Apparently there are people who get their news from Facebook. I also find this hard to believe, but that seems to be the worry.
Marking obviously false stories as false doesn't seem to harm. Although I guess in the end it doesn't matter, because the alternatives in the US also don't seem to briliant. If you get your news from TV channels in the US you're screwed anyway. Fox is not news and CNN & Co. is sensationalist fear mongering. You can get some news from them, but at the cost of having to endure annoying moderators, pointless live reporting and horrible exaggerations. If you get your news from "alternative media", on the other hand, then you will forever remain a poor uninformed schmuck, because these sites just copy&paste conspiracy theories from elsewhere and employ no journalists anyway.
The bottomline is that in the US it's probably best to switch to print media and/or foreign news agencies/services if you really want to what's going on. Unless by "news" you mean "political opinion pieces, whether based on fact or not" like most people who complain about fact-checking and the media nowadays.
How do you get this stupid idea and why would anyone mod you insightful?
This is about the discussion of possible EU law that will, if it is turned into a directive, be binding for EU member states only. The EU parliament is directly constituted by popular vote by all EU citizens in democratic, EU-wide elections. Every single person in the EU parliament has literally been voted into it by EU voters.
Regarding the topic, have the people in/. now become so retarded that they think it's a bad idea to prohibit the production or use of killer robots within the EU? Seriously? I could understand how a EU citizen might be critical about this for military reasons, but how could this ever be a problem for anyone outside the EU? Do people in the US now fear that they might not be eligible to be killed by EU killer robots in the future?
Yesterday you complained about a law that would compel companies doing business within the EU to remove terrorist content such as ISIS propganda and bomb making instructions, today you complain about a EU-wide ban of killer robots, as if killer robots would be future of mankind.
How more stupid could one become. Some of these anti-EU fear mongering keyboard warriors in this forum need to get their lazy fat asses out there into the real world and get some sense into their brains (or, they need to get another job, if they do this professionally in some troll fabric)
I followed him from time to time. Some of his rants during his schizophrenic periods were weird, to say the least. Then again, not many people develop a programming language on their own and then use it to program a complete graphical operating system that runs on bare metal with it. It's sad that his schizophrenia wasn't treated earlier and more effectively.
Yes, the $100 yearly fee plus recurring hardware costs are the reason why I stopped developing shareware for Apple. (Technically, I'm still selling it, but not on the app store so discovery is down to zero.)
Common folks, I think this has been settled by now. Trump wasn't voted into power because people disliked Obama, he wasn't voted into power because he was liked as a person, he wasn't voted into power for his rallies and speechs - only a small number of supporters find them appealing - and he wasn't voted into power for his policies like building a super-expensive wall to Mexico - they were notoriously unclear and some of them were not very Republican anyway (e.g. trade tariffs, get better public healthcare instead of the allegedly failed Obamacare, etc).
Trump became president because (1) the other Republican candidates were amazingly weak and (2) because Hillary Clinton was one of the least popular candidates ever.That is the reason why he became president.
(Well, according to NSA, FBI, etc., there was a bit of help by Russian trolls, too. But apparently even they didn't expect him to actually win, so it's unlikely that this interference was in any way decisive.)
When in public Trump does not speak like someone who has all of the issues his mortal enemies wish to claim he does.
To a normal, unbiased observer he clearly does have these issues. That's the problem. It started very early with his childish and disgraceful inauguration crowd size rants and has continued since then.
Republicans amongst themselves merely seem to disagree about the extent of this erratic behavior and how much it hinders the functioning of the government. Some think it's harmless and just another governance style, others think its a problem because he's acting too impulsively and refuses to listen to reason.
I have a HP50g, a HP48, and a HP12 clone (Victor V12) and still find RPN and the lack of full Undo so impractical that I usually reach for one of my old Casios when I need to calculate something.
Drinkypoo, Germany has plenty of Nazis and purpose of these laws is certainly not to prevent the occurrence of Nazis. On the contrary, those laws and constitutional safeguards were invented at a time when Germany was arguably full of Nazis and Nazi enablers. If you don't even understand the purpose of such laws and/or the history of Germany, you really have nothing to contribute.
Oh, my sweet, summer child.
You would appear less childish if you kept such snippets to yourself, drinkypoo!
I don't think it's going to be that bad, there is still ample time for adaptation and technological improvements. Globally, by any objective indicators mankind as a whole has never been as well off as today, don't forget that.
Merkel does not have anything with this, no matter what she says. Due to Germany's Nazi past and because allied authorities like the US insisted on it, Germany has applicable hate speech laws that every company doing business in Germany has to respect. Using Nazi symbols, instigating violence by racist slurs, showing the Hitler greeting, and denying the Holocaust is illegal in Germany, and Facebook has to provide the means to comply with the law or close their business in Germany. It's as simple as that.
The US, France, and the UK insisted on these kind of mechanisms and gave Western Germany a constitution that can defend itself against inner threats, because the Weimarer Republic failed due to inner threats - by the Nazis abusing constitutional flaws and spreading hate and terror on the street and in media. For example, in Germany a Nazi party (SRP - the successor of the NSDAP) and a communist party (KPD - largely under Soviet control) were prohibited in the 50s.
If you really, really want to go to war against Germany again in 50-100 years from now and if you enjoyed the total destruction of Europe by the Nazis or the communist occupation of Eastern Europe, then please continue to insist that Germans should enjoy full freedom and speech, no matter how despicable, and to abolish constitutional safeguards against inner takeover by totalitarians.
For what it's worth, German authorities are much too tame about the current threats. They should definitely surveille the AfD and other right-wing wackos, just like they watched and infiltrated anarchist and communist groups in the past, but unfortunately they are a bit blind on the right eye (as the NSU murders and the involvement of the Verfassungsschutz in them have aptly illustrated).
Yes, that's the right solution. We used killfiles on Usenet and it worked great. Unfortunately, there are many places that do not have filters or blocking, for instance Slashdot. It would be nice to be able to filter ACs by keywords and put known trolls on an ignore list by their account name.
Putting bleeps over swear words on TV seems even more childish. I've seen comedians on Youtube who had several beeps in almost every sentence. You can still understand everything, so I guess it's more of a nostalgic tradition than being meant seriously. Otherwise, what's the point of this?
Bernie Sanders understands the concept very well, he has deliberately chosen to use the term "socialism" for his particular US-centred vision of social democracy in order to provoke. It's a regrettable terminological choice that would only work in the US where few have a clue about these terms. Socialism and social democracy have nothing to do with each other, in fact quite a few social democrats were put into Gulags by socialists and communists, as well as into concentration camps and prisons by the Nazis.
What you call social liberalism is something else, there is a left-wing tradition of liberalism since Adam Smith addressed the Social Question of the 19th Century.
Fox News, CNN, Facebook, Slashdot, etc. are utter crap as "news" sources and it seems likely that many people who claim these are good news sources have never read a printed newspaper in their life.
There is also false news, which is not covered by "rudy_wayne"'s crude taxonomy. Not every false report is based on a lie. It makes perfect sense to distinguish between fake news and false news, because fake news is created intentionally with the aim of deceiving or sometimes unintentionally by word of mouth reposts and copy&paste "reporting" of news aggregation sites. False news reports are very different from fake news and usually corrected within minutes or hours.
I have to admit that it's annoying that you continue pretend to not understand what I'm saying and keep insisting on your voluntary scheme and anecdotal claims about food labelling in the US ("if you go into any supermarket", "get slapped on every possible product". ) At least you could have provided some figures about how many food products are labelled voluntarily and how many aren't.
I want a guarantee that customers can make a free choice, which requires fully informed customers, which in turn requires mandatory labelling. I don't care whether the label has to say "non-GMO" or "GMO" or whether both types of food have to be labelled, as long as the customer can distinguish between the two types of products. You want free company choice and have been understood. I want free consumer choice and I have made clear what that implies. I have zero problems with more government relations. What you perceive as a problem does not concern me at all. I understand that you don't like this, but not liking something is not an argument. Free consumer choice is only guaranteed if you can guarantee that consumers can distinguish between their choices, which requires them to know what they are buying. It's as simple as that. Your arguments are all fine as arguments for free company choice, not free consumer choice, and as arguments for less government regulations. They are not arguments I have made or endorse in any way whatsoever, okay?
Stop patronizing other people, but especially don't do it when you fail to provide sound arguments yourself and move the goalpost. If that has an effect at all, it will be the opposite of what you want to achieve (assuming that you're not just trolling).
Copyright law is enforced in a much more Draconian way in the US than in the EU, especially the damages that have to paid to copyright holders after infringement are way overboard in the US.
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Apparently there are people who get their news from Facebook. I also find this hard to believe, but that seems to be the worry.
Marking obviously false stories as false doesn't seem to harm. Although I guess in the end it doesn't matter, because the alternatives in the US also don't seem to briliant. If you get your news from TV channels in the US you're screwed anyway. Fox is not news and CNN & Co. is sensationalist fear mongering. You can get some news from them, but at the cost of having to endure annoying moderators, pointless live reporting and horrible exaggerations. If you get your news from "alternative media", on the other hand, then you will forever remain a poor uninformed schmuck, because these sites just copy&paste conspiracy theories from elsewhere and employ no journalists anyway.
The bottomline is that in the US it's probably best to switch to print media and/or foreign news agencies/services if you really want to what's going on. Unless by "news" you mean "political opinion pieces, whether based on fact or not" like most people who complain about fact-checking and the media nowadays.
How do you get this stupid idea and why would anyone mod you insightful?
This is about the discussion of possible EU law that will, if it is turned into a directive, be binding for EU member states only. The EU parliament is directly constituted by popular vote by all EU citizens in democratic, EU-wide elections. Every single person in the EU parliament has literally been voted into it by EU voters.
Regarding the topic, have the people in /. now become so retarded that they think it's a bad idea to prohibit the production or use of killer robots within the EU? Seriously? I could understand how a EU citizen might be critical about this for military reasons, but how could this ever be a problem for anyone outside the EU? Do people in the US now fear that they might not be eligible to be killed by EU killer robots in the future?
Yesterday you complained about a law that would compel companies doing business within the EU to remove terrorist content such as ISIS propganda and bomb making instructions, today you complain about a EU-wide ban of killer robots, as if killer robots would be future of mankind.
How more stupid could one become. Some of these anti-EU fear mongering keyboard warriors in this forum need to get their lazy fat asses out there into the real world and get some sense into their brains (or, they need to get another job, if they do this professionally in some troll fabric)
You're right, with a different operating system, a mechanical keyboard, a mouse, and a large monitor attached tablets could be decent.
Thanks, I prefer to have 100% control over what I install and run.
I followed him from time to time. Some of his rants during his schizophrenic periods were weird, to say the least. Then again, not many people develop a programming language on their own and then use it to program a complete graphical operating system that runs on bare metal with it. It's sad that his schizophrenia wasn't treated earlier and more effectively.
Yes, the $100 yearly fee plus recurring hardware costs are the reason why I stopped developing shareware for Apple. (Technically, I'm still selling it, but not on the app store so discovery is down to zero.)
Right, make it harder for indie developers to compete and make it easier for EA Games to compete. Brilliant. /s
Common folks, I think this has been settled by now. Trump wasn't voted into power because people disliked Obama, he wasn't voted into power because he was liked as a person, he wasn't voted into power for his rallies and speechs - only a small number of supporters find them appealing - and he wasn't voted into power for his policies like building a super-expensive wall to Mexico - they were notoriously unclear and some of them were not very Republican anyway (e.g. trade tariffs, get better public healthcare instead of the allegedly failed Obamacare, etc).
Trump became president because (1) the other Republican candidates were amazingly weak and (2) because Hillary Clinton was one of the least popular candidates ever.That is the reason why he became president.
(Well, according to NSA, FBI, etc., there was a bit of help by Russian trolls, too. But apparently even they didn't expect him to actually win, so it's unlikely that this interference was in any way decisive.)
They probably didn't tell him about the aliens at Area 51 either.
When in public Trump does not speak like someone who has all of the issues his mortal enemies wish to claim he does.
To a normal, unbiased observer he clearly does have these issues. That's the problem. It started very early with his childish and disgraceful inauguration crowd size rants and has continued since then.
Republicans amongst themselves merely seem to disagree about the extent of this erratic behavior and how much it hinders the functioning of the government. Some think it's harmless and just another governance style, others think its a problem because he's acting too impulsively and refuses to listen to reason.
But you can only undo one step...
I have a HP50g, a HP48, and a HP12 clone (Victor V12) and still find RPN and the lack of full Undo so impractical that I usually reach for one of my old Casios when I need to calculate something.
Drinkypoo, Germany has plenty of Nazis and purpose of these laws is certainly not to prevent the occurrence of Nazis. On the contrary, those laws and constitutional safeguards were invented at a time when Germany was arguably full of Nazis and Nazi enablers. If you don't even understand the purpose of such laws and/or the history of Germany, you really have nothing to contribute.
Oh, my sweet, summer child.
You would appear less childish if you kept such snippets to yourself, drinkypoo!
I don't think it's going to be that bad, there is still ample time for adaptation and technological improvements. Globally, by any objective indicators mankind as a whole has never been as well off as today, don't forget that.
Merkel does not have anything with this, no matter what she says. Due to Germany's Nazi past and because allied authorities like the US insisted on it, Germany has applicable hate speech laws that every company doing business in Germany has to respect. Using Nazi symbols, instigating violence by racist slurs, showing the Hitler greeting, and denying the Holocaust is illegal in Germany, and Facebook has to provide the means to comply with the law or close their business in Germany. It's as simple as that.
The US, France, and the UK insisted on these kind of mechanisms and gave Western Germany a constitution that can defend itself against inner threats, because the Weimarer Republic failed due to inner threats - by the Nazis abusing constitutional flaws and spreading hate and terror on the street and in media. For example, in Germany a Nazi party (SRP - the successor of the NSDAP) and a communist party (KPD - largely under Soviet control) were prohibited in the 50s.
If you really, really want to go to war against Germany again in 50-100 years from now and if you enjoyed the total destruction of Europe by the Nazis or the communist occupation of Eastern Europe, then please continue to insist that Germans should enjoy full freedom and speech, no matter how despicable, and to abolish constitutional safeguards against inner takeover by totalitarians.
For what it's worth, German authorities are much too tame about the current threats. They should definitely surveille the AfD and other right-wing wackos, just like they watched and infiltrated anarchist and communist groups in the past, but unfortunately they are a bit blind on the right eye (as the NSU murders and the involvement of the Verfassungsschutz in them have aptly illustrated).
Yes, that's the right solution. We used killfiles on Usenet and it worked great. Unfortunately, there are many places that do not have filters or blocking, for instance Slashdot. It would be nice to be able to filter ACs by keywords and put known trolls on an ignore list by their account name.
Putting bleeps over swear words on TV seems even more childish. I've seen comedians on Youtube who had several beeps in almost every sentence. You can still understand everything, so I guess it's more of a nostalgic tradition than being meant seriously. Otherwise, what's the point of this?
Well, I guess I'm lucky, I hate Trump and don't like Google.
These are ridiculously high overturn rates. What's wrong with your court system?
They are not reliable for anything. Anyone can spoof an MAC address and, yes, people have and will spoof them to frame others.
Bernie Sanders understands the concept very well, he has deliberately chosen to use the term "socialism" for his particular US-centred vision of social democracy in order to provoke. It's a regrettable terminological choice that would only work in the US where few have a clue about these terms. Socialism and social democracy have nothing to do with each other, in fact quite a few social democrats were put into Gulags by socialists and communists, as well as into concentration camps and prisons by the Nazis.
What you call social liberalism is something else, there is a left-wing tradition of liberalism since Adam Smith addressed the Social Question of the 19th Century.
Fox News, CNN, Facebook, Slashdot, etc. are utter crap as "news" sources and it seems likely that many people who claim these are good news sources have never read a printed newspaper in their life.
There is also false news, which is not covered by "rudy_wayne"'s crude taxonomy. Not every false report is based on a lie. It makes perfect sense to distinguish between fake news and false news, because fake news is created intentionally with the aim of deceiving or sometimes unintentionally by word of mouth reposts and copy&paste "reporting" of news aggregation sites. False news reports are very different from fake news and usually corrected within minutes or hours.
I have to admit that it's annoying that you continue pretend to not understand what I'm saying and keep insisting on your voluntary scheme and anecdotal claims about food labelling in the US ("if you go into any supermarket", "get slapped on every possible product". ) At least you could have provided some figures about how many food products are labelled voluntarily and how many aren't.
I want a guarantee that customers can make a free choice, which requires fully informed customers, which in turn requires mandatory labelling. I don't care whether the label has to say "non-GMO" or "GMO" or whether both types of food have to be labelled, as long as the customer can distinguish between the two types of products. You want free company choice and have been understood. I want free consumer choice and I have made clear what that implies. I have zero problems with more government relations. What you perceive as a problem does not concern me at all. I understand that you don't like this, but not liking something is not an argument. Free consumer choice is only guaranteed if you can guarantee that consumers can distinguish between their choices, which requires them to know what they are buying. It's as simple as that. Your arguments are all fine as arguments for free company choice, not free consumer choice, and as arguments for less government regulations. They are not arguments I have made or endorse in any way whatsoever, okay?
Stop patronizing other people, but especially don't do it when you fail to provide sound arguments yourself and move the goalpost. If that has an effect at all, it will be the opposite of what you want to achieve (assuming that you're not just trolling).
Copyright law is enforced in a much more Draconian way in the US than in the EU, especially the damages that have to paid to copyright holders after infringement are way overboard in the US.