See also the link to "This might be the coolest visualization of evolution ever" and comments re: "Wolf359" and "Microcosmic God" by Theodore Sturgeon at...
Sorkin's article ignores Ballmer's billion-dollar tax dodge... er, break... for buying a basketball team.* Ballmer should revise his boast from "paid for with pre-tax dollars" to "paid for with "shamefully un-taxed dollars."
Interesting terms that don't show up when googling Ballmer's site (at least as of today...):
tax expenditure tax shelter estate tax good will sports team basketball... e.g.,
tax expenditure site:usafacts.org
And so much for the "already taxed" argument by Trump's billionaire class (and their gullible middle- and working-class sycophants) against the estate tax. How much supposedly already-income-taxed dollars of wealth will soon escape estate taxes? And how much will all of these tax expenditures add to working and middle class taxes and the national debt?
Now that, Mr. Sorkin, would be an interesting article.
Sorkin's article ignores Ballmer's billion-dollar tax dodge... er, break... for buying a basketball team.* Ballmer should revise his boast from "paid for with pre-tax dollars" to "paid for with "shamefully un-taxed dollars."
Interesting terms that don't show up when Googling Ballmer's site (at least as of today...)
tax expenditure
tax shelter
estate tax
good will
sports team
basketball
site:usafacts.org
And so much for the "already taxed" argument by Trump's billionaire class (and their gullible working-class sycophants) against the estate tax. How much supposedly already-income-taxed dollars of wealth will soon escape estate taxes? And how much will all of these tax expenditures add to working and middle class taxes and the national debt?
Now that, Mr. Sorkin, would be an interesting article.
Wow! 42 comments on an article titled, "Why the internet ONLY JUST works" (emphasis added), and the word "security" occurs once, and the words "malware", "privacy", "malicious", "ransomware", "hack" and "cybercrime" don't show up at all.
Is there another internet out there that I don't know about? If not maybe the title should be "Why the internet only just stinks"!
Experimental acceleration of evolution was the plot of the 1964 teleplay, "Wolf 359", which was one of the very best Outer Limits episodes. A scaled-down version of a distant life-bearing planet was constructed in a laboratory safe-room. The passage of millennia of days and nights was simulated by a strobe light blinking at an imperceptibly-fast rate. Evolutionary progress was monitored and photographed through a mini-telescope in the adjoining room. Spoiler alert: it did not end well...
Wolf 359 asks whether evolution, at the grand scale, might be moderated, at least in part, by the mere accumulation of day/night cycles, regardless of their individual and cumulative lengths, like some sort of a cosmic iterator.
Thanks for that tip and link, CarolineW ! I'll add this to my reading list. The wikipedia summary for Microcosmic God is chilling... Outsourcing with a vengeance!
This decision implies that a website owner can, on a landing page, and/or via postal or email message, notify Google, and other search engines, social media and data brokers that the owner does not grant, and indeed revokes, any authority to crawl, catalog, archive, link to or otherwise view or use the content on the site's other pages.
(Yes I know most sites want to be crawled and cataloged, but some might prefer otherwise, or to negotiate deals with search engines, or otherwise monetize or leverage their content.)
For a search vendor to proceed in the face of such a restriction would be an unauthorized and therefore criminal use of the site owner's server, content and traffic/throughput allotment.
Maybe this would be a good way to defeat Mozilla's upcoming Context Graph, which promises its own set of obnoxious side-effects.
I hate to speak ill of the departed. but none of the comments explore this point:
This guy sounds like a bit of an overly-solicitous Tesla fanboy and/or sycophant, who, possibly, having once "used this car to its full extent" in the prior avoidance situation, this time intentionally failed to take over control in order to test the autopilot, perhaps with the hope of getting another great avoidance success story and youtube video and/or to ingratiate himself with a celebrity like Elon Musk.
Some people can get a bit too cultishly infatuated with technology/social media attention/techno big-shots. We must think with our minds as well as our hearts.
I hate to speak ill of the departed. but none of the comments at the original story explore this point:
This guy sounds like a bit of an overly-solicitous Tesla fanboy and/or sycophant, who, possibly, having once "used this car to its full extent" in the prior avoidance situation, this time intentionally failed to take over control in order to test the autopilot, perhaps with the hope of getting another great avoidance success story and youtube video and/or to ingratiate himself with a celebrity like Elon Musk.
Some people can get a bit too cultishly infatuated with technology/social media attention/techno big-shots. We must think with our minds as well as our hearts.
Once again Bitcoin is the "getaway car" of choice for hackers and ransomware extortionists around the world.*
Where are all the Bitcoin fans when this happens? Probably reassuring themselves with, "Untraceability isn't a horrific crime-facilitating flaw; it's a feature."
At least good old currency bills had serial numbers on them...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12467015