He also says things which are easy to (unfairly) attack, such as sticking with the term "Democratic Socialism". Socialism is closely aligned in the public's mind with Communism, the USSR and cold war, and to a lesser extend the Fascism of WWII Italy.
Those terms aren't nearly as toxic as they've been in the past. When was the last time this country fought "commies?"
WWII Italy? How many voters today are really influenced by something from the 40s and 50s? Musolini died in 45
McCarthyism and all the "Red scare" stuff lasted well into the 50s (speaking of which, woo woo Fallout 4)
Cuban Missile Crisis was in the 60s
The wall fell in 89.
The 90s, 00s and teens have been pretty quiet on the "commies" front. Mostly just Putin riding around on horseback shirtless, trying to make the cover of Teen Beat. Anyone born in the late 70s or beyond wouldn't have much predisposition against communism, other than what they've heard crazy grandparents mumbling about.
And even those crazy grandparents would mostly be giving second-hand grumbles. The boomers were infants back in the real meat n potatoes Red Scare. Anyone who was an adult back then would be pushing 100 now.
That's not to say that espousing "socialism" isn't a risky bet. It is. It's different and different is scary. Plus it seeks to correct the oligarchy in which we currently live... toppling the moneyed oligarchs is tough when they, well, have all the money. Bernie's got a steep hill to climb, but it's not because socialism is a dirty word.
Stores and restaurants do it to court the electric car market. Electric cars cost a premium up front, in return for long term benefits. The same mindset will pay a few bucks more for free range poultry, pesticide free strawberries and GMO free whole grain bread
At the corporate office, it's a ploy to get people in earlier. If you have 2 charging spots and 3 people with plug in cars, you've created an arms race. I show up 5 min early to get the plug, then you start showing up 10 min early, and the 3rd guy aims for 15 min early. On and on. Whoever relents loses the plug. You could squeeze an extra couple hours out of your employees for free, while they're focused on that jerk who took their spot
I think you hit the key point: infinite resources.
Consider the progress we've made in the last 400 years. We've gone from the very first steam powered trains to maglev. From the first refracting telescope to JWST. The pace at which we're advancing is insane, and it's only getting faster.
Just think about how utterly impossible our current tech would seem to King Charles II. Is it beyond the realm of possibility than in the next 400 years we will reach a post-scarcity society, utilizing tech that seems equally impossible to you and me?
If we ever do reach that post scarcity society, where having the shiniest car or biggest house no longer stands as a social currency, well, something else will. Trek opined on military'esque service being the social currency of the future. That part is entirely speculation, of course, but once blingy rims and fur coats can be printed for free, some other status symbol will need to take over.
Previous poster used Japan and Europe as examples, but you decided to argue the point with Mexico instead. Really, that's not fair though. Mexico has a neighbor supplying them with TONs of illegal guns.
Do you have any details on Steam mucking with accounts after a charge-back, return, etc?
I've returned several steam games and never noticed any repercussions. I've even gone so far as to buy a game specifically with intent to return it, as a form of protest (because fuck UPlay) though I didn't disclose that intent, natch.
Maybe I don't return Steam games often enough to run afoul of their nefarious ways, but I've simply never heard of such a thing from Steam.
We can argue the semantics of torture later**, but your second point is significantly more important: it doesn't fucking work. Literally NONE of the intel gained during "enhanced interrogation" was actionable. They told us about old plots, wild fantasy targets, and long abandoned bases.
Meanwhile, whether or not it's technically torture is moot, because it pissed everyone off. Enemies, allies, the world at large marked it down as just another reason that America is a dick.
**I've been water boarded. Yeah it's certainly unpleasant, but it's pretty tame compared to literally anything else we call torture. When we bring back the rack, the hobbling wheel or the iron maiden, give me a buzz. You bust out the blowtorch and a pair of pliers for torture, not a wet blanky.
When a cop "accidentally" grabs his gun instead of his taser, there's a very justified (if short lived) public outrage. Now, with these bullets, it's a lot easier to buy the cop's story.
"I though I was shooting him with the stun bullets, oops."
For me (strictly IMO) that risk is part of the tradeoff for the reduced prices and near-perfect memory while active
Literally every single game I've ever purchased on steam is still available. That's 200 games over the better part of a decade. What are the odds that you would be able to track 200 disks (or more, for multi-disk games) for years and years, without a single one getting scratched, lost, etc? I can't speak for everyone, but for me personally, no chance. Absolutely nope.
Yes, there's a risk. One day, Steam could go the way of the dodo, I will be at risk of losing those games. But the way I see it, I'm already in the black. I've already gotten more mileage out of these games in their "risky" digital form that I could possibly have gotten from "safe" tangible media. And that's to say nothing of the prices I've paid, which are significantly lower than retail prices.
I'm also somewhat comforted to know that I'm not alone. Not by a long shot. If Steam shutters their windows, there are going to be millions of people in the same boat (over 6 million active users at the time of writing, peaked over 10mil today.) Chances are very good that work arounds will be discovered. Ways to back-up your digital games to Blue-Ray, Flash Drive, etc and side-load them onto future machines.
To sum up: Even with all the risks and DRM, it's still better than physical media from retail outlets.
Sure, they broke the law. Do did Batman, Robin Hood, Han Solo, Edmond DantÃs, Malcolm Reynolds and a host of other characters.
As a society, we absolutely love stories where some rogueish antihero skirts the law to bring down or expose some greater villainy. Is it any wonder that we react similarly when it happens in real life?
You're paid to work those hours, and I've no issue being tracked for those hours (or slight deviations... for instance, I work 7:30 - 4:30, but same basic concept)
Hell, I'm already tracked via badge. Most of the doors in my building are locked, and opened via my company badge, which is unique to me. While this doesn't give them exact data on every move I make, it will clearly show what time I arrive in the morning, what time I return from lunch and any time I move into a different area. Anecdotal, but I probably badge through a dozen or so doors per day, which should paint a fairly clear picture of my activities, if anyone cared to look.
And that's fine with me. I'm on their hours, at their facility. But when the company wants to start tracking me after hours, on my vacations, during my sick time, etc... well then they can fuck right off. But if they want to keep better tabs on me during the hours I'm in the office, I see no harm in it.
You are correct, the content is what drives the classification... however it's incumbent upon the person creating that content to add appropriate markings.
If you send me an unclassified email, that has unclassified content with proper unclassified markings, but my response includes classified information, then it is MY responsibility to change the markings, identify the classified material and ensure the network upon which I'm sending the email is approved to handle information of that level.
To send classified information without taking the above into consideration is a massive security violation. You might as well be putting the info into your gmail account.
No one ever said anything about tracking you at home, or while away from the office. Meanwhile, study after study after study continually show that sitting all day, per the office drone norms, is terrible for you.
Wearing a little watch-sized gizmo that tells you to get up and stretch your legs every few hours is hardly the most Orwellian oversight I can imagine. And really, the company has entirely pragmatic reasons for the idea, beyond BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING. Simply put: healthier employees are cost effective. You'll take less surprise sick days; even if your total days off work remain constant, you'll have more vacation time which is planned in advance. You'll also be in a generally better mood, less bitching about how much your back is killing you
Oh, and we already do have a shady organization tracking the air you breathe. It's called the fucking EPA.
Every vehicle crash was a real vehicle getting really crashed. When guys were dangling precariously from poles attached to moving cars in the movie, stunt guys were ACTUALLY doing that exact thing.
And the Doof; with his flame spewing guitar and wall of speakers... yeah, all real. They actually made a 100+ lb. electric guitar that spewed real and actual flames 20 feet out. And they actually strapped that guitar to a mobile wall of amplifiers and drove around blasting music and spewing flames.
There was, of course, a little but if cgi cleaning up the backgrounds, and amputating Charlize Theron's arm... But everything else, real as real can be.
Whether or not the outcomes are scripted or not, or if the whole things is for show is irrelevant. (I honestly haven't watched enough to really know one way or the other)
These gals put some impact into their hits. I've seen a few NFL players that could learn a thing or two.
In related news, law enforcement has moved to ban all spin dial, numerical pin, and other locking mechanisms for which they do not have instant skeleton key access.
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Gatorade is strictly bad for you, with the exceptions of dying in a famine, dying of insulin overdose.
But... it's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes.
He also says things which are easy to (unfairly) attack, such as sticking with the term "Democratic Socialism". Socialism is closely aligned in the public's mind with Communism, the USSR and cold war, and to a lesser extend the Fascism of WWII Italy.
Those terms aren't nearly as toxic as they've been in the past. When was the last time this country fought "commies?"
WWII Italy? How many voters today are really influenced by something from the 40s and 50s?
Musolini died in 45
McCarthyism and all the "Red scare" stuff lasted well into the 50s (speaking of which, woo woo Fallout 4)
Cuban Missile Crisis was in the 60s
The wall fell in 89.
The 90s, 00s and teens have been pretty quiet on the "commies" front. Mostly just Putin riding around on horseback shirtless, trying to make the cover of Teen Beat. Anyone born in the late 70s or beyond wouldn't have much predisposition against communism, other than what they've heard crazy grandparents mumbling about.
And even those crazy grandparents would mostly be giving second-hand grumbles. The boomers were infants back in the real meat n potatoes Red Scare. Anyone who was an adult back then would be pushing 100 now.
That's not to say that espousing "socialism" isn't a risky bet. It is. It's different and different is scary. Plus it seeks to correct the oligarchy in which we currently live... toppling the moneyed oligarchs is tough when they, well, have all the money. Bernie's got a steep hill to climb, but it's not because socialism is a dirty word.
People looking for sexy women in bikinis can get that anywhere, too.
They've "reinvented" themselves out of one over-saturated market and right into another.
I would consider playboy a relatively safe venue for starlets to release professional nude photos.
We all remember the recent leak: hundreds (thousands?) of terrible quality nude selfies flooded the internet. And people went nuts for it.
There's a big market for famous people's private parts. Play boy is probably the only group with the right mix of clout and crass to make it happen
Stores and restaurants do it to court the electric car market. Electric cars cost a premium up front, in return for long term benefits. The same mindset will pay a few bucks more for free range poultry, pesticide free strawberries and GMO free whole grain bread
At the corporate office, it's a ploy to get people in earlier. If you have 2 charging spots and 3 people with plug in cars, you've created an arms race. I show up 5 min early to get the plug, then you start showing up 10 min early, and the 3rd guy aims for 15 min early. On and on. Whoever relents loses the plug. You could squeeze an extra couple hours out of your employees for free, while they're focused on that jerk who took their spot
I think you hit the key point: infinite resources.
Consider the progress we've made in the last 400 years. We've gone from the very first steam powered trains to maglev. From the first refracting telescope to JWST. The pace at which we're advancing is insane, and it's only getting faster.
Just think about how utterly impossible our current tech would seem to King Charles II. Is it beyond the realm of possibility than in the next 400 years we will reach a post-scarcity society, utilizing tech that seems equally impossible to you and me?
If we ever do reach that post scarcity society, where having the shiniest car or biggest house no longer stands as a social currency, well, something else will. Trek opined on military'esque service being the social currency of the future. That part is entirely speculation, of course, but once blingy rims and fur coats can be printed for free, some other status symbol will need to take over.
Previous poster used Japan and Europe as examples, but you decided to argue the point with Mexico instead. Really, that's not fair though. Mexico has a neighbor supplying them with TONs of illegal guns.
A critical difference however: neither Fox nor CBS sell the means of access.
Amazon is showing textbook Conflict of Interest.
It's getting worse, and Amazon is hardly the only culprit. Netflix original series are a problem, despite many of them being awesome shows.
How much longer until "meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
Do you have any details on Steam mucking with accounts after a charge-back, return, etc?
I've returned several steam games and never noticed any repercussions. I've even gone so far as to buy a game specifically with intent to return it, as a form of protest (because fuck UPlay) though I didn't disclose that intent, natch.
Maybe I don't return Steam games often enough to run afoul of their nefarious ways, but I've simply never heard of such a thing from Steam.
We can argue the semantics of torture later**, but your second point is significantly more important: it doesn't fucking work. Literally NONE of the intel gained during "enhanced interrogation" was actionable. They told us about old plots, wild fantasy targets, and long abandoned bases.
Meanwhile, whether or not it's technically torture is moot, because it pissed everyone off. Enemies, allies, the world at large marked it down as just another reason that America is a dick.
**I've been water boarded. Yeah it's certainly unpleasant, but it's pretty tame compared to literally anything else we call torture. When we bring back the rack, the hobbling wheel or the iron maiden, give me a buzz. You bust out the blowtorch and a pair of pliers for torture, not a wet blanky.
If you want something a bit more flashy, a character in the newest Star Trek movie was named after John Harrison.
Plausible deniability seems like the whole point.
When a cop "accidentally" grabs his gun instead of his taser, there's a very justified (if short lived) public outrage. Now, with these bullets, it's a lot easier to buy the cop's story.
"I though I was shooting him with the stun bullets, oops."
For me (strictly IMO) that risk is part of the tradeoff for the reduced prices and near-perfect memory while active
Literally every single game I've ever purchased on steam is still available. That's 200 games over the better part of a decade. What are the odds that you would be able to track 200 disks (or more, for multi-disk games) for years and years, without a single one getting scratched, lost, etc? I can't speak for everyone, but for me personally, no chance. Absolutely nope.
Yes, there's a risk. One day, Steam could go the way of the dodo, I will be at risk of losing those games. But the way I see it, I'm already in the black. I've already gotten more mileage out of these games in their "risky" digital form that I could possibly have gotten from "safe" tangible media. And that's to say nothing of the prices I've paid, which are significantly lower than retail prices.
I'm also somewhat comforted to know that I'm not alone. Not by a long shot. If Steam shutters their windows, there are going to be millions of people in the same boat (over 6 million active users at the time of writing, peaked over 10mil today.) Chances are very good that work arounds will be discovered. Ways to back-up your digital games to Blue-Ray, Flash Drive, etc and side-load them onto future machines.
To sum up: Even with all the risks and DRM, it's still better than physical media from retail outlets.
Sure, they broke the law. Do did Batman, Robin Hood, Han Solo, Edmond DantÃs, Malcolm Reynolds and a host of other characters.
As a society, we absolutely love stories where some rogueish antihero skirts the law to bring down or expose some greater villainy. Is it any wonder that we react similarly when it happens in real life?
You're paid to work those hours, and I've no issue being tracked for those hours (or slight deviations ... for instance, I work 7:30 - 4:30, but same basic concept)
Hell, I'm already tracked via badge. Most of the doors in my building are locked, and opened via my company badge, which is unique to me. While this doesn't give them exact data on every move I make, it will clearly show what time I arrive in the morning, what time I return from lunch and any time I move into a different area. Anecdotal, but I probably badge through a dozen or so doors per day, which should paint a fairly clear picture of my activities, if anyone cared to look.
And that's fine with me. I'm on their hours, at their facility. But when the company wants to start tracking me after hours, on my vacations, during my sick time, etc ... well then they can fuck right off. But if they want to keep better tabs on me during the hours I'm in the office, I see no harm in it.
You are correct, the content is what drives the classification... however it's incumbent upon the person creating that content to add appropriate markings.
If you send me an unclassified email, that has unclassified content with proper unclassified markings, but my response includes classified information, then it is MY responsibility to change the markings, identify the classified material and ensure the network upon which I'm sending the email is approved to handle information of that level.
To send classified information without taking the above into consideration is a massive security violation. You might as well be putting the info into your gmail account.
Your logical fallacy is strawman.
No one ever said anything about tracking you at home, or while away from the office. Meanwhile, study after study after study continually show that sitting all day, per the office drone norms, is terrible for you.
Wearing a little watch-sized gizmo that tells you to get up and stretch your legs every few hours is hardly the most Orwellian oversight I can imagine. And really, the company has entirely pragmatic reasons for the idea, beyond BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING. Simply put: healthier employees are cost effective. You'll take less surprise sick days; even if your total days off work remain constant, you'll have more vacation time which is planned in advance. You'll also be in a generally better mood, less bitching about how much your back is killing you
Oh, and we already do have a shady organization tracking the air you breathe. It's called the fucking EPA.
Every vehicle crash was a real vehicle getting really crashed. When guys were dangling precariously from poles attached to moving cars in the movie, stunt guys were ACTUALLY doing that exact thing.
And the Doof; with his flame spewing guitar and wall of speakers ... yeah, all real. They actually made a 100+ lb. electric guitar that spewed real and actual flames 20 feet out. And they actually strapped that guitar to a mobile wall of amplifiers and drove around blasting music and spewing flames.
There was, of course, a little but if cgi cleaning up the backgrounds, and amputating Charlize Theron's arm ... But everything else, real as real can be.
You forgot "now get off my #00FF00 lawn"
The uniforms aren't significantly more revealing than the uniforms of some track and field events, or beach volley ball.
And don't blame Australia... Americans have a league too. Not sure who came first though.
Whether or not the outcomes are scripted or not, or if the whole things is for show is irrelevant. (I honestly haven't watched enough to really know one way or the other)
These gals put some impact into their hits. I've seen a few NFL players that could learn a thing or two.
Google: LFL
Legends Football League, or as it was previously known: Lingerie Football League.
And no, it's not some prissy 2-hand touch event. These ladies are for real.
Of course you realize that over 99% of "family farms" are completely unaffected by estate taxes.
But please, continue pandering to the "good ol' fashioned hard workin American farmer." It plays well in the media.
In related news, law enforcement has moved to ban all spin dial, numerical pin, and other locking mechanisms for which they do not have instant skeleton key access.
$50,000 worth of pot? Holy crap. I hope you brought a forklift.