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If you were going to nationalize any part of Amazon, the delivery infrastructure is the only thing worth something. The entire store website could be accidentally deleted and have to be cobbled back together out of excel documents and paperclips and it still wouldn't be any kind of loss. Incidentally the way that Amazon runs a store, a delivery system, and manufactures and markets its own products is called vertical integration, and it used to be illegal back when antitrust laws were a thing.
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I don’t need Amazon nationalized I just need the bare minimum of making Bezos only keep like a couple billion and the rest go into taxes. No person needs that much money.
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Yeah, if we're talking about nationalizing big corporations Amazon is way down the list. Comcast and ATT are the two big targets there.
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Phenotype posted:Yeah, if we're talking about nationalizing big corporations Amazon is way down the list. Comcast and ATT are the two big targets there.
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-surveillance-watchdog/nsa-staff-used-spy-tools-on-spouses-ex-lovers-watchdog-idUSBRE98Q14G20130927 Yeah, if you know any Agency employees then don’t piss them off I guess, but I’m saying that the more bog-standard civilian parts of law enforcement aren’t using these databases to dragnet anyone downloading Pokémon. Like when it comes to nationalizing AT&T or some poo poo, I’m not opposed to the government running a telecom, as long as there’s still private carriers because only a loving fool would use the nationalized carrier to set up a weed sale or whatever.
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Craptacular! posted:Yeah, if you know any Agency employees then don’t piss them off I guess, but I’m saying that the more bog-standard civilian parts of law enforcement aren’t using these databases to dragnet anyone downloading Pokémon. Your cell phone has already told the NSA who your drug dealer is. hth
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Craptacular! posted:Like when it comes to nationalizing AT&T or some poo poo, I’m not opposed to the government running a telecom, as long as there’s still private carriers because only a loving fool would use the nationalized carrier to set up a weed sale or whatever. Why would there be any more chance of them monitoring you if they owned the network? Either way all they need is authorisation (or lack of oversight). Private ownership doesn't make it physically any harder.
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Emmy noms are up I can't believe the Chiijohn docu and the Wax and the Furious are competing for the same nom 
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Tiggum posted:Why would there be any more chance of them monitoring you if they owned the network? Either way all they need is authorisation (or lack of oversight). Private ownership doesn't make it physically any harder. My point is that some crimes are so legion that FISA courts, NSA databases, and judicial warrants are considered ‘overkill’. However, local police love harassing people over minor issues and somebody (Verizon?) won a legal battle that they don’t have to turn over their customer information to any private party legal action that asks such as copyright attorneys for the usual large studios. This is a thread about an HBO program so I’m going to assume that a majority of participants are familiar with the ins and outs of pirating TV shows, but one of the few “unwritten rules” of downloading music and movies in recent years is to do your piracy on a commercial ISP and not, say, a university connection because the private operators don’t hand over customer info without a warrant and instead forward the complaint to you with a nasty letter and promises of cancelling your service if this isn’t corrected, while the universities usually comply with whatever and get you put in court. Threats to lose your home internet, or having to buy attorneys and make court appointments. Hmm, which is worse?  The point is a government owned ISP may be willing to throw open it’s records for civil attorneys who simply ask and will be very likely more willing to cooperate with local police on searches without a warrant. Yes the whole internet is being downloaded and indexed, but it’s by people who have more important things going on to think about the stolen LEGO Batman on your nephew’s Google Drive. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Jul 16, 2019 |
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Yeah, the solutions to a broken free market like the current ISP oligopoly involve either codifying the hegemony into a governmental institution or trying to break it up into a free market again, and considering how often the government bends over for big media companies trying to maintain copyrights forevermore, the latter might be safer. Although come to think of it, I wonder if the big media companies that are also ISPs ever comb through their customers' data.
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I can't bring myself to watch the new Lion King but I'm glad John did good in it https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1151983233694949382
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Speaking of .... https://twitter.com/iamjohnoliver/status/1148582981126295553 John: 
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Jul 19, 2019 04:38
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He filled the role really well. Talks about as much as in an episode of the show, only per scene.
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Oh wow, I didn't realize he actually is in the movie!
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It's really weird when the plot stops and he spends 30 minutes on an in depth breakdown of the lion monarchy
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I enjoyed the way he segued every scene in the movie with "and now, this"
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Milo and POTUS posted:It's really weird when the plot stops and he spends 30 minutes on an in depth breakdown of the lion monarchy Oh, please. He jokes around about some of the jungle news topics from the last week for at least seven minutes, and really only talks about issues regarding feline monarchy for, at most, 19 minutes.
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Jul 20, 2019 13:28
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Since waiting for the next episode of the show is such a tedious task, the film was a worthy alternative.
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Milo and POTUS posted:It's really weird when the plot stops and he spends 30 minutes on an in depth breakdown of the lion monarchy Is Simba still loving his sister? That's the reason why real Lions don't inherit their father's pride and instead go wandering to find a new one.
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The Morning Report is now just a QUICK recap of the last week, and we begin in the savanna, where the new prince, Simba, was born, and immediately held out over a stunningly high cliff, whereupon all of the animals were forced to make ritual oaths of fealty, or the baby would be dropped. Meanwhile, in an attempt to stay relevant, after being dropped out of the succession, the king’s brother has become a bit of a media bad boy, going so far as to insist upon being called “Scar.” (Clip of paparazzi videos of wild and outrageous public behavior.) Cool. Moving on, moving on, for our MAIN story tonight, we turn to hyena concentration camps.
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TheCenturion posted:The Morning Report is now just a QUICK recap of the last week, and we begin in the savanna, where the new prince, Simba, was born, and immediately held out over a stunningly high cliff, whereupon all of the animals were forced to make ritual oaths of fealty, or the baby would be dropped. [intense laughing is heard, and a few mascot-sized hyenas wander onstage] Stop it! Stop it right now! You stop that! The fate of the hyenas... (directly into camera) is no laughing matter.
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copypasta from the LWT reddit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKKIZ9O6tCA&t=721s Meet DJ Bus Replacement Service, perhaps the most amazingly bonkers name for a DJ, a woman dressed as Kim Jong-Un, using soundbites from the Gilbert Gotfried episodes for her mixes.
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Here's an objectively perfect explanation of the situation in the UK, and I don't even need to use words (other than setting up this wordless, perfect explanation of the situation in the UK):
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The idiot defense is a lot more common than you'd think. That was half of W's presidency. It just gets confusing when people pretending to be idiots genuinely are idiots beneath the facade beneath the facade. It's how all those high-power bureaucrats turn into total amnesiacs whenever they're under indictment and get away scot-free. That interview about paragraphs B and C was just like a piece out of a loving sitcom. I feel like the fact that John Oliver didn't see fit to mention how England finally won the Cricket World Cup is like the ultimate proof that he no longer talks to Andy Zaltzman. Also shrimp chips are alright, John's making a big fuss over nothing. 
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Jul 30, 2019 22:41
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Prawn cocktail crisps are delicious, and I just bought a pack of them today when I was doing the shopping because John reminded me of them. There are some weird but scrumptious crisps in the UK and Ireland: Worcestershire sauce being another odd, but lovely one. The nicest crisps I've ever tasted though, were Walkers Sensations roast chicken & thyme. Which really doesn't sound like it should work as a crisp, but drat they were loving tasty.
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Just be sure to have one of these for dessert In semi-related news, wtf did imgur just do to its interface?
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tsob posted:Prawn cocktail crisps are delicious, and I just bought a pack of them today when I was doing the shopping because John reminded me of them. There are some weird but scrumptious crisps in the UK and Ireland: Worcestershire sauce being another odd, but lovely one. The nicest crisps I've ever tasted though, were Walkers Sensations roast chicken & thyme. Which really doesn't sound like it should work as a crisp, but drat they were loving tasty. Are they actually prawn flavored or are they like crab chips where they’re just seasoned the same.
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Azhais posted:Just be sure to have one of these for dessert 2. imgur has been amazingly bullish in making themselves as unsavory to use as an image host as is humanly possible  Basically: We’re not asking. You will use this as a social media platform, or you won’t use this. Hopefully tomorrow I can still load the desktop version on mobile
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Are they actually prawn flavored or are they like crab chips where they’re just seasoned the same. Prawn cocktail is a sauce apparently. I've never tried it, and wasn't even sure it existed until I Googled it a few minutes ago, but I assume the crisp is flavored after it rather than the other way around, because the crisps certainly aren't actually prawn flavored.
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Cocktail sauce is mainly ketchup, horseradish, worcestershire, and lemon juice. Perfectly reasonable flavours for a crisp. More likely the revulsion is a reaction to the word “prawns.”
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JO is weird as hell about food imo
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Yeah, he has a habit of wildly insulting all kinds of food, and I'm not sure if there's anything he actually likes. It gets very elitist sometimes too. It's just one of his go-to jokes that various foods are subhuman garbage.
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I find the business daddy thing as creepy as I do funny
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Goddamn, a company that has a near-monopoly on prison video calls forcing prisons to eliminate actual visits in order to sell more video calls is just late stage capitalism as gently caress.
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At least they are giving them protective gear now when they throw them in the arena to fight animals as a spectacle. We have truly come a long ways since the times of the Roman empire.
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Remember the more unhappy prisoners get the more dangerous being a guard is which means the costs of insuring prisons likely go up.
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Do prisons still take a commission on the slave labor they make their prisoners do? That's probably one of the key ingredients of what keeps the horrible system keep going. I remember hearing how that was one of the ways that the post-reconstruction south resurrected slavery, arresting blacks so their labor becomes free again. And even if you have no sympathy for prisoners, their families, or the people who will be unlawfully railroaded into prison to keep the industry going in the future, all that underpriced prison labor directly devalues labor done by free people. You know, one of the things that conservatives are always jacking off about blaming immigrants for to be a halfway plausible excuse for their rabid racism (or at least they used to? I haven't heard it recently ever since they stopped feeling the need to hide). I think I remember some stories of prisoners being brought in to be scabs during a labor strike at a mine. If you let companies get away with underpaying for labor, that becomes the new price, just like how wage theft is rampant. And this whole industry is subsidized by yours and everybody else's tax dollars, it doesn't pay for itself. The system takes what money and human capital the government provides and then leverages it to make as much profit as they can off of it while squeezing down costs, hence how they refuse to provide basic living amenities to prisoners despite getting upwards of $30k of tax money per inmate.
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Oh I’m sure they get money from all the companies falling over themselves to get cheap labor.
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Invalid Validation posted:Oh I’m sure they get money from all the companies falling over themselves to get cheap labor. I'm pretty sure the largest customer is the government. They have a mandate of some variety to use prison labor
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Azhais posted:I'm pretty sure the largest customer is the government. They have a mandate of some variety to use prison labor Yeah a ton of stuff for the military is made with prison labour. Uniforms and so on.
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