I think you're missing out on my sarcasm. I don't think so-called 'self driving cars' are anywhere NEAR ready for general use, and in fact I don't think they'll ever be, not until we have full-on general AI, at least equivalent to a human brain. At current they can't 'think' at all, no capacity to do so -- because we have no idea how a human brain does that, and won't anytime soon, either, we don't have the instrumentality to determine that. SDC's will be a disaster. I feel bad for all the people who will die before they're finally pulled off the roads. I hold out hope that they never catch on because they're so shitty no one will want them.
My only concern at this point is that I don't suffer permanent injuries, or die, in all the accidents I'll inevitably get in with so-called 'self driving cars', so I can sue the living daylights out of the manufacturers, and retire wealthy.
You're right, of course. What we need are reforms of driver education, training, and testing. Bring back Driver Ed/Driver Training in highschools. Stricter DMV skills testing of current drivers, more often too, to weed out dangerous, incompetent, and angry drivers.
I don't blame the guy at all for doing that. Google once had a motto of "don't be evil", but they left that behind a long time ago in favor of "profit over all".
Sometimes you have to lead by example and make damned sure that people know you're doing it. If enough key people leave Google then maybe they'll get the idea that the direction they're going is wrong and counterproductive in the long term.
I submitted this story because at least he's not spending $2B on something stupid and pointless like some gigantic mechanical clock inside a mountain somewhere.
I need to build a new bike; wonder if I can hit him up for $1500? Seems like he could afford it..
Test equipment companies like Tektronix also have done this for a long time now; they'll build an oscilloscope with all the hardware 'bells and whistles', and you pay for license keys that 'unlock' the features you're paying to use.
Social Media connects people and brings people together!
BULL-FUCKING-SHIT.
All so-called 'social media' does is let you pretend to be 'social', while in reality it's giving you every excuse to not be social at all. Text on a screen, or even pictures on a screen, over the Internet is not a substitute for actually interacting, live and in person, with other people.
I also blame smartphones being used by children and teenagers for this. 'Texting' someone is also not being 'social' in any real sense, it's just another excuse to not interact with people in live settings.
We've now hamstrung an entire generation because of smartphones and 'social media'. They have 'social anxiety disorder', don't know how to interact with people in a live setting, are socially avoidant, and because of this they now will not develop properly into adults. They'd rather be shut-ins and text people instead of being out of their houses and with their peers.
Want to prevent your own kids from being reclusive shut-ins as adults? Get them off social media and take away their smartphones.
. Be sure to enjoy a world where you pay for a computer that you have zero control over and no say in how it's actually used because shit companies like Microsoft take more and more end-user rights away.
Guess your reading comprehension is garbage and/or you just conveniently skipped over that. Go fuck yourself, troll.
The more isolated you are, the more avoidant you are of social contact; the threshold you have to overcome to go out and actually socialize with people F2F gets higher and higher. Then you get what they're talking about here.
Continually letting Microsoft violate your anus because you won't take a stand is naive immature and shows what a coward you are. You won't put yourself out to stand up against this sort of bullshit, you're no example for anyone to follow. So just keep swallowing what they're forcing down your throat and they'll never change a goddamned thing. Be sure to enjoy a world where you pay for a computer that you have zero control over and no say in how it's actually used because shit companies like Microsoft take more and more end-user rights away.
If they're marketing them to kids and teenagers (which are still kids judgement-wise) then they need to be introduced to Monsieur Guillotine because they're EVIL. And before you sperg out all over the place more I'm not talking about BANNING ALL THE THINGS just the gods-be-damned vaping bullshit. Also fuck you.
Before any of you 'UBI' fanbois start sperging out over this, yet again: it is ***1300 people***, not ***350,000,000 people***, and they DO NOT HAVE ANY MONEY TO PAY FOR THIS. It's pointless bullshit.
Of course they voted for 'free money every month'; who wouldn't? But there is NO MONEY. Their 'vote' amounts to an 'opinion poll' because there's nothing real to back it up.
UBI fools need to STFU. It'll never work and anyone with basic arithmetic skills can see that.
Article 11, also known as the "link tax", would require online platforms such as Google and Facebook to pay media companies to link to their content
Sure. So rather than do that, Google, Zuckerbook, and whoever else, will just not link to any of those anymore -- or at least threaten to. Suddenly the 'media companies' see their traffic fall off by orders of magnitude, followed by their stock value dropping, and boards of directors and stockholders screaming bloody murder.
Also meanwhile you really think any of this is going to stop 4channers and redditors from creating and spreading new memes? LOL no, that horse left the barn a long long time ago now, and it's a game of Whack-A-Mole against ferrets on bad biker meth at best to try to stamp them out or stop them.
I'm sticking by what I said about this yesterday: It's UNENFORCEABLE and TOOTHLESS.
From the first time I ever read about these I thought "drug delivery device", and my opinion hasn't changed. I'd also prefer our species evolved past self-destructive behaviors like smoking, too, but I guess it has to be baby steps, and nipping yet another needless vice in the bud is not a bad thing. Face it, people: it's just being leveraged into yet another way to addict people to something. Evil, wrong, bad, far from harmless. Whine and complain about my opinion all you like but if you're a smoker or vape user all you're doing is sounding like every chronic drug user on the planet, defending your addiction. Don't bother I won't take you seriously.
*** time passes, attention-whoring YouTubers get their validation, money rolls in ***
Waah, I'm depressed, pay more attention to me!
*** sheep go BAAAAH and give the attention whore what (s)he wants ***
..I'm sorry, but let's be honest, aren't many of these people on YouTube just attention whores? More like attention vampires, maybe? Suck up all the attention, into the black hole it goes, never satisfied, always wanting more, more, more?
Does he mean the 'intelligence agencies' that he says are lying about everything and are worthless? Or does he now like them (this week)? Or has someone spoon-fed Trump enough that he's got it through his 5th grader mentality how things actually work?
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No, there aren't, and never were, it's wasteful of power.
No, we won't. Too many of you indulge in 'magical thinking'. SDCs will be a disaster.
I think you're missing out on my sarcasm. I don't think so-called 'self driving cars' are anywhere NEAR ready for general use, and in fact I don't think they'll ever be, not until we have full-on general AI, at least equivalent to a human brain. At current they can't 'think' at all, no capacity to do so -- because we have no idea how a human brain does that, and won't anytime soon, either, we don't have the instrumentality to determine that. SDC's will be a disaster. I feel bad for all the people who will die before they're finally pulled off the roads. I hold out hope that they never catch on because they're so shitty no one will want them.
My only concern at this point is that I don't suffer permanent injuries, or die, in all the accidents I'll inevitably get in with so-called 'self driving cars', so I can sue the living daylights out of the manufacturers, and retire wealthy.
You're right, of course. What we need are reforms of driver education, training, and testing. Bring back Driver Ed/Driver Training in highschools. Stricter DMV skills testing of current drivers, more often too, to weed out dangerous, incompetent, and angry drivers.
Wireless charging was always a stupid idea from a technical standpoint which is why you don't see it everywhere.
I don't blame the guy at all for doing that. Google once had a motto of "don't be evil", but they left that behind a long time ago in favor of "profit over all".
Sometimes you have to lead by example and make damned sure that people know you're doing it. If enough key people leave Google then maybe they'll get the idea that the direction they're going is wrong and counterproductive in the long term.
I submitted this story because at least he's not spending $2B on something stupid and pointless like some gigantic mechanical clock inside a mountain somewhere.
I need to build a new bike; wonder if I can hit him up for $1500? Seems like he could afford it..
Test equipment companies like Tektronix also have done this for a long time now; they'll build an oscilloscope with all the hardware 'bells and whistles', and you pay for license keys that 'unlock' the features you're paying to use.
Go look those terms up if you're unfamiliar with them.
Social Media connects people and brings people together!
BULL-FUCKING-SHIT.
All so-called 'social media' does is let you pretend to be 'social', while in reality it's giving you every excuse to not be social at all. Text on a screen, or even pictures on a screen, over the Internet is not a substitute for actually interacting, live and in person, with other people.
I also blame smartphones being used by children and teenagers for this. 'Texting' someone is also not being 'social' in any real sense, it's just another excuse to not interact with people in live settings.
We've now hamstrung an entire generation because of smartphones and 'social media'. They have 'social anxiety disorder', don't know how to interact with people in a live setting, are socially avoidant, and because of this they now will not develop properly into adults. They'd rather be shut-ins and text people instead of being out of their houses and with their peers.
Want to prevent your own kids from being reclusive shut-ins as adults? Get them off social media and take away their smartphones.
I'll give it a month (or so) before it's all declared null-and-void.
When are you all going to learn? Own your own copies of things. Eschew 'The Cloud'. Keep your own data!
Hilarious. You should try for a career in standup comedy.
. Be sure to enjoy a world where you pay for a computer that you have zero control over and no say in how it's actually used because shit companies like Microsoft take more and more end-user rights away.
Guess your reading comprehension is garbage and/or you just conveniently skipped over that. Go fuck yourself, troll.
The more isolated you are, the more avoidant you are of social contact; the threshold you have to overcome to go out and actually socialize with people F2F gets higher and higher. Then you get what they're talking about here.
That's what we should be doing with assholes like these that pull shit like this.
Continually letting Microsoft violate your anus because you won't take a stand is naive immature and shows what a coward you are. You won't put yourself out to stand up against this sort of bullshit, you're no example for anyone to follow. So just keep swallowing what they're forcing down your throat and they'll never change a goddamned thing. Be sure to enjoy a world where you pay for a computer that you have zero control over and no say in how it's actually used because shit companies like Microsoft take more and more end-user rights away.
If they're marketing them to kids and teenagers (which are still kids judgement-wise) then they need to be introduced to Monsieur Guillotine because they're EVIL. And before you sperg out all over the place more I'm not talking about BANNING ALL THE THINGS just the gods-be-damned vaping bullshit. Also fuck you.
Before any of you 'UBI' fanbois start sperging out over this, yet again: it is ***1300 people***, not ***350,000,000 people***, and they DO NOT HAVE ANY MONEY TO PAY FOR THIS. It's pointless bullshit.
Of course they voted for 'free money every month'; who wouldn't? But there is NO MONEY. Their 'vote' amounts to an 'opinion poll' because there's nothing real to back it up.
UBI fools need to STFU. It'll never work and anyone with basic arithmetic skills can see that.
Article 11, also known as the "link tax", would require online platforms such as Google and Facebook to pay media companies to link to their content
Sure. So rather than do that, Google, Zuckerbook, and whoever else, will just not link to any of those anymore -- or at least threaten to. Suddenly the 'media companies' see their traffic fall off by orders of magnitude, followed by their stock value dropping, and boards of directors and stockholders screaming bloody murder.
Also meanwhile you really think any of this is going to stop 4channers and redditors from creating and spreading new memes? LOL no, that horse left the barn a long long time ago now, and it's a game of Whack-A-Mole against ferrets on bad biker meth at best to try to stamp them out or stop them.
I'm sticking by what I said about this yesterday: It's UNENFORCEABLE and TOOTHLESS.
From the first time I ever read about these I thought "drug delivery device", and my opinion hasn't changed. I'd also prefer our species evolved past self-destructive behaviors like smoking, too, but I guess it has to be baby steps, and nipping yet another needless vice in the bud is not a bad thing. Face it, people: it's just being leveraged into yet another way to addict people to something. Evil, wrong, bad, far from harmless. Whine and complain about my opinion all you like but if you're a smoker or vape user all you're doing is sounding like every chronic drug user on the planet, defending your addiction. Don't bother I won't take you seriously.
Problem solved.
Waah, pay attention to me!
*** time passes, attention-whoring YouTubers get their validation, money rolls in ***
Waah, I'm depressed, pay more attention to me!
*** sheep go BAAAAH and give the attention whore what (s)he wants ***
..I'm sorry, but let's be honest, aren't many of these people on YouTube just attention whores? More like attention vampires, maybe? Suck up all the attention, into the black hole it goes, never satisfied, always wanting more, more, more?
..oh, please.
Does he mean the 'intelligence agencies' that he says are lying about everything and are worthless? Or does he now like them (this week)? Or has someone spoon-fed Trump enough that he's got it through his 5th grader mentality how things actually work?