Alex_V

Having the fox guarding the hen house is how things have always worked in our beloved capitalist system.

I remember, back in 2014, when Dell first announced the precursor to this display, the original 5k 27" monitor made by LG or whoever. The usual plastic-fantastic thing. At the time you could order it for $2000 bucks for delivery a month later, I think it was. One week later Apple launched the 27" Retina iMac, with basically the same screen, glass front not plastic, plus computer motherboard, 8GB ram, 1TB HDD, in a stunning aluminium enclosure, complete with wireless keyboard and mouse for $1999, available to purchase right away. As a hobby-photographer I couldn’t get mine fast enough. I still use it every day.

“A fool and his money…”

rob53 said:

In other words worthless security and business as usual. 

Yes, I presume that, in time, Google’s privacy initiative will be mostly about preventing other companies from gate-crashing their party. There is no chance that Google will kill their golden goose. Constructing detailed, intimate profiles of citizens/consumers (like nothing that has existed before), tracking them on the web and beyond, and serving them as targets to advertisers for all manner of manipulation, will be “the greatest show on earth”—ripe for all kinds of organisations to exploit. Whatever Google earns now is a drop in the bucket compared to its future potential.

notafan289 said:

roadracerkev said:

Here in New Zealand, 4 weeks holiday pay, 10 days sick leave, 26 weeks paid parental leave and and additional 26 weeks unpaid, bereavement leave etc.
You would have anarchy if any government tried to remove them.

Simpletons don’t realize there is always a trade off when benefits are too generous because the costs are invisible. If fewer jobs are created in New Zealand because the benefits are too generous, or it’s too difficult to fire someone, then the unskilled worker loses out. Your system is great for the privileged; not great for people trying to gain experience. 

Spare us the free-market fundamentalism propagated by your ‘neo-libertarian’ overlords. (Nothing to do with true libertarianism.) All you need to say is, “I’m drunk on US Republican Party cool-aid.”—we’ll understand. Whatever pathetic rights and inadequate wages that workers around the world enjoy today is down to centuries of countless people fighting against overwhelming odds (capital and state power), then being ostracised, insulted, beaten, shot, brutalised, murdered. Deny this, and you deny history. Power concedes nothing without a fight. And we see in the US since Reagan, that no sooner have you won a concession than they steal it back.