I wish we could give up on this left/right bullshit. The terms are so vague and contradictory as to be useless for political discussion.
Ponder for a moment that V.I. Lenin, leader of a successful Communist revolution and founder of the Soviet Union, wrote a book *against* leftism. https://archive.org/details/Le...
See what I mean? Making left/right arguments just adds confusion to whatever is being discussed.
How about we all just discuss the actual policy issues we find interesting? Instead of saying "fuck you leftists", say "fuck you authoritarian social elitists". Instead of "fuck you rightists", say "fuck you greedy big business fat cats".
Stagnant nominal wages mean declining real wages. Although official statistics claim inflation is very low, most people have noticed large & ongoing reductions in the purchasing power of a dollar.
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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.
Somehow I figured that. In my limited experience, googlers tend to have an imaginatively high opinion of their employer. I suppose that must be mandatory.
The rest of us have come to realize Google is creepy, snoopy, intrusive, monopolistic, progressive, financialist, and generally not to be trusted.
You can't turn off the location tracking. All you can do is ask the OS - which you absolutely do not control - to please turn off the location tracking. There is no way to tell if the OS has indeed obeyed your request.
Physical disconnection of the battery is the only real control a user has over a smartphone.
Btw - are we to assume you yourself have visited North Korea? Or personally know someone who has? Or do you just believe the official propaganda at face value?
Wow, clover, you're really full of rage. Seriously - your recent posting history suggests you should consider anger management counseling. Maybe if instead of saying nasty violent things to Slashdotters, you say those same things to your local Gestapo thug, the gubmint will even pay for your counseling.
Taxation is also useful to demoralize the masses, manufacture criminals, protect oligarch-controlled companies from competition, reduce socioeconomic mobility, and penalize disfavored groups.
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USSR - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
USSA - United Surveillance States of America
I wish we could give up on this left/right bullshit. The terms are so vague and contradictory as to be useless for political discussion.
Ponder for a moment that V.I. Lenin, leader of a successful Communist revolution and founder of the Soviet Union, wrote a book *against* leftism. https://archive.org/details/Le...
See what I mean? Making left/right arguments just adds confusion to whatever is being discussed.
How about we all just discuss the actual policy issues we find interesting? Instead of saying "fuck you leftists", say "fuck you authoritarian social elitists". Instead of "fuck you rightists", say "fuck you greedy big business fat cats".
But maybe that's too much to hope.
How much does Google's PR firm pay you to post this idiotic racist crap?
Google sure does love abusing it's monopoly power.
Time for an antitrust trial. Break up Google!
Hahahaha - "very open internally" - riiiiiiight.
Stagnant nominal wages mean declining real wages. Although official statistics claim inflation is very low, most people have noticed large & ongoing reductions in the purchasing power of a dollar.
Are you troubled by delusions of National Socialism? Do you see Nazis everywhere? Is there a Nazi under your bed right now? You may be suffering from Nazis Are Everywhere Syndrome (NAES).
At last there is help! Try new Nazinol - scientifically proven to treat NAES. In some cases Nazinol treatment may even restore a patient's ability to see more than one side of political issues.
Caution: Nazinol may cause drowsiness, flatulence, red eyes, bayarrhea, increased appetite, anorexia, hot flashes, cold sweats, and projectile vomitting. Use of Nazinol while posting on Reddit is illegal in several states and the District of Columbia. Do not use Nazinol while driving.
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.
Somehow I figured that. In my limited experience, googlers tend to have an imaginatively high opinion of their employer. I suppose that must be mandatory.
The rest of us have come to realize Google is creepy, snoopy, intrusive, monopolistic, progressive, financialist, and generally not to be trusted.
Immediate data transmission is very detectable. Collection for later transmission, not so much.
Hahahahahahahahaha!
- former BMW owner
Amen.
The ownership of ideas is immoral.
You think Google has integrity? Wow.
You can't turn off the location tracking. All you can do is ask the OS - which you absolutely do not control - to please turn off the location tracking. There is no way to tell if the OS has indeed obeyed your request.
Physical disconnection of the battery is the only real control a user has over a smartphone.
It's not about technical difficulty, it's about the will to do it Google just doesn't care about users - because the users are NOT the customers.
What Google does care a great deal about it's snooping on users every possible way. That's what the real customers pay for.
Btw - are we to assume you yourself have visited North Korea? Or personally know someone who has? Or do you just believe the official propaganda at face value?
Google sure does love censorship.
Time to dust off the old antitrust laws. Break up Google!
Dunno - I'll ask her next time I see her. She's not an American, as you can probably imagine.
Everyone who understands what the ME is, calls it a backdoor. However that's not exactly a "secret".
Wow, clover, you're really full of rage. Seriously - your recent posting history suggests you should consider anger management counseling. Maybe if instead of saying nasty violent things to Slashdotters, you say those same things to your local Gestapo thug, the gubmint will even pay for your counseling.
Taxation is also useful to demoralize the masses, manufacture criminals, protect oligarch-controlled companies from competition, reduce socioeconomic mobility, and penalize disfavored groups.
But $my_party said they would protect our freedoms from those dastardly $other_party villains!
/. isn't a tech site - it's a nerd site.
:%s/IRS/Gestapo/g
I finally met someone who has actually visited North Korea. She said it was a pretty nice place, fwiw.