We need more junkies to go balls-out and fucking overdose hard enough that Naltrexone won't save them.
Honestly, a municipality could invest about 1/2 as much as they're spending on treatment programs in free heroin giveaways, and in less than a year they could probably mostly shut those programs down.
Sure, trash pickups would spike, but I think that's a one time cost.
Why do we try to save addicts again? Let them go. There's 7+ billion people on the planet, we can start letting the marginal ones slip away.
I didn't RTFA because I've had enough since Kyoto of empty, meaningless virtue-signaling where states promise the sun, sky, and moon but don't accomplish shit. Every single "Climate Summit" results in the same thing: platitudes, much back-slapping, mealy-mouthed statements about what 'should' be done....and 5-10 years later, we find nobody's hit their targets, and nothing happens.
...have we just completely given up on people being responsible for themselves?
I mean, if someone - even an "influencer" (what a fucked-up term) - says "do this shit" are people just so spineless and personality-less that they just sheeplike do what they're told?
If you're a platform, then you're just the delivery device. Of course, you'd have to stop with the fucking editing, censoring everyone that doesn't follow your religion, stop trying evangelize your creed and just serve up videos. Hint: 2018 rewind, where was your BIGGEST SUBSCRIBER youtuber Pewdiepie?
If you're a publisher, then understand the moment you start to pick winners and losers, when you put your finger on the scales (even if it's for a cause you really really believe in!) you are now RESPONSIBLE for the message. IMO you should lose your section 230 exemption too, then. The EFF's position that Sec 230 allows basically any modding at all is hypocritical; they would certainly change the moment someone started to censor out EFF 'freedom' posts.
I was a heavy doom/quake mapper in the D2 era and even up into Q3Arena (which presaged that iD was becoming an engine-builder, not a game-maker, sigh....) but already it was pretty clear that the amount of work was surpassing "hobbyist" work levels except for people who had literally nothing else to do with their lives. Now to compete with professional product the art, the textures, the models...it's TEAMS of people you're competing against. It's not just building some interesting geometry that keeps triangles low.
I think the deathknell for this was again iD, their rage engine was looking interesting, until they came out with the stupid megapixel textures, that would take quasi supercomputers to render - sorry, hobbyists.
There are still FWIW some fantastic free tools out there for mappers - UDK is still going strong (and is great), as well as Unity, Lumberyard, etc. but likewise part of the problem is the diversity of the market: when Doom2/Quake was the only game in town, everyone's products were for everyone. Now the market is so balkanized that you have to ask yourself 'is it worth 100 hours of work to put out a level that - by the time I'm done - only 5000 people are playing?"
...let's stop the Federal government 'picking winners' entirely, and see a report about the 'entirely preventable' 2007-2008 credit crash where the Congress-selected private firms that provided bond ratings simply didn't do the one thing they were tasked to do: objectively appraise and rate bundled funds as to riskiness?
I think suing those firms into oblivion, jailing their entire management team for fraud, and then NOT picking ANY private firms as "official" successors designated by the Federal Government will remind the marketplace that information too has value and the lack of any official designation means that investors will have to manage their OWN risk.
ACTUALLY starting a business is fucking hard: You risk your OWN money* as well as a shit ton of time, sweat, and (more or less) your family, relationships, prime working years - all for something you "hope" will work.
This is essentially what Marx got *completely* wrong, by positing "capital" just existing ex nihilo, instead of recognizing the massive amount of wealth that was invested in all those businesses that didn't succeed. By discounting the 'red in tooth and claw' investment carnage that happened so that the (current) businesses exist, one hand-waves away essentially the entire justification for why business owners are ENTITLED to make more than the downtrodden wage slaves they employ - it is that disparate result that incentivizes people to take the risk to found businesses in the first place.
But I wouldn't say that Millennials are necessarily perceiving it wrongly; as much as that might make their elders uncomfortable. The fact is that capitalism as is practiced in the US isn't really much like capitalism; it's "capitalist" on the up side, but socialist on the down side. (When in fact, capitalism like evolution ONLY advances by the death of noncompetitive entities.) Why found a business, if every buggy-whip-maker you are putting out of business is only going to go on the federal protective dole ensuring that the poor devils never actually fail?
If there's no ability to eliminate your competitors, there's little incentive to jump into the competition.
*Kickstarter is bullshit - and closer to a religious donation than investment. The idea that people are sinking money is only working by the principal of distributed risk, with the interwebs making the distribution part easier; if you can convince 10 million people to each 'risk' $10 with you, that is in some ways a lower bar than getting a handful of VC funds to each invest $25 million in your idea.
I'd guess not a few of them mean "This workplace doesn't live up to the utopian idyll that I came to believe I am entitled to by my puerile 'advanced education' - I mean, for god's sake they DIDN'T hire me for a 6 figure sum out of school, they expect me to show up on time, and (ha!) complain that I spend half my day texting my friends instead of working. It is LITERALLY like a fucking slave galley. They might as well chain me to my desk."
I don't think the ardent professional whinging-class online really want to recognize how big a fraction that is.
...as long as they can convince the GOP majority in the Senate to pass it as well, and then Trump to sign it.
Do people (Americans) not really understand how the US government works? Do Democrats think winning one house of congress is meaningful in any but a blocking way?
"If you can't argue the facts, argue the source!"...wasn't convincing when it was first postulated, not still 200 years later.
Have hurricanes gotten stronger, as Mr. Hansen predicted in a 2016 study? No. Satellite data from 1970 onward shows no evidence of this in relation to global surface temperature. Have storms caused increasing amounts of damage in the U.S.? Data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show no such increase in damage, measured as a percentage of gross domestic product. How about stronger tornadoes? The opposite may be true, as NOAA data offers some evidence of a decline.
"Denialists lost the severity gamble, HARD" Really? As far as I can tell, nearly EVERY prediction about Global Warming from flooded NY to hundreds of millions of climate refugees has been wrong.
...not everyone who buys a car is a metro urban hipster that lives 5km from work in a benign climate. And here's the money-shot: those people are abandoning cars anyway.
I commonly (several times a month) make 300+ mile road trips, I don't have the time to park for HOURS at a charging station waiting for that range to be restored. I live in a place that regularly sees -40C/F every winter. My GARAGE commonly sits at ambient temps of 0F/-15C. I drive an SUV because I quite commonly have to help move furniture, yard waste, fireplace wood, animals, and tow trailers up to 2000lbs for Boy Scout campouts.
I love the idea of an electric vehicle generally. I'd love to have a Tesla not just because they're electric but because they're fucking-well-designed cars. But until their "fill up process" means automated swapping of charge packs so I can "fill up" in a few minutes, you guys can keep your EVs.
+1000. I think it comes down to a lack of living memory (in the west) of actual oppression. I can't speak for places like Argentina or Russia - are they more about privacy/anonymity because of their recent history? I don't really think so? And in the US? "Oh noes, Trump's black helicopters!" is bullshit factionalism only; nobody's 'disappearing', there are no Konzentrazionslagers. Jjackbooted fascists are boogymen waved about for-purpose, like the guns fired by cowboys to get the cattle all to run efficiently, collectively, and conveniently to the ACTUAL slaughtering pens.
I'm going to go even further: (whispers) I don't even really give a shit about privacy.
Does that mean I lose my "tech elite" cred, if I had any? I don't care. I mean, sure, I'll take it when I can get it, but let's be totally honest: it would take someone actually competent (or with a nearly-trivial level of Law Enforcement access authority) to figure out who 'argStyopa' really is. It's like securing your house against intrusion: whatever you do is only going to dissuade the lazy, casual intruder. Professionals and/or the government are going to get in without even checking their fucking stride, and do whatever they want in there without my being able to do shit about it. (Oh, and even if I did object, against neither of them would I have a hope in hell prevailing by pursuing any LEGAL recourse, let's be clear about that, too.)
Let's even assert that/.'s db is utterly secure, hackproof, and stored on Uranus...it doesn't matter. Modern brute force data-analysis heuristics can (or soon will be able to) identify me by my posting habits, time of day, subjects, even syntax and linguistic patterns. I'd be traced back to my work IP address, and google's constant-phone-location thing would put me at a specific desk at the moment these words were being typed. I could tippytoe all I want, only use cash, a TOR browser from multihop public anonymized VPNs and what would I get for all this massive inconvenience? Nearly no protection at all from the agencies I should REALLY be afraid of.
So no, you can weep piteously over the "loss of privacy" but it's gone, mate.
(And, while this may just be a comforting rationalization, I don't believe privacy was really anything more than an ephemeral industrial-era invention anyway: in the pre-modern era, you were more of less tied to what you did, and what you said. Sure you could write under a pseudonym, or wear a mask, but those "privacy measures" were pretty feeble defenses...just like today.)
Well, being an asshole doesn't mean you're necessarily wrong, either.
Let's recall that "McCarthyism" was a term coined by his political enemies, and given wide cultural currency by the media and Hollywood...who leaned strongly left and in fact turned out to ACTUALLY BE COMMUNISTS.
Is it really a "Red Scare" when a lot of the people being accused actually turn out to be what they're accused of?
I guarantee you that MI5 and MI6 - while of course publicly excoriating McCarthy as all "right thinking" people do - would have loved to have had McCarthy clumsily swinging his accusations around Britain in the 1950s. (cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...)
Curiously, McCarthy being so hated directly led to Watergate; Eisenhower despised McCarthy, and even had State Dept file cabinets moved to the Oval Office to protect them from McCarthy's committee subpoenas per 'executive privilege'. The general recognition that whatever was physically in that office was thus legally off-limits certainly had some impact on one of McCarthy's junior investigators, Mr Richard Nixon.
We are the richest society in human history, and we still can't pay for all the shit we feel we need. We borrow 1/4-1/3 of the US budget every year against "the future".
And before the inevitable comment: Yes, US military spending is huge, more than half of discretionary spending....however, discretionary spending is only about 1/3 the budget. So when looking at "where does the US spend its $" from the total pile about 1/6 is military....while around 2/3 of the total US budget is spent on social spending. https://www.nationalpriorities...
Dan Quayle was one of the last examples the leftish US press had of being able to entirely control the message bandwidth, before talk radio (and then the internet) tore that from their clutching talons forever.
That is simply a lie. McCarthy claimed there were Soviet agents at many levels inside the US government. The left insisted this was absurd: after the Venona decrypts and the Mitrokhin archive, it became abundantly clear that there were, in fact, many highly placed Soviet agents in the US government, exactly as described.
The Rosenbergs, famously a cause celebre for the left about innocent victims of the Red Scare...turned out to likely be Soviet agents. Harry Hopkins, FDR's closest advisor, was likely a Soviet agent.
What you're complaining about - broad brush accusations - was more from HUAC (with which McCarthy had no involvement), but I doubt trivialities like facts will change your mind, right?
RTFA and there's nothing there.... just "we can do this" but no pics (likely because they're going to announce the technique formally in Dec). I expect that this will look more or less something like the cell-shaded early CGI animation.
Obviously, this is about "optimizing" the drudgework of colorizing, meaning the teams of sub-artists on productions will just be a little smaller.
I guess everything depends on how persuasive this looks; it could be cool and seems like a relatively low-hanging fruit for automation of the process. Even if it looks shitty, the consumer audience has such low demands that they've (I guess) come to accept the already-significantly-automated interpolation and heavy-trace processes common to the cheaper anime/cartoons.
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We need more junkies to go balls-out and fucking overdose hard enough that Naltrexone won't save them.
Honestly, a municipality could invest about 1/2 as much as they're spending on treatment programs in free heroin giveaways, and in less than a year they could probably mostly shut those programs down.
Sure, trash pickups would spike, but I think that's a one time cost.
Why do we try to save addicts again? Let them go. There's 7+ billion people on the planet, we can start letting the marginal ones slip away.
...for breaking those rules. Is there any?
I didn't RTFA because I've had enough since Kyoto of empty, meaningless virtue-signaling where states promise the sun, sky, and moon but don't accomplish shit. Every single "Climate Summit" results in the same thing: platitudes, much back-slapping, mealy-mouthed statements about what 'should' be done....and 5-10 years later, we find nobody's hit their targets, and nothing happens.
...have we just completely given up on people being responsible for themselves?
I mean, if someone - even an "influencer" (what a fucked-up term) - says "do this shit" are people just so spineless and personality-less that they just sheeplike do what they're told?
I "went without a smartphone" for 35 years of my life, I think I could cope for a year for $100k.
Sorry, I just had to get that off my chest.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news...
She has SEVEN passports that we know about (4 from China, 3 from HK), plus at least one more than listed.
Simultaneously, she's a cause celebre for the Chinese GOVERNMENT.
And so she's NOT a flight risk?
If you're a platform, then you're just the delivery device.
Of course, you'd have to stop with the fucking editing, censoring everyone that doesn't follow your religion, stop trying evangelize your creed and just serve up videos.
Hint: 2018 rewind, where was your BIGGEST SUBSCRIBER youtuber Pewdiepie?
If you're a publisher, then understand the moment you start to pick winners and losers, when you put your finger on the scales (even if it's for a cause you really really believe in!) you are now RESPONSIBLE for the message.
IMO you should lose your section 230 exemption too, then. The EFF's position that Sec 230 allows basically any modding at all is hypocritical; they would certainly change the moment someone started to censor out EFF 'freedom' posts.
I was a heavy doom/quake mapper in the D2 era and even up into Q3Arena (which presaged that iD was becoming an engine-builder, not a game-maker, sigh....) but already it was pretty clear that the amount of work was surpassing "hobbyist" work levels except for people who had literally nothing else to do with their lives. Now to compete with professional product the art, the textures, the models...it's TEAMS of people you're competing against. It's not just building some interesting geometry that keeps triangles low.
I think the deathknell for this was again iD, their rage engine was looking interesting, until they came out with the stupid megapixel textures, that would take quasi supercomputers to render - sorry, hobbyists.
There are still FWIW some fantastic free tools out there for mappers - UDK is still going strong (and is great), as well as Unity, Lumberyard, etc. but likewise part of the problem is the diversity of the market: when Doom2/Quake was the only game in town, everyone's products were for everyone. Now the market is so balkanized that you have to ask yourself 'is it worth 100 hours of work to put out a level that - by the time I'm done - only 5000 people are playing?"
...let's stop the Federal government 'picking winners' entirely, and see a report about the 'entirely preventable' 2007-2008 credit crash where the Congress-selected private firms that provided bond ratings simply didn't do the one thing they were tasked to do: objectively appraise and rate bundled funds as to riskiness?
I think suing those firms into oblivion, jailing their entire management team for fraud, and then NOT picking ANY private firms as "official" successors designated by the Federal Government will remind the marketplace that information too has value and the lack of any official designation means that investors will have to manage their OWN risk.
ACTUALLY starting a business is fucking hard: You risk your OWN money* as well as a shit ton of time, sweat, and (more or less) your family, relationships, prime working years - all for something you "hope" will work.
This is essentially what Marx got *completely* wrong, by positing "capital" just existing ex nihilo, instead of recognizing the massive amount of wealth that was invested in all those businesses that didn't succeed. By discounting the 'red in tooth and claw' investment carnage that happened so that the (current) businesses exist, one hand-waves away essentially the entire justification for why business owners are ENTITLED to make more than the downtrodden wage slaves they employ - it is that disparate result that incentivizes people to take the risk to found businesses in the first place.
But I wouldn't say that Millennials are necessarily perceiving it wrongly; as much as that might make their elders uncomfortable. The fact is that capitalism as is practiced in the US isn't really much like capitalism; it's "capitalist" on the up side, but socialist on the down side. (When in fact, capitalism like evolution ONLY advances by the death of noncompetitive entities.) Why found a business, if every buggy-whip-maker you are putting out of business is only going to go on the federal protective dole ensuring that the poor devils never actually fail?
If there's no ability to eliminate your competitors, there's little incentive to jump into the competition.
*Kickstarter is bullshit - and closer to a religious donation than investment. The idea that people are sinking money is only working by the principal of distributed risk, with the interwebs making the distribution part easier; if you can convince 10 million people to each 'risk' $10 with you, that is in some ways a lower bar than getting a handful of VC funds to each invest $25 million in your idea.
I'd guess not a few of them mean "This workplace doesn't live up to the utopian idyll that I came to believe I am entitled to by my puerile 'advanced education' - I mean, for god's sake they DIDN'T hire me for a 6 figure sum out of school, they expect me to show up on time, and (ha!) complain that I spend half my day texting my friends instead of working. It is LITERALLY like a fucking slave galley. They might as well chain me to my desk."
I don't think the ardent professional whinging-class online really want to recognize how big a fraction that is.
...as long as they can convince the GOP majority in the Senate to pass it as well, and then Trump to sign it.
Do people (Americans) not really understand how the US government works? Do Democrats think winning one house of congress is meaningful in any but a blocking way?
"If you can't argue the facts, argue the source!" ...wasn't convincing when it was first postulated, not still 200 years later.
Have hurricanes gotten stronger, as Mr. Hansen predicted in a 2016 study? No. Satellite data from 1970 onward shows no evidence of this in relation to global surface temperature. Have storms caused increasing amounts of damage in the U.S.? Data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show no such increase in damage, measured as a percentage of gross domestic product. How about stronger tornadoes? The opposite may be true, as NOAA data offers some evidence of a decline.
"Denialists lost the severity gamble, HARD"
Really?
As far as I can tell, nearly EVERY prediction about Global Warming from flooded NY to hundreds of millions of climate refugees has been wrong.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/t...
https://www.foxnews.com/scienc...
http://www.aei.org/publication...
https://www.thenewamerican.com...
...not everyone who buys a car is a metro urban hipster that lives 5km from work in a benign climate. And here's the money-shot: those people are abandoning cars anyway.
I commonly (several times a month) make 300+ mile road trips, I don't have the time to park for HOURS at a charging station waiting for that range to be restored.
I live in a place that regularly sees -40C/F every winter. My GARAGE commonly sits at ambient temps of 0F/-15C.
I drive an SUV because I quite commonly have to help move furniture, yard waste, fireplace wood, animals, and tow trailers up to 2000lbs for Boy Scout campouts.
I love the idea of an electric vehicle generally. I'd love to have a Tesla not just because they're electric but because they're fucking-well-designed cars. But until their "fill up process" means automated swapping of charge packs so I can "fill up" in a few minutes, you guys can keep your EVs.
+1000. I think it comes down to a lack of living memory (in the west) of actual oppression. I can't speak for places like Argentina or Russia - are they more about privacy/anonymity because of their recent history? I don't really think so?
And in the US? "Oh noes, Trump's black helicopters!" is bullshit factionalism only; nobody's 'disappearing', there are no Konzentrazionslagers. Jjackbooted fascists are boogymen waved about for-purpose, like the guns fired by cowboys to get the cattle all to run efficiently, collectively, and conveniently to the ACTUAL slaughtering pens.
I'm going to go even further: (whispers) I don't even really give a shit about privacy.
Does that mean I lose my "tech elite" cred, if I had any? I don't care. I mean, sure, I'll take it when I can get it, but let's be totally honest: it would take someone actually competent (or with a nearly-trivial level of Law Enforcement access authority) to figure out who 'argStyopa' really is. It's like securing your house against intrusion: whatever you do is only going to dissuade the lazy, casual intruder. Professionals and/or the government are going to get in without even checking their fucking stride, and do whatever they want in there without my being able to do shit about it. (Oh, and even if I did object, against neither of them would I have a hope in hell prevailing by pursuing any LEGAL recourse, let's be clear about that, too.)
Let's even assert that /.'s db is utterly secure, hackproof, and stored on Uranus...it doesn't matter. Modern brute force data-analysis heuristics can (or soon will be able to) identify me by my posting habits, time of day, subjects, even syntax and linguistic patterns. I'd be traced back to my work IP address, and google's constant-phone-location thing would put me at a specific desk at the moment these words were being typed. I could tippytoe all I want, only use cash, a TOR browser from multihop public anonymized VPNs and what would I get for all this massive inconvenience? Nearly no protection at all from the agencies I should REALLY be afraid of.
So no, you can weep piteously over the "loss of privacy" but it's gone, mate.
(And, while this may just be a comforting rationalization, I don't believe privacy was really anything more than an ephemeral industrial-era invention anyway: in the pre-modern era, you were more of less tied to what you did, and what you said. Sure you could write under a pseudonym, or wear a mask, but those "privacy measures" were pretty feeble defenses...just like today.)
Please let me know when any "world wide internet outage" occurred (and lasted a good portion of a week!) I do believe I entirely missed them.
Well, being an asshole doesn't mean you're necessarily wrong, either.
Let's recall that "McCarthyism" was a term coined by his political enemies, and given wide cultural currency by the media and Hollywood...who leaned strongly left and in fact turned out to ACTUALLY BE COMMUNISTS.
Is it really a "Red Scare" when a lot of the people being accused actually turn out to be what they're accused of?
I guarantee you that MI5 and MI6 - while of course publicly excoriating McCarthy as all "right thinking" people do - would have loved to have had McCarthy clumsily swinging his accusations around Britain in the 1950s. (cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...)
Curiously, McCarthy being so hated directly led to Watergate; Eisenhower despised McCarthy, and even had State Dept file cabinets moved to the Oval Office to protect them from McCarthy's committee subpoenas per 'executive privilege'. The general recognition that whatever was physically in that office was thus legally off-limits certainly had some impact on one of McCarthy's junior investigators, Mr Richard Nixon.
Haven't we heard about the "impending" exhaustion of IP addresses now for what, at least a decade?
You mean, like America generally?
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
(it's at about $21.8 trillion as of this post)
We are the richest society in human history, and we still can't pay for all the shit we feel we need.
We borrow 1/4-1/3 of the US budget every year against "the future".
And before the inevitable comment: Yes, US military spending is huge, more than half of discretionary spending....however, discretionary spending is only about 1/3 the budget.
So when looking at "where does the US spend its $" from the total pile about 1/6 is military....while around 2/3 of the total US budget is spent on social spending.
https://www.nationalpriorities...
Don't send money to anyone you meet on the internet, ever.
EVEN IF SHE PROMISES TO SUCK YOUR DICK.
Dan Quayle was one of the last examples the leftish US press had of being able to entirely control the message bandwidth, before talk radio (and then the internet) tore that from their clutching talons forever.
That is simply a lie.
McCarthy claimed there were Soviet agents at many levels inside the US government. The left insisted this was absurd: after the Venona decrypts and the Mitrokhin archive, it became abundantly clear that there were, in fact, many highly placed Soviet agents in the US government, exactly as described.
The Rosenbergs, famously a cause celebre for the left about innocent victims of the Red Scare...turned out to likely be Soviet agents.
Harry Hopkins, FDR's closest advisor, was likely a Soviet agent.
What you're complaining about - broad brush accusations - was more from HUAC (with which McCarthy had no involvement), but I doubt trivialities like facts will change your mind, right?
Are there a lot of Starbucks where 4G isn't available anyway?
RTFA and there's nothing there.... just "we can do this" but no pics (likely because they're going to announce the technique formally in Dec). I expect that this will look more or less something like the cell-shaded early CGI animation.
Obviously, this is about "optimizing" the drudgework of colorizing, meaning the teams of sub-artists on productions will just be a little smaller.
I guess everything depends on how persuasive this looks; it could be cool and seems like a relatively low-hanging fruit for automation of the process. Even if it looks shitty, the consumer audience has such low demands that they've (I guess) come to accept the already-significantly-automated interpolation and heavy-trace processes common to the cheaper anime/cartoons.