I'm in IT and not a teacher and I work K-12 and in my (red) state the legislature completely gutted the teacher's unions but people think they're amazing and that teachers barely work get summers off and have hot tubs in the lounge; couldn't be further from the truth.
This.
My housemate is a teacher, he works longer hours than most of us. 4 out of 5 nights he's preparing classwork or marking essays. Although in the UK it's a lot better than in the US, teaching is still not a highly paid career, most teachers do it because they genuinely care (which often leads to burnout).
You keep insulting me, the customer. I will not be doing business with you and will slander your name.
Dickhead clients will slander you anyway because they use up all your reasonableness until you have to put your foot down, usually in the middle of a big mess they've created. You will always be the villain, but keep the story small and it'll soon be replaced by lamenting their next "useless" contractors.
This,
What dickhead clients forget is that vendors also rate and talk about them. Slander one provider, you'll find that others will also stop taking their calls. When it was revealed that Uber also allowed drivers to rate passengers I was completely unsurprised. Businesses rate their clients all the time, just not on public forums.
Unless Valve has branches in Austrailia, I wonder how they intend to collect the fine if Steam decides not to pay up?
Actually, due to agreements between the US and Australia they can now be pursued in US courts. Its similar to if an Australian company violated US laws whilst selling digital product to Americans would be able to be sued in Australia for violating those laws. Ignorance of those laws is not a defence.
Its actually quite an open and shut thing. Pulling out of a country after the fact is not a defence either. Also even if they had branches in Australia, the legal path via another country is the preferred method. Seizing property is the absolute last resort.
It's similar to if you committed a crime in Germany, you cant run back to the US and say "ner, ner, you cant catch me". You can bet your arse the American courts will enforce their judgement, Its just that it's not worth the German courts time and money chasing you over a 30 Euro speeding fine.
Besides, Australia is worth more than $3,000,000 to valve which is actually quoted in Australian dollars so it's closer to US$2,150,000.
Speed limits are actually quite heavily enforced in Germany and suspensions are handed out for much lower infractions. The difference is that the Germans tend to focus more on urban speed limits (which tend to be low compared to the UK, Australian and especially the US) because most of the preventable deaths happen on urban roads.
I dont disagree with your points, please allow me to say that first.
Driving in the UK is a pleasure, despite the narrow roads and heavy traffic because drivers by and large follow the traffic rules and conventions of courtesy on the roads. A far cry from driving in Oz.
But there are certainly some cities/towns/states/counties that balance their books by fine revenue. Their budget depends on a certain amount of fines being issued so they game the system to ensure that there are enough tickets issued to ensure that the target is met. I certainly dont agree with it, but they exist never the less.
The US is particularly bad for it because so many laws can be set locally. Here in the UK where councils have to abide by codes for setting speed zones its a lot better, they can only do what North Wales has done and put speed cameras everywhere (although the codes say they must be clearly marked).
I have to say though, if we want to make the roads safer, what we need are more cops on the road. Someone doing 100 MPH on an empty motorway on a clear summers day is not a big deal. Someone riding 2 CM from someone elses bumper or trying to weave through heavy traffic is a danger to himself and everyone around him. The difference between a camera and a cop is that the camera will get the 100 MPH guy but ignore the tailgater/lane weaver, the Rozzers will at the very least, get both (although here in the UK, they'll leave the 100 MPH guy go as long as he's not doing anything stupid).
Yes, but you never see MacBook [Pro] computers fail because their power cords have been tugged on.
I've never seen a laptop fail because the power cord has been tugged on. Not even your cheapest eMachine or MSI laptop and I've been looking after some of the most abused laptops for years (try doing tech support for Geologists, they abuse everything).
Apple fanboys need to stop creaming themselves over a power connector. It's not that great, most of us aren't klutz's that are continually tripping over cords. Having a USB port or headphone jack is far more important in a laptop for most people.
Apple's bread and butter is fit/finish and consistent user experience.
It was when Jobs was in charge. Ives and Cook don't have anyone to keep them in line.
I feel like if Zombie Jobs was forced to use a Dongle to connect his brand new phone to his brand new computer he'd go in search of new brains.
It's more that the RDF is in it's death throes. Apple products have always been worse than their stated specification (like all other brands) but now people aren't blindly swallowing it.
Also the Mac craze is over So Apple need to do things to keep existing customers constantly upgrading because they aren't getting any new ones.
Consumer Reports isn't a tech rag. They don't give a damn about technical specs except as guidelines for what to buy (e.g. "get at least 8 GB of RAM").
They test products based on how the average person will use them. So if the average person spends 80% of their computer time in a browser on Facebook or YouTube, by God they're going to test how the laptop performs running a browser on Facebook or YouTube.
iHOW DARE THEY...
Testing these products like they were to be used by pleb switcheurs!!!!!1!!ONE!!1ELEVEN!!!!
Don't they know that you are only ever to test an Apple product by the method suggested by the Holy Jobs and any differences between your results and the specifications in the sacred literature are because you're holding it wrong.
This is a case of Uber being recalcitrant, not that the laws were restrictive or unfair.
As per this article, the DMV tried to work with Uber to get permits for the vehicles.
The DMV told Uber that if it had obtained a permit, the regulator would have given the green light to the self-driving pilot.
DMV director Jean Shiomoto said in a letter sent to Uber that she would "personally help to ensure an expedited review and approval process", which she said could take less than three days.
So it's not like the city was trying to stop Uber.
Another 20 companies exploring self-driving cars — including Alphabet's Google, Tesla Motors and Ford Motor Co — have obtained California DMV permits for 130 cars.
It seems its not difficult for other companies either.
Its just that Uber doesn't want to play by the rules, even when the rules are being bent for their benefit. The Recode article in the fine summary said it would be $150 per vehicle so it's not like they were trying to kill them with fees either.
Either that, or Uber knows it's autonomous car program is not ready for prime time.
At the same time AAA-games are becoming more like movies with less interaction and more passive watching of cutscenes, and this will continue until there is no distinguishing element between film and game left.
Which is why I'm glad to be a part of the PC Gaming Master Race.
The best thing the Filthy Console Peasants have to look forward to is pressing X to watch COD.
OK to be fair some AAA games are actually good, such as Fallout 4 and as soon as 2K fix it, Mafia III. However I've given up on that consolised crap like Battlefield.
That is $91 billion in money that could have been spent on more useful things, and billions of hours of lost productivity. This is an incredibly disappointing statistic, to know just how much money and time we waste on things that just aren't important.
I predict that you shall survive to be 112... Solely because no-one will ever invite you to go somewhere dangerous or even remotely interesting.
They can have a say, but not an overruling decision, like what happened here.
So how do you think the EU is actually going to overrule us, eh? All they can do is wag their finger, and tell us what a naughty boy we are and if we keep on not abiding by the rules, kick us out of the club.
That would actually give them more power over us. Right now all the EU can do is say "stahp or I vill ask you to stahp again, jawol". They cant punish the UK in any meaningful way as the UK has veto powers in the EU and restricting trade to the UK whilst it's in the EU would violate the EU's core principles (which they wont do). Once the Brexit begins, they gain power to influence internal policy by restricting trade and as any trade disruption with the EU, which is conservatively 45% of all exports, would be suicide for the UK so politicians will just rubber stamp whatever Brussels demands.
Right now, London can tell Brussels to go fuck themselves all day long. Post Brexit, that is pretty much the only thing that will change.
Its more of a cultural problem, go to Copenhagen and you can see it actually works well.
Haven't been to Copenhagen... but I'll put money on the fact it's like Amsterdam where they try to separate the car and bike as much as possible.
There's a road for cars, a cycle path for cyclists and a footpath for pedestrians. Cyclists cross the road at traffic lights the same as pedestrians and this works because cyclists realise that they cant go as fast as cars.
I know the lycra warriors don't believe me, so go look at Wibautstraat in Amsterdam on Google maps and street view, the red paths on either side of the street are for cyclists. The large black thing is for cars.
Bike lanes on 35MPH streets. Get Cyclists off streets with speed limits they cant possibly match.
Bike lanes that double as parking. Get Cyclists off the streets they're complaining about.
Bike lanes on roundabouts... Get Cyclists to use the pedestrian crossings... Like cyclists with half a brain do in countries with a lot of roundabouts.
I could go on. Your solutions are not solutions, rather a wishlist from cyclists to make everything harder for everyone else.
I know you and the other lycra warriors are frothing at the mouth and ready to paint me with all kinds of slander... but I've been to your Mecca, it works for two reasons.
1. In Amsterdam, everything is a s separate as you can make it. Roads are for cars, Cycle paths are for cyclists, foot paths are for pedestrians and they try to make the three meet as little as possible.
2. In Amsterdam, cyclists aren't self-righteous arseholes who are too busy trying to enforce their rights on others than considering if they're doing right by others.
We're "sorry" that our "independently" owned and operated "self-driving" car went into the "bike" lane and "killed" your wife last night. Here is our "generous" offer: $250K, sign this "no fault" agreement, and "GTFO."
I'd sign and take the 250K.
Then sue them for another 20,00,000 because no-fault agreements are unenforceable in my country.
Only the police can determine fault when bodily harm is involved.
Make useful bike infrastructure and I'd gladly get out of the way of all the idiot cagers. But until we have that I can't
The problem is, you organ donors and mobile speed humps refuse to... even when many millions of dollars are spent on cycle paths... The best excuses I've heard are that they might hit a 30 CM diameter light pole that is off the path (but somehow can avoid 2 metre wide moving cars) and that there may be leaves and detritus on the path which makes it too slippery to ride on (as compared to roads which have the same detritus mixed with motor oil and other lubricants).
Still yet to hear a good reason why road going cyclists shouldn't be licensed and registered. A bicycle is a vehicle like any other on the road but they dont seem to obey red lights, lane markings, minimum speed limits, no left/right turn signs or other turning vehicles. I wonder if that's related to cyclists being so hostile to licensing and registration like other road users.
Whilst I've worked with Panasonic Avionics , and they are not the info section "A" team...
The IFE systems are essentially air gapped already as a mandatory requirement by regulatory agencies - ACARS is basically an RSS feed to the IFE system and anything other than that is separate again. IFE has no in the air satellite connection on any deployments I've seen.
This is the digital equivalent of hacking a highway sign to say rude words.
Just because it's mandated doesn't mean engineers weren't ordered to ignore that mandate. See: Volkswagen.
That might be a little paranoid but air safety authorities don't know the meaning of the word paranoid.
However you can do a lot of damage with just a message, like sowing mass panic. If you've ever seen a stampede inside a barn you can imagine what it's like. People aren't much smarter than cows on aircraft in my experience and if they're all told the plane has been hijacked I can see mass panic starting.
The majority of planes I fly on seldom even have electric outlets to plug in your laptop. I'm usually on the single-class (cattle-class / steerage-class) flights where nobody has anything. I'm not important enough to be on the long haul flights where people expect more than a bag of peanuts and half a can of soda.
Not saying that I like it that way, just that apparently I have less to worry about as a result.
I think you need to start flying better airlines.
Almost all long haul flights I've been on have served meals, drinks (incl alcohol) and had in seat power or at least USB ports where you could charge a mobile device. Hell, even my last flight from LHR-AMS they served a snack and a drink. The only reason that was it was because that was all they had time to do. LHR to AMS is only an hour gate to gate.
BTW, the reason they use the little cans of soda is because weight and space on an aircraft is at a premium. People are demanding cheaper flights and booking using third parties are also not helping..
Those of us who have been through dotcom 1.0's boom and bust know that there are patterns here - high stock valuations, no profitability, no real exit strategy, and hope of acquisition. What makes this time a bit different is that the ethics of the businesses are pretty challenged this time around.
I think they have an exit plan, the owners will amass as much as possible in untraceable and unrecoverable funds, then skip off to a non extradition country.
This kind of thing has all the hallmarks of a Skase.
It's the new business model: as long as you can keep investment capitol coming in, you expand like wildfire in the hope that what you do eventually becomes profitable.
Actually, the idea is to become so large that you are too big to fail. Then you can stop worrying about raising capital and just take it direct from the government.
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I'm in IT and not a teacher and I work K-12 and in my (red) state the legislature completely gutted the teacher's unions but people think they're amazing and that teachers barely work get summers off and have hot tubs in the lounge; couldn't be further from the truth.
This.
My housemate is a teacher, he works longer hours than most of us. 4 out of 5 nights he's preparing classwork or marking essays. Although in the UK it's a lot better than in the US, teaching is still not a highly paid career, most teachers do it because they genuinely care (which often leads to burnout).
You keep insulting me, the customer. I will not be doing business with you and will slander your name.
Dickhead clients will slander you anyway because they use up all your reasonableness until you have to put your foot down, usually in the middle of a big mess they've created. You will always be the villain, but keep the story small and it'll soon be replaced by lamenting their next "useless" contractors.
This,
What dickhead clients forget is that vendors also rate and talk about them. Slander one provider, you'll find that others will also stop taking their calls. When it was revealed that Uber also allowed drivers to rate passengers I was completely unsurprised. Businesses rate their clients all the time, just not on public forums.
I liked her best in The Blues Brothers.
For me it was her portrayal of the therapist in Austin Powers.
Unless Valve has branches in Austrailia, I wonder how they intend to collect the fine if Steam decides not to pay up?
Actually, due to agreements between the US and Australia they can now be pursued in US courts. Its similar to if an Australian company violated US laws whilst selling digital product to Americans would be able to be sued in Australia for violating those laws. Ignorance of those laws is not a defence.
Its actually quite an open and shut thing. Pulling out of a country after the fact is not a defence either. Also even if they had branches in Australia, the legal path via another country is the preferred method. Seizing property is the absolute last resort.
It's similar to if you committed a crime in Germany, you cant run back to the US and say "ner, ner, you cant catch me". You can bet your arse the American courts will enforce their judgement, Its just that it's not worth the German courts time and money chasing you over a 30 Euro speeding fine.
Besides, Australia is worth more than $3,000,000 to valve which is actually quoted in Australian dollars so it's closer to US$2,150,000.
You do realize that Germany has no speed limits except 'safe and reasonable'.
Sounds like you need an education on Germany.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_in_Germany
Speed limits are actually quite heavily enforced in Germany and suspensions are handed out for much lower infractions. The difference is that the Germans tend to focus more on urban speed limits (which tend to be low compared to the UK, Australian and especially the US) because most of the preventable deaths happen on urban roads.
What cities would those be?
I dont disagree with your points, please allow me to say that first.
Driving in the UK is a pleasure, despite the narrow roads and heavy traffic because drivers by and large follow the traffic rules and conventions of courtesy on the roads. A far cry from driving in Oz.
But there are certainly some cities/towns/states/counties that balance their books by fine revenue. Their budget depends on a certain amount of fines being issued so they game the system to ensure that there are enough tickets issued to ensure that the target is met. I certainly dont agree with it, but they exist never the less.
The US is particularly bad for it because so many laws can be set locally. Here in the UK where councils have to abide by codes for setting speed zones its a lot better, they can only do what North Wales has done and put speed cameras everywhere (although the codes say they must be clearly marked).
I have to say though, if we want to make the roads safer, what we need are more cops on the road. Someone doing 100 MPH on an empty motorway on a clear summers day is not a big deal. Someone riding 2 CM from someone elses bumper or trying to weave through heavy traffic is a danger to himself and everyone around him. The difference between a camera and a cop is that the camera will get the 100 MPH guy but ignore the tailgater/lane weaver, the Rozzers will at the very least, get both (although here in the UK, they'll leave the 100 MPH guy go as long as he's not doing anything stupid).
I've never seen a laptop fail because the power cord has been tugged on. Not even your cheapest eMachine or MSI laptop and I've been looking after some of the most abused laptops for years (try doing tech support for Geologists, they abuse everything).
Apple fanboys need to stop creaming themselves over a power connector. It's not that great, most of us aren't klutz's that are continually tripping over cords. Having a USB port or headphone jack is far more important in a laptop for most people.
Apple's bread and butter is fit/finish and consistent user experience.
It was when Jobs was in charge. Ives and Cook don't have anyone to keep them in line.
I feel like if Zombie Jobs was forced to use a Dongle to connect his brand new phone to his brand new computer he'd go in search of new brains.
It's more that the RDF is in it's death throes. Apple products have always been worse than their stated specification (like all other brands) but now people aren't blindly swallowing it.
Also the Mac craze is over So Apple need to do things to keep existing customers constantly upgrading because they aren't getting any new ones.
Consumer Reports isn't a tech rag. They don't give a damn about technical specs except as guidelines for what to buy (e.g. "get at least 8 GB of RAM").
They test products based on how the average person will use them. So if the average person spends 80% of their computer time in a browser on Facebook or YouTube, by God they're going to test how the laptop performs running a browser on Facebook or YouTube.
iHOW DARE THEY...
Testing these products like they were to be used by pleb switcheurs!!!!!1!!ONE!!1ELEVEN!!!! Don't they know that you are only ever to test an Apple product by the method suggested by the Holy Jobs and any differences between your results and the specifications in the sacred literature are because you're holding it wrong.
As per this article, the DMV tried to work with Uber to get permits for the vehicles.
The DMV told Uber that if it had obtained a permit, the regulator would have given the green light to the self-driving pilot. DMV director Jean Shiomoto said in a letter sent to Uber that she would "personally help to ensure an expedited review and approval process", which she said could take less than three days.
So it's not like the city was trying to stop Uber.
Another 20 companies exploring self-driving cars — including Alphabet's Google, Tesla Motors and Ford Motor Co — have obtained California DMV permits for 130 cars.
It seems its not difficult for other companies either.
Its just that Uber doesn't want to play by the rules, even when the rules are being bent for their benefit. The Recode article in the fine summary said it would be $150 per vehicle so it's not like they were trying to kill them with fees either.
Either that, or Uber knows it's autonomous car program is not ready for prime time.
At the same time AAA-games are becoming more like movies with less interaction and more passive watching of cutscenes, and this will continue until there is no distinguishing element between film and game left.
Which is why I'm glad to be a part of the PC Gaming Master Race.
The best thing the Filthy Console Peasants have to look forward to is pressing X to watch COD.
OK to be fair some AAA games are actually good, such as Fallout 4 and as soon as 2K fix it, Mafia III. However I've given up on that consolised crap like Battlefield.
That is $91 billion in money that could have been spent on more useful things, and billions of hours of lost productivity. This is an incredibly disappointing statistic, to know just how much money and time we waste on things that just aren't important.
I predict that you shall survive to be 112... Solely because no-one will ever invite you to go somewhere dangerous or even remotely interesting.
>Opera was sane: it did not reload a tab unless you asked for it. It just reopened everything from cache
No. That is NOT sane, normal, or desired.
Actually its NOT JUST, sane and desired, but essential.
Web pages still manage to crash my browser, I want my browser to re-open the tabs I had previously but NOT load the page that made it crash.
They can have a say, but not an overruling decision, like what happened here.
So how do you think the EU is actually going to overrule us, eh? All they can do is wag their finger, and tell us what a naughty boy we are and if we keep on not abiding by the rules, kick us out of the club.
That would actually give them more power over us. Right now all the EU can do is say "stahp or I vill ask you to stahp again, jawol". They cant punish the UK in any meaningful way as the UK has veto powers in the EU and restricting trade to the UK whilst it's in the EU would violate the EU's core principles (which they wont do). Once the Brexit begins, they gain power to influence internal policy by restricting trade and as any trade disruption with the EU, which is conservatively 45% of all exports, would be suicide for the UK so politicians will just rubber stamp whatever Brussels demands.
Right now, London can tell Brussels to go fuck themselves all day long. Post Brexit, that is pretty much the only thing that will change.
Its more of a cultural problem, go to Copenhagen and you can see it actually works well.
Haven't been to Copenhagen... but I'll put money on the fact it's like Amsterdam where they try to separate the car and bike as much as possible.
There's a road for cars, a cycle path for cyclists and a footpath for pedestrians. Cyclists cross the road at traffic lights the same as pedestrians and this works because cyclists realise that they cant go as fast as cars.
I know the lycra warriors don't believe me, so go look at Wibautstraat in Amsterdam on Google maps and street view, the red paths on either side of the street are for cyclists. The large black thing is for cars.
Bike lanes on 35MPH streets. Get Cyclists off streets with speed limits they cant possibly match.
Bike lanes that double as parking. Get Cyclists off the streets they're complaining about.
Bike lanes on roundabouts... Get Cyclists to use the pedestrian crossings... Like cyclists with half a brain do in countries with a lot of roundabouts.
I could go on. Your solutions are not solutions, rather a wishlist from cyclists to make everything harder for everyone else.
I know you and the other lycra warriors are frothing at the mouth and ready to paint me with all kinds of slander... but I've been to your Mecca, it works for two reasons.
1. In Amsterdam, everything is a s separate as you can make it. Roads are for cars, Cycle paths are for cyclists, foot paths are for pedestrians and they try to make the three meet as little as possible.
2. In Amsterdam, cyclists aren't self-righteous arseholes who are too busy trying to enforce their rights on others than considering if they're doing right by others.
We're "sorry" that our "independently" owned and operated "self-driving" car went into the "bike" lane and "killed" your wife last night. Here is our "generous" offer: $250K, sign this "no fault" agreement, and "GTFO."
I'd sign and take the 250K.
Then sue them for another 20,00,000 because no-fault agreements are unenforceable in my country.
Only the police can determine fault when bodily harm is involved.
Make useful bike infrastructure and I'd gladly get out of the way of all the idiot cagers. But until we have that I can't
The problem is, you organ donors and mobile speed humps refuse to... even when many millions of dollars are spent on cycle paths... The best excuses I've heard are that they might hit a 30 CM diameter light pole that is off the path (but somehow can avoid 2 metre wide moving cars) and that there may be leaves and detritus on the path which makes it too slippery to ride on (as compared to roads which have the same detritus mixed with motor oil and other lubricants).
Still yet to hear a good reason why road going cyclists shouldn't be licensed and registered. A bicycle is a vehicle like any other on the road but they dont seem to obey red lights, lane markings, minimum speed limits, no left/right turn signs or other turning vehicles. I wonder if that's related to cyclists being so hostile to licensing and registration like other road users.
Cyclists are a scourge that really need to be eradicated.
I'd say the same thing about Uber.
Yes. I'm not sure who to support on this one.
Can we let Uber have the autonomous cars... then jail the execs for mowing down all the cyclists. Sounds like a win-win.
Whilst I've worked with Panasonic Avionics , and they are not the info section "A" team...
The IFE systems are essentially air gapped already as a mandatory requirement by regulatory agencies - ACARS is basically an RSS feed to the IFE system and anything other than that is separate again. IFE has no in the air satellite connection on any deployments I've seen .
This is the digital equivalent of hacking a highway sign to say rude words.
Just because it's mandated doesn't mean engineers weren't ordered to ignore that mandate. See: Volkswagen.
That might be a little paranoid but air safety authorities don't know the meaning of the word paranoid.
However you can do a lot of damage with just a message, like sowing mass panic. If you've ever seen a stampede inside a barn you can imagine what it's like. People aren't much smarter than cows on aircraft in my experience and if they're all told the plane has been hijacked I can see mass panic starting.
The majority of planes I fly on seldom even have electric outlets to plug in your laptop. I'm usually on the single-class (cattle-class / steerage-class) flights where nobody has anything. I'm not important enough to be on the long haul flights where people expect more than a bag of peanuts and half a can of soda.
Not saying that I like it that way, just that apparently I have less to worry about as a result.
I think you need to start flying better airlines.
Almost all long haul flights I've been on have served meals, drinks (incl alcohol) and had in seat power or at least USB ports where you could charge a mobile device. Hell, even my last flight from LHR-AMS they served a snack and a drink. The only reason that was it was because that was all they had time to do. LHR to AMS is only an hour gate to gate.
BTW, the reason they use the little cans of soda is because weight and space on an aircraft is at a premium. People are demanding cheaper flights and booking using third parties are also not helping..
Oh, yeah, that company that made a bit of noise back in the mid 00's, decided to consolise and hasn't done anything of note since.
Colour me surprised that they're going out of business.
Those of us who have been through dotcom 1.0's boom and bust know that there are patterns here - high stock valuations, no profitability, no real exit strategy, and hope of acquisition. What makes this time a bit different is that the ethics of the businesses are pretty challenged this time around.
I think they have an exit plan, the owners will amass as much as possible in untraceable and unrecoverable funds, then skip off to a non extradition country.
This kind of thing has all the hallmarks of a Skase.
It's the new business model: as long as you can keep investment capitol coming in, you expand like wildfire in the hope that what you do eventually becomes profitable.
Actually, the idea is to become so large that you are too big to fail. Then you can stop worrying about raising capital and just take it direct from the government.
What if we made homeowners responsible for hateful graffiti scrawled on their house? Or pubs and cafes liable for what is discussed there?
Well no, because the house and cafe do not exist for the purpose of public broadcasting.
That question was answered by an 8 year old. Do you have any other stupid questions or can I let the kid go play some Mario kart.
Facebook would fall under the same rules as television stations, newspapers radio stations and other broadcasters.
Finally, free speech does not imply speech without responsibility.