Most democrats would agree that the DNC and Hilary are corrupt rubbish so you score no significant points by making a big deal of it. The problem with the Russian intervention is that they promoted violent nationalism and this is far more damaging to society than which flavour of corporate politician gets elected. Trumps main problem is that he encourages division, most of the rest of his ghastly legislation will get fixed by the next corporate president but the hatred for minorities will take a lot longer to sort.
Very good points. At the end of the day the most significant result of Russian meddling is that society is more polarised and that is a lot harder to fix than whoever gets to be president for a while. The corporations and the rich still benefit the most whoever gets into power.
Absolutely 100% correct. No one gives a jot about clinton now and most of the democrats hope we never see her again. Trump is an idot and is doing far more damage to the west than any corporate money shill republican could ever do. The guy has done exactly nothing for his base except encourage racists and Nazis. Get rid of him before something really bad happens. Pence would be a nightmare but at least he would only make people poor to pay for benefits for the super rich rather than burning down the world like cretinious Trump.
We understand that the Soviet Union when it existed funded the left. We also understand that the Soviet Union no longer exists and that communism failed. The modern Russia is a gangster kingdom which actually mainly funds far right extremists across the world as a means of destabalising its enemies. We understand all this but cannot understand why you choose not to understand this.
The real enemy of civilisation are the propagandists seeking genocide and polarisation within our societies to further their political aims. United we stand. divided we fall. Stop being so weak you snowflake chickens.
Red scare is when the right attacks the left accusing people of communist sympathies. The Soviet Union and communism failed so it is no longer possible to have a red scare, no one in the West believes in communism any more. Democratic socialism and varying degrees of state regulation yes but Soviet communism? no chance.
What we have here are hostile acts by Russian hackers aimed at destabilsing their enemies. And the United States continues to act as an enemy of Russia so you bastards deserved it. The destruction of the EU and Nato are also highly desireable given the EU power grab in Ukraine. The fact that the Russians have achieved this by hijacking the causes of sociopathic right wing hedge fund managers and the super rich is just the icing on the cake. They must be laughing their asses off at the stupidity of the Nationalist and Populists who are destroying America and the European Union.
No suprise that the rest of us look at you dumb traitors with disgust. No one cares that Hillary lost or that Brexit is happening, we care about the fact that these aims were achieved by dog whistle racism and pressing the fear of the foriegner button which has poisoned our nations with hatred. Western economic power depends on globalisation and immigration and emigration, at least outside Japan it does. The joke of it all is that by ending globalisation and immigration and emigration the biggest casualty is capitalism as it will lead to a global economic decline. Serves you cretins right.
Listen sonny (I am two years older than you). No one needs to teach their kids anything these days when we have 24/7 advertising telling them that they will die if they do not eat the right breakfast cereal, kill their children if they do not buy the right car, fail to breed unless they spray themselves with perfumed stuff. No wonder everyone lives in a state of existential dread when they are being told all the time that they are under threat. Most of what is wrong with the world can be blamed on the psychological damage that advertising causes. Of course they are bloody scared of everything, they spend their whole lives being deluged with button pushing threats to make them buy stuff they do not need. No wonder they have no sense of perspective. As for moon landings, who cares? they don't make hedge fund managers any richer so we don't do them any more.
Smartphones are mass produced using robots from commodity parts, they are not custom built cars. It should be possible for the "teardown" community to establish what Apple are paying for the screens and what they are charging for the screen swop. From this information one should be able to make an informed comment on whether the charges are reasonable.
I will note that the cheapest smartphone on the market probably has 90% of the functionality of a high end gadget like an Apple smartphone. I believe that it is mostly snobbery keeping Apple in the manner to which it has become accustomed these days.
Whilst it is technically correct to complain about "limited free speech" not being "free speech" you don't fool anyone sonny. We all know that there is a world wide movement on the right to establish fascist government, quite possibly driven by Russian propaganda money. The Russians and the far right have identified the weakness of the West as being an open society where there is no big brother controlling the narrative, so it is easy to hijack. Complaining that squashing this vile propaganda might feel to you like limiting free speech. But you are free to go off and buy your own server and conduct your speech on your own platform. What you cannot do is use public companies server space to spread this propaganda because the rest of us are not going to put up with it.
Sadly this rot is the result of the ending of the cold war. During the Cold War we had government propaganda which pointed out that detention without trial in the Soviet Union and various other behaviors were wrong. We are decades away from that propaganda and our own governments are free to behave like the Soviet Union of old with impunity and more importantly the right sees nothing wrong with adopting fascism. Populism is fascism, there is a reason why we have representative democracy and it is because mob rule is not democracy. There is a problem with democracy and it is not that the politicians do not represent the people, the problem is that the rich and the corporations have bought the politicians and the people come second. The right would like to fix this by putting the rich and the corporations directly in charge of politics and just use propaganda to control the people. This is nothing to do with "freedom, maga, letting the market decide, small government" this is to do with fascism.
I don't know about you but I will not be buying any product from a company that uses stacked ranking to manage its employees. Musk can go f**k himself.
Vaping is so cheap that it is almost free. This is the consequence of it being safe and almost unregulated so that competition works. You can vape for less than $5 a month. Hardly worth a big corporation's effort. Much more profitable to sell "artisanal" coffee to hipsters.
Wrong. As a former smoker I actually enjoy tobbacÄi smoke, never mind vaping. This law is hysterical and vindictive. No wonder folk voted for Trump, America is being pussified by leftist snowflakes.
This is a pointless argument. We all know that version 2.0 will deliberately maroon your version in a hacker infested hell just to force you to buy the incompatible version 2.0. Nothing in the cloud lasts longer than this years fashion either. So whatever you invest in current voice activated devices will be trashed anyway.
Nadala is just rationalizing the current trend of sacking older workers to replace them with cheap graduates who will do whatever they are told because they have no idea whether the command is possible. The cult of the cult leader has to be protected so that they can justify their unjustifiable salaries. Hey ho, every few years we get a new paradigm to excuse bad behavior. It has been going on since at least the early 80's in my direct experience.
Alex Jones's YouTube entertainment channel Infowars is often in the first page of search results for any current news item. The site makes up stories to increase view-count which are later conclusively debunked. They are welcome to use their business model but it should not be promoted as a news source by Google. They absolutely should show up in search results for conspiracies about the news. That would not be censorship, it would be accurate cataloging of information.
I used to mistakenly think that you needed citrus fruit for vitamin C. This is a very bad and wrong idea. The point about citrus fruit is that it contains a ton of teeth rotting citric acid so you can store it for sea voyages without anything growing in it - particularly if you mix it 50:50 with Rum to prevent the vast quantities of sugar in citrus juice from fermenting and exploding out of its container. Citrus fruit is a shit source of vitamin C unless you are on a medieval sailing boat, contains no dietary fiber, too many sugar calories and teeth rotting acid.
What you should be eating is Broccoli 75% daily requirement in 50g (2oz), Bell pepper 65% daily requirement in 50g (2oz), Cabbage 60% daily requirements in 100g (4oz), Kale 200% in 50g (2oz) and many there are other vegetables that contain vitamin C.
Meat contains proteins, fat, salt and no vitamins. As an aside your microbiome will die if you do not eat the dietary fiber from vegetables. This is very bad for your long term health.
Somebody should nuke the marketing executives in the food industry from space and teach youngsters at school which foods contain life sustaining Fats, Carbohydrates, Sugars, Fiber, Protein and Vitamins as it sure as fuck is not what the T.V. or clean eating morons are advertising as food.
One should note that Kip Thorne also collaborated on one of the greatest physics books ever written. It should be up there with Darwins "On The Origin of Species". To quote wikipedia - Gravitation is a physics book on Einstein's theory of gravity, written by Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, and John Archibald Wheeler and originally published by W. H. Freeman and Company in 1973. Owing to its prominence, it is frequently abbreviated MTW after its authors' initials. The book, which has more than 1200 pages, resembles a large telephone book in size and shape. The cover illustration, drawn by Kenneth Gwin, is a line drawing of an apple with cuts in the skin to show geodesics. It contains 10 parts and 44 chapters, each beginning with a quotation. The bibliography has a long list of original sources and other notable books in the field. The level of the book is advanced, with the intended audience at the graduate-level and above. It is however a work of art and if you are into physics it is well worth reading the chapter introductions if nothing else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
What this article demonstrates clearly is that most comentators are mostly ignorant about the subject but feel confident in deploying their ignorance to answer the question. This is great news for Man as these are great survival skills when faced with hungry tigers. Sadly it also indicates that societal decision making is now a complete lottery as we all comment whether we understand or not.
No a simulation like the one that a computer game uses will never be able to simulate anything as large as the universe we appear to inhabit and even worse as this study reveals, there are features of our current universe which defy the computational ability of any simulation software. This does mean that silicon valley entreprenurs who have made wacky claims about us being a simulation have for now been disproven. You can revisit the question in about 500 years of course but for now it is dead.
This is the same lack of understanding which keeps the idea of mankind ever visiting the nearest star alive. It is too far and we will not be doing it in the next 500 years. It takes too much energy and would cost more than we have ever paid for anything else in history with almost zero return - the participants will certainly never return.
Remember the qualification that they add to advertisements selling financial products "past performance should not be taken as any indication of future performance"? Well you should understand that to mean that our recent rise from savagery with the industrial revolution and the computer are not about to be repeated ad infinitum. The next big thing is genetic modification which will not assist with simulations or getting to the nearest star. It may confer extreme longevity on the super rich and it may feed the rest of us. Hopefully it might help with critical thinking because we could do with a large dose of that as a species.
The biggest issue with GMO is the business model that turns farmers into slaves of the owner of the GMO organism. GMO mosquitoes that do not propagate malaria are a completely different question. Having said that, given that most plants and animals carry the same genes from the genetic past I would be less worried about GMO than the Chicken Little sky is falling brigade.
Also you have to realize that GMO is the future of technology and commerce now given that Moores law has reached its end. The coming century is going to be 100% about GMO, so you had better start leading at it if you are not to become next centuries failed state.
The world is now too thick and uneducated to even understand questions about GMO. Let dictators like Trump make your decisions for you idiots.
Lets face it, American internet users are just cattle who need to be fed and exploited by a few walled garden corporations farming income for their billionaire owners. The idea that the internet is useful for anything but extorting money from its users is laughably left wing. Enjoy your slavery cattle!
Leftists have a problem with trash like you using religion to get at minorities. Christians are not being told to bugger off 'back to sand ni**er land'. Most left wingers think that all religions are superstition given unwarranted power. Quite apart from which we had the holy wars in the pig ignorant middle ages and the last thing the world needs now is more war.
Personally I blame the ending of the cold war and the passage of time. Now America has no need to even pretend to the moral high ground and it can adopt behaviour such as mass surveilance which used to be thought to be tôtalitarian. Also most of the people who were alive to see the horror of fascism in Europe are gone now and we have a president who openly supports Nazis because they are part of his base. The world has indeed gone mad.
As when Ccleaner was sold I have disabled automatic updates until I see a product that I want to use. Goodbye Mozilla, at least for the moment. What I also need to do is find a copy of the current installable to archive so that I can try the new versions and check out their utility.
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Most democrats would agree that the DNC and Hilary are corrupt rubbish so you score no significant points by making a big deal of it. The problem with the Russian intervention is that they promoted violent nationalism and this is far more damaging to society than which flavour of corporate politician gets elected. Trumps main problem is that he encourages division, most of the rest of his ghastly legislation will get fixed by the next corporate president but the hatred for minorities will take a lot longer to sort.
Very good points. At the end of the day the most significant result of Russian meddling is that society is more polarised and that is a lot harder to fix than whoever gets to be president for a while. The corporations and the rich still benefit the most whoever gets into power.
Absolutely 100% correct. No one gives a jot about clinton now and most of the democrats hope we never see her again. Trump is an idot and is doing far more damage to the west than any corporate money shill republican could ever do. The guy has done exactly nothing for his base except encourage racists and Nazis. Get rid of him before something really bad happens. Pence would be a nightmare but at least he would only make people poor to pay for benefits for the super rich rather than burning down the world like cretinious Trump.
We understand that the Soviet Union when it existed funded the left. We also understand that the Soviet Union no longer exists and that communism failed. The modern Russia is a gangster kingdom which actually mainly funds far right extremists across the world as a means of destabalising its enemies. We understand all this but cannot understand why you choose not to understand this.
The real enemy of civilisation are the propagandists seeking genocide and polarisation within our societies to further their political aims. United we stand. divided we fall. Stop being so weak you snowflake chickens.
Red scare is when the right attacks the left accusing people of communist sympathies. The Soviet Union and communism failed so it is no longer possible to have a red scare, no one in the West believes in communism any more. Democratic socialism and varying degrees of state regulation yes but Soviet communism? no chance.
What we have here are hostile acts by Russian hackers aimed at destabilsing their enemies. And the United States continues to act as an enemy of Russia so you bastards deserved it. The destruction of the EU and Nato are also highly desireable given the EU power grab in Ukraine. The fact that the Russians have achieved this by hijacking the causes of sociopathic right wing hedge fund managers and the super rich is just the icing on the cake. They must be laughing their asses off at the stupidity of the Nationalist and Populists who are destroying America and the European Union.
No suprise that the rest of us look at you dumb traitors with disgust. No one cares that Hillary lost or that Brexit is happening, we care about the fact that these aims were achieved by dog whistle racism and pressing the fear of the foriegner button which has poisoned our nations with hatred. Western economic power depends on globalisation and immigration and emigration, at least outside Japan it does. The joke of it all is that by ending globalisation and immigration and emigration the biggest casualty is capitalism as it will lead to a global economic decline. Serves you cretins right.
Listen sonny (I am two years older than you). No one needs to teach their kids anything these days when we have 24/7 advertising telling them that they will die if they do not eat the right breakfast cereal, kill their children if they do not buy the right car, fail to breed unless they spray themselves with perfumed stuff. No wonder everyone lives in a state of existential dread when they are being told all the time that they are under threat. Most of what is wrong with the world can be blamed on the psychological damage that advertising causes. Of course they are bloody scared of everything, they spend their whole lives being deluged with button pushing threats to make them buy stuff they do not need. No wonder they have no sense of perspective. As for moon landings, who cares? they don't make hedge fund managers any richer so we don't do them any more.
Smartphones are mass produced using robots from commodity parts, they are not custom built cars. It should be possible for the "teardown" community to establish what Apple are paying for the screens and what they are charging for the screen swop. From this information one should be able to make an informed comment on whether the charges are reasonable.
I will note that the cheapest smartphone on the market probably has 90% of the functionality of a high end gadget like an Apple smartphone. I believe that it is mostly snobbery keeping Apple in the manner to which it has become accustomed these days.
Whilst it is technically correct to complain about "limited free speech" not being "free speech" you don't fool anyone sonny. We all know that there is a world wide movement on the right to establish fascist government, quite possibly driven by Russian propaganda money. The Russians and the far right have identified the weakness of the West as being an open society where there is no big brother controlling the narrative, so it is easy to hijack. Complaining that squashing this vile propaganda might feel to you like limiting free speech. But you are free to go off and buy your own server and conduct your speech on your own platform. What you cannot do is use public companies server space to spread this propaganda because the rest of us are not going to put up with it.
Sadly this rot is the result of the ending of the cold war. During the Cold War we had government propaganda which pointed out that detention without trial in the Soviet Union and various other behaviors were wrong. We are decades away from that propaganda and our own governments are free to behave like the Soviet Union of old with impunity and more importantly the right sees nothing wrong with adopting fascism. Populism is fascism, there is a reason why we have representative democracy and it is because mob rule is not democracy. There is a problem with democracy and it is not that the politicians do not represent the people, the problem is that the rich and the corporations have bought the politicians and the people come second. The right would like to fix this by putting the rich and the corporations directly in charge of politics and just use propaganda to control the people. This is nothing to do with "freedom, maga, letting the market decide, small government" this is to do with fascism.
I don't know about you but I will not be buying any product from a company that uses stacked ranking to manage its employees. Musk can go f**k himself.
Vaping is so cheap that it is almost free. This is the consequence of it being safe and almost unregulated so that competition works. You can vape for less than $5 a month. Hardly worth a big corporation's effort. Much more profitable to sell "artisanal" coffee to hipsters.
Wrong. As a former smoker I actually enjoy tobbacÄi smoke, never mind vaping. This law is hysterical and vindictive. No wonder folk voted for Trump, America is being pussified by leftist snowflakes.
This is a pointless argument. We all know that version 2.0 will deliberately maroon your version in a hacker infested hell just to force you to buy the incompatible version 2.0. Nothing in the cloud lasts longer than this years fashion either. So whatever you invest in current voice activated devices will be trashed anyway.
Nadala is just rationalizing the current trend of sacking older workers to replace them with cheap graduates who will do whatever they are told because they have no idea whether the command is possible. The cult of the cult leader has to be protected so that they can justify their unjustifiable salaries. Hey ho, every few years we get a new paradigm to excuse bad behavior. It has been going on since at least the early 80's in my direct experience.
Alex Jones's YouTube entertainment channel Infowars is often in the first page of search results for any current news item. The site makes up stories to increase view-count which are later conclusively debunked. They are welcome to use their business model but it should not be promoted as a news source by Google. They absolutely should show up in search results for conspiracies about the news. That would not be censorship, it would be accurate cataloging of information.
I used to mistakenly think that you needed citrus fruit for vitamin C. This is a very bad and wrong idea. The point about citrus fruit is that it contains a ton of teeth rotting citric acid so you can store it for sea voyages without anything growing in it - particularly if you mix it 50:50 with Rum to prevent the vast quantities of sugar in citrus juice from fermenting and exploding out of its container. Citrus fruit is a shit source of vitamin C unless you are on a medieval sailing boat, contains no dietary fiber, too many sugar calories and teeth rotting acid.
What you should be eating is Broccoli 75% daily requirement in 50g (2oz), Bell pepper 65% daily requirement in 50g (2oz), Cabbage 60% daily requirements in 100g (4oz), Kale 200% in 50g (2oz) and many there are other vegetables that contain vitamin C.
Meat contains proteins, fat, salt and no vitamins. As an aside your microbiome will die if you do not eat the dietary fiber from vegetables. This is very bad for your long term health.
Somebody should nuke the marketing executives in the food industry from space and teach youngsters at school which foods contain life sustaining Fats, Carbohydrates, Sugars, Fiber, Protein and Vitamins as it sure as fuck is not what the T.V. or clean eating morons are advertising as food.
One should note that Kip Thorne also collaborated on one of the greatest physics books ever written. It should be up there with Darwins "On The Origin of Species". To quote wikipedia - Gravitation is a physics book on Einstein's theory of gravity, written by Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, and John Archibald Wheeler and originally published by W. H. Freeman and Company in 1973. Owing to its prominence, it is frequently abbreviated MTW after its authors' initials. The book, which has more than 1200 pages, resembles a large telephone book in size and shape. The cover illustration, drawn by Kenneth Gwin, is a line drawing of an apple with cuts in the skin to show geodesics. It contains 10 parts and 44 chapters, each beginning with a quotation. The bibliography has a long list of original sources and other notable books in the field. The level of the book is advanced, with the intended audience at the graduate-level and above. It is however a work of art and if you are into physics it is well worth reading the chapter introductions if nothing else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
What this article demonstrates clearly is that most comentators are mostly ignorant about the subject but feel confident in deploying their ignorance to answer the question. This is great news for Man as these are great survival skills when faced with hungry tigers. Sadly it also indicates that societal decision making is now a complete lottery as we all comment whether we understand or not.
No a simulation like the one that a computer game uses will never be able to simulate anything as large as the universe we appear to inhabit and even worse as this study reveals, there are features of our current universe which defy the computational ability of any simulation software. This does mean that silicon valley entreprenurs who have made wacky claims about us being a simulation have for now been disproven. You can revisit the question in about 500 years of course but for now it is dead.
This is the same lack of understanding which keeps the idea of mankind ever visiting the nearest star alive. It is too far and we will not be doing it in the next 500 years. It takes too much energy and would cost more than we have ever paid for anything else in history with almost zero return - the participants will certainly never return.
Remember the qualification that they add to advertisements selling financial products "past performance should not be taken as any indication of future performance"? Well you should understand that to mean that our recent rise from savagery with the industrial revolution and the computer are not about to be repeated ad infinitum. The next big thing is genetic modification which will not assist with simulations or getting to the nearest star. It may confer extreme longevity on the super rich and it may feed the rest of us. Hopefully it might help with critical thinking because we could do with a large dose of that as a species.
I think we will find that there were "bad things done on both sides" as far as Trump is concerned.....
The biggest issue with GMO is the business model that turns farmers into slaves of the owner of the GMO organism. GMO mosquitoes that do not propagate malaria are a completely different question. Having said that, given that most plants and animals carry the same genes from the genetic past I would be less worried about GMO than the Chicken Little sky is falling brigade.
Also you have to realize that GMO is the future of technology and commerce now given that Moores law has reached its end. The coming century is going to be 100% about GMO, so you had better start leading at it if you are not to become next centuries failed state.
The world is now too thick and uneducated to even understand questions about GMO. Let dictators like Trump make your decisions for you idiots.
Lets face it, American internet users are just cattle who need to be fed and exploited by a few walled garden corporations farming income for their billionaire owners. The idea that the internet is useful for anything but extorting money from its users is laughably left wing. Enjoy your slavery cattle!
Leftists have a problem with trash like you using religion to get at minorities. Christians are not being told to bugger off 'back to sand ni**er land'. Most left wingers think that all religions are superstition given unwarranted power. Quite apart from which we had the holy wars in the pig ignorant middle ages and the last thing the world needs now is more war.
It also demonstrates how a "free market" is capable of failing to be in the best interests of the population.
Personally I blame the ending of the cold war and the passage of time. Now America has no need to even pretend to the moral high ground and it can adopt behaviour such as mass surveilance which used to be thought to be tôtalitarian. Also most of the people who were alive to see the horror of fascism in Europe are gone now and we have a president who openly supports Nazis because they are part of his base. The world has indeed gone mad.
As when Ccleaner was sold I have disabled automatic updates until I see a product that I want to use. Goodbye Mozilla, at least for the moment. What I also need to do is find a copy of the current installable to archive so that I can try the new versions and check out their utility.