it would cost more to litigate than to pay. This is not by accident. Companies will often set fees to just that threshold.
It works both ways too. If you rack up a bunch of credit card debt with different cards but it's not enough to be worth suing over then your CC company will debt swap with other companies until it's enough and come after you. I saw this a lot in 2009.
because Americans _love_ war. Donald Trump's biggest single poll boost in his presidency came after he dropped a $21 million dollar bomb on some goat herders in Afghanistan. And the Call of Duty & Battlefield games sell millions.
War's great when you're sitting at your computer desk posting to/.. It only sucks for folks like the Yemenese or Iraqi who get invaded by large, hostile foreign powers.
that time is long, long gone. And that's before you take into account Globalism's effect. The rich and powerful have stopped allowing wars except for the occasional one to steal resources (oil mostly). For example, Pakistan has been glibly ignoring terrorists attacking India for decades and still no war there. Why? Bad for business.
At this point the only thing keeping wars going is the Military Industrial Complex. Folks standing up to stop feeding that beast is a good thing.
Nvidia givth, and Nvidia taketh away. The card'll be useless for high end gaming in about 4-5 years for no other reason than it's missing 2gb of ram. Same as my 760 with it's 2gb of ram.
They used to do this with bus widths but DDR5 is so fast now that doesn't work. Even 128-bit cards can crank out 60+ fps in a lot of games.
I suppose it depends on how evenly distributed it was, but still.
Also, a chain is only as strong as it's weakest link. Maybe I'm misunderstanding but it sounds like you're counting on the exchanges for security. Given how quickly they spin up that seems like a recipe for disaster.
YouTube isn't a social network. The controversy, such as it is, doesn't have anything to do with privacy. Also YouTube hasn't done anything dodgy or illegal, they've just responded poorly to a very minor bit of bad publicity.
This'll blow over, some full time YouTubers will sadly lose out (and we'll lose out on some good content) and YouTube will go on.
The CA thing was a mess because not only was there privacy concerns but there was the stink of corrupt American politics all over it.
that's my attitude. Banning a thing isn't gonna fix it (which is what shutting down Facebook is basically). Instead regulate it (and tax it while you're at it)
Of course, you'd have to vote people into office would oppose regulatory capture, and that means voting for some folks you might not necessarily like. I don't necessarily mean policy wise (there is that too) but I mean you might not like them personally.
The kinds of people who can be bought off are often also some of the most affable. Reagan, Clinton (Bill), even Bush Jr were all immensely likable but I could spend the next 12 hours regaling you of all the horrible stuff they did.
if you've got a nice kitchen then your vents and fans work.
But yeah, I live in a cheap apartment and cook my own meals and when I do the whole place stinks. If the weather's OK I'll open windows and doors but half the time I don't want to let the heat out or in (depending on the time of year).
I said that from the GP's argument that any contract two people enter into is valid that it naturally follows that slavery contracts should be allowed.
The Strawman in your argument is that I've said employment is exactly equal to slavery.
At the moment it's not, but it has been in the past. As for Rape, same deal. It wasn't too long ago that women were forced into "Marriage" on a routine basis.
Basically, everything is just a matter of degree. At the moment very few people are coerced to the extremes of rape and slavery, but just because it happens to be like that right now doesn't mean we can't regress, or that a significant portion of the electorate and ruling class isn't actively working on that regression.
then yeah, it's forced. Especially when nearly all employers do it. Google's one of the top employers so good luck getting a job with them to escape forced arbitration.
And this begs the question, should you be able to sell yourself into slavery then? If you're willing to say yes then at least your consistent, though on some level you must realize that if you're selling yourself into slavery then you're not in a position to make fair contracts. Anymore than a child would be.
usually for social issues like Abortion or "Tough on Crime" candidates. So economic policy (which make no mistake, that's what this is) falls by the wayside.
Also, Google has a _lot_ of contractors, and I suspect they're not affected by this. That's the point of hiring contractors after all, it lets you do all the terrible things to employees you want while publicly saying you don't do that.
who thought this was a good idea? In 2016 Russia was able to significantly interfere with US elections and we're several times their size. China and Iran are doing the same. This is just nuts. Mail paper f'n ballots already. They work, they're secure, and they can't be hacked over the bloody internet.
but for the flat earthers I think it's about community. Particularly a community that accepts all types without preconditions. Religion is on the wane and usually churches are the place to go for that kind of thing, leaving folks who have less than perfect social skills but who want to be around people looking for a social outlet.
Seriously. If you're invoking Nazis in anything except historic context, either directly or indirectly, then you're spreading a message of violence. Nazism is like Ebola, really nasty shit that needs to be handled with care.
because, well, it's not. This has nothing to do with Freedom of Speech whatsoever.
This is a privacy issue. Facebook Identified people interested in Nazi's and gave that information to advertisers. I can come up with lots of scenarios where that information could hurt somebody. And all it would take to get it is some money and a phony ad agency.
Globalism means I don't need to hire local talent at local rates. I can offshore most of the work, sell the products they make and what I can't offshore I can bring in cheap workers on visas.
Just as many jobs in programming either way, but way, way less pay and you'll never get hired to do it if you're "local".
when blue collar guys were getting their jobs shipped overseas / to Mexico in the late 90s early 2000s they were told to "Learn to Code". Guys in their 40s were sent to tech schools for new jobs.
Thing is it's hard to learn a new trade when you're young. It's harder when you're old. And a lot of these folks weren't suited to the jobs in the first place. I worked with a bunch of these guys in my career and none of them lasted.
These guys are pretty fucking bitter at this point. During the 2016 campaign that was basically Hillary Clinton's message to them. It's a big part of why Trump won, he promised them their old jobs back.
Anyway, fast forward to 2019 and there's been huge Journalist layoffs at newspapers and TV stations. Mergers and Acquisitions + the general move to digital means a lot fewer jobs. Those bitter, angry blue collar guys came out of the wood work and starting throwing "Learn to Code" at the Journalists and other white collar guys who were now out of work and who ignored them when they were hurting.
It's basically shorthand for "How do you like it when it happens to you, fucker". And no, I don't blame the blue collar guys for being mad. That said, I _do_ blame them for not showing up to the Democratic primary and putting Bernie Sanders or another real populist with real solutions in office. Their best bet is stuff like infrastructure spending and the green new deal. It's not that we don't need blue collar work, it's that the rich don't want to pay for it and after 2008 they took all the money for themselves.
Like Bernie's 2020 slogan says, it's not me, it's Us. Blue Collar and White Collar need to get it through their heads that they're all working class and band together.
Seriously, don't. Go into medicine unless you're a math wiz (in which case you're not really a programmer, you're a mathematician who happens to program).
The current administration just raised the H1-B cap by 20,000/yr. They passed it off as a good thing because those folks will have to have PHDs, but given the way diploma mills work that's not a high bar.
Like journalism in the 90s programming is a dying field. Steer clear. There's a reason why "Learn to Code" became an insult/slur.
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that a vocal opponent of license plate readers gets "accidentally" flagged as an ultra violent criminal? Small world, eh? What are the odds?
it would cost more to litigate than to pay. This is not by accident. Companies will often set fees to just that threshold.
It works both ways too. If you rack up a bunch of credit card debt with different cards but it's not enough to be worth suing over then your CC company will debt swap with other companies until it's enough and come after you. I saw this a lot in 2009.
because Americans _love_ war. Donald Trump's biggest single poll boost in his presidency came after he dropped a $21 million dollar bomb on some goat herders in Afghanistan. And the Call of Duty & Battlefield games sell millions.
/.. It only sucks for folks like the Yemenese or Iraqi who get invaded by large, hostile foreign powers.
War's great when you're sitting at your computer desk posting to
he just recognized that the Nazi's having the bomb would be worse.
Also, the bomb is pretty much the last word in military. Between that and our two oceans we don't need to keep building up like we do.
that time is long, long gone. And that's before you take into account Globalism's effect. The rich and powerful have stopped allowing wars except for the occasional one to steal resources (oil mostly). For example, Pakistan has been glibly ignoring terrorists attacking India for decades and still no war there. Why? Bad for business.
At this point the only thing keeping wars going is the Military Industrial Complex. Folks standing up to stop feeding that beast is a good thing.
Nvidia givth, and Nvidia taketh away. The card'll be useless for high end gaming in about 4-5 years for no other reason than it's missing 2gb of ram. Same as my 760 with it's 2gb of ram.
They used to do this with bus widths but DDR5 is so fast now that doesn't work. Even 128-bit cards can crank out 60+ fps in a lot of games.
I suppose it depends on how evenly distributed it was, but still.
Also, a chain is only as strong as it's weakest link. Maybe I'm misunderstanding but it sounds like you're counting on the exchanges for security. Given how quickly they spin up that seems like a recipe for disaster.
YouTube isn't a social network. The controversy, such as it is, doesn't have anything to do with privacy. Also YouTube hasn't done anything dodgy or illegal, they've just responded poorly to a very minor bit of bad publicity.
This'll blow over, some full time YouTubers will sadly lose out (and we'll lose out on some good content) and YouTube will go on.
The CA thing was a mess because not only was there privacy concerns but there was the stink of corrupt American politics all over it.
that's my attitude. Banning a thing isn't gonna fix it (which is what shutting down Facebook is basically). Instead regulate it (and tax it while you're at it)
Of course, you'd have to vote people into office would oppose regulatory capture, and that means voting for some folks you might not necessarily like. I don't necessarily mean policy wise (there is that too) but I mean you might not like them personally.
The kinds of people who can be bought off are often also some of the most affable. Reagan, Clinton (Bill), even Bush Jr were all immensely likable but I could spend the next 12 hours regaling you of all the horrible stuff they did.
I forgot who but she's somebody's God daughter or something. As long as we continue to pretend our ruling class doesn't exist they're untouchable.
Warren Buffet nailed it. (apologies for the WaPo link, open it in incognito/private mode).
if you've got a nice kitchen then your vents and fans work.
But yeah, I live in a cheap apartment and cook my own meals and when I do the whole place stinks. If the weather's OK I'll open windows and doors but half the time I don't want to let the heat out or in (depending on the time of year).
I said that from the GP's argument that any contract two people enter into is valid that it naturally follows that slavery contracts should be allowed.
The Strawman in your argument is that I've said employment is exactly equal to slavery.
At the moment it's not, but it has been in the past. As for Rape, same deal. It wasn't too long ago that women were forced into "Marriage" on a routine basis.
Basically, everything is just a matter of degree. At the moment very few people are coerced to the extremes of rape and slavery, but just because it happens to be like that right now doesn't mean we can't regress, or that a significant portion of the electorate and ruling class isn't actively working on that regression.
forget that. It'll be bots. Lots and lots of bots. Including Bots by state actors attacking videos they don't like.
Say goodbye to any political discourse that isn't from the establishment. Say goodbye to anything that's not pro-corporate.
then yeah, it's forced. Especially when nearly all employers do it. Google's one of the top employers so good luck getting a job with them to escape forced arbitration.
And this begs the question, should you be able to sell yourself into slavery then? If you're willing to say yes then at least your consistent, though on some level you must realize that if you're selling yourself into slavery then you're not in a position to make fair contracts. Anymore than a child would be.
usually for social issues like Abortion or "Tough on Crime" candidates. So economic policy (which make no mistake, that's what this is) falls by the wayside.
Also, Google has a _lot_ of contractors, and I suspect they're not affected by this. That's the point of hiring contractors after all, it lets you do all the terrible things to employees you want while publicly saying you don't do that.
Donald Trump's gonna roll out 6G!
I tell you, the best wireless. You're gonna get tired of winning this wireless.
who thought this was a good idea? In 2016 Russia was able to significantly interfere with US elections and we're several times their size. China and Iran are doing the same. This is just nuts. Mail paper f'n ballots already. They work, they're secure, and they can't be hacked over the bloody internet.
but for the flat earthers I think it's about community. Particularly a community that accepts all types without preconditions. Religion is on the wane and usually churches are the place to go for that kind of thing, leaving folks who have less than perfect social skills but who want to be around people looking for a social outlet.
they're Big on Parties (ducks).
Big Data can mean Bad Data. I could easily see somebody getting on a list of presumed Nazi sympathizers because they did research into WWII.
when they did that whole "Holocaust" thing.
Seriously. If you're invoking Nazis in anything except historic context, either directly or indirectly, then you're spreading a message of violence. Nazism is like Ebola, really nasty shit that needs to be handled with care.
because, well, it's not. This has nothing to do with Freedom of Speech whatsoever.
This is a privacy issue. Facebook Identified people interested in Nazi's and gave that information to advertisers. I can come up with lots of scenarios where that information could hurt somebody. And all it would take to get it is some money and a phony ad agency.
it's just the local talent isn't a part of it.
Globalism means I don't need to hire local talent at local rates. I can offshore most of the work, sell the products they make and what I can't offshore I can bring in cheap workers on visas.
Just as many jobs in programming either way, but way, way less pay and you'll never get hired to do it if you're "local".
when blue collar guys were getting their jobs shipped overseas / to Mexico in the late 90s early 2000s they were told to "Learn to Code". Guys in their 40s were sent to tech schools for new jobs.
Thing is it's hard to learn a new trade when you're young. It's harder when you're old. And a lot of these folks weren't suited to the jobs in the first place. I worked with a bunch of these guys in my career and none of them lasted.
These guys are pretty fucking bitter at this point. During the 2016 campaign that was basically Hillary Clinton's message to them. It's a big part of why Trump won, he promised them their old jobs back.
Anyway, fast forward to 2019 and there's been huge Journalist layoffs at newspapers and TV stations. Mergers and Acquisitions + the general move to digital means a lot fewer jobs. Those bitter, angry blue collar guys came out of the wood work and starting throwing "Learn to Code" at the Journalists and other white collar guys who were now out of work and who ignored them when they were hurting.
It's basically shorthand for "How do you like it when it happens to you, fucker". And no, I don't blame the blue collar guys for being mad. That said, I _do_ blame them for not showing up to the Democratic primary and putting Bernie Sanders or another real populist with real solutions in office. Their best bet is stuff like infrastructure spending and the green new deal. It's not that we don't need blue collar work, it's that the rich don't want to pay for it and after 2008 they took all the money for themselves.
Like Bernie's 2020 slogan says, it's not me, it's Us. Blue Collar and White Collar need to get it through their heads that they're all working class and band together.
to be programmers.
Seriously, don't. Go into medicine unless you're a math wiz (in which case you're not really a programmer, you're a mathematician who happens to program).
The current administration just raised the H1-B cap by 20,000/yr. They passed it off as a good thing because those folks will have to have PHDs, but given the way diploma mills work that's not a high bar.
Like journalism in the 90s programming is a dying field. Steer clear. There's a reason why "Learn to Code" became an insult/slur.