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Comment Re:Paywalls, nope (Score 1) 13

One of the problems with advertising is little to no feedback on bad ads.

This won't help that. Whatever meaningful feedback it generates will be completely overwhelmed by people who feel that all ads are bad, that it is inherently to advertising, that advertising cannot be good, and the people who do it should be buried in a shallow grave with quicklime.

Any other kind of feedback will be statistical noise.

Comment Re:Seems like this mostly hurts rural/minority are (Score 1, Troll) 152

Since the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has no funding any more, dissolving it will have zero effect going forward. Except, perhaps, to avoid running up debt they have no funding to pay.

NPR and PBS will, indeed, continue with funding from "viewers and listeners like you." The local NPR station here has, I believe, actually seen an increase in overall funding because their listeners have stepped up. They won't say it out loud, but they're not laying people off or reducing programming. The same will be true in most places where they have listeners, which isn't going to include a lot of rural areas (where people don't listen to their leftist propaganda, and never have).

Comment Re:The rule of law (Score 1) 205

This is disregard for the rule of law.

Depends on who gets to define "rule of law." And the only definition that matters is that of the US courts. Who have never had a problem with this before, like when Noriega - a Latin American dictator "elected" through a shady process, and engaging in drug trafficking to the US - was arrested by US military and brought to the US, where he was tried and convicted, and served 17 years (before being extradited to France, where he was convicted of money laundering, and later extradited to Panama for his many crimes there). His conviction was upheld on appeal, and he served his time.

This isn't even remotely new, or controversial, to anyone not suffering from TDS.

Comment Re: You want it to stop? (Score 1) 68

Trying to explain the facts on the McDonald's coffee case is hopeless. "Lawsuits are ridiculous" is a religious cult; people who believe that case was ridiculous can't accept any facts that conflict with that belief, and literally everything they "know" about the case, except that it happened, is incorrect.

Comment Re:The simulation broke :o (Score 2) 52

Carefully measure how much time it takes you to write a carefully-worded email versus just saying what's on your mind.

Be sure to also compare the difference between a - in your words - "carefully-worded" email versus some dipshit rambling on in a stream-of-consciousness babble. Specifically, how long it takes both people to communicate that way, versus, one while writing the email.

In short, it depends on the subject matter that needs to be communicated, and you're both full of shit.

Comment Re:Personally, I do judge people (Score 1) 52

Makes perfect sense when dealing with someone who should have technical skills, or in a context of technical know-how, like an interview for an IT position.

For a job interview for non-technical positions, though, you're just showing that you know as little about people as they do about computers. Which is a definite red flag.

Comment Re:Smell a possible lawsuit or two (Score 1) 52

Give that the glitches are dependent on the quality of the connection, and the quality of internet service is depending on location, and poor neighborhoods with low quality internet correlates pretty closely to Not Being White (and being rural, but that's a much smaller percentage of the population), yeah, lawsuits are inevitable.

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