I suspect what's actually happening is that the real causative factor is that people in towns with high immigrant populations are getting fed up with the local immigrants and are taking to Facebook to complain about it while, simultaneously, the more violent/criminal among them are also engaging in more violence against immigrants. The chatter on Facebook isn't CAUSING the violence. Both the chatter and the violence are just by-products of the real cause (that people are getting sick of dealing with immigrants in their town).
Now, whether people are *justified* in getting fed-up is debatable, but that's likely what's really happening here.
This. I suspect what's actually happening is that the real causative factor is that people in towns with high immigrant populations are getting fed up with the local immigrants and are taking to Facebook to complain about it while, simultaneously, the more violent/criminal among them are also engaging in more violence against immigrants. The chatter on Facebook isn't CAUSING the violence. Both the chatter and the violence are just by-products of the real cause (that people are getting sick of dealing with immigrants in their town).
Now, whether people are *justified* in getting fed-up is debatable, but that's likely what's really happening here.
Xi Jinping would never go so far as to harm his opponents. Though his opposition does tend to show an unusually high rate of suicide-by-throwing-themselves-down-an-elevator-shaft-onto-some-bullets.
At this point I would be surprised if, by the 2020 election, there are even a small handful of conservative voices who haven't been completely banned for YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Alex Jones was a kook, but he was just the low-hanging fruit they used to set a precedent. Anyone who thinks he'll be the last conservative voice effectively banished from the internet is kidding themselves.
They start with the kooks, then they go after the semi-kooks, then they go after the controversial, then the semi-controversial....and by the 2020 election pretty much anyone to the right of Che Guevara is a persona non grata on the modern internet. And that's how democracy dies. Say anything you want as long as no one can hear you.
I recently unsubbed and it's for good this time. Their legacy content (non-Netflix movies and shows) is almost completely gone now, or so obscured as to be impossible to find under their awful UI that only pimps their own original content. Those autoplay trailers when you're just trying to browse are so far beyond annoying that I don't think there's a word in the English language to express my feelings on them (Hyper-mega-grating? Super-high-annoying? Still doesn't capture it).
Netflix streaming is a shadow of its one-time greatness. They have a small handful of decent originals, most of which burn out and decline quickly after one season. Their once-awesome catalog of legacy content shrinks more and more every year. It's just not worth all the bullshit that they just KEEP PILING ON anymore. I hated those autoplay trailers in the menu badly enough. So I'll be damned if I *EVER* pay for ads between my episodes too. Who exactly is the customer here anyway, me or them?
Fuck that, I'm still holding out for OS/2 Transwarp. Any day now, IBM will drop this and the world will be made right again. You just gotta believe, man.
Yeah, I've had a very positive experience with Charter/Spectrum too. I used to pay $70 for 25Mbps internet. When Spectrum came in, I was able to get 100 Mbps for $65 a month. So no complaints from me. Of course, they didn't automatically convert us over. They would still be happily charging me the $70 for 25Mbps if I hadn't taken the initiative after seeing the new price structure on their website.
I've never worked in an open office, but it sounds like a nightmare to me. The noise, the constant distractions, the complete lack of privacy. I can't imagine how anyone gets any work done at all. And that's not even to mention the security risks for anyone working with any kind of sensitive or private data, with literally everyone else in the company (and anyone even passing through) looking right over their shoulders.
I can't believe that some companies think this is actually a selling point to potential employees. That's like having a recruiter try to sell routine employee strip searches as an employee benefit. Hey, we don't even charge you for them, they're complimentary!
If you really want to hurt Trump, the best strategy would be to ignore him. People with big egos hate that. With each scream against him, you're only making his hairplugs stronger.
You're choosing to play ball on his field, and he's Babe Ruth. But even the Babe can't knock it out of the park if you don't pitch to him. Try buying him hookers instead. The Babe loved those.
In all fairness, the batshit coming from the left these days is just the bastard child of the right's batshit birthers screaming that Barak Obama was a secret Muslim born in an al-quaida training camp. But I have to hand it to the Antifa crowd; they've really taken the batshit insanity to new heights of late. If we can get through the next Presidential debate without someone in the crowd running up on stage, dropping trow, and taking a giant shit in front someone's podium then I'll consider it an heartening victory for political civility.
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I suspect what's actually happening is that the real causative factor is that people in towns with high immigrant populations are getting fed up with the local immigrants and are taking to Facebook to complain about it while, simultaneously, the more violent/criminal among them are also engaging in more violence against immigrants. The chatter on Facebook isn't CAUSING the violence. Both the chatter and the violence are just by-products of the real cause (that people are getting sick of dealing with immigrants in their town).
Now, whether people are *justified* in getting fed-up is debatable, but that's likely what's really happening here.
This. I suspect what's actually happening is that the real causative factor is that people in towns with high immigrant populations are getting fed up with the local immigrants and are taking to Facebook to complain about it while, simultaneously, the more violent/criminal among them are also engaging in more violence against immigrants. The chatter on Facebook isn't CAUSING the violence. Both the chatter and the violence are just by-products of the real cause (that people are getting sick of dealing with immigrants in their town).
Now, whether people are *justified* in getting fed-up is debatable, but that's likely what's really happening here.
Some people are just REALLY tired of living, man.
Xi Jinping would never go so far as to harm his opponents. Though his opposition does tend to show an unusually high rate of suicide-by-throwing-themselves-down-an-elevator-shaft-onto-some-bullets.
They just streamlined the motto by removing the "no".
Its likely Google's Chinese employees are far more practical about this than Google USA employees.
Of course Chinese workers all unite to praise Glorious Leader Xi Jinping's glorious censorship program....or else.
At this point I would be surprised if, by the 2020 election, there are even a small handful of conservative voices who haven't been completely banned for YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Alex Jones was a kook, but he was just the low-hanging fruit they used to set a precedent. Anyone who thinks he'll be the last conservative voice effectively banished from the internet is kidding themselves.
They start with the kooks, then they go after the semi-kooks, then they go after the controversial, then the semi-controversial....and by the 2020 election pretty much anyone to the right of Che Guevara is a persona non grata on the modern internet. And that's how democracy dies. Say anything you want as long as no one can hear you.
Apparently they're only cool with censoring their own conservative employees.
I recently unsubbed and it's for good this time. Their legacy content (non-Netflix movies and shows) is almost completely gone now, or so obscured as to be impossible to find under their awful UI that only pimps their own original content. Those autoplay trailers when you're just trying to browse are so far beyond annoying that I don't think there's a word in the English language to express my feelings on them (Hyper-mega-grating? Super-high-annoying? Still doesn't capture it).
Netflix streaming is a shadow of its one-time greatness. They have a small handful of decent originals, most of which burn out and decline quickly after one season. Their once-awesome catalog of legacy content shrinks more and more every year. It's just not worth all the bullshit that they just KEEP PILING ON anymore. I hated those autoplay trailers in the menu badly enough. So I'll be damned if I *EVER* pay for ads between my episodes too. Who exactly is the customer here anyway, me or them?
Looks like Moviepass is addressing this directly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Need....it.....now
No need for a complex design. Hell, retirees down in Florida have crazy pimped-out golfcarts already. No need to reinvent the wheel.
Fuck that, I'm still holding out for OS/2 Transwarp. Any day now, IBM will drop this and the world will be made right again. You just gotta believe, man.
Ironically, Chattanooga itself is in appalachia.
Yeah, I've had a very positive experience with Charter/Spectrum too. I used to pay $70 for 25Mbps internet. When Spectrum came in, I was able to get 100 Mbps for $65 a month. So no complaints from me. Of course, they didn't automatically convert us over. They would still be happily charging me the $70 for 25Mbps if I hadn't taken the initiative after seeing the new price structure on their website.
Well no, of course not. But that's like comparing an excellent sitcom to Goodfellas.
In all fairness, the second season of "OW! MY BALLS!" was pretty good. It won six Emmys that year.
I've never worked in an open office, but it sounds like a nightmare to me. The noise, the constant distractions, the complete lack of privacy. I can't imagine how anyone gets any work done at all. And that's not even to mention the security risks for anyone working with any kind of sensitive or private data, with literally everyone else in the company (and anyone even passing through) looking right over their shoulders.
I can't believe that some companies think this is actually a selling point to potential employees. That's like having a recruiter try to sell routine employee strip searches as an employee benefit. Hey, we don't even charge you for them, they're complimentary!
Hey Britain, we're breaking up with you.
It's not you, it's us. Hope we can still remain friends, but we're not gonna fuck anymore.
ELSE SET CRIMINAL = TRUE
Everyone loves parties.
I'm pretty sure her plan was to let in a bunch of refugees who would then turn around and vote for her and her party. Didn't work out so well though.
They need to have useful skills too, like juggling. Everyone loves a good juggler.
If you really want to hurt Trump, the best strategy would be to ignore him. People with big egos hate that. With each scream against him, you're only making his hairplugs stronger.
You're choosing to play ball on his field, and he's Babe Ruth. But even the Babe can't knock it out of the park if you don't pitch to him. Try buying him hookers instead. The Babe loved those.
In all fairness, the batshit coming from the left these days is just the bastard child of the right's batshit birthers screaming that Barak Obama was a secret Muslim born in an al-quaida training camp. But I have to hand it to the Antifa crowd; they've really taken the batshit insanity to new heights of late. If we can get through the next Presidential debate without someone in the crowd running up on stage, dropping trow, and taking a giant shit in front someone's podium then I'll consider it an heartening victory for political civility.