https://xkcd.com/1357
Try to pull your head out of your ass and learn something before engaging your bullshit.
And if Facebook, et al want to honestly present themselves as SJW Central, great. Make the chamber as echo-y as you want.
But if they want to present themselves as just places where pretty much anybody can sign up and post stuff, and then do a bunch of biased banning, not so much.
Yeah, they can do it (probably - but we can force people to bake a cake expressing opinions that they don't like??), but I am going to call them dishonest jerks for it.
An honest effort to fight foreign state influence would be fine, I suppose, but as we know, this is being used as a Trojan horse for the tech executives to simply further their own political predilections.
(Also, if our elections could truly be determined by Facebook ads and tweets, we would be doomed anyway.)
1. I always know who invited me, because they sent the invitation. If they aren't leading the meeting, then they tell me so.
2. Good meeting software is web based and it does indicate who is speaking. Granted, if some people are sharing a conference room, then we don't have a visual indication which one of their group is speaking, but if they aren't people we usually deal with then we wouldn't know them by sight anyway. In practice it's not a significant problem.
The battery was reinvented, due to it's first development, in what is now modern day Iran, being lost over time. The antenna, however, has not been forgotten so could not have been "reinvented". Redesigned, perhaps, or a new type of antenna may have been invented, but the antenna on my roof is still there, and is still a variation of the first dipole antenna invented by Heinrich Hertz. This seems to be a variation of the phased array, just on a molecular scale, who's development has been filtered through the marketing department.
It's become a fairly common usage now.
If someone is said to have "reinvented" the sitcom, it doesn't mean (despite evidence to the contrary, badum ching) that we have forgotten how to make sitcoms. It means that someone has come up with a radical new version of the type.
.. like 90% of the channels you can tell people of low education and people who are young tend to be moderators. AKA people with lots of free time.
The reason reddit is so popular because it is a confirmation bias wonderland for people who are not very bright and that is most of our species. So reddit is a wonderland of egoboost for the none too bright and uninformed. It's just 100% drama generating machine between the informed, uninformed, young and old and it has to do with the karma and moderation system. Reddit is just one monkey ego war where opinions no matter how dumb are fought and defended by drive by upvoting and downvoting of whatever subgroup is most dominant on the sub unfortunately for our species.
The whole thing thrives off putting people of various ages and education backgrounds together and watching them go at it. It's just a battle royal, to a large extent.
Solid bulk cargoes are typically "two-phase" materials as they contain water between the solid particles. When the particles can touch, the friction between them makes the material act like a solid (even though there is liquid present). But when the water pressure rises, these inter-particle forces reduce and the strength of the material decreases. When the friction is reduced to zero, the material acts like a liquid (even though the solid particles are still present). A solid bulk cargo that is apparently stable on the quayside can liquefy because pressures in the water between the particles build up as it is loaded onto the ship. This is especially likely if, as is common practice, the cargo is loaded with a conveyor belt from the quayside into the hold, which can involve a fall of significant height. The vibration and motion of the ship from the engine and the sea during the voyage can also increase the water pressure and lead to liquefaction of the cargo.
Um, yeah, I was gonna say that. Sure. Everyone knows that, right?
Just bring back the classic Skype UI, and take old Yeller (Skype for Business) out back and shoot it.
Yes, I am still running 7.38.0.101 (classic UI, everything still works), but who knows how long that will remain supported?
And for me it was the opposite: "Skype for Business" was previously Lync, which I was used to and was fine as it was. The whole mess is a trainwreck.
In a further statement, the minister said "we will be importing vast numbers of people with completely different worldviews to work on this security initiative. What could possibly go wrong?"
Slashdot Mirror
A public spat between Amazon Sen. Bernie Sanders over workers' wages
Now Amazon bought Bernie Sanders too??
https://xkcd.com/1357 Try to pull your head out of your ass and learn something before engaging your bullshit.
And if Facebook, et al want to honestly present themselves as SJW Central, great. Make the chamber as echo-y as you want.
But if they want to present themselves as just places where pretty much anybody can sign up and post stuff, and then do a bunch of biased banning, not so much.
Yeah, they can do it (probably - but we can force people to bake a cake expressing opinions that they don't like??), but I am going to call them dishonest jerks for it.
An honest effort to fight foreign state influence would be fine, I suppose, but as we know, this is being used as a Trojan horse for the tech executives to simply further their own political predilections.
(Also, if our elections could truly be determined by Facebook ads and tweets, we would be doomed anyway.)
Summary is so whiny I am not reading TFA, but ..
1. I always know who invited me, because they sent the invitation. If they aren't leading the meeting, then they tell me so.
2. Good meeting software is web based and it does indicate who is speaking. Granted, if some people are sharing a conference room, then we don't have a visual indication which one of their group is speaking, but if they aren't people we usually deal with then we wouldn't know them by sight anyway. In practice it's not a significant problem.
And the purpose is, as always, to flood the market and drive wages down.
Got to have an insurance policy, in case something crazy happens like we stop importing so many from low wage countries.
If I lean just right ... I can see a sliver of sunlight ... or maybe a glow ...
This does not describe why this should matter to us geeks. JD?
It's a big website! So it's "tech"!
A man, (allegedly) sexually assaulting a woman , in tech!!!
This does not describe why this should matter to us geeks. JD?
JD.com
It is the world's 3rd biggest ecommerce site, after Alibaba and Amazon.
If Jeff Bezos was arrested, would you still consider it "not news"?
Do average Chinese people care about every move that Jeff Bezos makes?
reinvented the antenna from scratch
The battery was reinvented, due to it's first development, in what is now modern day Iran, being lost over time. The antenna, however, has not been forgotten so could not have been "reinvented". Redesigned, perhaps, or a new type of antenna may have been invented, but the antenna on my roof is still there, and is still a variation of the first dipole antenna invented by Heinrich Hertz. This seems to be a variation of the phased array, just on a molecular scale, who's development has been filtered through the marketing department.
It's become a fairly common usage now.
If someone is said to have "reinvented" the sitcom, it doesn't mean (despite evidence to the contrary, badum ching) that we have forgotten how to make sitcoms. It means that someone has come up with a radical new version of the type.
You do know that you don't have to read his tweets, right?
Just checking ... sometimes I wonder about you guys ...
(Me, I got it covered, I don't read anybody's tweets ...)
Fellow had better change his name and get a food tester ...
Only 2041990 meters to go!!
Might have some effectiveness ... depends on the person, I suppose.
A bit like giving self defense classes to the elderly ...
The final straw was when he mimed shooting Bob Mueller.
So they have a standard where you can't "mime" violence? A standard they use against everybody?
Seriously, you are choosing to moderate these forums.
And unlike most things we choose to get outraged about, you don't have to do it to eat (since they don't pay you anything).
I get that it sucks and all, but ... you know, just stop doing it?
If content is not illegal, Twitter should not be restricting it in any way.
Name one business that uses "not illegal" as its required standard of behaviour for patrons.
Um, most of them?
Seriously, you have to pretty much be doing something illegal (shoplifting, disturbing the peace) to be kicked out of, say, a grocery store.
I remember the bad old days, when police did the actual policing, and there was due process and stuff.
Oh well. Forward!
because that's what got Alex Jones banned. The final straw was when he mimed a gun shot talking about Mueller. \
I mimed a gunshot once. The assistant principal talked to me, realized that my fingers weren't going to shoot anybody, and that was that.
.. like 90% of the channels you can tell people of low education and people who are young tend to be moderators. AKA people with lots of free time.
The reason reddit is so popular because it is a confirmation bias wonderland for people who are not very bright and that is most of our species. So reddit is a wonderland of egoboost for the none too bright and uninformed. It's just 100% drama generating machine between the informed, uninformed, young and old and it has to do with the karma and moderation system. Reddit is just one monkey ego war where opinions no matter how dumb are fought and defended by drive by upvoting and downvoting of whatever subgroup is most dominant on the sub unfortunately for our species .
The whole thing thrives off putting people of various ages and education backgrounds together and watching them go at it. It's just a battle royal, to a large extent.
So, kinda like Slashdot ...
Solid bulk cargoes are typically "two-phase" materials as they contain water between the solid particles. When the particles can touch, the friction between them makes the material act like a solid (even though there is liquid present). But when the water pressure rises, these inter-particle forces reduce and the strength of the material decreases. When the friction is reduced to zero, the material acts like a liquid (even though the solid particles are still present). A solid bulk cargo that is apparently stable on the quayside can liquefy because pressures in the water between the particles build up as it is loaded onto the ship. This is especially likely if, as is common practice, the cargo is loaded with a conveyor belt from the quayside into the hold, which can involve a fall of significant height. The vibration and motion of the ship from the engine and the sea during the voyage can also increase the water pressure and lead to liquefaction of the cargo.
Um, yeah, I was gonna say that. Sure. Everyone knows that, right?
;)
Just bring back the classic Skype UI, and take old Yeller (Skype for Business) out back and shoot it. Yes, I am still running 7.38.0.101 (classic UI, everything still works), but who knows how long that will remain supported?
And for me it was the opposite: "Skype for Business" was previously Lync, which I was used to and was fine as it was. The whole mess is a trainwreck.
... if you charge less, you can sell more?? Get out!
It was so much better than the competition, at the time.
I'm largely back to FF now. As FF seems to be regaining at least part of its sanity.
In a further statement, the minister said "we will be importing vast numbers of people with completely different worldviews to work on this security initiative. What could possibly go wrong?"
"You're not holding it right."