When I first saw the movie, the intent was clear to me: "how would any of us know if we were actually replicants". That's the interesting part of the film! I assumed Deckard was human while watching the beginning, but the "happy ending" broke that assumption for me, with the line something like "but do any of us really know?"
Once "fridge logic" kicked in, I saw many hints: * The police officers who tell Decker he's un-retired treat him like shit for no apparent reason. * The police just assumed he could take down multiple combat replicants, which seems bizaare once you see what he's up against, if he's human. * The scene in which he's testing Rachel and asks "does she know" - what an amazingly powerful scene that is if Tyrell is really testing Decker: does he know.
When FH comes out this summer, it will be capable of launch multiple sats in 1 launch that will costs less than what Ariane 5 charges for just 1 of the 2 sats.
In the world of engineering, we call that "your PowerPoint looks better than my shipping product". Glorious claims of splendor and awesomeness, and "but you can't buy it yet" go together quite often you see.
I'm a fan of SpaceX. I think it's likely they'll deliver. But until they have a track record with a given vehicle, they have wonderful PowerPoint.
You've mentally defined both "Nazis" and "right wing" as "people I don't like", so of course they're the same to you, history be damned.
American liberals operate in the exact opposite way with a very high emphasis on justice and human rights
Exactly - the "American right" is currently the home of the classic liberal, if you haven't been paying attention. Often derided as "libertarian" and "wanting Somalia", the liberal wants government out of his daily life, values the right of people to make their own decisions very highly, with a focus on personal responsibility. The only place where the "American left" has any lingering remnants of liberalism is sex, and even that is fading as the anti-sex prudes have mostly moved to the left now (and the anti-sex right is quite elderly now, and dying off).
Many ministers, priests and nuns have been tortured and murdered simply because the teaching of Christianity insists upon basic human rights and condems greed. The wealthy have for many decades hired killers to eliminate anyone who suggests fairness and decency for anyone other than the rich.
The overlap between "Christian values" and "the American right" is nearly 100% - it's only the sex part where there's dissonance.
These aristocrats are highly associated with Nazi beliefs and practices.
Socialism, Communism, Fascism, they all loudly proclaim the evils of corporations and the rich, and then the rulers make themselves and their friends massively, massively rich (and quietly vanish anyone who insists on pointing that out).
I'm stunned people don't get this: what makes the film good is the ambiguity. If it were certainly either way, the film would lack artistic merit, and just be a slow-paced effects movie with a good soundtrack.
Good art is as much about what the viewer thinks as what the artist thought.
Of course the Nazis were leftists. There were a progressive socialist party, that actually implemented a bunch of progressive ideals, often the first in Europe to do so: universal health care, minimum wage, social security, and every leftist's favorite: a 102% tax on certain corporations. It's been said before: if Hitler had been hit by a bus in 1937, he would have been remembered as a great statesman.
The left is about central control. Control of the economy, control of desirable speech, control of how much water my toilet uses when I flush it, control over the precise affirmative steps college students must go through in order before having sex, control over "unreasonably low" wages and "unreasonably high" prices and taking what the wrong people earn and giving it to the right people. There's hardly any element of one's daily life the left doesn't want to control - just in case someone might make the wrong decision.
Totalitarian government, whether it gets sold to the people as "Communist" or "Fascist" or whatever the next excuse will be to give central government ever more power always comes from the left. It's what happens when the left actually wins. It's what they do. It's all they do.
"CS worker" = people with a degree in computer science
Not a single person I was friends with in college went on to work in the same field as their major - well, I guess there was one guy who got a CS degree and went on to code, but in a very different role than the specialty he got a masters in.
When people use these ambiguous phrases like "IT" or "CS worker", I always wonder: why the euphemism? If you mean software developer, say software developer. It's the best job you can get (as far as working for other people without being a star entertainer) in many nations, and it's one of the best in the US as well, though we don't get the in-office prestige that successful doctors and lawyers get (but then again, they tend to be small business owners, not employees, once successful). If you mean "network guy", say that instead - though the roles begin to blur a little at cloud scale, I guess.
Neither insults nor denial will change the facts. IT has several problems, including ageism, racism, and misogamy.
The insults are an added bonus, but I suggest abandoning "IT", whatever that is (something from the 20th century, like data processing?), and becoming a software developer.
That came to an end 3 years ago when my retinas started to bleed too much and I couldn't use a computer until a few months ago
Well, yeah, the onset of blindness would be a real kick in the teeth in most fields, though I suspect a blind developer would do far better than a blind welder.
the "pissing contests", the hoarding of information, the sexism, the insane hours, the constant changing of designs
Any of those are such alarming warning signs I'd be changing companies ASAP. That's the gutter of this field (which most of us wind up in one way or another from time to time), not the middle of the road!
If you're not ever more in demand as you gather more years of skill, perhaps you've let your skills grow stale (thinking "the cloud" isn't important is the new thinking "the internet" isn't important), or perhaps you have 1 year of experience 20 times, instead of 20 years of growth.
Many programmers find that their employability starts to decline at about age 35.
In my early 30s, I still had a hard time getting the attention of recruiters, let alone hiring managers. At 45 they won't leave me alone.
Employers dismiss them as either lacking in up-to-date technical skills -- such as the latest programming-language fad -- or "not suitable for entry level." In other words, either underqualified or overqualified. That doesnâ(TM)t leave much, does it?
Programming language fads are a thing of front-end "web designers" and app developers. That may be more of a young man's game, though I have a friend my own age who's been quite successful as a champion of the infamous "vanilla JS" framework.
But for back-end/infrastructure coding, things change more slowly, with a slow drift from C++ to Java over 10 years, and now Python just starting to be taken seriously, maybe in another 10 years it will be important. If you can't keep up with that sort of change, how'd you learn the field in the first place?
Of course, if you never want to change tools, there's a job as a kernel dev waiting if you can hack it - they still party like it's 1989!
Well, what really matters is able to perform well in the job interview. But in theory that's coding skill, design skills, and leadership skills. And not locking up due to nerves during the interview, but it's an imperfect world. With the growth of cloud, it back-end and infrastructure specialties that seem most in demand (as long as you think at scale).
there seems to be a mismatch between what skilled means to people looking for work and what skilled means to people looking for workers, ahem, by workers I mean passionate people looking for opportunities they're passionate about, such as web button design.
Never type that again. Seriously - vocalizing your pauses when speaking is bad enough, but there's no excuse when writing.
Ariane 5 has launched many many many missions successfully
Yup, it's the emerging threat of SpaceX that's got them worried, but right now Ariane is ahead. (I used to mock the French as cheese-eating surrender monkeys, but then France outlawed furries, earning my lasting respect.)
We do not have a shortage of CS workers in this country
What's a "CS worker"? Is that like help desk? IT support is not a career with much of a future, unless you're a packethead or have some other backend specialty.
But if you meant "software developer", skilled devs are deeply in demand in the US in Silly Valley, and closer in Seattle - come on down, the weather's nice^W sucks less. Heck, I know my company's been hiring aggressively in Canada as well.
Legally compelled? No. Just like they can burn the books in their library if they care to. I'm just saying it's a dick move, that sets political correctness above education (but then, what university doesn't these days?).
So then take a different prof's lecture series instead. I don't think he's the only option even today, but you can still add other alongside rather than replacing.
not consider the (evidently real) students actually effected by what has happened.
Oh, it would take ~18 years for any students effected by him to reach university age, you know.
Anyway, give exactly 0 fucks about anyone's "feelings" these days - so many whiners that I've just stopped caring.
Star trek: Shuttles: Check, at least for a while, before we gave up USB Key-sized storage: Check Tablet computers: Check Sat phones: check Medical tricorders: there's an X-prize for that, now, right? Attractive women in uniform: check;)
Still working on that warp drive, but 3D printers and increasing automation make "post-scarcity" much less of a fantasy than it used to be.
Transporters were a budget-saving hack, but have become standard fare for discussions in Theory of Identity classes in philosophy.
ST:TOS was the closest thing to good SciFi we'll likely ever see.
Yeah, don't use your general-purpose computer for multiple purposes, that's just crazy!
It is crazy. Stop doing that. Just stop.
I do all my banking (and brokerage etc) from an encrypted VM used only for that. Never cross the streams.
I figure my gaming box is infested with rootkits constantly at war with one another from game DRM. That's fine - only games go there.
I treat my general-purpose VM as suspicious, and if anything ever looks off I'll just re-clone it from the base image, but there's lots of malware these days that's damned hard to spot.
Other VMs are for short use for special purposes - banking, ripping, etc, and can be reverted to snapshots regularly.
Of course, all that's useless if you don't keep your VM software patched. VM escape exploits are quite rare, but there have been more than 0 of them!
But law enforcement can get that history quite easily whether or not that have my phone, is the thing. It's the other stuff - personal photos, social media, and so on, that's key for searching phones.
There are many textbooks on a given subject, what's the harm if you burn the on he wrote? It's not like the material is unique.
There's no harm done in leaving the material up, for those who choose to consume it. There is harm in removing it, as there's harm in removing any useful information from public availability. It sure sound to me like you're trying to force your personal preferences on the rest of the world - would you by any chance consider yourself a warrior for social justice?
One is: should this guy be punished? Maybe, I dunno, I don't have the facts, but we have a court system and standards of evidence for punishment, and while it's horribly flawed it's still the best we can do.
The completely unrelated other is: should students be punished by removing good lectures just because we decided the lecturer is a bad person. No - that's just silly. Will you be burning books next? He probably wrote a textbook at some point in his career.
If you can't separate presenter from content, that's your serious character flaw, leave the rest of us out of it.
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*Deckard - why the Hell do I keep typing Decker?
When I first saw the movie, the intent was clear to me: "how would any of us know if we were actually replicants". That's the interesting part of the film! I assumed Deckard was human while watching the beginning, but the "happy ending" broke that assumption for me, with the line something like "but do any of us really know?"
Once "fridge logic" kicked in, I saw many hints:
* The police officers who tell Decker he's un-retired treat him like shit for no apparent reason.
* The police just assumed he could take down multiple combat replicants, which seems bizaare once you see what he's up against, if he's human.
* The scene in which he's testing Rachel and asks "does she know" - what an amazingly powerful scene that is if Tyrell is really testing Decker: does he know.
When FH comes out this summer, it will be capable of launch multiple sats in 1 launch that will costs less than what Ariane 5 charges for just 1 of the 2 sats.
In the world of engineering, we call that "your PowerPoint looks better than my shipping product". Glorious claims of splendor and awesomeness, and "but you can't buy it yet" go together quite often you see.
I'm a fan of SpaceX. I think it's likely they'll deliver. But until they have a track record with a given vehicle, they have wonderful PowerPoint.
You've mentally defined both "Nazis" and "right wing" as "people I don't like", so of course they're the same to you, history be damned.
American liberals operate in the exact opposite way with a very high emphasis on justice and human rights
Exactly - the "American right" is currently the home of the classic liberal, if you haven't been paying attention. Often derided as "libertarian" and "wanting Somalia", the liberal wants government out of his daily life, values the right of people to make their own decisions very highly, with a focus on personal responsibility. The only place where the "American left" has any lingering remnants of liberalism is sex, and even that is fading as the anti-sex prudes have mostly moved to the left now (and the anti-sex right is quite elderly now, and dying off).
Many ministers, priests and nuns have been tortured and murdered simply because the teaching of Christianity insists upon basic human rights and condems greed. The wealthy have for many decades hired killers to eliminate anyone who suggests fairness and decency for anyone other than the rich.
The overlap between "Christian values" and "the American right" is nearly 100% - it's only the sex part where there's dissonance.
These aristocrats are highly associated with Nazi beliefs and practices.
Socialism, Communism, Fascism, they all loudly proclaim the evils of corporations and the rich, and then the rulers make themselves and their friends massively, massively rich (and quietly vanish anyone who insists on pointing that out).
I'm stunned people don't get this: what makes the film good is the ambiguity. If it were certainly either way, the film would lack artistic merit, and just be a slow-paced effects movie with a good soundtrack.
Good art is as much about what the viewer thinks as what the artist thought.
Yes, we know, you've always been a fan of Dick.
Of course the Nazis were leftists. There were a progressive socialist party, that actually implemented a bunch of progressive ideals, often the first in Europe to do so: universal health care, minimum wage, social security, and every leftist's favorite: a 102% tax on certain corporations. It's been said before: if Hitler had been hit by a bus in 1937, he would have been remembered as a great statesman.
The left is about central control. Control of the economy, control of desirable speech, control of how much water my toilet uses when I flush it, control over the precise affirmative steps college students must go through in order before having sex, control over "unreasonably low" wages and "unreasonably high" prices and taking what the wrong people earn and giving it to the right people. There's hardly any element of one's daily life the left doesn't want to control - just in case someone might make the wrong decision.
Totalitarian government, whether it gets sold to the people as "Communist" or "Fascist" or whatever the next excuse will be to give central government ever more power always comes from the left. It's what happens when the left actually wins. It's what they do. It's all they do.
"CS worker" = people with a degree in computer science
Not a single person I was friends with in college went on to work in the same field as their major - well, I guess there was one guy who got a CS degree and went on to code, but in a very different role than the specialty he got a masters in.
When people use these ambiguous phrases like "IT" or "CS worker", I always wonder: why the euphemism? If you mean software developer, say software developer. It's the best job you can get (as far as working for other people without being a star entertainer) in many nations, and it's one of the best in the US as well, though we don't get the in-office prestige that successful doctors and lawyers get (but then again, they tend to be small business owners, not employees, once successful). If you mean "network guy", say that instead - though the roles begin to blur a little at cloud scale, I guess.
That would make a nifty sig.
Neither insults nor denial will change the facts. IT has several problems, including ageism, racism, and misogamy.
The insults are an added bonus, but I suggest abandoning "IT", whatever that is (something from the 20th century, like data processing?), and becoming a software developer.
That came to an end 3 years ago when my retinas started to bleed too much and I couldn't use a computer until a few months ago
Well, yeah, the onset of blindness would be a real kick in the teeth in most fields, though I suspect a blind developer would do far better than a blind welder.
the "pissing contests", the hoarding of information, the sexism, the insane hours, the constant changing of designs
Any of those are such alarming warning signs I'd be changing companies ASAP. That's the gutter of this field (which most of us wind up in one way or another from time to time), not the middle of the road!
If you're not ever more in demand as you gather more years of skill, perhaps you've let your skills grow stale (thinking "the cloud" isn't important is the new thinking "the internet" isn't important), or perhaps you have 1 year of experience 20 times, instead of 20 years of growth.
Many programmers find that their employability starts to decline at about age 35.
In my early 30s, I still had a hard time getting the attention of recruiters, let alone hiring managers. At 45 they won't leave me alone.
Employers dismiss them as either lacking in up-to-date technical skills -- such as the latest programming-language fad -- or "not suitable for entry level." In other words, either underqualified or overqualified. That doesnâ(TM)t leave much, does it?
Programming language fads are a thing of front-end "web designers" and app developers. That may be more of a young man's game, though I have a friend my own age who's been quite successful as a champion of the infamous "vanilla JS" framework.
But for back-end/infrastructure coding, things change more slowly, with a slow drift from C++ to Java over 10 years, and now Python just starting to be taken seriously, maybe in another 10 years it will be important. If you can't keep up with that sort of change, how'd you learn the field in the first place?
Of course, if you never want to change tools, there's a job as a kernel dev waiting if you can hack it - they still party like it's 1989!
You need to define what "skilled" means
Well, what really matters is able to perform well in the job interview. But in theory that's coding skill, design skills, and leadership skills. And not locking up due to nerves during the interview, but it's an imperfect world. With the growth of cloud, it back-end and infrastructure specialties that seem most in demand (as long as you think at scale).
there seems to be a mismatch between what skilled means to people looking for work and what skilled means to people looking for workers, ahem, by workers I mean passionate people looking for opportunities they're passionate about, such as web button design.
Indeed, you hit the nail right on the ... button.
Uhhh,
Never type that again. Seriously - vocalizing your pauses when speaking is bad enough, but there's no excuse when writing.
Ariane 5 has launched many many many missions successfully
Yup, it's the emerging threat of SpaceX that's got them worried, but right now Ariane is ahead. (I used to mock the French as cheese-eating surrender monkeys, but then France outlawed furries, earning my lasting respect.)
We do not have a shortage of CS workers in this country
What's a "CS worker"? Is that like help desk? IT support is not a career with much of a future, unless you're a packethead or have some other backend specialty.
But if you meant "software developer", skilled devs are deeply in demand in the US in Silly Valley, and closer in Seattle - come on down, the weather's nice^W sucks less. Heck, I know my company's been hiring aggressively in Canada as well.
Legally compelled? No. Just like they can burn the books in their library if they care to. I'm just saying it's a dick move, that sets political correctness above education (but then, what university doesn't these days?).
Ooooh, "thas raysis", I never saw that one coming! Can't even tell if trolling.
So, assuming those VMs run Windows, you're fine with buying a new copy of the OS for each of them just to increase security.
You're cute - I like you.
So then take a different prof's lecture series instead. I don't think he's the only option even today, but you can still add other alongside rather than replacing.
not consider the (evidently real) students actually effected by what has happened.
Oh, it would take ~18 years for any students effected by him to reach university age, you know.
Anyway, give exactly 0 fucks about anyone's "feelings" these days - so many whiners that I've just stopped caring.
The host does nothing. I'm sure the NSA could hack it remotely, but none of the normal consumer attack vectors apply.
"With a warrant"
Thanks for the good laugh to start my evening off!
Star trek: ;)
Shuttles: Check, at least for a while, before we gave up
USB Key-sized storage: Check
Tablet computers: Check
Sat phones: check
Medical tricorders: there's an X-prize for that, now, right?
Attractive women in uniform: check
Still working on that warp drive, but 3D printers and increasing automation make "post-scarcity" much less of a fantasy than it used to be.
Transporters were a budget-saving hack, but have become standard fare for discussions in Theory of Identity classes in philosophy.
ST:TOS was the closest thing to good SciFi we'll likely ever see.
Yeah, don't use your general-purpose computer for multiple purposes, that's just crazy!
It is crazy. Stop doing that. Just stop.
I do all my banking (and brokerage etc) from an encrypted VM used only for that. Never cross the streams.
I figure my gaming box is infested with rootkits constantly at war with one another from game DRM. That's fine - only games go there.
I treat my general-purpose VM as suspicious, and if anything ever looks off I'll just re-clone it from the base image, but there's lots of malware these days that's damned hard to spot.
Other VMs are for short use for special purposes - banking, ripping, etc, and can be reverted to snapshots regularly.
Of course, all that's useless if you don't keep your VM software patched. VM escape exploits are quite rare, but there have been more than 0 of them!
But law enforcement can get that history quite easily whether or not that have my phone, is the thing. It's the other stuff - personal photos, social media, and so on, that's key for searching phones.
There are many textbooks on a given subject, what's the harm if you burn the on he wrote? It's not like the material is unique.
There's no harm done in leaving the material up, for those who choose to consume it. There is harm in removing it, as there's harm in removing any useful information from public availability. It sure sound to me like you're trying to force your personal preferences on the rest of the world - would you by any chance consider yourself a warrior for social justice?
There are two unrelated issues here.
One is: should this guy be punished? Maybe, I dunno, I don't have the facts, but we have a court system and standards of evidence for punishment, and while it's horribly flawed it's still the best we can do.
The completely unrelated other is: should students be punished by removing good lectures just because we decided the lecturer is a bad person. No - that's just silly. Will you be burning books next? He probably wrote a textbook at some point in his career.
If you can't separate presenter from content, that's your serious character flaw, leave the rest of us out of it.