It's long been accurately said that 'It's not what you know, it's who you know.' The system usually sees this as a feature, not a bug. I don't think a tech fix will solve a social problem. Provided they're not the ones getting screwed over, people like their biases.
I'm not sure their age is at all relevant here. A 17 year old can be more than capable of getting into, and winning, a physical fight, especially against a 60 year old. Life isn't some anime or RPG where your ability to survive a physical confrontation is in any way fair. This whole thing of 'they're only seventeen!' that is popping up is not reflective of the real world at all. I'm sure there's plenty of 17 year olds out there who could kick my ass, especially if I just woke up. If they were 7, you'd have a point. Not 17.
If you break into someone else's house, that's a good way of saying you are looking for trouble, and the people living there have no way of knowing how much.
I think it is generally preferable when someone is not shot over when they are, but there'd be nothing wrong with shooting anyone who does that, 17 or not.
We also shouldn't have a greed driven, corporate written copyright system where things are still under copryright 30 years after they're released, but here we are.
I'm all for strong IP protection. I work in a field where patents enable a lot of innovation, so believe me, I get that IP is important. But come on, there's no reason why something released over two decades ago should not be in the public domain. If they want to sue over torrents of something like Super Mario Odyssey, Breath of the Wild, or Pokémon UltraMoon, then sure, I'm all for taking down the sites who are hosting pirated copies of them and hitting them with lawsuits. But if we're talking about the original Metroid or Kirby, then I don't have much sympathy.
The companies that wrote the laws don't like the idea of works falling into the public domain because it hurts their ability to sit indefinitely on films, music, literature, and games and collect perpetual profit, but I saw screw 'em. Yes, they do legally have a case, but we shouldn't forget that it is only because of how messed up copyright laws are due to their clever investments in various nations' lawmakers.
Not every mosquito is native to every area, and not every insect is a major and irreplaceable part of the food system.
Humans have messed up every ecosystem on the planet, eliminated more species than we even keep track of, but try to eradicate one pest, even one which is an introduced vector of disease even to the native animals in some places, and suddenly you've gone too far? Baloney. If ecosystems were so fragile they could't handle the loss of one more exceptionally problematic pest, they would have collapsed a long time ago.
And that 'nature will find a way' crap? Tell that to the Tasmanian tiger, the dodo, the moa, the quagga, steller's sea cow, or plenty of other less famous organisms. Tell that to the Hawaiian honeycreepers, which are currently being wiped out by avian malaria, spread by human introduced mosquitoes. Maybe tell that to the baiji or the totoaba, they could use the encouragement.
Jokes aside, I do miss the rental stores. No UI comes close to the ability to browse through the rows of videos, maybe pick up a few snacks. Mine was right next to a Chinese place and a pizza place, so I used to go order, then wander through a pretty large selection of movies while I waited, with some random flick playing in the background on their TVs. It was a nice little space devoted to cinema. I liked it.
Yes, technology has made them somewhat obsolete when you can just rent & stream a lot of movies from Amazon, I get it, but still, I'm kind of sad to see them go. Although, mine was one of the smaller (by store numbers, not floorspace), regional ones, not Blockbuster, so maybe my experience was better than most.
Yeah, I can never figure out how people fault Netflix for this. They came up with a great new model; it is the old media companies that yanked the content away because they want to have dozens of different streaming services, paid for and with ads once they can sneak them in. They're the ones trying to basically recreate cable, and people blame Netflix for 'removing' that content? As far as I'm concerned, that's all the more reason to support Netflix.
According to this, the average telecom bribe (or campaign contribution or lobby gift or whatever you want to call it) was about $145,000 for members of the House, slightly more on average for the Republicans who are the party opposing net neutrality. That means the conversion of votes to dollars is 46 votes = $6.8 million. That's how much we're short. I like when votes are listed both number and dollars.
I'll be darned, I didn't know those crapfest microtransaction filled mobile games had enough differences between them in the first place to have lawsuit worthy similarities. You learn something new every day.
It has often been said of the free games 'If you're not the customer you are the product.' Well, looks like now we're both. You pay for the game, then get sold out anyway, and usually without even being properly informed about it. Worse, it might come in an update, which means you paid for one thing and now it has become spyware.
This is why there should be laws, backed by heavy fines, prohibiting this sort of anti-consumer behavior. You can't trust the companies to just do the right thing; they'll keep doing it until they get caught, time after time. This should be illegal.
This exactly. The SAT, ACT, GRE, ect. don't gauge your skill, or knowledge, or future worth; they measure how much time/money you were able to put into test prep. Well excuse me for being born near the poverty line, but I sure as shit never had the money for that stuff. These tests are nothing more than institutionalized classism, with the unintended side effect of keeping typically poorer minority groups out of higher education (that was sarcasm, it was totally intended). Throw them in the trash with phrenology. People act as if this is lowering standards, but that makes the incorrect assumption that these tests were ever valid standards to begin with.
A just educational system should strive to maintain as equal a standard as possible. There's still a long way to go, both in practice and in culture, before the US educational system can be considered fair, but good on UChicago for moving taking this step. A private corporation shoudn't be selling keys to one's future. ETS and College Board can go fuck off with the rest of the bigots.
Past year and a half? You don't even have to go that recent. For much longer, he's been selling Trump branded items made in other countries. American made options have always been available, not for everything but for more items than Trump sold. Of course, if American suppliers charge more, that might make him less money. You can tell someone's real character by how they act when no one is watching, and it wasn't until he began a presidential campaign in earnest that he chose to source US made items. Trump cares about Trump, not American jobs.
A European government getting angry at an American company over a complex problem without proposing a viable solution? What a shocker. And look, Greenpeace is at it too, natch.
A more accurate way of putting that is that the US is so full of shit that he had to turn to Russia, of all places, for his own safety. Instead of trying to fix the problem, the US government decided to try to shoot the messenger who uncovered their criminal activity (and yes, until the Fourth Amendment is officially repealed instead of just blatantly disregarded, spying on citizens is still criminal).
What I find perennially amusing is how, every time there's talk about the government financially supporting nuclear power, the people who previously supported subsidies & tax breaks for 'green energy' suddenly become free market capitalists. Just watch, happens every time.
Bt resistant insects have emerged, and yes, it is a problem because it threatens to erode the benefits GE crops have already provided. This isn't a case against genetic engineering though, it is a case for better management of genetic resources. Anti-GMO groups like to harp on this point because on the surface it sounds very reasonable (ignoring that you can't claim something has no benefit while also claiming that the benefits are diminishing), but this exact same thing can and does occur conventionally bred crops too. It's just that when that happens, it doesn't make any controversial news stories in the popular press.
Perhaps it doesn't kill us right off the bat, but I suspect it still does some damage to our guts.
I don't. The Cry toxin produced by Bt crops works by binding to a receptor that mammals simply don't have.
I am very leery of eating popcorn nowadays because it seems to irritate my guts quite a bit.
Popcorn is a specific variety of corn. People don't seem to realize it, but field corn, sweet corn, and popcorn do not come from the same types of corn. A lot of field corn is GE, some sweet corn is GE, but there are no genetically engineered popcorn varieties on the market.
Reducing pesticide sprays SOUNDS like a good thing, until you realize that the GMO plants and produce are pesticides themselves, inside and out.
What do you think is happening when non-transgenic crops are conventionally bred to more pest resistant? Chemical defenses, otherwise known as pesticides, are a key method of defense for a kingdom of organisms that can't swat at the things eating them. All plants produce pesticides, every last one of them. Every species you eat brings you more and more pesticides. With genetic engineering, they're just doing one more. I don't see that as alarming in the slightest.
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It's long been accurately said that 'It's not what you know, it's who you know.' The system usually sees this as a feature, not a bug. I don't think a tech fix will solve a social problem. Provided they're not the ones getting screwed over, people like their biases.
I'm not sure their age is at all relevant here. A 17 year old can be more than capable of getting into, and winning, a physical fight, especially against a 60 year old. Life isn't some anime or RPG where your ability to survive a physical confrontation is in any way fair. This whole thing of 'they're only seventeen!' that is popping up is not reflective of the real world at all. I'm sure there's plenty of 17 year olds out there who could kick my ass, especially if I just woke up. If they were 7, you'd have a point. Not 17.
If you break into someone else's house, that's a good way of saying you are looking for trouble, and the people living there have no way of knowing how much. I think it is generally preferable when someone is not shot over when they are, but there'd be nothing wrong with shooting anyone who does that, 17 or not.
We also shouldn't have a greed driven, corporate written copyright system where things are still under copryright 30 years after they're released, but here we are.
I'm all for strong IP protection. I work in a field where patents enable a lot of innovation, so believe me, I get that IP is important. But come on, there's no reason why something released over two decades ago should not be in the public domain. If they want to sue over torrents of something like Super Mario Odyssey, Breath of the Wild, or Pokémon UltraMoon, then sure, I'm all for taking down the sites who are hosting pirated copies of them and hitting them with lawsuits. But if we're talking about the original Metroid or Kirby, then I don't have much sympathy.
The companies that wrote the laws don't like the idea of works falling into the public domain because it hurts their ability to sit indefinitely on films, music, literature, and games and collect perpetual profit, but I saw screw 'em. Yes, they do legally have a case, but we shouldn't forget that it is only because of how messed up copyright laws are due to their clever investments in various nations' lawmakers.
Someone needed to research this?
Politeness is indeed a radical new invention to a surprising number of people.
plus a new DC superhero franchise with a lighter tone, Shazam
Do they mean that in a figurative sense, or are they just going to stop applying the color dulling filter for this movie?
Especially since you'd have to be pretty hopelessly oblivious to confuse one of the non-dairy milks with cow milk. This is an absolute non-issue.
And you can't spell idiot without IoT.
Not every mosquito is native to every area, and not every insect is a major and irreplaceable part of the food system.
Humans have messed up every ecosystem on the planet, eliminated more species than we even keep track of, but try to eradicate one pest, even one which is an introduced vector of disease even to the native animals in some places, and suddenly you've gone too far? Baloney. If ecosystems were so fragile they could't handle the loss of one more exceptionally problematic pest, they would have collapsed a long time ago.
And that 'nature will find a way' crap? Tell that to the Tasmanian tiger, the dodo, the moa, the quagga, steller's sea cow, or plenty of other less famous organisms. Tell that to the Hawaiian honeycreepers, which are currently being wiped out by avian malaria, spread by human introduced mosquitoes. Maybe tell that to the baiji or the totoaba, they could use the encouragement.
Australia vs Thylacine
Jokes aside, I do miss the rental stores. No UI comes close to the ability to browse through the rows of videos, maybe pick up a few snacks. Mine was right next to a Chinese place and a pizza place, so I used to go order, then wander through a pretty large selection of movies while I waited, with some random flick playing in the background on their TVs. It was a nice little space devoted to cinema. I liked it.
Yes, technology has made them somewhat obsolete when you can just rent & stream a lot of movies from Amazon, I get it, but still, I'm kind of sad to see them go. Although, mine was one of the smaller (by store numbers, not floorspace), regional ones, not Blockbuster, so maybe my experience was better than most.
Always good to see this surveillance state madness fail.
Yeah, I can never figure out how people fault Netflix for this. They came up with a great new model; it is the old media companies that yanked the content away because they want to have dozens of different streaming services, paid for and with ads once they can sneak them in. They're the ones trying to basically recreate cable, and people blame Netflix for 'removing' that content? As far as I'm concerned, that's all the more reason to support Netflix.
According to this, the average telecom bribe (or campaign contribution or lobby gift or whatever you want to call it) was about $145,000 for members of the House, slightly more on average for the Republicans who are the party opposing net neutrality. That means the conversion of votes to dollars is 46 votes = $6.8 million. That's how much we're short. I like when votes are listed both number and dollars.
I'll be darned, I didn't know those crapfest microtransaction filled mobile games had enough differences between them in the first place to have lawsuit worthy similarities. You learn something new every day.
It has often been said of the free games 'If you're not the customer you are the product.' Well, looks like now we're both. You pay for the game, then get sold out anyway, and usually without even being properly informed about it. Worse, it might come in an update, which means you paid for one thing and now it has become spyware.
This is why there should be laws, backed by heavy fines, prohibiting this sort of anti-consumer behavior. You can't trust the companies to just do the right thing; they'll keep doing it until they get caught, time after time. This should be illegal.
This exactly. The SAT, ACT, GRE, ect. don't gauge your skill, or knowledge, or future worth; they measure how much time/money you were able to put into test prep. Well excuse me for being born near the poverty line, but I sure as shit never had the money for that stuff. These tests are nothing more than institutionalized classism, with the unintended side effect of keeping typically poorer minority groups out of higher education (that was sarcasm, it was totally intended). Throw them in the trash with phrenology. People act as if this is lowering standards, but that makes the incorrect assumption that these tests were ever valid standards to begin with.
A just educational system should strive to maintain as equal a standard as possible. There's still a long way to go, both in practice and in culture, before the US educational system can be considered fair, but good on UChicago for moving taking this step. A private corporation shoudn't be selling keys to one's future. ETS and College Board can go fuck off with the rest of the bigots.
Past year and a half? You don't even have to go that recent. For much longer, he's been selling Trump branded items made in other countries. American made options have always been available, not for everything but for more items than Trump sold. Of course, if American suppliers charge more, that might make him less money. You can tell someone's real character by how they act when no one is watching, and it wasn't until he began a presidential campaign in earnest that he chose to source US made items. Trump cares about Trump, not American jobs.
A European government getting angry at an American company over a complex problem without proposing a viable solution? What a shocker. And look, Greenpeace is at it too, natch.
A more accurate way of putting that is that the US is so full of shit that he had to turn to Russia, of all places, for his own safety. Instead of trying to fix the problem, the US government decided to try to shoot the messenger who uncovered their criminal activity (and yes, until the Fourth Amendment is officially repealed instead of just blatantly disregarded, spying on citizens is still criminal).
"Privacy is Treason." Straight out of 1984 right there.
What I find perennially amusing is how, every time there's talk about the government financially supporting nuclear power, the people who previously supported subsidies & tax breaks for 'green energy' suddenly become free market capitalists. Just watch, happens every time.
If a game is so shitty that the developers are trying to sell pre-won versions, that's a good sign you need to find a better game.
Bt resistant insects have emerged, and yes, it is a problem because it threatens to erode the benefits GE crops have already provided. This isn't a case against genetic engineering though, it is a case for better management of genetic resources. Anti-GMO groups like to harp on this point because on the surface it sounds very reasonable (ignoring that you can't claim something has no benefit while also claiming that the benefits are diminishing), but this exact same thing can and does occur conventionally bred crops too. It's just that when that happens, it doesn't make any controversial news stories in the popular press.
Perhaps it doesn't kill us right off the bat, but I suspect it still does some damage to our guts.
I don't. The Cry toxin produced by Bt crops works by binding to a receptor that mammals simply don't have.
I am very leery of eating popcorn nowadays because it seems to irritate my guts quite a bit.
Popcorn is a specific variety of corn. People don't seem to realize it, but field corn, sweet corn, and popcorn do not come from the same types of corn. A lot of field corn is GE, some sweet corn is GE, but there are no genetically engineered popcorn varieties on the market.
Reducing pesticide sprays SOUNDS like a good thing, until you realize that the GMO plants and produce are pesticides themselves, inside and out.
What do you think is happening when non-transgenic crops are conventionally bred to more pest resistant? Chemical defenses, otherwise known as pesticides, are a key method of defense for a kingdom of organisms that can't swat at the things eating them. All plants produce pesticides, every last one of them. Every species you eat brings you more and more pesticides. With genetic engineering, they're just doing one more. I don't see that as alarming in the slightest.