I'm getting tired of how idiotic our species can be.
Round up all the 'flat Earthers' into a secure facility. Screen them for the ones that are 'claiming' to believe it for purely entertainment or trolling purposes, give them a stern warning to discontinue that activity and release them. The 'true believers' stay and are treated for their delusion(s) (no doubt they have actual treatable mental/emotional illnesses); release the ones that respond to treatment, lock away the 'incorrigibles' who are too ill to grasp actual truth and actual reality.
Maybe we do the same with anti-vaxxers.
I'm only about 51% serious about the above. But I think hard about it.
Some industries should be not-for-profit, to discourage profiteering, unethical business practices, and outright criminal activity. IN MY OPINION, the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries should be at the top of that list.
Intentionally allowing people to remain ill? THE SPECIAL HELL for you!
EVIL. Plain and simple, this is EVIL INCARNATE.
The purpose of medicine is to cure people, not make profit! Ethically speaking passing up the opportunity to cure a disease because it's 'less profitable' is WRONG in the extreme.
I've thought for quite some time now that certain industries should, by law, be not-for-profit, and healthcare and the pharmaceutical industries should be on that list -- or at least a legal limit of some sort to limit profits and discourage profiteering, or ethically wrong decisions like not curing something you could develop a cure for, to keep 'stringing people along' with 'management' of a disease or condition, just because it makes you more money.
Shit.. the very mention of something like this severely pisses me off.
With as polarized as just about everyone is these days, and with out-in-the-open racism so prevalent, it should be no wonder that I might suspect someone of it. In this case there was not, however.
".. Facebook is an advertising company.
No, they're not even that. They're a surveillance company, who sells to the highest bidder. A digital Peeping Tom in the form of a company.
Who by the way said anything about 'quickly', anyway? Something like this should never be done 'quickly'. We will clearly have to develop new technologies and strategies to make it a reality, and our species will benefit thereby.
I'm looking at the long-term, not just the next fiscal quarter, or fiscal year, or the next election cycle, unlike too many people, apparently. I resent the
'hive culture' some people seem to be living in, and the lack of imagination. Too many people are like that, and if they had their way we, as a species, wouldn't have accomplished even half the things we've accomplished, and wouldn't have even half the things we've invented and developed. Conservatism, in the social, fiscal, political, and scientific sense, would say "X works just fine, why do we need anything different?".
People can disagree with me all they want, but it is my stance that our species must continue to move forward, not backwards or stand still. Not moving forward is death.
You're a Negative Nelly if money is your ONLY consideration. If it were up to people like you, the U.S. would have never gone to the Moon in the first place, and Russia would have that place in the history books. Bug off.
Clearly and objectively government censorship. That's the first thing that'll kill this.
If that doesn't kill it for some reason, there's the clear, objective truth that 'net nanny' software never works for one reason or another. It either censors the wrong content, allows the wrong content, or usually both. Then there's the little matter of someone else's sensibilities (such as they are in some people's case) dictating what 'is' and 'is not' pornographic. Someone could theoretically censor all access to Amazon.com because they sell books that they deem 'pornographic' (like Catcher In The Rye, or Stranger In A Strange Land, for instance), or, more relevant to the recent years, censor political content that they don't agree with. Don't even bother disagreeing with me because everyone damned well knows it'll happen.
Then, even if all that never happens: anyone with access to Google will be able to bypass it in less than 5 minutes anyway.
Why is it our politicians are so gods-be-damned dumb that they peridically, like clockwork, trot out nonsense like this, again and again? They're wasting our tax dollars on crap like this. If you don't want your kids to see some things on the Internet then PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT THEY'RE DOING WITH THE INTERNET, don't force your damned choice on everyone else!
I stopped reading once I realized all your 'reasoning' was based on monetary cost. If you make all your decisions based on money then you're never going to get anywhere or do anything other than stay in the same rabbit warren shifting intrinsicly valueless tokens around or bartering for basic necessities. Exploration and innovation are always expensive but they're the reason we have a civilization in the first place. Otherwise we'd all still be living in mud huts on the African continent living hunter-gatherer subsistence existences because it works why change it? People like you with your negativity don't contribute in positive ways to our species.
Did you forget to take your antidepressant this morning? Seriously go take your meds, drink your coffee, or whatever it is you need to do, and don't talk to anyone else until you've straightened yourself out.
Breeding population
No need to worry about that right now. Raw materials
Are you a Lunar Geologist? Is the Moon made of cheese? I joke but there will be further exploration to determine what's available. We didn't used to think there was water ice there! Lunar society/militaristic
Sure. You have to have discipline when leaving a door unlocked means everyone dies of hard vacuum exposure, or not following procedure means everyone's air gets poisoned. War
Let's not get ahead of ourselves, shall we? Numerous colonies
The Moon is just the first step. Then there's the asteroids. Lots of resouces out there waiting to be tapped. ..stone age technology
How do you know what we can and can't do until it's tried?
Remember that we once thought that humans travelling at steam train speeds would literally explode!
Also remember that it was thought impossible for humans to fly in any sort of machine.
Also remember that even making it to orbit, let alone set foot on the Moon, was once considered pure fantasy.
Computers and telephones you can put in your pocket? Wait, wasn't that just comic-book nonsense? Yet it's reality now.
Harnessing the power of the atom?
How about when we actually believed we were the Center of the Universe and everything revolved around Earth? That all those points of light in the sky were just points of light, indicative of nothing? Now we build space-based telescopes capable of seeing other galaxies billions of light-years away, and seeing other planets in other solar systems thousands of light-years away clear enough to determine their size, mass, and atmospheric composition.
Don't sit there and say "Oh, well, that's all impossible." You won't be the first or the last to make that mistake, that's for sure.
"Students will shift away from public media / platforms to new semi-private networks"
They're already doing that. Facebook is becoming like Myspace and Livejournal before it: a place for the old people, uncool if you're young.
They'll go talk to each other in threads on 4chan, or in Discord chats, or whatever. When the next cool, hip new 'social media' comes around, they'll be first on the scene.
You're ignoring a critical fact here: if it's at IKEA then it's not even called 'pizza', it's some Nordic word with an umlaut and too many consonants that no one can pronounce.
The thing is, for sake of human health, we don't want to encourage either markets or consumers to eschew produce and turn to things like pre-packaged, highly-processed foods; it's already a problem, and not one that should be ignored, it severely affects people's long-term health when they do that.
If so-called 'big box supermarkets' are being threatened and undercut by 'dollar stores' on enough items to make them unprofitable when in the same neighborhood, then maybe the big-box supermarket chains should buy out the dollar stores, run them side-by-side, and not carry duplicate items of the dollar store in the big-box supermarket down the street. After all aren't they really two different sets of customers?
It would be far from the first time some corporation had at least two different 'brands' they owned.
Additionally, how many people do you really think do all of their regular shopping at only one grocery store? There are at least three I use: a 'discount' supermarket for the most common food items and things like bathroom-related items, an 'upscale' market for meat and produce (higher quality), and a specialty market for the one or two things I can't get at the other two and can't live without. Occasionally I'll go to some 'dollar store' for one or two things I know they'll have in abundance that'll be a fraction of the cost at any of the others. I suspect that if some family is in the 'working poor' category they'd use a version of the above combination but shifted down a notch to include the dollar-store category. It would make sense for a national discount market to buy up a dollar store chain and run them side-by-side.
Of course there are potential 'monopoly' concerns to consider with an approach like this; would it further limit competition, resulting in giving in to the temptation to raise prices across the board, knowing people have no choice anymore?
Slashdot Mirror
I'm getting tired of how idiotic our species can be.
Round up all the 'flat Earthers' into a secure facility. Screen them for the ones that are 'claiming' to believe it for purely entertainment or trolling purposes, give them a stern warning to discontinue that activity and release them. The 'true believers' stay and are treated for their delusion(s) (no doubt they have actual treatable mental/emotional illnesses); release the ones that respond to treatment, lock away the 'incorrigibles' who are too ill to grasp actual truth and actual reality.
Maybe we do the same with anti-vaxxers.
I'm only about 51% serious about the above. But I think hard about it.
Some industries should be not-for-profit, to discourage profiteering, unethical business practices, and outright criminal activity.
IN MY OPINION, the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries should be at the top of that list.
Intentionally allowing people to remain ill? THE SPECIAL HELL for you!
EVIL. Plain and simple, this is EVIL INCARNATE.
The purpose of medicine is to cure people, not make profit! Ethically speaking passing up the opportunity to cure a disease because it's 'less profitable' is WRONG in the extreme.
I've thought for quite some time now that certain industries should, by law, be not-for-profit, and healthcare and the pharmaceutical industries should be on that list -- or at least a legal limit of some sort to limit profits and discourage profiteering, or ethically wrong decisions like not curing something you could develop a cure for, to keep 'stringing people along' with 'management' of a disease or condition, just because it makes you more money.
Shit.. the very mention of something like this severely pisses me off.
With as polarized as just about everyone is these days, and with out-in-the-open racism so prevalent, it should be no wonder that I might suspect someone of it. In this case there was not, however.
If I am mistaken, then I apologize.
".. Facebook is an advertising company.
No, they're not even that. They're a surveillance company, who sells to the highest bidder. A digital Peeping Tom in the form of a company.
If, in 2019, not answering someone's email is considered 'incivility', then on what level do we consider spam to be?
Excuse me, but do I detect some racist undertones to what you just said?
Who by the way said anything about 'quickly', anyway? Something like this should never be done 'quickly'. We will clearly have to develop new technologies and strategies to make it a reality, and our species will benefit thereby.
I'm looking at the long-term, not just the next fiscal quarter, or fiscal year, or the next election cycle, unlike too many people, apparently. I resent the 'hive culture' some people seem to be living in, and the lack of imagination. Too many people are like that, and if they had their way we, as a species, wouldn't have accomplished even half the things we've accomplished, and wouldn't have even half the things we've invented and developed. Conservatism, in the social, fiscal, political, and scientific sense, would say "X works just fine, why do we need anything different?".
People can disagree with me all they want, but it is my stance that our species must continue to move forward, not backwards or stand still. Not moving forward is death.
You're a Negative Nelly if money is your ONLY consideration. If it were up to people like you, the U.S. would have never gone to the Moon in the first place, and Russia would have that place in the history books. Bug off.
Clearly and objectively government censorship. That's the first thing that'll kill this.
If that doesn't kill it for some reason, there's the clear, objective truth that 'net nanny' software never works for one reason or another. It either censors the wrong content, allows the wrong content, or usually both. Then there's the little matter of someone else's sensibilities (such as they are in some people's case) dictating what 'is' and 'is not' pornographic. Someone could theoretically censor all access to Amazon.com because they sell books that they deem 'pornographic' (like Catcher In The Rye, or Stranger In A Strange Land, for instance), or, more relevant to the recent years, censor political content that they don't agree with. Don't even bother disagreeing with me because everyone damned well knows it'll happen.
Then, even if all that never happens: anyone with access to Google will be able to bypass it in less than 5 minutes anyway.
Why is it our politicians are so gods-be-damned dumb that they peridically, like clockwork, trot out nonsense like this, again and again? They're wasting our tax dollars on crap like this.
If you don't want your kids to see some things on the Internet then PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT THEY'RE DOING WITH THE INTERNET, don't force your damned choice on everyone else!
How is it a crime to buy out another business? Explain.
I stopped reading once I realized all your 'reasoning' was based on monetary cost. If you make all your decisions based on money then you're never going to get anywhere or do anything other than stay in the same rabbit warren shifting intrinsicly valueless tokens around or bartering for basic necessities. Exploration and innovation are always expensive but they're the reason we have a civilization in the first place. Otherwise we'd all still be living in mud huts on the African continent living hunter-gatherer subsistence existences because it works why change it? People like you with your negativity don't contribute in positive ways to our species.
Did you forget to take your antidepressant this morning? Seriously go take your meds, drink your coffee, or whatever it is you need to do, and don't talk to anyone else until you've straightened yourself out.
How do you KNOW that?
Breeding population
..stone age technology
No need to worry about that right now.
Raw materials
Are you a Lunar Geologist? Is the Moon made of cheese? I joke but there will be further exploration to determine what's available. We didn't used to think there was water ice there!
Lunar society/militaristic
Sure. You have to have discipline when leaving a door unlocked means everyone dies of hard vacuum exposure, or not following procedure means everyone's air gets poisoned.
War
Let's not get ahead of ourselves, shall we?
Numerous colonies
The Moon is just the first step. Then there's the asteroids. Lots of resouces out there waiting to be tapped.
How do you know what we can and can't do until it's tried?
Remember that we once thought that humans travelling at steam train speeds would literally explode!
Also remember that it was thought impossible for humans to fly in any sort of machine.
Also remember that even making it to orbit, let alone set foot on the Moon, was once considered pure fantasy.
Computers and telephones you can put in your pocket? Wait, wasn't that just comic-book nonsense? Yet it's reality now.
Harnessing the power of the atom?
How about when we actually believed we were the Center of the Universe and everything revolved around Earth? That all those points of light in the sky were just points of light, indicative of nothing? Now we build space-based telescopes capable of seeing other galaxies billions of light-years away, and seeing other planets in other solar systems thousands of light-years away clear enough to determine their size, mass, and atmospheric composition.
Don't sit there and say "Oh, well, that's all impossible." You won't be the first or the last to make that mistake, that's for sure.
Negative Nellies like you and religionofpeas over there, thankfully, don't get to dictate policy on matters like this, and rightly so.
You must not read enough science fiction because my past reading list has covered that tactic quite thoroughly and it never ends well for our species.
"Students will shift away from public media / platforms to new semi-private networks"
They're already doing that. Facebook is becoming like Myspace and Livejournal before it: a place for the old people, uncool if you're young.
They'll go talk to each other in threads on 4chan, or in Discord chats, or whatever. When the next cool, hip new 'social media' comes around, they'll be first on the scene.
You're ignoring a critical fact here: if it's at IKEA then it's not even called 'pizza', it's some Nordic word with an umlaut and too many consonants that no one can pronounce.
The thing is, for sake of human health, we don't want to encourage either markets or consumers to eschew produce and turn to things like pre-packaged, highly-processed foods; it's already a problem, and not one that should be ignored, it severely affects people's long-term health when they do that.
If so-called 'big box supermarkets' are being threatened and undercut by 'dollar stores' on enough items to make them unprofitable when in the same neighborhood, then maybe the big-box supermarket chains should buy out the dollar stores, run them side-by-side, and not carry duplicate items of the dollar store in the big-box supermarket down the street. After all aren't they really two different sets of customers?
It would be far from the first time some corporation had at least two different 'brands' they owned.
Additionally, how many people do you really think do all of their regular shopping at only one grocery store? There are at least three I use: a 'discount' supermarket for the most common food items and things like bathroom-related items, an 'upscale' market for meat and produce (higher quality), and a specialty market for the one or two things I can't get at the other two and can't live without. Occasionally I'll go to some 'dollar store' for one or two things I know they'll have in abundance that'll be a fraction of the cost at any of the others. I suspect that if some family is in the 'working poor' category they'd use a version of the above combination but shifted down a notch to include the dollar-store category. It would make sense for a national discount market to buy up a dollar store chain and run them side-by-side.
Of course there are potential 'monopoly' concerns to consider with an approach like this; would it further limit competition, resulting in giving in to the temptation to raise prices across the board, knowing people have no choice anymore?
I'll volunteer to go there if Maya will be there. <3
Go away, and take your petty little internet grudge with you, mister buzzkill.
https://slashdot.org/comments....