(I'd argue link shorteners are evil in general, but that's a discussion for another day)
Yeah, it seems like obfuscation of links causes more problems than I'd like. But in a world where lots of common services have a character limit (not just Twitter--even Slashdot's signature function is severely limited), sometimes a shortener is a necessity.
Am I the only one who keeps reading the CEO's name as Scarface? Because we know how that guy welcomes unexpected visitors, by introducing them to his little friend.
Is that the one where Blanche was dating the cosmonaut, while Rose went back to visit St. Olaf? Sorry, the episodes always repeat on me, and I can't keep them straight.
I don't know what's up with these. They're all AC, they always come up in every time someone starts talking jobs, and they're all gloomy and helpless. It's like Marvin the android. "Oh, this diode's been hurting me for a million years, but I'll just leave it alone and moan."
Sometimes I think it was a comments bot set up by the former overlords (Dice) just to make people antsy to find new jobs. Then I think it's a comment bot put forth by some super-villain CEO, designed to get us to NOT look for new jobs, because ours are better than those sad saps.
Then the other ones come in, which start saying that their lives are terrible, but their co-workers from India get treated like lords. And I assume that's either racism or anti-H-1B, or dual purpose. But it's pretty ridiculous, and since they're all AC and in this space span a quarter century, I'm pretty convinced it's lies. I mean, if nothing else, somebody with that attitude ought to have been fired in under a decade, even *if* they're taking absurd levels of abuse.
I understand that you never tried to operate a website in your life. I was with you until this piece of self-centered ****.
You'd be wrong. I ran a site that accepted donations instead of using advertising. It may not be convenient, it may not be for everyone, but it's at least sometimes an option, and not the impossibility you make it out to be.
As for your other stuff about my pointing fingers at web site operators and calling them lazy... I didn't say that. I was primarily talking about advertising companies, and how they're capable of changing to be less scummy, but still survive, in which case web sites might still use them. Or if they collapse, sties will use the slightly less scummy replacements that arise afterward.
* I understand that I haven't clicked on an ad on purpose since 1997, so even if blocked entirely, they're not losing any money from me. * I understand that advertisers can still advertise without cookies. They just can't invade my privacy to do it, and they might have to pick some other metric (like being topical to the site they're on) as an idea generator. * I understand that sites can still run ads and make money without the use of massive spying organizations. They can make their own ads. They can use cookie-less ads. They can do a lot of things.
So no, I don't see how adding some privacy and cookie-blocking makes everything all go away automatically, without any recourse.
I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't): Making the Journey from "What Will People Think?" to "I Am Enough" by Brené Brown - Heavy Read on Shame/Shame resilience.
Just read that one myself. Picked it up mostly because it sounded like it was going to be outside my normal range of experience, and thus particularly educational, which it was. Though it was geared toward women, a lot of the core material about shame is really universal, and I've got enough women in my life the rest was still insightful.
That's the one that basically announces in the opening pages it's going to be a Canterbury Tales ripoff, isn't it? Bunch of people on a journey telling each other stories? If so, I'd heard the name for years and finally picked it up, only to put it down after a few pages, when it became clear what was coming. There something about story-in-a-story or repeatedly interrupted narratives that just really frustrate me.
I'm curious if he left the first one off intentionally, to mirror the incomplete work of Chaucer's, or if it just got too long and needed two books?
He's been around longer than that, at least a year. I thought the trolling started because he had some odd stories that he repeated a little too often, including lots of mentions of his weight and being under-employed. Odd, but nothing too obnoxious. I didn't notice the affiliate links until after the serious trolling started, and while I haven't combed his history, it seemed like he only started doing that to taunt them back. The trolling is way over the top, but his response with the links is definitely just egging them on, to the point that I'm really tired of both. It's only about half a step shy of the APK obnoxiousness.
I don't know. While I had the same thoughts as you at the start of the post (just because they're no longer on Reddit, it doesn't mean they no longer exist) your subsequent claim--that they definitely all moved elsewhere and are doing the exact same things they used to--is also unwarranted. I'd say there's at least a chance for other alternatives, including 1) deciding maybe it's not that cool and stopping, 2) shrugging it off and giving up, 3) wanting to move on but not finding another community and then effectively giving up.
Without more data, I'd say the headline is incomplete, but so is most of what you've concluded. It's possible they've quit. It's possible they're doing the same thing elsewhere. And even if it is going on elsewhere, if it's less visible, might there still be a lot of people leading happier lives not seeing as much junk? It's definitely complicated.
I'm all for your conclusion -- rational discussion to promote understanding -- and while that may be the best solution, we all know there's cases where even that doesn't get anywhere with some people.
Heh. I read that a few months ago, possibly because of an earlier Slashdot book club comment. Thoroughly enjoyable, and deeply funny - some of it just naturally, some of it for its differing take on the Harry Potter world.
There was definitely some overlap, particularly early on, but obviously any place where science has given us answers, it supersedes philosophy. Most of the areas it covers now have to do with human experience: politics, morality, logic, and investigations into knowledge and meaning. It can be dry, dense, and cryptic, but also fascinating. I highly recommend starting the subject with a guide, like a class, so that you can have someone who knows the field summarize and distill the topics. It usually makes it a lot more approachable, and then if you're enjoying it, getting into the actual books in greater detail makes for a good second pass.
I've seen your line in your sig and keep meaning to check it out. Sample downloaded!
I'm supposed to be writing a lighthearted handbook on health and fitness, but I got halfway through, got distracted, and now keep tinkering with other ideas instead of finishing it up. I've been filling time listening to the Self Publishing Podcast, which--coming from 2102--is already a little dated, but also still somewhat entertaining and informative. (And a little disgusting, as two of the authors on the cast are producing a book a month.) I'm also listening to A Way with Words at work, just for interesting language tidbids.
I spent most of last night skimming critical reviews of the most offensively bad motivational get-rich books, for an eventual parody work, "MIND Money!: The Irrefutable Method of Taking Thoughts from Your Head and Putting Money in Your Wallet". Assuming I don't feel too dirty writing that stuff up, even as a parody.
On my commute I'm listening to a Great Courses lecture on the meaning of life, and at home I'm reading a book on parenting that my wife liked, called The Blessing of a Skinned Knee.
Also on an somewhat unrelated note, I thought the plot device of the Super Death Star was a bit silly and anime. I mean what can we expect in the next one? A Super Duper Death Star twice as big as the last?
According to fan parody "1000 Terrible Ideas for Another Star Wars Movie" the progression will go: * An even bigger Death Star, built around the sun, that shoots planets at other planets. * Traveling back in time to steal the original Death Star. * Prequels reveal that the Emperor got the idea for the Death Star from a smaller, Death-Star-like space station that was blown up by the rebels. * Another prequel reveals that Manny Bothans was kind of a dick, and there was a reason he got sent on that suicide mission to get the Death Star plans.
Geese may not fly more than 5 minutes a day, but they're certainly still active, either walking or swimming in search of food for good bits of the day. Which I guess correlates well to, "You don't have to go jogging for hours, just get up and move around a bit."
But how are the dark-chocolate-covered cigarettes? Seems like a waste of chocolate. As for the 15-year-old Scotch, I imagine it pairing well with the chocolate, but for a liqueur I'd use a younger batch.
Why does writing a fictional scene about two liberal priorities colliding automatically make me an extreme right-winger? If you can't laugh at yourself, you're going to miss out on 9 out of 10 laughs.
Totally off-topic, but ages ago you made a joke about observing (or encouraging) a debate between an animal rights activist and an AIDS activist and watching the fireworks. I ended up borrowing that scenario for a scene in my most recent novel. Just felt I should mention or offer the snippet if you were curious.
While they're on it, agreed, most people are somewhere between pretty silly and slightly incoherent. However, in the days and week after, I think there can be some genuine carry-over effects on mindset and creativity levels. That same kind of carryover could also probably be accomplished by a long vacation, a creative bootcamp, a vision quest, an intense religious experience, and a bunch of other things, but this is one of many ways to shake things up and search for other perspectives. I'd like to see some studies before claiming with confidence it's a sure thing, or to what extent it's effective, but it's at least mildly plausible that there's some potential benefit.
Every time RSS comes up, I think, "Yeah, I should look into that." And then I poke around, and it seems like every one I find is a paid service. Are they all that way? Am I just looking in the wrong places? I am slightly interested in a push feed for some web sites that I follow which post erratically (a web comic here, a blog there) but it's just not worth paying cash for something, over, say, just loading the page in a browser once or twice a day.
Slashdot Mirror
(I'd argue link shorteners are evil in general, but that's a discussion for another day)
Yeah, it seems like obfuscation of links causes more problems than I'd like. But in a world where lots of common services have a character limit (not just Twitter--even Slashdot's signature function is severely limited), sometimes a shortener is a necessity.
Am I the only one who keeps reading the CEO's name as Scarface? Because we know how that guy welcomes unexpected visitors, by introducing them to his little friend.
At least valid antivirus software doesn't flood your screen with popups.
Er, I mean, it doesn't nag you to do things you don't want to do.
Well, it doesn't fill your hard drive full of gigabytes of junk.
That is, at least it doesn't mess with your internet connection and cause inexplicable outages.
You know what? I give up.
Is that the one where Blanche was dating the cosmonaut, while Rose went back to visit St. Olaf? Sorry, the episodes always repeat on me, and I can't keep them straight.
We are not lamenting the days where we need to smash rocks together to start a fire, where we have easy access to matches or a lighter.
And I gave up matches and lighter when I bought my last Samsung.
25, even.
I don't know what's up with these. They're all AC, they always come up in every time someone starts talking jobs, and they're all gloomy and helpless. It's like Marvin the android. "Oh, this diode's been hurting me for a million years, but I'll just leave it alone and moan."
Sometimes I think it was a comments bot set up by the former overlords (Dice) just to make people antsy to find new jobs. Then I think it's a comment bot put forth by some super-villain CEO, designed to get us to NOT look for new jobs, because ours are better than those sad saps.
Then the other ones come in, which start saying that their lives are terrible, but their co-workers from India get treated like lords. And I assume that's either racism or anti-H-1B, or dual purpose. But it's pretty ridiculous, and since they're all AC and in this space span a quarter century, I'm pretty convinced it's lies. I mean, if nothing else, somebody with that attitude ought to have been fired in under a decade, even *if* they're taking absurd levels of abuse.
I understand that you never tried to operate a website in your life. I was with you until this piece of self-centered ****.
You'd be wrong. I ran a site that accepted donations instead of using advertising. It may not be convenient, it may not be for everyone, but it's at least sometimes an option, and not the impossibility you make it out to be.
As for your other stuff about my pointing fingers at web site operators and calling them lazy ... I didn't say that. I was primarily talking about advertising companies, and how they're capable of changing to be less scummy, but still survive, in which case web sites might still use them. Or if they collapse, sties will use the slightly less scummy replacements that arise afterward.
Is that where you do three quick blinks, three slow blinks, and three quick blinks again?
* I understand that I haven't clicked on an ad on purpose since 1997, so even if blocked entirely, they're not losing any money from me.
* I understand that advertisers can still advertise without cookies. They just can't invade my privacy to do it, and they might have to pick some other metric (like being topical to the site they're on) as an idea generator.
* I understand that sites can still run ads and make money without the use of massive spying organizations. They can make their own ads. They can use cookie-less ads. They can do a lot of things.
So no, I don't see how adding some privacy and cookie-blocking makes everything all go away automatically, without any recourse.
I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't): Making the Journey from "What Will People Think?" to "I Am Enough" by Brené Brown - Heavy Read on Shame/Shame resilience.
Just read that one myself. Picked it up mostly because it sounded like it was going to be outside my normal range of experience, and thus particularly educational, which it was. Though it was geared toward women, a lot of the core material about shame is really universal, and I've got enough women in my life the rest was still insightful.
That's the one that basically announces in the opening pages it's going to be a Canterbury Tales ripoff, isn't it? Bunch of people on a journey telling each other stories? If so, I'd heard the name for years and finally picked it up, only to put it down after a few pages, when it became clear what was coming. There something about story-in-a-story or repeatedly interrupted narratives that just really frustrate me.
I'm curious if he left the first one off intentionally, to mirror the incomplete work of Chaucer's, or if it just got too long and needed two books?
He's been around longer than that, at least a year. I thought the trolling started because he had some odd stories that he repeated a little too often, including lots of mentions of his weight and being under-employed. Odd, but nothing too obnoxious. I didn't notice the affiliate links until after the serious trolling started, and while I haven't combed his history, it seemed like he only started doing that to taunt them back. The trolling is way over the top, but his response with the links is definitely just egging them on, to the point that I'm really tired of both. It's only about half a step shy of the APK obnoxiousness.
I don't know. While I had the same thoughts as you at the start of the post (just because they're no longer on Reddit, it doesn't mean they no longer exist) your subsequent claim--that they definitely all moved elsewhere and are doing the exact same things they used to--is also unwarranted. I'd say there's at least a chance for other alternatives, including 1) deciding maybe it's not that cool and stopping, 2) shrugging it off and giving up, 3) wanting to move on but not finding another community and then effectively giving up.
Without more data, I'd say the headline is incomplete, but so is most of what you've concluded. It's possible they've quit. It's possible they're doing the same thing elsewhere. And even if it is going on elsewhere, if it's less visible, might there still be a lot of people leading happier lives not seeing as much junk? It's definitely complicated.
I'm all for your conclusion -- rational discussion to promote understanding -- and while that may be the best solution, we all know there's cases where even that doesn't get anywhere with some people.
Heh. I read that a few months ago, possibly because of an earlier Slashdot book club comment. Thoroughly enjoyable, and deeply funny - some of it just naturally, some of it for its differing take on the Harry Potter world.
There was definitely some overlap, particularly early on, but obviously any place where science has given us answers, it supersedes philosophy. Most of the areas it covers now have to do with human experience: politics, morality, logic, and investigations into knowledge and meaning. It can be dry, dense, and cryptic, but also fascinating. I highly recommend starting the subject with a guide, like a class, so that you can have someone who knows the field summarize and distill the topics. It usually makes it a lot more approachable, and then if you're enjoying it, getting into the actual books in greater detail makes for a good second pass.
I've seen your line in your sig and keep meaning to check it out. Sample downloaded!
I'm supposed to be writing a lighthearted handbook on health and fitness, but I got halfway through, got distracted, and now keep tinkering with other ideas instead of finishing it up. I've been filling time listening to the Self Publishing Podcast, which--coming from 2102--is already a little dated, but also still somewhat entertaining and informative. (And a little disgusting, as two of the authors on the cast are producing a book a month.) I'm also listening to A Way with Words at work, just for interesting language tidbids.
I spent most of last night skimming critical reviews of the most offensively bad motivational get-rich books, for an eventual parody work, "MIND Money!: The Irrefutable Method of Taking Thoughts from Your Head and Putting Money in Your Wallet". Assuming I don't feel too dirty writing that stuff up, even as a parody.
On my commute I'm listening to a Great Courses lecture on the meaning of life, and at home I'm reading a book on parenting that my wife liked, called The Blessing of a Skinned Knee.
Also on an somewhat unrelated note, I thought the plot device of the Super Death Star was a bit silly and anime. I mean what can we expect in the next one? A Super Duper Death Star twice as big as the last?
According to fan parody "1000 Terrible Ideas for Another Star Wars Movie" the progression will go:
* An even bigger Death Star, built around the sun, that shoots planets at other planets.
* Traveling back in time to steal the original Death Star.
* Prequels reveal that the Emperor got the idea for the Death Star from a smaller, Death-Star-like space station that was blown up by the rebels.
* Another prequel reveals that Manny Bothans was kind of a dick, and there was a reason he got sent on that suicide mission to get the Death Star plans.
Geese may not fly more than 5 minutes a day, but they're certainly still active, either walking or swimming in search of food for good bits of the day. Which I guess correlates well to, "You don't have to go jogging for hours, just get up and move around a bit."
But how are the dark-chocolate-covered cigarettes? Seems like a waste of chocolate. As for the 15-year-old Scotch, I imagine it pairing well with the chocolate, but for a liqueur I'd use a younger batch.
Yep, really tries hard to look like it's missing a verb.
Also: "a linear line" is pretty impressive.
white supremacist
No, that philosophy is sad and misguided.
Why does writing a fictional scene about two liberal priorities colliding automatically make me an extreme right-winger? If you can't laugh at yourself, you're going to miss out on 9 out of 10 laughs.
Also I don't think most people sit down for an hour for each meal.
With my kids, I'm lucky if I can make it 5 minutes without needing to get up and do something in the middle of the meal.
Totally off-topic, but ages ago you made a joke about observing (or encouraging) a debate between an animal rights activist and an AIDS activist and watching the fireworks. I ended up borrowing that scenario for a scene in my most recent novel. Just felt I should mention or offer the snippet if you were curious.
While they're on it, agreed, most people are somewhere between pretty silly and slightly incoherent. However, in the days and week after, I think there can be some genuine carry-over effects on mindset and creativity levels. That same kind of carryover could also probably be accomplished by a long vacation, a creative bootcamp, a vision quest, an intense religious experience, and a bunch of other things, but this is one of many ways to shake things up and search for other perspectives. I'd like to see some studies before claiming with confidence it's a sure thing, or to what extent it's effective, but it's at least mildly plausible that there's some potential benefit.
Every time RSS comes up, I think, "Yeah, I should look into that." And then I poke around, and it seems like every one I find is a paid service. Are they all that way? Am I just looking in the wrong places? I am slightly interested in a push feed for some web sites that I follow which post erratically (a web comic here, a blog there) but it's just not worth paying cash for something, over, say, just loading the page in a browser once or twice a day.