I gather from your remarks that you are either a Muslim, or a devotee of Dr. Jonathan Brown.
Islam first took hold because Mohammed (who excelled at leading by example) said go forth and kill anyone who doesn't join us, which included any elites and caravan owners who didn't pay zakat, ie. protection money. That, and Sharia law, are rather peculiar incarnations of 'social justice'.
Islam is tolerant of a market economy so long as everyone pays either zakat or jizyah. Otherwise, it'll simply kill you and take your stuff.
Pretty much. If everyone is in an uproar about OMG NEO-NAZIS and OMG RUSSIA, they might not see what's going on behind the curtain. Fortunately for the news media's sale on eyeballs-to-advertisers, there are a few photogenic media whores available to toss up as Bad Guys.
Someone pointed out that news media was dying before Trump won the election, but now is doing well again; they're actually in love with him, because all the outrage they've been able to generate has translated into a huge uptick in profitability.
Sargon's channel did get cut off for a bit (not sure how long it was down), but as you note, it's back. That's happened to a bunch of people, miraculously all folks calling out our political overlords one way or another. Likewise a bunch who've gotten dinged into limited state.
Side thought: this whole controversy is a side effect of Google/Youtube becoming ubiquitous. They're going to regret driving so many folks to seek alternatives.
Bingo. You've identified the "real" Nazis: anyone who looks around, observes the obvious as it hits them over the head, and says -- hey, this mass-immigration thing isn't going quite how they told us it would....
That's because Islam isn't a religion in the usual sense; it's a proto-Marxist political system with enough hellfire pasted on top to keep illiterate barbarians in line.
Furthermore, no one held a gun to your head and MADE you search for Nazi propaganda, or anything else. If you found it, no one MADE you watch it. There's all sorts of disagreeable horseshit on Youtube, but guess what -- I CAN IGNORE IT. (Tho I'd just as rather know what the other half is saying.)
Oh, the advertisers might be offended? How about Youtube stops trying to police that, and lets the ADVERTISERS determine what videos they appear on? put that burden where it belongs.
All to the good. The KDE-to-Windows kludge sucked. Now if only we could get Windows apps to run seamlessly on Linux... without having to finick it through obscure WINE tricks. For average users, it needs to be point-and-install.
There's one bloody Mac app that I'd really like to be able to run on Windows or Linux (cuz I'm not buying a damned Mac just for that)... will that ever happen?
My experience has unfortunately been identical to yours -- been chasing linux since ~1997 and always there's some too-much-annoyance due to weird bugs and stuff that just doesn't work (and I've tried literally hundreds of distros). But last year I did finally find a keeper in PCLinuxOS (Trinity or KDE desktop). It's still not my everyday OS, but at least 1) almost everything works, and 2) I'm not constantly so annoyed by weirdassed bugs that I wind up deleting it. Oh, and 3) performance is finally comparable to Windows on the same hardware.
And if L.A. wasn't constantly trying to play Keep Up With San Francisco, it wouldn't be nearly as liberal as it is. I've had the thought that we might all be better off (especially Californians) if S.F. was split off and became functionally the American Hong Kong.
I'm also reminded that fancy-ass components tend to break when you may most need them (what? you didn't notice the rearview camera had died until you backed into something?), while the clunky old-fashioned kind has nothing to break short of using a hammer on it.
Forgetting to notice that Chrome grew such a big marketshare *because* FF irritations drove users to look for alternatives, and once they find one, most never look back.
And when the primary choice becomes Chrome, or a buggy imitation of Chrome, which d'ya suppose will win more users?
[Me, I use SeaMonkey as my primary, PaleMoon as my secondary, Chrome as a last resort. I haven't even installed FF in years, and that's entirely their own fault.]
One of the sane-requirements licenses was for construction blasting -- ie. person who handles and sets high explosives. I dunno, maybe PT isn't quite as demanding...
That wasn't the absurdity; it was that physical trainer (or whatever it was, but something on that order) licensing required ~20 times more hours than anything else. Your cited injuries are certainly no worse than, frex, hair bleach in the eyes, and there's just not that much skill differential between PT and *everything else*.
My guess is someone with an existing monopoly observed the state's lack of new PT clients (confined to snowbird trust-funders; not something locals would pay for), thus lobbied to protect their monopoly, and the state legiscritters didn't see why not.
I don't disagree; it's good to have some verification of the expected qualifications. But it needs to be applied sanely. Last time this subject came up, I looked up my state's list of licensed professions (outside of engineering and medicine), and requirements thereto. Most were sane enough -- some 50-60 hours of training for the more-basic jobs, a bit more for the more-complex.
And then there was the weird outlier -- a requirement of 1100 hours of training for (IIRC) physical trainer. And I was like, WTF? Did someone take such a dislike to the profession as to effectively prohibit it??
Never mind fire; I'd be more concerned about wet rot and worse, ground termites. The only discouragement that works without regular reapplication is creosote (which of course has been largely outlawed).
Has a detailed "Code of Conduct" like this one ever improved the *product*, or enhanced its viability in the marketplace? Because if not, it's just a fancy suicide pact.
More of a problem is salmonella, which is a natural inhabitant of chicken ovaries. Chicks are treated with tetracycline at 2 weeks old to effectively eliminate this.
Eggs last longer in storage in the U.S. because some (not all) producers coat the eggs with wax (a natural substance) to prevent air exchange, which is really what ages the eggs. I have personally seen eggs thus sealed last 9 months in the fridge, and still be perfectly usable. It is MUCH more effective than the eggs' natural sealant.
Also, some producers have a large backlog in storage, and the eggs are already several weeks old by the time they reach retail.
One problem with service jobs, aside from their dead-end (and frequently part-time or seasonal) nature, is that they require *other* people to have disposable income before you even HAVE service jobs. Once you're topheavy with service jobs, or when the economy takes a downturn, where does the money come from??
As to wind power, earlier today I tripped over this interesting set of charts:
Last winter I spoke to someone in Ontario whose home was blessed with electric heat. Their monthly power bill had, in a single season, spiked from $100/mo. to almost $700/mo. Affordable, renewable power!
Why not make ADVERTISERS responsible for deciding which content they want to be displayed with?
Instead of hiring 10,000 censors to whack-a-mole content and continuing to dump irrelevant ads on people who don't want to see them and increasingly block them, YT could have hired a hundred ad-agency representatives (companies don't do their own ad placement) and vastly improved the relevance and viewer-acceptance of ads across the board.
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Okay, you're definitely a Muslim, practicing the jihad of words via taqiya.
I prefer to deal in hard facts. Here's a good compilation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Gives a whole different meaning to "cultural appropriation"...
I gather from your remarks that you are either a Muslim, or a devotee of Dr. Jonathan Brown.
Islam first took hold because Mohammed (who excelled at leading by example) said go forth and kill anyone who doesn't join us, which included any elites and caravan owners who didn't pay zakat, ie. protection money. That, and Sharia law, are rather peculiar incarnations of 'social justice'.
Islam is tolerant of a market economy so long as everyone pays either zakat or jizyah. Otherwise, it'll simply kill you and take your stuff.
Pretty much. If everyone is in an uproar about OMG NEO-NAZIS and OMG RUSSIA, they might not see what's going on behind the curtain. Fortunately for the news media's sale on eyeballs-to-advertisers, there are a few photogenic media whores available to toss up as Bad Guys.
Someone pointed out that news media was dying before Trump won the election, but now is doing well again; they're actually in love with him, because all the outrage they've been able to generate has translated into a huge uptick in profitability.
Sargon's channel did get cut off for a bit (not sure how long it was down), but as you note, it's back. That's happened to a bunch of people, miraculously all folks calling out our political overlords one way or another. Likewise a bunch who've gotten dinged into limited state.
Side thought: this whole controversy is a side effect of Google/Youtube becoming ubiquitous. They're going to regret driving so many folks to seek alternatives.
Bingo. You've identified the "real" Nazis: anyone who looks around, observes the obvious as it hits them over the head, and says -- hey, this mass-immigration thing isn't going quite how they told us it would....
Funny how the same people who want Africans to replace Swedes think it's terrible that the Chinese are colonizing Africa.
That's because Islam isn't a religion in the usual sense; it's a proto-Marxist political system with enough hellfire pasted on top to keep illiterate barbarians in line.
Furthermore, no one held a gun to your head and MADE you search for Nazi propaganda, or anything else. If you found it, no one MADE you watch it. There's all sorts of disagreeable horseshit on Youtube, but guess what -- I CAN IGNORE IT. (Tho I'd just as rather know what the other half is saying.)
Oh, the advertisers might be offended? How about Youtube stops trying to police that, and lets the ADVERTISERS determine what videos they appear on? put that burden where it belongs.
All to the good. The KDE-to-Windows kludge sucked. Now if only we could get Windows apps to run seamlessly on Linux... without having to finick it through obscure WINE tricks. For average users, it needs to be point-and-install.
There's one bloody Mac app that I'd really like to be able to run on Windows or Linux (cuz I'm not buying a damned Mac just for that)... will that ever happen?
My experience has unfortunately been identical to yours -- been chasing linux since ~1997 and always there's some too-much-annoyance due to weird bugs and stuff that just doesn't work (and I've tried literally hundreds of distros). But last year I did finally find a keeper in PCLinuxOS (Trinity or KDE desktop). It's still not my everyday OS, but at least 1) almost everything works, and 2) I'm not constantly so annoyed by weirdassed bugs that I wind up deleting it. Oh, and 3) performance is finally comparable to Windows on the same hardware.
And if L.A. wasn't constantly trying to play Keep Up With San Francisco, it wouldn't be nearly as liberal as it is. I've had the thought that we might all be better off (especially Californians) if S.F. was split off and became functionally the American Hong Kong.
I'm also reminded that fancy-ass components tend to break when you may most need them (what? you didn't notice the rearview camera had died until you backed into something?), while the clunky old-fashioned kind has nothing to break short of using a hammer on it.
Watch me stop bothering to even look at Gnome-desktop distros.
Forgetting to notice that Chrome grew such a big marketshare *because* FF irritations drove users to look for alternatives, and once they find one, most never look back.
And when the primary choice becomes Chrome, or a buggy imitation of Chrome, which d'ya suppose will win more users?
[Me, I use SeaMonkey as my primary, PaleMoon as my secondary, Chrome as a last resort. I haven't even installed FF in years, and that's entirely their own fault.]
And a bartender could poison you.
One of the sane-requirements licenses was for construction blasting -- ie. person who handles and sets high explosives. I dunno, maybe PT isn't quite as demanding...
That wasn't the absurdity; it was that physical trainer (or whatever it was, but something on that order) licensing required ~20 times more hours than anything else. Your cited injuries are certainly no worse than, frex, hair bleach in the eyes, and there's just not that much skill differential between PT and *everything else*.
My guess is someone with an existing monopoly observed the state's lack of new PT clients (confined to snowbird trust-funders; not something locals would pay for), thus lobbied to protect their monopoly, and the state legiscritters didn't see why not.
Very good point. A "license" is not a certification of quality; it is temporary permission to perform an act which would otherwise be illegal.
Here ya go.
http://www.gunsinternational.c...
I don't disagree; it's good to have some verification of the expected qualifications. But it needs to be applied sanely. Last time this subject came up, I looked up my state's list of licensed professions (outside of engineering and medicine), and requirements thereto. Most were sane enough -- some 50-60 hours of training for the more-basic jobs, a bit more for the more-complex.
And then there was the weird outlier -- a requirement of 1100 hours of training for (IIRC) physical trainer. And I was like, WTF? Did someone take such a dislike to the profession as to effectively prohibit it??
Never mind fire; I'd be more concerned about wet rot and worse, ground termites. The only discouragement that works without regular reapplication is creosote (which of course has been largely outlawed).
Has a detailed "Code of Conduct" like this one ever improved the *product*, or enhanced its viability in the marketplace? Because if not, it's just a fancy suicide pact.
More of a problem is salmonella, which is a natural inhabitant of chicken ovaries. Chicks are treated with tetracycline at 2 weeks old to effectively eliminate this.
Eggs last longer in storage in the U.S. because some (not all) producers coat the eggs with wax (a natural substance) to prevent air exchange, which is really what ages the eggs. I have personally seen eggs thus sealed last 9 months in the fridge, and still be perfectly usable. It is MUCH more effective than the eggs' natural sealant.
Also, some producers have a large backlog in storage, and the eggs are already several weeks old by the time they reach retail.
One problem with service jobs, aside from their dead-end (and frequently part-time or seasonal) nature, is that they require *other* people to have disposable income before you even HAVE service jobs. Once you're topheavy with service jobs, or when the economy takes a downturn, where does the money come from??
As to wind power, earlier today I tripped over this interesting set of charts:
https://stopthesethings.com/20...
Last winter I spoke to someone in Ontario whose home was blessed with electric heat. Their monthly power bill had, in a single season, spiked from $100/mo. to almost $700/mo. Affordable, renewable power!
Why not make ADVERTISERS responsible for deciding which content they want to be displayed with?
Instead of hiring 10,000 censors to whack-a-mole content and continuing to dump irrelevant ads on people who don't want to see them and increasingly block them, YT could have hired a hundred ad-agency representatives (companies don't do their own ad placement) and vastly improved the relevance and viewer-acceptance of ads across the board.