Yeah, but that was managed by a public-owned corporation.
There are a few things that big business does excellently - like build an efficient workhouse in C19 England or C21 China, without letting pesky human dignity get in the way - but education has never been one of them.
...allows first world do-gooders to receive grants and make large profits to buy gas guzzlers and continue over-consuming.
But don't let the cognitive dissonance hit you in the face on the way out. This is our burden as white men: we must help to keep them going, by the rules we'd never live by, as long as we continue to benefit from unfair trade agreements, corrupt government, and worker mistreatment.
Eh? Mathworld was Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics with a frozen copy put into CRC's Concice Encyclopedia of Math. Then he tried to continue developing it but CRC bitched that even future developments were theirs, then settlement, then blablabla. Anyway tl;dr it's extremely readable if you're moderately literate - much more so than the verbose waffle of Wikipedia littered with edits by people who are obviously so keen to slot in what they just learnt in class - and has been "a book".
Can't fucking stand learning from a video, or in general from people who apply populist teaching methods like I'm an idiot who needs strained "well you see it's like..." analogies, and do most of my learning from dusty ol' books. But still, appreciate that people have many different methods which work for them, except for Wikipedia, which I have never managed to learn anything from.
Well, be precise: re necklacing, making an indirect endorsement ("we shall liberate this country with our boxes of matches and our necklaces") isn't the same as "liking" to do something yourself against children - and the ANC officially condemned the practice.
However, the thrust of your message is sound, and to answer your question: no, OBL stopped being readily forgiven the moment he stopped working for US interests. OBL was a terrorist in the strategic and the PR senses, while Mandela was a terrorist in the strategic sense but "freedom fighter" in the PR sense. In this precisely sense, he was in a grey area.
Wikipedia: verifiability, not truth; consensus, not truth; time available to engage in edit wars, not truth. objectivist power-mongering, not truth.
OK, it's a fair introduction to some non-contentious subjects... although even e.g. where it's supposed to be good, like mathematics, I'd much rather go to Mathworld or a topic-specific repository (e.g. the MacTutor history of mathematics archive) for something written by people who are both knowledgeable and able to write... so, to refine my point, it's a fair introduction to trivia where a series-specific Wikia hasn't already been created.
But what's really going for it is that it appears at the top of search engine results. And most people aren't using the Internet for anything important, which means anything resembling an answer is good enough.
It takes an extremist to abbreviate "my minority interpretation of the law" to "the law".
And while "should follow the law" isn't per se an opinion associated with extremism, a passionate follower of a e.g. the Ayatollah or Pol Pot would in global context be identified as an extremist, but is from a local standpoint merely keen to uphold the law.
Indeed. Mandela's an even greyer area: many South African whites really did fear the black majority - indeed, they worried about being treated not unlike Mugabe has treated white farmers, and then some - so they ended up oppressing (with some terroristic behaviour) the blacks. Mandela responded with an ANC which wasn't wholly opposed to similarly violent action. Locked up for a few decades, the wise old man realises that, while the racist policy was obviously wrong, everyone ended up engaging in nastiness to protect what they perceived as their threatened interests - the only way forward was to accept sincere apologies.
Don't let the propagandists redefine words to suit their purposes.
I'd much rather be terrorised from time to time - indeed, England was for quite a while, and my father almost got killed in one bomb blast - than be aerial bombarded back to the Middle Ages.
Loud extremist uttering nonsense which has seduced a small but influential minority of idiots, dragging everyone e;se in the wrong direction and making things a lot worse.
Progress happens despite the excesses of capitalism, not because of them.
Companies would also be more profitable with slaves, but they don't stop producing when slavery is outlawed. It's up to the society that protects these profiteers' property to regulate them as it judges best.
Yeah, nowt wrong with playing with a 6502 - I grew up on them - but building a 6502-powered toy requires only a few tens of dollars, moderate skill with a soldering iron, and the ability to vaguely follow any of several dozen short articles on putting together a simple 8-bit machine.
Of course it's cool to build your own hobby quality 6502-based machine. And there are probably lots of EEs who would fail at such a project without assistance - not because it's wildly complex but because it's sufficiently esoteric. But that doesn't mean you're qualified to pontificate on the transition from pro s/w to pro h/w development just because you've built such a machine. The tools, goals, risks, breadth, imagination, etc. put into a hobby product are quite different from that put into a pro product.
To take another example, with my ham radio hat on I get involved in lots of cool projects which would never make for a saleable product, but which I'd never get the chance to do professionally anyway, because relevant demand is satisfied for the average consumer in a very different way (e.g. almost everyone is happy with relying on a huge amount of private and political infrastructure to communicate globally).
Capitalism is about supply&demand, not effort&quality. The aim is to invest capital efficiently in response to demand instead of labouring.
It's depressing that people understand so much about recent complex scientific developments, but don't have the simplest grasp of an economic system that's centuries old.
"Perversion", like "envy", describes something which may in fact be positive, neutral or negative, but which thanks to hypocritical puritanism nearly always comes with negative connotations. Their original words were respectively tied up in, "Don't stray from the Official (Church) message, heathen!" (do not be perverse) and, "Don't complain about your lot - God will reward your suffering after death!" (do not be envious)
We have the same two messages even in more secular society, respectively as: do not question the basis of authority; your struggle is virtuous and it's your fault anyway so suck it up.
OK, let's find 5 lines from the Linux kernel and recompile them for this architecture.
Linux is not the pragmatic but lean&mean beast it once was. It suffers the same problem as every big project: a cadre of developers so intimately familiar with the system that adding bits here and there fits neatly into their already excellent understanding, while to newcomers it just raises the barrier to entry.
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Yeah, but that was managed by a public-owned corporation.
There are a few things that big business does excellently - like build an efficient workhouse in C19 England or C21 China, without letting pesky human dignity get in the way - but education has never been one of them.
...allows first world do-gooders to receive grants and make large profits to buy gas guzzlers and continue over-consuming.
But don't let the cognitive dissonance hit you in the face on the way out. This is our burden as white men: we must help to keep them going, by the rules we'd never live by, as long as we continue to benefit from unfair trade agreements, corrupt government, and worker mistreatment.
SerpentMage has been assigned as hall monitor.
He said he really wanted the job because it vexed him so when people used to run along the corridors in high school.
His rainbow is now reached.
His potential fulfilled.
And he may die happy.
Eh? Mathworld was Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics with a frozen copy put into CRC's Concice Encyclopedia of Math. Then he tried to continue developing it but CRC bitched that even future developments were theirs, then settlement, then blablabla. Anyway tl;dr it's extremely readable if you're moderately literate - much more so than the verbose waffle of Wikipedia littered with edits by people who are obviously so keen to slot in what they just learnt in class - and has been "a book".
Can't fucking stand learning from a video, or in general from people who apply populist teaching methods like I'm an idiot who needs strained "well you see it's like..." analogies, and do most of my learning from dusty ol' books. But still, appreciate that people have many different methods which work for them, except for Wikipedia, which I have never managed to learn anything from.
Well, be precise: re necklacing, making an indirect endorsement ("we shall liberate this country with our boxes of matches and our necklaces") isn't the same as "liking" to do something yourself against children - and the ANC officially condemned the practice.
However, the thrust of your message is sound, and to answer your question: no, OBL stopped being readily forgiven the moment he stopped working for US interests. OBL was a terrorist in the strategic and the PR senses, while Mandela was a terrorist in the strategic sense but "freedom fighter" in the PR sense. In this precisely sense, he was in a grey area.
OK I giggled a bit.
Wikipedia: verifiability, not truth; consensus, not truth; time available to engage in edit wars, not truth. objectivist power-mongering, not truth.
OK, it's a fair introduction to some non-contentious subjects... although even e.g. where it's supposed to be good, like mathematics, I'd much rather go to Mathworld or a topic-specific repository (e.g. the MacTutor history of mathematics archive) for something written by people who are both knowledgeable and able to write... so, to refine my point, it's a fair introduction to trivia where a series-specific Wikia hasn't already been created.
But what's really going for it is that it appears at the top of search engine results. And most people aren't using the Internet for anything important, which means anything resembling an answer is good enough.
It takes an extremist to abbreviate "my minority interpretation of the law" to "the law".
And while "should follow the law" isn't per se an opinion associated with extremism, a passionate follower of a e.g. the Ayatollah or Pol Pot would in global context be identified as an extremist, but is from a local standpoint merely keen to uphold the law.
Agreed: such a targetted attack would only be "terrorism" when the word is redefined by propagandists.
Indeed. Mandela's an even greyer area: many South African whites really did fear the black majority - indeed, they worried about being treated not unlike Mugabe has treated white farmers, and then some - so they ended up oppressing (with some terroristic behaviour) the blacks. Mandela responded with an ANC which wasn't wholly opposed to similarly violent action. Locked up for a few decades, the wise old man realises that, while the racist policy was obviously wrong, everyone ended up engaging in nastiness to protect what they perceived as their threatened interests - the only way forward was to accept sincere apologies.
Ah, but I'm a non-practising psychopathic cunt.
Frankly, anyone who understands how fragile the human body is should be terrified of walking outdoors, etc.
Murders don't happen all the time simply because most people aren't psychopathic cunts. But, in Cheney's case, it takes one to know one.
Terror is a strategy, not a value judgment.
Don't let the propagandists redefine words to suit their purposes.
I'd much rather be terrorised from time to time - indeed, England was for quite a while, and my father almost got killed in one bomb blast - than be aerial bombarded back to the Middle Ages.
Sometimes take extra precautions!
News at 11.
Loud extremist uttering nonsense which has seduced a small but influential minority of idiots, dragging everyone e;se in the wrong direction and making things a lot worse.
It's what Microsoft would have wanted.
I don't think they like to forget it - they just make sure that not too many people are in a position to invest much.
Progress happens despite the excesses of capitalism, not because of them.
Companies would also be more profitable with slaves, but they don't stop producing when slavery is outlawed. It's up to the society that protects these profiteers' property to regulate them as it judges best.
Yeah, nowt wrong with playing with a 6502 - I grew up on them - but building a 6502-powered toy requires only a few tens of dollars, moderate skill with a soldering iron, and the ability to vaguely follow any of several dozen short articles on putting together a simple 8-bit machine.
Of course it's cool to build your own hobby quality 6502-based machine. And there are probably lots of EEs who would fail at such a project without assistance - not because it's wildly complex but because it's sufficiently esoteric. But that doesn't mean you're qualified to pontificate on the transition from pro s/w to pro h/w development just because you've built such a machine. The tools, goals, risks, breadth, imagination, etc. put into a hobby product are quite different from that put into a pro product.
To take another example, with my ham radio hat on I get involved in lots of cool projects which would never make for a saleable product, but which I'd never get the chance to do professionally anyway, because relevant demand is satisfied for the average consumer in a very different way (e.g. almost everyone is happy with relying on a huge amount of private and political infrastructure to communicate globally).
tl;dr "Software is a bit like hardware but hardware is less virtual."
Am I missing some point here? Maybe this person has achieved something I don't know about that makes their message more relevant than I can see.
Capitalism is about supply&demand, not effort&quality. The aim is to invest capital efficiently in response to demand instead of labouring.
It's depressing that people understand so much about recent complex scientific developments, but don't have the simplest grasp of an economic system that's centuries old.
"Perversion", like "envy", describes something which may in fact be positive, neutral or negative, but which thanks to hypocritical puritanism nearly always comes with negative connotations. Their original words were respectively tied up in, "Don't stray from the Official (Church) message, heathen!" (do not be perverse) and, "Don't complain about your lot - God will reward your suffering after death!" (do not be envious)
We have the same two messages even in more secular society, respectively as: do not question the basis of authority; your struggle is virtuous and it's your fault anyway so suck it up.
OK, let's find 5 lines from the Linux kernel and recompile them for this architecture.
Linux is not the pragmatic but lean&mean beast it once was. It suffers the same problem as every big project: a cadre of developers so intimately familiar with the system that adding bits here and there fits neatly into their already excellent understanding, while to newcomers it just raises the barrier to entry.
"PNG", but pronounced "pong" because it comes with an air of smug.
"MySQL" is pronounced "Why aren't you using PostgreSQL?"
And "noSQL" is pronounced "no".
Are there people who still carry only one 'phone around? And yet people rely on them so much.....
Eh, our whole country adopted nonce for nearly four decades.