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I use it as a precursor to mindfulness. Before setting to a difficult task, I'll do the dishes and clean the kitchen really well.

I see this as a bad idea because it is personal and it is in print. When people have a bad experience with each other, time tends to heal the situation and many learn from the experience and most move on. Perhaps many situations could be chalked up to personality chemistry or bad timing or health issues.

When the experiences are put in print and published, they drudge up the past and make a dynamic thing a static thing. The printed version of a bad experience won't heal and forgive as people do and the rating won't reinvent itself as people do.

Even credit history is not kept for more than seven years if I'm not mistaken. People do change.

Great post. This is really exciting. Being able to 'see' something more easily is such a big step into the quantum world. I love the word 'unvoid'.

They need to address this. I hope Google doesn't feel that blocking trackers is like "throwing the baby out with the bathwater".

I can only think the reason this application of technology hasn't happened yet is because of common human decency.

This is where I believe things are heading... as I type into a text box.

I bought this book at a garage sale when I was in 3rd grade and I became obsessed with building and flying them. My neighbor made a paper plane years before and out of curiosity I unfolded it and couldn't put it back. I was devastated but was too shy to ask him to show me how or make another. It was in this book that I found the plane he made me and I learned how to fold it and happiness ensued for years.

That's encouraging!

Concerning al-Qaida and ISIS, give the Adam Curtis documentary, "The Power of Nightmares" a watch.

I have personal though anecdotal evidence that just watching it has an injurious effect.

The next cheap ssd I get, I'm going to install pcbsd and give it a go.

Oh my goodness you are so correct.

There doesn't have to be a single way of doing things for every situation. For some things I'm interested in a native ad is just fine. For other things not.

You make interesting points even though you are unnecessarily aggressive.

Maybe scaling native advertising might hire more people than robotizing the whole affair the way it is now.

Zuckerberg is a massive douchebag.

What I think I'm starting to understand is that ads have their own infrastructure and they can be blocked as such. In this infrastructure is data mining/trading, user profiling, and ad bidding. I find all of this disgusting. The kind of ads I don't mind are not noticed by adblocking. That is product mention and product placement on a site that the content provider puts there. Is it too much for content providers and advertisers to put something in place that isn't this cluterfuck bot that throttles the web?

The separation of powers seems to be our only saving grace at the moment.

The notion that one style of government is appropriate for all peoples in all places seems absurd. The US constitution was written up by and for people in a particular place and situation and the tensions that existed then look to have escalated to the civil war and these tensions look to remain today. It's interesting to read the anti-federalist papers.

On windows 7 I have my updates set to 'tell about updates and let me install them' and the box 'treat recommended updates as critical updates' is unchecked. I have experienced no such activity from Microsoft.

A few weeks ago I downloaded an application from Microsoft essentials and it apparently checked the 'treat recommended updates as critical updates' as well as the 'allow all users to install updates' boxes. It then proceeded to install all windows 10 as well as 60 or so other updates and made my machine a misery to deal with. I thought I had a virus. I ended up reinstalling win7 with critical updates only and all is well again.

..and the unscrupulous actions of advertisers have been devastating to the web I love.

Sadly this is an important part of education.

Facebook wants to further mine the crap out of it's users identity and sell it to the highest bidder. I get several phishing emails a month that clearly utilize the contact lists of my heavy-facebook user friends. This happened without AI. I only anticipate worse with Zuckerberg's money-over-user security/respect business model.

I can see the potential for descrimination based on a machine learned perceived identity based on web searches and online activity. Imagine not being able to go into a store or be allowed in neighborhoods because of research on certain kinds of diseases or comments made in forums in the past or views supposedly or actually held.

The discussion between these two students is youthful and stupid. That said, it's good that things are out in the open and discussed. It's too bad that it's now a permanent record tied to their identities. Her words are clearly racist though. Racism, when not physically threatening, always strikes me as being foppish. Maybe anything exclusion-oriented is this way.

It's a pain, but try to rule out dietary problems. I had what you describe for years and then had numerous health problems that forced me to take some time off. I found I have celiac. Now I'm back at it. You just never know...

I think he hit the solution with the example he gave of piracy. You don't go after the pirates or try to lock down the product. You change to business model.

One of my favorite ad/content models is TapeOp magazine. They state when subscribing that will get emails from advertisers to the magazine if you subscribe. If you don't want that then don't subscribe. There's none of that "pay if you don't want the annoying ads" nonsense. The ads are relevant to the content of the magazine and are of interest.

I think it may be too late to 'make up with adblock users'. Adblocking will probably be default on future browsers just as popup blocking is.

Why are fans of athletes allowed to drink and beer companies allowed to advertise with obvious sports oriented themes in their ads?

The biggest threat to America right now is the gathering of data on individuals. This data has a life of it's own and can and will be used against us where there is money or political gain to be made.

"This whole race has become a circus"

>has become

Whoever downvotes without an explanation is a poophead. I still like him.

I like him.