Ah, but you do.

Have any real life friends? Ever been entered into their phone's phonebook? Ever been photographed with them? Ever have those friends helpfully tell the facial recognition database who this unknown person in this photo might happen to be?

If a four-day vacation cures your burnout then you do not know what burnout is.

>That is they support evidence based economic policy tempered with progressive policy where the market does not not produce a fair or desirable outcome.

This is a state of affairs I would be willing to support. To describe modern day neoliberalism in these terms is to fall somewhere, depending on how charitable I am feeling, between propaganda and delusion.

"Evidence based economic policy" is complete bullshit. The consensus among academic economists on modern day economic policy is damning, but we see a tiny minority of Austrian school economists and members of the Chicago School of Economics being rolled out to clothe a slate of incredibly socially destructive policies in a costume of scientific respectability, because these individuals dogmatically promote policies that the wealthy elite want to see implemented, and damn the facts if they do not fit.

Progressive policy in the modern day is nonexistent, it has been burned to the ground. Democrat or Republican, the government is in the business of lowering taxes on the rich while slashing social services for the poor. "It is a basic tenet of conservatism that the poor will only work harder if they are given less money and the rich will only work harder if they are given more money". Racism and fear of the other has been deployed to devastating effect as a cover to dismantle the welfare state and the postwar social mechanisms that were intended to provide equal opportunities to citizens from all backgrounds.

Neoliberalism has become a dirty word because it is morally and scientifically bankrupt. It decries the basic foundations of an equitable society that had been in place for decades as far-left extremism while adopting a radically economically right-wing fetishization of market forces as a cure for all social ills. It is "intensely relaxed" about the concentration of wealth among the wealthy while living standards and economic security are eroded. It turns a blind eye to lawbreaking by corporations and wealthy individuals while intruding into private individuals' communications, use of recreational substances, and reproductive rights, undermining democracy and the rule of law in the process. And of course there's all the death and destruction wrought by endless intervention and warmongering in the middle east. I could go on...

People weren't trying to "monetize" the web, they were trying to sell goods and services over the internet and got overly exuberant about it.

Today, if you want to sell physical goods over the internet you pay Amazon a cut for access to their market place. Entertainment media you can sell yourself if you have pockets deep enough to produce it, but even that is a market that Amazon is muscling in on.

Everybody else has some sort of spying-based business model, where the average internet user is not the customer but the product being bought and sold, and that is a new development.

>How bad can it get?

Jesus christ. If there was ever a catchphrase for the year 2016...

If a small amount of global web traffic is encrypted then the encrypted traffic will stand out and bring scrutiny.

If everything is encrypted, no matter how mundane, then genuinely sensitive traffic becomes less conspicuous.

I'm not the biggest fan of US telcos, but to be fair to them the UK is much more densely populated compared to the US, and is also much smaller. The better comparison would be Virgin Media versus Comcast. In both cases you have absolutely zero competition for your wireline ISP, but at least VM gave decent value for money a few years ago when I lived in the UK.

any and consumer and employee protections. (Financial) Might Makes Right would be the law of the land.

Hahahaha. Legacy accounts will give you IPv6 ELBs. Any accounts opened after they launched their new-fangled Virtual Private Cloud infrastructure are IPv4-only. Unbelievable, really.

Tell that to Amazon's AWS division.

That thing looked pretty interesting but there hasn't been any news about it for over a year. Is it still in development?

The firewalld project is completely unrelated to the systemd project.

Now they'll make sure that their catalogs are spread evenly across five or six different streaming services and keep them all fighting against each other. They don't want a unified front of streaming providers pushing back and demanding a bigger slice of the pie.

The media industry learned its lesson back when Steve Jobs dunked on them with the negotiations for the iTunes Music Store. The fragmentation happened to Netflix, it will happen to Spotify and co.

Dear Trump voters:

The enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend.

At-will. The law you're looking for is at-will, and that's the one the vast majority of states in the union have on the books. Far fewer states are right-to-work states.

Right-to-work means you cannot be required to join a union as a condition of employment.

At-will employment means that the employer or employee can terminate the employment relationship at any time for any reason.