And no, crimes of past president's are not irrelevant. They are very relevant since they show the hypocrisy of people who will excuse those crimes but suddenly become appalled when someone else does the exact same thing. If you didn't consider it a crime then you can't consider it a crime now.
The fact that Bush & Cheney did something does not excuse Clinton from doing something. This is called a tu quoque fallacy. In other words, not a valid argument. I say put them all on trial (Clinton, Bush & Cheney), and if they are convicted, throw them in prison. How do you respond to that?
Oh, but we've already been at war with Eastasia, right?
That happened under Obama's watch, so no big deal. It will also be okay if Clinton does it, but not if racist Trump does it, because that would be racist!
Hey, when any "news source" manages to contradict your own personal first hand experience the only rational reaction is to be VERY skeptical.
Did you even bother to check the links I provided before you decided to spout off a flamebait response? That was only one example, there are hundreds more out there. It seems like I questioned something that doesn't contradict your own personal first hand experience, so your "rational" reaction was to be VERY skeptical of what I wrote.
If it's good enough to drive at all, it's good enough to be put to use for the purpose I bought it. That purpose might well be a revenue-earning ride sharing thing. Sounds like they're looking for a rent cut from your own purchased car.
Oh, you own the car alright, but you license the self-driving software...
Yes, it's so easy to just say "the fact checking site is biased"! Once you've said that, you don't even need to look at what it says: you can say it's wrong without even bothering to know what it said.
That seems a bit ironic that you would say that, as it seems you didn't bother to read the examples I posted. The two candidates said essentially the same thing, and Politi"fact"'s rationale was basically the same for both, but they gave different ratings.
Of course the amazing thing is that Trump probably thinks the tweeting is helping his campaign. He doesn't even want to stop, though Hillary would be helping him greatly if this gimmick discouraged him from tweeting.
Trump is too narcissistic to change his ways. If he had toned it down a bit and stayed on message about the economy & national security instead of pursuing every petty comment made about him, ranging from gold-star families to beauty pageant contestants, he'd probably be in the lead right now. Heck, if the GOP had nominated Kasich, Paul or Rubio, this election would be lopsided in the other direction. Instead, they decided to go for the stooge who would make Hillary a shoo-in. Unless Trump wins, there's nothing that would convince me that the election was rigged by both of them...
Politi-"fact" is a useless leftist partisan hack site. Compare statements made by Ron Paul (R) and Jim Webb (D). They are saying almost exactly the same thing. Paul's statement gets "half-true", but Webb's gets "mostly-true".
Ah yes, the old "always accuse your opponent of doing what you're doing." Correct the Record actually exists. Has FEC filings and everything. Show me the tiniest bit of evidence of paid Trump shills.
While we know that the DNC hired mobs to riot at Trump rallies, I highly doubt that either Clinton or Trump would bother to hire shills to post on/.
And as always, freedom of speech and freedom of association does not imply freedom from consequences.
Absolutely not. I'd expect that anyone who discriminates on any basis should probably take a beating in lost sales, which is the natural remedy of the marketplace.
One would have thought that after the 2008 financial crisis we would have learned something about the importance of prioritizing the latter, and demand more of it from our leaders.
Yeah, that's why we ended up with Tweedle Lecher & Tweedle Liar as the main choices this year...
In another article on Slashdot, we have people boycotting a Silicon Valley business associated with a CEO who has dared to donate to Trump.
That's freedom of association and it's at least as fundamental a right as free speech. If that's how they choose to stand up for what they believe in, that's their business. You and I, in turn, may use this information to decide whom we want to associate with. I don't see the problem.
It's good to see someone understands this. It's unfortunate that many people will only apply this when it is in terms of liberals being able to disassociate from people on the right, but won't apply it to a baker or photographer who doesn't want to participate in a ceremony they believe to be sacrilegious.
I think that if Bernie had gotten going 2 months (or better, 6 months) earlier in the run-up to the primary, the actions of the party and likely the results of the primary would have been totally different.
Nah, still would have been the same result, only more Bernie Bros would have squandered more in small donations. Also, don't misinterpret his support either. For instance, my wife & I both voted for Bernie in the primary. We were more interested in seeing Hillary lose than we were in seeing anyone in the Republican Party win. And as it turned out, he won our state and that helped keep his campaign chugging along for a few more months. Neither of us would ever vote for Bernie in the general election. I'm sure a lot of his other "supporters" are in the same boat.
Apple is a worldwide company, why the US filing must be the first one?
Because Patriarchy, or White Privilege, or {insert current anti-corporation SJW jargon here}! Maybe it's because a lot of people here dislike the USPTO (myself included), but agreed. Of all of the slimy, unethical things a lot of corporations do, this isn't one of them.
There is nothing private about an arena or large theater.
Unless the arena or theater is owned by the local, state or federal government, it is indeed private. You seem to be engaging in some kind of equivocation where you're substituting private in a personal sense as opposed to private in a property sense.
The wishes of the performer are bullshit, they are showing themselves to the public and getting filmed. Boo hoo. I don't owe them a revenue stream above and beyond what I paid to see them.
If they're performing at a park where nobody has to pay, it's public. If they're performing at a private venue where you had to pay, it's not public. No, you don't, but you do have a contractual obligation if you purchased tickets and were notified about the requirements at the time of purchase.
If Chappelle wants to have stormtroopers locking up cellphones, well, I wasn't going to go see that lame ass anyway.
Your prerogative. I wouldn't go to see him, but simply because I don't really care for his work.
On a different note, I took my wife three times over the past few years to see John Prine, the folk singer. Prine doesn't give two shits who films him. I watched him sing. She got out her cellphone and went up to the edge of the stage and filmed him playing Angel from Montgomery and a couple other tunes. She wanted to remember the night that she saw him before he croaks.
I don't have any problem with any artist allowing people to record them. If John Prine wants to let his audience record him, more power to him! Aside from your inability to identify public and private venues, I don't see how what you wrote counters what I wrote.
We picked up the PSVR yesterday, and to quell your fears: the Move controllers included with the system are the exact same ones that came out with the PS3. Right down to USB Mini-B and the aggravating need to be plugged into the PS4 to be charged.
"In this day and age, my phone is how I keep my memory," one live-music fan told the Washington Post, adding "If you don't want your music heard, then don't perform it."
I'd bet this "live-music fan" is a Bernie Bro. I think current copyright laws are way out of line--both in terms of length & amount charged per violation--but at the same time, I believe you have to respect the wishes of the property owners & the artists. Nobody has the right to other people's work beyond what was agreed upon when you purchased the ticket, just because they want to post on Facebook to show all of their friends that they were at an event.
And this is why I went for a rift. By all accounts the rift is more comfortable, more compatible, and slightly better image quality. 90% of the vive games I saw listed were obviously 30min tech demo gimmicks that i wouldnt want to play for any length of time, so I had no issue waiting for the rift's touch controllers to come out which to me seemed like much more suitable input methods for vr than wands (and from all the comparisons Ive see I was right).
I'm going to be getting a PS4, so I'm going to go for the PlayStation VR. I prefer the PS4 controllers to any other controller out there. I just can't get used to the offset sticks on the XBone. I also already have Move controllers, but I don't know if the ones for the PS3 will be compatible. I looked at the PlayStation VR FAQ, and it seems like they should be, but there's nothing specific there.
Did they have any fake or inaccurate stories over the same period of time? How many corrections did they have to make? The New York Times had to make two corrections to an article about Gary Johnson's Aleppo gaffe on the same day.
what's to say that it wouldn't find some way to get around its ethical programming by the people ethically trained to create it?
Ethical training of people in A.I.
Not ethical training of A.I.
Yes, I got it. I added emphasis above for your sake. And why would we want those people to have ethics training? So that they don't give the A.I. the ability to do unethical things. My point is that if the A.I. is truly intelligent, it should be able to figure out a way to overcome that obstacle if there is some sort of conflicting goal it wants to accomplish.
- "Ethical training" of people in A.I. fields, particularly as the technology is used to control more real-world objects that could lead to concerns about safety and security.
Doctors & lawyers receive ethical training, yet we still have a lot of unethical doctors & lawyers. If we created a "sentient" A.I., what's to say that it wouldn't find some way to get around its ethical programming by the people ethically trained to create it? Don't forget about Microsoft's recent venture.
Ah well you see, the kids THESE days as in since about 20 minutes after you left are the REAL slackers. They're so dreadfully awful in every conceivable way that it makes me really feel much better about myself.
I usually end up with a mix. I'd say most of my students are slackers, but the % of slackers in my community college classes is much higher than the % of slackers in my liberal arts college classes. I started using the flipped classroom for my programming classes, hoping that it might help some students with challenges they have in programming. What I've found is that the bright students end up doing better, and the slackers don't bother to watch the video before coming to class and want me to spoon feed them.
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I dunno. This story just makes me feel better about not buying Apple products. I can buy any cable I like and not have to worry about this bullshit.
O'rly?
And no, crimes of past president's are not irrelevant. They are very relevant since they show the hypocrisy of people who will excuse those crimes but suddenly become appalled when someone else does the exact same thing. If you didn't consider it a crime then you can't consider it a crime now.
The fact that Bush & Cheney did something does not excuse Clinton from doing something. This is called a tu quoque fallacy. In other words, not a valid argument. I say put them all on trial (Clinton, Bush & Cheney), and if they are convicted, throw them in prison. How do you respond to that?
He wants to ban all Muslims from entering the US. If that's not an "agenda that is against equality", then what is?
Indiscriminately bombing and burning hundreds of Islamic men, women, and children alive?
Oh, but we've already been at war with Eastasia, right?
That happened under Obama's watch, so no big deal. It will also be okay if Clinton does it, but not if racist Trump does it, because that would be racist!
Hey, when any "news source" manages to contradict your own personal first hand experience the only rational reaction is to be VERY skeptical.
Did you even bother to check the links I provided before you decided to spout off a flamebait response? That was only one example, there are hundreds more out there. It seems like I questioned something that doesn't contradict your own personal first hand experience, so your "rational" reaction was to be VERY skeptical of what I wrote.
If it's good enough to drive at all, it's good enough to be put to use for the purpose I bought it. That purpose might well be a revenue-earning ride sharing thing. Sounds like they're looking for a rent cut from your own purchased car.
Oh, you own the car alright, but you license the self-driving software...
Yes, it's so easy to just say "the fact checking site is biased"! Once you've said that, you don't even need to look at what it says: you can say it's wrong without even bothering to know what it said.
That seems a bit ironic that you would say that, as it seems you didn't bother to read the examples I posted. The two candidates said essentially the same thing, and Politi"fact"'s rationale was basically the same for both, but they gave different ratings.
Of course the amazing thing is that Trump probably thinks the tweeting is helping his campaign. He doesn't even want to stop, though Hillary would be helping him greatly if this gimmick discouraged him from tweeting.
Trump is too narcissistic to change his ways. If he had toned it down a bit and stayed on message about the economy & national security instead of pursuing every petty comment made about him, ranging from gold-star families to beauty pageant contestants, he'd probably be in the lead right now. Heck, if the GOP had nominated Kasich, Paul or Rubio, this election would be lopsided in the other direction. Instead, they decided to go for the stooge who would make Hillary a shoo-in. Unless Trump wins, there's nothing that would convince me that the election was rigged by both of them...
Politi-"fact" is a useless leftist partisan hack site. Compare statements made by Ron Paul (R) and Jim Webb (D). They are saying almost exactly the same thing. Paul's statement gets "half-true", but Webb's gets "mostly-true".
Ah yes, the old "always accuse your opponent of doing what you're doing." Correct the Record actually exists. Has FEC filings and everything. Show me the tiniest bit of evidence of paid Trump shills.
While we know that the DNC hired mobs to riot at Trump rallies, I highly doubt that either Clinton or Trump would bother to hire shills to post on /.
And as always, freedom of speech and freedom of association does not imply freedom from consequences.
Absolutely not. I'd expect that anyone who discriminates on any basis should probably take a beating in lost sales, which is the natural remedy of the marketplace.
One would have thought that after the 2008 financial crisis we would have learned something about the importance of prioritizing the latter, and demand more of it from our leaders.
Yeah, that's why we ended up with Tweedle Lecher & Tweedle Liar as the main choices this year...
It's worse than that, they smoked while driving SUV's! Probably with kids in the back too, if you can imagine such horror.
Probably no booster seats either!
In another article on Slashdot, we have people boycotting a Silicon Valley business associated with a CEO who has dared to donate to Trump.
That's freedom of association and it's at least as fundamental a right as free speech. If that's how they choose to stand up for what they believe in, that's their business. You and I, in turn, may use this information to decide whom we want to associate with. I don't see the problem.
It's good to see someone understands this. It's unfortunate that many people will only apply this when it is in terms of liberals being able to disassociate from people on the right, but won't apply it to a baker or photographer who doesn't want to participate in a ceremony they believe to be sacrilegious.
I think that if Bernie had gotten going 2 months (or better, 6 months) earlier in the run-up to the primary, the actions of the party and likely the results of the primary would have been totally different.
Nah, still would have been the same result, only more Bernie Bros would have squandered more in small donations. Also, don't misinterpret his support either. For instance, my wife & I both voted for Bernie in the primary. We were more interested in seeing Hillary lose than we were in seeing anyone in the Republican Party win. And as it turned out, he won our state and that helped keep his campaign chugging along for a few more months. Neither of us would ever vote for Bernie in the general election. I'm sure a lot of his other "supporters" are in the same boat.
Apple is a worldwide company, why the US filing must be the first one?
Because Patriarchy, or White Privilege, or {insert current anti-corporation SJW jargon here}! Maybe it's because a lot of people here dislike the USPTO (myself included), but agreed. Of all of the slimy, unethical things a lot of corporations do, this isn't one of them.
There is nothing private about an arena or large theater.
Unless the arena or theater is owned by the local, state or federal government, it is indeed private. You seem to be engaging in some kind of equivocation where you're substituting private in a personal sense as opposed to private in a property sense.
The wishes of the performer are bullshit, they are showing themselves to the public and getting filmed. Boo hoo. I don't owe them a revenue stream above and beyond what I paid to see them.
If they're performing at a park where nobody has to pay, it's public. If they're performing at a private venue where you had to pay, it's not public. No, you don't, but you do have a contractual obligation if you purchased tickets and were notified about the requirements at the time of purchase.
If Chappelle wants to have stormtroopers locking up cellphones, well, I wasn't going to go see that lame ass anyway.
Your prerogative. I wouldn't go to see him, but simply because I don't really care for his work.
On a different note, I took my wife three times over the past few years to see John Prine, the folk singer. Prine doesn't give two shits who films him. I watched him sing. She got out her cellphone and went up to the edge of the stage and filmed him playing Angel from Montgomery and a couple other tunes. She wanted to remember the night that she saw him before he croaks.
I don't have any problem with any artist allowing people to record them. If John Prine wants to let his audience record him, more power to him! Aside from your inability to identify public and private venues, I don't see how what you wrote counters what I wrote.
We picked up the PSVR yesterday, and to quell your fears: the Move controllers included with the system are the exact same ones that came out with the PS3. Right down to USB Mini-B and the aggravating need to be plugged into the PS4 to be charged.
Thanks for the feedback!
"In this day and age, my phone is how I keep my memory," one live-music fan told the Washington Post, adding "If you don't want your music heard, then don't perform it."
I'd bet this "live-music fan" is a Bernie Bro. I think current copyright laws are way out of line--both in terms of length & amount charged per violation--but at the same time, I believe you have to respect the wishes of the property owners & the artists. Nobody has the right to other people's work beyond what was agreed upon when you purchased the ticket, just because they want to post on Facebook to show all of their friends that they were at an event.
And this is why I went for a rift. By all accounts the rift is more comfortable, more compatible, and slightly better image quality. 90% of the vive games I saw listed were obviously 30min tech demo gimmicks that i wouldnt want to play for any length of time, so I had no issue waiting for the rift's touch controllers to come out which to me seemed like much more suitable input methods for vr than wands (and from all the comparisons Ive see I was right).
I'm going to be getting a PS4, so I'm going to go for the PlayStation VR. I prefer the PS4 controllers to any other controller out there. I just can't get used to the offset sticks on the XBone. I also already have Move controllers, but I don't know if the ones for the PS3 will be compatible. I looked at the PlayStation VR FAQ, and it seems like they should be, but there's nothing specific there.
Correction: Oops, it was 3 corrections. My bad.
Did they have any fake or inaccurate stories over the same period of time? How many corrections did they have to make? The New York Times had to make two corrections to an article about Gary Johnson's Aleppo gaffe on the same day.
what's to say that it wouldn't find some way to get around its ethical programming by the people ethically trained to create it?
Ethical training of people in A.I.
Not ethical training of A.I.
Yes, I got it. I added emphasis above for your sake. And why would we want those people to have ethics training? So that they don't give the A.I. the ability to do unethical things. My point is that if the A.I. is truly intelligent, it should be able to figure out a way to overcome that obstacle if there is some sort of conflicting goal it wants to accomplish.
- "Ethical training" of people in A.I. fields, particularly as the technology is used to control more real-world objects that could lead to concerns about safety and security.
Doctors & lawyers receive ethical training, yet we still have a lot of unethical doctors & lawyers. If we created a "sentient" A.I., what's to say that it wouldn't find some way to get around its ethical programming by the people ethically trained to create it? Don't forget about Microsoft's recent venture.
Ah well you see, the kids THESE days as in since about 20 minutes after you left are the REAL slackers. They're so dreadfully awful in every conceivable way that it makes me really feel much better about myself.
I usually end up with a mix. I'd say most of my students are slackers, but the % of slackers in my community college classes is much higher than the % of slackers in my liberal arts college classes. I started using the flipped classroom for my programming classes, hoping that it might help some students with challenges they have in programming. What I've found is that the bright students end up doing better, and the slackers don't bother to watch the video before coming to class and want me to spoon feed them.