It is still listed as a hate site for one of those earlier incarnations, meaning that it is blocked in most workplaces, and no amount of petitioning these services leads to it being permanently unblocked.
That is what we face: either user-reported or bureaucrat-driven censorship.
Microsoft products generally perform well under the hood. The problem is the other stuff. The interface shows the signs of design by committee, and applications are configured in such a way as to manipulate us into using other Microsoft products and services. That is what we hate, because both of these interrupt the process of work, and replace it with the process of working-around-Microsoft.
Jobs are miserable and robotic; giving them to robots is a great justice.
Instead, we should pay people to achieve the goals of civilization: maintaining land and buildings, participating in cultural events, having families, curating farms, maybe even maintaining old documents and cumulative knowledge.
The cube-slave period of humanity will be seen as the bleakest, if only by the alien archeologists sifting through our rubble for clues as to how to avoid the potential demise of their own civilization.
The EU estimates that 2% of these stars are near planets with intelligent life, and of those, 40% are starving and will provide immigrants who can then be worked and taxed to pay for the social welfare system in Europe.
I would not mind this, if our leaders were also good and took only a reasonable amount. Instead, they take almost everything, and they seem to be some combination of incompetent, perverse, pathological, megalomaniac, and deranged.
A parasite takes for itself and gives back only as much as it has to; a leader serves the interest of the civilization, which he sees as bound up with his own success.
In the time since Microsoft has taken over Skype, the app has grown in size and appears to have slightly better picture/sound quality.
Now that they have free reign to add all the buzzword features, it will soon grow in size to one petabyte. At that point, Microsoft will make Windows a service within Skype, and run it all on Linux, completely confounding us all as their maniacal laughter rings out in the grottoes and caverns where they worship dark evil gods.
There seem to be a lot of these lately. Why is it that as companies get bigger, they get less competent, despite having hired more of the competent people?
Democracy is really good at promising welfare and benefits for individuals, because those vote in groups, but not for avoiding actual problems, which will inconvenience someone.
Think about what must be done to reduce air pollution: someone must give up their cars, or not get one, or have them be too expensive; somebody's imports must cost more because we limit sea shipping; someone will have their dreams dashed because they cannot engage in landfill-producing or energy-intensive practices to launch their interpretive dance studio or artisanal dildo factory.
Limiting our impact is anti-democratic because it is anti-individualistic. And no one wants to be the first to live in poverty without cars, cheap imports or foolish vainglorious hopes and dreams.
So, Facebook -- the arch-psychopath of crazy corporate social media slavery -- decides to up its image and engage in some Bono-style charity. Of course, just taking care of people hard hit by disaster would not be enough, nor would something as passé as funding libraries or symphonies... so they needed to go to the origin of all first-world pity, the third-world, and not just help them out, but bring them the internet! Because then they're customers as well. Ah.
And then the satellite blows up on the launchpad, as if God or nature decided that this act of self-serving hipster billionaire hubris just could not stand. Life has a sense of humor after all.
In every human endeavor, there is always a point, and then the 98% of everyone else chattering away trying to look clever with what they know about insurance and space flight. "Talking monkeys with car keys," indeed.
THE question of this endeavor is: what went wrong -- and how expensive is it to fix? Until it is known, doubt is going to hang over that program, despite the 27 previous launches that did not explode.
Holmes had indeed mastered the Silicon Valley game. Revered venture capitalists, such as Tim Draper and Steve Jurvetson, invested in her; Marc Andreessen called her the next Steve Jobs. She was plastered on the covers of magazines, featured on TV shows, and offered keynote-speaker slots at tech conferences. (Holmes spoke at Vanity Fair’s 2015 New Establishment Summit less than two weeks before Carreyrou’s first story appeared in the Journal.) In some ways, the near-universal adoration of Holmes reflected her extraordinary comportment. In others, however, it reflected the Valley’s own narcissism. Finally, it seemed, there was a female innovator who was indeed able to personify the Valley’s vision of itself—someone who was endeavoring to make the world a better place.
At that point, we should just call them what they are: celebrities. Sort of like how people expect spiritual and political advice from rock stars and movie actors.
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This site was once an anti-government screed and then an Osama bin Ladin fan site before becoming its current incarnation, a New Right/Alt Right blog.
It is still listed as a hate site for one of those earlier incarnations, meaning that it is blocked in most workplaces, and no amount of petitioning these services leads to it being permanently unblocked.
That is what we face: either user-reported or bureaucrat-driven censorship.
Microsoft products generally perform well under the hood. The problem is the other stuff. The interface shows the signs of design by committee, and applications are configured in such a way as to manipulate us into using other Microsoft products and services. That is what we hate, because both of these interrupt the process of work, and replace it with the process of working-around-Microsoft.
Jobs are miserable and robotic; giving them to robots is a great justice.
Instead, we should pay people to achieve the goals of civilization: maintaining land and buildings, participating in cultural events, having families, curating farms, maybe even maintaining old documents and cumulative knowledge.
The cube-slave period of humanity will be seen as the bleakest, if only by the alien archeologists sifting through our rubble for clues as to how to avoid the potential demise of their own civilization.
The EU estimates that 2% of these stars are near planets with intelligent life, and of those, 40% are starving and will provide immigrants who can then be worked and taxed to pay for the social welfare system in Europe.
The Good: if there are known threats that can be filtered, this is the most efficient level on which to do them.
The Bad: this will inevitably be extended to blocking torrent sites, Wikileaks and any web sites I administer.
The Ugly: it will create a false sense of security, "educating" users to be less educated about their machines.
http://www.wnd.com/2016/08/911...
People are fawning all over it. Of course, some cynics have struck back:
http://www.amerika.org/politic...
White women, sitting along, dissatisfied with their cubicle jobs...
What else could they do but agitate for power through political means?
I doubt that WHITE POWER means WHITE SUPREMACY, but even so, FEMINISM clearly means FEMALES FIRST, even if not FEMALE SUPREMACY.
Seen any on TV, in power, or getting press lately?
They're pretty much the fringe.
Oh. Not that kind of politically marginalized group.
Great contribution. An alt right blogger expanded on this:
http://www.amerika.org/science...
Which is the more realistic image? ...beats me, but the one on the left, I'd like to get her phone number.
So is socialism, but mob rule is also a failure. These are just false ways of ruling ourselves that do not work, but we are afraid to abandon.
What is best for Cuba? I do not know... but it is not socialist leaders, nor mob rule.
Sounds about right. But we need some form of leadership; what replaces the State?
I would not mind this, if our leaders were also good and took only a reasonable amount. Instead, they take almost everything, and they seem to be some combination of incompetent, perverse, pathological, megalomaniac, and deranged.
A parasite takes for itself and gives back only as much as it has to; a leader serves the interest of the civilization, which he sees as bound up with his own success.
Quantity: we need a new app!
Quality: let us improve the existing app!
I'd rather just improve IRC.
In the time since Microsoft has taken over Skype, the app has grown in size and appears to have slightly better picture/sound quality.
Now that they have free reign to add all the buzzword features, it will soon grow in size to one petabyte. At that point, Microsoft will make Windows a service within Skype, and run it all on Linux, completely confounding us all as their maniacal laughter rings out in the grottoes and caverns where they worship dark evil gods.
There seem to be a lot of these lately. Why is it that as companies get bigger, they get less competent, despite having hired more of the competent people?
He's a bug chaser.
Democracy is really good at promising welfare and benefits for individuals, because those vote in groups, but not for avoiding actual problems, which will inconvenience someone.
Think about what must be done to reduce air pollution: someone must give up their cars, or not get one, or have them be too expensive; somebody's imports must cost more because we limit sea shipping; someone will have their dreams dashed because they cannot engage in landfill-producing or energy-intensive practices to launch their interpretive dance studio or artisanal dildo factory.
Limiting our impact is anti-democratic because it is anti-individualistic. And no one wants to be the first to live in poverty without cars, cheap imports or foolish vainglorious hopes and dreams.
So, Facebook -- the arch-psychopath of crazy corporate social media slavery -- decides to up its image and engage in some Bono-style charity. Of course, just taking care of people hard hit by disaster would not be enough, nor would something as passé as funding libraries or symphonies... so they needed to go to the origin of all first-world pity, the third-world, and not just help them out, but bring them the internet! Because then they're customers as well. Ah.
And then the satellite blows up on the launchpad, as if God or nature decided that this act of self-serving hipster billionaire hubris just could not stand. Life has a sense of humor after all.
In every human endeavor, there is always a point, and then the 98% of everyone else chattering away trying to look clever with what they know about insurance and space flight. "Talking monkeys with car keys," indeed.
THE question of this endeavor is: what went wrong -- and how expensive is it to fix? Until it is known, doubt is going to hang over that program, despite the 27 previous launches that did not explode.
They may simply be small people with hairy feet who eat seven times a day.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news...
At least it's an organic offering from Fleshlight Inc.
There's a lot of "smart" (or perhaps clever) around today. Michael Crichton called it "thin intelligence."
At that point, we should just call them what they are: celebrities. Sort of like how people expect spiritual and political advice from rock stars and movie actors.