1: Because we're humans. We just don't do "friendly". We just fake it, badly, for a while until we judge who/whatever it is will no longer be of use to us. Then we make a chimpanzee on PCP look like a Buddhist monk.
2: We, rightly, don't trust AI. Why? Because we know the assholes who programmed it. And those assholes are US!
3: And this is all before we ever delve into the whole telemetry issue.
"Sophir concludes that while some parts of Damore's memo was legally protected by workplace regulations, 'the statements regarding biological differences between the sexes were so harmful, discriminatory, and disruptive as to be unprotected.'"
Because Comcast isn't merely a "business". It's a government-supported monopoly. The license to operate as such comes with various stipulations, which Comcast will always try (as hard as possible) to weasel out of.
Okay. If we accept the "The Sky Is Falling" scenario.
WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT IT?
Quite simply, implementing enough renewable energy+storage for the planet is logistically impossible. And, even if we DID, we're supposedly beyond The Point Of No Return already. So...what then? Do we simply harangue ourselves with "How Screwed We Are" every couple weeks while shit goes to Hell in handbasket? What's the point?
Honestly, carbon capture is probably our best bet. The main problem is that it's extremely power intensive. And the only way to implement it sanely is with the backing of nuclear power on a level we currently just do not see at the moment.
People scream about waste. Yet almost every other form of power dumps their waste into the atmosphere in an uncontrolled manner. People scream about nuclear being expensive power. Yet Obama was looking to make ALL power prohibitively expensive with no actual environmental plan to justify it. Just "Because Global Warming, GIVE US MONEYS!".
Yeah, I accept that nuclear can be an expensive power option due to the regulation environment and the decommissioning pipeline. But, if building the infrastructure for power-based gigaton-scale carbon capture and worldwide ocean desalination results in our power bills going double, treble, or quadruple of our current level, it's WORTH IT.
Toss on financial incentives for individuals and corporations to cut their energy (and thus, carbon) footprint (as if higher power bills wouldn't achieve this already).
Will it be the largest geoengineering project humanity's ever undertaken? Nope. Because the project to fuck the planet up to it's current state has been running apace for a couple hundred thousand years now.
But, in lieu of other, nasty options, it's probably our best bet.
No. YouTube is being blamed for their own actions in response to advertisers reasonable (and sometimes NOT so reasonable) responses.
Simply seeing a commercial interstitial to a video does NOT mean the advertiser supports whatever the video is saying/doing/selling/preaching/etc.
And YouTube should have had the common sense to balls that out during the initial adpocalypse.
They would have INITIALLY lost some business. Sure.
But they're a HUGE advertiser presence with ungodly exposure. All they had to do was sit back and wait for other advertisers to rush in and fill the adspace.
Instead, we now have digital gulags, and secret police, star chamber proceedings, and all other manner of loathesomeness.
Oh hell no! Fantasy Flight was merely the biggest.
There are multiple publishers out there putting out board games. Maybe just not in the same way that FF did.
Iello's had a pretty decent track record with their churn & burn style. They make decent money and move on to their next title(s). They only really need one to "stick" the way Catan did and they're set.
Also, publishers of other types of games (RPGs, card games, etc) have the odd board games as well.
Catalyst Game Labs (Shadowrun & BattleTech) has done well with their "The Duke" and their Vikings themed "Jarl" tile game. They've also had offerings like Wrath of Dragons, a Vikings boardgame, Balance of Power, etc. They've also got the Crossfire-based deck-building games (Shadowrun Crossfire and Dragonfire).
And that's just two examples. Asmodee is just the 1600 lb French gorilla now.
We'll see if this attempt to buy market domination works in the long run or bites them. Hopefully it does. Because having Asmodee just up and fall over would be UGLY for the industry...
Yeah. The fucking "You're a nazi" shit only works up until they've had enough and just AGREE before stomping said label-maker into a mass of blood and bruises.
Hell, we're seeing it now with the "How could you hit A WOMAN!" rioters who think pussy-pass allows them free shots on everyone...
Then I'm going back to just no TV/movies/etc PERIOD.
I am NOT going to maintain umpty-fucking-jillion different $5/$10/$15/$20 streaming services.
Hell the fuck no.
I would, quite simply, rather do without COMPLETELY.
Now, I can see having their stuff exclusively on their own network for say the first 6 months after it premiers/leaves theaters. And then cycling stuff in and out of 3rd party availability on a schedule.
But permanently tying up their content in their own sandbox?
It makes YouTube seem arbitrary and capricious to its creators.
Correction, YouTube *IS* arbitrary and capricious to its creators.
If you don't happen to be one of the YouTube/Google "chosen", you can expect all manner of inconsistent, illogical, and outright HOSTILE behavior out of them. And, because they're shielded behind an entirely automated customer interface system (no REAL way to call anyone up and hold their feet to a fire), they're effectively insulated from their own bad-actor effect.
Case in point.
Two political commentary channels were using the C-Span stream of the 2018 US State of the Union Address. C-Span's stream is free-to-all and a public service. One was a YouTube "partner". The other wasn't. YouTube cut the live stream of the "other". Effectively silencing them.
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Sorry, they're worth less than the effort it takes to simply ignore them (which is none at all).
And, even if they respond, it's simply too easy to issue a flowery "Fuck you. No."
And that's all "We're working on things to address your complaints." really is.
Nah. You ASSUMED I'm one of the "perpetually offended" types.
What I ACTUALLY am is one of the snarky assholish types lacking a single, giveable fuck.
Or else....what?
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You missed my point.
It's not because we can't make perfectly serviceable, friendly AI.
It's because humans, at the bottom of it all, are assholes who could fuck up a nightmare.
1: Because we're humans. We just don't do "friendly". We just fake it, badly, for a while until we judge who/whatever it is will no longer be of use to us. Then we make a chimpanzee on PCP look like a Buddhist monk.
2: We, rightly, don't trust AI. Why? Because we know the assholes who programmed it. And those assholes are US!
3: And this is all before we ever delve into the whole telemetry issue.
Translation: The Truth hurts.
Used to be, for crashing an app, you'd have to put in a bit of actual EFFORT.
Now, these kids today...one character.
POOF!
California! Fuck you! Give us all your^H^H^H^OUR money!
Because Comcast isn't merely a "business". It's a government-supported monopoly.
The license to operate as such comes with various stipulations, which Comcast will always try (as hard as possible) to weasel out of.
Okay. If we accept the "The Sky Is Falling" scenario.
WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT IT?
Quite simply, implementing enough renewable energy+storage for the planet is logistically impossible.
And, even if we DID, we're supposedly beyond The Point Of No Return already.
So...what then? Do we simply harangue ourselves with "How Screwed We Are" every couple weeks while shit goes to Hell in handbasket?
What's the point?
Honestly, carbon capture is probably our best bet.
The main problem is that it's extremely power intensive.
And the only way to implement it sanely is with the backing of nuclear power on a level we currently just do not see at the moment.
People scream about waste. Yet almost every other form of power dumps their waste into the atmosphere in an uncontrolled manner.
People scream about nuclear being expensive power. Yet Obama was looking to make ALL power prohibitively expensive with no actual environmental plan to justify it. Just "Because Global Warming, GIVE US MONEYS!".
Yeah, I accept that nuclear can be an expensive power option due to the regulation environment and the decommissioning pipeline.
But, if building the infrastructure for power-based gigaton-scale carbon capture and worldwide ocean desalination results in our power bills going double, treble, or quadruple of our current level, it's WORTH IT.
Toss on financial incentives for individuals and corporations to cut their energy (and thus, carbon) footprint (as if higher power bills wouldn't achieve this already).
Will it be the largest geoengineering project humanity's ever undertaken?
Nope. Because the project to fuck the planet up to it's current state has been running apace for a couple hundred thousand years now.
But, in lieu of other, nasty options, it's probably our best bet.
No. I've been following Razer since it was a subdivision of kÃrna.
Flimsy equipment and poor QA has pretty much been a hallmark.
I honestly don't give a shit if they support Linux or not.
Just noting that it's not as if anything terribly important is lost.
No. They make EXPENSIVE (but extremely breakable) peripherals and skimp on the QA.
In the end, nothing of any value was lost.
If you do not choose how we like, we will destroy the poll and GIVE YOU the solution WE KNOW you like best!
What could be more free?
That shit may go over in China.
Pretty much everywhere else, it has people wiping their ass with your product and mailing it back to you Collect On Delivery.
Exactly.
Talking about making something "childproof" is like talking about making something "idiot proof".
It's a nice little fantasy.
But, where the rubber hits the road, it's a pipe dream. Because, to out-think an idiot, you have to BE an idiot. And even then, nothing's guaranteed.
I'm not saying "don't try".
But realize that there are finite limits to what can be accomplished without totally compromising usability.
The only things truly childproof or idiot-proof are things they simply don't have physical access to.
Period.
I never said YouTube couldn't do what it wants.
I'm saying that there are better ways to go about it than the idiotic gaggle-fuck that they're perpetrating right now.
No. YouTube is being blamed for their own actions in response to advertisers reasonable (and sometimes NOT so reasonable) responses.
Simply seeing a commercial interstitial to a video does NOT mean the advertiser supports whatever the video is saying/doing/selling/preaching/etc.
And YouTube should have had the common sense to balls that out during the initial adpocalypse.
They would have INITIALLY lost some business. Sure.
But they're a HUGE advertiser presence with ungodly exposure. All they had to do was sit back and wait for other advertisers to rush in and fill the adspace.
Instead, we now have digital gulags, and secret police, star chamber proceedings, and all other manner of loathesomeness.
Basically the game itself IS free.
What you're paying for are just some cheaply produced pieces to play with.
Or you could make your own.
Oh hell no! Fantasy Flight was merely the biggest.
There are multiple publishers out there putting out board games. Maybe just not in the same way that FF did.
Iello's had a pretty decent track record with their churn & burn style. They make decent money and move on to their next title(s). They only really need one to "stick" the way Catan did and they're set.
Also, publishers of other types of games (RPGs, card games, etc) have the odd board games as well.
Catalyst Game Labs (Shadowrun & BattleTech) has done well with their "The Duke" and their Vikings themed "Jarl" tile game. They've also had offerings like Wrath of Dragons, a Vikings boardgame, Balance of Power, etc. They've also got the Crossfire-based deck-building games (Shadowrun Crossfire and Dragonfire).
And that's just two examples. Asmodee is just the 1600 lb French gorilla now.
We'll see if this attempt to buy market domination works in the long run or bites them. Hopefully it does. Because having Asmodee just up and fall over would be UGLY for the industry...
Yeah. The fucking "You're a nazi" shit only works up until they've had enough and just AGREE before stomping said label-maker into a mass of blood and bruises.
Hell, we're seeing it now with the "How could you hit A WOMAN!" rioters who think pussy-pass allows them free shots on everyone...
Then I'm going back to just no TV/movies/etc PERIOD.
I am NOT going to maintain umpty-fucking-jillion different $5/$10/$15/$20 streaming services.
Hell the fuck no.
I would, quite simply, rather do without COMPLETELY.
Now, I can see having their stuff exclusively on their own network for say the first 6 months after it premiers/leaves theaters. And then cycling stuff in and out of 3rd party availability on a schedule.
But permanently tying up their content in their own sandbox?
PASS!
Are we also supposed to turn our lights off, and not buy gasoline (or anything else) for the day as well?
Because THAT'LL accomplish SOMETHING! I'm SURE of it!
Ow. Need to head to an opthalmologist. I just strained a bunch of things from rolling my eyes so hard...
Notice how they talk about "offensive" videos.
The problem is, "offensive" is entirely SUBJECTIVE.
So, you're now simply at the mercy of whoever's having a bad day at YouTube/Google today.
No ACTUAL standards or criteria. Just "Someone's fee fees are NOT happy with you for some reason".
So, basically YouTube can ban you for any reason (or worse, NO REASON).
Hoping a viable competitor emerges soon.
Because we're rapidly approaching the point where professional content creators are becoming unpaid labor for YouTube.
Sorry. I don't need Twitch, or anyone else Big Mother'ing me on every platform I happen to use.
Additionally, I'm not going to subscribe to a moving target like the chimera that is "Hate".
No.
If that means I don't use their shit, I don't use their shit. Fuck them.
It makes YouTube seem arbitrary and capricious to its creators.
Correction, YouTube *IS* arbitrary and capricious to its creators.
If you don't happen to be one of the YouTube/Google "chosen", you can expect all manner of inconsistent, illogical, and outright HOSTILE behavior out of them.
And, because they're shielded behind an entirely automated customer interface system (no REAL way to call anyone up and hold their feet to a fire), they're effectively insulated from their own bad-actor effect.
Case in point.
Two political commentary channels were using the C-Span stream of the 2018 US State of the Union Address.
C-Span's stream is free-to-all and a public service.
One was a YouTube "partner". The other wasn't.
YouTube cut the live stream of the "other". Effectively silencing them.