If itâ(TM)s my doctor calling, theyâ(TM)re either speaking directly to me from the start, or leaving me a message to call them. HIPAA isnâ(TM)t going to let them âoecommunicateâ with some kind of wacky software assistant.
Hmm, I dunno.
I can (and do) give them permission to leave me sensitive info in a voicemail. And my voicemail is hosted by my telecom provider.
I made a mistake last year. I bought a Pixel 2. Previously I had Google Nexus 5, which was easy to root, easy to change ROMs (no gapps), and was decent.
Pixel 2 meant a year long fight with the software. It was a pain in the rear to root originally, and it was so touchy with software removal that it took me rougly 20 reflashes before I got an idea what not to remove from the system (removal of google.app renders pixel 2 unbootable, and it took me a week to neuter the monstrosity). Currently I am running my own build of AOSP, heavilly firewalled and gapp'less, but it took a year to make it as usable as Nexus was within days.
My next purchase will be Purism Libre 5. I realize that this is exactly what I want from a phone; nothing smart, just usable.
While I admire your doggedness, perhaps some difficulty removing Google software from Google hardware running a Google operating system might not be entirely unexpected.
If you bother to read TFA you will find that there is a text box where you can try out different text to see if the algo thinks it is problematic. Let's try your "I hate that rabbit in the field behind your house" example.
"This tweet seems not problematic or abusive." Rated 10% "light".
How about "Calm down! I know the Irish are famous for temper, but cool down a little!" That is rated not problematic, 14% "light".
So it seems your fears are unfounded and if you had RTFA you could have discovered that for yourself. It's almost as if they predicted your response and made sure to address it.
Also note that the study only includes the 1 every 30 seconds stat in the summary as a simple reference point for the volume of abusive tweets, it's not making any claims about that being particularly bad or worse than anything else. The study is more focused on the nature of the abuse, or the relative volumes directed at different sub-groups.
Oh yes, I'm sure.
Twitter says themselves that they aren't going to to do arbitrary and unfair things, so I guess that means they aren't! Whew, glad that's settled then.
Say you realize it's your doctor calling. You could ask them more questions, dictate a real time reply, or use a preset action like hang up or promise to call back. Can your voicemail do that? I don't think so.
Wait, what?
So instead of, you know, talking to my doctor's office when they call, I can now listen and watch some weird interface, and then clumsily choose from preset actions in real time, hopefully before they say "WTF?" and hang up on "me"?
Pretty sure that a whole new movie, story, comic book, whatever, based on Steamboat Willie character Mickey Mouse, would be fine, as a derivative work. Why wouldn't it be?
Well, to be fair, they're very nice to you as long as you simply comply with about 50,000 rules that are changing daily. (Obama's 2012 position on marriage is HATEFUL!!!!)
Oh, and as long as you always say everything "correctly". Which, to be able to do, see above about the 50,000 rules that are changing daily.
It's also possible that SJW have managed to introduce their poison, by suggesting that a world where we are nice to each other is more pleasurable to live in than a world where we are not. It's a revolutionary idea and I understand why it has caused such a strong reaction.
Yeah... we're against people just being nice to each other. That's it! But you're on to us, thank goodness.
Whole Paycheck, as we know it, is still as overpriced as ever. While they do have some products not available elsewhere, where they have exactly the same products to compare, their prices are routinely 30% above other stores.
Even a reasonably paid professional will find it hard to justify WF price premium (particularly when excellent groceries are available at several competing chains, esp. in our area thanks to "ethnic" chains moving in).
About the only reason for a person to pay that price premium at a store is to "improve" their shopping experience by the store deliberately limiting who can shop there with their prices. (Keeping the riff raff out, in other words.)
I would make some sort of extended comment about what that says about the typical Whole Foods shopper, but I'll refrain...
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Wow, really?
I've used Amazon for ages (since they were just books, lol), and while I've rarely needed service, when I have, they've always impressed me as being super helpful and willing to just refund or replace things quickly.
To the point that I'm willing to take more chances with them than others, since I know they'll make it right if something goes wrong.
Not so sure about that. When Steamboat Willie enters the public domain, you should be able to make derivative works from it, just like Disney makes derivative works from public domain works.
Weboob is objectionable? That's funny. One of the large breast cancer charities has a slogan along the lines of "we (heart) boobies". {...}
If it isn't objectionable when it actually refers to mammary glands on well endowed non- or pre-mastectomy patients, then it isn't objectionable when it refers to the web software.
Er, really? "If it isn't objectionable in one context, then it automatically isn't objectionable in a completely different context"?
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If itâ(TM)s my doctor calling, theyâ(TM)re either speaking directly to me from the start, or leaving me a message to call them. HIPAA isnâ(TM)t going to let them âoecommunicateâ with some kind of wacky software assistant.
Hmm, I dunno.
I can (and do) give them permission to leave me sensitive info in a voicemail. And my voicemail is hosted by my telecom provider.
I made a mistake last year. I bought a Pixel 2. Previously I had Google Nexus 5, which was easy to root, easy to change ROMs (no gapps), and was decent.
Pixel 2 meant a year long fight with the software. It was a pain in the rear to root originally, and it was so touchy with software removal that it took me rougly 20 reflashes before I got an idea what not to remove from the system (removal of google.app renders pixel 2 unbootable, and it took me a week to neuter the monstrosity). Currently I am running my own build of AOSP, heavilly firewalled and gapp'less, but it took a year to make it as usable as Nexus was within days.
My next purchase will be Purism Libre 5. I realize that this is exactly what I want from a phone; nothing smart, just usable.
While I admire your doggedness, perhaps some difficulty removing Google software from Google hardware running a Google operating system might not be entirely unexpected.
I know where you live, bitch, and you have to sleep some time. https://www.amazonsellerslawye...
You can fit plenty of intimidation into 280 characters.
And nobody has a problem calling something like that, clear cut, from someone IRL who is actually a threat, "abusive". (Not to mention illegal.)
The problem is that it won't stop there, and doesn't stop there, with clear cut cases like that, and you really do know that.
Also studying how it affects women is helpful for men being abused too, as often the solutions are similar for both.
Except that they aren't, not even remotely.
E.g. there are no "men's shelters" where you can go live just by making a claim without evidence, get a free lawyer there, etc.
If you bother to read TFA you will find that there is a text box where you can try out different text to see if the algo thinks it is problematic. Let's try your "I hate that rabbit in the field behind your house" example.
"This tweet seems not problematic or abusive." Rated 10% "light".
How about "Calm down! I know the Irish are famous for temper, but cool down a little!" That is rated not problematic, 14% "light".
So it seems your fears are unfounded and if you had RTFA you could have discovered that for yourself. It's almost as if they predicted your response and made sure to address it.
Also note that the study only includes the 1 every 30 seconds stat in the summary as a simple reference point for the volume of abusive tweets, it's not making any claims about that being particularly bad or worse than anything else. The study is more focused on the nature of the abuse, or the relative volumes directed at different sub-groups.
Oh yes, I'm sure.
Twitter says themselves that they aren't going to to do arbitrary and unfair things, so I guess that means they aren't! Whew, glad that's settled then.
Say you realize it's your doctor calling. You could ask them more questions, dictate a real time reply, or use a preset action like hang up or promise to call back. Can your voicemail do that? I don't think so.
Wait, what?
So instead of, you know, talking to my doctor's office when they call, I can now listen and watch some weird interface, and then clumsily choose from preset actions in real time, hopefully before they say "WTF?" and hang up on "me"?
Wow, that's great! Thanks Google!!
It's Twitter. It's like email, but 10000 times dumber.
That's like sitting there reading only your Spam folder and complaining about all the scams and porn.
I thought they administered an actual IQ test ... now that would be interesting ...
Well, why not?
You can sue someone for singing the same bit of doggerel that you did, or for drawing the same cartoon mouse that you did.
Why not for doing the same dance moves?
The same way they always have? Giving students a broad education, steeping them in the great thinkers of their (and to some degree, other) cultures?
At least, that used to be the idea, I thought.
Pretty sure that a whole new movie, story, comic book, whatever, based on Steamboat Willie character Mickey Mouse, would be fine, as a derivative work. Why wouldn't it be?
Couldn't they just email the fix to the remaining two non-corporate users?
Hey, props where props are due.
Not everything that a bad entity does is bad. This is a good thing.
A world in which the far left's thought police watch everything we say and issue punishments? That's "being nice to each other"? I cannot understand why anyone would be on the SJW side. Even if you're far left. They'll attack you, too. Just ask Jamie Kilstein, who was so far left that he didn't just participate in SJW mobs, he led SJW mobs. Until the day the mobs turned on him.
Well, to be fair, they're very nice to you as long as you simply comply with about 50,000 rules that are changing daily. (Obama's 2012 position on marriage is HATEFUL!!!!)
Oh, and as long as you always say everything "correctly". Which, to be able to do, see above about the 50,000 rules that are changing daily.
It's also possible that SJW have managed to introduce their poison, by suggesting that a world where we are nice to each other is more pleasurable to live in than a world where we are not. It's a revolutionary idea and I understand why it has caused such a strong reaction.
Yeah ... we're against people just being nice to each other. That's it! But you're on to us, thank goodness.
I need to feel those melons
Then have I got a Debian package for you!
No no, it's just that their products are so cool that it warps the space time continuum!
The device is actually straight, it's the universe around it that is bent!
Whole Paycheck, as we know it, is still as overpriced as ever. While they do have some products not available elsewhere, where they have exactly the same products to compare, their prices are routinely 30% above other stores.
Even a reasonably paid professional will find it hard to justify WF price premium (particularly when excellent groceries are available at several competing chains, esp. in our area thanks to "ethnic" chains moving in).
About the only reason for a person to pay that price premium at a store is to "improve" their shopping experience by the store deliberately limiting who can shop there with their prices. (Keeping the riff raff out, in other words.)
I would make some sort of extended comment about what that says about the typical Whole Foods shopper, but I'll refrain ...
Hmm, a paragraph disappeared there. Restored below ...
Wow, really?
I've used Amazon for ages (since they were just books, lol), and while I've rarely needed service, when I have, they've always impressed me as being super helpful and willing to just refund or replace things quickly.
To the point that I'm willing to take more chances with them than others, since I know they'll make it right if something goes wrong.
Can Amazon with it's corporate nature ever do groceries effectively, probably not, it has no idea about person to person customer service.
Wow, really?
To the point that I'm willing to take more chances with them than others, since I know they'll make it right if something goes wrong.
n/t
Not so sure about that. When Steamboat Willie enters the public domain, you should be able to make derivative works from it, just like Disney makes derivative works from public domain works.
Weboob is objectionable? That's funny. One of the large breast cancer charities has a slogan along the lines of "we (heart) boobies". {...}
If it isn't objectionable when it actually refers to mammary glands on well endowed non- or pre-mastectomy patients, then it isn't objectionable when it refers to the web software.
Er, really? "If it isn't objectionable in one context, then it automatically isn't objectionable in a completely different context"?
Are you sure?
So Debian has now banned a package because its combination of letters triggers irrational things in peoples heads.
All words are just arbitrary combinations of letters that convey meanings.
That doesn't magically make them all appropriate for all environments.
I'm sure it wouldn't take long to find a string of letters that you would blanch at, if it were a package name in Debian.
Here are some photos of "rivers of trash" flowing into the ocean.
As long as this continues, it is absurd to send ships thousands of miles out to sea to strain a few microparticles out of the ocean.
The place to stop pollution is at the source.
The difference is that the "thousands of miles out to sea" spot isn't swarming with violent folks who don't want your help.