So I get something I need to spend more money, and more importantly time, to maintain and have to drive to get anywhere? And that anywhere only gets me to Tulsa? You're just making it worse.
It's just a PR stunt. If you read the article, you'll see they only have 20 "slots" available for this program. That's not a serious effort, it's just a PR stunt designed to grab headlines (and it seems to have worked). If this were a serious program, they would be budgeting for hundreds, or even thousands, of workers to participate, not 20.
Hey, 20 is a start.
The real problem is that bringing in the trendoids may eventually wreck what makes the place attractive to begin with.
"Hey, how come there's no rent control around here? How come they don't let the homeless crap on the sidewalk?"
Where do you get that Soros isn't Jewish ? It's not like being a southern baptist and you can walk in, take a special shower and be a baptist. He's Jewish (not that it matters), whether he actively practices the religion is irrelevant.
Or is this some tri-level conspiracy theory bullshit where after decades of attacking him for being some Jewish Rothschild mastermind he's now 'not even Jewish'.
He's a rich leftist (we used to call them "limousine liberals") who uses his money to cause problems around the world.
I neither knew nor cared that he is in some sense Jewish; nor probably do most people who criticize him know or care.
Well obviously. When a published author states in his article, for no reason at all, that most previous "champions" were male, that clearly means that I have some weird issue. Because logic.
YouTube's previous champions have been young, male amateurs like the video blogger Ray William Johnson and comedy duo Smosh.
Male?? Well we can't have that!
More than half of the 10 most popular channels on YouTube in terms of monthly views are from outside the U.S., and many of them belong to professional media companies.
Thank you, professional media companies, for saving us from... shudder... male amateurs!
Is Paris a unit of area now?
Are we talking the 105 km^2 inside the old city walls (plus east and west parks?),
or the 17,174 km^2 of present-day Paris?
The good news is that fake stories and conspiracy theories aren't working so well any more. Racism, anti-semitism, and anti-immigrant hysteria just aren't getting the job done like they did in 2016.
Huh? Racism and anti-semitism still work great for your key constituency, and with the thinly veiled "anti Israel" version for the rest of you.
Who did people think were paying for the servers and bandwidth? If you're not paying, then you're not the customer. Real VPN providers are cheap; if you don't spring the couple bucks a year that one of them costs, well, you sort of deserve what you get.
So if one of these starts charging a couple of bucks a year, you'll think it's legit?
How do you know that hasn't already happened? They could be vacuuming all your data and charging you for the privilege...
That's the problem with trust; it's not simple. For example, why should I trust some random guys in Switzerland? Or why should I trust some guy who rolled his own Firefox fork? I may want to, but why should I? It will be because of some vague trust marks of some kind.
For a paranoid user who just thinks the Big Bad Gub'mint is going to persecute him for torrenting bootleg anime, a VPN is just a scam to extract money for no actual benefit.
While I don't disagree with the rest of your comment, why "paranoid", when governments really do impose harsh penalties for such simple copyright infringement?
(2) Companies are run by humans. Humans have a duty to be moral, even if it reduces shareholder return. There was a company, I.G. Farben, in Germany, which knowingly furnished poison gas to the Nazis. Its chief chemist, Bruno Tesch, faced a firing squad for this in 1946 and rightly so.
And if this involved anything like that, you would have some kind of point.
Since it just involves more normal political differences between some employees and their employer, not so much.
But being aggressively anti-union and using your control over an economic behemoth to keep salaries down and workers firmly under your thumb... that's not bullying at all, right?
The first problem is: who gets to decide what's unethical?
When politicians created the notion of "intellectual property" around two to three centuries ago, they were intentionally engineering a change in their society.
For the ostensible purpose of advancing the arts and sciences.
Since forbidding people to create works using a cartoon mouse from 90 years ago isn't really doing that, we might need to revisit this stuff...
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What will we do with one less company making cool youtube videos of bipedal robots?
So I get something I need to spend more money, and more importantly time, to maintain and have to drive to get anywhere? And that anywhere only gets me to Tulsa? You're just making it worse.
That's fine; stay where you are ...
It's just a PR stunt. If you read the article, you'll see they only have 20 "slots" available for this program. That's not a serious effort, it's just a PR stunt designed to grab headlines (and it seems to have worked). If this were a serious program, they would be budgeting for hundreds, or even thousands, of workers to participate, not 20.
Hey, 20 is a start.
The real problem is that bringing in the trendoids may eventually wreck what makes the place attractive to begin with.
"Hey, how come there's no rent control around here? How come they don't let the homeless crap on the sidewalk?"
Where do you get that Soros isn't Jewish ? It's not like being a southern baptist and you can walk in, take a special shower and be a baptist. He's Jewish (not that it matters), whether he actively practices the religion is irrelevant.
Or is this some tri-level conspiracy theory bullshit where after decades of attacking him for being some Jewish Rothschild mastermind he's now 'not even Jewish'.
He's a rich leftist (we used to call them "limousine liberals") who uses his money to cause problems around the world.
I neither knew nor cared that he is in some sense Jewish; nor probably do most people who criticize him know or care.
Well obviously. When a published author states in his article, for no reason at all, that most previous "champions" were male, that clearly means that I have some weird issue. Because logic.
If you are talking to me, then you missed the sarcasm.
It's not newsworthy, and I am ignoring it.
(And making fun of those who think that it is important.)
Seriously, why? Who cares.
Because ... well, because ... non-Americans replacing Americans! On YouTube! Important!
And ... big media companies replacing male amateurs! Because ... er, not male or something?
YouTube's previous champions have been young, male amateurs like the video blogger Ray William Johnson and comedy duo Smosh.
Male?? Well we can't have that!
More than half of the 10 most popular channels on YouTube in terms of monthly views are from outside the U.S., and many of them belong to professional media companies.
Thank you, professional media companies, for saving us from ... shudder ... male amateurs!
How is he supposed to know who is qualified for the job if he doesn't even understand what the job is?
No executive is an expert in every job of his subordinates.
There must be some way for people to be good at judging competence in areas they themselves are not expert in. Because it happens all the time.
Chavez, a decade into his self-styled socialist revolution,
What, was it not certified by the socialist revolution certification board or something?
It's so funny watching you all try to disassociate yourselves from Venezuela ...
Is Paris a unit of area now? Are we talking the 105 km^2 inside the old city walls (plus east and west parks?), or the 17,174 km^2 of present-day Paris?
We ran out of football fields.
So did you expect the minister to write the code ?
Only when he's in the opposition party.
Sounds like he is 100% perfect at cybersecurity. No devices, no compromises. :)
The good news is that fake stories and conspiracy theories aren't working so well any more. Racism, anti-semitism, and anti-immigrant hysteria just aren't getting the job done like they did in 2016.
Huh? Racism and anti-semitism still work great for your key constituency, and with the thinly veiled "anti Israel" version for the rest of you.
What you should believe is that scientists will update their hypotheses and conclusions as new data becomes available.
The problem with that is that so will the OJ Simpson defense team ("update their hypotheses and conclusions as new data becomes available").
"Oh . .. so you found his DNA at the scene? Well, er, ah, he "bleeds all the time", yeah, that's it! We updated our model!"
Who did people think were paying for the servers and bandwidth? If you're not paying, then you're not the customer. Real VPN providers are cheap; if you don't spring the couple bucks a year that one of them costs, well, you sort of deserve what you get.
So if one of these starts charging a couple of bucks a year, you'll think it's legit?
How do you know that hasn't already happened? They could be vacuuming all your data and charging you for the privilege ...
That's the problem with trust; it's not simple. For example, why should I trust some random guys in Switzerland? Or why should I trust some guy who rolled his own Firefox fork? I may want to, but why should I? It will be because of some vague trust marks of some kind.
I think there needs to be a few court cases of unfair taxation that go up to the Supreme Court.
Would that apply to "enterprise zones" tax breaks designed to boost poor areas too?
Or does it just apply to incentives for disliked tech companies?
For a paranoid user who just thinks the Big Bad Gub'mint is going to persecute him for torrenting bootleg anime, a VPN is just a scam to extract money for no actual benefit.
While I don't disagree with the rest of your comment, why "paranoid", when governments really do impose harsh penalties for such simple copyright infringement?
It was nice of Russia to make the exercises more realistic.
Well, yeah. Seriously, I'd think they need to be ready for this?
"We'd like to announce that what the enemy did was really unhelpful, and even dangerous"
Oh, well, OK then, that should take care of it ...
(2) Companies are run by humans. Humans have a duty to be moral, even if it reduces shareholder return. There was a company, I.G. Farben, in Germany, which knowingly furnished poison gas to the Nazis. Its chief chemist, Bruno Tesch, faced a firing squad for this in 1946 and rightly so.
And if this involved anything like that, you would have some kind of point.
Since it just involves more normal political differences between some employees and their employer, not so much.
But being aggressively anti-union and using your control over an economic behemoth to keep salaries down and workers firmly under your thumb... that's not bullying at all, right?
The first problem is: who gets to decide what's unethical?
When politicians created the notion of "intellectual property" around two to three centuries ago, they were intentionally engineering a change in their society.
For the ostensible purpose of advancing the arts and sciences.
Since forbidding people to create works using a cartoon mouse from 90 years ago isn't really doing that, we might need to revisit this stuff ...
isn't spent fighting the coming war on global warming.
I know, right?
Then whoever does develop the best battlebots could enjoy a better climate.
killer robots are coming whether you and I like it or not. If you want to do something about it now's the time.
And by "do something about it", you mean become the best at it, right?
Because whoever is best at it is going to be making the decisions.
Whoever wrote the Slashdot summary should have taken the few seconds
Dang, with that low ID I can't make the "new around here" jokes ...