I think most of the people in DC passed Woefully ignorant sometime in the mid 70's. They leapt over "Maliciously ignorant" in 2001-2002. Now they're exploring the uncharted territory of the Ignorance Singularity. Most of these people are at the "magic smoke" level of technological comprehension, and any attempt to reconcile them to reality is met with nothing but empty-headed hostility.
Yeah. Like that's ACTUALLY going to happen. They can't keep anything ELSE secret, but this'll remain an undisclosed security hole until the end of time...
Hey! Do they have any bridges to sell us too? Bargain priced ocean-front property in Nevada? Are they all secretly Nigerian princes looking to enrich us if we can just help them a little?
Call me when these assclowns descend back to reality.
Okay. Come right this way. We have a time-locked vault. Nobody will be able to get to you. Just..watch your oxygen consumption, it's airtight.
Seriously, NASA's the ultimate meritocracy in the geek/nerd/braniac space.
And while nobody should have to deal with overtly sexist atmosphere, simply having a majority of men == sexism!
And trying to browbeat them into providing a "safe space" basically is telling us that women are, apparently, unable to compete without some white knight cutting the path for them.
That's the opposite of equality, meritocracy and the basic feminist message.
But, it's totally in line with the eternal victimhood narrative of modern feminism.
Okay, my mom pays for a 75 MBit connection a month. But there's, ostensibly, a 300 Gig cap a month.
If a cablemodem were run at maximum throughput for that month, it'd pull down approximately 23 terabytes. The cap is, essentially, 1.2% of that.
Now, nobody is saying that a consumer connection should deliver that full 23 terabytes month in and month out. While bandwidth is (relatively) cheap, it sure as hell isn't THAT cheap, and it's understandable that various broadband companies simply couldn't handle that sort of demand in a cost efficient manner.
But 1.2%?
That's like buying a car that would normally get 400 miles on a full tank of gas, and having the dealer swap in tank that only gives you 5 miles to a fill up.
If they have to cap, those paying for higher speed tiers should be seeing larger caps. They're certainly ALREADY paying a price premium.
Look at Comcast's Economy Starter package. 10Mbit connection. Using the 300GB as a benchmark, that equates out to about 10% bandwidth utilization in a month.
So, as much as I'd like to say "free bandwidth, no caps", I'm betting the broadband companies out there would rather burn their entire network to the ground than try to supply that.
So, if we're going to get stuck with caps, make the caps realistic to the type of connection being sold.
My problem is, they don't have the basic autonomous control worked out to the point where these things are safe on public streets with regular cars weighing in at 3-4000 lbs.
So they're going to take the same flawed control system and drop it into a bus that weighs in at 28-33,000 lbs?
This isn't about "new ideas" or "solving a problem". This is trying to shoehorn faulty tech into yet another situation. Said faulty tech already endangers lives. They're simply creating a situation where it will now endanger MORE lives at the same time.
"Basic income would work even if 90% did nothing but smoke pot all day..."
Because the other 10% would be working themselves to death 24x7x365 trying to support a bunch of indigent fucktards who think they're owed a living, effort free.
The big tradeoff most people get with speed reading is lack of the ability to actually retain the information beyond cursory information (see the War and Peace joke above).
While my reading speed is accelerated, it's not as fast as it possibly could be. But my general retention is quite high. There's also the fact that, with my preferred material, I tend to re-read books over time. So my overall retention of material tends to increase with subsequent exposures.
Put it this way. If everyone was considerate, dialed the screen brightness all the way down, and set their phone to vibrate, then got up and left the viewing area of the theater to text or talk, that'd be one thing.
But, in general, people are self-centered ASSHOLES.
So we get Big Ben jangling out of a phone at 100 decibels. Then a strobe light going up in the middle of a theater. Followed by some asshat going "Yeah! YEAH! I'm at the movies right now! IN THE THEATER! No! I can't hear you! I'm IN THE THEATER!"
Fuck that noise...
"We can't tell 20 year olds to put away their phones..."
YES YOU FUCKING CAN!
For the prices being charged for admission, not to mention the CONCESSIONS, it's not a huge stretch to expect to be able to enjoy a movie uninterrupted by some jackass and their phone. Seriously, that's the main reason movie theaters still exist! The provide a quiet, controlled environment for showing films!
If Phoneguy McDouchebag is constitutionally incapable of keeping his phone off for 90-120 minutes to watch a movie, he needs to GET THE FUCK OUT!
Not sure why the hell this is such a novel, or hard to grasp concept.
Allowing that sort of stuff to go on in a theater is basically removing the primary reason people still go to movie theaters! It's actively destructive to the business model. Because groups like Screening Room can charge you $50 (about the price of ticket and concessions for one person) to stream you a brand new movie on opening day. So if someone's got a boss home theater setup, they can do Screening Room, invite a dozen friends and supply their own food. The theater makes NO money. And the industry loses a dozen ticket sales. PER PERSON VIEWING.
I'm glad AMC listened and axed this so fast. Someone eventually elected to use their brain on this subject. Better late than never...
Already contacts my state's senators and urged them to oppose this bill, any like it and call for similar provisions (should they be hidden in another bill) to be excised.
So, instead of extending the functionality of a perfectly acceptable browser (or even fixing existing issues), they keep adding useless crap like Pocket and Hello in, because none of them are competent to actually work on the browser code.
And now their next endeavor is to basically reskin Chrome and call it Firefox. Why, exactly, they have this unsettling crush on Chrome is anyone's guess.
I propose that the current inhabitants of the Mozilla corporate structure go and simply get rooms with the Chrome developers and fuck this unhealthy fixation out of their systems.
Then Mozilla should hire people who actually know their way around browser tech and understand Mozilla's place in the scheme of things and stop leaving software engineering decisions to a bunch of "designers".
Basically a keyboard with no feedback whatsoever. You're essentially whacking your fingers on a solid surface with no relief. It's like projected keyboards and touchscreens.
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I think most of the people in DC passed Woefully ignorant sometime in the mid 70's.
They leapt over "Maliciously ignorant" in 2001-2002.
Now they're exploring the uncharted territory of the Ignorance Singularity.
Most of these people are at the "magic smoke" level of technological comprehension, and any attempt to reconcile them to reality is met with nothing but empty-headed hostility.
Cortana.
Where do you want to go today?
Well you CAN'T! FUCK YOU!
Instead of turning the Cortana interface into a useful tool, they've basically hamstrung it.
Yes. Actually, some women DO use abortion as birth control.
I worked for a place where one of the little office drones, all of 25, had had over 20 abortions in the last 10 years.
Never mind the damage she was doing to her body.
"Birth control makes me sick."
"Condoms don't feel right."
"I wanna have kids some day so I won't get sterilized."
"I can't wear a diaphragm/IUD."
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Yeah. Like that's ACTUALLY going to happen.
They can't keep anything ELSE secret, but this'll remain an undisclosed security hole until the end of time...
Hey! Do they have any bridges to sell us too?
Bargain priced ocean-front property in Nevada?
Are they all secretly Nigerian princes looking to enrich us if we can just help them a little?
Call me when these assclowns descend back to reality.
Exactly. This is the bitching of someone who is now expected to actually WORK for his paycheck.
"They took away EasyMode! WAH!"
Wow, I wasn't rabidly and thoughtlessly in complete support of special treatment for women in a meritocratic setting!
So I got marked a troll!
QUE SURPRISE!
Okay. Come right this way. We have a time-locked vault. Nobody will be able to get to you. Just..watch your oxygen consumption, it's airtight.
Seriously, NASA's the ultimate meritocracy in the geek/nerd/braniac space.
And while nobody should have to deal with overtly sexist atmosphere, simply having a majority of men == sexism!
And trying to browbeat them into providing a "safe space" basically is telling us that women are, apparently, unable to compete without some white knight cutting the path for them.
That's the opposite of equality, meritocracy and the basic feminist message.
But, it's totally in line with the eternal victimhood narrative of modern feminism.
Okay, my mom pays for a 75 MBit connection a month.
But there's, ostensibly, a 300 Gig cap a month.
If a cablemodem were run at maximum throughput for that month, it'd pull down approximately 23 terabytes.
The cap is, essentially, 1.2% of that.
Now, nobody is saying that a consumer connection should deliver that full 23 terabytes month in and month out. While bandwidth is (relatively) cheap, it sure as hell isn't THAT cheap, and it's understandable that various broadband companies simply couldn't handle that sort of demand in a cost efficient manner.
But 1.2%?
That's like buying a car that would normally get 400 miles on a full tank of gas, and having the dealer swap in tank that only gives you 5 miles to a fill up.
If they have to cap, those paying for higher speed tiers should be seeing larger caps. They're certainly ALREADY paying a price premium.
Look at Comcast's Economy Starter package. 10Mbit connection. Using the 300GB as a benchmark, that equates out to about 10% bandwidth utilization in a month.
So, as much as I'd like to say "free bandwidth, no caps", I'm betting the broadband companies out there would rather burn their entire network to the ground than try to supply that.
So, if we're going to get stuck with caps, make the caps realistic to the type of connection being sold.
*Facepalm*
Grow up.
My problem is, they don't have the basic autonomous control worked out to the point where these things are safe on public streets with regular cars weighing in at 3-4000 lbs.
So they're going to take the same flawed control system and drop it into a bus that weighs in at 28-33,000 lbs?
This isn't about "new ideas" or "solving a problem". This is trying to shoehorn faulty tech into yet another situation.
Said faulty tech already endangers lives. They're simply creating a situation where it will now endanger MORE lives at the same time.
There are ALREADY known issues with driverless CARS being plonked down into mixed traffic with humans.
So, he's going to double-down and and increase the weight (under dubious "control") by 8-11 times?
So instead of just endangering a couple people on the road, we can now endanger dozens?
So, because he's tossed off the shackles of "faith", he has nothing to comfort him and he has nothing to replace the post-death mythology of religion.
So he's trying to invent his own mythology where science will save the day and he'll live on...forever.
And yeah, death is a scary concept.
As if eternal life wasn't equally "shit yourself" scary.
"Basic income would work even if 90% did nothing but smoke pot all day..."
Because the other 10% would be working themselves to death 24x7x365 trying to support a bunch of indigent fucktards who think they're owed a living, effort free.
Agreed. Creepy as hell.
Seriously. Who ACTUALLY thinks this shit up.
And who do they REALLY expect to implement it in their products?
And what kind of of market do they expect to sell to?
The big tradeoff most people get with speed reading is lack of the ability to actually retain the information beyond cursory information (see the War and Peace joke above).
While my reading speed is accelerated, it's not as fast as it possibly could be. But my general retention is quite high.
There's also the fact that, with my preferred material, I tend to re-read books over time. So my overall retention of material tends to increase with subsequent exposures.
I've seen the movie you're talking about.
It pretty much agrees with all the professors I've had.
No. Nye is not an "actor".
Nye is a science educator and a "personality" due to the Science Guy history.
He's got a degree in mechanical engineering.
He built the sundial that was on the Mars Rover.
He was vice president of the Planetary Society until he became the Executive Director.
He was also a professor at Cornell University for several years.
And no, science is not the search for "truth". If you want "truth" go take a philosophy course.
Science is the search for FACT. And I'd say, in his time, he's done some searching of his own.
Sure, and I'm sure there's a market for those who prefer to felch while watching a movie too.
Doesn't mean it's a large enough segment that it's worthwhile to service...
Put it this way. If everyone was considerate, dialed the screen brightness all the way down, and set their phone to vibrate, then got up and left the viewing area of the theater to text or talk, that'd be one thing.
But, in general, people are self-centered ASSHOLES.
So we get Big Ben jangling out of a phone at 100 decibels.
Then a strobe light going up in the middle of a theater.
Followed by some asshat going "Yeah! YEAH! I'm at the movies right now! IN THE THEATER! No! I can't hear you! I'm IN THE THEATER!"
Fuck that noise...
"We can't tell 20 year olds to put away their phones..."
YES YOU FUCKING CAN!
For the prices being charged for admission, not to mention the CONCESSIONS, it's not a huge stretch to expect to be able to enjoy a movie uninterrupted by some jackass and their phone.
Seriously, that's the main reason movie theaters still exist! The provide a quiet, controlled environment for showing films!
If Phoneguy McDouchebag is constitutionally incapable of keeping his phone off for 90-120 minutes to watch a movie, he needs to GET THE FUCK OUT!
Not sure why the hell this is such a novel, or hard to grasp concept.
Allowing that sort of stuff to go on in a theater is basically removing the primary reason people still go to movie theaters!
It's actively destructive to the business model.
Because groups like Screening Room can charge you $50 (about the price of ticket and concessions for one person) to stream you a brand new movie on opening day.
So if someone's got a boss home theater setup, they can do Screening Room, invite a dozen friends and supply their own food.
The theater makes NO money. And the industry loses a dozen ticket sales. PER PERSON VIEWING.
I'm glad AMC listened and axed this so fast. Someone eventually elected to use their brain on this subject.
Better late than never...
Seriously.
Their security is so lax that if you CAN'T get at something, it's a mistake.
But they want us to trust them with ANYTHING and EVERYTHING?
Fuck that noise!
Already contacts my state's senators and urged them to oppose this bill, any like it and call for similar provisions (should they be hidden in another bill) to be excised.
Probably.
So, instead of extending the functionality of a perfectly acceptable browser (or even fixing existing issues), they keep adding useless crap like Pocket and Hello in, because none of them are competent to actually work on the browser code.
And now their next endeavor is to basically reskin Chrome and call it Firefox.
Why, exactly, they have this unsettling crush on Chrome is anyone's guess.
I propose that the current inhabitants of the Mozilla corporate structure go and simply get rooms with the Chrome developers and fuck this unhealthy fixation out of their systems.
Then Mozilla should hire people who actually know their way around browser tech and understand Mozilla's place in the scheme of things and stop leaving software engineering decisions to a bunch of "designers".
Basically a keyboard with no feedback whatsoever. You're essentially whacking your fingers on a solid surface with no relief.
It's like projected keyboards and touchscreens.
RSI, thy name is Crappy Keyboard!
Oh noez! An AC trolled me! How EVER will I live with myself!
*SNORE*
Frankly, I haven't. I concluded that it was pointless junk, and haven't given it a second thought since.
Sorry, but you just can't fix stupid.