(1) The plastic ban was written by out-of-towners trying to impose their will on us.
(2) We can't have city ordinances that make any kind of reference to a state law. (It's not really explained what the legal or logical basis for this is.)
(3) Weighing in at a massive 10 pages, the law is so lengthy and complex that you'd need to "hire a full-time attorney" to comprehend it.
(4) The city will need to hire full-time straw inspectors.
(5) It's too much of a burden for stores to stock paper bags instead of plastic.
(6) People who receive food stamps will still be allowed to use plastic bags - an "entire class of citizens" would be free from having to comply!
In his closing paragraph, he makes sure to tell us he "expects the City Council to pick up the trash".
This does appear to be a legitimate news site, and not The Onion.
They have definitely inflated some numbers to make things look more enticing to foreign investors, but the reality is definitely growth, and not contraction. All the cargo-cult stuff going on in China to game the system - the building of empty high-rises, hiring whiteface performers to make your company seem Western - all of that falseness has been declining the last few years.
They inflated the GDP to get capitalists to send foreign money into China. It worked like a charm, kickstarted their economy, and established probably the world's biggest manufacturing base. Now that that process is nearing completion, you might see a few factories move around at the margins, but that doesn't change the tide. Apple's move in particular is more about what's going on in India, not China. They want to be sure as Indians buy their first smartphone, that they have cheap iPhones available to lock them in. Unless your first phone is an iPhone, there isn't much incentive to switch to Apple later.
They censor people when it's perceived to harm their business. They made a determination that having swastikas on their platform is worse for business than having Taylor Swift - makes sense to me. When a government censors, that's usually going to be some kind of ideological thought control. Twitter's concern extends only to their brand image.
Of course, they still end up with egg on their face from the verification fiasco. Half-hearted disavowals of racism and stark displays of nepotism - they seem to be taking a page from our head of state. Funnily enough, he also gets special treatment in bending Twitter's rules. So much for left-wing bias. He's just another A-list celeb they need to have to keep their brand relevant.
None of this surprises me or even really bothers me. They could ban everyone tomorrow and I wouldn't blink. They'd all move to some new, probably better alternative. There must be a teeming, untapped market for "freedom"-focused social media, right?
"How do you raise the minimum wage to 15/hr while simultaneously allowing an endless flood of people in that will work for $5/hr ?"
You can start by enforcing the labor laws - if the minimum wage is $15, but you are concerned about someone working for $5, something doesn't add up.
"If sexual preference is biologically determined, just how is gender a social construct ?"
Once you grasp that "gender" is not the same thing as "sexual preference", then we can start discussing nature vs. nurture. Politicians like to group these separate issues into the ever-expanding LGBTQA acronym, and it seems like you bought into that - hook, line & sinker.
"Or the simple If it's OK for the U.S. to interfere in Russian elections, why wouldn't you expect them to return the favor ?"
I would definitely expect them to return the favor, but I don't think it's OK. Nor have I heard anyone say it was - well, until this post.
At first, I was confused as to what an "accurate question" is - but now I think I'm getting a grasp of "inaccurate questions". I'm still in the dark as to why you think all this would come up on a video on a congressional hearing on white supremacy, though. I guess once a true Culture Warrior gets triggered by Mark Zuckerberg, they can't help themselves from going all-in, bringing up Mexicans, queers, and the 2016 election. Or at least, that's my observation. Maybe I'm wrong, and you can clarify why else all this would get brought up. If there's something going on here other than the politics of division, I'd love to be educated.
"Gig economy" is for the desperate. Desperate workers who will take a shitty job, and desperate employers who need [task] done with minimal overhead and no commitment on their part. There is some overlap between "desperate" and "loser", but they are not always going to be the same.
Employment based around desperation isn't good thing in the long term, for either party. I think what we saw was a spike in desperation at the same time these services became technically and socially feasible. How big it is will vary year to year with the bubbles and fickleness inherent in the free market. Hypeman economists like Sundararajan will have their heads going in circles trying to make sense of it.
I think it's helpful in understanding to avoid buzzwords like "gig economy" altogether. These kind of buzzwords are loaded up with an entire narrative that makes it mentally easy for you to forget context and history, being swept up in the hype. The facts become harder to actually integrate into your worldview. Keep history and context in mind, and it's clear the "gig economy" is more evolution than revolution. You're fixed on this image of a bedraggled hipster, that is the detritus of Sundararajan's investment hype. The reality is more... real. Normal people wanting the same things they always have.
"Availability and price" have been taken care of already, your critiques are a few years behind. What the industry didn't understand a decade ago, they do now. Whatever song you desire, you can stream it on YouTube for free with an ad. Or you can pay $10/mo or whatever Spotify is and get it without ads. The anti-piracy efforts are about wrangling up the stragglers who haven't fully moved over to this system yet. The remaining problem of ownership is easily ignored. People don't own their homes, cars, or cell phone these days. Music ownership does not even register as a concern. Ownership is for important people - you just pay your monthly tribute and hope they don't take your access away.
These particular measures with the watermarks are probably more for tracking purposes, though. This way they can track what and how you are listening over the air, even if it's not through their own service. It's about circumventing another provider's siloing of that data.
If you are concerned about governments prescribing ethics to people, that train left the station several thousand years ago, when the first code of laws was established.
You know what, I think I actually will read them. I have been needing some heavy duty sci fi to occupy my time, but wasn't sure what. His stuff should be easy to find at a used book store?
The one who is deranged is the one who thinks we can install someone as the head of the EPA, whose stated goal is undermining the EPA, and still have a functioning EPA.
Whatever edge cases that might get dredged up where wireless headphones are advantageous, these particular wireless headphones from Apple are deliberately overpriced and repair-crippled. Somebody gets plenty of "value" from these purchases, but it ain't the purchaser. True Apple believers, fascinated by logos and shiny things, do exactly as told and buy a new one every year or two.
If your claim is that Apple is providing "value" on these, your conception of the truth seems to have been warped by the Reality Distortion Field. I'd advise you to take a look at other offerings available from other manufacturers. Personally, I already have enough devices and chargers to babysit. I regularly use my headphones for more than a couple hours a day. None of the wireless models from any manufacturer would provide me with the value I need.
MS is trying to get into the new age of evil as well, look at their pushing of "operating-system-as-a-service", the tracking, pretty sure they are still paying off PC manufacturers to disallow anything but Windows, etc. Their evil hasn't subsided at all, it's just been overshadowed by new stuff, as desktop computers fade into the background.
Had Windows Phone actually achieved any kind of market share, it would actually have made the overall situation in phones better. There would have been reasonably-priced models (unlike Apple), and they wouldn't be able to combine quite as much data about you as Google could with their dominance of the internet in general. If you *must* be tracked, at least make sure that data is ending up in several different places, where it is harder to combine.
Facebook's already giving them plenty of donations. Regulatory actions, if anything, will decrease the amount of money the politicians personally receive. You must be new if you don't know that's how things work. I'd rather have that money go into the country's pot where it might provide me with something in return, instead of it going directly to someone's election campaign. But let's not let a reasoned analysis get in the way of fist-shaking about "politicians with guns".
Who said the computer crashed? What I read was the web site crashed. If your HTTPS timeout is 120 seconds, and its taking the server 150 seconds to generate the page, the connection times out and you get nothing.
Very rarely does anything on the server end crap out due to network bandwidth, unless a DDoS is involved. Bandwidth is cheap today. But, its VERY common for sites to crap out because they have a fucked-up SQL database that either pegs the CPU at 100%, or if they have that limited, that it simply can't answer the SQL requests before the HTTP connection times out.
Source: I professionally monitored web servers hosting collectively hundreds of thousands of sites.
The most Mordorish thing going on in NZ these days would probably be the mass indiscriminate killings. But no, the real tragedy here is that people who incite violence are being silenced. What would we do without Kendall's superb sense of perspective and surface-level LoTR analogies?
I wish them Good luck producing all the oil, machinery, fertilizer, and pesticides they need on-site without roads to bring it in. I guess it's back to horse-drawn plows for most of them. Profits could no longer be made - I guess we can leave profitable large-scale farming to the Socialist nations - but perhaps they could still survive on subsistence farming.
Pretty much everyone who does business in China has to go full Communist. Those who do business in China is quite an extensive list. Do you have a solution? More tarriffs?
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It sounds like a grade of cheese to me. Between cottage and cottagest.
15 to 25 million lines of it.
Are we sure proper thought is being given to the bugs, in particular security on these?
Some cities in the US have tried to. Luckily, there are wrinkly folks in the media to let them know why their city can't ban plastic trash:
(1) The plastic ban was written by out-of-towners trying to impose their will on us.
(2) We can't have city ordinances that make any kind of reference to a state law. (It's not really explained what the legal or logical basis for this is.)
(3) Weighing in at a massive 10 pages, the law is so lengthy and complex that you'd need to "hire a full-time attorney" to comprehend it.
(4) The city will need to hire full-time straw inspectors.
(5) It's too much of a burden for stores to stock paper bags instead of plastic.
(6) People who receive food stamps will still be allowed to use plastic bags - an "entire class of citizens" would be free from having to comply!
In his closing paragraph, he makes sure to tell us he "expects the City Council to pick up the trash".
This does appear to be a legitimate news site, and not The Onion.
They have definitely inflated some numbers to make things look more enticing to foreign investors, but the reality is definitely growth, and not contraction. All the cargo-cult stuff going on in China to game the system - the building of empty high-rises, hiring whiteface performers to make your company seem Western - all of that falseness has been declining the last few years.
They inflated the GDP to get capitalists to send foreign money into China. It worked like a charm, kickstarted their economy, and established probably the world's biggest manufacturing base. Now that that process is nearing completion, you might see a few factories move around at the margins, but that doesn't change the tide. Apple's move in particular is more about what's going on in India, not China. They want to be sure as Indians buy their first smartphone, that they have cheap iPhones available to lock them in. Unless your first phone is an iPhone, there isn't much incentive to switch to Apple later.
They censor people when it's perceived to harm their business. They made a determination that having swastikas on their platform is worse for business than having Taylor Swift - makes sense to me. When a government censors, that's usually going to be some kind of ideological thought control. Twitter's concern extends only to their brand image.
Of course, they still end up with egg on their face from the verification fiasco. Half-hearted disavowals of racism and stark displays of nepotism - they seem to be taking a page from our head of state. Funnily enough, he also gets special treatment in bending Twitter's rules. So much for left-wing bias. He's just another A-list celeb they need to have to keep their brand relevant.
None of this surprises me or even really bothers me. They could ban everyone tomorrow and I wouldn't blink. They'd all move to some new, probably better alternative. There must be a teeming, untapped market for "freedom"-focused social media, right?
If these buds aren't packing at least 12% THC, I don't want them.
"How do you raise the minimum wage to 15/hr while simultaneously allowing an endless flood of people in that will work for $5/hr ?"
You can start by enforcing the labor laws - if the minimum wage is $15, but you are concerned about someone working for $5, something doesn't add up.
"If sexual preference is biologically determined, just how is gender a social construct ?"
Once you grasp that "gender" is not the same thing as "sexual preference", then we can start discussing nature vs. nurture. Politicians like to group these separate issues into the ever-expanding LGBTQA acronym, and it seems like you bought into that - hook, line & sinker.
"Or the simple If it's OK for the U.S. to interfere in Russian elections, why wouldn't you expect them to return the favor ?"
I would definitely expect them to return the favor, but I don't think it's OK. Nor have I heard anyone say it was - well, until this post.
At first, I was confused as to what an "accurate question" is - but now I think I'm getting a grasp of "inaccurate questions".
I'm still in the dark as to why you think all this would come up on a video on a congressional hearing on white supremacy, though. I guess once a true Culture Warrior gets triggered by Mark Zuckerberg, they can't help themselves from going all-in, bringing up Mexicans, queers, and the 2016 election. Or at least, that's my observation. Maybe I'm wrong, and you can clarify why else all this would get brought up. If there's something going on here other than the politics of division, I'd love to be educated.
"Gig economy" is for the desperate. Desperate workers who will take a shitty job, and desperate employers who need [task] done with minimal overhead and no commitment on their part. There is some overlap between "desperate" and "loser", but they are not always going to be the same.
Employment based around desperation isn't good thing in the long term, for either party. I think what we saw was a spike in desperation at the same time these services became technically and socially feasible. How big it is will vary year to year with the bubbles and fickleness inherent in the free market. Hypeman economists like Sundararajan will have their heads going in circles trying to make sense of it.
I think it's helpful in understanding to avoid buzzwords like "gig economy" altogether. These kind of buzzwords are loaded up with an entire narrative that makes it mentally easy for you to forget context and history, being swept up in the hype. The facts become harder to actually integrate into your worldview. Keep history and context in mind, and it's clear the "gig economy" is more evolution than revolution. You're fixed on this image of a bedraggled hipster, that is the detritus of Sundararajan's investment hype. The reality is more... real. Normal people wanting the same things they always have.
At least the BBC licenses gave them Top Gear. This just gives you ads, and possibly invites strangers into your home.
"Availability and price" have been taken care of already, your critiques are a few years behind. What the industry didn't understand a decade ago, they do now. Whatever song you desire, you can stream it on YouTube for free with an ad. Or you can pay $10/mo or whatever Spotify is and get it without ads. The anti-piracy efforts are about wrangling up the stragglers who haven't fully moved over to this system yet. The remaining problem of ownership is easily ignored. People don't own their homes, cars, or cell phone these days. Music ownership does not even register as a concern. Ownership is for important people - you just pay your monthly tribute and hope they don't take your access away.
These particular measures with the watermarks are probably more for tracking purposes, though. This way they can track what and how you are listening over the air, even if it's not through their own service. It's about circumventing another provider's siloing of that data.
When they're demanding my dick, that usually bodes well, then again I don't use Tinder.
If you are concerned about governments prescribing ethics to people, that train left the station several thousand years ago, when the first code of laws was established.
You know what, I think I actually will read them. I have been needing some heavy duty sci fi to occupy my time, but wasn't sure what. His stuff should be easy to find at a used book store?
The one who is deranged is the one who thinks we can install someone as the head of the EPA, whose stated goal is undermining the EPA, and still have a functioning EPA.
Do you happen to know the name of this compound? I was thinking bananadine, but it turns out that's something different.
Whatever edge cases that might get dredged up where wireless headphones are advantageous, these particular wireless headphones from Apple are deliberately overpriced and repair-crippled. Somebody gets plenty of "value" from these purchases, but it ain't the purchaser. True Apple believers, fascinated by logos and shiny things, do exactly as told and buy a new one every year or two.
If your claim is that Apple is providing "value" on these, your conception of the truth seems to have been warped by the Reality Distortion Field. I'd advise you to take a look at other offerings available from other manufacturers. Personally, I already have enough devices and chargers to babysit. I regularly use my headphones for more than a couple hours a day. None of the wireless models from any manufacturer would provide me with the value I need.
MS is trying to get into the new age of evil as well, look at their pushing of "operating-system-as-a-service", the tracking, pretty sure they are still paying off PC manufacturers to disallow anything but Windows, etc. Their evil hasn't subsided at all, it's just been overshadowed by new stuff, as desktop computers fade into the background.
Had Windows Phone actually achieved any kind of market share, it would actually have made the overall situation in phones better. There would have been reasonably-priced models (unlike Apple), and they wouldn't be able to combine quite as much data about you as Google could with their dominance of the internet in general. If you *must* be tracked, at least make sure that data is ending up in several different places, where it is harder to combine.
Facebook's already giving them plenty of donations. Regulatory actions, if anything, will decrease the amount of money the politicians personally receive. You must be new if you don't know that's how things work. I'd rather have that money go into the country's pot where it might provide me with something in return, instead of it going directly to someone's election campaign. But let's not let a reasoned analysis get in the way of fist-shaking about "politicians with guns".
Who said the computer crashed? What I read was the web site crashed. If your HTTPS timeout is 120 seconds, and its taking the server 150 seconds to generate the page, the connection times out and you get nothing.
Very rarely does anything on the server end crap out due to network bandwidth, unless a DDoS is involved. Bandwidth is cheap today. But, its VERY common for sites to crap out because they have a fucked-up SQL database that either pegs the CPU at 100%, or if they have that limited, that it simply can't answer the SQL requests before the HTTP connection times out.
Source: I professionally monitored web servers hosting collectively hundreds of thousands of sites.
The most Mordorish thing going on in NZ these days would probably be the mass indiscriminate killings. But no, the real tragedy here is that people who incite violence are being silenced.
What would we do without Kendall's superb sense of perspective and surface-level LoTR analogies?
I wish them Good luck producing all the oil, machinery, fertilizer, and pesticides they need on-site without roads to bring it in. I guess it's back to horse-drawn plows for most of them. Profits could no longer be made - I guess we can leave profitable large-scale farming to the Socialist nations - but perhaps they could still survive on subsistence farming.
They have usually been mandated to buy it, I imagine.
Pretty much everyone who does business in China has to go full Communist. Those who do business in China is quite an extensive list. Do you have a solution? More tarriffs?
"Silly crap" seems to be working out pretty well for Tesla, and they are really just enabling drunk driving. I can get with Volvo on this one.