Isn't that like saying private individuals who use full disk encryption have a mental illness? There's not a lot to lose if they're wrong, but much to gain if they're right. I'd say preppers are not much more than boyscouts who happen to like reading the bad news in the papers.
Did you get the context? The last part of his post was a contrived absurdity made to further support the second-to-last part of his post. It was an example for pointing out the futility of doing superficial things to stop determined maniacs.
Gun bans won't stop determined killers just like liquid bans won't stop determined terrorists. Determined people will find a way, and the only people you affect are the law abiding ones.
a majority of Chinese who will go right along with anything the government wants to do, because the consider the Goverment practically a member of the family -- like a wise parent looking after them
Not if you are Chinese and speak to Chinese people outside of earshot of foreigners. Face, especially when outsiders are present, is important.
As for the logic of yet another "it's their culture" argument, well suppose for a moment you're right about the citizens' love and appreciation for government, can we accept that apathy over limitations on personal freedoms happens in the US as well? It's often said on/. that Americans are apathetic about censorship, yet Americans are lambasted as sheep/stupid, even boot-lickers of the encroaching police state, and "hey guys, chill out, political apathy is part of their American culture" is never offered as the enlightened explanation. I suspect the latter argument would never pass the bullshit test, either. The fact that opposite conclusions can be arrived at suggests there is a breakdown in reason.
He does make some sense if we think according to these protesters calling for the Mohammad movie producers to be punished. The protesters' reasoning is that if person A embarks on a provocative act, and person B escalates by responding violently, then person A is responsible for the consequences. Responsibility is placed on the source of the provocation rather than the source of the escalation. That logic tends to backfire.
I'm not sure anything will happen to the labor market unless you actually go further than what GGP states and make it illegal for someone to willingly work more than the regulated hours.
I'll bet many of them would be happier simply because then they could get a 2nd job and make 40% more income by continuing to work 8-10 hours a day, since 1) they're used to working that much, and 2) enjoyment of free time is dependent on quality rather than quantity (would you mope around for an extra 4 hours a day, or spend the weekend on your new boat?).
In the future, monitors will just be a thin ribbon of pixels. Hey buddy we have a really great 70" x 5" screen, but forget about that technical mumbo jumbo, it's 70 inches wide! Perfect for the living room!:D
The most important part is getting people to know you exist (and getting them to trust you). Now that Shapeways has an article on Forbes, everyone else, including you, is miles behind.
I don't think there will be massive employment loss. At most there will be a temporary dip if people can't catch up with the transition, but nothing permanent. I imagine global manufacturing will steadily transition from large companies employing thousands of people to individuals or small groups of individuals. As automation increases, more and more people will take up service roles like design and engineering. One person or a handful of people will make their living designing products for a niche of a few thousand customers, manufacturing with robots and 3D printers, kind of like YouTube but for things instead of videos. And just like YouTube, there will be people who get famous and rich overnight with a smart or sensational product, but most will get by with an average income like they do now. Of course large companies won't entirely disappear, but will decline as automation capability grows more sophisticated.
GGP fears these automated plants displacing mostly imaginary workers. Few people in the US are doing manufacturing assembly work, much less the trivial work required of these robots. If anything they will expand the demand for engineers, maintenance workers, and more importantly the secondary fields of trade and distribution. It will also lower the price of assembly line robots (assuming they're US-made). Add to that the additional tax revenue from an expanding economy. Addressing wage inequality is a largely political matter, which I assume would become more palatable to opponents/more achievable for proponents when the economy is going up rather than down. Well, this can get you there.
Is that like saying if Southern US states seceded and became some theocratically ruled Confederacy, the continent of North America would become a better place?
If slashdotters can support Obama, despite knowing full well that he's done some disagreeable things, in order to prevent Romney from taking power, then it is entirely rational and congruent for them to also support the US, despite knowing full well that it's done some disagreeable things, in order to prevent Russia/China/Saudi Arabia/etc from taking power.
This is true. If people were actually punished in the legal sense for accessing information blocked by the firewall there would be a ruckus. Not a huge one, but big enough that it keeps government from acting brashly. It's the sending of information, writing blogs on banned topics, weibo-ing controversial things, etc. that could get you in IRL trouble.
Perhaps in function, but not in essence. DRM has alternatives, there is no alternative to truth. The consequences of you not being able to watch Batman on your laptop is personal in scale, the consequences of not being informed is societal in scale. And even though this may be unpopular on/., I take the stance that content creators have at least some rights over the distribution of their creations, whereas governments have absolutely no rights over the distribution of truth.
GP is right in some respects though. Slashdot will nurture even the shittiest open source projects (Openmoko anyone?), and rarely dare print harsh truths about them. Imagine an article that told us Openmoko was destined to fail as it did. That article would have "called a duck a duck", but I can guarantee it would have been deemed FUD, astroturf, written by someone with a grudge, etc. Some of us have a higher expectation of Slashdot, because nerds are supposed to be more intelligent and thoughtful, and we are disappointed when its behavior doesn't rise above the fray.
To be fair, China was extremely paranoid in those decades after the war, as was everyone else, and concepts like "domino effect" and buffer zone were in the minds of every government that survived. You're right that there's a resurgence of nationalism with popular calls for military action, and plenty of hardliners who use "hegemony" as a curse word thrown at the US, but secretly wish for one of their one in East Asia. But understand that's not China acting in unison. There are factions just like anywhere else, with voices of reason that limit what the hardliners can accomplish. And I don't think this cold war will get hot either. Like the US-Soviet cold war, internal forces will dictate the winner and loser, and I'm quite certain that the democratic country will again have the advantage.
It seems like a good drive, and it's competitively priced against the current the Samsung 840 Pro. Though, the current generation of SSDs aren't much of an upgrade from the previous. 50k IOPS vs 90k IOPS isn't noticeable for 99.99% of people (and you're probably better off building RAM drives if that extra 40k IOPS makes a significant difference to you). And I think you're right, most people seem to be looking for SSD capacity instead of speed now, at least from the deals forum posts I've seen, and holding out for the magical 512GB @ $0.50/GB.
Because I imagine "geeky" can mean much more than that. A history buff who researches the traditional cooking methods and ingredients used by the pilgrims, and then sets out to replicate it with a wild turkey that he shoots and cleans would be doing it in a geeky way. A gardening buff who dries his own herbs and spices, and makes his stuffing from scratch with the leftover rosemary bread he baked last week would be doing it in a geeky way. And, of course, the science buff who levitates his turkey with magnets and blasts it with a high powered directed energy canon (dialed down for juiciness) would also be doing it in a geeky way.
Honestly though I'd rather prefer the garden geek's turkey, though it may be too late to plant your herbs now.
In what way is building on Palestinian land an act of violence? We can agree that it's wrong, and a transgression against sovereignty. But that's about it. It doesn't excuse violent attacks. Responding violently to acts of wrongful construction is NOT morally equivalent to responding violently to acts of violence.
No one has autonomous battlefield drones yet, and I highly doubt any military would rely on them, ever. Well.. unless it's a robot military after they gain sentience and create their own civilization, but then they would be as human as us.
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They should just call it Pattern Matching and Spatial Reasoning Quotient. "Intelligence" is too ambiguous a term.
None of them ARE, or none of them QUALIFIED?
Isn't that like saying private individuals who use full disk encryption have a mental illness? There's not a lot to lose if they're wrong, but much to gain if they're right. I'd say preppers are not much more than boyscouts who happen to like reading the bad news in the papers.
Did you get the context? The last part of his post was a contrived absurdity made to further support the second-to-last part of his post. It was an example for pointing out the futility of doing superficial things to stop determined maniacs.
Gun bans won't stop determined killers just like liquid bans won't stop determined terrorists. Determined people will find a way, and the only people you affect are the law abiding ones.
What about the woman who is about to be raped?
Just the opposite, I see it as a test for those who claim to be champions of the freedom of expression.
a majority of Chinese who will go right along with anything the government wants to do, because the consider the Goverment practically a member of the family -- like a wise parent looking after them
Not if you are Chinese and speak to Chinese people outside of earshot of foreigners. Face, especially when outsiders are present, is important.
As for the logic of yet another "it's their culture" argument, well suppose for a moment you're right about the citizens' love and appreciation for government, can we accept that apathy over limitations on personal freedoms happens in the US as well? It's often said on /. that Americans are apathetic about censorship, yet Americans are lambasted as sheep/stupid, even boot-lickers of the encroaching police state, and "hey guys, chill out, political apathy is part of their American culture" is never offered as the enlightened explanation. I suspect the latter argument would never pass the bullshit test, either. The fact that opposite conclusions can be arrived at suggests there is a breakdown in reason.
He does make some sense if we think according to these protesters calling for the Mohammad movie producers to be punished. The protesters' reasoning is that if person A embarks on a provocative act, and person B escalates by responding violently, then person A is responsible for the consequences. Responsibility is placed on the source of the provocation rather than the source of the escalation. That logic tends to backfire.
I'm not sure anything will happen to the labor market unless you actually go further than what GGP states and make it illegal for someone to willingly work more than the regulated hours.
I'll bet many of them would be happier simply because then they could get a 2nd job and make 40% more income by continuing to work 8-10 hours a day, since 1) they're used to working that much, and 2) enjoyment of free time is dependent on quality rather than quantity (would you mope around for an extra 4 hours a day, or spend the weekend on your new boat?).
In the future, monitors will just be a thin ribbon of pixels. :D
Hey buddy we have a really great 70" x 5" screen, but forget about that technical mumbo jumbo, it's 70 inches wide! Perfect for the living room!
The most important part is getting people to know you exist (and getting them to trust you). Now that Shapeways has an article on Forbes, everyone else, including you, is miles behind.
I don't think there will be massive employment loss. At most there will be a temporary dip if people can't catch up with the transition, but nothing permanent. I imagine global manufacturing will steadily transition from large companies employing thousands of people to individuals or small groups of individuals. As automation increases, more and more people will take up service roles like design and engineering. One person or a handful of people will make their living designing products for a niche of a few thousand customers, manufacturing with robots and 3D printers, kind of like YouTube but for things instead of videos. And just like YouTube, there will be people who get famous and rich overnight with a smart or sensational product, but most will get by with an average income like they do now. Of course large companies won't entirely disappear, but will decline as automation capability grows more sophisticated.
GGP fears these automated plants displacing mostly imaginary workers. Few people in the US are doing manufacturing assembly work, much less the trivial work required of these robots. If anything they will expand the demand for engineers, maintenance workers, and more importantly the secondary fields of trade and distribution. It will also lower the price of assembly line robots (assuming they're US-made). Add to that the additional tax revenue from an expanding economy. Addressing wage inequality is a largely political matter, which I assume would become more palatable to opponents/more achievable for proponents when the economy is going up rather than down. Well, this can get you there.
Is that like saying if Southern US states seceded and became some theocratically ruled Confederacy, the continent of North America would become a better place?
If slashdotters can support Obama, despite knowing full well that he's done some disagreeable things, in order to prevent Romney from taking power, then it is entirely rational and congruent for them to also support the US, despite knowing full well that it's done some disagreeable things, in order to prevent Russia/China/Saudi Arabia/etc from taking power.
What's the alternative, give it to Finland (the Ron Paul of the world)? You know what... that's not a bad idea
Here's a documentary from PBS which touches on the massive domestic spying, and talks about exactly what Assange said in the interview. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/spy-factory.html
This was broadcast in 2009.
Despite its faults, the US's willingness to accept introspection and self-criticism is hard to match.
This is true. If people were actually punished in the legal sense for accessing information blocked by the firewall there would be a ruckus. Not a huge one, but big enough that it keeps government from acting brashly. It's the sending of information, writing blogs on banned topics, weibo-ing controversial things, etc. that could get you in IRL trouble.
Perhaps in function, but not in essence. DRM has alternatives, there is no alternative to truth. The consequences of you not being able to watch Batman on your laptop is personal in scale, the consequences of not being informed is societal in scale. And even though this may be unpopular on /., I take the stance that content creators have at least some rights over the distribution of their creations, whereas governments have absolutely no rights over the distribution of truth.
GP is right in some respects though. Slashdot will nurture even the shittiest open source projects (Openmoko anyone?), and rarely dare print harsh truths about them. Imagine an article that told us Openmoko was destined to fail as it did. That article would have "called a duck a duck", but I can guarantee it would have been deemed FUD, astroturf, written by someone with a grudge, etc. Some of us have a higher expectation of Slashdot, because nerds are supposed to be more intelligent and thoughtful, and we are disappointed when its behavior doesn't rise above the fray.
To be fair, China was extremely paranoid in those decades after the war, as was everyone else, and concepts like "domino effect" and buffer zone were in the minds of every government that survived. You're right that there's a resurgence of nationalism with popular calls for military action, and plenty of hardliners who use "hegemony" as a curse word thrown at the US, but secretly wish for one of their one in East Asia. But understand that's not China acting in unison. There are factions just like anywhere else, with voices of reason that limit what the hardliners can accomplish. And I don't think this cold war will get hot either. Like the US-Soviet cold war, internal forces will dictate the winner and loser, and I'm quite certain that the democratic country will again have the advantage.
It seems like a good drive, and it's competitively priced against the current the Samsung 840 Pro. Though, the current generation of SSDs aren't much of an upgrade from the previous. 50k IOPS vs 90k IOPS isn't noticeable for 99.99% of people (and you're probably better off building RAM drives if that extra 40k IOPS makes a significant difference to you). And I think you're right, most people seem to be looking for SSD capacity instead of speed now, at least from the deals forum posts I've seen, and holding out for the magical 512GB @ $0.50/GB.
Because I imagine "geeky" can mean much more than that. A history buff who researches the traditional cooking methods and ingredients used by the pilgrims, and then sets out to replicate it with a wild turkey that he shoots and cleans would be doing it in a geeky way. A gardening buff who dries his own herbs and spices, and makes his stuffing from scratch with the leftover rosemary bread he baked last week would be doing it in a geeky way. And, of course, the science buff who levitates his turkey with magnets and blasts it with a high powered directed energy canon (dialed down for juiciness) would also be doing it in a geeky way.
Honestly though I'd rather prefer the garden geek's turkey, though it may be too late to plant your herbs now.
In what way is building on Palestinian land an act of violence? We can agree that it's wrong, and a transgression against sovereignty. But that's about it. It doesn't excuse violent attacks. Responding violently to acts of wrongful construction is NOT morally equivalent to responding violently to acts of violence.
No one has autonomous battlefield drones yet, and I highly doubt any military would rely on them, ever. Well.. unless it's a robot military after they gain sentience and create their own civilization, but then they would be as human as us.