Having a genetic disorder is Darwin's way of telling you to adopt. There are tons of children going to sleep without parents every night in the care of the government. They badly need parents. Fooling Darwin like this will not end well, it's a slippery slope to designer babies.
We are giving it to our enemies because we are certain it is harmful to them. Trust government: they make the hard decisions so we the people don't have to.
It's all because the Internet is a trust-based network. What you describe are flaws in a trust-based system. Frighteningly, your solution is to get rid of trust.
What you really want is not trust, but control. Once systems like the one you propose are in place, there will be the ability (which doesn't exist right now) to really control Internet traffic. About five minutes after that happens, the first government abuse of that power will take place. Then, the abuses will just get larger and larger. Good luck with your controlled network, because you won't be able to say much on it.
That doesn't scratch the developer's itch, though. That sounds an awful lot like commercial software development. When open source developers do something, it's to scratch an itch that they're having. Force them to attend to the user's needs and they will desert your project immediately. Then you'll have no developers at all.
It is so irrepressibly sad when a bunch of neckbeard Reddit users do a better job at investigating than the New York Times, CNN, Agence France-Presse, The Guardian, the fucking FBI, and all of the rest of them put together. I mean think about it. A bunch of internet randoms are doing a better job than people whose work it is, specifically, to root out political corruption and punish those responsible. These people aren't just good at it, they are highly intelligent people with advanced degrees who went to school for years to learn how to do this. And they got beat by a bunch of nobodies from the internet. It is so sad that "I'm from the internet and I'm here to save you" is actually a thing now.
I notice this article leaves out the most important part of comet exploration: What kind of shirt was the spokesman wearing when he made the announcement? The article is silent on this topic, when we know from experience that this issue trumps anything, up to and including humanity landing on a comet.
If you can force a rocket scientist, celebrating the accomplishment of a lifetime, to cry and grovel and beg forgiveness on international TV for wearing a shirt, you are not unempowered.
As you have it all worked out, you presumably learned from experience. You've got the whole scenario played out in your head, and tons of job-hopping under your belt. A 26 year old woman wouldn't have that experience. It's pretty rich to criticize someone for something like that.
Yes, but would the EU have done this to one of their own companies? Obviously not. They just want to stick it to the foreigners - especially Americans. It's a big "fuck you" straight from the EU. If anyone else in the world had done it, it would be labeled protectionist and jingoist.
So, Apple, evil globalist corporation, is getting slammed by the European Union, evil globalist supra-government. Fight more, fight longer...I love it!
One of you is going to say Apple are the good guys and don't deserve biased anti-American treatment like this, and another is going to say the EU are the good guys and deserve the extra tax revenue. You're both wrong, that's what makes this so beautiful! From one of my favorite Chevy Chase movies, Deal of the Century: "Whoever wins, we win. Whoever loses...we win."
There is grant money that has been allocated, and it must be spent on *something*. So why not this? We must protect our phoney-baloney jobs, harrumph, harrumph!
Eh, being a "geek" means liking computers a bit more than you like people. I liked it back when you didn't have to know the "geek anthem" or the "geek events" or what Wil Wheaton's beard style is currently. I knew it was all over when girls started to wear fake nerd glasses as fashion. There weren't even geek cards, you just had to be a person who liked learning.
This is nice and all, but it leaves out the important story - what kind of shirt was the spokeman wearing when he made the announcement? We all know, from empirical experience, that this issue is far more important than any mind-shattering science that could have been done that day.
If you can force a rocket scientist, celebrating the accomplishment of a lifetime, to cry and grovel and beg forgiveness on international TV for wearing a shirt, you are not unempowered.
In the future, please do not respond to Score:0 anonymous posts. Slashdot has been infected by severe trolls from 4chan and they post regularly. They feed off responses, so don't give them any. The best revenge to a stupidly inflammatory response is silence. That's what trolls hate most of all.
Where's this bizarre concept come from? "The Soviets will destroy us all with their superior number of days in orbit!" is just straight out of left field. Who was even talking about that? You need to get with the new picture...Russia is ruled by a maniacal dictator who hacked the DNC and who is friends with Trump. They don't share in any humanity as long as they are throwing gays in jail. Russia today is a preview of Trump's potential fascist empire.
What's with your bizarre Eurocentrism? You started off all right, with the "human history" part, but then you went full retard and listed only the tiny sliver of history that whites were involved in. Where are the Guptas, the Zulu, the Aztecs? It was cringeworthy reading your parochial, closed-minded worldview. There's a whole world outside the tiny part inhabited by whites, learn about it sometime.
It makes you suspicious. People these days, especially young ones, want to see all your social media profiles before they'll have anything to do with you. It's a low-trust environment, they're naturally suspicious of outsiders. Either you match their beliefs and customs by having active Instagram, Facebook, Linkedin, Pinterest, etc. accounts, or you're a weird un-person. It's bad enough when they see posts disagreeing with one of their leftist political views, but when you don't have an account at all then you obviously have a dark secret to hide. You call this exaggeration but I've seen it.
Horrifyingly dreary for YOU, maybe. But people of average and low intelligence have no problem with repetitive tasks. It is only people of high intelligence who require a constant stream of novelty and who pout when they can't get it. I love how you can just decide what's good for everyone without even THINKING about people who differ from yourself, and your big brain tells you it's all right because you're smart.
That's what they told YOU. They said that because they want to weed you out and keep you from competing with them. They've got a nice position where they can make good money with not a lot of work and sloppy data. Why would they want anyone else to get in?
So, you just invented this, right? In a story that tells us that recycling phones is a great thing instead of just throwing them into a toxic landfill. No, you can't think of anything nice, you just create a ridiculous strawman argument and then proceed to tear it apart. Fucking seriously, +4 Insighful? A strawman?
A capital idea! Why don't you just stay the hell out of a country you hate and avoid them entirely.
The world would be a better place if more people thought like you. Unfortunately, a lot of them would very much like to come to America because they shat in their own countries and now they're unlivable.
Hello, dumbass. If you lie on the customs form and blow up a bus full of Jewish children, you can be charged with lying on the form and easily deported. Without this offense, there are a million ways that tricky asshole lawyers can keep you from leaving America. You know, the country you desperately wanted to come to since your home country is a shithole.
These laws have been a thing for a long time now. There is a checkbox on tax forms that say, "did you earn any of this money from criminal enterprises?" That's how the nailed Al Capone in the 1930s.
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They're not anti-gun. They're anti-the American people having guns. There's a big difference.
Having a genetic disorder is Darwin's way of telling you to adopt. There are tons of children going to sleep without parents every night in the care of the government. They badly need parents. Fooling Darwin like this will not end well, it's a slippery slope to designer babies.
We are giving it to our enemies because we are certain it is harmful to them. Trust government: they make the hard decisions so we the people don't have to.
It's all because the Internet is a trust-based network. What you describe are flaws in a trust-based system. Frighteningly, your solution is to get rid of trust.
What you really want is not trust, but control. Once systems like the one you propose are in place, there will be the ability (which doesn't exist right now) to really control Internet traffic. About five minutes after that happens, the first government abuse of that power will take place. Then, the abuses will just get larger and larger. Good luck with your controlled network, because you won't be able to say much on it.
That doesn't scratch the developer's itch, though. That sounds an awful lot like commercial software development. When open source developers do something, it's to scratch an itch that they're having. Force them to attend to the user's needs and they will desert your project immediately. Then you'll have no developers at all.
It is so irrepressibly sad when a bunch of neckbeard Reddit users do a better job at investigating than the New York Times, CNN, Agence France-Presse, The Guardian, the fucking FBI, and all of the rest of them put together. I mean think about it. A bunch of internet randoms are doing a better job than people whose work it is, specifically, to root out political corruption and punish those responsible. These people aren't just good at it, they are highly intelligent people with advanced degrees who went to school for years to learn how to do this. And they got beat by a bunch of nobodies from the internet. It is so sad that "I'm from the internet and I'm here to save you" is actually a thing now.
If overseas markets can't afford your product, then you're not getting killed by the competition. You don't have any competition.
I notice this article leaves out the most important part of comet exploration: What kind of shirt was the spokesman wearing when he made the announcement? The article is silent on this topic, when we know from experience that this issue trumps anything, up to and including humanity landing on a comet.
If you can force a rocket scientist, celebrating the accomplishment of a lifetime, to cry and grovel and beg forgiveness on international TV for wearing a shirt, you are not unempowered.
As you have it all worked out, you presumably learned from experience. You've got the whole scenario played out in your head, and tons of job-hopping under your belt. A 26 year old woman wouldn't have that experience. It's pretty rich to criticize someone for something like that.
Yes, but would the EU have done this to one of their own companies? Obviously not. They just want to stick it to the foreigners - especially Americans. It's a big "fuck you" straight from the EU. If anyone else in the world had done it, it would be labeled protectionist and jingoist.
So, Apple, evil globalist corporation, is getting slammed by the European Union, evil globalist supra-government. Fight more, fight longer...I love it!
One of you is going to say Apple are the good guys and don't deserve biased anti-American treatment like this, and another is going to say the EU are the good guys and deserve the extra tax revenue. You're both wrong, that's what makes this so beautiful! From one of my favorite Chevy Chase movies, Deal of the Century: "Whoever wins, we win. Whoever loses...we win."
There is grant money that has been allocated, and it must be spent on *something*. So why not this? We must protect our phoney-baloney jobs, harrumph, harrumph!
Eh, being a "geek" means liking computers a bit more than you like people. I liked it back when you didn't have to know the "geek anthem" or the "geek events" or what Wil Wheaton's beard style is currently. I knew it was all over when girls started to wear fake nerd glasses as fashion. There weren't even geek cards, you just had to be a person who liked learning.
This is nice and all, but it leaves out the important story - what kind of shirt was the spokeman wearing when he made the announcement? We all know, from empirical experience, that this issue is far more important than any mind-shattering science that could have been done that day.
If you can force a rocket scientist, celebrating the accomplishment of a lifetime, to cry and grovel and beg forgiveness on international TV for wearing a shirt, you are not unempowered.
In the future, please do not respond to Score:0 anonymous posts. Slashdot has been infected by severe trolls from 4chan and they post regularly. They feed off responses, so don't give them any. The best revenge to a stupidly inflammatory response is silence. That's what trolls hate most of all.
Where's this bizarre concept come from? "The Soviets will destroy us all with their superior number of days in orbit!" is just straight out of left field. Who was even talking about that? You need to get with the new picture...Russia is ruled by a maniacal dictator who hacked the DNC and who is friends with Trump. They don't share in any humanity as long as they are throwing gays in jail. Russia today is a preview of Trump's potential fascist empire.
What's with your bizarre Eurocentrism? You started off all right, with the "human history" part, but then you went full retard and listed only the tiny sliver of history that whites were involved in. Where are the Guptas, the Zulu, the Aztecs? It was cringeworthy reading your parochial, closed-minded worldview. There's a whole world outside the tiny part inhabited by whites, learn about it sometime.
It makes you suspicious. People these days, especially young ones, want to see all your social media profiles before they'll have anything to do with you. It's a low-trust environment, they're naturally suspicious of outsiders. Either you match their beliefs and customs by having active Instagram, Facebook, Linkedin, Pinterest, etc. accounts, or you're a weird un-person. It's bad enough when they see posts disagreeing with one of their leftist political views, but when you don't have an account at all then you obviously have a dark secret to hide. You call this exaggeration but I've seen it.
Horrifyingly dreary for YOU, maybe. But people of average and low intelligence have no problem with repetitive tasks. It is only people of high intelligence who require a constant stream of novelty and who pout when they can't get it. I love how you can just decide what's good for everyone without even THINKING about people who differ from yourself, and your big brain tells you it's all right because you're smart.
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That's what they told YOU. They said that because they want to weed you out and keep you from competing with them. They've got a nice position where they can make good money with not a lot of work and sloppy data. Why would they want anyone else to get in?
So, you just invented this, right? In a story that tells us that recycling phones is a great thing instead of just throwing them into a toxic landfill. No, you can't think of anything nice, you just create a ridiculous strawman argument and then proceed to tear it apart. Fucking seriously, +4 Insighful? A strawman?
A capital idea! Why don't you just stay the hell out of a country you hate and avoid them entirely.
The world would be a better place if more people thought like you. Unfortunately, a lot of them would very much like to come to America because they shat in their own countries and now they're unlivable.
Hello, dumbass. If you lie on the customs form and blow up a bus full of Jewish children, you can be charged with lying on the form and easily deported. Without this offense, there are a million ways that tricky asshole lawyers can keep you from leaving America. You know, the country you desperately wanted to come to since your home country is a shithole.
These laws have been a thing for a long time now. There is a checkbox on tax forms that say, "did you earn any of this money from criminal enterprises?" That's how the nailed Al Capone in the 1930s.