Walled gardens sure suck. Having to deal with millions of opportunities to be infected with malware is a small price to pay for... native code pr0n apps.
The we don't give a shit about unemployed miners attitude isn't really working out as a political strategy. What's the upside to piling on the already downtrodden coal miners? Where's the humanity in it?
A coal miner might have skills that would translate to the oil business, or to working on big infrastructure projects like dams or roads, or mineral mining. But the same people who want them to lose their coal mining jobs also want to make sure there's no opportunity for them in these other industries.
The most common remedy the left seems to offer them is for them to hurry up and die. I wonder why they listen to someone like Trump instead?
About half the semiconductor industry works with them on some part for some product. They have a large number of products. Add glass, metal, chemicals, transportation, real estate, banking, etc. I could see an argument for getting to a phony number like 2 million.
But it's probably a spreadsheet function that says $x expenditure leads to the employment of roughly n people, where n turns out to be 2.6 million or something, and then you safely say 2 million.
Why do you want the Feds meddling in everyone's daily lives? You seem to be nearly desperate to advance the idea of bureaucrats in a distant capital thousands of miles away deciding what a kid can and can't eat for lunch. Why?
I want people to be able to lead their lives without having to ask distant bureaucrats for permission to make ordinary choices. But I'm not writing long, weird screeds about it.
...contributing to kids on the whole being physically unfit and sick
There are no "kids on the whole". Every kid is an individual person. Most are healthy. They don't need busybodies thousands of miles away -- bureaucrats who never met them and don't care about them individually -- meddling in their daily lives.
Flint Michigan
Flint has a local government and Michigan has a state government. Those governments are responsible to solve the problem.
The USB-C hate is transitional. It seems bad now. In 5 years, we'll look back and wonder at having so many different ports.
Just like when USB started and replaced the mouse port, and the keyboard port, and the serial port, and the parallel port, and the game port, and some other ports.
1. Yeah, switching is a hassle and Windows is better than it was, so maybe stick with it if you like it. 2. No. 3. No. 4. Safari is good. No reason to switch to anything else. 5. Pay extra, repairs happen in weeks. Have to ship stuff. 6. I use iTunes because I like music. 7. They exist. Apple stores are more convenient. 8. ICloud Keychain web passwords, bookmarks, cloud drive, cut & paste across platforms, etc.
Not thinking about tedious problems is nice. I also don't like to think about whether my car will break down, or whether I'll have warm water for a morning shower, or how I'm going to get energy to heat up my coffee. I buy wrinkle free shirts and pay all my regular bills automatically. I get my paycheck direct deposited. I order stuff from Amazon instead of driving around looking for it. Etc, etc.
Why would someone want to deal with this sort of stuff if they didn't have to? Why would you want your PC usage to include a lot of extra tedious tasks and worries?
Also, just an anecdote, but when I open my MacBook screen, it's ready to use within a second or two. I used to have to wait 20-60 seconds for my Windows laptop to be useable. It was a long time ago so maybe they fixed that. I just leave my Windows laptop on my desk at the office and use Remote Desktop to connect to it now.
-Not having to switch all my stuff to Windows. -Not having to wonder if I still need to use anti-virus software. -Not having to wonder if MS is key logging me. -Not having to wonder what info Google Chrome is sending to Google. -Not having to guess where to take my laptop for repairs. -Not having to care if iTunes is any good on Windows. -Not having to shop at Best Buy or order a laptop sight-unseen off the internet. -Not having to worry about interoperability with my phone.
I only ever broke 1 phone in 10 years. But again you're trying to optimize $. If you pay the $100 AppleCare, you go to the Apple Store and they replace your phone the same day.
Not everyone is trying to optimize compute performance per $ or any othe sort of technical spec per $. Some of us just want to be happy with our phone and laptops and some of us can afford to pay more than rock bottom prices for them.
There's a lot of weird ego stuff in these discussions on all sides. But beyond that, try to understand that everyone isn't trying to optimize the same things.
And seriously predicting the future will be gone by 2027. People will look back on all the predictions in the last 20 years and finally conclude it's not something serious people should do -- at least not with a specific deadline year.
Only if you want to punish someone for some reason.
I was suggesting we see how things go without burdensome rules and expensive enforcement, and then if something happens, make a rule so the problem can't continue. Make it a narrowly targeted rule so enforcement is inexpensive and it doesn't burden people who did nothing wrong. And pass it as a law rather than imposing it by decree.
Net neutrality is a rule that special interests dreamed up for an imagined problem.
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Walled gardens sure suck. Having to deal with millions of opportunities to be infected with malware is a small price to pay for ... native code pr0n apps.
The we don't give a shit about unemployed miners attitude isn't really working out as a political strategy. What's the upside to piling on the already downtrodden coal miners? Where's the humanity in it?
A coal miner might have skills that would translate to the oil business, or to working on big infrastructure projects like dams or roads, or mineral mining. But the same people who want them to lose their coal mining jobs also want to make sure there's no opportunity for them in these other industries.
The most common remedy the left seems to offer them is for them to hurry up and die. I wonder why they listen to someone like Trump instead?
About half the semiconductor industry works with them on some part for some product. They have a large number of products. Add glass, metal, chemicals, transportation, real estate, banking, etc. I could see an argument for getting to a phony number like 2 million.
But it's probably a spreadsheet function that says $x expenditure leads to the employment of roughly n people, where n turns out to be 2.6 million or something, and then you safely say 2 million.
Perhaps they mean indirectly, if you count up people working in their supply chain.
They said why: as a gesture to Americans, to share some of their success with people who want manufacturing jobs in the US.
Why do you want the Feds meddling in everyone's daily lives? You seem to be nearly desperate to advance the idea of bureaucrats in a distant capital thousands of miles away deciding what a kid can and can't eat for lunch. Why?
I want people to be able to lead their lives without having to ask distant bureaucrats for permission to make ordinary choices. But I'm not writing long, weird screeds about it.
I use Firefox at work. I would like to be rid of it. Safari is much better.
Good for you. I like not having to mess around with my computer that much.
Also, I use a Firefox at the office. Safari is significantly better.
And .ogg files? No. Ideological computing is for computing ideologues.
Turns out that the regulations is on the businesses and organizations, not the kids
Any excuse or evasion to justify unlimited meddling in every person's daily life, I guess.
So you have to ask who holds them responsible.
The local and state voters.
See the 14th Amendment and Article IV.
Flint residents are welcome to sue and get a remedy from courts.
See how it works yet?
Yeah, any excuse for unlimited meddling by distant self-dealing busybodies.
...contributing to kids on the whole being physically unfit and sick
There are no "kids on the whole". Every kid is an individual person. Most are healthy. They don't need busybodies thousands of miles away -- bureaucrats who never met them and don't care about them individually -- meddling in their daily lives.
Flint Michigan
Flint has a local government and Michigan has a state government. Those governments are responsible to solve the problem.
Because school children are at high risk for undiagnosed hypertension?
It was never the Federal Government's business what a school kid was eating for lunch.
The USB-C hate is transitional. It seems bad now. In 5 years, we'll look back and wonder at having so many different ports.
Just like when USB started and replaced the mouse port, and the keyboard port, and the serial port, and the parallel port, and the game port, and some other ports.
1. Yeah, switching is a hassle and Windows is better than it was, so maybe stick with it if you like it.
2. No.
3. No.
4. Safari is good. No reason to switch to anything else.
5. Pay extra, repairs happen in weeks. Have to ship stuff.
6. I use iTunes because I like music.
7. They exist. Apple stores are more convenient.
8. ICloud Keychain web passwords, bookmarks, cloud drive, cut & paste across platforms, etc.
Windows used to take 20-60 seconds to be useable from standby on my work laptop. It was a long time ago, so maybe they fixed it.
Not thinking about tedious problems is nice. I also don't like to think about whether my car will break down, or whether I'll have warm water for a morning shower, or how I'm going to get energy to heat up my coffee. I buy wrinkle free shirts and pay all my regular bills automatically. I get my paycheck direct deposited. I order stuff from Amazon instead of driving around looking for it. Etc, etc.
Why would someone want to deal with this sort of stuff if they didn't have to? Why would you want your PC usage to include a lot of extra tedious tasks and worries?
We both got what we like, even though they weren't the same thing. Don't tell the internet.
I actually like my phone.
Also, just an anecdote, but when I open my MacBook screen, it's ready to use within a second or two. I used to have to wait 20-60 seconds for my Windows laptop to be useable. It was a long time ago so maybe they fixed that. I just leave my Windows laptop on my desk at the office and use Remote Desktop to connect to it now.
-Not having to switch all my stuff to Windows.
-Not having to wonder if I still need to use anti-virus software.
-Not having to wonder if MS is key logging me.
-Not having to wonder what info Google Chrome is sending to Google.
-Not having to guess where to take my laptop for repairs.
-Not having to care if iTunes is any good on Windows.
-Not having to shop at Best Buy or order a laptop sight-unseen off the internet.
-Not having to worry about interoperability with my phone.
I only ever broke 1 phone in 10 years. But again you're trying to optimize $. If you pay the $100 AppleCare, you go to the Apple Store and they replace your phone the same day.
Not everyone is trying to optimize compute performance per $ or any othe sort of technical spec per $. Some of us just want to be happy with our phone and laptops and some of us can afford to pay more than rock bottom prices for them.
There's a lot of weird ego stuff in these discussions on all sides. But beyond that, try to understand that everyone isn't trying to optimize the same things.
And seriously predicting the future will be gone by 2027. People will look back on all the predictions in the last 20 years and finally conclude it's not something serious people should do -- at least not with a specific deadline year.
Only if you want to punish someone for some reason.
I was suggesting we see how things go without burdensome rules and expensive enforcement, and then if something happens, make a rule so the problem can't continue. Make it a narrowly targeted rule so enforcement is inexpensive and it doesn't burden people who did nothing wrong. And pass it as a law rather than imposing it by decree.
Net neutrality is a rule that special interests dreamed up for an imagined problem.
Shorter version: cars are dangerous, therefore every rule to preempt every problem is justified.