They're all crime procedurals. I'd like to see more Scandinavian prestige dramas not centered around detectives returning to their hometowns or whatever.
I like the UK ones because you see the cops approach the job differently. In the US, the default response of an American cop would be to shoot first and ask questions later. In the UK shows you get more of a cerebral drama and see a situation unfold evolve.
FINALLY! The best case here is that by scanning plates, you are casting a wide net and investigating without reasonable suspicion - which itself is a violation of your Fourth Amendment rights. The security and usage of that data is a whole other can of worms that also needs to be addressed.
Also, fwiw, if you drive a car made in the last 5 years, in all likelihood the manufacturer is tracking you as well.
Most people are completely oblivious to just how far surveillance capitalism is observing their every move inside public and private spaces.
Sad truth is that even if they would be aware, they'd just shrug their shoulders and let it be as they would have been framed to see it as either an inevitable state of things, or, being done in the name of their 'security' or some other vague benefit (personalized service).
Frameworks like the GDPR are steps in the right direction, but unless enforcement is staffed and funded at a scale to match the threat (It is not, not even close on a galactic scale), its impacts will mostly be cosmetic.
Don't get me wrong, I do applaud the work of privacy advocates, but unless we have a systemic change to reign in surveillance capitalism and captured regulation, things will only get worse.
They make a lot of sense for terminal users. And the newest version is actually a very decent keyboard, so you don't have an upside by using another one. Many departments that have some terminals will just use those at every computer so that employees with a terminal license don't have to change hardware if they swap places (since Bloomberg anywhere, licenses are on a per-person basis, not bound to the computer).
Great photos. It's so appropriate that they come out swinging with Alice Bag - the Bags were just the best.
I must have seen 50 shows at the Hong Kong - not so many at Madame Wongs, but I did see the 1st B52's LA show there (B52's would be Wongs prototypical band - more "new wave" than punk).
But EVERYBODY who was real played at the HK. You would get these fantastic lineups, like the Germs, Bags, Fear and Crowd all on the same bill. Early on, the GoGo's were more aligned with pure punk than pop, and so they played at the HK instead of MW's.
Won't get into everybody I saw at the HK (which would be, you know, everybody) but I did see Lydia Lunch and James White there - both from New York.
What did you expect? Real Journalism? Its the Wall Street Journal, not real news. They need click bait titles in order to get more exposure and sell more ads. What ever it takes to get a few more clicks...Their motivation like most news companies today is making money, not informing the public. They are for profit corporations after all.
What exactly is real news to you, then? I think the WSJ / Bloomberg are pretty much as good as media gets.
Or if you think no media outlet is "real" and they're all motivated by profit, then that just means your definition of "real news" is entirely inaccurate.
Hi from the UK, where one of our current scandals is the state broadcaster censoring parts of a documentary about the foreign office, directly at the foreign office's request, in order to remove comments made by Boris Johnson, in which he called the French 'turds'.
The government has argued, according to leaked memos, that Johnson’s comment could cause ‘significant damage’ to Britain and that it made a mockery of the Government’s aim in agreeing to the documentary, to ‘promote Global Britain to a UK audience’."
Hi from the former Soviet Union, where everything the state media says is true, and if it doesn't turn out to be true, it is because of misinformation spread by our foreign enemies.
I was not aware you should not post here anything less literal than x86 assembly, now I know.
It was pretty obvious to me haha and a great comment. The WSJ is a fantastic organization imho, at least as good as any media organization can realistically aspire to be
They might not have the same motivation to write clickbait articles, but state-sponsored news certainly has plenty of motivation to distort the facts as well. We've seen what the current US administration thinks of the truth...
