"Truther" conspiracy nuts don't believe in *anything* they can't see, feel, hear, or touch themselves.
Troofers believe in a whole bunch of things they can't see, feel, hear. (and they probably touch themselves way too much).
Gang stalking, alien probing and abductions, the hollow moon and the secret moon bases, people living beneath the Arctic ice mass, chemtrails, remote mind control, shape-shifting lizard people, alien visitors from outer space, the English royal family eating babies, astrology, tarot, crystal healing, past lives, Deepak Chopra telling the truth, fairies (not the gay kind), angels, ghosts, Carlos Castenada, the Bible as literally true, ectoplasm, what really happens at Bildenberger conventions, the cancer curing properties of water vortexes, lucky rabbits feet (didn't work for the rabbit), Uri Geller, that their psychic abilities aren't psychotic episodes, that if a/. poster quotes their posts twice they're being stalked, that they're not highly suggestible attention whores, etc - a long list of things they can't see, touch, feel or hear.
You forgot Heart of Gold. It's my personal favorite. His voice is a bit screechy and out of tune but he does have some good songs. I will admit that it is pretty funny that he complains about streaming services degrading the "quality" given the quality of his singing.
I left out a lot of his songs - not enough space. My favourite is "Revolution Blues", but "Vampire Blues" is also damn good.
Agreed his voice is, um, less than melodious - and he's certainly no Chet Atkins either (or Keith Richards for that matter). But I do want the best quality recording I can get - he's usually had some damn fine bands behind him. Even when a recording is crappy e.g. the Hendrix, McLaughlin, and Miles session with that squeaky, rattling amp - I still want to hear it as close as possible to the original recording. I can hear McLaughlin pushing his old acoustic (Driving South) on the vinyl - but can barely hear it, or identify the over-driven amp (sounds like a MusicMan) in the 360kps digital recording. Likewise the later tracks with Johnny Winter - much better on the vinyl.
If others can't tell the difference between a high quality recording and a high compression mp3 that's their choice - I can, and that's what counts to me. Others probably can't pick a classic guitar by ear, or tell which sups Keith Richards is using to get his distinctive sound. There's more to hearing than just audio range. Keith Richards is a good example given the number of "covers" you'll find on Youtube that don't use the right chords because they can't hear the difference between the original recording and what they're playing (despite the crap quality of Youtube I can see they're playing it wrong. So it's not "guessing" on my part.
Cathedrals are maybe not the best example you could cite to make your point,
That'd be the obvious point that you failed to grasp. That building, whether or not you irrelevantly retrospectively apply current building codes to them, are build of substance - not conjecture.
And the same applies to security. What used to be secure a decade ago is at best deprecated today, at worst considered criminal negligence.
Did I say it was a great security project? Did I say it should be trusted? Did the "bucket of manure" Comment Subject fly over your sunken head? How did you learn to write without learning to read - or did you get your mum to write your misguided and misinformed speel for you?
Do you have any facts to contribute or are you just looking for an excuse to flap your gums?
Proven backdoors in SELinux? Nope - didn't think so. Just hot air from someone who failed to comprehend the invitation to put your money where your mouth is and supply some facts. Hand wavy crap about bodyguards taking the day off != facts.
Extrapolation - if your business makes money off the intertubes...
It make use of free peering.
You make money on someone else's back.
You owe [insert company name here] money
[Conclusion] Either the highway robbers, um, [insert company name here], um gatekeepers, um people who are not, emphasis on not, double charging, get a fair, percentage of your take - or it's just not fair.
Have you considered that hypocrisy may be a necessary requirement for being a politician?
Now consider a similar thing, whether self-promotion is a survival tactic in the US music industry or not.
Fair question. My answer is, um, yes - and no. I suspect Neil Young hasn't been part of the main stream music industry for some time (and may he build a ladder to the stars). Probably because he hasn't given much of a fuck since the man broke his silver fiddle. Do I know that for a fact - no (but I'm open to informed critique). Do you "know" otherwise? Does telling Donald "Merkin" Trump he can't use his music without permission count as "self-promotion"?
He's done it a LOT less than many, but that doesn't mean he hasn't done it at all and that's not what I was suggesting above. It's also got nothing to do with the article either way IMHO
Oh good - that's something we maybe agree on (I like chocolates and romantic movies - are you free Saturday night?).
, which is why it took it up with the above poster which you seem to have misunderstood when you decided to jump on this wagon.
Jump. On. Wagon. Did I miss a meeting down the docks? I was responding to your post. Quoting - have you heard of it? Do you own a patent on the thread? Or just tickets on yourself ('cause the value needs reappraisal) Did you read something into my addendum to your post that, um, wasn't there? Are you channelling Shirley McLaine? Maybe you should re-read what I wrote (go on - it's still there, words haven't changed - hint: I like Neil Young, a lot).
Also consider whether the posts being critical of him are guilty of shooting the messenger instead of addressing the message.
Good advice. Pack it in a suppository, "shelf" it, then call me back in the morning (preferably after you've re-read what you've misinterpreted and over-reacted to. Preferably after the anti-satire pills have worn off, but your call).
As I see it, he's involved in the industry and has given his opinion - which really has nothing to do either way with the quality of his work.
Okay - so you have been channelling Shirley McLaine, or - you're just tired and emotional, and should try a wine with less preservatives). Please don't - it's not good for anyone's mental health. Either way - seems you've cornered the market in faux pas and brickbats. [damn! I knew I should have bought short. Broker - buy shorts on solecisms and gaucherie -/. poster has lost his irony (that'd be not Alanis Morrisette's "idea" of irony) glasses and hit the Lambrusco]
So? He's done a shitload since and is still less of a self-promoter than many others who have done far less.
His song "piece of crap" sums up a lot of things, including the quality of streaming audio.
Listening to "Revolution Blues" and then discovering it's about Charles Manson is like looking at Van Gogh's "Wheatfield with Crows" and then hearing it was his last painting (it wasn't). Maybe compared to the genius of Lady Gaga (I thought "he" was a porn star) Neil Young ain't much.
"Needle and the Damage Done", "Turnstiles", "Broken Arrow", "I am a Child", "Mr Soul", "Cinnamon Girl", "Homegrown", "Down by the River", "Cortez the Killer", "Powderfinger", "Cowgirl In the Sand", "Ohio". that song he did for BP "Vampire Blues", the one he wrote for Donald Trump's Presidential campaign "Keep on Rockin in the Free World" - yep, no doubt that he was never as good as, um, Justin Beiber. But he did turn out the occasional song worth humming to in 45 years. None ever were more than foot-tapping mood music - I can't claim they promoted or inspired change, like, um, what's that band with the lead singer that went out with Brittany Spears? And I very much doubt he would have ever been sued for "not being himself" (such a self promoter him).
He's also a promoter of many other bands - but I must of missed the years when he shamelessly promoted himself.
As for "streaming is crap".... I seem to recall he had something to do with Pono. I hate it when people just criticise - without providing a better suggestion. Neil Young has even less staying power than he has integrity and musical ability.
The NSA has made a number of useful contributions to computing. I can't think of any right now.
[some time later] I still can't think of any. Oh wait, they dedicated resources to this.
I'll take a look. Maybe it's like watching COPS - you know it's slanted and mostly bullshit, and that in itself is useful information (unless you're the clicketty type fool).
SELinux, is useful. Of course there are any number of people who believe otherwise, but I'd rather build security on facts than unsubstantiatedbeliefs (even cathedrals aren't made from wishful thunking).
That'd be your cue, oh psychic leaders of the Aquarian Awakeninging (troofers, DogCow and others), to put your money where your mouth is - then you can grin, and I'll modify my "beliefs". Sounds like a fair trade to me.
"What part of 'turn on the backup sync, then uninstall the app' left you 'feeling' that you'd emphatically turned off backup?"
Maybe the part where I turned on backup sync SEEMINGLY entirely within Google Photos, and then uninstalled the app, which, from a reasonable person's perspective, would make it seem the backup wouldn't apply because Google Photos SEEMINGLY controls that function. It's pretty clear in the video why that's a problem, but if you don't think it is, then that's fine, too. Good for you.
Video yourself fitting a tap handle. Turn the tap on. Put the plug in the sink. Remove the tap handle - then video yourself mopping the floor. Call it the SEEMINGLY EMPHATIC stealth tap. The CAPS might get more viewers.
Hypocrisy is the only sin for a moral relativist -- failing one's own moral code, a universal sin that can always be pointed out by anyone to anyone.
Speak for yourself.
However, it is incredibly dangerous to demonize hypocrites -- because they can become non-hypocrites by embracing the bad thing, and that is worse yet seems to be overlooked. So someone who smokes and admits it's bad and you shouldn't do it, is a hypocrite. But someone who says you ought to smoke too is worse. These days, it seems to take more courage to be a hypocrite and speak out against something even though you have a personal failing, rather than safely promoting that thing because you truly believe in it.
Also, hypocrisy is different from flip-flopping, different from changing one's mind as new facts become known, and different from compromising as necessary to actually achieve one's goals as opposed to merely making a show of unyielding yet worthless support.
I see the problem, and it's common. You don't understand what hypocrisy means. Let me try and help:-
I smoke, and if I tell you smoking is bad - that doesn't make me a hypocrite (though smoking makes me an idiot). If you lived on tater tots dusted in Dorritos and I called you a fool for not respecting your body that that would make me a hypocrite.
If a politician called you a low-life because you broke a law, while they rented prostitutes in a (backward) places the criminalises prostitution - that would make them a hypocrite.
I don't know whether you're in denial, simply don't know what the word means, or have some sort of vested interest in diminishing the truth of the word - but I hope you'd simply grab a dictionary and check your facts before wasting energy arguing in defence of an emotional investment in the meaning of a word. They're just loose fences around concepts. Kicking down the fences to defend a position doesn't help communications.
Have you considered that hypocrisy may be a necessary requirement for being a politician?
All game theory can be relied on is to determine the actions and reactions of the lowest character. In some situations that may be the best course of action. In other situations there are less simple and "better" courses of action (enlightened self-interest) tl;dr? Game theory will always suggest shitting upstream. That all people will always chose the option that results in the quickest benefits regardless of later costs. Real life isn't game theory - or life would have ceased to exist long ago. Fortunately most people do the "right" thing, most of the time.
By real corruption they mean corruption so vile that it would disgust even members of congress. The other corruption simply goes by the name "business as usual". And, by the way, by that definition it is real corruption that does not exist, not the other kind.
A lot of other politicians would call it horse-trading.
Could be. But what it is NOT is hypocrisy since both the initial claim to support/oppose X and the vote to oppose/support X are in the public eye.
Hypocrisy is when a PUBLIC virtue is claimed while practising the associated vice in PRIVATE.
This could be horse trading (regular politics). This could be corruption. This could be a two-faced lying politician.
But it would not be hypocrisy.
Yeah - it's hypocrisy. It doesn't mean it's not horse trading (which ain't necessarily a good thing if it's a responsible position being traded - no matter how often it occurs), or two-faced lying (which is a redundant term). Dunno why you're trying so hard to pretend that it's not. Hint: a hypocrite is someone whom maintains a moral stance that contradicts their practices - whether or not the contradictory actions are public or private it's still hypocrisy. They're lowlifes just like falsifiers.
No amount of desperate, propagandist shouting CHANGES the fact.
Hi. I'm the idiot you're talking about. See above conversation and note that you're making a slight, yet important, misrepresentation here.
No misrepresentation. "hundreds of photos I’d taken of my wife, my daughter, and me, grouped together by Google’s facial-recognition technology in the company’s Photos app, all snapped over the course of a little more than a month. The problem was, I’d deleted all of those pictures". That is what backups do. Conflating "I thought I turned off backups" with "I'm shocked that local copies I deleted still exist in the backups" is idiotic. Especially coming from someone whose profession is supposed to be fact checking.
I had backup disabled through G+. Later, I installed Photos, and must have not disabled backup through the Photos app before I uninstalled it a day or two after install. A month later, a bunch of my photos taken after uninstall were on the Google Photos web site. I understand NOW that Photos is tied to is an Android function, but that's emphatically NOT clear from actually using the Photos app.
The analogy given earlier in this story is correct - you stepped on the remote control for your TV and are surprised (and shocked) it's still turned on. It happens. But most people don't go to such lengths to claim it wasn't clearly explained when you turned on the TV - or "conclude" it's "stealth".
You failed to bother reading the documentation for a backup app. I read the documentation before posting. I agree it could have been made clearer (read my first post on the subject) - I also still hold that it'd do little good.
To then claim it was not "emphatically NOT clear from actually using the Photos app" seems a little duplicitous don't you think? Given you didn't just install it, you configured it, and enabled backups (oh nose it was stealth, and, um, the internet pixies!) - there's a critical difference. I don't whether you make that omission because you're embarrassed by your mistake, or whether it's to defend your job - writing click-bait "stories", doesn't matter. We all make mistakes - but only bloody journalists make money from it. I sorry you don't like being called an idiot. I'm sorry you feel the need to defend histrionic "stealth" claims. I'm sorry you didn't bother to either read the full Gizmodo article you claim motivated you to "try" the app - or just failed to process the "creepy" comments.
What part of "turn on the backup sync, then uninstall the app" left you "feeling" that you'd emphatically turned off backup?
"It should be simpler" and "It should be clearer" aren't compatible with a desire to "just click" and think later. But don't let it stop you wanting the unachievable - and I won't criticise how making those claims, and catering to those sentiments, is part of your job. I wouldn't trust your "news editor" critical thinking skills to run a bath. Stick to your usual level of insightful "reporting" - like your discovery of "tatter tots rolled in Dorito dust" (really a wonder of our modern age - Pulitzer material). I await your new campaign to ban bad weather and sharp corners on furniture (just think of the headlines) - don't forget to lobby for larger toilet seats, it's outrageous that their isn't a warning that people who aren't, um, anorexic, can get stuck in there! [sigh - just don't fucking video that]
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that aid is charity. It's not. It's leverage.
Leverage? No, no - when I give you a dam, at a price I set, in a location of my choosing, and charge you interest. It's charity. (just ask the acolytes of Saint Mother Teresa if you don't believe me)
And that warm feeling you get, free of charge, it's not me pissing in your pocket. Really.
"it's the only tool legislators have after they've rooted out real corruption." They've rooted out real corruption! Really? So... what's that other stuff? Imitation corruption?
Oh wait.... Game Theory. Um, I'm being gamed. Again.
The New World Order - it's not a mindset, it's an instruction. Thou shalt believe that hypocrisy is the logical result of the elimination of corruption. [sigh]
I'd actually buy that book, that's absolutely brilliant. A 1001 might be too many, maybe 101 unless your book is going to be huge. Still, this might be a best seller if done in a comedic way.
Don't tell anyone - but market research showed bigger numbers sell better, and buyers never read more than the first ten pages as they only want to display it on their bookshelf. There's only 20 tips in the book - the rest of the pages are random quotes from Drucker written by a spam bot.
Stay tuned to Oprah for next weeks big release. I'll be bundling the first 100 copies with the new "Super Managers Shorts" - they come with a "Power Memory Aid" (that's a small tag in the front of the underpants with your name written on them); "Super Chick Magnet Power" (a built-in pouch designed to carry two large potatoes) plus the "Green Power" (they're reversible so you can half your underpants washing). Note: potatoes not included
Pro Tip: if you're there just look under your chair for your prize, and you can sneak out early and avoid the screaming and bat-shit craziness.
[oh crap - they've gone and put the potato pouch in the back]
Those symptoms indicate that you will probably be getting stretchy skin and bones as your super power.
My eyebrows are also getting shaggier, I have hair growing on my neck, and my ears do seem to be getting larger.
I will become Mambo - the Woolly Mammoth man!
I also intend to tell people that the only reason they do not have access to this technology is because it is being suppressed and that it should really only cost about five dollars for a DNA test and then another five for modifications. It is because of the wealthy and China... I have already emailed the link to my brother. Now I need to reel him in... Victory can be mine!
There are other things he needs to know.
The holes in the ozone layer are being caused by fluorocarbons - every fluorescent light bulb that breaks causes skin cancer. Stop using fluorescent light bulbs now.
Vanity (that is why he has moisturiser in his bedside table, right?) causes the extinction of (cute) wild animals. Every year thousands of the now rare Spanish Olay are killed to harvest the oil from their genitals. Ban Nivia Oil of Olay skin moisturiser now!
Thanks - now added to my new book "Things they don't tell you in Business Skool" (A Thousand and One Bleeding Obvious Things Managers should Know). Please post your banking details and I'll be pleased to deposit your contributors fee (tried earlier but I seem to have the wrong password).
Much thanks. DNA is, as far as I can tell, like coding. I am not a geneticist so I have a very limited understanding. I eagerly await my superhuman strength though! I am going to tell everyone that it is now possible and that science proves it. I do my best to help...
Great news! I am also not a geneticist, but I am pleased to discover that it's another field of so-called knowledge that is intuitive and requires not study or critical thinking to master. At first I doubted the existence of super powers based on what is now obviously a lack of understanding the power of negative thinking. Since reading the summary and checking a mirror I've discovered that I have less hair, and looser skin - clearly evidence of major changes. This can only be good.. I eagerly await the arrival of my super powers. In anticipation I've sold up all my business interests as I'm certain the need for such mundane things as food and shelter will prove redundant to a man of steel.
Thanks for your contribution to my growing list of expert skills. [smile]
You're no fun.;) You're supposed to throw a wild uneducated opinion out there.
Well obviously it will mean people will develop super powers.
Meh... I was wondering what effects this *could* have as well - like with immunizations. Obviously viruses would just adapt but the flavors of the day could be stopped maybe.
The most informed opinions seems to be - none. It'll help us understand evolution [ducks rocks thrown by troglodytes], may be useful in gene therapy, and also organic information systems.
"The CPI measures the change in the cost of purchasing a fixed basket of goods and services." Source Australian Bureau of Statistics.
It is supposed to be fixed, but that's a dubious proposition. Products that are nominally the same over time aren't in reality.
I've covered our use of relative poverty (see above).
Everybody uses relative poverty because it's what the UN and OECD use.
What should I conclude? That you haven't read the sources I provided? That they are wrong? Or that Australia isn't "everybody"? Labour would like to use "relative poverty" - but they're not in power. The Liberals are, and they don't use "relative poverty".
I'm pointing out that it makes no sense.
Agreed. Poverty shouldn't mean you can't afford a new car, or wine, or cigarettes. It should mean you can't afford the basic for a minimally healthy lifestyle. Which would include those things necessary to elevate your economic position is you so desire (avoid the poverty trap)..e.g. a car license, the ability to save enough so that if you do get a job you can bridge the gap between cessation of welfare (which use accrual to determine eligibility) and your first pay check. There are some measures that help but the best would be to change to cash accounting to determine payment eligibility.
Minimal dental care etc. We already have a good "universal" healthcare (which rarely covers dental) and pharmaceutical benefits scheme. Likewise housing is not too terrible - waiting lists for accomodation in Dept. of Housing properties is long, but welfare does provide a rental assistance, and most states have a rental bond assistance program - so welfare support for housing isn't limited to public housing. Public transport (except taxis) provides concession fares. If you live in a capital city and only spend on the basics welfare is not too terrible. But if you live outside the capital cities, or a stuck on welfare for extended periods - it is a trap that is difficult, or impossible to climb out of. I didn't always believe that was the case until I tried assisting a few people to do so (put my money where my mouth was).
Raising the level of education could change the number of people who qualify for jobs for which there are few or no candidates.
You can't realistically raise the level of education by government action and spending beyond a certain minimum. The US has tried and failed.
I don't know what the US has tried, or why it's failed. I often hear the opinion that increased education won't change things because people don't want to learn - it's part of the current "poverty is a choice" mentality. And wrong because it fails to recognise that many do want to have a better education, but can't afford it (because it's not on offer in their location as part of public education). To which the response is often - then move (which also ignores the problem that creates, even if possible).
I gave you one example of why the education system in Australia has failed in some locations - there are more reasons, but they're the ones I come across locally. I asked myself why are all these people from particular areas funtionally illiterate - and even, illiterate? The problems in those cases was not shortage of teachers, but of different implementations of the national education curriculum. The conclusion based on working with these schools, and the teachers was that it required a change in mentality (why teach them things they will never use - they will be unskilled labour or unemployed) and of application of curriculum. That doesn't require more resources. As a member of the business community (and a previous member of business associations) I also see the other pressures that ensure that some areas fail - "we need more people who are willing to work for low wages", "we need to ensure that our childr
Google Photos is a different application than backup sync. More at 11.
Yep, and the "summary" is not accurate (big surprise). Most of the dumb analogies people have posted are information free because they didn't read the referenced article. The original "author" installed the Backup tool. It backed up his photos. He removed the backup tool and deleted the local photos. Then was horrified to discover that the backed up photos still existed. His conclusion - use Flickr.
tl;dr? The original story was written by an idiot, then sexed up as a summary by a bigger idiot. Which created a/. competition to see who could be an even bigger idiot.
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At what point did Americans substitute the word "truther" for "crackpot"?
About the same time geeks became a "good thing" and we stopped paying a nickel to see them at side shows?
And it's troofer, not "truther". [sigh] Just shows you're part of the conspiracy, or a sheeple.
"Truther" conspiracy nuts don't believe in *anything* they can't see, feel, hear, or touch themselves.
Troofers believe in a whole bunch of things they can't see, feel, hear. (and they probably touch themselves way too much).
Gang stalking, alien probing and abductions, the hollow moon and the secret moon bases, people living beneath the Arctic ice mass, chemtrails, remote mind control, shape-shifting lizard people, alien visitors from outer space, the English royal family eating babies, astrology, tarot, crystal healing, past lives, Deepak Chopra telling the truth, fairies (not the gay kind), angels, ghosts, Carlos Castenada, the Bible as literally true, ectoplasm, what really happens at Bildenberger conventions, the cancer curing properties of water vortexes, lucky rabbits feet (didn't work for the rabbit), Uri Geller, that their psychic abilities aren't psychotic episodes, that if a /. poster quotes their posts twice they're being stalked, that they're not highly suggestible attention whores, etc - a long list of things they can't see, touch, feel or hear.
You forgot Heart of Gold. It's my personal favorite. His voice is a bit screechy and out of tune but he does have some good songs. I will admit that it is pretty funny that he complains about streaming services degrading the "quality" given the quality of his singing.
I left out a lot of his songs - not enough space. My favourite is "Revolution Blues", but "Vampire Blues" is also damn good.
Agreed his voice is, um, less than melodious - and he's certainly no Chet Atkins either (or Keith Richards for that matter). But I do want the best quality recording I can get - he's usually had some damn fine bands behind him. Even when a recording is crappy e.g. the Hendrix, McLaughlin, and Miles session with that squeaky, rattling amp - I still want to hear it as close as possible to the original recording. I can hear McLaughlin pushing his old acoustic (Driving South) on the vinyl - but can barely hear it, or identify the over-driven amp (sounds like a MusicMan) in the 360kps digital recording. Likewise the later tracks with Johnny Winter - much better on the vinyl.
If others can't tell the difference between a high quality recording and a high compression mp3 that's their choice - I can, and that's what counts to me. Others probably can't pick a classic guitar by ear, or tell which sups Keith Richards is using to get his distinctive sound. There's more to hearing than just audio range. Keith Richards is a good example given the number of "covers" you'll find on Youtube that don't use the right chords because they can't hear the difference between the original recording and what they're playing (despite the crap quality of Youtube I can see they're playing it wrong. So it's not "guessing" on my part.
Just as I suspected
Tickets on yourself much?
Cathedrals are maybe not the best example you could cite to make your point,
That'd be the obvious point that you failed to grasp. That building, whether or not you irrelevantly retrospectively apply current building codes to them, are build of substance - not conjecture.
And the same applies to security. What used to be secure a decade ago is at best deprecated today, at worst considered criminal negligence.
Did I say it was a great security project? Did I say it should be trusted? Did the "bucket of manure" Comment Subject fly over your sunken head?
How did you learn to write without learning to read - or did you get your mum to write your misguided and misinformed speel for you?
Do you have any facts to contribute or are you just looking for an excuse to flap your gums?
Proven backdoors in SELinux? Nope - didn't think so. Just hot air from someone who failed to comprehend the invitation to put your money where your mouth is and supply some facts. Hand wavy crap about bodyguards taking the day off != facts.
Extrapolation - if your business makes money off the intertubes...
It make use of free peering.
You make money on someone else's back.
You owe [insert company name here] money
[Conclusion] Either the highway robbers, um, [insert company name here], um gatekeepers, um people who are not, emphasis on not, double charging, get a fair, percentage of your take - or it's just not fair.
Here's a quote from someone:
Now consider a similar thing, whether self-promotion is a survival tactic in the US music industry or not.
Fair question. My answer is, um, yes - and no. I suspect Neil Young hasn't been part of the main stream music industry for some time (and may he build a ladder to the stars). Probably because he hasn't given much of a fuck since the man broke his silver fiddle.
Do I know that for a fact - no (but I'm open to informed critique). Do you "know" otherwise?
Does telling Donald "Merkin" Trump he can't use his music without permission count as "self-promotion"?
He's done it a LOT less than many, but that doesn't mean he hasn't done it at all and that's not what I was suggesting above. It's also got nothing to do with the article either way IMHO
Oh good - that's something we maybe agree on (I like chocolates and romantic movies - are you free Saturday night?).
, which is why it took it up with the above poster which you seem to have misunderstood when you decided to jump on this wagon.
Jump. On. Wagon. Did I miss a meeting down the docks? I was responding to your post. Quoting - have you heard of it?
Do you own a patent on the thread? Or just tickets on yourself ('cause the value needs reappraisal)
Did you read something into my addendum to your post that, um, wasn't there? Are you channelling Shirley McLaine? Maybe you should re-read what I wrote (go on - it's still there, words haven't changed - hint: I like Neil Young, a lot).
Also consider whether the posts being critical of him are guilty of shooting the messenger instead of addressing the message.
Good advice. Pack it in a suppository, "shelf" it, then call me back in the morning (preferably after you've re-read what you've misinterpreted and over-reacted to. Preferably after the anti-satire pills have worn off, but your call).
As I see it, he's involved in the industry and has given his opinion - which really has nothing to do either way with the quality of his work.
Okay - so you have been channelling Shirley McLaine, or - you're just tired and emotional, and should try a wine with less preservatives). Please don't - it's not good for anyone's mental health. Either way - seems you've cornered the market in faux pas and brickbats. [damn! I knew I should have bought short. Broker - buy shorts on solecisms and gaucherie - /. poster has lost his irony (that'd be not Alanis Morrisette's "idea" of irony) glasses and hit the Lambrusco]
So? He's done a shitload since and is still less of a self-promoter than many others who have done far less. His song "piece of crap" sums up a lot of things, including the quality of streaming audio.
Listening to "Revolution Blues" and then discovering it's about Charles Manson is like looking at Van Gogh's "Wheatfield with Crows" and then hearing it was his last painting (it wasn't). Maybe compared to the genius of Lady Gaga (I thought "he" was a porn star) Neil Young ain't much.
"Needle and the Damage Done", "Turnstiles", "Broken Arrow", "I am a Child", "Mr Soul", "Cinnamon Girl", "Homegrown", "Down by the River", "Cortez the Killer", "Powderfinger", "Cowgirl In the Sand", "Ohio". that song he did for BP "Vampire Blues", the one he wrote for Donald Trump's Presidential campaign "Keep on Rockin in the Free World" - yep, no doubt that he was never as good as, um, Justin Beiber. But he did turn out the occasional song worth humming to in 45 years. None ever were more than foot-tapping mood music - I can't claim they promoted or inspired change, like, um, what's that band with the lead singer that went out with Brittany Spears? And I very much doubt he would have ever been sued for "not being himself" (such a self promoter him).
He's also a promoter of many other bands - but I must of missed the years when he shamelessly promoted himself.
As for "streaming is crap".... I seem to recall he had something to do with Pono. I hate it when people just criticise - without providing a better suggestion. Neil Young has even less staying power than he has integrity and musical ability.
but there may be a pony at the other end.
The NSA has made a number of useful contributions to computing. I can't think of any right now.
[some time later] I still can't think of any. Oh wait, they dedicated resources to this.
I'll take a look. Maybe it's like watching COPS - you know it's slanted and mostly bullshit, and that in itself is useful information (unless you're the clicketty type fool).
SELinux, is useful. Of course there are any number of people who believe otherwise, but I'd rather build security on facts than unsubstantiated beliefs (even cathedrals aren't made from wishful thunking).
That'd be your cue, oh psychic leaders of the Aquarian Awakeninging (troofers, DogCow and others), to put your money where your mouth is - then you can grin, and I'll modify my "beliefs". Sounds like a fair trade to me.
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia
One (short) war since they were the same land mass does not always make.
"What part of 'turn on the backup sync, then uninstall the app' left you 'feeling' that you'd emphatically turned off backup?" Maybe the part where I turned on backup sync SEEMINGLY entirely within Google Photos, and then uninstalled the app, which, from a reasonable person's perspective, would make it seem the backup wouldn't apply because Google Photos SEEMINGLY controls that function. It's pretty clear in the video why that's a problem, but if you don't think it is, then that's fine, too. Good for you.
Video yourself fitting a tap handle. Turn the tap on. Put the plug in the sink. Remove the tap handle - then video yourself mopping the floor.
Call it the SEEMINGLY EMPHATIC stealth tap. The CAPS might get more viewers.
Hypocrisy is the only sin for a moral relativist -- failing one's own moral code, a universal sin that can always be pointed out by anyone to anyone.
Speak for yourself.
However, it is incredibly dangerous to demonize hypocrites -- because they can become non-hypocrites by embracing the bad thing, and that is worse yet seems to be overlooked. So someone who smokes and admits it's bad and you shouldn't do it, is a hypocrite. But someone who says you ought to smoke too is worse. These days, it seems to take more courage to be a hypocrite and speak out against something even though you have a personal failing, rather than safely promoting that thing because you truly believe in it.
Also, hypocrisy is different from flip-flopping, different from changing one's mind as new facts become known, and different from compromising as necessary to actually achieve one's goals as opposed to merely making a show of unyielding yet worthless support.
I see the problem, and it's common. You don't understand what hypocrisy means. Let me try and help:-
I smoke, and if I tell you smoking is bad - that doesn't make me a hypocrite (though smoking makes me an idiot). If you lived on tater tots dusted in Dorritos and I called you a fool for not respecting your body that that would make me a hypocrite.
If a politician called you a low-life because you broke a law, while they rented prostitutes in a (backward) places the criminalises prostitution - that would make them a hypocrite.
I don't know whether you're in denial, simply don't know what the word means, or have some sort of vested interest in diminishing the truth of the word - but I hope you'd simply grab a dictionary and check your facts before wasting energy arguing in defence of an emotional investment in the meaning of a word. They're just loose fences around concepts. Kicking down the fences to defend a position doesn't help communications.
Have you considered that hypocrisy may be a necessary requirement for being a politician?
All game theory can be relied on is to determine the actions and reactions of the lowest character. In some situations that may be the best course of action. In other situations there are less simple and "better" courses of action (enlightened self-interest)
tl;dr? Game theory will always suggest shitting upstream. That all people will always chose the option that results in the quickest benefits regardless of later costs. Real life isn't game theory - or life would have ceased to exist long ago. Fortunately most people do the "right" thing, most of the time.
By real corruption they mean corruption so vile that it would disgust even members of congress. The other corruption simply goes by the name "business as usual". And, by the way, by that definition it is real corruption that does not exist, not the other kind.
Thanks for the clarification.
Could be. But what it is NOT is hypocrisy since both the initial claim to support/oppose X and the vote to oppose/support X are in the public eye.
Hypocrisy is when a PUBLIC virtue is claimed while practising the associated vice in PRIVATE.
This could be horse trading (regular politics). This could be corruption. This could be a two-faced lying politician.
But it would not be hypocrisy.
Yeah - it's hypocrisy. It doesn't mean it's not horse trading (which ain't necessarily a good thing if it's a responsible position being traded - no matter how often it occurs), or two-faced lying (which is a redundant term).
Dunno why you're trying so hard to pretend that it's not. Hint: a hypocrite is someone whom maintains a moral stance that contradicts their practices - whether or not the contradictory actions are public or private it's still hypocrisy. They're lowlifes just like falsifiers.
No amount of desperate, propagandist shouting CHANGES the fact.
Hi. I'm the idiot you're talking about. See above conversation and note that you're making a slight, yet important, misrepresentation here.
No misrepresentation.
"hundreds of photos I’d taken of my wife, my daughter, and me, grouped together by Google’s facial-recognition technology in the company’s Photos app, all snapped over the course of a little more than a month. The problem was, I’d deleted all of those pictures". That is what backups do. Conflating "I thought I turned off backups" with "I'm shocked that local copies I deleted still exist in the backups" is idiotic. Especially coming from someone whose profession is supposed to be fact checking.
I had backup disabled through G+. Later, I installed Photos, and must have not disabled backup through the Photos app before I uninstalled it a day or two after install. A month later, a bunch of my photos taken after uninstall were on the Google Photos web site. I understand NOW that Photos is tied to is an Android function, but that's emphatically NOT clear from actually using the Photos app.
The analogy given earlier in this story is correct - you stepped on the remote control for your TV and are surprised (and shocked) it's still turned on. It happens. But most people don't go to such lengths to claim it wasn't clearly explained when you turned on the TV - or "conclude" it's "stealth".
You failed to bother reading the documentation for a backup app. I read the documentation before posting. I agree it could have been made clearer (read my first post on the subject) - I also still hold that it'd do little good.
To then claim it was not "emphatically NOT clear from actually using the Photos app" seems a little duplicitous don't you think? Given you didn't just install it, you configured it, and enabled backups (oh nose it was stealth, and, um, the internet pixies!) - there's a critical difference. I don't whether you make that omission because you're embarrassed by your mistake, or whether it's to defend your job - writing click-bait "stories", doesn't matter.
We all make mistakes - but only bloody journalists make money from it.
I sorry you don't like being called an idiot. I'm sorry you feel the need to defend histrionic "stealth" claims. I'm sorry you didn't bother to either read the full Gizmodo article you claim motivated you to "try" the app - or just failed to process the "creepy" comments.
What part of "turn on the backup sync, then uninstall the app" left you "feeling" that you'd emphatically turned off backup?
"It should be simpler" and "It should be clearer" aren't compatible with a desire to "just click" and think later. But don't let it stop you wanting the unachievable - and I won't criticise how making those claims, and catering to those sentiments, is part of your job.
I wouldn't trust your "news editor" critical thinking skills to run a bath. Stick to your usual level of insightful "reporting" - like your discovery of "tatter tots rolled in Dorito dust" (really a wonder of our modern age - Pulitzer material). I await your new campaign to ban bad weather and sharp corners on furniture (just think of the headlines) - don't forget to lobby for larger toilet seats, it's outrageous that their isn't a warning that people who aren't, um, anorexic, can get stuck in there! [sigh - just don't fucking video that]
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that aid is charity. It's not. It's leverage.
Leverage? No, no - when I give you a dam, at a price I set, in a location of my choosing, and charge you interest. It's charity. (just ask the acolytes of Saint Mother Teresa if you don't believe me)
And that warm feeling you get, free of charge, it's not me pissing in your pocket. Really.
"it's the only tool legislators have after they've rooted out real corruption." They've rooted out real corruption! Really? So... what's that other stuff? Imitation corruption?
Oh wait.... Game Theory. Um, I'm being gamed. Again.
The New World Order - it's not a mindset, it's an instruction. Thou shalt believe that hypocrisy is the logical result of the elimination of corruption. [sigh]
I'd actually buy that book, that's absolutely brilliant. A 1001 might be too many, maybe 101 unless your book is going to be huge. Still, this might be a best seller if done in a comedic way.
Don't tell anyone - but market research showed bigger numbers sell better, and buyers never read more than the first ten pages as they only want to display it on their bookshelf. There's only 20 tips in the book - the rest of the pages are random quotes from Drucker written by a spam bot.
Stay tuned to Oprah for next weeks big release. I'll be bundling the first 100 copies with the new "Super Managers Shorts" - they come with a "Power Memory Aid" (that's a small tag in the front of the underpants with your name written on them); "Super Chick Magnet Power" (a built-in pouch designed to carry two large potatoes) plus the "Green Power" (they're reversible so you can half your underpants washing). Note: potatoes not included
Pro Tip: if you're there just look under your chair for your prize, and you can sneak out early and avoid the screaming and bat-shit craziness.
[oh crap - they've gone and put the potato pouch in the back]
Those symptoms indicate that you will probably be getting stretchy skin and bones as your super power.
My eyebrows are also getting shaggier, I have hair growing on my neck, and my ears do seem to be getting larger.
I will become Mambo - the Woolly Mammoth man!
I also intend to tell people that the only reason they do not have access to this technology is because it is being suppressed and that it should really only cost about five dollars for a DNA test and then another five for modifications. It is because of the wealthy and China... I have already emailed the link to my brother. Now I need to reel him in... Victory can be mine!
There are other things he needs to know.
The holes in the ozone layer are being caused by fluorocarbons - every fluorescent light bulb that breaks causes skin cancer. Stop using fluorescent light bulbs now.
Vanity (that is why he has moisturiser in his bedside table, right?) causes the extinction of (cute) wild animals. Every year thousands of the now rare Spanish Olay are killed to harvest the oil from their genitals. Ban Nivia Oil of Olay skin moisturiser now!
which do not pay.
Thanks - now added to my new book "Things they don't tell you in Business Skool" (A Thousand and One Bleeding Obvious Things Managers should Know). Please post your banking details and I'll be pleased to deposit your contributors fee (tried earlier but I seem to have the wrong password).
Much thanks. DNA is, as far as I can tell, like coding. I am not a geneticist so I have a very limited understanding. I eagerly await my superhuman strength though! I am going to tell everyone that it is now possible and that science proves it. I do my best to help...
Great news! I am also not a geneticist, but I am pleased to discover that it's another field of so-called knowledge that is intuitive and requires not study or critical thinking to master. At first I doubted the existence of super powers based on what is now obviously a lack of understanding the power of negative thinking. Since reading the summary and checking a mirror I've discovered that I have less hair, and looser skin - clearly evidence of major changes. This can only be good.. I eagerly await the arrival of my super powers. In anticipation I've sold up all my business interests as I'm certain the need for such mundane things as food and shelter will prove redundant to a man of steel.
Thanks for your contribution to my growing list of expert skills. [smile]
We want another ride!
You're no fun. ;) You're supposed to throw a wild uneducated opinion out there.
Well obviously it will mean people will develop super powers.
Meh... I was wondering what effects this *could* have as well - like with immunizations. Obviously viruses would just adapt but the flavors of the day could be stopped maybe.
The most informed opinions seems to be - none. It'll help us understand evolution [ducks rocks thrown by troglodytes], may be useful in gene therapy, and also organic information systems.
"The CPI measures the change in the cost of purchasing a fixed basket of goods and services." Source Australian Bureau of Statistics.
It is supposed to be fixed, but that's a dubious proposition. Products that are nominally the same over time aren't in reality.
I've covered our use of relative poverty (see above).
Everybody uses relative poverty because it's what the UN and OECD use.
What should I conclude? That you haven't read the sources I provided? That they are wrong? Or that Australia isn't "everybody"? Labour would like to use "relative poverty" - but they're not in power. The Liberals are, and they don't use "relative poverty".
I'm pointing out that it makes no sense.
Agreed. Poverty shouldn't mean you can't afford a new car, or wine, or cigarettes. It should mean you can't afford the basic for a minimally healthy lifestyle. Which would include those things necessary to elevate your economic position is you so desire (avoid the poverty trap). .e.g. a car license, the ability to save enough so that if you do get a job you can bridge the gap between cessation of welfare (which use accrual to determine eligibility) and your first pay check. There are some measures that help but the best would be to change to cash accounting to determine payment eligibility.
Minimal dental care etc. We already have a good "universal" healthcare (which rarely covers dental) and pharmaceutical benefits scheme. Likewise housing is not too terrible - waiting lists for accomodation in Dept. of Housing properties is long, but welfare does provide a rental assistance, and most states have a rental bond assistance program - so welfare support for housing isn't limited to public housing. Public transport (except taxis) provides concession fares. If you live in a capital city and only spend on the basics welfare is not too terrible. But if you live outside the capital cities, or a stuck on welfare for extended periods - it is a trap that is difficult, or impossible to climb out of. I didn't always believe that was the case until I tried assisting a few people to do so (put my money where my mouth was).
Raising the level of education could change the number of people who qualify for jobs for which there are few or no candidates.
You can't realistically raise the level of education by government action and spending beyond a certain minimum. The US has tried and failed.
I don't know what the US has tried, or why it's failed. I often hear the opinion that increased education won't change things because people don't want to learn - it's part of the current "poverty is a choice" mentality. And wrong because it fails to recognise that many do want to have a better education, but can't afford it (because it's not on offer in their location as part of public education). To which the response is often - then move (which also ignores the problem that creates, even if possible).
I gave you one example of why the education system in Australia has failed in some locations - there are more reasons, but they're the ones I come across locally. I asked myself why are all these people from particular areas funtionally illiterate - and even, illiterate? The problems in those cases was not shortage of teachers, but of different implementations of the national education curriculum. The conclusion based on working with these schools, and the teachers was that it required a change in mentality (why teach them things they will never use - they will be unskilled labour or unemployed) and of application of curriculum. That doesn't require more resources. As a member of the business community (and a previous member of business associations) I also see the other pressures that ensure that some areas fail - "we need more people who are willing to work for low wages", "we need to ensure that our childr
Google Photos is a different application than backup sync. More at 11.
Yep, and the "summary" is not accurate (big surprise). Most of the dumb analogies people have posted are information free because they didn't read the referenced article. The original "author" installed the Backup tool. It backed up his photos. He removed the backup tool and deleted the local photos. Then was horrified to discover that the backed up photos still existed. His conclusion - use Flickr.
tl;dr? The original story was written by an idiot, then sexed up as a summary by a bigger idiot. Which created a /. competition to see who could be an even bigger idiot.