The European law's pretty awful. It hurts small companies while leaving a mass of loopholes for the big guys to squirm through. Several games and software products shut down because they weren't set up to be able to delete all the information for a user on a moment's notice and didn't want to risk the crazy fines (which don't scale).
I just don't understand why we protect them with criminal liability. I guess the argument could be made they're property and it's theft. But you're not depriving someone of something physical. We do prosecute copyright though, but just because we do doesn't mean we should. Any more than we should prosecute smoking Pot.
your primary vote has enormous power because there's so few voters. But a side effect of this is that it's easy to sway the vote by targeting the small number of voters who show up.
will do more to weed people out than anything else. I'm paying $11k/yr for the 1st 2 and $16/k for the last two for my kid. If her grade were poor I could risk that. She'd be off to a life in Walmart.
but those calculations would have factored into Uber's pay offering too. If Uber knows their employees get a tax advantage then they're smart enough to know they can offer less pay with the understanding that the lower pay gets made up in the backend when the employee files for taxes. In America we see this with Walmart paying their employees so little they qualify for food stamps (and in America if you qualify for food stamps you _really_ need them, we're kinda petty about who qualifies).
For some reason they never seem to effect Uber. They've consistently won despite all evidence. They're the Donald Trump of companies and in more ways than one.
winning. I hear they at least tried to block it, but this is what you get with the best people. Well, that and 30-40 years of the judiciary being staffed by right wingers. Hell, Obama himself was pretty right wing in most respects. He'd be a Republican if Clinton hadn't shifted the Overton window so far to the right.
They're a taxi service skirting labor laws. Nothing about them has anything to do with sharing. It bothers me to see the way mega corps can so easily shape are narratives. Are we that dense?
you wouldn't call it histrionic. One of the reasons everybody thought Trump would lose is his running mate is a bonefide Kool-Aid drinker. Seriously, look up some eps of his old radio show. That guys nuts, and he's the second most powerful man on earth right now.
most of the people reading this will still be alive then. For the older set who actually have the time an inclination to vote now's the time to do something about it. If the younger lot can't work your retirement's going to collapse with the rest of the economy. If you let that happen then you won't even be left with dog food.
Can we maybe talk about how Trump's administration is moving to end protections for pre-existing conditions? That's kinda big news if you're a human being with a body.
Internet has too high a mark up and it's too expensive to get started. I've read Comcast pays as little as $9/mo to keep a customer going on high speed and charges $70. They can do that because they were basically handed the infrastructure for free and get ongoing subsidies and tax cuts to pay for it. Politically you're not going to remove those. They'll just buy out the politicians. Money is speech after all.
Anyone who tries to compete with Comcast will get shoot down when Comcast drops their pants. We saw this with Google Fiber. Google was profitably selling fiber for $100/mo so the local ISPs cut their prices and upped their speed. Google Fiber was squeezed out and after that the prices shot up again.
Face it, you're not going to fix this with the free market. There's lot and lots of reasons for that and I'm not going to type them all out, but it's time for actual regulation. And that means electing people that will implement the laws. I keep hearing that if only we had a law instead of the FCC, but we _have_ a law. It's common carrier and it was ruled effective. It doesn't do any good to have laws if you don't elect people to enforce them.
there's plenty of room to improve video editing, film production, computer programming, scientific research and even business finance. AMD's doing a brisk business with 16 and 32 core desktop processors. I don't see anything close to that on offer from Apple.
and on/. in 2018 I shouldn't have to explain that. It's a false dichotomy and you can't be dense enough to really believe that. You're being disingenuous.
If I have to put a sound bite to it though: We didn't pay Mercedes billions in cash subsidies and tax breaks to give cars away. If we did I'd be pretty pissed I couldn't walk into a dealership and get my free car.
show up to your primary. There's tons of pro-consumer candidates. There's an entire party of them trying to take the Democrats over from within called 'Justice Democrats'. They keep losing in the big primaries because folks vote for the pro-corporate establishment candidate.
Bernie Sanders does. Liz Warren Does. Al Franklin did until the Dems kicked him to the curb over a minor scandal (mostly so that Kamala Harris could clear him from the 2020 presidential field, thanks Kamala).
except maybe in the ultra high end where you're paying so you can tell the girl you're dating there's a real chef. Heck, we've already replaced most Sports & Finance writers with algorithms.
I keep saying this, but we're heading for another industry revolution, and there was 70 years of unemployment, poverty, social strife and wars after the last one that didn't end until new tech caught up with new jobs. It's easy to destroy something, it's harder to create. Jobs are the same way.
we know the ISPs are jerking us around. We know they've got plenty of bandwidth since they'll cheerfully sell it to you for a premium. We also know they're sitting on billions of dollars of cash; much of which was given to them as tax cuts and subsidies for the express purpose of building out their network so they didn't have to do crap like bandwidth caps. This is/., a tech community, so we all know these as facts because half of us our network engineers and the other half are programmers and scientists of one kind or another
Why the heck don't we just elect the kinds of politicians who will force Comcast to do what we want them to do? We never do. Every year we go to the polls and elect the same batch of anti-consumer clowns. At a certain point we're being complicit in the whole thing.
I said you were ignoring a blindingly obvious point. I didn't say why you were ignoring it. There's probably no converting you. You're either a professional troll or someone like me: completely beaten into the ground by life and lashing out. I lash out from the left with hope for the future. You're doing it from the right with hope that it all burns. I can't convert you, you're too far gone. What I can do is keep your kind from doing any more harm.
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The European law's pretty awful. It hurts small companies while leaving a mass of loopholes for the big guys to squirm through. Several games and software products shut down because they weren't set up to be able to delete all the information for a user on a moment's notice and didn't want to risk the crazy fines (which don't scale).
I just don't understand why we protect them with criminal liability. I guess the argument could be made they're property and it's theft. But you're not depriving someone of something physical. We do prosecute copyright though, but just because we do doesn't mean we should. Any more than we should prosecute smoking Pot.
that SAT scores have no bearing on graduation rates.
it seems like it should be a contract dispute, not a federal crime. Then again it does hurt rich people...
your primary vote has enormous power because there's so few voters. But a side effect of this is that it's easy to sway the vote by targeting the small number of voters who show up.
will do more to weed people out than anything else. I'm paying $11k/yr for the 1st 2 and $16/k for the last two for my kid. If her grade were poor I could risk that. She'd be off to a life in Walmart.
but those calculations would have factored into Uber's pay offering too. If Uber knows their employees get a tax advantage then they're smart enough to know they can offer less pay with the understanding that the lower pay gets made up in the backend when the employee files for taxes. In America we see this with Walmart paying their employees so little they qualify for food stamps (and in America if you qualify for food stamps you _really_ need them, we're kinda petty about who qualifies).
For some reason they never seem to effect Uber. They've consistently won despite all evidence. They're the Donald Trump of companies and in more ways than one.
winning. I hear they at least tried to block it, but this is what you get with the best people. Well, that and 30-40 years of the judiciary being staffed by right wingers. Hell, Obama himself was pretty right wing in most respects. He'd be a Republican if Clinton hadn't shifted the Overton window so far to the right.
They're a taxi service skirting labor laws. Nothing about them has anything to do with sharing. It bothers me to see the way mega corps can so easily shape are narratives. Are we that dense?
you wouldn't call it histrionic. One of the reasons everybody thought Trump would lose is his running mate is a bonefide Kool-Aid drinker. Seriously, look up some eps of his old radio show. That guys nuts, and he's the second most powerful man on earth right now.
most of the people reading this will still be alive then. For the older set who actually have the time an inclination to vote now's the time to do something about it. If the younger lot can't work your retirement's going to collapse with the rest of the economy. If you let that happen then you won't even be left with dog food.
not from the Left. The right wing is way, way better at it. They rely heavily on authoritarianism, which naturally lends itself to violence.
to her credit she didn't throw him under the bus for it.
Who the hell _cares_?
Can we maybe talk about how Trump's administration is moving to end protections for pre-existing conditions? That's kinda big news if you're a human being with a body.
they're getting ready to implement harsh bandwidth caps. They want you used to consuming large amounts of bandwidth when they do.
Internet has too high a mark up and it's too expensive to get started. I've read Comcast pays as little as $9/mo to keep a customer going on high speed and charges $70. They can do that because they were basically handed the infrastructure for free and get ongoing subsidies and tax cuts to pay for it. Politically you're not going to remove those. They'll just buy out the politicians. Money is speech after all.
Anyone who tries to compete with Comcast will get shoot down when Comcast drops their pants. We saw this with Google Fiber. Google was profitably selling fiber for $100/mo so the local ISPs cut their prices and upped their speed. Google Fiber was squeezed out and after that the prices shot up again.
Face it, you're not going to fix this with the free market. There's lot and lots of reasons for that and I'm not going to type them all out, but it's time for actual regulation. And that means electing people that will implement the laws. I keep hearing that if only we had a law instead of the FCC, but we _have_ a law. It's common carrier and it was ruled effective. It doesn't do any good to have laws if you don't elect people to enforce them.
there's plenty of room to improve video editing, film production, computer programming, scientific research and even business finance. AMD's doing a brisk business with 16 and 32 core desktop processors. I don't see anything close to that on offer from Apple.
at the self checkout lanes. You can still pay with cash.
and on /. in 2018 I shouldn't have to explain that. It's a false dichotomy and you can't be dense enough to really believe that. You're being disingenuous.
If I have to put a sound bite to it though: We didn't pay Mercedes billions in cash subsidies and tax breaks to give cars away. If we did I'd be pretty pissed I couldn't walk into a dealership and get my free car.
show up to your primary. There's tons of pro-consumer candidates. There's an entire party of them trying to take the Democrats over from within called 'Justice Democrats'. They keep losing in the big primaries because folks vote for the pro-corporate establishment candidate.
Bernie Sanders does. Liz Warren Does. Al Franklin did until the Dems kicked him to the curb over a minor scandal (mostly so that Kamala Harris could clear him from the 2020 presidential field, thanks Kamala).
except maybe in the ultra high end where you're paying so you can tell the girl you're dating there's a real chef. Heck, we've already replaced most Sports & Finance writers with algorithms.
I keep saying this, but we're heading for another industry revolution, and there was 70 years of unemployment, poverty, social strife and wars after the last one that didn't end until new tech caught up with new jobs. It's easy to destroy something, it's harder to create. Jobs are the same way.
we know the ISPs are jerking us around. We know they've got plenty of bandwidth since they'll cheerfully sell it to you for a premium. We also know they're sitting on billions of dollars of cash; much of which was given to them as tax cuts and subsidies for the express purpose of building out their network so they didn't have to do crap like bandwidth caps. This is /., a tech community, so we all know these as facts because half of us our network engineers and the other half are programmers and scientists of one kind or another
Why the heck don't we just elect the kinds of politicians who will force Comcast to do what we want them to do? We never do. Every year we go to the polls and elect the same batch of anti-consumer clowns. At a certain point we're being complicit in the whole thing.
I said you were ignoring a blindingly obvious point. I didn't say why you were ignoring it. There's probably no converting you. You're either a professional troll or someone like me: completely beaten into the ground by life and lashing out. I lash out from the left with hope for the future. You're doing it from the right with hope that it all burns. I can't convert you, you're too far gone. What I can do is keep your kind from doing any more harm.