Why the actual fuck are you going to PAY every month for something like Netflix if you're still going to be subjected to commercials? It would make zero sense. if they want to add commercials then they should charge ZERO dollars per month. If you PAY for it then you should get ZERO commercials, plain and simple. If they're not making enough money then raise the damned subscription fee. Otherwise why bother? Just put an antenna on your roof at that point and pay nothing anyway, record everything on a DVR, and skip past the commercials.
Is that the best you can do? Was there a point to this comment? Or are you as unintelligent as it makes you seem? I'm giving you an opportunity here to show you have better than a room-temperature IQ, are you going to rise to that, or are you just going to continue being pointlessly insulting? Not everything is a joke, old son.
Guess what? I may be a registered Democrat (and proudly and Independent for decades before that) but I'm no 'socialist' or 'communist' or any of the above. I'm not dumb though and I'm not wrong, and I think I'm far from alone in what I had to say here. Also the people you're referring to are the same ones who voted for Trump, and that more or less proves that they're too short-sighted to be making big decisions for the rest of our species.
'Screen time' is like sugar: sure, you like it, but overall it's bad for you.
Children should be exposed to this as little as possible. They should be physically moving around, playing with other children, becoming properly socialized, honing their coordination, so on: being kids, basically, not being drones staring at one screen or another.
Adults should not be walking around all day staring at their phones to the point where they bump into walls and telephone poles and other people and so-on.
It's tough these days to have any job or career that doesn't involve sitting in front of a computer doing whatever, but when that's done for the day people should spend time with and interact with other people not more screens. Personally I think many of the social problems we have today would be solved by people relating more to other people instead of staring at one screen or another.
But as stated above: it's like sugar. People like it. It's addictive. Technology companies know this, and like Big Tobacco, tailor their products/services to make them as attractive and addictive as possible, because that means more profits. They couldn't care less what it does to people's lives or our society in general, so long as they make as much money as they possibly can get away with.
Some people talk about so-called 'AI' being a threat to humanity. I say the 'threats' are much more subtle and literally in people's hands right now.
Being an AC you probably won't see this, but: If you legally allow sale of human organs, you open the door to criminals taking advantage of this to sell illegally obtained human organs more openly. Author Larry Niven referred to these as 'Organleggers' and it was a big problem in his fictitious future Earth. Imagine people being snatched off the street and literally broken up for their bodyparts. Big business, big profit. Nope! Can't allow that to happen, and if you allow legal sale of human organs and other bodyparts then that's what will happen.
..and you won't have to worry about anyone growing you a 'replacement', nor being able to afford a 'replacement'. Cheaper and better to maintain the engine properly than it is to replace it.
..and now here come the jackasses who will say that since we APPARENTLY we have nothing to do with this, we can all go back to driving gigantic SUVs that get 10MPG and have no emissions controls whatsoever, burn coal, and so on, and so on, and so on. But still we have to ask:
WHAT IF YOU ARE WRONG?!
All you have to do, is fuck up ONCE and it's GAME OVER FOR THE EARTH.
Also: Why the ACTUAL FUCK should it EVER be okay to spew toxic shit into the air you have to breathe? To be WASTEFUL when you have the technology to NOT be wasteful? WHY BE THAT FUCKING STUPID!? So you can live like it's the 1940's forever? WHY!? WHY DO IT!?
Rhetorical questions. There is no reason *why* other than laziness and greed.
I live in a valley. EVERY GODS-BE-DAMNED DAY, even in the middle of winter, the air quality manages to get up at least into the 'Marginal' range, and do you know why? Internal Combustion Engines. ICEs need to GO AWAY FOR GOOD. We do not need them anymore for 100% of our ground transportation, why keep using hundred-plus-year-old technology in 2019?
Meanwhile here's just ONE proposed technological solution proposed by a Republican congressman: https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/27... ..but you don't want to hear that do you? You just want to "stick it to the liberals" regardless of logic or reason.
You're Just Another Trump-Supporting Jackass Troll. Fuck off.
Why doesn't your fucktard excuse for a '''president''' actually LISTEN to the experts who are TELLING him, over and over again, that his stupid-ass wall is stupid?
To a certain extent I'll agree with you, but don't fail to recognize that a large fraction of the voting citizens in this country also need to stop making their electoral choices based on "sticking it to the Libtards".
Sure, buddy. $5.7B for what amounts to 1919 (or 1819, or 1719, you get the idea) 'border security' technology, when what we need is 2019 border security technology. We could spend a fraction of that on cutting-edge detection technology devices, and maybe some on additional personnel to patrol for when crossings are detected, and have better overall broder security than some stupid-ass wall that they'll climb over, fly over, or tunnel under. Futhermore, high-tech solutions to border security can be deployed in a fraction of the time it takes to build a wall, and also won't require invoking Eminent Domain on people's private property.
I understand the science behind human-caused climate change, and furthermore support (which is different than mere 'belief', by the way) the unbiased truth that science and the scientific method inherently supports, therefore I do not dispute that our species' industrialized civilization has contributed in a major way to global climate change/global warming.
That being out of the way: 'Climate change' in the context of California wildfires, this one in particular, and PG&E, is just a detail. If PG&E had been doing their job properly, then 'climate change' would not have affected the root cause of this particular wildfire. Lack of proper maintenance of the power grid that PG&E is responsible for is the origin of the fire in this case. Furthermore the accounts I've heard and read lead me to believe that they are also responsible for the delayed response to it, which allowed the fire to spread. It's up to investigators and the courts to determine the full extent of responsibility, but that seems to be the root of it.
If you pay attention to the news you'll see this is part of a pattern of (bad) behavior and overall negligence by PG&E. I don't know if it's incompetence on their part, or being understaffed, or just greed, plain and simple, but they're not getting the job done, they're not maintaining their assets properly.
I see that whereas I'm attempting to analyze what I see and read from various news sources in as objective and unbiased a way as possible, you're clinging to your own personal beliefs, biases, and opinions. As such we can't have a real conversation about this subject because you've clearly already made up your mind already. Good-bye.
..okay, you also are not getting it. Read this other comment: https://slashdot.org/comments.... these things don't need to be created out of wholecloth by foreign operatives, in fact it works better if it's NOT '''created''' by them, they just use resentment that's already there to start with.
You're missing the point, AC: peoples '''own motivations''' can get amplified by foreign operatives if their '''own motivations''' serve the interests of a foreign power. So a carefully crafted bot-net nudge here and there, and people just venting their frustrations peacefully on Facebook or Twitter gets turned into a physical protest out on the streets; add some infiltrators to the protest to both start a physical confrontation with police, and to '''get attacked and injured''' (perhaps faked) by police, and now you've got a full-on conflict that's polarizing people who had nothing to do with any of it. Rinse, repeat as required. If successful you can turn an entire nation on it's ear.
With some exceptions, the last 20 years or so of Hollywood movies have been retreads of retreads, the same ideas over and over again, and in many cases just outright remakes of old movies. For something like Star Wars, I think you need to mothball it for a generation, then spin a new version of it, when almost nobody is alive to even remember it -- but how about someone comes up with something new instead, eh?
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Why the actual fuck are you going to PAY every month for something like Netflix if you're still going to be subjected to commercials? It would make zero sense. if they want to add commercials then they should charge ZERO dollars per month. If you PAY for it then you should get ZERO commercials, plain and simple. If they're not making enough money then raise the damned subscription fee. Otherwise why bother? Just put an antenna on your roof at that point and pay nothing anyway, record everything on a DVR, and skip past the commercials.
Is that the best you can do? Was there a point to this comment? Or are you as unintelligent as it makes you seem? I'm giving you an opportunity here to show you have better than a room-temperature IQ, are you going to rise to that, or are you just going to continue being pointlessly insulting? Not everything is a joke, old son.
Guess what? I may be a registered Democrat (and proudly and Independent for decades before that) but I'm no 'socialist' or 'communist' or any of the above. I'm not dumb though and I'm not wrong, and I think I'm far from alone in what I had to say here. Also the people you're referring to are the same ones who voted for Trump, and that more or less proves that they're too short-sighted to be making big decisions for the rest of our species.
'Screen time' is like sugar: sure, you like it, but overall it's bad for you.
Children should be exposed to this as little as possible. They should be physically moving around, playing with other children, becoming properly socialized, honing their coordination, so on: being kids, basically, not being drones staring at one screen or another.
Adults should not be walking around all day staring at their phones to the point where they bump into walls and telephone poles and other people and so-on.
It's tough these days to have any job or career that doesn't involve sitting in front of a computer doing whatever, but when that's done for the day people should spend time with and interact with other people not more screens. Personally I think many of the social problems we have today would be solved by people relating more to other people instead of staring at one screen or another.
But as stated above: it's like sugar. People like it. It's addictive. Technology companies know this, and like Big Tobacco, tailor their products/services to make them as attractive and addictive as possible, because that means more profits. They couldn't care less what it does to people's lives or our society in general, so long as they make as much money as they possibly can get away with.
Some people talk about so-called 'AI' being a threat to humanity. I say the 'threats' are much more subtle and literally in people's hands right now.
You make me roll my eyes in disbelief.
The best solution is get off your lazy ass, exercise, and cut way back on the Twinkies.
You're absolutely correct.
Being an AC you probably won't see this, but: If you legally allow sale of human organs, you open the door to criminals taking advantage of this to sell illegally obtained human organs more openly. Author Larry Niven referred to these as 'Organleggers' and it was a big problem in his fictitious future Earth. Imagine people being snatched off the street and literally broken up for their bodyparts. Big business, big profit. Nope! Can't allow that to happen, and if you allow legal sale of human organs and other bodyparts then that's what will happen.
..and you won't have to worry about anyone growing you a 'replacement', nor being able to afford a 'replacement'. Cheaper and better to maintain the engine properly than it is to replace it.
You're not welcome to my data, now or ever, I do not consent to your collecting it, and I sure as fuck don't consent to your selling it if you had it.
..and now here come the jackasses who will say that since we APPARENTLY we have nothing to do with this, we can all go back to driving gigantic SUVs that get 10MPG and have no emissions controls whatsoever, burn coal, and so on, and so on, and so on. But still we have to ask:
WHAT IF YOU ARE WRONG?!
All you have to do, is fuck up ONCE and it's GAME OVER FOR THE EARTH.
Also: Why the ACTUAL FUCK should it EVER be okay to spew toxic shit into the air you have to breathe? To be WASTEFUL when you have the technology to NOT be wasteful? WHY BE THAT FUCKING STUPID!? So you can live like it's the 1940's forever? WHY!? WHY DO IT!?
Rhetorical questions. There is no reason *why* other than laziness and greed.
I live in a valley. EVERY GODS-BE-DAMNED DAY, even in the middle of winter, the air quality manages to get up at least into the 'Marginal' range, and do you know why? Internal Combustion Engines. ICEs need to GO AWAY FOR GOOD. We do not need them anymore for 100% of our ground transportation, why keep using hundred-plus-year-old technology in 2019?
Fucking humans, I swear..
"Truth"
..and so on: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=why+...
..but you don't want to hear that do you? You just want to "stick it to the liberals" regardless of logic or reason.
https://reason.com/archives/20...
https://www.insidesources.com/...
I'm FAR from the only one who thinks this.
Meanwhile here's just ONE proposed technological solution proposed by a Republican congressman: https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/27...
You're Just Another Trump-Supporting Jackass Troll. Fuck off.
Why doesn't your fucktard excuse for a '''president''' actually LISTEN to the experts who are TELLING him, over and over again, that his stupid-ass wall is stupid?
This is patently false and obviously not valid.
Stopped reading right there. Troll language. Fuck the fuck off, Trump supporting jackass.
There should not be any gods-be-damned 'computer algorithms/AI' involved in ANY of this.
This is literally the most ridiculous thing I've heard of in recent times. It HAS to be a prank, it CAN'T be real.
To a certain extent I'll agree with you, but don't fail to recognize that a large fraction of the voting citizens in this country also need to stop making their electoral choices based on "sticking it to the Libtards".
Umm.. I think you meant "$4.407 trillion".
Sure, buddy. $5.7B for what amounts to 1919 (or 1819, or 1719, you get the idea) 'border security' technology, when what we need is 2019 border security technology. We could spend a fraction of that on cutting-edge detection technology devices, and maybe some on additional personnel to patrol for when crossings are detected, and have better overall broder security than some stupid-ass wall that they'll climb over, fly over, or tunnel under. Futhermore, high-tech solutions to border security can be deployed in a fraction of the time it takes to build a wall, and also won't require invoking Eminent Domain on people's private property.
I understand the science behind human-caused climate change, and furthermore support (which is different than mere 'belief', by the way) the unbiased truth that science and the scientific method inherently supports, therefore I do not dispute that our species' industrialized civilization has contributed in a major way to global climate change/global warming.
That being out of the way: 'Climate change' in the context of California wildfires, this one in particular, and PG&E, is just a detail. If PG&E had been doing their job properly, then 'climate change' would not have affected the root cause of this particular wildfire. Lack of proper maintenance of the power grid that PG&E is responsible for is the origin of the fire in this case. Furthermore the accounts I've heard and read lead me to believe that they are also responsible for the delayed response to it, which allowed the fire to spread. It's up to investigators and the courts to determine the full extent of responsibility, but that seems to be the root of it.
If you pay attention to the news you'll see this is part of a pattern of (bad) behavior and overall negligence by PG&E. I don't know if it's incompetence on their part, or being understaffed, or just greed, plain and simple, but they're not getting the job done, they're not maintaining their assets properly.
If they had done their job then that wildfire likely would not have happened at all.
It's all cancerous garbage and humanity would be better off without it.
I see that whereas I'm attempting to analyze what I see and read from various news sources in as objective and unbiased a way as possible, you're clinging to your own personal beliefs, biases, and opinions. As such we can't have a real conversation about this subject because you've clearly already made up your mind already. Good-bye.
..okay, you also are not getting it. Read this other comment: https://slashdot.org/comments.... these things don't need to be created out of wholecloth by foreign operatives, in fact it works better if it's NOT '''created''' by them, they just use resentment that's already there to start with.
You're missing the point, AC: peoples '''own motivations''' can get amplified by foreign operatives if their '''own motivations''' serve the interests of a foreign power. So a carefully crafted bot-net nudge here and there, and people just venting their frustrations peacefully on Facebook or Twitter gets turned into a physical protest out on the streets; add some infiltrators to the protest to both start a physical confrontation with police, and to '''get attacked and injured''' (perhaps faked) by police, and now you've got a full-on conflict that's polarizing people who had nothing to do with any of it. Rinse, repeat as required. If successful you can turn an entire nation on it's ear.
With some exceptions, the last 20 years or so of Hollywood movies have been retreads of retreads, the same ideas over and over again, and in many cases just outright remakes of old movies. For something like Star Wars, I think you need to mothball it for a generation, then spin a new version of it, when almost nobody is alive to even remember it -- but how about someone comes up with something new instead, eh?