"Through the White House National Economic Council, the Trump Administration aims to craft a consumer privacy protection policy that is the appropriate balance between privacy and prosperity," Lindsay Walters, the president's deputy press secretary, said in a statement. "We look forward to working with Congress on a legislative solution consistent with our overarching policy."
translation:
we'll make sure to write the laws so that companies can do whatever they want, because our overarching policy is to make sure that companies can do whatever they want.
but we'll be able to tell you we passed privacy laws, which will look really good, right ?
well SV corps do in fact does have a substantial problem with ethics, but then so do all corporations . it's what's legal that matters, and they've already demonstrated their ability to warp the legal system to benefit themselves. ethics and morality never enter into the equation.
as the late great Hawkings said, the problem is not with this technology but who will be owners of this technology.
It will be unethical, amoral, immortal corporations who's only goal is to violate your privacy and use it to make a buck off of you.
so yeah, I'm worried that Google is developing shit like this. Their PR will work overtime to make it look good, but the end idea of all of this stuff is to throw people out of work and try to ring another nickel out of you by any means possible.
then again, it's a race to the bottom - if not Google then someone else...
the nit-wit at RedHat worried about people being "triggered" by a fucking joke or the quantity of people commenting in here who find the joke offensive.
if you find that joke offensive you need serious recalibration of your sense of humor.
The company said the employees might be conflating rework and remanufacturing. It also said every vehicle is subjected to rigorous quality control involving more than 500 inspections and tests
if you need 500 inspections and tests, you're doing it wrong. My great hope when Toyota got involved was that they'd be able to teach them proper manufacturing technique. I guess they didn't. Maybe they found a culture fucked-up beyond repair and that's why they walked away...
is a benevolent dictatorship. China has effectively the latter
you've got a pretty screwed up definition of benevolent.
why don't you move to China, criticize the government openly and see how that works out for you.
yeah- but they are specifically letting go meteorologists. are all 5000 people directly involved in weather forecasting ? 248 jobs could definitely have a significant impact on the work they are doing, and need to be doing.
When most of the work in forecasting is increasingly automated and computerized, it makes sense to trim the fat.
which work exactly ? maybe the work those particular employees are doing can't be automated.
But of course the labor union is going to get upset. That's what labor unions do when told the truth.
and, not suprisingly, your true colors revealed.
you know who's job is getting automated ? right wing hacks who find blanket, misleading justifications for everything this shit president is doing.
here's another possibility. maybe the people they are letting go are studying the potential effects of climate change and this is pure political hackery designed to further Trump's idiotic right wing agenda.
we have a police violence problem. the victim was killed by the police and was unarmed. Well I think he was unarmed, apparently it's difficult to find that out. No matter, if he needed to be armed he would have been.
by all means let's put the prankster in jail for life and let the officer who showed such incredibly poor judgment and a police department that is operating under almost amazing levels of incompetence skate away without even a slap on the wrist.
This is not police thinking they were in a bad situation, this is a situation in which police think they need to handle every situation with a SWAT team.
because now everyone is (theoretically) forced to buy insurance policies
huh wut ? of course everyone is forced to buy it , it's INSURANCE.
i still can't quite parse the word salad that is your first paragraph. so let me sum up. you can't have people buy insurance "when they need it". then it's not insurance. and remember that your paying into insurance when you "don't need it" precisely for others in the pool and for the day you DO need it.
you want to not pay insurance and then pay for it when you need it ? that's not insurance, and health care requires a pool. you don't know when you'll get ill or how bad it will be. every civilized country on the planet realizes this, except the USA, because people like you keep trying to push false narratives about a how a rational health care system should work.
Making hospitals have a list price for treatments would probably go a long way as well, because that lets consumers make price decisions just like they do at grocery stores, retail outlets, etc. that's sort of a rational expectation, but once again everybody thinks they can compare getting leukemia to buying eggs at the grocery store.
jesus H christ can we please stop automatic up-voting of idiotic libertarian memes ?
they hate Trump. He's a lying fucking moron. That's a good reason to hate him. And also too says mean things when saying things that are true and not in a mean way would do more good.
meanwhile remember that right wing hysteria when Obama was going to come take your guns away ?
I sure do, and lot's of other right wing hysteria too.
The fed shouldn't subsidize your state taxes being too high.....
WTF??
Those too highly taxed states you're deriding subsidize the low tax states. Gee I wonder why that is ? maybe because their taxes are too low to provide needed services ?
than most you'll meet in the increasingly effete, shrill, divisive, identity-politics-obsessed wastelands of political-correctness-paralyzed lands of blue
That may be, but apparently from your comment, you red state people also partake in the same generalizations about entire geographic regions of the US just like you think those awful blue state people do. So I guess we are at an impasse.
Give it a try, you might be pleasantly surprised that the people you hate are actually a lot nicer than the people you feel you're supposed to like because they vote the way you do.
Then why do they keep electing a preponderence of dickheads to office ?
Hint. Trying to convince people how nice you are by being a holier-than-thou asshole about it doesn't work. You know, just like it didn't work for the person your objecting whose comments you didn't think were very nice.
And BTW shrill yelling and screaming about liberals was the original shrill divisive politics that originated in the red states.
Digital radio suffers a big drawback. Unlsee the received signal is pretty much perfect, you are greeted with very high fidelity silence. It's called the Digital cliff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
well not exactly. the BER rate degrades smoothly with signal level which degrades smoothly with distance. The problem is that if you lose enough bits you get nothing, whereas with FM you just get more static. also it doesn't have to be "pretty much perfect", whatever that means, that's why there's something called error correction.
An analog FM signal slowly fades over distance. A digital radio signal is fine one moment, than nothing, and the nothing happens at a much closer range. As well, there is no advantage bandwidth wise.
the fading is due to loss of signal strength at distance. there is no "FM fades slowly over distance", the signal, regardless of analog or digital, fades slowly over distance as 1/r^2.
it's only a really shitty radio where "nothing happens at a much closer range.". generally that's impossible. at much closer range the signal strength goes up, BER goes down and life is good. So i'd really like to see a system that does that without it being the result of a shit radio that can't do automatic gain control properly, because that sounds exactly like a shit radio with a bad AGC implementation.
You've made broad generalizations that absolutely aren't true in practice. There are definitely advantages to digital radio implementations.
However if you are going to compare a digital to analog radio you absolutely have to get into the details of the radio implementation and what kind of performance you are expecting.
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but the moral is, small companies are not necessarily better than big ones.
also, beware of small companies run by owners with attention deficit disorder.
"Through the White House National Economic Council, the Trump Administration aims to craft a consumer privacy protection policy that is the appropriate balance between privacy and prosperity," Lindsay Walters, the president's deputy press secretary, said in a statement. "We look forward to working with Congress on a legislative solution consistent with our overarching policy."
translation:
we'll make sure to write the laws so that companies can do whatever they want,
because our overarching policy is to make sure that companies can do whatever they want.
but we'll be able to tell you we passed privacy laws, which will look really good, right ?
of light pollution.
and, btw, get the hell off my lawn!
I can't believe I haven't seen it mentioned.
lightweight, easy-to-use with a very nice set of features.
I've been using it for quite a while now and I'm really happy with it.
well SV corps do in fact does have a substantial problem with ethics, but then so do all corporations . it's what's legal that matters, and they've already demonstrated their ability to warp the legal system to benefit themselves. ethics and morality never enter into the equation.
as the late great Hawkings said, the problem is not with this technology but who will be owners of this technology.
It will be unethical, amoral, immortal corporations who's only goal is to violate your privacy and use it to make a buck off of you.
so yeah, I'm worried that Google is developing shit like this. Their PR will work overtime to make it look good, but the end idea of all of this stuff is to throw people out of work and try to ring another nickel out of you by any means possible.
then again, it's a race to the bottom - if not Google then someone else...
the nit-wit at RedHat worried about people being "triggered" by a fucking joke or the quantity of people commenting in here who find the joke offensive.
if you find that joke offensive you need serious recalibration of your sense of humor.
also, please don't even run for any office. over.
coal companies are blowing the top off of mountains and detroying streams and creeks and they are not in violation of the clean water act.
you don't understand. it's the latest fashion for the moderators.
just mention SJW and get automatic upvotes.
don't you mean those are the scripts that _want_ to run, but can't because you're running noscript and it's blocking them...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The company said the employees might be conflating rework and remanufacturing. It also said every vehicle is subjected to rigorous quality control involving more than 500 inspections and tests
if you need 500 inspections and tests, you're doing it wrong. My great hope when Toyota got involved was that they'd be able to teach them proper manufacturing technique. I guess they didn't. Maybe they found a culture fucked-up beyond repair and that's why they walked away...
is a benevolent dictatorship. China has effectively the latter you've got a pretty screwed up definition of benevolent. why don't you move to China, criticize the government openly and see how that works out for you.
depends on which species your talking about doesn't it?
Here's cod
https://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/p...
and you're really gonna sit there and tell me that bluefin tuna catches are the same size since 1980. now that's some bullshit.
fishing is anything but a healthy trade, it's freaking dangerous and overfishing is a well-documented problem.
yeah- but they are specifically letting go meteorologists. are all 5000 people directly involved in weather forecasting ? 248 jobs could definitely have a significant impact on the work they are doing, and need to be doing.
When most of the work in forecasting is increasingly automated and computerized, it makes sense to trim the fat.
which work exactly ? maybe the work those particular employees are doing can't be automated.
But of course the labor union is going to get upset. That's what labor unions do when told the truth.
and, not suprisingly, your true colors revealed. you know who's job is getting automated ? right wing hacks who find blanket, misleading justifications for everything this shit president is doing.
here's another possibility. maybe the people they are letting go are studying the potential effects of climate change and this is pure political hackery designed to further Trump's idiotic right wing agenda.
keeps cropping up as a tired old, completely incorrect meme.
we have a police violence problem. the victim was killed by the police and was unarmed. Well I think he was unarmed, apparently it's difficult to find that out. No matter, if he needed to be armed he would have been.
by all means let's put the prankster in jail for life and let the officer who showed such incredibly poor judgment and a police department that is operating under almost amazing levels of incompetence skate away without even a slap on the wrist.
This is not police thinking they were in a bad situation, this is a situation in which police think they need to handle every situation with a SWAT team.
because now everyone is (theoretically) forced to buy insurance policies
huh wut ? of course everyone is forced to buy it , it's INSURANCE.
i still can't quite parse the word salad that is your first paragraph. so let me sum up.
you can't have people buy insurance "when they need it". then it's not insurance. and remember that your paying into insurance when you "don't need it" precisely for others in the pool and for the day you DO need it.
you want to not pay insurance and then pay for it when you need it ? that's not insurance, and health care requires a pool. you don't know when you'll get ill or how bad it will be. every civilized country on the planet realizes this, except the USA, because people like you keep trying to push false narratives about a how a rational health care system should work.
Making hospitals have a list price for treatments would probably go a long way as well, because that lets consumers make price decisions just like they do at grocery stores, retail outlets, etc.
that's sort of a rational expectation, but once again everybody thinks they can compare getting leukemia to buying eggs at the grocery store.
jesus H christ can we please stop automatic up-voting of idiotic libertarian memes ?
they hate Trump. He's a lying fucking moron. That's a good reason to hate him. And also too says mean things when saying things that are true and not in a mean way would do more good.
meanwhile remember that right wing hysteria when Obama was going to come take your guns away ?
I sure do, and lot's of other right wing hysteria too.
good times.
The fed shouldn't subsidize your state taxes being too high.....
WTF??
Those too highly taxed states you're deriding subsidize the low tax states. Gee I wonder why that is ? maybe because their taxes are too low to provide needed services ?
how exactly did this get mod'ed informative ??
than most you'll meet in the increasingly effete, shrill, divisive, identity-politics-obsessed wastelands of political-correctness-paralyzed lands of blue
That may be, but apparently from your comment, you red state people also partake in the same generalizations about entire geographic regions of the US just like you think those awful blue state people do. So I guess we are at an impasse.
Give it a try, you might be pleasantly surprised that the people you hate are actually a lot nicer than the people you feel you're supposed to like because they vote the way you do.
Then why do they keep electing a preponderence of dickheads to office ?
Hint. Trying to convince people how nice you are by being a holier-than-thou asshole about it doesn't work. You know, just like it didn't work for the person your objecting whose comments you didn't think were very nice.
And BTW shrill yelling and screaming about liberals was the original shrill divisive politics that originated in the red states.
Holy pot-kettle batman !
so all it takes to bring down a military helicopter is a dozen or two dozen shitty drones ?
well, that's gotta have the military none too happy
means that we all suffer more when people don't do the right thing.
also it takes far fewer people doing the wrong thing to muck up traffic.
in the age of Trump the justice dept is going to let corporations "police themselves".
this is not going to end well. it really isn't.
Digital radio suffers a big drawback. Unlsee the received signal is pretty much perfect, you are greeted with very high fidelity silence. It's called the Digital cliff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
well not exactly. the BER rate degrades smoothly with signal level which degrades smoothly with distance. The problem is that if you lose enough bits you get nothing, whereas with FM you just get more static. also it doesn't have to be "pretty much perfect", whatever that means, that's why there's something called error correction.
An analog FM signal slowly fades over distance. A digital radio signal is fine one moment, than nothing, and the nothing happens at a much closer range. As well, there is no advantage bandwidth wise.
the fading is due to loss of signal strength at distance. there is no "FM fades slowly over distance", the signal, regardless of analog or digital, fades slowly over distance as 1/r^2.
it's only a really shitty radio where "nothing happens at a much closer range.". generally that's impossible. at much closer range the signal strength goes up, BER goes down and life is good. So i'd really like to see a system that does that without it being the result of a shit radio that can't do automatic gain control properly, because that sounds exactly like a shit radio with a bad AGC implementation.
You've made broad generalizations that absolutely aren't true in practice. There are definitely advantages to digital radio implementations.
However if you are going to compare a digital to analog radio you absolutely have to get into the details of the radio implementation and what kind of performance you are expecting.
Really. the moderators couldn't even spend 1 minute to show that you have purposely worded that to push a right wing talking point.
https://www.thetrace.org/2015/...
seriously, how do you get through life without one ?
would have solved this problem very nicely.