This is the government that enslaved million of black Africans for profit.
1) The first slave owner in the US and the one who fought a lengthy legal battle through the British colonial courts to make slavery legal was a black tobacco farmer named Anthony Johnson.
2) Slavery in the American colonies became legal nearly 100 years before any of the "founding fathers" were born. They attempted to outlaw slavery in the colonies but the British Crown Colonial Courts would not allow them to enact anti-slavery laws as British industry was profiting from both the slave trade and the cheap cotton produced.
3) The "3/5ths' Compromise" was a way to limit the number of Representatives Southern slave States could have in Congress thus reducing their ability to overrule Abolitionists.
4) Most of the "founding fathers" abhorred slavery. Thomas Jefferson never bought nor sold a single slave. He ended up inheriting a group of slaves from his in-laws. He could not set them free as it was a hanging offense under British colonial law to free black slaves so he kept them together to not break up families and treated them as well as possible under the laws of the day.
5) The whole "Nixon's Southern Strategy" is a Democrat propaganda lie. Out of all the Southern Dixie-crats only *two* switched Party from Democrat to Republican, Strom Thurmond and one other I don't recall ATM.
6) The US government and military were not racially segregated prior to President Woodrow Wilson(D) who ordered segregation to be implemented.
7) There were actually far more Irish slaves than African slaves, and the Irish slaves were far cheaper and treated far worse as they were much more expendable than expensive African slaves. Where are the Irish-American "Affirmative Action" programs? Where are the proposals for Irish-American slavery Reparations?
US laws, rights, etc all finish at the US boarder.
I believe you meant "border".
But regardless, ask Julian Assange about those territorial limits to US law, never mind that what he and Wikileaks has done is essentially the same thing Daniel Ellsberg and the NYT did when they published the "Pentagon Papers".
Any time a person or group of people gains immense power & control combined with incredible wealth, shenanigans are certain to occur, with the populace getting it in the neck on multiple levels. Most of human history revolves around this same cycle repeating again and again. It's the Merry-Go-Round From Hell.
It doesn't matter if we're talking mega-corps or mega-governments. When they get too powerful and control too much, they must be restrained.
Even with the bad air in San Francisco from the fire, San Fran is better on its worst day than Mumbai is on its best day.
Come on now, that's not fair! Mumbai has been at it a lot longer than SanFran. Give the Ptogressives a bit more time and they'll see Mumbai's poor air quality levels and raise them with having to have crews sweep up piles of used dope syringes every morning nefore the morning commute.
That smell in SanFran is the smell of Progressive Utopian visions attempted in real life. See also: Detroit and Chicago.It's also looking like Seattle and Portland are also in the running to join the list of failed heavily-Progressive cities.
This so-called "Progress" is coming at a frightening cost on many levels including in human lives.
"We already made it big. There's no need to keep the part of the internet that let that happen. It's just trouble all around if we keep allowing other companies to get big - heck, one of them might compete with us."
You've got it half-right but you left out a key part; the other half of that conversation. Who are they saying this *to*?
Corrupt and too-powerful governments and their politicians, that's who. Also missing is the reply.
"We agree, as now the internet has become a means for those who oppose us and our ideology(ies) & agenda(s) to communicate, organize, and spread their messages to the world. We can't have that. We'll work together as it's in both our interests."
You'll not solve the problem until and unless *both* of the major drivers of these types of proposals are effectively addressed.
Meanwhile, Satan is looking to fund "good" projects..
AI is simply another tool.
It all depends on how it's used.
AI is no different than a firearm. It can be used to both protect & save innocent lives and tragically end innocent lives. It can be used to liberate or enslave. AI created for a so-called "good" project can be used for bad. There is no "good" or "bad" AI, there's no "good" or "bad" guns, there are just guns and AI.
It all depends on what the intentions of those who wield them happen to be.
The Muslim Brotherhood is a peaceful, mostly secular charity organization. BLM is a pro-racial-diversity group. Antifa promotes open dialogue between people with differing ideological views
-- J. Brennan, B. Obama, M. Waters, N. Pelosi
Heh, nice! Well played.
See, *this* is how you defeat intolerant busybodies on the Left *or* the Right!
Not with violence, not with incivility, nor with guns (unless it's the very, very last resort to save lives in the case of deadly force).
You bury them in *laughter*!
Authoritarians...Left or Right...are incapable of understanding humor or seeing there own absurdity. It's the exact reason why the NPC meme has gotten them so stirred up.
They can't meme. They can't joke. Comedians no longer do shows at Left-leaning colleges and universities. They have no ability to laugh at themselves and have no defense against being ridiculed for their anti-freedom views and blatant "some animals are more equal than others" hypocrisy.
Just reveal them as the wannabe-nanny laughingstocks that they are. Make it so whenever average people see these groups or hear them speak, they can't help but laugh. They won't give such people power for the same reasons one doesn't give a gun to a monkey or a toddler.
As far as success story, Q3 Tesla claims to have made ~$330MM in profit (even though their cash flow position increased by $700MM - were bills not paid?). Ford did about $1B in profit for Q3, and GM is expected to do around $1.8B in profit, for the quarter - without any curious increase in cash position that doesn't correlate with earned profit (how do you make $330MM in profit but your cash position increased by over double that amount, unless you're not paying out everything you're supposed to?)
Capital expenditures. Auto manufacturing is an extremely capital-intensive heavy industry. Tesla is still growing rapidly, making huge capital investments and paying for previous capital expenditures.
Go back and look at nearly any capital-intensive heavy industry at the same point in time from their beginning. They were nearly all deeply in debt and were not yet showing a profit despite most not having the level of competition and heavy-handed regulation Tesla faces from mature businesses and government.
Quite frankly it's amazing as hell Tesla is still in business at all, never mind showing any profit whatsoever in the hostile economic/financial/regulatory/competitive world in which it was created and exists currently.
They'd do ANYTHING to get rid of Musk. Even resorting to getting the FBI in there to "find" something... "anything, dear god, please, anything!". Next up: "Musk found dead from 39 bullet shot wounds and his head being chopped of by an axe. Death ruled an 'accident'."
"Yep, worst case of suicide we ever saw! Poor soul, he was just too high-strung." -- Combined Aerospace, Automobile, and Energy Industry Interests.
Musk is an existential threat to the established industries in those sectors as well as to those in government who get all those fat corporate contributions from them.
Tesla Model 3/Falcon9FalconHeavy/PowerWall == Tucker Tornado x 3.
Go read about what the government, in collusion with established manufacturers, did to Tucker and Tucker Motors while keeping in mind he only threatened *one* major industrial sector's established players and that the government is at least as corrupt today as then, if not more so.
Then there should be a massive untapped business opportunity to launch Conservatwitter
Gab.ai, MINDS.com, Bitchute.com, etc have begun growing their userbase at a nearly exponential rate since the purge of conservatives by the major platforms began. In 5 years FB/Twitter/etc may become as relevant as MySpace.com is these days.
Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
It's a serious felony to prank-call LEAs. Prosecute the prank-callers and put them in prison. As soon as the first wave of prosecutions occur, the prank-calling will all but disappear.
I did. It originally required voters to be land owners. You know, people who have actual skin in the game rather than being useless eaters that will happily vote to "redistribute" (read; "steal under threat of government force) the product of the labor of others to themselves for their own selfish agendas.
I was speaking about moral right.
"When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic." -- Benjamin Franklin
If you do not pay taxes, like the ~44%-plus of Americans who pay no Federal income taxes, you have no right to vote on how those taxes are spent.
As far as the 'rich' not paying their 'fair share', the top10% of Americans in income pay two-thirds of Federal income taxes while the bottom 50% pays ~3%..
The USA is rapidly becoming a full-on Authoritarian Oligarchic Kleptocracy with merely the trappings of a mock-democracy, a democracy no more valid than those 'Democratic Republic of [insert_name]' dictatorships thanks to the Leftists and their 'useful idiots' in media and academia.
This little beauty went like shit off a shovel and could carry two tons of bombs to boot.
Yep, the Mosquito ("Mossy" to the pilots and crews who flew and loved them) was such a notable performer the Nazis even tried to copy it but with only limited success.
Still, there's a huge difference between a drone impacting a very thin aluminum skin over relatively soft wood compared to the much thicker aluminum skin of an airliner laid over structural metal wing framework, especially as the leading edge is one of the strongest, densest, and most rigid areas of the wing.
Also, ~235mph is the top cruising speed at altitude, nowhere near typical (80-100mph on approach, ~75mph near touchdown for the Mooney M20) for a small prop-driven aircraft at altitudes low enough that a drone strike by the average consumer-type drone is at all likely or even possible.
I'm not even sure why they'd choose to test the impact on a wing instead of the cockpit windscreen, as that would be much more likely to result in injury or fatality and a resultant crash. Maybe they did and the test didn't demonstrate the level of danger that they wanted to show, as modern aircraft windscreens are extremely tough.
People in the US whose income qualifies them for government assistance for food and healthcare costs also qualifies them for a free cellphone with internet access. Remember the 'Obamaphone' program? That program is still running strong.
Full disclosure: I'm not American so I am not familiar with all these interstate laws from more than seeing them mentioned a lot on the internet.
Are your connections to servers in other states and countries any different from buying things that were made in other states or countries in your local grocery store? At least in my mind, my ISP is a local connection similar to a local store, and they provide ACCESS to goods that were made in a lot of other places.
First, let me say that you have a better grasp of the basic civcs of the US system as they apply here than many, many Americans, sadly.
You are also correct in that internet service is simply access, the data/voice/etc which is the product, in essence, comes from around the world. It is not only interstate in nature, it is inter-State, as in sovereign foreign States and thus plainly fall under the purview of the US Federal government. Traditional Constitutional interpretations and countless precedents would have to be turned on their head, and the current SCOTUS will be far too mainstream to overturn so much legal/judicial weight of precedent and historic Constitutional principle.
The only reasons to prefer net neutrality be enacted by administrative fiat rather than through legislative action is in order to use it as a partisan political weapon and a tool of authoritarian social control over the population and to set the precedent to do the same with other Federal agencies and other sectors in order to keep on expanding government scope and control.
Hopefully the Australian Navy protects this whale sanctuary from Japanese Whalers
Those Japanese whaling vessels might run into something they don't expect.
If you're a 35-ton Megalodon trying to stave off final extinction a little longer, where are you going to hang out? Any damned place you please, right? And why not hang out in an extremely deep, giant underwater bubble of warm-water paradise, filled with food and far from humans? Any smart Megalodon would be there, right?
That's why it should be christened the "Megalodonian Seamount"!
Tune in this time next week for the exciting conclusion titled "That Really Bites!" or "Honey, Did You Chum The Fish? Honey? Honey?"
I had to scroll this far down to reach the actual answer?
Slashdot, I mourn for thee.
AC is exactly correct. The problem is not that the algorithm is racist or misogynist, it's that it's not biased at all while a large portion of our society *is* strongly biased and does not *want* unbiased answers that conflict with their current political/ideological/cultural/racial prejudices and stereotypes that are the tools essential to sustaining and growing group-identity politics and cultural Marxism which are all part of Post-Modernism which was created solely for the purpose of destroying post-Enlightenment Western civilization.
Slashdot Mirror
This is the government that enslaved million of black Africans for profit.
1) The first slave owner in the US and the one who fought a lengthy legal battle through the British colonial courts to make slavery legal was a black tobacco farmer named Anthony Johnson.
2) Slavery in the American colonies became legal nearly 100 years before any of the "founding fathers" were born. They attempted to outlaw slavery in the colonies but the British Crown Colonial Courts would not allow them to enact anti-slavery laws as British industry was profiting from both the slave trade and the cheap cotton produced.
3) The "3/5ths' Compromise" was a way to limit the number of Representatives Southern slave States could have in Congress thus reducing their ability to overrule Abolitionists.
4) Most of the "founding fathers" abhorred slavery. Thomas Jefferson never bought nor sold a single slave. He ended up inheriting a group of slaves from his in-laws. He could not set them free as it was a hanging offense under British colonial law to free black slaves so he kept them together to not break up families and treated them as well as possible under the laws of the day.
5) The whole "Nixon's Southern Strategy" is a Democrat propaganda lie. Out of all the Southern Dixie-crats only *two* switched Party from Democrat to Republican, Strom Thurmond and one other I don't recall ATM.
6) The US government and military were not racially segregated prior to President Woodrow Wilson(D) who ordered segregation to be implemented.
7) There were actually far more Irish slaves than African slaves, and the Irish slaves were far cheaper and treated far worse as they were much more expendable than expensive African slaves. Where are the Irish-American "Affirmative Action" programs? Where are the proposals for Irish-American slavery Reparations?
That is your red pill for today. You're welcome.
Strat
US laws, rights, etc all finish at the US boarder.
I believe you meant "border".
But regardless, ask Julian Assange about those territorial limits to US law, never mind that what he and Wikileaks has done is essentially the same thing Daniel Ellsberg and the NYT did when they published the "Pentagon Papers".
Strat
[The problem is...]
Zuckerberg
Not specifically him, no.
The problem is human nature.
Any time a person or group of people gains immense power & control combined with incredible wealth, shenanigans are certain to occur, with the populace getting it in the neck on multiple levels. Most of human history revolves around this same cycle repeating again and again. It's the Merry-Go-Round From Hell.
It doesn't matter if we're talking mega-corps or mega-governments. When they get too powerful and control too much, they must be restrained.
Strat
People on Slashdot still use Facebook?
I thought this was a higher-IQ demographic. I may need to rethink.
People don't use Facebook, Facebook uses people regardless of whether said people ever created a Facebook account/profile.
Perhaps some feel they might as well use some of the features since they're already in the Facebook Matrix whether they wanted to be or not.
Strat
Even with the bad air in San Francisco from the fire, San Fran is better on its worst day than Mumbai is on its best day.
Come on now, that's not fair! Mumbai has been at it a lot longer than SanFran. Give the Ptogressives a bit more time and they'll see Mumbai's poor air quality levels and raise them with having to have crews sweep up piles of used dope syringes every morning nefore the morning commute.
That smell in SanFran is the smell of Progressive Utopian visions attempted in real life. See also: Detroit and Chicago.It's also looking like Seattle and Portland are also in the running to join the list of failed heavily-Progressive cities.
This so-called "Progress" is coming at a frightening cost on many levels including in human lives.
Strat
"We already made it big. There's no need to keep the part of the internet that let that happen. It's just trouble all around if we keep allowing other companies to get big - heck, one of them might compete with us."
You've got it half-right but you left out a key part; the other half of that conversation. Who are they saying this *to*?
Corrupt and too-powerful governments and their politicians, that's who. Also missing is the reply.
"We agree, as now the internet has become a means for those who oppose us and our ideology(ies) & agenda(s) to communicate, organize, and spread their messages to the world. We can't have that. We'll work together as it's in both our interests."
You'll not solve the problem until and unless *both* of the major drivers of these types of proposals are effectively addressed.
Strat
Aren't they all spies in the sky?
Yes, my redundancy meter asploded.
It now detects no redunds at all whatsoever
Strat :)
Meanwhile, Satan is looking to fund "good" projects..
AI is simply another tool.
It all depends on how it's used.
AI is no different than a firearm. It can be used to both protect & save innocent lives and tragically end innocent lives. It can be used to liberate or enslave. AI created for a so-called "good" project can be used for bad. There is no "good" or "bad" AI, there's no "good" or "bad" guns, there are just guns and AI.
It all depends on what the intentions of those who wield them happen to be.
Strat
incapable of understanding humor or seeing their
meh, oops
The Muslim Brotherhood is a peaceful, mostly secular charity organization. BLM is a pro-racial-diversity group. Antifa promotes open dialogue between people with differing ideological views
-- J. Brennan, B. Obama, M. Waters, N. Pelosi
Heh, nice! Well played.
See, *this* is how you defeat intolerant busybodies on the Left *or* the Right!
Not with violence, not with incivility, nor with guns (unless it's the very, very last resort to save lives in the case of deadly force).
You bury them in *laughter*!
Authoritarians...Left or Right...are incapable of understanding humor or seeing there own absurdity. It's the exact reason why the NPC meme has gotten them so stirred up.
They can't meme. They can't joke. Comedians no longer do shows at Left-leaning colleges and universities. They have no ability to laugh at themselves and have no defense against being ridiculed for their anti-freedom views and blatant "some animals are more equal than others" hypocrisy.
Just reveal them as the wannabe-nanny laughingstocks that they are. Make it so whenever average people see these groups or hear them speak, they can't help but laugh. They won't give such people power for the same reasons one doesn't give a gun to a monkey or a toddler.
Strat
I'll make it even simpler.
Without being able to see Tesla's ledgers, any speculation...good or bad...is just that; speculation.
Strat
As far as success story, Q3 Tesla claims to have made ~$330MM in profit (even though their cash flow position increased by $700MM - were bills not paid?). Ford did about $1B in profit for Q3, and GM is expected to do around $1.8B in profit, for the quarter - without any curious increase in cash position that doesn't correlate with earned profit (how do you make $330MM in profit but your cash position increased by over double that amount, unless you're not paying out everything you're supposed to?)
Capital expenditures. Auto manufacturing is an extremely capital-intensive heavy industry. Tesla is still growing rapidly, making huge capital investments and paying for previous capital expenditures.
Go back and look at nearly any capital-intensive heavy industry at the same point in time from their beginning. They were nearly all deeply in debt and were not yet showing a profit despite most not having the level of competition and heavy-handed regulation Tesla faces from mature businesses and government.
Quite frankly it's amazing as hell Tesla is still in business at all, never mind showing any profit whatsoever in the hostile economic/financial/regulatory/competitive world in which it was created and exists currently.
Strat
They'd do ANYTHING to get rid of Musk. Even resorting to getting the FBI in there to "find" something... "anything, dear god, please, anything!".
Next up: "Musk found dead from 39 bullet shot wounds and his head being chopped of by an axe. Death ruled an 'accident'."
"Yep, worst case of suicide we ever saw! Poor soul, he was just too high-strung." -- Combined Aerospace, Automobile, and Energy Industry Interests.
Musk is an existential threat to the established industries in those sectors as well as to those in government who get all those fat corporate contributions from them.
Tesla Model 3/Falcon9FalconHeavy/PowerWall == Tucker Tornado x 3.
Go read about what the government, in collusion with established manufacturers, did to Tucker and Tucker Motors while keeping in mind he only threatened *one* major industrial sector's established players and that the government is at least as corrupt today as then, if not more so.
Strat
Then there should be a massive untapped business opportunity to launch Conservatwitter
Gab.ai, MINDS.com, Bitchute.com, etc have begun growing their userbase at a nearly exponential rate since the purge of conservatives by the major platforms began. In 5 years FB/Twitter/etc may become as relevant as MySpace.com is these days.
Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
Strat
PS3 ... it might me something to the 3 nerds left collecting these to run a Beowulf cluster.
In Soviet America, Beowulfs cluster YOU!
Strat
It's a serious felony to prank-call LEAs. Prosecute the prank-callers and put them in prison. As soon as the first wave of prosecutions occur, the prank-calling will all but disappear.
Strat
try reading the constitution buddy.
I did. It originally required voters to be land owners. You know, people who have actual skin in the game rather than being useless eaters that will happily vote to "redistribute" (read; "steal under threat of government force) the product of the labor of others to themselves for their own selfish agendas.
I was speaking about moral right.
"When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic." -- Benjamin Franklin
Strat
If you do not pay taxes, like the ~44%-plus of Americans who pay no Federal income taxes, you have no right to vote on how those taxes are spent.
As far as the 'rich' not paying their 'fair share', the top10% of Americans in income pay two-thirds of Federal income taxes while the bottom 50% pays ~3%..
The USA is rapidly becoming a full-on Authoritarian Oligarchic Kleptocracy with merely the trappings of a mock-democracy, a democracy no more valid than those 'Democratic Republic of [insert_name]' dictatorships thanks to the Leftists and their 'useful idiots' in media and academia.
Strat
What's wrong with wooden wings?
This little beauty went like shit off a shovel and could carry two tons of bombs to boot.
Yep, the Mosquito ("Mossy" to the pilots and crews who flew and loved them) was such a notable performer the Nazis even tried to copy it but with only limited success.
Still, there's a huge difference between a drone impacting a very thin aluminum skin over relatively soft wood compared to the much thicker aluminum skin of an airliner laid over structural metal wing framework, especially as the leading edge is one of the strongest, densest, and most rigid areas of the wing.
Also, ~235mph is the top cruising speed at altitude, nowhere near typical (80-100mph on approach, ~75mph near touchdown for the Mooney M20) for a small prop-driven aircraft at altitudes low enough that a drone strike by the average consumer-type drone is at all likely or even possible.
I'm not even sure why they'd choose to test the impact on a wing instead of the cockpit windscreen, as that would be much more likely to result in injury or fatality and a resultant crash. Maybe they did and the test didn't demonstrate the level of danger that they wanted to show, as modern aircraft windscreens are extremely tough.
Strat
Hmm, cheaper than mobile phones.
Nope. Not cheaper than free.
People in the US whose income qualifies them for government assistance for food and healthcare costs also qualifies them for a free cellphone with internet access. Remember the 'Obamaphone' program? That program is still running strong.
Strat
Full disclosure: I'm not American so I am not familiar with all these interstate laws from more than seeing them mentioned a lot on the internet.
Are your connections to servers in other states and countries any different from buying things that were made in other states or countries in your local grocery store? At least in my mind, my ISP is a local connection similar to a local store, and they provide ACCESS to goods that were made in a lot of other places.
First, let me say that you have a better grasp of the basic civcs of the US system as they apply here than many, many Americans, sadly.
You are also correct in that internet service is simply access, the data/voice/etc which is the product, in essence, comes from around the world. It is not only interstate in nature, it is inter-State, as in sovereign foreign States and thus plainly fall under the purview of the US Federal government. Traditional Constitutional interpretations and countless precedents would have to be turned on their head, and the current SCOTUS will be far too mainstream to overturn so much legal/judicial weight of precedent and historic Constitutional principle.
The only reasons to prefer net neutrality be enacted by administrative fiat rather than through legislative action is in order to use it as a partisan political weapon and a tool of authoritarian social control over the population and to set the precedent to do the same with other Federal agencies and other sectors in order to keep on expanding government scope and control.
Strat
"Moonmoon"!? WTF?
Do they come with eggroll?
Seriously, "sub-moon" or "secondary/tertiary moon" weren't good enough?
I thought these guys were writing stuff for scientific journals, not the Urban Dictionary.
Strat
Soylent Green.
They're simply trying to find the right problem.
Strat
Hopefully the Australian Navy protects this whale sanctuary from Japanese Whalers
Those Japanese whaling vessels might run into something they don't expect.
If you're a 35-ton Megalodon trying to stave off final extinction a little longer, where are you going to hang out? Any damned place you please, right? And why not hang out in an extremely deep, giant underwater bubble of warm-water paradise, filled with food and far from humans? Any smart Megalodon would be there, right?
That's why it should be christened the "Megalodonian Seamount"!
Tune in this time next week for the exciting conclusion titled "That Really Bites!" or "Honey, Did You Chum The Fish? Honey? Honey?"
Strat
The real problem is the algorithm wasn't biased.
Ding ding ding! We have a winner!
Tell him what he's won, Johnny!
I had to scroll this far down to reach the actual answer?
Slashdot, I mourn for thee.
AC is exactly correct. The problem is not that the algorithm is racist or misogynist, it's that it's not biased at all while a large portion of our society *is* strongly biased and does not *want* unbiased answers that conflict with their current political/ideological/cultural/racial prejudices and stereotypes that are the tools essential to sustaining and growing group-identity politics and cultural Marxism which are all part of Post-Modernism which was created solely for the purpose of destroying post-Enlightenment Western civilization.
Strat