Go back and review the comments regarding Brandon Eich, Cliven Bundy, that guy who owned the LA Lakers, that Duck Dynasty guy, and probably half of Steve King's remarks. You can even see it in the discussions here on Slashdot. If you've never observed that tendency, I can only say you may need to pay a bit more attention.
These are really dumb examples because none of them have been particularly set back by those comments, except for the Lakers guy who was set up by a jilted wife/girlfriend/whatever to say those things. If you just listen to the conversation, it's obvious the woman he was talking to was deliberately baiting him into saying those things, and it was very likely taken out of context as well.
Either way, he hasn't come forth demanding his right to be able to say those things without civil consequence, and neither has anybody else.
Sorry but you're retarded, and so is the rest of your needlessly lengthy post.
Regardless, this is really bad form on the part of Microsoft and I wouldn't be surprised if Mozilla, Google, and possibly opera end up suing Microsoft for libel over this.
They want to say blatantly racist or bigoted things and not have anyone say "Hey wait a minute, that was horrible a prejudiced and wrong."
Such as? Be specific.
And on that note, there are lots of things that are bigoted that the left doesn't seem to have a problem perpetuating. For example, it's considered totally acceptable to bash rednecks and Christians, even though doing so is by definition bigotry. How many times on an internet forum do you see people say "murica'"? Again, by definition that is bigotry. Have a look at the "unfair campaign"; again, bigotry. Need I go on? Why is bigotry acceptable so long as it's popular?
It also occurs to me that you yourself are being bigoted against the Trump camp.
Say you hate Mexicans. Say you hate Muslims.
I haven't seen any of these things out of the Trump camp. I've seen comments to the effect of restricting their entry into the country (and given the impact that the later is having on Europe, there may be wisdom to that -- I don't know -- but it would be a very clear cut violation of the first amendment, so it cannot be done.)
But to imagine that other members of society have to keep their mouths shut or that people can't condemn you for it, well that's not demanding free speech, that's demanding that only you have those kinds of freedoms, and everyone else just has to accept it and keep their mouths shut.
I haven't seen this out of them as well (and my comments about bigotry on the part of the left have nothing to do with this; rather, that is to point out that it's pretty hypocritical to call out bigotry on the part of others when I have yet to meet a single person who hasn't exhibited some form of bigotry, myself included.)
Trump doesn't represent some grand bastion of free speech.
I didn't say he does, rather I'm pointing out how idiotic (and indeed hypocritical) it is to protest a convention.
Not that he's dumb, but Penn Jillette has empowered manchildren in a pretty fun way. Libertarians love him, because he's a libertarian, but this is the same block who is so quick to cut down celebrities who express political views. In other words, you're getting your talking points from a financially successful magician.
He cuts down celebrities who are being deceptive. This is something that the best magicians tend to be well known for, and indeed are responsible for effectively killing bunk sciences and professions like parapsychology, cryptozoology, psychics, faith healing, and exorcism. In this regard, Penn Jillette comes in the same vein as Harry Houdini and James Rhandi.
If you have netflix (or torrent your movies) I recommend watching the movie "An Honest Liar", it's pretty entertaining to watch how he brought down the field of parapsychology and scammers like Peter Popoff.
Disclaimer: I am NOT a republican and I DO NOT support Trump even the slightest bit.
Perhaps the problem is that you're trying to justify what amounts to laziness and apathy with what you think sounds like informed cynicism, but what to others sounds like playground-level petulance. When you boil it down, what you're really saying is a Cartmanesque "Screw you guys, I'm going home."
There's wisdom in that. The political discourse in this country is really stupid, and it seems to mostly come from the left, but the right does it a little bit as well. For perfect case in point, why the FUCK would you protest a gathering of a political party? That is to say, what exactly are you protesting? Their right to peacefully assemble? Their right to speak their minds? I must be missing something huge because I really have no idea what is wrong with either of those things. I highly value free speech, and free speech means people can say things that you don't like. And to further that, why is it that if somebody says something that the left doesn't like, they almost immediately have to label it as racist, misogynistic, or otherwise hateful against a particular group when it practically never does any of the above? I keep hearing the word "racist" get thrown about Trump, however I've yet to hear anything from him that is definable as racist. So he wants to have tighter controls against illegal immigration, mainly directed at Mexico...umm...Mexico isn't a race.
It's not so much a "screw you guys, I'm going home" moment, it's more of one of these moments:
Going from lawyers to mechanics isn't exactly a huge leap forward. That's the point, that there is no labor shortage, not in the labor market overall. There is a shortage of demand. Some fields are doing okay, like the blue collar trades that you mentioned, largely due to the fact that they're both harder to automate and relatively immune to globalization-related concerns, which helps keep demand high. Other fields, not so much, because if there was, you'd easily be able to point to evidence and say "See, they really can't find people to do $job! They're offering ludicrously high salaries and still these positions go unfilled!", much like you just pointed to those trades, which account for only a tiny share of the labor market, and as such are more the exception than the norm.
I think they're more in demand than most people realize. As for myself in particular, I went to become a network engineer, and I haven't had any difficulty finding work at all. Hell, I got laid off earlier this year and when I got hired at a new place only 60 days later my salary went up by about 60%. Aircraft mechanics can easily make more money than I do (about $80k/yr.) Dental hygienists easily make more money than I do. And all three of these are jobs where once you have the training, it's stupid how easy it is to find a job. You'll easily make more than $70k/year in even the lowest wage areas after you have 1-2 years of on the job experience in any of these, and none of these require a four year degree, rather all of these can be acquired from community college level training.
Either way, because this requires an extremely cold temperature, it will likely never even end up in even the most state-of-the-art datacenter, nevermind your PC. This is one of those neat yet 100% impractical things that come around every so often. Could a derivative of this technology some day become practical? Maybe, but not with the copper/chlorine combination seen here. I think DNA based storage would probably come sooner.
I think the main problem is that people are going into jobs that there isn't any actual demand for. For example, I've actually met somebody who majored in History and then complains that he can't make a living wage. And I've seen many more art majors who think that the world is going to hell because not enough people care for the moronic crap art that most local art districts produce.
The same is true for some majors that actually paid a lot in the past, and otherwise may still pay a high hourly rate, but there are so fucking many people in that career that your odds of finding steady work are crap. Case in point, lawyers.
Meanwhile there are lots of jobs that pay no less than $20/hr that can't be automated and have plenty of positions that need filling: HVAC, plumbing, auto and aviation mechanics (good mechanics can easily pull a 6 figure sum, by the way) construction workers, electricians, landscapers, maintenance contractors, and many more.
I personally went to community college to become a network engineer, and I didn't borrow a cent for school either.
I don't think it's relevant whether he has money or not. This is another one of those "once it's here, it's not going away any time soon" kind of things. SCOTUS's ruling on gay marriage isn't going to be reversed any easier than Roe v Wade would ever be. It's thus no longer an issue. Sure, people will speak loudly and often about it, but that won't make it any more relevant.
Besides, among republicans I've seen anti-2nd amendment and pro-choice. Just because somebody differs on one or even two issues doesn't mean they're required to differ on everything else too. I mean fuck, look at Bru...er Cai...or whatever Jenner's view on this issue is. The expectation that they MUST share ALL of the same views as their party is the whole reason we're stuck in this two party rut to begin with.
From what I've seen about Theil, he doesn't come off as self loathing. It occurs to me that just because one is attracted to the same sex doesn't mean they want to be part of the gay scene or culture, nor do they want it to be seen as an integral part of their identity.
In other words, they don't want to be seen as a homosexual Hugh Hefner, which oddly seems to become the default behavior of openly gay people.
Theil seems to want to be in the "Yes I'm attracted to the same sex. Next subject." category, same with other famous people like James Rhandi.
What bothers me is why this is largely viewed as self loathing in the media.
The Schwartz bit is not true at all. The majority of research would have already been funded by at least one taxpayer funding source, only to be swept up and locked away. That is not right. For that alone, Schwartz's actions were just.
If all taxpayer funded research belonged to the public domain, then our military would be at a huge tactical disadvantage, among a ton of other problems.
I'm in favor of pardoning Snowden, but Manning and Schwartz?
Manning leaked stuff that served no useful benefit to the public, other than being edited to improve Julian Assange's ego (who by the way, essentially admitted that he lied about the military targeting civilians, but claimed it was for a good cause.) And by the way, the guy who turned him in felt the same way.
And Aaron Schwartz legitimately broke the law and had no noble intentions at all. The only useful thing to come out of that was to point the finger at overzealous prosection.
I think what should really grind people's gears is that the research has found that whites are more or less in a position where affirmative action neither helps nor hinders them. However if you're Asian, you're facing a massive uphill battle to get into a good school, because AA very heavily discriminates against them.
This is one reason why they're so well represented in higher paying jobs compared to other ethnic groups: In order to get their degree at a high end school, they seriously had to stand out of a crowd, while in many cases latinos and blacks can just walk in to an Ivy League school without any effort, just like one merely signs up for a community college for practically 100% guaranteed enrollment. If that isn't institutionalized racism against Asians, then honestly there just isn't any fucking institutionalized racism in this country at all.
You can find really inexpensive Android cell phones for as low as $10 with WiFi, cellular, and GPS with a graphical interface. If you want to program on Android, there's lots of great ways to do it, but even the non-programmer can use apps like Automate or Tasker to perform complex operations with no previous experience. Why is the Raspberry Pi so great for tinkerers?
I think it's mainly because of what you can do with that big header strip on it.
I honestly have yet to figure out what the fuck the point in most of these emojis is. In the past everybody just used a combination of existing ascii symbols to show the mood of your message, and I am still trying to figure out what the new emojis solve that that system didn't solve. I mean what the fuck kind of mood is a tomato or an ant supposed to represent?
And speak of all of the PC shit that's going into it now, I wonder how BLM would respond if you sent messages with a watermelon and a chicken?
This is what I'm planning to do, except without the ho-hum job part. It's mainly to hedge my bets against the very likely odds that I'll be unable to work in a few years due to having to be stuck in a dialysis clinic 3 times a week. If my house is paid for, I could live just fine on ~1200 a month. I've lived on less while still paying rent.
Well, I think training developers is probably a better idea than dancing around and shouting "developers" with the intent that it will start raining developers.
The later makes sense, actually. You won't hear a progressive admit this even though deep down they know it's a fact, but progressive is really just a label that somebody places upon themselves when they're convinced that they've somehow figured it all out, and that only their views can possibly be the way forward, so fuck everybody else's perspective on any given matter because they're the only enlightened one in the world.
And speak of perspective, progressive, by the way, is a term that groups such as prohibitionists, Nazis, and a number of other infamous groups have applied themselves in the past, even though in the end they turned out to be way wrong.
And yet strangely enough we don't hear the same rhetoric about Canada, Norway, or the dozens of other countries who allow private ownership of firearms. I honestly thing Europeans who say what you say are just full of themselves. Especially the ones who say "the rest of the world does x", or saying that "the US right of the rest of the world" when they're just talking about Europe as if just fucking Europe is the entire rest of the world. (I especially find it odd that they consider the US to be more authoritarian than nearly every Asian country, who far outnumber Europe, in addition to flat out ignoring politics in the Middle East, Africa, and South America...because, you know, all that matters is fucking Europe.)
That really seems to depend on the state. In Arizona at least, there were 27 white guys shot by police last year. And yet, there was just 1 black person shot.
If we follow black lives matter logic, then police are clearly discriminating against white people in my state, and we should start a white lives matter movement.
Or if we simply follow rational logic instead, then we clearly see different behavior patterns in different racial groups in different geographical regions.
Arizona has some of the most lax gun laws, by the way. For example, you don't need a permit to conceal carry here, and there are practically no limits on the type of weapon you can carry so long as it doesn't break federal rules. You can however sidestep federal rules here if you mill your own weapon.
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If most of the country finds yours appalling, I'd postulate that's probably your problem, not theirs.
Absolutely not. If I mention a sensitive topic that has nothing to do with race, and somebody calls me a racist for it, that's their problem.
Go back and review the comments regarding Brandon Eich, Cliven Bundy, that guy who owned the LA Lakers, that Duck Dynasty guy, and probably half of Steve King's remarks. You can even see it in the discussions here on Slashdot. If you've never observed that tendency, I can only say you may need to pay a bit more attention.
These are really dumb examples because none of them have been particularly set back by those comments, except for the Lakers guy who was set up by a jilted wife/girlfriend/whatever to say those things. If you just listen to the conversation, it's obvious the woman he was talking to was deliberately baiting him into saying those things, and it was very likely taken out of context as well.
Either way, he hasn't come forth demanding his right to be able to say those things without civil consequence, and neither has anybody else.
Sorry but you're retarded, and so is the rest of your needlessly lengthy post.
You forgot Agriculture w/ GMO foods
Interesting theory considering the nucleotide sequences are right there for anybody to look at.
Regardless, this is really bad form on the part of Microsoft and I wouldn't be surprised if Mozilla, Google, and possibly opera end up suing Microsoft for libel over this.
They want to say blatantly racist or bigoted things and not have anyone say "Hey wait a minute, that was horrible a prejudiced and wrong."
Such as? Be specific.
And on that note, there are lots of things that are bigoted that the left doesn't seem to have a problem perpetuating. For example, it's considered totally acceptable to bash rednecks and Christians, even though doing so is by definition bigotry. How many times on an internet forum do you see people say "murica'"? Again, by definition that is bigotry. Have a look at the "unfair campaign"; again, bigotry. Need I go on? Why is bigotry acceptable so long as it's popular?
It also occurs to me that you yourself are being bigoted against the Trump camp.
Say you hate Mexicans. Say you hate Muslims.
I haven't seen any of these things out of the Trump camp. I've seen comments to the effect of restricting their entry into the country (and given the impact that the later is having on Europe, there may be wisdom to that -- I don't know -- but it would be a very clear cut violation of the first amendment, so it cannot be done.)
But to imagine that other members of society have to keep their mouths shut or that people can't condemn you for it, well that's not demanding free speech, that's demanding that only you have those kinds of freedoms, and everyone else just has to accept it and keep their mouths shut.
I haven't seen this out of them as well (and my comments about bigotry on the part of the left have nothing to do with this; rather, that is to point out that it's pretty hypocritical to call out bigotry on the part of others when I have yet to meet a single person who hasn't exhibited some form of bigotry, myself included.)
Trump doesn't represent some grand bastion of free speech.
I didn't say he does, rather I'm pointing out how idiotic (and indeed hypocritical) it is to protest a convention.
Not that he's dumb, but Penn Jillette has empowered manchildren in a pretty fun way. Libertarians love him, because he's a libertarian, but this is the same block who is so quick to cut down celebrities who express political views. In other words, you're getting your talking points from a financially successful magician.
He cuts down celebrities who are being deceptive. This is something that the best magicians tend to be well known for, and indeed are responsible for effectively killing bunk sciences and professions like parapsychology, cryptozoology, psychics, faith healing, and exorcism. In this regard, Penn Jillette comes in the same vein as Harry Houdini and James Rhandi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you have netflix (or torrent your movies) I recommend watching the movie "An Honest Liar", it's pretty entertaining to watch how he brought down the field of parapsychology and scammers like Peter Popoff.
Disclaimer: I am NOT a republican and I DO NOT support Trump even the slightest bit.
Perhaps the problem is that you're trying to justify what amounts to laziness and apathy with what you think sounds like informed cynicism, but what to others sounds like playground-level petulance. When you boil it down, what you're really saying is a Cartmanesque "Screw you guys, I'm going home."
There's wisdom in that. The political discourse in this country is really stupid, and it seems to mostly come from the left, but the right does it a little bit as well. For perfect case in point, why the FUCK would you protest a gathering of a political party? That is to say, what exactly are you protesting? Their right to peacefully assemble? Their right to speak their minds? I must be missing something huge because I really have no idea what is wrong with either of those things. I highly value free speech, and free speech means people can say things that you don't like. And to further that, why is it that if somebody says something that the left doesn't like, they almost immediately have to label it as racist, misogynistic, or otherwise hateful against a particular group when it practically never does any of the above? I keep hearing the word "racist" get thrown about Trump, however I've yet to hear anything from him that is definable as racist. So he wants to have tighter controls against illegal immigration, mainly directed at Mexico...umm...Mexico isn't a race.
It's not so much a "screw you guys, I'm going home" moment, it's more of one of these moments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Going from lawyers to mechanics isn't exactly a huge leap forward. That's the point, that there is no labor shortage, not in the labor market overall. There is a shortage of demand. Some fields are doing okay, like the blue collar trades that you mentioned, largely due to the fact that they're both harder to automate and relatively immune to globalization-related concerns, which helps keep demand high. Other fields, not so much, because if there was, you'd easily be able to point to evidence and say "See, they really can't find people to do $job! They're offering ludicrously high salaries and still these positions go unfilled!", much like you just pointed to those trades, which account for only a tiny share of the labor market, and as such are more the exception than the norm.
I think they're more in demand than most people realize. As for myself in particular, I went to become a network engineer, and I haven't had any difficulty finding work at all. Hell, I got laid off earlier this year and when I got hired at a new place only 60 days later my salary went up by about 60%. Aircraft mechanics can easily make more money than I do (about $80k/yr.) Dental hygienists easily make more money than I do. And all three of these are jobs where once you have the training, it's stupid how easy it is to find a job. You'll easily make more than $70k/year in even the lowest wage areas after you have 1-2 years of on the job experience in any of these, and none of these require a four year degree, rather all of these can be acquired from community college level training.
Either way, because this requires an extremely cold temperature, it will likely never even end up in even the most state-of-the-art datacenter, nevermind your PC. This is one of those neat yet 100% impractical things that come around every so often. Could a derivative of this technology some day become practical? Maybe, but not with the copper/chlorine combination seen here. I think DNA based storage would probably come sooner.
I think the main problem is that people are going into jobs that there isn't any actual demand for. For example, I've actually met somebody who majored in History and then complains that he can't make a living wage. And I've seen many more art majors who think that the world is going to hell because not enough people care for the moronic crap art that most local art districts produce.
The same is true for some majors that actually paid a lot in the past, and otherwise may still pay a high hourly rate, but there are so fucking many people in that career that your odds of finding steady work are crap. Case in point, lawyers.
Meanwhile there are lots of jobs that pay no less than $20/hr that can't be automated and have plenty of positions that need filling: HVAC, plumbing, auto and aviation mechanics (good mechanics can easily pull a 6 figure sum, by the way) construction workers, electricians, landscapers, maintenance contractors, and many more.
I personally went to community college to become a network engineer, and I didn't borrow a cent for school either.
Crossover for Android doesn't even exist yet, so the entire story is bullshit.
You'd almost swear that the the author of TFA had access to a pre-release copy of it; as if the guy worked for codeweavers or something....
I don't think it's relevant whether he has money or not. This is another one of those "once it's here, it's not going away any time soon" kind of things. SCOTUS's ruling on gay marriage isn't going to be reversed any easier than Roe v Wade would ever be. It's thus no longer an issue. Sure, people will speak loudly and often about it, but that won't make it any more relevant.
Besides, among republicans I've seen anti-2nd amendment and pro-choice. Just because somebody differs on one or even two issues doesn't mean they're required to differ on everything else too. I mean fuck, look at Bru...er Cai...or whatever Jenner's view on this issue is. The expectation that they MUST share ALL of the same views as their party is the whole reason we're stuck in this two party rut to begin with.
From what I've seen about Theil, he doesn't come off as self loathing. It occurs to me that just because one is attracted to the same sex doesn't mean they want to be part of the gay scene or culture, nor do they want it to be seen as an integral part of their identity.
In other words, they don't want to be seen as a homosexual Hugh Hefner, which oddly seems to become the default behavior of openly gay people.
Theil seems to want to be in the "Yes I'm attracted to the same sex. Next subject." category, same with other famous people like James Rhandi.
What bothers me is why this is largely viewed as self loathing in the media.
The Schwartz bit is not true at all. The majority of research would have already been funded by at least one taxpayer funding source, only to be swept up and locked away. That is not right. For that alone, Schwartz's actions were just.
If all taxpayer funded research belonged to the public domain, then our military would be at a huge tactical disadvantage, among a ton of other problems.
I'm in favor of pardoning Snowden, but Manning and Schwartz?
Manning leaked stuff that served no useful benefit to the public, other than being edited to improve Julian Assange's ego (who by the way, essentially admitted that he lied about the military targeting civilians, but claimed it was for a good cause.) And by the way, the guy who turned him in felt the same way.
And Aaron Schwartz legitimately broke the law and had no noble intentions at all. The only useful thing to come out of that was to point the finger at overzealous prosection.
I think what should really grind people's gears is that the research has found that whites are more or less in a position where affirmative action neither helps nor hinders them. However if you're Asian, you're facing a massive uphill battle to get into a good school, because AA very heavily discriminates against them.
This is one reason why they're so well represented in higher paying jobs compared to other ethnic groups: In order to get their degree at a high end school, they seriously had to stand out of a crowd, while in many cases latinos and blacks can just walk in to an Ivy League school without any effort, just like one merely signs up for a community college for practically 100% guaranteed enrollment. If that isn't institutionalized racism against Asians, then honestly there just isn't any fucking institutionalized racism in this country at all.
You can find really inexpensive Android cell phones for as low as $10 with WiFi, cellular, and GPS with a graphical interface. If you want to program on Android, there's lots of great ways to do it, but even the non-programmer can use apps like Automate or Tasker to perform complex operations with no previous experience. Why is the Raspberry Pi so great for tinkerers?
I think it's mainly because of what you can do with that big header strip on it.
I honestly have yet to figure out what the fuck the point in most of these emojis is. In the past everybody just used a combination of existing ascii symbols to show the mood of your message, and I am still trying to figure out what the new emojis solve that that system didn't solve. I mean what the fuck kind of mood is a tomato or an ant supposed to represent?
And speak of all of the PC shit that's going into it now, I wonder how BLM would respond if you sent messages with a watermelon and a chicken?
Seriously, this shit got stupid a long time ago.
This is what I'm planning to do, except without the ho-hum job part. It's mainly to hedge my bets against the very likely odds that I'll be unable to work in a few years due to having to be stuck in a dialysis clinic 3 times a week. If my house is paid for, I could live just fine on ~1200 a month. I've lived on less while still paying rent.
Well, I think training developers is probably a better idea than dancing around and shouting "developers" with the intent that it will start raining developers.
Almost every doctor or nurse I've spoken to says that if they had to do it all over again, they'd go into something else.
The later makes sense, actually. You won't hear a progressive admit this even though deep down they know it's a fact, but progressive is really just a label that somebody places upon themselves when they're convinced that they've somehow figured it all out, and that only their views can possibly be the way forward, so fuck everybody else's perspective on any given matter because they're the only enlightened one in the world.
And speak of perspective, progressive, by the way, is a term that groups such as prohibitionists, Nazis, and a number of other infamous groups have applied themselves in the past, even though in the end they turned out to be way wrong.
http://crimeresearch.org/2015/...
And yet strangely enough we don't hear the same rhetoric about Canada, Norway, or the dozens of other countries who allow private ownership of firearms. I honestly thing Europeans who say what you say are just full of themselves. Especially the ones who say "the rest of the world does x", or saying that "the US right of the rest of the world" when they're just talking about Europe as if just fucking Europe is the entire rest of the world. (I especially find it odd that they consider the US to be more authoritarian than nearly every Asian country, who far outnumber Europe, in addition to flat out ignoring politics in the Middle East, Africa, and South America...because, you know, all that matters is fucking Europe.)
Which one? How about both points I made:
http://www.pewresearch.org/fac...
http://crimeresearch.org/2015/...
Somehow the gun control crowd thinks that it's worse now than ever, but the available evidence just doesn't support that claim.
That really seems to depend on the state. In Arizona at least, there were 27 white guys shot by police last year. And yet, there was just 1 black person shot.
If we follow black lives matter logic, then police are clearly discriminating against white people in my state, and we should start a white lives matter movement.
Or if we simply follow rational logic instead, then we clearly see different behavior patterns in different racial groups in different geographical regions.
Arizona has some of the most lax gun laws, by the way. For example, you don't need a permit to conceal carry here, and there are practically no limits on the type of weapon you can carry so long as it doesn't break federal rules. You can however sidestep federal rules here if you mill your own weapon.