Maybe a Chinese takeover of the UK before full Islamicisation wouldn't be so bad?

... Wenlian is a bit of a cold fish (badum ching!).

You're not getting them. Contrary to what you believe, rolling around in shit doesn't make you look sexy.

He's already waaay past that point.

Its quite incredible how damn near every other station will fearmonger the living FUCK out of society over the horrific problem of gun “violence”, and how we must DO something to stop all that harm (to include disarming the innocent), while also constantly parroting that we live in the mostest safest time to be alive ever?

Forget the suicide statistics they always overlook in gun arguments. Make the horrifically peaceful violence part make sense. We either have a problem in reality, or we don’t.

Your advice demands a certain level of economic stability.

In a Recession, that ATM theft happens in broad fucking daylight.

In a Depression, it’s the police robbing you.

This. A man’s wife passed and they both agreed to essentially donate her body to science. He wont even be alive IF they can ever reverse her condition.

Her body is the experiment. Not his life. People move on all the time. That’s life.

I see what you did there. Cold blooded move.

>"12345" topping their list while "123456" dominates among everyone else.

Not a SINGLE system I use, and I use a LOT of systems, would allow such a stupid password. Granted, there are also tons of systems that go extreme in the other direction with requiring FAR too complex (which is also incredibly stupid). And the stupidest of all is password aging.

A reasonable password, coupled with rate limiting and lockouts, is very secure. It will not be broken by brute force on the "outside" of properly-configured systems.

>"I just had trouble looking at a comment on one of my posts yesterday because I can't get through the Cloudflare bot detector."

I had the same problem yesterday and this morning. I could not open any direct links to postings. Period.

Ironic because I recently posted on Slashdot about how dangerous it is that all these sites are handing over their accessibility to a single huge company like Cloudflare, and complaining that Slashdot was throwing bot checks against me all the time in the last few weeks (which it had never done before).

>"Ban the collection of these types of information about individuals beyond what is necessary for performing a service -and ban keeping any collected data longer than is necessary for performing the specific service. No database = no database searches."

+100.

My issue is that I don't believe they will abide by any data collection retention limitations, use limitations, or other limitations; regardless of the rules/law. Especially if the three-letter agencies have a tie-in, they will do whatever they want. The only real way to prevent abuse is to not have those in use at all.

I really think this is a losing battle. People will almost always give up liberty and privacy for safety and convenience.

>"I just bought a new Ford Maverick for my business. It came with built in cellular data hardware -not optional. They say it is for diagnostics, updates, maps, and wifi-hotspot. It comes with the 1st year of data connectivity included. They want me to pay for additional years (no thanks!)"

^^ This
I bought a new Ariya earlier this year. All the hardware is already there. 3 years of service included, then you have to pay. You can opt out of data collection, and if you do, you lose half the "connected" features.

I heard earlier today that a court has determined that since governments are using all of this data, including license plates, that a FoIA request for all of the license plate data gathered from Flock in a city area for a range of dates was valid.

They want to have a power advantage over their serfs but turning their advantage into a burden changes that dynamic. Something to look into for those so inclined.

We seem to be well past the point of being able to expect them to follow the Law or "do the right thing".

> I see no reason why the government shouldn't be allowed to buy the same data that jim-bob the farmer can purchase.

Jim-bob is likely to face some serious problems if he smashes down your door and drags you away in a pre-dawn raid.

The IRS people get a promotion.

This is why the Constitution places strict limits on the actions of government agents.

(in its original interpretation)

rsilvergun has been screaming even louder about how AI as we have it now it's already the end of the world, and that society isn't "ready" for it until he says it is.

Funny coincidence, two hours ago I just finished two cavern dives in the very cenote complex in Playa del Carmen TFS alluded to. Some of the best diving I've done yet (comes really close to diving with tiger and bull sharks.) Currently on my second margarita while having a rest Doing another two cavern dives tomorrow.