> When was the last time you watched/listened to broadcast?
Yesterday
> same as dead tree.
You mean the same dead trees that are springing up as free dailies? Or the supposedly dead print books that are experiencing a resurgence?
I'd still rather have the option of listening to some local news rather than getting info from multinational conglomerates or paid Russian Facebook posts.
>You have a dumb-ass histrionic narcissistic [csbsju.edu] "supreme leader" vs a impulsive narcissistic [csbsju.edu] moron world leader.
>North Korea is dumb enough to nuke the USA.
You're buying the propaganda. KJU is a lot of things but dumb isn't one of them. He was educated in Europe when his dad was in power so he's hardly one of these raised-in-the-cult kool-aid drinkers. He knows full well that actually loosing a nuke would end his life about 30 minutes later, but he's got to play the part. He's "in control" of a cult country and it seems he's been fighting off internal coup plots for several years. If he doesn't project god-like confidence it's over for him. The trick is balancing the rhetoric without getting backed into a corner enough that there's only one move left.
On the other hand, the big stick of the world has a reality star/failed businessman in charge of its nuclear arsenal. There's the real threat.
At the very least there should be significant milestones that have to be met before any retention bonuses are paid. The argument is that they need to pay these bonuses to keep top talent working to guide the company. Fine. If they're really the best surely they'll be able to hit those milestones... If not, I'm sure there are others waiting in the wings to try.
> And union workers are far more invested in a company's success than corporate executives, who are happy to give themselves raises while driving the business into the ground.
Too right. Witness YET AGAIN this happening just this week with Sears Canada. The executives looted the employee pension to give out "retention bonuses" to the executive team so they'd stay on and guide the company back to profitability. Instead they took those bonuses and guided the company into full bankruptcy.
> The US rail industry actually encouraged cars and car-only suburbanization at one point, because they saw it the way you and the other idealists do: people would use their cars to drive to the stations, and then take the trains to their destinations.
And you'd be surprised to note that this does actually happen. I used to drive to a rail station daily and commute by train instead of braving the 2+ hour drive.
> What is the incentive to to take a SDC to a subway station instead of where you want to go?
Time? Cost? I *could* drive to my office every day instead of taking the subway (actually Skytrain in Vancouver but same thing from an operation perspective).
Cost to take the Skytrain from Surrey to Vancouver return - $8.40
Cost to drive return - ~$9 in gas, and $13 in parking.
Time to drive from Surrey to downtown Vancouver during rush hour - 70-90 min
Time to take Skytrain to downtown from Surrey - 38 minutes.
So in that case, half the price, and more than twice as fast.
Fortunately I now happen to live within a 15 minute walk of the Skytrain, but if I didn't I would be hoping like hell that SDCs could soon be on the market to deliver me a short drive to the station.
As a Canadian who is familiar with various aspects of CP Rail, yeah, they are *that* stupid. The only reason they're profitable is inertia and little competition other than CN, who also has similar intelligence problems.
You're completely missing the point of self driving cars. It's not the LONG trips on a highway that this will be hugely impactful for, it's the shorter ones in town. People don't take transit in a lot of cases because they aren't near transit. A SDC can get them that last mile on both sides. Your car takes you to the subway and then drops you off and heads back home to park, for example. Or even better, *you don't even own a car any longer* and just belong to a car share cooperative that can summon an SDC to your door for that trip to the subway, then once it drops you off, it moves on to the carshare's next user.
I dislike using the word "disruption" to describe what is coming as it's been overused to hyperbole, but it really is the case. Entire segments of the economy are going to be screwed. For example, pay parking companies are going to take massive hits, as will any city or town that relies on moving violations and parking tickets for a significant amount of their revenue. Taxi companies, limo services, car insurance companies, auto body shops, all will see downturns in their services, possibly catastrophic ones.
To be fair, there are lots of Chromebooks that are considerably cheaper than comparably sized Android tablets. I was just looking at convertible Asus one that's $339 CDN, which is about $250 US.
He's become one of these people who live in a bubble surrounded by sycophants who blow smoke up his ass all day about how great and meaningful he and Facebook is to the world, despite the fact that if Facebook actually did disappear overnight the only real effect on the world is probably greater productivity and some unemployed Facebook workers who will be needing new jobs. And this guy is coyly hinting he might want to run for President. I personally believe he'd be just as bad as Trump for mainly similar reasons - both think they're the greatest thing since sliced bread. Though where Trump harms by malice, Zuck would harm by out of touch ignorance.
Also useless considering that Hulu's potential user base is 300m people in the US, whereas Netflix has a global potential user base. Until Hulu is available elsewhere they're fighting over a tiny piece of the pie. As one of the non US Netflix subscribers, Hulu could offer to GIVE me $500/mo to ditch Netflix for them and I still probably wouldn't do it because I can't actually use Hulu. Well, maybe I would do that for a few months and then go binge Netflix afterward... because that's a lot of money to just stop watching Netflix for a few months.
There's all that too, but to hear the average patriot tell it, it was all them. And then they went off to have Freedom Fries while looking at the Statue of Liberty.
Not even close. The weapons the "revolutionaries" have in their hands today are no match for the army, unlike back then who were close to parity for weapons tech. Or perhaps you'd like to show me a "well regulated citizens militia" with their own tank division, AA missile systems and maybe an aircraft carrier to round it out?
Oh please. Exactly how many "rights" has the 2nd amendment gotten US citizens back? Every time armed citizens stand up to the government it always ends with them in prison or dead. See Ruby Ridge, Waco, whatever the hell that was in Oregon last year and more.
You're not going to overthrow the government without the support of the armed services. If you don't have that support, they will kill you. If you do have that support, you don't need guns because they've got them. And tanks. And Apache attack copters and drones and bombers and whatever else.
The world with a bunch of idiots who are always wrong. According to the naysayers, Apple should have closed down in the 90s and "refunded the shareholders", Nintendo should have given up hardware and become like Sega after the N64 - then after the Gamecube and again after the Wii U, and Marvel in the 90s should have folded and allowed their catalog to be bought by DC.
To be pedantic, your electric provider is not an example of privatization. It was created as a private entity. An example of privatization would be, say, selling BC Rail - a government owned rail service with thousands of kilometers of track in BC to CN rail, Canada's largest railroad company. Sure the handover was messy and a few people involved with the deal on the government side went to jail for corruption, but the important thing to come out of all of it was that CN acquired BC Rail for about 50 cents on the dollar, got a 990 year lease (no, that is not a typo) on the land all of the tracks occupy, and now feels that it is appropriate to block access to the beach across a 15 foot section of its track that has been used as a public throughway for decades unless the city of West Vancouver pays it millions of dollars per year in rent for the access.
> But, maybe the Electric Utility should be privatized
Ah, privatization. The solution to that pesky problem of too much money in citizens' hands. Reading your entire post I am still not sure if you are serious or if that's some next level sarcasm. As someone who lives in an area (British Columbia) and lived through 3 Crown corporations being privatized, I will attest first hand that you don't get any better service, but you certainly do get higher bills.
> we're simply dealing with shrewd businesses taking advantage of situations
Not only that, the speech that the head of Nestle gave a few years back where everyone villified him for "wanting to put a price on water" ? THIS is what he was talking about, that water is basically "free" for industrial use and unless there are some prices added to it, companies will just take as much as they can.
He was literally warning against this exact situation. But until something is done, Nestle would be fools to pass on bottling the water for nearly free, because if they don't someone else will.
And I can stream ALL of my Steam library to my TV with my $30 Steam Link. nVidia has missed the boat on this market segment big time. The Shield is overpriced for what it does and that might have been OK when it was one of the few games in town, but now everyone and their dog can do it as well or better for less. Between my Steam Link and a Minix mini Windows 10 box I picked up for $170 CDN on sale, I have everything I want. The Minix runs Kodi for all my media and some emulation, Steam Link for PC gaming when I feel like using the TV instead of the PC.
It's been dead for some time. My home rig is an i5 2500K that I bought in the spring of 2011. It's only this year that I've found a decent midrange "doubling" candidate for building a new machine around, interestingly enough, the Ryzen 5 1600. Benchmarks suggest that I'll get about double the performance out of that, and it's in the same price bracket as when I bought the 2500K. 6.5 years and only 2x the oomph on the desktop in the midrange price bracket. I used to see that sort of improvement (and upgrade accordingly) every 2 years, but no longer.
What are you on about? We have 9, and we play the superior 3 down CFL rules. Sad American teams need that 4th down as a crutch.
> You'll be overrun by "refugees" soon enough Hysterical xenophobes have been saying that for decades and yet here we are.
> If it wasn't for the Brits, you would have lost the war of 1812 to the American freedom fighters. Uh, in 1812 we WERE Brits. So your argument is if it wasn't for us, we would have lost? Sure. I guess that's true for any victors anywhere. Another interpretation of that would be that the Colonies managed to win their independence when the Empire got bored of fighting them, but then they thought they'd try and take some of the Empire and got their asses handed to them. Nice second White House. Pity about the first.
Counterpoint: Canada. Up here we don't have a first or second amendment and surprisingly we're not on the verge of exploding. Unless our team doesn't win the Cup.
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> When was the last time you watched/listened to broadcast?
Yesterday
> same as dead tree.
You mean the same dead trees that are springing up as free dailies? Or the supposedly dead print books that are experiencing a resurgence?
I'd still rather have the option of listening to some local news rather than getting info from multinational conglomerates or paid Russian Facebook posts.
> The 4 dead
Thanks for the reminder! They better open another investigation into Benghazi!
Can you link to these numbers? Because as far as I recall, the whole 4 year long war business appealed to the male demographic quite well.
> You're kind of proving yourself wrong there by including DS9. DS9 was horrible.
Excuse me, you spelled FANTASTIC incorrectly.
> I think they were trying too hard to make DS9 appeal more to women
What universe did you come from that this would be true in?
>You have a dumb-ass histrionic narcissistic [csbsju.edu] "supreme leader" vs a impulsive narcissistic [csbsju.edu] moron world leader.
>North Korea is dumb enough to nuke the USA.
You're buying the propaganda. KJU is a lot of things but dumb isn't one of them. He was educated in Europe when his dad was in power so he's hardly one of these raised-in-the-cult kool-aid drinkers. He knows full well that actually loosing a nuke would end his life about 30 minutes later, but he's got to play the part. He's "in control" of a cult country and it seems he's been fighting off internal coup plots for several years. If he doesn't project god-like confidence it's over for him. The trick is balancing the rhetoric without getting backed into a corner enough that there's only one move left.
On the other hand, the big stick of the world has a reality star/failed businessman in charge of its nuclear arsenal. There's the real threat.
At the very least there should be significant milestones that have to be met before any retention bonuses are paid. The argument is that they need to pay these bonuses to keep top talent working to guide the company. Fine. If they're really the best surely they'll be able to hit those milestones... If not, I'm sure there are others waiting in the wings to try.
> And union workers are far more invested in a company's success than corporate executives, who are happy to give themselves raises while driving the business into the ground.
Too right. Witness YET AGAIN this happening just this week with Sears Canada. The executives looted the employee pension to give out "retention bonuses" to the executive team so they'd stay on and guide the company back to profitability. Instead they took those bonuses and guided the company into full bankruptcy.
> but nothing so fancy that he shouldn't have been able to get those benefits had he been a better negotiator
And right there is the point. Your dad WASN'T a better negotiator and was taken advantage of for 3 decades.
> The US rail industry actually encouraged cars and car-only suburbanization at one point, because they saw it the way you and the other idealists do: people would use their cars to drive to the stations, and then take the trains to their destinations.
And you'd be surprised to note that this does actually happen. I used to drive to a rail station daily and commute by train instead of braving the 2+ hour drive.
> What is the incentive to to take a SDC to a subway station instead of where you want to go?
Time? Cost? I *could* drive to my office every day instead of taking the subway (actually Skytrain in Vancouver but same thing from an operation perspective).
Cost to take the Skytrain from Surrey to Vancouver return - $8.40
Cost to drive return - ~$9 in gas, and $13 in parking.
Time to drive from Surrey to downtown Vancouver during rush hour - 70-90 min
Time to take Skytrain to downtown from Surrey - 38 minutes.
So in that case, half the price, and more than twice as fast.
Fortunately I now happen to live within a 15 minute walk of the Skytrain, but if I didn't I would be hoping like hell that SDCs could soon be on the market to deliver me a short drive to the station.
As a Canadian who is familiar with various aspects of CP Rail, yeah, they are *that* stupid. The only reason they're profitable is inertia and little competition other than CN, who also has similar intelligence problems.
You're completely missing the point of self driving cars. It's not the LONG trips on a highway that this will be hugely impactful for, it's the shorter ones in town. People don't take transit in a lot of cases because they aren't near transit. A SDC can get them that last mile on both sides. Your car takes you to the subway and then drops you off and heads back home to park, for example. Or even better, *you don't even own a car any longer* and just belong to a car share cooperative that can summon an SDC to your door for that trip to the subway, then once it drops you off, it moves on to the carshare's next user.
I dislike using the word "disruption" to describe what is coming as it's been overused to hyperbole, but it really is the case. Entire segments of the economy are going to be screwed. For example, pay parking companies are going to take massive hits, as will any city or town that relies on moving violations and parking tickets for a significant amount of their revenue. Taxi companies, limo services, car insurance companies, auto body shops, all will see downturns in their services, possibly catastrophic ones.
To be fair, there are lots of Chromebooks that are considerably cheaper than comparably sized Android tablets. I was just looking at convertible Asus one that's $339 CDN, which is about $250 US.
He's become one of these people who live in a bubble surrounded by sycophants who blow smoke up his ass all day about how great and meaningful he and Facebook is to the world, despite the fact that if Facebook actually did disappear overnight the only real effect on the world is probably greater productivity and some unemployed Facebook workers who will be needing new jobs. And this guy is coyly hinting he might want to run for President. I personally believe he'd be just as bad as Trump for mainly similar reasons - both think they're the greatest thing since sliced bread. Though where Trump harms by malice, Zuck would harm by out of touch ignorance.
Also useless considering that Hulu's potential user base is 300m people in the US, whereas Netflix has a global potential user base. Until Hulu is available elsewhere they're fighting over a tiny piece of the pie. As one of the non US Netflix subscribers, Hulu could offer to GIVE me $500/mo to ditch Netflix for them and I still probably wouldn't do it because I can't actually use Hulu. Well, maybe I would do that for a few months and then go binge Netflix afterward... because that's a lot of money to just stop watching Netflix for a few months.
There's all that too, but to hear the average patriot tell it, it was all them. And then they went off to have Freedom Fries while looking at the Statue of Liberty.
Not even close. The weapons the "revolutionaries" have in their hands today are no match for the army, unlike back then who were close to parity for weapons tech. Or perhaps you'd like to show me a "well regulated citizens militia" with their own tank division, AA missile systems and maybe an aircraft carrier to round it out?
Oh please. Exactly how many "rights" has the 2nd amendment gotten US citizens back? Every time armed citizens stand up to the government it always ends with them in prison or dead. See Ruby Ridge, Waco, whatever the hell that was in Oregon last year and more.
You're not going to overthrow the government without the support of the armed services. If you don't have that support, they will kill you. If you do have that support, you don't need guns because they've got them. And tanks. And Apache attack copters and drones and bombers and whatever else.
> In what world do you live in?
The world with a bunch of idiots who are always wrong. According to the naysayers, Apple should have closed down in the 90s and "refunded the shareholders", Nintendo should have given up hardware and become like Sega after the N64 - then after the Gamecube and again after the Wii U, and Marvel in the 90s should have folded and allowed their catalog to be bought by DC.
To be pedantic, your electric provider is not an example of privatization. It was created as a private entity. An example of privatization would be, say, selling BC Rail - a government owned rail service with thousands of kilometers of track in BC to CN rail, Canada's largest railroad company. Sure the handover was messy and a few people involved with the deal on the government side went to jail for corruption, but the important thing to come out of all of it was that CN acquired BC Rail for about 50 cents on the dollar, got a 990 year lease (no, that is not a typo) on the land all of the tracks occupy, and now feels that it is appropriate to block access to the beach across a 15 foot section of its track that has been used as a public throughway for decades unless the city of West Vancouver pays it millions of dollars per year in rent for the access.
http://www.nsnews.com/news/federal-tribunal-to-hear-west-van-seawalk-dispute-1.22320184
> But, maybe the Electric Utility should be privatized
Ah, privatization. The solution to that pesky problem of too much money in citizens' hands. Reading your entire post I am still not sure if you are serious or if that's some next level sarcasm. As someone who lives in an area (British Columbia) and lived through 3 Crown corporations being privatized, I will attest first hand that you don't get any better service, but you certainly do get higher bills.
> we're simply dealing with shrewd businesses taking advantage of situations
Not only that, the speech that the head of Nestle gave a few years back where everyone villified him for "wanting to put a price on water" ? THIS is what he was talking about, that water is basically "free" for industrial use and unless there are some prices added to it, companies will just take as much as they can.
He was literally warning against this exact situation. But until something is done, Nestle would be fools to pass on bottling the water for nearly free, because if they don't someone else will.
Don't hate the player, hate the game.
And I can stream ALL of my Steam library to my TV with my $30 Steam Link. nVidia has missed the boat on this market segment big time. The Shield is overpriced for what it does and that might have been OK when it was one of the few games in town, but now everyone and their dog can do it as well or better for less. Between my Steam Link and a Minix mini Windows 10 box I picked up for $170 CDN on sale, I have everything I want. The Minix runs Kodi for all my media and some emulation, Steam Link for PC gaming when I feel like using the TV instead of the PC.
It's been dead for some time. My home rig is an i5 2500K that I bought in the spring of 2011. It's only this year that I've found a decent midrange "doubling" candidate for building a new machine around, interestingly enough, the Ryzen 5 1600. Benchmarks suggest that I'll get about double the performance out of that, and it's in the same price bracket as when I bought the 2500K. 6.5 years and only 2x the oomph on the desktop in the midrange price bracket. I used to see that sort of improvement (and upgrade accordingly) every 2 years, but no longer.
> You don't even have a football team.
What are you on about? We have 9, and we play the superior 3 down CFL rules. Sad American teams need that 4th down as a crutch.
> You'll be overrun by "refugees" soon enough
Hysterical xenophobes have been saying that for decades and yet here we are.
> If it wasn't for the Brits, you would have lost the war of 1812 to the American freedom fighters.
Uh, in 1812 we WERE Brits. So your argument is if it wasn't for us, we would have lost? Sure. I guess that's true for any victors anywhere. Another interpretation of that would be that the Colonies managed to win their independence when the Empire got bored of fighting them, but then they thought they'd try and take some of the Empire and got their asses handed to them. Nice second White House. Pity about the first.
Counterpoint: Canada. Up here we don't have a first or second amendment and surprisingly we're not on the verge of exploding. Unless our team doesn't win the Cup.