It's a shame that these emerging markets don't know how to spend trillions on an espionage agency, like we do, so that we can come and go without being noticed. They keep using this "lowest hanging fruits" style of espionage on a budget that isn't as transparent. It makes our professionals so embarrassed for them.
Maybe it's time for a real ecological study on the real effects of recycling vs. simply burying everything. Our oceans deserve more than a good feeling we get by putting things in the blue bins.
Yes! This type of abuse is wrong and something should be done about it.
This is monopolistic behavior. If Comcast had to compete with anyone (WHICH THEY DO NOT!) they would never be able to get away with this sort of behavior.
Look, we've been down the road of more and more regulation before. How well did that work to prevent the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe? How about the Housing Market collapse of 2008/2009? I know setting up a group of regulators who big business can easily cozy up to makes you feel like you are protected. But it's just an illusion.
You have the opportunity here to appeal to something that Trump HAS signaled he may be willing to do -- break up monopolies! And it would achieve everything you want. But instead people get stuck on their one solution that they refuse to let go of. After all, they are spending tons of energy fighting for that solution. How wrong would they be if they just gave up?
Do it. Give up on Net Neutrality. And you will realize that you have eager and willing allies in the Conservative and Libertarian voting camps that would love to get behind your cause to end this type of abuse.
I'm glad you brought up the agricultural revolution. The effect that ultimately occurred in agriculture, once we went from 99% of the population needing to make food to less than 1% of the population needing to make food, was that the supply of food went into an enormous abundance and the price for the average consumer dropped to the point that no today, even the very poor in America do not need to know how to cook because they can eat prepared foods (food with even more productivity added). Whereas the diet of the average American before the Industrial revolution consisted of food that they had to prepare for themselves from the ground all the way to their dinner plate, now they can afford to have others do much of the dirty work.
Just as the Industrial Revolution increased our ability to HAVE lots of food and food that was easy to consume, so with Industry 4.0 and the Robotic Revolution increase our ability to have every manufactured good that you can imagine. Once we remove human labor from the manufacturing of goods, the transportation and warehousing of goods and even from the gathering of raw materials necessary to manufacture goods, prices of EVERYTHING will plummet and there will be more abundance than anyone can dream of. Things will eventually get to the point where anyone will be able to scrape together a few good robots, some solar panels and their personal transport drones and go live on an otherwise uninhabited hill or even a hillside. The robots will build them a house and farm the land to feed their family. And then what do they need so much money for anyway? They'll be free to work on their painting or gardening or whatever they wish.
But in the meantime what will they do? Just as near the beginning of the Industrial Revolution people will have jobs that would seem unbelievable 20 years ago. The Middle Class will hire full time butlers to organize their personal social lives. There will be full time home decorators who constantly redecorate the flowers and paintings on the counters and walls of the 5-10% top earners. Not just the very wealthy but the Middle Class and even some Lower Class will have full time health coaches and they will be studying every subject and hobby they have any interest in... since their job now only requires 15-25 solid hours of work per week.
Cities will not just have road workers and other city workers to keep their city functional. They will have gardeners and artists that freshen up the looks of sidewalks and neighborhoods to give them an English Garden style of perfection. There will be poets and writers literally making money from every kind of novel you can imagine. The amount of music, film and other creative media will explode like nothing you can imagine.
Just as the people who heard of the new jobs from the original Industrial Revolution were incredulous that no one could ever make a living doing something as useless and silly as serving food to other people, so the jobs of the next Industrial Revolution look extravagant and unbelievable. But we will do them for the same reason we've done everything that we do that goes beyond merely taking care of our basic survival needs -- it's interesting!
Anyone who has ever fallen for this scam deserves the consequence as a sort of financial Darwinism.
Really 23 yr old hottie? You want some 30 or 40 something man to validate his existence by sharing his credit card number. Yes... that seems very reasonable...
If this becomes wide spread and available to everyone everywhere, we may finally come to peace with the fact that we're all hypocrites. I have come to the conclusion that pointing out someone else's hypocrisy is just a tool used for momentary one-up-manship.
I've been saying it for years. Creating laws against possession and distribution of anything corrupts the entire legal system. The War on Drugs creates the same patterns of crime that Prohibition created.
Thanks for proving me right, Shaun...
I don't think popsicle sticks would be very pleasant. A good finger condom might go further toward convincing your partner that they were having a good time.
How about just a small sample bit of test material that is packaged with the condom?
As it stands you'd have to dip it in before you got the feedback. I'd prefer the feedback up front, I would think.
Ok, so I just want to clarify here. I have no feeling one way or the other about this activity.
They are saying that there is no KNOWN benefit to this practice and there COULD BE bad consequences.
So how is that different than saying that there COULD BE benefits but there are no KNOWN bad consequences?
Aren't they really just reporting "We don't know one way or the other"? Except, as usual, the reporting has a slant injected into it.
This is an engineering breakthrough. But we are still waiting on a medical breakthrough.
The real problem in diabetes is not limited to having the correct amount of insulin in the blood in real time. The problem that makes diabetes so hard to treat is that a person's cells develop insulin resistance, requiring larger and larger doses of insulin to break down sugars correctly.
The role of the POTUS is not to create budgets, only to approve or veto. Per the US Constitution, it is the responsibility of Congress to create and pass budgets.
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Wait a mintute! We have agents in other countries? What are we trying to do? Manipulate other countries and influence their elections or something?
I thought Russia was the one that did that!
Like we are!
It's a shame that these emerging markets don't know how to spend trillions on an espionage agency, like we do, so that we can come and go without being noticed. They keep using this "lowest hanging fruits" style of espionage on a budget that isn't as transparent. It makes our professionals so embarrassed for them.
And how much of those ships full of recycling had items that were blown into the ocean?
Seattle sends its unsorted recycling to China.
Maybe it's time for a real ecological study on the real effects of recycling vs. simply burying everything. Our oceans deserve more than a good feeling we get by putting things in the blue bins.
Not any more they don't.
Yes! This type of abuse is wrong and something should be done about it.
This is monopolistic behavior. If Comcast had to compete with anyone (WHICH THEY DO NOT!) they would never be able to get away with this sort of behavior.
Look, we've been down the road of more and more regulation before. How well did that work to prevent the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe? How about the Housing Market collapse of 2008/2009? I know setting up a group of regulators who big business can easily cozy up to makes you feel like you are protected. But it's just an illusion.
You have the opportunity here to appeal to something that Trump HAS signaled he may be willing to do -- break up monopolies! And it would achieve everything you want. But instead people get stuck on their one solution that they refuse to let go of. After all, they are spending tons of energy fighting for that solution. How wrong would they be if they just gave up?
Do it. Give up on Net Neutrality. And you will realize that you have eager and willing allies in the Conservative and Libertarian voting camps that would love to get behind your cause to end this type of abuse.
I use ScriptSafe on Chrome and NoScript on Firefox.
They are just ramping up the war against consumers. So consumers now need more armor.
Robots and AI will never replace human creativity. The fact that they can make something will never mean they will make something of high quality.
Yes indeed. Let's think very far ahead on this.
... since their job now only requires 15-25 solid hours of work per week.
I'm glad you brought up the agricultural revolution. The effect that ultimately occurred in agriculture, once we went from 99% of the population needing to make food to less than 1% of the population needing to make food, was that the supply of food went into an enormous abundance and the price for the average consumer dropped to the point that no today, even the very poor in America do not need to know how to cook because they can eat prepared foods (food with even more productivity added). Whereas the diet of the average American before the Industrial revolution consisted of food that they had to prepare for themselves from the ground all the way to their dinner plate, now they can afford to have others do much of the dirty work.
Just as the Industrial Revolution increased our ability to HAVE lots of food and food that was easy to consume, so with Industry 4.0 and the Robotic Revolution increase our ability to have every manufactured good that you can imagine. Once we remove human labor from the manufacturing of goods, the transportation and warehousing of goods and even from the gathering of raw materials necessary to manufacture goods, prices of EVERYTHING will plummet and there will be more abundance than anyone can dream of. Things will eventually get to the point where anyone will be able to scrape together a few good robots, some solar panels and their personal transport drones and go live on an otherwise uninhabited hill or even a hillside. The robots will build them a house and farm the land to feed their family. And then what do they need so much money for anyway? They'll be free to work on their painting or gardening or whatever they wish.
But in the meantime what will they do? Just as near the beginning of the Industrial Revolution people will have jobs that would seem unbelievable 20 years ago. The Middle Class will hire full time butlers to organize their personal social lives. There will be full time home decorators who constantly redecorate the flowers and paintings on the counters and walls of the 5-10% top earners. Not just the very wealthy but the Middle Class and even some Lower Class will have full time health coaches and they will be studying every subject and hobby they have any interest in
Cities will not just have road workers and other city workers to keep their city functional. They will have gardeners and artists that freshen up the looks of sidewalks and neighborhoods to give them an English Garden style of perfection. There will be poets and writers literally making money from every kind of novel you can imagine. The amount of music, film and other creative media will explode like nothing you can imagine.
Just as the people who heard of the new jobs from the original Industrial Revolution were incredulous that no one could ever make a living doing something as useless and silly as serving food to other people, so the jobs of the next Industrial Revolution look extravagant and unbelievable. But we will do them for the same reason we've done everything that we do that goes beyond merely taking care of our basic survival needs -- it's interesting!
WTF. If China abuses its citizens it is somehow incumbent upon US companies to compensate.
Is this the new standard of globalization. Reducing everyone to the lost common denominator?
This is the most sever misunderstanding of what the horrors of war are that I have ever seen.
Anyone who has ever fallen for this scam deserves the consequence as a sort of financial Darwinism.
... that seems very reasonable ...
Really 23 yr old hottie? You want some 30 or 40 something man to validate his existence by sharing his credit card number. Yes
It isn't obligatory. If you're not having fun here you could always move Oregon.
If this becomes wide spread and available to everyone everywhere, we may finally come to peace with the fact that we're all hypocrites. I have come to the conclusion that pointing out someone else's hypocrisy is just a tool used for momentary one-up-manship.
I've been saying it for years. Creating laws against possession and distribution of anything corrupts the entire legal system. The War on Drugs creates the same patterns of crime that Prohibition created. Thanks for proving me right, Shaun...
Tell us more about how you were able to install a keylogger as a Chrome extension. Please.
This is the opportunity the obscure Dvorak Keyboard crowd has been waiting for to finally fix the layout of keys.
Organize now. Latch on to this issue. Or you'll miss your chance.
$45 Million out of a budget of $525 Billion just to get results?
Excuse me for a moment. *Yawn*
I don't think popsicle sticks would be very pleasant. A good finger condom might go further toward convincing your partner that they were having a good time.
How about just a small sample bit of test material that is packaged with the condom?
As it stands you'd have to dip it in before you got the feedback. I'd prefer the feedback up front, I would think.
Ok, so I just want to clarify here. I have no feeling one way or the other about this activity.
They are saying that there is no KNOWN benefit to this practice and there COULD BE bad consequences.
So how is that different than saying that there COULD BE benefits but there are no KNOWN bad consequences?
Aren't they really just reporting "We don't know one way or the other"? Except, as usual, the reporting has a slant injected into it.
This is an engineering breakthrough. But we are still waiting on a medical breakthrough.
The real problem in diabetes is not limited to having the correct amount of insulin in the blood in real time. The problem that makes diabetes so hard to treat is that a person's cells develop insulin resistance, requiring larger and larger doses of insulin to break down sugars correctly.
I don't think theater does disprove that. A general rule can be a general rule even if you do find what appears to be an exception.
Besides, of all different ways to perform, theater has one of the highest degrees of "relate" in it.
This is all great satire. Except Amazon doesn't make profits.
The role of the POTUS is not to create budgets, only to approve or veto. Per the US Constitution, it is the responsibility of Congress to create and pass budgets.
This will go nowhere.