Just a thought. Your post is the best, so far. (Admittedly, it's early) and I agree. I have mod points but I I don't have my permission to spend/. mod on AC.
If that doesn't matter to you, well that's OK. Should it, login.
Still, as a a retired IT guy, I have lived the frustration that you have lived.
The policies are not ridiculous. As a content provider my self (photographer), it's disheartening to see my work pop up on social media in numbers without end and I only get compensation from the tiny Internet real estate that I initially did business with.
Europe has a much better sense of privacy and IP protections and I hope those influence America.
The US doesn't give a flying fuck about either because the goddam citizens are interested in more important things like Farmville.
I worked what we used to call, "the big site mentality," long before the word, "enterprise," came along. We automated shit and blocked extensions that we didn't like and pushed those out to the desktop using login files on the servers.
This shit about blaming the user is old. Failures aren't because of "stupid users," the failures are the property of the goddam admins.
This is sounding like trolling less and less as time goes on. I bailed from Facebook. I don't ever talk to anyone else about deleting theirs. That's my decision. And, it's theirs.
... If they keep growing they become bloated, get too inefficient, start buying up competitors or getting away from their core business, etc. Then, come a recession, market shift, or a new innovative competitor, they cannot react and start losing money, have to start spinning off or sell off products or divisions, massive layoffs, etc....
Precisely this.
Mobil Oil Corporation, Fairfax, Va., ca. 1985: Mobil had so much fucking money they went into real estate, became self-insured and sold policies, bought Montgomery Ward, Container Corp., which made paperboard products.
Mobil (and other oil companies) made a killing during the oil crunch of 1973 and shareholders screamed to "invest the cash!"
When things got tighter in the mid 80s, Mobil did something that's predictable today:
It went super nova and expelled all of its non-core businesses in an effort to collapse into a well-oiled machine. (Note what I did there.)
So, these days, when I see Apple, for instance, sitting on 240 billion liquidity and buying crazy-ass assets that no one at Apple is qualified to work on, I'm waiting for the explosion.
Those platforms have been warned to stop the bullshit trolling posts.
Most of those come from anti-immigration, anti-refugee, anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ civil rights, #2A batshit cray cray Rambos, white nationalists, undereducated white Evangelical Christian right wing motherfuckers.
This is important as many studies are based solely on self-reported [use or identification], even though recent work found only one third of participants give accurate accounts of how much time they spend online when asked after the fact.
True story, although I read it many years ago in stat class:
Students, as a project for class, covered a medium-small town and collected self-reported church attendance. Sure enough, the "40% attended church each week," figure surfaced.
The students took that information to area churches and the leaders there (several sects) said, "We wish that were the case!"
Suspicious, the team of students surveyed the parking lots of the various churches during hours of worship and counted the cars in the parking lots.
Conclusion? "60% of the population did not attend church in the last week, 20% of the population did, and 20% were liars."
We should not expect religious behavior to he immune to such misreporting.
Several years ago we teamed up with sociologist Mark Chaves to test the 40 percent figure for church attendance.
Our initial study, based on attendance counts in Protestant churches in one Ohio county and Catholic churches in 18 dioceses, indicated a much lower rate of religious participation than the polls report. Instead of 40 percent of Protestants attending church, we found 20 percent. Instead of 50 percent of Catholics attending church, we found 28 percent. In other words, actual church attendance was about half the rate indicated by national public opinion polls.
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Fuck you very much.
1.) I have mod points but both your excellent posts are at 5.
2.) I can't comment and mod.
3.) I am stealing your remarks in a plagiaristic grab because I could not have said it better.
4.) I will be taking full credit because that's the kind of weenie I am.
Well said.
(Score:6, Interesting)
Just a thought. Your post is the best, so far. (Admittedly, it's early) and I agree. I have mod points but I I don't have my permission to spend /. mod on AC.
If that doesn't matter to you, well that's OK. Should it, login.
Still, as a a retired IT guy, I have lived the frustration that you have lived.
Thanks.
The policies are not ridiculous. As a content provider my self (photographer), it's disheartening to see my work pop up on social media in numbers without end and I only get compensation from the tiny Internet real estate that I initially did business with.
Europe has a much better sense of privacy and IP protections and I hope those influence America.
The US doesn't give a flying fuck about either because the goddam citizens are interested in more important things like Farmville.
I agree.
I worked what we used to call, "the big site mentality," long before the word, "enterprise," came along. We automated shit and blocked extensions that we didn't like and pushed those out to the desktop using login files on the servers.
This shit about blaming the user is old. Failures aren't because of "stupid users," the failures are the property of the goddam admins.
This is sounding like trolling less and less as time goes on. I bailed from Facebook. I don't ever talk to anyone else about deleting theirs. That's my decision. And, it's theirs.
And there's the simple fucking audacity to put that goddam advertising shit right in everyone's faces.
They do that already with billboards and LED signs, and I think most people don't go outside and look up at night, anyway.
Now, if they could arrange to get that shit on my ceiling ...
I hope it lands on Trump. Two uneducated, misinformed and useless self-aggrandizing faggots of no consequence, one smoking crater.
Fixed your typo for you.
... are flat.
... comprised of Republicans, Democrats, Evangelical Christians and Capitalists, chalk one up for that last one.
... out-foxing and out-conning Trump.
This is his brain on coke.
"Subscription fatigue." Include subscriptions to NYT, WaPo, and others, and it's not a sustainable model.
... If they keep growing they become bloated, get too inefficient, start buying up competitors or getting away from their core business, etc. Then, come a recession, market shift, or a new innovative competitor, they cannot react and start losing money, have to start spinning off or sell off products or divisions, massive layoffs, etc. ...
Precisely this.
Mobil Oil Corporation, Fairfax, Va., ca. 1985: Mobil had so much fucking money they went into real estate, became self-insured and sold policies, bought Montgomery Ward, Container Corp., which made paperboard products.
Mobil (and other oil companies) made a killing during the oil crunch of 1973 and shareholders screamed to "invest the cash!"
When things got tighter in the mid 80s, Mobil did something that's predictable today:
It went super nova and expelled all of its non-core businesses in an effort to collapse into a well-oiled machine. (Note what I did there.)
So, these days, when I see Apple, for instance, sitting on 240 billion liquidity and buying crazy-ass assets that no one at Apple is qualified to work on, I'm waiting for the explosion.
When companies go IPO, the owners become followers. They fight shareholder greed and champion the long view.
The adversarial relationship explain why some are billionaires and some are stockholders.
This. I have a corollary for it:
Shareholders want asymptotic growth over nanosecond time scales. ~ CaptainDork
There's on of these for all the goddam social media sites. Fuck that.
Plus, I put in "MySpace," and got zip.
Fucking click bait.
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Those platforms have been warned to stop the bullshit trolling posts.
Most of those come from anti-immigration, anti-refugee, anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ civil rights, #2A batshit cray cray Rambos, white nationalists, undereducated white Evangelical Christian right wing motherfuckers.
The hate groups want to sit with the grownups.
Tips on how to use the goddam fucking Internet to find shit and eliminate ad lib made up ignorance.
Oh, and share that there are no motherfucking goddam nude photos of Anna Kournikova.
This is important as many studies are based solely on self-reported [use or identification], even though recent work found only one third of participants give accurate accounts of how much time they spend online when asked after the fact .
True story, although I read it many years ago in stat class:
Students, as a project for class, covered a medium-small town and collected self-reported church attendance. Sure enough, the "40% attended church each week," figure surfaced.
The students took that information to area churches and the leaders there (several sects) said, "We wish that were the case!"
Suspicious, the team of students surveyed the parking lots of the various churches during hours of worship and counted the cars in the parking lots.
Conclusion? "60% of the population did not attend church in the last week, 20% of the population did, and 20% were liars."
Here's a link to a similar finding:
We should not expect religious behavior to he immune to such misreporting.
Several years ago we teamed up with sociologist Mark Chaves to test the 40 percent figure for church attendance.
Our initial study, based on attendance counts in Protestant churches in one Ohio county and Catholic churches in 18 dioceses, indicated a much lower rate of religious participation than the polls report. Instead of 40 percent of Protestants attending church, we found 20 percent. Instead of 50 percent of Catholics attending church, we found 28 percent. In other words, actual church attendance was about half the rate indicated by national public opinion polls.
Good point.
Screen time and screen content: Next study should be about the effects of content.
Goddamit I'm trying to drink my coffee!
I hab doe tate bud id by dode.
Thanks.
... get the goddam copper!
When the goddam federal government is a fucking loony bin, the states step up and say, "Hold my beer."
The mobile carriers typically aren’t regarded as ISPs.
That's because phones and cellular data don't support streaming.
And mobile carriers don't support streaming on tablets or desktops, especially through hotspots in the home that mobile carriers sell.
... please work on fixing the stuff my engineers don't even know about but delivered anyway.