Not really - there are legitimate business uses for Facebook - social media posts, marketing research, and advertising etc. So you have to have finely granular control over who is and is not authorized to use Facebook. Also you run the risk of pissing off your employees because you are clamping down on internet access. You have to pick your battles as a manager.
What people suffering from dementia really need is a cure for dementia. Almost all causes of dementia are either potentially treatable or preventable.
In fact in almost every case, physician-assisted suicide / euthenasia is or will relatively soon be a cop-out. Cancer, heart disease, stroke, and other leading causes of death are all within realistic shooting distance of advanced technologies and a new group of researchers that have finally figured out that aging is really the big disease that everyone has previously ignored but in fact is perhaps the only disease we really need to treat in most cases.
a giant fraud, siphoning off billions in employee wages and lost productivity from companies all over the globe into free content for Facebook. I watch people sitting at work posting on Facebook and the realization is that their employer is literally paying them to generate content for Facebook.
In the U.S. Vlad is short for any (male) name that is vaguely Russian, Romanian/Transylvanian, or more broadly eastern European. For instance if you meet someone with an eastern European accent you can call them Vlad, although typically not to their face because otherwise you can come off looking like a dick. In a pinch it can also be used for anyone that is not originally from the U.S., or for people who are from the U.S. but have an appropriate ethnic background, suitable for racial stereotyping.
Have to agree. Hillary put me off with all the saber-rattling about no-fly zones in Syria and pushing all the news blaming Putin for the email hacks. Whether or not he had anything to do with them, she was still going to have to negotiate with him as POTUS.
It is almost impossible to report news without some sort of bias, implicit or explicit. The way I get my news is by reading both liberal- and conservative-leaning news outlets. The truth is often somewhere in between.
We can't have different rules if a computer makes calls or a computer is in your body? I hope there are different rules.
More generally it would seem that since computers are used everywhere, this new department would usurp power from every previously established regulatory body. The way this works everywhere else is that a standards body comes up with standards and they are adopted by different government agencies.
"Those people who have a different viewpoint than me are mentally retarded, and their leader is physically unattractive to boot, which further lends credence to my viewpoint."
Wait, the right to equal protection?
There probably have to be some caveats. It seems like the turning point might be where an artist is forced to use their unique creative talents to design something that directly conflicts with their protected religious belief system.
Actually I think you would find that you would find him very charming and interesting in person. Just like Obama and other people who have risen to high office. It is hard to get anywhere in politics if you do not have this ability.
Well why not crowd-source government with an app? We could all be on the Supreme Court and our rulings, slammed out on a coffee break or on while sitting on the can, could be modded up or down by millions of your citizen-peers. Same with legislation. Then replace the president with IBM's Watson for the ultimate in special-interest resistance and dispassionate execution of the law.
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Yes. These are obviously things on the horizon, but realistically on the horizon, whereas previously they were considered science fiction.
Not really - there are legitimate business uses for Facebook - social media posts, marketing research, and advertising etc. So you have to have finely granular control over who is and is not authorized to use Facebook. Also you run the risk of pissing off your employees because you are clamping down on internet access. You have to pick your battles as a manager.
What people suffering from dementia really need is a cure for dementia. Almost all causes of dementia are either potentially treatable or preventable. In fact in almost every case, physician-assisted suicide / euthenasia is or will relatively soon be a cop-out. Cancer, heart disease, stroke, and other leading causes of death are all within realistic shooting distance of advanced technologies and a new group of researchers that have finally figured out that aging is really the big disease that everyone has previously ignored but in fact is perhaps the only disease we really need to treat in most cases.
jk
a giant fraud, siphoning off billions in employee wages and lost productivity from companies all over the globe into free content for Facebook. I watch people sitting at work posting on Facebook and the realization is that their employer is literally paying them to generate content for Facebook.
I'm sure they've been in the back merging for a while now. Of course some guy named Gracias is sitting on both company's "boards".
In the U.S. Vlad is short for any (male) name that is vaguely Russian, Romanian/Transylvanian, or more broadly eastern European. For instance if you meet someone with an eastern European accent you can call them Vlad, although typically not to their face because otherwise you can come off looking like a dick. In a pinch it can also be used for anyone that is not originally from the U.S., or for people who are from the U.S. but have an appropriate ethnic background, suitable for racial stereotyping.
That and borscht.
Now if only the U.S. would do the same.
Wait, was this guy an intern in the Clinton white house?
Have to agree. Hillary put me off with all the saber-rattling about no-fly zones in Syria and pushing all the news blaming Putin for the email hacks. Whether or not he had anything to do with them, she was still going to have to negotiate with him as POTUS.
That all sounds way too complicated. Why not just get robots to do it?
No indeed.
This sounds like a rerun of "Chuck".
It is almost impossible to report news without some sort of bias, implicit or explicit. The way I get my news is by reading both liberal- and conservative-leaning news outlets. The truth is often somewhere in between.
We can't have different rules if a computer makes calls or a computer is in your body? I hope there are different rules. More generally it would seem that since computers are used everywhere, this new department would usurp power from every previously established regulatory body. The way this works everywhere else is that a standards body comes up with standards and they are adopted by different government agencies.
...because you are a mutant and it grew out of your ass. Your eyes are just fine, thank you.
Well of course, who really wants to be fingered?
Translation: "I don't like Apple so I am comparing them to the British."
"Those people who have a different viewpoint than me are mentally retarded, and their leader is physically unattractive to boot, which further lends credence to my viewpoint."
Wait, the right to equal protection? There probably have to be some caveats. It seems like the turning point might be where an artist is forced to use their unique creative talents to design something that directly conflicts with their protected religious belief system.
Oh, I think you would.
Actually I think you would find that you would find him very charming and interesting in person. Just like Obama and other people who have risen to high office. It is hard to get anywhere in politics if you do not have this ability.
Well why not crowd-source government with an app? We could all be on the Supreme Court and our rulings, slammed out on a coffee break or on while sitting on the can, could be modded up or down by millions of your citizen-peers. Same with legislation. Then replace the president with IBM's Watson for the ultimate in special-interest resistance and dispassionate execution of the law.
Not very smart indeed.