Chatty scripting requiring lots of back and forth. Serving up the ads first before content, trying to make sure the ads are seen. Interacting with ad customization services to eke out an additional fraction of a cent. Scripting that downloads higher quality video in a sidebar ad than the real site. Flash or other crap that runs at CPU max load rather than 99% of it, because the browser makers want that fastest script award and to hell with lockup.
If the phone had a tracker for the buds, including last known location if the power dies, that would be sweet.
As it stands, I would never use these outside the house, and even then there's a terror of it flinging off somewhere when I was walking and didn't notice.
Hehe, they should include an optional string to tie the buds together, and to tie that to the phone.
The American Civil Liberties Union of California discovered that so-called fusion centers, which collect intelligence, had access to monitoring technology from Dataminr, an analytics company partially owned by Twitter.
The English language already has a word for government information gathering fusion aggregation and analysis centers: panopticon.
The most important guiding principle behind the design of the US constitution is not allowing the government to build the tools of tyranny to begin with. If it doesn't exist, it cannot be abused. That is the only principle that seems to work historically, and, more specifically, relying on "the vote" to prevent government from going into the dictatorial weeds has been shown full of failure in various historical democracies. Indeed, said vote more often than not is the end downfall as "emergency powers" are issued to a charismatic demagogue who never relinquishes it.
No panopticons. And no emergency powers to use to build the panopticon's data gathering. Stop giving these things to government.
It is unfortunate that people are vastly more likely to go bitch about something wrong than praize something right, but when you read, you assume that is the average experience.
Uber is just getting the jump on all those things the status quo protectors scream about before they disappear as irrelevant.
See:
No tests needed for drivers!
No worries about criminal drivers!
No worries about payment or overcharges!
Only as many cars on the road as needed!
Those puking up echo chamber derogations of Uber in favor of established taxis (and the politicians receiving kickbacks from the medallion cartel) should be higher than a kite with joy at this news!
Nope. For example, right-wingers are more likely to claim that there are supernatural beings of some sort, left-wingers are more likely to deny that. Since there's no evidence of the existence of such, reality would seem to have a leftist lean in at least this respect.
Show me a left-winger running for high office who denies god exists. Who actually has a chance of winning.
The Supreme Court ridicously stated a free functional advertising spot they let people pay them for was on a license plate was the state speaking, and so the state could restrict it (unlike, say, bus side advertising).
Thus did the State of Texas speak loudly in favor of the Penn State football team.
More interesting is the government's baldfaced assertion that it has the power to strip religious behavior from the behavior of staying alive, which is to say, earning money, which is to say, baking for some people.
"We hereby declare that religious people need our permission to be religious in earning a living, a brute requirement of staying alive! We decline to permit them."
Religion is something they declare, fait accompli, is not part of business, AKA remaining alive by putting food in your mouth. They declare it only is permitted, by government, as a quaint lifestyle choice severed from anything of note.
Time was, in the 1970s in this case, the left objected to malls ejecting protesters inside in front of stores. They claimed that, even though the malls were private property, they functioned as modern public squares, and free speech was so important, it should override private property rights in this case.
Now they stand squarely -- squarely -- for private corporate speech rights. Try to envision a liberal suing Twitter in an attempt to claim they are a modern town square, or postal delivery system, and therefore should be forced to allow alternative points of view the corporation does not want to promote.
Jill Stein was just denied the Michigan recount. Did she have evidence of fraud? "No." "Do you think a recount will have you win?" "No." "Hillary doesn't think a recount will have her win. Do you?" "No." "You aren't even her and she should be the one asking, but she isn't. Denied."
Well, when the blue glow of Luke's saber lit up Rey's face in the nighttime woods after she snagged it, you just lose something on the small screen. It is not the same, even allowing for the communal experience.
I prefer to sit in the 4th thru 6th row, where the screen is huge but not so close it is hard to focus, or where you must crane your neck. I just don't get people who rush right up the stairs so the screen is little more than a large TV.
If Samsung had not followed Apple into the race for thinner phones they could have saved themselves a whole lot of trouble with exploding batteries if they just left them removable removable. I wonder how Samsung will fuck this up.
Phone thinness is stupid -- I already double it with a new Otter case every time.
I've been preaching that for 20 years -- chronic double-digit increases are driven by easy loans.
As with a car, people wince at a $2000 radio upgrade, but an additional $30/month, sign me up!
Thus do large annual increases turn into small increases in your monthly loan.
Add in politicians favoring easy loans so all can get educations, and loan companies who don't care about risks because the government will pick up the pieces of a bubble burst, and you have the perfect storm.
One way to wrench it back down is refuse to guarantee loans to any school who increases cost beyind inflation.
Another way is to deny loan guarantees to any university with more than 50% sinecure positions (jobs directly unrelated to teaching.) Then drop it down by 1% a year until it is 20% or whatever the janitorial staff + HR is.
Thank you. I can hardly blame gay people or minorities from trying to socially lord over other people. After all, anti-gay, say, social (and legal) ostracism and worse, held sway for thousands of years, and only recently did pressures lift.
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8% x $10 = $80
100% x 99 cents = $99
It was a good roll of the dice. If it were 20% or more
Dot dot dot
Profit!
Chatty scripting requiring lots of back and forth. Serving up the ads first before content, trying to make sure the ads are seen. Interacting with ad customization services to eke out an additional fraction of a cent. Scripting that downloads higher quality video in a sidebar ad than the real site. Flash or other crap that runs at CPU max load rather than 99% of it, because the browser makers want that fastest script award and to hell with lockup.
If the phone had a tracker for the buds, including last known location if the power dies, that would be sweet.
As it stands, I would never use these outside the house, and even then there's a terror of it flinging off somewhere when I was walking and didn't notice.
Hehe, they should include an optional string to tie the buds together, and to tie that to the phone.
The American Civil Liberties Union of California discovered that so-called fusion centers, which collect intelligence, had access to monitoring technology from Dataminr, an analytics company partially owned by Twitter.
The English language already has a word for government information gathering fusion aggregation and analysis centers: panopticon.
The most important guiding principle behind the design of the US constitution is not allowing the government to build the tools of tyranny to begin with. If it doesn't exist, it cannot be abused. That is the only principle that seems to work historically, and, more specifically, relying on "the vote" to prevent government from going into the dictatorial weeds has been shown full of failure in various historical democracies. Indeed, said vote more often than not is the end downfall as "emergency powers" are issued to a charismatic demagogue who never relinquishes it.
No panopticons. And no emergency powers to use to build the panopticon's data gathering. Stop giving these things to government.
It is unfortunate that people are vastly more likely to go bitch about something wrong than praize something right, but when you read, you assume that is the average experience.
Uber is just getting the jump on all those things the status quo protectors scream about before they disappear as irrelevant.
See:
No tests needed for drivers!
No worries about criminal drivers!
No worries about payment or overcharges!
Only as many cars on the road as needed!
Those puking up echo chamber derogations of Uber in favor of established taxis (and the politicians receiving kickbacks from the medallion cartel) should be higher than a kite with joy at this news!
Nope. For example, right-wingers are more likely to claim that there are supernatural beings of some sort, left-wingers are more likely to deny that. Since there's no evidence of the existence of such, reality would seem to have a leftist lean in at least this respect.
Show me a left-winger running for high office who denies god exists. Who actually has a chance of winning.
The Supreme Court ridicously stated a free functional advertising spot they let people pay them for was on a license plate was the state speaking, and so the state could restrict it (unlike, say, bus side advertising).
Thus did the State of Texas speak loudly in favor of the Penn State football team.
More interesting is the government's baldfaced assertion that it has the power to strip religious behavior from the behavior of staying alive, which is to say, earning money, which is to say, baking for some people.
"We hereby declare that religious people need our permission to be religious in earning a living, a brute requirement of staying alive! We decline to permit them."
Religion is something they declare, fait accompli, is not part of business, AKA remaining alive by putting food in your mouth. They declare it only is permitted, by government, as a quaint lifestyle choice severed from anything of note.
Time was, in the 1970s in this case, the left objected to malls ejecting protesters inside in front of stores. They claimed that, even though the malls were private property, they functioned as modern public squares, and free speech was so important, it should override private property rights in this case.
Now they stand squarely -- squarely -- for private corporate speech rights. Try to envision a liberal suing Twitter in an attempt to claim they are a modern town square, or postal delivery system, and therefore should be forced to allow alternative points of view the corporation does not want to promote.
That case lost in the Supreme Court, by the way.
Jill Stein was just denied the Michigan recount. Did she have evidence of fraud? "No." "Do you think a recount will have you win?" "No." "Hillary doesn't think a recount will have her win. Do you?" "No." "You aren't even her and she should be the one asking, but she isn't. Denied."
Scientists have shown too many rats packed into a closed space start fighting among themselves. Should this distorted worldview run the entire nation?
We are supposed to be a free country, not an unlimited parliamentary democracy where whoever gets 51% gets to pass any law they like.
Write down your own idiotic predictions and watch.
To sum up for the dim, the US has more problems witb sick babies for a variery of reasons, but if you are born a sick baby, pray it was in the US.
As with any medical care, US medicine is the best. The whines are about access to it, a preferred problem to have if you ask me.
No, the correct person to blame is ourselves for continuing to vote for people who spend massively on our behalf, in exchange for our votes.
Well, they have to borrow for this habit of ours, and that means renting this money. Be happy Apple is doing this rather than more foreign powers.
Well, when the blue glow of Luke's saber lit up Rey's face in the nighttime woods after she snagged it, you just lose something on the small screen. It is not the same, even allowing for the communal experience.
I prefer to sit in the 4th thru 6th row, where the screen is huge but not so close it is hard to focus, or where you must crane your neck. I just don't get people who rush right up the stairs so the screen is little more than a large TV.
A headphone jack can be all metal and plastic sealed tube and does not have to open up to the inside.
If Samsung had not followed Apple into the race for thinner phones they could have saved themselves a whole lot of trouble with exploding batteries if they just left them removable removable. I wonder how Samsung will fuck this up.
Phone thinness is stupid -- I already double it with a new Otter case every time.
The "um" is the suffix, not "ium".
I've been preaching that for 20 years -- chronic double-digit increases are driven by easy loans.
As with a car, people wince at a $2000 radio upgrade, but an additional $30/month, sign me up!
Thus do large annual increases turn into small increases in your monthly loan.
Add in politicians favoring easy loans so all can get educations, and loan companies who don't care about risks because the government will pick up the pieces of a bubble burst, and you have the perfect storm.
One way to wrench it back down is refuse to guarantee loans to any school who increases cost beyind inflation.
Another way is to deny loan guarantees to any university with more than 50% sinecure positions (jobs directly unrelated to teaching.) Then drop it down by 1% a year until it is 20% or whatever the janitorial staff + HR is.
You guys are full of sh.
Well, besides Shrimp Week at Red Lobster. And $5 for 2 Big Macs. And Magnum XLs when I go visit your mother.
A migration over 100 years or more is a comfortable migration, not a refugee crisis.
You can't even imgine the tech in a hundred years.
Thank you. I can hardly blame gay people or minorities from trying to socially lord over other people. After all, anti-gay, say, social (and legal) ostracism and worse, held sway for thousands of years, and only recently did pressures lift.