All of the claims about "fake news" could come to a head here really soon with more extreme left and right news sites/blogs putting out fake speeches and audio bites that have been created using this new technology. This tech is really going to muddy the waters on social media and will be utilized by movements and countries to spread disinformation..
Which will just highlight the problem we already have. We already have quite capable media lies with no need for AI, thank you.
Why should you just believe the crap that people beam to your house now? This phenomenon will just make that problem more obvious.
Something you will never hear an American ask themselves.
Generally speaking, when you are buying so much "shit" for so much cheaper than the rest of the world, there is a good chance that this is only possible because a lot of people down the line are being fucked.
But hey... cheap tv for you so who give a fuck, am i right?
The article is about the UK... those darn Americans, moving to the UK and then ordering stuff from Amazon.
I know. But what do you propose I do about it? We couldn't even keep Trump out of the Whitehouse. His tax plan is going to f'n kill me (kid in college and I'm in a state with SALT). I'm getting the shit kicked out of me. So are a lot of working class Americans. And all I hear from anyone else ever is: "Why don't you go back to school and update your skills?". Like that's so damn easy.
America abandoned it's working class. Do you really think they care about the rest of the world that abandoned them?
In a team of 5 men, the men are free to bounce ideas off each other, insult each other frequently, and establish a stable hierarchy. Creativity is unleashed, but incompetence is punished quickly. They can get shit done, and nobody sits around crying about how offended they are. At the end of the day, whatever got yelled at whoever is tabled, and you can grab a beer together, no hard feelings.
In a team of 4 men and 1 woman, the 4 men must walk around on eggshells and constantly self-censor. Should the women ever at any time feel that she is anything other than the most important person in the room, any or all of the men will face lawsuits or blackballing from HR firms. Creativity is squashed immediately: whatever the woman suggests must be adopted without criticism, else it is mansplaining and lawsuit time. You can't get a beer after work: include the woman and it is sexual harassment, exclude the woman and it is sexual discrimination.
Productivity collapses as you add additional women to the team. God help you if there's a minority among them. Stasi informers were less zealous.
Is it any wonder that the politically incorrect developing world is eating our lunch?
Jesus, you need help. I'd say your workplace sounds like Harvey Weinstein's frontal cortex, but the way you write suggests you never have seen a real-life workplace.
When real workplaces don't go like that, it's because people in them don't follow all the new rules and subscribe to the new groupthink.
That's great, while it lasts... but the boom could be lowered at any time.
Unlike the average Hollywood celebrity this celebrity is a celebrity for his brains, not his boobs, his looks or his ability to be a circus clown jumping through hoops for the entertainment of the masses.
He's at least partly a celebrity for his achievements despite his disability. (Which is fine; rightly so.)
But that means that actually, his body is a large part of his celebrity.
Amazon sells fire tablets running amazon ads on the lockcreens. They sell them for cheaper than the non-ad versions.
Which can be removed with some adb commands while hooked up to a PC, BTW. You don't even need root.
The number of people who will do that is a rounding error, so everybody wins. (Not like somebody willing to remove them was going to tap on such ads anyway.)
Amazon sells fire tablets running amazon ads on the lockcreens. They sell them for cheaper than the non-ad versions.
Presumably people put up with it for the same reason they put up with the far more annoying ads interrupting TV shows: they're used to it.
Which can be removed with some adb commands while hooked up to a PC, BTW
The number of people who will do that is a rounding error, so everybody wins. (Not like somebody willing to remove them was going to tap on such ads anyway.)
Democrat is a noun. Democratic is the correct adjective. Right wing extremists use the noun as an an adjective to annoy Democrats. They enjoy how it sounds like "rat."
Since both parties appropriated actual words and concepts for their titles, I'm not inclined to care much about this.
Republican senators are no less "democratic" than Democrat senators. Nor are they any less democrats, really, but the naming here prevents any perfect solution.
I don't understand why they don't just make cigarette manufacturing illegal.
This is like if there's a guy who goes out every day and just shoots people on the subway and instead of putting him away you run ads saying that he's dangerous.
Because they have juicy taxes on the guy. Can't give up juicy taxes.
Do you think that the birther conspiracy theory could ever have thrived for a white president?
Yes, I do, if he had "written" an autobiography claiming that he was foreign born, and if his background as presented by the media was largely mysterious, as if he had sprung full grown from the head of Zeus.
Obama is the only president so far who even could have had such a birth controversy swirling around him, and it wasn't because he is half black.
It's interesting to note these scientists have just introduced the discovery of a natural phenomenon that creates rare atomic isotopes previously associated with cosmic rays entering earth's atmosphere, and are at once certain " the isotopes created by these storms likely constitute a small portion of all such atoms."
Good point; how do they know these constitute a small proportion? Just because it has to be so, because reasons?
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I think I love this guy ... awesome wackiness! Troll or not, he's highly entertaining :)
All of the claims about "fake news" could come to a head here really soon with more extreme left and right news sites/blogs putting out fake speeches and audio bites that have been created using this new technology. This tech is really going to muddy the waters on social media and will be utilized by movements and countries to spread disinformation. .
Which will just highlight the problem we already have. We already have quite capable media lies with no need for AI, thank you.
Why should you just believe the crap that people beam to your house now? This phenomenon will just make that problem more obvious.
Note: I'm referring to modern women in tech, not the the 1950s-1980s.
Which is the period the article's claims are about ...
These gender war baiting articles are starting to piss me off. Slashdot is controlled by social justice warriors.
Along with most other media sources ...
Well, what did we think all those universities were going to graduate, given what they were teaching?
Something you will never hear an American ask themselves.
Generally speaking, when you are buying so much "shit" for so much cheaper than the rest of the world, there is a good chance that this is only possible because a lot of people down the line are being fucked. But hey... cheap tv for you so who give a fuck, am i right?
The article is about the UK ... those darn Americans, moving to the UK and then ordering stuff from Amazon.
I know. But what do you propose I do about it? We couldn't even keep Trump out of the Whitehouse. His tax plan is going to f'n kill me (kid in college and I'm in a state with SALT). I'm getting the shit kicked out of me. So are a lot of working class Americans. And all I hear from anyone else ever is: "Why don't you go back to school and update your skills?". Like that's so damn easy. America abandoned it's working class. Do you really think they care about the rest of the world that abandoned them?
The article is about the UK ...
At least they don't have to train their replacements.
Dang straight.
I don't blame them personally, of course ... in their place I probably would have done the same. I blame our own countrymen who sold out so many.
Still, hard to work up too much sympathy. Oh dear, the robot works cheaper, does it? How about that.
You missed the AC between me and the GP in that quote.
You're right; my apologies.
In a team of 5 men, the men are free to bounce ideas off each other, insult each other frequently, and establish a stable hierarchy. Creativity is unleashed, but incompetence is punished quickly. They can get shit done, and nobody sits around crying about how offended they are. At the end of the day, whatever got yelled at whoever is tabled, and you can grab a beer together, no hard feelings.
In a team of 4 men and 1 woman, the 4 men must walk around on eggshells and constantly self-censor. Should the women ever at any time feel that she is anything other than the most important person in the room, any or all of the men will face lawsuits or blackballing from HR firms. Creativity is squashed immediately: whatever the woman suggests must be adopted without criticism, else it is mansplaining and lawsuit time. You can't get a beer after work: include the woman and it is sexual harassment, exclude the woman and it is sexual discrimination.
Productivity collapses as you add additional women to the team. God help you if there's a minority among them. Stasi informers were less zealous.
Is it any wonder that the politically incorrect developing world is eating our lunch?
Jesus, you need help. I'd say your workplace sounds like Harvey Weinstein's frontal cortex, but the way you write suggests you never have seen a real-life workplace.
When real workplaces don't go like that, it's because people in them don't follow all the new rules and subscribe to the new groupthink.
That's great, while it lasts ... but the boom could be lowered at any time.
Me, I find a use now and then for water falling from the sky.
I remember some kind of rocket powered car cruising through space in the movie Heavy Metal ...
Hmm wait, I thought it was all robots, all the time? The employment problem was caused by robots?
So there are human jobs that need to be filled, then? And which were being filled by illegals? Oh, you don't say? Really?
Unlike the average Hollywood celebrity this celebrity is a celebrity for his brains, not his boobs, his looks or his ability to be a circus clown jumping through hoops for the entertainment of the masses.
He's at least partly a celebrity for his achievements despite his disability. (Which is fine; rightly so.)
But that means that actually, his body is a large part of his celebrity.
have you considered that perhaps he could be telling the truth?
I think he is. The whole sequence of events stinks. His company is being sacrificed to support the OMG Russia narrative.
Amazon sells fire tablets running amazon ads on the lockcreens. They sell them for cheaper than the non-ad versions.
Which can be removed with some adb commands while hooked up to a PC, BTW. You don't even need root. The number of people who will do that is a rounding error, so everybody wins. (Not like somebody willing to remove them was going to tap on such ads anyway.)
Amazon sells fire tablets running amazon ads on the lockcreens. They sell them for cheaper than the non-ad versions. Presumably people put up with it for the same reason they put up with the far more annoying ads interrupting TV shows: they're used to it.
Which can be removed with some adb commands while hooked up to a PC, BTW
The number of people who will do that is a rounding error, so everybody wins. (Not like somebody willing to remove them was going to tap on such ads anyway.)
Democrat is a noun. Democratic is the correct adjective. Right wing extremists use the noun as an an adjective to annoy Democrats. They enjoy how it sounds like "rat."
Since both parties appropriated actual words and concepts for their titles, I'm not inclined to care much about this.
Republican senators are no less "democratic" than Democrat senators. Nor are they any less democrats, really, but the naming here prevents any perfect solution.
And, there's nothing wrong with calling them "cryptocurrencies," they're a medium of exchange based on cryptography.
Is that why they are called that? I thought it was because they were obscure or hidden (or bogus) currencies, similar to say cryptozoology.
You can train a dog to use a litter box, most people just don't care to bother.
Wow, really?
It beats taking them outside in a snowstorm at 2:00 in the morning ... so I am skeptical.
Cat's are brilliant at being cats. Ya know?
Just like I tell my short kid; you are tall enough for your feet to reach the ground ...
A CEO having a relationship with an employee = a big liability and terrible PR.
Unless they marry later (having both been already single, etc.). Then it's the feel good love story of the year.
I don't understand why they don't just make cigarette manufacturing illegal. This is like if there's a guy who goes out every day and just shoots people on the subway and instead of putting him away you run ads saying that he's dangerous.
Because they have juicy taxes on the guy. Can't give up juicy taxes.
[Willy Wonka]No, please, stop ... [/Willy Wonka]
Do you think that the birther conspiracy theory could ever have thrived for a white president?
Yes, I do, if he had "written" an autobiography claiming that he was foreign born, and if his background as presented by the media was largely mysterious, as if he had sprung full grown from the head of Zeus.
Obama is the only president so far who even could have had such a birth controversy swirling around him, and it wasn't because he is half black.
It's interesting to note these scientists have just introduced the discovery of a natural phenomenon that creates rare atomic isotopes previously associated with cosmic rays entering earth's atmosphere, and are at once certain " the isotopes created by these storms likely constitute a small portion of all such atoms."
Good point; how do they know these constitute a small proportion? Just because it has to be so, because reasons?
To end government control of the Internet we need to build a government owned Internet. Funny they don't even see the problem there.
Actually, that part's kinda reasonable. Sort of the Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrate.