non issues like immigrant caravans/flotillas supposedly coming to destroy your christian conservative civilisation.
Right, because immigration and outsourcing have done nothing to assault wages and the incentive structure for the working and middle classes. You are a racist who hates aspiring potential True Americans if you notice that adding a few million workers in a few year period goes a long way to ensure that supply always meets or exceeds demand. You are practically Hitler if you notice that the explosion in immigration over the last 30 years is probably the main reason why we've seen only about 14% real wage growth over two generations.
cops are able to sneak past the privacy walls users put up and bypass legal requirements that might require a warrant to obtain that same information...
It bypasses the requirement because an undercover officer/federal agent now has convinced the suspect to turn it over to them.
In most categories of crimes, we should call that a "self-correcting problem that doesn't waste Facebook's time or damage our rights by restricting crypto/adding more to the surveillance laws."
Sometimes I swear these "civil libertarians" act like sock puppets for the FBI and wonder if the FBI isn't laughing hysterically as civil libertarians make such boneheaded arguments in the name of "muh freedumbz, muh libertayz, muh conztitushunz" that the whole goal is to make genuine balancing impossible and play right into the statists' hands.
The bills busting local and state rules that prohibit new entrants into markets, utilities from entering into that market, muni, etc.? Also, why stop here? Why should monopolies like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube not be required to be common carriers? It's much easier in terms of capital to build new ISP than one of those.
The other night, my 4 year old was watching an age-appropriate channel and you know what trailer they played?
Pet Sematary
I can explain 95% of all of the white power stuff away easily. I cannot easily explain away a demon-possessed zombie cat from Hell to a pre-schooler who is nearly at bed time.
Priorities? It'd be nice if they actually had some.
Instead they should put a custom-built tower on site that would capture the voice traffic of all phones there and do full tracking and MITM attacking on encrypted coms.
Aggressively reduce the costs of people who are raising smart, healthy children and push the burdens on everyone else, particularly voluntarily childless people. The future belongs to those who show up for it, and almost every issue facing our world is telling us that we need to bring our genetic, cultural and technological a game to bear on it.
"There is simply no way to talk to a human being at @Google"
We need the courts to start saying that if you leave "the computer" to deal with the other parties to a contract, you are fully guilty of whatever "the computer" does to them if they have no obvious recourse to a human in a position of authority to adjudicate against "the computer."
I think a lot of people may be very surprised to find that Silicon Valley's "we can enforce and change the ToS as we see fit, pray we don't change it further" doesn't stand up in a court of law in the rest of the country. That's especially true when you are as blatantly hypocritical as Twitter is. For example, I am not aware of a single "verified account" ie celebrity who was banned for calling on people to violently assault the Covington teens.
Mr. Dorsey would do well to remember that it will be a federal judge, not some morbidly obese blue-haired freak with problem glasses who spouts off about intersectionality like ze has Tourettes that does the judging. Twitter has done a lot to strategically put the Democrats into a privileged position in ways that materially impact elections. Facebook has done the same. Google is open and unabashed, with plenty of folks saying that their goal is to ensure that "Trump can never happen again."
So go ahead, move fast and break things SV. You will probably end up breaking your faces into the iron fist of the federal judiciary before it's all said and done.
Pretty sure that if we had the CIA rendition third worlders who pretend to be federal agents it would stop really fucking quick when Pajeet starts thinking "I might disappear to a black site if I make that call and pretend to be IRS Agent Jack Stone."
And the response to Mongo should have had people very angry at AWS and scared for the future of the FOSS economy.
What it has established is that if you make a successful FOSS app, AWS will immediately jump in and offer a badly supported cloud version to all of your users. They will not collaborate on making sure they and the engineering team that made it succeed together on some meaningful level.
And if you fight back a la Mongo, they'll just build a proprietary, API-compatible version and tell you to go eff yourself.
In doing so, these communities perpetuate the cycle of poverty and make it harder to do well in life.
True story: my mother tutored a poor black kid from Ds to solid Bs and his bitch of a mother said "boy! Why you actin white" in response to his self-improvement when he showed her the report card. He and I were in 3rd grade, and it broke my mother's heart because he was all but bawling his eyes out confessing how well his report card went over at home.
And yes, there are white people who are like that too, but that's beside the point. Parents who respond like that are, in my opinion, on par with people who rape their own children in terms of how evil they are.
Although widely held, the belief that merit rather than luck determines success or failure in the world is demonstrably false. This is not least because merit itself is, in large part, the result of luck. Talent and the capacity for determined effort, sometimes called "grit," depend a great deal on one's genetic endowments and upbringing.
Those of us who have "underclass" relatives, no matter our race, have also see how black, white, etc. they almost always dismiss the role that hard work plays in others' success. Most of the time "life just happens to them." Drugs, booze, kids out of wedlock? Shit happens. Little concept of "damn, I did this to myself."
It's conveniently fatalistic and ignores the fact that yes, you can make your own luck in many cases even if it's not the level you would like to have.
Instead of censoring the misinformation, I'd just order the security services to stack the bodies until the stench reaches the ISS if that's what it takes to make the rioters get the clue that "we don't tolerate that shit here."
The same left-wingers who see a Russian conspiracy behind every pro-Trump vote in 2016 incredulously do not consider the possibility that Snowden might actually be a Russian asset who was recruited to cause absolute mayhem. It would have been very easy for Putin to turn Snowden over to the US and thus throw even more gasoline on the fire via discovery in federal courts if Snowden were just "some guy."
On the other hand, that's not how you want to be seen treating your assets by the people who you might want to recruit...
And our (Virginia) Lt. Governor is credibly accused of forcing a woman down to suck his dick and the same people who wanted to all but literally nail Roy Moore (Republican) to a literal cross over accusations are shrieking "due process!!11!" or trying to just pretend there's no reason to even investigate.
Have someone flip the power switch on the router and tell them to bring up MS Word, WordPad or even Notepad and spend 30 minutes writing a grammatically correct 4 paragraph introduction to a prospective employer arguing why you are a fit for the position**
** "Yes, you an make up all your quals, but it needs to read like a young man or woman is approaching a job as a respectable potential employee."
Sit back and watch the mayhem that ensues outside of those districts that still have parents and teachers that don't think like this:
Those in their mid-30s today came of age on the cusp of the digital revolution. Many older Millennials didn’t have internet at home until high school, didn’t join social networking sites until college, and didn’t get an iPhone until they had already begun their careers. The arrival of Generation Z into the workplace is showing Millennials what a true digital native looks like.
In a perfect world everyone would have the time and ability to carefully research an issue like vaccination and come to understand that there are vast amounts of evidence supporting the conclusion that they are safe and effective, with a few small caveats that any competent doctor administering them would be well aware of.
Vaccines qua vaccines are not safe anymore than pain killers qua pain killers are safe. Saying "vaccines are safe" is simply a moronic statement that is a reduction of the argument "you can trust Gardasil because MMR/Polio is safe." Guess what, you can't and a lot of parents found that out the hard way when their daughters had serious adverse reactions to Gardasil.
No one would say "stop fearmongering about Fentanyl because tylenol is safe and morphine is easily managed." Yet that is precisely what "pro-vaxxers" do with vaccines.
As usual, those of us with a more nuanced understanding are the ones caught in the crossfire and wanting to smash together the skulls of the "pro-" and "anti-" zealots.
This is what happens when globalism makes it possible for people who want to do bad things to fly from any part of the world and get here in less than a day. This is why you have always had two choices:
1. Restrictive travel and immigration policies, but high domestic freedom and low surveillance (domestically). 2. Open travel and immigration and a police state that wears a velvet glove as it punches you in the gut.
There is no libertarian option of "open travel and immigration, little surveillance" because that will last about a year before some terrorist exploits it and one up s 9/11 because he realized he could easily show up with dangerous contraband and likely not get caught.
In a raw assertion of executive power, President George W. Bush's administration started the program as part of its intense pursuit for Qaeda conspirators in the weeks after the 2001 terrorist attacks
No congressional authorization and almost certainly unconstitutional if all of the facts were declassified, and not a peep except from Rand Paul. Trump uses a law they wrote to have the military use construction funds to build his wall? ROAAARRRR MUH CONZTITUSHUNZ!!!
Until about 2016, a lot of us on the right didn't place too much stock in the MIC conspiracies, but I think the last 2.5 years have pretty much settled any dispute about whether or not we live in a welfare-warfare state.
This is not true. UK legal precedent is that a UK court can prosecute speech even when abroad if the UK is a primary audience.
Hey smart guy, did you miss that little caveat about "if you can evade being identified locally?"
UK law enforcement has no legal standing in the US on this issue. That means that if you are in the UK and want to host edgy commentary all you have to do is find a host in the US that you like. If UK police send a subpoena, the American host is going to laugh hysterically and respond "stop wasting our time, limey pig."
The flip side of this is that if you're European and can evade being identified locally, you can use American hosts to protect your speech since federal law protects American hosts from being taken to court for speech that is legal under the first amendment.
The only slightly non-standard.223/5.56 rifle that fires proprietary ammo so disproportionately expensive you'd think it was designed by the same people who designed the main gun on the new LCS vessels.
That detects people asserting logical fallacies and tells them that they don't know what they're talking about.
Ought to be real fun with the I Fucking Love Science crowd when they get told that "scientific consensus" is a euphemism for argumentum ad popolum.
Or with people in general when it says:
"Calling you a dishonest, good for nothing shitbag is just an insult. To be argumentum ad hominem he'd have to say that you being a dishonest, good for nothing shitbag is specifically the grounds on which your argument is wrong. Even asserting that facts in contention ought to be held in contention until independently verified because you're a dishonest shitbag is not argumentum ad hominem."
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Right, because immigration and outsourcing have done nothing to assault wages and the incentive structure for the working and middle classes. You are a racist who hates aspiring potential True Americans if you notice that adding a few million workers in a few year period goes a long way to ensure that supply always meets or exceeds demand. You are practically Hitler if you notice that the explosion in immigration over the last 30 years is probably the main reason why we've seen only about 14% real wage growth over two generations.
It bypasses the requirement because an undercover officer/federal agent now has convinced the suspect to turn it over to them.
In most categories of crimes, we should call that a "self-correcting problem that doesn't waste Facebook's time or damage our rights by restricting crypto/adding more to the surveillance laws."
Sometimes I swear these "civil libertarians" act like sock puppets for the FBI and wonder if the FBI isn't laughing hysterically as civil libertarians make such boneheaded arguments in the name of "muh freedumbz, muh libertayz, muh conztitushunz" that the whole goal is to make genuine balancing impossible and play right into the statists' hands.
The bills busting local and state rules that prohibit new entrants into markets, utilities from entering into that market, muni, etc.? Also, why stop here? Why should monopolies like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube not be required to be common carriers? It's much easier in terms of capital to build new ISP than one of those.
No, asshole. The reason he didn't see the whole thing was because I was there and stopped it before it got into the even creepier scenes.
The other night, my 4 year old was watching an age-appropriate channel and you know what trailer they played?
Pet Sematary
I can explain 95% of all of the white power stuff away easily. I cannot easily explain away a demon-possessed zombie cat from Hell to a pre-schooler who is nearly at bed time.
Priorities? It'd be nice if they actually had some.
Instead they should put a custom-built tower on site that would capture the voice traffic of all phones there and do full tracking and MITM attacking on encrypted coms.
Aggressively reduce the costs of people who are raising smart, healthy children and push the burdens on everyone else, particularly voluntarily childless people. The future belongs to those who show up for it, and almost every issue facing our world is telling us that we need to bring our genetic, cultural and technological a game to bear on it.
We need the courts to start saying that if you leave "the computer" to deal with the other parties to a contract, you are fully guilty of whatever "the computer" does to them if they have no obvious recourse to a human in a position of authority to adjudicate against "the computer."
I think a lot of people may be very surprised to find that Silicon Valley's "we can enforce and change the ToS as we see fit, pray we don't change it further" doesn't stand up in a court of law in the rest of the country. That's especially true when you are as blatantly hypocritical as Twitter is. For example, I am not aware of a single "verified account" ie celebrity who was banned for calling on people to violently assault the Covington teens.
Mr. Dorsey would do well to remember that it will be a federal judge, not some morbidly obese blue-haired freak with problem glasses who spouts off about intersectionality like ze has Tourettes that does the judging. Twitter has done a lot to strategically put the Democrats into a privileged position in ways that materially impact elections. Facebook has done the same. Google is open and unabashed, with plenty of folks saying that their goal is to ensure that "Trump can never happen again."
So go ahead, move fast and break things SV. You will probably end up breaking your faces into the iron fist of the federal judiciary before it's all said and done.
Pretty sure that if we had the CIA rendition third worlders who pretend to be federal agents it would stop really fucking quick when Pajeet starts thinking "I might disappear to a black site if I make that call and pretend to be IRS Agent Jack Stone."
And the response to Mongo should have had people very angry at AWS and scared for the future of the FOSS economy.
What it has established is that if you make a successful FOSS app, AWS will immediately jump in and offer a badly supported cloud version to all of your users. They will not collaborate on making sure they and the engineering team that made it succeed together on some meaningful level.
And if you fight back a la Mongo, they'll just build a proprietary, API-compatible version and tell you to go eff yourself.
True story: my mother tutored a poor black kid from Ds to solid Bs and his bitch of a mother said "boy! Why you actin white" in response to his self-improvement when he showed her the report card. He and I were in 3rd grade, and it broke my mother's heart because he was all but bawling his eyes out confessing how well his report card went over at home.
And yes, there are white people who are like that too, but that's beside the point. Parents who respond like that are, in my opinion, on par with people who rape their own children in terms of how evil they are.
Those of us who have "underclass" relatives, no matter our race, have also see how black, white, etc. they almost always dismiss the role that hard work plays in others' success. Most of the time "life just happens to them." Drugs, booze, kids out of wedlock? Shit happens. Little concept of "damn, I did this to myself."
It's conveniently fatalistic and ignores the fact that yes, you can make your own luck in many cases even if it's not the level you would like to have.
Instead of censoring the misinformation, I'd just order the security services to stack the bodies until the stench reaches the ISS if that's what it takes to make the rioters get the clue that "we don't tolerate that shit here."
The same left-wingers who see a Russian conspiracy behind every pro-Trump vote in 2016 incredulously do not consider the possibility that Snowden might actually be a Russian asset who was recruited to cause absolute mayhem. It would have been very easy for Putin to turn Snowden over to the US and thus throw even more gasoline on the fire via discovery in federal courts if Snowden were just "some guy."
On the other hand, that's not how you want to be seen treating your assets by the people who you might want to recruit...
And our (Virginia) Lt. Governor is credibly accused of forcing a woman down to suck his dick and the same people who wanted to all but literally nail Roy Moore (Republican) to a literal cross over accusations are shrieking "due process!!11!" or trying to just pretend there's no reason to even investigate.
Have someone flip the power switch on the router and tell them to bring up MS Word, WordPad or even Notepad and spend 30 minutes writing a grammatically correct 4 paragraph introduction to a prospective employer arguing why you are a fit for the position**
** "Yes, you an make up all your quals, but it needs to read like a young man or woman is approaching a job as a respectable potential employee."
Sit back and watch the mayhem that ensues outside of those districts that still have parents and teachers that don't think like this:
Unless your business model is porn, you are frankly insane hosting porn mixed with other things in the wake of FOSTA/SESTA.
Vaccines qua vaccines are not safe anymore than pain killers qua pain killers are safe. Saying "vaccines are safe" is simply a moronic statement that is a reduction of the argument "you can trust Gardasil because MMR/Polio is safe." Guess what, you can't and a lot of parents found that out the hard way when their daughters had serious adverse reactions to Gardasil.
No one would say "stop fearmongering about Fentanyl because tylenol is safe and morphine is easily managed." Yet that is precisely what "pro-vaxxers" do with vaccines.
As usual, those of us with a more nuanced understanding are the ones caught in the crossfire and wanting to smash together the skulls of the "pro-" and "anti-" zealots.
This is what happens when globalism makes it possible for people who want to do bad things to fly from any part of the world and get here in less than a day. This is why you have always had two choices:
1. Restrictive travel and immigration policies, but high domestic freedom and low surveillance (domestically).
2. Open travel and immigration and a police state that wears a velvet glove as it punches you in the gut.
There is no libertarian option of "open travel and immigration, little surveillance" because that will last about a year before some terrorist exploits it and one up s 9/11 because he realized he could easily show up with dangerous contraband and likely not get caught.
No congressional authorization and almost certainly unconstitutional if all of the facts were declassified, and not a peep except from Rand Paul. Trump uses a law they wrote to have the military use construction funds to build his wall? ROAAARRRR MUH CONZTITUSHUNZ!!!
Until about 2016, a lot of us on the right didn't place too much stock in the MIC conspiracies, but I think the last 2.5 years have pretty much settled any dispute about whether or not we live in a welfare-warfare state.
Hey smart guy, did you miss that little caveat about "if you can evade being identified locally?"
UK law enforcement has no legal standing in the US on this issue. That means that if you are in the UK and want to host edgy commentary all you have to do is find a host in the US that you like. If UK police send a subpoena, the American host is going to laugh hysterically and respond "stop wasting our time, limey pig."
The flip side of this is that if you're European and can evade being identified locally, you can use American hosts to protect your speech since federal law protects American hosts from being taken to court for speech that is legal under the first amendment.
The only slightly non-standard .223/5.56 rifle that fires proprietary ammo so disproportionately expensive you'd think it was designed by the same people who designed the main gun on the new LCS vessels.
That detects people asserting logical fallacies and tells them that they don't know what they're talking about.
Ought to be real fun with the I Fucking Love Science crowd when they get told that "scientific consensus" is a euphemism for argumentum ad popolum.
Or with people in general when it says:
"Calling you a dishonest, good for nothing shitbag is just an insult. To be argumentum ad hominem he'd have to say that you being a dishonest, good for nothing shitbag is specifically the grounds on which your argument is wrong. Even asserting that facts in contention ought to be held in contention until independently verified because you're a dishonest shitbag is not argumentum ad hominem."