Where 'the internet' here is a culture that reflects the 'real world' culture. I am not speaking of conservative action, which would be to resist change and hence preserve the previous culture, but conservative ideology, which seeks in the case of the internet to normalize it with a conservative view of what society as a whole 'should remain to be'. The internet as a force in society is a transformative one, so in order for social conservatives in a society to resist *that* change, they must change the internet before it succeeds in changing society. (They must change the change to prevent change or else be changed.)
Huh, guess you should go find some Tongva and tell them they didn't exist and weren't forced off their land in the Los Angeles area. Oh, and be sure to mention that their ancient burial grounds desecrated by developers didn't exist either, and they're totally full of shit. Either that or you are, I wonder which it is?
More liberated and experimental? Friend, that's what it was. The internet is becoming more staid, regulated, etc. It's becoming more conservative as it becomes more mainstream. People who wouldn't have touched it a decade ago now use it every day, and that's changing the culture of the internet and the way all of society perceives it. However to boomers and older it's something that "we" can obviously do without, because they didn't need it when they were growing up, so who cares? It's just a toy to them. They may casually participate in it, but they cannot (broadly and generally) understand its real importance to contemporary and future society.
Actually, I'm more politically active than your average jackass. I attend primary caucuses, town halls, and other such meetings. As the saying goes, democracy works for those who show up. I also keep track of some bills and proposed codes and complain, preferably at public hearings, when I have the time. Luckily I've always been within reasonable driving distance of the state capitals of the places I've lived. Now that I've moved to VA I'll probably even start bothering people in DC in person, though that's a bit harder. (That and I just don't like DC. Bad enough I had to work there for a few months doing a contract for the US Senate Sergeant at Arms. At least I now know the Capitol campus really well...)
Speaking as a hardcore Libertarian myself, I have to say it's not really fair to use the 'Smallest Quiz' as a standard. Like most pseudo-polls it's framed to funnel people toward a certain end, and as it was designed by Libertarians, that end is categorizing people as Libertarians so they will feel like they should belong to the LP.
People should go out and read the party and candidates' own platforms and decide based on what they like, not take a test and let the test tell them who they are. What a miserable way to acquire a meaningful political self identity/awareness.
Oh please. Voter turnouts in midterms are so low that if everybody who might support a 3rd party candidate turned out that candidate might even win. Of course they're paralyzed by the same excuses to pitiful inaction as you are. Most vote for the lesser evil or don't vote at all, then whine when nothing changes.
Fuck all y'all. I vote my conscience, and if nobody else joins me it's on their heads, not mine.
Maybe he meant frequency? That would fit adjectives like 'higher' and 'lower' better anyway, because as you've mentioned wavelengths are 'shorter' or 'longer'.
... because you're consistently sitting in a gay bars? I know when I go to gay bars the iPhone population goes way up, but most other people I know either have an Android or are talking about getting one. Whenever my wife and I get around to replacing our Nokias it will be with some kind of Android phone(s).
Rudimentary neural interfaces exist right now. In two generations that will lead to the deprecation of any interface other than thought itself. Wireless bandwidth is increasing rapidly with ultrawideband wireless on the horizon. In a matter of decades we'll be remotely interfacing by thought with medium strength AIs that will be doing calculations and busywork to spec. That has fuck all to do with "shiny things". It's a matter of a wholesale evolution of methodology as great or greater than the PC revolution or the internet revolution.
I'm glad people are so focused on the next quarter that they can't connect the dots on all the emerging technologies. Typewriters4evar!
You might as well be arguing that typewriters are eternal, or ledger books. Just because something is integral to business for generations does not mean that it will occupy that role into infinity. PCs have been the best way to get things done for the last few decades, and they'll still be for another few, but I wager they will cease to be important to most businesses in the developed world by the end of the century at the latest. Honestly I think it will be before 2050.
You're thinking of terahertz waves which are between IR and micro. They are also used in security imaging devices including whole body imaging. X-ray backscatter is a different technology unrelated to t-wave devices. Terahertz waves cannot provide useful imagery through metal, but x-rays can, depending on the alloy involved and its thickness (and the potential for intelligent resolution compensation in the x-ray's imaging software).
Benjamin Franklin was a great man, absolutely integral to the diplomatic success of American interests with European powers, but George Washington was a greater man. Not only did he fight and suffer alongside his men, not only was he offered absolute power and turned it down, but he actually stopped a coup with one sentence. During the Newburgh Conspiracy, as he was about to read a letter from a congressman, he said to the assembled military officers "Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray but almost blind in the service of my country." Those men assembled who witnessed this realized how much Washington had sacrificed for them and with them and yet was still patient and understanding rather than bitter, and they wept. That reality of service and real sacrifice was more powerful than any rhetoric could have ever been. Washington by his life was capable of moving men in that way, where Franklin, though rightly respected for his own contributions, could not hope to.
All you said was 'join the armed forces' which might surprise you is prerequisite even for O-10s. Now you're changing parameters so you don't look silly. Further, truly good leadership cannot rest on a foundation of cowardice nor contempt. When a unit sees that their leader cares for their welfare and is willing to risk himself, they may very well follow him into the jaws of hell. I recommend you read some Medal of Honor citations, especially those of officers (e.g. Charles Calvin Rogers, James E. Livingston, etc.), to find out what real leadership means.
You sound like quite a sick puppy, but you're not the first parent to think they know better than their children how their children are going to be happy and fulfilled. By some inexplicable coincidence, that way tends to line up with the parent's dreams more than the child's.
My dad first pursued a career in education because that's what his dad thought he should do with himself. Guess how long he was an educator? About a year, and hated the profession. Luckily my parents learned from that experience and never pushed me toward any career or away from any career, and that degree of respect is one aspect that has helped to keep our relationship close.
For you to look down on military service is both disrespectful to those who serve as well as wholly ignorant of history. Do you look down on George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, etc?
Speaking as a parent, cut the apron strings. Yeah I get it, you never stop being a parent, but really, you would jump all over an adult child for saving lives, albeit at personal risk? Would you berate them for defusing IEDs for the Army or being a firefighter too? Adults have to set their own priorities and seek their own fulfillment. If their parents can't handle it that generally leads to estrangement.
Congratulations on following a religion where self-loathing is a prerequisite. That's totally healthy. I was raised by fundamentalist, literalist Baptists and studied the Bible and commentaries/analysis thereupon for nine years straight. By the end of that time I realized that it was a crock of inconsistent bullshit that caused people to hate themselves and others and be thankful for the privilege. It sickens me to realize how much personal progress was retarded by all those wasted years where I could have been learning things I could use beyond trashing religious twits on the internet.
My wife of three years jokes about the pr0n I downloaded last night. But then I give her crap for the pr0n she downloads too, so it all evens out.
Hint to all those married or thinking about it: if your significant other can't come to grips with the fact that one other person cannot embody the totality of somebody's sexuality, you have settled and in the process are doomed to denying part(s) of your true self for the duration of your relationship. I love my wife as deeply as I do in no small part because she doesn't use "morality" as a cover to be an irrational, paranoid, hyper-jealous ass like so many people do.
Oh we used to dream of living in a crashed Spitfire's landing gear! It would have been a palace to us! All 150 of us had to live in a shoebox in the middle of the road... but you try to tell young people that today and they won't believe you!
It's not like they put all the hazardous materials in specially for the house, and you think all of that hazardous waste would have vanished into magical fairy land if the aircraft structure had not been repurposed? It was doubtless address when the structure was stripped and chopped, just as it would have been in any reclamation of materials from an aircraft for whatever purpose. Also, this just in: building materials are routinely trucked "cross-country" though in this case it was known to be intrastate rather than interstate.
The engines were doubtless used for parts before the plane was purchased. You also clearly know shit about planes because most of the fuel is stored in the wings. Seats are interior furnishings, not part of the structure of the aircraft. Further, the airplane was not flown to the site (did you see a runway on top of that hill?), it was brought in on trucks, just as any house-building material would have been brought in.
So your criticisms are fail, fail, and fail with a side of ignorance.
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Where 'the internet' here is a culture that reflects the 'real world' culture. I am not speaking of conservative action, which would be to resist change and hence preserve the previous culture, but conservative ideology, which seeks in the case of the internet to normalize it with a conservative view of what society as a whole 'should remain to be'. The internet as a force in society is a transformative one, so in order for social conservatives in a society to resist *that* change, they must change the internet before it succeeds in changing society. (They must change the change to prevent change or else be changed.)
Luckily it's too late for that.
Huh, guess you should go find some Tongva and tell them they didn't exist and weren't forced off their land in the Los Angeles area. Oh, and be sure to mention that their ancient burial grounds desecrated by developers didn't exist either, and they're totally full of shit. Either that or you are, I wonder which it is?
You're an ignorant dumbass.
More liberated and experimental? Friend, that's what it was. The internet is becoming more staid, regulated, etc. It's becoming more conservative as it becomes more mainstream. People who wouldn't have touched it a decade ago now use it every day, and that's changing the culture of the internet and the way all of society perceives it. However to boomers and older it's something that "we" can obviously do without, because they didn't need it when they were growing up, so who cares? It's just a toy to them. They may casually participate in it, but they cannot (broadly and generally) understand its real importance to contemporary and future society.
Actually, I'm more politically active than your average jackass. I attend primary caucuses, town halls, and other such meetings. As the saying goes, democracy works for those who show up. I also keep track of some bills and proposed codes and complain, preferably at public hearings, when I have the time. Luckily I've always been within reasonable driving distance of the state capitals of the places I've lived. Now that I've moved to VA I'll probably even start bothering people in DC in person, though that's a bit harder. (That and I just don't like DC. Bad enough I had to work there for a few months doing a contract for the US Senate Sergeant at Arms. At least I now know the Capitol campus really well...)
Bleh... need to catch a train.
Speaking as a hardcore Libertarian myself, I have to say it's not really fair to use the 'Smallest Quiz' as a standard. Like most pseudo-polls it's framed to funnel people toward a certain end, and as it was designed by Libertarians, that end is categorizing people as Libertarians so they will feel like they should belong to the LP.
People should go out and read the party and candidates' own platforms and decide based on what they like, not take a test and let the test tell them who they are. What a miserable way to acquire a meaningful political self identity/awareness.
Oh please. Voter turnouts in midterms are so low that if everybody who might support a 3rd party candidate turned out that candidate might even win. Of course they're paralyzed by the same excuses to pitiful inaction as you are. Most vote for the lesser evil or don't vote at all, then whine when nothing changes.
Fuck all y'all. I vote my conscience, and if nobody else joins me it's on their heads, not mine.
Maybe he meant frequency? That would fit adjectives like 'higher' and 'lower' better anyway, because as you've mentioned wavelengths are 'shorter' or 'longer'.
... because you're consistently sitting in a gay bars? I know when I go to gay bars the iPhone population goes way up, but most other people I know either have an Android or are talking about getting one. Whenever my wife and I get around to replacing our Nokias it will be with some kind of Android phone(s).
Rudimentary neural interfaces exist right now. In two generations that will lead to the deprecation of any interface other than thought itself. Wireless bandwidth is increasing rapidly with ultrawideband wireless on the horizon. In a matter of decades we'll be remotely interfacing by thought with medium strength AIs that will be doing calculations and busywork to spec. That has fuck all to do with "shiny things". It's a matter of a wholesale evolution of methodology as great or greater than the PC revolution or the internet revolution.
I'm glad people are so focused on the next quarter that they can't connect the dots on all the emerging technologies. Typewriters4evar!
You might as well be arguing that typewriters are eternal, or ledger books. Just because something is integral to business for generations does not mean that it will occupy that role into infinity. PCs have been the best way to get things done for the last few decades, and they'll still be for another few, but I wager they will cease to be important to most businesses in the developed world by the end of the century at the latest. Honestly I think it will be before 2050.
In Soviet Russia ... job secures you!
You're thinking of terahertz waves which are between IR and micro. They are also used in security imaging devices including whole body imaging. X-ray backscatter is a different technology unrelated to t-wave devices. Terahertz waves cannot provide useful imagery through metal, but x-rays can, depending on the alloy involved and its thickness (and the potential for intelligent resolution compensation in the x-ray's imaging software).
Benjamin Franklin was a great man, absolutely integral to the diplomatic success of American interests with European powers, but George Washington was a greater man. Not only did he fight and suffer alongside his men, not only was he offered absolute power and turned it down, but he actually stopped a coup with one sentence. During the Newburgh Conspiracy, as he was about to read a letter from a congressman, he said to the assembled military officers "Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray but almost blind in the service of my country." Those men assembled who witnessed this realized how much Washington had sacrificed for them and with them and yet was still patient and understanding rather than bitter, and they wept. That reality of service and real sacrifice was more powerful than any rhetoric could have ever been. Washington by his life was capable of moving men in that way, where Franklin, though rightly respected for his own contributions, could not hope to.
All you said was 'join the armed forces' which might surprise you is prerequisite even for O-10s. Now you're changing parameters so you don't look silly. Further, truly good leadership cannot rest on a foundation of cowardice nor contempt. When a unit sees that their leader cares for their welfare and is willing to risk himself, they may very well follow him into the jaws of hell. I recommend you read some Medal of Honor citations, especially those of officers (e.g. Charles Calvin Rogers, James E. Livingston, etc.), to find out what real leadership means.
You sound like quite a sick puppy, but you're not the first parent to think they know better than their children how their children are going to be happy and fulfilled. By some inexplicable coincidence, that way tends to line up with the parent's dreams more than the child's.
My dad first pursued a career in education because that's what his dad thought he should do with himself. Guess how long he was an educator? About a year, and hated the profession. Luckily my parents learned from that experience and never pushed me toward any career or away from any career, and that degree of respect is one aspect that has helped to keep our relationship close.
For you to look down on military service is both disrespectful to those who serve as well as wholly ignorant of history. Do you look down on George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, etc?
It is generally assumed that somebody who suffers from something analogous to Munchausen's Syndrome by proxy should get psychiatric help immediately.
Speaking as a parent, cut the apron strings. Yeah I get it, you never stop being a parent, but really, you would jump all over an adult child for saving lives, albeit at personal risk? Would you berate them for defusing IEDs for the Army or being a firefighter too? Adults have to set their own priorities and seek their own fulfillment. If their parents can't handle it that generally leads to estrangement.
Congratulations on following a religion where self-loathing is a prerequisite. That's totally healthy. I was raised by fundamentalist, literalist Baptists and studied the Bible and commentaries/analysis thereupon for nine years straight. By the end of that time I realized that it was a crock of inconsistent bullshit that caused people to hate themselves and others and be thankful for the privilege. It sickens me to realize how much personal progress was retarded by all those wasted years where I could have been learning things I could use beyond trashing religious twits on the internet.
My wife of three years jokes about the pr0n I downloaded last night. But then I give her crap for the pr0n she downloads too, so it all evens out.
Hint to all those married or thinking about it: if your significant other can't come to grips with the fact that one other person cannot embody the totality of somebody's sexuality, you have settled and in the process are doomed to denying part(s) of your true self for the duration of your relationship. I love my wife as deeply as I do in no small part because she doesn't use "morality" as a cover to be an irrational, paranoid, hyper-jealous ass like so many people do.
This an awesome idea. Make sure you pick up as much Japanese guro/scat manga/anime as possible. Bonus points if you can make them vomit.
Oh we used to dream of living in a crashed Spitfire's landing gear! It would have been a palace to us! All 150 of us had to live in a shoebox in the middle of the road... but you try to tell young people that today and they won't believe you!
It's not like they put all the hazardous materials in specially for the house, and you think all of that hazardous waste would have vanished into magical fairy land if the aircraft structure had not been repurposed? It was doubtless address when the structure was stripped and chopped, just as it would have been in any reclamation of materials from an aircraft for whatever purpose. Also, this just in: building materials are routinely trucked "cross-country" though in this case it was known to be intrastate rather than interstate.
The engines were doubtless used for parts before the plane was purchased. You also clearly know shit about planes because most of the fuel is stored in the wings. Seats are interior furnishings, not part of the structure of the aircraft. Further, the airplane was not flown to the site (did you see a runway on top of that hill?), it was brought in on trucks, just as any house-building material would have been brought in.
So your criticisms are fail, fail, and fail with a side of ignorance.
Aw... you went and ruined their smug righteous indignation... that's like all a green fanatic has to brighten their dreary soy-fueled lives.
Well that worked for Trantor, Coruscant, and Core Prime...