is that this is the big data folks keep talking about. I'll leave figuring out how this can (will?) be abused as an exercise for the reader, but regardless this puts more power in the hands of retailers and contributes to tipping the balance between consumer/retailer. Airlines do the same thing with rapid price changes, and yes there's a bit of an arms race on right now, but I don't expect plucky consumers to come out ahead. There was already a lopsided power imbalance before all the mergers and acquisitions and leveraged buyout fueled bankruptcies.
TL;DR. We need to consider the effects of large sets of cheaply available consumer data being easily traded among the few retailers that are left.
his marriage seems more like a business arrangement than a marriage. I can't imagine Melania cares what he does. Any more than Hilary cared what Bill did.
We keep giving more money to a handful of lucky winners. They've run out of things to spend their money on, so we get nonsense like this and Elon Musk launching a car into space (yes, I know it was a test launch, but do you honestly think you couldn't find some scientists that couldn't come up with the cash to put something better than a car into orbit?).
that stop it. It doesn't matter if individuals have their own drones if they can't keep them supplied. You and your neighbor's private drones will run out of gas, electricity & bullets. Also you won't be able to make the really large drones that can wipe a city block out.
Don't pin your hopes on a private uprising. There hasn't been one over a hundred years. Even the most basic modern mechanized army is too large a scale for an individual to match unless they already have the kind of power that would make them a dictator. If you want to stop the Orwellian future the time is now, and the way to do it is to keep that power out of the hands of the dictator. That means taking good care of the poor, because traditionally they're the ones that hand that power over in a desperate bid to improve their lot. Be wary of people with nothing to lose, and work to give them something to live for.
if there's any dog yellow enough to get these folks to stop voting Republican. When Clinton (Bill) moved the Dems to the right the Republicans had to follow suit to maintain their identity. Then the corporate PAC money started flooding in (Thanks! Citizens United) and the Dems moved right as the corp money flowed in and again the Republicans moved further right to compensate.
So now we've got a country where 97% of Americans support Universal Background Checks on guns and zero chance of getting one, Our president just said drug dealers should be put to death and praised China's president for establishing a dictatorship for life.
Are the Republican voters just living in a perfect bubble or do they really just not care as long as it doesn't have a D next to it's name?
not Trump. Nobody listens to Trump. This became obvious when the stock market stopped reacting to his tweets. He literally said we should ignore due process and take away people's guns. If Obama had done that gun stocks would have gone nuts. When Trump did it not even a blip.
e.g. what are the specific risks? Because all I ever hear is backhanded fearmongering. This isn't to say I don't think AI is a danger. Kill bots don't scare me because I think they'll go rogue ala Terminator, they scare me because needing to treat the army well is just about the only thing that keeps the 1% in line. But I don't hear anyone talking about that. Or about what automation is going to mean.
Basically, we need to be getting ready for a future where the rich don't need us to buy their crap and make them rich. Instead we're worrying about 80s science fiction scenarios.
and personally I think it's a little screwed up that we use the prisoners themselves to inflict the cruel and unusual punishment that we don't have the stomach to do ourselves. Then again I'm not in favor of punishment based prison. Either rehabilitate him or keep him locked up for life if we think he'll be a danger to the community. But I'd like us to be good enough people that we don't have to resort to round about torture.
Either that or go all in and use pain ray on them 24/7 until their heart fails. At least then we'd be admitting we want to cause pain and suffering.
licenses? If he was doing that and somebody flaunted his model I'd be on his side. Still, if he dropped the suit that's probably not the case. I would have expected him to stand his ground in that case.
Muni broadband is still going to get stuck running over large parts of infrastructure owned by Comcast, AT&T and Cox.
What we really need is a shift in American politics where nobody get elected unless they refuse all corporate and PAC money. Show up to your primaries and vote for candidates who refuse corp & PAC money. If you don't have one and you've got time run. Politicians can't (or won't) serve two Masters.
make sure everybody talks about traffic congestion and cyclists and nobody notices he just moved the goal post (either because their tech don't work or they don't have the money).
Mao Zedong and Joe Stalin are not, where not and never were Communists. They were fascist dictators who borrowed Marx's populist rhetoric.
This is not to say communism works. It doesn't. You never get past the Dictatorship of the Proletariat because sooner or later some violent psycho like Mao or Stalin seizes power. The problem is the large transfer of ownership.
We solved this problem with Democratic Socialism. Instead of mandating equality you regulate it. You skip the massive transfer of ownership and regulate income inequality with minimum standards that are ever increasing as automation and productivity raise. As the actual left says about drugs and everything else: Legal, Taxed and Regulated.
Truth has been shown to be largely ineffective against deeply held beliefs like racism. It's a strong economy and worker solidarity that chips away at it. Also direct attacks at billionaire propaganda. Let's not forget the true end goal of racism: to make caste systems that divide the working class into easily managed groups who are always at each other's throats.
does that count?And not that he's a what I would call an upstanding citizen but it's funny that the only billionaire Fox News ever goes after is George Soros.
Seriously, I'd like to see these jerks that use euphemisms for neo-nazi talking points called out on it more.
that we can't just call them right wing corporate lobbyists? And yeah, the right wing part matters, since it's the right wing laissez faire idealism that justifies deregulating the Internet and yes, eliminating government backed Net Neutrality regulations is deregulation...
America solved these problems in the 60s and 70s. The patents on the tech have long since run out. China pollutes because they have little regard for their people. Their government doesn't _care_ if those people die. There's a million+ waiting in the wings to replace them.
The entertainment industry has been called "Recession Proof" because they don't take the same hits everybody else does when one comes along. "Man cannot live by bread alone" as they say. People won't usually starve themselves (a few will, e.g. "Whales") but you'd be surprised what they'll put up with for a little relief from their bleak existences.
nerds, Trump is not your friend. He was a jock for Pete's sake. He was the guy that gave you wedgies and beat the shit out of you while his friends held you down.
to standard of living. But they're mostly sweet deals for connected businessmen. e.g like Elon Musk. If we're going to do protectionism that's fine. But talk to me when the H1-B (and H2-B) programs end.
aren't a bit like closing the barn door after the animals ran out. The lion's share of our manufacturing jobs are gone and automation means they ain't coming back. Hell, the Chinese are at risk of getting automated and they make a few bucks a day for 12-16 hours of work. If I thought that tariff money was going to make it into something that mattered (single payer healthcare, infrastructure spending, clean water, shoring up Medicare & Social Security, etc) I'd be for it. But if this last tax cut is any indication it'll just mean higher consumer prices while the income gets used to offset corporate & high earner income taxes.
So we're risking a trade war fueled market crash for what is, as near as I can tell, very little benefit. Again, if the world wasn't so screwed up that wouldn't be the case. But if the world wasn't so screwed up I wouldn't be typing this. Catch 22 much?
minimum wage & employment laws. People died for the 40 hour work week. The 'gig' economy chips away at those protections with a pickaxe. Also, what good does it do to tax them if the money goes right out the door in low income benefits? I'm not saying we pull the benefits, I'm saying we don't let them pay like crap.
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is that this is the big data folks keep talking about. I'll leave figuring out how this can (will?) be abused as an exercise for the reader, but regardless this puts more power in the hands of retailers and contributes to tipping the balance between consumer/retailer. Airlines do the same thing with rapid price changes, and yes there's a bit of an arms race on right now, but I don't expect plucky consumers to come out ahead. There was already a lopsided power imbalance before all the mergers and acquisitions and leveraged buyout fueled bankruptcies.
TL;DR. We need to consider the effects of large sets of cheaply available consumer data being easily traded among the few retailers that are left.
loaded into expanded mem.
his marriage seems more like a business arrangement than a marriage. I can't imagine Melania cares what he does. Any more than Hilary cared what Bill did.
We keep giving more money to a handful of lucky winners. They've run out of things to spend their money on, so we get nonsense like this and Elon Musk launching a car into space (yes, I know it was a test launch, but do you honestly think you couldn't find some scientists that couldn't come up with the cash to put something better than a car into orbit?).
that stop it. It doesn't matter if individuals have their own drones if they can't keep them supplied. You and your neighbor's private drones will run out of gas, electricity & bullets. Also you won't be able to make the really large drones that can wipe a city block out.
Don't pin your hopes on a private uprising. There hasn't been one over a hundred years. Even the most basic modern mechanized army is too large a scale for an individual to match unless they already have the kind of power that would make them a dictator. If you want to stop the Orwellian future the time is now, and the way to do it is to keep that power out of the hands of the dictator. That means taking good care of the poor, because traditionally they're the ones that hand that power over in a desperate bid to improve their lot. Be wary of people with nothing to lose, and work to give them something to live for.
if there's any dog yellow enough to get these folks to stop voting Republican. When Clinton (Bill) moved the Dems to the right the Republicans had to follow suit to maintain their identity. Then the corporate PAC money started flooding in (Thanks! Citizens United) and the Dems moved right as the corp money flowed in and again the Republicans moved further right to compensate.
So now we've got a country where 97% of Americans support Universal Background Checks on guns and zero chance of getting one, Our president just said drug dealers should be put to death and praised China's president for establishing a dictatorship for life.
Are the Republican voters just living in a perfect bubble or do they really just not care as long as it doesn't have a D next to it's name?
not Trump. Nobody listens to Trump. This became obvious when the stock market stopped reacting to his tweets. He literally said we should ignore due process and take away people's guns. If Obama had done that gun stocks would have gone nuts. When Trump did it not even a blip.
e.g. what are the specific risks? Because all I ever hear is backhanded fearmongering. This isn't to say I don't think AI is a danger. Kill bots don't scare me because I think they'll go rogue ala Terminator, they scare me because needing to treat the army well is just about the only thing that keeps the 1% in line. But I don't hear anyone talking about that. Or about what automation is going to mean.
Basically, we need to be getting ready for a future where the rich don't need us to buy their crap and make them rich. Instead we're worrying about 80s science fiction scenarios.
It's a combination of back door racism and the American right wing attacking their political enemies. No, really, it is.
The sad thing is that the proof and the history are out in the open an nobody seems to care. A few college kids might but they grow out of it.
and personally I think it's a little screwed up that we use the prisoners themselves to inflict the cruel and unusual punishment that we don't have the stomach to do ourselves. Then again I'm not in favor of punishment based prison. Either rehabilitate him or keep him locked up for life if we think he'll be a danger to the community. But I'd like us to be good enough people that we don't have to resort to round about torture.
Either that or go all in and use pain ray on them 24/7 until their heart fails. At least then we'd be admitting we want to cause pain and suffering.
licenses? If he was doing that and somebody flaunted his model I'd be on his side. Still, if he dropped the suit that's probably not the case. I would have expected him to stand his ground in that case.
Muni broadband is still going to get stuck running over large parts of infrastructure owned by Comcast, AT&T and Cox.
What we really need is a shift in American politics where nobody get elected unless they refuse all corporate and PAC money. Show up to your primaries and vote for candidates who refuse corp & PAC money. If you don't have one and you've got time run. Politicians can't (or won't) serve two Masters.
make sure everybody talks about traffic congestion and cyclists and nobody notices he just moved the goal post (either because their tech don't work or they don't have the money).
Maybe, just maybe (and I'm just spitballin' here) Youtube would like it very much if you couldn't find Nazi propaganda on their website.
Mao Zedong and Joe Stalin are not, where not and never were Communists. They were fascist dictators who borrowed Marx's populist rhetoric.
This is not to say communism works. It doesn't. You never get past the Dictatorship of the Proletariat because sooner or later some violent psycho like Mao or Stalin seizes power. The problem is the large transfer of ownership.
We solved this problem with Democratic Socialism. Instead of mandating equality you regulate it. You skip the massive transfer of ownership and regulate income inequality with minimum standards that are ever increasing as automation and productivity raise. As the actual left says about drugs and everything else: Legal, Taxed and Regulated.
Truth has been shown to be largely ineffective against deeply held beliefs like racism. It's a strong economy and worker solidarity that chips away at it. Also direct attacks at billionaire propaganda. Let's not forget the true end goal of racism: to make caste systems that divide the working class into easily managed groups who are always at each other's throats.
does that count?And not that he's a what I would call an upstanding citizen but it's funny that the only billionaire Fox News ever goes after is George Soros.
Seriously, I'd like to see these jerks that use euphemisms for neo-nazi talking points called out on it more.
that we can't just call them right wing corporate lobbyists? And yeah, the right wing part matters, since it's the right wing laissez faire idealism that justifies deregulating the Internet and yes, eliminating government backed Net Neutrality regulations is deregulation...
America solved these problems in the 60s and 70s. The patents on the tech have long since run out. China pollutes because they have little regard for their people. Their government doesn't _care_ if those people die. There's a million+ waiting in the wings to replace them.
The entertainment industry has been called "Recession Proof" because they don't take the same hits everybody else does when one comes along. "Man cannot live by bread alone" as they say. People won't usually starve themselves (a few will, e.g. "Whales") but you'd be surprised what they'll put up with for a little relief from their bleak existences.
nerds, Trump is not your friend. He was a jock for Pete's sake. He was the guy that gave you wedgies and beat the shit out of you while his friends held you down.
not DST? If you're not setting your clocks back/forward it's not really DST is it?
to standard of living. But they're mostly sweet deals for connected businessmen. e.g like Elon Musk. If we're going to do protectionism that's fine. But talk to me when the H1-B (and H2-B) programs end.
aren't a bit like closing the barn door after the animals ran out. The lion's share of our manufacturing jobs are gone and automation means they ain't coming back. Hell, the Chinese are at risk of getting automated and they make a few bucks a day for 12-16 hours of work. If I thought that tariff money was going to make it into something that mattered (single payer healthcare, infrastructure spending, clean water, shoring up Medicare & Social Security, etc) I'd be for it. But if this last tax cut is any indication it'll just mean higher consumer prices while the income gets used to offset corporate & high earner income taxes.
So we're risking a trade war fueled market crash for what is, as near as I can tell, very little benefit. Again, if the world wasn't so screwed up that wouldn't be the case. But if the world wasn't so screwed up I wouldn't be typing this. Catch 22 much?
minimum wage & employment laws. People died for the 40 hour work week. The 'gig' economy chips away at those protections with a pickaxe. Also, what good does it do to tax them if the money goes right out the door in low income benefits? I'm not saying we pull the benefits, I'm saying we don't let them pay like crap.