Again it doesn't really matter what they do, it's what they have the capacity to do.
Exactly.
Though also not exactly being filled to the brim with "good", to the way that actually "doing no evil" seems likely, is also a factor for me. Who do they think they're fucking kidding? The scariest option is that they're actually kidding themselves.
The organizations that are worthy of trust, and they *do* exist, since they're all made of people, never have the dysfunctional greed that would allow them to become as huge as other corporations. IMHO which I just pulled out of my ass, Google are too much technocrats to solve what ultimately is a social problem, not a technical one. Though it may still beat the outright sociopathy of Zuckerberg or Microsoft, it's not enough.
Haven't you ever seen those horrible Google videos with cheesy music? There's so many of them, and they all suck so badly in the same mediocre way. So that's either one person doing them all, or a team working to, ahem, "standards".
Heh, sounds like something I coded years ago for myself, minus the users ^^ It's really just a obvious fix to an obvious and pointless regression: it's how it used to be, off- and on-line. Giving trust does NEVER automatically mean receiving it.
The "new paradigm" of Myspace, and then Facebook and whatnot, was to turn that into binary "all or nothing" bullshit. Google simply didn't hop on board to that new paradigm, and used the old, the one that is as old as life on Earth.
Oh, and you can also follow someone who didn't friend you on Facebook by now, not just "like" Facebook Pages anymore. You can also put friends in circles, it's just called differently. So your point is perfectly moot, sorry.
By the way, do Google or Facebook support RSS by now? You know, so people can follow and mashup to their hearts content? Or are they still below what I, hobbyist, came up with on a lazy afternoon? New Paradigm, hahahah. Oh my.
I am aware of that. If the grandparents MUST see the child all the time regardless, why not let them find a way to visit/move, or a way to cope? 40 minutes a day holding a laptop, ffs. Some people are just selfish I guess.. *everybody* likes to be around cute and beautiful stuff. Little kittens, babies, same thing. Who cares if the parents could spent that time with their baby directly, who cares they're busy etc. -- grandparents want to talk nonsense to baby. To each their own is all I can say to that. Poor kid.
Angry? At what, do you dream, am I angry? Tell me. If you use me to get your useless noodle up, I might as well be informed about the details of the undertaking.
You see no value in facebook, we get it. Now fuck off and let us use it the way we see fit, unless you feel empowered by God to forbid us to do so.
That's part of respecting others - not trying to force feed them with *your* view of how they should behave.
I love how you barge into a conversation on slashdot of two people who don't like facebook, and don't consider that "force feeding" at all.
More importantly, respect is earned. Sure you don't tell people who you respect how to behave -- but you also don't respect people all that much who do or fall for certain things. You can "demand respect" all you want, and it's mighty cute; but this isn't even about you, but about the dick you're sucking. Just step aside or something ^^
What are we gonna tell the InterGalactic Council of Ministers the first time one of our teenage mothers throws one of her babies into the dumpster? Huh? How are we going to explain that to the space people? How are we going to let them know that our ambassador was only late for the meeting because his breakfast was cold and he had to spend half and hour punching his wife around the kitchen? And what are they gonna think when they find out that it's just a local custom that over 80,000,000 women in the third world had their clitoris' forcibly removed in order to reduce their sexual pleasures, so they won't cheat on their husbands? Can't you just sense how eager the rest of the universe is for us to show up?
-- George Carlin
The world is like a ride at an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think that it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly coloured, and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question - is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us. They say 'Hey! Don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride.' And we...kill those people. Ha ha ha. 'Shut him up! We have a lot invested in this ride. SHUT HIM UP! Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and family. This just has to be real.' It's just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter because: it's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings, and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourselves off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here's what you can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defence each year, and instead spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, for ever, in peace.
-- Bill Hicks
Now that is aspiration. But building an ugly spaceship for no purpose, just because it featured in a TV show that didn't even have much to say -- WTF? That is so lame, I actually got dumber just by coming across this story, kthxbye.
So on this website whenever Iran, North Korea, China, Russia, etc. do anything that America doesn't like it's universally applauded as "standing up against evil imperialist right-wing Chrisitan America" No matter how bad or destructive the action, it's OK because it's "speaking truth to power" or some nonsense.
Well, that's what happens when "you"'re evil as fuck. Well-meaning people sometimes overreach and get confused, and less well-meaning people happily mingle with them.
Stopping to be evil as fuck doesn't solve the problem completely, so it's usually recommended to not be evil as fuck as well as not being a sissy. Because then, once you know you're also not evil as fuck anymore, you'll actually be able to gently smile at the remaining, unfounded criticism, or merrily counter it with facts if you feel like it. It actually works, so don't knock it until you tried it, which you haven't. You're not the only one who has seen a thing or two before, heh.
Consider the vast amount of energy the sun is pumping into earth (not to mention all the stuff that doesn't hit earth....). We need to get to that, instead of plundering resources that could be used for other things other than just burning them, or in some cases even are best just left there. If worst comes to worst, we let "elites" and private, short-sighted interests run amok with this, and when they're done with it let it serve as an excuse for even more control and subsidies (for more stuff that does more harm than good, ofc). Instead of, you know, being gentle(wo)men and trying to get free energy, shelter and food for everybody. How can we even look in the mirror.. Oh wait, we can't, that solves that.
I know this is a rather random rant off-topic; I have no clue about the details about any of this, anyway... but "the big picture" gets me every time. It's just nuts! No convincing me otherwise.. we have a veritable Garden of Eden on one hand, and New York and Calcutta is what we turn it into. WTF.
That doesn't prohibit you from handing a lot of rights regarding them to someone else. Kinda like when you sign up for Twitter and accept the agreement... not that I know what that agreement entails exactly, but I kinda assume it has lots of fine print which deals with such things.
^ not few of these look absolutely gorgeous in raw state, and icky after photoshopping. Just bleh. I think fashion is for idiots, period... so I'd say "simply" teach your daughter not to be an idiot; but don't bother with the various strands of idiocy too much, because it's impossible to keep track of them all. Good luck.
"Doing something just for the sake of doing something is frequently much, much worse than doing nothing"
It's also very different from "doing something even though it won't fix the problem completely", which is kinda the same as your "possibly reducing this problem a little bit is more important than [blah blah blah]", only less long-winded and pretentious. Way to wank over nothing, sorry for the pun.
How many BILLIONS are they planning to spend on bombers to attack an "enemy" that shows no signs of military buildup or aggression THIS time? [..] When are our governments going to realize that you reach a point where no matter how much you've spent to date, you have to CANCEL a project because it will NEVER pay for itself nor deliver what it promised?
As long as "they" (they're "us" in large parts IMHO) get away with it? Never.. you might as well ask "When will the fox realize it's bad to eat the chickens?". When it gets shot, or at least when a lock gets put on the chicken coop. When will the fire ever stop eating? When you kill it with water, or isolate it from what it feeds on, that's when.
Some other poster said the Chinese buildup is real blah-di-blah. Guess what, the populations of more than one country can have such games played on them, it changes nothing. It's still just a bunch of horseshit. Made possible by well-meaning tools at best, and armband-wearing, dick-waving idiots at worst, and profiting completely useless people. Verily: any crappy hitty drawing a 5 year old makes adds more to this world than "a new weapon system". Such stuff has no value whatsoever. As Orwell said, war is just there to waste resources, to keep people from becoming too intelligent. It might be true. It's certainly a great distraction, it works every time.
a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response
Hmm, I do that all the time, actually.
Whee, isn't learning fun??
Free clue: it's not just someone who doesn't like facebook.
Not phrased politely, but I would take the GP as sincere if only because he said what most of us (not addicted to Facebook) feel.
Take that or leave it, but honestly, my first thought on seeing this FP
I take it "not addicted to facebook" is some kind of code for not understanding relevancy? The so called troll post was in response to a post, not to the story, not to "general facebook statistics", etc. Your whole response is useless.
While you might miss your friends when FB goes down, they might not miss you.
At least I'm afraid that's what the tone of your reply suggests...
You what?
Can't speak for others, but I wouldn't want to be friends with someone who sucks up to anonymous people who blatantly twist their words, then crap out an absolutely moronic response.... kinda like you! So fuck you and the uptight lamers who have time for you:D
Having said that, why don't you use one of the many hundreds of contact management applications out there?
That is a serious question? Geez, you're not just annoying, you're dumb as a boot!
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Exactly.
Though also not exactly being filled to the brim with "good", to the way that actually "doing no evil" seems likely, is also a factor for me. Who do they think they're fucking kidding? The scariest option is that they're actually kidding themselves.
The organizations that are worthy of trust, and they *do* exist, since they're all made of people, never have the dysfunctional greed that would allow them to become as huge as other corporations. IMHO which I just pulled out of my ass, Google are too much technocrats to solve what ultimately is a social problem, not a technical one. Though it may still beat the outright sociopathy of Zuckerberg or Microsoft, it's not enough.
Haven't you ever seen those horrible Google videos with cheesy music? There's so many of them, and they all suck so badly in the same mediocre way. So that's either one person doing them all, or a team working to, ahem, "standards".
Heh, sounds like something I coded years ago for myself, minus the users ^^ It's really just a obvious fix to an obvious and pointless regression: it's how it used to be, off- and on-line. Giving trust does NEVER automatically mean receiving it.
The "new paradigm" of Myspace, and then Facebook and whatnot, was to turn that into binary "all or nothing" bullshit. Google simply didn't hop on board to that new paradigm, and used the old, the one that is as old as life on Earth.
Oh, and you can also follow someone who didn't friend you on Facebook by now, not just "like" Facebook Pages anymore. You can also put friends in circles, it's just called differently. So your point is perfectly moot, sorry.
By the way, do Google or Facebook support RSS by now? You know, so people can follow and mashup to their hearts content? Or are they still below what I, hobbyist, came up with on a lazy afternoon? New Paradigm, hahahah. Oh my.
I am aware of that. If the grandparents MUST see the child all the time regardless, why not let them find a way to visit/move, or a way to cope? 40 minutes a day holding a laptop, ffs. Some people are just selfish I guess.. *everybody* likes to be around cute and beautiful stuff. Little kittens, babies, same thing. Who cares if the parents could spent that time with their baby directly, who cares they're busy etc. -- grandparents want to talk nonsense to baby. To each their own is all I can say to that. Poor kid.
The submitter is unable to say "no" to his parents. The real solution here is kinda lo-tech.
Angry? At what, do you dream, am I angry? Tell me. If you use me to get your useless noodle up, I might as well be informed about the details of the undertaking.
I love how you barge into a conversation on slashdot of two people who don't like facebook, and don't consider that "force feeding" at all.
More importantly, respect is earned. Sure you don't tell people who you respect how to behave -- but you also don't respect people all that much who do or fall for certain things. You can "demand respect" all you want, and it's mighty cute; but this isn't even about you, but about the dick you're sucking. Just step aside or something ^^
Paying Facebook to show posts still doesn't mean *I* will read them; you'd have to pay me directly for that.
-- George Carlin
-- Bill Hicks
Now that is aspiration. But building an ugly spaceship for no purpose, just because it featured in a TV show that didn't even have much to say -- WTF? That is so lame, I actually got dumber just by coming across this story, kthxbye.
Nope, and I know parenting advice by people without kids is *the* most obnoxious thing that exists :D
But still I put 'simply' in quotes for a reason, and I was sincere about wishing good luck :)
Well, that's what happens when "you"'re evil as fuck. Well-meaning people sometimes overreach and get confused, and less well-meaning people happily mingle with them.
Stopping to be evil as fuck doesn't solve the problem completely, so it's usually recommended to not be evil as fuck as well as not being a sissy. Because then, once you know you're also not evil as fuck anymore, you'll actually be able to gently smile at the remaining, unfounded criticism, or merrily counter it with facts if you feel like it. It actually works, so don't knock it until you tried it, which you haven't. You're not the only one who has seen a thing or two before, heh.
Consider the vast amount of energy the sun is pumping into earth (not to mention all the stuff that doesn't hit earth....). We need to get to that, instead of plundering resources that could be used for other things other than just burning them, or in some cases even are best just left there. If worst comes to worst, we let "elites" and private, short-sighted interests run amok with this, and when they're done with it let it serve as an excuse for even more control and subsidies (for more stuff that does more harm than good, ofc). Instead of, you know, being gentle(wo)men and trying to get free energy, shelter and food for everybody. How can we even look in the mirror.. Oh wait, we can't, that solves that.
I know this is a rather random rant off-topic; I have no clue about the details about any of this, anyway... but "the big picture" gets me every time. It's just nuts! No convincing me otherwise.. we have a veritable Garden of Eden on one hand, and New York and Calcutta is what we turn it into. WTF.
That doesn't prohibit you from handing a lot of rights regarding them to someone else. Kinda like when you sign up for Twitter and accept the agreement... not that I know what that agreement entails exactly, but I kinda assume it has lots of fine print which deals with such things.
Zero would be the correct amount.
Wait, what? How can you claim to know that?
http://www.google.com/search?q=photoshop+models+before+after&tbm=isch
^ not few of these look absolutely gorgeous in raw state, and icky after photoshopping. Just bleh. I think fashion is for idiots, period... so I'd say "simply" teach your daughter not to be an idiot; but don't bother with the various strands of idiocy too much, because it's impossible to keep track of them all. Good luck.
It's also very different from "doing something even though it won't fix the problem completely", which is kinda the same as your "possibly reducing this problem a little bit is more important than [blah blah blah]", only less long-winded and pretentious. Way to wank over nothing, sorry for the pun.
regardless of the reason? nuh-uh. getting angry at someone who makes light of something as utterly fucked as this stuff beats making light of it.
also, false dichotomy: "the real problem", wtf is that even? you really think that's a retort? fuck you ^^
As long as "they" (they're "us" in large parts IMHO) get away with it? Never.. you might as well ask "When will the fox realize it's bad to eat the chickens?". When it gets shot, or at least when a lock gets put on the chicken coop. When will the fire ever stop eating? When you kill it with water, or isolate it from what it feeds on, that's when.
Some other poster said the Chinese buildup is real blah-di-blah. Guess what, the populations of more than one country can have such games played on them, it changes nothing. It's still just a bunch of horseshit. Made possible by well-meaning tools at best, and armband-wearing, dick-waving idiots at worst, and profiting completely useless people. Verily: any crappy hitty drawing a 5 year old makes adds more to this world than "a new weapon system". Such stuff has no value whatsoever. As Orwell said, war is just there to waste resources, to keep people from becoming too intelligent. It might be true. It's certainly a great distraction, it works every time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_(novel) :)
Hmm, I do that all the time, actually.
Whee, isn't learning fun??
Now look up "strawman", and go fuck yourself ^^
I take it "not addicted to facebook" is some kind of code for not understanding relevancy? The so called troll post was in response to a post, not to the story, not to "general facebook statistics", etc. Your whole response is useless.
correction, that wasn't an AC. oh well, the worthlessness of the post made me mentally file it that way. sorry!
You what?
Can't speak for others, but I wouldn't want to be friends with someone who sucks up to anonymous people who blatantly twist their words, then crap out an absolutely moronic response.... kinda like you! So fuck you and the uptight lamers who have time for you :D
That is a serious question? Geez, you're not just annoying, you're dumb as a boot!
this is old, but might be interesting reading anyway:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/03/0115241/heises-two-clicks-for-more-privacy-vs-facebook