You were young, most people with opinions are old.
I should be impressed that you are a research scientist in the field of sociology of opinion and have concluded that "most," or over 50%, of people with opinions are old. Rather, my opinion, late in life is that I would have called bullshit much earlier, too.
Phishing should have been so dead, so many years ago. It's a goddam computer. Walk the path of the phishing, and analyze the progression and respond with, "This is not going to turn out well, so I'm not going to allow it until an IT person gets here and authorizes it."
Not specified in the study, and indeed negligently absent is a blind study to determine the predictability of a person being a troll magnet.
That would have worked well to adjust for bias.
In my class, "The Sociology of Gender," (way back), we each went to a Yahoo! chat room for adults, one session as Bob and one session as Alice.
I was the only male in the class of 15. We all gathered behind whomever was driving the computer for the next few days and observed as we each pretended to be Bob. It was boring as hell. Men did not talk to men. Women rarely talked to men. Because the "classroom" Bob was not Alpha, we were ignored by all.
When we switched to Alice, BOOM! "Information overload!"
Men AND women wanted to talk to us. The men wanted cybersex (consisted of wanking off to text chat) and women wanted to talk about kids, divorce, jobs, money, weight-loss, and how Mr. ________ was such a total ass.
When I got on the terminal, we had such fun, mostly at my expense.
I tried to role-play as female and I think my record for deviousness was 3 minutes. Women had their GENDAR up and the class was laughing so hard when one of the women asked, "Alice, what bra size are you?"
I was befuddled, and (count with me) "3... 2... 1... " "Too late asshole!"
I appealed to the women in class, "Dammit. If I'm 5'5" and weigh 130 lbs, what size bra, panties, shoes..."
They wrote me a cheat sheet.
That's how I milked being Alice for 3 minutes with one woman.
The men? It was all, "Alice, what size tits do you have?" "Do you shave your pussy?" "Wanna have phone sex?" Man. I was beet-red.
My professor was right about her class when, on day one, she told me, "Welcome to 'Men are Shit 101.'"
I know. Some authors do that because they have an agenda (Rand) and some do it because they are poor writers. Rand was the former, so I just invoked a little speed reading.
Thanks. I particularly recommend "The Muleskinner and the Stars: The Life and Times of Milton La Salle Humason." In earlier works covering the life and times of Hubble, he was an "also ran," a footnote that fascinated me for YEARS.
The guy was nothing when he started, and progressed to one of the most sought-after spectrum analysts in the world. The book is well written and hard to put down.
Also, the books on quantum theory combine to explain why there will never be a super quantum computer. The small universe jiggles and Heisenbutg's Uncertainty Principle along with Plank's units combined with the laws of thermodynamics inform the limitations imposed by entropy.
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Wait. Hadn't thought of that.
Shit.
... about market share?
so that makes him a nuclear engineer and stuff.
... such as the concept being advanced by his own TerraPower venture.
Not even trying to hide it.
You were young, most people with opinions are old.
I should be impressed that you are a research scientist in the field of sociology of opinion and have concluded that "most," or over 50%, of people with opinions are old. Rather, my opinion, late in life is that I would have called bullshit much earlier, too.
... attack surface. Cool.
Berkley ended the Vietnam war in similar fashion.
No. The comedians are all going after the conservative right wing Evangelical White Supremacist Christian batshit crazy Trump supporters.
The punch lines are all the same and I heard them back in 2016.
Thank you for your comment. I agree.
Journalism is dead. I watch ABC news with David Muir and every goffam night it's shit served up, word for word by every other goddam news outlet:
- Trump sucks
- Bad weather
- A story they covered last night
- A video that was viral all last week (almost free citizen journalism)
- Person of the week (also YouTube)
- Made in America showing a proud mom and pop selling 4 SKUs
Changing channels is futile.
You don't speak for me.
I'm a retired IT guy so I grok that shit happens from time-to-time.
I'm not losing $100,000 an hour or any sleep.
Gentle User: "Install what with the who?"
She's smart.
... because a shit load of us have been yakking about this for years.
"Artificial intelligence," will be a reality when your smart device says, "Sorry. I'm just not in the mood right now."
Phishing should have been so dead, so many years ago. It's a goddam computer. Walk the path of the phishing, and analyze the progression and respond with, "This is not going to turn out well, so I'm not going to allow it until an IT person gets here and authorizes it."
Some people earn their consequences.
Not specified in the study, and indeed negligently absent is a blind study to determine the predictability of a person being a troll magnet.
That would have worked well to adjust for bias.
In my class, "The Sociology of Gender," (way back), we each went to a Yahoo! chat room for adults, one session as Bob and one session as Alice.
I was the only male in the class of 15. We all gathered behind whomever was driving the computer for the next few days and observed as we each pretended to be Bob. It was boring as hell. Men did not talk to men. Women rarely talked to men. Because the "classroom" Bob was not Alpha, we were ignored by all.
When we switched to Alice, BOOM! "Information overload!"
Men AND women wanted to talk to us. The men wanted cybersex (consisted of wanking off to text chat) and women wanted to talk about kids, divorce, jobs, money, weight-loss, and how Mr. ________ was such a total ass.
When I got on the terminal, we had such fun, mostly at my expense.
I tried to role-play as female and I think my record for deviousness was 3 minutes. Women had their GENDAR up and the class was laughing so hard when one of the women asked, "Alice, what bra size are you?"
I was befuddled, and (count with me) "3 ... 2... 1 ... " "Too late asshole!"
I appealed to the women in class, "Dammit. If I'm 5'5" and weigh 130 lbs, what size bra, panties, shoes ..."
They wrote me a cheat sheet.
That's how I milked being Alice for 3 minutes with one woman.
The men? It was all, "Alice, what size tits do you have?" "Do you shave your pussy?" "Wanna have phone sex?" Man. I was beet-red.
My professor was right about her class when, on day one, she told me, "Welcome to 'Men are Shit 101.'"
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I know. Some authors do that because they have an agenda (Rand) and some do it because they are poor writers. Rand was the former, so I just invoked a little speed reading.
But you're right.
Trump is the most abused male on Twitter.
Hell, he's the most abused male OFF Twitter.
If those statements aren't true, it's not because I don't try.
... as BBS back in the dial-up days.
That's one more reason to avoid using Microsoft's browser.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but HOW does one "avoid using Microsoft's browser?"
TFS doesn't say that actually USING IE smoked the OS. The UPDATE did.
Before this incident, I would have been one of the jerks pointing out to you that MSFT was, by litigation, forced to decouple IE from the OS.
You're right and I was wrong.
Thanks.
Your conclusions are valid, but the cause you state is not.
Problem: Steve Jobs is dead.
Thanks. I particularly recommend "The Muleskinner and the Stars: The Life and Times of Milton La Salle Humason." In earlier works covering the life and times of Hubble, he was an "also ran," a footnote that fascinated me for YEARS.
The guy was nothing when he started, and progressed to one of the most sought-after spectrum analysts in the world. The book is well written and hard to put down.
Also, the books on quantum theory combine to explain why there will never be a super quantum computer. The small universe jiggles and Heisenbutg's Uncertainty Principle along with Plank's units combined with the laws of thermodynamics inform the limitations imposed by entropy.
Like Cajun music, one Dune is quite enough. Thank you.
I didn't read Ayn Rand to get a point of view. I read, and enjoyed, the story line. For the most part, her fiction was not formulaic.
In the Fountainhead, her use of architecture as a vehicle was very unusual when I read it as a kid.
Atlas Shrugged was a spellbinder with unique perspectives.
I think of both books as period pieces.
Looking at my list, do you see your suggestion being even somewhat related to my interests?