As for the stupid NRA "pool and car also kill" yes they kill and in absolute number car even kill more, but that is ignoring how pervasive car are in cities, street and how much part of our life they take - and we increase security and lower the number of death per year. Gun by comparison are not so pervasive, take little part of our life and yet kill nearly as many people as car, and murder take a significant slice of it. And gun are perfected every year to be better more reliant killing machine. The comparison is so stupid to many level, you are either from the NRA, or a "useful idiot" to them. You may as well compare orange and jug of methanol (not even orange to apple). When I worked in research we had a name for such comparison : "it isn't right, but it ain't even wrong - it is just plain stupid".
Oh yes, the big bad NRA, the boogieman of the hour. That's a predictable response. I'm not even a member, just a free thinking individual who isn't sold out to group think and the mass media who are so uninformed on firearms it's ludicrous. Also, the only gun I own is a Hilti gun. (My wife owns the.357 magnum she got from her dad). The reason this appears stupid to you is probably because you're incapable of recognizing that intent, not the device, is the determining factor of whether it's used for good or evil. Personal responsibility, what a concept, eh? BTW, guns are actually more pervasive than cars if you look at raw numbers: there are currently an estimated 263 million cars in the US: There are an estimated 300 million guns in the US. Face it, Pandoras box is open, the guns are not going to go back in to it. So it's better to learn to deal with them, and the more that people teach, train, and encourage respect, the better. The more we try to shove them under the carpet, the worse it'll get. There are already laws all over the books, not a one of them worked to stop the Parkland shooter -or any of the gangstas in gun restricted Chicago on any given day (notice how the media doesn't seem to care about them, though).
Buzzfeed, apparently. I love how they have to stick this dig in: "part of the attraction of the site for members was that they could post about their love of deadly weapons ". Niice. They can't write a single article without interjecting their snark or bias into it. Lots of things are "deadly". Far more people have been killed in car accidents, and yet there are millions of car enthusiasts. The argument is always, "because we need cars and their main purpose isn't to kill but to transport", but I'd counter, the main purpose of a gun, technically, isn't to kill, but to eject a projectile out at high velocity. How one chooses to use that tool is up to them. (Military guns are meant to wound, not kill, anyway). Technically, a Hilti gun is a gun (.22 caliber), I own one and have used that to nail the sole plates and studs to the concrete while framing out a room in my basement. I'd prefer not to aim and fire any gun at a living being, (I'm not even sure I could personally shoot Bambi's mom for food, to be perfectly honest) but shooting targets as pure sport is pretty fun and a good challenge of coordination.
But that makes for good headlines, doesn't it? As if Zuckerberg would ever have done anything willfully to support Trump. The idea is beyond absurd. The FB newsfeed favors liberal media by a landslide, citing chiefly CNN, HuffPo, NYT, and WaPo.
You are correct, that was badly worded. I was thinking in terms of the extended outer rim of a larger galaxy, having a larger circumference than a smaller galaxy; if you were to overlay one over the other, that extended outer rim would be spinning faster (tangential velocity?) than the outer circumference of the smaller galaxy. If I'm not mistaken, dark matter was theorized because the outer rim's tangential velocity of any given elliptical galaxy is a greater than it is closer to the core, such that the overall spin rate of the entire galaxy is consistent; and that current physics says that shouldn't be the case with known, visible matter, thus the need for dark matter.
Okay, so the larger the galaxy, the faster it must spin to complete a rotation in the same time as a smaller galaxy. The more mass a galaxy has means more for dark matter to gravitationally interact with it.. could it be repelling it somehow in order to accelerate it? Or attracting it?
Sounds like Futurama. Maybe Bezos is an ancestor of Mom.
In any case, this is an interesting sort of dichotomy; fierce competition among corporations is great for consumers and the general public, as it drives prices down and the availability of services and features up, as these corporations seek to out posture each other for your business; right up until it winds up putting thousands of jobs on the chopping block as smaller corporations fall like dominoes to the juggernaut that is Amazon. Though to be fair and give full disclosure as a consumer, I'm a fan of Amazon and Amazon Prime.
lol... Trump's legendary bigotry and racism, the meat and potatoes of CNN and HuffPost, and the choice strawman arguments of SJWs everywhere. You ascribe malice to what is just ignorance or simplicity. It doesn't burn, it just kind of tickles. BTW, I've seen some of A.H's paintings, they were really fairly amateur.
You seem to be overlooking something like murdering and torturing 6 million people of a specific ethnicity, simply for being that ethnicity and posing no actual violent threat to the state or breaking any laws. But you go ahead and find admirable things about Hitler, that's just great.
Also, real news is reported by a lot of sources-- people don't feel the need to spread "did you see what Trump just did" news when it's on all the news channels and headlines in all the newspapers,
Then why do they? Because they most assuredly do.
They most assuredly do what?
What the article showed is that fake news gets forwarded ten to a hundred times more than real news.
People most assuredly DO feel the need to spread anti Trump rhetoric all over despite it being on news channels and newspapers all the time. They revel in it. I see it nonstop on Facebook and other social media. And in person.
And then they add on top of it, with a lot unfounded Russian implications and other things that aren't real news.
Ah, I see. You're one of those "the Russian stuff is fake news!" guys.
No, "fake news" is a phrase that should be reserved for stuff that is actually completely made up-- like, "there's a pedophile ring operating underneath a pizza shop in New York that's frequented by celebrities and politicians", or 'Michele Bachmann said 'Jesus Created Assault Rifles'."
The fact that Russia did what they could to disrupt the U.S. elections (and for that matter, to foment dissent of any sort) is quite well documented-- it's not "fake news". Now, there's a lot of speculation that's been attached to that (a lot of "Mueller is investigating X!, and a lot of "who in the campaign knew, and what will we find out?") But the speculation is usually labelled speculation.
You misunderstand me. I never disavowed all Russian involvement. Russia was active, but like you said,what they did was stir the pot. They didn't hack voting machines or databases (other than Hillary's email, which released nothing we didn't already know about her). I don't believe the silliness that "Trump is Putin's puppet" as we often read or hear. They started off by essentially waging an ad campaign to back the fringe candidates (they also backed Bernie Sanders according to Mueller, and occasionally posted anti-Trump messages); additionally, they had paid trolls working feverishly on both ends of the political spectrum, with the intent to foment divisiveness and anger among the american people on Facebook and whatever other public forums they could. They wanted us at each other's throat. They played both sides against each other, not just Trump's side. This is the critical distinction that many fail to recognize. Their plan worked better than they could have hoped, because now we have " #resist " among other things. They have succeeded in driving a wedge between americans, and that makes us weaker. It's just that the ironic thing is, to me, the left has been more instrumental in actually giving the Russians what they really want (the hate and divisiveness among amercians) than Trump or the right has, with their numerous marches and protests, the resistance movement (hypocritical in itself considering they said Trump must accept the election), calls for impeachment, screams of racism, a 24/7 news media blitzkrieg, fake news (it exists even if not all the news is fake), and even the TV comedy circuit and the Oscars trash-talking non stop. Most of the trash talking on the right is defensive to the left's myriad accusations and offensive tactics (except for the abortion issue). Trump doesn't need help to put his foot in mouth, but the over the top obsession is overkill. And the Russians are loving it.
As for fake news, pizzagate was fake, I know that.. but so was that dossier. Or claims that Trump instituted a "muslim ban".
But curiously, you haven't. Because you can't. And not a one of those links are right wing. You know what hasn't worked on me? Trolls like you trying to divide America and stir the pot.
And CNN, MSNBC, et al. haven't trained their viewers too, for the bigots and falsifiers on the opposite side of the spectrum?
Even when CNN leaks debate questions to a presidential candidate? https://www.washingtonpost.com... Or Don Lemon says mostly anyone can go out and buy and automatic weapons? http://www.politifact.com/pund... When three "investigative journalists" from CNN lie so badly they resign over a false story about Scaramucci? http://www.latimes.com/busines... Or when it deliberately writes a misleading headline to make Trump look uninformed: "Trump asks Japan to build cars in the U.S. It already does" by using a partial quote that deflects the reality of his statement: http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/0... Or when NBC doctors a 911 tape to make Zimmerman sound like he's explicitly following Martin just for being black when in truth he was asked by the operator to describe the person's race? https://www.theatlantic.com/en... Confirmation bias is a two way street; it's amusing but not unexpected to see it at work on a person who, in an echo chamber of their own, believes it only exists on the other side.
Also, real news is reported by a lot of sources-- people don't feel the need to spread "did you see what Trump just did" news when it's on all the news channels and headlines in all the newspapers,
Then why do they? Because they most assuredly do. And then they add on top of it, with a lot unfounded Russian implications and other things that aren't real news. Everyone loves a good conspiracy. A good portion of the outrage stuff is fake (it exists on both sides); and some of it is real; the main stream media either prefers to highlight it, or to sweep it under the carpet, depending on whether it fits the narrative; while Buzzfeed and Salon are no more veracious than Breitbart.
Been there already. I was out in the field, my laptop wouldn't open Vcenter because of the Flash BS. Fortunately I could do what I needed to do (shut down VMs) with the HTML5 version, which is still quite limited.
Death to Flash, and Death to Java too, while we're at it. Java is like the new DLL hell with compatibility/security issues. I hate how the industry forced us into using browsers as management utilities, and got rid of the solidly working dedicated applications that worked well before under the guise of, "Now you can easily manage xyz from any workstation and no installation necessary!!". Used car salesmen are more truthful. Hopefully HTML5 actually backs up some of this promise.
That's bad enough that they're mining data off of me, but I don't want ads flashed in my face 24/7 too. That's just insult to injury. Now we won't even be able to go take a drive to get away from any of it, even in the country. Our lives will be one string of advertisements after another. Television is getting pretty close to 50/50 with program/commercials already. Magazines continue to get thinner while getting crammed with more ad pages. More billboards on the road every year. Ads now on your operating system (well, Windows 10); ads all over every webpage, spam calls on your cell phones. It's gotta stop.
OTOH, if two people were walking towards each other in the same hallway separated by doors, and met just as the doors opened, they might just walk into each other. Solution - glass auto sliding doors? Nah, because they're still not watching where they're going. Maybe they need little auto driving i-Carts to ferry them around.
I'm surprised they're taking that simple of an approach. I would expect a scenario like the following: Campus has a series of green and red LED inlays in the floors of every hallway and pod. Since employees stare down at their phones while walking, the floor LEDs are easily visible via peripheral vision. Employee needs to travel from home pod to board/meeting room: programs coordinates into iPhone, which wirelessly communicates with the building AI which in turn lights up the green LEDs enroute to the destination just prior to the employee encountering them on his/her walk. Whereever a closed glass door is encountered, the LEDs go red to provide a warning. And of course two or more employees walking the same side of the hallway but with different destinations makes it all go to hell in a heartbeat, but it sounded fun on paper.
I've never seen it happen either, to my machine or anyone else's. Must be a slow news day, so this guy with a chip on his shoulder decided to write a fantasy story. Or he misconfigured something bigtime, but my money's on the first option.
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As for the stupid NRA "pool and car also kill" yes they kill and in absolute number car even kill more, but that is ignoring how pervasive car are in cities, street and how much part of our life they take - and we increase security and lower the number of death per year. Gun by comparison are not so pervasive, take little part of our life and yet kill nearly as many people as car, and murder take a significant slice of it. And gun are perfected every year to be better more reliant killing machine. The comparison is so stupid to many level, you are either from the NRA, or a "useful idiot" to them. You may as well compare orange and jug of methanol (not even orange to apple). When I worked in research we had a name for such comparison : "it isn't right, but it ain't even wrong - it is just plain stupid".
Oh yes, the big bad NRA, the boogieman of the hour. That's a predictable response. I'm not even a member, just a free thinking individual who isn't sold out to group think and the mass media who are so uninformed on firearms it's ludicrous. Also, the only gun I own is a Hilti gun. (My wife owns the .357 magnum she got from her dad).
The reason this appears stupid to you is probably because you're incapable of recognizing that intent, not the device, is the determining factor of whether it's used for good or evil. Personal responsibility, what a concept, eh?
BTW, guns are actually more pervasive than cars if you look at raw numbers: there are currently an estimated 263 million cars in the US: There are an estimated 300 million guns in the US.
Face it, Pandoras box is open, the guns are not going to go back in to it. So it's better to learn to deal with them, and the more that people teach, train, and encourage respect, the better. The more we try to shove them under the carpet, the worse it'll get. There are already laws all over the books, not a one of them worked to stop the Parkland shooter -or any of the gangstas in gun restricted Chicago on any given day (notice how the media doesn't seem to care about them, though).
Who thought this was newsworthy?
Buzzfeed, apparently. I love how they have to stick this dig in: "part of the attraction of the site for members was that they could post about their love of deadly weapons ". Niice. They can't write a single article without interjecting their snark or bias into it.
Lots of things are "deadly". Far more people have been killed in car accidents, and yet there are millions of car enthusiasts. The argument is always, "because we need cars and their main purpose isn't to kill but to transport", but I'd counter, the main purpose of a gun, technically, isn't to kill, but to eject a projectile out at high velocity. How one chooses to use that tool is up to them. (Military guns are meant to wound, not kill, anyway). Technically, a Hilti gun is a gun (.22 caliber), I own one and have used that to nail the sole plates and studs to the concrete while framing out a room in my basement.
I'd prefer not to aim and fire any gun at a living being, (I'm not even sure I could personally shoot Bambi's mom for food, to be perfectly honest) but shooting targets as pure sport is pretty fun and a good challenge of coordination.
Who cares what this bill does, it looks like I'm Doing Something About It to constituents and benefactors.
Modern politics in a nutshell.
Yeah, they kinda forgot to add the "whether you want to or not" disclaimer...
lol "forgot".. yeah, that's it.
+1 Someone mod up insightful
But that makes for good headlines, doesn't it? As if Zuckerberg would ever have done anything willfully to support Trump. The idea is beyond absurd. The FB newsfeed favors liberal media by a landslide, citing chiefly CNN, HuffPo, NYT, and WaPo.
Are you, per chance, a swamp dragon? I'm curious if I get the reference right.
You are correct, that was badly worded. I was thinking in terms of the extended outer rim of a larger galaxy, having a larger circumference than a smaller galaxy; if you were to overlay one over the other, that extended outer rim would be spinning faster (tangential velocity?) than the outer circumference of the smaller galaxy. If I'm not mistaken, dark matter was theorized because the outer rim's tangential velocity of any given elliptical galaxy is a greater than it is closer to the core, such that the overall spin rate of the entire galaxy is consistent; and that current physics says that shouldn't be the case with known, visible matter, thus the need for dark matter.
Okay, so the larger the galaxy, the faster it must spin to complete a rotation in the same time as a smaller galaxy. The more mass a galaxy has means more for dark matter to gravitationally interact with it.. could it be repelling it somehow in order to accelerate it? Or attracting it?
Sounds like Futurama. Maybe Bezos is an ancestor of Mom.
In any case, this is an interesting sort of dichotomy; fierce competition among corporations is great for consumers and the general public, as it drives prices down and the availability of services and features up, as these corporations seek to out posture each other for your business; right up until it winds up putting thousands of jobs on the chopping block as smaller corporations fall like dominoes to the juggernaut that is Amazon. Though to be fair and give full disclosure as a consumer, I'm a fan of Amazon and Amazon Prime.
lol... Trump's legendary bigotry and racism, the meat and potatoes of CNN and HuffPost, and the choice strawman arguments of SJWs everywhere.
You ascribe malice to what is just ignorance or simplicity.
It doesn't burn, it just kind of tickles.
BTW, I've seen some of A.H's paintings, they were really fairly amateur.
You seem to be overlooking something like murdering and torturing 6 million people of a specific ethnicity, simply for being that ethnicity and posing no actual violent threat to the state or breaking any laws. But you go ahead and find admirable things about Hitler, that's just great.
"Human: we're the other, other white meat"
-if you remember the pork industry's advertising slogan from the '80s.
"Come on over, our parents aren't home!"
Also, real news is reported by a lot of sources-- people don't feel the need to spread "did you see what Trump just did" news when it's on all the news channels and headlines in all the newspapers,
Then why do they? Because they most assuredly do.
They most assuredly do what?
What the article showed is that fake news gets forwarded ten to a hundred times more than real news.
People most assuredly DO feel the need to spread anti Trump rhetoric all over despite it being on news channels and newspapers all the time. They revel in it.
I see it nonstop on Facebook and other social media. And in person.
And then they add on top of it, with a lot unfounded Russian implications and other things that aren't real news.
Ah, I see. You're one of those "the Russian stuff is fake news!" guys.
No, "fake news" is a phrase that should be reserved for stuff that is actually completely made up-- like, "there's a pedophile ring operating underneath a pizza shop in New York that's frequented by celebrities and politicians", or 'Michele Bachmann said 'Jesus Created Assault Rifles'."
The fact that Russia did what they could to disrupt the U.S. elections (and for that matter, to foment dissent of any sort) is quite well documented-- it's not "fake news". Now, there's a lot of speculation that's been attached to that (a lot of "Mueller is investigating X!, and a lot of "who in the campaign knew, and what will we find out?") But the speculation is usually labelled speculation.
You misunderstand me. I never disavowed all Russian involvement. Russia was active, but like you said,what they did was stir the pot. They didn't hack voting machines or databases (other than Hillary's email, which released nothing we didn't already know about her). I don't believe the silliness that "Trump is Putin's puppet" as we often read or hear.
They started off by essentially waging an ad campaign to back the fringe candidates (they also backed Bernie Sanders according to Mueller, and occasionally posted anti-Trump messages); additionally, they had paid trolls working feverishly on both ends of the political spectrum, with the intent to foment divisiveness and anger among the american people on Facebook and whatever other public forums they could. They wanted us at each other's throat.
They played both sides against each other, not just Trump's side. This is the critical distinction that many fail to recognize.
Their plan worked better than they could have hoped, because now we have " #resist " among other things. They have succeeded in driving a wedge between americans, and that makes us weaker.
It's just that the ironic thing is, to me, the left has been more instrumental in actually giving the Russians what they really want (the hate and divisiveness among amercians) than Trump or the right has, with their numerous marches and protests, the resistance movement (hypocritical in itself considering they said Trump must accept the election), calls for impeachment, screams of racism, a 24/7 news media blitzkrieg, fake news (it exists even if not all the news is fake), and even the TV comedy circuit and the Oscars trash-talking non stop. Most of the trash talking on the right is defensive to the left's myriad accusations and offensive tactics (except for the abortion issue).
Trump doesn't need help to put his foot in mouth, but the over the top obsession is overkill. And the Russians are loving it.
As for fake news, pizzagate was fake, I know that.. but so was that dossier. Or claims that Trump instituted a "muslim ban".
But curiously, you haven't. Because you can't. And not a one of those links are right wing.
You know what hasn't worked on me? Trolls like you trying to divide America and stir the pot.
And CNN, MSNBC, et al. haven't trained their viewers too, for the bigots and falsifiers on the opposite side of the spectrum?
Even when CNN leaks debate questions to a presidential candidate? https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Or Don Lemon says mostly anyone can go out and buy and automatic weapons? http://www.politifact.com/pund...
When three "investigative journalists" from CNN lie so badly they resign over a false story about Scaramucci? http://www.latimes.com/busines...
Or when it deliberately writes a misleading headline to make Trump look uninformed: "Trump asks Japan to build cars in the U.S. It already does" by using a partial quote that deflects the reality of his statement: http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/0...
Or when NBC doctors a 911 tape to make Zimmerman sound like he's explicitly following Martin just for being black when in truth he was asked by the operator to describe the person's race? https://www.theatlantic.com/en...
Confirmation bias is a two way street; it's amusing but not unexpected to see it at work on a person who, in an echo chamber of their own, believes it only exists on the other side.
Also, real news is reported by a lot of sources-- people don't feel the need to spread "did you see what Trump just did" news when it's on all the news channels and headlines in all the newspapers,
Then why do they? Because they most assuredly do. And then they add on top of it, with a lot unfounded Russian implications and other things that aren't real news. Everyone loves a good conspiracy. A good portion of the outrage stuff is fake (it exists on both sides); and some of it is real; the main stream media either prefers to highlight it, or to sweep it under the carpet, depending on whether it fits the narrative; while Buzzfeed and Salon are no more veracious than Breitbart.
You beat me to it with the echo chamber comment. South Cali has gotten intellectually incestuous. Thou shall not deviate from the group think!
I think of it as comedy.
Been there already. I was out in the field, my laptop wouldn't open Vcenter because of the Flash BS.
Fortunately I could do what I needed to do (shut down VMs) with the HTML5 version, which is still quite limited.
Death to Flash, and Death to Java too, while we're at it.
Java is like the new DLL hell with compatibility/security issues.
I hate how the industry forced us into using browsers as management utilities, and got rid of the solidly working dedicated applications that worked well before under the guise of, "Now you can easily manage xyz from any workstation and no installation necessary!!". Used car salesmen are more truthful.
Hopefully HTML5 actually backs up some of this promise.
That's bad enough that they're mining data off of me, but I don't want ads flashed in my face 24/7 too. That's just insult to injury. Now we won't even be able to go take a drive to get away from any of it, even in the country. Our lives will be one string of advertisements after another. Television is getting pretty close to 50/50 with program/commercials already. Magazines continue to get thinner while getting crammed with more ad pages. More billboards on the road every year. Ads now on your operating system (well, Windows 10); ads all over every webpage, spam calls on your cell phones. It's gotta stop.
OTOH, if two people were walking towards each other in the same hallway separated by doors, and met just as the doors opened, they might just walk into each other.
Solution - glass auto sliding doors? Nah, because they're still not watching where they're going. Maybe they need little auto driving i-Carts to ferry them around.
I'm surprised they're taking that simple of an approach. I would expect a scenario like the following: Campus has a series of green and red LED inlays in the floors of every hallway and pod. Since employees stare down at their phones while walking, the floor LEDs are easily visible via peripheral vision.
Employee needs to travel from home pod to board/meeting room: programs coordinates into iPhone, which wirelessly communicates with the building AI which in turn lights up the green LEDs enroute to the destination just prior to the employee encountering them on his/her walk. Whereever a closed glass door is encountered, the LEDs go red to provide a warning.
And of course two or more employees walking the same side of the hallway but with different destinations makes it all go to hell in a heartbeat, but it sounded fun on paper.
I've never seen it happen either, to my machine or anyone else's. Must be a slow news day, so this guy with a chip on his shoulder decided to write a fantasy story. Or he misconfigured something bigtime, but my money's on the first option.