Using data from the Federal Election Commission, this chart shows all donations that corporate members of the US Business Coalition for TPP made to US Senate campaigns between January and March 2015, when fast-tracking the TPP was being debated in the Senate:
- Out of the total $1,148,971 given, an average of $17,676.48 was donated to each of the 65 "yea" votes. - The average Republican member received $19,673.28 from corporate TPP supporters. - The average Democrat received $9,689.23 from those same donors.
The amounts given rise dramatically when looking at how much each senator running for re-election received.
Under the agreement, consumers must opt in to allow their information to be shared outside Verizon Wireless, and have the right to "opt out" of sharing information with Verizon.
This is about their overarching strategy of trying to play the vendor lock-in game like Apple and Google have on phones/tablets/chromebooks/etc, only leveraging their already existent still overwhelming desktop install base instead of trying to create an entirely new platform.
It's about Ads It's about Tracking It's about the death of the consumer being the real customer.
I respect Apple's stance although I have no love for their business practices.
To me this just says that they have crunched numbers and found this to be the fiscally sound stance to take. They are the richest company - I hope there is a reason beyond faux status symbols and "ooooh shiny".
All of those companies will lobby whatever they think is best for their bottom line even if they're in opposition to everything else - even themselves.
I'm sure Cisco would love to sell you network encryption options while also selling the equipment to allow mass collection of that encrypted data for attempted cracking. Why sell weapons to only one side?
not give a fuck after you only get 9% of your income I have a hard fucking time feeling sorry for you or your tax rate. Even billionaires like Warren Buffett see the intrinsic unfairness of rich fucks getting taxed at half or less of their secretaries (the unspoken part being that perpetuates a system where said secretary gets shit on for life while billionaires try to find something interesting to do with their money/time).
I'm sure it's that and not the ability to monitor everything going over their links for "telemetry" which is their money faucet vs a large up front capital investment and some maintenance.
There's some motivation for cheating right there. I don't play because CS:GO is fucking terrible compared to the original CS (1.3 was the best version, then they removed jumping but even 1.6 is better than GO) so I'm not sure how that translates but if it were just passively having the client running like TF2 you'd still have cheaters because dying means sitting in the time-out chair.
You're right but since YouTube aka Google can do whatever the fuck they want their site and it's the biggest one on the internet that effectively means stomping on a bunch of people's freedom.
As long as they're serving these bullshit automated DCMA takedowns and providing basically 0 recourse for those effected they're not much better than any other despotism.
in the snow, last year, and sat there all day until we came home from work and found it. It has a shitty generic plastic case, granted, but it's still going over a year later and works for what she needs.
I just replaced the battery in my S4 yesterday for ~$7 from ebay. I don't see a compelling reason to upgrade anything that's working and that I don't feel some limitation that irritates me enough to pay the exorbitant amounts they want for a decent phone. Both of ours were Verizon that have been paid for and are off contract now (still Verizon month to month, more than I'd like to pay but few options where I live that are good) but I don't even think they do pay-the-phone-off-over-time shit anymore and I'm not spending $600+ to get a new one.
Internally the phones look like cheap shitty netbooks I'm frankly shocked they've lasted as long as they have (~2.5+ years).
Witcher 3 is the best game I've played in recent memory and probably the best RPG I've *ever* played (as a gamer of 30+ years) and it's not on the support list;/ Waiting for Blood and Wine with my season pass.
I'll stay on Windows 7 as long as I can as a gamer but I will under no circumstances "upgrade" to 10 and I actively steer people away from it. The sad thing is there are really no commercial alternatives that they can just go buy something. No one wants to learn how to install Linux - even something "easy".
Apple is just as bad or worse than Microsoft, Google is the lesser of the major evils but getting progressively worse as time goes by. I think there are probably some family members I could put on Mint or something but the second they try to go like install a little kids game for Windows and it doesn't work they'll raise hell and doing free support sucks, while they periodically fuck up their Windows machines they at least have some (very) modest ability to use it.
I can't say "just get an X that runs Y" because for my g/f's parents or whoever it doesn't exist that supports their existing program and no one likes changes - especially "senior citizens".
27% of my games (117/432) will run under Linux and almost none of them are the big AAA titles. GabeN is on the right track but they need to move faster.
later, whom I'm willing to bet almost no one has heard of, imagine what's in store for Edward Snowden should he come back home voluntarily (or be extradited).
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"recover". Interesting phrasing. Unless you're trading it, it's a resource most of us would like to stay reasonably priced.
- From a state investigated multiple times for the highest national gas prices for no reason; especially on 9/11.
You'll see a lot of familiar names.
Here is how much each senator was paid by each backer for fast tracking.
Here's a Hillary specific one about donations to her campaign, since it came up early in the search.
The first 2 charts I found linked in this excellent Guardian story.
Some key excerpts:
How is this even remotely legal?
This is:
No. https://www.apple.com/business...
This is about their overarching strategy of trying to play the vendor lock-in game like Apple and Google have on phones/tablets/chromebooks/etc, only leveraging their already existent still overwhelming desktop install base instead of trying to create an entirely new platform.
It's about Ads
It's about Tracking
It's about the death of the consumer being the real customer.
Already getting down voted by shills ;)
If so, will it be renamed Microsoft Ouroboros?
source: Wife. I've read the pamphlets.
I would vote for the American version of Silvio Berlusconi over Hillary - at least he's overt with this bullshit.
they don't owe anything - that's a different insurance...
They also do this to VPN services.
I respect Apple's stance although I have no love for their business practices.
To me this just says that they have crunched numbers and found this to be the fiscally sound stance to take. They are the richest company - I hope there is a reason beyond faux status symbols and "ooooh shiny".
All of those companies will lobby whatever they think is best for their bottom line even if they're in opposition to everything else - even themselves.
I'm sure Cisco would love to sell you network encryption options while also selling the equipment to allow mass collection of that encrypted data for attempted cracking. Why sell weapons to only one side?
I'm a big advocate for TOR and what they try to do but there are some big obstacles.
* Speed sucks.
* There are no good search engines.
* Exit nodes are widely blocked and/or monitored.
I saw a good BBC documentary that explains TOR in laymen's terms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZhmuGVSdaY if anyone is interested.
not give a fuck after you only get 9% of your income I have a hard fucking time feeling sorry for you or your tax rate. Even billionaires like Warren Buffett see the intrinsic unfairness of rich fucks getting taxed at half or less of their secretaries (the unspoken part being that perpetuates a system where said secretary gets shit on for life while billionaires try to find something interesting to do with their money/time).
"Unnamed". So, Russia most likely, longer shot would be North Korea.
I'm sure it's that and not the ability to monitor everything going over their links for "telemetry" which is their money faucet vs a large up front capital investment and some maintenance.
There's some motivation for cheating right there. I don't play because CS:GO is fucking terrible compared to the original CS (1.3 was the best version, then they removed jumping but even 1.6 is better than GO) so I'm not sure how that translates but if it were just passively having the client running like TF2 you'd still have cheaters because dying means sitting in the time-out chair.
You're right but since YouTube aka Google can do whatever the fuck they want their site and it's the biggest one on the internet that effectively means stomping on a bunch of people's freedom.
As long as they're serving these bullshit automated DCMA takedowns and providing basically 0 recourse for those effected they're not much better than any other despotism.
in the snow, last year, and sat there all day until we came home from work and found it. It has a shitty generic plastic case, granted, but it's still going over a year later and works for what she needs.
I just replaced the battery in my S4 yesterday for ~$7 from ebay. I don't see a compelling reason to upgrade anything that's working and that I don't feel some limitation that irritates me enough to pay the exorbitant amounts they want for a decent phone. Both of ours were Verizon that have been paid for and are off contract now (still Verizon month to month, more than I'd like to pay but few options where I live that are good) but I don't even think they do pay-the-phone-off-over-time shit anymore and I'm not spending $600+ to get a new one.
Internally the phones look like cheap shitty netbooks I'm frankly shocked they've lasted as long as they have (~2.5+ years).
Witcher 3 is the best game I've played in recent memory and probably the best RPG I've *ever* played (as a gamer of 30+ years) and it's not on the support list ;/ Waiting for Blood and Wine with my season pass.
I'll stay on Windows 7 as long as I can as a gamer but I will under no circumstances "upgrade" to 10 and I actively steer people away from it. The sad thing is there are really no commercial alternatives that they can just go buy something. No one wants to learn how to install Linux - even something "easy".
Apple is just as bad or worse than Microsoft, Google is the lesser of the major evils but getting progressively worse as time goes by. I think there are probably some family members I could put on Mint or something but the second they try to go like install a little kids game for Windows and it doesn't work they'll raise hell and doing free support sucks, while they periodically fuck up their Windows machines they at least have some (very) modest ability to use it.
I can't say "just get an X that runs Y" because for my g/f's parents or whoever it doesn't exist that supports their existing program and no one likes changes - especially "senior citizens".
The mass of people tend to believe the US government is spying to protect them so they don't care.
The mass of people don't know and many who do also do not care.
However there is also likely a large portion who do know but don't understand.
Just watch the John Oliver segment with Edward Snowden where they explain this with dick pics. Suddenly people on the street give a fuck.
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27% of my games (117/432) will run under Linux and almost none of them are the big AAA titles. GabeN is on the right track but they need to move faster.
later, whom I'm willing to bet almost no one has heard of, imagine what's in store for Edward Snowden should he come back home voluntarily (or be extradited).