...what should be acceptable speech in a community ...

...what should be acceptable speech in a community ...

I guess Zuckerbarf hasn't heard of the First Amendment ???

...Jim Thompson

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What is acceptable speech here involves electronics.

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Wonder what the tally would be, percentage-wise, if we added up your electronics-only posts ?>:-}

PCKB ?? ...Jim Thompson

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I don't start political threads, and I do start a lot of technical threads, which s.e.d. needs to stay alive. Your constant political crap is damaging one of the few usenet groups that is still worthwhile.

When people ask sincere questions about electronics, I try to help.

Some of the psychological aspects of engineering are interesting and important, and I like to talk about them. But few other people seem interested. Engineers are not especially introspective.

Ditto the aspects of economics that affect technology, especially small business.

And of course, I am fascinated by the universal issue of wrongness.

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You're as misguided and twisted as Slowman >:-} ...Jim Thompson

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I didn't read the link, but what a straight line! I'll say treating everyone with respect, no name calling.

Naming calling! it's like kindergarten all over again.

George H.

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Why didn't you read the link?

Don't want to burden yourself with the fact that fascism is coming to your town? ...Jim Thompson

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I'm sorry Jim, I don't read any of your links. Most news is just crap these days, I read National Review and Politico, one right one left. There's some feeling of truth in both.

George H.

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Politico is more than "left"... loony left ;-)

I daily read the following, I believe a fair mixture of every viewpoint:

HotAir (headline links to lots of differing views, including Politico) CNN DailyCaller Fox News Fox Insider Jerusalem Post Kurt Schlichter Washington Examiner LA Times National Review NY Post Townhall Washington Post Washington Times Arizona Republic (Local AZ stuff, plus lots of Jeff Flake crap) ABC15 News (Local)

How can I do that much reading? Well!! I can design a chip with 3/4 of my brain tied behind my back... so that leaves lots of free time ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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Which is why he posts so much stuff that is clearly wrong.

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John Larkin doesn't seem to be quite as far out of touch with reality as Ji m Thompson - though he still seems to believe everything that James Arthur tells him.

Jim suffers from a slightly milder case of krw's disease, which is to think that his own opinions are always right. John Larkin has tendencies in the same direction. From my point of view the spectrum runs from me, Fred Blogg s and bitrex at one end through John Larkin, and James Arthur who are close r to Jim Thompson who isn't quite a far down the plug hole as krw.

There's a lot of swirl close to the plug-hole, so Jim probably does perceiv e the world as twisted and misguided, but the problem is in his perception, which see the twaddle that gets posted on hotair as worth spreading around .

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Zuckerburg wanting to set up some kind of filter board for Facebook doesn't strike me as fascist. If he was planning to censor all media, the First Am endment might come into it, but social media is a bit different, in that it 's targeted at individuals to a greater extent than mass media, and mass me dia can get into trouble - defamation and libel cases - when it does target individuals in a way that the law doesn't like. Building something similar to - but cheaper than - "suing for defamation" into the Facebook structure might be seen as more logical than fascist.

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Facebook's a multinational corporation worth 500 billion. Guys like Zuckerberg _RUN_ America lock, stock, and barrel, and can do pretty much what they want. Not the hopelessly bickering American people and their pitiful and impotent "elected government."

If you're a good boy you may get thrown a few crumbs, might even get to dress up play President for a while. Trump was kind of a bad boy at the outset, but I think he too will learn to be a good boy in time.

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Hey not political, but you might try Dan Carlin's "Hardcore History". (It's a pod cast) Recommended to me by my daughter. I'll listen when I'm doing busy work. (Hands on stuff that doesn't take much of a brain.) His series on the first world war is brutal.

George H.

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That's silly. It's only Facebook. It's just a toy. Stock shares are just pieces of paper.

Most people can do pretty much what they want.

One of my employees, a young girl from Mexico, lives right next to Zuckerberg. But her place has a better view.

Zuck stands in line for the same ice cream as everyone else in the neighborhood. I bet his Internet service is no faster than mine.

America runs pretty well, whoever is running it.

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They're also the retirement fund of...just about everyone, not to mention the bulk of the fortunes of many very wealthy people who wield power proportional to their wealth, in the fashion that America operates.

Any President who treats their value as "just pieces of paper" habitually will not find himself President for very long.

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I elected to go 60% "conservative" in my 401K. I don't think I have any investment in Facebook. Most of my wealth is property... "they aren't making any more land."

Gates and Zuck don't have garages packed with $100 bills or gold bars. They have stock shares, which are actually bits spinning on a hard drive somewhere.

There's no reason to be jealous. I can afford a burger or pasta that's as good as anything they eat. My bed is just as warm and soft. I can read the same books. If Zuck fell down the stairs like I did, the same ambulance would take him to the same trauma ward, and he'd get the same care.

What's cool is that billionaires often give away most of their wealth.

Are you on Facebook?

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Not a well-informed opinion.

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The country suffers from excessive inequality, and the consequences are unfortunate.

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What in God's name would I do with a billion dollars? As a bachelor at least at this point I'm considered barely middle-class on paper and I hardly know what to do with the money I have already. Far more than I ever had at any point before in my life, that's for sure.

That'll probably change when I get married. Oh well.

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Invest it in something. SP500? Or land and a house.

George H.

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