You're absolutely right.. but it was different in another way in the 50s and thereabouts. Shareholders used to expect consistent returns. The whole thing about expecting increased returns every quarter is new. A company that delivered solid profits every year , year in, year out, was considered a blue chip stock. Like the major utility companies etc. But, now, any com,paqny that doesn't deliver increased returns considstently is cionsidered a no- goo.. one to avoid, a bad investment. It looks to me that greed, as Gordon Gecko said, is now good.
Even though you have a valid point I suggest this issue goes a little deeper than the laws we've got that aren't being used.
The very structure of the corporate enterprise is legally obliged to deliver profits to the shareholders above all other concerns. Ultimately, despite all espoused values of said corporation, it's primary legal responsibility are those profits.
This means a corporation will and must fulfill it's obligations with in the law and, as we have seen numerous times in the courts, sometimes corporations go outside the law to deliver profits. I offer that this is something we accept as our reality no matter which side of the political spectrum you fall on.
To put this into context, I think a worthy consideration is that in the 1950's corporate law was different. Corporations had a very narrowly focused corporate charter to deliver a certain thing to the community, like a large piece of public infrastructure, like a bridge or a something else needed by the common use of all people. Corporations didn't have human rights like the ability to initiate legal proceedings on behalf of its interests.
They are also the loudest influence of political policy and with all of that combined the modern 20th century corporation was allowed to diversify and expand, creating all of the behemoths of enterprise that rose in the 70's, 80's and 1990's. Our Early 21st century experience is colored by a nostalgic view of what a corporation is.
Now add the Internet and the ability to interact with a large audience and learn all about them and the 20th century corporation is something else again, it has evolved and adapted. It exists as the consequence of actions of all of us who work within this structure. That is not to deny that they don't do amazing and cool things, however we must always keep in mind that this structure is still oriented towards profit before all other things.
So I don't blame these people for the way that things turned out because that is the structure of our "Free Enterprise Capitalism", which is the nostalgic view and, the 21st Century reality of Corporatism which is the reality of our time regardless of politics.
I think this is a good example of taking personal responsibility as a Technologist for not doing enough to stop this circumstance. I think that the lesson that we can take away from it is if you don't bare the burden of your personally responsibility when you make a profound impact on the community, people will make you.
The second thing I see is not, what went wrong, but what is going wrong, it's still happening. We bare a larger than ever burden of responsibility for the behavior of the enterprises we create. My personal concern is as AIs start to inherit corporate functions, what sort of entities are we creating? What sort of world is our unconscious desires creating with our internet powered corporations? How can I influence things to make a good reality with technology.
I want to be optimistic, however I think it is valuable to be wise to consider those questions, especially if you are a technologist because we want to create the kind of reality that makes people respect technologist for their role in the community.
Have a nice day!
You're absolutely right.. but it was different in another way in the 50s and thereabouts. Shareholders used to expect consistent returns. The whole thing about expecting increased returns every quarter is new. A company that delivered solid profits every year , year in, year out, was considered a blue chip stock. Like the major utility companies etc. But, now, any com,paqny that doesn't deliver increased returns considstently is cionsidered a no- goo.. one to avoid, a bad investment. It looks to me that greed, as Gordon Gecko said, is now good.
.... i.e.: Coke now has to remove the addictive chemical from cocoa leaves, so that their customers are no longer physically addicted to their product.....
OOH! Cocoa leaves have addictive chemicals? I'm gonna run and get me some cocoa puffs! Silly me, eh? I thought it was just coca leaves....
I was always under the uimpression that freedom is freedom "from".. as in freedom from assault, bullying, theft and other personal violations etc etc.If everybody kept this principle there would be consioderably less personal violations. "Freedom" TO, however, encourages all sorts of negartive behavior.. as in "I'm an American and have the freedom to do whatever I want".. perhaps as in " have the freedom to carry my assault rifle where ever I want" I hear this ALL the time. Most Americans I have talked to really feel that liberty is the "freedom to" do what they want. Not "freedom from" unwarranted seartch and seizure in the middle of the night, or those horrible street corner stop and interrogations. That's my 2 cents, anyways.
I have NEVER once heard a siren when being pulled over, except perhaps once or twice a quick "woop woop". Usually it's just the lights. Sirens are reserved for when speeding to an accident or chasing after a serious offender. Where I live, anyways.
But we do things differently 'cause we're , like, um, Canadian, eh?
How does the sleeping and/or drunk passenger know that the police are signalling?
Good point.. if he fails to tell it to stop cause he's too drunk, does HE get a ticket?
OOps.. have to add, for political correctness' sake.. does IT get a ticket. After all, can't forget the robots here, since they're now considered people (at least in saudi arabia.. not that that;'s saying that much). Oh, and also she. Can't forget the other sex either. Oh, and also he/shes. Can't forget the transexuals . Oh can't forget the apes and monkeys.. Jamil's monkeys can drive too, and some apes such as Bonobos and Orangutans, are smart enough to tell a car to pull over by, say, pushing a button.
did I miss anyone?
I'm kind of surprised the engineers, of all people, don't remember the lesson from history that an AI would hopefully learn that the only winning move is not to play.
Ummm.. surely that's the lesson from Hollywood.. History has taught us nothing, it would seem...
For decades, eh? Well, there's the rub, matey! By the time they found out that all this 5g radiation was indeed harmful,. all the populace to be saved by this result would be dead. Picture empty streets a-la the "night of the comet" or something like that, with just stray cell radiation everywhere. People think that because we can't see that part of the electromagnetic spectrum that it doesn't exist, or is harmless, but nothing could be farther from the truth. Many frequencies we can't see are quite deadly. Even the rare harmless exceptions are only a matter of intensity, and become quite deadly in higher intensities.. And we are now flooded with EM radiation... Hmmm...
MAking him smarter on many many orders of magnitude than the flatearthers. I assume that these FE people watch international broadcasts, use smartphones and use computers to launch their diatribes of how the earth is "flat".. and set their watches to greenwich mean time.... aahhh.. wots the use!
Umm.. for a country that doesn't want an empire, the Americans are doing their durned best to obtain one.. OK they don't have military occupation in , er, Canada.. (nobody wants us) China or Russia (they'd take offence at being invaded by the US), and a few other countries, but pretty well everywhere else? Yeah I'd call that an empire, of sorts..
I read your link to the wikipedia page.. I knew that terms had been extended, but reading it literally made me sick. Who needs a hundred years after they die? Who is this protecting, exactly, other than the publishers, but what right do they have to milk all these dead authors for almost a hundred years? The opposition to the 1998 bill would have been enough to sink any other bill, but some poweful bodies must have wanted this passed, and had some cooperating insider member also. Well, looks as tho Sonny was the perfect choice, the record companies and the unsuccessful (IMHO) musician... "You and me babe.. " surre....)
I thought we already had our "Trumph" for democracy. And as far as "democracy" goes.. well, hey it really did go. Far far away. But that's OK.. Kids can amuse themselves with David Uckey and his invisible reptilian friends while Trumph keeps "draining the swamp". So which is the bigger pile if steaming bull droppings, anyways? If i had to choose i think I'd rather show my kids Yuckey than Trumpet.. Now the moon thing, though...
I'm just not sure that this is really news. I guess it's mildly interesting to combine both tectonic subsidence and sea level rise, but, frankly, most of San Francisco is hilly. There won't be much impact. A small amount of the waterfront may get more wet, but most of SF will remain high and dry.
SFO airport is indeed at sea level-- it's right on the bay. But you can build runways up if you need to; it's not hard.
It's news to my great great great great grandchildren.. They'll only have 40 years to move out of 'frisco before the runways are submerged...
People who say "Crooked Hillary" all the time might not have voted for Trump
I do secretly wonder if Trump just ran a campaign as a joke and when he cast his ceremonial vote if he actually ticked Hillary on the box.
No shit.. I really DID believe he was running as a joke and he was surprised when he actually came out in the lead.. didn't take him long to grab the ball and run with it though.."I'm draining the swamp! Look! See? My right arm is pulled the plug and the swamp is just a drainin' NO don't look at my left arm.. the one where I'm refilling the swamp...Only look at my right arm" I just can't get over that smirkey smugness he displayed every time the crowd reacted to something he said. You know what? I don't know if any of y'all are students of history, but if you are you'll know that the look he had was almost EXACTLY like how Mussolini reacted when he was giving speeches!
Well.. yeah.. Velly Intellesting.. but, er..um.. shouldn't the headline actually have something to do with the article, instead of referring to an incidental..well.. incident?
Don't bet on it, buddy. I've been a very happy Apple user for 15 years , until around the time Steve Jobs died. Since then I've seen the company diss it's loyal user base all in the name of supposed trendiness, and for it's own purposes. No applications are left that still run on OSX from 5 years agoHalf have been discontinued because the developers don't want to have to recode them from scratch every year, and the others have to be reopurchased, and either are far too ecxpensive, no longer as usable as before, or both. the system has been getting more unwieldy as time goes by, untill even Linux seems , at times, more efficient at getting things done . I'm worried that the day will arrive that older OS's like snow leopard will get bricked by apple to put them out of action. Snow leopard is the last OS that will run over half my games, as well as Photoshop.CS2. So, yeah, I'm not a happy camper. And certainly not going to join thefanboy crowd. And I used to really love Apple, especially when OSX 10.3 came out. Oh well.. thank god for multiboot...
... Steam on MacOS and seen a pretty small selection of games... I don't even know if they support Linux
SERIOUSLY!?! Steam has been one of the biggest supporters of Linux. Their SteamOS _IS_ Linux. Their Steam Machines run Linux. They have over 1k games that run on Linux (probably most of the same ones that run on macs).
Yeh true.. I had to do a double take on that too.. I only even *heard* of Steam because of Linux.. I'm not so sure that MacOs has even remotely the same number of steam games though. I'm not really in the know about that , however, as I'm a 100% pinball afficianado, and on Steam there's maybe, now, 4 games available, only one being native Mac, the rest Wine, which runs terribly on the newesrt versions of MacOS, at least for me. There's way more pinballs for windows, and I ought to know. I had EVERY single one ever released before my HD bit the dust. (still have several hundred pinball floppies & CDRoms scattered around my place) It took me several years to get every one working well on my windows drive, and I just don't want to put that amount of time in it....ever again! Fortunately, *most* of the good ones also run on MacOS either on Wineskin or Dosbox / Boxer (can't say enough about Boxer!). Most will not run on 64 bit, however, so they're all obsolete on High Sierra. Thank gawd for multiboot! Back to Steam, though.. I have a couple of wine pinballs and "The Pinball Arcade".. which I believe to be the only native Mac pinball available via Steam.. I may have also bought the "Timeshock Ultimate Edition" through Steam, I don't know, but even so, it wiould still only count up to two pinballs available via steam on the mac!
"The HomePod is 100% an audiophile grade speaker,"
Complete nonsense. To be a true audiophile grade speaker it needs to cost a minimum of $50,000, require a crane to install, and be made from something like hand-carved marble pulled from a cave in the Pyrenees.
No shit! I'd like to know who's slipping them the payola;-(
Instead they jump straight from "You have to exercise care when talking to the public about this subject because it is dangerous" to "Z0MG me FREEDUMS their taken my FREEDUMS don't CENSUR ME." Even when Cody takes reasonable precautions, he whines about it, and when he takes very minimal precautions, he talks up safety like he's the guru of Common Sense and an expert on accident injury statistics.
Unfortunately, it seems to me that most are the authors of their own doom. Very few cases, it sems, are as genuinely unfair as Crow777's was, and instead, once I look into the actual situation I see that they usually play a rather large part in their own troubles. It does, really, remind me of the thousands of instances of people pulled over or stopped on the sidewalk by the cops where they refuse to answer simple questions that don 't violate any right,, and then unload a barrage of offensive and rude statements at the cops until they've reacted with pretty much the same reaction anyone else would have after being rudely and loudly insulted for ten minutes or so. Then they yell "Cop assault" loudly. Yeah sometimes it's true, and they get badly beaten, but you can bet they would have been a little better treated had they not behaved so rudely. Same here.. I don't know the particulars of this case other than he seemed to taunt google on his YT channel. Kind of asking for it, I would say. Unfortunately google is a private company that cvan do pretty much anything it wants, as long as it stays within the confines of any contracts it makes. We do not, yet, have a public worldwide, or even local, online video serving service that cannot bar or otherwise interfere with content, that would otherwise ensure freedom of the press. AFAIK, anyways...
"They" are the people like the puppetmaster behind AI fraud "Sofia".. the ones who do the real programming. And "they" apparently have the smarts to fool even a UN delegation. I just was floored at how much the UN delegates really believed that this "sofia" bot was 'alive'. If AI was really at that level, then, well, yes, I'd start believing Asimov's foundation had arrived for real. Well, thankfully, it hasn't, yet.
Re your sig: Soo true.. once I found out who that was my political "correctness" (what I had of it, anyways) fell away.. It is those whom one may NOT publicly even mention in a bad light or suffer censorship.. I can no longer leave comments on YouTube, even using a VPN!.. well, I can LEAVE them but nobody but me ever sees them... Apparently I stepped on the wrong toes once..and I am very polite , actually. And this goes to the heart of the current thread.. where only the "news" that the PTB or the current political policy deem "worthy" ever sees the light of day. How is this any different than the old cold war "Pravda", or North Korea? If someone could honestly tell me , if this is still "freedom of the press"? OK I know who owns all the major media outlets, major news channels, major movie studios. Same group promoting all sorts of licentiousmness and kiddie pxrn and the r5est of these nasties, while decrying it in their news outlets. The group we dare not criticize...
The leftists are just far more sophisticated in how they dress up their fraudulent information... so it's not so readily apparent. The right, unfortunately, has all these boors like you know who.. can't recall the names of the top three offenders due to a memory issue, but I'm sure y'all know who they are! They're pretty vrude so it's easy to see their agenda.
It sure wouldn't do to have a safe and easy cure for all those people tied to the nuts on methadone and other strong opioids. On one hand they decry the "opioid epidemic" but on the other they collude with the suppliers to keep everyone addicted. What other possible reason for smuggling thousands of tons of heroin and growing the largest poppy fields in Afghanistan they've ever had.. all guarded by US troops, BTW. I wouldn't be surprised if the poppies were the main impetus to invade Afghanistan, rather than oil.
"There's gold in them thar bulbs!" Actually I really like fresh opium. It's a real treat.. Unfortunately, since I no longer travel in those circles, I probably won't see any, anymore in my lifetime. Ahh well..
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You're absolutely right.. but it was different in another way in the 50s and thereabouts. Shareholders used to expect consistent returns. The whole thing about expecting increased returns every quarter is new. A company that delivered solid profits every year , year in, year out, was considered a blue chip stock. Like the major utility companies etc.
But, now, any com,paqny that doesn't deliver increased returns considstently is cionsidered a no- goo.. one to avoid, a bad investment. It looks to me that greed, as Gordon Gecko said, is now good.
Sorry about all the typos. bad arm.. ;-(
already got 'em. use 'em.
Even though you have a valid point I suggest this issue goes a little deeper than the laws we've got that aren't being used.
The very structure of the corporate enterprise is legally obliged to deliver profits to the shareholders above all other concerns. Ultimately, despite all espoused values of said corporation, it's primary legal responsibility are those profits.
This means a corporation will and must fulfill it's obligations with in the law and, as we have seen numerous times in the courts, sometimes corporations go outside the law to deliver profits. I offer that this is something we accept as our reality no matter which side of the political spectrum you fall on.
To put this into context, I think a worthy consideration is that in the 1950's corporate law was different. Corporations had a very narrowly focused corporate charter to deliver a certain thing to the community, like a large piece of public infrastructure,
like a bridge or a something else needed by the common use of all people. Corporations didn't have human rights like the ability to initiate legal proceedings on behalf of its interests.
They are also the loudest influence of political policy and with all of that combined the modern 20th century corporation was allowed to diversify and expand, creating all of the behemoths of enterprise that rose in the 70's, 80's and 1990's. Our Early 21st century experience is colored by a nostalgic view of what a corporation is.
Now add the Internet and the ability to interact with a large audience and learn all about them and the 20th century corporation is something else again, it has evolved and adapted. It exists as the consequence of actions of all of us who work within this structure. That is not to deny that they don't do amazing and cool things, however we must always keep in mind that this structure is still oriented towards profit before all other things.
So I don't blame these people for the way that things turned out because that is the structure of our "Free Enterprise Capitalism", which is the nostalgic view and, the 21st Century reality of Corporatism which is the reality of our time regardless of politics.
I think this is a good example of taking personal responsibility as a Technologist for not doing enough to stop this circumstance. I think that the lesson that we can take away from it is if you don't bare the burden of your personally responsibility when you make a profound impact on the community, people will make you.
The second thing I see is not, what went wrong, but what is going wrong, it's still happening. We bare a larger than ever burden of responsibility for the behavior of the enterprises we create. My personal concern is as AIs start to inherit corporate functions, what sort of entities are we creating? What sort of world is our unconscious desires creating with our internet powered corporations? How can I influence things to make a good reality with technology.
I want to be optimistic, however I think it is valuable to be wise to consider those questions, especially if you are a technologist because we want to create the kind of reality that makes people respect technologist for their role in the community.
Have a nice day!
You're absolutely right.. but it was different in another way in the 50s and thereabouts. Shareholders used to expect consistent returns. The whole thing about expecting increased returns every quarter is new. A company that delivered solid profits every year , year in, year out, was considered a blue chip stock. Like the major utility companies etc.
But, now, any com,paqny that doesn't deliver increased returns considstently is cionsidered a no- goo.. one to avoid, a bad investment. It looks to me that greed, as Gordon Gecko said, is now good.
.... i.e.: Coke now has to remove the addictive chemical from cocoa leaves, so that their customers are no longer physically addicted to their product.....
OOH! Cocoa leaves have addictive chemicals? I'm gonna run and get me some cocoa puffs!
Silly me, eh? I thought it was just coca leaves....
I was always under the uimpression that freedom is freedom "from".. as in freedom from assault, bullying, theft and other personal violations etc etc.If everybody kept this principle there would be consioderably less personal violations. "Freedom" TO, however, encourages all sorts of negartive behavior.. as in "I'm an American and have the freedom to do whatever I want" .. perhaps as in " have the freedom to carry my assault rifle where ever I want" I hear this ALL the time. Most Americans I have talked to really feel that liberty is the "freedom to" do what they want. Not "freedom from" unwarranted seartch and seizure in the middle of the night, or those horrible street corner stop and interrogations.
That's my 2 cents, anyways.
I have NEVER once heard a siren when being pulled over, except perhaps once or twice a quick "woop woop". Usually it's just the lights. Sirens are reserved for when speeding to an accident or chasing after a serious offender. Where I live, anyways.
But we do things differently 'cause we're , like, um, Canadian, eh?
How does the sleeping and/or drunk passenger know that the police are signalling?
Good point.. if he fails to tell it to stop cause he's too drunk, does HE get a ticket?
OOps.. have to add, for political correctness' sake.. does IT get a ticket. After all, can't forget the robots here, since they're now considered people (at least in saudi arabia.. not that that;'s saying that much).
Oh, and also she. Can't forget the other sex either.
Oh, and also he/shes. Can't forget the transexuals .
Oh can't forget the apes and monkeys.. Jamil's monkeys can drive too, and some apes such as Bonobos and Orangutans, are smart enough to tell a car to pull over by, say, pushing a button.
did I miss anyone?
How does the sleeping and/or drunk passenger know that the police are signalling?
Good point.. if he fails to tell it to stop cause he's too drunk, does HE get a ticket?
I'm kind of surprised the engineers, of all people, don't remember the lesson from history that an AI would hopefully learn that the only winning move is not to play.
Ummm.. surely that's the lesson from Hollywood.. History has taught us nothing, it would seem...
Is that a quote from Repo Man?
Good catch!
For decades, eh? Well, there's the rub, matey! By the time they found out that all this 5g radiation was indeed harmful,. all the populace to be saved by this result would be dead. Picture empty streets a-la the "night of the comet" or something like that, with just stray cell radiation everywhere. People think that because we can't see that part of the electromagnetic spectrum that it doesn't exist, or is harmless, but nothing could be farther from the truth.
Many frequencies we can't see are quite deadly. Even the rare harmless exceptions are only a matter of intensity, and become quite deadly in higher intensities.. And we are now flooded with EM radiation... Hmmm...
MAking him smarter on many many orders of magnitude than the flatearthers. I assume that these FE people watch international broadcasts, use smartphones and use computers to launch their diatribes of how the earth is "flat".. and set their watches to greenwich mean time.... aahhh.. wots the use!
Umm.. for a country that doesn't want an empire, the Americans are doing their durned best to obtain one.. OK they don't have military occupation in , er, Canada.. (nobody wants us) China or Russia (they'd take offence at being invaded by the US), and a few other countries, but pretty well everywhere else? Yeah I'd call that an empire, of sorts..
I read your link to the wikipedia page.. I knew that terms had been extended, but reading it literally made me sick. Who needs a hundred years after they die? Who is this protecting, exactly, other than the publishers, but what right do they have to milk all these dead authors for almost a hundred years? The opposition to the 1998 bill would have been enough to sink any other bill, but some poweful bodies must have wanted this passed, and had some cooperating insider member also. Well, looks as tho Sonny was the perfect choice, the record companies and the unsuccessful (IMHO) musician ... "You and me babe.. " surre....)
I thought we already had our "Trumph" for democracy. And as far as "democracy" goes.. well, hey it really did go. Far far away. But that's OK.. Kids can amuse themselves with David Uckey and his invisible reptilian friends while Trumph keeps "draining the swamp". So which is the bigger pile if steaming bull droppings, anyways? If i had to choose i think I'd rather show my kids Yuckey than Trumpet.. Now the moon thing, though...
I'm just not sure that this is really news. I guess it's mildly interesting to combine both tectonic subsidence and sea level rise, but, frankly, most of San Francisco is hilly. There won't be much impact. A small amount of the waterfront may get more wet, but most of SF will remain high and dry.
SFO airport is indeed at sea level-- it's right on the bay. But you can build runways up if you need to; it's not hard.
It's news to my great great great great grandchildren.. They'll only have 40 years to move out of 'frisco before the runways are submerged...
People who say "Crooked Hillary" all the time might not have voted for Trump
I do secretly wonder if Trump just ran a campaign as a joke and when he cast his ceremonial vote if he actually ticked Hillary on the box.
No shit.. I really DID believe he was running as a joke and he was surprised when he actually came out in the lead.. didn't take him long to grab the ball and run with it though.."I'm draining the swamp! Look! See? My right arm is pulled the plug and the swamp is just a drainin' NO don't look at my left arm.. the one where I'm refilling the swamp...Only look at my right arm"
I just can't get over that smirkey smugness he displayed every time the crowd reacted to something he said. You know what? I don't know if any of y'all are students of history, but if you are you'll know that the look he had was almost EXACTLY like how Mussolini reacted when he was giving speeches!
Well.. yeah.. Velly Intellesting.. but, er..um.. shouldn't the headline actually have something to do with the article, instead of referring to an incidental ..well.. incident?
Don't bet on it, buddy. I've been a very happy Apple user for 15 years , until around the time Steve Jobs died. Since then I've seen the company diss it's loyal user base all in the name of supposed trendiness, and for it's own purposes. No applications are left that still run on OSX from 5 years agoHalf have been discontinued because the developers don't want to have to recode them from scratch every year, and the others have to be reopurchased, and either are far too ecxpensive, no longer as usable as before, or both. the system has been getting more unwieldy as time goes by, untill even Linux seems , at times, more efficient at getting things done .
I'm worried that the day will arrive that older OS's like snow leopard will get bricked by apple to put them out of action. Snow leopard is the last OS that will run over half my games, as well as Photoshop.CS2. So, yeah, I'm not a happy camper. And certainly not going to join thefanboy crowd. And I used to really love Apple, especially when OSX 10.3 came out. Oh well.. thank god for multiboot...
... Steam on MacOS and seen a pretty small selection of games ... I don't even know if they support Linux
SERIOUSLY!?! Steam has been one of the biggest supporters of Linux. Their SteamOS _IS_ Linux. Their Steam Machines run Linux. They have over 1k games that run on Linux (probably most of the same ones that run on macs).
Yeh true.. I had to do a double take on that too.. I only even *heard* of Steam because of Linux.. I'm not so sure that MacOs has even remotely the same number of steam games though. I'm not really in the know about that , however, as I'm a 100% pinball afficianado, and on Steam there's maybe, now, 4 games available, only one being native Mac, the rest Wine, which runs terribly on the newesrt versions of MacOS, at least for me. There's way more pinballs for windows, and I ought to know. I had EVERY single one ever released before my HD bit the dust. (still have several hundred pinball floppies & CDRoms scattered around my place) It took me several years to get every one working well on my windows drive, and I just don't want to put that amount of time in it ....ever again!
Fortunately, *most* of the good ones also run on MacOS either on Wineskin or Dosbox / Boxer (can't say enough about Boxer!).
Most will not run on 64 bit, however, so they're all obsolete on High Sierra. Thank gawd for multiboot!
Back to Steam, though.. I have a couple of wine pinballs and "The Pinball Arcade".. which I believe to be the only native Mac pinball available via Steam.. I may have also bought the "Timeshock Ultimate Edition" through Steam, I don't know, but even so, it wiould still only count up to two pinballs available via steam on the mac!
And then there's:
"The HomePod is 100% an audiophile grade speaker,"
Complete nonsense. To be a true audiophile grade speaker it needs to cost a minimum of $50,000, require a crane to install, and be made from something like hand-carved marble pulled from a cave in the Pyrenees.
No shit! I'd like to know who's slipping them the payola ;-(
Instead they jump straight from "You have to exercise care when talking to the public about this subject because it is dangerous" to "Z0MG me FREEDUMS their taken my FREEDUMS don't CENSUR ME." Even when Cody takes reasonable precautions, he whines about it, and when he takes very minimal precautions, he talks up safety like he's the guru of Common Sense and an expert on accident injury statistics.
Unfortunately, it seems to me that most are the authors of their own doom. Very few cases, it sems, are as genuinely unfair as Crow777's was, and instead, once I look into the actual situation I see that they usually play a rather large part in their own troubles.
It does, really, remind me of the thousands of instances of people pulled over or stopped on the sidewalk by the cops where they refuse to answer simple questions that don 't violate any right,, and then unload a barrage of offensive and rude statements at the cops until they've reacted with pretty much the same reaction anyone else would have after being rudely and loudly insulted for ten minutes or so. Then they yell "Cop assault" loudly. Yeah sometimes it's true, and they get badly beaten, but you can bet they would have been a little better treated had they not behaved so rudely.
Same here.. I don't know the particulars of this case other than he seemed to taunt google on his YT channel. Kind of asking for it, I would say. Unfortunately google is a private company that cvan do pretty much anything it wants, as long as it stays within the confines of any contracts it makes. We do not, yet, have a public worldwide, or even local, online video serving service that cannot bar or otherwise interfere with content, that would otherwise ensure freedom of the press. AFAIK, anyways...
"They" are the people like the puppetmaster behind AI fraud "Sofia".. the ones who do the real programming. And "they" apparently have the smarts to fool even a UN delegation. I just was floored at how much the UN delegates really believed that this "sofia" bot was 'alive'.
If AI was really at that level, then, well, yes, I'd start believing Asimov's foundation had arrived for real. Well, thankfully, it hasn't, yet.
Re your sig: Soo true.. once I found out who that was my political "correctness" (what I had of it, anyways) fell away.. It is those whom one may NOT publicly even mention in a bad light or suffer censorship.. I can no longer leave comments on YouTube, even using a VPN! .. well, I can LEAVE them but nobody but me ever sees them... Apparently I stepped on the wrong toes once..and I am very polite , actually.
And this goes to the heart of the current thread.. where only the "news" that the PTB or the current political policy deem "worthy" ever sees the light of day.
How is this any different than the old cold war "Pravda", or North Korea? If someone could honestly tell me , if this is still "freedom of the press"? OK I know who owns all the major media outlets, major news channels, major movie studios. Same group promoting all sorts of licentiousmness and kiddie pxrn and the r5est of these nasties, while decrying it in their news outlets. The group we dare not criticize...
The leftists are just far more sophisticated in how they dress up their fraudulent information... so it's not so readily apparent. The right, unfortunately, has all these boors like you know who .. can't recall the names of the top three offenders due to a memory issue, but I'm sure y'all know who they are! They're pretty vrude so it's easy to see their agenda.
It sure wouldn't do to have a safe and easy cure for all those people tied to the nuts on methadone and other strong opioids. .. all guarded by US troops, BTW. I wouldn't be surprised if the poppies were the main impetus to invade Afghanistan, rather than oil.
On one hand they decry the "opioid epidemic" but on the other they collude with the suppliers to keep everyone addicted. What other possible reason for smuggling thousands of tons of heroin and growing the largest poppy fields in Afghanistan they've ever had
"There's gold in them thar bulbs!"
Actually I really like fresh opium. It's a real treat.. Unfortunately, since I no longer travel in those circles, I probably won't see any, anymore in my lifetime. Ahh well..