Nerds don't like racism, and this history is so Euro-centric it's not even funny. It's more lily-white than a KKK rally or the X Games. The whole thing is about Europeans either killing each other for being insufficiently white, or killing nonwhites for the same reason.
Yeah, I've done that a few times. It's not "discriminated against", whatever that means (not surprised NPR took that angle, though). Chinese people consider foreign-invested projects as desirable, while local innovation is considered shabby and not likely to increase China's standing in the world.
For those of you having problems wrapping your brain around this idea, compare this: you're considering two vendors, one owned by Joel and one by Joe-Jack. Joel wears his sunglasses indoors, has an iPod conspicuously on his hip, and speaks English the same as people on TV. Joe-Jack takes his sunglassess off when it's not sunny, has an old cell phone in a holster on his hip, and speaks with the accent of where he's from. Which would everyone choose to develop a product?
To make everything crystal-clear, Joel represents the company with foreigners working for it, and Joe-Jack is the face of indigenous development in China.
Question: how can you not support homosexuals and *not* be a bigot?
This link has some answers. Excerpt: "To be sure, in this era of diversity and sensitivity, a veritable cottage industry has sprung up to stamp out bigotry and intolerance. Many of those who have dedicated themselves to the eradication of bigotry tend to be Left-leaning, self-styled progressives. In researching this essay, I interviewed a number of these tolerance gurus. Interestingly, most had no problem labeling all Republicans "assholes." One prominent sociologist at a top university explained earnestly that he was no bigot but, of course, wouldn't want his sister to marry a Republican."
A better way of putting it would be "how do you plan to pay premiums for feelgood products when the subcontractors involved lie through their teeth?" I've done plenty of business in China and seen everything spiffed up for the big customer visit, workers called in a big meeting and told to lie, etc. Doesn't surprise me one bit that a Apple vendor has hired thugs for security. At least the worker at fault had the gumption to take responsibility for his failure by committing suicide.
Go ahead and advocate that view at an Artists' gathering and see how far you get. Although the nearest one might be a fair bit away from where you live.
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Uh...sightseeing is for people to see beautiful things. The word "industrial" when used outside the context of Art and Artists is a dead giveaway. I guess you didn't get the memo.
The problem is that Microsoft, having been caught red-handed astroturfing before, has pissed in the pool. ANYONE who posts a positive review of MS is going to be suspect, honest or not. I have the same problem with people supporting China online - the Chinese government pays people 50 cents per message to dispute contrary opinions and post positive thoughts about China - thus making people who honestly support China appear like fakes. Sad but true.
And pirated copies of Windows XP, which is what Asia uses exclusively. I remember showing one fellow Firefox, he was flabbergasted that something could replace IE. It had never entered his brain that anyone could use anything other than IE6 that came with the system.
*sigh*. The school of thought is called "humanism" and the debate between humanism and Christianity is centuries old. The arguments here have all been made before, by great thinkers. Only these great thinkers did not engage in hostile fundamentalist atheism for the most part. Anyone who received a university education (used to be) exposed to such ideas, but these days they're out of fashion, and ignorance results. And bigotry comes from ignorance.
Certainly, that is the only reason to watch F1 "sports". It certainly isn't worth watching for the entertainment content or competition element. I've tried, believe me...I have tons of Euro buddies who are in love with it, and have tried explaining everything, but I suppose it's just cultural. The only exciting thing is watching the in-car cam with the speedo, tach, brake lights, and shifter. Otherwise it's just a parade of cars, *yawn*.
Funny that the kids shouldn't be allowed to decide what they like, but have their viewing habits carefully censored to ensure that they are not exposed to subversive content.
people who use Twitter are "idiots" who are somehow going to be the downfall of democracy
I didn't say random people, I was specifically referring to respected journalists, all of whom are evidently in love with twitter and the instant ego gratification it provides. It's like slot machines for widowed grannies.
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So your point is that you isolated yourself in an ivory tower surrounded by people who think like you do, and you're shocked and disgusted at what the great unwashed masses are doing? How can you live in such a small world? What are you, a journalist?
Well, until this discussion, I honestly didn't know there was a difference between FTPS and SFTP. I just sort of mentally lumped it together with "secure FTP that never freaking works as advertised, especially under Windows."
How often does that actually happen, in this day and age? Compared to the accounts that are comprimised by other means? I mean, every time there's a security conference someone makes a point of capturing FTP and POP3 passwords sent in the clear, but how often does this happen in the wild? Even if you were able to comprimise some big-time router on the internet somewhere, it seems like you'd have larger fish to fry than intercepting the FTP passwords for Flo's Florist (100 unique visitors per day!)
FYI, Prince changed his name to that silly symbol because his record company claimed rights to the name "Prince". BTW Prince isn't some made-up stage name, his mother named him that at birth.
My biggest fear is that the mainstream media will not die, but continue. "Respected" journalists quoting Twitter on-air, as if everyone reads it and is familiar with it - and more to the point, that it's a credible source? Die faster, please.
Yeah. That's the ENTIRE POINT - not everyone had the exact same experience.
BTW, thanks for the bigoted stab at Utah. No I'm not from there, but attributing characteristics to someone based on where they're from was exactly what I was taught was wrong. Maybe you're from Russia where there are no freedoms.
Well, if I'm signing up for a forum or some free email account somewhere, I don't need industrial-grade uncrackable password. Actually, if my password gets cracked, big deal. It's just come crappy account somewhere. I just love signing up for something because I want to ask a question, and the system refuses my password because it doesn't have two symbols, a mix of uppercase and lowercase, and two different numbers. Oh, Jip*4&nv4X isn't a good password, nix on that! And by the way, here's a brand-new illegible CAPTCHA for you for every new password try, only barely readable by native speakers of English. Anyone else from any other culture who doesn't use the 52 Roman letters, you're out of luck.
When I was 15, I was in the 8th grade and a lot of girls didn't have breasts yet. I barely had hair on my balls at that point, and having sex with a girl was something far, far away. I remember me and a friend of mine used to shoplift condoms from K-Mart (repressed sexuality expressing itself the only way we knew how) and he gave some to the coolest kid in school. I saw him later that day showing them off to his friends, as if he were some big guy who had sex so often that he needed a 12-pack of condoms. This was in 1985 BTW. Please stop assuming that today's attitudes are somehow universal or have any relevance beyond the here and now.
You've convinced me - Twitter is actually good! The people who use it are absolutely NOT narcissists!
Hint: he wasn't talking about the tool, he was talking about what people use the tool for. His opinions are credible because anyone who attacks the underage is considered despicable (well, for now anyway...just wait until the "it's irresponsible and environment-destroying to be a parent" attitude gathers even more steam than it has already) and he's saying something that nobody is allowed to say.
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Nerds don't like racism, and this history is so Euro-centric it's not even funny. It's more lily-white than a KKK rally or the X Games. The whole thing is about Europeans either killing each other for being insufficiently white, or killing nonwhites for the same reason.
PR? Yeah, it was great PR. It said, "the next guy in this job better take it fucking seriously."
Yeah, I've done that a few times. It's not "discriminated against", whatever that means (not surprised NPR took that angle, though). Chinese people consider foreign-invested projects as desirable, while local innovation is considered shabby and not likely to increase China's standing in the world.
For those of you having problems wrapping your brain around this idea, compare this: you're considering two vendors, one owned by Joel and one by Joe-Jack. Joel wears his sunglasses indoors, has an iPod conspicuously on his hip, and speaks English the same as people on TV. Joe-Jack takes his sunglassess off when it's not sunny, has an old cell phone in a holster on his hip, and speaks with the accent of where he's from. Which would everyone choose to develop a product?
To make everything crystal-clear, Joel represents the company with foreigners working for it, and Joe-Jack is the face of indigenous development in China.
This link has some answers. Excerpt: "To be sure, in this era of diversity and sensitivity, a veritable cottage industry has sprung up to stamp out bigotry and intolerance. Many of those who have dedicated themselves to the eradication of bigotry tend to be Left-leaning, self-styled progressives. In researching this essay, I interviewed a number of these tolerance gurus. Interestingly, most had no problem labeling all Republicans "assholes." One prominent sociologist at a top university explained earnestly that he was no bigot but, of course, wouldn't want his sister to marry a Republican."
A better way of putting it would be "how do you plan to pay premiums for feelgood products when the subcontractors involved lie through their teeth?" I've done plenty of business in China and seen everything spiffed up for the big customer visit, workers called in a big meeting and told to lie, etc. Doesn't surprise me one bit that a Apple vendor has hired thugs for security. At least the worker at fault had the gumption to take responsibility for his failure by committing suicide.
Go ahead and advocate that view at an Artists' gathering and see how far you get. Although the nearest one might be a fair bit away from where you live.
Uh...sightseeing is for people to see beautiful things. The word "industrial" when used outside the context of Art and Artists is a dead giveaway. I guess you didn't get the memo.
PS Using a racially tinged term like "sheeple" to refer to your fellow citizens is pretty bad.
The problem is that Microsoft, having been caught red-handed astroturfing before, has pissed in the pool. ANYONE who posts a positive review of MS is going to be suspect, honest or not. I have the same problem with people supporting China online - the Chinese government pays people 50 cents per message to dispute contrary opinions and post positive thoughts about China - thus making people who honestly support China appear like fakes. Sad but true.
And pirated copies of Windows XP, which is what Asia uses exclusively. I remember showing one fellow Firefox, he was flabbergasted that something could replace IE. It had never entered his brain that anyone could use anything other than IE6 that came with the system.
*sigh*. The school of thought is called "humanism" and the debate between humanism and Christianity is centuries old. The arguments here have all been made before, by great thinkers. Only these great thinkers did not engage in hostile fundamentalist atheism for the most part. Anyone who received a university education (used to be) exposed to such ideas, but these days they're out of fashion, and ignorance results. And bigotry comes from ignorance.
Funny that the kids shouldn't be allowed to decide what they like, but have their viewing habits carefully censored to ensure that they are not exposed to subversive content.
And unsurprising about the intolerance shown, too. Ignorance and bigotry go together like peanut butter and jelly.
I repeat: how often does this happen in the wild, compared to other means of exploitation?
I didn't say random people, I was specifically referring to respected journalists, all of whom are evidently in love with twitter and the instant ego gratification it provides. It's like slot machines for widowed grannies.
So your point is that you isolated yourself in an ivory tower surrounded by people who think like you do, and you're shocked and disgusted at what the great unwashed masses are doing? How can you live in such a small world? What are you, a journalist?
Well, until this discussion, I honestly didn't know there was a difference between FTPS and SFTP. I just sort of mentally lumped it together with "secure FTP that never freaking works as advertised, especially under Windows."
How often does that actually happen, in this day and age? Compared to the accounts that are comprimised by other means? I mean, every time there's a security conference someone makes a point of capturing FTP and POP3 passwords sent in the clear, but how often does this happen in the wild? Even if you were able to comprimise some big-time router on the internet somewhere, it seems like you'd have larger fish to fry than intercepting the FTP passwords for Flo's Florist (100 unique visitors per day!)
FYI, Prince changed his name to that silly symbol because his record company claimed rights to the name "Prince". BTW Prince isn't some made-up stage name, his mother named him that at birth.
You'd be shocked at how often respected professional journalists do the same thing.
My biggest fear is that the mainstream media will not die, but continue. "Respected" journalists quoting Twitter on-air, as if everyone reads it and is familiar with it - and more to the point, that it's a credible source? Die faster, please.
BTW, thanks for the bigoted stab at Utah. No I'm not from there, but attributing characteristics to someone based on where they're from was exactly what I was taught was wrong. Maybe you're from Russia where there are no freedoms.
Well, if I'm signing up for a forum or some free email account somewhere, I don't need industrial-grade uncrackable password. Actually, if my password gets cracked, big deal. It's just come crappy account somewhere. I just love signing up for something because I want to ask a question, and the system refuses my password because it doesn't have two symbols, a mix of uppercase and lowercase, and two different numbers. Oh, Jip*4&nv4X isn't a good password, nix on that! And by the way, here's a brand-new illegible CAPTCHA for you for every new password try, only barely readable by native speakers of English. Anyone else from any other culture who doesn't use the 52 Roman letters, you're out of luck.
When I was 15, I was in the 8th grade and a lot of girls didn't have breasts yet. I barely had hair on my balls at that point, and having sex with a girl was something far, far away. I remember me and a friend of mine used to shoplift condoms from K-Mart (repressed sexuality expressing itself the only way we knew how) and he gave some to the coolest kid in school. I saw him later that day showing them off to his friends, as if he were some big guy who had sex so often that he needed a 12-pack of condoms. This was in 1985 BTW. Please stop assuming that today's attitudes are somehow universal or have any relevance beyond the here and now.
Hint: he wasn't talking about the tool, he was talking about what people use the tool for. His opinions are credible because anyone who attacks the underage is considered despicable (well, for now anyway...just wait until the "it's irresponsible and environment-destroying to be a parent" attitude gathers even more steam than it has already) and he's saying something that nobody is allowed to say.