TSCLT 7.0: Hemis, Harleys, Hooters-n-Harridans

[von_Bismarck]

Apparently the sculptor uses a microscope to do his work?

I got curious, and happened across what is claimed to be the world's smallest sculpture.

 

[beew]

Tits or GTFO.

 

[SpeareChucker]

Hei B or Sp, would any of you be interested in starting a thread related to these?
I'd start it myself, but I lack the background:

Anti-monopoly App Store lawsuit against Apple gets go-ahead from US Supreme Court
https://www.rt.com/usa/459240-supreme-court-apple-app-store/

"The US Supreme Court is letting a group of consumers proceed with their antitrust lawsuit against Apple after rejecting the tech behemoth’s argument that iOS App Store users aren’t really its customers.
- The Apple v Pepper suit accuses Apple of monopolizing the market for iPhone applications and forcing customers to pay an excessive 30 percent commission on purchases."


It's an interesting trend.
Private citizens versus corporations, instead of the traditional way of waiting for often inefficient law enforcement or govt. agencies to handle grievances.

Some Brits and Australians are also hitting Facebook with civil lawsuits, given it's failure to protect it's customers from scammers. According to the UK one, FB even got a commission from unchecked adds from fraudulent businesses.
- Or Nick Sandman's lawsuit against those massmedia outlets.

It would quickly evolve into a thread dedicated to the destruction of hate speech and the haters, discussion would have to be eliminated. You would have to get someone the CTRL-L agrees with in order for it to go as far as one page.

A monopoly is a measure of success for someone to envy.
Apple, Facebook, anybody else who does not deliver what their customers want will fail to reach monopoly status.
If they are doing something criminal, then prosecute them. If someone is whining about them, let them whine; it's usually just envy, pure and simple...

 

[beew]

It would quickly evolve into a thread dedicated to the destruction of hate speech and the haters, discussion would have to be eliminated. You would have to get someone the CTRL-L agrees with in order for it to go as far as one page.

A monopoly is a measure of success for someone to envy.
Apple, Facebook, anybody else who does not deliver what their customers want will fail to reach monopoly status.
If they are doing something criminal, then prosecute them. If someone is whining about them, let them whine; it's usually just envy, pure and simple...

You're likely right as far as the matter from the RT article is concerned.

But when it comes to fraudulent adds that Facebook hosts -- that's a different matter.

I only researched briefly and was stunned by the enormity of fake news articles with fraudulent adds that have been posted on Facebook.
You can argue that FB can't possibly monitor everything, but they also take a long time to take them down, once notified. And they don't warn potential victims either. The onus is on the citizens.

This, on top of the fact that FB sold people's personal info. to add agencies.


It's not their envy or greed that's making people angry, it's the feeling of being disconsidered.

 

[SpeareChucker]

That had nothing to do with them being a monopoly and everything to do with
ownership/leadership who were ethically-challenged by the standards of yesteryear,
but who discovered the wealth to be made in fine print and "grey areas" of the law.

 

[beew]

That had nothing to do with them being a monopoly and everything to do with
ownership/leadership who were ethically-challenged by the standards of yesteryear,
but who discovered the wealth to be made in fine print and "grey areas" of the law.

Yes, that's what I was trying to express.

I have no issue with billionaires or corporations (Amazon, microsoft and google, and supermarket chains made life so much easier and cheaper for all of us).

I was focusing on the attitude of some of them, when it comes to customer service (like FB harvesting personal data while not giving a toss about exposing people to scams, or when people are knowingly exposed to toxins cause cheaper that way).

 

[Que]

You being gullible enough to fall for a scam has nothing to do with the platform the pitch was delivered on. When you inevitably fall for a telemarketing scam are you going to blame the phone company for letting them ring your apartment?

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Home. Got some carry-out, because fuck it, I can do that if'n I wants to.


When I think of scams, I think of everybody. People can scam you simply in how they present themselves to you - or you can delude yourself in how you perceive them. If we want someone to like us and seek their approval, we're likely to overlook something about that person which would have been some kind of warning sign in someone else. If shit goes wrong, one must look at the history of the interaction to see where the error was.


Most people will at least hint at being a scorpion. If you pick them up anyway, that's 100% on you.


Weasels are foolproof. No one likes weasels . . . .

 

[Wat_Tyler]

THIS DAY IN AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY:


5/14/1969: Last Chevrolet Corvair built.

 

[bellisarius]

The Corvair was a better car than Nader was an attorney.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

The last couple of years were pretty good cars. If it had happened 20 years later, there would have been a McDonald's-type lawsuit-n-award.


Cocksuckers.


I've got a damned splinter in the tip of my dominant ring finger. What a pain, literally. It broke off deep.

 

[bellisarius]

The second generation was a damn fine car. The problem was the first generation and GM management. The engineers KNEW what was going to happen and wanted to put an anti-roll bar on the car, management said, "No."

So here was a rear engined, 6 cyl. opposed motor on a compact chassis .......JUST LIKE THE Porsche. The gear heads were tripping all over themselves trying to pump as much horsepower out of that engine as they could. And as always, the suspension was an after thought. And THOSE are the knuckle heads that got in trouble with the car.

 

[beew]

You being gullible enough to fall for a scam has nothing to do with the platform the pitch was delivered on. When you inevitably fall for a telemarketing scam are you going to blame the phone company for letting them ring your apartment?

See? Logic like that is one of the reasons why the internet is now the Wild West.
Put the onus only on the gullible targets.

So social media giants have no incentive to be more proactive in monitoring potentially harmful content.
Why would they? That would mean paying more employees specifically for that stuff.

It takes FB even days to take down harmful content once they are notified, because that department is so understaffed.
Craiglist started weeding out sex trafficking adds or those targeting the underage, only after the new legislation removed their protection from liability.

 

[beew]

This is also interesting because it intersects a bit with the "freedom of speech versus over-regulation by Government."

I used to see 99% of the logic of those who were critical of Government over-regulation, seeing it as an avenue for authoritarian regimes.
Now I'm starting to see some of the points of the Left.

The Christchurch shooting was partially enabled by unregulated White power propaganda on social media. Drug dependence and abuse are now rampant in ex-Soviet countries.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Happy non-payday Wednesday!!!


Sleep wasn't as good as last night, but less stuff hurts this morning. Besides this shoulder, which has a cramp in it, and the damn finger with the splinter, all seems well. The splinter may find its way as a workers comp case to a doctor's office to get pulled that way. Jesus hates a pussy, but sometimes you just can't remove everything setting yourself on auto-surgery.


Still have a couple of small floor repairs to do to get out of this second-to-last building. Nothing major. The last one still hasn't had anyone go through with the idea of making a final list of what needs to be done to complete it. So that looks like this afternoon's work task, I reckon.


Can't jussie anybody do this shit.

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[bellisarius]

This is also interesting because it intersects a bit with the "freedom of speech versus over-regulation by Government."

I used to see 99% of the logic of those who were critical of Government over-regulation, seeing it as an avenue for authoritarian regimes.
Now I'm starting to see some of the points of the Left.

The Christchurch shooting was partially enabled by unregulated White power propaganda on social media. Drug dependence and abuse are now rampant in ex-Soviet countries.

Don't go down that path, freedom of speech didin't have a damn thing to do with it. Someone or something set that murderer on the path he took.

 

[heathergives]

i like this car.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Still pondering Gen 2 Corvairs.


Pity, really.


I did a book report on Unsafe At Any Speed back when life was . . . different. Got a shitty grade on it because the teacher didn't "get" a metaphor I used. Worst Engrish teacher I ever had.


Yet another non-lethal childhood event . . . .

 

[Wat_Tyler]

i like this car.

So do I.


I also appreciate that others have a different vision for their custom creations.


Same car, different vision:

 

[heathergives]

Still pondering Gen 2 Corvairs.


Funny; my divorce attorney owns at least 20 old Corvairs; some perfect, others in restoration. He let me drive one once, it was a blast!

 

[heathergives]

So do I.


I also appreciate that others have a different vision for their custom creations.


Same car, different vision:


I watch the Motor Trend Channel (velocity?). Seeing the old cars is cool.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Still pondering Gen 2 Corvairs.


Funny; my divorce attorney owns at least 20 old Corvairs; some perfect, others in restoration. He let me drive one once, it was a blast!

A buddy in high school had a '61 maroon ragtop. When it was running, it was a fun car. This was '73, I think.


He got tired of it and sold it and bought a '68 Fury I ex-cop car. Sedan. It fairly flew.


He also had the worst acne of nearly any guy I ever knew, poor bastard. I think that his zits had zits.


I'm sitting here blanking on his first name, so moar coffee!!!

 

[bellisarius]

I'd like to see them bring something like that back. Then again after the EPA and NTSB got done with it it'd probably be a dog.

 

[heathergives]

A buddy in high school had a '61 maroon ragtop. When it was running, it was a fun car. This was '73, I think.


He got tired of it and sold it and bought a '68 Fury I ex-cop car. Sedan. It fairly flew.


He also had the worst acne of nearly any guy I ever knew, poor bastard. I think that his zits had zits.


Pre Clearasil?

 

[Wat_Tyler]

So do I.


I also appreciate that others have a different vision for their custom creations.


Same car, different vision:


I watch the Motor Trend Channel (velocity?). Seeing the old cars is cool.

I watch almost no TV anymore, except for the streaming channels.


My first divorce attorney still had the 427 Corvette his daddy had bought him while he was in law school. He told a couple of interesting stories about it, like leap-frogging and then destroying some import hotrod while on his way home to Lon Giland.


I wasn't there . . . .


I talked to another friend the other day about a Barrett-Jackson auction she said she had watched, and the outrageous prices. She did say there were a couple of sub $30K cars she liked. Again, I wasn't there . . . .