Month: May 2018

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From Around The Internet – May 2018

America’s elite colleges struggle to integrate low-income students
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Mario Batali’s restaurants in Las Vegas will close
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Mortgage rates have been rising at a pace not seen in almost 50 years
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Spotify Eases ‘Hateful Conduct’ Playlist Policy After Outcry
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Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app
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May 24 or before
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Acer’s Predator Helios 500 gaming laptop is a Core i9 powerhouseThere are also Nitro and Predator Orion desktops.

Both the Orion 5000 and Nitro 50 will reach North America in July with starting prices of $1,499 and $799. If you’re looking for the $999 Orion 3000, you’ll have to wait until October.

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Sony says it’s the beginning of the end for PS4

The whole statement is largely designed to reassure investors that all is well, and it is, save for PSVR and Vue, both of which are performing below expectations. Again, no specifics on how PlayStation plans to tackle that beyond “increasing user engagement”, but Kodera seems unfazed, noting that the company will aim for more “realistic” growth in the coming period.

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Is bitcoin being manipulated by traders? The US government has opened a criminal probe

Note that this has been ongoing. If I am not mistaken bloomberg has been reporting on this back to at least January.

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Brothel ban question divides residents in Nevada county

Opinion:

Note that this article states the claim that legal prostitution somehow increases illegal prostitution.  And there is data that illegal prostitution has been putting legal, regulated, brothels out of business.  Nineteen brothels operate in Nevada, down from 36 in the peak years of the mid-1980s.  There are some counties where brothels are legal but where none exists because illegal prostitution makes the tightly regulated business in a questionable economy difficult. Nevada was hit hard by the 2008 crash.

But the suggestion, the correlation, that somehow the legal brothels are what has increased illegal prostitution is not valid.   Also, the arguments from religious groups that all prostitution is about human trafficking is stupid. Conflating the two separate issues as though they are the same issue is stupid.  Thinking you are helping prostitutes by listening to people who hate prostitutes is upside down and crazy.  Don’t pretend you are trying to help someone when the obvious agenda is to hurt someone.

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Government’s Duty To Its People

LOL regarding the thumb. Most of my thumbs are awful on my videos. If only I could shape shift into a cross between Brad Pitt and Albert Einstein instead of goofy looking Chuck. Yeah, it is what it is.

In this video I start with Hillary suggesting that she lost the election because she is a capitalist. I think she said that in part because of her tough fight with Bernie Sanders. Then I show Chris Matthews talking to two Democrats who I believe supported Bernie Sanders. He attempts to press them into talking about the difference between a Democrat and a Socialist. Then I show Barack Obama talking about the label of Socialism not really making much sense because there is no modern government that does not have some elements of Socialism. I also show him suggesting that there is a big difference between himself and real Socialist. I then show a discussion between Phil Donahue and Milton Friedman talking about Capitalism and Socialism.

I then make my point that the government has a duty to its people and should not be neglectful of its people just as a parent (yeah, I used mother rather than parent because it is more identifiable with most people but yeah the point applies to both parents) should not neglectful of their children. I suggest Hillary Clinton lost the election because she ran her campaign to excuse her policies that would be that of a neglectful mother, parent. She defended policies that would cost Americans their jobs as though she were proud of that.

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Amazon banning shoppers

The headline on various news sites is:
Amazon banning shoppers who return items too often

But Amazon has been banning shoppers for other reasons as well such as selling fake reviews.  If a user publishes eBooks on amazon and they have been doing things to manipulate the rank of those eBooks then that is also causing customers to be banned.  Amazon has rules and they expect their users to follow those rules.   I don’t have a problem with that.  I don’t take issue with that in the way that I take issue with the behavior of youtube and twitter treating users like crap for political reasons.   Even though Jeff Bezos is pushing a political agenda at the Washington Post I don’t think that has translated into any bad behavior at Amazon in the way it has at youtube and twitter.

As some people may know I operated inwoods.com that sold things both in physical stores as well as online. I didn’t mind the returns when they were warranted.   But with inwoods, because I also had to do free shipping to compete, just one return could not only cancel the profit from that sale but the next sale.  The margins were that thin.  So I don’t blame amazon for telling customers who are costing them money, “bye.”

Because I haven’t been selling that many eBooks lately, returns haven’t been a problem for me on amazon.  But there was a period there that there was no doubt that Amazon had customers who were abusing if not out right cheating the system.  There were other writers in certain forums who were being hit by far worse than me and wishing amazon would do something about customers abusing the return system.  Apparently, now they have.

Still, some customers claim that they have not broken any rules.  They really don’t understand what they did.  If that is true, which I don’t know, hopefully Amazon will straighten those issues out.

 

by Chuck Peters

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How Twitter Changes Will Change The Way I Use Twitter

Edited:
Yeah, I am back tweeting. LOL.

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Twitter has announced yet new ways on how it will allow its darling leftist hate groups to treat its other users badly.

Twitter will now use thousands of behavioral signals when filtering search, replies, and algorithmic recommendations. If it believes you are trying to game its system, or simply acting like a jerk, it will push your tweets lower down. …. buzzfeed

One of the signals will be if a user tweets to a lot of users that user has not followed.  I started to say that might be a good thing.  Then I had second thoughts.  The leftist hate groups will simply follow you before they attack you and then they will block you right after you respond to that account that you have not followed.  Even before the change to use these so called signals, blocking you with bots is how a lot of leftist hate groups have worked to hurt your account.  Being blocked by leftist bots is a signal that twitter will use to target you even more than before to push you down.

Indeed, bias twitter, thinks they have figured out how to hurt libertarians and conservatives on their platform even more.

But the thing is that people like me don’t care.  I’ve been on twitter since 2009 but for the life of me, I don’t know why except for a few users that I like and to link to stuff such as this opinion piece.   Yes, twitter is addictive to want to scream about some hash or something that you have read or seen on TV but that addiction really is not healthy.  It is not like writing a full article/editorial where you articulate in a more meaningful way on why you agree or disagree with something.  It basically makes your thinking process lazy which of course is what leftists love.  They really don’t want their advocates to fully think things out.  Leftist movements thrive on lazy, half-baked, reactionary thoughts which makes twitter perfect for them.

[Edit: I am just leaving below for reference. I am not sticking to it. #shrugs]

On twitter in the future I will probably read some users’ profiles that I like there as long as those people are tweeting.   Visiting profiles is my preferred way of reading tweets.   I may tweet links to something I have written or a video that I have done.  But will I continue to use twitter in the way that I have done in the past?  No. I will not scream thoughts on some hash or something from news or TV.  I will not debate people.  I will not engage with people; even those that I like.   Those days are over.  Twitter has turned itself into a hurtful, bully, minefield that I do not wish to navigate.  They can play all the games they want to hurt their users.  I do not care.  I will not play.

Twitter could go out of business tomorrow.  I would not care.  They have no loyalty to me.  I have no loyalty to them.   That is the way they want it.