amazon seems bent on inviting anti trust scrutiny.
however, even without government intervention, amazon, like previous conglomerate histories demonstrate, will eventually get in to businesses it will not be able to manage efficiently as others that specialize in that business. its core competency will be made to subsidize its failures or also-rans in other areas. sit back and enjoy.
way current ideology driven mozilla people are running/ruining it, there is not going to be much support for mizilla project in future, except from its effective tech corporate masters and paid contributers. firefox will become irrelevant. hopefully there will be a/. story, like this one, at its demise. but more likely it will be sink in to ever increasing obscurity, but never die. sad.
Actually Google shouldn't be sourcing news from 4chan. Sounds like a bug.
actually google should be sourcing from 4chan and any other alleged "fake news" site. it should source from everything
no source is ever guaranteed to be 100% (or even 75%)correct. also, whatever the track record ( and track record of all the sources, starting from legacy news sources like nyt,wapo,cnn etc, are pretty bad) , there is always the chance any source can be the exclusive accurate source for some new item.
google should reflect and prioritize what the people in internet are looking at , linking to, and searching for. even if what they are looking at may be "wrong" , "foolish", "destructive", etc google should not censor and regulate what others wish to do to suit what it think is "right", "intelligent", "beneficial", etc..
if it does the latter, google will be replaced, eventually, because it will be projecting a false image of what "news" and what people in internet are doing. in other words google will be "fake".
also, in the long run, chance of few people at google being "wrong", is far higher than millions of people being wrong.
word "car" comes from word "carriage", as in wheeled horse drawn people transporting carriage. it went from "carriage" (meaning a horse drawn carriage), to "motor carriage", to "motor car", to "car".
since we already accept concept of cars without wheels(which is a more solid objection based on word origin), there is nothing "wrong" with referring to this as a "car".
"With electric vehicles and bans of fossil fuels appearing, "
none of that has happened in reality. just politicians' plans in future; ie lots of skepticism is called for. don't put horse before the camel.
arab oil's big problem is not "electric vehicles, etc", but fracking and resulting glut that is keeping price of oil stagnant(which btw will also make alternatives to fossil fuels uneconomic)
You'd think companies would have started to realise now that outsourcing isn't always the solution to their problems, sometimes it IS the problem.
err.. in reality, companies demonstrate by their actions they have come to the opposite conclusion; outsourcing is the solution. face reality, not wishful fantasy.
it isn't "radical" to take a pro lgbtqxyz position right now, that is the current default position of establishment in west. i think what you mean is star trek has a history of siding with the "liberal" "progressive" ideological position. doing that was once radical and risky. now that progressive liberalism is the ideology of establishment, it is neither risky or radical.
"something useful" that is a bad criteria for judging anything, for several reasons. such judges assume too much and are hubristic. who defines "usefulness"? you? society? based on what data, given there are lots of unknowns and knowledge is never complete? how to decide? majority? will of powerful? those who pay? known immediate needs? speculative long term needs? etc etc.
rather let individuals exercise their free will as they see fit , even if they do something that seems "useless", or in some cases even "harmful" to themselves, as long as they do not curtail others' free will directly..
you speculate grandparent in writing his comment used "zero thought, logic or investigation whatsoever". and your use of "most likely", "hit job", "living in his mom's basement ", etc., expose your prejudices.
investors can make money through IPO( and at each round of funding before IPO, and later taking long positions on publicly traded shares), only if there are speculations about future profits ( after analysis of their financial performance,usually with help of analysts at investment banks) . a company that is expected to remain unprofitable in future will not have a successful IPO.
it is disingenuous to say people running facebook did not focus on profits for years. they were intent on giving a return to their investors.
entities invested in facebook through time(regardless of actual profitability) expecting a return on investment, not necessarily through profits in financial accounts, but usually through appreciation of value of their investment based on speculations about future profits. and speculations about future profits, involve and motivates to those who run these corps, more or less in same way as actual profits. (unless they are fraudsters intent of cheating the investors, in which case they intentionally make false claims about future potential )
and it is possible to accurately predict future of online world and its evolution for few years into future? so accurately that funds and laws infringing on other needs, and privacy, can be reallocated?
given the hurricane terminology, would there be a campaign against skeptics of these predictions, like against skeptics of climate change predictions?
so you think, without any legally admissible evidence, but with lots of speculations based on other speculations, with no known and discernible direct technique for changing the minds of hundreds of thousands of voters(at least), russians, and pro immigrant globalist zuckerberg, stole the election, for benefit of anti immigrant militaristic nationalist trump, through fake news and online ads worth $100000("lot of money")? all the while, several fold more well funded (not counting the money from saudi arabia, qatar, israel, ukraine, etc), hillray, had the support of legacy media, big tech and social media corps(including almost every top leader at facebook, google, etc), big banks, hollywood, state apparatus(from president obama down), overt moral support(at least) of european and asian leaders(do i have to mention mexico and canada? ), and tacit support of republican establishment (and open support of never trumper neocons).
lol. who did you say "can't think for (himself)"? feel free. lol.
But, if there are no Russian ads, what will the Democrats blame their next election loss on?
i think hillary trotted out a whole host of entities and people who can be blamed in her new book. - its ironic that these politicians think they get elected by amercans voters, who can be easily manipulated by alleged fake news from few macedonians, and $ 100,000 in facebook ads. they have zero respect for voters who they claim to represent, and who, according to them, are unable to think for themselves, even when they have huge number of sources for information, from one sided legacy media to alternate media(like wikileaks), quite apart from ads and fakes.
voters, if they have any sense, should vote them out just for that attitude. and that seems to be happening , though more fundamentally for other elitist attitudes that are in conflict with voters' interests as well.
- in reality, this russia probe is just the visible death pangs and hysteria of a mono cultural elite(am elite more exclusive than white males they rage against ) that has been in control of the levers of power for about 50 years, and are now starting to lose them, starting with narrative control. hopefully they will restrict themselves to sanctimonious screams like the probe, and refrain from resorting to stuff other elites who ended up in the dust bin of history used when desperate . they will regret such tactics.
you are assuming gradual technical failure. that is too limiting and hubristic. there can be sudden catastrophic failure, both accidental, and intentional (and even well planned) like a terrorist attack.
if hyperloop ever gets built(which i doubt for unrelated technical and commercial reasons), there will be a disaster at some point. that is a certainty. such a disaster in itself is not(and should not be) an argument against hyperloop. but planning for that (such as not building in urban areas)would increase cost to both project and passengers.
if there is probability of mass casualties and destruction to surroundings, in addition to mass deaths of passengers, hyperloop will not be built through built up urban areas. which sort of negates the its utility, better take an airplane. (this is assuming if it is going to be built at all, i think there is way too much technical difficulties to get even to starting point, even to a real model test ) .
P&G, that lives on selling stuff, have "wrong/shitty" marketing consultants? i doubt that. they know what they are talking about when they say something is "largely ineffective". - btw i for one have not clicked on an online ad for over a year, and last time was deliberate click to check the ad mechanics(and why it was not blocked by ad block) rather than because of interest in product.
bs is not confined to "startups and the idiots who fund them", most of the big techs are throwing away money at developing all sorts of non core products, they have no knowledge about, and then killing almost all these project after year or two. all the while their core competencies denerate.
google/alphabet is the prime example. it has acquired and wasted money on lots of projects, in all sort of areas, and then killed them impatiently. meanwhile google search results are getting worse(and i don't think their political bias is the main cause for that). search in youtube,(not for some general popular search, but for something specific involving their filters) is almost completely useless now. it was much better year ago.
let them stack punishment on punishment on copyright violators and "pirates". punishments that will be increasingly unenforcible as more and more methods are found and used, both to evade punishments, and perpetrate the alleged "crime"
more an unjustifiable law is exposed as impotent, better it is.
original creators and discoverers should learn to be satisfied with creation and discovery itself and glory(if any). financial rewards should be confined to direct interactions(actual performance, talks, employment, etc,)
deep state is no doubt feeling embarrassed, caught like this with its pants down, exposing its boring workaday backside of grunts. only penetration is lacking. any takers?
The effort you put into your writing creates an impression of the effort you will put into other things. The people who won't criticize your writing will quietly make assumptions and put you in the reject pile.
to repeat, ignoring substance of argument, and facts and reason, to concentrate on alleged (usually imaginary and always subjective) deficiencies in aesthetics, grammar, spelling, etc., is the refuge of the logically deficient. don't care if my "writing" end up in "reject pile" due to prejudices of such people.
clear cut plots with beginning, middle, and end, and plot points, turning points, climaxes, etc ( or variations or subversions of them ) are part of appeal of some art forms, sequels and franchises beat such solid art into a mush. if there are some broken parts in that quagmire, they have lost all meaning. mush is the same as in never ending soap operas.
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"lies, damned lies, and statistics"
- possibly by benjamin disraeli by way of mark twain.
amazon seems bent on inviting anti trust scrutiny.
however, even without government intervention, amazon, like previous conglomerate histories demonstrate, will eventually get in to businesses it will not be able to manage efficiently as others that specialize in that business. its core competency will be made to subsidize its failures or also-rans in other areas.
sit back and enjoy.
way current ideology driven mozilla people are running/ruining it, there is not going to be much support for mizilla project in future, except from its effective tech corporate masters and paid contributers. /. story, like this one, at its demise. but more likely it will be sink in to ever increasing obscurity, but never die. sad.
firefox will become irrelevant. hopefully there will be a
Actually Google shouldn't be sourcing news from 4chan. Sounds like a bug.
actually google should be sourcing from 4chan and any other alleged "fake news" site. it should source from everything
no source is ever guaranteed to be 100% (or even 75%)correct. also, whatever the track record ( and track record of all the sources, starting from legacy news sources like nyt,wapo,cnn etc, are pretty bad) , there is always the chance any source can be the exclusive accurate source for some new item.
google should reflect and prioritize what the people in internet are looking at , linking to, and searching for. even if what they are looking at may be "wrong" , "foolish", "destructive", etc
google should not censor and regulate what others wish to do to suit what it think is "right", "intelligent", "beneficial", etc..
if it does the latter, google will be replaced, eventually, because it will be projecting a false image of what "news" and what people in internet are doing. in other words google will be "fake".
also, in the long run, chance of few people at google being "wrong", is far higher than millions of people being wrong.
nothing about it looks remotely car like, it looks like a flying blender / head decapitator.
seems some people still think a m16 is better than a ak47.
word "car" comes from word "carriage", as in wheeled horse drawn people transporting carriage.
it went from "carriage" (meaning a horse drawn carriage), to "motor carriage", to "motor car", to "car".
since we already accept concept of cars without wheels(which is a more solid objection based on word origin), there is nothing "wrong" with referring to this as a "car".
"With electric vehicles and bans of fossil fuels appearing, "
none of that has happened in reality. just politicians' plans in future; ie lots of skepticism is called for. don't put horse before the camel.
arab oil's big problem is not "electric vehicles, etc", but fracking and resulting glut that is keeping price of oil stagnant(which btw will also make alternatives to fossil fuels uneconomic)
You'd think companies would have started to realise now that outsourcing isn't always the solution to their problems, sometimes it IS the problem.
err.. in reality, companies demonstrate by their actions they have come to the opposite conclusion; outsourcing is the solution.
face reality, not wishful fantasy.
it isn't "radical" to take a pro lgbtqxyz position right now, that is the current default position of establishment in west.
i think what you mean is star trek has a history of siding with the "liberal" "progressive" ideological position. doing that was once radical and risky. now that progressive liberalism is the ideology of establishment, it is neither risky or radical.
"something useful"
that is a bad criteria for judging anything, for several reasons. such judges assume too much and are hubristic.
who defines "usefulness"? you? society? based on what data, given there are lots of unknowns and knowledge is never complete? how to decide? majority? will of powerful? those who pay? known immediate needs? speculative long term needs? etc etc.
rather let individuals exercise their free will as they see fit , even if they do something that seems "useless", or in some cases even "harmful" to themselves, as long as they do not curtail others' free will directly..
you speculate grandparent in writing his comment used "zero thought, logic or investigation whatsoever".
and your use of "most likely", "hit job", "living in his mom's basement ", etc., expose your prejudices.
that is your idea of rational thoughtfulness?
investors can make money through IPO( and at each round of funding before IPO, and later taking long positions on publicly traded shares), only if there are speculations about future profits ( after analysis of their financial performance ,usually with help of analysts at investment banks) .
a company that is expected to remain unprofitable in future will not have a successful IPO.
there are profits and profits.
it is disingenuous to say people running facebook did not focus on profits for years. they were intent on giving a return to their investors.
entities invested in facebook through time(regardless of actual profitability) expecting a return on investment, not necessarily through profits in financial accounts, but usually through appreciation of value of their investment based on speculations about future profits.
and speculations about future profits, involve and motivates to those who run these corps, more or less in same way as actual profits. (unless they are fraudsters intent of cheating the investors, in which case they intentionally make false claims about future potential )
so "soon" = "next few years" is cyber space?
and it is possible to accurately predict future of online world and its evolution for few years into future? so accurately that funds and laws infringing on other needs, and privacy, can be reallocated?
given the hurricane terminology, would there be a campaign against skeptics of these predictions, like against skeptics of climate change predictions?
"journalists" at legacy media find real world mundane people, actions, and events unsettling.
what 's new?
so you think, without any legally admissible evidence, but with lots of speculations based on other speculations, with no known and discernible direct technique for changing the minds of hundreds of thousands of voters(at least), russians, and pro immigrant globalist zuckerberg, stole the election, for benefit of anti immigrant militaristic nationalist trump, through fake news and online ads worth $100000("lot of money")?
all the while, several fold more well funded (not counting the money from saudi arabia, qatar, israel, ukraine, etc), hillray, had the support of legacy media, big tech and social media corps(including almost every top leader at facebook, google, etc), big banks, hollywood, state apparatus(from president obama down), overt moral support(at least) of european and asian leaders(do i have to mention mexico and canada? ), and tacit support of republican establishment (and open support of never trumper neocons).
lol.
who did you say "can't think for (himself)"?
feel free. lol.
But, if there are no Russian ads, what will the Democrats blame their next election loss on?
i think hillary trotted out a whole host of entities and people who can be blamed in her new book.
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its ironic that these politicians think they get elected by amercans voters, who can be easily manipulated by alleged fake news from few macedonians, and $ 100,000 in facebook ads.
they have zero respect for voters who they claim to represent, and who, according to them, are unable to think for themselves, even when they have huge number of sources for information, from one sided legacy media to alternate media(like wikileaks), quite apart from ads and fakes.
voters, if they have any sense, should vote them out just for that attitude. and that seems to be happening , though more fundamentally for other elitist attitudes that are in conflict with voters' interests as well.
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in reality, this russia probe is just the visible death pangs and hysteria of a mono cultural elite(am elite more exclusive than white males they rage against ) that has been in control of the levers of power for about 50 years, and are now starting to lose them, starting with narrative control.
hopefully they will restrict themselves to sanctimonious screams like the probe, and refrain from resorting to stuff other elites who ended up in the dust bin of history used when desperate . they will regret such tactics.
you are assuming gradual technical failure. that is too limiting and hubristic.
there can be sudden catastrophic failure, both accidental, and intentional (and even well planned) like a terrorist attack.
if hyperloop ever gets built(which i doubt for unrelated technical and commercial reasons), there will be a disaster at some point. that is a certainty.
such a disaster in itself is not(and should not be) an argument against hyperloop. but planning for that (such as not building in urban areas)would increase cost to both project and passengers.
if there is probability of mass casualties and destruction to surroundings, in addition to mass deaths of passengers, hyperloop will not be built through built up urban areas. which sort of negates the its utility, better take an airplane.
(this is assuming if it is going to be built at all, i think there is way too much technical difficulties to get even to starting point, even to a real model test ) .
P&G, that lives on selling stuff, have "wrong/shitty" marketing consultants?
i doubt that. they know what they are talking about when they say something is "largely ineffective".
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btw i for one have not clicked on an online ad for over a year, and last time was deliberate click to check the ad mechanics(and why it was not blocked by ad block) rather than because of interest in product.
bs is not confined to "startups and the idiots who fund them", most of the big techs are throwing away money at developing all sorts of non core products, they have no knowledge about, and then killing almost all these project after year or two. all the while their core competencies denerate.
google/alphabet is the prime example. it has acquired and wasted money on lots of projects, in all sort of areas, and then killed them impatiently. meanwhile google search results are getting worse(and i don't think their political bias is the main cause for that). search in youtube,(not for some general popular search, but for something specific involving their filters) is almost completely useless now. it was much better year ago.
let them stack punishment on punishment on copyright violators and "pirates". punishments that will be increasingly unenforcible as more and more methods are found and used, both to evade punishments, and perpetrate the alleged "crime"
more an unjustifiable law is exposed as impotent, better it is.
original creators and discoverers should learn to be satisfied with creation and discovery itself and glory(if any). financial rewards should be confined to direct interactions(actual performance, talks, employment, etc ,)
deep state is no doubt feeling embarrassed, caught like this with its pants down, exposing its boring workaday backside of grunts.
only penetration is lacking.
any takers?
The effort you put into your writing creates an impression of the effort you will put into other things. The people who won't criticize your writing will quietly make assumptions and put you in the reject pile.
to repeat, ignoring substance of argument, and facts and reason, to concentrate on alleged (usually imaginary and always subjective) deficiencies in aesthetics, grammar, spelling, etc., is the refuge of the logically deficient.
don't care if my "writing" end up in "reject pile" due to prejudices of such people.
clear cut plots with beginning, middle, and end, and plot points, turning points, climaxes, etc ( or variations or subversions of them ) are part of appeal of some art forms,
sequels and franchises beat such solid art into a mush. if there are some broken parts in that quagmire, they have lost all meaning.
mush is the same as in never ending soap operas.