Demonetization is likely the only way you're going to get any traction to curb the fake news problem. You sure as hell aren't going to fix stupid. In fact, it would seem the masses are actually becoming more gullible these days, evidenced by how often fake news goes viral.
When we stop financially rewarding bullshit peddlers, the justification to peddle bullshit tends to go away.
If you want to consider how gullible people are then consider the past two presidents. Who really expected hope and change from a Chicago politician? That takes a certain flavor of stupid. Along the same lines, draining the swamp from someone from New York City is just as unlikely. Economic desperation is allowing these clowns to get into office. Until the economics get better expect ever more extreme politicians.
... but good luck getting that fact to penetrate the skull of your typical "taxes = evil" republican or worse, one of the tea party variety. So now we have a national debt of around $21 Trillion which is about $65,000 owed for each man, woman and child in the US.
Yep, only the Republicans were responsible for all that debt. I'll give you a clue - both parties are bad. The longer you hold on to the illusion that if we could get just our party elected then it would be OK the longer you are deluded. Illinois is run lock stock and barrel by Democrats and is utter bankrupt and will fail completely in the next decade. Both parties have had a majority in Congress plus the POTUS recently and neither has delivered key reforms. Obamacare was a disaster and the Tax cuts were too. Both shafted the middle class to give to corporations. Goldman Sachs bought both parties years ago. Until banksters start to meet guillotines don't expect it to get better.
It'll be interesting to see how they negotiate the removal of US forces from South Korea. The US has its biggest bases and airfields in all of Asia over there, and I can't imagine removing them is going to sit well with the Pentagon.
Who cares what the pentagon thinks. If we would focus on US citizens, not other countries and illegals, we could make at least our corner of the world a better place. Foreign wars only make well connected people rich while the common man on both sides dies.
I'm still pushing for the bi-partisan deal of locking up both Clinton, Trump, and at least a few dozen more high profile law breakers. Keep doing it in pairs, one D and one R, so allow it to move forward without claims of being partisan. Both parties shield *many* lawbreakers.
You can't outsource a plumber. Or an auto mechanic.
That's why billionaires on both the right (Koch bros, etc) and the left (Zucker and crew) want mass immigration. When you can't bring the job to the low cost labor you bring the low cost labor to the job. The middle class is shrinking because the 1% absolutely hates it and has been working hard for several generations to get rid of it. Both D and R are happy to help.
This isn't helped at the university level where lots of liberal teachers preach that blue collar workers are nothing but a bunch of dumb hicks that are not smart enough to find something better.
Eight years of college/grad school and I never, not even once, heard anything remotely close to that.
Enough with the hyperbole.
It's not hyperbole depending on where you go. I had a couple of humanities classes that were very much in this vein. I went to school in southern California, which is probably an important data point. Plus it's gotten worse. The microagression BS hadn't caught on yet when I was in school.
It took me 8 years to finish college but I didn't have a cent of student debt.
That may or may not be a good thing. If you're making $80k out of college, those 4 extra years of not working adds up to $320k, which is probably a lot more than your student debt.
I know here in Kommifornia that 4 years would definitely not get you $320K in hand. You would be lucky to keep $225 and that's before food and rent. The real figure is more like $120k, which may or may not be equal to student loans depending on where you go and how high the cost of living is.
But there's nothing wrong with this ruling from a legal perspective. Everyone benefits when the law is clear and applied consistently, and in this case it was.
The cost of keeping a person who is no threat to anyone in jail is certainly a loss and no, citizens who bear that cost do not benefit from it. Probation would have been appropriate, the fine was out of balance. Allowing the separation of legal system from a justice system is most definitely part of the problem. Bad law is bad law, even when applied consistently. People like you who stand by bad law and defend bad decisions that defy common sense are part of the problem.
When the post mortem on the US is written a big factor, certainly in the top 5, will be foolish judicial decisions. Some are big, like legal bribery via McDonnell v. United States and saying that cash is free speech, some are small like this one. But too many bad decisions and bad precedents are being made.
For a man who claims to be a Libertarian, Peter Thiel is awfully willing to help authoritarians ruin people's lives and abuse their power. Even if you 100% believe in the US justice system (I don't), this software is probably for sale to China, Burma, Saudi, and a whole bunch of other repressive regimes.
I think that libertarians are self centered, so his self interest is best served by selling us out. I think libertarians are the right wing version of communists - it sounds OK in certain narrow situations but doesn't scale.
Because those are only ever temporary fixes. Everywhere that's tried to solve traffic problems with more roads just ended up with more traffic problems. LA and Houston are excellent examples of this.
The only solution is mass transit, but in most of the US we're allergic to it for some reason.
Good thing those in tech don't share your world view or we'd all be on dial up still at public libraries. I can see you working for an infrastructure company - "jeez, all we do is give them more bandwidth but it's just a temporary fix. Oh well, dial up and library computers for all I guess."
Pollutants are measured in areas where they are a concern, such as where mine tailings flow into the sea. But the GBR is 2300 km (1400 miles) long, and it is implausible that chemical waste or effluent could have so much effect across such a vast area.
~25% of California's air pollution comes from China. That's around 6700km away. It is not as implausible as you think.
Many more middle-income kids go to top schools than low income. I work with these kids. You have no idea how hostile their culture is to academic success unless you live there. I recognize it, but as a rich gringo I still don't really "get it". Many in their communities truly believe that academic success is a betrayal to the culture.
I'd say that sounds like a culture of failure, but I guess it's easier to duck responsibility and blame racism instead. I'm always perplexed at how some will argue that all cultures are equal despite massive and obvious performance differences and claim racism instead.
Please stop with idiotic comments about "the left" or "the right," and what they may or may not know. There are smart people across the spectrum, and it doesn't help discussion to denigrate broad, unspecific groups of people. Interest rates being tied to risk is pretty darn basic.
The right just wants Puerto Rico to pay a higher interest rate because they're brown.
I sure hope the California air has the mandatory cancer label. The nerve of that air not being labeled. We can tolerate any number of illegals but on serious issues like Prop 65 we stand firm.
Seriously, an A7 and Linux for an IoT thermostat or glass break sensor? Linux is wonderful and all for servers and even little routers, but real IoT devices live on a dirt cheap processor in a few kbytes, not Mbytes or GBytes and last for a year on a single battery. FreeRTOS that just received support from Amazon is a likely solution for IoT. A survey by EE Times suggests that new embedded projects are adopting FreeRTOS and a slightly higher rate for new products than even Linux (page 63) while embedded linux still has a small lead for existing projects. I'll bet this pig ships will mono and C# built into it and that is why they pushing linux.
FreeRTOS's best feature is the name. It's a great name that almost sells itself. Once you get past the name things go downhill. Micrium is probably the best documented since it has a nice big book for just about every flavor of microcontroller under the sun. From what I understand if you use a Silicon Labs MCU it's free too.
Give me one for profit network that is not willing to report "a half truth / incomplete story" or even a straight out lie "for sensationalist purposes."
Honest TV reporting died in the 80's when network executives stopped treating journalism as a "loss leader" and turned news it into another "entertainment" revenue stream
I don't disagree. That's why I always consider the source when I read the headline and also why I don't watch TV news. I only read my news, and even then I try and get it from multiple sources to try and triangulate the truth. This only gets harder when people purposely distort / conflate things such as mixing and matching all immigrants with just legal immigrants with just illegal immigrants depending on which data set best supports their position at the moment.
The world is going to bitterly regret not standing up to China and aggressively asserting its interests against them.
So true. That's why I often post about the US looking after its own interests and letting the world go to hell. No reason to waste blood and treasure when it's not appreciated. Secure the borders and focus on getting our house back in order. The US wasn't perfect by any means, but it could have been much worse. China is going to prove just how true that statement is.
They look at how big you are. If you're a small fish then you better pay your taxes. If you are wealthy enough to hide your money off shore then you're OK. Finally if you can get connected politically then you're fine as well. It's most definitely a scam and I hope that I live long enough to see the guillotines brought out for the corrupt billionaires who thrive off this corruption.
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Demonetization is likely the only way you're going to get any traction to curb the fake news problem. You sure as hell aren't going to fix stupid. In fact, it would seem the masses are actually becoming more gullible these days, evidenced by how often fake news goes viral.
When we stop financially rewarding bullshit peddlers, the justification to peddle bullshit tends to go away.
If you want to consider how gullible people are then consider the past two presidents. Who really expected hope and change from a Chicago politician? That takes a certain flavor of stupid. Along the same lines, draining the swamp from someone from New York City is just as unlikely. Economic desperation is allowing these clowns to get into office. Until the economics get better expect ever more extreme politicians.
... but good luck getting that fact to penetrate the skull of your typical "taxes = evil" republican or worse, one of the tea party variety. So now we have a national debt of around $21 Trillion which is about $65,000 owed for each man, woman and child in the US.
Yep, only the Republicans were responsible for all that debt. I'll give you a clue - both parties are bad. The longer you hold on to the illusion that if we could get just our party elected then it would be OK the longer you are deluded. Illinois is run lock stock and barrel by Democrats and is utter bankrupt and will fail completely in the next decade. Both parties have had a majority in Congress plus the POTUS recently and neither has delivered key reforms. Obamacare was a disaster and the Tax cuts were too. Both shafted the middle class to give to corporations. Goldman Sachs bought both parties years ago. Until banksters start to meet guillotines don't expect it to get better.
It'll be interesting to see how they negotiate the removal of US forces from South Korea. The US has its biggest bases and airfields in all of Asia over there, and I can't imagine removing them is going to sit well with the Pentagon.
Who cares what the pentagon thinks. If we would focus on US citizens, not other countries and illegals, we could make at least our corner of the world a better place. Foreign wars only make well connected people rich while the common man on both sides dies.
I don't think destroying all privacy forever to nab a suspect is such a good idea.
There goes your social credit score as described here: https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
SHE WILL BE IN JAIL
I'm still pushing for the bi-partisan deal of locking up both Clinton, Trump, and at least a few dozen more high profile law breakers. Keep doing it in pairs, one D and one R, so allow it to move forward without claims of being partisan. Both parties shield *many* lawbreakers.
You can't outsource a plumber. Or an auto mechanic.
That's why billionaires on both the right (Koch bros, etc) and the left (Zucker and crew) want mass immigration. When you can't bring the job to the low cost labor you bring the low cost labor to the job. The middle class is shrinking because the 1% absolutely hates it and has been working hard for several generations to get rid of it. Both D and R are happy to help.
This isn't helped at the university level where lots of liberal teachers preach that blue collar workers are nothing but a bunch of dumb hicks that are not smart enough to find something better.
Eight years of college/grad school and I never, not even once, heard anything remotely close to that. Enough with the hyperbole.
It's not hyperbole depending on where you go. I had a couple of humanities classes that were very much in this vein. I went to school in southern California, which is probably an important data point. Plus it's gotten worse. The microagression BS hadn't caught on yet when I was in school.
It took me 8 years to finish college but I didn't have a cent of student debt.
That may or may not be a good thing. If you're making $80k out of college, those 4 extra years of not working adds up to $320k, which is probably a lot more than your student debt.
I know here in Kommifornia that 4 years would definitely not get you $320K in hand. You would be lucky to keep $225 and that's before food and rent. The real figure is more like $120k, which may or may not be equal to student loans depending on where you go and how high the cost of living is.
Therefore Belgium is stopping it. Have fun over there. I hear you have until 2030, better live it up while you can.
That it not how it works. When the copyright expires, it becomes public domain.
Thanks to a bought and sold congress and Mickey Mouse that expiration date is infinity minus one.
But there's nothing wrong with this ruling from a legal perspective. Everyone benefits when the law is clear and applied consistently, and in this case it was.
The cost of keeping a person who is no threat to anyone in jail is certainly a loss and no, citizens who bear that cost do not benefit from it. Probation would have been appropriate, the fine was out of balance. Allowing the separation of legal system from a justice system is most definitely part of the problem. Bad law is bad law, even when applied consistently. People like you who stand by bad law and defend bad decisions that defy common sense are part of the problem.
When the post mortem on the US is written a big factor, certainly in the top 5, will be foolish judicial decisions. Some are big, like legal bribery via McDonnell v. United States and saying that cash is free speech, some are small like this one. But too many bad decisions and bad precedents are being made.
For a man who claims to be a Libertarian, Peter Thiel is awfully willing to help authoritarians ruin people's lives and abuse their power. Even if you 100% believe in the US justice system (I don't), this software is probably for sale to China, Burma, Saudi, and a whole bunch of other repressive regimes.
I think that libertarians are self centered, so his self interest is best served by selling us out. I think libertarians are the right wing version of communists - it sounds OK in certain narrow situations but doesn't scale.
Or, just build out an efficient, useful, and desirable mass transit system.
Clearly the place to start with that dream is a high speed rail to nowhere rather than fixing metrolink. California thinking at it's finest.
No, the whole discussion is about an app routing via the faster route (because the main route is congested).
Why not work on expanding the congested routes or building alternate routes?
Because this is LA. They would rather harangue people about what not to do while doing it themselves. LA is the poster child for NIMBY.
Because those are only ever temporary fixes. Everywhere that's tried to solve traffic problems with more roads just ended up with more traffic problems. LA and Houston are excellent examples of this.
The only solution is mass transit, but in most of the US we're allergic to it for some reason.
Good thing those in tech don't share your world view or we'd all be on dial up still at public libraries. I can see you working for an infrastructure company - "jeez, all we do is give them more bandwidth but it's just a temporary fix. Oh well, dial up and library computers for all I guess."
Pollutants are measured in areas where they are a concern, such as where mine tailings flow into the sea. But the GBR is 2300 km (1400 miles) long, and it is implausible that chemical waste or effluent could have so much effect across such a vast area.
~25% of California's air pollution comes from China. That's around 6700km away. It is not as implausible as you think.
Citations:
https://www.zmescience.com/eco... https://www.npr.org/sections/t...
Many more middle-income kids go to top schools than low income. I work with these kids. You have no idea how hostile their culture is to academic success unless you live there. I recognize it, but as a rich gringo I still don't really "get it". Many in their communities truly believe that academic success is a betrayal to the culture.
I'd say that sounds like a culture of failure, but I guess it's easier to duck responsibility and blame racism instead. I'm always perplexed at how some will argue that all cultures are equal despite massive and obvious performance differences and claim racism instead.
Please stop with idiotic comments about "the left" or "the right," and what they may or may not know. There are smart people across the spectrum, and it doesn't help discussion to denigrate broad, unspecific groups of people. Interest rates being tied to risk is pretty darn basic.
The right just wants Puerto Rico to pay a higher interest rate because they're brown.
Signed - the Left
I sure hope the California air has the mandatory cancer label. The nerve of that air not being labeled. We can tolerate any number of illegals but on serious issues like Prop 65 we stand firm.
Seriously, an A7 and Linux for an IoT thermostat or glass break sensor? Linux is wonderful and all for servers and even little routers, but real IoT devices live on a dirt cheap processor in a few kbytes, not Mbytes or GBytes and last for a year on a single battery. FreeRTOS that just received support from Amazon is a likely solution for IoT. A survey by EE Times suggests that new embedded projects are adopting FreeRTOS and a slightly higher rate for new products than even Linux (page 63) while embedded linux still has a small lead for existing projects. I'll bet this pig ships will mono and C# built into it and that is why they pushing linux.
FreeRTOS's best feature is the name. It's a great name that almost sells itself. Once you get past the name things go downhill. Micrium is probably the best documented since it has a nice big book for just about every flavor of microcontroller under the sun. From what I understand if you use a Silicon Labs MCU it's free too.
Give me one for profit network that is not willing to report "a half truth / incomplete story" or even a straight out lie "for sensationalist purposes."
Honest TV reporting died in the 80's when network executives stopped treating journalism as a "loss leader" and turned news it into another "entertainment" revenue stream
I don't disagree. That's why I always consider the source when I read the headline and also why I don't watch TV news. I only read my news, and even then I try and get it from multiple sources to try and triangulate the truth. This only gets harder when people purposely distort / conflate things such as mixing and matching all immigrants with just legal immigrants with just illegal immigrants depending on which data set best supports their position at the moment.
The world is going to bitterly regret not standing up to China and aggressively asserting its interests against them.
So true. That's why I often post about the US looking after its own interests and letting the world go to hell. No reason to waste blood and treasure when it's not appreciated. Secure the borders and focus on getting our house back in order. The US wasn't perfect by any means, but it could have been much worse. China is going to prove just how true that statement is.
They look at how big you are. If you're a small fish then you better pay your taxes. If you are wealthy enough to hide your money off shore then you're OK. Finally if you can get connected politically then you're fine as well. It's most definitely a scam and I hope that I live long enough to see the guillotines brought out for the corrupt billionaires who thrive off this corruption.
tldr - The FDA is very broken and possibly brain dead. Common sense is nowhere to be found and drug companies game the system.