If you read carefully, I did not say that-- I just said that it would never be enough to fix the world.
Crime is down, people are more moral than ever
Bull. You display ignorance of the world, current events, and history. Look at the past 100 years for some truly horrific displays. In china today you can see forced abortions, where past societies would have considered it nothing less than murder. In the past decade there was a big fight over whether a ban on "partial birth abortions" (Read: the baby is ready to be born) should be allowed (whereas third trimester abortions had been recognized as murder since the 12th century under common law).
There are countless examples of where you are just wrong; the trick is, society just has to make evil look acceptable. See common opinions on slavery and how otherwise "good" men justified it simply because it was societally acceptable; then consider the news commentary on the Gosnell abortion clinic; then consider again whether we are more moral.
All have turned away,
they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good,
not even one.”[a] 13 “Their throats are open graves;
their tongues practice deceit.
You could argue that Christianity gets it wrong, but this is perhaps the most obviously true of all christian doctrines: All you have to do is open your history book, flip to a random page, and read about how man's feet are "swift to shed blood".
"Deciding to be better people" is utopian nonsense. People can try to do better, and should try to do good; but the notion that that is sufficient to make people "good" -- in the face of all the evil in the world-- is nonsense.
If you really believe that about most people you are a sad husk of a man.
Reality isnt pretty, nor are most people. I would put forth that anyone who doesnt think they are capable of truly horrific things, hasnt truly examined the state of their own heart and their capacity for justifying just about anything.
Increased efficiency simply means fewer people are required to do what society demands
So in other words, on the one hand we have a thesis by your uncle; on the other we have the entirety of human history, where the amount of work to accomplish a task has steadily decreased, and the number of people has steadily increased, and yet there continues to be jobs for MOST people. Along the way the quality of life, personal liberty, and personal wealth of individuals has ALSO steadily increased.
So sure, I cant say with certainty that this time wont be different; I just dont think you have any substantial reason for expecting that it will.
If im getting this right, your logic is that "locals" are better than a cruise company.
Except that that resort is probably owned by Sheraton or Hilton, and the money goes to corporate, where it pays down the chain.
At the end of the day, businesses get your money, and at the end of the day your patronage pays an employee who probably lives "locally" (at one of the ports the cruise stops at). You can set all of the arbitrary morality laws you want, it doesnt really excuse the superiority complex that you and epine displayed.
The attitude "Im better than you" might be one of the vilest tendencies of humanity, and you and epine are both celebrating it. Congratulations.
Im not sure how you can miss "condescending" in a statement like I suppose this type of person is less attractive to lying about in floating cocoons of immaculate white paint. We might choose a less passive adventure.
Is there really anything wrong with the community agreeing that cruises are for the weak and stupid?
Yes. Its the same mindframe that leads to racism: Anyone who doesnt look like / act like / enjoy the same things as me, is inferior to me. Its self-centered pride to the extreme, and its astonishing youd have the nerve to try to defend it.
For less money you could patronize a beachfront resort, which if you look around can belong to the same family that's cooking your food.
Gosh, heres a shocker, maybe someone has done beach vacations for years and wants to be on a boat! Maybe theyre older, retired, and not as able to move as when they were younger, and want a quieter vacation! They must be weak, lazy, and stupid, I guess.
Cruise ships are just another example of conspicuous consumption, and if you want a medal for doing nothing
By your logic, so is going to a beachfront resort. Shopping, lazing about, how wasteful. Im sure youre a blast at parties.
The author of that makes some amazingly bad mistakes, like assuming that progress means people lose work (see the luddites, or any transformative technology), or that people would blithely accept being micromanaged (they wont), or that we have no economy other than "making stuff". He also completely discounts human nature.
If the future is a dystopia, its not gonna be because of some marvelous new technology.
Right, because there are no algorithms, none whatsoever, not mmapped in-memory databases, not modern runtimes,
Yea, all those runtimes running on IOS! And mySQL, Apple edition, I love that!
Parent wasnt making an absolute statement, he was (correctly) stating that 64-bit will have almost no benefit on a cellphone for a very long time; and that the author of the article has no idea what they're talking about (since ARM being 64-bit has no relevance to compatibility with a 64-bit Intel processor).
In order of energy: Radio Infrared visible UV Sunlight consists of ~500 W/m2 infrared, 470 W/m2 visible, and ~30 W/m2. The UV is doing damage to you. The infrared is not. Radio is even less energetic than that, so one might reason that (absent some hitherto undetected mechanism that has never been hypothesized) it would require a good deal more than 500 W/m2 of radio waves to cause any noticeable effects.
I know what sovereignty is, and it depends in large part on ones ability to enforce it.
any country has the right to do anything it damn well pleases
Unless you are talking about "rights given by god", you are talking about a subjective thing that is absolutely defined in relation to other powers. The "rights" that Syria have depend on its relationship with the rest of the world, and are certainly not absolute.
If you are saying "a right is something that it would be immoral for someone else to violate", perhaps we have something to work with-- but again, unless you are going with "morality given by god" (and Im not aware of the Bible speaking on morality in international relations), you are left with another arbitrary measure defined by people.
Yes, and then instead of the magnetic head seeking to one track, and grabbing the entire file, it has to seek 3 times, and wait for 3 disk rotations (worst-case scenario), imposing a penalty of ~30ms before the CPU can get back to work on that data it was waiting for.
You dont HAVE to defrag, but the excess seeks will destroy your performance. Defragging essentially tries to mitigate the very problem that SSDs solve (since they have essentially 0 seek time). Seek time accounts for 90% of the time your computer spends booting, logging in, etc, and fragmentation can double, triple, or do worse to that time.
Its not omnidirectional, they use beamforming, and they demonstrated it working. You COULD have read the article instead of speculating, but there you go.
I was referring to the sun, which delivers around 1000W / m2 (according to wikipedia), and to parent's implication that wifi has significant biological effects (it does not, especially given that it is generally in the 30-100mW range-- around 0.01% of the sun's output on earth).
Excepting this study by grade-schoolers, there are no significant studies showing any sort of consistent effects from radio wave radiation, other than thermal.
Again: given the lack of both known mechanism and of any anecdotal evidence, its safe to assume that radio waves dont do anything.
Tape didnt die at all, its right where we left it (in the server room).
Call me when HDDs come anywhere close to the price / capacity of an LTO5 cartridge (~$30/~3TB), or their archival life, or their durability; or have anything resembling a modern tape library in terms of media management.
I dont think tape is going anywhere in terms of archival storage, any time in the near future.
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Yeah, why bother improving yourself!
If you read carefully, I did not say that-- I just said that it would never be enough to fix the world.
Crime is down, people are more moral than ever
Bull. You display ignorance of the world, current events, and history. Look at the past 100 years for some truly horrific displays. In china today you can see forced abortions, where past societies would have considered it nothing less than murder. In the past decade there was a big fight over whether a ban on "partial birth abortions" (Read: the baby is ready to be born) should be allowed (whereas third trimester abortions had been recognized as murder since the 12th century under common law).
There are countless examples of where you are just wrong; the trick is, society just has to make evil look acceptable. See common opinions on slavery and how otherwise "good" men justified it simply because it was societally acceptable; then consider the news commentary on the Gosnell abortion clinic; then consider again whether we are more moral.
Its odd you'd bring Christians up; Im one myself, and last time I checked one of the core doctrines was the fallen nature of man:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans%203:10-19&version=NIV
All have turned away,
they have together become worthless;
there is no one who does good,
not even one.”[a]
13 “Their throats are open graves;
their tongues practice deceit.
You could argue that Christianity gets it wrong, but this is perhaps the most obviously true of all christian doctrines: All you have to do is open your history book, flip to a random page, and read about how man's feet are "swift to shed blood".
"Deciding to be better people" is utopian nonsense. People can try to do better, and should try to do good; but the notion that that is sufficient to make people "good" -- in the face of all the evil in the world-- is nonsense.
If you really believe that about most people you are a sad husk of a man.
Reality isnt pretty, nor are most people. I would put forth that anyone who doesnt think they are capable of truly horrific things, hasnt truly examined the state of their own heart and their capacity for justifying just about anything.
Increased efficiency simply means fewer people are required to do what society demands
So in other words, on the one hand we have a thesis by your uncle; on the other we have the entirety of human history, where the amount of work to accomplish a task has steadily decreased, and the number of people has steadily increased, and yet there continues to be jobs for MOST people. Along the way the quality of life, personal liberty, and personal wealth of individuals has ALSO steadily increased.
So sure, I cant say with certainty that this time wont be different; I just dont think you have any substantial reason for expecting that it will.
If im getting this right, your logic is that "locals" are better than a cruise company.
Except that that resort is probably owned by Sheraton or Hilton, and the money goes to corporate, where it pays down the chain.
At the end of the day, businesses get your money, and at the end of the day your patronage pays an employee who probably lives "locally" (at one of the ports the cruise stops at). You can set all of the arbitrary morality laws you want, it doesnt really excuse the superiority complex that you and epine displayed.
The attitude "Im better than you" might be one of the vilest tendencies of humanity, and you and epine are both celebrating it. Congratulations.
Im not sure how you can miss "condescending" in a statement like
I suppose this type of person is less attractive to lying about in floating cocoons of immaculate white paint. We might choose a less passive adventure.
Is there really anything wrong with the community agreeing that cruises are for the weak and stupid?
Yes. Its the same mindframe that leads to racism: Anyone who doesnt look like / act like / enjoy the same things as me, is inferior to me. Its self-centered pride to the extreme, and its astonishing youd have the nerve to try to defend it.
For less money you could patronize a beachfront resort, which if you look around can belong to the same family that's cooking your food.
Gosh, heres a shocker, maybe someone has done beach vacations for years and wants to be on a boat! Maybe theyre older, retired, and not as able to move as when they were younger, and want a quieter vacation! They must be weak, lazy, and stupid, I guess.
Cruise ships are just another example of conspicuous consumption, and if you want a medal for doing nothing
By your logic, so is going to a beachfront resort. Shopping, lazing about, how wasteful. Im sure youre a blast at parties.
Makes it a little hard to take seriously the claim after hearing it the 5th time, though.
"never"
Never?
Has never, is that better?
"someone has to innovate"
Has to?
Always have, is that better?
You sound religious.
Im going based on history, and on every time this cry of "automation will kill jobs" has arisen.
The author of that makes some amazingly bad mistakes, like assuming that progress means people lose work (see the luddites, or any transformative technology), or that people would blithely accept being micromanaged (they wont), or that we have no economy other than "making stuff". He also completely discounts human nature.
If the future is a dystopia, its not gonna be because of some marvelous new technology.
Quick, break all the spinning frames and power looms before they steal our jobs!
Except that never happens. New jobs are created; someone has to innovate, someone has to maintain.
look at it from the police perspective. What if they do nothing. What if next year this kid really does do something?
Generally justice systems are based on the premise that you should punish someone only for actual, or attempted, wrongdoing-- not thought crime.
Doesnt it tend to be the folks who "worry more about what happens after you die" who tend to support gun rights most fervently?
Just saying, try pulling this "arrest a kid for a gun app" crap in Arkansas.
"Luddite" means someone opposed to progress because of lost jobs.
People opposing the new tiles menu oppose regressions that impede work.
A 32-bit device can address 48-bit memory addresses with PAE. Lets not mistake Windows memory addressing artifacts for limitations of an architecture.
Right, because there are no algorithms, none whatsoever, not mmapped in-memory databases, not modern runtimes,
Yea, all those runtimes running on IOS! And mySQL, Apple edition, I love that!
Parent wasnt making an absolute statement, he was (correctly) stating that 64-bit will have almost no benefit on a cellphone for a very long time; and that the author of the article has no idea what they're talking about (since ARM being 64-bit has no relevance to compatibility with a 64-bit Intel processor).
In order of energy: /m2 infrared, 470 W /m2 visible, and ~30 W /m2. The UV is doing damage to you. The infrared is not. Radio is even less energetic than that, so one might reason that (absent some hitherto undetected mechanism that has never been hypothesized) it would require a good deal more than 500 W /m2 of radio waves to cause any noticeable effects.
Radio Infrared visible UV
Sunlight consists of ~500 W
You do realize that in practice the quoted compression rates (2:1) are not that far off, dont you.
You can in 90% of use cases fit more than 1.5TB of data on an LTO5 tape. its usually well above 2TB, and closer to 2.5TB.
Do tell, where do rights at an international level come from?
I know what sovereignty is, and it depends in large part on ones ability to enforce it.
any country has the right to do anything it damn well pleases
Unless you are talking about "rights given by god", you are talking about a subjective thing that is absolutely defined in relation to other powers. The "rights" that Syria have depend on its relationship with the rest of the world, and are certainly not absolute.
If you are saying "a right is something that it would be immoral for someone else to violate", perhaps we have something to work with-- but again, unless you are going with "morality given by god" (and Im not aware of the Bible speaking on morality in international relations), you are left with another arbitrary measure defined by people.
Yes, and then instead of the magnetic head seeking to one track, and grabbing the entire file, it has to seek 3 times, and wait for 3 disk rotations (worst-case scenario), imposing a penalty of ~30ms before the CPU can get back to work on that data it was waiting for.
You dont HAVE to defrag, but the excess seeks will destroy your performance. Defragging essentially tries to mitigate the very problem that SSDs solve (since they have essentially 0 seek time). Seek time accounts for 90% of the time your computer spends booting, logging in, etc, and fragmentation can double, triple, or do worse to that time.
Its not omnidirectional, they use beamforming, and they demonstrated it working. You COULD have read the article instead of speculating, but there you go.
I was referring to the sun, which delivers around 1000W / m2 (according to wikipedia), and to parent's implication that wifi has significant biological effects (it does not, especially given that it is generally in the 30-100mW range-- around 0.01% of the sun's output on earth).
Excepting this study by grade-schoolers, there are no significant studies showing any sort of consistent effects from radio wave radiation, other than thermal.
Again: given the lack of both known mechanism and of any anecdotal evidence, its safe to assume that radio waves dont do anything.
Sunlight consists of a LOT of different radiation, and a large portion of it is not visible.
. It requires a local field intensity at the device being charged of well over 100 W/m2. That's not really a safe level for people or electronics
Sunlight directly overhead delivers about 10x that, a lot of it in infrared and ultraviolet. UV alone is around 30W /m2.
Tape didnt die at all, its right where we left it (in the server room).
Call me when HDDs come anywhere close to the price / capacity of an LTO5 cartridge (~$30 /~3TB), or their archival life, or their durability; or have anything resembling a modern tape library in terms of media management.
I dont think tape is going anywhere in terms of archival storage, any time in the near future.