VR at 720p and what - 30fps? Sounds nauseating.

This is called social mobility and it's extremely low in the United States. Google 'social mobility in the U.S.' to read more. Being able to move up the ladder is a complete myth. If you start out in poverty, you are likely to go to a poor school, not be able to make many good social connections, have health problems and an ingrained culture (culture of poverty) that keep you in poverty. Sure there are many well-publicized cases where someone really does go from rags to riches, but that's the exception, not the rule. For every person you see that succeeds in that path, there are 100,000 that fail. It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it. -George Carlin

Equating cheap technology to a good quality of life is imbecilic. Technology is very cheap and affordable, and it absolutely does not equate to being able to afford basic things like rent, school, medical bills, and kids.

Whereas you have to turn on evil mode manually in emacs, you literally can't turn it off in capitalism.

I profit a lot from capitalism, and that's made me more intimate with it.. Crony capitalism IS capitalism. It's the natural evolution of capitalism. Capitalism is based off of generating profit through the surplus of workers' labor, and will always tend towards inequality because of that. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. It will always be exploitative, and regulations will always be circumvented.

> their favorite tool for seizing power: poverty This is extremely accurate. Unfortunately most of the US has bought in to the American dream and the belief that your income is defined by how hard you work, which is a complete load of bollocks.The people making the most do the least work, and the actual laborers who support this economy, sometimes by working three manual labor jobs, are the ones getting totally fucked by the system. George Carlin said it's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it. I don't think the system can get better through reform. Something else needs to happen.

Have you ever been told you have the most punch-able signature?

It's hilarious that this is the same company that promotes a very tolerant, liberal, pacifist culture at in their workplace. It's pretty clear here - and this applies to other tech companies, that they have one god: money. Money rules all. Who gives a shit about people dying and violence as long as you're making money, right?! Something needs to change.

Is that you, James Damore? Or are you just a racist apologist?

RIP Estonia. They thought they were doing the right thing, but really they were dooming their entire country by implementing SOCIALIST policies, instead of letting privately run companies exploit citizens. I think this calls for a helping hand from good ol' Uncle Sam (if they have oil reserves that is).

My friend told me thought this was happening a few years ago, and mentioned he thought he could hear the mic turning on in FB messenger. I thought this was bullshit, because why would you be able to hear the *microphone* turn on? Well,, I tested it on my Galaxy S5... I put my ear up to the microphone, and turned on the stock voice recorder app. Sure enough, I was able to hear a bit of static. It was probably coming from the speaker, and I don't know why it occurs at all, but it certainly did. I tried again with calling somebody, and I heard the same distinctive static sound before the call connected (so it wasn't general phone static). I tried again with the video recorder, and heard the exact same static. It's sort of like a fuzzy click sound followed by a very faint static buzzing, and I could only hear it in very quiet rooms. And then, I tried opening the messenger app... as soon as I either (A): opened OR received a new message (B) sent a message or (C) opened the app, I could hear the exact same distinctive static turn on for just a few seconds, maybe for between 5 - 15 seconds. This confirmed to me that the messenger app absolutely records audio. Again, I have no idea why the microphone would make a sound, unless it's some sort of feedback loop between it and the speaker. But I verified that very distinctive sound only occured when the mic should be on, and discovered the sound when using Facebook messenger. I don't remember trying the normal FB app but I suspect it does the same. Other people, please try this experiment and tell me what you find.

This isn't new at all and can easily be found on GitHub.

I highly suspect that this is completely due to Micro$haft. Look at all the forum posts complaining about it; the posters have like 1 post. ONE SINGLE POST WTF. The PS4 seemed much more anticipated than the XBOX One, so it seems a very possible strategy for Microsoft to sabotage the PS4s reputation. They should have been more creative than the Blue Light of Death, though, as this is just a product of their never-ending butt-hurt from the RRoD. I will believe the Blue Light of Death when I see it, but until then it is a myth in my eyes. I think we can all agree that Sony and Microsoft and relatively evil corporations at times, but IMO Sony is the lesser evil of the two.