The 'safe harbor' provision essentially says "we're a provider of a service, we can't be held responsible for the people that use the service; their actions are their own".
Once a site DOES take responsibility for the posts - filtering, banning, controlling - then they logically would become responsible for the content therein: if the leave it without deleting/moderating it, one could argue that's tacit approval.
What you've just written pretty much defines the investing market since the dot.com era, aside from one (painful) deep breath of rationality in 2007.
Financially, the world is literally sitting atop a soap-bubble, with governments desperately scrambling to maintain the illusion for the wallowing masses.
Oh stop. First, this isn't a guns vs butter argument. You can just quit flogging your particular SJW cause of "we spend too much on defense and not enough on medicine" if you want to be taken seriously.
Second, re 84-year old heart transplant: miss the point much? OK "70 year old heart transplant" - better? Maybe you can stop being distracted by trivia? (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22172859) The point being: medical care is very much a 80/20 thing: there's a HUGE amount of money spent on the last years of life (Forbes claims 50% of health $ spent for the last 5% of life) - is that the best use of medical resources?
Third, so you don't like 'wealth' being the determining factor. Considering that medical resources are finite, what is the better solution to who gets the best health care treatments? Lottery? Nepotism? Meritocratic yardstick? Some bureaucrat's decision? Or do we ban advanced medical treatments completely, since we can't afford to give them to everyone? I'm genuinely curious how you would allocate such resources.
....lets be clear: aside from USSC judges, Democrats had already in 2013 used 'the nuclear option' to remove the filibuster-ability for pretty much every OTHER appointment:
The mainstream media were all for the âoenuclear optionâ when it was Democrats doing the nuking. The press showered praise upon the Senate for removing the filibuster for lower-court judicial nominees and executive appointments in 2013 in the effort spearheaded by then-Majority Leader Harry Reid. MSNBCâ(TM)s Rachel Maddow assured her viewers at the time that âoejudges can be blocked on an up-or-down vote, a majority vote, like always. âoeBut they cannot be blocked anymore by just a minority of votes,â Ms. Maddow said, reported the Media Research Centerâ(TM)s NewsBusters. âoeRepublicans cannot force that anymore.â MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes similarly hailed the 2013 development as âoean affirmative win for democracy,â while his colleague Al Sharpton said âoeDemocrats took the bold step of changing Senate rules, scaling back the filibuster that Republicans have unfairly used to block the presidentâ(TM)s nominees.â CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill said Republicans should have taken the Senate back if the party wanted to preserve the filibuster."
And what would India have to pay if the US consumers weren't subsidizing that price?
Fundamentally, the Western (and increasingly the rest of the world) has a problem with medicine: we are capable of amazing feats of medicine and healing. At what point do we have the courage to start deciding what human lives are worth?
1) Yes, we can save that hemophilic fatally allergic-to-everything crack child. It'll only cost $300,000 a year in constant hospitalization, therapy, and treatments. And if we're lucky, they'll live to 12. Is her 12 years of life worth $3.6 million? 2) Or that 84 year old can get a new heart, new lungs, new kidneys, live in permacare at $10k/mo...are the 6 years of life he'll (maybe) get worth $3.6 million? 3) Meanwhile, kids are starving in orphanages in Guatemala where $10 will feed the kid for a year, and $20 will give them basic medical care. Are person
No, I don't believe that other hominids were necessarily "...just as wily and dangerous as the hunters..." - those are the ones you'd leave alone.
But the gullible, defenseless "sure come share our fire and our all-vegan porridge, I won't assume you're dangerous" naive ones? Yeah, pretty sure we'd eat THOSE.
That's why Liberals took so long to evolve. They kept getting eaten.
"While we feared a resumption of direct attacks since the missile strike least year (their code name for the mission was "Schiaparelli"), the 3rd planet merely continues their siege of Mother Mars: their land-attack rovers plowing implacably above our heads on the Martian surface, continue to drill/probe to find an entrance to our homes. Their reconnaissance orbiters taking constant pictures forcing our defense forces to remain camouflaged. All Martian citizens are ordered to remain on alert! Do not go outside! Do not approach these murderous killing machines!
However, Martian Military Intelligence has also reported a pending assault on our peace-loving allies of the Ringed Planet. The Water Planet has sent a massive Death-Star which has heretofore patrolled above the Skies of Saturn, seeking any opportunity to slaughter any innocent transport vehicle it would come across, compelling a complete cessation of Qrgrzantik shipments and triggering the Qrgrzantik shortage which we continue to suffer. New information gained by our brave operatives in place on the 3rd planet suggests that in frustration at their inability to engage the Saturnian Space Navy, this death-ship (code name: Cassini) is now intending a suicidal death strike into the Saturnian home-cloud. This is the exact sort of attack such frustrated barbarians would finally attempt.
We offer our brethren-in-arms in Saturn our hopes and prayers that all will be safe. We now return you to regularly scheduled programming. MSN out."
"As a result, tech continues to stumble when it comes to diversity. The technology industry is now trying to figure out a way to attack its cultural and demographic homogeneity issues....build pathways for underrepresented minority youth to enter the technology space"
Be absolutely clear on this: This is a way to hire more melanin- and vaginally-equipped people.
This is NOT about 'recognizing a college degree isn't always needed' (which I personally agree is something all businesses need to start recognizing), this is a SJW hiring program. White dudes? Fuck off, you still need a degree.
"A strike authorization vote is set to take place mid-April. The move is a typical negotiating tactic by unions, but the WGA said itâ(TM)s a response to the hard-line position taken by the studios, which have so far refused most of their demands.
âoeNo one on the board or committee wants a strike,â Chris Keyser, co-chairman of the guildâ(TM)s negotiating committee, said in an interview. âoeUnfortunately, the only way to be treated reasonably is to bring to bear the power of labor.â
He disputed claims made by the studios that the WGA was the first to break off talks, adding that negotiations ended last week after the studios left a voicemail telling writers not to come in the next day. âoeWe didnâ(TM)t walk away,â he said."
So if the contracts with the studios are so onerous, and all the money's in streaming....don't work for the studios? Sounds like a win-win if the situation is as dire as presented.
A strike isn't a negotiation, it's a tactic to drive negotiation.
And any sane person wouldn't START the process with a drastic, burn-the-bridges tactic like striking if their real intent was to come to a constructive solution. That's like discussing which side of the bed you sleep on with your partner by starting with "I want a divorce..."
Amazon is only doing to WalMart what WalMart (and Target, etc) did to the local commercial landscape.
I feel no pity for the megastores. They too may pass.
Amazon is not the consumers friend, I agree, but the 'replacement cost' - now in the era of the internet where I can buy anything online usually direct from the mfg - is much lower.
1) they're not talking about cancelling the lifeline subsidy (which provides basic phone and 911 server) they're talking about not using it to give poor people BROADBAND.
2) if they don't have a job they CAN damn well spend plenty of time at the library, enough to get a job. It's not like they have anything else to do, nor that getting a job involves livechatting the moment a position becomes available. And let's be honest: the people who need this help aren't applying for COO or IT manager jobs...they're applying for waiter, janitor, or housecleaning positions. What you seem to miss is that broadband ISNT 'basic connectivity'. Where are they getting the computer by the way to run this?
3) The suggestion that the GOP doesn't want the "poor" to vote is a canard the Democrats have been pushing for several elections. That articles implication that Trump courted the KKK vote is just an example of how the mainstream media dispensed with any pretence of objectivity this time around. If you want to talk about historical Republican strategy, don't you find it curious that REPUBLICANS were the ones that wanted to end slavery? Or that it was Democrats that invented Gerrymandering? Maybe if people would stop pitching EVERYTHING into us vs them we'd get more done?
PS: despite seeing them consistently for the last 8 years, I can't seem to find a *single* major media article complaining about gridlock anymore? It must have ended then?
I know it's asking a lot but...Maybe read the REST of my post?
The part where it says for Scotland to be admitted, the admission must be unanimous, and there's NOT A CHANCE IN HELL that the many EU countries who have their own separatist nationalist movements will invite in Scottish irredentists.
Slashdot Mirror
I tend to agree.
The 'safe harbor' provision essentially says "we're a provider of a service, we can't be held responsible for the people that use the service; their actions are their own".
Once a site DOES take responsibility for the posts - filtering, banning, controlling - then they logically would become responsible for the content therein: if the leave it without deleting/moderating it, one could argue that's tacit approval.
What you've just written pretty much defines the investing market since the dot.com era, aside from one (painful) deep breath of rationality in 2007.
Financially, the world is literally sitting atop a soap-bubble, with governments desperately scrambling to maintain the illusion for the wallowing masses.
Why would anyone be dumb enough to pay a premium for a card that gets miles?
Neither our personal credit card (US Bank Flexperks) nor our work card (HHonors Amex) costs ANY annual fee, and we get gobs of miles.
(Astonished)
"iiiiiii...ryryryryryryr....shhhhh"
I've never seen someone so accurately spell phonetically the sound of a modem connecting.
Oh stop.
First, this isn't a guns vs butter argument. You can just quit flogging your particular SJW cause of "we spend too much on defense and not enough on medicine" if you want to be taken seriously.
Second, re 84-year old heart transplant: miss the point much? OK "70 year old heart transplant" - better? Maybe you can stop being distracted by trivia? (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22172859) The point being: medical care is very much a 80/20 thing: there's a HUGE amount of money spent on the last years of life (Forbes claims 50% of health $ spent for the last 5% of life) - is that the best use of medical resources?
Third, so you don't like 'wealth' being the determining factor. Considering that medical resources are finite, what is the better solution to who gets the best health care treatments? Lottery? Nepotism? Meritocratic yardstick? Some bureaucrat's decision? Or do we ban advanced medical treatments completely, since we can't afford to give them to everyone? I'm genuinely curious how you would allocate such resources.
....lets be clear: aside from USSC judges, Democrats had already in 2013 used 'the nuclear option' to remove the filibuster-ability for pretty much every OTHER appointment:
http://www.washingtontimes.com...
And what would India have to pay if the US consumers weren't subsidizing that price?
Fundamentally, the Western (and increasingly the rest of the world) has a problem with medicine: we are capable of amazing feats of medicine and healing. At what point do we have the courage to start deciding what human lives are worth?
1) Yes, we can save that hemophilic fatally allergic-to-everything crack child. It'll only cost $300,000 a year in constant hospitalization, therapy, and treatments. And if we're lucky, they'll live to 12. Is her 12 years of life worth $3.6 million?
2) Or that 84 year old can get a new heart, new lungs, new kidneys, live in permacare at $10k/mo...are the 6 years of life he'll (maybe) get worth $3.6 million?
3) Meanwhile, kids are starving in orphanages in Guatemala where $10 will feed the kid for a year, and $20 will give them basic medical care. Are person
Are 1) and 2) each worth 120,000 3)'s? Really?
"Asking about pay in a job interview hurts women who may start from a lower level than male candidates -- an effect that compounds over time."
Really?
You're telling me WOMEN have never heard of 'lying'?
You're the exact same person who would have (and may already have) criticized Trump over 'doing nothing in Syria'.
Ask yourself honestly: Is there ANYTHING he could reasonably have done (or not done) that you wouldn't have bitched about?
Honestly - no.
Because it's still all about Trump, ain't it?
No, I don't believe that other hominids were necessarily "...just as wily and dangerous as the hunters..." - those are the ones you'd leave alone.
But the gullible, defenseless "sure come share our fire and our all-vegan porridge, I won't assume you're dangerous" naive ones? Yeah, pretty sure we'd eat THOSE.
That's why Liberals took so long to evolve. They kept getting eaten.
"While we feared a resumption of direct attacks since the missile strike least year (their code name for the mission was "Schiaparelli"), the 3rd planet merely continues their siege of Mother Mars: their land-attack rovers plowing implacably above our heads on the Martian surface, continue to drill/probe to find an entrance to our homes. Their reconnaissance orbiters taking constant pictures forcing our defense forces to remain camouflaged. All Martian citizens are ordered to remain on alert! Do not go outside! Do not approach these murderous killing machines!
However, Martian Military Intelligence has also reported a pending assault on our peace-loving allies of the Ringed Planet. The Water Planet has sent a massive Death-Star which has heretofore patrolled above the Skies of Saturn, seeking any opportunity to slaughter any innocent transport vehicle it would come across, compelling a complete cessation of Qrgrzantik shipments and triggering the Qrgrzantik shortage which we continue to suffer. New information gained by our brave operatives in place on the 3rd planet suggests that in frustration at their inability to engage the Saturnian Space Navy, this death-ship (code name: Cassini) is now intending a suicidal death strike into the Saturnian home-cloud. This is the exact sort of attack such frustrated barbarians would finally attempt.
We offer our brethren-in-arms in Saturn our hopes and prayers that all will be safe.
We now return you to regularly scheduled programming.
MSN out."
"As a result, tech continues to stumble when it comes to diversity. The technology industry is now trying to figure out a way to attack its cultural and demographic homogeneity issues....build pathways for underrepresented minority youth to enter the technology space"
Be absolutely clear on this: This is a way to hire more melanin- and vaginally-equipped people.
This is NOT about 'recognizing a college degree isn't always needed' (which I personally agree is something all businesses need to start recognizing), this is a SJW hiring program.
White dudes? Fuck off, you still need a degree.
Falsely?
"A strike authorization vote is set to take place mid-April. The move is a typical negotiating tactic by unions, but the WGA said itâ(TM)s a response to the hard-line position taken by the studios, which have so far refused most of their demands.
âoeNo one on the board or committee wants a strike,â Chris Keyser, co-chairman of the guildâ(TM)s negotiating committee, said in an interview. âoeUnfortunately, the only way to be treated reasonably is to bring to bear the power of labor.â
He disputed claims made by the studios that the WGA was the first to break off talks, adding that negotiations ended last week after the studios left a voicemail telling writers not to come in the next day. âoeWe didnâ(TM)t walk away,â he said."
So if the contracts with the studios are so onerous, and all the money's in streaming....don't work for the studios? Sounds like a win-win if the situation is as dire as presented.
A strike isn't a negotiation, it's a tactic to drive negotiation.
And any sane person wouldn't START the process with a drastic, burn-the-bridges tactic like striking if their real intent was to come to a constructive solution. That's like discussing which side of the bed you sleep on with your partner by starting with "I want a divorce..."
What sort of a pointless biased metric is "the median incline of the top ten percent"?
Half of all developers are below average.
Ocean freight is more typically 1/10th the price of airfreight.
Ie 40k lbs/19 metric tons from Munich to Chicago would be about $3500 by ocean, or about $34,000 by air charter.
Because environmentalists can NEVER see the bright side of anything.
Uncompromising, humorless: the left.
...instead of actually dealing with the trolls and bots, we're going to stop identifying them clearly.
ESPN Has Seen the Future of TV and They're Not Really In It
Just sayin.
Amazon is only doing to WalMart what WalMart (and Target, etc) did to the local commercial landscape.
I feel no pity for the megastores. They too may pass.
Amazon is not the consumers friend, I agree, but the 'replacement cost' - now in the era of the internet where I can buy anything online usually direct from the mfg - is much lower.
ONE MONTH'S service on Netflix is the same cost as ONE MOVIE TICKET.
Really, you think there's a compelling argument to get us to go into theaters Chris?
Snickers candy bars are priced at $1, sold 20 million units last year.
If we'd priced them at $5 each, we'd have made $100 million, meaning we lost $80 million underpricing Snickers!
Anyone see the faulty logic there?
Shh. The narrative is that Trump and any of his progeny are irredeemably evil.
Don't confuse the narrative. The sheep won't know who to believe.
Oh bullshit.
1) they're not talking about cancelling the lifeline subsidy (which provides basic phone and 911 server) they're talking about not using it to give poor people BROADBAND.
2) if they don't have a job they CAN damn well spend plenty of time at the library, enough to get a job. It's not like they have anything else to do, nor that getting a job involves livechatting the moment a position becomes available. And let's be honest: the people who need this help aren't applying for COO or IT manager jobs...they're applying for waiter, janitor, or housecleaning positions. What you seem to miss is that broadband ISNT 'basic connectivity'. Where are they getting the computer by the way to run this?
3) The suggestion that the GOP doesn't want the "poor" to vote is a canard the Democrats have been pushing for several elections. That articles implication that Trump courted the KKK vote is just an example of how the mainstream media dispensed with any pretence of objectivity this time around. If you want to talk about historical Republican strategy, don't you find it curious that REPUBLICANS were the ones that wanted to end slavery? Or that it was Democrats that invented Gerrymandering? Maybe if people would stop pitching EVERYTHING into us vs them we'd get more done?
PS: despite seeing them consistently for the last 8 years, I can't seem to find a *single* major media article complaining about gridlock anymore? It must have ended then?
I know it's asking a lot but...Maybe read the REST of my post?
The part where it says for Scotland to be admitted, the admission must be unanimous, and there's NOT A CHANCE IN HELL that the many EU countries who have their own separatist nationalist movements will invite in Scottish irredentists.
I'll even give you the link...again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And I'm American. I don't honestly give a flying fuck what happens to Scotland.