Probably because he wants ad revenue from his shitty geocities throwback that obsesses about Donald Trump. If this guy was really as clever as slashdot says, you'd figure he could design a web page better than a 3 year old could.
A guy who doesn't have any idea how to build a proper web page layout, apparently. Seriously, go read TFA, and then be prepared to have flashbacks about geocities.
I agree that you can hear the difference between BlueTooth and wired. I think most people could in a decent listening environment. The thing is that the Venn Diagram has a very tiny intersection point at "People who care", "People who listen to high-quality recordings on their phone", and "People who use their phone to listen to music in conditions approaching anywhere near an ideal".
You don't even need to go that far, to be honest. We live in an age where people think a 70 year old audio format with shitty dynamic range that loses some of its fidelity each time you play it is somehow the best there is. The market for good audio quality therefore isn't a very big one to begin with.
Millennial here...and I hate Perl. Every bit of code I've tried to debug in Perl is a big pile of unreadable horse shit. Sure, maybe to some seasoned programmer (which I'm not) it all makes sense because they recognize the algorithms that the author uses, but I'm not the kind of guy who was trained on every algorithm that you're supposed to know if you got a CS degree (my degree was more focused on the business aspects of IT.)
Python I've been able to pick up (and even contribute to) with no major difficulty.
The human brain has a huge amount of computational power compared with the processors in a car.
No...the car definitely has more computational power; what it lacks is hardware aimed specifically at doing this task, which is what a human brain does have. That can be overcome with recent technology, however.
And typically you're not allowed to drive a car until you're a teenager. So, that brain has 15 or more years of training in identifying all those objects you see while driving. Chances are good that the brain has been sitting in a car many times over those years and gotten good at identifying them at speed.
That is actually a good argument for why Tesla is way ahead of GM here, and way ahead of the market in general, possibly even better than Google. Practically every vehicle they've sold in the last 4 years has been trained by its driver with its multitude of sensors in real-world road conditions; not simulations or fake towns. Combine all of the time that all of them have been on the road, and you're way way WAY ahead of 15 years of experience.
OK, hand over your details here and now if that's how you feel.
It doesn't work if you give them out to somebody willingly, as that is effectively authorizing them to use your card, which you are liable for.
Personally I think this is a good idea, but I think it needs to be improved. GGP mentions using ShopSafe, which uses virtual credit card numbers, but it's ultimately not going to stop fraud:
A good system, IMO, would be one where you authorize only a single transaction to a single merchant using modern cryptography. I.e. a message holding your account number + date + time + payee account number + amount + nonce; message is hashed with sha512, bcrypt, or scrypt, then hash is encrypted with your private EdDSA key. Merchant then passes the message to your bank, who validates with your public key that they have on file, then your bank pays the merchant's account. Even if this message were to be transmitted in plaintext, the account numbers are useless.
This way it could be made easy (for the end user) by using a pin+NFC system, with your credit card just acting as a fob. Modern smartphones would immediately be compatible with it, and some kind of USB NFC reader (emulated as a serial connection) could make any PC compatible as well.
No need to store it on browsers or phones, unless the user simply wanted to; at their own risk of course.
In some industries if you a perceived as having the wrong political viewpoints or agendas, you can lose your livelihood.
That is a major problem, but I don't think corporations themselves are necessarily to blame, even though they ultimately do the firing. This has more to do with social media bringing back mass public shaming as a form of punishment (something that the US justice system used to practice until it was deemed inhumane.) The Google Memo wouldn't have gotten anybody fired if some shamer didn't leak it to social media. Nobody in donglegate would have been fired if there was no social media. The fact is, if you employ somebody who is controversial at all, your PR is going to get shit on real hard, which is very bad for business, so it's going to pressure you to let them go in order for you to continue to make a living.
Some industries though, it's not a corporate thing at all, because the ones who give jobs are rather small-time. I know that for entertainment careers in the LA area, you'd better damn sure you're so far left that you're within a micrometer of insanity, or else you'll never get work from the filmmakers and show-runners who themselves make basically nothing at all, and furthermore, there's an expectation that you unfriend anybody on facebook who is even remotely conservative. No joke. Really shitty thing to pursue anyways, as it's extremely rare for anybody out there to actually make a survivable living without some parents or some such funneling tons of cash to them. I've met a few people who were chewed up and spit out, and then returned worse than bankrupt, claiming that they're "established now" and it was a good career move even though it did them no favors at all.
I have never understood why they don't just bring the whole NoScript functionality into Firefox as built-in functionality.
Because NoScript is retarded. I personally prefer YesScript, Privacy Badger, Adblock Plus, and Self-Destructing Cookies combination, because I don't want to have to fiddle with every god damn website I visit for the first time...it just got so old after a while.
Besides, NoScript is being ported to Firefox 57. FireFox's version of web extensions isn't quite as kneecapped as Chrome's is. I currently run Chrome because FireFox got too slow over time, but after trying a 57 nightly, I already have plans to switch back. Servo also seems quite promising, so I'd expect FireFox to only get way better performance over time.
No need. The Phoenix area natives are fine with that temperature, the ones who have problems with it are the wildlings. Admittedly, we've been so overrun with wildlings over the last 20 years that natives are now somewhat rare here. I'm a native and I keep my apartment at 82 degrees during the day to stay comfortable, and I start to get cold at or below 78 degrees. The wildlings, however, get hot at 77 degrees, so every fucking office around here is put at 72 degrees to accomodate the wildlings. Wikipedia says that the only room temperature range suitable for human occupancy is between 59F and 77F, which just goes to show that wikipedia is biased in favor of wildlings.
If you doubt what I'm saying, go to any of the i10 on/off-ramps during July; you'll find plenty of people with expensive shoes holding up cardboard signs that say "I need money" under direct sunlight. Wildlings won't do that in a place like this.
Besides, GP is wrong. The Phoenix metro area started out as many separate towns that were very far separated from one another for almost a century; just over 30 years ago there was wide open desert between each city...and then the wildlings came and drove up the housing costs. Just for comparison, the Phoenix metro area is roughly twice the landmass as the Los Angeles metro area, and has under a quarter of the population. That, combined with the fact that mas transit is impractical here (everywhere you try to bore a tunnel here is going to be either underground lake or bedrock) means that everybody here owns a car, even if its a total piece of shit.
Likewise, we have some of the best designed roads anywhere in the US.
Except we don't have a democracy in the US. We have a corporate state similar to fascism. Corporations have captured the government and run it for their benefit. Actual voters are irrelevant.
No, fascism isn't at all similar. In fact, quite the opposite, fascism requires that businesses can only operate in a way that works towards "the greater good", with that greater good being defined by the government. In the case of Germany, that meant things like no pornography, no alcohol, etc. Fascism is also highly collectivist, whereas what we have today is highly individualist.
And contrary to popular belief, the founding fathers were all themselves a bunch of aristocrats, and the most powerful corporations of their time were far more powerful than they are today (for example, they had their own private navies/armies, they had the power to declare wars, they could jail and execute people who didn't pay their debts.) The Dutch East India Company, who in 1623 was the first company to ever go public, and was worth $7.4 trillion dollars in today's money at its peak. It also had the largest monopoly the world has ever seen.
Anybody who thinks corporations are becoming ever more powerful and taking over the world doesn't know shit about history. In fact, over time the checks and balances have only improved. Alas, socialists always have rose tinted glasses about the "good ol' days" where governments in practice own and control everything, including your personal property.
I doubt it. Remember that Google Chrome literately stole Safari and rebranded it Chrome
Were you born retarded, or were you just kicked in the head by a horse later in life?
The only thing Chrome shares in common with Safari is that older versions of Chrome used the same rendering engine as Safari called Webkit. Webkit itself was a fork of KHTML (of the Konquerer web browser,) which was written by KDE. Google, at one time, made the majority of the contributions to Webkit to support a lot more HTML5/CSS features. Google then forked only the WebCore component of Webkit because they wanted to support sandboxing, deprecate vendor tags, and use a multi-process model. This fork became the Blink rendering engine that other browsers besides Chrome use, such as Opera and Vivaldi.
Ever since Google stopped contributing to Webkit, Apple has been developing it at a snail's pace, just like IE6 back in the day, making Safari the lowest common denominator, which is pissing off a lot of developers. Perhaps because Apple wants users on their app store (read: $$$) rather than on the web? Pretty much the same motivation Microsoft had (Microsoft literally circulated an internal memo describing the web as a threat to its cash cow, Windows.)
Threadripper looks nice, but I don't see the need for raid in consumer desktop (especially gaming) systems in the age of the Samsung 960 pro. There won't be any benefit in load times for any consumer applications I can think of anyways; video game load times became GPU bottlenecked long ago.
My next phone will be a Pixel XL 128GB that Google has shipped me as a replacement for a two-year-old defective Nexus 6P 64GB that was way out of warranty. FedEx says it gets here tomorrow, and it didn't cost me a dime.
Entirely likely that the money I spent on the 6p ($580 after taxes) will effectively last me 4+ years:) I was originally planning on moving away from Google branded Androids since the price went way up, but if they continue to replace their phones in the case of obvious manufacturer defect, I think I'll stick with them, even if they are expensive.
At the very least, that's way better than what the $1,000 iPhone will promise:
I kind of doubt it, because users on all carriers would be doing the same thing. Anyways, I tend to think the third party crowdsourced data is probably more likely to reflect real world usage than Verizon's source, rootmetrics. Third party crowdsourced data looks at where the users are (i.e. in their houses, in their offices, or otherwise on private property, in addition to public property) while rootmetrics just measures places only accessible to the public.
MAC randomization works for all newer version of IOS and Android. The search for mobile networks is performed using a RANDOM mac address which makes you untrackable from WiFI.
Some OEMs (especially Samsuck) deliberately disable wifi randomization because their proprietary chipsets (i.e. Exynos) don't support it. Samsuck in particular disables it even on compatible chipsets, to keep things more consistent across devices.
It might be more practical to require all vehicles to be plug-in hybrids, that way more parking lots can build up more charging stations, while gas stations can be gradually phased out.
I'm not entirely sure I like the verbiage though...ALL internal combustion engines? Including hydrogen, whose only emission is water?...Unless they're being cognizant of the fact that water is a MUCH stronger greenhouse gas than CO2? Still doesn't make any sense. And what about large vehicles that rely on CNG, which has less carbon than any other fossil fuel?
The RWB list has a few problems in that it isn't about speech or free press as much as it is about how what RWB thinks about the country overall.
A few examples:
- They give negative marks to the US because the military bombed a building that had some journalists in it. Two died, but the rest survived, and the military gave them medical aid once they realized what had happened. If this was a free speech issue, they probably would have made sure to kill all of them. - The current year makes statements about Trump (none of those statements I agree with, BTW) about how he hates the press. Unless Trump is himself censoring the press, this is not even relevant. - The current year also makes statements about Trump denying media coverage of certain whitehouse events. While I would say yes, this is bad, the RWB doesn't seem to care at all about how other countries impose similar restrictions on not only their governments, but legal procedures as well.
Furthermore, the RWB list only speaks about press issues. It does not at all take into account how Australia and Germany, which both scored higher than the US, censor the fuck out of video games. Germany also can and does censor websites, including one time when they censored Wikipedia, not to mention the EU as a whole likes to censor Google. Australia straight up bans some websites outright, and is currently implementing an illegal site blacklist and a pornography blacklist, the former of which can't be bypassed.
The RWB press freedom index is thus meaningless if you're talking about free speech, and is probably not very meaningful when talking about press freedom.
I don't see any compelling evidence that the C64 was initially going to be marketed as a gaming system. If I see it, I'll believe it though, but it's just not here. I think what happened is Commodore realized just how much market potential there was for games, so they shifted heavily in that direction by the time to C64 came out, but it was built as a computer, not a console.
But, no matter the case, Commodore was only one player in the market, and PCs as we know them today do not have their roots in Commodore. Besides, any console, no matter which one, begins its development life as a computer, not the other way around.
- people going to jail for revealing Obama-ordered atrocities (Manning, Assange, Snowden)
The US has nothing to do with Assange. His line about avoiding extradition to Sweden is a load of crap. Even if he were to fly to the US right now and turn himself in to the FBI, they couldn't legally do anything to him, because he hasn't committed any crimes against the US. Manning put many servicepeople's lives at risk, and by far crossed the line of treason by ANY standard, and he was properly held to account. I am personally satisfied that justice was served there, though the military prison did cross the line a few times during his first few months, and they should be held to account, but this has nothing to do with speech. Manning and Assange are thus irrelevant to free speech.
Snowden is an interesting case. Believe it or not, I was all in on Snowden until I saw the movie "Snowden", and it reeked of so much BS that I started doing my own research into the other side of the debate on him, and now my opinions are mixed. I do believe that the US congress probably isn't being honest about him, namely they stated that he was discharged from the Army for shin splints...I was in the Army around the same time as Snowden, and NOBODY got discharged for shin splints, so I tend to distrust congressional comments about him. But what did catch my attention was a guy named William Binney, who if you don't recall, originally created a surveillance program that respected privacy, and resigned from the NSA when they abused it to completely disregard privacy. Binney, who himself is being constantly harassed by the federal government, made a statement that I agree with, which is that Snowden has crossed the line in a few ways, even though he did a few things that were good.
Also not mentioned in the article, was that Snowden was a run of the mill sysadmin who happened to work for an NSA contracting company, (far from the godlike figure painted in the Snowden movie) and he intended on leaking information (as stated by many witnesses) before he even got the job and was at all aware of what was happening. In that sense, I agree with Binney that Snowden should face trial, but at the same time, I agree with Snowden that he should be granted a public trial.
So if Snowden went to jail, it wouldn't necessarily be a free speech issue, it just depends on what he goes to jail for. And I agree about the mark against Obama who very publicly said that you can't have both privacy and security. However, you would have made a much better point if you mentioned William Binney instead, as the US government shouldn't be harassing him just for speaking about it, and he hasn't done anything wrong. But, at the same time, the government hasn't crossed that threshold you can call censorship, though it is a very thin line here, so it is questionable.
- Journalists getting fired for asking non-scripted questions (Dr. Drew, HuffPo's Seaman, latest is Jedediah Bila off the View)
I agree in the sense that these are bad things...but at the same time, no free speech rights have been violated. These media organizations are private entities, and they can fire people for things that they say; and believe it or not, it would be a violation of the free speech rights of the media organizations if they couldn't fire them.
- people losing jobs for questioning the liberal doctrine (James Damore of Google, anyone?)
I agree that this is wrong, but for the same reason as above, this isn't censorship.
- people persecuted and hounded for expressing anti neo-liberal views (Ward Churchill after 9/11, Milo Yiannopoulos for being a pro-Trump gay Jew).
Being persecuted by other members of the public is not censorship, no matter how much we disagree with it. However it does cross the line of censors
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Probably because he wants ad revenue from his shitty geocities throwback that obsesses about Donald Trump. If this guy was really as clever as slashdot says, you'd figure he could design a web page better than a 3 year old could.
A guy who doesn't have any idea how to build a proper web page layout, apparently. Seriously, go read TFA, and then be prepared to have flashbacks about geocities.
I agree that you can hear the difference between BlueTooth and wired. I think most people could in a decent listening environment. The thing is that the Venn Diagram has a very tiny intersection point at "People who care", "People who listen to high-quality recordings on their phone", and "People who use their phone to listen to music in conditions approaching anywhere near an ideal".
You don't even need to go that far, to be honest. We live in an age where people think a 70 year old audio format with shitty dynamic range that loses some of its fidelity each time you play it is somehow the best there is. The market for good audio quality therefore isn't a very big one to begin with.
Millennial here...and I hate Perl. Every bit of code I've tried to debug in Perl is a big pile of unreadable horse shit. Sure, maybe to some seasoned programmer (which I'm not) it all makes sense because they recognize the algorithms that the author uses, but I'm not the kind of guy who was trained on every algorithm that you're supposed to know if you got a CS degree (my degree was more focused on the business aspects of IT.)
Python I've been able to pick up (and even contribute to) with no major difficulty.
The human brain has a huge amount of computational power compared with the processors in a car.
No...the car definitely has more computational power; what it lacks is hardware aimed specifically at doing this task, which is what a human brain does have. That can be overcome with recent technology, however.
And typically you're not allowed to drive a car until you're a teenager. So, that brain has 15 or more years of training in identifying all those objects you see while driving. Chances are good that the brain has been sitting in a car many times over those years and gotten good at identifying them at speed.
That is actually a good argument for why Tesla is way ahead of GM here, and way ahead of the market in general, possibly even better than Google. Practically every vehicle they've sold in the last 4 years has been trained by its driver with its multitude of sensors in real-world road conditions; not simulations or fake towns. Combine all of the time that all of them have been on the road, and you're way way WAY ahead of 15 years of experience.
OK, hand over your details here and now if that's how you feel.
It doesn't work if you give them out to somebody willingly, as that is effectively authorizing them to use your card, which you are liable for.
Personally I think this is a good idea, but I think it needs to be improved. GGP mentions using ShopSafe, which uses virtual credit card numbers, but it's ultimately not going to stop fraud:
http://creditcardforum.com/blo...
A good system, IMO, would be one where you authorize only a single transaction to a single merchant using modern cryptography. I.e. a message holding your account number + date + time + payee account number + amount + nonce; message is hashed with sha512, bcrypt, or scrypt, then hash is encrypted with your private EdDSA key. Merchant then passes the message to your bank, who validates with your public key that they have on file, then your bank pays the merchant's account. Even if this message were to be transmitted in plaintext, the account numbers are useless.
This way it could be made easy (for the end user) by using a pin+NFC system, with your credit card just acting as a fob. Modern smartphones would immediately be compatible with it, and some kind of USB NFC reader (emulated as a serial connection) could make any PC compatible as well.
No need to store it on browsers or phones, unless the user simply wanted to; at their own risk of course.
In some industries if you a perceived as having the wrong political viewpoints or agendas, you can lose your livelihood.
That is a major problem, but I don't think corporations themselves are necessarily to blame, even though they ultimately do the firing. This has more to do with social media bringing back mass public shaming as a form of punishment (something that the US justice system used to practice until it was deemed inhumane.) The Google Memo wouldn't have gotten anybody fired if some shamer didn't leak it to social media. Nobody in donglegate would have been fired if there was no social media. The fact is, if you employ somebody who is controversial at all, your PR is going to get shit on real hard, which is very bad for business, so it's going to pressure you to let them go in order for you to continue to make a living.
Some industries though, it's not a corporate thing at all, because the ones who give jobs are rather small-time. I know that for entertainment careers in the LA area, you'd better damn sure you're so far left that you're within a micrometer of insanity, or else you'll never get work from the filmmakers and show-runners who themselves make basically nothing at all, and furthermore, there's an expectation that you unfriend anybody on facebook who is even remotely conservative. No joke. Really shitty thing to pursue anyways, as it's extremely rare for anybody out there to actually make a survivable living without some parents or some such funneling tons of cash to them. I've met a few people who were chewed up and spit out, and then returned worse than bankrupt, claiming that they're "established now" and it was a good career move even though it did them no favors at all.
I have never understood why they don't just bring the whole NoScript functionality into Firefox as built-in functionality.
Because NoScript is retarded. I personally prefer YesScript, Privacy Badger, Adblock Plus, and Self-Destructing Cookies combination, because I don't want to have to fiddle with every god damn website I visit for the first time...it just got so old after a while.
Besides, NoScript is being ported to Firefox 57. FireFox's version of web extensions isn't quite as kneecapped as Chrome's is. I currently run Chrome because FireFox got too slow over time, but after trying a 57 nightly, I already have plans to switch back. Servo also seems quite promising, so I'd expect FireFox to only get way better performance over time.
I've always understood that 616 refers to Nero Caesar when writing his name in Hebrew numerals, but 666 refers to the Greek spelling: Neron Caesar.
No need. The Phoenix area natives are fine with that temperature, the ones who have problems with it are the wildlings. Admittedly, we've been so overrun with wildlings over the last 20 years that natives are now somewhat rare here. I'm a native and I keep my apartment at 82 degrees during the day to stay comfortable, and I start to get cold at or below 78 degrees. The wildlings, however, get hot at 77 degrees, so every fucking office around here is put at 72 degrees to accomodate the wildlings. Wikipedia says that the only room temperature range suitable for human occupancy is between 59F and 77F, which just goes to show that wikipedia is biased in favor of wildlings.
If you doubt what I'm saying, go to any of the i10 on/off-ramps during July; you'll find plenty of people with expensive shoes holding up cardboard signs that say "I need money" under direct sunlight. Wildlings won't do that in a place like this.
Besides, GP is wrong. The Phoenix metro area started out as many separate towns that were very far separated from one another for almost a century; just over 30 years ago there was wide open desert between each city...and then the wildlings came and drove up the housing costs. Just for comparison, the Phoenix metro area is roughly twice the landmass as the Los Angeles metro area, and has under a quarter of the population. That, combined with the fact that mas transit is impractical here (everywhere you try to bore a tunnel here is going to be either underground lake or bedrock) means that everybody here owns a car, even if its a total piece of shit.
Likewise, we have some of the best designed roads anywhere in the US.
Except we don't have a democracy in the US. We have a corporate state similar to fascism. Corporations have captured the government and run it for their benefit. Actual voters are irrelevant.
No, fascism isn't at all similar. In fact, quite the opposite, fascism requires that businesses can only operate in a way that works towards "the greater good", with that greater good being defined by the government. In the case of Germany, that meant things like no pornography, no alcohol, etc. Fascism is also highly collectivist, whereas what we have today is highly individualist.
And contrary to popular belief, the founding fathers were all themselves a bunch of aristocrats, and the most powerful corporations of their time were far more powerful than they are today (for example, they had their own private navies/armies, they had the power to declare wars, they could jail and execute people who didn't pay their debts.) The Dutch East India Company, who in 1623 was the first company to ever go public, and was worth $7.4 trillion dollars in today's money at its peak. It also had the largest monopoly the world has ever seen.
Anybody who thinks corporations are becoming ever more powerful and taking over the world doesn't know shit about history. In fact, over time the checks and balances have only improved. Alas, socialists always have rose tinted glasses about the "good ol' days" where governments in practice own and control everything, including your personal property.
Only the updates made it run slow as fuck two years ago. At least, that's the way my work iphone is.
I doubt it. Remember that Google Chrome literately stole Safari and rebranded it Chrome
Were you born retarded, or were you just kicked in the head by a horse later in life?
The only thing Chrome shares in common with Safari is that older versions of Chrome used the same rendering engine as Safari called Webkit. Webkit itself was a fork of KHTML (of the Konquerer web browser,) which was written by KDE. Google, at one time, made the majority of the contributions to Webkit to support a lot more HTML5/CSS features. Google then forked only the WebCore component of Webkit because they wanted to support sandboxing, deprecate vendor tags, and use a multi-process model. This fork became the Blink rendering engine that other browsers besides Chrome use, such as Opera and Vivaldi.
Ever since Google stopped contributing to Webkit, Apple has been developing it at a snail's pace, just like IE6 back in the day, making Safari the lowest common denominator, which is pissing off a lot of developers. Perhaps because Apple wants users on their app store (read: $$$) rather than on the web? Pretty much the same motivation Microsoft had (Microsoft literally circulated an internal memo describing the web as a threat to its cash cow, Windows.)
Threadripper looks nice, but I don't see the need for raid in consumer desktop (especially gaming) systems in the age of the Samsung 960 pro. There won't be any benefit in load times for any consumer applications I can think of anyways; video game load times became GPU bottlenecked long ago.
My next phone will be a Pixel XL 128GB that Google has shipped me as a replacement for a two-year-old defective Nexus 6P 64GB that was way out of warranty. FedEx says it gets here tomorrow, and it didn't cost me a dime.
https://forum.xda-developers.c...
Entirely likely that the money I spent on the 6p ($580 after taxes) will effectively last me 4+ years :) I was originally planning on moving away from Google branded Androids since the price went way up, but if they continue to replace their phones in the case of obvious manufacturer defect, I think I'll stick with them, even if they are expensive.
At the very least, that's way better than what the $1,000 iPhone will promise:
https://apple.slashdot.org/sto...
I kind of doubt it, because users on all carriers would be doing the same thing. Anyways, I tend to think the third party crowdsourced data is probably more likely to reflect real world usage than Verizon's source, rootmetrics. Third party crowdsourced data looks at where the users are (i.e. in their houses, in their offices, or otherwise on private property, in addition to public property) while rootmetrics just measures places only accessible to the public.
MAC randomization works for all newer version of IOS and Android. The search for mobile networks is performed using a RANDOM mac address which makes you untrackable from WiFI.
Some OEMs (especially Samsuck) deliberately disable wifi randomization because their proprietary chipsets (i.e. Exynos) don't support it. Samsuck in particular disables it even on compatible chipsets, to keep things more consistent across devices.
NATO grants itself that right.
In other words, they're forced into an echo chamber.
That may be by design...either you're alt-left, or you don't join.
It might be more practical to require all vehicles to be plug-in hybrids, that way more parking lots can build up more charging stations, while gas stations can be gradually phased out.
I'm not entirely sure I like the verbiage though...ALL internal combustion engines? Including hydrogen, whose only emission is water?...Unless they're being cognizant of the fact that water is a MUCH stronger greenhouse gas than CO2? Still doesn't make any sense. And what about large vehicles that rely on CNG, which has less carbon than any other fossil fuel?
So far there are approximately 6 people in the world who use Edge.
The RWB list has a few problems in that it isn't about speech or free press as much as it is about how what RWB thinks about the country overall.
A few examples:
- They give negative marks to the US because the military bombed a building that had some journalists in it. Two died, but the rest survived, and the military gave them medical aid once they realized what had happened. If this was a free speech issue, they probably would have made sure to kill all of them.
- The current year makes statements about Trump (none of those statements I agree with, BTW) about how he hates the press. Unless Trump is himself censoring the press, this is not even relevant.
- The current year also makes statements about Trump denying media coverage of certain whitehouse events. While I would say yes, this is bad, the RWB doesn't seem to care at all about how other countries impose similar restrictions on not only their governments, but legal procedures as well.
Furthermore, the RWB list only speaks about press issues. It does not at all take into account how Australia and Germany, which both scored higher than the US, censor the fuck out of video games. Germany also can and does censor websites, including one time when they censored Wikipedia, not to mention the EU as a whole likes to censor Google. Australia straight up bans some websites outright, and is currently implementing an illegal site blacklist and a pornography blacklist, the former of which can't be bypassed.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
The RWB press freedom index is thus meaningless if you're talking about free speech, and is probably not very meaningful when talking about press freedom.
I don't see any compelling evidence that the C64 was initially going to be marketed as a gaming system. If I see it, I'll believe it though, but it's just not here. I think what happened is Commodore realized just how much market potential there was for games, so they shifted heavily in that direction by the time to C64 came out, but it was built as a computer, not a console.
But, no matter the case, Commodore was only one player in the market, and PCs as we know them today do not have their roots in Commodore. Besides, any console, no matter which one, begins its development life as a computer, not the other way around.
- people going to jail for revealing Obama-ordered atrocities (Manning, Assange, Snowden)
The US has nothing to do with Assange. His line about avoiding extradition to Sweden is a load of crap. Even if he were to fly to the US right now and turn himself in to the FBI, they couldn't legally do anything to him, because he hasn't committed any crimes against the US. Manning put many servicepeople's lives at risk, and by far crossed the line of treason by ANY standard, and he was properly held to account. I am personally satisfied that justice was served there, though the military prison did cross the line a few times during his first few months, and they should be held to account, but this has nothing to do with speech. Manning and Assange are thus irrelevant to free speech.
Snowden is an interesting case. Believe it or not, I was all in on Snowden until I saw the movie "Snowden", and it reeked of so much BS that I started doing my own research into the other side of the debate on him, and now my opinions are mixed. I do believe that the US congress probably isn't being honest about him, namely they stated that he was discharged from the Army for shin splints...I was in the Army around the same time as Snowden, and NOBODY got discharged for shin splints, so I tend to distrust congressional comments about him. But what did catch my attention was a guy named William Binney, who if you don't recall, originally created a surveillance program that respected privacy, and resigned from the NSA when they abused it to completely disregard privacy. Binney, who himself is being constantly harassed by the federal government, made a statement that I agree with, which is that Snowden has crossed the line in a few ways, even though he did a few things that were good.
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Also not mentioned in the article, was that Snowden was a run of the mill sysadmin who happened to work for an NSA contracting company, (far from the godlike figure painted in the Snowden movie) and he intended on leaking information (as stated by many witnesses) before he even got the job and was at all aware of what was happening. In that sense, I agree with Binney that Snowden should face trial, but at the same time, I agree with Snowden that he should be granted a public trial.
So if Snowden went to jail, it wouldn't necessarily be a free speech issue, it just depends on what he goes to jail for. And I agree about the mark against Obama who very publicly said that you can't have both privacy and security. However, you would have made a much better point if you mentioned William Binney instead, as the US government shouldn't be harassing him just for speaking about it, and he hasn't done anything wrong. But, at the same time, the government hasn't crossed that threshold you can call censorship, though it is a very thin line here, so it is questionable.
- Journalists getting fired for asking non-scripted questions (Dr. Drew, HuffPo's Seaman, latest is Jedediah Bila off the View)
I agree in the sense that these are bad things...but at the same time, no free speech rights have been violated. These media organizations are private entities, and they can fire people for things that they say; and believe it or not, it would be a violation of the free speech rights of the media organizations if they couldn't fire them.
- people losing jobs for questioning the liberal doctrine (James Damore of Google, anyone?)
I agree that this is wrong, but for the same reason as above, this isn't censorship.
- people persecuted and hounded for expressing anti neo-liberal views (Ward Churchill after 9/11, Milo Yiannopoulos for being a pro-Trump gay Jew).
Being persecuted by other members of the public is not censorship, no matter how much we disagree with it. However it does cross the line of censors