Right, nobody cries when the rich man loses a buck, or the strong guy pulls a muscle, or the beautiful person has a zit.
They're in a superior position to the common folk when it comes to X, and when they face a conflict dealing with X, the common folk have less compassion for them. In fact, they often laugh. It's one of those low-level forms irony coupled with schadenfreude where you wouldn't expect the Olympian runner to trip while walking to the fridge.
Not that it really justifies white guys facing racism, but you could field quite a few orchestras full of poor black ladies with tiny violins concerning your problems.
For most, setting aside luck, regardless of what you do, the class you were born in is the class you die in.
I can't bear to think about how horrible your world must be to live in.
No, no, no. You're looking at it all wrong.
Just imagine: No matter how badly you fuck up, daddy's money will always be there to save you from living on the streets.
So go play some Achron, Splunkey, DwarfFortress, X-Com, Slash'em, Dungeon Crawl, Braid, Cortex Command, FTL, Aquaria, Minecraft, Cave Story, Defcon, SpaceChem, or whatever floats your boat. No one is stopping you. But if people enjoy the classics, don't hold that against them.
Don't get me wrong, I understand where you're coming from. I'm kind of a hipster when it comes to Pen&paper RPGs. I enjoy inner-party conflict, sleeper agents, plot twists, revolutionary tactics, and story-based motivators. And all too frequently I see yet-another-angsty-Drow going on a homicidal rampage because he's misunderstood and it makes me throw up a little inside. But I also understand that sometimes it's nice to have a classic dungeon dive with a fighter, rogue, wizard, and a cleric clearing out a death maze with a lich at the end. While it's good to try new things, there's comfort in the known.
Also, no-true-scotsman fallacy. If a nation has a system where the leaders are put into power by the masses, it's a democracy.
Whine all you want about the oddities of the electoral college (and it IS pretty messed up), but people vote and have an influence, no matter how small, over who leads them. If the USA isn't a democracy, what is?
Just to throw something crazy out there: Does the HDD industry need to "thrive"?
How much more storage does the typical user really need? This is similar to the question of how fast of a processor does the typical user need. They've done wonders with HDDs the past and it's been fantastic. But why not shift to solid state? Flash drives can be smaller and store enough information for a lot of uses. Not all, of course, but it'll service most of the consumers' needs.
Can't hard disk drives just be an end-stage commodity where the only competition is on price? Low prices are a good thing for the consumer.
I'm not saying that 1TB aught to be enough digital storage for everyone, but you specifically called out the HDD industry, not digital storage in general. So 1TB hard drives aught to be enough for the typical home user with a desktop, and the rest of the niche HDD markets can go fund their own R&D for higher performance.
Some technologies have limits to their usability. The 3.5" drives may be reaching the point of diminishing returns. It may be time to move on. Like radio, it'll always be there, and there may even be advances, but it won't be hip anymore and it won't make much sense to pour a lot of money into R&D to make it better.
That's, you know, a possibility. There's always the server market.
. . . Damn.
Yeah, I fucked up the order of this one. The Iraq war logs came out 2010, well after we collectively got our shit together.
I guess I have to apologize. The leaks of the war logs didn't cause the anti-war protest. But they most certainly justified it afterwards and helped show that yeah, that was a really stupid thing to do. Also, if McCain had somehow got elected, he would have danced legal circles around the SOFA and we would have stuck around. Come on, you know it. So we ARE out of Iraq because we voted for Obama.
It doesn't matter that it's undefined before getting set by the result of the comparator.
I'm more concerned that "unix" is undeclared as anything. It just sort of shows up in the unneeded ternary operator. It doesn't even get optimized out because n can be input as zero, in which case it gets called on the initial pass. Of course, stoned or sober, Chemisor doesn't validate his input and chokes on negatives.
Spotted all this while hopped up on caffeine as usual, but after having a conniption fit when I saw the goto statement and the label.
It's more analogous to an IRS employee leaking all the corporate tax returns because he can see grievous infractions, is observing their coverup, and suspects widespread systematic corruption.
Which, you know, would probably do the world a whole hell of a lot of good. A lot of companies would take it right in the pants and some officials would get fired, but all in all I think it would be a net gain.
That sort of activities taken by government which put civilian lives at risk should be revealed to civilians if civilians have the power to put an end to it
Dude, the war became unpopular and we voted for a guy that would get us out. We specifically didn't vote for the guy that thought we should stick around for a hundred years.
the first problem being if you do leak as a whistleblower to protect civilians you gotta leak in a way which doesn't help any rival government.
Right, which is why he got someone to filter it all. Wikileaks took FOREVER shifting through that massive dump to keep important information from getting out. Spies names, and such. But anything that shows our government doing anything negative could be considered to "help any rival government".
The other problem is even if you leak those things it doesn't mean there is anything that can be accomplished by leaking to the public rather than to law enforcement
Well we certainly don't trust our government and megacorps to be benevolent as they say they are. This sort of thing is obvious to the people who have been claiming infractions for years, but it fell on deaf ears because there wasn't much proof. Oh look.
This sort of thing incrementally sways the political disposition of the masses. And it's had an effect.
Also, we got the fuck out of Iraq. (And should probably do the same for Afghanistan)
Clearly the military isn't withholding much, if anything
Clearly the military HAS WITHELD information. Damning information. Information that would have made the war less popular, removed support, and ultimately caused us pull out and end the occupation. Oh look. That happened. We even
voted in a guy with that platform and didn't vote for the guy who wanted us to stick around getting shot at.
But hey, I think I get what you're saying. The military isn't withholding information from the government. Yeah, that's probably more or less true. But the people would still like to know. You know, since this is a democracy, we're supposed to be the ultimate political masters here.
I suspect the military may have some views on the matter of being told to leave people unsupported in battle.
Depends on who and what sort of battle. I don't think our ground pounders cared two bits about keeping neighbors from killing each other in Iraq during the rampant sectarian violence. Maybe the generals did, but they weren't the ones catching lead. None of them probably care enough about women's rights to keep the Taliban from being popular though.
lead to the military simply ignoring the civilian government... Having an administration that believes they can direct the military to "stand down" in the face of an armed enemy can certainly bring that about.
Well they didn't in Vietnam. We left and stopped a horrible clusterfuck of death and violence. Sadly, the north killed a whole hell of a lot of people when they invaded. That sectarian violence is a bitch isn't it? But after that the place largely got their shit in order. In short, the west propping up a regime that had no other support was a really bad idea. And stopping it was largely a success story of the peacenick hippies. Peace out dude.
in the new spirit of there not being any more terrorism in the world, at least there isn't if we do not call it terrorism
Dude, for a while there EVERYTHING was terrorism. Donating money to someone who knew someone who talked like a terrorist was terrorism. Suggesting that we should stop killing random people in the desert was terrorism. Trying to have a discussion about the definition of terrorism would get you suspected of terrorism. If that's swinging back to the region of sanity, it's a good thing.
Bradley Manning's "revelations" might have surprised some people, but clearly it did not surprise most people in governments around the world.
Oh, when you air their dirty laundry they are most certainly surprised. They never really expect to have to answer for their crimes.
Uh... ok. So you your medical records are encrypted. Where do you want them stored? Say you get in a car accident and you're rushed to the ER. Presumably, you want the hospital to store your medical records so the ambulance doesn't have to swing by your house on the way.
Who has the key?
The hospital, right? Because the doctors need actually see your medical records so they know that you're AB+ and allergic to nut-based insulin. That's kinda the whole point of medical records.
(Please let me know if I got any of the above assumptions incorrect)
Now lemme get this straight. You want your medical records securely encrypted in a database they can access at the hospital... and the hospital can also access the key to decrypt it.... And you think this is safe?
Realize that if you start to talk about who can access what keys, or how long they can view your records, or anything to track who is doing what with what info, you're now talking about DRM. These are your records, you want certain other people to be able to use them at certain times for certain purposes. And you want to be secure that no-one else will be able to access these records. You have a right to privacy. And you want that to managed. DRM.
Encryption is not the magical silver bullet wielded by fairies to kill unicorns. DRM is not inherently evil. (However, DRM is inherently broken. If you want doctors to be able to access your medical records, you must, to some extent, trust your doctor.)
Coincidentally, the TV series ran from November 6, 2001 to May 24, 2010.
Now... let's see... How did the political landscape change during that time. Hmmm...
I feel there was some sort of shift in power. Some sort of fundamental change in focus. A target demographic finally getting a gripe and coming to the realization that the guy they were standing behind is royally fucking shit up. Or, at the very least, a writer or two in the depths of Hollywood seemed to think so.
Wow, 192 episodes and eight seasons... That's like... one hell of a bad week.
anything that helps people particularly kids gain a better understanding of the physical world deserves to be promoted.
Hell, forget the kids, I've contemplated making games with relativistic effects (albeit more of a Asteroids clone) and I never considered that the Doppler effect would shift non-visible spectrums into something we could see.
Headaches and puking your guts out. A not-often explored side effect of fantastical super powers. (But props to Watchmen for vomit-inducing teleportation.)
... well there are 4,400 sworn officers with 87 offices filled with god-knows how many employees. Statistically speaking, there's bound to be gamers amongst that group. And there's a chance that they play WoW. And if there's any sense of humor in this world I'd say that SOMEONE of that subset needs to start doing some virtual bodyguard service.
And you'd be right if this was an argument where we were trying to talk sense into this isotope of Phil. But it's not an argument. It's a debate in a public forum. One guy says something, the other guy disagrees, the wisdom of the crowd votes one up and one down. The rest of us are informed about which idea is crazy and which is rooted in sanity, and the masses are better off for it.
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I think you failing to understand the purpose of an imagination.
Right, nobody cries when the rich man loses a buck, or the strong guy pulls a muscle, or the beautiful person has a zit.
They're in a superior position to the common folk when it comes to X, and when they face a conflict dealing with X, the common folk have less compassion for them. In fact, they often laugh. It's one of those low-level forms irony coupled with schadenfreude where you wouldn't expect the Olympian runner to trip while walking to the fridge.
Not that it really justifies white guys facing racism, but you could field quite a few orchestras full of poor black ladies with tiny violins concerning your problems.
For most, setting aside luck, regardless of what you do, the class you were born in is the class you die in.
I can't bear to think about how horrible your world must be to live in.
No, no, no. You're looking at it all wrong.
Just imagine: No matter how badly you fuck up, daddy's money will always be there to save you from living on the streets.
You self-identify as "a consumer".
You "follow brands" on facebook.
Please kindly go die in a fire. (You can run all the way there if you want).
So go play some Achron, Splunkey, DwarfFortress, X-Com, Slash'em, Dungeon Crawl, Braid, Cortex Command, FTL, Aquaria, Minecraft, Cave Story, Defcon, SpaceChem, or whatever floats your boat. No one is stopping you. But if people enjoy the classics, don't hold that against them.
Don't get me wrong, I understand where you're coming from. I'm kind of a hipster when it comes to Pen&paper RPGs. I enjoy inner-party conflict, sleeper agents, plot twists, revolutionary tactics, and story-based motivators. And all too frequently I see yet-another-angsty-Drow going on a homicidal rampage because he's misunderstood and it makes me throw up a little inside. But I also understand that sometimes it's nice to have a classic dungeon dive with a fighter, rogue, wizard, and a cleric clearing out a death maze with a lich at the end. While it's good to try new things, there's comfort in the known.
The United States is not a democracy.
But we ARE democratic.
Also, no-true-scotsman fallacy. If a nation has a system where the leaders are put into power by the masses, it's a democracy.
Whine all you want about the oddities of the electoral college (and it IS pretty messed up), but people vote and have an influence, no matter how small, over who leads them. If the USA isn't a democracy, what is?
Just to throw something crazy out there: Does the HDD industry need to "thrive"?
How much more storage does the typical user really need? This is similar to the question of how fast of a processor does the typical user need. They've done wonders with HDDs the past and it's been fantastic. But why not shift to solid state? Flash drives can be smaller and store enough information for a lot of uses. Not all, of course, but it'll service most of the consumers' needs.
Can't hard disk drives just be an end-stage commodity where the only competition is on price? Low prices are a good thing for the consumer.
I'm not saying that 1TB aught to be enough digital storage for everyone, but you specifically called out the HDD industry, not digital storage in general. So 1TB hard drives aught to be enough for the typical home user with a desktop, and the rest of the niche HDD markets can go fund their own R&D for higher performance.
Some technologies have limits to their usability. The 3.5" drives may be reaching the point of diminishing returns. It may be time to move on. Like radio, it'll always be there, and there may even be advances, but it won't be hip anymore and it won't make much sense to pour a lot of money into R&D to make it better.
That's, you know, a possibility. There's always the server market.
. . . Damn.
Yeah, I fucked up the order of this one. The Iraq war logs came out 2010, well after we collectively got our shit together.
I guess I have to apologize. The leaks of the war logs didn't cause the anti-war protest. But they most certainly justified it afterwards and helped show that yeah, that was a really stupid thing to do.
Also, if McCain had somehow got elected, he would have danced legal circles around the SOFA and we would have stuck around. Come on, you know it. So we ARE out of Iraq because we voted for Obama.
It doesn't matter that it's undefined before getting set by the result of the comparator.
I'm more concerned that "unix" is undeclared as anything. It just sort of shows up in the unneeded ternary operator. It doesn't even get optimized out because n can be input as zero, in which case it gets called on the initial pass. Of course, stoned or sober, Chemisor doesn't validate his input and chokes on negatives.
Spotted all this while hopped up on caffeine as usual, but after having a conniption fit when I saw the goto statement and the label.
A spy has no human rights
False. Everyone has human rights at all times. Anyone violating those rights deserves to be punished. Anyone.
It's more analogous to an IRS employee leaking all the corporate tax returns because he can see grievous infractions, is observing their coverup, and suspects widespread systematic corruption.
Which, you know, would probably do the world a whole hell of a lot of good. A lot of companies would take it right in the pants and some officials would get fired, but all in all I think it would be a net gain.
That sort of activities taken by government which put civilian lives at risk should be revealed to civilians if civilians have the power to put an end to it
Dude, the war became unpopular and we voted for a guy that would get us out. We specifically didn't vote for the guy that thought we should stick around for a hundred years.
the first problem being if you do leak as a whistleblower to protect civilians you gotta leak in a way which doesn't help any rival government.
Right, which is why he got someone to filter it all. Wikileaks took FOREVER shifting through that massive dump to keep important information from getting out. Spies names, and such. But anything that shows our government doing anything negative could be considered to "help any rival government".
The other problem is even if you leak those things it doesn't mean there is anything that can be accomplished by leaking to the public rather than to law enforcement
Well we certainly don't trust our government and megacorps to be benevolent as they say they are. This sort of thing is obvious to the people who have been claiming infractions for years, but it fell on deaf ears because there wasn't much proof. Oh look.
This sort of thing incrementally sways the political disposition of the masses. And it's had an effect.
Also, we got the fuck out of Iraq. (And should probably do the same for Afghanistan)
Clearly the military isn't withholding much, if anything
Clearly the military HAS WITHELD information. Damning information. Information that would have made the war less popular, removed support, and ultimately caused us pull out and end the occupation. Oh look. That happened. We even voted in a guy with that platform and didn't vote for the guy who wanted us to stick around getting shot at.
But hey, I think I get what you're saying. The military isn't withholding information from the government. Yeah, that's probably more or less true. But the people would still like to know. You know, since this is a democracy, we're supposed to be the ultimate political masters here.
I suspect the military may have some views on the matter of being told to leave people unsupported in battle.
Depends on who and what sort of battle. I don't think our ground pounders cared two bits about keeping neighbors from killing each other in Iraq during the rampant sectarian violence. Maybe the generals did, but they weren't the ones catching lead. None of them probably care enough about women's rights to keep the Taliban from being popular though.
lead to the military simply ignoring the civilian government... Having an administration that believes they can direct the military to "stand down" in the face of an armed enemy can certainly bring that about.
Well they didn't in Vietnam. We left and stopped a horrible clusterfuck of death and violence. Sadly, the north killed a whole hell of a lot of people when they invaded. That sectarian violence is a bitch isn't it? But after that the place largely got their shit in order. In short, the west propping up a regime that had no other support was a really bad idea. And stopping it was largely a success story of the peacenick hippies. Peace out dude.
in the new spirit of there not being any more terrorism in the world, at least there isn't if we do not call it terrorism
Dude, for a while there EVERYTHING was terrorism. Donating money to someone who knew someone who talked like a terrorist was terrorism. Suggesting that we should stop killing random people in the desert was terrorism. Trying to have a discussion about the definition of terrorism would get you suspected of terrorism. If that's swinging back to the region of sanity, it's a good thing.
Bradley Manning's "revelations" might have surprised some people, but clearly it did not surprise most people in governments around the world.
Oh, when you air their dirty laundry they are most certainly surprised. They never really expect to have to answer for their crimes.
and display it, without the user having access to the decrypted content.
The "it" that it's displaying IS the decrypted content. The act of it being displayed IS access.
Uh... ok. So you your medical records are encrypted. Where do you want them stored? Say you get in a car accident and you're rushed to the ER. Presumably, you want the hospital to store your medical records so the ambulance doesn't have to swing by your house on the way.
Who has the key?
The hospital, right? Because the doctors need actually see your medical records so they know that you're AB+ and allergic to nut-based insulin. That's kinda the whole point of medical records.
(Please let me know if I got any of the above assumptions incorrect)
Now lemme get this straight. You want your medical records securely encrypted in a database they can access at the hospital... and the hospital can also access the key to decrypt it.... And you think this is safe?
Realize that if you start to talk about who can access what keys, or how long they can view your records, or anything to track who is doing what with what info, you're now talking about DRM.
These are your records, you want certain other people to be able to use them at certain times for certain purposes. And you want to be secure that no-one else will be able to access these records. You have a right to privacy. And you want that to managed. DRM.
Encryption is not the magical silver bullet wielded by fairies to kill unicorns. DRM is not inherently evil. (However, DRM is inherently broken. If you want doctors to be able to access your medical records, you must, to some extent, trust your doctor.)
Did you know that using the term "Pavlovian" triggers an emotional response? If you did, then why did you use the term?
Coincidentally, the TV series ran from November 6, 2001 to May 24, 2010.
Now... let's see... How did the political landscape change during that time. Hmmm...
I feel there was some sort of shift in power. Some sort of fundamental change in focus. A target demographic finally getting a gripe and coming to the realization that the guy they were standing behind is royally fucking shit up. Or, at the very least, a writer or two in the depths of Hollywood seemed to think so.
Wow, 192 episodes and eight seasons... That's like... one hell of a bad week.
Floating islands?
and DRM-free, too?"
Do you understand what "DRM" and "DRM-free" would equate to when it comes to your medical records?
anything that helps people particularly kids gain a better understanding of the physical world deserves to be promoted.
Hell, forget the kids, I've contemplated making games with relativistic effects (albeit more of a Asteroids clone) and I never considered that the Doppler effect would shift non-visible spectrums into something we could see.
My mind, it's blown.
Headaches and puking your guts out. A not-often explored side effect of fantastical super powers. (But props to Watchmen for vomit-inducing teleportation.)
The people with $11 million dollars can afford the lawyers to kill time in court and outlive their opponents, so no one even tries.
... well there are 4,400 sworn officers with 87 offices filled with god-knows how many employees. Statistically speaking, there's bound to be gamers amongst that group. And there's a chance that they play WoW. And if there's any sense of humor in this world I'd say that SOMEONE of that subset needs to start doing some virtual bodyguard service.
Tell that to the Elephants. Monkeys. Rats. etc.
And you'd be right if this was an argument where we were trying to talk sense into this isotope of Phil. But it's not an argument. It's a debate in a public forum. One guy says something, the other guy disagrees, the wisdom of the crowd votes one up and one down. The rest of us are informed about which idea is crazy and which is rooted in sanity, and the masses are better off for it.