Yes. Oh yes. The smartest users must be sacrificed for the average users. They just must be. Only people who will make tomorrowâ(TM)s technology would dare do more than the average soccer mom with their machines, and they therefore must be stopped for the good of Corp... I mean the people. The good and wholesome average people. Idiocracy wonâ(TM)t be so bad, youâ(TM)ll see. The corporate masters will take good care of us, while those pesky top one percenters will make license plates in the gulag, Weâ(TM)ll finally find a use for those people! Fix your own computers will you? As if! Be like the rest of us! Itâ(TM)s bliss!
Much like âidentity theftâ(TM) , âobstructing justice, âresistingâ(TM), and âhuman traffickingâ(TM), itâ(TM)s a made-up boogeyman designed to convince the masses to give up their civil rights voluntarily.
Sadly, most of them do. Everyone else gets theirs taken away involuntarily. We all clap when we hear that the government nabbed one of those evil money launderers.
Money laundering is an almost sure-fire conviction as it is impossible to disprove, and that is exactly what a defendant had to do. Thatâ(TM)s why roadside piracy, I mean, civil forfeiture is so lucrative.
Underpay your taxes by $170? Boom, every dollar in your position is now laundered money, proceeds of your tax evasion. Take out $5,000 of your own money from the bank one day, $6,000 of your own money the next? Bam, youâ(TM)re a money launderer, your funds were obtained via structuring.
The link between every dollar and theoretical malfeasance is not hard to make, so itâ(TM)s the perfect crime to charge someone with when they havenâ(TM)t committed a crime you can prove they committed.
In fact, the only guaranteed non-laundered money, is money you give to the government. No matter where you got it from, or how you acquired it, if you give it to the government, itâ(TM)s righteous.
It's their terms of service, if you violate them (or give them reasonable cause to believe you violated them) then of course they are going to not offer their service to you.
Unless they are in a regulated industry, or are a government-regulated monopoly, in which case, offering their service to you is part of their terms of service with the regulators.
If this was the case, the lawsuit in TFA against Google would have never happened. Corporations would be free to act with impunity as long as their misbehavior was widely distributed.
There is absolutely no way that it is cost effective to get 100 million people to "opt-in" when the damages are a few cents each.
They are already free to act with impugnity. The Supreme Court ruled that companies can write themselves out of accountability, and even the law, with arbitration agreements, and these agreements are being incorporated everywhere. Courts have ruled that the arbitration clauses apply even when the company breaks Federal or State Law. Theyâ(TM)ve ruled that they apply even in cases of bad faith.
Better yet, when the odd consumer hangs in after years of fighting, countless hours, countless dollars, and finally, FINALLY gets a favorable ruling from a jury... the award gets reduced substantially over 85% of the time. In some cases the award is reduced by over 90%. There are also caps on punitive damages and pain & suffering that make the risk for big companies quite small.
Big corporations have little to worry about. They get taken care of.
Iâ(TM)ve been to small claims court several times over the last decade. Iâ(TM)ve either won or settled each time. Iâ(TM)m not terribly skilled, I just donâ(TM)t file suit unless I am clearly and overwhelmingly in the right. It still takes a lot of time and effort, though.
As someone who is willing to go to court, though, the opt-in nature of class-actions seems like just more abuse. I mean, have you ever tried to opt-out of one of these? The procedures are always via postal mail, and are usually very specific. If you fail to include ANY piece of requested information, including information they are not entitled to... (why do they need my email address when they force me to opt-out via the postal service?), you get opted in. The burden of proof rests with you, so oh yeah, pay up and send it certified mail. Thatâ(TM)s right, more often than not, it will cost you.
If they offered people a real piece of the settlement, and made it easy to opt-in, people would do it. The public routinely takes down web servers when a popular consumer item goes on sale, I donâ(TM)t think theyâ(TM)d be shy about doing the same to receive financial compensation.
As it is, good luck getting anything, even when youâ(TM)re opted-in. I tried to register for the LinkedIn settlement, only to find that it was âoeclosedâ when I finally found the poorly-publicized link. Oh, and I could initiate my own suit either. The law firm took my rights, and the money. These guys arenâ(TM)t trying to help the class. The class is merely a vehicle for their own riches. And 99% of the time, the company never admits fault, and returns to the bad behavior in short order. LinkedIn now has to get you to âoeagreeâ before they SPAM your address book, but of course, the âoeagreementâ will be a fine-printed line on Page 27 of the âoeUser Agreementâ which theyâ(TM)re also allowed to change unilaterally, this rendering the entire agreement illusory.
If a company harms you, and causes you $50,000 in damages, and some law firm opts you into to a lawsuit, and steals your right to sue, in order to enrich themselves... you often get nothing in return. I canâ(TM)t believe anyone would think that was fair.
The whole thing is a scam, from top to bottom, and the winners are the ruling-class âoelawmakersâ and their financiers who make laws like this to preserve the Plutocratic status-quo.
The only time the corporations have anything to worry about is when they get on the bad side of the ruling-class. So, they mostly donâ(TM)t, and are content to do what they will to everyone else. The courts certainly are not âoeholding them accountableâ.
Actually, there is no 'decline' button, only 'upgrade now' and 'upgrade later', and since there is no meaningful way to convey to Apple that you do not agree and do not want the update, whiel also being pestered ad-nauseum on the hardware that you own, it throws contract law out altogether, and the subsequent 'agreement' you have to 'agree' to doesn't hold much water.
For a contract to be valid, you must have the option to both agree and decline. Without these two options, it's not a contract or agreement. Not a binding one, at least.
It always seemed like an oversight, but I guess Apple lawyers ae that confident that none of you will ever sue,
If you own a company, though, and you want to bind people to an agreement... always include a decline button next to the agree button.
You may not pester as many people into agreeing, but at least you can legitimately claim that the people who did agree, agreed, instead of simply gave in to make the daily harrassment stop.
Well, that explains the rest of your post. Settling for violence over using your words is expected of frustrated children and mental midgets.
Totally agree.
If we'd used our words to gain independence from Britan, not to mention end things like slavery and the Holocaust, hundreds of thousands of lives could have been saved, not to mention, we would have obtained this goals quicker.
Right after you put your dentures in and your old man diapers, obese Trump faggot. Then you'll enlist and release your taxes, followed by making good on any of your bullshit threats, right faggot? Blow. You backed a traitor = you are one.
"Where does this motherfucker get off, I'm going to give him a piece of my mind, hey faggot, don't tread on me, it'll be a cold day in hell before I let you or anyone like you harm a hair on the head of this country I love! Watch yourself, faggot, or you just may have to deal with the likes of me!"
Okay, now lemme see, spell check, wait does fagot have two g's or... oopsie... I'm sooooo bad at spelling... it's faggot... wait, really? I could sworn... yep sure enough two g's, alright looks good and, oh dear, almost forgot to check the 'post anonymously' box... whew... that woulda been embarrassing... could you imagine if people knew it was me... annddddddd.... sent! Oh my, I'm stiffer than Steve Jobs... Mildred come quick... I gotta suprise for you!"
"The only thing we have to fear, is scary shit, like monsters for example, and sharks, sharks are scary as hell too, and omg being locked in a refrigerator moments before said refrigerator is dropped into the Mariana Trench... I'm claustrophobic and that thought scares the shit out of me. On second thought, the number of things to fear is more or less infinite, so be careful."
Because it's so awesome that people who can't afford to live there choose to try anyway, plus population numbers.
Great answer! I wonder, though, who's going to break it to you that the states with the actual highest rates of poverty are Mississippi, New Mexico, and Lousiana. In that order. These states must be absolutely incredible!
California is actually #15.
Pffft.
Shit, it's even bested by West Virginia in number of people willing to endure poverty to live there.
How could California have the highest poverty rate where there are so many people there who profess to care about the less fortunate? People who aggressively promote the idea of the re-distribution of wealth for the greater good? You know, like Hollywood, for example, which preaches higher taxation for the masses, then puts their money where their mouth is by engaging in "runaway production" where, instead of paying higher taxes to help the less fortunate, they seek out jurisdictions with the lowest tax burden and relocate their productions there?
Wait, I just answered my own question.
Never mind.
Now if you wanted to proffer that the number of sexual predators made a place desirable to live, you might have an arguement...
I've had to go to small claims four times in the past 5 years, and every time they made me go. They always sent sn attorney who settled with me immediately prior to trial, except on company played hard-ball and went to trial. Fortunatley, I prevailed. Mostly. I didn't get the full amount, but I got 70% of it.
I learned that the companies have these roving lawyers on retainer that fly from state to state either settling lawsuits or going trhough trial. Gone are the days that they settle before the court date. Now, they make you take the day off and go. They see this as a kind of deterrent. I guess the thinking goes thst if they make it too easy, everyone will statt doing it, and trials, even small claims, are stressful. The judges, at least the ones I've seen as I watched other cases, and my own, are pretty company-friendly, and you have to have a strong case to win.
It can be done, though, and people should do it. I've had people tell me to get a life, but as they're watching Americas Got Talent or Monday Night Football, I'm actually learning the ins and outs of my legal system, so I guess in some ways it's sort of a life. I also learned that the companies set aside a certain amount each year to pay people like me, so I'm really just claiming it.
Paying the me's of the world costs way less than complying with the law, snd with the proliferation of arbitration agreements, they more or less stifled big money suits.
It's all a big game, and the corruption of the American political system means that you're more or less on your own, Moss-Magnuson violations or not.
The rant about Millennials is a distraction - there are plenty of hypocrites from each and every generation from the millenials to the octogenarians roaming the halls of Congress. No generation has a lock on hypocrisy, and never has.
I respect your opinion, but the Millennials thing is a valid observation in mine. Within the last week, I've seen one news piece declaring Mellennials to be the most well-travelled generation ever, and another declaring them to be the most environmentally-concious.
That's notable. Yes, nobody has a lock on hypocricy, but regardless, that's notable.
Mellennials are the ones who have come of age during the Climate Change moral panic. Who have come alive during a half dozen other moral panics as well, not to mention, the critical mass of social media. Pointing out that the generation that currently makes up the majority of the 18-39 demographic that determines a nation's popular culture, are openly speaking out of both sides of their mouthes en-masse, is entirely relevant.
Have other generations done it before? Yep. That doesn't necessarily make any given generation of observers wrong, though. If you keep calling something green when it's not green, when it finally turns green, you're finally right.
Are you aware of another generation that has taken their parents to job interviews? Now, is this practice common among Mellenials? No. But it's fucking unheard of in every other generation.
How many generations do you know that have needed "trigger warnings" and rooms with teddy bears and stuffed animals for grown adults?
Face it, something is rotten in the stat of Denmark, and it's not the same week-old sushi that your parents and their parents and their parents had to smell. Oh yeah, they had a whole different set of problems, but they generally grew up and matured.
That every generation has its hypocrites does not make any less notable the extraordinary level of open and obvious hypocricy we see today. I'm not saying that it's the fault of the Mellenials entirely, their parents have to get much of the blame, and probably certain aspects of social media and large corporate parties fanning the narcissitic flames for their own beneift, but putting blame aside, we're in somewhat uncharted territory.
I don't think it's easy to identity a generation which has had more moral panics in a single decade, or another generation that has been openly and at times, seemingly proudly, hypocritical. Yeah, there have been conformist groupthinking generations before, but rarely have the been so while loudly proclaiming themselves to be "tolerant" and "diverse". I mean, of all words to choose... they choose the exact opposite of what they practice, and not one person in the sphere of highly-educated people stops to say "you know, perhaps we should pick a word that accurately discribes what we strive to be?"
Moral Panics used to be the domain of the religious right Proletariat. Now it's shifted to become the primary MO of the affluent, well-educated, Bourgeoisie.
Until relatively recently, people from across the political spectrum could be friends and consider each other human. No longer. Now the young, creative class immediately dehumanizes and declares evil and unworthy of employment anyone who does not immediately meet their purity test. People who are convinced, quite honestly, that anyone that disagrees with them is a "troll", because it's patently unthinkable that anyone could legitimate disagree with them. We're seeing levels of cognitive dissonance on an extraordinary scale, and this time it's primary victims are people who, by a great many accounts, should know better. People with $100,000+ educations. People who learn that you can't both a) Increase the unskilled labor pool and b) expect living standards for the working-class to rise. Yet there they are, marching alternately for both of these things. People who scream "Black Lives Matter", while gentrifying every black life
Mellenials are...
Generation scapegoat at your service, sir! We're just the worst so blame everything on us!
Hey, thank you! Don't mind if I do.
Why would you need to be thanked for not doing something?
Why would you thank one of the few people actually willing to sacrifice for a cause that you claim is important to you?
I dunno. Why?
That said, I have seen people get a way better response for pretending to care while simultaneously directly contributing to the supposed problem.
Damn millenials!
Do you also complain that women don't thank you for not raping them?
Yes. I think they should. Damn ungrateful mellenial women. And remember that time you didn't thank your mother for cancelling her vacation that time you were sick? Yeah, well, here's the thing... she was also kind of pissed that women didn't thank her for not raping them too. In facr, most things that people complain about not being thanked for are equivalent to rape. You millenials sure have a keen sense of perspective.
I'm sure the trivialization helps real rape victims, though, so I think they do owe you a great big 'Thank You'!
Good call. No, really, just impeccible. Honestly, I don't think you could have made a better, more relevant rebuttal. I mean, 'swish', nothing but net.
Sometimes you just have to give credit where credit is due.
Most people don't give a shit about what anyone does as long as it's not harming others.
Yeah but, climate... manhattan under water... no sea ice... murder of planet earth... wait.... you're not one of those unhip, unaffluent, working-class others are you? Ewwwwwww. Denier! Denier! Why do you hate science?! Cause nobody pure of thought would claim that climate change was not harming others. I'm afraid I'm going to have to boycott your place of business. May I have the address please?
What you say is often a reflection of how you act and what you support.
And what you do doesn't mean jack squat to the insincere.
Wait, did you actually disagree with anything I said? It kind of just seems like you were kind of trying to rebut me but then it kind of just fell apart into general statements...
Mellenials are the most travelled generation in history, Oh, and the most concerned about climate change. Except those two things don't really make sense together. Self-described progressives take more flights, and fly more miles each year than do self-described conservatives.
The higher ones income, in general, the greater the carbon footprint. Sounds like the Lexus Liberals could make a dent in climate change all by themselves, even if the non-believers never converted.
But why would they do that? Pfft, That wouldn't get them any attention. Where's the feel-good rush of dopamine that sccompsnies self-riteous indignation? You don't get that from quietly living your values.
But oh those rednecks that don't believe are just so infuriating. Progressives care about people. That's why they try to get them fired for wrongbadthink. Cause they care. They really care about the climate your kids will have to endure 70 years from now. No, really, they may try to cost you your job, thus making it harder to care for yiur children now, but one thing they will not tolerate is your children or grandchildren being too warm half a decade from now! That's just where they draw the line!
Yes the primary concern of the climate change believers is those gosh-darn others who don't believe that climate change is occuring. It almost makes it seem like they could not care less about the climate at all. Like maybe climate change is a dog whistle to cement one's social position as one of the 'haves', and not some trailer troll whose only post-high school options are Walmart or the military.
Why can't you poor people from Appalachia progress at the same rate as the moneyed people from gated communities and good colleges? Gosh, why do you people choose to be poor and ignorant?
They must be evil. Pure evil.
It's the only explanation.
No wait, how about some snarky one-liners! I bet THAT will solve the issue. No seriously, snarky one-lines solve everything in I'm Special cause my parents teachers and private school guidance counselors said so Land. Yes, it is a real country, look it up.
I don't have a car. Haven't flown in 10 years. Do you think the progressives thank me? You know, for living their vslues? Eh, trick question, you know they don't. They even kind of get mad when they find out. Look real disappointed. Progressives don't give a rat shit what I DO, they only care what I say. I could drive a big ol' SUV, but as long as I talked the talk, I'd be A-OK.
But they care about the climate. Oh, and look, flaming monkeys are flying out of my ass.
Republicans are corrupt. Democrats are incompetent. There is a difference.
Republicans are stupid, Democrats are evil.
One has the choice between going into the military or working st Walmart, the other goes to the best schools in the country and gets the best educations money can buy. Then, they expect the former to 'progress' at the same rate as the latter. Democrats twice voted for a guy who opposed gay marriage, voted for a woman that was anti-gay marriage well into her 60's, then turned around and boycotted the poorest, blackest state in the union for being against gay marriage.
Only the moneyed elites can do it. Pretty fucking evil.
king neckbeard raped me 20 years ago. Please disable his ability to post to Slashdot. Also if you doubt my claim you are pro-rape and have a small penis.
I've got a couple of MacBooks, and iPad Pro, and an iPhone 7 Plus, but this time around I bought a Galaxy Note 9 with 512GB.
I like both Android and iOS stuff (and I hate them both as well, a litanny of reasons for each).
That sad, I still find the iPeople fascinating. They don't actually get anything from policing the Internet for Apple criticism, except for longer lines and higher prices. I mean, when you talk something up, you're just increasing competition for yourself. What do they actually get for acting as unpaid PR folks for the world's most profitable company?
Maybe they own stock, I dunno.
It's kind of like when a person's favorite team wins the Super Bowl. They yell, scream, cheer, and go nuts... only to find that the bandwagon jumpers bought out all the seats for next year, and seats and team merchandise that's left quadruple in price.
"You" won.
Yay.
Oh, and, uh, it just works.
(I can almost see the purple-faced iPerson mashing the 'Troll' button. "Only a troll would disagree with me, there's no other possibility, I mean, I'm me.... people don't disagree with me, after all, I'm me.... me I tell you... me....)
Oh, that's, that's right... yes... no, fine sir, you are mistaken! The United States is not a corrupt industrialized Banana Republic. We don't have a population with sn average IQ of 98, and thus a voting base of which two-thirds are below the critical thinking threshhold. Golly no. I mean, just look at black incarceration rates since the Democrats switched from openly oppressing blacks, to pretnending to like them sometime in the 60's.
Does that look like insincerity to you??? Huh Troll?
America is the greatest country on earth and iur political parties put the people above their own power time and again.
If you think otherwise, you're probably a dirty Mex... I mean Russian. A dirty stinking lowlife Russian who totally corrupted our election what with your shifty Russian beady eyes and dishonest nature. I hate your Bla... I mean Russians so much!
Last time I used LinkedIn, they asked for my email address and email password. Not my LinkedIn password, but the password to my email account.
Thinking it was a mistake, I looked a little closer, and on the line after the password request, the said, I quote "Don't worry, we'll only hold onto it for a minute."
I am absolutely serious.
"Please give us your password, but don't worry, we'll only hold onto it for a minute"
Please give use your password, but DON'T WORRY WE'LL ONLY HOLD INTO IT FOR A MINUTE!
And they were serious. They were completely serious.
Here guys take my email password which will also give you access to a unix shell account, but shit I won't worry, after all, you're only going to hold into it for a minute. I mean, it's not like you got sued for accessing people's contacts and spamming everyone on it.
What's scary is that some people probably actually gave it to them.
You'd have assholes coming out of the woodwork bitching about how bad that is for society. People bitch and moan about shit all the time. Why should some subset of doctors be any different.
Goddammn assholes and their bitching and moaning! People are TOTALLY moaning and bitching... bitching and moaning... all the time. ABOUT SHIT! About shit I tell you! I mean, can you imagine? People bitching and then people moaning, and doing it about shit and doing it about shit all the time, and assholes coming out of the woodwork, THE WOODWORK, I mean hello, how about some Super Glue for the laws of physics you assholes broke... I mean... sigh... I just... I just... I don't know man, sometimes I'm just like "Why do people have to be bitching about shit and moaning about shit and if they have to do it, like, why does it have to be all the time...maybe go watch a movie or read a book or something... you know?"
It's always the other guy who gets too much healthcare.
Our visits are always legitimate, even if they turn up nothing, it's better to be safe than sorry.
Other people need too much peace of mind, though. Damn other people! They are they so worried about themselves? I don't get it? I mean, I'm not worried about them! Why are they???
If other people go to the doctor too much, I might be able to get an appointment when I have a (totally legitimate, mind you) concern,
Oh no, now I'm worried about me. If other people go to the doctor more than they do now, I might be effected in some way.
No, no, this is not good at all. Not good at all. What about me? Huh? Have any of you stopped being selfish for a moment and thought about me? Or have you thought about yourselves? Huh? Answer me!
Ban this Apple Watch. People should utilize healthcare perfectly like I do and if they don't, we certainly shouldn't encourage them to use it even more imperfectly!
where the people visiting the doctor don't bear the direct costs, there's no incentive not to go to the doctor outside of the time spent going to the doctor. If you can't get instant access, why would you ever not go outside of a dislike of doctors or hospitals?
Wow, I want to go to your doctor! It sounds like you have such a good time with him/her.
Although I do see your point. If people could go to the doctor everyday, they surely would. Unless, of course, they had a job. Or a hobby. Or liked to do, well, anything other than go to the doctor.
Not sure why they would do anything else, though. There's just something about spending 2 hours in a waiting room (regardless of my appointed time), and another hour in the exam room, that just does it for me. Maybe it's the magazines. I don't get Woman's Day at home, but boy do I churn through it at the doctor's office. Once, they even had Cosmo, and I got a Woodrow Wilson from the cleavage on the cover that I thought would never go down. Oh yes, the doctor's office is what I imagine heaven is like, only better. I especially like the finger in my butt that the doctor assures me that I need.
Come to think of it, I'm not really sure if it's his finger. I mean, he makes me turn around and look the other way.
I need to end this. I need to take a shower. The shame. I need to wash off the shame. If i use a little extra soap, it'll come off. You'll see.
I get your point, though. If only I could, I would live at the doctor's office.
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Yes. Oh yes. The smartest users must be sacrificed for the average users. They just must be. Only people who will make tomorrowâ(TM)s technology would dare do more than the average soccer mom with their machines, and they therefore must be stopped for the good of Corp ... I mean the people. The good and wholesome average people. Idiocracy wonâ(TM)t be so bad, youâ(TM)ll see. The corporate masters will take good care of us, while those pesky top one percenters will make license plates in the gulag, Weâ(TM)ll finally find a use for those people! Fix your own computers will you? As if! Be like the rest of us! Itâ(TM)s bliss!
And, you know, more or less run the Internet.
Sadly, most of them do. Everyone else gets theirs taken away involuntarily. We all clap when we hear that the government nabbed one of those evil money launderers.
Money laundering is an almost sure-fire conviction as it is impossible to disprove, and that is exactly what a defendant had to do. Thatâ(TM)s why roadside piracy, I mean, civil forfeiture is so lucrative.
Underpay your taxes by $170? Boom, every dollar in your position is now laundered money, proceeds of your tax evasion. Take out $5,000 of your own money from the bank one day, $6,000 of your own money the next? Bam, youâ(TM)re a money launderer, your funds were obtained via structuring.
The link between every dollar and theoretical malfeasance is not hard to make, so itâ(TM)s the perfect crime to charge someone with when they havenâ(TM)t committed a crime you can prove they committed.
In fact, the only guaranteed non-laundered money, is money you give to the government. No matter where you got it from, or how you acquired it, if you give it to the government, itâ(TM)s righteous.
Unless they are in a regulated industry, or are a government-regulated monopoly, in which case, offering their service to you is part of their terms of service with the regulators.
Yay, iOS 12 seems to have brought back the goofy apostropheâ(TM)s
They are already free to act with impugnity. The Supreme Court ruled that companies can write themselves out of accountability, and even the law, with arbitration agreements, and these agreements are being incorporated everywhere. Courts have ruled that the arbitration clauses apply even when the company breaks Federal or State Law. Theyâ(TM)ve ruled that they apply even in cases of bad faith.
Better yet, when the odd consumer hangs in after years of fighting, countless hours, countless dollars, and finally, FINALLY gets a favorable ruling from a jury ... the award gets reduced substantially over 85% of the time. In some cases the award is reduced by over 90%. There are also caps on punitive damages and pain & suffering that make the risk for big companies quite small.
Big corporations have little to worry about. They get taken care of.
Iâ(TM)ve been to small claims court several times over the last decade. Iâ(TM)ve either won or settled each time. Iâ(TM)m not terribly skilled, I just donâ(TM)t file suit unless I am clearly and overwhelmingly in the right. It still takes a lot of time and effort, though.
As someone who is willing to go to court, though, the opt-in nature of class-actions seems like just more abuse. I mean, have you ever tried to opt-out of one of these? The procedures are always via postal mail, and are usually very specific. If you fail to include ANY piece of requested information, including information they are not entitled to ... (why do they need my email address when they force me to opt-out via the postal service?), you get opted in. The burden of proof rests with you, so oh yeah, pay up and send it certified mail. Thatâ(TM)s right, more often than not, it will cost you.
If they offered people a real piece of the settlement, and made it easy to opt-in, people would do it. The public routinely takes down web servers when a popular consumer item goes on sale, I donâ(TM)t think theyâ(TM)d be shy about doing the same to receive financial compensation.
As it is, good luck getting anything, even when youâ(TM)re opted-in. I tried to register for the LinkedIn settlement, only to find that it was âoeclosedâ when I finally found the poorly-publicized link. Oh, and I could initiate my own suit either. The law firm took my rights, and the money. These guys arenâ(TM)t trying to help the class. The class is merely a vehicle for their own riches. And 99% of the time, the company never admits fault, and returns to the bad behavior in short order. LinkedIn now has to get you to âoeagreeâ before they SPAM your address book, but of course, the âoeagreementâ will be a fine-printed line on Page 27 of the âoeUser Agreementâ which theyâ(TM)re also allowed to change unilaterally, this rendering the entire agreement illusory.
If a company harms you, and causes you $50,000 in damages, and some law firm opts you into to a lawsuit, and steals your right to sue, in order to enrich themselves ... you often get nothing in return. I canâ(TM)t believe anyone would think that was fair.
The whole thing is a scam, from top to bottom, and the winners are the ruling-class âoelawmakersâ and their financiers who make laws like this to preserve the Plutocratic status-quo.
The only time the corporations have anything to worry about is when they get on the bad side of the ruling-class. So, they mostly donâ(TM)t, and are content to do what they will to everyone else. The courts certainly are not âoeholding them accountableâ.
For a contract to be valid, you must have the option to both agree and decline. Without these two options, it's not a contract or agreement. Not a binding one, at least.
It always seemed like an oversight, but I guess Apple lawyers ae that confident that none of you will ever sue,
If you own a company, though, and you want to bind people to an agreement ... always include a decline button next to the agree button.
You may not pester as many people into agreeing, but at least you can legitimately claim that the people who did agree, agreed, instead of simply gave in to make the daily harrassment stop.
Totally agree.
If we'd used our words to gain independence from Britan, not to mention end things like slavery and the Holocaust, hundreds of thousands of lives could have been saved, not to mention, we would have obtained this goals quicker.
I think.
No, I'm pretty sure that's accurate.
Once both sides figure out how to fight as Anonymous Coward, there's totally gonna be one.
"Where does this motherfucker get off, I'm going to give him a piece of my mind, hey faggot, don't tread on me, it'll be a cold day in hell before I let you or anyone like you harm a hair on the head of this country I love! Watch yourself, faggot, or you just may have to deal with the likes of me!"
Okay, now lemme see, spell check, wait does fagot have two g's or ... oopsie ... I'm sooooo bad at spelling ... it's faggot ... wait, really? I could sworn ... yep sure enough two g's, alright looks good and, oh dear, almost forgot to check the 'post anonymously' box ... whew ... that woulda been embarrassing ... could you imagine if people knew it was me ... annddddddd .... sent! Oh my, I'm stiffer than Steve Jobs ... Mildred come quick ... I gotta suprise for you!"
- John F. Kennedy
Great answer! I wonder, though, who's going to break it to you that the states with the actual highest rates of poverty are Mississippi, New Mexico, and Lousiana. In that order. These states must be absolutely incredible!
California is actually #15.
Pffft.
Shit, it's even bested by West Virginia in number of people willing to endure poverty to live there.
How could California have the highest poverty rate where there are so many people there who profess to care about the less fortunate? People who aggressively promote the idea of the re-distribution of wealth for the greater good? You know, like Hollywood, for example, which preaches higher taxation for the masses, then puts their money where their mouth is by engaging in "runaway production" where, instead of paying higher taxes to help the less fortunate, they seek out jurisdictions with the lowest tax burden and relocate their productions there?
Wait, I just answered my own question.
Never mind.
Now if you wanted to proffer that the number of sexual predators made a place desirable to live, you might have an arguement ...
I learned that the companies have these roving lawyers on retainer that fly from state to state either settling lawsuits or going trhough trial. Gone are the days that they settle before the court date. Now, they make you take the day off and go. They see this as a kind of deterrent. I guess the thinking goes thst if they make it too easy, everyone will statt doing it, and trials, even small claims, are stressful. The judges, at least the ones I've seen as I watched other cases, and my own, are pretty company-friendly, and you have to have a strong case to win.
It can be done, though, and people should do it. I've had people tell me to get a life, but as they're watching Americas Got Talent or Monday Night Football, I'm actually learning the ins and outs of my legal system, so I guess in some ways it's sort of a life. I also learned that the companies set aside a certain amount each year to pay people like me, so I'm really just claiming it.
Paying the me's of the world costs way less than complying with the law, snd with the proliferation of arbitration agreements, they more or less stifled big money suits.
It's all a big game, and the corruption of the American political system means that you're more or less on your own, Moss-Magnuson violations or not.
I respect your opinion, but the Millennials thing is a valid observation in mine. Within the last week, I've seen one news piece declaring Mellennials to be the most well-travelled generation ever, and another declaring them to be the most environmentally-concious.
That's notable. Yes, nobody has a lock on hypocricy, but regardless, that's notable.
Mellennials are the ones who have come of age during the Climate Change moral panic. Who have come alive during a half dozen other moral panics as well, not to mention, the critical mass of social media. Pointing out that the generation that currently makes up the majority of the 18-39 demographic that determines a nation's popular culture, are openly speaking out of both sides of their mouthes en-masse, is entirely relevant.
Have other generations done it before? Yep. That doesn't necessarily make any given generation of observers wrong, though. If you keep calling something green when it's not green, when it finally turns green, you're finally right.
Are you aware of another generation that has taken their parents to job interviews? Now, is this practice common among Mellenials? No. But it's fucking unheard of in every other generation.
How many generations do you know that have needed "trigger warnings" and rooms with teddy bears and stuffed animals for grown adults?
Face it, something is rotten in the stat of Denmark, and it's not the same week-old sushi that your parents and their parents and their parents had to smell. Oh yeah, they had a whole different set of problems, but they generally grew up and matured.
That every generation has its hypocrites does not make any less notable the extraordinary level of open and obvious hypocricy we see today. I'm not saying that it's the fault of the Mellenials entirely, their parents have to get much of the blame, and probably certain aspects of social media and large corporate parties fanning the narcissitic flames for their own beneift, but putting blame aside, we're in somewhat uncharted territory.
I don't think it's easy to identity a generation which has had more moral panics in a single decade, or another generation that has been openly and at times, seemingly proudly, hypocritical. Yeah, there have been conformist groupthinking generations before, but rarely have the been so while loudly proclaiming themselves to be "tolerant" and "diverse". I mean, of all words to choose ... they choose the exact opposite of what they practice, and not one person in the sphere of highly-educated people stops to say "you know, perhaps we should pick a word that accurately discribes what we strive to be?"
Moral Panics used to be the domain of the religious right Proletariat. Now it's shifted to become the primary MO of the affluent, well-educated, Bourgeoisie.
Until relatively recently, people from across the political spectrum could be friends and consider each other human. No longer. Now the young, creative class immediately dehumanizes and declares evil and unworthy of employment anyone who does not immediately meet their purity test. People who are convinced, quite honestly, that anyone that disagrees with them is a "troll", because it's patently unthinkable that anyone could legitimate disagree with them. We're seeing levels of cognitive dissonance on an extraordinary scale, and this time it's primary victims are people who, by a great many accounts, should know better. People with $100,000+ educations. People who learn that you can't both a) Increase the unskilled labor pool and b) expect living standards for the working-class to rise. Yet there they are, marching alternately for both of these things. People who scream "Black Lives Matter", while gentrifying every black life
Hey, thank you! Don't mind if I do.
Why would you need to be thanked for not doing something?
Why would you thank one of the few people actually willing to sacrifice for a cause that you claim is important to you?
I dunno. Why?
That said, I have seen people get a way better response for pretending to care while simultaneously directly contributing to the supposed problem.
Damn millenials!
Do you also complain that women don't thank you for not raping them?
Yes. I think they should. Damn ungrateful mellenial women. And remember that time you didn't thank your mother for cancelling her vacation that time you were sick? Yeah, well, here's the thing ... she was also kind of pissed that women didn't thank her for not raping them too. In facr, most things that people complain about not being thanked for are equivalent to rape. You millenials sure have a keen sense of perspective.
I'm sure the trivialization helps real rape victims, though, so I think they do owe you a great big 'Thank You'!
Good call. No, really, just impeccible. Honestly, I don't think you could have made a better, more relevant rebuttal. I mean, 'swish', nothing but net.
Sometimes you just have to give credit where credit is due.
Most people don't give a shit about what anyone does as long as it's not harming others.
Yeah but, climate ... manhattan under water ... no sea ice ... murder of planet earth ... wait .... you're not one of those unhip, unaffluent, working-class others are you? Ewwwwwww. Denier! Denier! Why do you hate science?! Cause nobody pure of thought would claim that climate change was not harming others. I'm afraid I'm going to have to boycott your place of business. May I have the address please?
What you say is often a reflection of how you act and what you support.
And what you do doesn't mean jack squat to the insincere.
Wait, did you actually disagree with anything I said? It kind of just seems like you were kind of trying to rebut me but then it kind of just fell apart into general statements ...
Damn Mellenials. You guys mess up everything.
The higher ones income, in general, the greater the carbon footprint. Sounds like the Lexus Liberals could make a dent in climate change all by themselves, even if the non-believers never converted.
But why would they do that? Pfft, That wouldn't get them any attention. Where's the feel-good rush of dopamine that sccompsnies self-riteous indignation? You don't get that from quietly living your values.
But oh those rednecks that don't believe are just so infuriating. Progressives care about people. That's why they try to get them fired for wrongbadthink. Cause they care. They really care about the climate your kids will have to endure 70 years from now. No, really, they may try to cost you your job, thus making it harder to care for yiur children now, but one thing they will not tolerate is your children or grandchildren being too warm half a decade from now! That's just where they draw the line!
Yes the primary concern of the climate change believers is those gosh-darn others who don't believe that climate change is occuring. It almost makes it seem like they could not care less about the climate at all. Like maybe climate change is a dog whistle to cement one's social position as one of the 'haves', and not some trailer troll whose only post-high school options are Walmart or the military.
Why can't you poor people from Appalachia progress at the same rate as the moneyed people from gated communities and good colleges? Gosh, why do you people choose to be poor and ignorant?
They must be evil. Pure evil.
It's the only explanation.
No wait, how about some snarky one-liners! I bet THAT will solve the issue. No seriously, snarky one-lines solve everything in I'm Special cause my parents teachers and private school guidance counselors said so Land. Yes, it is a real country, look it up.
I don't have a car. Haven't flown in 10 years. Do you think the progressives thank me? You know, for living their vslues? Eh, trick question, you know they don't. They even kind of get mad when they find out. Look real disappointed. Progressives don't give a rat shit what I DO, they only care what I say. I could drive a big ol' SUV, but as long as I talked the talk, I'd be A-OK.
But they care about the climate. Oh, and look, flaming monkeys are flying out of my ass.
Republicans are stupid, Democrats are evil.
One has the choice between going into the military or working st Walmart, the other goes to the best schools in the country and gets the best educations money can buy. Then, they expect the former to 'progress' at the same rate as the latter. Democrats twice voted for a guy who opposed gay marriage, voted for a woman that was anti-gay marriage well into her 60's, then turned around and boycotted the poorest, blackest state in the union for being against gay marriage.
Only the moneyed elites can do it. Pretty fucking evil.
At least one of those accusations is true :-(
I like both Android and iOS stuff (and I hate them both as well, a litanny of reasons for each).
That sad, I still find the iPeople fascinating. They don't actually get anything from policing the Internet for Apple criticism, except for longer lines and higher prices. I mean, when you talk something up, you're just increasing competition for yourself. What do they actually get for acting as unpaid PR folks for the world's most profitable company?
Maybe they own stock, I dunno.
It's kind of like when a person's favorite team wins the Super Bowl. They yell, scream, cheer, and go nuts ... only to find that the bandwagon jumpers bought out all the seats for next year, and seats and team merchandise that's left quadruple in price.
"You" won.
Yay.
Oh, and, uh, it just works.
(I can almost see the purple-faced iPerson mashing the 'Troll' button. "Only a troll would disagree with me, there's no other possibility, I mean, I'm me .... people don't disagree with me, after all, I'm me .... me I tell you ... me ....)
Oh, that's, that's right ... yes ... no, fine sir, you are mistaken! The United States is not a corrupt industrialized Banana Republic. We don't have a population with sn average IQ of 98, and thus a voting base of which two-thirds are below the critical thinking threshhold. Golly no. I mean, just look at black incarceration rates since the Democrats switched from openly oppressing blacks, to pretnending to like them sometime in the 60's.
Does that look like insincerity to you??? Huh Troll?
America is the greatest country on earth and iur political parties put the people above their own power time and again.
If you think otherwise, you're probably a dirty Mex ... I mean Russian. A dirty stinking lowlife Russian who totally corrupted our election what with your shifty Russian beady eyes and dishonest nature. I hate your Bla ... I mean Russians so much!
Troll.
No, wait ...
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/1...
Oh. It's all a ruse. I guess it'll be rocket fuel after all.
Thinking it was a mistake, I looked a little closer, and on the line after the password request, the said, I quote "Don't worry, we'll only hold onto it for a minute."
I am absolutely serious.
"Please give us your password, but don't worry, we'll only hold onto it for a minute"
Please give use your password, but DON'T WORRY WE'LL ONLY HOLD INTO IT FOR A MINUTE!
And they were serious. They were completely serious.
Here guys take my email password which will also give you access to a unix shell account, but shit I won't worry, after all, you're only going to hold into it for a minute. I mean, it's not like you got sued for accessing people's contacts and spamming everyone on it.
What's scary is that some people probably actually gave it to them.
Goddammn assholes and their bitching and moaning! People are TOTALLY moaning and bitching ... bitching and moaning ... all the time. ABOUT SHIT! About shit I tell you! I mean, can you imagine? People bitching and then people moaning, and doing it about shit and doing it about shit all the time, and assholes coming out of the woodwork, THE WOODWORK, I mean hello, how about some Super Glue for the laws of physics you assholes broke ... I mean ... sigh ... I just ... I just ... I don't know man, sometimes I'm just like "Why do people have to be bitching about shit and moaning about shit and if they have to do it, like, why does it have to be all the time ...maybe go watch a movie or read a book or something ... you know?"
Assholes.
Our visits are always legitimate, even if they turn up nothing, it's better to be safe than sorry.
Other people need too much peace of mind, though. Damn other people! They are they so worried about themselves? I don't get it? I mean, I'm not worried about them! Why are they???
If other people go to the doctor too much, I might be able to get an appointment when I have a (totally legitimate, mind you) concern,
Oh no, now I'm worried about me. If other people go to the doctor more than they do now, I might be effected in some way.
No, no, this is not good at all. Not good at all. What about me? Huh? Have any of you stopped being selfish for a moment and thought about me? Or have you thought about yourselves? Huh? Answer me!
Ban this Apple Watch. People should utilize healthcare perfectly like I do and if they don't, we certainly shouldn't encourage them to use it even more imperfectly!
I'm outraged.
Wow, I want to go to your doctor! It sounds like you have such a good time with him/her.
Although I do see your point. If people could go to the doctor everyday, they surely would. Unless, of course, they had a job. Or a hobby. Or liked to do, well, anything other than go to the doctor.
Not sure why they would do anything else, though. There's just something about spending 2 hours in a waiting room (regardless of my appointed time), and another hour in the exam room, that just does it for me. Maybe it's the magazines. I don't get Woman's Day at home, but boy do I churn through it at the doctor's office. Once, they even had Cosmo, and I got a Woodrow Wilson from the cleavage on the cover that I thought would never go down. Oh yes, the doctor's office is what I imagine heaven is like, only better. I especially like the finger in my butt that the doctor assures me that I need.
Come to think of it, I'm not really sure if it's his finger. I mean, he makes me turn around and look the other way.
I need to end this. I need to take a shower. The shame. I need to wash off the shame. If i use a little extra soap, it'll come off. You'll see.
I get your point, though. If only I could, I would live at the doctor's office.
If only I could.
Stop me before I totally do it. Stop everyone!