They're not doing it because they want to do ban stuff, they're doing it to appeal to the interest groups... and in 2019, the strongest group of twats that go around telling people what they can do, say or create is the SJWs and the mutated monstrosity of Feminism that we have today. Things start noble, then they distort and starts being used as a reason to oppress ideas and creations of people they don't like. So, boobs in the game ? No way. #MeToo movement.
Violence ? Sure, why not.. there's nobody with any sort of influence going about and preaching Anti-Violence.. so we'll allow that, besides... humans thrive on violence, what we gonna sell, if not violence ? Sex ???
In reality... everybody should be anti violence, not anti sex... or anti tits.. but that's the irony of it. Violence used to suppress everything...
> Good. Their "rights" to liberty absolutely terminate when they endanger the lives of others.
Fair enough. But don't marginalize "right to liberty". These edge cases are not an excuse to trump on "right to liberty", they are edge cases that are exceptions to the rational point, and they are a slipper slope that should be debated, not shunned and marginalized as "fuck your liberty, you're killing my child, oh think of the children".
If you really care about children fucking shut down pizza companies and mcdonalds and all other that stuff their (fast) food with questionable ingredients that are engineered to last forever and are increasing people chances of cancer, diabetes, and gazillion other diseases.
> Churning streaming services will become the norm
I'm sick of it, and the fucking games these people do, I'm bored of it.
So, I found a "pirate iptv provider", downloaded his app, and payed the bloke $10 dollars to get access to 1000 movies, 500 tv shows, and the rest.
The point is... you try to play nice, you try to pay, and they screw you up with either limited access to content (if you're outside of the US), or they play these stupid games were you have to subscribe to 4 content providers.
I'm not marketing anything, or naming anything... I'm just venting.
I mostly see people calling for a lynch of entertainers that they perceive as white nationalists... seriously, I'm just waiting for pitchforks.
I've been on youtube quite a lot watching all kind of crap, so far... I've never seen a video promoting nazism or white supremacy... seriously, have you ?
There might be one guy that 5 people care about, and that's it. What's this "white nationalist" bullshit going around ? Where, and who are these white nationalists that are threat to anybody ? Not counting those 5 dudes.
These people are so marginalized it's stupid even to talk about them... I would care more about black nationalists in South Africa that are openly calling for violence against white farmers, than anything else.
Why bother ? Add ton of complexity just because something unimportant like this can fail once every 10 years ?
Better set up monitoring of some sort that if the computer don't display what's it supposed to display send you SMS or automatically reboots the machine... but even that, why bother ?
> Outside of major issues, most of the flights I have been on have arrived early. It is actually a Good Thing when something does delay a flight and it still arrives on schedule. It's actually a Great Thing when a small delay in departure can result in no delay in arrival.
For small delays they can just fly faster. It's well known that airplanes fly at slower speeds (optimum cruising speed) to save fuel. It's like you driving your car 80 km/h, or driving it 150 km/h.
If they are 20 minutes behind schedule, they can just up the speed.
To be honest, I drive better drunk than some people sober. I'm not driving "drunk" as in wasted, but sometimes i do have a beer or two, and drive home., but in some countries the limit is so low you can have a small beer and you will still be legally drunk, which is absolutely retarded. In these cases, I better drive drunk than my gf who just got her driving licence and is struggling to figure out where the car is on the road.
I just want to say that "drunk" is relative. Bloke that drives for 40 years is better driving "drunk" than a beginner that got their driving license 2 months ago.
> This is not 'a machine can be fooled like a human', it's a reminder that the machine is still a *lot* dumber than a human.
And it always will be, until it stops being a machine.
It's the self preservation instinct that most modern people forget its there that keeps you alive in, among hundreds of other situations, this one too.
Some of it its genetic.. it's "just there" and science still don't fully understand how. Some of it its learned by constantly falling down, bumping into things, scratching and damaging yourself more significantly (falling from a bicycle etc.),etc. and feeling pain, and realization that you can 'disappear' if you're not careful. (realization of death, accidental or otherwise).
Cars could not give a fuck if you or it disappears because a sticker tricked it into changing lanes and banging into a road divider. Until it starts giving a fuck about its own life, I'm not trusting it with my life, no matter how many hours of "training" it had.
Yeah! Better have it set by Vaxxers, Anti-Vaxxers, Pro-Immigration, Anti-Immigration, Globalists, Anti Globalists.. and let them define what "hate" speech is, what "fake" news is.
The only solution is to stop policing altogether, if you can't handle facebook posts, how the fuck are you going to handle life ?
I say throw them in the water, like mother bird pushes baby birds of a cliff to learn flying. You are not separate from nature, stop isolating yourself from it.
> Apple and others (John Deere, to pick another industry) consistently lobby against right-to-repair laws. I've heard plenty of arguments in favor of RTR, but I've rarely heard a credible argument against. Is there a reason, outside of greed, that we shouldn't be able to have access to documentation and parts for devices we own?
No.
The idea is to constantly sell new, and the new is supposed to last just enough so you don't complain.
That's why all of them laptops, phones, etc. You're basically on their mercy, and even changing a battery is borderline impossible.
So, yes.. Greed rules all. Capitalism has ability to evolve into this, and given chance.. it will, as it did.
> This is to prevent discourse on his attempts to maintain power beyond his constitutional term, whether by the Belarus union option or other means.
I don't care about Putin. But one thing's for sure - Putin don't need no internet bill to stay at power and people complaining about it. You cannot stay in power if you enact bills like this, it will not help, and people like Putin are not stupid to think that law can help them stay in power. What they do is they allow other people to get elected, and these other people are just muppets for people like Putin (like Dmitry Medvedev).
Times of forcing people to do anything is far gone. Now, you manipulate them to think they got what they want.
> Bad pilots are a fact of life, hence the only way to protect passengers from pilots is more automation, not less.
Airline: Here you go son... you just sit here, and let the machine take care of the rest!!
( sensor fails, and you hit a bird simultaneously )
Airplane: WARNING !! Plane is stalling, I'm gonna dive down in a second!!!
Pilot (waking up from his sleep): WTF !?!?? PULL UP PULL UP!!!
You can just as well argue the opposite. People tend to not get trained properly because machine does it by itself. People tend to "nod off", like that guy in the Uber car or whatever that ran over a woman when you make them useful in only 5 % of the cases... and a dozen more issues i could think off of the top of my head because of the "automation".
> I'm guessing this happened because the requirements only said to ask for ethnicity but failed to include the list. The developer went and found an obviously wrong list to force testing/acceptance to return a proper list. They all failed.
No, the only ones who failed are the media and people that got offended by this.
I mean... just fuck off with being offended *ALL THE TIME*. Out of 2 billion people on internet, there's always someone bitching about how they are offended by something, it's borderline impossible to put anything up on internet anymore without consulting a law firm....
Mulatto ? So fucking what ?
Jesus Christ. Are you people so bored, self centered and nationalistic that these things matter to you ? If you are...I don't know. I pity you, and you should start questioning your existence.
> As opposed to the rest of the 1st world countries which manage to have affordable and working health care systems. Canada, France, UK etc all have single payer systems with working hospitals and better health outcomes at a fraction of the price.
What you, and the commentators above your post, don't understand is that American health care industry is not there to help you, but to make a profit out of you. Helping you is just a consequence of this method of generating money. Whatever is income positive outcome of the studies they do, that's how it's going to be.
You can deny it, stick your head in the sand and carry on thinking you live in a system in which you matter.... and you have a voice / vote. I'm laughing at your post now, and I know I will be laughing in 10 years when you write the same one again on similar topic.
I don't have science or evidence behind this. I don't even know that such exists, but I know what I'm seeing around me.. and this is how stuff work:
- If something happens very quickly - usually there's a disturbance that negatively affect everything that's related to the change, but all balances out eventually
- If it happens gradually, the things around it change in such a way to adapt... to the new situation.
Example of first case -
Bees disappear tomorrow, all of them. It would destroy the things closest to the Bees, like flowers / whatever, because pollination.
In span of XX years, new kind of flowers would evolve, that don't depend on Beees, but rather something else - whatever it might be.
In the second case -
Bees disappear gradually over a span of 100-200 years. While they are disappearing, because of the new, hardened conditions the flowers and plants live in, they change and evolve to account for the lack of bees.
What I really want to say is... our planet, and our environment is a living, changing organism that adapts itself to the new conditions. Our perspective is based on timespans of 60-80 years, which are our lifetimes, as something that matters. We're judging events by that small subset of data. It's like geologist taking 1 milimeter of earth surface, and start drawing conclusions about the whole planet from this little 1 millimeter of dirt.
I bet you that in 120 thousand years, the animals and insects and everything else will be quite different than what it is today. Change is good, change is normal... and everything is supposed to die at one time or another, nothing is permanent.
I hate ads, personalized or not, and I use an adblocker. However, I also run a site that requires hours of attention every day from multiple people, and many of people here use it often.
When we suggest our users to do donations, they refused.
When we suggested premium membership model, they refused.
99% of the users want the content that 4 people maintain, for free, demand it what's more, and we even got blamed that we're extorting users by having a premium membership and ads, not realizing that if the ads were gone tomorrow - the service would be gone too.. and premium membership was a way for us to DISABLE ads. Eventually, we got rid of premium as it was useless.
Don't want personalized or otherwise fucking ads ? Pay for the shit you use, because... I don't get the servers for free, nor the bandwidth... nor the knowledge how to program, set servers up, maintain all of that and create content.
> How to tell the difference between a "rich" kid and a "poor" kid:
> A "rich" kid wears a $349 Apple Watch.
> A "poor" kid wears a pair of $349 Nikes.
I was poor when I was young. My parents had a saying... "I'm too poor to buy knock off cheap stuff".
> It's alive and well server-side. It's dead on the desktop because it's dreadful, slow, memory-hungry and extremely annoying each time Oracle forcibly imposes things that break legacy applications.
So, it's not dreadful, slow and memory hungry / annoying on servers ?
Somewhat offtopic, but as a systems guy, I really have when people put absolute shite on servers just because the boss is rich and can afford to stick 32 gb of RAM in it.
Developers are even worse nowdays. For example, software like this (its' a restapi documentation generator): https://github.com/tmcw/docbox
Takes approx 120 mb of disk space to be installed (3rd party packages). This 'software' can be coded in 100 kb of code, why the fuck does it download 120 mb of 3rd party packages ?
That's developers. Oh, there's a package for that functionality we need, but the packages has ton of other stuff too... never mind, just use it... hard drives are cheap. Not to mention security implications of using 30 different packges full of crap coded by 30 different people. In Javascript and PHP world, you'll see this as normal.
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So,all they are plastics in the wind ?
They're not doing it because they want to do ban stuff, they're doing it to appeal to the interest groups ... and in 2019, the strongest group of twats that go around telling people what they can do, say or create is the SJWs and the mutated monstrosity of Feminism that we have today. Things start noble, then they distort and starts being used as a reason to oppress ideas and creations of people they don't like. So, boobs in the game ? No way. #MeToo movement.
.. there's nobody with any sort of influence going about and preaching Anti-Violence .. so we'll allow that, besides... humans thrive on violence, what we gonna sell, if not violence ? Sex ???
...
Violence ? Sure, why not
In reality... everybody should be anti violence, not anti sex... or anti tits.. but that's the irony of it. Violence used to suppress everything
> Repeat a lie often enough and people start to believe it.
Great example... Russia story.
Just run something through the 5 main media channels for 6 months, and it's a fact.
> Good. Their "rights" to liberty absolutely terminate when they endanger the lives of others.
Fair enough. But don't marginalize "right to liberty". These edge cases are not an excuse to trump on "right to liberty", they are edge cases that are exceptions to the rational point, and they are a slipper slope that should be debated, not shunned and marginalized as "fuck your liberty, you're killing my child, oh think of the children".
If you really care about children fucking shut down pizza companies and mcdonalds and all other that stuff their (fast) food with questionable ingredients that are engineered to last forever and are increasing people chances of cancer, diabetes, and gazillion other diseases.
It's a requirement by the USG.
I was being ironic, but seriously... would you be surprised, knowing what we know today ?
> Churning streaming services will become the norm
... you try to play nice, you try to pay, and they screw you up with either limited access to content (if you're outside of the US), or they play these stupid games were you have to subscribe to 4 content providers.
... I'm just venting.
I'm sick of it, and the fucking games these people do, I'm bored of it.
So, I found a "pirate iptv provider", downloaded his app, and payed the bloke $10 dollars to get access to 1000 movies, 500 tv shows, and the rest.
The point is
I'm not marketing anything, or naming anything
I mostly see people calling for a lynch of entertainers that they perceive as white nationalists... seriously, I'm just waiting for pitchforks.
I've been on youtube quite a lot watching all kind of crap, so far... I've never seen a video promoting nazism or white supremacy... seriously, have you ?
There might be one guy that 5 people care about, and that's it. What's this "white nationalist" bullshit going around ? Where, and who are these white nationalists that are threat to anybody ? Not counting those 5 dudes.
These people are so marginalized it's stupid even to talk about them... I would care more about black nationalists in South Africa that are openly calling for violence against white farmers, than anything else.
Why bother ? Add ton of complexity just because something unimportant like this can fail once every 10 years ?
Better set up monitoring of some sort that if the computer don't display what's it supposed to display send you SMS or automatically reboots the machine... but even that, why bother ?
> Outside of major issues, most of the flights I have been on have arrived early. It is actually a Good Thing when something does delay a flight and it still arrives on schedule. It's actually a Great Thing when a small delay in departure can result in no delay in arrival.
For small delays they can just fly faster. It's well known that airplanes fly at slower speeds (optimum cruising speed) to save fuel. It's like you driving your car 80 km/h, or driving it 150 km/h.
If they are 20 minutes behind schedule, they can just up the speed.
To be honest, I drive better drunk than some people sober. I'm not driving "drunk" as in wasted, but sometimes i do have a beer or two, and drive home., but in some countries the limit is so low you can have a small beer and you will still be legally drunk, which is absolutely retarded. In these cases, I better drive drunk than my gf who just got her driving licence and is struggling to figure out where the car is on the road.
I just want to say that "drunk" is relative. Bloke that drives for 40 years is better driving "drunk" than a beginner that got their driving license 2 months ago.
> This is not 'a machine can be fooled like a human', it's a reminder that the machine is still a *lot* dumber than a human.
.. it's "just there" and science still don't fully understand how. Some of it its learned by constantly falling down, bumping into things, scratching and damaging yourself more significantly (falling from a bicycle etc.),etc. and feeling pain, and realization that you can 'disappear' if you're not careful. (realization of death, accidental or otherwise).
And it always will be, until it stops being a machine.
It's the self preservation instinct that most modern people forget its there that keeps you alive in, among hundreds of other situations, this one too.
Some of it its genetic
Cars could not give a fuck if you or it disappears because a sticker tricked it into changing lanes and banging into a road divider. Until it starts giving a fuck about its own life, I'm not trusting it with my life, no matter how many hours of "training" it had.
Yeah! Better have it set by Vaxxers, Anti-Vaxxers, Pro-Immigration, Anti-Immigration, Globalists, Anti Globalists.. and let them define what "hate" speech is, what "fake" news is.
The only solution is to stop policing altogether, if you can't handle facebook posts, how the fuck are you going to handle life ?
I say throw them in the water, like mother bird pushes baby birds of a cliff to learn flying. You are not separate from nature, stop isolating yourself from it.
Fuck the censors, be it government or private.
> No it doesn't. I can measure climate change
_YOU_ can measure it in very small time increment. It might be warming up for the next 4000 years, it does not necessarily mean that's not by design.
We live 70-80 years, and we judge events based on that because we're so egocentric.
> Apple and others (John Deere, to pick another industry) consistently lobby against right-to-repair laws. I've heard plenty of arguments in favor of RTR, but I've rarely heard a credible argument against. Is there a reason, outside of greed, that we shouldn't be able to have access to documentation and parts for devices we own?
.. it will, as it did.
No.
The idea is to constantly sell new, and the new is supposed to last just enough so you don't complain.
That's why all of them laptops, phones, etc. You're basically on their mercy, and even changing a battery is borderline impossible.
So, yes.. Greed rules all. Capitalism has ability to evolve into this, and given chance
> This is to prevent discourse on his attempts to maintain power beyond his constitutional term, whether by the Belarus union option or other means.
I don't care about Putin. But one thing's for sure - Putin don't need no internet bill to stay at power and people complaining about it. You cannot stay in power if you enact bills like this, it will not help, and people like Putin are not stupid to think that law can help them stay in power. What they do is they allow other people to get elected, and these other people are just muppets for people like Putin (like Dmitry Medvedev).
Times of forcing people to do anything is far gone. Now, you manipulate them to think they got what they want.
> Bad pilots are a fact of life, hence the only way to protect passengers from pilots is more automation, not less.
Airline: Here you go son... you just sit here, and let the machine take care of the rest!!
( sensor fails, and you hit a bird simultaneously )
Airplane: WARNING !! Plane is stalling, I'm gonna dive down in a second!!!
Pilot (waking up from his sleep): WTF !?!?? PULL UP PULL UP!!!
You can just as well argue the opposite. People tend to not get trained properly because machine does it by itself. People tend to "nod off", like that guy in the Uber car or whatever that ran over a woman when you make them useful in only 5 % of the cases... and a dozen more issues i could think off of the top of my head because of the "automation".
> Computers should never have the last say in flying an airliner.
Applies to cars too, and other machinery.
But people usually say this AFTER some crap already happened. Like you did just now.
> I'm guessing this happened because the requirements only said to ask for ethnicity but failed to include the list. The developer went and found an obviously wrong list to force testing/acceptance to return a proper list. They all failed.
No, the only ones who failed are the media and people that got offended by this.
I mean... just fuck off with being offended *ALL THE TIME*. Out of 2 billion people on internet, there's always someone bitching about how they are offended by something, it's borderline impossible to put anything up on internet anymore without consulting a law firm....
Mulatto ? So fucking what ?
Jesus Christ. Are you people so bored, self centered and nationalistic that these things matter to you ? If you are...I don't know. I pity you, and you should start questioning your existence.
> If only we could get some politicians to undergo this procedure...
If we could get 90 % of the population to undergo this procedure...
Think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of 'em are stupider than that. - George Carlin
> As opposed to the rest of the 1st world countries which manage to have affordable and working health care systems. Canada, France, UK etc all have single payer systems with working hospitals and better health outcomes at a fraction of the price.
What you, and the commentators above your post, don't understand is that American health care industry is not there to help you, but to make a profit out of you. Helping you is just a consequence of this method of generating money. Whatever is income positive outcome of the studies they do, that's how it's going to be.
You can deny it, stick your head in the sand and carry on thinking you live in a system in which you matter.... and you have a voice / vote. I'm laughing at your post now, and I know I will be laughing in 10 years when you write the same one again on similar topic.
I don't have science or evidence behind this. I don't even know that such exists, but I know what I'm seeing around me.. and this is how stuff work:
... to the new situation.
- If something happens very quickly - usually there's a disturbance that negatively affect everything that's related to the change, but all balances out eventually
- If it happens gradually, the things around it change in such a way to adapt
Example of first case -
Bees disappear tomorrow, all of them. It would destroy the things closest to the Bees, like flowers / whatever, because pollination.
In span of XX years, new kind of flowers would evolve, that don't depend on Beees, but rather something else - whatever it might be.
In the second case -
Bees disappear gradually over a span of 100-200 years. While they are disappearing, because of the new, hardened conditions the flowers and plants live in, they change and evolve to account for the lack of bees.
What I really want to say is... our planet, and our environment is a living, changing organism that adapts itself to the new conditions. Our perspective is based on timespans of 60-80 years, which are our lifetimes, as something that matters. We're judging events by that small subset of data. It's like geologist taking 1 milimeter of earth surface, and start drawing conclusions about the whole planet from this little 1 millimeter of dirt.
I bet you that in 120 thousand years, the animals and insects and everything else will be quite different than what it is today. Change is good, change is normal... and everything is supposed to die at one time or another, nothing is permanent.
I hate ads, personalized or not, and I use an adblocker. However, I also run a site that requires hours of attention every day from multiple people, and many of people here use it often.
... I don't get the servers for free, nor the bandwidth... nor the knowledge how to program, set servers up, maintain all of that and create content.
When we suggest our users to do donations, they refused.
When we suggested premium membership model, they refused.
99% of the users want the content that 4 people maintain, for free, demand it what's more, and we even got blamed that we're extorting users by having a premium membership and ads, not realizing that if the ads were gone tomorrow - the service would be gone too.. and premium membership was a way for us to DISABLE ads. Eventually, we got rid of premium as it was useless.
Don't want personalized or otherwise fucking ads ? Pay for the shit you use, because
Well imagine that, it's not about climate change.
I got used to everything being blamed on climate change.
> How to tell the difference between a "rich" kid and a "poor" kid:
... "I'm too poor to buy knock off cheap stuff".
> A "rich" kid wears a $349 Apple Watch.
> A "poor" kid wears a pair of $349 Nikes.
I was poor when I was young. My parents had a saying
> It's alive and well server-side. It's dead on the desktop because it's dreadful, slow, memory-hungry and extremely annoying each time Oracle forcibly imposes things that break legacy applications.
So, it's not dreadful, slow and memory hungry / annoying on servers ?
Somewhat offtopic, but as a systems guy, I really have when people put absolute shite on servers just because the boss is rich and can afford to stick 32 gb of RAM in it.
Developers are even worse nowdays. For example, software like this (its' a restapi documentation generator):
https://github.com/tmcw/docbox
Takes approx 120 mb of disk space to be installed (3rd party packages). This 'software' can be coded in 100 kb of code, why the fuck does it download 120 mb of 3rd party packages ?
That's developers. Oh, there's a package for that functionality we need, but the packages has ton of other stuff too... never mind, just use it... hard drives are cheap. Not to mention security implications of using 30 different packges full of crap coded by 30 different people. In Javascript and PHP world, you'll see this as normal.