The Republicans have passed laws against public housing, like the Faircloth Amendment, and in cities around the country, like New Orleans, they've actively destroyed public housing. (Although the Democrats have done their share.)
Speaking as a New Orleans resident...I have to say THANK YOU for tearing down and getting rid of as much of the old Projects as they did!!
Those were/are the central zones for all of the crime (most murders happen there) in the city by far.
The problem is...they didn't go far enough and raze ALL of those fucking cockroach infested blights on the city.
They ones they did tear down and replace with mixed income housing....those parts of the city are largely seeing regrowth and drops in crime.
One of the problems we have with so much crime in the French Quarter, is that one of the last projects is just a few blocks from it....I keep hearing there are plans to destroy that and replace it too, but they have to keep that largely quiet, or the folks that think the low end, dirty, broken projects system of the past is something to cherish will scream bloody murder.
Those projects where a large part of the central problems with the city...gangs and crime, that's all they are good for.
NOLA has a strange layout...in that there is no good side of town and bad side of town, like in most cities. This is largely due to the way the projects came to be here.
Yes, they were originally built as govt housing for soldiers coming back from WW2....but over the years, they turned into "the projects" with only the poorest of poor crowded in there in a manner far to dense for the situation to handle.
Blow them all away, I say...so that the city can continue to see a drop in crime, to continue to see an influx of young professional 30+yr types moving in with families, etc...like we saw after Katrina.
Keeping and bearing arms is a right. They aren't "for" any one purpose. You don't need a reason. That's what a right is.
So is (or should be) privacy....
Remember, the US Constitution does not "grant" rights....its purpose is to enumerate the supposedly LIMITED powers and responsibilities of the Federal Govt.
The bill of rights is an odd duck...in that it does actually list some rights...there was a lot of argument on that at the time, as that the founding fathers didn't want there to be the misconception that it granted rights.
But I would argue that privacy, is a right, not for any one purpose and that for privacy, you also "don't need a reason"....
What if an emergency situation arises inside the venue, like it catches fire, or someone gets really sick of Alicia Keyes crappy music and goes into cardiac arrest, or your kid gets hit by a car and the hospital calls you ?
You know, cell phones haven't been that ubiquitous for that long.
It wasn't that many years ago...we went to concerts with *GASP* No cell phones at all!! No one owned them.
We all survived just fine.
I'm gonna throw you a REAL curve ball here..but a LOT of us around that are maybe middle aged, grew up and children with no such thing as a cell phone, no helicopter parents....nothing around but land lines in each home. And yet, somehow we managed to survive.
In many ways....it was nicer without fucking smart phones and their cameras everywhere back then. I love my smart phone, but there are times I wish they'd all be turned off for a week or so at a time.
Even if I'm not eating it's still nice to have a beer or wine during the film that a waiter brings to you when you want refills so that you don't have to risk missing anything.
It also assumes time (many work a job or two and still fall below the poverty line), regular availability (so they can't have work that assigns shift because it could overlap classes), that they don't have dependents to care for, nor does it consider the costs of mass transit to places to get this.
I applaud anyone who can pull themselves out of poverty by their bootstraps like that, but I don't think you have a general solution.
Hey, no one said it would be easy or convenient now, did they?
If you didn't pay attention in school..if you thought being a thug, gangbanger or general worthless type was the important thing to do, while ignoring your studies and working heard for an education early on when it was free, you were young and had time....well, you just gotta now work that extra hard and walks that extra mile to play "catch up" with the rest of the world that passed you by back then.
The world doesn't own you a damned thing...so, you gotta work, know your priorities and have some common sense. Don't have fucking kids if you can't afford them. Take advantage of school while you can, etc.
Otherwise, it gets harder later in life. It can be done, but you gotta pay the piper with sweat and sacrifice at some point if you want to succeed, and quit being a leech on society.
The fact is that there are no jobs, especially for the barely educated.
Seriously?
Let's see...they're screaming for H1-B workers to come in to take all the jobs we can't fill with US citizens?
And exactly where are all of the swarms of illegal immigrants working these days? They seem to be finding PLENTY of jobs that don't require an education.
Maybe if we didn't have them driving down wages, we'd have more of the poor US citizens working...no?
All I can say is...I don't see much representation of any other ethnicity or race waiting early in the morning outside Home Depot waiting to be picked up for work besides the mexicans.
There's plenty of work out there....just gotta not be so fuckin lazy and go find and do it!!
I just can't believe he's so clueless as to not understand that math doesn't recognize lines on a map, nor can I quite believe he didn't expect to get called out on his bullshit.
Well, it isn't HIS cluelessness that is the problem here..is the his audience...the US Senators/CongressCritters that he speaks to in these hearings.
See, they are the ones that pass the laws that could mandate weakening software and forcing backdoors.
He may know perfectly well that this is a false and stupid thing to say, but it IS something the TLA's want badly...so, he tells them this and they think that it won't cause harm to US businesses, and they have, instead, just helped to fight the terrorists...and have their constituents be happy about this.
It is the ignorance of the lawmakers that you have to worry about.....and unfortunately they're getting their information from a guy like this, that wants what he wants, no matter the cost to business or the constitution.
We all hum the tunes we've heard, then augment and rearrange the notes. It is ALWAYS a matter of copying.
Business people insert themselves into the process and try to meter and measure everything. Ostensibly this is to facilitate a distribution network, because those darn expensive vaccum tubes in the recording studio don't make themselves, ya know.
I think a lot of what you said is true AND contributes to the reason that today there is such a dearth of good music to listen to, and keep and cherish and remember for more than a day or two...
It started with musicians and bands lifting from other artists of the past, and using it to build and move forward on.
You had Rock and Roll come from country and blues....Chuck Berry lifted his guitar sound and licks from his piano player (hence the strange reason so many of Chuck's songs are in piano keys)....groups like the Stones took Chucks work and with the older Delta bluesmen, and packaged it into something new. Zeppelin, took from the old blues guys and gave us heavy blues rock.
This patten continued and you got an evolution of music, until something about the yearly 90's I'd say....and this evoluton music, for whatever reason....stopped.
Something just changed...I know there are lots of factors, like the splintering of f few genres into hundreds of them. I think rap had something to do with it personally (you may like it, but I consider the words "rap" and "music" to be mutually exclusive terms, but that's just my opinion)....where you went from people actually singing and playing their own instruments...to just shouting, and sampling other musicians' music...nothing really as original really as from in the past when they nicked or lifted licks from other musicians of the past.
It just isn't the same....and I think that loss of continuity just left future artists kind of lost. They don't have solid roots any more.
I do seem some trying t change that...reaching back to where the gap started and trying to grap a little of that and make it their own, but there is a long road to go before we ever see the type of music and musicians that are going to be able to put out music for the ages, that people will be listening to for the next 20-50 years after release.
I mean...I can still hear Beatles songs today, and anticipate I will far into the future (like we hear Mozart). Will anyone even know a Katy Perry song in 10 years from now? Will they know who Katy Perry was?
This is clearly a diversion; they just want everyone online logged.
Store reviews only? Come on.
Yep.
The govts. have been itching for something like this since they realized they missed the boat on this venue of freedom of expression. I'm just surprised they're masking this "need" as just for honesty in reviews...after all...the terrorists and child predators are the problem, right?
Well, hey, it was good while it lasted...the internet.
Kids aren't allowed to play outside in Maryland, neighbors call the cops on them for "free ranging their kids"
WoW!!
Seriously?
Geez, I guess my parents if I were a kid today would have been tar'ed and feathered for letting me run wild. Heck they both worked and I stayed at home during the summers when older, but when young, I either Mom was home or I stayed with my cousins at my Aunts house, but even then, I'd get up early int he morning and unless I came home for lunch I was all over the neighborhood or in the woods near our home all day having fun....I'd just usually call from a neighbors house to check in every 2-3 hours when I was younger.
I feel for kids today if they don't have this type of freedom.
Nope, with me...GIVE ME MONEY....plain and simple.
There is one and ONLY one reason I work....money.
If I were wealthy enough to never have to work a day in my life, I'd not work. If I won the powerball, and cleared let's say...$2.5-$3M after taxes, I figure I could live on interest alone for the rest of my days. If that happened, I don't actually know if I'd bother calling into work saying I'd not be back...I'd be too busy leaving skid marks out the door.
The only reason I work, is to support the lifestyle I like with the things I can buy, travel and do....
I contract...so, I negotiate my bill rate to cover my time I want to take off annually....so, no need for extra vacation. If you want me, PAY me...pay me for every single hour I work, none of this salary BS where you get 'free' work out of me, etc. If you want to impress me, give me more money.
More second rate engineering from car manufacturers. After seeing stuff like this, I can't imagine why someone would want an even more complex car like a Tesla.
Yep.
I just can't WAIT for my more connected car...then, my fucking SELF driving car...yeah, nothing can go wrong there....
[rolls eyes]
I supposed all these years of me physically driving and being responsible for for the cars behavior, good to throw that all out the window.
I as a human, can't really be hacked remotely like this (I keep my tin foil hat on at all times)....but sure, let's throw that model out, and trust the car companies that so far, have NEVER shown the proclivity to actually secure their systems they have to date....to control our transportation future.
Uber, as it turns out, really makes a lot of money selling data. In fact, this is what the real issue with Austin regulations was all about - Austin demanded free access to Uber ride data (the details). It's too much of a revenue generator for them to give away. Houston was anxious for the data, New York, too, and they both paid for the data from Uber. But when Austin decided they weren't going to pay for it, Uber decided to leave town.
Data is that important to Uber. They will crush Urbanhail with their lawyers.
Well, make sense...why would a company that has a product "X" that is part of their money making plan and revenue stream, want to give that away?
What is these same cities, take a look at Porsche, and decided they'd like to have access to Porsche's flagship car, the 911....NY and Houston pays them for those cars...but, Austin says "Nope, in order to have your business here, you have to GIVE us 911s for free".
Data is a tangible thing...just like a physical car is, they are both work money and part of a company business plan and revenue stream.
Why should they be expected to give either away for free?
Your parents said the same thing about your generation.
No, actually the did NOT say that. They did say they didn't like our music and we dressed weird, which is to be expected.
But they never accused us of not being entrepreneurial, not of trying to fundamentally change what the USA has been built upon and succeeded at....not of having above all else, having to protect our self esteem, and not being afraid to say most anything in public without worry about mass scorn and groupthink piling on if you didn't think or said something against the new politically correct way of thinking.
We weren't accused of being politically correct.
No, we weren't accused of being cupcakes like the millennials are......I think it comes from everyone getting a trophy, whenever that shit started.
until there's real content for it. 5K is pointless one-upping until there is an application for it.
Well, there are a number of cameras coming out, that are getting into decent price ranges, that shoot 4K+ video....and with my photo editing, that high resolution really allows me to truly see my high rez images while editing them.
I can also fit a LOT of open windows on a 5K monitor which is nice too....
But there are applications for a 4K or 5K computer monitor.
I had thought recently to get one of the iMac 5K's....but was worried that the GPU on it would be so busy with the display that it might now have quite enough power to run Davinci Resolve as speeds I wanted and needed for editing and color grading video.
With a monitor like this with GPU internal, I might could get that, and a new CPU unit (macbook pro, mac pro, etc)...and let the GPU in the computer unit do all the hard work for the application and the GPU in the monitor would do the display work....that sounds pretty sweet!
Some of us just want them...I love to collect and go shoot them. To me, a fun Saturday is going out and dropping a few hundred rounds at a range, or out on some private land.
Frankly these days, I'm more afraid of the idiots that don't seem to know how to drive a fscking car....thinking they need a big truck or SUV, and can't seem to control or park it correctly.
The big one that gets me lately, is that people in these SUVs or large trucks..dont' seem to know where the front of their vehicle actually is....they are often at a stop light, 1-2 car lengths away from the line....which sucks on intersections where if they'd just pull to the line, 1-2 more cars could fit in behind them and not stick out in traffic....ugh.
Oh well, I guess you can't legislate stupid away...the only way to do that, would mean that responsible adults could no longer have nice or fun things.
If only the professor had had a gun to defend himself with! Surely carrying a gun should be compulsory in the USA... no one is safe what with all those lunatics walking around with guns!
I rarely carry a gun...and yet I feel pretty safe living here.
Cue flurry of handgun restriction bills in the near future.
Well, obviously we need a terrorist computer science profession gun control list.
We can't have all these unbalanced, introverted, jealous, code stealing folks out there running around able to buy guns in the US.
I mean, I'm surprised it took THIS long to bring this subject up, considering all the many gun related killing comp sci folks commit annually.....ESPECIALLY in the University Systems where tenure is at stake!!
Actually, if you shop wisely, you can get out of Whole Foods for about the same as a regular grocery store...mostly in the veggie section.
You have to avoid the meat counters and cheese case which really blow the prices up, but getting good veggies there is often on par with what you can get at the regular grocery stores...and the quality, I find, is often superior....but you have to pick and choose wisely.
Thing is, if Google's Location History is off... that page shows nothing on the map and reports "your location history is off - only you can see it".
But doesn't say "there is no location history". And, based on other Google experiences, I suspect the information is still there on Google's servers since they don't seem to actually delete anything - they just have a "deleted" flag which makes the information unavailable to you... except when they screw up (which I've seen).
So it's quite possible law enforcement can still get that data from Google, even if you have location history turned off.
I would think anyone that was even half intelligent to leave their damned phone AT HOME if they were going to do something venturing into the unlawful world.....why would anyone carry an always on GPS location beacon with them when doing something like this???
Are people so hooked to their cell phones that they can't leave them aside even for just long enough to rob a bank or something you might not want to be tracked at???
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Speaking as a New Orleans resident...I have to say THANK YOU for tearing down and getting rid of as much of the old Projects as they did!!
Those were/are the central zones for all of the crime (most murders happen there) in the city by far.
The problem is...they didn't go far enough and raze ALL of those fucking cockroach infested blights on the city.
They ones they did tear down and replace with mixed income housing....those parts of the city are largely seeing regrowth and drops in crime.
One of the problems we have with so much crime in the French Quarter, is that one of the last projects is just a few blocks from it....I keep hearing there are plans to destroy that and replace it too, but they have to keep that largely quiet, or the folks that think the low end, dirty, broken projects system of the past is something to cherish will scream bloody murder.
Those projects where a large part of the central problems with the city...gangs and crime, that's all they are good for.
NOLA has a strange layout...in that there is no good side of town and bad side of town, like in most cities. This is largely due to the way the projects came to be here.
Yes, they were originally built as govt housing for soldiers coming back from WW2....but over the years, they turned into "the projects" with only the poorest of poor crowded in there in a manner far to dense for the situation to handle.
Blow them all away, I say...so that the city can continue to see a drop in crime, to continue to see an influx of young professional 30+yr types moving in with families, etc...like we saw after Katrina.
So is (or should be) privacy....
Remember, the US Constitution does not "grant" rights....its purpose is to enumerate the supposedly LIMITED powers and responsibilities of the Federal Govt.
The bill of rights is an odd duck...in that it does actually list some rights...there was a lot of argument on that at the time, as that the founding fathers didn't want there to be the misconception that it granted rights.
But I would argue that privacy, is a right, not for any one purpose and that for privacy, you also "don't need a reason"....
You know, cell phones haven't been that ubiquitous for that long.
It wasn't that many years ago...we went to concerts with *GASP* No cell phones at all!! No one owned them.
We all survived just fine.
I'm gonna throw you a REAL curve ball here..but a LOT of us around that are maybe middle aged, grew up and children with no such thing as a cell phone, no helicopter parents....nothing around but land lines in each home. And yet, somehow we managed to survive.
In many ways....it was nicer without fucking smart phones and their cameras everywhere back then. I love my smart phone, but there are times I wish they'd all be turned off for a week or so at a time.
That's why I just bring a flask in with me....
Hey, no one said it would be easy or convenient now, did they?
If you didn't pay attention in school..if you thought being a thug, gangbanger or general worthless type was the important thing to do, while ignoring your studies and working heard for an education early on when it was free, you were young and had time....well, you just gotta now work that extra hard and walks that extra mile to play "catch up" with the rest of the world that passed you by back then.
The world doesn't own you a damned thing...so, you gotta work, know your priorities and have some common sense. Don't have fucking kids if you can't afford them. Take advantage of school while you can, etc.
Otherwise, it gets harder later in life. It can be done, but you gotta pay the piper with sweat and sacrifice at some point if you want to succeed, and quit being a leech on society.
Seriously?
Let's see...they're screaming for H1-B workers to come in to take all the jobs we can't fill with US citizens?
And exactly where are all of the swarms of illegal immigrants working these days? They seem to be finding PLENTY of jobs that don't require an education.
Maybe if we didn't have them driving down wages, we'd have more of the poor US citizens working...no?
All I can say is...I don't see much representation of any other ethnicity or race waiting early in the morning outside Home Depot waiting to be picked up for work besides the mexicans.
There's plenty of work out there....just gotta not be so fuckin lazy and go find and do it!!
Well, it isn't HIS cluelessness that is the problem here..is the his audience...the US Senators/CongressCritters that he speaks to in these hearings.
See, they are the ones that pass the laws that could mandate weakening software and forcing backdoors.
He may know perfectly well that this is a false and stupid thing to say, but it IS something the TLA's want badly...so, he tells them this and they think that it won't cause harm to US businesses, and they have, instead, just helped to fight the terrorists...and have their constituents be happy about this.
It is the ignorance of the lawmakers that you have to worry about.....and unfortunately they're getting their information from a guy like this, that wants what he wants, no matter the cost to business or the constitution.
Well...I suppose they could do something radical and say, try to educate/better themselves and get a fucking JOB and pay their own way, no?
I think a lot of what you said is true AND contributes to the reason that today there is such a dearth of good music to listen to, and keep and cherish and remember for more than a day or two...
It started with musicians and bands lifting from other artists of the past, and using it to build and move forward on.
You had Rock and Roll come from country and blues....Chuck Berry lifted his guitar sound and licks from his piano player (hence the strange reason so many of Chuck's songs are in piano keys)....groups like the Stones took Chucks work and with the older Delta bluesmen, and packaged it into something new. Zeppelin, took from the old blues guys and gave us heavy blues rock.
This patten continued and you got an evolution of music, until something about the yearly 90's I'd say....and this evoluton music, for whatever reason....stopped.
Something just changed...I know there are lots of factors, like the splintering of f few genres into hundreds of them. I think rap had something to do with it personally (you may like it, but I consider the words "rap" and "music" to be mutually exclusive terms, but that's just my opinion)....where you went from people actually singing and playing their own instruments...to just shouting, and sampling other musicians' music ...nothing really as original really as from in the past when they nicked or lifted licks from other musicians of the past.
It just isn't the same....and I think that loss of continuity just left future artists kind of lost. They don't have solid roots any more.
I do seem some trying t change that...reaching back to where the gap started and trying to grap a little of that and make it their own, but there is a long road to go before we ever see the type of music and musicians that are going to be able to put out music for the ages, that people will be listening to for the next 20-50 years after release.
I mean...I can still hear Beatles songs today, and anticipate I will far into the future (like we hear Mozart). Will anyone even know a Katy Perry song in 10 years from now? Will they know who Katy Perry was?
No...we really don't care what the rest of the world thinks about us....why should we?
What does the US possibly stand to GAIN by relinquishing control over this?
If there is no net gain for us, they why give it up?
Yep.
The govts. have been itching for something like this since they realized they missed the boat on this venue of freedom of expression. I'm just surprised they're masking this "need" as just for honesty in reviews...after all...the terrorists and child predators are the problem, right?
Well, hey, it was good while it lasted...the internet.
WoW!!
Seriously?
Geez, I guess my parents if I were a kid today would have been tar'ed and feathered for letting me run wild. Heck they both worked and I stayed at home during the summers when older, but when young, I either Mom was home or I stayed with my cousins at my Aunts house, but even then, I'd get up early int he morning and unless I came home for lunch I was all over the neighborhood or in the woods near our home all day having fun....I'd just usually call from a neighbors house to check in every 2-3 hours when I was younger.
I feel for kids today if they don't have this type of freedom.
There is one and ONLY one reason I work....money.
If I were wealthy enough to never have to work a day in my life, I'd not work. If I won the powerball, and cleared let's say...$2.5-$3M after taxes, I figure I could live on interest alone for the rest of my days. If that happened, I don't actually know if I'd bother calling into work saying I'd not be back...I'd be too busy leaving skid marks out the door.
The only reason I work, is to support the lifestyle I like with the things I can buy, travel and do....
I contract...so, I negotiate my bill rate to cover my time I want to take off annually....so, no need for extra vacation. If you want me, PAY me...pay me for every single hour I work, none of this salary BS where you get 'free' work out of me, etc. If you want to impress me, give me more money.
Yep.
I just can't WAIT for my more connected car...then, my fucking SELF driving car...yeah, nothing can go wrong there....
[rolls eyes] I supposed all these years of me physically driving and being responsible for for the cars behavior, good to throw that all out the window.
I as a human, can't really be hacked remotely like this (I keep my tin foil hat on at all times)....but sure, let's throw that model out, and trust the car companies that so far, have NEVER shown the proclivity to actually secure their systems they have to date....to control our transportation future.
Long Live the Johnny Car!!!
Well, make sense...why would a company that has a product "X" that is part of their money making plan and revenue stream, want to give that away?
What is these same cities, take a look at Porsche, and decided they'd like to have access to Porsche's flagship car, the 911....NY and Houston pays them for those cars...but, Austin says "Nope, in order to have your business here, you have to GIVE us 911s for free".
Data is a tangible thing...just like a physical car is, they are both work money and part of a company business plan and revenue stream.
Why should they be expected to give either away for free?
No, actually the did NOT say that. They did say they didn't like our music and we dressed weird, which is to be expected.
But they never accused us of not being entrepreneurial, not of trying to fundamentally change what the USA has been built upon and succeeded at....not of having above all else, having to protect our self esteem, and not being afraid to say most anything in public without worry about mass scorn and groupthink piling on if you didn't think or said something against the new politically correct way of thinking.
We weren't accused of being politically correct.
No, we weren't accused of being cupcakes like the millennials are......I think it comes from everyone getting a trophy, whenever that shit started.
Well, there are a number of cameras coming out, that are getting into decent price ranges, that shoot 4K+ video....and with my photo editing, that high resolution really allows me to truly see my high rez images while editing them.
I can also fit a LOT of open windows on a 5K monitor which is nice too....
But there are applications for a 4K or 5K computer monitor.
I had thought recently to get one of the iMac 5K's....but was worried that the GPU on it would be so busy with the display that it might now have quite enough power to run Davinci Resolve as speeds I wanted and needed for editing and color grading video.
With a monitor like this with GPU internal, I might could get that, and a new CPU unit (macbook pro, mac pro, etc)...and let the GPU in the computer unit do all the hard work for the application and the GPU in the monitor would do the display work....that sounds pretty sweet!
That usually come shortly after the horn honk...but had to be timed just right....
Some of us just want them...I love to collect and go shoot them. To me, a fun Saturday is going out and dropping a few hundred rounds at a range, or out on some private land.
Frankly these days, I'm more afraid of the idiots that don't seem to know how to drive a fscking car....thinking they need a big truck or SUV, and can't seem to control or park it correctly.
The big one that gets me lately, is that people in these SUVs or large trucks..dont' seem to know where the front of their vehicle actually is....they are often at a stop light, 1-2 car lengths away from the line....which sucks on intersections where if they'd just pull to the line, 1-2 more cars could fit in behind them and not stick out in traffic....ugh.
Oh well, I guess you can't legislate stupid away...the only way to do that, would mean that responsible adults could no longer have nice or fun things.
I rarely carry a gun...and yet I feel pretty safe living here.
Well, obviously we need a terrorist computer science profession gun control list.
We can't have all these unbalanced, introverted, jealous, code stealing folks out there running around able to buy guns in the US.
I mean, I'm surprised it took THIS long to bring this subject up, considering all the many gun related killing comp sci folks commit annually.....ESPECIALLY in the University Systems where tenure is at stake!!
Actually, if you shop wisely, you can get out of Whole Foods for about the same as a regular grocery store...mostly in the veggie section.
You have to avoid the meat counters and cheese case which really blow the prices up, but getting good veggies there is often on par with what you can get at the regular grocery stores...and the quality, I find, is often superior....but you have to pick and choose wisely.
Why would getting one with an ice maker be "insane"?
I find it to be one of the more useful parts of a good fridge.....
I would think anyone that was even half intelligent to leave their damned phone AT HOME if they were going to do something venturing into the unlawful world.....why would anyone carry an always on GPS location beacon with them when doing something like this???
Are people so hooked to their cell phones that they can't leave them aside even for just long enough to rob a bank or something you might not want to be tracked at???