Google's company motto is "Don't be evil". Given that huge companies are inherently evil, why did Google's top executives make the choice to become a huge company? Surely, a smaller company would simply lack the ability to perform evil on a scale large enough to be noticed. It's like the difference between the tyranny of Joe and his sons of Joe's Muffler Shack in Flyover Territory, Oklahoma, and Microsoft. One is large and evil, and the other is equally evil but simply lacks any ability to influence events outside of its local prey of fuckwit middle Americans.
Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people.
Yes, the correct thing to do is exclude yourself from experiencing diverse points of view. Scientology did the same thing, its adherents boycott heretical websites via an automated filter. Remember, ideas are weapons, don't let yourself think dangerous or subversive ideas.
She could have just said, "QQ" instead of "Chinese QQ". A person's definition of the 'Other' is part of what defines or even constitutes the self. It is the process by which societies and groups exclude 'Others' who do not fit into their society. Othering helps distinguish between home and away, the uncertain or certain.
Oh, and nice racism there, calling QQ "Chinese", thus implying it is strange and weird. (The technical term is "Orientalism" - implying that "the East" is antithetical to "the West".) QQ has been in use for ages. It is very big in South Africa...uh-oh, South Africa has a lot of black people. Yikes, when we start stereotyping, it's a minefield!
*sigh* Such ignorant people, who live in such tiny worlds. What can be done against such limited intellects?
Yes, believe it or not, there are actual LAWS pertaining to the import and export of MILITARY GOODS. What, it's a remote control airplane? Harmless! Well, the European Union is way ahead of you. The EU defines "dual use goods" as products and technologies normally used for civilian purposes but which may have military applications. For example, Christian fundamentalists could get ahold of the 1918 flu virus under the guise of peaceful research, and then release the disease, "Twelve Monkeys" style, as revenge for too many gays in society. Dual use regulations keep good people safe from these dangerous extremists.
No matter what the social ill, it's always America's fault. Those evil foreigners are never responsible for their own actions. It's always, all about America. Middle east problems would go away if America would just fall in line.
Good job! Especially since worm-riddled broadband-connected home computers running Microsoft operating systems were the cause of the spam problem in the first place. An unreasonable man like me would view this as a problem of Microsoft's causing, and by default their responsibility to clean up. Seems as if Microsoft's shoddy programming job allowed the holes to exist in the first place, and they cynically passed the cost on to the rest of us. Sort of like how an amoral oil company should be forced to clean up its oil rig blowout without any special thanks.
OMG, a Scotsman drunk and rude in public!!!!@!#$! Call the cops! Well my word, this has NEVER BEFORE HAPPENED IN HUMAN HISTORY!!!
Seriously, get a grip, you middle American fuckwad. It happens. You, as a member of the servile class, are going to see this on occasion. Get used to it. Oh, and by the way, [citation needed]. Unless it was reported by a credible journalist, it didn't happen.
I'm sorry, but if these people were to work for the "betterment" of "society at large", what would that mean exactly? That would mean that middle Americans and other flyover territory morons would have better lives? Fuck that shit. An MIT graduate has NOTHING in common with such people. A high-paying career where one gets to mix among people of similar interests would be far better. "Start companies that help America keep its innovative edge" LOL. Anyone here think that America having fewer resources means that America can start much less trouble in the world?
"Where cultural progress is genuinely successful and ills are cured, this progress is seldom received with enthusiasm. Instead, they are taken for granted and attention focuses on those ills that remain."
-- Odo Marquard, Philosopher
What a bunch of bullshit. When AT&T ruled the earth, you couldn't connect anything but a Company Approved Phone [tm] to their lines, otherwise something might explode. Oh, and you can't buy a phone from the store, you have to rent one from the company store. You can have any color you like, as long as it's black.
There are three professions where being untruthful is the key to success: Lawyers, salespeople, and marketing. All three are hired to portray their client in the most favorable light possible, and the very best ones lie through their teeth. The worst of these three are the marketers because they have legions of psychologists and scientists trying to figure out the best way to lie to people.
Why are computer scientists even learning programming? When did this happen? Programming sounds like one of those get-your-hands-dirty jobs in flyover territory, where you would show a lot of ass crack on the job and live in a trailer park. Educated people don't do that.
Sport means athletic activity. You know, under the Yellow Light in the Big Room? Healthy stuff. What you're getting at is a game. All sports are games, but not all games are sports. Honestly, given the stigma attached to athletes in intellectual communities, I'm surprised anyone wants "sport" attached to "thinking" at all!
I enjoy a good game of chess myself, on occasion. However, at the top level, chess is populated almost entirely by gigantic douchebags. I'm not surprised cheating went on. Look at some of Bobby Fischer's early matches. And hey, Kasparov isn't above cheating, either. His opponent didn't say anything because she knew he'd use his reputation to destroy her and anything she said.
"An interesting example of taking back moves at the highest level of OTB chess occurred recently at the elite 1994 Linares super tournament. It's claimed that there is video tape showing that PCA World Champion Garry Kasparov, while playing Judit Polgar, moved a knight to a square which would have cost him the exchange. Apparently, even though he had released the piece, he picked it up again and moved it to another square and went on to win the game." Link to more.
Bobby Fischer, the greatest American player ever, idolized Hitler and hated Jewish people, and cheered 9/11 on his radio show. Sample quote: "This is a wonderful day. Fuck the United States. Cry, you crybabies! Whine, you bastards! Now your time is coming." Don't think he was alone in the chess world, either, he had a lot of friends: as Gudmundur G. ThÃrarinsson, the man who arranged the famous "Cold War" match against Spassky in Iceland, said at Fischer's funeral, "In the fullness of time, history will judge the United States harshly for its treatment of Robert James Fischer."
I leave with this piece about chess, written in the 1500s. "Chess is certainly a pleasing and ingenious amusement, but it seems to have one defect, which is that it is possible to have too much knowledge of it, so that whoever would excel in the game must give a great deal of time to it, as I believe, and as much study as if he would learn some noble science or perform well anything of importance; and yet in the end, for all his pains, he only knows how to play a game. Thus, I think a very unusual thing happens in this, namely that mediocrity is more to be praised than excellence."
Huh? Why would The Smart People ever want to be associated with sports in any way? I thought that intellectuals looked down on sports players and sports fans? When did becoming a "sport" become fashionable? Trying to attract the wrong kind of crowd?
That Slavic lady with the motorcycle is a fraud. It was all debunked a few years ago. She never did what she said she did. So sad, for her to need to lie like that.
The New York Times is not a biased news source! Stop saying it is! It is the oasis of objective news in a world of bribed sources. You might as well say that National Public Radio doesn't represent the Public of the Nation via the medium of Radio.
And yet if they were Chinese, you'd be screaming about how they ripped us off. Again. Question: how many royalties did Poul Anderson's heirs get off of this episode? If the answer is "zero" then it's piracy. Shocking...Americans actually expect that their TV programs will copy better authors and yet change the story JUST ENOUGH to avoid lawsuits. Shades of Bart Simpson?
Typical ignorant American viewpoint. Here's an idea: why don't you try asking some, you know, actual Chinese people if they want to overthrow their government? The New York Times article linked carefully avoids asking this question, as you'll notice. The article's all about prissy Beijing expats having a hissy fit because they can't get to facebook and twitter any more because their VPNs were blocked. The answer is assumed as the Chinese people want to overthrow their government. It's called "reciting the narrative", and it's a common way that journalists get to make shit up.
Surprise! Chinese people don't want to overthrow their government. *cough* (awkward silence) Things are better now in China than they ever have been in history. Things are only getting better every day. The worst thing that could happen is an attempt to overthrow the government. Nobody knows China's last 150 years of history, which was basically one disaster after another. The nation was divided and without a common language, and Mao united the people under one flag, stopped the wars of province against province, and gave the people the gift of a common language that could unite their diverse cultures.
But no, the only reason that China should keep its government has zippo to do with Chinese, and everything to do with America. Because whatever it is, all over the world, it always comes back to how America thinks. The navel-gazing makes me sick. So fucking parochial and ignorant of outside. +5 Insightful, eh, Slashdot?
Spoilage is inherent to food production. Always has been, always will be. Not just rot, but being bruised during transit, contaminated with garbage, and so forth. Unless, of course, you want to go back to eating whatever happens to grow in your local area. You can say goodbye to pineapples, bananas, bok choy, and so on.
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Google's company motto is "Don't be evil". Given that huge companies are inherently evil, why did Google's top executives make the choice to become a huge company? Surely, a smaller company would simply lack the ability to perform evil on a scale large enough to be noticed. It's like the difference between the tyranny of Joe and his sons of Joe's Muffler Shack in Flyover Territory, Oklahoma, and Microsoft. One is large and evil, and the other is equally evil but simply lacks any ability to influence events outside of its local prey of fuckwit middle Americans.
Free speech is indeed a global human right.
Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people.
Source: United Nations Declaration of Human Rights
Yes, the correct thing to do is exclude yourself from experiencing diverse points of view. Scientology did the same thing, its adherents boycott heretical websites via an automated filter. Remember, ideas are weapons, don't let yourself think dangerous or subversive ideas.
The problem is not SMTP, the problem is infected Windows boxes cranking out millions of spams per day.
She could have just said, "QQ" instead of "Chinese QQ". A person's definition of the 'Other' is part of what defines or even constitutes the self. It is the process by which societies and groups exclude 'Others' who do not fit into their society. Othering helps distinguish between home and away, the uncertain or certain.
QQ is not a "network", it is an instant messaging program. I suppose when you sign up for a QQ account, you get an unwanted QQ space (Qzone) along with your unwanted QQ email account, but nobody really uses those. Residents of the PRC use Renren, Xiaonei, Kaixin001, Sina, and others.
Oh, and nice racism there, calling QQ "Chinese", thus implying it is strange and weird. (The technical term is "Orientalism" - implying that "the East" is antithetical to "the West".) QQ has been in use for ages. It is very big in South Africa...uh-oh, South Africa has a lot of black people. Yikes, when we start stereotyping, it's a minefield!
*sigh* Such ignorant people, who live in such tiny worlds. What can be done against such limited intellects?
Yes, believe it or not, there are actual LAWS pertaining to the import and export of MILITARY GOODS. What, it's a remote control airplane? Harmless! Well, the European Union is way ahead of you. The EU defines "dual use goods" as products and technologies normally used for civilian purposes but which may have military applications. For example, Christian fundamentalists could get ahold of the 1918 flu virus under the guise of peaceful research, and then release the disease, "Twelve Monkeys" style, as revenge for too many gays in society. Dual use regulations keep good people safe from these dangerous extremists.
No matter what the social ill, it's always America's fault. Those evil foreigners are never responsible for their own actions. It's always, all about America. Middle east problems would go away if America would just fall in line.
Let's imagine the opposite situation: what if Websense refused to sell to Arabs? Would this headline be plausible? United Nations Human Rights Council condemns American companies after refusing to sell software on basis of race. Don't believe me? There is always a way...remember, it's all about America. Try another ripped-from-the-headlines sample: The U.S. intervention in Libya has nothing to do with meeting humanitarian goals, and everything to do with reasserting Western domination in a region that has long suffered the effects of colonialism and imperialism.
Good job! Especially since worm-riddled broadband-connected home computers running Microsoft operating systems were the cause of the spam problem in the first place. An unreasonable man like me would view this as a problem of Microsoft's causing, and by default their responsibility to clean up. Seems as if Microsoft's shoddy programming job allowed the holes to exist in the first place, and they cynically passed the cost on to the rest of us. Sort of like how an amoral oil company should be forced to clean up its oil rig blowout without any special thanks.
Nah, that's crazy talk. Kudos to Microsoft!
OMG, a Scotsman drunk and rude in public!!!!@!#$! Call the cops! Well my word, this has NEVER BEFORE HAPPENED IN HUMAN HISTORY!!!
Seriously, get a grip, you middle American fuckwad. It happens. You, as a member of the servile class, are going to see this on occasion. Get used to it. Oh, and by the way, [citation needed]. Unless it was reported by a credible journalist, it didn't happen.
I'm sorry, but if these people were to work for the "betterment" of "society at large", what would that mean exactly? That would mean that middle Americans and other flyover territory morons would have better lives? Fuck that shit. An MIT graduate has NOTHING in common with such people. A high-paying career where one gets to mix among people of similar interests would be far better. "Start companies that help America keep its innovative edge" LOL. Anyone here think that America having fewer resources means that America can start much less trouble in the world?
"Where cultural progress is genuinely successful and ills are cured, this progress is seldom received with enthusiasm. Instead, they are taken for granted and attention focuses on those ills that remain."
-- Odo Marquard, Philosopher
Gratuitous insertions of present-day political issues into episodes was basically the entire run of TNG.
What a bunch of bullshit. When AT&T ruled the earth, you couldn't connect anything but a Company Approved Phone [tm] to their lines, otherwise something might explode. Oh, and you can't buy a phone from the store, you have to rent one from the company store. You can have any color you like, as long as it's black.
There are three professions where being untruthful is the key to success: Lawyers, salespeople, and marketing. All three are hired to portray their client in the most favorable light possible, and the very best ones lie through their teeth. The worst of these three are the marketers because they have legions of psychologists and scientists trying to figure out the best way to lie to people.
Why are computer scientists even learning programming? When did this happen? Programming sounds like one of those get-your-hands-dirty jobs in flyover territory, where you would show a lot of ass crack on the job and live in a trailer park. Educated people don't do that.
Really? I thought it was all about trying to lift more than anyone else. I guess all those olympic medals were just distributed at random. "Most people assume their sport is as simple as it gets..
Sport means athletic activity. You know, under the Yellow Light in the Big Room? Healthy stuff. What you're getting at is a game. All sports are games, but not all games are sports. Honestly, given the stigma attached to athletes in intellectual communities, I'm surprised anyone wants "sport" attached to "thinking" at all!
I enjoy a good game of chess myself, on occasion. However, at the top level, chess is populated almost entirely by gigantic douchebags. I'm not surprised cheating went on. Look at some of Bobby Fischer's early matches. And hey, Kasparov isn't above cheating, either. His opponent didn't say anything because she knew he'd use his reputation to destroy her and anything she said.
"An interesting example of taking back moves at the highest level of OTB chess occurred recently at the elite 1994 Linares super tournament. It's claimed that there is video tape showing that PCA World Champion Garry Kasparov, while playing Judit Polgar, moved a knight to a square which would have cost him the exchange. Apparently, even though he had released the piece, he picked it up again and moved it to another square and went on to win the game." Link to more.
Bobby Fischer, the greatest American player ever, idolized Hitler and hated Jewish people, and cheered 9/11 on his radio show. Sample quote: "This is a wonderful day. Fuck the United States. Cry, you crybabies! Whine, you bastards! Now your time is coming." Don't think he was alone in the chess world, either, he had a lot of friends: as Gudmundur G. ThÃrarinsson, the man who arranged the famous "Cold War" match against Spassky in Iceland, said at Fischer's funeral, "In the fullness of time, history will judge the United States harshly for its treatment of Robert James Fischer."
I leave with this piece about chess, written in the 1500s.
"Chess is certainly a pleasing and ingenious amusement, but it seems to have one defect, which is that it is possible to have too much knowledge of it, so that whoever would excel in the game must give a great deal of time to it, as I believe, and as much study as if he would learn some noble science or perform well anything of importance; and yet in the end, for all his pains, he only knows how to play a game. Thus, I think a very unusual thing happens in this, namely that mediocrity is more to be praised than excellence."
Huh? Why would The Smart People ever want to be associated with sports in any way? I thought that intellectuals looked down on sports players and sports fans? When did becoming a "sport" become fashionable? Trying to attract the wrong kind of crowd?
(Romulan ambassador Vreenak) IT'S A FAAAAAAKE!
That Slavic lady with the motorcycle is a fraud. It was all debunked a few years ago. She never did what she said she did. So sad, for her to need to lie like that.
The New York Times is not a biased news source! Stop saying it is! It is the oasis of objective news in a world of bribed sources. You might as well say that National Public Radio doesn't represent the Public of the Nation via the medium of Radio.
And yet if they were Chinese, you'd be screaming about how they ripped us off. Again. Question: how many royalties did Poul Anderson's heirs get off of this episode? If the answer is "zero" then it's piracy. Shocking...Americans actually expect that their TV programs will copy better authors and yet change the story JUST ENOUGH to avoid lawsuits. Shades of Bart Simpson?
Typical ignorant American viewpoint. Here's an idea: why don't you try asking some, you know, actual Chinese people if they want to overthrow their government? The New York Times article linked carefully avoids asking this question, as you'll notice. The article's all about prissy Beijing expats having a hissy fit because they can't get to facebook and twitter any more because their VPNs were blocked. The answer is assumed as the Chinese people want to overthrow their government. It's called "reciting the narrative", and it's a common way that journalists get to make shit up.
Surprise! Chinese people don't want to overthrow their government. *cough* (awkward silence) Things are better now in China than they ever have been in history. Things are only getting better every day. The worst thing that could happen is an attempt to overthrow the government. Nobody knows China's last 150 years of history, which was basically one disaster after another. The nation was divided and without a common language, and Mao united the people under one flag, stopped the wars of province against province, and gave the people the gift of a common language that could unite their diverse cultures.
But no, the only reason that China should keep its government has zippo to do with Chinese, and everything to do with America. Because whatever it is, all over the world, it always comes back to how America thinks. The navel-gazing makes me sick. So fucking parochial and ignorant of outside. +5 Insightful, eh, Slashdot?
Spoilage is inherent to food production. Always has been, always will be. Not just rot, but being bruised during transit, contaminated with garbage, and so forth. Unless, of course, you want to go back to eating whatever happens to grow in your local area. You can say goodbye to pineapples, bananas, bok choy, and so on.