I guess they've already succeeded in making your speech correct. For me, it has always been the right that gets upset and censors shit, and fuck. try going on national TV during children's hour and say fuck and see which side responds, or worse, show a female boob, even with the nipple covered during the superbowl.
Is that better or worse than shutting down speech? Or cry-ins after an election? Or university students standing with "This is not a free-speech zone"? Or "blaming the russians" without a single shred of evidence even after 24 months? How about "as majority group members you don't get to argue"?
For me, mobbing people for wrongthink is worse than protesting when children's programs say "fuck". You may have a different standard, one in which it is okay to implement 1984, but you don't get to castigate the egalitarians because we don't agree that speech should be shut down.
Well what should we do about the religious snowflakes? Perhaps get rid of freedom of religion and as someone above suggested, murder all the religious right wing nut jobs that are so easily offended by body parts and natural things like sex?
That's funny - the people asking to silence me aren't from the right. The people actually succeeding in silencing others also aren't from the right.
The number of users increased by a factor of 2, the number of cryptocurrencies increased by a factor of 20, and most of the "users" of cryptocurrencies use more than just 1, therefore they are all at least double-counted and they are fewer in number per cryptocurrency.
Obviously paid-for crypto-currency "articles" like this one have been coming at us all week; someone is paying a lot of money to temporarily raise the bids so that they can offload at a smaller loss than if they sold now.
Well the USB and other similar external connectors should always be hard-disabled in mission critical applications.
Firstly, that's not going to help when your "mission critical" system is running Windows. Sooner or later the outside world is going to be reachable and if you're stupid enough to be running Windows then your system is going to be hosed.
What sort of drooling imbecile walks a USB device into the facility and plugs it into a system like that? Have we learnt nothing whatsoever from all the other cases since years where that was the attack vector for an airgapped system?
Yeah, unlike a facility on land, on a ship the crew might be away for weeks and might just want to bring things with them on a USB stick. Having security that relies on the user not being human is stupid. If you're going to shut away humans for weeks at a time you must be really dumb to be surprised that they want to bring entertainment for that period.
Instead of castigating the users for being human, you should have been castigating the techies for choosing Windows in the first place.
cause the same people will probably say that Golf is sport rather than a game... lol
I'd say Golf IS a game not a sport. Obviously it is one that takes years to master and there is a huge amount of skill involved and some hand eye-coordination. I'm not dissing the talent required to golf professionally- but I would classify it as a game not a sport.
I'd put pool, snookers, darts, archery and croquet in that list too.
Football, basketball, baseball are all just games too, you know. It seems to me that you're trying to draw an artificial difference between the various games so that you can place the traditional games in a more respectable class than the newer games.
I see very little difference between professional Starcraft players and professional football players, other than that one of those two is more likely to be useful outside of the game.
You should look into Korean gaming competition like StarCraft for example. Those guys takes it way more seriously than your "average" pro athlete. They make athletes look like amateurs in terms of commitment.
They may take it seriously. They may be very skilled and talented. It still isn't a sport though.
How about running around in circles? That's an event, right? What's your bar for "sport"? Lack of talent and skill?
Somethings like Poker, Board games, Video Games, Golf, Darts, etc... as talented as you might be to do them and even as dedicated as may need to be- they just don't belong in an atheltics competition.
The olympics isn't an athletics competition; there's artistic swimming, FCOL!
I don't think anybody claimed that people who are starved don't lose weight. So if you are not claiming that people who have trouble losing weight should literally torture themselves to lose weight what point are you trying to make?
I'm suggesting that people should ingest fewer calories than they expend if they want to stop being fat. It's a stretch to call that "torture"; having one less meal a day is not "torture".
You go to expensive international student programs in said "less developed countries" which are more than happy to take your money if your grades are halfway decent (say above a 2.7 or 3.0 GPA).
Or, if you're black, you go to med school in South Africa, where black students with C average all round are accepted over white students with straight As. It's the local policy of affirmative action in which the 90% minorities are given artificial advantages (one of many).
If it really was that simple we wouldn't have the problems we have with obesity.
For 99 out of every fat person, the problem literally is that simple. The type of person who is fat and is unable to lose weight via eating fewer than 10m calories per day and exercise involving more than waddling to work and back is in the clear majority.
When you get to be 40, see of you still believe that.
In my case, I lost the ability to walk or perform almost any exercise for 20 years (ages 19-41). I gained a moderate amount of weight, but nearly constant dieting kept me below 290 lbs. Then I finally had a doctor that fixed what was wrong with me, and I started exercising. (My first exercise: slow the rate of fall as you slide down a wall, I kid you not)
Upon exercising (and being 40), I gained weight. I only eat 1 time a day, just to maintain. I work out heavily (extremely motivated!), and am constantly exercising.
My point: not everyone is like you, so stop acting like a butt.
His point is that you're a 1-in-a-1000 outlier. Stop being an ass.
I suspect that most people would interpret what AC said the same way that I did.
You're wrong. Even partially literate people would have no trouble understanding "by refusing updates, my iPhone 6 "
For the people who read it as I did, I felt that it would be useful to know that the iPhone 6 does run iOS 12.1.1 just fine.
But there is enough room for ambiguity that maybe I should have just thought him to be full of it, rather than explicitly stating it.
There is zero ambiguity in what he said. You being unable to understand a pretty simply sentence is not an indication that that sentence is ambiguous, it's an indication that maybe english isn't your first language.
If liberalism is a negative it is because the term is being used incorrectly, like favoring the "rights" of corporations and capital over those of persons, or preserving the "liberty" of one individual to deny the liberty of another.
Then perhaps those who used to call themselves liberal (like myself) should distance themselves from a term that now means in favour of safe-spaces, authoritarianism, affirmative-action, etc.
For example, I now am very careful to distance myself from any sort of toxic group, even if I think they "hijacked" the word for their own uses. The term now means "authoritarianism", whether one likes it or not. If someone doesn't want to be seen as expressing support for authoritarianism then perhaps they should distance themselves from the word "liberal".
If it can win at Secret Hitler against humans, I'll start worrying.
Think about how that can apply to social network bots, public comments, and graph search.
Hilariously, that game tries to reinforce their point that if you're not liberal, you're fascist but instead shows that fascists are always
the people claiming to be liberals.
It's an eye-opener, but not for the reasons the game makers think it is.
No kidding. My wife is originally from California, but moved to Michigan to marry me. She's been wanting to move back for a long time now (she has an aging mother she wants to be near) but the cost of moving across country is insane, even if we get rid of everything but the essentials. Not to mention having to have a job already lined up (I'm in IT, but over 40), find affordable housing somewhere (even outside of SV it's insane), and leave something in savings in case everything goes tits up. As much we'd like to move to where we want to be, we just can't.
You're doing it wrong - it's easier to move the mother to you than to move to the mother. The mother is retired, won't move with kids in tow, probably already got rid of all additional crap that they don't want anymore (many retired people do this) and won't need to look for a job at the destination.
An added bonus might be that the mother will be spending her retirement nest-egg at a lower CoL place and so will have money for a much longer time than in California.
My golden rule in life is that under no circumstances will I go unemployed just to be with someone else or to be somewhere else. Employment is my first and foremost concern; everything else comes after it.
Yes, and it's a good thing the home you are selling is also worth 50% more!
Presumably you're moving from a place with fewer jobs to a place with more jobs, hence the house you are selling will have increased in value much less (or even decreased in value) than the corresponding house at your destination.
I'm also in agreement. I'm keeping my 5SE as long as possible. Have already had to 'iFixit" several bits of trim and charger connector. In addition to the ridiculous cost of a new phone, I also cannot stand how big they have become. Doesn't anyone remember Will Farrell and the tiny phones...?
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Blockchain messaging apps? You seem a bit retarded.
A bit? Surely that's an understatement.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
And what about those who control the spice?
You should be able to beat them with, say, up to a broom-handle.
These people have already been beaten, or they wouldn't have wound up as thieves.
They look pretty well-off to me. Have you even seen the video?
Let's find a way to help them before they fall to this level instead of beating them down afterwards.
What level? They're smartly dressed, have $1000 bikes in their houses and drive non-fucked-up cars.
One of his "victims" had a multi-thousand dollar bike in his room.
What makes you think he paid for that bike?
I guess they've already succeeded in making your speech correct. For me, it has always been the right that gets upset and censors shit, and fuck. try going on national TV during children's hour and say fuck and see which side responds, or worse, show a female boob, even with the nipple covered during the superbowl.
Is that better or worse than shutting down speech? Or cry-ins after an election? Or university students standing with "This is not a free-speech zone"? Or "blaming the russians" without a single shred of evidence even after 24 months? How about "as majority group members you don't get to argue"?
For me, mobbing people for wrongthink is worse than protesting when children's programs say "fuck". You may have a different standard, one in which it is okay to implement 1984, but you don't get to castigate the egalitarians because we don't agree that speech should be shut down.
I understand your point, but swearing is still considered immature and unprofessional.
Is it more or less immature than performing deep searches for things that might offend you?
Well what should we do about the religious snowflakes? Perhaps get rid of freedom of religion and as someone above suggested, murder all the religious right wing nut jobs that are so easily offended by body parts and natural things like sex?
That's funny - the people asking to silence me aren't from the right. The people actually succeeding in silencing others also aren't from the right.
The number of users increased by a factor of 2, the number of cryptocurrencies increased by a factor of 20, and most of the "users" of cryptocurrencies use more than just 1, therefore they are all at least double-counted and they are fewer in number per cryptocurrency.
Obviously paid-for crypto-currency "articles" like this one have been coming at us all week; someone is paying a lot of money to temporarily raise the bids so that they can offload at a smaller loss than if they sold now.
usually carried on board via USB sticks.
Well the USB and other similar external connectors should always be hard-disabled in mission critical applications.
Firstly, that's not going to help when your "mission critical" system is running Windows. Sooner or later the outside world is going to be reachable and if you're stupid enough to be running Windows then your system is going to be hosed.
What sort of drooling imbecile walks a USB device into the facility and plugs it into a system like that? Have we learnt nothing whatsoever from all the other cases since years where that was the attack vector for an airgapped system?
Yeah, unlike a facility on land, on a ship the crew might be away for weeks and might just want to bring things with them on a USB stick. Having security that relies on the user not being human is stupid. If you're going to shut away humans for weeks at a time you must be really dumb to be surprised that they want to bring entertainment for that period.
Instead of castigating the users for being human, you should have been castigating the techies for choosing Windows in the first place.
your higher education system and providing government grants for research results in more science being done. I know, crazy talk, right?
In context of this article, then ... no. Not "more science". "more AI".
“...quote-on-quote...”
Really? Does no-one here have an understanding of basic grammar or spelling, or are these articles perhaps written by some kind of primitive AI?
Here in the normal, English-speaking parts of the world, the expression is “quote-unquote”.
And, it's only used in spoken language, not written language. When writing you just used the damn quotes.
cause the same people will probably say that Golf is sport rather than a game... lol
I'd say Golf IS a game not a sport. Obviously it is one that takes years to master and there is a huge amount of skill involved and some hand eye-coordination. I'm not dissing the talent required to golf professionally- but I would classify it as a game not a sport.
I'd put pool, snookers, darts, archery and croquet in that list too.
Football, basketball, baseball are all just games too, you know. It seems to me that you're trying to draw an artificial difference between the various games so that you can place the traditional games in a more respectable class than the newer games.
I see very little difference between professional Starcraft players and professional football players, other than that one of those two is more likely to be useful outside of the game.
You should look into Korean gaming competition like StarCraft for example. Those guys takes it way more seriously than your "average" pro athlete. They make athletes look like amateurs in terms of commitment.
They may take it seriously. They may be very skilled and talented. It still isn't a sport though.
How about running around in circles? That's an event, right? What's your bar for "sport"? Lack of talent and skill?
Somethings like Poker, Board games, Video Games, Golf, Darts, etc... as talented as you might be to do them and even as dedicated as may need to be- they just don't belong in an atheltics competition.
The olympics isn't an athletics competition; there's artistic swimming, FCOL!
I don't think anybody claimed that people who are starved don't lose weight. So if you are not claiming that people who have trouble losing weight should literally torture themselves to lose weight what point are you trying to make?
I'm suggesting that people should ingest fewer calories than they expend if they want to stop being fat. It's a stretch to call that "torture"; having one less meal a day is not "torture".
You go to expensive international student programs in said "less developed countries" which are more than happy to take your money if your grades are halfway decent (say above a 2.7 or 3.0 GPA).
Or, if you're black, you go to med school in South Africa, where black students with C average all round are accepted over white students with straight As. It's the local policy of affirmative action in which the 90% minorities are given artificial advantages (one of many).
(No, I'm not white in case you were wondering)
Suggesting torture as an example of weight loss is a character issue.
Who suggested that? Pointing out that people forced into low-cal diets don't gain weight isn't "suggesting torture".
"Trying to get the body to burn more calories is the wrong way to solve the obesity problem."
And that's not what's being done here.
Advocating solutions known not to work is also "the wrong way to solve the obesity problem."
Nice try disguising the same old "obesity is a character issue" claim.
For the majority of fat people, it is a character issue.
Count the number fat prisoners from holocaust camps.
If it really was that simple we wouldn't have the problems we have with obesity.
For 99 out of every fat person, the problem literally is that simple. The type of person who is fat and is unable to lose weight via eating fewer than 10m calories per day and exercise involving more than waddling to work and back is in the clear majority.
You are obviously under 30.
When you get to be 40, see of you still believe that.
In my case, I lost the ability to walk or perform almost any exercise for 20 years (ages 19-41). I gained a moderate amount of weight, but nearly constant dieting kept me below 290 lbs. Then I finally had a doctor that fixed what was wrong with me, and I started exercising. (My first exercise: slow the rate of fall as you slide down a wall, I kid you not)
Upon exercising (and being 40), I gained weight. I only eat 1 time a day, just to maintain. I work out heavily (extremely motivated!), and am constantly exercising.
My point: not everyone is like you, so stop acting like a butt.
His point is that you're a 1-in-a-1000 outlier. Stop being an ass.
I suspect that most people would interpret what AC said the same way that I did.
You're wrong. Even partially literate people would have no trouble understanding "by refusing updates, my iPhone 6 "
For the people who read it as I did, I felt that it would be useful to know that the iPhone 6 does run iOS 12.1.1 just fine. But there is enough room for ambiguity that maybe I should have just thought him to be full of it, rather than explicitly stating it.
There is zero ambiguity in what he said. You being unable to understand a pretty simply sentence is not an indication that that sentence is ambiguous, it's an indication that maybe english isn't your first language.
If liberalism is a negative it is because the term is being used incorrectly, like favoring the "rights" of corporations and capital over those of persons, or preserving the "liberty" of one individual to deny the liberty of another.
Then perhaps those who used to call themselves liberal (like myself) should distance themselves from a term that now means in favour of safe-spaces, authoritarianism, affirmative-action, etc.
For example, I now am very careful to distance myself from any sort of toxic group, even if I think they "hijacked" the word for their own uses. The term now means "authoritarianism", whether one likes it or not. If someone doesn't want to be seen as expressing support for authoritarianism then perhaps they should distance themselves from the word "liberal".
If it can win at Secret Hitler against humans, I'll start worrying. Think about how that can apply to social network bots, public comments, and graph search.
Hilariously, that game tries to reinforce their point that if you're not liberal, you're fascist but instead shows that fascists are always the people claiming to be liberals.
It's an eye-opener, but not for the reasons the game makers think it is.
No kidding. My wife is originally from California, but moved to Michigan to marry me. She's been wanting to move back for a long time now (she has an aging mother she wants to be near) but the cost of moving across country is insane, even if we get rid of everything but the essentials. Not to mention having to have a job already lined up (I'm in IT, but over 40), find affordable housing somewhere (even outside of SV it's insane), and leave something in savings in case everything goes tits up. As much we'd like to move to where we want to be, we just can't.
You're doing it wrong - it's easier to move the mother to you than to move to the mother. The mother is retired, won't move with kids in tow, probably already got rid of all additional crap that they don't want anymore (many retired people do this) and won't need to look for a job at the destination.
An added bonus might be that the mother will be spending her retirement nest-egg at a lower CoL place and so will have money for a much longer time than in California.
My golden rule in life is that under no circumstances will I go unemployed just to be with someone else or to be somewhere else. Employment is my first and foremost concern; everything else comes after it.
Yes, and it's a good thing the home you are selling is also worth 50% more!
Presumably you're moving from a place with fewer jobs to a place with more jobs, hence the house you are selling will have increased in value much less (or even decreased in value) than the corresponding house at your destination.
I'm also in agreement. I'm keeping my 5SE as long as possible. Have already had to 'iFixit" several bits of trim and charger connector. In addition to the ridiculous cost of a new phone, I also cannot stand how big they have become. Doesn't anyone remember Will Farrell and the tiny phones...?
You're thinking Ben Stiller, Zoolander.