Are the odds 100% that this "study" was funded by tobacco money? Do 40k Americans die in road traffic accidents every year but we never discuss them because there are no angles for profitable corporations? Does vaping save the lives of up to 400k people a year? Actually I think there is a good case for locking up the people doing the study for manslaughter.
Ditto, though I have a phone, not a smartphone and I watch University lectures on YouTube for entertainment. Social media is a waste of time as youngsters who might be interesting to interact with tend to go "private" to grown-ups so it becomes anti-social media. The rest of it is either baby pictures or people sharing fake news hate speech. So I don't bother with social media much any more. Smartphones are overated so long as you have net access through a laptop, tablet or desktop.
This is the equivalent of asking the question "have you stopped beating your wife yet" with the option of "Yes" or "No". "Not texting" could never be employed as a mechanism to wipe out debt. "Not voting" could very well be funded and pay for loans. Crap study.
Third world reproductive rates collapse the moment you give them a pension and educate the women and provide access to contraception. Oh and have a word with religions which use weight of population to defeat other religions.
I will just plug vegetables here. The average Westerner eats between 10 and 20 grams of dietary fiber a day. Most heath authorities have revised up the minimum healthy intake from around 20 to 30+ grams a day as a result of research into the human microbiome. Basically your lower bowel is being starved of the material that feeds the bugs and which make the short chain fatty acids that feed the bowel walls. This is a bad move as the disbiosis and damaged bowel wall is now being associated with just about every disease of the western world. (Cancer, heart disease, diabeties, obesity etc.) So eat plenty of vegetables with your pizza if you must eat pizza - Which means anything up to a pound of a mixture of Broccoli, carrots, cabbage, bell pepper, Beans (pinto, cannellini, kidney, chick peas) asparagus, Cauliflower, onion, Tomatoes, apples a day and half a can of baked beans is ok too. You have been warned.
Hey, don't worry, you also get to pay for Cops shooting blacks in the back, protection for the Westboro Church, protection in the courts for Scientology, Politicians who can only survive by doing the bidding of the corporations funding them, A healthcare system that murders poor people, overseas wars that fill the world with fucking terrorists. On balance I think you get much more stuff you like for your money than the rest of us. Gab even gets cheap propaganda by being allowed to file a spurious lawsuit against Google - what more could you ask for?
GAB is a scam, they censor stuff just like any other company that wants to stay in business. The only difference is that they pretend they will let white supremacists and Nazi's have free reign - they won't but will attract plenty of Infowars nutcases on the back of the lie.
Because you live in a country where it is permissible to defraud your customers but not possible for customers to defraud giant corporations. Enjoy your crap version of unregulated corrupt capitalism you cucks.
I am getting tired of "white supremacists" and their snowflake offense on behalf of other people. So the young idiot used a depreciated word. Grow up and get over it. I would be more impressed if you cretins did something about the black people being shot in the back every day by the American police. Piss off. Incidentally the worst possible offensive word in Swedish is devil - so to be fair Americans should stop using that.
Hey suckers you carry on using Apps and the rest of us over 50 will stick with conventional desktop applications. I imagine they already know when to start advertising funeral services to losers like you. At least for the moment Classic Shell hides all of these pieces of marketing malware in a drop-down menu that I have never bothered to explore. Though I have bothered to disable anything that they hook to in the settings. Enjoy your walled garden!
I believe that you are wrong. The world made do with the spoken word before it invented writing. No one seriously suggests that we throw away all the books and go back to the spoken word. Writing opened up new possibilities such as amassing bodies of knowledge in library's and passing ever more complex ideas down the generations - not just science but things like Art History. Computers have similarly made available the internet and the ability such as this - for people from all around the world to discuss what they think and what they know. The act of writing software may not be much better than writing a book but it is the use to which the software or the book is put that is the measure of its effect on the world. So software engineering is a valuable occupation, particularly when it is part of a collaborative enterprise like providing services like smart power, insurance quotations - you name it the modern world would not exist without software engineering.
The problem if there is a problem with "creativity" is not so much the training. The problem is monopoly paradigm. There is only one way of doing a thing because of the enormous vested interest in the current way of doing it. (See gasoline and electric vehicles.) There may well be a fantastic future in biological computation for example but no one is going to spend $100 Million on exploring it because we already spent $10 Billion on a chip factory and have to make the money back.
An inciteful comment, there are further directions to explore in semiconductor chip technology and circuit topology but the easy wins are in the past. Progress will continue but it is becoming exponentially more difficult to increase the compute power of individual chips. It is arguably true that the internet has provided a considerable boost to human capability on a par with the increasing power of individual devices. I would expect further boosts from things like Big Data, the Internet of Things, Intelligent Power Management, Artificial Intelligence, Robots, Remote Presence.
Cretin. It has nothing to do with political fetishes about leftism or the stupidity of modern Americans because of the lack of investment in education. The reason for the reduced progress in semiconductor technology is because we are running out of physics. The physical dimensions are now so small that leakage currents and power dissipation are reaching the limits of what is possible with the available materials. Lots of clever and difficult manufacturing processes and material configurations have been developed to make today's silicon chips. The factories that make the latest and most powerful chips cost in the region of $10 Billion because it has become so hard to make them. The problem is not a shortage of ideas, the problem is that it has become 18 times more difficult to make advances in chip performance. Of course both a right wing political expert and a bunch of media reporters choose to misrepresent academic research that measures this slow down in progress as 'political defects in society' and a 'lack of creativity' because, hey screw facts, we have irrelevant opinions and random talking points to argue about. What this demonstrates in fact is that general society is almost completely ignorant about where its technological marvels come from.
I await with interest the response to CRISPR/Cas 9 and Genetic Medicine which will be a mainstream technology marvel of the coming 50 years. You folk are probably too dumb to know what to do with it let alone recognize its potential benefits. For goodness sake learn a bit more about how the science and the world works before ranting about your prejudices and politics.
You raise an interesting point. These days there is little difference in the idea of extraditing people to the former Soviet Union and the current United States, the criminal justice system in the US having such apoor reputation globally. Of course there are many nations that are worse but that is not an excuse for a supposedly free country.
If they think I am going to use a search field which might take me to a random website instead of searching for a URL or IP address they can Fcuk off. Morons. They can also give me back 8 add-ons that they are about to disable. Maybe I should give Chrome a whirl seeing as it is supposed to render so much faster and I won't have any special reason to use Firefox any longer? What is it with cretinous designers who introduce new stuff (good) whilst removing all the good stuff that I already use (bad)?
Interestingly the economic system we have at present would like to give all of the benefits of the increased productivity of "robots" to the 0.01%, I suggest you figure out how to kill people and eat them if you want to survive in the next 50 years unless you change your politics from your current right wing persuasions.
The destruction of the EU is a CIA dream. The EU are the only global political force that actually have any alternative against the American system of Corporate fucking of the population. Enjoy your slavery to corporations who are free to fuck your environment you fool.
Amusingly since the end of the cold war most western governments have implemented the tactics of the soviet union because no one can point out that the enemy used to do that.
They are not marching as fast as the right wing architects of fascism I can assure you. You are being fed a diet of propaganda designed to protect the 0.01% and their wealth at the expense of 99.01% of the people. The corporations which you mention make their money out of the 99.01% of the people so they basically couldn't give a fuck so long as they maintain their revenue stream. Why are you so stupid?
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Are the odds 100% that this "study" was funded by tobacco money? Do 40k Americans die in road traffic accidents every year but we never discuss them because there are no angles for profitable corporations? Does vaping save the lives of up to 400k people a year? Actually I think there is a good case for locking up the people doing the study for manslaughter.
Absolutely. Knowing that gamers spend 85% of their time on Pornhub is going to help advertisers how exactly?
Ditto, though I have a phone, not a smartphone and I watch University lectures on YouTube for entertainment. Social media is a waste of time as youngsters who might be interesting to interact with tend to go "private" to grown-ups so it becomes anti-social media. The rest of it is either baby pictures or people sharing fake news hate speech. So I don't bother with social media much any more. Smartphones are overated so long as you have net access through a laptop, tablet or desktop.
Well Kim Jong Un certainly goes along with that kind of thinking. Enjoy your radioactive smoking wasteland.
This is the equivalent of asking the question "have you stopped beating your wife yet" with the option of "Yes" or "No". "Not texting" could never be employed as a mechanism to wipe out debt. "Not voting" could very well be funded and pay for loans. Crap study.
Third world reproductive rates collapse the moment you give them a pension and educate the women and provide access to contraception. Oh and have a word with religions which use weight of population to defeat other religions.
I will just plug vegetables here. The average Westerner eats between 10 and 20 grams of dietary fiber a day. Most heath authorities have revised up the minimum healthy intake from around 20 to 30+ grams a day as a result of research into the human microbiome. Basically your lower bowel is being starved of the material that feeds the bugs and which make the short chain fatty acids that feed the bowel walls. This is a bad move as the disbiosis and damaged bowel wall is now being associated with just about every disease of the western world. (Cancer, heart disease, diabeties, obesity etc.) So eat plenty of vegetables with your pizza if you must eat pizza - Which means anything up to a pound of a mixture of Broccoli, carrots, cabbage, bell pepper, Beans (pinto, cannellini, kidney, chick peas) asparagus, Cauliflower, onion, Tomatoes, apples a day and half a can of baked beans is ok too. You have been warned.
Hey, don't worry, you also get to pay for Cops shooting blacks in the back, protection for the Westboro Church, protection in the courts for Scientology, Politicians who can only survive by doing the bidding of the corporations funding them, A healthcare system that murders poor people, overseas wars that fill the world with fucking terrorists. On balance I think you get much more stuff you like for your money than the rest of us. Gab even gets cheap propaganda by being allowed to file a spurious lawsuit against Google - what more could you ask for?
GAB is a scam, they censor stuff just like any other company that wants to stay in business. The only difference is that they pretend they will let white supremacists and Nazi's have free reign - they won't but will attract plenty of Infowars nutcases on the back of the lie.
Because you live in a country where it is permissible to defraud your customers but not possible for customers to defraud giant corporations. Enjoy your crap version of unregulated corrupt capitalism you cucks.
I am getting tired of "white supremacists" and their snowflake offense on behalf of other people. So the young idiot used a depreciated word. Grow up and get over it. I would be more impressed if you cretins did something about the black people being shot in the back every day by the American police. Piss off. Incidentally the worst possible offensive word in Swedish is devil - so to be fair Americans should stop using that.
Hey suckers you carry on using Apps and the rest of us over 50 will stick with conventional desktop applications. I imagine they already know when to start advertising funeral services to losers like you. At least for the moment Classic Shell hides all of these pieces of marketing malware in a drop-down menu that I have never bothered to explore. Though I have bothered to disable anything that they hook to in the settings. Enjoy your walled garden!
I believe that you are wrong. The world made do with the spoken word before it invented writing. No one seriously suggests that we throw away all the books and go back to the spoken word. Writing opened up new possibilities such as amassing bodies of knowledge in library's and passing ever more complex ideas down the generations - not just science but things like Art History. Computers have similarly made available the internet and the ability such as this - for people from all around the world to discuss what they think and what they know. The act of writing software may not be much better than writing a book but it is the use to which the software or the book is put that is the measure of its effect on the world. So software engineering is a valuable occupation, particularly when it is part of a collaborative enterprise like providing services like smart power, insurance quotations - you name it the modern world would not exist without software engineering.
The problem if there is a problem with "creativity" is not so much the training. The problem is monopoly paradigm. There is only one way of doing a thing because of the enormous vested interest in the current way of doing it. (See gasoline and electric vehicles.) There may well be a fantastic future in biological computation for example but no one is going to spend $100 Million on exploring it because we already spent $10 Billion on a chip factory and have to make the money back.
An inciteful comment, there are further directions to explore in semiconductor chip technology and circuit topology but the easy wins are in the past. Progress will continue but it is becoming exponentially more difficult to increase the compute power of individual chips. It is arguably true that the internet has provided a considerable boost to human capability on a par with the increasing power of individual devices. I would expect further boosts from things like Big Data, the Internet of Things, Intelligent Power Management, Artificial Intelligence, Robots, Remote Presence.
Cretin. It has nothing to do with political fetishes about leftism or the stupidity of modern Americans because of the lack of investment in education. The reason for the reduced progress in semiconductor technology is because we are running out of physics. The physical dimensions are now so small that leakage currents and power dissipation are reaching the limits of what is possible with the available materials. Lots of clever and difficult manufacturing processes and material configurations have been developed to make today's silicon chips. The factories that make the latest and most powerful chips cost in the region of $10 Billion because it has become so hard to make them. The problem is not a shortage of ideas, the problem is that it has become 18 times more difficult to make advances in chip performance. Of course both a right wing political expert and a bunch of media reporters choose to misrepresent academic research that measures this slow down in progress as 'political defects in society' and a 'lack of creativity' because, hey screw facts, we have irrelevant opinions and random talking points to argue about. What this demonstrates in fact is that general society is almost completely ignorant about where its technological marvels come from.
I await with interest the response to CRISPR/Cas 9 and Genetic Medicine which will be a mainstream technology marvel of the coming 50 years. You folk are probably too dumb to know what to do with it let alone recognize its potential benefits. For goodness sake learn a bit more about how the science and the world works before ranting about your prejudices and politics.
You raise an interesting point. These days there is little difference in the idea of extraditing people to the former Soviet Union and the current United States, the criminal justice system in the US having such apoor reputation globally. Of course there are many nations that are worse but that is not an excuse for a supposedly free country.
If they think I am going to use a search field which might take me to a random website instead of searching for a URL or IP address they can Fcuk off. Morons. They can also give me back 8 add-ons that they are about to disable. Maybe I should give Chrome a whirl seeing as it is supposed to render so much faster and I won't have any special reason to use Firefox any longer? What is it with cretinous designers who introduce new stuff (good) whilst removing all the good stuff that I already use (bad)?
Interestingly the economic system we have at present would like to give all of the benefits of the increased productivity of "robots" to the 0.01%, I suggest you figure out how to kill people and eat them if you want to survive in the next 50 years unless you change your politics from your current right wing persuasions.
I give you a few months before Trump implements the same thing in the USA. You are stupid beyond belief.
You assume that because the NSA reads everything you ever look at or post that you are any more free. You are a cretin.
The destruction of the EU is a CIA dream. The EU are the only global political force that actually have any alternative against the American system of Corporate fucking of the population. Enjoy your slavery to corporations who are free to fuck your environment you fool.
Amusingly since the end of the cold war most western governments have implemented the tactics of the soviet union because no one can point out that the enemy used to do that.
Brexit benefits no one except the hedge fund managers who funded the propaganda for it.
They are not marching as fast as the right wing architects of fascism I can assure you. You are being fed a diet of propaganda designed to protect the 0.01% and their wealth at the expense of 99.01% of the people. The corporations which you mention make their money out of the 99.01% of the people so they basically couldn't give a fuck so long as they maintain their revenue stream. Why are you so stupid?