In this area is it digital ONLY. You have to pay extra for HD, but SD digital is the norm.
I've been planning to put together a nice infographic explaining to HD subscribers how they're getting screwed with lower quality video due to the cable company doing a tiered system when they could better quality at HD and no difference on an SD set by making it all HD. I think there's an analog channel or two that basically tells you to go get a box if you don't have one and what you're missing without the box.
See, back in the day I built my own DVR with an NTSC tuner card and a Linux box. When they made it next to impossible to build your own DVR - I quit.
That's right, I haven't had cable or satellite in years.
I now watch whatever I think deserves my attention (not much) via Netflix, Amazon, occasionally the network/show website, or buy buying the disks when it comes out. Hulu was sort of in the mix for a while but I refuse to pay for commercials so it's off the list. I understand they may have a commercial free option now, I haven't bothered to look.
If you really want to send a signal to these companies that you don't like being manipulated into getting their unnecessary spy^H^H^H tuning equipment you can start by not accepting their tuning equipment and keeping the dollars they so desire.
Tell me about it. I had a 95 1/2 Tacoma and an 01 Celica. Both about 34 MPG in practical conditions and use.
My wife's 03 Cavalier still gets about 33 MPG.
Very few modern cars get mileage that good, and when they do they're usually shoe-box sized cars. Not that any of the stuff I named was huge, but they weren't Smart Cars.
Automakers embrace whatever gets people to chose their car over the competitors car, is cost effective to manufacture, and is reliable enough to get past the warranty period but not so reliable the car last too long past the warranty.
There were fuel injected cars long before it was practically mandatory. I believe there were Corvette's from the 1950's that had early fuel injection. I test drove a 1982 Fiat that had it. Fuel injection was slow to be adopted due to cost benefit ratios along with performance. Early fuel injection wasn't always better than a well tuned carb, in fact it was very popular among enthusiast to remove fuel injection systems from 1990's Mustangs and put carburetors back on.
Cars still use camshafts because camless systems haven't been developed to a point that mass production and implementation makes sense to a manufacturer. Not just a custom built lab system, not just a small run on rinky-dink 3D printers, but something that can be churned out by the 1,000's.
I was hoping new Slashdot ownership would steer us away from these pro-regulation propaganda pieces.
If they're interested they should do it. Motivating those that are isn't going to do a lot for those that aren't.
Articles on Slashdot trying to guilt trip me over it isn't going to do anything. We are the choir - send the missionaries to Pinterest where those that aren't hang out.
It seems like people are ignoring the fact that overall women just don't want to do these things for a living and assume that it's a problem.
Who's reading things into situations?
I've worked with women in my field, I've got in-laws in my field that are female, they chose to do this sort of work and I don't see a problem with it. I like it.
Having at minimum one article a week calling it a problem is reading things into reality that just aren't there. Yes - having an occasional "why don't women want to work in STEM field?" article or "Here's why women shy away from STEM" is great - it belong on this site. At minimum one a week from a defacto position that it's a bad thing is doing exactly what you're accusing me of.
Stuff like this, it opens up with a weasel words statement while not explicitly saying "men are bad" it is saying "men need to be displaced" or "men have no business dominating a professions that doesn't require massive amounts of safety gear and filth".
Is the lack of diversity an issue? The article without a doubt states that it is - so why are there no articles about the shortage of male daycare workers, or the lack of female sanitation workers?
I'm not going to say I don't like green M&M's, but we really need to up the count of brown, blue, red and yellow M&M's in a bag, everyone knows that green M&M's are over-represented.
I'm a religious person - not in the stereotypical sense, but I'm a believer in a higher power, and I embrace science, no I don't think those are mutually exclusive.
Quite frankly I'm tired of both the anti-religious bigotry I see everywhere I go and I'm annoyed by religious holy than though religious assholes too. Having faith or not does not mean you have to be an ass-wipe.
Slashdot used to be a technology site. Under Dice it became a collectivist yes-man only question what we tell you to question navel-gazing tool.
I personally grew tired of all the Gamer Gate articles exclusively from the "men are bad" side of things.
I got tired of all the "We already have accepted that climate change is 100% man-made now how do we convince the idiots" articles.
I got tired of the "You're all bad people because women chose to go into job fields other than technology" articles.
The Slashvertising I wasn't 100% against - I completely understand - the site needs to earn a little money to stick around, but come on, a lot of it was lame and much of it was sneaky by trying to pass itself off as an article.
Slashdot actually became anti-science during the Dice years since they actively discouraged doing what scientist do - questioning everything - by posting globalist slanted crap.
Of course I among others enjoyed calling them on it.
If you go back to what Slashdot did in just about any iteration before Dice you're doing a good thing.
these newer electronic versions of the archives are much simpler for the Ministry of Truth to manage. A minitrue employe, Mr. Winston Smith has stated that though his job maintaining the integrity of the archives has changed little it was much more satisfying to be able to verify his corrections are reaching the masses quicker and more thoroughly than in the past when it could take months for corrections to propagate, and there were less lose ends when no one was really sure if a copy went down a memory hole or not. Yes he assured us, these changes are double plus good and will do much to strengthen the party.
Interesting - I used to see that effect for Apple but it seems to have lessened.
Seriously about Apple, post something negative about Apple, someone clicks your name, looks for other posts in other unrelated articles, then bookmarks your profile so they can mod you down next time they have points.
I was starting to take Apple mod-downs as a badge of honor.
I've started noticing that Slashdot is employing the Facebook style "post shunning". Even browsing at -1 I don't see all the posts anymore, say something not in line with the globalist agenda and you get sidelined. If you click on a parent post you'll see the shunned replies, but otherwise they're vapor. I've set my Slashdot back to classic and there seems to be less of that but I'm still not sure I see it all.
I see for calls to change the mod system - as someone who's been abused by Apple Fanbois I disagree, meta-moderation was great and the system itself was genius. I just want it to go back, it was great, with enough Meta Moderation fanbois lose their bite.
I realize there's a very big gap in this explanation:
Denial
Until you've been around someone that will continue to lie when the proof is presented, discredit the authenticity of the truth, and is in a position of power (as government actors often are) with people backing them you've never experienced the logic shattering reality that can exist when people operate under obvious falsehoods while the truth is staring them in the face.
Having been around a sociopath for an extended period of time I've learned to spot the traits in action. Some of these conspiracies in the headline mimic those traits. Climate science has been "exposed" as a fraud from the start, but those pushing it are in a position of power and they hire yes-men to produce studies that back their claims.
Rather it's real or not it follows the M.O. of a sociopath.
I intend to call out every propaganda piece that comes across the site when I'm logged in and able to call it out.
Propaganda needs to be derailed. Slashdot has gone from being a good tech discussion site to a globalist mouth piece. Yes you can discuss the political ramifications of technology and the technological ramifications of of politics without being a mouthpiece for a political position.
Try this experiment to back up my claim about Slashdot. Browse at -1 and see if all the posts still show up like they used to. Click on a top level controversial comment and then comments under that and see if comments that were previous hidden suddenly appear. I've always browsed at -1, I'm finding the disagree with the narrative posts being hidden to be annoying.
I'm convinced our educational system is geared to teach this without actually coming out to say it. Everyone gets a trophy, if a football coach says his players are playing like girls he's likely to be fired for being sexist. Don't offend anyone one (who's not on the approved people to offend list).
If the current clamps being place on the American people actually go far enough to kill the electricity and the TVs and game consoles turn off long enough for people to look around and see what's going on we may actually have a chance to reclaim our republic.
You sound mostly libertarian. There's some disagreements there, but that just reinforces that statement. Regulating business doesn't agree - but cutting off corporate welfare does, true net neutrality is libertarian, regulated net neutrality isn't. You've certainly got libertarian views on personal stuff. Libertarians generally don't have a problem with a wealth gap while at the same time realize that our current wealth gap is artificially generated not by capitalism at work, but cronyism and inflation at work. We're not all on board with that or anything. Which brings me to the divisive immigration thing we can't all agree on. I generally believe in open borders but not purposeful importation and tax paid support and placement like we currently have.
We also generally recognize the Democrat / Republican polarization game is a tactic used to keep people onboard with their own "team" which is a construct because at the top it's really one party. We also recognize outliers like Bernie Sanders, Rand (and Ron) Paul are "real" members of the stated party and are hold overs from the pre-establishment blending that effectively turned them into one party. These outliers are generally ostracized by the parties as they now exist.
Look into it, I think you're a reasonable fit even if you're not fully onboard. There's the libertarian philosophy (generally described as "little l") and the Libertarian Party (generally described as "Big L"). I like to think of the Libertarian Party as the "Mind your own damned business" party.
In the United States Democrat (which generally means left) is socialist too - they just - with the exception of Bernie Sanders - avoid using the word socialism to describe their policies do to the backlash involved with that particular taboo. There's deep-seeded anti-socialism ideas here, which are being successfully dodged for the most part with word games due to the general lack of attention given to political things and real education versus test passing training in the general populace.
The Communist Party USA generally and endorses Obama, even declining to submit their own candidate since they felt the base was covered: http://cpusa.org/
In truth the Republican party is somewhat socialist also, where the Democrats focus on "vote cattle" by using corrupt versions of social capitalistic cronyism to make low income people dependent on the system, Republicans manipulate people (including those in my own family) making a different version of vote cattle that uses corporate welfare to keep the companies they work for unrealistically profitable. They both do the same basic things, Democrats tend to focus on the under/unemployed, Republicans focus on the employed.
More deny and reflect propaganda, I've always considered the "not really left wing" argument a hollow one that implied things too complicated to actually be useful. I see it as a battle cry to get left wingers to double down but I'm not sure it's properly understood still this argument though heard less today never really goes away.
by different lobby group than congressmen from Democrat party. New at 11
They cooperated to get the SOPA and PIPA stuff we fought against so hard crammed into the TPP so whichever evil side you support remember, this left wing propaganda article brought to you by Slashdot.org!
I found one of their "share this purchase" things so hilarious I took a screen shot.
I bought a bunch of syringes for putting epoxy in fiber optic connectors. A perfectly legitimate purchase on the company dime but somehow "share this purchase with your friends and family" with a picture of a bunch of epoxy needles just seemed so wrong, hard to explain, and out of place I had to take a screen shot.
Slashdot Mirror
In this area is it digital ONLY. You have to pay extra for HD, but SD digital is the norm.
I've been planning to put together a nice infographic explaining to HD subscribers how they're getting screwed with lower quality video due to the cable company doing a tiered system when they could better quality at HD and no difference on an SD set by making it all HD. I think there's an analog channel or two that basically tells you to go get a box if you don't have one and what you're missing without the box.
See, back in the day I built my own DVR with an NTSC tuner card and a Linux box. When they made it next to impossible to build your own DVR - I quit.
That's right, I haven't had cable or satellite in years.
I now watch whatever I think deserves my attention (not much) via Netflix, Amazon, occasionally the network/show website, or buy buying the disks when it comes out. Hulu was sort of in the mix for a while but I refuse to pay for commercials so it's off the list. I understand they may have a commercial free option now, I haven't bothered to look.
If you really want to send a signal to these companies that you don't like being manipulated into getting their unnecessary spy^H^H^H tuning equipment you can start by not accepting their tuning equipment and keeping the dollars they so desire.
They're going to combine this "finding" with Apple refusing to hack an iPhone to justify passing legislation against crypto.
They're setting up criminal wind-up-toy patsies to make it sound justified so the rest of us get behind it.
My hopes of a less globalist propaganda pushing Slashdot are gone.
I've seen evidence of shadow-banning - or at least "shadow hiding" on this site too.
Tell me about it. I had a 95 1/2 Tacoma and an 01 Celica. Both about 34 MPG in practical conditions and use.
My wife's 03 Cavalier still gets about 33 MPG.
Very few modern cars get mileage that good, and when they do they're usually shoe-box sized cars. Not that any of the stuff I named was huge, but they weren't Smart Cars.
Automakers embrace whatever gets people to chose their car over the competitors car, is cost effective to manufacture, and is reliable enough to get past the warranty period but not so reliable the car last too long past the warranty.
There were fuel injected cars long before it was practically mandatory. I believe there were Corvette's from the 1950's that had early fuel injection. I test drove a 1982 Fiat that had it. Fuel injection was slow to be adopted due to cost benefit ratios along with performance. Early fuel injection wasn't always better than a well tuned carb, in fact it was very popular among enthusiast to remove fuel injection systems from 1990's Mustangs and put carburetors back on.
Cars still use camshafts because camless systems haven't been developed to a point that mass production and implementation makes sense to a manufacturer. Not just a custom built lab system, not just a small run on rinky-dink 3D printers, but something that can be churned out by the 1,000's.
I was hoping new Slashdot ownership would steer us away from these pro-regulation propaganda pieces.
If they're interested they should do it. Motivating those that are isn't going to do a lot for those that aren't.
Articles on Slashdot trying to guilt trip me over it isn't going to do anything. We are the choir - send the missionaries to Pinterest where those that aren't hang out.
Really?
It seems like people are ignoring the fact that overall women just don't want to do these things for a living and assume that it's a problem.
Who's reading things into situations?
I've worked with women in my field, I've got in-laws in my field that are female, they chose to do this sort of work and I don't see a problem with it. I like it.
Having at minimum one article a week calling it a problem is reading things into reality that just aren't there. Yes - having an occasional "why don't women want to work in STEM field?" article or "Here's why women shy away from STEM" is great - it belong on this site. At minimum one a week from a defacto position that it's a bad thing is doing exactly what you're accusing me of.
Stuff like this, it opens up with a weasel words statement while not explicitly saying "men are bad" it is saying "men need to be displaced" or "men have no business dominating a professions that doesn't require massive amounts of safety gear and filth".
Is the lack of diversity an issue? The article without a doubt states that it is - so why are there no articles about the shortage of male daycare workers, or the lack of female sanitation workers?
I'm not going to say I don't like green M&M's, but we really need to up the count of brown, blue, red and yellow M&M's in a bag, everyone knows that green M&M's are over-represented.
I'm interested in equality too.
So let's present news objectively instead of slanted-only men are bad articles at least weekly, usually more.
I'm a religious person - not in the stereotypical sense, but I'm a believer in a higher power, and I embrace science, no I don't think those are mutually exclusive.
Quite frankly I'm tired of both the anti-religious bigotry I see everywhere I go and I'm annoyed by religious holy than though religious assholes too. Having faith or not does not mean you have to be an ass-wipe.
Slashdot used to be a technology site. Under Dice it became a collectivist yes-man only question what we tell you to question navel-gazing tool.
I personally grew tired of all the Gamer Gate articles exclusively from the "men are bad" side of things.
I got tired of all the "We already have accepted that climate change is 100% man-made now how do we convince the idiots" articles.
I got tired of the "You're all bad people because women chose to go into job fields other than technology" articles.
The Slashvertising I wasn't 100% against - I completely understand - the site needs to earn a little money to stick around, but come on, a lot of it was lame and much of it was sneaky by trying to pass itself off as an article.
Slashdot actually became anti-science during the Dice years since they actively discouraged doing what scientist do - questioning everything - by posting globalist slanted crap.
Of course I among others enjoyed calling them on it.
If you go back to what Slashdot did in just about any iteration before Dice you're doing a good thing.
these newer electronic versions of the archives are much simpler for the Ministry of Truth to manage. A minitrue employe, Mr. Winston Smith has stated that though his job maintaining the integrity of the archives has changed little it was much more satisfying to be able to verify his corrections are reaching the masses quicker and more thoroughly than in the past when it could take months for corrections to propagate, and there were less lose ends when no one was really sure if a copy went down a memory hole or not. Yes he assured us, these changes are double plus good and will do much to strengthen the party.
Can't tell if you're too stupid to know the difference between centrist beliefs and central as in concentrated or you're just building a straw-man.
I'm assuming straw-man, but then again never attribute to malice what stupidity can cover.
Interesting - I used to see that effect for Apple but it seems to have lessened.
Seriously about Apple, post something negative about Apple, someone clicks your name, looks for other posts in other unrelated articles, then bookmarks your profile so they can mod you down next time they have points.
I was starting to take Apple mod-downs as a badge of honor.
I've started noticing that Slashdot is employing the Facebook style "post shunning". Even browsing at -1 I don't see all the posts anymore, say something not in line with the globalist agenda and you get sidelined. If you click on a parent post you'll see the shunned replies, but otherwise they're vapor. I've set my Slashdot back to classic and there seems to be less of that but I'm still not sure I see it all.
I see for calls to change the mod system - as someone who's been abused by Apple Fanbois I disagree, meta-moderation was great and the system itself was genius. I just want it to go back, it was great, with enough Meta Moderation fanbois lose their bite.
I know what they're going through......
(I seriously had 30+ lbs of small random cables piled up in the parking lot of a Galveston gas station one time as I pulled them out)
I realize there's a very big gap in this explanation:
Denial
Until you've been around someone that will continue to lie when the proof is presented, discredit the authenticity of the truth, and is in a position of power (as government actors often are) with people backing them you've never experienced the logic shattering reality that can exist when people operate under obvious falsehoods while the truth is staring them in the face.
Having been around a sociopath for an extended period of time I've learned to spot the traits in action. Some of these conspiracies in the headline mimic those traits. Climate science has been "exposed" as a fraud from the start, but those pushing it are in a position of power and they hire yes-men to produce studies that back their claims.
Rather it's real or not it follows the M.O. of a sociopath.
I'm with you there. They also live by a different set of rules, legally, than U.S. born citizens and it's not good for anyone in the end.
I intend to call out every propaganda piece that comes across the site when I'm logged in and able to call it out.
Propaganda needs to be derailed. Slashdot has gone from being a good tech discussion site to a globalist mouth piece. Yes you can discuss the political ramifications of technology and the technological ramifications of of politics without being a mouthpiece for a political position.
Try this experiment to back up my claim about Slashdot. Browse at -1 and see if all the posts still show up like they used to. Click on a top level controversial comment and then comments under that and see if comments that were previous hidden suddenly appear. I've always browsed at -1, I'm finding the disagree with the narrative posts being hidden to be annoying.
No personal responsibility.
I'm convinced our educational system is geared to teach this without actually coming out to say it. Everyone gets a trophy, if a football coach says his players are playing like girls he's likely to be fired for being sexist. Don't offend anyone one (who's not on the approved people to offend list).
If the current clamps being place on the American people actually go far enough to kill the electricity and the TVs and game consoles turn off long enough for people to look around and see what's going on we may actually have a chance to reclaim our republic.
You sound mostly libertarian. There's some disagreements there, but that just reinforces that statement. Regulating business doesn't agree - but cutting off corporate welfare does, true net neutrality is libertarian, regulated net neutrality isn't. You've certainly got libertarian views on personal stuff. Libertarians generally don't have a problem with a wealth gap while at the same time realize that our current wealth gap is artificially generated not by capitalism at work, but cronyism and inflation at work. We're not all on board with that or anything. Which brings me to the divisive immigration thing we can't all agree on. I generally believe in open borders but not purposeful importation and tax paid support and placement like we currently have.
We also generally recognize the Democrat / Republican polarization game is a tactic used to keep people onboard with their own "team" which is a construct because at the top it's really one party. We also recognize outliers like Bernie Sanders, Rand (and Ron) Paul are "real" members of the stated party and are hold overs from the pre-establishment blending that effectively turned them into one party. These outliers are generally ostracized by the parties as they now exist.
Look into it, I think you're a reasonable fit even if you're not fully onboard. There's the libertarian philosophy (generally described as "little l") and the Libertarian Party (generally described as "Big L"). I like to think of the Libertarian Party as the "Mind your own damned business" party.
In the United States Democrat (which generally means left) is socialist too - they just - with the exception of Bernie Sanders - avoid using the word socialism to describe their policies do to the backlash involved with that particular taboo. There's deep-seeded anti-socialism ideas here, which are being successfully dodged for the most part with word games due to the general lack of attention given to political things and real education versus test passing training in the general populace.
Here's a recent stumble from Hillary, there's older ones that are just as bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The Communist Party USA generally and endorses Obama, even declining to submit their own candidate since they felt the base was covered: http://cpusa.org/
In truth the Republican party is somewhat socialist also, where the Democrats focus on "vote cattle" by using corrupt versions of social capitalistic cronyism to make low income people dependent on the system, Republicans manipulate people (including those in my own family) making a different version of vote cattle that uses corporate welfare to keep the companies they work for unrealistically profitable. They both do the same basic things, Democrats tend to focus on the under/unemployed, Republicans focus on the employed.
Intelligent progressives- are we talking about the people who sign all the Mark Dice petitions?
More deny and reflect propaganda, I've always considered the "not really left wing" argument a hollow one that implied things too complicated to actually be useful. I see it as a battle cry to get left wingers to double down but I'm not sure it's properly understood still this argument though heard less today never really goes away.
by different lobby group than congressmen from Democrat party. New at 11
They cooperated to get the SOPA and PIPA stuff we fought against so hard crammed into the TPP so whichever evil side you support remember, this left wing propaganda article brought to you by Slashdot.org!
I found one of their "share this purchase" things so hilarious I took a screen shot.
I bought a bunch of syringes for putting epoxy in fiber optic connectors. A perfectly legitimate purchase on the company dime but somehow "share this purchase with your friends and family" with a picture of a bunch of epoxy needles just seemed so wrong, hard to explain, and out of place I had to take a screen shot.