Ohhhh, you're that kook of low intelligence from a few days ago.
... Prima: The bug is fixed now. Kook: Ah, an improvement! Yours truly: No, that's fixing a bug which wasn't there before. Kook: Bullshit EVERYTHING U SAY IS BULLSHIT. Yours truly: Calm down. Nothing personal. Kook: U NEED PSYCHIATRIC HELP NOWWW!!
Turns out there is such a thing as a free clown. Dance for me, clown! For your next fallacy, I suggest: moving the goalposts. 3..2..1.. go!
I've studied mathematics and I've studied law. The latter was allied with the business school.
IME people studying business are cunts (usually fairly dull, too) and they have their twattery carefully optimised. Worst combination of everything.
I mean, a lot of the lawyer-wannabes were asshats too, but not all, and at least law school doesn't teach you to be a dick - that comes with the (wrong sort of) training contract/practice.
NO UR WRONG DONT U SEE U MISREAD WOW NOT AS SMART AS ME OBV
I love trolls like this one. It's so beautiful to watch all the dorks smugly bite.
Although speaking personally, I could easily get by with just calling from public phone booths when on the move. It costs me more per call to use my mobile phone than it used to cost me (before they ramped up the prices) to make a quick call from a phone booth. (I have 5GB/mo Internet on a mobile dongle plan, but zero minutes, and although I can use VoIP, Skype for Android is so fucking awful it's not even funny. SIPgate's all right, however.)
But it is easier to vote for people who can fire appointees.
And who can pass laws first to make them fireable very quickly, if necessary.
The West has become as ideological as the East, and it's fucking depressing. It's time to use the government to serve not the corporations, not a mythical immutable class - but the people.
When it comes to representative democracy, it's impossible to emphasise enough that this can all be changed by voting differently. The mechanisms are there.
So, ideologues, toadies and milquetoasts - please all go fuck yourselves and regenerate as something better - because it's time to build a society where there's a more equitable balance of power.
Well of course I'm going to come into this assuming that my opinion is probably correct. If people always sat on the fence with everything, never daring to speak up lest they be considered sanctimonious, all sorts of horrible things would happen. I never said I'm not willing to reconsider my opinion, though.
As noted above, my words having a benefit is incidental, not primary.
Glad to hear you don't play Minecraft! Since you seem to have sustained a conversation more than 5 minutes, was about to positively review my opinion of the articulacy of fanatics, but I see it's not necessary now.
See subject line. I don't know what the hell qualifies Mozilla to review scientific code. For one thing, scientific code in academic papers is proof-of-concept - it's designed to show how to implement something according to the description in the paper, not engineered for general deployment.
The bla bla need more people counterargument is bollocks, however - there are enough people in computational biology doing utterly pointless things.
Perhaps Mozilla's looking for another way to justify its on-going tax avoision status, of course.
Bla bla morality is relative everything is okay stop having an opinion different from mine.
what are you doing wasting time on Slashdot
I think I just established that I was, albeit incidentally, not wasting time. If I've discouraged someone from playing Minecraft, I've done a public service.
The same has been said of eugenics
Yeah ethical living is about weighing up different priorities. Encouraging people to stop playing Minecraft doesn't result in murder.
(Although if you had a better grasp of reality, you wouldn't be playing Minecraft, would you?)
I'm not stopping you from playing your silly time-wasting game. I'm just telling you it's silly and time-wasting.
If you think that identifying a silly game as time-wasting is "misanthropic" then you have either led a very sheltered life or you have a playful love of hyperbole. If the latter, carry on; if the former, perhaps you should play Minecraft less and go out more at the weekends?
Discouraging people from wasting hundreds of hours on a silly game - or maybe hundreds of millions of hours in total across all users - is far kinder to the human race than promoting that game.
And I say that without even intending to be kind. It's just incidentally kinder, from a utilitarian perspective.
The move away from robust peer-to-peer to centralisation - esp. more points of failure at which all traffic passes/arrives - is absolutely undermining technical foundations.
The Internet could easily have become about all computers acting as peers, caching data for one massive net of networked data storage ("the network is the computer" taken quite literally). Instead, thanks to the desire of capitalists and governments (but I repeat myself) to control, it's very firmly split itself between producers and consumers - just the way the boys at the top like it.
Oh, nonsense. Fully immersive eyeball-resolution environments are way better for getting work done than having to faff about with virtual whiteboards and diminished bandwidth and limited real estate and basically everything that makes distance working crap unless you need to sit down, shut up and think for days on end - something which hardly ever happens in the modern workplace.
More complex 3D modelling software from 3D Construction Kit to Second Life seems to have fallen by the wayside, but this tedious bit of repetitive crap... oh wait, I get it, it's the dorky alternative to Farmville.
Shame the government has to waste money paying people to play Farmville, though, but we have had a Tory government since 1979.
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Welcome to human interaction.
Ohhhh, you're that kook of low intelligence from a few days ago.
Prima: The bug is fixed now.
Kook: Ah, an improvement!
Yours truly: No, that's fixing a bug which wasn't there before.
Kook: Bullshit EVERYTHING U SAY IS BULLSHIT.
Yours truly: Calm down. Nothing personal.
Kook: U NEED PSYCHIATRIC HELP NOWWW!!
Turns out there is such a thing as a free clown. Dance for me, clown! For your next fallacy, I suggest: moving the goalposts. 3..2..1.. go!
I've studied mathematics and I've studied law. The latter was allied with the business school.
IME people studying business are cunts (usually fairly dull, too) and they have their twattery carefully optimised. Worst combination of everything.
I mean, a lot of the lawyer-wannabes were asshats too, but not all, and at least law school doesn't teach you to be a dick - that comes with the (wrong sort of) training contract/practice.
You may need to work on your reaction to being corrected. If it helps, it was nothing personal.
It's a necessary consequence of embedding a philosophy of selfishness that people will ultimately bend the rules in their favour.
An MBA school is one of the most optimised breeding grounds for this behaviour.
NO UR WRONG DONT U SEE U MISREAD WOW NOT AS SMART AS ME OBV
I love trolls like this one. It's so beautiful to watch all the dorks smugly bite.
Although speaking personally, I could easily get by with just calling from public phone booths when on the move. It costs me more per call to use my mobile phone than it used to cost me (before they ramped up the prices) to make a quick call from a phone booth. (I have 5GB/mo Internet on a mobile dongle plan, but zero minutes, and although I can use VoIP, Skype for Android is so fucking awful it's not even funny. SIPgate's all right, however.)
"El Presidente is a duplicitous cunt."
"Well..well.. how many countries have YOU run?"
No, it means that a regression was fixed.
Google's not improved for a decade.
The only reason it's still up there is that Yahoo's not improved for nearly two decades, and Microsoft can't do anything right.
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
Well, if you say so.
But it is easier to vote for people who can fire appointees.
And who can pass laws first to make them fireable very quickly, if necessary.
The West has become as ideological as the East, and it's fucking depressing. It's time to use the government to serve not the corporations, not a mythical immutable class - but the people.
You voted for them!
When it comes to representative democracy, it's impossible to emphasise enough that this can all be changed by voting differently. The mechanisms are there.
So, ideologues, toadies and milquetoasts - please all go fuck yourselves and regenerate as something better - because it's time to build a society where there's a more equitable balance of power.
Sokal's writing for Wall Street now.
Can't know which has "settled" without observing both, can you?
Well of course I'm going to come into this assuming that my opinion is probably correct. If people always sat on the fence with everything, never daring to speak up lest they be considered sanctimonious, all sorts of horrible things would happen. I never said I'm not willing to reconsider my opinion, though.
As noted above, my words having a benefit is incidental, not primary.
Glad to hear you don't play Minecraft! Since you seem to have sustained a conversation more than 5 minutes, was about to positively review my opinion of the articulacy of fanatics, but I see it's not necessary now.
Pathetic.
See subject line. I don't know what the hell qualifies Mozilla to review scientific code. For one thing, scientific code in academic papers is proof-of-concept - it's designed to show how to implement something according to the description in the paper, not engineered for general deployment.
The bla bla need more people counterargument is bollocks, however - there are enough people in computational biology doing utterly pointless things.
Perhaps Mozilla's looking for another way to justify its on-going tax avoision status, of course.
Who are you to decide?
Bla bla morality is relative everything is okay stop having an opinion different from mine.
what are you doing wasting time on Slashdot
I think I just established that I was, albeit incidentally, not wasting time. If I've discouraged someone from playing Minecraft, I've done a public service.
The same has been said of eugenics
Yeah ethical living is about weighing up different priorities. Encouraging people to stop playing Minecraft doesn't result in murder.
(Although if you had a better grasp of reality, you wouldn't be playing Minecraft, would you?)
Wow, such angry defensiveness.
"Stop disliking things I like!"
I'm not stopping you from playing your silly time-wasting game. I'm just telling you it's silly and time-wasting.
If you think that identifying a silly game as time-wasting is "misanthropic" then you have either led a very sheltered life or you have a playful love of hyperbole. If the latter, carry on; if the former, perhaps you should play Minecraft less and go out more at the weekends?
Discouraging people from wasting hundreds of hours on a silly game - or maybe hundreds of millions of hours in total across all users - is far kinder to the human race than promoting that game.
And I say that without even intending to be kind. It's just incidentally kinder, from a utilitarian perspective.
And this isn't how it should be. The Met Office and OS should give away their data to the country, and be funded by taxation.
The idea that a national surveying organisation should make profit is absurd.
The move away from robust peer-to-peer to centralisation - esp. more points of failure at which all traffic passes/arrives - is absolutely undermining technical foundations.
The Internet could easily have become about all computers acting as peers, caching data for one massive net of networked data storage ("the network is the computer" taken quite literally). Instead, thanks to the desire of capitalists and governments (but I repeat myself) to control, it's very firmly split itself between producers and consumers - just the way the boys at the top like it.
No one's stopping you from being passionate about Farmville's allowing you escape the complexities of real life.
But why must you belittle my passion, which is to point and laugh when humans take their games too seriously?
Oh, nonsense. Fully immersive eyeball-resolution environments are way better for getting work done than having to faff about with virtual whiteboards and diminished bandwidth and limited real estate and basically everything that makes distance working crap unless you need to sit down, shut up and think for days on end - something which hardly ever happens in the modern workplace.
More complex 3D modelling software from 3D Construction Kit to Second Life seems to have fallen by the wayside, but this tedious bit of repetitive crap... oh wait, I get it, it's the dorky alternative to Farmville.
Shame the government has to waste money paying people to play Farmville, though, but we have had a Tory government since 1979.