Well...why aren't you getting paid for Slashvertisements? Seems like an easy way to make cash on the side. If you're not getting paid then why do you run such free ads? You're just getting used. Seems off to me.
Thanks so much for proving my point. Those people who think differently than us are wrong and we don't need to tolerate them. We have always been at war with Eurasia.
McCarthy? You know, when I was young, we were taught that McCarthy was chasing ghosts, it was all paranoia, and there were no Communists in the State Department.
Today we know precisely the opposite: there really were Communists, they really did want to overthrow the US government, and McCarthy was right the whole time. This needs to be repeated again and again until the memory hole is filled and we finally get the truth.
SMS spam used to be a huge deal in China. Couldn't go a day without 4-5 of them, mostly advertising illegal goods and services. Some magazine that was less loyal to China than others did a big investigation once, and it turned out that China Mobile employees were selling out their service to spammers on the side. Not a surprise at all to anyone who has done business here.
However, with the advent of Android phones with replacement SMS clients, the problem largely went away for me. I set up a blacklist and it works great. As a matter of fact, the spam SMS that I don't receive come from China Mobile itself. (Once in a while I'll click "show blacklisted messages" just to check.) There are also MMS spams, but as I have never in my life received a legitimate MMS, those have all been blacklisted as well.
These days the big growth is in Weibo and Wechat spam. What will happen is that one of your friends gets paid a shockingly small amount to "promote" the usual garbage - shoes, clothes, etc. Then your feed gets not only their messages you're interested in, but also this crap. If you complain, they tell you to block them which frankly is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. The more interesting the person, the more valuable they are to spam marketers. I've even seen positions advertised for "social marketing companies" (pro spammers) to enable this sort of trash. You'd think foreigners would be too classy to work in this kind of scumball industry...but then you'd be wrong. SO many foreigners are in China these days because they are talentless and unemployable at home. Liberal Arts degrees and $80,000 in student loans don't mix as well as you might think.
Isn't it odd when "learned charisma" like this is presented as fact as long as it is used for business purposes, but when the exact same techniques are used by dorky men to get girls, this "learned charisma" is decried as false and a total lie. The things that make you go hmm...
If you want to go through the rest of your life unarmed in a socially violent world, go right ahead. The smart people will be learning charisma, and you'll be wondering why they get ahead.
If it was an (R), his party affiliation would be mentioned in the headline, not the body of the story.
And honestly, there is a lot of hatred towards white Christian men. You really don't see it? It's like the entire left wing decided that the problem wasn't bigotry, it was that bigotry was being directed at the wrong group. I know you don't believe me, so here's some science:
A lack of political diversity in psychology is said to lead to a number of pernicious outcomes, including biased research and active discrimination against conservatives. The authors of this study surveyed a large number (combined N = 800) of social and personality psychologists and discovered several interesting facts. First, although only 6% described themselves as conservative âoeoverall,â there was more diversity of political opinion on economic issues and foreign policy. Second, respondents significantly underestimated the proportion of conservatives among their colleagues. Third, conservatives fear negative consequences of revealing their political beliefs to their colleagues. Finally, they are right to do so: In decisions ranging from paper reviews to hiring, many social and personality psychologists said that they would discriminate against openly conservative colleagues. The more liberal respondents were, the more they said they would discriminate.
Composite scores of perceived hostile climate for conservatives (! =.85) were significantly correlated with political orientation, r(263) =.28, p
At the end of our surveys, we gave room for comments. Many respondents wrote that they could not believe that anyone in the field would ever deliberately discriminate against conservatives. Yet at the same time we found clear examples of discrimination. One participant described how a colleague was denied tenure because of his political beliefs. Another wrote that if the department "could figure out who was a conservative they would be sure not to
hire them."
Republicans BAD! Vote for the people who are in your own economic self-interest. Vote for those who promise you free money!
A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to complacency; From complacency to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.
An __ _______ (Latin for "to the man" or "to the person"), short for argumentum __ _______, is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument.
I love the subtext of this comment - assuming without thinking that the same environmentalism that will save the Earth somehow has any application whatsoever on other planets - particularly those with zero habitability or possibility of ever becoming so. This is what political extremism does to your brain, people.
A naive thought. When people don't work for what they have, they take it for granted. Very quickly, it goes from being something nice, to something that they expect, to something that they demand.
This is just Cloward-Piven's strategy here at home. Cloward and Pivens were a married couple of radical sociology professors at Columbia University back in the '60's who advocated collapsing our economic system by overloading the welfare system. But wait, that could never happen. Hey come to think of it, didn't Obama go to Columbia in the early '80's? He was a poly sci guy. I wonder if he came across Cloward and Pivens?
You're sure about that? I distinctly remember that the government was bad, bad, bad. This was repeated daily for eight years. You sure you don't remember it? You couldn't get away from it even if you tried. It was on these very pages of Slashdot...again, daily. How old are you, anyway?
Guh, can we please stop with the Constitution-worship? You sound like a right-wing extremist. You nullify your own point when that person killed someone in City Hall. WTF, don't you understand you morons can't be trusted? That's why we have journalist credentials in the first place!!
Look, harping on this ridiculous "Constitution" thing makes you look like a Tea Partier. Journalists are special people who deserve special protections. They are the guardians of our democracy. Bloggers are idiots that post unverifiable bullshit. Don't even pretend that there is any equivalency.
What's wrong with the U.N.? You some kind of Tea Party asshole? The world would be a better place if the U.N. actually had teeth and could enforce its laws.
Nah, they suck. I tried that site...within DAYS of being founded, it posted a dupe. No I'm not kidding. It's also a hostile environment unless you agree with the left-wing groupthink. They're not real big on tolerating dissent.
Remember back before January 20, 2009? When the government was automatically bad because Bu$hitler was in charge? Yup, everyone spun on their heels and suddenly the government was a force for good and anyone who opposed it was doubleplusungood. We have always been at war with Eurasia, we have always been allied with Eastasia.
No hacking of communication infrastructure happened. The NSA just broke in to Huawei company's servers. Did we even read the article, or are we just jumping to conclusions that support our pre-existing mental states?
He was talking about high-quality professional printers, not crappy office equipment. Million-dollar machines. There's no need to submit artwork in any more than 300dpi, it's just wasted disk space. Pro designers don't have their work distributed with crappy printers.
Yaknow, I used to think the Two Minutes Hate from Orwell's 1984 was the least realistic, most suspension-of-disbelief breaking part of the book. It just didn't make any sense and the idea of people getting up in front of others to show how much they hated Big Brother's enemies was just ridiculous. But now that I'm older, hell...what else is this story other than despising those who think differently than we do? We write something to show how much we support the prevailing point of view and then move on with the rest of our day. And keep an eye out for that bastard Emmanuel Goldstein, you never know where his agents are.
I have no idea what "you are knee-jerking by proxy defending a lack of inclusion" means, and neither does anyone else. You are really sniffing your own farts here, you need to get outside your tiny world and see what everyone else is doing. Seek out opinions that don't agree with your own. Listening to you is like listening the middle of a conversation between two sysadmins talking about debugging a database problem. Nobody knows the jargon being used and even if we did we'd have to be up on the latest version of Oracle to even know what was going on.
I wonder what reality you live in where "women poweRRR" is a new thing that is breaking out. It's been a staple for decades, right along with the incompetent bumbling male role model.
LOL. As if Wikipedia's article on feminism is going to be objective. Ha!
I also love how you dismiss the radical feminists like they're powerless kooks, when in fact they are greatly respected and to cross one in public carries great peril. Remember donglegate?
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Well...why aren't you getting paid for Slashvertisements? Seems like an easy way to make cash on the side. If you're not getting paid then why do you run such free ads? You're just getting used. Seems off to me.
Tolerance: when others are required to accommodate our views, but we have no reciprocal obligation to them.
Thanks so much for proving my point. Those people who think differently than us are wrong and we don't need to tolerate them. We have always been at war with Eurasia.
McCarthy? You know, when I was young, we were taught that McCarthy was chasing ghosts, it was all paranoia, and there were no Communists in the State Department.
Today we know precisely the opposite: there really were Communists, they really did want to overthrow the US government, and McCarthy was right the whole time. This needs to be repeated again and again until the memory hole is filled and we finally get the truth.
SMS spam used to be a huge deal in China. Couldn't go a day without 4-5 of them, mostly advertising illegal goods and services. Some magazine that was less loyal to China than others did a big investigation once, and it turned out that China Mobile employees were selling out their service to spammers on the side. Not a surprise at all to anyone who has done business here.
However, with the advent of Android phones with replacement SMS clients, the problem largely went away for me. I set up a blacklist and it works great. As a matter of fact, the spam SMS that I don't receive come from China Mobile itself. (Once in a while I'll click "show blacklisted messages" just to check.) There are also MMS spams, but as I have never in my life received a legitimate MMS, those have all been blacklisted as well.
These days the big growth is in Weibo and Wechat spam. What will happen is that one of your friends gets paid a shockingly small amount to "promote" the usual garbage - shoes, clothes, etc. Then your feed gets not only their messages you're interested in, but also this crap. If you complain, they tell you to block them which frankly is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. The more interesting the person, the more valuable they are to spam marketers. I've even seen positions advertised for "social marketing companies" (pro spammers) to enable this sort of trash. You'd think foreigners would be too classy to work in this kind of scumball industry...but then you'd be wrong. SO many foreigners are in China these days because they are talentless and unemployable at home. Liberal Arts degrees and $80,000 in student loans don't mix as well as you might think.
Isn't it odd when "learned charisma" like this is presented as fact as long as it is used for business purposes, but when the exact same techniques are used by dorky men to get girls, this "learned charisma" is decried as false and a total lie. The things that make you go hmm...
If you want to go through the rest of your life unarmed in a socially violent world, go right ahead. The smart people will be learning charisma, and you'll be wondering why they get ahead.
If it was an (R), his party affiliation would be mentioned in the headline, not the body of the story.
And honestly, there is a lot of hatred towards white Christian men. You really don't see it? It's like the entire left wing decided that the problem wasn't bigotry, it was that bigotry was being directed at the wrong group. I know you don't believe me, so here's some science:
A lack of political diversity in psychology is said to lead to a number of pernicious outcomes, including biased research and active discrimination against conservatives. The authors of this study surveyed a large number (combined N = 800) of social and personality psychologists and discovered several interesting facts. First, although only 6% described themselves as conservative âoeoverall,â there was more diversity of political opinion on economic issues and foreign policy. Second, respondents significantly underestimated the proportion of conservatives among their colleagues. Third, conservatives fear negative consequences of revealing their political beliefs to their colleagues. Finally, they are right to do so: In decisions ranging from paper reviews to hiring, many social and personality psychologists said that they would discriminate against openly conservative colleagues. The more liberal respondents were, the more they said they would discriminate.
Composite scores of perceived hostile climate for conservatives (! = .85) were significantly correlated with political orientation, r(263) = .28, p
At the end of our surveys, we gave room for comments. Many respondents wrote that they could not believe that anyone in the field would ever deliberately discriminate against conservatives. Yet at the same time we found clear examples of discrimination. One participant described how a colleague was denied tenure because of his political beliefs. Another wrote that if the department "could figure out who was a conservative they would be sure not to
hire them."
-- Yoel Inbar and Joris Lammers, "Political Diversity in Social and Personality Psychology" http://yoelinbar.net/papers/political_diversity.pdf
Republicans BAD! Vote for the people who are in your own economic self-interest. Vote for those who promise you free money!
A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to complacency; From complacency to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.
Democrats 2016!
Fill in the blanks:
An __ _______ (Latin for "to the man" or "to the person"), short for argumentum __ _______, is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument.
I love the subtext of this comment - assuming without thinking that the same environmentalism that will save the Earth somehow has any application whatsoever on other planets - particularly those with zero habitability or possibility of ever becoming so. This is what political extremism does to your brain, people.
A naive thought. When people don't work for what they have, they take it for granted. Very quickly, it goes from being something nice, to something that they expect, to something that they demand.
This is just Cloward-Piven's strategy here at home. Cloward and Pivens were a married couple of radical sociology professors at Columbia University back in the '60's who advocated collapsing our economic system by overloading the welfare system. But wait, that could never happen. Hey come to think of it, didn't Obama go to Columbia in the early '80's? He was a poly sci guy. I wonder if he came across Cloward and Pivens?
You're sure about that? I distinctly remember that the government was bad, bad, bad. This was repeated daily for eight years. You sure you don't remember it? You couldn't get away from it even if you tried. It was on these very pages of Slashdot...again, daily. How old are you, anyway?
Guh, can we please stop with the Constitution-worship? You sound like a right-wing extremist. You nullify your own point when that person killed someone in City Hall. WTF, don't you understand you morons can't be trusted? That's why we have journalist credentials in the first place!!
Look, harping on this ridiculous "Constitution" thing makes you look like a Tea Partier. Journalists are special people who deserve special protections. They are the guardians of our democracy. Bloggers are idiots that post unverifiable bullshit. Don't even pretend that there is any equivalency.
What's wrong with the U.N.? You some kind of Tea Party asshole? The world would be a better place if the U.N. actually had teeth and could enforce its laws.
Nah, they suck. I tried that site...within DAYS of being founded, it posted a dupe. No I'm not kidding. It's also a hostile environment unless you agree with the left-wing groupthink. They're not real big on tolerating dissent.
Remember back before January 20, 2009? When the government was automatically bad because Bu$hitler was in charge? Yup, everyone spun on their heels and suddenly the government was a force for good and anyone who opposed it was doubleplusungood. We have always been at war with Eurasia, we have always been allied with Eastasia.
No hacking of communication infrastructure happened. The NSA just broke in to Huawei company's servers. Did we even read the article, or are we just jumping to conclusions that support our pre-existing mental states?
He was talking about high-quality professional printers, not crappy office equipment. Million-dollar machines. There's no need to submit artwork in any more than 300dpi, it's just wasted disk space. Pro designers don't have their work distributed with crappy printers.
Ah, it is refreshing to, at last, hear the "it's OK when we do it, but not OK when America does it" spoken out loud. More honesty like this, please!
Yaknow, I used to think the Two Minutes Hate from Orwell's 1984 was the least realistic, most suspension-of-disbelief breaking part of the book. It just didn't make any sense and the idea of people getting up in front of others to show how much they hated Big Brother's enemies was just ridiculous. But now that I'm older, hell...what else is this story other than despising those who think differently than we do? We write something to show how much we support the prevailing point of view and then move on with the rest of our day. And keep an eye out for that bastard Emmanuel Goldstein, you never know where his agents are.
I have no idea what "you are knee-jerking by proxy defending a lack of inclusion" means, and neither does anyone else. You are really sniffing your own farts here, you need to get outside your tiny world and see what everyone else is doing. Seek out opinions that don't agree with your own. Listening to you is like listening the middle of a conversation between two sysadmins talking about debugging a database problem. Nobody knows the jargon being used and even if we did we'd have to be up on the latest version of Oracle to even know what was going on.
I wonder what reality you live in where "women poweRRR" is a new thing that is breaking out. It's been a staple for decades, right along with the incompetent bumbling male role model.
LOL. As if Wikipedia's article on feminism is going to be objective. Ha!
I also love how you dismiss the radical feminists like they're powerless kooks, when in fact they are greatly respected and to cross one in public carries great peril. Remember donglegate?