At least then they could take proper handwritten notes in class, and be able to quickly search them later. Not much more expensive either (although I guess buying the domestic brand could have been a goal).
Not only that, but real names will allow the mob to chase and shame you on facebook and linkedin, potentially ruining you for saying things that the mob doesn't like. I get voted down often on NPR for making the case that Affirmative Action hurts Asian American students, and have been banned from a section of that site recently for trying to point out the flawed narrative underlying the Zimmerman coverage.
It's so very easy for people to shout racist (for the left) or socialist (right) or whatever stupid label, and just try to silence you with shame. I firmly believe that an honorable person would agree that it is better to let a thousand guilty men go free than to condemn an innocent, but it seems these sites that demand real names would rather sacrifice as many innocents as needed in order to eliminate the guilty.
You know, I bet if I wrote an ebook guide on how to unlock your front door with your house key, it would sell a few. If it takes me 5 minutes to knock one of these guides out, and I can get a handful of 99 cent downloads a year on each of them, I can make a pretty nice living. Oh crap nobody steal my ideal now.
You're thinking of Pat Buchanan, and only in the context of the Florida electorate. A Nader vote in California doesn't help the GOP, nor does a Nader vote in Texas help the Dems. Always ALWAYS take the electoral college into account, and stop fearing irrationally.
WRONG. If you didn't live in Florida, which by the way was a swing state, your voting for Nader COULD NOT have affected the outcome. You make the mistake of assuming that the popular vote mattered. What mattered was the state vote and the electoral college votes that came with it.
It is a despicable lie to claim that Nader voters around the country were to blame, doubly so that the Democratic Party sycophants have modded this ill-reasoned comment to +5.
You know what else is no worse than Fox News? Fox News! Imagine someone on Slashdot getting modded up for defending it with the "at least it's not worse than X" reasoning.
Someone's house in the way, and won't sell for sentimental reasons. What to do? Build around it and sacrifice top speed and the entire point of a hyperloop? Plan another route and possibly meeting another no-sell? Forcibly relocate people like in China?
Well, I guess this is as good a time as any to remind you guys that 5% popular vote for any Presidential candidate gives his/her party total ballot access, federal funds, and most importantly a legitimate voice that no media outlet can ignore without discrediting itself. Due to its popularity, the Libertarian party is the easiest to take across this hurdle, but an effort to organize a 5% vote for any 3rd party can work just as well. It doesn't even matter if you disagree with the party, anything that disrupts the celebrity-focused and soundbite-based political environment will be to your benefit.
Remember that the winner takes all electoral college system makes your vote in a non-battleground state absolutely worthless. Your deep red/deep blue state is staying that color with or without you. Invest your vote instead into something worthwhile.
Go ahead and make a 14" form factor laptop, and put in a 12" 800x600 screen (blacken the surrounding bezel so it doesn't look like ass), install a VIA board and cpu and modify the BIOS so that it reports an i5, while you're in there also make it report 8GB RAM instead of the 2GB that's actually in there, then solder a 64GB USB drive inside because, face it, no customer who cheaps out this much actually uses the 500GB advertised capacity anyway. And if the entire thing feels too good in your hand, put in some metal weights in the extra space you have in there to make it more realistic, because quality things have a certain density, and you also don't want to draw suspicions for being the lightest 14" i5 laptop in the world. Well, at least not until that injection mold for the Sony replica is finished. And of course never sign contracts or NDAs, who leaves paper trails for these things?
Personal selfishness makes sense for personal risks/threats. Extra-group risks/threats necessitate interpersonal cooperation while rationalizing own-group selfishness. Extra-tribal risks/threats necessitate inter-group cooperation while rationalizing own-tribe selfishness. Extra-regional risks/threats necessitate inter-tribal cooperation while rationalizing own-region selfishness. Extra-global/extra-terrestrial risks/threats necessitate international cooperation while rationalizing own-planet selfishness. and so on and so forth...
None of that really pits the concept of selfishness against cooperation, since all we do is exchange a lower level of selfishness for a higher level one, and cooperate one level below the level of selfishness required to mitigate the risk or to meet the threat. Selfishness and cooperation therefor go hand in hand as we attempt to surmount broader risks and threats.
I don't know why submitter brought up politics (maybe to softly troll), it could just as well be that the differences between political stances lie not so much in whether one rejects selfishness in favor of cooperation or vice versa, but more so in the way different mindsets prioritize various risks/threats into different levels.
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Technology giveth, and politics taketh away.
iPad has palm rejection?
At least then they could take proper handwritten notes in class, and be able to quickly search them later. Not much more expensive either (although I guess buying the domestic brand could have been a goal).
The practical value does.
I'm guessing it's here so when /. decides to respect Manning's wish and begins to refer to (former) him as her, there won't be a huge WTF IS GOING ON
Not only that, but real names will allow the mob to chase and shame you on facebook and linkedin, potentially ruining you for saying things that the mob doesn't like. I get voted down often on NPR for making the case that Affirmative Action hurts Asian American students, and have been banned from a section of that site recently for trying to point out the flawed narrative underlying the Zimmerman coverage.
It's so very easy for people to shout racist (for the left) or socialist (right) or whatever stupid label, and just try to silence you with shame. I firmly believe that an honorable person would agree that it is better to let a thousand guilty men go free than to condemn an innocent, but it seems these sites that demand real names would rather sacrifice as many innocents as needed in order to eliminate the guilty.
You know, I bet if I wrote an ebook guide on how to unlock your front door with your house key, it would sell a few. If it takes me 5 minutes to knock one of these guides out, and I can get a handful of 99 cent downloads a year on each of them, I can make a pretty nice living. Oh crap nobody steal my ideal now.
Some people think if it isn't altruistic, then it must be evil and exploitative.
The concept of win-win just doesn't register.
Please try to run smelters on PV, build cars and planes on wind.
Renewables advocates always forget industry when poo-pooing nuclear.
or just endless forks of each other, never truly heartfelt, never truly satisfying?
The DoD just finished moving the UFOs to another location.
I wish scores went up to 6
You're thinking of Pat Buchanan, and only in the context of the Florida electorate.
A Nader vote in California doesn't help the GOP, nor does a Nader vote in Texas help the Dems. Always ALWAYS take the electoral college into account, and stop fearing irrationally.
WRONG. If you didn't live in Florida, which by the way was a swing state, your voting for Nader COULD NOT have affected the outcome. You make the mistake of assuming that the popular vote mattered. What mattered was the state vote and the electoral college votes that came with it.
It is a despicable lie to claim that Nader voters around the country were to blame, doubly so that the Democratic Party sycophants have modded this ill-reasoned comment to +5.
Is the transistor terrible because some Americans created it?
And if you like what transistors do, you must be an American shill?
More like if VOA melded with Fox News.
RT is biased, but it's no worse than Fox News
You know what else is no worse than Fox News? Fox News!
Imagine someone on Slashdot getting modded up for defending it with the "at least it's not worse than X" reasoning.
Is this why you (and those who modded you up) are more comfortable with Fox News than with other outlets?
Their bias is, after all, more outright.
Tut tut, now, "so what, X does it too" is not an argument.
Someone's house in the way, and won't sell for sentimental reasons. What to do? Build around it and sacrifice top speed and the entire point of a hyperloop? Plan another route and possibly meeting another no-sell? Forcibly relocate people like in China?
Well, I guess this is as good a time as any to remind you guys that 5% popular vote for any Presidential candidate gives his/her party total ballot access, federal funds, and most importantly a legitimate voice that no media outlet can ignore without discrediting itself. Due to its popularity, the Libertarian party is the easiest to take across this hurdle, but an effort to organize a 5% vote for any 3rd party can work just as well. It doesn't even matter if you disagree with the party, anything that disrupts the celebrity-focused and soundbite-based political environment will be to your benefit.
Remember that the winner takes all electoral college system makes your vote in a non-battleground state absolutely worthless. Your deep red/deep blue state is staying that color with or without you. Invest your vote instead into something worthwhile.
Go ahead and make a 14" form factor laptop, and put in a 12" 800x600 screen (blacken the surrounding bezel so it doesn't look like ass), install a VIA board and cpu and modify the BIOS so that it reports an i5, while you're in there also make it report 8GB RAM instead of the 2GB that's actually in there, then solder a 64GB USB drive inside because, face it, no customer who cheaps out this much actually uses the 500GB advertised capacity anyway. And if the entire thing feels too good in your hand, put in some metal weights in the extra space you have in there to make it more realistic, because quality things have a certain density, and you also don't want to draw suspicions for being the lightest 14" i5 laptop in the world. Well, at least not until that injection mold for the Sony replica is finished. And of course never sign contracts or NDAs, who leaves paper trails for these things?
Personal selfishness makes sense for personal risks/threats.
Extra-group risks/threats necessitate interpersonal cooperation while rationalizing own-group selfishness.
Extra-tribal risks/threats necessitate inter-group cooperation while rationalizing own-tribe selfishness.
Extra-regional risks/threats necessitate inter-tribal cooperation while rationalizing own-region selfishness.
Extra-global/extra-terrestrial risks/threats necessitate international cooperation while rationalizing own-planet selfishness.
and so on and so forth...
None of that really pits the concept of selfishness against cooperation, since all we do is exchange a lower level of selfishness for a higher level one, and cooperate one level below the level of selfishness required to mitigate the risk or to meet the threat. Selfishness and cooperation therefor go hand in hand as we attempt to surmount broader risks and threats.
I don't know why submitter brought up politics (maybe to softly troll), it could just as well be that the differences between political stances lie not so much in whether one rejects selfishness in favor of cooperation or vice versa, but more so in the way different mindsets prioritize various risks/threats into different levels.
(maybe this is all off-topic since IDRTFA)
no buy
Click magnet opportunity seeking board.