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?
Could the increase in accidents be due to the auto industries efforts to achieve better MPG in EPA testing?
no
... it also means a lot lot lot lot lot more of the sort of accidents that occur when pulling out of parking lots or making left turns, and suddenly being confronted by an oncoming car - where you punch the gas to launch forward, only to find your vehicle is not responsive.
from the article:
In more than half of 2015 fatal crashes, motorists were simply going straight down the road—no crossing traffic, rainstorms, or blowouts. Meanwhile, drivers involved in accidents increasingly mowed down things smaller than a Honda Accord, such as pedestrians or cyclists, many of whom occupy the side of the road or the sidewalk next to it.
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 think piracy is theft. It's not the content that's being stolen, it's the forgone revenue that is being stolen.
There is no forgone revenue when you can not buy the content because of the geo-locking.
I certainly am no fan of the current copyright enforcement regime, but I do think that content creators and owners should be able to control the terms by which their works can be obtained.
The moment a (copyrighted) work gets published it can be copied (in the worst case you could mount a camera in front of the TV screen) and, hence, the only way to make sure that content creators and owners have complete control over how their works are distributed is to impose a surveillance system on the viewers, welcome to 1984.
The market will sort out those who over-charge, but piracy distorts the market and hurts all content-creators.
Also wrong, on one hand the marked can do nothing about over-charge, if exclusive deals are made, on the other hand "piracy" can also work as advertising, for instance Metallica as a band became famous because there fans were copying and distributing there tapes (oh the irony). In that "piracy" indeed may distort the market, but it doesn't hurt the content creators.
[...] You can't have freedom if there's a "but only if..." attached to it, [...]
I'm free to swing my fist, but only if I don't hit you.
Now, based on this example, please explain again what kind of freedom you are looking for that has no "but only if
Actual effectiveness ratios for birth control:
US CDC document on actual effectiveness
Highlights:
Condoms are about as effective as the withdrawal method, sponges, or the rhythm method. 20% or so failure rates. [snip]
... when used inconsistently you should add. With perfect use you get (Trussell J, Contraceptive failure in the United States.) way better numbers:
Our estimate of the proportion of women becoming pregnant during a year of perfect use of the male condom is [...] 2%.
Which means with a proper education you can lower the rate of unwanted pregnancies significantly.
The only way to communism is through the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm
This is what Marx said, but it is just one theory.
Why even use JPEG?? JPEG2000 has been out there for a while, professional photographers and digital cinema use it for a reason..
My DSLR spits out JPGs... it could spit out RAW as well, but then I need to do development of it is say, Canon Digital Photo Professional, which well, spits out JPG.
But if you use Darktable then you can also output JPEG200, PNG, OpenEXR, TIFF, and a few more file formats when developing your RAW photo.
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.
Accusations that anyone is blocking genetically engineered ‘Golden’ rice are false. ‘Golden’ rice has failed as a solution and isn’t currently available for sale, even after more than 20 years of research. As admitted by the International Rice Research Institute, it has not been proven to actually address Vitamin A Deficiency. So to be clear, we are talking about something that doesn’t even exist.
And about alternatives;
The only guaranteed solution to fix malnutrition is a diverse healthy diet. Providing people with real food based on ecological agriculture not only addresses malnutrition, but is also a scaleable solution to adapt to climate change.
any and consumer and employee protections. (Financial) Might Makes Right would be the law of the land.
CCI Power 6/40: one board, a megabyte of cache, and an attitude...
