I think GP was merely pointing out an alternative reason the government shouldn't be given the keys to everything, a reason that should appeal even to those poor idiots who don't realize their government can do evil. They probably worry more about identity theft from non-government criminals than their privacy being invaded by the government. That's not entirely unjustified: if you don't sell drugs or associate with terrorists, the government probably isn't going to lock you up without rights based on their spying, while non-government cyber criminals will cause you problems no matter how good a citizen you are. (Assuming you aren't of middle-eastern heritage anyway).
Do tell, what entertainment do YOU like? Wait really? You like THAT? LOL! Well, fine if you like it, but that's (pick all that apply):
Overrated,
Shallow,
Stupid,
technically flawed,
Pretentious,
communist,
capitalist,
feudalist,
colonialist,
neocolonialist,
imperialist (I guess like storm troopers?),
mysoginist,
hipster,
racist,
elitist,
too mainstream,
vulgar,
liberal,
conservative,
unamerican,
something sheeple would do,
libertarian,
classist,
immoral,
gluttonous,
lewd,
vain,
arrogant,
environmentally unsound,
unsustainable,
disrespectful to native americans,
disrespectful to african americans,
disrespectful to moon men,
culturally insensitive in some other way,
fanboish,
stupid,
homosexual,
(some insult based on heterosexuality),
effete,
too macho,
lame,
overrated again (because somehow other people liking it is somehow a really big insult),
too mainstream,
Too popular,
not popular enough,
Lame,
Whiney,
left,
Right,
transgendered,
cis-gendered,
no-gendered,
triple-gendered,
Supports DRM,
Unrealistically does not support DRM,
closed-source,
M$,
Fandroid,
Apple fanboi,
Linux insult,
nerdy,
Lamp,
Okay, I'm out of steam now. I think that should sufficiently cover whatever it is you do for entertainment and why it's bad and I'm better than you.
But if it were simply not wanting to pay for updates, why wouldn't they just run their devices with stock android from google?
Then again, I can't understand how the phone makers make money off of their versions of android. I doubt anyone has ever made their decision to buy a samsung because "It has touchwiz!!!" Most consumers don't seem to take updates they're offered in the first place, so I can't really see it as a good incentive to buy a new phone. Offering their own versions seems to just make the fragmentation issue worse, which seems like it's eventually going to hurt sales of their phones.
Edit: I realize, looking back at my original post, that I'm a bit of a hypocrite here... Sorry for the cheekiness. I shouldn't have said "THE alternative." Jesus, I'm an arrogant prick.
What do you call the theory of natural selection as it relates to human evolution? There's no predictive power there. Are you suggesting Darwin was not a scientist?
Furthermore, a lot of medical research these days are screens, people dumping random chemicals on cells to find one that works. Is that not science? The theory they have in advance, if there is one, would be something like "If I keep testing chemicals, eventually I'll find one that works."
Perhaps science is not as simple and neat as you imagine it to be, and there are multiple ways of doing science.
To add to that, real scientists are almost never on the tee vee talking about their research because they fail to give answers that can fit in the weakest link's attention span.
Any time "experts" flawlessly explain occurances after the fact, even when it contradicts their predictions, it makes me believe they have no idea what they are talking about
Correcting your theories after they've been proven incomplete or incorrect is part of the scientific process. The alternative, declaring reality wrong if it disagrees with you, would be religion.
I guess this is why people seem to listen to religious experts more often than scientific experts.
NOC? National Organization for Caution? Now Obey the Company? Never Out of Control? No Objecting to Crap? Naturally Obedient Cunts? What the hell is NOC that they're worried about hands, explosives, and have workers who don't stand up for themselves?
With three letters, you can get most gamers' attention: MMO.
More like you can get every game producer's attention, wondering how he can get a piece of that revenue.
Is even that true anymore? Seems like that was at least 5 years ago when everyone was sure that someone could make the next WOW. And THAT was long after it should have been clear that trying to make "The next (insert popular game here)" was a really good way to utterly and totally fail to make a good game or much money, WOW or other title.
Invest time and energy into being creative, or at least buy people who do, and then invest heavily into marketing it. If you want a formula for success, that seems like it. If you think you've found a shorter path, why not claim it will make consumers lose weight, grow a bigger penis, and earn money from home too?
To be fair, firefall is CLEARLY at least doing the marketing part.
I'm not sure the great pacific garbage patch is in the same league of problem as climate change. Ugly, and a giant badge of human wastefulness, sure, but it's a bit like comparing cancer to a broken nose.
Are you saying that because you're a religious libertarian, are you saying that because your tinfoil hat is on too tight, are you saying that just to be a troll, or are you saying that with real evidence of BBC corruption?
That second part really depends on HOW GOOD the newspaper or radio is.
If most Americans were to get their news from what passes as newspaper or radio these days, we would probably be in an even sorrier state.
Internet journalism isn't a whole lot better, but there's not a limited amount of it, so at least there's no editorial staff to completely suppress a story. And it's more of a dialogue, so at least there's a potential for bullshit to be outed as such.
Again, I'm not saying the internet magically cures everything that is wrong with journalism, but it can definitely be an improvement.
Reminds me of a scene from Naruto, an anime about ninjas (don't judge me, we're all nerds here!). There's a test to become a ninja, part of it is a written test. Cheating is expected and allowed, but only so long as you don't get caught. After all, they're ninjas.
I'm skeptical it's not just paranoia and ignorance on the part of the schools. Kids aren't going to stop being horrible to one another, kids aren't going to realize that high school drama isn't anything to kill yourself over, parents aren't going to stop grieving when their kids die, and lawyers aren't going to stop taking advantage of their grief and schools' funds just because schools hired a guy to watch them. Use common sense and do what's right (IE not violating student's rights and wasting money).
Why is it with climate change, we always end up talking about Al Gore?
Imply all the sinister things you want about Gore. He's in it for the money? Sure. He's a hypocrite? Okay! He's lying? Hey, he's a politician and his lips are moving. He's just doing it for a carbon credit scheme? I believe it totally. In fact, I'm just going to go ahead and say that Al Gore is literally the devil. Everything bad you could say about him, I accept as truth.
Now that we've gotten that out of the way... why the fuck haven't we started doing anything serious about climate change when pretty much everyone agrees it's real?
Especially when saying something won't happen ever.
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." - Arthur C Clarke
Take comfort in the fact that this is not a new development. Legislatures have been mostly incompetent since forever. It hasn't meant the demise of society. The Indiana Pi bill, for example.
Graduate classes or upper level undergrad courses. There's a few years between freshman survey courses and grad school.
I'm guessing something is going to change with education and research. As you pointed out, it hasn't made much sense for our researchers to be wasting time teaching for a while now. Additionally, there's a flood of PhDs coming. Online classes are coming as well, reducing the need for overqualified lecturers, and the education bubble is going to have to pop before too long.
Ideally what would happen is we separate teaching from research. Worst case scenario is if research grinds to a halt because of budget idiocy, and all the jobs dry up too because they're all tied to colleges.
Wouldn't the timescale on that be something longer than a quarter IE wouldn't that take WAY longer than most investors seem to be thinking? Couldn't they say "No, we don't want the stocks to dip this quarter. We'll sell all the profitable parts and make bank twice without any downsides. Except to anyone working at Cisco."
I don't know anything about Cisco, that's not a prediction, just saying this seems like a much longer view than anyone takes in business.
How likely is it that the NSA or whoever already uses this? It seems to me that with many science fields, the agencies are more than happy to sit back and let someone else spend time and money to develop the tech, then they steal it, copy it, or as a last resort, buy it with taxpayer money. But then obviously, we wouldn't know if they ARE actually coming up with innovation, since they'd obviously keep it secret.
In general though, it seems like the best and brightest scientists have strong disincentives to work in secret government labs. Working and publishing your results openly gets you known for your accomplishments and helps advance technology, and the private sector pays more if that doesn't interest you. What can the NSA or CIA offer you besides uncertainty about whether they're going to kill you and make it look like a suicide after they're done with you?
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I think GP was merely pointing out an alternative reason the government shouldn't be given the keys to everything, a reason that should appeal even to those poor idiots who don't realize their government can do evil. They probably worry more about identity theft from non-government criminals than their privacy being invaded by the government. That's not entirely unjustified: if you don't sell drugs or associate with terrorists, the government probably isn't going to lock you up without rights based on their spying, while non-government cyber criminals will cause you problems no matter how good a citizen you are. (Assuming you aren't of middle-eastern heritage anyway).
Do tell, what entertainment do YOU like? Wait really? You like THAT? LOL! Well, fine if you like it, but that's (pick all that apply):
Overrated, Shallow, Stupid, technically flawed, Pretentious, communist, capitalist, feudalist, colonialist, neocolonialist, imperialist (I guess like storm troopers?), mysoginist, hipster, racist, elitist, too mainstream, vulgar, liberal, conservative, unamerican, something sheeple would do, libertarian, classist, immoral, gluttonous, lewd, vain, arrogant, environmentally unsound, unsustainable, disrespectful to native americans, disrespectful to african americans, disrespectful to moon men, culturally insensitive in some other way, fanboish, stupid, homosexual, (some insult based on heterosexuality), effete, too macho, lame, overrated again (because somehow other people liking it is somehow a really big insult), too mainstream, Too popular, not popular enough, Lame, Whiney, left, Right, transgendered, cis-gendered, no-gendered, triple-gendered, Supports DRM, Unrealistically does not support DRM, closed-source, M$, Fandroid, Apple fanboi, Linux insult, nerdy, Lamp,
Okay, I'm out of steam now. I think that should sufficiently cover whatever it is you do for entertainment and why it's bad and I'm better than you.
But if it were simply not wanting to pay for updates, why wouldn't they just run their devices with stock android from google?
Then again, I can't understand how the phone makers make money off of their versions of android. I doubt anyone has ever made their decision to buy a samsung because "It has touchwiz!!!" Most consumers don't seem to take updates they're offered in the first place, so I can't really see it as a good incentive to buy a new phone. Offering their own versions seems to just make the fragmentation issue worse, which seems like it's eventually going to hurt sales of their phones.
Edit: I realize, looking back at my original post, that I'm a bit of a hypocrite here... Sorry for the cheekiness. I shouldn't have said "THE alternative." Jesus, I'm an arrogant prick.
What do you call the theory of natural selection as it relates to human evolution? There's no predictive power there. Are you suggesting Darwin was not a scientist?
Furthermore, a lot of medical research these days are screens, people dumping random chemicals on cells to find one that works. Is that not science? The theory they have in advance, if there is one, would be something like "If I keep testing chemicals, eventually I'll find one that works."
Perhaps science is not as simple and neat as you imagine it to be, and there are multiple ways of doing science.
To add to that, real scientists are almost never on the tee vee talking about their research because they fail to give answers that can fit in the weakest link's attention span.
Any time "experts" flawlessly explain occurances after the fact, even when it contradicts their predictions, it makes me believe they have no idea what they are talking about
Correcting your theories after they've been proven incomplete or incorrect is part of the scientific process. The alternative, declaring reality wrong if it disagrees with you, would be religion.
I guess this is why people seem to listen to religious experts more often than scientific experts.
Regulate: control or maintain the rate or speed of (a machine or process) so that it operates properly.
I'd say that fits. "Operates properly" here meaning something very specific to a very small number of people. It clearly works for them.
NOC? National Organization for Caution? Now Obey the Company? Never Out of Control? No Objecting to Crap? Naturally Obedient Cunts? What the hell is NOC that they're worried about hands, explosives, and have workers who don't stand up for themselves?
With three letters, you can get most gamers' attention: MMO.
More like you can get every game producer's attention, wondering how he can get a piece of that revenue.
Is even that true anymore? Seems like that was at least 5 years ago when everyone was sure that someone could make the next WOW. And THAT was long after it should have been clear that trying to make "The next (insert popular game here)" was a really good way to utterly and totally fail to make a good game or much money, WOW or other title.
Invest time and energy into being creative, or at least buy people who do, and then invest heavily into marketing it. If you want a formula for success, that seems like it. If you think you've found a shorter path, why not claim it will make consumers lose weight, grow a bigger penis, and earn money from home too?
To be fair, firefall is CLEARLY at least doing the marketing part.
FPS games were never meant to be massively multiplayer to begin with.
What do you mean by "meant to." This game is "meant to" be whatever the people who designed it meant for it to be.
I'm not sure the great pacific garbage patch is in the same league of problem as climate change. Ugly, and a giant badge of human wastefulness, sure, but it's a bit like comparing cancer to a broken nose.
Aw, but now where am I going to go for porn?
Oh, right, the rest of the internet. Never mind.
Are you saying that because you're a religious libertarian, are you saying that because your tinfoil hat is on too tight, are you saying that just to be a troll, or are you saying that with real evidence of BBC corruption?
No. Why do you ask?
That second part really depends on HOW GOOD the newspaper or radio is.
If most Americans were to get their news from what passes as newspaper or radio these days, we would probably be in an even sorrier state.
Internet journalism isn't a whole lot better, but there's not a limited amount of it, so at least there's no editorial staff to completely suppress a story. And it's more of a dialogue, so at least there's a potential for bullshit to be outed as such.
Again, I'm not saying the internet magically cures everything that is wrong with journalism, but it can definitely be an improvement.
Posting a status update on Twitter is a foreign concept
(silently wipes a tear away from his eye)
Also, twitter being an American company, is foreign to damn near ALL countries. As a concept, it's still weird to most Americans even.
Reminds me of a scene from Naruto, an anime about ninjas (don't judge me, we're all nerds here!). There's a test to become a ninja, part of it is a written test. Cheating is expected and allowed, but only so long as you don't get caught. After all, they're ninjas.
I'm skeptical it's not just paranoia and ignorance on the part of the schools. Kids aren't going to stop being horrible to one another, kids aren't going to realize that high school drama isn't anything to kill yourself over, parents aren't going to stop grieving when their kids die, and lawyers aren't going to stop taking advantage of their grief and schools' funds just because schools hired a guy to watch them. Use common sense and do what's right (IE not violating student's rights and wasting money).
You'll get sued the same amount either way.
Why is it with climate change, we always end up talking about Al Gore?
Imply all the sinister things you want about Gore. He's in it for the money? Sure. He's a hypocrite? Okay! He's lying? Hey, he's a politician and his lips are moving. He's just doing it for a carbon credit scheme? I believe it totally. In fact, I'm just going to go ahead and say that Al Gore is literally the devil. Everything bad you could say about him, I accept as truth.
Now that we've gotten that out of the way... why the fuck haven't we started doing anything serious about climate change when pretty much everyone agrees it's real?
Especially when saying something won't happen ever.
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." - Arthur C Clarke
Take comfort in the fact that this is not a new development. Legislatures have been mostly incompetent since forever. It hasn't meant the demise of society. The Indiana Pi bill, for example.
Graduate classes or upper level undergrad courses. There's a few years between freshman survey courses and grad school.
I'm guessing something is going to change with education and research. As you pointed out, it hasn't made much sense for our researchers to be wasting time teaching for a while now. Additionally, there's a flood of PhDs coming. Online classes are coming as well, reducing the need for overqualified lecturers, and the education bubble is going to have to pop before too long.
Ideally what would happen is we separate teaching from research. Worst case scenario is if research grinds to a halt because of budget idiocy, and all the jobs dry up too because they're all tied to colleges.
Wouldn't the timescale on that be something longer than a quarter IE wouldn't that take WAY longer than most investors seem to be thinking? Couldn't they say "No, we don't want the stocks to dip this quarter. We'll sell all the profitable parts and make bank twice without any downsides. Except to anyone working at Cisco."
I don't know anything about Cisco, that's not a prediction, just saying this seems like a much longer view than anyone takes in business.
How likely is it that the NSA or whoever already uses this? It seems to me that with many science fields, the agencies are more than happy to sit back and let someone else spend time and money to develop the tech, then they steal it, copy it, or as a last resort, buy it with taxpayer money. But then obviously, we wouldn't know if they ARE actually coming up with innovation, since they'd obviously keep it secret.
In general though, it seems like the best and brightest scientists have strong disincentives to work in secret government labs. Working and publishing your results openly gets you known for your accomplishments and helps advance technology, and the private sector pays more if that doesn't interest you. What can the NSA or CIA offer you besides uncertainty about whether they're going to kill you and make it look like a suicide after they're done with you?