You take your shoes off because some nut tried to sneak in a bomb in his shoes three months after 9/11. Your UID is lower than mine, so you remember that too.
That's 41,000 per day, every day. No one is even going to follow up to see if the first alias listed even exists, let alone have time to verify its authenticity. This isn't even security theatre, it's security elevator music.
If it's the municipal government that owns the tubes, all the pseudo-legal arguments about how private companies are free to censor guns and right-wing politics all they like go out the door. Not that they had much of a foothold to start with, but...you know, jus' saying.
The folks making the zillions indeed are. But there's work at the lower end of the scale too that's enabled by this stuff. The fact that people's personal data has monetary value means there's money for them to be made. It's not the same as a job in a factory making physical things that other people want to buy, but a) it's still work, just of a different kind, and b) social media didn't send the factories overseas, shortsighted free trade policies had a big hand in it. That part is partly reversible.
They're free riders in the sense that they are under the impression that it's Europe's job to fix and/or take the ouch out of every mess that happens in sub-Saharan Africa and in the middle east. For the individual person, you can have compassion and offer succour. For millions of people, you ought not encourage mass migration.
The world is not just queerer than we suppose, it is queerer than we can suppose.
Who would have thought twenty years ago there were billions of dollars to be made out of silly cat videos and making funny faces into a camera? So long as people are alive, there's a way to make money off of them, meaning there's a way for them to make money.
I never said it's foolproof for the one doing the tracking. I did say that you're a fool if you think you can stay perfectly anonymous by spitting bits down a wire you pay for under your own name.
I can also track down where you're sitting because IP address shows up in the server log each and every time you visit my site, regardless of whether you log on or not. That's how the internet works. Doesn't matter if you're using SSL or plain old HTTP. If you're not going over a proxy, I know where you are. And if you are using a proxy...you better hope it's trustworthy. Tor sort of works too, but nothing is fool-proof when you've got a fucking wire going to your house that you pay for under your own name or a phone issued to you by the guys who run the cell towers that you pay under your own name.
Same deal for AC's posting on slashdot. Same deal with me: obviously 'RightwingNutjob' isn't my real name but if someone wanted to, they could figure out where I am and make a pretty good guess at who I am. That's why I don't post shit I wouldn't want my mother to see on here, or anywhere.
They already are buying from elsewhere, including from themselves, and not doing much buying from us. That's what a "$375 billion trade deficit" means.
You're assuming he's painting with a broad brush. Maybe he really is just targeting his comments at hateful liberals as opposed to reasonable liberals. Then again, maybe he is radiating into 4pi and damn the consequences.
If the shit in the store is cheaper, but: 20% of the population loses their jobs today, and another 20% loses their jobs tomorrow because the investment in capital goes overseas, and yet another 20% is SOL because after the investment goes overseas, the incentive to continue to know how to build stuff goes bye-bye, and the other 35% are a mix of unoffshoreable low-skill house cleaners and mid-skill plumbers and auto mechanics who now have fewer customers,
...all while the remaining 5% in government, academia, and big media preen about how this is all in fact good for us...that's not a win.
on suggested videos, don't browse while logged in and don't leave or read any of the comments. That's about all you can do since they're a near monopoly on much of their content. Don't give them any more eyeball time than you have to. Kill time in other ways besides youtube browsing Get your cat videos elsewhere, get your music elsewhere. Read a book. Watch what you want to watch and not a second more, no matter how tempting it is.
A misperception is that our gun ownership is nigh-indiscriminate. It is not. ALL commercial sales of both long guns and handguns require a criminal background check. That is a federal mandate. Many states have more stringent mandates. In my home state of Massachusetts, you are required to undergo a background check and waiting period in order to even be eligible to make a purchase. On paper the system is not bad, but the implementation is spotty. Sometimes it's a rubber stamp. Sometimes they run you through the wringer, all while a guy the next town over...literally a matter of minutes travel...get's a rubber stamp. There are also other bits of silliness like capricious imposition of restrictions on when and where a gun may be carried or transported and obviously it only applies to law-abiding people. But all in all it's a reasonable model that many other states also implement.
Other states don't care. In New Hampshire, which is about 45 minutes travel from where I'm sitting, once you get your gun license, you can buy whatever you want and carry it whereever you want, with the exception of federal buildings or onto airplanes. Same deal in the Mountain West states. Statistically, the rate of misuse of firearms is not correlated with how restrictive a jurisdiction is, only the bulk rate of firearm ownership is.
The gun show "loophole" that people keep harping on largely does not exist. If you are a commercial firearms dealer, you have to perform a background check on your customers no matter when or where the sale is made. What "loophole" does exist is that (depending on jurisdiction), a private party may sell a firearm to another private party within the same state without performing a background check. This is a very small volume of purchases, and mainly used by friends or family members.
Fully automatic rifles and sub machine guns have been illegal to own by civilians since the 1930s, with few objections. Military-grade munitions are not sold to civilians since they are classified as munitions under the International Trafficking in Arms Reduction act, and manufacturers would lose their export licenses and lucrative defense contracts if they violate it by letting anyone buy them without specific contractual restrictions for the sale.
Where the knee-jerk reactions against further regulations comes from is the fact that all of these restrictions exist, but the people pushing for more either don't want to admit that the restrictions exist and it is the enforcement mechanisms that are failing, or they do understand but don't like the idea of mass gun ownership so they push solutions against straw man problems.
The Constitution is an abstract concept. Guns and taxes are only "stupid stuff" in the sense that anything that isn't an actual Platonic ideal is stupid stuff.
High taxes enable perversion of the intent of the Constitution. Nigh-indiscriminate gun-grabbing is both a perversion of the intent of the Constitution and enables more perversion. Military escapades abroad are a perversion, but guess how much worse it would be if all we did was debate that all while acquiescing to higher taxes and more government micromanagement.
Facebook, Google, Twitter and the rest of the the customer-facing big boys already censor. Infrastructure providers like GoDaddy censor. Square and Paypal censor, to the extent that commerce may be considered speech. Actually worse for the latter since it's the commerce equivalent of private speech they're going after.
If, for instance, Facebook doesn't know enough to need to ask its users if old men trolling for young boys is wrong, maybe a little cage rattling from the federal government really is called for. How about that...a right wing nutjob who voted Libertarian says federal oversight isn't necessarily a bad thing.
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You take your shoes off because some nut tried to sneak in a bomb in his shoes three months after 9/11. Your UID is lower than mine, so you remember that too.
That's 41,000 per day, every day. No one is even going to follow up to see if the first alias listed even exists, let alone have time to verify its authenticity. This isn't even security theatre, it's security elevator music.
If it's the municipal government that owns the tubes, all the pseudo-legal arguments about how private companies are free to censor guns and right-wing politics all they like go out the door. Not that they had much of a foothold to start with, but...you know, jus' saying.
The folks making the zillions indeed are. But there's work at the lower end of the scale too that's enabled by this stuff. The fact that people's personal data has monetary value means there's money for them to be made. It's not the same as a job in a factory making physical things that other people want to buy, but a) it's still work, just of a different kind, and b) social media didn't send the factories overseas, shortsighted free trade policies had a big hand in it. That part is partly reversible.
They're free riders in the sense that they are under the impression that it's Europe's job to fix and/or take the ouch out of every mess that happens in sub-Saharan Africa and in the middle east. For the individual person, you can have compassion and offer succour. For millions of people, you ought not encourage mass migration.
For without it, how would Google spread the news of the their marvellous new invention? Huzzah!
The adults just let half a million free riders in because compassion. It isn't working very well for them.
The world is not just queerer than we suppose, it is queerer than we can suppose.
Who would have thought twenty years ago there were billions of dollars to be made out of silly cat videos and making funny faces into a camera? So long as people are alive, there's a way to make money off of them, meaning there's a way for them to make money.
What is AI and when will we finally be only ten years away from it?
Is that what you did right there, AC? Or are you sitting in a nice comfy chair in the living room of a house with your name on the deed?
I never said it's foolproof for the one doing the tracking. I did say that you're a fool if you think you can stay perfectly anonymous by spitting bits down a wire you pay for under your own name.
But Justin Trudeau is so dreamy...[girlish giggle]...
I can also track down where you're sitting because IP address shows up in the server log each and every time you visit my site, regardless of whether you log on or not. That's how the internet works. Doesn't matter if you're using SSL or plain old HTTP. If you're not going over a proxy, I know where you are. And if you are using a proxy...you better hope it's trustworthy. Tor sort of works too, but nothing is fool-proof when you've got a fucking wire going to your house that you pay for under your own name or a phone issued to you by the guys who run the cell towers that you pay under your own name.
Same deal for AC's posting on slashdot. Same deal with me: obviously 'RightwingNutjob' isn't my real name but if someone wanted to, they could figure out where I am and make a pretty good guess at who I am. That's why I don't post shit I wouldn't want my mother to see on here, or anywhere.
The great triumph of the human intellect has been the taming of nature to suit us. Darkness and cold were the first beasts we slayed.
Do you receive compensation for your work? zOMG!!1!slavery!
15 miles, in the snow, uphill both ways!
They already are buying from elsewhere, including from themselves, and not doing much buying from us. That's what a "$375 billion trade deficit" means.
You're assuming he's painting with a broad brush. Maybe he really is just targeting his comments at hateful liberals as opposed to reasonable liberals. Then again, maybe he is radiating into 4pi and damn the consequences.
You're a dense one.
If the shit in the store is cheaper, but:
20% of the population loses their jobs today, and another 20% loses their jobs tomorrow because the investment in capital goes overseas,
and yet another 20% is SOL because after the investment goes overseas, the incentive to continue to know how to build stuff goes bye-bye,
and the other 35% are a mix of unoffshoreable low-skill house cleaners and mid-skill plumbers and auto mechanics who now have fewer customers,
...all while the remaining 5% in government, academia, and big media preen about how this is all in fact good for us...that's not a win.
Not watching, not paying for Red.
on suggested videos, don't browse while logged in and don't leave or read any of the comments. That's about all you can do since they're a near monopoly on much of their content. Don't give them any more eyeball time than you have to. Kill time in other ways besides youtube browsing Get your cat videos elsewhere, get your music elsewhere. Read a book. Watch what you want to watch and not a second more, no matter how tempting it is.
Always good to check with another set of eyes.
A misperception is that our gun ownership is nigh-indiscriminate. It is not. ALL commercial sales of both long guns and handguns require a criminal background check. That is a federal mandate. Many states have more stringent mandates. In my home state of Massachusetts, you are required to undergo a background check and waiting period in order to even be eligible to make a purchase. On paper the system is not bad, but the implementation is spotty. Sometimes it's a rubber stamp. Sometimes they run you through the wringer, all while a guy the next town over...literally a matter of minutes travel...get's a rubber stamp. There are also other bits of silliness like capricious imposition of restrictions on when and where a gun may be carried or transported and obviously it only applies to law-abiding people. But all in all it's a reasonable model that many other states also implement.
Other states don't care. In New Hampshire, which is about 45 minutes travel from where I'm sitting, once you get your gun license, you can buy whatever you want and carry it whereever you want, with the exception of federal buildings or onto airplanes. Same deal in the Mountain West states. Statistically, the rate of misuse of firearms is not correlated with how restrictive a jurisdiction is, only the bulk rate of firearm ownership is.
The gun show "loophole" that people keep harping on largely does not exist. If you are a commercial firearms dealer, you have to perform a background check on your customers no matter when or where the sale is made. What "loophole" does exist is that (depending on jurisdiction), a private party may sell a firearm to another private party within the same state without performing a background check. This is a very small volume of purchases, and mainly used by friends or family members.
Fully automatic rifles and sub machine guns have been illegal to own by civilians since the 1930s, with few objections. Military-grade munitions are not sold to civilians since they are classified as munitions under the International Trafficking in Arms Reduction act, and manufacturers would lose their export licenses and lucrative defense contracts if they violate it by letting anyone buy them without specific contractual restrictions for the sale.
Where the knee-jerk reactions against further regulations comes from is the fact that all of these restrictions exist, but the people pushing for more either don't want to admit that the restrictions exist and it is the enforcement mechanisms that are failing, or they do understand but don't like the idea of mass gun ownership so they push solutions against straw man problems.
The Constitution is an abstract concept. Guns and taxes are only "stupid stuff" in the sense that anything that isn't an actual Platonic ideal is stupid stuff. High taxes enable perversion of the intent of the Constitution. Nigh-indiscriminate gun-grabbing is both a perversion of the intent of the Constitution and enables more perversion. Military escapades abroad are a perversion, but guess how much worse it would be if all we did was debate that all while acquiescing to higher taxes and more government micromanagement.
to build a robot to pick strawberries. The people trying aren't having much success.
How did I know this was a msmash article before looking?
Facebook, Google, Twitter and the rest of the the customer-facing big boys already censor. Infrastructure providers like GoDaddy censor. Square and Paypal censor, to the extent that commerce may be considered speech. Actually worse for the latter since it's the commerce equivalent of private speech they're going after.
If, for instance, Facebook doesn't know enough to need to ask its users if old men trolling for young boys is wrong, maybe a little cage rattling from the federal government really is called for. How about that...a right wing nutjob who voted Libertarian says federal oversight isn't necessarily a bad thing.