I've got 50 year old Lego bricks and the only reason I can tell the difference is that the logo changed sometime in the 70s and the blue and white ones have yellowed. Other than that, they are perfectly fine. Lego is smart enough not to mess with their product unless they can come up with the perfect alternative.
He has done more to undermine public faith in journalism than ANY Western leader in history.
No. Journalists (or people who claim to be) have done more to undermine public faith in journalism, and with good reason. If you think journalism deserves good faith, then you are seriously mistaken. I don't care if it's the left-wing "journalists" you hate or the right-wing "journalists" you hate, the whole industry has less credibility than Congress, whose approval ratings occasionally dip down into the single digits.
The problem with socialists is that the solution to every problem is more socialism, including the problem of too much socialism. My litmus test for taking global warming seriously was the day someone suggests a solution that isn't just "muh socialism".
The UN has wanted capitalism to fail, and wants all the nation states to fail, so they can swoop in and be "the new world order" and "one world government". THAT ain't gonna happen, ever!
And if it did, the results would make Venezuela look good.
I'll believe capitalism is over as soon as NetCraft confirms it.
The few places in the world that sort of do socialism and aren't cesspits of starvation and misery couldn't exist without the economic dynamo of capitalist systems like the United States. This article sounds more like wishful thinking by people who have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to economics.
The real gist of the article is that energy is becoming more expensive as fossil fuels start to run out, which is not news. How this translates into capitalism failing is left as an exercise to the reader, because the ability to adapt to changing conditions is a hallmark of capitalism, not central planning. Yes, capitalism tends to be short-sighted, which is why reasonable regulation is a necessary check, but you'll never figure out what works when you have a single experiment (i.e. a centrally-planned economy) compared to millions of simultaneous experiments (a capitalist economy), because economics is more complex than we can understand.
If we ever get real AI, not the kind that's just glorified pattern matching of pictures, but "general purpose", and superhuman, intelligence, then perhaps socialism could be a feasible solution, but only because the superhumanly-intelligent machines will take care of us, which is a scary proposition for many other reasons.
How does the "Echo gadget" contribute to a better education?
What does that have to do with a University? They're there to crank as many kids through, pull in as much scratch as possible, and indoctrinate the next generation of young people. Education doesn't enter into the equation.
Come to think of it, I've never seen a male enter one either, but we have to show those North Carolina simpletons that we are progressive!
I lived in North Carolina for several years while growing up. I found North Carolinians to be mostly people of eminently good common sense. They may sometimes be simple, but it's the simplicity of knowing right from wrong, the simplicity of being honest or the simplicity of knowing how to barbecue correctly, or the simple logic of using "y'all" in a language that's unfortunately lost its plural second-person pronoun.
Students are surprised that costs have skyrocketed.
But muh college should free-e-e-e-eeee-eeeeeeee
As someone who benefited greatly from college in the late 1980s, but who, even at the time, saw how ridiculous things were getting, the current situation seems to have gone beyond absurd. It seems that providing a valuable education is the only thing they aren't doing.
So, Saint Louis "University" admits to the world that A) they're entirely irrelevant and B) they clearly know it, but C) are unable to think of any solutions to the problem other than unimaginative gimmicks that'll drive the "institution" into further irrelevance.
So you're saying they are typical of universities.
"1984" was a warning, not a proposal. Putting Orwell's telescreens (minus the screen) in everyone's room makes you look creepy. Should I report to Minitrue for debriefing?
I think a good test would be to have a really incriminating-sounding conversation in the dorms and see what red flags go up.
"Yeah, she kept screaming 'no', but I know she wanted it." "Yeah, and then the bombs will go off. You got your ammo yet?" "$50 will get you the exam ahead of time. $250 for the answers." "Make America Great Again!"
Reminds me of the days when/. sigs were used to spam Echelon.
Yeah, I don't believe evil is necessary to be in finance, or even to succeed, but it seems like it's one of the careers that makes it easiest to fall into. The others include lawyer, politician and CEO of a successful and powerful tech company.
In my experience, nobody is happy with Enterprise anything when it comes to software because the customer (i.e., the person making the decision to purchase it) is never the user (the one who has to suffer the pain of using the awful software).
Microsoft hasn't put out a good-looking version of Windows since Windows 2000, although 7 was the least worst since then. The sad thing is that with Windows 7 you could still use the Windows 2000 "Classic" skin, but now you can't. Windows is so sophisticated it can't use a desktop theme from 18 years ago.
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I'm not going to try. I think you're nuts.
Great, now you've got flecks of spittle over all your screen.
And Woodward has been proven to have no problem with fabricating quotes. Not a good standard for you to have raised.
At least this time he wasn't interviewing a guy in a coma.
I've got 50 year old Lego bricks and the only reason I can tell the difference is that the logo changed sometime in the 70s and the blue and white ones have yellowed. Other than that, they are perfectly fine. Lego is smart enough not to mess with their product unless they can come up with the perfect alternative.
He has done more to undermine public faith in journalism than ANY Western leader in history.
No. Journalists (or people who claim to be) have done more to undermine public faith in journalism, and with good reason. If you think journalism deserves good faith, then you are seriously mistaken. I don't care if it's the left-wing "journalists" you hate or the right-wing "journalists" you hate, the whole industry has less credibility than Congress, whose approval ratings occasionally dip down into the single digits.
My litmus test for taking global warming seriously was the day someone suggests a solution that isn't just "muh socialism".
How about a carbon tax to encourage alternatives by using free market economics.
I guess it's not there yet.
The problem with socialists is that the solution to every problem is more socialism, including the problem of too much socialism. My litmus test for taking global warming seriously was the day someone suggests a solution that isn't just "muh socialism".
The UN has wanted capitalism to fail, and wants all the nation states to fail, so they can swoop in and be "the new world order" and "one world government". THAT ain't gonna happen, ever!
And if it did, the results would make Venezuela look good.
I'll believe capitalism is over as soon as NetCraft confirms it.
The few places in the world that sort of do socialism and aren't cesspits of starvation and misery couldn't exist without the economic dynamo of capitalist systems like the United States. This article sounds more like wishful thinking by people who have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to economics.
The real gist of the article is that energy is becoming more expensive as fossil fuels start to run out, which is not news. How this translates into capitalism failing is left as an exercise to the reader, because the ability to adapt to changing conditions is a hallmark of capitalism, not central planning. Yes, capitalism tends to be short-sighted, which is why reasonable regulation is a necessary check, but you'll never figure out what works when you have a single experiment (i.e. a centrally-planned economy) compared to millions of simultaneous experiments (a capitalist economy), because economics is more complex than we can understand.
If we ever get real AI, not the kind that's just glorified pattern matching of pictures, but "general purpose", and superhuman, intelligence, then perhaps socialism could be a feasible solution, but only because the superhumanly-intelligent machines will take care of us, which is a scary proposition for many other reasons.
How does the "Echo gadget" contribute to a better education?
What does that have to do with a University? They're there to crank as many kids through, pull in as much scratch as possible, and indoctrinate the next generation of young people. Education doesn't enter into the equation.
Come to think of it, I've never seen a male enter one either, but we have to show those North Carolina simpletons that we are progressive!
I lived in North Carolina for several years while growing up. I found North Carolinians to be mostly people of eminently good common sense. They may sometimes be simple, but it's the simplicity of knowing right from wrong, the simplicity of being honest or the simplicity of knowing how to barbecue correctly, or the simple logic of using "y'all" in a language that's unfortunately lost its plural second-person pronoun.
Teaching you something is completely orthogonal to their purpose.
Students are surprised that costs have skyrocketed.
But muh college should free-e-e-e-eeee-eeeeeeee
As someone who benefited greatly from college in the late 1980s, but who, even at the time, saw how ridiculous things were getting, the current situation seems to have gone beyond absurd. It seems that providing a valuable education is the only thing they aren't doing.
So, Saint Louis "University" admits to the world that A) they're entirely irrelevant and B) they clearly know it, but C) are unable to think of any solutions to the problem other than unimaginative gimmicks that'll drive the "institution" into further irrelevance.
So you're saying they are typical of universities.
"1984" was a warning, not a proposal. Putting Orwell's telescreens (minus the screen) in everyone's room makes you look creepy. Should I report to Minitrue for debriefing?
I think a good test would be to have a really incriminating-sounding conversation in the dorms and see what red flags go up.
"Yeah, she kept screaming 'no', but I know she wanted it."
"Yeah, and then the bombs will go off. You got your ammo yet?"
"$50 will get you the exam ahead of time. $250 for the answers."
"Make America Great Again!"
Reminds me of the days when /. sigs were used to spam Echelon.
FYI: Friended based on your comment and sig.
Yeah, I don't believe evil is necessary to be in finance, or even to succeed, but it seems like it's one of the careers that makes it easiest to fall into. The others include lawyer, politician and CEO of a successful and powerful tech company.
Engineering pays quite well, but to get rich you're better off being evil.
FTFY.
Is there any technically literate person who does not work for a voting machine manufacturer that thinks they are a good idea?
Can a software project never actually be done?
Software is never finished. At some point the maker merely stops supporting it.
Nobody is happy with their ERP.
In my experience, nobody is happy with Enterprise anything when it comes to software because the customer (i.e., the person making the decision to purchase it) is never the user (the one who has to suffer the pain of using the awful software).
I've always said that Oracle has all the monopolistic evil that Microsoft has, but without the smart people.
Microsoft hasn't put out a good-looking version of Windows since Windows 2000, although 7 was the least worst since then. The sad thing is that with Windows 7 you could still use the Windows 2000 "Classic" skin, but now you can't. Windows is so sophisticated it can't use a desktop theme from 18 years ago.
Ah, Slashdot, where people are argue ad nauseam over the correct spelling of a word that has two accepted spellings.
Good luck to you, wherever you're moving. It's a big country, and I'm sure you'll find a great place to live.