Still - women don't seem to feel the need to go trash-talk shows that are designed to appeal to men. (See the figure entitled: "Men are more likely to give the crappiest rating").
So what is your solution? Decide what is a gender appropriate show, and then pass a law that men are not allowed to review it? The example given - "Sex and the City, in my opinion does suck
As well, why on earth would anyone care who rated a show as whatever online? I know pop culture is weird, but do these people get bonus points when more people review a show they like, and they agree with them?
LOL! Just to put things in context, I spend a lot of time arguing with feminists and social justice warriors. I can assure you I get insulted a lot, and it's far worse than "when someone is overly sensitive, I think of you".
Your reaction to my apologizing to you is merely proving you are oversensitive.
Okay. Be that way. I don't give a fuck if you argue with feminists or SJW's Most of those people are just as big of assholes, as those they argue with two sides of the same coin. And overly sensitive. Have a nice day, and good day sir.
That thin coating will get destroyed by bugs, bird shit, rocks, scraping snow of your car, high-pressure water from the carwash, etc.
Whoever thought of this idea never owned a car in his life, and those who decided that this idea was any good are idiots.
This wonderful adhesive which I see no mention of what it actually is - is going to be freakin' awesome! It will maintain it's adhesive properties from Death Valley summer daytime heat to Minnesota and Alaskan winters.
It will spread out rapidly enough through the broken non-sticky layer to capture the unfortunate pedestrians What's more, it will be immune to gravity even in the hottest conditions, and stay exactly where it is put. whether in the proposed honeycomb structure, or free range sticky stuff.
The plastic that gets cracked to release the sticky stuff instantaneously will also maintain all of it's properties over a 100+ degree F temperature range as well.
It's probably more practical and successful to pass laws forcing people to wear human airbags or not allow anyone outside unless they are in one of those human sized hamster balls.
When someone thinks of killing himself, I believe the word "crumble" is appropriate. Don't you think?
I'm curious... Do you think I should start to learn Mandarin, Russian or Arabic? Because if we don't stop right now this folly of always catering to the weak, the West will fall.
When someone is overly sensitive, I think of you. Why the over the top reaction?
My point, in the most delicate way to put it, is that to mean people, a not mean person who decides that it isn't worth it to stick around and be mean in their dealings - migh be considered crumbling. By the mean people.
This Wikipedia editor who is contemplating suicide has much deeper issues than the mean people that are being mean to him.
While I was raising a rhetorical question, perhaps to further discussion - you took it as a personal insult. Most abject apologies, I'll make certain to try not to do that.
So explain all the groupthink on tech sites like Slashdot. It's arguably worse here (and other similar sites) than other places on the net.
How? I've been modded down both ways, and up both ways. it seems to be just a matter of luck. But even so, if you want to post the ever stupid "I fscked your mother" asshattery, or homophobic haiku, it just gets modded down - it doesn't disappear. If you can't abide by the rules of a place that allows every post - you need to take a chill.
And if every post is modded down, just consider that you might be having a few social issues in the first place.
What of the emotionally strong with a sense of self-worth who figure that they can go contribute somewhere not populated with self-important assholes who never grew out of the terrible twos?
Save the GTFOs for the assholes.
I've been involved in some groups where the assholes took over completely. At that point I had to determine if there was a point in fighting them. In a few cases, I stuck around and fought and won. In more cases, there wasn't any point, because I could have fought for the rest of my life, and still lost.
That had the double effect of allowing the assholes to take their group to it's inevitable failure, and allowed me to contribute on a professional level, and not merely deal with personality conflicts, in a new and productive group.
That's not why I think Trump is popular, I think it is because people are worried about there lively hoods, they are suffering, they see few future job prospects for them and their children, and they are looking for someone to blame.
Wait until they find out he isn't who they think he is. Oh yeah, gonna be a fun convention.
It's true power hungry assholes are generally not good contributors, but neither are people who crumble because someone said something mean on the Internet. Emotional weakness leads to a tendency to avoid confrontation and so a tendency to follow what the group think.
Define crumble. Is allowing a group to suffer because assholes have taken over, crumbling? I've left a few groups in my wake when it bacame obvious that the tragedy of the commons had taken over, and the assholes were in complete power, and further participation was pointless unless I wanted to be one of the assholes. When the wings have been blown off the plane, you can either bail, or try to start it flying again. Option one tends to work best.
Some people are more sensitive than others. Telling all of those to GTFO will lead in a lot of resources wasted. Because, believe you me, the power hungry assholes usually aren't the great contributors to society they want you to think they are.
As an example I was having some difficulty with some Linux software installs I was doing, and in the group I was involved with, there was one of these agressive assholes - one of the lucky people who were born knowing everything. I kept reporting the issues to the group, and it was like a freaking yelowjacket stinging after every post. I was an idiot, I didn't know anything about Linux, I didn't know how to compile and install programs. All just completely un-needed and false noise. Finally he even got the guy that wrote the software to join in the "Ol Olsoc doesn't know what he's doing" jeremiad.
As it turned out, it was an issue in Ubuntu Mate and after finding out about it, they fixed it. When I reported back my success, and with one problem the software eally did have during the configure - it asked for a portaudio file, I installed that and it worked - the guy fires right back that I shouldn't have done that, because he likes PulseAudio and more of how stupid I am - My last post was that if it's my mistake when the config asks me to install something, I do it, and it works, the world has gone crazy.
Contemplate suicide? Hell no. Just be as valuable as you can be at all times, so that if you do bow out due to assholes, its a double hit. Your lack of presence is felt, and now the assholes take over, feeling they won, and thus encouraged to go after more productive people. I used to contribute regularly to the group wiki, and helped out the noobs, who are usually pilloried by the assholes. And if the owner can't keep the assholes in line? - his software suffers.
Be excellent to each other, but if you can't, make certain you are missed.
Sleep deprivation should be in that list. As should emotional condition, financial pressure, etc.
The whole thing is bullshit designed to enrich law enforcement and the alcohol industry, while skimming votes from the vast pool of low-functioners terrified by every bogyman the media throws in their faces.
You forgot antihistamines and purposeful hyperventilation - and I'm not being facetious. Having been on opiate painkillers and Benadryl, I can attest that the Benadryl buzz is far more powerful, at least for me. Granted, I never took either for other than pain or bad allergy attack, and only for short periods of time - but except for my leg being in a cast, I oculd have driven a car. Two Benadryl? I'm severely mellowed out, not a care in the world, and wouldn't dare drive.
We test for drugs as a condition of employment at my company. We work with dangerous equipment and impairment could get somebody hurt badly. So I'm on board with reasonable measures to ensure safety. But you seem to have a very poor understanding of the realities surrounding drug us
What does your company do for people who are prescribed drugs like vicodin? Just curious. When taken properly, it merely acts to reduce pain, not get buzzed.
Or is a prescription for painkillers like getting on the sexual offenders list - a lifetime punishment, or in todays world, a free pass to disability SS?
Singapore comes pretty close to that. Not surprisingly, it is the safest country in the world for the law-abiding. Mandatory, unappealable death penalty for illegal drugs or possession of more than one illegal firearm.
And no abuse of that power, I'm certain. That is always the issue with the type of world that some folks desire. When the criminals are also the people deciding hwo lives and who doesn't.
It's actually about giving the rest of society an incentive to not engage in the same crimes for which someone else was found guilty.
Which means that we will have a crime free society if the punishment for every transgression was immediate execution. How many of us will make it past potty training?
Aspergers is in the DSM under Autism Spectrum Disorders. What would you call it? If it isn't a mental illness, than what is a mental illness?
Coming from someone who has this disorder...
If you want to call yourself mentlly ill, have at it. I've worked with and was friends with a number of Engineers who were Aspies". They weren't social butterflies. But they were good engineers. They lived, ate and breathed with us, just like everyone else, they didn't commit crimes. About the worst was there was a level a level of curiousity and concern about their difference. I refuse to call a highly competent and focused person as mentally ill. Differently and sometimes superiorly abled is what I would define aspies as.
It's actually a positive outlook - and maybe that's why I got along so well, and vice versa. I recognized their contribution.
Because the problem solves itself. Since there are enough people convinced that GMO is the spawn of the devil, you could just label non-GMO foods as such, and those people can buy their non-GMO food. Similar to how you might label something as kosher since there's a market for it, rather than making everyone else label as non-kosher.
The problem of course, is that it's saying that completely non-scientific bullshit can be forced uppon manufacturers as science.
Forcing GMO labeling is just as asinine as forcing the teaching of intelligent design.
You want to sell food products as something blessed by Gaiia or Jesus or Chany Binks - go ahead. But forcing others to do as such is as sensible as requiring Organic food producer to put a disclaimer "You might like this stuff, but it isn't a damn bit better than anything else."
GMO is not an ingredient, it's a breeding method. Labeling it conveys no useful information. The only thing serves to do it to confuse the public with regards to the safety.
I don't hear you wanting (organic) produce bred with mutagenesis, hybridization, or cross breeding labeled.
Another weird offshoot of "Organic" food is that I buy lettice that is grown hydroponically, Completely artificially grown. But never a lick of pesticides. Beautiful stuff.
I do buy and eat organic as much as possible. I'm also smart enough to know that we have passed to point of being able to sustain the world with only using crops that haven't been hybridized or manipulated in some form. Roundup ready is stupid and doomed to faiure as plants develope resistance, but there is a whole world of good nutritious food that has been modified.
Well, if they are indeed safe, then there should be NO objection to labelling foods as GMO or not.
Because it would be like labeling foods as grown by Republicans, Democrats, Teabaggers or Social justice warriors. Or if they use organic inks to print the label.
Given your post, I might be forgiven if I assume that you would't buy anything labeled as GMO? Perhaps you wouldn't buy anything grown by Republicans or some other group
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Still - women don't seem to feel the need to go trash-talk shows that are designed to appeal to men. (See the figure entitled: "Men are more likely to give the crappiest rating").
So what is your solution? Decide what is a gender appropriate show, and then pass a law that men are not allowed to review it? The example given - "Sex and the City, in my opinion does suck
As well, why on earth would anyone care who rated a show as whatever online? I know pop culture is weird, but do these people get bonus points when more people review a show they like, and they agree with them?
LOL! Just to put things in context, I spend a lot of time arguing with feminists and social justice warriors. I can assure you I get insulted a lot, and it's far worse than "when someone is overly sensitive, I think of you".
Your reaction to my apologizing to you is merely proving you are oversensitive.
Okay. Be that way. I don't give a fuck if you argue with feminists or SJW's Most of those people are just as big of assholes, as those they argue with two sides of the same coin. And overly sensitive. Have a nice day, and good day sir.
Just because we're idiots doesn't mean smarter people can't have bad ideas.
Differential analysis: These self driving cars are so safe, we had to figure out what we do with the pedestrians we are going to hit.
That thin coating will get destroyed by bugs, bird shit, rocks, scraping snow of your car, high-pressure water from the carwash, etc.
Whoever thought of this idea never owned a car in his life, and those who decided that this idea was any good are idiots.
This wonderful adhesive which I see no mention of what it actually is - is going to be freakin' awesome! It will maintain it's adhesive properties from Death Valley summer daytime heat to Minnesota and Alaskan winters.
It will spread out rapidly enough through the broken non-sticky layer to capture the unfortunate pedestrians What's more, it will be immune to gravity even in the hottest conditions, and stay exactly where it is put. whether in the proposed honeycomb structure, or free range sticky stuff.
The plastic that gets cracked to release the sticky stuff instantaneously will also maintain all of it's properties over a 100+ degree F temperature range as well.
It's probably more practical and successful to pass laws forcing people to wear human airbags or not allow anyone outside unless they are in one of those human sized hamster balls.
When someone thinks of killing himself, I believe the word "crumble" is appropriate. Don't you think?
I'm curious... Do you think I should start to learn Mandarin, Russian or Arabic? Because if we don't stop right now this folly of always catering to the weak, the West will fall.
When someone is overly sensitive, I think of you. Why the over the top reaction?
My point, in the most delicate way to put it, is that to mean people, a not mean person who decides that it isn't worth it to stick around and be mean in their dealings - migh be considered crumbling. By the mean people.
This Wikipedia editor who is contemplating suicide has much deeper issues than the mean people that are being mean to him.
While I was raising a rhetorical question, perhaps to further discussion - you took it as a personal insult. Most abject apologies, I'll make certain to try not to do that.
No, you just get modded to a -1, which doesn't delete your text, but it hides it from everyone.
Do you actually know how slashdot works? From your post, it is not at all clear that you do.
Tell of how simply getting a -1 automatically hides your post from everyone.
So explain all the groupthink on tech sites like Slashdot. It's arguably worse here (and other similar sites) than other places on the net.
How? I've been modded down both ways, and up both ways. it seems to be just a matter of luck. But even so, if you want to post the ever stupid "I fscked your mother" asshattery, or homophobic haiku, it just gets modded down - it doesn't disappear. If you can't abide by the rules of a place that allows every post - you need to take a chill. And if every post is modded down, just consider that you might be having a few social issues in the first place.
What of the emotionally strong with a sense of self-worth who figure that they can go contribute somewhere not populated with self-important assholes who never grew out of the terrible twos?
Save the GTFOs for the assholes.
I've been involved in some groups where the assholes took over completely. At that point I had to determine if there was a point in fighting them. In a few cases, I stuck around and fought and won. In more cases, there wasn't any point, because I could have fought for the rest of my life, and still lost.
That had the double effect of allowing the assholes to take their group to it's inevitable failure, and allowed me to contribute on a professional level, and not merely deal with personality conflicts, in a new and productive group.
That's not why I think Trump is popular, I think it is because people are worried about there lively hoods, they are suffering, they see few future job prospects for them and their children, and they are looking for someone to blame.
Wait until they find out he isn't who they think he is. Oh yeah, gonna be a fun convention.
It's true power hungry assholes are generally not good contributors, but neither are people who crumble because someone said something mean on the Internet. Emotional weakness leads to a tendency to avoid confrontation and so a tendency to follow what the group think.
Define crumble. Is allowing a group to suffer because assholes have taken over, crumbling? I've left a few groups in my wake when it bacame obvious that the tragedy of the commons had taken over, and the assholes were in complete power, and further participation was pointless unless I wanted to be one of the assholes. When the wings have been blown off the plane, you can either bail, or try to start it flying again. Option one tends to work best.
Some people are more sensitive than others. Telling all of those to GTFO will lead in a lot of resources wasted. Because, believe you me, the power hungry assholes usually aren't the great contributors to society they want you to think they are.
As an example I was having some difficulty with some Linux software installs I was doing, and in the group I was involved with, there was one of these agressive assholes - one of the lucky people who were born knowing everything. I kept reporting the issues to the group, and it was like a freaking yelowjacket stinging after every post. I was an idiot, I didn't know anything about Linux, I didn't know how to compile and install programs. All just completely un-needed and false noise. Finally he even got the guy that wrote the software to join in the "Ol Olsoc doesn't know what he's doing" jeremiad.
As it turned out, it was an issue in Ubuntu Mate and after finding out about it, they fixed it. When I reported back my success, and with one problem the software eally did have during the configure - it asked for a portaudio file, I installed that and it worked - the guy fires right back that I shouldn't have done that, because he likes PulseAudio and more of how stupid I am - My last post was that if it's my mistake when the config asks me to install something, I do it, and it works, the world has gone crazy.
Contemplate suicide? Hell no. Just be as valuable as you can be at all times, so that if you do bow out due to assholes, its a double hit. Your lack of presence is felt, and now the assholes take over, feeling they won, and thus encouraged to go after more productive people. I used to contribute regularly to the group wiki, and helped out the noobs, who are usually pilloried by the assholes. And if the owner can't keep the assholes in line? - his software suffers.
Be excellent to each other, but if you can't, make certain you are missed.
Sleep deprivation should be in that list. As should emotional condition, financial pressure, etc.
The whole thing is bullshit designed to enrich law enforcement and the alcohol industry, while skimming votes from the vast pool of low-functioners terrified by every bogyman the media throws in their faces.
You forgot antihistamines and purposeful hyperventilation - and I'm not being facetious. Having been on opiate painkillers and Benadryl, I can attest that the Benadryl buzz is far more powerful, at least for me. Granted, I never took either for other than pain or bad allergy attack, and only for short periods of time - but except for my leg being in a cast, I oculd have driven a car. Two Benadryl? I'm severely mellowed out, not a care in the world, and wouldn't dare drive.
It's time for a war on antihistamines!
We test for drugs as a condition of employment at my company. We work with dangerous equipment and impairment could get somebody hurt badly. So I'm on board with reasonable measures to ensure safety. But you seem to have a very poor understanding of the realities surrounding drug us
What does your company do for people who are prescribed drugs like vicodin? Just curious. When taken properly, it merely acts to reduce pain, not get buzzed.
Or is a prescription for painkillers like getting on the sexual offenders list - a lifetime punishment, or in todays world, a free pass to disability SS?
Then when a lawyer tries to imply that they were impaired they can present a long string of clean drug tests as evidence in their defense.
That strategy worked great for Lance Armstrong
Insightful, informative, underrated and funny!
Singapore comes pretty close to that. Not surprisingly, it is the safest country in the world for the law-abiding. Mandatory, unappealable death penalty for illegal drugs or possession of more than one illegal firearm.
And no abuse of that power, I'm certain. That is always the issue with the type of world that some folks desire. When the criminals are also the people deciding hwo lives and who doesn't.
It's actually about giving the rest of society an incentive to not engage in the same crimes for which someone else was found guilty.
Which means that we will have a crime free society if the punishment for every transgression was immediate execution. How many of us will make it past potty training?
I clicked this submission just to see what the App-App-Appers guy will say. Maybe he's not awake yet.
He's busy at the moment
Apper Fapper Dingdong Slapper.
Fappin apps then a nice long nap.
This is one of the few stories where I expect a lot of people to throw all long-established /. tradition overboard and rush to RTFA.
What a wacky site.
These people have it so good, that's all they've got to complain about. Lucky them!
That's because most people are going to whine no matter what. The trick is not paying attention to them.
Came in to say just that.
I find myself reading this site less and less these days.
Stop posting, and we'll al be happy.
Aspergers is in the DSM under Autism Spectrum Disorders. What would you call it? If it isn't a mental illness, than what is a mental illness?
Coming from someone who has this disorder...
If you want to call yourself mentlly ill, have at it. I've worked with and was friends with a number of Engineers who were Aspies". They weren't social butterflies. But they were good engineers. They lived, ate and breathed with us, just like everyone else, they didn't commit crimes. About the worst was there was a level a level of curiousity and concern about their difference. I refuse to call a highly competent and focused person as mentally ill. Differently and sometimes superiorly abled is what I would define aspies as.
It's actually a positive outlook - and maybe that's why I got along so well, and vice versa. I recognized their contribution.
Because the problem solves itself. Since there are enough people convinced that GMO is the spawn of the devil, you could just label non-GMO foods as such, and those people can buy their non-GMO food. Similar to how you might label something as kosher since there's a market for it, rather than making everyone else label as non-kosher.
The problem of course, is that it's saying that completely non-scientific bullshit can be forced uppon manufacturers as science.
Forcing GMO labeling is just as asinine as forcing the teaching of intelligent design.
You want to sell food products as something blessed by Gaiia or Jesus or Chany Binks - go ahead. But forcing others to do as such is as sensible as requiring Organic food producer to put a disclaimer "You might like this stuff, but it isn't a damn bit better than anything else."
GMO is not an ingredient, it's a breeding method. Labeling it conveys no useful information. The only thing serves to do it to confuse the public with regards to the safety.
I don't hear you wanting (organic) produce bred with mutagenesis, hybridization, or cross breeding labeled.
Another weird offshoot of "Organic" food is that I buy lettice that is grown hydroponically, Completely artificially grown. But never a lick of pesticides. Beautiful stuff.
I do buy and eat organic as much as possible. I'm also smart enough to know that we have passed to point of being able to sustain the world with only using crops that haven't been hybridized or manipulated in some form. Roundup ready is stupid and doomed to faiure as plants develope resistance, but there is a whole world of good nutritious food that has been modified.
I'm holding out for glow-in-the-dark cauliflower.
Well, if they are indeed safe, then there should be NO objection to labelling foods as GMO or not.
Because it would be like labeling foods as grown by Republicans, Democrats, Teabaggers or Social justice warriors. Or if they use organic inks to print the label.
Given your post, I might be forgiven if I assume that you would't buy anything labeled as GMO? Perhaps you wouldn't buy anything grown by Republicans or some other group
As well - define GMO.
For myself, I don't care if it is labeled or not.
You are the denialist.
So denialism is now accepting the science?