Claiming that politics have gone in ANY direction is a facetious statement at best and misinformed, to say the least.
This country is not any more leftist than it is any more rightist which it isn't. This country is corporatist, which means that whether anyone anywhere politically is in power the vested interests are going to support corporations which benefit either way.
So whether you have democrat a, republican b, it doesn't really matter unless you fail to understand where the real politics is.
The only reason taxing consumers (taxpayers is not the correct term, it's redundant) is what happens is because the government has created such a structure. It's times like this that things such as alternate taxation options and things other than having to pay for sales tax would be a boon instead of a flaw.
Example: we have now added sales tax to amazon, so now everyone pays double sales tax - amazon pays sales tax on it's profits and we pay sales tax on our purchases. This is a terrible structure and the opposite of whatever perverted goal of profit exists.
The gov would literally make hand over fist amounts of money if they actually came up with a sensible tax system but I don't believe that's the intent of this economy.
This isn't to stop those companies that are abusing the system on any level.
This is to give them a giant windfall for the YEARS they have been exploiting it, to let them come back and "start fresh" again with zero taxes and do it all over again. This is another tax amnesty for those who have exploited tax loopholes.
I can see why this would be mentioned as a focus, but I can see this being the straw that breaks the camel's back.
It's one thing to at least require an agreement to let your privacy be violated in return for X functionality (sadly because there is no other option from how companies have designed it), but it's another to just do this outright.
It's also hilariously ineffective in this day and age where wireless access does tend to exist.
If someone cuts the internet connection to my house I can just tether my phone to my router and continue uninterrupted. So as long as I have power, this doesn't mean shit. What's sad is that the moron trying to intimidate via cutting internet cables didn't get electrocuted in the process.
The only thing touting the 2nd amendment does is show how stupid you are. And we're not talking vaguely stupid, we're talking "you make tinfoil hat conspiracists sound completely normal" stupid.
There are ways to fix things, there are responses to things, implying that you're citing the right to bear arms when it talks about a militia during times of war is absolutely bonkers.
Please stop posting on slashdot at a minimum and maybe take a class on reading comprehension.
In respect of US law, obviously. It's not an accident that the timing here is identical to CISPA, because it is much of the same parties with the same interests.
It will take years to actually even start to identify the damage this new antibiotic may have on the body. From a medical perspective we are still in the process of assessing just how harmful existing antibiotics are on the body for example.
To be clear, none of what you're talking about is really related to the pollution of the ground water.
The pollution of groundwater is from the actual chemicals used in some fracking and isn't tied to the whole "burning sink water" thing. Quantifying burning sink water as being tied to fracking will not happen, but quantifying what's in the water and when? That has occurred.
Likewise, quantifying increased seismic activity to fracking has occurred.
Security very much is a profit center. Go ask how much this hack is costing sony (supposedly millions just from the production costs alone), and then ask how much actual security would cost.
You're talking about air gapping the wrong system.
There needs to be an air gap between executives and computers. They need to never be allowed to breach it, because they are completely fucking stupid. Sony is so inept I don't even get how they are allowed to do business. This is such a lack of security compliance for a for profit that I imagine compliance auditors are drooling by now.
Is it unique to them? not even remotely. Is it their own fault? about 99.9%. 56 hacks in 12 years is not a company who understands technology. It's a company with about as much technical knowhow as the musical artists they represent.
People should be bashing sony for doing a shit job at being sony, but the MPAA is not only Sony.
Meanwhile, the irony of attempting to break DNS is that it's going to come full circle and harm the MPAA. So they really aren't paying attention to what scorched earth tactics really do.
If it's destroying more jobs then it creates, then you need to fire the people who make false statements.
Then again, we're talking about the NY times, a site that long ago gave up on honest journalism and now resorts to getcha headlines.
The reality is that technology will always destroy more jobs than it creates if you're looking at an exclusively dishonest worldview. Technology will simply shift where the jobs are available, from (things that are now automated), to things such as managing the things that are automated.
Eggs are about as natural as the chickens they pump with antibiotics. So, no.
People should eat what they want to eat and will, but it helps that if you decide to eat eggs you understand what's going into the chickens you're getting them from.
This is the exact opposite of the truth. Amazon allowed ebooks as low as 99 cents, the itunes price fixing explicitly prevented that from being a possibility.
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Claiming that politics have gone in ANY direction is a facetious statement at best and misinformed, to say the least.
This country is not any more leftist than it is any more rightist which it isn't. This country is corporatist, which means that whether anyone anywhere politically is in power the vested interests are going to support corporations which benefit either way.
So whether you have democrat a, republican b, it doesn't really matter unless you fail to understand where the real politics is.
Nah, it became a lot cheaper in some countries, notably everywhere except the US. In the US however, it was unchanged.
The only reason taxing consumers (taxpayers is not the correct term, it's redundant) is what happens is because the government has created such a structure. It's times like this that things such as alternate taxation options and things other than having to pay for sales tax would be a boon instead of a flaw.
Example: we have now added sales tax to amazon, so now everyone pays double sales tax - amazon pays sales tax on it's profits and we pay sales tax on our purchases. This is a terrible structure and the opposite of whatever perverted goal of profit exists.
The gov would literally make hand over fist amounts of money if they actually came up with a sensible tax system but I don't believe that's the intent of this economy.
This isn't to stop those companies that are abusing the system on any level.
This is to give them a giant windfall for the YEARS they have been exploiting it, to let them come back and "start fresh" again with zero taxes and do it all over again. This is another tax amnesty for those who have exploited tax loopholes.
It's referring to killing one innocent, not imprison.
Imprison sounds like "whoops, we fucked your life", but at least isn't taking one away. Killing an innocent refers to what happens in Texas regularly.
I can see why this would be mentioned as a focus, but I can see this being the straw that breaks the camel's back.
It's one thing to at least require an agreement to let your privacy be violated in return for X functionality (sadly because there is no other option from how companies have designed it), but it's another to just do this outright.
To themselves? Of course.
Corruption begets corruption, clearly.
It's also hilariously ineffective in this day and age where wireless access does tend to exist.
If someone cuts the internet connection to my house I can just tether my phone to my router and continue uninterrupted. So as long as I have power, this doesn't mean shit. What's sad is that the moron trying to intimidate via cutting internet cables didn't get electrocuted in the process.
The only thing touting the 2nd amendment does is show how stupid you are. And we're not talking vaguely stupid, we're talking "you make tinfoil hat conspiracists sound completely normal" stupid.
There are ways to fix things, there are responses to things, implying that you're citing the right to bear arms when it talks about a militia during times of war is absolutely bonkers.
Please stop posting on slashdot at a minimum and maybe take a class on reading comprehension.
Please keep writing your Neowin articles, as they provide us countless entertainment based on conjecture.
In respect of US law, obviously. It's not an accident that the timing here is identical to CISPA, because it is much of the same parties with the same interests.
You highlighted the exact real issue:
"What they claim to have found".
It will take years to actually even start to identify the damage this new antibiotic may have on the body. From a medical perspective we are still in the process of assessing just how harmful existing antibiotics are on the body for example.
To be clear, none of what you're talking about is really related to the pollution of the ground water.
The pollution of groundwater is from the actual chemicals used in some fracking and isn't tied to the whole "burning sink water" thing. Quantifying burning sink water as being tied to fracking will not happen, but quantifying what's in the water and when? That has occurred.
Likewise, quantifying increased seismic activity to fracking has occurred.
Maybe you're missing the "why" of 99% of this .
The "Why" is the United States.
The economic impact on this is drastic.
Security very much is a profit center. Go ask how much this hack is costing sony (supposedly millions just from the production costs alone), and then ask how much actual security would cost.
The difference is in zeroes. Many of them.
You're talking about air gapping the wrong system.
There needs to be an air gap between executives and computers. They need to never be allowed to breach it, because they are completely fucking stupid. Sony is so inept I don't even get how they are allowed to do business. This is such a lack of security compliance for a for profit that I imagine compliance auditors are drooling by now.
Is it unique to them? not even remotely. Is it their own fault? about 99.9%. 56 hacks in 12 years is not a company who understands technology. It's a company with about as much technical knowhow as the musical artists they represent.
Business ownership does not follow the political spectrum, much like the bribes to influence it.
People should be bashing sony for doing a shit job at being sony, but the MPAA is not only Sony.
Meanwhile, the irony of attempting to break DNS is that it's going to come full circle and harm the MPAA. So they really aren't paying attention to what scorched earth tactics really do.
If it's destroying more jobs then it creates, then you need to fire the people who make false statements.
Then again, we're talking about the NY times, a site that long ago gave up on honest journalism and now resorts to getcha headlines.
The reality is that technology will always destroy more jobs than it creates if you're looking at an exclusively dishonest worldview. Technology will simply shift where the jobs are available, from (things that are now automated), to things such as managing the things that are automated.
So what method do you suggest? Maybe a yellow patch on the sleeves of their shirts?
People may be stupid about vaccines but this isn't how you fix the problem.
He's not ignorant. It's called Dunning Krueger effect.
He is literally so fucking stupid he can't even comprehend that he is stupid. Which also means samzenpus should be fired for this shit too.
They've been setting up to do so for years, ago yes. We're not giving them any reason to desire to be in the US, so this shouldn't be too surprising.
Eggs are about as natural as the chickens they pump with antibiotics. So, no.
People should eat what they want to eat and will, but it helps that if you decide to eat eggs you understand what's going into the chickens you're getting them from.
This is the exact opposite of the truth. Amazon allowed ebooks as low as 99 cents, the itunes price fixing explicitly prevented that from being a possibility.
Knowing your rights is the very definition of a civics class, as is knowing what to do with them.