...there is a reason why a lot of people from a high-school kid to your grandmother would be better off with a software depot that is safe and proven and offers automatic updates.
And the army would like all their soldiers to be Delta SEAL black ops operator bad mother fuckers too.
Meanwhile, in the real world, we recognize that not everyone is a gold medalist and we try to work with the people and resources and money that we actually have available.
Hypothetical:
You're a smartphone manufacturer who wants to unseat Samsung.
All you gotta do is capitalize on the PR fiasco surrounding the Note 7.
Just slip a guy into the factory who sets off a fire.
Now you've just magnified the Note 7 fiasco into a... firestorm... and Samsung loses a huge amount of mindshare and thus markshare.
For a very low cost you gain some room to grow.
I expect some Chinese phone maker to suddenly start launching cool products and eating Samsung's lunch.
Here's a solution to the problem:
1. Do not buy non-free operating systems or software. Instead use Linux or BSD or even GNU Hurd (I recommend Linux).
2. Do not write code for non-free operating systems or software. Instead write code using widely supported standards (i.e. Vulkan) that runs on all platforms (especially freedom-supporting platforms like Linux or BSD). In this case do not ever write code using Metal for any reason under any circumstances. Apple will come around and support Vulkan once they realize that nobody is using Metal.
3. Do not support non-free operating systems or software. At your workplace always insist on open and free software for all infrastructure. For example, choose Python or PHP or Ruby instead of Java or.NET. Use PostgreSQL or MariaDB instead of Oracle or MSSQL and so on.
I do not think all programs must be open source in order to solve these problems and make the world better. Some things, like video games or in-house software, really doesn't need to be opened or freed. But infrastructure like graphics APIs (i.e. Vulkan) and operating systems (i.e. Linux) and programming languages (i.e. C/C++, Python, Rust etc.) really do need to be free and open if we want to ever get past the problems that you describe.
1. Leveraging the latent racism of a demographic isn't the same as actually being racist.
It's a bit unscrupulous, sure, but the two are not the same thing.
2. Bullshit like the Southern Strategy is why Trump got elected: we're tired of the bullshit and stupidity coming from the Republican leaders.
Modern conservatives and libertarians and alt-righters etc. really just want a party which represents their political philosophy with no underhanded bullshit and no corruption and no stupidity.
3. Aren't you the pot calling the kettle black? Isn't divide-and-conquer what the left has been doing for decades and now turning it up to eleven out of ten with identity politics/BLM/SJWs?
Take a look at the games that already run on Steam on Linux.
There's quite a few AAA titles and many B-list titles and many many indie titles.
Anecdotally, Alien Isolation, Chivalry, XCOM 1 and 2, Total War Empire and Attilla, Rocket League, Metro 2033, and Deus Ex: Human Revolution all run quite well.
I also play about a dozen indie titles.
There's literally more games for Linux now than I have the time to play or money to buy and more coming out every week.
What more could you ask for?
Perhaps this is basically what lay beneath the long "stagnation" of the middle ages.
Blacksmithing, wood working, sailing ships, etc. didn't really see any huge revolutions for a couple thousand years.
Perhaps we're entering a new "middle age" until we figure out something revolutionary like fusion or regenerative therapies or a space elevator or something.
It reduces the experience of travel to a checklist, and wildlife to a parade-type show.
Reductionism.
You touched upon the very heart (pun semi-intended...) of something that may be profound.
The flaw with modern atheistic science worship is that it's too reductionistic and doesn't offer any answers or meaning only a description, like a checklist, of life.
The scientific method is absolutely crucial and extremely valuable.
The body of knowledge gained through the scientific method is absolutely priceless.
The scientific community is full of brilliant people doing a lot of good work.
But there's no mind, no consciousness, no personhood in a checklist or a reductionist description.
Perhaps scientists shouldn't look down their noses at philosophers-- those who're figuring out where to steer the ship that the scientists are rowing.
(Obviously, as with any generality regarding humans, there are bad examples of scientists and philosophers. Why should I even have to say this?)
It's a metaphor!
extroverts/communism (take the good from others and dumping their problems on others too)
vs.
introkverts/capitalism (work and suffer for your own gain, keep your own suffering to yourself too).
Considering how many were murdered by their own-- almost entirely socialist-- governments and countrymen in the last century your statement doesn't make me feel better.
Let me get this straight: during the cold war the fear of nuclear attack basically boiled down to the idea of "We could all die at any moment!" and everyone being firmly convinced of it.
How is this different from every day life?
The truth is that death could come for us all at any moment already.
Thermonuclear war is much less likely because those in charge of pushing the little red button have reasons to not push it.
Entropy is killing you slowly every moment as errors add up in your DNA.
The dice are rolling every time you get into your car to commute to work.
Slipping and bashing your head open in the shower is a statistically measurable possibility.
Hell, just sitting here at a desk for half the day is statistically the single most deadly thing I could be doing yet I do it every day!
If we're concerned about our continued ability to breathe then I suggest we ignore some blowhards and their phony clock analogy; we've got much more pressing issues to be concerned about.
Basically you're pointing out that in certain situations a group of newcomers can get in and ruin a good thing that the original group had going on.
Well, that's precisely why immigration needs to be controlled.
That's why not everyone needs to learn how to c0d3z.
That's why communism doesn't work. ...
It's a problem with pretty much every human endeavor.
The best we can do is try to keep people from intentionally screwing up a good thing. But good luck with that.
As for the uber and taxi drivers themselves: look, all careers are, to some extent, ephemeral. Even farming doesn't necessarily last forever.
Nobody can guarantee you a farm that won't experience a dust bowl.
Nobody can guarantee you an engineering job in a city that you like.
Nobody can guarantee you that you won't get cancer at some point.
Nobody can guarantee you that you won't be poor or that you'll be rich.
There are no guarantees.
There can be no guarantees.
But even if there were some way to know the future or to offer some real guarantees nobody owes it to you or anyone else anyway.
Yeah it sucks when you had a good thing going and were making plenty of money but then it goes away.
That's why we need to be adults and save our resources for when times get tough and keep an eye out for how things are going in the world so we can see the tough times coming.
It's why we have brains. It's why we conquered the whole planet while animals are stuck in their various habitats.
If a country exposes internal documents from one party but NOT the other party, and creates mass fake news stories in order to influence voter decisions...
Was there an email from the DNC hack that included information about the Pizza Gate thing?
I think most people concerned about the DNC hack are more concerned about the DNC having torpedoed Bernie Sanders' campaign so that Hilllary would win the nomination and other dirty laundry about the DNC's donors etc.
The same day, the DNC issued a formal apology to Bernie Sanders and his supporters, stating, "On behalf of everyone at the DNC, we want to offer a deep and sincere apology to Senator Sanders, his supporters, and the entire Democratic Party for the inexcusable remarks made over email," and that the emails did not reflect the DNC's "steadfast commitment to neutrality during the nominating process."
"Many of the most damaging emails suggest the committee was actively trying to undermine Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign. Basically, all of these examples came late in the primary—after Hillary Clinton was clearly headed for victory—but they belie the national party committee's stated neutrality in the race even at that late stage."
The New York Times wrote that the cache included "thousands of emails exchanged by Democratic officials and party fund-raisers, revealing in rarely seen detail the elaborate, ingratiating and often bluntly transactional exchanges necessary to harvest hundreds of millions of dollars from the party’s wealthy donor class
The fact that some retards created a bullshit scandal doesn't change the real issues that the hack revealed.
Oh, wait, the Pizza Gate thing wasn't a result of the DNC hack but of an unrelated hack of Podesta's email.
Slashdot Mirror
...there is a reason why a lot of people from a high-school kid to your grandmother would be better off with a software depot that is safe and proven and offers automatic updates.
You mean like Linux distros have had for decades?
...and from getting a college degree like they were told was the only good path thousands of times...
Sorry, but a degree in Basket Weaving, Self-Righteous Ecology, or Women's Studies just aren't valuable for any career besides Barista.
And the army would like all their soldiers to be Delta SEAL black ops operator bad mother fuckers too.
Meanwhile, in the real world, we recognize that not everyone is a gold medalist and we try to work with the people and resources and money that we actually have available.
Hypothetical:
You're a smartphone manufacturer who wants to unseat Samsung.
All you gotta do is capitalize on the PR fiasco surrounding the Note 7.
Just slip a guy into the factory who sets off a fire.
Now you've just magnified the Note 7 fiasco into a... firestorm... and Samsung loses a huge amount of mindshare and thus markshare.
For a very low cost you gain some room to grow.
I expect some Chinese phone maker to suddenly start launching cool products and eating Samsung's lunch.
Here's a solution to the problem:
.NET. Use PostgreSQL or MariaDB instead of Oracle or MSSQL and so on.
1. Do not buy non-free operating systems or software. Instead use Linux or BSD or even GNU Hurd (I recommend Linux).
2. Do not write code for non-free operating systems or software. Instead write code using widely supported standards (i.e. Vulkan) that runs on all platforms (especially freedom-supporting platforms like Linux or BSD). In this case do not ever write code using Metal for any reason under any circumstances. Apple will come around and support Vulkan once they realize that nobody is using Metal.
3. Do not support non-free operating systems or software. At your workplace always insist on open and free software for all infrastructure. For example, choose Python or PHP or Ruby instead of Java or
I do not think all programs must be open source in order to solve these problems and make the world better. Some things, like video games or in-house software, really doesn't need to be opened or freed. But infrastructure like graphics APIs (i.e. Vulkan) and operating systems (i.e. Linux) and programming languages (i.e. C/C++, Python, Rust etc.) really do need to be free and open if we want to ever get past the problems that you describe.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc (in other words: correlation neither proves nor implies causation)
1. Leveraging the latent racism of a demographic isn't the same as actually being racist.
It's a bit unscrupulous, sure, but the two are not the same thing.
2. Bullshit like the Southern Strategy is why Trump got elected: we're tired of the bullshit and stupidity coming from the Republican leaders.
Modern conservatives and libertarians and alt-righters etc. really just want a party which represents their political philosophy with no underhanded bullshit and no corruption and no stupidity.
3. Aren't you the pot calling the kettle black? Isn't divide-and-conquer what the left has been doing for decades and now turning it up to eleven out of ten with identity politics/BLM/SJWs?
Take a look at the games that already run on Steam on Linux.
There's quite a few AAA titles and many B-list titles and many many indie titles.
Anecdotally, Alien Isolation, Chivalry, XCOM 1 and 2, Total War Empire and Attilla, Rocket League, Metro 2033, and Deus Ex: Human Revolution all run quite well.
I also play about a dozen indie titles.
There's literally more games for Linux now than I have the time to play or money to buy and more coming out every week.
What more could you ask for?
I couldn't help but notice how the Clintons and Obama became multi-millionaires while "serving" long careers in public office...
Great illustration of how high corporate taxation is counter-productive.
All taxes are actually felt by the individuals of a country!
Perhaps this is basically what lay beneath the long "stagnation" of the middle ages.
Blacksmithing, wood working, sailing ships, etc. didn't really see any huge revolutions for a couple thousand years.
Perhaps we're entering a new "middle age" until we figure out something revolutionary like fusion or regenerative therapies or a space elevator or something.
Could you please explain why that name is so funny?
Does it matter? A spook is a spook.
The "mass fake news" was fake. But that statement says NOTHING about the accuracy of the DNC internal documents one way or another.
The veracity of those emails can be confirmed. Because cryptography.
Russia did (at least) two nefarious things: first, hacked into the DNC internal documents (or at least tried to)
It's not factual to assert that the hack was perpetrated by the Russians or by the Russian government.
It reduces the experience of travel to a checklist, and wildlife to a parade-type show.
Reductionism.
You touched upon the very heart (pun semi-intended...) of something that may be profound.
The flaw with modern atheistic science worship is that it's too reductionistic and doesn't offer any answers or meaning only a description, like a checklist, of life.
The scientific method is absolutely crucial and extremely valuable.
The body of knowledge gained through the scientific method is absolutely priceless.
The scientific community is full of brilliant people doing a lot of good work.
But there's no mind, no consciousness, no personhood in a checklist or a reductionist description.
Perhaps scientists shouldn't look down their noses at philosophers-- those who're figuring out where to steer the ship that the scientists are rowing.
(Obviously, as with any generality regarding humans, there are bad examples of scientists and philosophers. Why should I even have to say this?)
It's a metaphor!
extroverts/communism (take the good from others and dumping their problems on others too)
vs.
introkverts/capitalism (work and suffer for your own gain, keep your own suffering to yourself too).
Considering how many were murdered by their own-- almost entirely socialist-- governments and countrymen in the last century your statement doesn't make me feel better.
Let me get this straight: during the cold war the fear of nuclear attack basically boiled down to the idea of "We could all die at any moment!" and everyone being firmly convinced of it.
How is this different from every day life?
The truth is that death could come for us all at any moment already.
Thermonuclear war is much less likely because those in charge of pushing the little red button have reasons to not push it.
Entropy is killing you slowly every moment as errors add up in your DNA.
The dice are rolling every time you get into your car to commute to work.
Slipping and bashing your head open in the shower is a statistically measurable possibility.
Hell, just sitting here at a desk for half the day is statistically the single most deadly thing I could be doing yet I do it every day!
If we're concerned about our continued ability to breathe then I suggest we ignore some blowhards and their phony clock analogy; we've got much more pressing issues to be concerned about.
Basically you're pointing out that in certain situations a group of newcomers can get in and ruin a good thing that the original group had going on.
...
Well, that's precisely why immigration needs to be controlled.
That's why not everyone needs to learn how to c0d3z.
That's why communism doesn't work.
It's a problem with pretty much every human endeavor.
The best we can do is try to keep people from intentionally screwing up a good thing. But good luck with that.
As for the uber and taxi drivers themselves: look, all careers are, to some extent, ephemeral. Even farming doesn't necessarily last forever.
Nobody can guarantee you a farm that won't experience a dust bowl.
Nobody can guarantee you an engineering job in a city that you like.
Nobody can guarantee you that you won't get cancer at some point.
Nobody can guarantee you that you won't be poor or that you'll be rich.
There are no guarantees.
There can be no guarantees.
But even if there were some way to know the future or to offer some real guarantees nobody owes it to you or anyone else anyway.
Yeah it sucks when you had a good thing going and were making plenty of money but then it goes away.
That's why we need to be adults and save our resources for when times get tough and keep an eye out for how things are going in the world so we can see the tough times coming.
It's why we have brains. It's why we conquered the whole planet while animals are stuck in their various habitats.
If a country exposes internal documents from one party but NOT the other party, and creates mass fake news stories in order to influence voter decisions...
I think I read that correctly.
What speech codes? Like treating people with respect? And which words or phrases are now criminalized?
Not using people's "right" pronouns could get you fined in NY
In Canada it's basically illegal to insult anyone or say or do something they don't like: "A teenager was later arrested for growling and woofing at two Labrador dogs in public, a café owner was investigated for showing biblical passages on a TV screen, and an LGBT group was arrested under section 5 for protesting anti-gay persecution in the Middle East. While one would hope such a law would only be used in extraordinary circumstances, it's actually very common."
40% of millenials are OK with making "offensive" speech illegal
The overwhelming majority of college staff are leftists and colleges overwhelmingly limit speech on campus
EU is banning anything that is politically sensitive: "To paraphrase Humpty Dumpty, hate speech means just what those in power choose it to mean – neither more nor less. And now, continent-wide censorship has been forced upon us by the powerful, and they will decide what the rest of us can and cannot say and can and cannot hear, all with the aim of dictating what we can and cannot think."
I could go on...
I am getting a little worried. I have never seen so much propaganda and mind fucking before.
So you've been living under a rock for the past twenty years?
I think most people concerned about the DNC hack are more concerned about the DNC having torpedoed Bernie Sanders' campaign so that Hilllary would win the nomination and other dirty laundry about the DNC's donors etc.
The same day, the DNC issued a formal apology to Bernie Sanders and his supporters, stating, "On behalf of everyone at the DNC, we want to offer a deep and sincere apology to Senator Sanders, his supporters, and the entire Democratic Party for the inexcusable remarks made over email," and that the emails did not reflect the DNC's "steadfast commitment to neutrality during the nominating process."
"Many of the most damaging emails suggest the committee was actively trying to undermine Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign. Basically, all of these examples came late in the primary—after Hillary Clinton was clearly headed for victory—but they belie the national party committee's stated neutrality in the race even at that late stage."
The New York Times wrote that the cache included "thousands of emails exchanged by Democratic officials and party fund-raisers, revealing in rarely seen detail the elaborate, ingratiating and often bluntly transactional exchanges necessary to harvest hundreds of millions of dollars from the party’s wealthy donor class
The fact that some retards created a bullshit scandal doesn't change the real issues that the hack revealed.
Oh, wait, the Pizza Gate thing wasn't a result of the DNC hack but of an unrelated hack of Podesta's email.
Stop bringing your facts and rationality into this. You're getting in the way of a good hate-on.
...and creates mass fake news stories in order to influence voter decisions...
The things that the hack revealed about the DNC were not fake.