Plus of course you are not poisoning people with toxic exhaust fumes. That always has to be the focus of government, who impacts whom. So we used to have incinerators to burn rubbish at home, they were banned, gone because they impacted the population. The same thing with fossil fuel engines, what gives you the right to pollute your neighbours with your exhaust, nothing, hence taking it away becomes easy.
As for the great calamity, well, you can expect they will not do it until electric vehicles become cheap enough, so 10 years, little tight, probably more like 20. There is a real numbers issue buried in the change over. As fossil fuel numbers drop so fuel stations become more uneconomic and need to charge more, this impacts further sales of fossil fuel cars. Then manufacturers have to make real hard decisions when to drop them because regulated warranty periods and the requirement to produce spare parts for those engines in existence when they are not making any more for new cars (so for them seeking regulatory assistance and subsidise for conversion kits rather than being forced to continue to produce spare parts for fossil fuel engines under warranty, makes sense).
It is starting off slow but it will accelerate at the end and that is that. Complain all they want but it is inevitable.
At lot of the times that censorship is nothing to do with the sound management of government but corruption and hence economics at the core. All sorts of excuses arise but the reality is often nothing more than greed. So Russian corporations piss in the Russian governments ear about foreign competition, so they come up with excuses to cripple which in censorship technically but really is just economic censorship. This is not mom and pop store stuff, this is billions of dollars corporate stuff. Not the Russians making it happen but the US government making it happen via their abuses at all levels. Nobody trusts anybody and all digital infrastructure will inevitably be localised but in light of the abuses by the US government, it is a sound and logical thing to do (not that Russia or China or the UK are any better behaved but all face the same risk from each other).
Of course the pretty clear lesson of global warming today and rising sea levels, pretty much a demonstration of what the lost lands were. Coastal plains flooded underneath the end of the ice age sea level rise of around 120m https://www.giss.nasa.gov/rese... (look they are finally using metric, good on you NASA). This substantiated by underwater caves with stalagmites and stalactites and well as cores of all major coral reefs proving that they were totally destroyed as marine biospheres when they were something like 100m above sea level and a couple of kilometres inland.
Want to know what humanity was up to for 20,000 thousands year, something like 10,000 years ago, then you got to look underwater and under 10,000 of mud to find out. You might think inland could provide information but people live next to rivers and those rivers would have been flooded like no ones business by melting ice. People of course would have added to the destruction ie coastal people aggressively moving inland in spite of the populations already there. There is probably a whole world of under water archaeology to explore 120m down, or more likely 110m and under 10m of mud, across large portions of the planet.
Plus the most likely reality, they found it was way too insecure, when combined with phone payment systems. Probably wouldn't have affected smart secure users but your typical mug punter, running as insecurely as possible for convenience, likely a major security issue. The more you can spend with a phone the greater the security risk it becomes, especially in conjunction with wireless access. Really all payment system should require a physical connection with the payment authorisation device. Likely the best bet, a secured usb device, that you can attach to your body, maybe a ring or watch or pendant, that contains biometric data, that can be compared with your presence or your password. Wireless will always be really insecure becuase you can so readily intercept the communications in both directions for analysis. Hard to break but break it once and you can then break it millions of times.
How about a does of reality, Many years ago it was a gig economy across the board, as a result of abuses unions were formed. Guess who is going to make a major comeback. Goes how violent the corporate reaction will be and guess who will be using the national guard and out of control law enforcers to kill unionists, until the corporations finally accept defeat. Their greed and ego demand they kill to retain total power and they will do it, right up until they lose and this time and bunch of them will end up in prison.
Of course your entire anonymous claim could just be a typical PR lie. Hmm, 5% of wages as union dues, grabbed an example https://www.atpe.org/en/Member.... So teachers in the US are paid $174 divided by 0.05 equals $3,500 per year, wow, that's low. You know every time I read any anti-union story with huge exaggerations, I take that to be a PR douche bag paid by corporations. So lets see all the examples where workers pay 5% of the wages as union dues, surely there must be thousands of them.
So simply require that they put it back for emergency purpose, it's called regulation in the public interest. Why would you think it would be bad for the government to be able to broadcast to the public in times of emergency. It's kind of common sense, especially in light of the growing number of weather based disasters. Instead you applaud, it cost $5, people should shut up and die instead, that's GOD blessed profit, just ask the majority of US politicians.
Speaking of lies, do you think, maybe, just maybe mind you, the collapse of middle class incomes and jobs, just might have something possibly to do with it. Democrats and Republicans funnelling money from the middle class and working class, to the 1% might cause problems with stores that sell to the middle and working class ie less customers with less money. Why are they blaming Amazon, misdirection, and people are buying into it. I go to click and mortar to buy now and get service but only because I can afford it.
American propaganda about Russian click bait, this from a click bait article. Everyone does it, it is really annoying and this click bait rubbish should be kerbed but the bullshit propaganda and the silly modding, is too much fun to just let go. They are convincing no one of nothing, only the idiots who already buy into it and accept it, one great big ole circle jerk. Hey propagandist idiot, you know what the number one biggest indicater of a government propagandist is, FIRST POST MORON, yeah your are sitting their waiting as a professional propagandist to get first post because it makes you stand out and look fucking stupid. You are meant to be more subtle, you know trying to trick people, use guile and not be idiotically arrogant.
It's de rigueur for paid PR twonks to camp out forums and be first posters, no one buys it, it is super recognisable, only arrogance and stupidity keep it going. Owhhh look, we got first post, everyone will believe what we say, ohhh ahhh. Lets see the ads and who paid for them, the lame arse click bait stories about lame arse click bait ads. That the US government now plays the click bait game is just pathetic but too be expected and it just makes the US look worse and worse. The whole world sees this, not just the idiotic US market and the US is losing support globally as a result but keep playing your idiot games, it is really fun to poke holes in it and in the US deep state and shadow government egos.
It's called security, how secure will the device be, when hacked what will be uploaded to the internet. Do you trust Amazon with your future career, this on a $130 device with a 90 day warranty and if porn goes up of you and your partner what will be the warranty payout when you are fired, maximum $130. You say all sorts of crap in the bedroom, want that broadcast to your employer or even more fun, you children's friend sharing it in school because kids, you know they will do it too each other and of course do it to you. How about if a grounded child decided to get revenge. Good luck with that.
Wake up to reality, Los Angeles is one the leading smog capitals of the world. Banning the infernal combustion engine in major metropolitan areas, easy sell. Want to get your engine racing, use porn, instead of an idiotic load car exhaust and being a pretend racer in the city. Clear air to breath moron, you know how easy that will be to sell, smog free city substantially increasing property values, you know how easy that will be to sell, forcing replacement of motor vehicles, you know how easy that will be to sell to automotive manufacturers. So they lose the idiot street racer vote with their large car exhausts, oh wow and not to forget, those idiots are already far right wingers, so they lose nothing.
Ohh fuck off, with the Russia bullshit. Why is it really, really smart for the Russian government to ban Facebook because you fucking nut burgers, it means local Russian companies will be able to snag that market, money stays in the country rather than raising debt, any fucking excuse can do and it is the smart thing to do. Simply cripple foreign web companies with bans to promote local development and hugely reduce revenue drain especially when those companies cheat on taxes like no other.
It makes sound economic sense for all countries governments to interfere with the early start advantage of foreign companies, to promote local development. Those foreign companies are disruptive economic drain that bring very little to local economies, very few jobs, and are the biggest tax cheats, so bad across the board, they just syphon money out of the economy to of all places, no where else but tax havens across the planet.
It is sound economic practice to cripple foreign internet companies with all sorts of bans, it really is. So data must be stored locally, no data can be exported, all foreign advertisement must be locally regulated, local servers must serve local users, anything you can come up to disadvantage foreign internet companies with their tax haven shenanigans, it sound economic practice and suck it up people, it will happen more and more and people will accept it.
Dyson the Apple of vacuum cleaners. Most of their money is spent on creating an image and not on making vacuum cleaners. In terms of marketing, there are sound logical reason why Dyson should not make cars under that brand, it will be forever tainted with, "it sucks", no matter how much they spend, it will simply be crippled in branding terms.
The big problem for Dyson, Tesla and not Tesla itself but the prod on Tesla has created in the rest of the automotive market. Dyson will not be competing against Tesla in reality but against all the other car manufacturers playing catch up with Tesla, a tidal wave of competition, simply too late to the party.
The only market really left to gain early advantage, electric tricycles (a market likely to expand quite significantly, they bring easy ride ability to the motorbike market at very low cost vs cars), although plenty of really small players, still a major market to crack and gain a leading edge in but if Tesla gets there first, than they will kick the rest into competitive mode and again competition becomes really hard.
Nope, the Washington post is a willing participant in fraud. Note the sneaky bit in the story, c'mon people, stop and think. Facebook delivers individual content to individual people, how that content is filtered and delivered is the Facebook system. So pay attention to that, so how does Facebook deliver ads, individually, not collectively. Each individual gets served an ad, so thousands of ads, get it, see, tricky fraudulent fuckers. They spend one hundred thousand dollars to sell some crap related to that, what where they selling, CLICK BAIT, they were advertising CLICK BAIT. Spread an inflammatory issue to get people to click it. Seriously have/.ers become that stupid. Facebook will sell any kind of crap ad for all kinds of shit and the bulk of it CLICK BAIT. For fuck sake your are letting yourself get sucked in by arts student morons, fucking hell.
Liar, Liar, pants of fire. Don't be a lying ass hat propagandist. Don't listen to the liar, you do not have to take responsibility for the actions of others, they claim to have to right to provide content and they sell it to you in exchange for watching advertisements. Of course downloading is not sharing, sharing is uploading. So don't upload because then they will pursue you but you can download (without having to go to their office to personally review all their contracts for each bit of content to make sure it is legal but don't forget to take copies because you would have to substantiate each contract with each content holder, might be easier if you hire a team of lawyers to do it for you) because it is other people doing the naughty stuff. Why lie on slashdot, why waste propaganda mods, you just look like idiot clowns on maximum show plus 5 LAME. Downloading is not piracy, uploading is piracy, downloading is just watching content in exchange for viewing ads, the free to air TV model.
Dude, what do you not understand. People are just pissed off because you are filling science fiction, with utterly boring and to them unwatchable, SJW bullshit. BORING, what the hell do you not understand, boring, boring, boring. You are the snowflake that wants that sensitivity bullshit, they want stories about the future of science, that is the fucking is is called science fiction and not soap operas set in the future, SCIENCE fiction, you twit. I do not watch soap because they might hurt my feeling, I don't watch soap operas because of find them pathetically boring (you would have to pay me, to watch that shite and a whole fucking lot).
Well, the science fiction premise, is that you are in a warp bubble and the light you see is the interaction of radiation from stars interacting with that warp bubble. So to hold to the expressed fiction, it should tend to streak and there should be a visible appearance of being in a ellipsoid bubble. You do understand the difference between science fiction and science fact, I know that whole sy fy rubbish is confusing, what the fuck is it even meant to stand for.
Keep in mind space is not empty, full of matter, ever stellar system tossing charged particles out as a result of stellar activity. Worried about being struck by light, meteorites travelling at speeds greater than the speed of light (relativity, who is travelling, your or the meteorite) are going to do shit load more damage that a photon. So the further premise of the bubble is that it takes up no space in the universe but creates that space within the bubble itself, once the bubble is active, it effectively becomes infinitely thin, quantum space thin, relative to the universe it was created in and remains so, until the bubble collapses. I remind you again, science fiction not science fact. You need to stick to the internal logic of science fiction stories, what ever you choose it to be, the more you distort it with speed of warp equals speed of plot (really, really, lazy writing), the worse the story telling outcomes.
You can argue with people all you want but if they hate it, they still won't watch it. The cheetos crowd will watch anything. Sci fi lovers, need stories not sy fy bullshit. When they try to stick cheetos crap on sci fi lovers, they end up pleasing no one. Trying to push sci fi on a larger audience, filling it with touchy feely crap, just puts of sci fi aficionado and the touchy feely types can get what they crave from soap operas without, to them, the science nonsense. They can show that broader appeal bullshit back where it came from. Want to make soap operas, make soap operas, what to make science fiction, than start telling stories about science in the future, try to do both at the same time and you make shite no one wants.
Obviously the US military is way too small to send radio operators with their equipment to help Americans living in Puerto Rico (they are citizens), perhaps you need to double the US military budget to 1.5 trillion or there about to be about to do it. The US has become an idiotic parody of itself, disaster capitalism, as for as the corporations are concerned, Puerto Rico must totally collapse so they can buy cents on the dollar, fix it and flip it, for billions in profit, to be wiped out by another global warming hurricane, they have already been bragging how this destruction helps generate profits and screw the people destroyed, they don't care one iota about that.
It likes this, people used to live in caves, monarchy used to keep power by publicly torturing to death any one who disagreed with them and wars were a common way for people to profit by plundering other people (well, that one still happens but only a few countries still do it ie USA). It is an criminal act, that leads to other criminal acts including extortion, further security issues, corruption of other countries democratic process, corruption of news services all over the globe, extremely disturbing associations with organised crime and not mercenary/security/espionage contractors actively foment conflict in order to sell more servers, actively lying and making up risks, in order to create the and sell their services.
You are aware of the extreme criminal nature of it, how it fosters organised crime in other countries, how they extort, bribe and kill foreign politicians and how it destroys democracies. Why is it news because "WE ARE FUCKING SICK OF IT", now do you get it. The number one player, the USA, the worst of them all, the USA, the most lethal and corrupt, the USA, no wonder you see not fault in it.
As already indicated, the 140 character limit was likely tied to the attention span of the typical twitter user. With Don Don the orange orangutan (POTUS why does they look like a swear word) as the star twitter user, it seems they should likely cut back from 140, rather than double it, with Don Don as the star twitter user, it's a wonder people have not yet realised they should be ashamed to use it, look who you twit like.
Not to forget, employers doing it, bit rough to charge staff but as part of the salary package, free charge top up, pretty cheap with great employee satisfaction. It really is a great opportunity to turn every car park in a commercial location into a revenue point.
Nah, you just know once the publicity is over they will shut it down to further fund the http://www.ausport.gov.au/ais for most other countries that S would stand for science but in Australia it stands for stupid and the I can't spell one hundred pounds but I can lift it crowd. Why, because of votes brought about by government subsidised sports advertising, so Australia main stream media ultimately makes the bulk of the money and in return they fund their favourite corrupt politicians, to further fund sports they can advertise with (keep in mind those jock strap douche bags would happily advertise tobacco and alchohol to minors as long as they are paid and they were only stopped by new regulations but those same arse holes still promote junk food they are unwilling to eat to minors, all over the place, all of the time). PS having an institute of sport where they are paid is cheating, they are no longer amateur athletes and should be collectively banned from amateur competitions, cheaters should never ever prosper.
Well, yes, Deep State and Shadow Government are running the US government. C'mon be serious, you seriously think that Don Don the Orange Orangutan is capable of running the US government, c'mon be serious, don't be silly. Where the hell do you think all those military generals and bank executives et al in the current administration came from (hint, hint, deep state and shadow government). Sure Don Don though it would be cool to turn the swamp into a jacuzzi for the rich and greedy because they like the smell of rotting faeces as the biggest POSs float to the top but the really crazy crap is all deep state and shadow government, which Trump hates but is forced to suffer or else and the all out corporate controlled main stream media attack until Trump he caved and toed the deep state, shadow government line, was all to public emphatic proof of that.
Make no mistake Trump did want to cut military spending and spend that money on infrastructure because that is where his profits come from but is was act strictly verbotten and to enforce that, they forced a major increase in US spending, greater than the entirety of Russian military spending and Trump had to suck it up or else (gutless coward could have just sicked the FBI on them and their power charade would have collapsed as soon as the arrests started). Don Don is nothing more now than an ignorant orange clown with a bad wig, tiny grabby hands and really crappy speech writers (in some crazy dick nuclear rocket contest with that fool from North Korea which just leaves Trump looking really stupid, argue with an idiot, like an idiot and yes you are an idiot).
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Plus of course you are not poisoning people with toxic exhaust fumes. That always has to be the focus of government, who impacts whom. So we used to have incinerators to burn rubbish at home, they were banned, gone because they impacted the population. The same thing with fossil fuel engines, what gives you the right to pollute your neighbours with your exhaust, nothing, hence taking it away becomes easy.
As for the great calamity, well, you can expect they will not do it until electric vehicles become cheap enough, so 10 years, little tight, probably more like 20. There is a real numbers issue buried in the change over. As fossil fuel numbers drop so fuel stations become more uneconomic and need to charge more, this impacts further sales of fossil fuel cars. Then manufacturers have to make real hard decisions when to drop them because regulated warranty periods and the requirement to produce spare parts for those engines in existence when they are not making any more for new cars (so for them seeking regulatory assistance and subsidise for conversion kits rather than being forced to continue to produce spare parts for fossil fuel engines under warranty, makes sense).
It is starting off slow but it will accelerate at the end and that is that. Complain all they want but it is inevitable.
At lot of the times that censorship is nothing to do with the sound management of government but corruption and hence economics at the core. All sorts of excuses arise but the reality is often nothing more than greed. So Russian corporations piss in the Russian governments ear about foreign competition, so they come up with excuses to cripple which in censorship technically but really is just economic censorship. This is not mom and pop store stuff, this is billions of dollars corporate stuff. Not the Russians making it happen but the US government making it happen via their abuses at all levels. Nobody trusts anybody and all digital infrastructure will inevitably be localised but in light of the abuses by the US government, it is a sound and logical thing to do (not that Russia or China or the UK are any better behaved but all face the same risk from each other).
The proof of this of course being your imagination. Nothing but a wild scheme by the Clinton Crime Clan to stay out of prison.
Of course the pretty clear lesson of global warming today and rising sea levels, pretty much a demonstration of what the lost lands were. Coastal plains flooded underneath the end of the ice age sea level rise of around 120m https://www.giss.nasa.gov/rese... (look they are finally using metric, good on you NASA). This substantiated by underwater caves with stalagmites and stalactites and well as cores of all major coral reefs proving that they were totally destroyed as marine biospheres when they were something like 100m above sea level and a couple of kilometres inland.
Want to know what humanity was up to for 20,000 thousands year, something like 10,000 years ago, then you got to look underwater and under 10,000 of mud to find out. You might think inland could provide information but people live next to rivers and those rivers would have been flooded like no ones business by melting ice. People of course would have added to the destruction ie coastal people aggressively moving inland in spite of the populations already there. There is probably a whole world of under water archaeology to explore 120m down, or more likely 110m and under 10m of mud, across large portions of the planet.
Plus the most likely reality, they found it was way too insecure, when combined with phone payment systems. Probably wouldn't have affected smart secure users but your typical mug punter, running as insecurely as possible for convenience, likely a major security issue. The more you can spend with a phone the greater the security risk it becomes, especially in conjunction with wireless access. Really all payment system should require a physical connection with the payment authorisation device. Likely the best bet, a secured usb device, that you can attach to your body, maybe a ring or watch or pendant, that contains biometric data, that can be compared with your presence or your password. Wireless will always be really insecure becuase you can so readily intercept the communications in both directions for analysis. Hard to break but break it once and you can then break it millions of times.
How about a does of reality, Many years ago it was a gig economy across the board, as a result of abuses unions were formed. Guess who is going to make a major comeback. Goes how violent the corporate reaction will be and guess who will be using the national guard and out of control law enforcers to kill unionists, until the corporations finally accept defeat. Their greed and ego demand they kill to retain total power and they will do it, right up until they lose and this time and bunch of them will end up in prison.
Of course your entire anonymous claim could just be a typical PR lie. Hmm, 5% of wages as union dues, grabbed an example https://www.atpe.org/en/Member.... So teachers in the US are paid $174 divided by 0.05 equals $3,500 per year, wow, that's low. You know every time I read any anti-union story with huge exaggerations, I take that to be a PR douche bag paid by corporations. So lets see all the examples where workers pay 5% of the wages as union dues, surely there must be thousands of them.
So simply require that they put it back for emergency purpose, it's called regulation in the public interest. Why would you think it would be bad for the government to be able to broadcast to the public in times of emergency. It's kind of common sense, especially in light of the growing number of weather based disasters. Instead you applaud, it cost $5, people should shut up and die instead, that's GOD blessed profit, just ask the majority of US politicians.
Speaking of lies, do you think, maybe, just maybe mind you, the collapse of middle class incomes and jobs, just might have something possibly to do with it. Democrats and Republicans funnelling money from the middle class and working class, to the 1% might cause problems with stores that sell to the middle and working class ie less customers with less money. Why are they blaming Amazon, misdirection, and people are buying into it. I go to click and mortar to buy now and get service but only because I can afford it.
American propaganda about Russian click bait, this from a click bait article. Everyone does it, it is really annoying and this click bait rubbish should be kerbed but the bullshit propaganda and the silly modding, is too much fun to just let go. They are convincing no one of nothing, only the idiots who already buy into it and accept it, one great big ole circle jerk. Hey propagandist idiot, you know what the number one biggest indicater of a government propagandist is, FIRST POST MORON, yeah your are sitting their waiting as a professional propagandist to get first post because it makes you stand out and look fucking stupid. You are meant to be more subtle, you know trying to trick people, use guile and not be idiotically arrogant.
It's de rigueur for paid PR twonks to camp out forums and be first posters, no one buys it, it is super recognisable, only arrogance and stupidity keep it going. Owhhh look, we got first post, everyone will believe what we say, ohhh ahhh. Lets see the ads and who paid for them, the lame arse click bait stories about lame arse click bait ads. That the US government now plays the click bait game is just pathetic but too be expected and it just makes the US look worse and worse. The whole world sees this, not just the idiotic US market and the US is losing support globally as a result but keep playing your idiot games, it is really fun to poke holes in it and in the US deep state and shadow government egos.
It's called security, how secure will the device be, when hacked what will be uploaded to the internet. Do you trust Amazon with your future career, this on a $130 device with a 90 day warranty and if porn goes up of you and your partner what will be the warranty payout when you are fired, maximum $130. You say all sorts of crap in the bedroom, want that broadcast to your employer or even more fun, you children's friend sharing it in school because kids, you know they will do it too each other and of course do it to you. How about if a grounded child decided to get revenge. Good luck with that.
Wake up to reality, Los Angeles is one the leading smog capitals of the world. Banning the infernal combustion engine in major metropolitan areas, easy sell. Want to get your engine racing, use porn, instead of an idiotic load car exhaust and being a pretend racer in the city. Clear air to breath moron, you know how easy that will be to sell, smog free city substantially increasing property values, you know how easy that will be to sell, forcing replacement of motor vehicles, you know how easy that will be to sell to automotive manufacturers. So they lose the idiot street racer vote with their large car exhausts, oh wow and not to forget, those idiots are already far right wingers, so they lose nothing.
Ohh fuck off, with the Russia bullshit. Why is it really, really smart for the Russian government to ban Facebook because you fucking nut burgers, it means local Russian companies will be able to snag that market, money stays in the country rather than raising debt, any fucking excuse can do and it is the smart thing to do. Simply cripple foreign web companies with bans to promote local development and hugely reduce revenue drain especially when those companies cheat on taxes like no other.
It makes sound economic sense for all countries governments to interfere with the early start advantage of foreign companies, to promote local development. Those foreign companies are disruptive economic drain that bring very little to local economies, very few jobs, and are the biggest tax cheats, so bad across the board, they just syphon money out of the economy to of all places, no where else but tax havens across the planet.
It is sound economic practice to cripple foreign internet companies with all sorts of bans, it really is. So data must be stored locally, no data can be exported, all foreign advertisement must be locally regulated, local servers must serve local users, anything you can come up to disadvantage foreign internet companies with their tax haven shenanigans, it sound economic practice and suck it up people, it will happen more and more and people will accept it.
Dyson the Apple of vacuum cleaners. Most of their money is spent on creating an image and not on making vacuum cleaners. In terms of marketing, there are sound logical reason why Dyson should not make cars under that brand, it will be forever tainted with, "it sucks", no matter how much they spend, it will simply be crippled in branding terms.
The big problem for Dyson, Tesla and not Tesla itself but the prod on Tesla has created in the rest of the automotive market. Dyson will not be competing against Tesla in reality but against all the other car manufacturers playing catch up with Tesla, a tidal wave of competition, simply too late to the party.
The only market really left to gain early advantage, electric tricycles (a market likely to expand quite significantly, they bring easy ride ability to the motorbike market at very low cost vs cars), although plenty of really small players, still a major market to crack and gain a leading edge in but if Tesla gets there first, than they will kick the rest into competitive mode and again competition becomes really hard.
Nope, the Washington post is a willing participant in fraud. Note the sneaky bit in the story, c'mon people, stop and think. Facebook delivers individual content to individual people, how that content is filtered and delivered is the Facebook system. So pay attention to that, so how does Facebook deliver ads, individually, not collectively. Each individual gets served an ad, so thousands of ads, get it, see, tricky fraudulent fuckers. They spend one hundred thousand dollars to sell some crap related to that, what where they selling, CLICK BAIT, they were advertising CLICK BAIT. Spread an inflammatory issue to get people to click it. Seriously have /.ers become that stupid. Facebook will sell any kind of crap ad for all kinds of shit and the bulk of it CLICK BAIT. For fuck sake your are letting yourself get sucked in by arts student morons, fucking hell.
Liar, Liar, pants of fire. Don't be a lying ass hat propagandist. Don't listen to the liar, you do not have to take responsibility for the actions of others, they claim to have to right to provide content and they sell it to you in exchange for watching advertisements. Of course downloading is not sharing, sharing is uploading. So don't upload because then they will pursue you but you can download (without having to go to their office to personally review all their contracts for each bit of content to make sure it is legal but don't forget to take copies because you would have to substantiate each contract with each content holder, might be easier if you hire a team of lawyers to do it for you) because it is other people doing the naughty stuff. Why lie on slashdot, why waste propaganda mods, you just look like idiot clowns on maximum show plus 5 LAME. Downloading is not piracy, uploading is piracy, downloading is just watching content in exchange for viewing ads, the free to air TV model.
Dude, what do you not understand. People are just pissed off because you are filling science fiction, with utterly boring and to them unwatchable, SJW bullshit. BORING, what the hell do you not understand, boring, boring, boring. You are the snowflake that wants that sensitivity bullshit, they want stories about the future of science, that is the fucking is is called science fiction and not soap operas set in the future, SCIENCE fiction, you twit. I do not watch soap because they might hurt my feeling, I don't watch soap operas because of find them pathetically boring (you would have to pay me, to watch that shite and a whole fucking lot).
Well, the science fiction premise, is that you are in a warp bubble and the light you see is the interaction of radiation from stars interacting with that warp bubble. So to hold to the expressed fiction, it should tend to streak and there should be a visible appearance of being in a ellipsoid bubble. You do understand the difference between science fiction and science fact, I know that whole sy fy rubbish is confusing, what the fuck is it even meant to stand for.
Keep in mind space is not empty, full of matter, ever stellar system tossing charged particles out as a result of stellar activity. Worried about being struck by light, meteorites travelling at speeds greater than the speed of light (relativity, who is travelling, your or the meteorite) are going to do shit load more damage that a photon. So the further premise of the bubble is that it takes up no space in the universe but creates that space within the bubble itself, once the bubble is active, it effectively becomes infinitely thin, quantum space thin, relative to the universe it was created in and remains so, until the bubble collapses. I remind you again, science fiction not science fact. You need to stick to the internal logic of science fiction stories, what ever you choose it to be, the more you distort it with speed of warp equals speed of plot (really, really, lazy writing), the worse the story telling outcomes.
You can argue with people all you want but if they hate it, they still won't watch it. The cheetos crowd will watch anything. Sci fi lovers, need stories not sy fy bullshit. When they try to stick cheetos crap on sci fi lovers, they end up pleasing no one. Trying to push sci fi on a larger audience, filling it with touchy feely crap, just puts of sci fi aficionado and the touchy feely types can get what they crave from soap operas without, to them, the science nonsense. They can show that broader appeal bullshit back where it came from. Want to make soap operas, make soap operas, what to make science fiction, than start telling stories about science in the future, try to do both at the same time and you make shite no one wants.
Obviously the US military is way too small to send radio operators with their equipment to help Americans living in Puerto Rico (they are citizens), perhaps you need to double the US military budget to 1.5 trillion or there about to be about to do it. The US has become an idiotic parody of itself, disaster capitalism, as for as the corporations are concerned, Puerto Rico must totally collapse so they can buy cents on the dollar, fix it and flip it, for billions in profit, to be wiped out by another global warming hurricane, they have already been bragging how this destruction helps generate profits and screw the people destroyed, they don't care one iota about that.
It likes this, people used to live in caves, monarchy used to keep power by publicly torturing to death any one who disagreed with them and wars were a common way for people to profit by plundering other people (well, that one still happens but only a few countries still do it ie USA). It is an criminal act, that leads to other criminal acts including extortion, further security issues, corruption of other countries democratic process, corruption of news services all over the globe, extremely disturbing associations with organised crime and not mercenary/security/espionage contractors actively foment conflict in order to sell more servers, actively lying and making up risks, in order to create the and sell their services.
You are aware of the extreme criminal nature of it, how it fosters organised crime in other countries, how they extort, bribe and kill foreign politicians and how it destroys democracies. Why is it news because "WE ARE FUCKING SICK OF IT", now do you get it. The number one player, the USA, the worst of them all, the USA, the most lethal and corrupt, the USA, no wonder you see not fault in it.
As already indicated, the 140 character limit was likely tied to the attention span of the typical twitter user. With Don Don the orange orangutan (POTUS why does they look like a swear word) as the star twitter user, it seems they should likely cut back from 140, rather than double it, with Don Don as the star twitter user, it's a wonder people have not yet realised they should be ashamed to use it, look who you twit like.
Not to forget, employers doing it, bit rough to charge staff but as part of the salary package, free charge top up, pretty cheap with great employee satisfaction. It really is a great opportunity to turn every car park in a commercial location into a revenue point.
Nah, you just know once the publicity is over they will shut it down to further fund the http://www.ausport.gov.au/ais for most other countries that S would stand for science but in Australia it stands for stupid and the I can't spell one hundred pounds but I can lift it crowd. Why, because of votes brought about by government subsidised sports advertising, so Australia main stream media ultimately makes the bulk of the money and in return they fund their favourite corrupt politicians, to further fund sports they can advertise with (keep in mind those jock strap douche bags would happily advertise tobacco and alchohol to minors as long as they are paid and they were only stopped by new regulations but those same arse holes still promote junk food they are unwilling to eat to minors, all over the place, all of the time). PS having an institute of sport where they are paid is cheating, they are no longer amateur athletes and should be collectively banned from amateur competitions, cheaters should never ever prosper.
Well, yes, Deep State and Shadow Government are running the US government. C'mon be serious, you seriously think that Don Don the Orange Orangutan is capable of running the US government, c'mon be serious, don't be silly. Where the hell do you think all those military generals and bank executives et al in the current administration came from (hint, hint, deep state and shadow government). Sure Don Don though it would be cool to turn the swamp into a jacuzzi for the rich and greedy because they like the smell of rotting faeces as the biggest POSs float to the top but the really crazy crap is all deep state and shadow government, which Trump hates but is forced to suffer or else and the all out corporate controlled main stream media attack until Trump he caved and toed the deep state, shadow government line, was all to public emphatic proof of that.
Make no mistake Trump did want to cut military spending and spend that money on infrastructure because that is where his profits come from but is was act strictly verbotten and to enforce that, they forced a major increase in US spending, greater than the entirety of Russian military spending and Trump had to suck it up or else (gutless coward could have just sicked the FBI on them and their power charade would have collapsed as soon as the arrests started). Don Don is nothing more now than an ignorant orange clown with a bad wig, tiny grabby hands and really crappy speech writers (in some crazy dick nuclear rocket contest with that fool from North Korea which just leaves Trump looking really stupid, argue with an idiot, like an idiot and yes you are an idiot).