Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women
Excuse me: It's called "manotage". Did the editors sleep through 2014 or something? Everything that misogynists do now has to start with the prefix "man-". At least it does if you want your thinkpiece in Slate to be taken seriously.
Other states have experimented with new drug combinations, sometimes with disastrous results, such as the prolonged execution of Joseph Wood in Arizona in 2014, using the sedative midazolam.
If you experience an execution lasting longer than four hours, contact your warden immediately.
To the point, being considerate does not equate to being conformist.
It does if you're an asshole. I'm pretty sure that more than a few Slashdot users self-identify as assholes. Maybe you were looking for "no-assholes.com".
It's admirable to be "considerate". I try to be "considerate", too. But I don't have any illusions that that word really means anything. Or that it isn't abused every day by people who just want everybody else to conform to their own arbitrary standard.
That sounds kind of judgemental. Lord knows the Great War caused enough bitterness to go around, but what would you have preferred? Something like this?
"Mr. President, members of Congress, citizens of America: The Archduke of Serbia has just been assassinated. I know that doesn't sound really relevant to us in America, and that we've got our own stuff going on. But since every third country in Europe now has a hyphen in the name, and the political situation in Europe is basically a house of cards soaked in nitroglycerin, the assassination has somehow triggered a massive, hemisphere-spanning war-to-end-all-wars, in which horrible new warmaking technologies have made atrocities a daily occurrence, and where everyone's motivations are murky and none of the parties are clearly either completely in the wrong or completely in the right."
"That sounds like something that we Americans should get involved in without delay! We'll immediately start drafting our nation's brightest and most promising youth, so they can return to us after some unspecified span of years, having witness countless things no man should see, as broken shells of their former selves!"
"Oh, and somebody flip a coin so we can decide which side we're on."
While most of the imported workers were happy with their wages, one worker was earning the equivalent of $5 an hour while his American counterpart was earning as much as $52, and they worked 10-hour days -- without overtime -- up to seven days a week.
I'm sure that importing these new workers is just a temporary measure. Tesla's long-term plan is to lower the cost of American workers by refurbishing and reusing them after burnout. However, they've only been able to recover three of them so far. Hopefully the numbers will improve after they figure out how to soften some of the workers' hard landings.
Yeah, in real life the Kaiser's spawn point was hundreds of feet away from where they put it on this board! Also, you had to wait until the Rapture to respawn!
ES File Explorer is one of the handiest file manager apps in the post-Android Gingerbread era, and it continues to ride up on its popularity
ES File Explorer's slogan should be "Because for some reason Google has some sort of policy against including a decent file manager with Android by default".
That decision has always made perfect sense to me. Just because you're writing an operating system, that's no real reason to get bogged down messing around with "files" and "directories" and stuff. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go write some audio-processing software for my printer.
... That's seriously the only reason I can think of why someone would think that putting technology into an oversight role over humanity is a good thing. A technocratic Orwellian state as envisioned by dipshit solutionists will eventually come to the conclusion that life would be a lot more efficient if you just get rid of humans altogether.
Sure, unless it's one of those conscientious AIs that just straps everybody into an orgasm machine and calls it a day.
But in any event, the more likely scenario is that some small cabal of humans will take over, and simply tell all the plebians that there's a benevolent AI in charge. In reality, it'll just be the governing elite doing what governing elites always do: living it up on the backs of us chumps.
I'm honestly a bit confused how people don't see this. Did they not see T2 growing up? Did they not watch any dystopian 70's sci-fi? Have they never heard of The Twilight Zone and its continual reminders about how hubris catches up with people? What is it?
They either don't concede that putting an AI in charge is necessarily bad for humanity ("_Terminator_ is just a movie, real AI researchers know better"), or they don't concede the possibility of artificial intelligence at all ("It's impossible for a machine to possess 'true' intelligence, because the Bible/some pop philosopher told me so").
...opinion shows such as O'Reilly, Megyn Kelly or Hannity... are incorrectly included as news reporting by many folks who clearly are out to get Fox [News].
Right. Notably, the programming directors of Fox News.
Make 'Vermin Supreme' get 110% of the votes. Give the mainstream candidates large enough negative vote counts to give the national popular vote to 'Vermin Supreme'.
We here at Pizza Hut respect and value our customer's opinions, but we do not consider the results of that online vote binding. Our new flavor of pizza will instead be called The Murine Lover's pizza.
Yeah, I recognize that it's kind of the military's job to maximize their potential for destruction, but this definitely seems like one of those combat technologies that the whole world joins together to condemn after it's been in use for a couple of years, and the US is all like "you other countries are just jealous you don't have it", until one day they do have it, and then all of a sudden we're totally against it too, only we have to keep using it because now everybody's using it. Eventually everybody but Iran and North Korea signs a really unsatisfactory treaty and we all go home feeling bitter and aggrieved for generations to come.
I just hope the inevitable tribunal is available in audiobook format.
Well, I read their blog post, and I'm having a hard time parsing it:
...although the absence of codecs is important for magazine and distributors and OEM installation images are required for manufacturers to pre-install Linux Mint on computers they’re selling to their customers, this is an area where a lot of work is done for a very small portion of our audience. With this in mind, OEM installation disks and NoCodec images will no longer be released. Instead, similar to other distributions, images will ship without codecs and will support both traditional and OEM installations.
So, to me, this sounds like: "Only a few of our users wanted us to leave the codecs out. So we decided it wasn't worth going to all that extra work all the time for just a few people. So we just took the codecs out of every build."
Am I just confused, or is this Bizarro logic? I mean, I'm definitely confused, but does this reasoning make sense to everyone else?
Did they just get sued by some the rightsholders of some patented codec, and just say, fuck it, if it's gonna be that kind of party, no codecs for anyone, ever? But if so, why wouldn't they just say that? What's with the doublethink? Is it doublethink?
I'm constantly amazed by the fact that americans are all pretty happy to acknowledge that their status quo rather bad, yet they are not willing to look for the reasons nor even talk about changing any aspect of the system.
Well, the problem with changing the system is that everyone wants to do it. Usually in mutually exclusive ways. And by "mutually exclusive", I don't just mean that what Jane wants conflicts with what Joe wants. I mean that what Joe wants conflicts with something else that Joe wants.
And even if we ignore that, the problem with radical change is that it can't be really be done without tearing down most of the existing system, even the parts that most people liked and had no particular problem with. That means a revolution. But people get hurt in a revolution, even people who shouldn't. Most of us just want to live our lives in peace. It's understandable that we wouldn't want to start a revolution just now, what with all the dying and burning and destruction and displaced people and forced migration and pollution and all. Wasn't the last revolution good enough for you? We're still recovering from that one, thank you very much. Maybe you can have another one after we're dead, if that's what you kids really want.
Even if you can find a peaceful way to introduce some miraculous new innovation, if you haven't laid the proper infrastructure it's likely not going to integrate very well, and will subsequently be abandoned. Imagine King Arthur asking Merlin to figure out a way to increase food production, and Merlin gazes into his crystal ball and then magically transports a fleet of tractors to Camelot from the future. They could increase food production, all right. But where are you going to get gas for them? Parts? Merlin's just one guy, and he's old and cranky, and he recently got his magicking hand caught in some machinery. Eventually those tractors are going to run out of gas and break down for good. After that, everybody will just go back to mules.
Change is tricky. You can write a manifesto in an afternoon, but it usually takes a whole generation to change people.
Judge Rodney Gilstrap Sees A Quarter Of The Nation's Patent Cases
It seems like every other article I read about the patent system has people complaining about how overloaded everyone in the system is, and yet this dude is carrying a quarter of the load all by himself! So, I guess they need to hire a fourth guy?
City Government: Please come to our city, Big Business! We'll give you incredible tax breaks! We'll practically pay you just for existing here!
Big Business: I don't know. That "practically" sounds kind of hesitant. Besides, there's a bunch of other towns down the road that might offer us a better deal.
City Government: Fine, we will literally pay to just to keep your corporate headquarters here. We'll give you the land for a pittance. We'll fast-track the permitting process. We'll give you a zoning variance. None of the city ordinances will apply to you. And no direct taxes on you, we promise. We'll make it up by taxing our citizens, who will probably mostly be working for you from here on out.
Citizen: Hold on. I was busy with my life just then, but it sounds like you're going to let some huge company move in and take over, and use my taxes to build a new thirty-story corporate headquarters in my front yard, and then crank up my taxes even more to make up for the taxes you spent on them?
City Government: Yes, but you'll be able to afford it, because you can get a good job at the company!
Citizen: I like my job now. I don't want to fucking work for those fuckers. I don't want a bunch of douches coming in and putting in 17 Starbuckses on the same street and making us all have to sort our garbage into eight separate bins and raising the rents to ridiculous levels so we have to all move out.
City Government: We hear your concerns. But we really want more tax money to play with. So, fuck you. Leave town if you want. Don't let the screen door hit you on the way out.
[Decades later.]
City Government: Hey, Big Business, uh, while our tax revenue has been growing continuously for decades now, it turns out that our expenditures have been growing even faster, because it turns out that a lot of money is not infinite money. We need infinite money. All our planning is based on infinite money. You need to give us more money. That'll get us closer to infinite money.
Big Business: Fuck you. Learn to do math, assholes.
City Government: I'm afraid we really must insist. We're going to raise your taxes.
Big Business: Then I guess we'll just move down the road to the next city. See you later.
City Government: But... but... you can't!
[But it turns out they can. Return to top and start again.]
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Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women
Excuse me: It's called "manotage". Did the editors sleep through 2014 or something? Everything that misogynists do now has to start with the prefix "man-". At least it does if you want your thinkpiece in Slate to be taken seriously.
If you experience an execution lasting longer than four hours, contact your warden immediately.
Dammit, fuzzyfuzzyfungus beat me to it.
Other states have experimented with new drug combinations, sometimes with disastrous results, such as the prolonged execution of Joseph Wood in Arizona in 2014, using the sedative midazolam.
If you experience an execution lasting longer than four hours, contact your warden immediately.
...some lawyers say gifts of copyrights to the public domain aren't valid in the US...
Yes, lawyers certainly do have like to have fun with the words "yours" and "ours". Isn't it great how words mean whatever we want, whenever we want?
Well, I wanted to self-identify as a dick, but I couldn't. With both hands and a road map.
To the point, being considerate does not equate to being conformist.
It does if you're an asshole. I'm pretty sure that more than a few Slashdot users self-identify as assholes. Maybe you were looking for "no-assholes.com".
It's admirable to be "considerate". I try to be "considerate", too. But I don't have any illusions that that word really means anything. Or that it isn't abused every day by people who just want everybody else to conform to their own arbitrary standard.
Well, I'm convinced. How many pieces of flair do we want to standardize on?
that the merkins are late to the party.
That sounds kind of judgemental. Lord knows the Great War caused enough bitterness to go around, but what would you have preferred? Something like this?
"Mr. President, members of Congress, citizens of America: The Archduke of Serbia has just been assassinated. I know that doesn't sound really relevant to us in America, and that we've got our own stuff going on. But since every third country in Europe now has a hyphen in the name, and the political situation in Europe is basically a house of cards soaked in nitroglycerin, the assassination has somehow triggered a massive, hemisphere-spanning war-to-end-all-wars, in which horrible new warmaking technologies have made atrocities a daily occurrence, and where everyone's motivations are murky and none of the parties are clearly either completely in the wrong or completely in the right."
"That sounds like something that we Americans should get involved in without delay! We'll immediately start drafting our nation's brightest and most promising youth, so they can return to us after some unspecified span of years, having witness countless things no man should see, as broken shells of their former selves!"
"Oh, and somebody flip a coin so we can decide which side we're on."
While most of the imported workers were happy with their wages, one worker was earning the equivalent of $5 an hour while his American counterpart was earning as much as $52, and they worked 10-hour days -- without overtime -- up to seven days a week.
I'm sure that importing these new workers is just a temporary measure. Tesla's long-term plan is to lower the cost of American workers by refurbishing and reusing them after burnout. However, they've only been able to recover three of them so far. Hopefully the numbers will improve after they figure out how to soften some of the workers' hard landings.
Yeah, in real life the Kaiser's spawn point was hundreds of feet away from where they put it on this board! Also, you had to wait until the Rapture to respawn!
...go start your own Male Power Fantasy award. You can call it the Broski.
Cease and desist. The name "Broski" is a registered trademark for my upcoming line of fraternity-themed vodkas pre-mixed with rohypnol.
You're scaring off the antelopes!
Thag: Someday, man will fly through the air, like a bird!
Grak: When, Thag?
Thag: In five years, or ten an the most!
Grak: That's impossible, Thag. You're talking like Arl after that wildebeest kicked him in the head.
Varg: Shut up, you two! You're scaring off the antelopes!
Who gets to train the AI?
I had you at "orgasm machine", didn't I?
ES File Explorer is one of the handiest file manager apps in the post-Android Gingerbread era, and it continues to ride up on its popularity
ES File Explorer's slogan should be "Because for some reason Google has some sort of policy against including a decent file manager with Android by default".
That decision has always made perfect sense to me. Just because you're writing an operating system, that's no real reason to get bogged down messing around with "files" and "directories" and stuff. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go write some audio-processing software for my printer.
... That's seriously the only reason I can think of why someone would think that putting technology into an oversight role over humanity is a good thing. A technocratic Orwellian state as envisioned by dipshit solutionists will eventually come to the conclusion that life would be a lot more efficient if you just get rid of humans altogether.
Sure, unless it's one of those conscientious AIs that just straps everybody into an orgasm machine and calls it a day.
But in any event, the more likely scenario is that some small cabal of humans will take over, and simply tell all the plebians that there's a benevolent AI in charge. In reality, it'll just be the governing elite doing what governing elites always do: living it up on the backs of us chumps.
I'm honestly a bit confused how people don't see this. Did they not see T2 growing up? Did they not watch any dystopian 70's sci-fi? Have they never heard of The Twilight Zone and its continual reminders about how hubris catches up with people? What is it?
They either don't concede that putting an AI in charge is necessarily bad for humanity ("_Terminator_ is just a movie, real AI researchers know better"), or they don't concede the possibility of artificial intelligence at all ("It's impossible for a machine to possess 'true' intelligence, because the Bible/some pop philosopher told me so").
...opinion shows such as O'Reilly, Megyn Kelly or Hannity... are incorrectly included as news reporting by many folks who clearly are out to get Fox [News].
Right. Notably, the programming directors of Fox News.
Make 'Vermin Supreme' get 110% of the votes. Give the mainstream candidates large enough negative vote counts to give the national popular vote to 'Vermin Supreme'.
We here at Pizza Hut respect and value our customer's opinions, but we do not consider the results of that online vote binding. Our new flavor of pizza will instead be called The Murine Lover's pizza.
Yeah, I recognize that it's kind of the military's job to maximize their potential for destruction, but this definitely seems like one of those combat technologies that the whole world joins together to condemn after it's been in use for a couple of years, and the US is all like "you other countries are just jealous you don't have it", until one day they do have it, and then all of a sudden we're totally against it too, only we have to keep using it because now everybody's using it. Eventually everybody but Iran and North Korea signs a really unsatisfactory treaty and we all go home feeling bitter and aggrieved for generations to come.
I just hope the inevitable tribunal is available in audiobook format.
Well, I read their blog post, and I'm having a hard time parsing it:
...although the absence of codecs is important for magazine and distributors and OEM installation images are required for manufacturers to pre-install Linux Mint on computers they’re selling to their customers, this is an area where a lot of work is done for a very small portion of our audience. With this in mind, OEM installation disks and NoCodec images will no longer be released. Instead, similar to other distributions, images will ship without codecs and will support both traditional and OEM installations.
So, to me, this sounds like: "Only a few of our users wanted us to leave the codecs out. So we decided it wasn't worth going to all that extra work all the time for just a few people. So we just took the codecs out of every build."
Am I just confused, or is this Bizarro logic? I mean, I'm definitely confused, but does this reasoning make sense to everyone else?
Did they just get sued by some the rightsholders of some patented codec, and just say, fuck it, if it's gonna be that kind of party, no codecs for anyone, ever? But if so, why wouldn't they just say that? What's with the doublethink? Is it doublethink?
I think I need a nap.
I'm constantly amazed by the fact that americans are all pretty happy to acknowledge that their status quo rather bad, yet they are not willing to look for the reasons nor even talk about changing any aspect of the system.
Well, the problem with changing the system is that everyone wants to do it. Usually in mutually exclusive ways. And by "mutually exclusive", I don't just mean that what Jane wants conflicts with what Joe wants. I mean that what Joe wants conflicts with something else that Joe wants.
And even if we ignore that, the problem with radical change is that it can't be really be done without tearing down most of the existing system, even the parts that most people liked and had no particular problem with. That means a revolution. But people get hurt in a revolution, even people who shouldn't. Most of us just want to live our lives in peace. It's understandable that we wouldn't want to start a revolution just now, what with all the dying and burning and destruction and displaced people and forced migration and pollution and all. Wasn't the last revolution good enough for you? We're still recovering from that one, thank you very much. Maybe you can have another one after we're dead, if that's what you kids really want.
Even if you can find a peaceful way to introduce some miraculous new innovation, if you haven't laid the proper infrastructure it's likely not going to integrate very well, and will subsequently be abandoned. Imagine King Arthur asking Merlin to figure out a way to increase food production, and Merlin gazes into his crystal ball and then magically transports a fleet of tractors to Camelot from the future. They could increase food production, all right. But where are you going to get gas for them? Parts? Merlin's just one guy, and he's old and cranky, and he recently got his magicking hand caught in some machinery. Eventually those tractors are going to run out of gas and break down for good. After that, everybody will just go back to mules.
Change is tricky. You can write a manifesto in an afternoon, but it usually takes a whole generation to change people.
Also:
Horde: A large and unruly group of humans. Or orcs. Or orc-human hybrids.
Hoard: A big pile of treasure that a dragon sits on.
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No you'll be modded down because its an idiotic question to ask, not mention flamebait.
Not to mention that he's asked the same question on a bunch of posts over the last week. I miss the Moo-Cow Troll and the Appy-App-Appers Troll.
Judge Rodney Gilstrap Sees A Quarter Of The Nation's Patent Cases
It seems like every other article I read about the patent system has people complaining about how overloaded everyone in the system is, and yet this dude is carrying a quarter of the load all by himself! So, I guess they need to hire a fourth guy?
City Government: Please come to our city, Big Business! We'll give you incredible tax breaks! We'll practically pay you just for existing here!
Big Business: I don't know. That "practically" sounds kind of hesitant. Besides, there's a bunch of other towns down the road that might offer us a better deal.
City Government: Fine, we will literally pay to just to keep your corporate headquarters here. We'll give you the land for a pittance. We'll fast-track the permitting process. We'll give you a zoning variance. None of the city ordinances will apply to you. And no direct taxes on you, we promise. We'll make it up by taxing our citizens, who will probably mostly be working for you from here on out.
Citizen: Hold on. I was busy with my life just then, but it sounds like you're going to let some huge company move in and take over, and use my taxes to build a new thirty-story corporate headquarters in my front yard, and then crank up my taxes even more to make up for the taxes you spent on them?
City Government: Yes, but you'll be able to afford it, because you can get a good job at the company!
Citizen: I like my job now. I don't want to fucking work for those fuckers. I don't want a bunch of douches coming in and putting in 17 Starbuckses on the same street and making us all have to sort our garbage into eight separate bins and raising the rents to ridiculous levels so we have to all move out.
City Government: We hear your concerns. But we really want more tax money to play with. So, fuck you. Leave town if you want. Don't let the screen door hit you on the way out.
[Decades later.]
City Government: Hey, Big Business, uh, while our tax revenue has been growing continuously for decades now, it turns out that our expenditures have been growing even faster, because it turns out that a lot of money is not infinite money. We need infinite money. All our planning is based on infinite money. You need to give us more money. That'll get us closer to infinite money.
Big Business: Fuck you. Learn to do math, assholes.
City Government: I'm afraid we really must insist. We're going to raise your taxes.
Big Business: Then I guess we'll just move down the road to the next city. See you later.
City Government: But... but... you can't!
[But it turns out they can. Return to top and start again.]