That Anonymous Coward (profile), 5 Oct 2021 @ 12:51pm
Re: Re:
There were also government regulations when Peanut Corporation of America opened a factory they never divulged & never had inspected as they killed people across the country with their peanut salmonella.
I wasn't trying whataboutism consciously, I was just pointing out that the demands of regulation and do something are never evenly applied.
Its addictive to kids & bad for them... and?
So are video games, pron, and a long list of things throughout history, some actually are some are not.
I grow weary of people demanding more laws on everyone because a baby can't eat a steak without choking.
We need to have devices in all new cars to remind parents their kids are in the back seat.
We need to ban flavored vapes b/c kids & those who needed lung transplants (because we still refuse to admit those people were smoking illegal THC vapes & insist it was a regular vape that did it.)
The pretend game that Insta invented anorexia, bulimia, bullying, fomo, addiction, and everything else bad is tiresome.
Perhaps the greatest problem in all of this is somehow parents/congress seem to think that corporations are supposed to give a shit about people above their bottom line.
Equifax destroyed peoples lives & handed out credit monitoring which does nothing to fix the massive debt they can end up on the hook for because Equifax handed out their identity.
American Home Products had an idea that FenPhen might be bad.
Sackler Family... Oxycontin they still have most of their money.
Insys Therapeutics Inc. 5.5 yrs 250,000 fine for destroying peoples lives & killing them with Subsys.
At some point it would be nice if the first response was, parent your child. Perhaps giving your 13 yr old a $2000 phone with unlimited access to any app they want & never checking in on them actually is child abuse. Depending on a corporation to protect your child when they aren't a daycare provider you are paying is insane.
Perhaps if people could define the problem in actual terms without predeciding it is all going to be FB's fault it would be less dishonest.
Kids had problems before FB was ever a twinkle in Zucks mind, we never did much about them back then & now suddenly when you can blame the big boogeyman for all the problems & demand they solve them for the good of society as long as society doesn't need to do anything.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 5 Oct 2021 @ 12:21pm
Maybe someday we might have those alleged rights given up back & live in a nation where when those with power do these sorts of things actually get punished.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 5 Oct 2021 @ 9:58am
Wow they managed to send up spy planes with dirt boxes & spy on anyone remotely related to BLM, but no one ever looked at the the guys with the SS tattoos next to them?
I look forward to more weasel words from unions & politicians claiming that this doesn;t reflect the whole barrel of rotten apples & how they take it seriously.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 5 Oct 2021 @ 9:51am
stares
Watching the testimony to Congress.
There is something unhinged about Ted Cruz complaining about political censorship and false information when he wouldn't know the truth if it took him on a sunny warm vacation while his state froze.
When so many of the members speaking support the Big Lie, and stamping their feet about misinformation & the harm caused by what FB is doing while they were calling it the kung flu.
Its addictive to kids & bad for them... and?
Take a walk down the cereal aisle with me, lets hit the candy aisle next.
The whistleblower talking about how taking care of this sort of problem is her jam & they need to have a government agency to do the things on her action list.
'If Facebook won't support the kids, we need to support the parents to support the kids."
So we need to pass laws to make FB parent better than parents.
Maybe I'm just confused... usually whistleblower trials in Congress are used to demonize the whistleblower & pretend the bad things aren't that bad even as people are falling over dead.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 4 Oct 2021 @ 7:18pm
Re: Re:
You turned control of the vehicle over to a "beta" AI, that there are a few known issues with... after you signed an NDA that you wouldn't/couldn't tell anyone outside of Tesla if the AI decided to plow through a kindergarten playground???
Thats a nice Tesla you have... pity it has to sit in your backyard since no insurance company will cover it.
And even if they improve the AI, its going to be a while before any of them will want to touch them.
It ran down 6 people, vehicles, and a dog...
In the other clip the AI decided to pursue humans trying to legally cross the street.
Given the number of assholes doing the sleep thing while the car drives on the freeway, you can't convince me everyone trying out the full self driving will actually be paying full attention even knowing that other drivers have been screwed over it, they will assume they'll be okay (because it won't happen to them).
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 4 Oct 2021 @ 4:20pm
Something something the hold my beer race again is unable to learn from its history.
Someone wanna mail Elon a copy of 'Unsafe at Any Speed'?
NDA might keep drivers from talking, up until they find out that they are being personally held responsible for harming/killing people.
Pretty sure auto insurance companies aren't listing shitty AI as an authorized driver, which will leave the fanbois in the very very poor house.
If only we had some sort of agency charged with protecting the public on the roads who could do something about this.
But obviously this isn't as important as the liberal conspiracy to silence conservatives online, so its not important enough to pursue.
I mean they already killed 700K people who didn't need to die, how many can Tesla's manage to kill until they get it fixed?
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 4 Oct 2021 @ 11:26am
The things unindicted co-conspirators will do trying to distract from an investigation about how deeply he was involved in trying to overthrow the government.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 4 Oct 2021 @ 11:23am
Simple solution.
Demand the number of cases resulting in conviction from using this sort of shit.
The number is going to be very low, leaving questions about why they are using them so often when the resulting data gathered doesn't do anything useful.
One can understand why in some cases altering a target might be a bad thing, but it is also a very bad thing when they can just fire these letters off, get whatever they want, and then have nothing to show for it.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 2 Oct 2021 @ 10:27am
Re: Re:
I don't think its even the money at this point.
So many people have bought into the vote for them because they are the only thing standing between us and those commie bastards and women being forced to abort.
As long as they can get the blessing of the Trump, idiots will vote for people who helped kill off 700K people because Trump said it was just like the flu & for some reason they can't believe their own eyes over the lies they bought into.
Cocaine Mitch's state is in the bottom of so many rankings, yet they keep putting him back in office when he's never kept a single promise to make things better for them.
I had such high hopes for the pandemic, but those who claimed it was faked got the shots first, hid they got the shots, and fed more people into the woodchipper.
The Black Death was way more fun and helped fix the genepool for a while...
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 1 Oct 2021 @ 2:18pm
Re:
Govern yourself accordingly is always the give away.
Actual lawyers do stupid things like this because they expect that people will be scared of their bar card & degree. They send a pointless letter that makes the client happy, bills them more hours, and then never file a case (or if they do they pray the malpractice policy is paid up to date.)
At least he didn't welcome them to the big leagues.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 1 Oct 2021 @ 2:08pm
"Well, I don't think that is an answer to my question."
Its not, because your question makes no sense.
You have no idea what the fuck you are talking about & you should fire whichever staffer prepped you for making a complete ass of yourself in televised idiocy.
It is not a product or service despite whatever your brain has glommed onto as the next big horrible internet thing.
Somewhere there is a tree making oxygen for you, you should go fucking apologize.
You sit there in your smug judgement, oblivious that its possible you have made an error & still demand they do something about something that isn't what you believe it is.
DO YOU SMELL BURNING TOAST???
How the hell do we keep electing people who show us time and time again they are completely detached from reality, have no idea what they are doing, and often just make things worse to score points in some imaginary game in their head?
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 1 Oct 2021 @ 1:59pm
“We don’t need a conviction,” Jackson said. “We just need reasonable suspicion.”
Also know as how the law works for THOSE people.
“I don’t think that the landlords are evicting somebody based on a notice of arrest,” Castor said.
Have you asked or is what you think better than the reality your racist program is running amok?
How many letters have they sent out about the cops beating their wives and mistresses?
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 1 Oct 2021 @ 1:12am
This isn't why you signed up for YouTubeTv!!!
Correct, they signed up hoping that these bullshit tactics would stop but here we are again.
If they cut Google off and Google drops the price, they will have shot themselves in the dick.
They will try to strongarm other platforms who just say no & drop the price of their offering as well as they don't have the same amount of content.
And a smart company would then start pushing to offer true ala cart of the 14 channels, only charging customers for what they want & if they try another blackout game buhbye once again.
There is much more content out there that the streamers can tap into, they aren't like cable or OTA providers who are held hostage in these negotiations.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 1 Oct 2021 @ 1:00am
But no one would ever use it in this way. rolls his eyes
I wonder what would happen if we could still have unfettered access to the Lumin database & compile how many bogus complaints are submitted, then assign a dollar value to what it takes to handle them.
For all of the screaming about trillions of dollars lost, because a baby danced for a few seconds in which a song was hardly heard, showing the actual costs being inflicted by the industry using the shittist cheapest tactics would be a nice change of pace.
The system is abused, the system is not fair, the system is not balanced, and the rights we actually have, on paper, never seem to apply. Fair Use is a thing, parody is a thing, but to appease and industry who claims to lose trillions while their biggest films STILL are not profitable (Looking at you Empire Strikes Back) perhaps its time we demand better treatment.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 1 Oct 2021 @ 12:52am
Re: Re:
stares
Have you met the human race?
They think horse dewormer will keep them safe.
WSJ said it was Insta so Insta is at fault.
Faux said Facebook was against conservatives.
Congress said Facebook is responsible!
Its far easier to blame the thing rather than societies failures.
On the post: Rethinking Facebook: We Need To Make Sure That 'Good For The World' Is More Important Than 'Good For Facebook'
Re: Re:
There were also government regulations when Peanut Corporation of America opened a factory they never divulged & never had inspected as they killed people across the country with their peanut salmonella.
I wasn't trying whataboutism consciously, I was just pointing out that the demands of regulation and do something are never evenly applied.
Its addictive to kids & bad for them... and?
So are video games, pron, and a long list of things throughout history, some actually are some are not.
I grow weary of people demanding more laws on everyone because a baby can't eat a steak without choking.
We need to have devices in all new cars to remind parents their kids are in the back seat.
We need to ban flavored vapes b/c kids & those who needed lung transplants (because we still refuse to admit those people were smoking illegal THC vapes & insist it was a regular vape that did it.)
The pretend game that Insta invented anorexia, bulimia, bullying, fomo, addiction, and everything else bad is tiresome.
Perhaps the greatest problem in all of this is somehow parents/congress seem to think that corporations are supposed to give a shit about people above their bottom line.
Equifax destroyed peoples lives & handed out credit monitoring which does nothing to fix the massive debt they can end up on the hook for because Equifax handed out their identity.
American Home Products had an idea that FenPhen might be bad.
Sackler Family... Oxycontin they still have most of their money.
Insys Therapeutics Inc. 5.5 yrs 250,000 fine for destroying peoples lives & killing them with Subsys.
At some point it would be nice if the first response was, parent your child. Perhaps giving your 13 yr old a $2000 phone with unlimited access to any app they want & never checking in on them actually is child abuse. Depending on a corporation to protect your child when they aren't a daycare provider you are paying is insane.
Perhaps if people could define the problem in actual terms without predeciding it is all going to be FB's fault it would be less dishonest.
Kids had problems before FB was ever a twinkle in Zucks mind, we never did much about them back then & now suddenly when you can blame the big boogeyman for all the problems & demand they solve them for the good of society as long as society doesn't need to do anything.
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Maybe someday we might have those alleged rights given up back & live in a nation where when those with power do these sorts of things actually get punished.
(We covered I'm not mentally well right?)
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But they take our privacy seriously...
On the post: Hacked Data Exposes Law Enforcement Officers Who Joined Far-Right Oath Keepers Group
Wow they managed to send up spy planes with dirt boxes & spy on anyone remotely related to BLM, but no one ever looked at the the guys with the SS tattoos next to them?
I look forward to more weasel words from unions & politicians claiming that this doesn;t reflect the whole barrel of rotten apples & how they take it seriously.
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Oh damn... now how will they finance developing a hologram to jump over the Grand Canyon??
On the post: Rethinking Facebook: We Need To Make Sure That 'Good For The World' Is More Important Than 'Good For Facebook'
stares
Watching the testimony to Congress.
There is something unhinged about Ted Cruz complaining about political censorship and false information when he wouldn't know the truth if it took him on a sunny warm vacation while his state froze.
When so many of the members speaking support the Big Lie, and stamping their feet about misinformation & the harm caused by what FB is doing while they were calling it the kung flu.
Its addictive to kids & bad for them... and?
Take a walk down the cereal aisle with me, lets hit the candy aisle next.
The whistleblower talking about how taking care of this sort of problem is her jam & they need to have a government agency to do the things on her action list.
'If Facebook won't support the kids, we need to support the parents to support the kids."
So we need to pass laws to make FB parent better than parents.
Maybe I'm just confused... usually whistleblower trials in Congress are used to demonize the whistleblower & pretend the bad things aren't that bad even as people are falling over dead.
On the post: Tesla 'Self-Driving' NDA Hopes To Hide The Reality Of An Unfinished Product
Re: Re:
You turned control of the vehicle over to a "beta" AI, that there are a few known issues with... after you signed an NDA that you wouldn't/couldn't tell anyone outside of Tesla if the AI decided to plow through a kindergarten playground???
Thats a nice Tesla you have... pity it has to sit in your backyard since no insurance company will cover it.
And even if they improve the AI, its going to be a while before any of them will want to touch them.
It ran down 6 people, vehicles, and a dog...
In the other clip the AI decided to pursue humans trying to legally cross the street.
Given the number of assholes doing the sleep thing while the car drives on the freeway, you can't convince me everyone trying out the full self driving will actually be paying full attention even knowing that other drivers have been screwed over it, they will assume they'll be okay (because it won't happen to them).
On the post: Tesla 'Self-Driving' NDA Hopes To Hide The Reality Of An Unfinished Product
Re:
The AI deputized itself and did what cops do when they see a dog.
On the post: Tesla 'Self-Driving' NDA Hopes To Hide The Reality Of An Unfinished Product
Something something the hold my beer race again is unable to learn from its history.
Someone wanna mail Elon a copy of 'Unsafe at Any Speed'?
NDA might keep drivers from talking, up until they find out that they are being personally held responsible for harming/killing people.
Pretty sure auto insurance companies aren't listing shitty AI as an authorized driver, which will leave the fanbois in the very very poor house.
If only we had some sort of agency charged with protecting the public on the roads who could do something about this.
But obviously this isn't as important as the liberal conspiracy to silence conservatives online, so its not important enough to pursue.
I mean they already killed 700K people who didn't need to die, how many can Tesla's manage to kill until they get it fixed?
On the post: In Josh Hawley's World, People Should Be Able To Sue Facebook Both For Taking Down Stuff They Don't Like AND Leaving Up Stuff They Don't Like
The things unindicted co-conspirators will do trying to distract from an investigation about how deeply he was involved in trying to overthrow the government.
On the post: There May Be A New Boss At The DOJ, But The Government Still Loves Its Indefinite Gag Orders
Simple solution.
Demand the number of cases resulting in conviction from using this sort of shit.
The number is going to be very low, leaving questions about why they are using them so often when the resulting data gathered doesn't do anything useful.
One can understand why in some cases altering a target might be a bad thing, but it is also a very bad thing when they can just fire these letters off, get whatever they want, and then have nothing to show for it.
On the post: South Korean ISP Somehow Thinks Netflix Owes It Money Because Squid Game Is Popular
Netflix - No longer available on SK... lets see how long they last as customers move to a less insane isp.
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Re: Re:
I don't think its even the money at this point.
So many people have bought into the vote for them because they are the only thing standing between us and those commie bastards and women being forced to abort.
As long as they can get the blessing of the Trump, idiots will vote for people who helped kill off 700K people because Trump said it was just like the flu & for some reason they can't believe their own eyes over the lies they bought into.
Cocaine Mitch's state is in the bottom of so many rankings, yet they keep putting him back in office when he's never kept a single promise to make things better for them.
I had such high hopes for the pandemic, but those who claimed it was faked got the shots first, hid they got the shots, and fed more people into the woodchipper.
The Black Death was way more fun and helped fix the genepool for a while...
On the post: Ken Popehat White (Again) Shows How To Respond To A Completely Thuggish Legal Threat Letter
Re:
Govern yourself accordingly is always the give away.
Actual lawyers do stupid things like this because they expect that people will be scared of their bar card & degree. They send a pointless letter that makes the client happy, bills them more hours, and then never file a case (or if they do they pray the malpractice policy is paid up to date.)
At least he didn't welcome them to the big leagues.
On the post: Blumenthal's Finsta Debacle: It Remains Unacceptable That Our Politicians Are So Clueless About The Internet
"Well, I don't think that is an answer to my question."
Its not, because your question makes no sense.
You have no idea what the fuck you are talking about & you should fire whichever staffer prepped you for making a complete ass of yourself in televised idiocy.
It is not a product or service despite whatever your brain has glommed onto as the next big horrible internet thing.
Somewhere there is a tree making oxygen for you, you should go fucking apologize.
You sit there in your smug judgement, oblivious that its possible you have made an error & still demand they do something about something that isn't what you believe it is.
DO YOU SMELL BURNING TOAST???
How the hell do we keep electing people who show us time and time again they are completely detached from reality, have no idea what they are doing, and often just make things worse to score points in some imaginary game in their head?
On the post: Tampa Bay PD's 'Crime-Free Housing' Program Disproportionately Targeted Black Residents, Did Nothing To Reduce Crime
“We don’t need a conviction,” Jackson said. “We just need reasonable suspicion.”
Also know as how the law works for THOSE people.
“I don’t think that the landlords are evicting somebody based on a notice of arrest,” Castor said.
Have you asked or is what you think better than the reality your racist program is running amok?
How many letters have they sent out about the cops beating their wives and mistresses?
On the post: Google, NBC Bring Dumb Cable TV Blackout Feuds To Streaming
This isn't why you signed up for YouTubeTv!!!
Correct, they signed up hoping that these bullshit tactics would stop but here we are again.
If they cut Google off and Google drops the price, they will have shot themselves in the dick.
They will try to strongarm other platforms who just say no & drop the price of their offering as well as they don't have the same amount of content.
And a smart company would then start pushing to offer true ala cart of the 14 channels, only charging customers for what they want & if they try another blackout game buhbye once again.
There is much more content out there that the streamers can tap into, they aren't like cable or OTA providers who are held hostage in these negotiations.
On the post: Survey Confirms Los Angeles Sheriff's Department Is Still Home To Dangerous Gangs, Has No Solid Plan To Eliminate Them
But there are no bad apples in our barrels and there is no need for any review of any officers.
On the post: Copyright Continues To Be Abused To Censor Critics By Entities Both Big And Small
But no one would ever use it in this way.
rolls his eyes
I wonder what would happen if we could still have unfettered access to the Lumin database & compile how many bogus complaints are submitted, then assign a dollar value to what it takes to handle them.
For all of the screaming about trillions of dollars lost, because a baby danced for a few seconds in which a song was hardly heard, showing the actual costs being inflicted by the industry using the shittist cheapest tactics would be a nice change of pace.
The system is abused, the system is not fair, the system is not balanced, and the rights we actually have, on paper, never seem to apply. Fair Use is a thing, parody is a thing, but to appease and industry who claims to lose trillions while their biggest films STILL are not profitable (Looking at you Empire Strikes Back) perhaps its time we demand better treatment.
On the post: Facebook's Latest Scandals: The Banality Of Hubris; The Messiness Of Humanity
Re: Re:
stares
Have you met the human race?
They think horse dewormer will keep them safe.
WSJ said it was Insta so Insta is at fault.
Faux said Facebook was against conservatives.
Congress said Facebook is responsible!
Its far easier to blame the thing rather than societies failures.
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