that de-monetized Call of Duty streamers for violence?
YouTube will come down on this like a ton of bricks. Their main concern is keeping advertisers happy. YouTube, like regular TV, is about ads.
During the election when all that fake news was going around somebody interviewed the sys admin of one of the bigger networks. He was just in it for the ad revenue (and racking in a ton).
He was asked why he targeted the folks he did. It came down to certain groups of people would share and spread his crap, while other groups would debunk it instantly and it wouldn't get very far.
Anti-Vaxxers are like that. They'll spread your nonsense because they're already prepared to believe nonsense.
they were specifically created to lean towards the copyright owner's benefit because it was assumed (rightfully I would say) that if they followed current fair use laws the major copyright lobbies would just buy new, stricter laws.
What I'm saying is, don't blame YouTube. Fix your bloody corrupt government and that "money is speech" bullshit. You can start with Liz Warren's bill. Hell, go elect her or Bernie (or both maybe?) to the presidency.
As an added bonus when the Notorious RBG steps down you won't get a third pro-corporate / anti-consumer SCOTUS nominee (go look up Gorsuch and the Frat Boy's actual record, they're crazy pro-corporate).
I'm also _tremendously_ unlucky. I don't like to believe in fate but with the sheer number of bad things that happened to me in life outside my control I'm tempted to. If anyone could get a false positive that lands him (or a family member) in jail with $200k in legal bills to fight off a prosecutor it's me. And I'm a nerd, I'm not good looking enough to go in front of an American jury without the best lawyers money can buy.
You're making the mistake that these folks are negotiating in good faith. It's a common mistake. People like to think that everyone has the country's best interests at heart and they're just going about it wrong. Nothing could be further from the truth. The last several federal government shutdowns should have cured us of that misconception, but the notion was embedded in our heads when we were kids so it's tough as nails to dislodge.
There's something in the GOP called "Starve the Beast". It means intentionally wrecking the government in order to undermine faith in it. It is terrorism. No two bones about it. It's using fear and disorder for a political purpose, which is the definition of terrorism. This is that.
If the folks refuse then the GOP will be happy to fire them all and bring in scabs (look it up if you're too young to know what a scab is). If that happens they'll have achieved the long cherished goal of privatizing public services like education and police.
So go ahead. Let them refuse and get fired. The folks in charge send their kids to private schools where they'll fall in line. And the end result will be exactly what they want.
Like I said, you can't win when the other side isn't negotiating in good faith. It's why the Dems wouldn't cave on the last shutdown. We don't negotiate with terrorists, but sadly it seems we vote for them.
Seriously, you couldn't vote in the country unless you were a white landowner (and a specific shade of white at that, no we don't want the Irish) until fairly recently. And there's probably still folk alive who remember when dames couldn't vote. The civil rights movement is recent history and the gays are _still_ fighting for basic rights like the right to make purchases from public businesses and to marry (and losing a lot of those battles, I'll add, especially in light of the two new SCOTUS justices we just got).
This is not, nor has it ever, been the land of the free. That's just crap you were taught in school so you wouldn't do anything so ostentatious as try to make that silly little myth real.
And freedom, real freedom, is _economic_ freedom. Remember, you're not free so long as someone controls your access to food, shelter, healthcare, education & transportation. Until then you're one bad month away from being made to do whatever the hell somebody with money wants you to.
they want to guarantee certain things needed by humans as rights. Food, shelter, healthcare, education being the big things. You can keep your money so long as you're not keeping so much that folks are malnourished, dying from the elements or paying $800 bucks for insulin (like my Dad just did).
As for the GOP, they're the ones that want your money. They couldn't care less about your body & soul. Not the party leadership anyway. Take a look at their policy. Watch what they _do_ not what they say (otherwise the Evangelicals will make it look like the body/soul thing is real). They consistently push for policies that lower wages (free trade, more cheap work visas, Union busting) and put workers on edge (dog eat dog healthcare policy, support for payday loan vendors, allowing elevated lead in drinking water). Watch what they do and you'll see a pattern emerge.
This is not to say the Dems are blameless. The dominant wing of the party, the Clinton Democrats, are identical to the GOP. They're after the same thing: to shift as much money to their donors as possible while taking as much for themselves along the way. But the difference is that folks like AOC and Bernie Sanders exist and have significant power in the party. e.g. there is _something_ redeemable there. I don't know of anything even close to that in the GOP. Even Rand Paul falls in line when it's time to.
My advice (which being/. you're gonna get even if you don't ask): join the Democrat party so you can vote in their primary and put left wing, pro-worker folks in charge. Remember, so few folks show up to a primary that your vote has real power there. Politicians don't fear losing in the general, they fear the _primary_.
half the folks at any job I've ever had are deadbeats. I remember one guy who'd come in, take one 4 hour bullshit phone call, go to lunch, do another long, 4 hour bullshit phone call and go home.
Very few folks are needed to run things anymore. But we're a "if you don't work you don't eat" society. So you've got a ton of jobs where you're over staffed.
If your friend ever gets a real taste of the efficiency he's pining for he's gonna hate it. That is unless he gets to join the owner-class and just boss the working class around. Maybe he will, but if not the choices will be non stop desperation or abject poverty.
they'll just de-monetize it and won't promote it (since they can't monetize it).
It's actually really annoying. Lots of good YouTube content has gone poof thanks to this. Stuff like Glove and Boots, Freaky Frank, Talking Classics and the like can't make a living on YouTube since the "adocalypse". A few channels made the jump to Pateron but that only works if you've already got a following. New up and comers needed that YouTube ad revenue to get going.
Somewhat annoyingly the hoards of anti-SJW channels seem to be doing just fine while stuff like Cult of Dusty has the bulk of his videos de-monetized. Though I do get a chuckle seeing an Advert for Donald Trump hitting me up for cash on Secular Talk's videos about Bernie.
It was mostly Wall Street and Consumer banks that collapsed. The credit card banks did just fine.
Banks are smart enough to keep profitable business (Credit Cards) separate from risky ones (Mortgage backed securities).
I wish I could say the same about average Joe consumer. That numbnut let the wall between Main Street & Wall Street banks get busted down and he keeps letting more and more banking regulations get repealed because they're "job killing regulations".
if this just includes whenever somebody Googles something. Sooner or later you're bound to accidentally google an account number, customer name or phone #. Google has long since switched to HTTPs making this relatively harmless. The worst is that Google has seen something they shouldn't have.
I will say programmers need to be more careful what they post to Github. I can't tell you the number of times I've seen passwords for ERP systems, payment systems and the whole shebang in a bloody public Github account. Those contractors are cheaper than FTEs for a reason.
my buddy got a few grand from a class action but then the company continued to do the stuff that caused the class action. The only reason he got that is a lawyer smelled money. It was better than the nothing he was gonna get anyway though.
There's an old Dilbert cartoon where the mean little Dog (Dogbert?) sets up a phony government office to take advantage of people (the "Bureau of Dogs") and Dilbert says he's complain about it to whoever manages that sort of thing.
The last panel had Dogbert telling an aggrieved man that it cost $50 to file a complain and $10 bucks to borrow a pen.
The world is like that. The Right Wing took over state legislatures and used that to stop funding the government agencies that protect people. They sold this to the public as "shutting down those stodgy bureaucrats". The result is things like labor and consumer protection first only exist on paper. They're not funded, so there's nobody there doing the work and nobody to complain to.
Along with changing the bankruptcy laws so that you can't discharge debt under $100k this was one of the biggest shifts in power in American history. And nobody's said a word about it (except those aforementioned left wing sites barely anybody reads).
but it doesn't really surprise me. Still, if you make good money it would be easy enough to fix. If you're paycheck to paycheck though nobody cares, and that's 60-80% of the population (depending on how you run the numbers).
Also, Mod parent up. I know we're not supposed to complain about the Mods, but everything you said seemed on topic and without exaggeration.
shoved down their gullets. I know a few guys with fucked up finances and crap jobs. They don't get checks, they get money on a debit card every week or two.
It's sucks of course. There's fees and it's a major pain to use. But here's the rub: nobody really cares about these people. I mean, the current administration just rolled back a ton of consumer protection and anti-payday loan rules and nobody batted an eye. I only know about it because the crazy left wing sites I like complained about it (the kind that run articles on "The high cost of being poor".
TL;DR; If you're well enough off that you matter you're already getting away from cash because going to understaffed banks and waiting in line is a drag. If you're poor enough to depend on cash you're gonna get dragged into the cashless economy and taken advantage of by it, but nobody care.
but he swears by his gaming mouse. I have one of his hand me downs (it was too small for his hand) but I honestly can't tell the difference. That said, I'm mostly a console gamer who happens to play on PC.
Rob Liefeld's art was terrible. His proportions were madness and he couldn't draw feet to save his life. Why, the thought to using it to treat any medical condition is just absurd.
In America cheap work visas mean you have an unlimited access to fresh employees. No need to worry about burnout, long term health or well being.
Also, a certain percentage of the populace _is_ able to be productive for extended hours. 40, 50, 60 even 80. Yeah, there aren't a lot of them, but when you're drawing from a pool of over a billion workers you've got plenty.
More than anything else this is why us tech folk can't compete with India. Their middle class is as large as our entire country. It's just a numbers game at that point.
weaponizing space helps nobody except the Military Industrial Complex. We had treaties to prevent this sort of thing.
Defense is a moot point now. Pakisitan keeps turning a blind eye to domestic terrorists in India and nothing ever comes of it because the ruling class isn't going to let you and me have another big war and break all the stuff they own. Unless globalism breaks down completely we're done with World Wars.
You won't see much new research out of this because the point isn't get get ahead of the curve or to defend the nation or even to attack others. The point is to soak up taxpayer dollars and distract from the ever worsening economy. Works too.
it's about _control_. You want to be the exclusive source for comment and truth about your God so that folks have to get to God through _you_. Then you can charge them for the privilege.
I say the community because the point keeps coming up: Christianity is just farther along than Islam.
The Bible really only has 1 punishment: Death. And several of the Commandments folks like to ignore make it so that images of God are a huge no-no. Historically the reason for this was to keep power concentrated with the priesthood (folks who know their history know that government & religion were often the same thing for a very long time).
This comes up when folks ask a YouTube skeptic "why so many videos on Christianity when Islam will kill you for drawing their prophet?". The answer is Christianity has a more immediate impact on their lives because of the countries they live in, and that they're more afraid of their country regressing back to the point where Christians have the same power to forcefully enact their will as many Muslims wield.
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that de-monetized Call of Duty streamers for violence? YouTube will come down on this like a ton of bricks. Their main concern is keeping advertisers happy. YouTube, like regular TV, is about ads.
for advertisers.
During the election when all that fake news was going around somebody interviewed the sys admin of one of the bigger networks. He was just in it for the ad revenue (and racking in a ton).
He was asked why he targeted the folks he did. It came down to certain groups of people would share and spread his crap, while other groups would debunk it instantly and it wouldn't get very far.
Anti-Vaxxers are like that. They'll spread your nonsense because they're already prepared to believe nonsense.
they were specifically created to lean towards the copyright owner's benefit because it was assumed (rightfully I would say) that if they followed current fair use laws the major copyright lobbies would just buy new, stricter laws.
What I'm saying is, don't blame YouTube. Fix your bloody corrupt government and that "money is speech" bullshit. You can start with Liz Warren's bill. Hell, go elect her or Bernie (or both maybe?) to the presidency.
As an added bonus when the Notorious RBG steps down you won't get a third pro-corporate / anti-consumer SCOTUS nominee (go look up Gorsuch and the Frat Boy's actual record, they're crazy pro-corporate).
so yeah, this matters to me.
I'm also _tremendously_ unlucky. I don't like to believe in fate but with the sheer number of bad things that happened to me in life outside my control I'm tempted to. If anyone could get a false positive that lands him (or a family member) in jail with $200k in legal bills to fight off a prosecutor it's me. And I'm a nerd, I'm not good looking enough to go in front of an American jury without the best lawyers money can buy.
You're making the mistake that these folks are negotiating in good faith. It's a common mistake. People like to think that everyone has the country's best interests at heart and they're just going about it wrong. Nothing could be further from the truth. The last several federal government shutdowns should have cured us of that misconception, but the notion was embedded in our heads when we were kids so it's tough as nails to dislodge.
There's something in the GOP called "Starve the Beast". It means intentionally wrecking the government in order to undermine faith in it. It is terrorism. No two bones about it. It's using fear and disorder for a political purpose, which is the definition of terrorism. This is that.
If the folks refuse then the GOP will be happy to fire them all and bring in scabs (look it up if you're too young to know what a scab is). If that happens they'll have achieved the long cherished goal of privatizing public services like education and police.
So go ahead. Let them refuse and get fired. The folks in charge send their kids to private schools where they'll fall in line. And the end result will be exactly what they want.
Like I said, you can't win when the other side isn't negotiating in good faith. It's why the Dems wouldn't cave on the last shutdown. We don't negotiate with terrorists, but sadly it seems we vote for them.
Seriously, you couldn't vote in the country unless you were a white landowner (and a specific shade of white at that, no we don't want the Irish) until fairly recently. And there's probably still folk alive who remember when dames couldn't vote. The civil rights movement is recent history and the gays are _still_ fighting for basic rights like the right to make purchases from public businesses and to marry (and losing a lot of those battles, I'll add, especially in light of the two new SCOTUS justices we just got).
This is not, nor has it ever, been the land of the free. That's just crap you were taught in school so you wouldn't do anything so ostentatious as try to make that silly little myth real.
And freedom, real freedom, is _economic_ freedom. Remember, you're not free so long as someone controls your access to food, shelter, healthcare, education & transportation. Until then you're one bad month away from being made to do whatever the hell somebody with money wants you to.
they want to guarantee certain things needed by humans as rights. Food, shelter, healthcare, education being the big things. You can keep your money so long as you're not keeping so much that folks are malnourished, dying from the elements or paying $800 bucks for insulin (like my Dad just did).
/. you're gonna get even if you don't ask): join the Democrat party so you can vote in their primary and put left wing, pro-worker folks in charge. Remember, so few folks show up to a primary that your vote has real power there. Politicians don't fear losing in the general, they fear the _primary_.
As for the GOP, they're the ones that want your money. They couldn't care less about your body & soul. Not the party leadership anyway. Take a look at their policy. Watch what they _do_ not what they say (otherwise the Evangelicals will make it look like the body/soul thing is real). They consistently push for policies that lower wages (free trade, more cheap work visas, Union busting) and put workers on edge (dog eat dog healthcare policy, support for payday loan vendors, allowing elevated lead in drinking water). Watch what they do and you'll see a pattern emerge.
This is not to say the Dems are blameless. The dominant wing of the party, the Clinton Democrats, are identical to the GOP. They're after the same thing: to shift as much money to their donors as possible while taking as much for themselves along the way. But the difference is that folks like AOC and Bernie Sanders exist and have significant power in the party. e.g. there is _something_ redeemable there. I don't know of anything even close to that in the GOP. Even Rand Paul falls in line when it's time to.
My advice (which being
half the folks at any job I've ever had are deadbeats. I remember one guy who'd come in, take one 4 hour bullshit phone call, go to lunch, do another long, 4 hour bullshit phone call and go home.
Very few folks are needed to run things anymore. But we're a "if you don't work you don't eat" society. So you've got a ton of jobs where you're over staffed.
If your friend ever gets a real taste of the efficiency he's pining for he's gonna hate it. That is unless he gets to join the owner-class and just boss the working class around. Maybe he will, but if not the choices will be non stop desperation or abject poverty.
they'll just de-monetize it and won't promote it (since they can't monetize it).
It's actually really annoying. Lots of good YouTube content has gone poof thanks to this. Stuff like Glove and Boots, Freaky Frank, Talking Classics and the like can't make a living on YouTube since the "adocalypse". A few channels made the jump to Pateron but that only works if you've already got a following. New up and comers needed that YouTube ad revenue to get going.
Somewhat annoyingly the hoards of anti-SJW channels seem to be doing just fine while stuff like Cult of Dusty has the bulk of his videos de-monetized. Though I do get a chuckle seeing an Advert for Donald Trump hitting me up for cash on Secular Talk's videos about Bernie.
It was mostly Wall Street and Consumer banks that collapsed. The credit card banks did just fine.
Banks are smart enough to keep profitable business (Credit Cards) separate from risky ones (Mortgage backed securities).
I wish I could say the same about average Joe consumer. That numbnut let the wall between Main Street & Wall Street banks get busted down and he keeps letting more and more banking regulations get repealed because they're "job killing regulations".
if this just includes whenever somebody Googles something. Sooner or later you're bound to accidentally google an account number, customer name or phone #. Google has long since switched to HTTPs making this relatively harmless. The worst is that Google has seen something they shouldn't have.
I will say programmers need to be more careful what they post to Github. I can't tell you the number of times I've seen passwords for ERP systems, payment systems and the whole shebang in a bloody public Github account. Those contractors are cheaper than FTEs for a reason.
my buddy got a few grand from a class action but then the company continued to do the stuff that caused the class action. The only reason he got that is a lawyer smelled money. It was better than the nothing he was gonna get anyway though.
There's an old Dilbert cartoon where the mean little Dog (Dogbert?) sets up a phony government office to take advantage of people (the "Bureau of Dogs") and Dilbert says he's complain about it to whoever manages that sort of thing.
The last panel had Dogbert telling an aggrieved man that it cost $50 to file a complain and $10 bucks to borrow a pen.
The world is like that. The Right Wing took over state legislatures and used that to stop funding the government agencies that protect people. They sold this to the public as "shutting down those stodgy bureaucrats". The result is things like labor and consumer protection first only exist on paper. They're not funded, so there's nobody there doing the work and nobody to complain to.
Along with changing the bankruptcy laws so that you can't discharge debt under $100k this was one of the biggest shifts in power in American history. And nobody's said a word about it (except those aforementioned left wing sites barely anybody reads).
but it doesn't really surprise me. Still, if you make good money it would be easy enough to fix. If you're paycheck to paycheck though nobody cares, and that's 60-80% of the population (depending on how you run the numbers).
Also, Mod parent up. I know we're not supposed to complain about the Mods, but everything you said seemed on topic and without exaggeration.
shoved down their gullets. I know a few guys with fucked up finances and crap jobs. They don't get checks, they get money on a debit card every week or two.
It's sucks of course. There's fees and it's a major pain to use. But here's the rub: nobody really cares about these people. I mean, the current administration just rolled back a ton of consumer protection and anti-payday loan rules and nobody batted an eye. I only know about it because the crazy left wing sites I like complained about it (the kind that run articles on "The high cost of being poor".
TL;DR; If you're well enough off that you matter you're already getting away from cash because going to understaffed banks and waiting in line is a drag. If you're poor enough to depend on cash you're gonna get dragged into the cashless economy and taken advantage of by it, but nobody care.
from even the lightspeed mouse being wireless?
but he swears by his gaming mouse. I have one of his hand me downs (it was too small for his hand) but I honestly can't tell the difference. That said, I'm mostly a console gamer who happens to play on PC.
Rob Liefeld's art was terrible. His proportions were madness and he couldn't draw feet to save his life. Why, the thought to using it to treat any medical condition is just absurd.
Have you seen him? A stiff wind and he's be airborne in a minute flat.
And if getting America to talk seriously about single payer healthcare in 2019 isn't a super power I don't know what is.
in 2020. I don't want war with Iran. Or Venezuela. And I'd love to put a stop to the 7 or 8 wars we're in now.
a year. Does that count?
In America cheap work visas mean you have an unlimited access to fresh employees. No need to worry about burnout, long term health or well being.
Also, a certain percentage of the populace _is_ able to be productive for extended hours. 40, 50, 60 even 80. Yeah, there aren't a lot of them, but when you're drawing from a pool of over a billion workers you've got plenty.
More than anything else this is why us tech folk can't compete with India. Their middle class is as large as our entire country. It's just a numbers game at that point.
weaponizing space helps nobody except the Military Industrial Complex. We had treaties to prevent this sort of thing.
Defense is a moot point now. Pakisitan keeps turning a blind eye to domestic terrorists in India and nothing ever comes of it because the ruling class isn't going to let you and me have another big war and break all the stuff they own. Unless globalism breaks down completely we're done with World Wars.
You won't see much new research out of this because the point isn't get get ahead of the curve or to defend the nation or even to attack others. The point is to soak up taxpayer dollars and distract from the ever worsening economy. Works too.
it's about _control_. You want to be the exclusive source for comment and truth about your God so that folks have to get to God through _you_. Then you can charge them for the privilege.
I say the community because the point keeps coming up: Christianity is just farther along than Islam.
The Bible really only has 1 punishment: Death. And several of the Commandments folks like to ignore make it so that images of God are a huge no-no. Historically the reason for this was to keep power concentrated with the priesthood (folks who know their history know that government & religion were often the same thing for a very long time).
This comes up when folks ask a YouTube skeptic "why so many videos on Christianity when Islam will kill you for drawing their prophet?". The answer is Christianity has a more immediate impact on their lives because of the countries they live in, and that they're more afraid of their country regressing back to the point where Christians have the same power to forcefully enact their will as many Muslims wield.
What about Bernie Sanders?