exactly, because market competition 99 times outta 100 increases efficiencies, and all that energy chasing capital, in the end, keeps your monthly bills down.
where are those incentives when government takes over? that a bunch of nameless faceless bureaucrats who have no skin in the game are concerned about costs?
what I was trying to abstract is the instant "rush-to-judgement-and-sentence" mentality that I see creeping into all nooks and crannies of society where people just react to something on a screen in an instant, pass judgement and move on.
in both the ray rice and this case, you have a group or individual in power to affect someone else's life looking at something on a screen, instantly finding it distasteful, and relegating the person to a professional junkyard and a life of struggle without really ANY facts about the situation, the history, etc etc.
there is a very valid reason why jurisprudence does not adopt this model...ill leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out why.
this is really disturbing to me because it reeks of a form of totally societal control that may someday lead to everyone having to be robots in order to *never* do anything that is recorded (which is quickly becoming everything we do) that may offend someone who controls levers of power.
"we will be re-booting the cloud today,,,in order to protect your 3,2 petabytes of data, you should download it to local storage in case of a fail event. thanks for using cloud storage on computing. have a great day."
in this day and age, pretty much anything you do that could potentially show that you are not a good little robot that sits up and says "more, please" when corporations and law enforcement slap you around goes on your record and eliminates you from enjoying that sort of upper middle-class life. how wonderful for the law-n-order types...no so much for independant souls.
it's happening all around us in real time...the Goodell story, Ray Rice...hashtag mobs become judge and jury for a few days and completely destroy lives.
now I get it...in this case it's different but corporate HR departments are just hashtag mobs of 1.
uhhh...hate to say it but almost always employees who are "scared of losing their job" work harder and become, at least short-term measurably more productive.
these type of comments are beginning to mystify me.
used, powerful android phones on swappa.com, ebay, or even you local pawn shop are plentiful.
in fact, i just bought a google nexus (verizon) for $80 at a local pawn shop...the same store was selling a almost new galaxy note 3 for $200...which i plan today to go buy and resell on swappa for a tidy profit.
life is too damn short to fuck around with a worthless handset.
isn't time we just ditch the fiction that privacy as we knew it in the 20th century is gone forever and accept that everything we do and say on any digital medium will be collected?
sheesh...yes I get it already...databases compromised, hacked, sold...NSA spying, collecting...
good lord how many times do we need to be wack-a-moled before we just stop caring?
This might be good for consumers, but recently Time Warner (and Comcast) won awards for consumer hatred."
and thus...the sell-off-slash-rebranding.
that's all this is, of course...when a brand as big as Time-Warner start being reviled by its customers, it's simply "time" to hit the ctrl-alt-delete and reboot things.
The Europeans are playing 'cat and mouse' with a gorilla - a very smart gorilla, I might add. Regulating search engines is the most obvious way to attack this issue at a centralized point, but as you've pointed out the data will still be out there on one or many more other loci; only now it'll take more effort to identify all of the places where that data exists.
you put what i was trying to say in a much more eloquent way than I...bravo...i couldn't agree more.
hate to burst your utopian-bubble, but the last time i checked, in world history Government has caused, roughly, about a bazillion times more pain and sufferings than any corporation could ever even begin to conceive of.
i can't get my head around this "trust the government" meme..."government" is nothing but a group of busybody people (yes the same type of people who work in corporations, and at taco bells, and everywhere else btw) who crave power and use personality and politics, NOT merit or compassion, to secure their base and influence and really care much less about your personal miseries and stresses then the typical corporate executive does.
its bad business to anger and kill your customers, governments rarely care about that sort of stuff, esp. they get in the way of maintaining their power over you and your life.
at least corporations have to compete for your blessings, and can pretty easily be displaced.
as someone who battles on a daily basis with the sins of my past ( nowadays even women i try to date run criminal background checks ), i don't see how this effort is going to really help anyone.the way they think it is.
there are all sorts of FREE sites that dish the public information that these people are trying to block Google from aggregating, and the moment these privacy invaders realize Google no longer is a valid source for getting the info their paranoia craves, they will find another site that does.
you are living under a proverbial pre-interwebz rock if you think this Google opt-out form is going to prevent the people are are interesting in screening and snooping from learning things from your background like felony convictions and such.
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imagine the achievement of suing the Fed in 160 chars.
nothing passes congress today.
you are a tool of the political machine...a "useful idiot" in Marx's terms.
there is no difference between the two parties...our system is a Plutocracy.
the two party system is nothing but a circle jerk keep people distracted from understanding the true nature of it all.
exactly, because market competition 99 times outta 100 increases efficiencies, and all that energy chasing capital, in the end, keeps your monthly bills down.
where are those incentives when government takes over? that a bunch of nameless faceless bureaucrats who have no skin in the game are concerned about costs?
how does that work?
good question.
what I was trying to abstract is the instant "rush-to-judgement-and-sentence" mentality that I see creeping into all nooks and crannies of society where people just react to something on a screen in an instant, pass judgement and move on.
in both the ray rice and this case, you have a group or individual in power to affect someone else's life looking at something on a screen, instantly finding it distasteful, and relegating the person to a professional junkyard and a life of struggle without really ANY facts about the situation, the history, etc etc.
there is a very valid reason why jurisprudence does not adopt this model...ill leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out why.
this is really disturbing to me because it reeks of a form of totally societal control that may someday lead to everyone having to be robots in order to *never* do anything that is recorded (which is quickly becoming everything we do) that may offend someone who controls levers of power.
"we will be re-booting the cloud today,,,in order to protect your 3,2 petabytes of data, you should download it to local storage in case of a fail event. thanks for using cloud storage on computing. have a great day."
its a problem with ANY group or individual that want to decide what's "best for you."
what's best for you never seems to be very good for them.
anonymous tips are almost worthless.
do you have any idea how many of those authorities receive daily?
without someone willing to testify and be "the face" of the situation, prosecutors have no real case.
yeah...i feel for this guy. i can relate.
in this day and age, pretty much anything you do that could potentially show that you are not a good little robot that sits up and says "more, please" when corporations and law enforcement slap you around goes on your record and eliminates you from enjoying that sort of upper middle-class life. how wonderful for the law-n-order types...no so much for independant souls.
it's happening all around us in real time...the Goodell story, Ray Rice...hashtag mobs become judge and jury for a few days and completely destroy lives.
now I get it...in this case it's different but corporate HR departments are just hashtag mobs of 1.
I love the smell of American plutocracy first thing in the morning!
lol...and even the machine is abstracted away with VMs and such.
turtles all the way down.
go out and buy another gig or two of ram for a few bucks.
seriously...its hard enough to find professionals to build software without getting bogged down with mallocs and leaks for god's sake.
when java first hit in the 90's, prettty much the #1 feature was its automated garbage collection...why now are we debating this now?
oh...i know why...its same group of old folks who live in the past and think anything not invented or produced 20 years ago is shit.
For about 80% of the courses, being there physically was worthwhile.
sounds suspiciously like life in general.
"80% of life is just showing up" - woody allen
I hope he doesn't do away with their best product, the Microsoft mouse.
wrong.
microsoft bob...FTFY
uhhh...hate to say it but almost always employees who are "scared of losing their job" work harder and become, at least short-term measurably more productive.
nothing motivates like fear.
these type of comments are beginning to mystify me.
used, powerful android phones on swappa.com, ebay, or even you local pawn shop are plentiful.
in fact, i just bought a google nexus (verizon) for $80 at a local pawn shop...the same store was selling a almost new galaxy note 3 for $200...which i plan today to go buy and resell on swappa for a tidy profit.
life is too damn short to fuck around with a worthless handset.
isn't time we just ditch the fiction that privacy as we knew it in the 20th century is gone forever and accept that everything we do and say on any digital medium will be collected?
sheesh...yes I get it already...databases compromised, hacked, sold...NSA spying, collecting...
good lord how many times do we need to be wack-a-moled before we just stop caring?
the powerful of the world use their confiscated wealth (via taxes) to harness technology to spy on everyone else. really how surprising.
move along, there is nothing to see here...
This might be good for consumers, but recently Time Warner (and Comcast) won awards for consumer hatred."
and thus...the sell-off-slash-rebranding.
that's all this is, of course...when a brand as big as Time-Warner start being reviled by its customers, it's simply "time" to hit the ctrl-alt-delete and reboot things.
The Europeans are playing 'cat and mouse' with a gorilla - a very smart gorilla, I might add. Regulating search engines is the most obvious way to attack this issue at a centralized point, but as you've pointed out the data will still be out there on one or many more other loci; only now it'll take more effort to identify all of the places where that data exists.
you put what i was trying to say in a much more eloquent way than I...bravo...i couldn't agree more.
hate to burst your utopian-bubble, but the last time i checked, in world history Government has caused, roughly, about a bazillion times more pain and sufferings than any corporation could ever even begin to conceive of.
i can't get my head around this "trust the government" meme..."government" is nothing but a group of busybody people (yes the same type of people who work in corporations, and at taco bells, and everywhere else btw) who crave power and use personality and politics, NOT merit or compassion, to secure their base and influence and really care much less about your personal miseries and stresses then the typical corporate executive does.
its bad business to anger and kill your customers, governments rarely care about that sort of stuff, esp. they get in the way of maintaining their power over you and your life.
at least corporations have to compete for your blessings, and can pretty easily be displaced.
hmmm...so why would us Americans have to give to the feds the very number they assigned to us?
sheesh...no wonder the healthcare website cost is at over $1bil and climbing.
i just do not get this.
as someone who battles on a daily basis with the sins of my past ( nowadays even women i try to date run criminal background checks ), i don't see how this effort is going to really help anyone.the way they think it is.
there are all sorts of FREE sites that dish the public information that these people are trying to block Google from aggregating, and the moment these privacy invaders realize Google no longer is a valid source for getting the info their paranoia craves, they will find another site that does.
you are living under a proverbial pre-interwebz rock if you think this Google opt-out form is going to prevent the people are are interesting in screening and snooping from learning things from your background like felony convictions and such.
...every species was an "invasive" species to the established ones in the particular eco-system.
sure..of course eat them...uhh that's how things work on mudball Earth.
i guess meta-filter got....meta-filtered.