...most of those fervent "down-voters" couldn't be arsed to get out of their chairs and actually vote back when IT COUNTED.
Sadly, in real life you don't get a "do over" just because you weren't paying attention the first time, or because you're on the (to you and ALL YOUR FRIENDS) "right" side.
I'm guessing, of course, but if the groundswell so "universally" portrayed today had actually voted, Brexit would have gone down without question.
It's funny, I googled but I couldn't find anything about the wave of people migrating to Finland for their awesome internet coverage. Please let me know where there are some stories about that.
I'm not convinced there is such a right, or that if there is, if you haven't voluntarily traded it away the minute you search on Google or use Chrome. The only evil that Google committed is not making that even more obvious (I would have said it's been obvious since nearly the beginning).
You need do neither of those things.
Like a lot of conveniences, there is a cost, it's just hidden from view. Or did people really think Google built their massive networks of data centers (on which they spend $5bn per quarter) on sheer altruism? Really?
...but commerce is natural across humans. If governments (or in this case the stupid companies themselves) try to constrain commerce in unnatural ways, a black market is a certainty.
In re all the flippin streaming services specifically? If you decide to leave the commons and hide your products in pay-to-enter walled gardens, we're going to find out two things: 1) how good your security is, because ultimate someone's just going to break in and steal it, or 2) your shit isn't worth the trouble.
....because it wasn't MISUSE. It was Facebook's bloody BUSINESS MODEL.
Further, CA (and Facebook) is only in hot water today because they dared to use this information in a way that benefited Donald Trump. In the 2012 election we were bombarded with news stories about how 'sophisticated' and 'cutting edge' the Obama campaign was about leveraging internet big data for voter-engagement and campaigning.
So I'm sure you have smoke detectors and CO detectors in every single room of your house, as well as a regularly tested sprinkler system. Oh and a halon system for suppressing non-water fires? Do you have airbags built into your staircase landings? Fire ladders at every upstairs window? Fire extinguishers in every room?
Because if you don't, why not? Just because they're expensive? That's no excuse: you're clearly 'nickel and diming' away your safety.
In case you missed the sarcasm: EVERY COMPLEX SYSTEM IS A COMPROMISE BETWEEN COST AND SAFETY. Every. Single. One.
Except, notice that it's an 8% increase over what, decades? That's not "gully gusher floods"....that's about as perfect a sustained, gentle increase to increase aquifers as one could ask for.
I think you're trying to be smart? Or funny? Neither's working.
Day before yesterday I'd opined in a thread on gizmodo (in response to someone saying that the 2nd Amendment wasn't written in an era of machine guns and assault weapons, and thus this meant they didn't apply) that the 1st Amendment was ALSO written in an era before telephone, radio, email, facebook, etc so all those should, by the same logic, no longer be covered by freedom of speech.
Within 24 hours I had twelve (ostensibly) different people tell me "KILL YOURSELF" with various colorful adjectives and descriptions. One then looked up my username, and in 6 other (irrelevant) threads where I'd posted variously about cars, Superhero movies, etc he (?) proceeded to post repeated replies to those posts of "KILL YOURSELF".
Yeah, humanity is just a wonderful bunch of folks. Oh, there are certainly a lot of good people. Just...I'm doubting "most".
Tearing or ripping anything more than 'easy' is not typically done with the incisors; the tearing teeth are the canines...which ALSO shear-cut, they just just a) better leverage and b) are pointy, allowing better penetration of tough surfaces as well.
"...The reasons, he said, were climate change and population growth...." Really? Climate change means there's less water now?
Because JUST LAST YEAR I saw everyone complaining that Climate Change had caused TOO MUCH water and heavy rainfall/flooding generally, consistently, and broadly across the UK.
"...new Met Office report, based on figures stretching back 100 years to 1910- shows that rainfall has actually gone up by 8 percent....The annual State of the UK Climate Report also revealed UK summers have been notably wetter over the last decade from 2008 to 2017, with 20 per cent more rainfall compared to 1961-1990...."
Oh, also, since they're focusing on the South and East of England, also last year: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne......also predicted heavier and more frequent rain across southern England.
So which is it? Climate change means the UK is running out of water, OR climate change means the UK is flooding with water. You really can't assert both.
...So you're saying one side has ACTUAL examples, and the other side (with no basis whatsoever except their own ideals) disputes the applicability of those examples?
...while it may support it, how many people NEED their game delivered at 4k? Seriously?
And for those who claim to "need" it, if you offered them a choice of every game they want whenever they want, at $20/month, but capped at 1920x1280, vs buy a while console for what,, maybe $500, buy ONE game (now about $100, really) and play only that game at 4k, I'm pretty sure I can predict which of those at least 75% of the gaming population will choose.
The suggestion that tougher-food diets are better dealt with by edge-to-edge FRONT teeth (on which then a raft of speculation is floated) doesn't make sense?
The front teeth are for grabbing & portioning; that is, they hold food and then sever it for processing by other teeth. Therefore their primary task is to cut food (that they can; more durable foods are dealt with by the canines) not grind it.
The most efficient way of cutting cuttable things is SHEARING, meaning two adjacent cutting planes moving next to each other (Cf scissors)...ie the way our teeth are now. Pinch cutting ala wire-cutters is useful only with a fairly narrow range of substances above a certain thickness and rigidity.
In fact, the only teeth in mammals that are edge-edge are grinding molars, so unless he's suggesting that we had molars for front teeth, the whole theory collapses.
The right to bear arms HAS been infringed. I cannot, for example, walk down to the store and buy a machinegun. Or a cannon. Or landmines.
That doesn't logically imply that we should expand such infringements, particularly when defined in panic or by people who are more interested in virtue-signaling to their voters than actually making someplace SAFER.
I get the sense that you don't really even clearly understand what you're talking about.
Except the Supreme Court has ALWAYS been politicized, and they've managed to do a pretty good job.
Really, I'm getting tired of people acting like this is some sort of "new low" in American politics. Congressmen used to shoot each other and FDR tried to pack the USSC with up to another 36 tame judges*.
I'm not saying that we couldn't elect someone evil, the US electorate is staggeringly stupid on BOTH sides and the internet has made demagoguery the tool of the day. We are frighteningly prone to Caesarism if a pretty, intelligent, charismatic, likely young person steps up and says "I have the plan to FIX ALL THIS SHIT, just make me dictator"...if they have the media on their side (ie it'll never be a conservative), we could quickly slide straight to hell on their bobsled of good intentions. I totally agree.
But the court has almost nothing to do with it. The electoral system is what it is, and the Bush/Gore challenge in 2000 was essentially Democrats trying to cheat their way to victory but eventually they don't get another bite at the apple.
And...as much as you might disagree, Conservatives (ie the majority of the court) aren't actually evil. They're people who come to different conclusions than you do, that doesn't inherently make them racists, homophobes, sexists, or Nazis. Largely, conservatives tend to prefer to leave things as they (thinking change will likely make it worse) are rather than trying to change things (which might make it better). This doesn't, again, make them evil.
*"...six additional justices to the Supreme Court for every justice older than 70 years, 6 months, who had served 10 years or more...."
And what % went and "stood in front of parliament" or any meaningful government entity?
1%?
0.0001%?
You're not going to persuade me that this was some sort of motivated Children's Crusade when I'm guessing 99%+ basically just skipped school because it'd be fun and they had a righteous excuse not to get in trouble this time.
...it's that they were prescient enough to know that all the bullshit about space bases and stations aside, by Apollo 18 it was clear that the US government was likely stupid enough to simply 'give up' on space and 50 years later these would be the only pristine samples we'd have available by then./weep
Ubi is predicated by its proponents as a more efficient way to deliver funds that are largely already going to the poor through other benefits, aid, assistance, etc. but largely without the inefficiencies of bureaucracy (not sure how they assume a multi trillion $ program isn't going to spawn its own massive bureaucracy but let's just assume they're correct).
The problem is, unfortunately, that poverty *largely* coincides with stupid.
Flame all you like, but I'm not just talking about raw intelligence; I'm talking about the collection of abilities that can make one successful. Self control, willingness to defer gratification, patience, self reflection...all come together to predict pretty convincingly who will be at least moderately successful, and who not.
Give $12000/ year to impulsive people with little self control, I'm going to invest in alcohol, cigarettes, tennis shoes, and flashy cars because that's what they're going to spend it on (and this isn't just talking out of my ass, I have twofold real world proof: 1) in the statistics of lottery winners: do you know what % end up poorer than before they "won"?; 2) the closest current system to enduring ubi today are US Indian tribes with successful casinos. I know someone in the disbursement office of a very successful one where every member of that tribe gets $50k/month. A startling number of people are literally waiting outside that office the first of every month, desperate for a check because they're broke.).
And that brings me back to my first point: if you're handing these people who have demonstrated a poor ability to make life choices already (they're poor), and then expect them to suddenly have the wisdom to invest in medical insurance, to invest in retirement, to save for college...they won't. And if, as is presupposed, all their other benefits are stripped, then basically they're all going to be dead within a month.
I know you're trying to be all morally superior but 1) it does seem to have been a thing briefly and 2) it wasn't really meant to be taken as a serious comment you humorless toad.
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...most of those fervent "down-voters" couldn't be arsed to get out of their chairs and actually vote back when IT COUNTED.
Sadly, in real life you don't get a "do over" just because you weren't paying attention the first time, or because you're on the (to you and ALL YOUR FRIENDS) "right" side.
I'm guessing, of course, but if the groundswell so "universally" portrayed today had actually voted, Brexit would have gone down without question.
It's funny, I googled but I couldn't find anything about the wave of people migrating to Finland for their awesome internet coverage.
Please let me know where there are some stories about that.
I'm not convinced there is such a right, or that if there is, if you haven't voluntarily traded it away the minute you search on Google or use Chrome. The only evil that Google committed is not making that even more obvious (I would have said it's been obvious since nearly the beginning).
You need do neither of those things.
Like a lot of conveniences, there is a cost, it's just hidden from view. Or did people really think Google built their massive networks of data centers (on which they spend $5bn per quarter) on sheer altruism? Really?
...but commerce is natural across humans. If governments (or in this case the stupid companies themselves) try to constrain commerce in unnatural ways, a black market is a certainty.
In re all the flippin streaming services specifically?
If you decide to leave the commons and hide your products in pay-to-enter walled gardens, we're going to find out two things:
1) how good your security is, because ultimate someone's just going to break in and steal it, or
2) your shit isn't worth the trouble.
....because it wasn't MISUSE. It was Facebook's bloody BUSINESS MODEL.
Further, CA (and Facebook) is only in hot water today because they dared to use this information in a way that benefited Donald Trump. In the 2012 election we were bombarded with news stories about how 'sophisticated' and 'cutting edge' the Obama campaign was about leveraging internet big data for voter-engagement and campaigning.
So I'm sure you have smoke detectors and CO detectors in every single room of your house, as well as a regularly tested sprinkler system. Oh and a halon system for suppressing non-water fires? Do you have airbags built into your staircase landings? Fire ladders at every upstairs window? Fire extinguishers in every room?
Because if you don't, why not? Just because they're expensive? That's no excuse: you're clearly 'nickel and diming' away your safety.
In case you missed the sarcasm: EVERY COMPLEX SYSTEM IS A COMPROMISE BETWEEN COST AND SAFETY. Every. Single. One.
..find pleasure in quantifying things and then trying to OCD-like remove anything 'inefficient"?
News at 11?
Except, notice that it's an 8% increase over what, decades?
That's not "gully gusher floods"....that's about as perfect a sustained, gentle increase to increase aquifers as one could ask for.
I think you're trying to be smart? Or funny?
Neither's working.
Day before yesterday I'd opined in a thread on gizmodo (in response to someone saying that the 2nd Amendment wasn't written in an era of machine guns and assault weapons, and thus this meant they didn't apply) that the 1st Amendment was ALSO written in an era before telephone, radio, email, facebook, etc so all those should, by the same logic, no longer be covered by freedom of speech.
Within 24 hours I had twelve (ostensibly) different people tell me "KILL YOURSELF" with various colorful adjectives and descriptions. One then looked up my username, and in 6 other (irrelevant) threads where I'd posted variously about cars, Superhero movies, etc he (?) proceeded to post repeated replies to those posts of "KILL YOURSELF".
Yeah, humanity is just a wonderful bunch of folks. Oh, there are certainly a lot of good people. Just...I'm doubting "most".
cf Trevor Moore's Ballad of Billy John https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Actually, I *DID* address that.
Tearing or ripping anything more than 'easy' is not typically done with the incisors; the tearing teeth are the canines...which ALSO shear-cut, they just just a) better leverage and b) are pointy, allowing better penetration of tough surfaces as well.
Yet you live here, not in China.
Hm.
I'll take actions over words for 1000, Alex.
"...The reasons, he said, were climate change and population growth...."
Really? Climate change means there's less water now?
Because JUST LAST YEAR I saw everyone complaining that Climate Change had caused TOO MUCH water and heavy rainfall/flooding generally, consistently, and broadly across the UK.
"...new Met Office report, based on figures stretching back 100 years to 1910- shows that rainfall has actually gone up by 8 percent. ...The annual State of the UK Climate Report also revealed UK summers have been notably wetter over the last decade from 2008 to 2017, with 20 per cent more rainfall compared to 1961-1990...."
https://www.express.co.uk/news...
Oh, also, since they're focusing on the South and East of England, also last year: ...also predicted heavier and more frequent rain across southern England.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...
So which is it? Climate change means the UK is running out of water, OR climate change means the UK is flooding with water. You really can't assert both.
....if Britain isn't going to, then SOMEONE has to start paying Brussels' bills!
...So you're saying one side has ACTUAL examples, and the other side (with no basis whatsoever except their own ideals) disputes the applicability of those examples?
Then it's clear who is winning the debate.
...while it may support it, how many people NEED their game delivered at 4k? Seriously?
And for those who claim to "need" it, if you offered them a choice of every game they want whenever they want, at $20/month, but capped at 1920x1280, vs buy a while console for what,, maybe $500, buy ONE game (now about $100, really) and play only that game at 4k, I'm pretty sure I can predict which of those at least 75% of the gaming population will choose.
Only "insightful" if you draw a moral equivalency between the US and China.
Do you, really?
The suggestion that tougher-food diets are better dealt with by edge-to-edge FRONT teeth (on which then a raft of speculation is floated) doesn't make sense?
The front teeth are for grabbing & portioning; that is, they hold food and then sever it for processing by other teeth. Therefore their primary task is to cut food (that they can; more durable foods are dealt with by the canines) not grind it.
The most efficient way of cutting cuttable things is SHEARING, meaning two adjacent cutting planes moving next to each other (Cf scissors)...ie the way our teeth are now. Pinch cutting ala wire-cutters is useful only with a fairly narrow range of substances above a certain thickness and rigidity.
In fact, the only teeth in mammals that are edge-edge are grinding molars, so unless he's suggesting that we had molars for front teeth, the whole theory collapses.
The right to bear arms HAS been infringed. I cannot, for example, walk down to the store and buy a machinegun. Or a cannon. Or landmines.
That doesn't logically imply that we should expand such infringements, particularly when defined in panic or by people who are more interested in virtue-signaling to their voters than actually making someplace SAFER.
I get the sense that you don't really even clearly understand what you're talking about.
I've had a half-century of experience: yes, humanity is largely shitty.
And frankly, I wouldn't use anything that dipshit said as any sort of justification, but that's me?
Except the Supreme Court has ALWAYS been politicized, and they've managed to do a pretty good job.
Really, I'm getting tired of people acting like this is some sort of "new low" in American politics. Congressmen used to shoot each other and FDR tried to pack the USSC with up to another 36 tame judges*.
I'm not saying that we couldn't elect someone evil, the US electorate is staggeringly stupid on BOTH sides and the internet has made demagoguery the tool of the day. We are frighteningly prone to Caesarism if a pretty, intelligent, charismatic, likely young person steps up and says "I have the plan to FIX ALL THIS SHIT, just make me dictator"...if they have the media on their side (ie it'll never be a conservative), we could quickly slide straight to hell on their bobsled of good intentions. I totally agree.
But the court has almost nothing to do with it. The electoral system is what it is, and the Bush/Gore challenge in 2000 was essentially Democrats trying to cheat their way to victory but eventually they don't get another bite at the apple.
And...as much as you might disagree, Conservatives (ie the majority of the court) aren't actually evil. They're people who come to different conclusions than you do, that doesn't inherently make them racists, homophobes, sexists, or Nazis. Largely, conservatives tend to prefer to leave things as they (thinking change will likely make it worse) are rather than trying to change things (which might make it better). This doesn't, again, make them evil.
*"...six additional justices to the Supreme Court for every justice older than 70 years, 6 months, who had served 10 years or more...."
And what % went and "stood in front of parliament" or any meaningful government entity?
1%?
0.0001%?
You're not going to persuade me that this was some sort of motivated Children's Crusade when I'm guessing 99%+ basically just skipped school because it'd be fun and they had a righteous excuse not to get in trouble this time.
...it's that they were prescient enough to know that all the bullshit about space bases and stations aside, by Apollo 18 it was clear that the US government was likely stupid enough to simply 'give up' on space and 50 years later these would be the only pristine samples we'd have available by then. /weep
Ubi is predicated by its proponents as a more efficient way to deliver funds that are largely already going to the poor through other benefits, aid, assistance, etc. but largely without the inefficiencies of bureaucracy (not sure how they assume a multi trillion $ program isn't going to spawn its own massive bureaucracy but let's just assume they're correct).
The problem is, unfortunately, that poverty *largely* coincides with stupid.
Flame all you like, but I'm not just talking about raw intelligence; I'm talking about the collection of abilities that can make one successful. Self control, willingness to defer gratification, patience, self reflection...all come together to predict pretty convincingly who will be at least moderately successful, and who not.
Give $12000/ year to impulsive people with little self control, I'm going to invest in alcohol, cigarettes, tennis shoes, and flashy cars because that's what they're going to spend it on (and this isn't just talking out of my ass, I have twofold real world proof: 1) in the statistics of lottery winners: do you know what % end up poorer than before they "won"?; 2) the closest current system to enduring ubi today are US Indian tribes with successful casinos. I know someone in the disbursement office of a very successful one where every member of that tribe gets $50k/month. A startling number of people are literally waiting outside that office the first of every month, desperate for a check because they're broke.).
And that brings me back to my first point: if you're handing these people who have demonstrated a poor ability to make life choices already (they're poor), and then expect them to suddenly have the wisdom to invest in medical insurance, to invest in retirement, to save for college...they won't. And if, as is presupposed, all their other benefits are stripped, then basically they're all going to be dead within a month.
Someone tell the NYT, then.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...
I know you're trying to be all morally superior but 1) it does seem to have been a thing briefly and 2) it wasn't really meant to be taken as a serious comment you humorless toad.
...or should the title really be "Kids skipping school opportunistically use some current cultural thing as excuse to avoid punishment"?
I'm not sure I'm going to really follow the 'moral leadership' of a group who had to be repeatedly told to STOP EATING TIDE PODS.