It's a USB storage device. It could do anything. Just because it has a chip, doesn't mean it couldn't have all sorts of other wonderful stuff with it too. Kinda' like all of those simple web pages people visit every day (like this one), that are filled with crap, including Google trackers.
Putin could have given the Orange Dipshit a live camera with a big flashing "RECORDING" light on it, and the Orange Asshole would stick it in the Oval Office. There's no end to his stupidity (or fealty to Russia).
Libraries are one thing that *everybody* can benefit from. It's one of the very last remaining public goods we have in the US. All the rest have been destroyed, or have never existed. Without libraries, poor and disadvantaged people will have virtually no chance of ever having a successful, fulfilling life, or making a positive impact on their communities
What in the hell does this mean? Do you know that libraries contain *books* that anybody can read and check out for free? The only books available on the Internet are a handful of 100+ year old out-of-copyright books.
It literally does mean something, AC. But go ahead and keep renting everything. I'm more than happy to rent my stuff to people like you. It makes me a lot of money.
This kind of silliness wasn't what the web was designed for. The web was designed for the free dissemination of free information. Encryption and security are bolted-on hacks that not only don't work very well, but aren't at all in keeping with the original intent of the Web (or the whole Net, for that matter).
I don't see any reason most web sites need to be encrypted.
This is a huge problem in the US, as well. Unfortunately, we have no real laws that protect non-Amazon sized businesses. In our industry (retail pet supplies), just about every manufacturer has fixed prices that we cannot go any lower than. If we do, then they stop selling to us. It should be illegal. Unfortunately, we're not big enough to be able to afford to buy any Congresspeople.
In general I like the Deamoncrats less because they undermine true human freedom at every turn , from centralizing control, to promoting an environment where people use each other,especially vulnerable women and children on a sexual level and promoting the killing of children.
What in the FUCK are you talking about, specifically?
Institutions want to get rid of cash because handling cash is difficult to automate, and cash has higher marginal cost to guard, particularly from the handlers. Cash also tends to get stolen, despite all the money spent on guarding it. It also gets counterfeited, lost, destroyed, and requires quite a lot of money to produce (for the treasury).
It doesn't take 3% to handle cash. The idea that cash is "so expensive" is a lie created by Visa/Mastercard.
1. You're wrong. We've been in business 16+ years, and I know what I'm talking about.
2. The place that did that study is funded and run by the Koch Brothers.
3. Growth rate != quality of life. The lack of health insurance regulations, for instance, is a huge problem (expense) for us.
4. It's a story that's been told for a long time by the biggest industries and their lobbyists so that they can make more money.
Visa/MC being down for a few hours in the past month cost the business I work for many thousands of dollars. Visa/MC costs us about 3% to take, when it's working. It's a *tremendous* expense that is many times what it costs to accept cash.
It's all these sorts of little frictions imposed by clowns like Hertzberg who think "There ought to be a law!" to solve every little problem which cause people to not be able to start a small business, or try to survive as an artist, or whatever freedom they want to exercise this week, but can't because the regulatory burden for stupid stuff is just piled on and on in places like CA.
Oh, puh-lease. Enough with the "evil regulations are keeping small businesses down" bullshit. That ol' Fox News trope is just that: old. The fact is that the US has, realtively speaking, very few regulations that prevent people from running businesses. I'm in retail, and we're subject to close to no regulations. We have to pay taxes, and we can't discriminate against people. That's about it.
This is a piece of legislation that is trying to combat the very real problem of people who aren't smart enough to see through disinformation, being disinformed. I would say that doing something to prevent this, again, very real, very serious problem, far outweighs some kind of scammy "social media marketing" business that you're suggesting must rely on bots.
Somebody selling some fake nutritional supplements via MLM won't be able to run a Twitter bot from CA. Oh no! I'm clutching my pearls at the prospect!
Anybody can host videos with a free or cheap web site, and a simple [a href="blah.mp4"]blah video[/a]. I don't understand why this project exists, except that perhaps some (many) people simply don't understand how the web works.
Google has to make money out of android somehow and if they can't do it via the play store or some other method they'll simply start charging for the OS itself.
You clearly don't understand what Open Source is, or the point of it. Read
Its exactly the same as what happened when people starting bitching about various bank charges. So now the banks dropped the charges and instead a lot of them charge you a flat fee just to have an account. Nice going people, thanks for that.
Hey dummy, QUIT USING BANKS! Use a credit union. That's your own fault.
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Being a dick.
It's a USB storage device. It could do anything. Just because it has a chip, doesn't mean it couldn't have all sorts of other wonderful stuff with it too. Kinda' like all of those simple web pages people visit every day (like this one), that are filled with crap, including Google trackers.
Putin could have given the Orange Dipshit a live camera with a big flashing "RECORDING" light on it, and the Orange Asshole would stick it in the Oval Office. There's no end to his stupidity (or fealty to Russia).
Libraries are one thing that *everybody* can benefit from. It's one of the very last remaining public goods we have in the US. All the rest have been destroyed, or have never existed. Without libraries, poor and disadvantaged people will have virtually no chance of ever having a successful, fulfilling life, or making a positive impact on their communities
So, then, money is all that matters in any societal-level discussion? That's really sad if that's what you think.
All the content is available on the Internet,
What in the hell does this mean? Do you know that libraries contain *books* that anybody can read and check out for free? The only books available on the Internet are a handful of 100+ year old out-of-copyright books.
I imagine this thing will make sure to slurp up every last piece of data that the good little Google drones aren't already giving the Mothership.
It literally does mean something, AC. But go ahead and keep renting everything. I'm more than happy to rent my stuff to people like you. It makes me a lot of money.
This kind of silliness wasn't what the web was designed for. The web was designed for the free dissemination of free information. Encryption and security are bolted-on hacks that not only don't work very well, but aren't at all in keeping with the original intent of the Web (or the whole Net, for that matter).
I don't see any reason most web sites need to be encrypted.
This is a huge problem in the US, as well. Unfortunately, we have no real laws that protect non-Amazon sized businesses. In our industry (retail pet supplies), just about every manufacturer has fixed prices that we cannot go any lower than. If we do, then they stop selling to us. It should be illegal. Unfortunately, we're not big enough to be able to afford to buy any Congresspeople.
In general I like the Deamoncrats less because they undermine true human freedom at every turn , from centralizing control, to promoting an environment where people use each other ,especially vulnerable women and children on a sexual level and promoting the killing of children.
What in the FUCK are you talking about, specifically?
... or you can just plug it into another computer. No repair shop is needed.
I'm a biology nerd. This is news that matters to me.
Institutions want to get rid of cash because handling cash is difficult to automate, and cash has higher marginal cost to guard, particularly from the handlers. Cash also tends to get stolen, despite all the money spent on guarding it. It also gets counterfeited, lost, destroyed, and requires quite a lot of money to produce (for the treasury).
It doesn't take 3% to handle cash. The idea that cash is "so expensive" is a lie created by Visa/Mastercard.
1. You're wrong. We've been in business 16+ years, and I know what I'm talking about.
2. The place that did that study is funded and run by the Koch Brothers.
3. Growth rate != quality of life. The lack of health insurance regulations, for instance, is a huge problem (expense) for us.
4. It's a story that's been told for a long time by the biggest industries and their lobbyists so that they can make more money.
The credit unions I use are opening branches near me. Banks are for suckers.
... but WeChat is losing money on the free electronic payments, so they're not free any more... http://www.businessinsider.com...
Visa/MC being down for a few hours in the past month cost the business I work for many thousands of dollars. Visa/MC costs us about 3% to take, when it's working. It's a *tremendous* expense that is many times what it costs to accept cash.
It's all these sorts of little frictions imposed by clowns like Hertzberg who think "There ought to be a law!" to solve every little problem which cause people to not be able to start a small business, or try to survive as an artist, or whatever freedom they want to exercise this week, but can't because the regulatory burden for stupid stuff is just piled on and on in places like CA.
Oh, puh-lease. Enough with the "evil regulations are keeping small businesses down" bullshit. That ol' Fox News trope is just that: old. The fact is that the US has, realtively speaking, very few regulations that prevent people from running businesses. I'm in retail, and we're subject to close to no regulations. We have to pay taxes, and we can't discriminate against people. That's about it.
This is a piece of legislation that is trying to combat the very real problem of people who aren't smart enough to see through disinformation, being disinformed. I would say that doing something to prevent this, again, very real, very serious problem, far outweighs some kind of scammy "social media marketing" business that you're suggesting must rely on bots.
Somebody selling some fake nutritional supplements via MLM won't be able to run a Twitter bot from CA. Oh no! I'm clutching my pearls at the prospect!
They're taking the code from relatively reliable sources. You'd have to spam Github, somehow.
If popularity was a determinant of goodness, McDonald's is the best restaurant in the US, and Wal-Mart is the best retailer in the US.
Python is popular because it's relatively easy to use, not necessarily because it's "The Future of Programming".
Anybody can host videos with a free or cheap web site, and a simple [a href="blah.mp4"]blah video[/a]. I don't understand why this project exists, except that perhaps some (many) people simply don't understand how the web works.
Eh, I most definitely want Outlook. Nobody makes anything that comes close to Outlook + Exchange. And, it's super cheap.
We don't all live in our parents basement or in the 3rd world. Some of us require the various facilities of a proper bank to do business.
We run millions of dollars each month through our credit unions. Banks are for suckers.
Google has to make money out of android somehow and if they can't do it via the play store or some other method they'll simply start charging for the OS itself.
You clearly don't understand what Open Source is, or the point of it. Read
Its exactly the same as what happened when people starting bitching about various bank charges. So now the banks dropped the charges and instead a lot of them charge you a flat fee just to have an account. Nice going people, thanks for that.
Hey dummy, QUIT USING BANKS! Use a credit union. That's your own fault.