On the surface reddit seems noisy and digg-like but there is more to it. Whatever is popular at any given moment is rife with memes, jokes, bickering... but off on the side you can find people having meaningful exchanges in related subreddits. It is as if the popularity of anything at a given moment behaves as a magnetic diversion, like feeding sick livestock to piranhas to keep them at bay. Also, they have regional subcategories where people can practice being civil or various SIG's which provide some potential beyond posturing for discussion. Slashdot needs to get with the times, I mean, where is slashdotgonewild, etc.?
"On Democratic message boards...", guess what.. Democratic message boards, republican message boards, etc. are inhabited by irrational people who simply root for their team; they're like sports fanatics. Consider a democratic or republican core value and then locate some people who are discussing actionable solutions that don't involve convincing some nebulous opposition to admit that they're wrong and you're right and instead doing something to improve the quality of life for other people. Now what percentage of them think everything was Bush's fault and Obama can do no wrong or vice versa?
Actually they're contributing to their own kernel which happens to be linux. They can't just stop contributing unless they're happy with the kernel and it's natural pace of development. They get paid for their contributions by not having to wait around for drivers.
Lots of things are addictive. Coffee, cigarettes, alcohol, internets, gambling, video games..
It should be legal so that the FDA can check it for mold and pesticides. It should be produced locally so we can go after the real criminals selling low grade stuff processed by underpaid labor. Those taxes could fund addiction centers or some such.
Maybe they already have a million people enforcing various things for certain people but who need an acceptable label more in tune with western values. So now China will have copyright reminderers, free speech zones, ministries of peace, insurance orginizations. Next they will have a million lawyers.
The machine replaces someone day after day day. The salesman, writer, etc. has to sell another machine.. it's not like they all get to retire while the machine is workinng. Can't explain that.
I agree. Elsewhere in this discussion someone says 'because the truth is inconvienient' that sparks the reaction that we have to revert to the stone-aged lifestyle. I once simply invoked the notion of sustainability and got my ass chewed about how I could [live in a grass hut but everyone else...] - I just said to be more sustainable, how do people go from that to living in a cave?
Having a universal power supply for mobile devices (UPAMD) would be sweet.. Try to suggest to an otherwise intelligent person that we need a sustainable solution to the mountains of power adapters going into the landfill and they'll angrily accuse you of expecting us to compute with abacuses and slide-rules.
If you'll do something stupefying for 50hrs a week, consistently, then someone will give you a fistfull of cash. I wonder - if people worked half as much, there would be twice as many jobs and we'd have more time to become informed consumers?
Have you seen the Charlotte,NC hackerspace's feltronics? They have passives sewn into felt circuit symbols that connect to each other magnetically. Less of a choking hazard too!
An engineer that understands business or economics whould be someone like we already have that makes every part as unique as a snowflake so no two universally functioning devices (like start motors, braking devices, fluid pumps, chargers) are alike or interchangeable. This way the old machines expire and cannot compete in any way with the newer models. The engineer doesn't get paid perpetually for their designs anyways like their employer does, so they still have to work their shift even if there is nothing to do but re-invent wheels all day. At least that is how it looks from all the stuff I've taken apart.
Then limit society to 150 or so. A small portion of these have dual citizenship with a neighboring society forming metasocieties at the interces. Every able bodied person takes their turn putting out fires or disputes or dealing with casualties. When one breaks down the surrounding interces mobilize, but with limits, and you need a meta-layer for evey order of societal unit magnitude to prevent polarization events. People start acting right because they or someone they know alternates as nanny and citizen so they develop mindfulness, they also know exactly what part of the world they belong and how their environment relfects on the groups around them - so instead of inefficiently keeping up with the Jonses one on one we can find that perfect balance of competing as a team with the neighboring team. Imagine taking a mower around the block three times and everyones grass is cut. Efficiencyville does just that. Oooh Engineerville27s lawns seem impossibly disconnected! Ah, they are patrolled by automomous lawnbots disguised as bushes. And in Hippyville it is said they somehow share their grass. You have alternating bands of industryville, cultureville, artville, researchville, defenseville, utilityville, retirementville, educationville connected by high speed trains. Badvilles are surrounded by goodvilles. Immigration and new society formations follow strict patterning to ensure caste mobility. Hmm, if you murder someone or have a disastorous mishap then your citizenship options simply become limited to special societies where everyone else has done something similar. Speeding over 100mph? 3rd offense? Needforspeedland for you, watch out for other speeders. They might even drive carefully there because they don't want to have to move to the next level where it is just crazy dangerous or do time in defenseville for points back if applicable. And the best part is that the whole thing is orchestrated by a really smart computer space satellite that keeps up with everyone through their implant.
I thought I felt something earlier in SC but the washing machine was also spin cycling so I just shrugged it off. Wonder if the quake might have been a butterfly effect from that.
I thought the point was - the more you abuse your customers the higher value they will ascribe to your services. Texbook cognitive dissonance, next you will have to insert your newscorp cd or something.
I think they just practice the same strategy - get into office, spend everything you can while cancelling anything the other team was doing, then sit back and take credit for whatever 21st century stuff happened while you were in.
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Not transferrable and owned by an actual person, that would be interesting.
On the surface reddit seems noisy and digg-like but there is more to it. Whatever is popular at any given moment is rife with memes, jokes, bickering... but off on the side you can find people having meaningful exchanges in related subreddits. It is as if the popularity of anything at a given moment behaves as a magnetic diversion, like feeding sick livestock to piranhas to keep them at bay. Also, they have regional subcategories where people can practice being civil or various SIG's which provide some potential beyond posturing for discussion. Slashdot needs to get with the times, I mean, where is slashdotgonewild, etc.?
"On Democratic message boards...", guess what.. Democratic message boards, republican message boards, etc. are inhabited by irrational people who simply root for their team; they're like sports fanatics. Consider a democratic or republican core value and then locate some people who are discussing actionable solutions that don't involve convincing some nebulous opposition to admit that they're wrong and you're right and instead doing something to improve the quality of life for other people. Now what percentage of them think everything was Bush's fault and Obama can do no wrong or vice versa?
Actually they're contributing to their own kernel which happens to be linux. They can't just stop contributing unless they're happy with the kernel and it's natural pace of development. They get paid for their contributions by not having to wait around for drivers.
It should be legal so that the FDA can check it for mold and pesticides. It should be produced locally so we can go after the real criminals selling low grade stuff processed by underpaid labor. Those taxes could fund addiction centers or some such.
Maybe they already have a million people enforcing various things for certain people but who need an acceptable label more in tune with western values. So now China will have copyright reminderers, free speech zones, ministries of peace, insurance orginizations. Next they will have a million lawyers.
The machine replaces someone day after day day. The salesman, writer, etc. has to sell another machine.. it's not like they all get to retire while the machine is workinng. Can't explain that.
What does broadband give them that dial up does not?
They can do more than one thing at a time on the internet or more people can use at once.
apparantly not if some women can see in UV
Moderation is overrated. Anything over a 3 is just bad jokes and hyperbole.
Your last 10 not-even-particularly-inflammatory comments (perhaps more) all have a 0 score. What causes that?
Having a universal power supply for mobile devices (UPAMD) would be sweet.. Try to suggest to an otherwise intelligent person that we need a sustainable solution to the mountains of power adapters going into the landfill and they'll angrily accuse you of expecting us to compute with abacuses and slide-rules.
You might also wonder if it is the new guy being incompetent or if someone has defected from within.
If you'll do something stupefying for 50hrs a week, consistently, then someone will give you a fistfull of cash. I wonder - if people worked half as much, there would be twice as many jobs and we'd have more time to become informed consumers?
Have you seen the Charlotte,NC hackerspace's feltronics? They have passives sewn into felt circuit symbols that connect to each other magnetically. Less of a choking hazard too!
An engineer that understands business or economics whould be someone like we already have that makes every part as unique as a snowflake so no two universally functioning devices (like start motors, braking devices, fluid pumps, chargers) are alike or interchangeable. This way the old machines expire and cannot compete in any way with the newer models. The engineer doesn't get paid perpetually for their designs anyways like their employer does, so they still have to work their shift even if there is nothing to do but re-invent wheels all day. At least that is how it looks from all the stuff I've taken apart.
Then limit society to 150 or so. A small portion of these have dual citizenship with a neighboring society forming metasocieties at the interces. Every able bodied person takes their turn putting out fires or disputes or dealing with casualties. When one breaks down the surrounding interces mobilize, but with limits, and you need a meta-layer for evey order of societal unit magnitude to prevent polarization events. People start acting right because they or someone they know alternates as nanny and citizen so they develop mindfulness, they also know exactly what part of the world they belong and how their environment relfects on the groups around them - so instead of inefficiently keeping up with the Jonses one on one we can find that perfect balance of competing as a team with the neighboring team. Imagine taking a mower around the block three times and everyones grass is cut. Efficiencyville does just that. Oooh Engineerville27s lawns seem impossibly disconnected! Ah, they are patrolled by automomous lawnbots disguised as bushes. And in Hippyville it is said they somehow share their grass. You have alternating bands of industryville, cultureville, artville, researchville, defenseville, utilityville, retirementville, educationville connected by high speed trains. Badvilles are surrounded by goodvilles. Immigration and new society formations follow strict patterning to ensure caste mobility. Hmm, if you murder someone or have a disastorous mishap then your citizenship options simply become limited to special societies where everyone else has done something similar. Speeding over 100mph? 3rd offense? Needforspeedland for you, watch out for other speeders. They might even drive carefully there because they don't want to have to move to the next level where it is just crazy dangerous or do time in defenseville for points back if applicable. And the best part is that the whole thing is orchestrated by a really smart computer space satellite that keeps up with everyone through their implant.
Farenheit has higher resolution units.
* support to connect xinerama dynamically to other computers and use them as second display.
There is that xdmx stuff, although I haven't actually tried it yet.
I thought I felt something earlier in SC but the washing machine was also spin cycling so I just shrugged it off. Wonder if the quake might have been a butterfly effect from that.
Debt is an industry too, just like oil and shit.
If you spell correctly then it comes off like when Southpark's Butters was a pimp, do you know what I am saying?
I thought the point was - the more you abuse your customers the higher value they will ascribe to your services. Texbook cognitive dissonance, next you will have to insert your newscorp cd or something.
I think they just practice the same strategy - get into office, spend everything you can while cancelling anything the other team was doing, then sit back and take credit for whatever 21st century stuff happened while you were in.
Don't forget Thief River Falls, nothing but a bunch of thieves & rivers. And Digi-key.