"Government is what you get when people get together and decide how they want to live together, beyond just tribal rules. Much of America's legal framework actually came from studying multi-tribe gatherings of tribes, banding together to end cycles of violence."
And what was the key insight of the Founding Fathers in their observations? That governments are made of people, and people are prone to corruption and motivated primarily by self interest. So they built a democratic republic (not a democracy - they found that repugnant) in which the key mechanisms are CONSTRAINT of whatever minimalist government was necessary to keep things functioning.
The US Constitution is not an elucidation of the rights of the people of the United States; on the contrary, it is precisely and completely a FENCE limiting the power of government, handing the bulk of the responsibility for governing to the states and the peoples within them. Further, even within this 'minimalist' structure, they set each of the three branches in diametric, constant opposition to keep them all in check.
In no sense, ever, was the US federal government intended to be a funder of science, the arts, a clearinghouse of consumer information, or the setter of regulation heights of doorknobs. It was not meant to be the second chance of people who made bad choices, the comforter of the foolish, or the feeder of the hungry.
Look, I understand: your point is less about government and more about virtue signaling. Look everyone, Anonymous Coward (/shock) on the "hate Trump" bandwagon! But I had to interrupt your screed with actual facts about what the US government was intended to be from the beginning.
"....they're largely the last place of noteworthy power that baby boomers will hold in this world..." Good, fuck them. I hope history holds them with the level of scorn appropriate to the shit they've pulled, basically wrecking this country on the shoals of their ceaseless narcissism.
....that the autonomous truck is driving in places with nearly no weather.
I'm pretty astonished that this is taking place; I assume that eventually - as is almost certain to ultimately happen - that when an autonomous truck hits/kills someone (even if it's their fault), all parties involved will be sued into oblivion.
You didn't miss anything. BladeRunner2049 or wtf it was called was absolutely execrable.
My original comments at https://slashdot.org/comments.... I'm a huge Blade Runner fan. One could say it's seminal to my movie-going experience: I'm 50, so from the audience that snuck into theaters to see it (I was 15-16 when it released).
I found BR2049 merely ok. I think there was in fact a good film somewhere in there, but it takes a lot of work to sift it from the dross.
I'm not buying the OP's point that the 'tired old story' was what dragged this down. All of the things that really hurt this film were ALL directorial choices. - pacing: Villaneuve is suffering George Lucas disease. He needs more people to stop telling him how brilliant he is and give him solid criticism. At 2:40 this thing could have easily been an HOUR shorter. Long, drawn out, frankly dull establishing shots were self-indulgent and just felt like you're watching someone show you the 100th slide of their family vacation. It's interesting at first, but ultimately you just DON'T CARE ANYMORE. It's not THAT cool. - focus: part of the above, partly its own thing. Don't get me wrong, I've long since gotten past my Ridley Scott fandom (Prometheus? Fuck you Ridley I want my $ back), but a terrific choice he made in the first film is to spend relatively little focus on the tech of the era. Sure it's there, and he can't help but notice, but he's not obsessing over the flying cars, etc like BR2049 did. - product placement: I don't give a shit if Peugot dumped a pile of $ at you. Stop shoving brands in my face. Better that they'd stuck with the Pan Ams and ATARI of the first film. - the deafening soundscape: Jesus Christ my ears were nearly bleeding after that. Fire your sound man, immediately. - pointless plots and characters: Why was Leto even IN this film? As a foil, he did literally nothing except kick a dog (a dog we didn't care at all about, btw, so pointless). - enormous plot holes - the murder in the police station went rather more smoothly than I'd imagine it would; if replicants reproducing is such a earth-shattering thing why build them with ovaries, or even functional uteruses? I have to imagine engineering OUT the 'rag once a month' would (have been) advantageous to the utility of replicants generally? - the flying car dogfight? Jesus. I don't know where they were going with Deckard (or why?), but if you're fleeing pursuit, here's hint: turn off the 100k-watt cabin lights that make you a lighthouse? Guns on police flying cars?
The Economist nails it https://www.economist.com/blog... [economist.com] - I'd have used the word ponderous, but bombastic works just as well.
"One study included surveys of 944 ride-hailing users over four weeks in late 2017 in the Boston area. Nearly six in 10 said they would have used public transportation, walked, biked or skipped the trip if the ride-hailing apps weren't available" Well, OBVIOUSLY that broad range is going to be a catchall for alternatives.
What's the other chocie? Buy a car? A horse?
"The report also found many riders arenâ(TM)t using hailed rides to connect to a subway or bus line, but instead as a separate mode of transit, " I can't think of much stupider than taking an Uber or Lyft...to get to the BUS STATION. Seriously?
I carry no torch for Lyft/Uber, but it's pretty clear they're about supplanting PERSONAL cars, not complementing public transport. In that, they're succeeding. I know several inner-city urbanites that explicitly say that because of the flexibility and prices available from Uber/Lyft, they can do without a car (they use public trans for school or work, and the ride services for the "other stuff").
Maybe it's all those empty taxis that are clogging the roads that are the problem. You know, the ones where they have to buy a license from collusive city governments/airports (or worse) to even drive in the first place?
I will say that every time I've used Uber/Lyft except one, it's been cleaner, cheaper, faster, and just a generally more pleasant ride than taxis.
You said it yourself: "...except for needing to stuff an oversize bag in the overhead..."
Yes, if I have no luggage whatsoever, I couldn't care less when I get on. However, how often do people fly with NO LUGGAGE, no laptop case, no purse?
I'm 6'4", 300 lbs, I will pay a few extra bucks to get on early to prevent that crappy situation where the overheads are full and I have to stuff my gear under the seat ahead of me turning the microscopic legroom into nonexistent legroom.
...I mean, isn't this one of the FCC's core missions?
They're not chasing him because he's interfering with T-Mobile per se (and honestly, their mentioning of it was stupid). They're chasing him because his device was generating interference, full stop.
We all know that pictures can be seamlessly and basically indetectibly edited...so we're skeptical, even of images.
This just extends that to video.
Personally, I believe that the only people who should fear this are the people WHO HAVE ALREADY HAD THAT CAPABILITY, effectively losing (or at least devaluing) their secret monopoly.
So tell me again why I should be sadface that the government and media don't like people generally having this capability?
...most poor people are poor because they make/have made stupid economic choices.
Giving them a small pile of cash will not mean they will use that money wisely in any way. It's a statistical fact that people who've won the lottery to any substantial degree usually end up materially poorer.
Such a policy would only increase inflation on the sorts of crap that they waste their money on, and enrich purveyors of such things for a short time, ie it's a stupid idea.
The objective facts of your post? I wouldn't even argue.
The language like "lower class uneducated scum" (not attacking Trump but attacking the people who DARED to disagree with your sacrosanct political views) is the sort of supercilious crap that makes me delighted Trump won.
I didn't vote for him, but watching elitist shitbags like you go into apoplexy has been the best part of the 2016 election. I will almost certainly vote for Trump in the next election if I can SPECIFICALLY because of people like you. Thank you.
For the native americans then? It was terrible. For the native americans that survived and their descendants? Not so bad.
They're no longer stuck in a dead-end culture that hadn't invented the wheel, medicine, open ocean navigation, literacy, or mathematics. Now they have lifespans almost that of the advanced culture that overran them, and tax- and educational-advantages in which the faintest willingness to work hard and not become a drug-dependent welfare monkey means it's easy to get an excellent free education and make LOTS of income.
Probably wouldn't be much different. Most aliens wouldn't bother to exterminate us once they had what they wanted and we stopped being lethally annoying.
I got caught in a situation pretty nearly exactly like this.
The Oslo airport customs section is (or at least was) designed with the typical Scandinavian ultra-minimalist glass partitions and bleached wood everywhere. Worse, they use minimalist signage as well - not even in WORDS but in the "universalist" iconography that someone believes 'everyone should be able to understand' but which is (to this pretty well-traveled American) baffling.
Finally, I'm sure to make it simpler for people dragging luggage, they have ONLY proximity-activated doors. So you're in this light-wood-floored and glass-walled maze of corridors and square rooms, in which the walls are indistinguishable from the doors until you walk within a half-meter of them, and then they slide open.
Brand new, it seemed, so no cues in the floor-wear to suggest which way was right.
I was unfortunately the first off the plane, so I was repeatedly confronted by 4m x 4m square glass walled rooms, in which I'd walk toward one wall, it wouldn't auto-open, and I'd veer to a different wall (invariably the WRONG one - my luck) and THAT wouldn't open, while determinedly-helpful Norwegian security on the other side of the glass would try to point me toward whichever wall was the 'right' one to escape that FUCKING MAZE. I have to imagine they thought I was hilarious. It was, objectively.
I don't know if I'm particularly stupid but I'd like to think it was just because I was tired after a long flight but I COULDN'T FIND MY OUT OF THE THING.
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What step am I at?
I don't give a shit.
Honestly, no, I *truly* don't.
Climate will change.
If it's used to explain literally everything, of course it's real.
Right now I'd say a crying baby is probably the most realistic representation.
Please, proceed with arguments over what color the baby should be.
"Government is what you get when people get together and decide how they want to live together, beyond just tribal rules.
Much of America's legal framework actually came from studying multi-tribe gatherings of tribes, banding together to end cycles of violence."
And what was the key insight of the Founding Fathers in their observations? That governments are made of people, and people are prone to corruption and motivated primarily by self interest. So they built a democratic republic (not a democracy - they found that repugnant) in which the key mechanisms are CONSTRAINT of whatever minimalist government was necessary to keep things functioning.
The US Constitution is not an elucidation of the rights of the people of the United States; on the contrary, it is precisely and completely a FENCE limiting the power of government, handing the bulk of the responsibility for governing to the states and the peoples within them. Further, even within this 'minimalist' structure, they set each of the three branches in diametric, constant opposition to keep them all in check.
In no sense, ever, was the US federal government intended to be a funder of science, the arts, a clearinghouse of consumer information, or the setter of regulation heights of doorknobs. It was not meant to be the second chance of people who made bad choices, the comforter of the foolish, or the feeder of the hungry.
Look, I understand: your point is less about government and more about virtue signaling. Look everyone, Anonymous Coward (/shock) on the "hate Trump" bandwagon! But I had to interrupt your screed with actual facts about what the US government was intended to be from the beginning.
"....they're largely the last place of noteworthy power that baby boomers will hold in this world..."
Good, fuck them. I hope history holds them with the level of scorn appropriate to the shit they've pulled, basically wrecking this country on the shoals of their ceaseless narcissism.
The Force is so money.
Hmm, a government faced with civil disturbances decides to block social media "to curb hate speech"?
Right.
....that the autonomous truck is driving in places with nearly no weather.
I'm pretty astonished that this is taking place; I assume that eventually - as is almost certain to ultimately happen - that when an autonomous truck hits/kills someone (even if it's their fault), all parties involved will be sued into oblivion.
Pretty sure Rhode Island still has that law that it's ok for a stripper to be as young as 16...as long as she's home before curfew.
Yep, there it is : http://abcnews.go.com/Business...
Ah, America.
You didn't miss anything.
BladeRunner2049 or wtf it was called was absolutely execrable.
My original comments at https://slashdot.org/comments....
I'm a huge Blade Runner fan. One could say it's seminal to my movie-going experience: I'm 50, so from the audience that snuck into theaters to see it (I was 15-16 when it released).
I found BR2049 merely ok. I think there was in fact a good film somewhere in there, but it takes a lot of work to sift it from the dross.
I'm not buying the OP's point that the 'tired old story' was what dragged this down. All of the things that really hurt this film were ALL directorial choices.
- pacing: Villaneuve is suffering George Lucas disease. He needs more people to stop telling him how brilliant he is and give him solid criticism. At 2:40 this thing could have easily been an HOUR shorter. Long, drawn out, frankly dull establishing shots were self-indulgent and just felt like you're watching someone show you the 100th slide of their family vacation. It's interesting at first, but ultimately you just DON'T CARE ANYMORE. It's not THAT cool.
- focus: part of the above, partly its own thing. Don't get me wrong, I've long since gotten past my Ridley Scott fandom (Prometheus? Fuck you Ridley I want my $ back), but a terrific choice he made in the first film is to spend relatively little focus on the tech of the era. Sure it's there, and he can't help but notice, but he's not obsessing over the flying cars, etc like BR2049 did.
- product placement: I don't give a shit if Peugot dumped a pile of $ at you. Stop shoving brands in my face. Better that they'd stuck with the Pan Ams and ATARI of the first film.
- the deafening soundscape: Jesus Christ my ears were nearly bleeding after that. Fire your sound man, immediately.
- pointless plots and characters: Why was Leto even IN this film? As a foil, he did literally nothing except kick a dog (a dog we didn't care at all about, btw, so pointless).
- enormous plot holes - the murder in the police station went rather more smoothly than I'd imagine it would; if replicants reproducing is such a earth-shattering thing why build them with ovaries, or even functional uteruses? I have to imagine engineering OUT the 'rag once a month' would (have been) advantageous to the utility of replicants generally?
- the flying car dogfight? Jesus. I don't know where they were going with Deckard (or why?), but if you're fleeing pursuit, here's hint: turn off the 100k-watt cabin lights that make you a lighthouse? Guns on police flying cars?
The Economist nails it https://www.economist.com/blog... [economist.com] - I'd have used the word ponderous, but bombastic works just as well.
Google doesn't WANT to make that assertion.
Google is full of righteous SJWs desperate to fix whatever they deem is wrong with the world.
Volleyball shaped, with a simple face?
How is this NOT named Wilson?
...you're suggesting that just tossing your kid on the couch with an iPad is NOT a successful parenting strategy?
Next you're going to tell me they're going to end up antisocial web-leeches that don't know how to actually interact with other humans.
On the bright side, though, if there's ever an evolutionary advantage to the skills for playing Kandy Krush they're fucking SET.
"...many riders arenÃ(TM)t using hailed rides..."
Seriously, slashdot. It's 2018.
https://www.justinweiss.com/ar...
"One study included surveys of 944 ride-hailing users over four weeks in late 2017 in the Boston area. Nearly six in 10 said they would have used public transportation, walked, biked or skipped the trip if the ride-hailing apps weren't available"
Well, OBVIOUSLY that broad range is going to be a catchall for alternatives.
What's the other chocie? Buy a car? A horse?
"The report also found many riders arenâ(TM)t using hailed rides to connect to a subway or bus line, but instead as a separate mode of transit, "
I can't think of much stupider than taking an Uber or Lyft...to get to the BUS STATION. Seriously?
I carry no torch for Lyft/Uber, but it's pretty clear they're about supplanting PERSONAL cars, not complementing public transport. In that, they're succeeding. I know several inner-city urbanites that explicitly say that because of the flexibility and prices available from Uber/Lyft, they can do without a car (they use public trans for school or work, and the ride services for the "other stuff").
Maybe it's all those empty taxis that are clogging the roads that are the problem. You know, the ones where they have to buy a license from collusive city governments/airports (or worse) to even drive in the first place?
I will say that every time I've used Uber/Lyft except one, it's been cleaner, cheaper, faster, and just a generally more pleasant ride than taxis.
Because one of them will be treated seriously, sympathetically, and almost certainly win some sort of compensation? (Hint: not Damore)
You said it yourself: "...except for needing to stuff an oversize bag in the overhead..."
Yes, if I have no luggage whatsoever, I couldn't care less when I get on. However, how often do people fly with NO LUGGAGE, no laptop case, no purse?
I'm 6'4", 300 lbs, I will pay a few extra bucks to get on early to prevent that crappy situation where the overheads are full and I have to stuff my gear under the seat ahead of me turning the microscopic legroom into nonexistent legroom.
Why would I claim "that's not me"?
...I mean, isn't this one of the FCC's core missions?
They're not chasing him because he's interfering with T-Mobile per se (and honestly, their mentioning of it was stupid). They're chasing him because his device was generating interference, full stop.
Photoshop's a thing.
We all know that pictures can be seamlessly and basically indetectibly edited...so we're skeptical, even of images.
This just extends that to video.
Personally, I believe that the only people who should fear this are the people WHO HAVE ALREADY HAD THAT CAPABILITY, effectively losing (or at least devaluing) their secret monopoly.
So tell me again why I should be sadface that the government and media don't like people generally having this capability?
Maybe you missed the last sentence, but I wouldn't necessarily dispute that at all.
But let's be honest here - only one side rides a moral high-horse denying that greed is a motivation.
...most poor people are poor because they make/have made stupid economic choices.
Giving them a small pile of cash will not mean they will use that money wisely in any way. It's a statistical fact that people who've won the lottery to any substantial degree usually end up materially poorer.
Such a policy would only increase inflation on the sorts of crap that they waste their money on, and enrich purveyors of such things for a short time, ie it's a stupid idea.
The objective facts of your post? I wouldn't even argue.
The language like "lower class uneducated scum" (not attacking Trump but attacking the people who DARED to disagree with your sacrosanct political views) is the sort of supercilious crap that makes me delighted Trump won.
I didn't vote for him, but watching elitist shitbags like you go into apoplexy has been the best part of the 2016 election. I will almost certainly vote for Trump in the next election if I can SPECIFICALLY because of people like you. Thank you.
For the native americans then? It was terrible.
For the native americans that survived and their descendants? Not so bad.
They're no longer stuck in a dead-end culture that hadn't invented the wheel, medicine, open ocean navigation, literacy, or mathematics. Now they have lifespans almost that of the advanced culture that overran them, and tax- and educational-advantages in which the faintest willingness to work hard and not become a drug-dependent welfare monkey means it's easy to get an excellent free education and make LOTS of income.
Probably wouldn't be much different. Most aliens wouldn't bother to exterminate us once they had what they wanted and we stopped being lethally annoying.
I got caught in a situation pretty nearly exactly like this.
The Oslo airport customs section is (or at least was) designed with the typical Scandinavian ultra-minimalist glass partitions and bleached wood everywhere. Worse, they use minimalist signage as well - not even in WORDS but in the "universalist" iconography that someone believes 'everyone should be able to understand' but which is (to this pretty well-traveled American) baffling.
Finally, I'm sure to make it simpler for people dragging luggage, they have ONLY proximity-activated doors. So you're in this light-wood-floored and glass-walled maze of corridors and square rooms, in which the walls are indistinguishable from the doors until you walk within a half-meter of them, and then they slide open.
Brand new, it seemed, so no cues in the floor-wear to suggest which way was right.
I was unfortunately the first off the plane, so I was repeatedly confronted by 4m x 4m square glass walled rooms, in which I'd walk toward one wall, it wouldn't auto-open, and I'd veer to a different wall (invariably the WRONG one - my luck) and THAT wouldn't open, while determinedly-helpful Norwegian security on the other side of the glass would try to point me toward whichever wall was the 'right' one to escape that FUCKING MAZE. I have to imagine they thought I was hilarious. It was, objectively.
I don't know if I'm particularly stupid but I'd like to think it was just because I was tired after a long flight but I COULDN'T FIND MY OUT OF THE THING.