The goal isn't political correctness, it's ambiguity and confusion. The WHO doesn't get enough action screaming about code red level 5 pandemics like swine flu, and doesn't have enough wiggle room to downplay massive fuckups. So they want to change how diseases are named and classified so that they can further "control the message". It's like when an software developer decides to rebrand itself as a cloud-based, web-scale, IT solutions vendor. The names mean nothing, you have no idea what you're getting or what it does, and it costs more. Basically, the WHO wants disease as a service.
> Drew: There's no attempt to make Fark more PC. I think what happened is the rest of the Internet moved -far- past us on the anything-goes relative scale.
Um... Anti misogamy posting guidelines, covered two questions above, exposes this answer for a complete lie. Banning them is a PC move. It doesn't matter that your fake reason for doing so is "they aren't funny." Meow Said The Dog isn't funny, but no one's banned her for that yet either. So saying "we're not trying to be PC" while enacting a very large, sweeping PC oriented change is just... politician levels of lying, Drew.
The good thing is that it's Fark and no one gives a shit.
Pressing a key is faster than pressing nothing. Sorta like when people set their double click time to large values so its not accidental, and then wonder why it takes over a second to recognize a single click. A button saying done is better than waiting.
Doing nothing is always faster than doing something, unless you've discovered tachyons and enjoy breaking causality. There is no "word break" in morse code. The proposed button would do NOTHING but insert a delay of nothing. That's how morse code works. A "word break" key would ONLY be "useful" if you were entering morse code into a non-live system to be sent later. If you have this luxury, why not use a regular keyboard and have the system translate the keys into morse? because the system is already translating the fucking "word break" key into morse.
So: how would you go about making a Chromebook-like laptop? Yes, I could just install any Linux distro, and then restrain myself from installing most apps other than a browser and a few utilities, but that's not quite the same; ChromeOS is nicely polished, and very pared down;
It's not the same, it's better.
it also seems to do well with low-memory systems (lots of the current models have just 2GB, which brings many Linux distros to a disk-swapping crawl), and starts up nicely quick.
Oh fuck off. I'm no Linux fanoboi, but I dare you to list the distros (and installed packages) that you based your "disk-swapping crawl" on.
Starting up quickly has a lot more to do with the BIOS/UEFI/firmware than the OS, especially on solid state media. Further, how is startup time a comparison point when you previously stated you only "might" include some "cheap" SSDs? And if you do intend to shell out some money, why would you not also consider upgrading the RAM?
It seems like you know the answer - use stripped down Linux and do whatever the fuck you want - but you just wanted an excuse to jerk off about ChromeOS.
The RDF is just that strong. Morons will spout shit like "18 hours? Apple's just being conservative because of the trolls! MY watch lasts a week straight with heavy usage." while their battery is empty after only 12 hours. These customers are zealous cultists.
In the 80's and 90's there was a common wisdom that introducing capitalism into a country would create liberty and democracy. But China is proof that it does not work that way. Other data are Imperial Rome (Eastern and Western branches as well), Nazi Germany, Imperial China, The British Empire, Fascist Italy, and the Ottoman Empire. All of them had market economies at times in some cases very wealthy and vibrant. But none of them could be considered democracies either due to central autocratic rule, or through restriction in franchise based on wealth e.g. land ownership) or gender.
You forgot the biggest example of all - the US of A.
They certainly want to be able to have food, clothing, and shelter even if they have to indenture themselves to a master for it. Many would also like to try to earn a name for themselves by fighting to the death in the arena. Have you not kept up with Game of Thrones?
They think they're so smart because they studied climate systems for years, can make a model of the entire Earth's climate system, and can compare its predictions against past and current data points.
And anyone with a brain thinks they're so fucking retarded because their models are shit and their predictions are wrong and their data collection methodologies are a fucking joke.
So you admit that the "scientists" you know were desperately "hustling" for grant money, and were "not doing the work they were trained to do". Your anecdote supports the AC's assertion.
No he fucking isn't, shitwipe. ALL speech is protected. Fucking all of it. IF your speech has DIRECT consequences you can be held liable for those consequences. You can NEVER be legally punished for the content of your speech, nor can you be legally prevented from saying whatever the hell you want.
If my family was hunted down and raped 8 years ago, and you write a note saying "AC's family is going to get raped again on the 8th anniversary of their first rape," then yes, you might be communicating a threat and thus subject to arrest.
You see, we rely on courts to make these findings of fact - and unless they arrest and try the person who made the statement to determine whether or not it was a credible and legitimate threat, then we'll never *know* if it was indeed a threat or a joke.
Seriously - do you even due process? He posted a threatening message; authorities felt it was threatening enough to ask police to look into it; they found out who posted it, and are now they've arrested him, are charging him with what they believe was a crime, and his trial will determine whether or not he's in violation of the law. This is "the world functioning as it ought to."
It's not a threat if there is no method or means behind it. If it had been a threat they would have found evidence of his planned attack. There's a reason he was arrested for some 1st-amendment fucking bullshit about "harassment" and not an actual crime.
Apparently we don't care about a terrible natural disaster unless some famous white guy, livin' the dream for his Googlionaire foundation, dies in an avalanche.
The world has looked the other way for a long time at the exploitation of the Sherpa and the other problems caused by rich Westerners, many not well-qualified, who feel they just have to make the Everest attempt. It's mostly the Sherpa who pay the toll.
I've never understood the sherpa thing. If you're going to climb Everest, shouldn't you at least do the work yourself? Claiming you climbed Mt. Everest and not acknowledging the people who hauled your ass up there is like claiming you trekked the Grand Canyon and not mentioning that it was a bus tour and all you did was get out for a few photos.
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The goal isn't political correctness, it's ambiguity and confusion.
The WHO doesn't get enough action screaming about code red level 5 pandemics like swine flu, and doesn't have enough wiggle room to downplay massive fuckups.
So they want to change how diseases are named and classified so that they can further "control the message".
It's like when an software developer decides to rebrand itself as a cloud-based, web-scale, IT solutions vendor. The names mean nothing, you have no idea what you're getting or what it does, and it costs more.
Basically, the WHO wants disease as a service.
> Drew: There's no attempt to make Fark more PC. I think what happened is the rest of the Internet moved -far- past us on the anything-goes relative scale.
Um... Anti misogamy posting guidelines, covered two questions above, exposes this answer for a complete lie. Banning them is a PC move. It doesn't matter that your fake reason for doing so is "they aren't funny." Meow Said The Dog isn't funny, but no one's banned her for that yet either. So saying "we're not trying to be PC" while enacting a very large, sweeping PC oriented change is just... politician levels of lying, Drew.
The good thing is that it's Fark and no one gives a shit.
On average, this orange is actually a singularity!
Charging more for less, the Intel way!
Nope. Marketers re trying to increase "millennials" to encompass Generation Y and even Generation X, but that doesn't make it so.
When it comes to older generations thinking younger generations are whiney, lazy, idiots sample size doesn't matter.
Old people almost always think that. I am not sure if it is a product of getting old, jealousy of the young, or what.
But you can read newspapers from 100 years ago that had the same articles in them.
And the old people are right nearly every time. Young people are trash.
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Because they're fucking hacks?
You failed with that last one. We don't use laptops.
Pressing a key is faster than pressing nothing. Sorta like when people set their double click time to large values so its not accidental, and then wonder why it takes over a second to recognize a single click. A button saying done is better than waiting.
Doing nothing is always faster than doing something, unless you've discovered tachyons and enjoy breaking causality.
There is no "word break" in morse code. The proposed button would do NOTHING but insert a delay of nothing. That's how morse code works.
A "word break" key would ONLY be "useful" if you were entering morse code into a non-live system to be sent later. If you have this luxury, why not use a regular keyboard and have the system translate the keys into morse? because the system is already translating the fucking "word break" key into morse.
So: how would you go about making a Chromebook-like laptop? Yes, I could just install any Linux distro, and then restrain myself from installing most apps other than a browser and a few utilities, but that's not quite the same; ChromeOS is nicely polished, and very pared down;
It's not the same, it's better.
it also seems to do well with low-memory systems (lots of the current models have just 2GB, which brings many Linux distros to a disk-swapping crawl), and starts up nicely quick.
Oh fuck off. I'm no Linux fanoboi, but I dare you to list the distros (and installed packages) that you based your "disk-swapping crawl" on.
Starting up quickly has a lot more to do with the BIOS/UEFI/firmware than the OS, especially on solid state media. Further, how is startup time a comparison point when you previously stated you only "might" include some "cheap" SSDs? And if you do intend to shell out some money, why would you not also consider upgrading the RAM?
It seems like you know the answer - use stripped down Linux and do whatever the fuck you want - but you just wanted an excuse to jerk off about ChromeOS.
The designs were different. The power sources were quite a bit different. Read up.
If th devices are different then they can't be used for verification of results.
DERP.
The RDF is just that strong. Morons will spout shit like "18 hours? Apple's just being conservative because of the trolls! MY watch lasts a week straight with heavy usage." while their battery is empty after only 12 hours. These customers are zealous cultists.
In the 80's and 90's there was a common wisdom that introducing capitalism into a country would create liberty and democracy. But China is proof that it does not work that way. Other data are Imperial Rome (Eastern and Western branches as well), Nazi Germany, Imperial China, The British Empire, Fascist Italy, and the Ottoman Empire. All of them had market economies at times in some cases very wealthy and vibrant. But none of them could be considered democracies either due to central autocratic rule, or through restriction in franchise based on wealth e.g. land ownership) or gender.
You forgot the biggest example of all - the US of A.
They certainly want to be able to have food, clothing, and shelter even if they have to indenture themselves to a master for it. Many would also like to try to earn a name for themselves by fighting to the death in the arena. Have you not kept up with Game of Thrones?
They think they're so smart because they studied climate systems for years, can make a model of the entire Earth's climate system, and can compare its predictions against past and current data points.
And anyone with a brain thinks they're so fucking retarded because their models are shit and their predictions are wrong and their data collection methodologies are a fucking joke.
So you admit that the "scientists" you know were desperately "hustling" for grant money, and were "not doing the work they were trained to do".
Your anecdote supports the AC's assertion.
But have you seen any 'Jesus sodomizing Mary' cartoon yet? I haven't.
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It's Cinco de Quatro, dumbass.
No he fucking isn't, shitwipe. ALL speech is protected. Fucking all of it.
IF your speech has DIRECT consequences you can be held liable for those consequences. You can NEVER be legally punished for the content of your speech, nor can you be legally prevented from saying whatever the hell you want.
If my family was hunted down and raped 8 years ago, and you write a note saying "AC's family is going to get raped again on the 8th anniversary of their first rape," then yes, you might be communicating a threat and thus subject to arrest.
You see, we rely on courts to make these findings of fact - and unless they arrest and try the person who made the statement to determine whether or not it was a credible and legitimate threat, then we'll never *know* if it was indeed a threat or a joke.
Seriously - do you even due process? He posted a threatening message; authorities felt it was threatening enough to ask police to look into it; they found out who posted it, and are now they've arrested him, are charging him with what they believe was a crime, and his trial will determine whether or not he's in violation of the law. This is "the world functioning as it ought to."
It's not a threat if there is no method or means behind it. If it had been a threat they would have found evidence of his planned attack.
There's a reason he was arrested for some 1st-amendment fucking bullshit about "harassment" and not an actual crime.
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GOOD LUCK at your next performance of MACBETH!
Fucking thespians and their superstitions.
Fuck it, I'm making popcorn tonight.
The Corner Shot gun lets you shoot around corners.
And you can always just take a standard gun and bend the barrel. Yes, it works.
Apparently we don't care about a terrible natural disaster unless some famous white guy, livin' the dream for his Googlionaire foundation, dies in an avalanche.
The world has looked the other way for a long time at the exploitation of the Sherpa and the other problems caused by rich Westerners, many not well-qualified, who feel they just have to make the Everest attempt. It's mostly the Sherpa who pay the toll.
I've never understood the sherpa thing.
If you're going to climb Everest, shouldn't you at least do the work yourself? Claiming you climbed Mt. Everest and not acknowledging the people who hauled your ass up there is like claiming you trekked the Grand Canyon and not mentioning that it was a bus tour and all you did was get out for a few photos.