Torba can whine all he wants, but in the free market one is free to associate, or not associate, with who they want. No one says PayPal or Google have to deal with Gab.
As to Gab being a "conservative" social network, if conservatives believe saying Jews should die, that only white men should be in power, that women deserve to be raped, then sure, why not. Because that is what you'll find there.
This is almost as hilarious as white supremacist Robert Rundo fleeing the country he complains is being taken over by foreigners, and being arrested in Central America. If he didn't like people who weren't white, why would he try to hide in a country where his white skin would stand out?
Remember all the whining and hand wringing over Hillary Clinton using an unsecured email server? Remember how people said she was giving away state secrets and should be in jail?
Funny how those same people are absolutely silent when the con artist gives away national secrets every day over an unsecured phone.
then the business (or the customers of the business) would have that money instead.
The amount of money these people earn allows them to become customers to others. The business can simply raise costs to cove the increase in wages. Also, businesses can use the increased cost of wages to deduct from their taxes. Overall, the velocity of money increases since more is being put into circulation.
If the business keeps all of it, they pay more taxes on the extra profit.
Businesses don't want extra profit. Any extra profit means paying more taxes. To limit their taxes, business will find anything to lower their bill. Thus, having higher salaries lowers a businesses tax bill (see above).
Also, the argument for cutting taxes isn't quite that people have more money to spend, it's that they have more money to invest.
That's a semantical argument. Whether spending the money (which means more overall taxes collected as well as increased business) or investing it, people who earn more will use that extra money one way or another. This breaks down somewhat at the extreme income level (the 1% don't buy a new house every year or buy any more clothes than you or I would normally do), but overall, people who make less than $75,000/year (the amount beyond which most people say doesn't increase their happiness or add anything to their lives) will spend their money on a regular basis. People who make substantially less than that amount (i.e fast food workers) will spend more of their money than others because they now have the money to spend.
It's not hard to see how giving people more money will allow them to spend more. This in turn increases overall economic activity. Exactly as the Seattle experiment has so far shown.
We repeatedly hear if you cut taxes, people will have more to spend which will help businesses and the economy grow. Why wouldn't the same thing happen if you give people a raise? In fact, giving people a raise not only gives them more money to spend, it also raises the amount of taxes taken in.
The essence of being human is wasting mental energy to get from point A to point B to perform the things that actually matter to me.
Then stop being a lazy human and develop transporters. That will get you to whatever lame activity you want to get to so you won't be sullied by enjoyment.
Over here, our view is, that: If you can't drive with a stick,... then you just plain can't drive.
Funny story. A few years back I was asked to take some German folks to New York City and show them around. When they got into my car the guy in the passenger seat looked down and pointed to the stick shift. He was surprised I had one. I told him and the others in the car, "I'm not a lazy American."
No one has been held responsible for one of the largest data breaches in this country's history from this same company, nor has the company been fined in the U.S. for the data breach, whereas the fine in the UK was a piddling $500K.
he should get states to require people to be able to drive a stick shift during their driver's license exam. Since he owns a 1967 Porsche 911S, he should be well aware of the joy of driving a stick shift compared to the numbing laziness of an automatic.
Paul Newman has the following clause in his will to prevent anyone from using his image through:
“virtual performance or reanimation of any performance by me by the use of any technique, technology or medium now in existence or which may be known or created in the future anywhere in the universe.’’
Even if that failed, it'd have to be caused by a prion, because vaccines and antibiotics are too effective.
Fine. We'll just have to develop a substance which can be sprayed into the atmosphere to make people more docile and receptive. Then we can begin real population control.
Yet. The U.S. is not yet a theocracy. However, based on their actions, Republicans, and their Evangelical Judases, are working very had to change that.
to put a web browser in their software, but we're still waiting all these years later.
You can talk all you want, but either someone understands ethics and ethical behavior, or they don't. If they do, you're wasting your breath. If they respond with some claptrap about how stealing music, videos, or software without compensating the owner/producer for their work is fine, or come up with excuse after excuse why ethics work on a sliding scale, you're wasting your breath.
To some extent I agree, but this still falls under investigation. Protesting is fine. Destroying property or attacking people is not.
In many (most?) cases when there is a planned protest, the police and protest group(s) will coordinate with each other to lay down ground rules. The people get to peacefully protest, and the police's job is made easier since they don't have to worry (as much) about people being stupid.
As we know, while the protesters may be peaceful, there are those anarchists who think it's funny to destroy someone else's property when there's a protest march. Those are the ones police are looking for as well the white supremacists and the like who openly state they're going to attack certain people.
I'm trying to see what the issue. Part of the police's job is to investigate. They can't always do it by shouting, "I'm a cop!" from the rooftops. Sometimes they have to be more subtle.
It's like people whining there are police who go undercover to arrest drug dealers. Um, yeah?
Apple glues, screws, bolts then welds their machines so you can't replace anything. This is the final step. Now you can't do anything without their permission.
Looks like any hope I had of doing photography is now gone. I'm not going to Windows 10, nor am I paying an exorbitant price for an underpowered system which will be dead in three years and have to be thrown away because I can't change or upgrade anything without someone's permission.
All I'm left with is Linux. All I'm left with is Linux.
If your product, whether it's a car or critical piece of infrastructure, needs to be functional 10-15 years from now
What do you mean, if it needs to be functional 10 years from now? My car IS 10 years old and in perfect working condition. It better damn well last another decade (barring people slamming into me which has happened).
This is the problem with technology. Anything over six months old is considered not worth it to keep around. A three year-old product is considered ancient.
Sadly, it is also true. Look at their high end line of "pro" products, both laptops and desktops. Everything is soldered, bolted, then welded to the motherboard. There is absolutely no way for anyone to do an upgrade. Buy a machine with 8 GB of RAM? Too bad. That's all you'll ever get unless you buy a new machine with more RAM.
The sad thing is Apple could make mincemeat of Microsoft if they had better, configurable hardware. Slightly lower prices wouldn't hurt either.
Instead, as this engineer relates, Apple is now all about making money rather than providing a good product.
Obviously it is or the people who designed the vehicles would have done what you suggested.
There are times it's cheaper to tear an existing building down and build from scratch than it is to update/rehab what is already there. This is one of those cases. The hassle to tear down, spot weld, test, certify then put everything back is more costly than to simply get rid of the vehicles en masse.
Canon and Kyocera have to have some of the most egregious manuals out there. Canon in particular will start with a section (let's say how to input an IP address into a printer), but in addition to the few steps to do this, they will have 5-6 extraneous, and completely unnecessary sub-sections which point to something else but don't make it clear if you need to follow those steps.
Or worse, they'll point you to another section somewhere else in the manual, even though you're at the part where logically, that part comes next.
It is quite obvious the people making manuals don't work with the software/hardware but rely on the engineers to tell them what to write. And engineers don't know what to write because to them it all makes sense since they work with the software/hardware.
As an aside, my credit union's telephone banking has become essentially unusable since they changed systems. Based on the hoops one now has to jump through, it is quite clear the software developers have never used a phone tree. Without exaggeration, every option pressed leads to a voice telling you, "Okay, let's do X" or "Wait while I do X".
This explains why manuals are so poorly done. The people don't have a clue what they're doing.
The reprogrammable SIM card is "soldered onto the iPhone's motherboard directly
Apple has finally gone the way of their laptops which have everything bolted, soldered, then welded to the motherboard. No replaceable parts. If something breaks, oh well. Another $1,000 down the drain for the phone, or another $3,000 for an underpowered laptop.
Not sure how old this comic is, but it's about as on point as one can get.
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Torba can whine all he wants, but in the free market one is free to associate, or not associate, with who they want. No one says PayPal or Google have to deal with Gab.
As to Gab being a "conservative" social network, if conservatives believe saying Jews should die, that only white men should be in power, that women deserve to be raped, then sure, why not. Because that is what you'll find there.
This is almost as hilarious as white supremacist Robert Rundo fleeing the country he complains is being taken over by foreigners, and being arrested in Central America. If he didn't like people who weren't white, why would he try to hide in a country where his white skin would stand out?
Remember all the whining and hand wringing over Hillary Clinton using an unsecured email server? Remember how people said she was giving away state secrets and should be in jail?
Funny how those same people are absolutely silent when the con artist gives away national secrets every day over an unsecured phone.
then the business (or the customers of the business) would have that money instead.
The amount of money these people earn allows them to become customers to others. The business can simply raise costs to cove the increase in wages. Also, businesses can use the increased cost of wages to deduct from their taxes. Overall, the velocity of money increases since more is being put into circulation.
If the business keeps all of it, they pay more taxes on the extra profit.
Businesses don't want extra profit. Any extra profit means paying more taxes. To limit their taxes, business will find anything to lower their bill. Thus, having higher salaries lowers a businesses tax bill (see above).
Also, the argument for cutting taxes isn't quite that people have more money to spend, it's that they have more money to invest.
That's a semantical argument. Whether spending the money (which means more overall taxes collected as well as increased business) or investing it, people who earn more will use that extra money one way or another. This breaks down somewhat at the extreme income level (the 1% don't buy a new house every year or buy any more clothes than you or I would normally do), but overall, people who make less than $75,000/year (the amount beyond which most people say doesn't increase their happiness or add anything to their lives) will spend their money on a regular basis. People who make substantially less than that amount (i.e fast food workers) will spend more of their money than others because they now have the money to spend.
It's not hard to see how giving people more money will allow them to spend more. This in turn increases overall economic activity. Exactly as the Seattle experiment has so far shown.
Now fix the on-call violence delivery service.
Had this criminal not placed a fake call to police, none of this would have happened, would it?
We repeatedly hear if you cut taxes, people will have more to spend which will help businesses and the economy grow. Why wouldn't the same thing happen if you give people a raise? In fact, giving people a raise not only gives them more money to spend, it also raises the amount of taxes taken in.
The essence of being human is wasting mental energy to get from point A to point B to perform the things that actually matter to me.
Then stop being a lazy human and develop transporters. That will get you to whatever lame activity you want to get to so you won't be sullied by enjoyment.
Over here, our view is, that: If you can't drive with a stick, ... then you just plain can't drive.
Funny story. A few years back I was asked to take some German folks to New York City and show them around. When they got into my car the guy in the passenger seat looked down and pointed to the stick shift. He was surprised I had one. I told him and the others in the car, "I'm not a lazy American."
No one has been held responsible for one of the largest data breaches in this country's history from this same company, nor has the company been fined in the U.S. for the data breach, whereas the fine in the UK was a piddling $500K.
he should get states to require people to be able to drive a stick shift during their driver's license exam. Since he owns a 1967 Porsche 911S, he should be well aware of the joy of driving a stick shift compared to the numbing laziness of an automatic.
Paul Newman has the following clause in his will to prevent anyone from using his image through:
“virtual performance or reanimation of any performance by me by the use of any technique, technology or medium now in existence or which may be known or created in the future anywhere in the universe.’’
Even if that failed, it'd have to be caused by a prion, because vaccines and antibiotics are too effective.
Fine. We'll just have to develop a substance which can be sprayed into the atmosphere to make people more docile and receptive. Then we can begin real population control.
What could possibly go wrong?
It's the tech equivalent of Theranos. Although in this case, there are no public investors, only unicorns and such.
Also, the US is a Democracy, not a theocracy.
Yet. The U.S. is not yet a theocracy. However, based on their actions, Republicans, and their Evangelical Judases, are working very had to change that.
I'll say it plainly, if you do not maintain your devices then anyone should be free to brick them.
I'll say it plainly, if you do not lock every single door and bolt down your windows then anyone should be free to steal your stuff.
I'll say it plainly, if you do not lock your car then anyone should be free to steal it.
I'll say it plainly, if you do not hold onto your phone every second you are out then anyone should be free to steal it.
to put a web browser in their software, but we're still waiting all these years later.
You can talk all you want, but either someone understands ethics and ethical behavior, or they don't. If they do, you're wasting your breath. If they respond with some claptrap about how stealing music, videos, or software without compensating the owner/producer for their work is fine, or come up with excuse after excuse why ethics work on a sliding scale, you're wasting your breath.
To some extent I agree, but this still falls under investigation. Protesting is fine. Destroying property or attacking people is not.
In many (most?) cases when there is a planned protest, the police and protest group(s) will coordinate with each other to lay down ground rules. The people get to peacefully protest, and the police's job is made easier since they don't have to worry (as much) about people being stupid.
As we know, while the protesters may be peaceful, there are those anarchists who think it's funny to destroy someone else's property when there's a protest march. Those are the ones police are looking for as well the white supremacists and the like who openly state they're going to attack certain people.
I'm trying to see what the issue. Part of the police's job is to investigate. They can't always do it by shouting, "I'm a cop!" from the rooftops. Sometimes they have to be more subtle.
It's like people whining there are police who go undercover to arrest drug dealers. Um, yeah?
Very good. You got the reference.
Apple glues, screws, bolts then welds their machines so you can't replace anything. This is the final step. Now you can't do anything without their permission.
Looks like any hope I had of doing photography is now gone. I'm not going to Windows 10, nor am I paying an exorbitant price for an underpowered system which will be dead in three years and have to be thrown away because I can't change or upgrade anything without someone's permission.
All I'm left with is Linux. All I'm left with is Linux.
If your product, whether it's a car or critical piece of infrastructure, needs to be functional 10-15 years from now
What do you mean, if it needs to be functional 10 years from now? My car IS 10 years old and in perfect working condition. It better damn well last another decade (barring people slamming into me which has happened).
This is the problem with technology. Anything over six months old is considered not worth it to keep around. A three year-old product is considered ancient.
Sadly, it is also true. Look at their high end line of "pro" products, both laptops and desktops. Everything is soldered, bolted, then welded to the motherboard. There is absolutely no way for anyone to do an upgrade. Buy a machine with 8 GB of RAM? Too bad. That's all you'll ever get unless you buy a new machine with more RAM.
The sad thing is Apple could make mincemeat of Microsoft if they had better, configurable hardware. Slightly lower prices wouldn't hurt either.
Instead, as this engineer relates, Apple is now all about making money rather than providing a good product.
Obviously it is or the people who designed the vehicles would have done what you suggested.
There are times it's cheaper to tear an existing building down and build from scratch than it is to update/rehab what is already there. This is one of those cases. The hassle to tear down, spot weld, test, certify then put everything back is more costly than to simply get rid of the vehicles en masse.
You have no idea what entrapment is, do you?
This is why people shouldn't take legal advice from anyone on /..
Canon and Kyocera have to have some of the most egregious manuals out there. Canon in particular will start with a section (let's say how to input an IP address into a printer), but in addition to the few steps to do this, they will have 5-6 extraneous, and completely unnecessary sub-sections which point to something else but don't make it clear if you need to follow those steps.
Or worse, they'll point you to another section somewhere else in the manual, even though you're at the part where logically, that part comes next.
It is quite obvious the people making manuals don't work with the software/hardware but rely on the engineers to tell them what to write. And engineers don't know what to write because to them it all makes sense since they work with the software/hardware.
As an aside, my credit union's telephone banking has become essentially unusable since they changed systems. Based on the hoops one now has to jump through, it is quite clear the software developers have never used a phone tree. Without exaggeration, every option pressed leads to a voice telling you, "Okay, let's do X" or "Wait while I do X".
This explains why manuals are so poorly done. The people don't have a clue what they're doing.
The reprogrammable SIM card is "soldered onto the iPhone's motherboard directly
Apple has finally gone the way of their laptops which have everything bolted, soldered, then welded to the motherboard. No replaceable parts. If something breaks, oh well. Another $1,000 down the drain for the phone, or another $3,000 for an underpowered laptop.
Not sure how old this comic is, but it's about as on point as one can get.