randsMy reward for actively donating in the last election cycle is an ENDLESS and UNSTOPPABLE flood of political spam. Pro tip: this is an incredible strategy to get me to never donate again.
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@leadegroot @rands There are way too many charities that have fat administrative budgets and a minority of the money actually goes to the cause.
Worst examples are where the person who runs the charity also has an ownership interest in the FOR PROFIT call center that begs for donations. Well guess where most of the donor money goes? Right back into the call center where a lot of it ends up in that person's pocket!
@briankrebs I have one of these things (without any pirate apps on it.) Loaded ConnectBot, plugged in a keyboard, typed su, got a root prompt. Zero security on those boxes.
@MrWillCom How about menus where you have to move the mouse in a specific pattern to get to a submenu? Move too far to either side and the menu disappears or a different one pops up. Some applications feel like a sadistic video game.
@rands Yes, I gave a little to a political party years ago and they spent 10X that soliciting me for more, often with "we're doomed if you don't give us money" letters.
But I didn't give them money and the letters kept coming, so I guess they were lying about being doomed. Lesson learned.
@chrisnelsonsdog Who else wants to fly through that wall of clouds?
@earthshine parted and look at the partition table. Find the biggest partition and:
mount -o ro /dev/whatever /mnt
and see what's in it.
mount -o ro /dev/whatever /mnt
and see what's in it.
@oldredsubby They think they are smarter than everyone else, so democracy is the rule of stupid people.
Most of these rich people did not create the thing that made them rich. They found an existing commons and fenced it off. Now they want to do that to the rest of society.
The key question is can a low-tech resistance crash their empire, if it comes to that?
@AAKL @TheConversationUS None of this is surprising. Why doesn't anyone look at climate change politics from the perspective of game theory?
Climate change is the Iterated Prisoners' Dilemma, except that the players can see most of the other players' decisions.
When you have one or two big defections, everyone else is going to defect too. No surprise there.
@AAKL @theintercept > fork out an email address
Nah, you just have to be quick. Reload, CTRL-A, CTRL-C, paste into word processor.
TL;DR the goal is to get a favorable outcome on the WB merger.
Why does it surprise anyone that a news org that would spin things for one administration would spin things for the next? Corruption is not ideological, it's just hungry.