We could dismantle globalisation and start forming trade blocs that enforce minimum standards of workers rights and economic development and only let in other nations that develop to an acceptable level. We could then use these blocs to negotiate how the advanced economies transition to a laborless economy that's fair to everyone.
Don't be silly; we could never elect anyone who wants trade barriers!
As I recall, we tried the electroshock therapy thing a long time ago.
It worked, if you defined "worked" to include "turned them into vegetables". Somehow, I doubt that that's what TFA had in mind though....
ECT (electro-convulsive therapy) is used in the 21st century still, for severe depression that does not respond to therapy or medication.
It can and frequently does have side effect of some degree of memory impairment (not "turn into vegetable")... but that definitely is a better outcome than killing yourself.
And now its name is mud, the CD an object of widespread scorn. How did it come to this? Why did this brilliant thing fall so far out of fashion?
I think I can answer that for you.
Greed. Plain and simple. You buy a copy of something, you can listen to it thousands of times for free after that, you can copy it, you can rip it and put it on your PMP -- and they can't insert ads, they don't make another penny off it -- and you can sell the used CD later if you're tired of it, and get some money back. They don't like that. They want you to pay, pay, pay forever. So they start something called 'streaming services', which is just a fancy way of saying 'rent you some music for a monthly fee', and voila, you pay, pay, pay forever. An essential part of this marketing strategy is to indoctrinate the masses that CDs are 'old fashioned', something your grandparents use, uncool, un-hip, something that you should be ridiculed for if you actually buy them. Sadly, people are dumb, dumb, dumb, and they fall for this bait, hook line and sinker. So you have what we've got here today: 'owning' things is considered obsolete and uncool, and having to pay, pay, pay forever is the new hotness. As I said before: people are dumb, dumb, dumb.
And some people make rational decisions; just not the ones that you would make.
9.99/mo is way less than I ever spent on CDs, for access to way more than I could ever buy. I could capture the streaming audio if I really wanted to, which I don't, because I don't want a huge file library to manage and backup.
Yes, I could scour used music stores and rip everything and have my own disk arrays and it could mine, all mine my precious... or I could just pay a small monthly fee and not worry about any of that. Just not my thing. Maybe it's yours.
There are a few odd geeks who can run their own mailserver. There are far fewer geeks who can run a mailserver correctly and securely. I say that as someone who ran mailservers for over two decades, and who now uses gmail for their mail because it is far more secure than anything I can build.
Also, there are still unanswered questions about its security and what it means to voluntarily hand over so much personal location data to a single company.
Well, you don't do your banking on it, your private emails, nor does it track you when you are not actually in the car... so it beats your phone.
Honest, meaningful "discussion" reflects actual consequences and actions. There will possibly be a consequence for the discussion. Otherwise, the "discussion" isn't actually meaningful or honest.
Hmm, OK.
So if someone's a loud, obnoxious, threatening BLM type online, it's OK to ban them from your establishment? For what they said online?
Who do you know who has ever been banned from an establishment because of something they said on a discussion forum? If that happened to me, I sure wouldn't be bragging about it. You'd have to be expressing some pretty extreme viewpoints. And at that point, maybe what the OP is saying really is dangerous/hateful.
That's kind of the point of TFA, that anonymity should be preserved so that it won't happen.
If you are saying any of these things too loudly, I may not want you in my establishment. (Well if I had one that is) Many of the things you listed above can be said in both hateful and non-hateful ways. So how you say those things would be a factor as well.
If he said them elsewhere, not in your establishment?
Like, say, in a discussion forum, which is supposedly for discussion?
The couriers must follow exacting standards set by Amazon, from wearing closed-toe shoes and being neatly groomed to displaying their ID cards and carrying a fully charged cellphone.
In our brave new world, these are exacting standards...
Well, I suppose they are. In parts of the US, Amazon will let any slob deliver who can pony up the money for some vans...
No, we let them talk now. They're brown and that makes them the enemy now, just ask Trump & Co.
Before anyone goes there, no, I don't think Hillary would be doing any better.
It's you guys who are obsessed with always calling people "brown".
It's strange, and even stranger when you think that your own obsession makes other people magically racist somehow.
We've known this approximately forever. Expecting people to do this perfect hand washing doesn't seem to be working, from a systems perspective.
Maybe invent a box that people can just stick their hands in for thirty seconds, emerging perfectly washed. Or keep complaining about them being lazy and just keep letting them get other people sick. Whatever you prefer.
Inciting Violence. I'm going to be completely blunt. The reason the right wing (I refuse to call people in favor of radical change "Conservative") get more bans is there's a lot of them hinting at violence.
Oh brutha please.
Leftists literally say "punch a nazi" (meaning their peaceful political opponents, not actual nazis) and mean it, and nobody cares.
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We could dismantle globalisation and start forming trade blocs that enforce minimum standards of workers rights and economic development and only let in other nations that develop to an acceptable level. We could then use these blocs to negotiate how the advanced economies transition to a laborless economy that's fair to everyone.
Don't be silly; we could never elect anyone who wants trade barriers!
... Palemoon?
As I recall, we tried the electroshock therapy thing a long time ago.
It worked, if you defined "worked" to include "turned them into vegetables". Somehow, I doubt that that's what TFA had in mind though....
ECT (electro-convulsive therapy) is used in the 21st century still, for severe depression that does not respond to therapy or medication.
It can and frequently does have side effect of some degree of memory impairment (not "turn into vegetable") ... but that definitely is a better outcome than killing yourself.
And now its name is mud, the CD an object of widespread scorn. How did it come to this? Why did this brilliant thing fall so far out of fashion?
I think I can answer that for you. Greed. Plain and simple. You buy a copy of something, you can listen to it thousands of times for free after that, you can copy it, you can rip it and put it on your PMP -- and they can't insert ads, they don't make another penny off it -- and you can sell the used CD later if you're tired of it, and get some money back. They don't like that. They want you to pay, pay, pay forever. So they start something called 'streaming services', which is just a fancy way of saying 'rent you some music for a monthly fee', and voila, you pay, pay, pay forever. An essential part of this marketing strategy is to indoctrinate the masses that CDs are 'old fashioned', something your grandparents use, uncool, un-hip, something that you should be ridiculed for if you actually buy them. Sadly, people are dumb, dumb, dumb, and they fall for this bait, hook line and sinker. So you have what we've got here today: 'owning' things is considered obsolete and uncool, and having to pay, pay, pay forever is the new hotness. As I said before: people are dumb, dumb, dumb.
And some people make rational decisions; just not the ones that you would make.
9.99/mo is way less than I ever spent on CDs, for access to way more than I could ever buy. I could capture the streaming audio if I really wanted to, which I don't, because I don't want a huge file library to manage and backup.
Yes, I could scour used music stores and rip everything and have my own disk arrays and it could mine, all mine my precious ... or I could just pay a small monthly fee and not worry about any of that. Just not my thing. Maybe it's yours.
There are a few odd geeks who can run their own mailserver. There are far fewer geeks who can run a mailserver correctly and securely. I say that as someone who ran mailservers for over two decades, and who now uses gmail for their mail because it is far more secure than anything I can build.
Precisely.
Also, there are still unanswered questions about its security and what it means to voluntarily hand over so much personal location data to a single company.
Well, you don't do your banking on it, your private emails, nor does it track you when you are not actually in the car ... so it beats your phone.
Honest, meaningful "discussion" reflects actual consequences and actions. There will possibly be a consequence for the discussion. Otherwise, the "discussion" isn't actually meaningful or honest.
Hmm, OK.
So if someone's a loud, obnoxious, threatening BLM type online, it's OK to ban them from your establishment? For what they said online?
Who do you know who has ever been banned from an establishment because of something they said on a discussion forum? If that happened to me, I sure wouldn't be bragging about it. You'd have to be expressing some pretty extreme viewpoints. And at that point, maybe what the OP is saying really is dangerous/hateful.
That's kind of the point of TFA, that anonymity should be preserved so that it won't happen.
That's how it works.
Unless it replaces diet soda, as in my case.
Diet soda is even more unhealthy than regular soda though- so replacing diet soda is still a net positive in terms of health.
As I said, it replaced it.
Though, you still need to show your work on that one ...
SuSe sells support. For money.
Slackware provides man pages. For free.
Free * $2.5B = ?
Well gee, when you put it that way ...
Unfortunately, you pretty much have to trust somebody.
Hosting your own email on your own server is not easy. It's not going to be the common way for all but a few odd geeks.
The rest? Gotta trust somebody ... your ISP, or Gmail, or MS, or some guys in Switzerland who assure you that they are the safe option, or ...
If you are saying any of these things too loudly, I may not want you in my establishment. (Well if I had one that is) Many of the things you listed above can be said in both hateful and non-hateful ways. So how you say those things would be a factor as well.
If he said them elsewhere, not in your establishment?
Like, say, in a discussion forum, which is supposedly for discussion?
That's how it works.
Unless it replaces diet soda, as in my case.
The couriers must follow exacting standards set by Amazon, from wearing closed-toe shoes and being neatly groomed to displaying their ID cards and carrying a fully charged cellphone.
In our brave new world, these are exacting standards ...
Well, I suppose they are. In parts of the US, Amazon will let any slob deliver who can pony up the money for some vans ...
No, we let them talk now. They're brown and that makes them the enemy now, just ask Trump & Co. Before anyone goes there, no, I don't think Hillary would be doing any better.
It's you guys who are obsessed with always calling people "brown".
It's strange, and even stranger when you think that your own obsession makes other people magically racist somehow.
You put such mission critical stuff on "Google Cloud"?
Why??
How are voice assistants less immersive than screens?
At least if I sit down to my desktop screen, or pull my phone out of my pocket to use its screen, I'm taking positive action to use a discrete device.
An ever listening device that I can talk to would be more immersive, not less.
"Smut peddlers"? What year is it? 1938?
Has what's right and wrong changed since 1938?
Or are we just magically comparative super experts on what is right and wrong, in 2018, because reasons?
An employer? No ... a recruiter? Maybe.
We've known this approximately forever. Expecting people to do this perfect hand washing doesn't seem to be working, from a systems perspective. Maybe invent a box that people can just stick their hands in for thirty seconds, emerging perfectly washed. Or keep complaining about them being lazy and just keep letting them get other people sick. Whatever you prefer.
Bless your heart.
A Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Has Leaked
SJW donut shop revenues hardest hit.
You see, because SJW owners of donut shops will know who they are and feel obligated to refuse service to them and ... oh forget it ;)
It was funny inside my head ...
See, the fact that I had to explain the humor means that I was myself acknowledging how weak it was ... which is funny in a meta kind of ironic way ...
(It's humorsplaining Friday, apparently)
A Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Has Leaked
SJW donut shop revenues hardest hit.
You see, because SJW owners of donut shops will know who they are and feel obligated to refuse service to them and ... oh forget it ;)
It was funny inside my head ...
A Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Has Leaked
SJW donut shop revenues hardest hit.
Inciting Violence. I'm going to be completely blunt. The reason the right wing (I refuse to call people in favor of radical change "Conservative") get more bans is there's a lot of them hinting at violence.
Oh brutha please.
Leftists literally say "punch a nazi" (meaning their peaceful political opponents, not actual nazis) and mean it, and nobody cares.