Generations suffered in grinding poverty due to the industrial revolution. That always gets glossed over. The people who lost their jobs weren't back at work within a few weeks. Their grandchildren and great-grandchildren got the new jobs.
I find it hard to believe that these simple keyword filters have much effect IRL, they'd be trivially defeated by codewords which would be easy to update when the codewords get banned. Here are some freebies in case they're needed:
Falun Gong = Fallen Gong
Southern Weekend = Leftymag
Tiananmen Square / June 4th Incident = Shoot n' squish day
I can see how these would appear openly racist under a "colorblind" view of race relations - a view which ignores context and history, and under which the "find and replace" test is seen as an infallible, almost mathematical tool which zeroes out cultural biases to objectively measure the racism of a statement.
But it's not. The problem is that the "cultural biases" it zeroes out ARE the context and history. For example, prejudice against white people is both much more rare and, in almost all societies, vastly less damaging than prejudice against other races because of the position of dominance and privilege whites enjoy in nearly all societies. In some societies the imbalance is so great that to equate prejudice against whites to prejudice against other races is to trivialize most forms of prejudice.
To look at another one of his posts, a "black tears" cup is vastly worse than a "white tears" cup in the US for example, because the former is an insult to injury, celebrating a dominant position. The latter on the other hand, is merely a distasteful joke because of the same dominant position of whites. It's like a poor person owning a "1%er Tears" cup.
I have two words for anyone who denies Trump's racism: "Gonzalo Curiel." Recent. Clear-cut. Racism.
Trump won't be reelected in 2020, no chance in hell. The US economy will be in tatters, the idiots who didn't go out and vote against him this year will be furious, the idiots who voted for him this year will be just as furious, and on top of that, there's a good chance Trump would've got himself impeached by that point and would be out of the running.
His time in office will serve as a valuable, and costly, lesson.
Openly racist? Hardly. The only vaguely racist thing in those links is the "White Tears" cup. He makes good points in most of those posts in fact...ironically, anyone who considers all of those posts to be "openly racist" is providing examples of why he's right.
It probably seems crazy to tell you not to use the official darknet browser on a darknet, but sadly the Tor browser is the top attack vector used by law enforcement against darknet users. It's the biggest target by far. You have to roll your own darknet browser. It's a PITA but otherwise, every exploit in the TLA's books is going to be aimed at you. Also it should go without saying that your browser should be running in a Linux VM whose state is discarded on shutdown, and ideally you should have a firewall setup that blocks all outgoing traffic not going to the darknet proxy address.
I think setting a reasonable ceiling is a great idea. Inequality will maximize if left unbounded (we can already fit the people who colliectively own half the world's wealth into a double-decker bus, and nobody would have to stand), and making it possible for people to make millions of dollars a year encourages economically damaging behavior like cash hoarding and tax haven usage. If that money can't be put into executive pay it will be pushed into other areas including pay for the middle and lower classes, who will spend most of the money immediately instead of letting it pile up in a foreign bank account.
The impossibility of reaching perfect equality is no reason to abandon all efforts at improving the situation. We can't prevent all murders but we still try to minimize them. Everyone doesn't have to be made "above average" but allowing them to make a decent enough living to support themselves and a family is a good start.
That doesn't make you immortal, it just means that after you die some robot gets to take over your life.
I thought the same thing (technically a VM instance rather than a robot). You need to suspend your disbelief for the episode and imagine that consciousness will be transferred to the VM even though it's just a copy of the original human, who is dead. Quite different to playing in San Junipero with a VR headset. The only way of digitizing a human mind that might work is replacing neurons one at a time with nanomachines. That way consciousness wouldn't be interrupted and it could be possible to "teleport" the consciousness, to use VMware terminology.
The same problem applies to Star Trek's transporters which are a combination cloning machine & suicide booth.
My image quality requirements are admittedly not very high, my 1st-gen GoPro is still doing everything I need in that area. The features I'd like and don't have are things like remote computer control and live streaming, running on external power and maybe H.265 support.
The knockoffs always lag behind in features, if you want those bleeding-edge features you'll have to shell out the big bucks. Modern action cams are all ridiculously overpowered for non-professional use anyway IMO. I still record my videos in 720p.
The SJCAM 5000X Elite is the closest to the Hero5 Black - SJCAM's cameras seem to be pretty reliable, some friends have had good luck with them, and that's what I'll probably go to next (they use the same mounts as a GoPro so I won't have to change those). If it breaks, I can buy at least 2 replacements before I get close to the cost of a single top-of-the-line GoPro.
No. Communities need to decide on some level of independence they wish to support. But "equality of opportunity" is an empty catchphrase that attempts to dress up whistling and looking the other way as engaging the issue in some way.
GoPro equipment is madly expensive. You can buy a knockoff such as an SJCAM with similar capabilities for a small fraction of the price. If you buy GoPro, you're paying out the ass for the name.
I got one as a gift, back when "action cameras" were a new thing and I was still rigging up conventional digital cameras, and it failed for no apparent reason a couple years ago (my best guess is maybe heat from the sun killed it, although it didn't have any telltale LCD rainbowing). I already had a lot of gen1 GoPro accessories so I bought one used to replace it, but next time I have to replace or upgrade I'm going to go with a knockoff.
These false equivalence arguments comparing Trump to Obama or Hillary are quite tiresome. Neither of them ever openly expressed interest in committing war crimes, restricting free speech, enacting mass deportation, using nuclear weapons, or imposing travel bans, registries, increased surveillance or special identification on Muslims, just for starters. Trump's bigotry is nothing to scoff at or hand-wave away. Alarm at his ideas is well-justified, especially if you consider the historical parallels.
"Equality of opportunity" is meaningless horseshit. Animals in the jungle have "equality of opportunity." Equality of outcome is the only equality that means anything in a civilized society.
There are eleven million illegal immigrants in the US. That number is falling, and has been for some while. However, you're still talking about deporting more people than live in the state of Georgia. Are you going to pay for that? How do you imagine you would begin rounding people up? Are you going to start demanding citizenship papers from anyone with brown skin? Do you imagine you will be able to do that without mistakes and massive rights violations? Honestly, if that is really a goal of yours, I feel badly for you, because the logistics and legal challenges alone are probably insurmountable. I would also like to point out the inherent contradiction between supporting small government and calling for government action on an unprecedented scale.
It's not unprecedented, as Trump himself has pointed out. He also sees no problem with it according to his "we did it before and therefore it's OK" logic.
Because the only job he's had before was selling real estate in New York, where he was given help starting out with a mighty big loan and "networking" assistance from his dad. That's about as much of a "real job" as selling cigarettes in prison if you're the son of a top cigarette dealer who gives you a big carton to start with and his endorsement.
Turner went on to point out that the Windows subsystem for Linux is there to provide developers with all the necessary tools to code just like they'd do it on Linux, all without losing the advantages of Windows 10.
I assume he means good compatibility with modern games and a greatly lightened wallet?
And Trump's trying the old 'stir shit up redirect'
The proper name is the Dead Cat Strategy (after a story about a CEO who threw a dead cat on the board room table after disappointing quarterly numbers were announced), and it's actually Trump's second-favorite technique next to bald-faced lies, he used it regularly throughout the election.
If it's real find a credible source, right now I'm assuming it's fake until proven otherwise. This is about as bad as using infowars or prisonplanet as a source.
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I, for one, would much rather get economics advice from an astrophysicist than an economist...especially Milton Friedman.
We don't have "saltwater" and "freshwater" physicists.
Generations suffered in grinding poverty due to the industrial revolution. That always gets glossed over. The people who lost their jobs weren't back at work within a few weeks. Their grandchildren and great-grandchildren got the new jobs.
I find it hard to believe that these simple keyword filters have much effect IRL, they'd be trivially defeated by codewords which would be easy to update when the codewords get banned. Here are some freebies in case they're needed:
Falun Gong = Fallen Gong
Southern Weekend = Leftymag
Tiananmen Square / June 4th Incident = Shoot n' squish day
I can see how these would appear openly racist under a "colorblind" view of race relations - a view which ignores context and history, and under which the "find and replace" test is seen as an infallible, almost mathematical tool which zeroes out cultural biases to objectively measure the racism of a statement.
But it's not. The problem is that the "cultural biases" it zeroes out ARE the context and history. For example, prejudice against white people is both much more rare and, in almost all societies, vastly less damaging than prejudice against other races because of the position of dominance and privilege whites enjoy in nearly all societies. In some societies the imbalance is so great that to equate prejudice against whites to prejudice against other races is to trivialize most forms of prejudice.
To look at another one of his posts, a "black tears" cup is vastly worse than a "white tears" cup in the US for example, because the former is an insult to injury, celebrating a dominant position. The latter on the other hand, is merely a distasteful joke because of the same dominant position of whites. It's like a poor person owning a "1%er Tears" cup.
I have two words for anyone who denies Trump's racism: "Gonzalo Curiel." Recent. Clear-cut. Racism.
Trump won't be reelected in 2020, no chance in hell. The US economy will be in tatters, the idiots who didn't go out and vote against him this year will be furious, the idiots who voted for him this year will be just as furious, and on top of that, there's a good chance Trump would've got himself impeached by that point and would be out of the running.
His time in office will serve as a valuable, and costly, lesson.
Openly racist? Hardly. The only vaguely racist thing in those links is the "White Tears" cup. He makes good points in most of those posts in fact...ironically, anyone who considers all of those posts to be "openly racist" is providing examples of why he's right.
It probably seems crazy to tell you not to use the official darknet browser on a darknet, but sadly the Tor browser is the top attack vector used by law enforcement against darknet users. It's the biggest target by far. You have to roll your own darknet browser. It's a PITA but otherwise, every exploit in the TLA's books is going to be aimed at you. Also it should go without saying that your browser should be running in a Linux VM whose state is discarded on shutdown, and ideally you should have a firewall setup that blocks all outgoing traffic not going to the darknet proxy address.
I think setting a reasonable ceiling is a great idea. Inequality will maximize if left unbounded (we can already fit the people who colliectively own half the world's wealth into a double-decker bus, and nobody would have to stand), and making it possible for people to make millions of dollars a year encourages economically damaging behavior like cash hoarding and tax haven usage. If that money can't be put into executive pay it will be pushed into other areas including pay for the middle and lower classes, who will spend most of the money immediately instead of letting it pile up in a foreign bank account.
The impossibility of reaching perfect equality is no reason to abandon all efforts at improving the situation. We can't prevent all murders but we still try to minimize them. Everyone doesn't have to be made "above average" but allowing them to make a decent enough living to support themselves and a family is a good start.
That doesn't make you immortal, it just means that after you die some robot gets to take over your life.
I thought the same thing (technically a VM instance rather than a robot). You need to suspend your disbelief for the episode and imagine that consciousness will be transferred to the VM even though it's just a copy of the original human, who is dead. Quite different to playing in San Junipero with a VR headset. The only way of digitizing a human mind that might work is replacing neurons one at a time with nanomachines. That way consciousness wouldn't be interrupted and it could be possible to "teleport" the consciousness, to use VMware terminology.
The same problem applies to Star Trek's transporters which are a combination cloning machine & suicide booth.
My first thought as well. I hoped this episode would put an end to these schemes. It's been tried before in the US too, by a company called Klout.
My image quality requirements are admittedly not very high, my 1st-gen GoPro is still doing everything I need in that area. The features I'd like and don't have are things like remote computer control and live streaming, running on external power and maybe H.265 support.
The knockoffs always lag behind in features, if you want those bleeding-edge features you'll have to shell out the big bucks. Modern action cams are all ridiculously overpowered for non-professional use anyway IMO. I still record my videos in 720p.
The SJCAM 5000X Elite is the closest to the Hero5 Black - SJCAM's cameras seem to be pretty reliable, some friends have had good luck with them, and that's what I'll probably go to next (they use the same mounts as a GoPro so I won't have to change those). If it breaks, I can buy at least 2 replacements before I get close to the cost of a single top-of-the-line GoPro.
No. Communities need to decide on some level of independence they wish to support. But "equality of opportunity" is an empty catchphrase that attempts to dress up whistling and looking the other way as engaging the issue in some way.
GoPro equipment is madly expensive. You can buy a knockoff such as an SJCAM with similar capabilities for a small fraction of the price. If you buy GoPro, you're paying out the ass for the name.
I got one as a gift, back when "action cameras" were a new thing and I was still rigging up conventional digital cameras, and it failed for no apparent reason a couple years ago (my best guess is maybe heat from the sun killed it, although it didn't have any telltale LCD rainbowing). I already had a lot of gen1 GoPro accessories so I bought one used to replace it, but next time I have to replace or upgrade I'm going to go with a knockoff.
Live with it the way we've had to do for the past eight miserable years.
More tiresome false equivalence.
These false equivalence arguments comparing Trump to Obama or Hillary are quite tiresome. Neither of them ever openly expressed interest in committing war crimes, restricting free speech, enacting mass deportation, using nuclear weapons, or imposing travel bans, registries, increased surveillance or special identification on Muslims, just for starters. Trump's bigotry is nothing to scoff at or hand-wave away. Alarm at his ideas is well-justified, especially if you consider the historical parallels.
"Equality of opportunity" is meaningless horseshit. Animals in the jungle have "equality of opportunity." Equality of outcome is the only equality that means anything in a civilized society.
There are eleven million illegal immigrants in the US. That number is falling, and has been for some while. However, you're still talking about deporting more people than live in the state of Georgia. Are you going to pay for that? How do you imagine you would begin rounding people up? Are you going to start demanding citizenship papers from anyone with brown skin? Do you imagine you will be able to do that without mistakes and massive rights violations? Honestly, if that is really a goal of yours, I feel badly for you, because the logistics and legal challenges alone are probably insurmountable. I would also like to point out the inherent contradiction between supporting small government and calling for government action on an unprecedented scale.
It's not unprecedented, as Trump himself has pointed out. He also sees no problem with it according to his "we did it before and therefore it's OK" logic.
Because the only job he's had before was selling real estate in New York, where he was given help starting out with a mighty big loan and "networking" assistance from his dad. That's about as much of a "real job" as selling cigarettes in prison if you're the son of a top cigarette dealer who gives you a big carton to start with and his endorsement.
Turner went on to point out that the Windows subsystem for Linux is there to provide developers with all the necessary tools to code just like they'd do it on Linux, all without losing the advantages of Windows 10.
I assume he means good compatibility with modern games and a greatly lightened wallet?
It's not often you see someone so proud to have elected a mealy-mouthed high-frequency flip-flopper.
In both comedy and horror!
And Trump's trying the old 'stir shit up redirect'
The proper name is the Dead Cat Strategy (after a story about a CEO who threw a dead cat on the board room table after disappointing quarterly numbers were announced), and it's actually Trump's second-favorite technique next to bald-faced lies, he used it regularly throughout the election.
I was going to say "Gonzalo Curiel!!!"
If it's real find a credible source, right now I'm assuming it's fake until proven otherwise. This is about as bad as using infowars or prisonplanet as a source.