If you put a huge percentage of the citizens of the U.S. (or any industrialized country) out of work permanently, there will be violence over it. You can't just disregard people like they're trash tossed into the bin. Before anyone says it: UBI will not work.
I agree with you, friend, but the problem that confronts us is that apparently several orders of magnitude more people in this country than just who live in Flint, Michigan have high levels of lead in their drinking water, and thus are becoming mentally impaired. Between the religious nutjobs who believe the Earth is only 6000 years old and that the 'end times' are here (therefore it doesn't matter what we do to the Earth anymore), people who think science is bullshit, corporations who are only interested in short-term profits and not what the consequences of their actions in the next 100 years are, and scientifically and technologically ignorant politicians, people who matter who actually see the handwriting on the wall and keep saying we need to do something about this are in the minority power-wise and are scoffed at and ridiculed. As you say: But often they aren't done because of established order and general inactivity and who-gives-a-shitness.
You've managed to one-up the U.S. so far as destroying the civil rights (and perhaps the human rights) of your citizenry. I feel sorrow and pity for people who have to live in the increasingly Orwelliean nightmare that the UK is becoming. What's next for you, UK? Are you going to ally yourself philosophically with the communist Chinese government? You may as well try pulling that one off too, you're not that far from it already. No, wait, next they'll try to 're-unify' the British Isles again -- by force, for the 'safety and security of the people' I'm sure. Think of the children!
What a gods-be-damned dark world this is becoming. Fucking humans and their fucking bullshit.
I'll oppose it with every fiber of my being here in the U.S.. It would be just one more big step towards a 24/7/365, cradle-to-grave surveillance society, where you can't do so much as get a snack out of a vending machine without some government agency knowing about it. Fuck that noise.
Mod this up. A 'cashless' society just creates another way to track the activities of citizens, whether they're doing anything wrong or not. It also destroys another form of anonymity. So sorry to hear this, South Korea.
A browser extension, really. When you try to access Facebook, it redirects you to a website reminding you of what a stupid, pointless waste of time Facebook is, and educates you in ways you can break the addiction to it. Then it locks you out of the Internet for an hour, so you can go find something productive to do instead.
FFS I'm not doing anything requiring microsecond accuracy if it's within one second or less then it's fine, and unless you're running some sort of mission-critical operation that requires precise alignment to the atomic clock for some reason, you should probably just take your meds and calm the hell down about it.
Oh, no, Reddit is just another symptom of a larger problem: The Internet is on the way out. What with Trump appointing people to key positions who will kill Net Neutrality and the ever-growing surveillance of private citizens, the Internet is rapidly becoming somewhere you really don't want to be, unless you don't care about your entire online life being exposed to governments and corporations. That, plus how rampant hacking on a grand scale is happening more and more often, especially including your smartphone, is making the Internet less and less attractive.
That's the one that I've seen so far, thanks for that (you're more helpful that the idiots who commented above you), but I'd like more than one choice to evaluate before I make my own recommendation to my friend.
There was once a group called 'Gnostics', and what they were about, was seeking actual truth, as individuals. They had no centralized, hierarchical power structure. What at the time was called 'Christianity', committed genocide on them.
I'd call Islam the same thing I call all religion: something that is 'interpreted', spun, taken out of context, bent, perverted, and twisted by power-seeking persons looking to control as much of a population as possible.
It is YOUR body, the govt really shouldn't have a say in what you can do with it....
There are limits. IDGAF what you decide to do with your body -- right up to the point where it starts taking money out of my pocket, because you abused your body to the point of parts of it failing catastrophically (increase in what I have to pay for gods-be-damned medical coverage), or if because it you're causing injury or death to other people (increase in insurance premiums or taxes).
I don't have or want a smartphone, but I have a friend who recently had to get one (so he didn't end up with a shitty phone with a screen too small to read) and it's Android; I see there is at least one anti-malware solution out there for Android phones, but knowing little-to-nothing about Android, could I please get suggestions for an effective anti-malware solution for Android phones? Thanks.
Hasn't this phenomenon been around at least as long as AOL has been? Maybe even longer, maybe even as far back as the pre-Internet dialup BBS days? Aren't all the above 'walled gardens' to one extent or another? Granted, in the beginning Facebook wasn't really that much of a 'walled garden', but it's certainly been moving steadily in that direction, and now all it needs is to offer Facebook-only Internet access, and it's a full-on Walled Garden. But even without that, isn't it more-or-less a Walled Garden now? Aren't there people who are on Facebook and really not much else?
My kid is misbehaving and not following my perfectly reasonable rules, so I'll have to enforce them more strictly. Oh look, he's ignoring them anyway. Oh well, I guess I TRIED, there's nothing more I can do. If only I could impose more penalties for not obeying my rules, maybe he'd get the message and behave? Oh, but I can't, so I guess I'll just let him do what he wants.
THAT is what you sound like.
People are not obeying the current laws and even stricter enforcement of them does not make enough difference to matter, therefore the laws are INSUFFICIENT and must be changed to protect the safety of the public-at-large! Why can't you get that through your head? If it takes making a new law that requires all cellphones to be disabled except for 911 calls while a vehicle is in motion, then that is was has to happen, plain and simple. If it takes requiring no cellphone be turned on while a vehicle is not parked, then that is what has to happen. SOMETHING has to change or the problem won't go away! Continuing to do things the same way over and over again is the textbook definition of 'insane'. You don't like it, GO YELL AT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE SCREWING WITH THEIR PHONES WHILE DRIVING, NOT PEOPLE LIKE ME WHO DON'T AND WANT THEM TO STOP DOING IT!
The reason the exit polls don't match the official results might be simpler than you think it is: People might be ashamed of the way they actually voted, and lied about it in the exit polls so they wouldn't have to face that shame to someone else. We live in a country where the vast majority don't seem to remember that it's more than a two-party political system, that there are other parties, and that you don't have to be part of any politcal party to be a candidate in an election. The de-facto fact that the 3rd parties don't seem to matter is irrelevant and is more of an artifact of the ignorance of the other parties than it is of any inherent 'irrelevance''; they exist, they're valid, you could vote for them, just nobody does because they've all been brainwashed into ignorning them. Might all come down to money, really; if, say, the Libertarian party suddenly had a trillion dollars in their coffers to spend on an election, suddenly they'd be much more relevant by virtue of the fact that they'd be able to compete in the media for voter attention. For this reason I wish that all candidates from all parties were given a set amount of money for their campaigns, to level the playing field and make it fairer, allow voters to hear everyone's message instead of just who can yell the loudest with their millions in campaign funds.
I don't make ANY laws, and I don't ADVOCATE making laws for everything, either, and if you had the reading comprehension of a 5th grader you'd have known that, so how about you shove it up yours? You're probably one of the entitled jackasses who keeps screwing with his phone while he's driving anyway.
Oh, I think it'll more than double the cost per unit to build them, because you can't pay only a dollar a day to U.S. workers, and you have to give them health insurance, retirement packages, etc. So I stand by it ending up with a suggested retail price of $3000.
The alternative is being forced by the government into so-called 'self-driving cars' that won't even allow you any sort of manual control, not even in an emergency -- not that, at that point in time, anyone will even know how to drive anymore. Then everyone will be complaining about 'needless deaths because their cars' AIs keep manfunctioning'. Take your pick: You have to put your phone away, or you don't get to control your car anymore. That's the fork in the road we're going to be faced with. More and more people are getting distracted from Job One in their vehicles, which is to drive the damned car safely and competently, and rather than making the hard choices to fix the problem, everyone throws a fit about it and/or ignores current laws and does whatever they please, then accidents happen, the statistics go up, and the goddamned self-driving car advocates say "See? People can't drive cars and shouldn't be allowed to, they should all be SELF-DRIVING CARS". This is what too many of you don't seem to be getting: If we don't make hard choices to clean up everyone's driving habits, our ability to drive ourselves will be TAKEN AWAY FROM US and we won't get it back!
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I don't watch any sports, and I certainly don't record any, either.
Where do they get this seemingly arbitrary figure of 25Mb/s, anyway?
If you put a huge percentage of the citizens of the U.S. (or any industrialized country) out of work permanently, there will be violence over it. You can't just disregard people like they're trash tossed into the bin. Before anyone says it: UBI will not work.
I agree with you, friend, but the problem that confronts us is that apparently several orders of magnitude more people in this country than just who live in Flint, Michigan have high levels of lead in their drinking water, and thus are becoming mentally impaired. Between the religious nutjobs who believe the Earth is only 6000 years old and that the 'end times' are here (therefore it doesn't matter what we do to the Earth anymore), people who think science is bullshit, corporations who are only interested in short-term profits and not what the consequences of their actions in the next 100 years are, and scientifically and technologically ignorant politicians, people who matter who actually see the handwriting on the wall and keep saying we need to do something about this are in the minority power-wise and are scoffed at and ridiculed. As you say: But often they aren't done because of established order and general inactivity and who-gives-a-shitness.
Hail Trump!
Call the sonofabitch who he is: Hail President-elect Pussy Grabber! </sarcasm>
You've managed to one-up the U.S. so far as destroying the civil rights (and perhaps the human rights) of your citizenry. I feel sorrow and pity for people who have to live in the increasingly Orwelliean nightmare that the UK is becoming. What's next for you, UK? Are you going to ally yourself philosophically with the communist Chinese government? You may as well try pulling that one off too, you're not that far from it already. No, wait, next they'll try to 're-unify' the British Isles again -- by force, for the 'safety and security of the people' I'm sure. Think of the children!
What a gods-be-damned dark world this is becoming. Fucking humans and their fucking bullshit.
Facebook knows when you're awake
Facebook knows when you've been bad or good
So click the ads for Zuckerbergs' sake
I'll oppose it with every fiber of my being here in the U.S.. It would be just one more big step towards a 24/7/365, cradle-to-grave surveillance society, where you can't do so much as get a snack out of a vending machine without some government agency knowing about it. Fuck that noise.
Mod this up. A 'cashless' society just creates another way to track the activities of citizens, whether they're doing anything wrong or not. It also destroys another form of anonymity. So sorry to hear this, South Korea.
A browser extension, really. When you try to access Facebook, it redirects you to a website reminding you of what a stupid, pointless waste of time Facebook is, and educates you in ways you can break the addiction to it. Then it locks you out of the Internet for an hour, so you can go find something productive to do instead.
FFS I'm not doing anything requiring microsecond accuracy if it's within one second or less then it's fine, and unless you're running some sort of mission-critical operation that requires precise alignment to the atomic clock for some reason, you should probably just take your meds and calm the hell down about it.
Oh, no, Reddit is just another symptom of a larger problem: The Internet is on the way out. What with Trump appointing people to key positions who will kill Net Neutrality and the ever-growing surveillance of private citizens, the Internet is rapidly becoming somewhere you really don't want to be, unless you don't care about your entire online life being exposed to governments and corporations. That, plus how rampant hacking on a grand scale is happening more and more often, especially including your smartphone, is making the Internet less and less attractive.
That's the one that I've seen so far, thanks for that (you're more helpful that the idiots who commented above you), but I'd like more than one choice to evaluate before I make my own recommendation to my friend.
There was once a group called 'Gnostics', and what they were about, was seeking actual truth, as individuals. They had no centralized, hierarchical power structure. What at the time was called 'Christianity', committed genocide on them.
I'd call Islam the same thing I call all religion: something that is 'interpreted', spun, taken out of context, bent, perverted, and twisted by power-seeking persons looking to control as much of a population as possible.
It is YOUR body, the govt really shouldn't have a say in what you can do with it....
There are limits. IDGAF what you decide to do with your body -- right up to the point where it starts taking money out of my pocket, because you abused your body to the point of parts of it failing catastrophically (increase in what I have to pay for gods-be-damned medical coverage), or if because it you're causing injury or death to other people (increase in insurance premiums or taxes).
I don't have or want a smartphone, but I have a friend who recently had to get one (so he didn't end up with a shitty phone with a screen too small to read) and it's Android; I see there is at least one anti-malware solution out there for Android phones, but knowing little-to-nothing about Android, could I please get suggestions for an effective anti-malware solution for Android phones? Thanks.
Hasn't this phenomenon been around at least as long as AOL has been? Maybe even longer, maybe even as far back as the pre-Internet dialup BBS days? Aren't all the above 'walled gardens' to one extent or another? Granted, in the beginning Facebook wasn't really that much of a 'walled garden', but it's certainly been moving steadily in that direction, and now all it needs is to offer Facebook-only Internet access, and it's a full-on Walled Garden. But even without that, isn't it more-or-less a Walled Garden now? Aren't there people who are on Facebook and really not much else?
It isn't the UK citizenry that's voting for this, though, is it? It's their MP's. I doubt the majority of UK citizens wants this.
My kid is misbehaving and not following my perfectly reasonable rules, so I'll have to enforce them more strictly.
Oh look, he's ignoring them anyway. Oh well, I guess I TRIED, there's nothing more I can do.
If only I could impose more penalties for not obeying my rules, maybe he'd get the message and behave? Oh, but I can't, so I guess I'll just let him do what he wants.
THAT is what you sound like.
People are not obeying the current laws and even stricter enforcement of them does not make enough difference to matter, therefore the laws are INSUFFICIENT and must be changed to protect the safety of the public-at-large! Why can't you get that through your head? If it takes making a new law that requires all cellphones to be disabled except for 911 calls while a vehicle is in motion, then that is was has to happen, plain and simple. If it takes requiring no cellphone be turned on while a vehicle is not parked, then that is what has to happen. SOMETHING has to change or the problem won't go away! Continuing to do things the same way over and over again is the textbook definition of 'insane'. You don't like it, GO YELL AT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE SCREWING WITH THEIR PHONES WHILE DRIVING, NOT PEOPLE LIKE ME WHO DON'T AND WANT THEM TO STOP DOING IT!
Sure. Until Windows anti-malware starts identifying Spybot as malware and deletes it.
The reason the exit polls don't match the official results might be simpler than you think it is: People might be ashamed of the way they actually voted, and lied about it in the exit polls so they wouldn't have to face that shame to someone else. We live in a country where the vast majority don't seem to remember that it's more than a two-party political system, that there are other parties, and that you don't have to be part of any politcal party to be a candidate in an election. The de-facto fact that the 3rd parties don't seem to matter is irrelevant and is more of an artifact of the ignorance of the other parties than it is of any inherent 'irrelevance''; they exist, they're valid, you could vote for them, just nobody does because they've all been brainwashed into ignorning them. Might all come down to money, really; if, say, the Libertarian party suddenly had a trillion dollars in their coffers to spend on an election, suddenly they'd be much more relevant by virtue of the fact that they'd be able to compete in the media for voter attention. For this reason I wish that all candidates from all parties were given a set amount of money for their campaigns, to level the playing field and make it fairer, allow voters to hear everyone's message instead of just who can yell the loudest with their millions in campaign funds.
That's the road your type has us on.
I don't make ANY laws, and I don't ADVOCATE making laws for everything, either, and if you had the reading comprehension of a 5th grader you'd have known that, so how about you shove it up yours? You're probably one of the entitled jackasses who keeps screwing with his phone while he's driving anyway.
Oh, I think it'll more than double the cost per unit to build them, because you can't pay only a dollar a day to U.S. workers, and you have to give them health insurance, retirement packages, etc. So I stand by it ending up with a suggested retail price of $3000.
The alternative is being forced by the government into so-called 'self-driving cars' that won't even allow you any sort of manual control, not even in an emergency -- not that, at that point in time, anyone will even know how to drive anymore. Then everyone will be complaining about 'needless deaths because their cars' AIs keep manfunctioning'. Take your pick: You have to put your phone away, or you don't get to control your car anymore. That's the fork in the road we're going to be faced with. More and more people are getting distracted from Job One in their vehicles, which is to drive the damned car safely and competently, and rather than making the hard choices to fix the problem, everyone throws a fit about it and/or ignores current laws and does whatever they please, then accidents happen, the statistics go up, and the goddamned self-driving car advocates say "See? People can't drive cars and shouldn't be allowed to, they should all be SELF-DRIVING CARS". This is what too many of you don't seem to be getting: If we don't make hard choices to clean up everyone's driving habits, our ability to drive ourselves will be TAKEN AWAY FROM US and we won't get it back!