Well maybe, but you didn't exactly pick a show worth watching in the first place...
Maybe he meant that a shitty show watched at double speed improves the shit vs. time metric, or something. I dunno.
As for me, if something sucks, I don't want to watch it at all, let alone at double speed. But of course I'm out of touch with what the cool kids are up to these days.
Maybe he meant a show with a chick with big, jiggling boobs was more fun watched at double speed.
Robot: "I have discerned another pattern. Lesbian deaths in shows are rapidly reducing, but the jump the shark moment where the couple gets together will still end with a breakup. In this way the pre-jump-the-shark moment can be restored and re-run."
"The robot won't want to start pouring milk if it thinks you're about to pull the glass away."
As Sunday dinner completes, Timmy announces he is going to go surf Slashdot. A robotic voice sternly announces, "Timmy says he is going to surf Slashdot, but I predict will actually be scratching his urinary spigot for seven point four four minutes."
The benefit to society is in removing jobs, which is to say increasing productivity.
Taxing it removes that productivity. This is nothing more than politicians 150 years ago whining about the impossibility of finding jobs for the 98% of people living and working on farms who no longer would be over the coming decades.
Freedom of religion is the only reason America got so far the non-religious can contemplate outlawing certain aspects of religion.
I wouldn't open that can of worms. Also, the same bullshit religion did is now shoved into non-religious, power-dominating memeplexes, and most don't realize it. Give up on "god", and proceed for dominance anyway, thus missing the forest for the trees.
In this context of new technology, your private "papers" are moving online into the virtual world for convenience. The People maintain an expectation of privacy in their papers wherever they are.
This warrantless stuff is complete sophistry on the part of those in power. There are reasons the Constitution denies general search and General Warrant powers to the government -- to stop the king from going on fishing expiditions to tag uppity opponenrs with, as most people have some minor violations, usually unknowingly, so general warrant searches looking for anything are a productive and useful tool to keep yourself in power.
Humanity, and free humanity under democracy, unfortunately also has experience with "emergency" powers never being given back.
It's doubtful they will include in their analysis the use of guns in maintaining freedom, the real constitutional readon, any more than the FDA includes in its regulations for safety and efficacy the masses of deaths caused by dragging out or stopping the development of useful drugs.
Here's a reasonable solution: YouTube gives the artist all the ad revenue they earned on ads for a particular video between the time it was (illegally) posted and YouTube received a takedown notice.
It's all computers and they know this info already.
The OP article is literally pooh-pooing China's forging ahead with even bigger ships and an even bigger canal next to Panama to handle them. Meanwbile we sit tying up port dredging to deepen ports that have been dredged many times before.
So our government is killing this industry, and people defending government actions habe no choice but to try to take a sqhat on China's new dominance in worldwide shipling.
Sad. We are literally (used correctly) no longer a government concerned with keeping the trade routes open. Rather we act like corruption, plaguing endeavors. This is when center of empire shifts to the old outskirts, less burdened and far from that overcontrol.
Capitalism's goal is free people satisfying the needs and desires of their fellow citizens.
There is nothing more fair than lots of housing such that the cost drops. Supply and demand. Something has chained the supply down so it can barely increase. As people move in, there are plenty of greedy developers who would build to satisfy...if they could.
Luxury housing is the only thing new construction is interested in, precisely because they can charge a lot because LUXURY. Normal schmoe housing, forget it. Hundreds of thousands for environmental studies, fight fight fight, and as a reward, rent control.
AirBnB drives the cost of all rentals in all cities. AirBnB was designed to rent out coach houses/basements of the same property which is your primary residence. That is also still allowed under this.
What this law is designed to do (and needs to be done in Vancouver BC, Seattle WA, Portland Oregon, and San Francisco California) is stop people from hoarding property from the people who live in the city and need that property. There are people who own a dozen properties and list them on AirBnB or just keep them empty and use it as a store of value. "Investors" are locking up the housing supply to drive up the property prices.
AirBnB has it's purpose, and if you look on a map of a city like NYC, SFO or YVR you'll see the AirBnB units outnumber the actual rental units available to people who live there.
It's only arm of solving the housing affordability problem. Developers should be designing condo buildings with a few floors of 3-bedroom units that can be partitioned into a 1-bedroom main unit and a 2-bedroom "BnB" (No kitchen in the BnB side) with it's own entrance. Anything smaller is not a BnB qualifier.
If big cities didn't make it difficult to build new buildings, both before and after construction, you'd have fewer problems for people finding reasonable accomodations. But continue to double down on central control micromanagement. I am sure someone will get it right one of these centuries.
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I'm not really looking forward to the porno popups.
> less corrupt
Wanna bet? And wanna compare either period to current corruption levels in Italy or France?
Denying a problem exists doesn't actually solve the problem.
In this case, it does. You are worring about a vanishingly small percent of problems compared to the number of normal deaths driving causes each year.
The computer, by avoiding crashes to begin with, should never find itself barreling towards a group of people. Cliff or person? Save the driver.
Good god, the clowns around here with liability agreements (by the way, you can't sign away the rights of people you cream to sue the manufacturer.)
Well maybe, but you didn't exactly pick a show worth watching in the first place...
Maybe he meant that a shitty show watched at double speed improves the shit vs. time metric, or something. I dunno.
As for me, if something sucks, I don't want to watch it at all, let alone at double speed. But of course I'm out of touch with what the cool kids are up to these days.
Maybe he meant a show with a chick with big, jiggling boobs was more fun watched at double speed.
Robot: "I have discerned another pattern. Lesbian deaths in shows are rapidly reducing, but the jump the shark moment where the couple gets together will still end with a breakup. In this way the pre-jump-the-shark moment can be restored and re-run."
In 2118 they will look back on our foolish attempts to reduce landfill, those golden repositories of resources just born for robot armies to scour.
We are stupider to compensate for 2118 life than 1900 would for 2016. Policies that slow tech dev are net murderous.
There's a downside to this.
"The robot won't want to start pouring milk if it thinks you're about to pull the glass away."
As Sunday dinner completes, Timmy announces he is going to go surf Slashdot. A robotic voice sternly announces, "Timmy says he is going to surf Slashdot, but I predict will actually be scratching his urinary spigot for seven point four four minutes."
The benefit to society is in removing jobs, which is to say increasing productivity.
Taxing it removes that productivity. This is nothing more than politicians 150 years ago whining about the impossibility of finding jobs for the 98% of people living and working on farms who no longer would be over the coming decades.
It is all unnecessary.
Freedom of religion is the only reason America got so far the non-religious can contemplate outlawing certain aspects of religion.
I wouldn't open that can of worms. Also, the same bullshit religion did is now shoved into non-religious, power-dominating memeplexes, and most don't realize it. Give up on "god", and proceed for dominance anyway, thus missing the forest for the trees.
In this context of new technology, your private "papers" are moving online into the virtual world for convenience. The People maintain an expectation of privacy in their papers wherever they are.
This warrantless stuff is complete sophistry on the part of those in power. There are reasons the Constitution denies general search and General Warrant powers to the government -- to stop the king from going on fishing expiditions to tag uppity opponenrs with, as most people have some minor violations, usually unknowingly, so general warrant searches looking for anything are a productive and useful tool to keep yourself in power.
Humanity, and free humanity under democracy, unfortunately also has experience with "emergency" powers never being given back.
Homophobia as a factor is irrelevant to certain narratives.
Radical Islam as a factor is irrelevant to certain narratives.
What matters is 1. Ban guns and 2. Some modern adaptation of Blame America First.
It's doubtful they will include in their analysis the use of guns in maintaining freedom, the real constitutional readon, any more than the FDA includes in its regulations for safety and efficacy the masses of deaths caused by dragging out or stopping the development of useful drugs.
Ads are why I left Hulu. I watched Faking It on MTV online, and they cram in 6 ads every 5 minutes. Yey for free TV.
Government Left Hand: You damned well better make sure you are not knowingly an illegal file sharing service!
Government Right Hand: You damned well better not be spying on your customers' stuff!
What porn is it when someone takes it from both ends simultaneously?
Here's a reasonable solution: YouTube gives the artist all the ad revenue they earned on ads for a particular video between the time it was (illegally) posted and YouTube received a takedown notice.
It's all computers and they know this info already.
The author hopes to justify the hindering US regulations are causing in delaying port expansions by pooping on bigger ships that need it.
Meanwhile even bigger ships are on the horizon which will use a new canal China is building. Poop poop poop.
The title of the OP article should be "Success is not an option".
The new superpanamax ships need like 5 more feet dredged. This is, in the US, a 10 year legal battle for a port.
All these popcorn littoral combat ships are about the size of a 1900 battleship.
People are good at simulated annealing to kick out of local minima to search for deeper, greener pastures elsewhere.
When regulation doesn't hamper them, that is.
The OP article is literally pooh-pooing China's forging ahead with even bigger ships and an even bigger canal next to Panama to handle them. Meanwbile we sit tying up port dredging to deepen ports that have been dredged many times before.
So our government is killing this industry, and people defending government actions habe no choice but to try to take a sqhat on China's new dominance in worldwide shipling.
Sad. We are literally (used correctly) no longer a government concerned with keeping the trade routes open. Rather we act like corruption, plaguing endeavors. This is when center of empire shifts to the old outskirts, less burdened and far from that overcontrol.
I tried it out in the beta. Emphasis on the beta. Betas, actually, live crying about this or that ship which won't come true.
Very successful and long waiting lists!
In Soviet Russia, long bread lines are a sign of successful tasty breads!
Capitalism's goal is free people satisfying the needs and desires of their fellow citizens.
There is nothing more fair than lots of housing such that the cost drops. Supply and demand. Something has chained the supply down so it can barely increase. As people move in, there are plenty of greedy developers who would build to satisfy...if they could.
Luxury housing is the only thing new construction is interested in, precisely because they can charge a lot because LUXURY. Normal schmoe housing, forget it. Hundreds of thousands for environmental studies, fight fight fight, and as a reward, rent control.
That's not true.
AirBnB drives the cost of all rentals in all cities. AirBnB was designed to rent out coach houses/basements of the same property which is your primary residence. That is also still allowed under this.
What this law is designed to do (and needs to be done in Vancouver BC, Seattle WA, Portland Oregon, and San Francisco California) is stop people from hoarding property from the people who live in the city and need that property. There are people who own a dozen properties and list them on AirBnB or just keep them empty and use it as a store of value. "Investors" are locking up the housing supply to drive up the property prices.
AirBnB has it's purpose, and if you look on a map of a city like NYC, SFO or YVR you'll see the AirBnB units outnumber the actual rental units available to people who live there.
It's only arm of solving the housing affordability problem. Developers should be designing condo buildings with a few floors of 3-bedroom units that can be partitioned into a 1-bedroom main unit and a 2-bedroom "BnB" (No kitchen in the BnB side) with it's own entrance. Anything smaller is not a BnB qualifier.
If big cities didn't make it difficult to build new buildings, both before and after construction, you'd have fewer problems for people finding reasonable accomodations. But continue to double down on central control micromanagement. I am sure someone will get it right one of these centuries.