THE business model of FB is to sell "your information" (just like every other social media site and search engine). No one with more than 2 firing neurons should expect anything less than every single keystroke tracked, recorded, monitored, analyzed and monetized.
It's a business, a business to make profit, off you....
So, go ahead and put that Amazon echo, Google Home or Nest in your house and feel complete secure nobody is listening to background sounds and determining what your doing and what can be sold to you. (or what can be subpoena.. later....)
oh?/. decided to start working again?
We'll, not getting the posts right this time either. Big companies are demanding more control and restricting remote workers. sorry: https://www.nbcnews.com/busine...
Since wireless carriers are already placing limits on my data usage and throttling sites heavily used sites (netflix etc.) what the hell good does a bigger endpoint pipe do if they won't allow any more data in it?
Boarding the plane isn't so bad... it's the time after boarding, after the plane pushes away from the gate, sitting on the tarmac with out much air circulation - that's the worst.
"on time" is defined by the time the plane leaves the gate - even when it sits on the runway for 2 hours waiting...... so airlines are incentivized to just "push away" and sit.
Of course automation has increased productivity – but, in the US, ALL of those productivity benefits have ONLY benefited the top 1%. Workers wages have stagnated since the 1980’s, benefits have been slashed, infrastructure crumbles , pensions are the thing of the past, yet at a time of record corporate profits, CEO wages have shot up from 55x an average worker’s salary in the 1980’s to 350x an average worker’s salary. Multiply the inequitable distribution by orders of magnitude so yes, automation on and unprecedented scale will bring about massive societal change. There will be a few who live lives in wealth beyond imagination – and there will be starving masses barely scraping by. Unless you think that the oligarchy will be willing to share. Has that EVER happened without a bloody revolution?
More steaming bs from the halitosis infected gaping maw of the Uber troll. The FCC already shot down the "ride share" option for private pilots. Commercial aircraft require years of testing, redundancy, and certification - none of which has an ecosystem what-so-ever. Not to mention, in order to be commercially viable and affordable to the average user, the price point of aircraft acquisition needs to be close to the price point of a used Prius. good luck.
We’re not ignoring them – We (well, the GOP anyway) needs to somehow spin them as “false news”, attack anyone who claims it’s valid and redirect to some Clintonian BS when evidence is demonstratively contrary to the GOP story.
For the GOP to actually admit the 2016 election results were somehow manipulated, would be to validate a false President rules the throne.
As we’re now seeing, sexual escapades are hidden by shell companies, lawyers and friends, “jobs to Americans” is really just paying back the old 19th century business model of scotched earth for profit even if human life / well being hangs in the balance.
This isn't exactly about "budget cutting". It's about cutting people who can possibly provide empirical evidence of global Warming from WITHIN the Government
"shrinkage"? BS.... Verizon had a net profit in 2016 of $13B off $125B revenue. Theft of a few smart phones is peanuts to the cost of building hundreds of towers and keeping global infrastructure running. This is customer lock in and killing off secondary (aka competitive) markets..
This isn't about "protecting consumers". It's about killing off the secondary phone market. After you upgrade, you're stuck with a brick you can't sell. All those people who buy used phones will be forced to purchase new - or rooted ones.
We're missing privacy, accountability, security and end user ownership.
Today's "tech" has morphed into nothing more than spyware to collect all your personal information so you can be sold to marketing companies, Governments and scammers.
Where there's an egregious screw up, no one is ever held accountable and problems are never fixed.
Unfortunately, in US, it is not a binary answer. Women are believed no matter what or how nonsensical the claims. Men are always assumed to be in the wrong in any she vs he situation.
There is no "guilty till proven innocent" and men are instantly convicted in the court of public opinion.
A case-in-point from my own experience; I got divorced in (c) 2004 for which I was awarded full and legal custody of our 3 kids. As such, I was awarded child support. I had to fill out paperwork via the Social Services system in order to get child support garnished from my ex. The pre-printed paperwork provided by the Department of Social Services had pre-printed "father" across the entire form in all locations so as to garnish men's wages. Ie: "Father's Address", "Father's employer", etc. Also, several of my friends who have been through divorce have experienced when things are beginning to not go in favor of the woman, several have brought up the "abuser" stigma which without any substantiation immediately nullifies any male rights.
Equal rights need to go both ways.
I was going to make this same point, but you beat me to it... It does however beg the question, if every single illegal transaction is track able (which it is via blockchain) , and authorities know exactly where illicit proceeds are sitting, ie, which wallet, why are cyber criminals still not in jail?
We've always had "fake news", it just used to be called rumors, innuendos, and out right BS. The 2 main differences are:
1) FaceCrook has taken all the advertising from real news organizations, companies that used to vet people and sources. news papers hired editors and investigative journalists who did the diligence rather than burped garbage like the Star, National Enquirer or FauxNoise.
2) The death of real, vetted news, and millennial 140 character attention span has reduced our over all ability to differentiate fact from crap. Add in Google and FB aggregating our "likes" rather than "facts" and it provides the perfect opportunity for us to elevate that which we want to believe over that which is true.
Your second question: who's being extorted?
The DOT took away 1 regular traffic lane and built a toll lane, leaving 2 toll lanes. If you don't "pay to play", you end up sitting in traffic 3 hours on a 25mile drive. I live in Mukilteo and my wife worked in Redmond taking the 405 daily. Yes, I purchased a goodtogo pass, even after the savings of the fees, still cost $75 per week which is $3900 per year. Even in the toll lane, her commuter was 45min to an hour per way. Without the toll lane, in regular traffic lanes (for those who can't afford the $4K per year in tolls), it's 1-2 hours per way for 25 miles... That's obscene.
Add on top of the $4000 traffic tools the DOUBLING of my vehicle registration for the Sound Transit $54BILLION expansion, and the increased property taxes, again for the Sound Transit Expansion, and yes, the State is extorting money.
Is the 405 paying for itelf? It was passed into law under the conditions of the law states the two-year anniversary requirement that the toll lanes meet the 45 mph standard and collect at least enough money to meet operating costs or they “must be terminated as soon as practicable.” The estimated $18M in collection fees is actually $30M, but the speed is no where near 45 MPH average. Yet it's not terminated, like most legislators, ours are addicted to tax money.
Additionally, there's a new tunnel into Seattle being dug that will be a toll. The Seattle area has become the worst traffic area in the Country https://www.seattletimes.com/s...
and all the State wants to do is capitalize on traffic jams, create revenue and fund homeless and drug "safe sites" where addicts get free needles and doctor supervision. https://www.washingtonpost.com...
The toll is always $10 when there is heavy traffic - plus a $2 service fee if you have not purchased the automated charge GoodToGo pass that requires a credit card... 10+2 is 12.....
The far left "extortion" lane, you know, rather then add more driver lanes to an traffic system over capacity - State DOT added "toll" lanes and charges $12 per pass, or $24 per day (2 ways) unless you want to sit in traffic for 3 hours to drive 30 miles.
But that's the State... Wanna talk about Seattle, talk about the mandated "Safe Injection Sites" so drug users get clean needles and doctor oversight as they shoot up - courtesy of the tax payers.
Or Lynnwood Washington's 10.4% sales tax.....oh, again, that's not Seattle... where there's just no answer to the question "so how much of other peoples money do you need to spend?"
This is part of Humpty-Trumpy's "Making America Great Again" by eviscerating all those "job killing" regulations like:
* roll back protecting the environment: clean air/clean water, allowing coal companies to dump into rivers
* roll back privacy and corporate limitations in communications: killing net neutrality
* remove banking regulations https://www.washingtonpost.com...
* remove protections for Seniors in Nursing Homes: https://www.democracynow.org/2...
* giving National Park lands to developers: https://www.vox.com/energy-and...
and dozens more ever frighting yet to be seen "de-regulations" that reduce citizen rights, protections, and hand our wallets to corporations. All the while the GOP protects Trumpty by replaying a slow motion Saturday Night Massacre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
People, the only way to change this is campaign finance reform. It has to start at the State level. The GOP is worried about a midterm slaughter and the Kock Brothers alone are using $400M to try and change past performance: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/2...
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THE business model of FB is to sell "your information" (just like every other social media site and search engine). No one with more than 2 firing neurons should expect anything less than every single keystroke tracked, recorded, monitored, analyzed and monetized.
It's a business, a business to make profit, off you....
So, go ahead and put that Amazon echo, Google Home or Nest in your house and feel complete secure nobody is listening to background sounds and determining what your doing and what can be sold to you. (or what can be subpoena.. later....)
oh? /. decided to start working again?
We'll, not getting the posts right this time either. Big companies are demanding more control and restricting remote workers. sorry:
https://www.nbcnews.com/busine...
You've never flown and had a gate change?
Since wireless carriers are already placing limits on my data usage and throttling sites heavily used sites (netflix etc.) what the hell good does a bigger endpoint pipe do if they won't allow any more data in it?
how old are you?
Just curious how long it took you to save $15k in today's economy....
Yes, healthcare did exist 2 generations ago. The local doctor took a chicken in trade for a home visit and some medicine.
Boarding the plane isn't so bad... it's the time after boarding, after the plane pushes away from the gate, sitting on the tarmac with out much air circulation - that's the worst.
"on time" is defined by the time the plane leaves the gate - even when it sits on the runway for 2 hours waiting...... so airlines are incentivized to just "push away" and sit.
Of course automation has increased productivity – but, in the US, ALL of those productivity benefits have ONLY benefited the top 1%. Workers wages have stagnated since the 1980’s, benefits have been slashed, infrastructure crumbles , pensions are the thing of the past, yet at a time of record corporate profits, CEO wages have shot up from 55x an average worker’s salary in the 1980’s to 350x an average worker’s salary. Multiply the inequitable distribution by orders of magnitude so yes, automation on and unprecedented scale will bring about massive societal change. There will be a few who live lives in wealth beyond imagination – and there will be starving masses barely scraping by. Unless you think that the oligarchy will be willing to share. Has that EVER happened without a bloody revolution?
really? leftist floating totalitarianism?
Clearly you haven't been paying attention to what the Right has done to the US...
good.
sorry, FAA, not FCC ---
More steaming bs from the halitosis infected gaping maw of the Uber troll. The FCC already shot down the "ride share" option for private pilots. Commercial aircraft require years of testing, redundancy, and certification - none of which has an ecosystem what-so-ever. Not to mention, in order to be commercially viable and affordable to the average user, the price point of aircraft acquisition needs to be close to the price point of a used Prius. good luck.
We’re not ignoring them – We (well, the GOP anyway) needs to somehow spin them as “false news”, attack anyone who claims it’s valid and redirect to some Clintonian BS when evidence is demonstratively contrary to the GOP story.
For the GOP to actually admit the 2016 election results were somehow manipulated, would be to validate a false President rules the throne.
As we’re now seeing, sexual escapades are hidden by shell companies, lawyers and friends, “jobs to Americans” is really just paying back the old 19th century business model of scotched earth for profit even if human life / well being hangs in the balance.
This isn't exactly about "budget cutting". It's about cutting people who can possibly provide empirical evidence of global Warming from WITHIN the Government
"shrinkage"? BS.... Verizon had a net profit in 2016 of $13B off $125B revenue. Theft of a few smart phones is peanuts to the cost of building hundreds of towers and keeping global infrastructure running. This is customer lock in and killing off secondary (aka competitive) markets..
This isn't about "protecting consumers". It's about killing off the secondary phone market. After you upgrade, you're stuck with a brick you can't sell. All those people who buy used phones will be forced to purchase new - or rooted ones.
We're missing privacy, accountability, security and end user ownership.
Today's "tech" has morphed into nothing more than spyware to collect all your personal information so you can be sold to marketing companies, Governments and scammers.
Where there's an egregious screw up, no one is ever held accountable and problems are never fixed.
Unfortunately, in US, it is not a binary answer. Women are believed no matter what or how nonsensical the claims. Men are always assumed to be in the wrong in any she vs he situation.
There is no "guilty till proven innocent" and men are instantly convicted in the court of public opinion.
A case-in-point from my own experience; I got divorced in (c) 2004 for which I was awarded full and legal custody of our 3 kids. As such, I was awarded child support. I had to fill out paperwork via the Social Services system in order to get child support garnished from my ex. The pre-printed paperwork provided by the Department of Social Services had pre-printed "father" across the entire form in all locations so as to garnish men's wages. Ie: "Father's Address", "Father's employer", etc. Also, several of my friends who have been through divorce have experienced when things are beginning to not go in favor of the woman, several have brought up the "abuser" stigma which without any substantiation immediately nullifies any male rights.
Equal rights need to go both ways.
They're going to toll every single upgrade. The Alaska Viaduct upgrade will be tolled once complete:
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projec...
I was going to make this same point, but you beat me to it... It does however beg the question, if every single illegal transaction is track able (which it is via blockchain) , and authorities know exactly where illicit proceeds are sitting, ie, which wallet, why are cyber criminals still not in jail?
We've always had "fake news", it just used to be called rumors, innuendos, and out right BS. The 2 main differences are:
1) FaceCrook has taken all the advertising from real news organizations, companies that used to vet people and sources. news papers hired editors and investigative journalists who did the diligence rather than burped garbage like the Star, National Enquirer or FauxNoise.
2) The death of real, vetted news, and millennial 140 character attention span has reduced our over all ability to differentiate fact from crap. Add in Google and FB aggregating our "likes" rather than "facts" and it provides the perfect opportunity for us to elevate that which we want to believe over that which is true.
Your second question: who's being extorted?
The DOT took away 1 regular traffic lane and built a toll lane, leaving 2 toll lanes. If you don't "pay to play", you end up sitting in traffic 3 hours on a 25mile drive. I live in Mukilteo and my wife worked in Redmond taking the 405 daily. Yes, I purchased a goodtogo pass, even after the savings of the fees, still cost $75 per week which is $3900 per year. Even in the toll lane, her commuter was 45min to an hour per way. Without the toll lane, in regular traffic lanes (for those who can't afford the $4K per year in tolls), it's 1-2 hours per way for 25 miles... That's obscene.
Add on top of the $4000 traffic tools the DOUBLING of my vehicle registration for the Sound Transit $54BILLION expansion, and the increased property taxes, again for the Sound Transit Expansion, and yes, the State is extorting money.
Is the 405 paying for itelf? It was passed into law under the conditions of the law states the two-year anniversary requirement that the toll lanes meet the 45 mph standard and collect at least enough money to meet operating costs or they “must be terminated as soon as practicable.” The estimated $18M in collection fees is actually $30M, but the speed is no where near 45 MPH average. Yet it's not terminated, like most legislators, ours are addicted to tax money.
Additionally, there's a new tunnel into Seattle being dug that will be a toll. The Seattle area has become the worst traffic area in the Country
https://www.seattletimes.com/s...
and all the State wants to do is capitalize on traffic jams, create revenue and fund homeless and drug "safe sites" where addicts get free needles and doctor supervision. https://www.washingtonpost.com...
The toll is always $10 when there is heavy traffic - plus a $2 service fee if you have not purchased the automated charge GoodToGo pass that requires a credit card... 10+2 is 12.....
The far left "extortion" lane, you know, rather then add more driver lanes to an traffic system over capacity - State DOT added "toll" lanes and charges $12 per pass, or $24 per day (2 ways) unless you want to sit in traffic for 3 hours to drive 30 miles.
But that's the State... Wanna talk about Seattle, talk about the mandated "Safe Injection Sites" so drug users get clean needles and doctor oversight as they shoot up - courtesy of the tax payers.
Or Lynnwood Washington's 10.4% sales tax.....oh, again, that's not Seattle... where there's just no answer to the question "so how much of other peoples money do you need to spend?"
This is part of Humpty-Trumpy's "Making America Great Again" by eviscerating all those "job killing" regulations like:
* roll back protecting the environment: clean air/clean water, allowing coal companies to dump into rivers
* roll back privacy and corporate limitations in communications: killing net neutrality
* remove banking regulations https://www.washingtonpost.com...
* remove protections for Seniors in Nursing Homes: https://www.democracynow.org/2...
* giving National Park lands to developers: https://www.vox.com/energy-and...
and dozens more ever frighting yet to be seen "de-regulations" that reduce citizen rights, protections, and hand our wallets to corporations. All the while the GOP protects Trumpty by replaying a slow motion Saturday Night Massacre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
People, the only way to change this is campaign finance reform. It has to start at the State level. The GOP is worried about a midterm slaughter and the Kock Brothers alone are using $400M to try and change past performance: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/2...