA, and even in Europe. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/...
Strangely most places have been moving the other direction. It used to be common to have reusable glass milk and soda bottles. Now, even if they are glass, they are not usually reused. The problem is that single use is cheaper and more convenient than reusable.
Reuseable is not recycling - close but not quite. Here in the wilds of Pennsylvania, we recycle glass and metal and paper for curbside pickup. There are special dumpsters for corrugated cardboard. They have too much bulk for the recycling trailers. The transfer station doesn't charge you anything if bring in an entire load of metal to recycle, and we have special drop-off points for the more rare types of plastics.
We do have one local dairy that uses glass jugs. You pay a deposit on them the first use, and as long as you return and get newmilk in new jugs, it is always re-used.
While the visible plastic in the oceans gets the most attention, the microbes from skin care products are the biggest problem. Most can be barely seen, they would be really hard to get out of th waste stream because they get washed off and into the waste water and don't get treated, so end up in the oceans.
Seems like if they don't recycle in your area, it's time for some agitation and representation.
Millenial tech workers can get all the jobs they want. Millenial gender studies grads not so much.
Very true. Unfortunately, many people have taken majors like Gender Studies and Philosophy, but of which consist of giving your opinion for the most part. Which hardly even prepares you for a job at the McDonald's drive in window.
"May I take your order tool of the patriarchy, opressive shitlord?"
"A hamburger please"
"Do you want fries with that, you disgusting manspreading, rapist pig?"
"Please."
"Don't mansplain to me you shitwad oppressor. You'll have to wait while I seize the means of production, cis white male asshole.
Thus ended the experiment in having gender studies majors working at McDonalds.
Universities are quite happy to take their money though.
There are jobs for millennials, it's just that they are McJobs which don't pay enough to afford the basics of life like somewhere to live and food to eat. So what they mean are there are no good jobs, with good being defined by the cost of living.
The economic issues of the McJobs are many, and at least here in the US, working a minimum wage job as a career has you at a income level that qualifies for Government assistance. This is one of the problems with the corporate run state - as huge corporations pretend they are all about capitalism, but in fact, lobby very hard for the Government to pay part of their employees wages.
But that isn't going away any time soon, so the millennial must decide their path. Attempt to have a McCareer, or bypass that. By all indicators, I should be looking at retiring in maybe 10 years from a retail job, and subsisting on Social Security. Certainly many of my school friends have done just that.
But there is a lesson even in that. The first lesson is that some of these issues are not limited to millennials, and that perhaps people look for an easy answer, especially one that absolves them of any responsibility.
Another lesson is that drive and ambition are always a good thing. I was apparently blessed with it. I do know a couple millennial women who were very blessed with drive and ambition. Both are doing very well in life and career.
I know a few people with advanced degrees that are working as waiters and waitresses. Apparently their drive does not extend far enough.
Finally, I know some of these folk who lack the drive have ready excuses that conveniently blame everything but themselves. I've seen that in every generation, but none so strong and persistent as millennials blaming everything on everyone else. Its a free world, and if a person cannot deal with what is needed to succeed, I suppose the complaints might salve the wounds of their lives.
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While I despise the whole lot of these vloggers and youtubers, now you're just being an asshat. Please define "real job". Nothing wrong with what they do for a living, if they had anything creative or interesting to create and share. Sadly, this Youtube "economy" is built on neither.
The video logging concept being hosted on Youtube is simply not a very viable way to make a living. You can get your channel demonetized simply by a person making a complaint against it's content. As well, it seems that the standards for demonetization are a bit capricious. There have been gunning channels demonetized - and not the stupid ones where some asshat decides to get his girl to wear some skimpy outfit and fire a rifle she never did before and gets knocked over or worse, breaks an orbital bone from a scope hitting her in the eye - but legitimate channels. A lot of MRA or MGTOW channes have been demonetized even though their channels are quite popular. Youtube thought police scan for "feminist", and it better be a real positive video or else it gets dinged.
Anyhow - it is Google's site, and they have the right to include or exclude whatever they want. That is also a big problem. It's a bad business model for Youtubers to work within.
Company policy doesn't trump your legal right.
Sorry, but private property owners do very much trump your right to carry.
You make this claim, then go on to talk about brandishing, not carrying. Carry is usually concealed, and in that form guruevi is right and you're wrong -- private property does not trump the legal right to carry. In most states.
A point I was not making about concealed carry. If you are concelaed carry, you keep it damn private, and only bring it out if you intend to use it. Now tell me that is wrong. Google open carry, and then tell me the number of images you count - or is that some sort of fake news? My point is that if I see another's brandishment, they will be encouraged strongly to stop by my brandishment and my announcement that any further trespass is not allowed - that person will be the one without the legal right. People are of course, allowed to test that. Considering that people have legally shot unarmed people in the back, I suspect someone coming at another person with an openly carried piece will have even less protection if the owner believes he or his family are in imminent danger.
When will Sessions ever be part of any Ontario government legal body?
Excellent non-point.
I expect we have paid posters here sent to deflect conversations.
Your suspicions are correct. The over-reliance on howaboutism is one big clue.
Expect a reply to this something like "Well, Hillary and O'Blama used howaboutism"
Its howaboutism all the way down.
No it wasn't what people agreed to.
Like people know what they agree to.
Granted, most people didn't expect their data to be weaponized.
Facebook's first response was that Cambridge violated the terms of use of said data access.
Once your data is sold to someone, it is theirs. The idea that the seller can enforce how the buyer uses that data is cute.
Facebook did a piss poor job of enforcing data protection but that doesn't make this a "business as it was designed" situation.
It is business as it will be used. Zuckerberg cannot get out f his responsibility for this.
There is a saying, unfortunately attributed to Nikita Kruschev, that goes something like:
"The last capitalist would sell the hangman the rope used to string up his own mother."
Zuck does not actually care that he was caught, or the results of what he shares responsibility for. He cares that it might affect his bottom line, though.
Micro-targeting of voters was used by Obama against Hillary. But when Putin does it, suddenly Facebook has overstepped.
Fixed that for ya
Sorry, but private property owners do very much trump your right to carry.
That's nice. But how does that apply to Uber? Did they own the vehicle?
I was merely responding the the person who wrote that company policy doesn't trump your legal right. It does. It does all the time..Private property laws trump your legal right. Same difference. If a person is so paranoid or fear filled that they cannot abide having their piece on them, then they have the legal right to not work for Uber or come onto property that bans the devices.
Why would Sessions care? He hasn't done a damn thing since being put in office.
Jeff Sessions is a big invester in for-profit prisons. The more people we put in jail, the more money he makes. Lock thos people up! That's the big reason he is against legalization of weed - but that's a different subject. Just my Saturday night sarcasm...
Doesn't matter.
Last time an idiot in front of me at a light caused the same problems for similar reasons, ( he was playing with his phone and didn't notice the light went green after several seconds had passed ) I hit the horn to get his attention.
His reaction ?
HOW DARE they honk at me ! Let's get angry about it !
He was ready to fight because he got honked at for being a total idiot in the first place.
IMO, they should start revoking licenses because if you're not going to pay attention, you have no business driving as you put every one on the road with you at risk.
And no one ever sat at a light ever before smartphones. Never I tell you! Sounds like we have a whole new category of criminals to make. Jeff Sessions will like that. Or are you trying to say that only smartphones and watches can constitute distracted driving - all other things that look exactly like distracted driving are grandfathered in, and good?
My Citroen 2CV didn't.
It was that slow it had a calendar.
TY,IHAW...
I fell right into that .......
In New York, the problem would have been immediately resolved after 100 milliseconds by the other drivers yelling loudly obscenities at her and continuously honking on their horns..
In Texas, they would have taken a second amendment solution, and been invited to the White house.
As she was pulled over in Ontario, your reply is utterly pointless.
The reasoning behind zero tolerance for any interaction with an electronic device while behind the wheel of a motor vehicle that isn't parked is that people, being the dummies they usually are, would often NOT finish their texting when the light turns green and would begin driving again while still dinking around on their device for a few more seconds. Through an intersection.
Even when stopped at a red light, you are still operating your vehicle, and thus are to remain alert to what is going on around you in the real world.
Interesting. Is distraction limited to only electronic devices? It is not possible to get distracted by anything else? We need to get some new laws! Think of something something!
Company policy doesn't trump your legal right.
Sorry, but private property owners do very much trump your right to carry. Like no one but me is allowed to be carrying on my property. When the gun nuts were in a shit fit about that chocolate Kenyan citizen, and started carrying theier AR-15's into restaurants and some other places. It wasn't possible for the other citizens to distinguish between the fine citizens or someone who wanted to shoot the place up.
So just like people with bratty children cause other customers to avoid a place, some person you can't determine their intentions but you do know they are brandishing a tool designed to kill you - they would simply go someplace else. So boom, the gun stays in teh car, or you do if you are so insecure you have to have that in a Chile's restaurant.
Your right to brandish a lethal weapon vanishes the second you come onto my property. If I see it, I'm going to assume that you are planning on using it,
You're no fun, I pointed out your lies and idiocy and then you just stopped playing.
Know this - you've been looking in a mirror. As for me, I'm rather bored with ya, just as bored as I am with the fake APK guy.
No, I expect it's every single spy agency of every single country in the world. I'd be surprised if other countries don't do it.
Given someone's love of using burner phoes to pillow talk with his propaganda minister Sean Hannity, and to others, it isn't a big surprise.
I mean, other countries are going to do this sort of thing anyhow, but cheap easy access? Like taking candy form a baby.
Otherwise, and most seriously, with me having a laptop that's only running a fraction of it's prior speed, and still not safe form Spectre or meltdown, please go do go fuck yourselves, you pieces of moldy shit.
Instead, the result is they just trust me even less because they can't fathom how I could have known.
Ah, the fate of the Cassandra. I too know that. You just have to sit back, smile, and eat the popcorn while they self destruct.
My learning moment was during the days of subprime loans, when real estate's value extended to infinity, and no loan was too sketchy. An 80 year old with a 50 year mortgage was fine business. While it was simple math, and I knew the end result the first time I saw the ads on Yahoo for people buying. million dollar houses with ridiculous low payments. I saw friends selling their houses t buy huge McMansions in exclusive neighborhoods, only to go bankrupt when the ARM made their monthly payment bigger than their take home pay. But the grifters originating their loans were paid by the number of mortgages they started, not the viability of them.
My house was paid off around the time they were losing theirs.
I think only one ever made note that I was correct, the rest just found it more convenient to be pissed off and jealous of me.
That's just one example. So many people just can't figure out to avoid self destructive behavior.
So now, I'll try once to show the details of self ruinous behavior, but if it doesn't take, I just sit back and enjoy the popcorn - I prefer cheese popcorn with tequila shots and bitter lemon soda chasers. The Cassandra isn't precluded from a bit of enjoyment.
And none of that sissy Patron stuff either. Tequila should fight you all the way down.
There should be some sort of middle ground between your narrative and complete state surveillance.
I merely write what I do to illustrate the futility of the concept. of staying off the radar screens as it were. If a person's life needs to be 24/7 "i've got a secret" for 70 some years, they were born in the wrong millennium. they also might be fascinated in how little freedom they would have had in that surveillance free day and age.
People need to get the difference between a digital license plate and big brothe's cameras in your house. I know that's a quixotic task at Slashdot, but it does need pointed out.
I could go on, but I think I have made my point.
Yup, you've proven that you are Dale Gribble.
Have you become a Sovereign Citizen yet?
Also, there are strict limits with what law enforcement is allowed to do in California with information taken from license plate readers. The data must be destroyed in 60 days. In Texas, there are absolutely no restrictions on the use of license plate readers.
How dare you stomp on people's narrative?
As for this "tracking" so many Slashdotters are having a hissyfit about, it can be a rough analogy to a DNA test. Me leaving my tracks all over the place - credit card purchases, fuel purchases leaving CC numbers as well as their security cams will provide me with a fine electronic alibi in the event I am ever falsely accused of anything.
Meanwhile, I would suggest the Slashdot Sensativi all drive 49 chevy Pick-um-ups, wear Dune style stillsuits to ensure they keep their precious bodily fluids and DNA uncollected, and move to a compound in the woods in Idaho as Sovereign Citizens.
Maybe they can raise chickens to barter with.
No, what you're observing is garbage being dumped into streams and rivers from poor and remote villages in countries that don't have waste management.
It has NOTHING to do with plastic forks and straws used in advanced countries. Banning this is pure virtue-signalling, and will do nothing to reduce plastic in oceans
Boom! Very astute. One of the strangest things about the gyres of plastics is that the assumption is that it all comes from the USA. When in fact, we have a lot of recycling going on.
Because it is getting very difficult to open new landfills, most of us recycle as much as possible.
Where the more developed countries need to focus on is eliminating microspheres of plastic in skin care products. Those don't do anything but make the product feel "silky smooth".
Enter the "Friendly Floaties". In 1992, a container of some 28,000 rubber ducks washed overboard on a ship coming from Hong Kong, while traversing the Pacific Ocean. We've been tracking them ever since. Not surprisingly, they've shown up in the pacific, but have been tracked above the arctic circle and to the East Coast of USA, and even in Europe. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/...
Having ordered a pizza in Germany, I have to say you're either full of shit or your area is weird.
It did sound a little specious when he told me that. I mean does the delivery guy carry the pizza in his pockets?
Strangely most places have been moving the other direction. It used to be common to have reusable glass milk and soda bottles. Now, even if they are glass, they are not usually reused. The problem is that single use is cheaper and more convenient than reusable.
Reuseable is not recycling - close but not quite. Here in the wilds of Pennsylvania, we recycle glass and metal and paper for curbside pickup. There are special dumpsters for corrugated cardboard. They have too much bulk for the recycling trailers. The transfer station doesn't charge you anything if bring in an entire load of metal to recycle, and we have special drop-off points for the more rare types of plastics.
We do have one local dairy that uses glass jugs. You pay a deposit on them the first use, and as long as you return and get newmilk in new jugs, it is always re-used.
While the visible plastic in the oceans gets the most attention, the microbes from skin care products are the biggest problem. Most can be barely seen, they would be really hard to get out of th waste stream because they get washed off and into the waste water and don't get treated, so end up in the oceans.
Seems like if they don't recycle in your area, it's time for some agitation and representation.
Millenial tech workers can get all the jobs they want. Millenial gender studies grads not so much.
Very true. Unfortunately, many people have taken majors like Gender Studies and Philosophy, but of which consist of giving your opinion for the most part. Which hardly even prepares you for a job at the McDonald's drive in window.
"May I take your order tool of the patriarchy, opressive shitlord?"
"A hamburger please"
"Do you want fries with that, you disgusting manspreading, rapist pig?"
"Please."
"Don't mansplain to me you shitwad oppressor. You'll have to wait while I seize the means of production, cis white male asshole.
Thus ended the experiment in having gender studies majors working at McDonalds.
Universities are quite happy to take their money though.
There are jobs for millennials, it's just that they are McJobs which don't pay enough to afford the basics of life like somewhere to live and food to eat. So what they mean are there are no good jobs, with good being defined by the cost of living.
The economic issues of the McJobs are many, and at least here in the US, working a minimum wage job as a career has you at a income level that qualifies for Government assistance. This is one of the problems with the corporate run state - as huge corporations pretend they are all about capitalism, but in fact, lobby very hard for the Government to pay part of their employees wages.
But that isn't going away any time soon, so the millennial must decide their path. Attempt to have a McCareer, or bypass that. By all indicators, I should be looking at retiring in maybe 10 years from a retail job, and subsisting on Social Security. Certainly many of my school friends have done just that.
But there is a lesson even in that. The first lesson is that some of these issues are not limited to millennials, and that perhaps people look for an easy answer, especially one that absolves them of any responsibility.
Another lesson is that drive and ambition are always a good thing. I was apparently blessed with it. I do know a couple millennial women who were very blessed with drive and ambition. Both are doing very well in life and career.
I know a few people with advanced degrees that are working as waiters and waitresses. Apparently their drive does not extend far enough.
Finally, I know some of these folk who lack the drive have ready excuses that conveniently blame everything but themselves. I've seen that in every generation, but none so strong and persistent as millennials blaming everything on everyone else. Its a free world, and if a person cannot deal with what is needed to succeed, I suppose the complaints might salve the wounds of their lives.