The bottom line is that we all see center of the road to be right in front of us. So anyone to the right of us is right of center.
Nonsense. I see the middle of the road as a good bit to the right of my personal beliefs in most subjects, but since I actually have a broad exposure to many different ideas I can still see where it is. I can also see the American middle of the road as being a fair amount to the right of the European middle of the road on average, which is still to the right of my personal beliefs.
Just because personal views will bias what you see as "right" in the sense of "good" or "correct" does not mean you are unable to judge what is "right" in the sense of where something is on the political spectrum compared to the average. The former is a matter of bias, the latter is merely a factor of your exposure to different views combined with how intellectually honest you are.
Conservatives see Fox News as truly "Fair and Balanced" and liberals see them as far right wing. It's compounded when Fox is compared to the rest of media. I try to base my comparison by comparing them to the competition. I also look at things like, "how many liberals do I see on Fox News?" "How many conservatives do I see on MSNBC?" Answers: Plenty and Zero, respectively. So, by that alone, Fox is much more balanced than MSNBC. (Many liberals actually work at Fox as returning talking heads and true, full time employees)
Only idiots even think "Fair and Balanced" is worth anything in a news organization. If one person says "2+2=5" and the other says "2+2=4" then being "Fair and Balanced" in representing their views is being dishonest by implying the two views are equivalent. The "liberals" who work at Fox news are generally incompetents or sidekicks who serve as straw men for the rest of the Fox staff to gleefully knock down or present for the derision of their audience. You'll never see anyone who has the respect of liberals working there.
I am seeing a lot of uninformed, and often racist, sentiment regarding this. Here are the facts.
Please show/link/quote just one single racist post. Preferably not one which has been moderated to oblivion.
1. This is not a Russian capsule. The three module shape is dictated by the principles of capsule design in general, not by China simply buying a set of blueprints 2. They are not moving that slowly, they are simply being economical with the number of missions they fly. It took Russia and the US 4 years to get from men in space to spacewalks, it has taken China 5 years. 3. Their spending money on this whilst there are *gasp* still poor people on China is not something that can be criticised from a country bailing out wall street whilst letting the poor rot. At least Chinese people will eventually benefit from space technology. Who will benefit from bankers being insulated from the consequences of their actions? Everywhere has inequality. No reason to crucify China specifically for it. 4. Shenzhou is the most technologically advanced manned spacecraft flying. The Shuttle has more capability but it is nearing the end of its life and when it retires, Americans better get used to play to second fiddle to China for a while. 5. Being racist makes you a dick. Chinese people are just as capable of this as you are.
1. ok 2. ok 3. non sequitur - but if you don't understand the current situation, at least take a look at the history of the great depression and tell me if the only people suffering were bankers... This bail-out is meant to prevent a scenario like that. 4. Americans have been second fiddle in a bunch of categories to a whole slew of countries -- most particularly in western Europe -- for ages and most Americans haven't even noticed. That said, let me know when America really is second fiddle to China in any category which truly matters. And, no, GDP growth is not such a category, unless you consider Azerbaijan, Bhutan, or Angola (the current leaders in that category) to be countries to which China is playing second fiddle. 5. Again, show a racist post or STFU. Being a reactionary who shouts "racist!" at any critique equally makes you a dick since it minimizes the problem of real racism. It's like crying wolf.
And yes, as my sig indicates, I am a liberal from the SF Bay Area, but I have one large area of disagreement with typical liberal views:
I just do not understand how someone can criticize the U.S. human rights record (quite rightly), and then turn around and defend countries with significantly *worse* human rights records as if only an intolerant/racist asshole would criticize them.
The fact of the matter is, as bad as the U.S. has been, and as bad as the U.S. has gotten, it has a bit of a ways to go before it sinks to the level of human rights China has *risen* to. Call me when China has done a turn-around on the level of what Germany has done since WW II. Now *there's* a country which made huge leaps in human rights from a facist, racist, genocidal country to one which is a model of human rights compared to most countries.
It's like all the news networks doing a story about West Bumfuck, Iowa, and using Google Earth to do a fairly nifty zoom-in-from-orbit effect because that obviously can't be done for real. But nobody screams at CNN for that.
Maybe because CNN always says something to the effect of "and here depicted on Google Earth..." as opposed to implying or saying that it's a live shot. Pretty huge fucking difference.
Yes it is reasonable to show a simulation, but it is also reasonable to expect that what's being shown is clearly labeled as a simulation.
So just because you can't get your lazy ass out of bed in the morning means you should get more sunlight in the evening... right.
Why do you earlybird types always equate difficulty getting up in the morning with laziness? Most of us night-owl types don't sleep any more than you do... often we sleep significantly less because we are forced to follow the 18th Century agrarian schedule of "getting up with the chickens" and yet even if we are tired during the day because of this we become alert and awake at night and still can't fall asleep very early.
So get over yourself - your genes predisposed you to getting up early, not some "sturdy moral fiber" or your overall greatness.
Communication != language. Language is far more complex and deep, containing tenses and vocabulary. Humans are the only animal that truly uses language -humans invented language- other animals simply interact. Dolphins clicking at eachother are not speaking with language, they are signaling with rudimentary noises.
You got everything right except for the part I highlighted. Humans "invented" language like we invented walking -- namely not at all. Language evolved.
I would also tend to agree, most power users want to get WORK done, and fooling around with icons and magical settings doesn't really help that happen, its all about the applications not the desktop, or OS underneath..
That's a good philosophy. That's why, when I'm on the command line I don't bother with bash or job control or any of that shit - it's straight sh for me, all the way. Aliases? Who needs'em. The $PATH variable? Why muck around with shit like that... it's about the *applications* man, just type the whole path to each app you want to execute, and don't give me any tab-completion either: it just gets between me and my apps. Pipes? WTF for? I can just type the output of the last application into next one...
My apologies. I thought you were referring to topham. I didnt see the parent to your post, I suppose because it was modded down as flamebait.
Don't be sorry. This is just another golden example of how the most glaring lack in Slashdot functionality is automatic quoting:-P
Public Service Message: If you're about to attack a post which you consider outrageous make it a point to quote; because if the mods agree it's outrageous you will very quickly appear to be attacking the parent of the post you were responding to.
Oregon a redstate? Not a chance. A bunch of granola eating, tree hugging, hairy legged druids. Well, not literally, but the spirit is definitely there.
Heh, well I'm a bit late to chime in with the rest of the answers, but: cue Night of the Living Rednecks for the Dead Kennedys' take on that.
I don't know what makes this so hard for people to get/do.
I agree.
Come up with 3 to 5 words of something that means something to you, separate with some punctuation, and make sure it's around even only 20 characters...
Exactly. Anyone who reads a decent amount should not have any trouble finding a nice long quote from a book they liked which they can remember, which is what I always recommend. If they don't read enough for that to be the case.... fuck'em they don't deserve to be secure;-)
I am prone to setting up passwords for people like "Eagles~In*Trees" which is easy to remember, and tough to crack, but they won't let me any more, forcing us to issue things like "sFg#8Jk@", which the user promptly writes on a sticky note and pastes to the monitor so they won't forget it.
My tip for these cases is the same deal with the passphrase... then take e.g. the second letter of every word (except for one-letter words), l33t-speak the ones you can, replace sentence punctuation with a chosen character, and/or choose a few to be capitalized and you're golden... example: "I don't like green eggs and ham, Sam I am" becomes: iOirgna#Aim -- and, no this isn't one I've ever used:-P This password is very easy to remember, or at least it can be reconstructed fairly easily until the actual sequence of keystrokes has been memorized. If that's too hard they can go with the first letter of every word: iDlG3Ah#SiA which should still be immune to any dictionary-based attack.
-chris
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I didn't forget shit. I said "in part...", and I left out the part which was completely irrelevant. Yes, Harry Truman could have technically served more than 10 years. So?
Wrong. The GP is right. Check your facts: Amendment 22 reads in part: "1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once." Meaning someone (e.g. a former V.P.) can serve up to 2 years followed by being elected twice, for a total of 10 years.
The reason it didn't fully catch on was laziness and English speakers' arrogance (continuing to this day) in assuming that their language is the one that the rest of the world must learn, despite its obvious technical deficiencies and difficult-to-learn nature.
Wrong wrong wrong. The reason it didn't catch on is because it's not a native language of a group whom anyone really wants to talk to -- that's two strikes against it. Any Linguist who has a clue knows this. For a language to become a lingua franca it has to have a base of native speakers who have economic, political, cultural, and/or military influence. It has nothing to do with some special characteristic of English speakers.
Furthermore, the idea that Esperanto is somehow universal in nature is just arrogant Indo-European-centric thinking itself. Tell a Hungarian, or an Eskimo (e.g. Yupik) speaker that Esperanto is 'easier' to learn and they'll laugh their asses off at you. Anyone who claims Esperanto is somehow 'neutral' or incorporates the best of all worlds has never had any meaningful exposure to a non-Indo-European language; that's 95% of the languages of the world, in case you're wondering. Just for reference: Farsi (Iranian), Russian, Spanish, English are all first-cousins linguistically speaking (I bet you think they're *really* different from each-other, right?) Esperanto is their gene-manipulated bastard child.
To any speaker of a truly foreign language like Yupik there is no practical difference between learning any of those languages -- oh, except if she learns English she gets access to the whole world of business, science and international politics, as well as the best chance of asking for directions when traveling; if she learns Esperanto she can talk to a bunch of kooks, assuming she can find one of them.
But I'm sure you and many other amateur Linguists on Slashdot are going to disregard this completely and stick to your preconceived notions about natural languages with completely inappropriate comparisons to designed languages which is eerily similar to ID proponents when talking to biologists. I'm not sure why I even bother to respond to these kinds of posts. *sigh*
I'd suggest you offer the 10% to the parent as an incentive to control their kid...
Only someone who has never had anything to do with kids could seriously mean a retarded statement like this. I am including having ever been a kid. What, were you delivered to Earth by aliens as a fully-formed adult?
In any case, as annoying as kids can be on a flight, I have been annoyed just as much and just as often by so-called adults; e.g. try sitting next to one those jerks who seems to think his dick is sooooo big he has to sit with his legs at a 45 angle - grrrrrrr. Or the example above of a kid who leans the seat back too quickly? Talk about confirmation bias: I've NEVER experienced that from a *kid*; mosts kids aren't even heavy enough to be able to do it quickly. No, that particular problem is one I've experienced time and again from *adults*, the same ones who incidentally repeatedly 'forget' to put their seats up for landing and take-off.
Once again, we see the urgent need for a slashdot moderation "+1 Whooosh!".
Why +1, you say? Well, of course it should be like "Funny", in that it doesn't give karma. But who wants to actually miss such beautiful examples of cluelessness?;-)
FEMA shows up with bluster and fake news and contributes what? How much better would the taxes that fund FEMA be used by CDF even with mismanagement like the 4 year C-130 retrofit that failed? Local is always better than federal so take back the money and power granted to FEMA.
And your post shows how effective the Republican strategy of discrediting Federal government is. FEMA was just as bad under Bush Sr, after which Clinton made it into an effective organization (by appointing competent people), only for Bush Jr. to ruin it completely again.
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I would posit that almost any javascript interpreter you're using was written in C or one of its derivatives...
Nonsense. I see the middle of the road as a good bit to the right of my personal beliefs in most subjects, but since I actually have a broad exposure to many different ideas I can still see where it is. I can also see the American middle of the road as being a fair amount to the right of the European middle of the road on average, which is still to the right of my personal beliefs.
Just because personal views will bias what you see as "right" in the sense of "good" or "correct" does not mean you are unable to judge what is "right" in the sense of where something is on the political spectrum compared to the average. The former is a matter of bias, the latter is merely a factor of your exposure to different views combined with how intellectually honest you are.
Only idiots even think "Fair and Balanced" is worth anything in a news organization. If one person says "2+2=5" and the other says "2+2=4" then being "Fair and Balanced" in representing their views is being dishonest by implying the two views are equivalent. The "liberals" who work at Fox news are generally incompetents or sidekicks who serve as straw men for the rest of the Fox staff to gleefully knock down or present for the derision of their audience. You'll never see anyone who has the respect of liberals working there.
Okay. That certainly puts a different face on it.
Incidentally, I'm quite calm, I just tend to swear gratuitously for emphasis. :-)
Please show/link/quote just one single racist post. Preferably not one which has been moderated to oblivion.
1. ok
2. ok
3. non sequitur - but if you don't understand the current situation, at least take a look at the history of the great depression and tell me if the only people suffering were bankers... This bail-out is meant to prevent a scenario like that.
4. Americans have been second fiddle in a bunch of categories to a whole slew of countries -- most particularly in western Europe -- for ages and most Americans haven't even noticed. That said, let me know when America really is second fiddle to China in any category which truly matters. And, no, GDP growth is not such a category, unless you consider Azerbaijan, Bhutan, or Angola (the current leaders in that category) to be countries to which China is playing second fiddle.
5. Again, show a racist post or STFU. Being a reactionary who shouts "racist!" at any critique equally makes you a dick since it minimizes the problem of real racism. It's like crying wolf.
And yes, as my sig indicates, I am a liberal from the SF Bay Area, but I have one large area of disagreement with typical liberal views:
I just do not understand how someone can criticize the U.S. human rights record (quite rightly), and then turn around and defend countries with significantly *worse* human rights records as if only an intolerant/racist asshole would criticize them.
The fact of the matter is, as bad as the U.S. has been, and as bad as the U.S. has gotten, it has a bit of a ways to go before it sinks to the level of human rights China has *risen* to. Call me when China has done a turn-around on the level of what Germany has done since WW II. Now *there's* a country which made huge leaps in human rights from a facist, racist, genocidal country to one which is a model of human rights compared to most countries.
Maybe because CNN always says something to the effect of "and here depicted on Google Earth..." as opposed to implying or saying that it's a live shot. Pretty huge fucking difference.
Yes it is reasonable to show a simulation, but it is also reasonable to expect that what's being shown is clearly labeled as a simulation.
Why do you earlybird types always equate difficulty getting up in the morning with laziness? Most of us night-owl types don't sleep any more than you do... often we sleep significantly less because we are forced to follow the 18th Century agrarian schedule of "getting up with the chickens" and yet even if we are tired during the day because of this we become alert and awake at night and still can't fall asleep very early.
So get over yourself - your genes predisposed you to getting up early, not some "sturdy moral fiber" or your overall greatness.
That was some masterful irony. Thanks! :-)
I'm in Germany and it's exactly the same. Youtube is dead from here as well.
So you think the Grandfather clause, poll taxes, and their ilk were not racist?
You got everything right except for the part I highlighted. Humans "invented" language like we invented walking -- namely not at all. Language evolved.
I'll refer you to my previous rant on this subject.
Fucking amateur Linguists everywhere
Because the very meme "phone home" is a reference to that quote in the movie.
That's a good philosophy. That's why, when I'm on the command line I don't bother with bash or job control or any of that shit - it's straight sh for me, all the way. Aliases? Who needs'em. The $PATH variable? Why muck around with shit like that... it's about the *applications* man, just type the whole path to each app you want to execute, and don't give me any tab-completion either: it just gets between me and my apps. Pipes? WTF for? I can just type the output of the last application into next one...
Man, you are soooo right; I mean "Release early, release often" is practically the motto of Microso... ummmmm....
Never mind.
Don't be sorry. This is just another golden example of how the most glaring lack in Slashdot functionality is automatic quoting
Public Service Message: If you're about to attack a post which you consider outrageous make it a point to quote; because if the mods agree it's outrageous you will very quickly appear to be attacking the parent of the post you were responding to.
Heh, well I'm a bit late to chime in with the rest of the answers, but:
cue Night of the Living Rednecks for the Dead Kennedys' take on that.
I agree.
Exactly. Anyone who reads a decent amount should not have any trouble finding a nice long quote from a book they liked which they can remember, which is what I always recommend. If they don't read enough for that to be the case.... fuck'em they don't deserve to be secure
My tip for these cases is the same deal with the passphrase... then take e.g. the second letter of every word (except for one-letter words), l33t-speak the ones you can, replace sentence punctuation with a chosen character, and/or choose a few to be capitalized and you're golden... example:
"I don't like green eggs and ham, Sam I am" becomes:
iOirgna#Aim -- and, no this isn't one I've ever used
This password is very easy to remember, or at least it can be reconstructed fairly easily until the actual sequence of keystrokes has been memorized.
If that's too hard they can go with the first letter of every word:
iDlG3Ah#SiA
which should still be immune to any dictionary-based attack.
-chris
Agree. 100%. Took the words out of my mouth.
I didn't forget shit. I said "in part...", and I left out the part which was completely irrelevant. Yes, Harry Truman could have technically served more than 10 years. So?
Wrong. The GP is right. Check your facts:
Amendment 22 reads in part:
"1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once."
Meaning someone (e.g. a former V.P.) can serve up to 2 years followed by being elected twice, for a total of 10 years.
franca it has to have a base of native speakers who have economic, political, cultural, and/or military influence. It has nothing to do with some special characteristic of English speakers.
Furthermore, the idea that Esperanto is somehow universal in nature is just arrogant Indo-European-centric thinking itself. Tell a Hungarian, or an Eskimo (e.g. Yupik) speaker that Esperanto is 'easier' to learn and they'll laugh their asses off at you. Anyone who claims Esperanto is somehow 'neutral' or incorporates the best of all worlds has never had any meaningful exposure to a non-Indo-European language; that's 95% of the languages of the world, in case you're wondering. Just for reference: Farsi (Iranian), Russian, Spanish, English are all first-cousins linguistically speaking (I bet you think they're *really* different from each-other, right?) Esperanto is their gene-manipulated bastard child.
To any speaker of a truly foreign language like Yupik there is no practical difference between learning any of those languages -- oh, except if she learns English she gets access to the whole world of business, science and international politics, as well as the best chance of asking for directions when traveling; if she learns Esperanto she can talk to a bunch of kooks, assuming she can find one of them.
But I'm sure you and many other amateur Linguists on Slashdot are going to disregard this completely and stick to your preconceived notions about natural languages with completely inappropriate comparisons to designed languages which is eerily similar to ID proponents when talking to biologists. I'm not sure why I even bother to respond to these kinds of posts. *sigh*
In any case, as annoying as kids can be on a flight, I have been annoyed just as much and just as often by so-called adults; e.g. try sitting next to one those jerks who seems to think his dick is sooooo big he has to sit with his legs at a 45 angle - grrrrrrr. Or the example above of a kid who leans the seat back too quickly? Talk about confirmation bias: I've NEVER experienced that from a *kid*; mosts kids aren't even heavy enough to be able to do it quickly. No, that particular problem is one I've experienced time and again from *adults*, the same ones who incidentally repeatedly 'forget' to put their seats up for landing and take-off.
Why +1, you say? Well, of course it should be like "Funny", in that it doesn't give karma. But who wants to actually miss such beautiful examples of cluelessness?
Or, as Larry Wall (and the Perl community in general) has put it, "false laziness"