Bots and other bad actors thrive in free (as in beer) environments, for reasons that should be obvious. If we want to do anything meaningful about them, sites will need a nominal but real fee to use.
It's not what anyone wanted, but "free" was always inevitably going to lead to the Internet becoming a dump. The free ride is over.
Hey, MicroShit - never heard that one before! I'll have to start using it...
Except that "micro" means "small," and there's nothing small about the shit they produce... so MacroShit?
Ok. The founding fathers didn't want the President of the United States to have ANY POWERS to make any decisions inside the country. The goal was for the President to merely be the administrative head to enforce laws Congress pass, and its only check on Congress was the veto power. The President also served as a Commander in Chief and had the power to sign treaties with foreign governments, but those powers were meant to be EXTREMELY limited, as they gave only Congress the power to declare war, and Congress was required to ratify any treaties with foreign governments.
If the President has the power to make ANY DECISIONS WHATSOEVER, instead of enforcing decisions those in congress have made, then it's not the role the founding fathers wanted.
They also wanted the executive to be very neutral. Many of them were against the concept of political parties, but that turned out to be inevitable. However, up until the 12th amendment, the vice-president was the runner up, whoever got the second-most votes by the electoral college. So, under that system, Hillary would have been Trump's VP his first term, and Harris would have been Trump's VP his second term. Because they wanted to ensure a check even within the executive, with someone with different views being the one to break ties in the senate.
This all changed when Congress started creating a lot of the 3+ letter agencies and gave them power to create regulations as if they were law... and those agencies report to the President. Executive Orders should never be law, and were only ever meant to be something that provides guidance on how to enforce certain existing laws. If we really wanted to go back to the way the Founding Fathers wanted it, those agencies would report to Congress and would work to produce things that Congress would have to enact as legislation. By creating all of those agencies, Congress abdicated its power to legislate to the Executive branch. Anything enacted as a regulation by the agency should be converted to legislation if we really wanted to get back to where we should be.
Trouble is, Congress refuses to do its job and likes to play games like Budget Brinksmanship instead. Remember, for members of Congress, job 1 is to get elected, and job 2 is to get re-elected. Anything for their constituents runs a distant third to those two.
This is all party neutral stuff. Both of them do it. Both of them make back room deals to keep themselves in power and screw us all, and woe be unto anyone who attempts to disrupt that ruling class of people who know better than all of us peons.
IMHO, the greatest Soviet achievement in space was the Venera program, which managed to gather and transmit data from the harshest rocky environment in the Solar System by a large margin.
And it inspired a two-part episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man"... Death Probe
It's almost as if the deportations aren't the problem. Maybe one day you'll figure this out.
There's no such thing as a "financial crime" in the US if you have over a billion dollars and are willing to pay tribute to the king.
This is just bullshit to pacify the naysayers.
There's no way they'll turn around and pull features that they just launched and marketed.
They will if they want to keep the money rolling in from corporate site licenses, especially if those sites are doing government contracting or deal with PII, PHI, or other sensitive information like that.
On the other hand, I was not aware of this feature and enabled it IMMEDIATELY.
We're supposed to just take them at their word that this is unrelated to the white collar job cuts.
I'd read the first 10 books when I was younger but lost momentum and stopped. I finally powered through it a few years back, and found the change of pace from Jordan to Sanderson rather jarring.
I wonder if I would have enjoyed WoT more if the whole series had been on Sanderson's pace or Jordan's. Advantage Sanderson since Jordan's writing was ponderous at best.
Banning kids from accessing social media is "handing parenting to big tech" in the same way that age restrictions on alcohol is handing parenting to bars, liquor stores, beer distributors, and everyone else who sells adult beverages.
I'd also argue the former is more harmful to minors than the latter.
"Mr. Watson, come here, I want you." -- Alexander Graham Bell
