I wonder if there could be any other "guns" we don't know about. Ah the joys of running an unintentional, unplanned geoengineering experiment on your only habitable planet.
Apps are for cows, you bunch of non-HOSTS-file-modifying cows! You are all LUDDITE cows that don't use apps and leave your HOSTS files empty. Moo say the cows. YOU COWS. Apps can run on cows, but HOSTS files can block LUDDITE cows.
Society only *works for* the ones that succeed. For them, it's an exploitable labor pool. That's how you gain superhuman wealth without superhuman productivity, by extracting wealth from the labor of others.
If you're poor on the other hand, society is mostly a collection of unaffordable high-end businesses and maybe some friends who will help you out a bit, if you're not surrounded by too many individualists.
How the actual fuck did you manage to blame 30 years of trickle-down economics damaging the working class on the left? By *blaming the foreigners* they let in, perhaps? No, that was your man Reagan throwing open the floodgates of inequality, with Bush Sr. finishing the job. Own that shit. OWN IT.
You also play on the "liberal elite" fallacy, that there are no working class leftists and as such, anyone on the left struggles to understand working class problems. And then in the next breath the right will push to make voting more difficult for working-class people. So we know that you know that it's horseshit.
It's the right that should be in for a heel realization. Especially if they ever dig right down and find that the core of their ideology is an ancient evil in a human skinsuit. It's entertaining to think about which right-wingers know this and play dumb, and which actually don't know. I think most actually don't know.
Came here to say this. I know two people with Samsungs that are close to 800 motherfucking US dollars, and there are other models from mainstream manufacturers near this price point. $1k isn't a huge step up.
Also, to a rich person, a regular $500 smartphone is pocket change, so a $1k smartphone is just loose change from both their pockets. Extra-high-end $1k smartphones are the untapped market that Vertu must be kicking themselves in the afterlife for missing out on.
Anyone looking over a programmer's shoulder as they pored over line after line like "100001010011" and "000010011110" would have seen just how alienated the programmer was from the actual problems they were trying to solve; it would have been impossible to tell whether they were trying to calculate artillery trajectories or simulate a game of tic-tac-toe.
The tree of low-paperwork gun ownership must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of innocent bystanders and law enforcement officers. Is it safe to assume the country folk at this concert would've been happy to sacrifice their lives for the cause?
If you have $90m, you can build your own private streets to walk down, buy your own private beach, and afford private concerts. They have this figured out...at least up to the point where they're hiding from pretty much everyone. Then their plan is to flee to remote properties on New Zealand, plug their ears and yell "LALALA I'M SAFE IN THIS INHABITED LOWISH-INCOME ISLAND!"
Yeah well human suffering and/or death aren't accounted into the stock price, so GET DEM MONIEZ! Buy low, sell high! Use it to buy perfumes to cover up the stench of human corpses if they start to pile up! Yay capitalism!
The end of the cold war also led to runaway inequality, with no credible communist rival putting political pressure on the US to keep inequality in check, and other Western countries have let themselves go in turn (most recently Germany).
I think you greatly underestimate the power of economies of scale, especially when combined with ever-increasing automation. The amount of goods being produced vs. the number of people making them today vs. in the '70s should illustrate the point.
However, for every one of us, there are dozens of kids we went to school with who'd just never get qualified enough for an interview, let alone a first-line support job.
If the only jobs left are super-advanced, high brain-function type jobs, then 99% of the world just won't be doing much. In that sense, things are somewhat worrisome if AI really does become a 'thing'.
This is already close to what reality looks like for Gen. Y'ers, except it's not simply the highly educated getting the jobs, it's the lucky moderately-to-highly educated. Some of the most educated Gen. Y'ers I know are working in shitty service industry jobs. If anything, being highly educated appears to be just raising the stakes - it's more likely to pay off greatly or hurt you greatly, but any outcomes in between are less likely.
All of the transitions mentioned did eventually create new jobs but only a few of the commenters (and sadly few of the futurists) remember to mention what happened to the transitional generation(s).
This. The famous Luddites didn't go back to work in factories after a few weeks. Their grandchildren and great-grandchildren got the new jobs. The Luddites died in exactly the conditions they were afraid of, believing they were right.
The only thing better than a new Linux phone would be one with a keyboard. I recently had to retire my N900 for a rooted Droid 4 and I'd like to get back to an actual GNU/Linux OS on a phone with a keyboard. Android feels too much like the bad old days of Windows.
Strongly disagree, I almost stopped reading your comment at this point.
Now other than getting up an leaving in a huff because they didn't get their way, they should be asking themselves, what other alternatives to DRM is there that can address the concerns of the 58% who approved of it.
There is no alternative, because of how extreme and perverse DRM is. It's like looking for a compromise between a hippie and an ISIS terrorist. Nothing would come remotely close to satisfying both at the same time.
Since the EFF had no say in a forum that supposedly only makes consensus-based decisions, what's the point of them staying in the W3C other than to have their membership misconstrued as consent?
Too many people, like Musk, are primarily worried about an AI taking over the world more or less directly. This is a somewhat unlikely possibility that requires major advancements in AI.
What they should actually be worried about is AI-powered hyper-inequality and mass unemployment. This is a near-certain possibility that the technology is already mature enough for. If killbots ever roam the streets because of developments in AI, it'll be human beings ordering them around all on their own, the AI will just be making those people very rich and independent.
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Here you go. Took a couple minutes searching:
https://www.skepticalscience.c...
http://www.easterbrook.ca/stev...
Will you stop lying now?
Remember this scary shit?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I wonder if there could be any other "guns" we don't know about. Ah the joys of running an unintentional, unplanned geoengineering experiment on your only habitable planet.
Long-time Slashdot reader apraetor counters, "But how do you determine what is 'true'?"
Red flag! Post-truth nonsense! We have science and live in an objective reality.
But are other things the equivalent of yelling "fire" in a crowded movie theatre?
You mean completely legal speech?
It seems wrong to call someone in such an unscientific and highly politicized field a nerd.
Not even so nice for most who live in those areas. An elite few get high-paying jobs, everyone else ends up on the catching side of gentrification.
"This feature is long overdue and can't come soon enough!" - Blackhats everywhere
Apps are for cows, you bunch of non-HOSTS-file-modifying cows! You are all LUDDITE cows that don't use apps and leave your HOSTS files empty. Moo say the cows. YOU COWS. Apps can run on cows, but HOSTS files can block LUDDITE cows.
Apps!
Society only *works for* the ones that succeed. For them, it's an exploitable labor pool. That's how you gain superhuman wealth without superhuman productivity, by extracting wealth from the labor of others.
If you're poor on the other hand, society is mostly a collection of unaffordable high-end businesses and maybe some friends who will help you out a bit, if you're not surrounded by too many individualists.
How the actual fuck did you manage to blame 30 years of trickle-down economics damaging the working class on the left? By *blaming the foreigners* they let in, perhaps? No, that was your man Reagan throwing open the floodgates of inequality, with Bush Sr. finishing the job. Own that shit. OWN IT.
You also play on the "liberal elite" fallacy, that there are no working class leftists and as such, anyone on the left struggles to understand working class problems. And then in the next breath the right will push to make voting more difficult for working-class people. So we know that you know that it's horseshit.
It's the right that should be in for a heel realization. Especially if they ever dig right down and find that the core of their ideology is an ancient evil in a human skinsuit. It's entertaining to think about which right-wingers know this and play dumb, and which actually don't know. I think most actually don't know.
Came here to say this. I know two people with Samsungs that are close to 800 motherfucking US dollars, and there are other models from mainstream manufacturers near this price point. $1k isn't a huge step up.
Also, to a rich person, a regular $500 smartphone is pocket change, so a $1k smartphone is just loose change from both their pockets. Extra-high-end $1k smartphones are the untapped market that Vertu must be kicking themselves in the afterlife for missing out on.
Anyone looking over a programmer's shoulder as they pored over line after line like "100001010011" and "000010011110" would have seen just how alienated the programmer was from the actual problems they were trying to solve; it would have been impossible to tell whether they were trying to calculate artillery trajectories or simulate a game of tic-tac-toe.
All I see it blonde, brunette, redhead...
The tree of low-paperwork gun ownership must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of innocent bystanders and law enforcement officers. Is it safe to assume the country folk at this concert would've been happy to sacrifice their lives for the cause?
If you have $90m, you can build your own private streets to walk down, buy your own private beach, and afford private concerts. They have this figured out...at least up to the point where they're hiding from pretty much everyone. Then their plan is to flee to remote properties on New Zealand, plug their ears and yell "LALALA I'M SAFE IN THIS INHABITED LOWISH-INCOME ISLAND!"
Yeah well human suffering and/or death aren't accounted into the stock price, so GET DEM MONIEZ! Buy low, sell high! Use it to buy perfumes to cover up the stench of human corpses if they start to pile up! Yay capitalism!
For a wealthy executive, that is 3.5 hours of hookers & blow time saved :-P
The end of the cold war also led to runaway inequality, with no credible communist rival putting political pressure on the US to keep inequality in check, and other Western countries have let themselves go in turn (most recently Germany).
I think you greatly underestimate the power of economies of scale, especially when combined with ever-increasing automation. The amount of goods being produced vs. the number of people making them today vs. in the '70s should illustrate the point.
However, for every one of us, there are dozens of kids we went to school with who'd just never get qualified enough for an interview, let alone a first-line support job.
If the only jobs left are super-advanced, high brain-function type jobs, then 99% of the world just won't be doing much. In that sense, things are somewhat worrisome if AI really does become a 'thing'.
This is already close to what reality looks like for Gen. Y'ers, except it's not simply the highly educated getting the jobs, it's the lucky moderately-to-highly educated. Some of the most educated Gen. Y'ers I know are working in shitty service industry jobs. If anything, being highly educated appears to be just raising the stakes - it's more likely to pay off greatly or hurt you greatly, but any outcomes in between are less likely.
All of the transitions mentioned did eventually create new jobs but only a few of the commenters (and sadly few of the futurists) remember to mention what happened to the transitional generation(s).
This. The famous Luddites didn't go back to work in factories after a few weeks. Their grandchildren and great-grandchildren got the new jobs. The Luddites died in exactly the conditions they were afraid of, believing they were right.
I've been keeping an eye on that. I'd definitely prefer a landscape slider layout to a clamshell for a phone though.
The only thing better than a new Linux phone would be one with a keyboard. I recently had to retire my N900 for a rooted Droid 4 and I'd like to get back to an actual GNU/Linux OS on a phone with a keyboard. Android feels too much like the bad old days of Windows.
Came here to post that he wouldn't have got a second look if he was wearing a hardhat and reflective vest. Yes, even on the computers.
DRM isn't an extreme feature,
Strongly disagree, I almost stopped reading your comment at this point.
Now other than getting up an leaving in a huff because they didn't get their way, they should be asking themselves, what other alternatives to DRM is there that can address the concerns of the 58% who approved of it.
There is no alternative, because of how extreme and perverse DRM is. It's like looking for a compromise between a hippie and an ISIS terrorist. Nothing would come remotely close to satisfying both at the same time.
Since the EFF had no say in a forum that supposedly only makes consensus-based decisions, what's the point of them staying in the W3C other than to have their membership misconstrued as consent?
Too many people, like Musk, are primarily worried about an AI taking over the world more or less directly. This is a somewhat unlikely possibility that requires major advancements in AI.
What they should actually be worried about is AI-powered hyper-inequality and mass unemployment. This is a near-certain possibility that the technology is already mature enough for. If killbots ever roam the streets because of developments in AI, it'll be human beings ordering them around all on their own, the AI will just be making those people very rich and independent.
That's a lot of angry nonsense to express your frustration at crackdowns on hate speech.