This whole fake news is a made up controversy by the mainstream news sources to give the people something else to blame and try to overshadow the real debate. The real problem as I see it is the proliferation of fake experts. What really caused the news media to go over the deep end this election cycle is fake fact checkers. Snopes is far from perfect and is biased, but Polifact just makes shit up (1)(2). They literally have different people saying the same things, and they award one a rating of "Mostly False" (its way off, 1/3 of the quoted number) and the other "Mostly True".
With access to these fake experts the news can say anything it wants, and provide sources and experts to back up their news. The media creates these "experts" by giving them credibility, while in turn these "fact checkers" lend credibility to the media. It's a cycle of both self delusion and self promotion.
No, Asimov himself said that scifi to him was just a theme to overlay onto stories. He wrote fantasy stories with cool blinky lights. His stories touched on space ships, robots, psychology and sociology; Just like Heinlein. But where Heinlein wrote science fiction including all of these elements, Asimov just used these elements as techno babble to magically set up or solve obstacles on demand.
Science fiction the theme, is a flavor that can be applied to any any literary work. Science fiction the genre, is NOT just fantasy with the magic replaced with buzz words and lasers because that is still just fantasy.
Starship Troopers is not even a war story. It is a coming of age tale rapped in philosophy with the backdrop of an interstellar war. Science Fiction contains the concepts of psychology and sociology as well as lasers and warp drives. Starship Troopers is scifi, it is just just not generic center of the road scifi, and it is definitely not fantasy.
Asimov did not write scifi. He wrote pulp fantasy set in worlds with robots, lasers, and space ships instead of knights, swords, and horses. "illustrates an idea Asimov advocated, that science fiction is a flavor that can be applied to any literary genre, rather than a limited genre itself." - Wikipedia on The Caves of Steel
Ya, those horrible radicalized far-right youths who won't vote the way they are told. Give me a break, their is some rational to banning people who promote murder and genocide. But people who simple disagree on what form of government is best to promote the happiness and rights of its citizens is not rational. And discriminating against people who did not/will not vote the right way is illegal in all functional democracies.
Neill Blomkamp's films are really interesting, because film critics always view them thorough their own leftist lenses, while he himself is not that at all. I forget the message behind D9, but Elysium, for example, was a warning about unrestrained immigration. The surface was literally his interpretation of what happens if Trump does not build The Wall.
Neill Blomkamp's films are really interesting, because film critics always view them thorough their own leftist lenses, while he himself is not that at all. I forget the message behind D9, but Elysium, for example, was a warning about unrestrained immigration. The surface was literally his interpretation of what happens if Trump does not build The Wall.
He defined and built the genre. He has some less than stellar novels. But most of his catalog was not only great in thier own right but inspired the next generation's greats, like Star Trek. If you enjoy Star Trek, it the novel that featured the federation that was adapted to Star Trek is a must. And the novel that features the plot of TNG pilot is great. And why not see where they got tribbles from as well.
While Asimov was still saying that Scifi was a theme you could overlay onto any story, Heinlein was laying out the rules and style that would inspire every writer that came after him and transform the genre from fantasy with lasers pulp into the bedrock of the literary genres.
Some of the best scifi story ever told are still Heinlein novels; And the breadth of his work means that he has something for everyone. A lot of his older work got loads of press since he was famous already, but most of hims good work was published in the beginning and middle of his career.
I guess he was right to dis the SS in that way. It is pretty inexcusable that he was not put in jail within 10 hours of said tweets. You don't investigate assassination threats months latter. Now this man has even more reason to try to assassinate Trump, and you have given him the time to actually buy a rifle, get certified, wait the three business days required, etc.
Never got Stranger. For me it is possibly not the worst Heinlein novel, but it far from being worth the read and has the biggest hype to quality ratio.
Other than it being edgy for its time, I cannot see any reason to enjoy it. Personally, I think it was more of a big F*** Y** to his past editors for censoring him than an actual novel.
And I do not see how you will adapt it to the screen. Like Heinlein said the novel is just religion and sex. You could adapt it to a porn film, but there is just not really a storyline. The biggest drama is a legal battle and the only choice any of the characters ever make is "Will I have sex with everyone, or nah?" and spoiler alert they all have sex with everyone.
Can someone explain why people would ever react like this? If the company that pays your salary puts you in a internal mailing list, why would anyone assume that it was OK to ask to be taken out of it?
This. I believe the correct technical solution would be to limit who is allowed to email large numbers of people and the top level groups. Their should be no possible way for the intern to email every one of your million plus employees (or really even any more than 10-20). And it would be really great for the original sender to indicate the default behavior (aka, do I want to make this a conference email, or was I just sending instructions to everyone individually.)
It is not just that Indian schools are not up to par. There are still, many decent Indian developers. But at least some of these decent developers are working for multiple clients at the same time.
I was not sure what instance you were talking about at first. I know he has broken the law a few times, but you seemed to be talking about "questionable" legal activity.
I would say everything I have said is true. He has broken the law at times, followed questionable laws at others, and is not a saint.
Laws are only 10% written. The other 90% depends on a host of officials and how they "interpret the laws". Many things are explicitly legal on the books, but will result with you going to jail or paying a fine in practice. And similarly many things are absolutely illegal on the books, but their is no way to punished for breaking them. You would walk into the bureau that is technically responsible for policing that law, and turn yourself in. Visa law falls into that last one, it is on the books, like the laws that states that sodomy is illegal or atheists cannot hold public office. But I would not call any of these things illegal to do.
And what you would rather want? The guy the broke a law that does not really exist and everyone ignores, or the lady who destroyed evidence pertaining to an active federal investigation?
While Sanders seemed like a decent candidate, and has much the same policies as Trump for some of the more important issues, he has proven himself a pawn of the establishment time and again. I would consider him an amazing choice for president if I did not think that he was 100% behooven to his party and the establishment. Only Trump has any incentive to change anything as he is the only candidate who is not owned by the establishment. Indeed the establishment has spent hundreds or millions of dollars, and even more cooperate power, to slander him.
But does this actually solve anything? OK, it is forked, and there are probably other forks as well. But I cannot use more than one at once, and the main devs doing the core work are still on the original branch, with a bunch of flakes who probably moved on years ago owning the forks. At the end of the day, it is probably not worth using any of these forks if you care about getting any possible updates to the main program.
No one believes he is a saint, he comes off as fairly average to me, which is his main selling point. He is a man of the people. Every major company out there breaks visa laws is huge ways, and that the government is complicit in it. Trump knows this, he knows that companies are forced to break laws to compete. And his turning this around will benefit everyone, on every level of society.
Makes sense to me. People with severe mental handicaps, will on average tend to own their normally functioning peers. So it only makes sense to section off the Windows Store users.
What point is this even trying to make. The president does not lead the nation by historic example. No one thinks Trump will just sit in a big chair during his presidency and inspire change. Trump followed the law, but wants change trade law and work visa laws to stop that sort of thing in the future. Just like he followed the current tax law, but wants to change that as well.
Except that historically America has been both far more religious, and had better statistics for all of these things we are talking about. It is only recently that any of these things have gotten out of hand, so blaming something that has been on the decline the entire time all these bad things have happened just makes no sense.
Who said "abstinence only", it was not me. From the very beginning I said that they should be told everything including how monogamy and abstinence is the right method. I have never understood the argument to shield children from anything. I guess some might consider some amount of shame might be a good thing, at the very least it is an integral part of our culture reaching back hundreds of years, but I think some general theory can be given without completely removing the taboo nature of sex.
I would disagree with spending much time on the subject or going into depth/kink areas when you could instead focus on math or Greek philosophy. And in general really it is outside what I would consider the schools area of concern. High schools should not be a form of legal guardians; who take away from or even supplement the authority and responsibility of parents. I think it be would far more reasonable to completely shift the paradigm of sex-ed, and focus on supplying the parents with training and knowledge, so that they have the ability to talk to their children.
Based on the summery it sounds like: 1) The overall statistics for Uber implied that Black people on average got worse service. 2) Some scientists ran a proper study with controls and found that no discrimination was happening. 3) So we are left with the glaringly obvious conclusion that Uber drivers probably do not wait around in crime filled neighborhoods, and are more likely to refuse to service crime filled neighborhoods.
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This whole fake news is a made up controversy by the mainstream news sources to give the people something else to blame and try to overshadow the real debate. The real problem as I see it is the proliferation of fake experts. What really caused the news media to go over the deep end this election cycle is fake fact checkers. Snopes is far from perfect and is biased, but Polifact just makes shit up (1)(2). They literally have different people saying the same things, and they award one a rating of "Mostly False" (its way off, 1/3 of the quoted number) and the other "Mostly True".
With access to these fake experts the news can say anything it wants, and provide sources and experts to back up their news. The media creates these "experts" by giving them credibility, while in turn these "fact checkers" lend credibility to the media. It's a cycle of both self delusion and self promotion.
Ya, and the Hyperloop will be faster and cheaper than flying if no regulations or security are imposed.
No, Asimov himself said that scifi to him was just a theme to overlay onto stories. He wrote fantasy stories with cool blinky lights. His stories touched on space ships, robots, psychology and sociology; Just like Heinlein. But where Heinlein wrote science fiction including all of these elements, Asimov just used these elements as techno babble to magically set up or solve obstacles on demand.
Science fiction the theme, is a flavor that can be applied to any any literary work.
Science fiction the genre, is NOT just fantasy with the magic replaced with buzz words and lasers because that is still just fantasy.
Starship Troopers is not even a war story. It is a coming of age tale rapped in philosophy with the backdrop of an interstellar war. Science Fiction contains the concepts of psychology and sociology as well as lasers and warp drives. Starship Troopers is scifi, it is just just not generic center of the road scifi, and it is definitely not fantasy.
Asimov did not write scifi. He wrote pulp fantasy set in worlds with robots, lasers, and space ships instead of knights, swords, and horses.
"illustrates an idea Asimov advocated, that science fiction is a flavor that can be applied to any literary genre, rather than a limited genre itself." - Wikipedia on The Caves of Steel
Ya, those horrible radicalized far-right youths who won't vote the way they are told.
Give me a break, their is some rational to banning people who promote murder and genocide. But people who simple disagree on what form of government is best to promote the happiness and rights of its citizens is not rational. And discriminating against people who did not/will not vote the right way is illegal in all functional democracies.
I posted this to the wrong reply originally:
Neill Blomkamp's films are really interesting, because film critics always view them thorough their own leftist lenses, while he himself is not that at all.
I forget the message behind D9, but Elysium, for example, was a warning about unrestrained immigration. The surface was literally his interpretation of what happens if Trump does not build The Wall.
Neill Blomkamp's films are really interesting, because film critics always view them thorough their own leftist lenses, while he himself is not that at all.
I forget the message behind D9, but Elysium, for example, was a warning about unrestrained immigration. The surface was literally his interpretation of what happens if Trump does not build The Wall.
He defined and built the genre. He has some less than stellar novels. But most of his catalog was not only great in thier own right but inspired the next generation's greats, like Star Trek. If you enjoy Star Trek, it the novel that featured the federation that was adapted to Star Trek is a must. And the novel that features the plot of TNG pilot is great. And why not see where they got tribbles from as well.
While Asimov was still saying that Scifi was a theme you could overlay onto any story, Heinlein was laying out the rules and style that would inspire every writer that came after him and transform the genre from fantasy with lasers pulp into the bedrock of the literary genres.
Some of the best scifi story ever told are still Heinlein novels; And the breadth of his work means that he has something for everyone. A lot of his older work got loads of press since he was famous already, but most of hims good work was published in the beginning and middle of his career.
I guess he was right to dis the SS in that way. It is pretty inexcusable that he was not put in jail within 10 hours of said tweets. You don't investigate assassination threats months latter. Now this man has even more reason to try to assassinate Trump, and you have given him the time to actually buy a rifle, get certified, wait the three business days required, etc.
Never got Stranger. For me it is possibly not the worst Heinlein novel, but it far from being worth the read and has the biggest hype to quality ratio.
Other than it being edgy for its time, I cannot see any reason to enjoy it. Personally, I think it was more of a big F*** Y** to his past editors for censoring him than an actual novel.
And I do not see how you will adapt it to the screen. Like Heinlein said the novel is just religion and sex. You could adapt it to a porn film, but there is just not really a storyline. The biggest drama is a legal battle and the only choice any of the characters ever make is "Will I have sex with everyone, or nah?" and spoiler alert they all have sex with everyone.
Can someone explain why people would ever react like this? If the company that pays your salary puts you in a internal mailing list, why would anyone assume that it was OK to ask to be taken out of it?
This. I believe the correct technical solution would be to limit who is allowed to email large numbers of people and the top level groups. Their should be no possible way for the intern to email every one of your million plus employees (or really even any more than 10-20). And it would be really great for the original sender to indicate the default behavior (aka, do I want to make this a conference email, or was I just sending instructions to everyone individually.)
Easy. Just force everyone to work 9-5. Then they are all at work at the same time, for optimum collaboration. And all at home at the same time. Easy.
The Oligarchs only want what is best for you. The Oligarchs will provide for you. Trust the Oligarchs.
It is not just that Indian schools are not up to par. There are still, many decent Indian developers. But at least some of these decent developers are working for multiple clients at the same time.
I was not sure what instance you were talking about at first. I know he has broken the law a few times, but you seemed to be talking about "questionable" legal activity.
I would say everything I have said is true. He has broken the law at times, followed questionable laws at others, and is not a saint.
Laws are only 10% written. The other 90% depends on a host of officials and how they "interpret the laws". Many things are explicitly legal on the books, but will result with you going to jail or paying a fine in practice. And similarly many things are absolutely illegal on the books, but their is no way to punished for breaking them. You would walk into the bureau that is technically responsible for policing that law, and turn yourself in. Visa law falls into that last one, it is on the books, like the laws that states that sodomy is illegal or atheists cannot hold public office. But I would not call any of these things illegal to do.
And what you would rather want? The guy the broke a law that does not really exist and everyone ignores, or the lady who destroyed evidence pertaining to an active federal investigation?
While Sanders seemed like a decent candidate, and has much the same policies as Trump for some of the more important issues, he has proven himself a pawn of the establishment time and again. I would consider him an amazing choice for president if I did not think that he was 100% behooven to his party and the establishment. Only Trump has any incentive to change anything as he is the only candidate who is not owned by the establishment. Indeed the establishment has spent hundreds or millions of dollars, and even more cooperate power, to slander him.
But does this actually solve anything? OK, it is forked, and there are probably other forks as well. But I cannot use more than one at once, and the main devs doing the core work are still on the original branch, with a bunch of flakes who probably moved on years ago owning the forks. At the end of the day, it is probably not worth using any of these forks if you care about getting any possible updates to the main program.
No one believes he is a saint, he comes off as fairly average to me, which is his main selling point. He is a man of the people.
Every major company out there breaks visa laws is huge ways, and that the government is complicit in it. Trump knows this, he knows that companies are forced to break laws to compete. And his turning this around will benefit everyone, on every level of society.
Makes sense to me. People with severe mental handicaps, will on average tend to own their normally functioning peers. So it only makes sense to section off the Windows Store users.
What point is this even trying to make. The president does not lead the nation by historic example. No one thinks Trump will just sit in a big chair during his presidency and inspire change. Trump followed the law, but wants change trade law and work visa laws to stop that sort of thing in the future. Just like he followed the current tax law, but wants to change that as well.
Except that historically America has been both far more religious, and had better statistics for all of these things we are talking about. It is only recently that any of these things have gotten out of hand, so blaming something that has been on the decline the entire time all these bad things have happened just makes no sense.
Who said "abstinence only", it was not me. From the very beginning I said that they should be told everything including how monogamy and abstinence is the right method. I have never understood the argument to shield children from anything. I guess some might consider some amount of shame might be a good thing, at the very least it is an integral part of our culture reaching back hundreds of years, but I think some general theory can be given without completely removing the taboo nature of sex.
I would disagree with spending much time on the subject or going into depth/kink areas when you could instead focus on math or Greek philosophy. And in general really it is outside what I would consider the schools area of concern. High schools should not be a form of legal guardians; who take away from or even supplement the authority and responsibility of parents. I think it be would far more reasonable to completely shift the paradigm of sex-ed, and focus on supplying the parents with training and knowledge, so that they have the ability to talk to their children.
Based on the summery it sounds like:
1) The overall statistics for Uber implied that Black people on average got worse service.
2) Some scientists ran a proper study with controls and found that no discrimination was happening.
3) So we are left with the glaringly obvious conclusion that Uber drivers probably do not wait around in crime filled neighborhoods, and are more likely to refuse to service crime filled neighborhoods.