OK, I just clicked on bing.com and got a page, then typed in my search in English, click "only English" and search, and I get taken to a page of Chinese search results. Did I mention my IP is in the PRC? I fucking hate idiot web pages that try to guess who I am, and I even more hate web pages with no English option. A whole page with nothing on it to say "click here for relief" except for sign up for an account, which I'm damned if I'll do just to complete a web search.
Oh, and instead of searching for what I typed in, it "helpfully" translated it to Chinese and searched for that instead. Conclusion: bing sucks, it's totally unusable - I'd rather use baidu. My ¥0.01.
The Russians *wanted* to change. The Chinese are quite happy with their government. Moreover, the government has successfully combined: itself, the nation of China, and the Han race into one little package, and to criticize one is to criticize them all. And they don't take kindly to criticism, especially accurate criticism.
How utterly typical. No page for the company that makes the product, oh no, it's not notorious enough. But put out a video game, and that video game has its own dedicated page, with photos, instructions, links, and everything.
You know, there are other search engines other than google out there. They've got an official site. However, as a fly-by-night Chinese manufacturer, they wouldn't meet Wikipedia's notability standards. It took me all of 5 seconds to locate the information. Google has a huge bias against dual-language sites, and a huge hard-on for Wikipedia. I'm reminded of the ignorant Jedi librarian who said if it didn't exist in their index, there was no possibly of it existing in reality.
I don't know...I've sourced a lot of products from China, and this looks like a typical shoddy product from a fly-by-night shanzhai manufacturer. That, combined with the rampant disrespect for IPR by including ROM files - well, just don't be surprised when your nice product breaks mysteriously after 3-6 months. Or it gives you an electric shock, or the buttons fall off, or your fingertips turn green from the unsuitable plastic on the buttons.
How much do these go for? If someone wants a thousand or two, I could get an order together. I have a buddy down in Shenzhen who can make sure we don't get screwed by the shanzhai manufacturer.
Please stop assuming that your culture and values are universal. There are a diversity of people in this world who do not think the same way as you, and this doesn't make them stupid, nor idiots.
It's a good thing that only America has these problems. Let's all blame the soldiers - after all, that worked so well after Vietnam.
We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too,
But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;
An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints,
Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints; ..........While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, fall be'ind," ..........But it's "Please to walk in front, sir," when there's trouble in the wind - ..........There's trouble in the wind, my boys, there's trouble in the wind, ..........O it's "Please to walk in front, sir," when there's trouble in the wind.
My wife worked for the chief of the psychiatric department at the Brentwood VA in California during the early 80s. From the mid-70s to mid-80s there was a strong 'patients rights' movement generated by the mental health advocate community. Although there were many facets to this movement, one of the primary elements was a re-examination of the criteria for institutionalizing patients.
The point of contention revolved around interpretations of what it meant for a patient to be able to 'take care of himself.' Prior to this the interpretation was rather strict; if a patient could not earn an income and provide shelter and food for himself (and if there were no family members able to care for him), then he would normally be institutionalized.
Begining in the late 70s, the advocacy groups began to demand a lower standard. As long as a patient could merely wash and dress himself, and could perform the mechanical tasks of shovelling food into his mouth, then every effort was made to force the institutions to release them. My wife's boss spent many months both in court and testifying before the state assembly trying to stop this lowering of standards. Unsuccessfully.
Predictably, most of the newly discharged patients were unable to take care of themselves in any meaningful sense of the word, and became the homeless people on the street. It's no coincidence that the decline in California's mental health insitution population closely matched the sharp increase of homeless (in California, at least) during the same period. In fact, for about two years, my wife literally was on a first name basis with every homeless person we ran across in the Westwood/Santa Monica area. They were all former patients who had been 'sprung' from the VA by well meaning advocate groups who then simply walked away and left these guys hanging.
Reagan was not involved in this movement, nor was he a symptom or symbolic of it. Quite the contrary. The people who 'liberated' the inmates tended to be on the opposite end of the political spectum. In fact, it was the ACLU who provided legal representation to force the VA to release these patients.
An example of Koko the gorilla doing comes from Penny Patterson's dissertation. Koko took the signs for 'apple' and 'drink' and formed a single compound sign for 'apple juice'
The plural of anecdote is not data. The 'research' done on Koko was nothing but grant-draining. Anyone can teach an ape to copy - we even have a specific word in our language to describe this.
Wow! Frotz! An openly racist troll, modded +5 Insightful on Slashdot! You, sir, have my admiration. Let pak9rabid be enshrined in this year's top 10 eye-popping comments.
Just an attempt to repair his terrible reputation by giving away money he can never spend anyway. It worked for Carnegie and Rockefeller, men who were truly evil in amassing their fortunes. Gates is just more self-centered, he wants to get all of the benefit now instead of founding a dynasty like other robber barons.
Because most people are simplistic, and have trouble with multiple levels of meaning.
I'd go with an alternative conclusion: you're not nearly the clever writer you think you are, and nobody but you and your little friends intuitively grasp your little layers of meaning. Thus, you give up because it's "too hard" and write crap instead. Been there, done that.
I should have been in a non-profit. Here's how it works:
Found a non-profit.
Pay yourself a huge salary.
Profit!
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If anyone criticizes you, get up on the cross and say how they're depriving the orphans, or the dolphins, or whatever. You'll have a lot of sympathetic reporters in the mainstream media to back you up, especially if you back political causes that the media's groupthink agrees with. You can even sue the government, and as a condition of the settlement, they'll be required to fund your organization! Sorry to be captain bringdown here, but I've been living in an openly corrupt country for several years now, and my bullshit detector is highly attuned (if it wasn't, I would have been screwed over in business like so many of my colleagues; I'm a Darwinian survivor by adaptation). There are even people who insist that non-profits are non-political, and something like the Red Cross cannot possibly pursue two objectives at once.
How about an interactive map of Jonestown? That would be awesome.
PS you seem to complain about development of Guyana, and yet you yourself have initiated a project that will undoubtedly result in more development opportunities.
So...that's why the Germans drove for Moscow? Liberate all the reichsvolk over the Don?
The Nazis weren't terrorists, they were an elected government with a regular uniformed army. The Germans lost the war and we still don't refer to them as terrorists. You're arguing against yourself, and losing.
Factory workers? In the USA? You do know that around 30 years ago, manufacturing packed up and left for overseas? And as for the jibe at the military, today's soldier is a trained professional just like a network engineer. The days of conscripted bullet stoppers ceased over 30 years ago with the repeal of the draft. You might want to try updating your corrosive hate data points, they work better that way.
So...the Soviets defeated the Nazis by controlling the semiotics of the situation? Napoleon won because he could control what the Austrian press told its readers? Come on man, that stuff doesn't fly in the real world.
It seems rather dangerous being the world's oldest blogger. There has been a 100% fatality rate among previous holders of the title. I, for one, call for UK's equivalent of OSHA to investigate the safety of working conditions - something's fishy here. In addition, the Commission for Racial Equality needs to investigate rampant ageism and see that the perpetrators are appropriately punished, hopefully by public humiliation. Remember, thieves being paraded in public is barbaric, but it's OK to do to people whom society despises.
Yeah well if he had done the rational thing, then he wouldn't have ruined newspaper classifieds, and we wouldn't be losing so many quality journalists to layoffs. By his megalomaniac need to control, the law of unintended consequences kicked in, and now we're losing the very people who we need the most as a society.
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Oh, and instead of searching for what I typed in, it "helpfully" translated it to Chinese and searched for that instead. Conclusion: bing sucks, it's totally unusable - I'd rather use baidu. My ¥0.01.
Yeah, but that doesn't change for a second the fact that the SAT and ACT are racist.
The Russians *wanted* to change. The Chinese are quite happy with their government. Moreover, the government has successfully combined: itself, the nation of China, and the Han race into one little package, and to criticize one is to criticize them all. And they don't take kindly to criticism, especially accurate criticism.
How utterly typical. No page for the company that makes the product, oh no, it's not notorious enough. But put out a video game, and that video game has its own dedicated page, with photos, instructions, links, and everything.
You know, there are other search engines other than google out there. They've got an official site. However, as a fly-by-night Chinese manufacturer, they wouldn't meet Wikipedia's notability standards. It took me all of 5 seconds to locate the information. Google has a huge bias against dual-language sites, and a huge hard-on for Wikipedia. I'm reminded of the ignorant Jedi librarian who said if it didn't exist in their index, there was no possibly of it existing in reality.
I don't know...I've sourced a lot of products from China, and this looks like a typical shoddy product from a fly-by-night shanzhai manufacturer. That, combined with the rampant disrespect for IPR by including ROM files - well, just don't be surprised when your nice product breaks mysteriously after 3-6 months. Or it gives you an electric shock, or the buttons fall off, or your fingertips turn green from the unsuitable plastic on the buttons.
How much do these go for? If someone wants a thousand or two, I could get an order together. I have a buddy down in Shenzhen who can make sure we don't get screwed by the shanzhai manufacturer.
Please stop assuming that your culture and values are universal. There are a diversity of people in this world who do not think the same way as you, and this doesn't make them stupid, nor idiots.
We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too,
..........While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, fall be'ind,"
..........But it's "Please to walk in front, sir," when there's trouble in the wind -
..........There's trouble in the wind, my boys, there's trouble in the wind,
..........O it's "Please to walk in front, sir," when there's trouble in the wind.
But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;
An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints,
Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints;
My wife worked for the chief of the psychiatric department at the Brentwood VA in California during the early 80s. From the mid-70s to mid-80s there was a strong 'patients rights' movement generated by the mental health advocate community. Although there were many facets to this movement, one of the primary elements was a re-examination of the criteria for institutionalizing patients. The point of contention revolved around interpretations of what it meant for a patient to be able to 'take care of himself.' Prior to this the interpretation was rather strict; if a patient could not earn an income and provide shelter and food for himself (and if there were no family members able to care for him), then he would normally be institutionalized. Begining in the late 70s, the advocacy groups began to demand a lower standard. As long as a patient could merely wash and dress himself, and could perform the mechanical tasks of shovelling food into his mouth, then every effort was made to force the institutions to release them. My wife's boss spent many months both in court and testifying before the state assembly trying to stop this lowering of standards. Unsuccessfully. Predictably, most of the newly discharged patients were unable to take care of themselves in any meaningful sense of the word, and became the homeless people on the street. It's no coincidence that the decline in California's mental health insitution population closely matched the sharp increase of homeless (in California, at least) during the same period. In fact, for about two years, my wife literally was on a first name basis with every homeless person we ran across in the Westwood/Santa Monica area. They were all former patients who had been 'sprung' from the VA by well meaning advocate groups who then simply walked away and left these guys hanging. Reagan was not involved in this movement, nor was he a symptom or symbolic of it. Quite the contrary. The people who 'liberated' the inmates tended to be on the opposite end of the political spectum. In fact, it was the ACLU who provided legal representation to force the VA to release these patients.
You mean Windows still has cruft from Win95 included in the Windows 7 core? How horrifying.
The plural of anecdote is not data. The 'research' done on Koko was nothing but grant-draining. Anyone can teach an ape to copy - we even have a specific word in our language to describe this.
Yeah, except that statement isn't racist. Sotomayor's statement is quite openly racist, which is very troubling.
Wow! Frotz! An openly racist troll, modded +5 Insightful on Slashdot! You, sir, have my admiration. Let pak9rabid be enshrined in this year's top 10 eye-popping comments.
Just an attempt to repair his terrible reputation by giving away money he can never spend anyway. It worked for Carnegie and Rockefeller, men who were truly evil in amassing their fortunes. Gates is just more self-centered, he wants to get all of the benefit now instead of founding a dynasty like other robber barons.
I'd go with an alternative conclusion: you're not nearly the clever writer you think you are, and nobody but you and your little friends intuitively grasp your little layers of meaning. Thus, you give up because it's "too hard" and write crap instead. Been there, done that.
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If anyone criticizes you, get up on the cross and say how they're depriving the orphans, or the dolphins, or whatever. You'll have a lot of sympathetic reporters in the mainstream media to back you up, especially if you back political causes that the media's groupthink agrees with. You can even sue the government, and as a condition of the settlement, they'll be required to fund your organization! Sorry to be captain bringdown here, but I've been living in an openly corrupt country for several years now, and my bullshit detector is highly attuned (if it wasn't, I would have been screwed over in business like so many of my colleagues; I'm a Darwinian survivor by adaptation). There are even people who insist that non-profits are non-political, and something like the Red Cross cannot possibly pursue two objectives at once.
PS you seem to complain about development of Guyana, and yet you yourself have initiated a project that will undoubtedly result in more development opportunities.
The Nazis weren't terrorists, they were an elected government with a regular uniformed army. The Germans lost the war and we still don't refer to them as terrorists. You're arguing against yourself, and losing.
Factory workers? In the USA? You do know that around 30 years ago, manufacturing packed up and left for overseas? And as for the jibe at the military, today's soldier is a trained professional just like a network engineer. The days of conscripted bullet stoppers ceased over 30 years ago with the repeal of the draft. You might want to try updating your corrosive hate data points, they work better that way.
"We are not fighting so that you will offer us something. We are fighting to eliminate you."
--Hussein Massawi, Hezbollah leader
So...the Soviets defeated the Nazis by controlling the semiotics of the situation? Napoleon won because he could control what the Austrian press told its readers? Come on man, that stuff doesn't fly in the real world.
Big difference between mature industries like manufacturing and industries still in the "bridge collapse" phase, i.e. software.
It seems rather dangerous being the world's oldest blogger. There has been a 100% fatality rate among previous holders of the title. I, for one, call for UK's equivalent of OSHA to investigate the safety of working conditions - something's fishy here. In addition, the Commission for Racial Equality needs to investigate rampant ageism and see that the perpetrators are appropriately punished, hopefully by public humiliation. Remember, thieves being paraded in public is barbaric, but it's OK to do to people whom society despises.
"responsible journalism"! Ha ha, is that one of those oxymorons like "military intelligence" or "jumbo shrimp"?
Yeah well if he had done the rational thing, then he wouldn't have ruined newspaper classifieds, and we wouldn't be losing so many quality journalists to layoffs. By his megalomaniac need to control, the law of unintended consequences kicked in, and now we're losing the very people who we need the most as a society.