I, me, want to participate in an activity, a private, personal activity, that society at large considers vulgar and in some cases taboo.
You want to make it so that everyone who participates in this activity, which you consider vulgar, has to be registered, identified and verified.
Yes, absolutely! People who want to blow their nose or pass gas should absolutely have to be registered with a government registry. For the protection of us all. Think of the children!
They can't "re" posses my liver, if they never possessed it to begin with. But they could come to collect it because it was pledged as collateral in the loan agreement for that new iPhone.
You lose your privacy in small steps. We become a police state in small steps. It's a long slide. A gradient. Not a sudden overnight thing -- at least not sudden until it has first slid a long way down the slippery slope to the edge of the cliff.
What possible uses is the roomba mapping the interior of your home? * Useful for the roomba to more efficiently vacuum in the future. * Useful for the cloud to know when you've moved your furniture around. * Useful for Amazon Echo to build a better acoustics model for improved listening accuracy, especially when you are whispering in your own home * Useful for SWAT teams * Useful for ICE to know where you might hide * Useful for burglars * Useful for your ISP to more efficiently move about your home in the middle of the night when they enter to harvest your and your family's vital organs -- as per the service agreement that you signed -- unless your mobile phone company has already harvested them first.
Small steps. Once you've accepted this. [x] I agree! Then the next step is to equip the roving roomba with a camera. Purely for harmless information collecting purposes. The cloud wants to know if you have pets, how many and what kind. The cloud would like to rank homes according to how messy they are. But it can be sold as a feature to allow you remote access to the roving roomba camera from anywhere! For your security. [x] I agree! Equipped with the optional voice option along with the camera, a roomba would make remote child care easier than ever before! [x] I agree!
The level of signal to deal with this (and any) issue is much lower than the level of tweets, er, I mean noise, or maybe I mean tweets, from the president.
Verizon is merely conducting tests to determine just how little bandwidth a customer can have and still, technically, be able to access the internet. Sort of like testing for just how poor of audio quality one can have while asking "can you hear me now?"
Please get drug companies to stop convincing people that they have the problem that the expensive drug is a cure for.
Drug companies should refocus resources on R&D efforts into ways to cause people to develop new, novel and unprecedented diseases. Terminal diseases, heretofore unknown in history, for which the expensive drug is the cure.
It would be be a better use of resources. It has potential military applications. Cures for new terminal incurable diseases increase drug sales. Therefore increase revenue, and therefore profits. Increasing shareholder value. Leading to higher executive bonuses. Which somehow magically trickle down to the poor, if they live long enough. And it increases tax revenue so congress has more money to spend on projects like helping states to determine what species should be recognized as their official state tree. And it greatly increases campaign contributions.
Re: How about laws that cover all distracted driving?
as long as it isn’t done in “a careless or imprudent manner.”
I think everyone is missing the whole point of Colorado's law.
In a nutshell, if you're going to do something inherently dangerous, it's okay as long as you don't do this dangerous thing in a dangerous, careless, or imprudent way.
If you're going to swing a gun around wildly and pull the trigger, then please do it carefully. You should first have some belief that it is probably unloaded.
As long as you're using safety measures like that, everyone else around you will be okay with whatever the outcome.
This supreme court ruling does NOT mean that privately owned sites cannot ban, downvote or hide troll posts, such as this one. They can. They should. And they already do so.
So regurgitating TiVO's press releases counts as journalism these days?
In general no. But in certain instances, yes, it can. If the press release is factual. If the very act of it having to be re-issued to counter false information makes it newsworthy, then yes, it can be journalism.
Maybe you mean: another cord cutting denial troll?
Clue: re-re-reporting on cable tv cord cutting, which is a real and newsworthy phenomena, becomes more and more newsworthy as the cable tv industry tries to hide and deny it. Like pouring gasoline on a fire.
The bright light of daylight (journalism) sends the cockroaches scurrying. And I'm talking about the cable tv cord cutting, not the Trump administration.
The high prices I had to pay to watch their commercials, punctuated, with occasional re-re-reruns of entertainment, was just too high. After an insanely long string of commercials, the entertainment would return, but then characters would walk out onto the screen. Or popup ads obscuring the content. Constant logos on the screen.
I simply felt that cable tv was charging way too much for this level of abuse. If they are going to charge me this much money, they should be a lot more abusive. At least Comcast won't allow you to cancel your cable tv under any circumstances.
Dear cable tv: mend your ways! For a change, why don't you try forcing people into two year contracts like mobile phone companies do!
As you describe, I first went to a bare minimum. A package that they had, but did not advertise. Very bare minimum. But after a while, using internet streaming, we finally got rid of that last remaining bit of cable and haven't regretted it since.
On the subject of stating opinions, the government should not be able to forbid those. Instead the Ministry Of Truth could publish a list of opinions that people should avoid.
Similarly, the judge in this case could simply order Tumblr to provide a public page of links to all possible copies of the reblogged offending revenge pr0n, so that people know what links to avoid.
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NYPD's Forfeiture process was already transparent
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Re: So let me get this straight...
Yes, absolutely! People who want to blow their nose or pass gas should absolutely have to be registered with a government registry. For the protection of us all. Think of the children!
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Re: Re: Re: Small Steps
On the post: There Is Simply No Scientific Backing For TSA's Behavioral Detection Program
How about pseudo scientific backing?
Having a bunch of indicators you can check off gives it an air of legitimacy.
On the post: Your Robot Vacuum Cleaner Will Soon Collect And Sell Data About You And Your Home
Small Steps
What possible uses is the roomba mapping the interior of your home?
* Useful for the roomba to more efficiently vacuum in the future.
* Useful for the cloud to know when you've moved your furniture around.
* Useful for Amazon Echo to build a better acoustics model for improved listening accuracy, especially when you are whispering in your own home
* Useful for SWAT teams
* Useful for ICE to know where you might hide
* Useful for burglars
* Useful for your ISP to more efficiently move about your home in the middle of the night when they enter to harvest your and your family's vital organs -- as per the service agreement that you signed -- unless your mobile phone company has already harvested them first.
Small steps. Once you've accepted this. [x] I agree!
Then the next step is to equip the roving roomba with a camera. Purely for harmless information collecting purposes. The cloud wants to know if you have pets, how many and what kind. The cloud would like to rank homes according to how messy they are. But it can be sold as a feature to allow you remote access to the roving roomba camera from anywhere! For your security. [x] I agree! Equipped with the optional voice option along with the camera, a roomba would make remote child care easier than ever before! [x] I agree!
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Signal to Noise Ratio
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Can you hear me now?
On the post: Supposed Stickler For Transparency, FCC Boss Won't Release Net Neutrality Complaints
Nothing to see here
He is being Transparent, in his efforts at obfuscation.
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Re:
Most people have this wrong misconception that the supposed moral of the story is: Never tell a lie.
But the US Government and Cardassian spies know better. The moral of the story actually is: Never tell the same lie twice.
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Re: Re:
Maybe we need a new term: repeat perjurers.
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Re: Re:
Do you think clean water is just naturally occurring or something?
People should have to pay for clean air. You don't think clean air just grows on trees do you?
On the post: White House Plan To Reduce Drug Prices... Is To EXTEND Patents?
Re: Re: Re: Logic
Dear Mr. Trump,
Please get drug companies to stop convincing people that they have the problem that the expensive drug is a cure for.
Drug companies should refocus resources on R&D efforts into ways to cause people to develop new, novel and unprecedented diseases. Terminal diseases, heretofore unknown in history, for which the expensive drug is the cure.
It would be be a better use of resources. It has potential military applications. Cures for new terminal incurable diseases increase drug sales. Therefore increase revenue, and therefore profits. Increasing shareholder value. Leading to higher executive bonuses. Which somehow magically trickle down to the poor, if they live long enough. And it increases tax revenue so congress has more money to spend on projects like helping states to determine what species should be recognized as their official state tree. And it greatly increases campaign contributions.
Sincerely,
All US citizens
On the post: Sheriff Defends Deputies' Lies In Court By Saying Officers Didn't Know They Were Supposed To Tell The Truth
Ignorance of the law is no excuse
Don't they always tell everyone else: Ignorance of the law is no excuse? And it confers no immunity.
On the post: Colorado Legalizes Another Vice: Texting While Driving
Re: How about laws that cover all distracted driving?
I think everyone is missing the whole point of Colorado's law.
In a nutshell, if you're going to do something inherently dangerous, it's okay as long as you don't do this dangerous thing in a dangerous, careless, or imprudent way.
If you're going to swing a gun around wildly and pull the trigger, then please do it carefully. You should first have some belief that it is probably unloaded.
As long as you're using safety measures like that, everyone else around you will be okay with whatever the outcome.
On the post: Supreme Court Says You Can't Ban People From The Internet, No Matter What They've Done
Let me preemptively state this
On the post: 80% Of Cord Cutters Leave Because Of High Cable TV Prices, But The Industry Still Refuses To Compete On Price
Re: Re: Re:
In general no. But in certain instances, yes, it can. If the press release is factual. If the very act of it having to be re-issued to counter false information makes it newsworthy, then yes, it can be journalism.
On the post: 80% Of Cord Cutters Leave Because Of High Cable TV Prices, But The Industry Still Refuses To Compete On Price
Re:
Clue: re-re-reporting on cable tv cord cutting, which is a real and newsworthy phenomena, becomes more and more newsworthy as the cable tv industry tries to hide and deny it. Like pouring gasoline on a fire.
The bright light of daylight (journalism) sends the cockroaches scurrying. And I'm talking about the cable tv cord cutting, not the Trump administration.
On the post: 80% Of Cord Cutters Leave Because Of High Cable TV Prices, But The Industry Still Refuses To Compete On Price
The high prices weren't worth what I was getting
I simply felt that cable tv was charging way too much for this level of abuse. If they are going to charge me this much money, they should be a lot more abusive. At least Comcast won't allow you to cancel your cable tv under any circumstances.
Dear cable tv: mend your ways! For a change, why don't you try forcing people into two year contracts like mobile phone companies do!
On the post: TV Cord Cutting Poised To Smash Records During Second Quarter
Re: Re: It's just a temporary downturn
On the post: Should Tumblr Be Forced To Reveal 500 People Who Reblogged A Sex Tape?
Re:
Similarly, the judge in this case could simply order Tumblr to provide a public page of links to all possible copies of the reblogged offending revenge pr0n, so that people know what links to avoid.
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