This guy doesn't care about his reputation. What he's desperate for is attention and relevance. Before trying to trash him via SEO, remember the old saying:
"If only our tongues were made of glass. How much more careful we would be when we speak."
The customer is always right. Big pharma, insurance and healthcare companies are investment companies. It's the investors, not the patients, who are the primary customers.
I've been tweeting pictures to Trump of crowds watching nukes being popped back in the 1950s. And declaring that the only reason Trump can't let Americans watch nuclear explosions on the 4th of July is that other countries won't let him.
The US has been far more socialist than Canada for decades. It's just that Canada extends that socialism outside of the corporate/investor realm more often.
As it was put back in 2008 when Republicans were nationalizing the Wall Street banks and bailing out the auto industry:
The Conservatives in Canada are roughly equivalent to the more liberal Democrats in the US.
The Liberal Party is further to the left.
MUCH further to the left we have the have the unabashedly socialist NDP. They want to do things like spending huge amounts of public money to manipulate the national economy, and nationalize or take a large financial stake in banks and some large corporations. This makes them roughly equivalent to the Republican Party.
A few years ago I did a Google search on my (Canadian) apartment building. One of the first links returned was a user record in text format from a site helping people find apartments.
It contained her address, driver's licence number and everything else needed for identity theft. Like the case above, you could change the record number at the end to see a different record.
The point is, Google had indexed the whole thing. And it'll do the same with PDF files.
Yeah, the data the kid was arrested for was publicly accessible.
They weren't actually 'dropped', they were 'suspended'. They're still there, and could be resurrected to entice the US back in.
That requires ALL countries in the agreement to agree to resurrect them. It could happen, but I wouldn't hold my breath. Not without some significant concessions from the US.
Granted, Trump would make significant concessions while declaring that he got a better deal.
During negotiations, perhaps. But now that the agreement has is signed and in effect (at least via provisional application pending ratification), that's seems highly unlikely.
Trump could sign on to the current deal as it is. Any changes he wants would have to be negotiated as part of a new deal. In the mean time the current deal would still go ahead.
Just so. Trump is explaining his flip-flop by claiming that he can get a better deal.
But the TPP is already a done deal, finalized and signed. Which was made easier once the US pulled out by dropping 22 provisions that the US insisted on but the other countries opposed.
Trump won't get a better deal, or even one equal to what the US already had.
Then they don't have anyone to arrest and it's not an issue.
Google has offices in Canada. And other facilities, including at least one cloud server farm so they can advertise a guarantee that users' sensitive data won't leave the country.
No doubt the Breitbarts and WorldNetDailys will publish their own versions. Someone will have a left-biased version. Someone else will have a politically neutral version with more credibility, and that'll upset the most people.
This would spark a conversation about the bias of those lists. Probably a rather excited and abusive conversation, that demonstrates the flaws with this idea. Flaws that also apply to the police version.
This sort of thing will keep happening until the tables are turned. Eventually someone will use the exact same techniques to come up with a decision system for voting: "Probability that a candidate or public official is corrupt and/or a bigot."
The same indicators are just as valid: Family/personal names linked to ethnicity, zip code, occupation, tax credits, ratio of gardens to buildings, gas and electricity consumption, etc.
Politicians and public officials can be rated "high-risk", "moderate", etc., and the results released just before each election.
The justification is the same as for the police system. The ability to appeal - and the potential Streisand effect of any complaint by an official found to be "high-risk" - would be the same too.
Any argument against one is an argument against the other.
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This guy doesn't care about his reputation. What he's desperate for is attention and relevance. Before trying to trash him via SEO, remember the old saying:
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I expect that Techdirt will eventually write a Where Are They Now article about this administration's staff and advisers.
Complete with a map linked to their ankle monitors.
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Re: The Free Market will decide the value of life
The customer is always right. Big pharma, insurance and healthcare companies are investment companies. It's the investors, not the patients, who are the primary customers.
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I've been tweeting pictures to Trump of crowds watching nukes being popped back in the 1950s. And declaring that the only reason Trump can't let Americans watch nuclear explosions on the 4th of July is that other countries won't let him.
Sorry.
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Only natural persons get equality rights and can hold public office.
The sovereign citizen movement and other delusionals tend to add their own meanings.
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"The NSA interpreted privacy as damage and routed around it."
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The US has been far more socialist than Canada for decades. It's just that Canada extends that socialism outside of the corporate/investor realm more often.
As it was put back in 2008 when Republicans were nationalizing the Wall Street banks and bailing out the auto industry:
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It contained her address, driver's licence number and everything else needed for identity theft. Like the case above, you could change the record number at the end to see a different record.
The point is, Google had indexed the whole thing. And it'll do the same with PDF files.
Yeah, the data the kid was arrested for was publicly accessible.
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Re: 22 Provisions
That requires ALL countries in the agreement to agree to resurrect them. It could happen, but I wouldn't hold my breath. Not without some significant concessions from the US.
Granted, Trump would make significant concessions while declaring that he got a better deal.
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Re: HI from canada
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During negotiations, perhaps. But now that the agreement has is signed and in effect (at least via provisional application pending ratification), that's seems highly unlikely.
Trump could sign on to the current deal as it is. Any changes he wants would have to be negotiated as part of a new deal. In the mean time the current deal would still go ahead.
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But the TPP is already a done deal, finalized and signed. Which was made easier once the US pulled out by dropping 22 provisions that the US insisted on but the other countries opposed.
Trump won't get a better deal, or even one equal to what the US already had.
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Re: Canada - the China of North America.
Google has offices in Canada. And other facilities, including at least one cloud server farm so they can advertise a guarantee that users' sensitive data won't leave the country.
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But he's consistently wrong.
I think he has ISO 9000 certification. No doubt he's certifiable.
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Re: Nostalgia
As a Canadian I'd like to apologize for the village idiot we sent to Texas.
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Ted Cruz has declared....
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This would spark a conversation about the bias of those lists. Probably a rather excited and abusive conversation, that demonstrates the flaws with this idea. Flaws that also apply to the police version.
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The same indicators are just as valid: Family/personal names linked to ethnicity, zip code, occupation, tax credits, ratio of gardens to buildings, gas and electricity consumption, etc.
Politicians and public officials can be rated "high-risk", "moderate", etc., and the results released just before each election.
The justification is the same as for the police system. The ability to appeal - and the potential Streisand effect of any complaint by an official found to be "high-risk" - would be the same too.
Any argument against one is an argument against the other.
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