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Posted 10 October 2014 - 12:42 PM

Youth addiction to online gaming has seriously damaged the physical fitness and academic achievement of a whole generation. It is amazing that government is not regulating it like other harmful and addictive yet entertaining products like cigarettes, alcohol, gambling, etc. This is really due to the aura that anything online has in today's world. One day, governments and consumers will realize that the Internet world is just like the physical world, where some products are useful, some frivolous and some so harmful they need to regulated.


Gamergate -- Feminists lash out against Gamers on the issue of sexism and misogyny in video games

Sure, both of these groups are full of losers, but the point is we are now allowed to lash out against hi-tech products that can be harmful and addictive yet entertaining. The aura of online tech is fading.



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Posted 13 October 2014 - 08:49 AM

Hostility to Silicon Valley keeps building.

-> Google has received nearly 150,000 requests for links to be removed under the "right to be forgotten" ruling, amounting to almost half a million URLs, figures from the U.S. search giant show.


The controversial "right to be forgotten" allows users to ask search engines such as Google to remove links that contain irrelevant or outdated information about them, following a ruling in May by the European Union's (EU) top court, the European Court of Justice.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102082044#.
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Posted 20 October 2014 - 08:16 AM

Snowden’s Privacy Tips: “Get Rid Of Dropbox,” Avoid Facebook And Google

http://techcrunch.co...al/?cps=gravity
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Posted 27 October 2014 - 12:57 PM


Amazon breaks 5-year support, as weakness after Drone high continues!


The Power of the Pattern highlighted several months ago that Amazon looked to have created a top at the same time the new drone was introduced on 60-Minutes -



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Posted 30 October 2014 - 07:38 AM

Why Middle-Class Americans Can't Afford to Live in Liberal Cities

Blue America has a problem: Even after adjusting for income, left-leaning metros tend to have worse income inequality and less affordable housing.

On April 2, 2014, a protester in Oakland, California, mounted a Yahoo bus, climbed to the front of the roof, and vomited onto the top of the windshield.

If not the year's most persuasive act of dissent, it was certainly one of the most memorable demonstrations in the Bay Area, where residents have marched, blockaded, and retched in protest of San Francisco's economic inequality and unaffordable housing.

There is a deep literature tying liberal residents to illiberal housing policies that create affordability crunches for the middle class.


http://www.theatlant...ordable/382045/
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Posted 21 November 2014 - 05:40 AM

Gamergate -- Feminists lash out against Gamers on the issue of sexism and misogyny in video games

Feminists Target Geeks -- The brave new world of feminist grievance-mongering that we have just entered.

(Feminists destroy astrophysicist Matt Taylor for wearing "sexist" shirt in an interview.)

It also can’t be a coincidence that the feminist outrage brigade just went after Mark Zuckerberg for explaining that he always wears a plain grey T-shirt because he doesn’t want to have to think about what he wears. That is offensive to women, apparently, because girls are obsessed with clothes all the time, as everyone knows.

This is not about women being able to have careers, or stopping guys who beat their wives, or some other topic where you might expect equal rights for women to naturally arise as a direct issue. Now it’s about every minute little part of every area of your life.

This is “political correctness” in its purest, original form: “the personal is the political.” There is no area of life where proper behavior and even esthetic taste cannot be dictated by political concerns.

You need to be told what you can wear, what songs you can listen to, what video games you can play (which, so far as I can tell, is one of the issues in GamerGate), what you are allowed to say to a woman as she walks down the street (if you are allowed to say anything at all), and so on.


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Posted 24 November 2014 - 07:06 PM

A successful Silicon Valley firm has admitted paying staff $1.21 an hour and working them for more than 120 hours a week.

A National Research Council report, commissioned by Congress, confirmed that underpayment of technology visa holders was an industrywide practice.

In a recent notorious case, one Silicon Valley firm admitted paying eight migrant programmers $1.21 an hour, working them for more than 120 hours a week.

“U.S. companies also abuse the green-card process, which renders a foreign worker immobile for the several years during which the green-card approval is pending,” Matloff said. “The employer doesn’t want engineers leaving for a competitor during an urgent project.”

In a practice called “handcuffing,” the migrant worker is prevented from moving around to find the best salary. It’s perfectly legal under the H1B laws.

At the urging of technology companies, Obama plans to double the number of H1B visas as part of his immigration-reform package.

http://watchdog.org/...tech-immigrant/
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Posted 04 December 2014 - 09:10 AM

Silicon Valley homeless no longer welcome in 'the Jungle'

The sprawling camp has become a major embarrassment, and a potent symbol of Silicon Valley's homeless crisis.

In 2013, San Jose and the surrounding Santa Clara County estimated almost 7,600 homeless people. And 75% of them were sleeping outside, on sidewalks, in parks and under freeway embankments — a percentage greater than in any other major U.S. metropolitan area.


Officials have blamed soaring housing costs for the displacement. As Silicon Valley rocketed out of the recession, workers streamed in, driving the average apartment rent within 10 miles of San Jose up to $2,633 in September, from $1,761 two years earlier, according to the rental website RentJungle.com.



http://www.latimes.c...ory.html#page=1

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Posted 09 December 2014 - 08:49 AM

Liberal Media Turns on Facebook Billionaire Chris Hughes:
"He is little more than an entitled brat."


High Tech Goofball ruined left-wing mag New Republic

Just three years ago, Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge were the toast of the liberal establishment. The Facebook co-founder and his politically ambitious husband embodied all the attributes of a bona fide “gay power couple.” In 2012, Hughes bought The New Republic, rescuing the flagship liberal magazine from financial peril and establishing himself as a player in Washington. At the same time, Eldridge was quietly preparing to run for Congress in upstate New York.

How swiftly things change. In just the past two months, one half of this pair managed to single-handedly destroy a storied journalistic institution, while the other suffered a crushing electoral defeat in New York’s 19th Congressional District. Last week, the 31-year-old Hughes forced the resignations of both the editor and literary editor of The New Republic, whose 100th anniversary he presided over last month at a star-studded gala in Washington, D.C.


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Posted 31 January 2015 - 07:55 AM

The Sociopaths of Silicon Valley

Columnist Milo Yiannopoulos’ forthcoming book The Sociopaths of Silicon Valley explores whether the executives running social media sites, online gaming platforms and other digital businesses have their users’ best interests in mind or are ignoring consumers’ rights and privacy laws to exploit personal data for their own financial gain.

Yiannopoulos’ findings—based in part on dozens of interviews with Silicon Valley movers and shakers—align with other studies indicating that entrepreneurs rank high for sociopathic behaviors, alongside power-broker professionals like doctors, attorneys and bankers.

“You will find sociopaths at the top of every industry and in all sorts of positions of success,” Yiannopoulos says. “What’s different about Silicon Valley is that doctors and lawyers are constantly reminded by a variety of different mechanisms that they’re dealing ultimately with people—people’s feelings, their reputations and their finances. It’s very easy for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and their employees to forget they’re dealing with people.”


http://www.breitbart...-unaccountable/
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