the problem was lying about how the data was going to be used. Also, how the hell did they aid/abet Maoist communists? If you mean China a) why the hell are you talking about? You mean because FB is available in China? and b) China couldn't be any less communist if they tried. Hell, you used the word Kleptocrate, you'd think you'd understand China is a Kleptocracy.
Now, would FB have gone after them if Trump hadn't won? Probably not. What would have been the point? But Trump did win (thanks Hilary, you incredibly stupid bitch you). They're expecting Trump & co to pull this shit again and telling them up front it won't be tolerated. Seem legit to me.
editing your genome might be. Or changing your gut bacteria. Or maybe even laser eye surgery. But this is no more bio hacking then getting your ears pierced.
because the worst that comes out of this for 99% of people is a $200 cable bill. The folks that voted Trump in office already couldn't afford to pay half that. Kinda like if you double the price of a BMW for me. I don't care because I couldn't afford it at half that price. Meanwhile Trump & his party promised them good paying jobs. The other side promised them marginally lower interest rates on student loans for colleges they either didn't attend or dropped out of in their early 20s.
Seriously. If you care about NN then you need to take care of the American working class. If you keep ignoring them, looking down on them, calling them names because they didn't 'reskill' then they'll abandon you the same as you abandoned them. And that's kind of the point. All us working class slobs are at each other's throats while these guys are laughing all the way to the bank.
I never understand why we let electric companies be private corps. It's not like I have a choice of companies. There's always only been one where I live. And it's not like we don't all need electricity. As near as I can tell the only reason for them to be private is so somebody's uncle or brother in law can skim 10%-20% off the top.
Wow, congrats, you've achieved/. inception. I never questioned the validity or usefulness of the study (you calling that into question is the straw man you've set up). I questioned why to public at large is spending time discussing an issue already settled in the public discourse. Do all the studies you want on video game violence. Go nuts. But how about lifting the ban on gun violence studies? Or even talking about it. No?
Also you're sig is dumb. Given immortality those millions could find what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon. I know it's a silly thing to get annoyed by but it's so profoundly ignorant it just bugs me. Take it off. How about a nice quote from Stephen Colbert
and tax cuts for the fiber network they were paid to build and never did? Seriously, why the hell do we never call companies to task on this shit? You know, they couldn't get away with it if we'd stop voting people in who let them. Why do we keep doing that!?
I'm sure the government asked a business to shut down service and everybody there was just like "Hey, that's a great idea".
Seriously, does anyone else find this disturbing as hell? If you want to shut off your internet for a day go right ahead. Unplug your router. But having the government force the issue is frightening. Especially with the religious overtones. It doesn't help that I've been reading stories of Hindi nationalists out of India, but to be fair I've got no idea if that sort of nationalism exists in Indonesia.
if you want to get it down to what CC companies do today (sub-1 second for a large merchant, 10-15 for a mom and pop with an ancient terminal)? The question is are the competitive with what guys like Square can get you?
Also, the currency needs to stabilize if it's going to go mainstream. Several folks stopped taking it because you could sell something for $50 worth of BTC today and have $30 worth of BTC tomorrow. Now, if I can instantly (and cheaply) turn my BTC into cash that's not a problem, but I'm guessing more fees.
Martha Stewart was convicted of lying to an officer. She tried to cover up what she did. Also, she was on the board of directors of the Stock Exchange, which probably gave her a fiduciary duty (tangentially). But even that wouldn't have stuck if she'd just come clean.
as a consumer. Today I pay with my CC and get cashback (basically a 1-3% discount on goods and services subsidized by folks who carry a balance and pay interest). Plus I can dispute charges up to 90 days from date of purchase.
I suppose there's privacy, but I get pretty good privacy from my CC company (albeit lousy privacy from the Credit Agencies, but those are different companies).
Now to businesses the prospect of lower transaction fees it tantalizing, but they mostly get that with Debit Cards already and haven't been able to get American consumers to switch. It doesn't help that Americans are kind of short on cash after decades of week or negative wage growth...
Aside from anonymously buying embarrassing or illegal goods what would make me jump ship?
a few weeks ago when I heard a song on the radio I liked (One Night Only by the Struts). I overheard it at a Sonic Drive in. I promptly googled some of the lyrics and listened to the song on Youtube.
Meanwhile Radio is chock full of stuff like Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones. I don't need that in my head.
she's the God daughter or something of somebody wealthy. She's just a well connected moderately attractive little rich girl being allowed to waste friends & family's money. Ordinarily that by itself would just be annoying, but by all accounts her company ran phony blood tests that caused real harm. I'm with other's on this thread: Criminal Negligence FTW.
no shit they had adverts touting their effectiveness. Now, I'm the libbiest lib who ever libed. I waited 3 hours in line to vote for Bernie in my primary in a Red f'n state. But after this I'm starting to wonder if maybe Trump winning was, while legitimately awful, still better than Hilary. I mean, at least I might get a Democratic House & 2 years of grid lock. And these days that seems like all I can hope for.
I'll still be voting for Bernie in my primary in 2 years.
some actual money. That seems to be the only thing that gets anyone in trouble. That or embarrassing them in front of the rubes in the working class (ala Martin Shkreli, whose conviction everybody on the left is doing a victory lap over meanwhile the drug price is still 5000% what it was).
Anyway, talk to me when a) he does jail time and b) we see meaningful regulations to prevent this sort of thing from happening again.
he took that Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged nonsense to heart and pitted his staff against each other in competition. The idea was the weak would perish and the strong thrive. In practice they stabbed each other in the back since it didn't matter how bad your team did so long as the other team did worse.
Until recently you couldn't even vote for a Senator. They were appointed. Like our electoral college the point of the Senate is to preserve the illusion of Democracy without all that messy stuff like people taxing the rich. Hell, the Second Amendment was mostly created because rich folk didn't like paying to quarter troops but they still needed an army to die for them.
Heck you won't even get an interview. That wasn't the case 20 years ago. Also nobody will train. You better be ready to bang out A grade code day one or you won't make it past the interview.
My kid got a laptop from her grand dad. They shorted her on 8 gigs of ram. I wasn't paying attention and neither was she. She uses it for school so it's not like it matters, but if I got that back it would go. I've returned tons of stuff like that over the years. Stuff that was functional but not what the manufacturer says it was.
I also use a Phillips Air Floss. Works great, but the motors die like clockwork ever 12-14 months. I bought the extended warranty and return it to the store. If you don't want me to keep returning them fix the bloody problem with the motors. It's not like I enjoy traipsing to Best Buy ever year when the damn thing breaks.
And don't get me started on cell phones. Use slightly cheaper ram and their performance goes to crap. Not a problem if you buy $700+ flagships. But I buy $250 mid range phones. I go through two or three before I find one that isn't crap and do that about every 2-3 years (mostly because radios improve and I want the better reception/new bands).
If you're savvy there are plenty of legit reasons to return lots of stuff. Companies will make barely functional crap if you let them. Returns are the one thing that lets us punish them. And again, I'm not scamming anyone. In fact, I'm pretty damn pissed companies are wasting my time with their God Damned corner cutting.
it sounds like the accident merely exposed a flaw in their signaling system. Rather than improve the signaling system (for which there was probably no money, we were 15 years into massive nonstop tax cuts) they did the only logical thing: slow the trains down.
This is yet another symptom of Americans not wanting to spend money (e.g. higher taxes) on infrastructure. The maddening thing is nearly all of those tax cuts went to the top 1%ers. Enough already. They get the best civilization has to offer. Make them pay their bloody God damned dues.
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the problem was lying about how the data was going to be used. Also, how the hell did they aid/abet Maoist communists? If you mean China a) why the hell are you talking about? You mean because FB is available in China? and b) China couldn't be any less communist if they tried. Hell, you used the word Kleptocrate, you'd think you'd understand China is a Kleptocracy.
Now, would FB have gone after them if Trump hadn't won? Probably not. What would have been the point? But Trump did win (thanks Hilary, you incredibly stupid bitch you). They're expecting Trump & co to pull this shit again and telling them up front it won't be tolerated. Seem legit to me.
editing your genome might be. Or changing your gut bacteria. Or maybe even laser eye surgery. But this is no more bio hacking then getting your ears pierced.
because the worst that comes out of this for 99% of people is a $200 cable bill. The folks that voted Trump in office already couldn't afford to pay half that. Kinda like if you double the price of a BMW for me. I don't care because I couldn't afford it at half that price. Meanwhile Trump & his party promised them good paying jobs. The other side promised them marginally lower interest rates on student loans for colleges they either didn't attend or dropped out of in their early 20s.
Seriously. If you care about NN then you need to take care of the American working class. If you keep ignoring them, looking down on them, calling them names because they didn't 'reskill' then they'll abandon you the same as you abandoned them. And that's kind of the point. All us working class slobs are at each other's throats while these guys are laughing all the way to the bank.
in a secular society.
I never understand why we let electric companies be private corps. It's not like I have a choice of companies. There's always only been one where I live. And it's not like we don't all need electricity. As near as I can tell the only reason for them to be private is so somebody's uncle or brother in law can skim 10%-20% off the top.
Wow, congrats, you've achieved /. inception. I never questioned the validity or usefulness of the study (you calling that into question is the straw man you've set up). I questioned why to public at large is spending time discussing an issue already settled in the public discourse. Do all the studies you want on video game violence. Go nuts. But how about lifting the ban on gun violence studies? Or even talking about it. No?
Also you're sig is dumb. Given immortality those millions could find what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon. I know it's a silly thing to get annoyed by but it's so profoundly ignorant it just bugs me. Take it off. How about a nice quote from Stephen Colbert
explain how it is that corn that kills bugs isn't poisonous?
and tax cuts for the fiber network they were paid to build and never did? Seriously, why the hell do we never call companies to task on this shit? You know, they couldn't get away with it if we'd stop voting people in who let them. Why do we keep doing that!?
I'm sure the government asked a business to shut down service and everybody there was just like "Hey, that's a great idea".
Seriously, does anyone else find this disturbing as hell? If you want to shut off your internet for a day go right ahead. Unplug your router. But having the government force the issue is frightening. Especially with the religious overtones. It doesn't help that I've been reading stories of Hindi nationalists out of India, but to be fair I've got no idea if that sort of nationalism exists in Indonesia.
but now we're discussion violent video games instead of gun control. Mission Accomplished.
if you want to get it down to what CC companies do today (sub-1 second for a large merchant, 10-15 for a mom and pop with an ancient terminal)? The question is are the competitive with what guys like Square can get you?
Also, the currency needs to stabilize if it's going to go mainstream. Several folks stopped taking it because you could sell something for $50 worth of BTC today and have $30 worth of BTC tomorrow. Now, if I can instantly (and cheaply) turn my BTC into cash that's not a problem, but I'm guessing more fees.
barring a seismic shift I'm going to want my BTC to be in my native currency at some point. Most of the exchange fees come from that conversion.
Martha Stewart was convicted of lying to an officer. She tried to cover up what she did. Also, she was on the board of directors of the Stock Exchange, which probably gave her a fiduciary duty (tangentially). But even that wouldn't have stuck if she'd just come clean.
as a consumer. Today I pay with my CC and get cashback (basically a 1-3% discount on goods and services subsidized by folks who carry a balance and pay interest). Plus I can dispute charges up to 90 days from date of purchase.
I suppose there's privacy, but I get pretty good privacy from my CC company (albeit lousy privacy from the Credit Agencies, but those are different companies).
Now to businesses the prospect of lower transaction fees it tantalizing, but they mostly get that with Debit Cards already and haven't been able to get American consumers to switch. It doesn't help that Americans are kind of short on cash after decades of week or negative wage growth...
Aside from anonymously buying embarrassing or illegal goods what would make me jump ship?
a few weeks ago when I heard a song on the radio I liked (One Night Only by the Struts). I overheard it at a Sonic Drive in. I promptly googled some of the lyrics and listened to the song on Youtube.
Meanwhile Radio is chock full of stuff like Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones. I don't need that in my head.
she's the God daughter or something of somebody wealthy. She's just a well connected moderately attractive little rich girl being allowed to waste friends & family's money. Ordinarily that by itself would just be annoying, but by all accounts her company ran phony blood tests that caused real harm. I'm with other's on this thread: Criminal Negligence FTW.
no shit they had adverts touting their effectiveness. Now, I'm the libbiest lib who ever libed. I waited 3 hours in line to vote for Bernie in my primary in a Red f'n state. But after this I'm starting to wonder if maybe Trump winning was, while legitimately awful, still better than Hilary. I mean, at least I might get a Democratic House & 2 years of grid lock. And these days that seems like all I can hope for.
I'll still be voting for Bernie in my primary in 2 years.
some actual money. That seems to be the only thing that gets anyone in trouble. That or embarrassing them in front of the rubes in the working class (ala Martin Shkreli, whose conviction everybody on the left is doing a victory lap over meanwhile the drug price is still 5000% what it was).
Anyway, talk to me when a) he does jail time and b) we see meaningful regulations to prevent this sort of thing from happening again.
he took that Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged nonsense to heart and pitted his staff against each other in competition. The idea was the weak would perish and the strong thrive. In practice they stabbed each other in the back since it didn't matter how bad your team did so long as the other team did worse.
just pay the workers less so you can hire more at the same rate. Productivity is only a problem if you think of workers as human beings.
Until recently you couldn't even vote for a Senator. They were appointed. Like our electoral college the point of the Senate is to preserve the illusion of Democracy without all that messy stuff like people taxing the rich. Hell, the Second Amendment was mostly created because rich folk didn't like paying to quarter troops but they still needed an army to die for them.
Yet another company that got Bained. Kay-Bee had the same thing done to them. Can we just ban leveraged buyouts already?
Heck you won't even get an interview. That wasn't the case 20 years ago. Also nobody will train. You better be ready to bang out A grade code day one or you won't make it past the interview.
My kid got a laptop from her grand dad. They shorted her on 8 gigs of ram. I wasn't paying attention and neither was she. She uses it for school so it's not like it matters, but if I got that back it would go. I've returned tons of stuff like that over the years. Stuff that was functional but not what the manufacturer says it was.
I also use a Phillips Air Floss. Works great, but the motors die like clockwork ever 12-14 months. I bought the extended warranty and return it to the store. If you don't want me to keep returning them fix the bloody problem with the motors. It's not like I enjoy traipsing to Best Buy ever year when the damn thing breaks.
And don't get me started on cell phones. Use slightly cheaper ram and their performance goes to crap. Not a problem if you buy $700+ flagships. But I buy $250 mid range phones. I go through two or three before I find one that isn't crap and do that about every 2-3 years (mostly because radios improve and I want the better reception/new bands).
If you're savvy there are plenty of legit reasons to return lots of stuff. Companies will make barely functional crap if you let them. Returns are the one thing that lets us punish them. And again, I'm not scamming anyone. In fact, I'm pretty damn pissed companies are wasting my time with their God Damned corner cutting.
it sounds like the accident merely exposed a flaw in their signaling system. Rather than improve the signaling system (for which there was probably no money, we were 15 years into massive nonstop tax cuts) they did the only logical thing: slow the trains down.
This is yet another symptom of Americans not wanting to spend money (e.g. higher taxes) on infrastructure. The maddening thing is nearly all of those tax cuts went to the top 1%ers. Enough already. They get the best civilization has to offer. Make them pay their bloody God damned dues.