1. Duh - rate of technology spread slows, low hanging fruit eaten first, getting to last edges of something much harder than initial gains. News at 11.
2. "with women and the rural poor substantially excluded from education, business and other opportunities the internet can provide."
Re the rural poor, see point #1 (duh - "poor 'excluded' from stuff that costs money")
Re women being excluded/limited from stuff, see those wonderful cultures that we in the West are told we must import more and more of, because of all the wonderful "vibrance" they will bring us.
don't have a variable stating what state they are in
have variables called previous state and current state
I'm curious here - assuming those two points of yours are both bad things, they seem contradictory - wouldn't the variable called "current state" be "a variable stating what state they are in"?
In their defense, they do at least mark the Vine reviews.
Quite prominently, unless that has changed.
The first time I saw it, it was so prominent that I of course checked out what it was (they provided a link), and from then on I took those with the appropriate grain of salt.
That would be contrary to the plain definition of assault: "make a physical attack on" and even the extended legal (in some jurisdictions) definition fo assault: "a credible threat or attempt to cause battery" (where battery refers to the actual bodily contact). I'm not arguing against the idea that using someone's likeness in photos or videos without their consent being illegal, just the idea that it be labeled as "assault." Otherwise, this would dilute the definition of assault..
The film industry continues to tighten its grip on its assets, refusing to ever let them go. Trademarks will never expire. Actors will never expire. Nothing will slip from the industry's fingers into the public domain, or off this mortal coil. The long-deceased continue to act in films for all eternity. Their descendants ask when they'll be allowed to rest in peace. They demand the spirit of their long-buried grandfather be allowed to stop being paraded in sequel after inferior sequel, layering shame on their once respected career. Every film is now its own weekend at Bernie's, every summer comedy a macabre sideshow of all the actors whose likeness the studio has purchased. The family begs an end. Stop putting their dead Oscar and Emmy winning father in American Pie sequels. The industry executive laugh. The family has no claim. The actor is intellectual property. They belong to the industry. Forever.
Or the opposite (sorta) will happen. We'll start asking why we can use a dead actor from the 1950s but not a cartoon mouse from the 1920s.
Its one thing if the person chose, its their face and name after all, and they can put in clauses on what is and is not allowed, but those that are already dead? Yeah if its one thing we've seen its that there is pretty much zero respect for the dead if someone thinks they can make a buck off the body and as this tech gets better and cheaper? I'm betting shit is gonna get even worse than what we are seeing now which is already getting pretty gross IMHO.
You raise some interesting copyright questions with your moral ones.
E.g., if we can't even use a cartoon mouse from the 1920s, why can we use these dead actors?
For celebrities, these scans are a chance to make money for their families post mortem, extend their legacy -- and even, in some strange way, preserve their youth.
Well, there are web sites already claiming that "Snopes" is staffed by leftists and that no one should believe anything it says. The war over what the truth is has already begun.
The story being told is "don't trust anyone on the internet unless they agree with your gut feelings!"
Snopes is staffed by leftists... which doesn't make it completely useless, but it does mean that when it comes to gray areas, benefit of the doubt, and so forth, they are slanted a certain way.
As with anything run by human beings (or by automated processes created/trained by human beings).
Facebook is an abomination... yet it's difficult to avoid it.
E.g. a local institution had a disaster happen to their building, days ago. Their Facebook page had immediate photos, videos, information. Their web page, as of last night, no change.
It's unbelievable how many businesses and orgs consider their Facebook their "real" presence, and their website (if they even bother with one) as their redheaded stepchild.
So I would suggest "avoid it completely" but sometimes you can't...
Weird headline... as though most Elbonians, on the other hand, would spot the bot in a New York minute, lol
Anyway, social media is such an artificial environment that the whole thing is silly. It's like saying that nobody can spot Robbie the Robot - as long as we're all required to wear flex hose on our arms and giant fishbowls on our heads.
As it should, if severe mental illness prevents safe parenting. For example, a schizophrenic who is too busy hiding from the CIA agents in his teeth to even take care of himself, much less any children.
Can such power be abused? Of course. As can any power that the state wields.
How soon until a bureaucrat uses this data to determine that you shouldn't be permitted to own a firearm or are not fit to be a parent.
The question isn't whether the government will have the authority to deprive various liberties based on mental health status - it will - but where the boundaries of that are.
Presumably, this app would have the same status as a screening questionnaire - it could indicate that a closer look should be taken.
It also sounds like the intended use is with people who already have mental health concerns.
Can the information be abused? Sure. So can any information.
Hopefully due process will still be honored - hopefully there won't be a #alwaysbelievetheappwithoutfurtherevidence or an #apptoo movement...
Blocking shorteners does cause me the occasional minor inconvenience of having to use a URL unshortening service like unshorten.it, but it is rare and not that big of a deal
An "unshortening" service that then... keeps your data in Fort Knox?
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1. Duh - rate of technology spread slows, low hanging fruit eaten first, getting to last edges of something much harder than initial gains. News at 11.
2. "with women and the rural poor substantially excluded from education, business and other opportunities the internet can provide."
Re the rural poor, see point #1 (duh - "poor 'excluded' from stuff that costs money")
Re women being excluded/limited from stuff, see those wonderful cultures that we in the West are told we must import more and more of, because of all the wonderful "vibrance" they will bring us.
He could achieve permanent world peace, and half the US would complain he's decimating the defense industry and costing jobs.
Frankly, he couldn't. He has neither the competence nor the desire to try.
Whoosh.
China has fallen under the developing nation category, a designation the U.S. says it no longer deserves because of its booming economy.
That seems ... reasonable?
Yet I see so many state machines that:
don't have a variable stating what state they are in
have variables called previous state and current state
I'm curious here - assuming those two points of yours are both bad things, they seem contradictory - wouldn't the variable called "current state" be "a variable stating what state they are in"?
In their defense, they do at least mark the Vine reviews.
Quite prominently, unless that has changed.
The first time I saw it, it was so prominent that I of course checked out what it was (they provided a link), and from then on I took those with the appropriate grain of salt.
Seemed reasonable enough.
They are finally building Elysium!
I totally parsed that as "astronaut's documentation falls to the ground, is found by bystander".
Me too. I thought this was an entirely new kind of data breach!
That would be contrary to the plain definition of assault: "make a physical attack on" and even the extended legal (in some jurisdictions) definition fo assault: "a credible threat or attempt to cause battery" (where battery refers to the actual bodily contact). I'm not arguing against the idea that using someone's likeness in photos or videos without their consent being illegal, just the idea that it be labeled as "assault." Otherwise, this would dilute the definition of assault. .
Oh, and we certainly can't have that.
Someone hasn't been watching the news lately.
The film industry continues to tighten its grip on its assets, refusing to ever let them go. Trademarks will never expire. Actors will never expire. Nothing will slip from the industry's fingers into the public domain, or off this mortal coil. The long-deceased continue to act in films for all eternity. Their descendants ask when they'll be allowed to rest in peace. They demand the spirit of their long-buried grandfather be allowed to stop being paraded in sequel after inferior sequel, layering shame on their once respected career. Every film is now its own weekend at Bernie's, every summer comedy a macabre sideshow of all the actors whose likeness the studio has purchased. The family begs an end. Stop putting their dead Oscar and Emmy winning father in American Pie sequels. The industry executive laugh. The family has no claim. The actor is intellectual property. They belong to the industry. Forever.
Or the opposite (sorta) will happen. We'll start asking why we can use a dead actor from the 1950s but not a cartoon mouse from the 1920s.
The problem when looking for gmail alternative is that you start asking yourself why you should trust anyone else either.
Your ISP? A hosting company? Some startup that sells a box? Some guys in Switzerland?
So that your hosting provider doesn't have your data.
How do you know that these guys don't have it?
Its one thing if the person chose, its their face and name after all, and they can put in clauses on what is and is not allowed, but those that are already dead? Yeah if its one thing we've seen its that there is pretty much zero respect for the dead if someone thinks they can make a buck off the body and as this tech gets better and cheaper? I'm betting shit is gonna get even worse than what we are seeing now which is already getting pretty gross IMHO.
You raise some interesting copyright questions with your moral ones.
E.g., if we can't even use a cartoon mouse from the 1920s, why can we use these dead actors?
For celebrities, these scans are a chance to make money for their families post mortem, extend their legacy -- and even, in some strange way, preserve their youth.
Makes me think of that Twilight Zone episode with the aging movie diva.
I wonder what effect this might have on actors' mental health.
what your favorite bloggers video couldn't be seen? your favorite rock video? old TV show rerun.
"depend" on youtube? LOLZ
A surprising number of companies and organizations do though.
Training videos, documentation, demos, educational resources, it's all there, from so many sources. Based on your comment, you'd be surprised.
It's odd that it doesn't happen in other languages.
That what doesn't happen - that people don't make a coordinated effort to change gendered pronoun use, like they most certainly have in English?
Yeah, that is odd.
From the first article:
"The last time the U.S. topped the list was 2008".
I rest my case.
What a coinkidink!
We'll just ban misinformation and misunderstandings! Peace and harmony will follow!
Why didn't I think of that??
Listen here: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/3... Oct 12, Another View. AV Round Table: VOTE! - skip ahead to 14:30.
But ... but ... that's OK, because they only want to "suppress" meanie "fascist" wascally wepubwicans.
Facebook may as well ban all weather reports indicating cold, snow or rain since all of those might make people less inclined to vote also.
Cold weather is clearly racist. Ever notice that snow is white, hmm? Hmmm????
Well, there are web sites already claiming that "Snopes" is staffed by leftists and that no one should believe anything it says. The war over what the truth is has already begun.
The story being told is "don't trust anyone on the internet unless they agree with your gut feelings!"
Snopes is staffed by leftists ... which doesn't make it completely useless, but it does mean that when it comes to gray areas, benefit of the doubt, and so forth, they are slanted a certain way.
As with anything run by human beings (or by automated processes created/trained by human beings).
Facebook is an abomination ... yet it's difficult to avoid it.
E.g. a local institution had a disaster happen to their building, days ago. Their Facebook page had immediate photos, videos, information. Their web page, as of last night, no change.
It's unbelievable how many businesses and orgs consider their Facebook their "real" presence, and their website (if they even bother with one) as their redheaded stepchild.
So I would suggest "avoid it completely" but sometimes you can't ...
Weird headline ... as though most Elbonians, on the other hand, would spot the bot in a New York minute, lol
Anyway, social media is such an artificial environment that the whole thing is silly. It's like saying that nobody can spot Robbie the Robot - as long as we're all required to wear flex hose on our arms and giant fishbowls on our heads.
When I said not fit to be a parent I was referring to the state taking children from parents. https://reason.com/blog/2018/0...
As it should, if severe mental illness prevents safe parenting. For example, a schizophrenic who is too busy hiding from the CIA agents in his teeth to even take care of himself, much less any children.
Can such power be abused? Of course. As can any power that the state wields.
How soon until a bureaucrat uses this data to determine that you shouldn't be permitted to own a firearm or are not fit to be a parent.
The question isn't whether the government will have the authority to deprive various liberties based on mental health status - it will - but where the boundaries of that are.
Presumably, this app would have the same status as a screening questionnaire - it could indicate that a closer look should be taken.
It also sounds like the intended use is with people who already have mental health concerns.
Can the information be abused? Sure. So can any information.
Hopefully due process will still be honored - hopefully there won't be a #alwaysbelievetheappwithoutfurtherevidence or an #apptoo movement ...
Blocking shorteners does cause me the occasional minor inconvenience of having to use a URL unshortening service like unshorten.it, but it is rare and not that big of a deal
An "unshortening" service that then ... keeps your data in Fort Knox?
(sorry, couldn't resist)