Companies will bitch and whine and complain about leaving the country, doom and gloom (even though 99% wouldn't/won't). Politicians will bark like dogs about how jobs will suffer (even though your job is already on the chopping block by doing nothing). Bill will die on the vine, because Joe Sixpack and Jane RocketScience don't care about the problem beyond their own self-interests (like we have since ever). Don't even get me started about the 'baby-factory cheats robbing us hard working citizens dry' ads which will surely flourish if this solution gets some legs..
Further, the problem is that the mass destruction of jobs hasn't hit peek. Wait for 20 years when all these 50%+ of present university grads are unemployable due to mass automation leaving 'nothing meaningful to do for the masses'. There will always be the need for human jobs, but the raw number of 'necessary' and 'commodity' jobs will be all but non-existent. We'll see if there are enough new and exciting job categories to remotely support our now-very-educated post-secondary workforce, keeping them relevant.
The United States propaganda machine has worked it magic on me too well. When I hear 'America' now, I infer hearing the United States of America. Though technically true that we're all residents of the two America continents, the 'word usage' for this word is far too muddy to be used without confusion. Apologies.
No, cars are almost universally 'geoblocked' because of safety standards and tariffs. There's little of artificial scarcity in play here. I've had many friends import their cars from around the world for one reason or another, but they've largely been able to do so after paying up the nose and having the cars' safety/regulatory features brought to spec.
Example: Canada requires daytime running lights. Every car, basically no exceptions(?). We don't stop all Americans from driving their non-daylight-running-light cars up here, but if you ever want to sell the car to 'live' in Canada, it must be retrofitted with the feature. Another, I'd be shocked if America allows cars to be imported without functioning seatbelts, etc..
PS: Can you believe that only 80% of American's use seatbelts? No wonder there's 10's of thousands of fatalities a year. You people are nuts. It's night-and-day proven to save your life by a huge factor.
The bar for malware is:
- User must be savvy enough to install torrent software and know about torrent sites
- User must be savvy enough to install a video player which can playback files
- User must be non-savvy enough to click on torrents that have executables instead of movie files
I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but unless instructed extremely bad by those helping you set this stuff up, the surface area for malware is lower than you make it out to be.
This to verify when using ANY legal/illegal torrent:
- Use a torrent distribution site which is 'somewhat' reputable
- Only download mainstream files from users who are 'verified' on said sites
- Only download mainstream files that have a large pool of seeders vs. others.
- When downloading niche content not in large distribution, be VERY sceptical of the torrent's contents before downloading (use said torrent site's description of the contents to make sure there aren't exe's etc.)
- (advanced) If you specifically download executable files (highly discouraged), have a VM and every antivirus/malware software known to man in there and launch the executable before giving it a chance to infect your main system.
- ISO's should only be downloaded from distribution sources directly or direct links from their web pages. If in doubt, you could always view the ISO contents, mount the file systems, extract the contents, etc..
As anyone who's watched Mr. Robot knows, Just cheating the system doesn't stop a company from doing it, even when they're aware of it happening.
If the fees minus inflation are less than the profits, why would a profit maximizing company ever decide to do the right thing? Its ludicrous. The company is simply charged a fee. The middle-managers and peons are rarely prosecuted and the executives always feign that they had no idea what was happening. There's no requisite paper trail to audit, so the only thing that could catch them is conspiracy to evade prosecution, but there'd have to be caught with a lot of 'shredding' in order to get that to stick.
The laws are 100% stacked so that profit maximization is the only goal to achieve. Being a purely law abiding corporate citizen is a losers bet.
Sad to say it, but the US has 500million people for a reason. People go to the US because they believe they'll live better lives. You are the apex of migration, the #1 importer of labour internationally, and arguably the #1 choice for labour internationally. So cry much?
If the US is no longer the land of opportunity, or just a lousy place to live, people will flock somewhere else to have better economic / personal lives. For possibly the last 100 years, the US has been the top of that pile, but that's not an infinite trend. Maybe you'll be moving to Mumbai or Shenzhen some day to nail that next big opportunity. They're sure moving presently for theirs.
Employment law is based largely on where you physically work. If you were in the UK, you'd be considered under UK employment laws regardless of what rabbit hole of ownership there is.
There are cases where one could be hired for a US position and you just happen to spend time in the country, but even then you could make the claim of 'working in the UK'. You would have to state why the work wasn't a one-off, or a short duration work assignment.
If you telecommute then moved from the US to the UK without employer direction, I have no idea what status you'd have...
Britannica's are wrong too, and in fact have a single editor-centric view of the world, so a contentious article would either be: "The Editor's favourite selection", or a smaller, more ambiguous view of the topic. And of course since you generally buy a set for life, errors and omissions will essentially never be known to the original reader.
The internet (wikipedia specifically) have temporal errors which are statistically removed over time (often immediately after discovery) and their articles often lack authority. Authority as I've mentioned is never perfect, regardless of which source you decide to ascribe to. There are internet based sources that attempt to take Wikipedia's 'commons' based contribution scheme and instead focus on authoritative authors instead.
Lastly, its been estimated that Britannica (who's content is generally very good) only covers about 1/50th of the content in Wikipedia (probably far more now). Even if its incredibly well researched and completely unbiased, there's still a significantly large amount of information that simply isn't available. Of course, Britannica is also available online, so lies lies lies.. etc.. I'm sure every kid has the means of buying the hard-covers...
I think that's along the lines of in-class teaching which probably doesn't enhance a kid's learning vs. pens/paper. That said, the Internet is essential to most school research work now, as libraries are often underfunded, carrying obsolete material, or simply not having information on a vast amount of topics necessary for children to self-direct their studies.
Clearly if it has the word Google on it, it must be WEBSCALE!!!
Really, have an off-brand trade name for products that are niche industries if you've got the stink on for smaller products. Seriously, Google's scorched earth approach for lower performing products has affected my love for the company significantly over the last couple years. I'm VERY leery to try any of their new offerings, which is clearly a self-fulfilling prophesy.
FYI: In Canada, you'd be required to give severance for any firing 'without cause'.
We have compulsory Employment Insurance here, so if you're fired with cause (smoking dope on the premises, gross negligence, etc..), it means you can't get some portion of your previous salary while looking for new work. If you were fired without cause, or for lay-off type reasons, you're eligible for compensation. Canada really hates No-Reason firings, and will most likely harass the company in order to give a reason why, or at least demand covering that employee's income for a period while they're looking for new work. As expected, most decent companies do firings as lay-offs with compensation.
Sure, your tell for a jumpy employee should probably be 'lacks motivation', 'seems distant / distracted', 'quick to anger'. Of course they could also be suffering from personal issues as well, so mileage may vary.
BBB is a rating agency. I don't think they have any actual teeth. As for FTC, sure they should've seen a pattern of abuse a lot sooner and taken 'some' action to relegate it. Even a stiff warning can be enough to revise some companys' policies, but certainly a cash penalty is best.
From a Canadian, you'll get used to it.. eventually.
I'd say the lack of PIN requirement was your country's fuck up, but *shrugs*.
Slowness depends entirely on your retailer's merchant broker. Some big box companies like (Walmart Canada) has responses back within a second or two. Others require a frigging dial-up connection before issuing the chip challenge. Ultimately, if you're sick of waiting, poorly performing retailers will suffer and you'll visit their services less. The better responding retailers will actually spend some money to make sure your experience is good.
I have had my card defrauded a couple times (once from card stolen, once from the card numbers being copied for online purchases). Both times, I've had literally 0 problems challenging and refunding the expenses. Almost 100% of the bad charges were made in the US, so it leads me to believe there's a lot of credit fraud happening there (at least when my cards were stolen).
Correction: The devices have about 36 hours of battery power with reusable batteries that the household can replace (hypothetically), so E911 could 'probably' work, but they certainly have less reliability guarantee than traditional full-copper lines.
Dang, beat me to it. Yeah, Amazon Prime is mostly useless in Canada. $80 for significantly fewer features? Pass. If anything, I'm using Amazon less year after year. It's just not offering the savings that it did previously.
Maintainance.. yeah, copper is a pain in the ass. Better software reduces the costs, but doesn't eliminate them. That said, I'm not sure if the wire 'drop wire' from the access point to the household would constitute part of the protected network. There are many circumstances that would prevent service tech's from maintaining infrastructure on private property.
"one step in a wave to disrupt and control communication" All telco services are centrally managed anyways, so there's 0 increase to centralized censorship here. If I wanted to shut off a person's access, I'd go to switch/trunk management software and hit a disconnect button.
"Wireless systems get overrun with numbers of calls if the emergency is large enough" all technically true, but do we know if their RF frequencies these devices are using are actually sharing with traditional cell frequencies or are they using specially reserved spectrum for the task? E911 is definitely broken in this scheme through, since I doubt there's any sort of blackout UPS on the subscriber's line to keep that device alive. Normally all (UPS backed) power is driven by the central office.
Nope, her only legacy will be how much money she makes for shareholders. If the money doesn't come, she probably won't get the big seat again. Quite frankly, Yahoo was already a heaping pile of crap before Mayer took over. She did 'little' to improve things, but without a welcome external change, its hard to steer such a big ship away from that Iceberg. IBM pivoted from hardware/software into services rather dramatically, but that's a very rosy example.
Even if I was more DIY for buying PI's, my apartment is so saturated with Wifi that I can't even reliably stream with anything in B/G/N bands. Even AC is getting a little more congested these days. I'm on a Nexus Player now which is great, but I'd have at least considered this box if it had come a year or so ago. If you just want a play streamer, this article's box works best. If you need more of an appliance media concentrator, you'll now have to look somewhere else as they discontinued the Nexus Player...
Yes, statistically black people are arrested more (not going down that rabbit hole), but ultimately race shouldn't matter in the course of police work at all. If someone is resisting, they should be restrained. If restraint is insufficient and there's credible danger for the officer, they have the right to defend themselves with lethal force. Those rules should apply evenly to all suspects evenly regardless of race.
Now, one would expect that if say hypothetically black people were 60% of violent offenders who violently resist arrest. You would generally expect some 60% of police killings to be against a black person. Obviously there are variables that you wave away, but if you see a significant statistical deviation of black people being shot, there may be something to this 'systemic discrimination' of black people in the police force.
The more interesting question is if said (hypothetical) bias works amongst police of all races, or isolated to race demographics. black-on-black, white-on-black, black-on-white, white-on-white, Asian, Hispanic, etc..
All joking aside, I'm honestly curious if a site that fosters 'socially denigrated values' can actually encourage people to flee farther into their niche or if it just gives their inside voice a place to vent in isolation. Basically, if 4Chan never existed, would there be more trolling, 'obscenity', shaming, harassment, etc.. online or is having them all in voluntarily isolation actually of some sort of social benefit?
People who benefit from anonymity:
- Political Radicals
- Privacy Averse (Really, there aren't many that care, and you aren't changing their minds fast enough)
- Trolls / Illegal Activity / blah blah
People who benefit from identity:
- Soft hearted hate-troll haters
- Oppressive and not-so oppressive governments (and their law enforcement)
- Pretty much every notable web company making money off your info/reputation
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Companies will bitch and whine and complain about leaving the country, doom and gloom (even though 99% wouldn't/won't). Politicians will bark like dogs about how jobs will suffer (even though your job is already on the chopping block by doing nothing). Bill will die on the vine, because Joe Sixpack and Jane RocketScience don't care about the problem beyond their own self-interests (like we have since ever). Don't even get me started about the 'baby-factory cheats robbing us hard working citizens dry' ads which will surely flourish if this solution gets some legs..
Further, the problem is that the mass destruction of jobs hasn't hit peek. Wait for 20 years when all these 50%+ of present university grads are unemployable due to mass automation leaving 'nothing meaningful to do for the masses'. There will always be the need for human jobs, but the raw number of 'necessary' and 'commodity' jobs will be all but non-existent. We'll see if there are enough new and exciting job categories to remotely support our now-very-educated post-secondary workforce, keeping them relevant.
The United States propaganda machine has worked it magic on me too well. When I hear 'America' now, I infer hearing the United States of America. Though technically true that we're all residents of the two America continents, the 'word usage' for this word is far too muddy to be used without confusion. Apologies.
No, cars are almost universally 'geoblocked' because of safety standards and tariffs. There's little of artificial scarcity in play here. I've had many friends import their cars from around the world for one reason or another, but they've largely been able to do so after paying up the nose and having the cars' safety/regulatory features brought to spec.
Example: Canada requires daytime running lights. Every car, basically no exceptions(?). We don't stop all Americans from driving their non-daylight-running-light cars up here, but if you ever want to sell the car to 'live' in Canada, it must be retrofitted with the feature. Another, I'd be shocked if America allows cars to be imported without functioning seatbelts, etc..
PS: Can you believe that only 80% of American's use seatbelts? No wonder there's 10's of thousands of fatalities a year. You people are nuts. It's night-and-day proven to save your life by a huge factor.
The bar for malware is:
- User must be savvy enough to install torrent software and know about torrent sites
- User must be savvy enough to install a video player which can playback files
- User must be non-savvy enough to click on torrents that have executables instead of movie files
I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but unless instructed extremely bad by those helping you set this stuff up, the surface area for malware is lower than you make it out to be.
This to verify when using ANY legal/illegal torrent:
- Use a torrent distribution site which is 'somewhat' reputable
- Only download mainstream files from users who are 'verified' on said sites
- Only download mainstream files that have a large pool of seeders vs. others.
- When downloading niche content not in large distribution, be VERY sceptical of the torrent's contents before downloading (use said torrent site's description of the contents to make sure there aren't exe's etc.)
- (advanced) If you specifically download executable files (highly discouraged), have a VM and every antivirus/malware software known to man in there and launch the executable before giving it a chance to infect your main system.
- ISO's should only be downloaded from distribution sources directly or direct links from their web pages. If in doubt, you could always view the ISO contents, mount the file systems, extract the contents, etc..
...Maybe in a few weeks. Thanks in advance to all you brave unpaid QA's!
As anyone who's watched Mr. Robot knows, Just cheating the system doesn't stop a company from doing it, even when they're aware of it happening.
If the fees minus inflation are less than the profits, why would a profit maximizing company ever decide to do the right thing? Its ludicrous. The company is simply charged a fee. The middle-managers and peons are rarely prosecuted and the executives always feign that they had no idea what was happening. There's no requisite paper trail to audit, so the only thing that could catch them is conspiracy to evade prosecution, but there'd have to be caught with a lot of 'shredding' in order to get that to stick.
The laws are 100% stacked so that profit maximization is the only goal to achieve. Being a purely law abiding corporate citizen is a losers bet.
Sad to say it, but the US has 500million people for a reason. People go to the US because they believe they'll live better lives. You are the apex of migration, the #1 importer of labour internationally, and arguably the #1 choice for labour internationally. So cry much?
If the US is no longer the land of opportunity, or just a lousy place to live, people will flock somewhere else to have better economic / personal lives. For possibly the last 100 years, the US has been the top of that pile, but that's not an infinite trend. Maybe you'll be moving to Mumbai or Shenzhen some day to nail that next big opportunity. They're sure moving presently for theirs.
Employment law is based largely on where you physically work. If you were in the UK, you'd be considered under UK employment laws regardless of what rabbit hole of ownership there is.
There are cases where one could be hired for a US position and you just happen to spend time in the country, but even then you could make the claim of 'working in the UK'. You would have to state why the work wasn't a one-off, or a short duration work assignment.
If you telecommute then moved from the US to the UK without employer direction, I have no idea what status you'd have...
Britannica's are wrong too, and in fact have a single editor-centric view of the world, so a contentious article would either be: "The Editor's favourite selection", or a smaller, more ambiguous view of the topic. And of course since you generally buy a set for life, errors and omissions will essentially never be known to the original reader.
The internet (wikipedia specifically) have temporal errors which are statistically removed over time (often immediately after discovery) and their articles often lack authority. Authority as I've mentioned is never perfect, regardless of which source you decide to ascribe to. There are internet based sources that attempt to take Wikipedia's 'commons' based contribution scheme and instead focus on authoritative authors instead.
Lastly, its been estimated that Britannica (who's content is generally very good) only covers about 1/50th of the content in Wikipedia (probably far more now). Even if its incredibly well researched and completely unbiased, there's still a significantly large amount of information that simply isn't available. Of course, Britannica is also available online, so lies lies lies.. etc.. I'm sure every kid has the means of buying the hard-covers...
I think that's along the lines of in-class teaching which probably doesn't enhance a kid's learning vs. pens/paper. That said, the Internet is essential to most school research work now, as libraries are often underfunded, carrying obsolete material, or simply not having information on a vast amount of topics necessary for children to self-direct their studies.
Clearly if it has the word Google on it, it must be WEBSCALE!!!
Really, have an off-brand trade name for products that are niche industries if you've got the stink on for smaller products. Seriously, Google's scorched earth approach for lower performing products has affected my love for the company significantly over the last couple years. I'm VERY leery to try any of their new offerings, which is clearly a self-fulfilling prophesy.
FYI: In Canada, you'd be required to give severance for any firing 'without cause'.
We have compulsory Employment Insurance here, so if you're fired with cause (smoking dope on the premises, gross negligence, etc..), it means you can't get some portion of your previous salary while looking for new work. If you were fired without cause, or for lay-off type reasons, you're eligible for compensation. Canada really hates No-Reason firings, and will most likely harass the company in order to give a reason why, or at least demand covering that employee's income for a period while they're looking for new work. As expected, most decent companies do firings as lay-offs with compensation.
Sure, your tell for a jumpy employee should probably be 'lacks motivation', 'seems distant / distracted', 'quick to anger'. Of course they could also be suffering from personal issues as well, so mileage may vary.
BBB is a rating agency. I don't think they have any actual teeth. As for FTC, sure they should've seen a pattern of abuse a lot sooner and taken 'some' action to relegate it. Even a stiff warning can be enough to revise some companys' policies, but certainly a cash penalty is best.
From a Canadian, you'll get used to it.. eventually.
I'd say the lack of PIN requirement was your country's fuck up, but *shrugs*.
Slowness depends entirely on your retailer's merchant broker. Some big box companies like (Walmart Canada) has responses back within a second or two. Others require a frigging dial-up connection before issuing the chip challenge. Ultimately, if you're sick of waiting, poorly performing retailers will suffer and you'll visit their services less. The better responding retailers will actually spend some money to make sure your experience is good.
I have had my card defrauded a couple times (once from card stolen, once from the card numbers being copied for online purchases). Both times, I've had literally 0 problems challenging and refunding the expenses. Almost 100% of the bad charges were made in the US, so it leads me to believe there's a lot of credit fraud happening there (at least when my cards were stolen).
Correction: The devices have about 36 hours of battery power with reusable batteries that the household can replace (hypothetically), so E911 could 'probably' work, but they certainly have less reliability guarantee than traditional full-copper lines.
Dang, beat me to it. Yeah, Amazon Prime is mostly useless in Canada. $80 for significantly fewer features? Pass. If anything, I'm using Amazon less year after year. It's just not offering the savings that it did previously.
Read the article. Its still POTS service, but it includes a wireless hop from the customer's phone drop to the poll servicing that drop wire.
Maintainance.. yeah, copper is a pain in the ass. Better software reduces the costs, but doesn't eliminate them. That said, I'm not sure if the wire 'drop wire' from the access point to the household would constitute part of the protected network. There are many circumstances that would prevent service tech's from maintaining infrastructure on private property.
"one step in a wave to disrupt and control communication"
All telco services are centrally managed anyways, so there's 0 increase to centralized censorship here. If I wanted to shut off a person's access, I'd go to switch/trunk management software and hit a disconnect button.
"Wireless systems get overrun with numbers of calls if the emergency is large enough" all technically true, but do we know if their RF frequencies these devices are using are actually sharing with traditional cell frequencies or are they using specially reserved spectrum for the task? E911 is definitely broken in this scheme through, since I doubt there's any sort of blackout UPS on the subscriber's line to keep that device alive. Normally all (UPS backed) power is driven by the central office.
Nope, her only legacy will be how much money she makes for shareholders. If the money doesn't come, she probably won't get the big seat again. Quite frankly, Yahoo was already a heaping pile of crap before Mayer took over. She did 'little' to improve things, but without a welcome external change, its hard to steer such a big ship away from that Iceberg. IBM pivoted from hardware/software into services rather dramatically, but that's a very rosy example.
Even if I was more DIY for buying PI's, my apartment is so saturated with Wifi that I can't even reliably stream with anything in B/G/N bands. Even AC is getting a little more congested these days. I'm on a Nexus Player now which is great, but I'd have at least considered this box if it had come a year or so ago. If you just want a play streamer, this article's box works best. If you need more of an appliance media concentrator, you'll now have to look somewhere else as they discontinued the Nexus Player...
Yes, statistically black people are arrested more (not going down that rabbit hole), but ultimately race shouldn't matter in the course of police work at all. If someone is resisting, they should be restrained. If restraint is insufficient and there's credible danger for the officer, they have the right to defend themselves with lethal force. Those rules should apply evenly to all suspects evenly regardless of race.
Now, one would expect that if say hypothetically black people were 60% of violent offenders who violently resist arrest. You would generally expect some 60% of police killings to be against a black person. Obviously there are variables that you wave away, but if you see a significant statistical deviation of black people being shot, there may be something to this 'systemic discrimination' of black people in the police force.
The more interesting question is if said (hypothetical) bias works amongst police of all races, or isolated to race demographics. black-on-black, white-on-black, black-on-white, white-on-white, Asian, Hispanic, etc..
All joking aside, I'm honestly curious if a site that fosters 'socially denigrated values' can actually encourage people to flee farther into their niche or if it just gives their inside voice a place to vent in isolation. Basically, if 4Chan never existed, would there be more trolling, 'obscenity', shaming, harassment, etc.. online or is having them all in voluntarily isolation actually of some sort of social benefit?
People who benefit from anonymity:
- Political Radicals
- Privacy Averse (Really, there aren't many that care, and you aren't changing their minds fast enough)
- Trolls / Illegal Activity / blah blah
People who benefit from identity:
- Soft hearted hate-troll haters
- Oppressive and not-so oppressive governments (and their law enforcement)
- Pretty much every notable web company making money off your info/reputation
People that don't give a fuck:
- Everyone else
How the f do I block stories with 'politics' as a tag because I'm sick and tired of one bullshit story after the next.