1,100 bloggers that it said had been publishing "low-quality content" on the app.
You must realize that they are equating porn/critical discourse as equivalent to spam. This is fairly similar to the idea that sinful thoughts (such as homosexuality) are just the devil trying to trick you, and a test of your commitment to what is "right". This is dangerous and stupid thinking, but to hear them use such a phrase is almost comical if it weren't actually happening.
You are perhaps new to China? They are communist totalitarians, and this is what they do. This is what we crazy old anti-communists were talking about all those years ago.
In other news, Facebook and Google say that they are going to protect us from other unapproved thoughts; they are just different unapproved thoughts then those that China is worried about. And lots of people are all for that.
Let Google pay the same on its income as I (Dutch person, living and working in the Netherlands) do. That's _52%_ income tax, for those interested... Corporations are people. Let them pay income tax like the rest of us.
OK, so go ahead and let them. Why aren't you?
We primitives in the US are supposed to emulate you, right? Because you are so much better than us?
So I thought you already had this all figured out and nailed down?
Why would more customers travel to a bad neighborhood and risk arrest and disease using illegal hookers when there's a local, convenient, certified clean alternative?
It's not that. It's that when you legalize something, there's a much larger edge of the activity to be fuzzy.
E.g. when there's a legal MJ "clinic" on every corner, it's that much harder to decide who to arrest, where somebody's stash came from, etc.
It's easier (not perfect, but easier) to police something that shouldn't be happening at all, than to police something that is sometimes legal.
(That's not even counting other effects, such as the moral instruction implicit in the law, the creation of a legal market, some of which might later prefer "piracy" for various reasons, etc.)
Sort of. His metrics are wrong. It's not smooth flow we want so much as maximizing traffic flow. Sure, not having to slow down and speed up is 'comfy'. But we cant afford to give everyone a few hundred yards of space around their vehicle. Traffic flow is measured by the number of vehicles that pass one point per unit time. This is affected both by speed and spacing.
IEEE has it right. If a traffic wave begins (traffic slows at one point) then the best solution is to get your ass moving once it clears out. This minimizes propagation of the wave backward through traffic. Which we all know as a traffic jam. Traffic flow is horribly non-linear. And trying to extend the logic of everyday phenomena to explain it (like waves in water, for example) doesn't work well. Even if it looks right.
Except in the real world, his way does work. Because you can't just accelerate all you want once it clears out, but you can leave a space in front of you.
Now I remember something from years back. When trapped in one of those "rubbernecker slowdowns", I always tried to accelerate like mad when I escaped at the end. I figured that if everyone did this, then the slowdown would evaporate. Yet this did no good, because the car ahead of me blocked my move. It would not accelerate. I could never force the cars ahead of me to stomp on the gas too, so I could do little to aid the "evaporation" of the traffic stoppage. Aha! I could control the people behind me by slowing down, but I couldn't control the people in front of me by speeding up. Therefore, I can smooth out a small traffic stoppage. I just have to acquire a huge empty space a long time before I approach it. But if I'm already inside the jam, I can do nothing to aid the "evaporation" at the far end. If I cannot predict where jams will arise, then I'd better drive all the time with an empty space. (Which is just what many truckers do...even in totally stalled traffic. Did they figure something out that I didn't know?)
What does puzzle me a bit, though, is how Birkenstock can prohibit certified Birkenstock retailers from selling on Amazon, and threaten to close them forever if they do. Wouldn't that run afoul of a bunch of competition laws?
Probably for the same reason we have "prescription cat food". It's not actually illegal for you to sell it to someone who lacks a "prescription", it's just that if you do, the manufacturer won't sell it to you wholesale anymore. (In return, vets prescribe it; they get extra exam business from the people who need prescriptions, and they generate business ultimately for the manufacturer.)
Businesses do collude, all the time, and often get away with it.
If you want traffic improvement,
1) get left lane laggards to drive properly and not slow down faster traffic
2) get everyone to be expeditious when intersection lights turn green
3) teach people not to contribute to traffic compression waves by over decelerating and then under accelerating
"Get other people to do stuff" is not usually a productive strategy...
Which was a deliberate act. Having classified documents on an unclassified server is likely not a deliberate act. As far as I can tell, that's where the line is.
Setting up an email server in your bathroom and then routing all your official email through it is not an accident.
Customary units are far more convenient for the tasks they're optimized for. But it's the modern need to do more complex calculations relating things across problem domains that makes them awkward.
Which is why, in the US, scientists use metric and everyone else, for normal everyday life, continues to use the convenient units they always have.
True and I imagine the whole "he was born in Kenya" thing was/is actually code for "he's black" - which, if so, is, quite frankly, stupid - but let's not overestimate people...
What if it's just "code" for "he had a really strange upbringing"?
Anyway, he's not black; he's half black. And half white. It seems to be you guys who are obsessed with the black half.
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1,100 bloggers that it said had been publishing "low-quality content" on the app.
You must realize that they are equating porn/critical discourse as equivalent to spam. This is fairly similar to the idea that sinful thoughts (such as homosexuality) are just the devil trying to trick you, and a test of your commitment to what is "right". This is dangerous and stupid thinking, but to hear them use such a phrase is almost comical if it weren't actually happening.
You are perhaps new to China? They are communist totalitarians, and this is what they do. This is what we crazy old anti-communists were talking about all those years ago.
In other news, Facebook and Google say that they are going to protect us from other unapproved thoughts; they are just different unapproved thoughts then those that China is worried about. And lots of people are all for that.
Democracies require everyone to be involved to work and that includes big tech companies whether or not you like it.
Er, no, "require everyone to be involved whether or not you like it" actually is not the sound of democracy.
Google: tax cuts for me, my friend ... for me, not for thee :) Social justice! or something!
Let Google pay the same on its income as I (Dutch person, living and working in the Netherlands) do. That's _52%_ income tax, for those interested... Corporations are people. Let them pay income tax like the rest of us.
OK, so go ahead and let them. Why aren't you?
We primitives in the US are supposed to emulate you, right? Because you are so much better than us?
So I thought you already had this all figured out and nailed down?
Why would more customers travel to a bad neighborhood and risk arrest and disease using illegal hookers when there's a local, convenient, certified clean alternative?
It's not that. It's that when you legalize something, there's a much larger edge of the activity to be fuzzy.
E.g. when there's a legal MJ "clinic" on every corner, it's that much harder to decide who to arrest, where somebody's stash came from, etc.
It's easier (not perfect, but easier) to police something that shouldn't be happening at all, than to police something that is sometimes legal.
(That's not even counting other effects, such as the moral instruction implicit in the law, the creation of a legal market, some of which might later prefer "piracy" for various reasons, etc.)
Funny how in some Scandinavian countries the penalties are even less and yet there is almost no crime. Your statement appears counterfactual.
That might have something to do with Scandinavian countries being populated largely by Scandinavians.
(Until recently. When, lo and behold, some mysterious local increases in crime seem to have occurred ... )
Sort of. His metrics are wrong. It's not smooth flow we want so much as maximizing traffic flow. Sure, not having to slow down and speed up is 'comfy'. But we cant afford to give everyone a few hundred yards of space around their vehicle. Traffic flow is measured by the number of vehicles that pass one point per unit time. This is affected both by speed and spacing.
IEEE has it right. If a traffic wave begins (traffic slows at one point) then the best solution is to get your ass moving once it clears out. This minimizes propagation of the wave backward through traffic. Which we all know as a traffic jam. Traffic flow is horribly non-linear. And trying to extend the logic of everyday phenomena to explain it (like waves in water, for example) doesn't work well. Even if it looks right.
Except in the real world, his way does work. Because you can't just accelerate all you want once it clears out, but you can leave a space in front of you.
Now I remember something from years back. When trapped in one of those "rubbernecker slowdowns", I always tried to accelerate like mad when I escaped at the end. I figured that if everyone did this, then the slowdown would evaporate. Yet this did no good, because the car ahead of me blocked my move. It would not accelerate. I could never force the cars ahead of me to stomp on the gas too, so I could do little to aid the "evaporation" of the traffic stoppage. Aha! I could control the people behind me by slowing down, but I couldn't control the people in front of me by speeding up. Therefore, I can smooth out a small traffic stoppage. I just have to acquire a huge empty space a long time before I approach it. But if I'm already inside the jam, I can do nothing to aid the "evaporation" at the far end. If I cannot predict where jams will arise, then I'd better drive all the time with an empty space. (Which is just what many truckers do ...even in totally stalled traffic. Did they figure something out that I didn't know?)
lol i remember that site from like 1998. can't believe it's still around.
The fundamentals of traffic haven't changed much since then :)
So what's a good pre-baked Kodi box? Asking for a friend ;)
The 1/32 rule was set by the right. The only reason the right made an issue of it with Obama was to not have to recognize a Black president.
Southern Democrats are "the right"?
What does puzzle me a bit, though, is how Birkenstock can prohibit certified Birkenstock retailers from selling on Amazon, and threaten to close them forever if they do. Wouldn't that run afoul of a bunch of competition laws?
Probably for the same reason we have "prescription cat food". It's not actually illegal for you to sell it to someone who lacks a "prescription", it's just that if you do, the manufacturer won't sell it to you wholesale anymore. (In return, vets prescribe it; they get extra exam business from the people who need prescriptions, and they generate business ultimately for the manufacturer.)
Businesses do collude, all the time, and often get away with it.
If you want traffic improvement, 1) get left lane laggards to drive properly and not slow down faster traffic 2) get everyone to be expeditious when intersection lights turn green 3) teach people not to contribute to traffic compression waves by over decelerating and then under accelerating
"Get other people to do stuff" is not usually a productive strategy ...
What you do have the power to change is your own driving.
This guy figured all that out in detail years ago ...
He's got all the right people foaming at the mouth, spinning around uselessly and obsessing over his every word.
In the US, 1/32 Black is "all Black". It used to be by law, but still is by custom, to many people.
To the Left, apparently.
Which was a deliberate act. Having classified documents on an unclassified server is likely not a deliberate act. As far as I can tell, that's where the line is.
Setting up an email server in your bathroom and then routing all your official email through it is not an accident.
People are daring to say unapproved things. Others are daring to let that text be found! This must be stopped.
Customary units are far more convenient for the tasks they're optimized for. But it's the modern need to do more complex calculations relating things across problem domains that makes them awkward.
Which is why, in the US, scientists use metric and everyone else, for normal everyday life, continues to use the convenient units they always have.
True and I imagine the whole "he was born in Kenya" thing was/is actually code for "he's black" - which, if so, is, quite frankly, stupid - but let's not overestimate people...
What if it's just "code" for "he had a really strange upbringing"?
Anyway, he's not black; he's half black. And half white. It seems to be you guys who are obsessed with the black half.
Examples: Look at the masses of people at Trump rallies chanting "Lock her up!" about someone who has not been convicted of any crimes*.
She committed a crime; it's illegal for her to do what she did running confidential information through her private email server.
Yes, people don't like it when high profile people commit crimes and get away with it. That's "conspiracy theory"?
They admit that they deliberately used his name and his popularity related to Apple. They admit that the logo mimics the Apple logo.
So, it's good that they won via fraud?
Literally the worst. I hate hotels that have text - they hide all sorts of extra fees in there. 0/10 would not recommend textual hotels.
Exactly! Text is the worst.
Bwa ha! Good one.
The crime of selling 100k worth of ads, that promoted both sides ? Which statute does that break exactly ?
{SJW}
Statute?? We don't need no stinking statute.
{/SJW}
For the humor impaired - I too think the "oh noes Russia" thing is pretty insane.