Donating to Wikipedia is fine, but at the end of the day their a charity making a public resource. Are we running out of things to criticize Amazon for now that they've been shamed into paying living wages?
they know where you shop but not what you bought. Since most Snickers bars (and junk food in general) are bought at grocery & convenience stores that information isn't terribly useful. Retailers know better than to give up that data to anyone, let alone payment companies.
unless the major gov'ts legalize drugs and crack down on the money laundering. Until then it's got a floor from the utility of using it to buy illegal services.
and "Intellectual Property" too while we're at it. If the ruling class is going to claim ownership of everything that's fine, but we'll tax the heck out of it so they can't use that ownership to gut the commons. Or, well, we'll let them gut the commons and go back to the gilded age. Not sure which yet.
She's got a bill currently languishing in committee that would be a big hit to the revolving door of "become senator/become lobbyist".
Again though, you have to put the kinds of folks in power who will support it. Right now that appears to be the Justice Democrats. If it's not, we need to vote them out. But they at least a) refuse corporate PAC money, b) support laws like Liz Warren's that make it illegal to lobby after serving in Congress and c) have a populist, pro-consumer, pro-worker platform.
One thing you will never do is get rid of big government. The rich and powerful like it that way, and if you try to solve the problem by eliminating the strong central government the wealthy will just build those power structures on their own and without your input. The only solution is to take part in the system and make it what you want it to be.
given the nature of our justice system. Very few cases go all the way to trial. Most of the time the prosecutors can get a plea deal with the threat of long jail time (take a 20 year sentence instead of life since you know the jury's likely to convict).
It doesn't help that juries are overly emotional. I've been on a jury where a women said, no joke, "We can't allow our personal feelings to sway our ruling and we need to get this guy off the streets". She didn't even pause for breath when she contradicted herself, which given her girth was impressive...
we need to start voting for candidates that refuse corporate money. There's a wing of the Democratic party that does (called "Justice Democrats"). I don't know of a GOP equivalent, but if somebody does feel free to chime in.
We can stop this any time we want, and the answer is simple: If you take corporate money then you don't get elected. Period.
I don't see it as an important enough issue to change votes. I'd like to think that the large number of anti-consumer, pro-corporate laws that keep getting passed (arbitration, tax cuts for the 1%, cuts to Medicare/Medicaid, etc) would have an impact but so far it hasn't. As it stands most of the incumbents are going to win. Ted Cruz, for example, is 9 points ahead in polls. Pelosi won her primary challenge hands down and doesn't have a credible opponent. Folks vote their "gut", not issues.
in any place where religion doesn't prohibit birth control and sex ed. If anything we've got the reverse problem. From Japan to America to Scandinavia birth rates are below sustainability. Usually hovering around 1.8 or so.
Animals will breed to the limits of their environment. Humans, not so much.
not even a little bit. It's safe to say that if I go to bing and search for "Jewish" that I probably don't want pro-Nazi propaganda. The percentage of people searching for issues related to, say the Jewish religion is probably a bit higher than the percentage of white supremacists. The same is true for searching for "Black Lives Matters".
You can still find the neo-Nazi sites, but you have to search for them in a way you would expect (e.g. search for "White Power" or "Neo Nazi"). What Bing is trying to fix is that when you search for relatively innocuous terms they don't bring up what are pretty clearly hate and conspiracy theory sites.
What I'd like to know is how did this sort of fringe content become the norm for a Bing search. I know Bing is bad at search, but not this bad. Somebody's been manipulating their search results for a reason. We can probably guess who...
who agree that climate change is both real and a threat seem to fail to grasp that. Here's the obligatory XKCD comic
The ruling class has been able to keep the pleebs in line for thousands of years without Climate Change. They've got much, much better tactics to use than a complex boogie man like Climate Change. There's religion, racism, classism, war. All are much more effective at controlling a population. Easier to understand and proven to work. Hell, ignoring the damage from Climate Change is a better bet. It'll result in rampant food shortages, which are always an effective way to keep the working class in line (so long as you control who eats, which the ruling class does).
I don't know if you really believe what you wrote, but, well, this is a science forum, and the science is settled. There's some details to work out, but they're details. Go do some reading on google, and step outside the right wing blogosphere and into actual scientific papers.
it's a tactic management has used for decades to excuse poor pay. You keep a few better paid employees because it keeps everybody from organizing and demanding better pay. I saw this in the call centers in the late 90s/early 00s. Management would tell the existing employees how lucky they were because they started at $10/hr when the new guys started at $7. Nevermind that $10/hr wasn't enough to get by even back then.
Also before everyone piles in with the old "if you raise wages prices go up" nonsense, if that were true humanity could never progress as a species. We'd still be subsistence farmers and the big mac index wouldn't be a thing. Prices go up slower than wages when productivity goes up faster than wages. And productivity has been raising pretty much non stop if you focus on raw output (yes, an increasing number of low wage service employees replacing high paying manufacturing jobs means that measured productivity growth across the entire economy is flat, but we're still making more real goods with less people, see here).
Basically so long as you're making more stuff with less or even the same people you can raise wages without price inflation, because that's real wage growth. e.g. there's more stuff for everybody. Well, not since 2008 though. Since 2008 the more stuff part of the equation has gone to the top 1%....
folks on/. who do IT forget there's a whole world of jobs that are physical. Cooks, plumbers, waitresses, construction, retail, etc. They work the same long hours as the office workers but they're working non-stop. There's been several cases of people working themselves to death, often for little or no pay. It's common enough they have a word for it (karoshi).
I like how they try to tie it to the Cambridge Analytics scandal to get a rise out of the community. Yes, Google is not required to report every bug they fix when no breach occurred. There's nothing wrong with that. As for for shutting down Google+, it was as good a time as any. If they're going to start having to worry about bad press over a dead product they're going to finish killing it.
This reads like a hit piece on google. I can't imagine why.
and if I really, really like it I buy. So I've got King Diamond, Fate's Warning, John Arch and Judas Priest CDs all over the place but, well, I like Udo but not enough to buy up his CDs.
to say we shouldn't be attentive of our sources, but "Be careful what you read" isn't a good way to say it. What he should have said was "Be critical of what you read".
only 1/3 of music consumers still pirate music. Also, no $h!t Sherlock. Broke kids are always going to pirate. Let them. It gets them in the habit of listening to music when they're young. Without piracy they're going to grow up without it and not care when they're old enough to pay. That's how Metallica got their start; pirated mix tapes. Without them they'd be working at 7-11.
is that the job market for tech is so crappy that they're writing special software to sift through the hundreds of resumes they get. Back in my day the hiring manager just looked over a few and picked one.
when you bought virtually anything of substance from a merchant will have an arbitration clause. If you're in the US our Congress just passed a law that makes arbitration legally binding (it used to be you couldn't sign away due process rights). Our Supreme Court upheld the law thanks to a conservative majority.
Sorry my friend, but this app is useless as a tool against businesses.... The moral of the story is elections have consequences.
with the way arbitration has been enshrined in law (and upheld by our Supreme Court in clear defiance to due process protections in the constitution thanks to a pro-corporate SCOTUS) it doesn't help much. I guess you can sue random Joes but that's generally pretty worthless unless you're a big company looking to suppress something, and in that case what use do you have for an app? You've got lawyers on retainer.
they've literally got 50 times the population but they're only adding twice as much coal capacity?
And like the article says, solar and wind are _already_ cheaper than coal. That's without factoring in the health costs from breathing the dirty air.
Power plants are big projects that take years to build. So yeah, you're gonna see coal for a while while it works its way out of the system. Maybe another 10 years or so. That seems like a long time to the/. crowd because we're in our 40s and 50s and, well, dying. But if you're in your 20s it's a blink of the eye.
and the best part is you've got an 18 month shelf life because that's as far as they can employ you as a "contractor" before somebody notices they're dodging taxes.
What I don't get is all the folks who don't want to do anything about it. If you're rich, yeah, I get that. You want to go on abusing people. But I know so many folks who won't touch the system because they're convinced that if they do the government'll go all Stalin on them. Seriously, first we have adequate worker protections and next thing you know it's gulags. I wish I was exagerating. They get it from talk radio. There's a documentary of a woman and her dad where her dad went crazy anti-gov't after getting stuck on a long commute and listening to talk radio for a year....
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What an incredibly stupid idea.
Donating to Wikipedia is fine, but at the end of the day their a charity making a public resource. Are we running out of things to criticize Amazon for now that they've been shamed into paying living wages?
they know where you shop but not what you bought. Since most Snickers bars (and junk food in general) are bought at grocery & convenience stores that information isn't terribly useful. Retailers know better than to give up that data to anyone, let alone payment companies.
unless the major gov'ts legalize drugs and crack down on the money laundering. Until then it's got a floor from the utility of using it to buy illegal services.
and "Intellectual Property" too while we're at it. If the ruling class is going to claim ownership of everything that's fine, but we'll tax the heck out of it so they can't use that ownership to gut the commons. Or, well, we'll let them gut the commons and go back to the gilded age. Not sure which yet.
She's got a bill currently languishing in committee that would be a big hit to the revolving door of "become senator/become lobbyist".
Again though, you have to put the kinds of folks in power who will support it. Right now that appears to be the Justice Democrats. If it's not, we need to vote them out. But they at least a) refuse corporate PAC money, b) support laws like Liz Warren's that make it illegal to lobby after serving in Congress and c) have a populist, pro-consumer, pro-worker platform.
One thing you will never do is get rid of big government. The rich and powerful like it that way, and if you try to solve the problem by eliminating the strong central government the wealthy will just build those power structures on their own and without your input. The only solution is to take part in the system and make it what you want it to be.
given the nature of our justice system. Very few cases go all the way to trial. Most of the time the prosecutors can get a plea deal with the threat of long jail time (take a 20 year sentence instead of life since you know the jury's likely to convict).
It doesn't help that juries are overly emotional. I've been on a jury where a women said, no joke, "We can't allow our personal feelings to sway our ruling and we need to get this guy off the streets". She didn't even pause for breath when she contradicted herself, which given her girth was impressive...
we need to start voting for candidates that refuse corporate money. There's a wing of the Democratic party that does (called "Justice Democrats"). I don't know of a GOP equivalent, but if somebody does feel free to chime in.
We can stop this any time we want, and the answer is simple: If you take corporate money then you don't get elected. Period.
I don't see it as an important enough issue to change votes. I'd like to think that the large number of anti-consumer, pro-corporate laws that keep getting passed (arbitration, tax cuts for the 1%, cuts to Medicare/Medicaid, etc) would have an impact but so far it hasn't. As it stands most of the incumbents are going to win. Ted Cruz, for example, is 9 points ahead in polls. Pelosi won her primary challenge hands down and doesn't have a credible opponent. Folks vote their "gut", not issues.
in any place where religion doesn't prohibit birth control and sex ed. If anything we've got the reverse problem. From Japan to America to Scandinavia birth rates are below sustainability. Usually hovering around 1.8 or so.
Animals will breed to the limits of their environment. Humans, not so much.
not even a little bit. It's safe to say that if I go to bing and search for "Jewish" that I probably don't want pro-Nazi propaganda. The percentage of people searching for issues related to, say the Jewish religion is probably a bit higher than the percentage of white supremacists. The same is true for searching for "Black Lives Matters".
You can still find the neo-Nazi sites, but you have to search for them in a way you would expect (e.g. search for "White Power" or "Neo Nazi"). What Bing is trying to fix is that when you search for relatively innocuous terms they don't bring up what are pretty clearly hate and conspiracy theory sites.
What I'd like to know is how did this sort of fringe content become the norm for a Bing search. I know Bing is bad at search, but not this bad. Somebody's been manipulating their search results for a reason. We can probably guess who...
who agree that climate change is both real and a threat seem to fail to grasp that. Here's the obligatory XKCD comic
The ruling class has been able to keep the pleebs in line for thousands of years without Climate Change. They've got much, much better tactics to use than a complex boogie man like Climate Change. There's religion, racism, classism, war. All are much more effective at controlling a population. Easier to understand and proven to work. Hell, ignoring the damage from Climate Change is a better bet. It'll result in rampant food shortages, which are always an effective way to keep the working class in line (so long as you control who eats, which the ruling class does).
I don't know if you really believe what you wrote, but, well, this is a science forum, and the science is settled. There's some details to work out, but they're details. Go do some reading on google, and step outside the right wing blogosphere and into actual scientific papers.
it's a tactic management has used for decades to excuse poor pay. You keep a few better paid employees because it keeps everybody from organizing and demanding better pay. I saw this in the call centers in the late 90s/early 00s. Management would tell the existing employees how lucky they were because they started at $10/hr when the new guys started at $7. Nevermind that $10/hr wasn't enough to get by even back then.
Also before everyone piles in with the old "if you raise wages prices go up" nonsense, if that were true humanity could never progress as a species. We'd still be subsistence farmers and the big mac index wouldn't be a thing. Prices go up slower than wages when productivity goes up faster than wages. And productivity has been raising pretty much non stop if you focus on raw output (yes, an increasing number of low wage service employees replacing high paying manufacturing jobs means that measured productivity growth across the entire economy is flat, but we're still making more real goods with less people, see here).
Basically so long as you're making more stuff with less or even the same people you can raise wages without price inflation, because that's real wage growth. e.g. there's more stuff for everybody. Well, not since 2008 though. Since 2008 the more stuff part of the equation has gone to the top 1%....
folks on /. who do IT forget there's a whole world of jobs that are physical. Cooks, plumbers, waitresses, construction, retail, etc. They work the same long hours as the office workers but they're working non-stop. There's been several cases of people working themselves to death, often for little or no pay. It's common enough they have a word for it (karoshi).
I like how they try to tie it to the Cambridge Analytics scandal to get a rise out of the community. Yes, Google is not required to report every bug they fix when no breach occurred. There's nothing wrong with that. As for for shutting down Google+, it was as good a time as any. If they're going to start having to worry about bad press over a dead product they're going to finish killing it.
This reads like a hit piece on google. I can't imagine why.
and if I really, really like it I buy. So I've got King Diamond, Fate's Warning, John Arch and Judas Priest CDs all over the place but, well, I like Udo but not enough to buy up his CDs.
to say we shouldn't be attentive of our sources, but "Be careful what you read" isn't a good way to say it. What he should have said was "Be critical of what you read".
only 1/3 of music consumers still pirate music. Also, no $h!t Sherlock. Broke kids are always going to pirate. Let them. It gets them in the habit of listening to music when they're young. Without piracy they're going to grow up without it and not care when they're old enough to pay. That's how Metallica got their start; pirated mix tapes. Without them they'd be working at 7-11.
is that the job market for tech is so crappy that they're writing special software to sift through the hundreds of resumes they get. Back in my day the hiring manager just looked over a few and picked one.
when you bought virtually anything of substance from a merchant will have an arbitration clause. If you're in the US our Congress just passed a law that makes arbitration legally binding (it used to be you couldn't sign away due process rights). Our Supreme Court upheld the law thanks to a conservative majority.
Sorry my friend, but this app is useless as a tool against businesses.... The moral of the story is elections have consequences.
with the way arbitration has been enshrined in law (and upheld by our Supreme Court in clear defiance to due process protections in the constitution thanks to a pro-corporate SCOTUS) it doesn't help much. I guess you can sue random Joes but that's generally pretty worthless unless you're a big company looking to suppress something, and in that case what use do you have for an app? You've got lawyers on retainer.
they've literally got 50 times the population but they're only adding twice as much coal capacity?
/. crowd because we're in our 40s and 50s and, well, dying. But if you're in your 20s it's a blink of the eye.
And like the article says, solar and wind are _already_ cheaper than coal. That's without factoring in the health costs from breathing the dirty air.
Power plants are big projects that take years to build. So yeah, you're gonna see coal for a while while it works its way out of the system. Maybe another 10 years or so. That seems like a long time to the
anything is possible with an endless supply of expendable labor.
Modern RAM settings need to be tweaked a bit or the performance is meh. The company did the tweaks on the Intel platform but not the AMD one.
They had to know they'd be called out by the benchmarking community. That and Youtubers hungry for video content.
it's that progress was slowed so much that it's almost like it did.
and the best part is you've got an 18 month shelf life because that's as far as they can employ you as a "contractor" before somebody notices they're dodging taxes.
What I don't get is all the folks who don't want to do anything about it. If you're rich, yeah, I get that. You want to go on abusing people. But I know so many folks who won't touch the system because they're convinced that if they do the government'll go all Stalin on them. Seriously, first we have adequate worker protections and next thing you know it's gulags. I wish I was exagerating. They get it from talk radio. There's a documentary of a woman and her dad where her dad went crazy anti-gov't after getting stuck on a long commute and listening to talk radio for a year....