The real and honest question here is why no one remembers the reasons for why we have an electoral system.
Slavery.
Longer answer: much of the population of the southern states were slaves who couldn't vote. Therefore, with a President elected by popular vote, southern states would have very little say. As they would never have accepted this, the electoral college was invented.
The rest of the world took note and said "That's a crap system". After electors approved the demagogue, "That's a really crap system."
I'm not aware of any other country that uses your shitty undemocratic electoral college.
Also, in spite of the Euro crisis, post-war European growth has been far higher than US growth.
As chair of one of the biggest democracy groups in the UK, it pains me to say it.
The average margin of victory is ~100,000. That means you have a 1 in 100,000 of affecting 1 seat. As long as enough people vote to give your candidate a chance, your vote is that worthless.
Even if they were this stupid, they've been told half a dozen times why they're stupid. So one has to assume they have other reasons.
May's advisor who resigned today, Fiona Hill, is shagging Charles Farr and designer of the Investigatory Powers Act. He also designed the IP Act's 3x defeated predecessors over the last 9 years.. It's incredibly likely it all comes from him.
Currently, the only things cheaper than the nuclear strike price are fossil fuels and onshore wind.
Everything else is more expensive. This might and probably will change over time.
Wind power needs storage, which doesn't really exist at the moment. Nuclear power doesn't.
I'm not qualified to state whether the power station is a good idea or not, but I suspect I'm more qualified than most of the people who comment about it.
UK government isn't bound by any rights other than the toothless Human Rights Act. Though it can be embarrassing for them to be told they've breached the rights of their citizens.
Theresa May passed what Snowden called "the most extreme surveillance in the history of western democracy. It goes further than many autocracies."
Before this, airports were making 3D models of flyers' faces without their knowledge or permission, and attaching such to their passport records. This happens if you go through the 'inbound' e-passport aisle. I saw this with my own eyes at Bristol Airport before a security guard shouted at me. There is no law against such data collection.
I don't know if you can get a ticket with cash but otherwise you can bet these facial/3D scans will be added to a GCHQ database.
Note there's almost no evidence presented that social media makes people dislike each other more. Oversharing leads to being disliked but we don't follow those we dislike. My guess is that living in a social (media) bubble may nevertheless make us less tolerant of dissenting views.
Normally, everyone says Bladerunner. The latter is truly great, but it lacks the story and character development of Gattaca.
The only real competition to Gattaca is Donnie Darko, but few think of it as sci-fi. Amazing they both came out in 2001.
Matrix clearly superb, as is 2001: A Space Odyssey. "Her" is a great little film, the best sci-fi since Gattaca. Empire Strikes Back, Terminator (original) and The Thing -- all these are either perfect or borderline perfect.
"... the critical vulnerabilities for four exploits previously believed to be zerodays were patched in March, exactly one month before a group called Shadow Brokers published Friday's latest installment of weapons-grade attacks."
Facebook is a monster. It can easily use over a gig.
Yeah I know many Slashdotters pretend not to use it, and some actually don't.
Also, this sounds like 80s memory management eg turn off prefetching forever. Why can't we tell our browsers what to let go of first eg: 1. Prefetching 2. LRU tabs. 3. Hi-res images. 4. Bloated JS sites eg FB.com. Heck, worth putting in special rules for this monster.
Have a default then allow it to be accessible and changed for the rest of the session. Also, a box to ask it to return memory before the OS starts swapping like crazy.
Without a search/directory tool, much of the web we want to access is inaccessible.
Original post compares this to a photo-swapping app that allows you to put cats ears on people, as if that's somehow a commercial threat.
Now either Snapchat thinks Slashdotters are a viable market for their nonsense and are chucking Bizx a bundle for fake content... or one of the editors really likes those cat ears.
As someone who's done plenty of sleep deprivation and polyphasic sleeping, I'm about pretty sure I can actually feel the garbage being removed. It mostly happens in the first 60-90 mins of sleep. If one is woken between 30 mins and 60 mins, one's mind tends to be missing several functions.;)
A lot of what we hear during elections is propaganda. We could guess that defences against it increase throughout life until senility. 16 years olds in particular still tend to live in the small cults that are nuclear families and thus lack an independence of thought. I wasn't qualified to vote until I was 30, and that's a level unachieved by a lot of people I know.
On the other hand, 0-17 year olds are completely unrepresented, yet have longer to live in the world. There's no solution to that, so there's a compromise between representation vs political understanding.
Male adolescents develop emotional maturity much slower than females. If this affects political judgement, then it's rational to allow women to vote at a lower age. I doubt this will be a popular view amongst the oft-male and sometimes alt-right Slashdotters.
Studies show that 16-17 year olds vote more than 18-25 year olds. Likelihood of voting increases from 18 onwards, causing yet more disparate representation -- a problem of all voting systems. Intergenerational differences increasingly come into play. People 60 and over become a minority in the adult world and seemingly retreat from social consciousness or other newer ideas. However, they vote more.
The study doesn't mention lowering the voting age at all, by the way.
Long ago it was believed that schizophrenia was caused by "bad parenting" (cold domineering mothers and psychologically detached fathers). That has been utterly debunked.
Actually, you're wrong here too. It simply became unpopular.
The cause is mostly determined by genetics and prenatal nutrition.
Strike 3. Cause remains unknown.
We know it's not genetics because kids put up for adoption by schizophrenic parents are no more likely to have schizophrenia than the average person.
Kind of hard to dig deeper if the person is overwhelmed by the symptoms. If someone wants to kill themselves today, you don't want to risk taking 3 months of therapy to try to get to the bottom of their problems.
If it takes you 3 months, go find a job you don't suck at. It never takes me more than an hour.
Also, finding the cause doesn't necessarily fix everything.
Yes. You actually need to treat the cause and your average therapist doesn't know much about that.
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The real and honest question here is why no one remembers the reasons for why we have an electoral system.
Slavery.
Longer answer: much of the population of the southern states were slaves who couldn't vote. Therefore, with a President elected by popular vote, southern states would have very little say.
As they would never have accepted this, the electoral college was invented.
The rest of the world took note and said "That's a crap system". After electors approved the demagogue, "That's a really crap system."
I'm not aware of any other country that uses your shitty undemocratic electoral college.
Also, in spite of the Euro crisis, post-war European growth has been far higher than US growth.
As chair of one of the biggest democracy groups in the UK, it pains me to say it.
The average margin of victory is ~100,000. That means you have a 1 in 100,000 of affecting 1 seat. As long as enough people vote to give your candidate a chance, your vote is that worthless.
Even if they were this stupid, they've been told half a dozen times why they're stupid. So one has to assume they have other reasons.
May's advisor who resigned today, Fiona Hill, is shagging Charles Farr and designer of the Investigatory Powers Act. He also designed the IP Act's 3x defeated predecessors over the last 9 years.. It's incredibly likely it all comes from him.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Corbyn "won", even though he didn't, because social media wanted him to win.
Rejected on the basis that it was too expensive (albeit a million times cheaper than Brexit) and that it helped the newly-hated LibDems.
I haven't trusted the electorate since.
Without wanting to defend Tories...
Currently, the only things cheaper than the nuclear strike price are fossil fuels and onshore wind.
Everything else is more expensive. This might and probably will change over time.
Wind power needs storage, which doesn't really exist at the moment. Nuclear power doesn't.
I'm not qualified to state whether the power station is a good idea or not, but I suspect I'm more qualified than most of the people who comment about it.
Because I can only do so much
Clearly.
I could open a window, but I'm gonna turn on the AC instead!
Yes, methane emissions are worse per ton than CO2.
But as ShanghaiBill says, there's just a lot less methane being released -- at least until the tundra melts.
UK government isn't bound by any rights other than the toothless Human Rights Act. Though it can be embarrassing for them to be told they've breached the rights of their citizens.
Theresa May passed what Snowden called "the most extreme surveillance in the history of western democracy. It goes further than many autocracies."
Before this, airports were making 3D models of flyers' faces without their knowledge or permission, and attaching such to their passport records. This happens if you go through the 'inbound' e-passport aisle. I saw this with my own eyes at Bristol Airport before a security guard shouted at me. There is no law against such data collection.
I don't know if you can get a ticket with cash but otherwise you can bet these facial/3D scans will be added to a GCHQ database.
Seeing a lover every day spoils the illusion.
(From the book)
Note there's almost no evidence presented that social media makes people dislike each other more. Oversharing leads to being disliked but we don't follow those we dislike.
My guess is that living in a social (media) bubble may nevertheless make us less tolerant of dissenting views.
Weird, I checked this only the other day.
Thanks for the correction.
Normally, everyone says Bladerunner. The latter is truly great, but it lacks the story and character development of Gattaca.
The only real competition to Gattaca is Donnie Darko, but few think of it as sci-fi. Amazing they both came out in 2001.
Matrix clearly superb, as is 2001: A Space Odyssey.
"Her" is a great little film, the best sci-fi since Gattaca.
Empire Strikes Back, Terminator (original) and The Thing -- all these are either perfect or borderline perfect.
"... the critical vulnerabilities for four exploits previously believed to be zerodays were patched in March, exactly one month before a group called Shadow Brokers published Friday's latest installment of weapons-grade attacks."
https://arstechnica.com/securi...
Facebook is a monster. It can easily use over a gig.
Yeah I know many Slashdotters pretend not to use it, and some actually don't.
Also, this sounds like 80s memory management eg turn off prefetching forever. Why can't we tell our browsers what to let go of first eg:
1. Prefetching
2. LRU tabs.
3. Hi-res images.
4. Bloated JS sites eg FB.com. Heck, worth putting in special rules for this monster.
Have a default then allow it to be accessible and changed for the rest of the session. Also, a box to ask it to return memory before the OS starts swapping like crazy.
A few years ago, Opera could also tell you how much memory each tab and extension was using. Ahhh the good old days.
Without a search/directory tool, much of the web we want to access is inaccessible.
Original post compares this to a photo-swapping app that allows you to put cats ears on people, as if that's somehow a commercial threat.
Now either Snapchat thinks Slashdotters are a viable market for their nonsense and are chucking Bizx a bundle for fake content... or one of the editors really likes those cat ears.
It's only a sample of one but basic income has enabled her to become an alcoholic. Needless to say, this result will not be recorded.
She also doesn't live in Finland, but of course doesn't tell the authorities that.
Scientific American had an article on sleep last year which favored the garbage removal theory.
Yet more evidence for this theory:
http://neurosciencenews.com/sl...
As someone who's done plenty of sleep deprivation and polyphasic sleeping, I'm about pretty sure I can actually feel the garbage being removed. It mostly happens in the first 60-90 mins of sleep. If one is woken between 30 mins and 60 mins, one's mind tends to be missing several functions. ;)
A lot of what we hear during elections is propaganda. We could guess that defences against it increase throughout life until senility. 16 years olds in particular still tend to live in the small cults that are nuclear families and thus lack an independence of thought. I wasn't qualified to vote until I was 30, and that's a level unachieved by a lot of people I know.
On the other hand, 0-17 year olds are completely unrepresented, yet have longer to live in the world. There's no solution to that, so there's a compromise between representation vs political understanding.
Male adolescents develop emotional maturity much slower than females. If this affects political judgement, then it's rational to allow women to vote at a lower age. I doubt this will be a popular view amongst the oft-male and sometimes alt-right Slashdotters.
Studies show that 16-17 year olds vote more than 18-25 year olds. Likelihood of voting increases from 18 onwards, causing yet more disparate representation -- a problem of all voting systems. Intergenerational differences increasingly come into play. People 60 and over become a minority in the adult world and seemingly retreat from social consciousness or other newer ideas. However, they vote more.
The study doesn't mention lowering the voting age at all, by the way.
Re: 1 & 2 -- I'm referring to the therapist.
Re 3, I hope so, been doing this professionally for 20 years.
The people being treated with antidepressants are mostly suffering from clinical depression, which is caused by chemical imbalances in the brain.
That's just a myth invented by drug companies to sell more drugs.
http://www.thestar.com/news/in...
Long ago it was believed that schizophrenia was caused by "bad parenting" (cold domineering mothers and psychologically detached fathers). That has been utterly debunked.
Actually, you're wrong here too. It simply became unpopular.
The cause is mostly determined by genetics and prenatal nutrition.
Strike 3. Cause remains unknown.
We know it's not genetics because kids put up for adoption by schizophrenic parents are no more likely to have schizophrenia than the average person.
Therapy only takes a few months when the therapist doesn't know what they're doing.
That's not going to change any time soon, hence medication.
This shows again a COMPLETE lack of understanding mental health.
Not a clever thing to say when your "understanding" is limited to a myth invented to sell drugs:
Drugs are used to mitigate a lack of certain neurochemicals in the brain, a PHYSICAL condition.
A myth for which there is literally zero evidence.
http://www.thestar.com/news/in...
Kind of hard to dig deeper if the person is overwhelmed by the symptoms. If someone wants to kill themselves today, you don't want to risk taking 3 months of therapy to try to get to the bottom of their problems.
If it takes you 3 months, go find a job you don't suck at. It never takes me more than an hour.
Also, finding the cause doesn't necessarily fix everything.
Yes. You actually need to treat the cause and your average therapist doesn't know much about that.