student loans are structured the way they are because banks lobbied for it. This way they could get huge interest payments with zero risk while defunding colleges (and reaping the tax benefits from doing so).
You were close, but your explanation wasn't nearly cynical enough. Like a mean spirited Ocam's razor.
if we could stop the 8 some odd wars we're fighting. We blow 600 billion a year more or less protecting our oil interests. But sad to say folks like war. I remember a story where Trump got a momentary bump in the polls from droping a $500k bomb in Afghanistan. And lots of folks want to go war with Korea and/or Iran. We'd need a huge change in how people think and vote to get around that. It's just frustrating, since we could tell OPEC to sod off if we'd just spend the money on our infrastructure.
I can side load all I want on my Android. What I can't do is use google's apps without their permission. Moreover vendors don't get to sell a phone with google apps without their permission; which so far seems to be meeting minimum standards for compatibility to prevent fragmentation.
Hell, if you RTFA google left a back door in. It's a pain in the ass to use (You have to get your Android Id) but it's there. And if you're an enthusiast running your own roms it's not a big deal. It's just not something that a company selling an Android phone can expect their customers to do.
This has nothing to do with walling the garden. This has to do with protecting the Android brand.
Remember the jump from the SNES/Genesis to Playstation/Saturn? How about the first time you saw a Dreamcast game? Those were big leaps. But PS2 to PS3? If you'd been paying PC games you'd seen stuff on par with PS3. And PS3 to 4 was hardly a leap at all.
The trouble is modern graphics have gotten _hard_ to make. Pixel shaders are a bitch. They're too labor intensive. What's needed is something that lets you do great graphics with less man hours and fewer bugs. If ray tracing isn't gonna do that then it might as well be PC's answer to 3D TVs. Especially if it's only kicking out 30 FPS.
people's lives. Facebook is so big it's practically a public utility at this point. The US has something like 214 million users. That's more than half the population. I doubt you can find a functioning adult who doesn't have an account.
Facebook's business model here is selling your data to anyone who'll pay so they can manipulate you into doing things you otherwise wouldn't want to do. These aren't old school marketing pitches where they tell you why the product/candidate/proposition is so great. These are fine targeted propaganda campaigns where use your prejudices and peccadilloes to push your buttons.
I'm all for putting a stop to competition in that fast growing field.
meanwhile wages have been in decline. You're summer job at even twice minimum wage assuming 50 hours/week @ 15/hr for 4 months (total vacation time, assuming you manage to work spring break and holidays + 2 +1/2 months summer) is $12k/yr. We'll pretend you don't pay taxes on that. Congrats, you just barely covered your tuition. Also, hope you kept your GPA up, because anything
So no, you're not going to work your way through college. Not unless you're one of those freaks who doesn't need sleep or does math while sleeping. That means there are lots and lots of new loans out there for you to live off of (or try to) while desperately trying to claw back the American Dream. Hence the reason you've got stuff like this happening.
The thing that pisses me off is that all of this was predicted by my college's newspaper back in the 90s when the federal funding started to be cut by that asshat Clinton & his right wing congress. Now I've got a kid in college and I spend every dime I get on school for her and we're still gonna end up $50k in debt for a 4 year degree.
if you told me 1 in 5 college students knew what crypto currency was I'd be skeptical. Telling me 1 in 5 are using student loans to gamble on it is just ridiculous.
it's just politics & racism. It started in the 30s when the guy that ran prohibition enforcement didn't want to lose his position when 18th amendment got repealed. He used racism to get folks behind the idea. Then Nixon expanded it so he could crack down on his political enemies.
What's scary is that even with all this history known and available we still can't get drugs legalized. That's not just because of corruption. At best only 65% support legalizing weed (and you can forget about legalizing the hard stuff and treating it as a medical condition).
and a Hilary supporter. She's everything the working class voted against with Trump. She'll lose. Star power isn't enough. People want a populist. They want somebody who'll stand up for them. Trump may not be a populist, but he plays one on TV.
warnings usually come with the possibility of consequences. I don't see any forthcoming. The scandal's already blown over with little or not chance of government regulation. The hit they took to stock will evaporate once Walstreet realizes nobody's gonna stop this gravy train.
The only thing of material consequence that might come out of this is that Trump might lose his data analytics. If he doesn't rebuild them (and he might not, he's none too bright and he's fired, pissed off or double crossed all the people who got him elected) then it'll hurt him in 2020.
That said, so far it looks like the Dems are going to run another right of center Hilary style candidate and if that happens I don't think it'll matter.
as has been pointed out elsewhere on this thread. They are in no way puritanical. Rather they're concerned about the financial implications of google drive being used to swap porn.
outside of a few radical feminazis nobody on the left listens to Porn made and consumed between consenting adults is accepted and allowed for by the left. The #MeToo movement has nothing to do with attacking porn, it's about sexual harassment and abuse; particularly by powerful men against powerless women who's cries for help were ignored.
Yes, the left would like women to stop being objectified. _Any_ humanist should want that. Humans are not objects and should not be treated as such. Why isn't there more being done to stop male objectification? Because you fight battles in order of severity. We did slavery first. Then civil rights. Sufferage was done too. Putting a stop to sexual abuse is now on the plate. It's a sign of how far we've come that it can even be tackled.
don't give their nut jobs a seat at the big boy's table. When you're talking left wing puritanicals you're talking feminists. Outside of your local community college's women's studies program they're powerless. When was the last time you heard of Bernie Sanders or Liz Warren or even Obama meeting with one of them? Meanwhile Trump meets with radical evangelicals all the time.
Now to be fair those evangelicals meeting Trump are mostly just charlatans. But there again is the difference between the left and right. The right have politically mobilized their nut jobs to vote against their own economic interests. Meanwhile they left's nut jobs just buy artisanal enemas from Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop.
is how good the damage control from Uber was. They got videos out fast with pitch black cameras that made it look like she came out of nowhere. Several days later videos popped up from locals showing the stretch of road was actually well lit. Even now I'm having a trough time finding those videos. There are stories now saying Uber's cars are behind Waymo, but I'm only just now seeing stories that say Uber should have avoided the crash. The first several/. posts about this story were riddled with comments from folks saying the crash was unavoidable and the pedestrian was completely at fault.
I think Some of this is the media at large siding with corporations to our detriment. The big outlets (CNN, Fox, MSNBC) have long since stopped covering the story on their front page websites, even as a single link. There's a little bit of left wing press, but I heard about those videos showing how well lit the road was from a post on Ars Technical that was on my feed.
Based on this I'm guessing that most people who don't read/. are going to end up assuming this was just an unavoidable accident caused by a crazy old homeless woman (a fact that was emphasized in many stories I read). I can't help but think we're being manipulated to think these cars are safer than they really are.
They funneled that money just fine in the 80s, 90s, 00s without all that data. There was a _very_ brief respite following WWII and that's about it. Other than that and the rich have been in charge forever.
and demand candidates that don't accept corporate money, like these folks. Right now almost all the candidates are cherry picked by billionaires (google the "Sheldon Primary"). You need to show up at the real primary and punish incumbents.
No more Marc Rubios, who likes to say anyone can 'buy into' him. I don't care that anyone can buy him. I don't want _anyone_ buying my representatives.
is even a tiny little bit communist? They're a Kleptocracy that borrowed Marx's rhetoric. Nothing more. Calling them anything else gives their government more credit than it deserves.
Based on this targets (prominent members of the black community) you're right. I can't imagine he wasn't. It's just odd that there's no manifesto? The police have a 25 minute video of him though that they won't release until the investigation's done. So far I don't know of any hard evidence on his choice of targets. Though to be fair I think if we were Muslim the media would call this terrorism without that evidence. You're correct to point out that this sort of caution only exists for whites
It does disturb me he was home schooled. School isn't just about learning, it's about socializing.
but my online privacy is the least of my worries. I've got robots and H1-Bs coming for my jobs in a society where my entire quality of life depends on it. I've got no reliable access to healthcare and massively increasing drug prices. My country's fighting 8 wars and working on 9 and 10 and we just spend over half our 1.3 trillion budget on said wars. My kid's college costs keep going up and up with no end in sight. Politically I've got gerrymandering, voter suppression, dark money and rising authoritarianism. Oh, and the trade wars and Wallstreet deregulation are about to cause another economic crash...
Besides, there are way, way better ways to oppress me than reading my facebook feed. Just keep letting inflation destroy my wages and put me in a constant state of economic fear. If it's one thing that makes dictatorships easy it's economic calamity.
It's like that XKCD comic about 1024 bit encryption. They're just gonna use a wrench to beat it out of me.
thanks to Arstechnica, but none of the main stream press covered it. I hate using the phrase, but it's hard not to notice them all towing Uber's line. But that's kinda the thing with the MSM. They always seem to tow the corporate line. Thanks to that most folks who don't read/. or ars are going to go to bed thinking this crash was unavoidable.
so we can avoid a few common sense gun regulations like background checks with enforcement to own guns, waiting periods and the like. But of course if we did that it would add delays to gun purchasing and cut down on impulse buys. A friend of a friend just the other day walked in to buy a pistol and managed to walk out with an AR-15 because he got caught up in how cool it looked. Make him wait 3 days and he'd have come to his senses and just bought the pistol he came in for.
my plugin support. I don't recall plugins being much of a vector for viruses except for the occasional one that got sold off to spamers, and none of the chnages to the plugin APIs solve that problem. You can still call out to exes, it's just a big pain in the rear now.
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student loans are structured the way they are because banks lobbied for it. This way they could get huge interest payments with zero risk while defunding colleges (and reaping the tax benefits from doing so).
You were close, but your explanation wasn't nearly cynical enough. Like a mean spirited Ocam's razor.
if we could stop the 8 some odd wars we're fighting. We blow 600 billion a year more or less protecting our oil interests. But sad to say folks like war. I remember a story where Trump got a momentary bump in the polls from droping a $500k bomb in Afghanistan. And lots of folks want to go war with Korea and/or Iran. We'd need a huge change in how people think and vote to get around that. It's just frustrating, since we could tell OPEC to sod off if we'd just spend the money on our infrastructure.
I can side load all I want on my Android. What I can't do is use google's apps without their permission. Moreover vendors don't get to sell a phone with google apps without their permission; which so far seems to be meeting minimum standards for compatibility to prevent fragmentation.
Hell, if you RTFA google left a back door in. It's a pain in the ass to use (You have to get your Android Id) but it's there. And if you're an enthusiast running your own roms it's not a big deal. It's just not something that a company selling an Android phone can expect their customers to do.
This has nothing to do with walling the garden. This has to do with protecting the Android brand.
Remember the jump from the SNES/Genesis to Playstation/Saturn? How about the first time you saw a Dreamcast game? Those were big leaps. But PS2 to PS3? If you'd been paying PC games you'd seen stuff on par with PS3. And PS3 to 4 was hardly a leap at all.
The trouble is modern graphics have gotten _hard_ to make. Pixel shaders are a bitch. They're too labor intensive. What's needed is something that lets you do great graphics with less man hours and fewer bugs. If ray tracing isn't gonna do that then it might as well be PC's answer to 3D TVs. Especially if it's only kicking out 30 FPS.
people's lives. Facebook is so big it's practically a public utility at this point. The US has something like 214 million users. That's more than half the population. I doubt you can find a functioning adult who doesn't have an account.
Facebook's business model here is selling your data to anyone who'll pay so they can manipulate you into doing things you otherwise wouldn't want to do. These aren't old school marketing pitches where they tell you why the product/candidate/proposition is so great. These are fine targeted propaganda campaigns where use your prejudices and peccadilloes to push your buttons.
I'm all for putting a stop to competition in that fast growing field.
meanwhile wages have been in decline. You're summer job at even twice minimum wage assuming 50 hours/week @ 15/hr for 4 months (total vacation time, assuming you manage to work spring break and holidays + 2 +1/2 months summer) is $12k/yr. We'll pretend you don't pay taxes on that. Congrats, you just barely covered your tuition. Also, hope you kept your GPA up, because anything
So no, you're not going to work your way through college. Not unless you're one of those freaks who doesn't need sleep or does math while sleeping. That means there are lots and lots of new loans out there for you to live off of (or try to) while desperately trying to claw back the American Dream. Hence the reason you've got stuff like this happening.
The thing that pisses me off is that all of this was predicted by my college's newspaper back in the 90s when the federal funding started to be cut by that asshat Clinton & his right wing congress. Now I've got a kid in college and I spend every dime I get on school for her and we're still gonna end up $50k in debt for a 4 year degree.
if you told me 1 in 5 college students knew what crypto currency was I'd be skeptical. Telling me 1 in 5 are using student loans to gamble on it is just ridiculous.
Now our President? I'm not so sure anymore.
it's just politics & racism. It started in the 30s when the guy that ran prohibition enforcement didn't want to lose his position when 18th amendment got repealed. He used racism to get folks behind the idea. Then Nixon expanded it so he could crack down on his political enemies.
What's scary is that even with all this history known and available we still can't get drugs legalized. That's not just because of corruption. At best only 65% support legalizing weed (and you can forget about legalizing the hard stuff and treating it as a medical condition).
and a Hilary supporter. She's everything the working class voted against with Trump. She'll lose. Star power isn't enough. People want a populist. They want somebody who'll stand up for them. Trump may not be a populist, but he plays one on TV.
warnings usually come with the possibility of consequences. I don't see any forthcoming. The scandal's already blown over with little or not chance of government regulation. The hit they took to stock will evaporate once Walstreet realizes nobody's gonna stop this gravy train.
The only thing of material consequence that might come out of this is that Trump might lose his data analytics. If he doesn't rebuild them (and he might not, he's none too bright and he's fired, pissed off or double crossed all the people who got him elected) then it'll hurt him in 2020.
That said, so far it looks like the Dems are going to run another right of center Hilary style candidate and if that happens I don't think it'll matter.
as has been pointed out elsewhere on this thread. They are in no way puritanical. Rather they're concerned about the financial implications of google drive being used to swap porn.
outside of a few radical feminazis nobody on the left listens to Porn made and consumed between consenting adults is accepted and allowed for by the left. The #MeToo movement has nothing to do with attacking porn, it's about sexual harassment and abuse; particularly by powerful men against powerless women who's cries for help were ignored.
Yes, the left would like women to stop being objectified. _Any_ humanist should want that. Humans are not objects and should not be treated as such. Why isn't there more being done to stop male objectification? Because you fight battles in order of severity. We did slavery first. Then civil rights. Sufferage was done too. Putting a stop to sexual abuse is now on the plate. It's a sign of how far we've come that it can even be tackled.
don't give their nut jobs a seat at the big boy's table. When you're talking left wing puritanicals you're talking feminists. Outside of your local community college's women's studies program they're powerless. When was the last time you heard of Bernie Sanders or Liz Warren or even Obama meeting with one of them? Meanwhile Trump meets with radical evangelicals all the time.
Now to be fair those evangelicals meeting Trump are mostly just charlatans. But there again is the difference between the left and right. The right have politically mobilized their nut jobs to vote against their own economic interests. Meanwhile they left's nut jobs just buy artisanal enemas from Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop.
is how good the damage control from Uber was. They got videos out fast with pitch black cameras that made it look like she came out of nowhere. Several days later videos popped up from locals showing the stretch of road was actually well lit. Even now I'm having a trough time finding those videos. There are stories now saying Uber's cars are behind Waymo, but I'm only just now seeing stories that say Uber should have avoided the crash. The first several /. posts about this story were riddled with comments from folks saying the crash was unavoidable and the pedestrian was completely at fault.
/. are going to end up assuming this was just an unavoidable accident caused by a crazy old homeless woman (a fact that was emphasized in many stories I read). I can't help but think we're being manipulated to think these cars are safer than they really are.
I think Some of this is the media at large siding with corporations to our detriment. The big outlets (CNN, Fox, MSNBC) have long since stopped covering the story on their front page websites, even as a single link. There's a little bit of left wing press, but I heard about those videos showing how well lit the road was from a post on Ars Technical that was on my feed.
Based on this I'm guessing that most people who don't read
They funneled that money just fine in the 80s, 90s, 00s without all that data. There was a _very_ brief respite following WWII and that's about it. Other than that and the rich have been in charge forever.
and demand candidates that don't accept corporate money, like these folks. Right now almost all the candidates are cherry picked by billionaires (google the "Sheldon Primary"). You need to show up at the real primary and punish incumbents.
No more Marc Rubios, who likes to say anyone can 'buy into' him. I don't care that anyone can buy him. I don't want _anyone_ buying my representatives.
is even a tiny little bit communist? They're a Kleptocracy that borrowed Marx's rhetoric. Nothing more. Calling them anything else gives their government more credit than it deserves.
Based on this targets (prominent members of the black community) you're right. I can't imagine he wasn't. It's just odd that there's no manifesto? The police have a 25 minute video of him though that they won't release until the investigation's done. So far I don't know of any hard evidence on his choice of targets. Though to be fair I think if we were Muslim the media would call this terrorism without that evidence. You're correct to point out that this sort of caution only exists for whites
It does disturb me he was home schooled. School isn't just about learning, it's about socializing.
but my online privacy is the least of my worries. I've got robots and H1-Bs coming for my jobs in a society where my entire quality of life depends on it. I've got no reliable access to healthcare and massively increasing drug prices. My country's fighting 8 wars and working on 9 and 10 and we just spend over half our 1.3 trillion budget on said wars. My kid's college costs keep going up and up with no end in sight. Politically I've got gerrymandering, voter suppression, dark money and rising authoritarianism. Oh, and the trade wars and Wallstreet deregulation are about to cause another economic crash...
Besides, there are way, way better ways to oppress me than reading my facebook feed. Just keep letting inflation destroy my wages and put me in a constant state of economic fear. If it's one thing that makes dictatorships easy it's economic calamity.
It's like that XKCD comic about 1024 bit encryption. They're just gonna use a wrench to beat it out of me.
it was derived from a racial slur to make it easier to hand the roads over to cars.
thanks to Arstechnica, but none of the main stream press covered it. I hate using the phrase, but it's hard not to notice them all towing Uber's line. But that's kinda the thing with the MSM. They always seem to tow the corporate line. Thanks to that most folks who don't read /. or ars are going to go to bed thinking this crash was unavoidable.
so we can avoid a few common sense gun regulations like background checks with enforcement to own guns, waiting periods and the like. But of course if we did that it would add delays to gun purchasing and cut down on impulse buys. A friend of a friend just the other day walked in to buy a pistol and managed to walk out with an AR-15 because he got caught up in how cool it looked. Make him wait 3 days and he'd have come to his senses and just bought the pistol he came in for.
my plugin support. I don't recall plugins being much of a vector for viruses except for the occasional one that got sold off to spamers, and none of the chnages to the plugin APIs solve that problem. You can still call out to exes, it's just a big pain in the rear now.