I can't remember the last time I saw an ad on my computer, and the majority of spam automatically gets permanently deleted, and anything that doesn't gets flagged by me so the next time I likewise won't see it. I don't use Facebook or Twitter or any other social media (pre-emptive strike: this place is NOT social media, damnit, it's a news site with commenting!) nor will I ever in the future, I don't even use my real name online anywhere I can get away with it (did you really think my name was Rick? LOL!) and I don't buy a whole lot of anything to start with, so there's precious little I buy online and it's few and far between. I pay cash for in-person purchases of pretty much everything for more important reasons than privacy, but that's a side benefit. These so-called 'organs' they're talking about would die of starvation on a diet of Me. You can starve them out too if you're willing to do what it takes.
(More pre-emptive strike: IDGAF what anyone says about how much 'publicly available information' can be purchased about the Real Me. That boat sailed a long time before the Internet and there's no reason to even concern myself with it, so go troll someone else.)
As much as too many people reflexively knee-jerk at the mention of it, we need to re-embrace nuclear power, and I don't mean the old, high-pressure, too-complicated designs they've been using, but design new, safer, low-pressure, safe-by-design reactors/power plants. That'll provide all the power we need in the meantime, while they work on practical fusion power, which should be even better. In the U.S. alone we've got enough thorium, for instance, to supply us with cheap power for centuries. Speaking as one who voted to close down Rancho Seco back in the 80's, I'm saying that it's time we got over the Nuclear Power Boogeyman fear, put on our big-boy pants, and accepted that we need it if we're going to move forward.
That's a lovely sentiment and philosophically speaking I'm 100% with you on that, I dearly wish our entire species would grow up already and stop all the various predatory nonsense we perpetrate on ourselves -- but in practical terms it's just plain not that simple. If you want to end war in general, you have to change hearts and minds of all 7+ billion people on this planet simultaneously. In essense, there'd need to be a gigantic leap in our evolution as a species almost literally overnight. Hate to tell you, but that's not going to happen. If the United States unilaterally decided to just pull troops out of everywhere in the world they are, not only would all of our allies turn their backs on us, but the countries and organizations out in the world we've been fighting against would flourish, and before too long they'd come knocking on our continental door with everything they've got, and our former allies wouldn't do a damned thing about it. Nothing less than the end of the Free World would result, the entire planet would be an order of magnitude more chaotic than it already is. Sorry friend, but you can't just decide to do what you're proposing any more than a 5 year old can 'decide' to be a fully-grown adult -- and that's what our species is at this point in time: we're 7-plus billion 5-year-olds with high tech toys and planet-killing weapons, who, aside from having problems with fighting with the other 5-year-olds on the playground (war) is also having problems being convinced they should keep their room clean and tidy (human-caused global warming, respecting the environment in general, etc). As-is we'll be doing well to survive, as a species, the next couple hundred years, let alone the few thousand years we'll need to (hopefully!) evolve our caveman brains (and our collective societies) enough to (hopefully!) finally attain your goal of 'no more war'. We've got a long way to go and looking at things right now it's still a bad coin-flip whether we'll make it or not.
It may seem ironic but I'll give credit to Elon Musk for saying "We were huge idiots" (emphasis mine) where he could have said 'THEY (my employees) were huge idiots'. He's part of the team, he's taking responsibility for failures as quickly as he takes responsibility for successes; this is a trait that in my perception is all to uncommon these last few decades.
The only way to overcome such technology isn't to hide from it, it's to make the signal to noise ratio so bad that the humans monitoring the hits from the machine can't possibly keep up or find the real data.
No, then they'll just implement a no-chatting policy, expecting you to work in silence like a good little robot, unless you're helping a customer, then fire you when you say one single word to another employee, or dare to talk to them on your break.
No, she'd call you into her office to lecture you on your 'behavior', regardless of whether anything you muttered under your breath was company-related or not. That's why shit like this is pants-on-head stupid. Nobody wants to have to work being under a microscope all day long. It's like being a convict in prison.
Here's an example: I have a friend who has driven trucks most of his life. He drove for Arco for a while. They have cameras and a microphone in the cab and record the driver every second of every shift. My friend is a safe driver and a good professional driver with a perfect safety record and a really nice guy overall. If you so much as make a comment under your breath about some other driver on the road, regardless of what else you may be doing at the time, you get called into a supervisors office and grilled about it, and maybe fired. If you have an expression on your face for any reason whatsoever that they don't like, you can be fired. He was eventually let go for nothing more than some comment he made on audio, wasn't even profane. How'd you like it if you had a camera and microphone at your desk all day long and anything you might mutter under your breath, regardless of it having anything to do with your job, gets you lectured by your boss? You really want to work in an environment where you're under a microscope all day long? Do you really think anyone wants that? If you think that's all okay, then justify yourself, because I don't believe you. NOBODY wants to put up with that shit, and anyone who says they're fine with it is either a fool or a liar.
So, what, ZuckerChan.com? I don't even want to know what zuckerchan.com/b/ is going to look like or what memes will come out of there.. and I sure as hell don't want to know what zuckerchan.com/h/ looks like (Latinx and African-American hentai? *invountary shiver*).
I'm not answering any more of your silly questions, but you WILL answer this one: Why are you for big corporations controlling the content that millions of people will or will not see? I don't give a shit how you raise your kids, mister, but you WILL explain to me why it is you think corporations should have control over what people do and don't get to access on the Internet. If you won't give a straight answer to that then you can get fucked.
But, if implemented, they won't use it to the benefit of workers, they'll use to to target workers, run them like they're robots, and when they fall apart, fire them for poor job performance, then hire immigrants who will accept shitty pay and shitty conditions because at least some terrorist organization isn't trying to make them into suicide bombers, or drug lords shooting at them. There's plenty of precedent for this sort of behavior from employers and there's zero reason to believe that's going to change, especially from a company with such a poor track record of how it treats it's employees, and that has to keep wages as low as possible so they can sell their shitty goods at the lowest prices possible. There is NO GOOD USE for 'technology' like this because it ALWAYS gets abused.
Friend, stories like this, and the overall direction the world has been heading in over the last couple decades, make me marvel at the idea that anyone wants to extend human lifespan at all, let alone live forever; who the actual fuck wants to see this kind of shit happen more and more, put up with more and more fucktarded clueless people, downright evil people, and so on? Worse: fucktarded clueless people and evil people with money and power who live for hundreds of years? Forget it. I'm having a hard enough time this morning finding a reason to even be conscious.
Oh hey Walmart why stop there? Why not require shock collars on all your workers and give the remote control to the supervisors and they can give a little jolt to the workers if they're not working hard or fast enough!
Yeah sure let's introduce more and more 'technologies' that produce ever-increasingly chilling effects on the daily lives of people, make them feel like convicts in prison or animals in a zoo, that'll really motivate them to be more productive and really get their creative juices flowing. After all look at how well that worked in Auschwitz! Great job Walmart, you're a shining example of the direction the United States is going, what an inspiration!
So I get modded to "Troll" even here, with this? Are there actually Ajit Pai fans on here? If so why do you hate the Internet and your own country so goddamned much? The guy is a CANCER and there needs to be strong CHEMO to get rid of him before he spreads even farther. Seriously what's wrong with you people?
'Censorship' can be done by anyone regardless of whether it's a company or a government it's only illegal if it's a government and it's against it's constitution -- but censorship in ANY form is a slippery slope and should NOT be encouraged. You can disagree with that philosophy if you like but you will not change my mind about it so don't even try.
(a) I'm not a lawyer let alone an expert in Constitutional Law so how do you expect me to answer this other than "It's just wrong of them"?
(b) See above.
Doesn't matter either way because Big Corporations with millions of dollars involved with the development of Chemical 'X' will have their legal department do a risk analysis to determine if it's cheaper to pay off the personal injury or wrongful death lawsuits or to take the loss and kill the product -- and they usually will just take the risk and let people get hurt or die, and bury all the test results showing it's dangerous toxic stuff, won't matter if it's animal testing or software testing.
Oh yeah? What if you have NO CHOICE in what ISP you have? That's more people than you're comfortable to admit, I'm sure; let's say you're someone who has no choice except to have NO Internet or have Internet that has things excluded for it for no good reason other than it suits them. You still okay with that?
So your ISP has the right to decide that you can't read news from some sources, only from ones they approve of? Do they also have the right to sift through your email when you send it and reject any items that they don't like, like for instance anything derogatory about their company (Hi Joe, John here Comcast really sucks!)? Or you're trying to access political websites and they block you? You're saying all that would be okay?
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I can't remember the last time I saw an ad on my computer, and the majority of spam automatically gets permanently deleted, and anything that doesn't gets flagged by me so the next time I likewise won't see it. I don't use Facebook or Twitter or any other social media (pre-emptive strike: this place is NOT social media, damnit, it's a news site with commenting!) nor will I ever in the future, I don't even use my real name online anywhere I can get away with it (did you really think my name was Rick? LOL!) and I don't buy a whole lot of anything to start with, so there's precious little I buy online and it's few and far between. I pay cash for in-person purchases of pretty much everything for more important reasons than privacy, but that's a side benefit. These so-called 'organs' they're talking about would die of starvation on a diet of Me. You can starve them out too if you're willing to do what it takes.
(More pre-emptive strike: IDGAF what anyone says about how much 'publicly available information' can be purchased about the Real Me. That boat sailed a long time before the Internet and there's no reason to even concern myself with it, so go troll someone else.)
As much as too many people reflexively knee-jerk at the mention of it, we need to re-embrace nuclear power, and I don't mean the old, high-pressure, too-complicated designs they've been using, but design new, safer, low-pressure, safe-by-design reactors/power plants. That'll provide all the power we need in the meantime, while they work on practical fusion power, which should be even better. In the U.S. alone we've got enough thorium, for instance, to supply us with cheap power for centuries. Speaking as one who voted to close down Rancho Seco back in the 80's, I'm saying that it's time we got over the Nuclear Power Boogeyman fear, put on our big-boy pants, and accepted that we need it if we're going to move forward.
End the endless wars
That's a lovely sentiment and philosophically speaking I'm 100% with you on that, I dearly wish our entire species would grow up already and stop all the various predatory nonsense we perpetrate on ourselves -- but in practical terms it's just plain not that simple. If you want to end war in general, you have to change hearts and minds of all 7+ billion people on this planet simultaneously. In essense, there'd need to be a gigantic leap in our evolution as a species almost literally overnight. Hate to tell you, but that's not going to happen. If the United States unilaterally decided to just pull troops out of everywhere in the world they are, not only would all of our allies turn their backs on us, but the countries and organizations out in the world we've been fighting against would flourish, and before too long they'd come knocking on our continental door with everything they've got, and our former allies wouldn't do a damned thing about it. Nothing less than the end of the Free World would result, the entire planet would be an order of magnitude more chaotic than it already is. Sorry friend, but you can't just decide to do what you're proposing any more than a 5 year old can 'decide' to be a fully-grown adult -- and that's what our species is at this point in time: we're 7-plus billion 5-year-olds with high tech toys and planet-killing weapons, who, aside from having problems with fighting with the other 5-year-olds on the playground (war) is also having problems being convinced they should keep their room clean and tidy (human-caused global warming, respecting the environment in general, etc). As-is we'll be doing well to survive, as a species, the next couple hundred years, let alone the few thousand years we'll need to (hopefully!) evolve our caveman brains (and our collective societies) enough to (hopefully!) finally attain your goal of 'no more war'. We've got a long way to go and looking at things right now it's still a bad coin-flip whether we'll make it or not.
It may seem ironic but I'll give credit to Elon Musk for saying "We were huge idiots" (emphasis mine) where he could have said 'THEY (my employees) were huge idiots'. He's part of the team, he's taking responsibility for failures as quickly as he takes responsibility for successes; this is a trait that in my perception is all to uncommon these last few decades.
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You're way too serious to be on the Internets, mister, I'd suggest you stay off it for sake of your health.
The only way to overcome such technology isn't to hide from it, it's to make the signal to noise ratio so bad that the humans monitoring the hits from the machine can't possibly keep up or find the real data.
No, then they'll just implement a no-chatting policy, expecting you to work in silence like a good little robot, unless you're helping a customer, then fire you when you say one single word to another employee, or dare to talk to them on your break.
No, she'd call you into her office to lecture you on your 'behavior', regardless of whether anything you muttered under your breath was company-related or not. That's why shit like this is pants-on-head stupid. Nobody wants to have to work being under a microscope all day long. It's like being a convict in prison.
Here's an example: I have a friend who has driven trucks most of his life. He drove for Arco for a while. They have cameras and a microphone in the cab and record the driver every second of every shift. My friend is a safe driver and a good professional driver with a perfect safety record and a really nice guy overall. If you so much as make a comment under your breath about some other driver on the road, regardless of what else you may be doing at the time, you get called into a supervisors office and grilled about it, and maybe fired. If you have an expression on your face for any reason whatsoever that they don't like, you can be fired. He was eventually let go for nothing more than some comment he made on audio, wasn't even profane. How'd you like it if you had a camera and microphone at your desk all day long and anything you might mutter under your breath, regardless of it having anything to do with your job, gets you lectured by your boss? You really want to work in an environment where you're under a microscope all day long? Do you really think anyone wants that? If you think that's all okay, then justify yourself, because I don't believe you. NOBODY wants to put up with that shit, and anyone who says they're fine with it is either a fool or a liar.
So, what, ZuckerChan.com? I don't even want to know what zuckerchan.com/b/ is going to look like or what memes will come out of there.. and I sure as hell don't want to know what zuckerchan.com/h/ looks like (Latinx and African-American hentai? *invountary shiver*).
I'm not answering any more of your silly questions, but you WILL answer this one: Why are you for big corporations controlling the content that millions of people will or will not see? I don't give a shit how you raise your kids, mister, but you WILL explain to me why it is you think corporations should have control over what people do and don't get to access on the Internet. If you won't give a straight answer to that then you can get fucked.
Actually if you look back at that guys' commenting record it becomes more than a possibility that he's just a troll, or at least supremely clueless.
So what you're saying is, both Walmart and Amazon are absolute insufferable cunts to work for? Wow what a surprise.
But, if implemented, they won't use it to the benefit of workers, they'll use to to target workers, run them like they're robots, and when they fall apart, fire them for poor job performance, then hire immigrants who will accept shitty pay and shitty conditions because at least some terrorist organization isn't trying to make them into suicide bombers, or drug lords shooting at them. There's plenty of precedent for this sort of behavior from employers and there's zero reason to believe that's going to change, especially from a company with such a poor track record of how it treats it's employees, and that has to keep wages as low as possible so they can sell their shitty goods at the lowest prices possible. There is NO GOOD USE for 'technology' like this because it ALWAYS gets abused.
Okay asshole let's make sure you've got someone obviously watching and listening to you all day every day and see how you feel about it.
Friend, stories like this, and the overall direction the world has been heading in over the last couple decades, make me marvel at the idea that anyone wants to extend human lifespan at all, let alone live forever; who the actual fuck wants to see this kind of shit happen more and more, put up with more and more fucktarded clueless people, downright evil people, and so on? Worse: fucktarded clueless people and evil people with money and power who live for hundreds of years? Forget it. I'm having a hard enough time this morning finding a reason to even be conscious.
Oh hey Walmart why stop there? Why not require shock collars on all your workers and give the remote control to the supervisors and they can give a little jolt to the workers if they're not working hard or fast enough!
Yeah sure let's introduce more and more 'technologies' that produce ever-increasingly chilling effects on the daily lives of people, make them feel like convicts in prison or animals in a zoo, that'll really motivate them to be more productive and really get their creative juices flowing. After all look at how well that worked in Auschwitz! Great job Walmart, you're a shining example of the direction the United States is going, what an inspiration!
So I get modded to "Troll" even here, with this? Are there actually Ajit Pai fans on here? If so why do you hate the Internet and your own country so goddamned much? The guy is a CANCER and there needs to be strong CHEMO to get rid of him before he spreads even farther. Seriously what's wrong with you people?
'Censorship' can be done by anyone regardless of whether it's a company or a government it's only illegal if it's a government and it's against it's constitution -- but censorship in ANY form is a slippery slope and should NOT be encouraged. You can disagree with that philosophy if you like but you will not change my mind about it so don't even try.
(a) I'm not a lawyer let alone an expert in Constitutional Law so how do you expect me to answer this other than "It's just wrong of them"?
(b) See above.
Doesn't matter either way because Big Corporations with millions of dollars involved with the development of Chemical 'X' will have their legal department do a risk analysis to determine if it's cheaper to pay off the personal injury or wrongful death lawsuits or to take the loss and kill the product -- and they usually will just take the risk and let people get hurt or die, and bury all the test results showing it's dangerous toxic stuff, won't matter if it's animal testing or software testing.
..and pay an assassin to kill Ajit Pai. Problem solved.
Oh yeah? What if you have NO CHOICE in what ISP you have? That's more people than you're comfortable to admit, I'm sure; let's say you're someone who has no choice except to have NO Internet or have Internet that has things excluded for it for no good reason other than it suits them. You still okay with that?
So your ISP has the right to decide that you can't read news from some sources, only from ones they approve of? Do they also have the right to sift through your email when you send it and reject any items that they don't like, like for instance anything derogatory about their company (Hi Joe, John here Comcast really sucks!)? Or you're trying to access political websites and they block you? You're saying all that would be okay?