but if your gun was instead in the hands of your son or daughter pointing it at themselves or others I bet you'd like it to not go bang.
And that's why I took steps to make sure that never happened. I taught my son about firearm safety and kept my firearms out the reach of him and his friends. My firearms were always secured or kept in a "ready access" state, but I didn't leave them laying around on the coffee table for all to see. Now that he's off on his own, however, I do.:)
1) this doctor is kind of a klutz, but he really understands your situation, has spoken many times with your family and with you, helping you all emotionally prepare yourself for the possibilities, and really is committed to empathizing with you and your loved ones, or 2) this doctor is a complete asshole, and doesn't give a shit about you or your family, but is the best heart surgeon on the planet.
Or......... You've had a shit day and break some minor traffic law.
1) The cop is a sadistic fucker, but good at catching anyone who does anything wrong. When he pulls you over, you say you've had a horrific day, but you're not as polite as he deems you should be. He doesn't give a shit about your day, hauls you out of the car, escalates the situation, and ends up tasing you and arresting you for some made up bullshit.
2) The cop is an empathic guy, but maybe not as good at catching minor law breakers as #1 above. You've had a shit day and break some minor traffic law. When he pulls you over, you say you've had a horrific day, and he tells you to cool it down, drive slower, and lets you go on your way.
Which do you choose? If you said #1, you're lying.
This is a dark pattern which is a user interface designed to trick people into doing things.
Yep, and there's that whole whole "engagement" concept that is now baked into games to keep you clicking. A little work, a little reward, but then it goes into times cycles, contingent rewards, goal-teasing, etc etc etc. Zinga hired teams of psychologists to make their games (in their own words) "as addicting as possible". And it's worked.
Farmville, Candy Crush, etc etc etc...practically all now use this timed-reward technique along with other motivational "pokes" to keep you glued to the game or at least checking in hourly/daily/whatever.
It's just one reason I don't play games on my ipad...it's ALL just a suck-job to get you to lock up your free time and interest in the hopes of getting you to spend money.
Fortunately, current iPads have that built-in fingerprint trigger lock that gun manufactures can still only dream of.
As a firearms owner and carrier (30+ years of EDC) I would never, ever want a fingerprint reader or interlock on any of my firearms. When I pull the trigger, I want it to go bang, period. I don't want to see a "LOW BATTERY" warning or a find out a circuit is fried when I need it most.
Might as well put a fingerprint interlock on a fire extinguisher or a baseball bat- do you have any idea how often those things are misused?
(And for the record, I'm not some right-wing whacko, I'm one of the most liberal, left-leaning people you'll ever meet, no joke.)
And that's why I'm not advocating abolishing these games, just setting reasonable limits on the gouging that can go on.
And who is going to appointed to be in charge of setting these limits?
It's an unworkable idea, even if it appears sensible at first glance (it doesn't appear that way to me, but I'm sure some others would consider it a reasonable idea).
The elephant in the room is that we, as a society, are allowing these games to exist at all.
I think people should be allowed to spend their time and money on whatever stupid, shallow things they want. They should be able to piss away their entire lives on twitter and facebook and fondle their phone 24/7 if they like.
It's not for me, but if the bliss-ninnies want to spend their lives waiting for the next photoshopped picture of Kim Kardashian's ass to hit the newsstands, who am I to say no?
iOS asks for a password whenever things are purchased, regardless of method. Buying free apps can skip a password.
However, the kid had the password needed for purchases and was able to enter it when asked.
Nope, not on my ipad it doesn't. My wife's ipad also doesn't ask for a password.
Yes, I know it can be set to do so, but apparently it's not the default. I just bought her an ipad mini 4 days ago and after setting it up it asked for a password once, and it hasn't asked for one again.
It doesn't matter if it's deliberate. You don't leave a loaded tablet lying around where the kids can get to it. Put it in the gun safe, separate from the credits cards.
Lol, maybe just install a hard-to-remove trigger lock, err, I mean "tablet lock" and keep the key in the safe.
They require a credit card to install free apps. What gets me is they required password for doing anything on the app store even free apps, but no password to buy thousands in upgrades. It's a deliberate scam, or incredible incompetence. I succpect the latter.
Yeah, it's hard to see how they "missed" this elephant in the room when setting up the app store and in-game purchases.
Really, if this isn't deliberate then it's the next best thing.
You let your brat play unchecked with a credit card-enabled tablet, you deserve every bill you get. Especially if you're too dumb to read the fine print and adjust your settings, so that these things can be avoided.
Yeah, there's enough blame to put a bit on everyone's plate here.
It's worth mentioning that you can enter your password once on an ipad and then it won't ask again, which frankly seems a bit careless and maybe even "trappy". If you're spending real money, the least they could do is require you to enter a password each time. It's not like that would be a difficult thing to add. In fact, they make it SO easy for this kind of thing to happen it has more than a whiff of deliberate intention to it.
It's similar to Amazon's "one-click" ordering...it's a landmine just waiting to be stepped on.
Just what are you doing? Denying there's a problem?
No, I'm not denying there's a "problem", I am, however, pointing out that this isn't a "male-only problem". There are LOTS of asshole women and LOTS of socially-inept or awkward women, but you said not a single word about them as far as I could tell. Are YOU denying there's a problem?
Also, to be blunt, I find your stance on firearms to be simplistic and in opposition to many of the ideals you've espoused over the years...or have those changed too?
The point? To point you and others towards the idea that maybe, when you judge people in the first couple of minutes, you are being too hasty.
And maybe it's not being too hasty. Quite a few of the people I've labeled as "assholes" in my life were done so after a few minutes or in some instances a few days of observation, and my estimation of them hasn't changed, in some cases for as long as 40 years. And by and large, those around me come to the same overall conclusion. Sure, sometimes I'm mistaken, but I've been right a whole lot more than I've been wrong in this particular arena.
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Perhaps you are too superficial, perhaps you are a misogynist,
Ooh, and perhaps I'm a terrorist or a pedophile, those are two all-purpose ad hominems you missed. Seriously, once you start casually throwing those terms around, you've really failed.
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Don't you ever wonder what you are missing out on? We all have good and bad days - or weeks, sometimes - and in my experience, the person you would dismiss in the first couple of days,
See above, specifically the part where I said that "sometimes I'm mistaken, but I've been right a whole lot more than I've been wrong". And it's true. Some of these people I've literally known for decades, and more often than not, my initial estimation of them was spot -on.
No doubt about it, sometimes an apparent asshole does turn out to be a decent person, but that only happens about 5% of the time max in my personal experience. Maybe I'm a better judge of character than you, or maybe I've just got more experience at it. But regardless of the reason, my initial assessment of people is usually pretty accurate in terms of "assholishness".
These people are professional victims. Anita Sarkeesian was one of the trailblazers in this field, turning her "harassment" into dollars and producing almost nothing in return. Brianna Wu is a duplicitous con artist without a shred of talent in her body.
All these people make me want to vomit. The harm they do promoting their bullshit about "safe spaces" and "micro-aggressions" and "cultural appropriation" have turned an entire generation of young people into the most pathetic wussies and whiners and special snowflakes ever seen in the history of the planet.
At 18, our fathers and grandfathers were jumping out of troop ships while being shot at and shelled with mortars. These entitled little fucktarts can't even read Romeo and Juliet without having a breakdown. They can't listen to opposing opinions without being "triggered". If they have a moment of doubt about anything, it's an "identity crisis" and they'll cry if you don't respect their personal set of oddball pronouns (shiz, shim, shey, etc etc). They're all demi-semi-queerplatonic-fat-free-otherkin-fictives with multiple-system headmates. AND THEY BELIEVE THIS SHIT.
Fuck these little losers. I can't wait to see them enter the job market and be chewed up and spit out like old gum. In a way I'm actually glad they're such hopeless losers because they're competing for jobs against people like my son, who will wipe the fucking floor with them.
LinkedIn: "I'm so awesome, hire me! please, hire me. No, really, hire me i need a job so hire me pleeeez"
Blogs: "I'm so interesting, look at my kittly/niche interest/political opinion/terrible amateur writing/angsty poem/etc/etc/etc/ that no one cares about"
Slashdot Mirror
And this is exactly why I hate the terms "left" and "right" when describing politics.
Yep, it's like describing the range of visible colors as "black", "white", and "other".
but if your gun was instead in the hands of your son or daughter pointing it at themselves or others I bet you'd like it to not go bang.
And that's why I took steps to make sure that never happened. I taught my son about firearm safety and kept my firearms out the reach of him and his friends. My firearms were always secured or kept in a "ready access" state, but I didn't leave them laying around on the coffee table for all to see. Now that he's off on his own, however, I do. :)
And who is going to appointed to be in charge of setting these limits?
Me. No, no problem, Happy to help, besides its easy work
Lol, sounds reasonable, you're hired.
1) this doctor is kind of a klutz, but he really understands your situation, has spoken many times with your family and with you, helping you all emotionally prepare yourself for the possibilities, and really is committed to empathizing with you and your loved ones, or
2) this doctor is a complete asshole, and doesn't give a shit about you or your family, but is the best heart surgeon on the planet.
Or.........
You've had a shit day and break some minor traffic law.
1) The cop is a sadistic fucker, but good at catching anyone who does anything wrong. When he pulls you over, you say you've had a horrific day, but you're not as polite as he deems you should be. He doesn't give a shit about your day, hauls you out of the car, escalates the situation, and ends up tasing you and arresting you for some made up bullshit.
2) The cop is an empathic guy, but maybe not as good at catching minor law breakers as #1 above. You've had a shit day and break some minor traffic law. When he pulls you over, you say you've had a horrific day, and he tells you to cool it down, drive slower, and lets you go on your way.
Which do you choose?
If you said #1, you're lying.
This is a dark pattern which is a user interface designed to trick people into doing things.
Yep, and there's that whole whole "engagement" concept that is now baked into games to keep you clicking. A little work, a little reward, but then it goes into times cycles, contingent rewards, goal-teasing, etc etc etc. Zinga hired teams of psychologists to make their games (in their own words) "as addicting as possible". And it's worked.
Farmville, Candy Crush, etc etc etc...practically all now use this timed-reward technique along with other motivational "pokes" to keep you glued to the game or at least checking in hourly/daily/whatever.
It's just one reason I don't play games on my ipad...it's ALL just a suck-job to get you to lock up your free time and interest in the hopes of getting you to spend money.
Fortunately, current iPads have that built-in fingerprint trigger lock that gun manufactures can still only dream of.
As a firearms owner and carrier (30+ years of EDC) I would never, ever want a fingerprint reader or interlock on any of my firearms. When I pull the trigger, I want it to go bang, period. I don't want to see a "LOW BATTERY" warning or a find out a circuit is fried when I need it most.
Might as well put a fingerprint interlock on a fire extinguisher or a baseball bat- do you have any idea how often those things are misused?
(And for the record, I'm not some right-wing whacko, I'm one of the most liberal, left-leaning people you'll ever meet, no joke.)
And that's why I'm not advocating abolishing these games, just setting reasonable limits on the gouging that can go on.
And who is going to appointed to be in charge of setting these limits?
It's an unworkable idea, even if it appears sensible at first glance (it doesn't appear that way to me, but I'm sure some others would consider it a reasonable idea).
The elephant in the room is that we, as a society, are allowing these games to exist at all.
I think people should be allowed to spend their time and money on whatever stupid, shallow things they want. They should be able to piss away their entire lives on twitter and facebook and fondle their phone 24/7 if they like.
It's not for me, but if the bliss-ninnies want to spend their lives waiting for the next photoshopped picture of Kim Kardashian's ass to hit the newsstands, who am I to say no?
iOS asks for a password whenever things are purchased, regardless of method. Buying free apps can skip a password.
However, the kid had the password needed for purchases and was able to enter it when asked.
Nope, not on my ipad it doesn't. My wife's ipad also doesn't ask for a password.
Yes, I know it can be set to do so, but apparently it's not the default. I just bought her an ipad mini 4 days ago and after setting it up it asked for a password once, and it hasn't asked for one again.
It doesn't matter if it's deliberate. You don't leave a loaded tablet lying around where the kids can get to it. Put it in the gun safe, separate from the credits cards.
Lol, maybe just install a hard-to-remove trigger lock, err, I mean "tablet lock" and keep the key in the safe.
Except her father was a co-author
So, if I edit my son's diary that instantly makes me a "co-author" with rights to the publishing process?
What if it's my sister's diary? My father's diary? My cousins diary?
What if I find a diary on the street and edit it...am I now a "co-author" with rights to the publishing process?
They require a credit card to install free apps. What gets me is they required password for doing anything on the app store even free apps, but no password to buy thousands in upgrades. It's a deliberate scam, or incredible incompetence. I succpect the latter.
Yeah, it's hard to see how they "missed" this elephant in the room when setting up the app store and in-game purchases.
Really, if this isn't deliberate then it's the next best thing.
You let your brat play unchecked with a credit card-enabled tablet, you deserve every bill you get.
Especially if you're too dumb to read the fine print and adjust your settings, so that these things can be avoided.
Yeah, there's enough blame to put a bit on everyone's plate here.
It's worth mentioning that you can enter your password once on an ipad and then it won't ask again, which frankly seems a bit careless and maybe even "trappy". If you're spending real money, the least they could do is require you to enter a password each time. It's not like that would be a difficult thing to add. In fact, they make it SO easy for this kind of thing to happen it has more than a whiff of deliberate intention to it.
It's similar to Amazon's "one-click" ordering...it's a landmine just waiting to be stepped on.
Just what are you doing? Denying there's a problem?
No, I'm not denying there's a "problem", I am, however, pointing out that this isn't a "male-only problem". There are LOTS of asshole women and LOTS of socially-inept or awkward women, but you said not a single word about them as far as I could tell. Are YOU denying there's a problem?
Also, to be blunt, I find your stance on firearms to be simplistic and in opposition to many of the ideals you've espoused over the years...or have those changed too?
emoticon != emoji... you don't speak internet either
Then I suppose I've proved my case beyond any doubt, haven't I? :)
The point? To point you and others towards the idea that maybe, when you judge people in the first couple of minutes, you are being too hasty.
And maybe it's not being too hasty. Quite a few of the people I've labeled as "assholes" in my life were done so after a few minutes or in some instances a few days of observation, and my estimation of them hasn't changed, in some cases for as long as 40 years. And by and large, those around me come to the same overall conclusion. Sure, sometimes I'm mistaken, but I've been right a whole lot more than I've been wrong in this particular arena.
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Perhaps you are too superficial, perhaps you are a misogynist,
Ooh, and perhaps I'm a terrorist or a pedophile, those are two all-purpose ad hominems you missed. Seriously, once you start casually throwing those terms around, you've really failed.
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Don't you ever wonder what you are missing out on? We all have good and bad days - or weeks, sometimes - and in my experience, the person you would dismiss in the first couple of days,
See above, specifically the part where I said that "sometimes I'm mistaken, but I've been right a whole lot more than I've been wrong". And it's true. Some of these people I've literally known for decades, and more often than not, my initial estimation of them was spot -on.
No doubt about it, sometimes an apparent asshole does turn out to be a decent person, but that only happens about 5% of the time max in my personal experience. Maybe I'm a better judge of character than you, or maybe I've just got more experience at it. But regardless of the reason, my initial assessment of people is usually pretty accurate in terms of "assholishness".
So, did you have any facts to back up your opinion that Y is unrelated to asshole-ness?
Do you have any facts to back up your opinion that Y is related to asshole-ness?
/.? ;)
I am sorry, I do not what message you are trying to convey. I no speak emoji.
Welcome to the world, where bugs are just part and parcel of life.
Even allowing for that - when someone uses a phrase as ridiculous as "incestuous words", it serves as a warning flag .
I saw a porn named that once.
"Warning Flag"? Heh, yeah, I saw that one too. I watched it twice, actually. 8 out o10 on the "Stroker" scale.
It's like I tell my friends and co-workers, "I don't talk like everyone else. I speak in a manner similar to others."
I, for one, still prefer hardbound dead tree versions.
I'm with you, my dead-tree appreciating brother.
A Kindle or a real book? I'll take the real book any day.
TL;DR
In a word, "exactly".
These people are professional victims. Anita Sarkeesian was one of the trailblazers in this field, turning her "harassment" into dollars and producing almost nothing in return. Brianna Wu is a duplicitous con artist without a shred of talent in her body.
All these people make me want to vomit. The harm they do promoting their bullshit about "safe spaces" and "micro-aggressions" and "cultural appropriation" have turned an entire generation of young people into the most pathetic wussies and whiners and special snowflakes ever seen in the history of the planet.
At 18, our fathers and grandfathers were jumping out of troop ships while being shot at and shelled with mortars. These entitled little fucktarts can't even read Romeo and Juliet without having a breakdown. They can't listen to opposing opinions without being "triggered". If they have a moment of doubt about anything, it's an "identity crisis" and they'll cry if you don't respect their personal set of oddball pronouns (shiz, shim, shey, etc etc). They're all demi-semi-queerplatonic-fat-free-otherkin-fictives with multiple-system headmates. AND THEY BELIEVE THIS SHIT.
Fuck these little losers. I can't wait to see them enter the job market and be chewed up and spit out like old gum. In a way I'm actually glad they're such hopeless losers because they're competing for jobs against people like my son, who will wipe the fucking floor with them.
What about /., LinkedIn, blogs, etc.? :P
LinkedIn: "I'm so awesome, hire me! please, hire me. No, really, hire me i need a job so hire me pleeeez"
Blogs: "I'm so interesting, look at my kittly/niche interest/political opinion/terrible amateur writing/angsty poem/etc/etc/etc/ that no one cares about"