Disagree. It would be like Staples being able to refuse to sell you paper because they don't like what you're writing on the paper. Or Dell refusing to sell you a computer for what you write.
Neither Hitler nor anyone else has a Right to murder anyone.
Hitler does have a right to express his views and the views he placed forth in Mein Kampf were banal. Just another ranting cafe revolutionary speaking against the evils of big business and banking cartels.
The issue is Freedom of Speech, not Freedom to Kill others. By your standards we should prevent Muslims from preaching Sharia Law (Koran plus Sunnah) after all it preaches the killing of non-muslims and promotes slavery and torturing and killing atheists. Surely such hate speech should be banned by Google as well.
Oh. And there were some idiotic things written and promoted by Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and others. Those works should be banned as well. After all, think of all the deaths caused by hateful religions.
Don't forget banning the works of gay murder Che Guevara as well.
Glad to see that CloudFlare supports freedom of speech and that they are not cowed by small-minded people who think that eliminating speech they don't like is a good thing. It is not.
You, sir, are part of the problem - not part of the solution. Free Speech is the cornerstone of a free society; and free speech, even by those saying the most repulsive things ought not be suppressed.
Who would you suppress next? Farrakhan? BLM? Muslims who promote Sharia Law? Or, worse. Would you allow racist and hateful speech from Farrakan, BLM, Muslim groups but suppress only those who disagree with you?
Again, you're part of the problem - and so is Google.
Alternative to Chrome - Brave Browser (it's quite good and works on Android as well as Windows, Apple and Linux.
DuckDuckGo is not as good as Google but it's still useful.
Protonmail is an alternative to Gmail (as is Zohomail - though not as good as Gmail)
Still looking for an alternative to google docs.
I'm not referring to the economics of running a drive in theater. Only whether people like the experience of being outside and listening to music or watching a movie. It appears that people do.
There are road side ice cream parlors that are open seasonally and seem to do quite well (considering that they're there year after year).
Can a drive in theater survive? Depends, I suppose on the carrying costs in the off season or if it can be re-purposed? Maybe the building that sells food operates year round; maybe when it's cold there is apple picking, or whatever.
Maybe from a socialist strawman perspective but not from someone who wants to build a profitable business. Screwing over your customers hurts a business. Businesses that appear invincible at one point in time often become irrelevant not too much later - especially if they mess up with their customers.
So, no. This is not how capitalism works. Why don't you actually read (or in the case of Milton Friedman watch) what capitalists say about business and how to grow it as opposed to thinking that straw man arguments are valid?
Well, here in Brooklyn I know several people boasting about vegan. It really seems as if they think being vegan makes them a better person and certainly better than thee (if you're not vegan).
I couldn't give a rat's a$$ about what you eat - but the moralizing and the proselytizing does bother me.
Conversation with vegan:
You: "Do you want to meet at Bar X?"
Vegan: "Oh, Do they still serve BBQ there? < Insert "educational" remark about meat here > I won't go there if they do."
You: "See ya." (And another person is lost to the vegan cult.)
Population rate is decreasing fast. Yes. The population is still increasing but we're quickly getting to a point where population level will drop in absolute numbers. By quickly I mean by the end of this century we will probably see a decrease in absolute numbers. We've gone from fertility rates of over 5 in 1970 to under 2.5 today. 2.1 Is the magic number to see a drop in population. We will probably see a 2.1 fertility rate in by 2050.
it does seem as if people like them. People go to the parks in NYC to see bands and movies all the time. People love it. I can see why on a beautiful, warm night people would love to go a drive in. You're outside but can have the comforts of inside at a moments notice.
Why Drive-In Theaters Are Making A Comeback - The Odyssey Online https://www.theodysseyonline.c...
Sep 27, 2016 - Drive In Theaters are making a comeback as teenagers and families are beginning to return to the screens under the stars.
Drive-In And Chill: The Unlikely Comeback Of The Drive-In Movie
uproxx.com/movies/drive-in-revival-comeback/
May 30, 2017 - The Franklin, West Virginia theater had been in operation for 62 years, built during the drive-in boom of the mid-1950s. The once-thriving...
6 Reasons Why Drive-In Theaters Are Never Coming Back
www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-2371-6-sad-realities-dying-drive-in-movie-b...
Aug 27, 2016 - Drive-in theaters seem cool. But what went wrong with the whole automotive theater experience?
How The American Drive-In Is Making An Epic Comeback - Car Throttle https://www.carthrottle.com/........
The drive-in movie experience is like no other. So, it's no wonder that many theatres across America are staging a comeback with improved digital screens and
...
Drive-in Theaters Coming Back, Outdoor Movies Return - AARP Bulletin
www.aarp.org/entertainment/movies-for.../drivein_theaters_enjoy_a_revival.html
En español | If we build it, will they come? Rod and Donna Saunders took a chance — and they came. Long after most drive-in movie theaters had shuttered...
Drive-in theaters make a comeback - Video on NBCNews.com
www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/48784821
Nightly News | August 24, 2012. Drive-in theaters make a comeback. What's old has become new again...
Do you really believe that sh!t? What I see is a soft coup being attempted.
There wasn't any foreign influence in the US election. Not anymore than when the USSR funded anti-nuke protesters in the 1970s and 1980s (Yes the info came out with the fall of the USSR).
If you're concerned about the elections you should be promoting the use of driver's licenses (give free licenses to people who can't afford them) and keep the ballot machines off line. THEN the chance of "hacking" the election approaches zero.
Yes. In this area it does. And it is in this area that Google is showing itself to be a dangerous opponent to individual freedom and expression.
They should have ZERO input in this regard; same as GoDaddy.
Just as Bic (the pen company) should have no say in what words are written by its pens nor Dell for the words written by one of their laptops neither should Google or any other company have a say in what people write and place on their websites. (That includes fascists, BLM, ISIS and any other group one has issues with.)
But perhaps we shouldn't be associating GoDaddy, or any other hosting provider, with the Daily Stormer.
It would be like going after Staples for selling them paper, or Bic for selling them pens. How about going after Microsoft, Apple, Dell and Toshiba in case fascists, communists, Alt-Right, BLM, Muslims, Jews, Atheists or Mormons or whoever you don't like are using their products to promote their ideas.
The problem is not GoDaddy selling their product - the problem is people thinking poorly of GoDaddy because their product is being used by people they disagree with.
All that to say: F**k fascists and F**k people attacking free speech in their effort to silence the fascists.
Bitcoin is one tool in a huge toolbox. It doesn't have to do everything. Furthermore it's a proof of concept - blockchain + decentralized mining leads to a safe, secure means of exchange.
Other coins can handle small - coffee sized transactions. BTC can be a clearing house for end of day transactions by stores and other businesses.
Furthermore there will ALWAYS be a need for Paypal and credit cards and other services which have a third-party arbiter for consumers. It's not an either or sort of scenario.
BTC does not need to be able to handle millions of transactions per second to have value.
Just finding someone willing to give you $4000 for one bitcoin is not all that easy.
Yes it is, just go to Gemini (or any other trading platform and you can buy and sell BTC to your hearts content. I do. Each time I sell - someone else is buying my overpriced, worthless bitcoin. Each time I buy I purchase the other person's overpriced, worthless bitcoin.
It's very, very easy. Just as easy as buying APPL, GOOG or MSFT.
Yes. That's a problem for starting a node on your machine. It will take a while to fix that. However, you needn't install a full node in order to use bitcoin.
Second, the malware that would steal the keys to your wallet would also steal your banking information.
Concerned about your btc wallet? Good. Have a brain wallet with a paper wallet backup for your family regarding your primary storage. Simple.
Come up with a c
ryptographically secure password (Every_Good_Bitcoin_Deserves_Some_Fun) ; reduce the chance that a keylogger is on your box and you're all good.
I'm a big bitcoin proponent but government can stop it. They can shoot everyone who promotes bitcoin or possesses bitcoin; then they can kill everyone who they think promotes it or possesses it. That would do the trick.
Of course, the zombie apocalypse would end bitcoin as well. No electricity. No internet. No bitcoin.
Outside of draconian circumstances though - BTC is here to stay.
The story is sensationalist but like 90% of the stuff from Fox news and CNN and MSNBC and The New York Times it is Fake news, and yet tries to point to all the other news and call it fake. It would be better if they showed at least one iota of proof here, but apparently that is too much to ask! I don't buy it, sorry guys!
I'm a capitalist, Libertarians are capitalists. Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Hayek, Rand, Rothbard, Friedman were all capitalists and ALL would disagree. That is not how capitalism works. Try reading several of the above authors instead of remaining ignorant.
Junk bond primarily means that it isn't backed by something liquid. In the 1980s (when junk bonds first came out) there were many firms that were rich in land, buildings, factories but needed cash-on-hand. The bond market came up with a new set of bonds which their detractors called "junk". Why is it riskier? Because a cash-short company who uses machines (junk) as collateral cannot easily pay back the bond holder if things don't go as anticipated.
If that happens the company will have to sell the machines it uses to make money -- and a machine that cost $100,000 will sell for a fraction of what it cost. (Again - the reason it's called a "Junk" bond)
If you believe that Tesla has a future then here is an easy way to make to make 5% on your money. The risk is that as of now Tesla has been losing money. But, then we have the example of Amazon losing money for 10+ years straight and now it's the 800 lb gorilla in the room.
Microsoft? Who's that? IBM? huh!!! (years ago people feared Microsoft, and before that IBM)
This is foolishness. Local barter economies do not lead to increased wealth. Obviously as the local area increases in wealth due to the influx in jobs people can then chose whether to use more electricity.
Why do some areas with increased foreign investment become shanty towns (see Mexico) because 1000s of people without jobs flock there hoping to get a job themselves or make money selling things to those with those foreign jobs.
Slashdot Mirror
Really? Bakers can refuse to bake cakes now?
Disagree. It would be like Staples being able to refuse to sell you paper because they don't like what you're writing on the paper. Or Dell refusing to sell you a computer for what you write.
Absolutely.
That's a false analogy.
Neither Hitler nor anyone else has a Right to murder anyone.
Hitler does have a right to express his views and the views he placed forth in Mein Kampf were banal. Just another ranting cafe revolutionary speaking against the evils of big business and banking cartels.
The issue is Freedom of Speech, not Freedom to Kill others. By your standards we should prevent Muslims from preaching Sharia Law (Koran plus Sunnah) after all it preaches the killing of non-muslims and promotes slavery and torturing and killing atheists. Surely such hate speech should be banned by Google as well.
Oh. And there were some idiotic things written and promoted by Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and others. Those works should be banned as well. After all, think of all the deaths caused by hateful religions.
Don't forget banning the works of gay murder Che Guevara as well.
Glad to see that CloudFlare supports freedom of speech and that they are not cowed by small-minded people who think that eliminating speech they don't like is a good thing. It is not.
You, sir, are part of the problem - not part of the solution. Free Speech is the cornerstone of a free society; and free speech, even by those saying the most repulsive things ought not be suppressed.
Who would you suppress next? Farrakhan? BLM? Muslims who promote Sharia Law? Or, worse. Would you allow racist and hateful speech from Farrakan, BLM, Muslim groups but suppress only those who disagree with you?
Again, you're part of the problem - and so is Google.
Alternative to Chrome - Brave Browser (it's quite good and works on Android as well as Windows, Apple and Linux.
DuckDuckGo is not as good as Google but it's still useful.
Protonmail is an alternative to Gmail (as is Zohomail - though not as good as Gmail)
Still looking for an alternative to google docs.
I'm not referring to the economics of running a drive in theater. Only whether people like the experience of being outside and listening to music or watching a movie. It appears that people do.
There are road side ice cream parlors that are open seasonally and seem to do quite well (considering that they're there year after year).
Can a drive in theater survive? Depends, I suppose on the carrying costs in the off season or if it can be re-purposed? Maybe the building that sells food operates year round; maybe when it's cold there is apple picking, or whatever.
Maybe from a socialist strawman perspective but not from someone who wants to build a profitable business. Screwing over your customers hurts a business. Businesses that appear invincible at one point in time often become irrelevant not too much later - especially if they mess up with their customers.
So, no. This is not how capitalism works. Why don't you actually read (or in the case of Milton Friedman watch) what capitalists say about business and how to grow it as opposed to thinking that straw man arguments are valid?
Well, here in Brooklyn I know several people boasting about vegan. It really seems as if they think being vegan makes them a better person and certainly better than thee (if you're not vegan).
I couldn't give a rat's a$$ about what you eat - but the moralizing and the proselytizing does bother me.
Conversation with vegan:
You: "Do you want to meet at Bar X?"
Vegan: "Oh, Do they still serve BBQ there? < Insert "educational" remark about meat here > I won't go there if they do."
You: "See ya." (And another person is lost to the vegan cult.)
Population rate is decreasing fast. Yes. The population is still increasing but we're quickly getting to a point where population level will drop in absolute numbers. By quickly I mean by the end of this century we will probably see a decrease in absolute numbers. We've gone from fertility rates of over 5 in 1970 to under 2.5 today. 2.1 Is the magic number to see a drop in population. We will probably see a 2.1 fertility rate in by 2050.
it does seem as if people like them. People go to the parks in NYC to see bands and movies all the time. People love it. I can see why on a beautiful, warm night people would love to go a drive in. You're outside but can have the comforts of inside at a moments notice.
Drive in theaters ARE making a comeback.
...
...
Drive-in Theaters Coming Back, Outdoor Movies Return - AARP Bulletin ...
...
Why Drive-In Theaters Are Making A Comeback - The Odyssey Online
https://www.theodysseyonline.c...
Sep 27, 2016 - Drive In Theaters are making a comeback as teenagers and families are beginning to return to the screens under the stars.
Drive-In And Chill: The Unlikely Comeback Of The Drive-In Movie
uproxx.com/movies/drive-in-revival-comeback/
May 30, 2017 - The Franklin, West Virginia theater had been in operation for 62 years, built during the drive-in boom of the mid-1950s. The once-thriving
6 Reasons Why Drive-In Theaters Are Never Coming Back
www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-2371-6-sad-realities-dying-drive-in-movie-b...
Aug 27, 2016 - Drive-in theaters seem cool. But what went wrong with the whole automotive theater experience?
How The American Drive-In Is Making An Epic Comeback - Car Throttle
https://www.carthrottle.com/........
The drive-in movie experience is like no other. So, it's no wonder that many theatres across America are staging a comeback with improved digital screens and
www.aarp.org/entertainment/movies-for.../drivein_theaters_enjoy_a_revival.html
En español | If we build it, will they come? Rod and Donna Saunders took a chance — and they came. Long after most drive-in movie theaters had shuttered
Drive-in theaters make a comeback - Video on NBCNews.com
www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/48784821
Nightly News | August 24, 2012. Drive-in theaters make a comeback. What's old has become new again
Steal elections. Foreign influence.
Do you really believe that sh!t? What I see is a soft coup being attempted.
There wasn't any foreign influence in the US election. Not anymore than when the USSR funded anti-nuke protesters in the 1970s and 1980s (Yes the info came out with the fall of the USSR).
If you're concerned about the elections you should be promoting the use of driver's licenses (give free licenses to people who can't afford them) and keep the ballot machines off line. THEN the chance of "hacking" the election approaches zero.
Wow. Nice add to the conversation. And this internet fad - it's going away soon too. Right?
Yes. In this area it does. And it is in this area that Google is showing itself to be a dangerous opponent to individual freedom and expression.
They should have ZERO input in this regard; same as GoDaddy.
Just as Bic (the pen company) should have no say in what words are written by its pens nor Dell for the words written by one of their laptops neither should Google or any other company have a say in what people write and place on their websites. (That includes fascists, BLM, ISIS and any other group one has issues with.)
But perhaps we shouldn't be associating GoDaddy, or any other hosting provider, with the Daily Stormer.
It would be like going after Staples for selling them paper, or Bic for selling them pens. How about going after Microsoft, Apple, Dell and Toshiba in case fascists, communists, Alt-Right, BLM, Muslims, Jews, Atheists or Mormons or whoever you don't like are using their products to promote their ideas.
The problem is not GoDaddy selling their product - the problem is people thinking poorly of GoDaddy because their product is being used by people they disagree with.
All that to say: F**k fascists and F**k people attacking free speech in their effort to silence the fascists.
Bitcoin is one tool in a huge toolbox. It doesn't have to do everything. Furthermore it's a proof of concept - blockchain + decentralized mining leads to a safe, secure means of exchange.
Other coins can handle small - coffee sized transactions. BTC can be a clearing house for end of day transactions by stores and other businesses.
Furthermore there will ALWAYS be a need for Paypal and credit cards and other services which have a third-party arbiter for consumers. It's not an either or sort of scenario.
BTC does not need to be able to handle millions of transactions per second to have value.
It's meant to be like gold - where the new supply is tiny compared to the existing horded amount.
BTC does not need to replace every other currency to have value, anymore than email needed to replace USPS or UPS to have value.
Just finding someone willing to give you $4000 for one bitcoin is not all that easy.
Yes it is, just go to Gemini (or any other trading platform and you can buy and sell BTC to your hearts content. I do. Each time I sell - someone else is buying my overpriced, worthless bitcoin. Each time I buy I purchase the other person's overpriced, worthless bitcoin.
It's very, very easy. Just as easy as buying APPL, GOOG or MSFT.
Yes. That's a problem for starting a node on your machine. It will take a while to fix that. However, you needn't install a full node in order to use bitcoin.
Second, the malware that would steal the keys to your wallet would also steal your banking information.
Concerned about your btc wallet? Good. Have a brain wallet with a paper wallet backup for your family regarding your primary storage. Simple. Come up with a c
ryptographically secure password (Every_Good_Bitcoin_Deserves_Some_Fun) ; reduce the chance that a keylogger is on your box and you're all good.
I'm a big bitcoin proponent but government can stop it. They can shoot everyone who promotes bitcoin or possesses bitcoin; then they can kill everyone who they think promotes it or possesses it. That would do the trick.
Of course, the zombie apocalypse would end bitcoin as well. No electricity. No internet. No bitcoin.
Outside of draconian circumstances though - BTC is here to stay.
The story is sensationalist but like 90% of the stuff from Fox news and CNN and MSNBC and The New York Times it is Fake news, and yet tries to point to all the other news and call it fake. It would be better if they showed at least one iota of proof here, but apparently that is too much to ask! I don't buy it, sorry guys!
There. fixed that for ya.
Keep making things up.
I'm a capitalist, Libertarians are capitalists. Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Hayek, Rand, Rothbard, Friedman were all capitalists and ALL would disagree. That is not how capitalism works. Try reading several of the above authors instead of remaining ignorant.
Junk bond primarily means that it isn't backed by something liquid. In the 1980s (when junk bonds first came out) there were many firms that were rich in land, buildings, factories but needed cash-on-hand. The bond market came up with a new set of bonds which their detractors called "junk". Why is it riskier? Because a cash-short company who uses machines (junk) as collateral cannot easily pay back the bond holder if things don't go as anticipated.
If that happens the company will have to sell the machines it uses to make money -- and a machine that cost $100,000 will sell for a fraction of what it cost. (Again - the reason it's called a "Junk" bond)
If you believe that Tesla has a future then here is an easy way to make to make 5% on your money. The risk is that as of now Tesla has been losing money. But, then we have the example of Amazon losing money for 10+ years straight and now it's the 800 lb gorilla in the room.
Microsoft? Who's that? IBM? huh!!! (years ago people feared Microsoft, and before that IBM)
This is foolishness. Local barter economies do not lead to increased wealth. Obviously as the local area increases in wealth due to the influx in jobs people can then chose whether to use more electricity.
Why do some areas with increased foreign investment become shanty towns (see Mexico) because 1000s of people without jobs flock there hoping to get a job themselves or make money selling things to those with those foreign jobs.
I second the motion.