I wonder what it's going to take before the Common Person has had enough of this bullshit and says a resounding "HELL, NO!!!" to it? Are we going to have to wait until they start putting 'reality TV' shows on the air starring people on surveillance cameras who never explicitly consented to being on TV? Minority Report-level 'law enforcement', arresting people for crimes they MIGHT commit? Guilty-by-association of crimes just for being surveilled in the same area as a crime was committed? WHEN IS ENOUGH ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE?
You're not wrong. There has been for quite some time now a quiet movement by The Rich to put barriers in the way of everyone who is not The Rich from owning anything of significant value, like homes and cars, and force rental/leasing instead, so you PAY PAY PAY continually. Streaming video/music, Microsoft and their 'X as a service' bullshit (want you to rent your gods-be-damned OS, FFS). Everyone must fight all this as hard as they can or be trapped.
All you fuckstain 'startups' who are talking about this shit? FUCK YOU SIDEWAYS WITH A RUSTY AIDS-INFESTED CHAINSAW, YOU FUCKING FUCKS. It's bad enough that there are gods-be-damned cameras everywhere you look, and peoples' gods-be-damned cellphones are nothing but mobile surveillance platforms, and that gods-be-damned ISPs are sifting through every gods-be-damned data packet, and that shithead companies like Amazon and Google are selling people so-called 'voice assistants' that are also just gods-be-damned surveillance devices, and so on, and so on, and so on, but now you motherfuckers want to spy on people in their gods-be-damned CARS, TOO? REALLY!?
Get fucked. Put all of you up against the wall and empty the gods-be-damned clip into your HEADS. YES, THIS MAKES ME VERY ANGRY. If it DOESN'T make you angry, then there is something WRONG WITH YOU.
Give a man a fish, he eats for a day Teach a man to fish, he eats the rest of his life
I'm talking about 'teaching them to fish'; help people in countries that don't have the infrastructure, to build the infrastructure so they can have clean water. Teach them how to farm and get them started. Promote peace in countries that are overrun with violence. Hell, if we could find ways to help South American countries improve their living conditions, crime rate, and overall quality of life, we wouldn't have thousands of migrants on the border wanting to get in right now, and everyone knows that. I'm NOT talking about continual charity give-aways of food/water/whatever, that does no good in the long run. I cannot believe, refuse to believe, that in 2019 it's still somehow impossible for everyone on the planet to somehow support *themselves*, have a safe place to live, water, and food to eat. I think it's stupid to be worrying about internet and other hightech shit in places where people just need the bare essentials to exist. These are 'feel good' 'projects' that don't really solve any problems, they more like are solutions in search of a problem.
Hell, have you noticed how many homeless there are right here in the Continental U.S.? People going hungry right here? People who can't effing read, even? Within walking distance of where I sit right now I can easily come across at least a handful of homeless people, and I don't have the resources to do a damn thing for them, I can barely take care of myself! Doesn't mean I'm going to shut my mouth (like some jackasses would like me to) and say nothing about all the above simply because I'm not Jeff Bezos and can't write a billion dollar check to charities (that don't necessarily get anything done). The only way things get done starts with enough people talking about it long enough that the right people get to thinking how to solve the problem(s). There are too many people who sit on their hands and pretend there's no problems to be solved so they let it all be swept under the rug and forgotten. Shuttle homeless people from city to city, dumping them on someone else, calling it 'problem solved'. Blaming people in poverty-striken countries for being poverty-striken. And so on. If you've been in places like that then you know better than I do.
Again: I'm not going to be silent just because I have no money therefore I can't do anything to solve all these (and more) problems in the world. My words are all I have and I'm going to use them.
Hell, I've even looked at going overseas to volunteer in places. They expect you to have a Masters degree or higher, and have all sorts of money to contribute on top of that, so I couldn't even do that!
You know, I wrote less than 100 words in that comment, and you STILL MANANGED TO NOT COMPREHEND THE CONTENT, and in fact got it completely ASS BACKWARDS.
WITH ALL DUE RESPECT: I think you're looking at this from the perspective of someone who has always had a roof over their head, has never gone hungry or thirsty a day in your life, has always had medical attention when you needed it, and has never had their life threatened by anyone for any reason, therefore you're having a problem imagining the places and people I'm talking about.
The 'real danger' is actually the marketing departments that shill this garbage, making people believe it's 'magic' and can actually THINK, i.e. orders of magnitude better than it actually is. Meanwhile nobody not even the programmers really understand why it's spitting out the 'results' it does and therefore how can you trust it at all? I'll be glad when this fad comes to an end (again).
Oh for fuck's sake do you really believe that drivel you just posted? Of course people use makeup since time immemorial, but someone making an automatic machine to do it for you? That probably costs thousands of dollars? It's pathetic if you buy one of these, especially if you're male.
..says the privileged white person in their comfy 1st-world-country surroundings who has never been hungry, thirsty, or had their life threatened by anyone their entire life. You wouldn't last one month in some of the 3rd-world countries.
AC or not, you don't deserve to be modded -1 for this. However let's review for a moment some examples of what should constitute a 'national emergency':
o Massive natural disaster, like an asteroid hitting the U.S.
o Nation-wide pandemic
o Military forces invading the continental U.S.
o Total collapse of the U.S. economy, worse than the 2008 recession
Now, for contrast, let's review some examples of what should not constitute a 'national emergency':
o Massive wildfires in any given state (state emergency, not national)
o Weather event causing widespread flooding (again, state emergency)
o Magnitude 9 earthquake (scary, but again, state emergency)
o POTUS' favorite baseball team not winning the World Series o Brown people emigrating from South American countries massing on our southern border Throwing a hissy-fit because you can't get your gods-be-damned useless-ass billions-of-dollars FENCE built is not a 'national emergency'
Declaring a 'national emergency' so you can STEAL money allocated to legitimate DISASTER RELIEF within the country you were sworn to govern, protect, and defend should be considered a CRIMINAL ACT and Congress should step in and give a resounding "HELL, NO!" to it if tried.
I think perhaps we should work more on 'universal access' to clean water, enough food to eat, and safe countries to live in for everyone, before we worry about 'universal internet access'. It's kinda hard to enjoy watching the box-centric antics of Maru on YouTube when you're dying of dehydration, malnutrition, or the local Warlord or Druglord is kicking in the door of your shack to steal your children, kill you, or both. Google, Facebook, and whoever else, can just wait their turn to monetize the rest of the 7,000,000,000 on this planet whose personal information they haven't been able to monetize yet.
Am I the only one that feels embarassed for anyone who would actually use such a thing, male or female?
Have we become so vain and narcissistic that there's actually a market for a device like this?
..and you all thought people Photoshopping themselves was bad enough.
because you only hear what you want to hear. Right back at you, buddy.
You're not offering any solutions. WTF, I'm supposed to come up with a 100 year energy plan for Humanity in a comment on a shitty 3rd-tier new commenting site? Get real.
I can't say for sure if you're just a very wordy troll or if you're just really dumb, but the conversation ends here, if for no other reason than your 'style' of commenting makes my eyes bleed.
You're not changing my mind or convincing anyone else, all you're doing is wasting time and creating eye-strain. Bu-bye.
This is a strategy that so far seems to work in most cases, but I've also heard that there are some models of smart TVs that won't even allow basic functioning without connecting it at least once to accept a EULA or somesuch. I'd hate to think they'd make it mandatory it be connected continually. Glad I don't have a smart TV though, a 39" non-smart TV is adequate for my needs.
I don't know why someone hasn't come up with some open-source firmware for so-called 'smart TVs' to remove all the 'smart' nonsense and just turn them into plain-old TVs.
Most fear of nuclear power IS in people's heads. Get over it.
The Federal Government is who invests in nuclear reactors, not private industry. However they don't seem to allow anyone license to develop anything new otherwise we'd have Thorium reactors. So don't tell me 'federal policy' is FOR nuclear power.
..30 known improvements.. see above.
You would also be lobbying to have laws surrounding the illegality.. You just proved my point about federal policy by contradicting yourself.
..convert to natural gas.. that's about as ass-backwards retarded as anyone can get. NO MORE FOSSIL FUEL. Get off it.
Hydrogen dead end.
I've got no problem with the continued development of fission burner reactors. Sure doesn't sound like it to me.
However this mindless, dumb, hurried, weaponized poorly designed deployment.. Who, by the way, said ANYTHING about ignoring waste disposal? Stop making excuses to keep using fossil fuels.
Ultimately that is what many nuclear proponents do as a consequence of their willful ignorance. They do not and will not take responsibility.. There you go again beating that same drum. Who said ANYTHING about ignoring the waste products? Me? NO. Anyone else? NO.
You really do sound like someone who would rather just keep fucking up the planet with fossil fuels instead of TRYING to get away from burning ANYTHING for energy.
I'm not going to touch that one. Are you a Trump voter? Are you another one who wants to drag us back to the 1940's thinking it'll somehow magically 'Make America Great Again'? If you are guess again, IT WILL NOT.
Guess what, buddy? I'm one of the people who voted to shut down and decomission Rancho Seco in the 80's. And now I'm walking that decision back as a bad idea. We NEED nuclear power, and we CAN MAKE IT SAFE AND CLEAN. I'll keep advocating for that despite the NIMBYs and despite the Nervous Nellies. I'd like it if our species manages to not extinguish themselves one way or another.
But Dissy, if you use those risky non-Microsoft certified 3rd party technologies, then Microsoft can't sell you another monthy service! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!1!
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I wonder what it's going to take before the Common Person has had enough of this bullshit and says a resounding "HELL, NO!!!" to it? Are we going to have to wait until they start putting 'reality TV' shows on the air starring people on surveillance cameras who never explicitly consented to being on TV? Minority Report-level 'law enforcement', arresting people for crimes they MIGHT commit? Guilty-by-association of crimes just for being surveilled in the same area as a crime was committed? WHEN IS ENOUGH ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE?
NO, of course they do NOT! Why is this even a question?
You're not wrong. There has been for quite some time now a quiet movement by The Rich to put barriers in the way of everyone who is not The Rich from owning anything of significant value, like homes and cars, and force rental/leasing instead, so you PAY PAY PAY continually. Streaming video/music, Microsoft and their 'X as a service' bullshit (want you to rent your gods-be-damned OS, FFS). Everyone must fight all this as hard as they can or be trapped.
All you fuckstain 'startups' who are talking about this shit? FUCK YOU SIDEWAYS WITH A RUSTY AIDS-INFESTED CHAINSAW, YOU FUCKING FUCKS. It's bad enough that there are gods-be-damned cameras everywhere you look, and peoples' gods-be-damned cellphones are nothing but mobile surveillance platforms, and that gods-be-damned ISPs are sifting through every gods-be-damned data packet, and that shithead companies like Amazon and Google are selling people so-called 'voice assistants' that are also just gods-be-damned surveillance devices, and so on, and so on, and so on, but now you motherfuckers want to spy on people in their gods-be-damned CARS, TOO? REALLY!?
Get fucked. Put all of you up against the wall and empty the gods-be-damned clip into your HEADS. YES, THIS MAKES ME VERY ANGRY. If it DOESN'T make you angry, then there is something WRONG WITH YOU.
Give a man a fish, he eats for a day
Teach a man to fish, he eats the rest of his life
I'm talking about 'teaching them to fish'; help people in countries that don't have the infrastructure, to build the infrastructure so they can have clean water. Teach them how to farm and get them started. Promote peace in countries that are overrun with violence. Hell, if we could find ways to help South American countries improve their living conditions, crime rate, and overall quality of life, we wouldn't have thousands of migrants on the border wanting to get in right now, and everyone knows that. I'm NOT talking about continual charity give-aways of food/water/whatever, that does no good in the long run. I cannot believe, refuse to believe, that in 2019 it's still somehow impossible for everyone on the planet to somehow support *themselves*, have a safe place to live, water, and food to eat. I think it's stupid to be worrying about internet and other hightech shit in places where people just need the bare essentials to exist. These are 'feel good' 'projects' that don't really solve any problems, they more like are solutions in search of a problem.
Hell, have you noticed how many homeless there are right here in the Continental U.S.? People going hungry right here? People who can't effing read, even? Within walking distance of where I sit right now I can easily come across at least a handful of homeless people, and I don't have the resources to do a damn thing for them, I can barely take care of myself! Doesn't mean I'm going to shut my mouth (like some jackasses would like me to) and say nothing about all the above simply because I'm not Jeff Bezos and can't write a billion dollar check to charities (that don't necessarily get anything done). The only way things get done starts with enough people talking about it long enough that the right people get to thinking how to solve the problem(s). There are too many people who sit on their hands and pretend there's no problems to be solved so they let it all be swept under the rug and forgotten. Shuttle homeless people from city to city, dumping them on someone else, calling it 'problem solved'. Blaming people in poverty-striken countries for being poverty-striken. And so on. If you've been in places like that then you know better than I do.
Again: I'm not going to be silent just because I have no money therefore I can't do anything to solve all these (and more) problems in the world. My words are all I have and I'm going to use them.
Hell, I've even looked at going overseas to volunteer in places. They expect you to have a Masters degree or higher, and have all sorts of money to contribute on top of that, so I couldn't even do that!
I'm rambling a bit. Thanks for reading.
No you're completely dumb! NYAAAH!!!
STFU
You know, I wrote less than 100 words in that comment, and you STILL MANANGED TO NOT COMPREHEND THE CONTENT, and in fact got it completely ASS BACKWARDS.
Fuck off.
..and if you or anyone else is unclear on the issue: I'm in total agreement with that, and so is the MAJORITY OF THE COUNTRY.
No, he's completely wrong.
WITH ALL DUE RESPECT: I think you're looking at this from the perspective of someone who has always had a roof over their head, has never gone hungry or thirsty a day in your life, has always had medical attention when you needed it, and has never had their life threatened by anyone for any reason, therefore you're having a problem imagining the places and people I'm talking about.
The 'real danger' is actually the marketing departments that shill this garbage, making people believe it's 'magic' and can actually THINK, i.e. orders of magnitude better than it actually is. Meanwhile nobody not even the programmers really understand why it's spitting out the 'results' it does and therefore how can you trust it at all? I'll be glad when this fad comes to an end (again).
Refute my point, herp derp /b/ and lurk more.
Fuck off, troll. Go back to
Do you feel all empowered and superior now? Good for you. Nobody else cares.
Oh for fuck's sake do you really believe that drivel you just posted? Of course people use makeup since time immemorial, but someone making an automatic machine to do it for you? That probably costs thousands of dollars? It's pathetic if you buy one of these, especially if you're male.
..says the privileged white person in their comfy 1st-world-country surroundings who has never been hungry, thirsty, or had their life threatened by anyone their entire life. You wouldn't last one month in some of the 3rd-world countries.
AC or not, you don't deserve to be modded -1 for this. However let's review for a moment some examples of what should constitute a 'national emergency':
o Massive natural disaster, like an asteroid hitting the U.S.
o Nation-wide pandemic
o Military forces invading the continental U.S.
o Total collapse of the U.S. economy, worse than the 2008 recession
Now, for contrast, let's review some examples of what should not constitute a 'national emergency':
o Massive wildfires in any given state (state emergency, not national)
o Weather event causing widespread flooding (again, state emergency)
o Magnitude 9 earthquake (scary, but again, state emergency)
o POTUS' favorite baseball team not winning the World Series
o Brown people emigrating from South American countries massing on our southern border
Throwing a hissy-fit because you can't get your gods-be-damned useless-ass billions-of-dollars FENCE built is not a 'national emergency'
Declaring a 'national emergency' so you can STEAL money allocated to legitimate DISASTER RELIEF within the country you were sworn to govern, protect, and defend should be considered a CRIMINAL ACT and Congress should step in and give a resounding "HELL, NO!" to it if tried.
Hope that clears up any ambiguity on the issue.
I think perhaps we should work more on 'universal access' to clean water, enough food to eat, and safe countries to live in for everyone, before we worry about 'universal internet access'. It's kinda hard to enjoy watching the box-centric antics of Maru on YouTube when you're dying of dehydration, malnutrition, or the local Warlord or Druglord is kicking in the door of your shack to steal your children, kill you, or both. Google, Facebook, and whoever else, can just wait their turn to monetize the rest of the 7,000,000,000 on this planet whose personal information they haven't been able to monetize yet.
Am I the only one that feels embarassed for anyone who would actually use such a thing, male or female?
..and you all thought people Photoshopping themselves was bad enough.
Have we become so vain and narcissistic that there's actually a market for a device like this?
because you only hear what you want to hear. Right back at you, buddy.
You're not offering any solutions. WTF, I'm supposed to come up with a 100 year energy plan for Humanity in a comment on a shitty 3rd-tier new commenting site? Get real.
I can't say for sure if you're just a very wordy troll or if you're just really dumb, but the conversation ends here, if for no other reason than your 'style' of commenting makes my eyes bleed.
You're not changing my mind or convincing anyone else, all you're doing is wasting time and creating eye-strain. Bu-bye.
This is a strategy that so far seems to work in most cases, but I've also heard that there are some models of smart TVs that won't even allow basic functioning without connecting it at least once to accept a EULA or somesuch. I'd hate to think they'd make it mandatory it be connected continually. Glad I don't have a smart TV though, a 39" non-smart TV is adequate for my needs.
I don't know why someone hasn't come up with some open-source firmware for so-called 'smart TVs' to remove all the 'smart' nonsense and just turn them into plain-old TVs.
Most fear of nuclear power IS in people's heads. Get over it.
..30 known improvements.. see above.
..convert to natural gas.. that's about as ass-backwards retarded as anyone can get. NO MORE FOSSIL FUEL. Get off it.
The Federal Government is who invests in nuclear reactors, not private industry. However they don't seem to allow anyone license to develop anything new otherwise we'd have Thorium reactors. So don't tell me 'federal policy' is FOR nuclear power.
You would also be lobbying to have laws surrounding the illegality.. You just proved my point about federal policy by contradicting yourself.
Hydrogen dead end.
I've got no problem with the continued development of fission burner reactors. Sure doesn't sound like it to me.
However this mindless, dumb, hurried, weaponized poorly designed deployment.. Who, by the way, said ANYTHING about ignoring waste disposal? Stop making excuses to keep using fossil fuels.
Ultimately that is what many nuclear proponents do as a consequence of their willful ignorance. They do not and will not take responsibility.. There you go again beating that same drum. Who said ANYTHING about ignoring the waste products? Me? NO. Anyone else? NO.
You really do sound like someone who would rather just keep fucking up the planet with fossil fuels instead of TRYING to get away from burning ANYTHING for energy.
I'm not going to touch that one. Are you a Trump voter? Are you another one who wants to drag us back to the 1940's thinking it'll somehow magically 'Make America Great Again'? If you are guess again, IT WILL NOT.
Guess what, buddy? I'm one of the people who voted to shut down and decomission Rancho Seco in the 80's. And now I'm walking that decision back as a bad idea. We NEED nuclear power, and we CAN MAKE IT SAFE AND CLEAN. I'll keep advocating for that despite the NIMBYs and despite the Nervous Nellies. I'd like it if our species manages to not extinguish themselves one way or another.
The first taste is free, baker_tony. Didn't you know that? Then when you're hooked they'll have you paying monthly to use it.
But Dissy, if you use those risky non-Microsoft certified 3rd party technologies, then Microsoft can't sell you another monthy service! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!1!
I remember when trolling was a art. You guys on the other hand are incredible hacks.