There was nothing subtle in the firing of James Damore. Neither is the Censorship on Facebook "subtle".
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James Damore was an idiot. Your employer and coworkers don't give a fuck about your edgy opinions. They want to make as much money as possible, as easily as possible. If you get in the way of that, expect negative repercussions. Your workplace is not a debate club, social studies class, therapist's office or democracy. Shut up and do your job and things will likely work out fine.
Are the stereotypical old ladies of the future going to monitor their Neighbors app instead of a police scanner?
Joking aside, I wonder if this will do more to create false perceptions of danger than it will to keep people genuinely informed.
Have you ever read the police log of a small town? People are afraid of their own shadows. Your average person is not qualified to assess what is a threat and what isn't.
You know the break-ins in that neighborhood stopped after that teenager was killed, right?
Citation sorely needed. Really, Trayvon Martin was responsible for all of the break-ins in that neighborhood, such that after his death burglary ceased to be a thing that happens there? Somehow, I'm skeptical.
Violations of the Hatch Act were common during the last 8 years, but none of the current ButtHurts got very exercised about it.
This is tribalism in action. Members of the tribe are not held accountable for doing things that those outside the tribe would be held accountable for. Most people do it. The Democrats were mostly fine with Obama essentially continuing Bush's foreign policy, even though they had railed against the policy when Bush was in charge. Likewise, evangelical Christians, the supposed "values voters", chucked it all out the window to vote for a serial adulterer who bragged about assaulting women. We can imagine the Republican reaction if Obama's personal attorney had paid off a porn star to cover up an extra-marital affair during an election campaign. Yet, we hear little from them now.
Rank hypocrisy is a major feature of how the world currently works. Go looking for it anywhere, and you're likely to find it.
Install Apache. There. Now you're able to compete with Youtube. Hosting videos is easy. Even hosting snake oil scam videos is easy.
You think Youtube does what it does with a single Apache instance? I have installed Apache many times, and yet I still don't have a site that competes with Youtube. Maybe there is more to creating a viable video hosting site than installing Apache.
"I am right about Amazon costing the United States Post Office massive amounts of money for being their Delivery Boy," Trump wrote on Twitter on April 3. "Amazon should pay these costs (plus) and not have them bourne by the American Taxpayer."
I'm confused. Doesn't Amazon pay for the postage on the packages it ships? I would assume they do. If so, how are they not paying these costs? And isn't the purpose of the Post Office to be a "delivery boy"? What's going on here?
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but how about people just drive while they're driving? Then again, I am one of the seemingly-few people who actually enjoys driving. So perhaps I am being unrealistic.
The only solution for America is to exterminate libturds, every one of them, and then live a happy life.
Why don't you just skip to living a happy life? Or do the "libturds" have so much power and control over you that you can't? Why do you give the "libturds" such power? Why do you let them interfere with you living a happy life?
Trust me, if you exterminated all the "libturds" you would just find someone else to blame for your problems. The Right is all about personal responsibility and bootstrappiness, and then turns right around blames Mexicans for taking their jobs, and Liberals (sorry, that should have been "libturds") for being Liberals. How much personal responsibility does it take for you to blame other people for you shitty life? Come on, act like the rugged individual that you are!
The stock market was up due to the prospects of having a non-socialist president, and the repatriation of foreign earnings. Do you really think the economy would have improved under Clinton or Sanders?
Of course it would have. History has shown quite clearly that the economy does better under Democratic administrations.
People were talking about moving to Canada under W too. I'm not sure how many actually followed through on it. The thing is, most of us thought W would go down as the worst President in modern history. But then the GOP said, "Hold my beer".
Anybody stupid enough to move because of a legal vote- well, that's somebody who isn't likely going to be doing any original research anyway, just derived politically correct bullshit like climate science, string theory, and Women's Studies.
Stuff that the Trump Great America is not interested in funding because there is no profit in it.
The man wen bankrupt running a casino. You know, the place where the odds are always stacked in favor of the house.
Is profit really all we should be interested in? Is breathing clean air and drinking clean water profitable? Is understanding our world and environment profitable? Is understanding the building blocks and mechanisms that underpin our physical reality profitable?
Theses things, among many others, have value that cannot be expressed monetarily. You might consider how many things enable and enrich your life that do not make money for anybody. Or not!
Unlikely to default? Its completely unable to pay its bills, and only a fool would lend it more money.
You really don't understand how the US monetary system works, do you? The US government has literally infinite money. It is completely able to pay its bills.
And how about the Dollar? Yes there have been times where the US Dollar was secured by the corresponding amount of gold. But now due to some wars it's nothing more worth than the paper of a dollar bill. Every currency is build on trust. That is the ultimate level of security.
Yes, trust is part of it. But the dollar is actually backed by two things: The faith and credit of the United States. We have already covered the "faith" part. That is the trust and agreement among everyone to use it as money. But what is "credit"? Credit is the ability to pay a debt. Because every dollar is loaned into existence, it must be paid back. And how do we make money to pay it back? We go to work! Well, most of us, anyway. So the US dollar is also backed by the fact that most of us go to work every day, and will continue to do so. Funny, eh?
What does it mean for a passcode to be particularly strong or weak when the passcode must be all digits and must be some fixed number of digits long?
It means that for the passcode to be stronger it needs to be longer. There is not a fixed number of digits, and the phone can be set to require you to tap OK after typing the passcode, so the number of digits cannot be determined.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I like a world without mysteries. This encourages people to rely on and believe science and reason instead of magic and mysticism. That can't help but be a good thing.
But science is all about mysteries! The whole reason science exists is to demystify the world; to discover and explain how it works. I think you mean that you like it when mysteries are solved. Indeed! But a world without mysteries would be a boring place, in my opinion.
that thought the government was doing mind control experiments, or that they were being monitored on the internet by the spy agencies, or maybe that the CIA was involved in trafficking drugs. Loons!
This is kind of the problem. I have been called a nutty conspiracy theorist for expressing views that are now fairly mainstream (like the CIA trafficking drugs). In fact, even the term "conspiracy theorist" was deliberately made into a derogatory term by the CIA. https://www.paulcraigroberts.o...
It took years to become deprogrammed, mostly from living in Newark and New York, watching the filth of humanity greedily feast on the idiot liberals (of which I was one), begging for handouts during the day and mugging them at night, all while perfectly capable of working for an honest and productive living.
How did you track these people to find out that the ones begging by day were also mugging by night? How did you evaluate their ability to work? Or did you just make assumptions based on your preconceived notions and incomplete perspective?
There is something called the Backfire Effect. In short, the more factual information you give to someone pointing how/where they're wrong, the more strident in their viewpoint they become.
This effect holds for those with conventional viewpoints as well. Most people, when presented with facts that indicate a conspiracy is actually afoot, will choose to ignore that evidence and continue thinking that there is no conspiracy. It indicates to me that, regardless of our viewpoint, we should all be more open minded and less sure that we know what we know.
Interesting. Indeed, Hillary has KKK links.
Why was Slashdot so gung ho on pushing her and insistent that Russians inserted mind control slugs into all Americans and remote controlled them from Siberia or whatever the conspiracy was?
You guys are great. The Blue team sucks! No, the Red team sucks! No, the Blue team sucks! America is going down the tubes because all you can be concerned with is cheering for your team and shitting on the other one.
How about we remember that we're all Americans? How about we come together and work on the stuff we agree on? You know what? You can find people in both parties that have "ties" or "links" to the KKK. I could point out that the KKK enthusiastically supports Donald Trump. So the fuck what?
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Lick those Capitalist boots!
Lick my ass; you know nothing about me.
There was nothing subtle in the firing of James Damore. Neither is the Censorship on Facebook "subtle".
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James Damore was an idiot. Your employer and coworkers don't give a fuck about your edgy opinions. They want to make as much money as possible, as easily as possible. If you get in the way of that, expect negative repercussions. Your workplace is not a debate club, social studies class, therapist's office or democracy. Shut up and do your job and things will likely work out fine.
Are the stereotypical old ladies of the future going to monitor their Neighbors app instead of a police scanner? Joking aside, I wonder if this will do more to create false perceptions of danger than it will to keep people genuinely informed.
Have you ever read the police log of a small town? People are afraid of their own shadows. Your average person is not qualified to assess what is a threat and what isn't.
You know the break-ins in that neighborhood stopped after that teenager was killed, right?
Citation sorely needed. Really, Trayvon Martin was responsible for all of the break-ins in that neighborhood, such that after his death burglary ceased to be a thing that happens there? Somehow, I'm skeptical.
Violations of the Hatch Act were common during the last 8 years, but none of the current ButtHurts got very exercised about it.
This is tribalism in action. Members of the tribe are not held accountable for doing things that those outside the tribe would be held accountable for. Most people do it. The Democrats were mostly fine with Obama essentially continuing Bush's foreign policy, even though they had railed against the policy when Bush was in charge. Likewise, evangelical Christians, the supposed "values voters", chucked it all out the window to vote for a serial adulterer who bragged about assaulting women. We can imagine the Republican reaction if Obama's personal attorney had paid off a porn star to cover up an extra-marital affair during an election campaign. Yet, we hear little from them now.
Rank hypocrisy is a major feature of how the world currently works. Go looking for it anywhere, and you're likely to find it.
Not enough competition?!?
Install Apache. There. Now you're able to compete with Youtube. Hosting videos is easy. Even hosting snake oil scam videos is easy.
You think Youtube does what it does with a single Apache instance? I have installed Apache many times, and yet I still don't have a site that competes with Youtube. Maybe there is more to creating a viable video hosting site than installing Apache.
"I am right about Amazon costing the United States Post Office massive amounts of money for being their Delivery Boy," Trump wrote on Twitter on April 3. "Amazon should pay these costs (plus) and not have them bourne by the American Taxpayer."
I'm confused. Doesn't Amazon pay for the postage on the packages it ships? I would assume they do. If so, how are they not paying these costs? And isn't the purpose of the Post Office to be a "delivery boy"? What's going on here?
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but how about people just drive while they're driving? Then again, I am one of the seemingly-few people who actually enjoys driving. So perhaps I am being unrealistic.
The only solution for America is to exterminate libturds, every one of them, and then live a happy life.
Why don't you just skip to living a happy life? Or do the "libturds" have so much power and control over you that you can't? Why do you give the "libturds" such power? Why do you let them interfere with you living a happy life?
Trust me, if you exterminated all the "libturds" you would just find someone else to blame for your problems. The Right is all about personal responsibility and bootstrappiness, and then turns right around blames Mexicans for taking their jobs, and Liberals (sorry, that should have been "libturds") for being Liberals. How much personal responsibility does it take for you to blame other people for you shitty life? Come on, act like the rugged individual that you are!
The stock market was up due to the prospects of having a non-socialist president, and the repatriation of foreign earnings. Do you really think the economy would have improved under Clinton or Sanders?
Of course it would have. History has shown quite clearly that the economy does better under Democratic administrations.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2016/11/07/trump-is-right-about-one-thing-the-economy-does-better-under-the-democrats/#27a9d68a6786
https://www.aeaweb.org/research/why-does-the-economy-do-better-democrats-white-house
Funny how dubya didn't get that reaction.
People were talking about moving to Canada under W too. I'm not sure how many actually followed through on it. The thing is, most of us thought W would go down as the worst President in modern history. But then the GOP said, "Hold my beer".
That's not surprising, since I'm sure you remember Obama's statements about "remaking the US economy" and his "war on coal".
What, you think the economy is being held back because we're not mining enough coal? The 19th century called, they want their energy source back.
Mainly by being too incompetent to change too much the society Obama left him.
If he is getting good results, then maybe you should view his incompetence as a positive attribute.
Trump's incompetence is a positive attribute. But that's not really a good thing to say about the President of the United States.
Indeed, who could have predicted there would be a worse president than Bush Jr?
Stupid is as stupid does.
Trump says stupid things. Dubya DID stupid things. I think the latter is worse.
Under Trump, the economy is booming. Under Dubya, we squandered trillions on stupid counter-productive wars, and the economy imploded.
Trump has plenty of potential to be a terrible president, but objectively he is doing okay so far.
Mmm, let's see how his trade war with Chine works out.
Anybody stupid enough to move because of a legal vote- well, that's somebody who isn't likely going to be doing any original research anyway, just derived politically correct bullshit like climate science, string theory, and Women's Studies.
Stuff that the Trump Great America is not interested in funding because there is no profit in it.
The man wen bankrupt running a casino. You know, the place where the odds are always stacked in favor of the house.
Is profit really all we should be interested in? Is breathing clean air and drinking clean water profitable? Is understanding our world and environment profitable? Is understanding the building blocks and mechanisms that underpin our physical reality profitable?
Theses things, among many others, have value that cannot be expressed monetarily. You might consider how many things enable and enrich your life that do not make money for anybody. Or not!
Unlikely to default? Its completely unable to pay its bills, and only a fool would lend it more money.
You really don't understand how the US monetary system works, do you? The US government has literally infinite money. It is completely able to pay its bills.
And how about the Dollar? Yes there have been times where the US Dollar was secured by the corresponding amount of gold. But now due to some wars it's nothing more worth than the paper of a dollar bill. Every currency is build on trust. That is the ultimate level of security.
Yes, trust is part of it. But the dollar is actually backed by two things: The faith and credit of the United States. We have already covered the "faith" part. That is the trust and agreement among everyone to use it as money. But what is "credit"? Credit is the ability to pay a debt. Because every dollar is loaned into existence, it must be paid back. And how do we make money to pay it back? We go to work! Well, most of us, anyway. So the US dollar is also backed by the fact that most of us go to work every day, and will continue to do so. Funny, eh?
Does it randomize the position of the numbers on the screen, to prevent finger smudge attacks?
Not that I'm aware of. But the phone screen is generally all smudged up, IMO. So seeing just prints over the relevant numbers is unlikely.
What does it mean for a passcode to be particularly strong or weak when the passcode must be all digits and must be some fixed number of digits long?
It means that for the passcode to be stronger it needs to be longer. There is not a fixed number of digits, and the phone can be set to require you to tap OK after typing the passcode, so the number of digits cannot be determined.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I like a world without mysteries. This encourages people to rely on and believe science and reason instead of magic and mysticism. That can't help but be a good thing.
But science is all about mysteries! The whole reason science exists is to demystify the world; to discover and explain how it works. I think you mean that you like it when mysteries are solved. Indeed! But a world without mysteries would be a boring place, in my opinion.
that thought the government was doing mind control experiments, or that they were being monitored on the internet by the spy agencies, or maybe that the CIA was involved in trafficking drugs. Loons!
This is kind of the problem. I have been called a nutty conspiracy theorist for expressing views that are now fairly mainstream (like the CIA trafficking drugs). In fact, even the term "conspiracy theorist" was deliberately made into a derogatory term by the CIA. https://www.paulcraigroberts.o...
It's not like there are absolutely no legitimate arguments against representative democracy.
It is wildly inefficient compared to a benevolent dictatorship.
Unfortunately, benevolent dictatorships are few and far between.
It took years to become deprogrammed, mostly from living in Newark and New York, watching the filth of humanity greedily feast on the idiot liberals (of which I was one), begging for handouts during the day and mugging them at night, all while perfectly capable of working for an honest and productive living.
How did you track these people to find out that the ones begging by day were also mugging by night? How did you evaluate their ability to work? Or did you just make assumptions based on your preconceived notions and incomplete perspective?
There is something called the Backfire Effect. In short, the more factual information you give to someone pointing how/where they're wrong, the more strident in their viewpoint they become.
This effect holds for those with conventional viewpoints as well. Most people, when presented with facts that indicate a conspiracy is actually afoot, will choose to ignore that evidence and continue thinking that there is no conspiracy. It indicates to me that, regardless of our viewpoint, we should all be more open minded and less sure that we know what we know.
Interesting. Indeed, Hillary has KKK links. Why was Slashdot so gung ho on pushing her and insistent that Russians inserted mind control slugs into all Americans and remote controlled them from Siberia or whatever the conspiracy was?
You guys are great. The Blue team sucks! No, the Red team sucks! No, the Blue team sucks! America is going down the tubes because all you can be concerned with is cheering for your team and shitting on the other one.
How about we remember that we're all Americans? How about we come together and work on the stuff we agree on? You know what? You can find people in both parties that have "ties" or "links" to the KKK. I could point out that the KKK enthusiastically supports Donald Trump. So the fuck what?