Should people be able to buy billboard space around the world and declare to the world that you are pedophile? Or something true, a compulsive masturbator? What makes a Google autocomplete any different?
Unlike a billboard google just displays the most common search terms, it's a statistical fact, not an endorsement.
Anyone who claims this is about freedom of speech are being ridiculous.
Anyone who claims that google auto-complete reflects google's opinion is also being ridiculous. Having said that I do agree with the rest of your post, I like the basic concept of the "right to be forgotten", I also think there should be some mechanism whereby a person can demand their name be removed from a commercial search index with no questions asked other than proof of identity. OTOH I'm not sure how well that would work out in practice with common names.
This is about a dedicated high speed connection only between the ISP and Netflix. If the ISP were competing in a free market, this would not be an issue, because Netflix customers could chose to pay more to use ISPs with the fast connection, and other customers would be free to take their business to a cheaper ISP.
Yep that's what the nothink-tank is selling, shame on you for turning off your brain and buying into that level of FUD.
There is no "issue" here, ALL businesses create new products and services from old revenue. Monoplies have little incentive to do anything other than collect fees, it would not surprise me in the least to discover the people who sponsered this propoganda are the same "defacto monopolies" you rightly complain about.
I see far more ignorant knee-jerkers than dishonest shills in this thread. I'm no fan of Monsanto's business practices but there is no need to turn off your own morals and resort to the same dishonesty employed by Monsanto. A more honest summary of the situation would say something like "researchers find cauliflower in GM cauliflowers" but I doubt that would generate as many page views.
Yeah, god forbid any corporation spend money on infrastructure improvements, it's downright un-american. Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with these far right nothink-tanks, and who pays for their internet connection?
The claimed savings are just a teaser to get potential customers to ask about it. They don't want everybody scrutinizing their price list, they want to walk potential customers through it in private.
banning fracking would protect our water supply, but doom our energy supply
Doom is a strong word, "dent" is more descriptive of the reality. The problem with fracking in the US is that the frackers are not bound by law to tell anyone what chemicals they are pumping into the groundwater. They get a free pass on oversight because the formulas for the liquids are classed as trade secrets. Is it too much to ask for some evidence that fracking has more benefits than costs to society? - Are you personally willing to drink the stuff they are pumping?
Protecting employment requires supporting expansion opportunities. Fracking is an expansion opportunity.
Blind faith in corporations is just as dangerous as blind faith in government. If the job on offer is an overall detriment to society why would you want to support it's creation? How about creating a few jobs to oversee what these people are pumping into the groundwater?
Everything is more complex than everyone thinks.
No, the rule here is so simple even a CEO can understand it - don't shit in MY drinking water. However it's impossible to apply that simple rule to fracking because the relevant information is legally withheld from society.
The US has the best quality health care in the world!
That should be "had", you lost the #1 spot about 40yrs ago, although your still among the leaders in medical research.
This should really be an easy, high impact problem to solve, right?
Yep, many other countries manage to provide better care with a lot less money and have been doing so for decades.The irrational fear of the word "socialism" is the root cause of the problem in the US, it creates a blind spot that prevents Americans from even contemplating the measurably superior systems that exist in very similar nations such as Australia.
First point - I agree, irresponsible dog owners are a danger to the public.
Second point - Anecdotes are meaningless, dogs kill ~3k people a year worldwide, your child is more likely to be killed/mauled by a swarm of honey bees than the family dog.
If it was a simple prison the governor would be long dead. It's actually more than culture and/or brute force, the behavior seen in N Korea and other historical hell-holes is universal in ALL humans (including you and me), it's a very deeply ingrained and poorly understood human behavior first highlighted by the "Stanford prison experiment" in the 1970's. People who look at those experiments and claim they would behave differently in the same situation are in fact the very people who are most likely to act as expected. It's the same behavioral phenomena that causes otherwise respectable soldiers to commit acts like those at Abu Graib (sic).
The "grease" is in the beef you don't add it, but yes an egg mixed into minced topside makes a good burger that doesn't crumble. No need to make the mince yourself here in Australia, minced topside is sold practically everywhere you can buy meat.
You uttered something the "other side" says, there is no thought, it's purely an emotional response. That behavior seems seems to be encouraged in US culture to the point where congress is more or less dysfunctional and nobody belives a word unless it comes from "their side". Please note I'm saying this behavior seems ingrained in US politics in the same way it's ingrained in English football. I'm not saying it's an exclusively American trait, I had the same emotional response from my own (non-american) parents when I said "...yes, but CO2 is warming the Earth", the barrage of bullshit talking points was that intense it really did "shock" me to the point I suddenly had somewhere else to go. Thing is I've known them for 53yrs, neither of them are dumb or ignorant, dad's a retired chief engineer and still has all his marbles at 80, he's currently teaching himself Python.
In my case there's a happy ending, after dad calmed down he quietly checked some of his assumption, now he sends me "skeptic" articles on AGW asking for my opinion. We are all guilty of this kind of behavior to some degree, being aware of that fact helps moderate it but does not impart full immunity even to a wise old man.
Like the autism/vaccination link, Piltdown man was a deliberate fraud exposed by scientists themselves, to me these and other famous frauds are strong evidence that science works as advertised. For an honest man capable of introspection, the scientific method (eventually) weeds out wishful thinking, propaganda, and fraud, this is it's strength. It's weakness is in the undocumented assumption that all involved are honest men acting in good faith.
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and they don't even accept requests from China
You missed the whole "Google pulls out of China" thing?
Pfft, my mum turned an ordinary pillow case into a superman cape way back in 1964.
Should people be able to buy billboard space around the world and declare to the world that you are pedophile? Or something true, a compulsive masturbator? What makes a Google autocomplete any different?
Unlike a billboard google just displays the most common search terms, it's a statistical fact, not an endorsement.
Anyone who claims this is about freedom of speech are being ridiculous.
Anyone who claims that google auto-complete reflects google's opinion is also being ridiculous. Having said that I do agree with the rest of your post, I like the basic concept of the "right to be forgotten", I also think there should be some mechanism whereby a person can demand their name be removed from a commercial search index with no questions asked other than proof of identity. OTOH I'm not sure how well that would work out in practice with common names.
This is about a dedicated high speed connection only between the ISP and Netflix. If the ISP were competing in a free market, this would not be an issue, because Netflix customers could chose to pay more to use ISPs with the fast connection, and other customers would be free to take their business to a cheaper ISP.
Yep that's what the nothink-tank is selling, shame on you for turning off your brain and buying into that level of FUD.
There is no "issue" here, ALL businesses create new products and services from old revenue. Monoplies have little incentive to do anything other than collect fees, it would not surprise me in the least to discover the people who sponsered this propoganda are the same "defacto monopolies" you rightly complain about.
If as the submitter claims "new people take a month to get up to speed" then either their project is trivial or they are doing something right.
I see far more ignorant knee-jerkers than dishonest shills in this thread. I'm no fan of Monsanto's business practices but there is no need to turn off your own morals and resort to the same dishonesty employed by Monsanto. A more honest summary of the situation would say something like "researchers find cauliflower in GM cauliflowers" but I doubt that would generate as many page views.
Yeah, god forbid any corporation spend money on infrastructure improvements, it's downright un-american. Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with these far right nothink-tanks, and who pays for their internet connection?
The claimed savings are just a teaser to get potential customers to ask about it. They don't want everybody scrutinizing their price list, they want to walk potential customers through it in private.
Just because the prosecutors were wrong does not mean Swartz was right.
US prosecutors are little more than "free market" hagglers, they start off asking for a ridiculous price and negotiate downwards.
It was a bit tougher in the 60's than the picture you paint, for starters MLK was assasinated.
banning fracking would protect our water supply, but doom our energy supply
Doom is a strong word, "dent" is more descriptive of the reality. The problem with fracking in the US is that the frackers are not bound by law to tell anyone what chemicals they are pumping into the groundwater. They get a free pass on oversight because the formulas for the liquids are classed as trade secrets. Is it too much to ask for some evidence that fracking has more benefits than costs to society? - Are you personally willing to drink the stuff they are pumping?
Protecting employment requires supporting expansion opportunities. Fracking is an expansion opportunity.
Blind faith in corporations is just as dangerous as blind faith in government. If the job on offer is an overall detriment to society why would you want to support it's creation? How about creating a few jobs to oversee what these people are pumping into the groundwater?
Everything is more complex than everyone thinks.
No, the rule here is so simple even a CEO can understand it - don't shit in MY drinking water. However it's impossible to apply that simple rule to fracking because the relevant information is legally withheld from society.
The US has the best quality health care in the world!
That should be "had", you lost the #1 spot about 40yrs ago, although your still among the leaders in medical research.
This should really be an easy, high impact problem to solve, right?
Yep, many other countries manage to provide better care with a lot less money and have been doing so for decades.The irrational fear of the word "socialism" is the root cause of the problem in the US, it creates a blind spot that prevents Americans from even contemplating the measurably superior systems that exist in very similar nations such as Australia.
First point - I agree, irresponsible dog owners are a danger to the public. Second point - Anecdotes are meaningless, dogs kill ~3k people a year worldwide, your child is more likely to be killed/mauled by a swarm of honey bees than the family dog.
If it was a simple prison the governor would be long dead. It's actually more than culture and/or brute force, the behavior seen in N Korea and other historical hell-holes is universal in ALL humans (including you and me), it's a very deeply ingrained and poorly understood human behavior first highlighted by the "Stanford prison experiment" in the 1970's. People who look at those experiments and claim they would behave differently in the same situation are in fact the very people who are most likely to act as expected. It's the same behavioral phenomena that causes otherwise respectable soldiers to commit acts like those at Abu Graib (sic).
Lemme guess, you're a HS dropout and you're bitter because nobody will buy your homemade shit, right?
The "grease" is in the beef you don't add it, but yes an egg mixed into minced topside makes a good burger that doesn't crumble. No need to make the mince yourself here in Australia, minced topside is sold practically everywhere you can buy meat.
That's how you identify a good burger, it crumbles.
If it were 100% beef it would be a steak.
You don't have "topside mince" where you live?
You uttered something the "other side" says, there is no thought, it's purely an emotional response. That behavior seems seems to be encouraged in US culture to the point where congress is more or less dysfunctional and nobody belives a word unless it comes from "their side". Please note I'm saying this behavior seems ingrained in US politics in the same way it's ingrained in English football. I'm not saying it's an exclusively American trait, I had the same emotional response from my own (non-american) parents when I said "...yes, but CO2 is warming the Earth", the barrage of bullshit talking points was that intense it really did "shock" me to the point I suddenly had somewhere else to go. Thing is I've known them for 53yrs, neither of them are dumb or ignorant, dad's a retired chief engineer and still has all his marbles at 80, he's currently teaching himself Python.
In my case there's a happy ending, after dad calmed down he quietly checked some of his assumption, now he sends me "skeptic" articles on AGW asking for my opinion. We are all guilty of this kind of behavior to some degree, being aware of that fact helps moderate it but does not impart full immunity even to a wise old man.
Ghandi did not win because the British empire were soft.
A dog is way more effective than a gun for keeping the home secure.
I don't use FB and don't have a mobile phone. It's not a deliberate strategy, I just don't like people that much.
since there is so little difference between socialism and fascism anyway
Yes, because we all know there's little difference between modern day Sweden and Nazi Germany. /sarcasam
Like the autism/vaccination link, Piltdown man was a deliberate fraud exposed by scientists themselves, to me these and other famous frauds are strong evidence that science works as advertised. For an honest man capable of introspection, the scientific method (eventually) weeds out wishful thinking, propaganda, and fraud, this is it's strength. It's weakness is in the undocumented assumption that all involved are honest men acting in good faith.