How are they going to clamp down on it? At the endpoints. Bitcoin needs to be cashed out to another currency at some point, unless the *only* things you want to buy are drugs and sploits and Magic cards. Now, there are some small players who might fit that description. There are even some in the psychedelic community who make certain drugs available on ideological grounds (cognitive freedom) and don't really care about cashing out. But they can certainly turn up the heat on anyone trying to profit. How effective that is remains to be seen.
The iPhone is made using conflict minerals that support all kinds of guerilla armies in Africa, sometimes also mined by child laborers, using mining practices that involve, for example, sticking their bare hands in a mercury solution. You have wage slaves literally throwing themselves off the roof of the Foxconn plant where the phones are assembled.
With the food service industry, there is more variation in how things are done. Some very upscale places might provide decent wages, since they are given directly to the workers as tips, without having the businessman skim any off. But the majority of people in that industry barely scrape by.
Nobody can argue that medicines aren't good for society, but your next sentence mentions "these people". There are plenty of "these people" at pharmaceutical companies who have nothing to do with developing medicines but are perfectly happy to jack up the prices on them for no reason other than they can, and if people get hurt in the process, so be it.
"These people" contribute no more to society than ticket scalpers. They put the product of someone else's labor in your hands and tell you to fixate on that, ignore their trail of destruction. It's moved way beyond necessary evil into unnecessary evil.
Shrooms can help treat depression after it has already manifested, but to get to the root of the "suicide epidemic" you need to look no further than how our society treats people. Japan has had a perpetual suicide epidemic throughout their history. Our society has become more like theirs in a few ways - cutthroat competition from cradle to grave, very little tolerance for mistakes, sexual repression, overwork to the point of death being seen as virtuous, etc. Then we've got all our own unique problems on top of that... Prevention beats treatment every time.
It should be noted that at the time, it was not uncommon for phones to have proprietary connectors for charging, and also for headphones, if they supported headphones at all. The Sony Ericson I had ca. 2008, was advertised as a combo phone/MP3 player, yet it still required a dongle for headphones.
Not that any of this excuses Apple from re-introducing the problem.
I wouldn't call it their "current focus", it's been their focus for almost the entire history of the company. It's just gotten especially egregious now that their customers more closely resemble Kim Kardashian than computer nerds, like they did in the 70s through the 90s.
It might also be worth mentioning, then, that legal access to assisted suicide would reduce gun deaths by up to a third. Take a few other easy steps toward a better society (better social safety net, worthwhile education, fair economic opportunities, etc) and I think you could knock off another third.
I doubt they can do much more than force organizations in their country not to provide this kind of information. Which is great for people in that country, but it won't hurt Equifax much at all. I doubt the WTO or any other international body can/will do anything.
Funny how Snopes has been investigating myths, including the political, for something like 20 years, but you never heard a whisper about this supposed bias until the Trumpkins got some skin in the game. The mountain of bullshit surrounding Trump is so high that any organization doing reporting or fact-checking will have to tackle it sooner or later. That's going to be a problem for Dear Leader, so trust in these organizations needs to be eroded. Stay tuned instead to your 4chan, Twitter, and YouTube filter bubbles for reliable, alternative facts.
See, I hadn't remembered the degree to which NASA farms out to outside aerospace contractors. Having everything vertically integrated certainly promotes financial efficiencies if nothing else. Since nationalizing the whole industry isnt a good idea, it seems there is an opening for a company like SpaceX to get started.
NASA has also been lacking leadership and vision for the past few decades. However, for planetary-scale projects, I think some level of centralized planning is not just a good idea, but critical to the success of real advancements like colonizing mars. What happens when someone other than SpaceX wants to go? What happens when conflicts over mineral rights gets weapons get sent up?
For a project like that you can't have too many actors pulling too many different ways. What could be done is for the country to subsidize a company like SpaceX (don't we already via contracts and tax breaks?) and in turn get some degree of input into these projects. That way you get the industrial/financial benefits of how SpaceX works with some measure of insulation from market forces that might cause the company's focus to shift to something other than advancing humanity.
Where and how has the government tried to use the medical system to implement social policy? The only significant intersection between social issues and medicine I can think of is abortion, and in most cases the religious radicals have failed to get the government to do their bidding in those clinics. (Unfortunately not here in Texas, where in the past decade pregnancy related deaths have risen to the level of an African nation.)
Usually. What happened here is that the Republican candidate returned to the old tricks of race baiting (among others) that had been off-limits for a few decades. The turnout in general is so low that the gambit was to increase turnout among the white nationalists and anarcho-capitalist types... Even by a small amount, the overall turnout is so low that a relatively small group of extremists was able to swing the electoral college, despite more citizens actually pulling the lever for someone else. You can see this reflected in the content of the ads. They don't say "vote for Trump, he will lower your taxes"... That's what a legitimate campaign does. The ads mention things like BLM to whip up fear of "the blacks are taking over" among people vulnerable to that kind of thinking.
Did you really type that all out? It's easier to just stick your fingers in your ears and say "La la laa I can't hear you!" every time there is an update on this. There will be plenty more to come, we don't let foreign attacks on our democracy go uninvestigated. (Domestic attacks, sometimes we let go)
Most of them aren't new. I got into the habit of avoiding new movies to keep the RIAA notices away. If I do go to the theater, its because someone else is paying or getting free tickets.
Fwiw... I am a huge Philip K Dick fan, I did see the original movie once years ago, had similar feelings about it. I did not read reviews or watch the trailer for 2049. Generally, I don't watch many movies... This might be my fourth or fifth movie this year, and the first in the theater.
I enjoyed the movie overall - amazing visuals, atmosphere, things like that. But it was a bit light on plot. I think the themes could have been explored more enjoyably with a thicker plot. The problem reviewers seem to have with it is the same, that it's too beholden to the both the successes and shortcomings of the original. I'm of the opinion that theres a middle ground between the artsy style of Blade Runner and the more conventional stuff like The Martian, and that's where the sweet spot is.
So what exactly are these gross inefficiencies at NASA, how does SpaceX do it better, and why can't those fixes get applied at NASA? You'll need to do better than "it's gubmint" to sound like you aren't talking out of your ass. Please, amaze me with your knowledge of the problems at NASA. If there's some actual insight you have to these organizations, spit it out, that's why I come to Slashdot.
I'd also like to know the methodology you used to gauge that NASA "can't keep up". Because as things stand, SpaceX hasn't done much more than retread the ground that state-sponsored space programs covered 50 years ago. Musk talks big and sets dates, but having people on Mars by 2025 sounds about as realistic as the Model 3 production goals being met this month. There may come a time when space travel gets commodified to the point where state-sponsored programs are irrelevant, but we aren't there yet, and I doubt we would have left Earth at all in the absence of the US and/or Soviet space programs.
So what exactly are you proposing?
I haven't seen anyone on this thread advocate anything other than applying regulations where needed. As best I can tell, your post is in reply to a figure of straw who advocated for Soviet-style Communism.
If the powers that be can make you think the only two options are communism and anarcho-capitalism, that works out very well for them. I did see you advocate for regulation elsewhere in this thread, but why did you first feel the need to write the Capitalist Manifesto at the mere mention of corporate irresponsibility? I'm sensing a touch of cognitive dissonance bubbling up under that ideological inflexibility.
Who would accept the accountability? Someone who feels they are competent enough not to fuck up the entirety of what they are held liable for. Of course, at some organizations the hiring/promotion process is... Not great. You get people who take high-level salaries with little understanding of the work they are supposed to oversee. Or worse yet, you get people who *think* they are competent (Dunnig-Kreuger effect). The corporate culture at many places has a way of weeding out people who *do* have a firm understanding of their skills and *don't* bullshit... Especially at the high levels.
Another thing to consider is that the financial sector is full of "too-big-to-fail" organizations. There are a couple ways to deal with this problem, but the approach we have been trying recently (deregulate and hope for the best) has led to nothing but high-profile, recession-inducing fuckups. As for free access to guns and inefficient healthcare, the record shows our national politicians hold those just as sacredly as they hold the financial industry. If anything, the large singular fuckup of Equifax has a better chance of prodding them into action than the slowmo, perpetual fuckup of not having a first world healthcare system.
Look, there are only 80 comments on this article. Where is the army of propaganda drones for this story? Its like they didn't have a response ready for this one. I think this operation was actually an amateur one. You will see more astroturfing attempts like this all over the place, and most of the time you won't even realize it's going on.
The real problem is that when presented with a basically limitless buffet of alternative facts to confirm whatever ideas they might have, people are unable to distinguish between 4chan and something they should actually give a shit about. I don't know what the solution to this is. Fix the education system? Easier said than done. It's fucked at every level.
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How are they going to clamp down on it? At the endpoints. Bitcoin needs to be cashed out to another currency at some point, unless the *only* things you want to buy are drugs and sploits and Magic cards. Now, there are some small players who might fit that description. There are even some in the psychedelic community who make certain drugs available on ideological grounds (cognitive freedom) and don't really care about cashing out. But they can certainly turn up the heat on anyone trying to profit. How effective that is remains to be seen.
The courts consider him "on the run", not serving time, even if that is de facto what is happening.
The iPhone is made using conflict minerals that support all kinds of guerilla armies in Africa, sometimes also mined by child laborers, using mining practices that involve, for example, sticking their bare hands in a mercury solution. You have wage slaves literally throwing themselves off the roof of the Foxconn plant where the phones are assembled.
With the food service industry, there is more variation in how things are done. Some very upscale places might provide decent wages, since they are given directly to the workers as tips, without having the businessman skim any off. But the majority of people in that industry barely scrape by.
Nobody can argue that medicines aren't good for society, but your next sentence mentions "these people". There are plenty of "these people" at pharmaceutical companies who have nothing to do with developing medicines but are perfectly happy to jack up the prices on them for no reason other than they can, and if people get hurt in the process, so be it.
"These people" contribute no more to society than ticket scalpers. They put the product of someone else's labor in your hands and tell you to fixate on that, ignore their trail of destruction. It's moved way beyond necessary evil into unnecessary evil.
Shrooms can help treat depression after it has already manifested, but to get to the root of the "suicide epidemic" you need to look no further than how our society treats people. Japan has had a perpetual suicide epidemic throughout their history. Our society has become more like theirs in a few ways - cutthroat competition from cradle to grave, very little tolerance for mistakes, sexual repression, overwork to the point of death being seen as virtuous, etc. Then we've got all our own unique problems on top of that...
Prevention beats treatment every time.
It should be noted that at the time, it was not uncommon for phones to have proprietary connectors for charging, and also for headphones, if they supported headphones at all. The Sony Ericson I had ca. 2008, was advertised as a combo phone/MP3 player, yet it still required a dongle for headphones.
Not that any of this excuses Apple from re-introducing the problem.
I wouldn't call it their "current focus", it's been their focus for almost the entire history of the company. It's just gotten especially egregious now that their customers more closely resemble Kim Kardashian than computer nerds, like they did in the 70s through the 90s.
It might also be worth mentioning, then, that legal access to assisted suicide would reduce gun deaths by up to a third. Take a few other easy steps toward a better society (better social safety net, worthwhile education, fair economic opportunities, etc) and I think you could knock off another third.
I doubt they can do much more than force organizations in their country not to provide this kind of information. Which is great for people in that country, but it won't hurt Equifax much at all. I doubt the WTO or any other international body can/will do anything.
Funny how Snopes has been investigating myths, including the political, for something like 20 years, but you never heard a whisper about this supposed bias until the Trumpkins got some skin in the game. The mountain of bullshit surrounding Trump is so high that any organization doing reporting or fact-checking will have to tackle it sooner or later. That's going to be a problem for Dear Leader, so trust in these organizations needs to be eroded. Stay tuned instead to your 4chan, Twitter, and YouTube filter bubbles for reliable, alternative facts.
See, I hadn't remembered the degree to which NASA farms out to outside aerospace contractors. Having everything vertically integrated certainly promotes financial efficiencies if nothing else. Since nationalizing the whole industry isnt a good idea, it seems there is an opening for a company like SpaceX to get started.
NASA has also been lacking leadership and vision for the past few decades. However, for planetary-scale projects, I think some level of centralized planning is not just a good idea, but critical to the success of real advancements like colonizing mars. What happens when someone other than SpaceX wants to go? What happens when conflicts over mineral rights gets weapons get sent up? For a project like that you can't have too many actors pulling too many different ways. What could be done is for the country to subsidize a company like SpaceX (don't we already via contracts and tax breaks?) and in turn get some degree of input into these projects. That way you get the industrial/financial benefits of how SpaceX works with some measure of insulation from market forces that might cause the company's focus to shift to something other than advancing humanity.
Where and how has the government tried to use the medical system to implement social policy? The only significant intersection between social issues and medicine I can think of is abortion, and in most cases the religious radicals have failed to get the government to do their bidding in those clinics. (Unfortunately not here in Texas, where in the past decade pregnancy related deaths have risen to the level of an African nation.)
Usually. What happened here is that the Republican candidate returned to the old tricks of race baiting (among others) that had been off-limits for a few decades. The turnout in general is so low that the gambit was to increase turnout among the white nationalists and anarcho-capitalist types... Even by a small amount, the overall turnout is so low that a relatively small group of extremists was able to swing the electoral college, despite more citizens actually pulling the lever for someone else. You can see this reflected in the content of the ads. They don't say "vote for Trump, he will lower your taxes"... That's what a legitimate campaign does. The ads mention things like BLM to whip up fear of "the blacks are taking over" among people vulnerable to that kind of thinking.
Did you really type that all out? It's easier to just stick your fingers in your ears and say "La la laa I can't hear you!" every time there is an update on this. There will be plenty more to come, we don't let foreign attacks on our democracy go uninvestigated. (Domestic attacks, sometimes we let go)
Most of them aren't new. I got into the habit of avoiding new movies to keep the RIAA notices away. If I do go to the theater, its because someone else is paying or getting free tickets.
I'm amazed I managed to hear it was opening this weekend, even more that I attended. You're welcome Ridley. Sorry I didn't bring a busload.
Fwiw... I am a huge Philip K Dick fan, I did see the original movie once years ago, had similar feelings about it. I did not read reviews or watch the trailer for 2049. Generally, I don't watch many movies... This might be my fourth or fifth movie this year, and the first in the theater.
I enjoyed the movie overall - amazing visuals, atmosphere, things like that. But it was a bit light on plot. I think the themes could have been explored more enjoyably with a thicker plot. The problem reviewers seem to have with it is the same, that it's too beholden to the both the successes and shortcomings of the original. I'm of the opinion that theres a middle ground between the artsy style of Blade Runner and the more conventional stuff like The Martian, and that's where the sweet spot is.
So what exactly are these gross inefficiencies at NASA, how does SpaceX do it better, and why can't those fixes get applied at NASA? You'll need to do better than "it's gubmint" to sound like you aren't talking out of your ass. Please, amaze me with your knowledge of the problems at NASA. If there's some actual insight you have to these organizations, spit it out, that's why I come to Slashdot.
I'd also like to know the methodology you used to gauge that NASA "can't keep up". Because as things stand, SpaceX hasn't done much more than retread the ground that state-sponsored space programs covered 50 years ago. Musk talks big and sets dates, but having people on Mars by 2025 sounds about as realistic as the Model 3 production goals being met this month. There may come a time when space travel gets commodified to the point where state-sponsored programs are irrelevant, but we aren't there yet, and I doubt we would have left Earth at all in the absence of the US and/or Soviet space programs.
So what exactly are you proposing? I haven't seen anyone on this thread advocate anything other than applying regulations where needed. As best I can tell, your post is in reply to a figure of straw who advocated for Soviet-style Communism.
If the powers that be can make you think the only two options are communism and anarcho-capitalism, that works out very well for them. I did see you advocate for regulation elsewhere in this thread, but why did you first feel the need to write the Capitalist Manifesto at the mere mention of corporate irresponsibility? I'm sensing a touch of cognitive dissonance bubbling up under that ideological inflexibility.
Remember that currency was a new thing for most people the Romans introduced it to. What was on the coins? The name and the mark of the beast.
Who would accept the accountability? Someone who feels they are competent enough not to fuck up the entirety of what they are held liable for. Of course, at some organizations the hiring/promotion process is... Not great. You get people who take high-level salaries with little understanding of the work they are supposed to oversee. Or worse yet, you get people who *think* they are competent (Dunnig-Kreuger effect). The corporate culture at many places has a way of weeding out people who *do* have a firm understanding of their skills and *don't* bullshit... Especially at the high levels.
Another thing to consider is that the financial sector is full of "too-big-to-fail" organizations. There are a couple ways to deal with this problem, but the approach we have been trying recently (deregulate and hope for the best) has led to nothing but high-profile, recession-inducing fuckups. As for free access to guns and inefficient healthcare, the record shows our national politicians hold those just as sacredly as they hold the financial industry. If anything, the large singular fuckup of Equifax has a better chance of prodding them into action than the slowmo, perpetual fuckup of not having a first world healthcare system.
These days most of the basement dwellers I know gravitate more to the "taxes are theft" line.
Remember this is the same company that allowed and profited off fake antivirus apps sold in the iPhone app store for an entire decade.
Look, there are only 80 comments on this article. Where is the army of propaganda drones for this story? Its like they didn't have a response ready for this one. I think this operation was actually an amateur one. You will see more astroturfing attempts like this all over the place, and most of the time you won't even realize it's going on.
The real problem is that when presented with a basically limitless buffet of alternative facts to confirm whatever ideas they might have, people are unable to distinguish between 4chan and something they should actually give a shit about. I don't know what the solution to this is. Fix the education system? Easier said than done. It's fucked at every level.