Do you think my name really is Rick Schumann? LOL if you do.
Why should what I post here on Slashdot be part of some permanent Public Record attached to my real legal name? So you can hunt me down and threaten me because I said you were a fucktard and should STFU? What about you? Is your real name "Pablo Max"? If so what's to stop me from hunting you down and beating you within an inch of your life because you dared to disagree with me or otherwise annoyed me somehow? What's that, you say, that's just a 'handle' and not your real name? LOL, guess you like you anonymity too, don't you, 'Pablo'? LOL relax I'm not mad at you or threatening you or planning to threaten you, just making a point.
As stated above: 'official' business, and you exercising freedom of speech/freedom of expression on the Internet are two different things entirely. Or are we living in China right now, and every gods-be-damned word we post on the Internet is being scrutinized and 'graded' and being used to leverage our behavior by affecting our actual quality of life? Do you want to live in a world like that? You can see why, if things went that way, I'd dump the Internet over it.
Did you watch that show Seth MacFarlane created, The Orville? Did you see the episode where they found a planet where their supercharged version of social media was literally being used to decide whether people lived or died, literally crowdsourcing justice? An extreme example done to make a point, but would you want to live in a world like that, where one joking statement taken out of context literally ruins your life, because the whole world can see it? Even here in the United States, would you open up a Twitter account under your real name with real address and contact information, then proceed to openly criticize Donald Trump and his administration right to his face? You'd be lucky to live out the week and you know it. That's why the ability to have anonymity on the Internet is important.
Yes, but are they requiring you to use Facebook to do that, and does Facebook require valid government ID and you showing up somewhere to have that verified and your picture taken in order to have a Facebook account, and then does the city/county/government look through your Facebook page because you filed some paperwork with them? No? That's because we don't now and don't EVER want to live in that dystopia. 'Official' business requires you to use your 'official' name, and by the way all the 'paperwork' you speak of doesn't require the Internet, you can show up in person to do it. But what ever else you do on the Internet shouldn't be anyones gods-be-damned business unless you want it to be their business.
See, this isn't about 'stalling development', it's about freedom of speech and freedom of expression and anonymity on the Internet serves to facilitate that, not just here in the United States, but everywhere around the world where there is the Internet. Do you really want to live in a world where someone has to be afraid to speak the truth about, say, their government on the Internet, because they have to use their real name to do it and they know they'll get arrested and incarcerated or maybe killed outright for it? Why do you think things like TOR exist? I know damned well that the anonymity the Internet provides us all with can and is abused but I'd rather put up with trolls and other abuses of of it rather than have that ability taken away. It's already been leveraged quite enough as a surveillance and data-collection platform by ISPs, we don't need people being required to use their real name on it, too, making every gods-be-damned thing you say and do there a matter of public record.
Go right ahead, Trump, play into the hands of the Dominionists if you like. But it won't have the long term effect you think it will. You think you can just roll back the calendar to the 1940's or something? LOL, you're living in a fantasy world, Trump.
Businesses and corporations, even in the energy sector, are already embracing solar and other renewables. You can't halt that without interfering in the free-market economy.
Meanwhile plug-in electric cars and hybrids are gaining more and more of a foothold in the United States, and they're becoming more affordable. More and more infrastructure to support them is being invested in and installed.
Oil prices won't stay low forever. They'll spike up, and driving gas-guzzlers around will become prohibitively expensive. Electrics will become more and more attractive in the face of that.
Clearly and objectively we need to move away from fossil fuel use anyway and everyone except apparently the Trump Administration sees this. Making ICEs less efficient will just help make electrics and renewables more attractive.
The day that I have to use my real, legal name on the Internet no matter what it is I'm doing, and no anonymity allowed, will be the LAST day I ever use the Internet, and I know I'm FAR from being alone in this.
More catering to out-of-control capitalism from this Administration.
'Human-caused global climate change' isn't good for profits, so it's ridiculed and ignored, officially. Screw the future, who cares about 100 years from now, that's someone else's problem, make The Rich richer, now, and to Hell with everyone and everything else.
Got lead or other toxic chemicals in your tap water or the air you breathe, giving you cancer, ruining your childrens' brains, and so on? Tough shit, it's your fault for being The Poor.
Wildfires out of control? Wild weather destroying your homes? Ocean levels rising, flooding you out of your city? Etc, etc, etc? Tough shit, not their problem, deal with it, LOL.
The Dominionists I'm sure will love this. Anything that gives them more money to further fortify their private compounds against the ravening hordes of Unbelievers when the apocalypse happens is great so far as they're concerned, and the faster the Earth and our civilzation is destroyed, the sooner the Second Coming will happen, and they can all make like rats fleeing a sinking ship and go back home to Heaven (or so they think will happen).
Would almost like to be there when they discover none of that will happen, there won't be any Second Coming, and there's nowhere for them to flee. Earth is all we've got, and we'd damned well better take better care of it than we have been or else.
Exactly why I was calling whoever that is out on a bullshit claim. What he's alluding to, as you say, would be merely existing, bare-metal survival, not actually living. The average standard of living would make living in a 3rd-world country today look like luxury and plenty. Also neither one of you are accounting for the inevitability of wars long before we reached 4 or 5 times the population, and it would most certainly happen, for the same reasons that stuffing a cage with too many mice and not quite enough food and water will make them aggressive and violent towards one another. 'Dystopian' doesn't even begin to really describe it, 'Hell dimension' comes closer.
*shrug* whatever. Stick your head in the sand all you want. We'll both likely be dead before any of it happens, but if things continue on the track they are, it's going to happen, and you can bet on my being far from the only person who realizes this.
If you believe UBI can work for 300,000,000 people, then you're clearly and objectively bad at math, and furthermore believe in 'magical thinking'. This is just more proof that UBI is bullshit. Lazy people need to resign themselves to the fact that they'll be working until they drop dead, you're not getting a free ride through life like some NEET.
What a bunch of bullshit. All it'll take is a national security letter or just a plain old court order for that matter and they'll squeal in fear like little piggies and hand over their entire database, personally-identifiable information and all. You're nuts if you send your DNA in to any of these companies, if you do you may as well just cut out the middle-man and send it directly to the local LEOs, FBI and HLS, at least that way it'll cost you a little less in taxpayer money to have your privacy violated.
I don't think you're understanding me. When your country and the neighboring countries are all short on resources, people are going hungry and/or don't have enough potable water to go around, there are no 'business deals' to be made. You're thinking like it's 2018, and I'm talking about 2118 or 2218.
The Republicans are very happy with the situation now. Easy for Vlad to help out keeping them in power. Why risk upsetting the gravy train?
Hear, hear!
Perhaps the Mueller investigation should be expanded to include the entire RNC, or at least all sitting Republican Congresspeople, for Russian collusion.
Or perhaps the reason is less obvious: that somehow not upgrading voting systems has something to do with making it easier to deny voting rights to minorities.
Note I said "as it continues", and not 'if it continues' -- because 7,000,000,000 people aren't going to do anything any different tomorrow than they're doing today, not at least until it's impossible for them to do so.
There will be an extinction-level event -- in the form of WARS. Wars have very often been waged over resources. Over time, as there are more and more humans alive at the same time (see above: "people aren't going to do anything any different tomorrow.."; they'll keep breeding), available resources dwindle, and effects from global warming puts more environmental stress on all life, countries with a standing military won't just sit still and wait to starve to death or die of dehydration, they'll attack their neighbors to secure their resources. When will this happen? Could start tomorrow, could be anytime within the next, say, 50 to 100 years. But it'll happen unless something else happens to stop it.
"Tougher in Alaska". Never lived there, wouldn't like it (I hate being cold all the time), but I get it. If you live in the middle of nowhere and you're in the middle of a snowstorm, you'd better be able to take care of yourself. Much respect.
4 out of 5 Oklahoma kids can't read an analog clock One in seven Britons can't read the time unless it's digital 80% of kids can't read an analog clock
I personally know 'youngins' who believe that analog electronics are completely obsolete and that you can't do anything useful unless you have at least a microcontroller to work with. Imagine their faces when I show them a crystal radio receiver, doesn't even use a battery, how does it even work??? xD
Also realize that anyone born in the 90's or later can't imagine a world without the Internet and smartphones. They've likely never been to a public library and think that books only come from Amazon. They wonder how people communicated before 'social media'. If they had to call someone on a rotary-dial phone they'd be totally lost, and hearing the clicking in the receiver, they might be convinced it's broken. For that matter they might try to unplug it from the wall, certain that's just to 'charge' it, then maybe think the battery is bad when it doesn't work.
They don't think that anyone listens to broadcast radio anymore, and has no idea that that metal thing on someone's roof is a TV antenna, or that you can actually watch TV for free in the first place.
It's not a matter of 'stupid' so much as it is a matter of 'no experience with these things'. Some of them are stupid, however, because they were raised with so many modern conveniences that they didn't have to learn to take care of themselves as much with their own two hands and their own brain. Why learn things when you have the Internet on your smartphone? Why learn to drive a car when you can just call a ridesharing service to pick you up? Why bother to learn to cook when you can just pick something up somewhere? Why learn how things actually work, or learn how to build things from raw materials when you can buy just about anything you could imagine (and you've been convinced that if you can't buy it, you don't need it anyway)?
I don't know if you're young or old, but (You) are not talking like you're very smart at all, friend AC.
What percentage of this 'news' is real, though, given the source?
Also only The Rich (which is a very, very small percentage) will have cellphones, the rest of the citizens are just trying to get enough to eat.
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People like you with your all-or-nothing bullshit don't impress me, you come off as low-quality trolls with low-quality bait. Get real or GTFO.
Do you think my name really is Rick Schumann? LOL if you do.
Why should what I post here on Slashdot be part of some permanent Public Record attached to my real legal name? So you can hunt me down and threaten me because I said you were a fucktard and should STFU? What about you? Is your real name "Pablo Max"? If so what's to stop me from hunting you down and beating you within an inch of your life because you dared to disagree with me or otherwise annoyed me somehow? What's that, you say, that's just a 'handle' and not your real name? LOL, guess you like you anonymity too, don't you, 'Pablo'? LOL relax I'm not mad at you or threatening you or planning to threaten you, just making a point.
As stated above: 'official' business, and you exercising freedom of speech/freedom of expression on the Internet are two different things entirely. Or are we living in China right now, and every gods-be-damned word we post on the Internet is being scrutinized and 'graded' and being used to leverage our behavior by affecting our actual quality of life? Do you want to live in a world like that? You can see why, if things went that way, I'd dump the Internet over it.
Did you watch that show Seth MacFarlane created, The Orville? Did you see the episode where they found a planet where their supercharged version of social media was literally being used to decide whether people lived or died, literally crowdsourcing justice? An extreme example done to make a point, but would you want to live in a world like that, where one joking statement taken out of context literally ruins your life, because the whole world can see it? Even here in the United States, would you open up a Twitter account under your real name with real address and contact information, then proceed to openly criticize Donald Trump and his administration right to his face? You'd be lucky to live out the week and you know it. That's why the ability to have anonymity on the Internet is important.
Unless you use TOR or a VPN or some other means of obfuscation. You could go to a coffeeshop and use their free wifi and no one would know it was you.
Yes, but are they requiring you to use Facebook to do that, and does Facebook require valid government ID and you showing up somewhere to have that verified and your picture taken in order to have a Facebook account, and then does the city/county/government look through your Facebook page because you filed some paperwork with them? No? That's because we don't now and don't EVER want to live in that dystopia. 'Official' business requires you to use your 'official' name, and by the way all the 'paperwork' you speak of doesn't require the Internet, you can show up in person to do it. But what ever else you do on the Internet shouldn't be anyones gods-be-damned business unless you want it to be their business.
Trollolololololol.
See, this isn't about 'stalling development', it's about freedom of speech and freedom of expression and anonymity on the Internet serves to facilitate that, not just here in the United States, but everywhere around the world where there is the Internet. Do you really want to live in a world where someone has to be afraid to speak the truth about, say, their government on the Internet, because they have to use their real name to do it and they know they'll get arrested and incarcerated or maybe killed outright for it? Why do you think things like TOR exist? I know damned well that the anonymity the Internet provides us all with can and is abused but I'd rather put up with trolls and other abuses of of it rather than have that ability taken away. It's already been leveraged quite enough as a surveillance and data-collection platform by ISPs, we don't need people being required to use their real name on it, too, making every gods-be-damned thing you say and do there a matter of public record.
Why the hell do you sound like you're explaining the Internet to someone who has never seen or heard of it before? Please GTFO.
He thinks Rick is my real name
Seriously?
Go right ahead, Trump, play into the hands of the Dominionists if you like. But it won't have the long term effect you think it will. You think you can just roll back the calendar to the 1940's or something? LOL, you're living in a fantasy world, Trump.
Businesses and corporations, even in the energy sector, are already embracing solar and other renewables. You can't halt that without interfering in the free-market economy.
Meanwhile plug-in electric cars and hybrids are gaining more and more of a foothold in the United States, and they're becoming more affordable. More and more infrastructure to support them is being invested in and installed.
Oil prices won't stay low forever. They'll spike up, and driving gas-guzzlers around will become prohibitively expensive. Electrics will become more and more attractive in the face of that.
Clearly and objectively we need to move away from fossil fuel use anyway and everyone except apparently the Trump Administration sees this. Making ICEs less efficient will just help make electrics and renewables more attractive.
The day that I have to use my real, legal name on the Internet no matter what it is I'm doing, and no anonymity allowed, will be the LAST day I ever use the Internet, and I know I'm FAR from being alone in this.
More catering to out-of-control capitalism from this Administration.
'Human-caused global climate change' isn't good for profits, so it's ridiculed and ignored, officially. Screw the future, who cares about 100 years from now, that's someone else's problem, make The Rich richer, now, and to Hell with everyone and everything else.
Got lead or other toxic chemicals in your tap water or the air you breathe, giving you cancer, ruining your childrens' brains, and so on? Tough shit, it's your fault for being The Poor.
Wildfires out of control? Wild weather destroying your homes? Ocean levels rising, flooding you out of your city? Etc, etc, etc? Tough shit, not their problem, deal with it, LOL.
The Dominionists I'm sure will love this. Anything that gives them more money to further fortify their private compounds against the ravening hordes of Unbelievers when the apocalypse happens is great so far as they're concerned, and the faster the Earth and our civilzation is destroyed, the sooner the Second Coming will happen, and they can all make like rats fleeing a sinking ship and go back home to Heaven (or so they think will happen).
Would almost like to be there when they discover none of that will happen, there won't be any Second Coming, and there's nowhere for them to flee. Earth is all we've got, and we'd damned well better take better care of it than we have been or else.
Exactly why I was calling whoever that is out on a bullshit claim. What he's alluding to, as you say, would be merely existing, bare-metal survival, not actually living. The average standard of living would make living in a 3rd-world country today look like luxury and plenty. Also neither one of you are accounting for the inevitability of wars long before we reached 4 or 5 times the population, and it would most certainly happen, for the same reasons that stuffing a cage with too many mice and not quite enough food and water will make them aggressive and violent towards one another. 'Dystopian' doesn't even begin to really describe it, 'Hell dimension' comes closer.
No, I suggest you cite some actual facts for your outrageous claim, or retract it as the bullshit it is.
*shrug* whatever. Stick your head in the sand all you want. We'll both likely be dead before any of it happens, but if things continue on the track they are, it's going to happen, and you can bet on my being far from the only person who realizes this.
If you believe UBI can work for 300,000,000 people, then you're clearly and objectively bad at math, and furthermore believe in 'magical thinking'. This is just more proof that UBI is bullshit. Lazy people need to resign themselves to the fact that they'll be working until they drop dead, you're not getting a free ride through life like some NEET.
What a bunch of bullshit. All it'll take is a national security letter or just a plain old court order for that matter and they'll squeal in fear like little piggies and hand over their entire database, personally-identifiable information and all. You're nuts if you send your DNA in to any of these companies, if you do you may as well just cut out the middle-man and send it directly to the local LEOs, FBI and HLS, at least that way it'll cost you a little less in taxpayer money to have your privacy violated.
I don't think you're understanding me. When your country and the neighboring countries are all short on resources, people are going hungry and/or don't have enough potable water to go around, there are no 'business deals' to be made. You're thinking like it's 2018, and I'm talking about 2118 or 2218.
The planet easily can harbour 30, perhaps 50 billion people
{Citation needed}
The Republicans are very happy with the situation now. Easy for Vlad to help out keeping them in power. Why risk upsetting the gravy train?
Hear, hear!
Perhaps the Mueller investigation should be expanded to include the entire RNC, or at least all sitting Republican Congresspeople, for Russian collusion.
Or perhaps the reason is less obvious: that somehow not upgrading voting systems has something to do with making it easier to deny voting rights to minorities.
Note I said "as it continues", and not 'if it continues' -- because 7,000,000,000 people aren't going to do anything any different tomorrow than they're doing today, not at least until it's impossible for them to do so.
There will be an extinction-level event -- in the form of WARS. Wars have very often been waged over resources. Over time, as there are more and more humans alive at the same time (see above: "people aren't going to do anything any different tomorrow.."; they'll keep breeding), available resources dwindle, and effects from global warming puts more environmental stress on all life, countries with a standing military won't just sit still and wait to starve to death or die of dehydration, they'll attack their neighbors to secure their resources. When will this happen? Could start tomorrow, could be anytime within the next, say, 50 to 100 years. But it'll happen unless something else happens to stop it.
So they're all 'Lawful Evil'? Makes sense.
"Tougher in Alaska". Never lived there, wouldn't like it (I hate being cold all the time), but I get it. If you live in the middle of nowhere and you're in the middle of a snowstorm, you'd better be able to take care of yourself. Much respect.
4 out of 5 Oklahoma kids can't read an analog clock
One in seven Britons can't read the time unless it's digital
80% of kids can't read an analog clock
I personally know 'youngins' who believe that analog electronics are completely obsolete and that you can't do anything useful unless you have at least a microcontroller to work with. Imagine their faces when I show them a crystal radio receiver, doesn't even use a battery, how does it even work??? xD
Also realize that anyone born in the 90's or later can't imagine a world without the Internet and smartphones. They've likely never been to a public library and think that books only come from Amazon. They wonder how people communicated before 'social media'. If they had to call someone on a rotary-dial phone they'd be totally lost, and hearing the clicking in the receiver, they might be convinced it's broken. For that matter they might try to unplug it from the wall, certain that's just to 'charge' it, then maybe think the battery is bad when it doesn't work.
They don't think that anyone listens to broadcast radio anymore, and has no idea that that metal thing on someone's roof is a TV antenna, or that you can actually watch TV for free in the first place.
It's not a matter of 'stupid' so much as it is a matter of 'no experience with these things'. Some of them are stupid, however, because they were raised with so many modern conveniences that they didn't have to learn to take care of themselves as much with their own two hands and their own brain. Why learn things when you have the Internet on your smartphone? Why learn to drive a car when you can just call a ridesharing service to pick you up? Why bother to learn to cook when you can just pick something up somewhere? Why learn how things actually work, or learn how to build things from raw materials when you can buy just about anything you could imagine (and you've been convinced that if you can't buy it, you don't need it anyway)?
I don't know if you're young or old, but (You) are not talking like you're very smart at all, friend AC.
How can anyone trust Microsoft for this?
What percentage of this 'news' is real, though, given the source?
Also only The Rich (which is a very, very small percentage) will have cellphones, the rest of the citizens are just trying to get enough to eat.