They tried to ban the packs of stolen nude pics from The Fappening and its encores but only managed to spread them more.

I suspect the same will happen to this application. The more bans the more publicity and thus more demand. Not the smartest idea.

I most certainly doubt that most people in any civilized country would be committing felonies on a daily basis, let alone 3. Misdemeanors perhaps but nobody would be using facial recognition to issue tickets for jaywalking or similar.

Exactly. We have a few cases that involve cops (both black and white but mostly white) shooting blacks for no sane reason, but considering the number of incidents in general encountered by law enforcement officers daily, this number is microscopic, and saying there is a general trend is basically racist.

They ban "hate speech" and define it (among others) as negative generalizations based on (among others) religion, and they ban "promotion of criminal activity", but if you post about Islamic terrorism (a very definite criminal activity) and how Islam itself promotes it, it gets flagged as "hate speech"?

So if a bunch of people that happens to share the same skin color, religion etc. perform criminal activity, you cannot mention it or criticize it without getting flagged, but it you flag their activities, Facebook allows it and calls it "practicing their religion" or "freedom of speech".

Actually, if the adaption is a matter of survival, societies will adapt very quickly.

I did exactly that as well. I used to fly the short jump between O'Hare (connecting flight) and Grand Rapids but now I prefer the 3 hour drive.

You'll find those mamils everywhere, especially when Tour de France is near... They ride like it's the last round on Champs-Élysées and they stop for nothing - not red lights and especially not pedestrians. They'll yell at you (no bell as it disturbs their aerodynamics or something) in the worst possible language for disturbing them in their zone or making their pulse go up or down or something.

and now he's an AI!

Seriously, get a thicker tinfoil hat.

I'd much rather have an AI watching my actions than some sleazy underpaid person that might abuse his privilege. AIs are still far from Skynet so they're as dumb as can be and will only do what they're trained for.

Now if you're habitually engaging in borderline behavior then perhaps you should rethink that. It might be a real cop that sees you and acts on what he thinks he's seeing, which might involve a gun or similar.

"...sending the message to people that they shouldn't just believe everything that they see on the internet."

Everybody knows that all truths can be found on t-shirts.

I have multiple accounts, all in my real name, in order to participate in political debates. This is due to getting blocked when someone gets too uncomfortable with the facts and report it. In case you didn't know Facebook routinely labels any criticism of migration and Islam as hate speech, and posting that will get you blocked when some snowflake complains. Facebook doesn't care about the facts - any criticism is hate speech in their world.

Neither solar nor wind are real alternatives yet. The wind doesn't always blow nor does the sun always shine.

We need reliable and very large scale storage of energy from surplus production so we can provide uninterrupted supply even at windless nights and similar. It must be able to deliver uninterrupted power regardless of the weather and it must scale rather aggressively as it have to provide for all the people in the developing world so they can achieve their middle class dreams without having to go through a century of 'black' energy.

We simply don't have that yet so it's either nuclear for a few more decades or stick with the coal and oil based energy.

Exactly... and without the cooperation of telecoms as well.

Most nations 'spy' on their own people and even share the information with their friends in NATO etc. When I say 'spy' I mean gather a lot of uncorrelated information that can be searched for specific identifiers at a later time. If you at some point become a person of interest then they can go back and look you up in the giant pile of uncorrelated data and see what you've been up to.

Now, given that your own intelligence service most certainly is spying on you regardless of what kind of phone you have, do you want the Chinese government spying on you as well?

If you want freedom you'll need to define it, create it, grab it and hold on to it.

Unfortunately, the world is full of people abusing this, creating their freedom at the cost of others freedom, or just denying freedom on some political or religious basis.

So in order to hold on to your freedom you'll need power, and as groups like government and criminals have all the the guns they want, you'll need your own or be literately outgunned. As government often use gun control laws to make sure they have a monopoly on guns, people needs new ways to get hold of guns in order to keep the balance.

Oh, and the usual comments about how peaceful countries with tough gun control laws are, it's a mirage. Yes, a lot fewer people are killed by guns but that is simply due to a lot fewer guns. If you instead calculate the number of gun death per gun, you'll get a very different picture.

In my country Denmark we have extremely restrictive gun laws and there are very few legal guns outside the police and military, and yet we have more than 100 gun deaths every year. There are less than a handful shot by legal guns (usually the police) and the rest are due to gangs shooting each other. The criminal world is full of guns, usually smuggled into the country. The really big factor here is that regular people don't have guns so when a criminal shows up with a gun, the criminal gets what he wants. Nobody shoots back and the criminals have a free-for-all. That is exactly why so few gets killed by guns - most of the time the gun doesn't even need to be loaded.

"We dance to the sound of sirens
We watch genocide to relax
We dance to the sound of sirens
We are the heroes of self-deception."
-- Covenant, "Theremin" (1994) --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Why not force the utilities to put their wires in the ground? - There no wind can blow them into trees or start fires.

Yes, it is possible. Here in Denmark more than 98% of all power lines are in the ground, from residential supply to major trunk lines. Yes, it costs more money but electrical power is not much more expensive here so it evens out.

Sure, dumb contractors sometimes don't bother reading the maps and dig into them and then they learn their lesson the hard way.