The logical conclusion based on no available evidence for or against is "I don't know. Maybe. It's possible".
This is not the perspective of an atheist. If you really want to defend you stance as "a product of common sense", pledge agnostic.
I think you're mistaking atheism for agnosticism.
Atheists believe in the absense of a divine power. They often believe that anyone religious is delusional, and that science will, ultimately, allow us to copy any phenomenon witnessed in nature.
"Located 22 light years from us, the best known candidate for supporting life is 4.5 times the mass of Earth, although that's probably wrong, and the chemical composition of the system does not support life as we know it."
Isn't the main problem with ACTA that it's surrounded by so much secrecy that most people in fact do not know what it is, and as a consequence actually ARE manipulated young idiots who don't even know what they are protesting?
Lumberjacks don't need to estimate costs for extracting wood based on variables such as wages and fuel and access distance?
casino dealers/chefs/cashiers don't need to deal with resource scheduling. etc
If you're a manager employing any range of employees from this range of occupations, you're likely to have a use for some sort of data juggling tools. However, there'll be a bunch of chefs who cook what they're told to cook, lumberjacks who cut down the trees they're told to cut down, and casino dealers who deals the cards they're told to deal (and they're not gonna consult a spreadsheet every time they have to pay out someones winnings).
It really feels like the slashdot crowd is forgetting the vast amount of manual labor required for the rest of us to be able to employ ourselves with creating the data-juggling tools allowing *managers* to optimize their departments of manual workers. You all realize that there are still people working at assembly lines?
Granted, if you feel that creating a spreadsheet to keep overview of your budget requires "fundamental programming knowledge", then this does come in handy for pretty much anyone. I would think it was covered by basic math and computer literacy though.
There's nothing wrong with giving basic programming skills to everyone. There's also nothing wrong with giving basic carpentry skills to everyone, but there'lll still be a large portion of people who will just "call the guy" whenever they need some woodwork done. I'm a fan of diversity. I believe a society where a carpenter is a man who devoted his time to carpenting produce better woodwork than a society where a carpenter is an all-round guy who spend more time on carpenting than he did on coding.
How are such skills even *remotely* useful to peple such as lumberjacks, casino dealers, chefs, cashiers, clothing designers or nurses?
Also, notice how little these occupations have in common, except the complete lack of anything that would be aided by programming skills. I'm sure I could add another 100 occupations to that list if I really wanted, and I'm quite confident that the numer of individuals employed in such an occupation greatly outnumbers programmers.
A large part of the general population has absolutely nothing to gain by knowing how to program. Not everyone needs to solve problems that can be reduced to data.
I AM a programmer, but any code done while not at work is for my own amusement. Knowing programming on a professional level doesn't help me solve ANY day-to-day problems, other than those presented to me by my employer.
If I was employed with manual labor, as I assume is the case of the majority of planet Earth's total workforce, my programming skills would be reduced to a hobby with no practical value.
Problems that can be solved by knowing how to code has already been solved much better than Average Joe will ever be able to, no matter how solid an understanding of the C syntax he would develop. Making everyone reinvent the wheel, just so they can put their hypothetical common-place programming skills to some use would be a major time sink.
You're not gonna have the actual fucking voters provide you with the financial means required to launch a campaign that could make the actual fucking voters aware that you're actually listening to them.
If you like going to job interviews just for kicks, but don't really need a job, those are some pretty brilliant ideas.
If you actually want a job - no, those are not the best asnwers.
The bible player a major role in shaping what you today refer to as "common sense". You might think you don't need Jesus to tell you not to kill and steal and rape, but the world was a very different place 2000 years ago. What changed meanwhile?
Comitting to the belief that the son of God once walked upon our earth is slightly different from assuming a title that suggests you yourself is an adept in using the force.
Yes there is. They don't have anything significant in common, so I really can't be bothered to provide an actual argument against your point of view, unless you provide an argument for it. But rest assured, you're wrong.
tbh, whether or not the use of the word "state" in the summary is accurate, there would not have been a single objection if it had been replaced by "country".
A lot of us europeans are very conscious about the differences between the EU and the USA. Whether techincally correct or not, we don't trust the average american to understand the difference when they decide to refer to our contries as states.
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The logical conclusion based on no available evidence for or against is "I don't know. Maybe. It's possible".
This is not the perspective of an atheist. If you really want to defend you stance as "a product of common sense", pledge agnostic.
I think you're mistaking atheism for agnosticism.
Atheists believe in the absense of a divine power. They often believe that anyone religious is delusional, and that science will, ultimately, allow us to copy any phenomenon witnessed in nature.
You clearly don't know british politics.
Every piece of hardware can be reduced to formations of physical matter, which isn't patentable.
So, TFS should read something like:
"Located 22 light years from us, the best known candidate for supporting life is 4.5 times the mass of Earth, although that's probably wrong, and the chemical composition of the system does not support life as we know it."
That about right?
Isn't this EXACTLY the kind of issues you could hope to avoid by having a locked down Apple-controlled marketplace?
I snapped together 3 Lego bricks and made a functional model of a larger Lego brick.
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Isn't the main problem with ACTA that it's surrounded by so much secrecy that most people in fact do not know what it is, and as a consequence actually ARE manipulated young idiots who don't even know what they are protesting?
Exactly. My first thought was "Finally we have a politician worth his salt, and then he quits".
Lumberjacks don't need to estimate costs for extracting wood based on variables such as wages and fuel and access distance? casino dealers/chefs/cashiers don't need to deal with resource scheduling. etc
If you're a manager employing any range of employees from this range of occupations, you're likely to have a use for some sort of data juggling tools. However, there'll be a bunch of chefs who cook what they're told to cook, lumberjacks who cut down the trees they're told to cut down, and casino dealers who deals the cards they're told to deal (and they're not gonna consult a spreadsheet every time they have to pay out someones winnings).
It really feels like the slashdot crowd is forgetting the vast amount of manual labor required for the rest of us to be able to employ ourselves with creating the data-juggling tools allowing *managers* to optimize their departments of manual workers. You all realize that there are still people working at assembly lines?
Granted, if you feel that creating a spreadsheet to keep overview of your budget requires "fundamental programming knowledge", then this does come in handy for pretty much anyone. I would think it was covered by basic math and computer literacy though.
There's nothing wrong with giving basic programming skills to everyone. There's also nothing wrong with giving basic carpentry skills to everyone, but there'lll still be a large portion of people who will just "call the guy" whenever they need some woodwork done. I'm a fan of diversity. I believe a society where a carpenter is a man who devoted his time to carpenting produce better woodwork than a society where a carpenter is an all-round guy who spend more time on carpenting than he did on coding.
How are such skills even *remotely* useful to peple such as lumberjacks, casino dealers, chefs, cashiers, clothing designers or nurses?
Also, notice how little these occupations have in common, except the complete lack of anything that would be aided by programming skills. I'm sure I could add another 100 occupations to that list if I really wanted, and I'm quite confident that the numer of individuals employed in such an occupation greatly outnumbers programmers.
A large part of the general population has absolutely nothing to gain by knowing how to program. Not everyone needs to solve problems that can be reduced to data.
I AM a programmer, but any code done while not at work is for my own amusement. Knowing programming on a professional level doesn't help me solve ANY day-to-day problems, other than those presented to me by my employer.
If I was employed with manual labor, as I assume is the case of the majority of planet Earth's total workforce, my programming skills would be reduced to a hobby with no practical value.
Problems that can be solved by knowing how to code has already been solved much better than Average Joe will ever be able to, no matter how solid an understanding of the C syntax he would develop. Making everyone reinvent the wheel, just so they can put their hypothetical common-place programming skills to some use would be a major time sink.
You're not gonna have the actual fucking voters provide you with the financial means required to launch a campaign that could make the actual fucking voters aware that you're actually listening to them.
lol. A simple indisputable fact about Google, in a discussion about Google, is stated, and suddently the poster is a Microsoft shill?
"They" are part of "the market", so how is this different from what's happening?
If you like going to job interviews just for kicks, but don't really need a job, those are some pretty brilliant ideas.
If you actually want a job - no, those are not the best asnwers.
And which one of these is it you're considering to be "high cost"?
So you say. However, you'd quickly realize that at the heart of the persistant online world lies a shit game, and then you'd stop playing again.
The bible player a major role in shaping what you today refer to as "common sense". You might think you don't need Jesus to tell you not to kill and steal and rape, but the world was a very different place 2000 years ago. What changed meanwhile?
Comitting to the belief that the son of God once walked upon our earth is slightly different from assuming a title that suggests you yourself is an adept in using the force.
Yes there is. They don't have anything significant in common, so I really can't be bothered to provide an actual argument against your point of view, unless you provide an argument for it. But rest assured, you're wrong.
That's a pretty big "if" right there. Of course, a jedi could kill you in a hundred different ways "if" they actually were able to control the force.
tbh, whether or not the use of the word "state" in the summary is accurate, there would not have been a single objection if it had been replaced by "country".
A lot of us europeans are very conscious about the differences between the EU and the USA. Whether techincally correct or not, we don't trust the average american to understand the difference when they decide to refer to our contries as states.
No, they're not. A couple of politcians would like them to, though.