I will not buy a phone without a 3.5" jack period. I'm not buying ridiculously expensive wireless headphones that are objectively worse (worse quality than wired alternatives, added hassle of charging them plus much more expensive).
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Government doesn't know how to run anything well, because the tenets of capitalism don't apply to government. The best managers of business are in the private sector where the real money is and where they have the most control.
The director of the FBI for example has a salary that tops out at about $200K plus benefits. No business manager who is truly great would want that job, so they don't. They incestuously promote from within most of the time and don't seek outsiders to fill top jobs. So nobody treats any government service as a business, and they get complacent and lose sight of the real goals, plus they don't tend to be able to budget. When was the last time you heard of a government department tightening it's belt on it's own? Private sector companies do it often to stay efficient.
Proper decision making starts with admitting that you can't possible know every angle to a particular issue. You can't be a great economist, a great businessman and a great government worker all-in-one. This is why business people surround themselves with people who DO know what they're doing (such as accountants, lawyers, engineers, marketers, etc).
How many hours have you spent researching basic income? Because extremely back-of-the-napkin math would tell you that a basic income of $20,000 is greater than the entire current government budget. Supporting a concept that would instantly consume over 100% of the current government budget is absolute madness.
Taxing rich people won't pay for this, even if you tax them at 90%. You have to squeeze the middle class and the lower class as well. Literally every level of the population suffers because working is no longer incentivised.
Graphics cards really need a huge performance jump to make VR work, and given both Nvidia and AMD seem to be happy releasing a new set each year with only modest 20-30% performance gains then what does this mean for VR?
How can we take the powers above seriously when they can't even catch a fairly large network of terrorists scheming over the clearnet?
This is a lesson in the ineffectiveness and incompetence of the spying apparatus of the free world.
We've given up so much already for no benefit, and whenever they fail it's never because they were bad at their job, they just didn't have enough power or money to do their job.
Imgur has acknowledged the exploit: https://twitter.com/imgur/status/646109742004224000
Looks like the exploit was a combination of a misconfiguration in the way direct images are displayed on Imgur as well as some kind of Adobe Flash zero-day.
There are also several grammatical errors.
On the "Offers for Hosts" page there is:
"With every server you can additinally monitor services like MySQL, DNS, FTP, SMTP, etc. completely free"
There are also a number of other curious grammar errors on that page.
Update: Also looks like the parent company provides proxies to ScrapeBox spammers via a separate website. Very dodgy. Wouldn't trust them monitoring any boxes of mine.