So you're giving credit entirely? Good for you! But, ah, have "fun" getting a rental car next time you travel...
Oh, and you'll also need to give up use of the entire banking system. And maybe move to North Korea and renounce your citizenship. THEN you'll no longer be in the Credit Slander Bureau's databases. Maybe...
Google hasn't created a compelling/popular new product in-house since the original Google Maps. That was... 2004?
They still have a good search engine. Even that is probably on the decline, as they start to manipulate results for political and/or anti-competitive purposes.
What I really want to know it's how much of Google's "advertising revenue" really comes from selling ads. And how much comes from selling political surveillance services to fedgov and other repressive regimes?
Yup, it's a financial accounting trick. They're still as dependent on the grid as everyone else.
Not saying it's a bad thing - it does feed strong preference for renewables into the energy market. But it's not nearly so impressive a feat as the title suggests.
1. Fedgov prints a bunch of free money out of thin air, calling it "Quantitative Easing"
2. Fedgov gives that free money to their friends / "campaign contributors" in the big banks
2. The big banks bid up every asset they can find, but still have piles and piles of free money sitting around.
3. Big banks can't figure or anything else to do with all that free public money - so they start giving a bunch of it to the bankers' inbred, half-wit cousins who run VC firms in Palo Alto
4. The VCs discover they've been given more money than they can possibly waste on hookers & blow. So they hire a few of their butt-buddies from the Stanford dorms to found some "startups".
5. The butt-buddies look at what other loss-making companies are doing, then do the same thing only with an even stupider company name.
6. No business acumen, nor any actual talent, are required to get a leadership role at a startup. You just have to be from the "right schools". Consequently the startups have no business model and not much ability to execute. But hey - at least this time they didn't pay "outrageous" salaries to a bunch of filthy working class nerds!
6. The startups make a handsome loss, undercut and bankrupt a few legitimate businesses, and keep on getting bigger and bigger valuations each time they return to the VC teat to suck more free public money.
7. Somewhere way up the food chain, someone in DC or New Jack City gets a little nervous about propping up so many worthless loss-making "startup" companies.
8. The steady stream of free public money starts to dry up
9. The Crash!
10. Somewhere in Palo Alto, a Stanford boy can no longer afford his Personal Ass Sanitation Assistant, and is forced to resume wiping his own butt.
What's a better term than "customers" for those on whom credit agencies collect slander data? "Victims" is true in many senses, but it sounds bad and lends itself to confusion in use. "Prey" makes it sound like there's a chance for escape, when there is not.
"Marks" falsely implies they used trickery rather than coercion to get the data. "Slanderees" is basically correct, but it sounds weird.
I really don't know the answer but I think it's an important question. Correct politics begins with correct language.
FDR had the right idea when he threatened to reign in the Supreme Court. Really a shame he didn't do it.
Our kangaroo courts are corrupt from top to bottom. The hands of every judge in the empire are soaked and dripping with blood. There can be no solution to any of today's deep political problems that does not include sweeping judicial reform.
Goddamit, I already told you - I'm a NORKBOT. Great Leader Kim Il-sung personally programmed me, shortly after he invented the Internet. Yes, Pyongyang is in fact lovely this time of year. Not that it matters to me, since I'm a bot, but hey just sayin'...
Anyways, I blame the Rooskies AND the Chicoms. And just for good measure, I blame Canada too. Fuck those polite, hockey-loving, maple-syrup-swilling anti-American Nazis. They're literally Hitler, all of them.
Remember boys & girls: Whenever someone disagrees with you about politics, IT'S BECAUSE THEY'RE A RUSSIAN, CHINESE, and/or CANADIAN AGENT!
I wrote some free software yesterday, as part of my paid job. Because it's easier, faster, and cheaper for us to use Free Software than to roll our own. And when we need to fix/improve something, we contribute it back. Not only because it's the morally right thing to do. But also because maintaining unsupported private forks is a security nightmare.
BTW, nice link to the Reuters opinion hit piece. ("The views expressed in this article are not those of Reuters News."). Was that one also bankrolled by Beijing - or did it come out of the Shanghai bureau?
Only 30 comments so far, and over half of them are from painfully obvious anti-Linux shills. Which leaves me wondering - who exactly bankrolls this particular battalion of the 50 Cent Army?
Microsoft? No, can't be. I think they've given up on phones.
Apple? Now this one is fairly believable. Deep pockets, Silicon Valley ethics (read: no ethics at all), and mindless brainwashed cult followers... okay, sounds plausible. But it's so crass & crude & obvious. Doesn't really feel like an Apple-backed operation.
Russian/Chinese/Nork/USSA state-affiliated organizations? Well sure, they infest Slashdot like the regular vermin they are. But why would they give a fuck about an obscure cellphone?
Global dystopian-progressive NGOs backed by financial oligarchs? Well, they do hate freedom, so it stands to reason they would also hate Linux. The smarmy tone of the shill comments does match their supporters. Not sure why they'd care about a cellphone. But maybe their shills are on salary. They've already finished polluting the political articles, so they're just chilling out here. Shitting all over the place while trying to figure out how they can blame this on Trump colluding with the rooskies. I rate this possibility as plausible but lacking in evidence.
RMS? The shills both draw attention to the evil practice of commercial surveillance, as well as making anti-freedom proponents look like toxic fucktards. Subtle & brilliant. Alas, I don't think RMS has the funds to hire a troll army, so this one's not too plausible.
Look buddy, I get it. You hate working class people. You delight in - and perhaps profit from - the dismantling of industry and the immiseration of the masses. In your opinion corruption is a-okay, so long as it's your team selling out the public. You feel you are holier than the rest of us because you enthusiastically endorse even the most absurd tenets of the fake-progressive religion. I get it. Yee-haw yippie ya yay.
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If doctors were treated as badly as IT, a lot more people with be afraid to go to the hospital.
How's the weather in
Mountain View today?
Makes the whole story seem kinda suspicious, doesn't it...
So you're giving credit entirely? Good for you! But, ah, have "fun" getting a rental car next time you travel...
Oh, and you'll also need to give up use of the entire banking system. And maybe move to North Korea and renounce your citizenship. THEN you'll no longer be in the Credit Slander Bureau's databases. Maybe...
One difference. Escobar probably really did love his country and care about the wellbeing of the common people. Google obviously does not.
Freedom of choice is contrary to Google's company values.
Google hasn't created a compelling/popular new product in-house since the original Google Maps. That was... 2004?
They still have a good search engine. Even that is probably on the decline, as they start to manipulate results for political and/or anti-competitive purposes.
What I really want to know it's how much of Google's "advertising revenue" really comes from selling ads. And how much comes from selling political surveillance services to fedgov and other repressive regimes?
Yup, it's a financial accounting trick. They're still as dependent on the grid as everyone else.
Not saying it's a bad thing - it does feed strong preference for renewables into the energy market. But it's not nearly so impressive a feat as the title suggests.
That would be awesome. When algorithms impact the lives of hundreds of millions, people deserve to know how those algorithms work.
1. Fedgov prints a bunch of free money out of thin air, calling it "Quantitative Easing"
2. Fedgov gives that free money to their friends / "campaign contributors" in the big banks
2. The big banks bid up every asset they can find, but still have piles and piles of free money sitting around.
3. Big banks can't figure or anything else to do with all that free public money - so they start giving a bunch of it to the bankers' inbred, half-wit cousins who run VC firms in Palo Alto
4. The VCs discover they've been given more money than they can possibly waste on hookers & blow. So they hire a few of their butt-buddies from the Stanford dorms to found some "startups".
5. The butt-buddies look at what other loss-making companies are doing, then do the same thing only with an even stupider company name.
6. No business acumen, nor any actual talent, are required to get a leadership role at a startup. You just have to be from the "right schools". Consequently the startups have no business model and not much ability to execute. But hey - at least this time they didn't pay "outrageous" salaries to a bunch of filthy working class nerds!
6. The startups make a handsome loss, undercut and bankrupt a few legitimate businesses, and keep on getting bigger and bigger valuations each time they return to the VC teat to suck more free public money.
7. Somewhere way up the food chain, someone in DC or New Jack City gets a little nervous about propping up so many worthless loss-making "startup" companies.
8. The steady stream of free public money starts to dry up
9. The Crash!
10. Somewhere in Palo Alto, a Stanford boy can no longer afford his Personal Ass Sanitation Assistant, and is forced to resume wiping his own butt.
Really good point.
What's a better term than "customers" for those on whom credit agencies collect slander data? "Victims" is true in many senses, but it sounds bad and lends itself to confusion in use. "Prey" makes it sound like there's a chance for escape, when there is not.
"Marks" falsely implies they used trickery rather than coercion to get the data. "Slanderees" is basically correct, but it sounds weird.
I really don't know the answer but I think it's an important question. Correct politics begins with correct language.
FDR had the right idea when he threatened to reign in the Supreme Court. Really a shame he didn't do it.
Our kangaroo courts are corrupt from top to bottom. The hands of every judge in the empire are soaked and dripping with blood. There can be no solution to any of today's deep political problems that does not include sweeping judicial reform.
End Equifax now. Company out of business. Assets seized by the State. Managers fined. Executives in the gulag. End Equifax now.
Goddamit, I already told you - I'm a NORKBOT. Great Leader Kim Il-sung personally programmed me, shortly after he invented the Internet. Yes, Pyongyang is in fact lovely this time of year. Not that it matters to me, since I'm a bot, but hey just sayin'...
Anyways, I blame the Rooskies AND the Chicoms. And just for good measure, I blame Canada too. Fuck those polite, hockey-loving, maple-syrup-swilling anti-American Nazis. They're literally Hitler, all of them.
Remember boys & girls: Whenever someone disagrees with you about politics, IT'S BECAUSE THEY'RE A RUSSIAN, CHINESE, and/or CANADIAN AGENT!
I wrote some free software yesterday, as part of my paid job. Because it's easier, faster, and cheaper for us to use Free Software than to roll our own. And when we need to fix/improve something, we contribute it back. Not only because it's the morally right thing to do. But also because maintaining unsupported private forks is a security nightmare.
Oh my brother, I believe you need to read the CALEA implementing regulations.
Feeling cranky, twinkle toes?
BTW, nice link to the Reuters opinion hit piece. ("The views expressed in this article are not those of Reuters News."). Was that one also bankrolled by Beijing - or did it come out of the Shanghai bureau?
You do have strong feelings on this one, Comrade Zhang.
Only 30 comments so far, and over half of them are from painfully obvious anti-Linux shills. Which leaves me wondering - who exactly bankrolls this particular battalion of the 50 Cent Army?
Microsoft? No, can't be. I think they've given up on phones.
Apple? Now this one is fairly believable. Deep pockets, Silicon Valley ethics (read: no ethics at all), and mindless brainwashed cult followers... okay, sounds plausible. But it's so crass & crude & obvious. Doesn't really feel like an Apple-backed operation.
Russian/Chinese/Nork/USSA state-affiliated organizations? Well sure, they infest Slashdot like the regular vermin they are. But why would they give a fuck about an obscure cellphone?
Global dystopian-progressive NGOs backed by financial oligarchs? Well, they do hate freedom, so it stands to reason they would also hate Linux. The smarmy tone of the shill comments does match their supporters. Not sure why they'd care about a cellphone. But maybe their shills are on salary. They've already finished polluting the political articles, so they're just chilling out here. Shitting all over the place while trying to figure out how they can blame this on Trump colluding with the rooskies. I rate this possibility as plausible but lacking in evidence.
RMS? The shills both draw attention to the evil practice of commercial surveillance, as well as making anti-freedom proponents look like toxic fucktards. Subtle & brilliant. Alas, I don't think RMS has the funds to hire a troll army, so this one's not too plausible.
The vigorous response you got from the 50 Cent Army suggests you may need right about the elephant in the room.
Afaik it's illegal (under CALEA, maybe others) to sell a privacy-respecting cellphone in America.
Good evening, Comrade Li Feng. How's the air pollution in Beijing today?
Says the running dog of oligarchic capitalism...
Look buddy, I get it. You hate working class people. You delight in - and perhaps profit from - the dismantling of industry and the immiseration of the masses. In your opinion corruption is a-okay, so long as it's your team selling out the public. You feel you are holier than the rest of us because you enthusiastically endorse even the most absurd tenets of the fake-progressive religion. I get it. Yee-haw yippie ya yay.