Google might have *some* of that data - possibly even the MAC, if it's an Android device - but even with Google's reach, expecting them to be able to produce that data on a whole bunch of essentially random Google users just based on their searches seems a bit of a stretch. Am I missing something here, or is it just those involved in writing and granting the warrant badly need to run a few Google searches of their own?
Google is in the business of marketing, and they are among the best at it. If anyone has it (and they do) Google is among the people who do.
Nah, the lesson here is that it's IMPOSSIBLE to keep government and economics as separate as possible, and that trying to keep them away is not a sustainable solution.
This isn't true, at all. The government has one asset: it holds a monopoly on violence. All things the government does or can do stem from that one basic fact. Having the government do anything else is bad because they will mix the assets they have to achieve objectives. Some things are more "benign", at least in modern conception, like taking people's homes by force or shooting/jailing/etc them for not paying taxes, the bulk of which antithetically go to providing other people with food and housing. Then there are bigger issues, like the fact we are coming up fast on the transition from a scarcity-based economy to a post-scarcity economy thanks to extreme automation - the place controlling who lives and dies is not the place I want deciding what to do with all the extra people who are no longer needed to drive the economy.
Yahoo wasn't even close to the first search engine, nor were they ever the best. In fact, they've released hundreds of products in the time they have existed, none of which have been the best at what they did.
1) Bring manufacturing back.
2) Automate manufacturing.
3) We control the robots producing things instead of being at the mercy of another nation begging for free merchandise with nothing to offer in return.
This shows the real problem. The problem with a dictator is not the dictator himself, but the amount of people allowing and even supporting him to be a dictator.
FYI - the types of people who post swastikas aren't the types of people who support Erdogan. This is clearly someone in the EU trying to vilify Turkey (not that they are wrong in the attempt.)
This should come as no shock to anyone who has ever been in a swamp. You can pump out water forever... You're just going to have new shit flowing in to replace it.
That's why Brexit and Trump are such disasters. Instead of a compromise solution, we get extremes and the winners ranting about how democracy requires them to get everything they want and fuck you fascist anti-democrat for even daring to question it.
Trump is the first "compromise" we've had in decades. For my entire life it's been the Democrats getting a little more and the Republicans getting nothing (excluding the RINOs in office, who are in fact just globalists calling themselves "Republican", just like most of the "Democrats" - the difference being Democrats are largely in favor of globalism.)
owned by a branch of Google incorporated in a foreign nation
That is absolute lunacy. The FBI is investigating something domestic which need data from overseas, data obtainable by a US corporation. Google was made in the US, they are US property - if they say no shoot the board and ask their replacements.
- 24/7 ? Interesting arrangement. What do you need as compensation to accept an offer like that? I get it when a business owner has to work like that, but an employee? I am curious who takes this and for how much?
Probably someone getting paid to be an "example" of how much worse you could have it than your expected ~60 hours/week in many tech jobs.
If a company makes any kind of offering which must be outlined in a EULA/ToS they should be shut down. People used Facebook, they didn't know they were having their data mined because extremely few people are educated in the legalese required to understand the EULA/ToS which states through the use of such jargon that data "may" be exchanged with others. Facebook didn't advertise as "we are selling all the data you give us, so give us your data" - that in itself is enough to make them thieves. If you create a product it is generally understood you must convey to your customer in terms they understand what the product is in order for them to be using it, that simply didn't happen because the users aren't the customers, they were just lead to believe that they were.
A) You can't have it both ways, you have liberty and innovation or you have authoritarianism and nothing.
B) It's not his and his vision is irrelevant. The internet was a military project designed to ensure internal communications after a nuclear war, not some new-age hippy propaganda machine.
Put your money where your mouth is and start shorting the market if you think it's so over-bought.
I'm building up a cash reserve to buy shares of dividend-paying stocks on the way down. I never buy into an up market.
I think you're confused as to the nature of "shorting" - the gist of it is: you sell shares other people have and make the difference when they drop. If you are certain the market will tank, just short everything. If you are wrong (you are) you will get margin calls and go broke, but in the off chance you're right you make lots of money.
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Before they develop the technology to actually censor thought they disapprove of?
Google might have *some* of that data - possibly even the MAC, if it's an Android device - but even with Google's reach, expecting them to be able to produce that data on a whole bunch of essentially random Google users just based on their searches seems a bit of a stretch. Am I missing something here, or is it just those involved in writing and granting the warrant badly need to run a few Google searches of their own?
Google is in the business of marketing, and they are among the best at it. If anyone has it (and they do) Google is among the people who do.
At first, I was ready to get mad about an over-broad search. But after reading the facts and background info, the warrant doesn't seem unreasonable.
It's not that the warrant is unjustified, it's that Google has that information.
That's cute,
As an absolute rule: when someone prefixed something with "That's cute," they can be disregarded as a moron.
Nah, the lesson here is that it's IMPOSSIBLE to keep government and economics as separate as possible, and that trying to keep them away is not a sustainable solution.
This isn't true, at all. The government has one asset: it holds a monopoly on violence. All things the government does or can do stem from that one basic fact. Having the government do anything else is bad because they will mix the assets they have to achieve objectives. Some things are more "benign", at least in modern conception, like taking people's homes by force or shooting/jailing/etc them for not paying taxes, the bulk of which antithetically go to providing other people with food and housing. Then there are bigger issues, like the fact we are coming up fast on the transition from a scarcity-based economy to a post-scarcity economy thanks to extreme automation - the place controlling who lives and dies is not the place I want deciding what to do with all the extra people who are no longer needed to drive the economy.
Yahoo wasn't even close to the first search engine, nor were they ever the best. In fact, they've released hundreds of products in the time they have existed, none of which have been the best at what they did.
1) Bring manufacturing back.
2) Automate manufacturing.
3) We control the robots producing things instead of being at the mercy of another nation begging for free merchandise with nothing to offer in return.
This shows the real problem. The problem with a dictator is not the dictator himself, but the amount of people allowing and even supporting him to be a dictator.
FYI - the types of people who post swastikas aren't the types of people who support Erdogan. This is clearly someone in the EU trying to vilify Turkey (not that they are wrong in the attempt.)
This should come as no shock to anyone who has ever been in a swamp. You can pump out water forever... You're just going to have new shit flowing in to replace it.
Tell that to the Aztecs.
That's why Brexit and Trump are such disasters. Instead of a compromise solution, we get extremes and the winners ranting about how democracy requires them to get everything they want and fuck you fascist anti-democrat for even daring to question it.
Trump is the first "compromise" we've had in decades. For my entire life it's been the Democrats getting a little more and the Republicans getting nothing (excluding the RINOs in office, who are in fact just globalists calling themselves "Republican", just like most of the "Democrats" - the difference being Democrats are largely in favor of globalism.)
Who put the NSA in a Christian summer camp?
owned by a branch of Google incorporated in a foreign nation
That is absolute lunacy. The FBI is investigating something domestic which need data from overseas, data obtainable by a US corporation. Google was made in the US, they are US property - if they say no shoot the board and ask their replacements.
We have natural selection again, now just to make the robots more unsafe so we can avoid Idiocracy altogether.
- 24/7 ? Interesting arrangement. What do you need as compensation to accept an offer like that? I get it when a business owner has to work like that, but an employee? I am curious who takes this and for how much?
Probably someone getting paid to be an "example" of how much worse you could have it than your expected ~60 hours/week in many tech jobs.
Another recent example of a democratic election gone horribly wrong.
No kidding. If they respected democracy they would have named the actual ship that instead of a robot launched from the ship.
If a company makes any kind of offering which must be outlined in a EULA/ToS they should be shut down. People used Facebook, they didn't know they were having their data mined because extremely few people are educated in the legalese required to understand the EULA/ToS which states through the use of such jargon that data "may" be exchanged with others. Facebook didn't advertise as "we are selling all the data you give us, so give us your data" - that in itself is enough to make them thieves. If you create a product it is generally understood you must convey to your customer in terms they understand what the product is in order for them to be using it, that simply didn't happen because the users aren't the customers, they were just lead to believe that they were.
One simple rule to identify if it's a tech conference: Did people leave their basement for it? If "yes" then it is not, if "no" then it might be.
A) You can't have it both ways, you have liberty and innovation or you have authoritarianism and nothing.
B) It's not his and his vision is irrelevant. The internet was a military project designed to ensure internal communications after a nuclear war, not some new-age hippy propaganda machine.
What does political opinions have to do with investing?
That's the point.
Gates and Buffett are tech and finance parasites, respectively. Of course they're Democrats.
I took you for the kind of person who espoused political beliefs. That's antithetical to equities trading.
Please?
NPOs are for the most part (over 95%) just tax avoidance schemes for trust fund babies.
Put your money where your mouth is and start shorting the market if you think it's so over-bought.
I'm building up a cash reserve to buy shares of dividend-paying stocks on the way down. I never buy into an up market.
I think you're confused as to the nature of "shorting" - the gist of it is: you sell shares other people have and make the difference when they drop. If you are certain the market will tank, just short everything. If you are wrong (you are) you will get margin calls and go broke, but in the off chance you're right you make lots of money.
Put your money where your mouth is and start shorting the market if you think it's so over-bought.