Guess what? Left to their own devices humans will burn everything they can burn for fuel and they don't give a fuck about the environment, but they'll whine and cry and kick their feet when their lights don't come on and their cars won't start and it's 100 degrees out in the middle of winter. We'll run out of fossil fuels before too long and it's pants-on-head retarded to keep using them regardless, so how about all you whiners and complainers just get in line and get used to the idea that we HAVE TO CHANGE sooner or later so why not plan on it being sooner?
Yeah sure. A city where you're the prisoner of machines, and if the cops, government, or criminals want to hijack and kidnap you, it's a simple matter to control the vehicle remotely. A city where you have no choice except to walk everywhere. Screw that. I'd rather have traffic deaths and retain my actual freedom of movement.
I wouldn't be too horribly surprised to hear that the reason they're holding on to this 'flu virus' and not giving us a sample of it is because it's a weaponized version of another flu virus, or perhaps they created it from scratch themselves, and in either case it's a bioweapon and they don't want us figuring that out until it's too late.
"For over a year, the Chinese government has withheld lab samples of an influenza virus from a rapidly evolving threat, the Trump Administration of the United States."
The corporations and companies in the TFA only take this stance because they don't want to be in essence taxed for the privilege of stealing people's private data and otherwise monetizing them, they want to continue to get all that for FREE. So support Net Neutrality but tell all those companies to fuck the fuck off in the process.
Thanks for the heads-up telecoms, I'll make a point of calling my representative today -- to tell them to vote YES on this legislation. Fuck you Comcast, fuck you AT&T, fuck you Verizon, and fuck you to everyone else applicable.
Oh look the room-temperature IQ mogoloids and the trolls had mod points today! The former punished me for ruining their Echo Chamber, and the trolls punished me for ruining their LULZ. Fuck all of you, you're all idiots for even discussing this UBI nonsense.
People that talk about how wonderful UBI would be fall into two catergories: utter fools who can't think past next week and therefore have no ability to see what'll happen even a year down the road, and trolls. It's a stupid idea and people need to be told it's a stupid idea until they get it through their skulls and stop talking about it, it's a non-starter.
I 'respectfully' inform you that you're bad at basic arithmetic and furthermore have no fucking idea what you're talking about. There isn't going to be any 'mass unemployment' from bullshit fake-ass shitty excuse for 'AI', UBI it utter and complete nonsense that will never work and needs to be forgotten, and people who actually believe it will work are either utter fools with room-temperature IQs or they're trolls trolling like trolls do. Get off it you're embarassing yourself.
There doesn't need to be any plan because there isn't going to be any mass unemployment you fucking mongoloid, stop LARPing and stop spreaing FUD for the lulz.
I'll tell you what the 'results' would be: A ruined national economy inside 2 years, bankrupting the government completely, and instantly turning the United States into a 3rd-world country. MONEY DOES NOT GROW ON TREES!
That's a bunch of fucking bullshit, and it's about time you and everyone else who spouts that FUD is called out for spreading it. STFU and GTFO with your "Sky is falling!" Chicken Little shit.
That's about as useful as this is. Why not spend that $60,000,000 on training people for different jobs if theirs are in dire danger of being lost to 'automation'? Wouldn't that be smarter? "Teach a man how to fish" instead of "Give a man a fish", remember how that works?
Yeah sure let's add unnecessary tech to things that don't have them or need them so those things are likewise full of security holes like the vast majority of IoT garbage is, great idea. Not enough 'NOPE!' in the Universe for that idea.
See: https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
The attitudes of companies like Facebook and Google and others with regard to our privacy rights is intimately tied into runaway capitalism. In a capitalistic economy where companies had good ethics, a moral compass, and a sense of partnering with citizens, they wouldn't dream of violating people's privacy and selling their private data and private lives to others the way that Facebook and Google do. Sadly we do not live in that world, but we must fight to make the world that way.
If you actually believe that just because someone has 'PhD' after their name, that they magically and instantaneously evolve into a higher form of human being, with a god-like impartiality and free of all human failings, then I'm sorry burst your bubble but you've been living in a fantasy world. Scientists can be just as politically and socially biased and emotional as anyone else, perhaps even more so sometimes because they so fervently believe in their own research and data. This isn't even mentioning how some 'scientist' lacking in ethics and/or a moral compass can sell out science in general because he was just handed a huge pile of money from some special interest group or corporation.
In short, according to Grantham, “we face a form of capitalism that has hardened its focus to short-term profit maximization with little or no apparent interest in social good.”
..which is 100% correct. "Profits above all else". The Rich get richer, The Poor get poorer, the Middle Class disappears, replaced with an ever-widening gulf between The Rich and The Poor (which then includes what used to be the Middle Class), and essentially no way to bridge the gap. We're already seeing this happen. There's other dangerous signs: barriers to ownership of things like homes or vehicles, with ownership replaced by perpetual renting. Home Owners Associations with the power to literally steal someone's self-owned home out from under them. Even things as seemingly innocuous as 'streaming' media services, 'cloud' services, and even e-books, which discourage owning of what used to be common things, and encouraging a perpetual cycle of monthly payments. Payday lending practices that amount to loan sharking. Predatory lending practices by major banks. Even something like the privatization of the prison system, which seems like it's entirely out of left field, plays a part in this. Left on the course it's set for itself, we may end up in a feudalism-like civilization. Maybe you personally don't think you're feeling any of this yet, but you will.
Of course they do. "Profit above all else". Never forget we're just a 'product' to shitty companies like Zuckerbook and Google and Amazon and others. When it comes right down to it, they don't give a rats' ass about the privacy of individuals, they only care about conning you into giving away all your very-much-personal information and data to them for free, so they can turn around and sell that to whoever and however many people or other companies want to buy it. We've got an entire generation of people now who have been indoctrinated literally from birth that 'sharing is normal and good' and 'only bad people with something to hide want privacy'. This is and always has been a dangerous trend and it needs to be reversed. These companies need to be brought to heel, putting a gun to their corporate heads if necessary to force them to stop leeching peoples' data, and to delete anything and everything they have on someone at their request.
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Guess what? Left to their own devices humans will burn everything they can burn for fuel and they don't give a fuck about the environment, but they'll whine and cry and kick their feet when their lights don't come on and their cars won't start and it's 100 degrees out in the middle of winter. We'll run out of fossil fuels before too long and it's pants-on-head retarded to keep using them regardless, so how about all you whiners and complainers just get in line and get used to the idea that we HAVE TO CHANGE sooner or later so why not plan on it being sooner?
I think someone would notice the power usage, because I doubt such machines are built with energy savings in mind.
Yeah sure. A city where you're the prisoner of machines, and if the cops, government, or criminals want to hijack and kidnap you, it's a simple matter to control the vehicle remotely. A city where you have no choice except to walk everywhere. Screw that. I'd rather have traffic deaths and retain my actual freedom of movement.
They're nothing short of that.
I wouldn't be too horribly surprised to hear that the reason they're holding on to this 'flu virus' and not giving us a sample of it is because it's a weaponized version of another flu virus, or perhaps they created it from scratch themselves, and in either case it's a bioweapon and they don't want us figuring that out until it's too late.
I've got about six email addresses I use currently, all for different purposes, I can't see why anyone would limit themselves to only one.
"For over a year, the Chinese government has withheld lab samples of an influenza virus from a rapidly evolving threat, the Trump Administration of the United States."
There, fixed that for you.
The corporations and companies in the TFA only take this stance because they don't want to be in essence taxed for the privilege of stealing people's private data and otherwise monetizing them, they want to continue to get all that for FREE. So support Net Neutrality but tell all those companies to fuck the fuck off in the process.
Thanks for the heads-up telecoms, I'll make a point of calling my representative today -- to tell them to vote YES on this legislation. Fuck you Comcast, fuck you AT&T, fuck you Verizon, and fuck you to everyone else applicable.
Oh look the room-temperature IQ mogoloids and the trolls had mod points today! The former punished me for ruining their Echo Chamber, and the trolls punished me for ruining their LULZ. Fuck all of you, you're all idiots for even discussing this UBI nonsense.
People that talk about how wonderful UBI would be fall into two catergories: utter fools who can't think past next week and therefore have no ability to see what'll happen even a year down the road, and trolls. It's a stupid idea and people need to be told it's a stupid idea until they get it through their skulls and stop talking about it, it's a non-starter.
Trollolololol.
I 'respectfully' inform you that you're bad at basic arithmetic and furthermore have no fucking idea what you're talking about. There isn't going to be any 'mass unemployment' from bullshit fake-ass shitty excuse for 'AI', UBI it utter and complete nonsense that will never work and needs to be forgotten, and people who actually believe it will work are either utter fools with room-temperature IQs or they're trolls trolling like trolls do. Get off it you're embarassing yourself.
There doesn't need to be any plan because there isn't going to be any mass unemployment you fucking mongoloid, stop LARPing and stop spreaing FUD for the lulz.
That's all a bunch of bullshit and you damned well know it, stop spreading FUD.
Where does this money come from?
Sales of Unicorn Farts.
I'll tell you what the 'results' would be: A ruined national economy inside 2 years, bankrupting the government completely, and instantly turning the United States into a 3rd-world country. MONEY DOES NOT GROW ON TREES!
I can't even pay my rent on that little. UBI is worthless senseless nonsense and everyone needs to get it out of their heads already.
But you will be forced
That's a bunch of fucking bullshit, and it's about time you and everyone else who spouts that FUD is called out for spreading it. STFU and GTFO with your "Sky is falling!" Chicken Little shit.
That's about as useful as this is. Why not spend that $60,000,000 on training people for different jobs if theirs are in dire danger of being lost to 'automation'? Wouldn't that be smarter? "Teach a man how to fish" instead of "Give a man a fish", remember how that works?
Yeah sure let's add unnecessary tech to things that don't have them or need them so those things are likewise full of security holes like the vast majority of IoT garbage is, great idea. Not enough 'NOPE!' in the Universe for that idea.
See: https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
The attitudes of companies like Facebook and Google and others with regard to our privacy rights is intimately tied into runaway capitalism. In a capitalistic economy where companies had good ethics, a moral compass, and a sense of partnering with citizens, they wouldn't dream of violating people's privacy and selling their private data and private lives to others the way that Facebook and Google do. Sadly we do not live in that world, but we must fight to make the world that way.
If you actually believe that just because someone has 'PhD' after their name, that they magically and instantaneously evolve into a higher form of human being, with a god-like impartiality and free of all human failings, then I'm sorry burst your bubble but you've been living in a fantasy world. Scientists can be just as politically and socially biased and emotional as anyone else, perhaps even more so sometimes because they so fervently believe in their own research and data. This isn't even mentioning how some 'scientist' lacking in ethics and/or a moral compass can sell out science in general because he was just handed a huge pile of money from some special interest group or corporation.
In short, according to Grantham, “we face a form of capitalism that has hardened its focus to short-term profit maximization with little or no apparent interest in social good.”
..which is 100% correct. "Profits above all else". The Rich get richer, The Poor get poorer, the Middle Class disappears, replaced with an ever-widening gulf between The Rich and The Poor (which then includes what used to be the Middle Class), and essentially no way to bridge the gap. We're already seeing this happen. There's other dangerous signs: barriers to ownership of things like homes or vehicles, with ownership replaced by perpetual renting. Home Owners Associations with the power to literally steal someone's self-owned home out from under them. Even things as seemingly innocuous as 'streaming' media services, 'cloud' services, and even e-books, which discourage owning of what used to be common things, and encouraging a perpetual cycle of monthly payments. Payday lending practices that amount to loan sharking. Predatory lending practices by major banks. Even something like the privatization of the prison system, which seems like it's entirely out of left field, plays a part in this. Left on the course it's set for itself, we may end up in a feudalism-like civilization. Maybe you personally don't think you're feeling any of this yet, but you will.
Of course they do. "Profit above all else". Never forget we're just a 'product' to shitty companies like Zuckerbook and Google and Amazon and others. When it comes right down to it, they don't give a rats' ass about the privacy of individuals, they only care about conning you into giving away all your very-much-personal information and data to them for free, so they can turn around and sell that to whoever and however many people or other companies want to buy it. We've got an entire generation of people now who have been indoctrinated literally from birth that 'sharing is normal and good' and 'only bad people with something to hide want privacy'. This is and always has been a dangerous trend and it needs to be reversed. These companies need to be brought to heel, putting a gun to their corporate heads if necessary to force them to stop leeching peoples' data, and to delete anything and everything they have on someone at their request.