The current president of the united states of america and a good portion of Congress would say similar things about the news sources you turn to. Or, if they don't, there's utterly no point in talking to you.
Assuming you're not insane, my point is it's the grey borders of our rights that are at the front lines, the ones we're least willing to stand up for, until rights we took for granted are under attack. With gawker out of the way, they're moving onto defending a clear scammer against deadspin. They're moving on up the ethical ladder.
Same principle as why the ACLU defends KKK protests, the NRA opposes checking if a person is insane before giving them a gun, and why pro-choice and pro-life groups focus on late term abortions.
So go ahead and cheer the demise of Gawker. After all, they were so very very mean to the poor defenseless billionaire and pro wrestler celebrity if you want. Just be clear you lost a tactical defense there (again, assuming you're not a blithering infowars nut).
It's "total nonsense" that first class packages should cost more... and your evidence appears to be: because you personally want to pay less...
"I want to pay less in taxes and for government services! Also I demand better quality of service from the government! And the private sector could do it better anyway, I wonder why they're not!"
... I mean, that was pretty clearly the point here... Doesn't sound like they're taking anyone to court to make them scrub shit, nor are they naming names and saying "shame, shame, shame"? I'm confused as to what you're suggesting they should do instead. Stand on a street corner and read EFF bulletins on EULAs out loud?
Also appears you'll need to prove you were affected with documentation in order to collect it. Of course I guess if it was already in the divorce proceedings, that shouldn't be too hard.
Almost like the company set up this whole thing just out of disdain for their customer base of cheating dudes. Which, okay sure, but still bad idea even if there weren't innocent people caught up in it.
I was just reading the "constant 2005 US$ at PPP." Some googling reveals that yeah, those numbers must not mean what I thought they mean. It appears the average wage would actually be ten times lower?
Fuck checking ID at the border. A 26 year old throwing that kind of money around is going to be all the ID law enforcement outside of a very small number of rich countries need to demand payoffs. You know he's doing something illegal.
I'd guess that's why he was "found" dead.
DS is right. No matter what country you're in, unless you're from old money and make regular payoffs up VERY high, don't attract that level of attention if you're a criminal.
Obamacare puts a tax on absurdly overpriced medical devices and you call that a poorly written bill.
Wealthcare makes 20 million more people uninsured, and causes a death spiral for the rest of us... no comment on the quality of the bills
Democrats spent a year hammering out the points, accepting hundreds of suggestions from republicans, in an effort to reduce the unacceptably high number of uninsured, and bring down astronomical healthcare costs and that's "Had to pass no matter what".
Republicans are pushing to have a bill in a matter of weeks and are refusing to talk to democrats. All the proposals that have come out so far will shoot the uninsured right back up and dramiatically increase healthcare costs... nothing?
Just admit you dislike democrats and want to see them fail. I can at least respect the honesty in that case. Convincing yourself what democrats did was bad, with or without a comparison to republicans? Go fuck off and die of an opiate overdose, you ignorant hypocrite.
This comment. On slashdot "news for nerds" everyone.
I'd say "Fuck it, I'm out," but I'm more intrigued by the train wreck I'm witnessing. It's a nice distraction from the train wreck occurring at a national level being driven by the same types of douchebags.
Yeah, it's almost as insane as "corporate personhood."
Those crazy Europeans, trying to restrict the ability of their immortal intangible uber-wealthy corporation citizens to pry into the lives of mere mortals!
The mental gymnastics here are amazing. The details of obamacare were publically debated and negotiated for about a year. A third grader reading the transcript could understand that quote was taken wildly out of context. Pelosi was wrong to say that only because she assumed once the bill was passed, the outright lies from the far right about Obamacare would die down and people would understand the benefits.
Especially disturbing the right wing is pretending there's an equivalence with now. The house bill was intentionally passed with no debate before the CBO projection. The senate healthcare bill isn't even being shown to the entire republican party, let alone democrats or the public, and the goal is to pass whatever by next week.
"Yeah, this boat we are on is about to explode, but LOL, remember how they said the titanic couldn't sink!!!"
As opposed to the free market utopia we have in service providers now?
"Government regulation bad" seems like the worst possible interpretation to take from this. A still bad but better lesson would be "No matter what happens, they win."
Maybe the best lesson is once you let regulatory capture happen and monopolies form, it's nearly impossible to undo it, so enact aggressive government regulations before that point.
Interesting catch 22. If he stays in his "liberal elite bubble" he's a pompous ass. If he tries to venture outside the bay area, he's a pompous ass.
Don't get me wrong, he probably is a pompous ass, but not because of geography, travel, or meeting people. Even the screamingly obvious moves to run for some type of office doesn't make him a pompous ass.
Alright, MAYBE being a rich dude in the bay area does make one a pompous ass, so maybe geography a bit.
At any rate, it's hard to deny that a billionaire is not "regular folks" unless you've got some weird GOP cult thing going on.
You're stating your unpopular, extremist political religion as fact rather than justifying it, likely because you can't possibly begin to justify it. That's about as compelling to the rest of us as islamic extremists spouting "America MUST BE DESTROYED!"
Sure, but we were talking about cross contamination. I think the environments are different enough to make that unlikely to happen is what I'm saying.
It's of course not a simple scale of "tough life" vs "easy life" where life adapted to the conditions on mars is going to be extremely strong in earth's environment. Mars life would die on earth as rapidly as earth life would die on mars.
We could call it something else if you like, but he was suggesting "build a wall" and "hey, lets let insurance agencies sell across state lines."
Peddling magic solutions that were poison would be more accurate I guess. But my point is in the absence of any good ideas from the GOP, they sounded exciting to idiotic voters on the right.
Generally not multiple extreme insults at such a high level though, on a time frame relevant to us for contaminating mars. The article SuperKendal linked to mentions perchlorates are activated by the high UV found on mars, and could kill bacteria within 30 seconds. And it sounds like that was just the effects of the activated perchlorates, not the UV too.
Polyextremophiles are rarer than single extremophiles. D Radiodurans for example can survive in high radiation, extreme cold, vaccum, and high acidity. But I couldn't find anything about it being able to survive in activated perchlorates, so I'm skeptical it could survive in all of that simultaneously, let alone thrive. Should be easy to test first though.
As far as mars life infecting earth, I think it would have opposite problem of not enough food and too much competition. There are earth bacteria that eat perchlorates here on earth, but perchlorates are also a lot less abundant than on mars
I mean, it's worth studying before we risk it though. And given your username, I'll take your judgement on the matter...
I think it's optimistic to think that something will happen even when 4-5 big companies bitch about it.
I also suspect this might be part of a new "distract and conquer" scheme, where the right wing* political elites make threats to things that matter in order to get some awful things past us. It's hard to take away social security, net neutrality, education, social safety net programs, sane drug laws, protection from discrimination, health care coverage, environmental protections, AND let the wealthy avoid paying their fair share of taxes individually because of push back. Do them all simultaneously though and you'll get some of it.
(* Yes, right wing, fuck off with that fake equivalence bullshit. The american left wing isn't doing anything nefarious at the moment, and the bad things they've done in recent history have mainly been because the right wing idiots had too much power to do the right thing)
The problem at it's undeniable base is that Today's crypto-conservatism has no actual ideas, other than tax cuts.
Unfortunately it's mutated past that. I think this is part of what made Trump so popular in the GOP. He was actually coming up with ideas. They were terribly stupid ideas, but in the vacuum of the GOP, they sounded great (to the GOP voters).
Look at how much excitement "build a wall" got. Christ on a cracker, the "conservative" party went nuts over it even though the price tag would make the most tax-friendly liberal blush. To say nothing of the fact that 90% of undocumented workers from mexico come in by plane, or the wall would be 30 feet and easily climbable with a ladder.
If we could go back to the right wing merely saying "no" to everything, we'd be in a better place, but I fear we're in a new era with the right wing, one where the leaders spew out ideas that don't adhere to any political ideology of "we hate any one besides ourselves."
We're still stuck with low quality monopoly cable internet paying 3 or 4 times what you guys in big cities with Google Fiber get after competition drives prices down.
I'm not sure what counts as mid-sized cities in your book, but a lot of fiber cities seem like they'd count:
Stanford University
Kansas City
Austin
Provo
Salt Lake City
Charlotte
Atlanta
Research Triangle (Raleigh–Durham)
Nashville, Tennessee
San Antonio, Texas
Huntsville, Alabama
Louisville, Kentucky
The biggest cities aren't on there. I'm not familiar with verizon's fiber plan in new york, but from what I can tell it seems to be a typical scam. "Pay us tax dollars for promises we're not actually going to live up to." "California" is on the google fiber list pulled from wiki, and includes parts of LA, but that seems to have been announced before google announced they were giving up on fiber. At any rate, it doesn't look like LA has fiber.
Moreover, the situation out from the city center of those large cities probably isn't that much different from anywhere else, with absolutely no realistic talk of changing that. In a exurb of Denver, I have only high prices and low speeds from comcast or centurylink to choose from.
So I'd say getting options for high speed in major cities is still an issue that needs to be resolved. Why the fuck does everyone have to cater to the empty parts of the US? Isn't it bad enough that cities get far less representation in national politics than someone who chooses to live in the middle of nowhere wyoming?
Democrats aren't in control of any of the three branches of government. A core of republican voters simply want the GOP to shoot down anything the center and left wants to do. On health care, the GOP was refusing to even make eye contact with democrats. It's like you're accusing a murder victim of being lazy for laying down and not moving.
During the Obama administration, it was the republicans who weren't coming up with any real noteworthy ideas beyond "NONONONO" and "Lets try reaganomics for a third time!"
That's what happens when you have a two party system and the far right hyper polarizes things because they're upset that a black man managed to get to be president. You get a one party system basically.
Don't worry. If free elections in this country are ever held again and Democrats get power, they might be the only ones coming up with "ideas" and it will be the republicans who do nothing besides whine they're not being given a seat at the table. Except probably not, democrats have so far been too spineless to actually do turnabout. I mean, when Obamacare was being formulated, they spent almost a year negotiating with Republicans, taking hundreds of amendments. Exactly one GOP congressperson voted for it despite it being a plan initially proposed by Newt Gingrich and implemented by Mitt Romney. And they labeled it as evil socialism. Who the fuck were they kidding? If democrats ever get in power again, they'll try a similar "be nice to the irrational bully" approach, and the GOP voters will still accuse the democrats of being dictators.
I don't know much about CAs. TFA says wosign issued bad certificates for github, and there were other issues. Is this incompetence or malice? Were they just overeager to sell certificates, are they catering to criminals, or is this likely to be some type of state-sponsored conspiracy to spy on secure websites?
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The current president of the united states of america and a good portion of Congress would say similar things about the news sources you turn to. Or, if they don't, there's utterly no point in talking to you.
Assuming you're not insane, my point is it's the grey borders of our rights that are at the front lines, the ones we're least willing to stand up for, until rights we took for granted are under attack. With gawker out of the way, they're moving onto defending a clear scammer against deadspin. They're moving on up the ethical ladder.
Same principle as why the ACLU defends KKK protests, the NRA opposes checking if a person is insane before giving them a gun, and why pro-choice and pro-life groups focus on late term abortions.
So go ahead and cheer the demise of Gawker. After all, they were so very very mean to the poor defenseless billionaire and pro wrestler celebrity if you want. Just be clear you lost a tactical defense there (again, assuming you're not a blithering infowars nut).
It's "total nonsense" that first class packages should cost more... and your evidence appears to be: because you personally want to pay less...
"I want to pay less in taxes and for government services! Also I demand better quality of service from the government! And the private sector could do it better anyway, I wonder why they're not!"
... I mean, that was pretty clearly the point here... Doesn't sound like they're taking anyone to court to make them scrub shit, nor are they naming names and saying "shame, shame, shame"? I'm confused as to what you're suggesting they should do instead. Stand on a street corner and read EFF bulletins on EULAs out loud?
Hey now, that's not nothing. It's almost a tenth of what their CEO is worth!!!
Also appears you'll need to prove you were affected with documentation in order to collect it. Of course I guess if it was already in the divorce proceedings, that shouldn't be too hard.
More concretely, they also charged money to delete your account, then didn't delete anything.
Almost like the company set up this whole thing just out of disdain for their customer base of cheating dudes. Which, okay sure, but still bad idea even if there weren't innocent people caught up in it.
I was just reading the "constant 2005 US$ at PPP." Some googling reveals that yeah, those numbers must not mean what I thought they mean. It appears the average wage would actually be ten times lower?
Did his house in Thailand say "AlphaBay Founder".
Dude. He had four Lamborghini and three houses in Thailand. The price of a lambo is like $200k. The average monthly wages for a worker in thailand is evidently $4k. The price of those cars was equal to 16 years of the average worker's wages.
Fuck checking ID at the border. A 26 year old throwing that kind of money around is going to be all the ID law enforcement outside of a very small number of rich countries need to demand payoffs. You know he's doing something illegal.
I'd guess that's why he was "found" dead.
DS is right. No matter what country you're in, unless you're from old money and make regular payoffs up VERY high, don't attract that level of attention if you're a criminal.
Obamacare puts a tax on absurdly overpriced medical devices and you call that a poorly written bill.
Wealthcare makes 20 million more people uninsured, and causes a death spiral for the rest of us... no comment on the quality of the bills
Democrats spent a year hammering out the points, accepting hundreds of suggestions from republicans, in an effort to reduce the unacceptably high number of uninsured, and bring down astronomical healthcare costs and that's "Had to pass no matter what".
Republicans are pushing to have a bill in a matter of weeks and are refusing to talk to democrats. All the proposals that have come out so far will shoot the uninsured right back up and dramiatically increase healthcare costs... nothing?
Just admit you dislike democrats and want to see them fail. I can at least respect the honesty in that case. Convincing yourself what democrats did was bad, with or without a comparison to republicans? Go fuck off and die of an opiate overdose, you ignorant hypocrite.
This comment. On slashdot "news for nerds" everyone.
I'd say "Fuck it, I'm out," but I'm more intrigued by the train wreck I'm witnessing. It's a nice distraction from the train wreck occurring at a national level being driven by the same types of douchebags.
Yeah, it's almost as insane as "corporate personhood."
Those crazy Europeans, trying to restrict the ability of their immortal intangible uber-wealthy corporation citizens to pry into the lives of mere mortals!
The mental gymnastics here are amazing. The details of obamacare were publically debated and negotiated for about a year. A third grader reading the transcript could understand that quote was taken wildly out of context. Pelosi was wrong to say that only because she assumed once the bill was passed, the outright lies from the far right about Obamacare would die down and people would understand the benefits.
Especially disturbing the right wing is pretending there's an equivalence with now. The house bill was intentionally passed with no debate before the CBO projection. The senate healthcare bill isn't even being shown to the entire republican party, let alone democrats or the public, and the goal is to pass whatever by next week.
"Yeah, this boat we are on is about to explode, but LOL, remember how they said the titanic couldn't sink!!!"
As opposed to the free market utopia we have in service providers now?
"Government regulation bad" seems like the worst possible interpretation to take from this. A still bad but better lesson would be "No matter what happens, they win."
Maybe the best lesson is once you let regulatory capture happen and monopolies form, it's nearly impossible to undo it, so enact aggressive government regulations before that point.
Judging from recent history, he's going to walk right into office. He's got all the qualifications:
-Billionaire
So it shouldn't surprise anyone.
Interesting catch 22. If he stays in his "liberal elite bubble" he's a pompous ass. If he tries to venture outside the bay area, he's a pompous ass.
Don't get me wrong, he probably is a pompous ass, but not because of geography, travel, or meeting people. Even the screamingly obvious moves to run for some type of office doesn't make him a pompous ass.
Alright, MAYBE being a rich dude in the bay area does make one a pompous ass, so maybe geography a bit.
At any rate, it's hard to deny that a billionaire is not "regular folks" unless you've got some weird GOP cult thing going on.
I'll bite, what is it you think the left wing is doing that is worse and how does it excuse what the right wing is doing?
You're stating your unpopular, extremist political religion as fact rather than justifying it, likely because you can't possibly begin to justify it. That's about as compelling to the rest of us as islamic extremists spouting "America MUST BE DESTROYED!"
Sure, but we were talking about cross contamination. I think the environments are different enough to make that unlikely to happen is what I'm saying.
It's of course not a simple scale of "tough life" vs "easy life" where life adapted to the conditions on mars is going to be extremely strong in earth's environment. Mars life would die on earth as rapidly as earth life would die on mars.
We could call it something else if you like, but he was suggesting "build a wall" and "hey, lets let insurance agencies sell across state lines."
Peddling magic solutions that were poison would be more accurate I guess. But my point is in the absence of any good ideas from the GOP, they sounded exciting to idiotic voters on the right.
Generally not multiple extreme insults at such a high level though, on a time frame relevant to us for contaminating mars. The article SuperKendal linked to mentions perchlorates are activated by the high UV found on mars, and could kill bacteria within 30 seconds. And it sounds like that was just the effects of the activated perchlorates, not the UV too.
Polyextremophiles are rarer than single extremophiles. D Radiodurans for example can survive in high radiation, extreme cold, vaccum, and high acidity. But I couldn't find anything about it being able to survive in activated perchlorates, so I'm skeptical it could survive in all of that simultaneously, let alone thrive. Should be easy to test first though.
As far as mars life infecting earth, I think it would have opposite problem of not enough food and too much competition. There are earth bacteria that eat perchlorates here on earth, but perchlorates are also a lot less abundant than on mars
I mean, it's worth studying before we risk it though. And given your username, I'll take your judgement on the matter...
I think it's optimistic to think that something will happen even when 4-5 big companies bitch about it.
I also suspect this might be part of a new "distract and conquer" scheme, where the right wing* political elites make threats to things that matter in order to get some awful things past us. It's hard to take away social security, net neutrality, education, social safety net programs, sane drug laws, protection from discrimination, health care coverage, environmental protections, AND let the wealthy avoid paying their fair share of taxes individually because of push back. Do them all simultaneously though and you'll get some of it.
(* Yes, right wing, fuck off with that fake equivalence bullshit. The american left wing isn't doing anything nefarious at the moment, and the bad things they've done in recent history have mainly been because the right wing idiots had too much power to do the right thing)
The problem at it's undeniable base is that Today's crypto-conservatism has no actual ideas, other than tax cuts.
Unfortunately it's mutated past that. I think this is part of what made Trump so popular in the GOP. He was actually coming up with ideas. They were terribly stupid ideas, but in the vacuum of the GOP, they sounded great (to the GOP voters).
Look at how much excitement "build a wall" got. Christ on a cracker, the "conservative" party went nuts over it even though the price tag would make the most tax-friendly liberal blush. To say nothing of the fact that 90% of undocumented workers from mexico come in by plane, or the wall would be 30 feet and easily climbable with a ladder.
If we could go back to the right wing merely saying "no" to everything, we'd be in a better place, but I fear we're in a new era with the right wing, one where the leaders spew out ideas that don't adhere to any political ideology of "we hate any one besides ourselves."
We're still stuck with low quality monopoly cable internet paying 3 or 4 times what you guys in big cities with Google Fiber get after competition drives prices down.
I'm not sure what counts as mid-sized cities in your book, but a lot of fiber cities seem like they'd count:
Stanford University
Kansas City
Austin
Provo
Salt Lake City
Charlotte
Atlanta
Research Triangle (Raleigh–Durham)
Nashville, Tennessee
San Antonio, Texas
Huntsville, Alabama
Louisville, Kentucky
The biggest cities aren't on there. I'm not familiar with verizon's fiber plan in new york, but from what I can tell it seems to be a typical scam. "Pay us tax dollars for promises we're not actually going to live up to." "California" is on the google fiber list pulled from wiki, and includes parts of LA, but that seems to have been announced before google announced they were giving up on fiber. At any rate, it doesn't look like LA has fiber.
Moreover, the situation out from the city center of those large cities probably isn't that much different from anywhere else, with absolutely no realistic talk of changing that. In a exurb of Denver, I have only high prices and low speeds from comcast or centurylink to choose from.
So I'd say getting options for high speed in major cities is still an issue that needs to be resolved. Why the fuck does everyone have to cater to the empty parts of the US? Isn't it bad enough that cities get far less representation in national politics than someone who chooses to live in the middle of nowhere wyoming?
Democrats aren't in control of any of the three branches of government. A core of republican voters simply want the GOP to shoot down anything the center and left wants to do. On health care, the GOP was refusing to even make eye contact with democrats. It's like you're accusing a murder victim of being lazy for laying down and not moving.
During the Obama administration, it was the republicans who weren't coming up with any real noteworthy ideas beyond "NONONONO" and "Lets try reaganomics for a third time!"
That's what happens when you have a two party system and the far right hyper polarizes things because they're upset that a black man managed to get to be president. You get a one party system basically.
Don't worry. If free elections in this country are ever held again and Democrats get power, they might be the only ones coming up with "ideas" and it will be the republicans who do nothing besides whine they're not being given a seat at the table. Except probably not, democrats have so far been too spineless to actually do turnabout. I mean, when Obamacare was being formulated, they spent almost a year negotiating with Republicans, taking hundreds of amendments. Exactly one GOP congressperson voted for it despite it being a plan initially proposed by Newt Gingrich and implemented by Mitt Romney. And they labeled it as evil socialism. Who the fuck were they kidding? If democrats ever get in power again, they'll try a similar "be nice to the irrational bully" approach, and the GOP voters will still accuse the democrats of being dictators.
You linked to an image search for "common core fails" rather than, non-meme-based evidence. Thank you for illustrating my point.
I don't know much about CAs. TFA says wosign issued bad certificates for github, and there were other issues. Is this incompetence or malice? Were they just overeager to sell certificates, are they catering to criminals, or is this likely to be some type of state-sponsored conspiracy to spy on secure websites?