I guess I'm the opposite then. I actually owned a Windows Phone. It was the large screen (for the time) HTC. I don't even remember the model name. I only gave it a chance because of the heaping praise all the tech blogs and commenters were giving it. I absolutely hated it The browser sucked, the apps sucked, the swoopy animations sucked. I eventually traded it for some craptastic Galaxy S based phone that while it sucked too, was a helluva lot better than what I had.
I don't think it could ever get any worse than when the ZuneHD came out. You would have thought it was dipped in 24 carat gold the way they were going on and on about it. And the Kin phones. If I recall, the Facebook page for it had something like 500,000 "friends" and they sold what, like, a few hundred total?
I can't speak on Twitter or Facebook but Google could do it pretty easily as they have a process to de-index that works fairly well for them. People report sites and when Google gets enough reports it triggers a manual review. Some drone looks at the site and if they don't like it, the sites no longer comes up in the search results. Happens thousands of times a day.
Private companies like facebook or twitter are not required to pay for your microphone that's not what freedom of speech is about. If the government bans you from speaking that is bad. If Facebook pulls your page thats their editorial discretion(also part of the first amendment) then you can move over to reddit or myspace or whatever.
Yeah the only problem for facebook is when they end up policing content to the point that people just give up, say fuck it and en masse go somewhere else. Facebook knows this which is why they are taking a very careful approach to this whole thing. We'll see how it goes. Same for Twitter and Google and whever else.
Facebook, Twitter and Google are all applications in which you arent the consumer, but the product. Poultry farms routinely de-beak their chickens in order to prevent them from harming other birds or their handlers. Pig farms will remove the teeth of aggressive hogs to ensure the productive health of their herd. cattle farms will often segregate and destroy downed or overaggressive bovine. Facebook and Twitter will remove shitposts and cull aggressive users to ensure their cattle remain copacetic and the product --you-- performs to the liking of their consumers.
I don't personally give a shit about Facebook and Twitter since I don't use those platforms for anything but I do use Google and I make a lot of money from Google these days.
The way I see it is this, Google spends a lot of time de-indexing shit websites. Duplicate content, link farms, spam, so on and so forth. What they typically don't get rid of is original editorial content because that is the stuff that is the most valuable to their users. It stands to reason that a place like Stormfront is chock full of this kind of thing and for a certain segment of the population, this is useful. I wouldn't know as I don't get into that stuff but it was an example that sprang to mind. If Google goes on a tear de-indexing "useful" original content, I promise you that content will end up getting indexed somewhere else and the eyeballs will follow it.
That could be a good thing in the long run as Google could use some legitimate competition and BIng/Yahoo ain't it. Now you might say, good riddance to Stormfront and I can't say I necessarily disagree though, honestly, I don't really care. However, a lot of what could be considered "abuse" comes from some pretty mainstream sites so if Google makes the mistake of actively policing that content, get the popcorn 'cause it's gonna be a hell of a show.
I would almost guess that from an ad revenue perspective, controversial posters are more valuable than uncontroversial posters.
Yeah, except controversy is pretty much "the internet". Right now the good money is on pro-SJW initiatives and blog posts which are often times where the real controversy (read: pageviews/ad revenue) is. Just look at the post counts Slashdot and hacker news gets on a good SJW story. How much money did Anita Sarkeesian make on her kickstarter again? Hell, I'm thinking about doing some keyword research, finding a high PR expired domain and starting some kind of anti-bullying/hate speech/whatever blog myself. Point a pbn at it for some backlinks and cash in! And I could not give a shit less about this kind of stuff. Yeah, I'm that cynical.
You will never fix this as long as our society is based on greed.
Bullshit! If society were actually based on greed, there would be no racism, sexism or anything else like it because businesses only care about one color, green! You need to check your premises somewhere.
It's this attitude that everyone can be trained. It's unrealistic.
While this probably isn't completely true, here's the bottom line for you. The NFL is deathly afraid like practically every other major corporation of a massive pay-out and the reputation tarnishing a high-profile discrimination lawsuit would bring so they're covering their bases. And the people that create these kinds of courses are laughing all the way to the bank because there is such a juicy market for the shit they're peddling. Follow the money.
It's also worth mentioning that Jim Crow laws were "laws" because had the government not actually put them on the books, most businesses would never had followed them, because, you know, business is there to make money, not give a shit what color you are. Thanks, government!
I think it's ridiculous that people have to worry about somebody policing who they can and can't marry; I think the war on drugs has ruined many more lives than it could ever hope to save and should be stopped; I think the death penalty is wrong. Point in fact, on most issues, I lean left. However, with the constant childish name-calling, spite-filled, intolerant, unadulterated hate that comes from the extreme left-wing in this country, I would never ever identify myself as a "progressive". What the left has become is to spit in the face of what true liberalism is about and many rational nominally left leaning people don't want anything to do with it.
I don't know, I'd probably argue that coding skills have fairly broad application if they're comprehensive enough. The issue is, this is going to be just like kids that "learn" a foreign language in HS. They'll memorize just enough to pass the test then promptly forget it all. In 5 years, they might be able to tell you what document.write does. Or not. It's a waste of resources. What's the graduation rate of Chicago Public Schools again? Pretty low. I doubt this is going to help.
countermanding their conscious choices in how their computer operates
That's a huge issue. I can understand people not giving a shit about the spying since it's "out of sight thus out of mind". Not saying I agree with that stance but after dealing with humanity for a number of decades I, at least, understand it. But, goddammit, I don't want Edge as my default pdf viewer. On Windows, I like Sumatra! Where the hell does MS get off changing my pdf viewer after every update? Ordinarily I'm a Linux user (I'm typing this on my Dell running Ubuntu) but I wanted a detachable touchscreen device with a decent touch-friendly user experience that can run real applications so I went to Best Buy and got a 2-in-1 running WIndows 10. It's alright, I guess, and it can do some things my Android tablet can't so I'll be keeping it but it sure is an exercise in taking the good with the bad.
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I guess I'm the opposite then. I actually owned a Windows Phone. It was the large screen (for the time) HTC. I don't even remember the model name. I only gave it a chance because of the heaping praise all the tech blogs and commenters were giving it. I absolutely hated it The browser sucked, the apps sucked, the swoopy animations sucked. I eventually traded it for some craptastic Galaxy S based phone that while it sucked too, was a helluva lot better than what I had.
I don't think it could ever get any worse than when the ZuneHD came out. You would have thought it was dipped in 24 carat gold the way they were going on and on about it. And the Kin phones. If I recall, the Facebook page for it had something like 500,000 "friends" and they sold what, like, a few hundred total?
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woa so much agression. I can't take it
Men negotiate harder. That may be a "gender difference" but I don't see how you could fault men for it.
Talk is cheap, which is why this "easy money" point was, is, and always will be bullshit.
Yep. It sure is. Which is why you should never try it yourself.
Any ideas on how this could be done?
I can't speak on Twitter or Facebook but Google could do it pretty easily as they have a process to de-index that works fairly well for them. People report sites and when Google gets enough reports it triggers a manual review. Some drone looks at the site and if they don't like it, the sites no longer comes up in the search results. Happens thousands of times a day.
Private companies like facebook or twitter are not required to pay for your microphone that's not what freedom of speech is about. If the government bans you from speaking that is bad. If Facebook pulls your page thats their editorial discretion(also part of the first amendment) then you can move over to reddit or myspace or whatever.
Yeah the only problem for facebook is when they end up policing content to the point that people just give up, say fuck it and en masse go somewhere else. Facebook knows this which is why they are taking a very careful approach to this whole thing. We'll see how it goes. Same for Twitter and Google and whever else.
Facebook, Twitter and Google are all applications in which you arent the consumer, but the product. Poultry farms routinely de-beak their chickens in order to prevent them from harming other birds or their handlers. Pig farms will remove the teeth of aggressive hogs to ensure the productive health of their herd. cattle farms will often segregate and destroy downed or overaggressive bovine.
Facebook and Twitter will remove shitposts and cull aggressive users to ensure their cattle remain copacetic and the product --you-- performs to the liking of their consumers.
I don't personally give a shit about Facebook and Twitter since I don't use those platforms for anything but I do use Google and I make a lot of money from Google these days.
The way I see it is this, Google spends a lot of time de-indexing shit websites. Duplicate content, link farms, spam, so on and so forth. What they typically don't get rid of is original editorial content because that is the stuff that is the most valuable to their users. It stands to reason that a place like Stormfront is chock full of this kind of thing and for a certain segment of the population, this is useful. I wouldn't know as I don't get into that stuff but it was an example that sprang to mind. If Google goes on a tear de-indexing "useful" original content, I promise you that content will end up getting indexed somewhere else and the eyeballs will follow it.
That could be a good thing in the long run as Google could use some legitimate competition and BIng/Yahoo ain't it. Now you might say, good riddance to Stormfront and I can't say I necessarily disagree though, honestly, I don't really care. However, a lot of what could be considered "abuse" comes from some pretty mainstream sites so if Google makes the mistake of actively policing that content, get the popcorn 'cause it's gonna be a hell of a show.
I would almost guess that from an ad revenue perspective, controversial posters are more valuable than uncontroversial posters.
Yeah, except controversy is pretty much "the internet". Right now the good money is on pro-SJW initiatives and blog posts which are often times where the real controversy (read: pageviews/ad revenue) is. Just look at the post counts Slashdot and hacker news gets on a good SJW story. How much money did Anita Sarkeesian make on her kickstarter again? Hell, I'm thinking about doing some keyword research, finding a high PR expired domain and starting some kind of anti-bullying/hate speech/whatever blog myself. Point a pbn at it for some backlinks and cash in! And I could not give a shit less about this kind of stuff. Yeah, I'm that cynical.
Fuck yourself.
You will never fix this as long as our society is based on greed.
Bullshit! If society were actually based on greed, there would be no racism, sexism or anything else like it because businesses only care about one color, green! You need to check your premises somewhere.
It's this attitude that everyone can be trained. It's unrealistic.
While this probably isn't completely true, here's the bottom line for you. The NFL is deathly afraid like practically every other major corporation of a massive pay-out and the reputation tarnishing a high-profile discrimination lawsuit would bring so they're covering their bases. And the people that create these kinds of courses are laughing all the way to the bank because there is such a juicy market for the shit they're peddling. Follow the money.
slavery, Jim Crow, and the KKK.
You're right, and we have a word for that kind of Democrat today: Republican.
So Republicans are advocating these things? You are delusional. Oh and when did you quit beating your wife?
See? You just made a joke. And it wasn't half-bad even for you. Learn from this experience.
Jokes are a very good way to cut through bullshit and expose hypocrisy for what it is. The irony here is palpable.
It's also worth mentioning that Jim Crow laws were "laws" because had the government not actually put them on the books, most businesses would never had followed them, because, you know, business is there to make money, not give a shit what color you are. Thanks, government!
Why go through all that trouble when you can just select the 2x speed option for any video on youtube itself?
Wait, are we talking Trump or Hillary winning here?
Reality is rarely politically correct.
Actually I was referring to nut jobs like you.
I think it's ridiculous that people have to worry about somebody policing who they can and can't marry; I think the war on drugs has ruined many more lives than it could ever hope to save and should be stopped; I think the death penalty is wrong. Point in fact, on most issues, I lean left. However, with the constant childish name-calling, spite-filled, intolerant, unadulterated hate that comes from the extreme left-wing in this country, I would never ever identify myself as a "progressive". What the left has become is to spit in the face of what true liberalism is about and many rational nominally left leaning people don't want anything to do with it.
I don't know, I'd probably argue that coding skills have fairly broad application if they're comprehensive enough. The issue is, this is going to be just like kids that "learn" a foreign language in HS. They'll memorize just enough to pass the test then promptly forget it all. In 5 years, they might be able to tell you what document.write does. Or not. It's a waste of resources. What's the graduation rate of Chicago Public Schools again? Pretty low. I doubt this is going to help.
Yep, upon rereading the summary, you're right.
countermanding their conscious choices in how their computer operates
That's a huge issue. I can understand people not giving a shit about the spying since it's "out of sight thus out of mind". Not saying I agree with that stance but after dealing with humanity for a number of decades I, at least, understand it. But, goddammit, I don't want Edge as my default pdf viewer. On Windows, I like Sumatra! Where the hell does MS get off changing my pdf viewer after every update? Ordinarily I'm a Linux user (I'm typing this on my Dell running Ubuntu) but I wanted a detachable touchscreen device with a decent touch-friendly user experience that can run real applications so I went to Best Buy and got a 2-in-1 running WIndows 10. It's alright, I guess, and it can do some things my Android tablet can't so I'll be keeping it but it sure is an exercise in taking the good with the bad.