something in the back of my mind is telling me there is a potential this is a really shit movie, and this is one giant publicity stunt.
Yeah, watch this movie or the terrrists win.
Biden was the person who said Obama was "the first clean black face in the democratic party". Hillariously racist gaffe that got covered up right before he got the VP slot.
Hillarious.
The other side of promoting this fear mongering over terrorism, is that people get so scared, they believe their own bullshit. What decades of fear mongering have done is made us a nation of cowards, unable to cope with idle threats, most likely by people incapable of pulling them off.
the largest army in the world, the most advanced weapons, the biggest navy by far, with the most amount and most advanced carriers, and we are still scared of unspecified threats on the internet.
Sweet Jesus fuck. I think instead of spending millions on tanks, and Jets, and aircraft carriers, and shit that won't protect us, lets spend some time learning not to be affraid, and sticking up for what we believe in, instead of paying the defense industry out the nose for what ultimately won't protect us?
Black people are the most guilty when it comes to keeping racism alive. Many of the rest of us have already moved past trivial things like skin color.
aparantly not. Don't you find that statement somewhat contradictory. You feel the need to judge all black persons as one. Isn't making such a stereotype, and classifying all inviduals as a whole textbook racism?
The problem isn't "black people", or "white people", its "racist assholes".
Progressives shit a brick when people started wearing American Flags on their lapels to "show" their patriotism.
really, really?
For some reason I don't see that so much anymore, because most of the legitimate "proggresives" are fairly nationalist, and traditionally actual "proggresives" entailed a fair bit of nationalism.(not to the level of fascism, but still nationalism).
as an anti-capitalist myself, I think you are sinking far too deep into the realm of conspiracy.
Linux, and the even more explicitly socialist GNU is widely accepted as the de-facto server operating system by commerical outfits large and small. Partners in the Linux foundation are far more powerful, influential, and even conservative companies than Ford.(thus helping prove that mutualism is indeed a viable buisness model, delighting me to no end.)
Even samsung is releasing Tizen, an GNU/Linux based in vehicle infotainment system.
While intresting, Long before linux rose to promenence, QNX has be the automotive operating system. I would like them to use FOSS, but at the same time I am not going to resort of conspiracy, and I understand why they went with QNX
Remember that in the middle, and late middle ages, the Arab world was the advanced, progressive, cultured and tolerant civilization, far ahead of western Europe. Christian Europe was a place of endless war and bickering and of religious zealots.
ftfy. Make a big distinction between arab and persian cultures, and Islamic culture. Sure they were enlightened muslims, like there are enlightened christians. But back then, Europe where the headl/floor bangers, and it was Caliphate full of moderates, i.e. fairly seculary. Not to say they didn't have a few religious nuts, but all the great advances in the Arab/Persian worlds where done by keeping religeon in check. Very similar to the west.
If you look at the history of the caliphate, there is a negative correlation between how religeous it was at any given year, and how great it was doing technologically.
One more giant point, if you think that Islam, Christianity or Judiasm, grew up in a vaccum from eachother you are dead wrong. Islam is not a diffrent culture from christianity in practice. It is not. Many supposed "european" cultural ideas(such as chivilry), came from Islam, and vice versa, to the point, they are more of the same really.
Another point is that the Middle East was always an ass-backwards shithole, and the Arabs have no motivation for modernity or modern civilization, which is a giant lie. In the early 20th century most of the dominant political movements where modernist, secularist, and anti-imperialist. The problem? Most of them where also socialist, or communist, with a few nationalists(ba'athism, nasserism), so the CIA funded, organized, equipped, or otherwise enabled the fundimentalist religious movements to destroy them.
If there is any one thing we can do to help the Arab world, its "stop funding, training, enabling, organizing, fundimentalist religious nuts, peroid".
no, no, no. People can still convert to Islam, or hide the fact they are islamic. You can't smash an idea with a baseball bat, nor with a gun, or a nuke.
The reason the west keeps fucking up, is that in a war of ideas, we haven't the faintest clue how to fight. Most of our "experts" don't have a faintest clue what people want beyond that the TV tells them.
We have the faintest idea on how to keep the top %10 happy in the short run, and keep everyone else from scaring them. Thats it.
again, XKCD's argument is bullshit as well, as it's basicly the capitalist/libertarian argument that "Free Speech" means "property owners are soley responsible for cenorship".
Notice it starts "Congress shall make no law". It never said anything about Speech being a right. The document does quote other things as rights such as being free from unreasonable search and seizure, and the right to bear arms.
The only stipulation here was on Congress, and Congress alone, not other governing bodies, not the states, and now towns, cities and municipalities. The First Amendment does not stipulate Freedom from anything, only that certain activities cannot be controlled by legislation nationally.
In theory, its been common practice to translate this into "Freedom of Speech", by the people, and be completely ignored by the government if you look at the history of the USA.
you don't need that amount of education to explain that. You learn that in your first year of engineering at a decent school.
Heck, I can explain that to you in 15 minutes really, or you can lookup Forrier's Theorm on wikipedia, along with digital to analog converters
That is not masters level coursework. At the same token, the ability of anyone to hear the diffrence is doubtful. The amount of distortion is also far less than what you get from analog systems as well, and digital can reproduce the sound far more perfectly than analog.
However, people like analog formats for their signature distortions. Its a warm and fuzzy sound, you don't get on digital.
See tube amplifiers, when the tubes get hot, they produce a rich desirable distortion.
So you give someone a bunch of money for a year long vacation, and THEN they can start collecting their payola?
I agree, make it 5-10 years.
It's also a bit unfair, because it blocks entry into the private sector with a pretty onerous restriction
for who, the employee, or the rest of the country? I also don't see that being a giant hurdle to employement in the private sector. Unless of course the only skill someone has is being a paid shill. In that case, fuck 'em.
Presumably everyone else would have to take temp jobs at McDonalds to get by for a year, because they can't get a job in their actual field of expertise.
not really. Thats an overreaction.
. If you restrict or eliminate lobbying via draconian laws, you're essentially limiting access to our representative government, and that's probably unconstitutional anyhow.
Look, as much as we hate to admit it, the person you'd want to hire at a private firm would be the person that knows the ins and outs of the government agencies your company deals with.
I think thats the point. I could imagine that a private firm could pay this man handsomely, but this hurts the rest of society greatly. What we don't want, is someone who's career niche is simply helping private intrests manipulate or game the government for their own personal intrests. The revolving door creates a class of such people. Go to work for the government, take what they know about the government to the private sector to help the private sector against public intrests, then go back to work to the public sector with intention of getting another job in the private sector, so while at the public sector job, taking actions, not in the public's intrest, but what they can use to convince their next private employer to hire them.
Thats the point, we need to stop this. It works out well for a handful of people, but harms everyone else.
apples and oranges. QNX is not a direct competitor to linux. Sure you can run linux in realtime, but its not linux's greatest strength.
As far as features go, I don't think think niche OSs need the breadth of features, or even hardware support that linux has. When you have something like QNX, you probably don't even write driver support until a customer needs it, It also probably runs on a lot less CPUs than linux. When you don't have a general purpose kernel, there isn't as much need for support, and with that, complexity. I will agree Linux is the best general purpose kernel, but at many niche tasks its beaten.
QNX has been the choice of OS for onboard computing for cars. Mabey there is a reason for that, and its that QNX has a niche.
After all, when AT&T was banning all other vendors from connecting equipment to it's phone network it was only intending to protect the network from damage due to incorrectly-designed equipment
bullshit, and the legal precident set when the courts ordered AT&T to let people bring their own equipment applies.
Its also the only reason we were able to have commericially available modems which spurred the development of residential internet and BBSs, which would not have happened without it.
except Apple does care. Apple wants to own the stack top to bottom. They want, once you buy one apple product, to be a complete apple shop.
The want you to use itunes, and then buy things from itunes, and when it runs like complete crap, and gives your computer a virus, they want you to buy a mac(yes litterally, they shipped a windows version of itunes with a virus, right in the middle of their "windows computers get viruses campaign a few years back, got caught, said it was an accident and nothing happened).
If you say something bad about your apple product, its because your disloyal, and the millions of cult like followers will come out of nowhere to denounce you, and probably say mean things or harrass you for litterally being a microsoft agent, which is everyone the slightest bit suspicious of apple.
its a cultural problem with the American people, with its roots in our shallow materialistic culture where we all hate eachother, and see the government, celebrities, religeon, and other power figures as means to help us in our petty bickering with eachother, despite the fact that all of the above have proven their worthiness is pure hype.
This gets right back to the MPAA/RIAA, and with it pop cultures, celebrities, and a bunch of adults that gossip, bicker, and hold feuds like pre-teens.
What we all need to do is start grabbing people by the colar and telling them to grow up.
what the fuck? rights are not entitlement. This is the moderation falicy.
Its generally used by so called "centrists", to take an outrageous claim, presented next to a rational one, and then compare the outrageous claim to the legitimate one, and then say "lets meet in the middle", demanding the person with the rational claim give up their rights in order to appease a made up argument.
Power is fairly dillute on somethings, but the real power in the US are the corporations. They are the people who buy the votes of people entranced in this media circus, utterly scared by partisan rhetoric and advertising, that if they step out of line, The other guy might win, and eat babies. The media and public relations keep people in this trance, a need for conformity, and the fear of non-conformists since you are old enough to walk. They simply punish people by labeling them non-conformists, and then let an unrully mob sort them out. The result is a populace that only cares about issues they are told to care about, and only believes "facts" they are told to by their media source, and willfully commit doublethink to fit in.
They are then sold to the highest bidder, who gets to interject facts into their made-for-advertisement narrative. There is no outrage or discussion that doesn't involve independant sources or thought, that doesn't get shut down by agitators and shills who simply want to be part of something.
and napolean, and just about everyone else who's tried it, outside of villians in pop culture.
The problem with most of America, is that many people can't understand things beyond pop culture refrences.
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something in the back of my mind is telling me there is a potential this is a really shit movie, and this is one giant publicity stunt. Yeah, watch this movie or the terrrists win.
Biden was the person who said Obama was "the first clean black face in the democratic party". Hillariously racist gaffe that got covered up right before he got the VP slot. Hillarious.
I wonder if the "terrorists" can torrent it for us, just to show they aren't about cenorship.
The other side of promoting this fear mongering over terrorism, is that people get so scared, they believe their own bullshit. What decades of fear mongering have done is made us a nation of cowards, unable to cope with idle threats, most likely by people incapable of pulling them off. the largest army in the world, the most advanced weapons, the biggest navy by far, with the most amount and most advanced carriers, and we are still scared of unspecified threats on the internet. Sweet Jesus fuck. I think instead of spending millions on tanks, and Jets, and aircraft carriers, and shit that won't protect us, lets spend some time learning not to be affraid, and sticking up for what we believe in, instead of paying the defense industry out the nose for what ultimately won't protect us?
on this issue, yes.
reason, when your right, your right. Censorship is bad, regardless who does it.
Black people are the most guilty when it comes to keeping racism alive. Many of the rest of us have already moved past trivial things like skin color.
aparantly not. Don't you find that statement somewhat contradictory. You feel the need to judge all black persons as one. Isn't making such a stereotype, and classifying all inviduals as a whole textbook racism? The problem isn't "black people", or "white people", its "racist assholes".
Progressives shit a brick when people started wearing American Flags on their lapels to "show" their patriotism.
really, really?
For some reason I don't see that so much anymore, because most of the legitimate "proggresives" are fairly nationalist, and traditionally actual "proggresives" entailed a fair bit of nationalism.(not to the level of fascism, but still nationalism).
Linux, and the even more explicitly socialist GNU is widely accepted as the de-facto server operating system by commerical outfits large and small. Partners in the Linux foundation are far more powerful, influential, and even conservative companies than Ford.(thus helping prove that mutualism is indeed a viable buisness model, delighting me to no end.)
Even samsung is releasing Tizen, an GNU/Linux based in vehicle infotainment system.
While intresting, Long before linux rose to promenence, QNX has be the automotive operating system. I would like them to use FOSS, but at the same time I am not going to resort of conspiracy, and I understand why they went with QNX
Remember that in the middle, and late middle ages, the Arab world was the advanced, progressive, cultured and tolerant civilization, far ahead of western Europe. Christian Europe was a place of endless war and bickering and of religious zealots.
ftfy. Make a big distinction between arab and persian cultures, and Islamic culture. Sure they were enlightened muslims, like there are enlightened christians. But back then, Europe where the headl/floor bangers, and it was Caliphate full of moderates, i.e. fairly seculary. Not to say they didn't have a few religious nuts, but all the great advances in the Arab/Persian worlds where done by keeping religeon in check. Very similar to the west.
If you look at the history of the caliphate, there is a negative correlation between how religeous it was at any given year, and how great it was doing technologically.
One more giant point, if you think that Islam, Christianity or Judiasm, grew up in a vaccum from eachother you are dead wrong. Islam is not a diffrent culture from christianity in practice. It is not. Many supposed "european" cultural ideas(such as chivilry), came from Islam, and vice versa, to the point, they are more of the same really.
Another point is that the Middle East was always an ass-backwards shithole, and the Arabs have no motivation for modernity or modern civilization, which is a giant lie. In the early 20th century most of the dominant political movements where modernist, secularist, and anti-imperialist. The problem? Most of them where also socialist, or communist, with a few nationalists(ba'athism, nasserism), so the CIA funded, organized, equipped, or otherwise enabled the fundimentalist religious movements to destroy them.
If there is any one thing we can do to help the Arab world, its "stop funding, training, enabling, organizing, fundimentalist religious nuts, peroid".
no, no, no. People can still convert to Islam, or hide the fact they are islamic. You can't smash an idea with a baseball bat, nor with a gun, or a nuke. The reason the west keeps fucking up, is that in a war of ideas, we haven't the faintest clue how to fight. Most of our "experts" don't have a faintest clue what people want beyond that the TV tells them. We have the faintest idea on how to keep the top %10 happy in the short run, and keep everyone else from scaring them. Thats it.
again, XKCD's argument is bullshit as well, as it's basicly the capitalist/libertarian argument that "Free Speech" means "property owners are soley responsible for cenorship".
Not what the First Amendment means or says.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.[1]
Notice it starts "Congress shall make no law". It never said anything about Speech being a right. The document does quote other things as rights such as being free from unreasonable search and seizure, and the right to bear arms.
The only stipulation here was on Congress, and Congress alone, not other governing bodies, not the states, and now towns, cities and municipalities. The First Amendment does not stipulate Freedom from anything, only that certain activities cannot be controlled by legislation nationally.
In theory, its been common practice to translate this into "Freedom of Speech", by the people, and be completely ignored by the government if you look at the history of the USA.
But its not Free software. Free software specifies that the tools needed to build must also be Free.
you don't need that amount of education to explain that. You learn that in your first year of engineering at a decent school. Heck, I can explain that to you in 15 minutes really, or you can lookup Forrier's Theorm on wikipedia, along with digital to analog converters That is not masters level coursework. At the same token, the ability of anyone to hear the diffrence is doubtful. The amount of distortion is also far less than what you get from analog systems as well, and digital can reproduce the sound far more perfectly than analog. However, people like analog formats for their signature distortions. Its a warm and fuzzy sound, you don't get on digital. See tube amplifiers, when the tubes get hot, they produce a rich desirable distortion.
but today's common digital formats sacrifice far too much information, leaving the listener to "enjoy" the watery tones of overcompressed music.
thats not the file formats, thats today's producers adding too much compression to make their music sound louder than other CDs.
So you give someone a bunch of money for a year long vacation, and THEN they can start collecting their payola?
I agree, make it 5-10 years.
It's also a bit unfair, because it blocks entry into the private sector with a pretty onerous restriction
for who, the employee, or the rest of the country? I also don't see that being a giant hurdle to employement in the private sector. Unless of course the only skill someone has is being a paid shill. In that case, fuck 'em.
Presumably everyone else would have to take temp jobs at McDonalds to get by for a year, because they can't get a job in their actual field of expertise.
not really. Thats an overreaction.
. If you restrict or eliminate lobbying via draconian laws, you're essentially limiting access to our representative government, and that's probably unconstitutional anyhow.
Look, as much as we hate to admit it, the person you'd want to hire at a private firm would be the person that knows the ins and outs of the government agencies your company deals with.
I think thats the point. I could imagine that a private firm could pay this man handsomely, but this hurts the rest of society greatly. What we don't want, is someone who's career niche is simply helping private intrests manipulate or game the government for their own personal intrests. The revolving door creates a class of such people. Go to work for the government, take what they know about the government to the private sector to help the private sector against public intrests, then go back to work to the public sector with intention of getting another job in the private sector, so while at the public sector job, taking actions, not in the public's intrest, but what they can use to convince their next private employer to hire them.
Thats the point, we need to stop this. It works out well for a handful of people, but harms everyone else.
Apple never shipped a version with a windows virus
except they did.
You probably are getting a bad response because of inaccuracies like that. Stick to being fully truthful and you'll get a better reaction.
Truth, being of course, what apple wants it to be, after all, who am I to complain, I didn't pay any money for my truths.
As far as features go, I don't think think niche OSs need the breadth of features, or even hardware support that linux has. When you have something like QNX, you probably don't even write driver support until a customer needs it, It also probably runs on a lot less CPUs than linux. When you don't have a general purpose kernel, there isn't as much need for support, and with that, complexity. I will agree Linux is the best general purpose kernel, but at many niche tasks its beaten.
QNX has been the choice of OS for onboard computing for cars. Mabey there is a reason for that, and its that QNX has a niche.
After all, when AT&T was banning all other vendors from connecting equipment to it's phone network it was only intending to protect the network from damage due to incorrectly-designed equipment
bullshit, and the legal precident set when the courts ordered AT&T to let people bring their own equipment applies. Its also the only reason we were able to have commericially available modems which spurred the development of residential internet and BBSs, which would not have happened without it.
except Apple does care. Apple wants to own the stack top to bottom. They want, once you buy one apple product, to be a complete apple shop. The want you to use itunes, and then buy things from itunes, and when it runs like complete crap, and gives your computer a virus, they want you to buy a mac(yes litterally, they shipped a windows version of itunes with a virus, right in the middle of their "windows computers get viruses campaign a few years back, got caught, said it was an accident and nothing happened). If you say something bad about your apple product, its because your disloyal, and the millions of cult like followers will come out of nowhere to denounce you, and probably say mean things or harrass you for litterally being a microsoft agent, which is everyone the slightest bit suspicious of apple.
its a cultural problem with the American people, with its roots in our shallow materialistic culture where we all hate eachother, and see the government, celebrities, religeon, and other power figures as means to help us in our petty bickering with eachother, despite the fact that all of the above have proven their worthiness is pure hype. This gets right back to the MPAA/RIAA, and with it pop cultures, celebrities, and a bunch of adults that gossip, bicker, and hold feuds like pre-teens. What we all need to do is start grabbing people by the colar and telling them to grow up.
invidual entitlement
what the fuck? rights are not entitlement. This is the moderation falicy.
Its generally used by so called "centrists", to take an outrageous claim, presented next to a rational one, and then compare the outrageous claim to the legitimate one, and then say "lets meet in the middle", demanding the person with the rational claim give up their rights in order to appease a made up argument.
please come get me when someone does.
worked pretty well throughout US history
apparantly you haven't read US history much.
They are then sold to the highest bidder, who gets to interject facts into their made-for-advertisement narrative. There is no outrage or discussion that doesn't involve independant sources or thought, that doesn't get shut down by agitators and shills who simply want to be part of something.
There is no one left to outrage.
and napolean, and just about everyone else who's tried it, outside of villians in pop culture. The problem with most of America, is that many people can't understand things beyond pop culture refrences.