I don't understand people who pay for commercial, pay for someone to enter their lounge room and scream at them about shit they don't want. Once you start going largely commercial free, those commercial when you occasionally come across, come across as extremely aggressive and loud, hugely undesirable and really put you off products. There are products they I totally avoid as a result of aggressive commercial placement and a very loud and aggravating style. If people behaved like commercial did, wander into your house to demand you buy product, would you tolerate it or would you throw them out. I can not understand why people think they will be able to sell me product by actively trying to force me to watch their POS commercials. Every time I buy stuff, I check other people's NEGATIVE opinions an reviews of the product, fuck you commercials, you live or die on how badly you have treated existing customers, that is it.
Before you can regulate you need standards and those standards should actually cover the specifications of automated vehicles and their real world capabilities and how they are promoted. First up detection capabilities should be fully publicised and 3D image maps of what they can detect and how far they can detect it, what the detection cycles are and the standards it has been tested under and the validity and completeness of those test ie what the vehicle can see and how it sees it and what independent tests have been carried out to confirm the truth of the claims.
Then you have vehicle action processing capability, how it can react to what it sees, how it processes it, what some important decision trees are, will it purposefully run down a person in order to preserve value in the vehicle and the safety of the occupant ie an imminent collision with another vehicle, the only evasive action is through a bunch of pedestrians but it is much safer to run them down for the vehicles passenger, than to take the impact with the other vehicle (so a vehicle might be designated as a zero evasive action, breaking only and always adhering to road traffic rules regardless of consequence for the passenger).
A lot of automated vehicle rules should not be a matter of convenience for profit first corporations but standards and regulations approved by the public and their representatives ie to illegally evade a collision or to take the impact and stay within the law and that coding should be audited to ensure it complies no bloody secrets with vehicle automation.
The other big thing is remote control vs localised control, whether or not the vehicle owned by the individual can be remotely controlled by the corporation, keep in mind servicing laws for automated vehicles will end up being compulsary and extremely highly priced and profitable, don't pay and the remote control vehicle wont go, price to change oil $1,000, change computer 50% of vehicle price, the sky is the limit. All automated vehicles will only be able to be serviced or repaired by the original manufacturer with massively inflated profit margins, else lose the warranty on automation, instantly and as a bonus the car simply stops where it is and requires towing to an manufacturer authorised location.
Watch, they will want to ban bicycles because they are not remotely controlled and they cause problems for automated vehicles, and why have them, a child can climb into an automated vehicle and be taken where the corporation wants to take them. More than public safety, this is an issue of total control over your movements. The corporations don't want you to go somewhere and you will be walking and likely get run down by an automated vehicle.
Well not quite that correct. This succession of hurricanes would be indicative of global warming but not definitive of proof. That would require repeated seasons of large hurricane numbers, not necessarily every year but a definite cycle of large numbers of destructive hurricanes over say a decade. Don't worry all indications are, you will get them, so hold on to your roofs. The off switch is a lot harder to use than people think and consider even if we reached for it now, it is going to get worse before it get's better. What happens in Russia now, as well as of course Canada and Greenland, turning from methane sinks to extreme methane producers, well, things could get a whole lot worse a whole lot faster but at least after a decade or so of extreme chaos it would settle down to a more regular carbon climate change rate and likely cool for a bit, not to current of course, more a humid mess. For hurricanes to be the measure of global warming would be indicative it is too late to prevent severe disruption and how severe seems to depend upon now panicky we get to drive corrective measures.
For why? of course is really the question. Why pick on Tesla and Elon Musk, well, at least two groups in that market, competing automotive manufacturers and fossil fuel industry. Would they pay to attack Tesla and Elon Musk as part of that attack against Tesla, do wild rabid dogs have fleas, well, yes to both. Elon Musk does like to open up on his long term dreams and there is nothing wrong with that and some dreams will be more successful than others, meh. Just typical of modern main stream media that actively serves it advertisers way ahead of it's consumers and will actively lie to and fought in court the right to lie to consumers, they call it news entertainment.
So they are entertaining us with stories about russia to head of debate on universal health care. So attacks on Tesla mainly to head off electric vehicle competition with fossil fuel and to prevent Tesla getting to great a lead on other automotive manufacturers in electric vehicles. So personal attacks on Elon Musk in order to attack Tesla, automotive and of course solar power and battery back (a new threat, the distributed power station, the structure is already built, it just needs it's generators and batteries, the power station structure your home, not just your electric needs but also the rest of the grid).
M$ is always chasing other people's work. The two big software languages will be, the programming learning language and the second with be the software engineering language, where you no longer write code but you write fully detailed software engineering coding specifications and the code compiler does a coding pass and test prior to compilation. Failures in code a tied back to insufficiently detailed or contradictory specification. Brag about that coding software not just variations in the current theme and the minds of the mathematically biased, those who can not see beyond their thought styles.
So rather than focusing on the entirety of space, how about focusing on a particular area. Now you just can not focus on any area but you need to choose an area to target specifically, to catch that alien. Hmm, bait is the typical best method to get something to a location to find them. So what would be the best bait to attract a alien civilisation so that we can find them. I know, create a proto-galactic species, whose evolution and development would be of deep fascination to any advanced species, as all reasonable evidence to date indicate it is a rare event, a very rare event. Something we ourselves, when we reach the stars would immediately start looking for. So set that bait and look for them there. Just like most pervy scientists expect them to remain as hidden as they possibly can. Imagine the technology they could hide behind and then imagine the technology that should pierce that camouflage. Not by what you see but by bits of space missing, or unusual broad distortions, indicate of a central core to that broader distortion and on it goes. Who knows what we will find at home if we look hard enough.
It's not how long we have perceived the galaxy and thought to look for alien life, it is how long they have perceived the galaxy and looked for alien life and what they left behind during that search to look for, hmm, random fires, say specifically camp fires. That time between the first camp fires and now, would leave a lot of time to set up all sorts of monitoring stuff and we in their position, you know we would do it and sell the contents for massive amounts as the ultimate reality TV series, heh, heh, heh.
Let's not worry about the people, let's concern ourselves with the computers. The computer said so, should never ever be enough to identify some one. Just like that person being real and actual, not just virtual so the record of them actual, a real hard copy. To rely on biometric data, relies totally on the record of biometric data being associated with you. Alter that database link, associate someone else's biometric data with your legal identity and they become you.
This limits prime record data to hard copy, extremely difficult to replace, many hard copies can be created and kept. Computerised biometric identification as the only identification is extremely dangerous. You could be legally killed ie your legal data associated with a deceased body and you legally become dead and now you have to fight the central database that all their biometric records of you are wrong (well, only one record, one signal bit of identity, that link from your biometric data to your legal identity data). Now for the cheeky minded, allow them to implement the system and then, heh, heh, erase all data, watch the chaos then with no manual system backing it all up. All being erases a rare probability, some records being accidentally being erased or altered a near certainty.
I prefer wired because they attach to my phone with short lead and are connected together and I wont lose them. I could imagine dropping headphone and being saved from the fall and being trodden, by that connection, regularly. Also the ear phones are then powered and no battery hassles. I don't care about what the hell the connector is and long as the phone has two, one at the top and one at the bottom, convenience and the connectors are non proprietary. Blue tooth is handy but not when you are dicking with batteries, than it is just another hassle.
This latest round of crap is all about universal health care, which started gaining real traction so, mass censorship and an idiots distraction.
It smells very much like the US government wants to ban foreign comments on it's corrupt politics, they are so threatened because their corrupt scam has been so exposed. All there actions do is make them look worse and worse as they desperately try to corruptly cling to power.
They are making a real push to silence all opposition to the establishment prior to the next primary season and they will fail miserable, the more the try tighten their grip on comments the more comments will slip through their fingers, heh, heh.
My God, they are just totally making themselves look really stupid now to any kind of educated audience, the crazy crap they are up to is just laughable and only profound arrogance stops them seeing what fools they are making of themselves. The world is starting to laugh at you USA because of the stupid shenanigans of your corrupt politicians.
A better payment system would be the store getting your id and details and than clearing the payment with your credit supplier, who than confirms those details with you via you card details and limited remote authorisation code (spend limited). Onsite with a photo taken of the transaction and attached to the spend and offline, digital ID hardware could be used, a rotating aligning crypto exchange, unique to the device and the credit provider servers (think an encrypted clock client connected to an encrypted clock server, an encrypted time check served and you could transmit a short time confirmed video). For really sound security. The store should only really confirm the correct connection to the credit provider all the security confirmation should be done direct between you and your credit provider and they then authorise that transaction, allow the store to place a debit against your account. A smart phone usb port or an internalised add in card that is manually switched on with auto off ie held on.
Maybe they can hook it up to the authorities who can then prosecute those who use it too much. Every bad parenting decision would be subject to over sight, hmm, I wonder how many new parents would want to be subject to outside review for each of the actions in front of the device.
Likely it will still be some what economically safe to buy an infernal combustion engine, right up to 2020 beyond that resale losses would become difficult, so still adamant for infernal combustion, buying second hand would be smarter. From 2020 on electrics will start to have real impact on sales and that includes resale impact. A lot depends upon how long you keep a car, the longer the more questionable the infernal combustion choice, keep you car a decade and that is real problematical as to when to make the switch. Beware the ban of infernal combustion vehicles in inner metro, the city centre, that is likely to happen much earlier, than for other zones. So regional less of a concern, you can run your fossil fueller for likely a decade longer than in the metropolitan area. It will be interesting to see the development of conversion kits, design and cost, over time, without government subsidies it is unlikely to be successful but that economic pain does need to be shared. Personally I am aiming for my next vehicle to be electric as to when, probably I will delay it until it is competitive choice and simply extend the life of my current infernal combustion vehicle (very low mileage I dislike driving after a very negative experience, 10K in three years).
Amazons direct delivery failures are very interesting because that makes them extremely vulnerable to competition from a particular quarter. That not be a sales but logistics companies. The two biggest threats to Amazon are UPS and FEDex. They are both logistics companies, with warehouses and all they need is a website to sell their customers products, and then they deliver, as for Amazon. In fact Amazon going for direct deliveries might well be indicative that they are concerned that UPS and FEDex might be thinking about going into online selling of products they do logistics for. You have to remeber UPS and FEDex might well end up crippled by Amazon crushing the other online sellers and in turn crippling UPS and FEDex logistics opportunities.
The on line selling is far easier to manage than the logistics and deliveries. So there is real opportunity for UPS and FEDex to jump into the online sales market in direct competition to Amazon.
Historical evidence, proves that most quality drug development is done by government contracting to universities. The pharma's the lobby to buy it on the cheap and inflate profits. The worst drug development come from pharmas direct, who after large investment in crap drugs, lie, cheat and steal to get them to market whether or not they fail. As they get bigger, they just lie, cheat, steal and kill more and more and get worse and worse. Now they rely more of lobbyists, than they do on researchers, for their profits, dumping any kind of crap product on the market, regardless of consequence.
How much testing needs to be done, as much as necessary and really the pharmas should be banned from carrying it out. They should be required by law to pass it back to the government for direct testing using select medical universities to carry out the approved testing procedures.
Quality of drugs has just gotten worse as profit margins went up and the number of pharmas shrunk as they merged into ugly horrid corrupt behemoths. Should the production and development of life saving drugs ever be trusted to private corporations or are they simply to corrupt to be ever trusted.
You have a hive with many workettes, heh, heh and to say it was safe ignores the reality of dead bees. Sure enough survived to regurgitate plant syrup after the bees have partially digested it but that does not cover how productive the hive was compared to a hive that was not affected by pesticides. That data, actually productivity or hives related to surrounding plant life, season and levels of pesticide versus hives with no pesticides. Also what locations are bad for honey and pesticide contamination and where are the worst locations. I wonder if selected plants can be genetically altered to produce much more syrup to be used directly, rather than relying on insect vomit. Personally given a choice, I would go for plant syrup over insect vomit. Perhaps for those that like a bee review and analysis might be in order, do different species of bees produce different qualities of bee vomit and should alternate species be consider in conjunction with more selective plant syrup access, some produce better honey than others in regard to taste and other digestive benefits.
Friends I found only for like minded and as for foes, well, who wants to be, super freaky and relegate other comments and basically close your mind to different thoughts and ideas.
I wonder if slashdot would open up that database of stories, comments and modding to universities for data mining and analysis. There would likely be a range of interesting ideas and conclusion squirrelled away in that information. Especially changes over time, generational change, the big difference between people born into the computer age and those who were already mature when it started.
The only error is the comment does not reflect society. Pro-social people are depressed because they live in psychopathic capitalist societies. Note, that in more socialist societies, those populations are much happier because they are not as actively preyed upon by psychopathic capitalists (for the idiots in the crowd, neither Stalinism nor Maoism is socialist they can be more readily described as monarchies, all monarchies are self appointed governments of one ruling by active extreme violence and nothing to do with the lies of breeding of the laughable idea of being appointed by God).
This is a measure of bureaucratic hubris. When you do not separate attack from defence in electronics, defence will routinely fail. What happens in offence get the most funding and the best staff and the most corrupt management. Why corrupt management because it is an easy scam to look good, it is accepted that you routinely fail and rarely succeed, with those success counted way above what they actually produce. On the defence side, you get low funding and it is a dead end, you are expected to routinely succeed, in fact always succeed and any failure is a career killer. So offence any failure is fine and any rare success provides career improvement, on defence success for years is not measured but one failure and your career is over. Combine both in one house and nobody with half a brain wants to play defence, especially when the offence side lies to you and spies on you and purposefully stick holes in your security (you compete with them for funds and staff).
"Similar logical fallacy, circa 1900, used by folks wanting to demonize the horseless carriage." and look how many people died (millions) or where injured (hundreds of millions, many more than once) as a result. Now what was your argument again;P.
When it comes to the most profoundly invasive spy ware imaginable, microphone sensitivity is more important as well as how large and visible the off switch is. It seems the are going for the invisible look, just what you would use on gullible people, make it disappear in their environment so they forget it is there and say things they shouldn't say to be used against them latter. I think they are heading in the wrong direction, a kawaii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... desk top robot with it's rechargeable docking station, which use motion to attract you attention and as a bonus it has a camera to spy on users and photograph the desktop.
A lot of this stuff is cool but it is clear corporations can not be trusted with this invasion of privacy and all the data and processing power needs to be localised.
Translations, how about the entirety of the internet that is not English based, every bit of text, every video, not so much music though, as it translate differently https://www.youtube.com/watch?....
No to get away from the clearly planted diversions, the biggest problem Google, which is a demostated corrupt political player and acting in the most evil ways to pervert democracy in it's investors and directors personal favour, listen in on your conversations and not just listening actively processing those conversations for in depth analysis.
Localised translate built into the device, fantastic. Remote, we will listen in, process and record every conversation, 'er', fuck off. Especially not the democracy corrupting, tax cheating, CIA/NSA spy partner and deep state supporter, that is Google, the do lots of evil, real serious evil, corporation. To show that I am fair, hey YouTube you fucking morons, want to make money, easy charge for uploads but only charge those who sign up for ad revenue, you know $1 per minute of upload and then they have skin in the game with regard to ad revenue for that content. Those who do not want ad revenue get free uploads, done and finished, self regulating, you fuckwits.
This whole story is a crock of shit. Can Facebook block foreign ads, no, abso-fucking-lutely impossible. Why, seriously how stupid are people buying into US government propaganda and click bait of the worst order. Foreign ad, pay a person at the locale of choice to place the ads for you, no skill, no, ability, just a citizen who is absolutely legally contracting out labour. Not that I would mind a global ban on Ads and corporate propaganda coming out of the US. Think of all the movies and TV series that could be banned because of product placement ads for foreign products, this from a collapsing entirely corrupt power mad state, the USA, which routinely puts it's self serving arrogance and ignorance, hypocrisy, government deceit, betrayal of allies and of course we can do it to you because we will kill you with nuclear missiles but you can't do it to use because we will kill you with nuclear missiles and from the words of the idiots themselves, publicly advocating genocide, killing your entire population, not just the opposing government.
Just another part of the shite show that failed to get the corporate whore elected, looking to distract from policies like universal health care, a living wage for all workers, equal access to democracy and equal access to justice. Here look at this hand full of nothing, whilst they slap in the face with the hand full of shit and you had better like it. Will you people not wake up. This bullshit is all about preventing discussion of real issues about funding of the war industrial complex, where the bulk of funding disappears in profits and corruption, whilst you idiots allow your infrastructure to collapse around you.
Unless you actively tell them to shut the fuck up about this bullshit and pay attention to the real issues, this shit show will continue, you gullible idiots.
Problem with those countries who want to diversify by becoming capitalist parasites, produce nothing but charge interest. You can push them out of the market at the stroke of a pen, nothing backs their capital, hence zero it's value is easy. A lot of them were quite naughty when they had fossil fuel money to play with, they willed be punished for their naughty acts because of course if favours local national corporations to do so.
Oil and natural gas are used in manufacturing in many ways. But normally they take what is not used to burn as fuel. Those refineries also need to change, no longer working to produce as much fuel as possible but the other chemicals to be used in industrial process. Demand drops hugely, glut of oil, kills the price putting all the most expensive sources out of business. The US probably easily produces sufficient for manufacture so zero imports. A large glut on the market means other countries can become far more selective in who they will buy from. Basically fossil fuel income dependent nations are going to go bust bug time.
'ER' yes, if you use bit torrent you are uploading as well as downloading, that is the way it works and you should not share copyrighted content in that format unless you are licensed to do so. Downloading is not illegal, uploading is.
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I don't understand people who pay for commercial, pay for someone to enter their lounge room and scream at them about shit they don't want. Once you start going largely commercial free, those commercial when you occasionally come across, come across as extremely aggressive and loud, hugely undesirable and really put you off products. There are products they I totally avoid as a result of aggressive commercial placement and a very loud and aggravating style. If people behaved like commercial did, wander into your house to demand you buy product, would you tolerate it or would you throw them out. I can not understand why people think they will be able to sell me product by actively trying to force me to watch their POS commercials. Every time I buy stuff, I check other people's NEGATIVE opinions an reviews of the product, fuck you commercials, you live or die on how badly you have treated existing customers, that is it.
Before you can regulate you need standards and those standards should actually cover the specifications of automated vehicles and their real world capabilities and how they are promoted. First up detection capabilities should be fully publicised and 3D image maps of what they can detect and how far they can detect it, what the detection cycles are and the standards it has been tested under and the validity and completeness of those test ie what the vehicle can see and how it sees it and what independent tests have been carried out to confirm the truth of the claims.
Then you have vehicle action processing capability, how it can react to what it sees, how it processes it, what some important decision trees are, will it purposefully run down a person in order to preserve value in the vehicle and the safety of the occupant ie an imminent collision with another vehicle, the only evasive action is through a bunch of pedestrians but it is much safer to run them down for the vehicles passenger, than to take the impact with the other vehicle (so a vehicle might be designated as a zero evasive action, breaking only and always adhering to road traffic rules regardless of consequence for the passenger).
A lot of automated vehicle rules should not be a matter of convenience for profit first corporations but standards and regulations approved by the public and their representatives ie to illegally evade a collision or to take the impact and stay within the law and that coding should be audited to ensure it complies no bloody secrets with vehicle automation.
The other big thing is remote control vs localised control, whether or not the vehicle owned by the individual can be remotely controlled by the corporation, keep in mind servicing laws for automated vehicles will end up being compulsary and extremely highly priced and profitable, don't pay and the remote control vehicle wont go, price to change oil $1,000, change computer 50% of vehicle price, the sky is the limit. All automated vehicles will only be able to be serviced or repaired by the original manufacturer with massively inflated profit margins, else lose the warranty on automation, instantly and as a bonus the car simply stops where it is and requires towing to an manufacturer authorised location.
Watch, they will want to ban bicycles because they are not remotely controlled and they cause problems for automated vehicles, and why have them, a child can climb into an automated vehicle and be taken where the corporation wants to take them. More than public safety, this is an issue of total control over your movements. The corporations don't want you to go somewhere and you will be walking and likely get run down by an automated vehicle.
Well not quite that correct. This succession of hurricanes would be indicative of global warming but not definitive of proof. That would require repeated seasons of large hurricane numbers, not necessarily every year but a definite cycle of large numbers of destructive hurricanes over say a decade. Don't worry all indications are, you will get them, so hold on to your roofs. The off switch is a lot harder to use than people think and consider even if we reached for it now, it is going to get worse before it get's better. What happens in Russia now, as well as of course Canada and Greenland, turning from methane sinks to extreme methane producers, well, things could get a whole lot worse a whole lot faster but at least after a decade or so of extreme chaos it would settle down to a more regular carbon climate change rate and likely cool for a bit, not to current of course, more a humid mess. For hurricanes to be the measure of global warming would be indicative it is too late to prevent severe disruption and how severe seems to depend upon now panicky we get to drive corrective measures.
For why? of course is really the question. Why pick on Tesla and Elon Musk, well, at least two groups in that market, competing automotive manufacturers and fossil fuel industry. Would they pay to attack Tesla and Elon Musk as part of that attack against Tesla, do wild rabid dogs have fleas, well, yes to both. Elon Musk does like to open up on his long term dreams and there is nothing wrong with that and some dreams will be more successful than others, meh. Just typical of modern main stream media that actively serves it advertisers way ahead of it's consumers and will actively lie to and fought in court the right to lie to consumers, they call it news entertainment.
So they are entertaining us with stories about russia to head of debate on universal health care. So attacks on Tesla mainly to head off electric vehicle competition with fossil fuel and to prevent Tesla getting to great a lead on other automotive manufacturers in electric vehicles. So personal attacks on Elon Musk in order to attack Tesla, automotive and of course solar power and battery back (a new threat, the distributed power station, the structure is already built, it just needs it's generators and batteries, the power station structure your home, not just your electric needs but also the rest of the grid).
M$ is always chasing other people's work. The two big software languages will be, the programming learning language and the second with be the software engineering language, where you no longer write code but you write fully detailed software engineering coding specifications and the code compiler does a coding pass and test prior to compilation. Failures in code a tied back to insufficiently detailed or contradictory specification. Brag about that coding software not just variations in the current theme and the minds of the mathematically biased, those who can not see beyond their thought styles.
So rather than focusing on the entirety of space, how about focusing on a particular area. Now you just can not focus on any area but you need to choose an area to target specifically, to catch that alien. Hmm, bait is the typical best method to get something to a location to find them. So what would be the best bait to attract a alien civilisation so that we can find them. I know, create a proto-galactic species, whose evolution and development would be of deep fascination to any advanced species, as all reasonable evidence to date indicate it is a rare event, a very rare event. Something we ourselves, when we reach the stars would immediately start looking for. So set that bait and look for them there. Just like most pervy scientists expect them to remain as hidden as they possibly can. Imagine the technology they could hide behind and then imagine the technology that should pierce that camouflage. Not by what you see but by bits of space missing, or unusual broad distortions, indicate of a central core to that broader distortion and on it goes. Who knows what we will find at home if we look hard enough.
It's not how long we have perceived the galaxy and thought to look for alien life, it is how long they have perceived the galaxy and looked for alien life and what they left behind during that search to look for, hmm, random fires, say specifically camp fires. That time between the first camp fires and now, would leave a lot of time to set up all sorts of monitoring stuff and we in their position, you know we would do it and sell the contents for massive amounts as the ultimate reality TV series, heh, heh, heh.
Let's not worry about the people, let's concern ourselves with the computers. The computer said so, should never ever be enough to identify some one. Just like that person being real and actual, not just virtual so the record of them actual, a real hard copy. To rely on biometric data, relies totally on the record of biometric data being associated with you. Alter that database link, associate someone else's biometric data with your legal identity and they become you.
This limits prime record data to hard copy, extremely difficult to replace, many hard copies can be created and kept. Computerised biometric identification as the only identification is extremely dangerous. You could be legally killed ie your legal data associated with a deceased body and you legally become dead and now you have to fight the central database that all their biometric records of you are wrong (well, only one record, one signal bit of identity, that link from your biometric data to your legal identity data). Now for the cheeky minded, allow them to implement the system and then, heh, heh, erase all data, watch the chaos then with no manual system backing it all up. All being erases a rare probability, some records being accidentally being erased or altered a near certainty.
I prefer wired because they attach to my phone with short lead and are connected together and I wont lose them. I could imagine dropping headphone and being saved from the fall and being trodden, by that connection, regularly. Also the ear phones are then powered and no battery hassles. I don't care about what the hell the connector is and long as the phone has two, one at the top and one at the bottom, convenience and the connectors are non proprietary. Blue tooth is handy but not when you are dicking with batteries, than it is just another hassle.
This latest round of crap is all about universal health care, which started gaining real traction so, mass censorship and an idiots distraction.
It smells very much like the US government wants to ban foreign comments on it's corrupt politics, they are so threatened because their corrupt scam has been so exposed. All there actions do is make them look worse and worse as they desperately try to corruptly cling to power.
They are making a real push to silence all opposition to the establishment prior to the next primary season and they will fail miserable, the more the try tighten their grip on comments the more comments will slip through their fingers, heh, heh.
My God, they are just totally making themselves look really stupid now to any kind of educated audience, the crazy crap they are up to is just laughable and only profound arrogance stops them seeing what fools they are making of themselves. The world is starting to laugh at you USA because of the stupid shenanigans of your corrupt politicians.
A better payment system would be the store getting your id and details and than clearing the payment with your credit supplier, who than confirms those details with you via you card details and limited remote authorisation code (spend limited). Onsite with a photo taken of the transaction and attached to the spend and offline, digital ID hardware could be used, a rotating aligning crypto exchange, unique to the device and the credit provider servers (think an encrypted clock client connected to an encrypted clock server, an encrypted time check served and you could transmit a short time confirmed video). For really sound security. The store should only really confirm the correct connection to the credit provider all the security confirmation should be done direct between you and your credit provider and they then authorise that transaction, allow the store to place a debit against your account. A smart phone usb port or an internalised add in card that is manually switched on with auto off ie held on.
Maybe they can hook it up to the authorities who can then prosecute those who use it too much. Every bad parenting decision would be subject to over sight, hmm, I wonder how many new parents would want to be subject to outside review for each of the actions in front of the device.
Likely it will still be some what economically safe to buy an infernal combustion engine, right up to 2020 beyond that resale losses would become difficult, so still adamant for infernal combustion, buying second hand would be smarter. From 2020 on electrics will start to have real impact on sales and that includes resale impact. A lot depends upon how long you keep a car, the longer the more questionable the infernal combustion choice, keep you car a decade and that is real problematical as to when to make the switch. Beware the ban of infernal combustion vehicles in inner metro, the city centre, that is likely to happen much earlier, than for other zones. So regional less of a concern, you can run your fossil fueller for likely a decade longer than in the metropolitan area. It will be interesting to see the development of conversion kits, design and cost, over time, without government subsidies it is unlikely to be successful but that economic pain does need to be shared. Personally I am aiming for my next vehicle to be electric as to when, probably I will delay it until it is competitive choice and simply extend the life of my current infernal combustion vehicle (very low mileage I dislike driving after a very negative experience, 10K in three years).
Amazons direct delivery failures are very interesting because that makes them extremely vulnerable to competition from a particular quarter. That not be a sales but logistics companies. The two biggest threats to Amazon are UPS and FEDex. They are both logistics companies, with warehouses and all they need is a website to sell their customers products, and then they deliver, as for Amazon. In fact Amazon going for direct deliveries might well be indicative that they are concerned that UPS and FEDex might be thinking about going into online selling of products they do logistics for. You have to remeber UPS and FEDex might well end up crippled by Amazon crushing the other online sellers and in turn crippling UPS and FEDex logistics opportunities.
The on line selling is far easier to manage than the logistics and deliveries. So there is real opportunity for UPS and FEDex to jump into the online sales market in direct competition to Amazon.
Historical evidence, proves that most quality drug development is done by government contracting to universities. The pharma's the lobby to buy it on the cheap and inflate profits. The worst drug development come from pharmas direct, who after large investment in crap drugs, lie, cheat and steal to get them to market whether or not they fail. As they get bigger, they just lie, cheat, steal and kill more and more and get worse and worse. Now they rely more of lobbyists, than they do on researchers, for their profits, dumping any kind of crap product on the market, regardless of consequence.
How much testing needs to be done, as much as necessary and really the pharmas should be banned from carrying it out. They should be required by law to pass it back to the government for direct testing using select medical universities to carry out the approved testing procedures.
Quality of drugs has just gotten worse as profit margins went up and the number of pharmas shrunk as they merged into ugly horrid corrupt behemoths. Should the production and development of life saving drugs ever be trusted to private corporations or are they simply to corrupt to be ever trusted.
You have a hive with many workettes, heh, heh and to say it was safe ignores the reality of dead bees. Sure enough survived to regurgitate plant syrup after the bees have partially digested it but that does not cover how productive the hive was compared to a hive that was not affected by pesticides. That data, actually productivity or hives related to surrounding plant life, season and levels of pesticide versus hives with no pesticides. Also what locations are bad for honey and pesticide contamination and where are the worst locations. I wonder if selected plants can be genetically altered to produce much more syrup to be used directly, rather than relying on insect vomit. Personally given a choice, I would go for plant syrup over insect vomit. Perhaps for those that like a bee review and analysis might be in order, do different species of bees produce different qualities of bee vomit and should alternate species be consider in conjunction with more selective plant syrup access, some produce better honey than others in regard to taste and other digestive benefits.
Friends I found only for like minded and as for foes, well, who wants to be, super freaky and relegate other comments and basically close your mind to different thoughts and ideas.
I wonder if slashdot would open up that database of stories, comments and modding to universities for data mining and analysis. There would likely be a range of interesting ideas and conclusion squirrelled away in that information. Especially changes over time, generational change, the big difference between people born into the computer age and those who were already mature when it started.
The only error is the comment does not reflect society. Pro-social people are depressed because they live in psychopathic capitalist societies. Note, that in more socialist societies, those populations are much happier because they are not as actively preyed upon by psychopathic capitalists (for the idiots in the crowd, neither Stalinism nor Maoism is socialist they can be more readily described as monarchies, all monarchies are self appointed governments of one ruling by active extreme violence and nothing to do with the lies of breeding of the laughable idea of being appointed by God).
This is a measure of bureaucratic hubris. When you do not separate attack from defence in electronics, defence will routinely fail. What happens in offence get the most funding and the best staff and the most corrupt management. Why corrupt management because it is an easy scam to look good, it is accepted that you routinely fail and rarely succeed, with those success counted way above what they actually produce. On the defence side, you get low funding and it is a dead end, you are expected to routinely succeed, in fact always succeed and any failure is a career killer. So offence any failure is fine and any rare success provides career improvement, on defence success for years is not measured but one failure and your career is over. Combine both in one house and nobody with half a brain wants to play defence, especially when the offence side lies to you and spies on you and purposefully stick holes in your security (you compete with them for funds and staff).
"Similar logical fallacy, circa 1900, used by folks wanting to demonize the horseless carriage." and look how many people died (millions) or where injured (hundreds of millions, many more than once) as a result. Now what was your argument again ;P.
When it comes to the most profoundly invasive spy ware imaginable, microphone sensitivity is more important as well as how large and visible the off switch is. It seems the are going for the invisible look, just what you would use on gullible people, make it disappear in their environment so they forget it is there and say things they shouldn't say to be used against them latter. I think they are heading in the wrong direction, a kawaii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... desk top robot with it's rechargeable docking station, which use motion to attract you attention and as a bonus it has a camera to spy on users and photograph the desktop.
A lot of this stuff is cool but it is clear corporations can not be trusted with this invasion of privacy and all the data and processing power needs to be localised.
Translations, how about the entirety of the internet that is not English based, every bit of text, every video, not so much music though, as it translate differently https://www.youtube.com/watch?....
No to get away from the clearly planted diversions, the biggest problem Google, which is a demostated corrupt political player and acting in the most evil ways to pervert democracy in it's investors and directors personal favour, listen in on your conversations and not just listening actively processing those conversations for in depth analysis.
Localised translate built into the device, fantastic. Remote, we will listen in, process and record every conversation, 'er', fuck off. Especially not the democracy corrupting, tax cheating, CIA/NSA spy partner and deep state supporter, that is Google, the do lots of evil, real serious evil, corporation. To show that I am fair, hey YouTube you fucking morons, want to make money, easy charge for uploads but only charge those who sign up for ad revenue, you know $1 per minute of upload and then they have skin in the game with regard to ad revenue for that content. Those who do not want ad revenue get free uploads, done and finished, self regulating, you fuckwits.
This whole story is a crock of shit. Can Facebook block foreign ads, no, abso-fucking-lutely impossible. Why, seriously how stupid are people buying into US government propaganda and click bait of the worst order. Foreign ad, pay a person at the locale of choice to place the ads for you, no skill, no, ability, just a citizen who is absolutely legally contracting out labour. Not that I would mind a global ban on Ads and corporate propaganda coming out of the US. Think of all the movies and TV series that could be banned because of product placement ads for foreign products, this from a collapsing entirely corrupt power mad state, the USA, which routinely puts it's self serving arrogance and ignorance, hypocrisy, government deceit, betrayal of allies and of course we can do it to you because we will kill you with nuclear missiles but you can't do it to use because we will kill you with nuclear missiles and from the words of the idiots themselves, publicly advocating genocide, killing your entire population, not just the opposing government.
Just another part of the shite show that failed to get the corporate whore elected, looking to distract from policies like universal health care, a living wage for all workers, equal access to democracy and equal access to justice. Here look at this hand full of nothing, whilst they slap in the face with the hand full of shit and you had better like it. Will you people not wake up. This bullshit is all about preventing discussion of real issues about funding of the war industrial complex, where the bulk of funding disappears in profits and corruption, whilst you idiots allow your infrastructure to collapse around you.
Unless you actively tell them to shut the fuck up about this bullshit and pay attention to the real issues, this shit show will continue, you gullible idiots.
Problem with those countries who want to diversify by becoming capitalist parasites, produce nothing but charge interest. You can push them out of the market at the stroke of a pen, nothing backs their capital, hence zero it's value is easy. A lot of them were quite naughty when they had fossil fuel money to play with, they willed be punished for their naughty acts because of course if favours local national corporations to do so.
Oil and natural gas are used in manufacturing in many ways. But normally they take what is not used to burn as fuel. Those refineries also need to change, no longer working to produce as much fuel as possible but the other chemicals to be used in industrial process. Demand drops hugely, glut of oil, kills the price putting all the most expensive sources out of business. The US probably easily produces sufficient for manufacture so zero imports. A large glut on the market means other countries can become far more selective in who they will buy from. Basically fossil fuel income dependent nations are going to go bust bug time.
'ER' yes, if you use bit torrent you are uploading as well as downloading, that is the way it works and you should not share copyrighted content in that format unless you are licensed to do so. Downloading is not illegal, uploading is.