Using existing knowledge and forming conclusions about why it works is not the same as rote memorization, though you'll need to retain some information in order to do that. It seems you don't know what I'm talking about.
It's a shame. Most people can't even identify the problem with math education, let alone think of a solution to fix it.
A PhD. doesn't necessarily prove you did anything. Believe it or not, there are people with PhDs that are absolutely idiotic; how they made it through, I don't know. Normal degrees prove next to nothing, and it is absolutely foolish that many employers use them to decide whether or not to hire someone.
Your argument is debunked by the last thing I wrote, so I won't repeat it.
You only think you debunked it. I think otherwise. I won't repeat myself, either.
I don't have anything to hide, I'm so boring, let them watch, let them know.
What these fools don't realize is that they're not the ones who get to decide if they're doing anything wrong; the government does that, and if it's corrupt and you did something it didn't like, you're screwed. The notion of the government being made up of perfect angels who would never harm a fly or make a mistake is ridiculous, and even minimal knowledge of government abuses of power throughout history shows that. The sheer amount of stupidity of trusting the current government and all future governments to not abuse their powers is staggering.
Words also have multiple definitions. That's why the previous (but not less popular) definitions of words don't just vanish into thin air when people start using them in different ways.
Pick your battles. Let it go.
Nope. I'd rather just call people idiots for thinking it only means one thing.
My experience is that math gets easier the more you do it. In other words, practice makes perfect.
My experience is that most people just don't have the aptitude for it, mainly because most people are unintelligent. Rote memorization is the best they can do, but at that point, you're not really doing math at all.
Yeah, I'm sure going through university and getting a Ph.D. means little, which is why you have ten of them, right?
I didn't bother wasting my money on such a thing, so no, I don't have a piece of paper. What a shame.
Tech is not the only discipline that requires skill and intelligence
No, it's not. But if you can't learn a few simple facts, there is a very, very good chance that you're not very intelligent.
You confuse intelligence with domain knowledge.
Remaining willfully ignorant on a few simple facts and then proceeding to do stupid shit over and over is a good sign that someone is unintelligent. Deal with it.
No, you deliberately answered the wrong aspect of the question in order to avoid addressing the fact that you can't run a society that is plagued by a small but toxic fringe of awful people and groups without telling them everything you're doing to stop them
Nonsense. Society is incredibly resilient. If it can survive garbage like the TSA, the NSA spying, DUI checkpoints, free speech zones, unfettered border searches, stop-and-frisk, Jim Crow laws, the internment of Japanese citizens, rampant sexism, slavery, and all the other freedom-violating nonsense the government has done or is doing, it can survive a few criminals running around. Don't be dramatic.
Also, my answer to your questions were obvious if you just put 2 and 2 together. It's fun watching you struggle to do that, though.
If it's worth watching, why isn't it worth paying for?
Because they don't want to spend money on it? One activity involves spending money, and the other doesn't. Maybe someone doesn't like that people do this, but it's not a contradiction.
What an amazing response. Be sure to never lock your doors, use decent passwords, or do anything that could mitigate your chances of being harmed. Otherwise, you're a coward who's building giant walls.
If that's not what you meant, then you should look at the context.
Out of billions of people on the planet, there's bound to be a single example that proves you wrong, and since you stated it that way, that's all it would take. I've seen some of those people myself. Giving any sort of advice is seen as "victim blaming." So you're wrong. How predictable.
Some of these "idiots" have degrees, Ph.D.s and other indicators that lack of IQ is not among their problems.
1) IQ is pseudoscience. 2) Pieces of paper mean little.
Basically, the fact that they do stupid shit like this is a very, very good indicator that they're not intelligent. Maybe it's not true 100% of the time, but it doesn't need to be.
Computer-literate folks like us tend to set the bar too high without realizing how difficult we're making things for others who would just like to use computers to get work done, and not have to spend have their time just in training how not to get hacked.
Strange how people treat cars so differently. Going onto the road with no understanding of how to operate a vehicle or what the rules of the road are would be seen as unacceptable, but if you do something similar (though I think less extreme) with a computer, it's just normal.
Calling non-experts "retarded" is not going to help anything.
I'm not saying that non-experts are retarded. One doesn't have to be an expert to not be retarded; they just have to be a tiny bit competent and learn some *basic facts*.
The two things in the sentence I quoted don't contradict each other. They don't think any of it is worth the money, so they don't spend money.
Then, turn around and complain that no one in entertainment takes risks and sticks to churning out mainstream crap.
I wonder who this "they" is, anyway. And I also wonder why you think it's intelligent to blame copyright infringement for everything, especially when even the "mainstream crap" gets downloaded.
You didn't even mention this part the first time around.
Not necessarily. I don't know how, but I've seen some pretty unintelligent and ignorant people who hold genuine PhDs. And I'm not even talking about subjects that they don't specialize in.
In fact, Americans privacy rights were protected via filters, which the leaks actually revealed.
Yeah, they're definitely protected from the collection of all the so-called "metadata" that the NSA loves collecting. Oh, wait... they're not. Meaningless filters don't help the situation when they're still collecting data.
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Actually, you do learn math by rote memorization.
Using existing knowledge and forming conclusions about why it works is not the same as rote memorization, though you'll need to retain some information in order to do that. It seems you don't know what I'm talking about.
It's a shame. Most people can't even identify the problem with math education, let alone think of a solution to fix it.
The paper is just the confirmation that you did.
A PhD. doesn't necessarily prove you did anything. Believe it or not, there are people with PhDs that are absolutely idiotic; how they made it through, I don't know. Normal degrees prove next to nothing, and it is absolutely foolish that many employers use them to decide whether or not to hire someone.
Your argument is debunked by the last thing I wrote, so I won't repeat it.
You only think you debunked it. I think otherwise. I won't repeat myself, either.
I don't have anything to hide, I'm so boring, let them watch, let them know.
What these fools don't realize is that they're not the ones who get to decide if they're doing anything wrong; the government does that, and if it's corrupt and you did something it didn't like, you're screwed. The notion of the government being made up of perfect angels who would never harm a fly or make a mistake is ridiculous, and even minimal knowledge of government abuses of power throughout history shows that. The sheer amount of stupidity of trusting the current government and all future governments to not abuse their powers is staggering.
Words mean what people use them for
Words also have multiple definitions. That's why the previous (but not less popular) definitions of words don't just vanish into thin air when people start using them in different ways.
Pick your battles. Let it go.
Nope. I'd rather just call people idiots for thinking it only means one thing.
My experience is that math gets easier the more you do it. In other words, practice makes perfect.
My experience is that most people just don't have the aptitude for it, mainly because most people are unintelligent. Rote memorization is the best they can do, but at that point, you're not really doing math at all.
Yeah, I'm sure going through university and getting a Ph.D. means little, which is why you have ten of them, right?
I didn't bother wasting my money on such a thing, so no, I don't have a piece of paper. What a shame.
Tech is not the only discipline that requires skill and intelligence
No, it's not. But if you can't learn a few simple facts, there is a very, very good chance that you're not very intelligent.
You confuse intelligence with domain knowledge.
Remaining willfully ignorant on a few simple facts and then proceeding to do stupid shit over and over is a good sign that someone is unintelligent. Deal with it.
No, you deliberately answered the wrong aspect of the question in order to avoid addressing the fact that you can't run a society that is plagued by a small but toxic fringe of awful people and groups without telling them everything you're doing to stop them
Nonsense. Society is incredibly resilient. If it can survive garbage like the TSA, the NSA spying, DUI checkpoints, free speech zones, unfettered border searches, stop-and-frisk, Jim Crow laws, the internment of Japanese citizens, rampant sexism, slavery, and all the other freedom-violating nonsense the government has done or is doing, it can survive a few criminals running around. Don't be dramatic.
Also, my answer to your questions were obvious if you just put 2 and 2 together. It's fun watching you struggle to do that, though.
Again, they're still collecting our information. Are you not concerned by the constitutional and privacy violations?
If it's worth watching, why isn't it worth paying for?
Because they don't want to spend money on it? One activity involves spending money, and the other doesn't. Maybe someone doesn't like that people do this, but it's not a contradiction.
What an amazing response. Be sure to never lock your doors, use decent passwords, or do anything that could mitigate your chances of being harmed. Otherwise, you're a coward who's building giant walls.
If that's not what you meant, then you should look at the context.
In a free society, a person can wear whatever they want, freely. Without being attacked., If they are attacked then the attacker is at fault.
Okay.
Are you really that stupid? Some people don't understand that giving advice is different then victim blaming, so now it's ok for victim blaming?
Man of straw.
You're not concerned that the government is blatantly violating people's freedoms and the constitution it's supposed to be bound by? Huh.
Or was that all you had to contribute?
That was the part I disagreed with.
Computers require a significant amount of training in order to use them
It requires memorizing some facts and some experience. Regardless, none of this is any excuse for not doing simple shit to protect yourself.
I also am not so arrogant as to think other people are stupid and do not grasp the meaning of the word.
Acknowledging the truth is arrogant?
Yes, it's much better to let people get away with factually incorrect statements. How silly of me.
It's basically the same, senseless BS as the GP, just with different words
It's the same... other than the fact that I take a different position entirely.
and the added bonus of the poster using words like "metadata" that s/he clearly doesn't understand.
That I don't understand, or that the general public doesn't understand? Nothing in my comment shows a lack of understanding.
Protip: Words can have multiple meanings.
Yes, not worshiping the status quo is stupid.
No one says that. No one.
Out of billions of people on the planet, there's bound to be a single example that proves you wrong, and since you stated it that way, that's all it would take. I've seen some of those people myself. Giving any sort of advice is seen as "victim blaming." So you're wrong. How predictable.
Some of these "idiots" have degrees, Ph.D.s and other indicators that lack of IQ is not among their problems.
1) IQ is pseudoscience.
2) Pieces of paper mean little.
Basically, the fact that they do stupid shit like this is a very, very good indicator that they're not intelligent. Maybe it's not true 100% of the time, but it doesn't need to be.
Computer-literate folks like us tend to set the bar too high without realizing how difficult we're making things for others who would just like to use computers to get work done, and not have to spend have their time just in training how not to get hacked.
Strange how people treat cars so differently. Going onto the road with no understanding of how to operate a vehicle or what the rules of the road are would be seen as unacceptable, but if you do something similar (though I think less extreme) with a computer, it's just normal.
Calling non-experts "retarded" is not going to help anything.
I'm not saying that non-experts are retarded. One doesn't have to be an expert to not be retarded; they just have to be a tiny bit competent and learn some *basic facts*.
Yes, that's the point.
The two things in the sentence I quoted don't contradict each other. They don't think any of it is worth the money, so they don't spend money.
Then, turn around and complain that no one in entertainment takes risks and sticks to churning out mainstream crap.
I wonder who this "they" is, anyway. And I also wonder why you think it's intelligent to blame copyright infringement for everything, especially when even the "mainstream crap" gets downloaded.
You didn't even mention this part the first time around.
Not necessarily. I don't know how, but I've seen some pretty unintelligent and ignorant people who hold genuine PhDs. And I'm not even talking about subjects that they don't specialize in.
In fact, Americans privacy rights were protected via filters, which the leaks actually revealed.
Yeah, they're definitely protected from the collection of all the so-called "metadata" that the NSA loves collecting. Oh, wait... they're not. Meaningless filters don't help the situation when they're still collecting data.
Why do you government bootlickers even bother?