Or maybe let people make up their own minds instead of taking a nanny state approach?
I which universe does suggesting schools not promote something count as being a "nanny state approach"? The nanny state approach would be prohibiting young people from playing football. I'm simply suggesting that schools not promote it. People would still be able to put their kids into football leagues if they choose, just not ones supported by tax dollars.
It's time we start ending school sponsored football programs. There are plenty of other sports that don't involve brain damage.
Soccer, too. That involves hitting the ball with your head, hard, repeatedly, and was shown to be causing brain damage even before (pigskin-style) football.
Soccer has an easy fix, just prohibit hitting the ball with your head.
It's time we start ending school sponsored football programs. There are plenty of other sports that don't involve brain damage. I'm not saying outlaw it, just don't promote it at schools.
I used to respect Google but becoming a public company turned them evil just like every company that goes public. Now DuckDuckGo has come along and they are great because they respect your privacy and don't collect data on people. They are small with a mere 40-some employees which is enough to keep the site going and few enough for them to pay without exploiting users. If that wasn't enough, all their stuff is open source and on github.
Actually, with nanites to repair our bodies after being frozen for transport, we should be able to get to some of these planets in millions of years. However, you got to figure that homo-superior will be exterminating the last of our kind by then so we'll probably get exploded during transport.
Despite years of feature requests, they still lack the most important feature of any office suite! Seriously, who is going to even bother with this software if doesn't have Clippy?!;)
What made the USA great was the ability to read, publish, self publish, review publications, talk about books and news. Now social media wants to stop all that discussion in the USA.
I guess since we can't do it on facebook, that means it's prohibited everywhere! Oh wait, no, nobody is stopping you from doing any of those things! It's almost like there are some Terms of Service that you have to abide by for certain platform! If there were some way people could put content on the internet without such things. Too bad nobody will ever figure out how to make a website or connect a server to the internet. Clearly facebook was the last site that ever figured that one out!
And yet other countries have free trade deals with them.
Most nations (including the USA) dance to the tune of their ultra-rich, so it makes sense to undermine one's own nation to get reduced profits rather than none at all.
If we had to stop trading with either China or the USA the USA would lose, and that is true for many countries.
Well it's a good thing the USA isn't making crazy demands like that then, eh?
Actually, China already puts a huge 50% import tax on goods. Being blocked from the Chinese market isn't a big deal because few can actually afford them.
The Chinese are probably less interested in me (as a non-entity wrt their politics) than the USA, who seem interested in fucking up as many people as possible.
Your ignorance is astounding. Do you think the Chinese are any less interested in profit? They will scoop up your info and sell it just as fast as any other company with the added benefit of handing the Chinese government a copy of everything any perhaps leaving a backdoor for them or at least notify them of exploits before they are patched. If you don't think China's government is interested in US citizens then you are completely oblivious to how many companies they steal IP from.
You're right! I'm pissed about getting shafted! I mean, $11 for penis? That sucks balls because they could have just asked google for penis and gotten it free!;)
My interest is not in the fact that they tested on monkeys but rather why were they testing on animals in the first place? They had their emissions targets, so if they are testing on animals I can only conclude that the test was to see if they could get away with cheating those emissions targets without bringing attention to themselves.
While I understand your pessimism, your cynicism is unwarranted. You greatly underestimate the value of human intelligence and the human capacity to learn. Not every one of them is going to be a genius but they aren't incapable of learning new skills. The question is how many opportunities are going to be available versus the number of people needing them. For this reason, I believe that UBI and higher education should be free for all our fellow citizens. I also understand that in the current state, they are unwilling to accept these as solutions.
Even if they get their way and UPS doesn't use drones or driver-less trucks, other companies around the world will continue to develop the technology. When a the new technology is ready, they will get everything in place and then layoff every driver all at once. That will be far more devastating to them than if they are have a period of time to actually get new jobs.
The GNOME UI people have apparently become addicted to changing well defined behavior in favor of some crazy shit. GNOME 3 caused a mass exodus of developers because of this, so all they have left is the people who think it's acceptable to completely change the UI whenever they feel like it. This is descending into the death throes of GNOME.
While many websites and search engines collect data on you to sell to advertisers, DuckDuckGo takes a different approach – keywords.
"If you type in 'car' you get a car ad, if you type in 'mortgage' you get a mortgage ad," Weinberg said. "We don't need to know about you or your search history to deliver a lucrative ad." Weinberg added tht DuckDuckGo doesn't need "a lot of adverts" to make money and keywords are all it needs.
With a whooping 45 employees, it doesn't take much money to keep the site going.
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Or maybe let people make up their own minds instead of taking a nanny state approach?
I which universe does suggesting schools not promote something count as being a "nanny state approach"? The nanny state approach would be prohibiting young people from playing football. I'm simply suggesting that schools not promote it. People would still be able to put their kids into football leagues if they choose, just not ones supported by tax dollars.
It wouldn't be the first time that billions of dollars went up in smoke overnight.
Sorry about the swirlies football players gave you, now give me your lunch money or it swirly time
Hey, no hard feelings about the swirlies. It wasn't anything a decade of therapy couldn't fix. Besides, now it's my fetish. ;)
It's time we start ending school sponsored football programs. There are plenty of other sports that don't involve brain damage.
Soccer, too. That involves hitting the ball with your head, hard, repeatedly, and was shown to be causing brain damage even before (pigskin-style) football.
Soccer has an easy fix, just prohibit hitting the ball with your head.
It's time we start ending school sponsored football programs. There are plenty of other sports that don't involve brain damage. I'm not saying outlaw it, just don't promote it at schools.
I used to respect Google but becoming a public company turned them evil just like every company that goes public. Now DuckDuckGo has come along and they are great because they respect your privacy and don't collect data on people. They are small with a mere 40-some employees which is enough to keep the site going and few enough for them to pay without exploiting users. If that wasn't enough, all their stuff is open source and on github.
to find planets we'll never be able to reach! ;)
Actually, with nanites to repair our bodies after being frozen for transport, we should be able to get to some of these planets in millions of years. However, you got to figure that homo-superior will be exterminating the last of our kind by then so we'll probably get exploded during transport.
What a great time to be alive! ;)
Steve Jobs came up in that culture, guess it's time to vilify him too.
Don't be silly, Steve Jobs should be vilified because he was a conceited asshole who denied having a daughter for two decades.
Despite years of feature requests, they still lack the most important feature of any office suite! Seriously, who is going to even bother with this software if doesn't have Clippy?! ;)
Just remember it was a cautionary tale and NOT an operations manual.
Don't be ridiculous! I mean, everyone knows that 1984 is the real instruction manual. ;)
So, you twist my words to make me an opponent? Sure sounds like you just want to argue regardless of what it's about.
What made the USA great was the ability to read, publish, self publish, review publications, talk about books and news. Now social media wants to stop all that discussion in the USA.
I guess since we can't do it on facebook, that means it's prohibited everywhere! Oh wait, no, nobody is stopping you from doing any of those things! It's almost like there are some Terms of Service that you have to abide by for certain platform! If there were some way people could put content on the internet without such things. Too bad nobody will ever figure out how to make a website or connect a server to the internet. Clearly facebook was the last site that ever figured that one out!
Your argument holds less water than aerogel.
And yet other countries have free trade deals with them.
Most nations (including the USA) dance to the tune of their ultra-rich, so it makes sense to undermine one's own nation to get reduced profits rather than none at all.
If we had to stop trading with either China or the USA the USA would lose, and that is true for many countries.
Well it's a good thing the USA isn't making crazy demands like that then, eh?
Actually, China already puts a huge 50% import tax on goods. Being blocked from the Chinese market isn't a big deal because few can actually afford them.
The Chinese are probably less interested in me (as a non-entity wrt their politics) than the USA, who seem interested in fucking up as many people as possible.
Your ignorance is astounding. Do you think the Chinese are any less interested in profit? They will scoop up your info and sell it just as fast as any other company with the added benefit of handing the Chinese government a copy of everything any perhaps leaving a backdoor for them or at least notify them of exploits before they are patched. If you don't think China's government is interested in US citizens then you are completely oblivious to how many companies they steal IP from.
What MPEG is learning is that in reality the world does not need them because open standards are far more cost effective,
Outdoors sucks which is why we invented the great indoors! ;)
You're right! I'm pissed about getting shafted! I mean, $11 for penis? That sucks balls because they could have just asked google for penis and gotten it free! ;)
hehe peepee.
My interest is not in the fact that they tested on monkeys but rather why were they testing on animals in the first place? They had their emissions targets, so if they are testing on animals I can only conclude that the test was to see if they could get away with cheating those emissions targets without bringing attention to themselves.
Men staring at women's chests: the face blindness epidemic sweeping the nation!
I mean... I never knew until now! ;)
Pro tip from Europe...
Culprits are Romanians. they are born with a propensity for card crime. they are filthy animals.
That's super weird, bro because I recently got a similar warning from home.
Pro tip from Vulcan...
Culprits are Humans. They are born with a propensity for crime, violence and other illogical behavior. They are filthy animals.
While I understand your pessimism, your cynicism is unwarranted. You greatly underestimate the value of human intelligence and the human capacity to learn. Not every one of them is going to be a genius but they aren't incapable of learning new skills. The question is how many opportunities are going to be available versus the number of people needing them. For this reason, I believe that UBI and higher education should be free for all our fellow citizens. I also understand that in the current state, they are unwilling to accept these as solutions.
Even if they get their way and UPS doesn't use drones or driver-less trucks, other companies around the world will continue to develop the technology. When a the new technology is ready, they will get everything in place and then layoff every driver all at once. That will be far more devastating to them than if they are have a period of time to actually get new jobs.
The GNOME UI people have apparently become addicted to changing well defined behavior in favor of some crazy shit. GNOME 3 caused a mass exodus of developers because of this, so all they have left is the people who think it's acceptable to completely change the UI whenever they feel like it. This is descending into the death throes of GNOME.
At the end of the day, DDG is a free service: where the hell do you think they generate revenues from?
You need a history lesson.
How does it make money?
While many websites and search engines collect data on you to sell to advertisers, DuckDuckGo takes a different approach – keywords.
"If you type in 'car' you get a car ad, if you type in 'mortgage' you get a mortgage ad," Weinberg said. "We don't need to know about you or your search history to deliver a lucrative ad." Weinberg added tht DuckDuckGo doesn't need "a lot of adverts" to make money and keywords are all it needs.
With a whooping 45 employees, it doesn't take much money to keep the site going.