This nation's declining (evermore rapidly declining) IQ is what happened to "Buyer Beware". You can expect that in any election, a few bat-shit crazies are going to vote for the assclown of the week. But 73 million of them?? That's not crazy in any form, that's simple ignorance, and each and every one of them is proud of being willfully ignorant. So why would anyone pay attention to what they're buying, online or in a brick-and-mortar store? They've already proven they particpate daily in aeronautical intercourse with rotating pastries, haven't they?
Nadler is trying to lure some of them back from being massacred at the pending Trumptown Flavor-Aid-a-thon by claiming that he is looking out for them. Talk about a lose-lose situation, someone's gonna have a serious case of the jaws when this is all over.
^ It's been considered, but the side arms of the chair are pretty close, and wouldn't support a large-enough are for the mouse to move around.
Ubuntu and derivatives aren't any better than Windows in controlling this, but I've been hearing some good things about Zorin OS... I'm about to load up a USB stick with one of their ISO's and see what's what.
Sorry, that first paragraph got cut short. (And I didn't see it in the Preview.)
... and thus the IRS will come up short in the Taxes From Internet Sales department.
(My fookin' touchpad thinks that if I'm sitting in my chair with the laptop turned on, then I must want the cursor to jump all over the place, and wipe out what I had just typed. No 3rd party software works to disable the "touch to click" bug. Thanks, Dell, just thanks all to Hell and back.)
It seems to me that most of the players will simply move offshore, if they haven't already done so, and thus the IRS will come up short in thet
Not very long after that point, you can expect the VPN sector to become the single largest slice of the pie vis-a-vis what internet service is most often used by Americans. And overseas payment processors will become the second largest service providers.
This is not going to work out the way Nadler thinks it will. But then again, why should a Congresscritter ever think about the ramifications of any legislation - it won't apply to him/her, and they still get the same paycheck at the end of the month.
If you were to ask me, I'd say that accountability should start at home, where the laws are made in the first place. Most plumbers will tell you that shit does not run uphill.
... when the major platorms held an "Internet Blackout Day", back when Congress (the opposite of progress) was debating SOPA/PIPA?
If seller's platforms, and not just the biggies like Amazon, Alibaba, etc., were to simply shutter their portals for 24 hours, you can bet that Nadler et al will get more than an email-inbox full of angry messages to the effect that he'd better have another think about this.
One problem there.... these shadow courts don't allow admissions of corporate guilt. In fact, by the very nature of being accused, the only guilt is predetermined to be that of the government/defendant.
The only problem now is, can they sue before an actual loss has been suffered. I"d bet "Yes", but then someone is going to be taking several pages from the Official Book Of Hollywood Accounting, and running one or more entire nations into the ground. If it ever gets that far, I'm certain that most of the world's nations will see the writing on the wall ("Hey, that could happen to us!"), and put a stop to the practice forever.
What might be really rich is that I've never seen any enforcement powers built into the ISDS - what's to stop a country from telling the corp to "eat shit and bark at the moon". IOW, who holds the country's feet to fire for breaking an onerous, one-sided and unjust agreement?
Sadly, the Chrome Extension Store has gone bananas, requiring that one sign in (or sign up in the first place) in order to download (add) an extension. Good thing I've already gotten the extensions I need, 'cause giving Google any personal data ain't gonna happen in my lifetime.
But Gawd help me if I ever crash, or install a new setup on another 'puter, that'd be the very definition of finding myself in deep kimchee.
I see your point, and no, AdGuard didn't remove that stuff. Let me try your linked extension, on both that and my usual "baked in ads" videos, and see what happens. BRB....
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[Teach] her how to evaluate sources, curate feeds and recognize con artists instead of expecting others to do the work for you.
THIS!
My surest bug-a-boo is that both people in general and companies in general act as if the other is all-knowing and all-experienced in the ways of security and nuisance avoidance. I can see someone not wanting to become a programmer, they've got other things to do with their lives. But come on, does it really require a doctoral degree to learn that some problems don't look like nails, and there are other tools in the box beside that bleepin' hammer.
Either I'm being woefully under-exposed to videos with baked-in ads that can't be removed, or else AdGuard is doing the job expected of it, and I have no clue that it ever had to do so.
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^^^ Likely as not, more readers than myself will offer you a solution to those ads. I'm on Vivaldi, and that's based on Chrome, so any Chrome extension will work. There's a separate extension just for removing YT ads, but I found that AdGuard does the job just fine, as well as remove all manner of other cruft from websites/pages.
Women, man, women. They are on the warpath, and they'll get their way by simply saying "No" to the asshats who passed this turd of a law, and to all of the supporters of same.
Aborting a child from a rape or incest may now be a crime (temporarily), but both are still crimes, even in Texas.
... [do their own research,] then they cannot not tell anybody else, because that would that would make them a fact checker.
Carried to its logical conclusion, this would wipe out any news reporting organization, and all reporters. After all, they "did research", and are now reporting on the facts as they understand them. All that would be left would be the opinion writers.... and Gawd help them if they include any facts.
Sigh. If we ever get around to modifying the genetic makeup of humankind, then the first thing that needs "a tune up" should be to make ignorance painful.
Indeed, LC has it correct - the Declaration wasn't much more than a "memo" to King George III, telling him in no uncertain terms to fuck right off. The "pursuit of happiness" was a middle finger to George in that the colonists were extremely unhappy with his policies, his taxes, his "occupying forces", and so on. Consider it the Founder's way of saying "get off my lawn!", because it had nothing to do with how the newly independent citizens were to conduct their daily business with each other.
In those days, an armed citizen did not live in fear so much as he lived in a state of preparedness, ready for anything that life might throw his way. And instead of whining about shit, he simply dealt with it as appropriate. What I wanna know is, where in the fsck did this country go wrong?!
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.... and what would hook them up to, in order to be a part of the Internet?
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This nation's declining (evermore rapidly declining) IQ is what happened to "Buyer Beware". You can expect that in any election, a few bat-shit crazies are going to vote for the assclown of the week. But 73 million of them?? That's not crazy in any form, that's simple ignorance, and each and every one of them is proud of being willfully ignorant. So why would anyone pay attention to what they're buying, online or in a brick-and-mortar store? They've already proven they particpate daily in aeronautical intercourse with rotating pastries, haven't they?
Nadler is trying to lure some of them back from being massacred at the pending Trumptown Flavor-Aid-a-thon by claiming that he is looking out for them. Talk about a lose-lose situation, someone's gonna have a serious case of the jaws when this is all over.
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^ It's been considered, but the side arms of the chair are pretty close, and wouldn't support a large-enough are for the mouse to move around.
Ubuntu and derivatives aren't any better than Windows in controlling this, but I've been hearing some good things about Zorin OS... I'm about to load up a USB stick with one of their ISO's and see what's what.
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Re: On second thought....
Sorry, that first paragraph got cut short. (And I didn't see it in the Preview.)
(My fookin' touchpad thinks that if I'm sitting in my chair with the laptop turned on, then I must want the cursor to jump all over the place, and wipe out what I had just typed. No 3rd party software works to disable the "touch to click" bug. Thanks, Dell, just thanks all to Hell and back.)
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On second thought....
It seems to me that most of the players will simply move offshore, if they haven't already done so, and thus the IRS will come up short in thet
Not very long after that point, you can expect the VPN sector to become the single largest slice of the pie vis-a-vis what internet service is most often used by Americans. And overseas payment processors will become the second largest service providers.
This is not going to work out the way Nadler thinks it will. But then again, why should a Congresscritter ever think about the ramifications of any legislation - it won't apply to him/her, and they still get the same paycheck at the end of the month.
If you were to ask me, I'd say that accountability should start at home, where the laws are made in the first place. Most plumbers will tell you that shit does not run uphill.
On the post: Rep. Jerry Nadler Pushing New Bill That Will Destroy Online Commerce; Make Sure Only Amazon Can Afford The Liability
Remember.....
... when the major platorms held an "Internet Blackout Day", back when Congress (the opposite of progress) was debating SOPA/PIPA?
If seller's platforms, and not just the biggies like Amazon, Alibaba, etc., were to simply shutter their portals for 24 hours, you can bet that Nadler et al will get more than an email-inbox full of angry messages to the effect that he'd better have another think about this.
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More like "Who says it's flawed?"
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One problem there.... these shadow courts don't allow admissions of corporate guilt. In fact, by the very nature of being accused, the only guilt is predetermined to be that of the government/defendant.
The only problem now is, can they sue before an actual loss has been suffered. I"d bet "Yes", but then someone is going to be taking several pages from the Official Book Of Hollywood Accounting, and running one or more entire nations into the ground. If it ever gets that far, I'm certain that most of the world's nations will see the writing on the wall ("Hey, that could happen to us!"), and put a stop to the practice forever.
What might be really rich is that I've never seen any enforcement powers built into the ISDS - what's to stop a country from telling the corp to "eat shit and bark at the moon". IOW, who holds the country's feet to fire for breaking an onerous, one-sided and unjust agreement?
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Taking a page from Toon 1275's book:
Assumes emotions not available for evidence.
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Sadly, the Chrome Extension Store has gone bananas, requiring that one sign in (or sign up in the first place) in order to download (add) an extension. Good thing I've already gotten the extensions I need, 'cause giving Google any personal data ain't gonna happen in my lifetime.
But Gawd help me if I ever crash, or install a new setup on another 'puter, that'd be the very definition of finding myself in deep kimchee.
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Stephen,
I see your point, and no, AdGuard didn't remove that stuff. Let me try your linked extension, on both that and my usual "baked in ads" videos, and see what happens. BRB....
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THIS!
My surest bug-a-boo is that both people in general and companies in general act as if the other is all-knowing and all-experienced in the ways of security and nuisance avoidance. I can see someone not wanting to become a programmer, they've got other things to do with their lives. But come on, does it really require a doctoral degree to learn that some problems don't look like nails, and there are other tools in the box beside that bleepin' hammer.
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Well, yes, but they're also good for other things too, depending on your partner's mood....
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I'm willing to test your assertion/doubt, can you post a link to a video containing those sponsorship ads, please? That way we'll be on the same page.
I'll report back in this thread.
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Either I'm being woefully under-exposed to videos with baked-in ads that can't be removed, or else AdGuard is doing the job expected of it, and I have no clue that it ever had to do so.
(crosses fingers for luck)
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Re: Beating down a dead horse doesn't make it any less dead
^^^ Likely as not, more readers than myself will offer you a solution to those ads. I'm on Vivaldi, and that's based on Chrome, so any Chrome extension will work. There's a separate extension just for removing YT ads, but I found that AdGuard does the job just fine, as well as remove all manner of other cruft from websites/pages.
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Women, man, women. They are on the warpath, and they'll get their way by simply saying "No" to the asshats who passed this turd of a law, and to all of the supporters of same.
Aborting a child from a rape or incest may now be a crime (temporarily), but both are still crimes, even in Texas.
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No, they are fucking liars. Unless they're in Texas, then they no longer get to fuck, but they'll lie even hard to make up for it.
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Carried to its logical conclusion, this would wipe out any news reporting organization, and all reporters. After all, they "did research", and are now reporting on the facts as they understand them. All that would be left would be the opinion writers.... and Gawd help them if they include any facts.
Sigh. If we ever get around to modifying the genetic makeup of humankind, then the first thing that needs "a tune up" should be to make ignorance painful.
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Indeed, LC has it correct - the Declaration wasn't much more than a "memo" to King George III, telling him in no uncertain terms to fuck right off. The "pursuit of happiness" was a middle finger to George in that the colonists were extremely unhappy with his policies, his taxes, his "occupying forces", and so on. Consider it the Founder's way of saying "get off my lawn!", because it had nothing to do with how the newly independent citizens were to conduct their daily business with each other.
In those days, an armed citizen did not live in fear so much as he lived in a state of preparedness, ready for anything that life might throw his way. And instead of whining about shit, he simply dealt with it as appropriate. What I wanna know is, where in the fsck did this country go wrong?!
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