China has done a decent job of cleaning up their act in recent years but their environmental standards are still a joke compared to the US.
Position is one thing, trajectory is another. And looking at current trajectory and policy direction, these positions will reverse within about 10 years.
He also seems to be instrumental in getting progress towards an actual peace treaty between North & South Korea.
What is it exactly that he is doing other than huffing and puffing? And what progress do you think is being made other than political gamesmanship that we've seen numerous times before?
But hey, let's focus on a hooker he may or may not have fucked years ago!
The US is a country of 320 Million people. It is possible some people can work on foreign relations, while at the same time some other people can investigate crime.
So, as a way-out-there social liberal who really dislikes Trump and has said bad things about him (and thought worse things), I feel like I owe it to somebody to say 'well done.'
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I'm not American, but aren't the Executive branch, Legislative, and Judicial all independent? ie action by one is not necessarily because of the other?
This always confused me when every single thing gets credited (or blamed) to the President of the day, when the whole idea is that they are supposed to be separate.
Glass doesn't rust but over time environmental forces will turn glass back into its sandy components.
Which is fine if every single piece of glass left from the theoretical ancient civilisation was left out in the elements. But even dinosaurs found a way to get themselves buried in mud, tar, rock, ash, amber etc...
Having watched a few of the Netflix-original movies, they can best be described as "high-dollar crap".
Isn't that all movies though? I can't remember that last good film I saw.
TV shows are where it's at these days. To really get 'into' a story you need time, and 90-120 minutes just isn't enough. Netflix has plenty of good TV shows, so I expect the movie format to lose ground as people prefer to digest their screen entertainment at home over weeks and months rather a hour or two.
- Openbook will run out of money (yes, it costs money to run servers for hundreds of millions of users)
Like Wikipedia and Slashdot for example...
- Openbook will sell ads to fund themselves
Ads aren't an issue on their own, depending on how they are implemented. Other funding methods are also possible (a built-in marketplace with transaction fees for example)
- Openbook will realize it's even more profitable to collect data and sell it to the highest bidder
Depends who's running it. Americans seem to have a profit at all cost mentality, but not everyone is like that.
- Openbook will get a "think of the children" or "Uuh! Terrorism!" injunction from some court or governmental agency, and will share their data with them
which is fine if it comes with a court order, that is why we have courts.
- Openbook = Facebook
Like Facebook = MySpace and MySpace = Geocities? Or do you actually believe that we have reached peak social media and FB is it for the the rest of eternity?
Well I'm not a democrat but I'm for abortion, I like all forms of birth control. I think abortion is great.
Same here. Most of our problems are related to too many people, not enough environment, so it follows that all forms of birth control should be supported.
Every single Indian had won a mathematics olympiad in a place I had not heard of.
I'm a hiring manager and 80% plus of the resumes across my desk are Indians and 80% of them are worthless. They all have tonnes of degrees and certs etc but when most get to an interview they don't know shit.
Maybe it's only an IT thing, but the market is flooded with tonnes and tonnes of useless people of Indian descent, so it's hard not to feel racist.
I've said this time and time again: Facebook only exists because we're still using protocols and services from the steam age of computing. Usenet is super-dead and email is some awkward crutch.
You never said why they are bad? Usenet was almost perfect. It was interest focused, low bandwidth, threaded discussions, and an inconvenient enough UI that kept the user base among the enthusiast level. Usenet only got destroyed when Google allowed posting from the web so flooded all those groups with trolls and spam.
Email also still works well for what it is.
Social media is effectively just chat and newsfeed. There no reason this couldn't be achieved with standards based protocols and clients with some level of self controlled privacy
Both Russia and China have leaders currently consolidating power for the long term, at least partly because of the lack of crypto government can't get into.
Thou impious fool.
So if I've got you right, tyranny and despotism was invented at roughly the same time as widely used encryption about twenty years ago? Interesting theory....
it would be nice to see how "crazy" he would feel if his own phone was hacked, his personal bank accounts stolen, his medical history made public, his emails analyzed in a foreign county just because a backdoor was mandatory for mobile devices.
You might want to read the news. This stuff already happens every day so maybe encryption isn't the golden privacy goose you think it is...
public safety had to be balanced with privacy concerns
These are the SAME THING.
No they aren't.
He seems to live in a fantasy world where there are good guys and bad guys and magical thinking actually works.
Or a real world where modern technology is rendering traditional law enforcement practices useless. If you are interested in maintaining some sort of rule of law this should concern you too.
I find atheism to be equally irrational and presumptive
That probably says more about you than atheism. To butcher a quote, atheism is like not collecting stamps. there is nothing rational or irrational, nor presumptive or non-presumptive about not following a hobby just because other people do.
Food, shelter, energy tend to have a fixed cost per person per year. At the very minimum, there should be an income level (aka standard deduction) below which you pay little or no tax. Tax discretionary income, not income needed for necessities.
Not sure where you live but that is standard where I live. Your first $18000 income is tax free.
What I'd also like to see is a standard fixed fee for electricity, say $1/day per household up to a standard amount of usage (eg 20kwh/day). Along with food stamps and public housing you create a stable environment for those less fortunate to manage their cost of living.
That and any corporate tax breaks should be tied to either increasing local workforce numbers (direct hire - no outsourcing or immigrant labour), or wage increases for existing staff. Cutting taxes doesn't work if the companies invest that extra cash overseas
The point, which you missed, is that there was a time when anything like that probably originated in the United States. If it failed, the next potentially world changing idea would be coming along in prototype form a week later. The US used to be a hotbed of innovation and new takes on old ideas. Americans dared.
You mean immigrants to America. America was a hotbed of innovation not because of anything other than America was a relatively safe place for smart people to migrate to in turbulent times. Those days are mostly over but ironically the common man believes that the path back to greatness is by persecuting immigrants.
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China has done a decent job of cleaning up their act in recent years but their environmental standards are still a joke compared to the US.
Position is one thing, trajectory is another. And looking at current trajectory and policy direction, these positions will reverse within about 10 years.
He also seems to be instrumental in getting progress towards an actual peace treaty between North & South Korea.
What is it exactly that he is doing other than huffing and puffing? And what progress do you think is being made other than political gamesmanship that we've seen numerous times before?
But hey, let's focus on a hooker he may or may not have fucked years ago!
The US is a country of 320 Million people. It is possible some people can work on foreign relations, while at the same time some other people can investigate crime.
So, as a way-out-there social liberal who really dislikes Trump and has said bad things about him (and thought worse things), I feel like I owe it to somebody to say 'well done.'
.
I'm not American, but aren't the Executive branch, Legislative, and Judicial all independent? ie action by one is not necessarily because of the other?
This always confused me when every single thing gets credited (or blamed) to the President of the day, when the whole idea is that they are supposed to be separate.
Glass doesn't rust but over time environmental forces will turn glass back into its sandy components.
Which is fine if every single piece of glass left from the theoretical ancient civilisation was left out in the elements. But even dinosaurs found a way to get themselves buried in mud, tar, rock, ash, amber etc...
Having watched a few of the Netflix-original movies, they can best be described as "high-dollar crap".
Isn't that all movies though? I can't remember that last good film I saw.
TV shows are where it's at these days. To really get 'into' a story you need time, and 90-120 minutes just isn't enough. Netflix has plenty of good TV shows, so I expect the movie format to lose ground as people prefer to digest their screen entertainment at home over weeks and months rather a hour or two.
humans take 1-yard-long straight lines.
What is this 1867? How long is that in chains or furlongs?
- Openbook will run out of money (yes, it costs money to run servers for hundreds of millions of users)
Like Wikipedia and Slashdot for example...
- Openbook will sell ads to fund themselves
Ads aren't an issue on their own, depending on how they are implemented. Other funding methods are also possible (a built-in marketplace with transaction fees for example)
- Openbook will realize it's even more profitable to collect data and sell it to the highest bidder
Depends who's running it. Americans seem to have a profit at all cost mentality, but not everyone is like that.
- Openbook will get a "think of the children" or "Uuh! Terrorism!" injunction from some court or governmental agency, and will share their data with them
which is fine if it comes with a court order, that is why we have courts.
- Openbook = Facebook
Like Facebook = MySpace and MySpace = Geocities? Or do you actually believe that we have reached peak social media and FB is it for the the rest of eternity?
The Second Amendment is there to defend the First. If they fall, then the Fourth and the Fifth fall shortly thereafter. And then the dark times.
Yet there exist countries with neither that have higher standards of living than the USA. How does that fit in with you ideology?
Ex-Navy F-18 pilot.
Nothing teachers you about staying calm like landing on a pitching deck at night...in the rain and high winds.
Ok you win. Where can this thread possibly go from here...
That's how we pass crazy and extreme laws. "If it save just one kids life..."
I think you are confused with talk-back radio. Actual politicians who create actual laws tend to be a little more thorough than that.
"As a turbine engineer, I disagree." Vintage Slashdot, an *ACTUAL* expert in the field telling someone they are full of it.
It's why I keep coming back :)
Interesting that you didn't call him Obama's FCC chairman, because...
Interesting that you prefer to turn this into a political debate eh comrade?
Well I'm not a democrat but I'm for abortion, I like all forms of birth control. I think abortion is great.
Same here. Most of our problems are related to too many people, not enough environment, so it follows that all forms of birth control should be supported.
Every single Indian had won a mathematics olympiad in a place I had not heard of.
I'm a hiring manager and 80% plus of the resumes across my desk are Indians and 80% of them are worthless. They all have tonnes of degrees and certs etc but when most get to an interview they don't know shit.
Maybe it's only an IT thing, but the market is flooded with tonnes and tonnes of useless people of Indian descent, so it's hard not to feel racist.
We need to upgrade/replace email and Usenet.
I've said this time and time again: Facebook only exists because we're still using protocols and services from the steam age of computing. Usenet is super-dead and email is some awkward crutch.
You never said why they are bad? Usenet was almost perfect. It was interest focused, low bandwidth, threaded discussions, and an inconvenient enough UI that kept the user base among the enthusiast level. Usenet only got destroyed when Google allowed posting from the web so flooded all those groups with trolls and spam.
Email also still works well for what it is.
Social media is effectively just chat and newsfeed. There no reason this couldn't be achieved with standards based protocols and clients with some level of self controlled privacy
Both Russia and China have leaders currently consolidating power for the long term, at least partly because of the lack of crypto government can't get into.
Thou impious fool.
So if I've got you right, tyranny and despotism was invented at roughly the same time as widely used encryption about twenty years ago? Interesting theory....
it would be nice to see how "crazy" he would feel if his own phone was hacked, his personal bank accounts stolen, his medical history made public, his emails analyzed in a foreign county just because a backdoor was mandatory for mobile devices.
You might want to read the news. This stuff already happens every day so maybe encryption isn't the golden privacy goose you think it is...
public safety had to be balanced with privacy concerns
These are the SAME THING.
No they aren't.
He seems to live in a fantasy world where there are good guys and bad guys and magical thinking actually works.
Or a real world where modern technology is rendering traditional law enforcement practices useless. If you are interested in maintaining some sort of rule of law this should concern you too.
I find atheism to be equally irrational and presumptive
That probably says more about you than atheism. To butcher a quote, atheism is like not collecting stamps. there is nothing rational or irrational, nor presumptive or non-presumptive about not following a hobby just because other people do.
Food, shelter, energy tend to have a fixed cost per person per year. At the very minimum, there should be an income level (aka standard deduction) below which you pay little or no tax. Tax discretionary income, not income needed for necessities.
Not sure where you live but that is standard where I live. Your first $18000 income is tax free.
What I'd also like to see is a standard fixed fee for electricity, say $1/day per household up to a standard amount of usage (eg 20kwh/day). Along with food stamps and public housing you create a stable environment for those less fortunate to manage their cost of living.
That and any corporate tax breaks should be tied to either increasing local workforce numbers (direct hire - no outsourcing or immigrant labour), or wage increases for existing staff. Cutting taxes doesn't work if the companies invest that extra cash overseas
Again,
I'd argue that the speech is still free. What you're being prosecuted for are run-on effects that are a consequence of your speech.
Ok, if that makes you feel better, but the law says otherwise.
Hoping someone dies a painful death is not a threat, especially over the internet.
Depends how you word it, which nicely sums up why true, 100%, free speech isn't really a thing.
The point, which you missed, is that there was a time when anything like that probably originated in the United States. If it failed, the next potentially world changing idea would be coming along in prototype form a week later. The US used to be a hotbed of innovation and new takes on old ideas. Americans dared.
You mean immigrants to America. America was a hotbed of innovation not because of anything other than America was a relatively safe place for smart people to migrate to in turbulent times. Those days are mostly over but ironically the common man believes that the path back to greatness is by persecuting immigrants.
How can they live with such small dicks?
You're assuming we're not talking width
Well it's from a survey so it has to be true...
The whole delete FB is slacktavism at it's finest. Lots of gonna do this but zero actual change.