"What is so bad about the employees driving themselves to work, or use public transportation, or have Google buy bus tickets for employees to commute by bus?"
Cars add to traffic and cause congestion at Google parking lots and add the extra labor of self-driving to the obligations of Google employees.
Public trans is less efficient because it isn't strictly targeted to serve Google employees.
There is no reason for Google not to take care of their employees rather than burden public transport, burden the employees, and burden Google thereby.
If you rent the neighborhood does not belong to you.
Having been variously tenant, homeowner, and landlord I can see their side, but renting is transient and if you don't own you should not be planning to stay anywhere for a very long time. If you do own you should have a plan to adapt to changing property values and do well. If those values and the place you live in can be expected to crater (as was correctly anticipated in Detroit a LONG time before that happened), don't stand on sentiment and have a plan to GFTO. The US is a large country and you don't have to stick in one place.
For example my parents bought a house in Bergen County, NJ for $60K in the 1960s. When taxes became prohibitive because of increasing property values, they cashed out and finished their retirement elsewhere with more money.
The GOP is the Dixiecrat Party and except for a few chumps/Uncle Toms (the term has a specific meaning) Blacks, even the slowest, get that Republicans basically "hate their fucking guts".
This is not a tech site. It's a general news site. Until something which engages the last bits of the old Slashdot comes along, Dicedot is basically 4chan but going downhill as reflected in the flood of general stories and the tech ignorance of posters.
It makes more money this way so it will never revert.
"Does the population of USA think it is OK for USA to be spying on every other country?"
Of course most do. It's the duty of an intelligence service to know as much as possible about everything competitors (every other country) does. It's the duty of every other intelliegence service to know as much as possible about the US. You either trust media and what a "friendly" government tells you, which is insane, or you spy, which is sane and rational.
Internal spying on own citizens is one thing while spying on everyone else is another.
I kept my old Yahoo webmail accounts but use Thunderbird to read those as well as Gmail. Avoids dealing with asstastic webmail page layout as well as being bothered with adverts.
You can't be an Ellsberg any more. That's absurd. You'd get the Bradley Manning treatment.
The only sane thing to do is dump then leave the US for the rest of your life. For someone with talent there is zero reason to want to come back.
Kim Philby was of another, distant, almost (as it was pre-internet) pre-communication age and considering his background of course he was alien to the Eastern Bloc. OTOH Snowden can make new friends in his new world because he has peers there.
Drugs can be great fun if used wisely. Why would he not indulge?
Some drugs are often fatal (booze and nicotine especially), and others can be if one gets silly. Not everyone is Keith Richards so some folks croak. No big deal and not a surprise.
Solution: Groom a deceptive online identity designed to get you work and stay off social media for other purposes as they are just vain entertainment. That others do not is to your advantage.
If you want to get anywhere in life you must understand the value of lying and hypocritcal behavior towards your many institutional enemies. Ethics are for application to friends and neutrals. It's not sociopathic to treat the portion of society which is genuinely your enemy as your enemy. We are conditioned otherwise, but the conditioners have obvious agendas.
"The SEC has more than enough to do with figuring out how to manage their direct mandate and prevent Big Finance from screwing us all over yet again with some new and clever shiny like the sub prime mortgage instruments, etc"
That assumes an interest in so doing rather than being the whore of big finance like the rest of our government. Never trust the motives of any government agency. They are not your friends.
"The US is in the process of destroying its economy."
US productivity is quite high, and foreign manufacturers like Continental Tire who are building a half-billion dollar plant in South Carolina might disagree with your assessment. Continental did not get to where they are by making unwise bets. They survived the fall of the Kaiser, the Great Depression, and the Second World War among other little speed bumps.
What you describe is common. When I was unemployed I spoke to many folks who had to rely on the library or the PCs at the unemployment office to searcha and manage job applications as well as their unemployment insurance documentation. Internet access is a necessity for the unemployed.
The US has no national interest in Asian wars. (Any war which does not benefit the general public is recreational.)
If China's rich neighbors want it restrained, they ought to arm themselves with nuclear weapons and be ready to implement MAD, for nothing else but will to exterminate your existential enemy even if you die where you stand restrains serious foes.
The US military-industrial complex is not concerned with the national debt so it is delighted at being built up even when it defends one set of our economic competition from another.
Why should Americans die to separate squabbling Asians?
"Where do you put $1 coins when at the strip club?"
In the Phillipines during the Cold War (I can't vouch for later) there were various establishments where the entertainers would lower themselves onto a beer bottle and engulf coins set upon the top.
Alas I only saw photos belonging to other Airmen as Mount Pinatubo rudely erupted ensuring I could not visit on TDY.
Hide the card inside the computer instead, where it will blend in even under x-ray. A dot of adhesive can conceal it even if the laptop is opened. It can fit under the heatshring wrap of some BIOS batteries, under a heatsink, under the label of an add-on card, and many other places.
Don't bring a screwdriver with you as they are cheap at any auto or chain store.
" Amazing how low you can get the prices when you use children to build gadgets for children."
Got a better job to offer those children which won't be displaced by someone else shopping their business to other children?
Unless the NEED for child labor is removed, it's better than starvation. Note that horrid labor conditions are how all developing countries compete until they can compete by other means. That includes the US.
If you have a (practical) alternative, please share it.
BTW, if you don't want your notebook or other device to look as if it's been opened those screw kits off Ebay fit more than just Thinkpads.
"Sensor safe" RTV silicone from your local auto store is dandy for holding computer parts together you may have to remove one day as it peels off but with some effort. A dot the size of a lower-case "o" would do for a MicroSD card.
You could also use Elmers or similar water-based glue for the card and the label. After arrival at destination, remove WLAN card or other host component, drop into a cup of hot water, remove MicroSD card, dry off the lot, reassemble notebook/device, done.
Experiment for some entertainment. Have a watch with a removable back? A pocket calculator? Anything else that won't look interesting on X-ray when travelling to North Korea, Iran or some other place with intrusive security or high theft hazard?
It will be a while, perhaps a very long while, before there is a fairly complete database of "everything electronic" for computerized comparison with scanned objects and scanners sufficiently accurate for that to work. The counter to that is to secrete your data in components which are opaque to x-ray. Enterprising Slashdotters with x-ray access and a stash of electronics could find out what those are (and share the ones they won't be personally using).
Take choice away from businesses so they can't invoke superstition to avoid paying their due.
If there is a superstitious (equals political) exemption for birth control why not any and all other medical care? A Christian Scientist business could save a mint!
Then anyone could hold the rest of the nation hostage and block development. The deaths and injuries from both pipeline and rail accidents are trivial compared to the enormous national benefit of the rail and pipeline systems which were built largely by granting rights of way and could not be done affordably any other way. Ideals are adorable but often the greater good is attained by making practical choices. ANY transportation choice has casualties, including tens of thousands dead each year from auto crashes. Even that rate is trivial in a nation of over 300 million people.
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"What is so bad about the employees driving themselves to work, or use public transportation, or have Google buy bus tickets for employees to commute by bus?"
Cars add to traffic and cause congestion at Google parking lots and add the extra labor of self-driving to the obligations of Google employees.
Public trans is less efficient because it isn't strictly targeted to serve Google employees.
There is no reason for Google not to take care of their employees rather than burden public transport, burden the employees, and burden Google thereby.
If you rent the neighborhood does not belong to you.
Having been variously tenant, homeowner, and landlord I can see their side, but renting is transient and if you don't own you should not be planning to stay anywhere for a very long time. If you do own you should have a plan to adapt to changing property values and do well. If those values and the place you live in can be expected to crater (as was correctly anticipated in Detroit a LONG time before that happened), don't stand on sentiment and have a plan to GFTO. The US is a large country and you don't have to stick in one place.
For example my parents bought a house in Bergen County, NJ for $60K in the 1960s. When taxes became prohibitive because of increasing property values, they cashed out and finished their retirement elsewhere with more money.
Security is an illusion people will pay for, so why not make a profit?
"99% of black voters voted for Obama."
The GOP is the Dixiecrat Party and except for a few chumps/Uncle Toms (the term has a specific meaning) Blacks, even the slowest, get that Republicans basically "hate their fucking guts".
There is no Big Tent GOP.
(Notes UID)
"Slashdot: News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters."
Once, in the distant glorious past, it was and it did.
"This is a not a gun blog."
This is not a tech site. It's a general news site. Until something which engages the last bits of the old Slashdot comes along, Dicedot is basically 4chan but going downhill as reflected in the flood of general stories and the tech ignorance of posters.
It makes more money this way so it will never revert.
Most importantly, how to triforce?
I'm not indignant, just amused.
Slashvertisement.
Also will meet a grim fate in stop-and-go driving if fielded when they carbon up.
" I'd like to see cancer bite my shiny metal ass."
Welcome to wear, corrosion, stress cracking, and your Windows 2080 operating system.
"Does the population of USA think it is OK for USA to be spying on every other country?"
Of course most do. It's the duty of an intelligence service to know as much as possible about everything competitors (every other country) does. It's the duty of every other intelliegence service to know as much as possible about the US. You either trust media and what a "friendly" government tells you, which is insane, or you spy, which is sane and rational.
Internal spying on own citizens is one thing while spying on everyone else is another.
I kept my old Yahoo webmail accounts but use Thunderbird to read those as well as Gmail. Avoids dealing with asstastic webmail page layout as well as being bothered with adverts.
You can't be an Ellsberg any more. That's absurd. You'd get the Bradley Manning treatment.
The only sane thing to do is dump then leave the US for the rest of your life. For someone with talent there is zero reason to want to come back.
Kim Philby was of another, distant, almost (as it was pre-internet) pre-communication age and considering his background of course he was alien to the Eastern Bloc. OTOH Snowden can make new friends in his new world because he has peers there.
Drugs can be great fun if used wisely. Why would he not indulge?
Some drugs are often fatal (booze and nicotine especially), and others can be if one gets silly. Not everyone is Keith Richards so some folks croak. No big deal and not a surprise.
Solution:
Groom a deceptive online identity designed to get you work and stay off social media for other purposes as they are just vain entertainment. That others do not is to your advantage.
If you want to get anywhere in life you must understand the value of lying and hypocritcal behavior towards your many institutional enemies. Ethics are for application to friends and neutrals. It's not sociopathic to treat the portion of society which is genuinely your enemy as your enemy. We are conditioned otherwise, but the conditioners have obvious agendas.
"The SEC has more than enough to do with figuring out how to manage their direct mandate and prevent Big Finance from screwing us all over yet again with some new and clever shiny like the sub prime mortgage instruments, etc"
That assumes an interest in so doing rather than being the whore of big finance like the rest of our government. Never trust the motives of any government agency. They are not your friends.
"The US is in the process of destroying its economy."
US productivity is quite high, and foreign manufacturers like Continental Tire who are building a half-billion dollar plant in South Carolina might disagree with your assessment. Continental did not get to where they are by making unwise bets. They survived the fall of the Kaiser, the Great Depression, and the Second World War among other little speed bumps.
What you describe is common. When I was unemployed I spoke to many folks who had to rely on the library or the PCs at the unemployment office to searcha and manage job applications as well as their unemployment insurance documentation.
Internet access is a necessity for the unemployed.
The US has no national interest in Asian wars. (Any war which does not benefit the general public is recreational.)
If China's rich neighbors want it restrained, they ought to arm themselves with nuclear weapons and be ready to implement MAD, for nothing else but will to exterminate your existential enemy even if you die where you stand restrains serious foes.
The US military-industrial complex is not concerned with the national debt so it is delighted at being built up even when it defends one set of our economic competition from another.
Why should Americans die to separate squabbling Asians?
"Where do you put $1 coins when at the strip club?"
In the Phillipines during the Cold War (I can't vouch for later) there were various establishments where the entertainers would lower themselves onto a beer bottle and engulf coins set upon the top.
Alas I only saw photos belonging to other Airmen as Mount Pinatubo rudely erupted ensuring I could not visit on TDY.
Hide the card inside the computer instead, where it will blend in even under x-ray. A dot of adhesive can conceal it even if the laptop is opened. It can fit under the heatshring wrap of some BIOS batteries, under a heatsink, under the label of an add-on card, and many other places.
Don't bring a screwdriver with you as they are cheap at any auto or chain store.
"The Gestapo and STASI only wished they had the ability to do what the NSA does."
The NSA and other Alphabet Agencies only wish they had the authority to do what the Gestapo and Stasi did.
" Amazing how low you can get the prices when you use children to build gadgets for children."
Got a better job to offer those children which won't be displaced by someone else shopping their business to other children?
Unless the NEED for child labor is removed, it's better than starvation. Note that horrid labor conditions are how all developing countries compete until they can compete by other means. That includes the US.
If you have a (practical) alternative, please share it.
BTW, if you don't want your notebook or other device to look as if it's been opened those screw kits off Ebay fit more than just Thinkpads.
"Sensor safe" RTV silicone from your local auto store is dandy for holding computer parts together you may have to remove one day as it peels off but with some effort. A dot the size of a lower-case "o" would do for a MicroSD card.
You could also use Elmers or similar water-based glue for the card and the label. After arrival at destination, remove WLAN card or other host component, drop into a cup of hot water, remove MicroSD card, dry off the lot, reassemble notebook/device, done.
Experiment for some entertainment. Have a watch with a removable back? A pocket calculator? Anything else that won't look interesting on X-ray when travelling to North Korea, Iran or some other place with intrusive security or high theft hazard?
It will be a while, perhaps a very long while, before there is a fairly complete database of "everything electronic" for computerized comparison with scanned objects and scanners sufficiently accurate for that to work. The counter to that is to secrete your data in components which are opaque to x-ray. Enterprising Slashdotters with x-ray access and a stash of electronics could find out what those are (and share the ones they won't be personally using).
Take choice away from businesses so they can't invoke superstition to avoid paying their due.
If there is a superstitious (equals political) exemption for birth control why not any and all other medical care? A Christian Scientist business could save a mint!
Then anyone could hold the rest of the nation hostage and block development.
The deaths and injuries from both pipeline and rail accidents are trivial compared to the enormous national benefit of the rail and pipeline systems which were built largely by granting rights of way and could not be done affordably any other way.
Ideals are adorable but often the greater good is attained by making practical choices.
ANY transportation choice has casualties, including tens of thousands dead each year from auto crashes. Even that rate is trivial in a nation of over 300 million people.