In my experience, Baidu does not give quality technical results compared to Google.
But Google is playing ball with the Chinese government now. So now we know what at least part of the other side of the deal was. Block other American competition.
That reason is plenty of easily developed land, and policies which encourage home building instead of nimby horseshit that strangles home construction until even a hovel sells for a million dollars.
Also many areas of Texas have no zoning laws. The Towns/Counties arent telling people what is and is not allowed. They just let the free market handle it, and it works.
Those fines will start adding up. Facebook/etc can ignore the fines until they want to sell the company, merge with another, or divest in bankrupcy and then they will have to pay them.
It works the same if you take one of these companies to small claims court. You win a default judgment, but you still wont see any money.... until one of the above things happens, and which point they absolutely have to settle these outstanding judgments against them.
Seems like an easy choice. Harder if your ISP isnt such a dreadful company. My town wont let them in because the voters spoke up over decade ago on the matter of cable internet franchises. The country phone infrastructure is terrible and basically cant be fixed without a monumental investment that wont see an ROI in 50 years (still twisted pair from the early 80's on the poles / going into homes) so we didnt take it kindly when the local small cable company sold out to metrocast. Metrocast isnt allowed here any more. That sends a message.
My take on it is that there is a paradigm shift only a new wire, and this brief moment we are experiencing will end with corporate media, just on the new wire.
All the big players are shaping the content already. Google shapes search results. Facebook shapes shared stories. Even Patreon+Paypal are getting in on the game.
You are confusing lyrics with music, dipshit, and before you go googling for the message, a popular name given to piano sonata no. 14 in C minor is not "Quasi una fantasia".. it was later named "Moonlight Sonata" but that isnt going to tell you its meaning.
The translation of the name is roughly "sonata in the style of a fantasy" -- one of the greatest musical pieces ever written, and there is no fucking meaning is sight.
Are you now going to claim that this isnt one of the, and I quote you, "truly great songs"... no, you arent, because you've just realized that my first sentence here is true. You fucking confused lyrics with music. An extremely fucking infantile mistake.
I'm guessing we'll never seen the likes of the songs you mentioned, and never see another Bohemian Rhapsody, or Stairway to Heaven, etc, etc.
Most modern music does not seem to be played, at all, by musicians. I think this is the key difference.
Old bands like Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, hell even David Lee Roth get on stage and put on a god damned show whereas Lady Gaga gets on stage and sings some songs while people that dont matter and wont be seen by you ever again dance beside her.
The showmanship Lady Gaga has is changing outfits between sets.
By keeping the consumer price of electricity artificially low, the California government discouraged citizens from practicing conservation. In February 2001, California governor Gray Davis stated, "Believe me, if I wanted to raise rates I could have solved this problem in 20 minutes.
Energy price regulation incentivized suppliers to ration their electricity supply rather than expand production. The resulting scarcity created opportunities for market manipulation by energy speculators.
State lawmakers expected the price of electricity to decrease due to the resulting competition; hence they capped the price of electricity at the pre-deregulation level. Since they also saw it as imperative that the supply of electricity remain uninterrupted, utility companies were required by law to buy electricity from spot markets at uncapped prices when faced with imminent power shortages.
When the electricity demand in California rose, utilities had no financial incentive to expand production, as long term prices were capped. Instead, wholesalers such as Enron manipulated the market to force utility companies into daily spot markets for short term gain. For example, in a market technique known as megawatt laundering, wholesalers bought up electricity in California at below cap price to sell out of state, creating shortages. In some instances, wholesalers scheduled power transmission to create congestion and drive up prices.
After extensive investigation, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) substantially agreed in 2003
....."...supply-demand imbalance, flawed market design and inconsistent rules made possible significant market manipulation as delineated in final investigation report. Without underlying market dysfunction, attempts to manipulate the market would not be successful."
One of the biggest contributors to political campaigns during the period of law making that created the mess was Enron. So guess what fucker, your politicians made it happen, for their own personal gain. They sold you idiots out, and you are still blaming someone other than them.
the recent Gillette commercial where the company said men should tone down their toxic masculinity.
or, gillette opened a new marketing campaign with an attack on men. Very soon the SJW's are going to be saying that the "MRAs started it" and other such crap. You can see about that a self proclaimed SJW is saying how men started the attack on wonder woman when it was wonder womans marketing department opening with an attack on men.
After Wonder Woman was the only decent DC movie and held up as proof that a female lead and director can make a good action/comic book movie
Do you fucks really think wonder woman proved that? Why do you hate all that came before her? Why have you invalidated all the other women that came before? Is it that you are wholly ignorant of any other movie from any other time with a strong leading woman kicking ass? or is it that you fucks are just fucking dishonest?
I just watched The Quick And The Dead, yet another movie you fucks apparently forgot about... or are claiming to have forgotten about... or are claiming you are ignorant of...
there was a bit of a backlash from the Men's Rights crowd.
No, there wasn't. There was an attack on men by the marketing department of wonder woman and fucks like you. Which came first, fucker? The marketing department opened with the message that men are going to be mad.
You are not just a disgusting racist sexist sick in the head fuck. You are also a tool for a big corporation. All the people on slashdot that hate you do so because you started it. You generalized. You labeled. You declared yourself the warrior.
You arent a fucking super hero. You are a fucking tool of a corporation. Fucking disgusting shit.
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Biometrics are widely deployed.
So was snake oil.
In my experience, Baidu does not give quality technical results compared to Google.
But Google is playing ball with the Chinese government now. So now we know what at least part of the other side of the deal was. Block other American competition.
I bet the case had no merit.
I sometimes wonder if companies create weak cases against themselves on purpose to get a favorable precedent set.
If only you came with something that was true. But you didnt.
The school was put there after the plant was there. You are a complete fucking asshole moron.
Mod this guy up. I am a witness to it.
That reason is plenty of easily developed land, and policies which encourage home building instead of nimby horseshit that strangles home construction until even a hovel sells for a million dollars.
Also many areas of Texas have no zoning laws. The Towns/Counties arent telling people what is and is not allowed. They just let the free market handle it, and it works.
Oh the left is much worse than that on this matter:
Math (itself) is racist!
Thats where they have gone. I dont think we have hit peek "racism!" yet.
Blacks are also 2 to 3 times more likely to be poor. Perhaps being poor is what makes the percentage higher for committing crimes.
Leading to the obvious question:
Should being poor garner you a lesser sentence, more leniency?
Thats where the argument is going, isnt it?
Just to expand on this, there's a big stigma against hiring people who have served time in prison.
Do you think the stigma is arbitrary, or do you think its on solid foundations?
Nope. You are spot on.
Those fines will start adding up. Facebook/etc can ignore the fines until they want to sell the company, merge with another, or divest in bankrupcy and then they will have to pay them.
It works the same if you take one of these companies to small claims court. You win a default judgment, but you still wont see any money.... until one of the above things happens, and which point they absolutely have to settle these outstanding judgments against them.
If you are using it to exchange industrial trade secrets maybe not so much.
Are you kidding? Sounds like something that China would offer to pay you to keep doing.
My thought too.
Who do you trust more, Comcast, or China?
Seems like an easy choice. Harder if your ISP isnt such a dreadful company. My town wont let them in because the voters spoke up over decade ago on the matter of cable internet franchises. The country phone infrastructure is terrible and basically cant be fixed without a monumental investment that wont see an ROI in 50 years (still twisted pair from the early 80's on the poles / going into homes) so we didnt take it kindly when the local small cable company sold out to metrocast. Metrocast isnt allowed here any more. That sends a message.
The Truth didn't just die, it was murdered. Trump had many accomplices both on the left and right.....
Explain what Trump has to do with Dan Rather, the man responsible for a big part of my awakening.
"Fake but accurate" wasnt it?
This was like 15 years ago now.
Fake news isnt new. Its very very old. Whats new is people doing an end run around the fake press.
The MSM is already full blown gossip.
.. when you are unlicky its just "He said." or just "She said."
When you are lucky, its "He said. She said."
Real journalists require 3 sources before they run with a story. The MSM just requires someone to be saying it.
My take on it is that there is a paradigm shift only a new wire, and this brief moment we are experiencing will end with corporate media, just on the new wire.
All the big players are shaping the content already. Google shapes search results. Facebook shapes shared stories. Even Patreon+Paypal are getting in on the game.
Or why else would they be my facebook friends.
Because Facebook is the method the union I am in keeps the members updated and motivated.
No, I dont get to opt out of the union. Instead I am forced to pay dues, therefore I am forced to keep an eye on them all.
Workers unite!!!!11!!1
You are confusing lyrics with music, dipshit, and before you go googling for the message, a popular name given to piano sonata no. 14 in C minor is not "Quasi una fantasia" .. it was later named "Moonlight Sonata" but that isnt going to tell you its meaning.
... no, you arent, because you've just realized that my first sentence here is true. You fucking confused lyrics with music. An extremely fucking infantile mistake.
The translation of the name is roughly "sonata in the style of a fantasy" -- one of the greatest musical pieces ever written, and there is no fucking meaning is sight.
Are you now going to claim that this isnt one of the, and I quote you, "truly great songs"
Translation: "Today's music sucks because I'm old".
If thats what you get out of pointing out that todays music isnt played by people... its played by sequencers.. what does that tell us about you.
You think songs are about message?
Are there any other infantile views of things that you would like to share?
I'm guessing we'll never seen the likes of the songs you mentioned, and never see another Bohemian Rhapsody, or Stairway to Heaven, etc, etc.
Most modern music does not seem to be played, at all, by musicians. I think this is the key difference.
Old bands like Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, hell even David Lee Roth get on stage and put on a god damned show whereas Lady Gaga gets on stage and sings some songs while people that dont matter and wont be seen by you ever again dance beside her.
The showmanship Lady Gaga has is changing outfits between sets.
From wikipedia...
....."...supply-demand imbalance, flawed market design and inconsistent rules made possible significant market manipulation as delineated in final investigation report. Without underlying market dysfunction, attempts to manipulate the market would not be successful."
By keeping the consumer price of electricity artificially low, the California government discouraged citizens from practicing conservation. In February 2001, California governor Gray Davis stated, "Believe me, if I wanted to raise rates I could have solved this problem in 20 minutes.
Energy price regulation incentivized suppliers to ration their electricity supply rather than expand production. The resulting scarcity created opportunities for market manipulation by energy speculators.
State lawmakers expected the price of electricity to decrease due to the resulting competition; hence they capped the price of electricity at the pre-deregulation level. Since they also saw it as imperative that the supply of electricity remain uninterrupted, utility companies were required by law to buy electricity from spot markets at uncapped prices when faced with imminent power shortages.
When the electricity demand in California rose, utilities had no financial incentive to expand production, as long term prices were capped. Instead, wholesalers such as Enron manipulated the market to force utility companies into daily spot markets for short term gain. For example, in a market technique known as megawatt laundering, wholesalers bought up electricity in California at below cap price to sell out of state, creating shortages. In some instances, wholesalers scheduled power transmission to create congestion and drive up prices.
After extensive investigation, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) substantially agreed in 2003
One of the biggest contributors to political campaigns during the period of law making that created the mess was Enron. So guess what fucker, your politicians made it happen, for their own personal gain. They sold you idiots out, and you are still blaming someone other than them.
Can't make a profit, can't drop unprofitable components of business, can't raise prices to meet costs...
Is California government still price fixing even after their price fixing caused Enron?
Zero federal dollars better go to saving California from itself...
the recent Gillette commercial where the company said men should tone down their toxic masculinity.
or, gillette opened a new marketing campaign with an attack on men. Very soon the SJW's are going to be saying that the "MRAs started it" and other such crap. You can see about that a self proclaimed SJW is saying how men started the attack on wonder woman when it was wonder womans marketing department opening with an attack on men.
Social Justice Fools are Corporate tools
After Wonder Woman was the only decent DC movie and held up as proof that a female lead and director can make a good action/comic book movie
Do you fucks really think wonder woman proved that? Why do you hate all that came before her? Why have you invalidated all the other women that came before? Is it that you are wholly ignorant of any other movie from any other time with a strong leading woman kicking ass? or is it that you fucks are just fucking dishonest?
I just watched The Quick And The Dead, yet another movie you fucks apparently forgot about... or are claiming to have forgotten about... or are claiming you are ignorant of...
there was a bit of a backlash from the Men's Rights crowd.
No, there wasn't. There was an attack on men by the marketing department of wonder woman and fucks like you. Which came first, fucker? The marketing department opened with the message that men are going to be mad.
You are not just a disgusting racist sexist sick in the head fuck. You are also a tool for a big corporation. All the people on slashdot that hate you do so because you started it. You generalized. You labeled. You declared yourself the warrior.
You arent a fucking super hero. You are a fucking tool of a corporation. Fucking disgusting shit.