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An unintended consequence of this: sites will use massive animated GIFs instead.

Edit: yeah, i should have actually read the headline and article.... whoops

ebay did have its own integrated payments early on: Billpoint. (https://www.pymnts.com/digital-payments/2018/ebay-intermedia...)

From what I recall, the fees were much higher then PayPal and it didn’t take long for PayPal to become the de facto standard.

Microsoft Network was the first online service my family subscribed to in fall 1995. I recall our problem being that you had to dial in to different phone numbers for the walled garden and for the web. And we only had local phone numbers for the walled garden. So while the UI was pretty sweet, there wasn't much there and I recall being angry that I couldn't use Internet Explorer and access espnet.sportszone.com without dialing long distance. When we switched to AOL in 96 they had far more stuff and it was easier to get on the web.

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I was watching his feed in real time the night he was banned. He wasn't directing people to do anything. He was trashing the Ghostbusters movie and called one of the female actresses a "black dude". It may have been tasteless but it wasn't brigading.

It definitely happened, but in a much different way: mostly over the internet/www and on computers and phones.

The vision in the early-mid 90s was for something like MSNBC to be an interactive TV channel, delivered by the TV/cable provider, where you could chat/vote/etc through the TV and customize your experience.

That sounds similar to what we have now (with their cable channel, accompanying website, app, Twitter, etc) but the technical details and delivery mechanisms ended up being totally different.

The CD-I (along with WebTV and some other things) was the initial step of the TV morphing into some sort of Information Superhighway appliance. MSNBC was a partnership of Microsoft and NBC that was created in anticipation of this as well. But the TV/PC hybrid never happened. (Today's Apple TV, XBox, etc really aren't what people had in mind.)

Its called Regulatory Capture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

Doesn't the building superintendent still have to load this thing? The delivery driver/postal carrier isn't going to do it, right?

That image has existed for years now. But even without government Net Neutrality regulation... it hasn't happened!

I don't care if he personally reads them or not but it worked for me in January. I was locked out and phone/email support ignored me or sent me in circles. One email to jeff@amazon.com and my account was restored in a few hours.

Easy to identify but widespread and hard to cure - one example is the practice of "needing" to exhaust this year's budget for fear of a reduction next year. In business you'd be rewarded for saving money. In government you replace an office full of Dell PCs that are less than a year old. This sort of inertia touches nearly every part of gov.

Local government that's smaller in scope and closer to the people generally runs better. Imagine that.

This piece does a fairly good job of presenting the conservative point of view: that there are mountains of waste in government to cut rather than hike taxes. I agree with that perspective.

Unfortunately, as we've seen from Republican-led governments operating under this Grover Norquist-esque model for thirty years, the beast never starves. In Washington DC they print money to offset deficits. Instead of cutting waste, the libraries and the parks are closed.

There's still a great desire out there for responsible government that can operate efficiently. That can keep the libraries open by trimming bureaucratic waste rather than asking for more money. Probably will always be a pipe dream.

That's similar to the criticism that Ayn Rand collected at Social Security check. I think you can stand for a principle while still participating in the current system that you're paying for.

John Stossel of ABC (and later Fox News) has waged a crusade over the years against government flood "insurance" and coastal housing bailouts: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Insurance/story?id=94181

Some get turned into massive offices like that. (Example: Rackspace)

Some will sit empty for decades and decay. (Example: the mall outside Chicago where they filmed Blues Brothers)

I think most will simply be bulldozed and rezoned.

I'm not worried: http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/reef-tourism-o...

>> “Scientists had written off that entire northern section as a complete white-out,’’ Mr Eade said. “We expected the worst. But it is tremendous condition, most of it is pristine, the rest is in full recovery."

>> “It wasn’t until we got underwater that we could get a true picture of what percentage of reef was bleached,’’ Mr Stephen said. “The discrepancy is phenomenal. It is so wrong. Everywhere we have been we have found healthy reefs."

Also: "Great Barrier Reef: scientists ‘exaggerated’ coral bleaching" http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/great-barrier-re...

>> A full survey of the reef ­released yesterday by the author­ity and the Australian Institute of Marine ­Science said 75 per cent of the reef would escape unscathed.

>> Dr Reichelt said the vast bulk of bleaching damage was confined to the far northern section off Cape York, which had the best prospect of recovery due to the lack of ­onshore development and high water quality.

Kurzweil has a fantastically vague definition: the point after which things are so different we can't presently comprehend the magnitude of change.

This has existed for years: http://amara.org/

Despite Trudeau's posturing today that "all are welcome", Canada bans single men from Syria and has overall quotas. So, in fact, not all are welcome.

If you want unlimited immigration in North America - open borders - go ahead and say so. Let's have referendums on that in the US and Canada and see how those do.

I'm not just talking about what sports and music people like as being the foundation of culture.

Culture includes more important things. Just one example is casual corruption, like having to pay off the police for phony offensives. That's common in the western hemisphere south of the U.S. and many other places on the globe.

Individual immigrants as fellow human beings are fantastic and welcome. Problems arise when you try to integrate too many people as a large block from disparate societies too fast.

I was referring to legal immigration since 1965.

He doesn't have authority as President to impose stop and frisk on cities. That's why Federalism is wonderful.

I'm a white Trump voter in flyover country. You belong in America as do all Americans. This was a push back against an out of touch corrupt elite in Washington and mass immigration. Not all immigration, but the massive increases of the past several decades. Yes, we do want to preserve the culture - not white culture but American culture. I fully expect that Trump will reach out and moderate. If not, there's always another election that's just two years away.

Try this link: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2003/04/finder/

There used to be a Gen Y in the middle there but it disappeared.

Ever heard of charity?

> Do you believe that speakers of hate speech...

Who gets to create the definition of 'hate speech'? You, I assume?

> ...and not because they are saying anything of substance.

Because he's not substantive to you and people who agree with you, right?

Free speech is great as long as it's within acceptable boundaries!

This is the back and forth that got him banned: http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2016/07/18/ghostbuster-leslie-...