It's about *control*. Controlling something is a reward of its own. If they don't control it, then they must destroy it. Who cares if it's a bunch of idiots glorifying violence? That's totally irrelevant. They took to heart the lessons of Master Yoda who said, "Control, control, you must learn control!"
Nah, the minute they do that they'll trigger the Left to hate them even more than they already do. They've got their hands full already just treading water and keeping our rights from being eroded without taking on additional responsibilities that they aren't expert at. This sort of thing is more the ACLU's baliwick, but we already know how they feel about the Second and right-wingers in general: white-hot hatred. Black lives matter.
When I briefly looked at BSD quite a number of years ago, what turned me off was the spiteful, angry people who used BSD. These people were not shy about expressing themselves and they told me straight where I could go. I got the message loud and clear. Despite any technical advantages BSD might have had, I have a big problem with joining up with a bunch of raging assholes.
Newspapers will just say: we sell the ads, we can't control what comes on your screen. Could be anything. And...they're right. They can't police every ad that comes across because they just sell to ad providers. If you think they should, they'll reply they're in the newspaper writing business, don't know crap about this internet ad stuff, just like they don't care about the content of their print ads. Well they do actually, someone looks at them before they go to print. But they won't do that for internet ads because it's too hard.
"Poetry is nobody's business except the poet's," wrote Philip Larkin, "and everybody else can fuck off."
Poets like Walt Whitman don't exist any more. Did they suddenly change recently and become pro-human? Or are they still hostile elitists who despise ordinary Americans?
Huh? Pure psychological projection on your part, pal. I'm just reminding everyone of what happened and how shameful it was, you don't have to get all butthurt about it and start making wild projections.
You'll be happy to know that these truck drivers are all (1) white, strike one, (2) male, strike two, and (3) working class, strike three. They're pretty much everything that's hated by the Sanders/Clinton/BLM/Republican establishment axis. Do you harbor some kind of illusion you're in favor of these people? Allow me to remind you of some keywords to put your mind in the right place: NASCAR, Jesus, American patriot, redneck. There, now we are all on the same page!
You won't be crying about these people being put out of work and thrust into poverty, you're going to be clenching your fist and saying, "FUCK YEAH!"
I can't believe how naive people are being. Batteries are expensive. Tesla is a megamillion-dollar corporation. They're a car company, for Pete's sake. They'll find a way to weasel out of the warranty, you can count on it. The founder won't live forever.
How is this "evidence of its stupidity"? How does that even follow? If anything, it is evidence of its effectiveness. The website was deemed harmful to the citizens by the government, and it was blocked. Even the creator couldn't access it. I'd say, job well done.
Are members of the government treated differently from normal citizens? How is this even a question? Of course Communist governments think that intelligent people like Party members should be treated differently from the Great Unwashed and the laws they pass don't apply to them. Hell, that attitude has practically 100% acceptance in Washington DC among Democrats and Republicans alike.
it seemed less likely they could be found in the Universe's small towns," said a university statement
Well that's great and all, but it misses the most important point of this entire story - what kind of shirt was the spokesman wearing when he released the statement? We already know, from empirical experience, that this fashion statement overshadows anything that might have been said or any legitimate human achievement that may have occurred. Up to and including announcing that HUMANITY LANDED A SPACE PROBE ON A GODDAMNED COMET.
...and then the moment you click update, your site goes blank because the update changed the way WP/Drupal works. Either your theme or one of your plugins needs to be updated, and you'd better pray that the developer is still around and issuing updates. Otherwise, it's back to the drawing board as you try to figure out what exactly went wrong and how to fix it. I hope you're a coder skilled in tracing and bugfixing instead of an ordinary Wordpress user who installed the software because it was easy to do! If you are LUCKY, you get an email like the following. If not, you're screwed.
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But if you are using the Slidingdoor theme, it's better that you find this out before your website crashes.
This is an urgent issue, and this is a one-off email.
If you upgrade to WordPress 4.4 before you upgrade to the latest Slidingdoor theme then the Wordpress update will break the SlidingDoor theme and your website will go blank.
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Just click on 'download' or from within your wordpress installation just go to Appearance, Themes, and Update.
You need to upgrade the sliding door theme BEFORE you upgrade to WordPress 4.4.
Some people may have already upgraded to Wordpress 4.4 and if you have an old version of Slidigndoor you may now have a blank screen.
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Iceland has zero diversity. It's all white, all the time. They are also 87% Christian, Islamophobia seems popular there. The other Scandinavian countries are having great success with immigration adding value to their countries, Iceland is culturally backwards and stuck in the 20th century.
Uh...it was immediately penetrated by multiple foreign intelligence services. It had zero security. If China/Russia/EU/etc DIDN'T own Hillary's server then they are totally incompetent and shouldn't be running an intelligence service.
"Tech Firms Have An Obsession With 'Female' Digital Servants"
Did we even read this? I, and everyone else, see a blatantly biased story being used to push a radical left-wing social justice warrior agenda. There's no hate, that's pure psychological projection on your part. We're all angry at facts being selectively presented to serve a harmful agenda.
So, the story here is that there are too many female voices. If the tech firms had chosen to make the voices male instead, the story would be about underrepresentation and misogyny. Either way, the story is slanted to be favorable to feminism and derogatory to technology.
You think they don't know this? Of course they do. This is Propaganda 101. Joseph Goebbels would be proud. The best propaganda is the truth, with context omitted.
You mean they're just like everyone else in the world, and think of themselves first? Especially where their own government is concerned? Gosh, what a totally unreasonable position to take. How laughable.
This is ridiculously outdated thinking. China never "owned" North Korea in the first place, and certainly does not today. The Chinese have been to see the North Koreans, and told them, "look, this Marxism shit does not work and everyone knows it except Western university professors. Take the capitalist road, free your people, and get rich." It's what China did to Burma and look where they are. The Burmese are well on the path to becoming the next Vietnam. The North Koreans wouldn't listen. I like how you call them dogs and get an openly racist comment modded up to +5, you racist piece of shit.
Funny, I thought vegetable oil had been used by humanity for thousands of years. But now it gets slapped with a scary-sounding label like "biodiesel"? Oh my God, what's wrong with it? EVERYBODY PANIC!!!
I also love how you throw in the baffling term "obesogenic" without defining it, as if everyone should know it. I'm sure everyone knows what it means where you hang out, where vegetable oil is considered a toxic poison from Wall Street (ZOMG!) but the rest of us have not suffered the normalization of deviance you have. The longer the weirdness goes on the more insiders become accustomed to it. People on the outside see it as abnormal but within the circle it becomes accepted as everyday practice.
And no shit the family farm doesn't scale. That's why we don't have famines any more, and if one does occur, it is a problem of distribution not production.
I know this thread is going to be full of We Hate Americans - it's already started. But I just think this is really amazing. For the entirety of human existence, food has been a huge problem. Hunger was always, at most, a year or two away. Starvation is the best way to kill huge numbers of humans at once. Malnutrition, or control of food, is one of the best ways to keep them in line. Ever seen those fiftyish/sixtyish Chinese ladies who are all so short? It's because their growth was stunted as children because their government didn't provide enough for them to eat. Even without shitheads starving people to death for political reasons, lack of enough food was always a concern.
Now, we not only have solved the food problem, but we have gone too far the opposite direction. Wow! People have too much food. Food is too cheap. But that's not all, they don't just have too much food, they have the wrong kind of it! It's not just the quantity, it is the diversity and free choice that is causing all the problems. Who would have even imagined such an outcome? Did any of the visionary Sci-Fi authors of the 20th century see this coming? Because this is more earth-shattering than landing a probe on a comet (but I have been educated by the media and now understand that the shirt the spokesman was wearing when he made the announcement WAS more important than any scientific achievement humanity might have accomplished that day). Moreover this food is available just about anywhere. It tastes delicious as well, something people today barely realize, if ever.
One of my minor hobbies is making old or ancient recipes straight from manuscripts or books, as close as I can. Something I've noticed is how much they really aren't that good. They're edible, to be sure, and they get you full and they're nutritious because they're always made from scratch. But they just ain't that good. There is almost always some simple optimization that would make them taste much, much better. I'm not saying the people of old didn't enjoy their food, because they did. It's a universal human condition, whether you're eating oeufs au plat Meyerbeer prepared by a separate entremettier, rotisseur and saucier; or a bowl of oat porridge with pig fat. A lot of people ridicule McDonald's hamburgers or Applebee's entrees in the boil-in bags. But damn, that food is super-tasty. Far better than kings used to eat. It's never spoiled, either, and if it is you send it back and get a fresh one...something else we never take note of.
Yeah, unhealthy food causes disease and cancer. We all know. But this is a new, thrilling problem to combat. It's *the right kind of problem*. It's like being confronted with what to do with too much money. How can we make healthy food taste just as good or better than that fast food crap? Surely society's great minds are going to work on this one. I don't know though...I get the idea too many people out there just enjoy hating fatties, Wal-mart, Applebee's, trailer parks, and Monsanto far too much to ever think that maybe things should be better. Imagine a day when McDonald's goes out of business because people can pick more delicious foods from public orchards. A microwave burrito that is more nutritious than fresh blueberries. A boil-in bag that makes fresh spinach look like a twinkie. It can happen, if we want it to happen.
"Most languages do OK while these few aren't" isn't a news story. I think you don't understand how clicks on the internet work. Alarmism gets people to click, reporting facts doesn't.
Would the world have paid any attention to her if she were not a woman? Is that why she won that prize? There are no shortage of ugly, soul destroying buildings and public artwork out there. Sadly in 2016 we really do award major international prizes based on this sort of thing. I wish we would award prizes to people who enhance our civilization and not debase it, but my hope won't result in change.
Yeah, but China isn't just any country. This isn't Romania. There are tons of controls on international transactions. Otherwise there would be a giant sucking sound for a month or two and China would be empty of funds. Nobody trusts Chinese banks, especially Chinese banks. This is why property is always super-hot in China and prices everyone out of the market - there's really nowhere else to invest money.
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It's about *control*. Controlling something is a reward of its own. If they don't control it, then they must destroy it. Who cares if it's a bunch of idiots glorifying violence? That's totally irrelevant. They took to heart the lessons of Master Yoda who said, "Control, control, you must learn control!"
That's a hell of a way to talk about Obama. Racist much?
Nah, the minute they do that they'll trigger the Left to hate them even more than they already do. They've got their hands full already just treading water and keeping our rights from being eroded without taking on additional responsibilities that they aren't expert at. This sort of thing is more the ACLU's baliwick, but we already know how they feel about the Second and right-wingers in general: white-hot hatred. Black lives matter.
When I briefly looked at BSD quite a number of years ago, what turned me off was the spiteful, angry people who used BSD. These people were not shy about expressing themselves and they told me straight where I could go. I got the message loud and clear. Despite any technical advantages BSD might have had, I have a big problem with joining up with a bunch of raging assholes.
Newspapers will just say: we sell the ads, we can't control what comes on your screen. Could be anything. And...they're right. They can't police every ad that comes across because they just sell to ad providers. If you think they should, they'll reply they're in the newspaper writing business, don't know crap about this internet ad stuff, just like they don't care about the content of their print ads. Well they do actually, someone looks at them before they go to print. But they won't do that for internet ads because it's too hard.
"Poetry is nobody's business except the poet's," wrote Philip Larkin, "and everybody else can fuck off."
Poets like Walt Whitman don't exist any more. Did they suddenly change recently and become pro-human? Or are they still hostile elitists who despise ordinary Americans?
Huh? Pure psychological projection on your part, pal. I'm just reminding everyone of what happened and how shameful it was, you don't have to get all butthurt about it and start making wild projections.
You'll be happy to know that these truck drivers are all (1) white, strike one, (2) male, strike two, and (3) working class, strike three. They're pretty much everything that's hated by the Sanders/Clinton/BLM/Republican establishment axis. Do you harbor some kind of illusion you're in favor of these people? Allow me to remind you of some keywords to put your mind in the right place: NASCAR, Jesus, American patriot, redneck. There, now we are all on the same page!
You won't be crying about these people being put out of work and thrust into poverty, you're going to be clenching your fist and saying, "FUCK YEAH!"
I can't believe how naive people are being. Batteries are expensive. Tesla is a megamillion-dollar corporation. They're a car company, for Pete's sake. They'll find a way to weasel out of the warranty, you can count on it. The founder won't live forever.
How is this "evidence of its stupidity"? How does that even follow? If anything, it is evidence of its effectiveness. The website was deemed harmful to the citizens by the government, and it was blocked. Even the creator couldn't access it. I'd say, job well done.
Are members of the government treated differently from normal citizens? How is this even a question? Of course Communist governments think that intelligent people like Party members should be treated differently from the Great Unwashed and the laws they pass don't apply to them. Hell, that attitude has practically 100% acceptance in Washington DC among Democrats and Republicans alike.
it seemed less likely they could be found in the Universe's small towns," said a university statement
Well that's great and all, but it misses the most important point of this entire story - what kind of shirt was the spokesman wearing when he released the statement? We already know, from empirical experience, that this fashion statement overshadows anything that might have been said or any legitimate human achievement that may have occurred. Up to and including announcing that HUMANITY LANDED A SPACE PROBE ON A GODDAMNED COMET.
You don't know what Moore's Law means. You need to stop using it in your writing.
Iceland has zero diversity. It's all white, all the time. They are also 87% Christian, Islamophobia seems popular there. The other Scandinavian countries are having great success with immigration adding value to their countries, Iceland is culturally backwards and stuck in the 20th century.
Are you done spouting racist nonsense?
Uh...it was immediately penetrated by multiple foreign intelligence services. It had zero security. If China/Russia/EU/etc DIDN'T own Hillary's server then they are totally incompetent and shouldn't be running an intelligence service.
"Tech Firms Have An Obsession With 'Female' Digital Servants"
Did we even read this? I, and everyone else, see a blatantly biased story being used to push a radical left-wing social justice warrior agenda. There's no hate, that's pure psychological projection on your part. We're all angry at facts being selectively presented to serve a harmful agenda.
So, the story here is that there are too many female voices. If the tech firms had chosen to make the voices male instead, the story would be about underrepresentation and misogyny. Either way, the story is slanted to be favorable to feminism and derogatory to technology.
You think they don't know this? Of course they do. This is Propaganda 101. Joseph Goebbels would be proud. The best propaganda is the truth, with context omitted.
You mean they're just like everyone else in the world, and think of themselves first? Especially where their own government is concerned? Gosh, what a totally unreasonable position to take. How laughable.
This is ridiculously outdated thinking. China never "owned" North Korea in the first place, and certainly does not today. The Chinese have been to see the North Koreans, and told them, "look, this Marxism shit does not work and everyone knows it except Western university professors. Take the capitalist road, free your people, and get rich." It's what China did to Burma and look where they are. The Burmese are well on the path to becoming the next Vietnam. The North Koreans wouldn't listen. I like how you call them dogs and get an openly racist comment modded up to +5, you racist piece of shit.
Funny, I thought vegetable oil had been used by humanity for thousands of years. But now it gets slapped with a scary-sounding label like "biodiesel"? Oh my God, what's wrong with it? EVERYBODY PANIC!!!
I also love how you throw in the baffling term "obesogenic" without defining it, as if everyone should know it. I'm sure everyone knows what it means where you hang out, where vegetable oil is considered a toxic poison from Wall Street (ZOMG!) but the rest of us have not suffered the normalization of deviance you have. The longer the weirdness goes on the more insiders become accustomed to it. People on the outside see it as abnormal but within the circle it becomes accepted as everyday practice.
And no shit the family farm doesn't scale. That's why we don't have famines any more, and if one does occur, it is a problem of distribution not production.
I know this thread is going to be full of We Hate Americans - it's already started. But I just think this is really amazing. For the entirety of human existence, food has been a huge problem. Hunger was always, at most, a year or two away. Starvation is the best way to kill huge numbers of humans at once. Malnutrition, or control of food, is one of the best ways to keep them in line. Ever seen those fiftyish/sixtyish Chinese ladies who are all so short? It's because their growth was stunted as children because their government didn't provide enough for them to eat. Even without shitheads starving people to death for political reasons, lack of enough food was always a concern.
Now, we not only have solved the food problem, but we have gone too far the opposite direction. Wow! People have too much food. Food is too cheap. But that's not all, they don't just have too much food, they have the wrong kind of it! It's not just the quantity, it is the diversity and free choice that is causing all the problems. Who would have even imagined such an outcome? Did any of the visionary Sci-Fi authors of the 20th century see this coming? Because this is more earth-shattering than landing a probe on a comet (but I have been educated by the media and now understand that the shirt the spokesman was wearing when he made the announcement WAS more important than any scientific achievement humanity might have accomplished that day). Moreover this food is available just about anywhere. It tastes delicious as well, something people today barely realize, if ever.
One of my minor hobbies is making old or ancient recipes straight from manuscripts or books, as close as I can. Something I've noticed is how much they really aren't that good. They're edible, to be sure, and they get you full and they're nutritious because they're always made from scratch. But they just ain't that good. There is almost always some simple optimization that would make them taste much, much better. I'm not saying the people of old didn't enjoy their food, because they did. It's a universal human condition, whether you're eating oeufs au plat Meyerbeer prepared by a separate entremettier, rotisseur and saucier; or a bowl of oat porridge with pig fat. A lot of people ridicule McDonald's hamburgers or Applebee's entrees in the boil-in bags. But damn, that food is super-tasty. Far better than kings used to eat. It's never spoiled, either, and if it is you send it back and get a fresh one...something else we never take note of.
Yeah, unhealthy food causes disease and cancer. We all know. But this is a new, thrilling problem to combat. It's *the right kind of problem*. It's like being confronted with what to do with too much money. How can we make healthy food taste just as good or better than that fast food crap? Surely society's great minds are going to work on this one. I don't know though...I get the idea too many people out there just enjoy hating fatties, Wal-mart, Applebee's, trailer parks, and Monsanto far too much to ever think that maybe things should be better. Imagine a day when McDonald's goes out of business because people can pick more delicious foods from public orchards. A microwave burrito that is more nutritious than fresh blueberries. A boil-in bag that makes fresh spinach look like a twinkie. It can happen, if we want it to happen.
"Most languages do OK while these few aren't" isn't a news story. I think you don't understand how clicks on the internet work. Alarmism gets people to click, reporting facts doesn't.
Would the world have paid any attention to her if she were not a woman? Is that why she won that prize? There are no shortage of ugly, soul destroying buildings and public artwork out there. Sadly in 2016 we really do award major international prizes based on this sort of thing. I wish we would award prizes to people who enhance our civilization and not debase it, but my hope won't result in change.
Yeah, but China isn't just any country. This isn't Romania. There are tons of controls on international transactions. Otherwise there would be a giant sucking sound for a month or two and China would be empty of funds. Nobody trusts Chinese banks, especially Chinese banks. This is why property is always super-hot in China and prices everyone out of the market - there's really nowhere else to invest money.