Very few people care about privacy they care about browsers working. Firefox makes it's money off the add revenue by selling default search. So it needs a _lot_ of users. A few hundred thousand privacy focused users won't keep the lights on for a project as large as a web browser.
but there was some pretentious schmuck who filled Lucas' head with the idea that the movies were anything more than an homage to old pulp serials from his childhood. He suggested all this extra meaning that just plain wasn't there and it all went to Lucas' head. We have him to thank for crap like mideclorians and Lucas' mistaken belief that he could cut it as a script writer.
half the fun of watching sports is yelling at the ref. It's not fun yelling at a machine. Hell, we don't need robots, we've had instant replay for decades. Bad ref calls are still a thing because we want them to be.
and I don't buy a lot that isn't food, shelter, healthcare or my kid's education. Now, we still manage to add sales tax on a lot of that (hooray for regressive taxation) but it's usually less and tax deductible on my federal return.
What I'm saying is, go for it. Tax me. It'd be nice if I wasn't looking to a third rate pizza joint to fix pot holes. But while you're at it how about some new _Progressive_ taxes? Our country's best years (economic growth wise) were when marginal rates were in the 90% for income over $22/mil/year (inflation adjusted). How about if I'm gonna pay my dues the uber rich do too. They benefit more than me anyway.
that they couldn't re-use code? If so they company's boned, but if not, well, Bethesda is basically run by a guy who got kicked out of Wallstreet for being too greedy. Let that one sink in. I like their games, but they're not exactly known as the most charitable company in the world. By all accounts they released New Vegas in a buggy and unfinished state so they could cheap Obsidian out of a Meta-Critic bonus...
if you're a player on the global stage. Not so sure about us regular chaps though. I mean, I'm unlikely to ever have the resources to run an international lawsuit to enforce patent law but I could see getting sued by a mega corp who does. It'd be a great way to keep any upstart competitors from popping up. Let's not forget how Hollywood was founded.
all the time. I start it up when I get in the car and it autoplays while I drive. It's entirely possible that's what she was doing. In that case it's no different than running the radio.
The question is did she also fiddle with the display on the car (like she was instructed to do so by Uber so that they didn't have to pay for a second driver/passenger to keep track of interesting driving events for the engineers to review). That'll come up in a court case.
But here's a much, much better question, why they _hell_ is this information being released to the public? At this point it should be part of a criminal case, and congrats, you just tainted every jury pool in the country. On the plus side this makes Uber look good, so I guess I just answered my question...
is Americans really, really (and I mean really) hate paying for anything that benefits somebody else. You have it crammed into your skull from day 1 that if you're doing that then you're a sucker. A fool. A "cuck". Whatever. It's a narrative pushed by our ruling class so they can avoid paying for the commons and it's worked for hundreds of years...
they're at the top of the game. They couldn't care less if they got fired. They probably spend 4 hours a week clearing through emails from headhunters. There aren't a lot of workers in this country that have any leverage (hence the reason wages keep going down) but there are a few.
there's tons of money in defense contracting (most of it for the owners, but I digress). They didn't sign on for that. This isn't a 'slippery slope' argument. It logically stands to reason that one successful contract leads to another. This is google engineers taking a stand now before the company they work for becomes the next Raytheon making missiles we sell to the Saudis that wind up hitting Doctors Without Boarders sites in Yemen. If you're going to take such a stand the time to do it is early on before Google has so much money coming in that they can afford to fire you and all your friends.
or any of the crappy chain stores. They've got them there. Or on second thought don't. If I wanted to pay $20 for a frozen and reheated meal and a cheap drink I'd go to McDonalds or Jack In the Box.
Rumsfled is a right wing corporate shill trying to keep wages low for his masters. Why would I spend even $1/hr if I didn't have to?
People aren't just unwilling to work for less, they're unable. They can't function as human beings. They lose their apartments, can't feed their kids, can't get to work, etc. That works great when they're being treated like slaves because there's an over abundance of labor due to automation & productivity increases and people have been convinced to stab each other in the back rather than redistribute the wealth generated by the machines.
Tech provides no solution to the problem of automation. It _is_ the problem of automation. We need new social structures to deal with tech that renders people useless. Otherwise we'll have the same bloody problems we had the last time we had industrial revolutions: Mass Unemployment for 80-100 years while we wait for new tech to create entire new fields of work and wars, famine and social unrest. All of it completely preventable.
in the car. If nothing else it decreases the odds. They'd both have to be watching Hulu to mess up. Safety is about reducing risk, not eliminating it. Also, Uber still disabled a ton of safety features they shouldn't have so they could get better data.
wages aren't climbing but we're at full employment and 40% of Americans can't come up with $400 bucks (down from 60% a few years ago).
I keep saying this but the best way to fight tyranny is with a robust middle class. People ignore injustice when they're too busy trying to keep their heads above water. It's been that way for thousands of years of recorded history. Nothing's changed except we have the capacity to take care of everybody if we choose.
this kind of small scale corruption is usually the school board. There was tons of it in the small city I lived in. The school admins don't have any power, they just do what the board tells them.
had lots of AOL friends who had stock stolen from them in the 90s when the Time Warner buyout happened. A judge just gave them the middle finger. If the stock has monetary value you pay taxes on it. Hell, if I trade chickens for corn that gets taxed. Why not this?
by leaps and bounds. The Switch and XBox are playing catch up so it's too their advantage right now to support cross play. If the position was reversed either way they'd be the ones blocking cross play while the other two allowed it.
I know plenty of folks who ran small businesses and the tax and regulation paper work weren't bad at all. You do want to hire a lawyer for your incorporation but that's not because the gov't makes it hard but because if you screw it up and get sued by a private person/company and you're paperwork is off they can pierce the corporate veil and take your stuff.
Other than that and the most odious regulation I remember seeing a small business suffer through was having to throw electronic waste in the right pile at the dump when I worked for a small computer shop.
I've got to wonder why the government didn't act sooner? Is this just being blown out of proportion or is Britain's government breaking down in the wake of Brexit? I mean, if you put people who don't trust government in charge of government you've gotta kind of expect these sorts of things...
seem less like an attempt to build a real business and more like an attempt to build something with enough patents and/or engineers for a buyout. I can't say I blame them. Thanks to our weakly enforced anti-trust law if you don't get bought out the big guys can just bury you.
otherwise sooner or later a strongman is going to come along, organize them and give them guns. You, being one of the educated members of the merchant class will be the first person they're fury is turned on. This pattern has repeated itself for thousands of years of recorded history. You'd think we'd bloody damn well have figured it out by now. You don't fight tyranny with more tyranny. You fight it with civilization. Foreign aid pays for itself with fewer wars. It's cheaper to drop food than bombs.
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Very few people care about privacy they care about browsers working. Firefox makes it's money off the add revenue by selling default search. So it needs a _lot_ of users. A few hundred thousand privacy focused users won't keep the lights on for a project as large as a web browser.
like the US does, so a lot of good basic research is getting done over there. Eventually it makes it's way over the pond.
but there was some pretentious schmuck who filled Lucas' head with the idea that the movies were anything more than an homage to old pulp serials from his childhood. He suggested all this extra meaning that just plain wasn't there and it all went to Lucas' head. We have him to thank for crap like mideclorians and Lucas' mistaken belief that he could cut it as a script writer.
half the fun of watching sports is yelling at the ref. It's not fun yelling at a machine. Hell, we don't need robots, we've had instant replay for decades. Bad ref calls are still a thing because we want them to be.
and I don't buy a lot that isn't food, shelter, healthcare or my kid's education. Now, we still manage to add sales tax on a lot of that (hooray for regressive taxation) but it's usually less and tax deductible on my federal return.
What I'm saying is, go for it. Tax me. It'd be nice if I wasn't looking to a third rate pizza joint to fix pot holes. But while you're at it how about some new _Progressive_ taxes? Our country's best years (economic growth wise) were when marginal rates were in the 90% for income over $22/mil/year (inflation adjusted). How about if I'm gonna pay my dues the uber rich do too. They benefit more than me anyway.
that they couldn't re-use code? If so they company's boned, but if not, well, Bethesda is basically run by a guy who got kicked out of Wallstreet for being too greedy. Let that one sink in. I like their games, but they're not exactly known as the most charitable company in the world. By all accounts they released New Vegas in a buggy and unfinished state so they could cheap Obsidian out of a Meta-Critic bonus...
if you're a player on the global stage. Not so sure about us regular chaps though. I mean, I'm unlikely to ever have the resources to run an international lawsuit to enforce patent law but I could see getting sued by a mega corp who does. It'd be a great way to keep any upstart competitors from popping up. Let's not forget how Hollywood was founded.
all the time. I start it up when I get in the car and it autoplays while I drive. It's entirely possible that's what she was doing. In that case it's no different than running the radio.
The question is did she also fiddle with the display on the car (like she was instructed to do so by Uber so that they didn't have to pay for a second driver/passenger to keep track of interesting driving events for the engineers to review). That'll come up in a court case.
But here's a much, much better question, why they _hell_ is this information being released to the public? At this point it should be part of a criminal case, and congrats, you just tainted every jury pool in the country. On the plus side this makes Uber look good, so I guess I just answered my question...
is Americans really, really (and I mean really) hate paying for anything that benefits somebody else. You have it crammed into your skull from day 1 that if you're doing that then you're a sucker. A fool. A "cuck". Whatever. It's a narrative pushed by our ruling class so they can avoid paying for the commons and it's worked for hundreds of years...
they're at the top of the game. They couldn't care less if they got fired. They probably spend 4 hours a week clearing through emails from headhunters. There aren't a lot of workers in this country that have any leverage (hence the reason wages keep going down) but there are a few.
there's tons of money in defense contracting (most of it for the owners, but I digress). They didn't sign on for that. This isn't a 'slippery slope' argument. It logically stands to reason that one successful contract leads to another. This is google engineers taking a stand now before the company they work for becomes the next Raytheon making missiles we sell to the Saudis that wind up hitting Doctors Without Boarders sites in Yemen. If you're going to take such a stand the time to do it is early on before Google has so much money coming in that they can afford to fire you and all your friends.
Because you're reminding me of this. And Honey, I just want to give everybody health care.
As for Small Donations and Membership fees, does this count as a "small donation"? Because I think we're using different terms.
or any of the crappy chain stores. They've got them there. Or on second thought don't. If I wanted to pay $20 for a frozen and reheated meal and a cheap drink I'd go to McDonalds or Jack In the Box.
Rumsfled is a right wing corporate shill trying to keep wages low for his masters. Why would I spend even $1/hr if I didn't have to?
People aren't just unwilling to work for less, they're unable. They can't function as human beings. They lose their apartments, can't feed their kids, can't get to work, etc. That works great when they're being treated like slaves because there's an over abundance of labor due to automation & productivity increases and people have been convinced to stab each other in the back rather than redistribute the wealth generated by the machines.
Tech provides no solution to the problem of automation. It _is_ the problem of automation. We need new social structures to deal with tech that renders people useless. Otherwise we'll have the same bloody problems we had the last time we had industrial revolutions: Mass Unemployment for 80-100 years while we wait for new tech to create entire new fields of work and wars, famine and social unrest. All of it completely preventable.
when I worked at a call center.
in the car. If nothing else it decreases the odds. They'd both have to be watching Hulu to mess up. Safety is about reducing risk, not eliminating it. Also, Uber still disabled a ton of safety features they shouldn't have so they could get better data.
if it can run Crysis?
wages aren't climbing but we're at full employment and 40% of Americans can't come up with $400 bucks (down from 60% a few years ago).
I keep saying this but the best way to fight tyranny is with a robust middle class. People ignore injustice when they're too busy trying to keep their heads above water. It's been that way for thousands of years of recorded history. Nothing's changed except we have the capacity to take care of everybody if we choose.
this kind of small scale corruption is usually the school board. There was tons of it in the small city I lived in. The school admins don't have any power, they just do what the board tells them.
had lots of AOL friends who had stock stolen from them in the 90s when the Time Warner buyout happened. A judge just gave them the middle finger. If the stock has monetary value you pay taxes on it. Hell, if I trade chickens for corn that gets taxed. Why not this?
by leaps and bounds. The Switch and XBox are playing catch up so it's too their advantage right now to support cross play. If the position was reversed either way they'd be the ones blocking cross play while the other two allowed it.
I know plenty of folks who ran small businesses and the tax and regulation paper work weren't bad at all. You do want to hire a lawyer for your incorporation but that's not because the gov't makes it hard but because if you screw it up and get sued by a private person/company and you're paperwork is off they can pierce the corporate veil and take your stuff.
Other than that and the most odious regulation I remember seeing a small business suffer through was having to throw electronic waste in the right pile at the dump when I worked for a small computer shop.
I've got to wonder why the government didn't act sooner? Is this just being blown out of proportion or is Britain's government breaking down in the wake of Brexit? I mean, if you put people who don't trust government in charge of government you've gotta kind of expect these sorts of things...
seem less like an attempt to build a real business and more like an attempt to build something with enough patents and/or engineers for a buyout. I can't say I blame them. Thanks to our weakly enforced anti-trust law if you don't get bought out the big guys can just bury you.
otherwise sooner or later a strongman is going to come along, organize them and give them guns. You, being one of the educated members of the merchant class will be the first person they're fury is turned on. This pattern has repeated itself for thousands of years of recorded history. You'd think we'd bloody damn well have figured it out by now. You don't fight tyranny with more tyranny. You fight it with civilization. Foreign aid pays for itself with fewer wars. It's cheaper to drop food than bombs.