or maybe it's also the fact that every journalist I've ever met (personally) has been an ignorant tool just chasing "trends" not news.
Because most of what passes for 'journalism' isn't really. Things like being objective, balanced, citing references, avoid conflicts of interest etc all go out the window in a modern media organisation. They do still exist, they're just getting rarer and rarer as media organisations race to the bottom in desperation for clicks.
National conglomerates have bought the small papers, and our now filled with USA Today style click bait. "This many people died this morning..."
This secret personal trainers hate!
It's actually so bad that I've given up buying or reading any paper or news site produced in my own country. This lack of reliable local information can only be bad for the community overall.
Orwell never thought that the noose that would go around peoples' necks would come from the private sector.
And the funny part is that the main force against the noose wielders is actually the government. I know it's popular to hate on the government, but if you put the papers down for a but and turn off the radio, you'll find there's a lot of good work done by the public services to improve lives.
And yet, earlier this year, it came up with a really uncanny recommendation - it actually found my flight instructor, someone who I lost contact with about a decade and a half ago...
I'll have a stab. It's wasn't you, it was him. Maybe (purely guessing) he has contact details of his students on a device somewhere, and when he logged into FB one time it sucked them all up. It knows he's a pilot, it knows he knows you somehow via his contacts, and it picked up on the Cessna being a plane which you have a picture of, so joined the dots.
Vague I know, but the other thing you have to remember is that even if you don't details of yourself, FB gets them from everyone else. For example, I'm not on FB, but my wife is. So FB probably have a vast collection of data about me, where I go on holiday, who I was at the restaurant with etc, without me even participating. If I ever register I bet I'll be slammed with suggestions from day 1 because they already know everything.
This shit is off the scale. Someone needs to bomb their head office.
I never heard the reason for its rejection being that AGW is false. No one advocating its rejection said so.
Well apart from the guy who runs the country, who was responsible it's rejection, who said so himself with his own words: https://twitter.com/realdonald...
After WWII the US accounted for over 50% of the worlds GDP,
To be fair, the W and W in WW2 sort of explains why that was the case (ie all of the competition was a smouldering wreck). And since that exceptional circumstance is longer a factor, the US is learning the hard way that there are no more free lunches. I expect it will get much worse before it gets better, and it will require a lot more than wishful thinking and a red cap to turn things around.
First, remove the unnecessary first two words and replace them with 'Politicians'. It doesn't matter whether or not you're right, it's simply unnecessary in this discussion to draw partisan lines that will make people choose sides regardless of the underlying argument.
We need more comments like this. United we stand divided we fall. Our enemies know this so will continue their attempts to divide us unless we call them out.
That's bogus logic. If Trump was that bad the US would be nosediving.
Let's give it a couple more years before declaring success ok?
The American people hired him to drain the swamp.
Yeah, yeah draining in the swamp. Good one. We hate the wealthy so let's elect a bunch of rich white guys with a life long track record of fucking over poor people to save us. How is that working out?
It is clear that the establishment...
The Establishment? What exactly is that? Because from here it looks like Trump is the Establishment. I mean it's rough playing victim when you know, you actually run the country. How long does Trump keep blaming others fro everything before he actually takes responsibility for something?
The United States was the only country to make concrete promises. There was no way to verify that other countries kept their vague promises.
Of course you have a citation for this? Because without one it's sounding an awful lot like Trumpbabble.
The US should reduce its pollution, but never enter into such a lop-sided "agreement".
The US produces a lop-sided amount of pollution right now, so any agreement will have lop-sided measures. The world is naturally lop-sided, so calling for absolute perfection or nothing is pretty lame.
Oh look, the lazy self entitled ignoramus is back.
Still think everyone on the Internet is at your service? Yup .
Still to lazy to do any research by your own? Looks like it, as your ignorance hasn't changed.
Now run back and pester your mommy for an education, you ignorant git.
This is gold. All I have to do is type and you react. Don't worry, you'll develop some self control when you turn 13...
Pretending that it's somehow equal is totally wrong. The Left utterly banished opposing opinions from the airwaves.
Interesting. I try to get a balanced view and find outlets considered 'left' such as Australia's ABC, the British BBC, America's NPR tend to be the least biased. And we measure bias by how the information is delivered. eg is information given and the listener left to decide, or is an opinion forced down your throat and any opposition to it gets yelled down? Do opposing viewpoints get a chance to respond or is it just a group of old rich white guys agreeing with each other etc?
The latter is extremely common with so-called conservative outlets. If you have some you can recommend I'd be happy to give them a run. But to be honest Slashdot is about the only place I can find a conservative opinion that gets backed up with some logic.
I think Twitter needs to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Why? If I was a Trump supporter, I'd be hoping Twitter shuts him down permanently. I reckon he'd be a few points higher in the polls if he didn't keep making s fool of himself with his Twitter rants
K, tell you what, take a few million and turn it into billions by real estate sales.
Well most of us don't have millions to start with, but if Donald has increased his wealth by what 100x-1000x (?) over 40 years, I'm already beating him...
Lower them to what? People keep saying that, but nobody offers a number. Where's that sweet spot that gets the government more money in taxes and saves these large corporations money? Does it even exist? Advocates simply assume that it must, but nobody seems to care to know.
Like smaller government. Non-one seems to offer up a suitable number of smallness, but it sounds great to shout that phrase around at every opportunity.
Apparently if the Government was reduced to 1 person, and tax was 0.1%, we'd all be better off somehow...
You're describing a universal tariff right here, and we have tons of tariffs already.
Yeah but the idea is that it's a lot simpler instead of hundreds of different tariffs/tax/duties/levies, each with their own loophole. With just one it makes audit and compliance a lot easier, hence cheaper, hence greater benefit to the public purse.
The universal tariff that you're suggesting is a little different than these per-product tariffs, easier to manage and less abusable. So that's something. But it would still raise the cost of goods and make us poorer in aggregate.
I've lived in three different countries during the implementation of a VAT/GST so have heard all the FUD before. In each case it never eventuated. Some things went up slightly, some came down, but there's a reason everyone else has implemented it, it's a net gain overall.
It's also a regressive tax, just like all consumption taxes.
And that is good or bad? As above I've heard the FUD, but it's also a simplified tax, which tends to offer the biggest benefit.
But then people that resort to cheating on exams aren't typically that bright.
Depends doesn't it? Is it smarter to put in a lot of effort, study hard and hope you pass, or fuck around all semester and party, then get your mate who's a year ahead to sit your exams for you?
Smart isn't about cheating or not cheating, smart is whether you get caught or not.
Slashdot Mirror
or maybe it's also the fact that every journalist I've ever met (personally) has been an ignorant tool just chasing "trends" not news.
Because most of what passes for 'journalism' isn't really. Things like being objective, balanced, citing references, avoid conflicts of interest etc all go out the window in a modern media organisation. They do still exist, they're just getting rarer and rarer as media organisations race to the bottom in desperation for clicks.
National conglomerates have bought the small papers, and our now filled with USA Today style click bait. "This many people died this morning..."
This secret personal trainers hate!
It's actually so bad that I've given up buying or reading any paper or news site produced in my own country. This lack of reliable local information can only be bad for the community overall.
Orwell never thought that the noose that would go around peoples' necks would come from the private sector.
And the funny part is that the main force against the noose wielders is actually the government. I know it's popular to hate on the government, but if you put the papers down for a but and turn off the radio, you'll find there's a lot of good work done by the public services to improve lives.
And yet, earlier this year, it came up with a really uncanny recommendation - it actually found my flight instructor, someone who I lost contact with about a decade and a half ago...
I'll have a stab. It's wasn't you, it was him. Maybe (purely guessing) he has contact details of his students on a device somewhere, and when he logged into FB one time it sucked them all up. It knows he's a pilot, it knows he knows you somehow via his contacts, and it picked up on the Cessna being a plane which you have a picture of, so joined the dots.
Vague I know, but the other thing you have to remember is that even if you don't details of yourself, FB gets them from everyone else. For example, I'm not on FB, but my wife is. So FB probably have a vast collection of data about me, where I go on holiday, who I was at the restaurant with etc, without me even participating. If I ever register I bet I'll be slammed with suggestions from day 1 because they already know everything.
This shit is off the scale. Someone needs to bomb their head office.
Trump didn't deny climate change as these media outlets would have you believe
Ok stop with the fake news/evil media thing. This is straight from the clown himself: https://twitter.com/realdonald...
I never heard the reason for its rejection being that AGW is false. No one advocating its rejection said so.
Well apart from the guy who runs the country, who was responsible it's rejection, who said so himself with his own words: https://twitter.com/realdonald...
Or is this fake news?
It's just the inefficient tax-subsidized states that aren't,
And there's a voting pattern along these economic lines which is interesting...
After WWII the US accounted for over 50% of the worlds GDP,
To be fair, the W and W in WW2 sort of explains why that was the case (ie all of the competition was a smouldering wreck). And since that exceptional circumstance is longer a factor, the US is learning the hard way that there are no more free lunches. I expect it will get much worse before it gets better, and it will require a lot more than wishful thinking and a red cap to turn things around.
First, remove the unnecessary first two words and replace them with 'Politicians'. It doesn't matter whether or not you're right, it's simply unnecessary in this discussion to draw partisan lines that will make people choose sides regardless of the underlying argument.
We need more comments like this. United we stand divided we fall. Our enemies know this so will continue their attempts to divide us unless we call them out.
illegal immigration is down,
How do you know?
That's bogus logic. If Trump was that bad the US would be nosediving.
Let's give it a couple more years before declaring success ok?
The American people hired him to drain the swamp.
Yeah, yeah draining in the swamp. Good one. We hate the wealthy so let's elect a bunch of rich white guys with a life long track record of fucking over poor people to save us. How is that working out?
It is clear that the establishment...
The Establishment? What exactly is that? Because from here it looks like Trump is the Establishment. I mean it's rough playing victim when you know, you actually run the country. How long does Trump keep blaming others fro everything before he actually takes responsibility for something?
The United States was the only country to make concrete promises. There was no way to verify that other countries kept their vague promises.
Of course you have a citation for this? Because without one it's sounding an awful lot like Trumpbabble.
The US should reduce its pollution, but never enter into such a lop-sided "agreement".
The US produces a lop-sided amount of pollution right now, so any agreement will have lop-sided measures. The world is naturally lop-sided, so calling for absolute perfection or nothing is pretty lame.
Yeah bloody Europe with the higher standards of living. We don't want any of that here....
Depends on what you define as "higher standards of living."
We don't have to guess at this. People smarter than us have already done the hard work https://www.mercer.com/newsroo...
Hook, catch, rinse, repeat. See you tomorrow sucker...
Oh look, the lazy self entitled ignoramus is back.
Still think everyone on the Internet is at your service? Yup . Still to lazy to do any research by your own? Looks like it, as your ignorance hasn't changed.
Now run back and pester your mommy for an education, you ignorant git.
This is gold. All I have to do is type and you react. Don't worry, you'll develop some self control when you turn 13...
Pretending that it's somehow equal is totally wrong. The Left utterly banished opposing opinions from the airwaves.
Interesting. I try to get a balanced view and find outlets considered 'left' such as Australia's ABC, the British BBC, America's NPR tend to be the least biased. And we measure bias by how the information is delivered. eg is information given and the listener left to decide, or is an opinion forced down your throat and any opposition to it gets yelled down? Do opposing viewpoints get a chance to respond or is it just a group of old rich white guys agreeing with each other etc?
The latter is extremely common with so-called conservative outlets. If you have some you can recommend I'd be happy to give them a run. But to be honest Slashdot is about the only place I can find a conservative opinion that gets backed up with some logic.
I think Twitter needs to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Why? If I was a Trump supporter, I'd be hoping Twitter shuts him down permanently. I reckon he'd be a few points higher in the polls if he didn't keep making s fool of himself with his Twitter rants
K, tell you what, take a few million and turn it into billions by real estate sales.
Well most of us don't have millions to start with, but if Donald has increased his wealth by what 100x-1000x (?) over 40 years, I'm already beating him...
Yeah bloody Europe with the higher standards of living. We don't want any of that here....
But no Slashdot story on that, because ...? Guess it's not news.
Have you submitted one? Because that's how Slashdot works. Like Democracy you have to participate for it to be effective.
Lower them to what? People keep saying that, but nobody offers a number. Where's that sweet spot that gets the government more money in taxes and saves these large corporations money? Does it even exist? Advocates simply assume that it must, but nobody seems to care to know.
Like smaller government. Non-one seems to offer up a suitable number of smallness, but it sounds great to shout that phrase around at every opportunity.
Apparently if the Government was reduced to 1 person, and tax was 0.1%, we'd all be better off somehow...
You're describing a universal tariff right here, and we have tons of tariffs already.
Yeah but the idea is that it's a lot simpler instead of hundreds of different tariffs/tax/duties/levies, each with their own loophole. With just one it makes audit and compliance a lot easier, hence cheaper, hence greater benefit to the public purse.
The universal tariff that you're suggesting is a little different than these per-product tariffs, easier to manage and less abusable. So that's something. But it would still raise the cost of goods and make us poorer in aggregate.
I've lived in three different countries during the implementation of a VAT/GST so have heard all the FUD before. In each case it never eventuated. Some things went up slightly, some came down, but there's a reason everyone else has implemented it, it's a net gain overall.
It's also a regressive tax, just like all consumption taxes.
And that is good or bad? As above I've heard the FUD, but it's also a simplified tax, which tends to offer the biggest benefit.
My flaming of the ignorant tells /. readers one thing about me:
Yes, that you have the maturity of a twelve year old. And like a twelve year old, you don't know when to stop digging...
But then people that resort to cheating on exams aren't typically that bright.
Depends doesn't it? Is it smarter to put in a lot of effort, study hard and hope you pass, or fuck around all semester and party, then get your mate who's a year ahead to sit your exams for you?
Smart isn't about cheating or not cheating, smart is whether you get caught or not.
Stitches?
Any smokers want to make threats, I'll see them in an MMA cage.
Rampage Jackson just called. He's waiting in the Octagon for you...