These are going to be $500+ phones with $80 cases on them, so that compensates for the decreased usability and increased fragility. It also gives the phone its bezel back, but notice how they will buy it regardless. Stupid phones for stupid people is the biggest marketing success story of the millennium.
There's many steps we can take to fix, as in repair, the electoral system. Multi-round runoff elections sound way better than 2 shitty primaries, for example. Everyone is too scared to even touch that. Hell, we can't even do away with the Electoral College. Or Daylight Savings Time for that matter. Organizational inertia!
Anyway, if the gerrymandering, poll-taxing Republicans were "mad as hell" at the result, they wouldn't be bobbleheaded yes-men for Dear Leader, and they wouldn't nominate him a second time. But it looks like all that is coming to pass.
A number of flaws in your analysis:
(1) You are comparing figures spent in a specific venue to aggregate figures that include the total of all ad spending. That total includes (for example) TV ads which are much more expensive and arguable less effective.
(2) Much of this is getting pushed by free social media accounts, not by ad purchases. Again, these are also more effective than ads, as they are presented as "authentic" and non-paid.
(3) The Internet Research Agency isn't for hire to run anyone's election campaign. You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding here. Their sole purpose is to sow division and thus weakness. That can be done without endorsing any specific candidate. To them, Trump is a "useful idiot" - not a leader or even a client. (Money laundering for Russian oligarchs notwithstanding.) The troll farm may well endorse a loudmouth like Ocasio-Cortez to ensure the Dems have no effective leadership either.
Point 3 sort of leads on to a whole 'noter post, about how the decay of American politics has already succeeded. Make no mistake, the seeds for that were planted already decades ago by red-blooded Americans. That is why Trump's election never surprised me. People view it as some kind of upset, but to me it's the logical conclusion of the decay.
The Chinese have moved to gait recognition, which I understand has better accuracy than most facial recognition, and is less prone to fooling by (for example) not showing your face, and I imagine it doesn't require as clear of a picture to work effectively.
The US is really lagging a step behind in their Social Credit System. It seems like not even Trump's executive authority is helping us to catch up. Maybe if he had better advisors, he'd have gait recognition suggested to him. Is the swamp half empty or half full? Hard to say.
Lolcow? Lollercoaster? Comedic gold here, folks! And he's got more life advice than Dr. Phil, to boot. Please, proceed with telling me that we have to accept death threats because anything else is censorship. Then we can add political philosophy to your list of accomplishments.
I'd say that there should be no way to get personally-identifying information out of Xbox Live. I can't say that there isn't. MS certainly does have personally-identifiable information tied to each account, so it's within the realm of possibility.
I'm not sure where the association with Smollett comes from, I'm picking up there's some kind of unstated inference, but even what was actually got typed is inaccurate, as there was a police report filed in that situation. Following that police report, and further investigation, the stories in the media were accordingly updated or followed up on. That whole process was complete before I ever heard the name "Smollett", and I read the news daily. To me, that is an example of the system working. If you are expecting 100% perfection from any system, good luck. If mistakes are owned up to and corrected when they occur, that's the best I can ask for -- and more than we get from most institutions.
But yeah, this is definitely part of the liberal media's War Against Gamers, which I guess is like the "War Against Christmas" that Bill O'Reilly used to always yell about, but for Millennials. Played like a fiddle, you say?
"You can play lots of videogames that are not internet connected....
Not much that's been released within the past 10 years. Game publishers are putting out the same FPS or MMO over and over, and selling the user-generated "social experience" as the draw, instead of developing single player content. Artists and programmers are expensive, screaming preteens are not. Of the games that are still single-player, they are getting progressively more dumbed-down and not worth the time. See the Elder Scrolls for a perfect example encapsulated in one series. But the problem is industry-wide.
Yes, the only reason people value their privacy is because of the evils of Socialism. Pay no mind as Facebook constructs the US's very own Social Credit System with the data. Even Grandma is plugged in these days. What are you, some kind of Luddite? Look, cats!
Personally I think Uncle Sam prefers this arrangement above all, that way he gets to keep the illusion we don't have a corporate-administered Social Credit System.
It's only weakening government control if Facebook puts up some kind of impediment to them. They won't. The US government, foreign governments, bounty hunters - or anyone with a few hundred bucks to spare - will probably get whatever information they want out of Facebook.
You're right, I must not be old or young or cool enough to like Dinosaur Jr. I'll try-harder next time, maybe some day I can post a momentously blank non-opinion like yours. Thanks for the great advice!
After listening to the Dinosaur Jr. track, I couldn't call it either "modern" or "pop". It's in the general vein of 90s alt-rock, which is a space that I dig, but this particular track Over Your Shoulder is pretty boring. If I'm picking obscure B-sides from that era I'd rather go to something from the Pixies, Modest Mouse, Toadies, the Flaming Lips, etc...
When it comes to diet, common sense is to eat as wide a variety of foods as possible, in reasonable quantities.
People lack common sense because they think the quantities of food that get served to them are OK to eat all in 1 go - they're not. Your meals should not be 1000 calories unless you're bodybuilding. Every time I go out to eat, even just fast food, I usually have a third of it left over to save for later in the day.
Oh, metabolizing what you eat helps as well. That doesn't mean join a gym, it means don't sit motionless all day.
Common sense boils down to "Diet & exercise", somehow people manage to turn both these words into a gnarled mess of contradictory ideas as they look for an easy way out that doesn't involve standing up and lowering your intake. The researchers try to detach themselves from that wheel, but as the impetus behind their research is providing an answer people want to hear - magic foods to eat that make you healthy - they can't totally decouple from it. Thank God there's been a retraction on this one, my faith in the system of scientific inquiry is a little stronger today.
I've been saying it for years, I don't trust nutritionists or economists... The weather man has gotten quite a bit better these days, though.
Plenty of blame to go around for the bad outcome. The police take the most blame, obviously. Next, the citizens who allow the police to behave like they do. Thirdly, people who take advantage of the situation. (As an aside, why is it always "gamers"? I have deliberately excluded myself from that subculture for over a decade, but the stuff I see coming out of those pits today, indicate seriously damaged minds)
I noticed similar on my phone, somehow Chrome was eating up even more data than YouTube. The WWW has truly gotten to a sad state when loading a few pages of text and images uses more bandwidth than streaming video for the same amount of time... It's barely any better than ActiveX plugins and Flash. Somewhat less likely to get you installed with a rootkit, though.
There is actually quite a bit of mental illness due to cars. Lead poisoning directly causes it, and for a good 70 years, cars would spew lead residue onto anything and anyone nearby. Once we banned lead fuel additives, the prevalence of developmental disorders declined from its peak in the 80s. But persistent heavy traffic noise has been linked to dementia in the elderly, which I believe is still rising. And it's not like the non-lead pollution from cars is harmless either.
Then we have the deaths caused directly by the vehicles, traffic accidents being the #1 cause of accidental death until just last year. (Overtaken by fentanyl overdoses, thanks to our latest phase of the drug war: making legitimate pharmaceutical opiates unobtainable).
Obviously we need to transport certain things over road, but I'd be A-OK with cutting out 80% of my own driving. Briefly last year, I moved to a more central area of the city with access to a light rail network, and I loved it. Walking a few blocks to the station felt great, physically. I would much rather watch YouTube on the train than beat my car up for hours each day in stop and go traffic. Oh, and the homeless people I saw on the train caused me a lot less property damage and annoyance than the assholes on I-10 have.
Cars, the way most people currently use them - definitely something that could be reduced, to everyone's benefit. The problems with bringing viable alternatives online are completely political, not technological.
I recall reading about a synthetic derivative of salvinorin that had similar mu-opiate receptor activity as the opium derivatives, indicating they would provide a similar high. But it did not desensitize the receptors in the same way that other opiates do. The researchers speculate this compound could produce a similar high, without the same degree of tolerance and dependence.
I think it's more likely that, rather than official research continuing, this ends up for sale online somewhere, then gets banned quickly after.
The problem is that it isn't critical. I don't need to, for example, talk to my radio to get it to change the channel. I don't need to have a computer-voice telling me when to turn my car. These things are 0% critical, yet somehow people are volunteering to have Amazon record every word that gets whispered in their home, and throwing away all of their navigation and map-reading skills. If you're going to tell me these scenarios offer an even trade-off, you'll have to justify that.
They sure like it when they get you to believe these things are critical, however. Just like any dope peddler. You don't even have the autonomy afforded to a "customer" in this scenario - you're simply a user - hooked.
"that will place a premium on uniquely human qualities in the future labor market"... in other words, we will all have jobs bullshitting eachother. I guess someone figured this was less damaging to society than (for example) UBI or free housing. I sure hope it's true, but we've been slowly transitioning to the "bullshit model" of employment since the industrial revolution, and it's been a bit of a rollercoaster.
I'd also go into an analysis of how China is dumping fentanyl on the US as an act of economic war analogous to the Opium Wars in the 1800s - and taking much glee in the turnabout. But then I'd start sounding like a conspiracy theorist...
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Thankfully, the Republicans are here to let us know he is a furry and wants to run over children:
https://www.washingtonexaminer...
http://www.fox10phoenix.com/ne...
Would you mind specifying what this very specific bar is?
Facebook is the capital behind Facebook. By the time FB started becoming popular in developing countries, they had already built up a war chest.
These are going to be $500+ phones with $80 cases on them, so that compensates for the decreased usability and increased fragility. It also gives the phone its bezel back, but notice how they will buy it regardless. Stupid phones for stupid people is the biggest marketing success story of the millennium.
There's many steps we can take to fix, as in repair, the electoral system. Multi-round runoff elections sound way better than 2 shitty primaries, for example. Everyone is too scared to even touch that. Hell, we can't even do away with the Electoral College. Or Daylight Savings Time for that matter. Organizational inertia!
Anyway, if the gerrymandering, poll-taxing Republicans were "mad as hell" at the result, they wouldn't be bobbleheaded yes-men for Dear Leader, and they wouldn't nominate him a second time. But it looks like all that is coming to pass.
A number of flaws in your analysis:
(1) You are comparing figures spent in a specific venue to aggregate figures that include the total of all ad spending. That total includes (for example) TV ads which are much more expensive and arguable less effective.
(2) Much of this is getting pushed by free social media accounts, not by ad purchases. Again, these are also more effective than ads, as they are presented as "authentic" and non-paid.
(3) The Internet Research Agency isn't for hire to run anyone's election campaign. You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding here. Their sole purpose is to sow division and thus weakness. That can be done without endorsing any specific candidate. To them, Trump is a "useful idiot" - not a leader or even a client. (Money laundering for Russian oligarchs notwithstanding.) The troll farm may well endorse a loudmouth like Ocasio-Cortez to ensure the Dems have no effective leadership either.
Point 3 sort of leads on to a whole 'noter post, about how the decay of American politics has already succeeded. Make no mistake, the seeds for that were planted already decades ago by red-blooded Americans. That is why Trump's election never surprised me. People view it as some kind of upset, but to me it's the logical conclusion of the decay.
The Chinese have moved to gait recognition, which I understand has better accuracy than most facial recognition, and is less prone to fooling by (for example) not showing your face, and I imagine it doesn't require as clear of a picture to work effectively.
The US is really lagging a step behind in their Social Credit System. It seems like not even Trump's executive authority is helping us to catch up. Maybe if he had better advisors, he'd have gait recognition suggested to him. Is the swamp half empty or half full? Hard to say.
Lolcow? Lollercoaster? Comedic gold here, folks! And he's got more life advice than Dr. Phil, to boot. Please, proceed with telling me that we have to accept death threats because anything else is censorship. Then we can add political philosophy to your list of accomplishments.
I'd say that there should be no way to get personally-identifying information out of Xbox Live. I can't say that there isn't. MS certainly does have personally-identifiable information tied to each account, so it's within the realm of possibility.
I'm not sure where the association with Smollett comes from, I'm picking up there's some kind of unstated inference, but even what was actually got typed is inaccurate, as there was a police report filed in that situation. Following that police report, and further investigation, the stories in the media were accordingly updated or followed up on. That whole process was complete before I ever heard the name "Smollett", and I read the news daily. To me, that is an example of the system working. If you are expecting 100% perfection from any system, good luck. If mistakes are owned up to and corrected when they occur, that's the best I can ask for -- and more than we get from most institutions.
But yeah, this is definitely part of the liberal media's War Against Gamers, which I guess is like the "War Against Christmas" that Bill O'Reilly used to always yell about, but for Millennials. Played like a fiddle, you say?
"You can play lots of videogames that are not internet connected....
Not much that's been released within the past 10 years. Game publishers are putting out the same FPS or MMO over and over, and selling the user-generated "social experience" as the draw, instead of developing single player content. Artists and programmers are expensive, screaming preteens are not. Of the games that are still single-player, they are getting progressively more dumbed-down and not worth the time. See the Elder Scrolls for a perfect example encapsulated in one series. But the problem is industry-wide.
Yes, the only reason people value their privacy is because of the evils of Socialism. Pay no mind as Facebook constructs the US's very own Social Credit System with the data. Even Grandma is plugged in these days. What are you, some kind of Luddite? Look, cats!
Personally I think Uncle Sam prefers this arrangement above all, that way he gets to keep the illusion we don't have a corporate-administered Social Credit System.
It's only weakening government control if Facebook puts up some kind of impediment to them. They won't. The US government, foreign governments, bounty hunters - or anyone with a few hundred bucks to spare - will probably get whatever information they want out of Facebook.
You're right, I must not be old or young or cool enough to like Dinosaur Jr. I'll try-harder next time, maybe some day I can post a momentously blank non-opinion like yours. Thanks for the great advice!
After listening to the Dinosaur Jr. track, I couldn't call it either "modern" or "pop". It's in the general vein of 90s alt-rock, which is a space that I dig, but this particular track Over Your Shoulder is pretty boring. If I'm picking obscure B-sides from that era I'd rather go to something from the Pixies, Modest Mouse, Toadies, the Flaming Lips, etc...
Found the corporate apologist. Amazon is the one taking handouts - I pay my taxes.
I'm curious, is shillling on Slashdot your career, or you're just a mindless drone? You don't have a whiff of "success" anywhere around you, buddy.
When it comes to diet, common sense is to eat as wide a variety of foods as possible, in reasonable quantities.
People lack common sense because they think the quantities of food that get served to them are OK to eat all in 1 go - they're not. Your meals should not be 1000 calories unless you're bodybuilding. Every time I go out to eat, even just fast food, I usually have a third of it left over to save for later in the day.
Oh, metabolizing what you eat helps as well. That doesn't mean join a gym, it means don't sit motionless all day.
Common sense boils down to "Diet & exercise", somehow people manage to turn both these words into a gnarled mess of contradictory ideas as they look for an easy way out that doesn't involve standing up and lowering your intake. The researchers try to detach themselves from that wheel, but as the impetus behind their research is providing an answer people want to hear - magic foods to eat that make you healthy - they can't totally decouple from it. Thank God there's been a retraction on this one, my faith in the system of scientific inquiry is a little stronger today.
I've been saying it for years, I don't trust nutritionists or economists... The weather man has gotten quite a bit better these days, though.
Idea: Tax Amazon at, say, a tenth the rate I pay, then provide grants to the open source projects they are using for free.
Society solved this kind of problem long ago, we have just forgotten the solutions. Treat open source software as the infrastructure that it is.
Plenty of blame to go around for the bad outcome. The police take the most blame, obviously. Next, the citizens who allow the police to behave like they do. Thirdly, people who take advantage of the situation. (As an aside, why is it always "gamers"? I have deliberately excluded myself from that subculture for over a decade, but the stuff I see coming out of those pits today, indicate seriously damaged minds)
I noticed similar on my phone, somehow Chrome was eating up even more data than YouTube. The WWW has truly gotten to a sad state when loading a few pages of text and images uses more bandwidth than streaming video for the same amount of time... It's barely any better than ActiveX plugins and Flash. Somewhat less likely to get you installed with a rootkit, though.
There is actually quite a bit of mental illness due to cars. Lead poisoning directly causes it, and for a good 70 years, cars would spew lead residue onto anything and anyone nearby. Once we banned lead fuel additives, the prevalence of developmental disorders declined from its peak in the 80s. But persistent heavy traffic noise has been linked to dementia in the elderly, which I believe is still rising. And it's not like the non-lead pollution from cars is harmless either.
Then we have the deaths caused directly by the vehicles, traffic accidents being the #1 cause of accidental death until just last year. (Overtaken by fentanyl overdoses, thanks to our latest phase of the drug war: making legitimate pharmaceutical opiates unobtainable).
Obviously we need to transport certain things over road, but I'd be A-OK with cutting out 80% of my own driving. Briefly last year, I moved to a more central area of the city with access to a light rail network, and I loved it. Walking a few blocks to the station felt great, physically. I would much rather watch YouTube on the train than beat my car up for hours each day in stop and go traffic. Oh, and the homeless people I saw on the train caused me a lot less property damage and annoyance than the assholes on I-10 have.
Cars, the way most people currently use them - definitely something that could be reduced, to everyone's benefit. The problems with bringing viable alternatives online are completely political, not technological.
I recall reading about a synthetic derivative of salvinorin that had similar mu-opiate receptor activity as the opium derivatives, indicating they would provide a similar high. But it did not desensitize the receptors in the same way that other opiates do. The researchers speculate this compound could produce a similar high, without the same degree of tolerance and dependence.
I think it's more likely that, rather than official research continuing, this ends up for sale online somewhere, then gets banned quickly after.
The problem is that it isn't critical. I don't need to, for example, talk to my radio to get it to change the channel. I don't need to have a computer-voice telling me when to turn my car. These things are 0% critical, yet somehow people are volunteering to have Amazon record every word that gets whispered in their home, and throwing away all of their navigation and map-reading skills. If you're going to tell me these scenarios offer an even trade-off, you'll have to justify that.
They sure like it when they get you to believe these things are critical, however. Just like any dope peddler. You don't even have the autonomy afforded to a "customer" in this scenario - you're simply a user - hooked.
"that will place a premium on uniquely human qualities in the future labor market"... in other words, we will all have jobs bullshitting eachother. I guess someone figured this was less damaging to society than (for example) UBI or free housing. I sure hope it's true, but we've been slowly transitioning to the "bullshit model" of employment since the industrial revolution, and it's been a bit of a rollercoaster.
Fentanyl (and/or similar substances) have already been weaponized in Russia, decades ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'd also go into an analysis of how China is dumping fentanyl on the US as an act of economic war analogous to the Opium Wars in the 1800s - and taking much glee in the turnabout. But then I'd start sounding like a conspiracy theorist...