So let me get this straight. Rather than ensure parents actually have time to raise their children, we continue to hand more and more of their time to corporations that won't be truly happy until they own every waking moment of everybody's time, and farm out the job of raising the next generation to a machine developed by one of those same corporations. And not just any corporation, but a corporation famous for its relentless marketing campaigns directed at children.
I think there's a lot more that could be done, but maybe I'm wrong. It's not something I follow in sufficient detail to have more than a general sense of the situation.
It does my heart good to see Kip Thorne share in this prize. I love it when good things happen to good people.
My work takes me into science classrooms, and I meet a lot of science teachers. In the course of a discussion about letting bright kids really stretch their capabilities, an elementary school teacher in a small Ontario town told me he tried to contact Thorne for information wormholes and time travel.
Thorne responded with an email 'way beyond the teachers wildest dreams. The student was pleased to get a world-class answer to his questions. The teacher, though, had written a guy he knew is one of the top physicists on Earth (and a very busy man) with no great hope of a reply. He almost teared up telling me about Thorne's response, and how important it was that the guy with his name on heavy-duty science books (present in class, though beyond any of the kids) took time to answer the questions of a 10-year-old kid.
The US hammers China for supporting North Korea. In order to protect its access to US markets, China pulls back a little...on coal exports, for example. Russia moves into the vaccuum and increases its trade with North Korea threefold in the first half of 2017 (specifically including increased coal export to North Korea).
Russia's investment in getting a friend into the White House is sure paying off!
I've been here for about 10 years, and I have to say I agree with you. In the last couple of years, I have noticed what appears to be a concerted effort by the alt right to take over this site. Anti-science trolls are now common here, spewing the same long-debunked myths and outright nonsense vomited up by Breitbart, Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh and their ilk.
Even worse, they appear to be dedicated to using moderator points to bury opposing viewpoints. One group doing that forces others to act in a similar way...which undermines a moderating process that has been relatively fair for many years.
I'm not looking back with misty eyes at a time when Slashdot was perfect. It never was. However, it used to offer a mix of geek-oriented information, amusing remarks, and sometimes even insight and interesting perspectives.
Lately, I've noticed the comment sections below just about any story featuring Elon Musk, Climate Change, renewable energy and the like...anything conservatives like to call "liberal"...are immediately swamped by right wing trolls.
The easy thing to do would be to just shrug and walk away. Unfortunately, that simply encourages them, and the next time a site is built up over years as a place where you can find at least an attempt at a balanced perspective on technology, science and the world, the alt right will flood in to poison that one, too.
Not many people noticed, but even while Trump was excoriating China over its support of North Korea and demanding it cut back its support of the rogue regime, Russia was moving in to take up the slack. In the first three months of this year, Russia significantly increased its trade with North Korea. I don't know what more recent figures show, but I have to think it's more of the same.
From the Chinese perspective, how can this look like anything except Trump using his position of power to push China out of a market so his buddy Vladimir Putin can move in and pick up the slack?
Thanks for the marketing spiel, but I think you missed the point about whether it's really worth it. For me, no. As I mentioned later, I'd rather put that money into something else. I imagine a lot of other people who could also actually afford it feel exactly the same way.
So yes, the Anonymous Reader was correct: the new iPhone might be better, but it's not $800 better.
Unless you're in a financial situation where you're peeing in gold-plated toilets, there's no way the latest iPhone is worth $700 more than a Galaxy Note 4 (~$300 on eBay).
What really mystifies me is why some people fork out a lot of money based on a smart phone's camera. I would much rather buy a reasonably-priced smart phone like the GN4, which still takes pretty acceptable pictures and video. That would leave me six or seven hundred bucks that I could put into higher-quality glass for my mid-range DSLR, which blows the doors off anything a smart phone is capable of...even Apple's newest offering.
It's pretty obvious if Stephen Paddock's name was something like Abdul Fatah, the entire right would be screaming "Terrorist!" (which is how Breitbart started their coverage). It looks like it was an old white guy with an Anglo name, though, which complicates things. If it turns out Paddock was a lefty...Terrorism!!! If Paddock was a conservative, the blame will fall on mental health issues which weren't addressed because Obamacare.
I'm betting on a different motive: the guy was a music lover.
As long as there's a profit to be turned from putting people in jail, guess what...more and more people will wind up in jail.
The world would be a better place if those turning a profit from incarcerating non-violent criminals were held accountable for the damage they've done to society and forced to spend the rest of their lives in the institutions they created.
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So let me get this straight. Rather than ensure parents actually have time to raise their children, we continue to hand more and more of their time to corporations that won't be truly happy until they own every waking moment of everybody's time, and farm out the job of raising the next generation to a machine developed by one of those same corporations. And not just any corporation, but a corporation famous for its relentless marketing campaigns directed at children.
Is that about right?
If you understand only cash value and not influence, then Putin would clean you out if you ever had any position of authority in a government.
I think there's a lot more that could be done, but maybe I'm wrong. It's not something I follow in sufficient detail to have more than a general sense of the situation.
They might have an eye out, but they're too easily intimidated (in economic terms more than military).
Who said anything about a conspiracy? That's a subject you're raising, not me.
Trump's efforts to help Russia increase its global influence are as blatantly obvious as an elephant's erection. No conspiracy here!
So why did Trump care so much about China's dealings with North Korea, but not Russia's?
I'll wait...
No, he's actually wrong, and didn't deserve a serious investment of time.
Much like you.
My little comment is "McCarthyism"?
Oh, you poor little snowflake!"
Study what McCarthy's victims went through, then get back to me, if you haven't been succumbed to a case of the vapours.
It does my heart good to see Kip Thorne share in this prize. I love it when good things happen to good people.
My work takes me into science classrooms, and I meet a lot of science teachers. In the course of a discussion about letting bright kids really stretch their capabilities, an elementary school teacher in a small Ontario town told me he tried to contact Thorne for information wormholes and time travel.
Thorne responded with an email 'way beyond the teachers wildest dreams. The student was pleased to get a world-class answer to his questions. The teacher, though, had written a guy he knew is one of the top physicists on Earth (and a very busy man) with no great hope of a reply. He almost teared up telling me about Thorne's response, and how important it was that the guy with his name on heavy-duty science books (present in class, though beyond any of the kids) took time to answer the questions of a 10-year-old kid.
Would that be 112SouthK or 112 NorthK?
Your quarrel is with all the Americans who describe their country in exactly the terms I used.
Yap at them, little doggie, not at your betters.
The US hammers China for supporting North Korea. In order to protect its access to US markets, China pulls back a little...on coal exports, for example. Russia moves into the vaccuum and increases its trade with North Korea threefold in the first half of 2017 (specifically including increased coal export to North Korea).
Russia's investment in getting a friend into the White House is sure paying off!
I've been here for about 10 years, and I have to say I agree with you. In the last couple of years, I have noticed what appears to be a concerted effort by the alt right to take over this site. Anti-science trolls are now common here, spewing the same long-debunked myths and outright nonsense vomited up by Breitbart, Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh and their ilk.
Even worse, they appear to be dedicated to using moderator points to bury opposing viewpoints. One group doing that forces others to act in a similar way...which undermines a moderating process that has been relatively fair for many years.
I'm not looking back with misty eyes at a time when Slashdot was perfect. It never was. However, it used to offer a mix of geek-oriented information, amusing remarks, and sometimes even insight and interesting perspectives.
Lately, I've noticed the comment sections below just about any story featuring Elon Musk, Climate Change, renewable energy and the like...anything conservatives like to call "liberal"...are immediately swamped by right wing trolls.
The easy thing to do would be to just shrug and walk away. Unfortunately, that simply encourages them, and the next time a site is built up over years as a place where you can find at least an attempt at a balanced perspective on technology, science and the world, the alt right will flood in to poison that one, too.
This is just the latest move in a bigger game.
Not many people noticed, but even while Trump was excoriating China over its support of North Korea and demanding it cut back its support of the rogue regime, Russia was moving in to take up the slack. In the first three months of this year, Russia significantly increased its trade with North Korea. I don't know what more recent figures show, but I have to think it's more of the same.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/06/05/russia-boosts-trade-north-korea-china-cuts/102389824/
From the Chinese perspective, how can this look like anything except Trump using his position of power to push China out of a market so his buddy Vladimir Putin can move in and pick up the slack?
"No one has proven these were placed by MY Russian government, which also isn't illegal."
Fixed that for you!
Thanks for the marketing spiel, but I think you missed the point about whether it's really worth it. For me, no. As I mentioned later, I'd rather put that money into something else. I imagine a lot of other people who could also actually afford it feel exactly the same way.
So yes, the Anonymous Reader was correct: the new iPhone might be better, but it's not $800 better.
Unless you're in a financial situation where you're peeing in gold-plated toilets, there's no way the latest iPhone is worth $700 more than a Galaxy Note 4 (~$300 on eBay).
What really mystifies me is why some people fork out a lot of money based on a smart phone's camera. I would much rather buy a reasonably-priced smart phone like the GN4, which still takes pretty acceptable pictures and video. That would leave me six or seven hundred bucks that I could put into higher-quality glass for my mid-range DSLR, which blows the doors off anything a smart phone is capable of...even Apple's newest offering.
In America, everything's to blame except the actual guns. Some of the stats collected in this link tell a different story.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/2/16399418/us-gun-violence-statistics-maps-charts
Yeah, just like Oklahoma City, right?
Except the US leads the world in incidents like this by such a wide margin, nobody's even in second place.
It's pretty obvious if Stephen Paddock's name was something like Abdul Fatah, the entire right would be screaming "Terrorist!" (which is how Breitbart started their coverage). It looks like it was an old white guy with an Anglo name, though, which complicates things. If it turns out Paddock was a lefty...Terrorism!!! If Paddock was a conservative, the blame will fall on mental health issues which weren't addressed because Obamacare.
I'm betting on a different motive: the guy was a music lover.
As long as there's a profit to be turned from putting people in jail, guess what...more and more people will wind up in jail.
The world would be a better place if those turning a profit from incarcerating non-violent criminals were held accountable for the damage they've done to society and forced to spend the rest of their lives in the institutions they created.
Well said.
It's intended to provoke a response from Trump supporters, thus alerting honest, intelligent Americans to their presence.
"The FCC audio division chief who pulled WAPA's synchronous booster license decided to retire a few days ago.
I bet he did. The son of a bitch probably has blood on his hands. Not that this administration would care, given the location.