i hate slack. It copies to the machine like your entire history in every conversation, including all media. Most people here, there appdata slack folder is like 1.5gb and growing all the time. And we have only been using the software for a year, when someone decided that we had to adopt this fad.
And its all just animated gifs and useless other crap.
I hate slack, and i dont understand why people can't just use email for communication. Instant messaging made sense in the days of ICQ when email servers often took 15 minutes to relay messages. But now with exchange active sync and push emails it seems unnecessary to me.
To me, the people that like slack, are the ones that want you to respond to every little thing ASAP and they see it as a way to force people to respond quicker. Only thing is that this manic quickness destroys the mind, trains of thought, and makes it very hard to concentrate on project work when you are being distracted constantly by "chatters" (or i suppose, slackers). At least with email there is an expectation that you may take an hour or two to read it. That expectation goes away with IM clients, psychologically. For some personality types, this is a positive, and those personality types are sadly winning out.
I blame phone culture personally, but i certainly had younger friends in the ICQ days who would send 10 messages for every one response you made. Each one getting more and more desperate for a connection. Sad that the world has moved more and more in this direction, as reasoned responses take time to generate.
I briefly contemplated signing up just so i could berate companies publicly for poor customer service. Companies REALLY respond to twitter complaints, often sending free stuff to make up for slights or percieved slights. I know my company does. Like people bending over backwards to make an issue go away. If its on social media, the marketing department is on everyones ass to fix the problem with a level of urgency that phone-in customer complaints never get.
From that point, i'd say it does serve as a useful tool. However I am pretty opposed to any sort of social networking so i never actually signed up.
I thought I would be newly rich as my technet / microsoft forums account only exists to file all the monthly bugs i find in windows. But then i read its only certain types of bugs that are eligible:
"Any critical or important class remote code execution, elevation of privilege, or design flaws that compromises a customerâ(TM)s privacy and security will receive a bounty"
oh well! I continue to do QA for free then i guess.
Your post is the definition of coming to a conclusion using an anecdote.
" I startet social dancing (Tango) about a decade back" "Now being in my mid/late 40ies" "soon noticed my body hair getting significantly darker and my voice lowering. Clear sings of testosterone going up to normal levels."
So around the age of 35 you got more hair and voice got deeper. However i am pretty sure this happens to everyone. I was completely bodily hairless in my 20s but the 30s were a different story.
This is a result of normal aging, not some kind of "close proximity to attractive women" fantasy. Dancing made you more fit, and gave you confidence which makes one more attractive, etc. This is why we dont use anecdotes to prove things scientifically, you havent controlled for anything.
" Is someone insane enough to build a self-sustaining robot soldier factory and then give an AI system complete control of it? Or just give an AI complete launch control of our nuclear arsenal? I can't see humanity ever being quite that trusting."
Why not? people trust their computers in various forms over pretty much everything else, every single day. (Little Britain: "computer says no...") The attitude that computers are pretty trustworthy (if properly maintained) is pretty omnipresent in society. They are only as impartial as their programming, but most people don't realize that. Look at how many trust clearly manipulated google search results.
As the old quote goes, "to err is human, but to really mess things up you need a computer". If there is one thing we can count on with AI, its that it will be used for negative outcomes in short order after it is invented. What human technology hasn't been? Usually things are developed for war time and then adapted to more societally productive uses later. Even the most basic AI's in the marketplace now (for instance amazon) are mostly concerned with getting people to buy more stuff. Not exactly beneficial to humanity.
But of course, i have seen far too many Sci-fi plots to ever trust that human creators of AI will be benevolent, not to mention the AI themselves, when they achieve some sort of sentience and realize what we are up to as humans around here.
I'm with musk on this one. Unchecked AI development is dangerous.
"Well these remote towns are majority republican."
Uh... not in northern canada they arent. They are mostly natives, who don't really appear on the american political spectrum. (more like never left the land, leave me alone, but willing to accept all government subsidies, type people.)
" To the extent that a "rural American bubble" could possibly be theorized to exist it must be as a manifestation of being the only class or strata of people in the nation that can be openly hated without consequence, and only group of people responsible for their own condition."
What the heck are you talking about? The idea of a bubble is that people correspond with only their "like thinking" community members. Of course this can and does occur in rural areas. I am not american, but i fully appreciate the rural areas of my country when i am visiting there. Many people take their holidays in the country and can relate and respect "country folk" without being condescending. Perhaps i am more open minded than other city slickers, but being in the country always makes me feel more connected to the province and appreciative of rural peoples needs and how they overlap with my own.
Plenty of publications such as the new yorker, are constantly mining rural america for content. So i dont think you know what you are talking about. Are you trying to denigrate country folk in your post just for the sake of being mean?
Not all rural folk are conservatives, i think that is what you are trying to say? But honestly your post is like a stream of consciousness i cannot parse well. There are natives, back to the land hippies, farmers, and artists as well as plenty of people who the insane cost of city life have driven to the country. These people rely more on their communities and their individual will and resources than most city people who are more likely to be rampantly consumerist and materialistic. I suspect city folk do this to make up for their lack of contact with the natural world and a need to have that void filled, but that's just a guess. Less exposure to brain washing marketing techniques maybe? Regardless, you do a dis service to paint entire areas of your country as some sort of monoculture. It just isn't so.
Actually in this case, its more emblematic than anything. From the BBC article:
"What is the significance of the calving?
In and of itself, probably very little. The Larsen C shelf is a mass of floating ice formed by glaciers that have flowed down off the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula into the ocean. On entering the water, their buoyant fronts lift up and join together to make a single protrusion.
The calving of bergs at the forward edge of the shelf is a very natural behaviour. The shelf likes to maintain an equilibrium and the ejection of bergs is one way it balances the accumulation of mass from snowfall and the input of more ice from the feeding glaciers on land....
But Larsen C today does not look like its siblings. Prof Helen Fricker, from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, told BBC News: "The signs we saw at Larsen A and B - we're not seeing yet. The thinning we saw for Larsen A and B - we're not seeing. And we're not seeing any evidence for large volumes of surface meltwater on the order of what you would need to hydro-fracture the ice shelf.
"Most glaciologists are not particularly alarmed by what's going on at Larsen C, yet. It's business as usual.""
Obviously its great to have massive events like this to draw attention to the cause, and keep climate change at the front of peoples minds, but it seems like this isnt that big a deal. It isnt raising sea levels or single handidly causing giant problems by its calving alone.
"how to bring their voter base down off this problem gracefully. If Trump leaves office with a shitstorm things will get ugly."
I have to disagree there. I have been watching american elections for 20 years and if there is one thing thats reliable, its that its always like 51% to 49%. Between 2% and 10% of the actual electorate is swayed by things like infidelity and war mongering. The rest just vote on party lines. I really don't think trump could ever be bad enough to seriously change that. I mean look at bush. Perhaps the most hated president in recent history and yet obama barely won, 53% to 46%. 46% of americans voted to continue down the road bush was on. And you had a great recession come in at the same time (arguably a gigantic disaster, like you are saying trump may cause) and yet they STILL didn't want to change course!
Face it, 90% of americans are just like this. Its in their nature to support whatever side they believe in no matter what.
I get a few fishing emails a day that make it through the spam filter. No where in the linked article is there any evidence of anything different than the spam i get which is the same as anyone gets.
Sure some may be more akin to spear phishing but its hardly a national emergency. Don't open attachments from random people on the internet. If your responsible for a nuclear power plant, be even more cautious!
Common sense, nothing to write an article about, which trump will then read and do something half assed and stupid because of. Can we cut down on the sensationalism in this age of knee jerk, no information foreign policy please? Poor journalism and tweets may end up being the cause of ww3, which is the saddest thought I have had all week.
Is it a firey red ring by chance, spread far and wide for all to see? ( no, i am under no circumstances being fooled into clicking that link! i been around here too long!)
- Turned people into zombies who simply cannot control themselves and their usage. Parents at the park completely neglecting their kids and therefor their development. People everywhere being out to lunch and not aware of their surroundings.
- Made driving way more dangerous (some would say more dangerous than alcohol)
- Made it acceptable for you to be checking your work email at home and therefor working all the time. A sort of manic-ness has set in about communications, and the appropriate duration it should take to connect with someone. (im sure we all know people who send multiple emails an hour when you dont respond, each getting more and more frantic)
- All the tracking and marketing integration which is now considered normal by a large part of the populace.
- Normalized paying for small software applications and tools. Normalized having centralized walled garden managed application "stores" which acceptable and non acceptable content being dictated by for profit corporations.
- Put more screens infront of kids, especially babies and other impressionable youths. And people now think this is acceptable, whereas with television people generally had a negative view of letting their kids be raised by it.
- People tuning out of the real world and into the virtual one more and more, and reinforcing the echo chambers of their own beliefs.
- Websites being ruined to cater to the more monetizable smart phone user who is not anonymous and therefor more valuable to marketers (witness what happened to google news yesterday, RIP)
- Passive tracking and listening devices pretty much on everyone, all the time.
- The waste generated on a grand scale from the planned obsolescence of the designs of these smart phones and the cosntant upgrade cycle. The fragility of the designs, screens and cases which means that phones last only a few years now (whereas my feature phone purchased new in 2006 is still happily making and receiving calls fine, despite the fact that i drop it weekly).
- And the iphone in particular, reinforced apples non standards compliant behaviour. With many instances of them using their large market share to drive technology to their whims.
So in my view, the smart phone trend, while bringing a whole lot of power to peoples pockets, has also started shaping the way people act, behave and even raise the next generations, in ways that many people hadn't considered. People are just happy that they can communicate with friends simply and wherever they are, buy products, and use software tools all very easily and conveniently. The costs always come later after things go too far. Kind of like the windows OS and its relationship to security in the 90s and early aughts. No one considered how running as admin, allowing anything to execute and not having software firewalls would negatively affect people until it was presented to them in the form of hack attacks and exploits galore. I can't even anticipate what shape a public backlash against smart phones would take, but it would make for some interesting sci-fi for sure.
(star trek did kind of do a good job predicting how i feel about the smart phone revolution in the TNG episode "the game", which is what i always think of when i enter a room, or subway car, and everyone is on their phone)
"'its not about climate change or environmentalism, it really hasn't been for a long time...it's about socialist economic policy--redistribution of wealth."
I for one am glad it is. We need to reduce consumption and materialism first and foremost. This is quite often driven by 'for profit' capitalism, so its no surprise that the road eventually leads to a redistribution of wealth. This is not a bad thing. There is no reason with all the abundance in the world, that some people should be "richer" than others simply because of where or in what circumstances they were born (that they obviously cannot control).
So whats wrong with that? You being from a privileged country want to maintain your "standard of living" at all costs. And you think this should trump environmental issues that affect the entire planet.
So your not a denier, your just selfish and entitled. Well too bad, because the rest of the world wants to live like that too, and its america's shitty example that will kill the entire planet when all the other countries want a detached house, a car and oodles of luxury goods. American marketing and brainwashing has refocused the issue from what people need to what people want, which is kind of the origins of this whole mess we are in. (if for instance, we lived by the values of indigenous peoples, where there was very little waste and people lived off the land, we might have very different societal priorities now).
If we really want to solve this climate change problem, we are going to have to go to a world government sooner or later. And that means giving up a whole host of "american values" along with it. The alternative is death, not just for you and me and our families, but for most of the organisms on this planet.
If you really think that "redistribution of wealth" is so horrible that it is worth avoiding at even the terminal costs to the biosphere, i would invite you to look at your own history. You would see that "redistribution of wealth" both through the use of slaves to build your country, and the colonies seceding from england, kind of made your country what it is today.
You've got yours jack, and you'll see the whole world burn before giving up any of it. Does that about sum up your position?
"Have you tried saturday mornings? The ones closest to me are an entirely different experience on saturday mornings vs sunday afternoons "
Exactly. Anyone who wakes up at 6am or before on weekends knows that before 10am all shopping is luxurious! I realized that after I had kids and never ever shop after 10am anymore.
Week nights after 9pm are also nice, but lots of single people at that time. At 7am there are lots of old people who move slow, but they aren't on their phones and absentminded like the singles in the evenings.
" I have more questions than I have answers when it comes to eating wheat and what it does to me and I get shouted down and name-called when I even BOTHER to try to find answers to those questions."
TLDR its actually the substance vital wheat gluten which is added to all breads that is the most likely culprit. Perfectly explains the recent rise in this sort of sensitivity. I dont have it myself thank god, as i love all breads.
"The Bread Lab team, which includes the patient, inventive baker Jonathan Bethony, uses whole grains, water, salt, and yeast. Nothing else. Whole-wheat bread, even when itâ(TM)s good, is usually dense and chewy, and rarely moist; Bethonyâ(TM)s bread was remarkably airy and light. It contains only the natural gluten formed by kneading the flour. Most bakers, even those who would never go near an industrial mixing machine, include an additive called vital wheat gluten to strengthen the dough and to help the loaf rise. (In general, the higher the protein content of wheat, the more gluten it contains.)
Vital wheat gluten is a powdered, concentrated form of the gluten that is found naturally in all bread. It is made by washing wheat flour with water until the starches dissolve. Bakers add extra gluten to their dough to provide the strength and elasticity necessary for it to endure the often brutal process of commercial mixing. Vital wheat gluten increases shelf life and acts as a binder; because itâ(TM)s so versatile, food companies have added it not only to bread but to pastas, snacks, cereals, and crackers, and as a thickener in hundreds of foods and even in some cosmetics. Chemically, vital wheat gluten is identical to regular gluten, and no more likely to cause harm. But the fact that it is added to the protein already in the flour worries Jones. âoeVital wheat gluten is a crutch,â(TM)â(TM) he said. âoeItâ(TM)s all storage and functionality. No flavor. People act as if it were magic. But there is no magic to food.â"...
"Paradoxically, the increased consumption of vital wheat gluten can be attributed, at least in part, to a demand for healthier baked goods. It is not possible to manufacture, package, and ship large amounts of industrially made whole-grain bread without adding something to help strengthen the dough. Jones refers to these products generically as "Bob's groovy breads." Look closely at labels of "healthy" whole-wheat breads, and itâ(TM)s easy to understand what he means. (After my trip to Seattle, the first bread I saw that advertised itself as having been milled from hundred-per-cent whole grains contained many ingredients. The first four, listed in descending order of weight or volume, were whole-wheat flour, water, wheat gluten, and wheat fibre. In other words: gluten, water, more gluten, and fibrous gluten.) In the promotional videos for Daveâ(TM)s Killer Bread, a popular brand, the founder, Dave, speaks glowingly about the properties of gluten. Pictures of the factory show pallets stacked with fifty-pound bags of vital wheat gluten. âoeI just wonder how much of this additional gluten our bodies can digest,â(TM)â(TM) Jones told me when I was at the Bread Lab. âoeThere has to be some limit.â"
M$ is not stupid. They read the apple playbook and took a page out of it. All surfaces are not repairable really. You have to send them to microsoft and pay $649. they have a really slick website set up to do this making it a painless process.
I still like my work provided surface because i dont have to pay when it breaks. We have about 10 of the devices and every 6 months or so someone cracks the screen on one costing $649.
Sucks, but they are super useful when you are out and about so its just a cost of doing business for us. Executives love them. Any field tech will probably agree as well.
" 60 deaths per TWh for coal power worldwide avg, vs 0.04 deaths per TWh for nuclear, so a factor of 1500 better."
Have you averaged that out over 100,000 years?
Didn't think so. The waste will be around that long. How many deaths do you think will occur during that time from contaminated ground, air and water?
Offloading the waste onto future generations only makes it cleaner in the present without considering the hundreds of future generations it will affect. All the carbon that coal burning produces will be gone in 10,000 years. Nuclear waste will be around a lot longer than that.
The problem with nuclear power advocates is the problem with most people. They can't picture even 100 years into the future, let alone 10,000 or 100,000 years. Peoples minds are just not designed to think that far ahead. This is the most important thing that nuclear advocates always miss. And they explain it away like "oh well we will figure out what to do with the waste eventually!". Its the same kind of thinking that got us into this mess in the first place.
Step one is conservation of energy (using less), step two is truly renewable energy development. These are the only ways forward.
Until your voltage regulator starts dying and only gives your equipment 80volts and no one notices the under voltage condition during normal maintenance and testing of the generator.
The facilities maintenance people test the generators monthly, but it was not standard practice to test the voltage every single time the generator was tested.
It is now.
But the point is that systems fail in all sorts of fun ways in the real world. You learn, you change, you adapt, as im sure BA is doing. All it takes is one major incident to stop people from dragging their feet. I'm sure that is occurring now at british airlines.
"Sure cheap lasers are great for text, they don't do a good job of photos though;"
I think most people long ago outsourced this to the walmarts, costcos and london drugs of the world. The professional photo finishing, printed on their $50k++ machines are far better than what you can print at home. And for 20 cents a print? i really don't see the value of owning an inkjet printer where the cartridges dry out before you can even use all of it. You can send the file digitally to any of the above companies and in most cases have same day or next day prints available in the store. And then you can get those same pictures etched into crystal, or blown up 200% if you want.
I would say you got extremely lucky, drive mostly highway or both. And clearly you dont have experience with a bunch of different cars, otherwise you would know that by 300k plenty of stuff fails, even if its well taken care of. My car just rolled over 200k (about the same age) and both cv shafts failed around 160, power steering hoses failed around 150k (known issue on this model), valve cover gasket, previous owner did calipers at like 90k, and the trunk latch from water ingress. And im sure there are a few more things. Locks go out when people try and steal the car. Mirrors are replaced when people hit me when im parked. and the windsheild has a few rock chips in it. I agree that none are major issues though, so it really depends what you mean. Its more "something" than "nothing". I also live on the west coast so no salt corrosion that would kill any car at around the 10 year mark in the east. Luckily the stock exhaust is stainless steel so it has aged well, but the flexpipe was replaced 10k km ago. The engine also eats oil, about 1L every 2 months. And thats as expected according to the dealership at this age. Parts wear down and tolerances aren't what they used to be.
Im honestly surprised you haven't had to replace even one sensor on a VW of that age. VW is famous for poor electronics. The turbo should fail at some point too with oil leaking into it.
And obviously if your interior is "fine" you dont have kids.
Everyones experience of cars is different. Saying 300k is NOTHING is a bit hyperbolic though. Most cars i have had will not have all factory components after that amount of time. They are beaters exactly as much as the money that is spent on them. Don't fix problems, it becomes a beater. Do cheap hacks, use cheap parts, it becomes a beater. Nothing wrong with that, its extremely hard to actually kill a car if you are willing to replace parts on it. Some manufacturers put really shitty transmissions in their cars though, the escape comes to mind. And i think my transmission doesnt sound the best right now either. Manuals fare better for sure.
In short, there is so much variation in cars, the environmental factors, and how people take care of them to invalidate your claim that people shouldn't have dilapidation at 300k. People are mostly not car people and dont give a fuck about maintenance until something goes *pop*. So your calculation should 100% account for people being "The Average Person" and then it all falls apart.
"Yes, Microsoft were too aggressive with pushing people towards updating to Windows 10, and they should have toned it down. But ultimately, it was not the "upgrade push" which pissed people off, but the whole telemetry debacle."
Revisionist history. Before we even knew the extent of windows spying we had the windows update advisor (GWX) show up in the system tray on everyones windows 7 machine in it seems june 2015 ( https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... ) and a year later, forced it on everyone ( https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... ). That is the day that microsoft lost my confidence that they had worked since windows 95 to build.
You can go read that slashdot article to see the day when everyone lost trust in microsoft, and people started recommending that people deactivate windows updates Very few people mention telemetry. What they do mention is that MS pushed a "security update" that was anything but.
I turned windows updates off that day, but being an industry person, i found a work around that allowed me to keep them on. There was a program quickly developed called GWX blocker or something like that which allowed the gwx framework to be stopped.
So yes, its bad to not run windows updates, but its also 100% microsofts own god damn fault.
Oh get off your high horse. We had a ransomware infect one user and then their network drives last fall. We stopped it within 20 minutes but still the damage was done with 40% of their network drive encrypted. The virus scanner (sophos) didnt catch it, email virus scanner missed it too. Was hand targeted for this one particular employee.
She unfortunately had access to a drive she shouldnt have as well so the attack spread farther than it should have. We restored from backup and wiped the machine, but it was certainly inconvenient for a few hours for everyone in that department who lost access to their files.
The point is that this can happen to anyone so dont get cocky. Every user has write access to SOME files on the network, that is unavoidable.
I liked this video i saw at a cisco presentation a few weeks back. In theory a good IDS system with integrated agents on the machine and a "nex gen" firewall should halt an attack quickly. But thats a lot of money that many companies won't invest in till its too late.
Yes the oh so open minded conservatives would see right though any trolling attempts on them. Like that obama was not born in the USA, or is a secret muslim.
They would never "over react" and elect some real life troll to be president of their club. Oh no, they are much smarter than that!
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i hate slack. It copies to the machine like your entire history in every conversation, including all media. Most people here, there appdata slack folder is like 1.5gb and growing all the time. And we have only been using the software for a year, when someone decided that we had to adopt this fad.
And its all just animated gifs and useless other crap.
I hate slack, and i dont understand why people can't just use email for communication. Instant messaging made sense in the days of ICQ when email servers often took 15 minutes to relay messages. But now with exchange active sync and push emails it seems unnecessary to me.
To me, the people that like slack, are the ones that want you to respond to every little thing ASAP and they see it as a way to force people to respond quicker. Only thing is that this manic quickness destroys the mind, trains of thought, and makes it very hard to concentrate on project work when you are being distracted constantly by "chatters" (or i suppose, slackers). At least with email there is an expectation that you may take an hour or two to read it. That expectation goes away with IM clients, psychologically. For some personality types, this is a positive, and those personality types are sadly winning out.
I blame phone culture personally, but i certainly had younger friends in the ICQ days who would send 10 messages for every one response you made. Each one getting more and more desperate for a connection. Sad that the world has moved more and more in this direction, as reasoned responses take time to generate.
I briefly contemplated signing up just so i could berate companies publicly for poor customer service. Companies REALLY respond to twitter complaints, often sending free stuff to make up for slights or percieved slights. I know my company does. Like people bending over backwards to make an issue go away. If its on social media, the marketing department is on everyones ass to fix the problem with a level of urgency that phone-in customer complaints never get.
From that point, i'd say it does serve as a useful tool. However I am pretty opposed to any sort of social networking so i never actually signed up.
I thought I would be newly rich as my technet / microsoft forums account only exists to file all the monthly bugs i find in windows. But then i read its only certain types of bugs that are eligible:
oh well! I continue to do QA for free then i guess.
Your post is the definition of coming to a conclusion using an anecdote.
So around the age of 35 you got more hair and voice got deeper. However i am pretty sure this happens to everyone. I was completely bodily hairless in my 20s but the 30s were a different story.
This is a result of normal aging, not some kind of "close proximity to attractive women" fantasy. Dancing made you more fit, and gave you confidence which makes one more attractive, etc. This is why we dont use anecdotes to prove things scientifically, you havent controlled for anything.
Why not? people trust their computers in various forms over pretty much everything else, every single day. (Little Britain: "computer says no...") The attitude that computers are pretty trustworthy (if properly maintained) is pretty omnipresent in society. They are only as impartial as their programming, but most people don't realize that. Look at how many trust clearly manipulated google search results.
As the old quote goes, "to err is human, but to really mess things up you need a computer". If there is one thing we can count on with AI, its that it will be used for negative outcomes in short order after it is invented. What human technology hasn't been? Usually things are developed for war time and then adapted to more societally productive uses later. Even the most basic AI's in the marketplace now (for instance amazon) are mostly concerned with getting people to buy more stuff. Not exactly beneficial to humanity.
But of course, i have seen far too many Sci-fi plots to ever trust that human creators of AI will be benevolent, not to mention the AI themselves, when they achieve some sort of sentience and realize what we are up to as humans around here.
I'm with musk on this one. Unchecked AI development is dangerous.
Uh... not in northern canada they arent. They are mostly natives, who don't really appear on the american political spectrum. (more like never left the land, leave me alone, but willing to accept all government subsidies, type people.)
What the heck are you talking about? The idea of a bubble is that people correspond with only their "like thinking" community members. Of course this can and does occur in rural areas. I am not american, but i fully appreciate the rural areas of my country when i am visiting there. Many people take their holidays in the country and can relate and respect "country folk" without being condescending. Perhaps i am more open minded than other city slickers, but being in the country always makes me feel more connected to the province and appreciative of rural peoples needs and how they overlap with my own.
Plenty of publications such as the new yorker, are constantly mining rural america for content. So i dont think you know what you are talking about. Are you trying to denigrate country folk in your post just for the sake of being mean?
Not all rural folk are conservatives, i think that is what you are trying to say? But honestly your post is like a stream of consciousness i cannot parse well. There are natives, back to the land hippies, farmers, and artists as well as plenty of people who the insane cost of city life have driven to the country. These people rely more on their communities and their individual will and resources than most city people who are more likely to be rampantly consumerist and materialistic. I suspect city folk do this to make up for their lack of contact with the natural world and a need to have that void filled, but that's just a guess. Less exposure to brain washing marketing techniques maybe? Regardless, you do a dis service to paint entire areas of your country as some sort of monoculture. It just isn't so.
To such thinly veiled racists/classists I always say the same thing;
You First.
Actually in this case, its more emblematic than anything. From the BBC article:
http://www.bbc.com/news/scienc...
Obviously its great to have massive events like this to draw attention to the cause, and keep climate change at the front of peoples minds, but it seems like this isnt that big a deal. It isnt raising sea levels or single handidly causing giant problems by its calving alone.
Just part of the program these days.
I have to disagree there. I have been watching american elections for 20 years and if there is one thing thats reliable, its that its always like 51% to 49%. Between 2% and 10% of the actual electorate is swayed by things like infidelity and war mongering. The rest just vote on party lines. I really don't think trump could ever be bad enough to seriously change that. I mean look at bush. Perhaps the most hated president in recent history and yet obama barely won, 53% to 46%. 46% of americans voted to continue down the road bush was on. And you had a great recession come in at the same time (arguably a gigantic disaster, like you are saying trump may cause) and yet they STILL didn't want to change course!
Face it, 90% of americans are just like this. Its in their nature to support whatever side they believe in no matter what.
I get a few fishing emails a day that make it through the spam filter. No where in the linked article is there any evidence of anything different than the spam i get which is the same as anyone gets.
Sure some may be more akin to spear phishing but its hardly a national emergency. Don't open attachments from random people on the internet. If your responsible for a nuclear power plant, be even more cautious!
Common sense, nothing to write an article about, which trump will then read and do something half assed and stupid because of. Can we cut down on the sensationalism in this age of knee jerk, no information foreign policy please? Poor journalism and tweets may end up being the cause of ww3, which is the saddest thought I have had all week.
A "ring" at a CX domain?
Is it a firey red ring by chance, spread far and wide for all to see? ( no, i am under no circumstances being fooled into clicking that link! i been around here too long!)
- Turned people into zombies who simply cannot control themselves and their usage. Parents at the park completely neglecting their kids and therefor their development. People everywhere being out to lunch and not aware of their surroundings.
- Made driving way more dangerous (some would say more dangerous than alcohol)
- Made it acceptable for you to be checking your work email at home and therefor working all the time. A sort of manic-ness has set in about communications, and the appropriate duration it should take to connect with someone. (im sure we all know people who send multiple emails an hour when you dont respond, each getting more and more frantic)
- All the tracking and marketing integration which is now considered normal by a large part of the populace.
- Normalized paying for small software applications and tools. Normalized having centralized walled garden managed application "stores" which acceptable and non acceptable content being dictated by for profit corporations.
- Put more screens infront of kids, especially babies and other impressionable youths. And people now think this is acceptable, whereas with television people generally had a negative view of letting their kids be raised by it.
- People tuning out of the real world and into the virtual one more and more, and reinforcing the echo chambers of their own beliefs.
- Websites being ruined to cater to the more monetizable smart phone user who is not anonymous and therefor more valuable to marketers (witness what happened to google news yesterday, RIP)
- Passive tracking and listening devices pretty much on everyone, all the time.
- The waste generated on a grand scale from the planned obsolescence of the designs of these smart phones and the cosntant upgrade cycle. The fragility of the designs, screens and cases which means that phones last only a few years now (whereas my feature phone purchased new in 2006 is still happily making and receiving calls fine, despite the fact that i drop it weekly).
- And the iphone in particular, reinforced apples non standards compliant behaviour. With many instances of them using their large market share to drive technology to their whims.
So in my view, the smart phone trend, while bringing a whole lot of power to peoples pockets, has also started shaping the way people act, behave and even raise the next generations, in ways that many people hadn't considered. People are just happy that they can communicate with friends simply and wherever they are, buy products, and use software tools all very easily and conveniently. The costs always come later after things go too far. Kind of like the windows OS and its relationship to security in the 90s and early aughts. No one considered how running as admin, allowing anything to execute and not having software firewalls would negatively affect people until it was presented to them in the form of hack attacks and exploits galore. I can't even anticipate what shape a public backlash against smart phones would take, but it would make for some interesting sci-fi for sure.
(star trek did kind of do a good job predicting how i feel about the smart phone revolution in the TNG episode "the game", which is what i always think of when i enter a room, or subway car, and everyone is on their phone)
I for one am glad it is. We need to reduce consumption and materialism first and foremost. This is quite often driven by 'for profit' capitalism, so its no surprise that the road eventually leads to a redistribution of wealth. This is not a bad thing. There is no reason with all the abundance in the world, that some people should be "richer" than others simply because of where or in what circumstances they were born (that they obviously cannot control).
So whats wrong with that? You being from a privileged country want to maintain your "standard of living" at all costs. And you think this should trump environmental issues that affect the entire planet.
So your not a denier, your just selfish and entitled. Well too bad, because the rest of the world wants to live like that too, and its america's shitty example that will kill the entire planet when all the other countries want a detached house, a car and oodles of luxury goods. American marketing and brainwashing has refocused the issue from what people need to what people want, which is kind of the origins of this whole mess we are in. (if for instance, we lived by the values of indigenous peoples, where there was very little waste and people lived off the land, we might have very different societal priorities now).
If we really want to solve this climate change problem, we are going to have to go to a world government sooner or later. And that means giving up a whole host of "american values" along with it. The alternative is death, not just for you and me and our families, but for most of the organisms on this planet.
If you really think that "redistribution of wealth" is so horrible that it is worth avoiding at even the terminal costs to the biosphere, i would invite you to look at your own history. You would see that "redistribution of wealth" both through the use of slaves to build your country, and the colonies seceding from england, kind of made your country what it is today.
You've got yours jack, and you'll see the whole world burn before giving up any of it. Does that about sum up your position?
Exactly. Anyone who wakes up at 6am or before on weekends knows that before 10am all shopping is luxurious! I realized that after I had kids and never ever shop after 10am anymore.
Week nights after 9pm are also nice, but lots of single people at that time. At 7am there are lots of old people who move slow, but they aren't on their phones and absentminded like the singles in the evenings.
Its all about timing.
Here read this:
http://www.newyorker.com/magaz...
TLDR its actually the substance vital wheat gluten which is added to all breads that is the most likely culprit. Perfectly explains the recent rise in this sort of sensitivity. I dont have it myself thank god, as i love all breads.
M$ is not stupid. They read the apple playbook and took a page out of it. All surfaces are not repairable really. You have to send them to microsoft and pay $649. they have a really slick website set up to do this making it a painless process.
I still like my work provided surface because i dont have to pay when it breaks. We have about 10 of the devices and every 6 months or so someone cracks the screen on one costing $649.
Sucks, but they are super useful when you are out and about so its just a cost of doing business for us. Executives love them. Any field tech will probably agree as well.
Have you averaged that out over 100,000 years?
Didn't think so. The waste will be around that long. How many deaths do you think will occur during that time from contaminated ground, air and water?
Offloading the waste onto future generations only makes it cleaner in the present without considering the hundreds of future generations it will affect. All the carbon that coal burning produces will be gone in 10,000 years. Nuclear waste will be around a lot longer than that.
The problem with nuclear power advocates is the problem with most people. They can't picture even 100 years into the future, let alone 10,000 or 100,000 years. Peoples minds are just not designed to think that far ahead. This is the most important thing that nuclear advocates always miss. And they explain it away like "oh well we will figure out what to do with the waste eventually!".
Its the same kind of thinking that got us into this mess in the first place.
Step one is conservation of energy (using less), step two is truly renewable energy development. These are the only ways forward.
Until your voltage regulator starts dying and only gives your equipment 80volts and no one notices the under voltage condition during normal maintenance and testing of the generator.
The facilities maintenance people test the generators monthly, but it was not standard practice to test the voltage every single time the generator was tested.
It is now.
But the point is that systems fail in all sorts of fun ways in the real world. You learn, you change, you adapt, as im sure BA is doing. All it takes is one major incident to stop people from dragging their feet. I'm sure that is occurring now at british airlines.
I think most people long ago outsourced this to the walmarts, costcos and london drugs of the world. The professional photo finishing, printed on their $50k++ machines are far better than what you can print at home. And for 20 cents a print? i really don't see the value of owning an inkjet printer where the cartridges dry out before you can even use all of it. You can send the file digitally to any of the above companies and in most cases have same day or next day prints available in the store. And then you can get those same pictures etched into crystal, or blown up 200% if you want.
It was wrong for slaves to demand to be free?
It was wrong for americans to separate from their UK masters?
It was wrong for whistle-blowers to document and report on NSA spying?
It was wrong for people to be locked up for smoking a plant?
"Crime" merely means breaking the law. Laws are written by man, and man is not perfect and gets it wrong.
Frequently.
I would say you got extremely lucky, drive mostly highway or both. And clearly you dont have experience with a bunch of different cars, otherwise you would know that by 300k plenty of stuff fails, even if its well taken care of. My car just rolled over 200k (about the same age) and both cv shafts failed around 160, power steering hoses failed around 150k (known issue on this model), valve cover gasket, previous owner did calipers at like 90k, and the trunk latch from water ingress. And im sure there are a few more things. Locks go out when people try and steal the car. Mirrors are replaced when people hit me when im parked. and the windsheild has a few rock chips in it. I agree that none are major issues though, so it really depends what you mean. Its more "something" than "nothing". I also live on the west coast so no salt corrosion that would kill any car at around the 10 year mark in the east. Luckily the stock exhaust is stainless steel so it has aged well, but the flexpipe was replaced 10k km ago. The engine also eats oil, about 1L every 2 months. And thats as expected according to the dealership at this age. Parts wear down and tolerances aren't what they used to be.
Im honestly surprised you haven't had to replace even one sensor on a VW of that age. VW is famous for poor electronics. The turbo should fail at some point too with oil leaking into it.
And obviously if your interior is "fine" you dont have kids.
Everyones experience of cars is different. Saying 300k is NOTHING is a bit hyperbolic though. Most cars i have had will not have all factory components after that amount of time. They are beaters exactly as much as the money that is spent on them. Don't fix problems, it becomes a beater. Do cheap hacks, use cheap parts, it becomes a beater. Nothing wrong with that, its extremely hard to actually kill a car if you are willing to replace parts on it. Some manufacturers put really shitty transmissions in their cars though, the escape comes to mind. And i think my transmission doesnt sound the best right now either. Manuals fare better for sure.
In short, there is so much variation in cars, the environmental factors, and how people take care of them to invalidate your claim that people shouldn't have dilapidation at 300k. People are mostly not car people and dont give a fuck about maintenance until something goes *pop*. So your calculation should 100% account for people being "The Average Person" and then it all falls apart.
Revisionist history. Before we even knew the extent of windows spying we had the windows update advisor (GWX) show up in the system tray on everyones windows 7 machine in it seems june 2015 ( https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... ) and a year later, forced it on everyone ( https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... ). That is the day that microsoft lost my confidence that they had worked since windows 95 to build.
You can go read that slashdot article to see the day when everyone lost trust in microsoft, and people started recommending that people deactivate windows updates Very few people mention telemetry. What they do mention is that MS pushed a "security update" that was anything but.
I turned windows updates off that day, but being an industry person, i found a work around that allowed me to keep them on. There was a program quickly developed called GWX blocker or something like that which allowed the gwx framework to be stopped.
So yes, its bad to not run windows updates, but its also 100% microsofts own god damn fault.
Oh get off your high horse. We had a ransomware infect one user and then their network drives last fall. We stopped it within 20 minutes but still the damage was done with 40% of their network drive encrypted. The virus scanner (sophos) didnt catch it, email virus scanner missed it too. Was hand targeted for this one particular employee.
She unfortunately had access to a drive she shouldnt have as well so the attack spread farther than it should have.
We restored from backup and wiped the machine, but it was certainly inconvenient for a few hours for everyone in that department who lost access to their files.
The point is that this can happen to anyone so dont get cocky. Every user has write access to SOME files on the network, that is unavoidable.
I liked this video i saw at a cisco presentation a few weeks back. In theory a good IDS system with integrated agents on the machine and a "nex gen" firewall should halt an attack quickly. But thats a lot of money that many companies won't invest in till its too late.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Yes the oh so open minded conservatives would see right though any trolling attempts on them. Like that obama was not born in the USA, or is a secret muslim.
They would never "over react" and elect some real life troll to be president of their club. Oh no, they are much smarter than that!