From what I can tell , a majority of us "the plebe" think that modern art pile-of-brick or semen in bottle, or splurge of colors thrown at a wall is not art.
When I look at most music, movies, it is mostly coming from corporations which anyway will comply and be able to upload stuff in youtube : What IP is not coming from the US, is coming from the big corp, even the "pew die pie" of Europe are incorporated and will only have that as a nuisance cost. There is nigh an indy scene in EU which really participate that much in the economy globally. In other word, the ONLY people it may stops, are the average folk uploading a video they made themselves - economic value being very low - OK maybe a few web cam and microphone equipment. Basically the economy will not suffer a iota.
I am waiting for retirement to finally be able to do all my hobbies and project. Project : a few game idea I have (both as board game and as computer games). Hobbies : board games, rpg (pen and paper) , computer games, card games , cycling a lot, returning to my passion of QM calculations and following the newest advancement there, and I pass on minor stuff like from time to time I do my own furniture for fun and shit and giggle (I build a house for my cats, 3 floor, with little ramp to go , and an openning for me to retrieve cats for veterinary visit:-;), reading a lot of books. I haven't time nowadays due to needing to work to earn enough money to eat, rent, live. But if I am allowed to retire in a financially stable way.... Here we go my pretties. I doubt I will be bored any seconds. I think I would probably complain "I have not enough time".
Because when another drive-by-download or execute vulnerability pop up, it won't help you to load in background you are as vulnerable as loading in plain sight.
Undoing my modding you insightful for this : time and time again we see people requesting equality of outcome when it come to gender distribution in work. Time and time again if a company does not have a 50/50 in gender distribution roughly or a rough distribution in minority at work comparing to the national distribution , there are people pointing finger at those firms. Which have then to spend money showing their white paws. The problem is , some people see "gender equality" , or which ever equality, and think equality of outcome. But the reality is what is required is equality of opportunity. Outcome can STILL have a slanted gender distribution (or whichever other distribution). And while I think like you the OP was not graceful in its expression, I DO think we have a problem when people strive for equality of outcome (especially when it is only equality of outcome when it goes in one direction : too many male versus female, and in good jobs. I am still waiting people rail against waste disposal service on why there are not enough female garbage taker).
I think the trend in dangerous. We should absolutely get equality of opportunity, because this is the moral things to do, and because we may hobble ourselves because we put obstacle to the next big scientist/ceo/researcher/engineer/whichever because they are not the "correct" gender/religion/sexuality/skin color. But equality of opportunity is another way to hobble ourselves.
This is the same issue as the "right to forget" that so many decry. Decades ago you had a chance to rehabilit people in case of offense, or in case of incident (debt/accident etc...) have them have a second chance because people had to do an EFFORT to get data or collate it. So de facto we had the possibility to be forgotten. This is going away. Which is why I think the right to be forgotten is good (yes I am an Euro trash which think rehabilitation/second chance is not a dirty word).
The issue you speak about is a general one. Bad situation which were avoidable decades ago because data could not be easily gatherable or collatable are now becoming increasingly possible. I personally think the right that information do not get collated and stay semi private is a greater right than the one of the public think they have to get "informed" about everything and anything.
His "other" is not a third gender. it is a medical condition making it you have both sex organ for example with various type of rare hermaphrodism. Even complete androgyn incensitivity makes you a woman. Sure with XY chromosome, but the embryonal development followed the X plan (incomplete since only one X - but your sexual organ are female and only ovaries are really not working. uterus is working and artificial implementation can lead to pregnancy). There is indeed only 2 "gender/sex" biologically : female and male. The rest is problem of the formation of either or both. But there is not such a thing as a "third" sex/gender thing in biology. It is quite binary. Just like somebody having a dis-formed leg is not called a second type of non-bipedial-human. He may get the qualifier of handicapped but it does not change its status. Just like losing your penis due to accident does not make you a female biologically, retracting it and putting it inside abdominal cavity does not make you a biological female. Now SOCIALLY is another kind of worm. the problem is that most of the population mix both indifferently, while some WANT to differentiate them. And I am not even touching the part where social and biological touch, like sex and dating, not even with a 100 foot pole.
If we made only rules which benefited the 50%+1 person only, pretty much we would still be in the 19th century type of law - which is where your "why do we make laws for few people" slip to. Forget pollution stuff as it is local, shallow bury radionucleide and bad chemicals under a school ? No problem after all it will damage only very few people comapred to 300 million, far less than 0.01%. Forget Handycapped laws or access too.
The reason we have laws even for 0.01% of the population is to protect them from the tyranny of majority. You may like tyranny of majority though. If you are in the majority, it is pretty swell, especially if you have no empathy whatsoever.
While in some case this is about sex (think clumsy coworker flirting borderline harassment, type) in the case of an executive like that there is a very good chance it was about him using his power and feeling the rush of it, rather than the sex.
But some form of socialism to support those which were hit by problems, health, financial, or accident. A form of *gasp* social net to avoid people falling down and not getting up anymore. Practically only the US immediately jump to "communism rahrahrah the red !" every time a form of social net is discussed.
While fox quite clearly show a bias, and they gladly admit it, CNN does not necessarily has such a bias. In fact if you both er to check you will find that when it happen they also report bad things said or done by democrats. e.g. just simply example if you want like anthony wiener sexting. This isn't equivalent to fox. that Fox and some right wing people managed to bring a narrative that cnn and co and other media are democrat aligned , shows that they have managed to really control media and people far more than they readily admit.
There is a lack of content and lack of utility. Period. The few games there are, many are the same re-skinned or barely tech demo. Even if there was porn , so what ? There is available VR porn by the way. Does not seem to make VR boom. It just is that some *lower* quality tech (2D flat screen) is actually still better and less costly than the 3D VR one. And THAT is why people don't buy in drove.
Because of the walled garden, and more rarley due to the way rating are done on film software, in a way the US culture kinda enforce its standard on the rest of the world. Which leads to the groaning you can see.
Atheism/theism is about the belief whether a god exists or not. Agnosticism/gnosticism is about the idea that one can have knowledge about the existence of gods. e.g. As such an agnostic only state he does not think knowledge whether gods exists or not can be gained. It tells *NOTHING* about whether they believe gods exists or not (the faith part). But the reality is that most agnostic are agnostic atheist : they don't believe existence of gods can be knowledged, but they also don't pray, don't believe, don't pay a dime about faith in their life. As such they are atheist even if they don't explicitly accept or profess it. basically I am an agnostic atheist. I think the existence of gods is unknowable, but I also act my life like (& have the belief) that they don't exists.
TL;DR (a)theism is about whetehr you believe gods exists or not and act upon it. Agnosticism is about whether the existence of gods are unknowable. They are perpandicular. one does not exclude the other. Heck you can be a theist agnostic.
That should be a mantra for you "Past performance in biology is not indicator of future performance". To convince yourself take yield before the haber revolution to a few year after and project to what yield we have by now. To make a more clear example, the potatoe yield since 1990 has stayed the same in UK : 40 tons per hectare, after an incredible increase it stayed stable (15 ton per hectare in 1885 , then nearly 80 years later it stayed at 20 tons per hectare, then jumping doubling until 1990). The fact is that such agricultural increase happens by steps, and there is no guarantee of a future steps up. If you want another example, our life expectancy exploded due to easy steps to do, but barely moved up in the last 20 years (in the western world). So to answer this:
Also, it's pretty much guaranteed that crop yield will improve more than 17% through clever engineering between now and 2100
no, it isn't guaranteed, and in some case there could be a reversion as some crop/vegetable need a certain medium low stable temperature which could actually with a more chaotic continental climate, not be a given, and thus in some case we could have for certain country a lower yield.
while the price increase may be (TODAY_PRICES + $1000) in average , the reality is that for some stuff the increase would be larger, while for other it would be lower. To give you an example, it may make house even more out of reach with such an injection of money, but it would NOT make a sudden 300% inflation of food or rent. So anybody spending before that less than 1000$ on food and rent, would still win. Also you have to consider that not everything can have such an inflation, all non essential would be immediately shunned, e.g. if you got a bag of candy corn for 5$ they will not be able to justify suddenly jumping to 10$. The increase would be over years, i expect the inflation would be no more than 5%, so it would taker about 14 years to double price. There are some stuff where this could be the case like software , where price is market related rather than inflation related, but for most product this would not be the case. That if you provide people with 1000$ more will make all price match that is non sense. On the short term some stuff may be sold more, and on the medium term inflation will rise, but this is NOT a barter economy where price are set depending on demand, and your pack of chips would not suddenly get twice the price. So your inflation totalprice+1000$ is utter non sense.
"The 1874 Sholes & Glidden typewriters established the "QWERTY" layout for the letter keys." Patent application was 1867. Sometimes there is a reason why some sub optimnal stuff stays so long : there may be more optimal layout (in fact for other languages , there are , german QWERTZ and french AZERTY) but they take much longer to learn compared to QWERTY not being that bad. Find a way to make a much MUCH better keyboard, and it will be adopted. But as people tried and tried and most solution got no traction at all, it is pretty clear this is not as easy as many thinks.
There is no way whatsoever I am giving up meat. I am ready to reduce many things leading to CO2. But food enjoyment ? I am rioting if anybody try to pass a law stopping beef raising.
Science and technology do not have ethical value per see. At all. All they have are cold reality based equation. Whether you use that equation to save 100 lifes or you use it to make more profit in your "puppy & baby munching machine" is actually up to the person. But that is also TRUE for MBA and many other studies (is there even ethics teaching in arts?). So if you want to add ethic in STEM, then add it in MBA in at least the same proportion, and many other studies. Furthermore you can't live well with ethics alone, everybody should understand basic concept and a lot of what is unethical happening is because have no critical thinking so let us put also a bit of STEM into art and ethics. Furthermore before we even take that steps, we should get together and decide which ethics it should be. And then in about 200 million year when you all decided on a basic line on ethic which do not offend all religions/genders/sex/ethnicity out there, we can get that utterly washed down ethic and teach it to STEM. But start with teaching STEM to arts/ethicist/philo today. Maybe a bit of critical thinking will do them good.
Long haul flight is basically around 2 kg fuel per seat for every 100km. For a long haul like , say, 8000 km that is about 160 Kg fuel time 2 for return that's 320 Kg fuel or 640 Kg per two persons. Compare that for average fuel consumption car is 9 kg per 100 Km. Let us say 10. So the distance corresponding is 6400 km of car, or about 8000 miles. Somebody doing 8 mils of commuting every day will have done that in 4 month. That is also by the way the same consumption as somebody doing their holiday in car, so barring you going only 20 miles away for holiday, you'll consume as much. And in the grand scheme of thing, that will probably be nothing compared to the carbon footprint reduction for most company. So you can take your millennial joke , and shove it (I am much older than a millennial but I can't appreciate people which use that as a cheap shot).
The problem now is not whether he is innocent or not. The problem is the performance , the lie, and the evasion he has shown during the hearing. That is quite a very poor not to say incredibly bad performance for somebody supposed to be a supreme court justice. Furthermore "supreme court" is like an interview for a job , and it is a job. You want those at that job to be at least "acceptable" PR wise. Gorsuch was protested, but in the end it was not much a PR storm. Now *EVERY* decision of the supreme court where Kavenaugh is involved especially related to women reproduction right, rape, or equality of women right (again decided mostly by men but that's a story for another thread) will be tainted. You may have a partisan chuckle and think you have done it and sticked it to the dems or whatever. But that is not the problem. The problem is that taint, will never go away. That taint will erode the confidence the public has in one of the last institution of the legal US system which was respected. That , my friend, is how you start a country distrust of its institution so hard, a destabilisation so difficult to reverse, that you may actually have wounded the country in a way which will be difficult to correct, maybe never. Time will tell if in a decade or so there is any difference, but I would not be surprised that those last two years started a slope the US politic system will never recover from.
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From what I can tell , a majority of us "the plebe" think that modern art pile-of-brick or semen in bottle, or splurge of colors thrown at a wall is not art.
So quic is the corporation advertiser wet dream, you can be folllowed all over the web...?
When I look at most music, movies, it is mostly coming from corporations which anyway will comply and be able to upload stuff in youtube : What IP is not coming from the US, is coming from the big corp, even the "pew die pie" of Europe are incorporated and will only have that as a nuisance cost. There is nigh an indy scene in EU which really participate that much in the economy globally. In other word, the ONLY people it may stops, are the average folk uploading a video they made themselves - economic value being very low - OK maybe a few web cam and microphone equipment. Basically the economy will not suffer a iota.
I am waiting for retirement to finally be able to do all my hobbies and project. Project : a few game idea I have (both as board game and as computer games). Hobbies : board games, rpg (pen and paper) , computer games, card games , cycling a lot, returning to my passion of QM calculations and following the newest advancement there, and I pass on minor stuff like from time to time I do my own furniture for fun and shit and giggle (I build a house for my cats, 3 floor, with little ramp to go , and an openning for me to retrieve cats for veterinary visit :-;), reading a lot of books. I haven't time nowadays due to needing to work to earn enough money to eat, rent, live. But if I am allowed to retire in a financially stable way.... Here we go my pretties. I doubt I will be bored any seconds. I think I would probably complain "I have not enough time".
Because when another drive-by-download or execute vulnerability pop up, it won't help you to load in background you are as vulnerable as loading in plain sight.
Undoing my modding you insightful for this : time and time again we see people requesting equality of outcome when it come to gender distribution in work. Time and time again if a company does not have a 50/50 in gender distribution roughly or a rough distribution in minority at work comparing to the national distribution , there are people pointing finger at those firms. Which have then to spend money showing their white paws. The problem is , some people see "gender equality" , or which ever equality, and think equality of outcome. But the reality is what is required is equality of opportunity. Outcome can STILL have a slanted gender distribution (or whichever other distribution). And while I think like you the OP was not graceful in its expression, I DO think we have a problem when people strive for equality of outcome (especially when it is only equality of outcome when it goes in one direction : too many male versus female, and in good jobs. I am still waiting people rail against waste disposal service on why there are not enough female garbage taker).
I think the trend in dangerous. We should absolutely get equality of opportunity, because this is the moral things to do, and because we may hobble ourselves because we put obstacle to the next big scientist/ceo/researcher/engineer/whichever because they are not the "correct" gender/religion/sexuality/skin color. But equality of opportunity is another way to hobble ourselves.
This is the same issue as the "right to forget" that so many decry. Decades ago you had a chance to rehabilit people in case of offense, or in case of incident (debt/accident etc...) have them have a second chance because people had to do an EFFORT to get data or collate it. So de facto we had the possibility to be forgotten. This is going away. Which is why I think the right to be forgotten is good (yes I am an Euro trash which think rehabilitation/second chance is not a dirty word).
The issue you speak about is a general one. Bad situation which were avoidable decades ago because data could not be easily gatherable or collatable are now becoming increasingly possible. I personally think the right that information do not get collated and stay semi private is a greater right than the one of the public think they have to get "informed" about everything and anything.
His "other" is not a third gender. it is a medical condition making it you have both sex organ for example with various type of rare hermaphrodism. Even complete androgyn incensitivity makes you a woman. Sure with XY chromosome, but the embryonal development followed the X plan (incomplete since only one X - but your sexual organ are female and only ovaries are really not working. uterus is working and artificial implementation can lead to pregnancy). There is indeed only 2 "gender/sex" biologically : female and male. The rest is problem of the formation of either or both. But there is not such a thing as a "third" sex/gender thing in biology. It is quite binary. Just like somebody having a dis-formed leg is not called a second type of non-bipedial-human. He may get the qualifier of handicapped but it does not change its status. Just like losing your penis due to accident does not make you a female biologically, retracting it and putting it inside abdominal cavity does not make you a biological female. Now SOCIALLY is another kind of worm. the problem is that most of the population mix both indifferently, while some WANT to differentiate them. And I am not even touching the part where social and biological touch, like sex and dating, not even with a 100 foot pole.
If we made only rules which benefited the 50%+1 person only, pretty much we would still be in the 19th century type of law - which is where your "why do we make laws for few people" slip to. Forget pollution stuff as it is local, shallow bury radionucleide and bad chemicals under a school ? No problem after all it will damage only very few people comapred to 300 million, far less than 0.01%. Forget Handycapped laws or access too.
The reason we have laws even for 0.01% of the population is to protect them from the tyranny of majority. You may like tyranny of majority though. If you are in the majority, it is pretty swell, especially if you have no empathy whatsoever.
While in some case this is about sex (think clumsy coworker flirting borderline harassment, type) in the case of an executive like that there is a very good chance it was about him using his power and feeling the rush of it, rather than the sex.
But some form of socialism to support those which were hit by problems, health, financial, or accident. A form of *gasp* social net to avoid people falling down and not getting up anymore. Practically only the US immediately jump to "communism rahrahrah the red !" every time a form of social net is discussed.
While fox quite clearly show a bias, and they gladly admit it, CNN does not necessarily has such a bias. In fact if you both er to check you will find that when it happen they also report bad things said or done by democrats. e.g. just simply example if you want like anthony wiener sexting. This isn't equivalent to fox. that Fox and some right wing people managed to bring a narrative that cnn and co and other media are democrat aligned , shows that they have managed to really control media and people far more than they readily admit.
There is a lack of content and lack of utility. Period. The few games there are, many are the same re-skinned or barely tech demo. Even if there was porn , so what ? There is available VR porn by the way. Does not seem to make VR boom. It just is that some *lower* quality tech (2D flat screen) is actually still better and less costly than the 3D VR one. And THAT is why people don't buy in drove.
We just do it when warranted, not 100% of the time just to put a fake smile to everybody.
Temperature should be well under 18/20 C by now and be around the 14 C average dropping toward low teen.
Because of the walled garden, and more rarley due to the way rating are done on film software, in a way the US culture kinda enforce its standard on the rest of the world. Which leads to the groaning you can see.
Atheism/theism is about the belief whether a god exists or not. Agnosticism/gnosticism is about the idea that one can have knowledge about the existence of gods. e.g. As such an agnostic only state he does not think knowledge whether gods exists or not can be gained. It tells *NOTHING* about whether they believe gods exists or not (the faith part). But the reality is that most agnostic are agnostic atheist : they don't believe existence of gods can be knowledged, but they also don't pray, don't believe, don't pay a dime about faith in their life. As such they are atheist even if they don't explicitly accept or profess it. basically I am an agnostic atheist. I think the existence of gods is unknowable, but I also act my life like (& have the belief) that they don't exists.
TL;DR (a)theism is about whetehr you believe gods exists or not and act upon it. Agnosticism is about whether the existence of gods are unknowable. They are perpandicular. one does not exclude the other. Heck you can be a theist agnostic.
no, it isn't guaranteed, and in some case there could be a reversion as some crop/vegetable need a certain medium low stable temperature which could actually with a more chaotic continental climate, not be a given, and thus in some case we could have for certain country a lower yield.
while the price increase may be (TODAY_PRICES + $1000) in average , the reality is that for some stuff the increase would be larger, while for other it would be lower. To give you an example, it may make house even more out of reach with such an injection of money, but it would NOT make a sudden 300% inflation of food or rent. So anybody spending before that less than 1000$ on food and rent, would still win. Also you have to consider that not everything can have such an inflation, all non essential would be immediately shunned, e.g. if you got a bag of candy corn for 5$ they will not be able to justify suddenly jumping to 10$. The increase would be over years, i expect the inflation would be no more than 5%, so it would taker about 14 years to double price. There are some stuff where this could be the case like software , where price is market related rather than inflation related, but for most product this would not be the case. That if you provide people with 1000$ more will make all price match that is non sense. On the short term some stuff may be sold more, and on the medium term inflation will rise, but this is NOT a barter economy where price are set depending on demand, and your pack of chips would not suddenly get twice the price. So your inflation totalprice+1000$ is utter non sense.
"The 1874 Sholes & Glidden typewriters established the "QWERTY" layout for the letter keys." Patent application was 1867. Sometimes there is a reason why some sub optimnal stuff stays so long : there may be more optimal layout (in fact for other languages , there are , german QWERTZ and french AZERTY) but they take much longer to learn compared to QWERTY not being that bad. Find a way to make a much MUCH better keyboard, and it will be adopted. But as people tried and tried and most solution got no traction at all, it is pretty clear this is not as easy as many thinks.
There is no way whatsoever I am giving up meat. I am ready to reduce many things leading to CO2. But food enjoyment ? I am rioting if anybody try to pass a law stopping beef raising.
Science and technology do not have ethical value per see. At all. All they have are cold reality based equation. Whether you use that equation to save 100 lifes or you use it to make more profit in your "puppy & baby munching machine" is actually up to the person. But that is also TRUE for MBA and many other studies (is there even ethics teaching in arts?). So if you want to add ethic in STEM, then add it in MBA in at least the same proportion, and many other studies. Furthermore you can't live well with ethics alone, everybody should understand basic concept and a lot of what is unethical happening is because have no critical thinking so let us put also a bit of STEM into art and ethics. Furthermore before we even take that steps, we should get together and decide which ethics it should be. And then in about 200 million year when you all decided on a basic line on ethic which do not offend all religions/genders/sex/ethnicity out there, we can get that utterly washed down ethic and teach it to STEM. But start with teaching STEM to arts/ethicist/philo today. Maybe a bit of critical thinking will do them good.
Typo in doing the division.
Long haul flight is basically around 2 kg fuel per seat for every 100km. For a long haul like , say, 8000 km that is about 160 Kg fuel time 2 for return that's 320 Kg fuel or 640 Kg per two persons. Compare that for average fuel consumption car is 9 kg per 100 Km. Let us say 10. So the distance corresponding is 6400 km of car, or about 8000 miles. Somebody doing 8 mils of commuting every day will have done that in 4 month. That is also by the way the same consumption as somebody doing their holiday in car, so barring you going only 20 miles away for holiday, you'll consume as much. And in the grand scheme of thing, that will probably be nothing compared to the carbon footprint reduction for most company. So you can take your millennial joke , and shove it (I am much older than a millennial but I can't appreciate people which use that as a cheap shot).
The problem now is not whether he is innocent or not. The problem is the performance , the lie, and the evasion he has shown during the hearing. That is quite a very poor not to say incredibly bad performance for somebody supposed to be a supreme court justice. Furthermore "supreme court" is like an interview for a job , and it is a job. You want those at that job to be at least "acceptable" PR wise. Gorsuch was protested, but in the end it was not much a PR storm. Now *EVERY* decision of the supreme court where Kavenaugh is involved especially related to women reproduction right, rape, or equality of women right (again decided mostly by men but that's a story for another thread) will be tainted. You may have a partisan chuckle and think you have done it and sticked it to the dems or whatever. But that is not the problem. The problem is that taint, will never go away. That taint will erode the confidence the public has in one of the last institution of the legal US system which was respected. That , my friend, is how you start a country distrust of its institution so hard, a destabilisation so difficult to reverse, that you may actually have wounded the country in a way which will be difficult to correct, maybe never. Time will tell if in a decade or so there is any difference, but I would not be surprised that those last two years started a slope the US politic system will never recover from.