Is your career lacking growth? Become a porn inspector! Hint: It sucks As Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously said about pornography: "I know it when I see it." What he may not have envisioned was that 50 years later, people would make a living from doing just that. China maintains a pretty stiff censorship regime through its Great Wall of China. But far from using just algorithms to …
Chinese and Japanese were already at the top of my to-do list. I fail the marriage requirement though. Zero interest either The ladies try to pick me. up! [Something to do with not visually undressing them and conducting real, playful conversation. Little do they know that I'm verbal, not visual.] Not even the salary is a problem. Disabled vet on pension. I do wonder if the government would even allow me to live there though. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if I don't end up married. Single American guys, mostly, are a target. Hmmm.
This sounds like a real waste of time. Sure, there are lots of people that the Chinese government can throw at any problem, but why would they want to set up a system in which there are nothing but a bunch of low paying jobs (I am assuming these are - I can only compare with the job market I am familiar with). Even if they pay reasonably well, it would still be much more efficient to develop machine recognition with human auditors. Better still would be to crowd source this out to a variety of Westerners. They would do it for free and be just as dedicated to verifying the material.
forgetting the outsourcing idea...the Chinese would never trust foreigners with something that affects state security, you have two facts: (1) people and labour is cheap in China, even skilled labour (2) anyone with programming skills capable of creating an AI solution will be employed either by the military or a profit-making business. This filtering does not create profit, so no high-tech filters
x 7, the outsourcing reference was a bit of a joke. However, my points about efficiency were not. I understand about labor being plentiful and cheap in China, but if the government's goal is to bring the overall economy up, creating a bunch of low-paying jobs won't get them there. Adding efficiencies frees people up to do more and make more for a company. The jobs under discussion are government jobs, though, so making money is not the point. I would think that these are likely to be as important to the Chinese government as many military positions as keeping their populace in line seems to be as important to them as competing with other countries.
at the moment they can bring the overall economy up simply by creating jobs and getting people into work. The quality of the jobs doesn't matter as long as people are taken off the unemployed list. Also the risk is that if they pay too much, skilled workers will leave profitable private jobs for government employ - and thats one thing they don't want. And of course theres the point that its easier to train / brainwash / browbeat the less intelligent into behaving in the way you want them. The Chinese for this job need people who will strictly comply with rigid guidelines, with no degrees of freedom of individual thought.
China thinks bad content will ruin the morals and attitudes of the population.
China needs censors to protect the population from content that will ruin their morals and attitudes.
The censors must view all this content to spot the bad content.
The censors get their morals and attitudes ruined.
Now the population is only protected by perverts with bad attitudes.
This is exactly the situation that obtains in any jurisdiction where, for example, films are censored.
Porn is defined in UK law as that which is likely to deprave and corrupt.
The censors get to see lots of it, and are therefore depraved and corrupt...
But there are two possibilities: either the censors are, as you say, perverts with bad attitudes, or (whisper it) porn does *not* deprave and corrupt.
Who knew?
>Now the population is only protected by perverts with bad attitudes.
While we have professional politicians who have never done a days real work in their life and beat off over expense forms. At least in China they execute corrupt officials, I think I'll move there.
"The porn was there - you just didn't recognise it because you've already been polluted with a depraved mind"
Like the David Frost satire skit. He was interviewing a man from a "clean up TV" campaign. The man said he didn't watch TV - he could tell which programmes were obscene from their titles. In his judgement the most obscene programme was "Blue Peter".
David Frost's final comment was about how many things the man's mind could see as obscene. To which the man agreed that he saw the porn hidden in everything.
Wor hoi shur pu ton gua.
£500 a month is about 2-5 times what a factory worker gets paid, and more than enough to live comfortably in most parts of China.
The censorship doesnt seem to extend to torrents (I experimented over Christmas); as there was nothing much else to do once I discovered that EVERY non Chinese website was being throttled down to a couple of kbps.
No, no, no. Horses for courses.
We outsource any retreating / losing / being occupied to the French.
We outsource the "finally getting our arses into gear and getting stuck into the fight way too late to save the French" bit to the Americans.
If it goes a bit Pete Tong we fall back on the strategy of getting the Russians involved, as they have more soldiers than anyone else has bullets.
Our army is the best in the world at finding a convenient spot to stop and brew tea while talking about how the war's going.
>If it goes a bit Pete Tong we fall back on the strategy of getting the Russians involved, as they have more soldiers than anyone else has bullets.
Fall back? You have your chronology wrong. The Russians were our allies six monthes before the Americans got involved, they were also a hell of a lot more help in as much as they actually did some fighting.
http://www.37wan.com
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I like the ones where the 'spastic girl' kicks the goose/pig/troll in the head three times and gets lots of gold and swords and stuff.
Lots of fantasy big titted white women as well.
If they stomped on that sort of shit maybe they could sell some LED light bulbs on e-bay that meet claimed lifetime specifications.
Xenophobic. Moi?
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