How do you know you can trust your VPN provider though? And, if everyone started using VPN for downloading pirated content, you'd see a crackdown on VPN providers, compromising their own security, making them useless for not only pirating but for everything else too. If nothing else you might find ISPs blocking access to VPN providers because they're being pressured to crack down on piracy even when they can't prove 'illegal' content is traversing their network.
These dozen-or-so people who are being cut off from AT&T access to the Internet are getting what they deserve; they clearly were sloppy in their piracy methods and therefore were detected as such. Hopefully they'll have learned their lesson, though, and when they get service from some other company, they'll be more careful to cover their tracks and remain undetected.
at least alexa does not tell the kid to shut up and leave it alone
If you're implying that's the parents.. then this is even more disturbing. We do NOT need a generation of kids growing up relating more to a disembodied voice provided by (and monitored, analyzed, monetized, and directed) some company like Google or Amazon. You think too many people have little regard for their own privacy now? Just wait until those kids grow up, thinking that "Alexa is their friend" and trust it as much (if not more) than they do other humans. Sound like something out of a dystopian future scifi movie? You're right, it does; can you say "Cautionary tale"?
These gods-be-damned things are just more cancer, like 'social media' is. And now they're pushing them that have cameras in them, too.
Sounds like something Rocket from Guardians of the Galaxy would come up with -- and he wouldn't bother putting any laser warning labels on it, and laugh uproariously at the fool stoners who did end up frying an eyeball with it.
Come now, stoners; a 2W laser at any wavelength is not Amateur Night shit for casuals -- let alone stoned casuals -- to be fooling with. There will be a lawsuit.
So if someone is born biologically male, gets gender reassignment surgery because psychologically they're female, and now they feel like what they are is normal, the government is supposed to treat them as male anyway? What could POSSIBLY go wrong!? Or are they supposed to not get the surgery and 'pretend' to be a man their whole lives, even though they go through life feeling like they're living a lie?
Listen, AC buddy.. I'm not going to claim there's a Simple Solution To This Issue, but people sticking their fingers in their ears, closing their eyes, and going "LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" and ignoring the whole thing, hoping it Just Goes Away isn't helping anything. These are real issues that real people have. FFS do you think life is fun and games for these people? Also do you think this problem has never existed beyond a few decades ago? It's always existed, just like homosexuality has always existed, it's just that we know about it now and hear about it, and like any other social issue it needs to be addressed. What do some people think is going to happen? Revert back to the Dark Ages, or like some country like Saudi Arabia, and just kill these people outright because they're different? Does that make any sense? Or are they supposed to go into hiding and live on the fringes of society so they don't 'bother' anyone? Does that sound fair, either? My super-sarcastic post above calls out all sorts of social issues that many people don't want to deal with but that exist; some people would rather these 'issues' just disappear, along with the people involved with them, but is that right? If you have a kid on the autism spectrum, do you just hide him his whole life because society won't accept or deal with him? If you're a guy and you like other guys and not women do you live a lie just to make society happy? If you have a physical disability do you become a homebound recluse so no one has to deal with how unsightly some cripple is to them? If you're black do you act like a second class citizen just because some people don't want to treat you like an equal? I throw that one in because so far as I can see so many of these sorts of issues spring from the same fucked-up way some people think. And again: do I think this is an 'easy' problem to deal with? Do I have the solution? Hell, no, I don't, but don't advocate just arbitrarily making people who legitimately have never felt like the body they were born in is what they should have been born into feel like they're complete and total outcasts; what's the point in that? How is it really any different than excluding and ostracising someone for being openly gay, or being disabled, or anything else you can come up with that makes them 'not like everyone else'? Seriously.
Ah, I see: so if YOU get diagnosed with Alzheimers, but will still be capable of taking care of yourself for years to come, you'll just shoot yourself in the head immediately, so you're not a burden on anyone?
..and the very next year a breakthrough in Alzheimers research is made, and a way to 100% reverse the disease is found, curing all afflicted. If only misexistentialist had waited, he'd still be with us and live out a normal lifespan! So sad!
Also so nice of you to pronounce a Death Sentence on other peoples' family members. Be sure to spread that around on social media, I'm sure it'll be very popular.
Why not just make all public restrooms co-ed, and configure them such that everyone using them has privacy from everyone else? ..oh, that's right, I forgot that some people are homophobic and/or can't control themselves around the opposite sex, and certainly can't manage to control their irrational fear of someone who is (!!! SO SHOCKING !!!) different from them.
Oh, okay, so maybe Trump should repeal the Americans With Disabilities act while he's at it, since it's such a bother to have to make places accessible to someone in a wheelchair or otherwise physically disabled to the point where, say, getting up stairs is impossible for them. Obviously, their so-called 'disability' is part of God's Plan for them, so why should anyone subvert His will, right?
While we're at it why are we tolerating children with autism or similar disability? They're just disruptive and a drain on everyone around them and they couldn't possibly ever contribute to society.
And you know, now that I'm thinking about it, all these old people hanging around, being useless, some of them being all crazy and shit because they've got 'Alzheimers' or whatever, are just such a downer, why are we putting up with them? Can't we 'do' something with them? Clearly their usefulness is past.
..and you know, these whiny crybaby military veterans need to STFU, they knew what they were getting into when they volunteered, so it's their fault if they get their legs blown off. They should just suck it up instead of being leeches on government money.
Similarly to all the above, gender identity is scientifically proven to be a choice, even if they're single-digit age, so they should just have to suck it up and be in whatever body they were born in, even if it doesn't match their 'choice', right? And if they kill themselves because they just can't live with it, then so much the better right? Then nobody has to put up with all those confusing, scary feelings you get when you try to wrap your head around the audacious idea that someone could be 'different' from your concept of 'normal', I mean who does that, right? They're clearly choosing not to live according to God's Will therefore they should just be left to suffer.
Communism and Socialism look pretty good on paper because the philosophical concept of them doesn't take one or two very important factors into account: human greed, and human lust for power. 'Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely'.
I got burned out on internet gaming all the way back in the late 90's/early 2000's, so I wasn't even familiar with the term 'griefers'.. but in your scenario, these assholes would be helping SkyNet, because they think it would be awesome and funny. I shit you not. These are the same type who voted for Trump not because he would be a good president, but because they knew it'd piss off millions of people.
You're right, they're not. The Blackpilled crowd, the misanthropes, the massively butthurt foreveralone uggos who have been rejected so many times that they've become massive misogynists, the habitual trolls, wannabe anarchists, pedophiles, and outright internet criminals, are online at 11PM Eastern Time, and they'll be the ones turning this into an absolute horror show of a disaster.
OMFG, were these people born yesterday? When the 4chan (and 4chan-esque crowd) gets wind of this, they'll game the hell out of it, and either humiliate whoever it is to the point where they either quit or commit suicide -- assuming that is they don't trick whoever it is into suicide. Or they'll get them to commit a crime. Or ruin their life somehow. Worst. Idea. Ever.
"Reverse RActing" (if you're familiar with The Diamond Age, that is)
Then there's trolls like you who love nothing better than to draw people into 'discussions' that you do your best to run around in circles, interspersed with your 'internet tough guy' routine, ("demanding payment on bets", and so on). So I do an end-run around all that and tell you to eat a bag of dicks instead.
..or, here, I'll treat you like the 4chan-esque troll you're starting to sound like:
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.
It isn't "don't like it? don't use it", it's "can't trust 'em, don't use it", really. I watch tech news all week long and what I see is that even the most benign-seeming companies seem to end up doing something questionable (or just plain stupid), and it's even worse with smartphone apps. One of the myriad reasons I refuse to have a smartphone at all. If they were going to listen to consumer complaints they wouldn't do evil things in the first place. There are alternatives. If you want to keep your son amused on a car trip then get a tablet and he can watch vids on that instead, and you have much better control over security with a tablet than you do with any smartphone (with which you have basically zero control over security).
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How do you know you can trust your VPN provider though? And, if everyone started using VPN for downloading pirated content, you'd see a crackdown on VPN providers, compromising their own security, making them useless for not only pirating but for everything else too. If nothing else you might find ISPs blocking access to VPN providers because they're being pressured to crack down on piracy even when they can't prove 'illegal' content is traversing their network.
These dozen-or-so people who are being cut off from AT&T access to the Internet are getting what they deserve; they clearly were sloppy in their piracy methods and therefore were detected as such. Hopefully they'll have learned their lesson, though, and when they get service from some other company, they'll be more careful to cover their tracks and remain undetected.
We have no idea how our brains really work, and this toy they built at best could only 'emulate' perhaps an insects' brain.
at least alexa does not tell the kid to shut up and leave it alone
If you're implying that's the parents.. then this is even more disturbing. We do NOT need a generation of kids growing up relating more to a disembodied voice provided by (and monitored, analyzed, monetized, and directed) some company like Google or Amazon. You think too many people have little regard for their own privacy now? Just wait until those kids grow up, thinking that "Alexa is their friend" and trust it as much (if not more) than they do other humans. Sound like something out of a dystopian future scifi movie? You're right, it does; can you say "Cautionary tale"?
These gods-be-damned things are just more cancer, like 'social media' is. And now they're pushing them that have cameras in them, too.
Sounds like something Rocket from Guardians of the Galaxy would come up with -- and he wouldn't bother putting any laser warning labels on it, and laugh uproariously at the fool stoners who did end up frying an eyeball with it.
Come now, stoners; a 2W laser at any wavelength is not Amateur Night shit for casuals -- let alone stoned casuals -- to be fooling with. There will be a lawsuit.
Communism has no relationship to socialism.
Where did I say they did? Don't be so literal.
Socialism works fine, seven of the top ten nations are socialist.
More than one flavor of 'socialism'.
So if someone is born biologically male, gets gender reassignment surgery because psychologically they're female, and now they feel like what they are is normal, the government is supposed to treat them as male anyway? What could POSSIBLY go wrong!? Or are they supposed to not get the surgery and 'pretend' to be a man their whole lives, even though they go through life feeling like they're living a lie?
Shut the fuck up.
Listen, AC buddy.. I'm not going to claim there's a Simple Solution To This Issue, but people sticking their fingers in their ears, closing their eyes, and going "LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" and ignoring the whole thing, hoping it Just Goes Away isn't helping anything. These are real issues that real people have. FFS do you think life is fun and games for these people? Also do you think this problem has never existed beyond a few decades ago? It's always existed, just like homosexuality has always existed, it's just that we know about it now and hear about it, and like any other social issue it needs to be addressed. What do some people think is going to happen? Revert back to the Dark Ages, or like some country like Saudi Arabia, and just kill these people outright because they're different? Does that make any sense? Or are they supposed to go into hiding and live on the fringes of society so they don't 'bother' anyone? Does that sound fair, either? My super-sarcastic post above calls out all sorts of social issues that many people don't want to deal with but that exist; some people would rather these 'issues' just disappear, along with the people involved with them, but is that right? If you have a kid on the autism spectrum, do you just hide him his whole life because society won't accept or deal with him? If you're a guy and you like other guys and not women do you live a lie just to make society happy? If you have a physical disability do you become a homebound recluse so no one has to deal with how unsightly some cripple is to them? If you're black do you act like a second class citizen just because some people don't want to treat you like an equal? I throw that one in because so far as I can see so many of these sorts of issues spring from the same fucked-up way some people think. And again: do I think this is an 'easy' problem to deal with? Do I have the solution? Hell, no, I don't, but don't advocate just arbitrarily making people who legitimately have never felt like the body they were born in is what they should have been born into feel like they're complete and total outcasts; what's the point in that? How is it really any different than excluding and ostracising someone for being openly gay, or being disabled, or anything else you can come up with that makes them 'not like everyone else'? Seriously.
Maybe you'd better click this link and learn something you apparently don't grasp.
..and the very next year a breakthrough in Alzheimers research is made, and a way to 100% reverse the disease is found, curing all afflicted. If only misexistentialist had waited, he'd still be with us and live out a normal lifespan! So sad!
Also so nice of you to pronounce a Death Sentence on other peoples' family members. Be sure to spread that around on social media, I'm sure it'll be very popular.
Oh look it's The Guy Who Doesn't See The Sarcasm Tag At The End. Get a clue, k?
'Accomodate YOU'? What, precisely, do you expect them to do to 'accomodate' you? Really, I want you to answer that question.
..and small-mindedness is small-mindedness.
Oh and by the way you're so brave posting on this subject as an AC.
Why not just make all public restrooms co-ed, and configure them such that everyone using them has privacy from everyone else?
..oh, that's right, I forgot that some people are homophobic and/or can't control themselves around the opposite sex, and certainly can't manage to control their irrational fear of someone who is (!!! SO SHOCKING !!!) different from them.
Oh, okay, so maybe Trump should repeal the Americans With Disabilities act while he's at it, since it's such a bother to have to make places accessible to someone in a wheelchair or otherwise physically disabled to the point where, say, getting up stairs is impossible for them. Obviously, their so-called 'disability' is part of God's Plan for them, so why should anyone subvert His will, right?
..and you know, these whiny crybaby military veterans need to STFU, they knew what they were getting into when they volunteered, so it's their fault if they get their legs blown off. They should just suck it up instead of being leeches on government money.
While we're at it why are we tolerating children with autism or similar disability? They're just disruptive and a drain on everyone around them and they couldn't possibly ever contribute to society.
And you know, now that I'm thinking about it, all these old people hanging around, being useless, some of them being all crazy and shit because they've got 'Alzheimers' or whatever, are just such a downer, why are we putting up with them? Can't we 'do' something with them? Clearly their usefulness is past.
Similarly to all the above, gender identity is scientifically proven to be a choice, even if they're single-digit age, so they should just have to suck it up and be in whatever body they were born in, even if it doesn't match their 'choice', right? And if they kill themselves because they just can't live with it, then so much the better right? Then nobody has to put up with all those confusing, scary feelings you get when you try to wrap your head around the audacious idea that someone could be 'different' from your concept of 'normal', I mean who does that, right? They're clearly choosing not to live according to God's Will therefore they should just be left to suffer.
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Communism and Socialism look pretty good on paper because the philosophical concept of them doesn't take one or two very important factors into account: human greed, and human lust for power. 'Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely'.
Y U SO MAD THO? xD
I got burned out on internet gaming all the way back in the late 90's/early 2000's, so I wasn't even familiar with the term 'griefers'.. but in your scenario, these assholes would be helping SkyNet, because they think it would be awesome and funny. I shit you not. These are the same type who voted for Trump not because he would be a good president, but because they knew it'd piss off millions of people.
You're right, they're not. The Blackpilled crowd, the misanthropes, the massively butthurt foreveralone uggos who have been rejected so many times that they've become massive misogynists, the habitual trolls, wannabe anarchists, pedophiles, and outright internet criminals, are online at 11PM Eastern Time, and they'll be the ones turning this into an absolute horror show of a disaster.
Yeah. :-/ :-/
'BeeMe' will end up being '/b/Me'.
More like a /b/ movie, if you get my drift.
"Reverse RActing" (if you're familiar with The Diamond Age, that is)
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.
..there. That's better than you probably deserve.
It isn't "don't like it? don't use it", it's "can't trust 'em, don't use it", really. I watch tech news all week long and what I see is that even the most benign-seeming companies seem to end up doing something questionable (or just plain stupid), and it's even worse with smartphone apps. One of the myriad reasons I refuse to have a smartphone at all. If they were going to listen to consumer complaints they wouldn't do evil things in the first place. There are alternatives. If you want to keep your son amused on a car trip then get a tablet and he can watch vids on that instead, and you have much better control over security with a tablet than you do with any smartphone (with which you have basically zero control over security).