Biz Stone misses the point of Facebook completely. The ads are not there to finance a free subscription model, the subscriptions are there as targets for the ads.
And no way will Facebook change that. In fact, they started as a premium service with limited access, in order to build up a demographic base to have to sell.
You are an idiot. The only thing that makes you smarter than Alex the parrot is that you use full sentences; but since otherwise you do nothing but mindlessly regurgitate denialist talking points (debunked talking points even!), I'm going to say that you are at best marginally smarter than Alex.
So here's a cracker for you, Polly. Now shut the fuck up.
[...] how many lives have been saved under the haunting specter of nuclear annihilation?
I don't know, but I have a fair inkling that one must provide some good justification for numbers significantly higher than the victims of the various proxy wars during the Cold War era.
To say nothing of all those that died as victims of the nasty dictatorships that both sides were propping up to wage those dirty wars for them.
Right, with a market solution you are at least sure of not filtering....Oh wait.
Fucking libertards who always drag in their fairy-tales when this comes up. Move out of your Mom's basement into the real world, and until you do, shut up while the adults talk, OK?
It's even more obvious: mandating equipment means another expense that the lower classes can't bear, plus more profit for whoever gets to deliver the equipment.
laws regarding texting while driving are effectively neutered compared to DUI laws. Why is that?
I think because most DUI laws were enacted in a time that legislation of public life was still socially acceptable.
These days, whenever there is any hint of legislating public behaviour, no matter how well proven the negative impact of said behaviour, a howl comes up from a mass of mean-spirited, egotistical, entitled shitheads. Enough that no politician is willing to brave the brouhaha.
For an example I refer you to the various Slashdot threads on DUI and texting while driving. All of them replete with 'get the government out of my life' as an excuse for their arsehole behaviour.
The only real groupthink I've managed to spot is people complaining about groupthink.
Aside from that the prime reason Slashdot is still good is that it has a diverse audience. There are some identifiable subgroups, but most of them coming at a subject from a different perspective makes for some interesting reading, aside from two or three contentious subjects that devolve into shouting matches between two subgroups.
And as for complaining about Slashdot jumping the shark? In the 15 years I've been here, that's been a common complaint. I'm about to mod it -1, Redundant on sight.
The American meat processing industry has a reputation for unsanitary practices. This is what causes most of the resistance against irradiated food, it has nothing to do with nuclear fear, but everything with opposition to industry just using a patch instead of cleaning up its act.
As comment on an article about the government outsourcing data collection (because that is what this effectively is), you post a party position that is only an incentive to outsource it even more?
Come back when the LP starts taking a stance against corporate espionage on citizens.
Just because murders and rapists exist does not make it right to rob you, for example. This 'tu quoque' argument is a fallacy precisely because while it may point out the hypocrisy in one party, it does not address the right or wrong of the action under discussion.
So, simply on the facts, is money-laundering a crime, and did LibertyReserve engage in it? Tough shit. They brought the prosecution on themselves then.
My GF introduced me to the show, she had gotten it via a friend of hers (who, unfortunately, did fit the horrible stereotype people have of bronies).
What struck me from the beginning was the obvious knowledge and love the creators have for the classic American cartoons of the 40s and 50s. Most episodes are a straight homage to the works of such luminaries as Tex Avery and Charles Schultz. Given the executive producer, that is no surprise.
I don't generally go for fandom, so I don't self-identify as a brony, and I even had my GF design me a t-shirt with a pony in a Ghostbusters-like traffic sign proclaiming me as 'not a brony'. Which of course does identify me as a fan.
It's a neat show. I'd definitely class it as a modern classic of comedic animation.
No it's not. Note that I qualified my 'should have' with Earth's orbital position. We know how much energy hits that orbital track, and we observe that Earth is warmer, therefore Earth is warmer than it 'should be'.
You deniers don't even try at any pretense to scientific literacy anymore, do you?
In my opinion the habit of bringing up guns and 'teh gubernment is taking away muh rights!!11!' should be classified as a form of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
In fact, I advocate heavily medicating it, preferably with HCN.
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In other words, you are either a liar or delusional, and we can ignore your posts on Climate Change.
Thank you for the clarification.
Biz Stone misses the point of Facebook completely. The ads are not there to finance a free subscription model, the subscriptions are there as targets for the ads.
And no way will Facebook change that. In fact, they started as a premium service with limited access, in order to build up a demographic base to have to sell.
I fail to see references.
You are an idiot. The only thing that makes you smarter than Alex the parrot is that you use full sentences; but since otherwise you do nothing but mindlessly regurgitate denialist talking points (debunked talking points even!), I'm going to say that you are at best marginally smarter than Alex.
So here's a cracker for you, Polly. Now shut the fuck up.
What claims are deceitful? Provide some references, please, instead of the usual derpy right-wing smears.
I don't know, but I have a fair inkling that one must provide some good justification for numbers significantly higher than the victims of the various proxy wars during the Cold War era.
To say nothing of all those that died as victims of the nasty dictatorships that both sides were propping up to wage those dirty wars for them.
Right, with a market solution you are at least sure of not filtering....Oh wait.
Fucking libertards who always drag in their fairy-tales when this comes up. Move out of your Mom's basement into the real world, and until you do, shut up while the adults talk, OK?
It's even more obvious: mandating equipment means another expense that the lower classes can't bear, plus more profit for whoever gets to deliver the equipment.
It's a blatant act of reactionary class warfare.
Two things:
Idiot.
I think because most DUI laws were enacted in a time that legislation of public life was still socially acceptable.
These days, whenever there is any hint of legislating public behaviour, no matter how well proven the negative impact of said behaviour, a howl comes up from a mass of mean-spirited, egotistical, entitled shitheads. Enough that no politician is willing to brave the brouhaha.
For an example I refer you to the various Slashdot threads on DUI and texting while driving. All of them replete with 'get the government out of my life' as an excuse for their arsehole behaviour.
Still a bad idea.
Take them to a conference center, dump the jet fuel inside, then lock the door and light 'em up.
It gets modded down because it is plain and simple untrue.
But of course anti-Freedom zealots like you don't care about the truth, now do you?
The only real groupthink I've managed to spot is people complaining about groupthink.
Aside from that the prime reason Slashdot is still good is that it has a diverse audience. There are some identifiable subgroups, but most of them coming at a subject from a different perspective makes for some interesting reading, aside from two or three contentious subjects that devolve into shouting matches between two subgroups.
And as for complaining about Slashdot jumping the shark? In the 15 years I've been here, that's been a common complaint. I'm about to mod it -1, Redundant on sight.
The American meat processing industry has a reputation for unsanitary practices. This is what causes most of the resistance against irradiated food, it has nothing to do with nuclear fear, but everything with opposition to industry just using a patch instead of cleaning up its act.
As comment on an article about the government outsourcing data collection (because that is what this effectively is), you post a party position that is only an incentive to outsource it even more?
Come back when the LP starts taking a stance against corporate espionage on citizens.
Yes they are. The IDF is the world's most autist organisation, too arrogant to ever think it could be in the wrong.
Don't take my word for it, General Spector analyses it quite well in the last chapters of his memoirs 'Loud and Clear', to name just one source.
Of course, it might just be that you meet so many 'crazy chicks' because sane women know how to spot a misogynistic Neanderthal from miles away.
That's a really facile and useless quip.
Just because murders and rapists exist does not make it right to rob you, for example. This 'tu quoque' argument is a fallacy precisely because while it may point out the hypocrisy in one party, it does not address the right or wrong of the action under discussion.
So, simply on the facts, is money-laundering a crime, and did LibertyReserve engage in it? Tough shit. They brought the prosecution on themselves then.
Anyone using the tired 'gunpoint' meme should be modded into oblivion. Preferably with a new category '-1, Complete Tool'.
Posted using HyperCard(tm) over DECnet(tm). Oh wait...
And not knowing the difference between insulting invective and an ad hominem fallacy just proves that you are stupid.
I don't know. Why don't you go look it up and tell us?
Oh, actually studying the science is hard you say? You'd prefer to parrot Heartland Institute talking points? Tough shit. Fuck off, denialist.
My GF introduced me to the show, she had gotten it via a friend of hers (who, unfortunately, did fit the horrible stereotype people have of bronies).
What struck me from the beginning was the obvious knowledge and love the creators have for the classic American cartoons of the 40s and 50s. Most episodes are a straight homage to the works of such luminaries as Tex Avery and Charles Schultz. Given the executive producer, that is no surprise.
I don't generally go for fandom, so I don't self-identify as a brony, and I even had my GF design me a t-shirt with a pony in a Ghostbusters-like traffic sign proclaiming me as 'not a brony'. Which of course does identify me as a fan.
It's a neat show. I'd definitely class it as a modern classic of comedic animation.
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No it's not. Note that I qualified my 'should have' with Earth's orbital position. We know how much energy hits that orbital track, and we observe that Earth is warmer, therefore Earth is warmer than it 'should be'.
You deniers don't even try at any pretense to scientific literacy anymore, do you?
In my opinion the habit of bringing up guns and 'teh gubernment is taking away muh rights!!11!' should be classified as a form of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
In fact, I advocate heavily medicating it, preferably with HCN.