Notes supported discussion groups back in the day.
You don't have to re-invent Usenet or IRC while doing it poorly and in a highly proprietary manner. You can simply use the right tool for the job and not necessarily trap yourself with some outsourced flavor of the month that won't stand the test of time.
While that can all be terribly annoying, you aren't going to get rid of any of those problems simply by trying to run away from email. Those problems will simply follow you to the "next thing".
"Legacy" communications channels are already plagued by similar problems.
The same people that believe in creationism would also burn heretics if they could get away with it.
It's an inflexible mindset that doesn't just apply to their view of the universe but also their notion of religious interpretation. They are just as unwilling to take a thoughtful academic approach to "faith" as they are the natural world.
The foundations of science were laid by such people starting with Darwin and going all the way back the the Greeks. Science and religion aren't mutually exclusive unless you choose to make it so.
Xian fundies like to pretend it's their book and then make claims that would make a Hassid blush.
Leakey has made a fatally flawed assumption. He's giving the other side more credit than they really deserve. He assumes that they are genuine skeptics.
They aren't skeptics. They are religious zealots that view anything that contradicts their world view as a threat. They are also a throwback. They are behind the times about 500 years.
The problem of being led astray by computerized mapping data is a very old one. It predatesTom Tom and is independent of what kind of data source you are using.
I still refer to this problem as "getting mapquested" despite the fact that I haven't used that service in years.
They are a single small thing that's easy to fixate on if you grew up white and too right. They are a great vehicle for white liberal guilt but less satisfying if you didn't grow up terribly priveleged.
Unfortunately, it's a very superficial approach to concentrate on 2 bombs rather than the many others that got dropped onto civilians either intentionally or as a means to some other end. Trying to be more enlightened by feeling guilty about Hiroshima just means you are demeaning the people that died in Tokyo, or Okinawa, or Dresden.
When I see some old Japanese guy that's been working his forge for 36 hours straight, I don't see someone that needs to be cut any slack. I see someone that you treat with respect when you meet them in battle. You have to, or else.
You throw everything and anything you have at them because that is war.
Any attempt to claim that we should have done otherwise is simply doing great disrespect to a mighty nation.
These people on these "liberal guilt trip" really disrespect the Japense on a very fundemental level. It's simply masked racism.
You forget that the Muslims conquered most of the Roman empire and also tried to conquer Europe as well. The Crusades were a little more than just convenient adventuring. There was a genuine struggle between civilizations going on at that time.
This stuff tends to get glossed over. Perhaps history professors just can't get over being forced to go to sunday school as children.
The Islamic empires were a very real menace to the West for most of the history of Islam. They have been in decline for awhile but clearly some of them want to relive the old glory.
Dracula wasn't just a bastard because he was an evil sadist. He was on the front lines of this conflict.
There is a lot of historical context here that people choose to be unaware of.
...except no one pretends that the Romans weren't some of the biggest plagarists of all time. When you are presented with something Roman that is a copy, you are told that it is a copy. No one tries to pretend that the Romans were something they weren't.
There is no nonsensical notion of political correctness that causes people to try and sugar coat them.
If the Islamic nations had a golden age, it was likely DESPITE of Islam in a manner very much like our own experience in the West.
If the Iranians have anything going for them at all, anything that leaves open the possibility they will become a civilized modern nation, it's the fact that they actually have a well establshed national identity separate from their religion.
When a process is running amok, I like the fact that a Unix process manager will tell you the identity of the offending process rather than masking it behind some vague "catchall" name.
That's just bloody annoying.
Microsoft's UI design just boggles the mind. How they managed to not be destroyed by Apple is the best argument ever for the fact that they were (and probably still are) a monopoly under the Sherman Act.
> it's remote exploits of one of the services that are installed, by default
Which are what?
That's another area where Linux differs from Microsoft. If one of the distributions or Unixen get a bloody nose, then they change their behavior. A type of exploit from 1998 is not going to work in 2012 because everyone has learned their lesson and are acting accordingly.
We learn from our mistakes and hopefuly from the mistakes of others.
Thinking that you can be a cheap b*stard when it comes to Windows support is one of the most dangerous memes of our times. This leads to the hiring of people that can't be trusted to blow their own nose, let alone manage an interesting bit of technology. Because of this you end up with so-called sysadmins or dbas that are gravely out of their depth and unable to tread water.
If you are actually willing to spend money, it doesn't matter what the tech is. You can find someone to meet your needs.
More than anything, this seemed like a collossal process failure in general. Stuff simply should have been vetted better than that. You should have never been that close to a go-live date with problems like that.
>> because nobody in their right mind would buy it > > Smart, non-Luddite people would.
Most people have no taste and greatly overestimate their intelligence.
I dislike the "ownership" aspect of GMO seeds and want to avoid them purely for that reason. It's like everyone's nightmares about software patents in one package. The increased pesticide levels and bee colony destruction are just an added bonus.
...except everyone does label the theory of evolution what it is.
It's a theory. It's a SCIENTIFIC theory. That truthful disclosure doesn't hurt anything. Neither does disclosing a mountain of literature written on the subject by actual scientists over the last 150 or so years.
That's a level of scrutiny thay Monsanto is afraid of.
"Mutated" beats "engineered to allow increased pesticide use".
I don't want to encourage the kind of monopoly that Monsanto represents. Even if Monsanto has salted everyone else's fields, I would still respond to a label that made it clear that the farmer that grew my food retained the right to save his own seeds.
This isn't just about the direct impacts of Monsanto franken-foods on my body or the environment. That's certainly important but it is by no means the end of the issue.
We were social awkward before it was given a name and made cool Many of us "had aspbergers" long before we were exposed to gaming of any sort of computing networking of any kind.
The relevant eggheads are confusing the the effect with the cause.
This is just a retread of 70s feminism that wasn't interested in actual liberation but instead wanted to impose their own notion of orthodoxy on everyone. It manifests in many forms. This is only one of them.
Or it could just be 70s evangelical xianity. They love to suppress the human libido and burn D&D manuals.
Sadly enough, it's hard to tell the two groups apart sometimes.
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Running one's one email server is neither complicated nor expensive.
If you really think it's anything nearly as costly as generating your own electricity, then you have no clue about either endeavor.
Notes supported discussion groups back in the day.
You don't have to re-invent Usenet or IRC while doing it poorly and in a highly proprietary manner. You can simply use the right tool for the job and not necessarily trap yourself with some outsourced flavor of the month that won't stand the test of time.
While that can all be terribly annoying, you aren't going to get rid of any of those problems simply by trying to run away from email. Those problems will simply follow you to the "next thing".
"Legacy" communications channels are already plagued by similar problems.
A $60 ARM appliance makes far more sense for that particular use case.
The same people that believe in creationism would also burn heretics if they could get away with it.
It's an inflexible mindset that doesn't just apply to their view of the universe but also their notion of religious interpretation. They are just as unwilling to take a thoughtful academic approach to "faith" as they are the natural world.
Plenty of "science types" understand faith.
The foundations of science were laid by such people starting with Darwin and going all the way back the the Greeks. Science and religion aren't mutually exclusive unless you choose to make it so.
Xian fundies like to pretend it's their book and then make claims that would make a Hassid blush.
Leakey has made a fatally flawed assumption. He's giving the other side more credit than they really deserve. He assumes that they are genuine skeptics.
They aren't skeptics. They are religious zealots that view anything that contradicts their world view as a threat. They are also a throwback. They are behind the times about 500 years.
So adding another 30 years to that won't help.
The problem of being led astray by computerized mapping data is a very old one. It predatesTom Tom and is independent of what kind of data source you are using.
I still refer to this problem as "getting mapquested" despite the fact that I haven't used that service in years.
Nukes are big and sexy.
They are a single small thing that's easy to fixate on if you grew up white and too right. They are a great vehicle for white liberal guilt but less satisfying if you didn't grow up terribly priveleged.
Unfortunately, it's a very superficial approach to concentrate on 2 bombs rather than the many others that got dropped onto civilians either intentionally or as a means to some other end. Trying to be more enlightened by feeling guilty about Hiroshima just means you are demeaning the people that died in Tokyo, or Okinawa, or Dresden.
When I see some old Japanese guy that's been working his forge for 36 hours straight, I don't see someone that needs to be cut any slack. I see someone that you treat with respect when you meet them in battle. You have to, or else.
You throw everything and anything you have at them because that is war.
Any attempt to claim that we should have done otherwise is simply doing great disrespect to a mighty nation.
These people on these "liberal guilt trip" really disrespect the Japense on a very fundemental level. It's simply masked racism.
You forget that the Muslims conquered most of the Roman empire and also tried to conquer Europe as well. The Crusades were a little more than just convenient adventuring. There was a genuine struggle between civilizations going on at that time.
This stuff tends to get glossed over. Perhaps history professors just can't get over being forced to go to sunday school as children.
The Islamic empires were a very real menace to the West for most of the history of Islam. They have been in decline for awhile but clearly some of them want to relive the old glory.
Dracula wasn't just a bastard because he was an evil sadist. He was on the front lines of this conflict.
There is a lot of historical context here that people choose to be unaware of.
...except no one pretends that the Romans weren't some of the biggest plagarists of all time. When you are presented with something Roman that is a copy, you are told that it is a copy. No one tries to pretend that the Romans were something they weren't.
There is no nonsensical notion of political correctness that causes people to try and sugar coat them.
If the Islamic nations had a golden age, it was likely DESPITE of Islam in a manner very much like our own experience in the West.
If the Iranians have anything going for them at all, anything that leaves open the possibility they will become a civilized modern nation, it's the fact that they actually have a well establshed national identity separate from their religion.
Sounds like an awful long list.
When a process is running amok, I like the fact that a Unix process manager will tell you the identity of the offending process rather than masking it behind some vague "catchall" name.
That's just bloody annoying.
Microsoft's UI design just boggles the mind. How they managed to not be destroyed by Apple is the best argument ever for the fact that they were (and probably still are) a monopoly under the Sherman Act.
> on Windows because it looks nice,
No it doesn't.
At best. That is an entirely subjective metric with absolutely no meaning.
> it's remote exploits of one of the services that are installed, by default
Which are what?
That's another area where Linux differs from Microsoft. If one of the distributions or Unixen get a bloody nose, then they change their behavior. A type of exploit from 1998 is not going to work in 2012 because everyone has learned their lesson and are acting accordingly.
We learn from our mistakes and hopefuly from the mistakes of others.
Android has stuff that has to be explicitly installed.
Windows only requires that you browse the wrong webpage.
World of difference.
Thinking that you can be a cheap b*stard when it comes to Windows support is one of the most dangerous memes of our times. This leads to the hiring of people that can't be trusted to blow their own nose, let alone manage an interesting bit of technology. Because of this you end up with so-called sysadmins or dbas that are gravely out of their depth and unable to tread water.
If you are actually willing to spend money, it doesn't matter what the tech is. You can find someone to meet your needs.
More than anything, this seemed like a collossal process failure in general. Stuff simply should have been vetted better than that. You should have never been that close to a go-live date with problems like that.
Fortune 500 companies run lots of Linux and Unix in general.
They just don't tend to run it on the desktop.
Although given how much stuff has moved to the web, they probably could.
>> because nobody in their right mind would buy it
>
> Smart, non-Luddite people would.
Most people have no taste and greatly overestimate their intelligence.
I dislike the "ownership" aspect of GMO seeds and want to avoid them purely for that reason. It's like everyone's nightmares about software patents in one package. The increased pesticide levels and bee colony destruction are just an added bonus.
...except everyone does label the theory of evolution what it is.
It's a theory. It's a SCIENTIFIC theory. That truthful disclosure doesn't hurt anything. Neither does disclosing a mountain of literature written on the subject by actual scientists over the last 150 or so years.
That's a level of scrutiny thay Monsanto is afraid of.
"Mutated" beats "engineered to allow increased pesticide use".
I don't want to encourage the kind of monopoly that Monsanto represents. Even if Monsanto has salted everyone else's fields, I would still respond to a label that made it clear that the farmer that grew my food retained the right to save his own seeds.
This isn't just about the direct impacts of Monsanto franken-foods on my body or the environment. That's certainly important but it is by no means the end of the issue.
Similarly, guys don't have to settle for some high maintenance ice queen that will never put out.
You can't help the survival of the human race if you aren't willing to have sex or bear children.
It's all nonsense.
We were social awkward before it was given a name and made cool Many of us "had aspbergers" long before we were exposed to gaming of any sort of computing networking of any kind.
The relevant eggheads are confusing the the effect with the cause.
He's senile. He can't tell the difference.
This is just a retread of 70s feminism that wasn't interested in actual liberation but instead wanted to impose their own notion of orthodoxy on everyone. It manifests in many forms. This is only one of them.
Or it could just be 70s evangelical xianity. They love to suppress the human libido and burn D&D manuals.
Sadly enough, it's hard to tell the two groups apart sometimes.