I like what consumer reports does in *theory* and paid them for a subscription, but their site was 100% unusable unless I turned off all privacy and tracking tools and reset my DNS to plain vanilla (I have a dynamic block list of known tracking IPs & domains). The believe that they own and can aggressively monitize their subscribers is whatever the opposite of "pro-consumer" is; I have an immediate negative reaction to anything they have to say.
Take all the High FPS/High Kill Ratio players - give them identical rigs with identical monitors - with half the subject population's frame rate capped at 60fps and the others maxed to 144 using identical 2080ti SLI cards. Measure kill ratios. Switch populations. Measure again.
Otherwise this sounds like a marketing stunt by Acer to sell some high frame rate monitors. In other news: young adult athletic males wearing Nike much more likely than non-Nike wearers to be tall NBA players.
I will take the AI chip after reasonable clinical trials; I would rather a skilled neurosurgeon or at least a well-tested autodoc install the chip, though. Elon is *literally* asking to put things into my body all the time and I keep telling him "no, Elon, it's over, god, I am sorry it didn't work out but you have your life and I have mine now - go back to Grimes; she is talented and I think she really liked you" but he just keeps showing up with bioenhancements with which to curry my favor. I've had to change my phone and email SO many times... "no, I will not colonize Mars with you I like it here and I think humanity can pull ahead of the death spiral curve of Earth's crashing biosphere"
I donated $30 this year - as a % of my overall income I expect I am several dozens of times more awesome than Facebook - plz snd me all yr personal info k'thks
Russian agents not instructed to 'make it look natural' so we spray enhanced e. coli indiscriminately on all types of produce. Mission objective of social chaos achieved but this oversight may come back to bite Kremlin on tuchus. Asymmetric response to American sanctions still largely considered a success.
It will take a *minimum* of seven separate and mostly redundant congressional inquiries to get to the bottom of this! #POLITICALOUTRAGE
am I doing it right @GOP?
If I'm reading Russia's intentions right, it *sounds* like they are trying to get the Saudi's to increase oil production to lower the price of a barrel of crude - that sneaky Putin.
We used to have a much more socially responsible form of capitalism in America - the top tax rate of 91.5% insured that income disparity was closer to 30x than the current 350x. The tax base supported nearly free public higher education. There was funding for infrastructure projects (which almost exclusively benefit the wealthy - roads to get their workers to them and their consumers to them vs. a road you take to/from work - should you be paying the same?)
Industries that could be converted to wartime manufacturing were protected sensibly (auto industry steel work, manufacturing, agriculture, etc.)... the boomers and generations after them saw what was built and decided to monetize it into the ground. They began demonizing "Socialism" (progressive-ism, etc.) without naming their own philosophy: Elitism (or Greed-ism).
The goal of Greed-ism is to systematically shut down any part of government that benefits society as a whole; slash the wealthy's contribution to common good (taxes, regulations) while taking full advantage of the current generation of educated public - use the infrastructure built up over decades for short-term profit while letting that infrastructure crumble due to lack of funds. Steer any remaining government welfare towards agribusiness vs. family farms, dedicated military-industrial vs. general manufacturing. Gut social protections for the bottom 90% (union busting, social safety nets, nearly free state higher education, etc.). Private schools. Private prisons. Legislate massive protections against lawsuits aimed at the rich; virtually eliminate those same protections for the bottom 90% (IE: you cannot get rid of your student loans by declaring bankruptcy; most situations in which you could try and recoup justice through civil suits are now steered into arbitration, etc.).
Elitism is what Bernie Sanders should be talking about - compare and contrast *that* against his Socially Responsible Capitalism policy suggestions. Promote a government and policies that protet the common good against the Greedy Elite - recognizing that they have the resources to protect themselves and require a strong check/balance in a progressive government.
Government did a much better job in Eisenhower's time than it does in ours (with obvious black marks in minority/womens/LGBT rights).
The onus is on you to tell us when you believe equality in society was such that we shouldn't be actively trying to recognize and root out sexism. Your attitude is flippant - I know you'd admit absolute sexism in the 1500s everywhere. 1920s America was a terrible time to be a woman. 1950s America was a terrible time to be a woman. If you're so ignorant as to not understand the specifics of those times, no reason to continue to communicate - you're an obvious troll. If you *do* cede that these were all terrible times for women and that generations of them missed opportunities that instead went to men, then tell us: when did equality hit with such force that this is no longer an issue you should be fucking figuring out yourself vs. using freshman deconstructionism to argue against - all while not being helpful in any way?
Check current monthly prices (and available bandwidth) for boat & ship-based internet service. 4-5 figures monthly for paltry Mbps... a pretty standard rate is $1 per MB for 4mb down/1mb up service - plus thousands in hardware and presumably a static monthly account fee...
For reference, what would be the WHO measurement of sitting around a campfire and occasionally being directly in the smoke for 5% of the day? I imagine most children who were ever born were raised in a situation similar to this (or better yet raised in a shelter with open fire and burning candles for most of the night).
Kind of like sodium intake before the invention of refrigeration - what was that average?
In the end, we got together and formed a government/society so we would all be better off together. Not so we could build big Microsofts, Googles and Apples - except to the extent that those companies make our lives better and enrich our common society. Towards that end, come up with common sense rules that don't directly contribute towards the nihilistic race to the bottom the GOP and their overlords apparently want:
1) tax the productive output just for social security and medicare - but uncapped
2) uncap medicare and social security taxes
3) do not allow any tax write-offs for robotics
4) do allow tax write offs for salaries over $50k and less than $400k
5) do not allow any write-offs for bonuses not distributed across entire employee groups (IE: if everyone gets $100 but one guy gets $1,000,000, then that one guy only has a $100 bonus towards write-offs)
6) treat bonuses and salaries in excess of $1,000,000/year as actual taxable income which a company must immediately recognize and pay taxes on - including use of cars and residences
We can do a lot of things to let the few continue to take all GDP gains and cheat the bottom 98%. Their effective propaganda may have you believing some of these ideas are bad - but if we don't reverse the greed of the few, they won't be just paying a little more in taxes and making a little less in profit - they'll be discovering what this generation's 'guillotine' turns out to be.
If we're combating wealth inequality, "America First" and "America Great Again" then the H1B minimum salary should be pegged at no less than 20% of the salary + bonus + benefits of an organizations CEO/COO (whichever is higher) as posted the prior year according to their income tax statement - or $100K pegged to 2016 dollars - whichever less less.
Although honestly unless we have a way to verify the quality of the imported talent - their safety - then we really should only allow American-made talent. For now. I'm all for H1B worker visas - but only after the FDA says they're safe. Just like that recently defeated drug import amendment. AM I RIGHT CORY BOOKER? AM I RIGHT?
No, no - everybody wants Texas to leave - Texans and non-Texans alike. There is no argument. WHY ARE WE STILL TALKING ABOUT THIS? We will need to physically ship all of the non-capital parts of Austin over between Portland and San Fran. Obviously. Army Corps of Engineers can make Austin Great Again.
So dance clubs, concert venues, most Broadway shows - those are all death traps? Because most of those places go through *gallons* of propylene glycol a night - as where most eCig users are puffing 50ml every 3-6 months. THINK OF THE BROADWAY ACTORS
The thing is, Democrats don't want to take our guns - they want to regulate them like we regulate cars. You can't have any car you can dream up - you can't drive it on our roads, sell it to others without testing it and meeting a strict set of safety requirements. Buyers cannot operate cars without proving competency, obtaining insurance to cover liability for harm they may cause. We (American Society) recognize that cars are very useful, but dangerous. That's why we regulate them.
Democrats are happy with long guns, guns that meet definitions of personal defense - probably they'd even be OK with the use of an AR-15 owned by a licensed shooting range owner and rented to customers for recreation within a well-controlled space. Reasonable gun regulation is not Totalitarianism - it's Reasonable.
Republicans want NO REGULATION WHATSOEVER on guns. The word we would use there is "anarchy".
I am, however, totally with you on America's eroding privacy rights - and I see members on both sides of the isle throwing my freedoms out the door for phantom safety. The SCOTUS didn't help us yesterday, either.
Hey, that's a nice society you built up with infrastructure, strong military defense, social services and a well regulated market - can I rip that all apart? Libertarians will never start any sort of society - they can only leave an existing one that educated them, let them create/earn wealth, and sells them the goods and services their own country can never, ever make. Gary and his like-minded true believers should leave here and move to their dream country - it already exists - it's called "Somalia".
Political bias? They should get everything done to them that Fox News got done to it - political bias in a news organization is always unacceptable. I forgot though... how *did* the Fox News investigation go? Also: I had no idea Facebook was a news organization. This is why I come to Slashdot: the learnin'.
I mean c'mon, apps and media are *our* primary focus, and Apple doesn't even sell that stuff in China ever since our government forced them to stop selling that stuff in China. Apple is so outdated that we literally have our government fight our battles for us.
*fist bump at sky* PROTECTIONIST POLICY FAVORING LETV FOREVER! WE LITERALLY CANNOT COMPETE WITHOUT THE MOTHER STATE!
Here's to a lifetime appointment to the SCOTUS for (Justice) Ivanka Trump she is just, yeah, I know, she is just going to be a terrific Justice, a great, great, listen: if she were not my daughter and already married and pumping out my grand kids, I tell ya, I tell ya! [applause] So anyways listen, LISTEN! Ivanka is going to be the nominee and she is going to be approved and she is going to be great and listen: if those bozos [clapping] Those Buttfaces [cheering] in congress can't see their way to respecting my choice - hey, OUR choice - then there will be riots in the street - burning and looting because it's our country now! We took it, and we did it, and we won and that means it's our way or the highway, right? Am I RIGHT?
Yeah, yeah, sieg 'me'.
Hence New Hampshire's motto: "Live Under Constant Surveillance of America's Security Apparatus or Die". New Hampshire is as pro-government, anti-freedom as any state in the union.
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I like what consumer reports does in *theory* and paid them for a subscription, but their site was 100% unusable unless I turned off all privacy and tracking tools and reset my DNS to plain vanilla (I have a dynamic block list of known tracking IPs & domains). The believe that they own and can aggressively monitize their subscribers is whatever the opposite of "pro-consumer" is; I have an immediate negative reaction to anything they have to say.
Take all the High FPS/High Kill Ratio players - give them identical rigs with identical monitors - with half the subject population's frame rate capped at 60fps and the others maxed to 144 using identical 2080ti SLI cards. Measure kill ratios. Switch populations. Measure again. Otherwise this sounds like a marketing stunt by Acer to sell some high frame rate monitors. In other news: young adult athletic males wearing Nike much more likely than non-Nike wearers to be tall NBA players.
I will take the AI chip after reasonable clinical trials; I would rather a skilled neurosurgeon or at least a well-tested autodoc install the chip, though. Elon is *literally* asking to put things into my body all the time and I keep telling him "no, Elon, it's over, god, I am sorry it didn't work out but you have your life and I have mine now - go back to Grimes; she is talented and I think she really liked you" but he just keeps showing up with bioenhancements with which to curry my favor. I've had to change my phone and email SO many times... "no, I will not colonize Mars with you I like it here and I think humanity can pull ahead of the death spiral curve of Earth's crashing biosphere"
I donated $30 this year - as a % of my overall income I expect I am several dozens of times more awesome than Facebook - plz snd me all yr personal info k'thks
Russian agents not instructed to 'make it look natural' so we spray enhanced e. coli indiscriminately on all types of produce. Mission objective of social chaos achieved but this oversight may come back to bite Kremlin on tuchus. Asymmetric response to American sanctions still largely considered a success.
It will take a *minimum* of seven separate and mostly redundant congressional inquiries to get to the bottom of this! #POLITICALOUTRAGE am I doing it right @GOP?
If I'm reading Russia's intentions right, it *sounds* like they are trying to get the Saudi's to increase oil production to lower the price of a barrel of crude - that sneaky Putin.
T'was the Chinese motherboard spyware chips. Codename: Salmon Mousse
We have a moral imperative to identify and remove sociopaths from our society - be they CEOs or entire corporations.
We used to have a much more socially responsible form of capitalism in America - the top tax rate of 91.5% insured that income disparity was closer to 30x than the current 350x. The tax base supported nearly free public higher education. There was funding for infrastructure projects (which almost exclusively benefit the wealthy - roads to get their workers to them and their consumers to them vs. a road you take to/from work - should you be paying the same?) Industries that could be converted to wartime manufacturing were protected sensibly (auto industry steel work, manufacturing, agriculture, etc.)... the boomers and generations after them saw what was built and decided to monetize it into the ground. They began demonizing "Socialism" (progressive-ism, etc.) without naming their own philosophy: Elitism (or Greed-ism). The goal of Greed-ism is to systematically shut down any part of government that benefits society as a whole; slash the wealthy's contribution to common good (taxes, regulations) while taking full advantage of the current generation of educated public - use the infrastructure built up over decades for short-term profit while letting that infrastructure crumble due to lack of funds. Steer any remaining government welfare towards agribusiness vs. family farms, dedicated military-industrial vs. general manufacturing. Gut social protections for the bottom 90% (union busting, social safety nets, nearly free state higher education, etc.). Private schools. Private prisons. Legislate massive protections against lawsuits aimed at the rich; virtually eliminate those same protections for the bottom 90% (IE: you cannot get rid of your student loans by declaring bankruptcy; most situations in which you could try and recoup justice through civil suits are now steered into arbitration, etc.). Elitism is what Bernie Sanders should be talking about - compare and contrast *that* against his Socially Responsible Capitalism policy suggestions. Promote a government and policies that protet the common good against the Greedy Elite - recognizing that they have the resources to protect themselves and require a strong check/balance in a progressive government. Government did a much better job in Eisenhower's time than it does in ours (with obvious black marks in minority/womens/LGBT rights).
The onus is on you to tell us when you believe equality in society was such that we shouldn't be actively trying to recognize and root out sexism. Your attitude is flippant - I know you'd admit absolute sexism in the 1500s everywhere. 1920s America was a terrible time to be a woman. 1950s America was a terrible time to be a woman. If you're so ignorant as to not understand the specifics of those times, no reason to continue to communicate - you're an obvious troll. If you *do* cede that these were all terrible times for women and that generations of them missed opportunities that instead went to men, then tell us: when did equality hit with such force that this is no longer an issue you should be fucking figuring out yourself vs. using freshman deconstructionism to argue against - all while not being helpful in any way?
Check current monthly prices (and available bandwidth) for boat & ship-based internet service. 4-5 figures monthly for paltry Mbps... a pretty standard rate is $1 per MB for 4mb down/1mb up service - plus thousands in hardware and presumably a static monthly account fee...
For reference, what would be the WHO measurement of sitting around a campfire and occasionally being directly in the smoke for 5% of the day? I imagine most children who were ever born were raised in a situation similar to this (or better yet raised in a shelter with open fire and burning candles for most of the night). Kind of like sodium intake before the invention of refrigeration - what was that average?
**for #1 above "tax the productive output OF ROBOTS - but only for social security/medicate/FICA (etc.)"
In the end, we got together and formed a government/society so we would all be better off together. Not so we could build big Microsofts, Googles and Apples - except to the extent that those companies make our lives better and enrich our common society. Towards that end, come up with common sense rules that don't directly contribute towards the nihilistic race to the bottom the GOP and their overlords apparently want: 1) tax the productive output just for social security and medicare - but uncapped 2) uncap medicare and social security taxes 3) do not allow any tax write-offs for robotics 4) do allow tax write offs for salaries over $50k and less than $400k 5) do not allow any write-offs for bonuses not distributed across entire employee groups (IE: if everyone gets $100 but one guy gets $1,000,000, then that one guy only has a $100 bonus towards write-offs) 6) treat bonuses and salaries in excess of $1,000,000/year as actual taxable income which a company must immediately recognize and pay taxes on - including use of cars and residences We can do a lot of things to let the few continue to take all GDP gains and cheat the bottom 98%. Their effective propaganda may have you believing some of these ideas are bad - but if we don't reverse the greed of the few, they won't be just paying a little more in taxes and making a little less in profit - they'll be discovering what this generation's 'guillotine' turns out to be.
If we're combating wealth inequality, "America First" and "America Great Again" then the H1B minimum salary should be pegged at no less than 20% of the salary + bonus + benefits of an organizations CEO/COO (whichever is higher) as posted the prior year according to their income tax statement - or $100K pegged to 2016 dollars - whichever less less. Although honestly unless we have a way to verify the quality of the imported talent - their safety - then we really should only allow American-made talent. For now. I'm all for H1B worker visas - but only after the FDA says they're safe. Just like that recently defeated drug import amendment. AM I RIGHT CORY BOOKER? AM I RIGHT?
No, no - everybody wants Texas to leave - Texans and non-Texans alike. There is no argument. WHY ARE WE STILL TALKING ABOUT THIS? We will need to physically ship all of the non-capital parts of Austin over between Portland and San Fran. Obviously. Army Corps of Engineers can make Austin Great Again.
So dance clubs, concert venues, most Broadway shows - those are all death traps? Because most of those places go through *gallons* of propylene glycol a night - as where most eCig users are puffing 50ml every 3-6 months. THINK OF THE BROADWAY ACTORS
The thing is, Democrats don't want to take our guns - they want to regulate them like we regulate cars. You can't have any car you can dream up - you can't drive it on our roads, sell it to others without testing it and meeting a strict set of safety requirements. Buyers cannot operate cars without proving competency, obtaining insurance to cover liability for harm they may cause. We (American Society) recognize that cars are very useful, but dangerous. That's why we regulate them. Democrats are happy with long guns, guns that meet definitions of personal defense - probably they'd even be OK with the use of an AR-15 owned by a licensed shooting range owner and rented to customers for recreation within a well-controlled space. Reasonable gun regulation is not Totalitarianism - it's Reasonable. Republicans want NO REGULATION WHATSOEVER on guns. The word we would use there is "anarchy". I am, however, totally with you on America's eroding privacy rights - and I see members on both sides of the isle throwing my freedoms out the door for phantom safety. The SCOTUS didn't help us yesterday, either.
Hey, that's a nice society you built up with infrastructure, strong military defense, social services and a well regulated market - can I rip that all apart? Libertarians will never start any sort of society - they can only leave an existing one that educated them, let them create/earn wealth, and sells them the goods and services their own country can never, ever make. Gary and his like-minded true believers should leave here and move to their dream country - it already exists - it's called "Somalia".
Political bias? They should get everything done to them that Fox News got done to it - political bias in a news organization is always unacceptable. I forgot though... how *did* the Fox News investigation go? Also: I had no idea Facebook was a news organization. This is why I come to Slashdot: the learnin'.
I mean c'mon, apps and media are *our* primary focus, and Apple doesn't even sell that stuff in China ever since our government forced them to stop selling that stuff in China. Apple is so outdated that we literally have our government fight our battles for us. *fist bump at sky* PROTECTIONIST POLICY FAVORING LETV FOREVER! WE LITERALLY CANNOT COMPETE WITHOUT THE MOTHER STATE!
Here's to a lifetime appointment to the SCOTUS for (Justice) Ivanka Trump she is just, yeah, I know, she is just going to be a terrific Justice, a great, great, listen: if she were not my daughter and already married and pumping out my grand kids, I tell ya, I tell ya! [applause] So anyways listen, LISTEN! Ivanka is going to be the nominee and she is going to be approved and she is going to be great and listen: if those bozos [clapping] Those Buttfaces [cheering] in congress can't see their way to respecting my choice - hey, OUR choice - then there will be riots in the street - burning and looting because it's our country now! We took it, and we did it, and we won and that means it's our way or the highway, right? Am I RIGHT? Yeah, yeah, sieg 'me'.
...as we continue to outsource as many of your jobs as possible. Buy DisneyABCPixar: Buy Outsourced.
Hence New Hampshire's motto: "Live Under Constant Surveillance of America's Security Apparatus or Die". New Hampshire is as pro-government, anti-freedom as any state in the union.