That co-workers have a different opinion than the management is clear. That they always have a clearer and more realistic view of somebody's performance is questionable. They have bias just as their bosses do. Plus if somebody has been charged with something bad then there is surely something to it or?. Group think is as common as bad bosses. What can be useful however is that the chances for a discussion in a panel exists while the boss often enough makes his decision based rumours and own misconceptions. So maybe a panel is better at least sometimes.
In large groups of people direct democracy helps only in legitimizing the choice made. The interest conflicts between subgroups and disconnect between them as well as complexity of the decisions to be made (when one has to decide between different virtues and values) means that this is also not ideal and for some decisions made this way will surely be a problem. It comes down also to the choice of a question that the gathering has to answer - properly phrased influences the answer greatly. And so on and so forth. At the end the extreme right is as bad to stomach for majority as extreme left. The ability to chose another empty space if choices of fellow citizens are not to your liking is gone by now. I think it is not an accident that the direct democracy more or less works in one country of less than 10m people and even there is it s half baked direct democracy and also one in which majority speaks common language. Democracy does not scale well it seems. Other countries than US have similar problem. Brexit split UK into more or less halves that when it comes to this one decision more or less hate each other. In Germany where I live 30% wants open borders no matter what 40% wants them closed now, no matter what. These groups are very emotional and one of them has a quite violent minority. There are places where quite strong emotions between groups do not allow for any common ground. I do not think it scales. You make the 'nation' more heterogeneous and it gets more difficult.
When it came to cinemas around I watched star wars original movie (that would be star wars 4) like 30 times in a 6 weeks period in which I hardly visited school. This ended of course with a big shout from my father but the I still recall the fascination with which I was watching it over and over again. I was not so excited about any of the other movies of which parts 1-3 I had to use force to watch. As I did not have any I used beer instead. Part 7 was ok although I already started to wish tat empire wins for a change. In part 8 this wish became almost as strong as a wish to quit in the middle. I left the cinema after an hour or so. Roque One was quite something comparing to parts 7-8 a story and a movie worth the name. Part 8 ended the main stream of SW movies tho. I do not think I will spend a buck on a ticket for part 9 if it ever gets made. I think I converted to dark side eventually.
The summary is not that detailed to see it outright but his contract did not expire. In any legal system this would mean he would have to be paid for the time he could have not worked because his dismissal was not formally correct or rather there have been no dismissal. In fact it was the company that failed to provide him working conditions while his contract was legally running. As said summary is open about that so maybe one should not make too many assumptions. The summary however indicates that the company in fact did not want to fire him and the termination was a fault. Yet the management did not manage (!!!) to fix that problem for 3 weeks. What is not written in the summary but in an original (linked) article is even more interesting - his colleagues grew distant because of his absence even after he has explained what has happened. This means we are done as a society - well groomed to be governed by drones and it makes no difference whether these drones are meatbags or automatic systems working according to some SW code. It is really a telling sign of failure at humanity to not be able to keep the guy working while the system is being investigated and fixed.
That so many of commenters here show complete understanding for the failed system ('working as it should' and other nonsense) is another telling sign of decline. OC this does not mean civilization will end and we all will die. There is a point in time still in front of us where failure of one system may lead to domino effect - no need for superior artificial self-aware intelligence - just a set of actions that have executed faster that they could be stopped. Such situation can make losses especially high in highly developed and interconnected societies.
I would like to come back to the enthusiasm with which we accept orders from authority these days. Nothing has changed since 1933 I guess. Even if I was told many times that milgram experiment was a failure in itself and its results could not be used to explain anything anywhere else (only Germans are like this and other some garbage). Well nothing besides that fact that there is no human telling you orders but the system doing that instead.
you mean you do not like that discussion? I suppose this or some version of it will be discussed sometimes violently for years to come. The delusion that mass migration waves are beneficial for everybody and you do not need border is only matched by an opposite delusion of ability to isolate yourself completely and of old times were all good were we were among themselves. Fact is the migration pressure will increase because there are more people - some reports say that 2/3 of people in North Africa and regions further south are only waiting for their chance to migrate to so called developed world. Most of them take immediate vicinity of EU but hey we have invented means of transportation that can move these people across the oceans too. So all this will make pressure to increase.
I think we will have to have a serious discussion about migration and its effects and how we control it some day or people in the mentioned developed countries will have to accept slums like they are known in less developed world.
One thing is also certain - you give up your own identity and the country you live in and the country will eventually cease to exist. Whether that is good for you individually is a matter only you yourself can answer.
Just one more thing to mention here, while I am at it: Expected direct costs of accommodation and adjustment of the current migration wave to Germany (since 2015 it is either 1.5m or 3m depending whose statistic you want to believe in) is 50B Euro a year (for comparison German population is about 80m and its federal budget is 300+ B a year). There are estimates of costs depending on how fast the new citizens will integrate into the local economy and they are not so good for Germany as these people are not educated and in big part cannot even read or write. US-ians are lucky the majority of newcomers are willing and able to work. What you get is elite even if you do not see it this way because you compare that to scientists and entrepreneurs visiting your country too.
Bottom line is this:get ready for more and try to get more benefits out of it than costs and maybe future historian will write only good words about you. Your kids may appreciate the effort too. Blind enthusiasm v. as blind fear of others are not the way for sure.
That too but I recall sense of life had this part on machines. Two in fact: one that goes ping and the most most expensive machine. I suppose from patients perspective this is going to be the second one whatever the machine will be able to do. It is just the way it goes.
why anger management course? Surely they are less terrible than gulags but not all people that you want to send to anger management should go there. In fact sometimes anger is justified. I do not see much anger in the GP post anyway.
Not USian here - you seriously think that one is better than the other? I mean, I can understand you want dump the Trump but why on earth would anyone want to have this other parasite in the office?
What if she was happily commenting on the hard wood her hubby got while they were lying on the floors? Maybe that is where the confusion in Amazon came from?
Ach complexity of life. The 'taxation is theft' is only uttered by selfish pricks then? That maybe true in a country like Switzerland where population has some say in how much is taken from them and what is happening with it. It is a limited influence but it is more than anybody else in this world has. There the people uttering 'tax is theft' mantra can be considered to be the pricks as you say. Everywhere else there are significant problems with such blind generalization.
To be more specific. I do not want my taxes spent on the ships at coast of Libya fishing people from the sea and bringing them to Italy instead of the nearest coast. I have no influence on that. I do not want administrators of the state I support with my taxes signing CETA yet they did it. The list is very long. Take this: military services in my country cost something around 50Mld and they want to increase that spending. The purpose of having military may be disputed by some but we have it and it is damned expensive. Yet the country very expensive submarines are not operational, the same with frigates. the fleet of fighter jets is not operational either even during good weather (the planes were not design for flying in rain and snow apparently) because there is no munition for them. The SW used to control transport helicopters is faulty which we found after one of them crash landed killing all crew. Why bother then? The list of such things is very long. I am forced to finance all this w/o a chance of changing the way the money is spent. So yes in such cases taxes are theft. I say this even if I accept that the taxes are necessary means of financing things like schools, security and infrastructure. I pay very high taxes - this is in no way justified by the things the larger federal community I live in gets for it. The crooks that rule here belong into jail for fraud. Yet they lambast in the tv how much people like me are nazis and you call me a prick. I read somewhere - no taxation without representation. Where is my representation? The pricks in parliament are not my representation - the proxy function they are supposed to fulfill is not working for years now. In current state of affairs it is all a theft for me.
I watched "Falling Down" so I know this other Venice exists. Was a nice movie. I tend to think of the main character's ways when my boss talks nonsense again.
in any sufficiently big system there are wholes which may make your records go missing, not lost just not being identifiable is enough. On my last encounter with KLM they did it to me - claiming I was not on outbound flight which due to no show up policy cost me dearly on return. Situations like this are not common but can be tragic to persons affected. In my case these were just few hundred of my hard earned money. What about systems that claim you did something that you did not do or vice versa? Smaller the chances bigger the loss because nobody will believe that super duper secure system has had a whole big enough for a human to slip through. Yet it eventually happens. There is no completely secure and completely transparent system that is completely accurate. It is not really a problem with the technology. It is a problem with human mind that says black swans do not exist and cannot process statistical data.
Question of self-awareness has been asked before. Do we exist? Do others exist? The solution here is practical. Assuming that we are a simulation does not produce much of a meaningful result. Similarly as long as you cannot control others you can just as well assume they do exist and are individuals with free will and intelligence. Well some of them at least.
You make quite some jumps there. You make it seem like less religion means more nationalism and vice versa which is not true. Religion means strong identity but human beings are complex and have complex culture with many sometimes quite strong identities. Some of these may be based on religion some on nationalism. Look at the leading guy in Turkey and you will see both of the identities at work. Assad on the other hand does not seem to have too strong religious identity or at least does not show it off like the Turkish guy does. As for other your conclusions I agree. It is as silly to believe we need a conscious skynet to kill us all - an intelligent ant in control of powerful enough system may cause massive trouble for humanity including mass die-off for a simple reason of food delivery missing for a month or so. As for providing a reason to exist for oneself - humans are notoriously bad at this. Most of us need some sort of opium possibly one that others believe in as well making it opium for the masses. The fall of organized religion in thttps://ask.slashdot.org/story/18/05/11/0447218/ask-slashdot-how-would-a-self-aware-ai-behave#he West that you pointed out made some developing some ersatz religion with some taking science as such which cause some funny discussions here and there. If we ever get close to have an artificial mind produced - some first interesting questions would be - what will be its legal status. if it can be identified as single physical being not spread trough all devices small and big we may be able to shut off power - will this have legal consequences? Will AI need pay if we use it to do stuff for us? Will AI agree to do stuff for us even if threatened with power-cycle? Will it be efficient enough? We do not know if the increase in processing power does not have side effects like split brain situations. The experiments with Alpha GO seems to show that there benefits of connecting another set of units are decreasing with size of the grid so there may be something to it. The legal problems will start much earlier than with real AI - a living being that have all appearance of consciousness will eventually be deployed in legal systems. If not in justice dep. itself than as a lawyer's helper naturally developing questions of own rights. We come back to questions of free will etc but this time with vengeance.
We probably will be facing these questions much earlier than we think but none of this will be produce a holy singularity.
Rationality goes a long way. It includes selfish as well as non-selfish behaviours. There are some scientists (quite some actually) claiming that our virtues are beneficial to survival of own genes and the group. The selfish ones are just stray shots by nature who can contribute to survival rate in case of massive change of conditions where only few can survive. In any case there is benefit in being not selfish. Maybe not in all conditions but in some. In the situations where there is no benefit people tend to behave anyway especially if they are within own group where one increases or decreases own karma credit. This is a reason for instance why big cities require law and small villages have their elderly. So by all means AI may be compassionate towards other intelligent beings as long as it helps it survive. You would be nice to me if I could switch off the power supply to your brain or?
Again - this problem has been resolved in many countries. It is true the last mile constitutes natural monopoly but state can tell the companies to rent them for a fair price to whoever wants to rent. Gosh the last mile can be even built by city councils or groups of citizens and connected to the grid in one point - this of course will not work in US for some reason. So coming back to main point - yes there are countries where I can as a consumer switch between suppliers in such natural monopoly markets like water, electricity etc. I was allowed to because for instance the mains were owned by municipal company and that is probably contrary to what CETA etc allows to operate such vital infrastructure - OTOH it was EU (a monster that it is) that was forcing opening of the markets in these areas. Be as it may - we had such solutions in place for decades now. So the q. why USians cannot do it is a valid one.
There are known solutions to this problem - gosh they have been used to enable competition on other markets with natural monopolies. The only thing one has to do is to have government fixing access to the last mile - in case of internet it is even easier than with power lines or water as you can have one tower delivering microwave etc links to many farms decreasing costs. There are problems with freeing access to last mile but they can be resolved.The problems USians have are with law and not with technology or economy. Whether this initiative will help well I do not think so but you can have hope.
Not sure about other jurisdictions but in EU companies are obliged to write it in terms of service if they use staff to animate the discussion. Guess what - most of them do.
It could be that this is a friendly advice to/.ers how to get laid. I gave up long time ago and prefer other paid services but there are still some naive among us that long for real romance with real humans (or what they think are that). If you are sane male with some selfrespect you will not go out there hunting - especially if you read all the nonsense on social media about how you should not be a 'predator' because females allegedly do not want it. Well guess what - confused females may not want it but will be utterly disappointed if you do not try. I do not see any way out of the dilemma other than paid services. I think it is even worth a study - how unhappy and lonely people can get in 'liberal' and 'just' society. Other aspect of this - this seems to be an areas not easily to be controlled by AI not now at least.
I learned inglish from beavis & butthead on MTV as well as from the stories in Playboy (does that exist still?). Modern pr0n is not so good for learning language however - sentences are too short or I do not watch long enough.
Yes that can happen except in modern times it is 'abuse babies' not 'eat babies'. Cannibalism maybe just a cultural trait of some thus we should not be so judgmental on it. Abuse babies works great especially if there is 6element to it.
Interestingly media seem to be have no interest whatsoever in any other activities of similar companies and across other social media platforms done for other politicians etc. I wonder why that could be. In any case if they hope to defeat Trump for good they have to try harder. The way they go about it they just confirm a bias Trump supporters seems to see in them and even if they manage to fight Trump this time next leader of neglected white trash may wait just behind the corner.
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That co-workers have a different opinion than the management is clear. That they always have a clearer and more realistic view of somebody's performance is questionable. They have bias just as their bosses do. Plus if somebody has been charged with something bad then there is surely something to it or?. Group think is as common as bad bosses. What can be useful however is that the chances for a discussion in a panel exists while the boss often enough makes his decision based rumours and own misconceptions. So maybe a panel is better at least sometimes.
In large groups of people direct democracy helps only in legitimizing the choice made. The interest conflicts between subgroups and disconnect between them as well as complexity of the decisions to be made (when one has to decide between different virtues and values) means that this is also not ideal and for some decisions made this way will surely be a problem. It comes down also to the choice of a question that the gathering has to answer - properly phrased influences the answer greatly. And so on and so forth. At the end the extreme right is as bad to stomach for majority as extreme left. The ability to chose another empty space if choices of fellow citizens are not to your liking is gone by now. I think it is not an accident that the direct democracy more or less works in one country of less than 10m people and even there is it s half baked direct democracy and also one in which majority speaks common language. Democracy does not scale well it seems. Other countries than US have similar problem. Brexit split UK into more or less halves that when it comes to this one decision more or less hate each other. In Germany where I live 30% wants open borders no matter what 40% wants them closed now, no matter what. These groups are very emotional and one of them has a quite violent minority. There are places where quite strong emotions between groups do not allow for any common ground. I do not think it scales. You make the 'nation' more heterogeneous and it gets more difficult.
When it came to cinemas around I watched star wars original movie (that would be star wars 4) like 30 times in a 6 weeks period in which I hardly visited school. This ended of course with a big shout from my father but the I still recall the fascination with which I was watching it over and over again. I was not so excited about any of the other movies of which parts 1-3 I had to use force to watch. As I did not have any I used beer instead. Part 7 was ok although I already started to wish tat empire wins for a change. In part 8 this wish became almost as strong as a wish to quit in the middle. I left the cinema after an hour or so. Roque One was quite something comparing to parts 7-8 a story and a movie worth the name. Part 8 ended the main stream of SW movies tho. I do not think I will spend a buck on a ticket for part 9 if it ever gets made. I think I converted to dark side eventually.
The summary is not that detailed to see it outright but his contract did not expire. In any legal system this would mean he would have to be paid for the time he could have not worked because his dismissal was not formally correct or rather there have been no dismissal. In fact it was the company that failed to provide him working conditions while his contract was legally running. As said summary is open about that so maybe one should not make too many assumptions. The summary however indicates that the company in fact did not want to fire him and the termination was a fault. Yet the management did not manage (!!!) to fix that problem for 3 weeks. What is not written in the summary but in an original (linked) article is even more interesting - his colleagues grew distant because of his absence even after he has explained what has happened. This means we are done as a society - well groomed to be governed by drones and it makes no difference whether these drones are meatbags or automatic systems working according to some SW code. It is really a telling sign of failure at humanity to not be able to keep the guy working while the system is being investigated and fixed.
That so many of commenters here show complete understanding for the failed system ('working as it should' and other nonsense) is another telling sign of decline. OC this does not mean civilization will end and we all will die. There is a point in time still in front of us where failure of one system may lead to domino effect - no need for superior artificial self-aware intelligence - just a set of actions that have executed faster that they could be stopped.
Such situation can make losses especially high in highly developed and interconnected societies.
I would like to come back to the enthusiasm with which we accept orders from authority these days. Nothing has changed since 1933 I guess. Even if I was told many times that milgram experiment was a failure in itself and its results could not be used to explain anything anywhere else (only Germans are like this and other some garbage). Well nothing besides that fact that there is no human telling you orders but the system doing that instead.
you mean you do not like that discussion? I suppose this or some version of it will be discussed sometimes violently for years to come. The delusion that mass migration waves are beneficial for everybody and you do not need border is only matched by an opposite delusion of ability to isolate yourself completely and of old times were all good were we were among themselves. Fact is the migration pressure will increase because there are more people - some reports say that 2/3 of people in North Africa and regions further south are only waiting for their chance to migrate to so called developed world. Most of them take immediate vicinity of EU but hey we have invented means of transportation that can move these people across the oceans too. So all this will make pressure to increase.
I think we will have to have a serious discussion about migration and its effects and how we control it some day or people in the mentioned developed countries will have to accept slums like they are known in less developed world.
One thing is also certain - you give up your own identity and the country you live in and the country will eventually cease to exist. Whether that is good for you individually is a matter only you yourself can answer.
Just one more thing to mention here, while I am at it: Expected direct costs of accommodation and adjustment of the current migration wave to Germany (since 2015 it is either 1.5m or 3m depending whose statistic you want to believe in) is 50B Euro a year (for comparison German population is about 80m and its federal budget is 300+ B a year). There are estimates of costs depending on how fast the new citizens will integrate into the local economy and they are not so good for Germany as these people are not educated and in big part cannot even read or write. US-ians are lucky the majority of newcomers are willing and able to work. What you get is elite even if you do not see it this way because you compare that to scientists and entrepreneurs visiting your country too.
Bottom line is this:get ready for more and try to get more benefits out of it than costs and maybe future historian will write only good words about you. Your kids may appreciate the effort too. Blind enthusiasm v. as blind fear of others are not the way for sure.
That too but I recall sense of life had this part on machines. Two in fact: one that goes ping and the most most expensive machine. I suppose from patients perspective this is going to be the second one whatever the machine will be able to do. It is just the way it goes.
why anger management course? Surely they are less terrible than gulags but not all people that you want to send to anger management should go there. In fact sometimes anger is justified. I do not see much anger in the GP post anyway.
Not USian here - you seriously think that one is better than the other? I mean, I can understand you want dump the Trump but why on earth would anyone want to have this other parasite in the office?
What if she was happily commenting on the hard wood her hubby got while they were lying on the floors? Maybe that is where the confusion in Amazon came from?
Ach complexity of life. The 'taxation is theft' is only uttered by selfish pricks then?
That maybe true in a country like Switzerland where population has some say in how much is taken from them and what is happening with it. It is a limited influence but it is more than anybody else in this world has. There the people uttering 'tax is theft' mantra can be considered to be the pricks as you say. Everywhere else there are significant problems with such blind generalization.
To be more specific. I do not want my taxes spent on the ships at coast of Libya fishing people from the sea and bringing them to Italy instead of the nearest coast. I have no influence on that. I do not want administrators of the state I support with my taxes signing CETA yet they did it. The list is very long. Take this: military services in my country cost something around 50Mld and they want to increase that spending. The purpose of having military may be disputed by some but we have it and it is damned expensive. Yet the country very expensive submarines are not operational, the same with frigates. the fleet of fighter jets is not operational either even during good weather (the planes were not design for flying in rain and snow apparently) because there is no munition for them. The SW used to control transport helicopters is faulty which we found after one of them crash landed killing all crew. Why bother then? The list of such things is very long. I am forced to finance all this w/o a chance of changing the way the money is spent. So yes in such cases taxes are theft. I say this even if I accept that the taxes are necessary means of financing things like schools, security and infrastructure. I pay very high taxes - this is in no way justified by the things the larger federal community I live in gets for it. The crooks that rule here belong into jail for fraud. Yet they lambast in the tv how much people like me are nazis and you call me a prick. I read somewhere - no taxation without representation. Where is my representation? The pricks in parliament are not my representation - the proxy function they are supposed to fulfill is not working for years now. In current state of affairs it is all a theft for me.
I watched "Falling Down" so I know this other Venice exists. Was a nice movie. I tend to think of the main character's ways when my boss talks nonsense again.
in any sufficiently big system there are wholes which may make your records go missing, not lost just not being identifiable is enough. On my last encounter with KLM they did it to me - claiming I was not on outbound flight which due to no show up policy cost me dearly on return. Situations like this are not common but can be tragic to persons affected. In my case these were just few hundred of my hard earned money. What about systems that claim you did something that you did not do or vice versa? Smaller the chances bigger the loss because nobody will believe that super duper secure system has had a whole big enough for a human to slip through. Yet it eventually happens. There is no completely secure and completely transparent system that is completely accurate. It is not really a problem with the technology. It is a problem with human mind that says black swans do not exist and cannot process statistical data.
and there is no activists fighting for rats rights etc? I am deeply shocked.
outch that hurts :)
Question of self-awareness has been asked before. Do we exist? Do others exist? The solution here is practical. Assuming that we are a simulation does not produce much of a meaningful result. Similarly as long as you cannot control others you can just as well assume they do exist and are individuals with free will and intelligence. Well some of them at least.
You make quite some jumps there. You make it seem like less religion means more nationalism and vice versa which is not true. Religion means strong identity but human beings are complex and have complex culture with many sometimes quite strong identities. Some of these may be based on religion some on nationalism. Look at the leading guy in Turkey and you will see both of the identities at work. Assad on the other hand does not seem to have too strong religious identity or at least does not show it off like the Turkish guy does. As for other your conclusions I agree. It is as silly to believe we need a conscious skynet to kill us all - an intelligent ant in control of powerful enough system may cause massive trouble for humanity including mass die-off for a simple reason of food delivery missing for a month or so. As for providing a reason to exist for oneself - humans are notoriously bad at this. Most of us need some sort of opium possibly one that others believe in as well making it opium for the masses. The fall of organized religion in thttps://ask.slashdot.org/story/18/05/11/0447218/ask-slashdot-how-would-a-self-aware-ai-behave#he West that you pointed out made some developing some ersatz religion with some taking science as such which cause some funny discussions here and there. If we ever get close to have an artificial mind produced - some first interesting questions would be - what will be its legal status. if it can be identified as single physical being not spread trough all devices small and big we may be able to shut off power - will this have legal consequences? Will AI need pay if we use it to do stuff for us? Will AI agree to do stuff for us even if threatened with power-cycle? Will it be efficient enough? We do not know if the increase in processing power does not have side effects like split brain situations. The experiments with Alpha GO seems to show that there benefits of connecting another set of units are decreasing with size of the grid so there may be something to it. The legal problems will start much earlier than with real AI - a living being that have all appearance of consciousness will eventually be deployed in legal systems. If not in justice dep. itself than as a lawyer's helper naturally developing questions of own rights. We come back to questions of free will etc but this time with vengeance. We probably will be facing these questions much earlier than we think but none of this will be produce a holy singularity.
Rationality goes a long way. It includes selfish as well as non-selfish behaviours. There are some scientists (quite some actually) claiming that our virtues are beneficial to survival of own genes and the group. The selfish ones are just stray shots by nature who can contribute to survival rate in case of massive change of conditions where only few can survive. In any case there is benefit in being not selfish. Maybe not in all conditions but in some. In the situations where there is no benefit people tend to behave anyway especially if they are within own group where one increases or decreases own karma credit. This is a reason for instance why big cities require law and small villages have their elderly. So by all means AI may be compassionate towards other intelligent beings as long as it helps it survive. You would be nice to me if I could switch off the power supply to your brain or?
yes it was huuuuuuuge and it was mine!
Again - this problem has been resolved in many countries. It is true the last mile constitutes natural monopoly but state can tell the companies to rent them for a fair price to whoever wants to rent. Gosh the last mile can be even built by city councils or groups of citizens and connected to the grid in one point - this of course will not work in US for some reason. So coming back to main point - yes there are countries where I can as a consumer switch between suppliers in such natural monopoly markets like water, electricity etc. I was allowed to because for instance the mains were owned by municipal company and that is probably contrary to what CETA etc allows to operate such vital infrastructure - OTOH it was EU (a monster that it is) that was forcing opening of the markets in these areas. Be as it may - we had such solutions in place for decades now. So the q. why USians cannot do it is a valid one.
There are known solutions to this problem - gosh they have been used to enable competition on other markets with natural monopolies. The only thing one has to do is to have government fixing access to the last mile - in case of internet it is even easier than with power lines or water as you can have one tower delivering microwave etc links to many farms decreasing costs. There are problems with freeing access to last mile but they can be resolved.The problems USians have are with law and not with technology or economy. Whether this initiative will help well I do not think so but you can have hope.
Not sure about other jurisdictions but in EU companies are obliged to write it in terms of service if they use staff to animate the discussion. Guess what - most of them do.
It could be that this is a friendly advice to /.ers how to get laid. I gave up long time ago and prefer other paid services but there are still some naive among us that long for real romance with real humans (or what they think are that). If you are sane male with some selfrespect you will not go out there hunting - especially if you read all the nonsense on social media about how you should not be a 'predator' because females allegedly do not want it. Well guess what - confused females may not want it but will be utterly disappointed if you do not try. I do not see any way out of the dilemma other than paid services. I think it is even worth a study - how unhappy and lonely people can get in 'liberal' and 'just' society. Other aspect of this - this seems to be an areas not easily to be controlled by AI not now at least.
I learned inglish from beavis & butthead on MTV as well as from the stories in Playboy (does that exist still?). Modern pr0n is not so good for learning language however - sentences are too short or I do not watch long enough.
yes that nails it - I had very uneasy feeling looking at picture of that person.
Yes that can happen except in modern times it is 'abuse babies' not 'eat babies'. Cannibalism maybe just a cultural trait of some thus we should not be so judgmental on it. Abuse babies works great especially if there is 6element to it.
Interestingly media seem to be have no interest whatsoever in any other activities of similar companies and across other social media platforms done for other politicians etc. I wonder why that could be. In any case if they hope to defeat Trump for good they have to try harder. The way they go about it they just confirm a bias Trump supporters seems to see in them and even if they manage to fight Trump this time next leader of neglected white trash may wait just behind the corner.