Not that the NYT is free from bias or from making mistakes but you're basically claiming that there's no way we can ever have any idea as to what's really happening in the world.
If you want to put the NYT in the same category as the Weekly World News and other tabloids where do we turn to for current events?
Infowars?
Sorry, but some news sources are more trustworthy than others. Just because the NYT says it doesn't make it true, but excuse me if I trust them more than the Washington Times or Fox. (or Breitbart or WND or Newsmax or The Onion).
Should we reject anything we hear from a long established part of the 4th estate and instead rely on what our friends liked on Facebook?
Perhaps we should get all our news from Donald Trump's twitter feed.
It's true. It's much easier to read the click-bait 3 sentence article than to read an in-depth 10-page investigative piece.
And worse still, the lengthy article may cause you to think hard about stuff - maybe even look up a word in the dictionary. One of the main features of what used to be a major city's newspaper is now just a link to "Hilarious Memes about..." and it's a different thing every few days - and none of them are actually hilarious.
So they must be employing someone to scrape memes from Reddit and Facebook and Twitter and compile them into a slideshow at least once a week. If ever there was a job for AI to take over that would be it.
For me it's been about 20 years since I had a newspaper delivered to my doorstep.
I wasn't dissatisfied with the reporting or any bias in the paper, I had just moved on and got all the news I wanted from the internet (and admittedly TV). Newspapers were stacking up in my apartment waiting to be taken to the recycling center.
I used to spend Sunday afternoons flipping through every page of the newspaper while watching NFL games. Now I don't get a paper and I don't watch football. You might say I've changed as well.
When I stopped subscribing to the local paper I got so many calls from them trying to get me to resubscribe that I finally called up their "newstips" number and told them about a newspaper who was violating the do-not-call registry. Then the calls stopped.
One interesting side effect of not getting the local paper is I'm probably more aware of what's happening in Syria than I am with what's happening locally. That doesn't mean I'm more knowledgeable about international affairs. Instead I'm probably just more ignorant of what's going on in the place where I live.
The one most remembered (at least in the US) was after WWII in the '50s mostly. McCarthy and all that fun stuff.
Those scares had a lot to do with communism if I'm not mistaken though I did not live through either of them. As I understand it there was a fear that the idea of communism would take hold in the US and would take over our ideals of freedom and democracy.
I was born during the Cold War though and one could argue that it never ended even after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Were we afraid of communism or the Soviet Union? Dammit, Jim I'm a doctor not a historian. (I'm not really a doctor either). I was raised to be afraid of the Soviet Union though.
"Better dead than Red" and all that nonsense.
What a time to be alive.
Indeed. In my lifetime I have seen leaps and bounds in technology. I wonder what the next 10 years holds for us let alone the next 50 or 100.
My first thought on seeing the headline was about using technology to read ancient manuscripts which may be too fragile to open or may have even been written on recycled even older manuscripts. They use x-rays and computer imaging to read that which cannot be read by the human eye.
I've seen a few stories about this over the years.
There's lots more out there and note those aren't just 4 different links to the same story.
But this story is still interesting to me too. I'm sure that the people doing the work in the linked article might be tasked with transcribing or translating the images of pages they can't actually touch.
You're not wrong, but were those people without smart phones really buying all that much music anymore anyway?
And unless I lacked access to the internet at home, why would I walk into Best Buy and sign up for some online music service? If I didn't have internet at home, couldn't I just as easily do it at a library?
Maybe it's just a sad state of affairs that Best Buy stores are more accessible to poor people than libraries.
I stopped buying CDs years ago. It wasn't really a conscious decision. I just had no desire to buy anything except for an occasional new release from some old artist.
The last CD I bought because I really wanted it was Mark Knopfler's "Kill to Get Crimson" (2007) and the very last CD I ever bought was Guns and Roses "Chinese Democracy" (2008) but I only bought that because Best Buy was selling it for $1 and I figured GNR was worth a whole dollar. I can't imagine either Best Buy or GNR made much money on that deal, but I honestly would not have bought it if it had been priced at even $1.99. I"m pretty sure I only listened to it once.
For the last 10 years I've been more than content to listen to my older CD collection and whatever I find on YouTube or archive.org or occasionally the musician's own website.
And wouldn't you know it, I just found a previously unheard of (by me anyway) Frank Zappa recording - on YouTube. I'll download a copy for myself...WHY? In case YouTube ever deletes their entire FZ collection? I kind of doubt they'll ever do that but even if they do I've got at least 50 FZ albums I can listen to if I can't just click away on YT.
and the sad thing is I bought about half of those FZ albums from a used CD store that had apparently acquired some other Zappa fan's music collection.....presumably after he (or she) died or otherwise was forced into economic circumstances where they had to sell all their CDs.
Or is it possible that they just got sick of listening to Zappa?
I think I bought most of some dead person's Zappa collection and I wonder what will happen to it after I pass away. I suspect when I'm dead whoever deals with all my old property will either just throw them out or sell my entire CD collection in bulk for about a penny per disc.
I don't know how many discs I have, but let's say it's 5000. At a penny per disc that's a whopping $50. Do you have any idea how much money I spent collecting those? I certainly don't but it's obviously thousands of dollars.
thanks to Neil Young making out CDs and MP3s to be shit
I love Neil Young, but not all of his ideas are good. In the mid '80s he wrote some opinion piece published in Harper's called "The CD and the Damage Done" in which he bitterly complained about how digitally recorded music was a horrible thing that just didn't capture the true spirit of a good old analog recording presumably transferred to LP or even cassette.
And years later he tried to sell us the Pono?
Like I said, I love Neil Young but maybe he should lay off the dope a little bit.....
His full statement announcing the death of Pono can be found here:
It’s time to talk about Pono and the initiative we all started. As you know, together we’ve been fighting a battle to bring high quality music back to the world that’s become used to mediocre, hollowed-out files.
blah, blah, blah - a bunch of words....
But, despite that success, I was not satisfied. I had to put up with lots of criticism for the high cost of music delivered in the way all music should be provided, at full resolution and not hollowed out.
was bought and shut down with no notice by Apple
Thank you all very much for supporting Pono and quality audio. Thanks to everyone who is or was associated with Pono, especially the customers who supported us.
I see there's ONE Pono left on Amazon and it's only $400. I'll let someone else buy it although the collector value has to be HUGE.
I would buy it if it came with everything Neil Young ever recorded - or maybe just every version of Cowgirl In the Sand he ever played. I don't care about audio quality, I just wanna hear some guitar and nasally vocals.
I would mod you up, but I hate both Trump and the NFL equally and so I want to speak up here.
I hate the NFL because about 25 years ago I got sick and tired of "my" team losing because the owner seemed more interested in making money than winning, which is why that team doesn't exist anymore and never went to a Super Bowl .
It was only "my" team in the sense that I went to a bunch of games and watched them on TV when I wasn't there in person. I'm sure nobody on the team would know who the hell I was.
Anyway it does get tiresome hating on Trump so much, but if he wasn't the president I'd probably get tired of hating on Hillary instead. And I'm confused how to feel about the result of this Super Bowl. I grew up hating the Eagles, but I never had any love for the Patriots either. Actually, I'm not confused at all. I feel so indifferent about it that I wrote this rant here to show everyone how much I don't care.
So the Patriots lost the Super Bowl? I blame Donald Trump.
I also blame Trump for the crabgrass on my lawn.
It's a hard job hating Trump so much and I do sincerely hate him, but it gets really hard to complain about how well the stock market is doing (yeah, I know it's been down this week but overall?)
What I really want to know is if any players kneeled for the National Anthem and if they did, did President Trump tweet about it?
And was the crowd at the Super Bowl as big as the one at Trump's inaugural address? Probably not. I was told nobody watches the NFL anymore.
I also was never a fan of the Spice Girls, but I heard they're getting back together - it's probably Trump's fault as well.
* I probably deserve to be modded "flamebait" for this, but I'm just mostly expressing frustration at the system.
I have to say they are particularly evil and they're actually offering an argument that might convince some people - don't trust the average citizen with an autonomous car. You can only trust big businesses like Uber,.
(Uber can drive an SDC better than us average citizens can...so they say).
It's absurd of course, but they are bold enough to try it.
Even if it doesn't track your location, it represents yet another attack vector on your phone. They didn't say anything about not sucking up all the other data on it.
Other than that I like the idea. As long as it's optional and I can still use a regular driver's license like I do now.
Current traffic stop:
"License and registration, please." (just kidding - they never say "please")
Future traffic stop:
"Hand over your phone"
Far distant dystopian future:
You don't have to hand over anything - they already know who you are,
Obviously there has to be a balance. If healthcare cost me absolutely nothing (aside from whatever taxes I may pay) and I had easy access to a doctor I trusted and was confident in, I wouldn't really be that expensive....right now anyway. But if I got cancer or some other terminal conditions that's when it may get to be an issue.
Maybe basic medical checkups should come out of our pocket and the government should foot the bill for the major problems. Or maybe everyone should be guaranteed at least a minimal level of care even if they can't afford it.
I'm looking at this optimistically though. It's private business taking the initiative and health care costs are ridiculous. If they can succeed at lowering health care costs they might just shake up the industry.
Not that I really trust JPMorgan or Amazon - I'm not familiar enough with Berkshire to trust them either.
"Free to those that can afford it, very expensive to those that can’t." - Withnail
That's a quote from an old movie, but it describes American healthcare very well. If you have a good job with a good health plan and are reasonably healthy you hardly even notice the cost. If you lose any one of those 3 things though you might not be able to afford it anymore.
It seems like a challenge to me now. Surely I could do better than $11, right?
I seriously doubt I'll follow through on this, but if I really tried, I should be able to scam more than $11 out of gullible people. I should be able to get at least...$24!
And cryptocurrency is how I could make it happen because people don't understand it. I don't even understand it exactly. But I know "blockchain"is a selling point so I'll have to incorporate that into my cryptocoins - which will need a really catchy name. I think ByteCoin sounds good because bytes are bigger than bits. And when you wanted someone to pay you in ByteCoin you could just say "Byte Me"
I meant all that in jest, but now I'm seriously wondering what it would take to set up my own crypto-coin.
There are several billion people using the internet and a lot of them are stupid. Unfortunately a lot of them are poor too, but I should be able to get more than $11.
Maybe I could even become a Slashdot headline someday!
like most things there is a spectrum. Once I've met someone a few times I can recognize them, but before that it's just another face. Is this just normal? I don't know.
It has resulted in some awkward moments when I should have known someone and just didn't recognize them as well as the opposite when I think I know someone - or should know them - but I'm just not sure.
Of course there are a lot of people who look so distinctive that I recognize them immediately but usually I have to meet and talk to someone a few times before their face actually imprints on my memory.
A lot of us just look very similar. We have average hair, average eyes, a regular sized nose. We drive average cars. I can't tell you people apart. You all look the same and it's not a racial thing - white people often look the same to me and I'm white.
If you put my next door neighbor in a police lineup (which is where he probably belongs) I probably wouldn't even be able to pick him out.
I don't even know what to make of this. It seems unclear what they actually want to do but "nationalizing" a whole sector of telecommunications is very socialist.
Of course that probably wouldn't be much worse than the oligoply that controls wireless already.
It's nearly 20 years old...Oh wait. I did plug an OBD-II gadget that connects to my phone and there is that dash-cam. Crap. My privacy doesn't exist.
Not that Verizon wasn't already more aware of where I am than I am. And literally like clockwork, my fitness tracker gizmo has just vibrated to tell me I should get off my ass - and I know it talks to servers in China too. I try to stop it. I'm not sure how successful I've been but I did install a firewall on my phone.
I suspect the firewall app is the real spyware. Netflix knows what I watch. Amazon knows what I buy. Even though I don't have a FaceBook account they probably have a profile on me.
Even the liquor store where I buy beer wants my email address. Why should the sale of alcohol involve an e-mail adress? They said they had just partnered with - I cannot even remember what idiotic website. They're outsourcing the tracking!
When I was a kid I thought Radio Shack's Battery of the Month Club card was awesome. I always needed batteries. What did Radio Shack get out of it? I wasn't really sure but I found out later in life that a customer's information was worth 26 cents to my employer at the time. I was shocked, but also felt a bit naive - of course their customer database was valuable...and of course they sold it.
It seems to me the ad agency was very real and they were doing what ad agencies do. I worked for an ad agency briefly. It was a fascinating experience but those people are experts at twisted thinking. Serving you malware is just a part of these very real ad agencies business plan.
Ad agencies are supposed to influence you - or at least convince businesses that if they pay you they can influence your customers.
“The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.”
David Ogilvy, Confessions of an Advertising Man
That sounds terribly sexist, but I'm pretty sure Mad Men don't give a shit. They just have to imprint their brand in your head. And then beat the consumer with it so it becomes unthinkable that they might even consider a different brand.
Coca Cola - it's simply the Rolls Royce of fizzy drinks! Wait, what? Shut up and buy it.
I would mod this up if I hadn't already commented, but I would point out that the link posted does go to a certain type of band....
The Grateful Dead is the first one listed and they even had taper sections cordoned off back in the day. Bring your tape decks and mike stands! We'll put you in your own little section.
I do love watching videos and listening to audio recordings of shows I've been to....especially if it wasn't me who went to the hassle of recording them.
I see Steve Kimock is also listed in that link.....this sort of reminds me of that time he went off on an audience and told some people to STFU.
"Seriously, man it's fucking rude. Get your money back and go home. I don't care. Shut the fuck up!"
IMO, he came across as being a bit petulant but I've also had to change seats in theaters just to avoid people talking over the music so I can sympathize some. And to his credit, Kimock put up with it for over 90 minutes before he lost it.
Rather than mod you as a troll I'd like to take this opportunity to say that anyone who completely avoids the subject of the article in favor of making fun of an artist who they'd like to belittle by insinuating that nobody ever heard of them or in particular you're too good to have ever heard of them is being childish.
(I think I've done it too regarding some pop-tart so I can't claim much moral superiority or anything).
I'm not a fan of Jack White. I've heard the name, but I have no idea what kind of music he even plays, but I do know that I can type "Jack White" into Google and find out in as long as it would take me to listen to some of his music.....which I will do now....after I get another beer.
....a few songs and a beer later....
I can now honestly say that I'm still not a Jack White fan, but at least his music isn't terrible. That's just a subjective opinion of course....the first song even reminded me of David Bowie just a little bit. And I even liked one of his other songs.
God forbid I might get so bored during a show that I would need to pull out my phone. Can I still bring a camera? Maybe I should just go home.
I've recorded shows before, both audio and video and it really does get in the way of enjoying a concert.
Even just recording one or two songs with your phone takes a lot away from your enjoyment of the moment.
Not only that but when you're in an audience and the stage is obscured by dozens of people holding up their cell phones above their heads that takes a lot away from the experience as well.
So I support this move by this White guy. I mean it's his show and if his fans don't like it they can stay home. His other fans might just appreciate the lack of phones in their faces.
Drivers must go to the effort of learning the car's systems in order to know that..
Yikes - maybe we need a new class of license for people to drive a car with advanced but not fully autonomous features like these.
I always cringe when I see drivers not looking at the road for too long. This often happens in movies, but all too often it happens in real life as well. If I have to watch the road all adaptive cruise and auto-braking would do for me is give my foot a rest. That's where conventional cruise control is great (giving my foot a rest) on long trips but I still have to pay attention to the road.
Such advanced features should be considered more of a backup rather than a primary safety device.
That is until we can truly have a car that we can trust to fall asleep in and never have to be expected to take over control at a moment's notice.
If you do happen to fall asleep at the wheel maybe it will save you, but don't count on it.
The only reason people like you make this argument is because you're happy with the result.
I've never lived on the east (or west) coast. It's NOT just them. Most of us live in big cities. Why should we be "disenfranchised" (to use your term) by voters in Wyoming whose vote carries more weight than mine?
I believe the reason we cannot rid ourselves of the electoral college is because too often it has benefited one party over the other. And while the east and west coasts certainly helped push Clinton over the top as far as the popular vote goes in 2016, it only took a few counties and a few thousand votes to push Trump over the top in the EC.
Why should the party politics of 70-80 thousand rural voters in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania get to disenfranchise all the people in the states all over the USA?
But that's not right either. People all over the US voted for both Dems and Republicans. It wasn't just 3 counties. It was people all over the US. Like you said:
Every citizen gets a vote.
And I say it's time to start counting them equally. We're not a loose confederation of states anymore. We're a united country. I've freely moved among several states as have many others. My loyalty is to the USA, not to the state where I was born or even currently live in.
No, I'm not trying to overturn the last election. Those were the rules then. We can change things in the future though.
And why do you use the term "elite"? Do you think people on the East Coast are "elite"? I certainly don't. Sure, some of them are but you'll find elite people right in my town near the middle of the country as well.
And is being "elite" a bad thing?
Do you wear your (perceived) inferiority as a badge of honor?
Slashdot Mirror
Can I get a library card and access all this online without having to go to the library?
Ideally I should have access to all their books and other media from my home as well.
Do I have to pay for the books I never returned first?
Not that the NYT is free from bias or from making mistakes but you're basically claiming that there's no way we can ever have any idea as to what's really happening in the world.
If you want to put the NYT in the same category as the Weekly World News and other tabloids where do we turn to for current events?
Infowars?
Sorry, but some news sources are more trustworthy than others. Just because the NYT says it doesn't make it true, but excuse me if I trust them more than the Washington Times or Fox. (or Breitbart or WND or Newsmax or The Onion).
Should we reject anything we hear from a long established part of the 4th estate and instead rely on what our friends liked on Facebook?
Perhaps we should get all our news from Donald Trump's twitter feed.
It's true. It's much easier to read the click-bait 3 sentence article than to read an in-depth 10-page investigative piece.
And worse still, the lengthy article may cause you to think hard about stuff - maybe even look up a word in the dictionary. One of the main features of what used to be a major city's newspaper is now just a link to "Hilarious Memes about..." and it's a different thing every few days - and none of them are actually hilarious.
So they must be employing someone to scrape memes from Reddit and Facebook and Twitter and compile them into a slideshow at least once a week. If ever there was a job for AI to take over that would be it.
For me it's been about 20 years since I had a newspaper delivered to my doorstep.
I wasn't dissatisfied with the reporting or any bias in the paper, I had just moved on and got all the news I wanted from the internet (and admittedly TV). Newspapers were stacking up in my apartment waiting to be taken to the recycling center.
I used to spend Sunday afternoons flipping through every page of the newspaper while watching NFL games. Now I don't get a paper and I don't watch football. You might say I've changed as well.
When I stopped subscribing to the local paper I got so many calls from them trying to get me to resubscribe that I finally called up their
"newstips" number and told them about a newspaper who was violating the do-not-call registry. Then the calls stopped.
One interesting side effect of not getting the local paper is I'm probably more aware of what's happening in Syria than I am with what's happening locally. That doesn't mean I'm more knowledgeable about international affairs. Instead I'm probably just more ignorant of what's going on in the place where I live.
Actually, it would be 3.0 if it were actually a Red Scare. The first one was right after WWI around 1919-1920.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The one most remembered (at least in the US) was after WWII in the '50s mostly. McCarthy and all that fun stuff.
Those scares had a lot to do with communism if I'm not mistaken though I did not live through either of them. As I understand it there was a fear that the idea of communism would take hold in the US and would take over our ideals of freedom and democracy.
I was born during the Cold War though and one could argue that it never ended even after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Were we afraid of communism or the Soviet Union? Dammit, Jim I'm a doctor not a historian. (I'm not really a doctor either). I was raised to be afraid of the Soviet Union though.
"Better dead than Red" and all that nonsense.
What a time to be alive.
Indeed. In my lifetime I have seen leaps and bounds in technology. I wonder what the next 10 years holds for us let alone the next 50 or 100.
My first thought on seeing the headline was about using technology to read ancient manuscripts which may be too fragile to open or may have even been written on recycled even older manuscripts. They use x-rays and computer imaging to read that which cannot be read by the human eye.
I've seen a few stories about this over the years.
Scientists read ancient sealed documents without opening them
MIT and Georgia Tech develop technology to read books without opening them
Scientists Read Ancient Hebrew Scroll Without Opening It
Scanning an Ancient Biblical Text That Humans Fear to Open
There's lots more out there and note those aren't just 4 different links to the same story.
But this story is still interesting to me too. I'm sure that the people doing the work in the linked article might be tasked with transcribing or translating the images of pages they can't actually touch.
You're not wrong, but were those people without smart phones really buying all that much music anymore anyway?
And unless I lacked access to the internet at home, why would I walk into Best Buy and sign up for some online music service? If I didn't have internet at home, couldn't I just as easily do it at a library?
Maybe it's just a sad state of affairs that Best Buy stores are more accessible to poor people than libraries.
I stopped buying CDs years ago. It wasn't really a conscious decision. I just had no desire to buy anything except for an occasional new release from some old artist.
The last CD I bought because I really wanted it was Mark Knopfler's "Kill to Get Crimson" (2007) and the very last CD I ever bought was Guns and Roses "Chinese Democracy" (2008) but I only bought that because Best Buy was selling it for $1 and I figured GNR was worth a whole dollar. I can't imagine either Best Buy or GNR made much money on that deal, but I honestly would not have bought it if it had been priced at even $1.99. I"m pretty sure I only listened to it once.
For the last 10 years I've been more than content to listen to my older CD collection and whatever I find on YouTube or archive.org or occasionally the musician's own website.
And wouldn't you know it, I just found a previously unheard of (by me anyway) Frank Zappa recording - on YouTube. I'll download a copy for myself...WHY? In case YouTube ever deletes their entire FZ collection? I kind of doubt they'll ever do that but even if they do I've got at least 50 FZ albums I can listen to if I can't just click away on YT.
and the sad thing is I bought about half of those FZ albums from a used CD store that had apparently acquired some other Zappa fan's music collection.....presumably after he (or she) died or otherwise was forced into economic circumstances where they had to sell all their CDs.
Or is it possible that they just got sick of listening to Zappa?
I think I bought most of some dead person's Zappa collection and I wonder what will happen to it after I pass away. I suspect when I'm dead whoever deals with all my old property will either just throw them out or sell my entire CD collection in bulk for about a penny per disc.
I don't know how many discs I have, but let's say it's 5000. At a penny per disc that's a whopping $50. Do you have any idea how much money I spent collecting those? I certainly don't but it's obviously thousands of dollars.
thanks to Neil Young making out CDs and MP3s to be shit
I love Neil Young, but not all of his ideas are good. In the mid '80s he wrote some opinion piece published in Harper's called "The CD and the Damage Done" in which he bitterly complained about how digitally recorded music was a horrible thing that just didn't capture the true spirit of a good old analog recording presumably transferred to LP or even cassette.
And years later he tried to sell us the Pono?
Like I said, I love Neil Young but maybe he should lay off the dope a little bit.....
His full statement announcing the death of Pono can be found here:
http://www.noise11.com/news/r-...
It’s time to talk about Pono and the initiative we all started. As you know, together we’ve been fighting a battle to bring high quality music back to the world that’s become used to mediocre, hollowed-out files.
blah, blah, blah - a bunch of words....
But, despite that success, I was not satisfied. I had to put up with lots of criticism for the high cost of music delivered in the way all music should be provided, at full resolution and not hollowed out.
was bought and shut down with no notice by Apple
Thank you all very much for supporting Pono and quality audio. Thanks to everyone who is or was associated with Pono, especially the customers who supported us.
I see there's ONE Pono left on Amazon and it's only $400. I'll let someone else buy it although the collector value has to be HUGE.
I would buy it if it came with everything Neil Young ever recorded - or maybe just every version of Cowgirl In the Sand he ever played. I don't care about audio quality, I just wanna hear some guitar and nasally vocals.
"Has your band begun to rust"?
I would mod you up, but I hate both Trump and the NFL equally and so I want to speak up here.
I hate the NFL because about 25 years ago I got sick and tired of "my" team losing because the owner seemed more interested in making money than winning, which is why that team doesn't exist anymore and never went to a Super Bowl .
It was only "my" team in the sense that I went to a bunch of games and watched them on TV when I wasn't there in person. I'm sure nobody on the team would know who the hell I was.
Anyway it does get tiresome hating on Trump so much, but if he wasn't the president I'd probably get tired of hating on Hillary instead. And I'm confused how to feel about the result of this Super Bowl. I grew up hating the Eagles, but I never had any love for the Patriots either. Actually, I'm not confused at all. I feel so indifferent about it that I wrote this rant here to show everyone how much I don't care.
So the Patriots lost the Super Bowl? I blame Donald Trump.
I also blame Trump for the crabgrass on my lawn.
It's a hard job hating Trump so much and I do sincerely hate him, but it gets really hard to complain about how well the stock market is doing (yeah, I know it's been down this week but overall?)
What I really want to know is if any players kneeled for the National Anthem and if they did, did President Trump tweet about it?
And was the crowd at the Super Bowl as big as the one at Trump's inaugural address? Probably not. I was told nobody watches the NFL anymore.
I also was never a fan of the Spice Girls, but I heard they're getting back together - it's probably Trump's fault as well.
* I probably deserve to be modded "flamebait" for this, but I'm just mostly expressing frustration at the system.
I have to say they are particularly evil and they're actually offering an argument that might convince some people - don't trust the average citizen with an autonomous car. You can only trust big businesses like Uber,.
(Uber can drive an SDC better than us average citizens can...so they say).
It's absurd of course, but they are bold enough to try it.
Even if it doesn't track your location, it represents yet another attack vector on your phone. They didn't say anything about not sucking up all the other data on it.
Other than that I like the idea. As long as it's optional and I can still use a regular driver's license like I do now.
Current traffic stop:
"License and registration, please." (just kidding - they never say "please")
Future traffic stop:
"Hand over your phone"
Far distant dystopian future:
You don't have to hand over anything - they already know who you are,
Obviously there has to be a balance. If healthcare cost me absolutely nothing (aside from whatever taxes I may pay) and I had easy access to a doctor I trusted and was confident in, I wouldn't really be that expensive....right now anyway. But if I got cancer or some other terminal conditions that's when it may get to be an issue.
Maybe basic medical checkups should come out of our pocket and the government should foot the bill for the major problems. Or maybe everyone should be guaranteed at least a minimal level of care even if they can't afford it.
I'm looking at this optimistically though. It's private business taking the initiative and health care costs are ridiculous. If they can succeed at lowering health care costs they might just shake up the industry.
Not that I really trust JPMorgan or Amazon - I'm not familiar enough with Berkshire to trust them either.
"Free to those that can afford it, very expensive to those that can’t." - Withnail
That's a quote from an old movie, but it describes American healthcare very well. If you have a good job with a good health plan and are reasonably healthy you hardly even notice the cost. If you lose any one of those 3 things though you might not be able to afford it anymore.
Well that sucks. And I was going to suggest maybe a Nibble Coin too, but apparently someone had that idea already also.
https://coinmarketcap.com/curr...
It seems like a challenge to me now. Surely I could do better than $11, right?
I seriously doubt I'll follow through on this, but if I really tried, I should be able to scam more than $11 out of gullible people. I should be able to get at least...$24!
And cryptocurrency is how I could make it happen because people don't understand it. I don't even understand it exactly. But I know "blockchain"is a selling point so I'll have to incorporate that into my cryptocoins - which will need a really catchy name. I think ByteCoin sounds good because bytes are bigger than bits. And when you wanted someone to pay you in ByteCoin you could just say "Byte Me"
I meant all that in jest, but now I'm seriously wondering what it would take to set up my own crypto-coin.
There are several billion people using the internet and a lot of them are stupid. Unfortunately a lot of them are poor too, but I should be able to get more than $11.
Maybe I could even become a Slashdot headline someday!
like most things there is a spectrum. Once I've met someone a few times I can recognize them, but before that it's just another face. Is this just normal? I don't know.
It has resulted in some awkward moments when I should have known someone and just didn't recognize them as well as the opposite when I think I know someone - or should know them - but I'm just not sure.
Of course there are a lot of people who look so distinctive that I recognize them immediately but usually I have to meet and talk to someone a few times before their face actually imprints on my memory.
A lot of us just look very similar. We have average hair, average eyes, a regular sized nose. We drive average cars. I can't tell you people apart. You all look the same and it's not a racial thing - white people often look the same to me and I'm white.
If you put my next door neighbor in a police lineup (which is where he probably belongs) I probably wouldn't even be able to pick him out.
I don't even know what to make of this. It seems unclear what they actually want to do but "nationalizing" a whole sector of telecommunications is very socialist.
Of course that probably wouldn't be much worse than the oligoply that controls wireless already.
It's nearly 20 years old...Oh wait. I did plug an OBD-II gadget that connects to my phone and there is that dash-cam. Crap. My privacy doesn't exist.
Not that Verizon wasn't already more aware of where I am than I am. And literally like clockwork, my fitness tracker gizmo has just vibrated to tell me I should get off my ass - and I know it talks to servers in China too. I try to stop it. I'm not sure how successful I've been but I did install a firewall on my phone.
I suspect the firewall app is the real spyware. Netflix knows what I watch. Amazon knows what I buy. Even though I don't have a FaceBook account they probably have a profile on me.
Even the liquor store where I buy beer wants my email address. Why should the sale of alcohol involve an e-mail adress? They said they had just partnered with - I cannot even remember what idiotic website. They're outsourcing the tracking!
When I was a kid I thought Radio Shack's Battery of the Month Club card was awesome. I always needed batteries. What did Radio Shack get out of it? I wasn't really sure but I found out later in life that a customer's information was worth 26 cents to my employer at the time. I was shocked, but also felt a bit naive - of course their customer database was valuable...and of course they sold it.
It seems to me the ad agency was very real and they were doing what ad agencies do. I worked for an ad agency briefly. It was a fascinating experience but those people are experts at twisted thinking. Serving you malware is just a part of these very real ad agencies business plan.
Ad agencies are supposed to influence you - or at least convince businesses that if they pay you they can influence your customers.
“The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.”
David Ogilvy, Confessions of an Advertising Man
That sounds terribly sexist, but I'm pretty sure Mad Men don't give a shit. They just have to imprint their brand in your head. And then beat the consumer with it so it becomes unthinkable that they might even consider a different brand.
Coca Cola - it's simply the Rolls Royce of fizzy drinks! Wait, what? Shut up and buy it.
I would mod this up if I hadn't already commented, but I would point out that the link posted does go to a certain type of band....
The Grateful Dead is the first one listed and they even had taper sections cordoned off back in the day. Bring your tape decks and mike stands! We'll put you in your own little section.
I do love watching videos and listening to audio recordings of shows I've been to....especially if it wasn't me who went to the hassle of recording them.
I see Steve Kimock is also listed in that link.....this sort of reminds me of that time he went off on an audience and told some people to STFU.
"Seriously, man it's fucking rude. Get your money back and go home. I don't care. Shut the fuck up!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I've got the full recording of that show somewhere. The talkers in the audience who weren't even paying attention to the music were pretty bad.
Link to the whole show:
https://archive.org/details/sk...
IMO, he came across as being a bit petulant but I've also had to change seats in theaters just to avoid people talking over the music so I can sympathize some. And to his credit, Kimock put up with it for over 90 minutes before he lost it.
cause rock n' roll ain't opera.
"You were born to rock, You'll never be an opera star, oh, oh oh oh oh ooohhhh" - Neil Young
Rather than mod you as a troll I'd like to take this opportunity to say that anyone who completely avoids the subject of the article in favor of making fun of an artist who they'd like to belittle by insinuating that nobody ever heard of them or in particular you're too good to have ever heard of them is being childish.
(I think I've done it too regarding some pop-tart so I can't claim much moral superiority or anything).
I'm not a fan of Jack White. I've heard the name, but I have no idea what kind of music he even plays, but I do know that I can type "Jack White" into Google and find out in as long as it would take me to listen to some of his music.....which I will do now....after I get another beer.
I can now honestly say that I'm still not a Jack White fan, but at least his music isn't terrible. That's just a subjective opinion of course....the first song even reminded me of David Bowie just a little bit. And I even liked one of his other songs.
God forbid I might get so bored during a show that I would need to pull out my phone. Can I still bring a camera? Maybe I should just go home.
I've recorded shows before, both audio and video and it really does get in the way of enjoying a concert.
Even just recording one or two songs with your phone takes a lot away from your enjoyment of the moment.
Not only that but when you're in an audience and the stage is obscured by dozens of people holding up their cell phones above their heads that takes a lot away from the experience as well.
So I support this move by this White guy. I mean it's his show and if his fans don't like it they can stay home. His other fans might just appreciate the lack of phones in their faces.
And was reminded of the wisdom of Solomon....Dick Solomon that is.
"Guns don't kill people, physics kills people!"
Drivers must go to the effort of learning the car's systems in order to know that..
Yikes - maybe we need a new class of license for people to drive a car with advanced but not fully autonomous features like these.
I always cringe when I see drivers not looking at the road for too long. This often happens in movies, but all too often it happens in real life as well. If I have to watch the road all adaptive cruise and auto-braking would do for me is give my foot a rest. That's where conventional cruise control is great (giving my foot a rest) on long trips but I still have to pay attention to the road.
Such advanced features should be considered more of a backup rather than a primary safety device.
That is until we can truly have a car that we can trust to fall asleep in and never have to be expected to take over control at a moment's notice.
If you do happen to fall asleep at the wheel maybe it will save you, but don't count on it.
The dental floss tycoons have a very strong lobby in Montana and they demanded it.
The only reason people like you make this argument is because you're happy with the result.
I've never lived on the east (or west) coast. It's NOT just them. Most of us live in big cities. Why should we be "disenfranchised" (to use your term) by voters in Wyoming whose vote carries more weight than mine?
I believe the reason we cannot rid ourselves of the electoral college is because too often it has benefited one party over the other. And while the east and west coasts certainly helped push Clinton over the top as far as the popular vote goes in 2016, it only took a few counties and a few thousand votes to push Trump over the top in the EC.
Why should the party politics of 70-80 thousand rural voters in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania get to disenfranchise all the people in the states all over the USA?
But that's not right either. People all over the US voted for both Dems and Republicans. It wasn't just 3 counties. It was people all over the US. Like you said:
Every citizen gets a vote.
And I say it's time to start counting them equally. We're not a loose confederation of states anymore. We're a united country. I've freely moved among several states as have many others. My loyalty is to the USA, not to the state where I was born or even currently live in.
No, I'm not trying to overturn the last election. Those were the rules then. We can change things in the future though.
And why do you use the term "elite"? Do you think people on the East Coast are "elite"? I certainly don't. Sure, some of them are but you'll find elite people right in my town near the middle of the country as well.
And is being "elite" a bad thing?
Do you wear your (perceived) inferiority as a badge of honor?