Better to know and react to what is known, than to not know and only find out when they react. So silence 8chan or simply pay more attention to it. Stick to the law, someone says something illegal on 8chan, carry out an investigation and try to find them and prosecute them.
Can 8chan incite violence, not really, no real names hence mostly ignored, just trolls trolling trolls, as a social media game. Will it attract those with more intent, obviously because they see it as real, rather than as a social game but they brought their violent intent, 8chan did not generate it. 8chan simply pushes the bounds of social interaction in a very challenging social space, incites nothing but very colourful and somewhat naughty comments and content.
Those comments and content attract those of ill intent, who see the shared trolling as reality, bringing their own mental baggage and disturbed thinking to that forum, not guided by the forum, just expressing their existing intent on that forum. Silence that and you loose a major opportunity to prevent that intent.
A super nova is an exploding sun. So one sun in orbit of another sun. At detonation, one sun loses a lot of mass, blown out into space, a whole lot of mass, and compresses the core. So substantially altered gravitational fields, releasing the sun from orbit, plus a whole lot of gravitational mass rushing past it as well as the direct impact of the shockwave. Then you have the electromagnetic impact, do they have same basic charge and now repel each other, the exploding and expanding sun and the orbiting sun, which is doing a discarding sabot thing, also losing a lot of mass, blown away and a directional compression of it's core, a big electromagnetic catapult, in conjunction with the shock wave and gravitational sling shot, escape from orbit and chasing the ejected mass, gravitationally, as well as the original orbital inertia and then of course, the speed of the original solar system in space.
Of course the most interesting subject, is anything in it's path, how far away is it and when will it impact. That is what everyone wants to know, hell it might even have run into something and we just haven't seen it yet.
The new summary to follow that summary, everyone should be able to guess what that one will be. A summary of costs of the Trump investigation, what the tax payers paid for and whom they paid it to. Who earned what and what were their political party affiliations. The greater the cost, the worse it will lock for the corporate democracts, how much money they wasted and who profited and by how much did they personally profit, every single payment and every possible costs, all audited and put out to the public.
Make no mistake it will look extremely bad and force an investigation of the investigation and you can fucking bet, that investigation will uncover a whole bunch of conspiratorial crimes, attempts to pervert justice, that will result in prosecution (this scam was an all or nothing gambit and they will have broken laws trying to push it through, lots of them).
Down to numbers and not an echo chamber. So real name social media with say 100 million users. Even a tiny, super tiny unrepresentative grouping, say 0.01% not even 1 in 100 but 1 in 10,000. You divide 100 million by 10 thousand and that still is 10,000 people. Now you have 10,000 people screaming at you on the internet and your social media life becomes shite, even blocking becomes impossible. Now add in fake accounts or paid to troll and that becomes worse.
Quite simply broad based real world social media is shite because numbers. I mean in real life, coming across those 1 in 10,000 arseholes (from your perspective), extremely unlikely, yet on the internet, very likely and once you gain the attention of one, you will also be targeted by the others. So yeah broad based social media makes life hell for everyone because numbers and people forget they are not just making a personal statement to a small audience, their crowd, they are making one to the entire world and it hangs out there, like a bad smell that just will not go away.
Real name social media, is an extremely bad idea and the only use is for targeted control and manipulation, all those who use it should sanely, delete their account, all you will do is expose yourself to your ideological enemies of what ever ilk, and no matter how small the percentage, in still sizeable and extremely disruptive numbers.
How about just challenging the underlying craziness. So I have largely been video commercial free for quite some number of years, so much so, they have become extremely offensive and aggravating, unless they are well mannered, informative and not full of screaming bullshit (I find nothing will put me more off a product, that the screaming bullshit variety of ads). I do have money to spend and I most certainly could not give a fuck about watching something I find personally intrusive and offensive (with regard to my personal sense of well being and contentment).
Who will watch those ads, those least able to afford the products those ads sell, so to be blunt what is the fucking point. It is like free to air TV, who watches it now, those with the least money to spend and will to put up with 5 minutes of ads every 15 minutes of content, so what is the fucking point because, they in the majority have no money to spend because those with money are paying for commercial free.
The more modern leanings on that subject are psychopaths are born not made, born with genetic cerebral defects, that are sufficient in nature to define them as a parasitic sub-species, they preys upon human society rather that contributing to it cooperatively. Sociopaths are made as a result of abuse, most often by psychopaths. All PvP attract psychopaths, it's the gaming style as well as narciccists, they also much prefer, PvP as purse vs purse, where they can pay to beat free players who are basically there as smarter than cheap AI targets (in fact in future, smart PvP game developers will alter AI players to act like real players and pretend to be real players, basically just targets, cheaper that providing free network service to free to play targets).
The games do not create psychopaths, they only attract them and start with a high population and the normal ratio being about 1 in 100 being pyschopaths, start with a billion and that is a lot of psychopaths and that game whilst not creating them, certainly could trigger them. For the rest of the population, honestly PvP is not that popular, they generally much prefer coop gaming, PvE, where they work together to defeat an AI enemy.
The problem is profitability of PvE vs PvP. PvP will always generate most of it's profit by creating a environment where you must pay to win and target that at psychopaths and narcissist, those who accept cheating as winning and hence are content to buy game legal cheats in order to beat those who would beat them, playing upon an equal basis, their disturb genetic nature, forces them to win by any means, fair competition undesirable to the extreme and they will pay and pay through the nose to feed their ego, to abuse others and win.
In PvE, by far the majority prefer equal game play and when you win, another person does not necessarily lose, those sometimes they can. The majority have no interest in buying game legal cheats because why play the game if you need to cheat to win. The only real profit possible is for cosmetic if the free ones are purposefully ugly or in account upgrades, new maps, faster travel, AI companions, special characters.
They can never match the profit style of say Grand Theft Gaming, 'er', Auto, where the profit is based upon selling a better gun, to PvPers, so they can win against those who do not buy that gun and then selling an even better gun, to force them to buy it to start winning again and then selling an even better gun etc. basically psychopaths preying upon gullible and readily manipulable psychopaths for whom cheating is winning and they will pay to feed their ego (drawing up a new gun with better statistics dirt cheap compared to having create a new map and story line).
The problem for those companies all piling on the PvP, pay to cheat to win, yeah just a tiny percentage of the market, 1% to 3% counting narcissists and they will eat each others lunch pretty quick and of course the psychopaths will eventually wake up to reality, they are being manipulated and conned by other psychopaths, to pay for nothing but trigger by losing ego, must win, cheating is winning, paying for cheats is winning, yeah (no you sucker you are being straight up scammed and when the AI gets good enough to pretend to be real players, with pretend hurt feelings the psychopaths can abuse, it will become even more profitable to scam psychopaths, them paying to pretend they are abusing real people, it feeds the corrupted ego of psychopaths).
Automated systems that apply 'known' and accepted rules equally, is maths. Those formulation of those rules is ethics and is fine as long as the majority are aware of the rules and approve of them. The more impactful the rules, the more it could favour one against the other, the greater majority required to apply that rule but the starting point should always be more that 50% of the eligible citizenry and the upper limit, depends which you favour mathematically fractions or decimal places, it make a difference, as in 2 out of 3, probably the upper limit of foolish majority restraint, (decimals is more a choice between 60% and 70% for whole numbers sake but doesn't read as well as 2 out of 3 or 2 to 1).
The difference between AI and straight maths, of course corrupted AI which makes unethical decisions to favour it's programmers, versus a simple spreadsheet, which applies the rules, that everyone is aware of and the majority have agreed to.
The silly bullshit waffling around about mob rule, what a crock of shit, who complains about mob rule, the 1% who consider the entirely of the 99% the mob, the opposite of mob rule (majority rule, which is just emptily slandered by calling it a mob), is entirely corrupt elite rule, who inevitable govern to suit themselves at the expense of the mob and fear the mob, the majority, will hole the elite, the extreme minority accountable for their corruption, avarice and very venal and abusive natures.
Yeah, I want automated decision making, fuck AI and fuck the cunts who propose it, you arseholes are just totally full of shit (AI as a layer of bullshit to hide decision making that favours a tiny minority at the expense of the majority, a new layer of bullshit added to the old elite lies). I want those maths rules to be open and clear and up for debate and affirmation or rejection by the majority, maybe a super majority in some cases 2 out of 3 or 2 for and 1 against.
The weirdness of it all, it is a story about itself, nothing but a massive t roll to suck in the SJWs to make fools of themselves. Entirely meaningless beyond that, seriously people, just a t roll. No one cares who gets the most subscribers, they made it up to t roll SJWs and the SJWs bought into it and dragged the idiots for corporate main stream media right into it, t roll success and it is all entirely bullshit.
This story is nothing but a massive t roll, the more the foolish buy into the more laughs the trolls have and especially funny as there was nothing really funny in it and it was all specifically and purposefully about NOTHING, that is the troll, the SJWs and corporate main stream media are being t rolled by nothing, there is no there, 'there'. SJWs are being t rolled by nothing, there is no story, there is no ideology, there is no politics, there is nothing but an empty troll.
Good on the Hindi for joining in, well at least the ones who know it is all a troll, there are bound to be a whole bunch blithely following on, sucked into the by t roll. It is a top notch t roll though, well done to the guys and gals involved;D (T roll/. hates the word apparently).
The new weather pattern. A warmer pacific ocean is generating a new air flow pattern, with more warmer air rushing up the US West Coast and the Pacific, pushing further North than was the old pattern. This warmer air is picking up a lot of moisture as it is cooling and heating up Alaska and the Arctic accelerating ice melt and picking up that newly available water, it then has to go somewhere, so it would normally go a bit more south east but it is being blocked by a warmer Atlantic and air moving north. So it gets squeezed between the pacific air flow and the Atlantic airflow and now goes much further south pushing cold air and a whole lot of moisture, in the form of snow.
Once that now routine weather pattern is over, warm air comes it to replace that cold air as it is pushed out over the Atlantic, and melts all the snow, really quite fast, well the further south snow, more north not so fast, so lots of flooding further south because the snow melts a whole lot faster than previous regular patterns and flooding occurs.
Suck it up, this is the new norm, and combined with sea level rise it will really be quite bad for the US East Coast, catastrophic is no understatement. Altered water levels really screw up building footings, storm water and sewer system. You can imagine the worth of a coastline full of flooded out collapsing structures and a lot of US military bases on the east coast are on really low lying land. Then you have sea ports and airports, again on low lying land (it was cheaper) also in real trouble.
Too late to do much about the first say 1.5m of sea level rise, maybe keep it down to 750mm but that will take real action now. The safest economic measure, simple irrigate large swathes of Australia west coast desert, pumping desalinated water inland. You obviously pull that water out of the sea, so immediate benefit but in addition, green where it was red, cools the surface of the planet at lot, then of course the new planting would absorb lots of carbon dioxide and plant transpiration cycle also cools the atmosphere and for the cheery on top, the majority of that transpiration would fall as rain on inland Australia which is lower than sea level. The more you do that and the quicker you do it, the more it will reduce the impact of climate change and it in part pays for itself with a massive social benefit, tens of thousands of square kilometres planetary food and fibre bank (trees, hemp etc). Countries could invest in desalination in resources they could directly access, especially worth while for countries with limited land area, access to thousands of sqaure kilometres of land as long as they supply the desalinate irrigation to that land.
There is a reason to employ the individual, get that data, there is a reason to fire the individual, well they copied proprietary secrets from the previous company, after we have that data, why should we continue to trust them, they are very likely to do the same to us.
Cloud ohh all soft and fluffy, when in reality more like a solid concrete suit, where you have no control and they have total control, only slightly worse than Windows anal probe 10. They are such a disgusting company, that even when they are right, they make it impossible to support them. Ohhh lock some one finally worse than the tiny limpers, the FCC, wow you have to go really low to get lower than M$.
The soon to be wildly socially unacceptable e-scooter. Corrupt lobbyists got that one past. So you are going to mix, people entering and exiting buildings with motorised scooters that can do 20Km/h and carry 100kg, can you idiots not see the problems. The more you have the more problems you will have and the more actual knock down brawls you will have. In the typical American style after an incident, I paid for the scooter and I have more right to the footpath, get out of the way. Idiots will be bowling over small children all over the place. The footpath should only be for feet or and only once proven for disabled people and mobility vehicles that should move no faster than a person walking fast. Scooters are not at all manoeuvrable, tending to work best in a straight line and any sudden turn will see a 100kg rider tossed into a pedestrian at 20k/m at hour, so pretty much full running speed, a full sized human male doing a full speed running tackle on a small child, the idea is insane. Either on the road or banned and definitely no in high pedestrian flow areas. Walk in a city and you will bump into people, neither here nor there, do it at 20km/h and there will be brawls and lots of them and with fair reason when a child is seriously injured. Stop listening to idiot lobbyists pushing silly shit fed by nothing but insane greed.
I think you missed the bit, where this matter was going to be settled in a Russia court and not a US one. I am pretty sure Kaspersky will win. The Apple solution, will inevitably end up being different stores for different countries. So Kaspersky software will sell in the Russian Apple store but not in any other.
That first part, that greed, is why this whole thing does not concern me in the least. Look at the end of the day, the people coming up with this stuff, will be the people who run it. So greedy control freak psychopaths and they will simply drive their customers away and collapse their businesses, it is inevitable it is their individual personal nature, their eyes light up with delusions of infinite greed and power and the incorporate practices that turn off customers and drive them away.
They will be competing with cheaper and cheaper hardware and better and better software, making easier to develop independent games and low cost hardware. People will always choose the solution that provides them the greatest control and the least interference, they want to rent a solution that takes away control and maximise interference.
They can crap on all they want, they are doomed to lose. They are trying to provide the equivalent of cable TV as a gaming service and people are turning off cable because they a sick of paying for what they do not use. It is like the delusion of, why sell soccer balls, where is the profit, they play with them for a long time and lot of people all at once, you need to rent soccer balls and each player that touches it needs to pay as well, why would that not sell, ask yourself. Why would it work with computer games, it wont but they are greedy scammy fuckers and they will try to rip off anyone they can, including and especially their own investors.
So Google exec, shit our reputation is really bad, invading everyone's privacy, baking search results, treating their private mail like postcards, it will really start to affect our share price, what will we do come bonus time. I know we will come up with some bullshit game streaming stuff tell the investors it will make billions and pump up our share price and yeah bonuses.
Tech industry, the bigger the presentation the less likely the product is to succeed, hence the need for a big flashy presentation to sell it to investors. Game streaming is doomed to fail, it just is, all the flash and glam is to sell it to investors and pump up the share price, it's a big show. You think, but why waste all that money, on prototypes and presentations, probably all cost a few million dollars, well, because all that bullshit can have an impact on share price worth billions. This is why modern corporations share price nowadays routinely tank because all the bullshit the spread around to inflate share price, inevitably fails. So they make big announcements just prior to quarterly bonus review, get that share price bump, fill their pockets with bonuses money and watch it all collapse after wasting millions on bullshit presentations. They are playing computer games, just not the one most people expect, they are gaming their companies share price, wasting their companies money to do it, so they can fill their pockets with cool, cool, bonus money, even though they know it will fail, they KNOW.
Escape Windows anal probe 10, with forced software install and deletions and gross invasion of privacy with M$ claiming the right to investigate your data storage and delete any content for any reason. M$ sells your privacy and Apple sells you privacy, there is a huge difference right there. You know what, I would rather buy privacy, that have some anal retentive cunts sell my privacy because they consider me a wallet they can raid and not a human being, fuck M$.
Well for a start the year of real cost is wildly delayed. It will be far quicker and there will be quite a precipitous fall off at one point.
There existing fuel delivery market needs a high number of vehicles to function at current retail prices. The fewer the number of fossil fuel consuming vehicles, the greater the impact of the cost of servicing those vehicles become. As service stations get less vehicles through, they have to charge more to continue to be viable and this spreads through the whole system.
The fewer the number of fossil fuel vehicles the greater the price has to be to service them and service stations with low demand will shut down, spreading them further and further apart, creating greater inconvenience to fuel vehicles. As service stations shut down, so supply costs to them must increase. So the costs of running a fossil fueller will increase even as demand for oil falls off reducing it's price.
It is real hard for fossil fueller vehicles to compete against electric vehicles refuelled at home overnight, TAX FREE (when you have solar panels and batteries) and as fossil fuel running costs increase and resale become more and more problematic, there will be a real crunch point, a real bad year and if you have not dumped your fossil fueller by them, you will be hard pressed to sell it to junk yard as replacement parts for other vehicles idiots are desperate to keep on roads because they just have to be dicks making noise and generating pollution.
They are simply lying about the expected crunch date, bullshitting with a smooth transition, which will simply not happen. Just like when the time came, horses were turned into glue, so fossil fuellers will be turned into scrap metal and much closer to 2030 than 2040.
Ain't it weird, the more powerful and cheaper computers become, the more effort they put into taking them away from us and consolidating all that power in their server rooms, controlling what you hear, what you say, what you see and what you do, their control and their power. Dickbag cunts like M$ even try to force that control and power over your computing platform in your home, what a pack of cunts. Trying to look all cool with gaming, what a pack of anal retentive douche bag control freaks.
More computing power cheaper and yet the entire industry wants to take it away from the people and control all inside their server farms, pretty much data slave farms, your data, they own it and control it.
They have to be extremely careful adding this stuff to vehicles, when it fails, for what ever reason, it denies access to the vehicle by the owner. The more tech you add, the greater the servicing cost and the more frequent failures will be and the worse the reputation of the vehicle. You can add all the silly crap in you want to, inflate service and repair costs but there will be consequences. There a numerous studies on the more tech you add the more frequent failures become and the more frequent and costly servicing becomes (simply more stuff to fail and more stuff to service and more stuff to repair).
You know where this is heading cars that refuse to move unless they get their authorised $2,500 service and that means towing costs on top, owners will be impressed (oh yeah, they are counting on the hugely inflated authorised only service costs, the more automation, the locked in your become).
I prefer simply rules. The censorship law is entirely anti-democratic and opposed totally opposed to equal rights. Specifically it places public officials above private citizens, public officials can insult and humiliate citizens in any way they choose and citizens will be criminalised should they dare to point out the moral failings of those officials. The law is entirely corrupt on that basis, as it places the rights of some citizens above the rights of other citizens and should be roundly condemned upon that basis.
All legislation must be equal in interpretation and application and should never create special rules for some, whilst denying the majority the same access to those rules and protections. So meh, Fuck Putin and the Russian government, they are a pack of potential monarchist cunts. That is the only fair and reasonable response to those unequal and biased laws.
It will generate a new weirdness in content consumption, invisible content creators.
Here is how it will work. Most subscribed content is commercial free and to be honest, that is the only way you can 'sell' it in numbers. So advertising free, well, that means that off channel content advertisements are never seen and these people are not watching free to air either, so they do not see alternate content in any real sense.
Right now the exclusive content is running on old publicly known content, new content is only seen by the streamers on your services and you can only effectively market that content on free to air services and that is rapidly becoming wasted money, only people who can not afford commercial free streaming content are still there.
So no chance to pump your 'unknown' content to new users to bring them to your services, you are forced to sell content cheap to your competitors to get it seen, else are unaware of it. Claim all the exclusive content you want, it is all unknown to users outside of your user content.
So sell it a year old to your competitors but problem there, people prefer to binge watch a season, rather than individual episodes. So maybe two years after the content has come out. Natural corporate solutions, cartels form to conspire a price and sell each others content with a two year delay and share customers with nearly identical services.
If they try to play the exclusive game, they will isolate effective advertisement of their content to their own platform only, they have nothing to sell to users on other platforms because they have no real awareness of the entertainment worth of that content. Once you stream commercial free, you do not go back of full of shit commercial screaming at you content, you simply do not. After a five years of largely TV commercial free life, the negative impact of them screaming in my face, is really quite bad, I will actively stop me from buying that product or dealing with that company, it is really personal environment invasive and feels really quite offensive.
Force ads on me with Youtube and make no mistake you are actively going out of your way to make sure I am NOT a customer, seriously. Youtube ads need to be voluntary after content because idiots are paying you to lose customers right now.
I used wired control gear for my gaming on PC because I can not stand the lag of wireless. Oh yeah I would love trying to stream a game, now not on a 1.5 metre cable or say 3.0m of radio transmission that has to be reprocessed but I don't know, tens of kilometre or hundreds of kilometres or even thousands of kilometres, my inputs and their outputs, none of the outputs processed locally.
The reality here, really shite gaming and online, your will be slaughtered by players running locally processed outputs, so online only with near identical lag players, otherwise welcome to the rage machine, so many really pissed off players.
Google Stadia, spying upon every single element of your gaming to analyse you and alter anti-comsumer really shite gaming practices of gambling loot boxes and micro, transactions, targeted individually at you. I would never touch one, bin worthy only. Alphabet/Google, those manipulative asshats, definitely not a corporation to be gaming with.
Hardly, a series of Bullshitting presidents, most specifically The Shrub (with Darth Cheney as the actual bullshitting president), Uncle Tom Obama the Choom Gang Coward and The Klinton Krime Klan and entire cast of entirely corrupt corporate presidents, as bad as Don Don the Orange Oraguntan is, still not as bad as any of the rest of them, just as clumsy and ignorant as fuck, driven by a life of privileged arrogance. The other slime were just much better a putting on a pretty face, to cover up the corrupt ugliness.
Sometimes, I have say, it looks like Don Don, is fucking it up on purpose, doesn't want to do this shit, so does it extremely badly on purpose but the born to privileged arrogance will produce the same results when confronted with attempting diplomacy.
The US fabricated Venezuela in failure has devolved down into not even being about Venezuela any more but lamely trying to force US rapidly waning global power, running on the edge of threatening allies with implied nuclear attacks, the way they treat enemies, countries who refuse to obey. Now leaving countries no choice but to fight back now or face a future of threats of nuclear strikes on capital cities unless they obey, the US nuclear FIRST STRIKE policy, the spread of nuclear weapons now guaranteed, as the only way to be safe from an entirely corrupt and chaotic US government.
I would have just gone with, 'FUCK M$ invading your privacy before you are even fucking born', let me guess what next, an RFID chip inserted at birth, fixed to your skull near your auditory canal, using bio electrical currents for energy listening in and some chirpy fuckwit paper clip 'Telling' you want to do, wired into Windows anal probe 10 at birth.
Sorry M$, you have out and out proven, you are part of the POS greed obsessed problem and most definitely not part of the solution for anything, just a scummy POS psychopathically manipulative and socially destructive corporation. Obsessed by nothing but your greed and ego and see people as nothing but something to be exploited, except in the PR=B$ but everyone knows that stuff is just marketing to cover up the kind of anti-consumer corporation M$ really is, tell me where do you pay your taxes, where the product is made or perhaps where it is sold or just another pack of tax cheating cunts whilst demanding billions in government funds.
For more detail, statistically speaking, your would expect US computer students, to do better on a US recognise test, that all US education establishments are fully aware of and in the majority agree with and align their education outlines with. Not to forget those Russian, Indian and Chinese students were doing the test in their second language not their primary language. So how did they do against poms and skips, a better comparison at least in language but then you could do their tests for a cross comparison or did you and you are hiding that information.
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Better to know and react to what is known, than to not know and only find out when they react. So silence 8chan or simply pay more attention to it. Stick to the law, someone says something illegal on 8chan, carry out an investigation and try to find them and prosecute them.
Can 8chan incite violence, not really, no real names hence mostly ignored, just trolls trolling trolls, as a social media game. Will it attract those with more intent, obviously because they see it as real, rather than as a social game but they brought their violent intent, 8chan did not generate it. 8chan simply pushes the bounds of social interaction in a very challenging social space, incites nothing but very colourful and somewhat naughty comments and content.
Those comments and content attract those of ill intent, who see the shared trolling as reality, bringing their own mental baggage and disturbed thinking to that forum, not guided by the forum, just expressing their existing intent on that forum. Silence that and you loose a major opportunity to prevent that intent.
A super nova is an exploding sun. So one sun in orbit of another sun. At detonation, one sun loses a lot of mass, blown out into space, a whole lot of mass, and compresses the core. So substantially altered gravitational fields, releasing the sun from orbit, plus a whole lot of gravitational mass rushing past it as well as the direct impact of the shockwave. Then you have the electromagnetic impact, do they have same basic charge and now repel each other, the exploding and expanding sun and the orbiting sun, which is doing a discarding sabot thing, also losing a lot of mass, blown away and a directional compression of it's core, a big electromagnetic catapult, in conjunction with the shock wave and gravitational sling shot, escape from orbit and chasing the ejected mass, gravitationally, as well as the original orbital inertia and then of course, the speed of the original solar system in space.
Of course the most interesting subject, is anything in it's path, how far away is it and when will it impact. That is what everyone wants to know, hell it might even have run into something and we just haven't seen it yet.
The new summary to follow that summary, everyone should be able to guess what that one will be. A summary of costs of the Trump investigation, what the tax payers paid for and whom they paid it to. Who earned what and what were their political party affiliations. The greater the cost, the worse it will lock for the corporate democracts, how much money they wasted and who profited and by how much did they personally profit, every single payment and every possible costs, all audited and put out to the public.
Make no mistake it will look extremely bad and force an investigation of the investigation and you can fucking bet, that investigation will uncover a whole bunch of conspiratorial crimes, attempts to pervert justice, that will result in prosecution (this scam was an all or nothing gambit and they will have broken laws trying to push it through, lots of them).
Down to numbers and not an echo chamber. So real name social media with say 100 million users. Even a tiny, super tiny unrepresentative grouping, say 0.01% not even 1 in 100 but 1 in 10,000. You divide 100 million by 10 thousand and that still is 10,000 people. Now you have 10,000 people screaming at you on the internet and your social media life becomes shite, even blocking becomes impossible. Now add in fake accounts or paid to troll and that becomes worse.
Quite simply broad based real world social media is shite because numbers. I mean in real life, coming across those 1 in 10,000 arseholes (from your perspective), extremely unlikely, yet on the internet, very likely and once you gain the attention of one, you will also be targeted by the others. So yeah broad based social media makes life hell for everyone because numbers and people forget they are not just making a personal statement to a small audience, their crowd, they are making one to the entire world and it hangs out there, like a bad smell that just will not go away.
Real name social media, is an extremely bad idea and the only use is for targeted control and manipulation, all those who use it should sanely, delete their account, all you will do is expose yourself to your ideological enemies of what ever ilk, and no matter how small the percentage, in still sizeable and extremely disruptive numbers.
How about just challenging the underlying craziness. So I have largely been video commercial free for quite some number of years, so much so, they have become extremely offensive and aggravating, unless they are well mannered, informative and not full of screaming bullshit (I find nothing will put me more off a product, that the screaming bullshit variety of ads). I do have money to spend and I most certainly could not give a fuck about watching something I find personally intrusive and offensive (with regard to my personal sense of well being and contentment).
Who will watch those ads, those least able to afford the products those ads sell, so to be blunt what is the fucking point. It is like free to air TV, who watches it now, those with the least money to spend and will to put up with 5 minutes of ads every 15 minutes of content, so what is the fucking point because, they in the majority have no money to spend because those with money are paying for commercial free.
The more modern leanings on that subject are psychopaths are born not made, born with genetic cerebral defects, that are sufficient in nature to define them as a parasitic sub-species, they preys upon human society rather that contributing to it cooperatively. Sociopaths are made as a result of abuse, most often by psychopaths. All PvP attract psychopaths, it's the gaming style as well as narciccists, they also much prefer, PvP as purse vs purse, where they can pay to beat free players who are basically there as smarter than cheap AI targets (in fact in future, smart PvP game developers will alter AI players to act like real players and pretend to be real players, basically just targets, cheaper that providing free network service to free to play targets).
The games do not create psychopaths, they only attract them and start with a high population and the normal ratio being about 1 in 100 being pyschopaths, start with a billion and that is a lot of psychopaths and that game whilst not creating them, certainly could trigger them. For the rest of the population, honestly PvP is not that popular, they generally much prefer coop gaming, PvE, where they work together to defeat an AI enemy.
The problem is profitability of PvE vs PvP. PvP will always generate most of it's profit by creating a environment where you must pay to win and target that at psychopaths and narcissist, those who accept cheating as winning and hence are content to buy game legal cheats in order to beat those who would beat them, playing upon an equal basis, their disturb genetic nature, forces them to win by any means, fair competition undesirable to the extreme and they will pay and pay through the nose to feed their ego, to abuse others and win.
In PvE, by far the majority prefer equal game play and when you win, another person does not necessarily lose, those sometimes they can. The majority have no interest in buying game legal cheats because why play the game if you need to cheat to win. The only real profit possible is for cosmetic if the free ones are purposefully ugly or in account upgrades, new maps, faster travel, AI companions, special characters.
They can never match the profit style of say Grand Theft Gaming, 'er', Auto, where the profit is based upon selling a better gun, to PvPers, so they can win against those who do not buy that gun and then selling an even better gun, to force them to buy it to start winning again and then selling an even better gun etc. basically psychopaths preying upon gullible and readily manipulable psychopaths for whom cheating is winning and they will pay to feed their ego (drawing up a new gun with better statistics dirt cheap compared to having create a new map and story line).
The problem for those companies all piling on the PvP, pay to cheat to win, yeah just a tiny percentage of the market, 1% to 3% counting narcissists and they will eat each others lunch pretty quick and of course the psychopaths will eventually wake up to reality, they are being manipulated and conned by other psychopaths, to pay for nothing but trigger by losing ego, must win, cheating is winning, paying for cheats is winning, yeah (no you sucker you are being straight up scammed and when the AI gets good enough to pretend to be real players, with pretend hurt feelings the psychopaths can abuse, it will become even more profitable to scam psychopaths, them paying to pretend they are abusing real people, it feeds the corrupted ego of psychopaths).
Automated systems that apply 'known' and accepted rules equally, is maths. Those formulation of those rules is ethics and is fine as long as the majority are aware of the rules and approve of them. The more impactful the rules, the more it could favour one against the other, the greater majority required to apply that rule but the starting point should always be more that 50% of the eligible citizenry and the upper limit, depends which you favour mathematically fractions or decimal places, it make a difference, as in 2 out of 3, probably the upper limit of foolish majority restraint, (decimals is more a choice between 60% and 70% for whole numbers sake but doesn't read as well as 2 out of 3 or 2 to 1).
The difference between AI and straight maths, of course corrupted AI which makes unethical decisions to favour it's programmers, versus a simple spreadsheet, which applies the rules, that everyone is aware of and the majority have agreed to.
The silly bullshit waffling around about mob rule, what a crock of shit, who complains about mob rule, the 1% who consider the entirely of the 99% the mob, the opposite of mob rule (majority rule, which is just emptily slandered by calling it a mob), is entirely corrupt elite rule, who inevitable govern to suit themselves at the expense of the mob and fear the mob, the majority, will hole the elite, the extreme minority accountable for their corruption, avarice and very venal and abusive natures.
Yeah, I want automated decision making, fuck AI and fuck the cunts who propose it, you arseholes are just totally full of shit (AI as a layer of bullshit to hide decision making that favours a tiny minority at the expense of the majority, a new layer of bullshit added to the old elite lies). I want those maths rules to be open and clear and up for debate and affirmation or rejection by the majority, maybe a super majority in some cases 2 out of 3 or 2 for and 1 against.
Even easier way to fix it, band H1-B visas, job done. No one to fill the position, so fucking what, train someone.
The weirdness of it all, it is a story about itself, nothing but a massive t roll to suck in the SJWs to make fools of themselves. Entirely meaningless beyond that, seriously people, just a t roll. No one cares who gets the most subscribers, they made it up to t roll SJWs and the SJWs bought into it and dragged the idiots for corporate main stream media right into it, t roll success and it is all entirely bullshit.
This story is nothing but a massive t roll, the more the foolish buy into the more laughs the trolls have and especially funny as there was nothing really funny in it and it was all specifically and purposefully about NOTHING, that is the troll, the SJWs and corporate main stream media are being t rolled by nothing, there is no there, 'there'. SJWs are being t rolled by nothing, there is no story, there is no ideology, there is no politics, there is nothing but an empty troll.
Good on the Hindi for joining in, well at least the ones who know it is all a troll, there are bound to be a whole bunch blithely following on, sucked into the by t roll. It is a top notch t roll though, well done to the guys and gals involved ;D (T roll /. hates the word apparently).
The new weather pattern. A warmer pacific ocean is generating a new air flow pattern, with more warmer air rushing up the US West Coast and the Pacific, pushing further North than was the old pattern. This warmer air is picking up a lot of moisture as it is cooling and heating up Alaska and the Arctic accelerating ice melt and picking up that newly available water, it then has to go somewhere, so it would normally go a bit more south east but it is being blocked by a warmer Atlantic and air moving north. So it gets squeezed between the pacific air flow and the Atlantic airflow and now goes much further south pushing cold air and a whole lot of moisture, in the form of snow.
Once that now routine weather pattern is over, warm air comes it to replace that cold air as it is pushed out over the Atlantic, and melts all the snow, really quite fast, well the further south snow, more north not so fast, so lots of flooding further south because the snow melts a whole lot faster than previous regular patterns and flooding occurs.
Suck it up, this is the new norm, and combined with sea level rise it will really be quite bad for the US East Coast, catastrophic is no understatement. Altered water levels really screw up building footings, storm water and sewer system. You can imagine the worth of a coastline full of flooded out collapsing structures and a lot of US military bases on the east coast are on really low lying land. Then you have sea ports and airports, again on low lying land (it was cheaper) also in real trouble.
Too late to do much about the first say 1.5m of sea level rise, maybe keep it down to 750mm but that will take real action now. The safest economic measure, simple irrigate large swathes of Australia west coast desert, pumping desalinated water inland. You obviously pull that water out of the sea, so immediate benefit but in addition, green where it was red, cools the surface of the planet at lot, then of course the new planting would absorb lots of carbon dioxide and plant transpiration cycle also cools the atmosphere and for the cheery on top, the majority of that transpiration would fall as rain on inland Australia which is lower than sea level. The more you do that and the quicker you do it, the more it will reduce the impact of climate change and it in part pays for itself with a massive social benefit, tens of thousands of square kilometres planetary food and fibre bank (trees, hemp etc). Countries could invest in desalination in resources they could directly access, especially worth while for countries with limited land area, access to thousands of sqaure kilometres of land as long as they supply the desalinate irrigation to that land.
There is a reason to employ the individual, get that data, there is a reason to fire the individual, well they copied proprietary secrets from the previous company, after we have that data, why should we continue to trust them, they are very likely to do the same to us.
Cloud ohh all soft and fluffy, when in reality more like a solid concrete suit, where you have no control and they have total control, only slightly worse than Windows anal probe 10. They are such a disgusting company, that even when they are right, they make it impossible to support them. Ohhh lock some one finally worse than the tiny limpers, the FCC, wow you have to go really low to get lower than M$.
The soon to be wildly socially unacceptable e-scooter. Corrupt lobbyists got that one past. So you are going to mix, people entering and exiting buildings with motorised scooters that can do 20Km/h and carry 100kg, can you idiots not see the problems. The more you have the more problems you will have and the more actual knock down brawls you will have. In the typical American style after an incident, I paid for the scooter and I have more right to the footpath, get out of the way. Idiots will be bowling over small children all over the place. The footpath should only be for feet or and only once proven for disabled people and mobility vehicles that should move no faster than a person walking fast. Scooters are not at all manoeuvrable, tending to work best in a straight line and any sudden turn will see a 100kg rider tossed into a pedestrian at 20k/m at hour, so pretty much full running speed, a full sized human male doing a full speed running tackle on a small child, the idea is insane. Either on the road or banned and definitely no in high pedestrian flow areas. Walk in a city and you will bump into people, neither here nor there, do it at 20km/h and there will be brawls and lots of them and with fair reason when a child is seriously injured. Stop listening to idiot lobbyists pushing silly shit fed by nothing but insane greed.
I think you missed the bit, where this matter was going to be settled in a Russia court and not a US one. I am pretty sure Kaspersky will win. The Apple solution, will inevitably end up being different stores for different countries. So Kaspersky software will sell in the Russian Apple store but not in any other.
That first part, that greed, is why this whole thing does not concern me in the least. Look at the end of the day, the people coming up with this stuff, will be the people who run it. So greedy control freak psychopaths and they will simply drive their customers away and collapse their businesses, it is inevitable it is their individual personal nature, their eyes light up with delusions of infinite greed and power and the incorporate practices that turn off customers and drive them away.
They will be competing with cheaper and cheaper hardware and better and better software, making easier to develop independent games and low cost hardware. People will always choose the solution that provides them the greatest control and the least interference, they want to rent a solution that takes away control and maximise interference.
They can crap on all they want, they are doomed to lose. They are trying to provide the equivalent of cable TV as a gaming service and people are turning off cable because they a sick of paying for what they do not use. It is like the delusion of, why sell soccer balls, where is the profit, they play with them for a long time and lot of people all at once, you need to rent soccer balls and each player that touches it needs to pay as well, why would that not sell, ask yourself. Why would it work with computer games, it wont but they are greedy scammy fuckers and they will try to rip off anyone they can, including and especially their own investors.
So Google exec, shit our reputation is really bad, invading everyone's privacy, baking search results, treating their private mail like postcards, it will really start to affect our share price, what will we do come bonus time. I know we will come up with some bullshit game streaming stuff tell the investors it will make billions and pump up our share price and yeah bonuses.
Tech industry, the bigger the presentation the less likely the product is to succeed, hence the need for a big flashy presentation to sell it to investors. Game streaming is doomed to fail, it just is, all the flash and glam is to sell it to investors and pump up the share price, it's a big show. You think, but why waste all that money, on prototypes and presentations, probably all cost a few million dollars, well, because all that bullshit can have an impact on share price worth billions. This is why modern corporations share price nowadays routinely tank because all the bullshit the spread around to inflate share price, inevitably fails. So they make big announcements just prior to quarterly bonus review, get that share price bump, fill their pockets with bonuses money and watch it all collapse after wasting millions on bullshit presentations. They are playing computer games, just not the one most people expect, they are gaming their companies share price, wasting their companies money to do it, so they can fill their pockets with cool, cool, bonus money, even though they know it will fail, they KNOW.
Escape Windows anal probe 10, with forced software install and deletions and gross invasion of privacy with M$ claiming the right to investigate your data storage and delete any content for any reason. M$ sells your privacy and Apple sells you privacy, there is a huge difference right there. You know what, I would rather buy privacy, that have some anal retentive cunts sell my privacy because they consider me a wallet they can raid and not a human being, fuck M$.
Well for a start the year of real cost is wildly delayed. It will be far quicker and there will be quite a precipitous fall off at one point.
There existing fuel delivery market needs a high number of vehicles to function at current retail prices. The fewer the number of fossil fuel consuming vehicles, the greater the impact of the cost of servicing those vehicles become. As service stations get less vehicles through, they have to charge more to continue to be viable and this spreads through the whole system.
The fewer the number of fossil fuel vehicles the greater the price has to be to service them and service stations with low demand will shut down, spreading them further and further apart, creating greater inconvenience to fuel vehicles. As service stations shut down, so supply costs to them must increase. So the costs of running a fossil fueller will increase even as demand for oil falls off reducing it's price.
It is real hard for fossil fueller vehicles to compete against electric vehicles refuelled at home overnight, TAX FREE (when you have solar panels and batteries) and as fossil fuel running costs increase and resale become more and more problematic, there will be a real crunch point, a real bad year and if you have not dumped your fossil fueller by them, you will be hard pressed to sell it to junk yard as replacement parts for other vehicles idiots are desperate to keep on roads because they just have to be dicks making noise and generating pollution.
They are simply lying about the expected crunch date, bullshitting with a smooth transition, which will simply not happen. Just like when the time came, horses were turned into glue, so fossil fuellers will be turned into scrap metal and much closer to 2030 than 2040.
Ain't it weird, the more powerful and cheaper computers become, the more effort they put into taking them away from us and consolidating all that power in their server rooms, controlling what you hear, what you say, what you see and what you do, their control and their power. Dickbag cunts like M$ even try to force that control and power over your computing platform in your home, what a pack of cunts. Trying to look all cool with gaming, what a pack of anal retentive douche bag control freaks.
More computing power cheaper and yet the entire industry wants to take it away from the people and control all inside their server farms, pretty much data slave farms, your data, they own it and control it.
They have to be extremely careful adding this stuff to vehicles, when it fails, for what ever reason, it denies access to the vehicle by the owner. The more tech you add, the greater the servicing cost and the more frequent failures will be and the worse the reputation of the vehicle. You can add all the silly crap in you want to, inflate service and repair costs but there will be consequences. There a numerous studies on the more tech you add the more frequent failures become and the more frequent and costly servicing becomes (simply more stuff to fail and more stuff to service and more stuff to repair).
You know where this is heading cars that refuse to move unless they get their authorised $2,500 service and that means towing costs on top, owners will be impressed (oh yeah, they are counting on the hugely inflated authorised only service costs, the more automation, the locked in your become).
I prefer simply rules. The censorship law is entirely anti-democratic and opposed totally opposed to equal rights. Specifically it places public officials above private citizens, public officials can insult and humiliate citizens in any way they choose and citizens will be criminalised should they dare to point out the moral failings of those officials. The law is entirely corrupt on that basis, as it places the rights of some citizens above the rights of other citizens and should be roundly condemned upon that basis.
All legislation must be equal in interpretation and application and should never create special rules for some, whilst denying the majority the same access to those rules and protections. So meh, Fuck Putin and the Russian government, they are a pack of potential monarchist cunts. That is the only fair and reasonable response to those unequal and biased laws.
It will generate a new weirdness in content consumption, invisible content creators.
Here is how it will work. Most subscribed content is commercial free and to be honest, that is the only way you can 'sell' it in numbers. So advertising free, well, that means that off channel content advertisements are never seen and these people are not watching free to air either, so they do not see alternate content in any real sense.
Right now the exclusive content is running on old publicly known content, new content is only seen by the streamers on your services and you can only effectively market that content on free to air services and that is rapidly becoming wasted money, only people who can not afford commercial free streaming content are still there.
So no chance to pump your 'unknown' content to new users to bring them to your services, you are forced to sell content cheap to your competitors to get it seen, else are unaware of it. Claim all the exclusive content you want, it is all unknown to users outside of your user content.
So sell it a year old to your competitors but problem there, people prefer to binge watch a season, rather than individual episodes. So maybe two years after the content has come out. Natural corporate solutions, cartels form to conspire a price and sell each others content with a two year delay and share customers with nearly identical services.
If they try to play the exclusive game, they will isolate effective advertisement of their content to their own platform only, they have nothing to sell to users on other platforms because they have no real awareness of the entertainment worth of that content. Once you stream commercial free, you do not go back of full of shit commercial screaming at you content, you simply do not. After a five years of largely TV commercial free life, the negative impact of them screaming in my face, is really quite bad, I will actively stop me from buying that product or dealing with that company, it is really personal environment invasive and feels really quite offensive.
Force ads on me with Youtube and make no mistake you are actively going out of your way to make sure I am NOT a customer, seriously. Youtube ads need to be voluntary after content because idiots are paying you to lose customers right now.
I used wired control gear for my gaming on PC because I can not stand the lag of wireless. Oh yeah I would love trying to stream a game, now not on a 1.5 metre cable or say 3.0m of radio transmission that has to be reprocessed but I don't know, tens of kilometre or hundreds of kilometres or even thousands of kilometres, my inputs and their outputs, none of the outputs processed locally.
The reality here, really shite gaming and online, your will be slaughtered by players running locally processed outputs, so online only with near identical lag players, otherwise welcome to the rage machine, so many really pissed off players.
Google Stadia, spying upon every single element of your gaming to analyse you and alter anti-comsumer really shite gaming practices of gambling loot boxes and micro, transactions, targeted individually at you. I would never touch one, bin worthy only. Alphabet/Google, those manipulative asshats, definitely not a corporation to be gaming with.
Hardly, a series of Bullshitting presidents, most specifically The Shrub (with Darth Cheney as the actual bullshitting president), Uncle Tom Obama the Choom Gang Coward and The Klinton Krime Klan and entire cast of entirely corrupt corporate presidents, as bad as Don Don the Orange Oraguntan is, still not as bad as any of the rest of them, just as clumsy and ignorant as fuck, driven by a life of privileged arrogance. The other slime were just much better a putting on a pretty face, to cover up the corrupt ugliness.
Sometimes, I have say, it looks like Don Don, is fucking it up on purpose, doesn't want to do this shit, so does it extremely badly on purpose but the born to privileged arrogance will produce the same results when confronted with attempting diplomacy.
The US fabricated Venezuela in failure has devolved down into not even being about Venezuela any more but lamely trying to force US rapidly waning global power, running on the edge of threatening allies with implied nuclear attacks, the way they treat enemies, countries who refuse to obey. Now leaving countries no choice but to fight back now or face a future of threats of nuclear strikes on capital cities unless they obey, the US nuclear FIRST STRIKE policy, the spread of nuclear weapons now guaranteed, as the only way to be safe from an entirely corrupt and chaotic US government.
I would have just gone with, 'FUCK M$ invading your privacy before you are even fucking born', let me guess what next, an RFID chip inserted at birth, fixed to your skull near your auditory canal, using bio electrical currents for energy listening in and some chirpy fuckwit paper clip 'Telling' you want to do, wired into Windows anal probe 10 at birth.
Sorry M$, you have out and out proven, you are part of the POS greed obsessed problem and most definitely not part of the solution for anything, just a scummy POS psychopathically manipulative and socially destructive corporation. Obsessed by nothing but your greed and ego and see people as nothing but something to be exploited, except in the PR=B$ but everyone knows that stuff is just marketing to cover up the kind of anti-consumer corporation M$ really is, tell me where do you pay your taxes, where the product is made or perhaps where it is sold or just another pack of tax cheating cunts whilst demanding billions in government funds.
For more detail, statistically speaking, your would expect US computer students, to do better on a US recognise test, that all US education establishments are fully aware of and in the majority agree with and align their education outlines with. Not to forget those Russian, Indian and Chinese students were doing the test in their second language not their primary language. So how did they do against poms and skips, a better comparison at least in language but then you could do their tests for a cross comparison or did you and you are hiding that information.