toastywombel

Those who say deplatforming doesn't work and it instead only amplifies the public sentiment who are in favor of said persons being deplatformed, I would just like to point you to Alex Jones. A perfect example of how deplatforming someone does infact work. Since being deplatformed Jones has had a considerable drop in influence and money. Which I think is a good thing. Now the monopolistic practices that lead to the vast majority of public internet communications to be content controlled by a few companies is problematic. Also the undemocratic means in which this content is regulated and monetized is also problematic, but these I feel in order to prevent companies like twitter and facebook to be the arbiters of truth in social media, breaking them up by using existing anti-trust and anti-monopolistic laws is a better way to do that. I find many of the people who get upset that conservatives get banned from youtube and twitter are also the very same people who support politicians who allowed those companies to have so much power in the first place, and they don't care about the power dynamic instead they care about the fact those companies are attacking their politics. Typical "i dont' care about an issue until it personally affects me" conservatives and free marketeers. It is a weird dynamic seeing so many conservatives attack these companies disingenuously from the left, calling for them to be broken up. Especially Tucker Carlson types, Some don't remember his old days on crossfire, back then he was a 100 percent Greenspan marketeer, now hes some populist. Its also not in the pursuit of better working conditions for workers or fairer and equal pay, its about "I wanna be able to say what I wanna say to make money off people". BTW first post here in like better part of a decade so hello all lol.

The second least senior executive should vote no on every proposal, and attempt to get everyone else to vote no. Once it gets down to the second least senior executive and the least senior executive, the second least, would now be in the position to choose how to delegate the money, and his proposal will pass because 1/2 is 50%. The most senior executive and most likely the second most, and third most are going to get sacked, no matter which way they decide to split the money up. The problem is that every person next in line to decide how to split up the money is going to vote no on the current proposal. And the person who ends up with the ultimate position of power in the end is the second least senior executive, and he can choose to keep it all, and his vote will make the 50% needed. Maybe, the third least senior executive has a good shot to counter this though, if the deal comes to him, he can delegate half to him and half to the least senior executive, leaving the second least senior executive out. And two out of three would pass. For this reason, the second least senior executive, is going to want to deal with the fourth senior executive. If the fourth senior executive comes in and offers half to to second least and half to him, he/she could pass that delegation with the 50%. This will cause the least senior, and the third least senior to want to team up with the fifth most senior to delegate the money between them. Then the second, fourth, will include the sixth and will want to team up to delegate the money between them so they don't get left out. In response the least senior, third, and fifth and seventh will team up and delegate the money between them as 1/4ths. So I seem to have come to the same conclusion as DH, which makes me feel pretty confident in my conclusion considering DH seems to be a pretty smart guy.

Welcome to the forum, hope you enjoy it! It is always nice to get new members although an introductory post would probably be more appropriate here, in the "Introduce Yourself Thread".

Yeah that is the book I am really interested in, first I am reading the second though. However, I am at chapter 3 and so far it has been a hundred page ass-kissing of Steve Jobs.

Got two new books for Christmas, one seems rather lame and hopefully you guys know what one it is: Googled: The end of the world as we know it by Ken Auletta How Google has changed over the last decade, and how it's innovations have changed the way media works. Inside Steve's Brain: Expanded edition by Leander Kahney A look inside the mind of Steve Jobs, former CEO of Apple.

Hmm. . . I have been a member for a couple months now and have made a plethora of posts, but I never noticed there was an introduce yourself page. . . Well I guess better late than never. My name is James aka: toastywombel. I am 20 years old. I fancy reading, programming, computing, physics, mathematics, engineering (I still play with legos yes), and music (I play guitar, piano, and a mean triangle ). I would consider myself the underachiever that every girl wants to sleep with, minus the every girl thing and them wanting to sleep with me thing . I graduated high school with a 4.0 GPA. I work at two part-time jobs, and am currently attending college. My current major is liberal arts but that major is really just an unknown variable which I plan to replace with something a little more respectable. I am very unsure of what I want from college and life itself. This is a science forum though, not an online therapist's office so this will have to conclude this brief synopsis of my existence.