whether or not it works is if people consume the resource despite the advertising
there are other models to pay for a resource. if they do better than an advertising model in terms of raising cash to support the resource that's great. it is just a matter of what works
of course advertising sucks. so avoid it if you want to. and if a resource you want uses advertising, you have to go to alternative products of similar quality that don't use advertising, or you'll have to suck it up and deal with the advertising
but whining about the existence of advertising is just immature and useless. just avoid resources that advertise
no one is forcing you to see advertising. just avoid it if you don't like it. no big deal
of course, in a sane society, rather than tearing down state employees for their lavish benefits and income, people would be insisting their own salaries be raised to match, to reverse how their salaries and benefits have been gutted the last few decades so the CEO can buy more gold toilets and mistresses
look to scott walker's effort to gut unions: there's a lot more of that from his playbook coming across republican controlled state houses soon
unfortunately the average american is a hate filled small minded seflish bigot, and would rather tear others down to their level than work together and build a sane society. good job, crab mentality assholes. plutocrats take more and more, you get less and less, and all you can do is boil and hate and rage and tear everyone else down around you
question is why anyone sane and intelligent ever votes republican. not that the democrats are much better but they obvious ARE better
rather than holding out for ideological perfection that will never come, vote strategically: push society closer in the direction you want, don't expect to society to arrive at where you are automatically with one vote, and you're just holding out for that magic vote that will never come
almost as bad as hate filled propagandized fox news watching crab mentality bigots is ivory tower ideological dreamers who will never get involved and only judge in acid cynicism from a distance. the real world is about compromises and corners, never perfection you airheads
Described as "a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin,"[4] the series tells the story of a futuristic theme park called Westworld.
If I were an asshole - which I really try not to be - I would summarily dump all the information I just dug up about you (starting from trivially accessed semi-public log data) right here.
that's as far as i read
go ahead
"if i were an asshole, which i'm not but watch me act like one with a pathetic threat in the same sentence..." yeah, ok, i see what kind of shitbag i'm dealing with
you can't exactly maintain the moral high ground when you reveal you would happily defy what you purport to stand for
example:
"we should nuke ISIS to prove we are more civilized than them"
notice the problem? good, now notice you have the same problem asswipe
being that you are morally bankrupt, there's nothing to do except to tell you to fuck off. you have no merit and you're beneath contempt
i don't have an aggressive stance. i have an understanding of the reality of the nature of information. which you lack. you have a fervent quasireligious hopeful belief in an impossible goal
we're not talking about medical records you stupid fuck. we're talking about already publicly available information. changing the topic is a sign of losing an argument, that you're conceding a point but you don't have the intellectual honesty to admit it
if you want to continue the charade that people who are curious about you don't know what a proxy is, be my guest. but it makes you look stupid and weakly insecure
are you east german? do you think the stasi are still around? what a paranoid loser
learn your own european history jackass, it doesn't work:
this is rock of gibraltar truth: you can't delete what is public information. once it gets out there. it stays out there. no take backs. not because i say so, but because of the nature of reality. you're not arguing with me. you're arguing with the facts of life. but go ahead and shoot the messenger you stupid douchebag
if someone pushes you out a window, what can you do? can you arrest, prosecute, sue the person that did that did that to you? yes. can you magically say "pushing me out a window was wrong, so magically i want to make it so i never fell out a window." that's exactly what you sound like. that's the same as your position on publicly available information
you either understand and accept the reality, the basic facts, of the world you live in. or wage an impossible war against the inevitable, like trying to fight the rising and setting of the sun
your choice, but you currently look like an airhead moron. your great right to be forgotten law is a figleaf for technologically illiterate idiots. this is all you really get:
so you know morons who like being lied to and have information hidden from them
what happy citizens of censorship paradise
anyone actually interested in knowing somebody will make the slightly more marginal effort to search from outside the eu. it's easy. it's motivated by simple curiousity, and no one likes being lied to and kept in the dark
why do you defend a paper thin joke of a law that only serves as a pleasantry for airheads and does nothing effective? why do you support censorship? why does a douchebag have a right to hide some evil shit he once did? if it was a false accusation or just plain embarrassing: why do you think people are unable to make that judgment? why would you want to ever have anything to do with someone who would not make the correct judgment about stupid teenage shit or false rumors?
what "power struggle" with corporations? i despise the power of corporations as much as the next person but this is about the persistence of information. you can't fight that. nor should you try. it's a wasted and misdirected effort
the right-to-be-forgotten law is the most moronic useless feel good band aid i have seen in a long time
it does nothing effective
if you're looking to make a hiring decision or a dating decision, search on the person using a proxy from another country. 30 seconds extra effort and well within the technical abilities of even the barely computer literate
heck, some euro should write an app for the purpose: "find out what the loser is hiding from you! search their history from another country!"
besides, most of which should be "forgotten" shouldn't be forgotten at all: your douchebag financial or criminal history for example
if you think kids shouldn't be judged for stupid kid stuff: any potential dating partner or workplace that would judge you on stupid teenage crap is no person you want to date/ place you want to work anyways
and most importantly: if you don't want it to be public, don't make it fucking public in the first place. if someone reveals a secret about you they should not have, sue that asshole. don't think you can reverse time and erase public information
maybe there once was a time this info would be harder to find (microfiche in the library basement in the 1980s)
well, sorry: technology changes society, culture, and the law. inevitably and irrevocably. you can't go back in time. the printing press destroyed the aristocracy and replaced it with democracy by making the middle class educated and informed. do the aristocracy have a right to freeze time and not lose to the march of history?
likewise, "right-to-be-forgotten" is a useless feel good band aid that has no real effect just because some old european assholes think it's great to fight the inevitability of technological change. their children will roll their eyes a their clueless feeble elders and reverse this stupid law
if/ then, while loops. simple stuff, not even bubble sort, not complicated algorithms
but then you see this in the summary:
action on Microsoft's 'two-pronged' National Talent Strategy to increase K-12 CS education and the number of H-1B visas could be galvanized by 'producing a crisis'.
so there's actually morons out there who believe teaching kids how to animate crude cartoons is some sort of plot to destroy the american programmer's salaries and work options
or even if they don't like microsoft and hate the H-1B visa plan... therefore they should oppose microsoft supporting an effort to expose more children to the rudimentary basics of programming?
because teaching kids trumpet puts professional jazz musicians out of work
because teaching kids algebra threatens theoretical physicist's jobs
because if you don't like microsoft, children should suffer
why does slashdot continuously submit this douchebag crackpot theodp?
bullshit. communism is designed for scarcity, for distributing goods "equally"
the economy post-scarcity does represent the end of capitalism, but it also represent the end of communism
your imagination seems to be "anything not capitalism is communism" when in reality there are many alternative economic models, not just capitalism and communism
A 'post scarcity' economy is a false idea. there will always be scarcity - fuel, ideas, certain types of entertainment, sex, will ALWAYS be scarce. Merely because we will have solved the scarcity of the original commodities - food, clothing, certain types of products, does not mean nothing will ever be scarce again.
well duh. we're talking about what you need to live, not everything in the universe. you're missing the point
you seem so wedded to capitalism that any challenge to it is offensive to you. capitalism is not a religion. it isn't even fully practiced anywhere. the usa has socialist aspects to its economy, it has to, not all sectors of the economy (education, healthcare, infrastructure, police, etc.) can be solved with capitalism. the happiest, richest societies on earth are socialist-capitalist (nordic countries, canada)
i like capitalism. but there is an unfortunate contingent of (mostly american) fools who think it is some sort of biblical verse that can never be questioned. stupid and insane
so phoenix az will be the last capitalist greed/ scarcity based city in the usa, until enough people get fed up and leave for greener (literally) pastures
Literature is very unimportant except as a means of homogenizing culture
what a fucking moron you are. teaching kids great literature is "homogenizing culture"? jesus christ what an ignorant douchebag. yeah kids: don't read the great written works of the wise people who came before you, it might make you impressed by their struggles and learn from them. too "homogenizing"
god i hope you're a troll. no one can be that fucking stupid
Slashdot Mirror
whether or not it works is if people consume the resource despite the advertising
there are other models to pay for a resource. if they do better than an advertising model in terms of raising cash to support the resource that's great. it is just a matter of what works
of course advertising sucks. so avoid it if you want to. and if a resource you want uses advertising, you have to go to alternative products of similar quality that don't use advertising, or you'll have to suck it up and deal with the advertising
but whining about the existence of advertising is just immature and useless. just avoid resources that advertise
no one is forcing you to see advertising. just avoid it if you don't like it. no big deal
this is your problem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
of course, in a sane society, rather than tearing down state employees for their lavish benefits and income, people would be insisting their own salaries be raised to match, to reverse how their salaries and benefits have been gutted the last few decades so the CEO can buy more gold toilets and mistresses
look to scott walker's effort to gut unions: there's a lot more of that from his playbook coming across republican controlled state houses soon
unfortunately the average american is a hate filled small minded seflish bigot, and would rather tear others down to their level than work together and build a sane society. good job, crab mentality assholes. plutocrats take more and more, you get less and less, and all you can do is boil and hate and rage and tear everyone else down around you
question is why anyone sane and intelligent ever votes republican. not that the democrats are much better but they obvious ARE better
rather than holding out for ideological perfection that will never come, vote strategically: push society closer in the direction you want, don't expect to society to arrive at where you are automatically with one vote, and you're just holding out for that magic vote that will never come
almost as bad as hate filled propagandized fox news watching crab mentality bigots is ivory tower ideological dreamers who will never get involved and only judge in acid cynicism from a distance. the real world is about compromises and corners, never perfection you airheads
vote strategically
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
from the same micahel crichton who gave us jurassic park
awesomely, there will be a new westworld tv series coming up soon on HBO, so it's not going to be soft
written by jonathan nolan, christopher nolan's borther, who cowrote a lot of his brother's movies (interstellar, batman movies)
jj abrams will executive produce
anthony hopkins, ed harris, james marsden, evan rachel wood, jeffrey wright, thandie newton, rodrigo santoro...
that's a lot of heavy talent lined up here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
looks good!
that's as far as i read
go ahead
"if i were an asshole, which i'm not but watch me act like one with a pathetic threat in the same sentence..." yeah, ok, i see what kind of shitbag i'm dealing with
you can't exactly maintain the moral high ground when you reveal you would happily defy what you purport to stand for
example:
"we should nuke ISIS to prove we are more civilized than them"
notice the problem? good, now notice you have the same problem asswipe
being that you are morally bankrupt, there's nothing to do except to tell you to fuck off. you have no merit and you're beneath contempt
i don't have an aggressive stance. i have an understanding of the reality of the nature of information. which you lack. you have a fervent quasireligious hopeful belief in an impossible goal
good luck to you and your windmills don quixote
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
we're not talking about medical records you stupid fuck. we're talking about already publicly available information. changing the topic is a sign of losing an argument, that you're conceding a point but you don't have the intellectual honesty to admit it
if you want to continue the charade that people who are curious about you don't know what a proxy is, be my guest. but it makes you look stupid and weakly insecure
are you east german? do you think the stasi are still around? what a paranoid loser
learn your own european history jackass, it doesn't work:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
this is rock of gibraltar truth: you can't delete what is public information. once it gets out there. it stays out there. no take backs. not because i say so, but because of the nature of reality. you're not arguing with me. you're arguing with the facts of life. but go ahead and shoot the messenger you stupid douchebag
if someone pushes you out a window, what can you do? can you arrest, prosecute, sue the person that did that did that to you? yes. can you magically say "pushing me out a window was wrong, so magically i want to make it so i never fell out a window." that's exactly what you sound like. that's the same as your position on publicly available information
you either understand and accept the reality, the basic facts, of the world you live in. or wage an impossible war against the inevitable, like trying to fight the rising and setting of the sun
your choice, but you currently look like an airhead moron. your great right to be forgotten law is a figleaf for technologically illiterate idiots. this is all you really get:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
learn form your own literature, cervantes described you well you ignorant piece of shit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
so you know morons who like being lied to and have information hidden from them
what happy citizens of censorship paradise
anyone actually interested in knowing somebody will make the slightly more marginal effort to search from outside the eu. it's easy. it's motivated by simple curiousity, and no one likes being lied to and kept in the dark
why do you defend a paper thin joke of a law that only serves as a pleasantry for airheads and does nothing effective? why do you support censorship? why does a douchebag have a right to hide some evil shit he once did? if it was a false accusation or just plain embarrassing: why do you think people are unable to make that judgment? why would you want to ever have anything to do with someone who would not make the correct judgment about stupid teenage shit or false rumors?
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
http://lifehacker.com/5933248/...
so easy
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
http://lifehacker.com/5933248/...
beyond easy
exactly, thank you
the law is a completely useless feel good band aid for morons
what "power struggle" with corporations? i despise the power of corporations as much as the next person but this is about the persistence of information. you can't fight that. nor should you try. it's a wasted and misdirected effort
perhaps
seriously, slashdot is beginning to reek of depends undergarments
the right-to-be-forgotten law is the most moronic useless feel good band aid i have seen in a long time
it does nothing effective
if you're looking to make a hiring decision or a dating decision, search on the person using a proxy from another country. 30 seconds extra effort and well within the technical abilities of even the barely computer literate
heck, some euro should write an app for the purpose: "find out what the loser is hiding from you! search their history from another country!"
besides, most of which should be "forgotten" shouldn't be forgotten at all: your douchebag financial or criminal history for example
if you think kids shouldn't be judged for stupid kid stuff: any potential dating partner or workplace that would judge you on stupid teenage crap is no person you want to date/ place you want to work anyways
and most importantly: if you don't want it to be public, don't make it fucking public in the first place. if someone reveals a secret about you they should not have, sue that asshole. don't think you can reverse time and erase public information
maybe there once was a time this info would be harder to find (microfiche in the library basement in the 1980s)
well, sorry: technology changes society, culture, and the law. inevitably and irrevocably. you can't go back in time. the printing press destroyed the aristocracy and replaced it with democracy by making the middle class educated and informed. do the aristocracy have a right to freeze time and not lose to the march of history?
likewise, "right-to-be-forgotten" is a useless feel good band aid that has no real effect just because some old european assholes think it's great to fight the inevitability of technological change. their children will roll their eyes a their clueless feeble elders and reverse this stupid law
i think it's obvious to anyone paying attention that programming should be introduced to children
finland knows what's up
https://www.reddit.com/r/progr...
we're talking about things like scratch: https://scratch.mit.edu/
if/ then, while loops. simple stuff, not even bubble sort, not complicated algorithms
but then you see this in the summary:
so there's actually morons out there who believe teaching kids how to animate crude cartoons is some sort of plot to destroy the american programmer's salaries and work options
or even if they don't like microsoft and hate the H-1B visa plan... therefore they should oppose microsoft supporting an effort to expose more children to the rudimentary basics of programming?
because teaching kids trumpet puts professional jazz musicians out of work
because teaching kids algebra threatens theoretical physicist's jobs
because if you don't like microsoft, children should suffer
why does slashdot continuously submit this douchebag crackpot theodp?
slashdot: please squelch this wackjob
mindless cynical passivity is not an actual replacement for intelligence
some people think paranoid schizophrenia is a replacement for intelligence
witness some texans' reaction to military exercises in texas. you know, the state with dozens of army and air bases
fucking loony toons
me too
started yesterday for me
it's worst when you're trying to comment and midsentence you're suddenly at the top of the page
slashdot: i'm not really sure what the deal is, but your UI could use some attention
http://scratched.gse.harvard.e...
it's not communism
there seem to be people in this thread who think "capitalism" and "communism" are the only economic models in existence
it instantly discounts everything you have to say to lack any imagination on the topic and think only two economic systems are possible
bullshit. communism is designed for scarcity, for distributing goods "equally"
the economy post-scarcity does represent the end of capitalism, but it also represent the end of communism
your imagination seems to be "anything not capitalism is communism" when in reality there are many alternative economic models, not just capitalism and communism
well duh. we're talking about what you need to live, not everything in the universe. you're missing the point
you seem so wedded to capitalism that any challenge to it is offensive to you. capitalism is not a religion. it isn't even fully practiced anywhere. the usa has socialist aspects to its economy, it has to, not all sectors of the economy (education, healthcare, infrastructure, police, etc.) can be solved with capitalism. the happiest, richest societies on earth are socialist-capitalist (nordic countries, canada)
i like capitalism. but there is an unfortunate contingent of (mostly american) fools who think it is some sort of biblical verse that can never be questioned. stupid and insane
solar powered desalination solves that problem
unless you live in the desert
so phoenix az will be the last capitalist greed/ scarcity based city in the usa, until enough people get fed up and leave for greener (literally) pastures
that's truly a mind blowing concept and contributes so much
don't teach kids programming because it's not as important as clarinet or dodge ball, there's no room for it. got it
what a fucking moron you are. teaching kids great literature is "homogenizing culture"? jesus christ what an ignorant douchebag. yeah kids: don't read the great written works of the wise people who came before you, it might make you impressed by their struggles and learn from them. too "homogenizing"
god i hope you're a troll. no one can be that fucking stupid