I should have replaced the word "you" in that final two sentences but missed it.
No problem, I find myself doing that and it's often misconstrued as being aimed at the person I'm conversing with.
And yes, Milo is a nasty piece of shit. I find 95% of the stuff he says to be deliberately inflammatory, misleading, or unfairly generalizing. Once in a very great while he'll say something that actually makes some sense, but he revels in pushing buttons just for the outrage value and I'll give him credit for being skilled at it.
The fact is that he's a bitter, self-loathing gay man who would be among the first to be lynched if his vision of society were ever to come to pass. He supports the very kind of people that would put a bullet in his head the moment they had the chance. The lack of rational self-awareness he demonstrates is mind-boggling.
OK, you want to silence the "silencers"? Pointing shit out is not exactly silencing people even if you don't want to hear their shit, it cuts both ways.
No, I never said anything about silencing people, in fact what I said was pretty much the opposite. Here's what I said:
So to all of you self-righteous silencers out there, if you don't support the kind of speech you detest, you're not supporting free speech.
How did you manage to warp that statement into me wanting to silence anyone?
"If left alone, the paper reverts to its original state in five days"
This is the thing that would keep me from buying it...oftentimes I don't know if I'll need to keep something I print out for a day or a week or a month.
I'd hate to print something off only to find out that it had self-erased a week later.
Like the sort of people who would fly into a rage and violently protest the speech of a gay Jew? Like in Berkeley last week?
I can't stand Milo, but he has the right to speak his mind just like anyone else. Shutting him down was a shameful example of muzzling free speech. Left unchecked, "social justice" seems to morph into the "tyranny of the politically correct" every goddamn time.
Supporting "free speech" means supporting the kind of speech we disagree with or even hate, it doesn't mean allowing only the kind of speech we happen to agree with or find acceptable.
So to all of you self-righteous silencers out there, if you don't support the kind of speech you detest, you're not supporting free speech. It's a shame that so many people just don't get this.
Most recently the suppression of opposing opinions as been rebranded as the "no platforming", which is just suppression of free speech under a new, trendy term.
Again, I can't stand Milo Yiannopoulos- he's a self-loathing toady, but even he gets things right once in a while. While I disagree with 95% of the shit that comes out of his mouth, he should have the right to spew his nonsense just like anyone else.
One of the individuals who was arrested received an email from Facebook's "Law Enforcement Response Team,"
Which seems like another good reason not to have a Facebook account. That's assuming that Facebook actually has a "Law Enforcement Response Team" and that this isn't just a phishing attempt...
It's been awhile since we've had jesus freaks spamming shit here. It's nostalgic of the time when we actually fought against ignorance. Today we're only 'allowed' to fight ignorance when it isn't islam.
The funny thing is that this nutter is almost certainly turning people off to his kooky fairy tale rather than making them interested in it.
Hopefully, Trump will first direct the FCC to stop enforcing the net neutrality rules, and then Congress will permanently remove FCC authority over the Internet.
Oh yeah, what could possibly go wrong by removing any kind of regulatory oversight? Surely none of the large, multi-billion dollar corporations would ever unfairly use a lack of regulation to their advantage.
Old man, you don't understand, social media has replaced social interaction
Go groom the food out of your beard, you fucking hipster.
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Young people only seem socially inept to you because they don't interact socially in the same way as you do
No, they seem inept because they are inept. And the fact that it seems normal to you means that you're socially inept too.
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it's not surprising that they're having less casual sex with nearby people when they don't have to settle for whoever they can find in their immediate vicinity.
Lol, you poor fool, it's not just "less sex nearby", it's less sex period. People like you use the excuse of "selectivity" when in fact it's because you have no idea how to approach a woman and talk to her.
Your bullshit about how social media "allows people to be far more selective" is hilarious. Yeah, because being super-choosy about getting laid is a hallmark of horny young guys, right? Right?
I think the real problem is that so many millennials (male and female) have become socially inept due to over-use of phones and social media.
They have no idea how to have a conversation except with their bro-buddies or hen-pals. They can barely look you in the eye. They run from a difference of opinion as if it was poison gas. They model their lives on trendy sitcoms and would rather get "likes" on Instagram than have sex. The guys are too busy grooming their hipster beards and the women won't spit on you if you don't make $250K a year and drive a Mercedes.
Add to that the relative scarcity of non-uptight women in the Bay area and it's no wonder there's so little fucking going on. It's the same in New York and lots of other big cities.
"FFForget will allow people to back up all of their memories from the social networks they use and keep them in a safe, encrypted memory container and will give people the freedom to leave any network whenever they want..."
No problem- I avoided all this stress by not having a Facebook account, or Instacrap, Pinterest, etc etc etc.
I host my own pics on my own servers, so I miss out on all the angst and data-mining.
I can still use IRC, SIP, Email etc from any ancient device.
It's not that simple. For example, many of the people I need to communicate with don't and won't use IRC, but they'll use Skype. Now Skype is turning into trash.
So should I try to convert all of them to IRC? No way, they just won't do it. It may better/faster/cooler/whatever, but the issue is that everyone they know is using Skype. Why would they switch away to a service that their friends and family aren't using?
It's the same problem for people who want to use something other than Facebook- everyone is already on Facebook and they won't switch no matter what, period, end of story.
You can get your own domain and use it for email, but you can't get your own Skype. Also, many of the larger email services just silently drop mail from various private domains, so they fuck you that way too. I have domains that have never spammed, never been on any blacklist, never behaved badly, and yet Yahoo simply will not deliver mail coming from them, period. But Yahoo, Hotmail, and GMail are allowed through even though all of those services are overflowing with spam accounts.
"Microsoft, which is headquartered in Washington, employs nearly 5,000 people through the program."
Yes, and those are ~4,999 jobs that could be filled by American workers instead of low-cost imported labor.
Sorry, but the H-1B program has become so abused that it's just a fucking joke. Apparently no one in America knows how to program in Java, Go, C#, or C++, and no one knows how to administer a database or a file system. We're all just too stupid to work on stuff we invented so we need to import "skilled" people from places where toilets are still a novelty.
Also, forums have a lifespan....a forum will attract a crowd who will participate enthusiastically for 5 or 10 years, maybe a little longer, but then those people start to move on with their lives, die off (literally), lose interest, etc etc....and the forum declines in traffic and interest. I see this effect across a slew of forums I manage.
"We do not produce enough technically qualified candidates in this country," he said. "You can't take an 18-month training program and produce a machine-learning scientist."
While the second part of that statement may be true, the first is not for the vast, vast majority of H-1B positions.
Do we really not have enough people that know Java, for example? I call bullshit.
FFS, we invented Java, and to claim that the US doesn't have enough skilled Java programmers to fill the demand is just plain bullshit. This is all about getting workers below-scale and who are slavishly compliant because they don't want to be sent back to whatever jobless, 3rd-world shithole they came from.
This. Apparently US citizens have a choice now, death or install a government spy device.
Until the ACA, many of us didn't even have the choice. It was just "die", due to lack of insurance.
If you developed a heart problem and then tried to buy insurance, the insurance companies would tell you to fuck off because it was a "preexisting condition".
The problem is that many people don't know they have a problem until it manifests overtly...and then it's a "preexisting condition", so you couldn't get insurance. Lovely racket, until the ACA went into effect.
How do I know this? Because the ACA saved my life....it allowed me to get medical care for what the insurance companies would have said was a "preexisting condition".
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I should have replaced the word "you" in that final two sentences but missed it.
No problem, I find myself doing that and it's often misconstrued as being aimed at the person I'm conversing with.
And yes, Milo is a nasty piece of shit. I find 95% of the stuff he says to be deliberately inflammatory, misleading, or unfairly generalizing. Once in a very great while he'll say something that actually makes some sense, but he revels in pushing buttons just for the outrage value and I'll give him credit for being skilled at it.
The fact is that he's a bitter, self-loathing gay man who would be among the first to be lynched if his vision of society were ever to come to pass. He supports the very kind of people that would put a bullet in his head the moment they had the chance. The lack of rational self-awareness he demonstrates is mind-boggling.
Dear Apple,
Just pick a fucking connector and stick with it for a few years, you jackass fucktard shitbags.
Signed,
Practically Everyone
OK, you want to silence the "silencers"? Pointing shit out is not exactly silencing people even if you don't want to hear their shit, it cuts both ways.
No, I never said anything about silencing people, in fact what I said was pretty much the opposite. Here's what I said:
So to all of you self-righteous silencers out there, if you don't support the kind of speech you detest, you're not supporting free speech.
How did you manage to warp that statement into me wanting to silence anyone?
"If left alone, the paper reverts to its original state in five days"
This is the thing that would keep me from buying it...oftentimes I don't know if I'll need to keep something I print out for a day or a week or a month.
I'd hate to print something off only to find out that it had self-erased a week later.
Like the sort of people who would fly into a rage and violently protest the speech of a gay Jew? Like in Berkeley last week?
I can't stand Milo, but he has the right to speak his mind just like anyone else. Shutting him down was a shameful example of muzzling free speech. Left unchecked, "social justice" seems to morph into the "tyranny of the politically correct" every goddamn time.
Supporting "free speech" means supporting the kind of speech we disagree with or even hate, it doesn't mean allowing only the kind of speech we happen to agree with or find acceptable.
So to all of you self-righteous silencers out there, if you don't support the kind of speech you detest, you're not supporting free speech. It's a shame that so many people just don't get this.
Most recently the suppression of opposing opinions as been rebranded as the "no platforming", which is just suppression of free speech under a new, trendy term.
Again, I can't stand Milo Yiannopoulos- he's a self-loathing toady, but even he gets things right once in a while. While I disagree with 95% of the shit that comes out of his mouth, he should have the right to spew his nonsense just like anyone else.
One of the individuals who was arrested received an email from Facebook's "Law Enforcement Response Team,"
Which seems like another good reason not to have a Facebook account. That's assuming that Facebook actually has a "Law Enforcement Response Team" and that this isn't just a phishing attempt...
I hope it's better than their hard drives.
I call them Western Dataloss for a reason.
I've had more than a few WD drives fail on me. I call them "Write Only Memory" because the chance of getting data back out of them is unlikely.
Usually, the large, multi-billion dollar corporations are unfairly using regulation to their advantage.
And they would behave more benevolently and fairly without any regulation? What planet do you hail from where this is the case?
when no man has ever traveled through all time and space.
But I've done both, as has everyone here.
Show me someone who hasn't traveled through time and space and then maybe I'll pay attention.
It's been awhile since we've had jesus freaks spamming shit here. It's nostalgic of the time when we actually fought against ignorance. Today we're only 'allowed' to fight ignorance when it isn't islam.
The funny thing is that this nutter is almost certainly turning people off to his kooky fairy tale rather than making them interested in it.
I'll stick to Microsoft SQL Server. At least it doesn't cost $25K per transaction!
I know, even Oracle doesn't charge that much.
Hopefully, Trump will first direct the FCC to stop enforcing the net neutrality rules, and then Congress will permanently remove FCC authority over the Internet.
Oh yeah, what could possibly go wrong by removing any kind of regulatory oversight? Surely none of the large, multi-billion dollar corporations would ever unfairly use a lack of regulation to their advantage.
Old man, you don't understand, social media has replaced social interaction
Go groom the food out of your beard, you fucking hipster.
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Young people only seem socially inept to you because they don't interact socially in the same way as you do
No, they seem inept because they are inept. And the fact that it seems normal to you means that you're socially inept too.
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it's not surprising that they're having less casual sex with nearby people when they don't have to settle for whoever they can find in their immediate vicinity.
Lol, you poor fool, it's not just "less sex nearby", it's less sex period. People like you use the excuse of "selectivity" when in fact it's because you have no idea how to approach a woman and talk to her.
Your bullshit about how social media "allows people to be far more selective" is hilarious. Yeah, because being super-choosy about getting laid is a hallmark of horny young guys, right? Right?
Lol, you wish you could be selective, lol.
where the fuck do morons like you get their information.
Where do I get my information? By working for Microsoft. That's right- Unlike you, I've worked for Microsoft.
H-1Bs are all over the place, and no, they aren't making "insanely high salaries". That statement was how I knew you had never worked for Microsoft.
I think the real problem is that so many millennials (male and female) have become socially inept due to over-use of phones and social media.
They have no idea how to have a conversation except with their bro-buddies or hen-pals. They can barely look you in the eye. They run from a difference of opinion as if it was poison gas. They model their lives on trendy sitcoms and would rather get "likes" on Instagram than have sex. The guys are too busy grooming their hipster beards and the women won't spit on you if you don't make $250K a year and drive a Mercedes.
Add to that the relative scarcity of non-uptight women in the Bay area and it's no wonder there's so little fucking going on. It's the same in New York and lots of other big cities.
"FFForget will allow people to back up all of their memories from the social networks they use and keep them in a safe, encrypted memory container and will give people the freedom to leave any network whenever they want..."
No problem- I avoided all this stress by not having a Facebook account, or Instacrap, Pinterest, etc etc etc.
I host my own pics on my own servers, so I miss out on all the angst and data-mining.
I can still use IRC, SIP, Email etc from any ancient device.
It's not that simple. For example, many of the people I need to communicate with don't and won't use IRC, but they'll use Skype. Now Skype is turning into trash.
So should I try to convert all of them to IRC? No way, they just won't do it. It may better/faster/cooler/whatever, but the issue is that everyone they know is using Skype. Why would they switch away to a service that their friends and family aren't using?
It's the same problem for people who want to use something other than Facebook- everyone is already on Facebook and they won't switch no matter what, period, end of story.
You can get your own domain and use it for email, but you can't get your own Skype. Also, many of the larger email services just silently drop mail from various private domains, so they fuck you that way too. I have domains that have never spammed, never been on any blacklist, never behaved badly, and yet Yahoo simply will not deliver mail coming from them, period. But Yahoo, Hotmail, and GMail are allowed through even though all of those services are overflowing with spam accounts.
Is it just me, or is everything turning to shit?
It seems like every service, site, and program I use is steadily being degraded, feature-ized and/or monetized until it's a steaming pile of shit.
FFS, just leave stuff alone for a change. Stop "improving" everything until it no longer works. I'm so sick of this shit.
"Microsoft, which is headquartered in Washington, employs nearly 5,000 people through the program."
Yes, and those are ~4,999 jobs that could be filled by American workers instead of low-cost imported labor.
Sorry, but the H-1B program has become so abused that it's just a fucking joke. Apparently no one in America knows how to program in Java, Go, C#, or C++, and no one knows how to administer a database or a file system. We're all just too stupid to work on stuff we invented so we need to import "skilled" people from places where toilets are still a novelty.
19 new threads started in the last 12 hours, 27 years after the series came to an end.
A perfect example of the exception that proves the rule.
Also, forums have a lifespan....a forum will attract a crowd who will participate enthusiastically for 5 or 10 years, maybe a little longer, but then those people start to move on with their lives, die off (literally), lose interest, etc etc....and the forum declines in traffic and interest. I see this effect across a slew of forums I manage.
"We do not produce enough technically qualified candidates in this country," he said. "You can't take an 18-month training program and produce a machine-learning scientist."
While the second part of that statement may be true, the first is not for the vast, vast majority of H-1B positions.
Do we really not have enough people that know Java, for example? I call bullshit.
FFS, we invented Java, and to claim that the US doesn't have enough skilled Java programmers to fill the demand is just plain bullshit. This is all about getting workers below-scale and who are slavishly compliant because they don't want to be sent back to whatever jobless, 3rd-world shithole they came from.
This. Apparently US citizens have a choice now, death or install a government spy device.
Until the ACA, many of us didn't even have the choice. It was just "die", due to lack of insurance.
If you developed a heart problem and then tried to buy insurance, the insurance companies would tell you to fuck off because it was a "preexisting condition".
The problem is that many people don't know they have a problem until it manifests overtly...and then it's a "preexisting condition", so you couldn't get insurance. Lovely racket, until the ACA went into effect.
How do I know this? Because the ACA saved my life....it allowed me to get medical care for what the insurance companies would have said was a "preexisting condition".
And this is why the human race doesn't deserve to survive the meteor strike...
Every night I hope for this, but every morning I'm disappointed.
You keep telling yourself that and one day even you might believe it...
I've worked for Microsoft and I have a good idea of the ebb and flow there. Trust me, O365 is not the resounding success they had hoped it would be.