> Supply and Demand is not healthy for a Consumer marked, it really isn't.
Consumer driven supply and demand is exactly what's doing to prevent a monoculture from forming. It's big business and central planning that leads to favoring a single crop.
The great blight is a painfully obvious example of this.
I find plenty of examples of where the rest of you morons seem ignorant of things covered in my crappy inner city schools. It's not that this stuff isn't taught. It's that most of you morons simply don't pay attention.
Then you double down on the stupid by whining that stuff isn't taught.
Sometimes your opinion of something is like a reflection. It says more about your own personal failings then then thing you are complaining about.
Where you have dire housing shortages for overpriced high rise apartments and have a high tax burden.
Americans can't even properly fund what social welfare programs they already have. Even liberals have no interest in paying the requisite taxes.
On the other hand, we have the best hospitals in the world that nothing in Canada can compare to. The world comes to the us for world class education and health care, not Canada.
This came up during the whole "Muslim ban" debacle.
Without evil capitalists, your Canadian hospitals would have nothing to treat you with.
People like to gloss over the fact that building "clean energy tech" is dirty nasty business. We don't get any of this stuff for "free". It all has a pollution overhead you really can't get away from.
It's just that some people are happy to kid themselves as long as they aren't seeing the diesel fumes and breathing them in.
> I'd think that anything that predates WWII is far enough in the past that it has little relevance on today's political climate.
"Ancient history" is relevant to both our region and theirs. The state of politics in both reflect political traditions with very deep roots. That entire region suffers from the fact that it's the remnant of the Ottoman Empire. It suffers from wars, ethnic strife, and a tendency towards tyranny due to the democratic traditions it DID NOT develop since the time of Mohammed.
Actually, it's the 800lb gorilla of OPEC that's keeping prices down right now. Our ability to engage in fracking has nothing to do with that. It's actually that 800lb gorilla in the ME that's tanked our own domestic fracking industry because of the afforementioned manipulation of global oil prices.
> and as long as political events keep putting scum like Drumpf in seats of power
You mean nonsense like the other party trying to crown an old first lady Queen? Yeah, it would have been nice to have a real Democratic candidate in the last election.
Don't assume an unhinged media narrative will get people to vote your way. If anything, that kind of thing should make people deeply suspicious.
> I wonder what the FUD stories said about lead supplies for lead-acid batteries before basically every car battery ever started getting recycled...
Tesla was worried about our oil supplies when it came to petrol driven cars. The American founding fathers were worried about being wasteful with our natural resources.
The idea that you should have something more than blind faith that the world will work out in your favor is hardly something new.
So what you're really saying is that all boils down to "sales" and the men are better at "sales". It really has squat to do with "gender discrimination". This isn't the fault of the company or the industry. It's a lingering effect of social indoctrination that "vile geeks" have absolutely no control over.
We continue to raise girls as victims and then are shocked when they become one.
> Or maybe you need to think about how widespread and pervasive the problem actually is...no, wait, no,
Except that can cut both ways. It can cut against your pre-set agenda too. You are only out to try and prove yourself right. You have no real interest in the truth.
Someone Trump hired turned out to be a bad man. This man is bad because of things that don't really relate to his work for Trump. However, the "justice system" will try to black mail him over these crimes in an attempt to gain evidence on others.
It's classic "McCarthy/Law & Order" nonsense.
It's the sort of thing that kills your faith in government.
> It's a fairly standard attack used on all media. Set an impossibly high standard and berate them for not meeting it.
This is a lame excuse for phoning it in or just plain being a party hack. Your kind of tolerant apathetic nonsense is a big part of the problem. You not only tolerate the nonsense, you make excuses for it.
You say "summary", I say a selective presentation of the facts designed to fit a pre-set narrative.
The only answer is to abandon the notion of gatekeepers and seek diverse sources yourself.
...and the article already mentions that this "black box" often doesn't do piracy on it's own. It has to be altered by the user to do piracy. It's just like any other general purpose computing device.
The great thing about social media is that people that hated Hillary could have told you that they hated Hillary even before the primaries started.
In general you can get a lot of information (on the web at large, not just "social media") from people who's intent or agenda is orthogonal to what they're cluing you in about.
I've been aware of Catalonia's status since the 80s, so I am far less inclined to get hysterical about the situation. In general, I have ceased to be interested in allowing the media to lead me around by the nose on any subject. I have no interest in their adrenal overload nonsense (trolling).
> Since when is "I don't know you, and I don't care to" a psychological disorder?
Since all of the girls in the psych department are from the sorority affiliated with the jock frat.
Psychology is not much more than the imposition of an orthodoxy and that orthodoxy is based on what people in the psych department think of themselves.
Slashdot is a news aggregator. At best it's a more anonymous version of the classic BBS. A key difference with actual social media is that I know those people and they know me.
Even a classic BBS was far less anonymous because the audience was smaller and more localized. Even then it really wasn't "social media".
It was not a place to collect and interact with social contacts.
I had my FB feed nicely split into various groups based on subject and location. I could check in on various groups based on how I met them or topic. It greatly improved the signal/noise ratio. Of course FB promptly buried this.
> People who are too insecure to tolerate other people are... snowflakes.
Pretty much.
Although this problem isn't just limited to social media. It's a problem with all media. Some people are perfectly content to cocoon themselves inside an echo chamber of their choosing.
They don't need "social media" for this. Social media just puts it all on display. I can see just how deranged my liberal friends are and how little real commitment to liberal ideals they really have.
The level of diversity in what I see is entirely up to me (or them). I can filter them without saying a word or they can make a big public spectacle about shutting out anyone they disagree with.
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No you're not. You just use it as an excuse to pretend that you can play dictator and pretend that you're better than anyone else.
True charity doesn't come with strings attached or bragging.
> Supply and Demand is not healthy for a Consumer marked, it really isn't.
Consumer driven supply and demand is exactly what's doing to prevent a monoculture from forming. It's big business and central planning that leads to favoring a single crop.
The great blight is a painfully obvious example of this.
It's not our education system.
I find plenty of examples of where the rest of you morons seem ignorant of things covered in my crappy inner city schools. It's not that this stuff isn't taught. It's that most of you morons simply don't pay attention.
Then you double down on the stupid by whining that stuff isn't taught.
Sometimes your opinion of something is like a reflection. It says more about your own personal failings then then thing you are complaining about.
> I love in Canada,
Where you have dire housing shortages for overpriced high rise apartments and have a high tax burden.
Americans can't even properly fund what social welfare programs they already have. Even liberals have no interest in paying the requisite taxes.
On the other hand, we have the best hospitals in the world that nothing in Canada can compare to. The world comes to the us for world class education and health care, not Canada.
This came up during the whole "Muslim ban" debacle.
Without evil capitalists, your Canadian hospitals would have nothing to treat you with.
> If America is so great, how come you have never won the Copa América?
You mean like the World Cup where our women have won twice?
Apparently soccer is a "just a girls game here".
> its not a "World Series" if its only played in America.....
You are deeply confused regarding how the World Series got it's name.
...or even streaming sites that don't cost nothing.
The cost of a Tivo and a guide subscription pays for a lot of stuff on Amazon.
People like to gloss over the fact that building "clean energy tech" is dirty nasty business. We don't get any of this stuff for "free". It all has a pollution overhead you really can't get away from.
It's just that some people are happy to kid themselves as long as they aren't seeing the diesel fumes and breathing them in.
> I'd think that anything that predates WWII is far enough in the past that it has little relevance on today's political climate.
"Ancient history" is relevant to both our region and theirs. The state of politics in both reflect political traditions with very deep roots. That entire region suffers from the fact that it's the remnant of the Ottoman Empire. It suffers from wars, ethnic strife, and a tendency towards tyranny due to the democratic traditions it DID NOT develop since the time of Mohammed.
Actually, it's the 800lb gorilla of OPEC that's keeping prices down right now. Our ability to engage in fracking has nothing to do with that. It's actually that 800lb gorilla in the ME that's tanked our own domestic fracking industry because of the afforementioned manipulation of global oil prices.
> and as long as political events keep putting scum like Drumpf in seats of power
You mean nonsense like the other party trying to crown an old first lady Queen? Yeah, it would have been nice to have a real Democratic candidate in the last election.
Don't assume an unhinged media narrative will get people to vote your way. If anything, that kind of thing should make people deeply suspicious.
> Well you dumb Trump faggots say shit about stringing people up for being wrong or liars all the time, don't you? Until it's YOU.
You're projecting.
> I wonder what the FUD stories said about lead supplies for lead-acid batteries before basically every car battery ever started getting recycled...
Tesla was worried about our oil supplies when it came to petrol driven cars. The American founding fathers were worried about being wasteful with our natural resources.
The idea that you should have something more than blind faith that the world will work out in your favor is hardly something new.
So what you're really saying is that all boils down to "sales" and the men are better at "sales". It really has squat to do with "gender discrimination". This isn't the fault of the company or the industry. It's a lingering effect of social indoctrination that "vile geeks" have absolutely no control over.
We continue to raise girls as victims and then are shocked when they become one.
> Or maybe you need to think about how widespread and pervasive the problem actually is...no, wait, no,
Except that can cut both ways. It can cut against your pre-set agenda too. You are only out to try and prove yourself right. You have no real interest in the truth.
You are unwilling to consider that you're wrong.
Someone Trump hired turned out to be a bad man. This man is bad because of things that don't really relate to his work for Trump. However, the "justice system" will try to black mail him over these crimes in an attempt to gain evidence on others.
It's classic "McCarthy/Law & Order" nonsense.
It's the sort of thing that kills your faith in government.
> It's a fairly standard attack used on all media. Set an impossibly high standard and berate them for not meeting it.
This is a lame excuse for phoning it in or just plain being a party hack. Your kind of tolerant apathetic nonsense is a big part of the problem. You not only tolerate the nonsense, you make excuses for it.
You say "summary", I say a selective presentation of the facts designed to fit a pre-set narrative.
The only answer is to abandon the notion of gatekeepers and seek diverse sources yourself.
You really can't outsource the truth.
...and the article already mentions that this "black box" often doesn't do piracy on it's own. It has to be altered by the user to do piracy. It's just like any other general purpose computing device.
The great thing about social media is that people that hated Hillary could have told you that they hated Hillary even before the primaries started.
In general you can get a lot of information (on the web at large, not just "social media") from people who's intent or agenda is orthogonal to what they're cluing you in about.
I've been aware of Catalonia's status since the 80s, so I am far less inclined to get hysterical about the situation. In general, I have ceased to be interested in allowing the media to lead me around by the nose on any subject. I have no interest in their adrenal overload nonsense (trolling).
> In a few words: it's not a Luddite manifesto.
It's not? It sounds a lot like Orthodox Sabbath to me.
I'm not the first one to draw this parallel. There are already gentiles that have cast unplugging for the weekend in those terms.
> Since when is "I don't know you, and I don't care to" a psychological disorder?
Since all of the girls in the psych department are from the sorority affiliated with the jock frat.
Psychology is not much more than the imposition of an orthodoxy and that orthodoxy is based on what people in the psych department think of themselves.
Slashdot is a news aggregator. At best it's a more anonymous version of the classic BBS. A key difference with actual social media is that I know those people and they know me.
Even a classic BBS was far less anonymous because the audience was smaller and more localized. Even then it really wasn't "social media".
It was not a place to collect and interact with social contacts.
Neither is Slashdot.
I had my FB feed nicely split into various groups based on subject and location. I could check in on various groups based on how I met them or topic. It greatly improved the signal/noise ratio. Of course FB promptly buried this.
> People who are too insecure to tolerate other people are... snowflakes.
Pretty much.
Although this problem isn't just limited to social media. It's a problem with all media. Some people are perfectly content to cocoon themselves inside an echo chamber of their choosing.
They don't need "social media" for this. Social media just puts it all on display. I can see just how deranged my liberal friends are and how little real commitment to liberal ideals they really have.
The level of diversity in what I see is entirely up to me (or them). I can filter them without saying a word or they can make a big public spectacle about shutting out anyone they disagree with.