Yes, because marketing & PR are honest, reliable, & trustworthy sources of moral guidance & health information, aren't they? They wouldn't put profits over the health of millions of teenagers, would they?
Hey, strikethree... Do you work for Juul or something? You seem to be more than a little defensive about acknowledging that Juul have played an instrumental role in causing an epidemic of underage vaping in the USA.
Do you think that millions of American teenagers vaping is a problem, and if so, what would be an effective way to address the problem?
This only goes to show that American's attitudes towards guns is totally f#*ked up. Yes, it was a really stupid prank. But that they perceived it as a credible threat is the really f^!ked up part. School shootings have become a regular occurrence in the USA. A "normal" part of everyday life. How did this happen?
...is 35% owned by Altria, AKA Philip Morris, acquired for $13 billion late last year. Expect a lot more reporting of how wonderful vaping is from now on. Meanwhile, we have a vaping epidemic hitting schools. Are we going to do this all over again?
A version of Wikileaks that the western establishments can support! I'm sure it's completely trustworthy, unbiased, & documents weren't selectively "leaked" by US & UK govt. three letter agencies.
I wonder if we'll end up with an online version of Spy vs. Spy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_vs._Spy), where the Five Eyes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes) dump documents stolen from their adversaries on DDoS & their adversaries do the same on Wikileaks? Of course the establishment press are far more likely to report on documents leaked from/about the enemy du jour than anything embarrassing or damaging to their own governments, corporations, & powerful individuals. We might end up getting all our democratically useful news from adversarial state news agencies, e.g. Russia Today.
Just because Assange appears to be a narcissistic asshole, that doesn't mean he hasn't done something incredibly valuable for journalism. Let's not shoot the messenger or distract ourselves from his achievements by focusing exclusively on his personality flaws. That's what the establishments would love us to do.
These days trolls & fake news = Anything you don't like or disagree with. More recently, anything billionaires & corporations don't like or disagree with & want to censor. "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words." -- Eric Arthur Blair
Just in case anyone needs reminding of 2 aspects of the recent Ebola epidemic, at the time of the outbreak:
Liberia's healthcare system had been decimated by neoliberal policies & only ~50 doctors were working in the entire country,
Liberia had been selling off land in secret deals with agricultural corporations so that they could cut huge palm oil plantations into the jungle where the Ebola-carrying bats live.
That pretty much amounts to a recipe for an epidemic. The people who suffered as a result? Liberians & anyone who tried to help them.
So who wants to blame farmers, labourers, & their families for the outbreak or make jokes at their expense? C'mon/., I know you can do it!
I, for one, support our corporations right to censor, misinform, & coerce us into doing whatever they like. Human decency gets in the way of profits, for crying out loud!
You can always spot Russian agents because they're the ones trying to divide us into warring camps and spewing bitter hate against the Dumbocrats or the Rethuglicans.
Nah, Russian agents are much smarter & more subtle than me. What you've described sounds more like Fox News. Perhaps they need to be infiltrated by Russian agents to at least bring the quality of their journalism up to Russia Today's. Seriously, RT's news is waaay more accurate & balanced than Fox News'.
Wouldn't it be easier to build a smaller wall around the crusty old white-supremacists? I'm sure they'd feel a lot safer behind a protective wall. I think millions of the rest of us would feel safer if those crusties were behind a wall too. I for one would feel safer among Mexican immigrants & central American refugees than racist 2nd amendment NRA nut-jobs.
It's a win-win!:)
BTW, I hear Canada's doing really well with getting lots of highly educated, highly skilled immigrants to work there because of the hostile environment that the current US administration is cultivating. Between that, the trade wars, incompetent elected representatives, & the shamefully bad diplomatic relations the US has, you'd think the USA was trying to drive itself into irrelevance & bankruptcy.
If you were in charge of spotting Russian agents, all you'd do is identify people who you don't agree with or dislike for some reason or other. I bet that'd be a very long list. Probably easier to not count the small group of knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing Republican Libertarians you follow & declare everyone else a foreign agent. BTW, there are far more foreign agents with a great deal more influence at American citizens' expense from Saudi Arabia & Israel than from Russia. Your elected representatives & administrations sold you all out a long time ago.
who only panders to non-rich voters by promising to harm "those people".
Every year that goes by, that becomes less and less of a winning strategy. The republican party has not been friendly to either women or minorities, and I can't imagine that they're all going to suddenly forget the party's history at some point in the coming decades and vote republican.
Awww, that's so cute! You believe that people vote based on well-informed reason. They won't remember a thing when the next election cycle is in full swing. They'll be bombarded from all sides with appeals to emotion & vilifying anyone they identify as "other." All of this will be enthusiastically reinforced by the main stream media and especially social media. After all, that's what social media is designed to do; keep people's eyes on their web pages by promoting indignant outrage inducing comments, headlines, & memes.
No need to knock out the banks, just switch to credit unions. The fewer customers that banks have, the less power they hold. And after all, it's the banks who are calling the shots economically these days, e.g. increases in fuel taxes to pay for their catastrophic mismanagement in 2007-2008. We need to starve them out of our lives.
The Republicans win by getting a smaller gubbermint. They win again by dragging the gubbermint through the mud thus tainting it for the future as a place to do good work. And they'll win again after they've fucked up the gubbermint operations by campaigning under the slogan that the gubbermint doesn't work well, so elect them to fix it.
AI doesn't need a specific regulator, they just need to be held legally responsible when they test their products on the public without first reasonably assessing how safe they are & determining what precautions & insurance are necessary if something does go wrong. Being run over by a car driven by a computer or a squirrel should be no different in the eyes of the law. If it was reckless, then the person who ultimately makes the decision to put the AI or the squirrel in charge gets prosecuted & sued. Also, remember that even the most advanced AI is a lot less intelligent than a squirrel.
Didn't Trump say he wanted a smaller government? Seems like a quick way to achieve that.
Yes, this. I bet most of the Republican party are on cloud 9 right now, dreaming about their libertarian, small gubbermint ideologies. Meanwhile, millions of not so ideological people suffer from a lack of government services. In practice, Libertarians are just a bunch of sadistic perverts.
The printer itself costs only $50 but the inkjet cartridges cost $1,500 each, & contain all 3 shades; light, medium, & dark. If one shade runs out the machine refuses to print anymore until you've replace the whole cartridge. Cartridges are digitally signed & can't be refilled & used again. Would actually be cheaper to hire a professional make-up artist, plus they'd make you look a lot better.
BTW, since IT & therefore/. is predominantly male, does it have a drag-queen mode?
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Google predicts that the next word is "workplace". Does that mean that iOS is for kids & Android's for grown-ups?
Yes, because marketing & PR are honest, reliable, & trustworthy sources of moral guidance & health information, aren't they? They wouldn't put profits over the health of millions of teenagers, would they?
Hey, strikethree... Do you work for Juul or something? You seem to be more than a little defensive about acknowledging that Juul have played an instrumental role in causing an epidemic of underage vaping in the USA.
Do you think that millions of American teenagers vaping is a problem, and if so, what would be an effective way to address the problem?
This only goes to show that American's attitudes towards guns is totally f#*ked up. Yes, it was a really stupid prank. But that they perceived it as a credible threat is the really f^!ked up part. School shootings have become a regular occurrence in the USA. A "normal" part of everyday life. How did this happen?
G+ is shutting down?! OMG!! What am I going to do with my life now?
...is 35% owned by Altria, AKA Philip Morris, acquired for $13 billion late last year. Expect a lot more reporting of how wonderful vaping is from now on. Meanwhile, we have a vaping epidemic hitting schools. Are we going to do this all over again?
Now, Twitter's going to be our purse-lipped mother-in-law?
A version of Wikileaks that the western establishments can support! I'm sure it's completely trustworthy, unbiased, & documents weren't selectively "leaked" by US & UK govt. three letter agencies.
I wonder if we'll end up with an online version of Spy vs. Spy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_vs._Spy), where the Five Eyes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes) dump documents stolen from their adversaries on DDoS & their adversaries do the same on Wikileaks? Of course the establishment press are far more likely to report on documents leaked from/about the enemy du jour than anything embarrassing or damaging to their own governments, corporations, & powerful individuals. We might end up getting all our democratically useful news from adversarial state news agencies, e.g. Russia Today.
Just because Assange appears to be a narcissistic asshole, that doesn't mean he hasn't done something incredibly valuable for journalism. Let's not shoot the messenger or distract ourselves from his achievements by focusing exclusively on his personality flaws. That's what the establishments would love us to do.
No, it isn't.
These days trolls & fake news = Anything you don't like or disagree with. More recently, anything billionaires & corporations don't like or disagree with & want to censor. "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words." -- Eric Arthur Blair
Just in case anyone needs reminding of 2 aspects of the recent Ebola epidemic, at the time of the outbreak:
That pretty much amounts to a recipe for an epidemic. The people who suffered as a result? Liberians & anyone who tried to help them.
So who wants to blame farmers, labourers, & their families for the outbreak or make jokes at their expense? C'mon /., I know you can do it!
I, for one, support our corporations right to censor, misinform, & coerce us into doing whatever they like. Human decency gets in the way of profits, for crying out loud!
Trump's one of those "businessmen" who think two women can bring a baby to term in 4 1/2 months.
You don't need my help.
You can always spot Russian agents because they're the ones trying to divide us into warring camps and spewing bitter hate against the Dumbocrats or the Rethuglicans.
Nah, Russian agents are much smarter & more subtle than me. What you've described sounds more like Fox News. Perhaps they need to be infiltrated by Russian agents to at least bring the quality of their journalism up to Russia Today's. Seriously, RT's news is waaay more accurate & balanced than Fox News'.
Wouldn't it be easier to build a smaller wall around the crusty old white-supremacists? I'm sure they'd feel a lot safer behind a protective wall. I think millions of the rest of us would feel safer if those crusties were behind a wall too. I for one would feel safer among Mexican immigrants & central American refugees than racist 2nd amendment NRA nut-jobs.
It's a win-win! :)
BTW, I hear Canada's doing really well with getting lots of highly educated, highly skilled immigrants to work there because of the hostile environment that the current US administration is cultivating. Between that, the trade wars, incompetent elected representatives, & the shamefully bad diplomatic relations the US has, you'd think the USA was trying to drive itself into irrelevance & bankruptcy.
If you were in charge of spotting Russian agents, all you'd do is identify people who you don't agree with or dislike for some reason or other. I bet that'd be a very long list. Probably easier to not count the small group of knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing Republican Libertarians you follow & declare everyone else a foreign agent. BTW, there are far more foreign agents with a great deal more influence at American citizens' expense from Saudi Arabia & Israel than from Russia. Your elected representatives & administrations sold you all out a long time ago.
Republicans aren't Libertarians? Mmm... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
who only panders to non-rich voters by promising to harm "those people".
Every year that goes by, that becomes less and less of a winning strategy. The republican party has not been friendly to either women or minorities, and I can't imagine that they're all going to suddenly forget the party's history at some point in the coming decades and vote republican.
Awww, that's so cute! You believe that people vote based on well-informed reason. They won't remember a thing when the next election cycle is in full swing. They'll be bombarded from all sides with appeals to emotion & vilifying anyone they identify as "other." All of this will be enthusiastically reinforced by the main stream media and especially social media. After all, that's what social media is designed to do; keep people's eyes on their web pages by promoting indignant outrage inducing comments, headlines, & memes.
No need to knock out the banks, just switch to credit unions. The fewer customers that banks have, the less power they hold. And after all, it's the banks who are calling the shots economically these days, e.g. increases in fuel taxes to pay for their catastrophic mismanagement in 2007-2008. We need to starve them out of our lives.
The Republicans win by getting a smaller gubbermint. They win again by dragging the gubbermint through the mud thus tainting it for the future as a place to do good work. And they'll win again after they've fucked up the gubbermint operations by campaigning under the slogan that the gubbermint doesn't work well, so elect them to fix it.
Yep, this too. Please mod the above comment up :)
AI doesn't need a specific regulator, they just need to be held legally responsible when they test their products on the public without first reasonably assessing how safe they are & determining what precautions & insurance are necessary if something does go wrong. Being run over by a car driven by a computer or a squirrel should be no different in the eyes of the law. If it was reckless, then the person who ultimately makes the decision to put the AI or the squirrel in charge gets prosecuted & sued. Also, remember that even the most advanced AI is a lot less intelligent than a squirrel.
Didn't Trump say he wanted a smaller government? Seems like a quick way to achieve that.
Yes, this. I bet most of the Republican party are on cloud 9 right now, dreaming about their libertarian, small gubbermint ideologies. Meanwhile, millions of not so ideological people suffer from a lack of government services. In practice, Libertarians are just a bunch of sadistic perverts.
The printer itself costs only $50 but the inkjet cartridges cost $1,500 each, & contain all 3 shades; light, medium, & dark. If one shade runs out the machine refuses to print anymore until you've replace the whole cartridge. Cartridges are digitally signed & can't be refilled & used again. Would actually be cheaper to hire a professional make-up artist, plus they'd make you look a lot better.
BTW, since IT & therefore /. is predominantly male, does it have a drag-queen mode?