What you are seeing is not necessarily paid comments. Many Russians do indeed like their current government. Every time there is an election in Russia and observers claim discrepancies, all you have to do is pay attention to exit polls, which pretty much confirm that votes are not being changed behind the scenes and people do like Putin and his party.
You also have to remember than the most vocal ones are people from few big cities in Russia (i.e. Moscow and St. Petersburg) and they do not represent majority of Russians who live in rural areas. We have similar situation here in US - people on TV do not always represent opinions of majority.
Yeah, this are definitely a lot of government supporters also, but after you spend some time on either one of those forums (I mostly read news and related discussions) you start seeing the difference between genuine passionate supporters and people just doing their job. Like, they are always first to post, sometimes with a ridiculous time gap (like seconds) between story post and comment, their comments are shallow and predictable for the most part, they troll too hard trying to get a bunch of responses and thus burying all other comments deeper in the discussion. This kind of stuff. Then you see that other people noticing too and make comments pointing this out.
What amazes me is how fucking effective they are with such a small budget. You can't read a single political forum/discussion without running in to a bunch of "paid per comment" people.
In reality, though, I think that this budget is way higher. They just don't call it "propaganda budget" they call it, say "patriotic education" or "political education". If they want to be more subtle, its some social plant-a-tree kind of program, which when you show up turns out to be some political shit. It is literally every-fucking-where.
I don't have a big moral problem with free file sharing only because the people this harms (MAFIAA) are such immoral scam that they deserve the treatment way worse than this. They are greedy assholes who are going around harassing and suing single mothers for ridiculous amounts of damages. This waaaay overshadows everything file sharers do.
BTW, I know people who download content illegally on principle, just because they don't want to give any money to this scum.
I most likely will definitely get modded down for being abrasive but if you are able to suspend your rejection for
> I'm an atheist and I believe everything that is proven.
First, methinks you need to go back to college and study Godel's Incompleteness Theorems because you clearly don't understand Truth nor Proof. There are things that are True that are IMPOSSIBLE to prove. Ask your wife to _prove_ that she loves you or your children. If she doesn't "rhetorically" slap you for your disrespect she will quickly point out your stupidity in your incomplete Logic.
Sounds like you are the one who needs to go back to college and learn some logic. My statement means that my beliefs are superset of what is proven. Since there is no sane person whose beliefs are superset of what can not be *disproved*, pointing out that no one can disprove god is pointless.
Third, you wouldn't even have your beliefs unless you had faith in them in the first place. Next are you going to try to tell me you have *personally* proved and verified all your beliefs? Have you personally weighed an electron let alone _seen_ one? Have you verified the speed of light in a vacuum? You DO realize that ALL "objective" truth is built upon other people's subjective experiences, right?
Dude, are you really claiming that scientific facts are based on some sort of faith? Did you just really went there? Scientific facts has absolutely nothing to do with subjective experiences. None. Zero. Gravity law works for everybody, no exceptions and no "subjective experiences". The clear demonstration of a whole bunch of these laws is right in front of you, as you type.
Fourth, ALL Atheists are JUST as ignorant as ALL Theists; Oh, the Theists love to pretend they have knowledge about "god" but they don't understand her at all -- all they have is belief (and faith.) -- the honest ones will admit that. Likewise, Atheists have no belief in god (by definition) and thus have NO knowledge. At least the Agnostics are honest enough to admit they don't know! The only ones who *actually* has knowledge is the Gnostic by personal _experience(s)_. But until you first admit your ignorance you will never learn who/what the fuck "god" is because you are under the delusion that you think you "know" while you are still ignorant of your True Self let alone "god". The _beginning_ of wisdom is to acknowledge "I don't know."
Lastly, trusting an Atheist as an "expert" in religion is like trusting a man to be an expert in pregnancy; they lack the proper frame of reference to even understand the problem/solution of Spirituality that they are blinded by the Ignorance of the Theists.
Just an FYI, I was a passionate theist and I can assure you, I know Bible better than many theists.
Hmmm, Steam is basically an online store. How do you expect it *not* to report to Valve? Like, you do know that Amazon and EBay know about all the stuff you buy through them, do you?
... that doesn't change that this person got pretty much what anyone with a lick of common sense would have guessed would be the sort of reaction one could expect. Newtons Law, and all that...
Not to mention that he was presenting his message to the wrong people. Its not like the clerk checking your ID has any saying when it comes to TSA policies. Yes, some of them are dicks (comes with the job), but they are still nobodies in TSA ladder.
Actually, no. They'll see a whole bunch of them - Red Hat/Fedora, SUSE, and a few others. And depending on where they are looking - like if they buy a book or magazine on Linux, chances are they'll get a CD or DVD that has any of the other random distros - PCLinuxOS, Mageia, Zorin, Vector, Tiny Core, Mandriva, et al. If someone gives it to them, who knows what else they'll get.
I know a lot of people who use Linux -- friends, colleagues, -- and I don't see a zoo of distros you are describing. The regular users (users-users), use Ubuntu, the more programming oriented people use Debian. I use Mint (only because I got tired of Unity crap), but I had to go an extra mile to learn about it.
I mean, I consider myself to be a Linux Enthusiast and I haven't heard of the half of the distros you listed there.
The situation is somewhat better w/ BSD - FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. Any of the others, like DragonFly, PC-BSD, Bitrig, GhostBSD, et al more often than not fall under one of these (although DragonFly admittedly has become quite independent over time).
Did this help FreeBSD gain popularity?
Competition is a good thing, even for free products. Damn, especially for free products, because a) you can only compete on quality b) you don't have to be afraid to try something new.
Another problem is that these were the ages of under 1GB hard drives you always had to clean up. With RPM you ended up installing all libraries imaginable, just so you don't have to search for packages online. That cost a lot in hard drive space.
Which does not mean that everything in those books is a lie. Or that everything in "new" Tesla books is true.
Just remember that there *is* another side of his story. Tesla *was* trying to run a business and he *was* filing a bunch of patents. He was not your Henry Cavendish, who just did the research and didn't care about money and fame and who, I would argue is much more under appreciated that Tesla.
When I bought Kindle one of the things I wondered is why does this thing allow me change the font? Isn't it supposed to be the part of the book composition?
Dunno if it helps or hurts in non-fiction books, but IMO it really helps the author to convey the mood in fiction literature.
I'd say that the biggest problem here is that being good at these competitions does not necessarily mean that one would provide great value for the company and it does not even have much to do with technical skills. In the real world the problems are never well defined, the "scoring" rules are non-existent. Then, there are "people" skills.
I don't want to diminish this guy's achievement, I know for sure he is a great developer in all other respects, but these competitions measure only one projection of a skill on a specific axis.
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Well, "survival of the fittest" does not guarantee survival for any particular specie.
Yeah, I kind of agree with you here and I told them that before, but other than that I can't affect their decisions :) (which is a good thing).
What you are seeing is not necessarily paid comments. Many Russians do indeed like their current government. Every time there is an election in Russia and observers claim discrepancies, all you have to do is pay attention to exit polls, which pretty much confirm that votes are not being changed behind the scenes and people do like Putin and his party.
You also have to remember than the most vocal ones are people from few big cities in Russia (i.e. Moscow and St. Petersburg) and they do not represent majority of Russians who live in rural areas. We have similar situation here in US - people on TV do not always represent opinions of majority.
Yeah, this are definitely a lot of government supporters also, but after you spend some time on either one of those forums (I mostly read news and related discussions) you start seeing the difference between genuine passionate supporters and people just doing their job. Like, they are always first to post, sometimes with a ridiculous time gap (like seconds) between story post and comment, their comments are shallow and predictable for the most part, they troll too hard trying to get a bunch of responses and thus burying all other comments deeper in the discussion. This kind of stuff. Then you see that other people noticing too and make comments pointing this out.
What amazes me is how fucking effective they are with such a small budget. You can't read a single political forum/discussion without running in to a bunch of "paid per comment" people.
In reality, though, I think that this budget is way higher. They just don't call it "propaganda budget" they call it, say "patriotic education" or "political education". If they want to be more subtle, its some social plant-a-tree kind of program, which when you show up turns out to be some political shit. It is literally every-fucking-where.
Damn your witchcraft! You called GP "comrade", which automatically invalidated his whole post!
I don't have a big moral problem with free file sharing only because the people this harms (MAFIAA) are such immoral scam that they deserve the treatment way worse than this. They are greedy assholes who are going around harassing and suing single mothers for ridiculous amounts of damages. This waaaay overshadows everything file sharers do.
BTW, I know people who download content illegally on principle, just because they don't want to give any money to this scum.
I most likely will definitely get modded down for being abrasive but if you are able to suspend your rejection for
> I'm an atheist and I believe everything that is proven. First, methinks you need to go back to college and study Godel's Incompleteness Theorems because you clearly don't understand Truth nor Proof. There are things that are True that are IMPOSSIBLE to prove. Ask your wife to _prove_ that she loves you or your children. If she doesn't "rhetorically" slap you for your disrespect she will quickly point out your stupidity in your incomplete Logic.
Sounds like you are the one who needs to go back to college and learn some logic. My statement means that my beliefs are superset of what is proven. Since there is no sane person whose beliefs are superset of what can not be *disproved*, pointing out that no one can disprove god is pointless.
Third, you wouldn't even have your beliefs unless you had faith in them in the first place. Next are you going to try to tell me you have *personally* proved and verified all your beliefs? Have you personally weighed an electron let alone _seen_ one? Have you verified the speed of light in a vacuum? You DO realize that ALL "objective" truth is built upon other people's subjective experiences, right?
Dude, are you really claiming that scientific facts are based on some sort of faith? Did you just really went there? Scientific facts has absolutely nothing to do with subjective experiences. None. Zero. Gravity law works for everybody, no exceptions and no "subjective experiences". The clear demonstration of a whole bunch of these laws is right in front of you, as you type.
Fourth, ALL Atheists are JUST as ignorant as ALL Theists; Oh, the Theists love to pretend they have knowledge about "god" but they don't understand her at all -- all they have is belief (and faith.) -- the honest ones will admit that. Likewise, Atheists have no belief in god (by definition) and thus have NO knowledge. At least the Agnostics are honest enough to admit they don't know! The only ones who *actually* has knowledge is the Gnostic by personal _experience(s)_. But until you first admit your ignorance you will never learn who/what the fuck "god" is because you are under the delusion that you think you "know" while you are still ignorant of your True Self let alone "god". The _beginning_ of wisdom is to acknowledge "I don't know."
Lastly, trusting an Atheist as an "expert" in religion is like trusting a man to be an expert in pregnancy; they lack the proper frame of reference to even understand the problem/solution of Spirituality that they are blinded by the Ignorance of the Theists.
Just an FYI, I was a passionate theist and I can assure you, I know Bible better than many theists.
Yep, this cooling the ocean thing is an anti-hurricane device.
I'm an atheist and I believe everything that is proven.
Do you, as a theist, believe in everything that was not disproved? If not, you obviously have another system for selecting your beliefs, what is it?
While you at it, I want to warn you that every night, when you fall asleep, invisible and undetectable man comes to your bed and masturbates on you.
Sleep tight.
Hmmm, Steam is basically an online store. How do you expect it *not* to report to Valve? Like, you do know that Amazon and EBay know about all the stuff you buy through them, do you?
This country does "give a fuck" about the health of its wealthy citizens.
Here, FTFY.
Or Social Security (giving you a measly 500 a month so you can buy dogfood).
As opposed to whopping $0 private sector is giving them?
Most intelligent Americans look at how Congres has F'd up all the other programs they touched, and don't want them Fing up the hospital too.
Or yeah, while all the business does works perfectly ... for the benefit of those who runs it.
"Row or GTFO the boat" is an excellent social program!
... that doesn't change that this person got pretty much what anyone with a lick of common sense would have guessed would be the sort of reaction one could expect. Newtons Law, and all that...
Not to mention that he was presenting his message to the wrong people. Its not like the clerk checking your ID has any saying when it comes to TSA policies. Yes, some of them are dicks (comes with the job), but they are still nobodies in TSA ladder.
Actually, no. They'll see a whole bunch of them - Red Hat/Fedora, SUSE, and a few others. And depending on where they are looking - like if they buy a book or magazine on Linux, chances are they'll get a CD or DVD that has any of the other random distros - PCLinuxOS, Mageia, Zorin, Vector, Tiny Core, Mandriva, et al. If someone gives it to them, who knows what else they'll get.
I know a lot of people who use Linux -- friends, colleagues, -- and I don't see a zoo of distros you are describing. The regular users (users-users), use Ubuntu, the more programming oriented people use Debian. I use Mint (only because I got tired of Unity crap), but I had to go an extra mile to learn about it.
I mean, I consider myself to be a Linux Enthusiast and I haven't heard of the half of the distros you listed there.
The situation is somewhat better w/ BSD - FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. Any of the others, like DragonFly, PC-BSD, Bitrig, GhostBSD, et al more often than not fall under one of these (although DragonFly admittedly has become quite independent over time).
Did this help FreeBSD gain popularity?
Competition is a good thing, even for free products. Damn, especially for free products, because a) you can only compete on quality b) you don't have to be afraid to try something new.
Regular users don't see 50 versions of it, they only see Ubuntu. Mint, if they look closely.
Yet another one here.
Another problem is that these were the ages of under 1GB hard drives you always had to clean up. With RPM you ended up installing all libraries imaginable, just so you don't have to search for packages online. That cost a lot in hard drive space.
No, no! They want to storm the embassy, because he is accused of rape, remember?
Which does not mean that everything in those books is a lie. Or that everything in "new" Tesla books is true.
Just remember that there *is* another side of his story. Tesla *was* trying to run a business and he *was* filing a bunch of patents. He was not your Henry Cavendish, who just did the research and didn't care about money and fame and who, I would argue is much more under appreciated that Tesla.
Buddy, this is /.
In here, Natalie Portman (aka HotGrits) is the unit of hotness.
Not the unit, but the asymptotic limit. Therefore GP's usage of Jessica Alba was correct.
This is why they call it hottest Man-Made Temperature, rather than hottest Woman-Made.
I'd personally vote for "Ignore all teenagers" button for the Internet.
When I bought Kindle one of the things I wondered is why does this thing allow me change the font? Isn't it supposed to be the part of the book composition?
Dunno if it helps or hurts in non-fiction books, but IMO it really helps the author to convey the mood in fiction literature.
Dude, you must be old here!
I'd say that the biggest problem here is that being good at these competitions does not necessarily mean that one would provide great value for the company and it does not even have much to do with technical skills. In the real world the problems are never well defined, the "scoring" rules are non-existent. Then, there are "people" skills.
I don't want to diminish this guy's achievement, I know for sure he is a great developer in all other respects, but these competitions measure only one projection of a skill on a specific axis.
Did they pay for the whole city? And when did public street become "private property"?
But apparently wasn't clear that my comment was intended as a joke. Well, you can't have it all.