Comment Re:We're fucked (Score 1) 200
It's as simple at this.
Every other POTUS and even Hillary would have made some mistakes, but ultimately reacted earlier. And even if not earlier, at least they won't blasted out stupid advice.
It's as simple at this.
Every other POTUS and even Hillary would have made some mistakes, but ultimately reacted earlier. And even if not earlier, at least they won't blasted out stupid advice.
I feel sad for all who didn't elect Boris Johnson. See, even as a father he was irresponsible, but then as a premier minister ignoring a pandemic for so long?
Wer einmal lügt dem glaubt man nicht, wenn er auch die Wahrheit spricht.
Meaning: Who's lying once nobody will thrust him later even if he says the truth.
As long as there is an asshole on the block you get little choice in the matter.
Too bad there is more than one asshole!
I don't think the problem is social media. Newsgroups are social media.
Newsgroups are more a distributed, social discussion forum and not social media.
The motivation to create newsgroups was to improve discussions. The motivation to create social media is to improve attention to a platform (usually to sell ads to steal our attention).
Doesn't this violate the telcos right to make profit? I'm sure the telcos will lobby for a law to prohibit this.
Also Swiss here. I prefer cash because it allows more privacy. If there's a cashless payment system with equal privacy I'll immediately switch over...
Neither can I provide a reference, but living in Switzerland I heard from a bank clerk who is responsible to monitor the ATMs and order a transport of money if required.
This reminds me of an old joke:
An American is visiting Switzerland and drives around with the rental car. After a while he notice: Wow! Ausfahrt must be a big town!
Exactly, copyright law was intended to benefit society as a whole by encouraging creation of works with the notion that after a while these works would fall into the public domain for the benefit of all.
Exactly this is it. As a Swiss citizen I'll vote against any further extensions of author's rights.
While we have 18% more sunshine here, the additional PV power it generated was an 13% increment. Still plenty more energy, but we see how the efficiency is affected by the heat.
Living at the Rhine River well before any thermal power plants, we already see dead fishes (thymallus and trouts) here.
The fact that plants are currently shutting down because it's too hot doesn't make this energy cheaper either.
How is that different from email? Should everyone run their own server?
With email you can choose your provider. You don't thrust your server operator? Choose another one. With a centralized social network you can't choose (Well you choose either the one every one of your friends use but kills your privacy, or one who respects the privacy of you and the other customer).
I can only talk for my own experience and I didn't see any bug mess on windshields in the last years. The last time I remember such a mess was when I've got the driving license around the year 2000. I live at a river.
To do nothing is to be nothing.
