This is 'murica! Our gov't works for Big Corporations, not for us.
What will happen is the law will be drafted by the Companies, just like they always have been, and will benefit them, not us. (yes, the old Us vs. Them thing).
They'll draft it, they'll put it in front of El Trumpo, he'll rubberstamp it, and $PROFIT$ for all but us.
Now take that big, nasty dog and try and eat your own steak in front of it, and see how well it respects your concept of ownership. Securing and taking resources by force is neither a human invention nor ownership.
I'll give him the scraps off the table, like Our Dear Leadership and Commerce does, and the big dog STFUs and contentedly chews away.*
Like we do. Right?
* works every time with my friend's two pits. They're sweethearts, tho. Kill you with slobber, they will.
I wonder if this kind of attack on the media will foster the growth of underground press... and by that I mean a press, with ink and paper, in a basement.
After all, if you censor the modern mainstream way of publishing, an alternative is bound to spring up.
Hey, was not our own revolution partly fueled by basement presses?
Funny, that's exactly how I feel about Walmart and Target. I try to shop mom n' pop where / when possible.
For me Amazon isn't about shopping from home, it's about stock availability.
I used to buy my music at Spec's, until Spec's died. I used to buy my books at All Books and Records, until they died. I used to buy used vinyl and CDs at the same place, and a feew others, until they died.
I used to buy my clothes at Pennys and Sears, until they too became a shadow of what they were, with no inventory.
So where, exactly, local, should I buy? I buy from whomever has stock, thank you very much. "Oh, I can order it for you?" Yeah. So can I.
I don't blame Amazon, I blame Walmart. Amazon's just sweeping away the ashes of what Walmart torched 20 years ago.
It's essentially a third world country, though a territory of the US. An interesting third world country, and I liked many of the people.
I lived there from 1976 - 1989. I won't call it a 3rd-world country at all. The neighborhoods I lived in / hung out at were 1st-world, all the way.
The PR people see on TV is not all of PR. Yes, a lot of it looks like that.. but another lot of it is immaculate lawns, concrete houses with concrete roofs, pools, etc.
The media seems obsessed with showing the tin shack side of Puerto Rico.
Plaza Las Americas, built in 1968, is still my yardstick for malls. The malls in the US may be larger, but the malls here all look unfinished next to Plaza. My family was friends with the family that built Plaza. No expense was spared.
The power grid, on the other hand, has always been a disgrace. By age 8 I knew how to oil, wick and trim oil lamps and cold-blast hurricane lanterns because the power went out all the time, even in the 1st-world 'hoods. Some of that was the power union -- whenever they need something done to the contract, they'd blow up a couple of large transmission towers. Blam, in the dark for 4 hours.. or all night.
I could say South Florida is a 3rd-world country, you know. But it isn't. Same with PR.
good thing most people don't listen, watch, or care...
Local news are watched -- and believed -- by those who care, and vote, the most.. the geriatric ward. Be very concerned. They still think it's the era of Cronkite.
They also watch -- and believe -- Fox "News"
To me, it is now apparent that someone, or something, is trying to rend this country apart... Some Say it's the Russians, Some Say it's dem Liberals, and some rather kooky religious nuts I know say it's Satan and his minions (rich people in control.) I don't know where the truth lies. All I know is I think they're all lying, every single one of them.
But it is rather noticeable, no? All the yelling on both sides? "Listen to me!" "No, listen to MEEEE! HE speaks lies!" And so forth.
Why? I'll use moon landings as an example. We went there, and we left tons of trash which are proof enough.. never mind the tons of film footage, photographs, experiments
Apollo, Gemini and Mercury made so many jobs for so many, directly and indirectly.
It was America's apogee, and after that it's been one long backslide. The moon deniers spit in the face of all that work. And if it's *that* easy to twist the denier's minds, what with all the hard evidence, then how easy is it to twist their minds on subjects with no evidence?
It's fun at first, then it's just sad. And the weak-minded are an exploitable things... food for thought.
Simmer down, Mr. President, have your burger and diet coke, and take a deep breath.. You think Apple is into Big Brotherish behavior? Oh man wait till you get anything Android, where data-siphoning apps are so much more available.
But whatever. Sounds to me like you've made up your mind. Do what you want, 'tis a free country... for now.
And you do know that since it is your employer's phone they can plant whatever they wish on it, yes? Oh, you didn't? Poor little fool. Their kit, their rules, love it or leave it.
This has been going on forever, from before the days of the Robber Barons.
Sarnoff from RCA would make Bill Gates and Zuckerberg seem like saints.
Today we have Zuckerberg, the Walton family, the Koch brothers, and many more who are all about maximizing their wealth regardless of how many they screw over to make it happen. Jobs lost, entire industries demolished.. and what is yet to come.
What's worse, those same people are hell-bent on shaping the country (world?) according to their views. And it won't be for our benefit.
I don't begrudge success to people who earn it.. but there is a line, and these people crossed it long ago. Where is that line? Hard to say. When you start screwing others to get your way?
To Wit:/. Beta. Did not want, do not want, what is now is fine... just fix the goddamned unicode problem.
Seriously. The quest for the New Shiny more often than not just ruins things. Like round picture frames in contact lists, etc. Who wants that?! Square was just fine. And flat UI designs.. they universally look like something a preschooler did with safety scissors, brightly-colored construction paper and paste.
Pulling back when you should put the nose down a bit is a rookie mistake. But that said, what no one, ever, has ever convinvingly sold me on is an explanation as to WHY ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH did this aircrew on AF 447 drive the airplane, nose-high in a a a stall, all the way from cruise (they were above 30,000) to the sea the whole time.
I understand that on the airbus the stall horn shuts up when they had the nose hard up and would sound again if they pushed the nose down, but for fuck's sake,.... I just fail to comprehend that one crash. Makes no sense to me.
It's more than a rookie mistake. And cue the Airbus apologists: I think there's something borked in their philosophy. Now, I'm not an airline pilot so I'll shut the fuck up now, but.. I just don't understand this one wreck. PUT THE BLOODY NOSE DOWN! You had 30,000 ft to do it....
How often outside of sleepy time does one's phone remain unlocked for an entire hour?
Every evening, when I leave it in the bedroom and I'm watching something in the movie room. I don't let my phone be a cybershackle out of business hours.
Want me? Call me! Otherwise I'll get back to you whenever.. if ever.
Weekends? Many hours pass without me looking at it or unlocking it. I just don't caaaaaaaaare about constant connectivity, in fact, the older I get the more I loathe it.
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..this is worse, way worse.
Whatever. If this creates a smoking hole in the ground, someone will take up the slack. Linux maybe. Or MacOS.
Corporations will buckle and give into this. It's inevitable. Removes one more bit of drudgework, from their point of view.
This is 'murica! Our gov't works for Big Corporations, not for us.
What will happen is the law will be drafted by the Companies, just like they always have been, and will benefit them, not us. (yes, the old Us vs. Them thing).
They'll draft it, they'll put it in front of El Trumpo, he'll rubberstamp it, and $PROFIT$ for all but us.
Now take that big, nasty dog and try and eat your own steak in front of it, and see how well it respects your concept of ownership. Securing and taking resources by force is neither a human invention nor ownership.
I'll give him the scraps off the table, like Our Dear Leadership and Commerce does, and the big dog STFUs and contentedly chews away.*
Like we do. Right?
* works every time with my friend's two pits. They're sweethearts, tho. Kill you with slobber, they will.
This is a purely human invented concept and really doesn't have any true, logical definition.
Really?
Find a big nasty dog that's chewing on a steak. Try to take that steak away from the dog.
Still think it's a purely human concept?
Can't, but you can get rid of Mail, Compass, Music, TV, Itunes Store, Facetime, Calculator, Stocks, Weather and Voice Memos.
Any other questions?
I wonder if this kind of attack on the media will foster the growth of underground press... and by that I mean a press, with ink and paper, in a basement.
After all, if you censor the modern mainstream way of publishing, an alternative is bound to spring up.
Hey, was not our own revolution partly fueled by basement presses?
...because they've pushed huge chunks of their route coverage onto regionals that pay very little, all in the name of Profit!
By pushing it all on the regionals, the majors have lowered expenses, and also push away some of the responsibility.
What's the result? Worse service.
Keep at it, Legacy Carriers. Keep diggin' that grave.
Funny, that's exactly how I feel about Walmart and Target. I try to shop mom n' pop where / when possible.
For me Amazon isn't about shopping from home, it's about stock availability.
I used to buy my music at Spec's, until Spec's died.
I used to buy my books at All Books and Records, until they died.
I used to buy used vinyl and CDs at the same place, and a feew others, until they died.
I used to buy my clothes at Pennys and Sears, until they too became a shadow of what they were, with no inventory.
So where, exactly, local, should I buy? I buy from whomever has stock, thank you very much. "Oh, I can order it for you?" Yeah. So can I.
I don't blame Amazon, I blame Walmart. Amazon's just sweeping away the ashes of what Walmart torched 20 years ago.
It's essentially a third world country, though a territory of the US. An interesting third world country, and I liked many of the people.
I lived there from 1976 - 1989. I won't call it a 3rd-world country at all. The neighborhoods I lived in / hung out at were 1st-world, all the way.
The PR people see on TV is not all of PR. Yes, a lot of it looks like that.. but another lot of it is immaculate lawns, concrete houses with concrete roofs, pools, etc.
The media seems obsessed with showing the tin shack side of Puerto Rico.
Plaza Las Americas, built in 1968, is still my yardstick for malls. The malls in the US may be larger, but the malls here all look unfinished next to Plaza. My family was friends with the family that built Plaza. No expense was spared.
The power grid, on the other hand, has always been a disgrace. By age 8 I knew how to oil, wick and trim oil lamps and cold-blast hurricane lanterns because the power went out all the time, even in the 1st-world 'hoods. Some of that was the power union -- whenever they need something done to the contract, they'd blow up a couple of large transmission towers. Blam, in the dark for 4 hours.. or all night.
I could say South Florida is a 3rd-world country, you know. But it isn't. Same with PR.
good thing most people don't listen, watch, or care...
Local news are watched -- and believed -- by those who care, and vote, the most.. the geriatric ward. Be very concerned. They still think it's the era of Cronkite.
They also watch -- and believe -- Fox "News"
To me, it is now apparent that someone, or something, is trying to rend this country apart... Some Say it's the Russians, Some Say it's dem Liberals, and some rather kooky religious nuts I know say it's Satan and his minions (rich people in control.) I don't know where the truth lies. All I know is I think they're all lying, every single one of them.
But it is rather noticeable, no? All the yelling on both sides? "Listen to me!" "No, listen to MEEEE! HE speaks lies!" And so forth.
Yeah. At a convenience store. Cameras everywhere, with mikes.
The register area was most heavily monitored, sometimes in realtime.
Audio was used to judge one's performance.
I hated it. Even with the store closed and me mopping the floor it felt like some kind of mythical omniscient sky-dwelling entity was watching me.
And in my current IT job? Cameras in the fucking office..with mikes. I've seen it used against employees.
Yes, I'm looking. Been looking for a while. I can't stand this surveillance shit, I don't care *what* line of work it is.
Walmart can go fuck itself.
I hope there's a ton of "influencers" in this purge. They're the most fakety-fake-fake of all "media personalities."
Sometimes it's fun to watch tinfoil-hat videos...
Why? I'll use moon landings as an example. We went there, and we left tons of trash which are proof enough.. never mind the tons of film footage, photographs, experiments
Apollo, Gemini and Mercury made so many jobs for so many, directly and indirectly.
It was America's apogee, and after that it's been one long backslide. The moon deniers spit in the face of all that work. And if it's *that* easy to twist the denier's minds, what with all the hard evidence, then how easy is it to twist their minds on subjects with no evidence?
It's fun at first, then it's just sad. And the weak-minded are an exploitable things... food for thought.
Simmer down, Mr. President, have your burger and diet coke, and take a deep breath.. You think Apple is into Big Brotherish behavior? Oh man wait till you get anything Android, where data-siphoning apps are so much more available.
But whatever. Sounds to me like you've made up your mind. Do what you want, 'tis a free country... for now.
And you do know that since it is your employer's phone they can plant whatever they wish on it, yes? Oh, you didn't? Poor little fool. Their kit, their rules, love it or leave it.
Found El Trumpo, Donald the Worst.
Yea, we know you use an iphone because of the broken '.
Explain Trump.
Trump, imo, got in due to these factors:
1. Business owners.
2. People who blame Dems for all the ills of the USA, not realizing both parties are experts at screwing them.
3. People who basically said "HELL NO" to another Clinton in the white house.
4. People who thought now is the time to throw a lit Molotov Cocktail a the white house, and rebuild from the ashes.
Oh, for mod points..
This has been going on forever, from before the days of the Robber Barons.
Sarnoff from RCA would make Bill Gates and Zuckerberg seem like saints.
Today we have Zuckerberg, the Walton family, the Koch brothers, and many more who are all about maximizing their wealth regardless of how many they screw over to make it happen. Jobs lost, entire industries demolished.. and what is yet to come.
What's worse, those same people are hell-bent on shaping the country (world?) according to their views. And it won't be for our benefit.
I don't begrudge success to people who earn it.. but there is a line, and these people crossed it long ago. Where is that line? Hard to say. When you start screwing others to get your way?
There's a Unicode troll problem though, which is why /. has a rather strict whitelist of allowed characters.
Hmm. How about they allow ' when posted from an iphone? Or is this some entirely different problem?
To Wit: /. Beta. Did not want, do not want, what is now is fine... just fix the goddamned unicode problem.
Seriously. The quest for the New Shiny more often than not just ruins things. Like round picture frames in contact lists, etc. Who wants that?! Square was just fine. And flat UI designs.. they universally look like something a preschooler did with safety scissors, brightly-colored construction paper and paste.
Asshole, doorknob. Make sure you don't hit it on the way out.
The best things in tech have all been fueled by ... porn. All. Of. Them.
Oh, for mod points.... well played, sir!
1. Spin off a company just for defense / military.
2. Hire non-creampuff non-snowflake types.
3. Profit!
I applaud the worker's decision to not work on this, but also they must recognize that by pissing off their company, they can be fired.
As much as I hate google, I also applaud their desire to work on such things. The best things in tech have all been fueled by ... war. All. Of. Them.
That is all. There is none better for signage.
Pulling back when you should put the nose down a bit is a rookie mistake. But that said, what no one, ever, has ever convinvingly sold me on is an explanation as to WHY ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH did this aircrew on AF 447 drive the airplane, nose-high in a a a stall, all the way from cruise (they were above 30,000) to the sea the whole time.
I understand that on the airbus the stall horn shuts up when they had the nose hard up and would sound again if they pushed the nose down, but for fuck's sake, .... I just fail to comprehend that one crash. Makes no sense to me.
It's more than a rookie mistake. And cue the Airbus apologists: I think there's something borked in their philosophy. Now, I'm not an airline pilot so I'll shut the fuck up now, but.. I just don't understand this one wreck. PUT THE BLOODY NOSE DOWN! You had 30,000 ft to do it....
How often outside of sleepy time does one's phone remain unlocked for an entire hour?
Every evening, when I leave it in the bedroom and I'm watching something in the movie room. I don't let my phone be a cybershackle out of business hours.
Want me? Call me! Otherwise I'll get back to you whenever.. if ever.
Weekends? Many hours pass without me looking at it or unlocking it. I just don't caaaaaaaaare about constant connectivity, in fact, the older I get the more I loathe it.