Except that a lot of people really really want to make this legal so that companies can discriminate all they want. Both on the left and the right. While I don't agree with Libertarians, I do like their concept of "none of my damned business".
Agreed. Off the shelf firmware is very dumbed down and often buggy or slow. Sometimes putting new firmware on, even without any extra customization or using new features, can result in a big improvement in performance.
Anyone who says watch that video, or read that link I posted, and think it will change anything is probably the sort of person easily swayed by fake news anyway. No single link or video can prove anything, you need cross references, fact checks, and so on. Those sorts of sites basically rely upon confirmation bias - they say what some people want to hear.
Maybe, but who wants to be associated with someone who engages in locker room talk? It's just poor taste. If it's family you have to deal with it and apologize to people later ("he was hit on the head as a child"). If it's a friend then he stops being a friend and stops getting invited to gatherings. If it's someone running for president then...?
Personally I don't think he did it. I think he was bragging because he's so full of himself and was engaging in "I'm a huuuuge star now!" banter. But it's still locker room talk and that should be unacceptable in a national leader (especially for a party so devoted to family values).
I can see someone holding their nose and voting for Trump. But I can't see anyone actually liking him.
Much of the death is from an outbreak of various insects, moths and beetles. At least up in the sierras. There's also a disease spreading amongst oaks. Add in a drought, and there's a lot of dry tinder waiting for a spark.
Android apps are confusing and bizarre. Mostly because they come with no manuals or instructions, and they change every release so that you have to relearn it all. I assume iPhone is just as bad given Apple's tendency on OSX to change UIs on things that aren't broken.
We knew fake news more easily though. Weekly World News, completely fake, but everyone knew it. It mostly focused on irrelevant stuff, like celebrity affairs and Bat Boy. Today's fake news is political, and often intended to reinforce the echo chamber or create astroturfing.
The implication made was that all mainstream media were pushing liberal agendas. The poster did not say "some MSM", but "MSM".
If you want good news sources, then you need to listen to multiple sources. Sticking to just one leaves you biased. Sticking to just one that happens to reinforce your own viewpoints just sticks you into an echo chamber. If you refuse to listen to any news outlet that may be biased away from your views then you may be a part of the problem.
And I don't think it is a smart strategy to counter liberal bias in news outlets by having overtly conservative bias in other outlets. That just reinforces the political divisions in this country instead of getting people to acknowledge what we have in common and building upon that.
Homeopathic remedies are also marketed with the "100% natural" label a lot of times, thus a lot of people lump it in with other alternative natural medicines (also not effective). They don't actually think about what "homeopathic" means because it's one of those big confusing words that have several syllables.
Except that Fox News is also mainstream media (mainstream meaning anything that's not fringe). And Fox most definitely does not support the Democrats or Liberals. Some will deny this and claim Fox must be liberal because they hated Trump (everyone I know who voted for Trump also hates trump, they just hated Clinton even more). People take sides and if someone isn't rooting for their team then they must be a member of the hated team.
If you go to a conservative region of the country and listen to ABC, CBS, NBC, they will give a version of the local news that is tilted conservative. If you go to a liberal region of the country those same stations give a liberal titled outlook.
This is the blurring of the line between news and editorials. Fox News perfected this by not being able to report straight forward news of "man bites dog" without tossing in a political slant to it. But generally most reputable news media makes it a point to separate the two. And by reputable, I mean not internet clickbait and not 24 hour cable news services.
I think alt-right has been picked up as a means to label some views as extreme without insulting all people with views to the right of center. Whereas going the other way, the words "liberal" get tossed as a generic insults, or "libtards", implying that anyone who's on that side of the issues is an idiot and that they're all identical. At least alt-right implies that there is a mainstream right. Yes there are some racists out there, but I always hated it when someone would be stupid and claim all rebuplicans were racists.
When "alt right" as a term showed up a lot of people felt it was a good handle to insult the extremists on the right (sort of the same way that "poltiically correct" started as a joke by liberals but was then co-opted by conservatives to use as an insult).
Bullshit. While mainstream media may have flaws, you are implying that it is very often worse than fake news or at least no better. To use an automobile analogy, tha'ts like saying a Ford Focus is at last as bad as a Lada. If you reject all news sources then you will end up knowing NOTHING, unless you are secretly hinting that you found a truthful source somewhere out there after just declaring them all bad (probably some mimeographed conspiracy newsletter?).
The news media is trying, and sometimes failing, to bring us factual information. Sometimes they fail to tell the difference between information and editorials, sometimes they have bias, sometimes they take shortcuts and don't do the necessary fact checking, sometimes they have someone who is lazy and makes shit up but that's rare. Whereas "fake news" is fake and was never intended to be accurate and is not coming from any corporation that ever intended to be a news source. The fake news is there to lie to people intentionally, as a means of swaying opinion or just petty click baiting. The mainstream media tells the truth every now and then, whereas the fake news though is always fake news.
Most people who say they can't trust anything from the mainstream media instead turn to the fringe news outlets instead, which is even less reliable and and which commonly relies on the fake news. Ie, American News, World Net Daily, etc. (ironic that the more religious that a news outlet claims to be, the more often it uses misinformation and outright lies)
Yes, yes, one can always do things in powershell. But it is STILL one of the most complex command lines out there. It feels bizarre that the OS that assumes the user is dumb in almost every decision they make would make a more complex command line the default. Anyone who knows how to use powershell *already* knows how to open it up quickly and easily and probably have it as their default anyway. The fall out is that now a lot of more casual users are going to be completely baffled.
Everywhere else the history of Windows is about getting it dumber and dumber over time, assuming that the user doesn't know advanced stuff or doesn't want to deal with it. And then suddenly, bam, let's make an obtuse and complex command line tool the default. Not sure what they're thinking other than to ensure more attendance at Microsoft training and certification classes.
The thing is, there shouldn't be cognitive dissonance here. We only think these are conflicting ideas because we've been trained to think in America that there are two and only two political platforms. It does make sense with some personal ethics to be pro-life and anti-death penalty which is consistent, but it doesn't fit into the liberal versus conservative split.
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Except that a lot of people really really want to make this legal so that companies can discriminate all they want. Both on the left and the right. While I don't agree with Libertarians, I do like their concept of "none of my damned business".
Agreed. Off the shelf firmware is very dumbed down and often buggy or slow. Sometimes putting new firmware on, even without any extra customization or using new features, can result in a big improvement in performance.
Anyone who says watch that video, or read that link I posted, and think it will change anything is probably the sort of person easily swayed by fake news anyway. No single link or video can prove anything, you need cross references, fact checks, and so on. Those sorts of sites basically rely upon confirmation bias - they say what some people want to hear.
Maybe, but who wants to be associated with someone who engages in locker room talk? It's just poor taste. If it's family you have to deal with it and apologize to people later ("he was hit on the head as a child"). If it's a friend then he stops being a friend and stops getting invited to gatherings. If it's someone running for president then...?
Personally I don't think he did it. I think he was bragging because he's so full of himself and was engaging in "I'm a huuuuge star now!" banter. But it's still locker room talk and that should be unacceptable in a national leader (especially for a party so devoted to family values).
I can see someone holding their nose and voting for Trump. But I can't see anyone actually liking him.
We did get a huge influx of immigrants from other states during the dust bowl. And all the prejudice that pops up when that happens.
Much of the death is from an outbreak of various insects, moths and beetles. At least up in the sierras. There's also a disease spreading amongst oaks. Add in a drought, and there's a lot of dry tinder waiting for a spark.
Android apps are confusing and bizarre. Mostly because they come with no manuals or instructions, and they change every release so that you have to relearn it all. I assume iPhone is just as bad given Apple's tendency on OSX to change UIs on things that aren't broken.
It's not a replacement without it advertising its store or rebooting to upgrade randomly while giving a presentation.
We knew fake news more easily though. Weekly World News, completely fake, but everyone knew it. It mostly focused on irrelevant stuff, like celebrity affairs and Bat Boy. Today's fake news is political, and often intended to reinforce the echo chamber or create astroturfing.
Can we at least feed the seaweed to our elderly uncles at Thanksgiving to cut down on their burps and farts?
Don't interrupt a good rant just because of facts!
Everyone wants to get re-elected, and you don't get re-elected by focusing on outdated concepts like truth and justice.
Shopping around for an easily persuaded judge does not mean the constitution should be ignored.
The implication made was that all mainstream media were pushing liberal agendas. The poster did not say "some MSM", but "MSM".
If you want good news sources, then you need to listen to multiple sources. Sticking to just one leaves you biased. Sticking to just one that happens to reinforce your own viewpoints just sticks you into an echo chamber. If you refuse to listen to any news outlet that may be biased away from your views then you may be a part of the problem.
And I don't think it is a smart strategy to counter liberal bias in news outlets by having overtly conservative bias in other outlets. That just reinforces the political divisions in this country instead of getting people to acknowledge what we have in common and building upon that.
So amazing that Captain Obvious didn't even feel the need to show up.
Homeopathic remedies are also marketed with the "100% natural" label a lot of times, thus a lot of people lump it in with other alternative natural medicines (also not effective). They don't actually think about what "homeopathic" means because it's one of those big confusing words that have several syllables.
Except that Fox News is also mainstream media (mainstream meaning anything that's not fringe). And Fox most definitely does not support the Democrats or Liberals. Some will deny this and claim Fox must be liberal because they hated Trump (everyone I know who voted for Trump also hates trump, they just hated Clinton even more). People take sides and if someone isn't rooting for their team then they must be a member of the hated team.
If you go to a conservative region of the country and listen to ABC, CBS, NBC, they will give a version of the local news that is tilted conservative. If you go to a liberal region of the country those same stations give a liberal titled outlook.
This is the blurring of the line between news and editorials. Fox News perfected this by not being able to report straight forward news of "man bites dog" without tossing in a political slant to it. But generally most reputable news media makes it a point to separate the two. And by reputable, I mean not internet clickbait and not 24 hour cable news services.
I think alt-right has been picked up as a means to label some views as extreme without insulting all people with views to the right of center. Whereas going the other way, the words "liberal" get tossed as a generic insults, or "libtards", implying that anyone who's on that side of the issues is an idiot and that they're all identical. At least alt-right implies that there is a mainstream right. Yes there are some racists out there, but I always hated it when someone would be stupid and claim all rebuplicans were racists.
When "alt right" as a term showed up a lot of people felt it was a good handle to insult the extremists on the right (sort of the same way that "poltiically correct" started as a joke by liberals but was then co-opted by conservatives to use as an insult).
Bullshit. While mainstream media may have flaws, you are implying that it is very often worse than fake news or at least no better. To use an automobile analogy, tha'ts like saying a Ford Focus is at last as bad as a Lada. If you reject all news sources then you will end up knowing NOTHING, unless you are secretly hinting that you found a truthful source somewhere out there after just declaring them all bad (probably some mimeographed conspiracy newsletter?).
The news media is trying, and sometimes failing, to bring us factual information. Sometimes they fail to tell the difference between information and editorials, sometimes they have bias, sometimes they take shortcuts and don't do the necessary fact checking, sometimes they have someone who is lazy and makes shit up but that's rare. Whereas "fake news" is fake and was never intended to be accurate and is not coming from any corporation that ever intended to be a news source. The fake news is there to lie to people intentionally, as a means of swaying opinion or just petty click baiting. The mainstream media tells the truth every now and then, whereas the fake news though is always fake news.
Most people who say they can't trust anything from the mainstream media instead turn to the fringe news outlets instead, which is even less reliable and and which commonly relies on the fake news. Ie, American News, World Net Daily, etc. (ironic that the more religious that a news outlet claims to be, the more often it uses misinformation and outright lies)
Dang, all my thumb drives burned up too!
Yes, yes, one can always do things in powershell. But it is STILL one of the most complex command lines out there. It feels bizarre that the OS that assumes the user is dumb in almost every decision they make would make a more complex command line the default. Anyone who knows how to use powershell *already* knows how to open it up quickly and easily and probably have it as their default anyway. The fall out is that now a lot of more casual users are going to be completely baffled.
Everywhere else the history of Windows is about getting it dumber and dumber over time, assuming that the user doesn't know advanced stuff or doesn't want to deal with it. And then suddenly, bam, let's make an obtuse and complex command line tool the default. Not sure what they're thinking other than to ensure more attendance at Microsoft training and certification classes.
The thing is, there shouldn't be cognitive dissonance here. We only think these are conflicting ideas because we've been trained to think in America that there are two and only two political platforms. It does make sense with some personal ethics to be pro-life and anti-death penalty which is consistent, but it doesn't fit into the liberal versus conservative split.
It was a part of Mexico before it was a part of the US. Most of those people stuck around in the California after that for many generations.