If you have cable, you can see that choices are really NOT greater.
Nearly all shows on cable are re-run so much that there is nearly nothing - NOTHING - new to watch most of the time.
Thus, there is diminished value these days compared to 2000 - and at a higher cost.
And with that idiot Ajit Pai's conformance with this administrations war on badly needed regulations, it will get worse.
Our famous capitalistic society is quickly turning into oligarcic dog-eat-dog unfair abuse.
800-pound-gorilla, elepahant-in-the-room too-big-to-fail corporations will only continue to get away with their abusive practices.
and, apparently, they have you fooled!
Remember the recent Wells Fargo crimes of fraud and gouging of clients w/ loans.
Now, imagine WF getting away with it in the future via blaming an error in the AI system.
We, the people still loose. WF gets away with it.
It seems a major no-brainer to have severe regulations on ANY AI being developed.
How about agreeing to stop the "evil Americans" propaganda, and actually reverse that?!
Most PRNK citizens believe that Americans are evil creatures bent on hurting them. They all want to kill, literally, all Americans (as the jihadist do).
Just as well. My ZTE smartphone ignores my settings anyway.
The more notifications and auto-whatever settings I disable, the MORE start running!
Now I have to turn my cell phone off when I sleep because I keep getting these STUPID notifications about stuff I disabled; thinking it is an emergency call!
W T F ? ! ? ! ?
We need: Opt-IN options, NOT opt-out, and remove tracking and info FULLY and WHEN REQUESTED.
Our privacy is paramount.
It'll keep things like Russian election hacking from have any significant effects.
I see freakin' social media links EVERYWHERE!
Who knows what (tentacles) those companies have injected into places.
For example: cookies.
I go online shopping for an item. Let's call it a power adapter for my cellphone.
I find what I need at a reasonable price, and order it. It arrives and works fine.
For the next MONTH, I am targeted ads for cellphone adapters!
Do ya think there something is missing here?!
This happens with every online purchase I make, even with cookies and tracking turned OFF!
If you want higher quality sound, then BUY A FEAKIN' CD/DVD!?
The novel return of vinyl LPs was to include the novel LP noise and quality.
Vinyl is no where near CD quality and versatility. LPs will NEVER make mainstream in mobile/automobile players.
Even CDs are going away in lieu of digital downloads and streams.
I will be selling short any vinyl stock I see. This is a mini-bust about to happen.
ALL outcomes of any algorithm will be reliant of the state of the constituent components;
actual states and those relative to their environment and (neighbors).
If you can duplicate those exact states and circumstances, you will get the same number.
Netflix was amenable to having their movies play on big screens in France, but a law in the country requires movies to not appear in home platforms for 36 months after their theatrical release.
Seems like waiting 3 years before selling a now-forgotten movie to individuals is like shooting one's self in the foot. Yes?
Allowing further distribution after having dwindled the theatrical runs seems a far better benefit for everyone here - producers (continued revenue stream) AND consumers (still have interest in a release, and likely at a cheaper viewing).
And what's wrong with allowing free speech - as long as the content has clear context?
Huffman is correct: there IS a difference between believing something and acting in a harmful way about it (behavior).
ANY attempt by ANY entity to infringe on our right to Freedom of Speech SHOULD be met with a loaded gun (oh - yeah, that other Right we have)!
Presenting unsubstantiated info is akin to lying if portrayed as truth without facts as proof.
Trump gets away with it by qualifying his false facts and lies with a phrase like "they are saying" or "I am hearing..."
This society (USA) is NOT a monarchy or a dictatorship (YET!), and our Rights should be defended to the death (preferably of the infringing party).
I will NOT be bullied out of my Rights.
There is a difference between "bullying" someone, and simply stating your opinion.
Stating facts about someone's shortcomings is not bullying. Grow up!
Oh, and one last thing: I think that anyone that voted for Trump is a foolish idiot. They need to wake up and see ALL the FACTS (not alternate facts).
- Do NOT click any links in any emails.
- Do NOT send money to any Nigerian prince needing help.
- And definitely do NOT put ANYTHING up on the web that you are NOT willing to have shared with any other party.
In case you haven't figured it out by now, trust very few people, and absolutely trust NO corporation or politician.
I had read that sound waves were the cause of the corona being hotter than the surface.
Not your conventional sound waves, yet a likeness caused by the roiling surface creating audio frequency waves through the plasma.
Also, how can anything survive millions of degrees of heat?!
I cannot think of anything that doen't melt at even the 5000C surface temperature of the Sun.
Makes little sense to me also.
Except that it might entice folks to check out Linux as a better alternative to Windows.
Then, perhaps, see the sense in skipping the kludgy Win OS altogether and install a pure, clean Linux.
It just seems wrong to study individuals just so you can design an ad that would better brainwash someone into buying your product.
It is quite disgusting even that ads, like those on TV, cater to some unrelated aspect to convince you their product would have anything to do with that.
Like car ads that focus on sexuality; obviously hoping you would buy a car to become someone you are not.
We have an obesity epidemic now because fast food companies have convinced you that you need 32 ounces of soda with those 2 huge burgers and fries - because the value is better than your health! WTF?!
How about advertisers actually work on better, honest descriptions of products so that we potential consumers can see the ACTUAL value of something and base our purchase on REAL facts.
It seems a far more mutually serving thing to present real facts and possibilities rather than finding ways to manipulate consumers into something we don't need or want.
This is how our society has gotten into trouble before time and time again.
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Bullshit on the intended premise here.
If you have cable, you can see that choices are really NOT greater.
Nearly all shows on cable are re-run so much that there is nearly nothing - NOTHING - new to watch most of the time.
Thus, there is diminished value these days compared to 2000 - and at a higher cost.
And with that idiot Ajit Pai's conformance with this administrations war on badly needed regulations, it will get worse.
Our famous capitalistic society is quickly turning into oligarcic dog-eat-dog unfair abuse.
800-pound-gorilla, elepahant-in-the-room too-big-to-fail corporations will only continue to get away with their abusive practices.
and, apparently, they have you fooled!
Would you please provide the WHOLE story?
How about including related info for all sides of this issue?!
How about bailing out coal industries via education for renewable resource applications?!
Remember the recent Wells Fargo crimes of fraud and gouging of clients w/ loans.
Now, imagine WF getting away with it in the future via blaming an error in the AI system.
We, the people still loose. WF gets away with it.
It seems a major no-brainer to have severe regulations on ANY AI being developed.
How about agreeing to stop the "evil Americans" propaganda, and actually reverse that?!
Most PRNK citizens believe that Americans are evil creatures bent on hurting them. They all want to kill, literally, all Americans (as the jihadist do).
Just as well. My ZTE smartphone ignores my settings anyway.
The more notifications and auto-whatever settings I disable, the MORE start running!
Now I have to turn my cell phone off when I sleep because I keep getting these STUPID notifications about stuff I disabled; thinking it is an emergency call!
W T F ? ! ? ! ?
Perhaps we can blame part of it on Trump, even if only indirectly (a man who has gotten ahead in life by saying asinine things).
You need to have been out of touch with reality in the first place to have voted for Trump.
Trump is just further perpetuating "fake realities"!
We need: Opt-IN options, NOT opt-out, and remove tracking and info FULLY and WHEN REQUESTED.
Our privacy is paramount.
It'll keep things like Russian election hacking from have any significant effects.
I see freakin' social media links EVERYWHERE!
Who knows what (tentacles) those companies have injected into places.
For example: cookies.
I go online shopping for an item. Let's call it a power adapter for my cellphone.
I find what I need at a reasonable price, and order it. It arrives and works fine.
For the next MONTH, I am targeted ads for cellphone adapters!
Do ya think there something is missing here?!
This happens with every online purchase I make, even with cookies and tracking turned OFF!
If you want higher quality sound, then BUY A FEAKIN' CD/DVD!?
The novel return of vinyl LPs was to include the novel LP noise and quality.
Vinyl is no where near CD quality and versatility. LPs will NEVER make mainstream in mobile/automobile players.
Even CDs are going away in lieu of digital downloads and streams.
I will be selling short any vinyl stock I see. This is a mini-bust about to happen.
What's to stop the delivery person from snatching back a pkg after delivery; using that pic as "proof"?
How is Amazon hurting the USPS? Seems to me that more pkgs is more revenue for the USPS.
"Delivery boy" is the USPS's job, is it not?
There is no such thing as a truly random number.
ALL outcomes of any algorithm will be reliant of the state of the constituent components;
actual states and those relative to their environment and (neighbors).
If you can duplicate those exact states and circumstances, you will get the same number.
Netflix was amenable to having their movies play on big screens in France, but a law in the country requires movies to not appear in home platforms for 36 months after their theatrical release.
Seems like waiting 3 years before selling a now-forgotten movie to individuals is like shooting one's self in the foot. Yes?
Allowing further distribution after having dwindled the theatrical runs seems a far better benefit for everyone here - producers (continued revenue stream) AND consumers (still have interest in a release, and likely at a cheaper viewing).
It should be obvious to any half-brained human that there are quite a few more factors that the hours when you sleep.
There was another study that showed it is best to sleep when you are tired. i.e. following your own body's rhythm.
Adequate rest WHEN you need it does NOT care when you take it. Period.
And what's wrong with allowing free speech - as long as the content has clear context?
Huffman is correct: there IS a difference between believing something and acting in a harmful way about it (behavior).
ANY attempt by ANY entity to infringe on our right to Freedom of Speech SHOULD be met with a loaded gun (oh - yeah, that other Right we have)!
Presenting unsubstantiated info is akin to lying if portrayed as truth without facts as proof.
Trump gets away with it by qualifying his false facts and lies with a phrase like "they are saying" or "I am hearing..."
This society (USA) is NOT a monarchy or a dictatorship (YET!), and our Rights should be defended to the death (preferably of the infringing party).
I will NOT be bullied out of my Rights.
There is a difference between "bullying" someone, and simply stating your opinion.
Stating facts about someone's shortcomings is not bullying. Grow up!
Oh, and one last thing: I think that anyone that voted for Trump is a foolish idiot. They need to wake up and see ALL the FACTS (not alternate facts).
Fix society's woes and hate speech goes away.
Until then, there will always be hate speech cropping up somewhere. You cannot stop it with censorship.
Absolutely!
Yet, it'd be interesting to see how this all can be enforced.
It's as simple as this:
- Do NOT click any links in any emails.
- Do NOT send money to any Nigerian prince needing help.
- And definitely do NOT put ANYTHING up on the web that you are NOT willing to have shared with any other party.
In case you haven't figured it out by now, trust very few people, and absolutely trust NO corporation or politician.
They all just got disinterested in sex
Would you fuck a dinosaur?
For us humans, though, the end may come much sooner - if we continue to allow ourselves to be subjected to "leaders" like Trump and Kim Jong Un.
There is also a considerable number of fellow humans walking around with their "heads in the sand", which anyone knows is dangerous in itself.
I had read that sound waves were the cause of the corona being hotter than the surface.
Not your conventional sound waves, yet a likeness caused by the roiling surface creating audio frequency waves through the plasma.
Also, how can anything survive millions of degrees of heat?!
I cannot think of anything that doen't melt at even the 5000C surface temperature of the Sun.
Unlike others, they pay little or no taxes to state & local governments
Likely because of deals w/ state and local govs previously made. Trump is jealous of this deal.
use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy
HEL-LO-O! The USPS is in the business of delivering packages! They pay them for these deliveries. It's what the USPS does!
How about we have Mr Trump pay HIS taxes?!
Man-up, Mr Trump; show us how YOU manipulated your way out of paying a fair share!
Agreed. Talk about racism and favoritism!
And don't y'all go go off dismissing this observation. Let's call it like it is.
What? You mean you did not know about this?! This is old news.
Makes little sense to me also.
Except that it might entice folks to check out Linux as a better alternative to Windows.
Then, perhaps, see the sense in skipping the kludgy Win OS altogether and install a pure, clean Linux.
It just seems wrong to study individuals just so you can design an ad that would better brainwash someone into buying your product.
It is quite disgusting even that ads, like those on TV, cater to some unrelated aspect to convince you their product would have anything to do with that.
Like car ads that focus on sexuality; obviously hoping you would buy a car to become someone you are not.
We have an obesity epidemic now because fast food companies have convinced you that you need 32 ounces of soda with those 2 huge burgers and fries - because the value is better than your health! WTF?!
How about advertisers actually work on better, honest descriptions of products so that we potential consumers can see the ACTUAL value of something and base our purchase on REAL facts.
It seems a far more mutually serving thing to present real facts and possibilities rather than finding ways to manipulate consumers into something we don't need or want.
This is how our society has gotten into trouble before time and time again.
Capital Punishment for offenders!