So basically these developers are intolerant of any type of political message other than their own.
You have no evidence upon which you can draw such a broad inference.
The only thing you can conclude with any certainty is that these developers are intolerant of some messages different from their own, delivered in certain ways. That probably describes everybody who cares about anything.
Take me for example. I'm a nerd. That makes me intolerant of political messages based on sloppy logic.
OK, a couple of things. The site you linked to hasn't published all Hitler's speeches. Just the ones they thought reflected best on him. If you want to know what Hitler was saying about the Jews, I refer you to Mein Kampf.
As for Mr. Trump's position on Muslims, he did not specifically call for internment of Muslims (as far as I can see) but invited comparisons by suggesting his policies were akin to FDR's policies on Japanese Americans. However when challenged point-blank about interning Muslims he ruled it out (at least for now). But here are some of the measures he has either suggested or refused to rule out when asked point blank:
(1) Warrantless searches targetted at Muslims (2) Requiring Muslims to register in a national database (3) Requiring Muslims to carry special identification papers.
These have prompted condemnations from most Congressional Republicans. There are, of course, the requisite oddball or two, mostly crackpot state legislators and a few ex-Congress critters . I wouldn't dream of hanging these kooks around most Republicans' necks -- living by the sword and all that you know.
Of course Trump isn't a Nazi. He doesn't have the style. American fascists don't have their continental counterparts' pretenses of cultural sophistication. When they gain power they won't sit around the dinner table bragging about the art they've stolen. They'll steal sports teams and golf courses; stuff like that.
All those would-be American Hitlers in their Hugo-Boss designed uniforms were undermining their own case; branding themselves as foreigners. The native style of the American authoritarian is vulgar. Wealthy vulgarity, it is true, but vulgar nonetheless.
Now I can tell that you're barking up the wrong tree here, because of course Trump isn't a Nazi. Even Nazis weren't Nazis -- when it didn't suit them to be Nazis. Fascist ideologies are slapdash things, their ideas are to be used when they're handy and then ignored when they're not. Inconsistency doesn't bother fascist followers, because fascism isn't an ideology; it's a disease of ideology. It is what happens to an ideology, right or left, when pure feeling trumps fact and principle.
This is why that no matter how many times Trump is caught lying, even when he contradicts himeself, it has no effect on his credibility. The appeal of fascism is how it makes you feel in the moment. It offers the bliss of relief from the pressures of past obligations or future consequences; the permission to say, even act out things that in another context would be shameful or disgusting. In a way, it's a lot like falling in love. You never see your boyfriend's faults until his betrayals become undeniable.
A big one is this - after what she and the DNC did to Sanders, you all plan to reward her by voting for Hillary?
Err... you mean beating him? Even in the popular vote?
Now note this very carefully: I was and am a Sanders supporter. I'm a little different than most in that I'm not a young voter; I'm an old one.
Unlike many of my younger, err, comrades, I've actually read the party by-laws. So I know that like the RNC, the DNC is not designed to be a non-partisan, impartial body. It is a power center which party insiders struggle to put their partisans on. Neither party is particularly anxious to advertise this fact, because they'd like voters to believe things are completely small-d democratic. But a party isn't entirely a democracy; it's an organization where you gain power by putting in time and bringing things to the table other people need.
You might think that a party that operated entirely according to the will of anyone who registers as a member (or crosses over to vote in the primary) would be a better thing than what we have now. But it's not what we have. You can always found your own party on those principles, but note that you won't have any particular influence in that party if you're successful.
So the DNC emails were only shocking to uniformed people, and people pretending to be uninformed because outrage makes good TV. Trump operatives are trying to make hay of these "revelations", but let me point out that Trump operatives are like bucket loaders full of bullshit.
The real reason it is a waste of time is that a Mars mission is something that will take well over a decade to complete, and 19.5 billion is relatively speaking like put a $1000 dollar down payment on an aircraft carrier -- or it would be even if that money didn't have to be shared with Earth orbital priorities and we had the attention span to carry on funding the program consistently.
The recurring problem with NASA for decades now has been bold-sounding rhetoric backed up by very timid levels of funding. You want to get this done? Create a quasi-governmental authority with the power to tax people up to, say, thirty-one billion a year for the next twenty years. That would be, adjusted for inflation roughly Apollo's annual funding but extended over about twice the program duration. If that sounds insane to you, it's because we don't do that kind of thing anymore.
I will go out on a limb here and predict that the US will not be the nation to land a human on Mars. That's because we have a political system that's really bad at focusing on things that take longer than the interval between a Congressional election and the congressmen gearing up for the next one -- about a year and half tops. Stuff that takes longer than either never gets started, or runs horribly out of control (F35).
Oh, you do have to think about what people need, if you want to keep them as customers. You need to address both wants and needs, and sometimes its a bit like juggling chainsaws while riding a unicycle.
That said, I hate mobile carriers. They are the scum of the Earth. The one really great thing about unlimited data plans is it makes it a snap to compare prices. Knowing what I know about carriers from years of experience I'll bet that's part of Verizon's reluctance; they HATE being in a commodity business where people just look at price and pick whatever's cheapest. They want you tied to their service and not unsure whether changing would hurt.
Well, you probably live in an old-school Republic precinct. The kind of town where folks at they Y thoughtfully leave their back issues of Rich Protestant Golfer magazine behind so others will have something to read on the treadmill. The kind of place where you serve your guests drinks in the living room, not on the kitchen table. Good people, but sometimes a little obtuse about how the other 80% live.
Trump locked down the non-traditionals, and the rest of the Republicans were splitting the traditional R vote a dozen ways. Add to that primary rules that were written to favor early front runners. Those rules worked like a charm: instead of the agony of prolonged uncertainty the party suffered the agony of premature certainty.
Conversion efficiency is not a big deal when you're using renewable sources; in those cases you're interested in capital investment efficiency (what you get out for dollar invested).
That's because wind or solar or tidal you don't capture simply goes away; the waste is 100% when you don't use it, so if you capture any of it, it's a win, so long as the money up front isn't too much.
You are conflating what is reasonable to conclude about child abuse in general and child abuse at a major teaching hospital. The whole point is that sampling bias skews your perspective of what is "normal".
Horse: Many Muslims (like some Christian sects) consider pictorial representations of the human figure as violating the prohibition on graven images. As with those iconoclastic Christian sects that prohibition is most strictly observed when it comes to religious figures, possibly because of the quasi-worship of Christian saints Muslims witnessed among German knights in the Holy Land, which must have struck them (as it would later Protestants) as a kind of polytheism.
That's why when you look at the massive, elaborately decorated mosques you won't see a single human or animal figure. Instead you'll see elaborate geometrical figures and highly stylized calligraphy, which are the main visual form of Sunni artistic expression. To find any sort of art depicting people one must look to Shia dominated areas, such as Persia (Iran), which boasts manyfineexamples.
The universe is large, little man, and full of endless wonders; the time you have to fill your mind with those wonders is short.
Because of all the situations in which the Interstate Commerce Clause has been stretched to extend Federal authority, Internet access isn't one of them.
It's not about stopping anyone. It's about being able to criminalize everyone and then selectively enforce the laws
The notion that this is about criminalizing everyone is paranoia. If you look at the uses, the people who get prosecuted are morons. The selective enforcement issue is a serious concern, however, with any futile law.
It would probably be worth looking up exactly what "hate speech" laws actually say in Canada. The laws actually offer a number of affirmative defenses such as truth, or a reasonable basis for believing the things said are true, religious belief.
In that they are not unlike US libel laws, which restrict free speech where it harms others (reputationally in this case rather than causing fear), but their are major and significant limitations to the application of the law.
Personally the problem I see is that the law is that it is futile. The people who it targets are, to put it bluntly, mentally defective. A law is not going to stop them.
I continued to wear the personal tracker I've worn for the past three years, but in the interest of the study I deliberately ignored it. After the study ended, I looked and could see that my daily counts were averaging much lower than they were when I was actively trying to meet a daily step goal.
Yes! All the data in the world does you no good if you don't look at it.
I think underlying most people's failure is an irrational aversion to anything that smacks of failure. They turn a weight rebound -- which is a normal thing -- into a failure; and then they give up. If you're a data nut you see it as an interesting episode. Does this mean what I'm doing is pooping out? Or am I getting sloppy, or adjusting in other ways. You need a hacker's mentality and that includes a high tolerance for setbacks.
Like I said, only a minority of people have what it takes to do this. You have to (a) make everything easy as possible for yourself and yet (b) have patience and be prepared for intermediate failure.
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You're too young to remember Junis, I take it. Hell even Google hardly remembers "Junis"; you have to Google "Junis Jon Katz"
Well, let's hope your spreadsheet software isn't configured to run unsigned macros.
Making obscene piles of money, evidently.
So basically these developers are intolerant of any type of political message other than their own.
You have no evidence upon which you can draw such a broad inference.
The only thing you can conclude with any certainty is that these developers are intolerant of some messages different from their own, delivered in certain ways. That probably describes everybody who cares about anything.
Take me for example. I'm a nerd. That makes me intolerant of political messages based on sloppy logic.
Depends on where you put it.
I said no such thing; you're mixing up posters.
OK, a couple of things. The site you linked to hasn't published all Hitler's speeches. Just the ones they thought reflected best on him. If you want to know what Hitler was saying about the Jews, I refer you to Mein Kampf.
As for Mr. Trump's position on Muslims, he did not specifically call for internment of Muslims (as far as I can see) but invited comparisons by suggesting his policies were akin to FDR's policies on Japanese Americans. However when challenged point-blank about interning Muslims he ruled it out (at least for now). But here are some of the measures he has either suggested or refused to rule out when asked point blank:
(1) Warrantless searches targetted at Muslims
(2) Requiring Muslims to register in a national database
(3) Requiring Muslims to carry special identification papers.
[source]
These have prompted condemnations from most Congressional Republicans. There are, of course, the requisite oddball or two, mostly crackpot state legislators and a few ex-Congress critters . I wouldn't dream of hanging these kooks around most Republicans' necks -- living by the sword and all that you know.
Of course Trump isn't a Nazi. He doesn't have the style. American fascists don't have their continental counterparts' pretenses of cultural sophistication. When they gain power they won't sit around the dinner table bragging about the art they've stolen. They'll steal sports teams and golf courses; stuff like that.
All those would-be American Hitlers in their Hugo-Boss designed uniforms were undermining their own case; branding themselves as foreigners. The native style of the American authoritarian is vulgar. Wealthy vulgarity, it is true, but vulgar nonetheless.
Now I can tell that you're barking up the wrong tree here, because of course Trump isn't a Nazi. Even Nazis weren't Nazis -- when it didn't suit them to be Nazis. Fascist ideologies are slapdash things, their ideas are to be used when they're handy and then ignored when they're not. Inconsistency doesn't bother fascist followers, because fascism isn't an ideology; it's a disease of ideology. It is what happens to an ideology, right or left, when pure feeling trumps fact and principle.
This is why that no matter how many times Trump is caught lying, even when he contradicts himeself, it has no effect on his credibility. The appeal of fascism is how it makes you feel in the moment. It offers the bliss of relief from the pressures of past obligations or future consequences; the permission to say, even act out things that in another context would be shameful or disgusting. In a way, it's a lot like falling in love. You never see your boyfriend's faults until his betrayals become undeniable.
A big one is this - after what she and the DNC did to Sanders, you all plan to reward her by voting for Hillary?
Err... you mean beating him? Even in the popular vote?
Now note this very carefully: I was and am a Sanders supporter. I'm a little different than most in that I'm not a young voter; I'm an old one.
Unlike many of my younger, err, comrades, I've actually read the party by-laws. So I know that like the RNC, the DNC is not designed to be a non-partisan, impartial body. It is a power center which party insiders struggle to put their partisans on. Neither party is particularly anxious to advertise this fact, because they'd like voters to believe things are completely small-d democratic. But a party isn't entirely a democracy; it's an organization where you gain power by putting in time and bringing things to the table other people need.
You might think that a party that operated entirely according to the will of anyone who registers as a member (or crosses over to vote in the primary) would be a better thing than what we have now. But it's not what we have. You can always found your own party on those principles, but note that you won't have any particular influence in that party if you're successful.
So the DNC emails were only shocking to uniformed people, and people pretending to be uninformed because outrage makes good TV. Trump operatives are trying to make hay of these "revelations", but let me point out that Trump operatives are like bucket loaders full of bullshit.
The real reason it is a waste of time is that a Mars mission is something that will take well over a decade to complete, and 19.5 billion is relatively speaking like put a $1000 dollar down payment on an aircraft carrier -- or it would be even if that money didn't have to be shared with Earth orbital priorities and we had the attention span to carry on funding the program consistently.
The recurring problem with NASA for decades now has been bold-sounding rhetoric backed up by very timid levels of funding. You want to get this done? Create a quasi-governmental authority with the power to tax people up to, say, thirty-one billion a year for the next twenty years. That would be, adjusted for inflation roughly Apollo's annual funding but extended over about twice the program duration. If that sounds insane to you, it's because we don't do that kind of thing anymore.
I will go out on a limb here and predict that the US will not be the nation to land a human on Mars. That's because we have a political system that's really bad at focusing on things that take longer than the interval between a Congressional election and the congressmen gearing up for the next one -- about a year and half tops. Stuff that takes longer than either never gets started, or runs horribly out of control (F35).
China has its own satellites.
Oh, you do have to think about what people need, if you want to keep them as customers. You need to address both wants and needs, and sometimes its a bit like juggling chainsaws while riding a unicycle.
That said, I hate mobile carriers. They are the scum of the Earth. The one really great thing about unlimited data plans is it makes it a snap to compare prices. Knowing what I know about carriers from years of experience I'll bet that's part of Verizon's reluctance; they HATE being in a commodity business where people just look at price and pick whatever's cheapest. They want you tied to their service and not unsure whether changing would hurt.
Well, you probably live in an old-school Republic precinct. The kind of town where folks at they Y thoughtfully leave their back issues of Rich Protestant Golfer magazine behind so others will have something to read on the treadmill. The kind of place where you serve your guests drinks in the living room, not on the kitchen table. Good people, but sometimes a little obtuse about how the other 80% live.
Trump locked down the non-traditionals, and the rest of the Republicans were splitting the traditional R vote a dozen ways. Add to that primary rules that were written to favor early front runners. Those rules worked like a charm: instead of the agony of prolonged uncertainty the party suffered the agony of premature certainty.
Sorry, it was the White House that made Cheddar Mussolini the Republican nominee?
We were talking about the conversion efficiency of hydrogen.
Conversion efficiency is not a big deal when you're using renewable sources; in those cases you're interested in capital investment efficiency (what you get out for dollar invested).
That's because wind or solar or tidal you don't capture simply goes away; the waste is 100% when you don't use it, so if you capture any of it, it's a win, so long as the money up front isn't too much.
You are conflating what is reasonable to conclude about child abuse in general and child abuse at a major teaching hospital. The whole point is that sampling bias skews your perspective of what is "normal".
Horse:
Many Muslims (like some Christian sects) consider pictorial representations of the human figure as violating the prohibition on graven images. As with those iconoclastic Christian sects that prohibition is most strictly observed when it comes to religious figures, possibly because of the quasi-worship of Christian saints Muslims witnessed among German knights in the Holy Land, which must have struck them (as it would later Protestants) as a kind of polytheism.
That's why when you look at the massive, elaborately decorated mosques you won't see a single human or animal figure. Instead you'll see elaborate geometrical figures and highly stylized calligraphy, which are the main visual form of Sunni artistic expression. To find any sort of art depicting people one must look to Shia dominated areas, such as Persia (Iran), which boasts many fine examples.
The universe is large, little man, and full of endless wonders; the time you have to fill your mind with those wonders is short.
They sure are enterprising.
[I say this as someone who is Chinese; irony disclaimers apply]
Because of all the situations in which the Interstate Commerce Clause has been stretched to extend Federal authority, Internet access isn't one of them.
It's not about stopping anyone. It's about being able to criminalize everyone and then selectively enforce the laws
The notion that this is about criminalizing everyone is paranoia. If you look at the uses, the people who get prosecuted are morons. The selective enforcement issue is a serious concern, however, with any futile law.
It would probably be worth looking up exactly what "hate speech" laws actually say in Canada. The laws actually offer a number of affirmative defenses such as truth, or a reasonable basis for believing the things said are true, religious belief.
In that they are not unlike US libel laws, which restrict free speech where it harms others (reputationally in this case rather than causing fear), but their are major and significant limitations to the application of the law.
Personally the problem I see is that the law is that it is futile. The people who it targets are, to put it bluntly, mentally defective. A law is not going to stop them.
And that's a fine straw man you have there.
Yes! All the data in the world does you no good if you don't look at it.
I think underlying most people's failure is an irrational aversion to anything that smacks of failure. They turn a weight rebound -- which is a normal thing -- into a failure; and then they give up. If you're a data nut you see it as an interesting episode. Does this mean what I'm doing is pooping out? Or am I getting sloppy, or adjusting in other ways. You need a hacker's mentality and that includes a high tolerance for setbacks.
Like I said, only a minority of people have what it takes to do this. You have to (a) make everything easy as possible for yourself and yet (b) have patience and be prepared for intermediate failure.