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FaceBook Co-Founder: It's Time to Break Up FaceBook. American Culture Cannot Have a Monopolistic Censor.
Chris Hughes, the Harvard roommate of and co-founder of Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg, writes in a piece for the New York Times that "it is time to break up Facebook." "America was built on the idea that power should not be concentrated in any one person, because we are all fallible," writes Hughes. "That's why the founders created a system of checks and balances." Hughes explains that because Zuckerberg has a 60 percent control of Facebook’s voting shares, "Mark alone can decide how to configure Facebook's algorithms to determine what people see in their News Feeds, what privacy settings they can use and even which messages get delivered."He also calls for an agency to regulate social media, with an emphasis on holding them to account regarding privacy.
... Hughes sees Zuckerberg's "unilateral control over speech" as "the most problematic aspect of Facebook’s power." "There is no precedent for his ability to monitor, organize and even censor the conversations of two billion people," he says. For this, Hughes is calling on the government to hold Zuckerberg accountable and believes current actions against Facebook, such as a $5 billion fine from the Federal Trade Commission aren’t enough to rein in Zuckerberg in. "We are a nation with a tradition of reining in monopolies, no matter how well intentioned the leaders of these companies may be. Mark's power is unprecedented and un-American."
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Lizzie Hiawatha at May 10, 2019 05:02 PM (OE84+)
Posted by: golfman at May 10, 2019 05:03 PM (OE84+)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at May 10, 2019 05:04 PM (ju9gW)
Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 10, 2019 05:04 PM (z79tQ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 10, 2019 05:05 PM (U5rMc)
Posted by: DaveA at May 10, 2019 05:05 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Diogenes at May 10, 2019 05:05 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: pep at May 10, 2019 05:05 PM (T6t7i)
Posted by: garrett at May 10, 2019 05:06 PM (Lz8qP)
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Never give more power to the government.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 10, 2019 05:06 PM (4knXT)
A Federal Government Censorship Bureau, what could go wrong?
Posted by: Congressman Hrothgar (U-VA) at May 10, 2019 05:06 PM (f3oO4)
If the government regulates it, it would de facto freeze its monopoly status. Zuck would love that.
yeah. break it the hell up.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 10, 2019 05:06 PM (zBaqJ)
Yeah, nobody wants that.
Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at May 10, 2019 05:06 PM (xptlg)
Posted by: DR.WTF at May 10, 2019 05:06 PM (aS1PU)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 10, 2019 05:06 PM (Z+IKu)
Posted by: garrett at May 10, 2019 05:06 PM (Lz8qP)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 10, 2019 05:07 PM (xfb67)
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No. We don't need an EPA for the internet.
Posted by: Bicentennialguy at May 10, 2019 05:07 PM (JcXHH)
If it moves tax it
It if keeps moving regulate it
If it stops moving, subsidize it.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 10, 2019 05:07 PM (U5rMc)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 10, 2019 05:07 PM (dKiJG)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at May 10, 2019 05:07 PM (bcbK8)
Posted by: garrett at May 10, 2019 05:07 PM (Lz8qP)
I don't see a need for Government intervention.
Posted by: garrett at May 10, 2019 05:06 PM (Lz8qP)
So is staying at my hotel.
Can I refuse you if you have a Hillary bumper sticker on your car?
Posted by: golfman at May 10, 2019 05:07 PM (OE84+)
Posted by: Off the reservation at May 10, 2019 05:07 PM (vWMNq)
Oh, that really crappy blog shell that insists I "log in" when I accidentally stumble onto one of their sites.
Why would I want to log in to just look at somebody's crap they posted on line.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at May 10, 2019 05:08 PM (1g7ch)
Posted by: garrett at May 10, 2019 05:07 PM (Lz8qP)
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And an Undersecretary for Oversight of Candy Crush
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 10, 2019 05:08 PM (4knXT)
Immediately, every social media company should be given a free choice to choose to be a publisher or a public utility. If needed, they can spin off companies in order to separate the powers.
If they choose to be a publisher, they will have to live under the body of law for publishers.
If they choose to be a public utility, they will have to live under the body of law for public utilities.
If they insist on remaining an unaccountable mixture of the two, they should be nationalized immediately.
We should not waste our time or resources trying to cook up a new body of law just for them.
Posted by: jc at May 10, 2019 05:08 PM (PuMKG)
Don't fall for it.
Posted by: Jen the original at May 10, 2019 05:08 PM (64/ml)
Posted by: Ha at May 10, 2019 05:08 PM (MAstk)
Agreed.
I'm far more afraid of the federal govt Girls Gone Wild! than I am of Zuckerburg & Facebook.
Posted by: mnw at May 10, 2019 05:08 PM (Cssks)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at May 10, 2019 05:09 PM (bcbK8)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 10, 2019 05:09 PM (xfb67)
"Mark is a good, kind person."
I had to suppress a gag reflex.
Posted by: Off the reservation at May 10, 2019 05:07 PM (vWMNq)
DANGER WILL ROBINSON.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C. S. Lewis
Posted by: DR.WTF at May 10, 2019 05:10 PM (aS1PU)
Posted by: Jen the original at May 10, 2019 05:08 PM (64/ml)
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It was my first thought - it's a trap!
If you want to go down this road, we have anti-trust laws in place already. Use those.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 10, 2019 05:10 PM (AzW6q)
Posted by: pep at May 10, 2019 05:05 PM (T6t7i)
Cheese grater.
A small industrial one.
Maybe Hobart has one for the 80qt mixer.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at May 10, 2019 05:10 PM (1g7ch)
The Establishment GOP thinks they will be eaten last if they just look the other way.
Then you have the "pro-business" TruCons that are "pro" whoever last signed their check.
Posted by: Blago at May 10, 2019 05:10 PM (UfkIY)
Yes to breaking up Alphabet.
Yes to teaching Zuck how to dive from a helicopter.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at May 10, 2019 05:10 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 10, 2019 05:09 PM (xfb67)
It's not late enough out here
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at May 10, 2019 05:11 PM (bcbK8)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 10, 2019 05:11 PM (zBaqJ)
Posted by: pep at May 10, 2019 05:05 PM (T6t7i)
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Ya really wanna hurt the guy?
Slowly magnetize him until it scrambles his storage disks.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 10, 2019 05:11 PM (AzW6q)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 10, 2019 05:11 PM (U5rMc)
Posted by: Someguy at May 10, 2019 05:11 PM (oTYTN)
Posted by: DR.WTF at May 10, 2019 05:06 PM (aS1PU
XXXXXXXXX
THIS!!!
Posted by: rd at May 10, 2019 05:11 PM (EK+Pw)
I noticed yesterday that Harry's, the shaving company, just got bought by the parent company for Schick. Disrupt! Make your own! Get bought out by the very company you were trying to undercut!
I read somewhere a few years ago that the tech dream now isn't to take your company to IPO. It's to sell it to Facebook/Amazon/Alphabet.
Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at May 10, 2019 05:12 PM (GbPPJ)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 10, 2019 05:12 PM (xfb67)
"I'm disappointed in myself and the early Facebook team for not thinking more about how the News Feed algorithm could change our culture, influence elections and empower nationalist leaders ..."
So, this isn't about the censoring the censoring of conservative voices -- it's about preventing future Trumps from being elected.
Posted by: ShainS -- Born Again Easter Worshipper at May 10, 2019 05:12 PM (WnJWI)
as it is claims to be, or it is a publisher. Common carriers shouldn't
be enforcing limits to speech.
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This.
We don't need a new government agency to do this. When facebook (and twitter and youtube and their ilk) insist on continuing to deplatform, declare them publishers and let the lawfare rage.
Posted by: Methos at May 10, 2019 05:12 PM (kOpft)
Posted by: pep at May 10, 2019 05:05 PM (T6t7i)
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Ya really wanna hurt the guy?
Slowly magnetize him until it scrambles his storage disks.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 10, 2019 05:11 PM (AzW6q)
Altoids-box EMP at wherever the hell Google keeps its servers.
They need to be eliminated.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 10, 2019 05:12 PM (zBaqJ)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 10, 2019 05:13 PM (d7Ww2)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 10, 2019 05:12 PM (xfb67)
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He was made in the 80s. You can tell because the skin and eyes don't really look real.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 10, 2019 05:13 PM (AzW6q)
Posted by: grammie winger at May 10, 2019 05:13 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 10, 2019 05:13 PM (elsTe)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 10, 2019 05:13 PM (U5rMc)
Posted by: grammie winger at May 10, 2019 05:13 PM (lwiT4)
So sad.
Prayers for the family.
Posted by: golfman at May 10, 2019 05:14 PM (OE84+)
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 10, 2019 05:14 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 10, 2019 05:13 PM (elsTe)
... You still own 60% of the company.
Posted by: DR.WTF at May 10, 2019 05:14 PM (aS1PU)
Block the coolant.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 10, 2019 05:13 PM (U5rMc)
Giant. Ants.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at May 10, 2019 05:14 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 10, 2019 05:14 PM (xfb67)
Posted by: fox at May 10, 2019 05:15 PM (UuVBv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 10, 2019 05:15 PM (U5rMc)
Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at May 10, 2019 05:12 PM (GbPPJ)
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It's been that way for some time. I think most of the tech types at startups dream of being a big company with lots of success in its own right.
But the VCs know that most of it is a pipe dream. They just want to buy in, run up a big valuation on future prospects, sell out and cash in before the jig is up.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 10, 2019 05:15 PM (AzW6q)
Posted by: grammie winger at May 10, 2019 05:13 PM (lwiT4)
So sorry to see this, Grammie.
Posted by: Ladyl at May 10, 2019 05:15 PM (TdMsT)
reason Zuckerberg and others openly welcome regulation is because it
would eliminate all competition. No one else would be able to combat the
regulations to get into the space and Facebook would be it. With the
gov dictating what you or I can put on it, much like net neutrality.
Don't fall for it.
Posted by: Jen the original at May 10, 2019 05:08 PM (64/ml)
Big tobacco did the same thing. It worked to create an insurmountable monopoly but also made it so government could kill the whole thing if they wished. Now the top tobacco companies are just begging for more regulation, the more the better. Again, it is has worked for one or two of them for some time, but it will work right up until it doesn't.
I say leave twitter and fakebook on your own. Some conservatives should be able to come up with an alternative. I know it seems impossible but I don't really understand why that is. How many people say they have to stick with fakebook because they want to get pictures of their grandchildren? A conservative could not some up with a site to do that?
Posted by: quint at May 10, 2019 05:16 PM (n13/j)
F.A. R.C E Book who needs it...really ignore it and it dies.....the PHONE'Y BOSS the TELEPHONEYIES...produce nothing do nothing and folk
sip their dicks......WOWSA...nice "business" a 32 year old fucker rules us all...and Yanks say give more the Dickens you say Oliver with a twist.
Posted by: saf at May 10, 2019 05:16 PM (5IHGB)
Posted by: Axeman at May 10, 2019 05:16 PM (gjH/b)
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I'd say maybe three tiers. Safe space where all non-PC stuff is banned, R rated space in which hardcore violence, pron, and racism is banned, and the Wild, Wild West.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 10, 2019 05:16 PM (+y/Ru)
Because I wasn't a twat.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 10, 2019 05:16 PM (xfb67)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 10, 2019 05:17 PM (Y4EXg)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 10, 2019 05:15 PM (TdMsT)
My daughter and my son knew the family casually. It looks like a teenage romance gone horribly, visciously wrong. So sad. I can't imagine losing a child. Senseless.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 10, 2019 05:17 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Ass Chum at May 10, 2019 05:17 PM (Jj+59)
Immediately, every social media company should be given a free choice to choose to be a publisher or a public utility. If needed, they can spin off companies in order to separate the powers.
If they choose to be a publisher, they will have to live under the body of law for publishers.
If they choose to be a public utility, they will have to live under the body of law for public utilities.
If they insist on remaining an unaccountable mixture of the two, they should be nationalized immediately.
We should not waste our time or resources trying to cook up a new body of law just for them.
Posted by: jc at May 10, 2019 05:08 PM (PuMKG)
wow!
clear and concise.
jc actually thought this one through. I concur.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 10, 2019 05:17 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Off the reservation at May 10, 2019 05:17 PM (vWMNq)
Because I wasn't a cuck.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 10, 2019 05:18 PM (xfb67)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 10, 2019 05:18 PM (U5rMc)
Sure, pull the other one.
I find it hard to believe, what, 30% of the world's population is on facebook.
Posted by: blake - used sock salesman at May 10, 2019 05:18 PM (qC1Sy)
We don't need a new government agency to do
this. When facebook (and twitter and youtube and their ilk) insist on
continuing to deplatform, declare them publishers and let the lawfare
rage.
Posted by: Methos at May 10, 2019 05:12 PM (kOpft)
yup, then send in the death squads.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 10, 2019 05:18 PM (9Om/r)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 10, 2019 05:19 PM (xfb67)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 10, 2019 05:19 PM (Dh1wo)
People need to get a grip.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 10, 2019 05:19 PM (P/i/D)
don't care
I will never join facebook or anything like it.
nope
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 10, 2019 05:13 PM (d7Ww2)
Facebook owns massive amounts of infrastructure. Whatsapp, Instagram, and Oculus VR are the most commonly known. But Facebook has also bought a ton of backend companies that provide ad and content services.
It's like Amazon and AWS. You might say fine I won't shop Amazon but the odds are very high that other services you are using are using AWS.
See also Alphabet and how it services more or less all web advertising.
I don't use Facebook and I bet I use stuff online constantly that uses Facebook infrastructure.
Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at May 10, 2019 05:19 PM (GbPPJ)
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 10, 2019 05:20 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: wth at May 10, 2019 05:20 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 10, 2019 05:18 PM (U5rMc)
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Not it. I presume they'll portray Tolkein as a secret trans-man who wrote his books as an allegory about open borders and multiculturalism.
Or something.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 10, 2019 05:20 PM (AzW6q)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 10, 2019 05:20 PM (Ct55T)
Posted by: blake - used sock salesman at May 10, 2019 05:18 PM (qC1Sy)
Russian bots good.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at May 10, 2019 05:20 PM (1g7ch)
And on top of that it was something like the 80/20 rule about who actually posts. 80% of postings are done by 20% of the members.
So there is hope.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 10, 2019 05:20 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: garrett at May 10, 2019 05:07 PM (Lz8qP)
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I'm not doing anything.
Posted by: Zombie Lysenko at May 10, 2019 05:21 PM (gjH/b)
Posted by: Off the reservation at May 10, 2019 05:21 PM (vWMNq)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 10, 2019 05:21 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: garrett at May 10, 2019 05:21 PM (Lz8qP)
Sure, pull the other one.
I find it hard to believe, what, 30% of the world's population is on facebook.
Posted by: blake - used sock salesman at May 10, 2019 05:18 PM (qC1Sy)
Yeah, it makes me laugh when people claim shit like that. Everyone knows that most of their accounts are bots and most of their clicks are bullshit. If anyone wants to go after FarceBook then the best avenue, I think, would be massive click fraud that they steal billions through.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 10, 2019 05:21 PM (P/i/D)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 10, 2019 05:22 PM (Dh1wo)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at May 10, 2019 05:22 PM (49UDy)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 10, 2019 05:22 PM (U5rMc)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 10, 2019 05:22 PM (Ct55T)
Hey alex - I got to sit through two hours of AWANA awards Wednesday night. At least they had popcorn. Thing #2 got his Sparky award. It's a wonder. The boy has no attention span. Zero.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 10, 2019 05:22 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 10, 2019 05:22 PM (Os0Bo)
Posted by: garrett at May 10, 2019 05:22 PM (Lz8qP)
Posted by: garrett at May 10, 2019 05:21 PM (Lz8qP)
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But if you feed it after midnight, it turns into Tumblr.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 10, 2019 05:22 PM (AzW6q)
Regulatory agencies? Yeah! Government jobs!
Posted by: Dems at May 10, 2019 05:23 PM (JgLEu)
yes, I probably do.
However, I also don't instagram or reddit or twatter.
I know they still have info on me. But I'll be dammed if I'm giving it up willingly.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 10, 2019 05:23 PM (d7Ww2)
Posted by: garrett at May 10, 2019 05:22 PM (Lz8qP)
Facebook owns Instagram.
Has for a while now.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 10, 2019 05:23 PM (Ct55T)
Posted by: wth at May 10, 2019 05:23 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: blake - used sock salesman at May 10, 2019 05:18 PM (qC1Sy)
It really wouldn't surprise me. I get friend invites from people in countries I barely heard of, usually metal heads. If people in those places have facebook then that 30% might actually be the case.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 10, 2019 05:23 PM (9Om/r)
But if you feed it after midnight, it turns into Tumblr.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 10, 2019 05:22 PM (AzW6q)
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Tell me more....
Posted by: Creepy Uncle Joe at May 10, 2019 05:23 PM (qC1Sy)
Chicago Tribune
@chicagotribune
A proposed hike in Illinois' annual registration fee for electric vehicles - from $17.50 to $1,000 - is being called unfair by current EV owners.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 10, 2019 05:23 PM (+y/Ru)
Dude. Poison was HUGE.
Posted by: garrett at May 10, 2019 05:24 PM (Lz8qP)
So Goolag swallows a competitor, takes over another market, and will use that info to feed it's voracious data beast.
Break up Google, too, even moreso than Farcebook.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 10, 2019 05:24 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 10, 2019 05:22 PM (AzW6q)
Morbidly obese with blue hair?
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at May 10, 2019 05:24 PM (SgjGX)
vehicles - from $17.50 to $1,000 - is being called unfair by current EV
owners.
Speaking of taxing it if it moves...
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 10, 2019 05:25 PM (U5rMc)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 10, 2019 05:25 PM (Dh1wo)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 10, 2019 05:23 PM (9Om/r)
30% of the world's population have never even seen toilet paper. Another 48% have seen it but decided not to use it.
What does that mean? It means that there are a lot of really dirty keyboards typing shit into their FarceBook accounts.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 10, 2019 05:25 PM (P/i/D)
Umm... take a look at Amazon. Worse than alphagoo IMO.
Posted by: Off the reservation at May 10, 2019 05:25 PM (vWMNq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 10, 2019 05:26 PM (U5rMc)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 10, 2019 05:25 PM (Dh1wo)
As opposed to "potential" EV owners.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2019 05:26 PM (YqDXo)
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I remember years ago that Nest was talking about selling out to some entertainer, a rapper I think, who wanted to use it to advertise to people through their thermostats. No kidding. This horrible idea went nowhere, though.
Google will probably make it happen.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 10, 2019 05:26 PM (AzW6q)
So Goolag swallows a competitor, takes over another market, and will use that info to feed it's voracious data beast.
Google is just copying us.
Posted by: Amazon at May 10, 2019 05:26 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2019 05:27 PM (BbGew)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 10, 2019 05:25 PM (Dh1wo)
That's shocking.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2019 05:27 PM (YqDXo)
Umm... take a look at Amazon. Worse than alphagoo IMO.
Posted by: Off the reservation at May 10, 2019 05:25 PM (vWMNq)
Yeah ... just as Sears was, once. Just as Walmart was not too long ago, too.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 10, 2019 05:27 PM (P/i/D)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 10, 2019 05:23 PM (+y/Ru)
They love that chicken.
Posted by: golfman at May 10, 2019 05:27 PM (OE84+)
Posted by: garrett at May 10, 2019 05:24 PM (Lz8qP)
Not in my book, they were fags.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 10, 2019 05:28 PM (9Om/r)
Uber went public today. CNBC was orgasming. It was wall to wall coverage. And when it started trading below the IPO price it was like watching CNN on election night 2016, lol.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at May 10, 2019 05:28 PM (FiUMj)
Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2019 05:28 PM (NLLmE)
I remember all the dumbasses that loved their MySpace......until they didn't.
Crap in, crap out.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 10, 2019 05:28 PM (Z+IKu)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 10, 2019 05:26 PM (AzW6q)
Much like ESPN at the gas pumps.
I look away.
Posted by: golfman at May 10, 2019 05:28 PM (OE84+)
for electric vehicles - from $17.50 to $1,000 - is being called unfair
by current EV owners.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 10, 2019 05:23 PM (+y/Ru)
in my day, they were called golf carts; and they were the sucky ones. Everyone wanted a gas cart.
Posted by: quint at May 10, 2019 05:28 PM (n13/j)
Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2019 05:29 PM (NLLmE)
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at May 10, 2019 05:28 PM (FiUMj)
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Last I checked they were placing a valuation on that company north of $70b.
Ludicrous.
What did they think would happen?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 10, 2019 05:29 PM (AzW6q)
I remember all the dumbasses that loved their MySpace......until they didn't.
Crap in, crap out.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 10, 2019 05:28 PM (Z+IKu)
Murdoch lost a half billion or a billion on MySpace. I don't know if the site is still around but the company value basically went to 0. Fox wrote off the whole thing.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 10, 2019 05:29 PM (P/i/D)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at May 10, 2019 05:29 PM (49UDy)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 10, 2019 05:29 PM (Dh1wo)
I look away.
Posted by: golfman
Oh man the first time a gas pump started talking to me I got chills.
Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2019 05:30 PM (NLLmE)
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 10, 2019 05:30 PM (Z4rgH)
Posted by: grammie winger at May 10, 2019 05:30 PM (lwiT4)
Though in fascist police state as envisioned in Brazil I could see these little screens asking have you seen Harry Buttle? And then telling you suspicion breeds confidence.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 10, 2019 05:30 PM (U5rMc)
Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2019 05:28 PM (NLLmE)
My boss thinks its good for the business.
I just don't post.
Hate to see the feed.
Not best for the career path.
Posted by: golfman at May 10, 2019 05:30 PM (OE84+)
"Trust Busting" could be a new GOP policy thrust. They even have the historical lineage for it. But I assume they'll just keep pushing Chamber of Commerce favs like lowering the estate tax and increasing guest worker programs.
Posted by: Frankovich's Monster at May 10, 2019 05:30 PM (hdzef)
We don't need a new government agency to do
this. When facebook (and twitter and youtube and their ilk) insist on
continuing to deplatform, declare them publishers and let the lawfare
rage.
Posted by: Methos at May 10, 2019 05:12 PM (kOpft)
yup, then send in the death squads.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 10, 2019 05:18 PM (9Om/r)
And the giant ants.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at May 10, 2019 05:30 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: goodluckduck at May 10, 2019 05:30 PM (rwaEp)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at May 10, 2019 05:29 PM (49UDy)
No.
It would be SMOD.
Posted by: golfman at May 10, 2019 05:31 PM (OE84+)
Posted by: Surfperch at May 10, 2019 05:31 PM (ufFCO)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 10, 2019 05:29 PM (P/i/D)
Good........Thanks POP!
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 10, 2019 05:31 PM (Z+IKu)
People need to get a grip.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair
One example:
HR departments are increasingly accessing the Facebook pages of applicants for jobs. If you don't have one, you're a ghost as far as they are concerned.
Think it's not a big deal in that case?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 10, 2019 05:31 PM (cXV7n)
Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2019 05:28 PM (NLLmE)
I think anyone younger than 21 has taken your advice.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at May 10, 2019 05:31 PM (49UDy)
Posted by: washrivergal at May 10, 2019 05:32 PM (EjlXc)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 10, 2019 05:29 PM (Dh1wo)
Didn't every EV have many thousands of tax credits for the buyers?
Like, $8 or $10 thousand?
So after a decade, you are finally even.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 10, 2019 05:32 PM (sy5kK)
There is nothing wrong with Farcebook that a damn good carpet bombing wouldn't fix
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 10, 2019 05:32 PM (OLCnA)
Posted by: quint at May 10, 2019 05:32 PM (n13/j)
So is staying at my hotel.
Can I refuse you if you have a Hillary bumper sticker on your car?
Posted by: golfman at May 10, 2019 05:07 PM (OE84+)
This guy gets it.
Posted by: clutch at May 10, 2019 05:32 PM (kiSdp)
Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2019 05:32 PM (NLLmE)
A bit too unselective for my tastes...
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at May 10, 2019 05:33 PM (7s3Gx)
Is MySpace still around?
It was still there about a month ago or so. Every so often I find someone who has a myspace link in their youtube channel. Sometimes I click on the link just to see when they last updated. Usually a *long* time ago but occasionally I find someone who is still updating it. Can't remember the last time that was true though.
Posted by: Off the reservation at May 10, 2019 05:33 PM (vWMNq)
Think it's not a big deal in that case?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 10, 2019 05:31 PM (cXV7n)
I detest HR departments. Usually infested with SJW chicks with hair of a primary color.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2019 05:33 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at May 10, 2019 05:31 PM (49UDy)
What about woo-woo?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iESw5aL12II
Classic.
Posted by: golfman at May 10, 2019 05:33 PM (OE84+)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at May 10, 2019 05:34 PM (7s3Gx)
Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2019 05:34 PM (BbGew)
Posted by: The Giant Ants at May 10, 2019 05:34 PM (RD7QR)
Can I refuse you if you have a Hillary bumper sticker on your car?
Posted by: golfman at May 10, 2019 05:07 PM (OE84+)
sounds un American to me. Just give them the room with the funny smell.
Posted by: quint at May 10, 2019 05:34 PM (n13/j)
Posted by: TheQuietMan
Oh...don't tease.
Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2019 05:34 PM (NLLmE)
Don't like it, Jesus and Conservative Principles sez to build your own platform.
Posted by: Daavid Frennch at May 10, 2019 05:34 PM (nGsFZ)
Posted by: quint at May 10, 2019 05:32 PM (n13/j)
My take, exactly. It's hard not to see a parallel with AOL.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2019 05:34 PM (YqDXo)
But the pissant little a-holes who are always trolling their World of The Future crap? And keep coming back after you've described, oh, a hydrogen fire in detail, for instance? They don't need to know that.
I want this proposal to hang around for at least a decade, just so I can casually threaten them with it. Like the Spartacus Gun Control "Plan."
Posted by: Stringer Davis at May 10, 2019 05:35 PM (8ZmvG)
Posted by: James Woods at May 10, 2019 05:35 PM (OE84+)
The 'monitors' of facebook are almost all in low pay countries like India or Pakistan, which have no cultural reverence for American Freedoms.
Same with Twitter and such.
And when the emails they send say their decision is FINAL??? WTF?
Posted by: Don Q at May 10, 2019 05:36 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Toni at May 10, 2019 05:36 PM (N5mle)
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 10, 2019 05:36 PM (dUJdY)
So, nobody from Google?
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 10, 2019 05:36 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Joey Bidet at May 10, 2019 05:37 PM (EEB6G)
Posted by: quint at May 10, 2019 05:34 PM (n13/j)
Or replace the wedding cake sugar with salt?
Posted by: golfman at May 10, 2019 05:37 PM (OE84+)
Posted by: Surfperch at May 10, 2019 05:37 PM (ufFCO)
A bit too unselective for my tastes...
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at May 10, 2019 05:33 PM (7s3Gx)
Depends on WHERE the attack hits.
Distributed data centers with regional backups?
Posted by: Don Q at May 10, 2019 05:38 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Off the reservation at May 10, 2019 05:38 PM (vWMNq)
FUN FACT: The second button from the top on the right is usually the 'mute' button.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 10, 2019 05:39 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Off the reservation at May 10, 2019 05:38 PM (vWMNq
Kinda like the turd in the punch bowl?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 10, 2019 05:39 PM (Y+V3r)
Squelching, Banning, and Othering will be codified into law, in other words.
Posted by: Beverly at May 10, 2019 05:39 PM (n3hU5)
I probably feed it enough for the both of us.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 10, 2019 05:30 PM (lwiT4)
Shake and Bake and I helped.
Amazon helps me get gifts to friends more or less on time.
Mind you, I'm probably biased.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at May 10, 2019 05:39 PM (bcbK8)
Posted by: Off the reservation at May 10, 2019 05:39 PM (vWMNq)
I doubt FB would hire a moron.
Posted by: Off the reservation at May 10, 2019 05:38 PM (vWMNq)
Facebook has LOTS of morons, but I agree they would never hire a Moron!
Capitalization for a Title, you see.
Posted by: Don Q at May 10, 2019 05:40 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: vrf at May 10, 2019 05:40 PM (MwaUC)
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at May 10, 2019 05:40 PM (TlcBW)
Posted by: literally serious at May 10, 2019 05:40 PM (OneoG)
Posted by: Off the reservation at May 10, 2019 05:38 PM (vWMNq
Kinda like the turd in the punch bowl?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 10, 2019 05:39 PM (Y+V3r)
Well they WILL require your user name and password for Facebook to even get an interview there.
I know, I know, oh ho ho...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at May 10, 2019 05:41 PM (bcbK8)
Posted by: vrf at May 10, 2019 05:40 PM (MwaUC)
I only glanced at it but it did not appear he was much concerned over censorship? He is probably a left wing turd also
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 10, 2019 05:41 PM (Y+V3r)
Capitalization for a Title, you see.
Posted by: Don Q
Like Polish and polish.
Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2019 05:41 PM (NLLmE)
Posted by: Off the reservation at May 10, 2019 05:41 PM (vWMNq)
Posted by: Don Q at May 10, 2019 05:40 PM (NgKpN)
Check the Stylebook, bitchezzzzz.
Damn.
Posted by: golfman at May 10, 2019 05:41 PM (OE84+)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at May 10, 2019 05:41 PM (49UDy)
Posted by: Pete Seria at May 10, 2019 05:41 PM (7ZQe3)
FUN FACT: The second button from the top on the right is usually the 'mute' button.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 10, 2019 05:39 PM (oVJmc)
Good to know. Thanks.
This tendency toward putting effing screens everywhere to entertain the double-digit IQ club is exasperating.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2019 05:42 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Pete Seria at May 10, 2019 05:41 PM (7ZQe3)
something something blah blah blah
Posted by: grammie winger at May 10, 2019 05:42 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Off the reservation at May 10, 2019 05:43 PM (vWMNq)
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I liked Rubicon by Tom Holland or, if you prefer fiction, I, Claudius by Robert Graves.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 10, 2019 05:43 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Pete Seria at May 10, 2019 05:41 PM (7ZQe3)
How annoying were the commercials? Between those chimps chanting on the Acura commercial, the shirtlifter lisping away on credit card commercial, and the aging mom trying to cadge jewelry ... grrrr.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2019 05:44 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at May 10, 2019 05:44 PM (TlcBW)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 10, 2019 05:44 PM (EgshT)
Story almost completely disappeared now.
Posted by: blaster at May 10, 2019 05:44 PM (ZfRYq)
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at May 10, 2019 05:44 PM (TlcBW)
OK. (?)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2019 05:45 PM (YqDXo)
Story almost completely disappeared now.
Posted by: blaster at May 10, 2019 05:44 PM (ZfRYq)
Link?
Posted by: Surfperch at May 10, 2019 05:45 PM (ufFCO)
Posted by: blaster at May 10, 2019 05:44 PM (ZfRYq)
This story just keeps getting better and better.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2019 05:45 PM (YqDXo)
-- Babylon Bee
Damn, they're good.
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Also from the Bee . . .
Jesus Criticized For Lack Of Diversity Among Apostles
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 10, 2019 05:45 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at May 10, 2019 05:46 PM (TlcBW)
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at May 10, 2019 05:44 PM (TlcBW)
OK. (?)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2019 05:45 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at May 10, 2019 05:46 PM (bcbK8)
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at May 10, 2019 05:44 PM (TlcBW)
I wrapped up my pneumonia, my eyepatch and my straw and waltzed right in yesterday. I didn't do the Okie Doke sign though.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 10, 2019 05:46 PM (lwiT4)
FUN FACT: The second button from the top on the right is usually the 'mute' button.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 10, 2019 05:39 PM (oVJmc)
Good to know. Thanks.
This tendency toward putting effing screens everywhere to entertain the double-digit IQ club is exasperating.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2019 05:42 PM (YqDXo)
Insert rant about loud music in restaurants. Because even I want to hear myself think every now and then.
Posted by: The Giant Ants at May 10, 2019 05:46 PM (RD7QR)
Yup. The internet has *always* been mainly for porn.
Posted by: Off the reservation at May 10, 2019 05:46 PM (vWMNq)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at May 10, 2019 05:47 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2019 05:47 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Eeyore at May 10, 2019 05:47 PM (VaN/j)
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at May 10, 2019 05:47 PM (TlcBW)
Posted by: blaster at May 10, 2019 05:47 PM (ZfRYq)
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at May 10, 2019 05:46 PM (TlcBW)
I don't know how unusual it is not to be given a chance to tell your side of the story. I think if an usher kicks you out, yer out. As they say.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 10, 2019 05:47 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: The Giant Ants at May 10, 2019 05:46 PM (RD7QR)
Or, best of all, screens in a bar blasting noise, often from CNN.
That's where the universal remote app on the tablet comes in handy.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2019 05:48 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: BEN ROTHLINGBURGER at May 10, 2019 05:48 PM (Hucnr)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 10, 2019 05:49 PM (Y+V3r)
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I liked Rubicon by Tom Holland or, if you prefer fiction, I, Claudius by Robert Graves.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 10, 2019 05:43 PM (+y/Ru)
Fiction:
First Man in Rome series by Colleen McCollough
SPQR series by John Maddox Roberts
Anything by Robert Graves
Non Fiction:
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is the gold standard
Plutarch's Lives
Tacitus Histories
The Conquest of Gaul by Julius himself
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at May 10, 2019 05:50 PM (bcbK8)
Posted by: Deep State is in DEEP SHIT at May 10, 2019 05:50 PM (BqBId)
@195 you know if the Cubs management knew you posted here they would ban you for life
I don't know how you can hand-sign that typical Cubs score without inadvertently going all White Power. Ergo and QED, outta-heah.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at May 10, 2019 05:50 PM (8ZmvG)
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at May 10, 2019 05:46 PM (TlcBW)
Yeah, I was goofing on that. I'd never heard of the "OK sign" thing either as a white supremacy sign (which is ridiculous), or as a pretext for punching someone's arm.
I guess I lead a sheltered life.
But kicking somebody out without giving him a chance to defend himself is bullshit. That's why I thoroughly enjoyed watching the Brewers kick the Cubs' ass today.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2019 05:50 PM (YqDXo)
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No matter how many times I read it Tacitus, I get something new out of it.
Talk about an "evergreen" book.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 10, 2019 05:50 PM (AzW6q)
Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2019 05:51 PM (BbGew)
Posted by: hannitys_hybrid at May 10, 2019 05:51 PM (iMxDC)
...why don't we just enforce the laws we already have that prohibit the violation of Constitutional rights?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy says #PurgeProgressivismBAMN at May 10, 2019 05:51 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at May 10, 2019 05:46 PM (TlcBW)
I
don't know how unusual it is not to be given a chance to tell your side
of the story. I think if an usher kicks you out, yer out. As they say.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 10, 2019 05:47 PM
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Had a Sailor who went to a Patriots game and was cutting up in line. They pulled him out and said he was drunk and made him spend the entire game in the drunk tank.
Once you enter the park, you are subject to their rules.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 10, 2019 05:51 PM (JUOKG)
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No matter how many times I read it Tacitus, I get something new out of it.
Talk about an "evergreen" book.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 10, 2019 05:50 PM (AzW6q)
He's a bitter, grumpy man but great reading.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at May 10, 2019 05:51 PM (bcbK8)
Posted by: Bathhouse Gang at May 10, 2019 05:51 PM (JcXHH)
Posted by: Deep State is in DEEP SHIT at May 10, 2019 05:50 PM (BqBId)
Wait, is it a threat that the commercial vessels are carrying those things or are they ARMED with those things?
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at May 10, 2019 05:52 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 10, 2019 05:51 PM (JUOKG)
OK, drunk is one thing.
But making an "OK" sign gets you the death penalty - banned for life??
WTF?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2019 05:53 PM (YqDXo)
That was one of the difficulties I had with Latin in high school.
Posted by: Off the reservation at May 10, 2019 05:53 PM (vWMNq)
The new gas pumps with the tv ads have removed the "Mute" button sticker, and none of the buttons I pressed will turn off the damn thing.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at May 10, 2019 05:54 PM (ejYlW)
Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2019 05:54 PM (NLLmE)
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Honorable mention: It's not necessarily the most reliable, but Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius has some good stuff on the Clodians.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 10, 2019 05:54 PM (AzW6q)
So I propose a tax on social media use, similar to a sales tax. Maybe based on the kilobytes of information being transferred.
Posted by: MAGA at May 10, 2019 05:54 PM (I5LRE)
See - that's the part I don't get. You don't give your name or photo ID when you buy a ticket, or go with a group. How do you keep someone from going to a game?
Posted by: grammie winger at May 10, 2019 05:54 PM (lwiT4)
Adrian Goldsworthy is good too.
Kyle Harper's The Fate Of Rome thinks disease was the main culprit; Heather blames the Persians
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at May 10, 2019 05:55 PM (TlcBW)
House Ways and Means Cmte. Chairman Neal issues subpoenas to Sec. Mnuchin and IRS Commissioner Rettig for 6 years of President Trump's tax returns.
WASHINGTON (@AP) - A top House Democrat has issued subpoenas for six years of President Donald Trump's tax returns, giving Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig a deadline of next Friday to deliver them.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 10, 2019 05:55 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at May 10, 2019 05:54 PM (ejYlW)
I actually use the presence/absence of TV screens as a criterion for which gas stations I patronize.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2019 05:56 PM (YqDXo)
******
Nope Iran fitted boats with them
Posted by: Deep State is in DEEP SHIT at May 10, 2019 05:56 PM (BqBId)
Posted by: MAGA at May 10, 2019 05:57 PM (I5LRE)
Luddite, I am. And yet, when I speak to people who rely on such, they seem uninformed.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 10, 2019 05:57 PM (/dN1M)
This is "banned for life from the friendly confines." They don't even ban you for life if you blow their chance in the playoffs -- which is lucky for a lot of their players, don't you think?b
Posted by: Stringer Davis at May 10, 2019 05:57 PM (8ZmvG)
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 10, 2019 05:51 PM (JUOKG)
OK, drunk is one thing.
But making an "OK" sign gets you the death penalty - banned for life??
WTF?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2019 05:53 PM
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He wasn't drunk......he was just making a fool of himself and they yanked him out of line because of that.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 10, 2019 05:57 PM (JUOKG)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - black slaves invented cooking at May 10, 2019 05:58 PM (07se2)
Posted by: Insomniac at May 10, 2019 05:58 PM (NWiLs)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suetonius
... but your title seems vaguely familiar as well.
Posted by: Off the reservation at May 10, 2019 05:59 PM (vWMNq)
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at May 10, 2019 05:59 PM (H8QX8)
WASHINGTON (@AP) - A top House Democrat has issued subpoenas for six years of President Donald Trump's tax returns, giving Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig a deadline of next Friday to deliver them.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 10, 2019 05:55 PM (aKsyK)
And as I wrote previously, Mnuchin is going to tell them to go piss off, and then Neal will take it to a court, and then the Court (certainly the Supremes will get to weigh in on this) will decide if Congress can go searching through the tax returns of political opponents for purely political purposes. Some case law from the McCarthy era suggests that they cannot.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 10, 2019 05:59 PM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - black slaves invented cooking at May 10, 2019 05:59 PM (07se2)
and a SEPTA conductor shot in another part of Philly at train station
must be the weather
Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at May 10, 2019 05:59 PM (dm05u)
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Only professional athletes can rape, drug, assault and beat their wives and girlfriends?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 10, 2019 06:00 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at May 10, 2019 05:54 PM (ejYlW)
I actually use the presence/absence of TV screens as a criterion for which gas stations I patronize.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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Meh, it doesn't matter. Our traffic monitors, store security cameras, and credit card transaction monitors have you and your activities tracked anyhow.
Posted by: Bob, at NSA at May 10, 2019 06:00 PM (4bd7D)
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Only professional athletes can rape, drug, assault and beat their wives and girlfriends?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 10, 2019 06:00 PM (+y/Ru)
That's a roger.
Posted by: Insomniac at May 10, 2019 06:00 PM (NWiLs)
If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth or Possession or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States...
...they shall be fined under this title and imprisoned not more than ten years or both...
We don't need another federal agency. All we need is for this law to be enforced. That's so simple that a Progressive should be able to understand it, but I see that it's not.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy says #PurgeProgressivismBAMN at May 10, 2019 06:00 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2019 06:00 PM (BbGew)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Democrat politicians, you left out Democrat politicians.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 10, 2019 06:01 PM (4bd7D)
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I'm not following the part where the FBI committed all the crimes and Trump has to turn over his taxes because of it.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - black slaves invented cooking at May 10, 2019 06:01 PM (07se2)
Posted by: Off the reservation at May 10, 2019 06:01 PM (vWMNq)
With the origins of the Fisa warrant story, the fake contempt of congress by Barr story etc., we're shoveling as fast we can and we can't keep these things even half covered up.
We're gonna need some heavy construction equipment to bury all these things.
Posted by: CNN providing shovel ready job at May 10, 2019 06:01 PM (cCxiu)
You might not join facechimp, but facechimp will join you.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at May 10, 2019 06:01 PM (ejYlW)
Hoc ridiculam. Qui tui sunt, non curant.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at May 10, 2019 06:01 PM (8ZmvG)
Posted by: Bob, at NSA at May 10, 2019 06:00 PM (4bd7D)
Of course. But at least I don't have to endure idiotic commercials while filling up.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2019 06:01 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: trapper's girl at May 10, 2019 06:01 PM (DGS6j)
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 10, 2019 06:01 PM (JUOKG)
Posted by: David French at May 10, 2019 06:01 PM (iys0/)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 10, 2019 06:02 PM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: garrett at May 10, 2019 06:02 PM (Lz8qP)
Lives of Famous Whores
I didn't know Kamala Harris was that old.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2019 06:02 PM (YqDXo)
Or the DOJ could just start enforcing existing anti-trust law on tech like they do on your local grocery chain.
Posted by: DaveA at May 10, 2019 06:02 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at May 10, 2019 06:02 PM (XY5n9)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at May 10, 2019 06:01 PM (8ZmvG)
To paraphrase Led Zeppelin...
40 years gone.
Posted by: golfman at May 10, 2019 06:02 PM (OE84+)
Posted by: Muldoon at May 10, 2019 06:02 PM (mvenn)
according to wikipedia.
damn those nevertrumpers have been around a long time.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 10, 2019 06:02 PM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at May 10, 2019 06:03 PM (dm05u)
Posted by: Off the reservation at May 10, 2019 05:59 PM (vWMNq)
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Yeah... I've heard it both ways. My copy is really old, though. Maybe "Twelve Caesars" is in vogue these days?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 10, 2019 06:03 PM (AzW6q)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2019 06:01 PM (YqDXo)
Try complaining to the facility. This has been surprisingly effective for me at bank and doctor's office. Maybe others complained too, but shortly afterward the TV stuff ended.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at May 10, 2019 06:03 PM (H8QX8)
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at May 10, 2019 06:04 PM (H8QX8)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 10, 2019 06:04 PM (d7Ww2)
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at May 10, 2019 06:03 PM (H8QX
Good idea.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2019 06:04 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Insomniac at May 10, 2019 06:04 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 10, 2019 06:01 PM (JUOKG)
CONTEMPT. Eleventy!!!!!1
Posted by: golfman at May 10, 2019 06:04 PM (OE84+)
It's been 40 years. I could guess at what that means but it's mostly Tacitus to me.
Posted by: Off the reservation at May 10, 2019 06:05 PM (vWMNq)
Posted by: Insomniac at May 10, 2019 06:06 PM (NWiLs)
That government is best which governs least, but a corollary is that nobody not the government gets to "govern" more either, and anything which de facto gives a company like Facebook a government-issued authority within law to, say, search and seize people not its customers, is obviously not something we should permit.
Posted by: Sporkatus at May 10, 2019 06:06 PM (lBjZi)
Why is now different?
Posted by: golfman at May 10, 2019 05:03 PM (OE84+)"
Real answer? Three-fold; for most of that time period, the Soviets as an external threat put a damper on their moonbattery, or at least kept it to a slow burn. And part of that slow burn was the dismantling of our education system.
Now our moonbats are exceptionally educationally challenged, and the only external threat they profess to care about is one they're shrilly linking to their domestic opponents.
Lastly, censorship aside, FB is a pretty damn big threat simply for the reach of their data collection and their near-total lack of ethics. We're talking about a company that was selling access to people's private photo uploads to third parties so you could search for, and view, private bikini pics by username, for fuck's sake.
Posted by: lurker (the other one. buy radios too) at May 10, 2019 06:06 PM (eAshZ)
Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2019 06:06 PM (BbGew)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Then making a V with your fingers at flicking your tongue in the middle of it. If you are going to go, go all the way.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 10, 2019 06:06 PM (jTv1/)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at May 10, 2019 06:06 PM (8ZmvG)
*****
Joey Bidet & the Deep State are shitting Gold bricks the size of Volvo's
Posted by: Deep State is in DEEP SHIT at May 10, 2019 06:07 PM (BqBId)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Then making a V with your fingers at flicking your tongue in the middle of it. If you are going to go, go all the way.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 10, 2019 06:06 PM (jTv1/)
Or you could point to the newsette and then poke your tongue against one cheek while miming eating a hot dog with the other hand.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2019 06:08 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Off the reservation at May 10, 2019 05:38 PM (vWMNq
Kinda like the turd in the punch bowl?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 10, 2019 05:39 PM (Y+V3r)
Well they WILL require your user name and password for Facebook to even get an interview there.
I know, I know, oh ho ho...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at May 10, 2019 05:41 PM (bcbK
when the Burning Times arrive, who has been assigned Facebook will have a particularly large and satisfying set of targets.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 10, 2019 06:08 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 10, 2019 06:08 PM (d7Ww2)
Give'em the old Michele Bachman with a Corn Dog!
Posted by: garrett at May 10, 2019 06:09 PM (Lz8qP)
Posted by: lurker (the other one. buy radios too) at May 10, 2019 06:09 PM (eAshZ)
Why can't you be on Facebook, and have people from LinkedIn, MySpace or Twitter appear and comment?
It would be like at the very start of email they told you that, if you were on yahoo, you can only get email from other yahoo users.
That NEVER would have taken hold.
So how did social media take hold?
Posted by: RKae at May 10, 2019 06:09 PM (vP0jg)
Posted by: rickb223 at May 10, 2019 06:06 PM (jTv1/)
So Gene Simmons FTW.
I think he's a Moron.
Posted by: golfman at May 10, 2019 06:10 PM (OE84+)
My father had a copy in the 1970s ... in translation ... I read it in high school.
I think I've seen both titles. It may be that "twelve" is Robert Graves translation.
Posted by: Off the reservation at May 10, 2019 06:10 PM (vWMNq)
Nosebook
Lipsbook
Cheekbook
Left Eyebook
Browbook
Posted by: Muldoon
------------
Oooo. There's an idea. Though I would suggest 'Nostrilbook'.
Maybe 'Boogerbook' too.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 10, 2019 06:10 PM (Ou6XS)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 10, 2019 06:08 PM (d7Ww2)
Mmmm...smooches. Happy Friday back! You all geared up for the MoMe?
Posted by: Insomniac at May 10, 2019 06:10 PM (NWiLs)
2m
Replying to @JaxBemused
Because a draft is always given to the people investigated by the IG's office so they can make a rebuttal before the final report is made public.
This was exactly how they did it with Andrew McCabe, for instance.
*****
This is why Jimmy Drama had a softball tournament on CNN last night & why Jimmy's Buddy interviewed Jim Baker
Posted by: Deep State is in DEEP SHIT at May 10, 2019 06:10 PM (BqBId)
Discuss.
Posted by: xnycpeasant at May 10, 2019 06:10 PM (SqopC)
Posted by: wth at May 10, 2019 06:11 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: garrett at May 10, 2019 06:11 PM (Lz8qP)
Posted by: lurker (the other one. buy radios too) at May 10, 2019 06:09 PM (eAshZ)
True.
Yet, many scan past and check the box.
Posted by: golfman at May 10, 2019 06:11 PM (OE84+)
Hoc ridiculam. Qui tui sunt, non curant.
That's funny. I don't care who you are.
LOL ... I wasn't close to getting the last part.
Posted by: Off the reservation at May 10, 2019 06:11 PM (vWMNq)
and a SEPTA conductor shot in another part of Philly at train station
must be the weather
Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at May 10, 2019 05:59 PM (dm05u)
I believe in Chicago, they call this "Friday".
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 10, 2019 06:11 PM (sy5kK)
Publisher or platform. Choose/enforce.
Guvamint enforcement of free speech is an unfunny if audacious self-contradiction.
"Monopoly" issues might get looked at, but that's separate.
Privacy/user data also a separate issue. Maybe opt-out should be legal default for all online platforms, so opt-in is only way they get private info.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 10, 2019 06:12 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Muldoon at May 10, 2019 06:12 PM (mvenn)
Ted Kaczynski: prophet or sage?
Discuss.
Posted by: xnycpeasant at May 10, 2019 06:10 PM (SqopC)"
Still a bit too far out. Compare and contrast to the dude who shanked the (later) mayor of Cologne.
Posted by: lurker (the other one. buy radios too) at May 10, 2019 06:12 PM (eAshZ)
Posted by: wth at May 10, 2019 06:12 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: wth at May 10, 2019 06:12 PM (v0R5T)
The Complete Collection of Freda Kahlo?
Posted by: Insomniac at May 10, 2019 06:13 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Eromero at May 10, 2019 06:13 PM (qBNEP)
Posted by: RKae at May 10, 2019 06:14 PM (vP0jg)
Posted by: Insomniac
I dunno. Never done anything like this before. I'm a relatively new Hordling, and here I am co hosting a MoMe in a virgin area. And a hostile area to boot!
Mark and I will be there in the morning. Hopefully we get a flock of Morons to show up and we will have a great time!
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 10, 2019 06:14 PM (d7Ww2)
Posted by: RKae at May 10, 2019 06:14 PM (vP0jg)
DoucheBook
Posted by: Insomniac at May 10, 2019 06:14 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: golfman at May 10, 2019 06:11 PM (OE84+)"
Oh they're well beyond legalese territory; I should be more explicit, the unauthorized methods they're using to collect data are often unlawful, TOS or not.
Posted by: lurker (the other one. buy radios too) at May 10, 2019 06:14 PM (eAshZ)
Posted by: Silence is golden at May 10, 2019 06:14 PM (cCxiu)
Posted by: RKae
Sounds complicated.
Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2019 06:15 PM (NLLmE)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 10, 2019 06:14 PM (d7Ww2)
Y'all got this.
Posted by: Insomniac at May 10, 2019 06:15 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 10, 2019 06:15 PM (d7Ww2)
For all those people who just want to post "Why me, God?" so all their friends will suddenly leap in with "OMG! What's wrong?"
Posted by: RKae at May 10, 2019 06:15 PM (vP0jg)
Posted by: wth at May 10, 2019 06:16 PM (v0R5T)
Part of our developing "social credit score", and not too many steps from remotely making sure we don't over-cool/heat, for the planet, and all...
Posted by: barbarausa at May 10, 2019 06:16 PM (W7IZQ)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - black slaves invented cooking at May 10, 2019 05:59 PM (07se2)
Ummmmmm....Yes.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 10, 2019 06:16 PM (Z+IKu)
Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at May 10, 2019 06:16 PM (dm05u)
Posted by: wth at May 10, 2019 06:16 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2019 06:17 PM (NLLmE)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 10, 2019 06:17 PM (QDnY+)
FB really isn't an antitrust problem. It's a contracts, terms of
service, and fraud problem. Much like Google, they are collecting things
they have no business collecting using methods that violate their TOS,
and then doing other things with them that both further violate those
TOS and are ethically and morally repugnant.
The "user" has no input into the TOS contract and has no way to modify it. That's pretty one-sided.
The user ought to have a right to refuse whichever part of the contract he or she chooses and still use the service.
Where's the equality?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy says #PurgeProgressivismBAMN at May 10, 2019 06:17 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: Off the reservation at May 10, 2019 06:17 PM (vWMNq)
Fake histories, fake cookies, fake user data, fake account numbers, etc.
Start fucking over their datamining.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 10, 2019 06:17 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Insomniac at May 10, 2019 06:17 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Silence is golden
---
He's waiting for the manila envelope containing his official orders.
Hopefully, it reads, "Fall on your sword. Sincerely, Emperor Ming."
Posted by: RKae at May 10, 2019 06:17 PM (vP0jg)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 10, 2019 06:18 PM (d7Ww2)
not as exciting as it sounds
Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at May 10, 2019 06:18 PM (dm05u)
Posted by: kallisto at May 10, 2019 06:18 PM (Fy1TT)
Enough of this shit.
Posted by: garrett at May 10, 2019 06:11 PM (Lz8qP)
Quiet, kid. Some of us are trying to live vicariously through others who are more fortunate.
/s
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at May 10, 2019 06:19 PM (alz86)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 10, 2019 06:19 PM (d7Ww2)
-------
He's waiting for ValJar to hand him the manila envelope containing his official orders.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 10, 2019 06:20 PM (YvUf/)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 10, 2019 06:18 PM (d7Ww2)
........
This is the one I use. Friend me!
Posted by: Dr. Pimple Popper at May 10, 2019 06:20 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Off the reservation at May 10, 2019 06:20 PM (vWMNq)
Mark and I will be there in the morning. Hopefully we get a flock of Morons to show up and we will have a great time!
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 10, 2019 06:14 PM (d7Ww2)
"flock of Morons"
Why do I picture a bunch of seagulls that are trashed out and not able to fly?
Late night tonight for me tonight, but I am going to try to get my butt out of bed and be there before noon.
See ya'all there!
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 10, 2019 06:20 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2019 06:21 PM (YqDXo)
Nothing of course
Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2019 06:22 PM (BbGew)
Greek Games
Greek Terms of Abuse
Originals in greek rather than latin though.
Posted by: Off the reservation at May 10, 2019 06:22 PM (vWMNq)
You know what I'd like to see get developed? An app, add-on, or even
viruses that would upload fake data to all these spying apps and
websites.
Fake histories, fake cookies, fake user data, fake account numbers, etc.
Start fucking over their datamining.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 10, 2019 06:17 PM
^^THIS^^
This is a social media platform I would willingly support and give me a perma-schaudenboner.
Posted by: Skunky Choom at May 10, 2019 06:24 PM (e6qbn)
Where's the equality?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy says #PurgeProgressivismBAMN at May 10, 2019 06:17 PM (HaL55)"
They're compiling a file on you if you're a user or not. All they have to do is properly infer that you exist - then there is a long list of devices that can phone home about you.
Let's say you have never used FB in your entire life and do nothing but carry a smartphone that you don't even turn on, let alone install apps on.
Let's say your partner also has never used FB, but engages in regular smartphone usage. They installed one of hundreds of apps on their phone made by a company that has data sharing agreements with FB; not even some fly by night outfit, we're talking major stuff like MSM outlets and whatnot. That app nabs their address book, and the partner's data gets sent to FB.
Boom. There is a file on them now, if there was not before. Now you get established as their cohabitant based on your address book entry and correlating the geolocation of your phone - which is done even with the phone powered off. Now you get a file on you as well.
Now FB knows who you are, where you live, and where you go, and they're getting that data from multiple sources.
Posted by: lurker (the other one. buy radios too) at May 10, 2019 06:27 PM (eAshZ)
-
Yep. Iirc during the election one of Obama's buddies techniques was to make some user agreement where you agreed for any and all of your friends, too.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - black slaves invented cooking at May 10, 2019 07:15 PM (07se2)
Don't like it, Jesus and Conservative Principles sez to build your own platform.
******************************
Yeah, that's it: it's a private company and a monopoly, with a majority ownership and control by ONE guy.
NO harm in that --ask John J. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the other Robber Barons.
Oh wait---the government broke them up because they had a distorting effect on the economy, and had built up all sorts of barriers to entry by competitors.
Just as Zuck is asking to be regulated ---so as to keep competitors out.
So, by gum, your "build your own platform" is straight out of the 19th century!!
Huzzah!!
Posted by: Noam Sayen at May 10, 2019 07:17 PM (WJcbb)
IOW how many Nadlers and the like have sidled up to him and said, "Nice little monopoly you got here; I'd hate to see anything happen to it".
(and you can substitute a lot of GOP types for Nadler, and still be right)
Posted by: Noam Sayen at May 10, 2019 07:21 PM (WJcbb)
Posted by: Alan McIntire at May 10, 2019 08:54 PM (Qsbec)
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