for one thing there's bots and trolls. As silly as it sounds/.ers are a key demographic. We're old enough that we vote reliably. We're also old enough to have something to lose and fearful of losing it. We've been through a ton of layoffs thanks to tech outsourcing so we're highly receptive of "us vs them" messaging. That makes us an ideal and fertile ground for that kind of politicing.
As an added bonus we're mostly men, and men are feeling pretty well crapped on lately. We granted women equal rights but there's some fundamental imbalances that need to be addressed. Men want women more than women want men. That means when they're no longer property they gain a kind of leverage over men. Also women have lots of effective birth control options while men have two, one of which is difficult if not impossible to reverse. Demagogues use the resentment from that tilting balance of power to generate a backlash and create a movement that you can use to your advantage. You see this overtly with Trump's "Locker room" talk and passive-aggressively with Jordan Peterson's Lobsters.
TL;DR; We're bitter, angry, underpaid with no job security and we can't get laid. We're perfect fodder for a right wing uprising.
the AMD does a lot better in terms of video with the usual caveats that Intel is good enough for 2D nowadays (assuming you're only driving 1 4k display or 2 1080p ones) and AMD is nice and all but their drivers kinda stink if you're playing old games (which, lets face it, you probably are if you're using integrated graphics).
If they're "mum" on the entry level it's because they've got that base covered. The only thing they could do there is screw up and have their entry level start competing with their mid-range.
that the lawyers jobs are at stake. I mean that. These are people who make a living manipulating our legal system. If they are made obsolete by AI they are not going to go quietly into that good night. They're going to look for targets to sue for quick cash.
The mega corps figured that out years ago. They had Congress pass a law that made Arbitration agreements legally binding and had the Supreme Court stacked with pro corporatists who upheld it (even though it's a pretty obvious violation of due process and centuries of legal precedent that says you can't sign away constitutional rights.)
What that means is lawyers can't sue mega corps (or even a mid sized corp with decent arbitration agreements). Again, they're not going to shrug their shoulders, sell their BMW for a 4 year old Yaris and go work and 7-11. They're gonna come after you and me. We've already seen this with stuff like Penda law suing regular joes. You'll see more and more of that and by people who aren't as incompetent as to get caught.
when you're objectively wrong it's important to keep pushing an
opposing narrative. The American right wing figured this out in the 80s.
At the end of the day strip away the nonsense about "Culture War" this and "PC that" and you're left with what really matters: economics. And when it comes to economics the media is united on the side of the right. Low taxes (for capital, labor can still pay taxes, I mean, somebody's gotta pay 'em, amiright?), minimal or no regulation, free trade when it's good for profits (but not for pharmaceuticals, that would be a job killing regulation). The right own Sinclair who own just about every TV station in the country. They own Fox news. Hell, they own CNN and MSNBC if you pay attention to economics instead of social issues.
I guess it bothers me to see the right wing playing the victim card when they've got all 3 branches of gov't, billionaire elites and virtually all the media that matters on their side. What bother's me is that they can peddle this nonsensical persecution complex and get away with it. It's Orwellian Double think, exactly the kind of thing they're supposed to be against...
My favorite thing to come out about this story is that the intelligence community doesn't care that our President's communications are bugged because he doesn't bother listening to the briefings. It's like that is Dilbert joke where he'd have to be smarter to do something stupid.
My brother's 2 year old Nissan Sentra with 15k miles on it cost him $11500. It's a strippy. CD Player and a jack 3.5" for your phone, AC and an Automatic. About as basic as it gets (it's 2018, a CD player costs $5 bucks to make, no, it's not a "luxury" when they're that cheap).
Cars are more expensive because fewer and fewer people can afford them. That means fewer used cars. That means higher used car prices, which the car manufacturers see as cue to raise prices. Cars are also a necessity in most places. Even most major cities lack viable public transportation. When the commutes 90 minutes by car it's 3 hours by bus. That's not an inconvenience, that's a life altering event. The car companies decided how our cities were built before any of us were born (assuming there's nobody under 70 reading this). We're living with the consequences.
Tell Tale games did big business. The only trouble they had (besides getting screwed in some contracts with their investors) was getting folks to pay up front while the movie was being made. They ran out of cash while getting screwed by investors because folks were waiting until the whole "movie" was out.
let everyone know you've got a lot of money. The trouble is it's hard to tell one phone from another because at the end of the day it's just a square. That worked for a while with iPhones until there were enough of them on the secondary market to dilute the value.
It's called a Veblen Good. The Rolex doesn't really have any more value than a watch a 1/10th it's price (sometimes less, you'd be surprised what you can get for $500 or less if you're a hiker). But if you're a sales person trying to show off an aura of success or a guy trying to pick up girls the Rolex is worth every penny. So was the iPhone and "Beats by Dre" not too long ago.
If it were me I'd do what Toyota did with the Lexus: Make some kind of exclusive club that felt luxurious and only let the folks who bought the expensive product in. If you want to sell Veblen goods you have to let people show off their purchase and feel smug about it.
Yes, I could always get a new battery, but I had no reason to think doing so would solve the performance problems and every reason to think I needed a new phone. I actually did this with my Kid's phone (for me I just got an Android).
Trolling. Your rom com will turn into a Super Hero themed horror movie starting CGI babies mid way into season 2 while your horror flick becomes a Ken Burns style documentary on bo weavils. It'll be glorious.
The point of this was to hide the downside of a non-replaceable battery. A user replaceable battery is a competitive edge when you know it will impact performance over the life of the phone.
not the former. They were intentionally slowing the device to make the battery last longer. This was done to minimize the negative perception of a non-replaceable battery. They avoided telling people about it because doing so would hurt sales (which, judging by the results of the iPhone X seems to have happened).
I'm with Europe on this one. Keep your junk with it's heavy metals out of my land fills and water table.
and you always had more customers. I worked for a print shop that had this little invoicing package. Spent some time hacking printer drivers to get it to print correctly because the manufacturer was out of business. Once they'd sold the software to every small print shop in the country they had nowhere to go. And the software mostly just worked, so no reason to upgrade. Yeah, eventually I had to do that printer driver hack, but that was 10 years after the company went belly up.
Europe is really, really big on stopping planned obsolescence. A friend of a friend worked for one of the big printer manufactures. Their printers lasted 5x longer in Europe and could be serviced without hacking DRM.
It's not about fines, it's about landfills. The US has so much space we can dump crap far enough away from the water table that it's not a problem for 50 years (it takes about that long for a city to grow out to where the dumps are). Europe doesn't have that luxury.
Apple supports privacy now, they're a corporation. They're a couple bad quarters away from selling your info to Advertisers same as everybody else. You're safe so long as the profits from their hardware biz are strong, but that's not the most reassuring thing in the world...
If that's the case why isn't Alex Jones suing? He'd have good standing to do so.
I'm not sure I disagree with the GP though. Nazis were so extreme that in order to oppose them effectively you're forced into accepting certain things, like the idea that Genocide is a bad thing.
Now, you can absolutely run anti-Nazi rhetoric and still act like a Nazi. But then you're not really opposing Nazis then, are you? You're just borrowing anti-Nazi rhetoric to hide your true intentions. Using words to disguise actions. Kinda like those "Communists" did when they seized power and then took all the money and land for themselves.
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No, how in Pete's name did you get that from anything I wrote?
for one thing there's bots and trolls. As silly as it sounds /.ers are a key demographic. We're old enough that we vote reliably. We're also old enough to have something to lose and fearful of losing it. We've been through a ton of layoffs thanks to tech outsourcing so we're highly receptive of "us vs them" messaging. That makes us an ideal and fertile ground for that kind of politicing.
As an added bonus we're mostly men, and men are feeling pretty well crapped on lately. We granted women equal rights but there's some fundamental imbalances that need to be addressed. Men want women more than women want men. That means when they're no longer property they gain a kind of leverage over men. Also women have lots of effective birth control options while men have two, one of which is difficult if not impossible to reverse. Demagogues use the resentment from that tilting balance of power to generate a backlash and create a movement that you can use to your advantage. You see this overtly with Trump's "Locker room" talk and passive-aggressively with Jordan Peterson's Lobsters.
TL;DR; We're bitter, angry, underpaid with no job security and we can't get laid. We're perfect fodder for a right wing uprising.
the AMD does a lot better in terms of video with the usual caveats that Intel is good enough for 2D nowadays (assuming you're only driving 1 4k display or 2 1080p ones) and AMD is nice and all but their drivers kinda stink if you're playing old games (which, lets face it, you probably are if you're using integrated graphics).
If they're "mum" on the entry level it's because they've got that base covered. The only thing they could do there is screw up and have their entry level start competing with their mid-range.
that the lawyers jobs are at stake. I mean that. These are people who make a living manipulating our legal system. If they are made obsolete by AI they are not going to go quietly into that good night. They're going to look for targets to sue for quick cash.
The mega corps figured that out years ago. They had Congress pass a law that made Arbitration agreements legally binding and had the Supreme Court stacked with pro corporatists who upheld it (even though it's a pretty obvious violation of due process and centuries of legal precedent that says you can't sign away constitutional rights.)
What that means is lawyers can't sue mega corps (or even a mid sized corp with decent arbitration agreements). Again, they're not going to shrug their shoulders, sell their BMW for a 4 year old Yaris and go work and 7-11. They're gonna come after you and me. We've already seen this with stuff like Penda law suing regular joes. You'll see more and more of that and by people who aren't as incompetent as to get caught.
never could beat Andre Panza Kickboxing.
when you're objectively wrong it's important to keep pushing an opposing narrative. The American right wing figured this out in the 80s.
At the end of the day strip away the nonsense about "Culture War" this and "PC that" and you're left with what really matters: economics. And when it comes to economics the media is united on the side of the right. Low taxes (for capital, labor can still pay taxes, I mean, somebody's gotta pay 'em, amiright?), minimal or no regulation, free trade when it's good for profits (but not for pharmaceuticals, that would be a job killing regulation). The right own Sinclair who own just about every TV station in the country. They own Fox news. Hell, they own CNN and MSNBC if you pay attention to economics instead of social issues.
I guess it bothers me to see the right wing playing the victim card when they've got all 3 branches of gov't, billionaire elites and virtually all the media that matters on their side. What bother's me is that they can peddle this nonsensical persecution complex and get away with it. It's Orwellian Double think, exactly the kind of thing they're supposed to be against...
were an issue. You're a high priority target you don't get to take chances.
Well, not the "same" issue. Private email servers are used throughout Washington and somehow stopped being an issue after 2016. I wonder what changed?
of an early prototype
My favorite thing to come out about this story is that the intelligence community doesn't care that our President's communications are bugged because he doesn't bother listening to the briefings. It's like that is Dilbert joke where he'd have to be smarter to do something stupid.
increased base prices for a thing increase the cost of repairing that thing because the demand for repairs goes up. Who knew?
The damage done by cash for clunkers was 9 years ago. The effects are long gone.
Not gay, but if I was Obama'd be a better choice then our current president.
My brother's 2 year old Nissan Sentra with 15k miles on it cost him $11500. It's a strippy. CD Player and a jack 3.5" for your phone, AC and an Automatic. About as basic as it gets (it's 2018, a CD player costs $5 bucks to make, no, it's not a "luxury" when they're that cheap).
Cars are more expensive because fewer and fewer people can afford them. That means fewer used cars. That means higher used car prices, which the car manufacturers see as cue to raise prices. Cars are also a necessity in most places. Even most major cities lack viable public transportation. When the commutes 90 minutes by car it's 3 hours by bus. That's not an inconvenience, that's a life altering event. The car companies decided how our cities were built before any of us were born (assuming there's nobody under 70 reading this). We're living with the consequences.
and you don't get between a CEO and his golden parachute. Countess Bathory would be proud.
lots of games don't work anymore because of DRM. Especially multiplayer games.
Tell Tale games did big business. The only trouble they had (besides getting screwed in some contracts with their investors) was getting folks to pay up front while the movie was being made. They ran out of cash while getting screwed by investors because folks were waiting until the whole "movie" was out.
let everyone know you've got a lot of money. The trouble is it's hard to tell one phone from another because at the end of the day it's just a square. That worked for a while with iPhones until there were enough of them on the secondary market to dilute the value.
It's called a Veblen Good. The Rolex doesn't really have any more value than a watch a 1/10th it's price (sometimes less, you'd be surprised what you can get for $500 or less if you're a hiker). But if you're a sales person trying to show off an aura of success or a guy trying to pick up girls the Rolex is worth every penny. So was the iPhone and "Beats by Dre" not too long ago.
If it were me I'd do what Toyota did with the Lexus: Make some kind of exclusive club that felt luxurious and only let the folks who bought the expensive product in. If you want to sell Veblen goods you have to let people show off their purchase and feel smug about it.
Motorola & LG have no problem with this. I don't even mind if I have to take it to a repair shop so long as I get to pick the shop.
Yes, I could always get a new battery, but I had no reason to think doing so would solve the performance problems and every reason to think I needed a new phone. I actually did this with my Kid's phone (for me I just got an Android).
it's pre-installed on the iPhone and Androids too. They're a Kleptocracy, so they keep a close eye on everybody.
Trolling. Your rom com will turn into a Super Hero themed horror movie starting CGI babies mid way into season 2 while your horror flick becomes a Ken Burns style documentary on bo weavils. It'll be glorious.
and given them the option to buy a new battery.
The point of this was to hide the downside of a non-replaceable battery. A user replaceable battery is a competitive edge when you know it will impact performance over the life of the phone.
not the former. They were intentionally slowing the device to make the battery last longer. This was done to minimize the negative perception of a non-replaceable battery. They avoided telling people about it because doing so would hurt sales (which, judging by the results of the iPhone X seems to have happened).
I'm with Europe on this one. Keep your junk with it's heavy metals out of my land fills and water table.
and you always had more customers. I worked for a print shop that had this little invoicing package. Spent some time hacking printer drivers to get it to print correctly because the manufacturer was out of business. Once they'd sold the software to every small print shop in the country they had nowhere to go. And the software mostly just worked, so no reason to upgrade. Yeah, eventually I had to do that printer driver hack, but that was 10 years after the company went belly up.
Europe is really, really big on stopping planned obsolescence. A friend of a friend worked for one of the big printer manufactures. Their printers lasted 5x longer in Europe and could be serviced without hacking DRM.
It's not about fines, it's about landfills. The US has so much space we can dump crap far enough away from the water table that it's not a problem for 50 years (it takes about that long for a city to grow out to where the dumps are). Europe doesn't have that luxury.
Apple supports privacy now, they're a corporation. They're a couple bad quarters away from selling your info to Advertisers same as everybody else. You're safe so long as the profits from their hardware biz are strong, but that's not the most reassuring thing in the world...
If that's the case why isn't Alex Jones suing? He'd have good standing to do so.
I'm not sure I disagree with the GP though. Nazis were so extreme that in order to oppose them effectively you're forced into accepting certain things, like the idea that Genocide is a bad thing.
Now, you can absolutely run anti-Nazi rhetoric and still act like a Nazi. But then you're not really opposing Nazis then, are you? You're just borrowing anti-Nazi rhetoric to hide your true intentions. Using words to disguise actions. Kinda like those "Communists" did when they seized power and then took all the money and land for themselves.
Sometimes a Scottsman isn't a Scottsman.