All that most people know about feminism comes from corporate press statements and talk radio.
Feminism would do well to distance itself from the name.
I find it odd that people would think this degrading to women. The very nature of the app is to exploit male sexuality for profit. They're the ones paying for it. The women are being paid and making their decisions freely. Autonomy applies too to men though and I feel that men should be able to make the decision themselves about whether or not they want to purchase the app.
It's disgusting to me that "feminism" as seen in popular media feels it necessary to degrade men by repeating the message that their natural desires are somehow destructive or deviant towards women.
By censoring this kind of app, young boys are learning that mainstream society cannot cope with male sexuality, or that their natural urges are deviant.
That's pretty much how the Netherlands thought... why should so many people die when it's just the machinations of the leadership? Save the treasures of the earth and civilization for the people! Let the leadership change!
Nazi occupied Netherlands was not so bad... if you weren't Jewish, didn't fight for the Germans and didn't starve or freeze before liberation.
"...They protested on behalf of an Iraqi public whose opinion on the matter they didn't care to know and on behalf of the soldiers who volunteered to fight the war. Well thought out, yeah?..."
"volunteered" to fight the war. That's profoundly uninformed:-(
What I find sad is that AVISynth, a fantastic scripting language for frameserving and editing video has not (successfully) been ported to Linux. It seems like the perfect pluggable non-GUI scripted video editing environment, but it's only for Windows.
Cinelerra could be used to create a good Linux vid, but I've never been able to do anything productive with it, and even when you do get it working, it'll crash on you worse than a Win 3.1 deployment. http://cinelerra.org/
In grade 10 the most impressive viewing I had was a daytime viewing of Jupiter. We looked at multiple planets during the day, it was very cool. It was an elective astronomy class though, so everyone there was very interested.
The moon is good, but planets, depending on what is in the sky, would also be very cool. You can really see that Mars is red.
Show them whatever inner planets are visible this time of year and they'll probably never forget it. Venus, Mars and Jupiter are awesome... and show them how you found them in the sky.
So do you think we should increase spending on law enforcement so as to crack down on the pirates selling shrinkwrap hologrammed copies of Windows? Or should we reduce spending and allow the knockoffs to compete with the alternatives?
This was really just MS taking responsibility for part of the costs of enforcement. Good for them.
Microsoft allows replacement of a motherboard for repair. I replaced my board a couple years back and got the validation problem. I called Microsoft about it and they fixed it without selling me a new license.
The big problem they had was not with hobbyists upgrading motherboards, but with counterfeit operations selling thousands of copies of Windows to shops around the world. Occasionally, I'm sure somebody at Microsoft loses sight of this, but for the most part, if you have the guts to pick up the phone and assert that your single, lowly copy of Windows is legit, they're happy to fix it.
People often forget that there are other history books being written in other languages and in other countries, and they emphasize slightly different achievements.
In North America, you've got to be a history or space buff to know this stuff. Or a commie!
German TV in Germany is great if you're from an English speaking country. It's all about how to open beer with your lighter, how strong a beer-table is, and shows like COPS, except where they give people a stern talking to for riding their bicycle with an open beer.
It must get very tedious if you're German, but if your English speaking, even the commercials are fascinating.
I can see China having some short-term goals in space. Mostly national pride, rocketry and satellite development stuff, so yeah, you might be right about them. At the rate of the U.S. progress, I don't think we're going to see anything meaningful from the U.S. in our lifetime.
The attacks on Scientology are admirable, and have shown that there's at least one way to get under the Scientologist's skin.
But I think this might be the only value of Anonymous. Other organizations aren't so shaken by distributed attacks of this form, or those that are, have more harsh penalties. Scientology is different. They're evil, big and worldwide. They have secrets and a reputation built on secrets. They also operate within the rules of society. So while attacks like this will work on Scientology, or maybe other religious organizations, it'll fail mizerably if you target, say, the Hell's Angels.
The success has has increased the profile of the Anonymous concept so much that every 15 year old kid is secretly a "member" of sorts. The end result is that the membership is so corrupt with noobs that it couldn't do it again. So maybe not only are these kinds of organizations anonymous by nature, but one-time-use.
So on the previous iteration, a man named, coincidentally "Douglas Adams", in a language totally unrelated to but oddly identical to English, wrote a series of books where he concluded that the answer to life, the universe and everything was 41?
Yeah the 1970's global cooling connection is out of line, but seriously, the climateaudit.org site is weird. It's like some guy has a reasonable hypothesis that the tree-ring data can be mapped to the experimental record differently. This is Steve McIntyre right? He's got no Ph.D, he's founded and worked for mineral exploration companies, and CGX Energy, doing exploration for oil and gas.
He's a mathemetician and economist by training. His paper about hockeysticks seems to be a paper about slightly different hockeysticks. From the paper (you can find the whole thing on Google http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2005/2004GL021750.shtml:
...Their method, when tested on persistent red noise, nearly always produces a
hockey stick shaped first principal component (PC1) and overstates the first
eigenvalue. In the controversial 15th
century period, the MBH98 method
effectively selects only one species (bristlecone pine) into the critical North
American PC1, making it implausible to describe it as the "dominant pattern of
variance". Through Monte Carlo analysis, we show that MBH98 benchmarks for
significance of the Reduction of Error (RE) statistic are substantially under-stated
and, using a range of cross-validation statistics, we show that the MBH98 15th
century reconstruction lacks statistical significance.
That's all fine. That's all good science. Thing is that in the paper, he's talking about monte carlo simulations and the production of hockey-sticks in overweighing the significance of tree ring data. The only hockey-stick in that data is when it dives in the modern period.
The stupid part is that his site overstates the hockey stick continually. Recent popularity seems to try to lead you to believe that the hockey stick paper is about the same hockey stick which everyone got into an uproar about in the Al Gore video. They're not the same. The Al Gore hockey stick, the one with the rising platform thing? that's CO2 levels. He DOES talk about temperature change though... but the hockey stick there is about INSTRUMENTAL temperature changes. It should be around minute 23:50 on the Inconvenient Truth.
Sure if you talk about TEMPERATURE alone, then McIntyre can make a reasonable statement that the combined temperature graph is dodgy, but the hockey stick people remember is the one with Gore on the platform, with current and projected CO2 levels.
The argument that Steve McIntyre seems to be trying to make is *really* that the tree ring data is good, the stats are bad, and that if you use good stats (which he's qualifed to talk about as a mathetician and economist), then the 15h century does a bit of a woomp downwards before you get into the instrumental data which explodes... he just ignores the recent explosion in instrumental temperatures (aside from his climategate escapades, which are totally political).... and the CO2 data.
Seems there are all kinds of hockey sticks... the dendro one, the instrumental one and the CO2 one. McIntyre has a point about the dendro one, he's got a lot of politics over the CRU thing and the instrumental one, but no science (understandably), does he talk about CO2?
I wouldn't be so quick to support the author. The voice on the youtube video sounds a lot like the voice on the youtube video featured on the front of the webpage for http://www.greenphosphor.com/. If not him, look at the related videos, notice a pattern? Maybe one of the other voices talking about features of the product will sound familiar.
"The software is free. If they don't understand what they're purchasing, that's their problem, and only yours if you decide to make it your problem."
I and people like me fought corporate policies to allow Linux as a target platform and in the datacenter. Management saw the value and supported it. They standardized on Redhat.
Linux support is community based. We have members of Redhat in our LUG which I freely share information with. Should I start charging them? Should our LUG charge a Redhat-employee membership fee? $350/year to join our mailing list. 2-day response time. $1500 for IRC, $13k/year to have access to developers who are members of the LUG?
Where do you think the Redhat employees get their information?
I'm quite sure that Redhat's "support" model is designed to frustrate and confuse.
Before Redhat switched to this model, we could throw up servers right-left and center. Virtualization around the corner, we could sprout servers like mad. Pay-per-incident was reasonable, and RHEL certification desirable.
Big corps standardized on Redhat as a target distro. It was the big American Software Company which looked like it was going to stay around for a long time. People bought in bigtime in development dollars and in the datacenter.
Then the model changed.
Customer: "redhat.com, oh, why can't I download it?" Redhat: "Buy a support contract and we'll let you" Customer "What's to stop me from copying it? most of it is GPL, BSD, LGPL or compatible licenses" Redhat: "I don't know, why don't you tell me? Although there are MYSTERIOUS trademarked items on the disk, and we don't have to say what exactly..." Customer: "That's BS. I should be able to copy it" Redhat: "Nope. Trademark" Customer: "So if I have hundreds of servers, I have to pay for hundreds of support contracts" Redhat: "Yep" Customer: "Why?" Redhat: "We don't really have to tell you, but remember that when you install something, you're duplicating it" Customer: "I've been a FOSS contributor and proponent since 1995!, WTF am I supposed to tell my boss?!!" Redhat: "$800/year/server" Customer: "But... " Redhat: "oh $350 if you don't want to be able to phone us for help" Customer: "Ugh, WTF... I guess you've got us by the balls. We can't port to Debian now, bait and switch." Redhat: "But we're VALUABLE" Customer: "meh. I guess a quad-core license from MS is wicked expensive too" Redhat: "Quad? sorry, that's not $350" Customer: "Fuck me?" Redhat: "Certinly, $1500/server" Customer: "FUCK?" Redhat: "Yep." Customer: "My boss is going to f-ing fire me for this, WTF?! you guys have totally betrayed FOSS and turned it into a nightmare of licensing approvals no better, no... WORSE than the MS world" Redhat: "We feel that you should support the FOSS community, we do great development work" Customer: "I'm a FOSS DEVELOPER! YOU'RE SELLING ME MY OWN CODE!"
The talk wasn't so colorful, but that was the gist of it. Redhat made me and other FOSS proponents look like idiots. I'm not a Redhat fan, I just use it at work.
This little stunt took a LOT of steam out of the mainstream adoption of Linux. I'd really like to see Debian pick up, but Redhat already seems to have had the branding and developer lock-in, and the big name seems to make bosses feel comfortable. They can smugly tell me "see, software isn't free?" and feel much more comfortable signing cheques for $1500/year.
... sadly, explaining CentOS to them is like telling them that I sourced Oracle from TPB.
Grr. The most annoying part is that like I said, Redhat does good work outside their distro... I wish I could hate them. Doing FOSS advocacy and development and being charged licensing fees is like being a philanthropist being robbed by Robin Hood. Robin's a real jerk. We were ALREADY paying and contributing!
Words are better for me. I keep getting tripped up on the elevator buttons....
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When somebody is running to the door, I look at that and think... Are the arrows like my fingers, pulling at the narrow space of the door? Why are the arrows pointing at closing a door which is already closed? Am I hitting the button to solve the problem of the doors closing?
By then, I've probably hit the wrong button and the person is annoyed with me.
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All that most people know about feminism comes from corporate press statements and talk radio.
Feminism would do well to distance itself from the name.
I find it odd that people would think this degrading to women. The very nature of the app is to exploit male sexuality for profit. They're the ones paying for it. The women are being paid and making their decisions freely. Autonomy applies too to men though and I feel that men should be able to make the decision themselves about whether or not they want to purchase the app.
It's disgusting to me that "feminism" as seen in popular media feels it necessary to degrade men by repeating the message that their natural desires are somehow destructive or deviant towards women.
By censoring this kind of app, young boys are learning that mainstream society cannot cope with male sexuality, or that their natural urges are deviant.
Give the guy a break, he's an alien.
I'm impressed at the writing. Most comics I've read have been unbearable, this is actually really good. It's campy, but really imaginative and cool.
I'd rather get facts from scientists than politicians or the media.
And read those reports more carefully.
That's pretty much how the Netherlands thought... why should so many people die when it's just the machinations of the leadership? Save the treasures of the earth and civilization for the people! Let the leadership change!
Nazi occupied Netherlands was not so bad... if you weren't Jewish, didn't fight for the Germans and didn't starve or freeze before liberation.
"...They protested on behalf of an Iraqi public whose opinion on the matter they didn't care to know and on behalf of the soldiers who volunteered to fight the war. Well thought out, yeah?..."
"volunteered" to fight the war. That's profoundly uninformed :-(
What I find sad is that AVISynth, a fantastic scripting language for frameserving and editing video has not (successfully) been ported to Linux. It seems like the perfect pluggable non-GUI scripted video editing environment, but it's only for Windows.
Cinelerra could be used to create a good Linux vid, but I've never been able to do anything productive with it, and even when you do get it working, it'll crash on you worse than a Win 3.1 deployment. http://cinelerra.org/
This guy does an awesome job with it... but the "only one frame error" thing is the kind of incideous nightmare that makes it unusable to me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jYFJw1dT18&feature=fvw
In grade 10 the most impressive viewing I had was a daytime viewing of Jupiter. We looked at multiple planets during the day, it was very cool. It was an elective astronomy class though, so everyone there was very interested.
The moon is good, but planets, depending on what is in the sky, would also be very cool. You can really see that Mars is red.
Show them whatever inner planets are visible this time of year and they'll probably never forget it. Venus, Mars and Jupiter are awesome... and show them how you found them in the sky.
So do you think we should increase spending on law enforcement so as to crack down on the pirates selling shrinkwrap hologrammed copies of Windows? Or should we reduce spending and allow the knockoffs to compete with the alternatives?
This was really just MS taking responsibility for part of the costs of enforcement. Good for them.
Microsoft allows replacement of a motherboard for repair. I replaced my board a couple years back and got the validation problem. I called Microsoft about it and they fixed it without selling me a new license.
The big problem they had was not with hobbyists upgrading motherboards, but with counterfeit operations selling thousands of copies of Windows to shops around the world. Occasionally, I'm sure somebody at Microsoft loses sight of this, but for the most part, if you have the guts to pick up the phone and assert that your single, lowly copy of Windows is legit, they're happy to fix it.
How do we know it's not just 4chan trying to make the news with a fake story?
People often forget that there are other history books being written in other languages and in other countries, and they emphasize slightly different achievements.
In North America, you've got to be a history or space buff to know this stuff. Or a commie!
German TV in Germany is great if you're from an English speaking country. It's all about how to open beer with your lighter, how strong a beer-table is, and shows like COPS, except where they give people a stern talking to for riding their bicycle with an open beer.
It must get very tedious if you're German, but if your English speaking, even the commercials are fascinating.
And I don't know why this stuff exists: NSFW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKiAL0UeId4
Unless you're not *really* sending a person to the moon, you're just faking a lunar landing :-)
Ok, dig holes in 400 back yards :-)
I can see China having some short-term goals in space. Mostly national pride, rocketry and satellite development stuff, so yeah, you might be right about them. At the rate of the U.S. progress, I don't think we're going to see anything meaningful from the U.S. in our lifetime.
For aircraft, we had a lot of daredevils and a lot of wars to refine the technology.
I guess we'll see what happens. The other poster's comment regarding China is true. Maybe if stuff gets out of the U.S. things will move faster.
The ethics of manned commercial space flight are scary. One accident and the whole thing is going to be held back 50 years.
And you'd get more resources digging a hole in my backyard than you would from digging a hole on the Martian moons.
The attacks on Scientology are admirable, and have shown that there's at least one way to get under the Scientologist's skin.
But I think this might be the only value of Anonymous. Other organizations aren't so shaken by distributed attacks of this form, or those that are, have more harsh penalties. Scientology is different. They're evil, big and worldwide. They have secrets and a reputation built on secrets. They also operate within the rules of society. So while attacks like this will work on Scientology, or maybe other religious organizations, it'll fail mizerably if you target, say, the Hell's Angels.
The success has has increased the profile of the Anonymous concept so much that every 15 year old kid is secretly a "member" of sorts. The end result is that the membership is so corrupt with noobs that it couldn't do it again. So maybe not only are these kinds of organizations anonymous by nature, but one-time-use.
I have it on authority that it was the same group in the U.S. who planned the Sept 11 attacks!
... or I just made that up.
So on the previous iteration, a man named, coincidentally "Douglas Adams", in a language totally unrelated to but oddly identical to English, wrote a series of books where he concluded that the answer to life, the universe and everything was 41?
Intel?
You sir might want to join the Amish.
Yeah the 1970's global cooling connection is out of line, but seriously, the climateaudit.org site is weird. It's like some guy has a reasonable hypothesis that the tree-ring data can be mapped to the experimental record differently. This is Steve McIntyre right? He's got no Ph.D, he's founded and worked for mineral exploration companies, and CGX Energy, doing exploration for oil and gas.
He's a mathemetician and economist by training. His paper about hockeysticks seems to be a paper about slightly different hockeysticks. From the paper (you can find the whole thing on Google http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2005/2004GL021750.shtml:
That's all fine. That's all good science. Thing is that in the paper, he's talking about monte carlo simulations and the production of hockey-sticks in overweighing the significance of tree ring data. The only hockey-stick in that data is when it dives in the modern period.
The stupid part is that his site overstates the hockey stick continually. Recent popularity seems to try to lead you to believe that the hockey stick paper is about the same hockey stick which everyone got into an uproar about in the Al Gore video. They're not the same. The Al Gore hockey stick, the one with the rising platform thing? that's CO2 levels. He DOES talk about temperature change though... but the hockey stick there is about INSTRUMENTAL temperature changes. It should be around minute 23:50 on the Inconvenient Truth.
Gore: http://user.cloudfront.goodinc.com/community/zach/inconvenient_truth.jpg
Steve McIntyre: http://climateaudit.org/2009/12/10/calibrating-dr-thompsons-z-mometer/
Sure if you talk about TEMPERATURE alone, then McIntyre can make a reasonable statement that the combined temperature graph is dodgy, but the hockey stick people remember is the one with Gore on the platform, with current and projected CO2 levels.
The argument that Steve McIntyre seems to be trying to make is *really* that the tree ring data is good, the stats are bad, and that if you use good stats (which he's qualifed to talk about as a mathetician and economist), then the 15h century does a bit of a woomp downwards before you get into the instrumental data which explodes... he just ignores the recent explosion in instrumental temperatures (aside from his climategate escapades, which are totally political).... and the CO2 data.
Seems there are all kinds of hockey sticks... the dendro one, the instrumental one and the CO2 one. McIntyre has a point about the dendro one, he's got a lot of politics over the CRU thing and the instrumental one, but no science (understandably), does he talk about CO2?
Let me know if I got something wrong, please.
I wouldn't be so quick to support the author. The voice on the youtube video sounds a lot like the voice on the youtube video featured on the front of the webpage for http://www.greenphosphor.com/. If not him, look at the related videos, notice a pattern? Maybe one of the other voices talking about features of the product will sound familiar.
"The software is free. If they don't understand what they're purchasing, that's their problem, and only yours if you decide to make it your problem."
I and people like me fought corporate policies to allow Linux as a target platform and in the datacenter. Management saw the value and supported it. They standardized on Redhat.
Linux support is community based. We have members of Redhat in our LUG which I freely share information with. Should I start charging them? Should our LUG charge a Redhat-employee membership fee? $350/year to join our mailing list. 2-day response time. $1500 for IRC, $13k/year to have access to developers who are members of the LUG?
Where do you think the Redhat employees get their information?
I'm quite sure that Redhat's "support" model is designed to frustrate and confuse.
Before Redhat switched to this model, we could throw up servers right-left and center. Virtualization around the corner, we could sprout servers like mad. Pay-per-incident was reasonable, and RHEL certification desirable.
Big corps standardized on Redhat as a target distro. It was the big American Software Company which looked like it was going to stay around for a long time. People bought in bigtime in development dollars and in the datacenter.
Then the model changed.
The talk wasn't so colorful, but that was the gist of it. Redhat made me and other FOSS proponents look like idiots. I'm not a Redhat fan, I just use it at work.
This little stunt took a LOT of steam out of the mainstream adoption of Linux. I'd really like to see Debian pick up, but Redhat already seems to have had the branding and developer lock-in, and the big name seems to make bosses feel comfortable. They can smugly tell me "see, software isn't free?" and feel much more comfortable signing cheques for $1500/year.
... sadly, explaining CentOS to them is like telling them that I sourced Oracle from TPB.
Grr. The most annoying part is that like I said, Redhat does good work outside their distro... I wish I could hate them. Doing FOSS advocacy and development and being charged licensing fees is like being a philanthropist being robbed by Robin Hood. Robin's a real jerk. We were ALREADY paying and contributing!
Words are better for me. I keep getting tripped up on the elevator buttons....
[>|<]
When somebody is running to the door, I look at that and think... Are the arrows like my fingers, pulling at the narrow space of the door? Why are the arrows pointing at closing a door which is already closed? Am I hitting the button to solve the problem of the doors closing?
By then, I've probably hit the wrong button and the person is annoyed with me.