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Well, maybe simple, but their rationale is nowhere near powerful in a lot of people's minds.

It's trivial simple to do so.

I would say the golden age never even started. I've stuck with torrenting over streaming with things like spotify because it's the only way I can guarantee that I will hear things that I like. Sure it takes a bit more planning, but for higher quality and customization I think it's more than worth it.

...if you're getting spam, then you signed up for it. I know this because I use gmail and don't get spam, or at least if I do it's always automatically filtered so I never ever see it.

Maybe it's more a problem with how you use email if that's an issue you have.

Humans do way better than 6%. I don't know who you're talking too, but I don't know anybody who I need to repeat anywhere near 6% of what I say to.

Sorry, but I have to call bullshit on that. What legitimate ecological concerns? As far as I can tell there has never been any evidence that Monsanto's GMOs cause any legitimate ecological problems. Plus Germany is known to be extremely anti-science, like when the green party wanted to shut down all the power plants despite ostensibly being the party you'd most expect to want to help the environment, not hurt it.

Most of you points are simply blatantly false tho.

>- Snowden indiscriminately hovered up so many documents, it was impossible to vet all of them.

That's why he gave them to a small group of well respected journalists, so they could use their professional discretion to vet them.

>- Snowden indiscriminately hovered up so many documents, it was impossible to vet all of them.

I highly doubt that, but even if it that were true those documents aren't the ones being leaked by the journalists, only the ones showing the NSA doing illegal things are.

>- Snowden did not attempt to go through internal channels.

Yes he did.

>- Snowden leaked / whistleblowed these documents in an operation using his secret agent skills.

Lol wut. He was just a contractor, not a secret agent. He just copied files, fled to China and shared them with a small group of people, none of which required "secret agent skills"

>- Snowden fled to Russia, a currently not-so-cold competitor of the US.

So? You can't blame Snowden for that, blame the Justice department. If Snowden could have been even remotely safe anywhere but Russia, he wouldn't be there now. You can't chase after somebody then blame them for hiding somewhere safe.

>- Snowden gave the document cache to incompetent journalists. Greenwald send his boyfriend to smuggle documents through British customs.

No he didn't, he gave them to perfectly competent journalists. Greenwald is very competent and well respected as a journalists. Doesn't matter how he got the documents in Britain the important thing is that he did without them getting leaked earlier than he wanted.

>If Snowden had given only the slides on the NSA spying on American citizens, and cooperating with US companies, that would have been whistleblowing.

He tried that and nobody took him seriously.

>As it stands, to me, it feels like a Russian operation to inflict PR/diplomacy damage on the US.

Considering he only ever entered Russia after he had distributed the documents and none of them ever entered Russia this opinion is based on nothing other than emotion and isn't substantiated by any facts.

Is there any way to get access to that info without paying? It's okay if it's illegal, I don't mind.

Yeah, but time cube isn't hard to understand. It's perfectly clear. It is the answer to everything. It is the grand unified theory. It is a box containing a consistent system of axioms capable of proving all truths about the arithmetic of the natural numbers. It is love. It is life. It is Time Cube.

I hadn't considered paying people to fly out, good idea PR wise.

I was thinking more just refusing to sell to any dealership in a state that doesn't allow Tesla to make their own. That way no new sales of Teslas would happen in that state and Tesla could show stats from their stores in neighboring states near the border showing how many people from the Tesla prohibition state are crossing over to buy. Considering this is one of those black and white cases where one side of the legislators(those who oppose direct to consumer sales) are against it for purely corruption reasons, it should take long or be hard to get the public to turn on the idea and demand the law act in the interest of the people as opposed to artificially jacking up prices for kickbacks.

Then again they could just set the price for their cars at one value that they will sell it for in all of their direct to consumer dealers. They should then make ads using this value so that everybody knows damn well that the latest Tesla costs $X. Then they could simply work with the middlemen dealerships but jack up the price they sell to the dealership for so that the dealerships have to charge a very noticeable amount more than $X. Then everybody sees the ads, which btw should mainly be played in states that are fighting Tesla and realize the dealerships are screwing them. Imagine seeing ads that clearly say a big mac is $2 yet when you go it actually cost about $3.50 in your state because your gov't gets kick backs from big beef to have a law that keeps it that high. Again the public will turn since they want the cheap Teslas that come from the official source rather than the expensive ones from some worthless middleman.

Which strategy is better I don't know for sure, but the former is what I hope they do, it seems more respectable and more effective since in the second way the corrupt states still get some revenue from the overpriced sales.

As somebody with a scumbag relative who works at a dealership I can tell you that spreadsheet was fake. Very common tactic among the ethically deprived.

But the difference is that all dealerships have artificially inflated prices, so if you live in a state with no direct to consumer sales you have no choice but to overpay which means there's no incentive to test drive at one dealership and buy at another, you're getting fucked either way. If direct sale is allowed the cars will be cheaper when bought from the manufacturer which is what creates the incentive to test drive at one place and buy at another.

abp didn't block this one. ublock may have tho, but in my experience even that lets through many of these by default

Okay, now that's just fucking stupid. What idiot thought that up?

>Assuming that it is illegal to prevent someone from voting, what problem is this compulsory voting meant to solve?

Apathy and laziness. Plus in the us there have been quite a few states which try to pass laws for the sole purpose of making it more difficult for certain groups, usually minorities, to vote. Making voting voting compulsory would do a lot to solve that.

>It feels like totalitarianism to me.

I'm sorry, but that's just stupid. If anything it's forced democracy and not even remotely close to totalitarianism. There are tons of things citizens are forced to do, file taxes, sign up for selective service, serve on a jury which costs jurors money if they are chosen, etc. Forcing people to go to a voting place once every 4 years is pretty light comparatively.

>What if I feel that a certain election is a sham, and prefer not to participate?

What I've heard from Australians is that a common thing there is spoiling your ballet if you don't want to vote.

>Too many people not wanting to vote should be taken as a signal that something is seriously wrong.

That I heartily agree with. I personally don't vote because I live in Illinois so my vote means nothing. That's a serious problem caused by a horribly inefficient and outdated system. Right now a vast majority of Americans have no power in elections, it always comes down to a very small number of swing states, usually less than 15. Live in 70% of the states? Well tough shit, what you want doesn't matter at all. That imo is the fundamental problem. I think if we switch from possibly the worst voting method to just a straight democratic vote, ignoring all the superior voting methods just sticking with FPTP, we would see much greater turnout.

I personally strongly support the Australian method. Make voting mandatory. I'm sure some morons may think that "fascist" or something, but it's objectively the most democratic way to do it.

Oh don't worry I understand that. Only 2 months late and the worst they did was not help you? That's impressive for feds.

That was a blatant lie tho.

Damn. I'm actually really surprised just how helpful the feds were in your story.

What the fuck are you talking about? Those aren't even remotely the same thing at all.

Oh god heavens no. Turning off updates was the first thing I did when I got my phone.

Yep. I'm still using my galaxy s2. Had to replace the back twice and the battery once. Bought it in 2013. Total I've paid for my phone is about $50 over the last 3 years. It's really crazy how many people have been tricked into thinking they absolutely need to pay hundreds every year or 2 and that they need to pay dozens of dollars per month for service. Absolute racket.

Because # is only straight lines, but for b you gotta do the whole bezier curve to make it look right.

5) God does exist but the reason there is literally no evidence is that he wants to test us and will punish those who believe in something with no evidence and with send to heaven all those who don't believe in him.

Seriously. Pascal's wager is the dumbest wager I've ever heard.

But that supports the "it's not what you know, it's who you know." idea. Most people I think see that saying as meaning that if you take somebody, like this girl for instance, and swap her out for somebody else who didn't accomplish anything like this, that the new person could more easily be similarly successfully to this girl.

I would definitely hire a 20 something with little qualification over a seasoned engineer who could get a job easily paying several times as much in a heartbeat. Being overqualified is definitely a thing.

Did you mean lower? Because 33% is super incredibly low.

So in 3d that becomes 3(2)/2 = 3. Quaternions have 4 parts. That's what has always made it hard for me to understand.

Oh please, get off your high horse and pull your head out of your ass. He's making a perfectly valid point. Anybody who genuinely believes some people cannot by innately better at some subjects to the point that they can study several grades ahead of their peers without putting in more effort is an idiot. Not everybody can learn what everybody else can by simply putting in more hours, innate ability is most definitely a thing.

>with a brand new refurbished

Uh...