" 'free and on-demand' full-term and post-birth 'abortions' the democrats are pushing.." YOU HAVE TO GO BACK: https://boards.4chan.org/pol
Tired of seeing you White Nationalist/Republican/Stormfront/Infowars trolls shitting up everything everywhere. Go back to your containment unit and stay there, damnit.
Doesn't understand chicken-and-egg conundrum
Except you're completely ignoring the fact that we have an ostensibly 'conservative' political party and an ostensibly 'liberal' political party because the majority of humans naturally form into one group or another. You probably believe you're somehow immune to that but I'll bet you cash money if we did a deep-dive on your voting record and opinions posted online we'd find that you fall more to one side of the line than the other. No such thing as 'true neutral'.
Also speaking as someone who for literally decades refused to ally myself to any political party, you're not doing yourself or the Country any favors by doing that, it just waters down the electoral process by taking votes away from candidates and issues that actually have a chance of winning. The Trump Administration forced my hand on that (Democrat, now). The Democratic party may not do everything I want them to do, but I'd rather take their harm over what Republicans want to do to this country. So do yourself a favor and get off the fence.
It's never a waste of time to at least voice an opinion about something you believe in, and 'useless' in your opinion or not it's not pointless for legislators to keep presenting legislation like this, because it keeps it relevant and in peoples' thoughts. The opponents of NN would like nothing better than for everyone to completely forget the whole concept and just passively accept what's forced on them.
Actually, imagine the industry panic if people just started saying "fuck the Internet, why do we even need it at all?" and canceled.
You call your utility companies and tell them to start sending paper bills again, and pay them by check or over the phone.
Actually call the pizza place down the street you like to get pizza from and tell them what you want to order.
Buy things from local businesses instead of ordering them from Amazon; most businesses on the Internet have phones too, you know, you can call them to order something.
Go to Redbox and get a DVD instead of 'streaming' things.
Like some particular music? Buy a CD of it instead of 'streaming' it.
Want to be 'social'? Actually show up and be actually social with people, live and in person instead of using cancerous 'social media'.
Buy a newspaper to find out what's going on in the world.
And so on.
You don't have to have Internet. We lived just fine without it for 200 years, you can live without it now, if need be.
If many people started doing that in response to ISPs being shitty, they'd have to change their practices.
If you say so, Luddite Troll. Do be sure to run around waving your arms and yelling about how it's going to fail and everybody is going to die, when they actually start building a Moon colony, we wouldn't want you to be bored.;-)
Congrats, you're the 3rd person to 'get it'.:-)
Right, all the data we get from things like this will go into designing better, more robust, comprehensive lifesystems in space and for offworld colonies.
When you live in a totally closed environment you have to consider many many more factors than you would in an 'open' environment, like your house or office or the Earth for that matter. When you have to scrub air and water and convert waste in order to recycle them in a closed loop (like the ISS) things that normally would be self-regulating or easily handled may become a major deal-breaking issue. I don't even have to be an Environmental Engineer with PhDs to see that.
Aside from 'deceptive' practices I think the average person doesn't understand what they're consenting to in the first place. Make it into a teaching session, and they have to pass a quiz, proving they understand what they're signing.
Blame so-called 'social media' for kids not being socialized properly, it just gives them an excuse to NOT be actually-social with their peers, so they don't develop proper social skills -- and they don't get censured for behaving badly.
So far as machine conveniences doing too many things for us, I agree. Remember Wall-E? That's where we're heading, having people be dumb, dumb, dumb, because they don't have to really learn to do anything themselves, there's always some machine or software to do it for them. Get a few generations of that, and you have a populace who can't even take care of themselves in basic ways without all the high-tech help. Not good.
"Sharing is normal!". "Privacy is for people who have things to hide!". That's what so-called 'social media' has been indoctrinating people to be like. Dangerously bad.
I just had to laugh right now, because I saw your comment and it's exactly, precisely what I was going to post. xD ..and yeah, sick to death of every gods-be-damned thing being so-called 'AI' -- especially when what they keep trotting out isn't very good to start with. Fundamentally it's not really any better than what they had in the 90's, just on larger and faster hardware, and more aggressively marketed.
*sigh*
You're just not getting it are you? In order to build closed, self-contained enviroments that are sustainable, we need to know the effects of these things so we can design lifesystems and procedures that can deal with it effectively. That's the whole point of my comment, which apparently you completely missed.
What?
You can't have a Moon colony without HUMANS. Do you really think we should just stay on Earth for as long as our species is alive? If so then we've got nothing to talk about.
What 'for profit' prisons are, really, is the proverbial 'wolf in sheep's clothing': it's bringing back slavery but in a form that the public by-and-large will accept. When you do nothing whatsoever to try to rehabilitate convicts so they don't commit crimes again, they're more likely to land right back in prison, soon. Look at the recitivism rates especially amongst those who were incarerated in for-profit prisons. What's worse, the overall conditions in for-profit prisons are worse than state-run prisons, which just distorts the minds of convicts that much more, again increasing the likelihood that they'll adapt to life on the outside once they're released. One might even argue that the conditions and practices of these for-profit prisons are intended to increase recitivism, because it's 'good for business'.
For-profit prisons should be abolished, they are an abomination.
Slashdot Mirror
Buy TiVo and an antenna for your house, get over not having HGTV and ESPN, and be happy with your ZERO DOLLAR BILL every month.
" 'free and on-demand' full-term and post-birth 'abortions' the democrats are pushing.."
YOU HAVE TO GO BACK: https://boards.4chan.org/pol
Tired of seeing you White Nationalist/Republican/Stormfront/Infowars trolls shitting up everything everywhere. Go back to your containment unit and stay there, damnit.
Doesn't understand chicken-and-egg conundrum
Except you're completely ignoring the fact that we have an ostensibly 'conservative' political party and an ostensibly 'liberal' political party because the majority of humans naturally form into one group or another. You probably believe you're somehow immune to that but I'll bet you cash money if we did a deep-dive on your voting record and opinions posted online we'd find that you fall more to one side of the line than the other. No such thing as 'true neutral'.
Also speaking as someone who for literally decades refused to ally myself to any political party, you're not doing yourself or the Country any favors by doing that, it just waters down the electoral process by taking votes away from candidates and issues that actually have a chance of winning. The Trump Administration forced my hand on that (Democrat, now). The Democratic party may not do everything I want them to do, but I'd rather take their harm over what Republicans want to do to this country. So do yourself a favor and get off the fence.
It's never a waste of time to at least voice an opinion about something you believe in, and 'useless' in your opinion or not it's not pointless for legislators to keep presenting legislation like this, because it keeps it relevant and in peoples' thoughts. The opponents of NN would like nothing better than for everyone to completely forget the whole concept and just passively accept what's forced on them.
Actually, imagine the industry panic if people just started saying "fuck the Internet, why do we even need it at all?" and canceled.
You call your utility companies and tell them to start sending paper bills again, and pay them by check or over the phone.
Actually call the pizza place down the street you like to get pizza from and tell them what you want to order.
Buy things from local businesses instead of ordering them from Amazon; most businesses on the Internet have phones too, you know, you can call them to order something.
Go to Redbox and get a DVD instead of 'streaming' things.
Like some particular music? Buy a CD of it instead of 'streaming' it.
Want to be 'social'? Actually show up and be actually social with people, live and in person instead of using cancerous 'social media'.
Buy a newspaper to find out what's going on in the world.
And so on.
You don't have to have Internet. We lived just fine without it for 200 years, you can live without it now, if need be.
If many people started doing that in response to ISPs being shitty, they'd have to change their practices.
Friend, stop feeding the troll.
0/10 for your trolling effort. YOU HAVE TO GO BACK: http://www.4chan.org/
What the hell are you even talking about? Did you respond to the wrong person or something?
If you say so, bub. By the way 4chan is this way ------> I hear all the trolls gather there, you should be right at home.
*sigh* See 2nd line (1st line doesn't apply to you) of this: https://slashdot.org/comments....
If you say so, Luddite Troll. Do be sure to run around waving your arms and yelling about how it's going to fail and everybody is going to die, when they actually start building a Moon colony, we wouldn't want you to be bored. ;-)
Congrats, you're the 3rd person to 'get it'. :-)
Right, all the data we get from things like this will go into designing better, more robust, comprehensive lifesystems in space and for offworld colonies.
-1, Off-topic. :-(
Congrats, you're the 2nd person in this thread to totally get what I'm talking about. :-) You ACs are cleaning up on this one. ;-)
See: https://slashdot.org/comments.... also-reread my original comment: https://slashdot.org/comments....
Exactly, precisely this. :-)
When you live in a totally closed environment you have to consider many many more factors than you would in an 'open' environment, like your house or office or the Earth for that matter. When you have to scrub air and water and convert waste in order to recycle them in a closed loop (like the ISS) things that normally would be self-regulating or easily handled may become a major deal-breaking issue. I don't even have to be an Environmental Engineer with PhDs to see that.
Aside from 'deceptive' practices I think the average person doesn't understand what they're consenting to in the first place. Make it into a teaching session, and they have to pass a quiz, proving they understand what they're signing.
Blame so-called 'social media' for kids not being socialized properly, it just gives them an excuse to NOT be actually-social with their peers, so they don't develop proper social skills -- and they don't get censured for behaving badly.
So far as machine conveniences doing too many things for us, I agree. Remember Wall-E? That's where we're heading, having people be dumb, dumb, dumb, because they don't have to really learn to do anything themselves, there's always some machine or software to do it for them. Get a few generations of that, and you have a populace who can't even take care of themselves in basic ways without all the high-tech help. Not good.
"Sharing is normal!". "Privacy is for people who have things to hide!". That's what so-called 'social media' has been indoctrinating people to be like. Dangerously bad.
I just had to laugh right now, because I saw your comment and it's exactly, precisely what I was going to post. xD
..and yeah, sick to death of every gods-be-damned thing being so-called 'AI' -- especially when what they keep trotting out isn't very good to start with. Fundamentally it's not really any better than what they had in the 90's, just on larger and faster hardware, and more aggressively marketed.
Trollololol. Fuck off.
*sigh*
You're just not getting it are you? In order to build closed, self-contained enviroments that are sustainable, we need to know the effects of these things so we can design lifesystems and procedures that can deal with it effectively. That's the whole point of my comment, which apparently you completely missed.
What?
You can't have a Moon colony without HUMANS. Do you really think we should just stay on Earth for as long as our species is alive? If so then we've got nothing to talk about.
Fuck you, Troll. Go back to 4chan with your strawman attacks on me.
What 'for profit' prisons are, really, is the proverbial 'wolf in sheep's clothing': it's bringing back slavery but in a form that the public by-and-large will accept. When you do nothing whatsoever to try to rehabilitate convicts so they don't commit crimes again, they're more likely to land right back in prison, soon. Look at the recitivism rates especially amongst those who were incarerated in for-profit prisons. What's worse, the overall conditions in for-profit prisons are worse than state-run prisons, which just distorts the minds of convicts that much more, again increasing the likelihood that they'll adapt to life on the outside once they're released. One might even argue that the conditions and practices of these for-profit prisons are intended to increase recitivism, because it's 'good for business'.
For-profit prisons should be abolished, they are an abomination.