Obviously, this is another ignorant American posting. Apparently not confident enough to post under user; so maybe there is some hope for this one... usually Americans are so confidently ignorant; like a chatbot and also living in a hallucination.

The Chinese version is quite different than the us version and they protected their kids; still do and we do not at all. We sacrifice them to the firearms gods of reading incomprehension every school shooting.

decades old, biggest fraud ever continues to kill

They'll not remember where they put all that money... will it ever be found?? More likely after years of lawsuits and playing games with judge's orders they'll just have the government print more money while they keep their stolen money. The treasury is totally corrupt. I'm waiting for Putin to buy bitcoin so then we can move our gold reserve into bitcoin...

1st person caught at it will discover how creative their local prosecutor's office is. They always find some law and a judge to throw the book at you with a crazy high punishment. Unless you can claim affluentenza and can't handle punishment.

I've had trouble with Outlook.com for decades. They blacklist whole IP blocks and to get off the list takes forever to get a human who removes you for a few months; then they put the IP back onto whatever gets the whole block banned again.

I hope they mess with a lot more people so something finally gets resolved. They don't even put you into junk automatically, just completely block blindly.

Remember back in the early internet days when any moron doing bad things it was the Internet's fault?
  You wrote a blog or post saying "jump off a high place" and when they did, you had a lawsuit? It also made the news because it was the new internet... Discussions on laws etc to try to prevent the dangerous new thing...

So now we have bots that do far more and yet we don't seem to have the same reactions in suing etc when it's able to do so much more than those past "transgressions" and it already is. It gets some attention but doesn't seem like as much negative attention despite it being more serious and all the other fears involved...

Let stupid people remove themselves from the genepool. Even that is not enough given they tend to have children too early; since we evolved a drive to make kids before we finished growing up. Had we not, the population would be far far less but we'd have evolved further before dead end.

I actually saw most of House of Cards -- the BRITISH original was over all a BETTER series! Did you know there was a great show they simply remade with higher production costs? It was able to finish the story while Netflix freaked out ad wrecked the show because the star had a sex scandal; the genius writer turned out unable to write beyond slight modifications. Idiotic how the villain can't be allowed to actually be one in real life...

Perhaps this movie will be the story of how Paramount took over HBO. They and combine some of the drama and still it will feel cartoonist and exaggerated compared to real life.

thank you.

No, lots of craftsmen USED to make a living. It's a hobby now. Sure you can find a small number who actually make a living, I said it's a niche. You are comparing two time periods; before the industrial revolution the number and surely the % of gainfully employed was much higher. Most products are industrially produced, even the crafted stuff is usually made up parts...

The ribbon is an abomination. I've seen regular users navigate by SEARCHING the menu system!

Keyboard shortcuts on any professional software need to be configurable and export/importable or otherwise it is not seriously professional (but perhaps it's just toxic vendor lock in and should be a deal breaker.)

Are you trying to be that stupid or are you just referencing stupid people?
Trump is the SYMPTOM of the society's collapse. not the source of the problem. now that you figured out...or parroted like the other BS you listed. Sounds like most millennials to me; not opinions but the echoing of cynical thought that began in childhood with that group. Saw it. ignorant children with opinions picked up from media they has zero grasp in which to legitimately hold. Reminded me of some racist kids... Ironically the people who fear indoctrination are extremely that way themselves, they appear to not grasp the situation having not known anything else.

"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
-mencken

When you have cultural bigotry, it's like rock. Just saying "stop" is more inane than saying "just don't do drugs." You need an illogical counter move to the illogical behavior; you can't reason with it. Forcing race quotas is the ONLY way to do something outside of massive sustained social engineering.

Anything you dream up, the very motivated racists will find loopholes and dishonest interpretations even flat out illegality (prior to that , they even did terrorism and before that war.) You can't do nuanced policing of complex policies; it's hard enough on simple issues. You'd think people would spot the shit President Epstein does to the point of blatantly lying against our own eyes. Plus he's a big racist. That is the kind of thing we are up against and it's resurgent despite generations of effort.

The 1% has robbed everybody to the point we have a massive list of wealthy like never before-- the stupid masses are too busy hating and blaming the wrong targets - which are factors enough to work as a smokescreen. I'm sure they help promote the divisions; and now promoting AI and robotics so they will be ready for when the masses wake up to their crimes (as in moral, ethical crimes - since they rewrite the laws... you don't see beheaded kings ruling against their own lawlessness.)

Somebody rephrase me... posting when tired (not working) always messes up the translation of thought to words.

"real artists" who have decent employment are going to be rare. Commercial art is how most make a living producing "art." This is going down in a huge way and quickly. Good enough is a pretty low bar, especially in art.

History shows this. How many people make a living making hand-made wood products? It's a small niche while it used to be a real industry; which took time to die off into insignificant size.

Sadly, programming is going. Not as low but for a while there will be too many and no union so wages will drop. Luckily, skill is involved with many niches. Tons of programming involves mundane work that repeats horribly-- we've had nearly 50 years of attempts to make libraries, templates and inheritance cross compilers because work is repeated abstractly on so many levels. That is a huge amount of the time and money spent since the beginning of computers. A huge aspect is being automated and even at a slow pace, it's scope is so large it will feel like a quick shift. Nice that it's going... but also not so nice-- the new bits are few and far between ; they can be difficult thought intensive problems. Without a break or some to drive home context and a bigger picture while resting one's brain is going to be a big problem. That tedium does a lot of good since you need to study a bit to get a better grasp of the bigger context and promotes creative thinking. But then "good enough" is a lot of crap programmers and unlike other jobs-- somebody may enjoy wood working so it continues at least as a hobby. Most programmers do not enjoy the mundane anal picky shit that makes up a lot of programming.

I'm not saying AI programs. It takes the dull abstract repetition that is everywhere and will remove most of that. Like DESIGN PATTERNS moving from pseudo-code into actual code reuse! Now that can be done. The problem is the 1% is working to replace us expensive thinkers. What we actually could do well and sooner is make a next-generation reference tool and integrated smart auto-complete. We are trying to have it autocomplete the whole program. It should be focused on assisting instead of making us grade slop that is trying to cheat at the assignments not solve our problems.

caffeine. limited time. busy and shouldn't be here.

each sentence backed by many pages of thought condensed down to a single sentence... posted amongst the haptic blabbing; for an audience likely taking a mental break and just passing the time by looking for some emotional validation or an attempt to prod any emotion from dead existence of whatever chore they are supposed to be working on... I don't think I'm much worse than an AI summarizing a dozen pages.