I will never be able to wrap my head around watching someone else play video games. I get how there should be a similarity between that and watching pros play physical sports, but I just can't get over that gap.
I can understand the appeal (under some circumstances) in person. You know the person, are hanging out with them, sharing their excitement, etc.
Watching someone you don't know play though, remotely? Me neither.
you exactly where the crust went, and when, and why.
Because "Snowball Earth" is a better explanation? It sounds like an L. Ron Hubbard novel.
You (collectively) are literally just making stuff up because your version of how things came to be must (in your mind) be true. You are doing that every bit as much as your targets of derision (in your estimation) are doing so.
Since your version of things must be true, therefore, er, something or other must have happened to that whole missing geological layer...
In other words, you're hardly in any position to snark.
Back in June we declared, "Basic income could work -- if you do it Canada style." We talked to the people on the ground getting the checks in Ontario's 4,000-person test and saw how it was changing the community. Then, just two months later, it was announced that the program is ending in the new year rather than running for three years. The last checks will be delivered to participants in March 2019.
Oh. so I guess it can't work if you do it Canada style after all?
The article complains that in addition, Finland's test program ended this year after its initial trial period,
No! Not the nordic paradises too?!?! How could you?
Could it be that maybe, just maybe, there are some actual challenges here, beyond just those obstinate mean old right wingers? Or did obstinate mean old right wingers torpedo it in Canada and Finland, those noted hotbeds of obstinate mean old right wingers?
I think my new year's resolution this year is to ditch the smart phone. I'll buy a printer so the few times that the few times I need directions, I can just print them out. Hells, maybe I'll just buy a used hardware GPS.
I did buy a hardware GPS, but the only way it can get live traffic data is through a smartphone app, lol
Exactly. There's a negative view of using smartphones regardless of how you are using them. If you are sitting quietly reading a paper book or newspaper, people think you're spending quality time. However if you are sitting quietly reading a book or newspaper on your smartphone, they think: "Oh great, he's glued to that thing again". Same if you have a few minutes at the bus stop or on the train. Use your cell phone, and older folks will shake their heads in disapproval. Whip out a book and they'll smile in approval.
Yes, exactly.
I don't think it makes much sense to lump the time I spend on a computer learning a second language in with "screen time" like watching cat videos.
But that aside it shouldn't surprise anyone that capitalism is expanding; it's the best economic system of the alternatives we have. Communism has failed every time it's been attempted.
With apologies to Churchill, it's the worst form of economic organization, except for all the others.
By the way, if you go and search Twitter for #Qanon, you'll find that there are already NYC blue light truthers who are saying this is a message to patriots that the "hot war" is coming and that the acting attorney general (aka "117") is about to unleash holy hell on unbelievers and other liberals. Or, that it's a false flag. I'm not shitting you.
In the earliest moments, hundreds of Twitter users from across the city posted videos of the eerie lights, causing many on social media to fear an alien invasion.
Whew! Good thing it didn't happen near us ignorant rubes out in flyover country. No telling what we might have thought!
Seriously, what we do to all of the Southern continent with our foreign police really pisses me off. We wreck their economies and governments and then we bitch that refugees from the disasters we caused come up her and take our jerbs.
The term "jerbs" is what really pisses me off.
"jerbs" = "someone else's jobs"
When it comes around to your own job though, suddenly people around here don't like the H1B program. Funny, that.
No. Stop living in the desert. The "drought areas" are deserts and have been deserts for thousands of years. Diverting water from one place to another makes it worse.
But, but, "nice weather"!! "Not bad old flyover country!"
Nice weather means clear skies. Without rain. Stop moving to dry areas and then complain that there is no water. Move to Minnesota. Land of 10,000 lakes.
I know, right?
"Our weather is so nice! haha, you idiots in flyover country!"
What are all these wires? What the hell's a mouse? How do I windows?
Hmm, that's your two word out of context quote. But then there's what she actually wrote:
Why give captive schoolchildren more tech crack inside the classroom? And what is this “personalized learning” mumbo jumbo? That’s what human beings — you know, parents and teachers — are for at home and at school.
She's not calling the tech "mumbo jumbo", she's calling the idea that tech toys are “personalized learning” mumbo jumbo.
You may not agree with that, but your attempt to portray her as someone who doesn't understand the tech even at the level of using a mouse or windows, is just a bald faced lie.
Which is worse than any flaws you think her article has.
TFA was written by Michelle Malkin who is a Filipina-American clone of Ann Coulter.
National Review is an opinion journal, on the right. Think of an analog to something like Mother Jones or The Nation or CNN (ba dum ching) on the Left.
It's writers are no more whatever than similar writers on the left are. You just think that the ones on the left are justified in being that way.
In any case, NR has for quite awhile been thought by harder core conservatives to be a bit squishy and ivory tower (for just one thing, its current editor in chief is pro gay marriage). It's not monolithic in anything, that's for sure.
In long, how about you title opinion pieces accordingly and not pretend they are in any way news. Also, go back to any school you attended and demand a refund, then learn how to write a formal document.
Er, National Review is an opinion journal. Has been for decades, since being founded by William F. Buckley. It's not exactly obscure.
I'm sorry (I guess?) that the crusty old mean fuddy duddies there didn't have a Slashdot welcome mat explaining that.
I see a lot of folks saying a degree ain't worth it, but it always seems to be the kind of folks who don't want to pay for kids to go to school. It's expensive as hell ($140k in my case and I'm cutting corners) so I get where they're coming from, but this is why our country gets flooded with H1-Bs. It lets the companies go to Congress and say "Well, we wanted to hire American, but we just can't find anyone with the _skills_ we need".
No, that's not why our country gets flooded with H1-Bs. A degree doesn't in any way ensure that you have "skills" in C# or C++ or Java.
Our country gets flooded with H1-Bs because RINOs like the H1B pay rate and Democrats like the votes from the H1B and their extended family that they bring along.
Gog, Steam, Origin, Uplay, Battle.net, whatever the heck Bethesda calls theirs and now Epic's. If I got less DRM (especially Denuvo, which has been shown to kill frame times) or better prices maybe. But so far it's just more logins and more hassle. At least with Gog I can save the games to a DVD and be done with it.
That's why I just use GOG and be done with it. DRM free.
If it ain't on there, oh well. Life's too short to mess around with this stuff.
"The Mother looked on proudly as the Father inserted the chip under his newborns skin. After enabling the connection to the laptop, the programming of the child started. Within 10 minutes, the child was fully programmed and was now a full Estonian citizen. On his 17th birthday he would be eligible for ration level B and military service."
Truly a glorious accomplishment.
Meh.
What they are actually doing - as opposed to your dystopian fantasy - is an electronic version of birth certificates and ID cards that is nothing really new, just a new implementation.
It carries its own risks (and benefits), sure, but is nothing like what you are describing.
Do you object to birth certificates and ID cards in general? (Perhaps you do, some do.)
Once they realize what an utterly stupid argument this makes, they turn to the argument of "diversity". Sweden is a less "diverse" country (read: has fewer mooching n*****s) so therefore it magically somehow works.
What's so funny about this smear of yours (apart from it simply being insulting BS) is that your country actually is far less "diverse".
It's not exactly ludicrous to think (or at least consider the possibility) that smaller, more homogeneous societies might be better able to pull off trust-based cooperative arrangements and schemes.
Nor is it ludicrous ro realize that when others shoulder the bulk of your geo-scale defense expenses, that you then are free to spend more of your tax money on benefits.
Well, in any case, if you continue your immigration foolishness, you won't be so non-diverse for long (demographic change is fast). The smugness will be evaporating sooner than you think.
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CC Chairman Ajit Pai today thanked Congress for preventing the U.S. government from enforcing net neutrality rules.
No he didn't. That's a ludicrous way of putting it.
Congress didn't "prevent the U.S. government from enforcing net neutrality rules".
Congress was under no obligation to pass a law implementing some past president's policy preferences.
I will never be able to wrap my head around watching someone else play video games. I get how there should be a similarity between that and watching pros play physical sports, but I just can't get over that gap.
I can understand the appeal (under some circumstances) in person. You know the person, are hanging out with them, sharing their excitement, etc.
Watching someone you don't know play though, remotely? Me neither.
you exactly where the crust went, and when, and why.
Because "Snowball Earth" is a better explanation? It sounds like an L. Ron Hubbard novel.
You (collectively) are literally just making stuff up because your version of how things came to be must (in your mind) be true. You are doing that every bit as much as your targets of derision (in your estimation) are doing so.
Since your version of things must be true, therefore, er, something or other must have happened to that whole missing geological layer ...
In other words, you're hardly in any position to snark.
So we can't trust China with a weather app, but nuclear reactors and AI are cool?
Back in June we declared, "Basic income could work -- if you do it Canada style." We talked to the people on the ground getting the checks in Ontario's 4,000-person test and saw how it was changing the community. Then, just two months later, it was announced that the program is ending in the new year rather than running for three years. The last checks will be delivered to participants in March 2019.
Oh. so I guess it can't work if you do it Canada style after all?
The article complains that in addition, Finland's test program ended this year after its initial trial period,
No! Not the nordic paradises too?!?! How could you?
Could it be that maybe, just maybe, there are some actual challenges here, beyond just those obstinate mean old right wingers? Or did obstinate mean old right wingers torpedo it in Canada and Finland, those noted hotbeds of obstinate mean old right wingers?
I think my new year's resolution this year is to ditch the smart phone. I'll buy a printer so the few times that the few times I need directions, I can just print them out. Hells, maybe I'll just buy a used hardware GPS.
I did buy a hardware GPS, but the only way it can get live traffic data is through a smartphone app, lol
Exactly. There's a negative view of using smartphones regardless of how you are using them. If you are sitting quietly reading a paper book or newspaper, people think you're spending quality time. However if you are sitting quietly reading a book or newspaper on your smartphone, they think: "Oh great, he's glued to that thing again". Same if you have a few minutes at the bus stop or on the train. Use your cell phone, and older folks will shake their heads in disapproval. Whip out a book and they'll smile in approval.
Yes, exactly.
I don't think it makes much sense to lump the time I spend on a computer learning a second language in with "screen time" like watching cat videos.
North says in the extra time "he reads many novels and enjoys quiet moments of reflection and watching the world go by."
Well, I read novels on my smartphone, so there ;)
But that aside it shouldn't surprise anyone that capitalism is expanding; it's the best economic system of the alternatives we have. Communism has failed every time it's been attempted.
With apologies to Churchill, it's the worst form of economic organization, except for all the others.
A friend of mine who lives in Astoria posted a video and it looked like some real Ghostbuster shit.
There's a good roundup of videos of this event over on Deadspin.
https://theconcourse.deadspin....
By the way, if you go and search Twitter for #Qanon, you'll find that there are already NYC blue light truthers who are saying this is a message to patriots that the "hot war" is coming and that the acting attorney general (aka "117") is about to unleash holy hell on unbelievers and other liberals. Or, that it's a false flag. I'm not shitting you.
https://twitter.com/travis_vie...
Um, yeah, and the story says that oh so urbane NYC-izens thought it was aliens. I wouldn't get too smug over this, lol
In the earliest moments, hundreds of Twitter users from across the city posted videos of the eerie lights, causing many on social media to fear an alien invasion.
Whew! Good thing it didn't happen near us ignorant rubes out in flyover country. No telling what we might have thought!
Seriously, what we do to all of the Southern continent with our foreign police really pisses me off. We wreck their economies and governments and then we bitch that refugees from the disasters we caused come up her and take our jerbs.
The term "jerbs" is what really pisses me off.
"jerbs" = "someone else's jobs"
When it comes around to your own job though, suddenly people around here don't like the H1B program. Funny, that.
What is new, Leary says, quoting Marxist economic historian Ernest Mandel, is our "belief in the omnipotence of technology" and in experts.
That's new? What were they doing in 1955 then if not having '"belief in the omnipotence of technology" and in experts'?
Or is this some value of "new" that I am not familiar with?
So ... everyone who was upset about the biased NR opinion piece from an opinion journal will be showing up anytime now to complain about this one.
Right? Guys?
No. Stop living in the desert. The "drought areas" are deserts and have been deserts for thousands of years. Diverting water from one place to another makes it worse.
But, but, "nice weather"!! "Not bad old flyover country!"
Nice weather means clear skies. Without rain. Stop moving to dry areas and then complain that there is no water. Move to Minnesota. Land of 10,000 lakes.
I know, right?
"Our weather is so nice! haha, you idiots in flyover country!"
"Er, would you mind sending us some water?"
What are all these wires? What the hell's a mouse? How do I windows?
Hmm, that's your two word out of context quote. But then there's what she actually wrote:
She's not calling the tech "mumbo jumbo", she's calling the idea that tech toys are “personalized learning” mumbo jumbo.
You may not agree with that, but your attempt to portray her as someone who doesn't understand the tech even at the level of using a mouse or windows, is just a bald faced lie.
Which is worse than any flaws you think her article has.
Michelle Malkin and National Review? Thanks msmash
It's no worse than 99% of the political stuff that he posts. It's just from the side you don't like.
TFA was written by Michelle Malkin who is a Filipina-American clone of Ann Coulter.
National Review is an opinion journal, on the right. Think of an analog to something like Mother Jones or The Nation or CNN (ba dum ching) on the Left.
It's writers are no more whatever than similar writers on the left are. You just think that the ones on the left are justified in being that way.
In any case, NR has for quite awhile been thought by harder core conservatives to be a bit squishy and ivory tower (for just one thing, its current editor in chief is pro gay marriage). It's not monolithic in anything, that's for sure.
In short, go back to journalism school.
In long, how about you title opinion pieces accordingly and not pretend they are in any way news. Also, go back to any school you attended and demand a refund, then learn how to write a formal document.
Er, National Review is an opinion journal. Has been for decades, since being founded by William F. Buckley. It's not exactly obscure.
I'm sorry (I guess?) that the crusty old mean fuddy duddies there didn't have a Slashdot welcome mat explaining that.
I see a lot of folks saying a degree ain't worth it, but it always seems to be the kind of folks who don't want to pay for kids to go to school. It's expensive as hell ($140k in my case and I'm cutting corners) so I get where they're coming from, but this is why our country gets flooded with H1-Bs. It lets the companies go to Congress and say "Well, we wanted to hire American, but we just can't find anyone with the _skills_ we need".
No, that's not why our country gets flooded with H1-Bs. A degree doesn't in any way ensure that you have "skills" in C# or C++ or Java.
Our country gets flooded with H1-Bs because RINOs like the H1B pay rate and Democrats like the votes from the H1B and their extended family that they bring along.
Gog, Steam, Origin, Uplay, Battle.net, whatever the heck Bethesda calls theirs and now Epic's. If I got less DRM (especially Denuvo, which has been shown to kill frame times) or better prices maybe. But so far it's just more logins and more hassle. At least with Gog I can save the games to a DVD and be done with it.
That's why I just use GOG and be done with it. DRM free.
If it ain't on there, oh well. Life's too short to mess around with this stuff.
"The Mother looked on proudly as the Father inserted the chip under his newborns skin. After enabling the connection to the laptop, the programming of the child started. Within 10 minutes, the child was fully programmed and was now a full Estonian citizen. On his 17th birthday he would be eligible for ration level B and military service."
Truly a glorious accomplishment.
Meh.
What they are actually doing - as opposed to your dystopian fantasy - is an electronic version of birth certificates and ID cards that is nothing really new, just a new implementation.
It carries its own risks (and benefits), sure, but is nothing like what you are describing.
Do you object to birth certificates and ID cards in general? (Perhaps you do, some do.)
Stuff that I find on Amazon from the 30s and 40s. (Long before my time, for the smart alec whippersnappers out there)
Oh yeah, and some Sherlock Holmes movies in Russian from the 70s. Awesome stuff.
Oh, you meant movies made in 2018? Hmm ...
Once they realize what an utterly stupid argument this makes, they turn to the argument of "diversity". Sweden is a less "diverse" country (read: has fewer mooching n*****s) so therefore it magically somehow works.
What's so funny about this smear of yours (apart from it simply being insulting BS) is that your country actually is far less "diverse".
It's not exactly ludicrous to think (or at least consider the possibility) that smaller, more homogeneous societies might be better able to pull off trust-based cooperative arrangements and schemes.
Nor is it ludicrous ro realize that when others shoulder the bulk of your geo-scale defense expenses, that you then are free to spend more of your tax money on benefits.
Well, in any case, if you continue your immigration foolishness, you won't be so non-diverse for long (demographic change is fast). The smugness will be evaporating sooner than you think.