All of the crap, runs straight smack into the face of an infinitely think concrete wall, people will believe what they want to believe. The internet propaganda tends to fail apart from bringing together people who want to believe particular things. What happens is people get exposed to all sorts of stuff, big truths, little truths, big lies, little lies, stupendously massive lies and they select from what is on offer and choose to believe what they want to believe, based upon the whole range of lies/truths they were presented. The numbers the generate look impressive until you realise, yeah they were already there before this shit started, you are just filtering them out from the crowd and bringing them together and generating a whole bunch of empty noise.
The same can not be said for generating and spreading new ideas, ideas work all together differently to stories. Ideas spread and take hold, stories well; if people want to believe a story they will if they don't want to believe a story they won't if they do believe and want to pretend they don't believe they will publicly pretend not to believe if they don't believe and want to pretend they do believe they will publicly pretend they do believe.
People lie in all sorts of fashion, which is exactly why sociologists manage to come up with all sorts of nonsense (asking people questions and pretending they are telling the truth). So they lie about the outcomes, the lie about the results, they lie to get rich, and that is exactly what the contractors are doing lying about outcomes to generate more income, lying about succeeding, lying about failing, lying, lying, lying. Good luck in your search for the truth in the propaganda wars. Ideas change things, stories do not, stories entertain.
In this case, the design of the blade for wind turbines is only a part of the answer and good vertical axis wind turbine, needs a far more complex design to achieve really good outcomes and the blade itself, whilst important does not the whole design create. A really tricky problem to resolve but human imagination always delivers in one way or another. I find it a interesting subject and have whiled away many an hour coming up with and investigating various designs. Always puttering around with one in the back of my mind, it's an interesting subject.
Clever, I can think of just one change in a particular sentence, to more closely reflect reality, " it is suggested that different psychiatric conditions could be 'CREATED' by manipulating the 5-HT2A receptor pathways" and don't think anyone didn't think of that especially in conjunction with the US Military Industrial Complex and it's leading proponent the CIA. Let's all bet that, the reality of intentional abuses was funding this particular research project. Primary objective, get anyone to say what ever you want them to say when you want them to say it. Secondary objective, get anyone to do, exactly what you wanted them to do, post treatment, no matter how violent or destructive.
Every time you see the US do brain research, you just expect the funding to have extremely negative goals and by accident they occasionally find positive ones and then pretend those positive ones were the actual goal.
Slashdot is most definitely not a pseudo news site. You apparently do not understand slashdot at all. Slashdot is an exchange of ideas site framed around interesting stories, ideas and questions. Slashdot is about the comments, the exchange of ideas, to trigger no ideas, to explore existing ones of of course to flip ideas on their heads. What happens there in after beyond slashdot with regard to those ideas is up to individual slashdotters but you should not claim of the ideas of others as your own, really rather poor form and in some instances illegal. Although you most certainly are free to work with and explore those ideas. Slashdot is not a news forum, it is an ideas forum which is why many people struggle with it but others find it fascinating and especially fascinating how those ideas expressed on slashdot expand beyond slashdot through the AI that is the internet, by far the majority of the internet oblivious to where those ideas originated.
Actually the FCC are just being an idiotic bunch of butt brains. You do not talk threats without evidence, that is bullshit, stupid, ignorant arrogant bullshit. The proper framing of the discussion is security risk. The security risk is never ever targeted at any one, just an analysis of the risk of say, all cell phones being bricked by any one at any time, country, company or individual and securing against that risk.
In order to properly audit provision of services, hardware and software, they must be done locally, because when not done locally, you can not audit them, do random spot checks or any of the other expected functions of government to secure an essential services.
Stop being fucking morons USA, use the right diplomatic speech, handle these subjects in the proper manner, get rid of the idiotic corporate stooges and get people who can do the job properly. You do not ban foreign players, you simply state in order to minimise risk of essential services they most be provided locally, by local firms, so that they can be effectively secured and audited, to ensure reliability of that essential service, simply zero foreigners allowed in essential services.
Picking on one country without evidence and that means real evidence tested in a court of law, is just horribly lame arrogance and really stupid. They do this all the time, and now nobody believes any of the shit the US government comes up with. No matter the claim, response is always, did they prove it in a court of law, no, meh, they are fucking lying yet again.
So your a captain that gives blowjobs in Limos, ugh, your dreams suck, heh, heh.
Teleporting the fantasy, straight off the bat, converting matter into energy. All energy is a state of matter, no free flying energy nothings. So not converting matter into energy, actually you would need to convert matter from many different kinds of matter, into one kind of matter and then later the energy state of those particles, as a means of storing data in the particles. Then blast that particle beam through all intervening matter and at a target location, have the matter automatically, use the encoded data in those particles, to convert those particles into many varied particles, in the correct sequence, yeah, nahh.
Now you can do some fiddly bits, like working with the idea, that a photon, a single photon is not a single particle but a temporary cluster of quantum photonic particles, that express itself as a result of that cluster of particles being of sufficient to mass to breach the quantum barrier, this cluster created in molecular bonds and then broken down when impacting with those bonds. Those bonds not just being fields, but actual flows of quantum particles, which the quantum photonic cluster collides and interacts with.
On that basis it would be possible to code information into a single photon as long as when you break down that quatum photonic particle cluster, you can decipher the actual arrangement of the quantum photonic cluster.
We abandoned common sense, the very second we treated social media as true and factual. Social media is meant to be a social playground of fun and fantasy, not real world. It corruptly got turned into real world to ruthlessly exploit the psychology of people, for governments to attack citizens and for an endless flow of advertising bullshit.
Social media should be a game, a complete fantasy, have fun creating what ever identity you like, want to call yourself a space pirate, feel free to do so. Want to self identify you colour, maybe a nice plaid green and purple combination, it should not be illegal. Want to invent your own gender, attack helicopter, be happy in your individual gender. Make up your address, invent friends and associates, have as much fun with it as you can. What to be a bright orange vampire space ninja nazi online, have at it hoss.
Treating social media seriously has been a major blunder, especially when it was done on purpose to target and manipulate people. Social media should be make believe, the identity you spread should be nothing but a toon, a make believe character you play with. Not reality for arseholes to datamine.
Reclaim you social media by setting it free from reality, make of it, anything you want to make of it, even if that is a green and purple polka dot octopus love child of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, a very conflicted octopus mind you, with a different gender for each tentacle (heh heh, anime and tentacles, ugh).
Well, now apparently it is not fine, which of course means, hey Barack, what did you do, ummm, time to investigate, prosecute and jail your arse ie upon further review activity that was not thought criminal is actually criminal and of course, ignorance of the law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... What it makes really weird is being prosecuted for faking being a lawyer, you claim you did not know it was illegal, there claim ignorance of the law is not an excuse and treat as having full and total understanding of the law but if they claim you have full and total understanding of the law, how can they then claim you do not have the qualifications of a lawyer, something a little suss in there ie they prosecute you for not having full knowledge of the law in the same breath as claiming you do have full knowledge of the law, which is it?
Tech was new though, sure tech is better today but then the tech was new, nothing like it what so ever, that made it interesting. The thing I missed the most, is what would it have been like growing up with developing tech, rather than already being a young adult already in the work force. Then again many today will miss out on killing things, hunting and fishing, in real life, preparing, cooking and eating what you killed, this versus the virtual version of it. The early day of shareware were also interesting, as was the sneaker net and of course real life lan parties, visiting people with you puter to play networked games. Social media also enhanced your life, rather than trying to dominate it. Governments were not hacking electronic voting systems especially not USA, now USA number one election hacker including it's own. Autotune did not exist what a piece of trash software https://www.youtube.com/user/R... (just because I can hear it and hate it). Computer graphics promised so much for movies and then wham instead of making them better turned them into shite. Animation got a lot better.
What do I miss most of all, like duh, being thirty fucking years younger.
Just a 7, to get a 10, they need nerve gas and controlling other countries elections and cyber warfare, as well. If Russia was serious about that, they would have done it themselves and not through Venezuela. The obvious partners are Russia and China, from there reaching out to other countries sick of US interference, that didn't happen so stories about Venezuela are just stories. Right now the US is confused, doesn't want Venezuelan oil any more due to falling demand in the near future for fossil fuels, renewables and electric cars doing the damage. So the high cost invasion of Venezuela on the back burner, no profit in it and the vested interests in the invasion have diminished influence, the war industrial complex, due to high risk of real terrorism in the US.
Right now manoeuvring around a likely South African civil war seems to be taking priority. As for oligarchs close to the Kremlim, pretty much yesterdays news, Russian Oligarchs under the thumb of the Russian technocracy is far more accurate and Russian organised crime is diminishing. Far more accurate to say USA kakistocracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... vs Russia technocracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Russian governance has really changed in the last decade and US governance seems to be heading for change as well, at one stage it look like straight up Fascism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... but now it looks to be heading into some pretty serious reform. The UK is just disappearing up it owns backside and the EU just seems to be generally in turmoil not knowing which way to go but push for reform seems to be building. China and India have massive populations to deal with and that creates all sorts of distortions ie maintaining control.
Not that bad if you bought it when it was worth pennies but buying it over ten thousands dollars, serious ouch and make no mistake apart from thrashing about for a while bitcoin is dead and unbacked crypto getting banned as a ponzi currency. Every government seems to be closing in on it. It's like a big net, catching people, only the criminals and spies left using it, as far as some governments are concerned.
Reality is, they pretty much snag you on the first personalised update and if you cross borders and allow them to take your phone from your sight, you can pretty much guarantee it comes back with added software that you would need to root the phone to get out. On you very first update out of the US, they will hack you unless, it is an anonymous update. You can always fight back by adding fantasy into your digital life, they want to bullshit you, remember to bullshit the internet back.
Yet all you have to do, to right royally fuck up the cloud act, do not take social media seriously. Have fun with in, nothing real in it, create a complete illusion of yourself a social media toon and let them data mine the fuck out of your imagination or from where ever you borrowed your creative content, taking social media seriously is an extremely bad idea. Turning it into fantasy and a joke is a lot more sensible all round.
How about this. People who hate coding, think people who love coding are being enslaved when they code for fun. Nothing confusing there, just a lack of thought on behalf of the people doing some very shallow thinking. Sharon Zukin and Max Papadantonakis, at a guess you are shite coders and really hate doing it, gives you a headache.
Well I am a crap coder too, any problem and I immediately come up with a range of solutions my dyslectic coding problem, is I try to use a jumble of different solutions at the same time, sure each part works but as a whole, really bad and takes me forever to debug, trapped in working elements that fail as a working solution because of the lack of core logic in the construction of coding languages. I of course have no problem debugging someone else's code, arghhh.
Other people enjoy the application of an often illogical language with a logical problem, makes their brain feel good, not just in working the solution but also the kick in it working, as well as sharing that with fellow brain rush coders.
Better solution, leave them the fuck alone and of course the flip side, make fucking sure they leave us alone. When they are ready to advance they will, until then let them kill and eat other as they wish, just don't supply advanced weapons to make the situation worse. Nothing in and nothing out, refugess held in secured camps in country, boring as fuck but safe, until they are ready for leave. Sure select immigrants if they are good enough, smart enough, not psychopathic or sociopathic, fit and healthy. Freedom their choice, freedom our choice, take collective responsibility for collective decisions.
By far the bulk of global social justice is nothing but psychopathic greed and the theft of resources at hugely discounted prices and marked up to the same prices as if it was produced in more enlightened societies and cultures, this murderous bullshit has to stop, as does us having to deal with the chaotic consequences or refugees. Refugees should always be contained in country, in boring, safe, secured, gender separated facilities, break the rules and out you go, it is not a home away from home. Where necessary those camps should be created by the minimal use of force and then secured by the minimal emphatic use of force.
Human rights does mean if you want to live like a wild animal you have the right to but if we do not want to live like wild animals, we have the right to exclude you from our safer more civilised regions. We have no right to force behaviour on anyone to steal their resources, none what so ever.
That whole shopping precinct looks like a catastrophically bad design, designed for 100% vehicular traffic and if you are on foot, you have to be really careful, no regulated crossing points at all. Of course bias in law to favour corporations clearly demonstrated. Vehicle was speeding, had an accident, the vehicle is at fault, it is the way the law is written, any other way is just wild corporate favouritism, junk for profit law enforcers. Fact if the car had been going the speed limit the accident would not have happened, factual probability outcome (the car would have been much further away, instead of at the impact location, simple categorical fact, in fact in this case speed did kill).
Every major company has it's moment in the sun but it obscures the vision with it's ego illuminating brightness and the companies inevitably burns.
Consider Google, it's business model, 'FORCING' people to watch ads and in a reduced ad environment that use of force is felt and it burns what it is trying to sell, burns in hate for that product. This force, you will watch this ad, all it does is fine fucker, but I will hate that product and never buy it, your move moron.
M$ started it and Google followed suit, the idiotic idea that you can sell a product to someone by forcing, actively trying to force them to watch an ad, the concept is idiotic, this in conjunction with ads words that everyone has learned to ignore. Their marketing model is shite, it only looks good to the people who want to watch the ads, the advertisers, they are convinced this shit works, funny as fuck. Yeah, sure I will buy your product, when you force me to watch an ad, yep, sure fucking WONT.
I think this is the main reason https://www.youtube.com/result..., so pick up points and what is the ideal thing to do then, set up a good show room, let them wait a bit and go for a wander for some spur of the moment purchases. So real world click and mortar stores, carrying the most sold consumables and other stuff and with lots of pick ups you need lots of storage and even an all call taxi truck service with a couple of able bodies. In that case check the package, call taxi truck and do you own delivery, meet taxi truck at you door to unload, unpack and delivery to actual final location.
The other logistics companies still in dozy land, even the idiots at Wallmart are yet to wake up, more concerned with keeping unions out, instead of buying a union filled logistics company, insanely greedy freaks. Major retail chains have to merge with major logistics companies, to create that online seller or die, their choice. When they do this, Amazon will suffer bigly suddenly subject to mass competition and squeezed with high debt and an inevitable falling share price, everything changes, everything stays the same.
Great news, what ever happened to sythetic lenses or lenses grown outside the human body and then used to replace the tired, worn old, less bendy lense, so much promised for so long with so little delivered, and it's not like there would not be a shit bucket ton of profit in it. Are we plagued by the glasses monopoly http://wire.kapitall.com/inves..., are those poor excuses for human beings blocking synthetic lenses, they would.
So you trust a private for profit corporation, with it's for profit executive team and the cheapest staff they can possibly find, more than the Russia government, kinda of foolish don't you think. At least you sort of know where you stand with the Russian government, although the world has never experienced a technocracy before and it should be interesting (democratic among the technocrats, not quite so democratic for the rest, Putin and Co created it, most of the corruption was in local government and less so in state government, the Russian Federal Government was turned into a Technocracy). So what will happen the US kelptocracy vs the Russian technocracy ie short sighted greed vs short, medium and long term thinking, monopoly players vs chess masters.
I think the Russia government is on a bit of crypto hunt because of spy vs spy types and organised crime using it, hence touch crypto and they will be looking into you, the more you touch it the deeper they will look.
Social media needs to be looked at in a new way, it should never be treated as real but only as a game, fun. Make believes identities, behaviours, politics, sure you can still do social stuff with it but it should all have air of illusion, fun and fantasy, taking seriously is proving to be an extremely bad idea. Simply too many mentally ill equiped people to handle a fake true social media, mixing lies with truth in chaotic fashion, their minds are ill equipped for it. Social media needs to be denatured of it's seriousness, of it relativity, when it is all a lie, it is less harmful, as all content can be safely, mocked, derided and ridiculed all in an atmosphere of fun hyperbole, all social media should be https://www.theonion.com/. With a warning on every social media sight by law, 'IF YOU TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY YOU ARE A BLOODY IDIOT'(shh, there is a trap in there;D).
Never happen mass unemployment. What will happen is, if the poor can not have healthy meals, a comfortable place to live, entertainment and quality clothing (comfortable not flash shit), than the rich cannot have mansions or yachts or limos or it will probably kill them. Can't enjoy any rich shite hiding in a hole in the ground, a hole in the ground is nothing but a place where to go to wait to die, it's shite. Maintain a healthy happy society and you can enjoy your shite and constrained poseur status, else those angry poor people, backed by those who you gave power because you are the greatest threat to them because you could take the power away. You have power, up until the second you no longer can and then you will be dealt with as a threat to those you empowered to suppress us, our new leaders.
When you create a police state, the police become the state, not those who created the police state, they are the first lined up against the wall, the greatest threat to the police state, always happens, history has proven it. The poor get roughed up and all the rich die in the end to make way for the nouveau rich. The rich always think they will dominate, right up till they are kicking in the wind, the police state is as dangerous as fuck and more dangerous to those who created it than to the rest of us. Stalin developed a taste for cyanide apparently, you are never safe outside of a healthy, happy, stable society (you need them to be safe).
I reckon he has a global fiscal authority, might be more peaceful if the US gets to be the core of a global energy futures crypto currency, no need for energy wars, global transaction currency solved, tied individual to national currencies and in turn the energy those countries are capable of supplying or the goods and services to buy that energy. A global transaction market, no competitors allowed. Then again it might be just a useful if they weren't, little be rougher but still the same largely conflict free market in the end (that might be a better way of defining the free market a 'a conflict free, market', probably more sensible too).
Worth, worth, baw ha ha, this is capitalism mate, matters not one fuck what it is worth, capitalism is supply and demand, not worth, wrong ism mate. The more that compete for the job, who can do the job, the less they are paid, full stop, end of story, do not pass go for a big fat pay check when your services are in oversupply, worth means nothing. Tis a harsh gruel capitalist world, suck it up, your life is worth less than other peoples capital.
You are paid based upon under supply of services. So female actress versus male actresses, there are plenty of female con artists who will jump on the casting couch, more than male con artists and hence the males are paid more, less competition (there are more skilled female actresses than male and voila, the females underbid each other to get the job, sucked in, such is capitalism and hence after the get the job, the underpaid whine, it snot fair, boo hoo, it's psychopathic capitalism baby, of course it ain't fair, those bitches don't give one fuck about low IQ types on minimum wage).
Worth enters into it, not one iota, only supply and demand and in that equation your life is worth less than other people's capital and that is just a plain fact, suck it up, they will kill you to protect $1 even when it cost $100,000 to do so, make no mistake of your worth in this society.
I don't even get robocalls. In a very recent election I got one from a local politician, just talking at me no manners, no greeting, I promptly sent of an email letting them know the rudeness, the impropriety, it is not the politician who talks at me, I don't have to listen to me, I talk at the politician and it is the politician who has to listen to me, not only would I not vote for them but I would campaign against them. Robocall away and I will remember which to loathe and become active against, as suits my mood and humour at the time ie treat it with the contempt it deserves. Much like forced YouTube ads showing me products to hate and avoid, yes, nothing like a forced ad to sell me something, ohh do it again, a thousands times more and I will buy it a thousand times less, the idiot digital age. When you become exposed to less commercial they tend to become more offensive, been seen and not heard, do not interfere with my life, else be excluded from it, learn your fucking digital manners.
I am starting to forget google even exists I am having to look it up https://duckduckgo.com/?q=goog... all of the time. It's a choice, be the consumer slave or make digital companies your bitch, your choice, digital slave or ifreeman;D.
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All of the crap, runs straight smack into the face of an infinitely think concrete wall, people will believe what they want to believe. The internet propaganda tends to fail apart from bringing together people who want to believe particular things. What happens is people get exposed to all sorts of stuff, big truths, little truths, big lies, little lies, stupendously massive lies and they select from what is on offer and choose to believe what they want to believe, based upon the whole range of lies/truths they were presented. The numbers the generate look impressive until you realise, yeah they were already there before this shit started, you are just filtering them out from the crowd and bringing them together and generating a whole bunch of empty noise.
The same can not be said for generating and spreading new ideas, ideas work all together differently to stories. Ideas spread and take hold, stories well;
if people want to believe a story they will
if they don't want to believe a story they won't
if they do believe and want to pretend they don't believe they will publicly pretend not to believe
if they don't believe and want to pretend they do believe they will publicly pretend they do believe.
People lie in all sorts of fashion, which is exactly why sociologists manage to come up with all sorts of nonsense (asking people questions and pretending they are telling the truth). So they lie about the outcomes, the lie about the results, they lie to get rich, and that is exactly what the contractors are doing lying about outcomes to generate more income, lying about succeeding, lying about failing, lying, lying, lying. Good luck in your search for the truth in the propaganda wars. Ideas change things, stories do not, stories entertain.
In this case, the design of the blade for wind turbines is only a part of the answer and good vertical axis wind turbine, needs a far more complex design to achieve really good outcomes and the blade itself, whilst important does not the whole design create. A really tricky problem to resolve but human imagination always delivers in one way or another. I find it a interesting subject and have whiled away many an hour coming up with and investigating various designs. Always puttering around with one in the back of my mind, it's an interesting subject.
Clever, I can think of just one change in a particular sentence, to more closely reflect reality, " it is suggested that different psychiatric conditions could be 'CREATED' by manipulating the 5-HT2A receptor pathways" and don't think anyone didn't think of that especially in conjunction with the US Military Industrial Complex and it's leading proponent the CIA. Let's all bet that, the reality of intentional abuses was funding this particular research project. Primary objective, get anyone to say what ever you want them to say when you want them to say it. Secondary objective, get anyone to do, exactly what you wanted them to do, post treatment, no matter how violent or destructive.
Every time you see the US do brain research, you just expect the funding to have extremely negative goals and by accident they occasionally find positive ones and then pretend those positive ones were the actual goal.
Slashdot is most definitely not a pseudo news site. You apparently do not understand slashdot at all. Slashdot is an exchange of ideas site framed around interesting stories, ideas and questions. Slashdot is about the comments, the exchange of ideas, to trigger no ideas, to explore existing ones of of course to flip ideas on their heads. What happens there in after beyond slashdot with regard to those ideas is up to individual slashdotters but you should not claim of the ideas of others as your own, really rather poor form and in some instances illegal. Although you most certainly are free to work with and explore those ideas. Slashdot is not a news forum, it is an ideas forum which is why many people struggle with it but others find it fascinating and especially fascinating how those ideas expressed on slashdot expand beyond slashdot through the AI that is the internet, by far the majority of the internet oblivious to where those ideas originated.
Actually the FCC are just being an idiotic bunch of butt brains. You do not talk threats without evidence, that is bullshit, stupid, ignorant arrogant bullshit. The proper framing of the discussion is security risk. The security risk is never ever targeted at any one, just an analysis of the risk of say, all cell phones being bricked by any one at any time, country, company or individual and securing against that risk.
In order to properly audit provision of services, hardware and software, they must be done locally, because when not done locally, you can not audit them, do random spot checks or any of the other expected functions of government to secure an essential services.
Stop being fucking morons USA, use the right diplomatic speech, handle these subjects in the proper manner, get rid of the idiotic corporate stooges and get people who can do the job properly. You do not ban foreign players, you simply state in order to minimise risk of essential services they most be provided locally, by local firms, so that they can be effectively secured and audited, to ensure reliability of that essential service, simply zero foreigners allowed in essential services.
Picking on one country without evidence and that means real evidence tested in a court of law, is just horribly lame arrogance and really stupid. They do this all the time, and now nobody believes any of the shit the US government comes up with. No matter the claim, response is always, did they prove it in a court of law, no, meh, they are fucking lying yet again.
So your a captain that gives blowjobs in Limos, ugh, your dreams suck, heh, heh.
Teleporting the fantasy, straight off the bat, converting matter into energy. All energy is a state of matter, no free flying energy nothings. So not converting matter into energy, actually you would need to convert matter from many different kinds of matter, into one kind of matter and then later the energy state of those particles, as a means of storing data in the particles. Then blast that particle beam through all intervening matter and at a target location, have the matter automatically, use the encoded data in those particles, to convert those particles into many varied particles, in the correct sequence, yeah, nahh.
Now you can do some fiddly bits, like working with the idea, that a photon, a single photon is not a single particle but a temporary cluster of quantum photonic particles, that express itself as a result of that cluster of particles being of sufficient to mass to breach the quantum barrier, this cluster created in molecular bonds and then broken down when impacting with those bonds. Those bonds not just being fields, but actual flows of quantum particles, which the quantum photonic cluster collides and interacts with.
On that basis it would be possible to code information into a single photon as long as when you break down that quatum photonic particle cluster, you can decipher the actual arrangement of the quantum photonic cluster.
We abandoned common sense, the very second we treated social media as true and factual. Social media is meant to be a social playground of fun and fantasy, not real world. It corruptly got turned into real world to ruthlessly exploit the psychology of people, for governments to attack citizens and for an endless flow of advertising bullshit.
Social media should be a game, a complete fantasy, have fun creating what ever identity you like, want to call yourself a space pirate, feel free to do so. Want to self identify you colour, maybe a nice plaid green and purple combination, it should not be illegal. Want to invent your own gender, attack helicopter, be happy in your individual gender. Make up your address, invent friends and associates, have as much fun with it as you can. What to be a bright orange vampire space ninja nazi online, have at it hoss.
Treating social media seriously has been a major blunder, especially when it was done on purpose to target and manipulate people. Social media should be make believe, the identity you spread should be nothing but a toon, a make believe character you play with. Not reality for arseholes to datamine.
Reclaim you social media by setting it free from reality, make of it, anything you want to make of it, even if that is a green and purple polka dot octopus love child of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, a very conflicted octopus mind you, with a different gender for each tentacle (heh heh, anime and tentacles, ugh).
Well, now apparently it is not fine, which of course means, hey Barack, what did you do, ummm, time to investigate, prosecute and jail your arse ie upon further review activity that was not thought criminal is actually criminal and of course, ignorance of the law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... What it makes really weird is being prosecuted for faking being a lawyer, you claim you did not know it was illegal, there claim ignorance of the law is not an excuse and treat as having full and total understanding of the law but if they claim you have full and total understanding of the law, how can they then claim you do not have the qualifications of a lawyer, something a little suss in there ie they prosecute you for not having full knowledge of the law in the same breath as claiming you do have full knowledge of the law, which is it?
Tech was new though, sure tech is better today but then the tech was new, nothing like it what so ever, that made it interesting. The thing I missed the most, is what would it have been like growing up with developing tech, rather than already being a young adult already in the work force. Then again many today will miss out on killing things, hunting and fishing, in real life, preparing, cooking and eating what you killed, this versus the virtual version of it. The early day of shareware were also interesting, as was the sneaker net and of course real life lan parties, visiting people with you puter to play networked games. Social media also enhanced your life, rather than trying to dominate it. Governments were not hacking electronic voting systems especially not USA, now USA number one election hacker including it's own. Autotune did not exist what a piece of trash software https://www.youtube.com/user/R... (just because I can hear it and hate it). Computer graphics promised so much for movies and then wham instead of making them better turned them into shite. Animation got a lot better.
What do I miss most of all, like duh, being thirty fucking years younger.
Just a 7, to get a 10, they need nerve gas and controlling other countries elections and cyber warfare, as well. If Russia was serious about that, they would have done it themselves and not through Venezuela. The obvious partners are Russia and China, from there reaching out to other countries sick of US interference, that didn't happen so stories about Venezuela are just stories. Right now the US is confused, doesn't want Venezuelan oil any more due to falling demand in the near future for fossil fuels, renewables and electric cars doing the damage. So the high cost invasion of Venezuela on the back burner, no profit in it and the vested interests in the invasion have diminished influence, the war industrial complex, due to high risk of real terrorism in the US.
Right now manoeuvring around a likely South African civil war seems to be taking priority. As for oligarchs close to the Kremlim, pretty much yesterdays news, Russian Oligarchs under the thumb of the Russian technocracy is far more accurate and Russian organised crime is diminishing. Far more accurate to say USA kakistocracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... vs Russia technocracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Russian governance has really changed in the last decade and US governance seems to be heading for change as well, at one stage it look like straight up Fascism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... but now it looks to be heading into some pretty serious reform. The UK is just disappearing up it owns backside and the EU just seems to be generally in turmoil not knowing which way to go but push for reform seems to be building. China and India have massive populations to deal with and that creates all sorts of distortions ie maintaining control.
Not that bad if you bought it when it was worth pennies but buying it over ten thousands dollars, serious ouch and make no mistake apart from thrashing about for a while bitcoin is dead and unbacked crypto getting banned as a ponzi currency. Every government seems to be closing in on it. It's like a big net, catching people, only the criminals and spies left using it, as far as some governments are concerned.
Reality is, they pretty much snag you on the first personalised update and if you cross borders and allow them to take your phone from your sight, you can pretty much guarantee it comes back with added software that you would need to root the phone to get out. On you very first update out of the US, they will hack you unless, it is an anonymous update. You can always fight back by adding fantasy into your digital life, they want to bullshit you, remember to bullshit the internet back.
Yet all you have to do, to right royally fuck up the cloud act, do not take social media seriously. Have fun with in, nothing real in it, create a complete illusion of yourself a social media toon and let them data mine the fuck out of your imagination or from where ever you borrowed your creative content, taking social media seriously is an extremely bad idea. Turning it into fantasy and a joke is a lot more sensible all round.
How about this. People who hate coding, think people who love coding are being enslaved when they code for fun. Nothing confusing there, just a lack of thought on behalf of the people doing some very shallow thinking. Sharon Zukin and Max Papadantonakis, at a guess you are shite coders and really hate doing it, gives you a headache.
Well I am a crap coder too, any problem and I immediately come up with a range of solutions my dyslectic coding problem, is I try to use a jumble of different solutions at the same time, sure each part works but as a whole, really bad and takes me forever to debug, trapped in working elements that fail as a working solution because of the lack of core logic in the construction of coding languages. I of course have no problem debugging someone else's code, arghhh.
Other people enjoy the application of an often illogical language with a logical problem, makes their brain feel good, not just in working the solution but also the kick in it working, as well as sharing that with fellow brain rush coders.
Better solution, leave them the fuck alone and of course the flip side, make fucking sure they leave us alone. When they are ready to advance they will, until then let them kill and eat other as they wish, just don't supply advanced weapons to make the situation worse. Nothing in and nothing out, refugess held in secured camps in country, boring as fuck but safe, until they are ready for leave. Sure select immigrants if they are good enough, smart enough, not psychopathic or sociopathic, fit and healthy. Freedom their choice, freedom our choice, take collective responsibility for collective decisions.
By far the bulk of global social justice is nothing but psychopathic greed and the theft of resources at hugely discounted prices and marked up to the same prices as if it was produced in more enlightened societies and cultures, this murderous bullshit has to stop, as does us having to deal with the chaotic consequences or refugees. Refugees should always be contained in country, in boring, safe, secured, gender separated facilities, break the rules and out you go, it is not a home away from home. Where necessary those camps should be created by the minimal use of force and then secured by the minimal emphatic use of force.
Human rights does mean if you want to live like a wild animal you have the right to but if we do not want to live like wild animals, we have the right to exclude you from our safer more civilised regions. We have no right to force behaviour on anyone to steal their resources, none what so ever.
That whole shopping precinct looks like a catastrophically bad design, designed for 100% vehicular traffic and if you are on foot, you have to be really careful, no regulated crossing points at all. Of course bias in law to favour corporations clearly demonstrated. Vehicle was speeding, had an accident, the vehicle is at fault, it is the way the law is written, any other way is just wild corporate favouritism, junk for profit law enforcers. Fact if the car had been going the speed limit the accident would not have happened, factual probability outcome (the car would have been much further away, instead of at the impact location, simple categorical fact, in fact in this case speed did kill).
Every major company has it's moment in the sun but it obscures the vision with it's ego illuminating brightness and the companies inevitably burns.
Consider Google, it's business model, 'FORCING' people to watch ads and in a reduced ad environment that use of force is felt and it burns what it is trying to sell, burns in hate for that product. This force, you will watch this ad, all it does is fine fucker, but I will hate that product and never buy it, your move moron.
M$ started it and Google followed suit, the idiotic idea that you can sell a product to someone by forcing, actively trying to force them to watch an ad, the concept is idiotic, this in conjunction with ads words that everyone has learned to ignore. Their marketing model is shite, it only looks good to the people who want to watch the ads, the advertisers, they are convinced this shit works, funny as fuck. Yeah, sure I will buy your product, when you force me to watch an ad, yep, sure fucking WONT.
The google shine is really starting to fade https://duckduckgo.com/?q=goog... , that first place ring, has a price https://www.youtube.com/watch?....
I think this is the main reason https://www.youtube.com/result..., so pick up points and what is the ideal thing to do then, set up a good show room, let them wait a bit and go for a wander for some spur of the moment purchases. So real world click and mortar stores, carrying the most sold consumables and other stuff and with lots of pick ups you need lots of storage and even an all call taxi truck service with a couple of able bodies. In that case check the package, call taxi truck and do you own delivery, meet taxi truck at you door to unload, unpack and delivery to actual final location.
The other logistics companies still in dozy land, even the idiots at Wallmart are yet to wake up, more concerned with keeping unions out, instead of buying a union filled logistics company, insanely greedy freaks. Major retail chains have to merge with major logistics companies, to create that online seller or die, their choice. When they do this, Amazon will suffer bigly suddenly subject to mass competition and squeezed with high debt and an inevitable falling share price, everything changes, everything stays the same.
Great news, what ever happened to sythetic lenses or lenses grown outside the human body and then used to replace the tired, worn old, less bendy lense, so much promised for so long with so little delivered, and it's not like there would not be a shit bucket ton of profit in it. Are we plagued by the glasses monopoly http://wire.kapitall.com/inves..., are those poor excuses for human beings blocking synthetic lenses, they would.
So you trust a private for profit corporation, with it's for profit executive team and the cheapest staff they can possibly find, more than the Russia government, kinda of foolish don't you think. At least you sort of know where you stand with the Russian government, although the world has never experienced a technocracy before and it should be interesting (democratic among the technocrats, not quite so democratic for the rest, Putin and Co created it, most of the corruption was in local government and less so in state government, the Russian Federal Government was turned into a Technocracy). So what will happen the US kelptocracy vs the Russian technocracy ie short sighted greed vs short, medium and long term thinking, monopoly players vs chess masters.
I think the Russia government is on a bit of crypto hunt because of spy vs spy types and organised crime using it, hence touch crypto and they will be looking into you, the more you touch it the deeper they will look.
Social media needs to be looked at in a new way, it should never be treated as real but only as a game, fun. Make believes identities, behaviours, politics, sure you can still do social stuff with it but it should all have air of illusion, fun and fantasy, taking seriously is proving to be an extremely bad idea. Simply too many mentally ill equiped people to handle a fake true social media, mixing lies with truth in chaotic fashion, their minds are ill equipped for it. Social media needs to be denatured of it's seriousness, of it relativity, when it is all a lie, it is less harmful, as all content can be safely, mocked, derided and ridiculed all in an atmosphere of fun hyperbole, all social media should be https://www.theonion.com/. With a warning on every social media sight by law, 'IF YOU TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY YOU ARE A BLOODY IDIOT'(shh, there is a trap in there ;D).
Never happen mass unemployment. What will happen is, if the poor can not have healthy meals, a comfortable place to live, entertainment and quality clothing (comfortable not flash shit), than the rich cannot have mansions or yachts or limos or it will probably kill them. Can't enjoy any rich shite hiding in a hole in the ground, a hole in the ground is nothing but a place where to go to wait to die, it's shite. Maintain a healthy happy society and you can enjoy your shite and constrained poseur status, else those angry poor people, backed by those who you gave power because you are the greatest threat to them because you could take the power away. You have power, up until the second you no longer can and then you will be dealt with as a threat to those you empowered to suppress us, our new leaders.
When you create a police state, the police become the state, not those who created the police state, they are the first lined up against the wall, the greatest threat to the police state, always happens, history has proven it. The poor get roughed up and all the rich die in the end to make way for the nouveau rich. The rich always think they will dominate, right up till they are kicking in the wind, the police state is as dangerous as fuck and more dangerous to those who created it than to the rest of us. Stalin developed a taste for cyanide apparently, you are never safe outside of a healthy, happy, stable society (you need them to be safe).
I reckon he has a global fiscal authority, might be more peaceful if the US gets to be the core of a global energy futures crypto currency, no need for energy wars, global transaction currency solved, tied individual to national currencies and in turn the energy those countries are capable of supplying or the goods and services to buy that energy. A global transaction market, no competitors allowed. Then again it might be just a useful if they weren't, little be rougher but still the same largely conflict free market in the end (that might be a better way of defining the free market a 'a conflict free, market', probably more sensible too).
Worth, worth, baw ha ha, this is capitalism mate, matters not one fuck what it is worth, capitalism is supply and demand, not worth, wrong ism mate. The more that compete for the job, who can do the job, the less they are paid, full stop, end of story, do not pass go for a big fat pay check when your services are in oversupply, worth means nothing. Tis a harsh gruel capitalist world, suck it up, your life is worth less than other peoples capital.
You are paid based upon under supply of services. So female actress versus male actresses, there are plenty of female con artists who will jump on the casting couch, more than male con artists and hence the males are paid more, less competition (there are more skilled female actresses than male and voila, the females underbid each other to get the job, sucked in, such is capitalism and hence after the get the job, the underpaid whine, it snot fair, boo hoo, it's psychopathic capitalism baby, of course it ain't fair, those bitches don't give one fuck about low IQ types on minimum wage).
Worth enters into it, not one iota, only supply and demand and in that equation your life is worth less than other people's capital and that is just a plain fact, suck it up, they will kill you to protect $1 even when it cost $100,000 to do so, make no mistake of your worth in this society.
I don't even get robocalls. In a very recent election I got one from a local politician, just talking at me no manners, no greeting, I promptly sent of an email letting them know the rudeness, the impropriety, it is not the politician who talks at me, I don't have to listen to me, I talk at the politician and it is the politician who has to listen to me, not only would I not vote for them but I would campaign against them. Robocall away and I will remember which to loathe and become active against, as suits my mood and humour at the time ie treat it with the contempt it deserves. Much like forced YouTube ads showing me products to hate and avoid, yes, nothing like a forced ad to sell me something, ohh do it again, a thousands times more and I will buy it a thousand times less, the idiot digital age. When you become exposed to less commercial they tend to become more offensive, been seen and not heard, do not interfere with my life, else be excluded from it, learn your fucking digital manners.
I am starting to forget google even exists I am having to look it up https://duckduckgo.com/?q=goog... all of the time. It's a choice, be the consumer slave or make digital companies your bitch, your choice, digital slave or ifreeman ;D.