The US had freedom of speech, but it also had McCarthyism and racial segregation. That was my point really, how free you were in the US greatly depended on things like your skin colour and political beliefs.
While there were different issues in Europe, for example, you can't easily make a simple, qualitative comparison of some kind of meaningless "average freedom" for whole populations. All you can do is acknowledge the issues, e.g. most places outlawed homosexuality and that was really bad for a lot of people. For them no country was particularly "great" if it regarded their sexuality as a crime.
By the way, most of the freedoms you describe were available in western Europe from the 1950s onward too. Similar education systems too, although of course like the US there was widespread discrimination.
So you're saying that the current state of the problems in the UK is because it was run by "imperialist asshats?" In the last 15 years...
No
You mean where you've defended curtailing peoples rights for hurt feelings didn't happen?
Yes
More likely you managed to piss someone off to the point where they stalked you and you got a brick through your window for your trouble.
Hard to imagine how. We never spoke, never interacted (beyond the free bricks he gifted me). I didn't even know his name until I saw the court documents. I think he had heard my name because his son was at school with my younger brother long ago, and thought it was Arabic or something. And then the EDL and Brexit happened and his generosity increased.
unfortunately the progressive left sees nothing but skin colour.
Okay, what does that have to do with me again? Are you saying I only see skin colour because this other guy thinks I'm an Arab, even though I'm white...
In Europe you have, off the top of my head, Philips, ARM, Siemens, Airbus, Saab, numerous car manufacturers, Bosch... And of course we invented the WWW, and the affordable personal computer. Actually we invented electronic computers too.
Most economists see the supply of highly skilled workers as driving innovation, i.e. the more you have the more innovation gets done. While you will always find some PhDs working in menial jobs, the employment market is not very efficient at making the best use of the available talent so you will always have the appearance of over-supply.
Was America ever that great though? I mean, it was certainly powerful and the world's largest economy, but think about why it became that way.
Europe and had two major wars and was left in ruins and mountains of debt. Japan was devastated too. That allowed US manufacturing to boom with little opposition. Then you have things like the space race and military development, which were driven by the Russian threat.
Things were pretty good for some people... Straight white men, specifically. In the 60s you had women's liberation and increasing equality for non-whites, even now things are not that great for those groups. And if you were gay... It took until the 2010s for you to get the same basic rights everyone else has.
So while America certainly was a great and powerful country, for a lot of people the 20th century wasn't a particularly great time to be alive there. Of course most of the world was the same or worse, but the "Make America Great Again" implies that it used to be great, and that only seems to hold true if you were straight and white and male, and even then there is a good chance it sucked for you.
I'm not trying to run America down, just point out that like most places progress that has improved things for most people, and going backwards isn't the best plan.
It's simpler than that. Many rich people are heavily invested in old technologies, and want to protect those investments. That means stifling new technology and education that could lead to advancements.
Since they are rich they have considerable influence over government policy.
Lenovo have much better keyboards too. Macs have those crappy island flat-top keys. There is a reason that keys are traditionally curved on top, it helps centre your fingers and keep your typing accurate as you unconsciously compensate for being out of alignment.
To be fair Tesla doesn't exactly discourage this dangerous behaviour. You can take your hands off the wheel for quite some time before it starts warning you, and even then it takes a while before it actually starts trying to stop the car.
If they were serious they would make it so that you have a hands-off grace period of about 2 seconds, and once dis-engaged you have to call Tesla to re-enable it.
Tesla seem to have realized that hands-on-wheel is inadequate anyway, because the Model 3 has a camera pointed at the driver's face to make sure they are paying attention. It doesn't work yet but Cadillac and Audi have theirs working.
It would help if they made sure that the driver remained alert. The Model 3 has a (currently unused) camera pointed at the driver to make sure they are paying attention, but the older Model S and X just rely on detecting hands on the steering wheel. That detection can be fooled easily, and worse still allows you to go up to about 2 minutes hands off before it takes action.
You would think they would have learned from the previous crashes. For example when they guy hit that truck they found that his hands were on the wheel for less than a minute in the previous half hour of driving.
The difference is that there is no document that proves ownership of a car in the UK.
While technically true, the car must have a registered keeper. Not necessarily the owner, e.g. it's common for kids to be the registered keeper of a car owned by their parents. That person is then responsible for either keeping the vehicle taxed or declaring it "SORN" which basically means "it's kept on private property and can't be used on the public roads".
So these trapped cars must presumably have been declared as SORN, or the registered keeper would have had to keep paying road tax on them.
At this point the owner probably doesn't want to be found, because the cars are likely write-offs (won't start without expensive repairs, and even then largely worthless). They would probably prefer that someone else disposes of them at their expense.
I dunno what you develop but a 13" screen and single USB+charging port isn't going to cut it for most developers.
For a start we are going to want at least one more monitor, if not two since 13" is pretty small. So now you are trying to pump 2x HDMI over that single USB port... Better avoid 4k monitors. And that's before you connected anything else.
I can't see any technical reason why they couldn't have more USB ports. It seems like a silly aesthetic choice. Give me a nice Thinkpad or LaVie or Let's Note any day.
Maybe you should ask yourself why your country helped draft a plan that created the situation in the first place?
Because it was run by imperialist asshats. Not a very nuanced analysis, I know, but basically correct.
That doesn't make sense, since you regularly post that peoples rights should be curtailed because it hurts your feelings.
Er, no, you are mistaken. Hurt feelings alone are never enough to curtail rights.
Most countries don't allow suicide like that, and for good reason. You can see the slippery slope in several EU countries where that already happened.
Not really, it seems to be providing great relief to many people and all the fears about people being encouraged to kill themselves have not been realized.
Maybe you should be asking the question why that happened in the first place, it wasn't based on fault of your own. But rather due to the fault of other people who are similar to you, and government policies that looked the other way.
Not sure what you mean by that. They threw bricks at my house because they thought I was an Arab... I'm not, I'm half white British and half Asian, but you know how dumb these racists usually are. I really don't see the similarity.
I tried FF57 and it's actually pretty good. If you imagine it's a new browser and don't pine for the fjords^W old Firefox UI it isn't bad. The privacy controls are probably the best anywhere.
HTML5 is like C++. A massive, hard to implement standard that barely anyone fully understands, let alone uses. Supporting about 80% of it gives you 99% compatibility, so it's hard to justify the massive effort required to finish the last, really difficult 20% off.
Give us an example of a career based free choice that is correlated with gender. And by "free" I assume you mean free from all external influence, but if not please define that too.
I'm not convinced such a thing exists, but if you have examples I'm willing to hear them.
Also, is it necessarily a bad thing that he can't tweet random thoughts that come into his head? Having a staff member do it for him acts as a nice sanity check and brain fart HEPA filter.
Over a year after Clinton lost and with her being largely an irrelevance now, and you are still blaming them for the media's interest in POTUS's possible links to Russia? This is a pretty lame conspiracy theory.
I know she was an warmongering crook, literally hitler and all that, but it's a bit much blaming her for Trump's problems in 2018.
Because although the error is small, it increases as you do things like frame rate conversion and synchronization to audio. It's also prone to programming errors, because people like to do things like use floats and division to calculate values and then add them up repeatedly, which as we know is a really bad idea.
Also, being a nerd I like precision, and being able to use precise integer values to represent these time intervals.
Granted, none of this is essential, but it's neat that someone figured out a nice common denominator for all the common and uncommon audio/video frequencies in use. Well, except NTSC, which as they point out is just broken and can't be fixed.
Because Amazon doesn't make a phone any more. You can't buy a Google Chromecast on Amazon though, at least in the UK, because it competes directly with Amazon's Fire TV dongle.
So despite your denial that you advocate for political violence to enact political change, you're now once again in agreement that you're okay with using violence for political purposes.
To be fair, the "political purpose" of the great SJW invasion was to stop bombs falling on us. Also, I seem to recall that American SJWs joined in. Are you okay with that?
Which you already have...and want to flee to another country where you can live exactly under the same system you already have.
No, no, I want to go to a different system, not the same one. One with less surveillance, more freedom. For example I think there is possibility I might need euthanasia services in future, and the UK doesn't allow them.
Oh, and not getting bricks through my windows, sent by xenophobes and racists. I know they are only trying to help me by gifting free replacement bricks for my old house, but it's kind of annoying.
On the other hand Japan is very successful, the world's third largest economy. It's still normal to employ people out of school until retirement there, and they tend to employ what the west would consider an excess of staff but which they consider assets.
In fact, companies that treat workers the way many western companies do, especially US companies in at-will states, are called "black companies" in Japan. They are regarded as basically scams, get-rich-quick schemes for their owners that you would avoid working for.
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The US had freedom of speech, but it also had McCarthyism and racial segregation. That was my point really, how free you were in the US greatly depended on things like your skin colour and political beliefs.
While there were different issues in Europe, for example, you can't easily make a simple, qualitative comparison of some kind of meaningless "average freedom" for whole populations. All you can do is acknowledge the issues, e.g. most places outlawed homosexuality and that was really bad for a lot of people. For them no country was particularly "great" if it regarded their sexuality as a crime.
By the way, most of the freedoms you describe were available in western Europe from the 1950s onward too. Similar education systems too, although of course like the US there was widespread discrimination.
So you're saying that the current state of the problems in the UK is because it was run by "imperialist asshats?" In the last 15 years...
No
You mean where you've defended curtailing peoples rights for hurt feelings didn't happen?
Yes
More likely you managed to piss someone off to the point where they stalked you and you got a brick through your window for your trouble.
Hard to imagine how. We never spoke, never interacted (beyond the free bricks he gifted me). I didn't even know his name until I saw the court documents. I think he had heard my name because his son was at school with my younger brother long ago, and thought it was Arabic or something. And then the EDL and Brexit happened and his generosity increased.
unfortunately the progressive left sees nothing but skin colour.
Okay, what does that have to do with me again? Are you saying I only see skin colour because this other guy thinks I'm an Arab, even though I'm white...
In Europe you have, off the top of my head, Philips, ARM, Siemens, Airbus, Saab, numerous car manufacturers, Bosch... And of course we invented the WWW, and the affordable personal computer. Actually we invented electronic computers too.
Most economists see the supply of highly skilled workers as driving innovation, i.e. the more you have the more innovation gets done. While you will always find some PhDs working in menial jobs, the employment market is not very efficient at making the best use of the available talent so you will always have the appearance of over-supply.
Was America ever that great though? I mean, it was certainly powerful and the world's largest economy, but think about why it became that way.
Europe and had two major wars and was left in ruins and mountains of debt. Japan was devastated too. That allowed US manufacturing to boom with little opposition. Then you have things like the space race and military development, which were driven by the Russian threat.
Things were pretty good for some people... Straight white men, specifically. In the 60s you had women's liberation and increasing equality for non-whites, even now things are not that great for those groups. And if you were gay... It took until the 2010s for you to get the same basic rights everyone else has.
So while America certainly was a great and powerful country, for a lot of people the 20th century wasn't a particularly great time to be alive there. Of course most of the world was the same or worse, but the "Make America Great Again" implies that it used to be great, and that only seems to hold true if you were straight and white and male, and even then there is a good chance it sucked for you.
I'm not trying to run America down, just point out that like most places progress that has improved things for most people, and going backwards isn't the best plan.
It's simpler than that. Many rich people are heavily invested in old technologies, and want to protect those investments. That means stifling new technology and education that could lead to advancements.
Since they are rich they have considerable influence over government policy.
Lenovo have much better keyboards too. Macs have those crappy island flat-top keys. There is a reason that keys are traditionally curved on top, it helps centre your fingers and keep your typing accurate as you unconsciously compensate for being out of alignment.
To be fair Tesla doesn't exactly discourage this dangerous behaviour. You can take your hands off the wheel for quite some time before it starts warning you, and even then it takes a while before it actually starts trying to stop the car.
If they were serious they would make it so that you have a hands-off grace period of about 2 seconds, and once dis-engaged you have to call Tesla to re-enable it.
Tesla seem to have realized that hands-on-wheel is inadequate anyway, because the Model 3 has a camera pointed at the driver's face to make sure they are paying attention. It doesn't work yet but Cadillac and Audi have theirs working.
It would help if they made sure that the driver remained alert. The Model 3 has a (currently unused) camera pointed at the driver to make sure they are paying attention, but the older Model S and X just rely on detecting hands on the steering wheel. That detection can be fooled easily, and worse still allows you to go up to about 2 minutes hands off before it takes action.
You would think they would have learned from the previous crashes. For example when they guy hit that truck they found that his hands were on the wheel for less than a minute in the previous half hour of driving.
The difference is that there is no document that proves ownership of a car in the UK.
While technically true, the car must have a registered keeper. Not necessarily the owner, e.g. it's common for kids to be the registered keeper of a car owned by their parents. That person is then responsible for either keeping the vehicle taxed or declaring it "SORN" which basically means "it's kept on private property and can't be used on the public roads".
So these trapped cars must presumably have been declared as SORN, or the registered keeper would have had to keep paying road tax on them.
At this point the owner probably doesn't want to be found, because the cars are likely write-offs (won't start without expensive repairs, and even then largely worthless). They would probably prefer that someone else disposes of them at their expense.
I dunno what you develop but a 13" screen and single USB+charging port isn't going to cut it for most developers.
For a start we are going to want at least one more monitor, if not two since 13" is pretty small. So now you are trying to pump 2x HDMI over that single USB port... Better avoid 4k monitors. And that's before you connected anything else.
I can't see any technical reason why they couldn't have more USB ports. It seems like a silly aesthetic choice. Give me a nice Thinkpad or LaVie or Let's Note any day.
Men are underrepresented elementary school teaching positions.
Yes, due to worried about unfounded accusations and other social issues. I asked for something that was a free choice, uninfluenced by outside forces.
Maybe you should ask yourself why your country helped draft a plan that created the situation in the first place?
Because it was run by imperialist asshats. Not a very nuanced analysis, I know, but basically correct.
That doesn't make sense, since you regularly post that peoples rights should be curtailed because it hurts your feelings.
Er, no, you are mistaken. Hurt feelings alone are never enough to curtail rights.
Most countries don't allow suicide like that, and for good reason. You can see the slippery slope in several EU countries where that already happened.
Not really, it seems to be providing great relief to many people and all the fears about people being encouraged to kill themselves have not been realized.
Maybe you should be asking the question why that happened in the first place, it wasn't based on fault of your own. But rather due to the fault of other people who are similar to you, and government policies that looked the other way.
Not sure what you mean by that. They threw bricks at my house because they thought I was an Arab... I'm not, I'm half white British and half Asian, but you know how dumb these racists usually are. I really don't see the similarity.
I tried FF57 and it's actually pretty good. If you imagine it's a new browser and don't pine for the fjords^W old Firefox UI it isn't bad. The privacy controls are probably the best anywhere.
HTML5 is like C++. A massive, hard to implement standard that barely anyone fully understands, let alone uses. Supporting about 80% of it gives you 99% compatibility, so it's hard to justify the massive effort required to finish the last, really difficult 20% off.
Let's see...
YouTube: 3 hours/day
Googling work stuff: 30 minutes/day
Slashdot: 13 hours/day
Accounting for sleep (4 hours/day) and let's say 30 minutes/week for personal grooming I pretty much live on Slashdot.
By the way, does anyone know if you can get keyboards with a re-enforced F5 key? Mine always seem to wear out in a few months :-(
Give us an example of a career based free choice that is correlated with gender. And by "free" I assume you mean free from all external influence, but if not please define that too.
I'm not convinced such a thing exists, but if you have examples I'm willing to hear them.
Also, is it necessarily a bad thing that he can't tweet random thoughts that come into his head? Having a staff member do it for him acts as a nice sanity check and brain fart HEPA filter.
Over a year after Clinton lost and with her being largely an irrelevance now, and you are still blaming them for the media's interest in POTUS's possible links to Russia? This is a pretty lame conspiracy theory.
I know she was an warmongering crook, literally hitler and all that, but it's a bit much blaming her for Trump's problems in 2018.
We need "Flicks" exactly why, again?
Because although the error is small, it increases as you do things like frame rate conversion and synchronization to audio. It's also prone to programming errors, because people like to do things like use floats and division to calculate values and then add them up repeatedly, which as we know is a really bad idea.
Also, being a nerd I like precision, and being able to use precise integer values to represent these time intervals.
Granted, none of this is essential, but it's neat that someone figured out a nice common denominator for all the common and uncommon audio/video frequencies in use. Well, except NTSC, which as they point out is just broken and can't be fixed.
Pretty sure there is an I in TlCK.
Because Amazon doesn't make a phone any more. You can't buy a Google Chromecast on Amazon though, at least in the UK, because it competes directly with Amazon's Fire TV dongle.
The filing says that the course was called "Bias Busting". The link you provided does not contain the phrase "bias busting" at all.
We need to see the actual material that Google was using, not something you think is probably the same.
So despite your denial that you advocate for political violence to enact political change, you're now once again in agreement that you're okay with using violence for political purposes.
To be fair, the "political purpose" of the great SJW invasion was to stop bombs falling on us. Also, I seem to recall that American SJWs joined in. Are you okay with that?
Which you already have...and want to flee to another country where you can live exactly under the same system you already have.
No, no, I want to go to a different system, not the same one. One with less surveillance, more freedom. For example I think there is possibility I might need euthanasia services in future, and the UK doesn't allow them.
Oh, and not getting bricks through my windows, sent by xenophobes and racists. I know they are only trying to help me by gifting free replacement bricks for my old house, but it's kind of annoying.
On the other hand Japan is very successful, the world's third largest economy. It's still normal to employ people out of school until retirement there, and they tend to employ what the west would consider an excess of staff but which they consider assets.
In fact, companies that treat workers the way many western companies do, especially US companies in at-will states, are called "black companies" in Japan. They are regarded as basically scams, get-rich-quick schemes for their owners that you would avoid working for.