before that's a problem. Meanwhile if a nuke plant goes bad I'll live many, many years in poverty as I'm forced to leave my now irradiated property behind until I eventually die of cancer in my 40s (maybe mid 50s if I'm lucky).
That's the trouble with nuke plants. The disasters are acute. Meaning all the damage is up front. The annoying thing is that if we were rational beings nuclear would be the perfect energy source.
Natural Gas is still a lot safer and solar is cheaper. That probably wouldn't be true if American's political climate wasn't so crazy. The mad rush to privatize things that shouldn't be privatized coupled with our bad habit of looking the other way on regulation means nuclear power is risky. Government run enterprises tend to be very, very efficient unless they're being run as pork. e.g. the DMV and Post Office both do amazing things (as long as you don't live in the South, where the DMV massively underfunded). That means there really isn't much profit to be had privatizing it without cutting corners on safety and, well, look at Fukushima. A completely preventable disaster that nearly destroyed a city...
And don't forget that we can't recycle the fuel because we're terrified some of it will get lost and turned into nukes. Not that it's ever stopped anyone from getting them (re: North Korea).
TLDR; Get Americans to stop privatizing dangerous things and allow the waste to be recycled and we'll put nuclear back in rotation.
why aren't the Verizon/AT&T/etc execs who allow this in jail too? Yeah, yeah, we all know the answer. At a certain point the law no longer applies to you. This guy just wasn't there yet.
Did these people had over CC number? Or of it more likely he had help from the carriers? The last time I heard about these scams they were only possible because companies like AT&T allowed them to tack on charges to your cell phone bill. I don't suppose that practice has ended. I know I still get warnings if I respond to a companies text messages.
No joke The GOP has 4 of them running . You can get your rights back in a lot of places. We mostly use denying political rights to keep the 'wrong' (read:poor and minorities) sort from voting. If you've got the money, the time and maybe a few of the right friends it's not hard to get the rights back.
a few refreshes from AMD/Intel/Nvidia. A bunch more talk about digital assistants which are just stand alone devices for things most of us already have on our phones. When the most 'exciting' thing that's making the rounds are small laptops with 4G radios built in you know you've got a dud.
Tech just isn't moving like it used to. Computers have reached 'good enough' territory and cell phones brought so many devices together (phone, mini-tablet, GPS, music player, radio, digital camera/low end camcorder, portable gaming... the list goes on) that there's not a lot of room for gadgets anymore.
expect crypto currencies to plummet. A huge part of their value is making exchanges on the black market. If you add to that a crackdown on ransomeware like they did to botnets in the 2000s and a money laundering crackdown all you've got left are the speculators, who'll jump ship when the black market financial base of the trading networks. That just leaves legitimate businesses and hobbyists. Businesses will just use it as a lark since they'll find it too slow and too volatile to use and a few hobbyists won't keep the whole thing going.
It really comes down to politics. What's mildly worrying is that bitcoin is so valuable now that it's possible the big players may throw in with the Pharmaceuticals and private prison industry to keep drugs illegal. If I was a bitcoin billionaire or even millionaire it'd be worried about it.
that kind of brazenness is par for the course. The point of these lawsuits is for both parties to get some publicity. That's why 99% of the time they're settled out of court. It's more a less a game with both sides playing. The trouble is Gawker didn't realize Hogan wasn't the one playing, Thiel was, and Thiel wasn't playing the same game, he was out for blood.
Now, I suppose you could make the argument that our legal system shouldn't be used to this, but then again the public at large allows it because they find this kind of public theater intensely amusing; even if you and I find it stupid and wasteful. But again, that's missing the point. Gawker's real mistake was not seeing through Hogan to Thiel in time to save themselves.
of private enterprise. At least in theory. If people already had good working government service (like the VA for example) you might have a shot. But you'll have no luck with muni broadband until you can convince people that the government doesn't screw up everything it tries. Yeah, yeah, there's lots of evidence of that, but when has evidence ever worked against a multi-million dollar ad blitz?
so here I go again defending Gawker. Gawker did a lot of real journalism and used the muck raking to pay for it. A tradition that's as old as journalism itself. Thiel didn't shut them down because he was outed as gay, he shut them down because they kept reporting on his shady business deals. And their mistake wasn't ignoring the court order. That gets done all the time in their line of work. Their mistake was not realizing that Hogan was backed by Thiel for the express purpose of shutting them down.
What we have here is a pretty scary precedent. We have a billionaire using his money and the legal system to shut down somebody critical of him. If anyone honestly believes that'll end well for us working stiffs then they haven't been paying attention to the last 300 years of labor relations...
it takes time to learn a new UI. Most people who make heavy enough use of an app to bother complaining about it stop looking at the UI and learn by muscle memory how to complete tasks. A UI design screws with that.
this is how you make it possible to enforce anti-discrimination laws. It's necessary when you've got institutionalized racism. E.g. when racism is built into your institutions. Otherwise companies just say "no qualified blacks applied". Companies are actually doing the exact same thing right now with H1-Bs and getting away with it because the law isn't enforced. But in the absence of the paper trail it becomes damn near impossible if you ever do want to enforce it. You can just lie and say the person never applied. Bog the case down indefinitely.
Just make voting mandatory so you can't get away with voter surpression, eliminate gerrymandering and have a paper trail. Bang, problem solved. I suppose we could use computers to eliminate the electoral college. That'd be nice.
The right own virtually all forms of government in this country. And don't kid yourself, Google is a mega corp. They're not terrible left wing themselves. Not being homophobic does not not make you left wing.
And the media has a strong right wing bias on economic issues. There was never any serious discussion about the wars and they colluded with the Government to avoid showing soldier's caskets coming home. They worked hard to sell the Walstreet bail out and they're working hard to sell Republican tax cuts for the wealthy while ignoring Paul Ryan going around talking about entitlement reform (read: ending SS & Medicare for anyone under 55). The Media is hard right on the economy, and we shouldn't be surprised. Look who owns them.
a 1050 is going for $200. A 1060 6gb for $500. To put that in context, I bought my bro a 1060 6gb for $230 on sale about 2 years ago. Until the crypto currency boom ends I think the high price of video cards will scare off new gamers unless they're really, really hardcore.
One thing that's going to be interesting is that using influencers like AGDQ won't really work to make you pick Tide over Arm & Hammer for your laundry soap or even Coke over RC (which, as anyone from the south knows, is a superior beverage:) ). You need a way to associate the brand with positive thoughts/feelings. That's how you get a brand recognition response. You can do that a bit with product placement but I don't think anything beats a 30 second spot on a popular TV show or sporting event.
All the AA regulations say/do is that a company has to keep records of it's hiring decisions. At no point in time did AA have quotas. That was a myth. This isn't to say individual institutions might not have done quotas, but it wasn't AA that made them do it. It was a private decision (and also one that, had anyone bothered, could be challenged and ruled illegal. Yes, being a White Male is a protected class).
The point is to divide the working class into castes of some kind. America does it with race. India does it with a literal caste system. Japan used Buddhism to create an underclass deemed 'unclean' and the UK had classes. It's the same pattern over and over and over again. The aristocracy is few but they claim anywhere from 50%-80% of the wealth. You can't do that unless you divide and conquer. Don't fall for it.
you're missing the point. The woman you work with are like that because if they weren't, if they were uncomfortable with locker room talk, they'd leave. That is the conclusion of hiring mangers the world over. It's held up and born out in a lot of research/surveys. Heck, I'd be uncomfortable in that environment (I'm a bit of a Melvin) and I'm a 6' tall 220lb guy.
Furthermore, something we tend to forget (or conscientiously ignore) is that virtually any man is a physical threat to a woman. There's a super creepy scene in Hulu's 'The Handmaid's Tale' that illustrated this.
because there's been a big push into digital/online adverts and they have to be obnoxious to have any impact. It looks like the push is coming from old media dying off. Radio is going away and TV's taking a hit from Netflix/Hulu/etc. e.g. services that are subscription based instead of ad supported. It'll be tough for them to go the cable route and introduce ads on top of the subscription fees since that risks driving folks back to cable. The high cost of internet service combined with the death of Net Neutrality and bandwidth cap regulation means cutting the cord isn't much cheaper anymore. A coworker just did it and he's saving about $25/mo (and only that much because he doesn't think he'll go over the newly instituted caps and trigger those fees).
The right have controlled America since Clinton took office by moving the Democratic party right to forge the alliance that won him the election. They own the State legislatures, the House, Senate and Presidency. Even Obama was pretty right of center.
I think you're mistaking "Seeing a lot of left wing social issues on TV and in movies" with real political power. The only thing the left hasn't lost ground on in the last 30 years is gay rights. Every other issue (Abortion, Gun Control, Healthcare, minimum wage, the Wars, economic regulation, etc) they've been beaten back. Even the ACA was a desperate and lousy compromise and the left giving up on Single Payer once again.
Part of the trouble is when Clinton moved the Democratic party right the Republicans had to follow suit in order to maintain their brand. That's a big part of where the hard right shift came from. It's why you see folks like Roy Moore winning primaries and only losing the election because of a sex scandal (and even then only by 1.5 points).
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before that's a problem. Meanwhile if a nuke plant goes bad I'll live many, many years in poverty as I'm forced to leave my now irradiated property behind until I eventually die of cancer in my 40s (maybe mid 50s if I'm lucky).
That's the trouble with nuke plants. The disasters are acute. Meaning all the damage is up front. The annoying thing is that if we were rational beings nuclear would be the perfect energy source.
Natural Gas is still a lot safer and solar is cheaper. That probably wouldn't be true if American's political climate wasn't so crazy. The mad rush to privatize things that shouldn't be privatized coupled with our bad habit of looking the other way on regulation means nuclear power is risky. Government run enterprises tend to be very, very efficient unless they're being run as pork. e.g. the DMV and Post Office both do amazing things (as long as you don't live in the South, where the DMV massively underfunded). That means there really isn't much profit to be had privatizing it without cutting corners on safety and, well, look at Fukushima. A completely preventable disaster that nearly destroyed a city...
And don't forget that we can't recycle the fuel because we're terrified some of it will get lost and turned into nukes. Not that it's ever stopped anyone from getting them (re: North Korea).
TLDR; Get Americans to stop privatizing dangerous things and allow the waste to be recycled and we'll put nuclear back in rotation.
"If you're not doing anything wrong what have you got to fear?". Trust me, with several billion dollars you can put just about anyone away.
why aren't the Verizon/AT&T/etc execs who allow this in jail too? Yeah, yeah, we all know the answer. At a certain point the law no longer applies to you. This guy just wasn't there yet.
Did these people had over CC number? Or of it more likely he had help from the carriers? The last time I heard about these scams they were only possible because companies like AT&T allowed them to tack on charges to your cell phone bill. I don't suppose that practice has ended. I know I still get warnings if I respond to a companies text messages.
has probably removed themselves from 4chan via the hours and hours of shit posting to 4chan.
No joke The GOP has 4 of them running . You can get your rights back in a lot of places. We mostly use denying political rights to keep the 'wrong' (read:poor and minorities) sort from voting. If you've got the money, the time and maybe a few of the right friends it's not hard to get the rights back.
a few refreshes from AMD/Intel/Nvidia. A bunch more talk about digital assistants which are just stand alone devices for things most of us already have on our phones. When the most 'exciting' thing that's making the rounds are small laptops with 4G radios built in you know you've got a dud.
Tech just isn't moving like it used to. Computers have reached 'good enough' territory and cell phones brought so many devices together (phone, mini-tablet, GPS, music player, radio, digital camera/low end camcorder, portable gaming... the list goes on) that there's not a lot of room for gadgets anymore.
expect crypto currencies to plummet. A huge part of their value is making exchanges on the black market. If you add to that a crackdown on ransomeware like they did to botnets in the 2000s and a money laundering crackdown all you've got left are the speculators, who'll jump ship when the black market financial base of the trading networks. That just leaves legitimate businesses and hobbyists. Businesses will just use it as a lark since they'll find it too slow and too volatile to use and a few hobbyists won't keep the whole thing going.
It really comes down to politics. What's mildly worrying is that bitcoin is so valuable now that it's possible the big players may throw in with the Pharmaceuticals and private prison industry to keep drugs illegal. If I was a bitcoin billionaire or even millionaire it'd be worried about it.
that kind of brazenness is par for the course. The point of these lawsuits is for both parties to get some publicity. That's why 99% of the time they're settled out of court. It's more a less a game with both sides playing. The trouble is Gawker didn't realize Hogan wasn't the one playing, Thiel was, and Thiel wasn't playing the same game, he was out for blood.
Now, I suppose you could make the argument that our legal system shouldn't be used to this, but then again the public at large allows it because they find this kind of public theater intensely amusing; even if you and I find it stupid and wasteful. But again, that's missing the point. Gawker's real mistake was not seeing through Hogan to Thiel in time to save themselves.
I'm a conspiracy analyst.
of private enterprise. At least in theory. If people already had good working government service (like the VA for example) you might have a shot. But you'll have no luck with muni broadband until you can convince people that the government doesn't screw up everything it tries. Yeah, yeah, there's lots of evidence of that, but when has evidence ever worked against a multi-million dollar ad blitz?
so here I go again defending Gawker. Gawker did a lot of real journalism and used the muck raking to pay for it. A tradition that's as old as journalism itself. Thiel didn't shut them down because he was outed as gay, he shut them down because they kept reporting on his shady business deals. And their mistake wasn't ignoring the court order. That gets done all the time in their line of work. Their mistake was not realizing that Hogan was backed by Thiel for the express purpose of shutting them down.
What we have here is a pretty scary precedent. We have a billionaire using his money and the legal system to shut down somebody critical of him. If anyone honestly believes that'll end well for us working stiffs then they haven't been paying attention to the last 300 years of labor relations...
it takes time to learn a new UI. Most people who make heavy enough use of an app to bother complaining about it stop looking at the UI and learn by muscle memory how to complete tasks. A UI design screws with that.
this is how you make it possible to enforce anti-discrimination laws. It's necessary when you've got institutionalized racism. E.g. when racism is built into your institutions. Otherwise companies just say "no qualified blacks applied". Companies are actually doing the exact same thing right now with H1-Bs and getting away with it because the law isn't enforced. But in the absence of the paper trail it becomes damn near impossible if you ever do want to enforce it. You can just lie and say the person never applied. Bog the case down indefinitely.
Just make voting mandatory so you can't get away with voter surpression, eliminate gerrymandering and have a paper trail. Bang, problem solved. I suppose we could use computers to eliminate the electoral college. That'd be nice.
Unproven tech, several thousand pounds of steel. No shit Sherlock we don't trust them.
The right own virtually all forms of government in this country. And don't kid yourself, Google is a mega corp. They're not terrible left wing themselves. Not being homophobic does not not make you left wing.
And the media has a strong right wing bias on economic issues. There was never any serious discussion about the wars and they colluded with the Government to avoid showing soldier's caskets coming home. They worked hard to sell the Walstreet bail out and they're working hard to sell Republican tax cuts for the wealthy while ignoring Paul Ryan going around talking about entitlement reform (read: ending SS & Medicare for anyone under 55). The Media is hard right on the economy, and we shouldn't be surprised. Look who owns them.
production, because everybody's expecting the crypto currency bubble to burst and they're afraid of getting stuck with a mountain of unsold inventory.
a 1050 is going for $200. A 1060 6gb for $500. To put that in context, I bought my bro a 1060 6gb for $230 on sale about 2 years ago. Until the crypto currency boom ends I think the high price of video cards will scare off new gamers unless they're really, really hardcore.
One thing that's going to be interesting is that using influencers like AGDQ won't really work to make you pick Tide over Arm & Hammer for your laundry soap or even Coke over RC (which, as anyone from the south knows, is a superior beverage :) ). You need a way to associate the brand with positive thoughts/feelings. That's how you get a brand recognition response. You can do that a bit with product placement but I don't think anything beats a 30 second spot on a popular TV show or sporting event.
All the AA regulations say/do is that a company has to keep records of it's hiring decisions. At no point in time did AA have quotas. That was a myth. This isn't to say individual institutions might not have done quotas, but it wasn't AA that made them do it. It was a private decision (and also one that, had anyone bothered, could be challenged and ruled illegal. Yes, being a White Male is a protected class).
You're fury is being directed towards Affirmative Action so you'll ignore the real reason why you're not getting ahead: That your productivity no longer keeps pace with your wages.
The point is to divide the working class into castes of some kind. America does it with race. India does it with a literal caste system. Japan used Buddhism to create an underclass deemed 'unclean' and the UK had classes. It's the same pattern over and over and over again. The aristocracy is few but they claim anywhere from 50%-80% of the wealth. You can't do that unless you divide and conquer. Don't fall for it.
you're missing the point. The woman you work with are like that because if they weren't, if they were uncomfortable with locker room talk, they'd leave. That is the conclusion of hiring mangers the world over. It's held up and born out in a lot of research/surveys. Heck, I'd be uncomfortable in that environment (I'm a bit of a Melvin) and I'm a 6' tall 220lb guy.
Furthermore, something we tend to forget (or conscientiously ignore) is that virtually any man is a physical threat to a woman. There's a super creepy scene in Hulu's 'The Handmaid's Tale' that illustrated this.
because there's been a big push into digital/online adverts and they have to be obnoxious to have any impact. It looks like the push is coming from old media dying off. Radio is going away and TV's taking a hit from Netflix/Hulu/etc. e.g. services that are subscription based instead of ad supported. It'll be tough for them to go the cable route and introduce ads on top of the subscription fees since that risks driving folks back to cable. The high cost of internet service combined with the death of Net Neutrality and bandwidth cap regulation means cutting the cord isn't much cheaper anymore. A coworker just did it and he's saving about $25/mo (and only that much because he doesn't think he'll go over the newly instituted caps and trigger those fees).
The right have controlled America since Clinton took office by moving the Democratic party right to forge the alliance that won him the election. They own the State legislatures, the House, Senate and Presidency. Even Obama was pretty right of center. I think you're mistaking "Seeing a lot of left wing social issues on TV and in movies" with real political power. The only thing the left hasn't lost ground on in the last 30 years is gay rights. Every other issue (Abortion, Gun Control, Healthcare, minimum wage, the Wars, economic regulation, etc) they've been beaten back. Even the ACA was a desperate and lousy compromise and the left giving up on Single Payer once again.
Part of the trouble is when Clinton moved the Democratic party right the Republicans had to follow suit in order to maintain their brand. That's a big part of where the hard right shift came from. It's why you see folks like Roy Moore winning primaries and only losing the election because of a sex scandal (and even then only by 1.5 points).