With a $2.8B fine, and another that could be higher, would it just be more profitable to stay away from the EU where they appear to keep their economy afloat via litigation (gross overgeneralization, but you know what I mean)?
1) These billion dollar fines are a great way to keep the European government funded!
2) Trillion dollar corporations wouldn't even blink at a million dollar fine. The fines for egregious behavior need to be commensurate with their size.
Now now, you can do better than that, can't you? We obviously didn't all vote for this on either the basis that Trump "lost" the popular vote, or that voter turnout was historically low.
Did I mention Trump? Or the last election? I did not.
However, one party has been preaching the mantra of "government bad, regulations bad" for decades. They are regularly elected to office. We end up toothless regulations and regulatory agencies without funding to actually do much of anything.
I started using Pandora again after a couple of years on Apple Music because the song selection of my Apple Radio stations went to hell with the iOS 11 release. The dislike song is apparently non-functional in Apple Radio these days as well.
I tried Spotify for a while and really did not like the UI at all. They did better with song selection than Apple but the playlist for a station seems to be set when you choose one single artist or song as the seed.
Pandora lets you choose multiple artists or songs as seeds for your station. They come up with great songs that is related to the type of music in your station. I've encountered quite a few artists that I'd not previously heard on Pandora.
This family plan might just be the deal to get me to switch away from Apple Music.
A few years ago it was “Touch-First, Mobile-First” and now it’s “Speech-First, Gaze-First, Vision-First”. Does he understand that after something is first, the next thing has to be second? I hate dislike nonsensical, corporate double-talk.
I was make a quite "tongue-in-cheek" response. Never meant to be taken seriously. Although, it seems as soon as you take any everyday device or process and digitize it, it won't be long until someone hacks it, creating yet another security issue that us regular morons have to worry about or get vicitimized by.
I would hope that there's a way to upgrade the locks so that they can prevent this attack. Though then the question is how difficult would that be (do you have to upgrade each lock one at a time?) and how many hotels would go through the process.
I can think of one possible upgrade. A small, flat metal object with fancy serrations along one edge. You insert it into a slot that has a mechanism that matches...
Supply and demand in the labor market combined with the jobs having a low barrier to entry skill wise. All it takes is for people to not take the jobs at the price and under the conditions supplied, but obviously plenty of people are willing to do the work for the pay Amazon is paying.
Yup. Ship all the factory jobs that at least paid better and then point out there are plenty of takers for shit Amazon jobs. Definitely a “prime” example of supply and demand being manipulated.
I’ve never been interested in the various “chat apps” like Twitter, Snapchat, etc. for privacy reasons but if Telegram has been kicked out of Russia and banned by the Iranians I think that I might have to give it a look.
...are the fucking ads on Slashdot that jank the screen up and down for 10 fucking seconds as the load.
God Damned you Mother fucking Assholes.
And if you were a nice person you’d have “Karma: Excellent” next to your handle and the option to “Disable Advertisng”. Whatever else you might say about Slashdot they are one of the few sites I’ve seen to offer that feature.
Actually California is one of many states that have passed a law to apportion their Electoral College votes based on the popular vote. The catch is that it doesn’t take effect until a majority of the the votes forom other states are also so apportioned.
You do realize that all those things you plug into the wall are 5v power supplies (or higher with the new quick charge standards) . They have no charging circuitry in them at all. The actual charging circuit is in the phone.
And yet there are multiple reports of crappy iPhone and Android chargers burning up. Doesn’t really matter if the term charger is a misnomer the point remains.
Oh noes! I kludged in unsupported hardware and now it doesn't work! How dare Apple not know about and support every piece of hardware made by other companies in the world! It's an outrage!
Exactly so. Next some ass will be screaming when my knockoff $3 iPhone charger catches fire, oh right, already happened.
You should probably start a new party, then, because the GOP was taken over by religious nutjobs in the 80s.
Not really being serious in this thread. The Republicans have been paying lip service to the religious right since the 80s. Lately it's become time to pay the piper. I have some problems with the Democrats too. If ever a suitable third party arose, I'd be right there with them.
My comments in this thread are entirely scurrilous. I have no use for the confederate flag but a couple of neighbors display them and I don’t care. We keep a gun handy in our store but I don’t carry one around. I’ve called one or two people “my special little snowflake” but they are special and unique people that I like. I am actually fairly progressive in most matters but there are some libtards out there who really take some things too far. The religious right have lost their way but I do oppose abortion.
"We're all working really hard to bring on rapture. How dare that pack of libtard yellow-belly commie snowflakes get in the way of our Armageddon. Let NRA bring us the Great RaptureBots like The Lord Jesus Christ wants! Stop keeping us from the grand shooting-range in the sky. And those are not harps, silly effeminate libs, but horseshoes; God's favorite game."
Hey not all of us are stupid religious zealots. Some of us just like the guns and confederate flags!
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With a $2.8B fine, and another that could be higher, would it just be more profitable to stay away from the EU where they appear to keep their economy afloat via litigation (gross overgeneralization, but you know what I mean)?
1) These billion dollar fines are a great way to keep the European government funded!
2) Trillion dollar corporations wouldn't even blink at a million dollar fine. The fines for egregious behavior need to be commensurate with their size.
Now now, you can do better than that, can't you? We obviously didn't all vote for this on either the basis that Trump "lost" the popular vote, or that voter turnout was historically low.
Did I mention Trump? Or the last election? I did not.
However, one party has been preaching the mantra of "government bad, regulations bad" for decades. They are regularly elected to office. We end up toothless regulations and regulatory agencies without funding to actually do much of anything.
No one is responsible for anything, at any time, anywhere. No rules, no regulations, anything goes. You all remember voting for this, right?
So is it back to the Warm-ups or perhaps Chinos and Polos?
Does anyone still use Pandora?
I started using Pandora again after a couple of years on Apple Music because the song selection of my Apple Radio stations went to hell with the iOS 11 release. The dislike song is apparently non-functional in Apple Radio these days as well.
I tried Spotify for a while and really did not like the UI at all. They did better with song selection than Apple but the playlist for a station seems to be set when you choose one single artist or song as the seed.
Pandora lets you choose multiple artists or songs as seeds for your station. They come up with great songs that is related to the type of music in your station. I've encountered quite a few artists that I'd not previously heard on Pandora.
This family plan might just be the deal to get me to switch away from Apple Music.
What sort of brainless consumer cuck would you have to be to pay monthly for music.
What sort of person do you have to be to post in such an obnoxiously, offensive manner. Oh, right, an Anonymous Coward.
Ew. The elite don't want to eat commoner. They make the commoners milk roaches and then drink the milk.
Excellent riposte. But occasionally they’ll want solid food.
Except for the the top .1%. They’ll continue to eat the rest of us for lunch just as they do now.
THEY’RE tapping the line.
FTFY
A few years ago it was “Touch-First, Mobile-First” and now it’s “Speech-First, Gaze-First, Vision-First”. Does he understand that after something is first, the next thing has to be second? I hate dislike nonsensical, corporate double-talk.
Big companies have been slurpng up your data for decades. You have not always agreed to it or even been aware of it. Credit bureaus sound familiar?
Isn’t this the crypto currency that John McAfee was promoting? Good security job there dude!
I was make a quite "tongue-in-cheek" response. Never meant to be taken seriously. Although, it seems as soon as you take any everyday device or process and digitize it, it won't be long until someone hacks it, creating yet another security issue that us regular morons have to worry about or get vicitimized by.
I would hope that there's a way to upgrade the locks so that they can prevent this attack. Though then the question is how difficult would that be (do you have to upgrade each lock one at a time?) and how many hotels would go through the process.
I can think of one possible upgrade. A small, flat metal object with fancy serrations along one edge. You insert it into a slot that has a mechanism that matches...
Why is it the worst jobs pay the least?
Supply and demand in the labor market combined with the jobs having a low barrier to entry skill wise. All it takes is for people to not take the jobs at the price and under the conditions supplied, but obviously plenty of people are willing to do the work for the pay Amazon is paying.
Yup. Ship all the factory jobs that at least paid better and then point out there are plenty of takers for shit Amazon jobs. Definitely a “prime” example of supply and demand being manipulated.
There was also Apple being willing to spend millions going to court when the FBI wanted to force them into cracking a dead suspect's iPhone.
Agreed. I am posting from my iPad Pro right now.
I’ve never been interested in the various “chat apps” like Twitter, Snapchat, etc. for privacy reasons but if Telegram has been kicked out of Russia and banned by the Iranians I think that I might have to give it a look.
I can’t think of a better recommendation.
...are the fucking ads on Slashdot that jank the screen up and down for 10 fucking seconds as the load.
God Damned you Mother fucking Assholes.
And if you were a nice person you’d have “Karma: Excellent” next to your handle and the option to “Disable Advertisng”. Whatever else you might say about Slashdot they are one of the few sites I’ve seen to offer that feature.
Actually California is one of many states that have passed a law to apportion their Electoral College votes based on the popular vote. The catch is that it doesn’t take effect until a majority of the the votes forom other states are also so apportioned.
You do realize that all those things you plug into the wall are 5v power supplies (or higher with the new quick charge standards) . They have no charging circuitry in them at all. The actual charging circuit is in the phone.
And yet there are multiple reports of crappy iPhone and Android chargers burning up. Doesn’t really matter if the term charger is a misnomer the point remains.
Oh noes! I kludged in unsupported hardware and now it doesn't work! How dare Apple not know about and support every piece of hardware made by other companies in the world! It's an outrage!
Exactly so. Next some ass will be screaming when my knockoff $3 iPhone charger catches fire, oh right, already happened.
You should probably start a new party, then, because the GOP was taken over by religious nutjobs in the 80s.
Not really being serious in this thread. The Republicans have been paying lip service to the religious right since the 80s. Lately it's become time to pay the piper. I have some problems with the Democrats too. If ever a suitable third party arose, I'd be right there with them.
Such are usually libertarians.
My comments in this thread are entirely scurrilous. I have no use for the confederate flag but a couple of neighbors display them and I don’t care. We keep a gun handy in our store but I don’t carry one around. I’ve called one or two people “my special little snowflake” but they are special and unique people that I like. I am actually fairly progressive in most matters but there are some libtards out there who really take some things too far. The religious right have lost their way but I do oppose abortion.
Kind of hard to pin any label on me I think.
A more realistic portrayal of conservatives:
"We're all working really hard to bring on rapture. How dare that pack of libtard yellow-belly commie snowflakes get in the way of our Armageddon. Let NRA bring us the Great RaptureBots like The Lord Jesus Christ wants! Stop keeping us from the grand shooting-range in the sky. And those are not harps, silly effeminate libs, but horseshoes; God's favorite game."
Hey not all of us are stupid religious zealots. Some of us just like the guns and confederate flags!
We’re all working really hard to burn the world down. How dare that pack of libtard snowflakes get in the way of our fun. Bring on the SkyNet!