>>>Facebook's algorithm hides my posts from my friends for reasons known only to Facebook
Yes. Here's what I expect will happen:
The TV and Radio and businesses I have "friended" will start paying to make sure their statuses are always visible (and on top). Eventually I'll have to unfriend these paying businesses, in order to see what's going on with the friend updates.
>>>Microsoft with it's 0.1% share of tablets in the "Post-PC world" gets flogged for this.
You jumped the gun. MS has not been flogged (punished) yet. If you mean they are being investigated, well of course, since they are a convicted monopolist both here (had to pay a fine) and in the EU (required to provide a browser choice window to users). It's only natural they would be investigated given their past.
And do I think Apple needs to be investigated for Sherman Antitrust violations? Yeah absolutely. Though I doubt they'd be convicted since their smartphone share is about around half, and their tablet share is rapidly shrinking with the Amazon Fire and other tablets selling extremely well.
My point was NBC is not the TV news version of Jesus Christ or the Virgin Mary. They are not the holy father speaking the gospel truth. NBC routinely twists, distorts, and lies to the listeners..... editing the Trayvon 911 call, editing the black gunman into a white gunman, calling RonPaul a KKK member, misreporting that Romney beat-up a gay student, calling our current president a "dick" on live television, et cetera.
To presume MSNBC or NBC is better than FOX News is ridiculous. They are virtually identical in their methods (especially since MSNBC decided to be the liberal version of FOX). I am sick and tired of people acting as if NBC News never does anything wrong, and that it is the only channel we should be watching.
>>>Well, in the US he would have been lynched and shot too.
Bullshit. If you look at our football and basketball teams they are almost nothing but blacks, and none of them are lyched or shot in stadiums, even in southern ones. They aren't called names like "nigger" either. That only happens over in Europe during soccer matches..... again search youtube for "soccer" and "racism" and watch the digusting display for yourself.
>>>Since teachers unions are effectively the teachers
Flat wrong. Unions are rarely run by the workers they supposedly-represent. Just as governments are rarely operated by the People they suppodely-represent.
>>>a corporation is an assembly of persons who should not be stripped of their consitutional rights simply because they get organized
False. Just because you take-away Google's ability to speak, or limit its special under "commercial speech" laws, does not affect the google employees inside the building. They are still free to go to their facebooks or web forums and speak all they desire. The human beings do not lose any of their rights.
Funny how the Japanese make it work. They use almost nothing but DSL, and they are the world's 3rd fastest country in speed (average per person). And yes I understand there's a cost but the corporations can afford it. They could just bump-up the prices in the dense city blocks with ~1000 customers each, in order to subsidize the 1-2 DSL customers in West Virginia valleys.
You forgot that stimulus bill which passed during Obama's first month, and included bailouts not just for GM and other corporations, but additional funds for the banks too.
>>>Because then people scream 'communism' and rewrite history to pretend that the regulation that resulted in everyone having phone access didn't work and didn't provide a massive economic boost to the country. >>> I've never heard anyone say that, except environmentalists, and their argument is usually "the government should not encourage suburban/rural sprawl with these mandates".
>>>Though it would be far form 'instant', a massive amount of infrastructure needs to be built
A couple fiber optic lines (which the 1996 telecommunications act provided money to buy) and DSL-AMs in neighborhoods where somebody requested DSL. That doesn't sound massive to me.
The TV and radio and local businesses I have "friended" will start paying to put their statuses on top of my friends' statuses. Eventually I'll have to unfriend these paying businesses, in order to see what's going on with the friend updates.
That's fine but the government also has a bad habit or classifying things that should not be classified..... like when they covered-up the journalist that had been killed by U.S. soldiers. "We have no idea what happened to him" they told the family, rather than admit they screwed up (and also killed some kids).
Why not just mandate that all telephone companies MUST offer DSL to any customer that asks (in the same way government mandates companies must provide phone service). Instant broadband coverage to everybody who wants it.
For an extreme example, see the train to the nowhere (desert) in California. That's right. It just stops rather than continuing on to Las Vegas.
And for the Most extreme example, see the ghost cities of China where the government is builiding cities to "stimulate" the economy and the cities are almot completely empty. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPILhiTJv7E Government stimulus == waste, not stimulus. The free market allocates money better (and when the money gets wasted, it's usually some rich fat cat who wastes the money, not the taxpayers).
>>>Mitt Romney is going to punish the banks who stole your money--with less regulation and lower taxes. That'll teach 'em!
Barack Obama is already "punished" the banks who stole your money--with bailouts, jobs in his cabinet, and sweetheart deals that absolve them of mortgage fraud. That'll teach 'em!
They "transport" people through something similar to quantum entanglement that allows them to pass the data of Person #1 across several lightyears, and use that data to artificially create Person #1 at the new location. Of course that means they have two identical people, so they have to kill the original.
Interesting how you view the world in black-and-white. I said "fire the bad teachers" just like a company fires a bad employee who is not productive or produces broken designs..... and you twist that into "fire all teachers". That is what is known as a Strawman argument. Please stop putting words into my mouth I did not say, and debate ME not the strawman you built.
I think even you would agree that if a teacher spends all day surfing the net instead of teaching, or does teach but the kids fail their exams, then the teacher needs to be removed, just as you remove ANY employee who is not doing well. BUT because it is unionized and union workers are hard to fire..... therein lies the problem. Schools that are NOT unionized and fire bad teachers do spectacularly well (see the 20/20 Stupid in America documentary).
True. On the other hand I doubt you could rent a car for a few hundred a month.
I rented a car for a week one time, and THAT cost me several hundred. I suspect rental for a month would be over a thousand. So ~$12,000 a year times 20 years == a whole lot more than I spent buying my car directly.
>>>the new UI is a regression from either the Mac or NeXT GUIs.
So you're saying OS X GUI is actually inferior to the Classic OS 9, or the old NeXT computer's GUI? Interesting. I jumped from OS 8 to OS 10.2 and didn't really notice any major differences in the desktop (except the new tab bar at the bottom). Maybe I just didn't use it enough. Why do you think OS 10 is inferior?
>>>Police "participate" in riots via trying to shut them down, and commonly wear masks. So are the police going to be arrested?
I was thinking the same. Outlawing masks will make it easier to Occupy and other protestors to identify agent provacateurs that are actually police employees. So YES pass the law..... outlawing masks is bad for the government and good for the common people.
Right. Google is only a corporation because the government GAVE them a license to incorporate. With any license comes restrictions on what can or can not be done (just as a drivers license in most states doesn't let you drive without a seat belt, or while texting on a cellphone). If google doesn't like those license restrictions, let it hand back the license and became a directly-owned company by a person.
The "modern" Kolibri OS is written in assembly and fits on a floppy. Assembly is the way to go. Just kidding. WHAT do you recommend as a modern language we should all learn?
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>>>Facebook's algorithm hides my posts from my friends for reasons known only to Facebook
Yes. Here's what I expect will happen:
The TV and Radio and businesses I have "friended" will start paying to make sure their statuses are always visible (and on top). Eventually I'll have to unfriend these paying businesses, in order to see what's going on with the friend updates.
>>>Microsoft with it's 0.1% share of tablets in the "Post-PC world" gets flogged for this.
You jumped the gun.
MS has not been flogged (punished) yet.
If you mean they are being investigated, well of course, since they are a convicted monopolist both here (had to pay a fine) and in the EU (required to provide a browser choice window to users). It's only natural they would be investigated given their past.
And do I think Apple needs to be investigated for Sherman Antitrust violations? Yeah absolutely. Though I doubt they'd be convicted since their smartphone share is about around half, and their tablet share is rapidly shrinking with the Amazon Fire and other tablets selling extremely well.
Whoosh.
My point was NBC is not the TV news version of Jesus Christ or the Virgin Mary. They are not the holy father speaking the gospel truth. NBC routinely twists, distorts, and lies to the listeners..... editing the Trayvon 911 call, editing the black gunman into a white gunman, calling RonPaul a KKK member, misreporting that Romney beat-up a gay student, calling our current president a "dick" on live television, et cetera.
To presume MSNBC or NBC is better than FOX News is ridiculous. They are virtually identical in their methods (especially since MSNBC decided to be the liberal version of FOX). I am sick and tired of people acting as if NBC News never does anything wrong, and that it is the only channel we should be watching.
>>>Well, in the US he would have been lynched and shot too.
Bullshit. If you look at our football and basketball teams they are almost nothing but blacks, and none of them are lyched or shot in stadiums, even in southern ones. They aren't called names like "nigger" either. That only happens over in Europe during soccer matches..... again search youtube for "soccer" and "racism" and watch the digusting display for yourself.
>>>Since teachers unions are effectively the teachers
Flat wrong.
Unions are rarely run by the workers they supposedly-represent. Just as governments are rarely operated by the People they suppodely-represent.
>>>a corporation is an assembly of persons who should not be stripped of their consitutional rights simply because they get organized
False.
Just because you take-away Google's ability to speak, or limit its special under "commercial speech" laws, does not affect the google employees inside the building. They are still free to go to their facebooks or web forums and speak all they desire. The human beings do not lose any of their rights.
Funny how the Japanese make it work. They use almost nothing but DSL, and they are the world's 3rd fastest country in speed (average per person). And yes I understand there's a cost but the corporations can afford it. They could just bump-up the prices in the dense city blocks with ~1000 customers each, in order to subsidize the 1-2 DSL customers in West Virginia valleys.
>>>Bailout - that was Bush
You forgot that stimulus bill which passed during Obama's first month, and included bailouts not just for GM and other corporations, but additional funds for the banks too.
>>>Because then people scream 'communism' and rewrite history to pretend that the regulation that resulted in everyone having phone access didn't work and didn't provide a massive economic boost to the country.
>>>
I've never heard anyone say that, except environmentalists, and their argument is usually "the government should not encourage suburban/rural sprawl with these mandates".
>>>Though it would be far form 'instant', a massive amount of infrastructure needs to be built
A couple fiber optic lines (which the 1996 telecommunications act provided money to buy) and DSL-AMs in neighborhoods where somebody requested DSL. That doesn't sound massive to me.
Here's what I expect will happen:
The TV and radio and local businesses I have "friended" will start paying to put their statuses on top of my friends' statuses. Eventually I'll have to unfriend these paying businesses, in order to see what's going on with the friend updates.
Did they already try this in the 90s by selling the Apple Mac form factor, standards to other manufacturers? It didn't really work out well for them.
Known for a long time? For some of us: Yes.
2006:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2006/061206seedmoney.htm
2010:
http://www.infowars.com/google-and-cia-fund-political-precrime-technology/
Revealing a person's real name and contact information on a public forum that will likely be archived forever seems supremely uncool.
That's fine but the government also has a bad habit or classifying things that should not be classified..... like when they covered-up the journalist that had been killed by U.S. soldiers. "We have no idea what happened to him" they told the family, rather than admit they screwed up (and also killed some kids).
Why not just mandate that all telephone companies MUST offer DSL to any customer that asks (in the same way government mandates companies must provide phone service). Instant broadband coverage to everybody who wants it.
For an extreme example, see the train to the nowhere (desert) in California. That's right. It just stops rather than continuing on to Las Vegas.
And for the Most extreme example, see the ghost cities of China where the government is builiding cities to "stimulate" the economy and the cities are almot completely empty. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPILhiTJv7E Government stimulus == waste, not stimulus. The free market allocates money better (and when the money gets wasted, it's usually some rich fat cat who wastes the money, not the taxpayers).
Audio of the short story: http://www.sffaudio.com/?p=19883
Author's Website http://www.jimkelly.net/index.php?Itemid=50&id=35&option=com_content&task=view
>>>Mitt Romney is going to punish the banks who stole your money--with less regulation and lower taxes. That'll teach 'em!
Barack Obama is already "punished" the banks who stole your money--with bailouts, jobs in his cabinet, and sweetheart deals that absolve them of mortgage fraud. That'll teach 'em!
Reminds me of an Outer Limits episode.
They "transport" people through something similar to quantum entanglement that allows them to pass the data of Person #1 across several lightyears, and use that data to artificially create Person #1 at the new location. Of course that means they have two identical people, so they have to kill the original.
Interesting how you view the world in black-and-white. I said "fire the bad teachers" just like a company fires a bad employee who is not productive or produces broken designs..... and you twist that into "fire all teachers". That is what is known as a Strawman argument. Please stop putting words into my mouth I did not say, and debate ME not the strawman you built.
I think even you would agree that if a teacher spends all day surfing the net instead of teaching, or does teach but the kids fail their exams, then the teacher needs to be removed, just as you remove ANY employee who is not doing well. BUT because it is unionized and union workers are hard to fire..... therein lies the problem. Schools that are NOT unionized and fire bad teachers do spectacularly well (see the 20/20 Stupid in America documentary).
True. On the other hand I doubt you could rent a car for a few hundred a month.
I rented a car for a week one time, and THAT cost me several hundred. I suspect rental for a month would be over a thousand. So ~$12,000 a year times 20 years == a whole lot more than I spent buying my car directly.
>>>the new UI is a regression from either the Mac or NeXT GUIs.
So you're saying OS X GUI is actually inferior to the Classic OS 9, or the old NeXT computer's GUI? Interesting. I jumped from OS 8 to OS 10.2 and didn't really notice any major differences in the desktop (except the new tab bar at the bottom). Maybe I just didn't use it enough. Why do you think OS 10 is inferior?
>>>Police "participate" in riots via trying to shut them down, and commonly wear masks. So are the police going to be arrested?
I was thinking the same. Outlawing masks will make it easier to Occupy and other protestors to identify agent provacateurs that are actually police employees. So YES pass the law..... outlawing masks is bad for the government and good for the common people.
Right.
Google is only a corporation because the government GAVE them a license to incorporate. With any license comes restrictions on what can or can not be done (just as a drivers license in most states doesn't let you drive without a seat belt, or while texting on a cellphone). If google doesn't like those license restrictions, let it hand back the license and became a directly-owned company by a person.
Assembly.
The "modern" Kolibri OS is written in assembly and fits on a floppy. Assembly is the way to go. Just kidding. WHAT do you recommend as a modern language we should all learn?
Right. Too soon to get upset. It's just a bill. It will likely never pass, just as Ron Paul's Audit the Fed bill never passed.
Oh wait.
It did pass.
Nevermind.