It's going to get worse, just wait until these same dumb assholes are putting AI in everything.
The tech industry is dead set on infantilizing the entire human race so they can make a few more bucks. Even when no one really wants their shit they push it anyway.
Once the computers are doing all of our thinking for us, what's the use for humanity?
But in my MBA courses they said workers are interchangeable cogs to be moved about as the enlightened management sees fit! Modern management theory couldn't possibly be complete bullshit, could it??
I would argue some of that is just an artifact of the English language. Constructions like "I am a firefighter" are just a convenient way to express ones profession and do not necessarily imply identity any more than "I am at the store" or most any other sentence beginning with "I am". You wouldn't claim "I am waiting in line" means that persons identity is tied up with queuing, would you?
"I am" can be used to either express some intrinsic aspect of a person as well as describing physical situation. However it's fashionable these days to assume any "I am"/"you are" statement to be indicative solely of identity. What do you expect when people start thinking language has a more literal existence than it does, as if a statement creates reality.
So what are they going to do? Put "Must have IUD and refrain from getting pregnant for the duration of the contract" in every employment agreement? Does that mean they could fire (and sue) the woman if she did get knocked up?
Then again, in a world with non-compete clauses, waiving rights to sue, and forced arbitration, I guess a "no pregnancy" clause isn't that outlandish. I wonder what other idealistic but poorly thought out notions we can shoehorn into employment contracts?
3D adds little to games but VR is potentially (literally) a game changer in this area.
Sure, as long as you don't mind the game changing to all rail-shooters, walking simulators, and trite "experiences". Throw in some shitty motion controls and you've got yourself a recipe for success!
Remote Neural Monitoring is a form of functional neuroimaging, claimed[1] to have been developed by the National Security Agency(NSA), that is capable of extracting EEG data from the human brain at a distance with no contacts or electrodes required. It is further claimed that the NSA has the capablility to decode this data to extract subvocalizations, visual and auditory data.
They'd spy on it no matter what, that's not the issue here.
The issue here is that this internet is "free" because they would have direct access to everything you do on their "free" internet, which in Facebook's case means they'll be building ever larger dossiers on all the unfortunate sods stuck on this garbage.
Clearly they'll do this anyway, but this just cuts out the Facebook webbug middle man and feeds your internet activity directly into FB's data gathering apparatus. I'm sure the terms of service for this shit full of "consumer protection" and "privacy guarentees". By which they mean "we'll protect you by keeping you in FBs walled garden" and "we guarentee to abuse your privacy in every way possible".
If Trump has a Youth, it would have to be/pol/, and the Brown Shirts certainly aren't remembered for their dank memes.
In any case, it's the left that have the gangs of violent youth these days. Just wait until Trump wins in November and the Antifa becomes a thing in the US. Gonna be great.
You don't seem to understand. It's bad to say Islam causes terrorism because not all Muslims are terrorists. It's good to say all Trump supporters are authoritarian, fascist bootlickers because some Trump supporters are authoritarian, fascist bootlickers.
Also, it's not a double standard when your ideology is actually the one favored by the universe itself, possessed and composed of only truth and fact. For the Trump supporters out there, that means the modern American Progressive movement is based entirely on truth and fact, and it is the only ideology which is so comprised.
Suck it, conservative scum, the left is TRUTH, the left is FACT, the left is LOVE. I hope you all die horrible deaths at the hands of those you hate so much.
Nah, he's just a fucking retard. P2P filesharing in the early 2000's was a clusterfuck of bogus files masquerading as legit ones, music with jacked up metadata, and slow, unreliable downloads... "Yeah, lets bring back KaZaA," said no one ever.
As I said to the other responder, the definition in question isn't mine, nor do I subscribe to the ideology which begat it. The GP was, rightfully IMO, questioning how it could be that minorities who have racist views aren't called on it.
I think a lot of people are blinded by the laudable goals of the Neo-progressives (or alt-left, regressive left, whatever) and let their shitty rhetoric and tactics slide. I personally can't see how you're supposed to "end racism" with more racism. Honestly, I don't know how they think they're going to end racism in the first place, it's basic human nature. It's going to take loads of propaganda and an aggressive authoritarian state to even approximate an end to racism, and even then it'll still be there, lurking in the shadows.
To be completely clear: I'm not arguing that racism is good, only that it is and that it isn't going anywhere. A hard line "all men are sexist", "all whites are racist", "all straight people are homophobes" stance is only going to push away the very people you're trying to convince, and chance are, if they do comply with your demand it's because you threatened, publicly shamed, and intimidated them into doing it, not that you've changed their mind. At that point they probably just hate you and anyone like you, in addition to their taboo views about race/sex/orientation.
I should have been more clear. That's the "Official SJW" definition of Racism and why they feel as though minorities can get away with whatever racist or bigoted shit they want.
The left, in general, seems to think they can win the culture war by simply redefining their way through the English language until the definitions favor them exclusively. My favorite is "White Supremacy", which to most folks means Neo-Nazis, the KKK, or anyone else who advocates for white people being superior in various ways. Not so, the regressive left! A White Supremacist, in SJW parlance, is any member of the majority White population who isn't an SJW. That is, anyone who isn't helping "fix" the problem is a White Supremacist. The beauty comes from the fact that they've redefined a word with an almost exclusively negative connotation, made it somewhat neutral (i.e, being a white supremacist doesn't necessarily mean you want to kill all minorities, just that you're a bigoted racist who hates minorities), and then casually call anyone they disagree with "White Supremacist", knowing full well that they're using a fairly serious insult but also that they can fall back and hide behind their bullshit definition when called on it.
The tracking is already here, it'd be built into these chips from the start. The Internet of Things (with it's business, and security models) in your head! What could possibly go wrong?
That's all well and good, but what about the local working girls? Can prostitutes go on strike? I can see it now, the signs reading "They took our johns" and "Foreign Whores Go Home". Nasty business.
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How else are they going to creep up on ISIS?
It's going to get worse, just wait until these same dumb assholes are putting AI in everything.
The tech industry is dead set on infantilizing the entire human race so they can make a few more bucks. Even when no one really wants their shit they push it anyway.
Once the computers are doing all of our thinking for us, what's the use for humanity?
At this point what difference does it make?
But in my MBA courses they said workers are interchangeable cogs to be moved about as the enlightened management sees fit! Modern management theory couldn't possibly be complete bullshit, could it??
I would argue some of that is just an artifact of the English language. Constructions like "I am a firefighter" are just a convenient way to express ones profession and do not necessarily imply identity any more than "I am at the store" or most any other sentence beginning with "I am". You wouldn't claim "I am waiting in line" means that persons identity is tied up with queuing, would you?
"I am" can be used to either express some intrinsic aspect of a person as well as describing physical situation. However it's fashionable these days to assume any "I am"/"you are" statement to be indicative solely of identity. What do you expect when people start thinking language has a more literal existence than it does, as if a statement creates reality.
So what are they going to do? Put "Must have IUD and refrain from getting pregnant for the duration of the contract" in every employment agreement? Does that mean they could fire (and sue) the woman if she did get knocked up?
Then again, in a world with non-compete clauses, waiving rights to sue, and forced arbitration, I guess a "no pregnancy" clause isn't that outlandish. I wonder what other idealistic but poorly thought out notions we can shoehorn into employment contracts?
3D adds little to games but VR is potentially (literally) a game changer in this area.
Sure, as long as you don't mind the game changing to all rail-shooters, walking simulators, and trite "experiences". Throw in some shitty motion controls and you've got yourself a recipe for success!
I doubt that very much.
Remote Neural Monitoring
Remote Neural Monitoring is a form of functional neuroimaging, claimed[1] to have been developed by the National Security Agency(NSA), that is capable of extracting EEG data from the human brain at a distance with no contacts or electrodes required. It is further claimed that the NSA has the capablility to decode this data to extract subvocalizations, visual and auditory data.
We're gonna need better tin-foil hats people.
The documentary "The X-Files (2016)" exposed these as UFOs made by the US Government with technology recovered from alien ships.
They're planning to use them to cause widespread panic as part of an effort to take over the country and form a totalitarian regime.
It's all true, just watch it for your selves! You'll want to believe too!
They'd spy on it no matter what, that's not the issue here.
The issue here is that this internet is "free" because they would have direct access to everything you do on their "free" internet, which in Facebook's case means they'll be building ever larger dossiers on all the unfortunate sods stuck on this garbage.
Clearly they'll do this anyway, but this just cuts out the Facebook webbug middle man and feeds your internet activity directly into FB's data gathering apparatus. I'm sure the terms of service for this shit full of "consumer protection" and "privacy guarentees". By which they mean "we'll protect you by keeping you in FBs walled garden" and "we guarentee to abuse your privacy in every way possible".
Tag this monstrosity as "donotwant"
At least they're honest assholes. Disingenuous Democrat platitude of "We're the Party of the People!!!" FTW
Somehow I don't think a price hike compares favorably with manufacturing WMDs as a reason for stripping trademark protections.
If Trump has a Youth, it would have to be /pol/, and the Brown Shirts certainly aren't remembered for their dank memes.
In any case, it's the left that have the gangs of violent youth these days. Just wait until Trump wins in November and the Antifa becomes a thing in the US. Gonna be great.
You don't seem to understand. It's bad to say Islam causes terrorism because not all Muslims are terrorists. It's good to say all Trump supporters are authoritarian, fascist bootlickers because some Trump supporters are authoritarian, fascist bootlickers.
Also, it's not a double standard when your ideology is actually the one favored by the universe itself, possessed and composed of only truth and fact. For the Trump supporters out there, that means the modern American Progressive movement is based entirely on truth and fact, and it is the only ideology which is so comprised.
Suck it, conservative scum, the left is TRUTH, the left is FACT, the left is LOVE. I hope you all die horrible deaths at the hands of those you hate so much.
Racist and sexist robots? Are you kidding me?
The left really has lost their minds.
Nah, he's just a fucking retard. P2P filesharing in the early 2000's was a clusterfuck of bogus files masquerading as legit ones, music with jacked up metadata, and slow, unreliable downloads... "Yeah, lets bring back KaZaA," said no one ever.
As I said to the other responder, the definition in question isn't mine, nor do I subscribe to the ideology which begat it. The GP was, rightfully IMO, questioning how it could be that minorities who have racist views aren't called on it.
I think a lot of people are blinded by the laudable goals of the Neo-progressives (or alt-left, regressive left, whatever) and let their shitty rhetoric and tactics slide. I personally can't see how you're supposed to "end racism" with more racism. Honestly, I don't know how they think they're going to end racism in the first place, it's basic human nature. It's going to take loads of propaganda and an aggressive authoritarian state to even approximate an end to racism, and even then it'll still be there, lurking in the shadows.
To be completely clear: I'm not arguing that racism is good, only that it is and that it isn't going anywhere. A hard line "all men are sexist", "all whites are racist", "all straight people are homophobes" stance is only going to push away the very people you're trying to convince, and chance are, if they do comply with your demand it's because you threatened, publicly shamed, and intimidated them into doing it, not that you've changed their mind. At that point they probably just hate you and anyone like you, in addition to their taboo views about race/sex/orientation.
I should have been more clear. That's the "Official SJW" definition of Racism and why they feel as though minorities can get away with whatever racist or bigoted shit they want.
The left, in general, seems to think they can win the culture war by simply redefining their way through the English language until the definitions favor them exclusively. My favorite is "White Supremacy", which to most folks means Neo-Nazis, the KKK, or anyone else who advocates for white people being superior in various ways. Not so, the regressive left! A White Supremacist, in SJW parlance, is any member of the majority White population who isn't an SJW. That is, anyone who isn't helping "fix" the problem is a White Supremacist. The beauty comes from the fact that they've redefined a word with an almost exclusively negative connotation, made it somewhat neutral (i.e, being a white supremacist doesn't necessarily mean you want to kill all minorities, just that you're a bigoted racist who hates minorities), and then casually call anyone they disagree with "White Supremacist", knowing full well that they're using a fairly serious insult but also that they can fall back and hide behind their bullshit definition when called on it.
The tracking is already here, it'd be built into these chips from the start. The Internet of Things (with it's business, and security models) in your head! What could possibly go wrong?
... It must be in their heads.
The coriander? Or the dirt?
Sounds like a perfect customer base for designer babies then.
"Oh, my little Blake has Tourettes, Downs syndrome, and autism. I wanted to make him trans but we couldn't afford it."
Aaand your fantastic vocabulary allowed me to realize the truth: This whole article is just glorified marketing for the latest Deus Ex game.
Bullshit, SquareEnix doesn't have it in them.
And so, the truth is told! Who would have thought a Progressive would be in favor of breeding dissent out of the gene pool?
That's all well and good, but what about the local working girls? Can prostitutes go on strike? I can see it now, the signs reading "They took our johns" and "Foreign Whores Go Home". Nasty business.
Nice solid 1980s tech, nothing to see here. No IoT required.
Well there's your problem. Using 30 year old tech means none of the current tech companies can make any money off you.