That they got £90,000 in Indiegogo funding as rapidly as they did suggests that even taking donations by orgs into account, there's got to be a hell of a lot more than a handful of people interested in reading it.
My decision will depend largely on how much issues cost here in the US...It sounds like it would be interesting to flip through when taking a break from electronics (Itry to do that for a while each day), but Ifrankly can't afford the high prices I've seen other UK-based Linux magazines.
Believe it or not, there's still hobby-specific magazines of all kinds... There's 3-4 general Linux pubs, a couple devoted to distros or environments, and then in the general tech-geek category, 2600: Hacker Quarterly, Make, Maximum PC and a bunch focused on other hardware/OSplatforms. That's not even taking the magazines focused on general science, specific scientific fields, weird shit like Mental Floss, or non-STEM topics.
If someone can use Linux, they presumably can read. They might be, as Iam, too poor to pay the high cost of most (or all) Linux magazines (they're high in the US, at least) Personally, I always buy 2600, plus sometimes Writer's Digest, Renaissance Faires & Culture or something else that catches my eye. I was quite excited to score a bunch of old 2600 back issues last year at a garage sale, too.:)
The reason why someone with Internet access would read a periodical in any form is that the writing is usually of much higher quality, which means that the information is presented more coherently & concisely, letting us learn more about the subject (or at a more in-depth level)with less effort than we would from most online publications. Many of the popular web-only publications -- Salon, Slate, HuffPo, TechCrunch, TechDirt -- are like that, managing to turn even important subjects into mental fluff that probably won't stick in our minds any longer than it takes for us to comment. (I say "many" because I know of a very few sites like Ars Technica that soar above the rest.)
As for why anyone would buy them on paper, there's a number of reasons. One is that we can then read with full-color illustrations without having to use a backlit screen, which is great for problems like temporary light-sensitivity (e.g. due to a migraine) and chronic insomnia. Another is that many people still find it much more physically relaxing to read on paper, and/or find that they're mentally sharper after a long session of paper-reading than they are if they were reading... There's also that while tablets (for those that can afford them) have gotten much better at taking & referring back to interline/margin notes, many people still don't find it as convenient or intuitive to flip back through the device as with a paper copy or to refer to it when working.
It also depends on how strongly the cat has bonded with you and whether they grew up with the same cats from a very early age, all of which also makes a huge difference in their/our ability to communicate. (I strongly suspect certain phenotypes also are more predisposed to bonding/working with humans than others; people think of it as a breed trait, but IME "lookalikes" often carry it as well.)
The species is surprisingly like children in terms of their intellectual/communicative development being profoundly affected by how/how much we interact with them and how nutritious their food is. (By nutrition, Imean good ingredients like brown rice rather than indigestible corn fillers; some of the really pricy USbrands like Science Diet or Iams are low-quality.) So most people's idea of a cat's mind is based on the equivalent of a little kid left in front of the TV & living off junk food, rather than one whose parents give it a great balanced diet, read to & played educational games with it, if you see my drift. It's no shocker most people's idea of a normal cat is an uncommunicative creature that's constantly exhausted.
FWIWI'm not a breeder, my cats are spayed/neutered early on. I learned what I know from spending vast amounts of time rehabilitating unwanted kittens & young adult cats that won't be given a chance at the local "no-kill" shelter (ones that would panic and/or attack at random due to being abused, unhandled, or feral) for almost 30 years.
Here's one hopefully-good example of what I'm talking about: a friend's ex-farm-feral 'informing' her that he wanted more canned food. He seemingly got the urge to communicate and amazing bond with her from the Korat phenotype he matched (breeders saw him at the hospital and asked who sold him).
I largely agree, but the original objective was binary -- "round-trip completed intact" | "round-trip not completed intact" -- and since the US & USSR didn't fail partway through the trip, there isn't a whole lot of room for doing it "better." They might do it more cheaply, complete the round-trip faster, or succeed against the most overwhelming odds, but those are all different issues, IMHO.
How fitting that it's one letter off from my great-aunt's first name -- Aunt Tosca always seemed nice at first, but the bitter hints of spiteful jealousy were impossible to ignore before long!
The evidence goes a whole lot further back than a few thousand years ago -- just from a glance at Wikipedia's limited information, the earliest shards of pottery stained with wine were (using modern names, as my ancient geography sucks) in Georgia in 6000 BC, then Iran by 5000 BC, and Grecian Macedonia by 4500 BC. (Iran's evidence comes along with the earliest signs of painting the inside of the vessel with turpentine to introduce a common modern flavor, and Grecian Macedonia's case also involves the oldest recovered crushed wine grapes.)
As a side note, 1,700 BC isn't all that "ancient" from Greece's standpoint: people were already living in Northern Greece (Macedonia)by 270,000 BC, and their civilizations trace back at least to the Early Bronze Age in 3200 BC. (I'm not clear on exactly how it is that the first traces are 3200 BC, yet they've found crushed grapes -- which seem like a pretty clear sign of civilization to me -- that are 700 years older. Then again, I've never been very good at history.)
His plan is essentially to produce enough low-quality** "code monkey"programmers to mirror the situation in 'service' jobs (e.g. retail), where there's a great enough excess of would-be employees even without H1Bs to force wages down into the minimum-wage part-time range. The reduction in incomes tends to have a ripple effect up through the ranks, so companies like Facebook couldd be able to slash their payroll/benefits costs down to a tiny fraction of what they are now. The only people fucked over would be the people doing the actual work.
**Keep in mind that people living under those circumstances typically end up working two part-time jobs, under a great deal of stress, and not sleeping or eating terribly well; this means the vast majority of the talented ones too weary at the end of the day to focus on learning new skills, and thus would find it very, very difficult to rise above entry-point. The company wouldn't care, of course, as it will be able to continue hiring skilled/educated affluent new grads very cheaply, and the fear of potentially being replaced the same way is likely to keep them from even asking for a raise for a number of years even as they gain experience & learn new skills.
I'm surprised to find myself feeling conflicted in thinking about this situation from that point of view. On the one hand, the people making decisions at the NSAare acting like spoiled brats whining that Daddy doesn't love them anymore because he showed displeasure at their misbehavior.
On the other, our fucked-up economy has left a lot of people desperate enough to hold onto their jobs (especially if they have dependents to support) that I can easily see an average employee letting themselves believe their superiors' reassurance that their orders were legal/necessary or that their role is so minor that it didn't make a big difference. It's also very possible that many employees were chosen specifically based on a lack of knowledge about our rights, so they didn't even realize they were doing bad things. Either way, after all of those years of reassurance, having their leader turn his back on them to save his own ass when they're under attack would suck beyond belief -- and Ican only feel disgust for that behavior on his part.
We all like to believe that we wouldn't be as 'weak' as the people that violated the Constitution/Bill of Rights as part of following orders, that we'd stand up to our boss/superior or maybe even pull a Snowden... But we also all like to believe we wouldn't cause horrible harm to others through abusing power or following orders, and virtually all of us are wrong.
Iagree that violating the Constitutionshould absolutely make somebody feel like shit -- but unless the person is an unrepentant killer, telling them to commit suicide isn't cool. Isay that not so much for them, but because I've known a few people that lost someone they cared about that way, and wouldn't wish the pain I saw on anyone unless they were genuinely horrible people themselves. Hell, one of my exes intermittently fought off suicidal depression, and Iwouldn't wish the terror it put me through on anyone remotely decent.
Only if you rely on old genre stereotypes. A lot of "fantasy" worlds depict a highly advanced civilization that just happens to refer to things as magic rather than technology, right down to having "magic spells" that are effectively chemical formulas (or recipes) derived through scientific experimentation. On the flipside, plenty of SF universes ignore anything remotely resembling the laws of science and contain technology or weapons with near-magical properties that are clearly just made up.
In other words, they're both forms of the same genre -- speculative fiction -- with different window-dressings. As the old quote goes: sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
A good example is the old "Dragonriders of Pern"series by Anne McCaffrey. On the one hand, it depicts a post-apocalyptic space colony in which humans genetically engineer creatures from a native species that evolved to travel via (IIRC)hyperspace, use HNO3 to kill deadly interplanetary spores, and the author carefully designed everything (including the creatures' skeletal composition & structures) to be reasonably scientifically plausible -- which sounds like SF. On the other side, they end up living in a post-tech medieval society, use "agenothree"to kill deadly 'threads' that fall from the sky, lack any record of their origins, and pair up with "dragons" capable of "teleporting" -- much more like fantasy.
Iagree, as a driver that has had to get by while visiting transit-only cities. With my health problems, Ialready knew it was probably important that Ibe able to make an outing quick &to the point or turn back at will, but Ihad no idea just how crucial until I'd had to spend 4+ hours miserable on a bus to complete an errand that would've taken me maybe a half-hour at home via car (and that Imight have bailed on partway through even then). That I kept finding sick thanks to the scents of perfume, cologne, cigarettes, or pot lingering on people didn't make the experience any more pleasant for me.
Except that things *aren't* made to last like they were several decades ago, and the way music is produced has likewise changed from being focused on bringing out an artist's talent/training over to using AutoTune to compensate for the lack of it, allowing the labels to choose far more based on sexual allure than in the pre-AT days. (Let's face it: a whole lot of good alternative,classic rock, and even pop artists/bands never would've 'made it' if that had been the criteria at the time.)
That's a separate movement related to religion, though. Here in the US, the movement of people that believed in all medical care but rejected vaccines started as a "back to nature"wing of the hippies in the 1970s. (My parents almost went down that path back then when my mother was pregnant with me, but thankfully decided to research the hell out of the situation with science books from the library before making their decision.)
While Iagree with the pro-vaccination message, being born with severe disabilities doesn't automatically equate to an unhappy life. That's based both on firsthand experience and having known a lot of people with all manner of congenital disabilities, including ones that cause pain or incontinence. The unhappiness/depression we do feel is typically from the same 'preventable' things that make anyone miserable, like inadequate healthcare, being abused, living in poverty, encountering bigotry, being isolated, or severe stress. It sucks ass (again speaking firsthand) but it's not an inherent part of our disabilities.
The parents willstill feel horrible watching their offspring suffer or struggle, still have sleepless nights worrying about our futures ("what will happen to X after I die? will X ever find a husband/wife?")... Though if they're the super-religious types, chances are that they'll convince themselves that their deity made the child that way to teach others patience or similar, rather than admit to themselves it's their own damn fault.
Precisely my feelings, though I realized recently that Autotune isn't the only problem. I was fooling around with the equalizer settings on my phone while listening to my music, and discovered that I can make just about any song sound terrible in exactly the same way if Ijam all of the equalizer bands and pre-amp to the very top.
From what Ican tell online, it's actually an effect the music industry uses deliberately. It was originally a tactic some studios used to grab the attention of people that had a stream or radio playing in the background, but then became pervasive enough that failing to do it meant not having listeners notice the song at all.
Then you can be the next Nobody for President! I'd certainly vote for Nobody -- after all, Nobody will keep election promises, Nobody will listen to our concerns, Nobody tells the truth, Nobody will defend our rights, Nobody has all the answers, and Nobody cares.
("Logic" blatantly borrowed from the 38-year-old ongoing campaign for a "none of the above" option on ballots to combat voter apathy, presented humorously as Nobody For President by the Birthday Party.)
Yes, according to Wikipedia. As an American, though, I've only ever heart them referred to as hubcaps, and "wheel cover" used for the decorative covering on either a spare tire or steering wheel.
Not seeing any ads with AdBlock Plus with the EasyList + EasyPrivacy filter sets even if I clicked to different messages or mailboxes -- and EasyPrivacy was busy blocking a new script every other second or so even several minutes after I opened the page. (Neither interferes with the site functionality AFAICT.)
If your browser might support it, you might want to consider supplementing that hosts file, if only for the privacy filtering.
If you read TFA, the neoreactionaries are proposing that the monarch at the top of the hierarchy be selected by genetic fitness. The smartest, fittest, and most handsome men (one assumes only men) would rule.
It's an embarrassment that Wikipedia allows these nitwits to have a page, but sadly not too surprising: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_Party If I had any clout, I'd be nominating for deletion or speedy deletion -- it's not an actual political party (unless you count a few minor college campuses) and thus not notable to the rest of society, its citations are almost entirely personal sites...
On the other hand, in the "so much for the most handsome, brilliant,athletic guys as leaders" department, the photo on the Wikipedia page is priceless.
The problem is that "old-fashioned gender roles" *does* mean that the female is expected to spend her life being a housekeeper/caregiver -- making it virtually impossible for her to have an advanced education or career as the male is allowed to do, for the male to stay home to care for the kids/house. It's fine for women like your wife (or my mother) that presumably do want the at-home housekeeper/carer, but it's genuinely horrible for that vast majority of females that are happier doing other things..
In fact, old-fashioned gender roles have hung on here in America to cause damage as well. Women still can't reliably admit we don't want kids without being pressured or shunned; hetero men that are less academically/financially successful than their female partners are aggressively shamed if they stay home to take care of the house & kids (if there are any), while the working female with an at-home male mate also encounters a lot of "he's just a parasite, dump/divorce him" nastiness.
Oh, and a shitload of studies have been done: kids that are raised with a stay-at-home father or that attend childcare during working hours fare just as well as traditional stay-at-home-mom children. So you're not giving your kids a better life, you're just teaching them the same attitudes that resulted in my mom being told laughingly by a teacher, "girls can't be an astronauts or doctors," then years later, not encouraged to attend college despite having perfect grades, andpushed strongly towards the "women's" jobs which not coincidentally wouldn't interfere with being a stay-at-home mom early on.
We Americans have laws to theoretically ensure everyone is held to the same code of behavior. When society follows local custom instead, the result is that people that are an unpopular ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, gender, etc. are unfairly treated, raped, attacked or even killed. Before laws were passed, even the brightest disabled kids were rarely allowed to attend school, and black people couldn't use the same water fountains, bus seats, restrooms, or attend the same schools -- because that's what the majority in society preferred. Are your country's girls allowed & encouraged to go as far in life as boys, and the disabled kids allowed to attend classes matching their intelligence just like non-disabled ones?
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That they got £90,000 in Indiegogo funding as rapidly as they did suggests that even taking donations by orgs into account, there's got to be a hell of a lot more than a handful of people interested in reading it.
My decision will depend largely on how much issues cost here in the US...It sounds like it would be interesting to flip through when taking a break from electronics (Itry to do that for a while each day), but Ifrankly can't afford the high prices I've seen other UK-based Linux magazines.
Believe it or not, there's still hobby-specific magazines of all kinds... There's 3-4 general Linux pubs, a couple devoted to distros or environments, and then in the general tech-geek category, 2600: Hacker Quarterly, Make, Maximum PC and a bunch focused on other hardware/OSplatforms. That's not even taking the magazines focused on general science, specific scientific fields, weird shit like Mental Floss, or non-STEM topics.
If someone can use Linux, they presumably can read. They might be, as Iam, too poor to pay the high cost of most (or all) Linux magazines (they're high in the US, at least) Personally, I always buy 2600, plus sometimes Writer's Digest, Renaissance Faires & Culture or something else that catches my eye. I was quite excited to score a bunch of old 2600 back issues last year at a garage sale, too. :)
The reason why someone with Internet access would read a periodical in any form is that the writing is usually of much higher quality, which means that the information is presented more coherently & concisely, letting us learn more about the subject (or at a more in-depth level)with less effort than we would from most online publications. Many of the popular web-only publications -- Salon, Slate, HuffPo, TechCrunch, TechDirt -- are like that, managing to turn even important subjects into mental fluff that probably won't stick in our minds any longer than it takes for us to comment. (I say "many" because I know of a very few sites like Ars Technica that soar above the rest.)
As for why anyone would buy them on paper, there's a number of reasons. One is that we can then read with full-color illustrations without having to use a backlit screen, which is great for problems like temporary light-sensitivity (e.g. due to a migraine) and chronic insomnia. Another is that many people still find it much more physically relaxing to read on paper, and/or find that they're mentally sharper after a long session of paper-reading than they are if they were reading... There's also that while tablets (for those that can afford them) have gotten much better at taking & referring back to interline/margin notes, many people still don't find it as convenient or intuitive to flip back through the device as with a paper copy or to refer to it when working.
It also depends on how strongly the cat has bonded with you and whether they grew up with the same cats from a very early age, all of which also makes a huge difference in their/our ability to communicate. (I strongly suspect certain phenotypes also are more predisposed to bonding/working with humans than others; people think of it as a breed trait, but IME "lookalikes" often carry it as well.)
The species is surprisingly like children in terms of their intellectual/communicative development being profoundly affected by how/how much we interact with them and how nutritious their food is. (By nutrition, Imean good ingredients like brown rice rather than indigestible corn fillers; some of the really pricy USbrands like Science Diet or Iams are low-quality.) So most people's idea of a cat's mind is based on the equivalent of a little kid left in front of the TV & living off junk food, rather than one whose parents give it a great balanced diet, read to & played educational games with it, if you see my drift. It's no shocker most people's idea of a normal cat is an uncommunicative creature that's constantly exhausted.
FWIWI'm not a breeder, my cats are spayed/neutered early on. I learned what I know from spending vast amounts of time rehabilitating unwanted kittens & young adult cats that won't be given a chance at the local "no-kill" shelter (ones that would panic and/or attack at random due to being abused, unhandled, or feral) for almost 30 years.
Here's one hopefully-good example of what I'm talking about: a friend's ex-farm-feral 'informing' her that he wanted more canned food. He seemingly got the urge to communicate and amazing bond with her from the Korat phenotype he matched (breeders saw him at the hospital and asked who sold him).
I largely agree, but the original objective was binary -- "round-trip completed intact" | "round-trip not completed intact" -- and since the US & USSR didn't fail partway through the trip, there isn't a whole lot of room for doing it "better." They might do it more cheaply, complete the round-trip faster, or succeed against the most overwhelming odds, but those are all different issues, IMHO.
How fitting that it's one letter off from my great-aunt's first name -- Aunt Tosca always seemed nice at first, but the bitter hints of spiteful jealousy were impossible to ignore before long!
The evidence goes a whole lot further back than a few thousand years ago -- just from a glance at Wikipedia's limited information, the earliest shards of pottery stained with wine were (using modern names, as my ancient geography sucks) in Georgia in 6000 BC, then Iran by 5000 BC, and Grecian Macedonia by 4500 BC. (Iran's evidence comes along with the earliest signs of painting the inside of the vessel with turpentine to introduce a common modern flavor, and Grecian Macedonia's case also involves the oldest recovered crushed wine grapes.)
As a side note, 1,700 BC isn't all that "ancient" from Greece's standpoint: people were already living in Northern Greece (Macedonia)by 270,000 BC, and their civilizations trace back at least to the Early Bronze Age in 3200 BC. (I'm not clear on exactly how it is that the first traces are 3200 BC, yet they've found crushed grapes -- which seem like a pretty clear sign of civilization to me -- that are 700 years older. Then again, I've never been very good at history.)
His plan is essentially to produce enough low-quality** "code monkey"programmers to mirror the situation in 'service' jobs (e.g. retail), where there's a great enough excess of would-be employees even without H1Bs to force wages down into the minimum-wage part-time range. The reduction in incomes tends to have a ripple effect up through the ranks, so companies like Facebook couldd be able to slash their payroll/benefits costs down to a tiny fraction of what they are now. The only people fucked over would be the people doing the actual work.
**Keep in mind that people living under those circumstances typically end up working two part-time jobs, under a great deal of stress, and not sleeping or eating terribly well; this means the vast majority of the talented ones too weary at the end of the day to focus on learning new skills, and thus would find it very, very difficult to rise above entry-point. The company wouldn't care, of course, as it will be able to continue hiring skilled/educated affluent new grads very cheaply, and the fear of potentially being replaced the same way is likely to keep them from even asking for a raise for a number of years even as they gain experience & learn new skills.
I'm surprised to find myself feeling conflicted in thinking about this situation from that point of view. On the one hand, the people making decisions at the NSAare acting like spoiled brats whining that Daddy doesn't love them anymore because he showed displeasure at their misbehavior.
On the other, our fucked-up economy has left a lot of people desperate enough to hold onto their jobs (especially if they have dependents to support) that I can easily see an average employee letting themselves believe their superiors' reassurance that their orders were legal/necessary or that their role is so minor that it didn't make a big difference. It's also very possible that many employees were chosen specifically based on a lack of knowledge about our rights, so they didn't even realize they were doing bad things. Either way, after all of those years of reassurance, having their leader turn his back on them to save his own ass when they're under attack would suck beyond belief -- and Ican only feel disgust for that behavior on his part.
We all like to believe that we wouldn't be as 'weak' as the people that violated the Constitution/Bill of Rights as part of following orders, that we'd stand up to our boss/superior or maybe even pull a Snowden... But we also all like to believe we wouldn't cause horrible harm to others through abusing power or following orders, and virtually all of us are wrong.
Iagree that violating the Constitutionshould absolutely make somebody feel like shit -- but unless the person is an unrepentant killer, telling them to commit suicide isn't cool. Isay that not so much for them, but because I've known a few people that lost someone they cared about that way, and wouldn't wish the pain I saw on anyone unless they were genuinely horrible people themselves. Hell, one of my exes intermittently fought off suicidal depression, and Iwouldn't wish the terror it put me through on anyone remotely decent.
Only if you rely on old genre stereotypes. A lot of "fantasy" worlds depict a highly advanced civilization that just happens to refer to things as magic rather than technology, right down to having "magic spells" that are effectively chemical formulas (or recipes) derived through scientific experimentation. On the flipside, plenty of SF universes ignore anything remotely resembling the laws of science and contain technology or weapons with near-magical properties that are clearly just made up.
In other words, they're both forms of the same genre -- speculative fiction -- with different window-dressings. As the old quote goes: sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
A good example is the old "Dragonriders of Pern"series by Anne McCaffrey. On the one hand, it depicts a post-apocalyptic space colony in which humans genetically engineer creatures from a native species that evolved to travel via (IIRC)hyperspace, use HNO3 to kill deadly interplanetary spores, and the author carefully designed everything (including the creatures' skeletal composition & structures) to be reasonably scientifically plausible -- which sounds like SF. On the other side, they end up living in a post-tech medieval society, use "agenothree"to kill deadly 'threads' that fall from the sky, lack any record of their origins, and pair up with "dragons" capable of "teleporting" -- much more like fantasy.
Iagree, as a driver that has had to get by while visiting transit-only cities. With my health problems, Ialready knew it was probably important that Ibe able to make an outing quick &to the point or turn back at will, but Ihad no idea just how crucial until I'd had to spend 4+ hours miserable on a bus to complete an errand that would've taken me maybe a half-hour at home via car (and that Imight have bailed on partway through even then). That I kept finding sick thanks to the scents of perfume, cologne, cigarettes, or pot lingering on people didn't make the experience any more pleasant for me.
Except that things *aren't* made to last like they were several decades ago, and the way music is produced has likewise changed from being focused on bringing out an artist's talent/training over to using AutoTune to compensate for the lack of it, allowing the labels to choose far more based on sexual allure than in the pre-AT days. (Let's face it: a whole lot of good alternative,classic rock, and even pop artists/bands never would've 'made it' if that had been the criteria at the time.)
That's a separate movement related to religion, though. Here in the US, the movement of people that believed in all medical care but rejected vaccines started as a "back to nature"wing of the hippies in the 1970s. (My parents almost went down that path back then when my mother was pregnant with me, but thankfully decided to research the hell out of the situation with science books from the library before making their decision.)
While Iagree with the pro-vaccination message, being born with severe disabilities doesn't automatically equate to an unhappy life. That's based both on firsthand experience and having known a lot of people with all manner of congenital disabilities, including ones that cause pain or incontinence. The unhappiness/depression we do feel is typically from the same 'preventable' things that make anyone miserable, like inadequate healthcare, being abused, living in poverty, encountering bigotry, being isolated, or severe stress. It sucks ass (again speaking firsthand) but it's not an inherent part of our disabilities.
The parents willstill feel horrible watching their offspring suffer or struggle, still have sleepless nights worrying about our futures ("what will happen to X after I die? will X ever find a husband/wife?")... Though if they're the super-religious types, chances are that they'll convince themselves that their deity made the child that way to teach others patience or similar, rather than admit to themselves it's their own damn fault.
...when Americans put there mind to it, there isn't anything we can't screw up better than anybody else.
Like having the one typo in your entire post appear in *that* sentence? :)
Wish I had the points to mod that funny!
Precisely my feelings, though I realized recently that Autotune isn't the only problem. I was fooling around with the equalizer settings on my phone while listening to my music, and discovered that I can make just about any song sound terrible in exactly the same way if Ijam all of the equalizer bands and pre-amp to the very top.
From what Ican tell online, it's actually an effect the music industry uses deliberately. It was originally a tactic some studios used to grab the attention of people that had a stream or radio playing in the background, but then became pervasive enough that failing to do it meant not having listeners notice the song at all.
Then you can be the next Nobody for President! I'd certainly vote for Nobody -- after all, Nobody will keep election promises, Nobody will listen to our concerns, Nobody tells the truth, Nobody will defend our rights, Nobody has all the answers, and Nobody cares.
("Logic" blatantly borrowed from the 38-year-old ongoing campaign for a "none of the above" option on ballots to combat voter apathy, presented humorously as Nobody For President by the Birthday Party.)
Yes, according to Wikipedia. As an American, though, I've only ever heart them referred to as hubcaps, and "wheel cover" used for the decorative covering on either a spare tire or steering wheel.
Not seeing any ads with AdBlock Plus with the EasyList + EasyPrivacy filter sets even if I clicked to different messages or mailboxes -- and EasyPrivacy was busy blocking a new script every other second or so even several minutes after I opened the page. (Neither interferes with the site functionality AFAICT.)
If your browser might support it, you might want to consider supplementing that hosts file, if only for the privacy filtering.
It wasn't merely "Lookout," it was "Look out!!!" Have to give it the proper sense of urgent warning against complete catastrophe, you know.
If you read TFA, the neoreactionaries are proposing that the monarch at the top of the hierarchy be selected by genetic fitness. The smartest, fittest, and most handsome men (one assumes only men) would rule.
Well, that rules out the guys in the Wikipedia page photo:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_Party
Based on the Wikipedia picture, yep:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3c/Monarchy2.jpg
It's an embarrassment that Wikipedia allows these nitwits to have a page, but sadly not too surprising:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_Party
If I had any clout, I'd be nominating for deletion or speedy deletion -- it's not an actual political party (unless you count a few minor college campuses) and thus not notable to the rest of society, its citations are almost entirely personal sites...
On the other hand, in the "so much for the most handsome, brilliant,athletic guys as leaders" department, the photo on the Wikipedia page is priceless.
The problem is that "old-fashioned gender roles" *does* mean that the female is expected to spend her life being a housekeeper/caregiver -- making it virtually impossible for her to have an advanced education or career as the male is allowed to do, for the male to stay home to care for the kids/house. It's fine for women like your wife (or my mother) that presumably do want the at-home housekeeper/carer, but it's genuinely horrible for that vast majority of females that are happier doing other things..
In fact, old-fashioned gender roles have hung on here in America to cause damage as well. Women still can't reliably admit we don't want kids without being pressured or shunned; hetero men that are less academically/financially successful than their female partners are aggressively shamed if they stay home to take care of the house & kids (if there are any), while the working female with an at-home male mate also encounters a lot of "he's just a parasite, dump/divorce him" nastiness.
Oh, and a shitload of studies have been done: kids that are raised with a stay-at-home father or that attend childcare during working hours fare just as well as traditional stay-at-home-mom children. So you're not giving your kids a better life, you're just teaching them the same attitudes that resulted in my mom being told laughingly by a teacher, "girls can't be an astronauts or doctors," then years later, not encouraged to attend college despite having perfect grades, andpushed strongly towards the "women's" jobs which not coincidentally wouldn't interfere with being a stay-at-home mom early on.
We Americans have laws to theoretically ensure everyone is held to the same code of behavior. When society follows local custom instead, the result is that people that are an unpopular ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, gender, etc. are unfairly treated, raped, attacked or even killed. Before laws were passed, even the brightest disabled kids were rarely allowed to attend school, and black people couldn't use the same water fountains, bus seats, restrooms, or attend the same schools -- because that's what the majority in society preferred. Are your country's girls allowed & encouraged to go as far in life as boys, and the disabled kids allowed to attend classes matching their intelligence just like non-disabled ones?