Laissez faire capitalism also results in organizations large enough to buy elections and stand against governments with impunity. There must be limits.
Uber's system automatically raises prices based on surges in demand. There's no human intervention involved. So getting all upset at Uber for this is pointless.
So let me get this straight? If I program a machine to do something heinous automatically, I'm not responsible because "there is no human intervention"? Seems like there was a fuck of a lot of human intervention in writing the algorithm. Somehow, I doubt this argument would hold water in a court of law.
Regardless of whether you think this is right or not, at least think about what you're saying before you open your mouth and let the stupid out.
Unfortunately, actual people (even Libertarians) continue showing why we need laws and governments. Yes, some people are just too stupid and/or dangerous to manage themselves while not harming others, which is why we have these laws. Freedom is not an absolute value, unless you value above all else the freedom to die in a society that has no rules. Everything else is just a matter of where you put the dividing lines between too lax and strict. Libertarians seem to fail to understand this fundamental point in their arguments, which is why it is so simple to treat them as the bullshit they are. When you get to the bottom of their absolutist arguments, they're just babies crying because they can't get their own way all the time.
Most of the Emacs users I know are too busy trying to debug why this package or key-binding or the other isn't working right to do any actual editing. Lets see a user with a raw Emacs setup try to watch a You Tube video in it. I doubt it can actually be done without a 2K+ long init.el. You start to ask whether the single environment "efficiency" really is worth more than just opening a browser window - OSes these days are multi-window, you know...
A-fucking-men. The problem is that the state is already locked into Oracle with tons of shitty systems to maintain. It's probably the best deal they can make without making a multi-billion dollar commitment to get the fuck off of Oracle. But even then they'd just choose another shitty vendor. Which do you want - IBM, Oracle, or Microsoft? Those are the Vanilla, Chocolate, and Strawberry of flavors you get to choose from when you're a client as big as a state.
My counter example is that 2 months ago Apple replaced the logic board in my early 2011 MacBook Pro totally for free, under the replacement plan for the design flaws in that system.
Apples a big company - one relatively small well-behaved division does not the whole company make. The Apple is rotting.
Sorry, but the language has not evolved so much that dislike is now a synonym for hate (or vice versa). However, the use of H-word instead of hate would seem to be the type of linguistic evolution that you seem to be in favor of.
There would be survivors of any nuclear conflict. Maybe millions of survivors. It would suck to be a survivor, life would be really hard under a nuclear winter with all distribution networks destroyed. Humanity would survive though at a much diminished rate.
Nice assertion, but we still might not survive. Starvation and disease could take the rest. Human-kind has been close to extinction before. We could make it there again. And maybe this time, not be quite as lucky.
Apple CEO Tim Cook said, "... Apple follows the law and we pay all the taxes we owe."
Yes, and the EU's law just said you owe 14 billion. Pay and quit whining about it - maybe if Apple had pulled its profits back into the US, they wouldn't be having these issues.
According to the content industries, the only security they need is shutting down access to the internet for the user if they're found to be downloading pirated material.
Fuck you, you undemocratic piece of shit. The constitution says nothing about "putting in an effort" or any other such crap. You've proven the original poster's point - that people who complain about those that vote are usually wanting to clear out their notion of undesirable voters (in your case those undesirables that aren't putting in an effort). The question is whether we're going to have a democracy or not. So I reiterate - fuck you, you undemocratic piece of shit.
Whenever someone "reaches an agreement" payola is involved.
Not necessarily. In this case, Comcast got another bauble for it's array of X1 services and Netflix probably gets closer to some metric like "Integrate to profitable platforms". If both are seen as advantageous by the respective parties, there may not have been any money that changed hands. That may be unlikely, but it is possible.
The part I find odd is that you somehow assume that, outside of providing you with the contracted service for the given price, that the companies involved have some responsibility to run their businesses without other external financial interactions. Does this extend to the other vendors Netflix deals with (like Samsung)? After all, you paid for the TV and so you deserve a rebate from Netflix? I feel dumber for having to type that, but that's what you're saying.
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Laissez faire capitalism also results in organizations large enough to buy elections and stand against governments with impunity. There must be limits.
It is United, after all.
640K should be enough for anyone.
Why would anyone want to do business with Larry Ellison and Oracle? Cyanide's preferable.
Uber's system automatically raises prices based on surges in demand. There's no human intervention involved. So getting all upset at Uber for this is pointless.
So let me get this straight? If I program a machine to do something heinous automatically, I'm not responsible because "there is no human intervention"? Seems like there was a fuck of a lot of human intervention in writing the algorithm. Somehow, I doubt this argument would hold water in a court of law.
Regardless of whether you think this is right or not, at least think about what you're saying before you open your mouth and let the stupid out.
...because they probably haven't had to deal with this before.
Uh, they've had bad experiences like this at least twice before - Paris and one in SE Asia somewhere, IIRC.
You can plead ignorance only so many times.
Unfortunately, actual people (even Libertarians) continue showing why we need laws and governments. Yes, some people are just too stupid and/or dangerous to manage themselves while not harming others, which is why we have these laws. Freedom is not an absolute value, unless you value above all else the freedom to die in a society that has no rules. Everything else is just a matter of where you put the dividing lines between too lax and strict. Libertarians seem to fail to understand this fundamental point in their arguments, which is why it is so simple to treat them as the bullshit they are. When you get to the bottom of their absolutist arguments, they're just babies crying because they can't get their own way all the time.
Most of the Emacs users I know are too busy trying to debug why this package or key-binding or the other isn't working right to do any actual editing. Lets see a user with a raw Emacs setup try to watch a You Tube video in it. I doubt it can actually be done without a 2K+ long init.el. You start to ask whether the single environment "efficiency" really is worth more than just opening a browser window - OSes these days are multi-window, you know...
A-fucking-men. The problem is that the state is already locked into Oracle with tons of shitty systems to maintain. It's probably the best deal they can make without making a multi-billion dollar commitment to get the fuck off of Oracle. But even then they'd just choose another shitty vendor. Which do you want - IBM, Oracle, or Microsoft? Those are the Vanilla, Chocolate, and Strawberry of flavors you get to choose from when you're a client as big as a state.
The government people overseeing the project got to keep 100% of their paychecks.
Yes, but several of the high-level ones lost 100% of their jobs following the debacle, you anti-government troll.
My counter example is that 2 months ago Apple replaced the logic board in my early 2011 MacBook Pro totally for free, under the replacement plan for the design flaws in that system.
Apples a big company - one relatively small well-behaved division does not the whole company make. The Apple is rotting.
Sorry, but the language has not evolved so much that dislike is now a synonym for hate (or vice versa). However, the use of H-word instead of hate would seem to be the type of linguistic evolution that you seem to be in favor of.
So what exactly is your point?
There would be survivors of any nuclear conflict. Maybe millions of survivors. It would suck to be a survivor, life would be really hard under a nuclear winter with all distribution networks destroyed. Humanity would survive though at a much diminished rate.
Nice assertion, but we still might not survive. Starvation and disease could take the rest. Human-kind has been close to extinction before. We could make it there again. And maybe this time, not be quite as lucky.
Translation: Waaaahhhh!
Apple CEO Tim Cook said, "... Apple follows the law and we pay all the taxes we owe."
Yes, and the EU's law just said you owe 14 billion. Pay and quit whining about it - maybe if Apple had pulled its profits back into the US, they wouldn't be having these issues.
Where do you go if you need to concentrate? You know, like on actually getting stuff done? I guess that's all passe now.
According to the content industries, the only security they need is shutting down access to the internet for the user if they're found to be downloading pirated material.
How's the cardboard box you're living in going? I figure that's about all you're going to afford in the Bay Area at that salary rate...
Because nothing says "better video experience" like autoplay on a web page.
Oracle needs grounds for an appeal. I'm happy they're having to stretch this far to find some. Pity that they could find any...
Fuck you, you undemocratic piece of shit. The constitution says nothing about "putting in an effort" or any other such crap. You've proven the original poster's point - that people who complain about those that vote are usually wanting to clear out their notion of undesirable voters (in your case those undesirables that aren't putting in an effort). The question is whether we're going to have a democracy or not. So I reiterate - fuck you, you undemocratic piece of shit.
What they take, if you give them an inch.
But then, at this level, it's all deck chair moving.
Whenever someone "reaches an agreement" payola is involved.
Not necessarily. In this case, Comcast got another bauble for it's array of X1 services and Netflix probably gets closer to some metric like "Integrate to profitable platforms". If both are seen as advantageous by the respective parties, there may not have been any money that changed hands. That may be unlikely, but it is possible.
The part I find odd is that you somehow assume that, outside of providing you with the contracted service for the given price, that the companies involved have some responsibility to run their businesses without other external financial interactions. Does this extend to the other vendors Netflix deals with (like Samsung)? After all, you paid for the TV and so you deserve a rebate from Netflix? I feel dumber for having to type that, but that's what you're saying.