Loot boxes are not under investigation. Spending real cash to buy them (or unlock "keys") is under investigation for gambling. And gambling for kids at that.
Years ago a new JLo song got to over 500 million views on youtube. I listened to it and there was nothing there. I had no desire to hear it again. It was a flop.
I always wondered if it hadn't been artificially plumped up.
Unless I am expecting a call from a mechanic or something, I haven't picked up a phone number that doesn't give caller ID in a year (to say nothing of "unknown" numbers.)
He's partially right, though. Predictions of gloom and doom are popular, with a GW chaser. There is no shortage of hot air about how bad a hurricane is "because GW", and it's good to point this out when it fizzles, and to keep it in mind for the next hurricane that is actually bad. A stopped clock and all that.
Even with GW, the strength and number increase will be minimal, and will require decades of data to tease it out beyond normal variance. Yet every hurricane is a much worse, terrrrrrrible consequence of GW.
There is no biological "race" that is anywhere near the historical social idea, but there are some differences which are important for medicine and research.
Except CNN tried exactly the same thing and it was light blue and pathetic compared to this.
Maybe Hollywood with a budget of millions and people lined up who know what to do could whip it out, but CNN did struggle, and Weather Channel should have done even worse, not way better.
Oh so they've solved all the hard problems and can go on to the easy stuff. Cool! Like how to keep such a hyperloop evacuated over hundreds of miles with connections and evacuation routes, and implosive recompression not ramming into the train like another much larger and more violent train.
So where's it say that some form of religion is mandated by the state in the US? Right. Canada has a heavier influence of religion on it's state then the US, to the point that Catholics were guaranteed protected rights, including a fully functional and separate education system funded by general revenue taxes. And *is* mandated by the state and constitutional law that it must exist.
It's kind of butt-ironic that many US states have a constitutional amendment forbidding tax dollars from going to religious schools because their Protestant majorities were scared Catholic schools might get a piece of the Protestant school tax action.
Again, it is the power in the hands of government that is wrong, not who wields it or why. Neither side learns this.
Inside, hundreds of ethnic Uighur Muslims spend their days in a high-pressure indoctrination program, where they are forced to listen to lectures, sing hymns praising the Chinese Communist Party and write “self-criticism” essays, according to detainees who have been released.
Inside the American university, hundreds of thousands of students spend their days in a high-pressure indoctrination program, where they are forced to listen to lectures, sing hymns praising the Joys of Diversity and write “self-criticism” essays, according to detainees who have been released.
Still bigger than the US, which is fast becoming a nation of bible banging idiots. The primacy of the US is over and Trump and DeVos are making sure the only future the working class have is debt slavery and prison
The US is like Europe in that it is becoming less religious, not more. The only reason the "SJWs" can "get away with it" is because of this exact shift the past 50 years.
Prior to that, support for gays, and earlier, womens' rights, could get you fired, and certainly your company boycotted.
Should anyone be surprised that same wrong power is being wielded with vengeance now? It held sway for the other side for thousands of years.
But it isn't totalitarianism anymore. While political challenges are largely restricted, economically they are much more open. As a result, they are becoming much more productive.
The Great Library was burned because the information challenged the authority of those in power, to the savages burned it.
The Internet, on the other hand, is being burned by savages who weild censorship in exchange for votes so political opponents cannot challenge their power.
As you can clearly see, there is an enormous difference as to why those savages in power are burning their various great libraries.
EU To Give Internet Firms 1 Hour To Remove Extremist Content
Well, time to fire up the military and give then 2 years to remove extremist censors in government.
You weren't freed from Nazis so 60 years later neo-dictators could censor free people.
The problem never has been the content of speech, but rather the existence of powers a wannabe dictator uses to harm political enemies.
These include various forms of censorship both direct and indirect, investigating political enemies or threatening to, or their supporters, or outright arresting them, amd so on.
This is not something that can be safely wielded by democracy, much less a bare simple majority, a low bar for a charismatic leader to hop.
Hacking voting systems is a distraction. It is pumping up dissent and rivalry and anger, by foreign governments trolling myriad sites, that is the real problem.
It's not so much free speech as it is speech by governments without them letting you know it is a government, much less which.
You don't think Russia or NK have dozens of innocent accounts with high karma ready to downmod stuff? Tout racial friction? Attempt to portray right wing as synonymous with neo Nazis? Not point out some are, but touting they are the same, while posting simultaneously messages that are Nazi-like as if by a Trump supporter? They play the roll of both sides.
That has lead to the explosive and valuable growth of internet companies in the US -- any company that lets people post stuff need only take down copyrighted items in a timely manner when notified of the violation, and they are safe from a lawsuit.
This has greatly hampered companies in Europe, to Europe's detriment. This new stuff will only exacerbate it as it is more than worth it for companies to spit implementation than let Europe decide the form of the Internet.
Btw this is what that idiot US senator was threatening to get rid of if Google and Facebook didn't self-censor to the government's liking. Go ahead, fool, and do an anti-American thing and punish those who don't censor (if the SC lets you, which is unlikely) destroying their trillion dollar stock value and crushing the retirement savings of tens of millions.
And no matter if it's well supported, the politics of the rightwing does not allow AGW to be real. So lots of places won't dare to mention climate change as being the cause of ANYTHING, because the only things AGW deniers will allow climate to do is "change" in such a way that we don't do it. It sure as shit isn't allowed to DO anything. Just change.
This is true but what also is true is the left is waiting for a bad hurricane so they can scream global warming and demand business controls, controls denied them when class warfare became a loser at the polls.
In both cases, follow the money. Do not be a cog in either side.
Global warming is a few percent in energy increase, and thus a percent of a percent in strength or number. It will take decades just to demonstrate a tiny increase in hurricane power or number.
There is a fucking HURRICANE coming, why are we wasting time with this? This storm will be a Cat 5 blasting into the Carolinas with the force of thousands of nuclear bombs. Are there nuclear power plants that need to be secured? Chemical facilities? Low lying areas where people live, barrier islands, etc? Can we get started early on recovery planning, such as food, water, body bags, sanitation, etc? We shouldn't forget about the animals - we have a good amount of warning that we could be using to evacuate animals as well as people. We should take this as a call to action to accelerate global climate change amelioration efforts and a rapid transition to renewable and carbon-neutral energy as it is obvious to everyone that this monster storm is a direct result of global warming and is only the first of several pointed right at the US like bullets in the barrel of a gun. Up until now, much of the damage due to global climate change has been in faraway places like low-lying islands in the Pacific - this is climate change writ large, come home to roost. We all know that the greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere probably cannot be removed, but the least we can do is make a serious attempt to cut back on new emissions and we can and do have the technology to do it, we simply need to find the willpower. What we do NOT need is imbeciles like the current occupants of the White House doing things like this to actively make the problem worse but put a few extra pennies in the pockets of their big oil campaign contributors. This hurricane, which promises to be ultra-destructive as it barrels towards landfall and then stalls out over the coast due to changed weather and climate patterns needs to serve as a clarion call to arms for all climate warriors to remove by any and all means necessary, even force, people who are trying to destroy our world and our children's world. The time for action has come, and the time for discussion is over. We have tried reason and it has not worked because they will not listen. Nobody can say we didn't try.
I'm gonna study this paragraph and break out all your points into actionable line items and prepare for its arrival and shit the hurricane's up by Idaho already.
The shared panopticon of everything you have bought or searched for or viewed generates not just things you like or may be interested in, but estimates of how much you may be willing to (over)pay for because you are too lazy to comparison shop.
CA attracts fast-growing stuff because it is a beautiful state. These companies sell to the rest of the US and the world. This brings in tons of cash, which attracts those who develop political power by spending it.
Do not put the cart before the horse. The giant, plaguelike government didn't build that business.
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Loot boxes are not under investigation. Spending real cash to buy them (or unlock "keys") is under investigation for gambling. And gambling for kids at that.
Yes both sides, one adamant on enforcing regularity on the states, the other angelic with the glories of 50 states experimenting, have swapped sides.
This is "situational ethics", where you tout as high value a principle, then abandon it when it gets in your way.
It is the political principle of neurosis -- the brain trying to hold two incompatible positions simultaneously.
Years ago a new JLo song got to over 500 million views on youtube. I listened to it and there was nothing there. I had no desire to hear it again. It was a flop.
I always wondered if it hadn't been artificially plumped up.
In an unrelated story, Apple announced their sales in Rawanda skyrocketted last year.
Unless I am expecting a call from a mechanic or something, I haven't picked up a phone number that doesn't give caller ID in a year (to say nothing of "unknown" numbers.)
We don't need no stinking First Amendment! The people and their vote will keep those in power from slowly twisting censorship to their benefit!
He's partially right, though. Predictions of gloom and doom are popular, with a GW chaser. There is no shortage of hot air about how bad a hurricane is "because GW", and it's good to point this out when it fizzles, and to keep it in mind for the next hurricane that is actually bad. A stopped clock and all that.
Even with GW, the strength and number increase will be minimal, and will require decades of data to tease it out beyond normal variance. Yet every hurricane is a much worse, terrrrrrrible consequence of GW.
Pay attention to the rhetoric.
There is no biological "race" that is anywhere near the historical social idea, but there are some differences which are important for medicine and research.
Except CNN tried exactly the same thing and it was light blue and pathetic compared to this.
Maybe Hollywood with a budget of millions and people lined up who know what to do could whip it out, but CNN did struggle, and Weather Channel should have done even worse, not way better.
Oh so they've solved all the hard problems and can go on to the easy stuff. Cool!
Like how to keep such a hyperloop evacuated over hundreds of miles with connections and evacuation routes, and implosive recompression not ramming into the train like another much larger and more violent train.
So where's it say that some form of religion is mandated by the state in the US? Right. Canada has a heavier influence of religion on it's state then the US, to the point that Catholics were guaranteed protected rights, including a fully functional and separate education system funded by general revenue taxes. And *is* mandated by the state and constitutional law that it must exist.
It's kind of butt-ironic that many US states have a constitutional amendment forbidding tax dollars from going to religious schools because their Protestant majorities were scared Catholic schools might get a piece of the Protestant school tax action.
Again, it is the power in the hands of government that is wrong, not who wields it or why. Neither side learns this.
Inside, hundreds of ethnic Uighur Muslims spend their days in a high-pressure indoctrination program, where they are forced to listen to lectures, sing hymns praising the Chinese Communist Party and write “self-criticism” essays, according to detainees who have been released.
Inside the American university, hundreds of thousands of students spend their days in a high-pressure indoctrination program, where they are forced to listen to lectures, sing hymns praising the Joys of Diversity and write “self-criticism” essays, according to detainees who have been released.
Still bigger than the US, which is fast becoming a nation of bible banging idiots. The primacy of the US is over and Trump and DeVos are making sure the only future the working class have is debt slavery and prison
The US is like Europe in that it is becoming less religious, not more. The only reason the "SJWs" can "get away with it" is because of this exact shift the past 50 years.
Prior to that, support for gays, and earlier, womens' rights, could get you fired, and certainly your company boycotted.
Should anyone be surprised that same wrong power is being wielded with vengeance now? It held sway for the other side for thousands of years.
But it isn't totalitarianism anymore. While political challenges are largely restricted, economically they are much more open. As a result, they are becoming much more productive.
Right on schedule.
Insofar as they are open, it doesn't matter. Insofar as if they ever shut back down, they will go back to being irrelevant.
The Great Library was burned because the information challenged the authority of those in power, to the savages burned it.
The Internet, on the other hand, is being burned by savages who weild censorship in exchange for votes so political opponents cannot challenge their power.
As you can clearly see, there is an enormous difference as to why those savages in power are burning their various great libraries.
EU To Give Internet Firms 1 Hour To Remove Extremist Content
Well, time to fire up the military and give then 2 years to remove extremist censors in government.
You weren't freed from Nazis so 60 years later neo-dictators could censor free people.
The problem never has been the content of speech, but rather the existence of powers a wannabe dictator uses to harm political enemies.
These include various forms of censorship both direct and indirect, investigating political enemies or threatening to, or their supporters, or outright arresting them, amd so on.
This is not something that can be safely wielded by democracy, much less a bare simple majority, a low bar for a charismatic leader to hop.
Hacking voting systems is a distraction. It is pumping up dissent and rivalry and anger, by foreign governments trolling myriad sites, that is the real problem.
It's not so much free speech as it is speech by governments without them letting you know it is a government, much less which.
You don't think Russia or NK have dozens of innocent accounts with high karma ready to downmod stuff? Tout racial friction? Attempt to portray right wing as synonymous with neo Nazis? Not point out some are, but touting they are the same, while posting simultaneously messages that are Nazi-like as if by a Trump supporter? They play the roll of both sides.
That has lead to the explosive and valuable growth of internet companies in the US -- any company that lets people post stuff need only take down copyrighted items in a timely manner when notified of the violation, and they are safe from a lawsuit.
This has greatly hampered companies in Europe, to Europe's detriment. This new stuff will only exacerbate it as it is more than worth it for companies to spit implementation than let Europe decide the form of the Internet.
Btw this is what that idiot US senator was threatening to get rid of if Google and Facebook didn't self-censor to the government's liking. Go ahead, fool, and do an anti-American thing and punish those who don't censor (if the SC lets you, which is unlikely) destroying their trillion dollar stock value and crushing the retirement savings of tens of millions.
Stupid Americans and their lazy regulatory government and lax corporations. We Brits have a tight reign on secur...
I know a wfh computer guy who has a nice place on Superior in the UP.
Great deal if your work can swing it.
And no matter if it's well supported, the politics of the rightwing does not allow AGW to be real. So lots of places won't dare to mention climate change as being the cause of ANYTHING, because the only things AGW deniers will allow climate to do is "change" in such a way that we don't do it. It sure as shit isn't allowed to DO anything. Just change.
This is true but what also is true is the left is waiting for a bad hurricane so they can scream global warming and demand business controls, controls denied them when class warfare became a loser at the polls.
In both cases, follow the money. Do not be a cog in either side.
Global warming is a few percent in energy increase, and thus a percent of a percent in strength or number. It will take decades just to demonstrate a tiny increase in hurricane power or number.
There is a fucking HURRICANE coming, why are we wasting time with this? This storm will be a Cat 5 blasting into the Carolinas with the force of thousands of nuclear bombs. Are there nuclear power plants that need to be secured? Chemical facilities? Low lying areas where people live, barrier islands, etc? Can we get started early on recovery planning, such as food, water, body bags, sanitation, etc? We shouldn't forget about the animals - we have a good amount of warning that we could be using to evacuate animals as well as people. We should take this as a call to action to accelerate global climate change amelioration efforts and a rapid transition to renewable and carbon-neutral energy as it is obvious to everyone that this monster storm is a direct result of global warming and is only the first of several pointed right at the US like bullets in the barrel of a gun. Up until now, much of the damage due to global climate change has been in faraway places like low-lying islands in the Pacific - this is climate change writ large, come home to roost. We all know that the greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere probably cannot be removed, but the least we can do is make a serious attempt to cut back on new emissions and we can and do have the technology to do it, we simply need to find the willpower. What we do NOT need is imbeciles like the current occupants of the White House doing things like this to actively make the problem worse but put a few extra pennies in the pockets of their big oil campaign contributors. This hurricane, which promises to be ultra-destructive as it barrels towards landfall and then stalls out over the coast due to changed weather and climate patterns needs to serve as a clarion call to arms for all climate warriors to remove by any and all means necessary, even force, people who are trying to destroy our world and our children's world. The time for action has come, and the time for discussion is over. We have tried reason and it has not worked because they will not listen. Nobody can say we didn't try.
I'm gonna study this paragraph and break out all your points into actionable line items and prepare for its arrival and shit the hurricane's up by Idaho already.
The shared panopticon of everything you have bought or searched for or viewed generates not just things you like or may be interested in, but estimates of how much you may be willing to (over)pay for because you are too lazy to comparison shop.
Quelle surprise they take advantage of it.
"Who are your government customers?"
If any are dictatorships, you should be thrown in jail.
CA attracts fast-growing stuff because it is a beautiful state. These companies sell to the rest of the US and the world. This brings in tons of cash, which attracts those who develop political power by spending it.
Do not put the cart before the horse. The giant, plaguelike government didn't build that business.