Those are just tools to enhance productivity. This, spammers will be all over this. There's already a significant cottage industry in getting topics and writing articles for them to game the search engines, what these guys do then is "spin" the articles into hundreds of other articles by swapping around the sentences. One can earn a few dollars per article, with careful rules about the number of keywords and their placement. If the process becomes automated I reckon it will throw search engine results into turmoil with the sheer volume of legitimate sounding articles produced.
If we had a Star Tram running it would be trivial to fix. Seriously, $2 billion and poof! Gone, no way to retrieve or repair it. This really underlines the ridiculous state of our global space industry.
I know what you mean though, and here's my thinking on it. Its all about dogs. People and dogs go way back, and along the way clearly some people observed how dogs behaved and decided to apply the same concept to their fellow humans. Politicians, leaders, corporate tycoons, many of these act as though they were the leaders of dog packs rather than intelligent homo sapiens who reached their current elevated status by cooperation and mutual understanding. This can be seen in the behaviour of whole countries. Hurt the other guy before he hurts you? No. Hurt the other guy so the rest of the pack doesn't turn on you.
I mean what's a normal person to do when faced with some snapping, snarling lunatic bent on doing harm to anyone in the way of their goals? Get out of the way or fight back. Most people just want to live their lives, have a few nice toys, and do well in their chosen path. So most people get out of the way. Some who buy into the dog pack theory actively support the lunatic to better their own position.
The only thing dogs achieve however is eating their own poop. People need to get the dog out of their learned (and it is learned) behaviour and fully embrace sentience to put an end to the cycle of stupidity.
There are billions of people on Earth; it will go on perfectly without minus a few people.
Reading the above I'd have to ask the same question. One single life has tremendous value, any perspective that sees humanity as teeming hordes of faceless meat machines is one that badly needs to be re-examined.
You can give people a decent basic standard of living while still allowing the option to amass "more stuff" if they excel. Much of Western Europe is run along those lines.
To me, "at least they aren't shelling villages" smacks a bit of the abused partner syndrome. None of these acts are acceptable, and while I get the whole holding themselves and parts of SK hostage thing, sooner or later a line will have to be drawn.
I'm a bit hazy on my stellar life cycles, but wouldn't red dwarfs have been larger stars in the past, and have stripped the atmospheres of any planet close enough to be in the habitable zone?
That's called "slagging", and its something of an art form in certain circles.:D The op, not so much. Look, right now I'm arguing with a guy who seriously seems to think the Irish are "a race of feckless, stupid, drunks", and that's not funny at all. I hope the difference is clear.
But what are we supposed to do when the stereotype starts ringing true? Pretend there's no basis to it?
What the hell is wrong with you. Every single point about the "stupidity" of Irish people above has been demolished, even the ad hominems and strawmen you wheeled out, and you're still sticking to this madness. I'm making no excuses for the government or the political system that muppet DeValera landed on us, but as if to say Ireland is the only country in the world that elected bad politicians from time to time. The Germans elected a couple of bad politicians in the not too distant past, are you calling them stupid as well?
You need to ask yourself the question: What if the Irish really _are_ a race of feckless, stupid, drunks, and the present state of the country is the proof of it? Should we ignore the possibility, or should we actually try to examine our issues and deal with our sick culture of governance?
There is no race of stupid feckless drunks, and only a stupid person would imagine there is. Although if you want to go down that road:
Of course that won't fit into the narrative you've constructed for yourself, even though its coming from the Torygraph, not noted for being critical of all things British. There are problems here as with every country on the planet, none of which makes a racist joke any less racist. Tell me, what part of Ireland are you from?
That suggestion was quickly met with a fiery and typically bolshie response from Brian Cowen -- the man on whose watch as finance minister most of the worst crimes were committed. "We're not fucking nationalising Anglo," he shouted as he slammed the table.
So what? He took his orders from Ahern, and Ahern set things in motion in such a way that a crash was inevitable. Lenihan then authorised the disastrous blanket banking guarantee after a tense and secret midnight meeting with the top bankers.
....women who were forced to travel abroad for medical terminations when they found the babies they were carrying were missing vital organs, like brains, and were completely unviable outside the womb
...what does that have to do with what I said? You're painting visions of politicians tearing their hair out over "fornication" when it was just one nutty backwoods TD, who has since been kept firmly muzzled by the party.
Oh right so all of the investment property owners in the country have run off to London have they? What nonsense. You're again trying to paint a picture of champagne-quaffing nascent upper classes, when the reality is that anyone unwise enough to have invested in property over the last twelve years here is in deeper trouble than anyone.
The time has come for you to go back to reading the Irish Times and pretending that there's nothing wrong with the country.
And he finishes off by putting words in my mouth. I never said there was nothing wrong with the country. I said it was racist to stereotype Irish people as stupid, which it is. And if that's not patently obvious, there really is something wrong with you. Here try this experiment: replace the word "Irishman" in the op with "black man" and see how that goes down.
There isn't one sentence in there resembling reality. The country was bankrupted by a lying scumbag (Ahern) and an incompetent Finance Minister (Lenihan). Cowen was just a puppet. I must have missed the great fornication debate that seems to be taking up 100% of the time of 100% of the politicians in the country. Oh wait, no I didn't, because it was one back country TD making one ridiculous comment. More news you appear to have missed, the landlords of some twenty plus houses were forcibly evicted from their own palatial residence recently, there are plenty of unemployed solicitors, and even bankers have joined the dole queues. I know a few of them personally.
Perhaps the time has come for you to take a good look in the mirror and ask yourself who is looking back, because its not someone with a firm grasp on reality. That's even if you are in Ireland, because nobody here refers to solicitors as "lawyers".
Indeed, proxies and workarounds are treating the symptom not the cause. These challenges to our web freedoms need to be tackled at the source, politicians made aware that its a substantial vote-garnering issue, and the system itself made to do its job and serve the people not corporations.
Dogs can be pretty clever though. I've been observing the development of my delightful pomeranian puppy and have noticed some quite complex emergent behaviour in terms of how she tries to manipulate me to get treats and stuff. Also I've translated a few of the cues she gives - two forepaws slapped down on the ground means no, jumping up in the air and spinning round means yes when I start listing off activities.
Well hopefully it doesn't ruin any of the well meaning guys that tried to make this happen, dollar signs aren't usually stacked too deeply around $45 tablets! With any luck they can call it lesson learned and get on with their lives the wiser for it.
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Did anyone else mentally read this summary in General Hammond from Stargate's voice? :D
Those are just tools to enhance productivity. This, spammers will be all over this. There's already a significant cottage industry in getting topics and writing articles for them to game the search engines, what these guys do then is "spin" the articles into hundreds of other articles by swapping around the sentences. One can earn a few dollars per article, with careful rules about the number of keywords and their placement. If the process becomes automated I reckon it will throw search engine results into turmoil with the sheer volume of legitimate sounding articles produced.
Solar power satellites are the way forward, I am convinced of it.
or being able to take a flight to the moon.
Yes yes, working on it, give us about nine years.
If we had a Star Tram running it would be trivial to fix. Seriously, $2 billion and poof! Gone, no way to retrieve or repair it. This really underlines the ridiculous state of our global space industry.
Behold, the power of taxes! :D
I know what you mean though, and here's my thinking on it. Its all about dogs. People and dogs go way back, and along the way clearly some people observed how dogs behaved and decided to apply the same concept to their fellow humans. Politicians, leaders, corporate tycoons, many of these act as though they were the leaders of dog packs rather than intelligent homo sapiens who reached their current elevated status by cooperation and mutual understanding. This can be seen in the behaviour of whole countries. Hurt the other guy before he hurts you? No. Hurt the other guy so the rest of the pack doesn't turn on you.
I mean what's a normal person to do when faced with some snapping, snarling lunatic bent on doing harm to anyone in the way of their goals? Get out of the way or fight back. Most people just want to live their lives, have a few nice toys, and do well in their chosen path. So most people get out of the way. Some who buy into the dog pack theory actively support the lunatic to better their own position.
The only thing dogs achieve however is eating their own poop. People need to get the dog out of their learned (and it is learned) behaviour and fully embrace sentience to put an end to the cycle of stupidity.
What's happened to our society?
There are billions of people on Earth; it will go on perfectly without minus a few people.
Reading the above I'd have to ask the same question. One single life has tremendous value, any perspective that sees humanity as teeming hordes of faceless meat machines is one that badly needs to be re-examined.
You can give people a decent basic standard of living while still allowing the option to amass "more stuff" if they excel. Much of Western Europe is run along those lines.
To me, "at least they aren't shelling villages" smacks a bit of the abused partner syndrome. None of these acts are acceptable, and while I get the whole holding themselves and parts of SK hostage thing, sooner or later a line will have to be drawn.
Its that there's no such thing as an unlikely subject for emotional debate.
I'm a bit hazy on my stellar life cycles, but wouldn't red dwarfs have been larger stars in the past, and have stripped the atmospheres of any planet close enough to be in the habitable zone?
Read it again slower. He is, in fact, English.
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2834595&cid=39927565
That's called "slagging", and its something of an art form in certain circles. :D The op, not so much. Look, right now I'm arguing with a guy who seriously seems to think the Irish are "a race of feckless, stupid, drunks", and that's not funny at all. I hope the difference is clear.
But what are we supposed to do when the stereotype starts ringing true? Pretend there's no basis to it?
What the hell is wrong with you. Every single point about the "stupidity" of Irish people above has been demolished, even the ad hominems and strawmen you wheeled out, and you're still sticking to this madness. I'm making no excuses for the government or the political system that muppet DeValera landed on us, but as if to say Ireland is the only country in the world that elected bad politicians from time to time. The Germans elected a couple of bad politicians in the not too distant past, are you calling them stupid as well?
You need to ask yourself the question: What if the Irish really _are_ a race of feckless, stupid, drunks, and the present state of the country is the proof of it? Should we ignore the possibility, or should we actually try to examine our issues and deal with our sick culture of governance?
There is no race of stupid feckless drunks, and only a stupid person would imagine there is. Although if you want to go down that road:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7616405/Britain-is-the-binge-drinking-capital-of-Europe.html
Of course that won't fit into the narrative you've constructed for yourself, even though its coming from the Torygraph, not noted for being critical of all things British. There are problems here as with every country on the planet, none of which makes a racist joke any less racist. Tell me, what part of Ireland are you from?
That suggestion was quickly met with a fiery and typically bolshie response from Brian Cowen -- the man on whose watch as finance minister most of the worst crimes were committed. "We're not fucking nationalising Anglo," he shouted as he slammed the table.
So what? He took his orders from Ahern, and Ahern set things in motion in such a way that a crash was inevitable. Lenihan then authorised the disastrous blanket banking guarantee after a tense and secret midnight meeting with the top bankers.
Context is everything. The comments were made in the middle of a debate about
...what does that have to do with what I said? You're painting visions of politicians tearing their hair out over "fornication" when it was just one nutty backwoods TD, who has since been kept firmly muzzled by the party.
I'll just refer you and all your friends who have run off to London and transferred assets to their wives and children to this article on the grand delusions of property "victims".
Oh right so all of the investment property owners in the country have run off to London have they? What nonsense. You're again trying to paint a picture of champagne-quaffing nascent upper classes, when the reality is that anyone unwise enough to have invested in property over the last twelve years here is in deeper trouble than anyone.
The time has come for you to go back to reading the Irish Times and pretending that there's nothing wrong with the country.
And he finishes off by putting words in my mouth. I never said there was nothing wrong with the country. I said it was racist to stereotype Irish people as stupid, which it is. And if that's not patently obvious, there really is something wrong with you. Here try this experiment: replace the word "Irishman" in the op with "black man" and see how that goes down.
There isn't one sentence in there resembling reality. The country was bankrupted by a lying scumbag (Ahern) and an incompetent Finance Minister (Lenihan). Cowen was just a puppet. I must have missed the great fornication debate that seems to be taking up 100% of the time of 100% of the politicians in the country. Oh wait, no I didn't, because it was one back country TD making one ridiculous comment. More news you appear to have missed, the landlords of some twenty plus houses were forcibly evicted from their own palatial residence recently, there are plenty of unemployed solicitors, and even bankers have joined the dole queues. I know a few of them personally.
Perhaps the time has come for you to take a good look in the mirror and ask yourself who is looking back, because its not someone with a firm grasp on reality. That's even if you are in Ireland, because nobody here refers to solicitors as "lawyers".
My bubble's quite intact, never fear.
Yes, because racist jokes are funny. Don't tell me, you're English.
I guess for some people the world just never moved on from the 1950s.
Maybe the discovery is the exact mechanism which prompts the rise of higher intelligence? Intelligent animals anyone?
Its kind of a rhetorical question anyway, I mean are there any clothes that make a skinny ass look fat? /foreveralone
Indeed, proxies and workarounds are treating the symptom not the cause. These challenges to our web freedoms need to be tackled at the source, politicians made aware that its a substantial vote-garnering issue, and the system itself made to do its job and serve the people not corporations.
While you're right, I think the cookie thing was an EU sponsored piece of legislation.
Dogs can be pretty clever though. I've been observing the development of my delightful pomeranian puppy and have noticed some quite complex emergent behaviour in terms of how she tries to manipulate me to get treats and stuff. Also I've translated a few of the cues she gives - two forepaws slapped down on the ground means no, jumping up in the air and spinning round means yes when I start listing off activities.
Well hopefully it doesn't ruin any of the well meaning guys that tried to make this happen, dollar signs aren't usually stacked too deeply around $45 tablets! With any luck they can call it lesson learned and get on with their lives the wiser for it.