Just what we need. 4K of Harry Dean Stanton standing there in closeup, greasy and sweaty, as the water drips on his face, or Penny's sister blubbering uncontrollably.
They better not "touch up" certain parts of someone's anatomy though.
30 years ago on the U-Mich campus, somoene started a thing called "The green bike is not locked!" They introduced dozens of used bikes painted an ugly green. The idea was you would ride one somewhere on campus and leave it there and someone would ride it back going the other way.
I am happy for solutions like this. However, my usual warning (which is often downmodded because it sounds sinister, I guess.)
Be careful you don't overdo it. Moving in from the seas over 100-300 years is "inconvenient". Accidentally trigger another ice age (which can happen in as few as a couple of years -- you just need a summer where the snow doesn't melt) will literally kill billions quickly.
"Pay your fair share" means, in places like this, paying gigatons extra for things well beyone basic services. As if the purpose of private existence is to be a workhorse for populist ideas.
So free people choose to go somewhere else. "Here, voters. Live with the politicians you gleely elect as they scream how evil we are. Well, we are evil in their eyes, so I am sure you are happy to see our evil say bye."
Refusing to seize a much bigger chunk of your profits (or in the case of Sesttle, just seizing money, profit or not) is not "subsidizing" them. They earned it. It is you, the taxing government, that they are subsidizing.
Some of that stuff is unconstitutional, such as NY telling banks to watch their reputations serving gun makers, or they might find difficulty getting government contracts.
And be careful wishing for public opinion driving corporations to ignore people tracked by a database as having supported candidate X. That shoe could ne on the other foot.
That system is being built currently in the US. It just is private and not government. Everywhere you go people who care to check will see you supported this or that candidate, for the purpose of social ostracism.
You still have the private ballot. You just can't talk about it on the greatest free speech forum of all time, the Internet, because of computers and AI.
You might think so, but people are building apps that record a permenent database on you and anything you did online, so it will float above your head in a virtual overlay. It is just like that Black Mirror episode but on steroids.
Everybody keeps throwing around all of these ways that China could abuse this system, like discrediting based on social media post or publishing dissenting material. Thing is, they haven't implemented anything like that. So far the only thing that dings your score is criminal charges, traffic violations, and defaulting on loans. So it's like a cross between a criminal record and a credit score. Not very dystopian.
Do not defend any of this. It is totalitarian.
I find it ironic one of the complaints of communism is that the elite buy off the bourgeoisie (the middle class) by giving them access to the trappings of the elite, like loans and checking accounts. And here is a communist regime starting to do the exact same thing their core philosophy rails against as an abuse by the elites.
China is building a Black Mirror-like social citizen rating that will deny you not just loans and bank accounts, but riding the bus and so on, if your Good Little Communist rating goes down too much.
They are piloting this for the dictatorship in Venezuela right now.
Meanwhile companies in the US, and the security agencies, are robo-building AI models of you to predict behavior. Do you think this is all anonymized and well-tracked (in the case of agencies) to prevent abuse by spying on political opponents?
His wasn't a serious comment. There is a concerted effort from...somewhere...to dissuade thoughtful participation by posting rude responses that address almost nothing.
Slashdot should look into it. This is worse than typical outrage trolling designed to elicit clicks and responses to increase ad views.
People were doing it anyway. They just made it no longer a violation of ToS.
I don't know how they internally rent shows and amortize the costs -- per view, or just rented for x months for a fixed cost. Even pay per account, unlimited views for that account after the one time internal charge.
It would be completely wrong to think they don't have internal business models on how to pay for things that take sharing into account.
The only less realistic sci-fi trope is inventing indefinite life extension tech, and "wise leaders don't let anybody use it becuz 2 many peepul" and the voting pop is fine with that.
I have a better proposal. If I am on a web site with a login, and I take so long to enter an awesome post that I am auto logged out behind the scene, preserve the blather from the vaporized long text box somewhere...anywhere...so I can recover it. Back + login = clean form thanks fer nuthin'.
In short, if I had an human assistant and said, oops, see I was logged out, put that text back in thanks, then they would do it.
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Just what we need. 4K of Harry Dean Stanton standing there in closeup, greasy and sweaty, as the water drips on his face, or Penny's sister blubbering uncontrollably.
They better not "touch up" certain parts of someone's anatomy though.
Anything else?
How about adding a spreadsheet diff tool that isn't a useless piece of shit designed without usability in mind?
It won't be very long before weight is added to your Good Little Communist rating and you are denied services.
Most businesses and other places have bike racks and whatnot for their visitors.
Who is running around saying that part of it is wrong?
30 years ago on the U-Mich campus, somoene started a thing called "The green bike is not locked!" They introduced dozens of used bikes painted an ugly green. The idea was you would ride one somewhere on campus and leave it there and someone would ride it back going the other way.
In short order they were all stolen.
I am happy for solutions like this. However, my usual warning (which is often downmodded because it sounds sinister, I guess.)
Be careful you don't overdo it. Moving in from the seas over 100-300 years is "inconvenient". Accidentally trigger another ice age (which can happen in as few as a couple of years -- you just need a summer where the snow doesn't melt) will literally kill billions quickly.
"Pay your fair share" means, in places like this, paying gigatons extra for things well beyone basic services. As if the purpose of private existence is to be a workhorse for populist ideas.
So free people choose to go somewhere else. "Here, voters. Live with the politicians you gleely elect as they scream how evil we are. Well, we are evil in their eyes, so I am sure you are happy to see our evil say bye."
These are the same sacks of shit who, with a straigbt face, will tell you, "This isn't an income tax. It is a just tax proportional to your income."
Refusing to seize a much bigger chunk of your profits (or in the case of Sesttle, just seizing money, profit or not) is not "subsidizing" them. They earned it. It is you, the taxing government, that they are subsidizing.
Some of that stuff is unconstitutional, such as NY telling banks to watch their reputations serving gun makers, or they might find difficulty getting government contracts.
And be careful wishing for public opinion driving corporations to ignore people tracked by a database as having supported candidate X. That shoe could ne on the other foot.
That system is being built currently in the US. It just is private and not government. Everywhere you go people who care to check will see you supported this or that candidate, for the purpose of social ostracism.
You still have the private ballot. You just can't talk about it on the greatest free speech forum of all time, the Internet, because of computers and AI.
Or soon won't.
You might think so, but people are building apps that record a permenent database on you and anything you did online, so it will float above your head in a virtual overlay. It is just like that Black Mirror episode but on steroids.
Everybody keeps throwing around all of these ways that China could abuse this system, like discrediting based on social media post or publishing dissenting material. Thing is, they haven't implemented anything like that. So far the only thing that dings your score is criminal charges, traffic violations, and defaulting on loans. So it's like a cross between a criminal record and a credit score. Not very dystopian.
Do not defend any of this. It is totalitarian.
I find it ironic one of the complaints of communism is that the elite buy off the bourgeoisie (the middle class) by giving them access to the trappings of the elite, like loans and checking accounts. And here is a communist regime starting to do the exact same thing their core philosophy rails against as an abuse by the elites.
Shipments hit 28,478, nearly 16 percent more than in 2017
Any Jerk-o-Matics?
Without them, freedom is meaningless because it doesn't exist.
Freedom is the key power of the West. Democracy is its servant, and a means to that end. Democracy is not the end itself.
China is building a Black Mirror-like social citizen rating that will deny you not just loans and bank accounts, but riding the bus and so on, if your Good Little Communist rating goes down too much.
They are piloting this for the dictatorship in Venezuela right now.
Meanwhile companies in the US, and the security agencies, are robo-building AI models of you to predict behavior. Do you think this is all anonymized and well-tracked (in the case of agencies) to prevent abuse by spying on political opponents?
Yes. Thanks for asking!
His wasn't a serious comment. There is a concerted effort from...somewhere...to dissuade thoughtful participation by posting rude responses that address almost nothing.
Slashdot should look into it. This is worse than typical outrage trolling designed to elicit clicks and responses to increase ad views.
People were doing it anyway. They just made it no longer a violation of ToS.
I don't know how they internally rent shows and amortize the costs -- per view, or just rented for x months for a fixed cost. Even pay per account, unlimited views for that account after the one time internal charge.
It would be completely wrong to think they don't have internal business models on how to pay for things that take sharing into account.
I'm afraid to buy a new TV. It's bad enough the cable company and Netflix know exactly what I am watching. Now the TV company does, too?
The only less realistic sci-fi trope is inventing indefinite life extension tech, and "wise leaders don't let anybody use it becuz 2 many peepul" and the voting pop is fine with that.
They're unmanned fighter jets, didn't you read the scary headline?
Cue lawsuits arguing they are infringing copyright of the displayed page.
I...thought they did this already.
I have a better proposal. If I am on a web site with a login, and I take so long to enter an awesome post that I am auto logged out behind the scene, preserve the blather from the vaporized long text box somewhere...anywhere...so I can recover it. Back + login = clean form thanks fer nuthin'.
In short, if I had an human assistant and said, oops, see I was logged out, put that text back in thanks, then they would do it.