Artificial Intelligence is far from being able to make music, farther than most people presume anyway. However, this does not make Big Data with Machine Learning useless for musicians. This article explores some of the doors that big data technologies are opening for people working in the music industry.
Soppi usually exists, only that the melodies were either written by musicians or taken from a database of previously written songs. Soppi may just select ready-made samples from a sample database, samples already arranged by musicians so that they work well with each other. Somebody sings on top of the song and guess what, Soppi did not write the vocals, nor the lyrics.
In the end the song our fictional robot Soppi wrote goes to mixing and then mastering, and still doesn't sound good.
No, machine learning does not write music, nor does it write lyrics, because machine learning does not actually think or feel, it just processes more data faster than normal algorithms, but it is far away from undertaking art forms that fully resonate within the human psyche, or soul, or whatever you prefer to call it.
So is it of any use then?
There are some uses I can picture for a machine-enhanced musician. I will focus on music production first and address other parts of the music industry later.
Even if ML does not write music itself, the predicting capabilities of machine learning can be of great use to a musician. Learning patterns is what ML does best, so it can suggest a chain of effects based on your previous use of that software. If you say no, it can suggest another. In time, it could suggest matching drums or hats, making your life as a musician that works with millions of samples and effects way easier.
A lazy musician would only rely on predictions in time, but some already do that now with presets and samples anyway, while a talented musician could improve both the quality of his work and the output by being enhanced by machine learning.
After the song or album is finished, big data with machine learning can run sentiment analysis on social media and receive precious feedback from people. It could suggest choosing a single from the album or it can just report the feedback back to the musician. Receiving feedback is a valuable resource for a musician because making music is a repetitive process where you keep listening to the same melody or chunk of a track over and over again and you may become oblivious to some flaws. These very flaws may be the savor of a certain song, but it can also kill many songs.
Smaller promoters just book artists they feel people want to see, others book artists because they like them, while bigger promoters usually just host events with expensive names of the industry. By running big data analysis and predictions you may be able to get more people with less expensive artists, get better deals, reduce costs, and improve the experience and the safety of your events.
Whether a small or a bigger promoter, getting people to your club or venues is crucial. You usually post official photos and materials, some bio of the artist, and some of his songs. But how are you making sure that what you choose to post is what your audience wants to see or what will attract a bigger audience? Are you even sure that the artist you have booked that has over 500,000 likes on Facebook is actually wanted or even known in your area?
Finding out first if the artist you are about to book may turn into a flop before you lose all your money is the smart approach, and gets you ahead of your competition. Each time you give free passes you could collect data, make a card, so you can collect data even when people buy drinks. That card makes people feel part of a community and you also give them discounts for using your card.
Process that data to find out where the bottlenecks are in your bar, what more drinks to order, how people feel about a certain performer, and even overall feedback on your brand of events. Use sentiment analysis to learn from your social media pages and connect it to the info from your card through Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Major labels are already employing big data analysis on their business helping them increase their rooster of artists, choose singles from albums and which video to publish, improve promotion and their social media engagement.
Smaller labels think they are too small to have any use for big data or machine learning, but these are valuable growing tools. With big data you pay for what you use and having less data to process will also cost you less, so you can afford to use the new technologies and grow organically.
Using big data is already a must for music distributors because they handle millions of songs each month. Keeping track of the labels they distribute and choosing which to drop is quite difficult a task, but having so many sales with figures and charts on each track must be harnessed.
We have all witnessed the power of big data and machine learning in music with Spotify, which gained a huge user base by creatively using these technologies to suggest similar artists and songs based on people's previous listens.
The same can happen for your brand of events, your record label, and soon for the music you are producing as a musician. Big data seems another thing to worry about at first, but after using it to base your business decisions or to enhance and speed up the process of making music, it becomes a natural part of how you conduct your profession.
However, we have to be careful to still follow our gut feelings because solely relying on this enhanced way of doing things will cut creativity and innovation.


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Q: GIT pull, moved files locally I'm very new to git. And I was doing a git pull from a remote server. First, let me explain my situation.
I have two folders that I've set app and app.my. Both of this folders are within myApps folders.
I use app to clone my remote repository and is used for testing and production only. Whereas, the app.my I want to use pull for developing the current app. Because I feel that committing would be easier, according to what I understand, that is.

Kindly take note, I use private keys to access my repository, and have added it to my ~/.bash_profile . So, nothing is wrong there, I'm positive. I think.

In my terminal, I'm inside my app.my folder. When I use git pull userID@url,it successfully pulls my files. But instead of pulling all those files into my app.my folder, it pulls all the files to my myAppsfolder. I tried deleting those files LOCALLY, and redo-ing git pull. Naturally, it says everything is fine. When I enter git status it showed all my files are DELETED.
So, I tried git reset --hard All those files were restored, but into the myApps folder instead of the app.my folder.
Then I tried moving the files LOCALLY, and again entered git status to see what happens.
It says my files are deleted. But I understand that there is something wrong with the path that is set.
How do I make the files to be placed in my apps.my folder instead of the parent folder, myApps?

A: Well for me it looks like you have cloned the repository initialy into myApps some day. Just check out where your .git folder is located.

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Similar to vendor lock-in, the only one who can allow vendor lock in is the customer, granted a vendor can help influence the customer.
The same theme applies to public clouds and cloud storage providers in that there is responsibility of providers along with government and industry regulations to help protect consumers or users. However, there is also the shared responsibility of the user and consumer to make informed decisions.
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Harper Lee Prize Books 2014
Eighteen books were submitted for the 2014 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. The distinguished selection committee included Kevin Blackistone, Fannie Flagg, Dan Kornstein, Adam Liptak, and Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, among others.
Three finalists were chosen for the 2014 award: Once We Were Brothers by Ronald H. Balson, Sycamore Row by John Grisham, and The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout.
Grisham's Sycamore Row was awarded the 2014 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. In Sycamore Row, Grisham's protagonist attorney from A Time To Kill, Jake Brigance, returns to defend the will of wealthy many who committed suicide by hanging himself from an old sycamore tree, leaving the bulk of his fortune to his African-American housekeeper, against challenge by the man's greedy children.
Grisham was presented with the award during a special ceremony coinciding with the Library of Congress' National Book Festival held at the Madison Building in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 2104.
Sycamore Row
In this novel the author takes you back to where it all began in A Time to Kill. Now we return to that famous courthouse in Clanton as Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history. Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten, will. It is an act that drags his adult children, his black maid, and Jake into a conflict as riveting and dramatic as the murder trial that made Brigance one of Ford County's most notorious citizens, just three years earlier. The second will raises far more questions than it answers. Why would Hubbard leave nearly all of his fortune to his maid? Had chemotherapy and painkillers affected his ability to think clearly? And what does it all have to do with a piece of land once known as Sycamore Row? -- From book jacket
The Burgess boys: a novel
Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown of Shirley Falls for New York City as soon as they possibly could. Jim, a sleek, successful corporate lawyer, has belittled his bighearted brother their whole lives, and Bob, a Legal Aid attorney who idolizes Jim, has always taken it in stride. But their long-standing dynamic is upended when their sister, Susan—the Burgess sibling who stayed behind—urgently calls them home. Her lonely teenage son, Zach, has gotten himself into a world of trouble, and Susan desperately needs their help. And so the Burgess brothers return to the landscape of their childhood, where the long-buried tensions that have shaped and shadowed their relationship begin to surface in unexpected ways that will change them forever. With a rare combination of brilliant storytelling, exquisite prose, and remarkable insight into character, Elizabeth Strout has brought to life two deeply human protagonists whose struggles and triumphs will resonate with readers long after they turn the final page. Tender, tough-minded, loving, and deeply illuminating about the ties that bind us to family and home, The Burgess Boys is perhaps Elizabeth Strout's most astonishing work of literary art.
Ronald H . Balson
A different version of this book was previously published by Berwick Court Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois --T.p. verso;" The gripping tale about two boys, once as close as brothers, who find themselves on opposite sides of the Holocaust. Elliot Rosenzweig, a respected civic leader and wealthy philanthropist, is attending a fundraiser when he is suddenly accosted and accused of being a former Nazi SS officer named Otto Piatek, the butcher of Zamosc. Although the charges are denounced as preposterous, his accuser, Ben Solomon, is convinced he is right. Solomon persuades attorney Catherine Lockhart to take his case, revealing that the true Piatek was abandoned as a child and raised by Solomon's family only to betray them during the Nazi occupation. But has he accused the right man? Once We Were Brothers is the compelling tale of two boys and a family who struggle to survive in war-torn Poland and a young love that incredibly endures through the unspeakable cruelty of the Holocaust. Two lives, two worlds, and sixty years converge in an explosive race to redemption that makes for an enthralling tale of love, survival, and ultimately the triumph of the human spirit -- Provided by publisher"
Killer ambition: a novel
A mystery novel;"Special Trials prosecutor Rachel Knight teams up with Detective Bailey Keller to investigate the death of a Hollywood director that has far-reaching ramifications throughout Tinseltown"
E C. Diskin
Abby Donovan is a lawyer whose dream of a partnership at her prestigious Chicago law firm is about to occur when she steps onto a late-night train headed in the wrong direction
The last alibi
David Ellis
James Drinker is a bit of an oddball. A funny looking geeky loner, he walks into Jason Kolarich's office one day with a preemptive concern. Two women have recently been murdered, seemingly by the same killer, and Drinker thinks he will be the main suspect. One woman was his ex girlfriend and the other was a friend. He's the only link between the victims and he has no alibi for the night of either murder. Believing he's the target of a frame up, Drinker hires Kolarich for his defense. Something about James Drinker seems off from the start but Kolarich doesn't give it too much thought. Until another murder occurs. And then another. And as he begins to probe his client's life and story more closely it quickly becomes clear that nothing about James Drinker is what it seems and that the target of the frame up isn't Drinker but Kolarich. Unable to stop a serial killer and prove his own innocence without breaking his sworn attorney client privilege, Jason Kolarich must hunt for the truth about James Drinker, the series of brutal murders, and why he's been set up to take the fall. The answers will be beyond anything he could have imagined
Linda A. Fairstein
Discovering the murdered body of a young woman in Ramble urban park, New York Assistant DA Alex Cooper and Detective Mike Chapman uncover disturbing links between the savage crime and a string of cold-case disappearances. In this novel the author, a former prosecutor for the City of New York, explores the rich, and little-known, history of New York City's Central Park. Here she takes readers into the storied history of Central Park as Assistant DA Alex Cooper and Detective Mike Chapman race to track down a serial killer before yet another young woman is found dead. Is the body found in the Ramble the first victim of a deranged psychopath, or are other missing women in years past whose remains have never been found connected to this savage attack? Is this enormous urban park a sanctuary in the middle of the city, as it seems to the thousands of New Yorkers and tourists who fill it every day, or is it a hunting ground for a killer with a twisted mind?
The adversary
Reece Hirsch
Former DOJ cybercrimes prosecutor Chris Bruen walks into a dark apartment in Amsterdam to confront a hacker known as Black Vector. The hacker has stolen the source code for the world's most ubiquitous operating system, which powers everything from personal computers to the NSA's data centers. This should have been a routine assignment for Bruen, but instead of obtaining a confession, Bruen finds the hacker's dead body and uncovers a hidden flash drive that contains the code for a remarkably sophisticated computer virus known as Lurker. Upon his return home to San Francisco, Bruen finds himself the target of a shadowy group of hackers who plan on unleashing Lurker, which will bring a major US city to its knees in seven days. Bruen doesn't know why he's the target, but the answers seem to lie somewhere in his troubled past. Suddenly, Bruen is framed as the planner of the cyberattack, making him the top suspect in an international manhunt. Bruen must stay ahead of the FBI and CIA in a race across Europe while he tries to decode the virus, find the hackers, and clear his name. With the lives of tens of thousands of people hanging in the balance, and his own life about to be destroyed, Bruen must go beyond the brink to stop the hackers.
Allison Leotta
A Touchstone book. ;"Prosecutor Anna Curtis, assigned to bring a terrifying man known as Diablo, who led a vicious attack on a brothel, to justice, calls into question everything she believes about good and evil when her investigation leads her to one of America's most brutal street gangs and a devastating discovery"
The Ophelia cut: a novel
John T. Lescroart
Defense attorney Dismas Hardy returns to defend a close friend against murder charges in New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart's most suspenseful and intricately plotted novel to date -- Provided by publisher
The condor song
Darryl Nyznyk
nspired by the Sierra Club 1960's battle with the Walt Disney company over a proposed ski resort in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, former attorney and best selling author, Darryl Nyznyk, brings captivating realism to this riveting new thriller.Sean Donovan lost everything: his wife, kids, job, and license to practice law. Abandoned by his wife, betrayed by a friend, and fired by his firm, it has taken thirteen years for Sean to come back, now barely eking out a living on minor cases while his former firm thrives.When Buck Anderson, renowned environmentalist from Sean's hometown is murdered, Sean reunites with Buck's niece at the old man's funeral. She begs Sean to join the Sierra Club's case to stop a major ski development by a Disney-type company, the very case on which Buck was working when he was killed. Sean agrees, but learns too late that his former firm represents the opposition with motives more sinister than their client's ski development.THE CONDOR SONG is an environmental legal thriller set against California's rugged Sierra Nevada Mountains in which a man lost to the world he thought he knew tries to find redemption in the face of impossible odds.
Olsen's nation: a story of hope for change
Randy Quarles
A comical look at government involvement in the minutia of daily life
Accused: A Rosato & Associates Novel
New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Lisa Scottoline revolutionized crime fiction when she introduced her all-female law firm of Rosato & Associates, thrilling readers with her twisty, fast-paced plots and capturing their hearts with her cast of strong yet totally relatable female characters. Fans have been clamoring for more stories with the characters they've come to know and love, so Bennie Rosato, Mary DiNunzio, Judy Carrier, and Anne Murphy are back with all cylinders firing in Accused. They'll face their most challenging and dangerous case ever. It begins with an astonishing request from a thirteen-year-old prospective client. Allegra Gardner's sister Fiona was murdered six years ago. It seemed like an open-and-shut case: the accused, Lonnie Stall, was seen fleeing the scene his blood was on Fiona and her blood was on him most damningly, Lonnie Stall pleaded guilty. But Allegra believes Lonnie is innocent and has been wrongly imprisoned. Taking on the case seems foolhardy to Mary DiNunzio, because the Gardner family is one of the richest and most powerful in the country and Allegra's parents do not believe in reopening this case. But the Rosato & Associates firm can never resist an underdog. Was justice really served all those years ago? It will take a team of unstoppable female lawyers, plus one thirteen-year-old genius, to find out. Accused kicks off an annual fall series featuring the new adventures of Rosato & Associates, delivering all the emotion, action, and humor we've come to expect from one of the best writers in the business.From The New York Times bestselling author comes a much-anticipated new thriller featuring the all-female law firm, Rosato & Associates -- Provided by publisher;" New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Lisa Scottoline revolutionized crime fiction when she introduced her all-female law firm of Rosato & Associates, thrilling readers with her twisty, fast-paced plots and capturing their hearts with her cast of strong yet totally relatable female characters. Fans have been clamoring for more stories with the characters they've come to know and love, so Bennie Rosato, Mary DiNunzio, Judy Carrier, and Anne Murphy are back with all cylinders firing in Accused. Their most challenging and dangerous case ever begins with an astonishing request from a thirteen-year-old prospective client. Allegra Gardner's sister Fiona was murdered six years ago. It seemed like an open-and-shut case: the accused, Lonnie Stall, was seen fleeing the scene his blood was on Fiona and her blood was on him most damningly, Lonnie Stall pleaded guilty. But Allegra believes Lonnie is innocent and has been wrongly imprisoned. Taking the case seems foolhardy to Mary DiNunzio, because the Gardner family is one of the most powerful in the country and Allegra's parents do not believe in reopening it. But the Rosato & Associates firm can never resist an underdog. Was justice really served all those years ago? It will take a team of unstoppable female lawyers, plus one thirteen-year-old genius, to find out. Accused kicks off an annual fall series featuring the new adventures of Rosato & Associates, delivering all the emotion, action, and humor we've come to expect from one of the best writers in the business -- Provided by publisher"
Dead lawyers tell no tales
Randy D. Singer
Landon Reed is an ex-quarterback convicted of organizing a points-shaving scheme. During his time in prison, he found forgiveness and faith and earned his law degree. Now he longs for an opportunity to prove his loyalty and worth. Be careful what you ask for. Harry McNaughton is one of the founding partners of McNaughton & Clay--and the only lawyer willing to take a chance employing an ex-con-turned-lawyer. Though Landon initially questions Harry's ethics and methods, it's clear the crusty old lawyer has one of the most brilliant legal minds Landon has ever encountered. The two dive into preparing a defense for one of the highest-profile murder trials Virginia Beach has seen in decades when Harry is gunned down in what appears to be a random mugging. Then two more lawyers are killed when the firm's private jet crashes. Authorities suspect someone has a vendetta against McNaughton & Clay, leaving Landon and the remaining partner as the final targets. As Landon struggles to keep the firm together, he can't help but wonder, is the plot related to a shady case from McNaughton & Clay's past, or to the murder trial he's neck-deep in now? And will he survive long enough to find out? -- P. [2] of cover
Crime of privilege: a novel
Walter Walker
Pitted against a powerful family when he reopens the scandalous case of a young woman's unsolved murder, George Becket is forced to confront a haunting mistake from his own past while outmaneuvering wealth-driven corruption
The partner track: a novel
Helen Wan
A young attorney must choose between the prestige of partnership and the American Dream that she--and her immigrant parents--have come so close to achieving in this riveting debut. In the eyes of her corporate law firm, Ingrid Yung is a two-fer. As a Chinese-American woman about to be ushered into the elite rank of partner, she's the face of Parsons Valentine & Hunt LLP's recruiting brochures--their treasured Golden Girl. But behind the firm's welcoming facade lies the scotch-sipping, cigar-smoking old-boy network that shuts out lawyers like Ingrid. To compensate, Ingrid gamely plays in the softball league, schmoozes in the corporate cafeteria, and puts in the billable hours--until a horrifically offensive performance at the law firm's annual summer outing throws the carefully constructed image way out of equilibrium.Scrambling to do damage control, Parsons Valentine announces a new Diversity Initiative and commands a reluctant Ingrid to spearhead the effort, taking her priority away from the enormous deal that was to be the final step in securing partnership. For the first time, Ingrid finds herself at odds with her colleagues--including her handsome, golden-boy boyfriend--in a clash of class, race, and sexual politics -- Provided by publisher
Crosstown park
Melanie D. Bragg
Subtitle from cover;" On a flight from New York to Houston, Alex Stockton, a successful young lawyer, meets Reverend Morse. He is in dire need of a lawyer to represent one of his foster home house parents, Jose Gonzales. The Reverend believes that Jose was falsely accused of sexually molesting Chris Jackson, a teenage boy, in Crosstown Park. He convinces Alex that Chris Jackson made the allegation against Jose because his uncle, Voodoo, is seeking revenge against the Reverend for disrupting his illegal drug and prostitution activities. Alex's instincts take over and her long buried memories of her foster home background surface. Before the plane lands she has taken Jose's case, pro bono. She has six weeks to discover what happened in Crosstown Park between Jose and Chris. She teams up with Nic Wright, a handsome former cop-turned-security-company-owner, to save Jose and the poor children at Shepherd's Cottages. As the case progresses, Alex's life and perfect trial record is threatened. Not to mention her lifelong dream of becoming a judge. What she really needs is a witness...--Cover"
We were beautiful once: chapters from a cold war
Joseph R. Carvalko
We Were Beautiful Once is a psychologically complex courtroom novel that builds an intriguing web of events, creating a sustained sense of anticipation from chapter to chapter in the mold of John Grisham's The Pelican Brief, where trial lawyer Nick Castalano tries to uncover the fate of Roger Girardin, MIA during the Korean War, and discovers he may have been murdered in a POW camp by Trent Hamilton, a politician (sights on becoming governor) and businessman. Before the war, Jack O'Conner, Hamilton, Girardin and Julie, Girardin's girlfriend and Jack's sister, hung out. In part the story follows the lives of the survivors, who after the war, with Roger's disappearance and Jack and Trent having spent years in a North Korean hell-hole, change dramatically, notably Jack goes through life teetering on the edge of insanity (believing he may have killed Girardin) and that his murderous act will be discovered by his sister, who waits her entire life for Roger's return.

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On 6/25/2019 at 10:01 AM, LasraelLarson said:
Unfortunately, it looks like your efforts were wasted. Vimeo is banning the video whenever it pops up. YouTube is doing the same.
Saw this on Shitter.
I've not seen the stuff from day 2 or 3 yet.
Edit: some stuff about day 2: https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/06/26/rep-crenshaw-grills-google-executive-over-leaked-email-published-by-veritas/
Wait a second! You are implying something that has happened in the past has not only had no effect from that day forward nor has it as of today? Time is the measurement of one moment to the next. No matter what the equation is referring to. Time is linear. No way around this fact.
Why do I need to know whats happens in Microsoft today? Answer: I don't. My statement recalls a moment in the past which still has a wide influence today.
Why do I need to know how the culture has changed from then to today? Answer: I don't. It has no relevant detail that can change the past which still has a wide influence today?
No, I never claimed to know the inner workings of Microsoft. How ever that doesn't change a particular past, which I experienced first hand and you didn't.
Have I ever worked for Microsoft? My answer: No and nor would I ever for any amount of money or perks. This fossil has scruples.
Today, Windows 10. The most invasive OS ever created. The most connected OS ever created. It may have some advantages of this for the user but they are far outweighed by the intrinsic nature of the invasive aspect. Most of what is filed to send out isn't for a feedback loop. Data is value and today's world places a high priority on collecting as much as possible in every way imaginable. This includes governments, big business and the average scum bag who send you automated calls/texts and emails. All enabled by who? Err umm, we all know this answer.
Not only is the NSA in Widows 10, They have employees working at Microsoft at high levels. It is in their interest to do so and there by extension the US government. I highly doubt anything moves up or down the chain in the area of security without them knowing it, endorsing it, deny it or amending it to further their goals. Thus it is a logical conclusion the government to an extent owns Microsoft. Perhaps true they don't reap any financial gain directly but nor do they actually claim any tangible ownership as well.
Google is a piece of shit because of what they are. Saying this does not and cannot exclude any other entity which resides in the same area of the consumer's world. It is a well known fact, fortified every day by the experiences of the average person who consumes technology products.
I can't condemn Google for doing what they do anymore than I can for any other company that does the same things including Microsoft.
I've never bashed the opposing Football team because they are my opponent, my rival, my adversary just because I can. How about you?
Then it means you are talking out of your ass, and you have nothing relevant to add to this discussion other than a fossil's worthless opinion.
All Microsoft did was point out a lot of the telemetry logging that's going on in Windows. That's no different than the amount of telemetry a modern day car logs (or lets you log). It's there purely for diagnostic purposes, while tin-foil hat wearing idiots like you think it's all about some NSA conspiracy theory. I mean, my '18 WRX with an OBD2 port reader shows me a TON of telemetry with what the WRX is doing, and that's largely because the WRX has a metric asston of sensors in it, especially since that's necessary to do a high performance direct injected turbo. Windows does the exact same thing, which makes figuring stuff out really easy if you know how to probably configure the logging for specific things. Very little of this is actually being logged by default, and if it was you'd have Vista levels of performance (that's where 7's performance increase over Vista actually came from). If you really want to go through this point by point (where you point to an actual part of Windows) so that I can prove you wrong, go for it.
That said, you've got your head shoved so far up your ass that it's gone around for a second pass, I doubt you'd believe anything I have to say.
On this we agree.
And on this you have no idea what you're talking about. What Google has done is orders of magnitude more evil than anything Microsoft ever did.
Microsoft has never attempted to alter how you think, nor shape society in anything other than producing what they think is the best product possible. Given ChromeOS, Microsoft was actually waaaaay ahead of their time at the anti-trust hearings, as that's the direction Microsoft was going with their integration of IE into Windows (and yes, that integration was very deep as IE and Windows Explorer had become very intertwine for a smooth launch process to the web while also using some of the IE capabilities for what we see now as Windows Explorer - all of which is part of the Explorer shell which has been the Windows default shell since Win95). If you're gonna throw stones at Microsoft, at least get your facts straight.
Except in this case you are doing just that.
Well there we have it. Magnitudes of evil matter.
Btw I'm not the one playing in the Football game, I am a spectator watching the opposing teams continually pull cheap shots all the while they complain to the referee that the other team is cheating. The humor in it as a spectator is that those in the stands see it all and can form there own opinions on what is what. While those in the game do, must, and will constantly deny wrong doing. Its damn near as funny as watching Unicorns swatting hooves at each other while they turn their heads.
There is an emerging culture call Dataism. This is where everything and everyone is connected to the internet. There is a real possibility this new religion will take over, and yes religion is the right word. Invade every human life from birth to death. A world where no person has privacy, ever. A world where algorithms can know you and predict your thoughts to situations. Its basis is that all information is free. That anything you create once published somewhere it can be placed on the internet is free as well. It also establishes that no human can claim any right intellectually, financially, or morally once its lands onto a database. Though there are many paths our future can have. It is inevitable Dataism will be there and it is also a logical conclusion to have that, Dataism will change every thing people today know as expected or normal. In essence this ideology will not improve the daily lives of people, nor will it make them happier, yet it may happen anyway. To think people look at Cortana and Suri as a utility device to help you keep appointments and guide you through traffic and have no clue the real potential of invasiveness these programs represent. It just boggles my mind how stupid educated people are.
I myself, could not stand with pride knowing I would be part of its creation. A creation which will diminish the value of every living thing to algorithms. I like my privacy in every way possible and I couldn't give two fucks if your car has a constant feed sending telemetry to some place. Lastly, I am not alone in this thought. There are millions upon millions who if knowingly could make a choice would throw every nosey fucker out of their lives. This includes Techology companies, Governments. So when people discuss freedoms supposedly inherent in their government's constitution they literally mean in almost every case freedom to pursue those inalienable rights in pubic or private by their free choice.
Since we are making solid, sensible decisions with logic and free will, what does it matter if there are only magnitudes of evil and the most agregious are the only one's that matter?
Coda:
1 hour ago, Splay said:
tl;dr: I don't have a technical argument so I'll introduce some strawman about data-ism and assume that no one at Microsoft believes in the right to privacy because THEY'RE THE DEVIL!
Dude, if you have no freaking idea how any of this works, why don't you go learn about it instead of ignorantly bitching and moaning about how bad it must be?
Not only is Microsoft fully compliant to the EU's GDPR for the US market (which means every American has the right to be forgotten - something I fully agree to by the way)), and the only way any government (include the US's) is ever going to get data you entrusted to Microsoft is with a search warrant that legal agrees is legit. Anything less and the government gets told to pound sand... and this data has been publicly available for years ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/lerr )... yet somehow you think that whatever the US government asks it gets, because all the corporations and US government must be in cahoots, AMIRITE?
I mean, you have as much credibility with respect to your judgement of Microsoft as a 9-11 Truther, a Russia-gater, Alien believer, Flat Earther, or a Moon landing denier. So either show concrete examples, or go get fucked.
ah well, vid still plays at Bitchute:
does Microsoft fall under Section 230 of the communications decency act to the same degree google would? for Facebook and Twitter it is more clear cut. but to varying degrees they all expose themselves:
regardless, to me it seems we are slipping ever closer to justifications like these:
Allum Bokhari:
Feel free to eat at a non-segregated restaurant.
Feel free to use a bus that lets you sit at the front.
Feel free to build your own water fountains.
it isn't just public platforms owned by private companies. financial institutions are also stepping into the fray.
https://thefederalistpapers.org/opinion/credit-card-companies-cut-off-conservative-think-tank-hate
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/techwatch/alexander-hall/2019/05/02/mastercard-vote-over-financially-blacklisting
where does this end if it goes unabated?
18 hours ago, Papi said:
could you link to that specific information please.
https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?two_year_transaction_period=2016&committee_id=C00580100&min_date=01%2F01%2F2015&max_date=12%2F31%2F2016&contributor_employer=Google
Last time a political ideology was left to go to the extremes, we had a world war, and leftism gets to fascism just as easily as the far-right. But the pendulum always swings the other way eventually, and they're just fuelling a bigger swing. It's ironic that these fascists (and they're the extremes of the leftists, just as leftists are the extremes of the left-wing) are directly causing an increase in equally unwanted far-right sentiment in their bid to try to make everything far-left. People generally sit in the middle, and don't like having their beliefs mischaracterised and then demonised, and they especially don't like hypocrites trying to dictate what's acceptable. It's at the point now where there are people genuinely being labelled as Nazis with absolutely no query over it, when they've done nothing to warrant that at all. It's becoming white noise to throw about buzzwords like racist, misogynist, etc. to the point where they feel like they can casually dismiss and condemn people whenever they want.
In the vid with the pirate Republican guy tearing Google a new one, they made it so clear that's what's happening. Their internal references to people like Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson being "Nazis" just because they don't like what they're saying shows the sort of culture they've got going over there. They say there's such a thing as "protected groups", people they've decided are more deserving of special treatment for nothing more than being a part of an arbitrary group Google considers to be important. No wonder that other fella got the boot when he sent that gender memo around; it didn't follow the leftist agenda, so he wasn't welcome.
7 hours ago, Papi said:
i can get those 59 results up to 92 by adding additional "related" "Trump" filters.
with those names publicly available, one wonders if it is in the current interest of Google Inc. to protect these named employees from political activism that saw James Damore terminated, or will it be sufficient justification if anyone feels threatened?
as with Jen Gennai, the regret seems solely about how the action is perceived with these people.
is donating to Trumps campaign also considered threatening? there is certainly AMPLE evidence that many find it at the very least OFFENSIVE that Trump got elected (even DEEPLY offensive.) how slippery is the offended slope to apply a threatening label?
as internally "IF" a premise upon which they operate is sufficient cause to establish a label:
https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/06/25/breaking-new-google-document-leaked-describing-shapiro-prager-as-nazis-using-the-dogwhistles/
it would seem evident that Liam Hopkins (at Meredith's suggestion) would like to see some censoring algorithms applied to the suggestions feature, targeted at...
yeah no evidence of bias. 🤨
M(achine)L(earning) fairness, altered search functions, terminated employees...
shadow-banning & throttling (delisting, unsuggesting & otherwise hiding) & ultimately banning when the former does not succeed...
targeting narratives that don't fall in line (overwhelmingly conservative)...
it is all just a conspiracy theory.
11 hours ago, LasraelLarson said:
I wouldn't be able to answer your question, seeing how I don't follow every minute detail of the exceptions provided by the US government for Tech companies. It would seem there is a possibility mainly because Microsoft has seen many subsidies provided to them over the last 35 years. Which may have included items such as Immunity from being sued for various reasons. I too would be interested in knowing this answer in relation to today's buzz about online censorship.
Politics is nasty business. I'd just as soon see the extremes of right and left nuke each other and leave sensible people remain. Perhaps one day in my life, I might see a 3rd party emerge from the center with moderate views prevailing. Until that happens I can't be arsed to give a fuck.
I wouldn't be able to answer your question...
i want everyone to see what i see, so you can't unsee it again.
watch Susan Wojcicki response and see the crowd in her frame, the two yes men nodding heads. one even starts nodding before she speaks.
1 hour ago, LasraelLarson said:
now you all see how i see...
and just so no one misconstrues this:
is just me waxing hyperbolic... lets have this embedded for record as well:
Section 230 only applies to a platform (which would only include Azure, Office 365, and Bing and maybe the Xbox platform - maybe a few other products), and Microsoft isn't doing the political discrimination like Google is. The other thing is that the only monopoly Microsoft could be said to have these days is on Office software these days, especially since Android/iOS devices are so prevalent which significantly weakens the PCs market share, and there's also Linux which is a competitor in the server and embedded devices markets. Aside from those markets, there's a lot of competitors in everything else Microsoft is doing, so it's not really in the same sort of position as the social media platforms.
The problem with Google, Facebook, and Twitter being idiots is that it might end up getting Microsoft dragged into the fight =/
The mere fact the rhetoric in that video is this constant fear-mongering, separatist bollocks, because they know they're a bunch of leftists talking to a room of sympathists, shows how biased Google really is.
Which also strengthens the argument that Google needs to be broken up.
On 6/28/2019 at 11:38 AM, Doro said:
well according to Ruth Porat, Googles Chief Financial officer:
"who any one of us voted for is really not the point; because the values that are held dear at this company transcend politics. cause we are going to constantly fight to preserve them."
those "TRANSCENDENT Values" that google will fight to preserve... come off reeking like a cult. and the "insider" language deployed throughout the video, not only comes of as exceedingly arrogant, but the whole religiosity of values that transcend... they actually believe they can't possibly be wrong.
like a modern day Amway imported a cargo cult & you pretty much have google.
it is no surprise any criticism of this... Orthodoxy, honestly is the best word to describe googles values... they have a religious zealotry when dealing with opposing views. challenging viewpoints are not tolerated. racist, misogynist, fascist, etc. deploy any label necessary to anathematize anything that does not fall in line.
the irony when Ruth, the CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER goes on to say this:
"we've said, we'd like to pay more tax. we get criticism for taxes, but we are following all the rules as they are and you can't just wr... send in a check. and the question is reputationally, why can't you do more? and our answer and the answer of many people who have been thinking about this is, we need comprehensive tax reform... "
and yet examples like this still abound:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/2/16842876/google-double-irish-tax-loopholes-european-billions-ad-revenue
i wonder what search results will come up if i enter into google search:
"googles proposed plan for comprehensive tax reform?"
oh the plug definitely needs to be pulled. it will only get continually worse.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90369697/googles-new-recaptcha-has-a-dark-side
For an extreme analogy, imagine a children's charity that's majority staffed by paedos brushing it off with "yeah but the company doesn't diddle kids" and expecting people to accept that.
The company is abstract, but it's still made up of leftists who turn all the cogs. They can try to claim their company "values" aren't anything to do with their personal ones, but they're already letting slip in every leaked memo that this is not the case, and someone had to lay down the values to start with so there's no way they picked a load of things they didn't agree with.
It's fucking ridiculous. "We'd just LOVE to pay more tax, but all these loopholes we exploit keep getting in the way, and the government just won't accept our money!"
Is there anything which Tech, Media companies do that is good? Of course "good" is subjective and the historical notion of good and evil may have taken a paradigm shift, while I was sleeping last night.
The question is equally philosophical as rhetorical, seeing how, I already know the answer.
The question is equally philosophical as rhetorical, seeing how, I already know the answer.
but Gupta, do you not trust the Brahmin caste
to assign a social credit value for all humanity?
https://futurism.com/china-social-credit-system-rate-human-value
https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/chinas-scary-social-credit-system-made-in-usa-by-google-facebook/
has it not worked soo well for India?
no thanx.
pull the plug!
break this company up NOW!
Let's see... help with analyzing data from medical research, which means that many of the data analytics tools used to do research that helps fight cancer and other diseases are from the tech sector... Oh yeah, create the infrastructure for the internet, including the web servers and databases needed to run stuff like Wikipedia. Improve communications by researching into faster and cheaper ways to get internet access everywhere including places like Africa.
Then again, to a luddite like you... I doubt any of these things are "good".
44 minutes ago, LasraelLarson said:
India's social dynamics (and the same thing in China) is one of the reasons why I'm not too keen on the Western environmentalists as it's in both of those cultures to not give two shits about the environment, so you're conflating one aspect of that culture for other stuff. That said, I think what we're seeing in Google and Facebook are a large result of importing so many Indians into the US... which is one of the main reasons why I'm not terribly keen on the US education system as if it was actually worth using, we wouldn't need to import as much high tech talent as we do.
Visual proof we live in a world of shit. Let's have technology cure cancer and all the other debilitating chronic diseases and ailments so they can live longer and shit more. We can have improved communications so we can isolate ourselves and only use smartphone technology to talk about how much more shit the world has compiled because it will give us meaning and a reason for living the happiest life possible.
I use technology everyday. Nary a person can go a day without using it, yet I don't need any of it. Can others say this? Idk and don't care for an answer, because its a personal choice. I, at times, wouldn't mind seeing the world go black for every connected device, just so I can watch people freak out. Suicides would be at an all time high, because people forgot their elective choice isn't a necessity. I guess their ignorance about importance and dependence might allow the accrual of shit to slow down for a moment.
People I find interesting, seem to have caught the interest of others. Maybe its because they have something worth saying.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612950/10-of-bill-gatess-favorite-books-about-technology/
Imagine that. Maybe sensible minds do think alike.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/03/bill-gates-names-the-5-best-books-he-read-in-2018.html
Take note of the book and author I linked on the first page of this thread.
Visual proof we live in a world of shit. Let's have technology cure cancer and all the other debilitating chronic diseases and ailments so they can live longer and shit more.
Question: Is this human or animal poop?
I mean, it's not like there's fish taking a dump in our rivers, lakes, streams, and oceans or anything....
it is neither. someone clever made a meme, but left enough identifying info in the picture so other clever people could see the source:
it is 2004 Indian Tsunami ocean wave propagation data.
now that fake news cat is out of the bag... the meme is based on reality.
and here is a graphic of the real street shitting data:
above is from this August 2017 article:
Nearly a Billion People Still Defecate Outdoors. Here's Why.
and in 2019, it is still a huge issue:
so while the fecal concentration in oceans image is a meme, Indian street shitting is not ( btw, probably not a visual rabbit hole you want to spend much time going down.)
air quality in New Delhi, also not a meme.
so maybe if this Brahmin Caste
build a few more working toilets in his home country, instead of foistering a pseudo digital caste (social score) onto the world...
because somehow it is more important for diverse people who have lacked privilege to not have their ideas challenged, then... i dunno... Indian women to take a shit in some semblance of sanitary safety... or Indian men for that matter, but there goes me rearing my misogynist head, i guess...
i might be a tad more inclined to take these Neo-Cultural Marxists seriously. & there is go confusing Brahmin & Kohanim, i guess...
regardless, a Tsunami disaster, can sometimes communicate an issue of street shitting, rather nicely. that said, it is time to pull the plug on Google!
What sets India apart, at least according to RICE, are rural Indians' beliefs about purity, pollution, and caste.
For thousands of years Dalits—formerly known as Untouchables—have been forbidden from drinking at the same wells, worshipping at the same temples, or even wearing shoes in the presence of upper castes.
Easy to tell it wasn't a correct map of the oceans contamination by way of lack of sanitary means to dispose of human waste. As you stated its has a Noaa.gov tag at the top. Some segue narratives are too good to pass by. 😁
Also the largest world population along likely one of the largest rivers showed nothing highlighted. This being the Yangtze River in China. One among many others who have killed off any coral growth or other plant life off the coast of any large city near the ocean.
Wouldn't this apply anywhere in today's world job market because of the #Feelingsmatter hysteria of today?
absolutely, but in keeping with google... i am referencing language used in the James Damore situation.


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