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Comment · 8 years ago
This is what I'm going to miss most. Heard the news and went to check the Gmail app only to realize I was going to have to spend much more time in my inbox.
Comment · 8 years ago
There are possibly plenty of cam websites that would integrate or create a new section for larger increase in audience and money.
Comment · 8 years ago
Or even on a mac Bootcamp OS such as Windows 8/10?
Comment · 8 years ago
Which would require the somehow the audio is "intercepted" to analyze that the greeting was said. Two-party consent state include that action. Storage is another thing, no?
Comment · 8 years ago
Second on the network. My concern is around inter-node traffic and if it's segmented or like their current private networking.
Comment · 8 years ago
Deleted mine as this is exactly what I was trying to say.
Comment · 8 years ago
Tried so far and unable to get a connection with a key to go through with no error console to review the issue. =[
Comment · 8 years ago
Careful, don't want any of those senators to step out of line over there. I hear dissent is treated with lashing and in-party sabotage.
Comment · 8 years ago
Your statement is true that climate change could cause weather phenonmenon, but the headline reads "Scientists Can Now Blame Individual Natural Disasters on Climate Change". The line he quoted contradicts that headline.
Comment · 9 years ago
Removal of the credit system won't help either. Assuming no one was able to borrow or ask others to borrow (since it would probably just bring back the current system eventually), the rich would still be rich and the poor would still be poor except the poor and middle class would have no way to raise capital at all for a venture that could propel them.

Why should someone whom is asking for money with no way to pay it back get the same preference as someone asking to borrow money who has a history of solid payments and has enough capital they could liquify to pay off at least 50% of the amount tomorrow?

I don't think that utility companies or landlords under report although I understand that it would be nice if they reported more for beginning creditors. The distinction for why they aren't included is that they aren't lending you money. You are only paying for their services as you use them. Once in default, they are effectively loaning to you at that point though with a balance to be paid. Do you think the IT technician whom invoiced you for $2500 in work should also report as well? [shrugs] Guess I don't want all balanced from whom provided me a service to be in a credit report for 7 years but I understand that is just me.

Comment · 9 years ago
I don't think he was saying it's sole importance was employment. If you had read the sentence in a more critical manner, the purpose of the corporation is to generate value. They can't provide employment to citizens, tax money for the government, or help in charity work without generating monetary value for it's products or services.

The New Deal(s) did not really do the above. Although it really provided value in the form of infrastructure as well as employment to citizens it had to take money from people as well as borrow large amounts to do it.

Hating on corporations and trading them for the government as a pseudo-corporation is just as bad. Sounds like a comment dripping with naivety from a college history class as if it's a final 'gotchya' against someone who is looking at the situation from all avenues.

Comment · 9 years ago
No idea where the feedback loop is for machine learning, but the playlists are off by miles for anything other than popular genres of pop, (alt-)rock, and some others. No Mozart or Beethoven; Couldn't match Arch Enemy on anything heavy.
Comment · 9 years ago
Isn't those exact companies and the businesses that will end up paying for it anyway through taxes along with others in the state? This certainly isn't a federal problem. I'm not sure how getting government involved fixes it as if their funds are just "free" and "exist".

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