Each and every goddam entity, be it a small business providing cupcakes or enterprises manufacturing the muffin pans will be sending compliance letters to each other 1.) demanding that suppliers better not mess up and that 2.) the author of the demand will do its best to be in compliance, but no promises, and no liability for failures beyond their control.
If you have ever read Cargo Cult Science by Richard Feynman, you know that he believed that there were still many things that experts, or in this case, physicists, did not know. One of these ‘unknowns’ that he pointed out often to all of his colleagues was the mysterious number 137.
I don't use RSS, but I do most of the other things you do.
I did delete Facebook recently. I don't miss it. Social cooling, whereby participants are self-restrained from posting anything more controversial than shared cat videos made the platform boring while still being dangerous.
I know where to go to get real news, for instance. The Facebook bubble is useless as tits on a boar.
Good point. I love car analogies. Notice that the dependency on cars did not make us all insane, non-productive zombies.
I'm old enough to recall the encouragement from car manufacturers to go Sunday driving. People got to visit places that were unreachable before there were cars.
Then the parents bought their kid a car. Unbelievable. Nowadays, high school kids have their own freaking parking lot.
Still no sign of mental illness despite addiction to the technology of cars.
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I'm really scared.
I used to have a straight day job, 9-5.
I'm planning to embrace the gig economy and the week will be unpredictable.
Is there an app for locating the bunker I built out in an abandoned oil field in Lufkin, Texas back in 1955?
Asking for a friend.
Early computers were designed with the same mentality. "The year 2000 is WAY off."
Each and every goddam entity, be it a small business providing cupcakes or enterprises manufacturing the muffin pans will be sending compliance letters to each other 1.) demanding that suppliers better not mess up and that 2.) the author of the demand will do its best to be in compliance, but no promises, and no liability for failures beyond their control.
No we're getting somewhere.
The Mysterious 137
If you have ever read Cargo Cult Science by Richard Feynman, you know that he believed that there were still many things that experts, or in this case, physicists, did not know. One of these ‘unknowns’ that he pointed out often to all of his colleagues was the mysterious number 137.
We're sorry, but in the US most school zones, in addition to limiting speeds, provide penalties for sextanting while driving.
The Sun and its planets and their satellites move around the center of the Milky Way, which is moving through the universe.
The current topology works better because it has less moving parts.
The problem lies not in our stars ...
We need American Sign Language-keyboard translators when a GPS-enabled device determines that our coordinates are variable in three dimensions.
Right here?
Declare private data to be IP and copyrighted by the entity creating the IP.
Calculate the value of the IP by examining the revenue generated from it.
Pay royalties to the owners of the private IP whenever and wherever the data is used/reused, in perpetuity.
For those who don't wish to sell their IP, allow them to opt out. Any private IP harvested will be theft.
I have to think of everything and stuff.
California Governor Proposes Digital Dividend Aimed At Big Tech
Eat my dust.
My ethics tells me that the question is leading, and unethical.
I like it, but that's just shuffling the deck.
The question is in the form of "if A then B."
What if it were reversed to, "if B then A?"
Is it ethical for China to purchase products made in the US or containing parts made in the US?
There's your answer.
Nice. :)
... for the answer.
Any network is a social network, unless it's not used by human beings ...
See, for example, ants.
TL;DR except for the glance at "For me the defining ..."
You don't get to define social media.
Thanks for the social interaction using this media.
Any time you find yourself on a network communicating to someone other than yourself, you're being social by way of the network.
You're here. I'm here. We're discussing.
Bazinga.
This.
CaptainDork's 17th Corollary: "For every motherfucker out there with a computer, there's another motherfucker out there with a computer."
There's no computational hierarchy such as "commercial," vs "residential" or "government" vs "civilian."
It's the same goddam hardware/software all the fucking way down.
... that I didn't like.
I don't use RSS, but I do most of the other things you do.
I did delete Facebook recently. I don't miss it. Social cooling, whereby participants are self-restrained from posting anything more controversial than shared cat videos made the platform boring while still being dangerous.
I know where to go to get real news, for instance. The Facebook bubble is useless as tits on a boar.
The EU is fighting for their countries but the US is really doomed for until most of the current generations die off.
The difference between privacy concerns re: EU and US is that the home base is in the US.
ALL countries should, in my opinion, establish law that knocks down the insanity of monetizing the internet at the expense of personal privacy.
It will not happen. The whole planet is in the grip of the Capitalist Party.
So here you are at slashvertisement helping them being incompetent at making money.
Appreciate your contribution to slashvertisement revenue stream, bloke.
Good point. I love car analogies. Notice that the dependency on cars did not make us all insane, non-productive zombies.
I'm old enough to recall the encouragement from car manufacturers to go Sunday driving. People got to visit places that were unreachable before there were cars.
Then the parents bought their kid a car. Unbelievable. Nowadays, high school kids have their own freaking parking lot.
Still no sign of mental illness despite addiction to the technology of cars.
But you did not piff the problem, right? Here you are. You're no longer using a phone to get here, but you are using a substitute.
What did you switch to, a tablet? a desktop? a portable?
Obviously, your approach satisfactorily addressed the "problem solving capabilities of those around" you, or you would not be here, right?
Please explain how your change in behaviour affected those around you.
Thanks.