Yeah I feel the same. After finding out about Uber Drivers losing their job with anything less than a 4.5 rating locally I refuse to give anything less than a 5 , except to the guy that picked me up drunk once and the guy who drove backwards down a one way street nearly killing a pedestrian.
Both parties are awful, but currently the party in power is Trumps one, so whatever hillary may or may not have done is academic at best.
I do agree the corporate dems need to smarten the fuck up, and perhaps do so via taking long walks off short piers though. Bernie may well have led to a very different outcome in this previous election. Sadly I fear the old boy might just be a little bit TOO old come 2020, and I dont see a viable younger alternative in sight.
I have no idea how much of the russian allegations are true, other than the fact a few of the smaller fish have indeed been caught doing naughty things.
But worst case and its all true, that doesn't mean china is implied here. Russia and china have very different agendas, and to some degree consider each other traditional foes (Particularly because some of the border issues where never really resolved)
Oh I think that horse bolted the stable long ago. It became pretty obvious Microsoft was wavering on dot net and win64 when that hellworld that is windows universal apps was unleashed. There's a reason everyone's flocking to languagss like Python. Anything but JavaScript
I'm thinking more like when my high school teacher told me Logo was the language of the future.
In fairness to him , I was convinced Pascal was, and in a way Haskell's kind of like What would happen if the functional-ish Logo got merged in a transporter accident with a category theory textbook.
Whatever the case, the web developer guy is a goddamn badass. I ain't gonna lie , someone points a gun at me, I'm complying, to wrestle a gun off an armed home invader and win, that takes balls of cast iron.
The idea of the greater internet dickwad theory is an attractive one. Normal person + anonymity = dickwad. So if this is true, then it stands to reason removing anonymity is the solution.
But heres the thing,we've tried that in facebooks real name property, and it never worked. In fact it made things worse. If people want to bully someone, that person is right there easy to find on facebook. If they want to hide, they can't unless they want to pull out a significant chunk of their social life. This , by the way includes people hiding from drug gangs, battered wives, whatever todays target of 4chans regular idiot crusade is, journalists who work in risky fields, police, judges, etc.
The thing is, its not anonymity that makes the internet turn into dickheads, its the lack of consequences. If I get on facebook and start issuing death threats at journalists or game reviewers or whatever, theres very little chance anythings going to happen to me. Hell I'll end up with a bunch of socially stunted millenialls even defending my behavior. Theres no downside to it. After all *I* can forge a fake identity, as long as it sounds plausible, but that journalist is probably just using her own ID.
None of this happens in the real world with any great frequency, because if I knock on someones door and threaten to kill them, if they are larger then me, they'll knock my lights out, and if they are not, the cops will do it for them. Because thats how things work in the world of adults.
So thats the real problem. Its not anonymity that induces bad behavior, its the lack of consequences. Its peoples acceptance of shitty behavior from those in their friend circle, its the legal professions disinterest in people getting harassed.
This might seem anathema to a lot of folks, but it only takes the thought experiment of taking the way people behave online and putting it in the real world to see that its precisely the lack of consequences thats turned half the internet into giant raving dickwads.
The problem with the distributed ledger is outside of crypto coins is a solution in search of a problem, and almost every single use I've seen the follow up question "but who asked for this? And what's the use case that can't be solved by good old fashion public key exchange signing or just putting the quicken backups in a safe like worked perfectly well for the past century or three
It's not really THAT amazing, it kind of falls out of the math (so to speak) when you factor in evolutionary pressures. That's the thing about "designers", the universe doesn't need one so it's talk better left for the seminary than the laboratory
Back in the late 90s I used to work as a stage AV technician to pay my way through university, and I remember one weekend borrowing 16" projection screen and 3 gun video projector, setting it up in the backyard with a Bose PA system and playing Descent with a bunch of friends on the screen. It was mindblowing, although the 3D was so immersive it was had to avoid occasiionally geting nauseous. So yeah I'm fairly sure in VR it could definately cause nausea too.
Serious cite needed on this. I cant find *any* reference to this claim online, even the kook anti-govt sites. In fact the only page on the net with this claim, according to google, is this very thread.
So give us a cite for that, or its reasonable to conclude, you just made that up.
They didn't even invent the genre. Almost every element being sued after was in Ark survival of the fittest, and even that took a lot of elements from the original Minecraft hunger games whatever it's called mod
Cats can be taught. My cat is a hunter, but always brings me her catch for approval. So I started rewarding her if she brought a mice, rat or pigeon (pest species around here), and locking her in the bathroom for an hour if she killed anything else. She stopped catching the mudlarks and wrens and now they thrive around the yard and she just ignores them, while going full terminator on any pigeon or mouse that lucks out and enters the yard.
Or you could make your own publication and edit and publish your own stories?
Literally nobody is going to give you the upwards of hundreds of millions required to start a proper national newspaper. And theres no money in online press. All the online newspapers struggle to stay afloat and depend on either shitty paywalls or abusive advertising.
Easier to just retrain, or go and sell your soul to marketing.
In many instances, no they can't go on strike, legally. So the only way to go on strike is if enough people do so that theres too many people to arrest. The problem is , when things like strikes are taken off the table, many times people quit the union instead of being prepared to break the law and fight for their conditions. Its a vicious cycle, and it was engineered that way by hostile conservative governments wanting to break the back of workers rights organizations.
Thats why I think the wobblies need to make a come back. Unions that can't be intimidated with being outlawed because they already are.
Oracle does this to government agencies all the time. It works quite well. All of them cave to demands to buy more licenses or face audits.
It's racketeering.
Oh yeah. I worked for the department of parks in australia for a few years and it boggled my mind that on a team of six in development, one guy ended up spending most of his time dealing with bullshit Oracle licensing. We ended up ditching all that code and moving it to Postgres. But it wasnt enough to flush them out. Problem is accounts where dependent on Oracle financials, and once they've locked you in, its very hard to get them out. The worst part was , we where new department at the time, formed from the state govt merging a few related govt departments, and via one of those we inhereted that stupid accounting software, AND their audits, agressive and malevolent behavior from reps. Its just bullshit and it blows my mind governments can get intimidated like that. Theres bit of a legend of them threatening an audit raid on one of the local military bases and being informed that trying to force ones way onto a military base is a good way to get filled with lead. I never did find out if that was a true story.
Its usually higher in the food chain the problems occur. A friend of mine worked for NewsCorp and was consistently mortified at how his stories would be edited to hell and back to put this weird conservative spin on things , often to the point of straight up reversing the meanings of sentences. An example he gave was one where a particular politician had announced a raft of policies that would likely have been quite popular. A number of quotes from politicians of both side generally supportive , except one who completely hated it. By the time the story got past the editor, all the supporting quotes where removed, the bit about the politician who opposed it had been moved to the first sentence and the story retitled "Nationals condemn irresponsible Spending bill", making the story about a minor party conservative disliking a bill by a senior Labor party member, instead of it being about the bill itself. My journalist friend resigned in protest soon after. Alas, in Australia, its either work for Murdoch or join the welfare queue
Unions walk away because Almost every real option to fight back has been outlawed and the union can't go outlaw unless it has much much larger buy in from the working class. And the working class ain't buying in because the unions are perceived as innefective. It's a vicious cycle really
Maybe it's time for the Wobblies to stage a come back. Put a real nemesis for bad bosses to fear back into the mix
While I agree the lawyers can get predatory with their fees , class actions are a vital mechanism for civil society to respond to injustices or illegal behavior as a group. This is especially important for poorer folks who might simply be incapable of commissioning a lawyer to defend them , but as a group can spread out that cost and get relief in.bulk. To be honest the government should find these but yeah that ain't ever gonna happen. Rich folks , the people who don't need them and have the most to lose would never permit it, and in the world post citizen united rich folk truly run the government now
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Yeah I feel the same. After finding out about Uber Drivers losing their job with anything less than a 4.5 rating locally I refuse to give anything less than a 5 , except to the guy that picked me up drunk once and the guy who drove backwards down a one way street nearly killing a pedestrian.
I ain't no snitch
Well thats because of web pages. The NodeJS hype train left town years ago.
Its not in the space Microsoft development tools work in however.
Both parties are awful, but currently the party in power is Trumps one, so whatever hillary may or may not have done is academic at best.
I do agree the corporate dems need to smarten the fuck up, and perhaps do so via taking long walks off short piers though. Bernie may well have led to a very different outcome in this previous election. Sadly I fear the old boy might just be a little bit TOO old come 2020, and I dont see a viable younger alternative in sight.
Ah goddamn it, this presidency is a mess. Thanks for the heads up. I'm not American, so I miss a lot of these stories.
Don't confuse China and Russia.
I have no idea how much of the russian allegations are true, other than the fact a few of the smaller fish have indeed been caught doing naughty things.
But worst case and its all true, that doesn't mean china is implied here. Russia and china have very different agendas, and to some degree consider each other traditional foes (Particularly because some of the border issues where never really resolved)
Oh I think that horse bolted the stable long ago. It became pretty obvious Microsoft was wavering on dot net and win64 when that hellworld that is windows universal apps was unleashed. There's a reason everyone's flocking to languagss like Python. Anything but JavaScript
I'm thinking more like when my high school teacher told me Logo was the language of the future.
In fairness to him , I was convinced Pascal was, and in a way Haskell's kind of like What would happen if the functional-ish Logo got merged in a transporter accident with a category theory textbook.
Whatever the case, the web developer guy is a goddamn badass. I ain't gonna lie , someone points a gun at me, I'm complying, to wrestle a gun off an armed home invader and win, that takes balls of cast iron.
The idea of the greater internet dickwad theory is an attractive one. Normal person + anonymity = dickwad. So if this is true, then it stands to reason removing anonymity is the solution.
But heres the thing ,we've tried that in facebooks real name property, and it never worked. In fact it made things worse. If people want to bully someone, that person is right there easy to find on facebook. If they want to hide, they can't unless they want to pull out a significant chunk of their social life. This , by the way includes people hiding from drug gangs, battered wives, whatever todays target of 4chans regular idiot crusade is, journalists who work in risky fields, police, judges, etc.
The thing is, its not anonymity that makes the internet turn into dickheads, its the lack of consequences. If I get on facebook and start issuing death threats at journalists or game reviewers or whatever, theres very little chance anythings going to happen to me. Hell I'll end up with a bunch of socially stunted millenialls even defending my behavior. Theres no downside to it. After all *I* can forge a fake identity, as long as it sounds plausible, but that journalist is probably just using her own ID.
None of this happens in the real world with any great frequency, because if I knock on someones door and threaten to kill them, if they are larger then me, they'll knock my lights out, and if they are not, the cops will do it for them. Because thats how things work in the world of adults.
So thats the real problem. Its not anonymity that induces bad behavior, its the lack of consequences. Its peoples acceptance of shitty behavior from those in their friend circle, its the legal professions disinterest in people getting harassed.
This might seem anathema to a lot of folks, but it only takes the thought experiment of taking the way people behave online and putting it in the real world to see that its precisely the lack of consequences thats turned half the internet into giant raving dickwads.
The problem with the distributed ledger is outside of crypto coins is a solution in search of a problem, and almost every single use I've seen the follow up question "but who asked for this? And what's the use case that can't be solved by good old fashion public key exchange signing or just putting the quicken backups in a safe like worked perfectly well for the past century or three
Well I'd argue the strong and weak nuclear forces are doing most of the heavy lifting here.
It's not really THAT amazing, it kind of falls out of the math (so to speak) when you factor in evolutionary pressures. That's the thing about "designers", the universe doesn't need one so it's talk better left for the seminary than the laboratory
Back in the late 90s I used to work as a stage AV technician to pay my way through university, and I remember one weekend borrowing 16" projection screen and 3 gun video projector, setting it up in the backyard with a Bose PA system and playing Descent with a bunch of friends on the screen. It was mindblowing, although the 3D was so immersive it was had to avoid occasiionally geting nauseous. So yeah I'm fairly sure in VR it could definately cause nausea too.
Serious cite needed on this. I cant find *any* reference to this claim online, even the kook anti-govt sites. In fact the only page on the net with this claim, according to google, is this very thread.
So give us a cite for that, or its reasonable to conclude, you just made that up.
Oh you might be right. I didn't even know that book was a thing. My bad
Even the DayZ mod got its ideas from a popular minecraft mod. And these guys know it
Battle Royale is the genre term but it pretty much got its idea from the hunger games
They didn't even invent the genre. Almost every element being sued after was in Ark survival of the fittest, and even that took a lot of elements from the original Minecraft hunger games whatever it's called mod
Cats can be taught. My cat is a hunter, but always brings me her catch for approval. So I started rewarding her if she brought a mice, rat or pigeon (pest species around here), and locking her in the bathroom for an hour if she killed anything else. She stopped catching the mudlarks and wrens and now they thrive around the yard and she just ignores them, while going full terminator on any pigeon or mouse that lucks out and enters the yard.
Literally nobody is going to give you the upwards of hundreds of millions required to start a proper national newspaper. And theres no money in online press. All the online newspapers struggle to stay afloat and depend on either shitty paywalls or abusive advertising.
Easier to just retrain, or go and sell your soul to marketing.
In many instances, no they can't go on strike, legally. So the only way to go on strike is if enough people do so that theres too many people to arrest. The problem is , when things like strikes are taken off the table, many times people quit the union instead of being prepared to break the law and fight for their conditions. Its a vicious cycle, and it was engineered that way by hostile conservative governments wanting to break the back of workers rights organizations.
Thats why I think the wobblies need to make a come back. Unions that can't be intimidated with being outlawed because they already are.
Oh yeah. I worked for the department of parks in australia for a few years and it boggled my mind that on a team of six in development, one guy ended up spending most of his time dealing with bullshit Oracle licensing. We ended up ditching all that code and moving it to Postgres. But it wasnt enough to flush them out. Problem is accounts where dependent on Oracle financials, and once they've locked you in, its very hard to get them out. The worst part was , we where new department at the time, formed from the state govt merging a few related govt departments, and via one of those we inhereted that stupid accounting software, AND their audits, agressive and malevolent behavior from reps. Its just bullshit and it blows my mind governments can get intimidated like that. Theres bit of a legend of them threatening an audit raid on one of the local military bases and being informed that trying to force ones way onto a military base is a good way to get filled with lead. I never did find out if that was a true story.
Its usually higher in the food chain the problems occur. A friend of mine worked for NewsCorp and was consistently mortified at how his stories would be edited to hell and back to put this weird conservative spin on things , often to the point of straight up reversing the meanings of sentences. An example he gave was one where a particular politician had announced a raft of policies that would likely have been quite popular. A number of quotes from politicians of both side generally supportive , except one who completely hated it. By the time the story got past the editor, all the supporting quotes where removed, the bit about the politician who opposed it had been moved to the first sentence and the story retitled "Nationals condemn irresponsible Spending bill", making the story about a minor party conservative disliking a bill by a senior Labor party member, instead of it being about the bill itself. My journalist friend resigned in protest soon after. Alas, in Australia, its either work for Murdoch or join the welfare queue
Unions walk away because Almost every real option to fight back has been outlawed and the union can't go outlaw unless it has much much larger buy in from the working class. And the working class ain't buying in because the unions are perceived as innefective. It's a vicious cycle really
Maybe it's time for the Wobblies to stage a come back. Put a real nemesis for bad bosses to fear back into the mix
While I agree the lawyers can get predatory with their fees , class actions are a vital mechanism for civil society to respond to injustices or illegal behavior as a group. This is especially important for poorer folks who might simply be incapable of commissioning a lawyer to defend them , but as a group can spread out that cost and get relief in.bulk. To be honest the government should find these but yeah that ain't ever gonna happen. Rich folks , the people who don't need them and have the most to lose would never permit it, and in the world post citizen united rich folk truly run the government now