Imagine if Bush II had commited a bald-face lie - multiple times! - about his one major initiative. And don't give me the Iraq war bullshit
some interesting points here, but don't undermine them by making a GWB comparison since he was a super bad president and a liar who killed thousands with his ignorance.
And yet Obama bald-face lied about Obamacare - over and over. On multiple points. "If you like your plan you can keep it!" "You can keep your doctor!" "It'll be CHEAPER!"
I'm not ready to judge obamacare yet, because the market is still adjusting to the new normal and we haven't seen how the full package of premiums, state action, and tax breaks some together
Hell, Obama's been about to "pivot to jobs" for what? Five fucking years now without doing it? The US media was all over Bush for an unemployment rate that looks downright rosy compared to Obama's continued failure.
no, employment has gone up and up steadily throughout his term except for the first 9mo where the bush effects were still reverberating. look at a graph of employment under Obama vs employment under bush.
Obama the candidate ran against the NSA and Gitmo - citing his past as a scholar to go so far as to call such things "unconstitutional". Yet President Obama seems to have entirely forgotten his past Constitional cares...
I don't recall candidate Obama running specifically against NSA, but president Obama has definitely presided over an enormous expansion of secret state power. scary,
..
Obama the candidate called multi-hundred-billion dollar deficits "unpatriotic". President Obama runs multi-TRILLION dollar deficits year in and year out while the media tries to blame Republcans for daring to shut down the government over a few tens of billions of dollars of spending cuts.
it's the house of represnetatives that writes and passes a budget. Obama has never vetoed a budget.
Sarah Palin was a successul governor of a large state for years before getting picked to be a VP candidate, and the media skewered her.
you have to admit she was a total joke and had it coming.
OP said "I find the trend disturbing", and you said "I feel for ya", obv agreeing with his sentiment. I disagree with both you and the OP on that statment.
I think the issue is that the networks don't seem to want you to wait a week unless you pay them. My point above is really that they should focus on getting the eyes on the product rather than billing each and ever viewer that doesn't watch when they decide you should.
Why should they focus on this? Obv they tried the business model of ad-supported streaming, and decided they didn't like it. Now they're trying to payfence approach (not a paywall - pay for better access, but still available otherwise). I don't begrudge ABC wanting to make money, nor do I begrudge them trying different business model. In fact i want them to find a model where they make money online, so they continue to invest resources and make content available.
Google figured this out... we're all customers, but none of us pay them directly. That's how they can make money. If Google charged me a subscription to do web searches, they'd have died a decade ago.
No, we're all the product not the customers. that's why google is free.
People nowadays will not bother being inconvenienced unless you have awesome stuff
Extraordinarily true but... I think you're speaking of torrents, which are such an incredible pain in the ass. you need to find the right torrent, and there's often different options of differing quality and integrity but you don't know. then it takes an unknown amount of time to download, depending on seeds or whatever. it takes up how many gigs of hard drive space. then you watch it on your laptop, or futz to get it to the tv. then the episode turns out to suck anyway!
I'm behind on my tv, so waiting another week for something is no big deal at all.
I disagree with GP and P; this trend is very positive. The reason why networks have been fighting against streaming is because they didn't see a business case. If ABC is starting to see how it can make money online, then it benefits all of us who want to watch shows online and cut the cord. A watershed day is when HBO GO becomes available without a cable subscription.
your example isn't very helpful, but I see what you mean and I hadn't realized it before. You can't brute force to look for dictionary words, because you'll find infinite words.
I imagine there's not a need to image the Fedex packages because it all goes into your DB anyway, which they undoubtedly have access to (if you know it or not). I agree that x-ray is implausible.
NSA does SIGINT, or signals intelligence, and it doesn't matter what computer solution you think you found, they will own you. The only solution is to avoid all computers. Have something important to say? do so in person. An important thing to record? Write it down. Heck, even the USPS or FedEx seems to be less compromised - they record the address info (metadata) but I haven't seen anything to imply they've been opening the letters.
CIA and FBI do HUMINT, or old-school spying, but from what I've heard their skills here have withered as they've focused on SIGINT themselves.
inb4 encryption - I assume that they can crack any encrypted files, or they wrote the specs in the first place.
not possible, because there can be only one master and one apprentice at a time. when the master dies the apprentice assumes the throne / CEO position.
are you cray cray? 5 sigma means five standard deviations from the mean! that's like 95%+, bizznitch! show me an amateur scientist that can rock those numbers, and I'll eat my cat.
Seven people have been charged with fairly serious crimes, but I can't see the value of the fraud being more than a few hundred or few thousand dollars. It's like counterfeiting $1 bills, what's the point?
I spent $3,000 on Metrolink tickets last year in Los Angeles. I know many people who pay more. there is serious money in mass transit.
There have been a number of studies over the years that show that "honor system" fare collection actually works pretty well, with random manual checks by transit police. Yes, there are people who cheat (but then, there are people who hop the turnstiles, too), but *most* people pay their fare.
It's actually called "proof of payment". You buy a ticket or a pass in the station, and have it available for inspection. if you don't have the ticket, they fine you.
I assure you there's nothing "honor" about it. You're required to have a ticket, and pay a penalty if you don't have one.
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always cutting corners with their one-pole magnets!
Imagine if Bush II had commited a bald-face lie - multiple times! - about his one major initiative. And don't give me the Iraq war bullshit
some interesting points here, but don't undermine them by making a GWB comparison since he was a super bad president and a liar who killed thousands with his ignorance.
And yet Obama bald-face lied about Obamacare - over and over. On multiple points. "If you like your plan you can keep it!" "You can keep your doctor!" "It'll be CHEAPER!"
I'm not ready to judge obamacare yet, because the market is still adjusting to the new normal and we haven't seen how the full package of premiums, state action, and tax breaks some together
Hell, Obama's been about to "pivot to jobs" for what? Five fucking years now without doing it? The US media was all over Bush for an unemployment rate that looks downright rosy compared to Obama's continued failure.
no, employment has gone up and up steadily throughout his term except for the first 9mo where the bush effects were still reverberating. look at a graph of employment under Obama vs employment under bush.
Obama the candidate ran against the NSA and Gitmo - citing his past as a scholar to go so far as to call such things "unconstitutional". Yet President Obama seems to have entirely forgotten his past Constitional cares...
I don't recall candidate Obama running specifically against NSA, but president Obama has definitely presided over an enormous expansion of secret state power. scary,
..
Obama the candidate called multi-hundred-billion dollar deficits "unpatriotic". President Obama runs multi-TRILLION dollar deficits year in and year out while the media tries to blame Republcans for daring to shut down the government over a few tens of billions of dollars of spending cuts.
it's the house of represnetatives that writes and passes a budget. Obama has never vetoed a budget.
Sarah Palin was a successul governor of a large state for years before getting picked to be a VP candidate, and the media skewered her.
you have to admit she was a total joke and had it coming.
how the heck are you a 50 year old man nearing retirement? In US you'd be halfway through your working life.
OP said "I find the trend disturbing", and you said "I feel for ya", obv agreeing with his sentiment. I disagree with both you and the OP on that statment.
I think the issue is that the networks don't seem to want you to wait a week unless you pay them. My point above is really that they should focus on getting the eyes on the product rather than billing each and ever viewer that doesn't watch when they decide you should.
Why should they focus on this? Obv they tried the business model of ad-supported streaming, and decided they didn't like it. Now they're trying to payfence approach (not a paywall - pay for better access, but still available otherwise). I don't begrudge ABC wanting to make money, nor do I begrudge them trying different business model. In fact i want them to find a model where they make money online, so they continue to invest resources and make content available.
Google figured this out ... we're all customers, but none of us pay them directly. That's how they can make money. If Google charged me a subscription to do web searches, they'd have died a decade ago.
No, we're all the product not the customers. that's why google is free.
People nowadays will not bother being inconvenienced unless you have awesome stuff
Extraordinarily true but... I think you're speaking of torrents, which are such an incredible pain in the ass. you need to find the right torrent, and there's often different options of differing quality and integrity but you don't know. then it takes an unknown amount of time to download, depending on seeds or whatever. it takes up how many gigs of hard drive space. then you watch it on your laptop, or futz to get it to the tv. then the episode turns out to suck anyway!
I'm behind on my tv, so waiting another week for something is no big deal at all.
I disagree with GP and P; this trend is very positive. The reason why networks have been fighting against streaming is because they didn't see a business case. If ABC is starting to see how it can make money online, then it benefits all of us who want to watch shows online and cut the cord. A watershed day is when HBO GO becomes available without a cable subscription.
whatever. the flutes were destroyed similar to how the X-ray machine makes iPads evaporate. he should check ebay.
your example isn't very helpful, but I see what you mean and I hadn't realized it before. You can't brute force to look for dictionary words, because you'll find infinite words.
ABCDE
ZEBRA
PARIS
HAPPY
TFS: Also among the offenses, which can result in an individual being 'taken into custody without warrant,' is a failure to pick up dog waste
finally! an appropriate punishment for not cleaning up after your dog! Hopefully this migrates stateside.
I imagine there's not a need to image the Fedex packages because it all goes into your DB anyway, which they undoubtedly have access to (if you know it or not). I agree that x-ray is implausible.
while we're investigating things, I wonder how secure a one-time pad is. obv you would need to decode the message by hand.
hope and change already happened. Hope peaked and reverted to the mean. Change happened but was largely a downward trend.
NSA does SIGINT, or signals intelligence, and it doesn't matter what computer solution you think you found, they will own you. The only solution is to avoid all computers. Have something important to say? do so in person. An important thing to record? Write it down. Heck, even the USPS or FedEx seems to be less compromised - they record the address info (metadata) but I haven't seen anything to imply they've been opening the letters.
CIA and FBI do HUMINT, or old-school spying, but from what I've heard their skills here have withered as they've focused on SIGINT themselves.
inb4 encryption - I assume that they can crack any encrypted files, or they wrote the specs in the first place.
you can buy whatever brand tablet you like as long as they run iOS apps.
I ran out of oil once in my car and my gasoline engine did piston fusion into a single block of metal
not possible, because there can be only one master and one apprentice at a time. when the master dies the apprentice assumes the throne / CEO position.
are you cray cray? 5 sigma means five standard deviations from the mean! that's like 95%+, bizznitch! show me an amateur scientist that can rock those numbers, and I'll eat my cat.
the summary just claims "amators are teh bests!" w/o any documentation. Here's some proof for you of why to be wary of armchair scientists:
https://www.google.com/#q=proof+that+amateur+science+sucks
there's more to science than a + b = boom.
no it can't because amateurs can't do things rigorously enough to meet the 5 sigma thresholds.
so if a computer just has android but no windows, is it a PC Minus?
Seven people have been charged with fairly serious crimes, but I can't see the value of the fraud being more than a few hundred or few thousand dollars. It's like counterfeiting $1 bills, what's the point?
I spent $3,000 on Metrolink tickets last year in Los Angeles. I know many people who pay more. there is serious money in mass transit.
There have been a number of studies over the years that show that "honor system" fare collection actually works pretty well, with random manual checks by transit police. Yes, there are people who cheat (but then, there are people who hop the turnstiles, too), but *most* people pay their fare.
It's actually called "proof of payment". You buy a ticket or a pass in the station, and have it available for inspection. if you don't have the ticket, they fine you.
I assure you there's nothing "honor" about it. You're required to have a ticket, and pay a penalty if you don't have one.
what is wave.