This was in regards to trump, not premiers, governor's, senate or house members.
In the U.S., for presidents, 38% is a terrible approval rating.
Carter was not re-elected after 4 years as he got close. Nixon resigned halfway through his term. Bush was only at that at the very end of his presidency and term limit. Otherwise, you have to go back to Truman, and the same holds true there.
A rating at this point in any presidency is considered terrible by any measure. Citation
It took them $100 Million to figure out what they probably knew themselves.
I have more or less trained myself to not pay any attention to ads. This could be part of my overall "training" in the workforce to try and block out everything while I focus on said task, while co-workers are nagging me about lunch, beers, other projects, etc., while I'm trying to focus.
Regardless, the constant barrage of online advertising from the flashing text of the late 90's, animated GIF's of the 00's, interactive flash from this decade, are enough to make any human that spends a large portion of their time online, shy away from this garbage.
The idea of ads doesn't bother me. The forceful "We'll make you read it, like it or not, and we know we aren't targeting you, we only need 1% to respond" type of advertising, is what made me think like this. I actually feel GOOD when I know there is an ad and I know I haven't digested any of it.
With this type of reward system, its no wonder I enjoy not looking at ads. At some level, there is a piece of me that feels that I'm "giving it to the man", when I purposefully don't read their ads. By spending any energy even avoiding this, I also feel like I have lost. In the end it makes me despise the system even further.
Like everything, the bad apples destroy the good intentions of others. I'm sure I would benefit from some form of advertising as there are services I do use and would benefit from if they actually were "cheaper, faster, better", but when I can't trust any of it, the sites that claim "low impact ads", end up getting hurt first, and the 1% of the time I might care, I miss.
Of course, on the other hand, there is a part of me that feels the folks making a killing off of ads no one pays any attention to, are in one sense "winning" from the perspective that the companies, willing to dump money into something so worthless, deserve what they get.
Sounds like the manager had way too much time on their hands.
Sounds like the employee had way too much time on their hands.
Looks like "upper-management" needs to focus on real worries, like getting more business or making the job more fulfilling. Clearly the employee was bored and wasn't one that was going to sit on their hands and do nothing while they still had a brain to use.
It appears this could have been handled very differently by all parties involved.
When office life turns into cops and robbers, no one is winning and it speaks to bigger issues.
It matters because at this point he is the president of the United States. His tweets are official statements. For those that follow the US Government and policy, this actually does matter, even though it is junk on so many levels.
I'm not sure it was a swipe at all. It speaks to me as the only reason I use it is to see his tweets. I still write letters if I want to complain to companies.
I do agree with your sentiment though. Its annoying and trying to me, when so much of what we read mentions the name in the form of click bait.
I suppose it could be that idiots tweets draw idiot tweeted responses. When the president of the US is tweeting nasty, derogatory flamebait, he's going to get nasty, derogatory tweets right back at him.
This is exactly why we expect a leader to lead with dignity. If he tweets crap, he's got a whole audience that is right at that level that otherwise wouldn't respond. He is getting exactly what he is asking for, he enjoys it apparently. The feeling across the world, right or wrong, is that by sending him anything more than 140 characters, he wouldn't understand or want to dig into it anyhow.
I personally don't like any of it on either side and unfortunately feel like I'm sitting in the bleachers watching a shit show between folks I really don't get on every side of this. North, south, east and west, top and bottom of the barrel.
I get it that most folks don't appreciate the rioting. I certainly don't approve by any stretch of the imagination.
75 years is insane for this. They broke some windows. If the internet wasn't around, they would have used a phone. Conspiracy for some windows breakers? That's ridiculous. Make them fix a few windows and pay a fine. Keep their phones.
You're reading my mind. its not like the industrial revolution, and in so many ways.
Humans have two very basic skills that everything is built on. Brawn and brains.
Industrial revolution on the simplest scale automated hard labor and brawn. AI Revolution is now chipping away at the brains.
Sure, there will be specialists forever, but those #'s will be very minimal compared to today. Just like we don't have horse drawn buggies, we won't have very many backup doctors to read MRI's once the computers take over.
All of this may take 100 years, but those of us that can play this out can see that the social structures we live by today are going to need to really change. 100 years isn't long. Humans aren't good with any change. We can already see today the massive change in society in 10 years of screen phones.
Its a wild time we live in.
Would surely be nice if there was a mechanism that actually worked to keep this stuff off the internet. Seems the "free market" isn't doing the job. I assume that these companies will have free reign to do this until the vast majority of people say something.
GPS - not allowed as fortune tellers will tell you your way. No more airlines will be allowed to use auto-pilot - Pilots are to "point and shoot from now on" ATM's are out as they are going back to bank tellers. Oh the humanity (we'll save)....
Sounds like your local government tried to scam the federal government, and in the process irked you local folks. This doesn't make the federal program bad. This makes your local government look terrible, and they should be the ones you are complaining to.
Are you also saying that your community is riding motobikes on the bicycle lanes? Sounds like you and your community need some serious education and rethinking on bicycles and bicycle lanes.
If you aren't a bicycle rider, you wouldn't understand for one moment the realities of riding a bicycle in traffic or around a city. One with little or no experience wouldn't have any idea on what "correct" bicycle riding should look like. Looking out your car window and claiming everyone is an idiot and not following directions is a rite or driving, but has little practical use. I'm much more worried about the distracted driver not knowing what an acceleration lane is, what merging is, what a turn signal is, or why there is a white line at a stop sign or a stoplight, who is driving a 2,000lb vehicle than a 200lb person riding a 20lb bicycle.
I pay taxes on every gallon of gasoline I buy, which pay for roads bicyclists ride on without contributing a penny to their cost.
Every bicyclist riding on the shoulder is one less car on the road. This should make you happy.
There is a very small # of bicyclists on the road, that do not have a car, nor pay gas taxes. Most jurisdictions cover road costs through other taxes anyhow. This is so insignificant that its in the category of nitpicking.
We see in others what we see in ourselves. And everywhere you look, you see parasites leaching off of those who work for a living.
Your man bun could use a good shampoo. It'll smell better.
You sound angry, yet you don't really seem to know what you're angry about.
If you live a very simple life, maybe that is true. Being conservative about ones socialist views isn't a terrible thing. Being a conservative or a socialist asshole is a problem at any given time.
I was mugged once at rusty knife point. The rusty, dull knife was more scary than giving the guy the cash I had. They got $60. I didn't get stabbed. Figured that was my one mugging of life for the average person... if you believe the stats.
I carry cash, CC, Phone, Keys on me. Typically cash for things, but if I get robbed, that's first to go.
If they wanted to kill me, I figure they'd do it regardless of what I had on me.
I don't want to live my life afraid of worst case scenarios. While I understand the risks, I don't worry about it. I consider it highly unlikely, true or not.
I don't substitute cash for CC's. If anything I end up with more than I need in terms of spending power in both forms, as some places I go (in the US) don't take anything but cash as they are very small (legal) businesses.
-Arzaboa
Some species will take advantage of this new world, some won't. Opportunistic species will take over, whether it be slime in the ocean, or mosquitoes on land. Viruses are primed to hit hard with all of the meat on the planet. We are just in a period of massive flux. What shakes out may very well be less people, with a lot of technology.
Smart-Phones have/do change us. I'm not sure its even worth talking about good or bad as this is progress. Without an EMP from the sun and a plague afterwords, we would rebuild to this moment, and "move forward".
Reality is that we, as a species, are becoming very intertwined with these devices. It seems to me its inevitable.
Bringing awareness to everyone's phone use is important. Self-Awareness campaign should be first. Clearly this is something that has touched a nerve, clearly people are seeing fallout, wondering and somewhat nervous as we don't know the answers.
Law's I'm not excited about, but the awareness this father has brought, which no other outlet seems to have rung the bell as loudly, is great.
Let's get all of this on the table and take control of the smart-phones. Apple and the rest have basically hacked our minds through neurosciences. Its time to check and balance that. They've had 10 years using us as guinea pigs. We see there is good and bad, at what point do we bark back and say... "THIS is enough".
So while my kid very well may get a phone with some access at some age, that should be up to my bad parenting to decide. My parents screwed me up, its my turn to have fun, and I don't want someone else's rules. I do understand the sentiment that if my kid has a phone and his doesn't that he could feel bad for his kids, but that's life and that is where verbal communication and talking come in... "hey johnny, when you all plan that on snapchat, can you text me the time/place, 'cuz my dad won't let me have snapchat."
We don't need a study to tell us its affecting us all differently, with general overlapping unions of generally "bad behaviour" we've all exhibited at times. What we do need is some introspection as to where this is taking us, cuz the ride is far from over and there is no getting off this train.
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This was in regards to trump, not premiers, governor's, senate or house members.
In the U.S., for presidents, 38% is a terrible approval rating.
Carter was not re-elected after 4 years as he got close. Nixon resigned halfway through his term. Bush was only at that at the very end of his presidency and term limit. Otherwise, you have to go back to Truman, and the same holds true there.
A rating at this point in any presidency is considered terrible by any measure. Citation
It took them $100 Million to figure out what they probably knew themselves.
I have more or less trained myself to not pay any attention to ads. This could be part of my overall "training" in the workforce to try and block out everything while I focus on said task, while co-workers are nagging me about lunch, beers, other projects, etc., while I'm trying to focus.
Regardless, the constant barrage of online advertising from the flashing text of the late 90's, animated GIF's of the 00's, interactive flash from this decade, are enough to make any human that spends a large portion of their time online, shy away from this garbage.
The idea of ads doesn't bother me. The forceful "We'll make you read it, like it or not, and we know we aren't targeting you, we only need 1% to respond" type of advertising, is what made me think like this. I actually feel GOOD when I know there is an ad and I know I haven't digested any of it.
With this type of reward system, its no wonder I enjoy not looking at ads. At some level, there is a piece of me that feels that I'm "giving it to the man", when I purposefully don't read their ads. By spending any energy even avoiding this, I also feel like I have lost. In the end it makes me despise the system even further.
Like everything, the bad apples destroy the good intentions of others. I'm sure I would benefit from some form of advertising as there are services I do use and would benefit from if they actually were "cheaper, faster, better", but when I can't trust any of it, the sites that claim "low impact ads", end up getting hurt first, and the 1% of the time I might care, I miss.
Of course, on the other hand, there is a part of me that feels the folks making a killing off of ads no one pays any attention to, are in one sense "winning" from the perspective that the companies, willing to dump money into something so worthless, deserve what they get.
Sounds like the manager had way too much time on their hands.
Sounds like the employee had way too much time on their hands.
Looks like "upper-management" needs to focus on real worries, like getting more business or making the job more fulfilling. Clearly the employee was bored and wasn't one that was going to sit on their hands and do nothing while they still had a brain to use.
It appears this could have been handled very differently by all parties involved.
When office life turns into cops and robbers, no one is winning and it speaks to bigger issues.
It matters because at this point he is the president of the United States. His tweets are official statements. For those that follow the US Government and policy, this actually does matter, even though it is junk on so many levels.
I'm not sure it was a swipe at all. It speaks to me as the only reason I use it is to see his tweets. I still write letters if I want to complain to companies.
I do agree with your sentiment though. Its annoying and trying to me, when so much of what we read mentions the name in the form of click bait.
I suppose it could be that idiots tweets draw idiot tweeted responses. When the president of the US is tweeting nasty, derogatory flamebait, he's going to get nasty, derogatory tweets right back at him.
This is exactly why we expect a leader to lead with dignity. If he tweets crap, he's got a whole audience that is right at that level that otherwise wouldn't respond. He is getting exactly what he is asking for, he enjoys it apparently. The feeling across the world, right or wrong, is that by sending him anything more than 140 characters, he wouldn't understand or want to dig into it anyhow.
I personally don't like any of it on either side and unfortunately feel like I'm sitting in the bleachers watching a shit show between folks I really don't get on every side of this. North, south, east and west, top and bottom of the barrel.
I get it. The process is completely insane as well.
I get it that most folks don't appreciate the rioting. I certainly don't approve by any stretch of the imagination.
75 years is insane for this. They broke some windows. If the internet wasn't around, they would have used a phone. Conspiracy for some windows breakers? That's ridiculous. Make them fix a few windows and pay a fine. Keep their phones.
You're reading my mind. its not like the industrial revolution, and in so many ways. Humans have two very basic skills that everything is built on. Brawn and brains. Industrial revolution on the simplest scale automated hard labor and brawn. AI Revolution is now chipping away at the brains. Sure, there will be specialists forever, but those #'s will be very minimal compared to today. Just like we don't have horse drawn buggies, we won't have very many backup doctors to read MRI's once the computers take over.
All of this may take 100 years, but those of us that can play this out can see that the social structures we live by today are going to need to really change. 100 years isn't long. Humans aren't good with any change. We can already see today the massive change in society in 10 years of screen phones.
Its a wild time we live in.
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"War is always inevitable given time"
Nod. So right.
Would surely be nice if there was a mechanism that actually worked to keep this stuff off the internet. Seems the "free market" isn't doing the job. I assume that these companies will have free reign to do this until the vast majority of people say something.
GPS - not allowed as fortune tellers will tell you your way. No more airlines will be allowed to use auto-pilot - Pilots are to "point and shoot from now on" ATM's are out as they are going back to bank tellers. Oh the humanity (we'll save)....
I can't talk about it.
Now you're talking about efficiency? What happened to "I like to sit in my car in traffic?"
Sounds like your local government tried to scam the federal government, and in the process irked you local folks. This doesn't make the federal program bad. This makes your local government look terrible, and they should be the ones you are complaining to.
Are you also saying that your community is riding motobikes on the bicycle lanes? Sounds like you and your community need some serious education and rethinking on bicycles and bicycle lanes.
If you aren't a bicycle rider, you wouldn't understand for one moment the realities of riding a bicycle in traffic or around a city. One with little or no experience wouldn't have any idea on what "correct" bicycle riding should look like. Looking out your car window and claiming everyone is an idiot and not following directions is a rite or driving, but has little practical use. I'm much more worried about the distracted driver not knowing what an acceleration lane is, what merging is, what a turn signal is, or why there is a white line at a stop sign or a stoplight, who is driving a 2,000lb vehicle than a 200lb person riding a 20lb bicycle.
Life is taxing it seems.
I pay taxes on every gallon of gasoline I buy, which pay for roads bicyclists ride on without contributing a penny to their cost.
Every bicyclist riding on the shoulder is one less car on the road. This should make you happy.
There is a very small # of bicyclists on the road, that do not have a car, nor pay gas taxes. Most jurisdictions cover road costs through other taxes anyhow. This is so insignificant that its in the category of nitpicking.
We see in others what we see in ourselves. And everywhere you look, you see parasites leaching off of those who work for a living.
Your man bun could use a good shampoo. It'll smell better.
You sound angry, yet you don't really seem to know what you're angry about.
If you live a very simple life, maybe that is true. Being conservative about ones socialist views isn't a terrible thing. Being a conservative or a socialist asshole is a problem at any given time.
It is also trivially easy to create a fake myspace account (or really any account) with someone else's credentials.
Quick! Pull money out of Ethereum and put it into NVIDIA stock!
I was mugged once at rusty knife point. The rusty, dull knife was more scary than giving the guy the cash I had. They got $60. I didn't get stabbed. Figured that was my one mugging of life for the average person... if you believe the stats. I carry cash, CC, Phone, Keys on me. Typically cash for things, but if I get robbed, that's first to go. If they wanted to kill me, I figure they'd do it regardless of what I had on me. I don't want to live my life afraid of worst case scenarios. While I understand the risks, I don't worry about it. I consider it highly unlikely, true or not. I don't substitute cash for CC's. If anything I end up with more than I need in terms of spending power in both forms, as some places I go (in the US) don't take anything but cash as they are very small (legal) businesses. -Arzaboa
AI is the sum of the failures of the "coding" parents? I'm going to look at this completely differently from now on!
Some species will take advantage of this new world, some won't. Opportunistic species will take over, whether it be slime in the ocean, or mosquitoes on land. Viruses are primed to hit hard with all of the meat on the planet. We are just in a period of massive flux. What shakes out may very well be less people, with a lot of technology.
US Government does this. China does this. Others do. I'm only surprised they didn't start sooner.
Smart-Phones have/do change us. I'm not sure its even worth talking about good or bad as this is progress. Without an EMP from the sun and a plague afterwords, we would rebuild to this moment, and "move forward". Reality is that we, as a species, are becoming very intertwined with these devices. It seems to me its inevitable. Bringing awareness to everyone's phone use is important. Self-Awareness campaign should be first. Clearly this is something that has touched a nerve, clearly people are seeing fallout, wondering and somewhat nervous as we don't know the answers. Law's I'm not excited about, but the awareness this father has brought, which no other outlet seems to have rung the bell as loudly, is great. Let's get all of this on the table and take control of the smart-phones. Apple and the rest have basically hacked our minds through neurosciences. Its time to check and balance that. They've had 10 years using us as guinea pigs. We see there is good and bad, at what point do we bark back and say... "THIS is enough". So while my kid very well may get a phone with some access at some age, that should be up to my bad parenting to decide. My parents screwed me up, its my turn to have fun, and I don't want someone else's rules. I do understand the sentiment that if my kid has a phone and his doesn't that he could feel bad for his kids, but that's life and that is where verbal communication and talking come in... "hey johnny, when you all plan that on snapchat, can you text me the time/place, 'cuz my dad won't let me have snapchat." We don't need a study to tell us its affecting us all differently, with general overlapping unions of generally "bad behaviour" we've all exhibited at times. What we do need is some introspection as to where this is taking us, cuz the ride is far from over and there is no getting off this train.