Anime fans probably. Being an anime fan carries a high social stigma in Japan.
Being an anime fan also has a high social stigma everywhere else in the world.
There is no place in the world where being an anime fan as an adult is considered acceptable. And if you find people that do, that only means you're just hanging out with other socially unaccepted people.
Once a single person does it and produces a clean file then it's game over - its in the wild - and SOMEONE always manages to do it.
This is such an amateurish statement, coming from people that have no sense of systems design and architecture.
The correct answer is people don't care about costs as much as they care about convenience.
A DRM system is far more convenient than having to go through the hack of torrents and whatever other crappy black-market methods exist for watching movies.
This is why movie studios aren't concerned about "a single file getting out there", since they know the vast majority of people don't want to bother with finding movies the hard way.
You dumbass "freedom" lovers are going to have to face the reality of DRM soon enough, and you'll like it, because a zero-knowledge system IS actually better than learning about hacking together systems.
And once we enable DRM, we can finally enable movie studios to allow movies to play movies online.
The tech community needs to do a better job of kissing ass to the artists, since no artist wants to give away their product to losers that don't pay for it or don't provide any return value back.
And, no, you don't provide any value to artists. Artists actually LOVE collaborating with artists, often for free, because there is a mutual respect. It is why Eddie van Halen played guitar for free on Michaal Jackson's Thriller. It is why Kanye gets a million artists to play on his records, because he is awesome like that.
But you guys aren't artists, because you don't add to the state-of-the-art.
So, be modest. Artists don't value you people. You're not awesome. You are inferior to them. Everyone feels like they have a sense of superiority, especially "freedom" loving libertarians that have an artificially inflated sense of self. But, unfortunately, you actually are worthless. They are the artists. You are simply worthless consumers, that provide zero artistic value.
Feel free to kiss artists ass. And give them what they want in DRM.
But with public transportation, you're really limited in what you can carry.
My god what exactly do you carry to-from your office tech-job everyday that you need a car for?
And how did New Yorkers manage to build an entire city around public transit, while having a higher quality-of-life than the rest of the country? Do they somehow go without groceries or their furniture because they can't carry them via public transit?
If users had write access to the black-box, then trust in it wouldn't exist, thus defeating the point of the black-box itself. You can make-up any data and put it in there, including fake video footage.
At the very least, the user should not have write-access to black-box data. That data should be trustworthy and signed with certificates.
so, they haven't seen "Lord of the Rings : the Two Towers", "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", "28 Days Later" or "Catch Me If You Can"?
Or even the first two Superman movies..
People forget all about them, but there was a reason Christpher Reeves& Margot Kidder are considered stars, and thats because he was in such a perfect story. Superman II had the best storytelling of all comic-book movies, because it was actually written by Mario Puzo (from Godfather).. It had NONE of the nerdy dialogue that was in this reboot ("HEY GUYS IF THE CORE DRIVE ACTIVATES AND WE UPLOAD A VIRUS WE CAN STOP THE HYPER DRIVE SHIELD OMG SHUT UP")
That kind of horrible dialogue only exists in shitty japanese anime.
Let's put it this way. Say we get a total theocrat in office at some point in the future. Are you comfortable with that administration having easy access to all of the information that the NSA has already hoovered?
Yes, because the system balances itself out to prevent any abuse by any potential theocra. High-level whistleblowers always come forward, not your high-school-dropout-IT-Jesus geek. In fact, during the Bush administration, a bunch of NSA employee whistleblowers did go public about ACTUAL abuses of power on the Trailblazer projec. Additionally, Justice Department officials were about to resign to force the Bush administration from enacting further abuses of power.
This illustrates the differences between ideologies: You libertarians don't want any monitoring. We liberals want limited monitoring.
I'd like to see any theocrat try running an executive branch of 2+ million people raised in a society based on liberal principles. These same people are employed at the NSA as well.
If you Slashdot 14-year-old libertarian nerds were actually capable of understanding systematic design, instead of herp-a-derping at every point, you'd know that the overall system architecture works as intended even with allowances for holes, because overcoming a system based on 2+ million people is very difficult.
Question to you: are you capable of fully understanding the limits of what MIGHT happen?
Yah the only people that seem to trust Snowden are other high-school dropouts & moronic Ron Paul libertarians.
The problem with guys like Snowden is that they stumble upon 5 PowerPoint slides written by PhD Mathematicians from MIT that now work for the NSA, and because of their libertarian ego that causes them to have a higher sense of self than what they're actually worth, decide they fully understand what these MIT mathematicians wrote and conclude it's bad.
We really need to do a better job of reducing the sense of self that libertarians have. It really is a problem in society, where too many people think of themselves, and not of others. Socialization really needs to be taught over individualism in our schools, but, unfortunately, we have way too many people that believe in themselves.
The correct answer is to know that the NSA is filled with professionals that fully understand rights and freedoms, and know exactly what Posse Comitatus is, which is pretty much their Prime Directive/First Rule of Fight Club.
If you do not trust them, then that is your problem of socialization. And, if you have a problem with socialization, you do not present yourself as someone that the rest of society need to support.
Remember, no one has freedom. That is because power disparity exists in society.
You still need to kiss ass to those with higher power than you.
You can always tell who the mentally handicapped people are by their belief in freedom.
Intelligent people know, that as long as there is a power disparity, the weak will never have freedom.
"Freedom is the illusion that rich people give to middle-class people to enslave the poor" - Howard Zinn.
Rich people LOVE giving the middle-class that artificial sense of power. Why do you think you're allowed to have guns? To defend against a tyrannical government? =^D
We liberals have been telling dumbass conservative/libertarian for years, that, sorry, no freedom for you. They never seem to listen, probably because they have a lower-IQ, like this high-school dropout Snowden guy. "WHAT? WE HAVE NO POWER? THAT CAN'T BE! I THOUGHT WE WERE AWESOME?!"
Sorry you 14-year-old libertarians, but you don't get to do what you want in this life, because you do not have power. I'm sure it's nice and all to have so much faith and belief in oneself, with such a high sense of precious-snowflake self-esteem, but you know who's more awesome than you? THE PEOPLE WITH MORE POWER.
Intelligence is knowing your personal weaknesses, and libertarians are the LEAST intelligent members of society.
You libertarians need to do what we liberals do, that is, know your weakness, and operate within society from there.
Don't EVER be a libertarian. Publicly saying you have "freedom" is basically telling a liberal you are clueless.
Sometimes I hire unpaid interns. They're really completely useless to the organization. We hire them in the hopes of finding future talent, maybe they have an eye that we can train for our needs, etc. But they really need to be trained first, and this training doesn't benefit us at all.
This is what internship programs are supposed to be. Their "work" isn't supposed to benefit the organization. Sure you can tell them to get coffee, but that isn't work that benefits anyone. You can tell them to file papers or write an article or lay out some copy all day, but an actual senior employee would have it done in seconds, without handholding them all day on what to do..
Internships really are for the benefit of the interns.
But if we're supposed to pay them? That's really going to end that.
At least co-ops did useful work, but they're paid.
Freedom is only one way of achieving results, of which there are many ways.
If my goals can be achieved without "freedom", that's just fine.
People need to grow up and know that "freedom" is a useless concept, and that no one actually has "freedom" because power differences exist.
Remember, this is a country with MILLIONS of laws on its books.
We have less ACTUAL freedom than a guy from North Korea. I can't paint my house red due to zoning laws. A guy in North Korea can.
All the idiot libertarians that believe in "freedom" are actually promoting the least free society in the world, because they are dumb enough to fall for the illusion that the powerful give to the weak by playing with their concept of "freedom".
No one should EVER think they have "freedom", when someone with more power exists.
This is a textbook example of an idiot IT geek trying to be smarter than what he really is. He got all uppity in there, and really thinks he's some sort of hero.
The idiot himself spied on some 5 PowerPoint slides at work, went "ZOMG TYRANNY!" and decided to call the press, screaming the NSA is spying on EVERY American and listening and recording everything, and other assorted COMPLETELY made up garbage.
He had absolutely NO clue what Prism was, what it was capable of, and what it was meant to achieve. That's because he's a clueless IT support geek, and not a real engineer.
Of course the public, being functionally retarded, guided by a low-IQ media, eats that shit up. (Remember when the media was looking for WMDs back in 2004??)
A real engineer would know that what he described PRISM as was completely wrong. Additionally, a REAL NSA blue-badge employee would be well aware of Posse Comitatus, which would prevent the NSA from spying on Americans anyways, since the NSA is a military organization.
The real heroes are the actual NSA agents, with PhD's in Mathematics from MIT, that get a quarter of his pay yet actually do prevent REAL terrorist attacks, while following Posse Comitatus.
All NSA employees are well versed in Posse Comitatus, so you don't need to get your panties up in a bunch about them spying on you.
This guy is a traitor in the fullest sense, with a low-IQ that traitors generally have.
Ultimately, GED students should never be allowed TS-SI clearance.
Also, these Ron Paul libertarian gun-nuts should be stripped of US citizenship. They are the LEAST productive members of a modern society, because they have too much 2nd-grader "belief" and not enough worldly knowledge.
The fact is, he wasn't able to show single case where PRISM actually violated 4th amendment or any privacy violation. These idiot functionally retarded Ron Paul gun-nut libertarians are always like that, they always live in a "potential" to violate 4th amendment, when in the real world, it actually never happens because the checks and balances are in place to prevent that.
What would suggest they do instead? Go bankrupt? Fire the reporters and have the photographers write the stories? Most subscribers left before they made this change, so going back isn't going to reverse the readership decline.
This is happening because the Chicago Sun-Times doesn't know how to develop an audience versus everything else on the Internet. If amateur bloggers & social media sites can draw tons of page views, a professional content producer should be able to run rings around that. But unfortunately, it appears the Chicago Sun-Times has no clue why their audience is going down and how to fight against it.
If they had any skills, they would have gone the opposite direction - higher quality writing and photography, a beautiful website design that emphasizes that, and more exclusive stories. The New York Times "Snowfall" article used all these principles, and was able to gather millions of views from a single story.
They're supposed to be professionals, so they're supposed to produce professional content, instead of low-level YouTube crap. Can you imagine if NBC or Fox TV started posting amateur YouTube content all day? Even the most basic network reality TV show has the highest level of professional production behind it that no YouTuber can touch.
Chicago Sun-Times sees a bunch of viral video hits and think "hey we should do that. let's fire our professional content producers.". What they don't see are the thousands of non-hits on YouTube that cost just as much to produce as your regular viral hit.
Meanwhile, a professional TV production has the production art form down so that they can pretty much guarantee a viral-sized audience for every single production.
Well set out side of Germany and the stories told by Germans is all about how wonderful the German trains system are, and how advanced they are compared to anything else in the world, and how everyone could take a lesson from Germany.
That is correct.
Compare that to the US, where they don't even have a rail system where people could possibly complain about how pretty it should be.
Americans would much rather have their 15,000 traffic fatalities a year in cars and pay energy companies for their transportation.
The US could take a lesson from Germany. Right now, the German system is SO good, that the only problems left are people complaining about how pretty it is.
And, it should be treated as a public-works program, NOT a for-profit business. That is because the road-system is also treated as a public-works program, instead of a for-profit business.
NO government service should EVER be treated as a for-profit business.
He wants to dictate what everyone does, and will stop at NOTHING to do it.
You're implying that's a bad thing.
The people need to be dictated. They are not capable of governing themselves.
If you give people power, they do mentally defective things like owning guns.
The rights of the public should be severely limited. They should NOT be allowed to do what they want, since the public isn't capable of determining what is good for themselves. Strong government needs to dictate to people what is good for them instead.
Bloomberg is a true hero because he helps to limit the power of the public and individual rights. We liberals encourage his power, which helps fight the freedom-loving libertarianism threat to this country.
Most Americans support strong-government socialism anyways, and think libertarianism is a silly, low-IQ idea anyways that children think is smart.
Eventually people get over the idea of libertarianism and individual freedom, in exchange for a stronger government authority and power.
This is similar to how politicians and teachers' unions insist that the way to produce better results in our public schools is to throw more money at them
I guess some people think you an get better results for free.
A reskin of Flickr isn't going to bring a hundred million young, fashionable, advertising friendly viewers to Flickr.
Tumblr already has that 100 million viewers. Yahoo is buying that audience.
Flickr will remain a back-end tech for Yahoo. It has terrible branding. Flickr's (and Yahoo's) audience is older, male, and undesirable for advertiser.
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Anime fans probably. Being an anime fan carries a high social stigma in Japan.
Being an anime fan also has a high social stigma everywhere else in the world.
There is no place in the world where being an anime fan as an adult is considered acceptable. And if you find people that do, that only means you're just hanging out with other socially unaccepted people.
They make their own chips, and you buy what they make.
Apple isn't going to be able to get Intel to fab their custom chips for them. That isn't Intel's business model.
Intel sells their own CPUs. They don't sell your CPUs.
They just happen to have the best fabs.
Once a single person does it and produces a clean file then it's game over - its in the wild - and SOMEONE always manages to do it.
This is such an amateurish statement, coming from people that have no sense of systems design and architecture.
The correct answer is people don't care about costs as much as they care about convenience.
A DRM system is far more convenient than having to go through the hack of torrents and whatever other crappy black-market methods exist for watching movies.
This is why movie studios aren't concerned about "a single file getting out there", since they know the vast majority of people don't want to bother with finding movies the hard way.
You dumbass "freedom" lovers are going to have to face the reality of DRM soon enough, and you'll like it, because a zero-knowledge system IS actually better than learning about hacking together systems.
And once we enable DRM, we can finally enable movie studios to allow movies to play movies online.
The tech community needs to do a better job of kissing ass to the artists, since no artist wants to give away their product to losers that don't pay for it or don't provide any return value back.
And, no, you don't provide any value to artists. Artists actually LOVE collaborating with artists, often for free, because there is a mutual respect. It is why Eddie van Halen played guitar for free on Michaal Jackson's Thriller. It is why Kanye gets a million artists to play on his records, because he is awesome like that.
But you guys aren't artists, because you don't add to the state-of-the-art.
So, be modest. Artists don't value you people. You're not awesome. You are inferior to them. Everyone feels like they have a sense of superiority, especially "freedom" loving libertarians that have an artificially inflated sense of self. But, unfortunately, you actually are worthless. They are the artists. You are simply worthless consumers, that provide zero artistic value.
Feel free to kiss artists ass. And give them what they want in DRM.
Women prefer dangerous guys over milquetoast ones.
Women prefer rich guys.
If humans weren't so predictable.
Each one of you could be modeled as a computer program.
LOL @ people that think they have freewill.
But with public transportation, you're really limited in what you can carry.
My god what exactly do you carry to-from your office tech-job everyday that you need a car for?
And how did New Yorkers manage to build an entire city around public transit, while having a higher quality-of-life than the rest of the country? Do they somehow go without groceries or their furniture because they can't carry them via public transit?
They must have some kind of magic power.
If users had write access to the black-box, then trust in it wouldn't exist, thus defeating the point of the black-box itself. You can make-up any data and put it in there, including fake video footage.
At the very least, the user should not have write-access to black-box data. That data should be trustworthy and signed with certificates.
so, they haven't seen "Lord of the Rings : the Two Towers", "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", "28 Days Later" or "Catch Me If You Can"?
Or even the first two Superman movies..
People forget all about them, but there was a reason Christpher Reeves& Margot Kidder are considered stars, and thats because he was in such a perfect story. Superman II had the best storytelling of all comic-book movies, because it was actually written by Mario Puzo (from Godfather).. It had NONE of the nerdy dialogue that was in this reboot ("HEY GUYS IF THE CORE DRIVE ACTIVATES AND WE UPLOAD A VIRUS WE CAN STOP THE HYPER DRIVE SHIELD OMG SHUT UP")
That kind of horrible dialogue only exists in shitty japanese anime.
Let's put it this way. Say we get a total theocrat in office at some point in the future. Are you comfortable with that administration having easy access to all of the information that the NSA has already hoovered?
Yes, because the system balances itself out to prevent any abuse by any potential theocra. High-level whistleblowers always come forward, not your high-school-dropout-IT-Jesus geek. In fact, during the Bush administration, a bunch of NSA employee whistleblowers did go public about ACTUAL abuses of power on the Trailblazer projec. Additionally, Justice Department officials were about to resign to force the Bush administration from enacting further abuses of power.
This illustrates the differences between ideologies: You libertarians don't want any monitoring. We liberals want limited monitoring.
I'd like to see any theocrat try running an executive branch of 2+ million people raised in a society based on liberal principles. These same people are employed at the NSA as well.
If you Slashdot 14-year-old libertarian nerds were actually capable of understanding systematic design, instead of herp-a-derping at every point, you'd know that the overall system architecture works as intended even with allowances for holes, because overcoming a system based on 2+ million people is very difficult.
Question to you: are you capable of fully understanding the limits of what MIGHT happen?
No need to prevent "booth babes" at all, since women, both gay & straight, enjoy looking at hot women just as much as men do.
You don't see women being sold beauty products with men in the ads. Marketers know this, with support of a lot of psychological research.
Sexism is something that should be accepted, and understood. It's not a cultural issue, it's biological.
Not only that, but the new Mac Pro is probably the most original desktop computer design since.. desktop computers were invented.
And it's only been 3 years since the iPad was invented.
Facebook is going to disappear, though - hardly anyone goes on it anymore.
Yah the only people that seem to trust Snowden are other high-school dropouts & moronic Ron Paul libertarians.
The problem with guys like Snowden is that they stumble upon 5 PowerPoint slides written by PhD Mathematicians from MIT that now work for the NSA, and because of their libertarian ego that causes them to have a higher sense of self than what they're actually worth, decide they fully understand what these MIT mathematicians wrote and conclude it's bad.
We really need to do a better job of reducing the sense of self that libertarians have. It really is a problem in society, where too many people think of themselves, and not of others. Socialization really needs to be taught over individualism in our schools, but, unfortunately, we have way too many people that believe in themselves.
The correct answer is to know that the NSA is filled with professionals that fully understand rights and freedoms, and know exactly what Posse Comitatus is, which is pretty much their Prime Directive/First Rule of Fight Club.
If you do not trust them, then that is your problem of socialization. And, if you have a problem with socialization, you do not present yourself as someone that the rest of society need to support.
Remember, no one has freedom. That is because power disparity exists in society.
You still need to kiss ass to those with higher power than you.
You can always tell who the mentally handicapped people are by their belief in freedom.
Intelligent people know, that as long as there is a power disparity, the weak will never have freedom.
"Freedom is the illusion that rich people give to middle-class people to enslave the poor" - Howard Zinn.
Rich people LOVE giving the middle-class that artificial sense of power. Why do you think you're allowed to have guns? To defend against a tyrannical government? =^D
We liberals have been telling dumbass conservative/libertarian for years, that, sorry, no freedom for you. They never seem to listen, probably because they have a lower-IQ, like this high-school dropout Snowden guy. "WHAT? WE HAVE NO POWER? THAT CAN'T BE! I THOUGHT WE WERE AWESOME?!"
Sorry you 14-year-old libertarians, but you don't get to do what you want in this life, because you do not have power. I'm sure it's nice and all to have so much faith and belief in oneself, with such a high sense of precious-snowflake self-esteem, but you know who's more awesome than you? THE PEOPLE WITH MORE POWER.
Intelligence is knowing your personal weaknesses, and libertarians are the LEAST intelligent members of society.
You libertarians need to do what we liberals do, that is, know your weakness, and operate within society from there.
Don't EVER be a libertarian. Publicly saying you have "freedom" is basically telling a liberal you are clueless.
Sometimes I hire unpaid interns. They're really completely useless to the organization. We hire them in the hopes of finding future talent, maybe they have an eye that we can train for our needs, etc. But they really need to be trained first, and this training doesn't benefit us at all.
This is what internship programs are supposed to be. Their "work" isn't supposed to benefit the organization. Sure you can tell them to get coffee, but that isn't work that benefits anyone. You can tell them to file papers or write an article or lay out some copy all day, but an actual senior employee would have it done in seconds, without handholding them all day on what to do..
Internships really are for the benefit of the interns.
But if we're supposed to pay them? That's really going to end that.
At least co-ops did useful work, but they're paid.
Freedom is more important than security, drone.
Negative.
Freedom is not important, libertarian drone.
The END RESULT is what's important in life.
Nobody actually cares about freedom itself.
Freedom is only one way of achieving results, of which there are many ways.
If my goals can be achieved without "freedom", that's just fine.
People need to grow up and know that "freedom" is a useless concept, and that no one actually has "freedom" because power differences exist.
Remember, this is a country with MILLIONS of laws on its books.
We have less ACTUAL freedom than a guy from North Korea. I can't paint my house red due to zoning laws. A guy in North Korea can.
All the idiot libertarians that believe in "freedom" are actually promoting the least free society in the world, because they are dumb enough to fall for the illusion that the powerful give to the weak by playing with their concept of "freedom".
No one should EVER think they have "freedom", when someone with more power exists.
This is a textbook example of an idiot IT geek trying to be smarter than what he really is. He got all uppity in there, and really thinks he's some sort of hero.
The idiot himself spied on some 5 PowerPoint slides at work, went "ZOMG TYRANNY!" and decided to call the press, screaming the NSA is spying on EVERY American and listening and recording everything, and other assorted COMPLETELY made up garbage.
He had absolutely NO clue what Prism was, what it was capable of, and what it was meant to achieve. That's because he's a clueless IT support geek, and not a real engineer.
Of course the public, being functionally retarded, guided by a low-IQ media, eats that shit up. (Remember when the media was looking for WMDs back in 2004??)
A real engineer would know that what he described PRISM as was completely wrong. Additionally, a REAL NSA blue-badge employee would be well aware of Posse Comitatus, which would prevent the NSA from spying on Americans anyways, since the NSA is a military organization.
The real heroes are the actual NSA agents, with PhD's in Mathematics from MIT, that get a quarter of his pay yet actually do prevent REAL terrorist attacks, while following Posse Comitatus.
All NSA employees are well versed in Posse Comitatus, so you don't need to get your panties up in a bunch about them spying on you.
This guy is a traitor in the fullest sense, with a low-IQ that traitors generally have.
Ultimately, GED students should never be allowed TS-SI clearance.
Also, these Ron Paul libertarian gun-nuts should be stripped of US citizenship. They are the LEAST productive members of a modern society, because they have too much 2nd-grader "belief" and not enough worldly knowledge.
The fact is, he wasn't able to show single case where PRISM actually violated 4th amendment or any privacy violation. These idiot functionally retarded Ron Paul gun-nut libertarians are always like that, they always live in a "potential" to violate 4th amendment, when in the real world, it actually never happens because the checks and balances are in place to prevent that.
What would suggest they do instead? Go bankrupt? Fire the reporters and have the photographers write the stories? Most subscribers left before they made this change, so going back isn't going to reverse the readership decline.
This is happening because the Chicago Sun-Times doesn't know how to develop an audience versus everything else on the Internet. If amateur bloggers & social media sites can draw tons of page views, a professional content producer should be able to run rings around that. But unfortunately, it appears the Chicago Sun-Times has no clue why their audience is going down and how to fight against it.
If they had any skills, they would have gone the opposite direction - higher quality writing and photography, a beautiful website design that emphasizes that, and more exclusive stories. The New York Times "Snowfall" article used all these principles, and was able to gather millions of views from a single story.
They're supposed to be professionals, so they're supposed to produce professional content, instead of low-level YouTube crap. Can you imagine if NBC or Fox TV started posting amateur YouTube content all day? Even the most basic network reality TV show has the highest level of professional production behind it that no YouTuber can touch.
Chicago Sun-Times sees a bunch of viral video hits and think "hey we should do that. let's fire our professional content producers.". What they don't see are the thousands of non-hits on YouTube that cost just as much to produce as your regular viral hit.
Meanwhile, a professional TV production has the production art form down so that they can pretty much guarantee a viral-sized audience for every single production.
Well set out side of Germany and the stories told by Germans is all about how wonderful the German trains system are, and how advanced they are compared to anything else in the world, and how everyone could take a lesson from Germany.
That is correct.
Compare that to the US, where they don't even have a rail system where people could possibly complain about how pretty it should be.
Americans would much rather have their 15,000 traffic fatalities a year in cars and pay energy companies for their transportation.
The US could take a lesson from Germany. Right now, the German system is SO good, that the only problems left are people complaining about how pretty it is.
And, it should be treated as a public-works program, NOT a for-profit business. That is because the road-system is also treated as a public-works program, instead of a for-profit business.
NO government service should EVER be treated as a for-profit business.
He wants to dictate what everyone does, and will stop at NOTHING to do it.
You're implying that's a bad thing.
The people need to be dictated. They are not capable of governing themselves.
If you give people power, they do mentally defective things like owning guns.
The rights of the public should be severely limited. They should NOT be allowed to do what they want, since the public isn't capable of determining what is good for themselves. Strong government needs to dictate to people what is good for them instead.
Bloomberg is a true hero because he helps to limit the power of the public and individual rights. We liberals encourage his power, which helps fight the freedom-loving libertarianism threat to this country.
Most Americans support strong-government socialism anyways, and think libertarianism is a silly, low-IQ idea anyways that children think is smart.
Eventually people get over the idea of libertarianism and individual freedom, in exchange for a stronger government authority and power.
You know the Bloomberg business news channel? That's his, along with several other media properties.
Just make all websites into Twitter clones... should work with ATM packets.
I'm more interested in how I can get a $465m government guaranteed loan for my random startup business?
Holy crap that's a lot of money! Most series A venture funding is only $1-5m..
But I guess some people might play games for intellectual-property activism.
This is similar to how politicians and teachers' unions insist that the way to produce better results in our public schools is to throw more money at them
I guess some people think you an get better results for free.
A reskin of Flickr isn't going to bring a hundred million young, fashionable, advertising friendly viewers to Flickr.
Tumblr already has that 100 million viewers. Yahoo is buying that audience.
Flickr will remain a back-end tech for Yahoo. It has terrible branding. Flickr's (and Yahoo's) audience is older, male, and undesirable for advertiser.