shouldn't we shut these non-essential websites down until they can operate safely?
These are large and extremely profitable businesses. Here in the US, that makes them essential. These are the primary characteristics of essential businesses.
I can't think of the last time that a business of this size, which was solvent, was shut down for any reason.
Paternity leave applies to a father, whether or not he is married. Just as maternity leave applies to a mother, whether or not she is married. So while a single person might be less likely to have children, the premise is still the same that neither gender would have an advantage.
Now... I guess you're pointing out here that a single father is likely likely to be involved with his children's upbringing than a single mother, and so would be less likely to take the leave. That's probably true. But that's another thing which should probably change, and giving him the opportunity to be involved in that upbringing is one part of that.
Personally, I don't think that encouraging good parenting should be up to the employer. I doubt that the leave is forced, but that's kind of an interesting idea. I can see some benefits and drawbacks to doing it that way.
I'm curious about the eight additional weeks for physical recovery. I can certainly picture it taking eight weeks to recover physically, at least in some cases with more complicated births, but that's not what we're talking about here. Maybe the first twelve weeks weren't set aside for physical recovery, but that's what happens anyway during that period. So now we're up to twenty weeks, and that's a long time.
And anyway, if something did go horribly wrong during pregnancy wouldn't that be covered by long-term disability? Why would a separate period for physical recovery be necessary?
Don't use the term conservatives here. It's inaccurate, and it makes enemies of a lot of people unnecessarily. Say, Trump supporters, or Trumpettes, or Trumpeters, or... you get the idea. Most people who support Trump and his war on American values have conservative leanings, but this is not what conservatism is about and it is never a good idea to stereotype like that.
We have armies of unjaded, fresh, young voters who vote
No, young people vote consistently less than any other group. By a very large margin. Half as many people in the 18-29 age range voted, by percentage, as people in the 60+ group in the 2016 election.
This is the same argument people used to use with bump stocks, only it's an even weaker argument here. Bump stocks were and are a largely mature technology, 3D printing is still ramping up. Whether it's true or not that 3D printed guns are currently nonthreatening, they will be eventually.
I'm reminded of the woman who likewise killed herself and tried to kill others, when she was likewise effectively fired from her job making Youtube videos without appeal or recourse. She didn't even get an explanation, I don't know if that's the case for this guy.
The "gig economy" involves monopolistic control for the gatekeepers, and zero rights for employees. We can probably expect more of this, barring some regulatory effort.
The mechanism by which most cancers form, aside from direct mutagens like radiation, is repeated irritation/inflammation. This is how asbestos works, for example - a little piece gets stuck in your lungs and you have a little spot that's just perpetually inflamed. Eventually the cell churn will result in cancer. This is also why cervical cancer is particularly common, for another example, there are two different types of skin cells there and a lot of turnover between those cells for that reason.
This doesn't apply to exercise though, since muscle cells don't proliferate in the same way. So no worries about cycling, swimming, etc. You have fun.
"Marijuana is the safest illicit drug" most would readily agree with you
Not me. The Global Drug Survey attempts to quantify this by a few factors every year, and magic mushrooms and ecstasy are safer than marijuana by most of those factors. If you look at severity of dependence, cannabis is in the middle - not even close to the bottom.
... What? Do you not know what the DNC is? It stands for Democratic National Committee. It's basically a fundraising and support organization for Democratic political candidates. It is not and has never been the US government, it is not the Democratic Party, it has no influence over politicians, it's leaders are not politicians (though many of them have been in the past).
There's a comparable organization, the RNC, which is also not the US government, and not the Republican Party, etc. These are support organizations.
Zuckerberg is way less exposed than Murdoch. You seem to be conflating two separate stories here - this one, the one mentioned in the article, does not involve Facebook renting out anything. The point of the article is that Facebook facilitates self-reinforcing monocultures, which lead to racial violence. In other words, Zuckerberg can "hide" behind the fact that these people are independently using Facebook in a negative way, one which Facebook certainly does not endorse and possibly did not anticipate.
Contrast with Murdoch who hired and pays for all of the scuzzbags who work for him, and who ultimately has editorial control.
Legally it's the EULA and not the DRM that prevents you from owning your media, and that practice is a larger problem that doesn't seem to be going anywhere either.
I don't know what the law actually says here, but there's a long tradition of owning media and rights attached to that ownership. It seems unlikely to me that a EULA could completely invalidate those rights. I know that EULAs try to do this, but that their enforcement status is ambiguous. Wikipedia calls their legal status "somewhat unclear."
I think the longer this stays uncertain, the more likely we are to wind up in a irreversible situation - one where EULAs are broadly accepted by the public and binding. Resistance to power grabs like this are mostly fueled by outrage, and that outrage fades as something becomes routine. The fatalism that you're preaching above doesn't help this situation at all.
I would also distinguish between subscription services (Netflix, Kindle Unlimited), and one-time "purchases" (Steam). Subscriptions come with no expectation of ownership, and so people accept the DRM as you point out above. This is not the same for Steam, regardless of the fact that you can now refund games. A purchase on Steam comes with an expectation of ownership. This second situation, purchasing, is what GOG is talking about and defending on their new website.
I did not watch the video. I searched for the phrase that you gave, and then read this accounting. He apparently was using the word "truth" as a metaphor for "retelling of events." As in "Comey's truth" is Comey's recounting of events, and that stands in opposition to "Trump's truth."
This is dumb and inaccurate, of course, but this is not an unfamiliar phrasing. People do use the word truth in this way sometimes.
I hadn't heard it so I looked up that quote, I don't think that's really very representative of the phenomenon. It seems that was just a poorly worded comment on Giuliani's part, intended to convey something different from how that sounds. It's not like "alternative facts."
There was a person in another forum who denigrated Youtube's effort at fact-checking videos (Youtube recently started publishing links to Wikipedia articles on climate change, next to videos skeptical about the existence of climate change) - this poster was claiming that fact checking was tantamount to silencing alternative viewpoints. It's... an interesting corruption of the notion of truth. This person was equating "being incorrect" with "having a different opinion."
The other person isn't explaining things well, but the problem with your argument is that you're taking two events, seeing correlation between those events, and assuming that the two events are related. This is not a safe assumption, no matter how much sense you might think it makes.
For example, the article that you linked gives another possibility: "we should give less-educated women more reasons — like educational and career opportunity — to postpone motherhood." In other words, this is a suggestion that the increase in single motherhood could stem from an decline in future prospects for poor women. Something which has presumably declined disproportionately for black women over that time period. (I don't know that this is true, but the argument depends on it.)
If you ever played Nintendo Land on the Wii U, you know it had a different sort of VR implementation - rather than strapping the display to your head, you treated it as a window to the virtual environment. This is such a better solution that the goggles thing: there's no barrier to getting into your game, you're not cut off from the world around you, so it's very easy to pick up and play and put down again when you need to. No motion sickness, no awkward controls (although those aren't strictly required for VR), no heavy system requirements.
When the Switch was announced with the same form-factor as the Wii U gamepad, this is the reason why I was excited.
Okay... that's not hard, they say right at the bottom of the paper that it was funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. In other words, government grants.
You all are dismissing survey results too quickly. A well-crafted survey can control for the kind of factors that people in this thread are just assuming the authors didn't consider, and randomized trials have their own drawbacks.Both methods are necessary to get the fullest picture of what works and what doesn't.
The Thruevision website says that it's a passive camera which operates in the 250 GHz range. That's infrared. No safety concerns, thankfully, and judging from the pictures no privacy concerns either. They're basically just like pictures from a visible-spectrum camera, only monochromatic and blurry. I'm not sure how this is supposed to be useful...
Does anyone know how this is supposed to work? Maybe a gun or a bomb or other large object would be colder than the rest of your body? So it would show up as a cold spot?
James Damore got in trouble because in between a complaint about Google corporate culture and a set of proposals to address that problem, he decided to insert his own little screed about all of the ways in which he thought women and men were different. It was poorly supported, inflammatory, and worst of all unnecessary. That middle section contributed nothing to his proposal.
However, if all that he had said in that middle section was, "Men and women think differently." he would not have gotten fired, his memo would not have created a shitstorm, and no one outside of Google would have ever heard of him. I'm going to be generous and say that your attempt to link these two things is forced.
I've had this happen to me with a hotel maid walking in, on multiple occasions. Technically they usually knock first, but there's not even a second between knocking and opening the door. It shouldn't happen, but it happens.
Totally deserving of execution though, killing people is the right solution to every problem.
Priorities? You mentioned two things there, one super easy: block all instances of "Alex Jones," and one super hard: block all malware. Even if what you said is true (it's not), that still would have nothing to do with priorities.
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shouldn't we shut these non-essential websites down until they can operate safely?
These are large and extremely profitable businesses. Here in the US, that makes them essential. These are the primary characteristics of essential businesses.
I can't think of the last time that a business of this size, which was solvent, was shut down for any reason.
Paternity leave applies to a father, whether or not he is married. Just as maternity leave applies to a mother, whether or not she is married. So while a single person might be less likely to have children, the premise is still the same that neither gender would have an advantage.
Now... I guess you're pointing out here that a single father is likely likely to be involved with his children's upbringing than a single mother, and so would be less likely to take the leave. That's probably true. But that's another thing which should probably change, and giving him the opportunity to be involved in that upbringing is one part of that.
Personally, I don't think that encouraging good parenting should be up to the employer. I doubt that the leave is forced, but that's kind of an interesting idea. I can see some benefits and drawbacks to doing it that way.
Single men will have a big advantage.
This is part of the point of paternity leave. Since both parents are getting the same time off, there is no advantage.
I'm curious about the eight additional weeks for physical recovery. I can certainly picture it taking eight weeks to recover physically, at least in some cases with more complicated births, but that's not what we're talking about here. Maybe the first twelve weeks weren't set aside for physical recovery, but that's what happens anyway during that period. So now we're up to twenty weeks, and that's a long time.
And anyway, if something did go horribly wrong during pregnancy wouldn't that be covered by long-term disability? Why would a separate period for physical recovery be necessary?
Just not in the way many conservatives think.
Don't use the term conservatives here. It's inaccurate, and it makes enemies of a lot of people unnecessarily. Say, Trump supporters, or Trumpettes, or Trumpeters, or... you get the idea. Most people who support Trump and his war on American values have conservative leanings, but this is not what conservatism is about and it is never a good idea to stereotype like that.
We have armies of unjaded, fresh, young voters who vote
No, young people vote consistently less than any other group. By a very large margin. Half as many people in the 18-29 age range voted, by percentage, as people in the 60+ group in the 2016 election.
This is the same argument people used to use with bump stocks, only it's an even weaker argument here. Bump stocks were and are a largely mature technology, 3D printing is still ramping up. Whether it's true or not that 3D printed guns are currently nonthreatening, they will be eventually.
The Dragon Awards look like they're just another popularity contest. Why not the Nebulas? Anything wrong with those?
I'm reminded of the woman who likewise killed herself and tried to kill others, when she was likewise effectively fired from her job making Youtube videos without appeal or recourse. She didn't even get an explanation, I don't know if that's the case for this guy.
The "gig economy" involves monopolistic control for the gatekeepers, and zero rights for employees. We can probably expect more of this, barring some regulatory effort.
I'm a little surprised to hear they're not all journalists and comedians. I figured that's all that's Trump's twitter account was good for.
The mechanism by which most cancers form, aside from direct mutagens like radiation, is repeated irritation/inflammation. This is how asbestos works, for example - a little piece gets stuck in your lungs and you have a little spot that's just perpetually inflamed. Eventually the cell churn will result in cancer. This is also why cervical cancer is particularly common, for another example, there are two different types of skin cells there and a lot of turnover between those cells for that reason.
This doesn't apply to exercise though, since muscle cells don't proliferate in the same way. So no worries about cycling, swimming, etc. You have fun.
"Marijuana is the safest illicit drug" most would readily agree with you
Not me. The Global Drug Survey attempts to quantify this by a few factors every year, and magic mushrooms and ecstasy are safer than marijuana by most of those factors. If you look at severity of dependence, cannabis is in the middle - not even close to the bottom.
... What? Do you not know what the DNC is? It stands for Democratic National Committee. It's basically a fundraising and support organization for Democratic political candidates. It is not and has never been the US government, it is not the Democratic Party, it has no influence over politicians, it's leaders are not politicians (though many of them have been in the past).
There's a comparable organization, the RNC, which is also not the US government, and not the Republican Party, etc. These are support organizations.
Zuckerberg is way less exposed than Murdoch. You seem to be conflating two separate stories here - this one, the one mentioned in the article, does not involve Facebook renting out anything. The point of the article is that Facebook facilitates self-reinforcing monocultures, which lead to racial violence. In other words, Zuckerberg can "hide" behind the fact that these people are independently using Facebook in a negative way, one which Facebook certainly does not endorse and possibly did not anticipate.
Contrast with Murdoch who hired and pays for all of the scuzzbags who work for him, and who ultimately has editorial control.
Legally it's the EULA and not the DRM that prevents you from owning your media, and that practice is a larger problem that doesn't seem to be going anywhere either.
I don't know what the law actually says here, but there's a long tradition of owning media and rights attached to that ownership. It seems unlikely to me that a EULA could completely invalidate those rights. I know that EULAs try to do this, but that their enforcement status is ambiguous. Wikipedia calls their legal status "somewhat unclear."
I think the longer this stays uncertain, the more likely we are to wind up in a irreversible situation - one where EULAs are broadly accepted by the public and binding. Resistance to power grabs like this are mostly fueled by outrage, and that outrage fades as something becomes routine. The fatalism that you're preaching above doesn't help this situation at all.
I would also distinguish between subscription services (Netflix, Kindle Unlimited), and one-time "purchases" (Steam). Subscriptions come with no expectation of ownership, and so people accept the DRM as you point out above. This is not the same for Steam, regardless of the fact that you can now refund games. A purchase on Steam comes with an expectation of ownership. This second situation, purchasing, is what GOG is talking about and defending on their new website.
I did not watch the video. I searched for the phrase that you gave, and then read this accounting. He apparently was using the word "truth" as a metaphor for "retelling of events." As in "Comey's truth" is Comey's recounting of events, and that stands in opposition to "Trump's truth."
This is dumb and inaccurate, of course, but this is not an unfamiliar phrasing. People do use the word truth in this way sometimes.
I hadn't heard it so I looked up that quote, I don't think that's really very representative of the phenomenon. It seems that was just a poorly worded comment on Giuliani's part, intended to convey something different from how that sounds. It's not like "alternative facts."
There was a person in another forum who denigrated Youtube's effort at fact-checking videos (Youtube recently started publishing links to Wikipedia articles on climate change, next to videos skeptical about the existence of climate change) - this poster was claiming that fact checking was tantamount to silencing alternative viewpoints. It's... an interesting corruption of the notion of truth. This person was equating "being incorrect" with "having a different opinion."
The other person isn't explaining things well, but the problem with your argument is that you're taking two events, seeing correlation between those events, and assuming that the two events are related. This is not a safe assumption, no matter how much sense you might think it makes.
For example, the article that you linked gives another possibility: "we should give less-educated women more reasons — like educational and career opportunity — to postpone motherhood." In other words, this is a suggestion that the increase in single motherhood could stem from an decline in future prospects for poor women. Something which has presumably declined disproportionately for black women over that time period. (I don't know that this is true, but the argument depends on it.)
If you ever played Nintendo Land on the Wii U, you know it had a different sort of VR implementation - rather than strapping the display to your head, you treated it as a window to the virtual environment. This is such a better solution that the goggles thing: there's no barrier to getting into your game, you're not cut off from the world around you, so it's very easy to pick up and play and put down again when you need to. No motion sickness, no awkward controls (although those aren't strictly required for VR), no heavy system requirements.
When the Switch was announced with the same form-factor as the Wii U gamepad, this is the reason why I was excited.
Okay... that's not hard, they say right at the bottom of the paper that it was funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. In other words, government grants.
You all are dismissing survey results too quickly. A well-crafted survey can control for the kind of factors that people in this thread are just assuming the authors didn't consider, and randomized trials have their own drawbacks.Both methods are necessary to get the fullest picture of what works and what doesn't.
The Thruevision website says that it's a passive camera which operates in the 250 GHz range. That's infrared. No safety concerns, thankfully, and judging from the pictures no privacy concerns either. They're basically just like pictures from a visible-spectrum camera, only monochromatic and blurry. I'm not sure how this is supposed to be useful...
Does anyone know how this is supposed to work? Maybe a gun or a bomb or other large object would be colder than the rest of your body? So it would show up as a cold spot?
James Damore got in trouble because in between a complaint about Google corporate culture and a set of proposals to address that problem, he decided to insert his own little screed about all of the ways in which he thought women and men were different. It was poorly supported, inflammatory, and worst of all unnecessary. That middle section contributed nothing to his proposal.
However, if all that he had said in that middle section was, "Men and women think differently." he would not have gotten fired, his memo would not have created a shitstorm, and no one outside of Google would have ever heard of him. I'm going to be generous and say that your attempt to link these two things is forced.
I've had this happen to me with a hotel maid walking in, on multiple occasions. Technically they usually knock first, but there's not even a second between knocking and opening the door. It shouldn't happen, but it happens.
Totally deserving of execution though, killing people is the right solution to every problem.
Priorities? You mentioned two things there, one super easy: block all instances of "Alex Jones," and one super hard: block all malware. Even if what you said is true (it's not), that still would have nothing to do with priorities.