Why are analysts always so effin' dense? Google is in the "no one gets between us and our ad-clicking users" business. They're one of the largest collections of smart people on the planet. They wanted in the mobile phone business, so they got in the mobile phone business. They own an ass-ton of fiber and manipulated the wireless auctions in their favor. They're not just an advertising company, they're the "we're the god damn Internet" company.
No one bought unlocked Nokia smartphones because nobody in America wants Nokia smartphones, subsidized or otherwise.
So when I hear Al Gore saying things like, "we dump billions of tons of CO2 into our thin atmosphere like it was a sewer," it makes me angry that anyone is listening to that drivel at all.
We evolved disgust to avoid dangerous substances in our environment, so likening CO2 to sewage is a way to present the danger of pollution in terms people instinctually comprehend.
People have accused Microsoft of stifling innovation by snapping up so many freshly minted PhD's for Microsoft Research. They get a lot of hate, some of which can be found on this Slashdot article.
So we have evidence of them recognizing this, and choosing to do the "not evil" thing, and yet, for all their consideration for the health of the industry, a bunch of envious whiners use it to accuse them of arrogance.
I think you're missing the point. You are taking it as an article of faith that the energy problem will be solved, that the universe will provide the magic bullet as soon as we really start looking for it. That's nonsense. You can't make any assumptions based on knowledge you don't have. You're promoting a religion.
Rarely do I have enough time to generate 61 MB (let alone 61 compressed MB) of data, code and e-mails that serves my political/religious purposes. So if this is tampered data or correspondence, there would almost certainly be conflicting items inside such a large repository. I smell funny. I'm not saying it isn't possible, it just decreases the odds that this is a hoax.
Blade Runner pretty much invented that cliche. I only wish an imitator would make the chucka-chucka-chucka sound when the character pans the image around.
Science has already disproven the Christian creation mythology, and it wasn't even really trying. God 0, science 1. They're going to lose if they quit the game now.
A march against reason is a march against science. And, wow, you must not be reading the same Wikipedia as I am. It is very clear that the church was the murderer, and after seven years of holding him captive and threatening him, they then used the state as the gun.
Fuck the church. It should be destroyed like it destroyed so many countless innocents.
It is a moral panic, very much like the church with sex, or the government with drugs. They actually believe, or want others to believe, that if casual copying were possible, everyone would stop buying media altogether and participate in a never ending orgy of copyright infringement. The prohibition is in place to protect you from yourselves. These controls are chastity belts for you and your devices.
lol, "saturated". Because anyone who isn't spouting teabagger wharrgarbl is an ideologue for an opposite and equally polarized agenda.
No, intelligent people don't suffer from "truth decay". They don't need the constant affirmation of their worldview. They just need a little satire every now and then to hold back the despair, the despair borne of the knowledge that no matter how far we've come, there will always be the same submissive morons trying to drag the rest of us down.
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Why are analysts always so effin' dense? Google is in the "no one gets between us and our ad-clicking users" business. They're one of the largest collections of smart people on the planet. They wanted in the mobile phone business, so they got in the mobile phone business. They own an ass-ton of fiber and manipulated the wireless auctions in their favor. They're not just an advertising company, they're the "we're the god damn Internet" company.
No one bought unlocked Nokia smartphones because nobody in America wants Nokia smartphones, subsidized or otherwise.
The geek's sense of entitlement, the notion that the rules apply to others, but never to him, can really piss people off.
If they don't like it, they can quit.
The effects of CO2 on such a large and complex system as the SHOULD NOT be instinctively comprehended.
What's the first rule of critical systems you don't understand? DON'T FUCK WITH IT.
Aw, see, they've gone ahead and fucked with it.
So when I hear Al Gore saying things like, "we dump billions of tons of CO2 into our thin atmosphere like it was a sewer," it makes me angry that anyone is listening to that drivel at all.
We evolved disgust to avoid dangerous substances in our environment, so likening CO2 to sewage is a way to present the danger of pollution in terms people instinctually comprehend.
People have accused Microsoft of stifling innovation by snapping up so many freshly minted PhD's for Microsoft Research. They get a lot of hate, some of which can be found on this Slashdot article.
Google is wary of the these issues, as they are in the same position.
So we have evidence of them recognizing this, and choosing to do the "not evil" thing, and yet, for all their consideration for the health of the industry, a bunch of envious whiners use it to accuse them of arrogance.
Nice use of self-deprecating humor.
You're assuming an incredibly advanced technology for a naive young species shouting its presence to every predator in the cosmos.
Which one is Sauron, and which one is Saruman?
I think you're missing the point. You are taking it as an article of faith that the energy problem will be solved, that the universe will provide the magic bullet as soon as we really start looking for it. That's nonsense. You can't make any assumptions based on knowledge you don't have. You're promoting a religion.
but the wall of terminology Stephenson throws at the reader at the start of Anathem is just plain bad writing.
Thus proving you didn't understand it. None of the invented words was used casually, as a "smeerp".
It's all plausible, it must be genuine!
There are real people making real change on this planet.
Name one.
Frankly, ten years from now, game developers will probably wonder whether it's worth the trouble anymore translating their games for the US market.
Yeah, kind of like how Chinese cinema is now destroying Hollywood.
Why are you so angry?
Blade Runner pretty much invented that cliche. I only wish an imitator would make the chucka-chucka-chucka sound when the character pans the image around.
Sound guy, you on that?
Plus mutating means evolution. That's the devil's science.
Science has already disproven the Christian creation mythology, and it wasn't even really trying. God 0, science 1. They're going to lose if they quit the game now.
A march against reason is a march against science. And, wow, you must not be reading the same Wikipedia as I am. It is very clear that the church was the murderer, and after seven years of holding him captive and threatening him, they then used the state as the gun.
Fuck the church. It should be destroyed like it destroyed so many countless innocents.
It is a moral panic, very much like the church with sex, or the government with drugs. They actually believe, or want others to believe, that if casual copying were possible, everyone would stop buying media altogether and participate in a never ending orgy of copyright infringement. The prohibition is in place to protect you from yourselves. These controls are chastity belts for you and your devices.
I like how the Wikipedia article was created yesterday. It is now notable for Google having never heard of it.
lol, "saturated". Because anyone who isn't spouting teabagger wharrgarbl is an ideologue for an opposite and equally polarized agenda.
No, intelligent people don't suffer from "truth decay". They don't need the constant affirmation of their worldview. They just need a little satire every now and then to hold back the despair, the despair borne of the knowledge that no matter how far we've come, there will always be the same submissive morons trying to drag the rest of us down.
So he's a conservative, then.
Why didn't they just call the classes Plate, Cloth, and Leather?
Unethical? Why? Presumably the poached staff would be paid a lot more.
No shit. The whiners in this thread are like those who can only drive automatics complaining about the controls in a fighter jet.