This might be news to you, but the FBI can't arrest people who haven't committed crimes. Crazy, I know, but "a distant cousin saying the guy is dangerous" doesn't meet the standard for detention. It meets the standard for investigation, and we did that, and golly it turned out the guy hadn't done any crimes yet. That's how it goes sometimes. The other 25,000 people who the FBI investigated and found nothing, those people didn't go on to bomb a foot race.
I only read the excerpt here, but that definitely describes me. As a kid I heard music on the radio, by the time I went off to college I'd decided that radio was shit, I branched out in my 20s, and I'm now in my mid 30s listening to the results of that branching.
So far, though, I've still maintained a promise to myself I made when I first gave up radio, in 1997 or so, that I'd never stop looking for new music. I promised myself that I wouldn't listen to the music of my youth for my whole life. So far, so good, but I have a long way to go.
the anti-vax movement has made anybody who does easily lose credibility, because the anti-vax movement repeatedly and often makes very stupid claims (autism? are you fucking kidding me?) that cause everybody else to come down hard on anybody who speaks honestly about any potential down sides of it.
This is it. We won't hear it from kooks. The kooks lost all credibility in the past, it already happened, so it is not possible for them to convince me or anybody reasonable of anything ever again. True or not, the kooks simply cannot be trusted. If you will excuse the Godwin, Nazis had good taste in art but nobody cites Nazi art critiques because, alas, other things done by Nazis.
So, somebody else will have to write art critiques, and someone else will have to convince us that there is something wrong with a particular vaccine.
I would say a quarantine after showing symptoms is less invasive than a preventative injection.
When I do my cost-benefit analysis, "invasiveness" is on the cost side and it carries small weight; on the benefit side are "preventiveness" and "health", and they carry large weight.
And yet still, I don't agree that quarantine is less invasive that injection. An injection is over in three seconds. Quarantine for, say, 41 days is more than one million times longer than that.
The cost-benefit analysis for vaccines is so unfathomably overwhelmingly in favor of the benefit that all reasonable people are aghast that we have to waste time arguing about it. Can't we argue about things where the costs and benefits are less obviously unbalanced?
It's hard to find objective discourse criticizing it without the sme website offering up that nonsense.
Is it fair to paraphrase that as "The only people critiquing vaccines are utter kooks and I spend my time trying to find something said by the kooks that I can agree with"?
Why would you try so hard to believe things said by kooks? If you can't find any nonkooks saying the same thing, then maybe you shouldn't be motivated to believe it.
I'm probably in the same low-end car market you are, but a $75k car is not eye-poppingly expensive. A whole bunch of cars on the road cost that much, and many cars cost much more.
If I earned, oh, maybe twice as much then I'd be in the market for $75k cars. If Tesla offers a car at $35k, I'll get on the waiting list (and save up).
Is Slashdot giving out mod points like candy now? I've been using Slashdot since 1998 (under different handles) and never had more than 5 points at a time, until recently I got 10 at once, and today I got 15. All that because I recently got two upmods on a comment? Is this a sign of the very end of Slashdot?
Once again you are totally correct. I don't doubt that Eich quit on his own decision, but I do think he stepped down because he knew it would all fall apart anyway. The board would have slipped him a note a few days later so he pulled a Nixon. He was mostly diplomatic about it, good for him. And yes, it's very very rare that workers can mount that kind of opposition. I can also point to that grocery store case recently. Good for them! That is the best possible scenario for worker action.
Let's go straight to the 'center' of the question: does enjoying sexual titillation make you an asshole? Do people who want to use the Lena picture not have a right to enjoy their lives?
You are completely correct, but more to the point, no worker has to work for a douchebag. Forget about CEOs losing privacy, or whatever, the bottom line is that if an employee thinks the CEO is a dick then the employee can get the hell out. And if they'd rather the CEO get the hell out instead, then they can go to the board and complain. That will only work if the CEO is in fact such a fartsniffer that a huge swatch of essential employees all threaten to walk unless he quits.
That unfathomably unlikely scenario played out at Mozilla because of the elite-level assholery of Eich. So Eich can suck it, he was less important than the entire group of engineers, and the board chose the right path to preserve the company.
Kudos to the rare few workers who have the temerity and opportunity to unseat a jerk boss.
The email standards should add a $1 fee to contact a new person. Every email user would have a whitelist and only emails from that whitelist get through. For a fee of $1 you could ask a person to be added to their whitelist. They would have the option of saying yes or no, and of accepting or refunding the dollar.
There could be precedent in a case I once heard about, where blowjob+secrecy+turkey baster resulted in a pregnancy. The court ruled that the man was not on the hood for child support because the sex act he consented to could never reasonably be construed as one that could end in a pregnancy. Only the woman's extraordinary actions resulted in the pregnancy, therefore she alone was responsible. I think that was a reasonable ruling.
Yeah it really is stupid. Is he saying "If you let me run malicious code on your computer, then I can run malicious code on your computer"? That's what it sounds like to me.
As far as I've ever heard, it is theoretically impossible to stop that kind of attack. If a user runs your code, then yeah, duh, your code can do whatever. I don't think that counts as a security vulterability.
You should come educate me so I don't suck so much. Find me in Palo Alto, we'll have a cookie at CREAM then go to my office for a lesson in Java memory leaks.
Me too. I don't experience very many browser crashes. I use both FF and Chrome on Mac and Ubuntu. GP might want to review his extensions and see if one of them is causing the problem.
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This might be news to you, but the FBI can't arrest people who haven't committed crimes. Crazy, I know, but "a distant cousin saying the guy is dangerous" doesn't meet the standard for detention. It meets the standard for investigation, and we did that, and golly it turned out the guy hadn't done any crimes yet. That's how it goes sometimes. The other 25,000 people who the FBI investigated and found nothing, those people didn't go on to bomb a foot race.
"Just something to think about."
No, those are douchebag words, just like "I'm just asking questions". They attempt to put a cover over nonsense.
I only read the excerpt here, but that definitely describes me. As a kid I heard music on the radio, by the time I went off to college I'd decided that radio was shit, I branched out in my 20s, and I'm now in my mid 30s listening to the results of that branching.
So far, though, I've still maintained a promise to myself I made when I first gave up radio, in 1997 or so, that I'd never stop looking for new music. I promised myself that I wouldn't listen to the music of my youth for my whole life. So far, so good, but I have a long way to go.
the anti-vax movement has made anybody who does easily lose credibility, because the anti-vax movement repeatedly and often makes very stupid claims (autism? are you fucking kidding me?) that cause everybody else to come down hard on anybody who speaks honestly about any potential down sides of it.
This is it. We won't hear it from kooks. The kooks lost all credibility in the past, it already happened, so it is not possible for them to convince me or anybody reasonable of anything ever again. True or not, the kooks simply cannot be trusted. If you will excuse the Godwin, Nazis had good taste in art but nobody cites Nazi art critiques because, alas, other things done by Nazis.
So, somebody else will have to write art critiques, and someone else will have to convince us that there is something wrong with a particular vaccine.
I would say a quarantine after showing symptoms is less invasive than a preventative injection.
When I do my cost-benefit analysis, "invasiveness" is on the cost side and it carries small weight; on the benefit side are "preventiveness" and "health", and they carry large weight.
And yet still, I don't agree that quarantine is less invasive that injection. An injection is over in three seconds. Quarantine for, say, 41 days is more than one million times longer than that.
The cost-benefit analysis for vaccines is so unfathomably overwhelmingly in favor of the benefit that all reasonable people are aghast that we have to waste time arguing about it. Can't we argue about things where the costs and benefits are less obviously unbalanced?
It's hard to find objective discourse criticizing it without the sme website offering up that nonsense.
Is it fair to paraphrase that as "The only people critiquing vaccines are utter kooks and I spend my time trying to find something said by the kooks that I can agree with"?
Why would you try so hard to believe things said by kooks? If you can't find any nonkooks saying the same thing, then maybe you shouldn't be motivated to believe it.
I'm probably in the same low-end car market you are, but a $75k car is not eye-poppingly expensive. A whole bunch of cars on the road cost that much, and many cars cost much more.
If I earned, oh, maybe twice as much then I'd be in the market for $75k cars. If Tesla offers a car at $35k, I'll get on the waiting list (and save up).
Is Slashdot giving out mod points like candy now? I've been using Slashdot since 1998 (under different handles) and never had more than 5 points at a time, until recently I got 10 at once, and today I got 15. All that because I recently got two upmods on a comment? Is this a sign of the very end of Slashdot?
Don't you think the license choice also helped? I think people are more motivated to contribute to a GPL-style licensed project.
cf. "If vaccination is so good, then why do doctors have to tell me to get vaccinated?"
I didn't know that. Is that considered a feature or a bug? Why not just define it to wrap around to the min int value?
Once again you are totally correct. I don't doubt that Eich quit on his own decision, but I do think he stepped down because he knew it would all fall apart anyway. The board would have slipped him a note a few days later so he pulled a Nixon. He was mostly diplomatic about it, good for him. And yes, it's very very rare that workers can mount that kind of opposition. I can also point to that grocery store case recently. Good for them! That is the best possible scenario for worker action.
Let's go straight to the 'center' of the question: does enjoying sexual titillation make you an asshole? Do people who want to use the Lena picture not have a right to enjoy their lives?
I figured the statement was written by the new owners of the domain.
It doesn't have to be tangible, it has to be exclusive. I can steal your bitcoins because they can only be used by one of us.
That's a real-world example like Hitler time-traveling to become the CEO of Disney is a real-world example.
You are completely correct, but more to the point, no worker has to work for a douchebag. Forget about CEOs losing privacy, or whatever, the bottom line is that if an employee thinks the CEO is a dick then the employee can get the hell out. And if they'd rather the CEO get the hell out instead, then they can go to the board and complain. That will only work if the CEO is in fact such a fartsniffer that a huge swatch of essential employees all threaten to walk unless he quits.
That unfathomably unlikely scenario played out at Mozilla because of the elite-level assholery of Eich. So Eich can suck it, he was less important than the entire group of engineers, and the board chose the right path to preserve the company.
Kudos to the rare few workers who have the temerity and opportunity to unseat a jerk boss.
The email standards should add a $1 fee to contact a new person. Every email user would have a whitelist and only emails from that whitelist get through. For a fee of $1 you could ask a person to be added to their whitelist. They would have the option of saying yes or no, and of accepting or refunding the dollar.
Spam, solved.
There could be precedent in a case I once heard about, where blowjob+secrecy+turkey baster resulted in a pregnancy. The court ruled that the man was not on the hood for child support because the sex act he consented to could never reasonably be construed as one that could end in a pregnancy. Only the woman's extraordinary actions resulted in the pregnancy, therefore she alone was responsible. I think that was a reasonable ruling.
"The Pope has great moral authority but he's not an authority on climate science."
Isn't he -- for Catholics -- the authority on literally everything?
Yeah it really is stupid. Is he saying "If you let me run malicious code on your computer, then I can run malicious code on your computer"? That's what it sounds like to me.
As far as I've ever heard, it is theoretically impossible to stop that kind of attack. If a user runs your code, then yeah, duh, your code can do whatever. I don't think that counts as a security vulterability.
You should come educate me so I don't suck so much. Find me in Palo Alto, we'll have a cookie at CREAM then go to my office for a lesson in Java memory leaks.
Yeah that's probably it. I suck and I don't do anything important.
iTunes also stopped working on my abacus. I blame Apple.
Me too. I don't experience very many browser crashes. I use both FF and Chrome on Mac and Ubuntu. GP might want to review his extensions and see if one of them is causing the problem.