If you're so enamored of China and live there, non-Chinese-dude, then why are you posting as Anonymous Coward here?
Yeah sure thing, pal. Totalitarianism is just so much better than what we have here in the U.S.. I accept that there is a potential for abuse of our system of government because the alternative is to have too few people having way too much power in their hands, with little to no chance of the rank-and-file citizen being able to do anything about it. Yes, yes, I know, the pendulum has swung way over to the wrong side lately, but I hold out hope that it isn't too late for us to swing it back the other way. I'd rather push the Big Red Button myself and blow it all to oblivion than allow it all to become like in China, where the lives of citizens comes cheap.
..he was black-bag arrested, subjected to torture, beaten, starved, thrown in an oubliette for a time, threatened with death, had his friends and family threatened with all the above, and likely drugged, until he finally broke and was willing to say anything they wanted him to say, no matter the cost to him or his reputation, and no matter how humiliating. Next he'll probably "commit suicide", leaving behind a note explaining how he couldn't live with the guilt and shame for having spoken such lies about the glorious and just Communist government of China.
Yeah, sure. Sounds like just another normal day in mainland China.
I'll go off the Internet, that's where. If they manage to price it out of the reach of most people, the Internet will die. Cheer up though, we lived fine without it before, we'll live fine without it again -- if necessary. Here's the thing though: The Internet is not just a bunch of wires strung up between the West Coast and the East Coast of the United States, it's a world-wide network of connectivity providers. The entire planet is using it now; millions of businesses and billions of people in every country. Do you really think that the rest of the world is going to put up with one or two U.S.-based companies fucking with the Internet on this level? I think not. There are other backbone providers than Comcast and Verizon, and the reality is that there is only the most tenuous of agreements between all of them to make the Internet, as a whole, work as a global network. In the same way that the Internet can reroute itself around damage, it can be rerouted around Verizon and Comcast, leaving them in walled gardens of their own design if that's what they want.
Yet another lame excuse that doesn't stand up to scrutiny. There are way too many cowards and boot-lickers in this country and not enough people willing to stand up for what this country was supposed to be about, not what it's being made into.
When are they going to figure out that they're not qualified to make public policy on technology matters? Censorship sucks (and doesn't work), filtering doesn't work. Here's a suggestion for you instead: How about you get parents to actually pay attention to what their kids are doing instead of making the internet tougher and more annoying to use for everyone?
Does anyone have knowledge of a petition against this? Please post the URL and spread it far and wide so maybe we can still nip this bullshit in the bud.
Someone explain to me again why 1920x1080 resolution is so horribly inadequate that we need 3840x2160 (4 times the resolution)? Are we all expected to have Jumbotron-sized televisions in our living rooms now?
Opinion: I think it's ridiculous to use AA form-factor cells to power an automobile. I know for a fact that large, high-capacity Li+ cells are made specifically for vehicle use. Yes, I understand his rationale for using them -- but I think Tesla should transition towards the larger cells at some point.
Are you kidding me? "There's nothing I can do about it"? Sure there is. First, she (or they) are no longer your friends; you make it clear to them that ignoring your wishes in the matter is the cause. Second, you inform them that if they don't remove the photos, there will be legal action compelling them to do so. If they do not comply then you get a lawyer to send them correspondance explaining to them that they must or there will be consequences. If they still don't you get a court order compelling them. You have rights, your privacy is valuable and important, and no one should be allowed to trample on those.
You can't know whether someone is driving or not driving unless you can see them when you send the text message. Ignorance of the law has never been a valid legal excuse in this country. If what this judge was the law of the land, you in essence never be able to text anyone, anytime, unless you knew for certain they never, ever drive, because unless you were in line-of-sight of them or otherwise could know with 100% certainty that they would both not be driving and would not read said text message while driving, then you would be considered liable for any accident they might cause due to texting while driving.
Now go back to 4chan and troll there, you're not cutting it here, jackass.
How can you prove that you didn't know someone you sent a text message to was driving or not, or that they'd read it while driving? If allowed to stand then nobody would be able to text anyone, ever, for fear of being guilty of potentially causing an accident. Rediculous.
Just wait until insurance companies start requiring automated driving.
Then I'll either sell off any 4-wheeled vehicle I own, or drive an antique, or go back to riding a motorcycle all year 'round like I used to do in my twenties. Among other things, I really don't care for the idea that either the police, or a hijacker could hack into the car I'm riding in and make it pull over and stop without my having any say in the matter.
Some people seem to be viewing this development as more freedom, but in reality it's less freedom: you have less control over the vehicle, therefore you have less control over where you're going. If it's somethign I can turn on and off and use like cruise control, then I might be OK with it, but if you're going to require me to use it at all times? Nuts to that, I'll go without.
If you're offering it as a greatly enhanced 'cruise control' feature, then yes, I'd be OK with that; being able to take my hands off the wheel and feet off the pedals for a while on long stretches of highway so I can stretch my feet, legs, and arms, and maybe grab a snack or drink something without impacting road safety? Sure, that'd be great. Having manual control of the vehicle be an afterthought, or having no way to manually control the vehicle, or even not having immediate, non-countermandable manual override? Hell, no. I wouldn't accept a vehicle like that for free, even. Get in a cab that has no human operator overseeing the vehicle? I'd sooner play Russian Roulette for peanuts.
What if someday they make it mandatory? I'll be riding a motorcycle all year 'round again, then.
Oh look, another piece of shit person. Are you a citizen of the United States? If so then either clean up your act, or move to some shitty country where your shitty viewpoint on anonymity is considered "acceptable", because here it's not!
I believe in the power and necessity of anonymity regardless of the consequences, but I'll stand behind this statement 100%: You're a piece of shit, "AK Marc".
Monsanto, in it's headlong rush to satisfy it's greed, will probably singlehandedly raise food prices all over the world because of their epic fuck-ups.
Honey bees, obviously. And since honey bees don't have lawyers, and Monsanto obviously will have cross-bred honey badgers with lawyers, the bees will quickly become toast in court. Since bees don't have money or own property, Monsanto will just take posession of honey bees all over the world (read as: make them intellectual property of Monsanto), anyone using pollination as part of the process of raising any crops without paying royalties to Monsanto will have the crap sued out of them (by Monsanto's crack team of honey-badger-crossbreed lawyers, of course), thus tying up pretty much the entire lifecycle of plants on the entire planet.
Then the T-Virus will be "accidentally" released into the wild, and the zombie apocalypse will occur.
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I second the motion.
All these worlds are yours except Europa.
Attempt no landing there.
If you're so enamored of China and live there, non-Chinese-dude, then why are you posting as Anonymous Coward here?
Yeah sure thing, pal. Totalitarianism is just so much better than what we have here in the U.S.. I accept that there is a potential for abuse of our system of government because the alternative is to have too few people having way too much power in their hands, with little to no chance of the rank-and-file citizen being able to do anything about it. Yes, yes, I know, the pendulum has swung way over to the wrong side lately, but I hold out hope that it isn't too late for us to swing it back the other way. I'd rather push the Big Red Button myself and blow it all to oblivion than allow it all to become like in China, where the lives of citizens comes cheap.
..he was black-bag arrested, subjected to torture, beaten, starved, thrown in an oubliette for a time, threatened with death, had his friends and family threatened with all the above, and likely drugged, until he finally broke and was willing to say anything they wanted him to say, no matter the cost to him or his reputation, and no matter how humiliating. Next he'll probably "commit suicide", leaving behind a note explaining how he couldn't live with the guilt and shame for having spoken such lies about the glorious and just Communist government of China.
Yeah, sure. Sounds like just another normal day in mainland China.
Cause where you gonna go?
I'll go off the Internet, that's where. If they manage to price it out of the reach of most people, the Internet will die. Cheer up though, we lived fine without it before, we'll live fine without it again -- if necessary. Here's the thing though: The Internet is not just a bunch of wires strung up between the West Coast and the East Coast of the United States, it's a world-wide network of connectivity providers. The entire planet is using it now; millions of businesses and billions of people in every country. Do you really think that the rest of the world is going to put up with one or two U.S.-based companies fucking with the Internet on this level? I think not. There are other backbone providers than Comcast and Verizon, and the reality is that there is only the most tenuous of agreements between all of them to make the Internet, as a whole, work as a global network. In the same way that the Internet can reroute itself around damage, it can be rerouted around Verizon and Comcast, leaving them in walled gardens of their own design if that's what they want.
Yet another lame excuse that doesn't stand up to scrutiny. There are way too many cowards and boot-lickers in this country and not enough people willing to stand up for what this country was supposed to be about, not what it's being made into.
>Implying that anything you're talking about is good or right, or what the majority wants
New World Order
FUCK the 'new world order, and FUCK the people who want it, preferably sideways with a rusty chainsaw.
When are they going to figure out that they're not qualified to make public policy on technology matters? Censorship sucks (and doesn't work), filtering doesn't work. Here's a suggestion for you instead: How about you get parents to actually pay attention to what their kids are doing instead of making the internet tougher and more annoying to use for everyone?
Does anyone have knowledge of a petition against this? Please post the URL and spread it far and wide so maybe we can still nip this bullshit in the bud.
Someone explain to me again why 1920x1080 resolution is so horribly inadequate that we need 3840x2160 (4 times the resolution)? Are we all expected to have Jumbotron-sized televisions in our living rooms now?
Opinion: I think it's ridiculous to use AA form-factor cells to power an automobile. I know for a fact that large, high-capacity Li+ cells are made specifically for vehicle use. Yes, I understand his rationale for using them -- but I think Tesla should transition towards the larger cells at some point.
Are they sure they translated everything properly, and China isn't actually going to weaponize My Little Pony?
Are you kidding me? "There's nothing I can do about it"? Sure there is. First, she (or they) are no longer your friends; you make it clear to them that ignoring your wishes in the matter is the cause. Second, you inform them that if they don't remove the photos, there will be legal action compelling them to do so. If they do not comply then you get a lawyer to send them correspondance explaining to them that they must or there will be consequences. If they still don't you get a court order compelling them. You have rights, your privacy is valuable and important, and no one should be allowed to trample on those.
No, you are the one who does not understand.
You can't know whether someone is driving or not driving unless you can see them when you send the text message. Ignorance of the law has never been a valid legal excuse in this country. If what this judge was the law of the land, you in essence never be able to text anyone, anytime, unless you knew for certain they never, ever drive, because unless you were in line-of-sight of them or otherwise could know with 100% certainty that they would both not be driving and would not read said text message while driving, then you would be considered liable for any accident they might cause due to texting while driving.
Now go back to 4chan and troll there, you're not cutting it here, jackass.
How can you prove that you didn't know someone you sent a text message to was driving or not, or that they'd read it while driving? If allowed to stand then nobody would be able to text anyone, ever, for fear of being guilty of potentially causing an accident. Rediculous.
..is paved with good intentions.
Is it just me, or is it getting hotter and hotter every year?
Leave my 30 years dead mother out of this you son of a bitch.
Just wait until insurance companies start requiring automated driving.
Then I'll either sell off any 4-wheeled vehicle I own, or drive an antique, or go back to riding a motorcycle all year 'round like I used to do in my twenties. Among other things, I really don't care for the idea that either the police, or a hijacker could hack into the car I'm riding in and make it pull over and stop without my having any say in the matter.
Some people seem to be viewing this development as more freedom, but in reality it's less freedom: you have less control over the vehicle, therefore you have less control over where you're going. If it's somethign I can turn on and off and use like cruise control, then I might be OK with it, but if you're going to require me to use it at all times? Nuts to that, I'll go without.
If you're offering it as a greatly enhanced 'cruise control' feature, then yes, I'd be OK with that; being able to take my hands off the wheel and feet off the pedals for a while on long stretches of highway so I can stretch my feet, legs, and arms, and maybe grab a snack or drink something without impacting road safety? Sure, that'd be great. Having manual control of the vehicle be an afterthought, or having no way to manually control the vehicle, or even not having immediate, non-countermandable manual override? Hell, no. I wouldn't accept a vehicle like that for free, even. Get in a cab that has no human operator overseeing the vehicle? I'd sooner play Russian Roulette for peanuts.
What if someday they make it mandatory? I'll be riding a motorcycle all year 'round again, then.
..which is not always the correct one
Who gets to decide that? You? Some bullshit panel or committee? The government? Bullshit!
Oh look, another piece of shit person. Are you a citizen of the United States? If so then either clean up your act, or move to some shitty country where your shitty viewpoint on anonymity is considered "acceptable", because here it's not!
I believe in the power and necessity of anonymity regardless of the consequences, but I'll stand behind this statement 100%: You're a piece of shit, "AK Marc".
Monsanto, in it's headlong rush to satisfy it's greed, will probably singlehandedly raise food prices all over the world because of their epic fuck-ups.
Who is Monsanto going to sue over this??
Honey bees, obviously. And since honey bees don't have lawyers, and Monsanto obviously will have cross-bred honey badgers with lawyers, the bees will quickly become toast in court. Since bees don't have money or own property, Monsanto will just take posession of honey bees all over the world (read as: make them intellectual property of Monsanto), anyone using pollination as part of the process of raising any crops without paying royalties to Monsanto will have the crap sued out of them (by Monsanto's crack team of honey-badger-crossbreed lawyers, of course), thus tying up pretty much the entire lifecycle of plants on the entire planet.
Then the T-Virus will be "accidentally" released into the wild, and the zombie apocalypse will occur.