It's the typical reward system employed by lobbyists after a politician leaves office. Since he was the president the numbers are pretty high. The Obamas are getting deals in the upper 10s to 100s of millions of dollars. In this case they're being paid to be "producers" of TV content. Both parties do this but it just seems like the money laundering equivalent of access and public policy.
I guess it depends on the viewer. My youtube feed is mostly long form content on history, philosophy and current events. The production value may be "cheap" but it's almost completely displaced my TV viewing which was mostly fluff fictional content.
They do have some problems around their original content. It is... let's say alienating for a significant percentage of the fly over states but yeah this is just typical wall street bullshit. It's not enough that you are profitable and growing, providing for your employees and their families... no you've got to constantly jump to the tune of the hungry share holders who have no real interest in your company and see it only as another thing to buy one day and sell the next. I swear... I've always been a pretty staunch libertarian / republican type but I'm starting to think it very difficult to have publically traded companies and have a system that doesn't tilt precariously toward evil.
I'm... withholding judgement until they provide some evidence. I don't think you can say they "hacked" the election unless you're using it in the loose "life hack" modern parlance... they allegedly hacked some DNC servers and exposed some (alleged) corruption. That doesn't really equal hacking the election.
Yeah, it definitely seems like the west was a little naive in the 80s - very early 2000s. We had this notion that Western/European culture was universal once prosperity and democracy were granted a population. This ties into this notion still popular among many that the west really doesn't have a culture... it's like people are so close to their own culture that they cannot see it.
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The reality is that culture and ethnicity are interdependent and there is absolutely no reason to assume that Chinese people, once lifted out of poverty will choose the same path as Europeans.
Eh, 70% or so of families lose their wealth in a single generation link. This narrative that there is no churn or mobility in the US seems like nonsense to me. Sure if you want to be middle class it is probably more of a struggle than in the past but it isn't like the rich are some separate species.
Nah this actually stimulates the region rather than causing damage. We've been doing similar in other regions in both unsanctioned and sanctioned experiments to increase performance in battle and stuff like that for years. It makes sense given that the prefrontal cortex is basically what we use for long-term planning and conscious activities like that. We've known for a while that stress response is to shut this down so that you can deal with unrestrained effectiveness with whatever serious shit you're immediately encountering -angry predator or an enemy in territory etc.
There is less contrast with darker colors.. I don't know how you change that. I suppose we could shake our fist at fate and give her a good talking to but in the end should we abandon technologies because some groups are disproportionately advantaged?
Not really. I think it is something like 5% of criminals commit all the crimes. You'd never be able to have a wide enough net without basically arresting everyone.
What if the AI is actually telling us something useful? Maybe there is a certain set of facial characteristics that in combination predispose one to criminal activity. Testosterone for example obviously impacts facial characteristics.
Why does this conjure up images of hordes of inhumanely fast robots swarming cities and taking out citizens and soldiers with ease... How long until there forms an upperclass completely immune to revolution or the conscience of its human military?
I haven't seen an episode of Dynasty but I was pretty underwhelmed by Marvel's Runaways. It.. isn't encouraging I'll grant you that but I don't think it's a terrible concept.
Other than being hastily typed out and containing several grammatical and spelling errors I don't see anything about my post that would cause a reasonable person object to it. Certainly not in the childish manner you did. Judging my your ID I'm going to guess you are not a minor so I'll just give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're having a bad day.
Responding to your comment about Roseanne and Trump, I don't know that anyone imagines them having much in the way of discretion. I think bombastic people like that are good to have around though and useful as barometers for just how truly liberal/tolerant a society is.
Definitely it's about money. The whole leftist conspiracy you allude to has more to do with media coverage and social media than it does with the political beliefs of rich executives at production companies. Ultimately all of them, left and right, worship the same god, the Almighty Dollar.
I'm not so sure about that. Let's take the Rosanne scandal for instance, she was the top show for ABC. Their next best show was almost half the numbers. Rosanne posted that twitter comment that could easily be taken as racist... in context she didn't intend it that way. She didn't realize that the Valerie J was like 25% African ancestry. You can tell this doing a postmortem on the whole deal by looking at her initial attempts to defend herself stating "muslim is not a race" of something to that effect. She didn't realize the "racist" comments had anything to do with the target of her remarks being "black" -I guess we're still practicing the 1% rule when it comes to such things.. Anyway, they canned her without any meetings, investigation or attempts to damage control.
You're flailing. First of all homo sapiens are accepted to possibly be as old as 350k years with little in the way of major change. Setting that aside, you see the same thing with great apes. Chimps might have a token female in their squad as they roam hunting and maintaining territory but that female is always a straggler participating in what the males initiate. I'm not even sure why you could possibly expect anything different... It's like people realize they cannot argue against evolution in body composition because it is so obvious so they argue it stops in the brain. Human children are extremely vulnerable. There is zero evidence that women did anything significantly more than spend their time gathering food, caring for them and working diligently to keep them alive. It isn't as if that is some trivial accomplishment either....
Why do people keep trying to argue without evidence that evolution ends at the neck up.
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It's the typical reward system employed by lobbyists after a politician leaves office. Since he was the president the numbers are pretty high. The Obamas are getting deals in the upper 10s to 100s of millions of dollars. In this case they're being paid to be "producers" of TV content. Both parties do this but it just seems like the money laundering equivalent of access and public policy.
I guess it depends on the viewer. My youtube feed is mostly long form content on history, philosophy and current events. The production value may be "cheap" but it's almost completely displaced my TV viewing which was mostly fluff fictional content.
Yeah this statement gets more complicated with systemd these days but I guess I'd still basically agree with this.
They do have some problems around their original content. It is... let's say alienating for a significant percentage of the fly over states but yeah this is just typical wall street bullshit. It's not enough that you are profitable and growing, providing for your employees and their families... no you've got to constantly jump to the tune of the hungry share holders who have no real interest in your company and see it only as another thing to buy one day and sell the next. I swear... I've always been a pretty staunch libertarian / republican type but I'm starting to think it very difficult to have publically traded companies and have a system that doesn't tilt precariously toward evil.
I'm... withholding judgement until they provide some evidence. I don't think you can say they "hacked" the election unless you're using it in the loose "life hack" modern parlance... they allegedly hacked some DNC servers and exposed some (alleged) corruption. That doesn't really equal hacking the election.
I'm afraid those have all be verified by authoritative sources.
Africa will probably be more stable and have better education by the time India reaches the state that China is now.
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for that to occur...
That makes things a bit clearer. Thanks.
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The reality is that culture and ethnicity are interdependent and there is absolutely no reason to assume that Chinese people, once lifted out of poverty will choose the same path as Europeans.
Somehow I think the Lamborghini phone likely a better indicator of wealth. http://www.businessinsider.com...
Eh, 70% or so of families lose their wealth in a single generation link. This narrative that there is no churn or mobility in the US seems like nonsense to me. Sure if you want to be middle class it is probably more of a struggle than in the past but it isn't like the rich are some separate species.
Give them a break... Unicode is still fairly new.
Nah this actually stimulates the region rather than causing damage. We've been doing similar in other regions in both unsanctioned and sanctioned experiments to increase performance in battle and stuff like that for years. It makes sense given that the prefrontal cortex is basically what we use for long-term planning and conscious activities like that. We've known for a while that stress response is to shut this down so that you can deal with unrestrained effectiveness with whatever serious shit you're immediately encountering -angry predator or an enemy in territory etc.
It's funny how expressions of contempt and superiority so often go hand in hand with ignorance of a subject.
They state that you can use the vans for other business activity
AT&T has also been slowly increasing its invented "administrative fee". It is now 2.6x about what it used to be. Classy company.
Most people I know self medicate with alcohol or pot. You take caffeinate during the day and then hit a bar to come down.
There is less contrast with darker colors.. I don't know how you change that. I suppose we could shake our fist at fate and give her a good talking to but in the end should we abandon technologies because some groups are disproportionately advantaged?
Not really. I think it is something like 5% of criminals commit all the crimes. You'd never be able to have a wide enough net without basically arresting everyone.
What if the AI is actually telling us something useful? Maybe there is a certain set of facial characteristics that in combination predispose one to criminal activity. Testosterone for example obviously impacts facial characteristics.
Why does this conjure up images of hordes of inhumanely fast robots swarming cities and taking out citizens and soldiers with ease... How long until there forms an upperclass completely immune to revolution or the conscience of its human military?
I haven't seen an episode of Dynasty but I was pretty underwhelmed by Marvel's Runaways. It.. isn't encouraging I'll grant you that but I don't think it's a terrible concept.
Responding to your comment about Roseanne and Trump, I don't know that anyone imagines them having much in the way of discretion. I think bombastic people like that are good to have around though and useful as barometers for just how truly liberal/tolerant a society is.
Definitely it's about money. The whole leftist conspiracy you allude to has more to do with media coverage and social media than it does with the political beliefs of rich executives at production companies. Ultimately all of them, left and right, worship the same god, the Almighty Dollar.
I'm not so sure about that. Let's take the Rosanne scandal for instance, she was the top show for ABC. Their next best show was almost half the numbers. Rosanne posted that twitter comment that could easily be taken as racist... in context she didn't intend it that way. She didn't realize that the Valerie J was like 25% African ancestry. You can tell this doing a postmortem on the whole deal by looking at her initial attempts to defend herself stating "muslim is not a race" of something to that effect. She didn't realize the "racist" comments had anything to do with the target of her remarks being "black" -I guess we're still practicing the 1% rule when it comes to such things.. Anyway, they canned her without any meetings, investigation or attempts to damage control.
Why do people keep trying to argue without evidence that evolution ends at the neck up.