And our current president has pretty clearly removed all semblance of impartiality from the appointment while our Republican lead Congress (well, half of it now) is letting him get away with it.
50+ years of voting for tough on crime politicians gets you thinking like this. That and the equally if not more-so ineffective "broken windows" policing.
because I pay on average $10 bucks for a game (and that's heavily skewed by the once a year purchase for a AAA game at full pop, take that out and it's closer to $5).
Console games OTOH are way more expensive. They don't go on the crazy sales Steam games do.
Most games launch in an unusable state anyway. You'll need the patches or the game sucks. That's because that way they can ship the disk in beta form and have it serve it's purpose to reduce load on their servers while letting them get the game out a few months early. I suppose it'd be nice to have games ship ready to go, but you'll either get lesser graphic fidelity (I'm lookin' at you Nintendo) or need to pay an extra $10-$20 bucks to account for an added development cycle before money starts coming in. Consumers don't want to pay more than $60 bucks for a game, so we're stuck there.
I remember Paul "Pee Wee" Herman got hit for having Child Pornography he'd bought in a massive lot of vintage photos. He was wealthy enough to fight it off and win, but he also won because it was physically in sealed boxes so when they raided him he could legally say he's never set eyes on the stuff. With digital you can't really do that, so unless you're so rich folks look the other way (like Epstein) your life is over.
data is data. Whether it's your voice or bits. Common carrier applies because it's for the same thing. They're both just communicating over a wire. We wouldn't even be having this conversation if it was still all modems since it would literally _be_ voice. The point is the intent of congress, which was to force what was then the principal means of telecom to behave.
seriously, it won't be that hard. If you're the kind of person who is willing to take a card up to 155 mph you hopefully know enough about the car to disable the feature.
OTOH I'm not sure I'd want this in my car in case it screwed up and wouldn't let me accelerate. It's just one more thing to go wrong in my car. Still, I stopped being interested in Volvo when they stopped making non-interference engines and I had to worry about a busted drive belt taking my engine out the same as every other car...
like Maine & Florida that are predominately red states and vote for climate change deniers getting hit by it. Florida is getting wrecked by hurricanes that are pretty clearly due to the changes. Maine's lobsters are migrating North to Canada and eventually that industry (and all the tourism that goes with it) will be gone. The folks there must know this, but they vote folks in who actively do nothing.
And I'd like to see folks complaining a bit more about this when it comes to thought control. Pushing propaganda messages by buying up all the media is a lot more like thought control then not platforming somebody's dangerous nonsense.
most YouTube videos are artificially long to meet the 10 minute minimum for advertiser dollars and ranking (it's not a hard minimum, but you're less likely to get monetized if you're under 10). It's actually annoying, since videos often take 10 minutes to say 3 minutes worth of content.
Cut a video down to the punchy, important stuff and with modern compression you can fit it into a few megabytes and email to anyone who asks. Hell, you could host it yourself on a free hosting service as long as you either didn't have too big an audience or you rotated the videos out.
Chavez took the oil money and used it to modernize his country instead of pocketing it all for himself. That's up there with George Washington turning down the position of King of America for WTF moments in the history of leadership. And yeah, I'm sure Chavez did a lot of awful things to get in and stay in his position. Venezuela was a hell hole before the oil money, but the fact that he didn't just keep it all for himself and his cronies (they way the Sauds do) deserves praise.
I'm not saying we can fix China (as you point out we haven't exactly done gangbusters "helping" Venezuela) but we can give them a nudge in the right direction. That's what diplomacy is for. As it is we're ignoring that responsibility for the sake of a fast buck.
of how China oppresses it's people in creepy ways. I'm actually a bit surprised this didn't make/..
One thing I haven't seen is so much as a peep about this from main stream media or a single politician. Calling out China's gov't is up there with showing a picture of Mohammad or pissing off Vladimir Putin in the list of "Shit you don't do".
What annoys me is seeing folks call for "Regime Change" in Venezuela and Iran while they ignore China (and Saudi Arabia while we're at it). Hell, Xi has basically declared himself emperor for life and Trump didn't just say it was OK, he said we should do that too. Not a peep I tells ya.
I know it's all about money (oil and cheap labor), but damn it pisses me off. Not the hypocrisy (pay a man that much and he doesn't care if you call him a hypocrite), but how they always get away with it.
if you're out in public and somebody takes your picture you don't own the picture.
If we made every bit of data that involves you copyrightable it wouldn't really help. You don't have the money to litigate dozens of copyright lawsuits. It would just turn into a useful tool for the wealthy to quash criticism against them.
pro-business and pro-corporate leaders for nearly 50 years now. If the people in charge of regulation don't believe in regulation then we don't get regulation.
The odds of somebody who doesn't give a rat's behind about NN coming to/. and then clicking a story about NN and then, after all that reading the comments is somewhere between successfully navigating an asteroid field and chuckling at that reference.
And politics is money. It's naive to suggest otherwise.
This is an issue that should be critical to anyone in tech. I know defense contractor guys who don't vote for Democrats because they're almost guaranteed to cut funding to the companies they work for. This is like that.
If you're in IT practically everything you do depends on NN in one form or another. Like it or not most if not all of us are where we are today because of a free and open internet, which can't survive w/o NN.
My point is that an issue that should be near and dear to the heart of the core audience here, something that should be a deal breaker, doesn't seem to be. I was hoping to hear why from some of the crowd. It's probably too much to hope for "Yeah, I came to my senses and will demand my immediate best interests get served by the people I vote for"...
still mange to take breaks they're not supposed to. Everybody does. Humans aren't good at working continuously for long hours without rest. Some can, and we have a bad habit of treating those people as the norm and calling out anyone who can't do that as lazy thieves... kinda like you just did.
the 2008 market crash left a lot of folks on the edge, and almost nobody recovered. More than one study has shown that the economy recovered by 2010 but all the gains since the crash went to the top.
and then you show up to the primary election and primary their asses if they're lying.
Also, we need to get a majority in favor of NN. Right now some of the wishy-washy guys and gals can safely say they support it _and_ vote for it while lying through their teeth because the current Congress (the Senate in particular) opposes NN as a burdensome regulation. You see this a lot with Susan Collins where she takes populist stances when it's safe and falls in line behind Mitch McConnel (the defacto head of the party and a right 'ole bastard if there ever was one) when it's time.
I can trot out my usual question: is this gonna change how anyone votes? Seriously, is it?/. is an older audience, so statistically there's some folks who got behind the current administration who's both responsible for these policies and actively looking the other way. And/. is a fairly well educated bunch, so we also know that our voting choices got us here.
So once again, is this gonna change how anyone vote? I haven't gotten a single "Yeah" to day....
It's not worth getting in trouble for snagging office supplies most of the time, but if you're struggling to make ends meet and your school just sent home a giant list of crap you need for your kid then suddenly it's worth it.
I remember being pretty shocked when even in high school I had to come up with $50-$100 bucks a month in various supplies for my kid's school projects. Crap that, when I was a kid (before the funding cuts of the mid 90s and 2000s) was just part of school.
A buddy of mine recently moved from a poor district to a rich one after saving the down payment to buy a house and was shocked by how much he was saving on school supplies because the school had things like paper, pencils and art supplies.
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Santa Claus? The Easter Bunny?
Sorry to be flippant, but I really, really, really shouldn't have to point this out.
And our current president has pretty clearly removed all semblance of impartiality from the appointment while our Republican lead Congress (well, half of it now) is letting him get away with it.
50+ years of voting for tough on crime politicians gets you thinking like this. That and the equally if not more-so ineffective "broken windows" policing.
because I pay on average $10 bucks for a game (and that's heavily skewed by the once a year purchase for a AAA game at full pop, take that out and it's closer to $5).
Console games OTOH are way more expensive. They don't go on the crazy sales Steam games do.
Most games launch in an unusable state anyway. You'll need the patches or the game sucks. That's because that way they can ship the disk in beta form and have it serve it's purpose to reduce load on their servers while letting them get the game out a few months early. I suppose it'd be nice to have games ship ready to go, but you'll either get lesser graphic fidelity (I'm lookin' at you Nintendo) or need to pay an extra $10-$20 bucks to account for an added development cycle before money starts coming in. Consumers don't want to pay more than $60 bucks for a game, so we're stuck there.
Hoard random data in the terabytes.
I remember Paul "Pee Wee" Herman got hit for having Child Pornography he'd bought in a massive lot of vintage photos. He was wealthy enough to fight it off and win, but he also won because it was physically in sealed boxes so when they raided him he could legally say he's never set eyes on the stuff. With digital you can't really do that, so unless you're so rich folks look the other way (like Epstein) your life is over.
data is data. Whether it's your voice or bits. Common carrier applies because it's for the same thing. They're both just communicating over a wire. We wouldn't even be having this conversation if it was still all modems since it would literally _be_ voice. The point is the intent of congress, which was to force what was then the principal means of telecom to behave.
seriously, it won't be that hard. If you're the kind of person who is willing to take a card up to 155 mph you hopefully know enough about the car to disable the feature.
OTOH I'm not sure I'd want this in my car in case it screwed up and wouldn't let me accelerate. It's just one more thing to go wrong in my car. Still, I stopped being interested in Volvo when they stopped making non-interference engines and I had to worry about a busted drive belt taking my engine out the same as every other car...
like Maine & Florida that are predominately red states and vote for climate change deniers getting hit by it. Florida is getting wrecked by hurricanes that are pretty clearly due to the changes. Maine's lobsters are migrating North to Canada and eventually that industry (and all the tourism that goes with it) will be gone. The folks there must know this, but they vote folks in who actively do nothing.
Most folks steam their music.
they just won't give you a free mega phone.
And I'd like to see folks complaining a bit more about this when it comes to thought control. Pushing propaganda messages by buying up all the media is a lot more like thought control then not platforming somebody's dangerous nonsense.
most YouTube videos are artificially long to meet the 10 minute minimum for advertiser dollars and ranking (it's not a hard minimum, but you're less likely to get monetized if you're under 10). It's actually annoying, since videos often take 10 minutes to say 3 minutes worth of content.
Cut a video down to the punchy, important stuff and with modern compression you can fit it into a few megabytes and email to anyone who asks. Hell, you could host it yourself on a free hosting service as long as you either didn't have too big an audience or you rotated the videos out.
Chavez took the oil money and used it to modernize his country instead of pocketing it all for himself. That's up there with George Washington turning down the position of King of America for WTF moments in the history of leadership. And yeah, I'm sure Chavez did a lot of awful things to get in and stay in his position. Venezuela was a hell hole before the oil money, but the fact that he didn't just keep it all for himself and his cronies (they way the Sauds do) deserves praise.
(and no, it's not a "religion"). Even among believes "Young Earth" creationists and folks who believe the Noah flood happened are declining.
Education works, but for it to work it needs to be fact based.
I'm not saying we can fix China (as you point out we haven't exactly done gangbusters "helping" Venezuela) but we can give them a nudge in the right direction. That's what diplomacy is for. As it is we're ignoring that responsibility for the sake of a fast buck.
of how China oppresses it's people in creepy ways. I'm actually a bit surprised this didn't make /..
One thing I haven't seen is so much as a peep about this from main stream media or a single politician. Calling out China's gov't is up there with showing a picture of Mohammad or pissing off Vladimir Putin in the list of "Shit you don't do".
What annoys me is seeing folks call for "Regime Change" in Venezuela and Iran while they ignore China (and Saudi Arabia while we're at it). Hell, Xi has basically declared himself emperor for life and Trump didn't just say it was OK, he said we should do that too. Not a peep I tells ya.
I know it's all about money (oil and cheap labor), but damn it pisses me off. Not the hypocrisy (pay a man that much and he doesn't care if you call him a hypocrite), but how they always get away with it.
if you're out in public and somebody takes your picture you don't own the picture.
If we made every bit of data that involves you copyrightable it wouldn't really help. You don't have the money to litigate dozens of copyright lawsuits. It would just turn into a useful tool for the wealthy to quash criticism against them.
pro-business and pro-corporate leaders for nearly 50 years now. If the people in charge of regulation don't believe in regulation then we don't get regulation.
Seriously, it's not complicated.
about anyone reading these comments.
/. and then clicking a story about NN and then, after all that reading the comments is somewhere between successfully navigating an asteroid field and chuckling at that reference.
The odds of somebody who doesn't give a rat's behind about NN coming to
And politics is money. It's naive to suggest otherwise.
This is an issue that should be critical to anyone in tech. I know defense contractor guys who don't vote for Democrats because they're almost guaranteed to cut funding to the companies they work for. This is like that.
If you're in IT practically everything you do depends on NN in one form or another. Like it or not most if not all of us are where we are today because of a free and open internet, which can't survive w/o NN.
My point is that an issue that should be near and dear to the heart of the core audience here, something that should be a deal breaker, doesn't seem to be. I was hoping to hear why from some of the crowd. It's probably too much to hope for "Yeah, I came to my senses and will demand my immediate best interests get served by the people I vote for"...
still mange to take breaks they're not supposed to. Everybody does. Humans aren't good at working continuously for long hours without rest. Some can, and we have a bad habit of treating those people as the norm and calling out anyone who can't do that as lazy thieves... kinda like you just did.
the 2008 market crash left a lot of folks on the edge, and almost nobody recovered. More than one study has shown that the economy recovered by 2010 but all the gains since the crash went to the top.
and then you show up to the primary election and primary their asses if they're lying.
Also, we need to get a majority in favor of NN. Right now some of the wishy-washy guys and gals can safely say they support it _and_ vote for it while lying through their teeth because the current Congress (the Senate in particular) opposes NN as a burdensome regulation. You see this a lot with Susan Collins where she takes populist stances when it's safe and falls in line behind Mitch McConnel (the defacto head of the party and a right 'ole bastard if there ever was one) when it's time.
it's good to at least get some kind of answer (I usually don't when I ask this question).
I can trot out my usual question: is this gonna change how anyone votes? Seriously, is it? /. is an older audience, so statistically there's some folks who got behind the current administration who's both responsible for these policies and actively looking the other way. And /. is a fairly well educated bunch, so we also know that our voting choices got us here.
So once again, is this gonna change how anyone vote? I haven't gotten a single "Yeah" to day....
It's not worth getting in trouble for snagging office supplies most of the time, but if you're struggling to make ends meet and your school just sent home a giant list of crap you need for your kid then suddenly it's worth it.
I remember being pretty shocked when even in high school I had to come up with $50-$100 bucks a month in various supplies for my kid's school projects. Crap that, when I was a kid (before the funding cuts of the mid 90s and 2000s) was just part of school.
A buddy of mine recently moved from a poor district to a rich one after saving the down payment to buy a house and was shocked by how much he was saving on school supplies because the school had things like paper, pencils and art supplies.
go look up Specter. The don't call him "God", he's The Presence. So this is hardly a stretch.