I absolutely would not pay for a website without trolls. Trolls are an important part of the internet, their services are indispensable. Trolls are extremely good at exposing shills and those who see their viewpoint in religious terms. The end effect is that the rest of us have a much better idea of who not to listen to.
Since you want to go there.
I have several friends and family members who have children that often stay with my parents for a few days at a time. Those kids are regarded by their parents, friends, and other family members as holy terrors. The funny thing is, when they visit my parents every single one of them behaves. They also love visiting them. The way children behave is almost always a direct reflection of those in charge of them.
ADHD is simply a fraud, they man who made it up admitted it himself. The symptoms associated with it are nothing more than the predictable outcome of forcing children into incompatible situations.
Children are energetic and playful by nature, but we expect them to sit in a classroom and silently absorb information from teachers for several hours at a time. This isn't to say that they do not want to learn. There is a reason that they ask questions all the time.
Adults, on the other hand, easily tire of children asking questions about the world and playing games. They then expect the children to act like the adults who have lost their love of play and no longer care about learning about the world around them. When the children fail to pretend to be lifeless adults they then give them a label and force drugs down their throats, much to the delight of the drug industry.
What is so much better about our modern society than that of hunter-gathers? I am not trying to troll you. I just want an honest, valid answer, because I don't have one. Nothing I can come up with could stand up to the slightest criticism.
I believe we could have an interesting conversation on this subject.
While I wish that we could just use solar for our energy needs, It is clear we do not have sufficient energy storage to pull it off as of now, but hopefully in the near future. Nuclear is not a bad option until then, but we have some major roadblocks to deal with. One of the major problems with nuclear is the current regulations that dictate what types of reactors we can build. The only type that is legal is the uranium reactor. This type creates a large amount of radioactive waste, but if other types were allowed we can simply use this waste as fuel in them, repeat process until there is very little radioactive waste left.
Then there is the problem of enrichment. As current policy stands, uranium can only be enriched to 15% U-235. In our military we can use up to 85% enrichment, this allows for a couple of major advantages. There is a much higher percentage of the fuel which is useable, so there is less radioactive waste for the amount of energy produced. Then there is large difference in how the plant itself can be designed. When using 15% fuel, the reactor must be designed to be refueled on a somewhat regular basis because the amount of usable fuel in it is so low. In the military reactors are only refueled once every 15 - 20 years, or are replaced altogether instead. This allows for a much safer design.
I wish I hadn't already posted on this thread so I could mod you up for this comment. I personally think that trolls do us a great service by exposing those among us who have deep-seated anger issues and lack intellectual honesty.
At that point we have a different word for them. When you harass the same person for a long period of time like you are talking about then we call them a stalker.
Sure, if you count starving or being homeless as a reasonable choice. Most of the people working those kind of hours are working for minimum wage at several jobs because they couldn't afford housing or feed and clothe their kids. And if you just limit this conversation to programmers and IT guys, they still have fear of losing their jobs and not being able to find a new one before they end up without a home or food. Someone who is coerced is not willing.
I seriously doubt that more than a very small percentage of those working 80+ hours a week are truly willing to work those hours. I am willing to bet the vast majority of them have no reasonable choice.
Well, we already have the Church of Emacs, I guess we might was well start the Church of Linus.
Our motto shall be "Despite his arrogance and occasional seemingly childish outbursts, in the end you will find that he was right".
After thousands of people "contact" their government representatives, contact is in quotes because you will not actually gain any direct contact (not even direct email), and these companies contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars to their election campaigns we will wait and see who they side with.
I suspect you're right. He is after all, heavily funding the terrible standardized testing that is allowing our children to graduate high school without being able to do simple fractions. By this I don't mean a few slip through, I mean hardly any of them can do it.
I take it you haven't used Linux since the floppy disk era of which you speak. I do Windows and Linux installs all the time for my job and Linux is far easier and takes less time to install and update than Windows. Apparently the only distro you are familiar with is Gentoo, since you seem to think that you need to compile everything you install on Linux. We haven't needed to do that for many years.
Why do you think that students will have a hard time with remote access to their data? There are many different ways for them to access data remotely in Linux. And about the cloud, damn near every cloud service works on Linux.
I can only conclude that you have had your head stuck in a hole filled with Microsoft propaganda for at least the last decade.
I would hope you lived in a warm climate, but not too warm. Titanium conducts heat very well. With your entire skull replaced with titanium plates your brain would be constantly below normal temperature.
I wonder how that would affect intelligence? Maybe you should try it, as an experiment...
Yes, it is. When machining something out of titanium, or any other expensive metal for that matter, all the shavings are saved to be melted down again. This is both cheap and easy to do, and is how it has been done for a long time.
Yes actual views are much more nuanced. That is the reason why we only have two major parties, and why they are made to appear so widely different. They create the illusion of "us and them" in order to divide the population and pit them against each other. That leaves them terrified that the other party will get their person into office so that they are afraid to attempt to vote for any third party.
There is so much theater that we have a hard time realizing that the two parties are really just two faces of the same party. This is how they always stay in power, and why they do not flinch when taking away our rights.
I don't see why Valve would need its own distro aside from one tailor made for a single device. A simple window manager would be sufficient, kind of the way xbmc does.
No, I have had good reason to curse Micro$oft, Apple, and several Linux distributions. This as well as hardware. Micro$oft was, however, the most cursed until I quit using it regularly.
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I absolutely would not pay for a website without trolls. Trolls are an important part of the internet, their services are indispensable. Trolls are extremely good at exposing shills and those who see their viewpoint in religious terms. The end effect is that the rest of us have a much better idea of who not to listen to.
They will ask for it every time, but it is not legally required.
Welcome to reality, https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Since you want to go there.
I have several friends and family members who have children that often stay with my parents for a few days at a time. Those kids are regarded by their parents, friends, and other family members as holy terrors. The funny thing is, when they visit my parents every single one of them behaves. They also love visiting them. The way children behave is almost always a direct reflection of those in charge of them.
"ADD and ADHD can actually be physically shown as disorder of the brains dopamine system"
If this is so, then why the fuck is there no test for it that involves dopamine? The answer is simple, it isn't.
ADHD is simply a fraud, they man who made it up admitted it himself. The symptoms associated with it are nothing more than the predictable outcome of forcing children into incompatible situations.
Children are energetic and playful by nature, but we expect them to sit in a classroom and silently absorb information from teachers for several hours at a time. This isn't to say that they do not want to learn. There is a reason that they ask questions all the time.
Adults, on the other hand, easily tire of children asking questions about the world and playing games. They then expect the children to act like the adults who have lost their love of play and no longer care about learning about the world around them. When the children fail to pretend to be lifeless adults they then give them a label and force drugs down their throats, much to the delight of the drug industry.
What is so much better about our modern society than that of hunter-gathers? I am not trying to troll you. I just want an honest, valid answer, because I don't have one. Nothing I can come up with could stand up to the slightest criticism.
I believe we could have an interesting conversation on this subject.
While I wish that we could just use solar for our energy needs, It is clear we do not have sufficient energy storage to pull it off as of now, but hopefully in the near future. Nuclear is not a bad option until then, but we have some major roadblocks to deal with. One of the major problems with nuclear is the current regulations that dictate what types of reactors we can build. The only type that is legal is the uranium reactor. This type creates a large amount of radioactive waste, but if other types were allowed we can simply use this waste as fuel in them, repeat process until there is very little radioactive waste left.
Then there is the problem of enrichment. As current policy stands, uranium can only be enriched to 15% U-235. In our military we can use up to 85% enrichment, this allows for a couple of major advantages. There is a much higher percentage of the fuel which is useable, so there is less radioactive waste for the amount of energy produced. Then there is large difference in how the plant itself can be designed. When using 15% fuel, the reactor must be designed to be refueled on a somewhat regular basis because the amount of usable fuel in it is so low. In the military reactors are only refueled once every 15 - 20 years, or are replaced altogether instead. This allows for a much safer design.
I wish I hadn't already posted on this thread so I could mod you up for this comment. I personally think that trolls do us a great service by exposing those among us who have deep-seated anger issues and lack intellectual honesty.
At that point we have a different word for them. When you harass the same person for a long period of time like you are talking about then we call them a stalker.
Sure, if you count starving or being homeless as a reasonable choice. Most of the people working those kind of hours are working for minimum wage at several jobs because they couldn't afford housing or feed and clothe their kids. And if you just limit this conversation to programmers and IT guys, they still have fear of losing their jobs and not being able to find a new one before they end up without a home or food. Someone who is coerced is not willing.
I seriously doubt that more than a very small percentage of those working 80+ hours a week are truly willing to work those hours. I am willing to bet the vast majority of them have no reasonable choice.
Have you forgotten that every dollar that exists is a debt to the Federal Reserve, plus interest?
"(as they pat you on the head like a well-behaved pet)"
Don't you mean fondle your crotch in search of "weapons"?
Well, we already have the Church of Emacs, I guess we might was well start the Church of Linus.
Our motto shall be "Despite his arrogance and occasional seemingly childish outbursts, in the end you will find that he was right".
I seriously doubt it would work against the Rubber Ducky.
After thousands of people "contact" their government representatives, contact is in quotes because you will not actually gain any direct contact (not even direct email), and these companies contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars to their election campaigns we will wait and see who they side with.
I will bet on the money winning every time.
I suspect you're right. He is after all, heavily funding the terrible standardized testing that is allowing our children to graduate high school without being able to do simple fractions. By this I don't mean a few slip through, I mean hardly any of them can do it.
Funny you mention such problems. I have had Windows fail catastrophically from updates more times than Linux since I started using Linux.
I take it you haven't used Linux since the floppy disk era of which you speak. I do Windows and Linux installs all the time for my job and Linux is far easier and takes less time to install and update than Windows. Apparently the only distro you are familiar with is Gentoo, since you seem to think that you need to compile everything you install on Linux. We haven't needed to do that for many years.
Why do you think that students will have a hard time with remote access to their data? There are many different ways for them to access data remotely in Linux. And about the cloud, damn near every cloud service works on Linux.
I can only conclude that you have had your head stuck in a hole filled with Microsoft propaganda for at least the last decade.
I would hope you lived in a warm climate, but not too warm. Titanium conducts heat very well. With your entire skull replaced with titanium plates your brain would be constantly below normal temperature.
I wonder how that would affect intelligence? Maybe you should try it, as an experiment...
Yes, it is. When machining something out of titanium, or any other expensive metal for that matter, all the shavings are saved to be melted down again. This is both cheap and easy to do, and is how it has been done for a long time.
Yes actual views are much more nuanced. That is the reason why we only have two major parties, and why they are made to appear so widely different. They create the illusion of "us and them" in order to divide the population and pit them against each other. That leaves them terrified that the other party will get their person into office so that they are afraid to attempt to vote for any third party.
There is so much theater that we have a hard time realizing that the two parties are really just two faces of the same party. This is how they always stay in power, and why they do not flinch when taking away our rights.
I don't see why Valve would need its own distro aside from one tailor made for a single device. A simple window manager would be sufficient, kind of the way xbmc does.
No, I have had good reason to curse Micro$oft, Apple, and several Linux distributions. This as well as hardware. Micro$oft was, however, the most cursed until I quit using it regularly.