Most of this trouble started when YOU started policing the Internet. And doing it badly.
Please stop censoring your users when they offend you or the people you are allied with Leave it I
I know you want the 'government' to 'help' police the Internet. But the Internet does not need policing, nor is it you or people like you who would be trustworthy policers of the Internet, or anything else. While you should not be trusted even with your own corporation and its platforms, they are yours to do with as you wish. Leave others alone, and do not harm those not yours.
This will not go well for you or us if you persist.
Housing discrimination based on location (ZIP Code) is prohibited, commonly called 'redlining'. It has been used to both promote neighborhood racial discrimination and economic discrimination, and has been used by lenders, thereby including fair credit laws as violations.
It's not at all new. In fact, limiting MLS searches to specific area or ZIP codes is reasonable if buyers are looking for a specific location, but a salesperson should never discourage a potential buyer from an interest in a particular location. Most permitted communications would be focus on disclosable information, such as nearby airports, hazardous waste sites, planned road construction, but never on demographics such as average age, income levels, nationality, or even the proximity of churches or similar identifiable indicators of protected classes. It's even somewhat risky to point out proximity to services such as bus stops and government offices.
Fair housing laws are not as simple as many think.
Actually, if Facebook permits directing housing ads based on zip code, that's prohibited. They are liable if they knowingly permit the practice.
The solution would be to deny housing advertisers the ability to target or restrict based on prohibited criteria, that is, not giving them the options. A small matter of programming. And since they already scan and censor based on content, then even the content could be their responsibility. they do it in other reals, for other reasons. No excuses.
I bet it sounds like it too, except maybe for the Enya tracks back then. And they did turn me on to space music, electronica, and trance. Pretty sure my MiniDisc player was loafing through these tracks...
Oh, yeah, that's where I've heard this before. Trance.
Spam and cross posts. But since most media is duplicated anyways, and spam is in the beholder's eye when it comes to whatever is considered 'news' today, then Usenet becomes more and more attractive.
You do not want Facebook, Twitter, etc to filter for you. If that's ok to you, then you are plainly doing it wrong. You do not want to be free to choose, and why bother to even open the app.
I've relied on RSS for a very long (in Internet terms) time. Most of the topical news I read is from subscribed feeds, and my viewer/aggregator takes a lot of formats. And nearly every one of these lets me get it via RSS or other more direct push tech as well as by email.
The social media feeds I read I subscribe to there. Exposing myself to the public spew results in both massive and deep duplication and an overwhelming unity of subject matter. I can condense it to a fraction with subscriptions and miss nothing.
Because of legal restrictions on the movement of data outside of the US, I now have some additional roles to fill, and my position is more secure than it would be otherwise. The offshore team cannot yet replace me, after all...
While you were thinking up clever fixes, these were continuing to be implemented, as they have been, for decades.
I recall vividly when WordPerfect was updated and perceived as terribly slow. The official responses referred to the dev team having 64MB of RAM, 'ran fine'... Most secretaries had machines with 16MB, not at all uncommon for 486 machines. 64MB was never common for my small business customers.
The Dell bug started with missing address lines, though by itself that's not the problem, clearly. This would have been seeing 1992, so yes, W4WG... Which I loved.
I never saw anything back then with GB RAM, modules typically were 16MB Max. These were 72 pin SIMMs, and I doubt we got 32MB modules, though at 128MB the math changes. I hope it really wasn't a 128/64 mismatch...
But the software problem was real. I was on the carpet for installing it wrong until screenshot after screenshot confirmed it was ok. A nasty couple of weeks.
I used to do desktop field service, and had a client that actually paid us to handle warranty work on their Dell workstations. One such machine had 64MB RAM (oh yeah!), back in the Windows 98 days, and the client being a research outfit, they wanted to do serious statistical analysis, so the RAM was critical. The software vendor made it mandatory - 64mb. No less.
They had all kinds of problems with that workstation form the beginning, and called us in to figure out why only 48MB of RAM was shown as available, despite both the configuration showing 64MB and even Windows claimed it to be so.
Well, My memtest CD disagreed, not because it couldn't count it, per se, but because while it recognized the config, it would not count past 48MB, and testing with a forced config got errors above 48MB. We called Dell. Clearly a big problem, new motherboard or whatever, and yes we had shuffled RAM mocules all around.
The truth resulted in a series of uncomfortable calls with Dell engineers. Despite being advertised as able to access 64MB of RAM the motherboard actually did not implement the address lines necessary to go above 48MB. What? A bit of math confirmed that was possible. Why? Turns out the chipset wasn't passing tests, so they actually built and shipped these, figuring no users would actually order 64MB, and someone somewhere calculated that none would figure it out. Dear Lord, it's Miniscribe hard drives all the way down.
They did fix the chipset (that lie extended to the manufacturer, 'I&^%$', of course) and replaced the board, and presto, 64MB RAM. And there were rumors of Windows patches, which I doubted. Clearly iMacs will address as much RAM as they are advertised to do.
But back then, that motherboard was sold hand over fist, and no recall was ever noted. Dell just sent us an updated one, having offered both a refund and complete replacement when the problem was solved. A month later we find out that there were boards out there with bad capacitors, and that was a few years fixing...
Trust no one. I wonder it memtest can be run on an iMac...
Umm, please do not insult me. As virtually every main stream media outlet, Fox offers 'news' and 'opinion'. Letting your own emotions guide you into discrediting one or another outlet based on perceived biases only proves the point that emotionalism can rule us.
Virtually every product or service has an emotional appeal. Which of these should be restricted, and how?
Your complaint is with the human beings so easily swayed by their emotions. Redesigning man is a futile exercise. Giving our government the explicit power and authority to manage and direct our emotions is worse.
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Most of this trouble started when YOU started policing the Internet. And doing it badly.
Please stop censoring your users when they offend you or the people you are allied with Leave it I
I know you want the 'government' to 'help' police the Internet. But the Internet does not need policing, nor is it you or people like you who would be trustworthy policers of the Internet, or anything else. While you should not be trusted even with your own corporation and its platforms, they are yours to do with as you wish. Leave others alone, and do not harm those not yours.
This will not go well for you or us if you persist.
Housing discrimination based on location (ZIP Code) is prohibited, commonly called 'redlining'. It has been used to both promote neighborhood racial discrimination and economic discrimination, and has been used by lenders, thereby including fair credit laws as violations.
It's not at all new. In fact, limiting MLS searches to specific area or ZIP codes is reasonable if buyers are looking for a specific location, but a salesperson should never discourage a potential buyer from an interest in a particular location. Most permitted communications would be focus on disclosable information, such as nearby airports, hazardous waste sites, planned road construction, but never on demographics such as average age, income levels, nationality, or even the proximity of churches or similar identifiable indicators of protected classes. It's even somewhat risky to point out proximity to services such as bus stops and government offices.
Fair housing laws are not as simple as many think.
Actually, if Facebook permits directing housing ads based on zip code, that's prohibited. They are liable if they knowingly permit the practice.
The solution would be to deny housing advertisers the ability to target or restrict based on prohibited criteria, that is, not giving them the options. A small matter of programming. And since they already scan and censor based on content, then even the content could be their responsibility. they do it in other reals, for other reasons. No excuses.
No, just no. You've been had also. Join the crowd.
This seems like the reimagining of Echoes from the 80s-90s
I bet it sounds like it too, except maybe for the Enya tracks back then. And they did turn me on to space music, electronica, and trance. Pretty sure my MiniDisc player was loafing through these tracks...
Oh, yeah, that's where I've heard this before. Trance.
Just like this one...
Ms. April Wurst received a few envelopes. Thank BMW Car and Driver for this...
Spam and cross posts. But since most media is duplicated anyways, and spam is in the beholder's eye when it comes to whatever is considered 'news' today, then Usenet becomes more and more attractive.
"email is getting close to spam free."
Only because of filtering.
You do not want Facebook, Twitter, etc to filter for you. If that's ok to you, then you are plainly doing it wrong. You do not want to be free to choose, and why bother to even open the app.
I remember when people actually typed most of these psots.
I've relied on RSS for a very long (in Internet terms) time. Most of the topical news I read is from subscribed feeds, and my viewer/aggregator takes a lot of formats. And nearly every one of these lets me get it via RSS or other more direct push tech as well as by email.
The social media feeds I read I subscribe to there. Exposing myself to the public spew results in both massive and deep duplication and an overwhelming unity of subject matter. I can condense it to a fraction with subscriptions and miss nothing.
This is one of the drivers of that vigilante movement, the RBL. 90% useful, 10% destruction.
But nothing is perfect.
Because of legal restrictions on the movement of data outside of the US, I now have some additional roles to fill, and my position is more secure than it would be otherwise. The offshore team cannot yet replace me, after all...
While you were thinking up clever fixes, these were continuing to be implemented, as they have been, for decades.
You think Amazon only sells consumer goods. That's sort of cute. Uninformed, but sort of cute.
...on my feed. But three times?
Why does /. suck as much as Duke?
I recall vividly when WordPerfect was updated and perceived as terribly slow. The official responses referred to the dev team having 64MB of RAM, 'ran fine'... Most secretaries had machines with 16MB, not at all uncommon for 486 machines. 64MB was never common for my small business customers.
The Dell bug started with missing address lines, though by itself that's not the problem, clearly. This would have been seeing 1992, so yes, W4WG... Which I loved.
I never saw anything back then with GB RAM, modules typically were 16MB Max. These were 72 pin SIMMs, and I doubt we got 32MB modules, though at 128MB the math changes. I hope it really wasn't a 128/64 mismatch...
But the software problem was real. I was on the carpet for installing it wrong until screenshot after screenshot confirmed it was ok. A nasty couple of weeks.
Well, it may have been W4W...a long time ago...
Server iMac.
Even if the speed merely lets you continue your workflow without distracting delay, keeping the creative process going unabated...
I used to do desktop field service, and had a client that actually paid us to handle warranty work on their Dell workstations. One such machine had 64MB RAM (oh yeah!), back in the Windows 98 days, and the client being a research outfit, they wanted to do serious statistical analysis, so the RAM was critical. The software vendor made it mandatory - 64mb. No less.
They had all kinds of problems with that workstation form the beginning, and called us in to figure out why only 48MB of RAM was shown as available, despite both the configuration showing 64MB and even Windows claimed it to be so.
Well, My memtest CD disagreed, not because it couldn't count it, per se, but because while it recognized the config, it would not count past 48MB, and testing with a forced config got errors above 48MB. We called Dell. Clearly a big problem, new motherboard or whatever, and yes we had shuffled RAM mocules all around.
The truth resulted in a series of uncomfortable calls with Dell engineers. Despite being advertised as able to access 64MB of RAM the motherboard actually did not implement the address lines necessary to go above 48MB. What? A bit of math confirmed that was possible. Why? Turns out the chipset wasn't passing tests, so they actually built and shipped these, figuring no users would actually order 64MB, and someone somewhere calculated that none would figure it out. Dear Lord, it's Miniscribe hard drives all the way down.
They did fix the chipset (that lie extended to the manufacturer, 'I&^%$', of course) and replaced the board, and presto, 64MB RAM. And there were rumors of Windows patches, which I doubted. Clearly iMacs will address as much RAM as they are advertised to do.
But back then, that motherboard was sold hand over fist, and no recall was ever noted. Dell just sent us an updated one, having offered both a refund and complete replacement when the problem was solved. A month later we find out that there were boards out there with bad capacitors, and that was a few years fixing...
Trust no one. I wonder it memtest can be run on an iMac...
I've been playing an online DnD knockoff for 30 years. What comes around...
Now I want to punch him square in the mouth. It's personal, b&tch.
"Fox News is not really "news."
Umm, please do not insult me. As virtually every main stream media outlet, Fox offers 'news' and 'opinion'. Letting your own emotions guide you into discrediting one or another outlet based on perceived biases only proves the point that emotionalism can rule us.
The 'free market' exists to permit the free flow of goods and services. Many participants pander to emotions:
- Automobile sales
- Clothing
- Beverages
- Food
- Electronics
- Pharmaceuticals
Virtually every product or service has an emotional appeal. Which of these should be restricted, and how?
Your complaint is with the human beings so easily swayed by their emotions. Redesigning man is a futile exercise. Giving our government the explicit power and authority to manage and direct our emotions is worse.
Information is the only antidote.
No. Public subsidies for journalism are wrong on so many levels. As wrong as public financing of political campaigns, though those are very popular.
The open market for what?
For advertising, well, yeah, it's a wild market.
For information? Well, this article is proof that an open market works. Else, you would never have known that these apps do nothing but display ads.
And of course we all know advertising is purely for our benefit and edification, right?
Just don't try to play dumb with us. You're actually dumber than you know in that.