That's great and all, but when we all do that, we alienate the folks that need to be shown a path forward out of their hatred. Your hatred for them is just as bad as their hatred for other groups, and you are the educated one. It takes educated people to show those that have quit thinking and learning, new ways and new motivations.
Its the frequency folks check "news" that drove this. Most people feel its important to check news to stay current and informed. Once they had access to it every day, they clicked daily. Once websites worked for clicks, it happened hourly. Once they got paid for it, they have new headlines every time you refresh.
"Don't chop down my cheery tree!" - Martha Washington
You should be talking to these people you think you hate. You'll find you have a whole lot more in common with them than hating each other because you don't talk.
What is mostly new is the accessibility of all of this to the masses. We all at least had to read a book or a few manuals. We paid for our radios and BBS knowledge in tech manuals. Its much easier to be anonymous these days. In the day of BBS's, you could usually figure out who the troll was because there were only so many people that had a 2400, or 9600 baud modem and you knew them all. Now you can have 40 profiles and manipulate all of them for the masses.
Most folks "entrance fee" to mass communication was going to school where they were forced to learn "this internet stuff."
This sounds more like something that was tested as a "feature", not chosen as #1 by the consumer group that tested it, and now played back to the people as though this were a fix.
We know the chances of being hit by an object by looking at how many objects hit planets.
There are certainly a whole lot of these objects that we aren't seeing. We don't have near enough telescopes to scan the complete sky, much less be redundant in case one of the telescopes fails.
I'd love to see them put in moving sidewalk lanes that could move fairly quickly. Maybe an outside lane that folks entered and exited on, a mid speed lane and a fast lane that went from point to point. Sure buses and trains do this, but this would be more fun.
Or when you started off with a low salary, and employers thought it was up to them to keep your salary "reasonable" for the sake of you blowing all that extra cash.
Either we regulate it, or we are doomed to repeat history.
Most people expect to read real information without many distractions and without critically thinking about it. 10 years ago, when the Washington Post had a story, people took it as the gospel. They were held to very high standards by the government. The 'click-bait-ad-revenue' + the internet, changed everything. Tabloid papers were just that, tabloids. People knew when they read them to take everything with a grain of salt, knew it was gossipy crap, and kept it there. The majority of people (95%) didn't believe purple aliens were living inside people.
Today, all of this is mixed. People don't have time to separate it all, and people are getting taken for a ride non-stop. There is so much fiction, and questioning of reality, that most folks are ingesting 50% tabloid news.
This is clearly not good for us as a society. We do not need to drag ourselves through the same exercises we have done over and over since the beginning of writing. We know the outcome. War on every level.
At a minimum we need vetted information, and those news sites need to be certifiable news cites with real news. The editors need to be held accountable, and so do the outlets. There needs to be oversight committees on this. Yes, this system will get abused, but that abuse will be much less than the abuse we are all subject to daily. Its tiring reading the internet anymore.
I got bad hair from my mom. I stink cuz of my grandpa. I have bunions cuz of my great-grandmothers mail man. I highly doubt anyhow that its only because of neaderthal's as almost any creature that can live a long time gets ware and tear.. as in arthritis.
More Facebook, just what we don't need. One Billion Dollars for 100 people to work at? And folks wonder why the general public doesn't get Silicon Street.
A shame that the laws dictate on the backside that we change our SSN's when it wasn't us that gave them up over, and over, and over, and over. Wouldn't it be nice if every time we screwed up, the government changed the laws for us?
Hey now, everyone isn't "hacked", don't be an alarmist. Everyone, for the 7th time, has had their info released to the masses for their identities to be stolen is all.
The problem is critical thinking. Just because you think you have it, doesn't mean the rest of the population on the internet has it.
There are large groups on the internet that have no reason to have ever developed critical thinking tools. Some of the largest are young people, 10-20, that have zero critical thinking ability as they are learning. People around the world just tuning into the internet who have never seen so much "information" in their lives. People just joining the internet today because their church group said to "like" the church on facebook, and now they see that Planet X is going to crash into the world as one evangelical preacher is spouting.
Asking folks to have critical thinking skills is assuming they've been on the internet for long enough to see this, have been taught these skills, and/or are educated enough to figure it all out. Its too much information, and by assuming everyone can think critically, you shoot all of us in the foot.
Slashdot Mirror
A bug tracking site that lets you see the bugs before you report them. Novel.
That's great and all, but when we all do that, we alienate the folks that need to be shown a path forward out of their hatred. Your hatred for them is just as bad as their hatred for other groups, and you are the educated one. It takes educated people to show those that have quit thinking and learning, new ways and new motivations.
Yes and Yes. They're going to think I'm cool again for not using social media eventually.
Its sad how things have changed.
Its the frequency folks check "news" that drove this. Most people feel its important to check news to stay current and informed. Once they had access to it every day, they clicked daily. Once websites worked for clicks, it happened hourly. Once they got paid for it, they have new headlines every time you refresh.
"Don't chop down my cheery tree!" - Martha Washington
You should be talking to these people you think you hate. You'll find you have a whole lot more in common with them than hating each other because you don't talk.
What is mostly new is the accessibility of all of this to the masses. We all at least had to read a book or a few manuals. We paid for our radios and BBS knowledge in tech manuals. Its much easier to be anonymous these days. In the day of BBS's, you could usually figure out who the troll was because there were only so many people that had a 2400, or 9600 baud modem and you knew them all. Now you can have 40 profiles and manipulate all of them for the masses.
Most folks "entrance fee" to mass communication was going to school where they were forced to learn "this internet stuff."
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"Its a brave new world" - H. Finn
This sounds more like something that was tested as a "feature", not chosen as #1 by the consumer group that tested it, and now played back to the people as though this were a fix.
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"It's a sign" - E. Corp
We know the chances of being hit by an object by looking at how many objects hit planets.
There are certainly a whole lot of these objects that we aren't seeing. We don't have near enough telescopes to scan the complete sky, much less be redundant in case one of the telescopes fails.
Its 97,000Kphhour, and ~52,000Mph.
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"Meep Meep" - W. Cayote
The FBI is upset that someone collected public information about someone and compiled it in one place. Amazing.
Adding AV to Microsoft is about as bad as adding an anonymous FTP server to your desktop. Passwords are only going to keep your friends honest.
NSA guy should have know. What on earth was he thinking to allow his data to be uploaded to Russia. He's going ot have a court date coming up.
Absolutely. You nailed it.
The ad's were to suck folks in. It was the barrage of interactive trolling that sealed the deal. Propaganda works.
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"No Branch!" -- Poppi
Bartering? Who woulda' thunk...
Who needs to ask the employee when you can ask Equifax or Transunion the same question?
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"Ask me once, you a fool. Ask me twice, wait, What?" -- J. Muamma
...cuz it's already been stolen. These are the same guys that tax civil forfeiture.
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"Throw all the tea over!" -- Ben Franklin
I'd love to see them put in moving sidewalk lanes that could move fairly quickly. Maybe an outside lane that folks entered and exited on, a mid speed lane and a fast lane that went from point to point. Sure buses and trains do this, but this would be more fun.
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"Speed Kills" - T.J. Benzueka
Or when you started off with a low salary, and employers thought it was up to them to keep your salary "reasonable" for the sake of you blowing all that extra cash.
How cheap direct advertising is now a days if done right.
Either we regulate it, or we are doomed to repeat history.
Most people expect to read real information without many distractions and without critically thinking about it. 10 years ago, when the Washington Post had a story, people took it as the gospel. They were held to very high standards by the government. The 'click-bait-ad-revenue' + the internet, changed everything. Tabloid papers were just that, tabloids. People knew when they read them to take everything with a grain of salt, knew it was gossipy crap, and kept it there. The majority of people (95%) didn't believe purple aliens were living inside people.
Today, all of this is mixed. People don't have time to separate it all, and people are getting taken for a ride non-stop. There is so much fiction, and questioning of reality, that most folks are ingesting 50% tabloid news.
This is clearly not good for us as a society. We do not need to drag ourselves through the same exercises we have done over and over since the beginning of writing. We know the outcome. War on every level.
At a minimum we need vetted information, and those news sites need to be certifiable news cites with real news. The editors need to be held accountable, and so do the outlets. There needs to be oversight committees on this. Yes, this system will get abused, but that abuse will be much less than the abuse we are all subject to daily. Its tiring reading the internet anymore.
I got bad hair from my mom. I stink cuz of my grandpa. I have bunions cuz of my great-grandmothers mail man. I highly doubt anyhow that its only because of neaderthal's as almost any creature that can live a long time gets ware and tear.. as in arthritis.
-Arzaboa
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"Respect your Elders!" -- Grandpa.
More Facebook, just what we don't need. One Billion Dollars for 100 people to work at? And folks wonder why the general public doesn't get Silicon Street.
A shame that the laws dictate on the backside that we change our SSN's when it wasn't us that gave them up over, and over, and over, and over. Wouldn't it be nice if every time we screwed up, the government changed the laws for us?
Hey now, everyone isn't "hacked", don't be an alarmist. Everyone, for the 7th time, has had their info released to the masses for their identities to be stolen is all.
Now take that to the 2.5 billion facebook users and teach them that.
The problem is critical thinking. Just because you think you have it, doesn't mean the rest of the population on the internet has it.
There are large groups on the internet that have no reason to have ever developed critical thinking tools. Some of the largest are young people, 10-20, that have zero critical thinking ability as they are learning. People around the world just tuning into the internet who have never seen so much "information" in their lives. People just joining the internet today because their church group said to "like" the church on facebook, and now they see that Planet X is going to crash into the world as one evangelical preacher is spouting.
Asking folks to have critical thinking skills is assuming they've been on the internet for long enough to see this, have been taught these skills, and/or are educated enough to figure it all out. Its too much information, and by assuming everyone can think critically, you shoot all of us in the foot.
You know what they say about assumptions.