My migration from Mac to Windows happened because Apple depricated all of my SCSI, ADB and serial peripherals at the same time and if I had to buy all new stuff, it wasn't going to be for a clear plastic Mac.
And if you read the responses, you'll see the truth of it. I have firearms, and if it's a matter of mortality, I'll use them on another person. But unlike some people in here who I suspect have masturbated while thinking of killing someone, I sure as hell don't want to.
But some groups really love the idea of using firearms to kill other people.
When you're having to shoot someone, you aren't going to be playing "Lone Ranger" and trying to shoot to wound....and you also don't get any "points" for trying hard things like headshot.
My point is that if you are going to terminate someone for stealing a package, and even consider it, You really, really want to have the joy of making someone else die.
But the issue is, do you want that clean kill, or watching the corpse quiver, or if you really are enjoying yourself, run off a couple clips, and show them that a slow painful death is the price for stealing your toilet paper.
In fact, there is quite a bit of evidence that the chance of being caught at all or rather the perception of it, has a lot more to do with modification of behaviour than harshness of punishment. We have been optimizing the wrong way then wondering why it fails.
The problem with the get tough on crime movement is that it escalates punishment so quickly that it very quicklys makes for people who aren't afraid to die because they have nothing to live for any more. Or become incredibly violent because that is how Law enforcement treats them. Enter the War on Drugs, which drugs have clearly won. Enter Prohibition, which was the best thing ever to happen to organized crime.
Because the "tough on crime" crowd breeds this weird chimera person who wants the most harsh punishment for everything, the longest sentences - yet does not want to pay for the incarceration. And the incarceration doesn't go down, because there's always something more to be punished harshly. This doesn't work at all. We end up with huge numbers of people in the prisons with no hope, and people who cannot understand why more harshness doesn't stop crime.
It's not that the package is worth more. Thieves do much more damage than just the economic loss. They inconvenience everyone along the supply chain from the homeowner to Amazon and on it goes.
So are you planning on a quick headshot, or are you more into a gutshot so you can watch them flop around while they bleed out?
It's just such a shame that your mainstream junk BudMillerCoors, Jack Daniels Old No. 7 (Gentleman Jack is great, though), Jim Beam and so on tends to completely overshadow it.
That would be the crowd with the only goal being to get drunk. And with the College students, get drunk cheaply.
Natty Light. These kids managed to get drunk on that nasty stuff. Eat packaged Ramen noodles all week, and drink cases and cases of Natty Light.
Fortunately they grow up eventually, and tend to graduate towards beverages with some taste. Life is too short to drink shitty beer.
We can go too far, with the present race to make Tequila some sort of ultra refined smoothness. I tried a shot of Patron a year or so ago. Expensive peewaa. I like a smooth bourbon, but in my book Tequila is supposed to kick back at ya.
a heavily noble hopped Scottish lager that's been let sit under a UV light for a month.
Ah, warm Tennent's Super...truly the breakfast of champions.
One time in Canada, I opened a bottle of Grolsch that had been setting under the lights for a long time, and it cleared the hotel room in 10 seconds, skunked to high heaven! Which is why for beers like Heineken, Becks and Grolsch, the old wisdom of only drinking from bottled beer goes away.
Ever go to a bar and not drink, but be there because your friends or family are? It happens all the time (I do this) and if you think you can't go to a bar and not drink, it's you who has the problem.
I hardly drink, but I've found that when I walk into a room where a group of people have been drinking, they are all annoying assholes, and don't settle down and fly right until I have a drink of my own.
If you are a creative type, you might want to feel a wider breadth of emotions than if you are flying 747's. This doesn't even begin to approach the questions of what goal does 'psychiatric health' have for the society. The powers that be might want everyone on an emotional zombie program. The hoi polloi not so much.
By the way - this is both insightful and informative. The person might be controlled by drugs, but they might lose their edge.
There are many creative people who have slight quirks that aren't full blown mental issues, but are interwined with their creativity. Take the OCD disorder Tourette's syndrome. In a study I was reading once, a professional musician at a very high competency level, who also suffered from Tourette's, took drugs that controlled the Tourette's, but he lost his creative edge. Finally, he went off the regimen, and used temporary suppression, and had as many of his outbreaks as possible at home. Musta been interesting when he got home from work.
The same happens with anti-psychotics, only worse, because the person feels like they are dead.
Anti depressants aren't anywhere near that bad, but if you take say bipolar, they level the highs as well as the lows. So the patient loses the fun part of the condition along with the bad.
And my tagline reflects what a lot of us are saying - you have a problem with it, that's not my problem. Maybe if you were less of a know-ot-all on that topic and instead found out how others feel, you might not be so irritated.
Some things are pretty black-and-white. This is one of them.
However, you might admit that you have a few prejudices of your own, such as your dimissal of people such as myself who went to the lower class Vocational Technical schools. While I did take academic courses and went to college as well, I was alaways surprised at the level of disdain for us Tekkers, and how any worthless college degree holder was somehow superior.
Just sayin' - I'm sympathetic to your space in life, but have no illusions that anyone would be for mine - sympathy isn't needed to tell the truth, just that people should drop their stereotypes.
Yes Barbara, and you say it just like the guidance counselers who spit it out like I was saying I wanted to screw babies. It comes out like "Retard training" or Loser training" or school for the stupid children.
Even my better half, who forgetting that my Vocational training then college work helped bring us a much better standard of living than 90 percent of her friends. Most of my knowledge came rfom the Tekker training. That was not going to be a choice for our son, made clear when she called the "tekkers" losers in front of me.
Whatever, we are formed and molded, and she like you has a rather low opinion of the lesser folk who went to Votech. She just forgets where I came from and what it did for me.
Not ever likely to change your mind. Having taken both - I can say with pretty good authority that you are wrong, you just share a popular opinion. I worked in a University environment for over 30 years. I'm smarter than most of them. And I'm a Tekker.
Your comments about how jobs are going to disappear is interesting, but that is a universal issue, not one linked to us lower class people. I had many different job functions over the years, and a few co workers were let go because they wouldn't adapt. Lifelong learning is the way ahead these days, and even older days.
improving availability of education - is less effective as time goes by. Just ask all the 30-somethings with several degrees
You're conflating education with college degree.
How many of those 30 somethings with several degrees would have been better served with voctech training?
All a product of years of trying to promote a college degree in anything as superior to a technical degree. Hell. I took both technical and academic in High school in the early 70's, and got called into the principle's office after the guicance counselor told him what I did. Even though I took a much harder curriculum than 99 percent of the students at our school, they were pissed becaue I was going to make myself look stupid.
That kind of bitched up attitude is what got us the idea tht an Art HIstory or Gender Studies major is somehow better than a machinist. They better check what a master machinist makes. Takes a while to get there, but so does a Master's degree which a Master machinist equates to,
While Art History and Gender Studies majors end up either as Baristas at Starbucks, or the two people in the circle of why bother, teaching new generations of Barista's at Starbucks, trying to pay off that 80 thou student debt.
Was it? Because people really think like this, and you're not the person I replied to. How certain are you?
Oh, goodness, let's dissect this for a minute. He wrote:
The balance sheets for the various drug companies clearly state that everything is just fine.
Okay. So we have a discussion about psychiatric drugs possibly doing more harm than good. So he took the contrary statement that the group who profits the most from them says that isn't the case. Then note that instead of citing research, he cites balance sheets. That's an example of incongruous sentece writing. And th ekicker is that as humor, it is cynical yet funny.
But as cynical belief? The boys down at the shop call that damn dumb, and I call it a non sequitur. I pretty much agree that especially children are drugged to keep them in line. And I completely believe that the cynical humor OP wrote lines up with my believe, not because of confirmation bias, but because it makes more sense than a person stating that a measurement of profit or loss is the determining factor.
But hey - if you want to start frothing at the mouth, be my guess.
And ps's We can all see the posts people make, so if you want to have a totally private conversation, you two will need to take it to private email. People can post on other people's comments, it's kind the basic premise of Slashdot.
The editors are Indians, the kind from Southeast Asia, who are only capable of doing the needful. Between the inept editors and the special snowflakes posting on/. this place has been on the decline for years.
Then again, we have your always interesting and insightful commentary. So I figure that balances everything out.
You'd think someone posting an article, especially with "Editor" in their name, would know how to use 'then' and 'than' properly. Seriously, people, it's not that hard.
And thank Gawd that you posted the most important thing on the internet this year by pointing this out!
Otherwise you would have been the only person who noticed.
My wife's PC has now been rendered unbootable TWICE by Microsoft pushing through bad updates. I personally will not install a Mac OS update until I've taken the time to do a local backup to a hard drive, a remote backup to a cloud backup service, and waited two weeks to see if Apple retracts and re-releases the update, and read Macintouch for user reports to see what kinds of problems people are having.
How many times has Apple screwed you up with an update? I always wait a while, but seems like for the level of trouble you go to every update has broken something.
The software industry has got to figure out a way to make sure that updates are one or two orders of magnitude safer and more reliable to install than they are today.
I'm not so certain they want to make them safe. If I were to design an attack vector for the internet, the present Internet of Things is the perfect model. Create things that the least knowledgable among us, the people who re obsessed with and never look up form their smartphones can be more easily enticed for this kind of future http://www.worrell.com/iot-fut... .
Yup, if I was a state actor, I'd be pushing for the IoT pretty heavily.
People avoid updating their computers, so they're surely going to update their refrigerator or the bottle that tells them when to drink water?
"Honey did you remember to update the toilet?" said no one ever.
Oh, good, pseudo intellectual cynicism has dismissed the whole topic. No need to discuss this, ilsaloving has seen through all of the smoke bombs and has clearly articulated the fundamental explanation.
Enjoy the karma boost you get from people who only want to reward opinions matching their own.
Dood! It was a joke! Jeesh - you forget to take your meds or something?
A couple of years sounds good to me. Reform, know that it's serious, and don't any of your freedom for granted. I think we're still decades away from the law and society catching up to finding the balance.
A couple years is significant, although in the US it seems everyone wants everyone executed for anything. Of course we'd all be dead.
I wonder if we should start teaching civics again in schools. Seems a freaking CS graduate should know better, both socially and technically.
You're talking about "craft" beer, so called to differentiate it from so-called "beer" (the BudMillerCoors variety). I have no problem with that. It's the vague not-quite-lager that claims to be beer I'm not keen on, something I think we both agree about.
The only positive thing I have to say about the Budweiser type light lager is that it is a very impressive example of consistency. Not good, but the same lame taste and aftereffects from every bottle. Or as my late departed mother would call them "PeeWaa".
My lawnmower beer? Newcastle. Hot from a hard day's work and it's enough taste to let you know you're drinking beer, but not heavy. The second one tastes just as good.
This doesn't mean that software updates aren't necessary.
Your mainframe software is probably rife with bugs and issues and would be very insecure if it were connected to the Internet in the same way it was in the 1970's.
Ahh, the 1970's internet. Those were good times, were they not?
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My migration from Mac to Windows happened because Apple depricated all of my SCSI, ADB and serial peripherals at the same time and if I had to buy all new stuff, it wasn't going to be for a clear plastic Mac.
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As long as you are happy, that's all you need.
Not the only one, no. Just a little time spent learning proper English grammar can go a long way towards disguising a lack of formal education.
Let's diagram sentences!
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And if you read the responses, you'll see the truth of it. I have firearms, and if it's a matter of mortality, I'll use them on another person. But unlike some people in here who I suspect have masturbated while thinking of killing someone, I sure as hell don't want to.
But some groups really love the idea of using firearms to kill other people.
When you're having to shoot someone, you aren't going to be playing "Lone Ranger" and trying to shoot to wound....and you also don't get any "points" for trying hard things like headshot.
My point is that if you are going to terminate someone for stealing a package, and even consider it, You really, really want to have the joy of making someone else die.
But the issue is, do you want that clean kill, or watching the corpse quiver, or if you really are enjoying yourself, run off a couple clips, and show them that a slow painful death is the price for stealing your toilet paper.
In fact, there is quite a bit of evidence that the chance of being caught at all or rather the perception of it, has a lot more to do with modification of behaviour than harshness of punishment. We have been optimizing the wrong way then wondering why it fails.
The problem with the get tough on crime movement is that it escalates punishment so quickly that it very quicklys makes for people who aren't afraid to die because they have nothing to live for any more. Or become incredibly violent because that is how Law enforcement treats them. Enter the War on Drugs, which drugs have clearly won. Enter Prohibition, which was the best thing ever to happen to organized crime.
Because the "tough on crime" crowd breeds this weird chimera person who wants the most harsh punishment for everything, the longest sentences - yet does not want to pay for the incarceration. And the incarceration doesn't go down, because there's always something more to be punished harshly. This doesn't work at all. We end up with huge numbers of people in the prisons with no hope, and people who cannot understand why more harshness doesn't stop crime.
It's not that the package is worth more. Thieves do much more damage than just the economic loss. They inconvenience everyone along the supply chain from the homeowner to Amazon and on it goes.
So are you planning on a quick headshot, or are you more into a gutshot so you can watch them flop around while they bleed out?
We're talking America you know, nothing is cheaper than life.
Not actually, most people who are all about guns are just fearful cowards that think a gun cures every problem.
It's just such a shame that your mainstream junk BudMillerCoors, Jack Daniels Old No. 7 (Gentleman Jack is great, though), Jim Beam and so on tends to completely overshadow it.
That would be the crowd with the only goal being to get drunk. And with the College students, get drunk cheaply.
Natty Light. These kids managed to get drunk on that nasty stuff. Eat packaged Ramen noodles all week, and drink cases and cases of Natty Light.
Fortunately they grow up eventually, and tend to graduate towards beverages with some taste. Life is too short to drink shitty beer.
We can go too far, with the present race to make Tequila some sort of ultra refined smoothness. I tried a shot of Patron a year or so ago. Expensive peewaa. I like a smooth bourbon, but in my book Tequila is supposed to kick back at ya.
a heavily noble hopped Scottish lager that's been let sit under a UV light for a month.
Ah, warm Tennent's Super...truly the breakfast of champions.
One time in Canada, I opened a bottle of Grolsch that had been setting under the lights for a long time, and it cleared the hotel room in 10 seconds, skunked to high heaven! Which is why for beers like Heineken, Becks and Grolsch, the old wisdom of only drinking from bottled beer goes away.
Ever go to a bar and not drink, but be there because your friends or family are? It happens all the time (I do this) and if you think you can't go to a bar and not drink, it's you who has the problem.
I hardly drink, but I've found that when I walk into a room where a group of people have been drinking, they are all annoying assholes, and don't settle down and fly right until I have a drink of my own.
Yup, alcoholism is surely the path of sanity.
Alcohol use can actually treat schizophrenia. It can end up adding another problem but it can work in a pinch.
If you are a creative type, you might want to feel a wider breadth of emotions than if you are flying 747's. This doesn't even begin to approach the questions of what goal does 'psychiatric health' have for the society. The powers that be might want everyone on an emotional zombie program. The hoi polloi not so much.
By the way - this is both insightful and informative. The person might be controlled by drugs, but they might lose their edge.
There are many creative people who have slight quirks that aren't full blown mental issues, but are interwined with their creativity. Take the OCD disorder Tourette's syndrome. In a study I was reading once, a professional musician at a very high competency level, who also suffered from Tourette's, took drugs that controlled the Tourette's, but he lost his creative edge. Finally, he went off the regimen, and used temporary suppression, and had as many of his outbreaks as possible at home. Musta been interesting when he got home from work.
The same happens with anti-psychotics, only worse, because the person feels like they are dead.
Anti depressants aren't anywhere near that bad, but if you take say bipolar, they level the highs as well as the lows. So the patient loses the fun part of the condition along with the bad.
And my tagline reflects what a lot of us are saying - you have a problem with it, that's not my problem. Maybe if you were less of a know-ot-all on that topic and instead found out how others feel, you might not be so irritated.
Some things are pretty black-and-white. This is one of them.
However, you might admit that you have a few prejudices of your own, such as your dimissal of people such as myself who went to the lower class Vocational Technical schools. While I did take academic courses and went to college as well, I was alaways surprised at the level of disdain for us Tekkers, and how any worthless college degree holder was somehow superior.
Just sayin' - I'm sympathetic to your space in life, but have no illusions that anyone would be for mine - sympathy isn't needed to tell the truth, just that people should drop their stereotypes.
Voctech training?
Yes Barbara, and you say it just like the guidance counselers who spit it out like I was saying I wanted to screw babies. It comes out like "Retard training" or Loser training" or school for the stupid children.
Even my better half, who forgetting that my Vocational training then college work helped bring us a much better standard of living than 90 percent of her friends. Most of my knowledge came rfom the Tekker training. That was not going to be a choice for our son, made clear when she called the "tekkers" losers in front of me.
Whatever, we are formed and molded, and she like you has a rather low opinion of the lesser folk who went to Votech. She just forgets where I came from and what it did for me.
Not ever likely to change your mind. Having taken both - I can say with pretty good authority that you are wrong, you just share a popular opinion. I worked in a University environment for over 30 years. I'm smarter than most of them. And I'm a Tekker.
Your comments about how jobs are going to disappear is interesting, but that is a universal issue, not one linked to us lower class people. I had many different job functions over the years, and a few co workers were let go because they wouldn't adapt. Lifelong learning is the way ahead these days, and even older days.
improving availability of education - is less effective as time goes by. Just ask all the 30-somethings with several degrees
You're conflating education with college degree.
How many of those 30 somethings with several degrees would have been better served with voctech training?
All a product of years of trying to promote a college degree in anything as superior to a technical degree. Hell. I took both technical and academic in High school in the early 70's, and got called into the principle's office after the guicance counselor told him what I did. Even though I took a much harder curriculum than 99 percent of the students at our school, they were pissed becaue I was going to make myself look stupid.
That kind of bitched up attitude is what got us the idea tht an Art HIstory or Gender Studies major is somehow better than a machinist. They better check what a master machinist makes. Takes a while to get there, but so does a Master's degree which a Master machinist equates to,
While Art History and Gender Studies majors end up either as Baristas at Starbucks, or the two people in the circle of why bother, teaching new generations of Barista's at Starbucks, trying to pay off that 80 thou student debt.
Was it? Because people really think like this, and you're not the person I replied to. How certain are you?
Oh, goodness, let's dissect this for a minute. He wrote:
The balance sheets for the various drug companies clearly state that everything is just fine.
Okay. So we have a discussion about psychiatric drugs possibly doing more harm than good. So he took the contrary statement that the group who profits the most from them says that isn't the case. Then note that instead of citing research, he cites balance sheets. That's an example of incongruous sentece writing. And th ekicker is that as humor, it is cynical yet funny.
But as cynical belief? The boys down at the shop call that damn dumb, and I call it a non sequitur. I pretty much agree that especially children are drugged to keep them in line. And I completely believe that the cynical humor OP wrote lines up with my believe, not because of confirmation bias, but because it makes more sense than a person stating that a measurement of profit or loss is the determining factor.
But hey - if you want to start frothing at the mouth, be my guess.
And ps's We can all see the posts people make, so if you want to have a totally private conversation, you two will need to take it to private email. People can post on other people's comments, it's kind the basic premise of Slashdot.
The editors are Indians, the kind from Southeast Asia, who are only capable of doing the needful. Between the inept editors and the special snowflakes posting on /. this place has been on the decline for years.
Then again, we have your always interesting and insightful commentary. So I figure that balances everything out.
> Less then four weeks after Microsoft
You'd think someone posting an article, especially with "Editor" in their name, would know how to use 'then' and 'than' properly. Seriously, people, it's not that hard.
And thank Gawd that you posted the most important thing on the internet this year by pointing this out!
Otherwise you would have been the only person who noticed.
I like the idea of a lager IPA with no hops blonde Stout.
Interesting. I might like that. I know I liked Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout. When I could find it and had money in my pocket.
Oatmeal stout has this nice texture to it from the dextrose in it. It's a good drink.
My wife's PC has now been rendered unbootable TWICE by Microsoft pushing through bad updates. I personally will not install a Mac OS update until I've taken the time to do a local backup to a hard drive, a remote backup to a cloud backup service, and waited two weeks to see if Apple retracts and re-releases the update, and read Macintouch for user reports to see what kinds of problems people are having.
How many times has Apple screwed you up with an update? I always wait a while, but seems like for the level of trouble you go to every update has broken something.
The software industry has got to figure out a way to make sure that updates are one or two orders of magnitude safer and more reliable to install than they are today.
I'm not so certain they want to make them safe. If I were to design an attack vector for the internet, the present Internet of Things is the perfect model. Create things that the least knowledgable among us, the people who re obsessed with and never look up form their smartphones can be more easily enticed for this kind of future http://www.worrell.com/iot-fut... .
Yup, if I was a state actor, I'd be pushing for the IoT pretty heavily.
The sky is blue.
Grandma loves you.
The internet of things is a terrible idea.
Seriousfreakingly?
People avoid updating their computers, so they're surely going to update their refrigerator or the bottle that tells them when to drink water? "Honey did you remember to update the toilet?" said no one ever.
Oh, good, pseudo intellectual cynicism has dismissed the whole topic. No need to discuss this, ilsaloving has seen through all of the smoke bombs and has clearly articulated the fundamental explanation.
Enjoy the karma boost you get from people who only want to reward opinions matching their own.
Dood! It was a joke! Jeesh - you forget to take your meds or something?
A couple of years sounds good to me. Reform, know that it's serious, and don't any of your freedom for granted. I think we're still decades away from the law and society catching up to finding the balance.
A couple years is significant, although in the US it seems everyone wants everyone executed for anything. Of course we'd all be dead.
I wonder if we should start teaching civics again in schools. Seems a freaking CS graduate should know better, both socially and technically.
You're talking about "craft" beer, so called to differentiate it from so-called "beer" (the BudMillerCoors variety). I have no problem with that. It's the vague not-quite-lager that claims to be beer I'm not keen on, something I think we both agree about.
The only positive thing I have to say about the Budweiser type light lager is that it is a very impressive example of consistency. Not good, but the same lame taste and aftereffects from every bottle. Or as my late departed mother would call them "PeeWaa".
My lawnmower beer? Newcastle. Hot from a hard day's work and it's enough taste to let you know you're drinking beer, but not heavy. The second one tastes just as good.
This doesn't mean that software updates aren't necessary.
Your mainframe software is probably rife with bugs and issues and would be very insecure if it were connected to the Internet in the same way it was in the 1970's.
Ahh, the 1970's internet. Those were good times, were they not?