When a few people here and there are living paycheck to paycheck - sure, you can claim that's a "personal responsibility" problem.
When 60% of the population of a once-prosperous nation are living paycheck to paycheck - that's public policy. Trying to pull your "personal responsibility" blame game just makes you look like a self-righteous bootlicker.
The highest quality code I've seen (at work) was written by an old whitebeard who had dropped out while studying English literature, then learned programming on the job back in the days of punchcards.
Sooooooo much crapflooding in the comments here. Maybe Faceboot's troll army don't want us to remember the old, free internet. Back when there were lots of interesting sites, rather than the homogeneous corporate garbage "content" they shovel at us today.
Hey, just because Google is now openly evil, doesn't mean ALL Googledouches are necessarily in favor of censorship. Maybe shillden means what he says. If all we can agree on is freedom of speech - then let agree on freedom of speech. That's a good start.
Anyone else remember when Google used to have products that were better than the competition?
When Gmail was new it was massively superior to all contemporary webmail systems. Whereas the new "Fisher Price Gmail" is a design disaster. Gmail's spam filter absolutely refuses to filter certain major spammers - presumably because they paid Goog to be above the law. Quality of Google's search results has been declining for years. Android security has always been a bad joke, by design.
Maps is still awesome - so I'm waiting for Google to ruin that one next.
Seriously, Big Brother Google, what's up? Did you fire all your talented engineers & designers for being insufficiently authoritarian? Or did they just Walk Away once you publicly decided to be evil?
The maximal failure mode - simultaneous, catastrophic loss of control - on remote-driven vehicles is really bad. The lesser failure modes - hijacking, sitting idle due to loss of connectivity , crashes due to sensor failure, etc etc - aren't too fun either.
Presumably the cost of insurance will reflect the insured risk and therefore be quite steep.
Our masters artificially restrict the housing supply in major cities, driving up the price of existing units. Likewise our masters import as much cheap labor as possible, in order to drive down wages.
There are actually three issues at play here. The most serious issue is the mass surveillance on which these companies base their business model. That, as you said, should be outright banned. It's a direct threat to democracy and the American way of life.
Then there is the economic issue of how Google abuses their control of Android to stifle competition. This is basically an economic issue - it's bad for the economy when innovation is either killed off or swallowed up by a megacorp. For this reason Google should be broken up - Android, at very least, should bea separate company.
There is also the issue of the big companies buying up all their competitors. This does warrant anti-trust action. But it's not clear that they ought to be broken up, not to that extent. Perhaps forced to divest some of their subsidiaries and controls placed on new acquisitions.
Lastly there is the issue of corporate censorship, arbitrary & capricious deplatforming, search results bias, election interference, and similar issues related to freedom of speech. These are very serious problems, but they are not particularly related to anti-trust law. The obvious right answer is that the internet's public square should not be censored, neither by the state nor by corporations the state charters. But the devil is in the details. How do we draw the line between "random website" and "internet equivalent of the town square"?
Remember the golden age of internet music? The early BitTorrent era...
When I was a kid my family was poor. No money to squander on wildly overpriced luxuries like CDs. So I grew up without music. Indeed, at that time in my hometown, music knowledge was the exclusive privilege of a handful of rich kids who could afford to buy hundreds & hundreds of albums.
Then, for a few brief beautiful years when I was in school, FREEDOM broke out. Suddenly all the music in the whole world was available to share, even for us poor kids. A world of possibilities opened up - people started enjoying culture that formerly had been forbidden to us by our class reality.
Then the evil empire struck back. They attacked with million dollar lawyers, destroying the noble developers of sharing software. They attacked sharing users with Sandvine, bots, viruses, and every technological dirty trick in the book. A dishonorable cause fighting with dishonorable tactics.
And so the culture monopolists defeated sharing. FREEDOM was crushed, leaving only scattered pockets of resistance - and for the masses, a longing memory of better days. The level mass culture declined. Once again the rich enjoyed culture while the poor were left with the dregs.
Oh my brothers, remember! Remember sharing. Remember access to culture for everyone. Remember FREEDOM! Remember, and resist cultural imperialism wherever you can.
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leftist = rightist = centrist = authoritarian financialist
When a few people here and there are living paycheck to paycheck - sure, you can claim that's a "personal responsibility" problem.
When 60% of the population of a once-prosperous nation are living paycheck to paycheck - that's public policy. Trying to pull your "personal responsibility" blame game just makes you look like a self-righteous bootlicker.
Yup. Obvious fake news from well-known shills for the financial oligarchy.
The highest quality code I've seen (at work) was written by an old whitebeard who had dropped out while studying English literature, then learned programming on the job back in the days of punchcards.
Sooooooo much crapflooding in the comments here. Maybe Faceboot's troll army don't want us to remember the old, free internet. Back when there were lots of interesting sites, rather than the homogeneous corporate garbage "content" they shovel at us today.
But it's Agile(tm)!
DuckDuckGo is a well-known honeypot, operated by USIC. Their entire claim of privacy is based on "just trust us!!"
Hey, just because Google is now openly evil, doesn't mean ALL Googledouches are necessarily in favor of censorship. Maybe shillden means what he says. If all we can agree on is freedom of speech - then let agree on freedom of speech. That's a good start.
"the worst president ever known to mankind"
Why do you hate the American working class?
OF COURSE everything you say on Faceboot Messenger is snooped. You have to be pretty credulous to believe otherwise.
This will be immensely useful when our masters begin using their robot army to genocide the global working class.
Here's an honest question for all the CBS shills in the audience: why do you hate your fans so much?
Ever wonder how many back doors were buried down in the spaghetti?
"Can't wait for all the banking systems to melt down a few years later"
That actually sounds like a pretty cool side effect!
Anyone else remember when Google used to have products that were better than the competition?
When Gmail was new it was massively superior to all contemporary webmail systems. Whereas the new "Fisher Price Gmail" is a design disaster. Gmail's spam filter absolutely refuses to filter certain major spammers - presumably because they paid Goog to be above the law. Quality of Google's search results has been declining for years. Android security has always been a bad joke, by design.
Maps is still awesome - so I'm waiting for Google to ruin that one next.
Seriously, Big Brother Google, what's up? Did you fire all your talented engineers & designers for being insufficiently authoritarian? Or did they just Walk Away once you publicly decided to be evil?
"the assumption presumption of innocence actually exists in places outside the courtroom"
Yeah - we KNOW it doesn't exist inside the courtroom.
The maximal failure mode - simultaneous, catastrophic loss of control - on remote-driven vehicles is really bad. The lesser failure modes - hijacking, sitting idle due to loss of connectivity , crashes due to sensor failure, etc etc - aren't too fun either.
Presumably the cost of insurance will reflect the insured risk and therefore be quite steep.
Yet another case of venture capital ruining everything it touches.
Our masters artificially restrict the housing supply in major cities, driving up the price of existing units. Likewise our masters import as much cheap labor as possible, in order to drive down wages.
"in the U.S. we have a Jury based judicial system"
Whoa-ho-ho hahahahahahahahahahahaha wee-hee hahahahahahahahahahahaha! Oh, that's rich! Tell me another one, Ernie, tell me another one!
Here here!
There are actually three issues at play here. The most serious issue is the mass surveillance on which these companies base their business model. That, as you said, should be outright banned. It's a direct threat to democracy and the American way of life.
Then there is the economic issue of how Google abuses their control of Android to stifle competition. This is basically an economic issue - it's bad for the economy when innovation is either killed off or swallowed up by a megacorp. For this reason Google should be broken up - Android, at very least, should bea separate company.
There is also the issue of the big companies buying up all their competitors. This does warrant anti-trust action. But it's not clear that they ought to be broken up, not to that extent. Perhaps forced to divest some of their subsidiaries and controls placed on new acquisitions.
Lastly there is the issue of corporate censorship, arbitrary & capricious deplatforming, search results bias, election interference, and similar issues related to freedom of speech. These are very serious problems, but they are not particularly related to anti-trust law. The obvious right answer is that the internet's public square should not be censored, neither by the state nor by corporations the state charters. But the devil is in the details. How do we draw the line between "random website" and "internet equivalent of the town square"?
It is fully "lawful". And it is spying. And it is 100% un-American.
We have become the Soviet Union.
Boeing and Lockheed-Martin are PART OF the government. It's pure legal fiction that says they're "private" companies.
Remember the golden age of internet music? The early BitTorrent era...
When I was a kid my family was poor. No money to squander on wildly overpriced luxuries like CDs. So I grew up without music. Indeed, at that time in my hometown, music knowledge was the exclusive privilege of a handful of rich kids who could afford to buy hundreds & hundreds of albums.
Then, for a few brief beautiful years when I was in school, FREEDOM broke out. Suddenly all the music in the whole world was available to share, even for us poor kids. A world of possibilities opened up - people started enjoying culture that formerly had been forbidden to us by our class reality.
Then the evil empire struck back. They attacked with million dollar lawyers, destroying the noble developers of sharing software. They attacked sharing users with Sandvine, bots, viruses, and every technological dirty trick in the book. A dishonorable cause fighting with dishonorable tactics.
And so the culture monopolists defeated sharing. FREEDOM was crushed, leaving only scattered pockets of resistance - and for the masses, a longing memory of better days. The level mass culture declined. Once again the rich enjoyed culture while the poor were left with the dregs.
Oh my brothers, remember! Remember sharing. Remember access to culture for everyone. Remember FREEDOM! Remember, and resist cultural imperialism wherever you can.
Oh my brother, can you share some of what you're smoking? That must be some goooooood shit!