Freedom of speech is for everyone (Including idiots like Trump and you) or it is for no-one. Once you start making exemptions because "he doesn't think the way I do" you are no better than the NKVD, the Gestapo, the Stasi, the SAVAK, etc.
False dichotomy. I disagree with you so you attempt to use the most ridiculous comparison possible to attempt to justify your position.
No, my brother the drug addict, you may not take my rent money to pay for your habit, my children need a roof over their heads. I will give you money but only for rehab.
The Greeks had everything planned to refuse the IMF's conditions, exit the EEC and reintroduce the drachma but that wouldn't have reformed the greek economy nor changed their habit of not paying taxes. Greece's problems aren't the IMFs conditions, it's a declining economy, an omnivorous non-productive public sector and a bankrupt government.
I, like the IMF, & the USG think that the Greeks also need debt relief, but that's something the EEC will not give until the greeks finish implementing reforms.
The IMF doesn't force it's way anywhere. However, if you ask the IMF to lend you money it doesn't lend good money after bad into a blind pit without conditions like reforming your economy and paying your taxes. Greece could have chosen to go without but even populist demagogues like Tsipiras recognise that the reforms are necessary to improve Greece's future.
Go tell your grandmother how to suck an egg, junior. I was a little young for sputnik but fell in love with space following Gemini and watched Armstrong as he first walked on the moon.
None of what you say invalidates my point: Johnson could have invested in space exploration but instead vastly augmented our presence and spending in 'Nam. Thus only the nearsighted can claim that Rs are the reason we aren't further along in space. The near constant "why spend on space when X needs to be solved here first" that hamstrings Nasa's budget isn't something that comes from the Rs either.
Both Rs & Ds are at fault & have helped so keep the political grandstanding out of it.
Ever stopped to think what might have happened if Johnson had pushed harder into space exploration instead of being the president who massively committed the USA to Vietnam? Nah, I suppose not. You'd have to put some blame on a democrat president and you only grind your axe for republican presidents.
Not really disagreeing with you, but arguing today that computers don't matter because they exist to serve us is in no way different from arguing 150 years ago that factories were no different than the cottage industries of the day that existed to spin wool and cotton into threads. Anyone arguing that they don't matter is massively missing the point of the societal transformations.
Yeah, sure. I'm the fastest sprinter in the world! -- When I exclude everyone who runs faster than I do.
As an AC very correctly intuited, by excluding computers from championships they are not selecting for the best chess player but only the best human chess player. As computers can now reliably beat even the best human chess players, those that claim that "computers cannot outsmart humans" are living in the past.
France isn't third world yet they had to change the train schedules so that trains between Paris and CDG airport were direct with no stops to put an end to the growing problem of thieves living in the rough areas between Paris & the airport hopping on board stealing tourists blind and then skipping out and disappearing into their neighbourhoods.
Crime on public transport isn't only a third world problem.
Not all ACs are the trash that you're describing and though I do agree that _they_ are trash, the others aren't. I prefer being able to filter them out normally (easily accomplished with setting a visible threshold at 1) and moderating at -1 to be able to give points to insightful posts, AC or not. Slashdot's moderation system is superior to everything else I've used which is why it's so unfortunate that Dice (and current management if they don't stop the clickbait) disgusted so many insightful and informative ex-slashdotters.
I occasionnely post as AC myself when I've moderated a subject but then discover that I have something I want to add.
Selecting the click-baitiest article submission is one of the biggest problems that Dice brought with them, Timmay en particular. If BeauHD & other editors that the new management has kept/hired reproduce Dice's worst habits, they will be no better than they were when/. belonged to Dice.
New management promised to make changes to stop the hemorrhaging of those who made/. the interesting and technical reference it used to be (the old farts you disparage).
Calling upon the new management to fulfill their promises is not trolling them -- but I suppose that's indistinguishable for those who spend more time at gawker than Ars Technica (which is where I and so many other ex slashdotters have been going as slashdot has been running downhill). No need for you to go look, You'd probably find it too technical and not trashy enough.
There's not much that/. can do about the haters now that Dice's muckraking has pushed so many serious slashdotters out and cultivated anklebiters like the AC that replied to your post with clickbait subject title after clickbait subject title.
The one thing that they CAN do is to stop feeding the anklebiters by filtering out clickbait article summaries and editing the summaries to eliminate inflammatory stuff like "Isn't it fun to be part of an unsuccessful experiment?".
I can filter out ACs and persistent flamers using/.'s friends/foes points system. Once I need to filter out article summaries themselves there is no point to reading/. anymore.
Why is BeauHD Openly trolling in the summary and where the fuck is the new management that claimed that they were taking slashdot back to it's roots?
I suffered through the Dice dark ages and saw so many other old school slashdotters leave.
I saw the new owners denounce the worst of Dice's excesses and had hope but openly trolling the way this submission did destroys what little expectation I had that this could happen.
No surprise, the firestick is very low end these days. Move up to something not quite so underpowered and you should have a better experience.
I use the free Plex apps and the web interface and everything works fine except for being unable to adjust the theme music level in series in the web app.
Oh and I refuse to pay for the Plex account subscription so I remote in over a VPN to get remote access. I trust my Fortigate's security more than I would Plex anyway.
Feel free to learn how to educate yourself. In 10 days, 3 were spent listening to expert testimony with defence lawyers playing procedural games and citing "experts" that turned out to have been sent to prison for pedophilic acts subsequently. Not a single URL was given so that John Q Lazybones can spare himself the effort of learning. Go spend a week listening to testimony during a pedophile's process.
Research has been done, you just refuse to accept it or learn about it or are confused between the difference between pornophilia & pedophelia.
I spent two weeks on jury duty a few years ago judging a group of pedophiles who also tried your exact arguments to attempt to escape responsibility for their actions. Yeah, there were "researchers" in the 60s & 70s that were taken seriously during a time of re-examination of moral values but the subsequent condemnation as pedophiles of the authors since then has removed all notion of validity.
Feel free to go to any seminar or take classes to cure your ignorance.
Why do you seem to be defending the producers of kiddie porn?
See, you're not the only one who can misinterpret what someone else says to cast a fake shadow. Besides which, blocking the dissemination would prevent most kiddie porn from ever existing and does not need the Orwellian social controls that would be needed to prevent it's production.
I'd like one myself. Apple does not exist to assuage our every whim however and unfortunately the number of us who would buy one is insufficient for them to make enough money to justify making it.
Had I bought my mac a year earlier I'd have been exactly in your shoes but as I waited for a refreshed 17", the rMBP came out & I had to admit that I needed glasses for the 15".
If there were more people that actually bought the 17" it'd still be around but there aren't, it's not and not lying to myself anymore has had it's benefits, among them a much lighter Mac.
Getting old sucks. Bite the bullet & get glasses so you can clearly read 1920x1200 on a rMBP. Apple isn't going to bring back the 17" as it was always a minuscule market that needed disproportionate ressources.
AC's often claim to claim represent a large population of dissatisfied potential users for a 17" MBP but actual sales figures proved that to be false. The 17" MBP was eliminated because it had been proven to be a tiny market that needed disproportionate ressources to serve.
No, the point the lawyer for Oracle is trying to make is a distinction that does not exist.
Oracle has been trying to make a case that API=Code so others cannot copy their API's without a licence. For everyone else on the planet, API!=code and APIs are free to use ether because they are not copyrightable (as the judge originally ruled and I agree with personally) or because they are fair use.
Now that the Java APIs used in Android have been determined by the jury to have been fair use, Oracle is now attempting to make the case that because (in their opinion) API=Code, if APIs are fair use then so is ALL code, including the GPL.
Nobody except Oracle & co believe that API=Code so the woman has no point.
The last statement in the summary is completely uncalled for.
Ned Wright is known to have a pretty sharp wit. Besides, Myhrvold used his notoriety to grandstand with the press before his work was peer-reviewed, basically calling Wright a moron. I would get a little testy too.
Sorry, I disagree. Wright clearly wasn't displaying sharp wit to use a grade-school Ad Hominim instead of pointing out factual errors. Scientists have always attacked each others data and findings with grand standing and mockery but what matters is whether the attacks are valid and not whether it was done nicely.
Myhrvold comes off as the better scientist so far.
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Freedom of speech is for everyone (Including idiots like Trump and you) or it is for no-one. Once you start making exemptions because "he doesn't think the way I do" you are no better than the NKVD, the Gestapo, the Stasi, the SAVAK, etc.
False dichotomy. I disagree with you so you attempt to use the most ridiculous comparison possible to attempt to justify your position.
No, my brother the drug addict, you may not take my rent money to pay for your habit, my children need a roof over their heads. I will give you money but only for rehab.
The Greeks had everything planned to refuse the IMF's conditions, exit the EEC and reintroduce the drachma but that wouldn't have reformed the greek economy nor changed their habit of not paying taxes. Greece's problems aren't the IMFs conditions, it's a declining economy, an omnivorous non-productive public sector and a bankrupt government.
I, like the IMF, & the USG think that the Greeks also need debt relief, but that's something the EEC will not give until the greeks finish implementing reforms.
The IMF doesn't force it's way anywhere. However, if you ask the IMF to lend you money it doesn't lend good money after bad into a blind pit without conditions like reforming your economy and paying your taxes. Greece could have chosen to go without but even populist demagogues like Tsipiras recognise that the reforms are necessary to improve Greece's future.
Go tell your grandmother how to suck an egg, junior. I was a little young for sputnik but fell in love with space following Gemini and watched Armstrong as he first walked on the moon.
None of what you say invalidates my point: Johnson could have invested in space exploration but instead vastly augmented our presence and spending in 'Nam. Thus only the nearsighted can claim that Rs are the reason we aren't further along in space. The near constant "why spend on space when X needs to be solved here first" that hamstrings Nasa's budget isn't something that comes from the Rs either.
Both Rs & Ds are at fault & have helped so keep the political grandstanding out of it.
Ever stopped to think what might have happened if Johnson had pushed harder into space exploration instead of being the president who massively committed the USA to Vietnam? Nah, I suppose not. You'd have to put some blame on a democrat president and you only grind your axe for republican presidents.
Not really disagreeing with you, but arguing today that computers don't matter because they exist to serve us is in no way different from arguing 150 years ago that factories were no different than the cottage industries of the day that existed to spin wool and cotton into threads. Anyone arguing that they don't matter is massively missing the point of the societal transformations.
Yeah, sure. I'm the fastest sprinter in the world! -- When I exclude everyone who runs faster than I do.
As an AC very correctly intuited, by excluding computers from championships they are not selecting for the best chess player but only the best human chess player. As computers can now reliably beat even the best human chess players, those that claim that "computers cannot outsmart humans" are living in the past.
My, how entitled you must feel yourself to be...
France isn't third world yet they had to change the train schedules so that trains between Paris and CDG airport were direct with no stops to put an end to the growing problem of thieves living in the rough areas between Paris & the airport hopping on board stealing tourists blind and then skipping out and disappearing into their neighbourhoods.
Crime on public transport isn't only a third world problem.
Remind me who's the current chess champion?
I concur. Dice was Ramsey Bolton and the question is whether current management wants to be Reek, Theon Greyjoy or John Snow.
They started off doing a good Theon impression but I'm seeing more and more Reek with purposefully clickbait written article summaries recently.
Not all ACs are the trash that you're describing and though I do agree that _they_ are trash, the others aren't. I prefer being able to filter them out normally (easily accomplished with setting a visible threshold at 1) and moderating at -1 to be able to give points to insightful posts, AC or not. Slashdot's moderation system is superior to everything else I've used which is why it's so unfortunate that Dice (and current management if they don't stop the clickbait) disgusted so many insightful and informative ex-slashdotters.
I occasionnely post as AC myself when I've moderated a subject but then discover that I have something I want to add.
Selecting the click-baitiest article submission is one of the biggest problems that Dice brought with them, Timmay en particular. If BeauHD & other editors that the new management has kept/hired reproduce Dice's worst habits, they will be no better than they were when /. belonged to Dice.
New management promised to make changes to stop the hemorrhaging of those who made /. the interesting and technical reference it used to be (the old farts you disparage).
Calling upon the new management to fulfill their promises is not trolling them -- but I suppose that's indistinguishable for those who spend more time at gawker than Ars Technica (which is where I and so many other ex slashdotters have been going as slashdot has been running downhill). No need for you to go look, You'd probably find it too technical and not trashy enough.
There's not much that /. can do about the haters now that Dice's muckraking has pushed so many serious slashdotters out and cultivated anklebiters like the AC that replied to your post with clickbait subject title after clickbait subject title.
The one thing that they CAN do is to stop feeding the anklebiters by filtering out clickbait article summaries and editing the summaries to eliminate inflammatory stuff like "Isn't it fun to be part of an unsuccessful experiment?".
I can filter out ACs and persistent flamers using /.'s friends/foes points system. Once I need to filter out article summaries themselves there is no point to reading /. anymore.
Why is BeauHD Openly trolling in the summary and where the fuck is the new management that claimed that they were taking slashdot back to it's roots?
I suffered through the Dice dark ages and saw so many other old school slashdotters leave.
I saw the new owners denounce the worst of Dice's excesses and had hope but openly trolling the way this submission did destroys what little expectation I had that this could happen.
No surprise, the firestick is very low end these days. Move up to something not quite so underpowered and you should have a better experience.
I use the free Plex apps and the web interface and everything works fine except for being unable to adjust the theme music level in series in the web app.
Oh and I refuse to pay for the Plex account subscription so I remote in over a VPN to get remote access. I trust my Fortigate's security more than I would Plex anyway.
Feel free to learn how to educate yourself. In 10 days, 3 were spent listening to expert testimony with defence lawyers playing procedural games and citing "experts" that turned out to have been sent to prison for pedophilic acts subsequently. Not a single URL was given so that John Q Lazybones can spare himself the effort of learning. Go spend a week listening to testimony during a pedophile's process.
What that's _too hard_ for you? Awww, poor you.
Research has been done, you just refuse to accept it or learn about it or are confused between the difference between pornophilia & pedophelia.
I spent two weeks on jury duty a few years ago judging a group of pedophiles who also tried your exact arguments to attempt to escape responsibility for their actions. Yeah, there were "researchers" in the 60s & 70s that were taken seriously during a time of re-examination of moral values but the subsequent condemnation as pedophiles of the authors since then has removed all notion of validity.
Feel free to go to any seminar or take classes to cure your ignorance.
Why do you seem to be defending the producers of kiddie porn?
See, you're not the only one who can misinterpret what someone else says to cast a fake shadow. Besides which, blocking the dissemination would prevent most kiddie porn from ever existing and does not need the Orwellian social controls that would be needed to prevent it's production.
I'd like one myself. Apple does not exist to assuage our every whim however and unfortunately the number of us who would buy one is insufficient for them to make enough money to justify making it.
Had I bought my mac a year earlier I'd have been exactly in your shoes but as I waited for a refreshed 17", the rMBP came out & I had to admit that I needed glasses for the 15".
If there were more people that actually bought the 17" it'd still be around but there aren't, it's not and not lying to myself anymore has had it's benefits, among them a much lighter Mac.
Getting old sucks. Bite the bullet & get glasses so you can clearly read 1920x1200 on a rMBP. Apple isn't going to bring back the 17" as it was always a minuscule market that needed disproportionate ressources.
AC's often claim to claim represent a large population of dissatisfied potential users for a 17" MBP but actual sales figures proved that to be false. The 17" MBP was eliminated because it had been proven to be a tiny market that needed disproportionate ressources to serve.
No, the point the lawyer for Oracle is trying to make is a distinction that does not exist.
Oracle has been trying to make a case that API=Code so others cannot copy their API's without a licence. For everyone else on the planet, API!=code and APIs are free to use ether because they are not copyrightable (as the judge originally ruled and I agree with personally) or because they are fair use.
Now that the Java APIs used in Android have been determined by the jury to have been fair use, Oracle is now attempting to make the case that because (in their opinion) API=Code, if APIs are fair use then so is ALL code, including the GPL.
Nobody except Oracle & co believe that API=Code so the woman has no point.
The last statement in the summary is completely uncalled for.
Ned Wright is known to have a pretty sharp wit. Besides, Myhrvold used his notoriety to grandstand with the press before his work was peer-reviewed, basically calling Wright a moron. I would get a little testy too.
Sorry, I disagree. Wright clearly wasn't displaying sharp wit to use a grade-school Ad Hominim instead of pointing out factual errors. Scientists have always attacked each others data and findings with grand standing and mockery but what matters is whether the attacks are valid and not whether it was done nicely.
Myhrvold comes off as the better scientist so far.