You know, yes, you can come up with problems, but the existing system has totally failed due to robocalls spoofing phone numbers.
Pretty much all my friends now tell me that they never answer their phone unless the calling number is on their contacts list, simply because the number of fake calls so outnumbers the real calls that it's worth the fact that sometimes you miss calls from somebody who actually does need to get hold of you.
(but... I did manage to keep the Microsoft repair guy, who cold called me at about 2:30 today, on the phone for 17 minutes. I think that's a record for me.)
Not a coincidence, I think. One reason that Ecuador revoked Assange's asylum was that he was accused of leaking hacked information about Ecuadorian politicians.
You're falsely assuming that those are individuals. People. But they'd be insulted and offended by that. Trust me, I've tried. I've tried to get "people" to think for themselves. Instead of passively copy-pasting their will because it's easy. (And easier is *always* better, no exceptions, i am being told with a KISS from an iPhone.) No chance. They do not *want* to be people, or have individual thought. That is the only thing they know they want by themselves.
Some people are simply focused on other things.
Not everybody is tunnel-visioned focussed on worrying whether some stranger somewhere might be listening to them.
the environmentalists all living on the coastal areas and investing in real estate there
Which purported environmentalists are you referring to? If you mean Al Gore, the only environmentalist that right-wing ranters ever seem to care about, yes, he owns a house in a costal Californa community... one that's 180 feet above sea level.
and also all the politicians and hollywood ilk who have been buying up real estate in these 'doomed' places
Hollywood is not in any trouble from rising sea levels. Its average elevation is 350 feet above sea level... but the pricey homes, of course, are up in the hills overlooking Hollywood. Even if all the ice in the all the ice caps melts, in about 500 years or so, they won't be underwater.
I did some quick math and came up with....1 inch
or 0.25 mm
Which? 1 inch is 25 mm, not 0.25.
I think you converted centimeters to inches by dividing by 10, instead of multiplying
...Sounds like AGW alarmists can't come up with consistent numbers...
ROFL!! You post numbers that are inconsistant by a factor of a hundred and then tell me it's the "alarmists" that can't come up with consistent numbers?
If this weren't so funny, I'd point out that this is only one of several factors.
If box office is up 1% in revenues and inflation is 2.5% then box office is down.
Somebody mod that insightful.
The inflation rate in 2018 was 1.9% (this year, to Feb, was 1.5%) (ref: https://www.usinflationcalcula... )
So 1% increase in revenues is actually a downward movement, not up.
Since ticket prices have risen by more than 10% the nunber of butts in seats is down by more than 9%.
Yes, probably a better way to look at it. ticket prices are up. This site claims about a 5% rise in price 2017 to 2018 (44 cent rise in a year, on a ticket price of about 9 dollars): https://variety.com/2018/film/...
You better hope it's warming. If we returned to an ice age so many far leftists would die. So would real people.
The greatest part of climate science, of course, has been the study of the causes of the ice ages. Even the understanding of the greenhouse effect was started, initially, from atmospheric scientists trying to understand the role that atmospheric gasses play in the cycle of glaciation (a significant role, as it happens).
The understanding of the causes of ice ages, and the glacial advances and retreats within an ice a, is getting pretty good now. We've understood that Milankovich variations are the trigger for decades now, but the models are now good enough that we are beginning to understand the details, including the feedback effects that amplify the relatively small Milankovich variations into hemispheric and global climate patterns.
Ice ages are a bit harder to model than current climate, of course, because we directly measure the inputs to current climate-- we know exactly the amount of energy put out by the sun, for example-- while we have to calculate historical forcing factors from proxy measurements. But nevertheless, the work is being done.
No, it isn't because, as you know, the US isn't under 4 feet of water.
Your comment is hard to follow. The "lower 48" U.S. states comprise about 3 million square kilometers. The surface area of the Earth is a little over 500 million square kilometers. The meltwater from melting glaciers doesn't only go to the lower 48 US states; it equilibrates all around the world.
This is a visualization analogy intended to give the public a quantitative feel for what 10.6 trillion tons of water is. Sort of like expressing data in terms of libraries of congress. It is not anywhere a statement that the melted water did cover the lower 48 U.S. states, and no other part of the world.
Or maybe they mean "lost" like they can't find it, but given the rest of the summary they seem to mean it's melted.
Most native English speakers can understand the different uses of the word "lost". Especially when the very next sentence uses the word "melted". In this case "lost" means lost by melting, the way your ice water loses its ice when it sits on the table. Gone, in the form of ice, but the water comprising the ice is still here.
I have to say I'm bemused by the phrase "cord cutting."
Most people get internet through a wire attached to their residence. Usually it's the very same coax cable that brings in cable TV, and often from the same cable company.
They're not cutting any cords. They are just switching what company is sending their feed through the cord.
(And, amusingly, people who get television by subscribing to DirectTV, which literally does NOT have a cord, but comes in over the satellite dish... are not cord-cutters.)
There is plenty of evidence that Facebook knows what it is doing, especially when it comes to selling data.
And... you just changed the subject.
The NZ prime minister wasn't talking about selling data. What he was talking about was that they "enable genocide (Myanmar), facilitate foreign undermining of democratic institutions... allow the live streaming of suicides, rapes, and murders, continue to host and publish the mosque attack video, allow advertisers to target 'Jew haters' and other hateful market segments." Not a single mention ofselling data.
They may also sell data. But that's a different subject.
You have to compare statistics over the same period.
The article is about the first quarter 2019: that is, January through March. The job statistics for the first quarter are poor, mainly due to an absolutely terrible jobs report in February: https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit...
First quarter 2019 is significantly down in employment compared to the 2018 average.
The guy saying "fake news *rolls eyes*", however did the old switcheroo: he is just talking about March. March did bounce back... although it would be hard to not bounce back after such a low report for February, and it's still not even as high even as the average for 2018.
So how many jobs were created, or how many people were hired? Surely you must know if you are insinuating statements about over-all unemployment rates.
Scrolling two stories down:
https://games.slashdot.org/sto...
Apparently the video game industry is laying people off in large numbers.
Corporations are creatures of government; they are protected from repercussions by all manner of laws.
To the contrary. Governments are the only entities that can put limitations on corporations.
Your belief that if there weren't governments, corporations would be benign is... touching, but naïve. They'll suck out your blood and sell it to the highest bidder if they can.
No, for the most part, libertarians are just plain wacky.
They love the word "liberty," but hardly any of the policies they want would increase liberty. They would just replace it with corporate dictatorship.
They would replace our current imperfect freedom with an America of nothing but gated communities with repressive regulations that can't be challenged in court, and corporate malls with repressive regulations that can't be challenged in court.
...Working in tech field, then you probably have NDAs/claims that you are taking their intellectual property. Failing that, remember when Apple, Adobe, Google, etc. agreed not to hire each other's employees?
Yes, but that was challenged and ruled illegal by the U.S. government. That makes a difference: in the US, the government challenges the anticompetitive "gentleman's agreement". In China, the government enforces it.
Thank you, anonymous coward Chinese troll, for your delightful fake facts.
AP News: "China bars millions from travel for ‘social credit’ offenses". ref
Business Insider: "China has already started punishing people [with low social credit] by restricting their travel. Nine million people with low scores have been blocked from buying tickets for domestic flights, Channel News Asia reported in March, citing official statistics." Ref: https://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-system-punishments-and-rewards-explained-2018-4
Wikipedia: "Travel ban.
By the end of 2018, 5.5 million high-speed rail trips and 17.5 million flights had been denied to prospective travellers who were on a blacklist."ref
And the "social credit" system is also used, yes, to enforce politics. Wired: "If solving problems was the real goal, the CCP would not need social credit to do it," she says. "China’s social credit system is a state-driven program designed to do one thing, to uphold and expand the Chinese Communist Party’s power." (Ref: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/china-social-credit-system-explained
"If someone keeps quitting and landing new jobs, his social credit will definitely be a problem," Zhejiang official Ge Pingan said at a local forum, addressing a complaint from one company's human resources department about being unable to do anything when employees want to leave.
This is a really sick viewpoint, although in this case there isn't much cultural difference between the east and west. Plenty of business owners in the US would love to have ways to keep employees other than providing a good work experience and fair pay.
Yes, but the U.S. does not have a government-operated "social credit system" that allows business owners to prevent people from traveling, or even from using public transportation, if they switch jobs.
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Pretty much all my friends now tell me that they never answer their phone unless the calling number is on their contacts list, simply because the number of fake calls so outnumbers the real calls that it's worth the fact that sometimes you miss calls from somebody who actually does need to get hold of you.
(but... I did manage to keep the Microsoft repair guy, who cold called me at about 2:30 today, on the phone for 17 minutes. I think that's a record for me.)
Standardizing the user interface is what makes a desktop useable.
Not a coincidence, I think. One reason that Ecuador revoked Assange's asylum was that he was accused of leaking hacked information about Ecuadorian politicians.
You're falsely assuming that those are individuals. People. But they'd be insulted and offended by that. Trust me, I've tried. I've tried to get "people" to think for themselves. Instead of passively copy-pasting their will because it's easy. (And easier is *always* better, no exceptions, i am being told with a KISS from an iPhone.) No chance. They do not *want* to be people, or have individual thought. That is the only thing they know they want by themselves.
Some people are simply focused on other things.
Not everybody is tunnel-visioned focussed on worrying whether some stranger somewhere might be listening to them.
The removed comments are a lot more disturbing, stuff like Heil Hitler posts & death threats.
the environmentalists all living on the coastal areas and investing in real estate there
Which purported environmentalists are you referring to? If you mean Al Gore, the only environmentalist that right-wing ranters ever seem to care about, yes, he owns a house in a costal Californa community... one that's 180 feet above sea level.
and also all the politicians and hollywood ilk who have been buying up real estate in these 'doomed' places
Have you ever heard the phrase "the Hollywood Hills"?
Hollywood is not in any trouble from rising sea levels. Its average elevation is 350 feet above sea level... but the pricey homes, of course, are up in the hills overlooking Hollywood. Even if all the ice in the all the ice caps melts, in about 500 years or so, they won't be underwater.
I did some quick math and came up with... .1 inch
or 0.25 mm
Which? 1 inch is 25 mm, not 0.25. I think you converted centimeters to inches by dividing by 10, instead of multiplying
...Sounds like AGW alarmists can't come up with consistent numbers...
ROFL!! You post numbers that are inconsistant by a factor of a hundred and then tell me it's the "alarmists" that can't come up with consistent numbers?
If this weren't so funny, I'd point out that this is only one of several factors.
If box office is up 1% in revenues and inflation is 2.5% then box office is down.
Somebody mod that insightful.
The inflation rate in 2018 was 1.9% (this year, to Feb, was 1.5%) (ref: https://www.usinflationcalcula... ) So 1% increase in revenues is actually a downward movement, not up.
Since ticket prices have risen by more than 10% the nunber of butts in seats is down by more than 9%.
Yes, probably a better way to look at it. ticket prices are up. This site claims about a 5% rise in price 2017 to 2018 (44 cent rise in a year, on a ticket price of about 9 dollars): https://variety.com/2018/film/...
You better hope it's warming. If we returned to an ice age so many far leftists would die. So would real people.
The greatest part of climate science, of course, has been the study of the causes of the ice ages. Even the understanding of the greenhouse effect was started, initially, from atmospheric scientists trying to understand the role that atmospheric gasses play in the cycle of glaciation (a significant role, as it happens).
The understanding of the causes of ice ages, and the glacial advances and retreats within an ice a, is getting pretty good now. We've understood that Milankovich variations are the trigger for decades now, but the models are now good enough that we are beginning to understand the details, including the feedback effects that amplify the relatively small Milankovich variations into hemispheric and global climate patterns.
Ice ages are a bit harder to model than current climate, of course, because we directly measure the inputs to current climate-- we know exactly the amount of energy put out by the sun, for example-- while we have to calculate historical forcing factors from proxy measurements. But nevertheless, the work is being done.
No, it isn't because, as you know, the US isn't under 4 feet of water.
Your comment is hard to follow. The "lower 48" U.S. states comprise about 3 million square kilometers. The surface area of the Earth is a little over 500 million square kilometers. The meltwater from melting glaciers doesn't only go to the lower 48 US states; it equilibrates all around the world.
This is a visualization analogy intended to give the public a quantitative feel for what 10.6 trillion tons of water is. Sort of like expressing data in terms of libraries of congress. It is not anywhere a statement that the melted water did cover the lower 48 U.S. states, and no other part of the world.
Or maybe they mean "lost" like they can't find it, but given the rest of the summary they seem to mean it's melted.
Most native English speakers can understand the different uses of the word "lost". Especially when the very next sentence uses the word "melted". In this case "lost" means lost by melting, the way your ice water loses its ice when it sits on the table. Gone, in the form of ice, but the water comprising the ice is still here.
Nothing to do with us.
Most people get internet through a wire attached to their residence. Usually it's the very same coax cable that brings in cable TV, and often from the same cable company.
They're not cutting any cords. They are just switching what company is sending their feed through the cord.
(And, amusingly, people who get television by subscribing to DirectTV, which literally does NOT have a cord, but comes in over the satellite dish... are not cord-cutters.)
There is plenty of evidence that Facebook knows what it is doing, especially when it comes to selling data.
And... you just changed the subject.
The NZ prime minister wasn't talking about selling data. What he was talking about was that they "enable genocide (Myanmar), facilitate foreign undermining of democratic institutions... allow the live streaming of suicides, rapes, and murders, continue to host and publish the mosque attack video, allow advertisers to target 'Jew haters' and other hateful market segments." Not a single mention ofselling data.
They may also sell data. But that's a different subject.
196,000 created in March.
You got tricked. Again.
The article under discussion is about first quarter 2019. Not about March.
First quarter 2019 was, in fact, down in job creation.
Even March was down in job creation compared to the average for 2018.
We'll see whether second quarter 2019 is better, or not.
You have to compare statistics over the same period.
The article is about the first quarter 2019: that is, January through March. The job statistics for the first quarter are poor, mainly due to an absolutely terrible jobs report in February: https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit... First quarter 2019 is significantly down in employment compared to the 2018 average.
The guy saying "fake news *rolls eyes*", however did the old switcheroo: he is just talking about March. March did bounce back... although it would be hard to not bounce back after such a low report for February, and it's still not even as high even as the average for 2018.
So how many jobs were created, or how many people were hired? Surely you must know if you are insinuating statements about over-all unemployment rates.
Scrolling two stories down: https://games.slashdot.org/sto... Apparently the video game industry is laying people off in large numbers.
Corporations are creatures of government; they are protected from repercussions by all manner of laws.
To the contrary. Governments are the only entities that can put limitations on corporations.
Your belief that if there weren't governments, corporations would be benign is... touching, but naïve. They'll suck out your blood and sell it to the highest bidder if they can.
Sure, after a decade the government said "No, bad company." But there weren't fines issued.
They settled... for $415 million.
Even for google and apple, nearly half a billion dollars is not pocket change. https://www.cnet.com/news/appl...
So why does cops routinely consult credit score of people they arrest?
I'd like a citation for this.
That is explicitly illegal (the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) does not allow it unless they have a court order.)
They love the word "liberty," but hardly any of the policies they want would increase liberty. They would just replace it with corporate dictatorship.
They would replace our current imperfect freedom with an America of nothing but gated communities with repressive regulations that can't be challenged in court, and corporate malls with repressive regulations that can't be challenged in court.
...Working in tech field, then you probably have NDAs/claims that you are taking their intellectual property. Failing that, remember when Apple, Adobe, Google, etc. agreed not to hire each other's employees?
Yes, but that was challenged and ruled illegal by the U.S. government. That makes a difference: in the US, the government challenges the anticompetitive "gentleman's agreement". In China, the government enforces it.
https://www.cnet.com/news/appl...
https://www.mintz.com/insights...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Really? Who is trying to deplatform those they don't agree with? It isn't the right.
Yes it is.
Incidents at Harvard and Catholic Universities challenge idea that liberals are the only ones preventing ideas from being voiced on campuses.
"The Hosty case is only part of the growing conservative attack on freedom of speech on campus."
Data shows a surprising campus free speech problem: left-wingers being fired for their opinions
Punish people for doing things we don't agree with! How much more "progressive" can you get?
You have that backwards. Conservatives are all about punishment.
Both conservatives and "progressives" are all about punishing people for doing (or saying) things they don't agree with.
Liberalism was about the "let everybody do their own thing". But the progressives killed liberalism.
Thank you, anonymous coward Chinese troll, for your delightful fake facts.
AP News: "China bars millions from travel for ‘social credit’ offenses". ref
Business Insider: "China has already started punishing people [with low social credit] by restricting their travel. Nine million people with low scores have been blocked from buying tickets for domestic flights, Channel News Asia reported in March, citing official statistics." Ref: https://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-system-punishments-and-rewards-explained-2018-4
Wikipedia: "Travel ban. By the end of 2018, 5.5 million high-speed rail trips and 17.5 million flights had been denied to prospective travellers who were on a blacklist." ref
And the "social credit" system is also used, yes, to enforce politics. Wired: "If solving problems was the real goal, the CCP would not need social credit to do it," she says. "China’s social credit system is a state-driven program designed to do one thing, to uphold and expand the Chinese Communist Party’s power." (Ref: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/china-social-credit-system-explained
"If someone keeps quitting and landing new jobs, his social credit will definitely be a problem," Zhejiang official Ge Pingan said at a local forum, addressing a complaint from one company's human resources department about being unable to do anything when employees want to leave.
This is a really sick viewpoint, although in this case there isn't much cultural difference between the east and west. Plenty of business owners in the US would love to have ways to keep employees other than providing a good work experience and fair pay.
Yes, but the U.S. does not have a government-operated "social credit system" that allows business owners to prevent people from traveling, or even from using public transportation, if they switch jobs.