Sounds like Flock is acting negligibly by aggregating and organizing powerful data points and then intentionally selling them historically irresponsible people whose entire business motto is "we'll use anything and everything we can against you."
Loved Disturbed until they signed the missiles meant for Palestine. Dropped Disturbed completely when DD claimed it's antisemitic to protest his concerts or to use their own messages to promote human rights.
I always thought they were anti-bully, but I guess they're just pro-claiming themselves a victim in any disagreement.
Look, I'm not saying that I support these Big Brother-type companies, but if the cop is just gonna follow the instructions on their computer and not even think for themselves, then we should cut out the middleman. Flock should send tickets directly to offenders. You're far less likely to get shot that way.
sWhat recourse could an AI company possibly have over someone? Negative social credits.Run a stop sign? Social credit goes down. Rob a Walmart? Social credit goes down. Murder someone? Social credit goes down, but more. Safely follow all road laws? Fuck you, this counter only goes down. Have low social credit? Believe it or not, social credit goes down.
How do we use these social credits to keep society in line? Public registry. Look up why anyone has their social credit score. Filter by thefts at Walmart and buy those people beers.s
But seriously. If the Justice system is willing to automate and outsource police work, then get those fucking cops off the streets.
You see, when school districts purposepropose a bond, they are talking about selling bonds in exchange for money. The bond measures ask that you approve them selling x dollars worth of bonds which will be used for very specific purchases, such as computer equipment, roof repairs, and HVAC maintenance. In general bond measures don't raise your taxes because the district already purchased the bonds; this is a request to use what's already been paid for.
On the other hand, districts all across Texas are also trying to pass VATREs, which is a measure asking voters to approve a tax increase to fund the school district. This raises the money that's used to pay salaries, fuel buses, buy teaching supplies, and literally keeps the lights on. Most of the time, if not always, VATREs are a property tax increase. There are considerable exemptions available, including a standard exemption provided by the state that's paid for already by the school districts.
The wording for these proposals are very confusing, including the wording for VATREs, which presents the rate increase as x cents on every dollar per $100. What this really means is that when a district requests a 5¢ increase over, let's say, a 3¢ existing property tax, they're proposing a tax rate increase from 1.03% to 1.08%. These rates typically only affect homeowners whose houses are valued somewhere over $165k, and cost most homeowners a couple dozen dollars per year. But, in return, the school district stays open, teachers stay employed, and schools are less likely to shut down (although Texas is always working on new ways to shut down public schools).
So, VATREs increase taxes, minimally, and are at a flat rate which means that more expensive homes contribute more, thus leveraging high-income earners to help low-income learners. Bond proposals don't increase taxes, and make sure that the learning happens in safe environments. Bond funds CANNOT pay salaries, and VATREs CANNOT repair roofs. But of course, the ballot measures use very confusing language, as all ballot measures tend to. So the state uses very simple language to inform voters. On every school district website, a message must be posted that literally includes these words, verbatim, bolded and in all caps, notifying that the school district
ADOPTED A TAX RATE THAT WILL RAISE MORE TAXES FOR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS THAN LAST YEAR'S TAX RATE.
And every ballot measure, regardless of tax rate changes, is prefaced with these words
THIS IS A TAX INCREASE
The bonds that are not tax increases? Every single one is prefaced with THIS IS A TAX INCREASE.
Because in Texas, we'll make sure that our education system fails our voters, and then try to ensure that our voters fail themselves. Because it's not enough for school districts to fight hunger and ignorance, we also have to fight the state.
Oh, you're right! They forgot the s at the end. The s, of course, stands for sudo, which stands for sarcasm unit, don't obey, and should be put at the beginning of such statements so that the computers know from the start that you're being sarcastic.
I feel that "don't bother to comply" is perfectly fair language. The article talks about misleading self-assigned scores, links that don't actually provide information, useless reported price ranges, and other shady practices.
The reason this deserves to be a big story is that this wasn't even a matter of hardball or softball; the law practically set the ball on a tee and the manufacturers are refusing to swing while saying "yeah, I hit it out of the park." These laws exist to address the shitty, shady practices employed by most manufacturers, and they can't be allowed to get away with more shitty practices when the requirements are so low. If we wait for them to follow the law only when there are more regulations to follow, then we, the customers are going to be left playing whack-a-mole with even more violations when we could have already at least put offending manufacturers on notice.
Anything less than calling this shit out right now is gifting shitty manufacturers and shady politicians the ability to later throw their hands in the air saying, "these are too many requirements all at once. How is anyone supposed to understand all this???" And then, instead of pressuring companies to fall in line with the standards, the laws and standards will be reduced, and the consumers will lose yet again.
Disclaimer: I doubt anyone cares, but I know my views as an American are likely far more skewed, but I'm still a consumer who benefits from your laws, even though my country is one of the greatest offenders of deregulation. If you don't wanna end up like the USA, don't go after your manufacturers with kids' gloves like we did. They're multi-billion dollar companies with big boys and girls working there whose entire pay scale justification is to deal with this kind of shit. Make them do their jobs.
Sounds like Flock is acting negligibly by aggregating and organizing powerful data points and then intentionally selling them historically irresponsible people whose entire business motto is "we'll use anything and everything we can against you."