The Iranians have wargamed attacking US fleets in the straight. Their favored tactic will be swarms of small ships armed with anti ship weapons. To protect the carrier group, we must have a means of quickly killing off hundreds of scattered ships before they can close the range.
Do you have a missile system that can fire about a thousand or so missiles?
... each other. The printers are well known, they have an impact in small business and medium business. When those businesses get larger they feel more comfortable contacting with HP because it is a company they know.
Take that away and they will will see other options as equally attractive.
We are currently increasing our map control by picking off defensive strong points. After that whole thing with Carter and the special forces, we are a little more cautious about deep strikes. More likely, we'll go around the edges knocking things out until we can bring a deathball with massed carriers and void rays into just overwhelm.
We calculate with at least a 98.71 percent probability that massed mutalisks can be successfully neutralized by well placed psychonic storms from our templar.
I don't think the chemical and drug companies are going to hire them. By concept is that they would be assigned and the accepting that oversight would come with accepting the samples.
Look, you're so hostile to the concept that I don't feel comfortable sharing ideas. I'm just spit balling here and you're making no attempt to be constructive.
... a different language. Take Ancient Egyptian... without a Rosetta Stone there would be no means to translate it. The whole structure of the language was inscrutable without some sort of introduction to it.
Your program and system ideally should run on custom hardware. Not known computer hardware that must conform to known standards. The system will not be as fast or cheap. But it will be so different that it will be difficult to understand. And what a programmers cannot understand they will not be able to hack.
Have a unique hardware platform. Reinvent the computer but do it differently enough that no existing technology is similar. And then come up with your own operating system that is likewise just different.
Building, maintaining, and operating such systems might be a pain... but they'll be very secure.
The systems that translate between these systems and the rest of the internet should be top secret. Lose one or get it compromised and you have to start all over again.
The Persian gulf. The issue there is that lots of tiny boats could swarm US ships and destroy them. This is an Iranian plan by the way. To use the proximity of the US to the shore and just hundreds of little boats. The drone swarm idea appears to be a counter strategy.
Thank you for the correction. However, my turn of phrase remains apt. My point is that we eat an animal as smart as anything you'll find in the ocean including dolphins. It is the "other white meat"... pork... bacon... ham. We eat that. Pigs are quite smart for animals.
If I have any criticism of that situation it is that the animals tend to have pretty awful lives in many instances. I'm not sure if it is morally denfensible. But I would find it better if they had more fulfilling lives before slaughtered and gobbled by guys like me.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not against meat or even pork. I am a big fan of hawaiian pizza and bacon is just about the best food ever. That said, I'd like the pigs to have at least some time to be pigs. I just have an image in my mind of these animals in tight horrible cages all their lives until they're finally killed by some guy with a bolt gun a la "friendo".
And that makes my bacon more of a guilty pleasure then I'd ideally like.
As to octopus... we don't eat that much of them at least in the United States. And even if we did, I'll point out that the patterns displayed by cuttlefish for example turned out to not be that smart.
Yes, they can do some amazing things with their skin BUT they only have a few default patterns they can do. The claims of extreme intelligence were based on the notion that the cuttlefish were controlling millions of individual pigment cells on their skin in real time. Well they're not. They have a few patterns that the cuttlefish can choose from and they can blend one pattern with another but they can't dynamically form any pattern and their brains are not controlling that level of detail.
So they're not quite as smart as that research previously believed. This report sounds out of date. The discovery that cuttlefish have set pigment patterns was discovered some time ago. I don't really understand what his is based upon.
I honestly suspect we're dealing with some political activism fed by some out of date scientific speculation that turned out to be inaccurate.
We know we get a lot of political pandering on this site these days. It is actually one of the bigger problems with slashdot at this point. And we simply need to be aware of that as a community and be prepared to deal with it in kind.
Nah, they'll just cover it up. You have to have the samples actively controlled by someone with a job that is specifically to control the samples and nothing else.
A key selling point of windows is backward compatibility. Lose that and the companies that have been using windows software for years suddenly have to buy new software... and then they might as well switch to linux.
As to politics, this is a political discussion. The criticism of a culture for their religious beliefs is going to get political. The attack on a culture because it has different cultural norms is going to get political. I'm sorry... it is a political discussion. I don't see how it can not be one.
Wealth is typically associated with success and competence. That that make it can be assumed to be competent and in some kind of demand and scarcity. Those that make minimum wage or nothing can be assumed to be easily replaceable, unremarkable, and not especially competent. Say what you will... that is the market's opinion of a person if it pays them bottom dollar.
As to your stats, i don't think you looked at them. They contradict each other.
I frankly think that is because the first stat has made the mistake of combining too many variables into a single value. They have this long list of things and they try and turn it all into one number. That is crazy. That is like combining the humidity, purchasing power parity, and average height someone can jump in the area into a single statistic and expecting it to mean something.
The second stat appears to be more limited but it is hard to know. You have to be very careful with statistics since a good deal of them even from official sources are complete horseshit. Take unemployment figures which are gamed in several ways to make the numbers smaller then they really are and hide the real size of the idle labor force.
Oh sure. I've run into all sorts of idiots. I've run into them in cities too though. Hate to break it to you... they're everywhere. My personal favorite was a guy that thought we had evolved but not from primates. He couldn't articulate what we evolved from instead... I don't think he thought that far ahead. In any case, I immediately stopped the conversation because I realized I was dealing with someone that was more then ignorant... this guy was just dumb.
As to evangelicals rejecting science... they really don't. They are mostly a bunch of fussy reactionaries against what they see as a hostile belief system. They are extremely paranoid about external influences coming in and corrupting their youth and taking away their religion via one means or another. TV... modern media... the public school system... something that changes their children so they're like those other people and not a part of their parent's culture anymore.
Think of it like an allergic reaction. They're mostly the human immune system freaking out over nothing which causes bigger problems then if it just calmed down and sucked it up. Is a little pollen going to hurt you? Nope. But if it trips the right switch in your immune system then it could be identified as a hostile spore or other assorted infectious agent. Which means we need MUCUS and lots of it. Swarm the infection. Quarantine. Destroy!:-P
If you approach these same people first giving out all the right Friend/Foe signals then they are much more receptive.
I deal with people from many cultures so I am used to this pattern in people. Every culture I have ever dealt with has its defensive mechanisms. Some of them are obvious and some of them are subtle. Some cultures will listen to you and then forget everything. Some will come out and debate you. Some will put little tests out for you... purity tests litmus tests. They'll ask little innocent sounding questions. Answer wrong and you are an OTHER. End of story. So you have to be sensitive to those and be careful.
I get along very well with urban progressives and rural evangelicals. Neither one gives me trouble. They're different. We tell different jokes and have different relationships. But they're both good people and neither one is especially more ignorant then the other.
As to the cattle rancher.
The man is a successful INTERNATIONAL businessman, ranch operator that has authored books on the subject, is recognized internationally as one of the finest ranchers period, is an expert in veterinary science (kn
Celebrating disbelief of specific scientific theories that contrast with their faith is not a rejection of knowledge or a celebration of ignorance.
An orthadox jew for example could have similar views on all sorts issues that might contrast with his faith. And yet that same man could be a great scholar in other fields. Possibly mathematics, history, etc.
As to people in your neck of the woods celebrating how little they know or simply not caring. I can tell you that is not the norm. I have lived in many rural communities and you'll find lots of bright eyed people in them. Just because you live in a small town doesn't make you stupid. And just because you live in a city it does not make you smart.
As to your neighbors being ignorant and believing silly things... please be specific? What besides for the couple issues that are going to touch on their religion are they ignorant of?...
And keep in mind, if they know the theory and could tell you what it says... they're not ignorant of it. Specific knowledge of a thing precludes ignorance. Choosing to disbelieve a fact by choice is not ignorance. It is perhaps stubbornness before reality if you like. But if they know the theory and could tell you what it says then they are aware of it and understand it.
For example, lets say you wrote a political book that was full of all sorts of ideas that I didn't agree with... but I read your book. Am I ignorant of your book? No. I know what it says. I just don't agree with it.
Now in the case of science you could argue that I don't have the right to disagree because science is science. Fine... but if I insist on disagreeing anyway, I am still not ignorant of the science.
As to your statement that their celebration of ignorance is knowing that they are "smarter then those progressive types." This is a very confusing statement because this is something those same progressive types say in reverse. Do they not? Do not the progressive types point at the rural people and sneer at them, profess themselves superior, and laugh at every difference between them? As if not being precisely like those same people is itself a mark of inferiority.
I guess I question how deeply you've thought about this and I want to be very careful not to push you too hard because I feel you're on the cusp of seeing this from some additional perspectives. The urban progressives are not any less intolerant or any more intelligent. They're different subcultures and neither one respects the other. They have their own reasons for holding their various opinions. I don't ascribe to either.
I belong to a different subculture that doesn't associate with either faction. I thus see the two factions from the perspective of an outsider. I see two factions come up with concocted reasons for why they're better then those OTHER people. There is nothing behind it. It is just old fashioned human tribalism. One group of people gainsaying another.
And theorycrafting time... As to when the apocalypse comes... the people in the cities will be eating each other... literally. Tens of millions of people cannot feed themselves if transport shuts down. And with "just in time" warehousing the cities would drain their food reserves within a couple weeks at most. That includes every bag of rice and beans. So the food is not an inconsequential variable.
What is more, the infrastructure is often maintained by rural people. My aunt for example maintains hydro electric dams. She's a hydro electrical engineer that works for one of the big utilities. She gets flown in by helicopter to get dams going again or do maintenance. Guess where she lives? Out in the middle of nowhere. Helicopters literally land in her yard sometimes to pick her up and drop her off.
Got another relative that built a successful construction business. He's retired now. Lives in the middle of a national park. His land is bordered on three sides by national park. No trespassing signs are all over the perimeter. And he owns lots of guns. Very nice guy and extr
Actually my idea would have stopped this release as well as... all of the improper releases of plague samples over the last few decades.
How exactly is a scientist going to dump plague samples if a guard tasked exclusively with ensuring the samples are contained is watching over those samples at all times they're not under his lock and key?
Could the scientist AND the guard collude to release them? Sure. And by that logic the soldiers tasked with manning our nuclear arsenal could fire them off at any time. That doomsday system for example is using a variation on my concept.
How many nuclear missiles have we accidentally launched over the years?
Explain how my concept doesn't solve the problem please.
I'm not suggesting your netflix stream be slowed... i'm suggesting its latency can be increased without impairing quality.
It is call QoS and anyone that knows anything about networking knows that you need to have QoS settings on any network with types of communication that are very sensitive to disruption.
Your netflix stream is not sensitive. I can increase the latency to as much as a few seconds and you probably wouldn't notice. That is roughly the latency you experience from orbit. Where as even minor increases in latency over a live interactive audio call would be immediately noticeable.
This is why when you have a VoIP system at an office for example, the VoIP system tends to have a very high priority where as other types of communication take up a lower priority. If the VoIP does not get a higher priority then VoIP often will not work properly.
Some of this is why we have a distinction between UDP and TCP. VoIP is typically UDP where as things like your netflix stream tends to be TCP. Why is that?
Because the VoIP call is real time and time sensitive where as you cached video steam is neither. Your internet could drop out for a minute in some cases without your cache running out for a video stream. I've had youtube videos play just fine even though there was no internet for half of them because the whole video cached before the internet dropped. But you can't do that with real time interactive communication. Which is why those services tend to have QoS and are often in UDP.
Seriously, dude. I am not saying your fucking netflix steam is less important. I am saying that proper network administration requires that certain packets have as little latency as possible while other packets can have absurdly high amounts of latency without it mattering.
Take a bittorrent as an extreme example... latency is utterly irrelevant for P2P traffic. You could be downloading from the international space station and it would happen about as fast and roughly with the same efficiency as if it were done in New York, Berlin, or Hong Kong. But try to have a voice call with someone on that same space station. The latency makes the call annoying because you have to wait a couple seconds after every statement for the other party to hear it and respond.
Deserving doesn't come into it.
And really, i'm happy to make the whole thing voluntary. So if you want to be the asshole that says his netflix videos should stream in with the same latency as a VoIP call... Fine. No penalty. You just be a fucking asshole. No consequences.
But guess what... you'll never notice EITHER way for a netflix video stream. Your petty refusal to be reasonable here nets you NOTHING. Your service isn't noticeably improved. All you've done is potentially inconvenience some other people on the network for no reason at all.
Again, I support net neutrality. I am against fast lanes. I am against the ISPs giving data priority to people that pay more. Even though they always have via dedicated connections. If I have T1 to AT&T I have guaranteed and isolated internet access to their backbone. The guy on his DSL or cable modem doesn't have that. End of story. Never did. Never will. They charge companies about 400 dollars a month for about 1.5 megabits symmetrical.
That is what a dedicated connection costs. Now prices might vary and speeds might vary.... but these costs are always going to be a good deal higher then consumer NON-dedicated connections. If you insist on the ISPs only giving you guaranteed and dedicated connections... then have fun with your internet bill quadrupling and your speed falling by an order of magnitude.
They aren't ignorant of evolution. They know what it is... They CHOOSE not to believe it for religious reasons. And you can't say a whole population is ignorant GENERALLY because they SPECIFICALLY CHOOSE not to believe a few things for religious reasons.
If your only critera for being "ignorant" or "educated" is knowledge and acceptance of evolution then why are we bothering to teach reading, writing, mathematics, history, etc? Just teach basic evolution which the average six year old could grasp and then conclude their education right there.
Right?
Obviously not. Which exposes the fallacy of your notion that these people are inherently ignorant simply because they don't accept evolution. I could name a dozen other religious and ideological sects that deny or modify known scientific theory for their own theological or ideological reasons. Many of these groups produce doctors, engineers, business leaders... etc... so long as you stay off the couple iffy topics they're totally sensible. What is more, they know what YOU think is the right answer to these questions. If you asked them to explain the theory of evolution to you for example they would probably have no trouble doing it to the same level of detail and accuracy as the average person that says they believe in evolution. They do actually know what the science says. They just choose to believe otherwise.
That means they're not even ignorant of evolution much less everything else.
In any case... if all you've got are political talking points, logical fallacies, and bigotry... I have very little to work with here.
... palace guard. Some sort of possibly armed unit that literally controls who has the virus from one moment to the next.
That sounds extreme but consider what the virus can do and what it could mean. The scientists clearly aren't taking their responsibilities seriously here. Every month we get another report of another fuck up with some horrible plague.
Here someone will say they don't like my idea for some reason... fine... then you have a solution that works as well or better. I'm not married to my idea. I just want this crap to stop happening yesterday.
As to cultures that celebrate ignorance... they don't. I think you're referring almost exclusively to evangelical Christians that some segments of our population are quite intolerant and frankly fairly bigoted towards. Some of it is justified... the creationism is obnoxious. But if you stay away from issues that they reflexively deny for religious reasons you'll find them to be knowledgeable and reasonable.
Compare that to the urban ghettos... many people there are just ignorant. Practically everyone in the US that cannot read and write is found in the urban ghettos. People in rural communities can do both.
And do you really want to compare the willful and celebrated ignorance of those ghettos with rural religious communities?
The difference between the two is that the religious communities CHOOSE to believe things that untrue. They have beliefs... often silly beliefs but typically pretty harmless. The urban ghettos however are not choosing not to believer... they simply don't know any better. They reject the entire education process in many cases. Do you want to compare high school drop out rates between america's rural communities and our urban ghettos? They're not comparable.
I'm sorry. You're a victim of a stereotype that isn't true.
As to soap boxes... it isn't my fault that reality contrasts so strongly with your world view that you see someone simply relaying facts to you as being a political advocate.
Note, your reaction to me is ironically how religious groups act when people try to tell them that evolution is real. To them, that position is so extremely different from their position that they view anyone pushing it as a political activist working for some large mysterious machine.
Your reaction to me is much the same for the same reasons. That should give you pause.
We're all people, sport. The meat between your ears isn't appreciably different from the people you look down your nose and sneer at.
If we're ever going to get somewhere then we need to have enough humility to actually examine the issues and try to deal with them in a constructive fashion. And that means amongst other things not parroting political talking points, reflexively breaking into political factions, entering an us vs them posture in every single fucking discussion, and instead trying to dynamically examine the issue with fresh eyes so that we can come to common solutions.
We all want to live in a better country and a better world. We don't have to be enemies and we don't have to be at each other's throats. The politicians want us to fight because when we fight each other we don't focus on their successes or failures as policy makers. Rather, we just focus on our team of choice winning the election. Think of communities in the US that have been horribly run for GENERATIONS and yet consistently elect the same party to power again and again. Never mind them getting sent to jail for corruption. Never mind them failing to improve conditions. Never mind the lies. Never mind the fraud.
That is what factionalism gets you. A corrupt political class so secure in their position that they can do anything and their party will get the seat next term just like the last.
Democracy doesn't work under such conditions. I am not saying you have to switch sides. I am saying there shouldn't be sides. Don't look at the other guy as the enemy.
I am not your enemy. Back to back you could trust me with your life. Do not assume that simply because I do not conform to every extreme of your ideological orthodoxy that I must be a force of evil, ignorance, or corruption.
Sometimes people are just different. If we can't accept those differences then we can't remain a united people. Too many americans hold too many americans they've never met in contempt. This isn't sustainable. We either need to have respect for each other or the country needs to fracture.
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The Iranians have wargamed attacking US fleets in the straight. Their favored tactic will be swarms of small ships armed with anti ship weapons. To protect the carrier group, we must have a means of quickly killing off hundreds of scattered ships before they can close the range.
Do you have a missile system that can fire about a thousand or so missiles?
Not terribly convinced it is practical.
... each other. The printers are well known, they have an impact in small business and medium business. When those businesses get larger they feel more comfortable contacting with HP because it is a company they know.
Take that away and they will will see other options as equally attractive.
We are currently increasing our map control by picking off defensive strong points. After that whole thing with Carter and the special forces, we are a little more cautious about deep strikes. More likely, we'll go around the edges knocking things out until we can bring a deathball with massed carriers and void rays into just overwhelm.
That is all... just ask people to opt in. If they do... go crazy with it. And try to reward them proportionately for it.
We calculate with at least a 98.71 percent probability that massed mutalisks can be successfully neutralized by well placed psychonic storms from our templar.
I don't think the chemical and drug companies are going to hire them. By concept is that they would be assigned and the accepting that oversight would come with accepting the samples.
Look, you're so hostile to the concept that I don't feel comfortable sharing ideas. I'm just spit balling here and you're making no attempt to be constructive.
So let us just assume you disagree and move on.
... a different language. Take Ancient Egyptian... without a Rosetta Stone there would be no means to translate it. The whole structure of the language was inscrutable without some sort of introduction to it.
Your program and system ideally should run on custom hardware. Not known computer hardware that must conform to known standards. The system will not be as fast or cheap. But it will be so different that it will be difficult to understand. And what a programmers cannot understand they will not be able to hack.
Have a unique hardware platform. Reinvent the computer but do it differently enough that no existing technology is similar. And then come up with your own operating system that is likewise just different.
Building, maintaining, and operating such systems might be a pain... but they'll be very secure.
The systems that translate between these systems and the rest of the internet should be top secret. Lose one or get it compromised and you have to start all over again.
The Persian gulf. The issue there is that lots of tiny boats could swarm US ships and destroy them. This is an Iranian plan by the way. To use the proximity of the US to the shore and just hundreds of little boats. The drone swarm idea appears to be a counter strategy.
Thank you for the correction. However, my turn of phrase remains apt. My point is that we eat an animal as smart as anything you'll find in the ocean including dolphins. It is the "other white meat"... pork... bacon... ham. We eat that. Pigs are quite smart for animals.
If I have any criticism of that situation it is that the animals tend to have pretty awful lives in many instances. I'm not sure if it is morally denfensible. But I would find it better if they had more fulfilling lives before slaughtered and gobbled by guys like me.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not against meat or even pork. I am a big fan of hawaiian pizza and bacon is just about the best food ever. That said, I'd like the pigs to have at least some time to be pigs. I just have an image in my mind of these animals in tight horrible cages all their lives until they're finally killed by some guy with a bolt gun a la "friendo".
And that makes my bacon more of a guilty pleasure then I'd ideally like.
As to octopus... we don't eat that much of them at least in the United States. And even if we did, I'll point out that the patterns displayed by cuttlefish for example turned out to not be that smart.
Yes, they can do some amazing things with their skin BUT they only have a few default patterns they can do. The claims of extreme intelligence were based on the notion that the cuttlefish were controlling millions of individual pigment cells on their skin in real time. Well they're not. They have a few patterns that the cuttlefish can choose from and they can blend one pattern with another but they can't dynamically form any pattern and their brains are not controlling that level of detail.
So they're not quite as smart as that research previously believed. This report sounds out of date. The discovery that cuttlefish have set pigment patterns was discovered some time ago. I don't really understand what his is based upon.
I honestly suspect we're dealing with some political activism fed by some out of date scientific speculation that turned out to be inaccurate.
We know we get a lot of political pandering on this site these days. It is actually one of the bigger problems with slashdot at this point. And we simply need to be aware of that as a community and be prepared to deal with it in kind.
... I mean... bacon? So... the calamari aren't getting off that easy.
Given gamergate, I question whether this isn't a multi-industry propaganda campaign.
This whole issue stinks of coordination and collusion at this point.
And thank you captain strawman for telling me what "I" want to do when I clearly wasn't referring to using a fucking mall cop to do this sort of job.
Seriously... Go fuck yourself. No really. Right now. Stand up from the computer and immediately fuck yourself.
Then clearly factory assembly lines don't work... Thanks for just very quickly pointing out you're stupid. It makes this much more efficient.
Nah, they'll just cover it up. You have to have the samples actively controlled by someone with a job that is specifically to control the samples and nothing else.
Secure your fucking networks or get off the internet.
Clarify your position. You were so busy making a joke that you failed to make a clear point.
Please rephrase.
A key selling point of windows is backward compatibility. Lose that and the companies that have been using windows software for years suddenly have to buy new software... and then they might as well switch to linux.
so if you're not in charge your ideas are automatically bad? ... yawn... so many morons.
As to politics, this is a political discussion. The criticism of a culture for their religious beliefs is going to get political. The attack on a culture because it has different cultural norms is going to get political. I'm sorry... it is a political discussion. I don't see how it can not be one.
Wealth is typically associated with success and competence. That that make it can be assumed to be competent and in some kind of demand and scarcity. Those that make minimum wage or nothing can be assumed to be easily replaceable, unremarkable, and not especially competent. Say what you will... that is the market's opinion of a person if it pays them bottom dollar.
As to your stats, i don't think you looked at them. They contradict each other.
I frankly think that is because the first stat has made the mistake of combining too many variables into a single value. They have this long list of things and they try and turn it all into one number. That is crazy. That is like combining the humidity, purchasing power parity, and average height someone can jump in the area into a single statistic and expecting it to mean something.
The second stat appears to be more limited but it is hard to know. You have to be very careful with statistics since a good deal of them even from official sources are complete horseshit. Take unemployment figures which are gamed in several ways to make the numbers smaller then they really are and hide the real size of the idle labor force.
Oh sure. I've run into all sorts of idiots. I've run into them in cities too though. Hate to break it to you... they're everywhere. My personal favorite was a guy that thought we had evolved but not from primates. He couldn't articulate what we evolved from instead... I don't think he thought that far ahead. In any case, I immediately stopped the conversation because I realized I was dealing with someone that was more then ignorant... this guy was just dumb.
As to evangelicals rejecting science... they really don't. They are mostly a bunch of fussy reactionaries against what they see as a hostile belief system. They are extremely paranoid about external influences coming in and corrupting their youth and taking away their religion via one means or another. TV... modern media... the public school system... something that changes their children so they're like those other people and not a part of their parent's culture anymore.
Think of it like an allergic reaction. They're mostly the human immune system freaking out over nothing which causes bigger problems then if it just calmed down and sucked it up. Is a little pollen going to hurt you? Nope. But if it trips the right switch in your immune system then it could be identified as a hostile spore or other assorted infectious agent. Which means we need MUCUS and lots of it. Swarm the infection. Quarantine. Destroy! :-P
If you approach these same people first giving out all the right Friend/Foe signals then they are much more receptive.
I deal with people from many cultures so I am used to this pattern in people. Every culture I have ever dealt with has its defensive mechanisms. Some of them are obvious and some of them are subtle. Some cultures will listen to you and then forget everything. Some will come out and debate you. Some will put little tests out for you... purity tests litmus tests. They'll ask little innocent sounding questions. Answer wrong and you are an OTHER. End of story. So you have to be sensitive to those and be careful.
I get along very well with urban progressives and rural evangelicals. Neither one gives me trouble. They're different. We tell different jokes and have different relationships. But they're both good people and neither one is especially more ignorant then the other.
As to the cattle rancher.
The man is a successful INTERNATIONAL businessman, ranch operator that has authored books on the subject, is recognized internationally as one of the finest ranchers period, is an expert in veterinary science (kn
Celebrating disbelief of specific scientific theories that contrast with their faith is not a rejection of knowledge or a celebration of ignorance.
An orthadox jew for example could have similar views on all sorts issues that might contrast with his faith. And yet that same man could be a great scholar in other fields. Possibly mathematics, history, etc.
As to people in your neck of the woods celebrating how little they know or simply not caring. I can tell you that is not the norm. I have lived in many rural communities and you'll find lots of bright eyed people in them. Just because you live in a small town doesn't make you stupid. And just because you live in a city it does not make you smart.
As to your neighbors being ignorant and believing silly things... please be specific? What besides for the couple issues that are going to touch on their religion are they ignorant of?...
And keep in mind, if they know the theory and could tell you what it says... they're not ignorant of it. Specific knowledge of a thing precludes ignorance. Choosing to disbelieve a fact by choice is not ignorance. It is perhaps stubbornness before reality if you like. But if they know the theory and could tell you what it says then they are aware of it and understand it.
For example, lets say you wrote a political book that was full of all sorts of ideas that I didn't agree with... but I read your book. Am I ignorant of your book? No. I know what it says. I just don't agree with it.
Now in the case of science you could argue that I don't have the right to disagree because science is science. Fine... but if I insist on disagreeing anyway, I am still not ignorant of the science.
As to your statement that their celebration of ignorance is knowing that they are "smarter then those progressive types." This is a very confusing statement because this is something those same progressive types say in reverse. Do they not? Do not the progressive types point at the rural people and sneer at them, profess themselves superior, and laugh at every difference between them? As if not being precisely like those same people is itself a mark of inferiority.
I guess I question how deeply you've thought about this and I want to be very careful not to push you too hard because I feel you're on the cusp of seeing this from some additional perspectives. The urban progressives are not any less intolerant or any more intelligent. They're different subcultures and neither one respects the other. They have their own reasons for holding their various opinions. I don't ascribe to either.
I belong to a different subculture that doesn't associate with either faction. I thus see the two factions from the perspective of an outsider. I see two factions come up with concocted reasons for why they're better then those OTHER people. There is nothing behind it. It is just old fashioned human tribalism. One group of people gainsaying another.
And theorycrafting time...
As to when the apocalypse comes... the people in the cities will be eating each other... literally. Tens of millions of people cannot feed themselves if transport shuts down. And with "just in time" warehousing the cities would drain their food reserves within a couple weeks at most. That includes every bag of rice and beans. So the food is not an inconsequential variable.
What is more, the infrastructure is often maintained by rural people. My aunt for example maintains hydro electric dams. She's a hydro electrical engineer that works for one of the big utilities. She gets flown in by helicopter to get dams going again or do maintenance. Guess where she lives? Out in the middle of nowhere. Helicopters literally land in her yard sometimes to pick her up and drop her off.
Got another relative that built a successful construction business. He's retired now. Lives in the middle of a national park. His land is bordered on three sides by national park. No trespassing signs are all over the perimeter. And he owns lots of guns. Very nice guy and extr
Actually my idea would have stopped this release as well as... all of the improper releases of plague samples over the last few decades.
How exactly is a scientist going to dump plague samples if a guard tasked exclusively with ensuring the samples are contained is watching over those samples at all times they're not under his lock and key?
Could the scientist AND the guard collude to release them? Sure. And by that logic the soldiers tasked with manning our nuclear arsenal could fire them off at any time. That doomsday system for example is using a variation on my concept.
How many nuclear missiles have we accidentally launched over the years?
Explain how my concept doesn't solve the problem please.
I'm not suggesting your netflix stream be slowed... i'm suggesting its latency can be increased without impairing quality.
It is call QoS and anyone that knows anything about networking knows that you need to have QoS settings on any network with types of communication that are very sensitive to disruption.
Your netflix stream is not sensitive. I can increase the latency to as much as a few seconds and you probably wouldn't notice. That is roughly the latency you experience from orbit. Where as even minor increases in latency over a live interactive audio call would be immediately noticeable.
This is why when you have a VoIP system at an office for example, the VoIP system tends to have a very high priority where as other types of communication take up a lower priority. If the VoIP does not get a higher priority then VoIP often will not work properly.
Some of this is why we have a distinction between UDP and TCP. VoIP is typically UDP where as things like your netflix stream tends to be TCP. Why is that?
Because the VoIP call is real time and time sensitive where as you cached video steam is neither. Your internet could drop out for a minute in some cases without your cache running out for a video stream. I've had youtube videos play just fine even though there was no internet for half of them because the whole video cached before the internet dropped. But you can't do that with real time interactive communication. Which is why those services tend to have QoS and are often in UDP.
Seriously, dude. I am not saying your fucking netflix steam is less important. I am saying that proper network administration requires that certain packets have as little latency as possible while other packets can have absurdly high amounts of latency without it mattering.
Take a bittorrent as an extreme example... latency is utterly irrelevant for P2P traffic. You could be downloading from the international space station and it would happen about as fast and roughly with the same efficiency as if it were done in New York, Berlin, or Hong Kong. But try to have a voice call with someone on that same space station. The latency makes the call annoying because you have to wait a couple seconds after every statement for the other party to hear it and respond.
Deserving doesn't come into it.
And really, i'm happy to make the whole thing voluntary. So if you want to be the asshole that says his netflix videos should stream in with the same latency as a VoIP call... Fine. No penalty. You just be a fucking asshole. No consequences.
But guess what... you'll never notice EITHER way for a netflix video stream. Your petty refusal to be reasonable here nets you NOTHING. Your service isn't noticeably improved. All you've done is potentially inconvenience some other people on the network for no reason at all.
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They're not the same thing.
Again, I support net neutrality. I am against fast lanes. I am against the ISPs giving data priority to people that pay more. Even though they always have via dedicated connections. If I have T1 to AT&T I have guaranteed and isolated internet access to their backbone. The guy on his DSL or cable modem doesn't have that. End of story. Never did. Never will. They charge companies about 400 dollars a month for about 1.5 megabits symmetrical.
That is what a dedicated connection costs. Now prices might vary and speeds might vary.... but these costs are always going to be a good deal higher then consumer NON-dedicated connections. If you insist on the ISPs only giving you guaranteed and dedicated connections... then have fun with your internet bill quadrupling and your speed falling by an order of magnitude.
They aren't ignorant of evolution. They know what it is... They CHOOSE not to believe it for religious reasons. And you can't say a whole population is ignorant GENERALLY because they SPECIFICALLY CHOOSE not to believe a few things for religious reasons.
If your only critera for being "ignorant" or "educated" is knowledge and acceptance of evolution then why are we bothering to teach reading, writing, mathematics, history, etc? Just teach basic evolution which the average six year old could grasp and then conclude their education right there.
Right?
Obviously not. Which exposes the fallacy of your notion that these people are inherently ignorant simply because they don't accept evolution. I could name a dozen other religious and ideological sects that deny or modify known scientific theory for their own theological or ideological reasons. Many of these groups produce doctors, engineers, business leaders... etc... so long as you stay off the couple iffy topics they're totally sensible. What is more, they know what YOU think is the right answer to these questions. If you asked them to explain the theory of evolution to you for example they would probably have no trouble doing it to the same level of detail and accuracy as the average person that says they believe in evolution. They do actually know what the science says. They just choose to believe otherwise.
That means they're not even ignorant of evolution much less everything else.
In any case... if all you've got are political talking points, logical fallacies, and bigotry... I have very little to work with here.
Good day.
... palace guard. Some sort of possibly armed unit that literally controls who has the virus from one moment to the next.
That sounds extreme but consider what the virus can do and what it could mean. The scientists clearly aren't taking their responsibilities seriously here. Every month we get another report of another fuck up with some horrible plague.
Here someone will say they don't like my idea for some reason... fine... then you have a solution that works as well or better. I'm not married to my idea. I just want this crap to stop happening yesterday.
As to cultures that celebrate ignorance... they don't. I think you're referring almost exclusively to evangelical Christians that some segments of our population are quite intolerant and frankly fairly bigoted towards. Some of it is justified... the creationism is obnoxious. But if you stay away from issues that they reflexively deny for religious reasons you'll find them to be knowledgeable and reasonable.
Compare that to the urban ghettos... many people there are just ignorant. Practically everyone in the US that cannot read and write is found in the urban ghettos. People in rural communities can do both.
And do you really want to compare the willful and celebrated ignorance of those ghettos with rural religious communities?
The difference between the two is that the religious communities CHOOSE to believe things that untrue. They have beliefs... often silly beliefs but typically pretty harmless. The urban ghettos however are not choosing not to believer... they simply don't know any better. They reject the entire education process in many cases. Do you want to compare high school drop out rates between america's rural communities and our urban ghettos? They're not comparable.
I'm sorry. You're a victim of a stereotype that isn't true.
As to soap boxes... it isn't my fault that reality contrasts so strongly with your world view that you see someone simply relaying facts to you as being a political advocate.
Note, your reaction to me is ironically how religious groups act when people try to tell them that evolution is real. To them, that position is so extremely different from their position that they view anyone pushing it as a political activist working for some large mysterious machine.
Your reaction to me is much the same for the same reasons. That should give you pause.
We're all people, sport. The meat between your ears isn't appreciably different from the people you look down your nose and sneer at.
If we're ever going to get somewhere then we need to have enough humility to actually examine the issues and try to deal with them in a constructive fashion. And that means amongst other things not parroting political talking points, reflexively breaking into political factions, entering an us vs them posture in every single fucking discussion, and instead trying to dynamically examine the issue with fresh eyes so that we can come to common solutions.
We all want to live in a better country and a better world. We don't have to be enemies and we don't have to be at each other's throats. The politicians want us to fight because when we fight each other we don't focus on their successes or failures as policy makers. Rather, we just focus on our team of choice winning the election. Think of communities in the US that have been horribly run for GENERATIONS and yet consistently elect the same party to power again and again. Never mind them getting sent to jail for corruption. Never mind them failing to improve conditions. Never mind the lies. Never mind the fraud.
That is what factionalism gets you. A corrupt political class so secure in their position that they can do anything and their party will get the seat next term just like the last.
Democracy doesn't work under such conditions. I am not saying you have to switch sides. I am saying there shouldn't be sides. Don't look at the other guy as the enemy.
I am not your enemy. Back to back you could trust me with your life. Do not assume that simply because I do not conform to every extreme of your ideological orthodoxy that I must be a force of evil, ignorance, or corruption.
Sometimes people are just different. If we can't accept those differences then we can't remain a united people. Too many americans hold too many americans they've never met in contempt. This isn't sustainable. We either need to have respect for each other or the country needs to fracture.