And people wonder why I drive a 23 year old truck, and a 36 year old truck... because they bloody look, act, and work like trucks, not like rolling infotainment centers with pornographic curves that do little but add to the repair costs if I hit a deer. Damn little can go wrong, and when it does I can point at it and tell the mechanic, "See this worn-out piece? Fix it."
Then how do you propose that those displaced workers earn a living? What jobs are they suited for? Where will those jobs come from??
Walmart gives a lot of jobs to borderline-retarded and disabled people who aren't capable of more complex work, did you realise that? What are they supposed to do if those jobs go away -- collect welfare??
And it may seem strange to you, but some people are much happier digging ditches.
Funny how the people claiming such wage increases aren't a slippery slope kinda forget that the proliferation of part-time jobs was a direct consequence of gov't making full-time workers too expensive.
And when it becomes about punishing the rich... well, there's always the fine example of the French Terror, from which France has never really recovered.
Yeah, in fact I was gonna say... Headline should read: "Seattle approves 50% cut in availability of entry-level and low-skilled jobs". Because as others have pointed out, every minimal-skills job that can be eliminated *will* be. Instead of an order taker at McDonald's, there'll be a touchscreen. Self-checkout at groceries and Walmart (presently the largest single employer of the marginally-employable) will become the rule rather than the exception. And so on.
If such wage increases ever reach the ag sector, crops that now require a crew of hand-pickers will transition to crops that can be harvested by one guy on a tractor, and it'll be that much more of our fresh fruit and veggies that come from South America year-round.
Which probably explains why in brief usage of Win7 and 8, my one big complaint boiled down to, "Where have they hidden Obvious Everyday Function that was in plain sight on every Windows before these??"
(I don't recall what offhand, it's been a while, but I was probably arguing with the new incarnation of WinExplorer. I fervently wished to hurt the designer.)
I haven't looked at OSX but I said pretty much the same about OS9, which I mucked about with enough to learn that I detest how it operates from one end to the other. I can see the appeal for people who never, ever do anything but operate on documents stored on their desktop, but for anything else -- eccch.
Could be all the animal fat, which satisfies the metabolism better. I eat all the fat off the roast too. And if you can still see the food, there's not enough butter.:D
All sorts of articles here, but... eh, recent, lots of stuff distilled into one review:
"...the first quarter turn didn't actually do anything."
Which usually means the bushings are shot. 1/8 inch or so of shrinkage in old rubber bushings is roughly 1/4th turn of the wheel. -- When we replaced bushings in my old truck ('78 Ford), it went from that same 1/4-turn-does-nothing to completely like-new tight again.
The big trouble with statements like "Not *all* X are Y" is that it sets up a default expectation that *most* X _are_ Y. It's a form of damning with faint praise.
I once knew a couple who are both exceedingly boring people. She's shy and self-effacing and dull, and he's the sort who if you ask him something, he churns for five minutes before giving you a 'perfect' answer of about two words. (He was my P-Chem professor, so I got to observe this in action quite a lot.) They seemed to be very happy together. Amazingly, their two kids seemed a lot more normal/outgoing, but they were still young, and a lot of things change at puberty. Hormones affect the brain, too.
Me too, for the same reason! Tho I did learn to be very careful how I removed 'em, because they were usually stuck to the spine a lot more strongly than the surrounding pages. After the first spectacular fail, I went to carefully cutting them off, as close to the spine as I could get.
However, the failure mode needs to be something any random driver can recognise and cope with at need. Everyone who drives today knows about steering wheels and brake pedals. Changing the failure mode to some non-car-like interface is probably not a good idea.
No, we're not in direct physical control anymore, but when we step on the brakes or turn the wheel, that still works even if the whole rest of the control system is kaput.
I'm wondering if that's not so much dodgy as just the logical successor to the medieval city-state, which was often built around a specific business, obviously for the benefit of that business and not for that of latecomers.
But some torrent sites already have user-rating systems.
I don't really know how P2P poisoning is done -- can someone explain? I'd think a poisoner could download whatever, then replace the bits with garbage bits (I understand this can be done without invalidating the hash) and offer it back to the world, hoping no one would notice until it was widely disseminated.
The only time I've received a bad torrent, I was pulling some rather old film of no interest to modern marketing, and when it finally arrived, it proved to be World War Z. And I'm like, WTF??
Well-studied doesn't necessarily mean well-researched or soundly-concluded, of course...
Back in the Columbine era, when someone coughed up a massacres-by-year chart, I noted that declines in violence followed very well after each increment of violent games, with significant drops for DOOM and Quake (and others I forget, later on), but right on the same path as how 'sex crimes' declined a chunk with the advent of BBSs, and a whole lot more with wide internet availability.
Indeed... I figure I've killed over 20 million innocent hellspawn, which if translated to Realworld behavior, would make me one of the premier mass murderers in history.... who knows, I could have depopulated Canada! I've always wanted my own country.;)
[If you're wondering how I reached that number, there's a particular kill that has odds of 1 in 5 million, and I've had it happen four times now. Close enough for slaughtering work.]
I think the ability to differentiate is inherent in normal people. I say this because I've seen two-year-olds who readily differentiate between their toy (a toddler's fantasy game) that they can beat the crap out of, and another person whom they approach with affection. They aren't old enough to understand ethics or morals, and don't yet have much impulse control, yet they will differentiate. They understand "pretend" and that the rules are different from "real life".
As to people using video games as babysitters, it's not the game, it's that such parents are not doing THEIR job... quite possibly because they have issues of their own, and increasingly we're finding that such things are inherited.
Yep. The internet provides a magical bogeyman to blame, precisely because it can't be captured or contained, But the only real difference between 'net and old-style printed rants is the net's enhanced ability to cheaply disseminate 'em.
If he were an old-style crazy, we'd have found journals scribbled in a crabbed hand, and clippings taped to the wall and slashed across the face.
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And people wonder why I drive a 23 year old truck, and a 36 year old truck... because they bloody look, act, and work like trucks, not like rolling infotainment centers with pornographic curves that do little but add to the repair costs if I hit a deer. Damn little can go wrong, and when it does I can point at it and tell the mechanic, "See this worn-out piece? Fix it."
Then how do you propose that those displaced workers earn a living? What jobs are they suited for? Where will those jobs come from??
Walmart gives a lot of jobs to borderline-retarded and disabled people who aren't capable of more complex work, did you realise that? What are they supposed to do if those jobs go away -- collect welfare??
And it may seem strange to you, but some people are much happier digging ditches.
Good point.
Also, a bunch of interesting articles I tripped over this morning, that touch on all sorts of observations that are usually conveniently omitted:
http://landscapesandcycles.net...
Funny how the people claiming such wage increases aren't a slippery slope kinda forget that the proliferation of part-time jobs was a direct consequence of gov't making full-time workers too expensive.
And when it becomes about punishing the rich... well, there's always the fine example of the French Terror, from which France has never really recovered.
Yeah, in fact I was gonna say... Headline should read: "Seattle approves 50% cut in availability of entry-level and low-skilled jobs". Because as others have pointed out, every minimal-skills job that can be eliminated *will* be. Instead of an order taker at McDonald's, there'll be a touchscreen. Self-checkout at groceries and Walmart (presently the largest single employer of the marginally-employable) will become the rule rather than the exception. And so on.
If such wage increases ever reach the ag sector, crops that now require a crew of hand-pickers will transition to crops that can be harvested by one guy on a tractor, and it'll be that much more of our fresh fruit and veggies that come from South America year-round.
Which probably explains why in brief usage of Win7 and 8, my one big complaint boiled down to, "Where have they hidden Obvious Everyday Function that was in plain sight on every Windows before these??"
(I don't recall what offhand, it's been a while, but I was probably arguing with the new incarnation of WinExplorer. I fervently wished to hurt the designer.)
I haven't looked at OSX but I said pretty much the same about OS9, which I mucked about with enough to learn that I detest how it operates from one end to the other. I can see the appeal for people who never, ever do anything but operate on documents stored on their desktop, but for anything else -- eccch.
Simplified, but interesting:
http://www.eupedia.com/genetic...
Red hair occasionally pops up in Negroid populations too, tho I'd guess it's a different gene restricting formation of pigment.
I was just reading the bit on GRC.com, that exchange with 'David' and a couple things struck me:
'David' sounds like mainland Chinese in his use of English.
The NSA is not the only such agency in the world.
Could be all the animal fat, which satisfies the metabolism better. I eat all the fat off the roast too. And if you can still see the food, there's not enough butter. :D
All sorts of articles here, but ... eh, recent, lots of stuff distilled into one review:
http://www.proteinpower.com/dr...
"...the first quarter turn didn't actually do anything."
Which usually means the bushings are shot. 1/8 inch or so of shrinkage in old rubber bushings is roughly 1/4th turn of the wheel. -- When we replaced bushings in my old truck ('78 Ford), it went from that same 1/4-turn-does-nothing to completely like-new tight again.
The big trouble with statements like "Not *all* X are Y" is that it sets up a default expectation that *most* X _are_ Y. It's a form of damning with faint praise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I once knew a couple who are both exceedingly boring people. She's shy and self-effacing and dull, and he's the sort who if you ask him something, he churns for five minutes before giving you a 'perfect' answer of about two words. (He was my P-Chem professor, so I got to observe this in action quite a lot.) They seemed to be very happy together. Amazingly, their two kids seemed a lot more normal/outgoing, but they were still young, and a lot of things change at puberty. Hormones affect the brain, too.
Yep. These events are not massacres. They are loud, messy suicides.
Me too, for the same reason! Tho I did learn to be very careful how I removed 'em, because they were usually stuck to the spine a lot more strongly than the surrounding pages. After the first spectacular fail, I went to carefully cutting them off, as close to the spine as I could get.
However, the failure mode needs to be something any random driver can recognise and cope with at need. Everyone who drives today knows about steering wheels and brake pedals. Changing the failure mode to some non-car-like interface is probably not a good idea.
No, we're not in direct physical control anymore, but when we step on the brakes or turn the wheel, that still works even if the whole rest of the control system is kaput.
I'm confuzzled. Are you suggesting a signature that would be non-anonymous, or pulled from a database, or..??
[Not my field, obviously, but doesn't hurt to know these things.]
I'm wondering if that's not so much dodgy as just the logical successor to the medieval city-state, which was often built around a specific business, obviously for the benefit of that business and not for that of latecomers.
But some torrent sites already have user-rating systems.
I don't really know how P2P poisoning is done -- can someone explain? I'd think a poisoner could download whatever, then replace the bits with garbage bits (I understand this can be done without invalidating the hash) and offer it back to the world, hoping no one would notice until it was widely disseminated.
The only time I've received a bad torrent, I was pulling some rather old film of no interest to modern marketing, and when it finally arrived, it proved to be World War Z. And I'm like, WTF??
Well-studied doesn't necessarily mean well-researched or soundly-concluded, of course...
Back in the Columbine era, when someone coughed up a massacres-by-year chart, I noted that declines in violence followed very well after each increment of violent games, with significant drops for DOOM and Quake (and others I forget, later on), but right on the same path as how 'sex crimes' declined a chunk with the advent of BBSs, and a whole lot more with wide internet availability.
Indeed ... I figure I've killed over 20 million innocent hellspawn, which if translated to Realworld behavior, would make me one of the premier mass murderers in history.... who knows, I could have depopulated Canada! I've always wanted my own country. ;)
[If you're wondering how I reached that number, there's a particular kill that has odds of 1 in 5 million, and I've had it happen four times now. Close enough for slaughtering work.]
I think the ability to differentiate is inherent in normal people. I say this because I've seen two-year-olds who readily differentiate between their toy (a toddler's fantasy game) that they can beat the crap out of, and another person whom they approach with affection. They aren't old enough to understand ethics or morals, and don't yet have much impulse control, yet they will differentiate. They understand "pretend" and that the rules are different from "real life".
As to people using video games as babysitters, it's not the game, it's that such parents are not doing THEIR job... quite possibly because they have issues of their own, and increasingly we're finding that such things are inherited.
Such baiting is hardly new. From about 35 years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
[sarcastic lyrics alert]
Yep. The internet provides a magical bogeyman to blame, precisely because it can't be captured or contained, But the only real difference between 'net and old-style printed rants is the net's enhanced ability to cheaply disseminate 'em.
If he were an old-style crazy, we'd have found journals scribbled in a crabbed hand, and clippings taped to the wall and slashed across the face.