If the postings on/. are any indicator, the average person poops on anything the governments wants or says anyway, so why should this suddenly have any meaning?
If you don't explain every single step of your stuff, you get exhibit A (the parent). If you do, you come across as belittling, patronizing and treating everyone like a three year old.
Finding that sweet spot between skipping too much and explaining too much is harder than you might imagine.
Mary: It's okay to be smarter than everybody else, but you can't go around pointing it out. Sheldon: Why? Mary: Because people don't like it!
Sorry for the quote. It's rare that BBT-quotes are on topic, so let me have that moment.
People don't dislike smart leaders. They dislike people that make them feel stupid. And with half of the people that's pretty easy to do if your intelligence is even just average. What they like is people that make them feel smart and superior. And that's easy to do for someone who comes across as an idiot.
That might have been true for Bush Jr., but not for Trump. Trump is an asshole, but he ain't stupid. He doesn't even fake being stupid. Then why does Trump "work"? Well, mostly because Hillary didn't, but even that's secondary. Trump offers easy answers to very complicated question. Answers that can be understood by anyone, and as long as nobody questions them or even has to implement them, that's fine.
Unfortunately that only gets you so far. That's basically what fell the Soviet Union. Lots of rhetoric but very little substance in the end, and the smokescreen of martial words and promises eventually evaporates.
Whether the pen drops to the ground is independent of your belief. You know from experience that things drop to the ground when you release them, you predict that the pen will drop if you release it and you can observe that the pen drops when you release it.
It has changed exactly once in those 200 years. It took 4 years of civil war to get it off the ground and ever since you had two increasingly identical parties.
Not that it was any different before. Actually, it was more blatantly. The Democratic-Republicans of the pre-civil war era split into Democrats and Whigs, who ran the country 1829-1857.
Hey, it's an improvement, at least now you have two parties that didn't start out as one.
Would you bet your money on that claim? It would not be the first "oh that cannot possibly be exploited in a real life scenario" bug that turned into a nightmare when someone with lots of creativity and criminal energy went to work.
Sorry, but how can you believe something that you have evidence for? When you have evidence for something, you know. You cannot believe when you know. They are mutually exclusive.
Climate has always changed on this planet. Correct. There's two caveats here, though: First, the change in temperature has never been that fast in any history we can somehow observe and second, a change in climate has NEVER been beneficial for the apex predator.
Or any organism that didn't want to change a lot.
In other words, our choice seems to be to either change our behaviour now to prevent or at least limit the change in the climate, or to change our behaviour later when the change in climate forces us to.
During the Mesozoic, also no humans wanted to survive on this planet.
Hey, did you know? During the Hadean, the temperature was also WAY higher and there was rocks falling from the sky left and right, so if that happened today, no biggie, right?
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But fulfilling two of the three qualities of the CIA triad. If this was politics, I'd win!
You sound like one of those eggheads. I don't like you.
Don't you have a car analogy or at least one that's funny?
It does. Some asshole could come up with a new variant of MMS or some other bullshit that kills people while claiming to be a miracle cure.
If the postings on /. are any indicator, the average person poops on anything the governments wants or says anyway, so why should this suddenly have any meaning?
But this could finally lead to cleaner AND cheaper meth! Just think about it, no longer buying stuff adulterated with god-knows-what, just pure dope.
Finally MDMA worth the name again, it will be like the 90s never ended.
Trump is an asshole, but he ain't dumb.
You can't win as a high-IQ.
If you don't explain every single step of your stuff, you get exhibit A (the parent). If you do, you come across as belittling, patronizing and treating everyone like a three year old.
Finding that sweet spot between skipping too much and explaining too much is harder than you might imagine.
Mary: It's okay to be smarter than everybody else, but you can't go around pointing it out.
Sheldon: Why?
Mary: Because people don't like it!
Sorry for the quote. It's rare that BBT-quotes are on topic, so let me have that moment.
People don't dislike smart leaders. They dislike people that make them feel stupid. And with half of the people that's pretty easy to do if your intelligence is even just average. What they like is people that make them feel smart and superior. And that's easy to do for someone who comes across as an idiot.
That might have been true for Bush Jr., but not for Trump. Trump is an asshole, but he ain't stupid. He doesn't even fake being stupid. Then why does Trump "work"? Well, mostly because Hillary didn't, but even that's secondary. Trump offers easy answers to very complicated question. Answers that can be understood by anyone, and as long as nobody questions them or even has to implement them, that's fine.
Unfortunately that only gets you so far. That's basically what fell the Soviet Union. Lots of rhetoric but very little substance in the end, and the smokescreen of martial words and promises eventually evaporates.
Whether the pen drops to the ground is independent of your belief. You know from experience that things drop to the ground when you release them, you predict that the pen will drop if you release it and you can observe that the pen drops when you release it.
Believing does not enter that equation.
The difference is literally just skin-deep.
It has changed exactly once in those 200 years. It took 4 years of civil war to get it off the ground and ever since you had two increasingly identical parties.
Not that it was any different before. Actually, it was more blatantly. The Democratic-Republicans of the pre-civil war era split into Democrats and Whigs, who ran the country 1829-1857.
Hey, it's an improvement, at least now you have two parties that didn't start out as one.
It's more like an unlocked door with the key under the doormat and the door open wide.
Would you bet your money on that claim? It would not be the first "oh that cannot possibly be exploited in a real life scenario" bug that turned into a nightmare when someone with lots of creativity and criminal energy went to work.
What should they do? These machines are already in a stable state.
But how are they going to test their patches for their paying customers without the guinea pigs that don't have the money to sue?
Bribes? Probably not. Blackmail? Well...
"Senator, do you remember where you were last Saturday? Well, we do..."
You still think you have two distinct parties in the US?
Cute.
Now imagine where they could be if they had any idea what they were doing!
Not even in the vicinity of close.
Sorry, but how can you believe something that you have evidence for? When you have evidence for something, you know. You cannot believe when you know. They are mutually exclusive.
Climate has always changed on this planet. Correct. There's two caveats here, though: First, the change in temperature has never been that fast in any history we can somehow observe and second, a change in climate has NEVER been beneficial for the apex predator.
Or any organism that didn't want to change a lot.
In other words, our choice seems to be to either change our behaviour now to prevent or at least limit the change in the climate, or to change our behaviour later when the change in climate forces us to.
During the Mesozoic, also no humans wanted to survive on this planet.
Hey, did you know? During the Hadean, the temperature was also WAY higher and there was rocks falling from the sky left and right, so if that happened today, no biggie, right?
Aww, someone's doc told him to lay off the sweets...
Not yet, but should it become rare somehow, watch them go nuts over it.
In my experience, when it comes to expensive dining, it's not the taste that matters but showing off that you can afford it.
Now where is the fun in that?