I just watched Black Panther for the first time, and I actually came away from that movie seething with rage at all the racist stereotypes that were throughout that movie. But it is a huge "win" for the black community. But in reality, I don't see where, other than black cast; they were portraying every stereotype of black people possible.
But suicide rates are comparable to the US, even with gun deaths included. Why? Because people who want to kill themselves will kill themselves, and the tool is just that. The whole "suicide by gun" factoid is cute, but does NOTHING to solve suicides or address the actual reasons people kill themselves.
IMHO it should be removed, completely, from the gun debate as useless noise or worse, ignoring of the problem of suicide for a political statement.
For the record, slippery slope is a LOGICAL fallacy, not because it is always false, but rather because it can be false. Slippery Slope is a valid argument as a POTENTIAL of uncertain outcomes, not as logical proof of certainty.
In this case, it is a reasonable if even remote possibility. The fact that it does happen, is reason enough to offer it up as a slippery slope possibility.
Someone's "minor crime" is another person's last penny. But that's okay, when criminals have more rights than their victims. And the typical passivist mentality of victimhood is empowering those criminals.
I cringe every time I see a mother crying over a dead son, whose only crime is pulling a gun on a cop. "they could have tazed him, they didn't have to kill him".
1) Nobody. Everything was done by committee, so there is no one person to blame, and no one person to take the fall. This is very common in Public Sector domains, there is nobody TO fire, because no one person is responible for anything. The people at the top are insulated from their boneheaded decisions as the push the blame down the chain. Those down the chain are all in committees that decide everything.
2) The guy at the Bottom, who was only doing what he was told and allowed to do, but nobody likes. He'll get reassigned to another department because they can't really fire him(her), because the process to fire someone is so bad that nobody actually goes through the whole process ever.
The pain point for ransomware is low enough that enough people pay it rather than restore from backup and/or try to recover via other means (including re-imaging).
And if you haven't had a full restore test of all critical systems, then you're already playing with fire. Nobody Ain't Got Time For That (tm) is the normal response.
I have a saying... "Good IT is expensive. Bad IT is costly"*. If they lose more than a day's productivity on their compromised systems, they need to just pay the ransom, and learn the expensive lesson.
*This may or may not be the fault of IT. I've been in IT long enough to see IT make recommendations that are denied because "they are expensive" and I've seen bad IT. I always use risk / reward when outlining IT infrastructure costs. Sometimes the calculus is "if bad shit happens, we'll eat it".
I would suggest to you, that your use of "n word" is itself the use of that particular word. They haven't stopped anyone from "using" it except directly. Do they ban the use of "GNAA"? Old timers like me know that acronym and the "N" in there is exactly that word.
The only thing they have stopped is meaningless in the end. Pejoratives are replaced all the time. "Retard" now becomes "Special" which is slowly becoming a pejorative replacement. "Isn't he special" has nearly the same connotation as "isn't he a retard" maybe even worse.
That is the problem with assigning motivation to words, is motivations can move from word to word, when one is no longer allowed. I can see a pathway where Retard becomes something positive having a connotation related to "Flame Retardant" for someone willing to take the heat that would burn others. Though it would be a long path to get there.
Words have meaning to give connotations their power. If you ban a word, those looking for connotation will simply choose another word to convey the same meaning. Censorship is dumb.
Technically, Linux wasn't always an option. In fact, I would suggest to you that Linux would not have made it in the marketplace had it not been Windows Monopoly partially driving development of Linux as an alternative. There were enough people involved in Linux that were simply trying to build an alternative to Windows, using a Unix like system. It was so successful, that it has largely replace Unix itself as a drop in replacement (Yes, I know there are BSD variants out there still viable, along with other Unixes)
Once Tech solves the problem, the price will come down substantially.
Heck there are some very well known places that have fairly good DeSal plants supplying water already. There isn't a huge need (yet) therefore it is still expensive.
1) isn't a reason. The many of the very people voting for Hillary because she was a woman, wouldn't vote for a Republican Woman. That means that being a woman was just an excuse to vote for her, because she had nothing else going for her.
2) Plenty of people voted for Trump because he wasn't Hillary. Voting for someone because "they aren't the other person" is a pretty lame ass reason.
Both were ok reasons, but hardly very good
They are reasons. Saying they are "ok" is a large part of why we had Hillary and Donald as the two options. Neither option was "ok".
A lot of people stayed home because they just couldn't pull the trigger for Hillary. There was plenty of reasons to not vote for her. Including the ongoing meltdown she's still has over her second failed attempt at being president. And the worst part is, Trump beat the only person he was capable of beating, because she stank so bad.
Now, you can blame that loss on all sorts of reasons, but the plain fact is, she sucked as a candidate. Most of the reason she lost was her own making.
We do know the Pedestrian was crossing illegally, and hence has the greatest amount of blame. I've had people dart out at night, in dark colored clothing in the middle of a street, and only missed them because they were lucky. There was no way I would have been able to stop in time.
I'm not victim blaming here, because the victim may be the person driving the car, not the person who died. A trauma such as this will haunt a person for the rest of their lives.
And that leads to my conclusion. Just because someone dies doesn't make them the victim. People are idiots, some more so than others.
Illegal Immigration is a larger percentage of human trafficking. Rich Republicans who want cheap labor don't care. Rich Democrats who want an ethnic wedge issue don't care.
Equity of outcomes necessarily harms people who are better qualified. There is a huge problem for Asians who over represent their race in a number of areas, but the most well known one is College Admissions. It is well known that Asians have to score higher on entrance exams to qualify. And it isn't even close.
While I applaud efforts to increase participation, the reality is that Asians work harder than others to succeed. They have to for two reasons, one is cultural (family values education above just about anything) and now, because they have to to gain admission.
IF the main story is true, then the whole "White and Asian Males Need Not Apply" is equally bigoted AND stupid. You're not getting the best workers for PC reasons.
The marketing makes one feel attached (emotionally) to their Phone Choice. The people now are "invested" in that particular phone. They spend money customizing it with a case, and stickers, and become even more emotionally attached. It is a very "personal" device.
Now you (Apple, Samsung) want to take it away from me? What are you thinking???!!!!
I find most video games at least partially addictive, and your basic point, minus the inflammatory remarks is admirable, but I doubt you'll extend your conclusion based on addictiveness of gaming to the whole genre.
My point is people are willingly addicted to video games, anything after that is quibbling over how bad it actually is. Personally, I find the time sink equally bad as a monetary one. Especially when you factor in social problems that arises from vulnerable nerds inability to relate to actual real people adequately.
But you don't understand, they want to play THAT game. You know, the one with the P2W Loot Crates and the expansion pack that allows you to complete the game. Free games aren't worth paying for, and they shouldn't have to pay for the game they want to play either!
I know people who would be depressed if they had to work in certain jobs, and I know people who's job doesn't define them, and they are perfectly happy doing the jobs that depress others. You can blame chemical imbalance all you want (in some cases it is true), but the reality is, outlook shapes how you feel. AND it can be taught. There are people who when trapped in life circumstances, get all depressed and die, and then there are people who will cut their own arm off to save their life from depressing circumstances, and go on and have a good life.
we start figuring out how to live how we want to live without the consequences
There are always consequences. That is the real lesson of nature. We get sick and develop antibiotics, the germs get resistant, and we get sicker and in the end, we all still die. To live without consequence is the biggest lie of all.
Yeah, all that Profit which drives innovation is really bad idea. It is like we can't do two things at once, make money and be altruistic, right? Nobody was able to make that work out right.
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I've been saying this for such a long time.
I just watched Black Panther for the first time, and I actually came away from that movie seething with rage at all the racist stereotypes that were throughout that movie. But it is a huge "win" for the black community. But in reality, I don't see where, other than black cast; they were portraying every stereotype of black people possible.
Suicide by gun is similarly rare.
But suicide rates are comparable to the US, even with gun deaths included. Why? Because people who want to kill themselves will kill themselves, and the tool is just that. The whole "suicide by gun" factoid is cute, but does NOTHING to solve suicides or address the actual reasons people kill themselves.
IMHO it should be removed, completely, from the gun debate as useless noise or worse, ignoring of the problem of suicide for a political statement.
For the record, slippery slope is a LOGICAL fallacy, not because it is always false, but rather because it can be false. Slippery Slope is a valid argument as a POTENTIAL of uncertain outcomes, not as logical proof of certainty.
In this case, it is a reasonable if even remote possibility. The fact that it does happen, is reason enough to offer it up as a slippery slope possibility.
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Someone's "minor crime" is another person's last penny. But that's okay, when criminals have more rights than their victims. And the typical passivist mentality of victimhood is empowering those criminals.
I cringe every time I see a mother crying over a dead son, whose only crime is pulling a gun on a cop. "they could have tazed him, they didn't have to kill him".
There are two answers to this question.
1) Nobody. Everything was done by committee, so there is no one person to blame, and no one person to take the fall. This is very common in Public Sector domains, there is nobody TO fire, because no one person is responible for anything. The people at the top are insulated from their boneheaded decisions as the push the blame down the chain. Those down the chain are all in committees that decide everything.
2) The guy at the Bottom, who was only doing what he was told and allowed to do, but nobody likes. He'll get reassigned to another department because they can't really fire him(her), because the process to fire someone is so bad that nobody actually goes through the whole process ever.
That's why nobody is getting fired.
The pain point for ransomware is low enough that enough people pay it rather than restore from backup and/or try to recover via other means (including re-imaging).
And if you haven't had a full restore test of all critical systems, then you're already playing with fire. Nobody Ain't Got Time For That (tm) is the normal response.
I have a saying ... "Good IT is expensive. Bad IT is costly"*. If they lose more than a day's productivity on their compromised systems, they need to just pay the ransom, and learn the expensive lesson.
*This may or may not be the fault of IT. I've been in IT long enough to see IT make recommendations that are denied because "they are expensive" and I've seen bad IT. I always use risk / reward when outlining IT infrastructure costs. Sometimes the calculus is "if bad shit happens, we'll eat it".
I would suggest to you, that your use of "n word" is itself the use of that particular word. They haven't stopped anyone from "using" it except directly. Do they ban the use of "GNAA"? Old timers like me know that acronym and the "N" in there is exactly that word.
The only thing they have stopped is meaningless in the end. Pejoratives are replaced all the time. "Retard" now becomes "Special" which is slowly becoming a pejorative replacement. "Isn't he special" has nearly the same connotation as "isn't he a retard" maybe even worse.
That is the problem with assigning motivation to words, is motivations can move from word to word, when one is no longer allowed. I can see a pathway where Retard becomes something positive having a connotation related to "Flame Retardant" for someone willing to take the heat that would burn others. Though it would be a long path to get there.
Words have meaning to give connotations their power. If you ban a word, those looking for connotation will simply choose another word to convey the same meaning. Censorship is dumb.
Technically, Linux wasn't always an option. In fact, I would suggest to you that Linux would not have made it in the marketplace had it not been Windows Monopoly partially driving development of Linux as an alternative. There were enough people involved in Linux that were simply trying to build an alternative to Windows, using a Unix like system. It was so successful, that it has largely replace Unix itself as a drop in replacement (Yes, I know there are BSD variants out there still viable, along with other Unixes)
Once Tech solves the problem, the price will come down substantially.
Heck there are some very well known places that have fairly good DeSal plants supplying water already. There isn't a huge need (yet) therefore it is still expensive.
As will Global warming, Over Population, Hunger, Pollution ...
Get the idea?
1) isn't a reason. The many of the very people voting for Hillary because she was a woman, wouldn't vote for a Republican Woman. That means that being a woman was just an excuse to vote for her, because she had nothing else going for her.
2) Plenty of people voted for Trump because he wasn't Hillary. Voting for someone because "they aren't the other person" is a pretty lame ass reason.
Both were ok reasons, but hardly very good
They are reasons. Saying they are "ok" is a large part of why we had Hillary and Donald as the two options. Neither option was "ok".
A lot of people stayed home because they just couldn't pull the trigger for Hillary. There was plenty of reasons to not vote for her. Including the ongoing meltdown she's still has over her second failed attempt at being president. And the worst part is, Trump beat the only person he was capable of beating, because she stank so bad.
Now, you can blame that loss on all sorts of reasons, but the plain fact is, she sucked as a candidate. Most of the reason she lost was her own making.
We do know the Pedestrian was crossing illegally, and hence has the greatest amount of blame. I've had people dart out at night, in dark colored clothing in the middle of a street, and only missed them because they were lucky. There was no way I would have been able to stop in time.
I'm not victim blaming here, because the victim may be the person driving the car, not the person who died. A trauma such as this will haunt a person for the rest of their lives.
And that leads to my conclusion. Just because someone dies doesn't make them the victim. People are idiots, some more so than others.
Illegal Immigration is a larger percentage of human trafficking. Rich Republicans who want cheap labor don't care. Rich Democrats who want an ethnic wedge issue don't care.
You are correct. Let me know where race and gender fall in evaluating candidates for ability.
Equity of outcomes necessarily harms people who are better qualified. There is a huge problem for Asians who over represent their race in a number of areas, but the most well known one is College Admissions. It is well known that Asians have to score higher on entrance exams to qualify. And it isn't even close.
http://asianamericanforeducati...
While I applaud efforts to increase participation, the reality is that Asians work harder than others to succeed. They have to for two reasons, one is cultural (family values education above just about anything) and now, because they have to to gain admission.
IF the main story is true, then the whole "White and Asian Males Need Not Apply" is equally bigoted AND stupid. You're not getting the best workers for PC reasons.
The marketing makes one feel attached (emotionally) to their Phone Choice. The people now are "invested" in that particular phone. They spend money customizing it with a case, and stickers, and become even more emotionally attached. It is a very "personal" device.
Now you (Apple, Samsung) want to take it away from me? What are you thinking???!!!!
I'm not addicted to slashdot. I can quit anytime I want.
I find most video games at least partially addictive, and your basic point, minus the inflammatory remarks is admirable, but I doubt you'll extend your conclusion based on addictiveness of gaming to the whole genre.
My point is people are willingly addicted to video games, anything after that is quibbling over how bad it actually is. Personally, I find the time sink equally bad as a monetary one. Especially when you factor in social problems that arises from vulnerable nerds inability to relate to actual real people adequately.
But you don't understand, they want to play THAT game. You know, the one with the P2W Loot Crates and the expansion pack that allows you to complete the game. Free games aren't worth paying for, and they shouldn't have to pay for the game they want to play either!
Anything else is "Greedy bastards". Duh.
Its more than cognitive therapy. It is about re-ording thought processes.
The difference between "Hang Tight" and "Don't Let Go" makes a difference.
Also, "I can't" is probably true.
Many of the things we do are prefaced by negative terms, rather than positive ones.
100% Convincing Point! Excellent and Rational. Well done sir, you've convinced me!
Perhaps not. It would depend on the job though.
I know people who would be depressed if they had to work in certain jobs, and I know people who's job doesn't define them, and they are perfectly happy doing the jobs that depress others. You can blame chemical imbalance all you want (in some cases it is true), but the reality is, outlook shapes how you feel. AND it can be taught. There are people who when trapped in life circumstances, get all depressed and die, and then there are people who will cut their own arm off to save their life from depressing circumstances, and go on and have a good life.
we start figuring out how to live how we want to live without the consequences
There are always consequences. That is the real lesson of nature. We get sick and develop antibiotics, the germs get resistant, and we get sicker and in the end, we all still die. To live without consequence is the biggest lie of all.
Yeah, all that Profit which drives innovation is really bad idea. It is like we can't do two things at once, make money and be altruistic, right? Nobody was able to make that work out right.