Stupid questions, people have already said to run it like Jury Duty. If you have a valid reason for being unable to serve (pregant, student, self-employed, terminally ill) then you can be made exempt.
Well government funding is extremely well-suited to endeavours that you do not want to be tied to a profit motive. Healthcare, military, and education are perfect examples.
High-quality unbiased journalism fits the same category, and is a "public good". The BBC model is a very good one (not quite perfect). It relies on a "tax" of sorts, but it's legally structured in such a way that it is not beholden to the government in any way and is not a state news service.
(If you're from the USA you might have different views on what government should fund)
Facebook should not be the arbiter of what is "true.
To an extent you're right. But facebook is the arbiter of what is popular. Incendiary, outrageous and controversial things make for more clicks. If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.
"healthy food is expensive" is a lie for the most part. It just takes slightly longer to make than an instant meal.
In the UK you can get a bag of 7 or 8 carrots for 60p, a bunch of bananas for less than £1, a bag of onions for less than £1, most vegetables are very cheap. Some fruit are expensive but that depends on the season. You might be talking £1.60 for a bag of bananas.
1kg of lentils for less than £2. 1kg of chopped tomatoes for less than £3. 1kg of spinach for less than £3.
Fruit and vegetables are absurdly cheap these days.
Sure for the same cost of all of that you can get 25 packets of cheap, barely flavoured noodles. Or you could buy half the noodles, a load of cheap vegetables, and make up a nutritious dinner.
I've called lots of companies for various reasons. Almost always they have an automated IVR system up front, and never do they disclose that it isn't a human you're speaking to.
Granted, it's usually obvious very quickly that it's automated, but there's still no disclosure.
In the UK I think they use their own keys. You have to provide your name, some other misc. items like phone number, date of birth and your postal address history. They use a combination of a lot of data items to point to "you".
This has some problems, but seems to work well enough. I also dislike them intensely and don't trust them at all, just FYI.
Most of the western EU countries are already 90% of the way to GDPR compliance with their existing Data Protection legislation.
GDPR will cost large corporations money for failing to comply, again they should be mostly compliant anyway thanks to existing legislation. GDPR just harmonises it all and gives powers back to individuals.
Brand new countries (like the USA, relatively speaking) can easily codify their constitution into a single item. But for the ones that have been around in one form or another for over a thousand years, it's harder to scrap the unwritten constitution and create a new one.
I made this same mistake in the UK when the Brexit vote happened....
I thought "who would possibly vote for this nonsense" - I live in one of the 7 or so large cities in the country and mistakenly projected my experiences onto the population at large.
I forgot about the other 60 - 70% of the country that lived outside of metropolitan areas, and didn't have a working understand of their wants, hopes, fears or perceptions.
And now we're economically fucking ourselves over, I have taken the time to understand them and where they're coming from.
Jeez there's a lot of Whataboutism on every single article on here these days. Is it new? Or am I just noticing it more?
@Parent: How about you, instead, tell us what you actually think about the mass harvesting, potential abuse, and resale of people's personal information - how does it make you feel? Do you think it's a problem? If so, do you think there are any solutions?
Me? It make me feel very uncomfortable, and I think we need legal mechanisms in place to take control over our data from these parties - even if we misguidedly gave some control away in the past, usually by having our trust betrayed or being bamboozled by small-print and legal linguistics.
This sort of crap is exactly why 1. I'm really glad that legislation like the GDPR in the EU is coming along to begin to allow us to take control of our data. Might not be perfect but a good start. As I read it, this wouldn't be allowed without explicit consent between the owner of the car and whatever advertising company ran this (burying it in an EULA doesn't count)
but simultaneously I'm 2. really annoyed that my dipshit government and uninformed co-citizens voted to take my country out of the EU:-( at least we'll get a few years of the GDPR to see how that works out.
Your local corner shops probably didn't employee addiction specialists, teams of psychologists, design their stores in such a way that subliminally pressured you, buy databases of information about you and harvest even more just in an effort to sell you these things.
CRISPR is already super cheap (in relative terms), it's extremely simple and doesn't require enormous expenditure to set up and run. economies of scale would materialise almost instantly and a minimum wage worker could afford, in a year or two, to give his kids the same advantages rich dickheads do.
It may actually become an equaliser. The lie that we're all born with the same opportunities could be whittled down some and made real by this.
So which phone manufacturer is making a profit from mining our data then? Considering that Android connects to Google's services (encrypted of course.), not Samsung or HTC or Huauwei.
Breakdowns of iPhone "R&D" costs and the internal hardware always show an enormous profit margin for them, 69% in the case of the iPhone 6.
That doesn't dilute the value of Tim Cook's arguments though.
You can't effectively market the absence of a negative claim from the anti-GM hystericals "Absolutely doesn't cause cancer!" is not the sort of thing that will cause harmless salmon to fly off the shelves.
If by "suddenly drop" you mean "give six months to a year notice and a way to export all of your information to migrate to another service" - then yes, they often do that when retiring products they don't want to continue.
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Stupid questions, people have already said to run it like Jury Duty. If you have a valid reason for being unable to serve (pregant, student, self-employed, terminally ill) then you can be made exempt.
Automation doesn't make things cheaper anymore. It increases profits, and that's the biggest reason any company invests in it...
Well government funding is extremely well-suited to endeavours that you do not want to be tied to a profit motive. Healthcare, military, and education are perfect examples.
High-quality unbiased journalism fits the same category, and is a "public good". The BBC model is a very good one (not quite perfect). It relies on a "tax" of sorts, but it's legally structured in such a way that it is not beholden to the government in any way and is not a state news service.
(If you're from the USA you might have different views on what government should fund)
As Megol mentions, no that's not the reason at all.
The first company to develop an effective HIV/AIDS vaccine will make an enormous amount of money quickly.
To an extent you're right. But facebook is the arbiter of what is popular. Incendiary, outrageous and controversial things make for more clicks. If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.
"So people simply stopped reading news because Google went away?"
Pretty much yes, the loss was a loss in total traffic/viewer, directly attributed to Google News going away.
"healthy food is expensive" is a lie for the most part. It just takes slightly longer to make than an instant meal.
In the UK you can get a bag of 7 or 8 carrots for 60p, a bunch of bananas for less than £1, a bag of onions for less than £1, most vegetables are very cheap. Some fruit are expensive but that depends on the season. You might be talking £1.60 for a bag of bananas.
1kg of lentils for less than £2. 1kg of chopped tomatoes for less than £3. 1kg of spinach for less than £3.
Fruit and vegetables are absurdly cheap these days.
Sure for the same cost of all of that you can get 25 packets of cheap, barely flavoured noodles. Or you could buy half the noodles, a load of cheap vegetables, and make up a nutritious dinner.
High-speed rail is a reality and has been for a over 50 years.
I've called lots of companies for various reasons. Almost always they have an automated IVR system up front, and never do they disclose that it isn't a human you're speaking to.
Granted, it's usually obvious very quickly that it's automated, but there's still no disclosure.
(I agree it should be disclosed though.)
I dunno
In the UK I think they use their own keys. You have to provide your name, some other misc. items like phone number, date of birth and your postal address history. They use a combination of a lot of data items to point to "you".
This has some problems, but seems to work well enough. I also dislike them intensely and don't trust them at all, just FYI.
Most of the western EU countries are already 90% of the way to GDPR compliance with their existing Data Protection legislation.
GDPR will cost large corporations money for failing to comply, again they should be mostly compliant anyway thanks to existing legislation. GDPR just harmonises it all and gives powers back to individuals.
The UK has a constitution. It's just not a single, written document.
Brand new countries (like the USA, relatively speaking) can easily codify their constitution into a single item. But for the ones that have been around in one form or another for over a thousand years, it's harder to scrap the unwritten constitution and create a new one.
I made this same mistake in the UK when the Brexit vote happened....
I thought "who would possibly vote for this nonsense" - I live in one of the 7 or so large cities in the country and mistakenly projected my experiences onto the population at large.
I forgot about the other 60 - 70% of the country that lived outside of metropolitan areas, and didn't have a working understand of their wants, hopes, fears or perceptions.
And now we're economically fucking ourselves over, I have taken the time to understand them and where they're coming from.
It was already taken for an existing constellation
Jeez there's a lot of Whataboutism on every single article on here these days. Is it new? Or am I just noticing it more?
@Parent: How about you, instead, tell us what you actually think about the mass harvesting, potential abuse, and resale of people's personal information - how does it make you feel? Do you think it's a problem? If so, do you think there are any solutions?
Me? It make me feel very uncomfortable, and I think we need legal mechanisms in place to take control over our data from these parties - even if we misguidedly gave some control away in the past, usually by having our trust betrayed or being bamboozled by small-print and legal linguistics.
This sort of crap is exactly why 1. I'm really glad that legislation like the GDPR in the EU is coming along to begin to allow us to take control of our data. Might not be perfect but a good start. As I read it, this wouldn't be allowed without explicit consent between the owner of the car and whatever advertising company ran this (burying it in an EULA doesn't count)
but simultaneously I'm 2. really annoyed that my dipshit government and uninformed co-citizens voted to take my country out of the EU :-( at least we'll get a few years of the GDPR to see how that works out.
It's probably only a difference of degrees.
Your local corner shops probably didn't employee addiction specialists, teams of psychologists, design their stores in such a way that subliminally pressured you, buy databases of information about you and harvest even more just in an effort to sell you these things.
Guillotines, last time this happened in the west.
No, he didn't.
You'd need to pass the app's security too. If you're able to do that then yeah, you're right you can go to an ATM and withdraw the money.
You can also do anything else you want with the bank account.
If someone has rooted your phone and has your online banking credentials, this ATM scheme is the least of your problems.
CRISPR is already super cheap (in relative terms), it's extremely simple and doesn't require enormous expenditure to set up and run. economies of scale would materialise almost instantly and a minimum wage worker could afford, in a year or two, to give his kids the same advantages rich dickheads do.
It may actually become an equaliser. The lie that we're all born with the same opportunities could be whittled down some and made real by this.
So which phone manufacturer is making a profit from mining our data then? Considering that Android connects to Google's services (encrypted of course.), not Samsung or HTC or Huauwei.
Breakdowns of iPhone "R&D" costs and the internal hardware always show an enormous profit margin for them, 69% in the case of the iPhone 6.
That doesn't dilute the value of Tim Cook's arguments though.
You can't effectively market the absence of a negative claim from the anti-GM hystericals "Absolutely doesn't cause cancer!" is not the sort of thing that will cause harmless salmon to fly off the shelves.
"Muslim" isn't a race.
If by "suddenly drop" you mean "give six months to a year notice and a way to export all of your information to migrate to another service" - then yes, they often do that when retiring products they don't want to continue.