I'm not a 1000 person study; but back when I worked 4 ten hour days instead of 5 8 hour days I used to get a lot more work done. I can confirm this is true from my study of one.
How does *anyone* enter those funny blobs? Do folks have hidden 3,000-key keyboards hidden in their basements?
In windows 10 you can right click on the task bar and choose a "touch keyboard" and emojis are available from that. (but most people don't know that trick).
Jesus did kick ass, though. Remember the story in the Bible about how he flipped over merchant tables and literally whipped them out of the church for disrespecting the house of His father?
That's true, although, my favourite story is when he tied his ass to a palm tree and walked into Jerusalem.
That was a true miracle. Either that, or Jesus was related to the stretchy man from that group of 4 that has that rock man in it. (name escapes me... sorry, not a comic book person).
This. I'm not a reader of comic by any stretch of the imagination, nor am I religious at all. However, the idea behind this story sounds intriguing. Not only would it be interesting to see what Jesus would think of what became of His Gospel, but of us as well. The idea of him having a discussion with a superhero who is "worshiped" more than Him sounds fascinating...
It would be difficult to write such a comic though that wouldn't fall into one of three traps: Preachy, Blasphemous, or Boring.
If you get too much into moral conduct it could come across as preachy. If Jesus has any flaws, or resorts to kicking arse, it could come across as blasphemous... trying too hard to avoid either of the above could become boring.
A skilled writer could probably come up with some very intriguing story lines as you suggest. But if a less than stellar writing team is involved if would end up a disaster.
Really? Because it sounds like hot garbage to me. I'm guessing DC agreed since they didn't fight very hard for it.
It all sounds like hot garbage to me... never personally understood comic book-love, but to each their own. A lot of people probably don't like what I like...... nonetheless, them cancelling this will probably make whatever editions they've already published valuable in the future.
This week I had to create an account on an US government website to process some forms. I was surprised to see that as a part of the password recommendations they said that you could use emojis.
That's all well and good until you need to log into the website from a computer keyboard and can't log in because you can't type an emoji (and besides using some trick most computer users don't know).
Emojis are naturally ambiguous and people very often use them contrary to the official interpretation. Seemingly nonsensical sequences of emojis don't stand out. A famous example is that the poo emoji is sometimes mistakenly used to mean chocolate ice cream. It's not that you can't "crack the code". The advantage is that you can't prove that it is code, not just some weird expression of emotions. Maybe the defendant in this case meant one symbol as attractive (the high heels, representing her) and the other as business sense (the money bag, him), and the two of them working well together in a personal sense. I believe songs have been written about this theme.
And, for the record, some of us just really like eggplant and are not being at all vulgar!
Everyone knows the Marvel heros now... 10 years from now, will they seem obsolete or "old fashioned" to people who don't have the Disney service?
With Marvel on Netflix, and spread around amongst many services, it is keeping the characters "well-known". Lock it away, and how much does that hurt the Marvel brand?
First it was zombies, then came the comic book super-heroes. I'll be glad when Hollywood gets back to making more movies that actually have stories and quality acting.
Those aren't as profitable. Franchises guarantee you'll get the same people coming back for each new rehashing of the same story. Guarenteed cash flow; whereas, unqiue films are hit-or-miss in how audiences will respond.
The/. armchair art critics must be falling over themselves in a rush to comment on how happy they that these shows were cancelled because one of the following: a) Netflix originals suck b) they're tired of Marvel/superhero stories c) too mainstream and action oriented; not about an autistic kid sitting in a Eastern European shack doing math on a menstrual-blood soaked bathroom floor.
Honestly, I do think the Marvel shows have been rather crap on Netflix, so not bothered that they're being cancelled personally. However, I wouldn't say I'm "Happy" about it- because it doesn't really impact me. I'm already not watching them after having bailed after a few episodes of each, it's not going to make me watch them less now they're gone.
The only goodside of it will be if the money gets redirected for something I enjoy more.
Not liking the marvel shows does not equate to not liking action btw... it just means liking better written (subjective I know) shows.
This particular fad is diametrically opposed to the previously existing fad of converting social media accounts of the deceased into permanent memorials, like digital gravestones.
Either of these scenarios are OK with me, it's about what the wishes of the deceased (and their family).
Looks like the Internet isn't going to make it easier to be a historian after all. History is more than famous people.
I think enough people are not going to want themselves "digitally erased" that it will still be a net-gain for Historians. They may never know about the great Oswald McWeany, he will remain a legend enshrouded in mystery, but plenty of other day-to-day people will leave the trail across the internet.
Kind of like my brother. His wife didn't want a funeral, not even an obit in the paper. Hell I don't think she even made mention of it on Facebook. So to anyone out of the know, he just ceased to exist.
I don't want/need a funeral myself. If my family want to host one for me, if it makes them feel better, I'd be OK with that... but personally, I don't care if I have a funeral or not... and not just because I'm not dead yet. Even when I'm dead I don't really care if I have a funeral or not.
I can see the point of locking social accounts so nothing new can be posted, but why go to all this work to try to erase all mentions of the person?
Surely that belongs in the right of the individual. Not everyone need be erased, but if a certain individual requests it in their will, or the family believes it was the deceased wish it should be allowed.
Honestly, unless it is something of historical, or public noteworthiness; everyone should have the right to have data about themselves curtailed imo; even if they're still alive.
It's one thing to protect that private info never meant to be released (ie someone secretly webcamming a man or woman jerking off), but this retraction of intentionally public info is vile and orwellian.
You're calling DELETING data collected about an individual Orwellian? Personally, I find all the companies scraping data about everyone against their will to be far more Orwellian than deleting the data.
As for Hitler, obviously, he is a political and historical figure and cannot be easily "deleted" nor should he. However Bob the baker who has never done anything newsworthy, ought to be allowed to have his private information scrubbed from record.
If that doesn't work, then companies -- be they in South Korea, the USA or UK -- can bury search engine results by flooding Google with new, conflicting data about the deceased.
I don't want to die to have this feature available. I want it now!
Exactly right. If your kid shoots up a school, you should remove any violent video games from their computer.
Indeed... although, also, my kid showed easy influence from media at an early age. From TV, to computer games- he would act out what he saw and that included violence. He was one of those "1%" (and 1% is a guess, I don't know what the real number is). So we've steered him away from access to violent video games. I recognized the bad influence in him... but I do believe him to be in the minority, he is also on the autism spectrum, and that may or may not have had something to do with it.
Just because my kid reacted bad towards violent video games doesn't mean I am opposed to violent video games- you don't punish the many because of a few. My point is, we really need parents keeping a watchful eye on their kids and monitoring this. It might not be video games, it might be youtube videos, tv, or hanging out with the wrong crowd. Some kids are just easily influenced, and parents need to be aware.
I have been reading these studies for over 20 years. Why is this even new? The outcome is always the same in each study.
It's not new. We see the same studies over and over again- and everyone acts surprised every time. SURPRISE- violent video games do not cause violence (in your typical teenager).
Now, notice I saw "typical"; I think, even though the vast majority of children can differentiate between video game violence and real life violence, there are some for whom it could be a trigger.
Just because in 99% of children violent video games don't cause violence- it doesn't mean that that last 1% WON'T. Parent's need to be responsible, if your kids is one of those who are easily influence by video games to mix the imaginary worlds with the real, or has mental health problems, you probably should use more care in what games your kids play.
For the other 99%, let them shoot, stab, and impale!
There is slightly more to it. If people are going to sleep before sunset, you'll need to block out the light from the windows.:-)
That alone might not work. The colour of the sunlight changes throughout the day. There are more blue tones at mid day and more red tones in the evening.
Even if you're blocking out all light into the room, the body clock is set by the colour of light it is exposed to. Now if you bring them inside and block off all access to outside light for several hours before bed- probably have some of those ugly yellow lights the colour of the old incandescent bulbs from before we had LEDs around the house- to trick the brain into thinking it's later than it is.
Some people are more sensitive than others- but the bottom line is; most kids won't sleep if you just block out the light. If they saw bluish- day light a few hours before, their internal clocks are still thinking it's too early to sleep.
The whole of society doesn't want to start the fucking day a 10am. The little bastards need to go to bed at night instead of staying up late. I know, I was one of those little bastards not long ago.
Unfortunately children are biological organisms and not machines. You can send a child to bed two hours earlier, and even do it consistently, but they still won't fall asleep at that time. Having a routine set is only part of the problem, the other part of the problem is millions of years of evolution that makes our sleep cycle correspond with the sun.
Especially when the solution is obvious: Just start the school day an hour later in the west.
Indeed, and I've always thought this would be the proper solution, not just for India, but regarding schools in the rest of the world instead of having the Daylight Saving Time switch. I think mainland US could run on one time. Just use central time. The work day doesn't have to be 8 to 5; it can be any time, if it's 11 to 8 on the West coast, and people don't go to bed until after midnight... so be it. From a logistics standpoint, it seems adjusting what hours people work makes more sense than having "time zones" across a country.
For anyone that might whine and say "but 12pm is supposed to be when sun is at peak in the sky", I don't care, mostly because for the majority of the year that isn't true already. We're already an hour out of sync with "scientific noon" most of the year because of Daylight Saving Time- it hasn't caused planes to fall out of the sky.
I remember once a discussion on the American civil war and I made the comment that as much as I disagreed with the Southern position many things; I agree on the right of people deciding who rules them, so if the majority of people South wanted independence they had the right to Independence.
Someone quickly pointed out my obvious mistake, that the black slaves didn't get a say, and would not have been in favour of splitting from the North. They were ABSOLUTELY right, and the fact that they didn't get a say completely invalidated the South's call for independence.
I think your promoting of Israel as "10th happiest nation", etc is making the exact same mistake. You're completely ignoring all the people living in apartheid in Palestine, you're completely ignoring the daily human rights abuses against the Palestinians, etc.
The European Jews living in Israel may be having a grand time and enjoying all sorts of rights, but the original inhabitants of that land are not having such a great time. Millions live in poverty and apartheid in Israel. Their voice deserves to be represented; just like the blacks in the Southern US deserved to be represented. The same human rights mistakes that happened with the colonization of the Americas and South Africa are happening today with the colonization of Israel and Palestine.
There is a minimum viable size in which a human finger can be biologically configured. Larger hands could support a larger number of such fingers.
Even a baby can have five fingers though. I've grown 20 times over what I was as a baby. I want 100 fingers on each hand. Preferably before valentines day.
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I'm not a 1000 person study; but back when I worked 4 ten hour days instead of 5 8 hour days I used to get a lot more work done. I can confirm this is true from my study of one.
How does *anyone* enter those funny blobs? Do folks have hidden 3,000-key keyboards hidden in their basements?
In windows 10 you can right click on the task bar and choose a "touch keyboard" and emojis are available from that. (but most people don't know that trick).
Jesus did kick ass, though. Remember the story in the Bible about how he flipped over merchant tables and literally whipped them out of the church for disrespecting the house of His father?
That's true, although, my favourite story is when he tied his ass to a palm tree and walked into Jerusalem.
That was a true miracle. Either that, or Jesus was related to the stretchy man from that group of 4 that has that rock man in it. (name escapes me... sorry, not a comic book person).
This. I'm not a reader of comic by any stretch of the imagination, nor am I religious at all. However, the idea behind this story sounds intriguing. Not only would it be interesting to see what Jesus would think of what became of His Gospel, but of us as well. The idea of him having a discussion with a superhero who is "worshiped" more than Him sounds fascinating...
It would be difficult to write such a comic though that wouldn't fall into one of three traps:
Preachy,
Blasphemous,
or Boring.
If you get too much into moral conduct it could come across as preachy. If Jesus has any flaws, or resorts to kicking arse, it could come across as blasphemous... trying too hard to avoid either of the above could become boring.
A skilled writer could probably come up with some very intriguing story lines as you suggest. But if a less than stellar writing team is involved if would end up a disaster.
Really? Because it sounds like hot garbage to me. I'm guessing DC agreed since they didn't fight very hard for it.
It all sounds like hot garbage to me... never personally understood comic book-love, but to each their own. A lot of people probably don't like what I like... ... nonetheless, them cancelling this will probably make whatever editions they've already published valuable in the future.
This week I had to create an account on an US government website to process some forms. I was surprised to see that as a part of the password recommendations they said that you could use emojis.
That's all well and good until you need to log into the website from a computer keyboard and can't log in because you can't type an emoji (and besides using some trick most computer users don't know).
Emojis are naturally ambiguous and people very often use them contrary to the official interpretation. Seemingly nonsensical sequences of emojis don't stand out. A famous example is that the poo emoji is sometimes mistakenly used to mean chocolate ice cream. It's not that you can't "crack the code". The advantage is that you can't prove that it is code, not just some weird expression of emotions. Maybe the defendant in this case meant one symbol as attractive (the high heels, representing her) and the other as business sense (the money bag, him), and the two of them working well together in a personal sense. I believe songs have been written about this theme.
And, for the record, some of us just really like eggplant and are not being at all vulgar!
I wonder how much this will hurt Disney.
Everyone knows the Marvel heros now... 10 years from now, will they seem obsolete or "old fashioned" to people who don't have the Disney service?
With Marvel on Netflix, and spread around amongst many services, it is keeping the characters "well-known". Lock it away, and how much does that hurt the Marvel brand?
First it was zombies, then came the comic book super-heroes. I'll be glad when Hollywood gets back to making more movies that actually have stories and quality acting.
Those aren't as profitable. Franchises guarantee you'll get the same people coming back for each new rehashing of the same story. Guarenteed cash flow; whereas, unqiue films are hit-or-miss in how audiences will respond.
The /. armchair art critics must be falling over themselves in a rush to comment on how happy they that these shows were cancelled because one of the following: a) Netflix originals suck b) they're tired of Marvel/superhero stories c) too mainstream and action oriented; not about an autistic kid sitting in a Eastern European shack doing math on a menstrual-blood soaked bathroom floor.
Honestly, I do think the Marvel shows have been rather crap on Netflix, so not bothered that they're being cancelled personally. However, I wouldn't say I'm "Happy" about it- because it doesn't really impact me. I'm already not watching them after having bailed after a few episodes of each, it's not going to make me watch them less now they're gone.
The only goodside of it will be if the money gets redirected for something I enjoy more.
Not liking the marvel shows does not equate to not liking action btw... it just means liking better written (subjective I know) shows.
This particular fad is diametrically opposed to the previously existing fad of converting social media accounts of the deceased into permanent memorials, like digital gravestones.
Either of these scenarios are OK with me, it's about what the wishes of the deceased (and their family).
Looks like the Internet isn't going to make it easier to be a historian after all. History is more than famous people.
I think enough people are not going to want themselves "digitally erased" that it will still be a net-gain for Historians. They may never know about the great Oswald McWeany, he will remain a legend enshrouded in mystery, but plenty of other day-to-day people will leave the trail across the internet.
Kind of like my brother. His wife didn't want a funeral, not even an obit in the paper. Hell I don't think she even made mention of it on Facebook. So to anyone out of the know, he just ceased to exist.
I don't want/need a funeral myself. If my family want to host one for me, if it makes them feel better, I'd be OK with that... but personally, I don't care if I have a funeral or not... and not just because I'm not dead yet. Even when I'm dead I don't really care if I have a funeral or not.
In case of death, delete my browser history.
Sure, but only after we review it and have a good laugh first.
I can see the point of locking social accounts so nothing new can be posted, but why go to all this work to try to erase all mentions of the person?
Surely that belongs in the right of the individual. Not everyone need be erased, but if a certain individual requests it in their will, or the family believes it was the deceased wish it should be allowed.
Honestly, unless it is something of historical, or public noteworthiness; everyone should have the right to have data about themselves curtailed imo; even if they're still alive.
will enact this right to be forgotten nonsense.
It's one thing to protect that private info never meant to be released (ie someone secretly webcamming a man or woman jerking off), but this retraction of intentionally public info is vile and orwellian.
You're calling DELETING data collected about an individual Orwellian? Personally, I find all the companies scraping data about everyone against their will to be far more Orwellian than deleting the data.
As for Hitler, obviously, he is a political and historical figure and cannot be easily "deleted" nor should he. However Bob the baker who has never done anything newsworthy, ought to be allowed to have his private information scrubbed from record.
I want this!
If that doesn't work, then companies -- be they in South Korea, the USA or UK -- can bury search engine results by flooding Google with new, conflicting data about the deceased.
I don't want to die to have this feature available. I want it now!
Exactly right. If your kid shoots up a school, you should remove any violent video games from their computer.
Indeed... although, also, my kid showed easy influence from media at an early age. From TV, to computer games- he would act out what he saw and that included violence. He was one of those "1%" (and 1% is a guess, I don't know what the real number is). So we've steered him away from access to violent video games. I recognized the bad influence in him... but I do believe him to be in the minority, he is also on the autism spectrum, and that may or may not have had something to do with it.
Just because my kid reacted bad towards violent video games doesn't mean I am opposed to violent video games- you don't punish the many because of a few. My point is, we really need parents keeping a watchful eye on their kids and monitoring this. It might not be video games, it might be youtube videos, tv, or hanging out with the wrong crowd. Some kids are just easily influenced, and parents need to be aware.
I have been reading these studies for over 20 years. Why is this even new? The outcome is always the same in each study.
It's not new. We see the same studies over and over again- and everyone acts surprised every time. SURPRISE- violent video games do not cause violence (in your typical teenager).
Now, notice I saw "typical"; I think, even though the vast majority of children can differentiate between video game violence and real life violence, there are some for whom it could be a trigger.
Just because in 99% of children violent video games don't cause violence- it doesn't mean that that last 1% WON'T. Parent's need to be responsible, if your kids is one of those who are easily influence by video games to mix the imaginary worlds with the real, or has mental health problems, you probably should use more care in what games your kids play.
For the other 99%, let them shoot, stab, and impale!
There is slightly more to it. If people are going to sleep before sunset, you'll need to block out the light from the windows. :-)
That alone might not work. The colour of the sunlight changes throughout the day. There are more blue tones at mid day and more red tones in the evening.
Even if you're blocking out all light into the room, the body clock is set by the colour of light it is exposed to. Now if you bring them inside and block off all access to outside light for several hours before bed- probably have some of those ugly yellow lights the colour of the old incandescent bulbs from before we had LEDs around the house- to trick the brain into thinking it's later than it is.
Some people are more sensitive than others- but the bottom line is; most kids won't sleep if you just block out the light. If they saw bluish- day light a few hours before, their internal clocks are still thinking it's too early to sleep.
The whole of society doesn't want to start the fucking day a 10am. The little bastards need to go to bed at night instead of staying up late. I know, I was one of those little bastards not long ago.
Unfortunately children are biological organisms and not machines. You can send a child to bed two hours earlier, and even do it consistently, but they still won't fall asleep at that time. Having a routine set is only part of the problem, the other part of the problem is millions of years of evolution that makes our sleep cycle correspond with the sun.
Especially when the solution is obvious: Just start the school day an hour later in the west.
Indeed, and I've always thought this would be the proper solution, not just for India, but regarding schools in the rest of the world instead of having the Daylight Saving Time switch. I think mainland US could run on one time. Just use central time. The work day doesn't have to be 8 to 5; it can be any time, if it's 11 to 8 on the West coast, and people don't go to bed until after midnight... so be it. From a logistics standpoint, it seems adjusting what hours people work makes more sense than having "time zones" across a country.
For anyone that might whine and say "but 12pm is supposed to be when sun is at peak in the sky", I don't care, mostly because for the majority of the year that isn't true already. We're already an hour out of sync with "scientific noon" most of the year because of Daylight Saving Time- it hasn't caused planes to fall out of the sky.
... for the answer.
Yodarize it?
Ethical to build Electronics made in China, is it?
>"there absolutely is an ethical responsibility to avoid purchasing products made in China, just as there is with Israel."
Did you just compare the human rights/freedom situation in China to the free/democratic ISRAEL?? Seriously?
https://object.cato.org/sites/... (USA 17, Israel 49, China 135)
https://www.heritage.org/index... (ISA 12, Israel 27, China 100)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (Israel #1 in middle east)
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/2... (Israel #10 of happiest people on earth. USA #14. China- not even on list.)
https://www.jewishvirtuallibra...
I remember once a discussion on the American civil war and I made the comment that as much as I disagreed with the Southern position many things; I agree on the right of people deciding who rules them, so if the majority of people South wanted independence they had the right to Independence.
Someone quickly pointed out my obvious mistake, that the black slaves didn't get a say, and would not have been in favour of splitting from the North. They were ABSOLUTELY right, and the fact that they didn't get a say completely invalidated the South's call for independence.
I think your promoting of Israel as "10th happiest nation", etc is making the exact same mistake. You're completely ignoring all the people living in apartheid in Palestine, you're completely ignoring the daily human rights abuses against the Palestinians, etc.
The European Jews living in Israel may be having a grand time and enjoying all sorts of rights, but the original inhabitants of that land are not having such a great time. Millions live in poverty and apartheid in Israel. Their voice deserves to be represented; just like the blacks in the Southern US deserved to be represented. The same human rights mistakes that happened with the colonization of the Americas and South Africa are happening today with the colonization of Israel and Palestine.
There is a minimum viable size in which a human finger can be biologically configured. Larger hands could support a larger number of such fingers.
Even a baby can have five fingers though. I've grown 20 times over what I was as a baby. I want 100 fingers on each hand. Preferably before valentines day.
What does the size of one's hands have to do with the number of fingers?
I don't know, but might explain why Donald Trump only has three fingers on each hand.