So you think a totalitarian communist State with no belief in civil rights, freedom of speech and expresison, or much belief in basic human rights, is better than a Democratic Republic?
In this country (U.S.) we used to teach people to drive when they were in highschool. That stopped at least a couple decades ago, and while vehicle safety features and overall quality has improved, driver skill has declined as a result of less rigorous driver education and training. Just learning barely enough to pass a multiple-choice test and a barely passing grade on a short skills test isn't enough, it's why we have crashes and deaths, and it's why a segment of the population wants to jam so-called 'self driving cars' down everyones' throats now, regardless of the damned things not being anywhere near good enough now or likely ever. What we need is better driver training, education, and TESTING, including re-testing more often, and perhaps mandatory refresher education and training at regular intervals, regardless of driving record. This should most certainly include, and perhaps start with, any sort of 'commercial' driver, meaning Uber, Lyft, and similar drivers. That's the way forward, folks.
I remember the general gist of them, and besides which it's sort of obvious how much indoctrination and brainwashing has occurred to an entire generation of people over so-called 'social media', and of course governments are naturally going to leverage that any way they can just like they do any other surveillance technology. All of which is why I refuse to play.
That's my point, really. Do people really think my real, legal, IRL name is 'Rick Schumann'? LOL no it's a character from a series of short stories. Do I share personally identifiable information with people here? Do I collect 'friends' here? Is it some sort of 'network'? Am I posting pics of myself and some sort of running 'stream-of-consciousness' about my day-to-day life? NO. It's a news site with commenting capabilities. It's no more 'social media' than going to one of the TV network news sites and commenting on news stories there. What's next, are they going to call 4chan 'social media', too?
Not so specifically as you're stating it, no, but I do remember the vast majority of people having been 'indoctrinated' that way by social media, to believe that anyone who wanted to preserve their privacy 'must have something to hide' and therefore must be criminals, terrorists, and/or pedophiles. I never fell for any of that, and as the pressure to be brainwashed by social media increased, my aversion to social media increased proportionately, and I don't use ANY social media anymore, and haven't for a long, long time now, and encourage everyone I can to dump Facebook, Twitter, and any other so-called 'social media' and (shocking!) actually be social with live people away from the Internet.
OP here.. When I first dumped Comcast cable I was out of work and I built an antenna out of parts from the hardware store and the dollar store and mounted it on a piece of electrical conduit to the side of the rented house I was living in at the time. Worked great. Still have what's left of it sitting in my garage, but I later bought a Channelmaster antenna with higher gain. It paid for itself in the first few months.
Doesn't the commnunist Chinese government require everyone to use the (Chinese version of the) Internet now, so they can keep track of your loyalty to the Party, make sure you're not a dissident, and otherwise are staying lockstepped with their strict 'guidelines' of behavior? Don't they penalize you somehow if you don't use it enough, because it doesn't give their tracking enough data to work with, like you've got something to hide? Maybe they arrest you if you don't post on their version of social media? Also it seems that Zuckerbook is taking ideas from China now.
Because Trump knows (because he purchased them) most of his followers are Russian 'bots. He's feeling threatened that his number is going to get smaller like his hands.
I own a TV.. and I have an antenna on the roof and pay zero to watch anything, and have a DVR (TiVo with lifetime Program Guide Service, paid for itself long ago) and skip past commercials.
All the other things you mentioned: I've mentally disciplined myself to ignore them and not let them distract me. Get on my level.
The school notes that students can also mute the microphone. Students can’t technically opt-out, but they can unplug the product and shove it in a drawer, turning it in at the end of the year. Just don’t use it as a hockey puck, because that’ll cost you.
I can't see them having campus police knocking on people's dormroom doors because they unplugged the damnable thing from power, insisting they plug them back in. I also can't see them nailing the thing down and hardwiring it into power so you can't turn it off.
Or maybe if you have some other pointless 'administrative' job. The people who actually create things and build things will always have work because until we have real, 'general' AI that can think like a human being, and not the shitty half-assed excuse for AI they keep trotting out these days 'robots' won't be able to produce things that are as high-quality as a skilled human being can -- and shitty so-called 'deep learning software' will never be able to really, truly create things like a human being can, let alone innovate. This 'Bank of England Chief Economist' tosser is just another Chicken Little running around waving his arms about the sky falling.
I don't have nor have I ever wanted an 'e-book reader', I like printed books much better and always will, so I was unaware of this. They actually did this? You pay cash money for something like that, and they shove ads in your face that you can't do anything about? Sounds like shooting themselves in the foot to me. Well, if that's the case, then on top of the entire list of reasons I already had for never wanting one of these, I guess that one goes near the top.
Well, I'm sorry if your country (Australia) is such a total shit-hole of corruption. I've had the displeasure of having to work for Australians who bought out a small company I worked for, and they're about as unscupulous, unethical, and amoral as anyone could be, and it was a medical device company so I fear for the patients that might end up affected by their inevitable corner-cutting. Makes me wonder when your citizenry is going to wake up and do something definitive to take back their country from this apparent culture of lawlessness-in-lawfulness' clothing.
What you just said is in fact goddamned insightful; why are you just an AC?
I've been one to talk about how our allegedly 1st-world-country governments are wanting to treat us like we're in a 3rd-world-country, and also destroy any value encryption has in their mad rush to get ALL THE DATA!, but that's an even more important point: the abuse potential such power would give LEOs and governments, to frame whoever they want to take the fall for something. If legislation like this is allowed to happen in ANY country, then so much for truth and actual justice, 'law enforcement' becomes a sham, and all courts of law become (excuse the poor joke in this case) 'kangaroo courts'. THIS is one of the greatest allies of the U.S.? Really!? They sound more and more like Russia or China. Nice job, Australia.
I'm certain there were many people who were of that opinion about Linux when it was first being developed.;-)
FWIW I think if it reaches the v1p0 release point Microsoft's legal department will probably swat them hard and either buy them out or just plain put them out of business and make sure the source code disappears.
That's nice. But if I were a baseball player and the call would make or break the game, I'd insist on a human being to verify what any machine was claiming.
Apparently athletes aren't any better educated or informed about the actual, non-hype, non-media-fiction driven capabilities of so-called 'AI', otherwise they'd know that you could not rely on it to make a call any better than a human umpire could make, not even close in fact.
People, could we please stop thinking that 'AI' solves everything?
Define 'the best you can select yourself from their shelves'? According to whose standards? Are they telepathic, reading my mind at a distance, knowing exactly precisely what produce and meat and whatever else I might select? Would they know if I find all the selection available to be unacceptable and not deliver anything? Will they go to a different store entirely if they, in their telepathicness, know I won't like anything they've got? Honestly I don't know how anyone can use these 'shopper' services except for prepackaged things.
Yeah, 100% what you just said. I don't want anyone choosing my groceries for me, 'autonomous car delivery' not withstanding. I can't understand why anyone would. Or are so many people not learning how to cook even basic foods that all they're eating is highly processed, prepackaged 'foods'?
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So you think a totalitarian communist State with no belief in civil rights, freedom of speech and expresison, or much belief in basic human rights, is better than a Democratic Republic?
Your post is one good idea mixed up with a ton of luddite nonsense.
Stopped reading right there.
In this country (U.S.) we used to teach people to drive when they were in highschool. That stopped at least a couple decades ago, and while vehicle safety features and overall quality has improved, driver skill has declined as a result of less rigorous driver education and training. Just learning barely enough to pass a multiple-choice test and a barely passing grade on a short skills test isn't enough, it's why we have crashes and deaths, and it's why a segment of the population wants to jam so-called 'self driving cars' down everyones' throats now, regardless of the damned things not being anywhere near good enough now or likely ever. What we need is better driver training, education, and TESTING, including re-testing more often, and perhaps mandatory refresher education and training at regular intervals, regardless of driving record. This should most certainly include, and perhaps start with, any sort of 'commercial' driver, meaning Uber, Lyft, and similar drivers. That's the way forward, folks.
I remember the general gist of them, and besides which it's sort of obvious how much indoctrination and brainwashing has occurred to an entire generation of people over so-called 'social media', and of course governments are naturally going to leverage that any way they can just like they do any other surveillance technology. All of which is why I refuse to play.
That's my point, really. Do people really think my real, legal, IRL name is 'Rick Schumann'? LOL no it's a character from a series of short stories. Do I share personally identifiable information with people here? Do I collect 'friends' here? Is it some sort of 'network'? Am I posting pics of myself and some sort of running 'stream-of-consciousness' about my day-to-day life? NO. It's a news site with commenting capabilities. It's no more 'social media' than going to one of the TV network news sites and commenting on news stories there. What's next, are they going to call 4chan 'social media', too?
Not so specifically as you're stating it, no, but I do remember the vast majority of people having been 'indoctrinated' that way by social media, to believe that anyone who wanted to preserve their privacy 'must have something to hide' and therefore must be criminals, terrorists, and/or pedophiles. I never fell for any of that, and as the pressure to be brainwashed by social media increased, my aversion to social media increased proportionately, and I don't use ANY social media anymore, and haven't for a long, long time now, and encourage everyone I can to dump Facebook, Twitter, and any other so-called 'social media' and (shocking!) actually be social with live people away from the Internet.
OP here.. When I first dumped Comcast cable I was out of work and I built an antenna out of parts from the hardware store and the dollar store and mounted it on a piece of electrical conduit to the side of the rented house I was living in at the time. Worked great. Still have what's left of it sitting in my garage, but I later bought a Channelmaster antenna with higher gain. It paid for itself in the first few months.
Doesn't the commnunist Chinese government require everyone to use the (Chinese version of the) Internet now, so they can keep track of your loyalty to the Party, make sure you're not a dissident, and otherwise are staying lockstepped with their strict 'guidelines' of behavior? Don't they penalize you somehow if you don't use it enough, because it doesn't give their tracking enough data to work with, like you've got something to hide? Maybe they arrest you if you don't post on their version of social media? Also it seems that Zuckerbook is taking ideas from China now.
Gee whiz Zuckerbook, you're starting to sound an awful lot like living under the communist Chinese government, aren't you?
Because Trump knows (because he purchased them) most of his followers are Russian 'bots. He's feeling threatened that his number is going to get smaller like his hands.
Fixed that for you.
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I like printed paper books and have no intention of changing, ever.
Are you trying to sell me on the idea? Don't waste your time. I like printed paper books and have no intention of changing, ever.
I own a TV.. and I have an antenna on the roof and pay zero to watch anything, and have a DVR (TiVo with lifetime Program Guide Service, paid for itself long ago) and skip past commercials.
All the other things you mentioned: I've mentally disciplined myself to ignore them and not let them distract me. Get on my level.
The school notes that students can also mute the microphone. Students can’t technically opt-out, but they can unplug the product and shove it in a drawer, turning it in at the end of the year. Just don’t use it as a hockey puck, because that’ll cost you.
I can't see them having campus police knocking on people's dormroom doors because they unplugged the damnable thing from power, insisting they plug them back in. I also can't see them nailing the thing down and hardwiring it into power so you can't turn it off.
Or maybe if you have some other pointless 'administrative' job. The people who actually create things and build things will always have work because until we have real, 'general' AI that can think like a human being, and not the shitty half-assed excuse for AI they keep trotting out these days 'robots' won't be able to produce things that are as high-quality as a skilled human being can -- and shitty so-called 'deep learning software' will never be able to really, truly create things like a human being can, let alone innovate. This 'Bank of England Chief Economist' tosser is just another Chicken Little running around waving his arms about the sky falling.
I don't have nor have I ever wanted an 'e-book reader', I like printed books much better and always will, so I was unaware of this. They actually did this? You pay cash money for something like that, and they shove ads in your face that you can't do anything about? Sounds like shooting themselves in the foot to me. Well, if that's the case, then on top of the entire list of reasons I already had for never wanting one of these, I guess that one goes near the top.
Well, I'm sorry if your country (Australia) is such a total shit-hole of corruption. I've had the displeasure of having to work for Australians who bought out a small company I worked for, and they're about as unscupulous, unethical, and amoral as anyone could be, and it was a medical device company so I fear for the patients that might end up affected by their inevitable corner-cutting. Makes me wonder when your citizenry is going to wake up and do something definitive to take back their country from this apparent culture of lawlessness-in-lawfulness' clothing.
What you just said is in fact goddamned insightful; why are you just an AC?
I've been one to talk about how our allegedly 1st-world-country governments are wanting to treat us like we're in a 3rd-world-country, and also destroy any value encryption has in their mad rush to get ALL THE DATA!, but that's an even more important point: the abuse potential such power would give LEOs and governments, to frame whoever they want to take the fall for something. If legislation like this is allowed to happen in ANY country, then so much for truth and actual justice, 'law enforcement' becomes a sham, and all courts of law become (excuse the poor joke in this case) 'kangaroo courts'.
THIS is one of the greatest allies of the U.S.? Really!? They sound more and more like Russia or China. Nice job, Australia.
I'm certain there were many people who were of that opinion about Linux when it was first being developed. ;-)
FWIW I think if it reaches the v1p0 release point Microsoft's legal department will probably swat them hard and either buy them out or just plain put them out of business and make sure the source code disappears.
That's nice. But if I were a baseball player and the call would make or break the game, I'd insist on a human being to verify what any machine was claiming.
Apparently athletes aren't any better educated or informed about the actual, non-hype, non-media-fiction driven capabilities of so-called 'AI', otherwise they'd know that you could not rely on it to make a call any better than a human umpire could make, not even close in fact.
People, could we please stop thinking that 'AI' solves everything?
Define 'the best you can select yourself from their shelves'? According to whose standards? Are they telepathic, reading my mind at a distance, knowing exactly precisely what produce and meat and whatever else I might select? Would they know if I find all the selection available to be unacceptable and not deliver anything? Will they go to a different store entirely if they, in their telepathicness, know I won't like anything they've got? Honestly I don't know how anyone can use these 'shopper' services except for prepackaged things.
Yeah, 100% what you just said. I don't want anyone choosing my groceries for me, 'autonomous car delivery' not withstanding. I can't understand why anyone would. Or are so many people not learning how to cook even basic foods that all they're eating is highly processed, prepackaged 'foods'?