But who am I kidding? This is the internet, a cesspool of misogynistic assholes. I bet you think that having sex with someone blackout drunk isn't rape either.
Josephus is NOT recognized as a fraud. You're spreading lies. One passage attributed to Josephus is believed to be a forgery, but the others are widely accepted as authentic.
It seems to me that certain (not all) atheists are absolutely desperate for proof that their beliefs are the best beliefs. They will happily dismiss the consensus of experts and misrepresent evidence, so long as it supports their preconceived notions. In a lot of ways, they're akin to the global warming deniers and the anti-vaxxers and the creationists.
As I recall, one of the ladies had consensual sex while insisting that Assange use a condom, and then woke up later that night to find Assange having sex with her without a condom. She had not consented to unprotected sex, which means it was unconsensual (i.e. rape). That is NOT "deciding afterwards that Assange allegedly did not agree to their terms and conditions".
The Swedish systems allows for this, so while it may not be corrupt, its laws are not the same as in the U.S.
Why does that matter? He broke Swedish law while in Sweden. Who gives a shit what the US laws on the topic say?
The government can do whatever it wants until told to stop by someone in a higher position of authority. The only "laws" constraining their actions are the laws of physics. Congress could pass a law tomorrow establishing Zoroastrianism as the state religion, and the Constitution (being just words on a page) wouldn't do shit to stop them. The law would have to be struck down by a court.
Nothing is unconstitutional until a court rules it so.
The things that are Bush's fault 5 years ago are still Bush's fault today. They'll still be Bush's fault in another five years, and in fifty years, and in fifty thousand years. The blame doesn't shift to the new guy just 'cause he's now occupying the same address.
If the Bush administration approved this company for no-bid contracts, how the flying fuck can you try to pin that on Michelle Obama? You think Obama's first act of office should have been to throw out every single piece of paperwork filed from 2001 to 2009, and start it all over from scratch?
You've gotta be kidding me. Drilling high schoolers on fundamentals is "conditioning for subservience"? No, you drill them so that they remember it.
No one, no matter how smart, can learn without practice. You need repetition to convince your brain that the information is worth storing.
Now, maybe you're a special snowflake who studied extra hard and learned the material on his own. But not every student is going to do that, and the teacher has no way of knowing who has really learned the material and who is just faking it to avoid being bothered.
Heck, you might not even really know if you've learned it. You might think you know it, but then you come upon a tricky question and realize there's a gap in your knowledge. It's better to have that happen in a class dedicated to the material, than it is to stumble upon that gap years later when you realize you're the only one in your graduate level engineering course who never really grasped taylor series expansions.
You obviously never worked with government employees. The combination of protected work + low pay does not tend to attract the best and brightest, in my experience.
If we didn't waste so much money on thieving private contractors, maybe there would be more money for salaries to attract the best and brightest.
Yeesh, calm down there little guy. Obviously, you can choose not to use an application for any reason. You can choose not to use the app because squirrels ate the moon, if that happens to be what makes sense in your own mind. But if you're going to post about your decision in public, people might like to know your reasoning. And if your reasoning doesn't hold up to scrutiny, people will say so.
And, by the way, your reasoning doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
Why are you dodging the question? The GP wasn't making one of those fallacious "nothing to hide" arguments. He was correctly pointing out that this test doesn't provide the government with any useful spying information.
It collects your location at the time you run the test (you can uninstall it afterwards), your phone model & carrier info (which they already have easy access to), and... that's it.
I have read the news, and clearly I pay closer attention than you. I repeat: there is no grand conspiracy out to get you. The US government is run by TENS OF THOUSANDS of people, who are often fighting against each other. You think that's all an act? You think that many people, working over so many decades, could pull something like that off without leaks? No. It's not possible.
People are people. Most people think they have good ideas about how to run things. These aren't wannabe tyrants. They legitimately believe their ideas would make life better. You are probably one of these people.
Now, some of those people don't just daydream, they actually try to put their ideas into action. So they get involved. They get on their local school board, or run for mayor, or whatever. If things go well, they try to move up the ladder, to a position where they could spread their good ideas to more people.
At some point, they run into other people, who have different ideas. They argue, and fight, and try to convince the public to side with them. In order to win over the public, they do things that they might not really believe in. And like all people, when they do something they don't believe in, they rationalize it. They convince themselves that it is for the best. You do this too. We all do.
If you can learn to set aside your hatred, and remind yourself that people are people, not comic book villains, the world will make a lot more sense. There's no big evil conspiracy, except within your own imagination.
No, it's not. Don't be stupid. There's no grand conspiracy out to get you. The TSA exists because after 9/11 people demanded that the government do something to make us safer. And so the politicians created this security theater, because it's what the voters wanted.
It's as simple as that. The people want to feel safe, so an organization was created to help them feel safe, even if it doesn't actually make them safe. And contrary to the ravings of the conspiracy theorists, this IS a democracy. The people get what they want, for better or worse.
Did the researchers ever try having someone not on their team pass this test? There's no way anyone could figure out which ink blot is which unless they were involved in the naming process.
Has anyone ever claimed with a straight face that the US has "developed a universal healthcare plan to cure aging and disease"?
I assume you're referring to Obamacare, but even its most strident supporters basically view it as a step in the right direction (i.e. towards single payer). And no one claims single payer (or any other health insurance system) "cures aging" or anything ridiculous like that. Just that's its more cost effective.
There's plenty of ridiculous propaganda employed in the US. Like claiming that the natives didn't understand property so its totally okay that our ancestors stole their land. Or claiming that we saved Europe from two world wars. Or teaching all the evil shit done by the USSR while glossing over what the CIA was doing in that time period.
No need to complain about non-existent propaganda when there's so many real examples. Unless, of course, you were just practicing some propaganda of your own.
I think it's a rather large stretch to say "It's just a happy accident that we've been able to declassify and repurpose much of this for private use." People were working on driverless cars as an obvious next step. DARPA offered some money and clear goals, which might have helped a bit, but I don't believe for a second that that was the primary driver behind this technology.
People give the military way too much credit for fostering new technologies. The only reason so much tech comes from the military is because we dump so much money into it. If we took a tenth of that money and used it for non-violent research grants, I suspect we'd see a much better return on our investment.
The google car for example, is based on technology first developed for DARPA as a way of creating vehicle that could deliver cargo to soldiers in the field.
Do you have a source for this claim? I recall seeing several universities working on self-driving cars for years before Google got involved. It seemed like a pretty obvious direction for the technology to go, given automatic gear shifts, ABS, cruise control, etc.
The FPS per dollar scatter plot on page 9 of the linked article (here) is really telling. There's a surprisingly tight correlation between dollars and FPS for almost all of the cards, and then the GTX Titan is way off in no man's land. Nvidia's going to have to drop the price, unless it's just there to soak up money from people with more dollars than sense.
You realize that they set up the redirect pages ahead of time, right? Just like the guy who turns off the lights does it while still on the clock, before actually punching out.
It's kind of funny that you right-wingers were DEMANDING that we not pay our bills, but are simultaneously outraged that we would shut off some government services.
I asked if you stood by your claim that this man is subhuman. It's apparent now that you have no intention of answering one way or the other, so I'll stop asking.
I really do hope that you think about what you're becoming. Such a cavalier disregard for the lives of people viewed as "other" is at the core of many atrocities, large and small. Just stop and think, next time you're about to dehumanize someone.
Since you've talked with me this long, I'm sure you want the last word. If so, go ahead and take it.
You're just deflecting now. A man died and you went out of your way to refer to him as subhuman.
Exercise your empathy muscle. Think about this man's family, his friends. Think of the blood pouring out of him as he prays, "Please God, just let me see my wife one last time."
Think about that, and try to remember that even people who disagree with you are still people.
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Rape by deception is still rape.
But who am I kidding? This is the internet, a cesspool of misogynistic assholes. I bet you think that having sex with someone blackout drunk isn't rape either.
Josephus is NOT recognized as a fraud. You're spreading lies. One passage attributed to Josephus is believed to be a forgery, but the others are widely accepted as authentic.
It seems to me that certain (not all) atheists are absolutely desperate for proof that their beliefs are the best beliefs. They will happily dismiss the consensus of experts and misrepresent evidence, so long as it supports their preconceived notions. In a lot of ways, they're akin to the global warming deniers and the anti-vaxxers and the creationists.
As I recall, one of the ladies had consensual sex while insisting that Assange use a condom, and then woke up later that night to find Assange having sex with her without a condom. She had not consented to unprotected sex, which means it was unconsensual (i.e. rape). That is NOT "deciding afterwards that Assange allegedly did not agree to their terms and conditions".
The Swedish systems allows for this, so while it may not be corrupt, its laws are not the same as in the U.S.
Why does that matter? He broke Swedish law while in Sweden. Who gives a shit what the US laws on the topic say?
Okay, you're wrong.
The government can do whatever it wants until told to stop by someone in a higher position of authority. The only "laws" constraining their actions are the laws of physics. Congress could pass a law tomorrow establishing Zoroastrianism as the state religion, and the Constitution (being just words on a page) wouldn't do shit to stop them. The law would have to be struck down by a court.
Nothing is unconstitutional until a court rules it so.
How else could it possibly work?
This is such an inane line of reasoning.
The things that are Bush's fault 5 years ago are still Bush's fault today. They'll still be Bush's fault in another five years, and in fifty years, and in fifty thousand years. The blame doesn't shift to the new guy just 'cause he's now occupying the same address.
If the Bush administration approved this company for no-bid contracts, how the flying fuck can you try to pin that on Michelle Obama? You think Obama's first act of office should have been to throw out every single piece of paperwork filed from 2001 to 2009, and start it all over from scratch?
You've gotta be kidding me. Drilling high schoolers on fundamentals is "conditioning for subservience"? No, you drill them so that they remember it.
No one, no matter how smart, can learn without practice. You need repetition to convince your brain that the information is worth storing.
Now, maybe you're a special snowflake who studied extra hard and learned the material on his own. But not every student is going to do that, and the teacher has no way of knowing who has really learned the material and who is just faking it to avoid being bothered.
Heck, you might not even really know if you've learned it. You might think you know it, but then you come upon a tricky question and realize there's a gap in your knowledge. It's better to have that happen in a class dedicated to the material, than it is to stumble upon that gap years later when you realize you're the only one in your graduate level engineering course who never really grasped taylor series expansions.
You obviously never worked with government employees. The combination of protected work + low pay does not tend to attract the best and brightest, in my experience.
If we didn't waste so much money on thieving private contractors, maybe there would be more money for salaries to attract the best and brightest.
Yeesh, calm down there little guy. Obviously, you can choose not to use an application for any reason. You can choose not to use the app because squirrels ate the moon, if that happens to be what makes sense in your own mind. But if you're going to post about your decision in public, people might like to know your reasoning. And if your reasoning doesn't hold up to scrutiny, people will say so.
And, by the way, your reasoning doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
If you download it, run it once, and delete it: a little under 30 MB.
Why are you dodging the question? The GP wasn't making one of those fallacious "nothing to hide" arguments. He was correctly pointing out that this test doesn't provide the government with any useful spying information.
It collects your location at the time you run the test (you can uninstall it afterwards), your phone model & carrier info (which they already have easy access to), and... that's it.
So again, what exactly are you afraid of?
I have read the news, and clearly I pay closer attention than you. I repeat: there is no grand conspiracy out to get you. The US government is run by TENS OF THOUSANDS of people, who are often fighting against each other. You think that's all an act? You think that many people, working over so many decades, could pull something like that off without leaks? No. It's not possible.
People are people. Most people think they have good ideas about how to run things. These aren't wannabe tyrants. They legitimately believe their ideas would make life better. You are probably one of these people.
Now, some of those people don't just daydream, they actually try to put their ideas into action. So they get involved. They get on their local school board, or run for mayor, or whatever. If things go well, they try to move up the ladder, to a position where they could spread their good ideas to more people.
At some point, they run into other people, who have different ideas. They argue, and fight, and try to convince the public to side with them. In order to win over the public, they do things that they might not really believe in. And like all people, when they do something they don't believe in, they rationalize it. They convince themselves that it is for the best. You do this too. We all do.
If you can learn to set aside your hatred, and remind yourself that people are people, not comic book villains, the world will make a lot more sense. There's no big evil conspiracy, except within your own imagination.
No, it's not. Don't be stupid. There's no grand conspiracy out to get you. The TSA exists because after 9/11 people demanded that the government do something to make us safer. And so the politicians created this security theater, because it's what the voters wanted.
And they still do want it, as the TSA gets excellent approval ratings. They don't know or care that it's just theater, they just want to feel safe.
It's as simple as that. The people want to feel safe, so an organization was created to help them feel safe, even if it doesn't actually make them safe. And contrary to the ravings of the conspiracy theorists, this IS a democracy. The people get what they want, for better or worse.
You're handwaving the only challenging part of the design. Are you just joking around or something? If so, your humor is way to subtle.
Where does the salt go?
Did the researchers ever try having someone not on their team pass this test? There's no way anyone could figure out which ink blot is which unless they were involved in the naming process.
Has anyone ever claimed with a straight face that the US has "developed a universal healthcare plan to cure aging and disease"?
I assume you're referring to Obamacare, but even its most strident supporters basically view it as a step in the right direction (i.e. towards single payer). And no one claims single payer (or any other health insurance system) "cures aging" or anything ridiculous like that. Just that's its more cost effective.
There's plenty of ridiculous propaganda employed in the US. Like claiming that the natives didn't understand property so its totally okay that our ancestors stole their land. Or claiming that we saved Europe from two world wars. Or teaching all the evil shit done by the USSR while glossing over what the CIA was doing in that time period.
No need to complain about non-existent propaganda when there's so many real examples. Unless, of course, you were just practicing some propaganda of your own.
I think it's a rather large stretch to say "It's just a happy accident that we've been able to declassify and repurpose much of this for private use." People were working on driverless cars as an obvious next step. DARPA offered some money and clear goals, which might have helped a bit, but I don't believe for a second that that was the primary driver behind this technology.
People give the military way too much credit for fostering new technologies. The only reason so much tech comes from the military is because we dump so much money into it. If we took a tenth of that money and used it for non-violent research grants, I suspect we'd see a much better return on our investment.
The google car for example, is based on technology first developed for DARPA as a way of creating vehicle that could deliver cargo to soldiers in the field.
Do you have a source for this claim? I recall seeing several universities working on self-driving cars for years before Google got involved. It seemed like a pretty obvious direction for the technology to go, given automatic gear shifts, ABS, cruise control, etc.
The FPS per dollar scatter plot on page 9 of the linked article (here) is really telling. There's a surprisingly tight correlation between dollars and FPS for almost all of the cards, and then the GTX Titan is way off in no man's land. Nvidia's going to have to drop the price, unless it's just there to soak up money from people with more dollars than sense.
You realize that they set up the redirect pages ahead of time, right? Just like the guy who turns off the lights does it while still on the clock, before actually punching out.
It's kind of funny that you right-wingers were DEMANDING that we not pay our bills, but are simultaneously outraged that we would shut off some government services.
It's not hard to redirect to a static page. It's equivalent to turning out the lights before leaving the building.
Several weeks, maybe even months. Mostly because you won't be able to turn it on.
Q11 is not fine. The question was:
"There are seven balloons in total. Two are red. How many are not red?"
The spot for the answer has ___ + ___ = ___
The question is asking a subtraction problem, but has an addition sign in the space for the answer. That could be confusing for a five year old.
I asked if you stood by your claim that this man is subhuman. It's apparent now that you have no intention of answering one way or the other, so I'll stop asking.
I really do hope that you think about what you're becoming. Such a cavalier disregard for the lives of people viewed as "other" is at the core of many atrocities, large and small. Just stop and think, next time you're about to dehumanize someone.
Since you've talked with me this long, I'm sure you want the last word. If so, go ahead and take it.
You're just deflecting now. A man died and you went out of your way to refer to him as subhuman.
Exercise your empathy muscle. Think about this man's family, his friends. Think of the blood pouring out of him as he prays, "Please God, just let me see my wife one last time."
Think about that, and try to remember that even people who disagree with you are still people.