Hammurabi was a hack. Who can call "an eye for an eye" justice?
Human society needs to face the fact that they aren't fit to enact "justice". No system on Earth does anything except punish and harm. There's no understanding of rehabilitation, cause and effect, or other social influences that lead people down the road of crime in the first place. No legal system on this planet is capable of reducing crime because they're too busy deciding on punishments to consider the *cause* behind a person's choices. When someone commits a heinous crime, it is a sign that society has failed that person. Something fucked up in that person's life and they were robbed of a normal life, with opportunities, friends, and meaning.
But you won't hear or read that in any court room. They don't give a fuck about anything except re-election.
Hammurabi a hack? What are you talking about? This shit seems SUPER fair:
"If any one steal cattle or sheep, or an ass, or a pig or a goat, if it belong to a god or to the court, the thief shall pay thirtyfold therefor; if they belonged to a freed man of the king he shall pay tenfold; if the thief has nothing with which to pay he shall be put to death."
"If a son strikes his father, they shall cut off his fingers."
"If any one brings an accusation of any crime before the elders, and does not prove what he has charged, he shall, if it be a capital offense charged, be put to death."
"If conspirators meet in the house of a tavern-keeper, and these conspirators are not captured and delivered to the court, the tavern-keeper shall be put to death."
People with this attitude remind me of the holdouts who prefer individual browser windows to a tabbed interface. There are a few out there, but the rest of us have moved on to a more efficient form of use.
I, too, used to prefer having a folder structure with the various types of files layered throughout it. I still do create these structures and separate some things I like to stand alone. For everything else that has heavily related and connected content, OneNote is invaluable.
I use OneNote regularly, both at work and home, and heavily for organizing D&D/RPG campaigns. There are too many features (the tagging, is incredibly important) missing from Windows 10 OneNote for me to make the switch. Once there's enough parity, I could probably migrate, but it's seriously impaired without the features that make it most useful.
When I go to watch a movie or start a new series, I usually check to see if it's already showing on any of the various services I'm already paying for. Why go searching for a movie if I can just fire up Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video or Crunchyroll? Sites that track what's currently playing on the major services are useful, since you can quickly "search" all of your services at once. It kind of reminds me of the old "Dogpile" search engine (which I literally just found out is still somehow a thing) that searched the other search engines for you, back when there was no parity in the sites they returned.
I agree with the above sentiment that the service wasn't incredibly useful a lot of the time, since it did tend to point to a bunch of random services that I'd never heard of, and therefore didn't really trust. Still, a site that can keep track of the content offered on your streaming services IS still useful, in my opinion.
Common sense policy making? Like safe spaces and microaggressions? Like caving people's skulls in with bike locks? When you think injecting cattle with hormones is evil, but injecting kids with hormones to arrest their puberty is just fine?
And then your counter-response is to roll out the same, tired bullshit stereotypes every other asswipe on the right does. Is this the part where I call you Hitler, racist, or too stupid to understand modern science? Are you a flat-earther, member of the KKK, or a lobbyist for "big oil?"
There's a high probability you're somewhere in the middle, like the majority of Americans. Left-leaning or right, you just want what's best for you and yours. You want the freedom to make your own choices about your life, and you want to be able to protect yourself from threats, both foreign and domestic. You probably don't care much about where we land on abortion, marijuana, or even gun laws, as long as you're free to make your own decisions about each, as a non-criminal, law-abiding citizen.
Instead, when you dive into the same rhetoric where everyone left of your viewpoint is treated as if they were Antifa, PETA, or a "Social Justice Warrior," you're just as guilty as the same assholes who would call you an Alt-Right, racist Nazi.
Your mistake was assuming my "majority" was about hard left liberals. Yes, the majority is "in the middle," though I'd argue more of them are slight left than slight right. The enemies of any democracy are those unwilling to compromise.
I'll go ahead and guess you didn't read the article. The important points are that the fall of hard conservatism has happened in this countries history, and the stage is set for it to happen again. It's a heartening article for anyone in the middle, left or right, who's tired of seeing progress and common-sense policy-making thwarted by politicians living in the past, while writing laws to ensure they and theirs stay richer than god.
There it is, the core of your hatred. The "rental" model is your real grumble.
I have bad news for you: This is now the way the world works. It's all based on "services" that you pay for. Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, HBO Now, hell, Adobe Creative Cloud Car2Go... You pay for the service.
On the one hand, you never "own" the music, movie or software you're renting. On the other hand, you have unlimited access to as much as the service provides. If I were in constant states of disconnection, or needed the portability of ownership, I'd probably prefer ownership. If, however, I can have a superior selection of on-demand services for a fraction of the yearly cost of ownership, and I'm living in a place where I'm constantly "connected" to the services... I know which my wallet prefers. I like watching movies and TV shows, but with very rare exceptions, I will only watch them once or twice in any given dozen years. Why would I pay $20 a pop for a movie, or $50/month for TV service when I can watch what I want and never watch again for a fraction of the price? Music might be a better candidate for purchase on the surface (since I tend to replay songs I like much more frequently) but I also listen to a LOT of artist. I can either pay a dollar for every single song I enjoy to "own" them, or just drop $100 a year to listen to all the music I like (which is well in excess of a meager 100 songs.)
You think it's dumb, but when you're feeding a family of eight, I think it's the only reasonable, cost-efficient way to live.
No, I am paying each month so I can play any song I want, when I want. I pay each month so I can save playlists, and have them played back from my devices when I'm offline. I pay each month so I can discover new music, based on the feedback of other users who make recommendations based on the artists I like. I pay each month so I can play them on my phone, my tablet, my computer, or in my car. I pay for high-quality audio. I pay so my stations can be specifically geared to my interests, and to artists I like, rather than those that Clear Channel implies I should like. I pay so I can skip songs, go back to songs, and look back at the history of what I've been listening to. I pay so I can share my playlists and favorite artists easily with friends and family. Oh, and I pay the extra ($15/month instead of $10) so five members of my family can enjoy these same benefits.
FM radio has never been this good, and regardless of the number of people who support it, never will be.
It's awful, and that's the point. When Clear Channel... sorry, "iHeartMedia" owns 75% of the channels in your market (and every market) they absolutely do time their commercials together.
Daily Caller video producer Martina Markota is one of the people dancing with him in the video. The same Martina Markota who's one of the big proponents of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory.
Facism, by the way, is apparently a word you don't understand.
Not when the overwhelming majority of petitioners, and people polled about Net Neutrality in general, are opposed to the overturning. "Best interest of the people," in this case, is probably more accurately stated as "majority will of the people."
What Would Steve Jobs Do? I can guarantee, it isn't that awful notch. He'd have told the engineers to try harder.
Should anyone adopt the "popular" (it isn't) notch? No. Nobody in their right mind should even consider it. Ugly stopgaps that force developers to do more work are always the wrong answer.
My movie screen comes with the comfort of my couch, the convenience of pausing the movie for bathroom breaks, and the low-cost of my own store-bought food.
Slashdot Mirror
Or more specifically, "Last Man Standing, but with 100 people." Your game isn't even original to begin with here.
I hate it when organizations and entities I like do incredibly shitty things. Have fun hanging out with Lars Ulrich, I guess.
Pretty sure switching to Mac already accomplished this for them.
https://www.cio.com/article/31...
Maybe there's a dongle for that?
Hammurabi was a hack. Who can call "an eye for an eye" justice?
Human society needs to face the fact that they aren't fit to enact "justice". No system on Earth does anything except punish and harm. There's no understanding of rehabilitation, cause and effect, or other social influences that lead people down the road of crime in the first place. No legal system on this planet is capable of reducing crime because they're too busy deciding on punishments to consider the *cause* behind a person's choices. When someone commits a heinous crime, it is a sign that society has failed that person. Something fucked up in that person's life and they were robbed of a normal life, with opportunities, friends, and meaning.
But you won't hear or read that in any court room. They don't give a fuck about anything except re-election.
Hammurabi a hack? What are you talking about? This shit seems SUPER fair:
"If any one steal cattle or sheep, or an ass, or a pig or a goat, if it belong to a god or to the court, the thief shall pay thirtyfold therefor; if they belonged to a freed man of the king he shall pay tenfold; if the thief has nothing with which to pay he shall be put to death."
"If a son strikes his father, they shall cut off his fingers."
"If any one brings an accusation of any crime before the elders, and does not prove what he has charged, he shall, if it be a capital offense charged, be put to death."
"If conspirators meet in the house of a tavern-keeper, and these conspirators are not captured and delivered to the court, the tavern-keeper shall be put to death."
I do remember it. I also remembered their "you're holding it wrong" solution":
https://www.scart.be/sites/def...
Very brave.
...every bit counts.
Save a bit. One Space only.
There is an insane amount of difference between stone and concrete, for what it's worth.
Like cleaning up a pile of Lego bricks on the floor, the big ones clean up fast, it's all the little, hard to see ones that take the most time.
I'd say "consider the source," but then I considered the people I'm dealing with.
You're going to have to do better than that, troll.
That would be correctly used, if your source didn't make your argument subject to another logical fallacy.
How about you agree to never quote Breitbart or Infowars, and the rest of us will never quote Daily Kos or Alternet? Deal?
People with this attitude remind me of the holdouts who prefer individual browser windows to a tabbed interface. There are a few out there, but the rest of us have moved on to a more efficient form of use.
I, too, used to prefer having a folder structure with the various types of files layered throughout it. I still do create these structures and separate some things I like to stand alone. For everything else that has heavily related and connected content, OneNote is invaluable.
I use OneNote regularly, both at work and home, and heavily for organizing D&D/RPG campaigns. There are too many features (the tagging, is incredibly important) missing from Windows 10 OneNote for me to make the switch. Once there's enough parity, I could probably migrate, but it's seriously impaired without the features that make it most useful.
The fake news brigade is out of control. The Washington Post is a news outlet, and in this case and others, reports on facts.
I'm sorry if they're not the facts you like, but they are, in fact, FACTS.
When I go to watch a movie or start a new series, I usually check to see if it's already showing on any of the various services I'm already paying for. Why go searching for a movie if I can just fire up Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video or Crunchyroll? Sites that track what's currently playing on the major services are useful, since you can quickly "search" all of your services at once. It kind of reminds me of the old "Dogpile" search engine (which I literally just found out is still somehow a thing) that searched the other search engines for you, back when there was no parity in the sites they returned.
I agree with the above sentiment that the service wasn't incredibly useful a lot of the time, since it did tend to point to a bunch of random services that I'd never heard of, and therefore didn't really trust. Still, a site that can keep track of the content offered on your streaming services IS still useful, in my opinion.
All horseshit. You completely misunderstand and misrepresent the results Johnathan Haidt's studies.
Uhh...did you not just endorse a call for civil war in America?
I did not. More evidence you didn't RTFA.
Common sense policy making? Like safe spaces and microaggressions? Like caving people's skulls in with bike locks? When you think injecting cattle with hormones is evil, but injecting kids with hormones to arrest their puberty is just fine?
And then your counter-response is to roll out the same, tired bullshit stereotypes every other asswipe on the right does. Is this the part where I call you Hitler, racist, or too stupid to understand modern science? Are you a flat-earther, member of the KKK, or a lobbyist for "big oil?"
There's a high probability you're somewhere in the middle, like the majority of Americans. Left-leaning or right, you just want what's best for you and yours. You want the freedom to make your own choices about your life, and you want to be able to protect yourself from threats, both foreign and domestic. You probably don't care much about where we land on abortion, marijuana, or even gun laws, as long as you're free to make your own decisions about each, as a non-criminal, law-abiding citizen.
Instead, when you dive into the same rhetoric where everyone left of your viewpoint is treated as if they were Antifa, PETA, or a "Social Justice Warrior," you're just as guilty as the same assholes who would call you an Alt-Right, racist Nazi.
Keep up the good work, Svetlana.
Your mistake was assuming my "majority" was about hard left liberals. Yes, the majority is "in the middle," though I'd argue more of them are slight left than slight right. The enemies of any democracy are those unwilling to compromise.
I'll go ahead and guess you didn't read the article. The important points are that the fall of hard conservatism has happened in this countries history, and the stage is set for it to happen again. It's a heartening article for anyone in the middle, left or right, who's tired of seeing progress and common-sense policy-making thwarted by politicians living in the past, while writing laws to ensure they and theirs stay richer than god.
A reckoning is coming, I assure you.
Conservatives are always the enemies of progress, if only by definition of their given name.
The article he retweeted IS a great read, and the majority of the country is anxiously awaiting the day its points become reality.
There it is, the core of your hatred. The "rental" model is your real grumble.
I have bad news for you: This is now the way the world works. It's all based on "services" that you pay for. Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, HBO Now, hell, Adobe Creative Cloud Car2Go... You pay for the service.
On the one hand, you never "own" the music, movie or software you're renting. On the other hand, you have unlimited access to as much as the service provides. If I were in constant states of disconnection, or needed the portability of ownership, I'd probably prefer ownership. If, however, I can have a superior selection of on-demand services for a fraction of the yearly cost of ownership, and I'm living in a place where I'm constantly "connected" to the services... I know which my wallet prefers. I like watching movies and TV shows, but with very rare exceptions, I will only watch them once or twice in any given dozen years. Why would I pay $20 a pop for a movie, or $50/month for TV service when I can watch what I want and never watch again for a fraction of the price? Music might be a better candidate for purchase on the surface (since I tend to replay songs I like much more frequently) but I also listen to a LOT of artist. I can either pay a dollar for every single song I enjoy to "own" them, or just drop $100 a year to listen to all the music I like (which is well in excess of a meager 100 songs.)
You think it's dumb, but when you're feeding a family of eight, I think it's the only reasonable, cost-efficient way to live.
No, I am paying each month so I can play any song I want, when I want. I pay each month so I can save playlists, and have them played back from my devices when I'm offline. I pay each month so I can discover new music, based on the feedback of other users who make recommendations based on the artists I like. I pay each month so I can play them on my phone, my tablet, my computer, or in my car. I pay for high-quality audio. I pay so my stations can be specifically geared to my interests, and to artists I like, rather than those that Clear Channel implies I should like. I pay so I can skip songs, go back to songs, and look back at the history of what I've been listening to. I pay so I can share my playlists and favorite artists easily with friends and family. Oh, and I pay the extra ($15/month instead of $10) so five members of my family can enjoy these same benefits.
FM radio has never been this good, and regardless of the number of people who support it, never will be.
It's awful, and that's the point. When Clear Channel... sorry, "iHeartMedia" owns 75% of the channels in your market (and every market) they absolutely do time their commercials together.
I stopped supporting FM radio a LONG time ago.
Daily Caller video producer Martina Markota is one of the people dancing with him in the video. The same Martina Markota who's one of the big proponents of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory.
Facism, by the way, is apparently a word you don't understand.
Not when the overwhelming majority of petitioners, and people polled about Net Neutrality in general, are opposed to the overturning. "Best interest of the people," in this case, is probably more accurately stated as "majority will of the people."
What Would Steve Jobs Do? I can guarantee, it isn't that awful notch. He'd have told the engineers to try harder.
Should anyone adopt the "popular" (it isn't) notch? No. Nobody in their right mind should even consider it. Ugly stopgaps that force developers to do more work are always the wrong answer.
Bigger != Better.
My movie screen comes with the comfort of my couch, the convenience of pausing the movie for bathroom breaks, and the low-cost of my own store-bought food.
IT IS TIME! I knew this day would come!
Rise, my golden demon!