WildUtah (u/WildUtah)

WildUtah commented on How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authorities Worldwide nytimes.com/2017/03/03/te... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

jsmthrowaway · 9 years ago

It's concerning to see this narrative already working, considering a Carlos Slim "billion dollar investment" in the NYT is, itself, a lie. The good news for you is that a transaction that large would be public record, so I look forward to being proven wrong with a citation. (I suggest you look up the market capitalization of The New York Times Company.)

WildUtah · 9 years ago

On the order of 1bn, but my memory of exact figures from a decade ago needed refreshing. In fact only $350 million of corrupt foreign monopolist cash is enough to buy the editorial position of America's premier source of fake news.

Good luck defending the NY Times on that basis.

WildUtah commented on How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authorities Worldwide nytimes.com/2017/03/03/te... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

wpietri · 9 years ago

Oh, and if you're wondering about the moral case, I think it's pretty clear. When we the people set out to do something together, deciding to evade our joint decisions and mechanisms for self-regulation is an antisocial, antidemocratic act.

WildUtah · 9 years ago

When big money monopolists corrupt our local governments to obtain taxi monopolies at the expense of working families, the environment, and vulnerable racial minorities that can't hail taxis but can get an Uber, then it's the system that's antisocial and antidemocratic.

Uber is a social reform movement organized as a profit-seeking business. Of course the forces of corruption and reaction are going to try to stop it under cover of law.

WildUtah commented on The European Parliament votes non-bindingly to reintroduce visas for Americans economist.com/blogs/gulli... · Posted by u/FabHK

Findeton · 9 years ago

Maybe it has something to do with the US/CIA fucking up those countries.

WildUtah · 9 years ago

It started with the Mexican-American war of 1846, so that is a viable theory (though the CIA was not yet involved). That's the war Mexicans still teach in every Mexican school with a big famous map showing that California and Texas are Mexican territory unjustly stolen by the USA.

WildUtah commented on The European Parliament votes non-bindingly to reintroduce visas for Americans economist.com/blogs/gulli... · Posted by u/FabHK

Exofunctor · 9 years ago

> What is driving this change? AFAICT there are no major issues that should have caused this.

I honestly can't imagine how you could avoid exposure to any of the incredible amount of discontent in Europe right now.

European leaders have been importing millions(!) of people from incredibly violent, theocratic, illiterate, and regressive regions, to the detriment of peaceful, secular, educated, and liberal Europeans who are not socially or memetically equipped to handle such an influx of radically different and heavily indoctrinated people. European news media emphatically denies that anything bad is happening; "No, rape rates have only gone up a little bit! No, we're not putting a wall around the Eiffel Tower, it's an aesthetic perimeter! No, Sweden isn't banning christmas lights in public for Muslims; it's because we all of a sudden realize that street lights can't structurally support christmas lights!" Most people in Europe are not dumb enough to fall for this.

For decades, the sentiment in the European political system has been "us last". Here's a great quote from the President of the EU Parliament until earlier this year, Martin Schulz: (and yes, it's a real quote): "For me, the new Germany exists only in order to ensure the existence of the State of Israel and the Jewish people."

The conclusion that any impartial observer would make is that European politicians don't seem to give much of a shit about Europeans, and instead see them as more of a resource to be used up for the sake of various political causes (mass immigration is a big one, and as Mr. Schulz demonstrated, Zionism is another).

It should come as exactly zero surprise that, at some point, Europeans are going to get fed up with being treated like shit by their own political system.

I'm not even European, but this sentiment is very obvious to me from my European expat friends. A large number of them are in support of leaving the EU in favor of increased national sovereignty (because then at least their own interests might come into play), and those that want to stay in the EU mostly feel that way because they falsely conflate free movement and free trade with the existence of the EU.

The result of this discontent with (forced) social globalism is that countries are becoming more isolationist. This led to Brexit, will possibly lead to France leaving the EU as well (although the EU parliament is currently trying to attack Le Pen), and who knows what next.

To be clear, I'm not happy about any of this, but I honestly don't know how people didn't see it coming.

WildUtah · 9 years ago

"For me, the new Germany exists only in order to ensure the existence of the State of Israel and the Jewish people."

Funny then how Angela Merkel has chosen to ethnically cleanse the German people and replace them with a population whose top geopolitical priority is and has always been the destruction of Israel and the extermination of the Jews.

The new 'refugee' dominated Germany is going to be an interesting place.

WildUtah commented on The European Parliament votes non-bindingly to reintroduce visas for Americans economist.com/blogs/gulli... · Posted by u/FabHK

cplanas · 9 years ago

Or people for who English is not their first language. In Spanish at least, an "americano" is anyone from the Americas. People from the US are "estadounidenses".

WildUtah · 9 years ago

Nobody says estadounidenses. The standard, common word in western hemisphere Spanish for people from the United States is an ethnic slur against us.

Which should help indicate how good an idea it is to invite more people from that region to our country.

WildUtah commented on Qualities that I believe make the most difference in programmers’ productivity antirez.com/news/112... · Posted by u/sathis

WildUtah · 9 years ago

Fixed width font on a blog? Is it still 1983 out there somewhere?

Maybe you'd be 10x more productive if it didn't hurt everyone's eyes to read your writing.

WildUtah commented on “I was just asked to balance a Binary Search Tree by JFK's airport immigration” twitter.com/cyberomin/sta... · Posted by u/z3t1

dalore · 9 years ago

Driving the Channel tunnel between UK and France, they each have "immigration" on the opposite sides. You drive through the French passport control before you get into the tunnel to leave the UK.

WildUtah · 9 years ago

Driving????

WildUtah commented on My 2015 MacBook Pro Retina Exploded medium.com/@dourvaris/my-... · Posted by u/zepolen

WildUtah · 9 years ago

I removed the back plate to observe the damage and hopefully see if the hard disk had survived.

Apple has solved this problem in the current models. There's no longer any way for the hard disk to leave you in doubt. It's now fused to the motherboard permanently so that it cannot be recovered even if it does survive some kind of trouble.

Keep your backups up to date.