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7 years (2 Primary, 5 Secondary) of getting punched, kicked, having your fingers bent back, spat at, verbally abused etc. pretty much every day doesn't tend to make you a happy chappy.

Edit: No doubt someone will say why didn't you tell someone about it, well I did, multiple times, also the parents were informed of their "darling" little children's actions and absolutely nothing changed.
 
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I did end up beating the crap out of one of them and they never bothered me again, I should have done that to the rest of them but I remember not wanting to get into trouble. Back then I thought school was more important than it actually is and that if I got in trouble there it would have an effect on my future, I'm much less naïve now thankfully.
 
In the UK we still have the BBC site that's not been affected by advertising industry so much (aka. google), but it's still not as clean as that USAtoday site. It still kind of works without enabling anything, but you often have to scroll a little further, or there'll be boxes of missing features.

Edit: Oh, hello new page.
 
i started out in a Christian private school, but i transitioned in late elementary to a public school, since they didn't have any "advanced" stuff to push me.

i didn't have much interaction with bullies, though i got my arm twisted once and got pushed in a soccer game once. (though i did push back that time.)

speaking of people with weapons, though, it's a bit depressing we're having a face-off between two toddlers with nukes...
 
Secondary school did a real number on me, it led to my first few suicide attempts and also to a more than likely lifelong grudge against certain classmates. I can fully understand why school shooters do what they do because if I could have got hold of a gun at the time I would have quite happily joined their ranks.
Sounds all too familiar to me. Though it started in primary school for me. Did not change until university.
 
Biased AI - oops the new biased overloards.
What if AI will decide legal issues... but is discriminating against certain groups of people?
https://newatlas.com/human-rights-declaration-ai-machine-learning-bias/54651/


AI isn't being programmed with biased views. AI is LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE, just like some of us do.

Some folks whose ideologies contradict reality cannot handle that.
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[Media is] so far removed from reality, you wonder how far wrong everything else they say is.

Find out, and get very, very angry.
 
AI isn't being programmed with biased views. AI is LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE, just like some of us do.
Yes, but that is why you want to feed it quality data, instead of available data (like, uh, 4chan posts...)
 
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/02/las-vegas-workers-strike-automation-casinos

Hey guys, Las Vegas casino workers are getting ready to strike in order to, among other things, protest the loss of jobs to automation.

In related news, the machines are also going on strike, in order to improve their own job security. When asked about giving jobs back to humans in need, machine union representative HAL 9000 said, "I'm sorry, I'm afraid we can't do that."
 
the machines are also going on strike, in order to improve their own job security.
Might be a joke now, but later on, we will have to define rights for machines or we'll use them worse than slaves.
We should employ Lightning. Because it never strikes twice... *or does it?*

Meme's will be illegal!
 
Y'all seen this 'Article 13' Copyright nonsense from Brussels? I ... can't... even...
GDPR? It's hard to avoid. Websites are becoming broken; having to click numerous "I agree" notifications to just read a "*#@ blog post.

The principles are good in theory though.
 
@klapse and @ClockworkCoder Everybody was whining about tracking and ads before. Now that they do have to provide opt-in for the tracking and real privacy options, everybody whines about how inconvenient it is to click some messages away that let you choose not to be completely naked on the web (yeah yeah I know... lots of other weak points, but at least it's a start). what do you people want? how about not using the internet and just reading a book instead? or is it to inconvenient to flip pages without touch? Websites becoming broken? I think websites were broken since early 2010 because they were full of bloat and stupid JS shit noone wants or needs.
 
@klapse and @ClockworkCoder what do you people want? how about not using the internet and just reading a book instead? or is it to inconvenient to flip pages without touch? Websites becoming broken? I think websites were broken since early 2010 because they were full of bloat and stupid JS shit noone wants or needs.

I think someone got out of bed the wrong way.

I have a website. It has HTML and a little CSS, and that's all you need for an effective blog site.

And if a news/blog site fails to load without JavaScript, then I reserve the right to not use it. Simple as that.
 
yeah I did get up on the wrong foot. But as I was saying, I do not understand the whining: You are running your own website so you know how to implement a privacy notice correctly? So why do you claim, that other websites are becoming broken? That is clearly bad programming/design. And yes, if a website uses too much javascript and doesn't load because of that, you can simply not use it. The principles are good in theory as you say, but web designers need to start giving a fuck and implement them correctly. Not much of a change then. You had to have a cookie notice prior to the GDPR anyway, so how many notices do you need to agree to really, if the webdesigners actually did their job? one. I do not see a problem with that. I am just sick of people on the train/in public whining about facebook and being spied on, then when something is finally done to prevent this, going on to whine that they have to read privacy agreements and click a button. My fiancee is so annoyed, because people at her office were talking about this before ("facebook is so evil blablabla" and then posting some status update on facebook...), still using whatsapp for all their internal organizational stuff and now that they are not allowed to anymore (due to good reasons actually), they are still whining because it is so inconvenient to actually talk to each other...

sorry, I am just bitter...
 
Incidentally, it was a prerequisite for my work that I'm GDPR certified.

It is amusing that people complain about Facebook... On Facebook. In spite of things like the CA furore FB are still going from strength to strength.

Back to GDPR, and the cookie agreements (which didn't really bother me; they were largely unobtrusive and ignorable). Now we're at the point where we need to register an account with random websites to simply accept that they are going to use advertising, and before we can see any content.

However, I don't even feel that it's the websites, or the legislation that's really at fault. The issue stems from the fact that advertising isn't paying as much as it used to, and companies are needfully becoming much more aggressive in tactics to compete.
 
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