Back in the good old pre-Prime days, Amazon delivered within 2-3 days. Standard. Then Prime came along and suddenly delivery took longer and longer, reaching ridiculous timeframes like "11-15 days" but averaging around 6-9 days. Unless you pay about as much as a prime subscription for the once-normal 2-3 days. Of course you could also sign up for Prime and get the 2-3 days again for "free"...
Amazon prime is interesting if you use their video service and order a lot with them. For me it does actually work out. I got rid of TV and all other streaming subs, and while I could probably do without the prime videos, they're a nice additional bonus.
On a completely unrelated note, Jeff, my last paycheck for shilling bounced, could you look into it?
What does your tracking data give me? Your hobbies, your interests, maybe your position on certain topics or even your political view, along with your possible religious faith (if any).
First of all, find out more about the webpages you visit. Any boards among them? Then it's time to find out who you are. Read your posts. Get an idea where you stand on various things.
After that's done, or while doing this, send the raw information to your wife/husband/lover/whatever, boss, your coworkers, your friends and so on. Which, again, I may be able to get from your browsing history and the things you leave on Facebook. No need for any content you created just yet, this might already be enough to cause trouble, domestic and work related.
Next level would be to check that information for stuff that might ruffle the feathers of some people with way too much time on their hand and an agenda to push. Religious nuts, SJWs, Trump-haters and Hillary-haters, any group that's easy to get worked up over nothing and doesn't do any fact checking is good. I'll let them have some fun with you. Here look what this slimeball said on (board). Think they'll go out of their way to create an account there just to berate you? You bet.
Then the usual suspects from/b to the rest of the internet troll army. Anything "funny", odd, weird or otherwise unusual about you is good enough to become a target.
And so on.
The point is that I won't do anything with the webpages you visit. There's plenty of people with no life who just need a target and an excuse to shoot.
And no, I don't do that. I try to get people to understand that there are assholes like this out there that DO do that. All it takes is to disagree with them on something trivial that they themselves base their life on and then the ride's on.
The point was censorship and how I don't agree with it. No matter what form it takes, in the end, if an idea cannot survive on its own or if it gets debunked and disproved, propping it up by censoring the falsification doesn't make it any more right.
The difference is not the complexity of the parts but the nonstandard position and form. IKEA is notorious for giving you parts that only kinda-sorta fit together. Some holes aren't quite drilled far enough, some parts only fit when you whack them into place... And the parts that you pour out of the box roll anywhere. There isn't a conveyor belt feeding screws into a robot that then puts its arm at position xyz and screws it for exactly 5 and 3/7 rotations because at that position is the hole and it needs those exact 5 3/7 rotations for tightening.
The achievement here isn't that we end up with a chair. The achievement is that the robot "found out" how to assemble it.
So you pit robots built for the purpose of building an IKEA chair against humans who have never done it?
By that logic, I can write a program that can beat a human playing Go. Anyone here who never played it and doesn't know the rules? Sit down and play against my program!
I think they're already at cutting their losses in that branch. With good reason. They won't get anyone back who finally understood what they're doing, and they're not gonna lose anyone anymore who even now didn't get a clue.
True, but the demand for the double and triple opt-in that you're supposed to go through now is not only ridiculous, it also kinda kills the mood. And I mean for everyone involved.
Wouldn't it be nice if they did? And I mean completely. That way you could easily identify Russian spammers: It's the ones that use the internet from Russia.
But it is absolutely in Russia's right to show the world how they can't even get one single insignificant app blocked and make a complete mockery of their whole internet surveillance show. Why take a threat like "we shut you down" serious when they can't even get a phone app under control?
That's the big hackers we're afraid of? For real? You sure they're working for the same government that can't even get a single app blocked?
I have one. It's ok, it works, no BSODs, but the drivers are bulky, unwieldy and don't really deliver anything beyond basic functionality. Their 5.1/7.1 functionality is a joke compared to the SB XFI I had before.
Promotion should happen based on what seems to be relevant for the viewer. When I watch, say, religious nutjob videos, I would expect to see religious nutjob videos in my suggestions along with people disagreeing with those so I can get a view of both sides of the fence. If I don't want to leave my skydaddy-bubble, I'll quickly find out which videos to avoid so it doesn't scare me by showing me that the nutjobs keep feeding me bullshit.
And trust me, you should watch right wing nutcases. At least from time to time you should watch something to laugh about.
Careful what you wish for, it might come true. The last thing I'd want is more nanny state hand holding with government-approved content allowed only. If I wanted that I could've kept my TV.
A lot of (more reputable) pages around here have started something like a "double opt in" for Facebook, where you have to click on an icon of their page first to load the "like" button, so no data is sent to FB unless you explicitly want to.
Of course, that icon is as obnoxiously begging for "pleeeeeeeeeeease like us!!!" as it can... but it's a start.
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Back in the good old pre-Prime days, Amazon delivered within 2-3 days. Standard. Then Prime came along and suddenly delivery took longer and longer, reaching ridiculous timeframes like "11-15 days" but averaging around 6-9 days. Unless you pay about as much as a prime subscription for the once-normal 2-3 days. Of course you could also sign up for Prime and get the 2-3 days again for "free"...
Amazon prime is interesting if you use their video service and order a lot with them. For me it does actually work out. I got rid of TV and all other streaming subs, and while I could probably do without the prime videos, they're a nice additional bonus.
On a completely unrelated note, Jeff, my last paycheck for shilling bounced, could you look into it?
What does your tracking data give me? Your hobbies, your interests, maybe your position on certain topics or even your political view, along with your possible religious faith (if any).
First of all, find out more about the webpages you visit. Any boards among them? Then it's time to find out who you are. Read your posts. Get an idea where you stand on various things.
After that's done, or while doing this, send the raw information to your wife/husband/lover/whatever, boss, your coworkers, your friends and so on. Which, again, I may be able to get from your browsing history and the things you leave on Facebook. No need for any content you created just yet, this might already be enough to cause trouble, domestic and work related.
Next level would be to check that information for stuff that might ruffle the feathers of some people with way too much time on their hand and an agenda to push. Religious nuts, SJWs, Trump-haters and Hillary-haters, any group that's easy to get worked up over nothing and doesn't do any fact checking is good. I'll let them have some fun with you. Here look what this slimeball said on (board). Think they'll go out of their way to create an account there just to berate you? You bet.
Then the usual suspects from /b to the rest of the internet troll army. Anything "funny", odd, weird or otherwise unusual about you is good enough to become a target.
And so on.
The point is that I won't do anything with the webpages you visit. There's plenty of people with no life who just need a target and an excuse to shoot.
And no, I don't do that. I try to get people to understand that there are assholes like this out there that DO do that. All it takes is to disagree with them on something trivial that they themselves base their life on and then the ride's on.
The point was censorship and how I don't agree with it. No matter what form it takes, in the end, if an idea cannot survive on its own or if it gets debunked and disproved, propping it up by censoring the falsification doesn't make it any more right.
No. I assume all Russian spammers are Russians.
The difference is not the complexity of the parts but the nonstandard position and form. IKEA is notorious for giving you parts that only kinda-sorta fit together. Some holes aren't quite drilled far enough, some parts only fit when you whack them into place... And the parts that you pour out of the box roll anywhere. There isn't a conveyor belt feeding screws into a robot that then puts its arm at position xyz and screws it for exactly 5 and 3/7 rotations because at that position is the hole and it needs those exact 5 3/7 rotations for tightening.
The achievement here isn't that we end up with a chair. The achievement is that the robot "found out" how to assemble it.
If "a task beyond 90% of humanity" is the turning point of doom, we were doomed the moment the first computer managed to solve an integral.
And thus, Frankenchair was born.
It's robots all the way down.
So you pit robots built for the purpose of building an IKEA chair against humans who have never done it?
By that logic, I can write a program that can beat a human playing Go. Anyone here who never played it and doesn't know the rules? Sit down and play against my program!
I think they're already at cutting their losses in that branch. With good reason. They won't get anyone back who finally understood what they're doing, and they're not gonna lose anyone anymore who even now didn't get a clue.
They're developing the vacuum from J. Edgar Hoover's wet dreams.
True, but the demand for the double and triple opt-in that you're supposed to go through now is not only ridiculous, it also kinda kills the mood. And I mean for everyone involved.
You might want to actually click the link to their page first.
Wouldn't it be nice if they did? And I mean completely. That way you could easily identify Russian spammers: It's the ones that use the internet from Russia.
Usually conspiracies are way more intricate than the reality. Even spies like to KISS.
Are you the same guy that berated me for there not being assault rifles available in the US?
What matters is that you DO it, not what you do it with. Jeesh, people, focus!
Someone hand that guy a mod point or two, he at least made me smile today.
But it is absolutely in Russia's right to show the world how they can't even get one single insignificant app blocked and make a complete mockery of their whole internet surveillance show. Why take a threat like "we shut you down" serious when they can't even get a phone app under control?
That's the big hackers we're afraid of? For real? You sure they're working for the same government that can't even get a single app blocked?
I have one. It's ok, it works, no BSODs, but the drivers are bulky, unwieldy and don't really deliver anything beyond basic functionality. Their 5.1/7.1 functionality is a joke compared to the SB XFI I had before.
Then again, at least the Xonar is stable, so...
Promotion should happen based on what seems to be relevant for the viewer. When I watch, say, religious nutjob videos, I would expect to see religious nutjob videos in my suggestions along with people disagreeing with those so I can get a view of both sides of the fence. If I don't want to leave my skydaddy-bubble, I'll quickly find out which videos to avoid so it doesn't scare me by showing me that the nutjobs keep feeding me bullshit.
And trust me, you should watch right wing nutcases. At least from time to time you should watch something to laugh about.
Careful what you wish for, it might come true. The last thing I'd want is more nanny state hand holding with government-approved content allowed only. If I wanted that I could've kept my TV.
A lot of (more reputable) pages around here have started something like a "double opt in" for Facebook, where you have to click on an icon of their page first to load the "like" button, so no data is sent to FB unless you explicitly want to.
Of course, that icon is as obnoxiously begging for "pleeeeeeeeeeease like us!!!" as it can... but it's a start.
What's scary about them?
If you compare going over the speed limit with shooting people then yes, I can see the flaw in the logic.