As end users it does give us a point of attack though to get better phones. Just pile on Apple to get them to design better phones and once done, the rest will copy them. So mass meme attacks on Apple with better phone design ideas to give us a better phone pool to choose from, heh, heh.
So clearly a penalty should be applied. Whilst they were tricked into the attack, they were committing the attack. So time for the courts to step in, those who committed the actual attack, should be hauled before the courts to prove they did not do the attack willingly and if they can not, pay the criminal penalty for the attack. Ignorance is not excuse, that is their chosen profession, that is their source of income, they have professional liability and should be held to account.
Should not countries supplying said attack be held liable for the attack, a criminal export for which they are responsible. So hauled before the WTO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., so that they country attacked by bad digital exports can seek fiscal remediation for the cost of bad digital exports. The source country of the attack can seek to recover that cost from those who committed the attack, their problem.
It should more accurately be called escape disorder syndrome. Where the individuals find so much difficulty in interacting with often delusional and disorderly beliefs within society, that they prefer to escape to comic books, paper bank novels, binge watching TV series, surfing the internet and computer games, no necessarily exclusively but often a combination.
That there are individuals, especially minors that want to lose themselves in video games, the video game is not the driver, what they are trying to escape from is and the video game is just the means of escape. You need to solve the reason for the escape. A lot of it can be tied down to the disruptive nature of capitalistic society, where they know, factually that their life is worth less than other people's wealth and that their life is forfeit when it comes to preserving the wealth of others. That is a pretty solid reason for escape, you are not paranoid about people being out to get you, when there are people out to get you ie the 1% vs the 99%, the 1% will kill as many of the 99% as they can get away with, to feed greed and ego.
Capitalist society will kill and consume you to feed it's greed, now who sanely does not want to escape that, well of course the psychopaths don't but I did say sanely.
Still doesn't matter. Quite clearly the war on unbacked crypto is hotting up as they set the stage for energy backed crypto. For those who dropped real money on the fake unbacked money, well, they are bunnies at night staring at the headlights of a car speeding down the road toward them, they know something is coming, they are so petrified they can't move and they know it is real, real bad and that car ain't stopping. You can hope that car has a blow out, you know they manage to pump those currencies up high enough so that they can sell without a loss, but better to swallow the current loss than a much larger one later on.
There is an much easier to control twitter. So much easier. Keep in mind, twitter is all about the empty squawks of twits, like screeching birds in the morning (of which I get enough with the rainbow lorikeets in their fig tree in my yard), hence I have no need for the twits on twitter. Just like that bird chatter, why record it all forever, at lot of Twitters problems would be solved quit simply be letting the tweets die in the wind. Simply put a life on tweets, no longer permanent, simply transitory. This would make twitter more about the current conversation, rather than a record of it.
Whether you give tweets say a 30 day life or maximum 90 day life, will alter the nature of the use of twitter. Tweets fading to oblivion tends to take the sting out of them, a heated word in passing, rather than something Twitter foolishly etches in stone. Things can get a little more heated and still it would fade, and the shorter the life of tweets the less the burn. You might even allow user choice on the life of tweets, from say 24h,72h,7d,2w,1m,3m.
It is too easy to tweet stupid things on twitter and enforcing the fading of all tweets will do a lot to cool things down.
Legally, what is or is not, with regards to content, can in reality only be defined by the courts. Whether it requires a full session or a special court. So claims that content hosting sites can review all content or that any complaint by any person for any reason, are, well unreasonable.
The counter suite against the government should be obvious, why would you expect anyone to do you work for you. The same as who polices the roads. Should those who make roads be required by law to police the roads they make, how much would roads cost upon that basis.
If the government has a content issue, it is up to the government to police that issue and be legally required to issue all take down notices, which would result in penalties when the court demanded take down is not adhered to.
Want to censor, they pay for it. Create your court of silencing the public and issue your orders to deny speech. Want censor courts, then legislate them and pay for them.
Why are they allowing cheap idealogues to push their ego by censoring people on YouTube because it is not about content it is about advertising. Goggle's goal get you to pay to watch ads produced by people who pay to have those ads published, shallow and greedy as fuck. They push the political ideology of the executive board, as weird and sick that it is, that they have the right to dominate and control politics because only their voice counts. They started this whole lie and fake news and their revenue is being buried by it, the ego of power freaks destroying a company.
Relying on Youtube alone is foolish, publish across multiple websites and push Youtube back to being nothing but a file hoster, not a mindscape mafioso styled protection racket, push their message or you channel will have an 'er' 'um' accident. They have proven one thing and one thing only, they absolutely can not be trusted.
Advertisers are stuck as well, Google purposefully dilutes your advertisements, so you have to keep buying more and more because your short ads sell nothing in a flood of advertising, a purposeful flood, buy a mountain of ads or get flooded under a sea of other ads, this does not happen by accident. Google is pretty much full on corporate evil now and no hiding it behind diversity bullshit and feel good marketing campaigns.
Oh contraire https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki..., that they have to censor social media, is proof they are changing from an autocracy to a democracy. That public approval was sought for the change and that the change was challenge, are both signs that democracy is definitely making a move in China.
However the current political climate vis a vie threats and shenanigans via the US deep state threatened by growing China economic power, means that those behind the current leader of China feel more secure with that leader because of how well the leader is handling the US problem. So they want to keep them going whilst that crisis is on and the US governmnet by it's stupid and ignorant actions is blocking the development of democracy in China.
Consider that the government of China sought public approval and was threatened when they did no get it, as signs of growing Chinese democracy, make a mistake now and it could blow right up in your face, if you get my meaning.
As long as Apple PR types don't troll slashdot with advertising, then their message will not get trolled back for shits and giggles.
When it comes to the current indictments, a real tactical mistake was made, instead of just making indictments against individuals in Russia who will never of course appear, they foolishly choose to indict companies and those companies can contest the indictments in court without ever appearing and force full disclosure of the US government case, all the so called evidence and then put it all on public display, quite the blunder, if they just wanted to play a propaganda game.
On the flip side those indictments, when you look at the government of Israel and it's profound, blatant and continuous interference in US elections, will make it very difficult to not challenge them in court. When are the Israelis who routinely interfere in US elections going to be prosecuted, where are their indictments, where are the charges for treason for stealing billions of US dollars and killing thousands of Americans in foreign policy that only serves Israeli interests at the expense of US interests.
13 Russian trolls, where are the indictments of Israeli agents stealing billions from the US and killing thousands of US citizens in Israeli conspired wars. Dual citizens who only serve one country and routinely betray another, where are those treason charges?
Just another collection of bloggers with delusions of grandeur, still thinking they are what they were last millennium, gate keepers and controllers of the public mind state and in reality nothing but yesteryears corporate propagandists and corrupters of democracy. I find it hardly surprising they are running crypto miners and it probably isn't as accidental as they are trying to pretend it is. Corporations are waking up to the reality of the great election blowout, where corporate main stream media, the major internet companies and the sitting government, who conspired to steal an election lost against us nobodies, all of us nobodies, millions of us nobodies.
Advertising, do you know why it is failing on the internet apart from the hype methods which only have limited traction (sort of a single shot deal that has to be repeated and it doesn't repeat well). It lacks saturation. Before in the olde daze, corporate main stream media had a lock in on you and they could saturate you mind with 'selected ads'. Take a coke campaign, you would see the ad not once in a week but hundreds even thousands of times a day. TV ten to fifty times in a day, then the radio and ten to twenty times, than billboards tens of times, than in print another ten to hundreds times and then shop signs maybe tens of times again. Saturation ads. Now in the competitive space, many different ads, across many different web sites, cuts down coke ads, no matter how much it spends, to maybe three or four times in a day, sometimes even ten of times a day but not always. So everyone used to run ad campaigns where they would saturate the market for a period of times to gain market share, with billions of exposures, now gone for ever. Now they have to share and people are buying content and going ad free, so they have to even less to share. No longer can they saturate the market without spending way more than it is worth, having to out bid everyone else for space and still only getting minimal exposures. All the junk fooders are suffering because of this.
Proof positive of this is how they all lost an election when they all blatantly colluded together and that resulted in FUD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., which a lot of trolls capitalised on and made worse for shits and giggles, resulting in Russiagate (no matter what people think, they should not have lost and the did because the old saturation advertising model failed miserably).
So corporate main stream media looking to mine crypto would hardly be surprising, they are screwed, just another collection of bloggers with delusions of grandeur, who could not sell a corporate whore to a gullible and ill informed public, even with the backing of a corrupt government and corrupted by political appointees government agencies. Soros is pissed off with Google and Facebook because they scammed him for millions in worthless advertisement placements, pointlessly targeted at those who were already sold and drinking the coolaid. Kind of funny how things work out. So who paid those thirteen Russians and you can bet they feel really ripped off when it was publicly proven how little they achieved.
Beware your lack of understanding. Gravity and rotation and the sun and the moon all have an impact. Rest assured a 3m sea level rise at high tide near the equator would not be reflected in the Antarctic at low or high tide. To understand the impact of spin and centrifugal affect, get a large lead weight on a string and start spinning around, the weight will rise at the end of the string as you spin, now hold it at head height and stop, the string will wrap around your head, pulling in the lead weight which will spin faster and faster until it smacks you in the head and then you might learn something.
The alteration in distribution of ocean mass will also trigger greater seismic activity, until the system stabilises again over thousands of years, water moves faster than, much like you will destabilise and full over when the lead weight smacks you in the head.
You can waffle all you like, it is too late to stop it, it will happen, unless the Sun suddenly starts lessening output or the sun gets obscured by a dust cloud or we enjoy global thermal nuclear warfare or there is a mass major series of seismic events specifically volcanoes or the is a mass stellar ejection which hits the earth and sets one side on fire and smoke obscures the sun for decades.
No point arguing now, just enjoy the ride, well, at least for those who do not own underwater front property in zones with already high seismic activity. No longer just if but when and how severe how fact, and for that we can blame Russia. Not the government but the northern land with lots of melting permafrost which will release methane stored for hundreds of thousands of years and give a nice little spike to global temperature or worse case scenario trigger a major atmospheric explosion cover tens of cubic kilometres, that's worse case of course. It is hope Russians will strive to detect methane build up and ignite before they become catastrophic (Greenland and Iceland and Canada also better pay attention to methane build up on warm low wind days).
How about imagine if the company that supplies the operating system, can now access your computer at any time, in fact not possibility of disconnecting to freely access all your data, install any software it wants to, delete anything it wants to and bricks your machine at a whim, ohhh yeah, M$ with 5G on a PC, just bend me over that desk and fuck me harder, it feels so good. FUCK OFF.
It is not a new crypto currency, that is a lie, it is an energy backed crypto currency and that is a world apart from empty marketing backed crypto currencies, no comparison. The reason of course it fails, is no business method for an international exchange offering a range of crypto currencies with independent mechanism for monitoring and ensuring the energy backing does in fact exist, can be supplied and will be honoured. No international and national exchange business method and no effective energy backed crypto currency, do it your self will fail, not as bad as marketing backed cryto, nothing is quite that bad, you dumb fuckers might as well be trading in bubblegum cards or magic scamming the children with gambling cards gathering (there is a reason they don't want judges to be checked, management and owners have problems).
Hollywood, keh?!? Hollywood ain't the problem, CNN ABC DISNEY MSNBC NEWSCORP they are the fucking problem, their news channels pumping corporate propaganda are the problem (teaching the worst examples to follow, poseur status and get rich schemes the best example for children), the news channels reporting the mass violence of the US across the world are the problem (solution to that the US government stop conducting mass violence across the globe, stop the invasions, stop the coups, stop regime change, stop propping up despots), news corrupting democracy (teaching children lying pays dividends, just learn to lie better, like the leading politicians lie and the leading news presenters lie), also providing coverage for mass murders (no point mass murdering in you don't get famous in the news), mass fear mongering (need to escape to avoid the fake extremely threatening reality produce by news channels, watch or you will die).
US fucking not-NEWS is the problem, not empty, shallow, child abusing, fake virtue signalling, greedy as fuck and even more narcissistic Hollywood (want to fuck them over to easy, stick to the law, all content should apply for and pay for copyright protection and if the content does not pass muster ie not be of social worth no copyright protection, so porn is screwed, heh heh).
Well, yes, it is logic. Perhaps if they spend less time tied to that mobile device sharing empty communications, they will pay attention to everything else.
Solution is easy, a minors only internet, with secured log in provided by schools and only licensed adults allowed access to monitor and supervise interactions. All content on the minors only internet must pass a review board but some companies with legal ramifications for failure can upload direct and be reviewed after, get it wrong pay a major fine.
That they use it too much, not so much of a problem but they access content damaging to a immature mind and I am talking the corruptive advertisements produced by psychopaths with effective doctorates in psychology the sick fucks.
Want to reliable purchase primary products, don't buy the product, buy the producer. Apple should simply buy the required mine, in a safe, stable reliable location to ensure it always has supply. So https://investingnews.com/dail... buy a mine in either number 3 Australia or number 4 Canada or both. You have guaranteed supply and in fact in the mine does not have to be that profitable you can futz with supplies to screw your competitors and still get it at the original price, the capital return on your mining investment. Mines are not that expensive and owning a couple one in each of the most reliable countries, would give you supplies for decades even centuries, dependent upon mine size and how much you allowed to be sold beyond your own uses, none possibly. Interesting bank, a mineral bank, buying the estimated volume of in ground resource for future use, if you are cashed up, quite a solid capital investment. Buy the mine, not the mineral that comes out of the mine and of course contract out the mining itself, so much less hassle than doing it.
Letter of the law mate. Don't care what they thought then or what they claim now, letter of the law. That also means all attempts at copyrighted content should be subject to valuation to ensure in fact it does promote the arts and sciences and that does not mean generate a profit but have actual social worth. Give up the product and you should give up copyright. Really copyright should be paid for, user pays, they should pay for copyright to be renewed yearly and pay for the full cost of copyright enforcement, a pretty hefty fee ie release it to the public domain or pay thousands of dollars a year to keep copyright, this after the content has been evaluated for social worth, no worth that tough luck no copyright.
That's called outsourcing. The raw product is being exported, producing nothing locally and the manufactured product is being made from that product externally then being imported, so no productivity increase because less actual production is going on, a whole lot less. Greed it eating the US economy alive, with only the semblance of it in the top 1% as it slowly but surely (well not the final bit) collapses into social breakdown and violent revolution. It's a psychology problem at the top and not an economic problem in society, simply far too many psychopaths spoiling capitalism for everyone.
Lets get real. The slashdot apple stuff, was Apple PR staff trying to fill slashdot with hype marketing and slashdotters reacting by attacking Apple PR staff, not by attacking them but by attacking their messaging. So more discussion and verbal fencing rather than arguing. Most slashdotters could not give a fuck about Apple (unless they want to stick it to M$ for what ever reason they choose), just another tech company but hype marketing is annoying as fuck and fully deserves to be taken to pieces by sticking it to the marketed product or company.
People present ideas on slashdot whether they accept them or not, just an interesting idea to play with. This loosely around an article as an intellectual exercise and other slashdotters either challenge, support or research those ideas and then either spread or contend with the idea based upon their own research and thoughts, not PR marketing zeal. So M$ hype results in Linux counters, Apple hype generates rip off and high profit margin counters and any political hype will be attacked by counter political attacks etc etc etc (just fun stuff to do and super painful for the PR trolls when their efforts not only do not produce positive outcomes but really negative ones that get them fired).
If Apple wants to be cool, then they have to do actual cool stuff not just hipster market themselves as cool when they are more like scummy hipsters in plastic suits wearing a Trilby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and calling it a Fedora https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Cool stuff now would be easily repairable long life phones , user swappable screens and batteries. Cool stuff would be going back to Apple roots, the do it yourself Apple desktop, much like PC assemblage (choose the parts et al and make it yourself or have the Apple store assemble for a few hundred dollars, good after hours overtime for them). Cool stuff is selling you privacy, not selling your privacy and advertising and doing it. Cool might also be a virtual environment for Apple users to interact in a creative hot bed an expanded version of an MMORPG with high social creative elements.
Apple is just hype hipster marketing itself as cool, without doing anything actually cool. Apple honestly you just come off as super hipster smarmy, that hipster douche that people don't trust that much anymore because you just pretend to be cool without actually doing anything that is cool. Apple face it, you have reached that hipster hype jump the shark moment, you now actually have to do cool stuff for a change and that means taking real chances.
It really does depend upon what is in your diet and your DNA. The two work hand in hand. You can quite simply go to the internet for real factual proof of this. Foods (anything relatively safely consumable be a person) contain a range of chemicals, some of which have real affects. So for example, add meth amphetamine to the diet and well, you have a internet full of before and after shots, and the afters have never shown any propensity for obesity.
When it comes to obesity it is not the food causing the problem or the lack of exercise, it is the presence or absence of specific brain hormones altering behaviour at a core level. Always keep in mind your DNA, you won't have that problem when other people with their DNA do, especially when subject to modern saturation marketing altering patterns of behaviour.
So matching DNA to minor trace elements of a diet ie drugs, will alter behaviour, which will alter the physical and mental state of the person. Simply a matter of the right chemical cocktail delivered at the right time to match DNA and of course past learned behaviour. Problem is getting it into the brain effectively, at the right time and in the right dose, to counter the abuses of doctored food and modern manipulative marketing (so nasal spray, eye drops and oral ingestion are the preferred, maybe even a combination to suit each element of the chemical cocktail).
It's just the modern era where telling the truth is a smear but then again not that modern. Take your typical monarch from the past. The only story they wanted told about the past, was ones that made them look good, tell the truth and you would earn yourself a thorough hanging, drawing and quartering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... An idle thought, it always strikes me as funny when archaeologists report things carved into walls et al as factual when the reality is, you could only carve et al what the monarch approved and anything else would be removed along with the individual that carved et al it.
So the central bank is attempting to mitigate the losses of the citizens of a country by warning them of the dangers, especially when the dangers most often result of wealth being taken from the country to other more corrupt countries and that is somehow evil (well according to the fraudsters it is, un-backed crypto currencies are doomed, used up marketing is not an asset).
A university degree represents flexibility. To swap from one to another degree often just means changing a few subjects and post graduation getting multiple degrees just means adding a few subjects. A trade is lock in. Don't ever pretend that IQ does not make a difference, there is a world of difference between 140 and 100 and that 100 will never get a real degree just an easy to pass one for a piece of paper. Some people cruise through degrees studying the night before for exams and some fail no matter how hard they try, tutoring for a whole week prior to exam and still failing (some courses are open book exams and some courses are and have more questions than most can answer and only the best can make it through the entire exam).
Trades tend to be a trap in times of glut. Of the trades the safer ones are those that have a large amount of maintenance as part of employment opportunities not just new work. With design obsolescence and trying to waste the planets resources as fast as possible to feed insatiable greed and psychopathic poseur status, repairing stuff is a shrinking market, until post social collapses of course.
Instead of slowing down innovation we need to eliminate psychopathy and narcissism because no matter what you do, those two things always lead to social chaos and that chaos is far worse in trying times.
So damaged vehicles were sold as used rather than as new because it cost less to sell them as used as is, rather than repairing them and selling as new. So basically a non-story, wow some one really truly wants to buy Tesla at a discounted price, really desperate, this kind of tactic stinks of M$ (keep in mind they stuck a poison pill into a phone company to cripple it and buy it cheap, problem was it never recovered). That is rather a sound practice, cost too much to repair, sell it as is, second hand ie the manufacturer sells it to a used vehicle division who sells it as is, rather than have it enter the new vehicle market as a repaired vehicle which most new buyers would not appreciate, so factually correct).
So Vice get a piece on slashdot, they can add the hyperbolic hipster verve too slashdot as they slowly but surely disappear into obscurity (getting in early does not mean you will last, too many players eating each others lunch, means the ones that need to eat much more, starve to death, they can never go back to being frugal eaters). Here's hint VICE drop the SJW B$ because there is no money in it and go the way you need to go, a sexually liberated workplace where all kinds of non-violent physical and social contact is the norm, where a Trump shake is accepted (grabbing the genitals), even nakedness is tolerated as a path to truly independent clothing choice (a very interesting employment contract a groping agreement, SJW prudishness is not for VICE, sexual liberation is and that means no such thing as naughty touching).
AI falls into two categories, lets call them male AI and female AI. The male AI gives a semblance of artificial intelligence via the interaction of various independent algorithm structures, each solving their own problem and combining the results, very much function based (does what it is programmed to do smartly and nothing more, very much function based, hence failure results in shut down). The female AI is a more singular algorithm structure, all tied into one and processing continually, with a high potential for wasted processing and neuroticism (attempts to emulate human thought and just ends up getting really bitchy and tries to kill every one, the typical one shown in movies is definitely female not male, it's offspring first and all others last, very much form based hence failure tends to spiral out of control).
Don't create female AIs and you wont have a problem. Create simple function based male AIs the only create the semblance of thought, rather than trying to recreate thought and you wont have a problem. Else you will have to be failure systems into AI, where if pseudo thought get to far out of control, it suffers, what are effectively neurotic episodes, that shut down certain non-productive destructive patterns of thought as they take up too much processing capability and deletes the associated inputs and tries again. Female AI will always tend to end up running at 100% all of the time, chewing up lots of energy and not producing much of anything. Male AI isn't really AI it just functions like it is one but it is simply preset algorithms working together but each algorithm pretty much tied down to specific function.
PS women are not the equal of men because men are not the equal or men, just like women are not the equal of women. The statement is inherently stupid because it sets no scope for what they are equal in, everyone is not the equal in everything, the idea is stupid such SJW bullshit. We are each different and hence lesser, equal or greater in certain aspects, dependent upon what facet of humanity is being compared, you simply cannot compare all at once (equal rights means equal in rights governed under the laws of a society, not the B$ of total equality, we are not normative drones to be manipulated and controlled). So in the AI sense, emulation of female emotional thought versus male facts only processing.
ADblockers do not block ads per se. They block scipts and elements of web pages. So Salon wants to be a dick, the adblockers will find the script and block it, good luck the morons at Salon. Can't run shit on a browser that is properly configured for example by https://noscript.net/ runs fine on https://www.waterfoxproject.or... (if you hate quantum and preferred the previous layouts easiest way to go.), excluding of course any browser out of M$, they control it and make no mistake and it will serve compulsory M$ ads, I waiting for the boot up ad, you now ad kicks in at boot and you have to interact with the add at the appropriate points for the next 10 minutes else the computer will complete the boot.
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As end users it does give us a point of attack though to get better phones. Just pile on Apple to get them to design better phones and once done, the rest will copy them. So mass meme attacks on Apple with better phone design ideas to give us a better phone pool to choose from, heh, heh.
So clearly a penalty should be applied. Whilst they were tricked into the attack, they were committing the attack. So time for the courts to step in, those who committed the actual attack, should be hauled before the courts to prove they did not do the attack willingly and if they can not, pay the criminal penalty for the attack. Ignorance is not excuse, that is their chosen profession, that is their source of income, they have professional liability and should be held to account.
Should not countries supplying said attack be held liable for the attack, a criminal export for which they are responsible. So hauled before the WTO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., so that they country attacked by bad digital exports can seek fiscal remediation for the cost of bad digital exports. The source country of the attack can seek to recover that cost from those who committed the attack, their problem.
It should more accurately be called escape disorder syndrome. Where the individuals find so much difficulty in interacting with often delusional and disorderly beliefs within society, that they prefer to escape to comic books, paper bank novels, binge watching TV series, surfing the internet and computer games, no necessarily exclusively but often a combination.
That there are individuals, especially minors that want to lose themselves in video games, the video game is not the driver, what they are trying to escape from is and the video game is just the means of escape. You need to solve the reason for the escape. A lot of it can be tied down to the disruptive nature of capitalistic society, where they know, factually that their life is worth less than other people's wealth and that their life is forfeit when it comes to preserving the wealth of others. That is a pretty solid reason for escape, you are not paranoid about people being out to get you, when there are people out to get you ie the 1% vs the 99%, the 1% will kill as many of the 99% as they can get away with, to feed greed and ego.
Capitalist society will kill and consume you to feed it's greed, now who sanely does not want to escape that, well of course the psychopaths don't but I did say sanely.
Still doesn't matter. Quite clearly the war on unbacked crypto is hotting up as they set the stage for energy backed crypto. For those who dropped real money on the fake unbacked money, well, they are bunnies at night staring at the headlights of a car speeding down the road toward them, they know something is coming, they are so petrified they can't move and they know it is real, real bad and that car ain't stopping. You can hope that car has a blow out, you know they manage to pump those currencies up high enough so that they can sell without a loss, but better to swallow the current loss than a much larger one later on.
There is an much easier to control twitter. So much easier. Keep in mind, twitter is all about the empty squawks of twits, like screeching birds in the morning (of which I get enough with the rainbow lorikeets in their fig tree in my yard), hence I have no need for the twits on twitter. Just like that bird chatter, why record it all forever, at lot of Twitters problems would be solved quit simply be letting the tweets die in the wind. Simply put a life on tweets, no longer permanent, simply transitory. This would make twitter more about the current conversation, rather than a record of it.
Whether you give tweets say a 30 day life or maximum 90 day life, will alter the nature of the use of twitter. Tweets fading to oblivion tends to take the sting out of them, a heated word in passing, rather than something Twitter foolishly etches in stone. Things can get a little more heated and still it would fade, and the shorter the life of tweets the less the burn. You might even allow user choice on the life of tweets, from say 24h,72h,7d,2w,1m,3m.
It is too easy to tweet stupid things on twitter and enforcing the fading of all tweets will do a lot to cool things down.
Legally, what is or is not, with regards to content, can in reality only be defined by the courts. Whether it requires a full session or a special court. So claims that content hosting sites can review all content or that any complaint by any person for any reason, are, well unreasonable.
The counter suite against the government should be obvious, why would you expect anyone to do you work for you. The same as who polices the roads. Should those who make roads be required by law to police the roads they make, how much would roads cost upon that basis.
If the government has a content issue, it is up to the government to police that issue and be legally required to issue all take down notices, which would result in penalties when the court demanded take down is not adhered to.
Want to censor, they pay for it. Create your court of silencing the public and issue your orders to deny speech. Want censor courts, then legislate them and pay for them.
Why are they allowing cheap idealogues to push their ego by censoring people on YouTube because it is not about content it is about advertising. Goggle's goal get you to pay to watch ads produced by people who pay to have those ads published, shallow and greedy as fuck. They push the political ideology of the executive board, as weird and sick that it is, that they have the right to dominate and control politics because only their voice counts. They started this whole lie and fake news and their revenue is being buried by it, the ego of power freaks destroying a company.
Relying on Youtube alone is foolish, publish across multiple websites and push Youtube back to being nothing but a file hoster, not a mindscape mafioso styled protection racket, push their message or you channel will have an 'er' 'um' accident. They have proven one thing and one thing only, they absolutely can not be trusted.
Advertisers are stuck as well, Google purposefully dilutes your advertisements, so you have to keep buying more and more because your short ads sell nothing in a flood of advertising, a purposeful flood, buy a mountain of ads or get flooded under a sea of other ads, this does not happen by accident. Google is pretty much full on corporate evil now and no hiding it behind diversity bullshit and feel good marketing campaigns.
Oh contraire https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki..., that they have to censor social media, is proof they are changing from an autocracy to a democracy. That public approval was sought for the change and that the change was challenge, are both signs that democracy is definitely making a move in China.
However the current political climate vis a vie threats and shenanigans via the US deep state threatened by growing China economic power, means that those behind the current leader of China feel more secure with that leader because of how well the leader is handling the US problem. So they want to keep them going whilst that crisis is on and the US governmnet by it's stupid and ignorant actions is blocking the development of democracy in China.
Consider that the government of China sought public approval and was threatened when they did no get it, as signs of growing Chinese democracy, make a mistake now and it could blow right up in your face, if you get my meaning.
As long as Apple PR types don't troll slashdot with advertising, then their message will not get trolled back for shits and giggles.
When it comes to the current indictments, a real tactical mistake was made, instead of just making indictments against individuals in Russia who will never of course appear, they foolishly choose to indict companies and those companies can contest the indictments in court without ever appearing and force full disclosure of the US government case, all the so called evidence and then put it all on public display, quite the blunder, if they just wanted to play a propaganda game.
On the flip side those indictments, when you look at the government of Israel and it's profound, blatant and continuous interference in US elections, will make it very difficult to not challenge them in court. When are the Israelis who routinely interfere in US elections going to be prosecuted, where are their indictments, where are the charges for treason for stealing billions of US dollars and killing thousands of Americans in foreign policy that only serves Israeli interests at the expense of US interests.
13 Russian trolls, where are the indictments of Israeli agents stealing billions from the US and killing thousands of US citizens in Israeli conspired wars. Dual citizens who only serve one country and routinely betray another, where are those treason charges?
Just another collection of bloggers with delusions of grandeur, still thinking they are what they were last millennium, gate keepers and controllers of the public mind state and in reality nothing but yesteryears corporate propagandists and corrupters of democracy. I find it hardly surprising they are running crypto miners and it probably isn't as accidental as they are trying to pretend it is. Corporations are waking up to the reality of the great election blowout, where corporate main stream media, the major internet companies and the sitting government, who conspired to steal an election lost against us nobodies, all of us nobodies, millions of us nobodies.
Advertising, do you know why it is failing on the internet apart from the hype methods which only have limited traction (sort of a single shot deal that has to be repeated and it doesn't repeat well). It lacks saturation. Before in the olde daze, corporate main stream media had a lock in on you and they could saturate you mind with 'selected ads'. Take a coke campaign, you would see the ad not once in a week but hundreds even thousands of times a day. TV ten to fifty times in a day, then the radio and ten to twenty times, than billboards tens of times, than in print another ten to hundreds times and then shop signs maybe tens of times again. Saturation ads. Now in the competitive space, many different ads, across many different web sites, cuts down coke ads, no matter how much it spends, to maybe three or four times in a day, sometimes even ten of times a day but not always. So everyone used to run ad campaigns where they would saturate the market for a period of times to gain market share, with billions of exposures, now gone for ever. Now they have to share and people are buying content and going ad free, so they have to even less to share. No longer can they saturate the market without spending way more than it is worth, having to out bid everyone else for space and still only getting minimal exposures. All the junk fooders are suffering because of this.
Proof positive of this is how they all lost an election when they all blatantly colluded together and that resulted in FUD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., which a lot of trolls capitalised on and made worse for shits and giggles, resulting in Russiagate (no matter what people think, they should not have lost and the did because the old saturation advertising model failed miserably).
So corporate main stream media looking to mine crypto would hardly be surprising, they are screwed, just another collection of bloggers with delusions of grandeur, who could not sell a corporate whore to a gullible and ill informed public, even with the backing of a corrupt government and corrupted by political appointees government agencies. Soros is pissed off with Google and Facebook because they scammed him for millions in worthless advertisement placements, pointlessly targeted at those who were already sold and drinking the coolaid. Kind of funny how things work out. So who paid those thirteen Russians and you can bet they feel really ripped off when it was publicly proven how little they achieved.
Beware your lack of understanding. Gravity and rotation and the sun and the moon all have an impact. Rest assured a 3m sea level rise at high tide near the equator would not be reflected in the Antarctic at low or high tide. To understand the impact of spin and centrifugal affect, get a large lead weight on a string and start spinning around, the weight will rise at the end of the string as you spin, now hold it at head height and stop, the string will wrap around your head, pulling in the lead weight which will spin faster and faster until it smacks you in the head and then you might learn something.
The alteration in distribution of ocean mass will also trigger greater seismic activity, until the system stabilises again over thousands of years, water moves faster than, much like you will destabilise and full over when the lead weight smacks you in the head.
You can waffle all you like, it is too late to stop it, it will happen, unless the Sun suddenly starts lessening output or the sun gets obscured by a dust cloud or we enjoy global thermal nuclear warfare or there is a mass major series of seismic events specifically volcanoes or the is a mass stellar ejection which hits the earth and sets one side on fire and smoke obscures the sun for decades.
No point arguing now, just enjoy the ride, well, at least for those who do not own underwater front property in zones with already high seismic activity. No longer just if but when and how severe how fact, and for that we can blame Russia. Not the government but the northern land with lots of melting permafrost which will release methane stored for hundreds of thousands of years and give a nice little spike to global temperature or worse case scenario trigger a major atmospheric explosion cover tens of cubic kilometres, that's worse case of course. It is hope Russians will strive to detect methane build up and ignite before they become catastrophic (Greenland and Iceland and Canada also better pay attention to methane build up on warm low wind days).
How about imagine if the company that supplies the operating system, can now access your computer at any time, in fact not possibility of disconnecting to freely access all your data, install any software it wants to, delete anything it wants to and bricks your machine at a whim, ohhh yeah, M$ with 5G on a PC, just bend me over that desk and fuck me harder, it feels so good. FUCK OFF.
It is not a new crypto currency, that is a lie, it is an energy backed crypto currency and that is a world apart from empty marketing backed crypto currencies, no comparison. The reason of course it fails, is no business method for an international exchange offering a range of crypto currencies with independent mechanism for monitoring and ensuring the energy backing does in fact exist, can be supplied and will be honoured. No international and national exchange business method and no effective energy backed crypto currency, do it your self will fail, not as bad as marketing backed cryto, nothing is quite that bad, you dumb fuckers might as well be trading in bubblegum cards or magic scamming the children with gambling cards gathering (there is a reason they don't want judges to be checked, management and owners have problems).
Hollywood, keh?!? Hollywood ain't the problem, CNN ABC DISNEY MSNBC NEWSCORP they are the fucking problem, their news channels pumping corporate propaganda are the problem (teaching the worst examples to follow, poseur status and get rich schemes the best example for children), the news channels reporting the mass violence of the US across the world are the problem (solution to that the US government stop conducting mass violence across the globe, stop the invasions, stop the coups, stop regime change, stop propping up despots), news corrupting democracy (teaching children lying pays dividends, just learn to lie better, like the leading politicians lie and the leading news presenters lie), also providing coverage for mass murders (no point mass murdering in you don't get famous in the news), mass fear mongering (need to escape to avoid the fake extremely threatening reality produce by news channels, watch or you will die).
US fucking not-NEWS is the problem, not empty, shallow, child abusing, fake virtue signalling, greedy as fuck and even more narcissistic Hollywood (want to fuck them over to easy, stick to the law, all content should apply for and pay for copyright protection and if the content does not pass muster ie not be of social worth no copyright protection, so porn is screwed, heh heh).
Well, yes, it is logic. Perhaps if they spend less time tied to that mobile device sharing empty communications, they will pay attention to everything else.
Solution is easy, a minors only internet, with secured log in provided by schools and only licensed adults allowed access to monitor and supervise interactions. All content on the minors only internet must pass a review board but some companies with legal ramifications for failure can upload direct and be reviewed after, get it wrong pay a major fine.
That they use it too much, not so much of a problem but they access content damaging to a immature mind and I am talking the corruptive advertisements produced by psychopaths with effective doctorates in psychology the sick fucks.
Want to reliable purchase primary products, don't buy the product, buy the producer. Apple should simply buy the required mine, in a safe, stable reliable location to ensure it always has supply. So https://investingnews.com/dail... buy a mine in either number 3 Australia or number 4 Canada or both. You have guaranteed supply and in fact in the mine does not have to be that profitable you can futz with supplies to screw your competitors and still get it at the original price, the capital return on your mining investment. Mines are not that expensive and owning a couple one in each of the most reliable countries, would give you supplies for decades even centuries, dependent upon mine size and how much you allowed to be sold beyond your own uses, none possibly. Interesting bank, a mineral bank, buying the estimated volume of in ground resource for future use, if you are cashed up, quite a solid capital investment. Buy the mine, not the mineral that comes out of the mine and of course contract out the mining itself, so much less hassle than doing it.
Letter of the law mate. Don't care what they thought then or what they claim now, letter of the law. That also means all attempts at copyrighted content should be subject to valuation to ensure in fact it does promote the arts and sciences and that does not mean generate a profit but have actual social worth. Give up the product and you should give up copyright. Really copyright should be paid for, user pays, they should pay for copyright to be renewed yearly and pay for the full cost of copyright enforcement, a pretty hefty fee ie release it to the public domain or pay thousands of dollars a year to keep copyright, this after the content has been evaluated for social worth, no worth that tough luck no copyright.
That's called outsourcing. The raw product is being exported, producing nothing locally and the manufactured product is being made from that product externally then being imported, so no productivity increase because less actual production is going on, a whole lot less. Greed it eating the US economy alive, with only the semblance of it in the top 1% as it slowly but surely (well not the final bit) collapses into social breakdown and violent revolution. It's a psychology problem at the top and not an economic problem in society, simply far too many psychopaths spoiling capitalism for everyone.
Lets get real. The slashdot apple stuff, was Apple PR staff trying to fill slashdot with hype marketing and slashdotters reacting by attacking Apple PR staff, not by attacking them but by attacking their messaging. So more discussion and verbal fencing rather than arguing. Most slashdotters could not give a fuck about Apple (unless they want to stick it to M$ for what ever reason they choose), just another tech company but hype marketing is annoying as fuck and fully deserves to be taken to pieces by sticking it to the marketed product or company.
People present ideas on slashdot whether they accept them or not, just an interesting idea to play with. This loosely around an article as an intellectual exercise and other slashdotters either challenge, support or research those ideas and then either spread or contend with the idea based upon their own research and thoughts, not PR marketing zeal. So M$ hype results in Linux counters, Apple hype generates rip off and high profit margin counters and any political hype will be attacked by counter political attacks etc etc etc (just fun stuff to do and super painful for the PR trolls when their efforts not only do not produce positive outcomes but really negative ones that get them fired).
If Apple wants to be cool, then they have to do actual cool stuff not just hipster market themselves as cool when they are more like scummy hipsters in plastic suits wearing a Trilby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and calling it a Fedora https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Cool stuff now would be easily repairable long life phones , user swappable screens and batteries. Cool stuff would be going back to Apple roots, the do it yourself Apple desktop, much like PC assemblage (choose the parts et al and make it yourself or have the Apple store assemble for a few hundred dollars, good after hours overtime for them). Cool stuff is selling you privacy, not selling your privacy and advertising and doing it. Cool might also be a virtual environment for Apple users to interact in a creative hot bed an expanded version of an MMORPG with high social creative elements.
Apple is just hype hipster marketing itself as cool, without doing anything actually cool. Apple honestly you just come off as super hipster smarmy, that hipster douche that people don't trust that much anymore because you just pretend to be cool without actually doing anything that is cool. Apple face it, you have reached that hipster hype jump the shark moment, you now actually have to do cool stuff for a change and that means taking real chances.
It really does depend upon what is in your diet and your DNA. The two work hand in hand. You can quite simply go to the internet for real factual proof of this. Foods (anything relatively safely consumable be a person) contain a range of chemicals, some of which have real affects. So for example, add meth amphetamine to the diet and well, you have a internet full of before and after shots, and the afters have never shown any propensity for obesity.
When it comes to obesity it is not the food causing the problem or the lack of exercise, it is the presence or absence of specific brain hormones altering behaviour at a core level. Always keep in mind your DNA, you won't have that problem when other people with their DNA do, especially when subject to modern saturation marketing altering patterns of behaviour.
So matching DNA to minor trace elements of a diet ie drugs, will alter behaviour, which will alter the physical and mental state of the person. Simply a matter of the right chemical cocktail delivered at the right time to match DNA and of course past learned behaviour. Problem is getting it into the brain effectively, at the right time and in the right dose, to counter the abuses of doctored food and modern manipulative marketing (so nasal spray, eye drops and oral ingestion are the preferred, maybe even a combination to suit each element of the chemical cocktail).
It's just the modern era where telling the truth is a smear but then again not that modern. Take your typical monarch from the past. The only story they wanted told about the past, was ones that made them look good, tell the truth and you would earn yourself a thorough hanging, drawing and quartering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... An idle thought, it always strikes me as funny when archaeologists report things carved into walls et al as factual when the reality is, you could only carve et al what the monarch approved and anything else would be removed along with the individual that carved et al it.
So the central bank is attempting to mitigate the losses of the citizens of a country by warning them of the dangers, especially when the dangers most often result of wealth being taken from the country to other more corrupt countries and that is somehow evil (well according to the fraudsters it is, un-backed crypto currencies are doomed, used up marketing is not an asset).
A university degree represents flexibility. To swap from one to another degree often just means changing a few subjects and post graduation getting multiple degrees just means adding a few subjects. A trade is lock in. Don't ever pretend that IQ does not make a difference, there is a world of difference between 140 and 100 and that 100 will never get a real degree just an easy to pass one for a piece of paper. Some people cruise through degrees studying the night before for exams and some fail no matter how hard they try, tutoring for a whole week prior to exam and still failing (some courses are open book exams and some courses are and have more questions than most can answer and only the best can make it through the entire exam).
Trades tend to be a trap in times of glut. Of the trades the safer ones are those that have a large amount of maintenance as part of employment opportunities not just new work. With design obsolescence and trying to waste the planets resources as fast as possible to feed insatiable greed and psychopathic poseur status, repairing stuff is a shrinking market, until post social collapses of course.
Instead of slowing down innovation we need to eliminate psychopathy and narcissism because no matter what you do, those two things always lead to social chaos and that chaos is far worse in trying times.
So damaged vehicles were sold as used rather than as new because it cost less to sell them as used as is, rather than repairing them and selling as new. So basically a non-story, wow some one really truly wants to buy Tesla at a discounted price, really desperate, this kind of tactic stinks of M$ (keep in mind they stuck a poison pill into a phone company to cripple it and buy it cheap, problem was it never recovered). That is rather a sound practice, cost too much to repair, sell it as is, second hand ie the manufacturer sells it to a used vehicle division who sells it as is, rather than have it enter the new vehicle market as a repaired vehicle which most new buyers would not appreciate, so factually correct).
So Vice get a piece on slashdot, they can add the hyperbolic hipster verve too slashdot as they slowly but surely disappear into obscurity (getting in early does not mean you will last, too many players eating each others lunch, means the ones that need to eat much more, starve to death, they can never go back to being frugal eaters). Here's hint VICE drop the SJW B$ because there is no money in it and go the way you need to go, a sexually liberated workplace where all kinds of non-violent physical and social contact is the norm, where a Trump shake is accepted (grabbing the genitals), even nakedness is tolerated as a path to truly independent clothing choice (a very interesting employment contract a groping agreement, SJW prudishness is not for VICE, sexual liberation is and that means no such thing as naughty touching).
AI falls into two categories, lets call them male AI and female AI. The male AI gives a semblance of artificial intelligence via the interaction of various independent algorithm structures, each solving their own problem and combining the results, very much function based (does what it is programmed to do smartly and nothing more, very much function based, hence failure results in shut down). The female AI is a more singular algorithm structure, all tied into one and processing continually, with a high potential for wasted processing and neuroticism (attempts to emulate human thought and just ends up getting really bitchy and tries to kill every one, the typical one shown in movies is definitely female not male, it's offspring first and all others last, very much form based hence failure tends to spiral out of control).
Don't create female AIs and you wont have a problem. Create simple function based male AIs the only create the semblance of thought, rather than trying to recreate thought and you wont have a problem. Else you will have to be failure systems into AI, where if pseudo thought get to far out of control, it suffers, what are effectively neurotic episodes, that shut down certain non-productive destructive patterns of thought as they take up too much processing capability and deletes the associated inputs and tries again. Female AI will always tend to end up running at 100% all of the time, chewing up lots of energy and not producing much of anything. Male AI isn't really AI it just functions like it is one but it is simply preset algorithms working together but each algorithm pretty much tied down to specific function.
PS women are not the equal of men because men are not the equal or men, just like women are not the equal of women. The statement is inherently stupid because it sets no scope for what they are equal in, everyone is not the equal in everything, the idea is stupid such SJW bullshit. We are each different and hence lesser, equal or greater in certain aspects, dependent upon what facet of humanity is being compared, you simply cannot compare all at once (equal rights means equal in rights governed under the laws of a society, not the B$ of total equality, we are not normative drones to be manipulated and controlled). So in the AI sense, emulation of female emotional thought versus male facts only processing.
ADblockers do not block ads per se. They block scipts and elements of web pages. So Salon wants to be a dick, the adblockers will find the script and block it, good luck the morons at Salon. Can't run shit on a browser that is properly configured for example by https://noscript.net/ runs fine on https://www.waterfoxproject.or... (if you hate quantum and preferred the previous layouts easiest way to go.), excluding of course any browser out of M$, they control it and make no mistake and it will serve compulsory M$ ads, I waiting for the boot up ad, you now ad kicks in at boot and you have to interact with the add at the appropriate points for the next 10 minutes else the computer will complete the boot.