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[crisdecuba]

The FCC's timeline to get location data up to snuff is based on VoLTE, which is less than two years old, and less than a year old being adopted by US carriers, which is disingenuous when the episode frames this a solution long overdue.

Regardless of the age of the VoLTE, it's still long overdue.

Dominos and Uber use your phone's GPS, which mobile phone frameworks heavily control to protect your privacy. You do not want the government having access to your location at all times. This should be a no-brainer.

So basically there's no way to solve for this such that the location data would only be made available when dialing 911? What?

If the government were to make a curated "emergency" app, who would be making this? Maybe we can get the fucking geniuses behind healthcare.gov to make it, that'd be super reliable. /s

this sounds more like a quip than an argument, and I'm not sure if the sarcasm applies to the entire point or just the healthcare.gov reference, but I hope you're not saying we shouldn't even try.

The 80% or 4/5 figures John uses to forecast how many calls will successfully transmit usable location data by 2021 is misleading because with VoLTE it will transmit 100% of the time for those people with the phones or in geographic locations where it's possible to transmit data, but the people who are in bad geographic locations or have older technology, THOSE are the 20%. The last segment with Rob Riggle has a joke where they'll find you 100% of the time... 80% of the time, basically making it sound like it's a roll of the dice, when that's total bullshit.

That's a completely fair criticism.

 

[BrokenFiction]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BFwpvHMiRqM/


/Dead

Holy shit. This is the best thing ever.

 

[Matt]

As a Canadian, I'm not sure why the US government let's all these states do whatever they want with rules regarding their caucuses and primaries. The biggest crime from all of this is just how plain inconsistent it is between state lines. No wonder people feel disenfranchised.

Political parties are private organizations, not government entities.

 

[Arkeband]

Loved the call out of Bernie supporters since there are virtually only 2 types of people that comment on all YouTube videos dealing with politics on every major news channel, Bernie people and Trump people.

Is the Hillary demographic too old for social media?

(half kidding, she does do better the older the voter is, who vote more)

 

[gabbo]

Well, time to add another to the list of "world leaders John Oliver has had a direct response from"

This one, relatively tame too, comparatively

 

[mclem]

And the BBC noticed.

 

[Fuzzy]

Fuck you Oprah!

 

[TAJ]

It's weirder to see Filipinos defending the guy in the comments.

"Bububu the trains will run on time."

 

[AlexBasch]

Did....did he actually do that?

 

[Zeyphersan]

New episode isn't playing for me in the HBO Go app, and it's the only one that doesn't. Every other episode plays fine

Edit: and Lo, it's working now!

 

[Cheesemeister]

Video: Debt Buyers

 

[firehawk12]

That's gotta be their best stunt.

 

[Poltergust]

Those 9,000 people are gonna be really happy lol.

 

[Aselith]

If it's that inexpensive I'm surprised more activist millionaires don't do this (or maybe they do and you just don't hear about it.) 60k to clear 15 million debt is huge.

 

[Einchy]

The behind the scenes footage was pretty fucking infuriating.

 

[BasicMath]

That was a really nice segment.

If it's that inexpensive I'm surprised more activist millionaires don't do this (or maybe they do and you just don't hear about it.) 60k to clear 15 million debt is huge.

I think it ends up being somewhat inefficient. It was out of statute debt so I don't think the debtors had to pay it back at all. Some are tricked into paying though. So only a portion of those 9k individuals would have bothered paying without consequence and even then they wouldn't have paid in full.

 

[Feep]

Incredible ending.

 

[Keasar]

I wonder if this will go down into history books as "Remember the time America was about to vote in a guy who was worse than Nixon and KNEW he was? Yeah! That shit happened! What the fuck did we take that year!?"

Edit: What the fuck!? Those debt collector phone calls holy fucking shitballs. You know, I usually am very verbal about the second amendment in America but I am starting to see the reason why they wanna load the fuck up on shotguns. It's a shame that those shotguns then are used on the wrong people because cunts like the guy who admitted on a hidden camera that its his favourite thing to "call the bosses of people" who "owe" him money needs to be fucking shot.

 

[The Dutch Slayer]

 

[Keasar]

Great ending truly.

"Fuck you Oprah!"

In reality those were more true words than he let on, he failed to mention the fact that people who won those cars had to pay tax on those cars around 6000 or 7000 dollars, a amount that Oprah didn't pay despite her gigantic wealth and ownership in the show at that time. Many of those cars had to be returned because people couldn't afford to pay for it or was immediately resold to pay for that tax and hopefully get any extra earnings to pay for bills. Nobody really "got" a car, they got a heavy discount on a car.

Then there is that Oprah gave birth to fucking Dr. "Dickhead" Phil, falsely told people about miracle cures and other bullshit medicine which in fact hurt people more than saved them, promoting faith healing several times that could kill people who seek it rather than doctors because of her.

Oprah was a cunt and I am glad she is gone. Fucking hell she enrages the shit out of me.

Phew, sorry for that rant had to get it out of my system.

 

[Hasney]

"I AM THE NEW QUEEN OF DAYTIME TELEVISION" - John Oliver, 2016

 

[Volimar]

Great ending truly.

"Fuck you Oprah!"

In reality those were more true words than he let on, he failed to mention the fact that people who won those cars had to pay tax on those cars around 6000 or 7000 dollars, a amount that Oprah didn't pay despite her gigantic wealth and ownership in the show at that time. Many of those cars had to be returned because people couldn't afford to pay for it or was immediately resold to pay for that tax and hopefully get any extra earnings to pay for bills. Nobody really "got" a car, they got a heavy discount on a car.

Then there is that Oprah gave birth to fucking Dr. "Dickhead" Phil, falsely told people about miracle cures and other bullshit medicine which in fact hurt people more than saved them, promoting faith healing several times that could kill people who seek it rather than doctors because of her.

Oprah was a cunt and I am glad she is gone. Fucking hell she enrages the shit out of me.

Phew, sorry for that rant had to get it out of my system.

Except we still got Phil and Oz...

 

[PHOENIXZERO]

I wonder if this will go down into history books as "Remember the time America was about to vote in a guy who was worse than Nixon and KNEW he was? Yeah! That shit happened! What the fuck did we take that year!?"

Edit: What the fuck!? Those debt collector phone calls holy fucking shitballs. You know, I usually am very verbal about the second amendment in America but I am starting to see the reason why they wanna load the fuck up on shotguns. It's a shame that those shotguns then are used on the wrong people because cunts like the guy who admitted on a hidden camera that its his favourite thing to "call the bosses of people" who "owe" him money needs to be fucking shot.

Their tactics are often illegal too.

I had a "run in" with Encore through Midland CM like ten years ago, fun times as they tried to collect a debt that shouldn't have existed as it was on an old phone bill that I had already resolved with Ameritech but they wouldn't hear anything of it. Some years later I got a notification of a settlement that had been reached in one of the many class action lawsuits against them which I kind of regret agreeing to since I could've gotten gotten a lot more had I actually sued them myself. They get sued a lot but unfortunately the settlements seem to be a pittance compared to what they make since they keep happening and they just keep settling.

 

[DrForester]

So...


Why can't I buy my student debt for pennies on the dollar?

 

[Rentahamster]

I wonder if I could set up a company that buys debt for cheap, and then just sells it back to the individual debtors themselves for as cheap as possible, making only enough profit to cover administrative costs.

 

[Rentahamster]

So...


Why can't I buy my student debt for pennies on the dollar?

I'm guessing that if they made it that easy, then the debt buying industry wouldn't be able to profit out of the hot potato game of passing it along from buyer to buyer, as Oliver was outlining in the beginning.

 

[nubbe]

a true hero

regulations are good

 

[gabbo]

I wonder if I could set up a company that buys debt for cheap, and then just sells it back to the individual debtors themselves for as cheap as possible, making only enough profit to cover administrative costs.

In theory, you very well could

 

[Patryn]

So...


Why can't I buy my student debt for pennies on the dollar?

You possibly could, but only if you defaulted on it and avoided debt collectors to the point that the original creditor was willing to sell it. Even then, you'd have to find the right agency and likely have to buy the bulk package that included your debt along with thousands of others.

I don't think they sell individual debts.

 

[Vigilant Walrus]

I wonder if Oliver is going to talk about the shooting. After the paris shooting he briefly mentioned it. Given that they need a full week to prepare a segment is it unlikely that he will focus on guns in this episode?


Gun control is one of the things he hasn't hasn't tackled, but he did such a good job of it on the Daily Show; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pOiOhxujsE&index=1&list=PLOKWcH1zBl2kfnCwyyZWk5MW28lgaNa7L < this is a must watch if you havent seen it. IT'S SO FUCKING TRUE.





I also wonder if he will attack Trump again give todays tweet. It's borderline enticing religious hatred. Last Week Tonight has dealt with disgusting tweets before ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG_7xur1iRc ), but the manner of todays tweet might be one of the most offensive things I have ever seen on twitter, or just generally from a high profile politician.

It's weird thinking back that this, unrelated video was the first time back 2014 that they mentioned Trump on the Show; https://youtu.be/oDPCmmZifE8?t=4m37s

It's weird that 8 months ago he said on Colbert he didn't give a shit about Trump. I don't think even they forsaw how much everyone would talk about Trump; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jP5AAA1XgQ

Now it's almost expected of John Oliver to tackle this piece of shit. It's weird of he has gone from being comedy material and a fun conservationist object to this.

 

[bootsthecat]

Is the show taped same-day? I figured a day or two ahead.

 

[Vyse24]

Is the show taped same-day? I figured a day or two ahead.

Shows are taped at 7pm East same day.

 

[Tuck]

I imagine he'll touch on it. He's done similar before.

 

[royalan]

Funny segment, but John completely missed the mark on Hillary's twitter war with Donald. The point of that WAS to engage Trump on his terf and beat him, which she did, judging the by the hundreds of thousands of likes she got.

 

[thoseAREmySHOES]

Funny segment, but John completely missed the mark on Hillary's twitter war with Donald. The point of that WAS to engage Trump on his terf and beat him, which she did, judging the by the hundreds of thousands of likes she got.

John directly addressed the fact that getting a ton of likes doesn't truly mean anything. His main point still stands - Hilary may have made a small dent in Trump's social media tank, but it's still a fucking tank that will steamroll you.


Edit: Also, I happen to work for the company whose commercials were the basis for the main story tonight. I don't work in the financial advising side of things, but still, I wonder if they will even acknowledge this segment.

 

[BrokenFiction]

Agreed. He fundamentally doesn't get it. Taking the fight to tiny hands keeps him off balance, distracted, and reacting.

 

[thestopsign]

I was thrown off by that segment too. I think he didn't really grasp it. In fact, I think he was the one reducing the level of discourse on actual events that happened in this past week. That was a fun little jab by the Clinton team, there were much more important, substantial things that happened that could have been covered.

As for the retirement savings section, none of that was too surprising to me. I did do a quick double check of what was going on in mine real quick to check for the fees and what not during the show. I rearranged my future distribution of my pay check into the account a bit as it was a little concentrated in one fund. My highest combined fee total is 1.09% for an international stock fund, but only a small fraction of what goes into my 401k goes into that. The rest range from 0.2% to 0.67% which seems low enough. I'm not an expert though.

 

[Hazmat]

I feel like the opening segment (of the real show, not the comment on the day's news) was an attempt to do some pussy-ass Jon Stewart-esque "both sides are idiots" to try and not seem one-sided and it fell flat. They (randomly) picked the wrong week to try and equivocate Clinton and Trump.

 

[Donthizz#]

Miss Jon stewart in times like these.

 

[Oblivion]

I feel like the opening segment (of the real show, not the comment on the day's news) was an attempt to do some pussy-ass Jon Stewart-esque "both sides are idiots" to try and not seem one-sided and it fell flat. They (randomly) picked the wrong week to try and equivocate Clinton and Trump.

Oh great. Did they talk about emails?

edit: oh the Twitter thing.

 

[Already Torn]

I feel like the opening segment (of the real show, not the comment on the day's news) was an attempt to do some pussy-ass Jon Stewart-esque "both sides are idiots" to try and not seem one-sided and it fell flat. They (randomly) picked the wrong week to try and equivocate Clinton and Trump.

Yeah, it was weird. I justified it by imagining that John's writing staff has a lot of Berners.

 

[Codeblue]

Gun control is one of the things he hasn't hasn't tackled, but he did such a good job of it on the Daily Show; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pOiOhxujsE&index=1&list=PLOKWcH1zBl2kfnCwyyZWk5MW28lgaNa7L < this is a must watch if you havent seen it. IT'S SO FUCKING TRUE.

It's painful to watch, honestly. Imagine if we had zero massacres since Columbine, or Virginia Tech, or Aurora, or Sandy Hook. Imagine all the people that would still be with us. It's infuriating.

 

[Aselith]

I was thrown off by that segment too. I think he didn't really grasp it. In fact, I think he was the one reducing the level of discourse on actual events that happened in this past week. That was a fun little jab by the Clinton team, there were much more important, substantial things that happened that could have been covered.

No it was dumb on her part to engage in that and he was right to call her on it

 

[demon]

Funny segment, but John completely missed the mark on Hillary's twitter war with Donald. The point of that WAS to engage Trump on his terf and beat him, which she did, judging the by the hundreds of thousands of likes she got.

Hundreds of thousands of tweet likes from her own supporters doesn't mean shit. Drumpf tweeted some bullshit, Hillary tweeted back "lol delete ur account", Drumpf got back at her with more bullshit, and it will continue on and on. The whole thing is pretty sad and it's depressing to see a non-joke presidential candidate be reduced to this kind of bullshit.

 

[gabbo]

Hundreds of thousands of tweet likes from her own supporters doesn't mean shit. Drumpf tweeted some bullshit, Hillary tweeted back "lol delete ur account", Drumpf got back at her with more bullshit, and it will continue on and on. The whole thing is pretty sad and it's depressing to see a non-joke presidential candidate be reduced to this kind of bullshit.

Only if she continues to respond to him.

 

[DrForester]

That song....

 

[Fuzzy]

That song....

It's always funny seeing a kid swearing in a song.

 

[Van]

What's tonight's segment, not by my TV atm?

 

[Fuzzy]

What's tonight's segment, not by my TV atm?

First half was about NRA/gun control. Second half was about Brexit.

 

[chaobreaker]

Main segment is just one of those segments you know will get a disproportionate amount of dislikes on YT.