And a few week paid to engineers to maintain them. And engineers are nerds most of the time, they won't care that they're not on top like, say, a military general would, so little to no risk of them overthrowing you.
only about one video a month, but her content's solid and incredibly interesting if you're into retro games, especially if you'd like to learn about the British gaming scene in the 80s and 90s.
You can get psuedo legal copies (keys purchased overseas that are grey market) for around $10-$20 bucks. If you already had Win 7 around they gave 10 away for a few years.
Free isn't enough. It needs applications. For end users that means Office (lots of folks still use the native version) and games. Steams' custom WINE doesn't run everything.
we pretty well get pounded in the skull with the idea that government is bad from grade school on. One of the big states (Texas) has it's school boards controlled by right wing extremists and because it's such a large market they've been able to control the contents of schoolbooks for decades. Anti-government sentiment is all over our media too. The main narrative you see over here is "Gov't can't do anything right, they just make things worse". It's mostly pushed on us by big corps that don't want to pay taxes, but it works.
This seems like a mega corp adding features to sell, probably because they think they can go to the government, give a few Senators some cash, and get a law passed. You do realize it's the left that would shut that kind of thing down? You do realize that the sorts of zero tolerance things you're railing against (like, say, mandatory sentencing, asset forfeiture, going to jail for years for a bit of pot or even some coke) are deeply opposed by the left.
I'm so damn sick of folks saying "The Left" when what they really mean is "People I don't like". If you directed your ire at the people actually pushing the things you hate you'd be on the left.
the amount of money it takes to do these projects means you're options are big companies or the government. I'd personally rather see the government doing it. Telecom is too valuable to leave in the hands of private companies that may not (ok, let's be honest, probably not) have the best interests of consumers at heart.
This does require a voting public to be engaged. I think that's doable but we need to get more emphasis on economic issues like this and less on social & wedge issues.
in the form of rice. Reducing "Carb Intake" works for Americans because it forces us to stop eating cake, cookies, drinking soda, etc. The quality of the protein isn't what makes atkins work. I knew a dirt poor guy who got buff eating potted meat (if you're trying to put on muscle you need meat, and if you're poor that stuff is cheap since it's basically sanitized dog food).
What's needed to keep weight off is less stress or more stress. The Japanese do it with a fuck ton of social pressure. Look up some articles on how they stay thin. Being fat gets you a ton of shit in Japan. Not the mild fat shaming we do here but actual social pressure.
so just focus on the kinds of politicians who won't mandate the feature and you'll be fine.
That's a little tricky though. What you've got to watch out for aren't bleeding heart liberals or puritanical right wingers, it's the corporatists. If the politicians do make these mandatory it won't be for safety, it'll be to line the auto company's pockets with extra cash from a useless "safety" feature.
the wealthy show that people can and will do things even when they don't have to work to survive. Complete Ne'er do wells are the exception among the wealthy, not the rule.
The only thing the constant threat of death does is keep people in their place. It drives people to be conservative (that's little 'c' conservative, i.e. opposing to change, not "Politically Conservative", meaning far right wing and leaning towards or outright celebrating authoritarian leaders in the oligarchy). This lets the folks at the top cow tow us all and keep on taking 50, 60, sometimes even 80% of all wealth generated by society for themselves. And even with all that it's not enough, they want more.
Humans will do things even if they don't have to. A scientist is just plain going to get bored sitting around all day. They're not scientists out of fear, they're scientists out of curiosity. Once we started down the path of automation that was mechanical farming we started making the non-stop struggle for existence obsolete. At this point we're just doing it out of fear, hate and short sightedness.
to lose it. That's because your body creates fat cells when you gain weight but does not destroy them when you lose it, they just shrink.
So a few high stress years (say when your kids are born and both you and the wife work full time because one income hasn't been enough to afford a family since before Reagan was president) and you've just permanently made it harder to stay fit.
Add in the health problems that come with getting older (worse sleep being the big one) and you just can't burn as many calories as you used to, making it harder to keep the weight off.
when they're not working 50+ hours a week and taking care of kids the remaining hours.
As a people we're massively overworked. We use soda & junk food for the quick bursts of energy needed to get through the day. This has been and is getting worse because while food is widely available good paying jobs are not.
I mean, why is it that when Donald Trump got rich he kept doing business deals? It's been shown that if he just stuck the money his dad gave him in an index fund it would have outperformed his business deals by a sizeable margin and with less risk.
Why is it only poor people getting financial security that ends all drive to do anything else? I mean, nobody ever calls the Job Creators out for that behavior because they don't do it. It's almost as if yes, you can motivate people with starvation but, no, you don't need to.
to be thrown in a wood chipper. I _do_ recall the kid's wealthy parents hiring a well known PR firm and the mass media coming to their defense after the initial clicks from that picture were used up.
I also recall hearing the full story, which was that the kids got into a shouting match with a bunch of radical black activists (who themselves were being asshats, to be fair, but they were also very clearly nut jobs of the sort decent people ignore) so they went and got all their friends together to _hopefully_ just scare/intimidate the black guys.
The Native American guy defused the situation. If he hadn't there's a good chance those kids would have beaten the black guys to an inch of life (or worse). In high school I didn't quite have the strength of an adult but I had plenty to take two or three of 'em on if I'd had 10-20 of my buds there.
The story that wasn't covered was WHERE THE FUCK WERE THOSE KID'S CHAPERONES?
Seriously, rich punk kids let loose in mass during a political protest. WTF. These are kids who are used to zero consequences for their actions and you let them loose in a playground like that?
Can you provide a single prominent member of the left who advocated violence and bigotry of some kind?
You've got the SJWs I suppose. So lets see. On the right we have a religious leader with millions of followers and the POTUS openly advocating violence on national TV. On the left you've got a handful of annoying blue haired college girls that nobody listens to except the guys trying to get down their pants.
Then again, and I hate to admit this, if you're trying to get down the pants of a blue haired college girl she seems like she's got a lot more power over your life than Robertson or POTUS...
The public forum doctrine is an analytical tool used in First Amendment jurisprudence to determine the constitutionality of speech restrictions implemented on government property.
No, Facebook is not gov't property. If you want to have the government make a public Facebook and/or YouTube go right ahead. Just like Public Access anything goes. But that would of course be Socialism. Not sure if you're cool with that or not, or with your tax dollars paying for a public Facebook & YouTube.
the DMCA has plenty of Safe Harbor provisions for them. There's no issue there. Facebook can ban whoever and still be safe. They are not and have never been a dumb carrier. They don't want to be. Their current process works just fine. Send some DMCA take downs and they pull the content and they're safe. Period.
This is grandstanding by the GOP. Don't fall for it. It's got nothing to do with Freedom of Speech. The same old white dudes that'll be grilling Facebook fought to keep sex and violence out of comics, tv and music in the 80s and supported the PMRC (google it if you're too young to know). These people are not your friend. They are the establishment. They're the folks who crashed the economy in 2008 and used your tax dollars to bail their donors out. They are not your friend, and you should not be siding with them. It's trap and a trick.
Let's address the elephant in the room here right now. The overwhelming majority of bans have been right wing. The reason is, to be blunt, the right wing has let the white supremacists into their fold. Those people have always favored violence, and the major platforms are banning them for inciting violence multiple times. You ask your followers to rid you of some meddlesome priest enough times you get banned.
What's scary is that the right is letting these violent folk run rampant because so long as they do they'll organize and vote for them. We saw this in full force when the President of the United States called them "good people" instead of condemning them. We see it in policy too. Trump has cut back on the FBI's enforcement of domestic terrorism, which is overwhelmingly from white nationalists. This is a fact you can confirm with 30 seconds on google.
The GOP has sold their souls for cheap and easy votes from a small block of highly motivated voters. It was worth it, because elections are so close that an extra.5% can swing them. If the media was doing their damn job it wouldn't work. The GOP have ended when Trump called literal Nazis "Good People". But without a functioning media it's hard for the American people to process the scale and gravity of what all this means.
Mark my words, this shit will get out of hand. It will get out of hand and we'll all be lucky to live through it. Hitler didn't campaign on gassing jews. It started out nice and easy with a heavy dose of populist nationalism. Trump isn't Hitler, he's just an opportunist. But he's paved the way for the next Hitler if we don't turn back fast
Oh, and as for censorship, the left gets it more and it gets it where it counts. This is to be expected. The right literally own everything in this country, including Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg is not a liberal, he's a billionaire. Right now too many violent white supremacists is bad for business. But you're being naive if you think he won't change his tune if the money's right. IBM sold computers to the Nazis. Zuck'll do the same if the money shifts.
ok, two problems. First, 75-80% of Venezuela business is private, so they're not socialist either. And Socialism isn't the Government owning the means of production, it's the people. And that takes North Korea and Cuba out of the running.
We can argue that it's not possible to have true socialism since the people will never be able to claim ownership of the means of production from a ruling elite, but we're not arguing if socialism is _possible_, we're arguing over the definition.
As for possible, sure it is, as Democratic Socialism. Simply put, I don't give a rat's fuck who owns what as long as I've got what I need and as long as everybody else does. So to keep power balanced keep private ownership and then regulate the shit out of it.
Or to put it more succinctly: Legal, Taxed and Regulated.
they're gearing up for a recession. Corporations are squirreling away money for buy backs to bump the stock price so the CEO doesn't take a hit to his income.
We should ban stock buy backs immediately. Pre-Reagan they were an illegal manipulation of the market. The damage they've done to the economy and to working class jobs can't be understated. The fact that Reagan got them past the American people like he did is a testament to how much he could get away with because folks loved him so damn much. We need to put a stop to that kind of politicking, where warm feelings replace sound policy.
the American ruling class long since figured out that calling themselves Kings and Queens was just painting a big bullseye on their backs. This way they've got all the advantages and none of the downsides.
and whether they think they can win in court. In Netflix's case the volume is probably lower ($13/mo vs $60-$80 per game). For some of the bigger offenders it probably comes down to the difficulty of winning. Not that the EU won't do just that. Their consumer watchdogs seem to have some teeth unlike America. But in these cases you go after low hanging fruit first.
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To buy his crap. When you already own everything you don't need to buy, sell or trade.
And a few week paid to engineers to maintain them. And engineers are nerds most of the time, they won't care that they're not on top like, say, a military general would, so little to no risk of them overthrowing you.
only about one video a month, but her content's solid and incredibly interesting if you're into retro games, especially if you'd like to learn about the British gaming scene in the 80s and 90s.
and manufacturers didn't want you to know that. These days they're fast enough it doesn't matter, so Microsoft can drop the charade.
You can get psuedo legal copies (keys purchased overseas that are grey market) for around $10-$20 bucks. If you already had Win 7 around they gave 10 away for a few years.
Free isn't enough. It needs applications. For end users that means Office (lots of folks still use the native version) and games. Steams' custom WINE doesn't run everything.
we pretty well get pounded in the skull with the idea that government is bad from grade school on. One of the big states (Texas) has it's school boards controlled by right wing extremists and because it's such a large market they've been able to control the contents of schoolbooks for decades. Anti-government sentiment is all over our media too. The main narrative you see over here is "Gov't can't do anything right, they just make things worse". It's mostly pushed on us by big corps that don't want to pay taxes, but it works.
This seems like a mega corp adding features to sell, probably because they think they can go to the government, give a few Senators some cash, and get a law passed. You do realize it's the left that would shut that kind of thing down? You do realize that the sorts of zero tolerance things you're railing against (like, say, mandatory sentencing, asset forfeiture, going to jail for years for a bit of pot or even some coke) are deeply opposed by the left.
I'm so damn sick of folks saying "The Left" when what they really mean is "People I don't like". If you directed your ire at the people actually pushing the things you hate you'd be on the left.
the amount of money it takes to do these projects means you're options are big companies or the government. I'd personally rather see the government doing it. Telecom is too valuable to leave in the hands of private companies that may not (ok, let's be honest, probably not) have the best interests of consumers at heart.
This does require a voting public to be engaged. I think that's doable but we need to get more emphasis on economic issues like this and less on social & wedge issues.
in the form of rice. Reducing "Carb Intake" works for Americans because it forces us to stop eating cake, cookies, drinking soda, etc. The quality of the protein isn't what makes atkins work. I knew a dirt poor guy who got buff eating potted meat (if you're trying to put on muscle you need meat, and if you're poor that stuff is cheap since it's basically sanitized dog food).
What's needed to keep weight off is less stress or more stress. The Japanese do it with a fuck ton of social pressure. Look up some articles on how they stay thin. Being fat gets you a ton of shit in Japan. Not the mild fat shaming we do here but actual social pressure.
so just focus on the kinds of politicians who won't mandate the feature and you'll be fine.
That's a little tricky though. What you've got to watch out for aren't bleeding heart liberals or puritanical right wingers, it's the corporatists. If the politicians do make these mandatory it won't be for safety, it'll be to line the auto company's pockets with extra cash from a useless "safety" feature.
the wealthy show that people can and will do things even when they don't have to work to survive. Complete Ne'er do wells are the exception among the wealthy, not the rule.
The only thing the constant threat of death does is keep people in their place. It drives people to be conservative (that's little 'c' conservative, i.e. opposing to change, not "Politically Conservative", meaning far right wing and leaning towards or outright celebrating authoritarian leaders in the oligarchy). This lets the folks at the top cow tow us all and keep on taking 50, 60, sometimes even 80% of all wealth generated by society for themselves. And even with all that it's not enough, they want more.
Humans will do things even if they don't have to. A scientist is just plain going to get bored sitting around all day. They're not scientists out of fear, they're scientists out of curiosity. Once we started down the path of automation that was mechanical farming we started making the non-stop struggle for existence obsolete. At this point we're just doing it out of fear, hate and short sightedness.
to lose it. That's because your body creates fat cells when you gain weight but does not destroy them when you lose it, they just shrink.
So a few high stress years (say when your kids are born and both you and the wife work full time because one income hasn't been enough to afford a family since before Reagan was president) and you've just permanently made it harder to stay fit.
Add in the health problems that come with getting older (worse sleep being the big one) and you just can't burn as many calories as you used to, making it harder to keep the weight off.
when they're not working 50+ hours a week and taking care of kids the remaining hours.
As a people we're massively overworked. We use soda & junk food for the quick bursts of energy needed to get through the day. This has been and is getting worse because while food is widely available good paying jobs are not.
I mean, why is it that when Donald Trump got rich he kept doing business deals? It's been shown that if he just stuck the money his dad gave him in an index fund it would have outperformed his business deals by a sizeable margin and with less risk.
Why is it only poor people getting financial security that ends all drive to do anything else? I mean, nobody ever calls the Job Creators out for that behavior because they don't do it. It's almost as if yes, you can motivate people with starvation but, no, you don't need to.
to be thrown in a wood chipper. I _do_ recall the kid's wealthy parents hiring a well known PR firm and the mass media coming to their defense after the initial clicks from that picture were used up.
I also recall hearing the full story, which was that the kids got into a shouting match with a bunch of radical black activists (who themselves were being asshats, to be fair, but they were also very clearly nut jobs of the sort decent people ignore) so they went and got all their friends together to _hopefully_ just scare/intimidate the black guys.
The Native American guy defused the situation. If he hadn't there's a good chance those kids would have beaten the black guys to an inch of life (or worse). In high school I didn't quite have the strength of an adult but I had plenty to take two or three of 'em on if I'd had 10-20 of my buds there.
The story that wasn't covered was WHERE THE FUCK WERE THOSE KID'S CHAPERONES?
Seriously, rich punk kids let loose in mass during a political protest. WTF. These are kids who are used to zero consequences for their actions and you let them loose in a playground like that?
I mean, I can point to Pat Robertson as an example of the homosexuality stuff and the President of the United States for the immigrant shooting.
Can you provide a single prominent member of the left who advocated violence and bigotry of some kind?
You've got the SJWs I suppose. So lets see. On the right we have a religious leader with millions of followers and the POTUS openly advocating violence on national TV. On the left you've got a handful of annoying blue haired college girls that nobody listens to except the guys trying to get down their pants.
Then again, and I hate to admit this, if you're trying to get down the pants of a blue haired college girl she seems like she's got a lot more power over your life than Robertson or POTUS...
No, Facebook is not gov't property. If you want to have the government make a public Facebook and/or YouTube go right ahead. Just like Public Access anything goes. But that would of course be Socialism. Not sure if you're cool with that or not, or with your tax dollars paying for a public Facebook & YouTube.
the DMCA has plenty of Safe Harbor provisions for them. There's no issue there. Facebook can ban whoever and still be safe. They are not and have never been a dumb carrier. They don't want to be. Their current process works just fine. Send some DMCA take downs and they pull the content and they're safe. Period.
This is grandstanding by the GOP. Don't fall for it. It's got nothing to do with Freedom of Speech. The same old white dudes that'll be grilling Facebook fought to keep sex and violence out of comics, tv and music in the 80s and supported the PMRC (google it if you're too young to know). These people are not your friend. They are the establishment. They're the folks who crashed the economy in 2008 and used your tax dollars to bail their donors out. They are not your friend, and you should not be siding with them. It's trap and a trick.
nothing more. Nothing less.
.5% can swing them. If the media was doing their damn job it wouldn't work. The GOP have ended when Trump called literal Nazis "Good People". But without a functioning media it's hard for the American people to process the scale and gravity of what all this means.
Let's address the elephant in the room here right now. The overwhelming majority of bans have been right wing. The reason is, to be blunt, the right wing has let the white supremacists into their fold. Those people have always favored violence, and the major platforms are banning them for inciting violence multiple times. You ask your followers to rid you of some meddlesome priest enough times you get banned.
What's scary is that the right is letting these violent folk run rampant because so long as they do they'll organize and vote for them. We saw this in full force when the President of the United States called them "good people" instead of condemning them. We see it in policy too. Trump has cut back on the FBI's enforcement of domestic terrorism, which is overwhelmingly from white nationalists. This is a fact you can confirm with 30 seconds on google.
The GOP has sold their souls for cheap and easy votes from a small block of highly motivated voters. It was worth it, because elections are so close that an extra
Mark my words, this shit will get out of hand. It will get out of hand and we'll all be lucky to live through it. Hitler didn't campaign on gassing jews. It started out nice and easy with a heavy dose of populist nationalism. Trump isn't Hitler, he's just an opportunist. But he's paved the way for the next Hitler if we don't turn back fast
Oh, and as for censorship, the left gets it more and it gets it where it counts. This is to be expected. The right literally own everything in this country, including Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg is not a liberal, he's a billionaire. Right now too many violent white supremacists is bad for business. But you're being naive if you think he won't change his tune if the money's right. IBM sold computers to the Nazis. Zuck'll do the same if the money shifts.
which isn't much of an issue. DMCA protects them one way or another, same as it does for YouTube.
/. all the time. Everytime an AC shit poster gets modded down until you can't see them that's censorship.
Mega corps long since protected themselves from other mega corps.
Censorship has it's place. We censor on
ok, two problems. First, 75-80% of Venezuela business is private, so they're not socialist either. And Socialism isn't the Government owning the means of production, it's the people. And that takes North Korea and Cuba out of the running.
We can argue that it's not possible to have true socialism since the people will never be able to claim ownership of the means of production from a ruling elite, but we're not arguing if socialism is _possible_, we're arguing over the definition.
As for possible, sure it is, as Democratic Socialism. Simply put, I don't give a rat's fuck who owns what as long as I've got what I need and as long as everybody else does. So to keep power balanced keep private ownership and then regulate the shit out of it.
Or to put it more succinctly: Legal, Taxed and Regulated.
see here. It's been like this since trade became a thing.
they're gearing up for a recession. Corporations are squirreling away money for buy backs to bump the stock price so the CEO doesn't take a hit to his income.
We should ban stock buy backs immediately. Pre-Reagan they were an illegal manipulation of the market. The damage they've done to the economy and to working class jobs can't be understated. The fact that Reagan got them past the American people like he did is a testament to how much he could get away with because folks loved him so damn much. We need to put a stop to that kind of politicking, where warm feelings replace sound policy.
the American ruling class long since figured out that calling themselves Kings and Queens was just painting a big bullseye on their backs. This way they've got all the advantages and none of the downsides.
and whether they think they can win in court. In Netflix's case the volume is probably lower ($13/mo vs $60-$80 per game). For some of the bigger offenders it probably comes down to the difficulty of winning. Not that the EU won't do just that. Their consumer watchdogs seem to have some teeth unlike America. But in these cases you go after low hanging fruit first.