Lol, you're an idiot and you're making an bad assumption. I brought up what they are getting from the gubmint because I'm upset they try to help at all and suck all the air outta the room. There was a lot more effective charity before Big Brother got involved.

Thanks for illustrating my point. Besides being ignorant fools, partisans would rather lie than be correct.

I doubt you login and get a giant Orange Man banner. However, this is typical of Leftists and other Partisans. They don't want to attack ideas, because they know their own ideas are weak and won't stand up to debate. They refuse to debate them and instead just use a smarmy attitude, when challenged. Whenever they get upset about someone's politics they try to smear them with some kind of personal attacks, get them fired, get them "canceled" or otherwise use more non-debate tactics. It's also why they love censorship just as much as the Right wing fascists. This is just simple ad-hominem.

Conservatives aren't any better since they want to control your bedroom and spy on you constantly "To stop the terrorists" or "protect the children" nor is the Left any more attractive, since they have have to protect their bad ideas from anyone uttering "Cultural Revolution", "Soviets", or "Pol Pot" then having to explain why their great ideas went straight into a murderous ditch whenever they were challenged. The Left is also now just as bad about warmongering (Ukraine) and war cheerleading. You know who didn't kill millions in a murderous rise to power? Yep. Libertarians and Anarchists. There are many instances where Socialists, Communists, and Fascists found it expedient to kill dissidents and censor debate. So all you partisans get to wear that. You're censors. You're warmongers. You're useful idiots. However, I bet you all think voting matters (hahaha!) and that your team matters, too, and makes a difference if you "win" an "election". When, in fact, there's barely any difference at all once you examine what they do rather than what they say (which is the part most Slashdotters seem to be stuck arguing about).

All great points. I'm not a history nor poly sci expert, but I thought I've heard that the Founding Fathers would rather 10 guilty people out loose, rather than one innocent person in prison. I wish we had a better system- one that strongly punished officials for any kind of misuse of power, rather than what we currently have: "qualified immunity". It sickens me that taxpayers not only pay for the entirety of the system and people staffing it, but we also pay for the awards of lawsuits for injustice.

We will never really know what the Founding Fathers' opinions would have been regarding technology. They didn't even have Morse Code. Speed of communication systems has massively changed society. Sometimes I think the Founding Fathers were so wise because they didn't have so much "stuff" moving so fast.

I absolutely agree with you, and also oppose these cameras. We need to get this word out more; I think most citizens will oppose them when they realize what's going on.

In my area at least, the cameras are aimed right at our faces- facial recognition, which I'm even more against.

It sure seems like a 4th Amendment violation, and IIRC a recent court (SCOTUS?) ruling ruled against this mass surveillance.

We citizens need a permit to plant a bush on our own property in some areas. Did Flock et al get permits? Was the public duly notified about the cameras, giving us a fair chance to oppose the cameras before they have been installed?

Sadly this country (as with others) is devolving into an "us against them" mess.

You forgot to hit "Post anonymously" but I guess then you drunkenly did it again. We've also seen what makes YOU cheer: Marxism.

Soooo, you start a lecture about being nice but end it by using a bunch of psychiatric terminology as an insult. I have schizophrenic people in my family (bad genes, I guess). The only thing that keeps them off the street is that the family takes care of them, at great expense to their lives and income. The government doesn't help much at all. Disability payments are $370 a month in one case, the other isn't any better but I don't know the exact figure. The payment is based on your lifetime earnings record, not the type or severity of the disability. In any case, I notice that immediately identifiable Marxist folks like you always try to insult or beat up on others not with logic, but with attacks using mental illness terms.

So, you're concerned about Trans folks or whatever (you came outta the woodwork to "defend women" I guess), but you don't give enough of a shit about people really suffering worse than just about anyone else. Being "trans" is a two-step-cakewalk compared to hearing scary or violent voices 24/7 in terms of a challenging life of misery and a burden to your family. Until folks like you can learn to stop using clinical psychiatric terms to insult their political enemies, it's pretty tough to take you seriously with your "I'm a good person, I'm sticking up for the Trans!" routine. You definitely do not sound to me like a good person.

Haha, that'd be even more awesome than a 4-conductor headset jack, though. I'd take it.

I agree, that's cool. I just will not buy a goddamn phone without a 4-conductor headset jack. They still make them in "high end phones" like ASUS and RedMagic.

You cannot be made to, cannot be cajoled to, and cannot be induced by much of anything to work in Europe. I'm American. I worked in Europe for 14 months. Saw a lot of drunken two-hour lunches, holidays, and reasons to quit or leave early. I didn't see much in the way of hard work except in Eastern Europe by some pretty poor and desperate folks (Serbia & Estonia you get a pass). They don't work very hard nor do their productivity numbers impress anyone. They do work hard at making up rules for others and creating gangster-style extortion rackets over any economic activity. They are pros at the latter. That and censorship.

I'm sure that's very reassuring to those dying "My death from this extreme cold is perfectly normal. I sure hope folks in the heat get some help. Anyhow, off to die, now! Toodles!"

Yeah, I remember the "Do not call" list and it actually worked for like 2-3 years but then they started calling from India, Romania, Russia, and other pleasant countries I love so much. I also notice they have giant scammer camps in the jungles of Cambodia that do nothing but call Americans. My old-lady neighbor lost her house to back-to-back scammers.

My solution is to simply ignore their sovereignty the same way they ignore ours. Start sending spec ops teams in to kill their gangbangers, politicians, and absolutely fuel-air bomb those camps in the jungle. If anyone resists or says boo to a goose about it: kill them. If they don't volunteer to do it themselves next time, kill them again and keep doing the same shit. Just don't stick around (that's always our problem). Just kill and destroy everything in sight and leave. That gets painful and expensive pretty fast. Probably not as expensive as the money they rob from old ladies, but enough to get their attention. No need for precision munitions, either. A 2000 pound JDAM will do just fine. Drop 10 just in case: best to be sure.

Other means that other rich people get paid via. They see it as poaching off their take. This is gangster-government-bonded-with-corporations. They don't like upstarts horning in on their turf and milking their cows, so to speak, Capche' ?

Found the NPR Wine Woman.

Looks to me like they are about to lay off a shitton of their software folks and focus only on making waveguides (the little projector screens that enable AR). I really don't want to like AR and I'm glad it's taking forever because all the headgear of yore has been goofy and stupid looking AF. However, if they get the waveguides really advanced, small, and cheap: this changes things. The compute part is already small enough. This means that likely soon these devices will, in fact, gain social acceptance and of course, the kids already found a "use" for them, right here. I think the other "uses"/applications will continue to shock folks.

Can't someone make me an AR prosecuting for Gold app that works? I promise then I'll stop complaining.