the current administration has ignored everything thrown at them with regards to net neutrality. They've used obviously false & spam comments as proof that people support repeal. They've lied about cable companies expanding. They just plain don't care what anyone thinks.
The thing is, NN is small potatoes to most people. It's gonna mean $10-$20 month out of their pockets for their cable bill, if that. 99% of Americans are never going to start an internet business to compete with established players. They don't have the capital, the skills or the time & energy. For most Americans surviving is all they can do. 40% of us don't have $1k in the bank.
I've said it before and will say it again, if NN is important to you then you have to listen to issues that are important to the rest of Americans. You need to get them health care, jobs and education. One they've taken care of survival and other more pressing concerns then you can hit them up to support your pet freedom project.
by the time he was done signing up for streaming services to replace cable he saved $10/mo. OTOH about the only TV I watch is anime which costs me $7/month. But I'm a severe nerd so I'm an outlier.
there are rules about how they change their tech to keep them from pulling all sorts of tricks and shenanigans with their software. They're hoping to make those rules go away. Believe me, you do not want this. Yeah, you'll get your new tech, but you'll get an unstable financial system and a crash that makes 2008 look like a happy memory.
where everything's included in the package. No library links so in theory it'll run on any Linux. It reminds me a bit of how Mac apps used to work where you just dragged a folder over and it was installed, as opposed to the Windows world of complex installers or the Linux world of dependency management via apt-get or RPM.
If true it sounds like a holy grail. Build one package to run anywhere. No more Linux app fragmentation. No more dependency hell and all day games of hunt the repository. But it also sounds too good to be true.
People aren't really afraid of alien invasion, that's just click bait. What the article is saying is that AI is replacing Aliens as the bug-a-boo of choice in cheap, tawdry sci-fi.
right now neither AMD or nVidia want to ramp up production to meet demand because they don't think demand will last. Worse, they're getting ready for a huge drop in demand when the bottom drops out of the crypto currency market and those miners dump their cards on eBay. Current gen graphics cards are much, much better built so a lot of those cards will hold up fine, making a card from an old mining rig practical in ways it wasn't 5 years ago.
The question is are Crypto-currencies here to stay? If either side takes that bet and wins they become the dominant graphics card manufacture for the foreseeable future. But if they lose they over extend themselves and go bankrupt. So far both sides are sitting put.
I don't like AirBnB. They drive up home prices and contribute to making home ownership unaffordable. They make it practical for investors to 'park' their money into real estate and keep houses off the market. There's a great case to be made for banning them in any competitive housing market
But isn't Detroit the furthest thing from a competitive housing market? Then again, while a lot of the city is in ruins for all I know the number of actual livable houses might be smaller. Lord knows nobody's going to build there.
vs statistical inflation. I find the cost of things I actually buy (food, shelter, transportation, my kid's college) goes up about 3.25-3.5% a year. The cost of things I don't really buy (vacations, electronics, cars in the $30k+ range, etc) go up 1.5-2.5%. There's a 'net' of about 2%. But I don't see that 2%, I see the 3.25-3.5%. Meanwhile my wages go up 2.5% a year if I'm very, very lucky. Most years it's 1.5-2%. And I'm doing better than most. Lots of folks I know haven't had a raise in years. For them the only way to get a raise is to get a new job.
I saw a story about a woman who started at K-Mart in 1974 making $3/hour. When the store closed this year and she was laid off she made $10.50/hr. Thing is, $3 in 1974 was just shy of $16/hr today. She'd lost 1/3 of her pay in 44 years. Us tech workers don't have it as bad, but we're still feeling it. Everybody's losing ground. You just kind of hope you make it until your kid's are on their own and that you die before the layoffs in your 60s come.
is a common joke phrase I used to think nothing about. A friend of mine with a history of mental illness in his family pointed out that the reason depressed people cut themselves is that the only way to get mental health services without a boatload of cash is to be an active danger to yourself or others. Not 'could be a danger' but actually a danger; e.g. you need evidence that you're going to something violent in the next 24 hours.
Basically the mentally ill will hurt themselves when they feel an attack coming on so they can get help. This is the would we live in folks.
is what I'm hearing. Your arguments don't hold up to math. Even accounting for all control factors (income, location, family status, etc) blacks are 2-3 times more likely to be arrested for drug violations and get harsher sentences. This is a statistical fact you can prove for yourself with a few minutes on google. If we can't acknowledge facts, even when they make us uncomfortable, well, I don't know what to do. I really don't. But you're not going to see legalized drugs unless we attack the underlining reasons people support keeping them illegal. Remember, it takes a significant amount of political will to maintain our drug policy, and we need to be firing on all cylinders if we want to change it.
just how powerful Goldman Sachs is. They don't need guile and subterfuge to control the economy. They can crush bitcoin if it suits them or take it over if it doesn't. They were the last man standing after 2008. They've been central to our entire govenment since Clinton took office and maybe even Reagan.
This isn't big bad Goldman Sachs going after scrapy little bitcoin either. The dirty secret of Cryptocurrenices is they're underpinned mostly by illegal activity. Drugs, Money Laundering, Ransomware, etc, etc. Governments have a legitimate interest in stopping these things (though I'd rather like to see them do it by legalizing drugs, but I could do without the Money Laundering). Eventually they'll do just that and the bottom will drop out of the market. The speculators will skedaddle and the entire thing will collapse.
Bitcoin Et Al are not your ticket to a free world. If you want that then you need to focus on getting everybody enough economic security that you're not constantly watching your back, afraid they're gonna bash your skull in and take your stuff. Either that or build walls and set up robot gun platforms.
the barrier between the haves and have nots. Stuff like single payer health care, college for all, UBI are going to do that. Virtual currencies are always going to be prone to manipulation by folks with a ton of money. And Blockchain is just a distributed database/ledger that's really hard to fool. Bitcoin might make a few haves out of unlucky have nots (re: Greater Fool Economic theory) but that's about it.
are you suggesting Kratom is killing folks, because it's not. The FDA says that the deaths were caused by mixing Kratom with other substances, but don't really go into details and their own data seems to prove otherwise.
This is more shitting on poor people and another extension of our racist drug policy. The goal is to fill the private prisons (which are now a convenient source of slave labor that _you_ compete with) while allowing roundabout institutionalized racism and segregation. There is literally nothing good about this.
The Republicans have taken a hard-line stance on any drug with mind altering affects, even vary mild ones. If it's not tobacco or booze they've been against it. The corporate Dems (Chuck Schumer, Joe Manchin, Feinstein, etc) are the same. Mostly bought off by big Pharma & private prison industries. Here's hoping somebody at least primaries Feinstein.
in 20 years self driving cars will make this an amusing footnote in history. Like the static snow effect on old TVs, floppy disc drives and leaded gasoline.
we don't conduct national elections on the popular vote because the wealthy landowners who ran the country when our constitution was written wanted to give themselves a disproportionate amount of voting power over the rabble from the cities. They weren't much worried about the rural voters because, well, if you think voter suppression is a thing today then you don't know voter suppression.
Oh, and progressives sound like Trump because Trump _lied_. He said whatever it took to get elected. Just ask the folks at Carrier who's jobs are on the way to Mexico.
And why are you bothering to defend Trump? What possible good does it do you? He's backed off on controlling the flow of immigrants and even come out in support of Amnesty. His Admin could have sent 500,000 illegal immigrants on expired H1-B visas back home and instead protected them and he still hasn't recinded the Obama executive order allowing their spouses to work here. He's done exactly 1 tariff on solar panels and he's in the process of implementing TPP in pieces so you won't notice. He staffed his admin with billionaires and Goldman Sachs folks. His tax cut is just us borrowing $1 trillion and giving it away to the 1%. He killed Net Neutrality. He's done the exact opposite of everything he claimed he would do. These are facts. Every single one of them is a fact.
So I say again, why are you defending Trump? Is it just out of spite? Racism? General hatred of Hillary Clinton? Can you point to a single policy he's done that you can legitimately support (assuming you're not a multi-millionaire)?
because the rural voters are a reliable source of votes for Republicans and, well, he's a Republican. Everything Ajit Pai (and his party) does is to further their own ends. Once in a blue moon those ends cross paths with someone besides themselves and their corporate masters. That shouldn't distract you from the overall fact that they're screwing us all over for profit.
Some things in life really are black and white. Fact are facts. I'll say it again, this _is_ a partisan issue. The sooner you realize that the better.
and he has staggering political power and wealth. So yeah, we should care. He's in a position to exert enormous influence on your life and mine. And very likely not for the better.
one of the chief purveyors of the stuff during the last pres election lamented the fact that he couldn't use the same tactics with the left because the stories got debunked too fast. He wasn't interested in politics, just the ad revenue from all the sharing on Facebook & the like. He tried it with the left and it'd get debunked & shut down before he made any real money off the adverts.
The real question is how do you get the right wing folks to stop voting for stuff like trickle down economics so they'll stop thinking of themselves as a bunch of temporarily inconvenienced millionaires. Bottom line, the right is unified. They want low taxes, no regulations and religion in government. The left is just a mess. It's a lose group of Unionists, socialists, Feminists, Gun Control advocates and a hundred other things the right oppose. Folks like Bernie Sanders needs to crack the right's strong coalition if they want to get anywhere with policy. They need to get folks to start voting with their wallet instead of their gut.
right? Show up for your primaries folks. Otherwise you'll have the same choice of Right wing corporate Dems and right wing Rs. Also, and I know this isn't a popular idea, but this _is_ a partisan issue. The Republicans are opposed to government regulation and want to leave the free market to decide (massive subsidies not withstanding) while the Ds, when they're not being actively bought off (again, show up at your primaries people) support government regulation with the aim of general societal improvements + correcting imbalances in the market. What I'm saying is, if you vote R you shouldn't be surprised when they don't want to regulate. They told you that in their party platform.
and gets worse daily for all but a lucky few. Suicide has to be taboo or we'd have worker shortages. Either that or we'd have to treat people better. It's why you get stuff like this.
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the current administration has ignored everything thrown at them with regards to net neutrality. They've used obviously false & spam comments as proof that people support repeal. They've lied about cable companies expanding. They just plain don't care what anyone thinks.
The thing is, NN is small potatoes to most people. It's gonna mean $10-$20 month out of their pockets for their cable bill, if that. 99% of Americans are never going to start an internet business to compete with established players. They don't have the capital, the skills or the time & energy. For most Americans surviving is all they can do. 40% of us don't have $1k in the bank.
I've said it before and will say it again, if NN is important to you then you have to listen to issues that are important to the rest of Americans. You need to get them health care, jobs and education. One they've taken care of survival and other more pressing concerns then you can hit them up to support your pet freedom project.
by the time he was done signing up for streaming services to replace cable he saved $10/mo. OTOH about the only TV I watch is anime which costs me $7/month. But I'm a severe nerd so I'm an outlier.
there are rules about how they change their tech to keep them from pulling all sorts of tricks and shenanigans with their software. They're hoping to make those rules go away. Believe me, you do not want this. Yeah, you'll get your new tech, but you'll get an unstable financial system and a crash that makes 2008 look like a happy memory.
where everything's included in the package. No library links so in theory it'll run on any Linux. It reminds me a bit of how Mac apps used to work where you just dragged a folder over and it was installed, as opposed to the Windows world of complex installers or the Linux world of dependency management via apt-get or RPM.
If true it sounds like a holy grail. Build one package to run anywhere. No more Linux app fragmentation. No more dependency hell and all day games of hunt the repository. But it also sounds too good to be true.
right here. Surprised nobody brought it up.
People aren't really afraid of alien invasion, that's just click bait. What the article is saying is that AI is replacing Aliens as the bug-a-boo of choice in cheap, tawdry sci-fi.
right now neither AMD or nVidia want to ramp up production to meet demand because they don't think demand will last. Worse, they're getting ready for a huge drop in demand when the bottom drops out of the crypto currency market and those miners dump their cards on eBay. Current gen graphics cards are much, much better built so a lot of those cards will hold up fine, making a card from an old mining rig practical in ways it wasn't 5 years ago.
The question is are Crypto-currencies here to stay? If either side takes that bet and wins they become the dominant graphics card manufacture for the foreseeable future. But if they lose they over extend themselves and go bankrupt. So far both sides are sitting put.
But $6000 worth of Bitcoin, pay when it's worth $10k and leave the State and the rest of the taxpayers holding the bag when they drop to $3k.
I don't like AirBnB. They drive up home prices and contribute to making home ownership unaffordable. They make it practical for investors to 'park' their money into real estate and keep houses off the market. There's a great case to be made for banning them in any competitive housing market
But isn't Detroit the furthest thing from a competitive housing market? Then again, while a lot of the city is in ruins for all I know the number of actual livable houses might be smaller. Lord knows nobody's going to build there.
vs statistical inflation. I find the cost of things I actually buy (food, shelter, transportation, my kid's college) goes up about 3.25-3.5% a year. The cost of things I don't really buy (vacations, electronics, cars in the $30k+ range, etc) go up 1.5-2.5%. There's a 'net' of about 2%. But I don't see that 2%, I see the 3.25-3.5%. Meanwhile my wages go up 2.5% a year if I'm very, very lucky. Most years it's 1.5-2%. And I'm doing better than most. Lots of folks I know haven't had a raise in years. For them the only way to get a raise is to get a new job.
I saw a story about a woman who started at K-Mart in 1974 making $3/hour. When the store closed this year and she was laid off she made $10.50/hr. Thing is, $3 in 1974 was just shy of $16/hr today. She'd lost 1/3 of her pay in 44 years. Us tech workers don't have it as bad, but we're still feeling it. Everybody's losing ground. You just kind of hope you make it until your kid's are on their own and that you die before the layoffs in your 60s come.
is a common joke phrase I used to think nothing about. A friend of mine with a history of mental illness in his family pointed out that the reason depressed people cut themselves is that the only way to get mental health services without a boatload of cash is to be an active danger to yourself or others. Not 'could be a danger' but actually a danger; e.g. you need evidence that you're going to something violent in the next 24 hours.
Basically the mentally ill will hurt themselves when they feel an attack coming on so they can get help. This is the would we live in folks.
is what I'm hearing. Your arguments don't hold up to math. Even accounting for all control factors (income, location, family status, etc) blacks are 2-3 times more likely to be arrested for drug violations and get harsher sentences. This is a statistical fact you can prove for yourself with a few minutes on google. If we can't acknowledge facts, even when they make us uncomfortable, well, I don't know what to do. I really don't. But you're not going to see legalized drugs unless we attack the underlining reasons people support keeping them illegal. Remember, it takes a significant amount of political will to maintain our drug policy, and we need to be firing on all cylinders if we want to change it.
just how powerful Goldman Sachs is. They don't need guile and subterfuge to control the economy. They can crush bitcoin if it suits them or take it over if it doesn't. They were the last man standing after 2008. They've been central to our entire govenment since Clinton took office and maybe even Reagan.
This isn't big bad Goldman Sachs going after scrapy little bitcoin either. The dirty secret of Cryptocurrenices is they're underpinned mostly by illegal activity. Drugs, Money Laundering, Ransomware, etc, etc. Governments have a legitimate interest in stopping these things (though I'd rather like to see them do it by legalizing drugs, but I could do without the Money Laundering). Eventually they'll do just that and the bottom will drop out of the market. The speculators will skedaddle and the entire thing will collapse.
Bitcoin Et Al are not your ticket to a free world. If you want that then you need to focus on getting everybody enough economic security that you're not constantly watching your back, afraid they're gonna bash your skull in and take your stuff. Either that or build walls and set up robot gun platforms.
the barrier between the haves and have nots. Stuff like single payer health care, college for all, UBI are going to do that. Virtual currencies are always going to be prone to manipulation by folks with a ton of money. And Blockchain is just a distributed database/ledger that's really hard to fool. Bitcoin might make a few haves out of unlucky have nots (re: Greater Fool Economic theory) but that's about it.
are you suggesting Kratom is killing folks, because it's not. The FDA says that the deaths were caused by mixing Kratom with other substances, but don't really go into details and their own data seems to prove otherwise.
This is more shitting on poor people and another extension of our racist drug policy. The goal is to fill the private prisons (which are now a convenient source of slave labor that _you_ compete with) while allowing roundabout institutionalized racism and segregation. There is literally nothing good about this.
The Republicans have taken a hard-line stance on any drug with mind altering affects, even vary mild ones. If it's not tobacco or booze they've been against it. The corporate Dems (Chuck Schumer, Joe Manchin, Feinstein, etc) are the same. Mostly bought off by big Pharma & private prison industries. Here's hoping somebody at least primaries Feinstein.
What's worse is they're going to be going head on with the Dreamcast 2.
in 20 years self driving cars will make this an amusing footnote in history. Like the static snow effect on old TVs, floppy disc drives and leaded gasoline.
we don't conduct national elections on the popular vote because the wealthy landowners who ran the country when our constitution was written wanted to give themselves a disproportionate amount of voting power over the rabble from the cities. They weren't much worried about the rural voters because, well, if you think voter suppression is a thing today then you don't know voter suppression.
Oh, and progressives sound like Trump because Trump _lied_. He said whatever it took to get elected. Just ask the folks at Carrier who's jobs are on the way to Mexico.
And why are you bothering to defend Trump? What possible good does it do you? He's backed off on controlling the flow of immigrants and even come out in support of Amnesty. His Admin could have sent 500,000 illegal immigrants on expired H1-B visas back home and instead protected them and he still hasn't recinded the Obama executive order allowing their spouses to work here. He's done exactly 1 tariff on solar panels and he's in the process of implementing TPP in pieces so you won't notice. He staffed his admin with billionaires and Goldman Sachs folks. His tax cut is just us borrowing $1 trillion and giving it away to the 1%. He killed Net Neutrality. He's done the exact opposite of everything he claimed he would do. These are facts. Every single one of them is a fact.
So I say again, why are you defending Trump? Is it just out of spite? Racism? General hatred of Hillary Clinton? Can you point to a single policy he's done that you can legitimately support (assuming you're not a multi-millionaire)?
because the rural voters are a reliable source of votes for Republicans and, well, he's a Republican. Everything Ajit Pai (and his party) does is to further their own ends. Once in a blue moon those ends cross paths with someone besides themselves and their corporate masters. That shouldn't distract you from the overall fact that they're screwing us all over for profit.
Some things in life really are black and white. Fact are facts. I'll say it again, this _is_ a partisan issue. The sooner you realize that the better.
I say about time.
and he has staggering political power and wealth. So yeah, we should care. He's in a position to exert enormous influence on your life and mine. And very likely not for the better.
one of the chief purveyors of the stuff during the last pres election lamented the fact that he couldn't use the same tactics with the left because the stories got debunked too fast. He wasn't interested in politics, just the ad revenue from all the sharing on Facebook & the like. He tried it with the left and it'd get debunked & shut down before he made any real money off the adverts.
The real question is how do you get the right wing folks to stop voting for stuff like trickle down economics so they'll stop thinking of themselves as a bunch of temporarily inconvenienced millionaires. Bottom line, the right is unified. They want low taxes, no regulations and religion in government. The left is just a mess. It's a lose group of Unionists, socialists, Feminists, Gun Control advocates and a hundred other things the right oppose. Folks like Bernie Sanders needs to crack the right's strong coalition if they want to get anywhere with policy. They need to get folks to start voting with their wallet instead of their gut.
right? Show up for your primaries folks. Otherwise you'll have the same choice of Right wing corporate Dems and right wing Rs. Also, and I know this isn't a popular idea, but this _is_ a partisan issue. The Republicans are opposed to government regulation and want to leave the free market to decide (massive subsidies not withstanding) while the Ds, when they're not being actively bought off (again, show up at your primaries people) support government regulation with the aim of general societal improvements + correcting imbalances in the market. What I'm saying is, if you vote R you shouldn't be surprised when they don't want to regulate. They told you that in their party platform.
and gets worse daily for all but a lucky few. Suicide has to be taboo or we'd have worker shortages. Either that or we'd have to treat people better. It's why you get stuff like this.