This discussion thread is about the videos on Youtube that are clearly inappropriate and 'disturbing' for toddlers to see. Which thread are you responding to?
A leftist institution publishes a study that only the rightists news is fake? Naaaaaah... no possible way for bias in that!
I hope you realise that UK politics and popular values are to the left of the furthest left-leaning politics in he USA. For example, try comparing Bernie Sanders to Theresa May. Although I consider Sanders to be a more competent politician and leader than May, he's still to the right of May.
So I guess you're right. Any seriously scholarly study from a UK institution is likely to have a left-wing bias in the eyes of Americans.
A simplified analogy: How would you feel about watching videos of your loved ones being raped, tortured, and mutilated and assuming that they were real? Is that something you'd like to see? Would you consider it to be a character-building experience?
This is pretty much what goes through the mind of a toddler when they're exposed to these deliberately disturbing Youtube videos. They're made by sick fucks to do as much harm to children as they possibly can and you're trying to defend them and the corporation which does too little to prevent it.
My kids love Peppa Pig. If they saw that video, they'd be scarred for life.
Little kids are very impressionable. We joke about bubble wrap, but there is some seriously disturbing shit on the internet.
Quoting this point so that it gets seen. Thanks AC:)
I think the dismissive comments come from people who either don't have kids or don't pay enough attention to them to see when they get upset or disturbed by something they see. Youtube employees may be of the same Ilk. tl;dr -- We can't trust Google with our kids.
Nothing says protecting nature like 100 windmills on your ocean front view.
Or 100 dead ospreys on your beach.
Tall glass buildings kill waaay more birds than wind turbines. Why don't you start with those ugly eyesores. Also, birds and other animals going extinct because of climate change is far uglier in my opinion.
Weep ye not, for the clever chaps at NASA are developing a new series of fire tubes that will thrust their payloads upwards into the air and penetrate the atmosphere that will be almost as big as Up-Goer-Five (130,000 Kg): https://www.nasa.gov/explorati...
The problem is that if regulators step in, what are they going to do? Lets say they do an outright ban, with penalties of 20-life minimum sentences:
1: People will have a lot of offshore VPNs and/or TOR circuits.
2: Someone will have a cryptocurrency or cryptocurrencies that are anonymous, perhaps with good old fashioned Chaumian blinding factors, DC-nets, or other rock-solid security.
3: It would be a waste of money to enforce, similar to how much money gets wasted on hunting down pot smokers.
4: It might cause people to just rebel and ignore the law, creating secure, private social networks, just to be able to trade securely.
Regulation makes sense, but if it is pushed too far, people will just give a middle finger and ignore it, finding means to get around it.
We've already got the dark web and the vast majority of people don't want to go anywhere near it, regardless of what it actually is and what's actually there. That's enough to reduce the numbers of people using it so that it doesn't become available to general consumers.
Elon's rocket thrusts 63,800 Kg into low earth orbit. Back in the 60s, NASA's Saturn V was thrusting it's massive payload of 140,000 Kg into low earth orbit. NASA had a truly magnificent thrusting machine while Elon's flaccid little fire tube is less than half as large and powerful.
How many phone calls did you make to your elected representatives demanding they do something about this? Oh wait, you expected someone else to solve the problem for you?
Even if you're not in the states, like any citizen, part of your responsibility is to regularly lobby the government to represent your interests. This stuff happens everywhere, in every country where people expect some annointed king-like leader to solve all their problems and read their minds.
Yes, that's the typical response of victim blamers and it's a load of bollocks.
How are citizens supposed to do something when their political representatives actively avoid them, and everything that matters to people is taken out of democratic control, or made secret, e.g. that the NSA was spying on American citizens in the US without reasonable suspicion or probable cause?
How would you like to blame voters who've been forced into a captive 2 party system dominated by corporate funding?
And how about all the US citizens and party members who are denied their right to vote by closing down polling stations and disqualifying large numbers of votes? How would you like to blame them?
When you have a participatory democracy instead of a representative one, you can blame the electorate for lack of participation. Don't shit on the unfortunate and disenfranchised.
Given a stable, consistent work environment, people develop their own ways of working. If you suddenly change it, move something, or tell them to do it differently, unanticipated things start happening, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Well, I guess that means that Equifax's executives responsible for the data breach matter more than the 143 million Americans who they collected sensitive financial data on.
If you read the article, the first 24,000 homes are low-income housing owned by housing trusts. If they're anything like the housing trusts that I'm familiar with, they'll most certainly be on board. Housing trusts serve to house the more vulnerable members of society, not to turn a profit. They're highly unlikely to take advantage of their tenants. In fact, any profits they do make, they usually put into building more low-income housing. Not all countries rape their poor like the Americans do.
We can block some of the personally identifiable info (PII) from going out with long hosts files, ad blockers, JS white/blacklists, auto-deleting cookies, etc.. but this is beyond most users' capabilities. What we need is legislation to stop the attempts to collect PII in the first place. There's been a significant first move by the EU with their General Data Protection Regulation, which comes into force this year. Hopefully, other countries will follow suit. Perhaps, maybe, one day, the US might even consider similar protections for its citizens?
This is probably not a big deal, IMHO. Sure, some groups will be stymied by the lost of tax breaks and grants. But let's face it; solar and wind are going to become cheaper than fossil fuels in the long term anyway (hell, it's a dead heat right this minute) and we won't need government funding for renewables to propagate. In fact, I would rather the feds just get out of the way.
The point of fundamental research isn't to make money from today's technologies but to establish the science that will drive tomorrow's. If the US doesn't lead the way to innovation, it risks getting left behind while the EU, China, and others surge ahead and start profiting from selling and licensing new technologies to the US.
Oh yeah, I forgot. My mistake. In the American empire's doublespeak:
Communism = "Socialism"
Over 800 military bases in foreign countries = "defense"
Indiscriminate extra-judicial killings, which are war crimes = "keeping the peace"
Sending covert kidnapping and torture squads illegally into sovereign countries = "no boots on the ground"
FYI, there isn't a dichotomy of either capitalist or government ownership of the means of production. Without a participatory democracy, both are likely to lead to wealth inequality and economic stagnation and both are likely to undermine a participatory democracy. Haven't you heard of worker-owned businesses? Here's a list of significant ones in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Sorry to tell you this but slaves did not build the pyramids!
Absolutely right!:) The slavery thing was speculation by the ancient Greeks which got incorporated into the Old Testament and so now nobody can use real evidence to refute that myth without incurring the wrath of hoards of rabid Christian fundamentalists, most of whom live in the USA.
Hey America, those nut-jobs are dragging your whole country down!
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This discussion thread is about the videos on Youtube that are clearly inappropriate and 'disturbing' for toddlers to see. Which thread are you responding to?
A leftist institution publishes a study that only the rightists news is fake? Naaaaaah... no possible way for bias in that!
I hope you realise that UK politics and popular values are to the left of the furthest left-leaning politics in he USA. For example, try comparing Bernie Sanders to Theresa May. Although I consider Sanders to be a more competent politician and leader than May, he's still to the right of May.
So I guess you're right. Any seriously scholarly study from a UK institution is likely to have a left-wing bias in the eyes of Americans.
A simplified analogy: How would you feel about watching videos of your loved ones being raped, tortured, and mutilated and assuming that they were real? Is that something you'd like to see? Would you consider it to be a character-building experience?
This is pretty much what goes through the mind of a toddler when they're exposed to these deliberately disturbing Youtube videos. They're made by sick fucks to do as much harm to children as they possibly can and you're trying to defend them and the corporation which does too little to prevent it.
Search youtube for "peppa pig and the bacon".
My kids love Peppa Pig. If they saw that video, they'd be scarred for life.
Little kids are very impressionable. We joke about bubble wrap, but there is some seriously disturbing shit on the internet.
Quoting this point so that it gets seen. Thanks AC :)
I think the dismissive comments come from people who either don't have kids or don't pay enough attention to them to see when they get upset or disturbed by something they see. Youtube employees may be of the same Ilk. tl;dr -- We can't trust Google with our kids.
What part of 20 miles off shore didn't you understand?
Nothing says protecting nature like 100 windmills on your ocean front view.
Or 100 dead ospreys on your beach.
Tall glass buildings kill waaay more birds than wind turbines. Why don't you start with those ugly eyesores. Also, birds and other animals going extinct because of climate change is far uglier in my opinion.
They'll have to wrestle the Mexican drug cartel's money laundering operations from HSBC's cold dead hands first: https://www.reuters.com/articl...
Weep ye not, for the clever chaps at NASA are developing a new series of fire tubes that will thrust their payloads upwards into the air and penetrate the atmosphere that will be almost as big as Up-Goer-Five (130,000 Kg): https://www.nasa.gov/explorati...
The problem is that if regulators step in, what are they going to do? Lets say they do an outright ban, with penalties of 20-life minimum sentences:
1: People will have a lot of offshore VPNs and/or TOR circuits. 2: Someone will have a cryptocurrency or cryptocurrencies that are anonymous, perhaps with good old fashioned Chaumian blinding factors, DC-nets, or other rock-solid security. 3: It would be a waste of money to enforce, similar to how much money gets wasted on hunting down pot smokers. 4: It might cause people to just rebel and ignore the law, creating secure, private social networks, just to be able to trade securely.
Regulation makes sense, but if it is pushed too far, people will just give a middle finger and ignore it, finding means to get around it.
We've already got the dark web and the vast majority of people don't want to go anywhere near it, regardless of what it actually is and what's actually there. That's enough to reduce the numbers of people using it so that it doesn't become available to general consumers.
Elon's rocket thrusts 63,800 Kg into low earth orbit. Back in the 60s, NASA's Saturn V was thrusting it's massive payload of 140,000 Kg into low earth orbit. NASA had a truly magnificent thrusting machine while Elon's flaccid little fire tube is less than half as large and powerful.
How many phone calls did you make to your elected representatives demanding they do something about this? Oh wait, you expected someone else to solve the problem for you?
Even if you're not in the states, like any citizen, part of your responsibility is to regularly lobby the government to represent your interests. This stuff happens everywhere, in every country where people expect some annointed king-like leader to solve all their problems and read their minds.
Yes, that's the typical response of victim blamers and it's a load of bollocks.
How are citizens supposed to do something when their political representatives actively avoid them, and everything that matters to people is taken out of democratic control, or made secret, e.g. that the NSA was spying on American citizens in the US without reasonable suspicion or probable cause?
How would you like to blame voters who've been forced into a captive 2 party system dominated by corporate funding?
And how about all the US citizens and party members who are denied their right to vote by closing down polling stations and disqualifying large numbers of votes? How would you like to blame them?
When you have a participatory democracy instead of a representative one, you can blame the electorate for lack of participation. Don't shit on the unfortunate and disenfranchised.
Given a stable, consistent work environment, people develop their own ways of working. If you suddenly change it, move something, or tell them to do it differently, unanticipated things start happening, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Well, I guess that means that Equifax's executives responsible for the data breach matter more than the 143 million Americans who they collected sensitive financial data on.
Only in theory.
If you read the article, the first 24,000 homes are low-income housing owned by housing trusts. If they're anything like the housing trusts that I'm familiar with, they'll most certainly be on board. Housing trusts serve to house the more vulnerable members of society, not to turn a profit. They're highly unlikely to take advantage of their tenants. In fact, any profits they do make, they usually put into building more low-income housing. Not all countries rape their poor like the Americans do.
What else are Google, FB, et al. doing with your data? If you can't answer that one and still aren't bothered, well, you've got your head up your...
We can block some of the personally identifiable info (PII) from going out with long hosts files, ad blockers, JS white/blacklists, auto-deleting cookies, etc.. but this is beyond most users' capabilities. What we need is legislation to stop the attempts to collect PII in the first place. There's been a significant first move by the EU with their General Data Protection Regulation, which comes into force this year. Hopefully, other countries will follow suit. Perhaps, maybe, one day, the US might even consider similar protections for its citizens?
Been using LibreOffice for years. Don't miss MS Office at all. 'Nuff said.
This is probably not a big deal, IMHO. Sure, some groups will be stymied by the lost of tax breaks and grants. But let's face it; solar and wind are going to become cheaper than fossil fuels in the long term anyway (hell, it's a dead heat right this minute) and we won't need government funding for renewables to propagate. In fact, I would rather the feds just get out of the way.
The point of fundamental research isn't to make money from today's technologies but to establish the science that will drive tomorrow's. If the US doesn't lead the way to innovation, it risks getting left behind while the EU, China, and others surge ahead and start profiting from selling and licensing new technologies to the US.
As to whether any particular FB user is what he claims to be...well, I don't believe it here, and don't believe it there, either....
OMG!!! Are you telling us that you might not be the Crimson Avenger?!! :o
Oh yeah, I forgot. My mistake. In the American empire's doublespeak:
FYI, there isn't a dichotomy of either capitalist or government ownership of the means of production. Without a participatory democracy, both are likely to lead to wealth inequality and economic stagnation and both are likely to undermine a participatory democracy. Haven't you heard of worker-owned businesses? Here's a list of significant ones in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Sorry to tell you this but slaves did not build the pyramids!
Absolutely right! :) The slavery thing was speculation by the ancient Greeks which got incorporated into the Old Testament and so now nobody can use real evidence to refute that myth without incurring the wrath of hoards of rabid Christian fundamentalists, most of whom live in the USA.
Hey America, those nut-jobs are dragging your whole country down!
Yes, the remains that had sunburn and were carrying souvenirs were going back.
Uber does not hire drivers as actual employees...
Although Uber hires drivers as actual employees, it refuses to recognise them as such. In many countries and some states this is illegal.
There, I fixed that for you.