Yeah, asking people if they can keep it down is totally for whimps... instead make them think their connection is breakingm that will surely teach them. It's what a hero would do.
flickr hardly changed in any meaningful way over all those years -- and that's not because it's perfect, either -- so what makes you think they even have *any* coders left? That they don't come right out and said "sorry guys, it's just us noobs milking you noobs now", haha?
What is an "end listener"? A person who doesn't like to sample, and never ever will in their life?
To me that's like not printing images with better than a certain resolution, because nobody will ever look at it with a magnifying glass. Heh! And if you slow something down or speed it up, the "hearable frequencies" end up being quite different. Just like with image data, sure, at a certain threshold it beomes cumbersome, but that's because space and processing power is limited -- not because you can ever have "too much resolution".
Sure, that's not the general use case, but still... this article strikes me as kinda shortsighted: Oh noes, the ultrasonics, which can be dealt with! Ignore the lost data, which cannot ever be put back once it's lost. It's not like data has any purpose other than to hear it as it is. And it's not like stuff will ever end up in the public domain, or as if sampling music is any fun...
That question is also your answer. There is a very large chain of people involved in the financial crisis, and it's unlikely that any single one of them can be apportioned enough blame to go to jail.
so why not make a slippery slope the other way, too? if others are not societies responsibility, why call the cops when the kid next door gets beaten to death? who other than an insane person or a clown would do anything other than snatching their valuables to an elderly person who fell down?
gee, this is fun! only a total sociopath would not enjoy it.
What society needs to do is imbue its members with a healthy sense of self [...] we should hang them high and give them zero publicity
Yeah, that'll help. Just be a hard-ass and let the chips fall where they may. No wait, that's fucking stupid. Who is the party that did the deed? Surely not weapon manufacturers or school bullies, nobody who actually had a profit and enjoyed the ride as long as they got away with it. No, it's the desperate, self-destructive acts we have to show some indignation about. Simply say "that's not human" while being safely embedded into a completely pathological society where the right kind of sick gets you elected president. You know, the profitable kind of sick. The kind of sick that doesn't flinch when murdering thousands and ten thousands of people in exchange for control. *Not* the kind of sick that cuts up a puppy or goes on a shooting spree in exchange for death, which is the actually evil and subhuman sick, which should be "hanged high", labeled "subhuman" and not ever be talked about.
Yeah fucking right. That's so dumb it's not even funny. You want a healthy sense of self? I have it, and I'm calling you an asshole.
So.... anorexic models in Europe help bring the weight down of fat women in the USA? Interesting! Or maybe it's complete idiots like you that make American woman desperately seek some relief in the arms of chocolate, and the topic has nothing to do with it, who knows?
what makes you think the unrealistic expectations regular women get blitzed with every fucking day don't make most eat a lot while it makes a small number become anorexic?
at any rate, "you need to acknowledge the bigger (by several orders of magnitude) problem first." is a game that can be played without end, and it's quite a false dichotomy. I mean, it's not like anorexic models keep obese women "in check", at the cost of some women being anorexic, or that only one problem can be addressed at one time. that's just not how it works. not that I know how it does work, but that's not how it works.
People that do most any activity to the extreme do it due to mental problems. So, because some people out there are on the fringe....normal people (the majority) have to suffer and give up...?
eating and spitting out child like models like the fashion industry does IS an extreme activity, and you don't even get to start at it without mental problems, much less become successful at it. so because those people are fucked, normal people have to suffer and endure the pointless advertisement? is that what you're saying? we have to have our brains warped even though we don't buy their shit? hmmz!
not that I'm for banning anything. I'd be for defacing the advertisements instead. laugh them into obscurity... but I do consider them an attack -- not on me, but on women, imagine that -- and just about any backlash is fine with me.
I know when I see healthy men in magazines....I do think, "Hey...maybe if I ate less, ate properly and exercised...I could look better too". Is that unhealthy?
Well that's the thing, you hardly see that type of female model. you know, a healthy, handsome, or even intelligent and strong person. which is exactly the fucking point, and that you and I as men aren't affected, doesn't mean much. but it does mean you're not paying much attention, and/or are blinded by the fat women of america (who are irrelevant here, this being about europe).
use of the word "hater" immediately loses the argument.
That is SO not desperate. Anything to say in response to the actual post? Or is "wahh, wahh, that doesn't count because of [something completely unrelated which I just made up]" all you got?
Yeah, and? What do you suggest to do for people to organize and get together, compared to the machineries they're facing? Do you think a slick, well-oiled and silently humming greed bot is somehow more cool, or being a pussy fucking armchair critic of people who actually try to do fuck all? Pah...
Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.
Yeah... you can use console.log() for "outputting to the command line" to begin, then work your way up to manipulating HTML elements -- and bam!, you already have some simple GUI stuff that would be hell to code from scratch in stuff like C. Basically for free... I seriously doubt the learning curve of HTML and CSS is steeper than the learning curve for, say, QT or GTK. And all the time, you're on the interwebs, being able to pull resources from wherever, and do interesting or silly things with them... you know, instead of having to go insane trying to code networking.
Re-read the thread and realize that I've never actually refered directly or indirectly to your inbox.
"You can simply not compete with Google when it comes to anti-spam solutions, they offer the best filter, which is fed by millions of users worldwide."
Yet my inbox isn't google, and is spam-free, without false positives, which is impossible according to your claim ("can not"). That it's not rational to talk that way, doesn't mean it's not what you're doing.
"You could block anything not plain-text with a URL in it and then you'd probably not get any spam at all, though the number of false positives would skyrocket"
See? There you did it again, fantasizing about my inbox. I can assure you, HTML emails get through just fine as well.
The study in question deals with the freedom of a specific group - namely, journalists - to publish freely. It does not deal with the freedom of speech in general, e.g. freedom of writing books, or speaking out in public.
So? Unless you have additional data on those missing aspects if you will, additional data from the country with "free speech zones" that is, that's one what we have as indicator. And It doesn't seem likely that the USA would be doing much better with additional factors taken into consideration, what makes you think otherwise? Wishful thinking?
This doesn't change the simple fact that freedom of speech is less limited in USA then elsewhere, for better or worse - regardless of whether it "matters".
Make a bumper sticker (no wait, don't, don't do this at home:P), with "We should kill Obama" written on it. See how far you get. Now have someone in, say, Saudi Arabia make the same sticker, and see how far they get (not knowing if they'd get much further with that in Saudi Arabia, but I bet you that there is at least one country in the world where nobody would give a fuck, since Obama isn't their president AND they're not as psyched as the USA is). "But that's different", you might say, "that doesn't count, because in other countries that cannot ever be a credible threat, you would have to use the name of the local president elsewhere for it to be a fair comparison". Well no, you brought up hate speech laws in Germany. And the very same applies, you cannot simply compare to what is allowed elsewhere, except for the purpose of coming off as desperate.
The freedom to march up and down town square in the USA and shout Sieg Heil, or talk about "leadership" 24/7 and elect presidents based on stuff like "hope & change", who then proceed to simply kill people all over the world without any trial --- you can stick it in your pipe and smoke it.
So what else do you suggest? To friendly suggest them out of existence? And how does what you said not also apply to other things that are illegal, like going around poking out the eyes of people with a fork? It's a social problem after all, surely you wouldn't want to try and legislate it out of existence?
You can't legislate (or demand, or "why don't you just...?" or intimidate or...) social problems out of existence
Considering that the post I replied to contained the gem "we live in a nation where a large percentage of the population REQUIRES a vehicle just to survive", do you have any idea how hilarious that is? I mean, it almost sounds as if you use the necessity of those people to survive as an argument that they should be allowed to be doing so while driving under the influence. And I simply say, fuck their survival then. If the fear of starving to death doesn't sober them up, they might really kill someone at some point down the road (excuse the pun). So, give them free bus tickets, billions of them, but don't let them drive. The end.
But they'd not be confused by there being so many different ones, duh! Being confused about X doesn't equal being confused about Y just because it both involves being confused. So yes, it very much is an either/or proposition, try reading it again mayhaps.
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No, actually there's no penalty for suicide if you're successful. If they can't catch you, they can't punish you.
"This guy is my new hero"
Yeah, asking people if they can keep it down is totally for whimps... instead make them think their connection is breakingm that will surely teach them. It's what a hero would do.
http://sandboxx.org/file/3687/
Not if the benefits and profits of that mostly go to the few(er and fewer).
flickr hardly changed in any meaningful way over all those years -- and that's not because it's perfect, either -- so what makes you think they even have *any* coders left? That they don't come right out and said "sorry guys, it's just us noobs milking you noobs now", haha?
What is an "end listener"? A person who doesn't like to sample, and never ever will in their life?
To me that's like not printing images with better than a certain resolution, because nobody will ever look at it with a magnifying glass. Heh! And if you slow something down or speed it up, the "hearable frequencies" end up being quite different. Just like with image data, sure, at a certain threshold it beomes cumbersome, but that's because space and processing power is limited -- not because you can ever have "too much resolution".
Sure, that's not the general use case, but still... this article strikes me as kinda shortsighted: Oh noes, the ultrasonics, which can be dealt with! Ignore the lost data, which cannot ever be put back once it's lost. It's not like data has any purpose other than to hear it as it is. And it's not like stuff will ever end up in the public domain, or as if sampling music is any fun...
Exactly.
"blame" is a weird way to spell "700 billion".
slippery slopes? check!
so why not make a slippery slope the other way, too? if others are not societies responsibility, why call the cops when the kid next door gets beaten to death? who other than an insane person or a clown would do anything other than snatching their valuables to an elderly person who fell down?
gee, this is fun! only a total sociopath would not enjoy it.
Yeah, that'll help. Just be a hard-ass and let the chips fall where they may. No wait, that's fucking stupid. Who is the party that did the deed? Surely not weapon manufacturers or school bullies, nobody who actually had a profit and enjoyed the ride as long as they got away with it. No, it's the desperate, self-destructive acts we have to show some indignation about. Simply say "that's not human" while being safely embedded into a completely pathological society where the right kind of sick gets you elected president. You know, the profitable kind of sick. The kind of sick that doesn't flinch when murdering thousands and ten thousands of people in exchange for control. *Not* the kind of sick that cuts up a puppy or goes on a shooting spree in exchange for death, which is the actually evil and subhuman sick, which should be "hanged high", labeled "subhuman" and not ever be talked about.
Yeah fucking right. That's so dumb it's not even funny. You want a healthy sense of self? I have it, and I'm calling you an asshole.
So.... anorexic models in Europe help bring the weight down of fat women in the USA? Interesting! Or maybe it's complete idiots like you that make American woman desperately seek some relief in the arms of chocolate, and the topic has nothing to do with it, who knows?
what makes you think the unrealistic expectations regular women get blitzed with every fucking day don't make most eat a lot while it makes a small number become anorexic?
at any rate, "you need to acknowledge the bigger (by several orders of magnitude) problem first." is a game that can be played without end, and it's quite a false dichotomy. I mean, it's not like anorexic models keep obese women "in check", at the cost of some women being anorexic, or that only one problem can be addressed at one time. that's just not how it works. not that I know how it does work, but that's not how it works.
eating and spitting out child like models like the fashion industry does IS an extreme activity, and you don't even get to start at it without mental problems, much less become successful at it. so because those people are fucked, normal people have to suffer and endure the pointless advertisement? is that what you're saying? we have to have our brains warped even though we don't buy their shit? hmmz!
not that I'm for banning anything. I'd be for defacing the advertisements instead. laugh them into obscurity... but I do consider them an attack -- not on me, but on women, imagine that -- and just about any backlash is fine with me.
Well that's the thing, you hardly see that type of female model. you know, a healthy, handsome, or even intelligent and strong person. which is exactly the fucking point, and that you and I as men aren't affected, doesn't mean much. but it does mean you're not paying much attention, and/or are blinded by the fat women of america (who are irrelevant here, this being about europe).
That is SO not desperate. Anything to say in response to the actual post? Or is "wahh, wahh, that doesn't count because of [something completely unrelated which I just made up]" all you got?
Yeah, and? What do you suggest to do for people to organize and get together, compared to the machineries they're facing? Do you think a slick, well-oiled and silently humming greed bot is somehow more cool, or being a pussy fucking armchair critic of people who actually try to do fuck all? Pah...
-- Goethe
Yeah... you can use console.log() for "outputting to the command line" to begin, then work your way up to manipulating HTML elements -- and bam!, you already have some simple GUI stuff that would be hell to code from scratch in stuff like C. Basically for free... I seriously doubt the learning curve of HTML and CSS is steeper than the learning curve for, say, QT or GTK. And all the time, you're on the interwebs, being able to pull resources from wherever, and do interesting or silly things with them... you know, instead of having to go insane trying to code networking.
"You can simply not compete with Google when it comes to anti-spam solutions, they offer the best filter, which is fed by millions of users worldwide."
Yet my inbox isn't google, and is spam-free, without false positives, which is impossible according to your claim ("can not"). That it's not rational to talk that way, doesn't mean it's not what you're doing.
"You could block anything not plain-text with a URL in it and then you'd probably not get any spam at all, though the number of false positives would skyrocket"
See? There you did it again, fantasizing about my inbox. I can assure you, HTML emails get through just fine as well.
So is having a brain.
No, I was just asking actually. After I posted that I saw other comments which seemed to imply the DHS is all about disaster prevention or something.
Oh well. *shrugs* It's newspeak anyway. "Department of Homeland Security" means "Arrival of Homeland Erosion" most likely :P
So? Unless you have additional data on those missing aspects if you will, additional data from the country with "free speech zones" that is, that's one what we have as indicator. And It doesn't seem likely that the USA would be doing much better with additional factors taken into consideration, what makes you think otherwise? Wishful thinking?
Make a bumper sticker (no wait, don't, don't do this at home :P), with "We should kill Obama" written on it. See how far you get. Now have someone in, say, Saudi Arabia make the same sticker, and see how far they get (not knowing if they'd get much further with that in Saudi Arabia, but I bet you that there is at least one country in the world where nobody would give a fuck, since Obama isn't their president AND they're not as psyched as the USA is). "But that's different", you might say, "that doesn't count, because in other countries that cannot ever be a credible threat, you would have to use the name of the local president elsewhere for it to be a fair comparison". Well no, you brought up hate speech laws in Germany. And the very same applies, you cannot simply compare to what is allowed elsewhere, except for the purpose of coming off as desperate.
The freedom to march up and down town square in the USA and shout Sieg Heil, or talk about "leadership" 24/7 and elect presidents based on stuff like "hope & change", who then proceed to simply kill people all over the world without any trial --- you can stick it in your pipe and smoke it.
So what else do you suggest? To friendly suggest them out of existence? And how does what you said not also apply to other things that are illegal, like going around poking out the eyes of people with a fork? It's a social problem after all, surely you wouldn't want to try and legislate it out of existence?
Considering that the post I replied to contained the gem "we live in a nation where a large percentage of the population REQUIRES a vehicle just to survive", do you have any idea how hilarious that is? I mean, it almost sounds as if you use the necessity of those people to survive as an argument that they should be allowed to be doing so while driving under the influence. And I simply say, fuck their survival then. If the fear of starving to death doesn't sober them up, they might really kill someone at some point down the road (excuse the pun). So, give them free bus tickets, billions of them, but don't let them drive. The end.
The truth hurts, hmm? ^^
But they'd not be confused by there being so many different ones, duh! Being confused about X doesn't equal being confused about Y just because it both involves being confused. So yes, it very much is an either/or proposition, try reading it again mayhaps.
I enjoy the irony of you talking about reductionism, while talking about "marxism". Many words, no argument, better luck next time ^^
that's because the government in practice mostly follows the orders of big money, which is conveniently missing in your picture.