"Meddling", what does that even mean in plain english? I suppose that they are... mmh... doing stuff or something. Is Saudi Arabia "meddling"? Is Israel? What about corporations? Government agencies?
It's McCarthy all over again.
Well, it's a scary sounding word (for those too young to remember Scooby Doo, lol) that conveniently doesn't require any actual laws to be broken or for that to be proven in a court of law.
Roosky gang: "Now let's see who this witch really is!"
Roosky gang: "Hillary????"
Hillary: "And it would have worked too, if it weren't for you meddling Rooskies!"
Will they hide other anti-science information, such as "human embryos aren't really human", or "human gender is whatever you feel like it is", or "brains aren't biological and are not affected by genetics"?
But if they choose a charity whose cause is the fining of people for not baking cakes, that's fine... or a charity whose cause is the promotion of strange anti-scientific beliefs like that human embryos aren't human, that's fine.
Presumably the purpose of copyrights is the public good, not the enrichment of anyone.
Eh, well, the purpose of copyrights is the public good, yes, achieved via the potential enrichment of someone as an incentive to produce a work and make it available to the public.
So the world did turn 180 degrees while I wasn't looking...
Breaking up non-government natural "monopolies"? Yeah, pretty much... she doesn't seem interested in breaking up the state's monopoly on anything. Just in attacking private entities. That aren't even monopolies.
Amazon is definitely not a monopoly.
Google... maybe kinda on search and analytics. But there's Duckduckgo. And other analytics. So, no.
It is too bad, you see reports of inequality with different groups as an attack on the white male.
There is a Them vs Us mentality that really isn't present.
Um, yeah, it is present. A blind monkey could see it.
This "if you don't like our attacks you are the problem" stuff gets really old.
The problem is there was a culture of predefined gender roles, which our current economy doesn't support, which we as a culture need to adapt to.
Might be the other way around. When we pushed women en masse into the work force, we got the 70s... doubling the labor supply didn't double the jobs.
For some reason people find it difficult to see people who look differently them them as equals and be able to treat them as such.
Indeed. Example: the anti-white, anti-male jihads.
Please, let us follow suit in the US. So tired of it.
I can't even list all the annoyances. Here's one I haven't thrown out there before, I get to have the sun in my eyes for a week or two while driving to work, not once, but twice! Once because the days got longer, and again because we fiddled with the clock.
Yay, the kids aren't in the dark at the bus stop anymo...oh, wait, yeah, they are. Again.
Get used to it. More and more things you consider "yours" are tethered to its maker. And only work as long as its master (and that's not you) allows them to.
It amazes me how many people seem used to that already and accept it as normal.
Well, it's not intrinsically crazy.
My mains power only works as long as it's "maker" allows it to. My magazine subscription only works as long as it's "maker" allows it to. My jam of the month club (OK, not mine, but you get the idea) only works as long as it's "maker" allows it to.
If you rent a TV, it only works as long as it's "maker" allows it to.
Just saying, it's not unheard of. If it works for someone, they do it, if not, they choose something else. If this model succeeds and becomes prevalent, it's because enough consumers want it to.
Well, that settles it then. Emmanuel Goldste... I mean, Facebook, is the source of all evil.
Seriously, what are we supposed to do with this? Lynch Zuckerberg? Set up an office of censorship to make sure that no Moms get false information from anywhere? What, exactly?
And before the typical neo-conservative trolls shout it down: Remember that everyone BUT corporations is taxed by revenue, not profits. My income tax is based on my income, not on what's left at the end of the month. And so is yours. If we can survive that type of taxation, so can multinational corporations.
Income isn't the only tax, for one thing, individual capital gains are taxed only on gain, for example. (I won't say profit, as I don't think you get to account for inflation.)
For another, it's questionable whether corporations should be taxed at all. Their employees are taxed on income, and their investors/owners are taxed on profits. Just how many places on this highway are you going to engage in highway robbery, anyway?
And does this tax on revenue of yours go for everybody? Grocery stores? Restaurants? Have you thought this through?
Because I only pay for that song once. I can listen to it for the next 50 years without paying anything more, and it can't be "discontinued".
I have vinyl going back 70+ years. It was paid for once, and generations of our family can still listen to it.
If you want to rent your music and have its availability subject to the whims of someone else, that's your choice. Some of us, however, prefer ownership.
And that's fine, to each their own.
I just can't be bothered anymore. I have too much crap as it is. And I don't feel like adding ripping, storing, backing up, format fiddling, etc. to my responsibilities.
It's also nice whenever someone even mentions a song, or I think of one, or hear a bit of it, that I can pull up any song, anytime, and listen to it in good quality. (Yeah, I could YouTube for that part, if I wanted ads and not really knowing what I'm getting. No thanks.)
All for less than the price of one CD per month. I'd gladly pay someone that merely to not have stacks of dusty CDs (I have that whittled down to one stack about a foot high now, someday I'll bring myself to get rid if it.)
So a Taiwanese program used in Taiwan is controlled by China? I can't check the article myself as I have no login on the linked site and will not get one.
That's utterly missing the point of his comment. Unless you think Taiwan is staffed solely by angels.
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"Meddling", what does that even mean in plain english? I suppose that they are... mmh... doing stuff or something. Is Saudi Arabia "meddling"? Is Israel? What about corporations? Government agencies? It's McCarthy all over again.
Well, it's a scary sounding word (for those too young to remember Scooby Doo, lol) that conveniently doesn't require any actual laws to be broken or for that to be proven in a court of law.
Roosky gang: "Now let's see who this witch really is!"
Roosky gang: "Hillary????"
Hillary: "And it would have worked too, if it weren't for you meddling Rooskies!"
Then it's not necessarily inauthentic
So, the "problem" then is that they are "amplifying" true things?
All the major news companies have strong political biases of their own.
Nobody is free from bias. There is nobody you can trust to be the "fact checker" or enforcer.
And this has always been true; it's just much more obvious in the internet age.
How about you just put Angry Birds back on Windows instead of coming up with yet another game service?
Will they hide other anti-science information, such as "human embryos aren't really human", or "human gender is whatever you feel like it is", or "brains aren't biological and are not affected by genetics"?
What's that? No?
This looks like a kangaroo court.
At a college? We can't have that!!!???
But if they choose a charity whose cause is the fining of people for not baking cakes, that's fine ... or a charity whose cause is the promotion of strange anti-scientific beliefs like that human embryos aren't human, that's fine.
Who gets to be the charity police?
Presumably the purpose of copyrights is the public good, not the enrichment of anyone.
Eh, well, the purpose of copyrights is the public good, yes, achieved via the potential enrichment of someone as an incentive to produce a work and make it available to the public.
Breaking up monopolies is socialist now?
So the world did turn 180 degrees while I wasn't looking...
Breaking up non-government natural "monopolies"? Yeah, pretty much ... she doesn't seem interested in breaking up the state's monopoly on anything. Just in attacking private entities. That aren't even monopolies.
Amazon is definitely not a monopoly.
Google ... maybe kinda on search and analytics. But there's Duckduckgo. And other analytics. So, no.
It is too bad, you see reports of inequality with different groups as an attack on the white male. There is a Them vs Us mentality that really isn't present.
Um, yeah, it is present. A blind monkey could see it.
This "if you don't like our attacks you are the problem" stuff gets really old.
The problem is there was a culture of predefined gender roles, which our current economy doesn't support, which we as a culture need to adapt to.
Might be the other way around. When we pushed women en masse into the work force, we got the 70s ... doubling the labor supply didn't double the jobs.
For some reason people find it difficult to see people who look differently them them as equals and be able to treat them as such.
Indeed. Example: the anti-white, anti-male jihads.
Please, let us follow suit in the US. So tired of it.
I can't even list all the annoyances. Here's one I haven't thrown out there before, I get to have the sun in my eyes for a week or two while driving to work, not once, but twice! Once because the days got longer, and again because we fiddled with the clock.
Yay, the kids aren't in the dark at the bus stop anymo ...oh, wait, yeah, they are. Again.
Be sure to get Haven Prime so you don't have to pay an extra fee per IV line.
n/t
This should also be very useful for kids learning English as 2nd language. Can' wait to try it.
Memrise app uses Google speech recognition to check your pronunciation. Great for learning 2nd language.
Speech recognition is useful for many things. Foreign language learning, for example. Check your pronunciation without ever having a human teacher.
Get used to it. More and more things you consider "yours" are tethered to its maker. And only work as long as its master (and that's not you) allows them to.
It amazes me how many people seem used to that already and accept it as normal.
Well, it's not intrinsically crazy.
My mains power only works as long as it's "maker" allows it to. My magazine subscription only works as long as it's "maker" allows it to. My jam of the month club (OK, not mine, but you get the idea) only works as long as it's "maker" allows it to.
If you rent a TV, it only works as long as it's "maker" allows it to.
Just saying, it's not unheard of. If it works for someone, they do it, if not, they choose something else. If this model succeeds and becomes prevalent, it's because enough consumers want it to.
Well, that settles it then. Emmanuel Goldste ... I mean, Facebook, is the source of all evil.
Seriously, what are we supposed to do with this? Lynch Zuckerberg? Set up an office of censorship to make sure that no Moms get false information from anywhere? What, exactly?
Not sure how Google employees think this works, but you don't get to tell your employer what to do.
Yes, China is awful. (And when I say that, I get called a right wing war monger by .... your average Google employee type.)
And before the typical neo-conservative trolls shout it down: Remember that everyone BUT corporations is taxed by revenue, not profits. My income tax is based on my income, not on what's left at the end of the month. And so is yours. If we can survive that type of taxation, so can multinational corporations.
Typical conservative troll here, lol (possibly paleo instead of neo though)
Several things to take issue with here.
Income isn't the only tax, for one thing, individual capital gains are taxed only on gain, for example. (I won't say profit, as I don't think you get to account for inflation.)
For another, it's questionable whether corporations should be taxed at all. Their employees are taxed on income, and their investors/owners are taxed on profits. Just how many places on this highway are you going to engage in highway robbery, anyway?
And does this tax on revenue of yours go for everybody? Grocery stores? Restaurants? Have you thought this through?
I must be out of the loop ...
"France Considers Raising Taxes"
Because I only pay for that song once. I can listen to it for the next 50 years without paying anything more, and it can't be "discontinued".
I have vinyl going back 70+ years. It was paid for once, and generations of our family can still listen to it.
If you want to rent your music and have its availability subject to the whims of someone else, that's your choice. Some of us, however, prefer ownership.
And that's fine, to each their own.
I just can't be bothered anymore. I have too much crap as it is. And I don't feel like adding ripping, storing, backing up, format fiddling, etc. to my responsibilities.
It's also nice whenever someone even mentions a song, or I think of one, or hear a bit of it, that I can pull up any song, anytime, and listen to it in good quality. (Yeah, I could YouTube for that part, if I wanted ads and not really knowing what I'm getting. No thanks.)
All for less than the price of one CD per month. I'd gladly pay someone that merely to not have stacks of dusty CDs (I have that whittled down to one stack about a foot high now, someday I'll bring myself to get rid if it.)
I think I can Spot(ify) the reason ...
So a Taiwanese program used in Taiwan is controlled by China? I can't check the article myself as I have no login on the linked site and will not get one.
That's utterly missing the point of his comment. Unless you think Taiwan is staffed solely by angels.
Then I guess we'd better get hot ... no pun intended ... on some technological solutions.
(Perhaps the saltwater cloud guy from earlier today.)
Hand wringing, scolding, and name calling don't seem to be doing the trick.
Not to mention nuclear.