If it ever gains any traction the 'establishment' music undustry will make certain it shares the same fate as Napster did.
The music industry has deep pockets and can easily afford to just keep filing lawsuit after lawsuit until they drain every last cent Audius has and force them into bankruptcy. Controlling the channels of distribution and functioning as gatekeepers between artists and their audiences is the music industry's bread & butter. They will go nuclear on anything and anyone who threatens their monopolistic control.
Somehow we've come to a point where using the IRS, FBI, DOJ and secret courts to attack your political enemies is not only not seen as an impeachable offense, but it is worthy of high praise.
The ends justify the means just as they always have, Comrade!
Boy there are a lot of mods throwing out troll points at anyone who dare question the inevitability of the climate apocalypse... Yeah, mods. Keep believing you are defending science.
True, but I don't let temper-tantrums by immature and narrow-minded man-lettes, who are incapable of forming their own opinions and so must parrot the opinions of others in an orgy of virtue-signaling, prevent me from posting my take on the facts and my opinions.
It's a result of the resurgence of Post-Modernism which results in a Post-Truth and Post-Factual worldview.
Rudyard Kipling explained it in a poem.
The Gods of the Copybook Headings
AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.
We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.
With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
I don't believe a word of it. They have not proven themselves trustworthy nor capable of making such predictions with any level of confidence. I won't vote for anyone or any thing that is based on or gives credence to such unproven, unmitigated horseshit. I will combat this lunacy in every way I can.
It's horseshit because none of this crap is based on real science. It's political/ideological theater and propaganda with a "science-y" theme and window-dressing. It's no more hard science than the old TV toothpaste ads that had an actor wearing a lab coat and stethoscope saying "nine out of ten dentists agree".
How the hell is it even remotely legal for banks to "share" that sort of very personal and private data with anyone outside government regulatory and law enforcement agencies, especially without your express written permission? What the actual fuck!?!?
[HeavyRussianAccent]
"Hello, yes, I from Facebook am, please to give me all your transaction data."
The article, presumably written by a liberal arts major
I realize itâ(TM)s a rather long summary; but the first two words of the lede state quite clearly that the dude is an engineering professor.
So are you saying someone who has an engineering degree can't also be a liberal arts degree holder as well?
I'm an engineer as well as a professional studio/session and live-performance musician, not to mention that I also possess significant residential and commercial construction skills in a number of areas like carpentry, electrical, and bricklaying. I've also written training materials and designed electronic equipment for use in training military personnel as electronics technicians.
People are not single-dimension beings.
For simple proof, just look at many of the posters right here in this thread. They can be geeks & nerds and total asshats simultaneously.
No, it is the "Venezuela provably has the wrong leader" argument and if you can't see the difference, you are bullshit.
Better planners would only delay the inevitable coming collapse and prolong the Venezuelan people's suffering.
The problem with collectivist systems is base human nature. Collectivist systems must overcome base human nature to succeed, capitalist systems leverage & harness that same base human nature towards constructive ends.
All collectivist forms of government like socialism and communism are authoritarian by their very nature. The State tells people where they'll live, where they'll work, what work they'll do, how much money they will earn/receive, what sort and how much education they receive, what level medical care they will get, etc etc etc.
Anytime you put people in authority over others without unavoidable and direct consequences for abusing that authority, those people placed in authority will generally become increasingly authoritarian, capricious, corrupt, and cruel the longer the situation exists as was shown by Milgram's experiment.
Socialism and communism provide people with food, shelter, medical care, and work. We have an institution here in the US that provides the same things, but very few are willing to participate voluntarily.
Their on-paper policy was "thirteen strikes and you're out", if you have thirteen or more separate complaints filed against you, they were supposed to take action. They decided not to actually do that. Following that policy would have saved their ass. Thirteen strikes seems pretty generous to me.
And the original 13 American colonies could have avoided war by simply obeying all of King Henry's edicts and taxes.
The "Underground Railroad" activists who were caught and hung could have simply obeyed the law against helping escaped slaves flee.
Gun store owners who were prosecuted and imprisoned (and often lynched) for selling firearms to blacks could have simply obeyed the Jim Crow laws.
The courts, even the SCOTUS, are NOT the final arbiters of what is Constitutional and what is not.
According to the complaint, Cox chose not to follow the DMCA requirements for safe harbor, and literally wrote "f the dmca!!!"
I'm sure Cox has their side of the story, but they already told the side of the story in court and after hearing thier side the judge already ruled that they did not in fact implement a reasonable policy.
One action Cox could take would be to just say "OK, fine, we'll pay" and just switch it all off and close the doors. Tomorrow. Everything shut off. Wipe all customer account and company data. All the servers, switches, routers, peering points, everything wiped clean (oblig. "like with a cloth?"), and sell all that essential major-capital-investment-level hardware at fire-sale prices. Place the money in an escrow to pay against the "billions" the labels and studios claim they owe. Millions of customers suddenly without internet, not consuming the content cartel's products (or anyone else's like FB, Amazon, etc that sell products and services over the 'net as well), and without even the hardware or personnel left in place for a court to conceivably be able to effectively order service turned back on all because of Congress, the courts, and the RIAA/MPAA.
Let everyone involved experience the consequences of *full* ISP DMCA and "forever minus a day" copyright law compliance.
Sometimes, the most effective strategy is to give your enemy *exactly* what they want in spades.
It's not any lack of education, it's base human nature that is the fly in the ointment of a direct democracy.
I should have added that both socialism and communism also fail for the same reason...base human nature. Both socialism and communism are authoritarian by their very nature. Most major life decisions are made by those in power...where you work and at what sort of job, what kind and level of education you receive, where you'll live, how much you will earn, how much food you receive, even how many children you may have.
Anytime you put people in authority over others without unavoidable and direct consequences for abusing that power, those people placed in authority will generally become increasingly authoritarian, capricious, and cruel as was shown by Milgram's experiment.
Hence why a exceptionally good education system is necessary for a democracy to endure.
Educational levels are irrelevant when discussing the fact that pure democracies are a tyranny of the 51% over the 49%.
It's not any lack of education, it's base human nature that is the fly in the ointment of a direct democracy.
Those who seriously promote/push the idea of a direct democracy are either woefully under-educated themselves, or they have an ulterior political/ideological motive like social/political disruption of the sort the Russians have been in the news for recently.
Korea plans on taxing Koreans *via* Google, Apple, and Amazon.
They will simply up their prices to Koreans by the amount of the tax plus enough to cover their administrative costs. Relatively few Koreans who buy or use those corporations' products and/or services now will stop buying if the prices go up, unless prices double or triple. They'll simply have less to spend domestically. Koreans who buy iPhones now will still buy iPhones even if the price goes up as it's a status thing. Apple may even increase sales as an iPhone becomes even more seen as a "luxury/top-end" item in Korea.
It will hurt Korean consumers far more than those three mega-corps. It would barely be even the impact of an accounting rounding error on the scales in which their ledgers operate.
Seeing what I have seen in regards to security vulnerabilities reported to institutions and the general paralysis that ensues when anyone brings up real security in just about any organization...none of this surprises me...at all. In fact, I would have predicted nothing would be done, especially given the tell where the institution focuses on a single perpetrator or incident when in fact that is not at all the problem. When their security sucks, and they don't get it and can't fix it because they suck, they spin the focus on Snowden or whatever evil hacker dujour.
The issue is not the NSA's internal security. That's not what causes the leaks we've seen.
The problem is the NSA itself performing domestic spying.
The NSA will remain under attack by the NSA's own workers and the US's own citizens until that changes because the NSA has made itself the enemy.
Ontario just elected a dumber version of Trump, cancelling the project signals nothing more than it seemed like a "lefty liberal" idea.
Exactly! Stupid voters, don't they know that the Liberals are far smarter than they are and know what's best for them far better than they do?
Marx was right, all that democratic "let the people decide" horseshit was a bad idea. People rarely make the right choices because they tend to vote in their own self-interest rather than in the best interests of government and the collective. Most people (and particularly Conservatives) are no smarter than the average cow and we don't let cows elect leaders, enact laws, or set national policy. Just appoint leaders and enact laws, and leave the cow's opinions (especially conservative bovine opinions) one way or the other out of it, right?/s
The point is to eliminate all the external ports of the phone. Then the case will be sealed and the phone will be waterproof. A great achievement, millions of phones are lost every year due to water damage. Apple is leading the way, as usual.
Nope.
Two major things drive this move.
1. Size/space/cost savings.
2. Closing the "analog hole" in hopes of securing better deals from the music industry for iTunes content. (RIAA is deathly afraid somebody will hook up an eight-track tape recording deck to the headphone jack.)
We currently import underpaid (illegal) agricultural labor from Mexico, which is not even self-sufficient in agriculture, although it has the resources to be self-sufficient if it got its act together: we import agricultural labor from them and export food to them. What if we sealed off the border and filled our need for cheap agricultural labor with the idle urban poor and the homeless who plague our cities? Clean out the ghettoes and skid row, end welfare, and satisfy our agricultural needs all in one, easy step. Of course, this would mean forced relocation of the new agricultural labor force and likely compelled labor (who, after all, woukd willingly give up a life of idle decadence for fieldwork?), but sometimes sacrifices have to be made for the greater good.
First off, "sealing off the border" is stupid and counterproductive. What is needed is an improved system that can process a large number of legal and legitimate immigration/refugee/asylum requests in a prompt and efficient manner *without*, however, sacrificing security by just throwing the doors wide. That's stupid and suicidal.
As for the "homeless/ghetto person converted into fruit-picker" concept (note that there would be a need for many other types of ancillary and logistics-related labor required as well, from machinery repair to transportation/delivery/warehousing/storage related occupations, etc, etc), that actually does have some merit and *does not* require any sort of forced relocation or other drastic authoritarian actions. Just simply offer the jobs with good pay, job security, health benefits, etc and set up programs to assist people with relocation and other related costs and logistics and a whole metric shit-ton of them will *happily* self-relocate and also have a sense of doing something useful which is far more important than many will acknowledge. People in general tend to need emotionally to feel useful, to have a purpose and reason to set the alarm and rise every morning outside of themselves and their personal needs.
It's conceivable that, if done right, such a plan could almost eliminate involuntary joblessness, massively increase agricultural production along with government revenues, improve the general levels of education & training, and through the massive increase in supply reduce food prices not only domestically but also on exports, allowing the US to truly be able to become the world's breadbasket and reduce starvation worldwide while working to reduce the US's international debt and trade imbalances. All without having to force anybody to do anything, take anything from anyone, or employ any other use of the threat of coercive government force domestically or internationally. If the US winds up feeding the North Korean people, that's going to stabilize things in that region quite a bit, don't you think?
What happened in the UK is people were on trial for precisely what you were talking about and some far right yahoo was trying to film video regarding the case at the courthouse and threatened to contaminate the jury pool and force a retrial which would have cost hundreds of thousands of UK pounds and endanger the convictions of the same dangerous people you seem to be concerned about.
Thank you for defending the UK government's official position on Tommy Robinson as the poor UK government is so misunderstood, abused, and in a position of helplessness against the might of their unarmed subjects. I mean, tossing political prisoners to the wolves like placing Robinson into a prison with a majority violent Muslim population intentionally in order to have him killed is the sort of thing every freedom-loving, transparent government does to it's citizens. Right?/s
However, I'm talking about the entire horrid mess the UK government has created, not Robinson in particular. Robinson is only one person and if there's one Tommy Robinson, it's certain there are many, many more that don't get the press attention that's frankly probably the only thing that's saved Robinson from death at the hands of the UK government, a government that is also trying so desperately to censor and suppress news of their actions.
Incarcerating racist yob trash is definitely worthwhile...
Although I agree that the racist language he used and most of the sentiments he expressed are racist and horrid on general principle and that the fault in choosing that belief structure is on him, there are contributing factors to such attitudes & beliefs in places like the UK where the government has up until quite recently mostly ignored refugee Muslim pedo/rape-gangs and child abductions & trafficking while simultaneously suppressing and censoring news and facts relating to those serious criminal activities including jailing those who try to speak out and all sorts of other illegal and quasi-legal bad shenanigans in furtherance of the suppression of the facts including but not limited to the number and scope of these crimes from being widely disseminated especially among UK subjects.
This sort of behavior from the government is a sure way to foment and enable such attitudes and beliefs among the poor and working class. "Clamping down" on such attitudes and beliefs by the government without the government altering it's own behaviors, policies, and attitudes that are exacerbating the problem and angering those who feel their children are in danger serves only to further anger, alienate, and grow the numbers of angry, unreasonable people because they will see themselves, and others will see them, as unjustly censored and unfairly persecuted regardless of the actual truth good or bad as the facts will be so muddled the average person will have no way to check facts (and most will have little inclination to do so).
It's the same with the Republicans. They were for ending slavery, but now have become the party where racists congregate.
That's a Democrat lie. Nixon had no "Southern Strategy" and no massive and sweeping switch between the Parties ever occurred.
This is pure propaganda that was put out by "Progressive" Democrats to try to distance themselves from their own history of racism and a theme of violent hatred for anyone who may disagree that's still quite visible today. There was no "Southern Strategy" and no "dog whistles". That's all a bullshit propaganda campaign by the Democratic Party with help from their allies in the media and in academia attempting desperately to distance themselves from and deny their own actions and behaviors over many decades in support of slavery and racial segregation. It's straight out of Saul Alinsky/Rules For Radicals; Accuse your opponents of doing the bad things you are actually doing.
There is a significant difference between expressing one's opinion and trolling someone off of Twitter and endless ad hominem attacks on anyone who dares to disagree.
Why are you attacking standard US Leftist Progressive-Democrat methods of public political discussion and conversation with those who may disagree?
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Its "Napster" but with Blockchain. I think.
If it ever gains any traction the 'establishment' music undustry will make certain it shares the same fate as Napster did.
The music industry has deep pockets and can easily afford to just keep filing lawsuit after lawsuit until they drain every last cent Audius has and force them into bankruptcy. Controlling the channels of distribution and functioning as gatekeepers between artists and their audiences is the music industry's bread & butter. They will go nuclear on anything and anyone who threatens their monopolistic control.
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Found the DNC's 2020 Presidential candidate!
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Somehow we've come to a point where using the IRS, FBI, DOJ and secret courts to attack your political enemies is not only not seen as an impeachable offense, but it is worthy of high praise.
The ends justify the means just as they always have, Comrade!
Strat
Boy there are a lot of mods throwing out troll points at anyone who dare question the inevitability of the climate apocalypse... Yeah, mods. Keep believing you are defending science.
True, but I don't let temper-tantrums by immature and narrow-minded man-lettes, who are incapable of forming their own opinions and so must parrot the opinions of others in an orgy of virtue-signaling, prevent me from posting my take on the facts and my opinions.
It's a result of the resurgence of Post-Modernism which results in a Post-Truth and Post-Factual worldview.
Rudyard Kipling explained it in a poem.
The Gods of the Copybook Headings
AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.
We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.
With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
As it will be in th
Just more propaganda.
I don't believe a word of it. They have not proven themselves trustworthy nor capable of making such predictions with any level of confidence. I won't vote for anyone or any thing that is based on or gives credence to such unproven, unmitigated horseshit. I will combat this lunacy in every way I can.
It's horseshit because none of this crap is based on real science. It's political/ideological theater and propaganda with a "science-y" theme and window-dressing. It's no more hard science than the old TV toothpaste ads that had an actor wearing a lab coat and stethoscope saying "nine out of ten dentists agree".
Strat
How the hell is it even remotely legal for banks to "share" that sort of very personal and private data with anyone outside government regulatory and law enforcement agencies, especially without your express written permission? What the actual fuck!?!?
[HeavyRussianAccent]
"Hello, yes, I from Facebook am, please to give me all your transaction data."
[/HeavyRussianAccent]
Strat
So are you saying someone who has an engineering degree can't also be a liberal arts degree holder as well?
I'm an engineer as well as a professional studio/session and live-performance musician, not to mention that I also possess significant residential and commercial construction skills in a number of areas like carpentry, electrical, and bricklaying. I've also written training materials and designed electronic equipment for use in training military personnel as electronics technicians.
People are not single-dimension beings.
For simple proof, just look at many of the posters right here in this thread. They can be geeks & nerds and total asshats simultaneously.
Strat
No, it is the "Venezuela provably has the wrong leader" argument and if you can't see the difference, you are bullshit.
Better planners would only delay the inevitable coming collapse and prolong the Venezuelan people's suffering.
The problem with collectivist systems is base human nature. Collectivist systems must overcome base human nature to succeed, capitalist systems leverage & harness that same base human nature towards constructive ends.
All collectivist forms of government like socialism and communism are authoritarian by their very nature. The State tells people where they'll live, where they'll work, what work they'll do, how much money they will earn/receive, what sort and how much education they receive, what level medical care they will get, etc etc etc.
Anytime you put people in authority over others without unavoidable and direct consequences for abusing that authority, those people placed in authority will generally become increasingly authoritarian, capricious, corrupt, and cruel the longer the situation exists as was shown by Milgram's experiment.
Socialism and communism provide people with food, shelter, medical care, and work. We have an institution here in the US that provides the same things, but very few are willing to participate voluntarily.
We call it the prison system.
Strat
Their on-paper policy was "thirteen strikes and you're out", if you have thirteen or more separate complaints filed against you, they were supposed to take action. They decided not to actually do that. Following that policy would have saved their ass. Thirteen strikes seems pretty generous to me.
And the original 13 American colonies could have avoided war by simply obeying all of King Henry's edicts and taxes.
The "Underground Railroad" activists who were caught and hung could have simply obeyed the law against helping escaped slaves flee.
Gun store owners who were prosecuted and imprisoned (and often lynched) for selling firearms to blacks could have simply obeyed the Jim Crow laws.
The courts, even the SCOTUS, are NOT the final arbiters of what is Constitutional and what is not.
We The People are.
Soap, Ballot, Jury, and Ammunition.
Strat
You do realize that unlike the Hubble telescope which orbits around the Earth that the Kepler telescope is in an Earth trailing orbit around the sun?
Ask Elon Musk and SpaceX to refuel it.
If there is anyone on the planet that could conceivably accomplish such a feat in a timely manner and on a budget, it would be Musk and SpaceX.
Strat
According to the complaint, Cox chose not to follow the DMCA requirements for safe harbor, and literally wrote "f the dmca!!!"
I'm sure Cox has their side of the story, but they already told the side of the story in court and after hearing thier side the judge already ruled that they did not in fact implement a reasonable policy.
One action Cox could take would be to just say "OK, fine, we'll pay" and just switch it all off and close the doors. Tomorrow. Everything shut off. Wipe all customer account and company data. All the servers, switches, routers, peering points, everything wiped clean (oblig. "like with a cloth?"), and sell all that essential major-capital-investment-level hardware at fire-sale prices. Place the money in an escrow to pay against the "billions" the labels and studios claim they owe. Millions of customers suddenly without internet, not consuming the content cartel's products (or anyone else's like FB, Amazon, etc that sell products and services over the 'net as well), and without even the hardware or personnel left in place for a court to conceivably be able to effectively order service turned back on all because of Congress, the courts, and the RIAA/MPAA.
Let everyone involved experience the consequences of *full* ISP DMCA and "forever minus a day" copyright law compliance.
Sometimes, the most effective strategy is to give your enemy *exactly* what they want in spades.
Strat
It's not any lack of education, it's base human nature that is the fly in the ointment of a direct democracy.
I should have added that both socialism and communism also fail for the same reason...base human nature. Both socialism and communism are authoritarian by their very nature. Most major life decisions are made by those in power...where you work and at what sort of job, what kind and level of education you receive, where you'll live, how much you will earn, how much food you receive, even how many children you may have.
Anytime you put people in authority over others without unavoidable and direct consequences for abusing that power, those people placed in authority will generally become increasingly authoritarian, capricious, and cruel as was shown by Milgram's experiment.
Strat
Hence why a exceptionally good education system is necessary for a democracy to endure.
Educational levels are irrelevant when discussing the fact that pure democracies are a tyranny of the 51% over the 49%.
It's not any lack of education, it's base human nature that is the fly in the ointment of a direct democracy.
Those who seriously promote/push the idea of a direct democracy are either woefully under-educated themselves, or they have an ulterior political/ideological motive like social/political disruption of the sort the Russians have been in the news for recently.
Strat
Sorry, no.
The main obstacle is literary.
"Journey To The DeBeers Diamond Mine At The Center Of The Earth" just doesn't have the same ring and doesn't roll off the tongue as smoothly.
Strat
Korea Plans To Tax Google, Apple and Amazon
No, sorry. That is incorrect.
Korea plans on taxing Koreans *via* Google, Apple, and Amazon.
They will simply up their prices to Koreans by the amount of the tax plus enough to cover their administrative costs. Relatively few Koreans who buy or use those corporations' products and/or services now will stop buying if the prices go up, unless prices double or triple. They'll simply have less to spend domestically. Koreans who buy iPhones now will still buy iPhones even if the price goes up as it's a status thing. Apple may even increase sales as an iPhone becomes even more seen as a "luxury/top-end" item in Korea.
It will hurt Korean consumers far more than those three mega-corps. It would barely be even the impact of an accounting rounding error on the scales in which their ledgers operate.
Strat
My company will not comply. It's our private network and we won't be reporting on anything about it unless we want to.
That's fine, your company is perfectly free to not comply. The DoD doesn't care (nor does anyone else, TBH),
The DoD just won't buy/use your company's shit. Nobody has a right to a DoD contract.
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Seeing what I have seen in regards to security vulnerabilities reported to institutions and the general paralysis that ensues when anyone brings up real security in just about any organization...none of this surprises me...at all. In fact, I would have predicted nothing would be done, especially given the tell where the institution focuses on a single perpetrator or incident when in fact that is not at all the problem. When their security sucks, and they don't get it and can't fix it because they suck, they spin the focus on Snowden or whatever evil hacker dujour.
The issue is not the NSA's internal security. That's not what causes the leaks we've seen.
The problem is the NSA itself performing domestic spying.
The NSA will remain under attack by the NSA's own workers and the US's own citizens until that changes because the NSA has made itself the enemy.
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Exactly! Stupid voters, don't they know that the Liberals are far smarter than they are and know what's best for them far better than they do?
Marx was right, all that democratic "let the people decide" horseshit was a bad idea. People rarely make the right choices because they tend to vote in their own self-interest rather than in the best interests of government and the collective. Most people (and particularly Conservatives) are no smarter than the average cow and we don't let cows elect leaders, enact laws, or set national policy. Just appoint leaders and enact laws, and leave the cow's opinions (especially conservative bovine opinions) one way or the other out of it, right? /s
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The point is to eliminate all the external ports of the phone. Then the case will be sealed and the phone will be waterproof. A great achievement, millions of phones are lost every year due to water damage. Apple is leading the way, as usual.
Nope.
Two major things drive this move.
1. Size/space/cost savings.
2. Closing the "analog hole" in hopes of securing better deals from the music industry for iTunes content. (RIAA is deathly afraid somebody will hook up an eight-track tape recording deck to the headphone jack.)
Strat
We currently import underpaid (illegal) agricultural labor from Mexico, which is not even self-sufficient in agriculture, although it has the resources to be self-sufficient if it got its act together: we import agricultural labor from them and export food to them. What if we sealed off the border and filled our need for cheap agricultural labor with the idle urban poor and the homeless who plague our cities? Clean out the ghettoes and skid row, end welfare, and satisfy our agricultural needs all in one, easy step. Of course, this would mean forced relocation of the new agricultural labor force and likely compelled labor (who, after all, woukd willingly give up a life of idle decadence for fieldwork?), but sometimes sacrifices have to be made for the greater good.
First off, "sealing off the border" is stupid and counterproductive. What is needed is an improved system that can process a large number of legal and legitimate immigration/refugee/asylum requests in a prompt and efficient manner *without*, however, sacrificing security by just throwing the doors wide. That's stupid and suicidal.
As for the "homeless/ghetto person converted into fruit-picker" concept (note that there would be a need for many other types of ancillary and logistics-related labor required as well, from machinery repair to transportation/delivery/warehousing/storage related occupations, etc, etc), that actually does have some merit and *does not* require any sort of forced relocation or other drastic authoritarian actions. Just simply offer the jobs with good pay, job security, health benefits, etc and set up programs to assist people with relocation and other related costs and logistics and a whole metric shit-ton of them will *happily* self-relocate and also have a sense of doing something useful which is far more important than many will acknowledge. People in general tend to need emotionally to feel useful, to have a purpose and reason to set the alarm and rise every morning outside of themselves and their personal needs.
It's conceivable that, if done right, such a plan could almost eliminate involuntary joblessness, massively increase agricultural production along with government revenues, improve the general levels of education & training, and through the massive increase in supply reduce food prices not only domestically but also on exports, allowing the US to truly be able to become the world's breadbasket and reduce starvation worldwide while working to reduce the US's international debt and trade imbalances. All without having to force anybody to do anything, take anything from anyone, or employ any other use of the threat of coercive government force domestically or internationally. If the US winds up feeding the North Korean people, that's going to stabilize things in that region quite a bit, don't you think?
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What happened in the UK is people were on trial for precisely what you were talking about and some far right yahoo was trying to film video regarding the case at the courthouse and threatened to contaminate the jury pool and force a retrial which would have cost hundreds of thousands of UK pounds and endanger the convictions of the same dangerous people you seem to be concerned about.
Thank you for defending the UK government's official position on Tommy Robinson as the poor UK government is so misunderstood, abused, and in a position of helplessness against the might of their unarmed subjects. I mean, tossing political prisoners to the wolves like placing Robinson into a prison with a majority violent Muslim population intentionally in order to have him killed is the sort of thing every freedom-loving, transparent government does to it's citizens. Right? /s
However, I'm talking about the entire horrid mess the UK government has created, not Robinson in particular. Robinson is only one person and if there's one Tommy Robinson, it's certain there are many, many more that don't get the press attention that's frankly probably the only thing that's saved Robinson from death at the hands of the UK government, a government that is also trying so desperately to censor and suppress news of their actions.
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Incarcerating racist yob trash is definitely worthwhile...
Although I agree that the racist language he used and most of the sentiments he expressed are racist and horrid on general principle and that the fault in choosing that belief structure is on him, there are contributing factors to such attitudes & beliefs in places like the UK where the government has up until quite recently mostly ignored refugee Muslim pedo/rape-gangs and child abductions & trafficking while simultaneously suppressing and censoring news and facts relating to those serious criminal activities including jailing those who try to speak out and all sorts of other illegal and quasi-legal bad shenanigans in furtherance of the suppression of the facts including but not limited to the number and scope of these crimes from being widely disseminated especially among UK subjects.
This sort of behavior from the government is a sure way to foment and enable such attitudes and beliefs among the poor and working class. "Clamping down" on such attitudes and beliefs by the government without the government altering it's own behaviors, policies, and attitudes that are exacerbating the problem and angering those who feel their children are in danger serves only to further anger, alienate, and grow the numbers of angry, unreasonable people because they will see themselves, and others will see them, as unjustly censored and unfairly persecuted regardless of the actual truth good or bad as the facts will be so muddled the average person will have no way to check facts (and most will have little inclination to do so).
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It's the same with the Republicans. They were for ending slavery, but now have become the party where racists congregate.
That's a Democrat lie. Nixon had no "Southern Strategy" and no massive and sweeping switch between the Parties ever occurred.
This is pure propaganda that was put out by "Progressive" Democrats to try to distance themselves from their own history of racism and a theme of violent hatred for anyone who may disagree that's still quite visible today. There was no "Southern Strategy" and no "dog whistles". That's all a bullshit propaganda campaign by the Democratic Party with help from their allies in the media and in academia attempting desperately to distance themselves from and deny their own actions and behaviors over many decades in support of slavery and racial segregation. It's straight out of Saul Alinsky/Rules For Radicals; Accuse your opponents of doing the bad things you are actually doing.
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There is a significant difference between expressing one's opinion and trolling someone off of Twitter and endless ad hominem attacks on anyone who dares to disagree.
Why are you attacking standard US Leftist Progressive-Democrat methods of public political discussion and conversation with those who may disagree?
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Are you a fucking dumbass, or a corrupt government official?
But then, you repeat yourself...:)
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