Unlike the ISPs, there's dozens of viable competitors to YouTube out there. Absolutely no need to regulate the platform providers like they're common carriers. No siree, YouTube will be replaced in no time by a more free speech friendly alternative...
that it would take a psychopath to formulate the idea that pedestrian is the perpetrator and driver is the victim.
If you disobey the jaywalking laws and a reasonable driver hits you, you are objectively the perpetrator of the accident. What is so hard for you to understand about that? If I'm driving 45mph down street and a pedestrian decides to run across the street, odds are good that I won't be able to break in time. People like you think that'd make me the bad guy if I hit them, despite it being likely impossible between the sheer Physics and normal driver reaction time.
I see this shit all the time where pedestrians will simply disregard the law AND Physics like oh yeah, that big SUV can just stop on a dime if I keep walking despite them having the right of way.
If anyone is the [insert proper medical term defining asshole who doesn't care] it's the pedestrians who smugly walk out in front of vehicles expecting the forces of nature to bend to them.
In my community, we have great sidewalks, many crosswalks and all that needed to create a safe and walkable community. What do the pedestrians still do, you ask?
Walk out into traffic if it's more convenient. If a car hits them after taking reasonable measures to stop, they ought to be liable for all of the damage caused including to the vehicle and the driver's therapy if required.
My wife knew someone who killed a pedestrian who just walked out into traffic like this without thinking. Totally unavoidable. The "victim" was the driver, not the pedestrian because the driver was obeying the law and some stranger decided "fuck the traffic laws" and made her party to an accidental vehicular homicide.
but it seems to me, if you're a psychopath and you're into those games, they can train you to be a much more efficient psychopath when it comes time to assaulting a school or public place
The closest 99% of them will get to the weapons they've "trained" on is an AR15, and an untrained (by real live practice) civilian is going to be laughably bad with it. For example, the Dark Knight shooter illustrates the point. Out of like 80 rounds fired before being captured, he mostly wounded and only got like 15 fatalities. And remember, that happened in a theater, which is a veritable kill box, at a time when it was going to be fully packed with victims.
Fact is it works in our favor that they're learning from CoD and not living at the range doing real tactical training. If they did, you better believe the body count would be much worse because they'd be able to plan from real life understanding of what the weapons they can efficiently acquire can do.
I'm trying to imagine a naval blockade line around china that puts it out of the range of ballistic missiles.
China has just enough nukes that they'd have a choice: nuke our blockade line or nuke our cities. Also, let's be serious here. The main reason the United States is not taken seriously is that we're the world's cop always throwing our weight around and half-assing it. If our foreign policy were like China's, China would take us much more seriously if we barked at them because they'd know that anything serious enough to us to make us demand action is going to receive a follow through that no one wants.
Ultimately you have no leverage over other nations attitudes on pollution other than to somehow try to get their population to a point where they care more about the long term effects of pollution on their health
We do have leverage, we just aren't willing to use it. That leverage is both trade and military force.
Consider an alternate history where the federal government vetoed NAFTA, did not give MFN status to China and had kept a 600-1000 ship USN after the Cold War. None of that is wild thinking as those are things that could have been done by simply making different choices at key points in the last 25 years.
You bet your ass China would clean its shit up if a few hundred USN ships appeared beyond missile range and imposed a naval blockade of China until they agree to clean up their act.
"Unwilling to act" != "No leverage." Everything you call impossible is just the result of our choices.
The top 10 rivers that dump plastic waste into the oceans are in Africa and Asia. 6 of them are in China.
And that, dear friends, is yet another data point about "free trade." That tasty arbitrage that lets you get your iPhone 75 for cheaper than if it were produced domestically is brought to you buy a country that gives absolutely zero fucks about its environment or whether or not you're eating microplastics in your food.
What did you think the "3rd party doctrine" was going to mean? It means that the 4th amendment is a dead letter the moment you put your data into the hands of a third party. This kind of absolute shit reasoning is why I laugh in the face of the rose-cheek, earnest face fucks who pull a pedantic poindexter by going "but da SCOTUS said X so that is clearly what it means:"
In Katz v. United States (1967), the United States Supreme Court established its reasonable expectation of privacy test. In 1976 (United States v. Miller) and 1979 (Smith v. Maryland), the Court affirmed that "a person has no legitimate expectation of privacy in information he voluntarily turns over to third parties."
So in other words, even if you signed a legally binding contract with the third party, the intellectual giants of the court know you REALLY did not have an expectation of privacy. Even if Verizon promised in writing to go so far as to hire Blackwater and assassinate hackers who go after your data, you simply don't have an expectation of privacy because the court said so.
The bigger they get, the less they get to hide behind that "hey it's our platform, don't like our bias? Build your own" bullshit. At some point people who care about election integrity and things like that are going to wake up to the fact that allowing a seriously biased company like Facebook to play power broker in one moment and go John Galt on the other is just straight up poisonous for our society.
At some point, their "standards" are going to have to start resembling that of common carriers and the "mistakes" where somethings like a total annihilation of conservative content (with no comparable loss elsewhere) will have to be treated as an obviously intentional propaganda act.
"We can go to court for $2M in damages or you can hire me for a fixed sum of $500k to get your code in compliance." That would likely have gotten a lot more bites.
We need these legislators to just stop putting bullshit laws like this into place. If Wilson, NC can build a viable fiber ISP wire up another tiny town, we don't need net neutrality. Wilson is not a rich town AFAIK. If they can do it, then so can most communities.
By comparison, look at Facebook and YouTube. You'd have to be a window-licking moron to defend net neutrality at the ISP level and then claim "da magic free market's gonna take care of the big platform companies." To build a service that can compete with Google-subsidized YouTube (still losing like $2B/year!) is significantly more expensive. It would cost at least as much private cash as expanding FiOS to the entire Western half of North Carolina so that every nook and cranny of Appalachia has 500mbps.
The fact that at Halloween, my wife has come back into the room because my kindergarden age son was crying because a kid's channel played a trailer for a horror movie that scared the shit out of him.
And that's not the first time that their "monetize everything we can but focus on SJW-hated speech" has lead to an appallingly inappropriate transition to a new video or ad when we were on kid-friendly content.
Fact is YouTube wouldn't survive past a year if Google said "make a profit or go home" because their culture seems far more interested in rooting out the few Hitler humpers shitposting there than building an excellent and nuanced content control that keeps people seeing the sort of content they expect.
He had told the FCC boss that advances in computer processing power had made it easier for internet service providers to discriminate against certain web users for commercial or political reasons, perhaps slowing down traffic to one political party's website or making it harder for a rival company to process payments
That's precisely what the platform providers like the big PISaaS providers, social media, etc. are doing with their machine learning algorithms.
A small town in NC was able to start an ISP on their own until the state stepped in. So please tell me again why we need net neutrality at the infrastructure level instead of at the application level. Why should Verizon be required to be a common carrier, but Facebook and Twitter get to have "standards" and ruthlessly shut down content they don't like that is otherwise legal?
Oh right, because their politics align with most of the ardent net neutrality advocates.
Just throw civil contempt of court at someone until they agree to allow a valid warrant to be executed. If it means imprisoning them for 20 years, so be it. You have a duty to unlock a device you own if it is named in a valid warrant. You don't even have to give your pin or password over to the police. You can just hand the unlocked device to them and let them change it to 000000 or something else.
If someone forgets their encryption key, that's on them. We keep hearing about how people need to be held strictly responsible for any slight misuse of firearms, so I think that applies in spades also to encryption. If you use it and cannot remember the key to allow the state to execute a valid warrant, sucks to be you unless you can prove that you are not defying the court.
And just buy something like this from a brand like Audio-Technica. It'll probably be half the price Apple charges and just as luxurious with great sound.
Even if they raised $7.35B with a capital B, it would be wasted and transferred out of the country by the corrupt People's Cadre running the country.
In related news, the ANC has announced that they plan to seize white-owned land in South Africa, but they'll be smart this time and won't "hurt the economy." (This puts us on the right into the awkward position of pointing out that Mugabe is corrupt, not stupid. He didn't intentionally set out to burn his agriculture sector to the ground. It's just a byproduct of taking fertile land from farmers and giving it to patsies.)
So in the future, we keep adding third world countries to the list of victims of "poverty that just happens" like it's some sort of Act of God/Satan(tm) instead of the, by now, highly predictable consequences of adopting radical wealth transfer policies that don't even attempt to say "hey, make sure you transfer the money to the workers who actually know what the fuck to do with it instead of the ones who'll buy more beer, pot and a TV."
The last mile to my home: *RAGETROLLFACE* RRRRRAWWWWRRR MUH INTERNETZ!!
PaaS/IaaS/SaaS/APIs: Tell us what to do and we'll go Galt on you/It's our property, just build your own multi-billion dollar platform.
Considering the fact that we have muncipalities in banjo territory building their own ISPs, makes you kinda wonder if the real area where the net needed to be neutral wasn't further up the stack...
Having completely abandoned the economic class focus of their old leftist counterparts, they're going to have a "diverse underclass" that has been kicked around and called obsolete gunning for them. I'm not a Marxist, but Marx would be shitting himself if he could see the arguments today like a "gay billionaire being oppressed by poor workers who don't want to work at his wedding." Adam Smith would also agree that it's a recipe for disaster because both point to the same problem, which is it that it's an elite-focused system without even a pretense of noblesse oblige and a terribly smug disdain for the "wrong people" almost all of whom are poor or poorish.
Is the premise. A super-advanced sub-Sahara African country that is at least a full century ahead of Europe, East Asia, the Americas and Israel... when in real life to my knowledge that region never even got to the level of the Roman Empire on its own before European colonialism?
Sorry, but as cool as some of it looks, it practically screams "we wuz kangz!!!11!" at the audience.
One of the valuable lessons from Ukraine is that it's almost always "meet the new boss, same as the old boss." If you want to accelerate the process to finding a good leader, just send weapons to both sides and let nature take its course until the aggressive, lawless fucktards on both sides annihilate each other leaving the meeker folks to inherit the Earth.
You are using an algorithm to appropriate the likeness of another person without their consent. The wording they've chosen, intentionally or not, makes it sound more like rape when it's really just a matter of defamation and IP infringement.
The need to shoehorn every sexual matter into "consent" to determine the moral qualities is like how everyone goes "muh dumbocracy" over everything they don't like that a legitimately elected government does. These terms get so overloaded with rhetorical baggage that they become meaningless.
It's also why Jesus said "it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven." He bought his way out of the temporal punishment, but the joke's on him. God cannot be bribed.
When you view the world that way, you have to have some pity on these people. They're not flying high. They're the spiritual equivalent of a coked out jack russell happily running head first into a brick wall.
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Unlike the ISPs, there's dozens of viable competitors to YouTube out there. Absolutely no need to regulate the platform providers like they're common carriers. No siree, YouTube will be replaced in no time by a more free speech friendly alternative...
Amirite...?
If you disobey the jaywalking laws and a reasonable driver hits you, you are objectively the perpetrator of the accident. What is so hard for you to understand about that? If I'm driving 45mph down street and a pedestrian decides to run across the street, odds are good that I won't be able to break in time. People like you think that'd make me the bad guy if I hit them, despite it being likely impossible between the sheer Physics and normal driver reaction time.
I see this shit all the time where pedestrians will simply disregard the law AND Physics like oh yeah, that big SUV can just stop on a dime if I keep walking despite them having the right of way.
If anyone is the [insert proper medical term defining asshole who doesn't care] it's the pedestrians who smugly walk out in front of vehicles expecting the forces of nature to bend to them.
In my community, we have great sidewalks, many crosswalks and all that needed to create a safe and walkable community. What do the pedestrians still do, you ask?
Walk out into traffic if it's more convenient. If a car hits them after taking reasonable measures to stop, they ought to be liable for all of the damage caused including to the vehicle and the driver's therapy if required.
My wife knew someone who killed a pedestrian who just walked out into traffic like this without thinking. Totally unavoidable. The "victim" was the driver, not the pedestrian because the driver was obeying the law and some stranger decided "fuck the traffic laws" and made her party to an accidental vehicular homicide.
According to a former high level staffer on the Obama campaign, they said they knew Obama's campaign was mass harvesting the social graph and let them do it despite it being against Facebook's rules.
Facebook has been interfering with elections on a level that is utterly unconscionable and must be made an example of.
The closest 99% of them will get to the weapons they've "trained" on is an AR15, and an untrained (by real live practice) civilian is going to be laughably bad with it. For example, the Dark Knight shooter illustrates the point. Out of like 80 rounds fired before being captured, he mostly wounded and only got like 15 fatalities. And remember, that happened in a theater, which is a veritable kill box, at a time when it was going to be fully packed with victims.
Fact is it works in our favor that they're learning from CoD and not living at the range doing real tactical training. If they did, you better believe the body count would be much worse because they'd be able to plan from real life understanding of what the weapons they can efficiently acquire can do.
China has just enough nukes that they'd have a choice: nuke our blockade line or nuke our cities. Also, let's be serious here. The main reason the United States is not taken seriously is that we're the world's cop always throwing our weight around and half-assing it. If our foreign policy were like China's, China would take us much more seriously if we barked at them because they'd know that anything serious enough to us to make us demand action is going to receive a follow through that no one wants.
We do have leverage, we just aren't willing to use it. That leverage is both trade and military force.
Consider an alternate history where the federal government vetoed NAFTA, did not give MFN status to China and had kept a 600-1000 ship USN after the Cold War. None of that is wild thinking as those are things that could have been done by simply making different choices at key points in the last 25 years.
You bet your ass China would clean its shit up if a few hundred USN ships appeared beyond missile range and imposed a naval blockade of China until they agree to clean up their act.
"Unwilling to act" != "No leverage." Everything you call impossible is just the result of our choices.
The top 10 rivers that dump plastic waste into the oceans are in Africa and Asia. 6 of them are in China.
And that, dear friends, is yet another data point about "free trade." That tasty arbitrage that lets you get your iPhone 75 for cheaper than if it were produced domestically is brought to you buy a country that gives absolutely zero fucks about its environment or whether or not you're eating microplastics in your food.
Enjoy.
What did you think the "3rd party doctrine" was going to mean? It means that the 4th amendment is a dead letter the moment you put your data into the hands of a third party. This kind of absolute shit reasoning is why I laugh in the face of the rose-cheek, earnest face fucks who pull a pedantic poindexter by going "but da SCOTUS said X so that is clearly what it means:"
So in other words, even if you signed a legally binding contract with the third party, the intellectual giants of the court know you REALLY did not have an expectation of privacy. Even if Verizon promised in writing to go so far as to hire Blackwater and assassinate hackers who go after your data, you simply don't have an expectation of privacy because the court said so.
The bigger they get, the less they get to hide behind that "hey it's our platform, don't like our bias? Build your own" bullshit. At some point people who care about election integrity and things like that are going to wake up to the fact that allowing a seriously biased company like Facebook to play power broker in one moment and go John Galt on the other is just straight up poisonous for our society.
At some point, their "standards" are going to have to start resembling that of common carriers and the "mistakes" where somethings like a total annihilation of conservative content (with no comparable loss elsewhere) will have to be treated as an obviously intentional propaganda act.
"We can go to court for $2M in damages or you can hire me for a fixed sum of $500k to get your code in compliance." That would likely have gotten a lot more bites.
We need these legislators to just stop putting bullshit laws like this into place. If Wilson, NC can build a viable fiber ISP wire up another tiny town, we don't need net neutrality. Wilson is not a rich town AFAIK. If they can do it, then so can most communities.
By comparison, look at Facebook and YouTube. You'd have to be a window-licking moron to defend net neutrality at the ISP level and then claim "da magic free market's gonna take care of the big platform companies." To build a service that can compete with Google-subsidized YouTube (still losing like $2B/year!) is significantly more expensive. It would cost at least as much private cash as expanding FiOS to the entire Western half of North Carolina so that every nook and cranny of Appalachia has 500mbps.
The fact that at Halloween, my wife has come back into the room because my kindergarden age son was crying because a kid's channel played a trailer for a horror movie that scared the shit out of him.
And that's not the first time that their "monetize everything we can but focus on SJW-hated speech" has lead to an appallingly inappropriate transition to a new video or ad when we were on kid-friendly content.
Fact is YouTube wouldn't survive past a year if Google said "make a profit or go home" because their culture seems far more interested in rooting out the few Hitler humpers shitposting there than building an excellent and nuanced content control that keeps people seeing the sort of content they expect.
That's precisely what the platform providers like the big PISaaS providers, social media, etc. are doing with their machine learning algorithms.
A small town in NC was able to start an ISP on their own until the state stepped in. So please tell me again why we need net neutrality at the infrastructure level instead of at the application level. Why should Verizon be required to be a common carrier, but Facebook and Twitter get to have "standards" and ruthlessly shut down content they don't like that is otherwise legal?
Oh right, because their politics align with most of the ardent net neutrality advocates.
Just throw civil contempt of court at someone until they agree to allow a valid warrant to be executed. If it means imprisoning them for 20 years, so be it. You have a duty to unlock a device you own if it is named in a valid warrant. You don't even have to give your pin or password over to the police. You can just hand the unlocked device to them and let them change it to 000000 or something else.
If someone forgets their encryption key, that's on them. We keep hearing about how people need to be held strictly responsible for any slight misuse of firearms, so I think that applies in spades also to encryption. If you use it and cannot remember the key to allow the state to execute a valid warrant, sucks to be you unless you can prove that you are not defying the court.
But it turns out that a $5 wrench turns out to be as good as key escrow.
And just buy something like this from a brand like Audio-Technica. It'll probably be half the price Apple charges and just as luxurious with great sound.
That if we obey this Anglos will now call him Jipig which sounds close to "the pig?"
Even if they raised $7.35B with a capital B, it would be wasted and transferred out of the country by the corrupt People's Cadre running the country.
In related news, the ANC has announced that they plan to seize white-owned land in South Africa, but they'll be smart this time and won't "hurt the economy." (This puts us on the right into the awkward position of pointing out that Mugabe is corrupt, not stupid. He didn't intentionally set out to burn his agriculture sector to the ground. It's just a byproduct of taking fertile land from farmers and giving it to patsies.)
So in the future, we keep adding third world countries to the list of victims of "poverty that just happens" like it's some sort of Act of God/Satan(tm) instead of the, by now, highly predictable consequences of adopting radical wealth transfer policies that don't even attempt to say "hey, make sure you transfer the money to the workers who actually know what the fuck to do with it instead of the ones who'll buy more beer, pot and a TV."
The last mile to my home: *RAGETROLLFACE* RRRRRAWWWWRRR MUH INTERNETZ!!
PaaS/IaaS/SaaS/APIs: Tell us what to do and we'll go Galt on you/It's our property, just build your own multi-billion dollar platform.
Considering the fact that we have muncipalities in banjo territory building their own ISPs, makes you kinda wonder if the real area where the net needed to be neutral wasn't further up the stack...
Having completely abandoned the economic class focus of their old leftist counterparts, they're going to have a "diverse underclass" that has been kicked around and called obsolete gunning for them. I'm not a Marxist, but Marx would be shitting himself if he could see the arguments today like a "gay billionaire being oppressed by poor workers who don't want to work at his wedding." Adam Smith would also agree that it's a recipe for disaster because both point to the same problem, which is it that it's an elite-focused system without even a pretense of noblesse oblige and a terribly smug disdain for the "wrong people" almost all of whom are poor or poorish.
Is the premise. A super-advanced sub-Sahara African country that is at least a full century ahead of Europe, East Asia, the Americas and Israel... when in real life to my knowledge that region never even got to the level of the Roman Empire on its own before European colonialism?
Sorry, but as cool as some of it looks, it practically screams "we wuz kangz!!!11!" at the audience.
One of the valuable lessons from Ukraine is that it's almost always "meet the new boss, same as the old boss." If you want to accelerate the process to finding a good leader, just send weapons to both sides and let nature take its course until the aggressive, lawless fucktards on both sides annihilate each other leaving the meeker folks to inherit the Earth.
You are using an algorithm to appropriate the likeness of another person without their consent. The wording they've chosen, intentionally or not, makes it sound more like rape when it's really just a matter of defamation and IP infringement.
The need to shoehorn every sexual matter into "consent" to determine the moral qualities is like how everyone goes "muh dumbocracy" over everything they don't like that a legitimately elected government does. These terms get so overloaded with rhetorical baggage that they become meaningless.
It's also why Jesus said "it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven." He bought his way out of the temporal punishment, but the joke's on him. God cannot be bribed.
When you view the world that way, you have to have some pity on these people. They're not flying high. They're the spiritual equivalent of a coked out jack russell happily running head first into a brick wall.