Are you being stupid on purpose, or just born that way? Such a free market requires society legislating, and legislators to act in the consumer interest, rather than the established corporate powers. This is a fatal flaw in my plan.
Imagine a real free market. Imagine effective regulators creating a marketplace where anyone can contribute content, and set their price per view. And conditions such as allowing adverts to be inserted or overlayed, or to refuse permission. Where any distributor can source content from anywhere, add value such as links to reviews, parental filters, extra language subtitles, whatever... and choose their own cost margin. Imagine a world where consumers can choose their content independently of the distribution and local display device. Where filmakers get paid on the popularity of their product, and consumers willingness to pay, not on arcane backroom bundling negotiations.
No strong DRM needed, just digital watermarks and signed serial numbers to allow oversight and make cheating harder. All this is possible, except the lobbyists would never allow it.
They routinely pass law that violates the constitution,
You mean the same US constitution written by men who had waged war against their own parliament and king? And who allied with that nation's enemies, the French?
Maybe the constitution needed a firm preamble: "Do what we say and not what we do.".
In Australia, and presumably other countries with number portability, SMS authentication is a joke. While a SIM has strong crypto, and cannot easily be cloned, it is trivial to steal someones phone number by 'porting' it to another SIM. The only 'secret' you need is their account number (dumpster dive, emails, social engineer or mailbox) or date of birth for prepaid.
The only thing less secure is those password resets, that ask for the make of your first car, etc - something guessable or found on your facebook profile.
WikiLeaks has shown great interest in anti-US material, and comparatively very little interest in anything that disparages Russia.
You have some evidence that Wikileaks has been receiving and withholding Russian documents? What is this material disparaging Russia that they have been rejecting? Being against the American invasions of other countries hardly makes him pro-Russian. Unless you subscribe to the idiotic "you are either with us or against us" mentality.
That's the part I don't get. Putin has to know from experience that he can walk all over Hillary.
RTFA. Even if it is Russian GRU, they have other plausible motives. It could be simple tit for tat on recent leaks that have embarrassed Putin. There is no reason to believe they prefer Trump. The Russians would be more comfortable with the devil they know.
Obviously we should never have moved from the original 1/4" (6.35mm) audio headphone jack, which just works. As a bonus, phones would have to be a little thicker, so might not have such crappy battery life now.
Not "low end" - the Moto-G and Moto-X represent good value mid and high-end phones. The X competed with the iPhone 6+ and Galaxy flagship at a substantially lower price. High hardware specs and unadulterated Android.
The Z (Zee or Zed?) does not represent the same value. And the clip-on modules? The only one making the slightest sense over wireless accessories is the power pack, and they've never been hits compared to general-purpose portable USB power-banks. The Moto X fast-charge made it even less useful (claims "up to 8 hours of power in just 15 minutes of charging" using a QC2 charger).
But what happened to all the good Republican candidates? I'm a long way away from the US, but trying to make sense of it. There there did not seem to be one Republican contender of the calibre of John McCain or Mitt Romney. The party was able to select those two strong contenders in previous elections, but now the best they could find was Jeb Bush!? I know the party has capable intelligent leaders in state politics, so why did none of them run for the presidential nomination this time?
Nah, try dogs milk. Nothing wrong with dog's milk. Full of goodness, full of vitamins, full of marrowbone jelly. Lasts longer than any other milk, dog's milk.
Hatred and bigotry? No. What is more likely: A skinhead homophobe goes to a junk-food website to express his rage, or a 14yo kid is yanking your chain for fun?
apparently, you have no idea what how treason is defined by the US Constitution.
Of course, that document was written by a bunch of guys who had just willingly committed treason, justified or not, against their former country and king ('a man do levy war against the king in his realm') by so they should know exactly what they were talking about.
the moon could be used as a base for space journeys into Mars
It would be nice to use the moon as a fuelling station on the way to Mars, but that only makes economic sense if there are lots of high-payload missions. And why would anyone do that? Science is getting smaller. The Chinese might want to do a few manned missions to show the world they are no longer stagnating in the 16th century. But once they've proved it, they'll be going back as often as the US goes to the moon.
Another issue in Australia (and elsewhere?) is the competitors offering free trials. I've suspended my Netflix account, while sampling Stan and Presto. There are lots of 3-month and even 6-month free trial promo codes about. Presto's platform still sucks, but they do have some decent local content if you can do it without the client crashing, or video quality dropping to VCD level. Stan is better, and hopefully will survive. In the long run, I suppose we will shift between Netflix and competitors every few months. If enough people do that, the pricing models might change, but I hope not.
What we need are Common Sense Truck Laws...at this point, even 80% of truck owning Americans agree with this.
You mean like licensing truck drivers? Keeping trucks registered? Requiring all trucks to be fitted with an ignition lock, and key removed when parked?
Sorry, no way will Americans accept such restrictions. The right to drive trucks is an inalienable liberty.
eugenics has always been about bigotry, and is only loosely based on evolution. It just attempts to codify prejudices with a veneer of scientific justification.
Always? A very narrow view, and ignorant of enlightened idealists who were able to take a long-term view, and imagine a world with less disease and inequality. You see one group with bad methods and tar the whole field with the same brush. That is prejudice and bigotry on display.
I take your point. Thats why I used quotes around "fittest" in the original post. Did you not notice?
Quotation marks can occasionally be used for emphasis, but only when quoting a single word which someone else used. Usually, this implies that the author doesn’t agree with the use of the term.
I take it from that word the AC is American. There is very little difference between white and black total fertility rates in the US. Both are below replacement levels, so eugenic policies in the US would be focused on making it easier and more desirable for capable people to have more children. I would argue that African Americans stand to gain more, and sensible policies would have a long term effect of reducing inequality.
Such ignorance seems to come mostly from ACs. If only we could require people to make a small effort to register as parents before having children, it would filter out a lot of bad ones:-)
Worrying about it does not mean they expected it. Are you aware that a number of Iranian scientists have been assassinated? If the researchers were a little paranoid, I can understand that. They are westerners, so they'd probably not be killed. The sailors on the USS Liberty thought that before they died.
You clearly cannot read my post. Would you suggest that because someone has done something in a bad way once, it can never be done better? You'd have to abolish everything then. Its like saying Hitler used forced labour to build freeways, so freeways are evil.
Selective breeding of livestock is also evolution, it's called directed evolution.
More pointless quibbling. Evolution commonly refers to Darwin's natural selection. Context.
Hence the sterilization and euthanasia of those deemed unfit by bigots.
You seem very intolerant of the views of others on this subject. That fits the definiton of a bigot far better.
I for one would rather live in the dystopia of GATTACA than the dystopia of Idiocracy. But I hope the world can find an intelligent middle ground before it is too late.
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Are you being stupid on purpose, or just born that way? Such a free market requires society legislating, and legislators to act in the consumer interest, rather than the established corporate powers. This is a fatal flaw in my plan.
Imagine a real free market. ... and choose their own cost margin.
Imagine effective regulators creating a marketplace where anyone can contribute content, and set their price per view. And conditions such as allowing adverts to be inserted or overlayed, or to refuse permission.
Where any distributor can source content from anywhere, add value such as links to reviews, parental filters, extra language subtitles, whatever
Imagine a world where consumers can choose their content independently of the distribution and local display device.
Where filmakers get paid on the popularity of their product, and consumers willingness to pay, not on arcane backroom bundling negotiations.
No strong DRM needed, just digital watermarks and signed serial numbers to allow oversight and make cheating harder.
All this is possible, except the lobbyists would never allow it.
They routinely pass law that violates the constitution,
You mean the same US constitution written by men who had waged war against their own parliament and king?
And who allied with that nation's enemies, the French?
Maybe the constitution needed a firm preamble: "Do what we say and not what we do.".
It can be!
Star Trek showed how to make it safe in a studio long ago: use stage-hands to operate the doors, and add the sound effects later.
Also: falling polystyrene boulders are much safer than real ones.
In Australia, and presumably other countries with number portability, SMS authentication is a joke.
While a SIM has strong crypto, and cannot easily be cloned, it is trivial to steal someones phone number by 'porting' it to another SIM.
The only 'secret' you need is their account number (dumpster dive, emails, social engineer or mailbox) or date of birth for prepaid.
The only thing less secure is those password resets, that ask for the make of your first car, etc - something guessable or found on your facebook profile.
WikiLeaks has shown great interest in anti-US material, and comparatively very little interest in anything that disparages Russia.
You have some evidence that Wikileaks has been receiving and withholding Russian documents? What is this material disparaging Russia that they have been rejecting?
Being against the American invasions of other countries hardly makes him pro-Russian. Unless you subscribe to the idiotic "you are either with us or against us" mentality.
took one phrase out of context,
If you want context, don't quote without attribution.
I didn't say that either of those phones were low-end.
No, you equated "better value" with low end.
should concentrate on value rather than features (i.e. make cheap, low-end phones).
There! You just did it again.
That's the part I don't get. Putin has to know from experience that he can walk all over Hillary.
RTFA. Even if it is Russian GRU, they have other plausible motives. It could be simple tit for tat on recent leaks that have embarrassed Putin.
There is no reason to believe they prefer Trump. The Russians would be more comfortable with the devil they know.
Obviously we should never have moved from the original 1/4" (6.35mm) audio headphone jack, which just works.
As a bonus, phones would have to be a little thicker, so might not have such crappy battery life now.
Not "low end" - the Moto-G and Moto-X represent good value mid and high-end phones.
The X competed with the iPhone 6+ and Galaxy flagship at a substantially lower price. High hardware specs and unadulterated Android.
The Z (Zee or Zed?) does not represent the same value.
And the clip-on modules? The only one making the slightest sense over wireless accessories is the power pack, and they've never been hits compared to general-purpose portable USB power-banks. The Moto X fast-charge made it even less useful (claims "up to 8 hours of power in just 15 minutes of charging" using a QC2 charger).
But what happened to all the good Republican candidates?
I'm a long way away from the US, but trying to make sense of it. There there did not seem to be one Republican contender of the calibre of John McCain or Mitt Romney.
The party was able to select those two strong contenders in previous elections, but now the best they could find was Jeb Bush!?
I know the party has capable intelligent leaders in state politics, so why did none of them run for the presidential nomination this time?
Nah, try dogs milk.
Nothing wrong with dog's milk. Full of goodness, full of vitamins, full of marrowbone jelly. Lasts longer than any other milk, dog's milk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Hatred and bigotry? No.
What is more likely: A skinhead homophobe goes to a junk-food website to express his rage, or a 14yo kid is yanking your chain for fun?
The second finest day: It was 9 Sep 2002 outside a Hollywood hotel. ...
One small punch for one main,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
apparently, you have no idea what how treason is defined by the US Constitution.
Of course, that document was written by a bunch of guys who had just willingly committed treason, justified or not, against their former country and king ('a man do levy war against the king in his realm') by so they should know exactly what they were talking about.
You mean Amazon ECH(el)O(n) ?
the moon could be used as a base for space journeys into Mars
It would be nice to use the moon as a fuelling station on the way to Mars, but that only makes economic sense if there are lots of high-payload missions.
And why would anyone do that? Science is getting smaller. The Chinese might want to do a few manned missions to show the world they are no longer stagnating in the 16th century. But once they've proved it, they'll be going back as often as the US goes to the moon.
Another issue in Australia (and elsewhere?) is the competitors offering free trials.
I've suspended my Netflix account, while sampling Stan and Presto. There are lots of 3-month and even 6-month free trial promo codes about.
Presto's platform still sucks, but they do have some decent local content if you can do it without the client crashing, or video quality dropping to VCD level.
Stan is better, and hopefully will survive. In the long run, I suppose we will shift between Netflix and competitors every few months. If enough people do that, the pricing models might change, but I hope not.
Might want to triple check your source on that one, chief.
eh? Whats that mean? Is there no law against leaving keys (traditional or electronic) in the car while unattended in the usa?
What we need are Common Sense Truck Laws...at this point, even 80% of truck owning Americans agree with this.
You mean like licensing truck drivers? Keeping trucks registered? Requiring all trucks to be fitted with an ignition lock, and key removed when parked?
Sorry, no way will Americans accept such restrictions. The right to drive trucks is an inalienable liberty.
eugenics has always been about bigotry, and is only loosely based on evolution. It just attempts to codify prejudices with a veneer of scientific justification.
Always? A very narrow view, and ignorant of enlightened idealists who were able to take a long-term view, and imagine a world with less disease and inequality. You see one group with bad methods and tar the whole field with the same brush. That is prejudice and bigotry on display.
I take your point. Thats why I used quotes around "fittest" in the original post. Did you not notice?
Quotation marks can occasionally be used for emphasis, but only when quoting a single word which someone else used. Usually, this implies that the author doesn’t agree with the use of the term.
https://www.grammarly.com/hand...
I take it from that word the AC is American. There is very little difference between white and black total fertility rates in the US. Both are below replacement levels, so eugenic policies in the US would be focused on making it easier and more desirable for capable people to have more children. I would argue that African Americans stand to gain more, and sensible policies would have a long term effect of reducing inequality.
Such ignorance seems to come mostly from ACs. If only we could require people to make a small effort to register as parents before having children, it would filter out a lot of bad ones :-)
Worrying about it does not mean they expected it.
Are you aware that a number of Iranian scientists have been assassinated?
If the researchers were a little paranoid, I can understand that. They are westerners, so they'd probably not be killed.
The sailors on the USS Liberty thought that before they died.
You have clearly never heard about ...
You clearly cannot read my post. Would you suggest that because someone has done something in a bad way once, it can never be done better?
You'd have to abolish everything then. Its like saying Hitler used forced labour to build freeways, so freeways are evil.
Evolution is not "survival of the fittest".
Not in the common meaning of the word, but I thought people were familiar with the context. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Selective breeding of livestock is also evolution, it's called directed evolution.
More pointless quibbling. Evolution commonly refers to Darwin's natural selection. Context.
Hence the sterilization and euthanasia of those deemed unfit by bigots.
You seem very intolerant of the views of others on this subject. That fits the definiton of a bigot far better.
I for one would rather live in the dystopia of GATTACA than the dystopia of Idiocracy. But I hope the world can find an intelligent middle ground before it is too late.